# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Morality_of_need)
title: Morality of need
uri: Morality-of-need
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Morality_of_need%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/25/welfare-state-moral-failure-tory-poverty-individial-state">
The Welfare State Saved Me. To Need It Isn't A Moral Failure.</a>
</p>
<p>Poverty is principally the fault of systems that shoot poverty arrows.
Those who are more capable can dodge better, but anyone can get hit.
Right-wing policy is to shoot more arrows.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(UK_limits_offshoring)
title: UK limits offshoring
uri: UK-limits-offshoring
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28UK_limits_offshoring%29
content:
<p>The UK government has started limiting the offshoring of sales income,
and Amazon has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/23/amazon-to-begin-paying-corporation-tax-on-uk-retail-sales">
given up trying to evade it</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Australian_cuts_hurt_poor)
title: Australian cuts hurt poor
uri: Australian-cuts-hurt-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Australian_cuts_hurt_poor%29
content:
<p>Australia's budget cuts 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/24/low-income-families-the-biggest-losers-from-coalitions-budget-research-finds">
hurt the poor most</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(NSA_bugs_in_medical_devices)
title: NSA bugs in medical devices
uri: NSA-bugs-in-medical-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28NSA_bugs_in_medical_devices%29
content:
<p>The NSA made a plan to find Osama bin Laden by 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/21/nsa-plan-find-osama-bin-laden-infiltrating-medical-supply-chain/">
putting spies in medical devices</a>
 that he might get.
</p>
<p>These people don't seem to consider what social systems they might
poison.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Foreign_investment_a_threat_to_rights)
title: Foreign investment a threat to rights
uri: Foreign-investment-a-threat-to-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Foreign_investment_a_threat_to_rights%29

content:
<p>Due to treaties (like the TPP) that give foreign investors special
rights,
foreign investment is now a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/21/privatisation-public-services-sustainable-development-investor-state-dispute-settlement">
direct threat to human rights</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Torture_of_Palestinian_minors)
title: Torture of Palestinian minors
uri: Torture-of-Palestinian-minors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Torture_of_Palestinian_minors%29
content:
<p>Palestinian minors report 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/71641">
how they were tortured</a>
 in Israeli prisons.
</p>


title: Companies prevent justice for whistleblowers
uri: Companies-prevent-justice-for-whistleblowers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Companies_prevent_justice_for_whistleblowers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Companies_prevent_justice_for_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>As "free" countries' governments arrest whistleblowers and
hacktivists, their legal defense campaigns are hampered as 
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/261205-whistleblowers-hacktivists-threat-us-uk/">
companies refuse to raise funds</a>
 for those campaigns.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Drought_measures_in_California)
title: Drought measures in California
uri: Drought-measures-in-California
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Drought_measures_in_California%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/us/some-california-farmers-to-cut-water-use-to-ease-drought.html">
Farmers Agree to Water Cuts in California.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Growth_at_all_costs)
title: Growth at all costs
uri: Growth-at-all-costs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Growth_at_all_costs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/24/growth-climate-change-fossil-fuel-subsidies-treasury-uk-oil-gas-renewable-energy">
Growth At All Costs: Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Subsidies And the
Treasury.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Matt_DeHart_farce)
title: Matt DeHart farce
uri: Matt-DeHart-farce
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Matt_DeHart_farce%29
content:
<p>The FBI interrogated Matt DeHart about charges of "espionage",
apparently giving him drugs that caused psychosis (which he didn't
have before), then 
<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2015/05/29/porn-run-333599.html">
charged him with "child pornography"</a>.
</p>
<p>That was 5 years ago. His case is still in process.</p>
<p>To prosecute anyone for seeking, receiving or possessing copies of
some publication is extremely dangerous to a free society because it
is easy for the state to plant them on people. Thugs used to plant
drugs on people to jail them; now they need only plant some "child
pornography" in a memory stick.</p>
<p>We must reject this witch hunt, and the fear-mongering that supports
it.</p>
<p>When the border agents searched the reporter's car, it is possible
that they were installing something nasty in the car or one of its
computers. She now lives in Berlin.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(License_plate_lawsuit_lost)
title: License plate lawsuit lost
uri: License-plate-lawsuit-lost
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28License_plate_lawsuit_lost%29
content:
<p>Michael Robertson tried to make San Diego give him the records about
tracking his car by its license plate, but 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/cops-dont-have-to-give-man-his-own-license-plate-reader-data-court-finds/">
he lost</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(California_stingray_use)
title: California stingray use
uri: California-stingray-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28California_stingray_use%29
content:
<p>A county in California has used a stingray (which tracks all cell
phones
in the vicinity) 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/county-sheriff-has-used-stingray-over-300-times-with-no-warrant/">
300 times</a>
 and never asks for permission.
</p>


title: Urgent: tell Congress to let PAT RIOT Act expire.
uri: Urgent-tell-Congress-to-let-PAT-RIOT-Act-expire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_tell_Congress_to_let_PAT_RIOT_Act_expire.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Congress_to_let_PAT_RIOT_Act_expire.%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/sunset_update?t=1005&akid=14473.1183552.-tgbf4">
tell Congress</a>
 to let the PAT RIOT Act (section 215) expire.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_tell_Dow_to_bin_herbicide)
title: Urgent: tell Dow to bin herbicide
uri: Urgent-tell-Dow-to-bin-herbicide
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Dow_to_bin_herbicide%29

content:
<p>Everyone: tell Dow to 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=FCF59F86D231167FBEBC41ACDF97C8F6.app338a?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3749&autologin=true&s_src=EMOMONPETBGD0515BG1YRFU2&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=text1&utm_campaign=email">
cancel its new toxic herbicide</a>,
 which combines
Roundup with Agent Orange.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Bankruptcy_for_countries)
title: Bankruptcy for countries
uri: Bankruptcy-for-countries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Bankruptcy_for_countries%29
content:
<p>The UN, directed by most of the world's countries, is pushing for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/24/greece-misery-need-chapter-11-bankruptcy-for-countries">
system of bankruptcy</a>
 for countries.
</p>
<p>I think a distinction should be made between debts contracted by
democratic governments and debts contracted by dictators. It should
be easy to repudiate the latter; that will teach banksters not to rush to
make loans for tyrants to put in their pockets.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_phone_to_oppose_the_TPP)
title: Urgent: phone to oppose the TPP
uri: Urgent-phone-to-oppose-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_phone_to_oppose_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>US citizens: phone your congressional representative
to oppose the TPP. Then use 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=C2E42ED0E38B72DF1AE90A0A2E4B28D6.app340a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1777&autologin=true">
this page</a>
 to send a message. The capitol switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. 
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Psychiatric_underwear_sensors)
title: Psychiatric underwear sensors
uri: Psychiatric-underwear-sensors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Psychiatric_underwear_sensors%29
content:
<p>An experiment will use 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/should-we-monitor-the-mentally-ill-with-wearables">
underwear with sensors</a>
 to monitor the mental state
of inmates of psychiatric hospitals.
</p>
<p>To judge this ethically depends on the guidelines for treatment of the
mentally ill, which are more or less reasonable, and on guidelines for
respecting people's personal data, which are far too weak. Society
has failed to establish is guidelines for the rights of computer users
in general.</p>
<p>Wearable sensors should make their output directly available to the
user, and to no one else except if the user supplies it. Companies
should not be allowed to ask for that data as a condition for
services.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, if this sensor-clothing is skintight, it could be painfully
hot.
I would rip it off just because of that.</p>


title: Urgent: oppose TPP for Earth's climate
uri: Urgent-oppose-TPP-for-Earth-s-climate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Urgent:_oppose_TPP_for_Earth's_climate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_TPP_for_Earth%27s_climate%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/fight-climate-changestop?source=mo&id=">
oppose the TPP</a>
 as an obstacle to saving the Earth from global heating.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Reason_for_Obamacare_opposition)
title: Reason for Obamacare opposition
uri: Reason-for-Obamacare-opposition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Reason_for_Obamacare_opposition%29
content:
<p>Republican opposition to Obama's medical insurance program is based
on 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/11/1230529/-The-real-reason-for-the-GOP-s-all-out-war-on-Obamacare?detail=emailclassic">
one simple goal</a>:
 denying the Democratic party a success that could
win support from millions of appreciative Americans.
</p>
<p>The fact that they turned against the Massachusetts system, that
Romney
himself turned against his own success, demonstrates this.</p>
<p>Obama's law failed to get the insurance companies out of the system,
so it 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_(Waste_due_to_medical_billing)">
did not reduce the costs</a>,
 but it does provide medical care to
millions of Americans who couldn't get it before (though not
everyone).</p>
<p>You will now find Republicans and other right-wingers attacking it for
the high costs, which it did not cause. But none of them wants the
solution that will really reduce the costs: a National Health Service.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Economic_harm_of_free_trade_treaties)
title: Economic harm of "free trade" treaties
uri: Economic-harm-of-free-trade-treaties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Economic_harm_of_free_trade_treaties%29

content:
<p>Economists 
<a href="http://baselinescenario.com/2015/05/21/the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-this-is-not-about-ricardo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BaselineScenario+%28The+Baseline+Scenario%29">
report</a>
 on how a treaty to give foreign corporations more
power, such as the TPP, can do economic harm.
</p>
<p>This is in addition to the other forms of injustice, such as bad
copyright law, and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#31_October_2012_(Freed_trade_treaties)">
forbidding many sorts of protection of the environment</a>
 and 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_December_2013_(Trade_treaties_used_to_block_anti-smoking_measures)">
public health</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 26_May_2015_(Regulate_banksters)
title: Regulate banksters
uri: Regulate-banksters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#26_May_2015_%28Regulate_banksters%29
content:
<p>It's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/24/criminal-bankers-brazenly-milk-system-change-it">
not enough to punish criminal banks and banksters</a>,
 even if it were done properly.
 We need to regulate the system so that they don't
have an opportunity for crime.
</p>
<p>Part of the necessary change is to eliminate complicated financial
derivatives. The reason banksters create these is because nobody
knows how to regulate them well enough to prevent the banksters from
using them to cheat people.</p>
<p>We need to regulate banks to the point that being a banker is not
an 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#22_May_2012_(Bankster_culture)">
opportunity for creativity</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_fisheries)
title: Urgent: Protect fisheries
uri: Urgent-Protect-fisheries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_fisheries%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/msa-reauthorization_2015">tell
your congresscritter</a> to protect fisheries management by opposing
HR 1335.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_corporate_tax_evasion)
title: Urgent: Stop corporate tax evasion
uri: Urgent-Stop-corporate-tax-evasion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_corporate_tax_evasion%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://masspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11207">tell
Congress</a> to stop corporate tax evasion through "inversions".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_sexual_discrimination)
title: Urgent: Oppose sexual discrimination
uri: Urgent-Oppose-sexual-discrimination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_sexual_discrimination%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=takebackreligiousliberty">Oppose
Republican plans</a> for sexual discrimination.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Forced_prostitution_for_Japanese_army)
title: Forced prostitution for Japanese army
uri: Forced-prostitution-for-Japanese-army
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Forced_prostitution_for_Japanese_army%29

content:
<p>
Japanese historians and foreign scholars 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/shinzo-abe-japan-colonial-aggression-sex-slaves">call
on Japan's prime minister to acknowledge</a> Japan's wartime atrocity
of forcing women into prostitution for the army.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Britons_with_fines_they_cant_pay)
title: Britons with fines they can't pay
uri: Britons-with-fines-they-can-t-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Britons_with_fines_they_cant_pay%29
content:
<p>
Increasing numbers of poor Britons are given fines they can't pay.
They are already 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/may/26/citizens-advice-council-tax-court-fine-problem-debt">struggling
to pay for food</a>.  Ferguson shows where that road leads.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Baltimore_vs_Hunger_Games)
title: Baltimore vs Hunger Games
uri: Baltimore-vs-Hunger-Games
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Baltimore_vs_Hunger_Games%29
content:
<p>
Riots in Baltimore are the real life equivalent of the Hunger Games.
Yet many white Americans identify with the oppressed people in the
hypothetical future Hunger Games world, 
<a href="http://www.attn.com/stories/1554/empathy-for-black-protestors">but
not in Baltimore</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Stop_drinking_bottled_water!)
title: Stop drinking bottled water!
uri: Stop-drinking-bottled-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Stop_drinking_bottled_water%21%29
content:
<p>
In the US (and Europe), 
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/stop-drinking-bottled-water-1704609514">stop
drinking bottled water</a>!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Attorney_Generals_fear-mongering)
title: Attorney General's fear-mongering
uri: Attorney-General-s-fear-mongering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Attorney_Generals_fear-mongering%29
content:
<p>
The US Justice Department published a report saying that section 215
of the PAT RIOT Act did not produce "any major case developments".  On
the same day, Attorney General Lynch 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/05/21/justice-department-report-cont.html">claimed
the FBI desperately needs section 215 because it has been important
for major cases</a>.
<p>
What Lynch is doing is called "fear-mongering" and "lying".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Paid_hate_messages)
title: Paid hate messages
uri: Paid-hate-messages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Paid_hate_messages%29
content:
<p>
Russians targeted by the regime report on the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/russia-internet-hated">hate
messages and threats</a> that people are paid to send them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Radio_car_lock_jammers)
title: Radio car lock jammers
uri: Radio-car-lock-jammers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Radio_car_lock_jammers%29
content:
<p>
Jammers can 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/26/high-tech-thieves-jamming-technology-steal-car">stop
radio car locks from functioning</a>, and some cars have no manual
keys to substitute for them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Paracetamol)
title: Paracetamol
uri: Paracetamol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Paracetamol%29
content:
<p>
Tylenol or paracetamol is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/25/does-paracetamol-do-you-more-harm-than-good">very
dangerous</a>, and many people don't get much help from it.
<p>
I mostly don't use it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Austerity_targets_children)
title: Austerity targets children
uri: Austerity-targets-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Austerity_targets_children%29
content:
<p>
Austerity especially targets children, and the effects of growing up
in poverty can 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/25/children-austerity-david-cameron-cuts-young-people">stunt
them for life</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(BP_cost_cutting)
title: BP cost cutting
uri: BP-cost-cutting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28BP_cost_cutting%29
content:
<p>
BP tries to cut costs by keeping rarely used equipment for handling
oil spills 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/25/bp-would-need-to-bring-equipment-from-texas-to-contain-south-australia-oil-spill">far
away from the places it may need to be used</a>.
<p>
That's very efficient as long as nothing goes wrong.  But if a well
near Australia blows, it would take weeks to bring that equipment to
the spill.  This would guarantee a regional disaster before they can
even try to act.
<p>
Even if the equipment were stored nearby, a spill could still cause a
regional disaster, as shown five years ago in the Gulf of Mexico.
<p>
BP and its contractors will surely cut costs in other ways, while
lobbying for weak regulations to "reduce costs" — <em>their</em>
costs.  What this really means is that they get the profits and the
whole world pays the eventual costs.
<p>
We need to leave 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#19_July_2011_(The_Carbon_Bubble)">80%
of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground</a>.  Let's start with
undersea oil in places where a spill would pollute a clean area.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_May_2015_(Urgent:_UK_Uncut_protest_on_Saturday)
title: Very Urgent: UK Uncut protest on Saturday
uri: Very-Urgent-UK-Uncut-protest-on-Saturday
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_UK_Uncut_protest_on_Saturday%29

content:
<p>
On Saturday May 30, join UK Uncut's 
<a href="http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/action-call-out-30th-may/">protest 
against dooH niboR</a> — planned budget cuts aimed at the non-rich.


title: Urgent: Stop ivory smuggling in the US
uri: Urgent-Stop-ivory-smuggling-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_ivory_smuggling_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_ivory_smuggling_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2903">call
on Obama</a> to take firmer measures against smuggling ivory into the
US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Urgent:_SEC_commissioners)
title: Urgent: SEC commissioners
uri: Urgent-SEC-commissioners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_SEC_commissioners%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_sec/">call on President
Obama</a> to appoint SEC commissioners that are not subservient to
banksters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Dentons_local_fracking_ban)
title: Denton's local fracking ban
uri: Denton-s-local-fracking-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Dentons_local_fracking_ban%29
content:
<p>
Denton, Texas, is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/26/local-democracy-squashed-fracking-resume-texas-town">not
going to surrender quietly</a> to fracking.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Mount_Everest_glaciers)
title: Mount Everest glaciers
uri: Mount-Everest-glaciers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Mount_Everest_glaciers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/27/most-glaciers-in-mount-everest-area-will-disappear-with-climate-change-study">Most
Glaciers in Mount Everest Area Will Disappear with [Global
Heating]</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Cost_of_outsourcing)
title: Cost of outsourcing
uri: Cost-of-outsourcing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Cost_of_outsourcing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/27/outsourcing-increase-costs-public-services">Outsourcing
Can Often Increase Public Service Costs, Not Cut Them</a>.
<p>
In addition, it puts the company's owners in the position to profit by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#27_May_2012_(Privatizing_government_operations)">making
the privatized functionaries do a bad job</a>.  It also
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#10%20February%202011%20(Privatized%20deportation%20agents)">reduces
accountability</a>, since the laws about accountability often apply
only to state agencies and state employees.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(US_school_loan_system)
title: US school loan system
uri: US-school-loan-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28US_school_loan_system%29
content:
<p>
Now that US college graduates can no longer generally expect good
incomes, increasing numbers of them can't repay their college loans.
This creates a crisis for the school loan system.  The US tries to
shore up the system by 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/26/student-loan-crisis-and-debtfare-state">getting
more rigid with students</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(UK_surveillance_laws)
title: UK surveillance laws
uri: UK-surveillance-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28UK_surveillance_laws%29
content:
<p>
The UK likes to pass laws to authorize more surveillance and attacks
on people's computers in a quiet way.  
<a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/new-surveillance-laws-must-have-full-public-debate-say-top-uk-academics/">Public
debate</a> about these issues is called for.


title: Computers and algorithms that control lives
uri: Computers-and-algorithms-that-control-lives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Computers_and_algorithms_that_control_lives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Computers_and_algorithms_that_control_lives%29

content:
<p>
If computers and algorithms control your life in
inexplicable and perhaps cruel ways, don't blame the computers.
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/05/algorithms_aren_t_responsible_for_the_cruelties_of_bureaucracy.single.html">Blame
the bureaucratic company or agency</a> which set them up to impose its
goals and cloud its policies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Opentable_web_disservice)
title: "Opentable" web disservice
uri: Opentable-web-disservice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Opentable_web_disservice%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/05/opentable-diner-anonymity/">"opentable"
web disservice</a> tracks people's use of restaurants while
encouraging them to spend more.
<p>
I'd reject opentable for its surveillance, but I suspect
that I'd have to reject it for 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree
Javascript code</a> first.


title: Activist killed by mining company's thugs
uri: Activist-killed-by-mining-company-s-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Activist_killed_by_mining_companys_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Activist_killed_by_mining_companys_thugs%29

content:
<p>
A Canadian mining company's private thugs killed a Guatemalan community
activist; now 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30832-in-guatemala-indigenous-woman-sues-multinational-company-for-husband-s-murder">his
widow is suing that company</a>.
<p>
The hope is that this will make international companies less arrogant
about the lives of local people.


title: Farm irrigation with toxic waste water
uri: Farm-irrigation-with-toxic-waste-water
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Farm_irrigation_with_toxic_waste_water)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Farm_irrigation_with_toxic_waste_water%29

content:
<p>
Farms in California irrigate crops with toxin-laden 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/05/26/food-water-watch-and-water-defense-call-halt-irrigating-food-crops-oil-field">oil
field waste water</a>.
<p>
Has it been established whether the food grown this way has
significant levels of toxins?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(TPP_not_a_trade_treaty)
title: TPP not a "trade" treaty
uri: TPP-not-a-trade-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28TPP_not_a_trade_treaty%29
content:
<p>
Stop calling the TPP a "trade" treaty.  It's about 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/26/stop-calling-tpp-trade-agreement-it-isnt">privileges
for foreign corporations</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Government_surveillance_in_Oakland)
title: Government surveillance in Oakland
uri: Government-surveillance-in-Oakland
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Government_surveillance_in_Oakland%29

content:
<p>
The mayor of Oakland is serious about 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/how-one-mayor-struggles-with-balancing-privacy-and-surveillance/">limiting
local government surveillance to cases where it is specifically
justified</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Anthropocene_epoch)
title: "Anthropocene" epoch
uri: Anthropocene-epoch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Anthropocene_epoch%29
content:
<p>
The concept of an "Anthropocene" epoch has been seized on by a 
<a href="http://climateandcapitalism.com/2015/05/19/hijacking-the-anthropocene/">cunning
distortion campaign</a> which says it would be great for humans to
eliminate the natural world and control absolutely everything.
<p>
This is the danger that I warned of in the term 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/thermocene.html">"Anthropocene"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(India_to_increase_its_use_of_coal)
title: India to increase its use of coal
uri: India-to-increase-its-use-of-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28India_to_increase_its_use_of_coal%29
content:
<p>
India is planning to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/may/27/why-india-is-captured-by-carbon">double
or triple its use of coal by 2030</a>.
<p>
The arguments in favor of this would be totally logical, if it were
not going to spike last chance of an agreement to avert global
disaster.
<p>
India won't be spared this disaster.  Does it want to see Mumbai under
water along with its other coastal cities?
<p>
If governments of more powerful countries, such as the US, Australia,
Canada and the UK, were not in the grip of fossil fuel interests, they
could (and would) compel India to participate in carbon emissions
reduction.  All it takes to build storage systems for solar
electricity is some money, and other countries should contribute to
that.
<p>
India also has a responsibility to curb its population growth, not
just project it up and up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Palestinian_prisoners_killed_by_Hamas)
title: Palestinian prisoners killed by Hamas
uri: Palestinian-prisoners-killed-by-Hamas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Palestinian_prisoners_killed_by_Hamas%29

content:
<p>
Hamas killed some of its Palestinian prisoners while Israel was
attacking, some of whom had been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/27/hamas-executed-palestinians-under-cover-gaza-conflict-amnesty">previously
tortured</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Unkinder_Morbid)
title: Unkinder Morbid
uri: Unkinder-Morbid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Unkinder_Morbid%29
content:
<p>
Pipeline company Kinder Morgan 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/26/kinder-morgan-maybe-change-huge-oil-pipeline-company-something-hired-duty-cops-deter-protests-pennsylvania-pipeline/">hired
off-duty thugs to "deter protests"</a>.
<p>
It should change its name to Unkinder Morbid.


title: University of Edinburgh to divest from fossil fuel
uri: University-of-Edinburgh-to-divest-from-fossil-fuel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(University_of_Edinburgh_to_divest_from_fossil_fuel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28University_of_Edinburgh_to_divest_from_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/26/university-edinburgh-divest-fossil-fuel-student-protestors">Protests</a>
have made the University of Edinburgh agree to divest from some large
fossil fuel companies.
<p>
This replaces a policy of "engagement" with them, an approach that is
as useless with those looters as it is with a gang of
narcotraffickers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Underpaid_workers)
title: Underpaid workers
uri: Underpaid-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Underpaid_workers%29
content:
<p>
Making life nasty, brutish and short for the unemployed is a route to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/26/dog-walkers-average-employee-job">doing
the same for most of those who are employed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Children_used_as_suicide_bombers)
title: Children used as suicide bombers
uri: Children-used-as-suicide-bombers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Children_used_as_suicide_bombers%29
content:
<p>
Many of the prisoners freed from Boko Haram were under 5 years old.
The group 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/boko-haram-suicide-attacks-suspicion-children-unicef">uses
children as suicide bombers</a>, so all children are now suspect.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Angola_seeks_to_jail_journalist)
title: Angola seeks to jail journalist
uri: Angola-seeks-to-jail-journalist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Angola_seeks_to_jail_journalist%29
content:
<p>
Angola has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/angolan-prosecutors-seek-one-month-jail-for-anti-corruption-activist">cheated
on the deal to drop charges</a> against journalist Rafael Marques de
Morais.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Market_Leninism)
title: Market Leninism
uri: Market-Leninism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Market_Leninism%29
content:
<p>
The Worst of All Possible Worlds: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/26/worst-all-possible-worlds-did-market-leninism-win-cold-war">Did
Market Leninism Win the Cold War?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Cleveland_thug_department_violence)
title: Cleveland thug department violence
uri: Cleveland-thug-department-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Cleveland_thug_department_violence%29

content:
<p>
The Justice Department has imposed reforms on the Cleveland thug
department, intended to curb its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/26/cleveland-police-officers-abuse-settlement">rampant
violence</a>.
<p>
However, since the previous set of reforms imposed 11 years ago didn't
solve the problem, what would enable this new set to do a better job?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_May_2015_(Elephants_killed_by_poachers)
title: Elephants killed by poachers
uri: Elephants-killed-by-poachers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_May_2015_%28Elephants_killed_by_poachers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/26/poachers-killed-half-mozambiques-elephants-in-five-years">Poachers
Killed Half Mozambique's Elephants in Five Years</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_May_2015_(Sex_work_in_Northern_Ireland)
title: Sex work in Northern Ireland
uri: Sex-work-in-Northern-Ireland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_May_2015_%28Sex_work_in_Northern_Ireland%29
content:
<p>
A sex worker in Northern Ireland will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/27/sex-worker-laura-lee-challenges-law-criminalises-clients-northern-ireland">sue
to overturn the law making it a crime to do business with her</a>.
<p>
I don't know whether her case has a chance, but I think 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_(Laws_keeping_people_in_prostitution_and_slavery)">justice
is on her side</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_May_2015_(Indian_teenage_women_fighting_back)
title: Indian teenage women fighting back
uri: Indian-teenage-women-fighting-back
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_May_2015_%28Indian_teenage_women_fighting_back%29

content:
<p>
Indian teenage women are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/27/india-child-marriage-annulment-brides-go-to-court">starting
to fight back against marriages arranged without asking them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_May_2015_(Austrailian_giant_coal_mine_funding)
title: Austrailian giant coal mine funding
uri: Austrailian-giant-coal-mine-funding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_May_2015_%28Austrailian_giant_coal_mine_funding%29

content:
<p>
International banks are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/27/is-any-bank-dumb-enough-to-fund-the-galilee-basin-coalapolooza">refusing
to fund</a> the new Australian giant coal mine.
<p>
Surely Australian banks realize it is against their interest to do so.
Why have they not ruled it out?  Perhaps they are being pressured by
the Australian government, which will stop at nothing to destroy
Earth's ecosphere.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_May_2015_(FIFA_and_Qatar_made_for_each_other)
title: FIFA and Qatar made for each other
uri: FIFA-and-Qatar-made-for-each-other
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_May_2015_%28FIFA_and_Qatar_made_for_each_other%29

content:
<p>
Officials of FIFA, the world football association, have been accused
of taking a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/27/fifa-corruption-arrests-key-questions-answered">hundred
million dollars in bribes</a>.
<p>
Bribery aside, FIFA and Qatar are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/may/27/why-press-freedom-loving-fifa-and-qatar-are-so-perfectly-matched">made
for each other</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Peru_continues_ban_on_abortions)
title: Peru continues ban on abortions
uri: Peru-continues-ban-on-abortions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Peru_continues_ban_on_abortions%29
content:
<p>
Peru will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/27/peru-bill-to-abortions-pregnant-rape">continue
to ban abortions for women who have been raped</a>, as well as
refusing to give them emergency contraception.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Ancient_Palmyra)
title: Ancient Palmyra
uri: Ancient-Palmyra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Ancient_Palmyra%29
content:
<p>
PISSI said it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/27/isis-releases-footage-of-palmyra-ruins-intact">will
destroy only the statues</a> in ancient Palmyra.
<p>
This is a sign of the beginning of willingness to compromise with
civilization.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Israel_and_Hezbollah)
title: Israel and Hezbollah
uri: Israel-and-Hezbollah
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Israel_and_Hezbollah%29
content:
<p>
Is Israel looking for a war to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/27/iran-talks-game-changer-israeli-hezbollah-war">kill
the nuclear agreement with Iran</a>?
<p>
If accumulating arms were a crime, Israel would be as guilty as
Hezbollah.  As for what they do with arms, both of them tend to commit
war crimes such as firing on civilians.  Let's try to discourage them
from fighting each other.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(20th_century_food_romanticized)
title: 20th century food romanticized
uri: 20th-century-food-romanticized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%2820th_century_food_romanticized%29
content:
<p>
Don't imagine that non-rich people ate healthy, home-cooked meals
before the 20th century.  Even in Europe, food was 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/05/romanticizing-grandparents-food">often
lousy and insufficient</a>, and in cities it was often some kind of
fast food.
<p>
Italians often suffered from hunger until 1960, according to Delizia
by John Dickie; the first place that Italians who were not rich were
able to eat as they thought they should was in the US (but only for
Italians who had moved there).
<p>
This fact doesn't negate the real problems of today's food system.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(US-backed_killing_of_US_citizen)
title: US-backed killing of US citizen
uri: US-backed-killing-of-US-citizen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28US-backed_killing_of_US_citizen%29
content:
<p>
US citizen Sharif Mobley was disappeared by the Yemeni government with
US backing, then his prison was bombed by Saudi Arabia with US
backing.  In effect, the US has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/27/sharif-mobley-american-yemen-saudi-air-strikes-prison">arranged
to kill him</a>.
<p>
Mobley faced charges in Yemen, but even if he was guilty, it can't
justify this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Bangladeshi_secularist_threatened)
title: Bangladeshi secularist threatened
uri: Bangladeshi-secularist-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Bangladeshi_secularist_threatened%29
content:
<p>
Another Bangladeshi secularist has received 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/28/bangladeshi-blogger-ananya-azad-named-hitlist">death
threats</a>.


title: Norway pension fund invests more in coal
uri: Norway-pension-fund-invests-more-in-coal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Norway_pension_fund_invests_more_in_coal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Norway_pension_fund_invests_more_in_coal%29

content:
<p>
Norway's national pension fund said it would divest from coal, but
actually it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/28/norways-sovereign-wealth-fund-accused-of-pretend-divestment">moved
the money from coal mining to coal burning</a> (and increased it).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(German_relay_of_drone_bombing_orders)
title: German relay of drone bombing orders
uri: German-relay-of-drone-bombing-orders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28German_relay_of_drone_bombing_orders%29

content:
<p>
The German court case about 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/27/court-dismisses-yemeni-claim-german-complicity-drone-killings">relaying
orders through Germany to drones bombing Yemen</a> has been dismissed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Zero_tolerance)
title: "Zero tolerance"
uri: Zero-tolerance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Zero_tolerance%29
content:
<p>
"Zero tolerance" at work: graduating students face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/27/seven-arrested-72000-ladybugs-school-prank-maryland">prosecution
for sneaking into school and releasing thousands of ladybugs</a>.
<p>
The school's principal must be truly dedicated to cruel rigidly to
think that this called for prosecution, or any punishment.
<p>
Ladybugs do not hurt or bother humans; on the contrary, they eat other
insects.  They are pretty, and most people are delighted to see them.
Seeing a school corridor with lots of ladybugs must be almost like
visiting the monarch butterfly sanctuary.
<p>
It is not clear to me why they thought they had to vacuum up the
ladybugs, rather than let them fly out the windows and eat other
insects in the neighborhood.  Perhaps that too was an example of
mental rigidity: "The school has to be clean for graduation!"
<p>
American schools have become institutions to inculcate 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_(Standardized_tests)">subservience
to cruel and rigid authority</a>. This example shows how
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#02_January_2015_(Zero_tolerance_in_US_schools)">"zero
tolerance"</a> feeds into the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#23_January_2013_(US_school-to-prison_pipeline)">school-to-prison
pipeline</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Hold_banksters_and_banks_accountable)
title: Hold banksters and banks accountable
uri: Hold-banksters-and-banks-accountable
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Hold_banksters_and_banks_accountable%29

content:
<p>
We must hold individual 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/27/hold-bankers-accountable-their-crimes">banksters <em>and</em>
criminal banks</a> accountable for their crimes.
<p>
They commit lots of crimes.


title: Iraqi gov't pushes Sunnis to support PISSI
uri: Iraqi-gov-t-pushes-Sunnis-to-support-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Iraqi_govt_pushes_Sunnis_to_support_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Iraqi_govt_pushes_Sunnis_to_support_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
The Iraqi government labeled its attempt to reconquer Anbar province
with a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/26/pentagon-iraq-operation-labaik-ya-hussein-name-unhelpful">Shi'ite
sectarian slogan</a>.  This will reaffirm to the Sunnis of Anbar that
they have to support 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_March_2015_(Sunnis_fleeing_from_Tikrit)">PISSI</a>.
<p>
It will be extremely hard to defeat PISSI except by giving Sunnis a
way to stop supporting it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Family-friendly_work_policies)
title: "Family-friendly" work policies
uri: Family-friendly-work-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Family-friendly_work_policies%29
content:
<p>
Requirements that make work "family-friendly" 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/upshot/when-family-friendly-policies-backfire.html">can
have costs for workers</a>.
<p>
Sometimes the policies are worth the costs; also, the article mentions
ways to fix the policies so as to avoid the problems.


title: Russian opposition leader suddenly ill
uri: Russian-opposition-leader-suddenly-ill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Russian_opposition_leader_suddenly_ill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Russian_opposition_leader_suddenly_ill%29

content:
<p>
An Russian opposition leader fell ill suddenly, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/27/russian-opposition-activist-vladimir-kara-murza-in-hospital-after-falling-ill">poison
is suspected</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Global_heating_denial)
title: Global heating denial
uri: 2015-05-31-Global-heating-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/may/27/memo-to-jeb-bush-denying-human-caused-global-warming-is-ignorant">Memo
to Jeb Bush: Denying Human-Caused Global Warming Is Ignorant</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Former_state_officials_now_lobbyists)
title: Former state officials now lobbyists
uri: Former-state-officials-now-lobbyists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Former_state_officials_now_lobbyists%29

content:
<p>
Several former State Department officials have resigned to become
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/27/hillary-clintons-top-state-department-aides-pass-revolving-door-lobby-passage-tpp/">lobbyists
for plutocratic treaties</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Time_Warner_Cable_proposes_megamerger)
title: Time Warner Cable proposes megamerger
uri: Time-Warner-Cable-proposes-megamerger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Time_Warner_Cable_proposes_megamerger%29

content:
<p>
Time Warner Cable now proposes 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/26/here-we-go-again-cable-mega-merger-redux-charter-bids-time-warner-cable">another
megamerger</a>.
<p>
When companies are this big, their mergers are harmful in general and
always be blocked in general.  But we might be able to avoid the
problem entirely with a 
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-big-to-fail/">progressive
tax on company income</a>.


title: Water supply destroyed by war in Yemen
uri: Water-supply-destroyed-by-war-in-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Water_supply_destroyed_by_war_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Water_supply_destroyed_by_war_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
The war in Yemen has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/26/war-leaves-two-thirds-yemen-without-water-access-oxfam">destroyed
the water supply for 16 million people</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Extreme_weather)
title: Extreme weather
uri: 2015-05-31-Extreme-weather
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Extreme_weather%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is expected to bring more droughts and bigger
rainstorms to many parts of the US.  Texas got a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/26/devastating-floods-texas-just-latest-example-global-weather-extremes">drought,
followed by floods</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Zero-hours_contracts)
title: Zero-hours contracts
uri: 2015-05-31-Zero-hours-contracts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Zero-hours_contracts%29
content:
<p>
The Tories' law, supposedly to protect workers with zero-hours
contracts, is so 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/26/conservatives-zero-hours-contracts-small-business-act-david-cameron-toothless">weak</a>
that their employers' will hardly notice it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Dubyas_lies)
title: Dubya's lies
uri: Dubya-s-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Dubyas_lies%29
content:
<p>
Dubya's lies, the excuses for attacking Iraq (and eventually creating
PISSI), were 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/22/1386781/-George-W-Bush-Did-Something-Much-Worse-Than-Lie-Us-Into-War">worse
than ordinary lies</a>.  They played on the fears of Americans who
were already traumatized, thus doing wrong to them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Shell_wants_bet_against_the_world)
title: Shell wants "bet against the world"
uri: Shell-wants-bet-against-the-world
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Shell_wants_bet_against_the_world%29
content:
<p>
Shell wants investors to
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/27/stern-shell-is-asking-us-to-bet-against-the-world-on-climate-change'>bet
against the world</a>".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Gay_marriage_in_Ireland)
title: Gay marriage in Ireland
uri: Gay-marriage-in-Ireland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Gay_marriage_in_Ireland%29
content:
<p>
Ireland's vote to allow gay marriage has been a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/27/catholic-church-ireland-vatican-gay-marriage">big
shock to the Catholic Church</a>.  It can't see how to deal with this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_May_2015_(Global_heating_and_mass_extinctions)
title: Global heating and mass extinctions
uri: Global-heating-and-mass-extinctions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_May_2015_%28Global_heating_and_mass_extinctions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/27/threat-islamic-state-fossil-fuel-burning">Two
previous mass extinctions</a> seem to have included global heating
caused by burning lots of fossil fuel (all the world's forests).
<p>
It took millions of years for the ecosphere to recover.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_May_2015_(Australian_giant_coal_mine_funding)
title: Australian giant coal mine funding
uri: Australian-giant-coal-mine-funding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_May_2015_%28Australian_giant_coal_mine_funding%29

content:
<p>
International banks are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/27/is-any-bank-dumb-enough-to-fund-the-galilee-basin-coalapolooza">refusing
to fund</a> the new Australian giant coal mine.
<p>
Surely Australian banks realize it is against their interest to do so.
Why have they not ruled it out?  Perhaps they are being pressured by
the Australian government, which will stop at nothing to destroy
Earth's ecosphere.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Urgent:_Bring_torturers_to_justice)
title: Urgent: Bring torturers to justice
uri: Urgent-Bring-torturers-to-justice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Bring_torturers_to_justice%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=28366">call
on Mexico to bring torturers to justice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(How_Senate_votes_were_bought_for_TPP)
title: How Senate votes were bought for TPP
uri: How-Senate-votes-were-bought-for-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28How_Senate_votes_were_bought_for_TPP%29

content:
<p>
How senate votes were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/27/corporations-paid-us-senators-fast-track-tpp">bought</a>
for Treacherous Plutocratic Poison.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Total_state_surveillance)
title: Total state surveillance
uri: Total-state-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Total_state_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The UK government wants the state to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/27/security-services-investigatory-powers-bill">monitor
the contents of your phone calls and other communications</a>, not
only who you talk with.
<p>
This follows the examples of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_(General_surveillance_in_Australia)">Australia</a>
and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_October_2013_(NSA_massive_surveillance_of_French_phone_calls)">France</a>
in giving authorizing total state surveillance.
<p>
All these governments justify total surveillance by pointing at
smaller dangers, such as the occasional religious fanatic.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(EU_Climate_Commissioners_meetings)
title: EU Climate Commissioner's meetings
uri: EU-Climate-Commissioner-s-meetings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28EU_Climate_Commissioners_meetings%29
content:
<p>
The EU Climate Commissioner's meetings are mainly with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/28/big-energy-has-privileged-access-to-top-eu-climate-officals-claim-campaigners">fossil
fuel and heavy industry lobbyists</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Thug_surveillance_of_political_groups)
title: Thug surveillance of political groups
uri: Thug-surveillance-of-political-groups
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Thug_surveillance_of_political_groups%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2015/may/28/blacklisted-workers-seek-to-prise-open-secrets-of-covert-police-surveillance">Blacklisted
Workers Seek to Prise Open Secrets of Covert Police Surveillance</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Murder_430,000_years_ago)
title: Murder 430,000 years ago
uri: Murder-430-000-years-ago
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Murder_430%2C000_years_ago%29
content:
<p>
A skull from 430,000 years ago shows 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/27/prehistoric-skull-puncture-wounds-murder-spain-neanderthal">evidence
of murder with a blunt object</a>.
<p>
The cave where 28 skeletons were found also shows evidence of funeral
practices.
<p>
This does not surprise me, since humans kill each other, and so do
chimpanzees.  In the case of chimpanzees, it is typically a group that
does the killing, and that is common for humans too.  It seems
plausible that the common ancestor of the two species did this also.
<p>
However, the different example of bonobos show that another way
exists.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Urgent:_Curb_UK_surveillance_power)
title: Urgent: Curb UK surveillance power
uri: Urgent-Curb-UK-surveillance-power
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Curb_UK_surveillance_power%29

content:
<p>
In the UK: 
<a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/dont-let-the-snoopers-charter-bounce-back">support
the Open Rights Group's campaign</a> against increased (and almost
unlimited) surveillance power.


title: Urgent: Land and Water Conservation Fund
uri: 2015-06-01-Urgent-Land-and-Water-Conservation-Fund
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Urgent:_Land_and_Water_Conservation_Fund)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Land_and_Water_Conservation_Fund%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/LWCF">call on Congress</a> to
fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Urgent:_Throw_out_mining_company_case)
title: Urgent: Throw out mining company case
uri: Urgent-Throw-out-mining-company-case
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Throw_out_mining_company_case%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/oceanagold-world-bank-tribunal/">call
on the World Bank</a> to throw out the mining company's case against
El Salvador.


title: Urgent: Bernie Sanders on Pentagon cuts
uri: Urgent-Bernie-Sanders-on-Pentagon-cuts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Urgent:_Bernie_Sanders_on_Pentagon_cuts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Bernie_Sanders_on_Pentagon_cuts%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/bernie-talk-about-cutting">call
on Bernie Sanders</a> to talk about cutting the Pentagon budget.


title: Report of UK nuclear sub safety violations
uri: Report-of-UK-nuclear-sub-safety-violations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Report_of_UK_nuclear_sub_safety_violations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Report_of_UK_nuclear_sub_safety_violations%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has dismissed Seaman McNeilly's report of safety
violations in nuclear missile submarines in a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/28/awol-sailor-trident-safety-fears-unfounded-navy">blanket,
incredible fashion</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Workers_need_for_more_pay)
title: Workers' need for more pay
uri: Workers-need-for-more-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Workers_need_for_more_pay%29
content:
<p>
Media make a mountain out of the US debt, to 
<a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=f0a27249c2&">distract
from real mountains</a> such as workers' need for more pay.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Cleveland_thugs)
title: Cleveland thugs
uri: Cleveland-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Cleveland_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The Cleveland thugs have 
<a href="http://www.loweringthebar.net/2015/05/cleveland-police-agree-to-stop-hitting.html">agreed
to stop hitting people on the head with their guns</a>.
<p>
In addition, thugs will be supposed to report when they point guns at
people.  Not counting the SWAT team, which probably does this most
often.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Human_traffickers)
title: Human traffickers
uri: Human-traffickers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Human_traffickers%29
content:
<p>
Human traffickers now hold 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/28/asian-refugee-crisis-trafficked-migrants-held-off-thailand-camp-boats">thousands
of prisoners</a> in cargo ships and ransom them to their relatives.
<p>
They have turned into the equivalent of ancient pirates, who captured
people and either ransomed them or sold them into slavery.


title: Arms deals for Clinton Foundation donors
uri: Arms-deals-for-Clinton-Foundation-donors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Arms_deals_for_Clinton_Foundation_donors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Arms_deals_for_Clinton_Foundation_donors%29

content:
<p>
Countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation got 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals">approval
for arms deals from Secretary of State Clinton</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Security_research)
title: Security research
uri: Security-research
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Security_research%29
content:
<p>
Proposed export restrictions for information about security holes
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/arms-control-treaty-could-land-security-researchers-like-me-in-jail/">could
put security researchers in prison</a>.
<p>
I think there should be some laws about how to give notice about
security holes, but they should be designed so that honest security
research is not criminalized.
<p>
I am disappointed that the article uses the term "open source" which
is a way to talk about free software and 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">downplay
its implications about human rights</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Arrested_for_cheating_at_video_games)
title: Arrested for cheating at video games
uri: Arrested-for-cheating-at-video-games
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Arrested_for_cheating_at_video_games%29

content:
<p>
In Japan, players are getting 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150514/10280230998/meanwhile-japan-more-arrests-cheating-video-games.shtml">arrested</a>
for cheating at video games.  So are developers of cheating software.
<p>
This is very dangerous, since next they will prosecute people for
developing software to break DRM — as the US did to Dmitri
Sklyarov.
<p>
If you have a program running on your computer, you must be free to
change it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Charter-Time_Warner_Cable_merger)
title: Charter-Time Warner Cable merger
uri: Charter-Time-Warner-Cable-merger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Charter-Time_Warner_Cable_merger%29
content:
<p>
News Flash: 
<a href="http://www.freepress.net/blog/2015/05/27/news-flash-charter-time-warner-cable-merger-will-benefit-execs-burden-rest-us">The
Charter-Time Warner Cable Merger Will Benefit Execs, Burden the Rest
of Us</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(The_SPEAK_FREE_Act)
title: The SPEAK FREE Act
uri: The-SPEAK-FREE-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28The_SPEAK_FREE_Act%29
content:
<p>
The SPEAK FREE Act would 
<a href="https://cdt.org/blog/speaking-freely-against-slapps/">protect
Americans from frivolous lawsuits aimed to censor them</a>.
<p>
We also need protection from 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#9_May_2012_(Political_Censorship)">frivolous 
DMCA takedown demands aimed to censor us</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Student_privacy_in_school)
title: Student privacy in school
uri: Student-privacy-in-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Student_privacy_in_school%29
content:
<p>
What should it mean to 
<a href="https://medium.com/message/which-students-get-to-have-privacy-e9773f9a064">protect
the privacy of students in school?</a>
<p>
I think that schools should not be allowed to hand any information
about any students to anyone, outside of certain specific exceptions
(reports to parents, and responses to subpoenas).  Even making an
account in a student's name on some company's server violates the
student's privacy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Reporting_soldiers_deaths_in_Russia)
title: Reporting soldiers' deaths in Russia
uri: Reporting-soldiers-deaths-in-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Reporting_soldiers_deaths_in_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Putin 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/28/vladimir-putin-declares-all-russian-military-deaths-state-secrets">declared
it is a crime</a> in Russia to report the death of a soldier.
<p>
This is to repress reports from relatives of the soldiers that are
killed fighting secretly in Ukraine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Land_taken_from_Tamils)
title: Land taken from Tamils
uri: Land-taken-from-Tamils
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Land_taken_from_Tamils%29
content:
<p>
The Sri Lankan army took the land of many Tamils, decades ago, and is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/28/sri-lanka-army-land-grabs-tamil-displacement-report-oakland-institute">using
it for civilian business</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(The_nastiness_of_TISA)
title: The nastiness of TISA
uri: The-nastiness-of-TISA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28The_nastiness_of_TISA%29
content:
<p>
The Trade in Services Agreement would 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/tisa-yet-another-leaked-treaty-youve-never-heard-makes-secret-rules-internet">prohibit
signatory states from insisting on running free software</a>.
<p>
As well as other bigger nasty things.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Boycotting_Israels_colonies)
title: Boycotting Israel's colonies
uri: Boycotting-Israel-s-colonies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Boycotting_Israels_colonies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=68930">Canada's
Plan to Make Boycotting Israel a 'Hate Crime' is Stupid and
Counterproductive</a>.  (It also violates fundamental human rights.)
<p>
It is important to note the difference between the boycott of Israel's
colonies in Palestine and products made in them, advocated by Gush
Shalom, and the Palestinians' BDS movement, which applies to all
Israeli companies and all Israeli institutions except those that
denounce the occupation.  The Israeli government treats them both the
same, and subjects anyone who advocates either one to the danger of
being sued into bankruptcy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Ireland_prosecuting_police_officer)
title: Ireland prosecuting police officer
uri: Ireland-prosecuting-police-officer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Ireland_prosecuting_police_officer%29

content:
<p>
Ireland is prosecuting a police officer for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/28/garda-officer-prosecuted-in-ireland-for-speaking-to-journalist">talking
to journalists to reveal wrongdoing by the thug department</a>.
<p>
By refusing to support thugs when they don't deserve it, he merits the
title of "police officer".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Record-breaking_heatwave_in_India)
title: Record-breaking heatwave in India
uri: Record-breaking-heatwave-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Record-breaking_heatwave_in_India%29
content:
<p>
A record-breaking heatwave in India has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/28/india-heatwave-death-toll-1000-hot-weather">killed
at least 1500 people</a>.


title: Plans to exclude Palestinians from buses
uri: Plans-to-exclude-Palestinians-from-buses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Plans_to_exclude_Palestinians_from_buses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Plans_to_exclude_Palestinians_from_buses%29

content:
<p>
Public opposition 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=68929">made Israel
back down</a> from its plan to exclude Palestinians from buses headed
from Israel to Palestine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Racist_Israeli_govt_ministers)
title: Racist Israeli gov't ministers
uri: Racist-Israeli-gov-t-ministers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Racist_Israeli_govt_ministers%29
content:
<p>
The Israeli government includes many 
<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41928.htm">overtly
racist ministers</a> who completely reject the idea of a state of
Palestine alongside Israel.


title: Israeli soldiers threaten to arrest boy
uri: Israeli-soldiers-threaten-to-arrest-boy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 31_May_2015_(Israeli_soldiers_threaten_to_arrest_boy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#31_May_2015_%28Israeli_soldiers_threaten_to_arrest_boy%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers told a Palestinian family they would arrest the
14-year-old boy if he is 
<a href="http://972mag.com/watch-idf-soldiers-threaten-palestinian-child-with-false-arrest/107067/">standing
outside his house</a> when someone throws stones.
<p>
When Israelis throw stones at the Palestinians, the soldiers look
the other way.
<p>
If you want to watch some of the youtube videos, please don't do it
direct from the site — that 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">involves
running nonfree software</a>.  Instead, use the youtube-dl script as
described in that reference.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(CIA_tortures)
title: CIA tortures
uri: CIA-tortures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28CIA_tortures%29
content:
<p>50 years before John Kiriakou, Anthony Russo 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/01/unknown-whistleblower">
tried to report</a>
 on how
the CIA tortured prisoners in Vietnam.
</p>
<p>However, his report never reached the public.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Clinton)
title: Clinton
uri: Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Clinton%29
content:
<p>Clinton 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/01/costs-2700-participate-hillary-clintons-grassroots-campaign/">
is selling meetings</a>
 for thousands of dollars.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Supreme_being)
title: Supreme being
uri: Supreme-being
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Supreme_being%29
content:
<p>When people argue that a supreme being exist, what they really want is
to 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150524">
believe</a>
 someone powerful is going to make things come out ok for
them.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Mindclones)
title: Mindclones
uri: Mindclones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Mindclones%29
content:
<p>Do mindclones 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rothblatt20150525">
deserve</a>
 human rights?
</p>
<p>I think it depends on how deep the cloning goes.  A mockup of a person
is just a proxy, but a download of a person is a person.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Shell)
title: Shell
uri: 2015-06-02-Shell
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Shell%29
content:
<p>Shell sponsored an exhibit about climate in the Science Museum in
London,
then tried to use its influence to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/31/shell-sought-influence-direction-science-museum-climate-programme">
hush up the danger</a>
 of global
heating.
</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History
both have a Koch brother on the board of directors.</p>
<p>[link to urgent note about that]</p>
<p>It is not too late to sign the petition.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Khan_Academy)
title: Khan Academy
uri: Khan-Academy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Khan_Academy%29
content:
<p>The infamous Khan Academy, which develops online courses and releases
them
under a nonfree license, also 
<a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/06/01/0346230/khan-academy-seeks-patents-on-learning-computer-programming-social-programming">
applies</a>
 for software patents.
</p>
<p>They do NOT deserve your good opinion.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Russia)
title: Russia
uri: 2015-06-02-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Russia%29
content:
<p>Russia 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-vpn-tor-proxy-advice-site-to-be-blocked-150530/">
has ordered</a>
 ISPs to block access to a site that gives advice
about how to get around internet censorship.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(US_intelligence_criminality)
title: US intelligence criminality
uri: US-intelligence-criminality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28US_intelligence_criminality%29
content:
<p>Instead of "compromises", 
<a href="http://www.bordc.org/blog/debate-only-just-beginning-usa-freedom-and-surveillance-state">
we need</a>
 a new Church committee
to get to the bottom of US intelligence criminality.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Computer_security)
title: Computer security
uri: Computer-security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Computer_security%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/cybersecurity-and-tylenol-murdersq">
Comparing</a>
 the response to computer security flaws today
with the response to the Tylenol murders around 1980.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Colombia's_Intelligence)
title: Colombia's Intelligence
uri: Colombia-s-Intelligence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Colombia%27s_Intelligence%29
content:
<p>Colombia's former intelligence chief 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/colombia-intelligence-agency-president-pablo-escobar">
is being tried for
helping a drug gang</a>
 assassinate a presidential candidate.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Charges_against_Snowden_stand)
title: Charges against Snowden stand
uri: Charges-against-Snowden-stand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Charges_against_Snowden_stand%29
content:
<p>Obama tries to take credit for ending bulk collection of Americans'
phone calls, while 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/charges-against-edward-snowden-stand-despite-telephone-surveillance-ban">
refusing to reconsider</a>
 that Snowden deserves
merit for revealing the illegal practice.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Data-mine)
title: Data-mine
uri: Data-mine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Data-mine%29
content:
<p>Wearable or implanted, devices with nonfree software 
<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/the-tech-giants-plan-to-mine-our-bodies-for-dataand-profit">
are</a>
 a plan to
data-mine your body.
If you're fool enough to use such devices with nonfree software in
them.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(US_companies)
title: US companies
uri: US-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28US_companies%29
content:
<p>The Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jun/01/supreme-court-rules-favor-muslim-woman-hijab-abercrombie-fitch">
ruled against a company</a>
 that refused to hire a woman
because she wore a headscarf for religious reasons.
</p>
<p>US companies are far too intrusive about their employees' looks,
especially about female employees.  Nonreligious people need protection
from this too.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Parental_leave)
title: Parental leave
uri: Parental-leave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Parental_leave%29
content:
<p>Sweden 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/30/swedish-dads-told-take-three-months-paternity-leave">
is giving</a>
 new fathers 3 months of paid parental leave, to go with
paid leave for mothers.
</p>
<p>The reason why parental leave is important is so that newborn people
get a good start on life.  Likewise for other programs that support
families; skimping on a child's nutrition, medical care, education
or causing stress can cause irreparable lifelong harm.</p>
<p>These programs may also encourage some people to have more children.
This is a negative effect, but surely small by comparison with the
good done for children.  We can easily overcome it through birth
control assistance to the poor.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2015-06-02-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>Global heating 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/01/rapid-arctic-ice-loss-linked-to-extreme-weather-changes-in-europe-and-us">
is tied</a>
 to the position of the jet stream, which leads
to blizzards and floods in the US and Europe.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(US_thugs)
title: US thugs
uri: 2015-06-02-US-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28US_thugs%29
content:
<p>In the US, 15% of whites killed by thugs were unarmed.  32% of

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/black-americans-killed-by-police-analysis">
blacks killed</a>
 by thugs were unarmed.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(USA_FREEDOM_Act)
title: USA "FREEDOM" Act
uri: USA-FREEDOM-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28USA_FREEDOM_Act%29
content:
<p>A one-off victory over NSA surveillance 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/01/first-time-since-911-congress-checks-security-state/">
is likely to get smaller</a>: the
US Senate is on the way to pass the "USA FREEDOM Act" which makes
inadequate changes.
</p>
<p>But the NSA 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/nsa-surveillance-patriot-act-congress-secret-law">
might not even obey</a>
 these changes.
If so,
how will be find out?  We will need another hero…another
Snowden.</p>
<p>Phone call records tracking is just one element of massive
surveillance.  We need to organize a stronger movement to limit other
forms of pervasive surveillance.  We need to require 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">
redesign</a>
 of
digital systems so that they don't accumulate dossiers about people in
general.
</p>
<p>Please join me in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">
rejecting Facebook</a>

and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">
Amazon</a>.
Support your local physical stores, and protect your
privacy,
by paying cash to buy things.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Jeb_Bush)
title: Jeb Bush
uri: Jeb-Bush
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Jeb_Bush%29
content:
<p>Jeb Bush 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/06/12845/Jeb-Bush-Speaking-at-Secret-Coal-Industry-Retreat">
is in bed with coal companies</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Rana_Plaza)
title: Rana Plaza
uri: Rana-Plaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Rana_Plaza%29
content:
<p>Managers at Rana Plaza 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/rana-plaza-collapse-dozens-charged-with-murder-bangladesh">
forced workers</a>
 to enter the building despite
visible cracks in its structure.  They are being charged with
murdering over 1000 of those workers.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Human_rights_in_Rwanda)
title: Human rights in Rwanda
uri: Human-rights-in-Rwanda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Human_rights_in_Rwanda%29
content:
<p>Rwanda's government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/01/rwanda-places-indefinite-ban-on-bbc-broadcasts-over-genocide-documentary">
has banned</a>
 local BBC broadcasting in objection to
a documentary which suggested that the victims of the 1994 mass murder
included Hutus as well as Tutsis.
</p>
<p>I have seen claims that the distinction between Tutsis and Hutus was
created by the British colonial rulers, who desired a privileged
minority to help rule the rest of the population.  I don't know enough
about that subject to judge whether that is true.</p>
<p>Rwanda's government seems to manage the country well, but 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_March_2014_%28Rwanda_deports_journalist%29">
disrespects</a> human rights.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Nauru)
title: Nauru
uri: 2015-06-02-Nauru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Nauru%29
content:
<p>Prisoners Australia sends to Nauru 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/nauru-detainee-waited-three-months-for-tests-after-shadow-found-in-throat-scan">
have only</a>
 the most basic medical care.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Genetic_engineering)
title: Genetic engineering
uri: Genetic-engineering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Genetic_engineering%29
content:
<p>Genetic engineering 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pearce20150520">
could be used</a>
 to elevate the baseline happiness
of humans, so that no one would suffer depression.
</p>
<p>There may be some beneficial concomitant to the genes that make
people vulnerable to depression. Otherwise they'd probably be
eliminated.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(CIA)
title: CIA
uri: CIA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28CIA%29
content:
<p>The CIA 
<a href="https://news.vice.com/article/a-cia-interrogator-said-the-agency-punished-him-for-cooperating-with-torture-probe">
punished one of its interrogators</a>
 for cooperating with an internal
probe of CIA torture.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Black_citizens)
title: Black citizens
uri: Black-citizens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Black_citizens%29
content:
<p>"Go to any predominantly minority neighborhood in any major American
city and 
<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-baltimore-blew-up-20150526">
you'll hear</a>
 the same stories: decades of being sworn at,
thrown against walls, kicked, searched without cause, stripped naked
on busy city streets, threatened with visits from child protective
services, chased by dogs, and arrested and jailed not merely on false
pretenses, but for reasons that often don't even rise to the level of
being stupid."
</p>
<p>The fraction that get killed by thugs are the tip of the iceberg, but
they keep civil rights defenders busy; millions of attacks and arrests
of black citizens who can't do anything about it.</p>
<p>It starts with racist policies in thug departments, covered by the
figleaf of "stop and frisk" policies, continues through systematic
false accusations by thugs, and they bury complaints as a condition
of dropping the false charges.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(UK_thug)
title: UK thug
uri: UK-thug
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28UK_thug%29
content:
<p>A UK thug 
<a href="http://www.vice.com/read/pc-andrew-ott-conviction-235">
has been sentenced</a>
 to prison for attacking a student
protester.
</p>
<p>Many other thugs did likewise but have not been charged.</p>
<p>I would not believe any accusations that thugs make against
protesters.  A thug is simply not a trustworthy witness.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Landlords)
title: Landlords
uri: Landlords
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Landlords%29
content:
<p>Landlords 
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-are-there-so-many-shuttered-storefronts-in-the-west-village">
are driving</a>
 the quirky unique stores out of the West Village
in New York City, by raising their rents.
</p>
<p>The landlords would rather have the store stay empty for many years,
hoping to land the jackpot of a super-chic store.  The result,
ironically, is to eliminate what made the neighborhood desirable in
the first place.</p>
<p>Bohemians can find another place to live, but it will probably be at
the
end of a painfully long subway ride followed by a bus ride or two.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Chocolate)
title: Chocolate
uri: Chocolate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Chocolate%29
content:
<p>Hackers did an 
<a href="http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800">
intentionally incompetent scientific study</a>
, then used
the real (but random) results to "prove" to mass media that chocolate
helps people lose weight.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Chicago_thugs)
title: Chicago thugs
uri: Chicago-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Chicago_thugs%29
content:
<p>Chicago thugs appear to have 
<a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/laquan-mcdonald-investigation-305105631.html">
deleted security camera video footage</a>

showing how thugs killed Laquan McDonald.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Republican_tax_cuts)
title: Republican tax cuts
uri: Republican-tax-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Republican_tax_cuts%29
content:
<p>Republican tax cuts 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/02/1127055/-Which-party-is-best-for-the-economy-It-s-not-even-close?detail=emailclassic">
are bad for employment</a>. They don't deliver the
"trickle down" benefits that supposedly justify them.  They don't even
boost the stock market.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(US_miserable_states)
title: US miserable states
uri: US-miserable-states
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28US_miserable_states%29
content:
<p>Of the ten US states where people are most miserable and discouraged,
9 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/24/1280047/-Nine-out-of-10-most-miserable-states-are-Red-surprising-no-one?detail=emailclassic">
are ruled</a>
 by Republicans.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Robin_Hood_tax)
title: "Robin Hood" tax
uri: Robin-Hood-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Robin_Hood_tax%29
content:
<p>Bernie Sanders 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/27/sanders-bill-signals-growth-broad-robin-hood-tax-movement">
champions</a>
 the "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions.
</p>
<p>In addition to collecting money from speculators, it will discourage
high-frequency trading, which will reduce instabilities in the stock
market.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Dubya)
title: Dubya
uri: Dubya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Dubya%29
content:
<p>US politicians choose from a spectrum of possible 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/25/iraq-invasion-america-war-jeb-bush-us-election">
falsehoods about
Dubya's invasion of Iraq</a>
, because they don't want to admit that we
knew at the time that it was wrong.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Nuclear_realism)
title: Nuclear realism
uri: Nuclear-realism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Nuclear_realism%29
content:
<p>For nuclear powers to continue holding nuclear weapons 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/28/nuclear-realism">
is not
"realistic" politics</a>
, rather an act of faith that we will never have
an accident, or an accidental nuclear war.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Human_body's_not_perfect)
title: Human body's not perfect
uri: Human-body-s-not-perfect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Human_body%27s_not_perfect%29
content:
<p>If humans were "intelligently designed", the designer 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/31/human-body-marvellous-not-perfect-roberts">
was incompetent</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Uber)
title: Uber
uri: 2015-06-02-Uber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Uber%29
content:
<p>Since Uber pays drivers peanuts, let's call it: <a
href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">Goober</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Breaking_computers)
title: Breaking computers
uri: Breaking-computers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Breaking_computers%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/proposed-rule-change-to-expand-feds-legal-hacking-powers-moves-forward/">
is advancing</a>
 its plan to let one judge authorize the state to break
security on any and all computers anywhere.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Repressing_homeless)
title: Repressing homeless
uri: Repressing-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Repressing_homeless%29
content:
<p>Santa Clara County pays dearly 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/05/28/3663568/silicon-valley-homelessness-failures/">
to repress the homeless</a>
 instead of housing them.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Crime_of_journalism)
title: Crime of journalism
uri: Crime-of-journalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Crime_of_journalism%29
content:
<p>Mohammed Soltan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/30/egypt-frees-ohio-state-graduate-mohammed-soltan-hunger-strike">
was sentenced to life imprisonment</a>
 in Egypt for the
crime of journalism.  He launched a hunger strike, and after 16 months
has been exiled to the US.
</p>
<p>Many others imprisoned in Egypt for the same crime have not had such
luck.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Work_week)
title: Work week
uri: Work-week
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Work_week%29
content:
<p>French workers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/30/35-hour-week-french-say-no-to-changes-reform">
fight</a>
 to their 35-hour work week, more or less.
</p>
<p>In the US, where the government has abandoned workers, the 
<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2015/05/05/the-40-hour-work-week-is-a-thing-of-the-past/">
40-hour work week
has been lost</a>.
</p>
<p>Limiting the work week is a way to give employment to more people.  If
the minimum wage and other public services (including medical care and
education) are sufficient, it reduces poverty.</p>
<p>With all the increased efficiency of 60 years of technological
advance,
should poor Americans have to work longer hours now just to get by?
That is a sign of the wrongs of our plutocratic government.</p>
<p>Businesses argue, "If you do this, you will lose the competition
against other countries that allow businesses to make workers work
longer and spread poverty there."  I turn this around, and ask, why do
those governments serve their people badly?  Obviously, because they
are taking the advice of those businesses.</p>
<p>Instead of corporate-power treaties such as TPP, we need workers-power
treaties that will punish governments that don't support their own
people against dooH niboR (Robin Hood in reverse).</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Indian_heat_wave)
title: Indian heat wave
uri: Indian-heat-wave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Indian_heat_wave%29
content:
<p>In the temperature and humidity of the Indian heat wave, physical
labor without air conditioning is dangerous, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/31/the-heat-and-the-death-toll-are-rising-in-india-is-this-a-glimpse-of-earths-future">
poor people can't
afford</a>
 to miss work.  Thus, the dead are not limited to the old and
sick.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Politicize_disasters)
title: Politicize disasters
uri: Politicize-disasters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Politicize_disasters%29
content:
<p>We 
<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/heres-why-we-need-to-politicize-disasters/">
must politicize disasters</a>, such as the floods in Texas, that
result
from political decisions.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Harder_to_strike)
title: Harder to strike
uri: Harder-to-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Harder_to_strike%29
content:
<p>The UK government changing the law to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/31/workers-rights-one-nation-tory-britain">
make it very hard</a>
 for unions to
strike.  Also, harder for unions to donate to a political party (but
it's easy for rich people to donate).
</p>
<p>Stephen Hawking 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/31/stephen-hawking-cuts-threat-disabled-students">
says</a>
 that a student today with his medical problems would
not get the support needed to be able to study.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Israel_thanks_Obama)
title: Israel thanks Obama
uri: Israel-thanks-Obama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Israel_thanks_Obama%29
content:
<p>Israel 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/26/israel-thanks-obama-sabotaging-nuclear-nonproliferation-deal">
Thanks Obama</a>
 for Sabotaging Nuclear Nonproliferation Deal.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(War_on_Terror)
title: War on Terror
uri: 2015-06-02-War-on-Terror
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28War_on_Terror%29
content:
<p>What Moby Dick 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/30/what-moby-dick-can-teach-us-about-war-terror">
Can Teach Us</a>
 About the War on Terror.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Title_IX)
title: Title IX
uri: Title-IX
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Title_IX%29
content:
<p>Professor Kipnis 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/29/prof-who-faced-down-title-ix-inquisition">
published</a>
 an article about the injustice of Title IX
sexual harassment accusations in US universities; in response,
students filed Title IX accusations against her claiming that her
article was sexual harassment.
</p>
<p>I wish we could read her second article, which describes these events,
but it seems to be paywalled.  The article I've referred to is a
stand-in for her inaccessible article.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(T._H._White's_book)
title: T. H. White's book
uri: T-H-White-s-book
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28T._H._White%27s_book%29
content:
<p>T. H. White's book, The Making of the President 1960, 
<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/teddy-white-political-journalism-117090_full.html#.VWX5MmCkTdm">
led</a>
 to intense
scrutiny of insignificant details of the lives of candidates, which he
later regretted.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/177333/kennedy-week-myth-camelot-and-dangers-sycophantic-consensus-journalism">
More criticism</a>
 of the effects of that book.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Bernie_Sanders)
title: Bernie Sanders
uri: 2015-06-02-Bernie-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Bernie_Sanders%29
content:
<p>Bernie Sanders 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/29/how-mainstream-bernie-sanders">
represents</a>
 mainstream American views, rather than the
right-wing positions of mainstream American media.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Police_shooting)
title: Police shooting
uri: Police-shooting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Police_shooting%29
content:
<p>A woman called for help, non-emergency, for her boyfriend who was
talking about suicide.  She didn't say she was in any danger.  Thugs
with rifles 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/28/1388482/-Woman-calls-police-seeking-help-for-boyfriend-who-threatened-suicide-police-arrive-and-shoot-him?detail=emailtest">
responded</a>
, and shot him dead.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Political_ads)
title: Political ads
uri: Political-ads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Political_ads%29
content:
<p>Washington 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/us/washington-bans-political-ads-from-public-transit.html">
Bans</a>
 Political Ads From Public Transit.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Hurricane_Sandy)
title: Hurricane Sandy
uri: Hurricane-Sandy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Hurricane_Sandy%29
content:
<p>[Hurricane] Sandy Victims 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/05/29/3663773/christie-sandy-bus-tour/">
Say</a>
 Low-Income Residents Got 'Screwed' By
[New Jersey Governor] Christie's Recovery Programs.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(America's_inequality)
title: America's inequality
uri: America-s-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28America%27s_inequality%29
content:
<p>America's Growing Inequality 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/americas-growing-inequality-worsens-ones-senior-years">
Worsens</a>
 In One's Senior Years.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(IRS)
title: IRS
uri: IRS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28IRS%29
content:
<p>Budget cuts in the IRS 
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/29/technology/irs-not-protecting-data/index.html">
have damaged</a>
 its ability to handle and prevent
increasing digital fraud against taxpayers.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Net_Neutrality)
title: Net Neutrality
uri: 2015-06-02-Net-Neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Net_Neutrality%29
content:
<p>Net Neutrality — Is The European Parliament Ready to 
<a href="https://edri.org/net-neutrality-fail/">
Accept</a>
 Complete 
Failure?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(AI_story)
title: AI story
uri: AI-story
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28AI_story%29
content:
<p>A disturbingly plausible AI story: 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-counselor">
The Counselor</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(CRPE)
title: CRPE
uri: CRPE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28CRPE%29
content:
<p>CRPE is a secretive right-wing-linked group of school districts that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/29/secret-group-wants-take-over-your-school">
wants</a>
 to
pay less to school districts whose students don't do well.
</p>
<p>To a large extent, the reason the students don't do well is that they
grow
up in poverty, in a 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#10_May_2015_%28Growing_up_in_a_better_neighborhood%29">
neighborhood</a>
 afflicted by poverty.
Thus, this is another form of dooH niboR.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Cable_TV)
title: Cable TV
uri: Cable-TV
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Cable_TV%29
content:
<p>Verizon cable TV 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/05/verizon-fios-reps-know-what-tv-channels-you-watch/">
snoops</a>
 on what programs people watch, and even what they
wanted to record.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(UK_welfare)
title: UK welfare
uri: UK-welfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28UK_welfare%29
content:
<p>UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/29/household-benefit-cap-plunge-40000-kids-poverty-memo">
plans to limit</a>
 welfare benefits threaten to push 40,000 more children
into poverty.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Over-criminalization)
title: Over-criminalization
uri: Over-criminalization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Over-criminalization%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/29/denny-hastert-highly-unsympathetic-face-americas-criminalization-pathology/">
The charges</a>
 against ex-Congressman Hastert illustrate how the US has
become over-criminalized.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Malware_in_phones)
title: Malware in phones
uri: Malware-in-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Malware_in_phones%29
content:
<p>Malware in phones 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-05-subway-riders-smartphones-tracking-malware.html">
can track</a>
 people through the subway using accelerometers.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Female_mutilation)
title: Female mutilation
uri: Female-mutilation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Female_mutilation%29
content:
<p>Nigeria
 <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/29/outlawing-fgm-nigeria-hugely-important-precedent-say-campaigners">
has banned</a>
 female genital mutilation.
</p>
<p>A lot more struggle will be needed to end the practice.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(PAT_RIOT_Act_extension)
title: PAT RIOT Act extension
uri: PAT-RIOT-Act-extension
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28PAT_RIOT_Act_extension%29
content:
<p>The US corporate media 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/28/corporate-media-accused-parroting-fear-mongering-over-patriot-act">
are promoting</a>
 the fear campaign to extend the
PAT RIOT Act.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Thug_Brelo)
title: Thug Brelo
uri: Thug-Brelo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Thug_Brelo%29
content:
<p>n the 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/208369/what-no-one-saying-about-cleveland-police-shooting-case-its-legal-nonsense">
legal reasoning</a>
 that led to the acquittal of Thug Brelo.
</p>
<p>I would not say the reasoning is wrong.  If the charge was that Brelo
individually was the killer of the two passengers, indeed that can't
be proved.  Perhaps it was the wrong charge.  Would "attempted murder"
have been provable?</p>
<p>Is it generally the case that when several shooters hit a person who
is killed by their bullets, none of them can be convicted of murder?</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Gag_bill)
title: Gag bill
uri: Gag-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Gag_bill%29
content:
<p>North Carolina's gag bill 
<a href="http://ivn.us/2015/05/27/n-c-ag-gag-bill-threatens-whistle-blowers-industries-not-just-farms/">
would go</a>
 well beyond agriculture: it would
criminalize investigation into nursing homes and day care centers too.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Shooting_drills)
title: Shooting drills
uri: Shooting-drills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Shooting_drills%29
content:
<p>Most US schools 
<a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/5/22/8644219/school-shooting-hysteria-is-out-of-control">
have "shooting drills"</a>
 even though being killed at school
is almost as unusual as getting struck by lightning.
When done vividly, these drills traumatize students.</p>
<p>I suspect that these drills spread the sort of irrational fear that
leads to arresting parents that let children be alone.</p>
<p>Perhaps schools should have lightning drills instead.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 2_June_2015_(Climate_summits)
title: Climate summits
uri: Climate-summits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_%28Climate_summits%29
content:
<p>France 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/29/paris-climate-summit-sponsors-include-fossil-fuel-firms-and-big-carbon-emitters">
says</a>
 that climate summits depend on fossil fuel companies' money.
</p>
<p>This is ridiculous.  Governments have the money for this.  If they
want to get these funds from fossil fuel companies, they should cut
the subsidies to those companies.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Rafael_Marques_de_Morais)
title: Rafael Marques de Morais
uri: Rafael-Marques-de-Morais
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Rafael_Marques_de_Morais%29
content:
<p>After a contrived mixup in court, Rafael Marques de Morais has been
given a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/28/angolan-suspended-jail-blood-diamonds-rafael-marques-de-morais">
suspended sentence over nothing</a>
, so that the government of
Angola can imprison him any time he writes something disturbing.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Jeb_Bush)
title: Jeb Bush
uri: 2015-06-02-Jeb-Bush
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Jeb_Bush%29
content:
<p>Jeb Bush 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/29/jeb-bush-closed-door-meeting-coal-industry-barons">
Cosies Up</a>
 to Coal Industry Barons at Closed-Door Meeting.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Sana'a)
title: Sana'a
uri: Sana-a
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Sana%27a%29
content:
<p>Amnesty 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/yemen-anti-aircraft-fire-cause-of-most-civilian-casualties-in-sanaa-report-says">
says</a>
 that most civilian casualties in Sana'a are caused by
anti-aircraft rounds that fall to the ground in some other part of the
city.
</p>
<p>I wonder what measures other armies take to prevent this sort of
casualties
which would most often happen to the civilians on their own side.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Abortion)
title: Abortion
uri: Abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Abortion%29
content:
<p>Chilean abortion rights activists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/abortion-video-tutorial-ads-shock-chile-amid-debate-on-easing-ban">
make</a>
 mock "tutorials" on dangerous
ways to try to do an abortion without medical help.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Movement_against_poverty)
title: Movement against poverty
uri: Movement-against-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Movement_against_poverty%29
content:
<p>An effective movement against poverty 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/29/what-real-anti-poverty-movement-looks">
needs to be lead by people who have
experienced it</a>.  Only they know how to win support from other poor
people.
</p>
<p>The article misses one point, however.  An effective movement against
poverty has to fight for abortion rights.  Saddling a poor family with
another baby is a sure route to poverty, and that extra baby will
experience life-long the stunting caused by childhood poverty.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Ivory_products)
title: Ivory products
uri: Ivory-products
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Ivory_products%29
content:
<p>China 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/29/china-agrees-to-phase-out-its-ivory-industry-to-combat-elephant-poaching">
will "phase out"</a>
 manufacture and sale of ivory products.
It will be good, if they don't take too long about it.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Congressional_Report_Card)
title: Congressional Report Card
uri: Congressional-Report-Card
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Congressional_Report_Card%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.earthrights.org/cac-report-card">
See</a>
 how US senators and representatives voted on bills to hold
companies accountable for their wrongdoing and limit their political
influence.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Jeffrey_Spector)
title: Jeffrey Spector
uri: Jeffrey-Spector
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Jeffrey_Spector%29
content:
<p>Jeffrey Spector, age 54, lived in the UK, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/26/jeffrey-spector-assisted-dying-dignitas-tumour-paralysis-explains-decision">
he had to move</a>
 to Switzerland
to kill himself rather than become hopelessly paralyzed.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Net-neutrality)
title: Net-neutrality
uri: Net-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Net-neutrality%29
content:
<p>AT&T 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/05/att-wants-to-choose-which-online-video-services-count-against-data-caps/">
wants to violate</a>
 network neutrality by having data caps count
some video sites and not others.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Farms)
title: Farms
uri: Farms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Farms%29
content:
<p>Cattle and chicken farms 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/may/29/its-time-to-wean-ourselves-off-the-fairytale-version-of-farming">
promote</a>
, to children, a mythical picture
of happy animals eating the locally produced sustainable plants.
</p>
<p>Propping up this myth are the ag-gag bills that make it a crime to
document how farms are really run.</p>
<p>Idaho's ag-gag bill 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/28/emails-reveal-dairy-lobbyist-authored-ag-gag-legislation-outlawing-pictures-farms/">
was written</a>
 by factory farm owners.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Encryption)
title: Encryption
uri: 2015-06-02-Encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Encryption%29
content:
<p>A UN report 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/28/united-nations-encryption-anonymity-surveillance/">
says</a>
 that governments should respect and encourage encryption.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Women_voting_in_Pakistan)
title: Women voting in Pakistan
uri: Women-voting-in-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Women_voting_in_Pakistan%29
content:
<p>Women 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/women-barred-voting-pakistan-khyber-pakhtunk">
were blocked</a>
 from voting in the most fundamentalist parts of Pakistan.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Smoking)
title: Smoking
uri: Smoking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Smoking%29
content:
<p>Restrictions on smoking in the UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/29/smoking-ban-children-reduce-rate-respiratory-problems">
seem to have avoided</a>
 11000
hospitalizations of children per year.
This is because children are less exposed to second-hand smoke now.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Drones)
title: Drones
uri: 2015-06-02-Drones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Drones%29
content:
<p>Laws to protect whales 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/noaa-says-drone-pilots-cant-film-endangered-whales">
apply</a>
 to drones as well as to aircraft.
</p>
<p>This seems correct to me.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Oil_extraction)
title: Oil extraction
uri: Oil-extraction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Oil_extraction%29
content:
<p>Low oil prices are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/29/dozens-of-canadas-tar-sands-projects-on-hold-as-prices-fall-analysis-shows">
cutting back extraction</a>
 of highly polluting tar
sands oil.
Protests and public opposition may be helping.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Improving_PAT_RIOT_Act)
title: "Improving" PAT RIOT Act
uri: Improving-PAT-RIOT-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Improving_PAT_RIOT_Act%29
content:
<p>After the senate refused to renew the PAT RIOT Act, another bill 
<a href="https://cdt.org/insight/oppose-senator-burrs-fisa-improvements-act-of-2015/">
proposes</a>

to "improve" it by giving the surveillance state even more
power.
</p>
<p>And 
<a href="https://cdt.org/insight/oppose-senator-feinsteins-fisa-reform-act-of-2015/">
there's</a>
 another one.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Censorship_on_Reddit)
title: Censorship on Reddit
uri: Censorship-on-Reddit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Censorship_on_Reddit%29
content:
<p>Reddit 
<a href="http://techrights.org/2015/05/28/reddit-censorship/">
censors</a>
 comments in a subtle way: they are visible
to those who posted them, but not to anyone else.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 1_June_2015_(Legal_highs)
title: Legal highs
uri: Legal-highs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#1_June_2015_%28Legal_highs%29
content:
<p>The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/29/laughing-gas-government-legal-highs-nitrous-oxide">
plans</a>
 to block sale of all "legal highs", as well as nitrous oxide.
</p>
<p>Some of these chemicals are dangerous, but some are not.
In particular nitrous oxide is hardly dangerous at all.
There is no need to ban it, just educate people in how to use it
safely.</p>
<p>The law 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/29/psychoactive-substances-ban-end-brain-research-britain-david-nutt">
would interfere</a>
 with research into brain function.
</p>
<p>This law would be incoherent; really they need to ban
neurotransmitters.
</p>


title: Urgent: No massive surveillance "compromise"
uri: Very-urgent-No-massive-surveillance-compromise
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_June_2015_(Urgent:_No_massive_surveillance_compromise)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_massive_surveillance_compromise%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and tell them to reject any
"compromise" to bring back some of the massive surveillance that was
just ended.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/06/01/patriot-act-freedom-act-or-government-shell-game">more</a>
about how this "compromise" would be a step back from where we are
now.
<p>
Senator McConnell is trying to make it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/mitch-mcconnell-limit-transparency-usa-freedom-act">even
worse</a>.


title: Urgent: Label meat raised with antibiotics
uri: Urgent-Label-meat-raised-with-antibiotics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Urgent:_Label_meat_raised_with_antibiotics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Label_meat_raised_with_antibiotics%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-meat/">support</a>
requiring labeling of meat raised with routine use of antibiotics.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_TPP)
title: Urgent: Oppose the TPP
uri: 2015-06-03-Urgent-Oppose-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
In TPP countries: 
<a href="https://stopthesecrecy.net/">Tell your trade minister</a>,
don't let TPP overwrite our laws.
<p>
List of TPP countries:
<ul style="list-style-type:none">
<li>Australia</li>
<li>Brunei</li>
<li>Canada</li>
<li>Chile</li>
<li>Japan</li>
<li>Malaysia</li>
<li>Mexico</li>
<li>New Zealand</li>
<li>Peru</li>
<li>Singapore</li>
<li>USA</li>
<li>Vietnam</li>
</ul>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(NSA_surveillance)
title: NSA surveillance
uri: NSA-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28NSA_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
ACLU: NSA Surveillance: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/nsa-surveillance-scandal-use-not-abuse">The
Scandal is the Use</a>, Not the Abuse.
<p>
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">Hear,
hear!</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Global_heating_denial)
title: Global heating denial
uri: 2015-06-03-Global-heating-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
"Echo chambers" with little scientific input enable politicians to 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/27/3662739/climate-change-echo-chambers/">close
their ears to evidence about global heating</a>.
<p>
This is not an accident, however; for a right-wing politician who as
adopted denialism, it's a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#17_February_2013_(Politicians_bought_and_destroyed_by_Koch_brothers)">means
to an end</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_June_2015_(Graduating_students)
title: Graduating students
uri: Graduating-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_June_2015_%28Graduating_students%29
content:
<p>
Graduating students that accept jobs doing evil <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/city-corporates-destroy-best-minds">are choosing</a> to be
corrupted.</p>
<p>
While the article refers to becoming a bankster, it applies just as
much to going to work on proprietary software.  The two evils are
different in detail, but that is not significant.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_June_2015_(The_Erdogan_regime)
title: The Erdogan regime
uri: The-Erdogan-regime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_June_2015_%28The_Erdogan_regime%29
content:
<p>
The Erdogan regime, going a little beyond Obama's example, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/turkish-president-erdogan-wants-editor-jailed-for-espionage-in-video-row">has charged</a>
an editor with espionage.</p>
<p>
The Obama regime charges only their sources, not the journalists
themselves, but the effect is the same.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_June_2015_(Thugs_suffocated_Minjarez)
title: Thugs suffocated Minjarez
uri: Thugs-suffocated-Minjarez
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_June_2015_%28Thugs_suffocated_Minjarez%29
content:
<p>
Thugs <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/01/1389514/-Police-crush-kill-man-begging-for-his-life-screamed-he-was-suffocating-until-his-ears-turned-blue?detail=email">suffocated</a> Robert Minjarez by sitting on his back and squeezing
the breath out of him.  He managed to say, a few times, that he was
suffocating, until he could not get enough breath to say any more.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_June_2015_(Rosa_DeLauro)
title: Rosa DeLauro
uri: Rosa-DeLauro
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_June_2015_%28Rosa_DeLauro%29
content:
<p>
Rep. Rosa DeLauro is not afraid to <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/01/1389507/-Anti-TPP-Top-Dem-Rosa-DeLauro-POTUS-is-in-bed-with-the-multinational-corporations?detail=email">denounce</a> Obama's subservience to
business.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_June_2015_(Sudan_censorship)
title: Sudan censorship
uri: Sudan-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_June_2015_%28Sudan_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Sudan <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jun/03/sudan-security-services-suspend-and-confiscate-newspapers">confiscated</a> editions of ten newspapers, and shut four of them permanently.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_June_2015_(London_fines_homeless_for_sleeping)
title: London fines homeless for sleeping
uri: London-fines-homeless-for-sleeping
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_June_2015_%28London_fines_homeless_for_sleeping%29

content:
<p>
Part of London <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/jun/03/councils-help-rough-sleepers-not-fine-them-hackney">is planning</a> to fine homeless people for sleeping.</p>
<p>
Since homeless people are generally broke and can't pay fines, I can
only suppose this is meant as an excuse to jail them.  Since the UK
fines people for having been jailed, they will be jailed for life, or
until the government decides to forget the accrued fines.</p>
<p>
If thousands of homeless Britons choose to pack the jails, as blacks
packed the jails in the south during the civil rights movement, they
might force an end to this system.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_June_2015_(USA_Freedom_Act)
title: USA "Freedom" Act
uri: 2015-06-04-USA-Freedom-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_June_2015_%28USA_Freedom_Act%29
content:
<p>
The EFF <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/02/usa-freedom-act-passes-what-we-celebrate-what-we-mourn-and-where-we-go-here">prefers</a> to see the positive side of the "USA Freedom Act": it represents a step in the right direction, compared with a week ago.</p>
<p>
I see the negative side: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/surveillance-reform-freedom-act-explainer-fbi-phone-calls-privacy">it is a step in the wrong direction</a>,
compared with the actual situation today.</p>
<p>
The result is that we <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/03/snowden-opened-door-nsa-reform">have made</a> only a small step in reducing the US
government's power of massive surveillance, which <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">threatens</a> democracy.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_June_2015_(Boston_thugs)
title: Boston thugs
uri: Boston-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_June_2015_%28Boston_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Boston thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/03/boston-police-video-terrorism-usaama-rahim">say</a> video shows Usaama Rahim was charging at them with a knife
when they shot him.</p>
<p>
Even practiced liars sometimes tell the truth, but they should show us
the video rather than expecting us to take their word for it.</p>


title: Very urgent: Denounce corporate power agreements
uri: Very-urgent-Denounce-corporate-power-agreements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Urgent:_Denounce_corporate_power_agreements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Denounce_corporate_power_agreements%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 877-852-4710 to denounce
all the proposed corporate power agreements including the TPP, TISA
and TTIP.
<p>
"Free trade" is bad, since it makes countries compete to allow worse
treatment of workers, when each ought to be doing its best to insist
on better treatment for its workers.  But these treaties go much
further and therefore are far worse, since they give companies power
over human beings.


title: NATO bombing destroyed Libya's water system
uri: NATO-bombing-destroyed-Libya-s-water-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(NATO_bombing_destroyed_Libyas_water_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28NATO_bombing_destroyed_Libyas_water_system%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2869234/war_crime_nato_deliberately_destroyed_libyas_water_infrastructure.html">NATO
bombing</a> destroyed Libya's water management system.
<p>
I can't see proof here about whether it was intentional or careless.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Electricity_in_Gaza)
title: Electricity in Gaza
uri: Electricity-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Electricity_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05/how-solar-power-could-save-lives-war-torn-gaza">lack
of electricity</a> in Gaza can be fatal.  It is always an injustice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(FBI_surveillance_planes)
title: FBI surveillance planes
uri: FBI-surveillance-planes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28FBI_surveillance_planes%29
content:
<p>
The FBI operates
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-06-fbi-mysterious-surveillance-aircraft-cities.html">over
100 surveillance planes</a> that capture video over US cities and
sometimes track all cell phones.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Urgent:_GMO_food_regulation)
title: Urgent: GMO food regulation
uri: Urgent-GMO-food-regulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_GMO_food_regulation%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-usda/">support
reform</a> of how GMO foods are regulated.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Urgent:_Reject_Pentagon_slush_fund)
title: Urgent: Reject Pentagon slush fund
uri: Urgent-Reject-Pentagon-slush-fund
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Pentagon_slush_fund%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-pentagon/">call on
Congress</a> to reject the 90 billion dollar Pentagon slush fund.


title: Urgent: Roll back Corporations United
uri: Urgent-Roll-back-Corporations-United
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Urgent:_Roll_back_Corporations_United)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Roll_back_Corporations_United%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.endcitizensunited.org/Co-Sponsor">support a
constitutional amendment</a> to roll back the Corporations United
decision.
<p>
That case is usually referred to as "Citizens United" after the
dishonest name used by the organization.  I see no reason why we
should repeat their falsehoods.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Urgent:_Phone_FERC)
title: Urgent: Phone FERC
uri: Urgent-Phone-FERC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Phone_FERC%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://environmental-action.org/action/call-in-to-join-the-phone-blockade-and-stop-the-ferc-us">phone
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission</a> and insist that it move
away from extreme fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Eye-tracking_devices)
title: Eye-tracking devices
uri: Eye-tracking-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Eye-tracking_devices%29
content:
<p>
Watch out for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/jun/02/how-your-eyes-betray-your-thoughts">eye-tracking
devices</a>; they could be used to put you at a disadvantage.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Makoko_floating_neighborhood)
title: Makoko floating neighborhood
uri: Makoko-floating-neighborhood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Makoko_floating_neighborhood%29
content:
<p>
The Makoko Floating School 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jun/02/makoko-floating-school-lagos-waterworld-history-cities-50-buildings">prevented
the slum clearance</a> of the entire Makoko floating neighborhood in
Lagos.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Criminalization_of_homelessness)
title: Criminalization of homelessness
uri: Criminalization-of-homelessness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Criminalization_of_homelessness%29
content:
<p>
The extreme of criminalizing homelessness: in 2014, Albuquerque thugs
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/25/1287167/--Albuquerque-Police-fatally-shoot-homeless-man-found-camping-in-desert-area-illegally">shot
and killed a homeless man for camping in the desert</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(US_Supreme_Court_on_threats)
title: US Supreme Court on threats
uri: US-Supreme-Court-on-threats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28US_Supreme_Court_on_threats%29
content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court ruled that talking about doing violence to
someone does not count as a threat unless it is 
<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/supreme-court-intent-matters-in-violent-facebook-posts-20150601">intended
as a threat</a>.
<p>
However, it left unclear the question of how to decide 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150601/10321331172/supreme-court-completely-punts-first-amendment-question-about-threatening-song-lyrics-facebook.shtml">what
counts as a threat</a>.


title: Thugs rob woman during wrongful arrest
uri: Thugs-rob-woman-during-wrongful-arrest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Thugs_rob_woman_during_wrongful_arrest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Thugs_rob_woman_during_wrongful_arrest%29

content:
<p>
When thugs arrested Ginnifer Hency for possession of marijuana, they
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2015/06/01/armed-robbers-with-badges-they-took-ever">took
away lots of her property, including her children's phones</a>.
<p>
Charges were dropped because her medical marijuana is legal, but she
can't get her property or her children's property back.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(US_surveillance_powers)
title: US surveillance powers
uri: US-surveillance-powers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28US_surveillance_powers%29
content:
<p>
Without section 215, the US government 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/01/dont-worry-government-still-has-plenty-surveillance-power-if-section-215-sunsets-0">still
has tremendous surveillance powers</a>.
<p>
Rather than surrendering to the fear Obama and his henchmen are
spreading, we need to curb surveillance further.  In some cases we
need to make the state obey its laws.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Honduran_social_security_funds_taken)
title: Honduran social security funds taken
uri: Honduran-social-security-funds-taken
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Honduran_social_security_funds_taken%29

content:
<p>
The coup-installed rulers of Honduras are facing massive condemnation
for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/honduras-protests-social-security-embezzlement">taking
social security funds for campaigns</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_June_2015_(Protesters_blockade_coal_conference)
title: Protesters blockade coal conference
uri: Protesters-blockade-coal-conference
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_June_2015_%28Protesters_blockade_coal_conference%29

content:
<p>
Protesters 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/01/seven-activists-arrested-during-protests-against-fossil-fuels-across-the-uk">blockaded</a>
a coal conference in London.


title: Very urgent: Denounce corporate power agreements
uri: 2015-06-04-Very-urgent-Denounce-corporate-power-agreements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_June_2015_(Urgent:_Denounce_corporate_power_agreements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Denounce_corporate_power_agreements%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 877-852-4710 to denounce
all the proposed corporate power agreements including the TPP, TISA
and TTIP.
<p>
"Free trade" is bad, since it makes countries compete to allow worse
treatment of workers, when each ought to be doing its best to insist
on better treatment for its workers.  But these treaties go much
further and therefore are far worse, since they give companies power
over human beings.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_June_2015_(Global_Heating)
title: Global Heating
uri: 2015-06-04-Global-Heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_June_2015_%28Global_Heating%29
content:
<p>
A last-gasp attempt to present denial of global heating in scientific
guise
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jun/03/research-downplaying-impending-global-warming-is-overturned">
roves to be based on gross errors.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 4_June_2015_(Climate)
title: Climate
uri: 2015-06-04-Climate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#4_June_2015_%28Climate%29
content:
<p>Paris Climate Pledges <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/03/paris-climate-pledges-will-only-delay-dangerous-warming-by-two-years">
'Will Only Delay Dangerous Warming by Two
Years'.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_June_2015_(Obama_rebukes_Netanyahu)
title: Obama rebukes Netanyahu
uri: Obama-rebukes-Netanyahu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_June_2015_%28Obama_rebukes_Netanyahu%29
content:
<p>
Obama has rebuked Netanyahu, saying that Netanyahu 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/barack-obama-says-israel-risks-losing-credibility-over-palestinian-state-stance">appears
to rule out peace with Palestine</a>.
<p>
Uri Avnery 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#29%20March%202009%20(Avnery%20-%20peace%20initiatives%20designed%20to%20fail)">has
told us for years</a> that that is the case.
<p>
In response, Netanyahu hopes to convince the world to see the
Palestinians' boycott campaign as a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/israel-brands-palestinian-boycott-strategic-threat-netanyahu">"strategic
threat"</a>, rather than the nonviolent movement that it is.
<p>
Please do not be fooled.  South Africa could just as easily have made
the same absurd claim.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_June_2015_(Indonesian_rainforest_destruction)
title: Indonesian rainforest destruction
uri: Indonesian-rainforest-destruction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_June_2015_%28Indonesian_rainforest_destruction%29

content:
<p>
A major Indonesian paper company says it will stop destroying forests,
but the government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/03/april-vows-to-stop-clearing-indonesias-rainforests">still
has not acted</a>.


title: Committee Against Torture office attacked
uri: Committee-Against-Torture-office-attacked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_June_2015_(Committee_Against_Torture_office_attacked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_June_2015_%28Committee_Against_Torture_office_attacked%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/hammer-wielding-raiders-storm-human-rights-group-offices-chechnya">Thugs
with hammers</a> attacked the office of the Committee Against Torture
in Chechnya.
<p>
I call them "thugs" because they were surely working for the state.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_June_2015_(PISSI)
title: PISSI
uri: 2015-06-05-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_June_2015_%28PISSI%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/10000-isis-fighters-killed-since-start-coalition-assault-iraq-syria">tries
to paper over</a> PISSI's recent victories by counting its casualties.
<p>
It makes no difference how many PISSI fighters are killed if PISSI can
recruit replacements for them.  PISSI will have no trouble doing so as
long as Iraqi Sunnis believe they have no other choice.  Reportedly
PISSI now includes 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/03/isis-forces-exbaathist-saddam-loyalists/">all
the forces that were fighting against the US-unleashed Iraqi
government ten years ago</a>.
<p>
To defeat PISSI requires 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_March_2015_(Sunnis_fleeing_from_Tikrit)">giving
the Iraqi Sunnis a safe way out</a>.  The Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi
government is hardly even trying to do that.


title: The soldiers Russia has sent to Ukraine
uri: The-soldiers-Russia-has-sent-to-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_June_2015_(The_soldiers_Russia_has_sent_to_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_June_2015_%28The_soldiers_Russia_has_sent_to_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Ukrainians 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/bloggers-social-media-russian-soldiers-fighting-in-ukraine">search
Russian social networks</a> to document the soldiers that Russia has
sent to fight in Ukraine.
<p>
Captured soldiers, fighting in uniform, should not be tried as
"terrorists".  They are prisoners of war.  Stretching the meaning of
"terrorism" is an affront to human rights, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#02_November_2014_(TSA_harassment)">no
matter which country does it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 05_June_2015_(US_education_and_political_life)
title: US education and political life
uri: US-education-and-political-life
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#05_June_2015_%28US_education_and_political_life%29
content:
<p>
US education, and political life, add up to a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/02/youve-been-scammed-going-broke-ponzi-scheme-america">big
scam</a>.


title: Urgent: defend freedom of political activity in India
uri: Urgent-defend-freedom-of-political-activity-in-India
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Urgent:_defend_freedom_of_political_activity_in_India)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_defend_freedom_of_political_activity_in_India%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on Ban Ki Moon to 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=310A4C3398C22965D71538D989ABC2BF.app313a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1819">
speak in favor of freedom of political activity</a>
 in India.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Law_being_an_ass)
title: Law being an ass
uri: Law-being-an-ass
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Law_being_an_ass%29
content:
<p>The law is an ass again: a woman who invited a teenage boy to have sex
(and he did, 4 times) has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/03/woman-who-had-sex-with-14-year-old-boy-is-jailed">
sentenced to years in prison</a>
 for "sexual abuse".
</p>
<p>He did not live in her household. Evidently he repeatedly made
arrangements to suffer this "abuse". The code word "grooming"
probably means, in this case, what we normally call "asking for a
date". While I can only guess the specifics, I speculate that he
never complained about this "abuse", and the relationship was
discovered in some other way.</p>
<p>I wish an attractive woman had "abused" me that way when I was 14.  I
would have learned many important things and had a much happier life.</p>
<p>The one truly bad accusation against her is that she tried to protect
herself by claiming he had raped her. Nothing can excuse that
betrayal; but if the law were not an ass about the other things, she
would not have faced the temptation to do that.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Bernie_Sanders'_achievements)
title: Bernie Sanders' achievements
uri: Bernie-Sanders-achievements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Bernie_Sanders%27_achievements%29
content:
<p>Bernie Sanders' 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/208849/bernies-burlington-city-sustainable-future">
achievements as mayor</a>
 of Burlington, VT, show how he
directs growth in a way that helps everyone.
</p>


title: Prosecuted for deleting browser history
uri: Prosecuted-for-deleting-browser-history
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Prosecuted_for_deleting_browser_history)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Prosecuted_for_deleting_browser_history%29

content:
<p>The Obama regime can prosecute you for 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1747">
deleting your browser history</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(FBI_spy_planes)
title: FBI spy planes
uri: FBI-spy-planes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28FBI_spy_planes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/whats-spooky-about-fbis-fleet-spy-planes">
What's Spooky About the FBI's Fleet of Spy Planes?</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(FBI_drone_policy_worthless)
title: FBI drone policy worthless
uri: FBI-drone-policy-worthless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28FBI_drone_policy_worthless%29
content:
<p>The FBI's policy statement about use of surveillance drones is 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/12043531117/doj-releases-surveillance-drone-policy-undercuts-accountability-claims-exempting-it-use-court.shtml">
worthless</a>
because it is vague and there is no accountability.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Academic_witch_hunt)
title: Academic witch hunt
uri: Academic-witch-hunt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Academic_witch_hunt%29
content:
<p>Parts of Professor Kipnis's 
<a href="http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/06/my-title-ix-.html">
article</a>
 about how she was accused of
sexual harassment for publishing an article about the unjust way
universities handle such accusations.
</p>
<p>She further describes a massive witch hunt that has
professors self-censoring from fear.</p>
<p>College students should not ask or expect to be coddled in their
studies. Whatever issues are discussed in class, they should not be
grounds to accuse a professor, or a student.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Citizens_pay_for_thug_violence)
title: Citizens pay for thug violence
uri: Citizens-pay-for-thug-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Citizens_pay_for_thug_violence%29
content:
<p>The residents of Inkster will have to pay a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/03/michigan-homeowners-pay-tax-police-brutality">
special one-time tax</a>
 to cover the costs of reparations to Floyd Dent, 
who was beaten badly by a thug.
</p>
<p>If the residents don't like paying this, they should take steps to
ensure thugs won't do such things again.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Urgent:_support_McClintock-Polis_bill)
title: Urgent: support McClintock-Polis bill
uri: Urgent-support-McClintock-Polis-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_McClintock-Polis_bill%29

content:
<p>US citizens: ask your congresscritter to 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=2002B2F7EFCC00CEC849142AE64BC0C5.app252a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1289&autologin=true&s_src=1F6ZZZZMZZ1">
support the McClintock-Polis bill</a>
that would make the federal government stop interfering with state-legal
marijuana.
</p>


title: Urgent: preserve Endangered Species Act
uri: Urgent-preserve-Endangered-Species-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Urgent:_preserve_Endangered_Species_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_preserve_Endangered_Species_Act%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell Congress to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Save_ESA?nosig=1&t=1001&akid=14504.1183552.59JkVZ">
preserve the Endangered Species Act</a>,
 by rejecting Rand Paul's bill (and other bills) 
meant to render it ineffective.
</p>


title: Urgent: support the Pathogen Reduction and Testing Reform Act
uri: Urgent-support-the-Pathogen-Reduction-and-Testing-Reform-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Urgent:_support_the_Pathogen_Reduction_and_Testing_Reform_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_the_Pathogen_Reduction_and_Testing_Reform_Act%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=7C6EB1D8ACBF2F8CF41377C2DA7BE210.app334a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2129">
ask your congresscritter to cosponsor</a>
 the Pathogen
Reduction and Testing Reform Act of 2015. It would enable the USDA to
order recall of chicken contaminated with some dangerous bacteria.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Urgent:_oppose_undersea_drilling)
title: Urgent: oppose undersea drilling
uri: Urgent-oppose-undersea-drilling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_undersea_drilling%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress 
<a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/congress_oil-bills_2015">
oppose undersea oil drilling</a>.
</p>


title: Urgent: call on Trade Rep to tell us about TPP
uri: Urgent-call-on-Trade-Rep-to-tell-us-about-TPP
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Urgent:_call_on_Trade_Rep_to_tell_us_about_TPP)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_Trade_Rep_to_tell_us_about_TPP%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on the US Trade Representative to show us
what he has been telling the banksters about the TPP
(
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/no-fast-track-for-wall-street/?source=rootstrikers&t=1001&akid=3235.96703.IzbMMq">
treacherous plutocratic poison</a>
).</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 5_June_2015_(Urgent:_end_deals_for_Big_Oil)
title: Urgent: end deals for Big Oil
uri: Urgent-end-deals-for-Big-Oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_end_deals_for_Big_Oil%29
content:
<p>US citizens: call on the Bureau of Land Management to 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=728B83EEC335F685CD141D95D8BE20BF.app205a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=15859">
end sweetheart deals</a>
 for Big Oil.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Urgent:_Drop_charges_for_cheering)
title: Urgent: Drop charges for cheering
uri: Urgent-Drop-charges-for-cheering
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_charges_for_cheering%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/graduation/">call for
dropping charges</a> against family members for cheering at the the
high school graduation of their relative.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Urgent:_Prosecute_torturers)
title: Urgent: Prosecute torturers
uri: 2015-06-07-Urgent-Prosecute-torturers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Prosecute_torturers%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://ccrjustice.org/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=48&reset=1">call
on Obama</a> to fully admit the scope of CIA torture, and prosecute
the torturers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Urgent:_Free_Muhammad_Bekzhanov)
title: Urgent: Free Muhammad Bekzhanov
uri: Urgent-Free-Muhammad-Bekzhanov
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Free_Muhammad_Bekzhanov%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=37659">call
on Uzbekistan</a> to free Muhammad Bekzhanov.


title: Urgent: Cable build-outs, not buyouts
uri: Urgent-Cable-build-outs-not-buyouts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Urgent:_Cable_build-outs,_not_buyouts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Cable_build-outs%2C_not_buyouts%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_charter_twc">tell the
FCC</a> to support cable build-outs, not buyouts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Hillstarter)
title: Hillstarter
uri: Hillstarter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Hillstarter%29
content:
<p>
Can't afford to buy a meeting with Hillary Clinton?  Use 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/04/activist-behind-hillstarter-crowdfunding-site-afford-meeting-hillary-clinton-speaks/">Hillstarter</a>
to find 10,000 friends to buy it with you.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Chicago_juvenile_justice_system)
title: Chicago juvenile "justice" system
uri: Chicago-juvenile-justice-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Chicago_juvenile_justice_system%29
content:
<p>
The juvenile "justice" system of Chicago 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/04/juvenile-justice-and-war-teens">seems
to make things worse</a>: its interventions seem to make teenagers
more likely to be imprisoned later as adults.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Drug_policy_based_on_emotion)
title: Drug policy based on emotion
uri: Drug-policy-based-on-emotion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Drug_policy_based_on_emotion%29
content:
<p>
"Why ban laughing gas? All the best things in life are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/04/ban-laughing-gas-theresa-may-legal-highs-emotion-not-evidence">psychoactive</a>."


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Fired_for_giving_lunches_to_children)
title: Fired for giving lunches to children
uri: Fired-for-giving-lunches-to-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Fired_for_giving_lunches_to_children%29

content:
<p>
In Colorado, a school lunch manager has been fired.  She 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/02/1389964/-School-lunch-room-manager-fired-for-giving-out-food-to-children-without-lunch-money">gave
adequate lunches to children with no money</a>.
<p>
Denying children proper nutrition can stunt them for life.  Republican
legislators are responsible for this: stunting poor children for life
is what their philosophy is about.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Terrorism)
title: "Terrorism"
uri: 2015-06-07-Terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Terrorism%29
content:
<p>
A London resident has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/21/london-cab-driver-guilty-ied-bombs-us-soldiers-iraq">convicted
of "terrorism"</a> for making (while in Syria) antivehicle mines that
were used by the Iraqi resistance against US vehicles.
<p>
That was not terrorism, that was war.  It is ridiculous to lay charges
of terrorism for making munitions for use for fighting soldiers.
<p>
If he is a UK citizen, perhaps it would be valid to accuse him of
treason or aiding the enemy.


title: Thug violence against the mentally ill
uri: Thug-violence-against-the-mentally-ill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Thug_violence_against_the_mentally_ill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Thug_violence_against_the_mentally_ill%29

content:
<p>
"No mother should have to fear that the police will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/04/mother-worry-police-harm-mentally-ill-child">harm
her mentally ill child</a>."
<p>
Most thugs, on encountering someone with a mental illness, adopt
course of action that predictably advances to violence against that
person.  The sick person often ends up beaten, imprisoned, or dead.
<p>
Similar results occur when the object of thugs' attentions is sane but
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_February_2015_(Thugs_beat_man_for_replying_No_English)">doesn't
understand the local language</a>, or is 
<a href="#07_June_2015_(Carrying_a_BB_rifle_while_black)">listening to
music through headphones</a>.
<p>
On seeing a man who apparently had a rifle, but not in position to
fire it, why did the thugs shoot him?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Pakistan_advances_against_polio)
title: Pakistan advances against polio
uri: Pakistan-advances-against-polio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Pakistan_advances_against_polio%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan is advancing against polio 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jun/04/pakistan-drop-polio-military-operation">as
its troops advance against the Taliban</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Fossil_fuel_divestment)
title: Fossil fuel divestment
uri: 2015-06-07-Fossil-fuel-divestment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_divestment%29
content:
<p>
Former chairman of Shell 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/04/former-shell-chairman-advocates-fossil-fuel-divestment">calls
for divestment</a> from Shell and other fossil fuel companies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Carrying_a_BB_rifle_while_black)
title: Carrying a BB rifle while black
uri: Carrying-a-BB-rifle-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Carrying_a_BB_rifle_while_black%29
content:
<p>
Florida thugs 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/01/1389661/-Florida-police-murder-black-computer-engineer-as-he-listens-to-music-attempted-coverup-exposed">killed
a black man for carrying a BB rifle behind and across his back</a>.
Then they lied about the circumstances.
<p>
On seeing a man who apparently had a rifle, but not in position to
fire it, why did the thugs shoot him?


title: Urgent: End "war on drugs" in Massachusetts
uri: Urgent-End-war-on-drugs-in-Massachusetts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Urgent:_End_war_on_drugs_in_Massachusetts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_war_on_drugs_in_Massachusetts%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu/ma/issues/alert/?alertid=66217626&type=ST">ask
your state legislators</a> to end the "war on drugs" in Massachusetts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Global_heating_not_on_hiatus)
title: Global heating not on "hiatus"
uri: Global-heating-not-on-hiatus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Global_heating_not_on_hiatus%29
content:
<p>
Correcting some 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jun/04/new-research-suggests-global-warming-is-accelerating">systematic
measurement errors</a> shows that there was no "hiatus" in global
heating.  It continued straight through the 2000's.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Leslie_Cauley)
title: Leslie Cauley
uri: Leslie-Cauley
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Leslie_Cauley%29
content:
<p>
It was Leslie Cauley who 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/06/edward-snowden-didnt-expose-nsas-bulk-phone-collection-program-leslie-cauley-did">first
exposed the NSA's mass collection of Americans' phone call
records</a>.  Snowden repeated the disclosure, and then the world took
notice.


title: Frogs that develop without tadpole stage
uri: Frogs-that-develop-without-tadpole-stage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Frogs_that_develop_without_tadpole_stage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Frogs_that_develop_without_tadpole_stage%29

content:
<p>
Tiny frogs that develop without a tadpole stage have been found in
Brazil.  Some of these species are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/04/seven-new-species-of-miniature-frogs-discovered-in-cloud-forests-of-brazil">limited
to a single mountain</a>.
<p>
Skipping the tadpole stage is amazing in evolutionary terms.
They must have evolved from ancestors that did have tadpoles.
This makes them especially interesting for research.
I hope we don't render them extinct first.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 07_June_2015_(Honolulu_persecuting_the_homeless)
title: Honolulu persecuting the homeless
uri: Honolulu-persecuting-the-homeless
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#07_June_2015_%28Honolulu_persecuting_the_homeless%29

content:
<p>
Honolulu's ban on sleeping in the center of the city 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/04/honolulu-upholds-ban-dont-sit-or-lay-down-where-a-tourist-might-see-you">chased
homeless people into other neighborhoods</a>, so now it bans them
there too.
<p>
The officials say this is ok because non-homeless people, even
tourists, are also fined for sleeping on beaches and sidewalks.  But
that is no excuse for persecuting the homeless.  If businesses find
homeless people unsightly, they should pay for a place for them to
live.
<p>
Shame on you, Honolulu.


title: Unusual bacteria in Pablo Neruda's corpse
uri: Unusual-bacteria-in-Pablo-Neruda-s-corpse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Unusual_bacteria_in_Pablo_Nerudas_corpse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Unusual_bacteria_in_Pablo_Nerudas_corpse%29

content:
<p>
Unusual bacteria in Pablo Neruda's corpse suggest he was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/05/pablo-neruda-poisoning-doubts-fuelled-by-new-forensic-tests">murdered
in hospital</a>, presumably by agents of Pinochet's regime.
<p>
Another opposition leader was murdered later in the same hospital.
<p>
We now have proof that Pinochet's coup was carried out with 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#13_January_2013_(Chilean_judge_calls_for_extradition_of_accused_murderer)">US
complicity</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Australias_coal_mines)
title: Australia's coal mines
uri: Australia-s-coal-mines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Australias_coal_mines%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2015/jun/05/will-australia-continue-to-sacrifice-its-international-reputation-on-the-alter-of-coal">Will
Australia Continue to Sacrifice Its International Reputation (not to
mention its security) on the Altar of Coal?</a>


title: Congresscritters sought to smear Snowden
uri: Congresscritters-sought-to-smear-Snowden
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Congresscritters_sought_to_smear_Snowden)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Congresscritters_sought_to_smear_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
Congresscritters 
<a href="https://news.vice.com/article/exclusive-inside-washingtons-quest-to-bring-down-edward-snowden">asked
the NSA for information with which to smear Snowden personally</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(The_term_images_of_child_abuse)
title: The term "images of child abuse"
uri: The-term-images-of-child-abuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28The_term_images_of_child_abuse%29
content:
<p>
The forces opposed to encryption and bitcoin are now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/05/online-child-abuse-driven-underground">citing
"child abuse images" as a reason</a>.
<p>
The term "images of child abuse" is an open door for a witch hunt.  It
covers making pictures of raping a child; the rape ought to be a
crime.  However, the same term is used to describe images of
young-looking 18-year-olds having voluntary sex, and drawings of
fictional minors in fictional sex.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Australias_mining_lobby)
title: Australia's mining lobby
uri: Australia-s-mining-lobby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Australias_mining_lobby%29
content:
<p>
Australia's mining lobby 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/05/mining-lobby-calls-for-some-green-groups-to-lose-tax-deductible-status">asks
the pro-mining ruling party to cancel the tax exemption</a> of
Greenpeace and other environmentalist groups.


title: People's opposition to mass surveillance
uri: People-s-opposition-to-mass-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Peoples_opposition_to_mass_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Peoples_opposition_to_mass_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Snowden says he sees a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/05/snowden-balance-power-shifted-people-defy-government-surveillance-nsa">"profound
difference" in people's opposition</a> to massive surveillance.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Money_lost_due_to_investing_in_coal)
title: Money lost due to investing in coal
uri: Money-lost-due-to-investing-in-coal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Money_lost_due_to_investing_in_coal%29

content:
<p>
Big European electric companies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/05/coal-played-a-part-in-big-five-energy-firms-losing-100bn-in-share-value">lost
a lot of money</a> due to investing it in coal.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Human_freedom_threatened_by_religion)
title: Human freedom threatened by religion
uri: Human-freedom-threatened-by-religion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Human_freedom_threatened_by_religion%29

content:
<p>
Two ultra-orthodox Jewish schools have backed down from 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/05/ultra-orthodox-jewish-schools-drop-ban-on-mothers-driving">banning
mothers from driving their children to school</a>.  The schools were
going to implement the ban by not allowing the children into school if
brought by their mothers in a car.  They backed down because there is
a law against such discrimination.
<p>
This should reaffirm our awareness that many religions pose a threat
to human freedom.  Christianity can be (and generally was, until a few
hundred years ago) just as vicious as Islam, and Judaism also has the
potential.  So does 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_September_2014_(Hindu_fanatics)">Hinduism</a>.
Warning: Taking any church too seriously, even the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/saint.html">Church of Emacs</a>, can be
hazardous to your health.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(A_way_to_hamper_PISSIs_recruiting)
title: A way to hamper PISSI's recruiting
uri: A-way-to-hamper-PISSI-s-recruiting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28A_way_to_hamper_PISSIs_recruiting%29

content:
<p>
A former jihadi, who was in al Qa'ida until he concluded its terrorist
methods were un-Islamic, says the way to hamper PISSI's recruiting is
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/on-the-middle-east/2015/jun/05/former-al-qaida-spy-for-mi6-urges-effort-to-confuse-islamic-state">spread
awareness of the moral complexities that the PISSI line ignores</a>.


title: Chinese women's rights group shut down
uri: Chinese-women-s-rights-group-shut-down
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Chinese_womens_rights_group_shut_down)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Chinese_womens_rights_group_shut_down%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jun/05/china-women-rights-group-weizhiming-collapses-official-pressure">Official
harassment and repression</a> has forced the Chinese women's rights
group Weizhiming to shut down.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(All-options_pregnancy_centers)
title: All-options pregnancy centers
uri: All-options-pregnancy-centers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28All-options_pregnancy_centers%29
content:
<p>
All-options pregnancy centers 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31134-all-options-pregnancy-center-revolutionizes-access-to-both-care-and-abortion">sincerely
help pregnant women</a>, whether it's a baby or an abortion they want.
<p>
This will help fight the dishonest "crisis pregnancy centers" that are
funded to make those women have babies, by hook or by crook.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Drug_company_profits_killing_people)
title: Drug company profits killing people
uri: Drug-company-profits-killing-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Drug_company_profits_killing_people%29

content:
<p>
Drug Company Profits Are Literally Killing People — And Now 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31160-big-pharma-is-killing-us">Even
Doctors Are Speaking Out</a>.


title: Fraudulent lawsuits to collect student debt
uri: Fraudulent-lawsuits-to-collect-student-debt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Fraudulent_lawsuits_to_collect_student_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Fraudulent_lawsuits_to_collect_student_debt%29

content:
<p>
Fraudulent lawsuits to collect student debt are 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-04/the-student-debt-collection-mess">booming</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(The_money_raised_for_Haiti)
title: The money raised for Haiti
uri: The-money-raised-for-Haiti
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28The_money_raised_for_Haiti%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes">How
the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti — and
Built [only] Six Homes</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Internet_shutdowns)
title: Internet shutdowns
uri: Internet-shutdowns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Internet_shutdowns%29
content:
<p>
Tyranny and civil war in small countries are sometimes accompanied by
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/worrying-trend-shutting-internet-access-countries-limited-connectivity">internet
shutdowns</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Increased_fighting_in_Ukraine)
title: Increased fighting in Ukraine
uri: Increased-fighting-in-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Increased_fighting_in_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Russian troops and proxies in Ukraine are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/04/escalation-fighting-east-ukraine-leaves-ceasefire-tatters-russian-forces">increasing
the level of fighting</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(USA_Freedom_Act_a_new_spy_program)
title: USA Freedom Act a new spy program
uri: USA-Freedom-Act-a-new-spy-program
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28USA_Freedom_Act_a_new_spy_program%29

content:
<p>
NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake says the "USA Freedom Act" is
"<a href='http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/04/misleading-moment-celebration-new-surveillance-program'>a
new spy program</a>".


title: If the UK bans encryption it can't break
uri: If-the-UK-bans-encryption-it-can-t-break
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(If_the_UK_bans_encryption_it_cant_break)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28If_the_UK_bans_encryption_it_cant_break%29

content:
<p>
If UK repression is serious about banning encryption it can't break,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/04/david-cameron-snoopers-charter-will-not-make-us-safer">it
will have to ban lots of other things</a> — such as computers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Violent_Australian_thug)
title: Violent Australian thug
uri: Violent-Australian-thug
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Violent_Australian_thug%29
content:
<p>
When 73-year-old Leonard Batholomuesz bumped into an Australian thug,
the thug pushed him to the ground, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/04/police-officer-found-not-guilty-of-assault-after-pushing-73-year-old-to-ground">breaking
his bones</a>.
<p>
A man who takes out his frustrations with violence against innocent
old men can't be trusted to walk around the city without a guard
— even less, to carry a gun, a stick, or a badge.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Ruptured_oil_pipeline_in_California)
title: Ruptured oil pipeline in California
uri: Ruptured-oil-pipeline-in-California
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Ruptured_oil_pipeline_in_California%29

content:
<p>
The oil pipeline that ruptured in California had 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/04/us-oil-pipeline-left-to-rust-to-paper-thin-before-145km-pacific-ocean-slick">previously
corroded</a>, losing 80% of its thickness.  Only 1.5 millimeters was
left.
<p>
In other words, they recklessly invited this accident.  If that isn't
a crime, it ought to be.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Urgent:_Hold_banksters_accountable)
title: Urgent: Hold banksters accountable
uri: Urgent-Hold-banksters-accountable
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Hold_banksters_accountable%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/dolwaivers">call
on the Department of Labor</a> not to let banksters off the hook for
their crimes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(USA_Freedom_Act)
title: "USA Freedom Act"
uri: 2015-06-09-USA-Freedom-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28USA_Freedom_Act%29
content:
<p>
The Obama regime cited part of the "USA Freedom Act" as an
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/03/nsa-surveillance-fisa-court">excuse
to restart the bulk snooping on Americans' phone call records</a>
— precisely what that law supposedly was not going to authorize.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Killer_robots)
title: Killer robots
uri: 2015-06-09-Killer-robots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Killer_robots%29
content:
<p>
Don't expect 
<a href="http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/05/28/automated-killing-machines/">killer
robots</a> to distinguish civilians perfectly, no matter how smart
they are.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Politwoop_shut_down_by_Twitter)
title: Politwoop shut down by Twitter
uri: Politwoop-shut-down-by-Twitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Politwoop_shut_down_by_Twitter%29
content:
<p>
The Politwoop site, which showed politicians' deleted tweets, has been
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/political-deleted-tweet-archive-shuttered-by-twitter-over-privacy-expectation/">shut
down by Twitter</a>.
<p>
Journalists: when you cite tweets, do not display them by embedding
from Twitter.  Embedding tweets leads to two problems:
<ul>
<li>If they are deleted, your article is mutilated.</li>
<li>Twitter gets to find out who reads your article.</li>
</ul>
<p>
The wise method is to copy the quotations in your article, like any
other quotation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Facebook_censorship)
title: Facebook censorship
uri: 2015-06-09-Facebook-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Facebook_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Facebook 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/facebook-reforms-inmate-account-takedown-process">arbitrarily
censors and closes the accounts of prisoners</a>.


title: Israel to demolish Khirbet Susiya again
uri: Israel-to-demolish-Khirbet-Susiya-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Israel_to_demolish_Khirbet_Susiya_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Israel_to_demolish_Khirbet_Susiya_again%29

content:
<p>
Israel is about to demolish the Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/06/palestinians-israel-court-evictions-khirbet-susiya-resistance">again</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_June_2015_(Ethics_of_publishing_leaked_data)
title: Ethics of publishing leaked data
uri: Ethics-of-publishing-leaked-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_June_2015_%28Ethics_of_publishing_leaked_data%29
content:
<p>
On 
<a href="http://niemanreports.org/articles/when-is-it-ethical-to-publish-stolen-data/">the
ethics</a> of publishing leaked data.
<p>
The most important point I see in this article is that the prohibition
of "child pornography" puts you (i.e., anyone and everyone) at the
mercy of whoever decides to send you some.
<p>
Laws prohibiting possession of something that has been published, or
sent to you, are intolerable tyranny.  It makes no difference what
things they prohibit, or why.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_June_2015_(Microsofts_transparency_centers)
title: Microsoft's "transparency centers"
uri: Microsoft-s-transparency-centers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_June_2015_%28Microsofts_transparency_centers%29
content:
<p>
Microsoft's 
<a href="http://fossforce.com/2015/06/redmond-fights-foss-with-transparency-centers/">"transparency
centers"</a> are a poor substitute for the freedom that you get with
free software.
<p>
Since the article uses the term "FOSS", I should point at the
explanation of 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html">why that isn't
a good term to use</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_June_2015_(The_nuclear_non-proliferation_treaty)
title: The nuclear non-proliferation treaty
uri: The-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_June_2015_%28The_nuclear_non-proliferation_treaty%29

content:
<p>
The nuclear powers, including the US, are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2015/jun/02/nuclear-disarmament-forget-it">disregarding
the nuclear non-proliferation treaty</a> and blocking movement towards
elimination of nuclear weapons.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_June_2015_(Murder_of_anti-mining_activist)
title: Murder of anti-mining activist
uri: Murder-of-anti-mining-activist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_June_2015_%28Murder_of_anti-mining_activist%29
content:
<p>
Anti-mining activist José Tendetza was murdered, and the Ecuadorian
government seems to be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/02/ecuador-murder-jose-tendetza-el-mirador-mine-project">covering
up the reason</a> rather than investigating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_June_2015_(Claims_about_countries_helping_PISSI)
title: Claims about countries helping PISSI
uri: Claims-about-countries-helping-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_June_2015_%28Claims_about_countries_helping_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
Syrian rebels, and the US, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/02/syria-isis-advance-on-aleppo-aided-by-assad-regime-air-strikes-us-says">claim
that Assad's forces are helping PISSI</a> in northern Syria.
<p>
This is a very strange claim, given that the two have been 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#24_May_2015_(Palmyra)">fighting
each other near Palmyra</a>, further south.
<p>
Here is a 
<a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/04/27/syrias-nightmarish-narrative/">report
that Israel and Saudi Arabia are helping PISSI</a> defeat Assad.
<p>
I am not sure what to believe.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_June_2015_(Thugs_who_shoot_unarmed_people)
title: Thugs who shoot unarmed people
uri: Thugs-who-shoot-unarmed-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_June_2015_%28Thugs_who_shoot_unarmed_people%29
content:
<p>
US thugs often say they have "no choice" about shooting unarmed people
or people with knives.  A retired UK thug official says that's nuts:
UK thugs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/british-disputes-us-police-claim-new-jersey">trained
to do so</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 09_June_2015_(Lawmakers_making_it_harder_to_vote)
title: Lawmakers making it harder to vote
uri: Lawmakers-making-it-harder-to-vote
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#09_June_2015_%28Lawmakers_making_it_harder_to_vote%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/texas-lawmakers-are-busy-making-it-harder-vote">Texas
Lawmakers Are Busy Making It Harder to Vote</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Obama_on_trade_treaties)
title: Obama on "trade treaties"
uri: Obama-on-trade-treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Obama_on_trade_treaties%29
content:
<p>
Don't believe Obama when he says that labor standards excuse "trade
treaties".  They are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/02/tpp-reduces-human-trafficking-and-child-labor-misdemeanors">not
really enforced</a>.
<p>
Even if they were enforced, they would not excuse the TPP, because
it's a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_June_2013_(Obamas_proposed_trade_deal)">corporate
power treaty</a> rather than a trade treaty.


title: Children of murdered Argentine mothers
uri: Children-of-murdered-Argentine-mothers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Children_of_murdered_Argentine_mothers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Children_of_murdered_Argentine_mothers%29

content:
<p>
Argentine grandmothers continue searching for the grandchildren taken
away by the soldiers that killed their daughters.  Occasionally 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/07/grandmothers-of-plaza-de-mayo-36-year-hunt-for-stolen-child">they
find one</a>.
<p>
The repression in Argentina was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#28_January_2012_(Elliot_Abrams)">supported
by the US government</a>.
<p>
I have a feeling that Laura Carlotto would dislike the religious
filter through which her mother sees the reunion.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Austerity)
title: Austerity
uri: 2015-06-10-Austerity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Austerity%29
content:
<p>
Austerity Isn't 'Good Housekeeping': It's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/07/austerity-isnt-good-housekeeping-dogmatic-risky-unjust">Dogmatic,
Risky And Unjust</a>.


title: Australia to permanently exile people
uri: Australia-to-permanently-exile-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Australia_to_permanently_exile_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Australia_to_permanently_exile_people%29

content:
<p>
Australia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/07/citizenship-law-changes-would-dump-dangerous-people-abroad-say-greens">planning
to permanently exile people</a> that are suspected of somehow
supporting terrorism.
<p>
This will start with people who have another citizenship, but the
government already envisions extending it to those who "could apply
for" citizenship in another country.  Then it could pay Nauru to grant
citizenship to, and imprison, anyone at Australia's request.
<p>
We have come to regard exile as an unacceptable punishment, and we
should not permit it again; but even if we were going to legitimize
exile, we should not accept any form of punishment without trial.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 08_June_2015_(Universal_basic_income)
title: Universal basic income
uri: Universal-basic-income
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#08_June_2015_%28Universal_basic_income%29
content:
<p>
A universal basic income would be 
<a href=" http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/santens20150605">quite
affordable for the US</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(New_party_in_Turkey)
title: New party in Turkey
uri: New-party-in-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28New_party_in_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
A new party in Turkey, which 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/06/turkey-pro-kurdish-hdp-derail-erdogan-hopes-more-power">supports
equal rights for women and various ethnic minorities</a>, has a chance
of weakening Erdo&gbreve;an's congealing religious tyranny.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Kinder_approaches_for_reducing_crime)
title: Kinder approaches for reducing crime
uri: Kinder-approaches-for-reducing-crime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Kinder_approaches_for_reducing_crime%29

content:
<p>
Rather than imprisoning so many people, many 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/05/humanizing-justice-systems-effective-alternative-approaches">kinder
approaches</a> do a better job of reducing crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Fining_homeless_people_for_sleeping)
title: Fining homeless people for sleeping
uri: Fining-homeless-people-for-sleeping
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Fining_homeless_people_for_sleeping%29

content:
<p>
Part of London has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/05/hackney-council-drops-threat-to-fine-rough-sleepers">retreated
from the plan</a> to fine homeless people for sleeping on the street.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Starvation_in_Yemen)
title: Starvation in Yemen
uri: Starvation-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Starvation_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
The Saudi naval blockade is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/05/saudi-led-naval-blockade-worsens-yemen-humanitarian-disaster">imposing
starvation on Yemen</a>.
<p>
80% of the population urgently needs food, water, or medical care.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Agribusiness_in_Africa)
title: Agribusiness in Africa
uri: Agribusiness-in-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Agribusiness_in_Africa%29
content:
<p>
The G8 countries are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/03/corporate-takeover-africas-food-shaky-grounds-its-time-action">pushing
laws</a> in Africa that subject farmers to agribusiness.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Romanticizing_animals)
title: Romanticizing animals
uri: Romanticizing-animals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Romanticizing_animals%29
content:
<p>
Don't base wildlife policy on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/natural-world-not-disneyland-cuteness-badgers-cull-caffe-nero-milk">romanticizing
animals</a>.
<p>
I think preserving ecosystems (and thus species) is a more rational
goal.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(The_number_of_people_killed_by_thugs)
title: The number of people killed by thugs
uri: The-number-of-people-killed-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28The_number_of_people_killed_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-government-could-count-killed-by-police-chosen-not-to">The
US Government Could Count Those Killed by [thugs], But It's Chosen Not
To</a>.


title: Head of SEC acting like Wall Street crony
uri: Head-of-SEC-acting-like-Wall-Street-crony
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Head_of_SEC_acting_like_Wall_Street_crony)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Head_of_SEC_acting_like_Wall_Street_crony%29

content:
<p>
Senator Warren says the head of the SEC is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/02/warren-blasts-top-wall-street-cop-broken-promises-and-lax-regulation">acting
like a wall street crony</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Republican_sex_affairs)
title: Republican sex affairs
uri: Republican-sex-affairs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Republican_sex_affairs%29
content:
<p>
A series of Republican leaders of the House of Representatives had
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/30/1389022/-Barney-Frank-calls-out-Dennis-Hastert-GOP-hypocrisy-with-a-perfect-statement?detail=email">secret
sex affairs</a> — all the while trying to impeach Bill Clinton
for having oral sex once.
<p>
Too bad Hastert managed to keep his homosexual affair secret.
Knowledge of it would have hampered his persistent efforts to repress
other homosexuals.


title: Russia's internet disinformation department
uri: Russia-s-internet-disinformation-department
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Russias_internet_disinformation_department)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Russias_internet_disinformation_department%29

content:
<p>
Investigating Russia's 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_r=0">internet
disinformation department</a>, which drowns out opposition in Russia
with lies, and smears dissidents and journalists — and tries to
cause panic in the US with organized hoaxes about nonexistent
disasters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(CIA_torture)
title: CIA torture
uri: 2015-06-11-CIA-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28CIA_torture%29
content:
<p>
Majid Khan says CIA agents 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/cia-sexual-abuse-torture-majid-khan-guantanamo-bay">poured
ice water on his balls, held his head in ice water, and hung him from
a beam for three days</a>.  They also shackled him with metal boots
that cut into his legs.
<p>
This shows that the published parts of the Senate report on torture
was 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/06/02/new-torture-account-demonstrates-senate-report-just-tip-iceberg">"sanitized"</a>
to omit some forms of government depravity.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Unarmed_Latinos_shot_dead_by_thugs)
title: Unarmed Latinos shot dead by thugs
uri: Unarmed-Latinos-shot-dead-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Unarmed_Latinos_shot_dead_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing">Quite
a few unarmed Latinos</a> are shot dead by US thugs — it's not
only blacks.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Loss_of_elephants_in_Tanzania)
title: Loss of elephants in Tanzania
uri: Loss-of-elephants-in-Tanzania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Loss_of_elephants_in_Tanzania%29
content:
<p>Tanzania lost
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/02/tanzania-epicentre-of-elephant-poaching-census-reveals">lost
60% of its elephants</a> from 2009 to 2014.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Imprisoned_black_and_poor_people)
title: Imprisoned black and poor people
uri: Imprisoned-black-and-poor-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Imprisoned_black_and_poor_people%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/02/40-reasons-our-jails-and-prisons-are-full-black-and-poor-people">40
Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 11_June_2015_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2015-06-11-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#11_June_2015_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
More than 2C of global heating will cause a 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ocean-warming-species-change-19051">major
reorganization of ocean ecosystems</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Urgent:_Boycott_El_Super)
title: Urgent: Boycott El Super
uri: Urgent-Boycott-El-Super
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Boycott_El_Super%29
content:
<p>
In California: 
<a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/BoycottElSuper_cc/">pledge
to boycott El Super</a> for punishing workers that want to unionize.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Urgent:_System_for_prosecuting_rapes)
title: Urgent: System for prosecuting rapes
uri: Urgent-System-for-prosecuting-rapes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_System_for_prosecuting_rapes%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/MJIA_2015">call on your
senators</a> to set up a trustworthy system for prosecuting rapes in
the US military.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(UK_thugs_being_prosecuted)
title: UK thugs being prosecuted
uri: UK-thugs-being-prosecuted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28UK_thugs_being_prosecuted%29
content:
<p>
UK thugs are being prosecuted for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/04/police-accused-of-breathtaking-changes-to-story-of-their-search-of-man-who-died">lying
about how they treated a prisoner who died</a>.
<p>
US thugs do the same thing, but are not prosecuted for it.


title: Federal Election Commission paralyzed
uri: Federal-Election-Commission-paralyzed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Federal_Election_Commission_paralyzed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Federal_Election_Commission_paralyzed%29

content:
<p>
The Federal Election Commission has been 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/04/election-coffers-fill-campaign-finance-laws-go-unchecked">paralyzed</a>,
so it can't investigate any violations.  That enables the plutocratist
candidates to disregard campaign finance law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Homeopathic_medicines)
title: Homeopathic "medicines"
uri: Homeopathic-medicines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Homeopathic_medicines%29
content:
<p>
An Australian medical body 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/03/australian-doctors-told-not-to-prescribe-homeopathic-items-as-they-do-nothing">called
for physicians to stop prescribing homeopathic "medicines" and for
pharmacies to stop selling them</a>.  This is because they are
medically inactive.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(College_rape_accusations)
title: College rape accusations
uri: College-rape-accusations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28College_rape_accusations%29
content:
<p>
Several high-profile college rape accusations have 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/06/02/why-do-high-profile-campus-rape-stories-keep-falling-apart/">fallen
apart</a>.  What does this imply?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Unlocked_wireless_networks)
title: Unlocked wireless networks
uri: Unlocked-wireless-networks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Unlocked_wireless_networks%29
content:
<p>
Germany's law that bans unlocked wireless networks is 
<a href="https://openwireless.org/blog/2015/06/open-wireless-advocates-european-court-dont-make-us-lock-down-our-networks">being
judged by the European Court of Justice</a>.
<p>
Running wireless networks without a password is an important
contribution to your community.  What's more, it is the only way you
can refuse to be conscripted as an enforcer in the War on Sharing.
Even if it is illegal, it is your duty.  Don't be afraid of the
punishment; it won't kill you, and it is unlikely enough that your
expected cost is tiny.


title: Americans want less economic inequality
uri: Americans-want-less-economic-inequality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Americans_want_less_economic_inequality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Americans_want_less_economic_inequality%29

content:
<p>
Most Americans want to reduce economic inequality.  
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/04/all-economic-inequality-sucks-say-most-americans">68%
want to raise taxes on million-dollar incomes</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Governments_against_encryption)
title: Governments against encryption
uri: Governments-against-encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Governments_against_encryption%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001104.html">Governments of
the World Agree: Encryption Must Die!</a>


title: US doesn't want Snowden mentioned in trials
uri: US-doesn-t-want-Snowden-mentioned-in-trials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(US_doesnt_want_Snowden_mentioned_in_trials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28US_doesnt_want_Snowden_mentioned_in_trials%29

content:
<p>
The US government, in trials of supposed terrorists, 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/04/mention-snowdens-name-makes-prosecutors-fear/">demands
that defendants not mention the name Snowden</a>, not raise issues of
whether massive surveillance was used on them, and not accuse the
government of entrapment.
<p>
Many of these cases are at least pretty close to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_(FBI_entrapment)">entrapment</a>.
<p>
The recordings they present in court may have been carefully selected
to omit the conversations in which the FBI's agent led the defendant
to join in the scheme (i.e., entrapped him).


title: Walker wants women sued for abortions
uri: Walker-wants-women-sued-for-abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Walker_wants_women_sued_for_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Walker_wants_women_sued_for_abortions%29

content:
<p>
Scott Walker 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/06/12852/scott-walker-men-can-sue-if-woman-gets-abortion-women-cant-sue-pay-discrimination">wants
the fathers of 20-week fetuses to sue when women abort them</a>.
<p>
Late term abortions in the US require specific justification, either
on medical grounds, or because the father committed rape.  What kind of
twisted man would feel "distress" with an operation to protect the
woman from danger?  Will the bill permit rapists to sue abortion
clinics?
<p>
Meanwhile, what about the other side of this?  Why not allow men to
sue for a court order to insist on an abortion?  A lot of men feel
distress for very rational reasons at learning they will be forced to
support an undesired baby.


title: Arrested for allowing child to be alone
uri: Arrested-for-allowing-child-to-be-alone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Arrested_for_allowing_child_to_be_alone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Arrested_for_allowing_child_to_be_alone%29

content:
<p>
A father was arrested for leaving his son in a car seat in a truck 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/03/cops-media-applaud-local-busybody-for-br">for
two minutes</a>.  The child was in no danger, but try convincing
panic-stricken Americans of that.
<p>
Americans freak out at the thought of allowing a child to be alone.
Meanwhile, they are not very concerned about the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_(The_permanent_stress_caused_by_poverty)">poverty
and stress</a> that scar millions of American children for life.


title: How DEA avoids federal government rules
uri: How-DEA-avoids-federal-government-rules
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(How_DEA_avoids_federal_government_rules)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28How_DEA_avoids_federal_government_rules%29

content:
<p>
The DEA avoids federal government rules for collecting evidence
by 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/03/the-dea-bypasses-federal-oversight-to-be">working
through state prosecutors that have lower standards</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(TISA)
title: TISA
uri: TISA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28TISA%29
content:
<p>
The TISA would empower multinational companies to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/03/wikileaks-strikes-again-leaked-tisa-docs-expose-corporate-plan-reshaping-global">suppress
democracy</a> in a broad range of service businesses.
<p>
It would 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/wikileaks-releases-secret-tisa-docs-the-more-evil-sibling-of-ttip-and-tpp/">prohibit</a>
countries with real privacy laws from stopping multinationals from
exporting data to countries such as the US that snoop on it.
<p>
Whether the quoted text would really prohibit a government from
deciding to use only free word processors is not clear to me.  I am
not sure whether that situation falls under the category of "providing
services related to" the word processor.


title: Fracking occasionally poisons drinking water
uri: Fracking-occasionally-poisons-drinking-water
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Fracking_occasionally_poisons_drinking_water)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Fracking_occasionally_poisons_drinking_water%29

content:
<p>
An EPA investigation found that fracking 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/06/epa-fracking-drinking-water">occasionally
poisons drinking water but not most of the time</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(US_law_enforcement_and_cyber-war)
title: US law enforcement and cyber-war
uri: US-law-enforcement-and-cyber-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28US_law_enforcement_and_cyber-war%29
content:
<p>
For the US government's internet army, the distinction between law
enforcement and cyber-war is
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-war-on-terror-is-now-the-war-on-cyber">fading
away</a>.
<p>
The result is that everything is treated like war.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Germany_pushing_data_retention_again)
title: Germany pushing data retention again
uri: Germany-pushing-data-retention-again
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Germany_pushing_data_retention_again%29

content:
<p>
Germany is pushing to impose mandatory data retention 
<a href="https://edri.org/data-retention-german-government-tries-again/">once
again</a>.  It continues to be as useless and as dangerous as it was
before.


title: Conditions of US prisons for immigrants
uri: Conditions-of-US-prisons-for-immigrants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Conditions_of_US_prisons_for_immigrants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Conditions_of_US_prisons_for_immigrants%29

content:
<p>
The US imprisons unauthorized immigrant families in conditions that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/06/family-detention-centers-renewed-scrutiny-migrant-mother-suicide-attempt">drove
one mother to try suicide</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Jeb_Bushs_Super-PAC)
title: Jeb Bush's Super-PAC
uri: Jeb-Bush-s-Super-PAC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Jeb_Bushs_Super-PAC%29
content:
<p>
Jeb Bush's Super-PAC is called "Right to Rise", but based on its
actions we could call it "Right to Raise (Money)".  Here are 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/05/early-window-jeb-bushs-superpac-donors-saudi-lobbyists-carlyle-group-florida-republicans/">some
of its donors</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Working_privacy_regulations)
title: Working privacy regulations
uri: Working-privacy-regulations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Working_privacy_regulations%29
content:
<p>A US law which 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/08/genetic-testing-workplace-privacy-devious-defecator-dna">
prohibits employers from asking employees for DNA samples</a>
 is an example of the strictness required to protect privacy in
the digital age.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Lies_about_pipelines)
title: Lies about pipelines
uri: Lies-about-pipelines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Lies_about_pipelines%29
content:
<p>The company whose corroded pipeline polluted the California coast
had told the government that its pipeline was unlikely to leak
and that its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/07/texas-company-california-oil-spill-leak-extremely-unlikely">
high-tech monitoring would detect any leak immediately</a>.
</p>
<p>That's business for you: lie when applying for permission, figuring
that
they won't get fined enough to take away all their profits.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(When_business_bullies_voters)
title: When business bullies voters
uri: When-business-bullies-voters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28When_business_bullies_voters%29
content:
<p>Many US businesses 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/06/07/your_boss_wants_to_control_your_vote_the_real_reason_to_fear_corporate_power/">
bully their employees</a>
 into supporting the boss's political candidates.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Defaulting_on_student_loans)
title: Defaulting on student loans
uri: Defaulting-on-student-loans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Defaulting_on_student_loans%29
content:
<p>There are good reasons 
<a href="http://nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/sunday/why-i-defaulted-on-my-student-loans.html?referrer=">
why someone might default on their student loans</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Dare_to_doubt_dogma)
title: Dare to doubt dogma
uri: Dare-to-doubt-dogma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Dare_to_doubt_dogma%29
content:
<p>Among the isolated communities US Orthodox Jews, some find out about
science and doubt their dogmas, but they 
<a href="http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/the-double-life-of-hasidic-atheists/">
don't dare admit this and
they don't dare leave</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Chinese_emmissions_to_peak_in_2025)
title: Chinese emissions to peak in 2025
uri: Chinese-emmissions-to-peak-in-2025
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Chinese_emmissions_to_peak_in_2025%29

content:
<p>China's greenhouse emissions 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/08/chinese-greenhouse-gas-emissions-may-peak-by-2025-says-study">
may peak in 2025</a>.
</p>
<p>If so, it is still not soon enough.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(SWAT_teams'_collateral)
title: SWAT teams' collateral
uri: SWAT-teams-collateral
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28SWAT_teams%27_collateral%29
content:
<p>Militarized thugs are dangerous to the community even when they are
doing a legitimate task. A SWAT team cornered an armed man who had
holed up in a house in Colorado, and they 
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3113816">
blew walls to shreds</a>
 in fighting him. The owner of the house is not happy.
</p>


title: Marshall Islands suing nuclear powers
uri: Marshall-Islands-suing-nuclear-powers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Marshall_Islands_suing_nuclear_powers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Marshall_Islands_suing_nuclear_powers%29

content:
<p>The Marshall Islands are suing nuclear powers that signed the
nonproliferation treaty and 
<a href="http://thebulletin.org/marshall-islands-and-npt8341">
fail to carry out the commitment to work towards nuclear
disarmament</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Fired_for_reading_Ginsberg)
title: Fired for reading Ginsberg
uri: Fired-for-reading-Ginsberg
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Fired_for_reading_Ginsberg%29
content:
<p>On the wisdom of 
<a href="http://ncac.org/blog/terminated-for-reading-an-allen-ginsberg-poem/">
firing teachers because they read poems</a>
 that make some students uncomfortable.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Exorbitant_healthcare_prices)
title: Exorbitant healthcare prices
uri: Exorbitant-healthcare-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Exorbitant_healthcare_prices%29
content:
<p>If you are visiting someone in a US hospital, don't admit that you
feel unwell. It gives the hospital an 
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20150605-column.html">
opportunity to gouge you</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Embattled_abortion_workers)
title: Embattled abortion workers
uri: Embattled-abortion-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Embattled_abortion_workers%29
content:
<p>Everyone in the US associated with abortion clinics, and their
landlords,
<a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121941/subculture-embattled-abortion-workers">
faces harassment from Christian fanatics</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Did_US_gov_destroy_evidence?)
title: Did US gov destroy evidence?
uri: Did-US-gov-destroy-evidence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Did_US_gov_destroy_evidence%3F%29
content:
<p>A judge is investigating 
<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/06/02/268564/judge-probes-destruction-of-evidence.html">
whether the US government destroyed evidence</a>
 that it should have given to whistleblower 
Thomas Drake when it tried to prosecute him.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Insufficient_minimum_wage)
title: Insufficient minimum wage
uri: Insufficient-minimum-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Insufficient_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>A minimum wage worker 
<a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8679889/minimum-wage-housing-map">
can't afford a small apartment anywhere</a>
 in the US.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Coal_as_a_weapon)
title: Coal as a weapon
uri: Coal-as-a-weapon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Coal_as_a_weapon%29
content:
<p>Coal as a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/06/g7s-unrelenting-burning-fossil-fuels-called-weapon-mass-destruction">
weapon of mass destruction</a>.
</p>
<p>Five of the G7 countries 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/08/five-g7-nations-increased-their-coal-use-over-a-five-year-period-research-shows">
increased their use of coal substantially</a>
 since 2009.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Fact-Resistant_Humans)
title: Fact-Resistant Humans
uri: Fact-Resistant-Humans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Fact-Resistant_Humans%29
content:
<p>
Scientists:
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-earth-endangered-by-new-strain-of-fact-resistant-humans?intcid=mod-most-popular">
Earth Endangered by New Strain</a> of Fact-Resistant Humans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Drug_prisoners)
title: Drug prisoners
uri: Drug-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Drug_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
The CIA insists it did not drug prisoners in the 2000s, but it appears
the CIA
<a href="https://news.vice.com/article/declassified-info-sheds-light-on-whether-cia-drugged-detainees-before-interrogations">
never conducted an investigation to determine this</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Multi-million-dollar_apartments)
title: Multi-million-dollar apartments
uri: Multi-million-dollar-apartments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Multi-million-dollar_apartments%29
content:
<p>
New York City has
<a href="http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/05/why-billionaires-dont-pay-property-taxes-in-new-york/389886/">
exempted multi-million-dollar apartments from
property
tax</a>.
<p>
Well, not totally exempted, only 99%.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Containment)
title: Containment
uri: Containment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Containment%29
content:
<p>
The end of "containment" of the Soviet Union in 1990
<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175998/tomgram:_william_astore,_america">
also left the
US military uncontained</a>.
<p>
Now it gets constantly more expensive, and (counting mercenaries) ever
larger, and can attack anywhere — but victory is impossible.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 12_June_2015_(Department_of_Veterans_Affairs)
title: Department of Veterans Affairs
uri: Department-of-Veterans-Affairs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#12_June_2015_%28Department_of_Veterans_Affairs%29
content:
<p>
An employee of the US Department of Veterans Affairs says that the
agency
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/va-improperly-spent-6-billion-on-care-for-veterans-senior-agency-leader-says/2015/05/13/ab8f131c-f5be-11e4-b2f3-af5479e6bbdd_story.html">
spends billions of dollars without going through competitive bidding</a>
or
contracting.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Banning_NGOs)
title: Banning NGOs
uri: Banning-NGOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Banning_NGOs%29
content:
<p>Russia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/russia-bans-undesirable-international-organisations-2016-elections">
given itself the power to ban foreign-linked NGOs</a>
 (and businesses) arbitrarily. It merely has to label them as
"undesirable" — no trial is needed.
</p>
<p>The US has already gone even further; it can arbitrarily shut down any
NGO (or business) and imprison the people who work with it. It merely
has to label them as "terrorist" — no trial is needed.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Relatives_of_drone_victims_suing)
title: Relatives of drone victims suing
uri: Relatives-of-drone-victims-suing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Relatives_of_drone_victims_suing%29
content:
<p>The relatives of Yemeni civilians killed by a US drone strike
are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/08/yemeni-families-sue-unlawful-deaths-drone-strike">
suing for compensation</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(EU_might_reject_TISA_TTIP)
title: EU might reject TISA TTIP
uri: EU-might-reject-TISA-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28EU_might_reject_TISA_TTIP%29
content:
<p>Leaders of the European Parliament say they will reject the TISA and
TTIP if those 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/08/meps-threaten-to-block-trade-deal-over-rights-to-regulate-carbon-emissions">
stop Europe from adopting its own regulations</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Walter_Scott's_killer_charged)
title: Walter Scott's killer charged
uri: Walter-Scott-s-killer-charged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Walter_Scott%27s_killer_charged%29
content:
<p>The thug that shot Walter Scott dead as Scott was running away
has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/08/walter-scott-shooting-michael-slager-charged-murder">
charged with murder</a>.
</p>
<p>Since Scott was not threatening the thug, he had no grounds to use
deadly force.</p>
<p>Charging killer thugs is an important step forward, but we are only
seeing it begin. Meanwhile, convicting them will be hard, especially
with all-white juries.</p>
<p>I think we should start prosecuting thugs for lying about what
happened. That happens a lot more often. Convicting a hundred thugs
for perjury and sentencing each one to 2 years in prison will have a
bigger effect on the behavior of thugs than sentencing ten of them to
30 years in prison.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Product_placement_in_music)
title: Product placement in music
uri: Product-placement-in-music
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Product_placement_in_music%29
content:
<p>Selling product placement has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/08/brands-bands-pop-music-product-placement">
become widespread in popular "music"</a>
just as in movies.
</p>
<p>I think it constitutes corruption of the music itself. There is a
moral difference between making money from music, and letting the
money seep into the music. There is a step for the worse from trying
to make music people like in order to make more money, and letting the
money override the listeners.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Gouging_hospitals)
title: Gouging hospitals
uri: Gouging-hospitals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Gouging_hospitals%29
content:
<p>Supply and demand economics 
<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/06/08/17460/free-market-ideology-doesnt-work-health-care">
doesn't work</a>
 for medical care.
</p>
<p>It used to be that medical insurance protected you from gouging
hospitals. Hospital mergers have made some hospitals so big that even
the largest insurance companies don't have the clout to stop the
gouging.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Other_pipelines)
title: Other pipelines
uri: Other-pipelines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Other_pipelines%29
content:
<p>Protesters call attention to the other pipelines being built to 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/06/06/3666931/tar-sands-midwest-rally/">
carry tar sands oil</a>
 across the US.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Burning_the_biosphere)
title: Burning the biosphere
uri: Burning-the-biosphere
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Burning_the_biosphere%29
content:
<p>The G7 countries agreed to end fossil fuel use — 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/08/g7-leaders-agree-phase-out-fossil-fuel-use-end-of-century">
by 2100</a>.
They are planning to turn off the gas, but only after the biosphere
is burnt.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/08/paris-talks-must-get-agreement-on-2c-limit-majority-say-in-a-global-survey">
2/3 of the public</a>,
 in 79 countries, want the Paris climate summit
to do "whatever it takes" to curb global heating.
The difference between this, and what the G7 have agreed to, is
stark.</p>
<p>Civilization may not make it to 2100 if we don't end
fossil fuel use much sooner than that. And it has to include more than
the G7 countries.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Housing_for_all)
title: Housing for all
uri: Housing-for-all
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Housing_for_all%29
content:
<p>Some US cities have 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/06/04/3666284/houston-veteran-homelessness/">
provided housing to all their homeless people</a>,
or at least to all the homeless veterans.
</p>
<p>These programs show it can be done, but we will never do the whole job
if we leave it up to each city to decide whether to do it or not.</p>
<p>Housing the homeless veterans is only part of the job. Veterans are
particularly likely to be homeless, because of the harm that being in
combat did to them. We ought to provide housing to them when they
need it — and to all other Americans, as well.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Slave_or_rebel)
title: Slave or rebel
uri: Slave-or-rebel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Slave_or_rebel%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/slave_or_rebel_ten_principles_for_escaping_the_matrix_and_standing_up_1">
Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and Standing Up
to Tyranny.</a>
</p>
<p>I disagree with him on one important point. Voting can make big
changes. As recently as the 1970s, the US government passed laws that
greatly restricted business, in response to public demand (for
instance, to curb air and water pollution). Plutocracy is a
condition, not the nature of democracy.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Theater_of_Security)
title: Theater of Security
uri: Theater-of-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Theater_of_Security%29
content:
<p>The TSA has mistreated millions of Americans looking for weapons, but
it 
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/06/05/tsa-failure-security-abuses-column/28490923/">
can't find weapons</a>
 on passengers' bodies.
</p>
<p>The TSA was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/08/tsa-missed-73-workers-terrorism-related-watchlist">
sloppy in checking the backgrounds</a>
 of airport workers.
</p>
<p>TSA stands for Theater of Security Agency.</p>


title: Harassment of anti-pipeline protesters
uri: Harassment-of-anti-pipeline-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Harassment_of_anti-pipeline_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Harassment_of_anti-pipeline_protesters%29

content:
<p>Anti-pipeline protesters are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/08/keystone-protesters-fbi-watchlisted-terrorism">
still being followed and harassed</a>
 as suspected "terrorists" a year after the unwarranted investigation
was formally shut down.
</p>
<p>They think the US government is catering to Transcanada, the pipeline
company.</p>
<p>It is Obama's duty to disallow the Keystone XL planet-roaster, and the
fact that he has not done so leads me to think he is planning to
approve it whenever he thinks he won't take heat for it. The heat will
follow, a few decades from now.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(NY_thugs'_broken_scheme)
title: NY thugs' broken scheme
uri: NY-thugs-broken-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28NY_thugs%27_broken_scheme%29
content:
<p>New York's thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/08/inside-william-bratton-nypd-broken-windows">
have not abandoned</a>
 (as promised) the "broken windows"
scheme in which they look (in certain minority areas) for minor
excuses to give people trouble.
</p>
<p>This scheme contributes to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/08/police-tactics-economic-conditions-republican-policies">
criminalization of minorities</a>.
</p>
<p>Bratton's claim that it was responsible for reducing crime in
New York City was based on coincidence — it was implemented
at just the time crime began 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_February_2015_(US_prison_expansion)">
decreasing all across the US</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Irish_can_legalize_abortion)
title: Irish can legalize abortion
uri: Irish-can-legalize-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Irish_can_legalize_abortion%29
content:
<p>Since Irish have won legalization of same-sex marriage, they can 
win legalization of abortion 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/08/ireland-gay-marriage-abortion-woman-right-choose">
if they try</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Death_in_prison)
title: Death in prison
uri: Death-in-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Death_in_prison%29
content:
<p>Prisoners in jail in Savannah have a way of dying there. Matthew
Ajibade seems to have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/08/georgia-matthew-ajibade-family-died-in-custody">
bludgeoned to death</a>.
</p>
<p>The thugs say he had violently attacked them. It could be true,
though we can't take their unsupported word for it. If it is true,
that justified jailing him, but did not justify killing him.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Turkish_thug)
title: Turkish thug
uri: Turkish-thug
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Turkish_thug%29
content:
<p>A Turkish thug 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/10/turkish-policeman-sentenced-plant-trees-teargas-attack-woman-in-red-ceyda-sungur">
has been sentenced</a>
 for teargassing a peaceful protester
in Gezi Park: he will have to plant trees, then tend them for 6 months.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Thatcher's_policies)
title: Thatcher's policies
uri: Thatcher-s-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Thatcher%27s_policies%29
content:
<p>Thatcher's pro-business policies, deregulation for business and tax
cuts for the rich, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/jun/10/growth-what-growth-thatcherism-fails-to-produce-the-goods">
did not cause</a>
 economic growth.
</p>
<p>But they certainly transferred wealth from the nonrich to the rich.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Clinton)
title: Clinton
uri: 2015-06-14-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Clinton%29
content:
<p>The US State Department, when it was headed by Clinton, appears to
have aided the coup in Honduras.  That 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/09/white-house-bid-underway-clinton-role-honduras-coup-raises-key-concerns">
makes</a>
 it likely she personally
approved it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Shell's_Arctic_drilling)
title: Shell's Arctic drilling
uri: Shell-s-Arctic-drilling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Shell%27s_Arctic_drilling%29
content:
<p>Seattle protesters 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/09/it-our-duty-grannies-arrested-protecting-arctic-oil-drillers">
hope to block</a>
 Shell's Arctic drilling this year by
preventing its drilling rigs from setting out until the season has
been missed.
</p>
<p>Protesters suggest a "safety zone" around Earth, and that Shell should
go wreck Venus instead.  Venus is so hot because it has a runaway
greenhouse effect; perhaps Shell has already wrecked it.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Massive_surveillance_in_US)
title: Massive surveillance in US
uri: Massive-surveillance-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Massive_surveillance_in_US%29
content:
<p>The Senate is moving to 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/11/one-week-patriot-act-reform-mitch-mcconnell-moves-sneak-nsa-expansion/">
expand</a>
 massive surveillance by "allowing" companies
to give any amount of personal data to the US government "voluntarily".
</p>
<p>We can imagine that the government has ways to make them volunteer.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Order_arrest_of_the_thug)
title: Order arrest of the thug
uri: Order-arrest-of-the-thug
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Order_arrest_of_the_thug%29
content:
<p>Citizens 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/09/rare-move-community-seeks-murder-charges-cops-who-killed-tamir-rice">
have petitioned</a>
 a judge to order arrest of the thug that shot
Tamar Rice dead.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Teachers)
title: Teachers
uri: 2015-06-14-Teachers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Teachers%29
content:
<p>If teachers are aware that a student comes from a poor family, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/09/teachers-poorer-children-education-primary-school">
they tend</a>

to lower their estimate of that student's abilities.
</p>
<p>Unconscious
bias also operates based on gender roles: teachers systematically
underestimate how good girls are at math.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2015-06-14-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>People who have children tend to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/08/climate-change-deniers-g7-goal-fossil-fuels">
downgrade their concern</a>
 about global heating.
They don't want to think about how their children will make the problem
worse, or what they are probably condemning those children to suffer.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Undermine_network_neutrality)
title: Undermine network neutrality
uri: Undermine-network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Undermine_network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>The European Commission 
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-commission-tries-to-rip-citizens-off-net-neutrality">
is pushing</a>
 a "compromise" to undermine network
neutrality.
</p>
<p>I suppose they mean that the citizens should cede rights to
"compromise"
with the desires of the ISPs.  The whole idea is misguided, and
reflects
the nondemocratic nature of the European Commission.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Elsevier)
title: Elsevier
uri: Elsevier
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Elsevier%29
content:
<p>Condemning Elsevier's 
<a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/petition-against-elseviers-sharing-policy/">
latest attack</a>
 on libre scientific publishing.
</p>
<p>When the weak resist arrogant power, they have no obligation to treat
all arrogant powerful entities alike.  It makes sense to single out
Elsevier for a boycott.</p>
<p>Thus, I suggest to scientists, when asked to review an article in an
Elsevier journal, that you respond by telling the editors that you
won't do this for Elsevier.  You can say it's nothing personal but you
think that aiding Elsevier is bad for science.</p>
<p>Elsevier 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-cracks-down-on-pirated-scientific-articles-150609/">
is also trying</a>
 to shut down sites that provide access to
scholarly articles.
</p>
<p>Please do not use the smear term <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Pirate">"pirate"</a> to describe the sharing
forbidden by companies such as Elsevier.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Bribe_to_Virunga_Park_Rangers)
title: Bribe to Virunga Park Rangers
uri: Bribe-to-Virunga-Park-Rangers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Bribe_to_Virunga_Park_Rangers%29
content:
<p>A UK oil company 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/10/uk-oil-firm-paid-congolese-officer-who-offered-bribe-to-virunga-park-ranger">
funded bribes</a>
 to get Africans to drop their
opposition to oil extraction in Virunga national park.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Detroit_and_heating)
title: Detroit and heating
uri: Detroit-and-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Detroit_and_heating%29
content:
<p>Detroit 
<a href="http://grist.org/cities/think-detroit-has-it-rough-now-just-wait-til-climate-change-gets-ahold-of-it/">
is going</a>
 to be hit especially hard by global heating's extreme
weather.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Global_heating_effects)
title: Global heating effects
uri: 2015-06-14-Global-heating-effects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Global_heating_effects%29
content:
<p>Global heating weather effects are already damaging children's health
in Australia, and the problem 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/10/dont-care-about-climate-change-what-about-the-health-of-children">
will get</a>
 a lot worse.
</p>
<p>I presume this is true to of parts of the US as well, but I can't be
sure.</p>
<p>This is not even considering the effects that heating-provoked wars
around the world may have.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(TPP)
title: TPP
uri: 2015-06-14-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28TPP%29
content:
<p>The TPP 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/08/obamas-fast-track-attack-women">
would especially hurt</a>
American women.
It may also make medicines, without which many people will die,
a lot more expensive.  We can't tell.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Massive_surveillance)
title: Massive surveillance
uri: 2015-06-14-Massive-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Massive_surveillance%29
content:
<p>France 
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/french-surveillance-bill-public-liberties-abandoned-as-senators-cast-disastrous-vote">
has adopted</a>
 the law permitting massive surveillance with hardly
any oversight.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Dealing_with_refugees)
title: Dealing with refugees
uri: Dealing-with-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Dealing_with_refugees%29
content:
<p>The Australian government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/10/senates-nauru-inquiry-allows-detention-centre-workers-to-voice-deep-concerns">
has imposed</a>
 extremely strict secrecy on everyone
involved in dealing with refugees.  The Australian senate gave some of
them
an opportunity to testify about the crimes they saw.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Gaza)
title: Gaza
uri: 2015-06-14-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Gaza%29
content:
<p>Salafists, Islamists more extreme than Hamas, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/10/gaza-salafists-problem-hamas-islamic-state-isis">
exist</a>
 in Gaza and are
now at the point of fighting with Hamas.
</p>


title: Falsifying greenhouse emission forecasts
uri: Falsifying-greenhouse-emission-forecasts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Falsifying_greenhouse_emission_forecasts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Falsifying_greenhouse_emission_forecasts%29

content:
<p>Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/10/australia-overstating-greenhouse-gas-forecasts-making-climate-targets-easier">
is falsifying</a>
 its greenhouse emission forecasts so that it can
achieve phony future promised "reductions" without really changing
anything.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Legal_expenses_of_protesters)
title: Legal expenses of protesters
uri: Legal-expenses-of-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Legal_expenses_of_protesters%29
content:
<p>The UK prosecutors' office will have to pay the legal expenses of
protesters
that received an unfair trial, but the details of the culpable
individuals

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2015/jun/10/prosecutors-improperly-withheld-crucial-evidence-from-trial-of-protesters">
are being</a>
 kept secret.
</p>
<p>This is no way to end the unjust
practice.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Suicide_bomber_in_Egypt)
title: Suicide bomber in Egypt
uri: Suicide-bomber-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Suicide_bomber_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>A suicide bomber
 <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/10/egyptian-tourist-city-of-luxor-hit-by-suicide-bomb-attack">
attacked</a>
 tourists in Egypt.
</p>
<p>The Islamist rebels in Egypt have mostly confined themselves to
attacking armed agents of the military regime.  I suppose this was due
to scruples.  If they change to attacking tourists, that will mean
that tactics have taken over from their scruples.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Japanese_whalers)
title: Japanese whalers
uri: Japanese-whalers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Japanese_whalers%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/10/sea-shepherd-payment-japanese-whalers-breaching-injunction">
made</a>
 Sea Shepherd pay over 2 million dollars to Japanese whalers,
after issuing an injunction on their behalf.
</p>
<p>Shame on the US for protecting whaling.  The US should make whaling a
crime
such that whalers cannot get such injunctions.</p>
<p>In the mean time, Sea Shepherd should move its operations out of the
US
jurisdiction.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Feedlot_system)
title: Feedlot system
uri: Feedlot-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Feedlot_system%29
content:
<p>The feedlot system that produces so much beef in the US 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/06/less-meat-smil">
is</a>

unsustainable, but eating that much beef is unsustainable
for the human
heart.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(PISSI)
title: PISSI
uri: 2015-06-14-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28PISSI%29
content:
<p>PISSI 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/isis-slave-markets-sell-girls-for-as-little-as-a-pack-of-cigarettes-un-envoy-says">
is accused</a>
 of selling captured girls as sex-slaves to its
leaders and its recruits.
</p>
<p>It could be true, but this is the sort of accusation that has been
fabricated as propaganda before (for instance, against Saddam
Hussein's army when it had occupied Kuwait).  I hope we will get better
evidence in the future.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Condemnation_of_disabled_people)
title: Condemnation of disabled people
uri: Condemnation-of-disabled-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Condemnation_of_disabled_people%29
content:
<p>Right-wing condemnation of disabled people as dead weight for society

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/10/lee-irving-murder-disability-hate-crime-increase">
inspires</a>
 increasing numbers to hate them, and sometimes to murder
them
cruelly.
</p>
<p>The plutocrats are a much bigger dead weight on society.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Abortion)
title: Abortion
uri: 2015-06-14-Abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Abortion%29
content:
<p>A woman in Georgia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/georgia-woman-murder-charge-fetus">
has been charged with murder</a>
 for allegedly taking
an abortifacient pill.
</p>
<p>Persecution of women is the heart of the Republican Party.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Sweedish_school_system)
title: Swedish school system
uri: Sweedish-school-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Sweedish_school_system%29
content:
<p>Right-wing school privatization 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/10/sweden-schools-crisis-political-failure-education">
made</a>
 the Swedish school system less capable.
Will the US and UK learn to stop following its bad example?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Obama)
title: Obama
uri: 2015-06-14-Obama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Obama%29
content:
<p>How Obama 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/10/how-obama-went-being-peace-candidate-war-president">
Went</a>
 From Being a Peace Candidate to a War President.
</p>
<p>He has used the US power foolishly, to no good — in many cases,
not good even for US plutocrats (except military and surveillance
contractors).</p>
<p>Obama 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/10/us-extra-troops-to-train-iraqi-army-isis">
will send</a>
 a few hundred more trainers to Iraq.
</p>
<p>I see nothing particularly bad about this move, but it is unlikely to
make much of a difference.  When the Iraqi army abandoned Ramadi in
May, they did so in fear of the suicide bombings carried out in
humvees that PISSI had captured from the Iraqi army in Mosul.
Training alone won't make troops stand up to that.  They have to be
fighting for something they care about very strongly.</p>
<p>Kurdish peshmerga can do this; they are fighting to prevent a massacre
of their people.  Does Obama think he can convince soldiers to do this
for the Iraqi government?</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Greenhouse_gas_emissions)
title: Greenhouse gas emissions
uri: 2015-06-14-Greenhouse-gas-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Greenhouse_gas_emissions%29
content:
<p>The EPA 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/10/carbon-emissions-aircraft-endanger-human-health-us-epa">
recognizes</a>
 that greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft
endanger human health, so it will implement an international
plan to limit those emissions.
</p>
<p>Too bad the proposed standard is so weak it will hardly do any
good.</p>
<p>Greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, mainly through the
risk
of food shortages, spreading diseases, and war.  We need to act
on all
the major causes of emissions.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Cancel_debts)
title: Cancel debts
uri: Cancel-debts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Cancel_debts%29
content:
<p>The masters of the euro zone 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/09/time-end-pretence-greece-never-repay-bailout-loans">
must accept</a>
 that Greece will never repay
its current debts.  One way or another, those debts will be cancelled.
Why not cancel them now?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Cuts_in_funds_for_non-rich)
title: Cuts in funds for non-rich
uri: Cuts-in-funds-for-non-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Cuts_in_funds_for_non-rich%29
content:
<p>The UK's right-wing government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/09/school-system-society-education-funding-cuts-teachers">
is planning</a>
 big cuts in school funds
for non-rich children.
</p>
<p>Most of them will only be able to get crap jobs, and right-wingers
will say it's their own fault — pointing, as they do, to the
brightest few who overcame this handicap, as "proof" that the rest
are no good.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Medical_marijuana_growers)
title: Medical marijuana growers
uri: Medical-marijuana-growers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Medical_marijuana_growers%29
content:
<p>Three medical marijuana growers in Washington 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2015/06/08/medical-marijuana-growers-in-washington">
were convicted</a>
 by the
federal government and now face sentencing.
</p>
<p>If the bill to make the federal government leave state-legal medical
marijuana growers and users alone is passed, I hope Obama will pardon
everyone who was convicted for this.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(G7)
title: G7
uri: G7
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28G7%29
content:
<p>The G7 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/08/g7-climate-goal-will-send-shivers-down-spine-fossil-fuel-industry">
made</a>
 a stronger statement, endorsing big cuts in fossil fuel emissions
by 2050.
</p>
<p>It is not binding, and important emitter countries are not included,
but at least it endorses an adequate goal.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Being_shut_makes_a_suspect)
title: Being shut makes a "suspect"
uri: Being-shut-makes-a-suspect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Being_shut_makes_a_suspect%29
content:
<p>For the Associated Press, being shut by a thug 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/08/ap-being-shot-cop-makes-you-suspect">
makes</a>
 you a "suspect",
automatically.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Mississippi_school_graduation)
title: Mississippi school graduation
uri: Mississippi-school-graduation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Mississippi_school_graduation%29
content:
<p>The Mississippi school 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/mississippi-school-graduation-arrested">
dropped charges</a>
 against four people arrested
for cheering at graduation.
</p>
<p>The officials probably realized they must drop the charges, but
delayed so they wouldn't seem like pushovers.  They are looking ahead
to future injustices that might not arouse enough public criticism
to make them back down.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Sanders)
title: Sanders
uri: 2015-06-14-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Sanders%29
content:
<p>Sanders 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/08/sanders-scores-big-significant-wisconsin-straw-poll">
got</a>
 almost as many votes as Clinton in a straw poll in Wisconsin.
</p>
<p>To call Sanders "unelectable" is an attempt, by the plutocratists, to
impose a self-fulfilling prophesy.  What they mean is, give up on voting
for anyone that their funds don't support.</p>
<p>Americans must vote <em>only</em> for candidates that their funds
don't support.  If you don't have time to investigate the candidates
in your district, here is a simple heuristic: march towards the sound
of the expensive TV ad campaigns, and do what they don't want.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Drug_pump)
title: Drug pump
uri: Drug-pump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Drug_pump%29
content:
<p>Due to bad security in a drug pump, crackers 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/06/hackers-can-send-fatal-doses-hospital-drug-pumps/">
could use it</a>
 to kill
patients.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Attack_on_freedom_in_US)
title: Attack on freedom in US
uri: Attack-on-freedom-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Attack_on_freedom_in_US%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/09/abu-taubah-case/">
wants</a>
 a prisoner sentenced to 20 extra years on the grounds
that some of his books suggest he is inclined towards terrorism.
</p>
<p>The victim is an extremely unsympathetic character, an ideal weak
point for an attack on the freedom of everyone in the US.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Fund_arm_jihadi_group)
title: Fund arm jihadi group
uri: Fund-arm-jihadi-group
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Fund_arm_jihadi_group%29
content:
<p>A report that Turkey and Saudi Arabia 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/09/dark-saudi-israeli-plot-tip-scales-syria">
are cooperating</a>
 to fund and arm jihadi
groups in Syria to fight Assad.  And Israel may be planning to join them.
</p>
<p>I fear the ultimate victors will be PISSI.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Greenpeace_India)
title: Greenpeace India
uri: Greenpeace-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Greenpeace_India%29
content:
<p>An Australian Greenpeace staff member 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/06/08/greenpeace-international-staff-member-refused-entry-india-despite-valid-business">
was blocked</a>
 from entering India
to meet with the staff of Greenpeace India.
</p>
<p>This seems to be part of India's repression campaign against
Greenpeace India, and anything that stands in the way of what the
megacorporations wish to do to India and Indians.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Michigan's_local_democracy)
title: Michigan's local democracy
uri: Michigan-s-local-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Michigan%27s_local_democracy%29
content:
<p>Michigan's elimination of local democracy 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/09/how-destroy-nation-magical-mystery-tour-american-austerity-politics">
is spreading</a>
 to other states,
but Michigan residents are fighting back.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Law_about_war_crimes)
title: Law about war crimes
uri: Law-about-war-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Law_about_war_crimes%29
content:
<p>The government of Spain 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/spain-jose-cousco-cameraman-us-military-iraq">
changed</a>
 its law about war crimes, under US
pressure, to end the prosecution of US soldiers for killing a Spanish
journalist in Iraq.
</p>
<p>US actions to shield its own war criminals have the effect of
protecting all war criminals.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Israel_and_Palestine)
title: Israel and Palestine
uri: 2015-06-14-Israel-and-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Israel_and_Palestine%29
content:
<p>A study suggests Israel and Palestine 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/conflict-gaza-israel-palestine-costly-two-state-solution">
would gain</a>
 $170 billion by 2024
if Israel removes its colonies from Palestine and the two make peace.
</p>
<p>Israel would gain $120 billion and Palestine would gain $50
billion.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Pressure_on_children)
title: Pressure on children
uri: Pressure-on-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Pressure_on_children%29
content:
<p>US and UK parents 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/09/aspirational-parents-children-elite">
have adopted</a>
 the competitive pressure on children
that Japan was once famous for, and it crushes the life out of the
children.
</p>
<p>The error these parents make is seeking better lives for their own
children alone, through competition with other families.  Only a few
can win that game.  If they all worked together, making society treat
the non-rich better and reducing income inequality, they could all
win together.</p>
<p>In other words, these parents have chosen the wrong aspirations.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Students_debt)
title: Students debt
uri: Students-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Students_debt%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/us-forgive-student-loans-disgraced-corinthian-colleges-collapse">
will help</a>
 students at Corinthian Colleges shed their debt.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Cigarette_filters)
title: Cigarette filters
uri: Cigarette-filters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Cigarette_filters%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Little pieces of plastic from cigarette filters 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jun/09/why-cigarette-butts-threaten-to-stub-out-marine-life">
kill</a>
 marine animals.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Arctic_Drilling)
title: Arctic Drilling
uri: Arctic-Drilling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Arctic_Drilling%29
content:
<p>Shell's Arctic Drilling 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/09/shell-oil-greed-undeterred-by-science-climate-change-bill-mckibben-naomi-klein-annie-leonard">
Is the Real Threat to the World</a>, Not Kayaktivists.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Nauru)
title: Nauru
uri: 2015-06-14-Nauru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Nauru%29
content:
<p>An Australian state agency "regularly" 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/09/immigration-interfered-with-nauru-asylum-seeker-diagnoses-senate-told">
asked</a>
 doctors at the Nauru
prison to change the diagnosis of refugees imprisoned there.
This was to cover up how sending refugees to Nauru harmed their
health.</p>
<p>The minister in charge 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/09/scott-morrison-knew-of-nauru-abuse-a-year-before-government-acted-inquiry-told">
disregarded</a>
 evidence of sexual abuse
of prisoners
as young as two years of age.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Cornell_West)
title: Cornell West
uri: Cornell-West
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Cornell_West%29
content:
<p>Cornell West 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/09/cornel-west-australia-is-on-the-path-to-us-style-fascism">
connects</a>
 massive surveillance with plutocracy, and says that
dark skin doesn't excuse Obama for supporting them.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(TTIP)
title: TTIP
uri: 2015-06-14-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28TTIP%29
content:
<p>Identifying how the TTIP 
<a href="https://edri.org/ttip-and-digital-rights-the-booklet/">
threatens</a>
 digital human rights.
</p>
<p>TTIP stands for "This Treaty Is Plutocratic".</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Surveillance_bill_in_French)
title: Surveillance bill in French
uri: Surveillance-bill-in-French
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Surveillance_bill_in_French%29
content:
<p>The French constitutional court 
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/first-victory-for-citizens-against-surveillance-french-military-planning-act-before-constitutional-c">
has doubts</a>
 about the massive surveillance bill.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Obsolete_gadget)
title: Obsolete gadget
uri: Obsolete-gadget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Obsolete_gadget%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>
<a href="http://grist.org/news/rip-obsolete-gadget-you-once-thought-would-change-your-life/">
RIP</a>
, Obsolete Gadget You Once Thought Would Change Your Life.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Zambian_singer_arrested)
title: Zambian singer arrested
uri: Zambian-singer-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Zambian_singer_arrested%29
content:
<p>Zambian Singer Chama Fumba 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/zambian-singer-chama-fumba-arrested-over-song-that-mocks-president-lungu">
Arrested</a>
 Over Song That 'Mocks' President Lungu.
</p>
<p>Making it a crime to mock the president, or anyone or anything else,
is overt contempt for human rights.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Human_rights_in_Australia)
title: Human rights in Australia
uri: Human-rights-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Human_rights_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>The Australian government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/09/coalition-accused-of-orchestrated-campaign-to-destroy-gillian-triggs">
is orchestrating</a>
 a campaign to smear the
president of its Human Rights Commission, who criticizes some of
Abbott's plans to trash human rights.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(US_thugs)
title: US thugs
uri: 2015-06-14-US-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28US_thugs%29
content:
<p>US thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-police-killings-us-vs-other-countries">
kill</a>
 more people in a day than UK thugs kill in a year.
</p>
<p>The US has six times the population of the UK, but the per capita
rate of killings by thugs in the US is 60 times the rate for the UK.</p>
<p>The fact that the total US murder rate per capita is 5 times that of
the UK may be related somehow, but I don't think it reduces the
significance of that ratio of 60.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Ivory_Trade)
title: Ivory Trade
uri: Ivory-Trade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Ivory_Trade%29
content:
<p>China 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/09/china-us-eradicate-ivory-trade">
Calls</a>
 on US to Follow Its Lead in Eradicating Ivory Trade.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Global_heating_denial_organizations)
title: Global heating denial organizations
uri: Global-heating-denial-organizations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Global_heating_denial_organizations%29

content:
<p>Two global heating denial organizations 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/09/secretive-donors-gave-us-climate-denial-groups-125m-over-three-years">
handed out</a>
 $125 million in
2011-2013.
</p>
<p>If you hear the absurd claim that climate scientists are faking
evidence for global heating so as to keep their funding, consider
which side can afford to buy more.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Republicans)
title: Republicans
uri: 2015-06-14-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Republicans%29
content:
<p>Republicans 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/05/1390856/-Mitch-McConnell-No-more-federal-circuit-judge-nbsp-confirmations?detail=email">
will refuse</a>
 to confirm any of Obama's federal judge appointments,
as a policy of obstructionism.
</p>
<p>Obama's appointments are not necessarily good; they may be right
wing.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Dangers_of_global_heating)
title: Dangers of global heating
uri: Dangers-of-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Dangers_of_global_heating%29
content:
<p>Among the lesser 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/09/no-beer-chocolate-coffee-how-climate-change-ruin-your-weekend">
dangers</a>
 of global heating: shortage of beer, coffee,
chocolate, and shellfish.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Thugs)
title: Thugs
uri: 2015-06-14-Thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Thugs%29
content:
<p>White thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/life-black-nypd-love-for-the-force">
tend to dehumanize</a>
 everyone that lives in poor
(minority) neighborhoods, which creates the unconscious racism that leads
thugs to shoot before thinking.
</p>
<p>But one byproduct of the persistent prosecution of blacks, and in
particular New York City's "broken windows" policy, is that it

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/bratton-hiring-black-nypd-officers-criminal-records">
disqualifies</a>
 many blacks from becoming thugs.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Farmers_in_Ghana)
title: Farmers in Ghana
uri: Farmers-in-Ghana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Farmers_in_Ghana%29
content:
<p>Farmers in Ghana 
<a href="http://newint.org/blog/2014/10/20/plant-breeders-bill-ghana/">
are pushing hard</a>
 against the seed monopoly law
that rich countries want to impose.
</p>
<p>Prohibiting farmers from saving and sharing seeds is as wrong
as prohibiting you and me from sharing music.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(AI_soldiers)
title: AI soldiers
uri: AI-soldiers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28AI_soldiers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://justsecurity.org/23287/veterans-perspective-killer-robots/">
Which is worse: an AI soldier or a human soldier</a>?
</p>
<p>I can imagine an AI soldier which firmly refuses to kill civilians
or torture prisoners.  On the other hand, if the AI is programmed
by governments, we should expect a rich government engaged in
counter-guerrilla war to do, in programming its AIs, what it does
in drone assassinations: make them cover up and deny killing
civilians.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Greece)
title: Greece
uri: 2015-06-14-Greece
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Greece%29
content:
<p>Obama 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/08/obama-urges-greeks-to-make-tough-political-choices-to-resolve-debt-crisis">
wants</a>
 Greece to make "tough political choices".
</p>
<p>Greece faces a choice between the disaster of surrender to the
banksters and the disaster of defying them.  It is a tough choice
— if you think only of avoiding pain.  Once you look deeper, the
choice is not tough at all: it is better to suffer in freedom than in
bondage.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Minister_of_Sweden)
title: Minister of Sweden
uri: Minister-of-Sweden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Minister_of_Sweden%29
content:
<p>Foreign Minister Wallström of Sweden 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/08/swedens-foreign-minister-unrepentant-over-saudi-flogging-row">stands 
proudly</a> behind her criticism of Saudi Arabia and refusal to sell
arms there.
</p>
<p>She puts Obama and other "leaders" to shame.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Benefit_cuts_in_Britain)
title: Benefit cuts in Britain
uri: Benefit-cuts-in-Britain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Benefit_cuts_in_Britain%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>"A prime minister who 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/08/cameron-disabled-champion-paula-peters-cuts-most-vulnerable">
talks about caring</a>
 for his disabled son is about
to unleash a new wave of benefit cuts on Britain's most vulnerable
people."
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Urgent:_Presidential_debates)
title: Urgent: Presidential debates
uri: Urgent-Presidential-debates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Presidential_debates%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/debates">support</a>
Bernie Sanders' call to start presidential debates this year.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Erdogans_party_loses_majority)
title: Erdo&gbreve;an's party loses majority
uri: Erdo-gbreve-an-s-party-loses-majority
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Erdogans_party_loses_majority%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's party has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/07/turkish-election-erdogan-kurds">lost
its majority</a> in the Turkish election.
<p>
This doesn't mean it will lose control of the government, but I hope
so.


title: Persecution of medical marijuana users
uri: Persecution-of-medical-marijuana-users
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Persecution_of_medical_marijuana_users)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Persecution_of_medical_marijuana_users%29

content:
<p>
Chris Christie believes there's not enough suffering in the US, so if
elected president he would 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/07/chris-christie-federal-marijuana-law">persecute
medical marijuana users</a>.
<p>
Note that the US government 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#5_June_2015_(Urgent:_support_McClintock-Polis_bill)">has
not entirely stopped harassing</a> state-legalized marijuana users and
distributors.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Number_of_people_killed_by_thugs)
title: Number of people killed by thugs
uri: Number-of-people-killed-by-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Number_of_people_killed_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Journalistic counting projects have found that US thugs kill 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/data-police-shootings-washington-post-guardian">two
or three times as many people as previous figures suggested</a>.


title: Attacks on Black Lives Matter protests
uri: Attacks-on-Black-Lives-Matter-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Attacks_on_Black_Lives_Matter_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Attacks_on_Black_Lives_Matter_protests%29

content:
<p>
Across the US, thugs have attacked peaceful Black Lives Matter
protests.  This article describes 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/06/05/philly-police-war-black-lives-matter-activists">an
attack in Philadelphia</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(EPAs_water_contamination_study)
title: EPA's water contamination study
uri: EPA-s-water-contamination-study
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28EPAs_water_contamination_study%29
content:
<p>
The EPA's study of water contamination caused by fracking had a flaw:
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/05/dont-be-fooled-epas-fracking-study-explained">fracking
companies blocked hands-on testing of what they are doing</a>.
<p>
How big the flaw is, I am not sure.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Death_penalty)
title: Death penalty
uri: 2015-06-14-Death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Death_penalty%29
content:
<p>
The convicted murderer whose case Scalia cited to justify the death
penalty has been pardoned.  His trial ignored evidence that 
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/scalias-perfect-capital-punishment-case-falls-apart">someone
else committed the crime</a>.
<p>
There is no word on whether Scalia has learned anything.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Housing_prices)
title: Housing prices
uri: Housing-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Housing_prices%29
content:
<p>
Since America's poor can't afford homes, should we really want houses
to be 
<a href="http://fair.org/home/poor-people-cant-afford-homes-so-nyt-calls-for-making-them-more-expensive/">even
more expensive</a>?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Syriza_continuing_to_defy_banksters)
title: Syriza continuing to defy banksters
uri: Syriza-continuing-to-defy-banksters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Syriza_continuing_to_defy_banksters%29

content:
<p>
Syriza is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/jun/05/greek-crisis-how-long-can-alexis-tsipras-outmanouevre-the-troika">continuing
to defy the banksters</a> that expected Greece to have to knuckle
under.
<p>
What the international financial powers demand would be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/07/troika-build-greece-up-not-blow-apart-ceasefire">disaster
for Greece</a>.
<p>
I advise Greeks to choose defiance and resistance.  Better to fight,
and risk being crushed, than surrender to a certainty of being
crushed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Man_dies_after_trip_in_thug_van)
title: Man dies after trip in thug van
uri: Man-dies-after-trip-in-thug-van
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Man_dies_after_trip_in_thug_van%29
content:
<p>
Brad Martinez was healthy when Florida thugs arrested him.  When they
took him out of the thug van, he was 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/03/1390298/-Brad-Martinez-Takes-8-Minute-Ride-in-Police-Van-Comes-Out-Comatose-and-Dies">in
a coma</a>, from which he died.
<p>
There is some sign they strangled or choked him.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death.)
title: "Give me liberty or give me death."
uri: Give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death.%29

content:
<p>
When the NSA says it is keeping Americans safe (from a secondary
threat) by taking away their freedom, the proper response is 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2015/06/04/how-the-nsa-tramples-freedom-and-undermi">Patrick
Henry's</a>.


title: Republicans prefer killing sick Americans
uri: Republicans-prefer-killing-sick-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 13_June_2015_(Republicans_prefer_killing_sick_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#13_June_2015_%28Republicans_prefer_killing_sick_Americans%29

content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/208977/life-and-death-red-america">would
rather kill sick Americans</a> than let them receive help from the US
government.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Plan_to_curb_deforestation)
title: Plan to curb deforestation
uri: Plan-to-curb-deforestation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Plan_to_curb_deforestation%29
content:
<p>
A world agreement has been reached on Redd+, a plan to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/10/un-climate-talks-agree-major-forest-protection-plan">curb
deforestation</a>.
<p>
But it is likely to fail if it doesn't cope with the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jun/11/palm-oil-industry-indonesia-corruption-communities-forests">corruption</a>
that enables plantation land-grabs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Rape,_blackmail_and_forced_marriage)
title: Rape, blackmail and forced marriage
uri: Rape-blackmail-and-forced-marriage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Rape%2C_blackmail_and_forced_marriage%29

content:
<p>
A UK man was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/10/34-year-old-man-first-person-to-be-convicted-under-forced-marriage-laws">convicted
of forcing a woman to marry him</a>.  He filmed her showering (after
raping her) and blackmailed her by threatening to publish the video.
<p>
Although the perpetrator bears full responsibility for raping and
threatening her, what made her vulnerable to this blackmail was the
twisted idea that it is shameful to be seen nude.  It is not
surprising to me that the victim was a Muslim, because that religion
teaches women particularly intense shame about their bodies.
<p>
To propagate this shame is to aid future blackmailers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Jailed_Congolese_activists)
title: Jailed Congolese activists
uri: Jailed-Congolese-activists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Jailed_Congolese_activists%29
content:
<p>
Release the Congolese Activists Still in Jail for
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_February_2015_(Women_taught_to_die_for_fetus)">Planning
Peaceful Demonstrations</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Guards_charged_for_killing_prisoner)
title: Guards charged for killing prisoner
uri: Guards-charged-for-killing-prisoner
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Guards_charged_for_killing_prisoner%29

content:
<p>
Guards at NYC's Rikers Island prison have been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/two-rikers-island-officers-charged-beating-death">charged
for killing prisoner Ronald Spear</a>.
<p>
Hooray!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Rana_Plaza_Fund)
title: Rana Plaza Fund
uri: Rana-Plaza-Fund
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Rana_Plaza_Fund%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jun/10/rana-plaza-fund-reaches-target-compensate-victims">After
Two Years, the Rana Plaza Fund Finally Reaches Its $30m Target</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Indian_journalist_murdered)
title: Indian journalist murdered
uri: Indian-journalist-murdered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Indian_journalist_murdered%29
content:
<p>
An Indian journalist was murdered after accusing a minister of corrupt
involvement in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/10/indian-journalist-joginder-singh-set-on-fire">illegal
mining</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Murder_charge_for_abortion_dismissed)
title: Murder charge for abortion dismissed
uri: Murder-charge-for-abortion-dismissed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Murder_charge_for_abortion_dismissed%29

content:
<p>
Kenlissa Jones
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/georgia-woman-abortion-pill-murder-charge-dismissed">will
not be charged with murder</a> for causing herself an abortion, only
"possession of a dangerous drug".
<p>
Charging others with murder for participating in an illegal abortion
is just as wrong.  A fetus is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-jan-apr.html#10%20April%202004%20(Abortion%20testimony)">not
a human being</a>, just a potential future human being.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Western_plans_to_help_Ukraine)
title: Western plans to "help" Ukraine
uri: Western-plans-to-help-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Western_plans_to_help_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Western plans to "help" Ukraine actually aim at
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/209329/ukraine-crisis-heres-why-west-cant-save-it">helping
multinational businesses take control of Ukraine's resources</a>.


title: Obama's idea for fixing up public housing
uri: Obama-s-idea-for-fixing-up-public-housing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Obama's_idea_for_fixing_up_public_housing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Obama%27s_idea_for_fixing_up_public_housing%29

content:
<p>
Obama's idea for fixing up public housing is to start
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/209369/obama-administration-expanding-program-fix-public-housing-too-bad-program-might-also-">privatizing
it</a>.
<p>
I don't think President Sanders would do this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(New_Ferguson_thug_chief)
title: New Ferguson thug chief
uri: New-Ferguson-thug-chief
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28New_Ferguson_thug_chief%29
content:
<p>
The new thug chief in Ferguson
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/08/1391514/-New-Ferguson-Police-Chief-tells-blatant-and-disturbing-lies-throughout-recent-interview">spreads
falsehoods</a> to defend the thug department's treatment of Michael
Brown and the protesters against Brown's killing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Giant_Fraud)
title: Giant Fraud
uri: Giant-Fraud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Giant_Fraud%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/05/tune-global-movemement-people-guatemala-are-rising-against-dignity-and-justice">
Guatemalans are protesting against politicians</a> accused of giant fraud,
but there is no ethical alternative on offer.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Urgent:_Migratory_birds)
title: Urgent: Migratory birds
uri: Urgent-Migratory-birds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Migratory_birds%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.audubon.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=72B0EFEF1D3678A3D3CFF4D3480370FE.app338a?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1829">
call on the Fish and Wildlife Service</a> to close the
loopholes
in protection of migratory birds.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 14_June_2015_(Being_shot_makes_a_suspect)
title: Being shot makes a "suspect"
uri: Being-shot-makes-a-suspect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_%28Being_shot_makes_a_suspect%29
content:
<p>For the Associated Press, being shot by a thug 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/08/ap-being-shot-cop-makes-you-suspect">
makes</a>
 you a "suspect",
automatically.
</p>


title: Urgent: Nuclear weapons dismantlement
uri: Urgent-Nuclear-weapons-dismantlement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Urgent:_Nuclear_weapons_dismantlement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Nuclear_weapons_dismantlement%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Call on your senators to 
<a href="http://www.globalzero.org/take-action/cotton">reject Cotton's
amendment 1605</a>, that would block dismantling nuclear weapons or
reducing their level of alert.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Urgent:_Anti-torture_amendment)
title: Urgent: Anti-torture amendment
uri: Urgent-Anti-torture-amendment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Anti-torture_amendment%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=39340">call
on the Senate</a> to support an anti-torture amendment to the National
Defense Authorization Act.
<p>
Also phone your senators and say, vote no to the NDAA if it authorizes
punishment without trial.


title: Western volunteers helping Syrian Kurds
uri: Western-volunteers-helping-Syrian-Kurds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Western_volunteers_helping_Syrian_Kurds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Western_volunteers_helping_Syrian_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/10/us-citizen-killed-syria-fighting-isis-kurdish">Western
volunteers</a> are helping Syrian Kurds fight PISSI.
<p>
We should encourage such volunteers.  They will absorb the firmness
and esprit de corps of the peshmerga, which training Iraqi troops
hasn't a ghost of a chance of doing.  Furthermore that boosts an army
not based on ethnic or sectarian bigotry, one that any Iraqi who wants
peace and justice would welcome in.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Resistance_to_prion_disease)
title: Resistance to prion disease
uri: Resistance-to-prion-disease
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Resistance_to_prion_disease%29
content:
<p>
A tribe in New Guinea in which people ate the brains of their deceased
relatives, and thus transmitted prion disease down to new generations,
has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/10/brains-helped-papua-new-guinea-tribe">evolved
resistance</a> to prion disease.
<p>
Lots of them died in the process; this is not a very desirable way to
deal with diseases.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(EU_should_boost_employment_directly)
title: EU should boost employment directly
uri: EU-should-boost-employment-directly
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28EU_should_boost_employment_directly%29

content:
<p>
The European Union should boost employment 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/10/russels-bail-out-jobless-european-union-unemployment">directly</a>.
<p>
Why doesn't it?  The banks have too much power.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(LA_minimum_wage)
title: LA minimum wage
uri: 2015-06-16-LA-minimum-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28LA_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
Los Angeles will increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/los-angeles-raise-minimum-wage-15-an-hour">only
in 2020</a>.  By that time, $15 will be too small and another increase
will be past due.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Global_heating_denialist_in_trouble)
title: Global heating denialist in trouble
uri: Global-heating-denialist-in-trouble
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Global_heating_denialist_in_trouble%29

content:
<p>
Global heating denialist Willie Soon is in trouble for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/11/cclimate-sceptic-researcher-willie-soon-investigated-funding-fossil-fuel-firms">hiding
the funds he received from fossil fuel interests</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Serbias_greenhouse_gas_pledge)
title: Serbia's greenhouse gas pledge
uri: Serbia-s-greenhouse-gas-pledge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Serbias_greenhouse_gas_pledge%29
content:
<p>
Serbia's "exemplary" greenhouse gas pledge would allow emissions to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/11/european-commission-hails-fiddled-serbian-climate-pledge">rise
15%</a>.


title: Egyptian thug jailed for killing protester
uri: Egyptian-thug-jailed-for-killing-protester
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Egyptian_thug_jailed_for_killing_protester)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Egyptian_thug_jailed_for_killing_protester%29

content:
<p>
An Egyptian thug was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/11/egypt-police-officer-jailed-15-years-death-protester-shaimaa-el-sabbagh-cairo">jailed
for shooting and killing a protester</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(EU_investigating_Amazon)
title: EU investigating Amazon
uri: EU-investigating-Amazon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28EU_investigating_Amazon%29
content:
<p>
The EU is investigating Amazon for possible 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/11/european-commission-investigate-amazon-ebook-dominance">anticompetitive
deals with publishers</a>.
<p>
That is good, as far as it goes, but it fails to tackle the worst
thing about Amazon: imposing the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">unjust contracts and DRM on
users</a>.


title: Spying on nuclear deal negotiators in Iran
uri: Spying-on-nuclear-deal-negotiators-in-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Spying_on_nuclear_deal_negotiators_in_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Spying_on_nuclear_deal_negotiators_in_Iran%29

content:
<p>
Someone is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/11/switzerland-austria-investigate-iran-talks-computer-spying-claims">spying
on negotiators</a> trying to make a nuclear deal with Iran, through
hotel facilities.  Probably some government.
<p>
The snooper is not necessary one opposed to the talks.  It could be a
participant, such as the US, hoping to get a better deal by knowing
other countries' bottom lines.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Right-wing_talk_shows_opposing_TPP)
title: Right-wing talk shows opposing TPP
uri: Right-wing-talk-shows-opposing-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Right-wing_talk_shows_opposing_TPP%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing talk shows are now 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/11/conservative-talk-radio-turns-trans-pacific-partnership/">opposing
the TPP</a>, which they call "Obamatrade".
<p>
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.  It is our good fortune
that they are right on this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Incompetence_of_the_TSA)
title: Incompetence of the TSA
uri: Incompetence-of-the-TSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Incompetence_of_the_TSA%29
content:
<p>
The persistent incompetence of the TSA, combined with the complete
absence of attacks on US airliners, shows that 
<a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/reassessing_air.html">we
don't need so much effort at airline security</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Free_trade_working_conditions)
title: "Free trade" working conditions
uri: Free-trade-working-conditions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Free_trade_working_conditions%29
content:
<p>
Rosa Moreno lost both her hands in an industrial accident, working for
a contractor for a multinational brand.  She was lucky to get help to
sue for compensation, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/11/lost-hands-making-flatscreens-no-help">lost
the suit on a technicality</a>.
<p>
Ms Moreno is not entirely innocent.  Lacking a sure income, she did
wrong to have six children.  Indeed, it is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">wrong
for <em>anyone</em> to have six children</a>.  But that is a separate issue and in no way justifies the way she has
been treated after her injury, nor the dangerous conditions maintained
at her workplace.
<p>
This is what "free trade" does: it enables the multinational to make
countries compete to attract production by allowing the worst possible
working conditions and workers' rights.
<p>
If Mexico had had a real compensation system for accidents at work,
the company would have maintained Machine 19 carefully and followed
proper safety procedures, and this accident would probably not have
happened.
<p>
That is the basic reason why we must get rid of those treaties.  We
must require companies to situate their production somewhere and leave
it there, so that governments will respond to public pressure to start
protecting workers' rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Correcting_wrongful_convictions)
title: Correcting wrongful convictions
uri: Correcting-wrongful-convictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Correcting_wrongful_convictions%29
content:
<p>
Students at Cardiff University exonerated a real murder conviction,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jun/11/university-innocence-projects-cardiff-law-students">enabling
a wrongly convicted man to go free</a>.  Now the group is working on
another case.
<p>
It is good to correct these mistakes, but there are so many mistakes
that we need to look at correcting the systems that so often produce
them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Human_population_growth)
title: Human population growth
uri: Human-population-growth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Human_population_growth%29
content:
<p>
A town in Portugal has started paying 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/11/portuguese-town-launches-cash-for-babies-scheme-to-boost-population">substantial
bonuses for having a baby</a>.
<p>
Spain has a similar policy.  The satirical magazine El Jueves was
fined for publishing a cartoon showing the then crown prince (now
king) having sex with his wife and saying, "This is the closest thing
to working that I've done in my whole life."
<p>
Some countries, such as Iran, try to force women to have more babies
by making birth control harder to get.
<p>
In a world where 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">human population
growth combines with global heating to threaten the survival of
civilization</a>, any policy to promote births is suicidal insanity.
<p>
That town is not special.  To keep that town in existence
is not important enough to justify taking any extra risk.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Ebola_resurgence)
title: Ebola resurgence
uri: Ebola-resurgence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Ebola_resurgence%29
content:
<p>
Ebola has resurged in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/11/ebola-charities-fear-resurgence-spike-infections">Sierra
Leone and Guinea</a>.
<p>
You're not safe until it's 100% over.  And not even entirely then; men
who have recovered must use condoms for months to avoid passing on the
virus.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Distribution_of_journalism)
title: Distribution of journalism
uri: Distribution-of-journalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Distribution_of_journalism%29
content:
<p>
Google, Facebook and Apple are so involved in distribution of journalism
that they are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/11/media-tech-firms-news-conflict-interest-facebook-google-apple">in
a special position to corrupt it</a>.
<p>
Perhaps use of GNU Taler for paid anonymous downloads will help
journalistic sites remain independent of those powerful companies.


title: Abbott boasts of cutting wind farm growth
uri: Abbott-boasts-of-cutting-wind-farm-growth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Abbott_boasts_of_cutting_wind_farm_growth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Abbott_boasts_of_cutting_wind_farm_growth%29

content:
<p>
Tony "suppository of all greenhouse gases" Abbott boasted of cutting
the growth of wind farms, and says he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/11/tony-abbotts-boast-of-wind-farm-cuts-contradicts-earlier-stand-on-renewables">wishes
he could have cut them more</a>.
<p>
It pretty much shows he was lying when he said he supported wind
power.
<p>
This is par for the course with plutocratist governments.  We have
seen the same thing 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_February_2015_(Community_renewable_energy_subsidy_eliminated)">in
the UK</a> and, partly,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#26%20March%202011%20(US%20Coal%20Mining%20Plan)">with
the Obama regime</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Pregnant_refugee_facing_imprisonment)
title: Pregnant refugee facing imprisonment
uri: Pregnant-refugee-facing-imprisonment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Pregnant_refugee_facing_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
A refugee in Australia, facing imprisonment in Nauru, is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/11/asylum-seeker-may-end-pregnancy-rather-than-raise-her-child-on-nauru">considering
an abortion</a> to avoid raising a child in prison.
<p>
People in desperate circumstances should not have children, but that
is no excuse for putting people in such desperate circumstances.


title: Human rights of imprisoned refugees on Naru
uri: Human-rights-of-imprisoned-refugees-on-Naru
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Human_rights_of_imprisoned_refugees_on_Naru)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Human_rights_of_imprisoned_refugees_on_Naru%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is not concerned that refugees it imprisons
on Nauru are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/10/not-seen-not-heard-not-reported-the-harrowing-stories-of-australias-detainees">raped</a>.
<p>
Here's more about the Australian government's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/11/ministers-heap-scorn-on-gillian-triggs-over-linking-boats-policy-and-executions">campaign
against the president of its human rights commission</a>.
<p>
This is a prime example of hounding a dissident over minor details of
rhetoric to distract attention from important substantive issues.
Critics of the free software movement use the same approach towards
me.
<p>
Note also the way that they present their own hostility towards Triggs
as if it were a failing on her part; for instance, by saying that they
have "lost confidence" in her for criticizing them.  It is another
common pattern.  Thus, articles about the economic war on Greece often
say that "Greece has no more friends" when what is really happening is
that various regimes and institutions (Spain, France, US, IMF) support
the banksters.
<p>
Those criticizing Triggs back up their distraction campaign by keeping
a large part of the Australian government's treatment of refugees
secret, or hidden on Nauru.  This makes it hard for her to raise
the issues that really matter.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Transsexuals_and_feminism)
title: Transsexuals and feminism
uri: Transsexuals-and-feminism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Transsexuals_and_feminism%29
content:
<p>
Feminists are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/11/caitlyn-jenner-transgender-feminism-woman">disputing</a>
how to relate transsexuals to feminism.
<p>
It should be clear that "feeling like a woman" (i.e., being drawn to
female gender) is a completely separate matter from "understanding
what life as a (typical non-trans, in a given society) woman is like",
or how such women experience that life.  But that difference is no
problem unless we make the mistake of confusing the two.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 15_June_2015_(Repression_in_Azerbaijan)
title: Repression in Azerbaijan
uri: Repression-in-Azerbaijan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_%28Repression_in_Azerbaijan%29
content:
<p>
Journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan face 
<a href="http://cpj.org/blog/2015/06/baku-2015-press-freedom-azerbaijan-and-the-europea.php">repression</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_fast_track)
title: Urgent: Oppose "fast track"
uri: 2015-06-16-Urgent-Oppose-fast-track
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fast_track%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/pelosi_oppose_fast_track/">call
on Rep. Pelosi</a> to oppose "fast track".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Urgent:_Publish_the_TPP_draft)
title: Urgent: Publish the TPP draft
uri: Urgent-Publish-the-TPP-draft
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Publish_the_TPP_draft%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://opentpp.org/">call on Congress</a> to publish the TPP
draft.  There are ways it can lawfully do so.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_monarch_butterflies)
title: Urgent: Protect monarch butterflies
uri: Urgent-Protect-monarch-butterflies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_monarch_butterflies%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3753">Call
on UNESCO to protect monarch butterflies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Urgent:_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Social Security
uri: Urgent-Social-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Social_Security%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://leftaction.com/action/ss-70">tell Congress</a> not to
raise the Social Security retirement age.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Urgent:_Candidates_debates)
title: Urgent: Candidates' debates
uri: Urgent-Candidates-debates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Candidates_debates%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/dem_debates">tell the
Democratic National Committee</a> not to limit candidates' debates.


title: German government's surveillance hypocrisy
uri: German-government-s-surveillance-hypocrisy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(German_governments_surveillance_hypocrisy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28German_governments_surveillance_hypocrisy%29

content:
<p>
The German government's surveillance hypocrisy has 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/opinion/the-german-governments-surveillance-hypocrisy.html">undermined
movement to reduce state surveillance there</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Automation_of_factories_in_China)
title: Automation of factories in China
uri: Automation-of-factories-in-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Automation_of_factories_in_China%29
content:
<p>
As China confronts automation of factories, it may be hit with 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/opinion/chinas-troubling-robot-revolution.html">falling
employment</a>.
<p>
Some manufacturing is also moving to India because wages there are
low.


title: Imprisoned 40 years after unfair trial
uri: Imprisoned-40-years-after-unfair-trial
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Imprisoned_40_years_after_unfair_trial)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Imprisoned_40_years_after_unfair_trial%29

content:
<p>
A court ruled that Albert Woodfox should be freed, as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/us-prisoner-released-after-spending-four-decades-in-solitary-confinement">his
trial was unfair and a new trial is not feasible</a>.  Louisiana is
using an appeal to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/angola-three-robert-king-solitary-confinement">delay
his release</a>, to leave him as little time as possible outside.
<p>
Woodfox is 68 years old and clearly no threat to anyone.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Al_Qaida_and_PISSI)
title: Al Qa'ida and PISSI
uri: Al-Qa-ida-and-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Al_Qaida_and_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
PISSI started as a breakaway part of al Qa'ida, and PISSI's success
has turned al Qa'ida into a mere shell of its old self.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/10/how-isis-crippled-al-qaida">The
official leaders of al Qa'ida now regard PISSI as a bunch of
traitors</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(TPP_leak)
title: TPP leak
uri: TPP-leak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28TPP_leak%29
content:
<p>
Latest TPP Leak Raises Burning Questions About 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/06/10/latest-tpp-leak-raises-burning-questions-about-implications-us-health-care">Implications
for U.S. Health Care System</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Extreme_repression_in_Eritrea)
title: Extreme repression in Eritrea
uri: Extreme-repression-in-Eritrea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Extreme_repression_in_Eritrea%29
content:
<p>
The reason so many Eritreans are fleeing to Europe is due to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/10/guardian-view-eritrea-regime-of-terror-migration">extreme
repression</a> there.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Fishy_thug_story)
title: Fishy thug story
uri: Fishy-thug-story
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Fishy_thug_story%29
content:
<p>
The thugs' 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/10/major-questions-remain-unanswered-killing-alleged-boston-isis-beheading-plotter/">story
about killing Usaamah Rahim</a> is fishy; the video provides little
information to substantiate it.
<p>
His own statements may indicate that he was planning to kill thugs,
or perhaps only that he was planning to sue.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Azerbaijan_denies_entry_to_activist)
title: Azerbaijan denies entry to activist
uri: Azerbaijan-denies-entry-to-activist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Azerbaijan_denies_entry_to_activist%29

content:
<p>
Azerbaijan has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/azerbaijan-holds-activist-who-attacked-european-games-as-bps-games">denied
entry to Emma Hughes</a> because the human rights organization she
works for has criticized the regime's association with BP, and the use
of the European Games (which Azerbaijan is hosting in conjunction with
BP) to distract attention from repression.
<p>
Greg Palast has 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#28_May_2012_(BP_in_Azerbaijan)">reported
on that relationship</a>.
<p>
Amnesty International has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/10/amnesty-international-blocked-visiting-azerbaijan-european-games-baku-2015">totally
excluded from Azerbaijan</a> before these games.
<p>
It seems absurd to permit Azerbaijan to be a candidate for hosting
"European" games, even if its government were a beacon of freedom.  It
is no more part of Europe than neighboring Iran is.  Would they allow
Japan to host the European Games?  South Africa?  Brazil?


title: Capture of Assad regime military base
uri: Capture-of-Assad-regime-military-base
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Capture_of_Assad_regime_military_base)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Capture_of_Assad_regime_military_base%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/syrian-rebel-forces-seize-major-military-base-government-forces">US-backed
Syrian rebel group</a> captured an Assad regime military base.
<p>
At least there is one Arab rebel group that isn't al Qa'ida or PISSI
that has the ability to fight and win.  I think the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_(Western_volunteers_helping_Syrian_Kurds)">secular
human-rights-defending revolutionary Kurds</a> deserve support far
more, but I don't know whether there is a practical possibility for
Arabs to join them.


title: US-made cluster bombs dropped on Yemen
uri: 2015-06-16-US-made-cluster-bombs-dropped-on-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(US-made_cluster_bombs_dropped_on_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28US-made_cluster_bombs_dropped_on_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia is 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/cluster-bombs-yemen-saudi-united-states">dropping
US-made cluster bombs on Yemen</a>.  As usual for cluster bombs, a
child picked up a pretty bomblet, and it exploded.
<p>
Cluster bombs 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_November_2014_(Treaty_to_ban_cluster_bombs)">should
be banned</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Young_people_on_global_heating)
title: Young people on global heating
uri: Young-people-on-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Young_people_on_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Teenagers and young adults say 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/09/how-young-people-are-tackling-climate-change">what
led them to care about the danger of global heating</a>.
<p>
I don't call it "climate change" because 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_June_2014_(Destroyed_by_global_heating)">that
term was promoted by denialists</a>.  Why give them what they wanted?


title: Railroading innocent people for murder
uri: Railroading-innocent-people-for-murder
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 16_June_2015_(Railroading_innocent_people_for_murder)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_June_2015_%28Railroading_innocent_people_for_murder%29

content:
<p>
Railroading innocent people for murder occurs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/09/22-years-pakistan-death-row-what-purpose-execution">in
Pakistan</a> as well as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#12_October_2014_(Public_defense_failure)">in
the US</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Urgent:_Free_Albert_Woodfox)
title: Urgent: Free Albert Woodfox
uri: Urgent-Free-Albert-Woodfox
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Free_Albert_Woodfox%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=35593">Call
on Louisiana Governor Jindal</a> to free Albert Woodfox without delay.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Urgent:_Free_Raif_Badawi)
title: Urgent: Free Raif Badawi
uri: 2015-06-18-Urgent-Free-Raif-Badawi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Free_Raif_Badawi%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: Phone the Saudi embassy</a> in your country and call on
Saudi Arabia to 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=35147">free
Raif Badawi instead of flogging him</a>.  His supposed crime is
dissent.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Urgent:_Replace_head_of_SEC)
title: Urgent: Replace head of SEC
uri: Urgent-Replace-head-of-SEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Replace_head_of_SEC%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Mary_Jo_White">call on
Obama</a> to replace the head of the SEC with someone that is not a
minion of Wall Street.
<p>
He won't do this, because he too is a minion of Wall Street,
but putting pressure on him is desirable anyway.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_sale_of_totoaba_fish)
title: Urgent: Stop sale of totoaba fish
uri: Urgent-Stop-sale-of-totoaba-fish
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_sale_of_totoaba_fish%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1821">call
on Hong Kong to put a stop to sale of the endangered totoaba fish.
Catching these fish also kills endangered vaquita porpoises.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Urgent:_CEO_pay_disclosure)
title: Urgent: CEO pay disclosure
uri: Urgent-CEO-pay-disclosure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_CEO_pay_disclosure%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/sec-ceo-pay-rule/">call
on the SEC</a> to implement the legally required CEO pay disclosure
rule now.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(The_TPP)
title: The TPP
uri: 2015-06-18-The-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28The_TPP%29
content:
<p>
The TPP is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/11/pacific-trade-deal-raises-fears-over-future-of-pharmaceutical-benefits-scheme">designed
to make medicines as expensive in other countries as they are in the
US</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(The_US_charter_school_program)
title: The US "charter school" program
uri: The-US-charter-school-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28The_US_charter_school_program%29
content:
<p>
The US "charter school" (privatized public school) program was
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12834">designed to exempt charter
schools from any real accountability</a> to the state or to local
elected officials.
<p>
A supposed "accountability" requirement added in 2010
was a pretense without substance.
<p>
They are not even accountable for what they do with the 
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12837">US government money</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Why_there_are_so_few_black_NY_thugs)
title: Why there are so few black NY thugs
uri: Why-there-are-so-few-black-NY-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Why_there_are_so_few_black_NY_thugs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/bill-bratton-recruitment-police-officers-nypd">Bratton</a>
says, it's not that blacks are forbidden to be hired as thugs, it's
that they are so hostile they won't apply.
<p>
I suspect it's both.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(ATT_refuses_to_keep_promise)
title: AT&T refuses to keep promise
uri: AT-T-refuses-to-keep-promise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28ATT_refuses_to_keep_promise%29
content:
<p>
AT&T promised (to get a merger approved) to offer 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/06/internet-nightmare-att-sells-broadband-to-your-neighbors-but-not-to-you/">DSL
service to everyone in its service areas</a>, but refuses to install
new equipment to do so.
<p>
You can't expect a big company to keep its promises unless it is
punished directly when it doesn't.  If AT&T were find $100,000 per
person per year, for each person entitled to DSL and waiting for it,
and the victim got half of that as compensation, AT&T would fix
this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(The_greater_sage_grouse)
title: The greater sage grouse
uri: The-greater-sage-grouse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28The_greater_sage_grouse%29
content:
<p>
The greater sage grouse, an endangered bird,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/12/greater-sage-grouse-us-habitat-threat">protects
350 other species</a> typically found in the same habitat.
<p>
There may be dozens or hundreds other species of microbes, protists,
fungi and soil-dwelling invertebrates that live in that habitat but
that we have not yet discovered.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Parents_sue_chemical_plant_in_China)
title: Parents sue chemical plant in China
uri: Parents-sue-chemical-plant-in-China
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Parents_sue_chemical_plant_in_China%29

content:
<p>
China has allowed parents to sue a chemical plant for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/landmark-case-on-lead-poisoning-in-children-begins-in-china">high
levels of lead in the children's bodies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Pakistan_closes_Save_the_Children)
title: Pakistan closes Save the Children
uri: Pakistan-closes-Save-the-Children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Pakistan_closes_Save_the_Children%29

content:
<p>
Pakistan has closed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/pakistan-shuts-down-save-the-children-offices-in-islamabad">Save
the Children</a> without even giving a reason.
<p>
This is not rule of law.


title: Australia considers paying people smugglers
uri: Australia-considers-paying-people-smugglers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Australia_considers_paying_people_smugglers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Australia_considers_paying_people_smugglers%29

content:
<p>
Abbott says Australia is considering paying 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/12/tony-abbott-refuses-to-rule-out-paying-people-smugglers-to-turn-back-boats">people
smugglers</a> to take their passengers back to Indonesia.  There is
evidence it has already done so, and Abbott refuses to deny it.
<p>
Abbott will soon hit on the idea of paying them to drown their
passengers.  That is included in "stop the boats by hook or by crook".
<p>
When the government acts in secret, democracy depends on
whistleblowers.  No wonder Abbott has imposed new punishments on
whistleblowers, and increased massive surveillance so as to catch
them.  Instead of accountable government, it's "Don't look behind the
curtain" government.


title: Attempt to sneak CISPA into spending bill
uri: Attempt-to-sneak-CISPA-into-spending-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Attempt_to_sneak_CISPA_into_spending_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Attempt_to_sneak_CISPA_into_spending_bill%29

content:
<p>
Senate leaders tried to put CISPA (massive data given "voluntarily" by
companies to the state) 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1754">into a spending bill as
a quiet amendment</a>, but this was blocked.


title: Israel excuses its deadly attack on Gaza
uri: Israel-excuses-its-deadly-attack-on-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Israel_excuses_its_deadly_attack_on_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Israel_excuses_its_deadly_attack_on_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Israel cites 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/11/israel-clears-military-gaza-beach-children">fantasy
evidence</a> to excuse its attack that killed four children in Gaza.


title: Descendants of Sephardic Jews offered citizenship
uri: Descendants-of-Sephardic-Jews-offered-citizenship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Descendants_of_Sephardic_Jews_offered_citizenship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Descendants_of_Sephardic_Jews_offered_citizenship%29

content:
<p>
Spain has offered citizenship to descendants of Jews 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/11/spain-law-citizenship-jews">expelled
by Spain in 1492</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Bush-promoted_water_pump_company)
title: Bush-promoted water pump company
uri: Bush-promoted-water-pump-company
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Bush-promoted_water_pump_company%29
content:
<p>
Jeb Bush went to Nigeria to promote a water pump company (while his
father was president of the US).  The company was 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/jeb-bush-david-eller-mwi-bush-el-nigeria">subsequently
convicted of bribing Nigerian officials</a>.


title: US blocks ex-Guantanamo prisoner from flying
uri: US-blocks-ex-Guantanamo-prisoner-from-flying
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(US_blocks_ex-Guantanamo_prisoner_from_flying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28US_blocks_ex-Guantanamo_prisoner_from_flying%29

content:
<p>
The US blocked a former prisoner in Guantanamo from 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/11/ex-guantanamo-prisoner-denied-france-to-canada-flight">flying
to Canada</a>, using the excuse that the flight crosses US air space.
<p>
Canada's acceptance of this should shame every Canadian.
<p>
Mourad Benchellali was prevented from giving one of his regular talks,
which teach Muslim youth to resist PISSI propaganda.  Why interfere?
I think the US is trying to prove how rigid and mindlessly stubborn it
can be.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Thugs_kick_and_beat_helpless_man)
title: Thugs kick and beat helpless man
uri: Thugs-kick-and-beat-helpless-man
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Thugs_kick_and_beat_helpless_man%29
content:
<p>
Regardless of whether Noel Carter ran away from the thugs, or even
resisted arrest — once he was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/11/florida-police-video-beating-orlando">sitting
down and helpless</a>, thugs had no right to kick and beat him.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Russian_oligarch_advises_Putin)
title: Russian oligarch advises Putin
uri: Russian-oligarch-advises-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Russian_oligarch_advises_Putin%29
content:
<p>
A Russian oligarch advised Putin to 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/11/russian-oligarch-wanted-turn-joke-reality/">set
up two political parties that would agree on everything except
abortion rights</a>, to distract the Russian people from other issues.
<p>
It is not true that the Democratic and Republican parties agree about
everything except abortion.  But it was almost true in 2000.  They
tended to disagree about whether to openly praise and serve US
oligarchs, or obey them in a veiled fashion.
<p>
Nowadays, most Democratic elected officials resemble what Republicans
used to be, and most Republican elected officials are out to sabotage
the country.
<p>
Fortunately nowadays we see an increasing number of progressive
Democrats.


title: Gender discrimination in public events
uri: Gender-discrimination-in-public-events
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Gender_discrimination_in_public_events)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Gender_discrimination_in_public_events%29

content:
<p>
The London Israeli Film Festival presented a film and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/11/ultra-orthodox-director-bans-men-from-london-israeli-film-festival-screening">limited
viewing to women only</a>.
<p>
I consider this just as offensive as barring women from seeing a film
would be, or barring them from driving their children to school.
<p>
Why do some charedi women want their film not to be seen by men?  They
must have internalized the nearly-Islamic misogyny of charedi men.  I
am sorry for them.
<p>
I would not try to compel them to act in a film that will be seen by
men, if they don't want to.  However, gender discrimination must not
be tolerated in public events, and demands for it must be refused
flat-out.  If actors demanded that the film-maker impose
discrimination, that is no excuse; the film-maker should have hired
other actors.  If the film-maker demanded that the festival
discriminate, that is no excuse; the festival should have shown
another film.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Lobbyists_fund_legislators)
title: Lobbyists fund legislators
uri: Lobbyists-fund-legislators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Lobbyists_fund_legislators%29
content:
<p>
An ALEC-member state legislator admitted that 
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12838">lobbyists fund the
legislators' participation</a> in the event.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 17_June_2015_(Investor-state_treaties)
title: "Investor-state" treaties
uri: Investor-state-treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#17_June_2015_%28Investor-state_treaties%29
content:
<p>
"Investor-state" treaties that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/10/obscure-legal-system-lets-corportations-sue-states-ttip-icsid">allow
companies to sue national governments for interfering with their
profits</a> were started by the World Bank to give rich countries
another advantage against the sovereignty of poor countries.  Now
European countries too are blocked from protecting the environment or
anything more important than foreign investors.
<p>
It's not enough to reject new ones, such as the TPP.  There must be an
international movement to nullify them all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Urgent:_Overtime_pay)
title: Urgent: Overtime pay
uri: Urgent-Overtime-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Overtime_pay%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://leftaction.com/action/overtime">support raising the
salary limit</a> for mandatory overtime pay.


title: Urgent: Block Tongue River coal railroad
uri: Urgent-Block-Tongue-River-coal-railroad
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Urgent:_Block_Tongue_River_coal_railroad)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Tongue_River_coal_railroad%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-coal/">tell the
Surface Transportation Board</a> to block the Tongue River coal
railroad.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_fast_track)
title: Urgent: Oppose "fast track"
uri: 2015-06-19-Urgent-Oppose-fast-track
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fast_track%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter (again!) to oppose "fast
track," which would cover the TPP plus any other business supremacy
treaties proposed by this president or the next one.
<p>
On Friday, the House of Representatives voted in favor of "fast track"
but
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/12/house-votes-slow-fast-track-obamas-trade-agenda/">rejected
another necessary bill</a>, which also attacks medicare.
<p>
The plutocratic forces will surely discard their secondary attack to
get their principal attack on democracy passed.  We need to change the
minds of several congresscritters who voted for "fast track" to make
the TPP stay dead.


title: Urgent: Stop dumping antibiotic-laden waste
uri: Urgent-Stop-dumping-antibiotic-laden-waste
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_dumping_antibiotic-laden_waste)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_dumping_antibiotic-laden_waste%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/superbugs/">call on Pfizer</a> to
stop buying antibiotics from factories that dump antibiotic-laden
waste into rivers.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/11/big-pharmas-hidden-hand-rise-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs">more
about the problem</a>: that waste encourages bacteria in the rivers to
evolve resistance, and bacteria can transmit the resistance genes to
species that infect people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Canadas_indigenous_peoples_push_back)
title: Canada's indigenous peoples push back
uri: Canada-s-indigenous-peoples-push-back
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Canadas_indigenous_peoples_push_back%29

content:
<p>
Canada's [indigenous peoples] Push Back Against 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/12/canadas-first-nations-push-back-against-centuries-murder-abuse-and-neglect">Centuries
of Murder, Abuse and Neglect</a>.


title: Iceland's people reject imposed inequality
uri: Iceland-s-people-reject-imposed-inequality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Icelands_people_reject_imposed_inequality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Icelands_people_reject_imposed_inequality%29

content:
<p>
Iceland's people rejected imposed inequality and 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/12/iceland-jailed-bankers-and-rejected-austerity-and-its-been-success">let
their failed banks disappear</a>.  The result, after 7 years, is a
triumphant success, for all except the banksters.
<p>
Today, banksters and their pet governments are pushing countries such
as Greece to suffer imposed inequality.
<p>
When it is necessary to do this, it is helpful if banks have been kept
small by preventing them from merging.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Network_neutrality)
title: Network neutrality
uri: 2015-06-19-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
Executives of telecommunications companies, after years of claiming
that network neutrality would impede investment in infrastructure, are
now <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150609/10485531285/yet-another-isp-exec-admits-broadband-industry-lied-about-net-neutrality-hurting-network-investment.shtml">admitting
it isn't so</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(AUMF_Greenlights_Endless_War)
title: AUMF Greenlights Endless War
uri: AUMF-Greenlights-Endless-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28AUMF_Greenlights_Endless_War%29
content:
<p>
Don't Be Fooled: New Bipartisan AUMF 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/10/dont-be-fooled-new-bipartisan-aumf-greenlights-endless-war">Greenlights
Endless War</a>.


title: California cutting water to agriculture
uri: California-cutting-water-to-agriculture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(California_cutting_water_to_agriculture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28California_cutting_water_to_agriculture%29

content:
<p>
California is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/12/california-orders-largest-water-cuts-farmers">cutting
water to agriculture</a>.
<p>
It is painful, of course, but it has to be done.
Now the question is whether we will curb greenhouse emissions
so drought doesn't get even worse.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Fundamentalist_Christians)
title: Fundamentalist Christians
uri: Fundamentalist-Christians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Fundamentalist_Christians%29
content:
<p>
Why fundamentalist Christians 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/09/1391715/-An-Ex-Fundie-on-Why-Fundie-Victims-Defend-their-Abusers">tend
to overlook or excuse sexual abuse of children</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Committing_rape_while_unconscious)
title: Committing "rape" while unconscious
uri: Committing-rape-while-unconscious
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Committing_rape_while_unconscious%29

content:
<p>
A male college student in the US was expelled for 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/11/amherst-student-was-expelled-for-rape-bu">committing
"rape" while he was unconscious</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Berserk_killing_machine)
title: Berserk killing machine
uri: Berserk-killing-machine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Berserk_killing_machine%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2015/06/11/abolish-special-ops-forces">Seal
team 6</a> has expanded into a berserk killing machine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Walking_while_black)
title: Walking while black
uri: Walking-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Walking_while_black%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in Little Rock are so ready to see "threat" in any black man
that they
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/10/1392030/-Little-Rock-police-slam-non-violent-blind-man-to-the-street-Guess-his-race">beat
up a blind man</a>.  His crime: walking while black.


title: Threat of 17 years in prison for marijuana
uri: Threat-of-17-years-in-prison-for-marijuana
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Threat_of_17_years_in_prison_for_marijuana)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Threat_of_17_years_in_prison_for_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
Shona Banda is 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/10/1392180/-Kansas-medical-marijuana-mom-officially-charged-faces-17-years-in-prison-if-convicted">threatened
with 17 years in prison</a>, denied marijuana to treat the pain of her
disease.
<p>
How can her son avoid feeling crushed by guilt for having unthinkingly
given cruel "authorities" an opportunity to do this to her?  I think
he could avoid it if he understands that it's not his fault, because
it's their fault.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(US_government_systems_breached)
title: US government systems breached
uri: US-government-systems-breached
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28US_government_systems_breached%29
content:
<p>
Crackers entered US government systems used for security checks and
got <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/12/hacking-personnel-data-4-million-federal-workers">detailed
personal information about millions of present and former government
employees</a>.
<p>
Also about their 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/06/opm-breach-security-privacy-debacle/">friends
and relatives</a>.
<p>
A lot of this information interested the government because it might
be usable for blackmail.


title: How Philadelphia thugs target poor people
uri: How-Philadelphia-thugs-target-poor-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(How_Philadelphia_thugs_target_poor_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28How_Philadelphia_thugs_target_poor_people%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU has documented how Philadelphia thugs target poor people when
they 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/10/how-philadelphia-seizes-millions-in-pocket-change-from-some-of-the-citys-poorest-reisdents/">seize
their money without convicting them</a> (often without accusing them)
of a crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(London_thugs_using_stingrays)
title: London thugs using stingrays
uri: London-thugs-using-stingrays
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28London_thugs_using_stingrays%29
content:
<p>
London thugs are using stingrays, which 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fake-mobile-phone-towers-found-to-be-actively-listening-in-on-calls-in-uk-10311525.html">track
all cell phones in the vicinity and can listen to any of them</a>, and
they refuse to say anything about why, or who they are listening to.
<p>
Perhaps some of those uses are justified, but the secrecy is
dangerous.


title: Resist consistently to protect privacy
uri: Resist-consistently-to-protect-privacy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(Resist_consistently_to_protect_privacy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28Resist_consistently_to_protect_privacy%29

content:
<p>
Americans are 
<a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/penn-americans-give-personal-data-discounts-because-they-believe-marketers-will-get-it-anyway">not
happy with exchanging personal data for various services</a>.  Rather,
they think they don't have a choice — that companies will get
the data anyway.
<p>
Here are 
<a href="media/5bfd1ebb.TradeoffFallacy_1.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.asc.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/TradeoffFallacy_1.pdf">more
details</a>.
<p>
Those despairing people are right in a narrow sense: refusing to use
one site, on one occasion, won't get them control of their data.  But
it is an error to conclude that it is hopeless to resist.  Rather, you
need to resist consistently — but that's not really hard.  I do
it, and you can do it.
<p>
Beyond individual resistance, we can organize to <em>require</em>
companies to respect our privacy, even to stop asking us for data.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 18_June_2015_(NSA_secretly_expands_internet_spying)
title: NSA secretly expands internet spying
uri: NSA-secretly-expands-internet-spying
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_June_2015_%28NSA_secretly_expands_internet_spying%29

content:
<p>
Hunting for [Crackers], N.S.A.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/hunting-for-hackers-nsa-secretly-expands-internet-spying-at-us-border.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1">Secretly
Expands Internet Spying</a> at U.S. Border.


title: Schools monitoring students' internet use
uri: Schools-monitoring-students-internet-use
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Schools_monitoring_students_internet_use)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Schools_monitoring_students_internet_use%29

content:
<p>
Some UK schools are already
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/10/schools-trial-anti-radicalisation-software-pupils-internet">monitoring
students' internet use</a> looking for signs of "radicalization".
<p>
Will this stop anyone from becoming a supporter of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI)">PISSI</a>?
That depends on whether they find an effective way to convince
students PISSI is wrong.
<p>
In the absence of an effective response, the monitoring will only
arouse resentment, and that could backfire entirely.
<p>
If they find an effective response, they could present it to everyone
and do without the monitoring.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Buying_votes_for_trade_treaties)
title: Buying votes for "trade treaties"
uri: Buying-votes-for-trade-treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Buying_votes_for_trade_treaties%29
content:
<p>
Obama is probably trying to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/06/12/vote-buying-corporate-trade-deals">buy
votes</a> for TPP the way Clinton did for NAFTA.


title: US blocking investigation of CIA torture
uri: US-blocking-investigation-of-CIA-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(US_blocking_investigation_of_CIA_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28US_blocking_investigation_of_CIA_torture%29

content:
<p>
The US is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/13/poland-cia-secret-prison-report">blocking
Poland from investigating</a> its own cooperation with CIA torture.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Racial_segregation_of_housing)
title: Racial segregation of housing
uri: Racial-segregation-of-housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Racial_segregation_of_housing%29
content:
<p>
Racial segregation of housing is now
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/13/texas-pool-party-incident-mckinney-housing-segregation-race">widespread
in the US</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Saudi_missile_in_Sanaa)
title: Saudi missile in Sana'a
uri: Saudi-missile-in-Sana-a
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Saudi_missile_in_Sanaa%29
content:
<p>
A Saudi missile knocked down three buildings in the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/air-strike-kills-five-sanaa-old-city-yemen">UNESCO-designated
old city of Sana'a</a>, without exploding.  Saudi Arabia claims its
allies were not the ones who did it.
<p>
Since the missile did not explode, I presume it can be seen right on
the spot.  Who can Saudi Arabia hope to fool?  Perhaps those who have
motivation to be fooled.


title: Australian senator wants fiction in law
uri: Australian-senator-wants-fiction-in-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Australian_senator_wants_fiction_in_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Australian_senator_wants_fiction_in_law%29

content:
<p>
An Australian senator
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/12/liberal-senator-wants-windfarm-inquiry-to-recognise-adverse-health-effects">wants
a law to recognize "adverse health effects" of wind turbines</a>,
although there is no evidence there are any such effects.
<p>
The advocates of roasting the Earth's biosphere have no respect for
truth.  They will use any and every fiction that serves their masters.


title: Canadian repression and surveillance bill
uri: Canadian-repression-and-surveillance-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Canadian_repression_and_surveillance_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Canadian_repression_and_surveillance_bill%29

content:
<p>
Canada's senate approved a vague
<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2015/06/11/canada-parliament-approves-slimy-spying-bill-privacy-and-free-expression">repression
and surveillance bill</a> which several parties have pledged to
repeal.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Myth_of_competing_with_China)
title: Myth of "competing with China"
uri: Myth-of-competing-with-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Myth_of_competing_with_China%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/jun/12/china-excuse-inaction-on-climate-change">Debunking</a>
the "competing with China" myth, which businesses outside China cite
as an excuse for mistreating workers, the environment, and anything
else more important than their profits.
<p>
Since the article focuses on curbing global heating, it does not
mention that the only reason western countries "need" to compete with
China in permitting mistreatment of workers is due to the business
supremacy treaties, starting with the World Trade Organization.  I
draw a different conclusion: we need to eliminate those treaties.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Japanese_subsidies_for_coal)
title: Japanese subsidies for coal
uri: Japanese-subsidies-for-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Japanese_subsidies_for_coal%29
content:
<p>
Japan
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/12/oecd-talks-to-phase-out-coal-subsidies-end-in-stalemate">killed
a proposed agreement to end subsidies for coal</a>.
<p>
Other countries should do this alone.  Japan won't replace whatever
subsidies they end, so the result will be good even if not as good
as possible.  Digging for coal is digging civilization's grave!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Islamic_repression_of_womens_rights)
title: Islamic repression of women's rights
uri: Islamic-repression-of-women-s-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Islamic_repression_of_womens_rights%29

content:
<p>
Mona Eltahawy links Islamic repression of women's rights to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/12/headscarves-and-hymens-why-the-middle-east-needs-a-sexual-revolution-mona-eltahawy-review">physical
and sexual abuse of women</a>.
<p>
I second her call for Muslim women to refuse to wear headscarves,
because they symbolize the aspects of Islam that repress and abuse
women.  In the west, at least, it is safe to do this, and it promotes
an important cause.


title: US prisons limit women's access to tampons
uri: US-prisons-limit-women-s-access-to-tampons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(US_prisons_limit_womens_access_to_tampons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28US_prisons_limit_womens_access_to_tampons%29

content:
<p>
US prisons
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/prisons-menstrual-pads-humiliate-women-violate-rights">limit
women's access to tampons</a>, as a way to humiliate them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(NSA_backdoor_searches)
title: NSA backdoor searches
uri: NSA-backdoor-searches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28NSA_backdoor_searches%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/12/house-hopes-provision-close-surveillance-loophole-will-survive-time/">NSA
Backdoor Searches Would End if House Amendment Survives</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(People_on_trial_for_protesting)
title: People on trial for protesting
uri: People-on-trial-for-protesting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28People_on_trial_for_protesting%29
content:
<p>
Egypt continues putting people on trial simply for protesting on the
street,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jun/12/witnesses-shaimaa-al-sabbagh-killing-court-cairo-egypt-azza-soliman">even
for witnessing a protest</a>.


title: Iranian activists sentenced to prison
uri: Iranian-activists-sentenced-to-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Iranian_activists_sentenced_to_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Iranian_activists_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
Three Iranian activists were sentenced to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/activists-and-artist-iran-given-heavy-jail-sentences-courts">long
prison terms</a> for their publications and activism, including
insulting the supreme ayatollah.
<p>
The tactic of charging several different crimes for the same act was
borrowed from the US, where it has been used against
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_(Convictions_against_Bradley_Manning)">Bradley/Chelsea
Manning</a> and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#15_January_2013_(US_attorneys_blamed_for_death_of_Aaron_Swartz)">Aaron
Swartz</a> as well as many others.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Why_thugs_can_get_away_with_murder)
title: Why thugs can get away with murder
uri: Why-thugs-can-get-away-with-murder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Why_thugs_can_get_away_with_murder%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/12/tamir-rice-shooting-cleveland-justice-activists">designed
so thugs can get away with murder and a variety of lesser crimes</a>.


title: Film pulled due to gender discrimination
uri: Film-pulled-due-to-gender-discrimination
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Film_pulled_due_to_gender_discrimination)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Film_pulled_due_to_gender_discrimination%29

content:
<p>
The London Israeli film festival
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/12/women-only-screening-pulled-london-israeli-film-festival-rechy-elias">chose
to do without a film rather than exclude men from the showings</a>.
<p>
This decision is right, for two reasons.  First, because we cannot
tolerate gender discrimination in public theaters.  Second, because
the demand to exclude men is the reflection and symbol of the charedi
sect's repression of women.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Drivers_organize_against_Goober)
title: Drivers organize against Goober
uri: Drivers-organize-against-Goober
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Drivers_organize_against_Goober%29
content:
<p>
London drivers working for Goober are organizing a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/12/uber-drivers-threaten-rebellion-against-the-40bn-company">campaign
against the company</a>.
<p>
I call it "Goober" because it pays drivers peanuts, but the worst
thing about Uber is that it
<a href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">violates passengers'
privacy</a> by making them identify themselves.  It also requires
passengers to run nonfree software.  As long as either one of those is
the case, I will never use Goober, and I hope you reject it too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Proposed_corporate_supremacy_treaty)
title: Proposed corporate supremacy treaty
uri: Proposed-corporate-supremacy-treaty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Proposed_corporate_supremacy_treaty%29

content:
<p>
Rich countries want to use a proposed corporate supremacy treaty to
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/11/us-india-healthcare-msf-idUSKBN0OR1US20150611">make
India restrict generic drugs</a>.
<p>
This would kill thousands or perhaps even millions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Control_of_academic_publishing)
title: Control of academic publishing
uri: Control-of-academic-publishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Control_of_academic_publishing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20150610-five-companies-control-more-than-half-of-academic-publishing.html">Five
Companies Control More Than Half of Academic Publishing</a>.
<p>
An oligopoly falls short of monopoly but has harmful economic effects.
We need laws to prevent oligopolies and pressure the largest companies
in any market to split up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(US_subpoenas_Reason_magazine)
title: US subpoenas Reason magazine
uri: US-subpoenas-Reason-magazine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28US_subpoenas_Reason_magazine%29
content:
<p>
The US has
<a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-09/reason-magazine-subpoena-stomps-on-free-speech">subpoena'd
Reason magazine</a> for information about who posted comments that
expressed hatred for a judge.
<p>
Under US law, those comments are not threats and not illegal.
So it seems the subpoena is either an attempt to reduce freedom
of speech, or mere harassment.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Pervasive_structural_racism)
title: Pervasive structural racism
uri: Pervasive-structural-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Pervasive_structural_racism%29
content:
<p>
Killings of black people by thugs are the tip of an iceberg of
pervasive
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/black-people-killed-by-police-larger-structural-problem">structural
racism</a>.
<p>
Most blacks don't get shot at by thugs, but they all experience
frequent harassment, and intermediate levels of violence are common
enough.
<p>
The other group that US thugs hate enough to attack them gratuitously
is protesters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(France_demands_Google_censorship)
title: France demands Google censorship
uri: France-demands-Google-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28France_demands_Google_censorship%29
content:
<p>
France demands Google obey French "right to be forgotten"
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001106.html">world-wide</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 19_June_2015_(Koch_brothers_lobbying)
title: Koch brothers lobbying
uri: Koch-brothers-lobbying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_%28Koch_brothers_lobbying%29
content:
<p>
The Koch brothers are
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/12/emails-reveal-koch-industries-lobbying-weaken-derivatives-regulations-cozy-ties-regulators/">lobbying
to eliminate financial regulations that protect against another
financial crisis</a>.
<p>
A similar occurrence in 1998 (repeal of Glass-Steagall) paved the way
for the 2008 crisis.  The richest can generally profit from disasters,
as they did from 2008; Naomi Klein points out that they even
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_October_2014_(Euro-zone_austerity)">provoke
disasters</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_harmful_amendments)
title: Urgent: Oppose harmful amendments
uri: Urgent-Oppose-harmful-amendments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_harmful_amendments%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2928">call
on you congresscritter</a> to oppose amendments to harm wildlife
(wolves, sage grouse, elephants).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_fast_track)
title: Urgent: Oppose "fast track"
uri: 2015-06-20-Urgent-Oppose-fast-track
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fast_track%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=14928">call
on your congresscritter</a> to oppose "fast track" for the sake of the
environment.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Urgent:_Solar_power)
title: Urgent: Solar power
uri: Urgent-Solar-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Solar_power%29
content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/governor-baker-dont-let">call
on Governor Baker</a> to extend and expand incentives for installing
solar power.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_rights_of_children)
title: Urgent: Protect rights of children
uri: Urgent-Protect-rights-of-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_rights_of_children%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=39547">call
on your congresscritter</a> to sign the letter to Kerry about
protecting the rights of Palestinian children.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Freedom_of_speech)
title: Freedom of speech
uri: Freedom-of-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Freedom_of_speech%29
content:
<p>
Tony B'liar and the UK government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/06/tony-blair-freedom-of-speech-tolerance-intolerance">want
to ban views they consider "intolerant"</a>.  Islamists and Charlie
Hebdo would both be criminalized for "group libel".
<p>
The UK has already 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_(UK_libel_law)">narrowed
freedom of speech too far</a>.  Of course,
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/hrant-dink.html">France is even
worse</a>.


title: Saudi Arabia admits alliance with Israel
uri: Saudi-Arabia-admits-alliance-with-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Saudi_Arabia_admits_alliance_with_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Saudi_Arabia_admits_alliance_with_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/06/israels-clandestine-alliance-gulf-arab-states-going-public">admitted
its alliance</a> with Israel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Abolishing_debtors_prison)
title: Abolishing debtor's prison
uri: Abolishing-debtor-s-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Abolishing_debtors_prison%29
content:
<p>
One town near St Louis and Ferguson has made an agreement in US court
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/06/04/3666147/missouri-town-agrees-holding-people-jail-theyre-poor-violates-constitution/">not
to jail poor people because they can't pay a fine</a>.
<p>
I hope we don't have to establish this one town at a time across the
whole US.


title: Is the NSA transcribing our phone calls?
uri: Is-the-NSA-transcribing-our-phone-calls
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Is_the_NSA_transcribing_our_phone_calls)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Is_the_NSA_transcribing_our_phone_calls%29

content:
<p>
Americans, is the NSA transcribing all our phone calls?  
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/08/nsa-transcription-american-phone-calls/">We
can't find out</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(A_music_festival_to_stay_away_from)
title: A music festival to stay away from
uri: A-music-festival-to-stay-away-from
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28A_music_festival_to_stay_away_from%29

content:
<p>
A music festival in England subjects attendees to 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/11/download_festival_big_brother_playground_leicestershire_police/">face
recognition cameras and RFID tracking</a>.
<p>
Stay away!


title: ACLU suing to free Guantanamo prisoner
uri: ACLU-suing-to-free-Guantanamo-prisoner
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(ACLU_suing_to_free_Guantanamo_prisoner)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28ACLU_suing_to_free_Guantanamo_prisoner%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU is suing to get Mohamedou Ould Slahi released from
Guantanamo, but the Obama regime is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/10/despite-global-recognition-plight-guantanamos-best-selling-author-worsens">fighting
tooth and nail to keep him there</a>.  (Obama, how can you close the
Guantanamo prison if you don't let him out?)
<p>
Just to be cruel, it has taken away his books, photos, etc.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Urgent:_Fair_Elections_Now_Act)
title: Urgent: Fair Elections Now Act
uri: Urgent-Fair-Elections-Now-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Fair_Elections_Now_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: support the 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/survey_fena/">Fair
Elections Now Act</a>.
<p>
This would overwhelm billionaires' campaign donations with public
funds for all candidates that show a wide base of support.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_pro-ivory_amendment)
title: Urgent: Oppose pro-ivory amendment
uri: Urgent-Oppose-pro-ivory-amendment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_pro-ivory_amendment%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2923">call
on your congresscritter</a> to oppose the pro-ivory amendment.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Gun_control)
title: Gun control
uri: Gun-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Gun_control%29
content:
<p>
Since Connecticut adopted licensing requirements for handguns, in
1995, the 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/06/connecticut-gun-controls-estimated-to-have-cut-fatal-shootings-by-40/">rate
of gun killings has gone down by 40%</a> compared with what would be
expected by comparison with other states.
<p>
The reason why such research needs private funding is that the NRA has
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#27_February_2013_(NRA_No_Research_Allowed)">blocked
federal research funds for the effects of guns</a>.  The NRA would
rather that the public not get confirmation that gun control works.


title: Republicans propose teaching pseudo-science
uri: Republicans-propose-teaching-pseudo-science
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 20_June_2015_(Republicans_propose_teaching_pseudo-science)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#20_June_2015_%28Republicans_propose_teaching_pseudo-science%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in Idaho propose to use the bible for teaching
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/06/idaho-republicans-want-bible-in-schools-for-astronomy-biology-geology/">pseudo-astronomy
and pseudo-geology, as well as pseudo-biology</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_June_2015_(Urgent:_Insurance_coverage_for_women)
title: Urgent: Insurance coverage for women
uri: Urgent-Insurance-coverage-for-women
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Insurance_coverage_for_women%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://leftaction.com/action/insurance-womens-health">call on
insurance companies</a> to give women the legally required coverage.


title: Urgent: Coal plant greenhouse gas limits
uri: Urgent-Coal-plant-greenhouse-gas-limits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_June_2015_(Urgent:_Coal_plant_greenhouse_gas_limits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Coal_plant_greenhouse_gas_limits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3763">tell
the EPA</a> to stand firm behind the greenhouse gas limits for new
coal plants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_June_2015_(Rohingyas)
title: Rohingyas
uri: Rohingyas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_%28Rohingyas%29
content:
<p>
Bangladesh proposes to move Rohingyas to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/14/un-concern-at-bangladesh-plan-to-move-thousands-of-rohingya-to-flooded-island">an
"island" which exists only part of the time</a>.  Twice a day, at high
tide, it becomes ocean.
<p>
Since Rohingyas are of Bengali origin, Bangladesh ought to integrate
them.
<p>
Bangladesh suffers from severe and unsustainable population growth,
but Rohingya refugees are just a small part of that.  The country must
bring its birth rate down in any case.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_June_2015_(European_Games_in_Azerbaijan)
title: "European" Games in Azerbaijan
uri: European-Games-in-Azerbaijan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_%28European_Games_in_Azerbaijan%29
content:
<p>
Azeri human rights defender Emin Huseynov 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/14/swiss-fly-out-opposition-journalist-hiding-at-its-azerbaijan-embassy">found
refuge</a> in the Swiss embassy.  Now he has been allowed to go to
Switzerland.
<p>
It is no accident that the "European" Games are being held in a
tyrannical state near the border of Europe — and no accident
that the contestants don't talk and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/13/european-games-azerbaijan-athletes-not-role-models">probably
don't think about this</a>.
<p>
I have never considered sports or those who play them to be a model of
any kind.  It is silly to put so much effort into a struggle with
nothing important at stake, and for others to pay so much attention to
the outcome.  This article argues that high-level sports impose total
political censorship on the athletes while disconnecting them from
the political issues of life, so that they become unfit to participate
in democracy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_June_2015_(Clinton_endorses_DRM)
title: Clinton endorses DRM
uri: Clinton-endorses-DRM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_%28Clinton_endorses_DRM%29
content:
<p>
Clinton's campaign has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/13/hillary-clinton-spotify-playlist">published
a Spotify playlist</a>, in effect endorsing DRM, corporate
surveillance, and denying listeners 
<a href="https://stallman.org">the few rights that copyright law
leaves to them</a>.
<p>
Out, out, damned Spotify, and shame on Clinton.


title: Opposition to corrupt old order in Turkey
uri: Opposition-to-corrupt-old-order-in-Turkey
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_June_2015_(Opposition_to_corrupt_old_order_in_Turkey)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_%28Opposition_to_corrupt_old_order_in_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
The Islamist/authoritarian AK party in Turkey represents a channel for
opposition to a corrupt old order.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/14/turkey-election-nationalsim-secularism-sectarianism">The
progressive HDP</a> can also channel this resistance.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_June_2015_(Decline_of_several_penguin_species)
title: Decline of several penguin species
uri: Decline-of-several-penguin-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_%28Decline_of_several_penguin_species%29

content:
<p>
Scientist Ron Naveen has counted penguins in Antarctica for 30 years.
He says that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/14/antarctica-penguins-counting-global-warming">global
heating's effects are responsible</a> for the decline of several
species.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_June_2015_(Eritrean_refugees)
title: Eritrean refugees
uri: Eritrean-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_%28Eritrean_refugees%29
content:
<p>
European countries are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/13/un-fears-eu-secret-eritrea-deals-close-border">negotiating
to send Eritrean refugees back</a> to repression in Eritrea.
<p>
Unlike North Korea, Eritrea has no nuclear weapons.  How about asking
a neighboring country to arm Eritrean refugees to go back in and
change their regime?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_June_2015_(Report_of_the_killing_of_Tamir_Rice)
title: Report of the killing of Tamir Rice
uri: Report-of-the-killing-of-Tamir-Rice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_%28Report_of_the_killing_of_Tamir_Rice%29

content:
<p>
The investigation report of the killing of Tamir Rice has been
published.  The killer claims to have shouted a warning, but other
witnesses say the killer 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/13/tamir-rice-prosecutors-report-witnesses-contradict-police-officer">shot
before the warning</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 21_June_2015_(Jihadi_recruiters_proclaim_regret)
title: Jihadi recruiters proclaim regret
uri: Jihadi-recruiters-proclaim-regret
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_%28Jihadi_recruiters_proclaim_regret%29

content:
<p>
Pioneering jihadi recruiters proclaim their 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/13/godfather-of-british-jihadists-admits-we-opened-to-way-to-join-isis">regret
for having opened the path that now leads to PISSI</a>.
<p>
One says that the repressive nature of many Muslim families
contributes to alienating their children.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Charles_Clarke)
title: Charles Clarke
uri: Charles-Clarke
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Charles_Clarke%29
content:
<p>Thugs 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/17/claiming-to-smell-pot-airport-cops-seize">
stole Charles Clarke's life savings on the grounds</a>
 that his
"luggage smelled like pot".
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Republicans_get_money_from_poors)
title: Republicans get money from poors
uri: Republicans-get-money-from-poors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Republicans_get_money_from_poors%29
content:
<p>Michigan needs road repairs, so Republicans 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/16/1393727/-Michigan-Republicans-want-to-raise-taxes-on-the-poor-to-pay-for-road-repairs?detail=email">
turn to</a>
 the poor.
</p>
<p>Why get money from the people who have plenty?  Republicans
would always prefer to take from those who have little.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(OECD_study)
title: OECD study
uri: OECD-study
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28OECD_study%29
content:
<p>An OECD study 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/17/oecd-report-large-financial-banking-sectors-slow-growth-wider-inequality">
found</a>
 that growth in a country's banking sector is bad
for the country's overall economic growth.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Hong_Kong_Parliament)
title: Hong Kong Parliament
uri: Hong-Kong-Parliament
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Hong_Kong_Parliament%29
content:
<p>Hong Kong Parliament 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/18/hong-kong-parliament-defies-beijings-insistence-and-rejects-democracy-plan">
Defies</a>
 Beijing's Insistence And Rejects 'Democracy' Plan.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Multi-drug-resistant_bacteria)
title: Multi-drug-resistant bacteria
uri: Multi-drug-resistant-bacteria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Multi-drug-resistant_bacteria%29
content:
<p>Multi-drug-resistant bacteria, dangerous to humans, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/18/mrsa-superbug-in-supermarket-pork-raises-alarm-farming-risks">
has become common</a>

in meat in supermarkets in several countries — because the
farms
feed the cattle antibiotics.
</p>
<p>Having it on your skin won't hurt you ordinarily, but if you get cut,
or have surgery, you could be in trouble.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Ramadi's_fall)
title: Ramadi's fall
uri: Ramadi-s-fall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Ramadi%27s_fall%29
content:
<p>Reportedly the loss of Ramadi to PISSI 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/18/iraqi-commander-who-ordered-troops-to-withdraw-blamed-for-ramadis-fall">
occurred because a temporary
commander ordered</a>
 an unnecessary retreat.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Ukraine)
title: Ukraine
uri: 2015-06-22-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Ukraine%29
content:
<p>Ukraine is considering a bill to 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/ukraine-summary-of-attacks-on-media-11-09-2014,46265.html">
imprison people for spreading
"terrorist" ideology</a>
, by which they mean support for Putin, Russia or
the Russian-supported rebel groups.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Invalidated_massive_snooping_law)
title: Invalidated massive snooping law
uri: Invalidated-massive-snooping-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Invalidated_massive_snooping_law%29
content:
<p>Belgium's Constitutional Court 
<a href="https://edri.org/belgian-constitutional-court-rules-against-dataretention/">
invalidated</a>
 the country's massive
snooping law for people's phone records and internet contacts.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2015-06-22-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>2014 was the hottest year on record, but 2015 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jun/15/the-latest-global-temperature-data-are-breaking-records">
is beating</a>
 it so far.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Goldman_Sachs)
title: Goldman Sachs
uri: Goldman-Sachs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Goldman_Sachs%29
content:
<p>Goldman Sachs 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/you-dont-have-to-go-home-but-you-cant-work-here">
has told</a>
 interns not to work more than 15 hours a day.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Walmar's_tax-dodging)
title: Walmar's tax-dodging
uri: Walmar-s-tax-dodging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Walmar%27s_tax-dodging%29
content:
<p>Walmart's tax-dodging 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/damning-new-report-reveals-walmarts-elaborate-tax-dodging-scheme">
uses</a>
 78 "independent" companies in 15 countries
to declare income in places it is not taxed.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(War_in_Iraq)
title: War in Iraq
uri: War-in-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28War_in_Iraq%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/us-iraq-syria-military-isis-recruiting">
is having trouble recruiting</a>
 soldiers to train for the Iraqi
army; it is running at around 50% of the intended rate.
</p>
<p>This makes me wonder what the additional 400 US troops Obama just
sent to Iraq are doing.  Supposedly they were sent to assist in training
and advising the Iraqi army, but clearly there are more than enough US
troops for that already.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Air_surveillance)
title: Air surveillance
uri: Air-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Air_surveillance%29
content:
<p>A bipartisan bill proposes to require US federal agencies 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/17/bill-require-warrants-federal-aerial-surveillance/">
to get a warrant</a>

before they do air surveillance over the US.
</p>
<p>I hope the 25-mile
"border exception" does not apply to the US coasts;
if it does, most of the US's major cities will be left out.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(UK_cuts)
title: UK cuts
uri: UK-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28UK_cuts%29
content:
<p>UK cuts in support for independent living 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/17/learning-disabilities-rights-threatened-government-cuts-brian-rix-mencap">
will stop</a>
 many disabled people
from working, or even going out of the house.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Assange)
title: Assange
uri: Assange
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Assange%29
content:
<p>A Swedish court ordered the Swedish prosecutor to accept interviewing
Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy, but the prosecutor 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/17/julian-assange-says-swedish-prosecutor-is-reckless-for-scrapping-interview">
is trying
to delay</a>
 the interview as long as possible.
</p>
<p>This confirms what we already had plenty of reason to believe: the
prosecutor is more interested in messing up Assange's life than in the
charges against him.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Convicted_kept_in_prison)
title: Convicted kept in prison
uri: Convicted-kept-in-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Convicted_kept_in_prison%29
content:
<p>Minnesota 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/17/minnesota-sex-offender-treatment-program-unconstitutional">
has kept</a>
 700 convicted "sex offenders" in prison indefinitely
after their sentences ended.  A judge ruled that those who are unlikely
to commit crimes again must have a real chance of release.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Goober_drivers)
title: Goober drivers
uri: Goober-drivers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Goober_drivers%29
content:
<p>California has ruled that Goober drivers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/17/uber-drivers-are-employees-not-contractors-in-california-ruling">
are employees</a>
 of Goober.
</p>
<p>I am not sure what effects this will have; it may may require Uber
to pay them more than goobers (peanuts).  If it does, that is very
important.</p>
<p>But this ruling will do nothing about the wrong that Goober does to
passengers: requiring them to identify themselves, and to run
proprietary software on top of a portable tracking device (smartphone)
with a proprietary operating system.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Russia_and_China)
title: Russia and China
uri: Russia-and-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Russia_and_China%29
content:
<p>UK spooks 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/06/14/uk-spies-claim-russians-know-h.html">
say</a>
 Russia and China broke the encryption Snowden used,
then they claim they can't break it when terrorists use it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(ID_cards)
title: ID cards
uri: ID-cards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28ID_cards%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="https://medium.com/@kellyfetty/when-the-free-id-isn-t-free-5d7d23b07747">
has become rather repressive</a>
 for people without
government-issued ID cards.  They are required for too many things.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(William_McNeilly)
title: William McNeilly
uri: William-McNeilly
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28William_McNeilly%29
content:
<p>Whistleblower William McNeilly, who exposed dangerous insecurity in
the UK's nuclear missile submarines, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/17/trident-whistleblower-william-mcneilly-discharged-from-royal-navy">
was given a dishonourable discharge</a>
,
but he refuses to let the matter rest.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Texas_woman_cannot_vote)
title: Texas woman cannot vote
uri: Texas-woman-cannot-vote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Texas_woman_cannot_vote%29
content:
<p>Mary Lou Miller 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/15/1393438/--I-wanted-to-vote-says-101-year-old-woman-but-she-can-t-get-photo-ID?detail=email">
has been voting since 1934</a>
, but current Texas laws say
she cannot vote this year.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Great_Barrier_Reef)
title: Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2015-06-22-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Great_Barrier_Reef%29
content:
<p>Agricultural runoff 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/17/diseased-fish-confirm-damage-to-great-barrier-reef-ecosystem-say-scientists">
is damaging</a>
 the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem (as
it does many other waterways).
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Russia_and_China_got_leak_documents)
title: Russia and China got leak documents
uri: Russia-and-China-got-leak-documents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Russia_and_China_got_leak_documents%29

content:
<p>Bruce Schneier: Russia and China probably got the Snowden leak
documents, 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/06/course-china-russia-snowden-documents/">
but not from Snowden</a>
.  They may have got them directly out
of secret US systems.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Fast_Track)
title: Fast Track
uri: Fast-Track
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Fast_Track%29
content:
<p>Delay 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/16/delay-could-sink-fast-track-corporate-arm-twisting-not-over-yet">
Could Sink</a>
 Fast Track, But Corporate 'Arm-Twisting' Not Over Yet.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Wild_bees)
title: Wild bees
uri: Wild-bees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Wild_bees%29
content:
<p>Wild bees 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/17/bees-are-worth-billions-to-farmers-across-the-globe-study-suggests">
contribute billions of dollars</a>
 a year to human agriculture.
</p>
<p>Assignment of monetary value to natural ecosystems and their effects
is misleading because it imposes an assumed linearity of value:
the false 10% of the wild bees are worth 10% of the value of all of
them.</p>
<p>We could cope with loss of 10% of the world's total wild bee
population,
but loss of 100% of it would be a permanent catastrophe, far
more than 10
times as bad.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Face_recognition)
title: Face recognition
uri: 2015-06-22-Face-recognition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Face_recognition%29
content:
<p>US stores 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/06/retailers-want-to-be-able-to-scan-your-face-without-your-permission/">
demand the right to do face recognition without asking
permission</a>
, because they want to look for known (or alleged?)
shoplifters.
</p>
<p>That is a legitimate goal, so here is a way to provide for it
while preserving our privacy.</p>
<p>The state can provide a list of photos of convicted shoplifters, and
legally authorize taking photos and comparing them with <em>this</em>
list <em>only</em>, and the store must delete them immediately if they
don't match.  Furthermore, the cameras and computers that do this must
have no connection to any network (because otherwise the US, China,
Russia and 50 other governments will crack in and collect them all),
only an I/O device to signal "alarm" with a communication bit rate of
1 bit per second.</p>
<p>The idea seems pretty obvious to me.  I can't be the first to think of
it.  I wonder, was it proposed in these meetings?</p>
<p>I get the impression that the store companies really want more than to
recognize shoplifters, and they are using that as an excuse to get
more.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Bulent_Kenes)
title: Bulent Kenes
uri: Bulent-Kenes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Bulent_Kenes%29
content:
<p>Turkish editor Bulent Kenes 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/turkish-newspaper-editor-sentenced-for-insulting-president-recep-erdogan">
was convicted of "insulting the
president"</a>
.  He suggested that the president's mother would be ashamed
of his official actions if she were alive.
</p>
<p>I know nothing about the political views she had, but I think every
Turkish citizen ought to be ashamed of President Erdo&gbreve;an for
prosecuting editors for expressing their opinions.  The people of
Turkey deserve human rights.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Australian_army_dishonesty)
title: Australian army dishonesty
uri: Australian-army-dishonesty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Australian_army_dishonesty%29
content:
<p>Indonesia angrily 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/indonesia-accuses-australia-of-bribing-people-smugglers">
presented proof</a>
 that the Australian navy paid
smugglers to turn around,
just after Abbott, the suppository of all dishonesty, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/16/tony-abbott-accuses-media-of-promoting-discord-with-indonesia">
said the media
were fussing</a>
 about a nonexistent dispute with Indonesia.
</p>
<p>Abbott must be taking lessons from Dubya in disregarding the
reality-based community.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Nauru's_government)
title: Nauru's government
uri: Nauru-s-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Nauru%27s_government%29
content:
<p>The sick joke of Nauru's government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/nauruan-opposition-mp-taken-off-flight-and-prevented-from-leaving-country">
is getting</a>
 even sicker: an
opposition MP tried to leave the country, and thugs took him off a
plane and told him his valid passport was no longer valid.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Privatized_prisons)
title: Privatized prisons
uri: 2015-06-22-Privatized-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Privatized_prisons%29
content:
<p>Privatized prisons make excuses to keep prisoners incarcerated longer,
because 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/private-prisons-profit">
that's what they profit from</a>.
</p>
<p>They hurt the convicts, to no positive end, and they cost the public
money, so let's get rid of them.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(politic365)
title: politic365
uri: politic365
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28politic365%29
content:
<p>The "news site" politic365 really presents news, but that's just to
provide credibility to its 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/17/media-outlet-communities-color-lashes-solar-power/">
campaigns against solar power and network
neutrality</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(EU_destroys_data_privacy)
title: EU destroys data privacy
uri: EU-destroys-data-privacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28EU_destroys_data_privacy%29
content:
<p>The EU 
<a href="https://edri.org/press-release-privacy-and-data-protection-under-threat-from-eu-council-agreement/">
proposes</a>
 "data privacy" law which will destroy data privacy and allow
businesses to abuse the public.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Privacy)
title: Privacy
uri: 2015-06-22-Privacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Privacy%29
content:
<p>Privacy activists 
<a href="http://www.kswo.com/story/29327586/push-for-privacy-standards-for-facial-recognition-faltersmnns">
walked out</a>
 of a US government forum on regulating
business use of face recognition on the public, saying that it was
on the side of businesses that want to track people.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Bankruptcy_law_for_countries)
title: Bankruptcy law for countries
uri: Bankruptcy-law-for-countries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Bankruptcy_law_for_countries%29
content:
<p>Stiglitz: the world 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/16/sovereign-debt-needs-international-supervision">
needs a bankruptcy law</a>
 for countries.
</p>
<p>This is not only so that countries can get out of unpayable debts, but
to
discourage predatory lending that encourages corrupt dictators to
borrow.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Border_Patrol_thugs)
title: Border Patrol thugs
uri: Border-Patrol-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Border_Patrol_thugs%29
content:
<p>US Border Patrol thugs 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/15/border-patrol-reveals-culture-impunity-agents-cleared-dozens-killings">
kill both foreigners and US citizens</a>
, and don't
get punished even for the grossest wrongs.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Dominican_Republic)
title: Dominican Republic
uri: Dominican-Republic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Dominican_Republic%29
content:
<p>The Dominican Republic 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/16/dominican-republic-haiti-deportation-residency-permits">
plans</a>
 to deport everyone of Haitian origin,
since they can't prove they were born in the D.R.
</p>
<p>Since these people are not Haitian citizens, I wonder why Haiti will
let them in.</p>
<p>The motive for this mass expulsion 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/14/1393198/-Dominican-Republic-to-be-Socially-Cleaned-in-two-days?detail=email">
is racism</a>
, which extends to
the point where the government condones lynching.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Trans_fats)
title: Trans fats
uri: Trans-fats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Trans_fats%29
content:
<p>The US FDA 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/16/conservatives-obama-ban-trans-fats-american-freedom">
is proceeding</a>
 with a plan to mostly eliminate trans fats
from foods in the US.
</p>
<p>It would be an injustice to try to ban eating or cooking with trans
fats (or with sugar); however, regulating their use in processed food
products, or in restaurants dishes where currently you would not
easily find out they are used, is legitimate.</p>
<p>I wonder whether french fries can be made without trans fats,
and whether they would be equally unpalatable.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Nintendo_seizes_piratede_cookies)
title: Nintendo seizes "piratede" cookies
uri: Nintendo-seizes-piratede-cookies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Nintendo_seizes_piratede_cookies%29
content:
<p>Nintendo 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-seizes-pirated-cookies-to-protect-fans-150614/">
Seizes</a>
 "Pirated" Cookies to Protect Fans.
</p>
<p>Supposedly these cookies are dangerous to people's health because they
infringe copyright.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Kurds_take_town_from_PISSI)
title: Kurds take town from PISSI
uri: Kurds-take-town-from-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Kurds_take_town_from_PISSI%29
content:
<p>Kurds, together with some (I presume) Arab Syrian rebels, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/16/kurdish-fighters-cut-key-supply-line-to-islamic-state-capital-raqqa">
are taking
a town from PISSI</a>
.
</p>
<p>The article suggests that supplies flow to PISSI over the Turkish
border through the town of Tal Abyad, and now the route is cut.  That
seems like good news, but it is fishy that Turkey allows these
supplies to go to PISSI.  If the Kurds can block them, Turkey can
surely block them.</p>
<p>As regards Kurds in Turkey, I think that the HD party's electoral
success in Turkey will offer Turkish Kurds an attractive peaceful
democratic path towards equal rights.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Tamir_Rice)
title: Tamir Rice
uri: Tamir-Rice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Tamir_Rice%29
content:
<p>"Associated Press 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/13/1393066/-Associated-Press-publishes-hit-job-on-Tamir-Rice?detail=email">
Publishes</a>
 Hit Job on Tamir Rice."
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Greenhouse_gas_commitments)
title: Greenhouse gas commitments
uri: Greenhouse-gas-commitments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Greenhouse_gas_commitments%29
content:
<p>Current greenhouse gas commitments are way 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/15/fight-against-global-warming-world-way-target">
insufficient</a>
 to prevent
global heating disaster, says the International Energy Agency.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Facebook)
title: Facebook
uri: 2015-06-22-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Facebook%29
content:
<p>Facebook 
<a href="http://fortune.com/2015/06/15/facebook-news-censorship/">
deletes postings</a>
 for obscure reasons, and even denies
deleting them.  It is not safe as a platform for journalism.
</p>
<p>By the way, I cannot understand why people make a fuss about just how
they find out that someone they loved is dead.  Compared to the fact
of that person's death, such those details seem insignificant.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Force-feeding_of_hunger)
title: Force-feeding of hunger
uri: Force-feeding-of-hunger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Force-feeding_of_hunger%29
content:
<p>Israel 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/15/inspired-us-israel-moves-toward-legalizing-torture-palestinian-prisoners">
is working on legalizing</a>
 force-feeding of hunger striking prisoners,
and says this is imitation of the US.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Canada's_government)
title: Canada's government
uri: Canada-s-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Canada%27s_government%29
content:
<p>Canada's right-wing government 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/15/harpers-voter-suppression-plan-coming-soon-polling-station-near-you">
is applying</a>
 Republican-style voter ID to rig
the coming election.
It has also made it harder to investigate the sabotage that may have
made the difference in the previous election.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Thugs)
title: Thugs
uri: 2015-06-22-Thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Thugs%29
content:
<p>Why are there so many thugs, and so few police officers?  Because
thugs 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/12/1392688/-So-this-is-why-we-don-t-get-to-hear-about-good-cops?detail=email">
punish</a>
 anyone that shows concern over killing the innocent.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Publication_of_scientific_articles)
title: Publication of scientific articles
uri: Publication-of-scientific-articles
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Publication_of_scientific_articles%29

content:
<p>In most scientific fields, five companies 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/06/web-will-either-kill-science-journals-save/">
control</a>
 most publication of
articles.
</p>
<p>We need to get rid of these companies, for the sake of science.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Biofuels)
title: Biofuels
uri: 2015-06-22-Biofuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Biofuels%29
content:
<p>Obama put 4 billion dollars towards 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/16/obama-administration-clean-energy-investment-initiative">
financing</a>
 advance in renewable
energy.
</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this may include biofuels.  Biofuel in the US means
ethanol made using petrolium-based fertilizer, which is not really
renewable and doesn't reduce greenhouse emissions.</p>
<p>Renewable energy competes with fossil fuels.  Removing 4 billion
dollars
of subsidy from fossil fuels would be almost equivalent to 4 billion
in
support for renewable energy.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(UK_social_stratification)
title: UK social stratification
uri: UK-social-stratification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28UK_social_stratification%29
content:
<p>The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/15/posh-test-privately-educated-war-pros-and-cons-pass">
has returned</a>
 to social stratification almost impossible for a
non-wealthy child to overcome.
</p>
<p>I conjecture that part of the cause is that the Labour Party ceased,
over 20 years ago, to try to represent the working class.  When rich
people encouraged changes to ensure their children would dominate
other children, no one had the power to prevent it.</p>
<p>However, industrial globalization probably contributed too.</p>
<p>A similar development has occurred in the US, but some details are
different.  For instance, it is based on wealth rather than class.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Nauru)
title: Nauru
uri: 2015-06-22-Nauru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Nauru%29
content:
<p>An opposition member of Nauru's parliament 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/16/nauru-opposition-mp-arrested-after-anti-government-protest-outside-parliament">
was arrested</a>
 for protesting
outside Parliament.
The protest was about apparent corruption of the president and the
justice minister.</p>
<p>The opposition MP may be imprisoned for ten years for this protest.
However, perhaps the government will sentence him to two or three
years and claim to be "merciful".</p>
<p>To this sick joke of a government, Abbott, suppository of all misrule,
has handed the responsibility for imprisoning people for trying to
flee by boat to Australia.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Melting_of_the_ice_caps)
title: Melting of the ice caps
uri: Melting-of-the-ice-caps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Melting_of_the_ice_caps%29
content:
<p>Tidal gates 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jun/16/inside-venice-bid-hold-back-tide-sea-level-rise">
will protect</a>
 Venice from damage by the regular high tides.
</p>
<p>I am in favor, but if we keep melting Earth's ice caps, they will need
to put a dam around the lagoon — and much of Italy's coast.
Up to one meter of sea level rise is predicted for this century.
While the predictions usually stop in 2100, the melting would
continue.</p>
<p>Full melting of the ice caps would raise sea level by over 20
meters.
Will your home be under water?</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Sea_gulls)
title: Sea gulls
uri: Sea-gulls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Sea_gulls%29
content:
<p>Sea gulls 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2015/jun/16/councils-fear-losing-battle-against-vicious-urban-seagulls">
moving inland take over cities</a>
, attacking humans and other birds.
</p>
<p>How about using a quad-copter drone to destroy the nests?
Or perhaps to collect the eggs.  Do gull eggs taste good?</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 22_June_2015_(Merchants_of_Doubt)
title: Merchants of Doubt
uri: Merchants-of-Doubt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_%28Merchants_of_Doubt%29
content:
<p>An 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/06/12/meet-the-scientific-storytelle.html">
interview</a>
 with the makers of the documentary, Merchants of Doubt.
</p>
<p>Interestingly, it's not only the same <em>methods</em> that are 
used to deny the harm of one business practice after another.
Often the same <em>people</em> are hired to do these various
campaigns.</p>


