# articles

title: Urgent: Stop destruction of rainforest in Sumatra
uri: Urgent-Stop-destruction-of-rainforest-in-Sumatra
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_destruction_of_rainforest_in_Sumatra)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_destruction_of_rainforest_in_Sumatra%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1351">call 
on Asia Pacific Resources International Limited</a>
to stop destroying rainforest in Sumatra.
<p>
Previously such campaigns were directed against Asian Pulp and Paper.
Greenpeace says that company has agreed to stop destroying its parts
of the rainforest.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Syrian_Islamist_extremist_group)
title: Syrian Islamist extremist group
uri: Syrian-Islamist-extremist-group
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Syrian_Islamist_extremist_group%29
content:
<p>
The Syrian Islamist extremist group al Nusra is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/09-6">attracting 
fighters away from the non-Islamist rebels</a>. This is due to its
successes, which are in turn due to the arms it received from
countries such as Qatar.  The fighters joining al Nusra can probably
get better arms too.
<p>
Reportedly the US wants to attack al Nusra, but why did the US
not pressure Qatar into not arming al Nusra?
<p>
I don't think it is possible for any small intervention to
enable any other force to win in Syria.


title: Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> at levels from 3 million years ago
uri: Atmospheric-CO2-at-levels-from-3-million-years-ago
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Atmospheric_CO2_at_levels_from_3_million_years_ago)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Atmospheric_CO2_at_levels_from_3_million_years_ago%29

content:
<p>
The last time Earth had as much atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> as it has now
was <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/09/meteorite-crater-global-warming">3 
million years ago</a>, and it was 8C hotter than now.
<p>
Sea level was 40 meters higher (120 feet).  So if we don't get this
CO<sub>2</sub> out of the air, we're sunk!


title: Chilean marines convicted for disappearance of leftist priest
uri: Chilean-marines-convicted-for-disappearance-of-leftist-priest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Chilean_marines_convicted_for_disappearance_of_leftist_priest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Chilean_marines_convicted_for_disappearance_of_leftist_priest%29

content:
<p>
Two Chileans marines have been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/09/chilean-officers-reyes-lopez-guilty-murder-priest">convicted</a> 
for the disappearance of a leftist priest who was killed by Pinochet's
men.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(US_to_keep_nine_bases_in_Afghanistan)
title: US to keep nine bases in Afghanistan
uri: US-to-keep-nine-bases-in-Afghanistan
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28US_to_keep_nine_bases_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
The US won't keep permanent bases in Afghanistan, but will continue
to run <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/09/afghanistan-hamid-karzai-us-nine-bases-withdrawal">9 
bases</a> until hell freezes over.


title: Obama regime retroactively declare information secret
uri: Obama-regime-retroactively-declare-information-secret
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Obama_regime_retroactively_declare_information_secret)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Obama_regime_retroactively_declare_information_secret%29

content:
<p>
A common tactic in the Obama regime's war on whistleblowers is
to <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/print/224406">retroactively
declare information secret</a>, then prosecute the whistleblower for
disclosing that.


title: Tory historians whitewash racism, violence and torture
uri: Tory-historians-whitewash-racism-violence-and-torture
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Tory_historians_whitewash_racism,_violence_and_torture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Tory_historians_whitewash_racism%2C_violence_and_torture%29

content:
<p>
Tory historians are trying to whitewash the racism, violence and
torture of
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/08/britain-imperial-myth-repackaging-fantasy">British
empire.</a>


title: Privately imposed labor standards don't do the job
uri: Privately-imposed-labor-standards-don-t-do-the-job
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Privately_imposed_labor_standards_don't_do_the_job)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Privately_imposed_labor_standards_don%27t_do_the_job%29

content:
<p>
An academic who studies the effect of privately imposed labor
standards says
that <a href="http://web.mit.edu/polisci/rlocke/publications/books/labor-standards.html">they
don't do the job</a>: workers need the support of governments.
<p>
Progressives promote the privately imposed standards approach because
the globalization "free trade" led governments to effectively abandon
their workers to the mercy of the plutocrats.  Of course, progressives
fight against free exploitation treaties too, but so far the only one
we have (mostly) defeated was ACTA.
<p>
Alas, the private standards are often not really enforced.  This study
shows we need to end "free trade" as a system, so that governments go
back to serving the people instead of foreign business.


title: Assata Shakur labeled as a terrorist by FBI
uri: Assata-Shakur-labeled-as-a-terrorist-by-FBI
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Assata_Shakur_labeled_as_a_terrorist_by_FBI)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Assata_Shakur_labeled_as_a_terrorist_by_FBI%29

content:
<p>
Assata Shakur was convicted of murdering a thug, though someone else
killed him, but she escaped and received asylum in Cuba.  Now the FBI
has <a href="http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2013/05/06/obama_fbi_re-image_bombers_into_face_of_black_woman">labeled
her as a "terrorist".</a>
<p>
It appears Shakur wanted to launch a rebellion of US blacks.  I don't
support that cause, but rebellion is not terrorism.  She may have
committed violent crimes; if so, that doesn't excuse the dishonest
effort to pin other crimes on her, or shooting her when she had her
hands up, or falsely claiming she then fired a gun (it's probably
false given her wounds made her unable to even try).


title: US military pervaded by attitude that encourages and excuses rape
uri: US-military-pervaded-by-attitude-that-encourages-and-excuses-rape
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(US_military_pervaded_by_attitude_that_encourages_and_excuses_rape)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28US_military_pervaded_by_attitude_that_encourages_and_excuses_rape%29

content:
<p>
The US military is pervaded by an attitude
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/09">encourages
and excuses rape.</a> Hardly anyone accused is prosecuted. Since
soldiers can get away with rape through influence with their
commanders, it is not a big surprise that the officer in charge of the
Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office was arrested
for sexual assault.  He assumed he could get away with it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(UK_trying_to_destroy_NHS)
title: UK trying to destroy NHS
uri: UK-trying-to-destroy-NHS
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28UK_trying_to_destroy_NHS%29
content:
<p>
The UK
government, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/09/demand-a-and-e-out-of-control">trying
to destroy the National Health Service</a>, has cut preventive and
home care; the result is so many emergency cases that the system can't
cope.


title: 3d printed guns could shatter when fired
uri: 3d-printed-guns-could-shatter-when-fired
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(3d_printed_guns_could_shatter_when_fired)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%283d_printed_guns_could_shatter_when_fired%29

content:
<p>
3d-printed
guns <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/09/3d-printed-guns-user">could
shatter when fired,</a> and kill the person that fired them.


title: NYT gives full backing to claims that Assad used chemical weapons
uri: NYT-gives-full-backing-to-claims-that-Assad-used-chemical-weapons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(NYT_gives_full_backing_to_claims_that_Assad_used_chemical_weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28NYT_gives_full_backing_to_claims_that_Assad_used_chemical_weapons%29

content:
<p>
The New York Times gives
its <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/08-6">full
backing to uncertain claims that Assad used chemical weapons,</a> just
as it did to Dubya's claims that Saddam had chemical weapons.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Earth_sciences_lab_funded_by_Shell)
title: Earth sciences lab funded by Shell
uri: Earth-sciences-lab-funded-by-Shell
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Earth_sciences_lab_funded_by_Shell%29
content:
<p>
An <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/08/oxford-shell-earth-sciences-protest">"earth
sciences"</a> lab at Oxford, funded by Shell, could be a pathway for
Shell to corrupt climate science.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Campaigners_face_threats)
title: Campaigners face threats
uri: Campaigners-face-threats
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Campaigners_face_threats%29
content:
<p>
Campaigners against female genital
mutilation <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/08/female-genital-mutilation-death-intimidation">face
threats from people in their communities</a> that want to keep the
practice secret.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Fire_in_Bangladesh_factory)
title: Fire in Bangladesh factory
uri: Fire-in-Bangladesh-factory
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Fire_in_Bangladesh_factory%29
content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/09/deadly-clothing-factory-fire-bangladesh">fire
in a Bangladesh clothing factory</a> killed only 8 people because it
occurred when not many were at work.
<p>
By contrast, the Boston bombing killed only 3 people, though several
others were permanently injured.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(China_investing_in_education)
title: China investing in education
uri: China-investing-in-education
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28China_investing_in_education%29
content:
<p>
China
is <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17585201">investing in
education,</a> and working hard so that everyone does well, not just
the smartest students.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Expensive_food_imports)
title: Expensive food imports
uri: Expensive-food-imports
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Expensive_food_imports%29
content:
<p>
Half the world's population could be dependent
on <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/08-3">expensive
food imports by 2050.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Keystone_XL_pipeline)
title: Keystone XL pipeline
uri: Keystone-XL-pipeline
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Keystone_XL_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
In effect, a 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/16050-tar-sands-will-be-piped-to-the-gulf-coast-with-or-without-the-northern-segment-of-keystone-xl">preliminary 
half-capacity Keystone XL pipeline</a> is already being hooked
together.
<p>
Sabotaging this pipeline would be morally and legally justified under
the principle of necessity — preventing a bigger crime.  Global
heating is 
<a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/25/climate-inaction-idINDEE88O0HH20120925">forecast 
to kill a hundred million people by 2030</a> (and larger numbers later
on).  This pipeline would not be the whole cause but it would be a
substantial cause — more than .01%.  If destroying the pipeline
prevents even .01% of those deaths, that would mean ten thousand lives
saved.  Surely that would be enough to justify the action.


title: Spain rejects Swiss request to extradite Herve Falciani
uri: Spain-rejects-Swiss-request-to-extradite-Herve-Falciani
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Spain_rejects_Swiss_request_to_extradite_Herve_Falciani)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Spain_rejects_Swiss_request_to_extradite_Herve_Falciani%29

content:
<p>
Spain has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/08/hsbc-tax-extradition-herve-falciani">rejected</a> 
the Swiss request to extradite Herve Falciani, who leaked the "Lagarde
list" of possible tax evaders.


title: Death toll from Bangladesh factory collapse
uri: Death-toll-from-Bangladesh-factory-collapse
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Death_toll_from_Bangladesh_factory_collapse)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Death_toll_from_Bangladesh_factory_collapse%29

content:
<p>
The death toll from the Bangladesh factory collapse was 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/08/bangladesh-factory-collapse-death-toll">over 
800</a>.
<p>
I suppose there were also many serious injuries, but I have not seen
figures.
<p>
By comparison, the Boston bombings were a minor thing.


title: Thugs arrest activists seeking disclosure of Chinese officials' assets
uri: Thugs-arrest-activists-seeking-disclosure-of-Chinese-officials-assets
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Thugs_arrest_activists_seeking_disclosure_of_Chinese_officials_assets)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Thugs_arrest_activists_seeking_disclosure_of_Chinese_officials_assets%29

content:
<p>
Chinese thugs 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/08/china-detains-activist-liu-ping">arrested</a> 
activists campaigning for officials to disclose their assets.


title: Whistleblower Ellsberg supports Manning at SF Pride Board meeting
uri: Whistleblower-Ellsberg-supports-Manning-at-SF-Pride-Board-meeting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Whistleblower_Ellsberg_supports_Manning_at_SF_Pride_Board_meeting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Whistleblower_Ellsberg_supports_Manning_at_SF_Pride_Board_meeting%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/08-2">Whistleblower 
Ellsberg to SF Pride: Manning Should be Lauded as "Hero That He Is"</a>.


title: Chinese Mines Pollute Tibet's Rivers, Streams
uri: Chinese-Mines-Pollute-Tibet-s-Rivers-Streams
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Chinese_Mines_Pollute_Tibets_Rivers_Streams)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Chinese_Mines_Pollute_Tibets_Rivers_Streams%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/mines-05062013154914.html">Chinese Mines Pollute Tibet's Rivers, Streams</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(US_stock_market)
title: US stock market
uri: US-stock-market
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28US_stock_market%29
content:
<p>
The US stock market is zooming, although for most Americans there is
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/07/dow-jones-new-high-15000">no 
recovery</a>.
<p>
This demonstrates that the US stock market is no measure of how the
real economy is doing.  It may be the other way around: the sequester
cuts that will shaft most Americans could be boosting stocks because
they are good for the plutocrats.


title: Israeli thugs arrest family for complaining about trespassers
uri: Israeli-thugs-arrest-family-for-complaining-about-trespassers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Israeli_thugs_arrest_family_for_complaining_about_trespassers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Israeli_thugs_arrest_family_for_complaining_about_trespassers%29

content:
<p>
The Zaro family complained to the Israeli thugs about 
"settlers" who repeatedly trespassed on the family's land,
so the thugs <a href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20130430_arrest_of_a_zaro_family">arrested 
the family</a>.


title: Israel bars human rights defender from traveling
uri: Israel-bars-human-rights-defender-from-traveling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Israel_bars_human_rights_defender_from_traveling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Israel_bars_human_rights_defender_from_traveling%29

content:
<p>
Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin is 
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/press-release/lift-travel-ban-human-rights-defender">arbitrarily 
barred by Israel from traveling</a>, so he has been unable to travel
to receive an award in Denmark or to meet with Human Rights Watch in
New York.


title: Urgent: Inspections of US clothing brands' foreign factories
uri: Urgent-Inspections-of-US-clothing-brands-foreign-factories
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Urgent:_Inspections_of_US_clothing_brands_foreign_factories)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Inspections_of_US_clothing_brands_foreign_factories%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/crushed_to_make_our_clothes_dm_usa/">call 
on US clothing brands</a> to pay for inspections of foreign factories.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Cut_in_UK_budget_for_elderly_care)
title: Cut in UK budget for elderly care
uri: Cut-in-UK-budget-for-elderly-care
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Cut_in_UK_budget_for_elderly_care%29
content:
<p>
The UK budget for caring for old people has been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/08/social-care-chiefs-fear-system-collapse">cut 
by 20%</a> by the current government, which means people who need help
to do ordinary things won't get that help.


title: State of Georgia goes from extreme drought to floods
uri: State-of-Georgia-goes-from-extreme-drought-to-floods
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(State_of_Georgia_goes_from_extreme_drought_to_floods)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28State_of_Georgia_goes_from_extreme_drought_to_floods%29

content:
<p>
The State of Georgia has gone from 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/06/1969531/weather-whiplash-strikes-again-extreme-drought-to-flood-in-georgia/">extreme 
drought to floods</a>. These are two sides of the same global heating
coin.


title: Abstinence-based education teaches rape victims to feel worthless
uri: Abstinence-based-education-teaches-rape-victims-to-feel-worthless
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Abstinence-based_education_teaches_rape_victims_to_feel_worthless)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Abstinence-based_education_teaches_rape_victims_to_feel_worthless%29

content:
<p>
Elizabeth Smart found out how abstinence-based education 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/06/1967591/elizabeth-smart-abstinence-ed/">teaches
people to feel worthless</a> if they have been raped.
<p>
She dedicates herself to teaching kids that mistreatment by others has
no effect on their worth.


title: School principal fires security guards, puts money into art education
uri: School-principal-fires-security-guards-puts-money-into-art-education
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(School_principal_fires_security_guards_puts_money_into_art_education)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28School_principal_fires_security_guards_puts_money_into_art_education%29

content:
<p>
The principal of Orchard Gardens primary school fired the security
guards and
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/fck-you-nra-principal-fires-guards-expands-arts-and-sees-test-scores-soar">spent 
the money on art education</a>. The school improved academically, and
no longer has any apparent need for security guards.


title: School thug beats up and arrests student for falling asleep
uri: School-thug-beats-up-and-arrests-student-for-falling-asleep
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(School_thug_beats_up_and_arrests_student_for_falling_asleep)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28School_thug_beats_up_and_arrests_student_for_falling_asleep%29

content:
<p>
A school thug beat up Ashlynn Avery (she needed a cast afterward) and
then arrested her — for 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/diabetic-high-school-girl-beaten-police-officer-and-arrested-falling-asleep-class">falling 
asleep while waiting in a punishment room</a>.
<p>
I don't think the fact that she is diabetic makes a crucial
difference.  This treatment would be just as wrong if done to a
non-diabetic student.


title: China halts publication of magazine after exposé of forced labor camps
uri: China-halts-publication-of-magazine-after-exposé-of-forced-labor-camp
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(China_halts_publication_of_magazine_after_expose_of_forced_labor_camps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28China_halts_publication_of_magazine_after_expose_of_forced_labor_camps%29

content:
<p>
China is <a href="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/expose-05062013151906.html">blocking 
the next edition</a> of a magazine that published an exposé of
forced labor camps.


title: Opposition activists arrested in Afghanistan
uri: Opposition-activists-arrested-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Opposition_activists_arrested_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Opposition_activists_arrested_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
Opposition activists were 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/07/afghanistan-peaceful-protest-suppressed">arrested 
at a peaceful protest in Afghanistan</a>. That shows how well we have
done at giving Afghanistan freedom and democracy.


title: Saudi regime represses founders of human rights group
uri: Saudi-regime-represses-founders-of-human-rights-group
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Saudi_regime_represses_founders_of_human_rights_group)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Saudi_regime_represses_founders_of_human_rights_group%29

content:
<p>
The Saudi regime is 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/07/saudi-arabia-new-rights-group-facing-harassment">repressing</a> 
the founders of a new human rights group.


title: Algeria convicts human rights defender for handing out leaflets
uri: Algeria-convicts-human-rights-defender-for-handing-out-leaflets
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Algeria_convicts_human_rights_defender_for_handing_out_leaflets)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Algeria_convicts_human_rights_defender_for_handing_out_leaflets%29

content:
<p>
Algeria convicted a human rights defender of the "crime" of 
<a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news-item/algeria-new-law-on-associations-used-to-stifle-civil-society">handing
out leaflets criticizing unemployment</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Automated_license_plate_readers)
title: Automated license plate readers
uri: Automated-license-plate-readers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Automated_license_plate_readers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/alpr">Automated 
License Plate Readers Threaten Our Privacy</a>.
<p>
The UK has a network of license plate readers that track all motor
vehicle traffic in the country and make a complete dossier about each
vehicle.  The US does not say it is setting up such a network, and
maybe has no plan for a complete network, but the proliferating
automatic license plate readers have the effect of approximating one.
<p>
All automatic license plate readers, no matter who operates them,
should be required by law to ignore any plate that isn't on
a specific list.  And a plate should get on that list only by
court order.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(New_excuses_for_austerity)
title: New excuses for austerity
uri: New-excuses-for-austerity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28New_excuses_for_austerity%29
content:
<p>
The plutocrats' elected servants want austerity, so now that the
economic excuse they cited has been shown to be false, they invent
other <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/07-1">ridiculous 
excuses</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 09_May_2013_(Inflaming_sectarian_conflict)
title: Inflaming sectarian conflict
uri: Inflaming-sectarian-conflict
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_%28Inflaming_sectarian_conflict%29
content:
<p>
The Bush forces intentionally planned to keep Iraqi sects divided,
and the US may be 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/07-6">planning 
the same thing for Syria</a>.
<p>
That this had the effect of strengthening forces linked to al Qa'ida
was not considered a problem.


title: Zero Dark Thirty edited under direction of CIA
uri: Zero-Dark-Thirty-edited-under-direction-of-CIA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 08_May_2013_(Zero_Dark_Thirty_edited_under_direction_of_CIA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#08_May_2013_%28Zero_Dark_Thirty_edited_under_direction_of_CIA%29

content:
<p>
The torture-apology movie Zero Dark Thirty
was <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/05/07-1">edited
under the direction of the CIA.</a>


title: 1/4 of children in UK will live in poverty
uri: 1-4-of-children-in-UK-will-live-in-poverty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 08_May_2013_(1%2F4_of_children_in_UK_will_live_in_poverty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#08_May_2013_%281%252F4_of_children_in_UK_will_live_in_poverty%29

content:
<p>
A report predicts that 1/4 of the children in the UK in 2020
will <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/07/uk-children-poverty-2020-thinktank">live
in poverty,</a> thanks to cuts in aid to the poor.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 08_May_2013_(Obama_did_it_for_the_money)
title: Obama did it for the money
uri: Obama-did-it-for-the-money
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#08_May_2013_%28Obama_did_it_for_the_money%29
content:
<p>
Obama (and Pritzker) 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/07-0">did
it for the money.</a>


title: Urgent: Make large banks hold bigger reserves
uri: Urgent-Make-large-banks-hold-bigger-reserves
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 08_May_2013_(Urgent:_Make_large_banks_hold_bigger_reserves)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#08_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Make_large_banks_hold_bigger_reserves%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign this petition supporting the bill to make
<a href="http://pac.signon.org/sign/action%2Dits%2Dtime%2Dto%2Dend">large
banks hold bigger reserves.</a>
<p>
This does not go far enough — we need
to <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_April_2013_(Federal_banking_regulators)">break
up the big banks</a> — but it is a step in the right direction.


title: States and cities restrict discrimination
uri: States-and-cities-restrict-discrimination
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 08_May_2013_(States_and_cities_restrict_discrimination)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#08_May_2013_%28States_and_cities_restrict_discrimination%29

content:
<p>
Some states and cities
have <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/opinion/job-fairness-for-ex-offenders.html">restricted
discrimination</a> against people with a criminal record unrelated to
the job.
<p>
However, at the same time, there are many official forms of
discrimination against everyone with a criminal record, in employment,
education, and housing.


title: Selling technology product for less than cost
uri: Selling-technology-product-for-less-than-cost
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 08_May_2013_(Selling_technology_product_for_less_than_cost)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#08_May_2013_%28Selling_technology_product_for_less_than_cost%29

content:
<p>
The practice of selling a technology product for less than cost, and
making people pay the rest of the price over time through 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/may/07/mobile-phone-networks">tied
services</a>, is resented by users.
<p>
It is also a major obstacle to making the devices run free software,
because they are designed to require the user to use the specific
services tied to their sale, and proprietary software is what imposes
that restriction.
<p>
I hope users will resent this enough to start paying for the devices
all at once and insisting on control of them.


title: Bangladesh faces shortage of safe water to drink
uri: Bangladesh-faces-shortage-of-safe-water-to-drink
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 08_May_2013_(Bangladesh_faces_shortage_of_safe_water_to_drink)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#08_May_2013_%28Bangladesh_faces_shortage_of_safe_water_to_drink%29

content:
<p>
Bangladesh faces
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/may/07/safe-drinking-water-disappearing-bangladesh">shortage
of safe water to drink,</a> and the aquifers it uses are rapidly
emptying and will salt up with sea water. Meanwhile, global heating
has reduced the rainfall.
<p>
Part of the problem is caused by having too many children.  There are
limits to what is possible, and if they keep making the problem
bigger, they will sooner or later reach an impossible point.  There is
not much further to go.


title: Peace activists face 30 years in prison
uri: Peace-activists-face-30-years-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 08_May_2013_(Peace_activists_face_30_years_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#08_May_2013_%28Peace_activists_face_30_years_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
Peace activists who entered the Oak Ridge refined uranium storage
facility as a
protest <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2013/04/29/the-prophets-of-oak-ridge/">face
30 years in prison.</a>
<p>
I do not advocate unilateral nuclear disarmament for the US, but what
I have to say is independent of whether I agree with them.  It is
tyranny to punish peaceful protesters that way.
<p>
Partly this is to express resentment that they exposed weak security
that results from privatizing the security.
<p>
The single guard who was sent to investigate the intrusion was
scapegoated and fired, which caused him to lose his house.  Few
Americans don't work as guards in nuclear facilities, but many are in
the same vulnerable position, and that is the fault of government with
the wrong priorities.


title: Urgent: Confirm Gina McCarthy as head of EPA
uri: Urgent-Confirm-Gina-McCarthy-as-head-of-EPA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 08_May_2013_(Urgent:_Confirm_Gina_McCarthy_as_head_of_EPA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#08_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Confirm_Gina_McCarthy_as_head_of_EPA%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and ask them to confirm Gina McCarthy
as head of the
EPA. Also <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=3659">sign
this petition</a>, but a phone call carries more weight.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 08_May_2013_(Ocean_acidification)
title: Ocean acidification
uri: Ocean-acidification
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#08_May_2013_%28Ocean_acidification%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/07/arctic-threat-ocean-acidification">Ocean
acidification</a> (due to the CO<sub>2</sub> we pump into the air) can wipe out
brittle stars, as well as coral and crustaceans.
<p>
Islands in the western Pacific are expected
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/07/pacific-islands-global-warming-climate">lose
marine resources</a> due to this, as well as due to effects of global
heating.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Demanding_prosecution_of_atheists)
title: Demanding prosecution of atheists
uri: Demanding-prosecution-of-atheists
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Demanding_prosecution_of_atheists%29
content:
<p>
Protesters in Bangladesh, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/06/bangladesh-protest-violence-people-dead">demanding prosecution of "atheists"</a>, fought
with the thugs.
<p>
It appears the thugs attacked first, which is bad, even though the cause
these protesters support is pure injustice.
<p>
I suspect that the "atheists" are not really atheists, just secular,
but still deserve freedom of speech anyway.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Maimed_by_Pinochet's_torturers)
title: Maimed by Pinochet's torturers
uri: Maimed-by-Pinochet-s-torturers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Maimed_by_Pinochet%27s_torturers%29
content:
<p>
Leopoldo Garcia Lucero was <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/06/chile-americas">maimed by Pinochet's torturers;</a> his case
will be judged by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.


title: Boston bombings are not a reason for more surveillance
uri: Boston-bombings-are-not-a-reason-for-more-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Boston_bombings_are_not_a_reason_for_more_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Boston_bombings_are_not_a_reason_for_more_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The Boston bombings are not a reason for <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/after-tragedy-boston-more-government-surveillance-not-answer">more government surveillance.</a>


title: Privacy-invading potential of eye tracking technology
uri: Privacy-invading-potential-of-eye-tracking-technology
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Privacy-invading_potential_of_eye_tracking_technology)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Privacy-invading_potential_of_eye_tracking_technology%29

content:
<p>
The Privacy-Invading Potential of <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-free-speech-national-security/privacy-invading-potential-eye-tracking">Eye Tracking Technology.</a>


title: Unemployment form might violate your civil rights
uri: Unemployment-form-might-violate-your-civil-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Unemployment_form_might_violate_your_civil_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Unemployment_form_might_violate_your_civil_rights%29

content:
<p>
That Unemployment Form Might <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/16189-that-unemployment-form-might-violate-your-civil-rights">Violate Your Civil Rights.</a>


title: Streamlined inspections for fertilizer plant
uri: Streamlined-inspections-for-fertilizer-plant
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Streamlined_inspections_for_fertilizer_plant)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Streamlined_inspections_for_fertilizer_plant%29

content:
<p>
The Texas fertilizer plant that exploded benefited from a program
for <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/05/02/12601/retail-exemption-shields-some-fertilizer-facilities-stringent-safety-inspections">"streamlined"
inspections</a> (which turned out to mean none at all).


title: Journalist imprisoned due to request from Obama
uri: Journalist-imprisoned-due-to-request-from-Obama
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Journalist_imprisoned_due_to_request_from_Obama)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Journalist_imprisoned_due_to_request_from_Obama%29

content:
<p>
The US condemned repression of journalists, but didn't mention the
journalist imprisoned in Yemen due to
a <a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/03/no-press-freedom-for-those-who-aggressively-report-on-americas-dirty-wars/">request
from Obama.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(GOP_attacks_on_due_process)
title: GOP attacks on due process
uri: GOP-attacks-on-due-process
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28GOP_attacks_on_due_process%29
content:
<p>
What the Framing of a Terror Suspect Says
About <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/what-the-framing-of-a-terror-suspect-says-about-gop-attacks-on-due-process/275558/">GOP
Attacks on Due Process.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Rich_people_profit_from_austerity)
title: Rich people profit from austerity
uri: Rich-people-profit-from-austerity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Rich_people_profit_from_austerity%29
content:
<p>
Rich people want austerity because
they <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/06-1">profit
from it.</a>  Erroneous economics that supports austerity received
widespread acceptance because it gave the rich an excuse to pretend it
was good for others as well.
<p>
This demonstrates that money corrupts economics just as it does other
fields of science where money is at stake,
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#21_November_2012_(Drug_testing_funded_by_pharma_companies)">such
as medicine</a>
and <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#29_December_2012_(Big_business_money_corrupting_scientific_research)">public
health.</a>
<p>
Not everyone goes along with the
corruption. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/06/paul-krugman-battle-against-austerity">Paul
Krugman</a> champions economics that remembers what the banksters want
forgotten.
<p>
Citizens are right to distrust the politicians, but what the
politicians did wrong before was obey the banksters.  They let
banksters create bubbles and dangerous derivatives.  Now, with
austerity, they continue obeying the banksters.
<p>
We must support politicians that will treat the banksters as a threat
to society.  Of course, there are good ways to fight them and bad
ways; hurting the banksters is not a sufficient condition for a wise
policy.  However, it is a necessary condition.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Politics_of_envy)
title: Politics of envy
uri: Politics-of-envy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Politics_of_envy%29
content:
<p>
George Monbiot: 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/06/politics-envy-keenest-rich">Why 
the Politics of Envy Are Keenest Among the Very Rich</a>.


title: UK official backed plans to discredit tax whistleblower
uri: UK-official-backed-plans-to-discredit-tax-whistleblower
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(UK_official_backed_plans_to_discredit_tax_whistleblower)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28UK_official_backed_plans_to_discredit_tax_whistleblower%29

content:
<p>
A UK official supported a plan to discredit a tax whistleblower 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/06/goldman-sachs-tax-deal-gauke-mba">by 
telling lies to the press</a>.


title: Mexican journalist's sons murdered by gunmen
uri: Mexican-journalist-s-sons-murdered-by-gunmen
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Mexican_journalists_sons_murdered_by_gunmen)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Mexican_journalists_sons_murdered_by_gunmen%29

content:
<p>
A Mexican journalist's sons were 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/06/mexican-journalists-sons-killed-chihuahua">murdered 
by gunmen</a> who chased them in a car.
<p>
It is unusual to kill a journalist's relatives instead of the journalist.
Maybe it had nothing to do with their parents.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Protest_in_Moscow)
title: Protest in Moscow
uri: Protest-in-Moscow
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Protest_in_Moscow%29
content:
<p>
Around 20,000 protested in Moscow, demanding the release of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/06/russian-protesters-call-release-prisoners">political
prisoners who protested a year ago</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Birth_control)
title: Birth control
uri: Birth-control
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Birth_control%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/06-2">Time To Demand 
All Birth Control Pills Be Sold Over-The-Counter</a>.
<p>
I agree, as far as that goes, but daily birth control pills are not
the modern reliable method of birth control.  We need to focus on
encouraging the use of the more effective forms — and a major
barrier to their use is the expense.


title: Discriminatory laws against Ahmadis in Pakistan
uri: Discriminatory-laws-against-Ahmadis-in-Pakistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Discriminatory_laws_against_Ahmadis_in_Pakistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Discriminatory_laws_against_Ahmadis_in_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
The four million Ahmadis in Pakistan are 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/06/pakistan-election-ahmadi-votes">effectively 
excluded from politics</a> by discriminatory laws, and face execution
for blasphemy if they make a misstep.
<p>
It is rather strange to claim to be a Muslim while denying one of the
principal tenets of Islam, like claiming to be a Christian and saying
Jesus never lived.  But Christianity and Islam are full of claims that
are hardly rational, and religious freedom includes the freedom to
believe any or all of them.  Islamic governments generally 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#19_February_2013_(Libya_threatens_foreign_Christians_with_execution)">do 
not respect people's religious freedom</a>, and Pakistan is one of the
worst.
<p>
This is why Pakistan is on my list of countries I would not visit.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Sallie_Mae)
title: Sallie Mae
uri: Sallie-Mae
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Sallie_Mae%29
content:
<p>
Most Americans think of Sallie Mae as a government institution.  It
was one.  Now it is a 
<a href="media/deef3cd6.Sallie20Mae20Top2010.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.jwj.org/sites/jwj.org/files/resources/Sallie%20Mae%20Top%2010.pdf">privately-run 
bank</a> which is nasty to the students that have borrowed, and is a
member of ALEC.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Jihadis_sponsored_by_the_CIA)
title: Jihadis sponsored by the CIA
uri: Jihadis-sponsored-by-the-CIA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Jihadis_sponsored_by_the_CIA%29
content:
<p>
The Tsarnaev brothers may have got their inspiration from 
<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/palast-reports-from-kazakhstanfbi-spiked-chechen-jihadi-investigation/">jihadis
sponsored by the CIA</a> with the idea of weakening US rivals such as
Russia.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Public_defender_system_understaffed)
title: Public defender system understaffed
uri: Public-defender-system-understaffed
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Public_defender_system_understaffed%29

content:
<p>
The US says that those accused of felonies must be given legal
representation, but the public defender system is so understaffed
that they 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/public-defenders-gideon-supreme-court-charts">cannot 
do an adequate job</a>.
<p>
Totally aside from problems with the legal system, it is absurd for
such things as putting your feet on a seat in a train to be prosecuted
as crimes at all.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Data_on_would-be_terrorists)
title: Data on would-be terrorists
uri: Data-on-would-be-terrorists
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Data_on_would-be_terrorists%29
content:
<p>
It is silly to expect the FBI to detect would-be terrorists, or to
criticize when it overlooks one, because the significance of the data
is <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/02/opinion/schneier-boston-bombing/index.html">not 
clear except in hindsight</a>.
<p>
"Trying harder" (by invading our freedom even more) would not make the
effort much more successful.
<p>
Fortunately, the casualty rate from terrorism in the US is so tiny
(compared with other causes of casualties) that "trying harder"
is not necessary.


title: Pesticide washed into sea bottom makes seafood unsafe to eat
uri: Pesticide-washed-into-sea-bottom-makes-seafood-unsafe-to-eat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 07_May_2013_(Pesticide_washed_into_sea_bottom_makes_seafood_unsafe_to_eat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#07_May_2013_%28Pesticide_washed_into_sea_bottom_makes_seafood_unsafe_to_eat%29

content:
<p>
A pesticide formerly used on bananas in Guadeloupe and Martinique has
washed into the sea bottom, and now makes seafood around the island
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/07/guadeloupe-economy-theatened-pesticides-pollution">unsafe t
o eat</a>.
<p>
It will remain unsafe for decades more.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Pinch-Penny_Pritzker)
title: Pinch-Penny Pritzker
uri: Pinch-Penny-Pritzker
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Pinch-Penny_Pritzker%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/billionaire-burglar-breaks-into-obamas-cabinet-pinch-penny-pritzker-pockets-commerce-post/">Billionaire Burglar Breaks into Obama's Cabinet</a>.


title: Proposed bill to repeal Authorization for Use of Military Force
uri: Proposed-bill-to-repeal-Authorization-for-Use-of-Military-Force
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Proposed_bill_to_repeal_authorization_for_use_of_military_force)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Proposed_bill_to_repeal_authorization_for_use_of_military_force%29

content:
<p>
Rep. Barbara Lee proposed a bill to 
<a href="http://lee.house.gov/press-release/barbara-lee-introduces-legislation-repeal-2001-authorization-use-military-force">repeal 
the Authorization for Use of Military Force</a>.
<p>
Some senators are also 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/05-3">reconsidering 
it</a>.


title: Protest in Paris against centrist policy
uri: Protest-in-Paris-against-centrist-policy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Protest_in_Paris_against_centrist_policy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Protest_in_Paris_against_centrist_policy%29

content:
<p>
200,000 protested in Paris to call on Hollande to replace his
centrist policy with a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/05-1">progressive policy</a>.


title: Public banking: alternative to US Federal Reserve
uri: Public-banking-alternative-to-US-Federal-Reserve
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Public_banking:_alternative_to_US_Federal_Reserve)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Public_banking%3A_alternative_to_US_Federal_Reserve%29

content:
<p>
Public banks, and other 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15781-remaking-the-federal-reserve-public-banks-and-opting-out-of-wall-street">alternatives</a> 
to the US Federal Reserve Bank.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(UN_army_sent_to_D.R._Congo)
title: UN army sent to D.R. Congo
uri: UN-army-sent-to-D-R-Congo
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28UN_army_sent_to_D.R._Congo%29
content:
<p>
A UN army has been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/05/un-force-democratic-republic-congo">sent 
to the D.R. Congo</a> to suppress a rebel army that commits
atrocities.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Russian_dissidents_face_prosecution)
title: Russian dissidents face prosecution
uri: Russian-dissidents-face-prosecution
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Russian_dissidents_face_prosecution%29

content:
<p>
Many Russian dissidents face prosecution 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/05/russia-anti-putin-protests-arrests">for 
protesting against Putin</a>.


title: 50-year coverup of British repression in Kenya exposed
uri: 50-year-coverup-of-British-repression-in-Kenya-exposed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(50-year_coverup_of_British_repression_in_Kenya_exposed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%2850-year_coverup_of_British_repression_in_Kenya_exposed%29

content:
<p>
A 50-year coverup of British repression in Kenya is being 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/05/kenyan-mau-mau-cover-up-mistreatment">exposed</a>.


title: Obama nominates wealthy bankster for Secretary of Commerce
uri: Obama-nominates-wealthy-bankster-for-Secretary-of-Commerce
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Obama_nominates_wealthy_bankster_for_Secretary_of_Commerce)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Obama_nominates_wealthy_bankster_for_Secretary_of_Commerce%29

content:
<p>
Obama has nominated 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/02-0">wealthy 
bankster Penny Pritzker</a> as Secretary of Commerce.
<p>
She is also known for 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/02/obama-chicago-penny-pritzker-commerce">union-busting 
and closing public schools</a>.
<p>
For this Obama calls her a "distinguished business leader", perhaps
distinguished by how much she contributed to his campaigns.


title: Public banking: answer to artificial scarcity
uri: Public-banking-answer-to-artificial-scarcity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Public_banking_answer_to_artificial_scarcity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Public_banking_answer_to_artificial_scarcity%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://politicalcontext.org/blog/2013/04/public-banking-as-an-answer-to-artificial-scarcity/">Public 
Banking as an Answer to Artificial Scarcity</a>.


title: Companies fight to deny toxicity of chemicals used in products
uri: Companies-fight-to-deny-toxicity-of-chemicals-used-in-products
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Companies_fight_to_deny_toxicity_of_chemicals_used_in_products)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Companies_fight_to_deny_toxicity_of_chemicals_used_in_products%29

content:
<p>
Companies are fighting to deny the toxicity of chemicals
used in 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/lead-household-toxins-home">products 
we are all exposed to</a>, just as companies previously fought to deny
the toxicity of asbestos and lead.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Sweatshops)
title: Sweatshops
uri: Sweatshops
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Sweatshops%29
content:
<p>
Refuting the right-wing argument in favor of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/29/bangladesh-factory-tragedy-sweatshop-economics">sweatshops</a>.
<p>
I think the article concedes too much to that argument.  I agree that
safety standards should apply the same to all countries, but I don't
agree that replacing a high-wage job with a low-wage job is good
merely because the low-wage job is in Bangladesh.  That's a big loss
for one worker, and a tiny gain for another worker, and the difference
goes to the owners.
<p>
Companies that want to produce for the US in poor countries, and pay
less than US wages, should be required to pay considerably more than
the usual wage standards of those countries, as well as taxed for
doing this, so that most of the benefit goes to workers and only some
to the owners.


title: Prominent gay activists support Bradley Manning
uri: Prominent-gay-activists-support-Bradley-Manning
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Prominent_gay_activists_support_Bradley_Manning)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Prominent_gay_activists_support_Bradley_Manning%29

content:
<p>
Prominent gay activists have published an open letter in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/02-6">support for
Bradley Manning</a>.
<p>
For me, the fact that he is gay is a side issue.  He is a hero for
resisting tyranny.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Drone_attacks_and_Guantanamo)
title: Drone attacks and Guantanamo
uri: Drone-attacks-and-Guantanamo
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Drone_attacks_and_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
Dubya's assistant in regard to drone policy 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/02/us-drone-strikes-guantanamo">criticized 
Obama</a> for using drones to kill people rather that arresting them
and putting them in Guantanamo.
<p>
Killing people might be more humane than putting them in Guantanamo
for life, but why limit the choices to those two?  Outside of true war
zones, the right thing to do with someone suspected of planning
terrorism is to watch him until there is enough evidence to try him,
then arrest him and try him in a regular court.  No drones, no
Guantanamo.


title: Having children leads people to subordinate the future of society
uri: Having-children-leads-people-to-subordinate-the-future-of-society
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Having_children_leads_people_to_subordinate_the_future_of_society)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Having_children_leads_people_to_subordinate_the_future_of_society%29

content:
<p>
Having children typically leads people
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/05/niall-ferguson-wrong-child-free-care-less">subordinate
the future of society</a> to the success of their own offspring.
<p>
In other words, taking care of only your own family is just a kind of
selfishness.


title: Repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force
uri: Repeal-the-Authorization-for-Use-of-Military-Force
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Repeal_the_Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Repeal_the_Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force%29

content:
<p>
Congress needs
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/05/authorization-use-military-force-blank-check">repeal
the "Authorization for Use of Military Force"</a> that permitted Dubya
and then Obama to attack people around the world.


title: UN failed own recommendations for preventing cholera
uri: UN-failed-own-recommendations-for-preventing-cholera
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(UN_failed_own_recommendations_for_preventing_cholera)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28UN_failed_own_recommendations_for_preventing_cholera%29

content:
<p>
The UN, after bringing cholera to Haiti, has failed to carry out its
own recommendations
for <a href="http://physiciansforhaiti.org/2013/05/un-report-card/">preventing
that sort of UN gift</a> to other countries.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(News_sites_in_Malaysia_face_raids)
title: News sites in Malaysia face raids
uri: News-sites-in-Malaysia-face-raids
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28News_sites_in_Malaysia_face_raids%29
content:
<p>
Independent news sites in Malaysia face raids by thugs and blockage by
filters on the Internet, as well as the virtual equivalent of
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/04/uk-malaysia-election-online-idUKBRE94309G20130504">state-organized
"spontaneous protests".</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Privatized_prison_a_disaster)
title: Privatized prison a disaster
uri: Privatized-prison-a-disaster
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Privatized_prison_a_disaster%29
content:
<p>
A privatized prison in Ohio
has <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/eighteen-months-sometimes-deadly-screw-ups-ohio-must-get-out-profit-prison">become
a disaster.</a>
<p>
The company needs to make money somehow.


title: Ecuador moving to cancel trade treaty with US
uri: Ecuador-moving-to-cancel-trade-treaty-with-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Ecuador_moving_to_cancel_trade_treaty_with_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Ecuador_moving_to_cancel_trade_treaty_with_US%29

content:
<p>
Ecuador's legislature is moving
to <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/05/last-week-13-latin-american-governments-gathered-in-guayaquil-ecuador-to-hatch-a-common-response-to-an-increasingly-common-m.html">cancel
a trade treaty with the US,</a> and is organizing resistance
throughout Latin America.
<p>
Hooray, Ecuador!  With this example, it will be easier to knock out
the rest of them.


title: US punishes governments that make exceptions to medical patents
uri: US-punishes-governments-that-make-exceptions-to-medical-patents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(US_punishes_governments_that_make_exceptions_to_medical_patents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28US_punishes_governments_that_make_exceptions_to_medical_patents%29

content:
<p>
The US government, subservient to Big Pharma, tries
to <a href="http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/05/02/us-governments-watch-list-on-developing-countries-use-of-health-rights/">punish
governments that make exceptions to medical patents</a> in order to
save the lives of people that can't afford monopoly prices.
<p>
It is unfortunate that the article cites
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">propaganda
term "intellectual property"</a> without condemning it as propaganda.


title: Selling companies access to politicians
uri: Selling-companies-access-to-politicians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Selling_companies_access_to_politicians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Selling_companies_access_to_politicians%29

content:
<p>
Prestigious US newspapers and magazines set up events
to <a href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/journalistic-reputations-for-sale/">sell
companies access to politicians.</a>


title: JP Morgan manipulated accounts to cheat
uri: JP-Morgan-manipulated-accounts-to-cheat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(JP_Morgan_manipulated_accounts_to_cheat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28JP_Morgan_manipulated_accounts_to_cheat%29

content:
<p>
JP Morgan manipulated its accounts in order
to <a href="http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/05/01/jpmorgan-cheating-on-the-stress-test-exhibit-46/">cheat
on requirements</a> for backing its risky investments with real
assets.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Israel%2FArab_peace_talks)
title: Israel/Arab peace talks
uri: Israel-Arab-peace-talks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Israel%252FArab_peace_talks%29
content:
<p>
Uri
Avnery: <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1367615379">Kerry,
trying to restart Israel/Arab peace talks</a>, will find that Israel
will negotiate ad infinitem, just as before.  An agreement will
require pressuring Israel to make a deal.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Facebook_offering_paltry_settlement)
title: Facebook offering paltry settlement
uri: Facebook-offering-paltry-settlement
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Facebook_offering_paltry_settlement%29

content:
<p>
Facebook is offering a paltry settlement to the people
whose <a href="http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2013/05/a-good-deal-for-facebook-a-bad-deal-for-privacy-and-for-kids.html">names
were used in advertising without their permission.</a>


title: Sufferings caused by force-feeding in Guantanamo
uri: Sufferings-caused-by-force-feeding-in-Guantanamo
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Sufferings_caused_by_force-feeding_in_Guantanamo)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Sufferings_caused_by_force-feeding_in_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
A Guantanamo prisoner on hunger strike explains the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/04/guantanamo-hunger-strike">series 
of sufferings caused by force-feeding</a>.
<p>
Former Guantanamo prisoners point out that the US 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/04/open-letter-former-guantanamo-prisoners">continues 
to abuse prisoners in Guantanamo</a>, and call on doctors and nurses
to refuse to cooperate with force feeding.


title: Clothing industry intentionally subcontracts to sweatshops
uri: Clothing-industry-intentionally-subcontracts-to-sweatshops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Clothing_industry_intentionally_subcontracts_to_sweatshops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Clothing_industry_intentionally_subcontracts_to_sweatshops%29

content:
<p>
Subcontracting to sweatshops is the clothing industry's 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/05/dhaka-disaster-fashion-must-react">intentional
business model</a>. (They call this "flexibility".)
<p>
The famous brands' response to the resulting disasters is, in most
cases, to try to avoid association with them rather than to prevent
them.
<p>
However, disasters that kill hundreds of workers at once are a small
part of the suffering caused by sweatshops.  People are regularly
overworked until they develop medical problems.  Their pay is small,
and often they don't receive that pay.
<p>
To eliminate these problems, we must eliminate the flexibility of
subcontracting.  We must tell companies, "Put your factory where you
wish, but it has to be <em>your factory</em>, the workers must be
<em>employees of your company</em>, and you won't be able to move it
easily."  The exception would be for commodity subproducts not made
specially for one company.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Fined_for_mere_insults_in_the_UK)
title: Fined for mere insults in the UK
uri: Fined-for-mere-insults-in-the-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Fined_for_mere_insults_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
In the UK, people are being 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/05/david-mitchell-racism-insults-wales">fined 
for mere insults</a>.
<p>
The article criticizes the absurd examples but grants unjustified legitimacy
to the general practice.  Racism is nasty, but you can't stop racism
by banning insults, and insults alone do not generate violence.


title: Urgent: Job Preservation and Sequester Replacement Act
uri: Urgent-Job-Preservation-and-Sequester-Replacement-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Urgent:_Job_Preservation_and_Sequester_Replacement_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Job_Preservation_and_Sequester_Replacement_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://elizabethwarren.com/sequester">support</a> 
the Job Preservation and Sequester Replacement Act.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/278">more 
information</a> about the bill.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Safe_Chemicals_Act)
title: Urgent: Support Safe Chemicals Act
uri: Urgent-Support-Safe-Chemicals-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Safe_Chemicals_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1457">ask 
your senators</a> to support the Safe Chemicals Act.


title: Proposed law to bar former Gaddafi officials from jobs
uri: Proposed-law-to-bar-former-Gaddafi-officials-from-jobs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Proposed_law_to_bar_former_Gaddafi_officials_from_jobs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Proposed_law_to_bar_former_Gaddafi_officials_from_jobs%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch: Libya's proposed law to bar former Gaddafi officials
from many kinds of jobs is 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/04/libya-reject-political-isolation-law">too 
broad and lacks safeguards</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Ratio_of_CEO_pay_to_workers_pay)
title: Ratio of CEO pay to workers' pay
uri: Ratio-of-CEO-pay-to-workers-pay
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Ratio_of_CEO_pay_to_workers_pay%29
content:
<p>
Bloomberg news has published 
<a href="http://go.bloomberg.com/multimedia/ceo-pay-ratio/">a list</a> 
showing the ratio of CEO pay to workers' pay, for some US companies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_LA_Times_workers)
title: Urgent: Support LA Times workers
uri: Urgent-Support-LA-Times-workers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_LA_Times_workers%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=388">express 
solidarity</a> to the LA Times workers who announced they would quit
if the paper is sold to the Koch brothers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Guitar_Center_workers)
title: Urgent: Support Guitar Center workers
uri: Urgent-Support-Guitar-Center-workers
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Guitar_Center_workers%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/guitar-center-bain/">support 
Guitar Center workers</a> in unionizing against Bain Capital.


title: Urgent: Oppose uranium mining near Grand Canyon
uri: Urgent-Oppose-uranium-mining-near-Grand-Canyon
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 06_May_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_uranium_mining_near_Grand_Canyon)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_uranium_mining_near_Grand_Canyon%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/grand_canyon">call 
on the US Forest Service</a> not to approve uranium mining near the
Grand Canyon.


title: Obama repeates that he wants to close Guantanamo prison
uri: Obama-repeates-that-he-wants-to-close-Guantanamo-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Obama_repeates_that_he_wants_to_close_Guantanamo_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Obama_repeates_that_he_wants_to_close_Guantanamo_prison%29

content:
<p>
Obama recently repeated that he wants to "close the Guantanamo
prison", but what he actually tried to do was continuing 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/07/23/the_obama_gitmo_myth/">holding
prisoners without trial indefinitely</a> — just not in Guantanamo.
<p>
Obama's statement, "When we transfer detention authority in
Afghanistan, the idea that we would still maintain forever a group of
individuals who have not been tried, that is contrary to who we are,"
condemns imprisonment without trial regardless of details.  I can't
read it any other way.  I don't see any weasel-words in that sentence,
but when will he start acting accordingly?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Protests_at_ALEC_meeting)
title: Protests at ALEC meeting
uri: Protests-at-ALEC-meeting
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Protests_at_ALEC_meeting%29
content:
<p>
ALEC's latest meeting was 
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12096">surrounded 
by protesters</a> that outnumbered the attendees.
<p>
But that is not enough to stop the corporations and the sellout
legislator from making corrupt deals.
<p>
To conceal them, ALEC encourages its member legislators to 
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12098">defy
requests under state freedom of information laws for copies of ALEC
model bills</a>.


title: 500 US children per year killed accidentally with guns
uri: 500-US-children-per-year-killed-accidentally-with-guns
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(500_US_children_per_year__killed_accidentally_with_guns)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28500_US_children_per_year__killed_accidentally_with_guns%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/gun-accidents-each-year-kills-around-500-kids">500 
US children per year</a> are killed accidentally with guns.
<p>
Usually they are killed by a child (the same one, or another)
who finds a gun at home.


title: Women found alive 17 days after collapse of factory
uri: Women-found-alive-17-days-after-collapse-of-factory
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Women_found_alive_17_days_after_collapse_of_factory)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Women_found_alive_17_days_after_collapse_of_factory%29

content:
<p>
A woman was found alive in the
rubble, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/10/bangladesh-factory-collapse-survivor-rescue-dhaka">17
days after the collapse</a> of the factory in Bangladesh.
<p>
Credulous crowds shouted, "God is great," but what about the thousand
workers who were killed?  If you believe that a god decides who
personally will live and who will die, it must have decided to kill
all those people.  Shall we shout, "God is lousy"?
<p>
I'd rather say, "There are no gods."


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Police_corruption_protected_murderers)
title: Police corruption protected murderers
uri: Police-corruption-protected-murderers
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Police_corruption_protected_murderers%29

content:
<p>
UK <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/10/judge-police-corruption-murder-investigation">police
corruption protected the murderers</a> of a private detective who was
investigating police corruption.


title: UK lawyer speaks in favor of Stuart Hall
uri: UK-lawyer-speaks-in-favor-of-Stuart-Hall
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(UK_lawyer_speaks_in_favor_of_Stuart_Hall)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28UK_lawyer_speaks_in_favor_of_Stuart_Hall%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13604/">UK lawyer
speaks in favor of Stuart Hall</a>, saying the crimes he is accused of
are minor and should not be prosecuted at all.
<p>
I don't know whether I agree, because I don't know in concrete terms
what Hall has been accused of. In the articles in the Guardian, all
specifics are hidden behind abstract terms equivalent to "something
sexual which is considered nasty". Does that mean rape? Making a pass?
Stealing a kiss?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Transparency_is_a_two-edged_sword)
title: Transparency is a two-edged sword
uri: Transparency-is-a-two-edged-sword
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Transparency_is_a_two-edged_sword%29
content:
<p>
"Transparency" is
a <a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001028.html">two-edged
sword</a> when applied to governments and data.
<p>
Keep in mind that Obama is also an enemy of transparency, as regards
anything the US government does for our "security", up to and
including death squads.
<p>
I think the proposed European "right to be forgotten" is ok as long as
it is limited to databases and does not apply to anyone's works of
authorship.
<p>
Here's what the ACLU got for a FOIA request for
a <a href="media/9753206c.CRM-1.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/email-content-foia/DOJ%20Crim%20Div%20docs/CRM-1.pdf">document
stating general policies</a> (not information about any specific
case).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Rating_for_business_climate)
title: Rating for business climate
uri: Rating-for-business-climate
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Rating_for_business_climate%29
content:
<p>
Rating states for their "business climate"
has <a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12092">no economic
validity;</a> it is just right-wing propaganda to pressure for
deregulation.


title: Cutting Amazon rainforest to plant soya
uri: Cutting-Amazon-rainforest-to-plant-soya
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Cutting_Amazon_rainforest_to_plant_soya)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Cutting_Amazon_rainforest_to_plant_soya%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/10/amazon-clearance-agriculture-economic-own-goal">Cutting
down the Amazon rainforest to plant soya will be self-defeating</a>:
it will change the local climate, making agriculture less productive.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Species_driven_to_extinction)
title: Species driven to extinction
uri: Species-driven-to-extinction
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Species_driven_to_extinction%29
content:
<p>
Another <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/10/london-zoo-appeal-tropical-fish">species
driven to extinction</a> — all three mangarahara cichlids known
are male.


title: Marshall Islands face shortage of drinking water
uri: Marshall-Islands-face-shortage-of-drinking-water
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Marshall_Islands_face_shortage_of_drinking_water)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Marshall_Islands_face_shortage_of_drinking_water%29

content:
<p>
Parts of the Marshall Islands face
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/10/marshall-islands-acute-water-shortage">shortage
of drinking water due to drought.</a>
<p>
I can't assume that global heating helped cause this drought, but it
is expected to make for worse droughts in general.  However, in a few
decades these low islands will have plenty of water, all the time.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(US_censored_3d-printer_gun_plans)
title: US censored 3d-printer gun plans
uri: US-censored-3d-printer-gun-plans
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28US_censored_3d-printer_gun_plans%29
content:
<p>
The US
government <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/09/3d-printed-guns-plans-state-department">censored
the publication of 3d-printer gun plans</a> by claiming vague, broad
censorship power.
<p>
I am not particularly in favor of homemade guns, which can
be <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_(3d_printed_guns_could_shatter_when_fired)">dangerous
to their users</a> as well as to everyone else. However, censorship
power like this is a bigger a threat.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Angola's_war_on_the_poor)
title: Angola's war on the poor
uri: Angola-s-war-on-the-poor
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Angola%27s_war_on_the_poor%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/may/10/angola-urbanisation-crackdown-luanda">Angola's
war on the poor</a>: evicting them and demolishing illegal homes to
make way for the wealthy.
<p>
For the long-term, Luanda needs a smaller population.  I am sure many
women there have more children than they want.  Donating reliable
birth control would go a long way.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Urgent:_Equal_pay_for_equal_work)
title: Urgent: Equal pay for equal work
uri: Urgent-Equal-pay-for-equal-work
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Equal_pay_for_equal_work%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://www.dccc.org/page/s/campaign-equal-pay-2013?source=campaign_clw_2013.04.29_equal_pay">support</a> 
strengthening the law requiring women get equal pay for equal work.


title: Urgent: Stop sale of neonicotinoids for home use
uri: Urgent-Stop-sale-of-neonicotinoids-for-home-use
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_sale_of_neonicotinoids_for_home_use)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_sale_of_neonicotinoids_for_home_use%29

content:
<p>
In the US: <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/home-depot-lowes-bees-neonicotinoids/3/2/">call 
on major US stores</a> to stop selling neonicotinoids for home use.


title: Hawking withdraws from President's Conference in Jerusalem
uri: Hawking-withdraws-from-President-s-Conference-in-Jerusalem
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Hawking_withdraws_from_Presidents_Conference_in_Jerusalem)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Hawking_withdraws_from_Presidents_Conference_in_Jerusalem%29

content:
<p>
Stephen Hawking <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2013/05/hawkings-joins-academic-boycott-of-israel.html">withdrew 
from a conference hosted by the President of Israel</a>, after
Palestinians colleagues urged him to do so.
<p>
I upheld the academic boycott during a visit to Israel and Palestine
sponsored by Palestinians, but I don't advocate a complete academic boycott.
However, this conference is not an academic event.  It is 
<a href="http://972mag.com/stephen-hawkings-message-to-israeli-elites-the-occupation-has-a-price/70719/">state-sponsored
business boosterism</a>.


title: Obama repeats that he wants to close Guantanamo prison
uri: Obama-repeats-that-he-wants-to-close-Guantanamo-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 10_May_2013_(Obama_repeats_that_he_wants_to_close_Guantanamo_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#10_May_2013_%28Obama_repeats_that_he_wants_to_close_Guantanamo_prison%29

content:
<p>
Obama recently repeated that he wants to "close the Guantanamo
prison", but what he actually tried to do was continuing 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/07/23/the_obama_gitmo_myth/">holding
prisoners without trial indefinitely</a> — just not in Guantanamo.
<p>
Obama's statement, "When we transfer detention authority in
Afghanistan, the idea that we would still maintain forever a group of
individuals who have not been tried, that is contrary to who we are,"
condemns imprisonment without trial regardless of details.  I can't
read it any other way.  I don't see any weasel-words in that sentence,
but when will he start acting accordingly?


title: Bahraini blogger describes torture, conviction and escape
uri: Bahraini-blogger-describes-torture-conviction-and-escape
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Bahraini_blogger_describes_torture_conviction_and_escape)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Bahraini_blogger_describes_torture_conviction_and_escape%29

content:
<p>
Bahraini blogger Ali Abdulemam describes how he was 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/10/bahrain-online-ali-abdulemam-escape">tortured 
and convicted</a> in an absurd "trial", then released, and then had
the good fortune to be out protesting when the thugs came for him
again.
<p>
Obama downplays the repression in Bahrain, which his regime supports.


title: Efforts to stop global heating sabotaged
uri: Efforts-to-stop-global-heating-sabotaged
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Efforts_to_stop_global_heating_sabotaged)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Efforts_to_stop_global_heating_sabotaged%29

content:
<p>
Fossil fuel companies have sabotaged all political efforts to stop
global heating.  Governments have been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2013/may/10/carbon-dioxide-milestone-climate-change">corrupted 
and stopped from really trying</a>.
<p>
Only a surprising technical advance — that is, amazingly good
luck — can avert global catastrophe if governments fail to try.


title: Salmon farm overwhelms Scottish lake with pesticide
uri: Salmon-farm-overwhelms-Scottish-lake-with-pesticide
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Salmon_farm_overwhelms_Scottish_lake_with_pesticide)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Salmon_farm_overwhelms_Scottish_lake_with_pesticide%29

content:
<p>
A salmon farm as overwhelmed a Scottish lake with 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/10/marine-harvest-salmon-farm-scottish-loch">high 
levels of pesticide</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(45_million_dollars_stolen_from_banks)
title: 45 million dollars stolen from banks
uri: 45-million-dollars-stolen-from-banks
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%2845_million_dollars_stolen_from_banks%29

content:
<p>
A large conspiracy stole 45 million dollars from banks by
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/10/us-crime-debit-cards">counterfeiting 
prepaid debit cards</a>.
<p>
In the past, I would have said this was wrong, but now that banks are
robbing people every day, I don't care if banks get robbed.


title: Urgent: Oppose US military intervention in Syria
uri: Urgent-Oppose-US-military-intervention-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_US_military_intervention_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_US_military_intervention_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.signon.org/sign/no-to-us-military-interventi">oppose</a> 
military intervention in Syria.


title: Hidden in immigration reform: biometric database
uri: Hidden-in-immigration-reform-biometric-database
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Hidden_in_immigration_reform_biometric_database)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Hidden_in_immigration_reform_biometric_database%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/immigration-reform-dossiers/">Biometric 
Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform</a>.
<p>
I am more concerned with this issue than with immigration as such.


title: FBI proposal for wiretap-ready Internet
uri: FBI-proposal-for-wiretap-ready-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(FBI_proposal_for_wiretap-ready_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28FBI_proposal_for_wiretap-ready_Internet%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/the-fbis-plan-for-a-wiretap-ready-internet-is-misdirected-shortsighted-and-ridiculous/">FBI's 
Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed</a>.
<p>
The article has some errors.  It uses the nebulous term "cloud" as if
it meant something coherent.  It recommends "secure" services that use
encryption which users can't trust, because they require a 
<a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.2/stallman.php">nonfree
client program</a> — that is, a program not under the control of
its users.
<p>
The article also has the bizarre idea that using encryption
you can really trust is only for criminals, and that they will
have to write it for themselves.
<p>
Everyone who wants to communicate confidentially on the Internet needs
trustworthy encryption, but you don't need to write it.
The <a href="http://gnupg.org">GNU Privacy Guard</a>, free/libre
software for encryption, has been available for over a decade.  Unless
you're a sucker with a clouded mind, GPG is for you.


title: Enron fraud king gets himself out of prison
uri: Enron-fraud-king-gets-himself-out-of-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Enron_fraud_king_gets_himself_out_of_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Enron_fraud_king_gets_himself_out_of_prison%29

content:
<p>
Enron fraud king Skilling has got himself out of prison 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/05/09-5">in exchange
for not suing his victims any more</a>, and paying them money he won't
miss.


title: UN Ambassador Rice's description of the Benghazi attack
uri: UN-Ambassador-Rice-s-description-of-the-Benghazi-attack
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(UN_Ambassador_Rices_description_of_the_Benghazi_attack)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28UN_Ambassador_Rices_description_of_the_Benghazi_attack%29

content:
<p>
It appears staff in the State Department told UN Ambassador Rice to
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/10/white-house-criticism-benghazi-leak">change 
her description</a> of the Benghazi attack, so as not to give
Republicans ammunition.
<p>
I don't see anything wrong here.  UN speeches are public statements,
and we should expect any government to plan carefully what to say in
them.  As far as I can tell, the changes were not lies and did not
cover up any facts.
<p>
It's not as if intelligence agencies had been pressured to misinform
the rest of the government, as was done to fabricate an excuse to
conquer Iraq.
<p>
There are plenty of good reasons to condemn Obama, but you can
rely on Republicans to find bad ones.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Fast-food_workers_protests)
title: Fast-food workers' protests
uri: Fast-food-workers-protests
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Fast-food_workers_protests%29
content:
<p>
Fast-food workers' protests 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/10/fast-food-worker-protest-detroit-st-louis">spread 
around the US</a>.
<p>
Of course, fast food was never meant to be eaten in the first place.
It was meant for fasting, not for eating.


title: More about censorship order for 3d-printer gun design
uri: More-about-censorship-order-for-3d-printer-gun-design
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(More_about_censorship_order_for_3d-printer_gun_design)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28More_about_censorship_order_for_3d-printer_gun_design%29

content:
<p>
More about the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/10/3d-printing-gun-blueprint-state-department-ban">censorship 
order</a> for the 3d-printer gun design.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(UK_plan_to_privatize_public_defenders)
title: UK plan to privatize public defenders
uri: UK-plan-to-privatize-public-defenders
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28UK_plan_to_privatize_public_defenders%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/may/11/blur-drummer-solicitor-legal-aid">UK
plans to privatize public defenders</a>, which implies that executives
will pressure the lawyers to do a hasty and inadequate job.
<p>
The result will be that one company can "represent" you, give you bad
advice, then
be <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/11/privatised-justice-legal-aid">paid
to run the prison they put you in.</a>


title: Urgent: Support Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act
uri: Urgent-Support-Bank-on-Students-Loan-Fairness-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Bank_on_Students_Loan_Fairness_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Bank_on_Students_Loan_Fairness_Act%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://pac.signon.org/sign/give%2Dstudents%2Dthe%2Dsame">sign
this petition</a> to support the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act,
which would charge student loans the same interest rate that big banks
get.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Healthy_farm_system)
title: Healthy farm system
uri: Healthy-farm-system
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Healthy_farm_system%29
content:
<p>
Recommendations on
a <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/solutions/advance-sustainable-agriculture/healthy-farm-vision.html">healthy
farm system</a>, from the Union of Concerned Scientists.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Encryption_can_be_broken_by_Apple)
title: Encryption can be broken by Apple
uri: Encryption-can-be-broken-by-Apple
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Encryption_can_be_broken_by_Apple%29
content:
<p>
Encryption in the
iThings <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57583843-38/apple-deluged-by-police-demands-to-decrypt-iphones/">can
be broken by Apple.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Urgent:_Avoid_killing_marine_mammals)
title: Urgent: Avoid killing marine mammals
uri: Urgent-Avoid-killing-marine-mammals
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Avoid_killing_marine_mammals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Call on Hagel to tell the navy to take precautions
to <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3053
">avoid killing an estimated 1000 marine mammals</a> through deafening
underwater sound.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Prospect_of_peace_with_the_Taliban)
title: Prospect of peace with the Taliban
uri: Prospect-of-peace-with-the-Taliban
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Prospect_of_peace_with_the_Taliban%29
content:
<p>
Greg Palast interviews Karzai's advisor, Yahya Maroofi, about the
<a href="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-novel-idea-asking-an-afghan-about-the-future-of-afghanistan">prospect
of peace with the Taliban.</a>
<p>
There is no reason why the Taliban and the US have to be enemies.
They are likely to continue oppressing Afghan women, and if I imagine
myself magically transformed into an Afghan women, I would be thinking
about how to kill Taliban.  However, the other parties in Afghanistan
are not much better, not enough to continue the bloodshed over.


title: Prime Minister of Japan refuses to acknowledge aggression
uri: Prime-Minister-of-Japan-refuses-to-acknowledge-aggression
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Prime_Minister_of_Japan_refuses_to_acknowledge_aggression)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Prime_Minister_of_Japan_refuses_to_acknowledge_aggression%29

content:
<p>
The Prime Minister of Japan
persistently <a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201305100092">refuses
to acknowledge Japan's aggression in World War II.</a>
<p>
This is not excused by US officials persistent refusal to acknowledge
US aggression against Iraq.


title: Are FBI and IRS reading email without warrant
uri: Are-FBI-and-IRS-reading-email-without-warrant
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Are_FBI_and_IRS_reading_email_without_warrant)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Are_FBI_and_IRS_reading_email_without_warrant%29

content:
<p>
Are the FBI and IRS
Secretly <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/10/are_the_fbi_and_irs_secretly">Reading
Your Email Without a Warrant?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Against_connecting_Dots)
title: Against connecting Dots
uri: Against-connecting-Dots
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Against_connecting_Dots%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/10-4">Against
Connecting Terrorist 'Dots'.</a>
<p>
As Bruce Schneier pointed out, the metaphor of "connecting the dots"
is misleading; only in hindsight can one distinguish the dots that
connect from the millions of other dots
that <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/02/opinion/schneier-boston-bombing/index.html">don't
add up to anything.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(Right-wingers_dehumanize_poor)
title: Right-wingers dehumanize poor
uri: Right-wingers-dehumanize-poor
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28Right-wingers_dehumanize_poor%29
content:
<p>
Right-wingers <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/11/benefits-claimants-other-research">dehumanize
the poor</a>, so that many people see them as "other" and thus not
worthy of help.
<p>
Forced into deeper poverty by budget cuts, the poor may look more
unsavory, and some may try desperate methods to get a little money.
These can provide more excuses to step hard on the poor, and the cycle
continues.
<p>
What's the purpose of this? Politicians can get elected by demonizing
someone, and the poor may be a handy target, just like an ethnic
minority.  But there is a specific motive, too: to knock down wages
and help businesses impose worse working conditions.


title: US-supported dictator guilty of crimes against humanity
uri: US-supported-dictator-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 11_May_2013_(US-supported_dictator_guilty_of_crimes_against_humanity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_May_2013_%28US-supported_dictator_guilty_of_crimes_against_humanity%29

content:
<p>
US-supported Guatemalan dictator Rios Montt has been
found <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/11/guatemalan-dictator-rios-montt-jailed-genocide">guilty
of crimes against humanity.</a>
<p>
Dubya's crimes are far worse; when will he be tried?


title: Urgent: Support the Arbitration Fairness Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Arbitration-Fairness-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_the_Arbitration_Fairness_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Arbitration_Fairness_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support the Arbitration
Fairness Act (H.R. 1844, S. 878), which would stop companies from
imposing arbitration on their employees and customers.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.</p>


title: Unsupported safety standards in California endanger wildlife
uri: Unsupported-safety-standards-in-California-endanger-wildlife
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Unsupported_safety_standards_in_California_endanger_wildlife)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Unsupported_safety_standards_in_California_endanger_wildlife%29

content:
<p>
Food processing companies have imposed 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/world-on-a-plate/2013/may/08/wildlife-california-salad-bowl-food-safety">unsupported</a> 
safety standards in California, which endanger wildlife.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Attachment_toward_corpses)
title: Attachment toward corpses
uri: Attachment-toward-corpses
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Attachment_toward_corpses%29
content:
<p>
On the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/11/boston-marathon-explosions-tamerlan-tsarnaev">foolish 
and absurd attachment</a> many people feel toward corpses.
<p>
While criticizing this attachment, the article supports it by using
terms such as "laid to rest".  I never use such terms, both because
they endorse superstitious ideas and because euphemisms strike me
as encouragement of cowardice.


title: The "center" according to NY Times Magazine
uri: The-center-according-to-NY-Times-Magazine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(The_center_according_to_NY_Times_Magazine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28The_center_according_to_NY_Times_Magazine%29

content:
<p>
The New York Times Magazine labeled as the "center" the place 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/08/between-two-economists-lies-the-american-center/">between
a right-wing extremist economist and a somewhat right-wing economist</a>.


title: Urgent: Disclosure of political spending by publicly traded companies
uri: Urgent-Disclosure-of-political-spending-by-publicly-traded-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Urgent:_Disclosure_of_political_spending_by_publicly_traded_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Disclosure_of_political_spending_by_publicly_traded_companies%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Once again, 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/SEC_rules/">call 
on the SEC</a> to require publicly traded companies to disclose their
political spending.


title: Irish gov't shields companies that sold horsemeat as beef
uri: Irish-gov-t-shields-companies-that-sold-horsemeat-as-beef
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Irish_govt_shields_companies_that_sold_horsemeat_as_beef)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Irish_govt_shields_companies_that_sold_horsemeat_as_beef%29

content:
<p>
The Irish government is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/10/horsemeat-scandal-fear-culprits-justice">shielding</a> 
the companies that sold horsemeat as beef.
<p>
If the Irish government intended, in February, to put meat businesses
gently on notice so they would cease this practice, that's not wrong
in principle.  It was a way to put an end to the practice.  However,
blocking an investigation is going too far.
<p>
I see nothing wrong in principle with putting horsemeat in a burger,
as long as it is processed safely and announced on the label.  The
same is true with the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#26_January_2013_(Discount_beef_hamburger_meat)">other 
kinds of filler that are normally included in cheap burger
patties</a>, whose purchasers typically assume they are buying pure
beef.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Millions_to_privatize_public_schools)
title: Millions to privatize public schools
uri: Millions-to-privatize-public-schools
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Millions_to_privatize_public_schools%29

content:
<p>
The "American Federation for Children" spent millions to support state
legislature candidates
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/09-4">want to
privatize public schools.</a>
<p>
This is the kind of predator that US parents really should be worried
about, since they can hurt a lot more children than any other kind of
predator.


title: US planned to meddle in Venezuelan politics
uri: US-planned-to-meddle-in-Venezuelan-politics
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(US_planned_to_meddle_in_Venezuelan_politics)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28US_planned_to_meddle_in_Venezuelan_politics%29

content:
<p>
A Wikileaks cable shows how
the <a href="http://williamblum.org/aer/read/115">US planned to meddle
in Venezuelan politics</a> to try to defeat Chavez.
<p>
I don't agree with all the opinions in the article; for instance, I
think he's bending over backwards to defend North Korea, which is as
nasty a tyranny as you can find on Earth.


title: Women asked court to let her have an abortion
uri: Women-asked-court-to-let-her-have-an-abortion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Women_asked_court_to_let_her_have_an_abortion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Women_asked_court_to_let_her_have_an_abortion%29

content:
<p>
A woman in El Salvador has asked the Supreme Court
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/11/abortion-plight-grips-el-salvador">let
her have an abortion</a>, because otherwise she is likely to die from
her pregnancy.
<p>
The sacred fetus that the Catholic Church would kill her to save
cannot survive anyway, because most of its brain is missing.  But even
if it were healthy, she should not be forced to bear it.


title: Autodestructive response to Boston bombings
uri: Autodestructive-response-to-Boston-bombings
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Autodestructive_response_to_Boston_bombings)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Autodestructive_response_to_Boston_bombings%29

content:
<p>
Campaigning against
an <a href="http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=13147">autodestructive
response to the Boston Bombings.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(FBI_screwed_up_testing_evidence)
title: FBI screwed up testing evidence
uri: FBI-screwed-up-testing-evidence
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28FBI_screwed_up_testing_evidence%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/09/1987691/dna-testing-reveals-crucial-fbi-errors-in-another-murder-conviction/">FBI
screwed up testing evidence against 137 people</a>, but only informed
the lawyers of 30 of them.  Others have languished in prison for
years.


title: Facebook leads people to forget all the people they give info to
uri: Facebook-leads-people-to-forget-all-the-people-they-give-info-to
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Facebook_leads_people_to_forget_all_the_people_they_give_info_to)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Facebook_leads_people_to_forget_all_the_people_they_give_info_to%29

content:
<p>
How Facebook leads people to forget all the different sorts of people
they
are <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/how-social-networks-short-circuit-our-inborn-privacy-intuitions">giving
their information to.</a>
<p>
This is not to mention Facebook itself, a perpetual lurker whose
presence is dangerous to overlook.


title: Officials voted to tear down and rebuild Sandy Hook school
uri: Officials-voted-to-tear-down-and-rebuild-Sandy-Hook-school
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Officials_voted_to_tear_down_and_rebuild_Sandy_Hook_school)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Officials_voted_to_tear_down_and_rebuild_Sandy_Hook_school%29

content:
<p>
Some Newtown officials voted
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/11/newtown-sandy-hook-elementary-school-shootings">tear
down and rebuild Sandy Hook</a> elementary school at the cost of 57
million dollars. In these days of austerity, surely there is something
more useful to do with that money.
<p>
I think that it was a mistake to move the students to another building
after the shooting, because that encouraged them to feel they should
be unable to cope with being in that building, which is why people are
considering spending 60 million dollars replacing the building.  When
you fall off the horse, you should get right back on it, and that
applies here too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(New_Zealand_rejects_software_patents)
title: New Zealand rejects software patents
uri: New-Zealand-rejects-software-patents
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28New_Zealand_rejects_software_patents%29

content:
<p>
New Zealand has passed a bill
to <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/new-zealand-government-closes-door-on-software-patents/">reject
software patents</a>, more or less.
<p>
I hope that lawyers don't succeed in gaming the new law by cleverly
writing the applications to squeeze around it.  Also, if there are
existing patents in New Zealand that cover computational ideas, I
don't think this law gets rid of them.
<p>
I recommend
a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">more
thorough and immediate solution.</a>


title: Bill to fix one of the injustices of DMCA
uri: Bill-to-fix-one-of-the-injustices-of-DMCA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Bill_to_fix_one_of_the_injustices_of_DMCA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Bill_to_fix_one_of_the_injustices_of_DMCA%29

content:
<p>
A bill has been introduced
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/new-bipartisan-bill-proposes-real-fixes-bad-copyright-law">fix
one of the injustice of the DMCA,</a> but it is limited to unlocking
devices.
<p>
This would be a substantial step forward, but not enough to fix the
DMCA, because the broader prohibition on breaking digital handcuffs
would remain.  Digital Restrictions Management ought to be banned
outright.


title: Real motive for austerity in the UK acknowledged
uri: Real-motive-for-austerity-in-the-UK-acknowledged
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Real_motive_for_austerity_in_the_UK_acknowledged)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Real_motive_for_austerity_in_the_UK_acknowledged%29

content:
<p>
A right-wing politician 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/11/young-recession-cheap-labour">embarrassingly 
acknowledged</a> the real motive for austerity in the UK.


title: USDA to do environmental impact study on proposed GMO crops
uri: USDA-to-do-environmental-impact-study-on-proposed-GMO-crops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(USDA_to_do_environmental_impact_study_on_proposed_GMO_crops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28USDA_to_do_environmental_impact_study_on_proposed_GMO_crops%29

content:
<p>
In response to many public complaints, the USDA has decided to do a
full environmental impact study on proposed 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/shocking-everyone-usda-sticks-it-monsanto-and-dow%E2%80%94-least-temporarily">multi-herbicide-resistant
GMO crops</a>, rather than approve them without one.


title: The US-Korea free exploitation agreement
uri: The-US-Korea-free-exploitation-agreement
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(The_US-Korea_free_exploitation_agreement)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28The_US-Korea_free_exploitation_agreement%29

content:
<p>
A year after signing the US-Korea free exploitation agreement, US exports
to Korea have gone 
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/05/as-korean-president-addresses-congress-today-first-year-of-korea-free-trade-agreement-data-shows-us-.html">down 10%</a>.
<p>
In other words, this treaty failed even to provide the benefit the US
was supposed to get.  Of course, it did the other harm these treaties
always do.
<p>
You can pretty much count on a free exploitation agreement to boost
profits and reduce wages.  Nowadays they also directly attack the
rights of the citizens of both countries, with "investor-state"
provisions that privilege foreign companies over the country's
citizens.


title: Urgent: Letter to Obama opposing Keystone XL
uri: Urgent-Letter-to-Obama-opposing-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Urgent:_Letter_to_Obama_opposing_Keystone_XL)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Letter_to_Obama_opposing_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Phone your congresscritter to co-sign Rep. Grijalva's
letter to Obama 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/grijalva_letter">opposing the 
Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Steps toward ending imprisonment without trial
uri: Urgent-Steps-toward-ending-imprisonment-without-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Urgent:_Steps_toward_ending_imprisonment_without_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Steps_toward_ending_imprisonment_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/closegitmo">call on Obama</a> to 
take two important steps towards ending imprisonment without trial.


title: Woman asks court to let her have an abortion
uri: Woman-asks-court-to-let-her-have-an-abortion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Woman_asks_court_to_let_her_have_an_abortion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Woman_asks_court_to_let_her_have_an_abortion%29

content:
<p>
A woman in El Salvador has asked the Supreme Court
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/11/abortion-plight-grips-el-salvador">let
her have an abortion</a>, because otherwise she is likely to die from
her pregnancy.
<p>
The sacred fetus that the Catholic Church would kill her to save
cannot survive anyway, because most of its brain is missing.  But even
if it were healthy, she should not be forced to bear it.


title: Officials vote to tear down and rebuild Sandy Hook school
uri: Officials-vote-to-tear-down-and-rebuild-Sandy-Hook-school
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 12_May_2013_(Officials_vote_to_tear_down_and_rebuild_Sandy_Hook_school)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#12_May_2013_%28Officials_vote_to_tear_down_and_rebuild_Sandy_Hook_school%29

content:
<p>
Some Newtown officials voted
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/11/newtown-sandy-hook-elementary-school-shootings">tear
down and rebuild Sandy Hook</a> elementary school at the cost of 57
million dollars. In these days of austerity, surely there is something
more useful to do with that money.
<p>
I think that it was a mistake to move the students to another building
after the shooting, because that encouraged them to feel they should
be unable to cope with being in that building, which is why people are
considering spending 60 million dollars replacing the building.  When
you fall off the horse, you should get right back on it, and that
applies here too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Psychotherapy)
title: Psychotherapy
uri: Psychotherapy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Psychotherapy%29
content:
<p>
Offering a little psychotherapy to people who go through a trauma
is unnecessary, and 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/12/natural-disasters-healing-psychology-worse">some 
methods actually tend to make people suffer more</a>.


title: "American" corporations get special tax deal
uri: American-corporations-get-special-tax-deal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(American_corporations_get_special_tax_deal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28American_corporations_get_special_tax_deal%29

content:
<p>
"American" corporations get a special 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/11-1">tax deal for 
foreign earnings</a>, which favors them over real citizens.
<p>
The point is not that we should give people the same deal; rather, we
should take it away from corporations.


title: Chad arrests opposition journalists and bloggers
uri: Chad-arrests-opposition-journalists-and-bloggers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Chad_arrests_opposition_journalists_and_bloggers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Chad_arrests_opposition_journalists_and_bloggers%29

content:
<p>
Chad has arrested <a href="http://en.rsf.org/tchad-authorities-arrest-another-09-05-2013,44592.html">many 
opposition journalists and bloggers</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Corruption_drains_wealth_out_of_Africa)
title: Corruption drains wealth out of Africa
uri: Corruption-drains-wealth-out-of-Africa
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Corruption_drains_wealth_out_of_Africa%29

content:
<p>
Corruption drains wealth out of Africa, 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/12/observer-editorial-tax-avoidance-pariahs">twice 
as much as it gets in foreign aid</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Pakistan_elections)
title: Pakistan elections
uri: Pakistan-elections
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Pakistan_elections%29
content:
<p>
Extremists' violence was unable to prevent Pakistan from holding a more
or less <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/12/pakistan-vote-chaos-carnival">democratic 
election</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(The_one_state_solution_myth)
title: The "one state solution" myth
uri: The-one-state-solution-myth
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28The_one_state_solution_myth%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1368181918">why 
the "one state solution" is a myth</a>.


title: Urgent: Support the Local Farms, Foods, and Jobs Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Local-Farms-Foods-and-Jobs-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_the_Local_Farms,_Foods,_and_Jobs_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Local_Farms%2C_Foods%2C_and_Jobs_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support the Local Farms,
Foods, and Jobs Act.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: House of Representatives passes bill to end overtime pay
uri: House-of-Representatives-passes-bill-to-end-overtime-pay
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(House_of_Representatives_passes_bill_to_end_overtime_pay)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28House_of_Representatives_passes_bill_to_end_overtime_pay%29

content:
<p>
The House of Representatives passed a 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/working-families-flexibility-act-passes_n_3231385.html">bill 
to end overtime pay</a> in the name of "flexibility" and "caring".


title: US-educated minister added to politburo of Vietnamese gov't
uri: US-educated-minister-added-to-politburo-of-Vietnamese-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(US-educated_minister_added_to_politburo_of_Vietnamese_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28US-educated_minister_added_to_politburo_of_Vietnamese_govt%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/12/vietnam-communist-party-us-nhan">US-educated 
minister</a> has been added to the politburo of the Vietnamese
Communist Party.
<p>
I guess that means more crushing of human rights to cater to global
business.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Americas_attitudes_towards_children)
title: America's attitudes towards children
uri: America-s-attitudes-towards-children
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Americas_attitudes_towards_children%29

content:
<p>
America's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/12/what-is-age-of-adulthood">contradictory 
attitudes</a> towards children.


title: Pretense that the UK gov't is trying to rescue Shaker Aamer
uri: Pretense-that-the-UK-gov-t-is-trying-to-rescue-Shaker-Aamer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Pretense_that_the_UK_govt_is_trying_to_rescue_Shaker_Aamer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Pretense_that_the_UK_govt_is_trying_to_rescue_Shaker_Aamer%29

content:
<p>
The Pentagon has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/12/guantanamo-bay-shaker-aamer-hammond">punctured 
the pretense</a> that the UK government is trying to rescue Shaker
Aamer from Guantanamo.


title: Not enough nurses after cuts to the NHS
uri: Not-enough-nurses-after-cuts-to-the-NHS
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Not_enough_nurses_after_cuts_to_the_NHS)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Not_enough_nurses_after_cuts_to_the_NHS%29

content:
<p>
The conservatives have cut the NHS to the point where 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/12/hospital-staffing-levels-nurses">hospitals
no longer have enough nurses to keep patients safe</a>.


title: US support for Rios Montt's crimes against humanity
uri: US-support-for-Rios-Montt-s-crimes-against-humanity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(US_support_for_Rios_Montts_crimes_against_humanity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28US_support_for_Rios_Montts_crimes_against_humanity%29

content:
<p>
Now that Rios Montt has been convicted of crimes against humanity, we
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/12-2">must look at 
the evidence</a> that the US under Ronald Reagan knowingly supported
those crimes.


title: Urgent: Decent working conditions for Publix farm workers
uri: Urgent-Decent-working-conditions-for-Publix-farm-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Urgent:_Decent_working_conditions_for_Publix_farm_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Decent_working_conditions_for_Publix_farm_workers%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1786&ea.campaign.id=20475">call 
on Publix</a> to join the agreement to demand decent working
conditions for the farm workers who grow its tomatoes.


title: Proposed treaty for copyright exception
uri: Proposed-treaty-for-copyright-exception
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Proposed_treaty_for_copyright_exception)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Proposed_treaty_for_copyright_exception%29

content:
<p>
Hollywood influence threatens to block a proposed treaty for a 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/blind-advocates-hollywood-lobbying-threatens-deal-for-accessible-books/">copyright
exception for books for blind people</a>.
<p>
I have mixed feelings about this treaty.  Blind people deserve to escape
from digital handcuffs, and so do the rest of us.  A treaty that
removes some of the harmful effect on blind people is a step towards
that goal, but it might also serve as an excuse to resist the further
change needed to free the rest of us.
<p>
I think, therefore, that we should direct our efforts towards
the cause of abolishing DRM, not this treaty.


title: UNESCO trying to save Great Barrier Reef
uri: UNESCO-trying-to-save-Great-Barrier-Reef
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(UNESCO_trying_to_save_Great_Barrier_Reef)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28UNESCO_trying_to_save_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/planet-oz/2013/may/13/great-barrier-reef-unesco-danger">UNESCO
is trying to save the Great Barrier Reef</a> from damage from coal
shipments, but half its coral is dead already due to environmental
degradation and global heating.
<p>
Ocean acidification will kill all the rest, if we burn all that coal.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Murder_out_of_superstition_)
title: Murder out of superstition
uri: Murder-out-of-superstition
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Murder_out_of_superstition_%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/05/09/fight-against-ritual-killings-gears-up-in-gabon/">Murder
out of superstition</a> didn't disappear after the Salem witch trials.
It still occurs today.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Fictional_candidate_for_president)
title: Fictional candidate for president
uri: Fictional-candidate-for-president
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Fictional_candidate_for_president%29
content:
<p>
Many Iranians can only support
a <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/05/12/is-irans-most-believable-presidential-candidate-a-fictional-character/">fictional
candidate for president.</a>
<p>
In the US, things are not that far gone.  We can vote for candidates
that stand for good principles; we just know that it would be a
miracle for one of them to win.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Can't_US_keep_guns_away_from_children)
title: Can't US keep guns away from children
uri: Can-t-US-keep-guns-away-from-children
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Can%27t_US_keep_guns_away_from_children%29

content:
<p>
Can't the US
keep <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/09/children-easy-access-to-guns">guns
away from children?</a>


title: Global heating threatens to destroy cassava
uri: Global-heating-threatens-to-destroy-cassava
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Global_heating_threatens_to_destroy_cassava)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Global_heating_threatens_to_destroy_cassava%29

content:
<p>
Global
heating <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/warmer-climate-threatens-africas-vital-cassava-crop-15964">threatens
to destroy cassava</a>, the principal food of millions in Africa, via
insects and disease.


title: Urgent: Tell EPA not to let companies block pollution standards
uri: Urgent-Tell-EPA-not-to-let-companies-block-pollution-standards
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_EPA_not_to_let_companies_block_pollution_standards)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_EPA_not_to_let_companies_block_pollution_standards%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell the EPA not to
let <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=8065&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=56trdii9z5.app331b">oil
companies block new pollution standards</a> for cars and trucks.


title: Largest companies running 8000 tax doges
uri: Largest-companies-running-8000-tax-doges
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Largest_companies_running_8000_tax_doges)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Largest_companies_running_8000_tax_doges%29

content:
<p>
The UK's 100 largest companies
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/12/uk-companies-condemned-tax-havens">running
8000 tax dodges.</a>
<p>
I would expect that most of them are lawful, and take advantage of
laws that need to be changed.


title: Colleges selling out poor to court rich
uri: Colleges-selling-out-poor-to-court-rich
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Colleges_selling_out_poor_to_court_rich)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Colleges_selling_out_poor_to_court_rich%29

content:
<p>
How Colleges
Are <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/how-colleges-are-selling-out-the-poor-to-court-the-rich/275725/">Selling
Out the Poor to Court the Rich.</a>


title: Don't let CIA control torture narrative
uri: Don-t-let-CIA-control-torture-narrative
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(Don't_let_CIA_control_torture_narrative)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28Don%27t_let_CIA_control_torture_narrative%29

content:
<p>
ACLU: President Obama, Don t Let the CIA Control
the <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-human-rights/president-obama-dont-let-cia-control-torture-narrative">Torture
Narrative.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 13_May_2013_(US_drone_attacks_war_crimes)
title: US drone attacks war crimes
uri: US-drone-attacks-war-crimes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_May_2013_%28US_drone_attacks_war_crimes%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan's high court ruled that US drone attacks in Pakistan
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/12/pakistan-us-drone-strikes">war
crimes.</a>


title: Deforestation of Amazon will mean less rain
uri: Deforestation-of-Amazon-will-mean-less-rain
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Deforestation_of_Amazon_will_mean_less_rain)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Deforestation_of_Amazon_will_mean_less_rain%29

content:
<p>
Deforestation of the Amazon will mean less rain, which means giant
hydropower programs will
provide <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/science/earth/study-finds-loss-of-rain-forests-can-deplete-hydropower.html">less
electricity than expected.</a>
<p>
It will also mean disaster for agriculture in Brazil.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Catastrophic_4C_rise_in_temperature)
title: Catastrophic 4C rise in temperature
uri: Catastrophic-4C-rise-in-temperature
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Catastrophic_4C_rise_in_temperature%29

content:
<p>
If current trends continue, humans will emit enough CO2 to probably
cause
a <a href="http://therationalpessimist.com/2013/02/04/the-trillionth-tonne/">catastrophic
4C rise</a> in temperature by 2041.
<p>
However, if the climate system is more sensitive than that, the
catastrophe made be locked in by 2021.


title: Candidate for mayor denounces stop and frisk
uri: Candidate-for-mayor-denounces-stop-and-frisk
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Candidate_for_mayor_denounces_stop_and_frisk)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Candidate_for_mayor_denounces_stop_and_frisk%29

content:
<p>
A candidate for mayor of New
York <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/13/stop-and-frisk-new-york-bill-de-blasio">denounces
the thug department's "stop-and-frisk"</a> practice for its evident
racial bias.
<p>
However, it will be difficult to prevent the decision to search a
particular person from being based on race, unless the thugs must show
a specific justification for each instance.  In other words, searching
a person must require probable cause.
<p>
Street crime is much less than it was 20 years go, perhaps due to the
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#8_January_2013_(High_Crime_Rate)">removal
of lead</a> from the children's environment. Even if there was once a
reason to allow thugs to search people arbitrarily, it is gone.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Comparing_US_with_Atlas_Shrugged)
title: Comparing US with Atlas Shrugged
uri: Comparing-US-with-Atlas-Shrugged
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Comparing_US_with_Atlas_Shrugged%29
content:
<p>
Comparing today's US with the fictional world of Atlas Shrugged makes
a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/13-1">strange
contrast.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Easier_for_workers_to_unionize)
title: Easier for workers to unionize
uri: Easier-for-workers-to-unionize
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Easier_for_workers_to_unionize%29
content:
<p>
Bangladesh has made
it <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/bangladesh-trade-union-laws">easier
for clothing workers to unionize.</a>


title: Interventions in Syria and oil pipelines
uri: Interventions-in-Syria-and-oil-pipelines
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Interventions_in_Syria_and_oil_pipelines)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Interventions_in_Syria_and_oil_pipelines%29

content:
<p>
Interventions in Syria's civil war may
be <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/13/1">motivated
by oil pipelines,</a> part of the root cause was the effects of global
heating.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Road_to_victory_over_access_to_Plan_B)
title: Road to victory over access to Plan B
uri: Road-to-victory-over-access-to-Plan-B
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Road_to_victory_over_access_to_Plan_B%29

content:
<p>
The road to the victory
over <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/13/plan-b-ruling-available-over-the-counter">access
to Plan B</a>: "We followed a cardinal rule of the radicals of the
1960's Women's Liberation Movement: we demanded what we really wanted,
rather than toning down to be respectable."
<p>
This is my rule too.  Many others demand small changes in the DMCA or
DRM, or talk about "open source", and say it's because they don't want
to be dismissed as "radical".  It means they can't reach for much.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Bad_or_difficult_option_on_Syria_)
title: Bad or difficult option on Syria
uri: Bad-or-difficult-option-on-Syria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Bad_or_difficult_option_on_Syria_%29
content:
<p>
The US has
several <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/barack-obama-syria-war-decisions">bad
or difficult options</a> to choose from if it is to intervene in
Syria.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Thugs_prioritize_War_on_Drugs)
title: Thugs prioritize War on Drugs
uri: Thugs-prioritize-War-on-Drugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Thugs_prioritize_War_on_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
Systematic reasons cause thugs to prioritize the War on Drugs
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/print/drugs/why-cops-bust-down-doors-medical-pot-growers-ignore-men-who-keep-naked-girls-leashes">over
investigating reports of kidnapped people.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Additional_security_powers)
title: Additional security powers
uri: Additional-security-powers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Additional_security_powers%29
content:
<p>
If thugs demand additional "security" powers, remember that they
have <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/05/transparency_an.html">lied
about this before.</a>
<p>
"Security" measures are only addressed to a narrow part of the
spectrum of crime.  The biggest and most damaging crimes in the US are
committed by banksters, and the state refuses to prosecute them even
when they are caught.  The "security" apparatus did nothing to the
perpetrators of foreclosure fraud even though their victims number in
the hundreds of thousands (at least).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Urgent:_Ban_neonicotinoids)
title: Urgent: Ban neonicotinoids
uri: Urgent-Ban-neonicotinoids
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_neonicotinoids%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/eu_ban?referring_akid=a113944334.1183552.GePh1">ban
neonicotinoids.</a>


title: 1/3 of animal species will be hit by global heating
uri: 1-3-of-animal-species-will-be-hit-by-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(1%2F3_of_animal_species_will_be_hit_by_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%281%252F3_of_animal_species_will_be_hit_by_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
1/3 of all animal species will
be <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/13/animals-species-climate-change">hit
by effects of global heating.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 14_May_2013_(Prejudice_against_prostitutes)
title: Prejudice against prostitutes
uri: Prejudice-against-prostitutes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#14_May_2013_%28Prejudice_against_prostitutes%29
content:
<p>
In
Palestine, <a href="http://www.iede.co.uk/news/2013_1828/no-escape-palestinian-women-forced-prostitution">prejudice
against prostitutes</a> combines with circumstances that leave some
women no other way out.  This drives many to suicide.
<p>
Such contempt for women that is found across the Muslim world, and
partly continues to exist in the west too.


title: Force-feeding of prisoners in Guantanamo
uri: Force-feeding-of-prisoners-in-Guantanamo
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Force-feeding_of_prisoners_in_Guantanamo)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Force-feeding_of_prisoners_in_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
A broad movement condemns 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/guantanamo-bay-hunger-strike-forced-feeding">force-feeding 
of prisoners in Guantanamo</a>, which is very painful and degrading to 
the prisoners.
<p>
In addition, the prisoners are now forced to undergo a strip
search before meeting with a lawyer.


title: Obama regime collects Associated Press's phone records
uri: Obama-regime-collects-Associated-Press-s-phone-records
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Obama_regime_collects_Associated_Presss_phone_records)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Obama_regime_collects_Associated_Presss_phone_records%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime collected two months of the Associated Press's phone records
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/14/associated-press-phone-records">to 
try to find the source of a leak</a>.


title: Clothing chains sign on to fund safety inspections in Bangladesh
uri: Clothing-chains-sign-on-to-fund-safety-inspections-in-Bangladesh
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Clothing_chains_sign_on_to_fund_safety_inspections_in_Bangladesh)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Clothing_chains_sign_on_to_fund_safety_inspections_in_Bangladesh%29

content:
<p>
Several Western clothing chains have signed on to fund 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/fashion-chain-finance-safety-bangladesh-factories">safety 
inspections in Bangladesh</a>.
<p>
This will probably do some good, and the proposed changes in laws could
do more good.  However, what we really need is to change the free exploitation treaties so that they no longer pressure countries to compete to offer
the worst working conditions.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Face_recognition)
title: Face recognition
uri: Face-recognition
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Face_recognition%29
content:
<p>
More <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-05-professor-benefit-facial-recognition-technology.html">nasty 
applications</a> for face recognition.


title: The "right" of businesses to secretly make data out of your data
uri: The-right-of-businesses-to-secretly-make-data-out-of-your-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(The_right_of_businesses_to_secretly_make_data_out_of_your_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28The_right_of_businesses_to_secretly_make_data_out_of_your_data%29

content:
<p>
Some in the European Parliament propose to protect the 
<a href="http://www.edri.org/theirprivacy">"right" of businesses to 
secretly make money out of your data</a>.


title: Supreme Court rules for Monsanto, against farmer
uri: Supreme-Court-rules-for-Monsanto-against-farmer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Supreme_Court_rules_for_Monsanto_against_farmer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Supreme_Court_rules_for_Monsanto_against_farmer%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court ruled for Monsanto and against a farmer who bought
seeds from a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/13/supreme-court-monsanto-indiana-soybean-seeds">grain 
elevator</a> (many of which contained a patented Monsanto gene).
<p>
This means that Monsanto has been given control over all ordinary seed supplies
for the plants that are effected.


title: Roundup can harm human health indirectly
uri: Roundup-can-harm-human-health-indirectly
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Roundup_can_harm_human_health_indirectly)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Roundup_can_harm_human_health_indirectly%29

content:
<p>
Roundup is not directly toxic to humans, but it can 
<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/05/14/glyphosate.aspx?e_cid=20130514IRG_DNL_art_1">harm 
human health indirectly</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Increase_in_US_oil_production)
title: Increase in US oil production
uri: Increase-in-US-oil-production
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Increase_in_US_oil_production%29
content:
<p>
US oil production has increased greatly and is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/14/oil-developing-nations-shale-oil">expected 
to increase more</a>.
<p>
This is something the world cannot afford.


title: The subpoena against AP phone call records
uri: The-subpoena-against-AP-phone-call-records
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(The_subpoena_against_AP_phone_call_records)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28The_subpoena_against_AP_phone_call_records%29

content:
<p>
Why the subpoena against AP phone call records is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/14">dangerous
to freedom of the press</a>.
<p>
Of course, the entire thrust of Obama's war on whistleblowers
is not merely harmful to our human rights, it is aimed directly
at them.


title: Use of IRS for politically motivated investigations
uri: Use-of-IRS-for-politically-motivated-investigations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Use_of_IRS_for_politically_motivated_investigations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Use_of_IRS_for_politically_motivated_investigations%29

content:
<p>
Presidents since Roosevelt have used the IRS for 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/irs-witch-hunts-tea-party-history-mother-jones">politically 
motivated investigations</a>.
<p>
It looks like Obama did not ask for the IRS to target tea party front
groups.  However, some years ago I saw reports that right-wing
churches illegally endorse candidates and that the IRS had failed to
make them stop.


title: University research centers sponsored by oil companies
uri: University-research-centers-sponsored-by-oil-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(University_research_centers_sponsored_by_oil_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28University_research_centers_sponsored_by_oil_companies%29

content:
<p>
University research centers 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/14/oxford-university-takes-shell-funding">sponsored 
by oil companies</a> provide the latter with a form of legitimacy that
they cannot buy in any other way.


title: Cables show US has pushed countries to accept GMO crops
uri: Cables-show-US-has-pushed-countries-to-accept-GMO-crops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Cables_show_US_has_pushed_countries_to_accept_GMO_crops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Cables_show_US_has_pushed_countries_to_accept_GMO_crops%29

content:
<p>
Cables show that the US has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/14/monsanto-gm-crops-worldwide">actively 
pushed</a> countries around the world to accept GMO crops.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Urgent:_Prosecute_the_banksters)
title: Urgent: Prosecute the banksters
uri: Urgent-Prosecute-the-banksters
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Prosecute_the_banksters%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://www.campaignforfairsettlement.org/week_of_action_petition">call 
on Obama and Holder</a> to prosecute the banksters.


title: Urgent: Protect Indonesian rain forests
uri: Urgent-Protect-Indonesian-rain-forests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Urgent:_Protect_Indonesian_rain_forests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_Indonesian_rain_forests%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/the_plan_to_kill_orangutans_cb2/">call 
on the President of Indonesia</a> to protect rain forests from a plan
to cut them down for palm oil.


title: Urgent: Preserve conservation requirements in the farm bill
uri: Urgent-Preserve-conservation-requirements-in-the-farm-bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Urgent:_Preserve_conservation_requirements_in_the_farm_bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_conservation_requirements_in_the_farm_bill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2587">call 
on your senators</a> to preserve conservation requirements in the farm
bill.


title: Urgent: Object to giving award to Henry Kissinger
uri: Urgent-Object-to-giving-award-to-Henry-Kissinger
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Urgent:_Object_to_giving_award_to_Henry_Kissinger)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Object_to_giving_award_to_Henry_Kissinger%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7791">object</a> 
to giving Henry Kissinger an award for defending freedom and
democracy.


title: China trying to use torture to stop prostitution
uri: China-trying-to-use-torture-to-stop-prostitution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(China_trying_to_use_torture_to_stop_prostitution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28China_trying_to_use_torture_to_stop_prostitution%29

content:
<p>
China is trying to stop prostitution by 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/14/china-prostitution-increase-abuse-workers">torturing 
accused prostitutes into confessing</a>.
<p>
There is nothing ethically wrong with prostitution, so the state's
only legitimate goal in this area is to make sure nobody is coerced
into prostitution and prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases
by prostitution.  Prohibition and repression of prostitution
get in the way of those goals.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Amazon_staff_in_Germany_on_strike)
title: Amazon staff in Germany on strike
uri: Amazon-staff-in-Germany-on-strike
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Amazon_staff_in_Germany_on_strike%29
content:
<p>
Amazon staff in Germany have gone 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/14/amazon-strike-germany">on 
strike</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html">Amazon</a> abuses its staff in
the US, but the US government gives less support to workers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(BP_and_Shell_accused_of_fixing_prices)
title: BP and Shell accused of fixing prices
uri: BP-and-Shell-accused-of-fixing-prices
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28BP_and_Shell_accused_of_fixing_prices%29

content:
<p>
BP and Shell have been accused of fixing prices 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/14/bp-shell-oil-price-rigging">for 
a decade</a>.
<p>
Since this is in Europe, they may actually be prosecuted.


title: Westerners in tizzy about Syrian rebel who ate part of corpse
uri: Westerners-in-tizzy-about-Syrian-rebel-who-ate-part-of-corpse
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Westerners_in_tizzy_about_Syrian_rebel_who_ate_part_of_corpse)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Westerners_in_tizzy_about_Syrian_rebel_who_ate_part_of_corpse%29

content:
<p>
Westerners are in a tizzy about a Syrian rebel who 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/14/syria-mutilation-footage-rebels-eat">ate 
part of the corpse of a dead government soldier</a>, for revenge.
<p>
Such ado about so little.  Whatever you do to a corpse, it can't
really hurt anyone (except you, if you catch some disease from it).
The worst it can do to others is offend their feelings.
<p>
What worries me about the Syrian rebels is what they might do to
living people, if they set up an Islamic tyranny like the one in Saudi
Arabia.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(UK_austerity_policies)
title: UK austerity policies
uri: UK-austerity-policies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28UK_austerity_policies%29
content:
<p>
The UK austerity policies are 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/15/cuts-inequality-oecd">designed 
to fall mostly on the poor</a>.
<p>
Massive youth unemployment in the UK is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/14/male-identity-crisis-machismo-abbott">making 
young men hate themselves</a>, and they take it out on the usual
scapegoats such as women and gay men.


title: Vermont legalizes assisted suicide, but only for terminally ill
uri: Vermont-legalizes-assisted-suicide-but-only-for-terminally-ill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Vermont_legalizes_assisted_suicide_but_only_for_terminally_ill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Vermont_legalizes_assisted_suicide_but_only_for_terminally_ill%29

content:
<p>
Vermont has legalized assisted suicide, but only for those who are
<a href="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/vermont-passes-aid-in-dying-measure/">terminally 
ill</a>.
<p>
It is a shame to limit this to people whose suffering is going to end
soon anyway, and exclude those in unbearable pain that could continue
for decades.  So it is a mistake to use the slogan "death with
dignity", which presumes we're talking about someone who will die soon
in any case and the issue is only how.  We must advocate the right to
give assistance in suicide to those who want that assistance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(AP-gate_and_Watergate_similarities)
title: AP-gate and Watergate similarities
uri: AP-gate-and-Watergate-similarities
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28AP-gate_and_Watergate_similarities%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/14-5">similarities</a>
between AP-gate to Watergate.
<p>
Unlike the writer, I will not give Obama the credit of supposing
he was in any way reluctant to do the bad things he is doing.


title: Major "American" companies raise profits by paying workers less
uri: Major-American-companies-raise-profits-by-paying-workers-less
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Major_American_companies_raise_profits_by_paying_workers_less)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Major_American_companies_raise_profits_by_paying_workers_less%29

content:
<p>
Major "American" companies' profits are up, mainly because they are
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/14-0">paying workers 
less</a>.


title: Surveil thousands of millions non-suspects
uri: Surveil-thousands-of-millions-non-suspects
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Surveil_thousands_of_millions_non-suspects)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Surveil_thousands_of_millions_non-suspects%29

content:
<p>
The more government
agencies <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/fundamental-asymmetry-between-past-and-future-and-why-it-means-mass">surveil
thousands or millions non-suspects</a>, the more blame they will get
when one of them surprisingly commits a crime — but they won't
be able to anticipate who.


title: Weak US reaction to shootings in New Orleans
uri: Weak-US-reaction-to-shootings-in-New-Orleans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Weak_US_reaction_to_shootings_in_New_Orleans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Weak_US_reaction_to_shootings_in_New_Orleans%29

content:
<p>
Note the contrast between
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/new-orleans-shooting-not-national-news">weak
US reaction to the shooting in New Orleans</a> and the exaggerated
response to the bombing in Boston.


title: UK wants Europe to import tar sands oil
uri: UK-wants-Europe-to-import-tar-sands-oil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(UK_wants_Europe_to_import_tar_sands_oil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28UK_wants_Europe_to_import_tar_sands_oil%29

content:
<p>
The UK government
wants <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/15/uk-signals-support-eu-import-tar-sands">Europe
to import tar sands oil</a> from the Keystone XL pipeline.


title: Palestinian prisoners pay for medical care
uri: Palestinian-prisoners-pay-for-medical-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Palestinian_prisoners_pay_for_medical_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Palestinian_prisoners_pay_for_medical_care%29

content:
<p>
Israel forces Palestinian prisoners
to <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65427">pay for their medical
care while in prison.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Missing_from_Arab_peace_plan)
title: Missing from Arab peace plan
uri: Missing-from-Arab-peace-plan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Missing_from_Arab_peace_plan%29
content:
<p>
Missing from the Arab peace plan:
an <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/missing-from-the-arab-peace-plan-an-israeli-partner">Israeli
partner.</a>
<p>
The Arab peace plan is quite similar to what the US government has
advocated for years, but the US does not pressure Israel to accept it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Safety_inspections_in_Bangladesh)
title: Safety inspections in Bangladesh
uri: Safety-inspections-in-Bangladesh
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Safety_inspections_in_Bangladesh%29
content:
<p>
Walmart refuses to sign the
agreement <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/15/walmart-opts-out-bangladesh-rana-plaza">requiring
safety inspections of factories in Bangladesh.</a>
<p>
I hope this leads to a public pressure campaign.


title: Urgent: Treat tomato farm workers decently
uri: Urgent-Treat-tomato-farm-workers-decently
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(Urgent:_Treat_tomato_farm_workers_decently)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Treat_tomato_farm_workers_decently%29

content:
<p>
In the US: call on Wendy's to sign up
to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/ciw-wendys/3/2/?akid=1695.881131.xa5YgS&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1002">treat
tomato farm workers decently,</a> as other major US food chains have
already done.


title: IRS increase scrutiny of political spending
uri: IRS-increase-scrutiny-of-political-spending
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 15_May_2013_(IRS_increase_scrutiny_of_political_spending)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#15_May_2013_%28IRS_increase_scrutiny_of_political_spending%29

content:
<p>
The IRS
must <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/14/irs-target-political-groups-citizens-united">increase
scrutiny of political spending</a> (but not in a biased way).


title: Israel makes Palestinian teenagers incriminate each other
uri: Israel-makes-Palestinian-teenagers-incriminate-each-other
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Israel_makes_Palestinian_teenagers_incriminate_each_other)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Israel_makes_Palestinian_teenagers_incriminate_each_other%29

content:
<p>
Israel makes Palestinian teenagers incriminate other Palestinian
teenagers, on charges that are 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=59336">sometimes 
absurd</a>.  When accused in court, they don't understand what they
are accused of, but they know it doesn't matter.


title: Tax-paying Arab neighborhoods denied vital services
uri: Tax-paying-Arab-neighborhoods-denied-vital-services
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Tax-paying_Arab_neighborhoods_denied_vital_services)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Tax-paying_Arab_neighborhoods_denied_vital_services%29

content:
<p>
Arab neighborhoods formally included in Jerusalem, although outside
the annexation wall, have to 
<a href="http://972mag.com/palestinians-struggle-to-remain-in-unified-jerusalem/70705/">pay 
the same taxes as the rest of the city</a>, but they don't get vital
services such as sewers or garbage collection.
<p>
It reminds me of the way Chicago treated minority areas until
Mayor Washington.


title: Israel demolishes "unrecognized" village again
uri: Israel-demolishes-unrecognized-village-again
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Israel_demolishes_unrecognized_village_again)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Israel_demolishes_unrecognized_village_again%29

content:
<p>
Israel demolished an "unrecognized" traditional Bedouin village
in the Negev, for the 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65456">15th time</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(China_closing_microblog_accounts)
title: China closing microblog accounts
uri: China-closing-microblog-accounts
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28China_closing_microblog_accounts%29
content:
<p>
China is closing the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/china-microblogging-accounts-closed">microblog 
accounts of influential people who have posted criticism</a>.
<p>
Murong Xuecun, one of them, writes about what it is like to be
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/chinese-internet-censorship-campaign">"reincarnated" 
on the Internet</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Student_debt)
title: Student debt
uri: Student-debt
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Student_debt%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/student-debt-and-the-crushing-of-the-american-dream/">Student 
Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream</a>.
<p>
Education is one of the things the US needs to support more
by taxing the rich and the companies more.


title: Urgent: Support bill to increase social security benefits
uri: Urgent-Support-bill-to-increase-social-security-benefits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_bill_to_increase_social_security_benefits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_bill_to_increase_social_security_benefits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/now-is-the-time-to-expand">Support</a> 
the bill to increase social security benefits.


title: Cambodian shoe factory collapse kills workers
uri: Cambodian-shoe-factory-collapse-kills-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Cambodian_shoe_factory_collapse_kills_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Cambodian_shoe_factory_collapse_kills_workers%29

content:
<p>
Several people were killed when a Cambodian shoe factory 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/16/cambodia-shoe-factory-collapse-workers">collapsed</a>.
<p>
They were killed by psychopaths (corporations).  Americans should
cease their inordinate preoccupation with a comparatively small
killing in Boston, which is unlikely to be repeated, and focus on
these bigger killings which we know will be repeated.


title: Rapid erosion forces Alaskan town to relocate
uri: Rapid-erosion-forces-Alaskan-town-to-relocate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Rapid_erosion_forces_Alaskan_town_to_relocate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Rapid_erosion_forces_Alaskan_town_to_relocate%29

content:
<p>
A small Alaskan town is forced to relocate as 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/16/statutory-limits-response-communities-climate-risk">rapid 
erosion</a> is making the town fall into the adjoining river.
<p>
This is a more important issue than it might seem, because it's going
to happen to millions of Americans (and millions of others) as global
heating makes sea level rise and make storms stronger.  The proper
response would be to curb global heating, but our governments,
corrupted by fossil fuel businesses, lack the political will to save
us.


title: Mass protest in China against new chemical plant
uri: Mass-protest-in-China-against-new-chemical-plant
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Mass_protest_in_China_against_new_chemical_plant)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Mass_protest_in_China_against_new_chemical_plant%29

content:
<p>
A mass protest was held in China against a new chemical plant 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/16/china-protest-chemical-plant-kunming-px">suspected
of planning to produce paraxylene</a>, which is carcinogenic.
<p>
Maybe this plant won't produce paraxylene, but with governments and
companies so dishonest (and not only in China), how can anyone believe
that?  Everyone is better off if states force companies to be honest.


title: Urgent: Investigate threat to journalism
uri: Urgent-Investigate-threat-to-journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Urgent:_Investigate_threat_to_journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_threat_to_journalism%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/Journ_DoJ_AP_press_freedom/">this
petition</a> for Congress to investigate the threat to journalism
posed by the investigation into Associated Press journalism.


title: Attempt at shutting down North Dakota's only abortion provider
uri: Attempt-at-shutting-down-North-Dakota-s-only-abortion-provider
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Attempt_at_shutting_down_North_Dakotas_only_abortion_provider)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Attempt_at_shutting_down_North_Dakotas_only_abortion_provider%29

content:
<p>
Christian fanatics are trying to shut the only abortion provider
in North Dakota by imposing 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/north-dakota-abortion-legal-bid">impossible 
arbitrary restrictions</a>.
<p>
The clinic is suing to overturn them.


title: Charges against NY thug who killed unarmed teenager dismissed
uri: Charges-against-NY-thug-who-killed-unarmed-teenager-dismissed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Charges_against_NY_thug_who_killed_unarmed_teenager_dismissed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Charges_against_NY_thug_who_killed_unarmed_teenager_dismissed%29

content:
<p>
A New York thug who 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/nypd-officer-teenager-bronx-ramarley-graham">killed 
an unarmed teenager in his family home</a> had charges dismissed.
<p>
It is quite difficult to hold them responsible, and partly this is
because the rules give them lots of excuses.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Drugs_used_for_executions_in_the_US)
title: Drugs used for executions in the US
uri: Drugs-used-for-executions-in-the-US
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Drugs_used_for_executions_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Arkansas plans to use untested drugs for executions, but 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/death-penalty-drugs-us-uk">the
manufacturer won't sell any more for that use</a>.
<p>
I condemn the death penalty, but I don't expect it can be stopped this
way.  European companies won't be able to maintain control for long
over how drugs are used once sold to the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Boko_Haram_forcing_people_to_join)
title: Boko Haram forcing people to join
uri: Boko-Haram-forcing-people-to-join
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Boko_Haram_forcing_people_to_join%29
content:
<p>
Boko Haram is forcing people to join 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/nigeria-boko-haram-attacks-military-reprisals">or 
be killed</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Urgent:_Rep_Grijalvas_letter)
title: Urgent: Rep. Grijalva's letter
uri: Urgent-Rep-Grijalva-s-letter
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Rep_Grijalvas_letter%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say
to sign Rep. Grijalva's letter that urges Obama
not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: Israeli gov't demolishing Palestinian homes in Jerusalem
uri: Israeli-gov-t-demolishing-Palestinian-homes-in-Jerusalem
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Israeli_govt_demolishing_Palestinian_homes_in_Jerusalem)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Israeli_govt_demolishing_Palestinian_homes_in_Jerusalem%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli government is 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65435">demolishing 
Palestinian homes in Jerusalem</a> to force Palestinians out.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Norman_Finkelstein)
title: Norman Finkelstein
uri: Norman-Finkelstein
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Norman_Finkelstein%29
content:
<p>
Norman Finkelstein, who was fired from a tenured US professorship for
condemning Israel's policy of occupation, says that he no longer needs
to do that because 
<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/focus-u-s-a/norman-finkelstein-bids-farewell-to-israel-bashing-1.422684">American 
Jews now understand the issue</a> and no longer support Israel's
conduct.


title: Israel only pretends to have halted settlement construction
uri: Israel-only-pretends-to-have-halted-settlement-construction
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Israel_only_pretends_to_have_halted_settlement_construction)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Israel_only_pretends_to_have_halted_settlement_construction%29

content:
<p>
Israel pretends to have halted settlement construction, but really is
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/05/20135963657134477.html">allowing 
construction to go ahead</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Anonymity_Impossible)
title: Anonymity Impossible
uri: Anonymity-Impossible
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Anonymity_Impossible%29
content:
<p>
Has Big Data Made <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514351/has-big-data-made-anonymity-impossible/">Anonymity Impossible?</a>
<p>
This applies to people who use digital technology in the
surveillance-prone ways many people do.  If you use technology the way
I do, people get far less data about you.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Organic_Farms_suing_Monsanto)
title: Organic Farms suing Monsanto
uri: Organic-Farms-suing-Monsanto
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Organic_Farms_suing_Monsanto%29
content:
<p>
US organic farms are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/14-6">suing Monsanto</a> to protect themselves from
being sued if patented genes contaminate their crops.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Distribution_of_child_pornography)
title: Distribution of child pornography
uri: Distribution-of-child-pornography
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Distribution_of_child_pornography%29
content:
<p>
We are asked to believe that the distribution of child pornography
— and I mean real child pornography — leads people to
commit sexual abuse of children.
But <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/14/images-abuse-stuart-hazell-tia-sharp">evidence
suggests it's not so.</a>
<p>
There are two arguments for prohibition of "child pornography".  One
is that "it was made in a real act of sexual abuse".  In some cases,
that is true.  However, in many countries, the "child" may be an
adult, or even nonexistent, since the censorship extends even to
drawings.  Meanwhile, in the US, the "child" may be 17 years old and
taking the photos.  This argument does not apply to those cases.
<p>
The other argument is based on the supposition that looking at these
images leads people to commit sexual abuse.  The article casts doubt
on that supposition.
<p>
Making child pornography through real sexual abuse of real children
can be prosecuted without censorship.  Likewise selling it in a
commercial arrangement with those who made it.  There is no reason for
the censorship which has generated a witch hunt that has ruined the
lives of people not even alleged to have harmed anyone.


title: Digital revolution gift to the power of the state
uri: Digital-revolution-gift-to-the-power-of-the-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Digital_revolution_gift_to_the_power_of_the_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Digital_revolution_gift_to_the_power_of_the_state%29

content:
<p>
The digital revolution turns out to be
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/digital-revoltution-gift-power-state">gift
to the power of the state</a>, and those who exercise the power are
the ones who determine its limits.
<p>
We need to make sure there are lots of people who are not going to be
easy for Big Brother to spy on, on line.  We also need to reject the
"Internet of things", which means in practice that the appliances in
your house keep records for Big Briother to access, with or without a
subpoena.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Half_of_EU_in_recession)
title: Half of EU in recession
uri: Half-of-EU-in-recession
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Half_of_EU_in_recession%29
content:
<p>
Almost <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/france-double-dip-austerity">half
the EU is in recession</a> thanks to austerity policies.
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/15/recessions-hurt-but-austerity-kills">"Recessions
can hurt, but austerity kills".</a>
<p>
If oppression drives you to the point of suicide, why not die fighting
your oppressors instead?


title: Congress fussing about artificial scandals
uri: Congress-fussing-about-artificial-scandals
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Congress_fussing_about_artificial_scandals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Congress_fussing_about_artificial_scandals%29

content:
<p>
Congress, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/irs-ap-benghanzi-not-real-scandals">fussing
about artificial scandals</a>, shows no interest in real Obama
scandals involving stretching US and international law about use of
armed force.
<p>
In the case of Libya, one can argue that Congress effectively approved
the aerial intervention by not objecting to it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Amazon_stretches_UK_tax_law)
title: Amazon stretches UK tax law
uri: Amazon-stretches-UK-tax-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Amazon_stretches_UK_tax_law%29
content:
<p>
Amazon <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/15/amazon-tax-bill-new-questions">stretches
UK tax law</a> to the breaking point.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(Republicans_plan_to_cut_food_stamps)
title: Republicans plan to cut food stamps
uri: Republicans-plan-to-cut-food-stamps
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28Republicans_plan_to_cut_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
Republicans plan
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/house-of-representatives-food-stamps-cuts">cut
food stamps</a> but continue big handouts
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/15-5">big
agribusiness companies.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 16_May_2013_(US_banned_particular_bitcoin_trade)
title: US banned particular bitcoin trade
uri: US-banned-particular-bitcoin-trade
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_May_2013_%28US_banned_particular_bitcoin_trade%29
content:
<p>
The US government
has <a href="http://pandodaily.com/2013/05/14/dept-of-homeland-security-freezes-accounts-between-dwolla-and-bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox/">banned
a particular kind of bitcoin trade.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(Bigger_IRS_scandal)
title: Bigger IRS scandal
uri: Bigger-IRS-scandal
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28Bigger_IRS_scandal%29
content:
<p>
Although the IRS was wrong to choose groups to investigate based on
their political affiliation,
those <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/16/the_other_irs_scandal_david_cay">groups'
applications showed dishonesty</a> that called for action.
<p>
A bigger IRS scandal is not doing enough
to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/opinion/the-real-irs-scandal.html">scrutinize
all such applications.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_the_SANE_act)
title: Urgent: Support the SANE act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-SANE-act
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_SANE_act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call your congresscritter
to <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/161/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13441">support
the SANE Act,</a> which would cancel expensive "upgrades" to US
nuclear weapons.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: Internet of Things means total surveillance
uri: Internet-of-Things-means-total-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(Internet_of_Things_means_total_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28Internet_of_Things_means_total_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/16/internet-of-things-privacy-google">"Internet
of Things"</a> means total surveillance.


title: Chinese would join protests to protect environment
uri: Chinese-would-join-protests-to-protect-environment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(Chinese_would_join_protests_to_protect_environment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28Chinese_would_join_protests_to_protect_environment%29

content:
<p>
A poll finds most Chinese would join protests
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/chinas-choice/2013/may/16/kunming-pollution-protest-chinese-environmental-activism">protect
the local environment.</a>
<p>
They are not yet sensitized to the greater long-term world-wide danger
of global heating.


title: MD whistleblower privatized tests biased
uri: MD-whistleblower-privatized-tests-biased
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(MD_whistleblower_privatized_tests_biased)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28MD_whistleblower_privatized_tests_biased%29

content:
<p>
An MD whistleblower says that the UK's privatized tests of whether
disabled people are fit to work
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/16/atos-doctor-claimants-biased-medical-assessments">systematically
biased.</a>


title: Florida wants to speed up death penalty
uri: Florida-wants-to-speed-up-death-penalty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(Florida_wants_to_speed_up_death_penalty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28Florida_wants_to_speed_up_death_penalty%29

content:
<p>
Florida wants
to <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/capital-punishment-human-rights/kill-kill-and-kill-again-rushing-execution-heightens-risks">speed
up the death penalty</a> so that doubts about someone's guilt don't
need to cause embarrassment.


title: Catholic Church taking control of US hospitals
uri: Catholic-Church-taking-control-of-US-hospitals
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(Catholic_Church_taking_control_of_US_hospitals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28Catholic_Church_taking_control_of_US_hospitals%29

content:
<p>
The Catholic Church is taking control of
a <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/16391-will-the-catholic-bishops-decide-how-you-die-or-whether-you-live">growing
fraction of US hospitals</a>, and makes those hospitals deny various
kinds of health care.
<p>
I think that general hospitals should not be allowed to deny care
based on prejudices.  Limited-duty clinics, which don't accept
emergency patients and do not count as a hospital, perhaps can be
allowed to do so.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(Buying_immunity)
title: Buying immunity
uri: Buying-immunity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28Buying_immunity%29
content:
<p>
Corporations
that <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/16/2018121/corporate-spending-in-state-court-elections-fuels-dramatic-losses-for-injured-individuals/">spend
money on state judge elections</a> effectively buy themselves
immunity.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(Unstudied_new_drugs_in_UK)
title: Unstudied new drugs in UK
uri: Unstudied-new-drugs-in-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28Unstudied_new_drugs_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/16/legal-highs-risk-overdose-drugs-tsar">200
unstudied new drugs are being sold in the UK.</a>
<p>
This is partly a side-effect of prohibition.  If the basically safe
drugs, such as pot and MDMA, were legal, most people would stick to
them.
<p>
Some of them might be dangerous, while others might be fairly safe.
Even those that are safe, in themselves, might become dangerous due to
prohibition, which means you can't be sure what you're getting or how
much.
<p>
There are some young people that will try any drug.  A few such people
were present in the AI lab in the 70s.  The rest of us told them this
was foolish.


title: Urgent: 50 states united for healthy air
uri: Urgent-50-states-united-for-healthy-air
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(Urgent:_50_states_united_for_healthy_air)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_50_states_united_for_healthy_air%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell your senators you
support <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1463&utm_source=Convio">50
States United for Healthy Air.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 17_May_2013_(Austerity_as_cruelty_to_children)
title: Austerity as cruelty to children
uri: Austerity-as-cruelty-to-children
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_%28Austerity_as_cruelty_to_children%29
content:
<p>
The UK medical doctors' union condemns government austerity as
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/16/bma-warns-policies-failing-children">cruelty
to children.</a>
<p>
It is blindness to discuss the topic of child abuse without including
the abuse that is done by the state.


title: Austerity grab is killing people in poor countries, too
uri: Austerity-grab-is-killing-people-in-poor-countries-too
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 18_May_2013_(Austerity_grab_is_killing_people_in_poor_countries_too)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#18_May_2013_%28Austerity_grab_is_killing_people_in_poor_countries_too%29

content:
<p>
The austerity grab is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/16-0">killing 
people in poor countries</a>, too, as they are forced to cut spending
to help the poor, on public health, and on agriculture.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Urgent:_Arms_Trade_Treaty)
title: Urgent: Arms Trade Treaty
uri: Urgent-Arms-Trade-Treaty
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Arms_Trade_Treaty%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.oxfamamerica.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1387">call 
on Obama</a> to sign the Arms Trade Treaty promptly.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Canadian_artist_censored_by_govt)
title: Canadian artist censored by gov't
uri: Canadian-artist-censored-by-gov-t
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Canadian_artist_censored_by_govt%29
content:
<p>
Canadian artist Franke James was censored by the government for not
toeing the tar sands party line.  She obtained the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/17/artist-inspiration-canada-silence-climate">emails 
discussing how to censor her</a>, and turned that into worse
embarrassment for the state.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Pope_condemns_cult_of_money)
title: Pope condemns "cult of money"
uri: Pope-condemns-cult-of-money
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Pope_condemns_cult_of_money%29
content:
<p>
The pope condemned the 
"<a href='http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/17/pope-francis-attacks-cult-money'>cult 
of money</a>" of the banksters which legitimizes their political
power.


title: Anti-sharing organization in legal trouble
uri: Anti-sharing-organization-in-legal-trouble
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Anti-sharing_organization_in_legal_trouble)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Anti-sharing_organization_in_legal_trouble%29

content:
<p>
The "six strikes" anti-sharing organization CCI has run into 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/six-strikes-anti-piracy-outfit-loses-company-status-faces-penalties-130515/">legal 
trouble</a> and has had to suspend activities.
<p>
I don't think this will kill the scheme, though.


title: UK agency admits mistake of not prosecuting thugs
uri: UK-agency-admits-mistake-of-not-prosecuting-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(UK_agency_admits_mistake_of_not_prosecuting_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28UK_agency_admits_mistake_of_not_prosecuting_thugs%29

content:
<p>
The UK agency to investigate crimes committed by thugs has admitted
that it made mistakes when not prosecuting the ones that 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/17/police-watchdog-criticised-investigation-death">killed 
a prisoner</a>.


title: Urgent: Senate investigation report into CIA torture
uri: Urgent-Senate-investigation-report-into-CIA-torture
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Urgent:_Senate_investigation_report_into_CIA_torture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Senate_investigation_report_into_CIA_torture%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://actions.humanrightsfirst.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7833">call 
on Obama</a> to cooperate with the Senate investigation report into
CIA torture.


title: Microsoft accesses URLs mentioned in Skype chat messages
uri: Microsoft-accesses-URLs-mentioned-in-Skype-chat-messages
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Microsoft_accesses_URLs_mentioned_in_Skype_chat_messages)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Microsoft_accesses_URLs_mentioned_in_Skype_chat_messages%29

content:
<p>
Microsoft accesses URLs mentioned in fools' Skype 
<a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/14/1516247/microsoft-reads-your-skype-chat-messages">chat 
messages</a>.
<p>
I say "fools'" because non-fools use other communication methods.


title: Leaking information about government crimes
uri: Leaking-information-about-government-crimes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Leaking_information_about_government_crimes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Leaking_information_about_government_crimes%29

content:
<p>
People who want to leak information about government crimes must now
<a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/listen-up-future-deep-throats-this-is-how-to-leak-to-the-press-today/">follow 
spy tradecraft</a> so as not to be caught by Obama's War on
Whistleblowers.
<p>
Nixon was famous for secrecy, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/16-8">Obama 
is worse</a>.


title: Corporate resistance to necessary regulation
uri: Corporate-resistance-to-necessary-regulation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Corporate_resistance_to_necessary_regulation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Corporate_resistance_to_necessary_regulation%29

content:
<p>
When a business practice kills people, the resistance to necessary
regulation follows a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/16-2">predictable 
pattern</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(California_suing_JP_Morgan)
title: California suing JP Morgan
uri: California-suing-JP-Morgan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28California_suing_JP_Morgan%29
content:
<p>
California
is <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/california-sues-jpmorgan-chase-over-credit-card-cases/">suing
JP Morgan for fraudulent and illegal practices</a> in thousands of
lawsuits against people who may or may not really have been in arrears
on their credit cards.


title: Has your doctor received gifts from Big Pharma
uri: Has-your-doctor-received-gifts-from-Big-Pharma
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Has_your_doctor_received_gifts_from_Big_Pharma)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Has_your_doctor_received_gifts_from_Big_Pharma%29

content:
<p>
Has your doctor
received <a href="http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/">gifts
from Big Pharma?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Twisted_theocratic_Christians)
title: Twisted theocratic Christians
uri: Twisted-theocratic-Christians
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Twisted_theocratic_Christians%29
content:
<p>
Twisted theocratic Christians in the US teach their children
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/18/christian-persecution-american-schools">feel
they are being discriminated</a> against if they do not dominate all
social institutions.
<p>
There you have it: Christian values say you're oppressing Christians
if you don't let them dominate everyone else.
<p>
Twisted Islamic fundamentalists in the Afghan
parliament <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/18/afghan-law-womens-rights-blocked">blocked
a law to ban the selling of women</a>, saying it violates Islamic
values.
<p>
There you have it: Islamic values call for treating women as property.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Urgent:_CO2_emissions_from_aviation)
title: Urgent: CO2 emissions from aviation
uri: Urgent-CO2-emissions-from-aviation
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_CO2_emissions_from_aviation%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on United Airlines to stop opposing world-wide measures
to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/united-climate-lobbying/4/2/">reduce
CO2 emissions from aviation.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on EPA to reduce allowed levels of roundup
uri: Urgent-Call-on-EPA-to-reduce-allowed-levels-of-roundup
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_EPA_to_reduce_allowed_levels_of_roundup)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_EPA_to_reduce_allowed_levels_of_roundup%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA to reduce, not increase, allowed levels
of <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/ocaactions.cfm?actionnum=10886">roundup
in animal feed.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Urgent:_Resist_Monsanto)
title: Urgent: Resist Monsanto
uri: Urgent-Resist-Monsanto
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Resist_Monsanto%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-dont-pass-a">resist
Monsanto</a> and not ban states from requiring labeling of GMOs in
food.
<p>
It is ironic that Republicans who used to claim they were for "states'
rights" support a measure like this.  Really they stand for nothing
except the companies that get them elected.


title: Monsanto wants ban requiring labels on GMOs
uri: Monsanto-wants-ban-requiring-labels-on-GMOs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Monsanto_wants_ban_requiring_labels_on_GMOs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Monsanto_wants_ban_requiring_labels_on_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
Monsanto wants Congress
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/17-4">ban states
from requiring labels on GMOs.</a>


title: Obama regime to continue war for a decade
uri: Obama-regime-to-continue-war-for-a-decade
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Obama_regime_to_continue_war_for_a_decade)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Obama_regime_to_continue_war_for_a_decade%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime admits it plans
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/17-6">continue
"war" for a decade</a> or more against a vague association of
terrorist organizations, many of which are not interested in the US at
all.
<p>
During that time, some of these organizations will be wiped out, but
US killings of civilians will inspire new ones.  By ten years from
now, freedom in the US will be an irrelevant platitude, and there will
be new enemies to justify endless war.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Mistaken_moralistic_economics)
title: Mistaken moralistic economics
uri: Mistaken-moralistic-economics
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Mistaken_moralistic_economics%29
content:
<p>
Paul Krugman explains how psychology predisposes people towards
<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/06/how-case-austerity-has-crumbled/?page=1">mistaken
moralistic economics</a> which treats a depression as punishment for
previous "excesses".
<p>
Keynes's discovery, that governments can end a depression with deficit
spending or else perpetuate it, delivers useful advice instead of the
morality play that people are looking for.  This plays into the hands
of those who profit from a crisis.


title: New Yorker set up secure leak-receiving system
uri: New-Yorker-set-up-secure-leak-receiving-system
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(New_Yorker_set_up_secure_leak-receiving_system)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28New_Yorker_set_up_secure_leak-receiving_system%29

content:
<p>
The New Yorker magazine has set up a
new <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/17/new-yorker-strongbox-aaron-swartz-data-privacy">secure
leak-receiving system</a> that was developed by Aaron Swartz.


title: Falsely claiming wolves and wolverines are real danger to humans
uri: Falsely-claiming-wolves-and-wolverines-are-real-danger-to-humans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Falsely_claiming_wolves_and_wolverines_are_real_danger_to_humans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Falsely_claiming_wolves_and_wolverines_are_real_danger_to_humans%29

content:
<p>
A supposedly factual program about wildlife in Alaska got a big
audience by falsely claiming that wolves and even wolverines are a
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/nature-up/2013/may/17/bloodthirtsty-wildlife-documentaries-reality-ethics">real
danger to humans.</a>
<p>
I wonder if the interests that want
to <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#02_March_2013_(Wolves)">eliminate
protection for wolves</a> in the US had something to do with making
this program.


title: UK cut its team planning for how to cope with effects of climate change
uri: UK-cut-its-team-planning-for-how-to-cope-with-effects-of-climate-chang
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(UK_cut_its_team_planning_for_how_to_cope_with_effects_of_climate_change)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28UK_cut_its_team_planning_for_how_to_cope_with_effects_of_climate_change%29

content:
<p>
As climate change heats up, the UK
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/17/uk-climate-change-adaptation-team-cut">cut
its team planning for how to cope with the effects</a> from 38 people
to 6 people.
<p>
If you are rich, you will take care of yourself; as for the rest,
losing their homes will help make them poorer.


title: UK gov't suppressed evidence about murder of Litvinenko
uri: UK-gov-t-suppressed-evidence-about-murder-of-Litvinenko
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(UK_gov't_suppressed_evidence_about_murder_of_Litvinenko)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_suppressed_evidence_about_murder_of_Litvinenko%29

content:
<p>
The UK government
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/17/litvinenko-coroner-crucial-evidence-secret">suppressed
evidence</a> about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in order to suck
up to Putin.
<p>
Litvinenko was killed by a dose of radioactive polonium, and the
suspicion is that it was given to him
by <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2006-nov-feb.html#06 December
 2006 (Radiation traces in aeroplanes)">Russian agents.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Obama_regime_to_extract_more_oil)
title: Obama regime to extract more oil
uri: Obama-regime-to-extract-more-oil
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Obama_regime_to_extract_more_oil%29
content:
<p>
The Obama regime's new Arctic policy is to take advantage
of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/17/obama-arctic-energy-security-climate">disappearing
ice to extract more oil.</a>
<p>
As we roar towards the edge of the cliff, he wants to step on the
gasoline.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Denial_of_human-caused_global_heating)
title: Denial of human-caused global heating
uri: Denial-of-human-caused-global-heating
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Denial_of_human-caused_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Denial of human-caused global heating is
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/planet-oz/2013/may/17/zombie-climate-sceptic-theories-newspapers-tv">zombie
theory</a>, dead in scientific terms though it seems alive when viewed
through mainstream media.
<p>
It's fossil fuel money that keeps the zombie moving.


title: Urgent: Support the Home Defenders League
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Home-Defenders-League
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 19_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_the_Home_Defenders_League)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Home_Defenders_League%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://corporateactionnetwork.org/petitions/hold-wall-street-accountable-by-prosecuting-the-bankers-who-destroyed-our-economy">state
your support</a>
for the Home Defenders League, who are
pressuring the Department of Justice to prosecute criminal banksters.
<p>
<a href="http://www.homedefendersleague.org/justice-to-justice-week-of-action/">Here's more about their week of action</a>,
now in progress.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Rethink_of_the_War_on_Drugs)
title: Rethink of the War on Drugs
uri: Rethink-of-the-War-on-Drugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Rethink_of_the_War_on_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
Latin American governments have pushed for a global <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/18/western-leaders-game-changing-drugs-report">rethink of the War on Drugs.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Syrian_government_torture_chambers)
title: Syrian government torture chambers
uri: Syrian-government-torture-chambers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Syrian_government_torture_chambers%29
content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch asks Syrian rebels to secure the evidence in
a <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/16/syria-visit-reveals-torture-chambers">government
torture chamber.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Another_nasty_pollutant_from_tar_sands)
title: Another nasty pollutant from tar sands
uri: Another-nasty-pollutant-from-tar-sands
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Another_nasty_pollutant_from_tar_sands%29

content:
<p>
Another nasty pollutant from Alberta tar sands
oil: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/business/energy-environment/mountain-of-petroleum-coke-from-oil-sands-rises-in-detroit.html">piles
of carbon,</a> not safe to burn because of sulfur contamination, and
hard to dispose of.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Global_heating_affects_ocean)
title: Global heating affects ocean
uri: Global-heating-affects-ocean
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Global_heating_affects_ocean%29
content:
<p>
Global heating affects the ocean, and this is
making <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/as-seas-warm-fish-need-new-zip-codes-15992">many
fish species move to different areas.</a>
<p>
Some fish species, that need other special conditions as well as a
particular temperature range, won't find any place they can move to.
They will go extinct.


title: Urgent: Support food stamps for veterans
uri: Urgent-Support-food-stamps-for-veterans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_food_stamps_for_veterans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_food_stamps_for_veterans%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://action.votevets.org/food-stamp">support
food stamps for poor veterans.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Ice_on_Mount_Everest_is_melting)
title: Ice on Mount Everest is melting
uri: Ice-on-Mount-Everest-is-melting
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Ice_on_Mount_Everest_is_melting%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/mount-everest-melting-climate-change_n_3285971.html">ice
on Mount Everest is melting</a>, since the temperature has gone up by
1C.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Obama_caves_to_fracking_industry)
title: Obama caves to fracking industry
uri: Obama-caves-to-fracking-industry
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Obama_caves_to_fracking_industry%29
content:
<p>
Obama
Administration <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mmcfeeley/obama_administration_caves_to.html">Caves
To Fracking Industry</a> in New Proposed Rules.
<p>
But frackers are still not satisfied: they
want <a href="http://grist.org/news/draft-fed-rules-would-let-frackers-do-whatever-they-want-but-theyre-still-not-happy/">carte
blanche.</a>
<p>
Years of corruption combined with cowardice have taught businesses to
expect the US government to take orders from them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Urgent:_Raise_minimum_wage)
title: Urgent: Raise minimum wage
uri: Urgent-Raise-minimum-wage
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-congress-dont-let%20">sign
this petition</a> to raise the minimum wage for restaurant workers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Obama_should_break_a_union)
title: Obama should break a union
uri: Obama-should-break-a-union
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Obama_should_break_a_union%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/15/matthews-obama-needs-to-break-a-union-like-reagan/">"Liberal"
pundits said Obama should break a union</a>, to show he is as tough on
workers as Reagan was.
<p>
This illustrates how the mainstream media often presents a spectrum of
views stretching from extreme right wing to not-so-extreme right wing,
and calls the latter "Liberal".  The views of most Americans, on many
scales, are much more Liberal than that whole spectrum.
<p>
What we need is a president who is tough against the powerful that are
doing tremendous harm, such as the banksters, Big Pharma, the
copyright lobby, and fossil fuel companies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(GMOs_dangerous_and_testing_inadequate)
title: GMOs dangerous and testing inadequate
uri: GMOs-dangerous-and-testing-inadequate
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28GMOs_dangerous_and_testing_inadequate%29

content:
<p>
Thierry Vrain, a scientist who promoted GMOs for the Canadian
government, states why
their <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/13/050613_Former-Pro-GMO-Scientist-Speaks-Out-On-The-Real-Dangers-of-Genetically-Engineered-Food.shtml">testing
is inadequate,</a> and how science has found they are dangerous.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Threatened_with_$1B_suit)
title: Threatened with $1B suit
uri: Threatened-with-1B-suit
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Threatened_with_%241B_suit%29
content:
<p>
Blogger Writes about Predatory Publishing,
Is <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/blogger-writes-about-predatory-publishing-is-threatened-with-1b-suit/">Threatened
with $1B Suit.</a>


title: Requiring court order to seize phone records
uri: Requiring-court-order-to-seize-phone-records
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(Requiring_court_order_to_seize_phone_records)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28Requiring_court_order_to_seize_phone_records%29

content:
<p>
Lawmakers Introduce
Bill <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/court-order-for-phone-records/">Requiring
Court Order to Seize Phone Records.</a>
<p>
This is a partial step forward but not adequate.  Obama's War on
Whistleblowers could surely get a court order to pursue the next
Ellsberg or Manning.
<p>
Obama's proposed law to "shield" journalists would really make
journalists (and our right to know what the state is
doing) <a href="https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/05/white-house-shield-bill-could-actually-make-it-easier-government-get-journalists">more
vulnerable.</a>
<p>
To get back our privacy rights, we need to end the practice of making
complete dossiers of everything we say, to be looked at later.


title: Evidence that humans wiped out mammoths
uri: Evidence-that-humans-wiped-out-mammoths
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Evidence_that_humans_wiped_out_mammoths)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Evidence_that_humans_wiped_out_mammoths%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/19/alice-roberts-mammoth-ivory-ice-age-research">Evidence</a> 
that human hunters wiped out mammoths.


title: EU to buy oil from Islamist fanatics in Syria
uri: EU-to-buy-oil-from-Islamist-fanatics-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(EU_to_buy_oil_from_Islamist_fanatics_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28EU_to_buy_oil_from_Islamist_fanatics_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
The EU has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/19/eu-syria-oil-jihadist-al-qaida">decided 
to buy oil from Islamist fanatics</a> in Syria.
<p>
It is a mistake to speak of "al Qa'ida" as if it referred to a single
coherent organization.  The Islamist fanatics in Syria probably don't
regard the US as an enemy, but they would like to oppress everyone in
Syria that isn't a Sunni male, and even those are likely to face
repression.


title: Urgent: Stop wage theft by fast food companies
uri: Urgent-Stop-wage-theft-by-fast-food-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_wage_theft_by_fast_food_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_wage_theft_by_fast_food_companies%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://action.fastfoodforward.org/page/s/wage-theft/">call on 
fast food companies</a> to stop ripping off their workers' wages.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Herods_temple)
title: Herod's temple
uri: Herod-s-temple
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Herods_temple%29
content:
<p>
How the remnant structure of Herod's temple has been 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1368795841">used 
politically throughout history</a>.


title: Assad says agreement with rebels impossible
uri: Assad-says-agreement-with-rebels-impossible
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Assad_says_agreement_with_rebels_impossible)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Assad_says_agreement_with_rebels_impossible%29

content:
<p>
Assad said, in an 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/18/bashar-assad-exclusive-interview-syria">interview</a>, 
that it would be impossible to make an agreement with the rebels
because they are fragmented and nobody speaks for them all.
<p>
It is not quite impossible; if a few main rebel groups reach an
agreement, they could perhaps prevail on the rest.  But it would
certainly be difficult.
<p>
Syria is degenerating into warlordism.  One writer claims that 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#09_May_2013_(Inflaming_sectarian_conflict)">this
is what the US wants</a>.
<p>
When that happened in Afghanistan, religious fanatics (the Taliban)
received popular support, even though most people did not like their
religious strictness, because they offered a chance to end the
constant fighting between warlords.  A similar thing happened in
Somalia.  The same might happen in Syria.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Saudi_arrested_for_getting_flustered)
title: Saudi arrested for getting flustered
uri: Saudi-arrested-for-getting-flustered
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Saudi_arrested_for_getting_flustered%29

content:
<p>
A Saudi was 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/federal-agents-arrest-saudi-man-accused-of-lying-about-pressure-cooker-at-detroit-airport/2013/05/13/403d487a-bbf7-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html">arrested
for getting flustered</a> when asked why he was bringing a pressure
cooker into the US.
<p>
This is the sort of thing that happens when fools demand that the
government make them perfectly safe from dangers which are so small as
to be negligible in the first place.  About 4 million people die each
year in the US, and the fraction of those deaths due to terrorism is
minuscule.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(EU_acceptance_of_tar_sand_oil)
title: EU acceptance of tar sand oil
uri: EU-acceptance-of-tar-sand-oil
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28EU_acceptance_of_tar_sand_oil%29
content:
<p>
James Hansen tried to convince UK ministers to end their secret
support
for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/19/tar-sands-exploitation-climate-scientist">EU
acceptance of tar sand oil.</a>


title: Journalists attacked by pro-government mob
uri: Journalists-attacked-by-pro-government-mob
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Journalists_attacked_by_pro-government_mob)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Journalists_attacked_by_pro-government_mob%29

content:
<p>
Journalists in Ukraine
were <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/may/20/journalist-safety-ukraine">attacked
by a pro-government mob</a> as thugs did nothing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Rat_poison_killing_birds_of_prey)
title: Rat poison killing birds of prey
uri: Rat-poison-killing-birds-of-prey
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Rat_poison_killing_birds_of_prey%29
content:
<p>
The rat
poison <a href="http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2013/wildlife-conservation-groups-join-fight-to-ban-d-con-rat-poisons?utm_source=Convio">d-CON
is killing birds of prey</a> that eat the poisoned animals.


title: Urgent: Make Plan B available with no limitation
uri: Urgent-Make-Plan-B-available-with-no-limitation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Urgent:_Make_Plan_B_available_with_no_limitation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Make_Plan_B_available_with_no_limitation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell HHS Secretary Sibelius
to <a href="https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5601">make
Plan B available with no limitations.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Banks'_latest_nastiness)
title: Banks' latest nastiness
uri: Banks-latest-nastiness
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Banks%27_latest_nastiness%29
content:
<p>
Banks' latest
nastiness: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/city-national-bank-shuts-down-porn-stars-account-2013-5">refusing
to let porn businesses have bank accounts.</a>


title: Global heating to kill 30 people per year
uri: Global-heating-to-kill-30-people-per-year
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Global_heating_to_kill_30_people_per_year)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Global_heating_to_kill_30_people_per_year%29

content:
<p>
Global heating
is <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-05-heat-related-deaths-manhattan.html">expected
to kill around 30 people per year</a> in Manhattan in the 2020s, just
via the direct effects of heat.
<p>
In subsequent decades it will get worse.  And this is only one of the
ways that global heating will kill.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Recommendation_for_shield_law)
title: Recommendation for shield law
uri: Recommendation-for-shield-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Recommendation_for_shield_law%29
content:
<p>
Reporters Without Borders
presents <a href="http://en.rsf.org/united-states-recommendations-for-a-federal-law-17-05-2013,44624.html">recommendations
for a shield law</a> to protect journalists from investigation for
doing their job.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Weakened_protection_for_safety_at_work)
title: Weakened protection for safety at work
uri: Weakened-protection-for-safety-at-work
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Weakened_protection_for_safety_at_work%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing government in the US
has <a href="http://my.firedoglake.com/juliegutmandickinson/2013/05/15/americas-killer-jobs/">weakened
the protection for safety at work.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Cover_for_sponsors_of_Attack_Ads)
title: Cover for sponsors of Attack Ads
uri: Cover-for-sponsors-of-Attack-Ads
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Cover_for_sponsors_of_Attack_Ads%29
content:
<p>
Lax State
Rules <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/05/16/12652/lax-state-rules-provide-cover-sponsors-attack-ads">Provide
Cover for Sponsors of Attack Ads.</a>


title: Writer sentenced to five years in prison
uri: Writer-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Writer_sentenced_to_five_years_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Writer_sentenced_to_five_years_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
A Tibetan writer
was <a href="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/writings-05162013170531.html">sentenced
to five years in prison</a> for his writings.


title: Unemployment insurance is being reformed
uri: Unemployment-insurance-is-being-reformed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Unemployment_insurance_is_being_reformed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Unemployment_insurance_is_being_reformed%29

content:
<p>
US unemployment insurance is being "reformed"
to <a href="http://www.labornotes.org/2013/05/discipline-and-punish-new-unemployment-reform">push
people into lower-paying jobs.</a>
<p>
This is part of the plutocrats' plan to use the crisis to reduce the
general standard of living of most Americans.  The GNP is up, but the
rich are unwilling to share that with the rest.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Urgent:_No_fracking_on_public_land)
title: Urgent: No fracking on public land
uri: Urgent-No-fracking-on-public-land
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_No_fracking_on_public_land%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell the Bureau of Land
Management <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/letter/blm_fracking_ban/">not
to allow fracking on public land.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Imposing_accountability_on_Wall_Street)
title: Imposing accountability on Wall Street
uri: Imposing-accountability-on-Wall-Street
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Imposing_accountability_on_Wall_Street%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/17-7">Imposing
accountability on Wall Street</a> (i.e., the banksters) is the root
cause behind many causes we need to fight for.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Reshaping_of_Iraq_structured_by_oil)
title: Reshaping of Iraq structured by oil
uri: Reshaping-of-Iraq-structured-by-oil
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Reshaping_of_Iraq_structured_by_oil%29

content:
<p>
Oil is structuring the reshaping of Iraq and perhaps Syria 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/19/jihadists-control-syrian-oilfields">along
ethnic and sectarian lines</a>.


title: Channel cancels episode of Mythbusters on RFID payment systems
uri: Channel-cancels-episode-of-Mythbusters-on-RFID-payment-systems
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Channel_cancels_episode_of_Mythbusters_on_RFID_payment_systems)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Channel_cancels_episode_of_Mythbusters_on_RFID_payment_systems%29

content:
<p>
A planned episode of Mythbusters which would have exposed the lousy
security of RFID payment systems was cancelled by the channel because
<a href="http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/09/03/mythbusters-rfid-episode-banned/1">advertising 
clients didn't want this exposed</a>.


title: Global heating deniers attempt to cause confusion
uri: Global-heating-deniers-attempt-to-cause-confusion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Global_heating_deniers_attempt_to_cause_confusion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Global_heating_deniers_attempt_to_cause_confusion%29

content:
<p>
James Hansen says, ignore global heating deniers' attempts to cause
confusion by 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/17/global-warming-not-stalled-climate">picking 
at minor and short-term details</a>.
<p>
It was recently understood that in the past decade, global heating did
not slow down; rather, a larger fraction 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#04_March_2012_(Extinction)">went 
into the ocean</a> rather than the atmosphere.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 20_May_2013_(US_hospitals_raising_prices_rapidly)
title: US hospitals raising prices rapidly
uri: US-hospitals-raising-prices-rapidly
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_May_2013_%28US_hospitals_raising_prices_rapidly%29

content:
<p>
US hospitals are raising prices rapidly, though their 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/17-5">costs
have not increased much</a>.
<p>
The burden of these increases 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#03_July_2011_(US_Universal_Health_Care)">falls 
hardest on those with no insurance</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_May_2013_(Motive_behind_Boston_bombing)
title: Motive behind Boston bombing
uri: Motive-behind-Boston-bombing
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_May_2013_%28Motive_behind_Boston_bombing%29
content:
<p>
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note saying the Boston bombing was 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/16/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-message-boat-cbs-news">meant 
as retaliation for US violence in Afghanistan and Iraq</a>.
<p>
It won't be the first time people attacked Americans with that motive.
<p>
To some extent, his idea is simplistic.  The US intervened in
Afghanistan on the side of some Afghan groups against others.  Once
the Taliban started fighting back, the US and the Taliban 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#19%20March%202011%20(Afghanistan%20Casualties)">both 
started killing civilians</a>.
<p>
Islamists tend to blame the US for when it kills civilians,
and not blame the Taliban for doing likewise, even when the Taliban
do it more deliberately.  So we get this sort of response.
<p>
The US <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#31_December_2011_(Obama)">aerial 
death squad</a> merits condemnation for other reasons.  It is in the
practical interest of the US, as well as its moral duty. to shut it
down.


title: FBI reads reporter's email to find his source
uri: FBI-reads-reporter-s-email-to-find-his-source
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(FBI_reads_reporters_email_to_find_his_source)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28FBI_reads_reporters_email_to_find_his_source%29

content:
<p>
The FBI <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/feds-tracked-fox-news-reporter/">read 
a reporter's email to find his source</a>, and claimed his
investigation was a "criminal conspiracy" because he was asking the
source questions.
<p>
That reporter and his source tried to conceal their communication.
This was presented as a sign of guilt, but it is simple common sense
for journalists working in a state that persecutes journalists.  It is
a shame they did not follow 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_May_2013_(Leaking_information_about_government_crimes)">best secrecy practices</a>.
<p>
I am glad that Obama's War on Journalism is finally getting
condemnation.  When journalists investigate what our government is
doing, they and their sources our country and protect it from the
biggest internal threat it faces: the national security state which is
dominated by plutocrats.


title: Apple routes billions in profits to subsidiaries that pay no taxes
uri: Apple-routes-billions-in-profits-to-subsidiaries-that-pay-no-taxes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Apple_routes_billions_in_profits_to_subsidiaries_that_pay_no_taxes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Apple_routes_billions_in_profits_to_subsidiaries_that_pay_no_taxes%29

content:
<p>
Apple has routed billions of dollars in profits to subsidiaries that 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/apple-avoided-billions-in-taxes-congressional-panel-says.html?pagewanted=all">claim 
to belong to no state and pay no taxes</a>.
<p>
I've proposed a 
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-big-to-fail/">way 
to cut through this problem</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Arabs_with_pressure_cookers)
title: Arabs with pressure cookers
uri: Arabs-with-pressure-cookers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Arabs_with_pressure_cookers%29
content:
<p>
If you look Arab and you carry a pressure cooker, 
<a href="http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201305132224-0022752">watch 
out</a>!


title: Aquifer running empty in many areas Kansas
uri: Aquifer-running-empty-in-many-areas-Kansas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Aquifer_running_empty_in_many_areas_Kansas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Aquifer_running_empty_in_many_areas_Kansas%29

content:
<p>
Farming in Kansas is running into a brick wall: the aquifer is 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/us/high-plains-aquifer-dwindles-hurting-farmers.html?pagewanted=all">running 
empty in many areas</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Moving_communities_to_higher_ground)
title: Moving communities to higher ground
uri: Moving-communities-to-higher-ground
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Moving_communities_to_higher_ground%29

content:
<p>
Alaska provides an 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/05/alaskan-villages-try-climigration-in-the-face-of-climate-change/">initial 
test case</a> for moving communities to higher ground, so we can learn
and prepare for moving millions of people from cities like NYC and
Washington.
<p>
Global heating is expected to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/12/climate-change-expert-stern-displacement">force 
hundreds of millions of people to try to migrate</a> from land become
uninhabitable.


title: Excuse for massive collection of biometric information
uri: Excuse-for-massive-collection-of-biometric-information
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Excuse_for_massive_collection_of_biometric_information)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Excuse_for_massive_collection_of_biometric_information%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/05/aadhaar_and_other_developing_world_biometrics_programs_must_protect_users.html">Humanitarian 
goals</a> now provide the excuse for massive collection of biometric
information.


title: Crucial victory in civil rights movement
uri: Crucial-victory-in-civil-rights-movement
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Crucial_victory_in_civil_rights_movement)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Crucial_victory_in_civil_rights_movement%29

content:
<p>
Thousands of teenagers and children, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/18-4">marching for 
freedom and equality and getting arrested in large numbers</a>, won a 
crucial victory in the civil rights movement.
<p>
It's too bad Americans don't have this sort of spirit nowadays
to campaign for freedom and equality.


title: Firing Edward DeMarco too little, too late
uri: Firing-Edward-DeMarco-too-little-too-late
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Firing_Edward_DeMarco_too_little_too_late)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Firing_Edward_DeMarco_too_little_too_late%29

content:
<p>
Green Party: firing Edward DeMarco was 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/perry-too-little-too-late-foreclosures">too 
little, too late</a>.


title: Obama follows in Nixon's footsteps in attacking journalism
uri: Obama-follows-in-Nixon-s-footsteps-in-attacking-journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Obama_follows_in_Nixons_footsteps_in_attacking_journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Obama_follows_in_Nixons_footsteps_in_attacking_journalism%29

content:
<p>
Obama is following Nixon's footsteps in attacking journalism
that investigates 
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/17/obama_worse_than_nixon_pentagon_papers">what 
the state does in the name of "security"</a>.


title: Bill to end teaching of biology in Louisiana public schools
uri: Bill-to-end-teaching-of-biology-in-Louisiana-public-schools
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Bill_to_end_teaching_of_biology_in_Louisiana_public_schools)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Bill_to_end_teaching_of_biology_in_Louisiana_public_schools%29

content:
<p>
A bill in Louisiana 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/20/creationism-textbooks-louisiana-schools">proposes 
to end the teaching of real biology</a> in public schools there.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Deforestation_in_Indochina)
title: Deforestation in Indochina
uri: Deforestation-in-Indochina
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Deforestation_in_Indochina%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/20/deforestation-south-east-asia">Half 
the land</a> in Indochina has been deforested in 40 years.
<p>
Many species will be wiped out before we know they exist.


title: Journalist accused of committing crime by asking questions
uri: Journalist-accused-of-committing-crime-by-asking-questions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Journalist_accused_of_committing_crime_by_asking_questions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Journalist_accused_of_committing_crime_by_asking_questions%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime accused a journalist of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/20/obama-doj-james-rosen-criminality">committing 
a crime by asking questions</q>.
<p>
Thus, the War on Whistleblowers is growing into a War on Journalists.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(40C_(104F)_temperature_in_Pakistan)
title: 40C (104F) temperature in Pakistan
uri: 40C-(104F)-temperature-in-Pakistan
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%2840C_%28104F%29_temperature_in_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
Pakistan is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/20/pakistan-aircon-civil-servants-ditch-socks">short 
of electricity</a> as people try to use air conditioning to cope with
temperatures of 40C (104F).
<p>
As global heating continues, things will get much worse.


title: Episode of Mythbusters on RFID payment systems cancelled
uri: Episode-of-Mythbusters-on-RFID-payment-systems-cancelled
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Episode_of_Mythbusters_on_RFID_payment_systems_cancelled)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Episode_of_Mythbusters_on_RFID_payment_systems_cancelled%29

content:
<p>
A planned episode of Mythbusters which would have exposed the lousy
security of RFID payment systems was cancelled by the channel because
<a href="http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/09/03/mythbusters-rfid-episode-banned/1">advertising 
clients didn't want this exposed</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_extended_bottle_bill)
title: Urgent: Support extended bottle bill
uri: Urgent-Support-extended-bottle-bill
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_extended_bottle_bill%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=8207">call 
on your state senator</a> to support the extended bottle bill.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Urgent:_Ban_Pebble_Mine)
title: Urgent: Ban Pebble Mine
uri: Urgent-Ban-Pebble-Mine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_Pebble_Mine%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3063">call 
on the EPA</a> to follow its own conclusions and protect
Bristol Bay, by banning Pebble Mine.


title: Urgent: Stop deportation of unconscious injured patients
uri: Urgent-Stop-deportation-of-unconscious-injured-patients
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_deportation_of_unconscious_injured_patients)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_deportation_of_unconscious_injured_patients%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://org.credoaction.com/petitions/unitypoint-health-don-t-disconnect-immigrants-to-die">call 
on UnityPoint Health</a> to stop deporting unconscious injured
patients to avoid treating them.


title: US military grants itself power to enforce domestic law
uri: US-military-grants-itself-power-to-enforce-domestic-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(US_military_grants_itself_power_to_enforce_domestic_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28US_military_grants_itself_power_to_enforce_domestic_law%29

content:
<p>
[US] <a href="http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/military-quietly-grants-itself-power-police-streets-without-local-or-state-consent?paging=off">Military 
Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or
State Consent</a>.


title: West Virginia proposes to "protect" girls by punishing them for sexting
uri: West-Virginia-proposes-to-protect-girls-by-punishing-them-for-sextin
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(West_Virginia_proposes_to_protect_girls_by_punishing_them_for_sexting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28West_Virginia_proposes_to_protect_girls_by_punishing_them_for_sexting%29

content:
<p>
West Virginia proposes to "protect" girls from the risk of embarrassment 
due to sexting by 
<a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/05/19/west-virginia-passes-victim-blaming-sexting-law/">piling 
punishment on top</a>.
<p>
When sex is concerned, we see many proposals to punish those who are
mistreated in one way or another.  I think that this is just prudery
at work — the talk about "helping" or "protecting" is just a
disguise.
<p>
If we really want to help people, we need to think about why they get
hurt.  The US has a ridiculous taboo on nudity, and women who show
their sexuality are sneered at.  This is tied up with sexism,
mysogyny, and religion.  If a girl feels hurt due to publication of a
nude photo of her, this stigma is probably why it hurts.
<p>
One way to destigmatize something is to get lots of people doing it.
I made the suggestion that Facebook should require every user to
provide a nude photo.  This was a joke — no one should use
Facebook! — but also serious.  If lots of teenagers post nude
photos, so that it becomes normal, the stigma will be gone.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Hurdles_to_peace_talks_for_Syria)
title: Hurdles to peace talks for Syria
uri: Hurdles-to-peace-talks-for-Syria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Hurdles_to_peace_talks_for_Syria%29
content:
<p>
On the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/20/this-syrias-great-chance-change">hurdles</a> 
peace talks for Syria face.
<p>
And even <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/20/syria-back-seat-drivers-us-uk">more 
hurdles</a>.


title: 230 killed in Sunni-Shi'ite conflict in the past week
uri: 230-killed-in-Sunni-Shi-ite-conflict-in-the-past-week
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(230_killed_in_Sunni-Shiite_conflict_in_the_past_week)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28230_killed_in_Sunni-Shiite_conflict_in_the_past_week%29

content:
<p>
The Sunni-Shi'ite conflict in Iraq has killed 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/20/iraq-sectarian-attacks">230 
people</a> in the past week.


title: Kerry says he is trying to restart Arab/Israeli peace talks
uri: Kerry-says-he-is-trying-to-restart-Arab-Israeli-peace-talks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Kerry_says_he_is_trying_to_restart_Arab+Israeli_peace_talks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Kerry_says_he_is_trying_to_restart_Arab%2BIsraeli_peace_talks%29

content:
<p>
Kerry keeps saying he is trying to restart Arab/Israeli 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/20/john-kerry-middle-east-william-hague">peace 
talks</a>, even though Netanyahu demonstrates total contempt for the
idea of peace.


title: States to lure and pressure people to give private info
uri: States-to-lure-and-pressure-people-to-give-private-info
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(States_to_lure_and_pressure_people_to_give_private_info)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28States_to_lure_and_pressure_people_to_give_private_info%29

content:
<p>
It's bad enough that corporations lure people to give out lots of
personal information.  Even
worse, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/21/privacy-public-health-surveillance">states
are going to join in luring or pressuring people</a> to do so.
<p>
The <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_May_2013_(Internet_of_Things_means_total_surveillance)">"Internet
of Things"</a> is one of the stratagems.


title: Support of Guatemalan dictators from US
uri: Support-of-Guatemalan-dictators-from-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Support_of_Guatemalan_dictators_from_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Support_of_Guatemalan_dictators_from_US%29

content:
<p>
The invisible elephant in the room during Rios Montt's trial was the
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/world/americas/trial-on-guatemalan-civil-war-carnage-leaves-out-us-role.html">support
that a string of Guatemalan dictators got from the US</a> government.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Urgent:_Arrest_the_bankster)
title: Urgent: Arrest the bankster
uri: Urgent-Arrest-the-bankster
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Arrest_the_bankster%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone the White House and say,
<a href="http://www.campaignforfairsettlement.org/">arrest the
bankster, not the protesters against "Too Big to Jail".</a>
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Assange_got_notes_from_UK_spy_agency)
title: Assange got notes from UK spy agency
uri: Assange-got-notes-from-UK-spy-agency
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Assange_got_notes_from_UK_spy_agency%29

content:
<p>
Julian Assange got notes that a UK spy agency had about him, in which
the spooks speculated that
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/20/julian-assange-gchq-messages-extradition">charges
against Assange were trumped up.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Arrested_for_making_video)
title: Arrested for making video
uri: Arrested-for-making-video
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Arrested_for_making_video%29
content:
<p>
New York thugs
violently <a href="http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/05/18/nypd-cops-arrest-woman-recording-them-apparently-steal-wrong-memory-card/">arrested
a woman who was making a video of them,</a> and her boyfriend.  They
tried to steal the video, but they got the wrong video card, so they
were busted.
<p>
How often do they steal the right video card and get away with their
crime?  Shouldn't they be prosecuted for obstruction of justice
whenever they destroy evidence?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Sectarian_fighting_in_Iraq)
title: Sectarian fighting in Iraq
uri: Sectarian-fighting-in-Iraq
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Sectarian_fighting_in_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
Analyzing
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/21/iraq-sectarianism-syrian-war-sunni">sectarian
fighting in Iraq.</a>


title: In jail for feeling forced and abusive marriages
uri: In-jail-for-feeling-forced-and-abusive-marriages
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(In_jail_for_feeling_forced_and_abusive_marriages)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28In_jail_for_feeling_forced_and_abusive_marriages%29

content:
<p>
Hundreds of Afghan women are
in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/21/afghan-women-jailed-abuse">jail
for fleeing forced and abusive marriages.</a>
<p>
Others are in jail for being raped.
<p>
Instead of propping up Karzai's government, we should arm Afghan
women.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Rios_Montt's_trial_has_to_be_done_over)
title: Rios Montt's trial has to be done over
uri: Rios-Montt-s-trial-has-to-be-done-over
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Rios_Montt%27s_trial_has_to_be_done_over%29

content:
<p>
Guatemala's constitutional court says
that <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/21/guatemala-efrain-rios-montt-genocide-conviction">part
of Rios Montt's trial has to be done over.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Iran_holds_2600_prisoners)
title: Iran holds 2600 prisoners
uri: Iran-holds-2600-prisoners
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Iran_holds_2600_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/21/iran-election-crackdown-rights-activists">Iran
holds 2600 political prisoners</a>, and it's actively looking for
more.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Corporations_force_for_destruction)
title: Corporations force for destruction
uri: Corporations-force-for-destruction
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Corporations_force_for_destruction%29
content:
<p>
Corporations have become a marauding force
for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/20-0">destruction
and suffering around the world.</a>
<p>
Apple and such are too busy causing our worst problems to bother
trying to solve them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_May_2013_(Surveillance_of_Occupy_Wall_Street)
title: Surveillance of Occupy Wall Street
uri: Surveillance-of-Occupy-Wall-Street
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_%28Surveillance_of_Occupy_Wall_Street%29
content:
<p>
The giant US "counter-terrorism" apparatus was systematically aimed
at <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/20-4">surveillance
of Occupy Wall Street and other protest movements,</a> in close
cooperation with corporations being protested.
<p>
More "security" means less democracy.  It's not just a theoretical
possibility, it's an established fact.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Obamas_misuse_of_AUMF_unconstitutional)
title: Obama's misuse of AUMF unconstitutional
uri: Obama-s-misuse-of-AUMF-unconstitutional
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Obamas_misuse_of_AUMF_unconstitutional%29

content:
<p>
Green Party: 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=174&qid=271995">Obama's 
misuse of AUMF</a> is unconstitutional, unconscionable.


title: Peru sued for ordering company to clean up lead pollution
uri: Peru-sued-for-ordering-company-to-clean-up-lead-pollution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Peru_sued_for_ordering_company_to_clean_up_lead_pollution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Peru_sued_for_ordering_company_to_clean_up_lead_pollution%29

content:
<p>
Peru ordered a mine to clear up lead pollution that poisoned many children,
so the company is using the US - Peru free exploitation treaty to 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-09/rennert-800-million-toxic-lead-fight-roils-global-trade.html">sue
Peru</a>.
<p>
All the free exploitation treaties starting with the WTO are an 
<a href="media/74513f11.trade-treaty-comic.jpg" data-original-source="http://www.stallman.org/images/trade-treaty-comic.jpg">injustice</a>,
and the ones with this "investor-state" provision are the nastiest of all.
Countries must free themselves from these treaties.


title: Oklahoma senators worked to undermine disaster relief
uri: Oklahoma-senators-worked-to-undermine-disaster-relief
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Oklahoma_senators_worked_to_undermine_disaster_relief)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Oklahoma_senators_worked_to_undermine_disaster_relief%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/05/21/2039991/coburn-inhofe-oklahoma-disaster-relief/">Before 
Deadly Tornado Hit, Oklahoma Senators Worked To Undermine Disaster
Relief</a>.


title: Congressman denounces food stamps as stealing
uri: Congressman-denounces-food-stamps-as-stealing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Congressman_denounces_food_stamps_as_stealing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Congressman_denounces_food_stamps_as_stealing%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/05/21/2042831/congressman-who-gets-millions-in-farm-subsidies-denounces-food-stamps-as-stealing-other-peoples-money/">Congressman 
Who Gets Millions In Farm Subsidies Denounces Food Stamps As Stealing
Other People's Money</a>.
<p>
This greedy bastard called recipients of food stamps "unwilling to work",
which is lie, given that his plutocrat cronies have left the US with
too few jobs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Replacement_of_human_workers_by_robots)
title: Replacement of human workers by robots
uri: Replacement-of-human-workers-by-robots
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Replacement_of_human_workers_by_robots%29

content:
<p>
Confronting the prospect of 
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514861/its-time-to-talk-about-the-burgeoning-robot-middle-class/">massive 
unemployment</a>, as robots replace human workers while doing a worse
job.


title: Recruiting company lied to recruit Indian guest workers
uri: Recruiting-company-lied-to-recruit-Indian-guest-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Recruiting_company_lied_to_recruit_Indian_guest_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Recruiting_company_lied_to_recruit_Indian_guest_workers%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU and others are suing a recruiting company that 
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights/prestigious-law-firms-join-fight-guestworkers-rights-major-human-trafficking-case">lied 
to recruit Indian guest workers</a>.
<p>
Isn't this fraud?  Can't it be prosecuted as a crime?  I guess the
"Jusrice" department has its hands full prosecuting so many
whistleblowers and journalists.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Telecommunications_in_Burma)
title: Telecommunications in Burma
uri: Telecommunications-in-Burma
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Telecommunications_in_Burma%29
content:
<p>
"Telecom companies that rush into Burma 
<a href='http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/19/burma-telecoms-risk-complicity-surveillance-censorship'>before 
rights protections are in place</a> risk complicity in illegal
surveillance, censorship, and other repression."
<p>
It bothers me that these things happen in Burma, but as a patriotic
American, it bothers me more that they happen in the US.


title: Russian mass surveillance technology in use in the US
uri: Russian-mass-surveillance-technology-in-use-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Russian_mass_surveillance_technology_in_use_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Russian_mass_surveillance_technology_in_use_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Russian technology for mass surveillance is 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/russian-surveillance-technologies/">in 
use in the US</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(UKs_plan_to_encourage_creativity)
title: UK's plan to encourage creativity
uri: UK-s-plan-to-encourage-creativity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28UKs_plan_to_encourage_creativity%29
content:
<p>
The UK's plan to "encourage creativity" is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/17/to-encourage-creativity-mr-gove-understand">rote 
memorization</a>.
<p>
To make sense of this apparent idiocy, first recall that the only
thing the government really wants in regard to schools is to cut
expenditure, and whatever it says is an excuse.  An idiotic excuse
is fine if people accept it.  I suspect that somehow or other
this will provide an excuse for cuts.


title: Urgent: Marine reserves in the Bering Sea
uri: Urgent-Marine-reserves-in-the-Bering-Sea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Marine_reserves_in_the_Bering_Sea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Marine_reserves_in_the_Bering_Sea%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1372">marine 
reserves in the Bering Sea</a>.


title: Fraudulent DMCA takedowns for documentary about the Pirate Bay
uri: Fraudulent-DMCA-takedowns-for-documentary-about-the-Pirate-Bay
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Fraudulent_DMCA_takedowns_for_documentary_about_the_Pirate_Bay)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Fraudulent_DMCA_takedowns_for_documentary_about_the_Pirate_Bay%29

content:
<p>
Hollywood companies are sending 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/05/20/movie-studios-send-fraudulent.html">fraudulent 
DMCA takedowns</a> for a documentary about the Pirate Bay.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Cameron_D'Ambrosio)
title: Urgent: Cameron D'Ambrosio
uri: Urgent-Cameron-D-Ambrosio
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Cameron_D%27Ambrosio%29
content:
<p>In the US: call for dropping charges against ranting teenager <a href="http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/teenager/">Cameron D'Ambrosio</a>.</p>
<p>His rap rant was twisted by thugs into a terrorist threat, and he 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml">faces 
20 years in prison</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_US_National_Forests_And_Parks)
title: Urgent: US National Forests And Parks
uri: Urgent-US-National-Forests-And-Parks
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_US_National_Forests_And_Parks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama to keep fracking out of <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=8195&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=k24wm51b61.app334b">
US national forests
and national parks.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Close_The_Guantanamo_Prison)
title: Urgent: Close The Guantanamo Prison
uri: Urgent-Close-The-Guantanamo-Prison
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Close_The_Guantanamo_Prison%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Obama to 
<a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/obama_shut_down_gitmo_us/">close the 
Guantanamo prison.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Cut_CO2_Emissions)
title: Urgent: Cut CO2 Emissions
uri: Urgent-Cut-CO2-Emissions
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Cut_CO2_Emissions%29
content:
<p>US citizens:  Call on Obama to act now to <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3071">
cut CO2 emissions.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Fire_Elizabeth_Lederer)
title: Urgent: Fire Elizabeth Lederer
uri: Urgent-Fire-Elizabeth-Lederer
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Fire_Elizabeth_Lederer%29
content:
<p>Everyone: sign this petition calling on Columbia University to
<a href="http://org.credoaction.com/petitions/columbia-university-law-school-fire-elizabeth-lederer-as-lecturer-in-law">fire
Elizabeth Lederer</a>.</p>
<p>Prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer bullied people into false confessions
for a murder even though
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/25/nyregion/hair-evidence-in-jogger-case-is-discredited.html">DNA
evidence suggested the culprit was someone else</a>.</p>
<p>This was a callous disregard for justice, not a mere mistake, so it
deserves punishment.  For her to be fired from teaching is not an
adequate punishment for this, but it is better than nothing.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Everyone)
title: Urgent: Everyone
uri: Urgent-Everyone
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Everyone%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Everyone: call on the president of the Maldives to change the
law under which a <a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/2632?n=26017695.Wwe-b5">
teenager was sentenced to flogging for being
raped.</a></p>
<p>This change is just a first step, because it is also wrong to flog
people for having sex voluntarily.  (Or for anything else.)  This is
just one part of the systematic injustice of Islamic law, and the
elimination of that form of cruelty must be the goal.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Call_On_Obama)
title: Urgent: Call On Obama
uri: Urgent-Call-On-Obama
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_On_Obama%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>US citizens: call on Obama to require US contractors <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=413">
to pay workers
a
living wage.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Repeal)
title: Urgent: Repeal
uri: Urgent-Repeal
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal%29
content:
<p>US citizens: sign this petition to <a href="http://youpower.democracyforamerica.com/petitions/repeal-the-monsanto-protection-act-1Â">
repeal the Monsanto Protection
Act.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Mount_Everest's_Glaciers)
title: Mount Everest's Glaciers
uri: Mount-Everest-s-Glaciers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Mount_Everest%27s_Glaciers%29
content:
<p>Mount Everest's Glaciers 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/mount-everest-glaciers-shrinking-global-warming">have 
shrunk 13% in 50 years.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Ruins)
title: Ruins
uri: Ruins
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Ruins%29
content:
<p>The Taliban destroyed the Buddha statues of Bamiyan.  Karzai is letting
a Chinese mining company destroy the ruins of Mes Aynak, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/archaeologists-joy-afghan-mine-delay">
but at least
they will be studied archeologically first.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(The_FBI)
title: The FBI
uri: The-FBI
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28The_FBI%29
content:
<p>The FBI shot and killed a suspect who was <a href="http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/rss/~3/lJe_qBiPQFo/fbi-man-shot-florida-tsarnaev-brothers">
under interrogation in his
home.
</a></p>
<p>It sounds to me like "shot while trying to escape".</p>
<p>Reportedly he was suspected of murder.  Reportedly he expected to be
shot.  Reportedly this was not the first interrogation, yet apparently
he did not have a lawyer present.  Did the FBI read him his Miranda
warning?</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(US-UK)
title: US-UK
uri: US-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28US-UK%29
content:
<p>
Men armed with knives killed a British soldier in London, <a href="http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/rss/~3/AYPWwEjb278/woolwich-attack-cleaver-knife-jihadist">
then said it
was revenge for killing Muslims.</a></p>
<p>The jihadis' theocratic agenda is horrible tyranny, but they have a
valid grievance about US-UK violence.  On this occasion they attacked
a military target, so if you want to think of this as war, the attack
was not a war crime.  However, they threatened to attack civilians,
which would be a war crime.</p>
<p><a href="http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/rss/~3/FKeH2kRzAZs/white-house-drone-strikes-us-citizens">
The US admitted that four US citizens were killed by US drone
attacks.
</a>
</p>
<p>The US and UK should stop killing civilians around the world.  Whether
they are Muslim (as is usually the case today) or Christian (as was
typically the case in the 70s and 80s) is an insignificant detail.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Monsanto)
title: Monsanto
uri: Monsanto
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Monsanto%29
content:
<p>Monsanto's new Omega-3 soybean was engineered to offer <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/NODE/12097">
what hemp
seed
offers naturally.</a></p>
<p>I wonder if Monsanto is paying congresscritters to oppose legalization
of hemp.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Student)
title: Student
uri: Student
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Student%29
content:
<p>A high school student faces prosecution for <a href="http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/rss/~3/_21sVdtwVd4/gay-teenager-charges-relationship-girlfriend">
having a younger
girlfriend.</a></p>
<p>This sort of "protection" is not good for anyone.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(PBS)
title: PBS
uri: PBS
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28PBS%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>PBS cancelled the showing of a documentary to <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/NODE/12118">
avoid offending the
Koch
brothers.
</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Sweden)
title: Sweden
uri: Sweden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Sweden%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Right-wing policies in Sweden have led to growing inequality,
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/sweden-riots-husby-stockholm">
which resulted in riots.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Water)
title: Water
uri: Water
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Water%29
content:
<p>Humanity is on a course to run out <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/22/world-run-out-water-ban-ki-moon1">
of fresh water.</a></p>
<p>The problem will show up mostly in poor countries at first.  Many of
them have rapidly growing populations.  A comparatively small
investment in birth control and sterilization could avoid a good part
of this problem.</p>
<p>Or would you rather see the population held down by diseases spread by
drinking unsafe water?
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(CIA'a_Global_Detention_Program)
title: CIA'a Global Detention Program
uri: CIA-a-Global-Detention-Program
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28CIA%27a_Global_Detention_Program%29
content:
<p>
Mapping the CIA's global kidnap and secret detention program
shows <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/us-extraordinary-rendition-programme">the 
participation of other countries.
</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Italian_Thugs)
title: Italian Thugs
uri: Italian-Thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Italian_Thugs%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>A documentary shows how Italian thugs attacked protesters while they
rested for the night in a school in Genoa, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/may/22/g8-italy">
then tried to frame
them</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Publisher)
title: Publisher
uri: Publisher
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Publisher%29
content:
<p>A significant publisher has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/22/amazon-business-rejected-childrens-publisher">
stopped selling through Amazon.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Malaysia)
title: Malaysia
uri: Malaysia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Malaysia%29
content:
<p>In Malaysia, rapists avoid punishment by pressuring <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/malaysian-rapist-marries-victim-girl">
the victim into
marriage.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Yerachmiel_Kahanovich)
title: Yerachmiel Kahanovich
uri: Yerachmiel-Kahanovich
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Yerachmiel_Kahanovich%29
content:
<p>
Yerachmiel Kahanovich says he shot Palestinian civilians in 1948,
under orders, <a href="http://972mag.com/despite-efforts-to-erase-it-the-nakbas-memory-is-more-present-than-ever-in-israel/71468/">
and drove out the population of villages.</a>
</p>
<p>When he says he fired one or two shots at a village, I can't tell
whether he means he shot a couple of people or fired in the air.</p>
<p>The Arabs sought in that war to expel the Jews, and initially they
seemed to have a real chance of succeeding.  The two sides were
roughly in moral parity.  How different from the situation today,
where Israel is not threatened at all but calculatingly continues its
land grab.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(The_IRS)
title: The IRS
uri: The-IRS
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28The_IRS%29
content:
<p>
The IRS had good reason to question the tax-exempt status of some
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/22/irs-investigations-religious-right-justified">
right-wing groups.
</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(The_US_Green_Party)
title: The US Green Party
uri: The-US-Green-Party
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28The_US_Green_Party%29
content:
<p>The US Green Party calls for <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=155&qid=221453">
education to be free.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Lake_Malawi)
title: Lake Malawi
uri: Lake-Malawi
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Lake_Malawi%29
content:
<p>Lake Malawi is running out of fish, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/may/22/lake-malawi-water-levels-fish-stocks">
and drying up.</a></p>
<p>This is due to human activity, including global heating.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Senator)
title: Senator
uri: Senator
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Senator%29
content:
<p>
"How big do the biggest banks have to get before we consider breaking
them up," <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/elizabeth-warren-treasury-secretary-jack-lew-too-big-fail">
asked Senator Warren.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Criminal_Investigation)
title: Criminal Investigation
uri: Criminal-Investigation
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Criminal_Investigation%29
content:
<p>
A Dutch criminal investigation puts companies on notice that they may
be prosecuted for collaborating with the construction <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/dutch-probe-sends-warning-firms-abetting-israels-crimes/12462">
of Israeli
colonies
in Palestine or the annexation wall.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Israeli_Soldiers)
title: Israeli Soldiers
uri: Israeli-Soldiers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Israeli_Soldiers%29
content:
<p>Israeli soldiers keep on destroying Palestinians' crops and irrigation
systems, <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=59502">
and demolishing their buildings.</a></p>
<p>The default policy of the Israeli army, when colonists commit crimes
against Palestinians, <a href="http://972mag.com/the-israeli-armys-default-position-supporting-the-outlaws/71467/">
is to defend the culprits and aggravate the
crimes.</A>
Sometimes they arrest the victims too.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Apple)
title: Apple
uri: Apple
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Apple%29
content:
<p>Apple arrogantly demanded the US reduce its tax rate, and then Apple
will
deign to <a href="http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/rss/~3/dKMKqgjtHPM/apple-wants-single-digit-corporate-tax">
allow some of its foreign income to be taxed.</a></p>
<p>The
Home of the Brave would punish Apple for this by doing exactly the
opposite of what it wants: taxing foreign income anyway.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(America)
title: America
uri: America
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28America%29
content:
<p>How America could become a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/21/sequester-cuts-make-america-third-world-country">
third-world country.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(The_UK)
title: The UK
uri: The-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28The_UK%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The UK will use a secret hearing to try to snuff out Abdel Hakim
Belhaj's lawsuit about handing <a href="http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/rss/~3/L1xsWB2RIlY/abdel-hakim-belhaj-torture-secret-court">
him to Gaddafi for torture.</a></p>


title: Urgent: Protests against Monsanto on Saturday
uri: Urgent-Protests-against-Monsanto-on-Saturday
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Protests_against_Monsanto_on_Saturday)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protests_against_Monsanto_on_Saturday%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: join protests on <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/22-9">
Saturday against Monsanto and
GMOs.</a></p>


title: Urgent: Drop charges against Cameron D'Ambrosio
uri: Urgent-Drop-charges-against-Cameron-D-Ambrosio
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Drop_charges_against_Cameron_DAmbrosio)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_charges_against_Cameron_DAmbrosio%29

content:
<p>
In the US: call for dropping charges against 
<a href="http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/teenager/">Cameron D'Ambrosio</a>.
<p>
His rap rant was twisted by thugs into a terrorist threat, and he 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml">faces
20 years in prison</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Legalization_of_growing_hemp)
title: Urgent: Legalization of growing hemp
uri: Urgent-Legalization-of-growing-hemp
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Legalization_of_growing_hemp%29

content:
<p>
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/mpp/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1907">call 
for legalization</a> of growing hemp.</p>


title: Urgent: Keep fracking out of US national forests and parks
uri: Urgent-Keep-fracking-out-of-US-national-forests-and-parks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Keep_fracking_out_of_US_national_forests_and_parks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_fracking_out_of_US_national_forests_and_parks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=8195">keep 
fracking out</a> of US national forests and national parks.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Change_cruel_Islamic_law)
title: Urgent: Change cruel Islamic law
uri: Urgent-Change-cruel-Islamic-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Change_cruel_Islamic_law%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: call on the president of the Maldives to change the
law under which a 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/2632?n=26017695.Wwe-b5">teenager 
was sentenced to flogging for being raped.</a></p>
<p>This change is just a first step, because it is also wrong to flog
people for having sex voluntarily.  (Or for anything else.)  This is
just one part of the systematic injustice of Islamic law, and the
elimination of that form of cruelty must be the goal.</p>


title: Urgent: Require US contractors to pay workers a living wage
uri: Urgent-Require-US-contractors-to-pay-workers-a-living-wage
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Require_US_contractors_to_pay_workers_a_living_wage)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Require_US_contractors_to_pay_workers_a_living_wage%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama to require US contractors to
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=413">pay 
workers a living wage.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Urgent:_Repeal_Monsanto_Protection_Act)
title: Urgent: Repeal Monsanto Protection Act
uri: Urgent-Repeal-Monsanto-Protection-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal_Monsanto_Protection_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://youpower.democracyforamerica.com/petitions/repeal-the-monsanto-protection-act-1">this 
petition</a> to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Ruins_of_Mes_Aynak)
title: Ruins of Mes Aynak
uri: Ruins-of-Mes-Aynak
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Ruins_of_Mes_Aynak%29
content:
<p>
The Taliban destroyed the Buddha statues of Bamiyan. 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/archaeologists-joy-afghan-mine-delay">Karzai 
is letting a Chinese mining company destroy the ruins of Mes Aynak</a>, 
but at least they will be studied archeologically first.</p>
<p>
However, leaving the site unguarded could be 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/mes-aynak-ruins-afghanistan-copper">even worse</a>.


title: FBI shoots and kills suspect under interrogation at home
uri: FBI-shoots-and-kills-suspect-under-interrogation-at-home
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(FBI_shoots_and_kills_suspect_under_interrogation_at_home)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28FBI_shoots_and_kills_suspect_under_interrogation_at_home%29

content:
<p>
The FBI shot and killed a suspect who was under interrogation 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/fbi-man-shot-florida-tsarnaev-brothers">in 
his home</a>.</p>
<p>It sounds to me like "shot while trying to escape".</p>
<p>Reportedly he was suspected of murder.  Reportedly he expected to be
shot.  Reportedly this was not the first interrogation, yet apparently
he did not have a lawyer present.  Did the FBI read him his Miranda
warning?</p>


title: Men armed with knives kill British soldier in London
uri: Men-armed-with-knives-kill-British-soldier-in-London
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Men_armed_with_knives_kill_British_soldier_in_London)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Men_armed_with_knives_kill_British_soldier_in_London%29

content:
<p>
Men armed with knives killed a British soldier in London, then said it was
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/22/woolwich-attack-cleaver-knife-jihadist">revenge 
for killing Muslims.</a></p>
<p>The jihadis' theocratic agenda is horrible tyranny, but they have a
valid grievance about US-UK violence.  On this occasion they attacked
a military target, so if you want to think of this as war, the attack
was not a war crime.  However, they threatened to attack civilians,
which would be a war crime.</p>
<p>
The US admitted that <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/white-house-drone-strikes-us-citizens">four 
US citizens were killed by US drone attacks</a>.
</p>
<p>The US and UK should stop killing civilians around the world.  Whether
they are Muslim (as is usually the case today) or Christian (as was
typically the case in the 70s and 80s) is an insignificant detail.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Monsantos_new_Omega-3_soybean)
title: Monsanto's new Omega-3 soybean
uri: Monsanto-s-new-Omega-3-soybean
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Monsantos_new_Omega-3_soybean%29
content:
<p>
<p>Monsanto's new Omega-3 soybean was engineered to offer 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/NODE/12097">what hemp seed offers 
naturally</a>.</p>
<p>I wonder if Monsanto is paying congresscritters to oppose legalization
of hemp.</p>


title: Student faces prosecution for having a younger girlfriend
uri: Student-faces-prosecution-for-having-a-younger-girlfriend
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Student_faces_prosecution_for_having_a_younger_girlfriend)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Student_faces_prosecution_for_having_a_younger_girlfriend%29

content:
<p>
A high school student faces prosecution for 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/gay-teenager-charges-relationship-girlfriend">having 
a younger girlfriend.</a></p>
<p>This sort of "protection" is not good for anyone.</p>


title: PBS cancels showing of documentary to avoid giving offense
uri: PBS-cancels-showing-of-documentary-to-avoid-giving-offense
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(PBS_cancels_showing_of_documentary_to_avoid_giving_offense)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28PBS_cancels_showing_of_documentary_to_avoid_giving_offense%29

content:
<p>
PBS cancelled the showing of a documentary to <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/NODE/12118">avoid 
offending the Koch brothers.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Riots_in_Sweden)
title: Riots in Sweden
uri: Riots-in-Sweden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Riots_in_Sweden%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing policies in Sweden have led to growing inequality, which 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/sweden-riots-husby-stockholm">resulted 
in riots.</a></p>


title: Humanity on course to run out of fresh water
uri: Humanity-on-course-to-run-out-of-fresh-water
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Humanity_on_course_to_run_out_of_fresh_water)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Humanity_on_course_to_run_out_of_fresh_water%29

content:
<p>
Humanity is on a course to
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/22/world-run-out-water-ban-ki-moon1">run out of fresh water.</a></p>
<p>The problem will show up mostly in poor countries at first.  Many of
them have rapidly growing populations.  A comparatively small
investment in birth control and sterilization could avoid a good part
of this problem.</p>
<p>Or would you rather see the population held down by diseases spread by
drinking unsafe water?
</p>


title: Significant publisher stops selling through Amazon
uri: Significant-publisher-stops-selling-through-Amazon
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Significant_publisher_stops_selling_through_Amazon)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Significant_publisher_stops_selling_through_Amazon%29

content:
<p>
A significant publisher has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/22/amazon-business-rejected-childrens-publisher">
stopped selling through Amazon.</a></p>


title: Rapists pressure victims into marriage in Malaysia
uri: Rapists-pressure-victims-into-marriage-in-Malaysia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Rapists_pressure_victims_into_marriage_in_Malaysia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Rapists_pressure_victims_into_marriage_in_Malaysia%29

content:
<p>
In Malaysia, rapists avoid punishment by 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/malaysian-rapist-marries-victim-girl">pressuring 
the victim into marriage.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(The_Nakba)
title: The Nakba
uri: The-Nakba
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28The_Nakba%29
content:
<p>
Yerachmiel Kahanovich says he shot Palestinian civilians in 1948,
under orders, 
<a href="http://972mag.com/despite-efforts-to-erase-it-the-nakbas-memory-is-more-present-than-ever-in-israel/71468/">and 
drove out the population of villages.</a>
</p>
<p>When he says he fired one or two shots at a village, I can't tell
whether he means he shot a couple of people or fired in the air.</p>
<p>The Arabs sought in that war to expel the Jews, and initially they
seemed to have a real chance of succeeding.  The two sides were
roughly in moral parity.  How different from the situation today,
where Israel is not threatened at all but calculatingly continues its
land grab.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Tax-exempt_status_of_right-wing_groups)
title: Tax-exempt status of right-wing groups
uri: Tax-exempt-status-of-right-wing-groups
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Tax-exempt_status_of_right-wing_groups%29

content:
<p>
The IRS had good reason to question the tax-exempt status of some
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/22/irs-investigations-religious-right-justified">right-wing 
groups</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(A_call_for_education_to_be_free)
title: A call for education to be free
uri: A-call-for-education-to-be-free
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28A_call_for_education_to_be_free%29
content:
<p>
The US Green Party <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=155&qid=221453">calls 
for education to be free.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Lake_Malawi_running_out_of_fish)
title: Lake Malawi running out of fish
uri: Lake-Malawi-running-out-of-fish
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Lake_Malawi_running_out_of_fish%29
content:
<p>
Lake Malawi is running out of fish, 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/may/22/lake-malawi-water-levels-fish-stocks">and 
drying up.</a></p>
<p>This is due to human activity, including global heating.</p>


title: How big do the biggest banks have to get?
uri: How-big-do-the-biggest-banks-have-to-get
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(How_big_do_the_biggest_banks_have_to_get)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28How_big_do_the_biggest_banks_have_to_get%29

content:
<p>
"<a href='http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/elizabeth-warren-treasury-secretary-jack-lew-too-big-fail'>How 
big do the biggest banks have to get before we consider breaking them
up</a>," asked Senator Warren.</a></p>


title: Dutch criminal investigation of construction of Israeli colonies
uri: Dutch-criminal-investigation-of-construction-of-Israeli-colonies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Dutch_criminal_investigation_of_construction_of_Israeli_colonies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Dutch_criminal_investigation_of_construction_of_Israeli_colonies%29

content:
<p>
A Dutch criminal investigation puts companies on notice that they may
be prosecuted for collaborating with the construction 
<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/dutch-probe-sends-warning-firms-abetting-israels-crimes/12462">of 
Israeli colonies in Palestine or the annexation wall.</a></p>


title: Israeli soldiers destroy Palestinians' crops
uri: Israeli-soldiers-destroy-Palestinians-crops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Israeli_soldiers_destroy_Palestinians_crops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Israeli_soldiers_destroy_Palestinians_crops%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers keep on destroying Palestinians' crops and irrigation
systems, 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=59502">and 
demolishing their buildings.</a></p>
<p>The default policy of the Israeli army, when colonists commit crimes
against Palestinians, is to 
<a href="http://972mag.com/the-israeli-armys-default-position-supporting-the-outlaws/71467/">defend 
the culprits and aggravate the crimes.</a> Sometimes they arrest the
victims too.</p>


title: Apple demands the US reduce its tax rate
uri: Apple-demands-the-US-reduce-its-tax-rate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Apple_demands_the_US_reduce_its_tax_rate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Apple_demands_the_US_reduce_its_tax_rate%29

content:
<p>
Apple 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/21/apple-wants-single-digit-corporate-tax">arrogantly 
demanded the US reduce its tax rate</a>, and then Apple
will deign to allow some of its foreign income to be taxed.</p>
<p>
The Home of the Brave would punish Apple for this by doing exactly the
opposite of what it wants: taxing foreign income anyway.</p>


title: UK to use secret hearing to snuff out Abel Hakin Belhaj's lawsuit
uri: UK-to-use-secret-hearing-to-snuff-out-Abel-Hakin-Belhaj-s-lawsuit
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(UK_to_use_secret_hearing_to_snuff_out_Abel_Hakin_Belhajs_lawsuit)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28UK_to_use_secret_hearing_to_snuff_out_Abel_Hakin_Belhajs_lawsuit%29

content:
<p>
The UK will use a secret hearing to try to snuff out Abdel Hakim
Belhaj's lawsuit about handing 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/21/abdel-hakim-belhaj-torture-secret-court">him 
to Gaddafi for torture.</a></p>


title: Methane hydrates under the ocean bottom
uri: Methane-hydrates-under-the-ocean-bottom
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_May_2013_(Methane_hydrates_under_the_ocean_bottom)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_%28Methane_hydrates_under_the_ocean_bottom%29

content:
<p>
Methane hydrates under the ocean bottom could offer 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/05/what-if-we-never-run-out-of-oil/309294/?single_page=true">many times the
existing fossil fuel reserves</a>.
<p>
What good is that?  To burn that fuel is disaster.
We already 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#19_July_2011_(The_Carbon_Bubble)">need 
to leave 4/5 of the known reserves in the ground</a>,
to have a good chance of avoiding global heating catastrophe.
If we find more, we can't use it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Horsemeat_and_putrid_old_beef)
title: Horsemeat and putrid old beef
uri: Horsemeat-and-putrid-old-beef
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Horsemeat_and_putrid_old_beef%29
content:
<p>
A Dutch meat-processing
plant <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/24/horsemeat-beef-meat-dutch-factory">included
horsemeat and putrid old beef</a> in its shipments for five years,
processing them outside normal working hours to keep the secret.
<p>
It used migrant workers who would communicate little with anyone
around them.


title: Senate has no problems with bankster crony
uri: Senate-has-no-problems-with-bankster-crony
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Senate_has_no_problems_with_bankster_crony)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Senate_has_no_problems_with_bankster_crony%29

content:
<p>
The Senate seems to have no problems with Obama's
billionaire <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/penny-pritzker-senate-hearing-commerce-secretary">bankster
crony Pritzker.</a>
<p>
I guess they suspend their usual obstructionist approach when it comes
to actions that will benefit their masters.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Ukraine_banned_gay_pride_rally)
title: Ukraine banned gay pride rally
uri: Ukraine-banned-gay-pride-rally
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Ukraine_banned_gay_pride_rally%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/ukraine-court-blocks-gay-pride-rally">banned
the annual gay pride rally.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Malaysia_arrested_opposition_leaders)
title: Malaysia arrested opposition leaders
uri: Malaysia-arrested-opposition-leaders
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Malaysia_arrested_opposition_leaders%29

content:
<p>
Malaysia
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/malaysian-authorities-crack-down-opposition-activists">arrested
opposition leaders</a> for "promoting hatred against the government".
<p>
A government that arrests people for this, deserves all the hatred
people choose to give it.


title: Single murder reason for massive surveillance
uri: Single-murder-reason-for-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Single_murder_reason_for_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Single_murder_reason_for_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
One single murder is being cited in the UK as the reason for
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/23/woolwich-nick-clegg-communications-bill-risk">massive
surveillance.</a>


title: Urgent: Big Oil stop fighting SEC requirements
uri: Urgent-Big-Oil-stop-fighting-SEC-requirements
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Urgent:_Big_Oil_stop_fighting_SEC_requirements)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Big_Oil_stop_fighting_SEC_requirements%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Big Oil
to <a href="https://secure.oxfamamerica.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1391">stop
fighting the SEC's transparency requirements.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Right_to_know_how_our_food_is_produced)
title: Right to know how our food is produced
uri: Right-to-know-how-our-food-is-produced
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Right_to_know_how_our_food_is_produced%29

content:
<p>
Do Americans have the right to
know <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/23-1">how our
food is produced?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Overreaction_of_the_shutdown_of_Boston)
title: Overreaction of the shutdown of Boston
uri: Overreaction-of-the-shutdown-of-Boston
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Overreaction_of_the_shutdown_of_Boston%29

content:
<p>
If Americans do not condemn the absurd overreaction of the shutdown of
Boston,
it <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/boston-police-reaction_n_3230698.html">risks
to become standard practice</a>. That would crush Americans' human
rights, while handing any terrorist or madman a lever to cause
tremendous damage.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Unusually_sever_hurricane_season)
title: Unusually sever hurricane season
uri: Unusually-sever-hurricane-season
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Unusually_sever_hurricane_season%29
content:
<p>
NOAA predicts
an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/noaa-forecast-active-hurricane-season">unusually
severe hurricane season</a> for the US east coast.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Steps_to_control_drone_attacks_by_law)
title: Steps to control drone attacks by law
uri: Steps-to-control-drone-attacks-by-law
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Steps_to_control_drone_attacks_by_law%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/guantanamo-bay-obama-administration">Obama
proposed steps to control drone attacks by law</a>, and steps towards
reducing the number of prisoners in Guantanamo.
<p>
When we know more, we will see if these are steps forward.  However,
they certainly don't go far enough.  Any prisoners in Guantanamo that
ought to be tried should have real trials, not military kangaroo
courts.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(My_big_fat_Greek_minister)
title: My big fat Greek minister
uri: My-big-fat-Greek-minister
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28My_big_fat_Greek_minister%29
content:
<p>
Greg Palast:
My <a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/my-big-fat-greek-minister/">big
fat Greek minister.</a>


title: Israeli soldiers shot and killed Muhammad al-Dura
uri: Israeli-soldiers-shot-and-killed-Muhammad-al-Dura
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_May_2013_(Israeli_soldiers_shot_and_killed_Muhammad_al-Dura)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_May_2013_%28Israeli_soldiers_shot_and_killed_Muhammad_al-Dura%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/israeli-report-denies-death-al-dura">Israeli
soldiers in Gaza shot and killed Muhammad al-Dura</a>, age 12, in
2000.  A cameraman make a video, which was broadcast.  Now Israel
claims that the whole thing was faked — but Muhammad's father
asks, "If he's alive, where is he?"
<p>
Nowadays, in
Syria, <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#15_July_2012_(Fake_photos_and_videos_from_Syrian_opposition)">anonymous
rebels fake video of atrocities.</a> It is not absolutely impossible
that Palestinians in Gaza would have done so.  But the death of one
Palestinian was so common that there was no need for anyone to fake
that.  (Israeli troops shot the ambulance driver!)  This video was
made, and sworn to, by a respected journalist.  So the Israeli
accusation has no credibility.


title: Tibetan activists launch boycott of Intercontinental Hotels
uri: Tibetan-activists-launch-boycott-of-Intercontinental-Hotels
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Tibetan_activists_launch_boycott_of_Intercontinental_Hotels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Tibetan_activists_launch_boycott_of_Intercontinental_Hotels%29

content:
<p>
Tibetan activists have launched a 
<a href="http://www.freetibet.org/intercontinental">boycott of 
Intercontinental Hotels</a> for building a luxury resort in Lhasa.


title: Weasel-words in proposed legal criteria for drone attacks
uri: Weasel-words-in-proposed-legal-criteria-for-drone-attacks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Weasel-words_in_proposed_legal_criteria_for_drone_attacks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Weasel-words_in_proposed_legal_criteria_for_drone_attacks%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU explains the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/23-7">weasel-words</a> 
in Obama's proposed legal criteria for drone attacks.


title: Journalists sue to end extreme secrecy in Bradley Manning's trial
uri: Journalists-sue-to-end-extreme-secrecy-in-Bradley-Manning-s-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Journalists_sue_to_end_extreme_secrecy_in_Bradley_Mannings_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Journalists_sue_to_end_extreme_secrecy_in_Bradley_Mannings_trial%29

content:
<p>
Journalists have sued to end the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/23-4">extreme 
secrecy</a> in Bradley Manning's trial.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(New_budget_proposal_from_Congress)
title: New budget proposal from Congress
uri: New-budget-proposal-from-Congress
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28New_budget_proposal_from_Congress%29
content:
<p>
Congress: From "Starving the Beast" to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/23-6">Starving Real 
People</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Proposing_a_treaty_to_ban_armed_drones)
title: Proposing a treaty to ban armed drones
uri: Proposing-a-treaty-to-ban-armed-drones
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Proposing_a_treaty_to_ban_armed_drones%29

content:
<p>
Proposing a treaty to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/23-8">ban armed 
drones</a>.
<p>
The article points out that the Ottawa Treaty that banned
antipersonnel landmines has been fairly successful even though the US,
China and Russia have not signed it.


title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to guarantee right to vote
uri: Proposing-a-constitutional-amendment-to-guarantee-right-to-vote
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Proposing_a_constitutional_amendment_to_guarantee_right_to_vote)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Proposing_a_constitutional_amendment_to_guarantee_right_to_vote%29

content:
<p>
Proposing a constitutional amendment to guarantee 
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12110">in a positive way</a>
the right to vote.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Urgent:_Protect_Indonesian_rainforests)
title: Urgent: Protect Indonesian rainforests
uri: Urgent-Protect-Indonesian-rainforests
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_Indonesian_rainforests%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/the_plan_to_kill_orangutans_fup2/">Encourage 
the president of Indonesia</a> to turn his conservationist sentiments
into practice.


title: House passes bill to allow student loan interest rate increase
uri: House-passes-bill-to-allow-student-loan-interest-rate-increase
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(House_passes_bill_to_allow_student_loan_interest_rate_increase)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28House_passes_bill_to_allow_student_loan_interest_rate_increase%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a bill which would
avoid an immediate rise in student loan interest rates but would 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/elizabeth-warren-house-republican-student-loan-bill">let
them increase even more in the future</a>.


title: Humanity faces water shortage in two generations
uri: Humanity-faces-water-shortage-in-two-generations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Humanity_faces_water_shortage_in_two_generations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Humanity_faces_water_shortage_in_two_generations%29

content:
<p>
Most of humanity will face a water shortage in 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/24/global-majority-water-shortages-two-generations">two 
generations</a>.
<p>
Ruining water sources with fracking is really dumb.


title: Illegal road being built through Peruvian national park
uri: Illegal-road-being-built-through-Peruvian-national-park
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Illegal_road_being_built_through_Peruvian_national_park)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Illegal_road_being_built_through_Peruvian_national_park%29

content:
<p>
A local government in Peru is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2013/may/24/peru-amazon-rainforest">building 
an illegal road through the biggest national park</a>.


title: Redd threatens control over land in Panama
uri: Redd-threatens-control-over-land-in-Panama
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Redd_threatens_control_over_land_in_Panama)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Redd_threatens_control_over_land_in_Panama%29

content:
<p>
Indigenous people in Panama say that Redd, intended to encourage
forest conservation, instead 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/may/24/panama-indigenous-people-un-forest-conservation">threatens 
their control over their land</a>.


title: Inquests into killing of prisoners in Iraq
uri: Inquests-into-killing-of-prisoners-in-Iraq
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Inquests_into_killing_of_prisoners_in_Iraq)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Inquests_into_killing_of_prisoners_in_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/24/uk-inquests-civilian-deaths-iraq-war">court 
ruled</a> the UK must conduct inquests into the killing of prisoners
in Iraq.


title: Free US workers losing jobs to prisoners
uri: Free-US-workers-losing-jobs-to-prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Free_US_workers_losing_jobs_to_prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Free_US_workers_losing_jobs_to_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Free US workers are 
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/16/american-prison-labor-means-longer-unemployment-lines/">losing 
their jobs to prisoners</a>.
<p>
This practice forces poor Americans into crime, whereupon they
become prisoners.  It's great for the privatized prison industry.
<p>
Privatized prisons should be banned, because they give companies
an interest in putting more people in prison.  Prison laborers should
be payed a fair wage.


title: Urgent: End old-growth logging in Tongass National Forest
uri: Urgent-End-old-growth-logging-in-Tongass-National-Forest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Urgent:_End_old-growth_logging_in_Tongass_National_Forest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_End_old-growth_logging_in_Tongass_National_Forest%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1467">call 
on the Forest Service</a> to carry out its plan to end old-growth
logging in the Tongass National Forest.


title: Urgent: Boycott Intercontinental Hotels
uri: Urgent-Boycott-Intercontinental-Hotels
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Urgent:_Boycott_Intercontinental_Hotels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Boycott_Intercontinental_Hotels%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.freetibet.org/action/boycott-intercontinental">support
the boycott of Intercontinental Hotels</a> (which includes
Holiday Inn) for building a hotel in Lhasa.


title: US gov't buys secret descriptions of software vulnerabilities
uri: US-gov-t-buys-secret-descriptions-of-software-vulnerabilities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(US_govt_buys_secret_descriptions_of_software_vulnerabilities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28US_govt_buys_secret_descriptions_of_software_vulnerabilities%29

content:
<p>
The US government pays big bucks for secret descriptions of software
vulnerabilities — not to fix them, but 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/10/us-usa-cyberweapons-specialreport-idUSBRE9490EL20130510">to 
exploit them</a>.
<p>
Not very different from gangsters, ultimately.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Obamas_War_on_Journalism)
title: Obama's War on Journalism
uri: Obama-s-War-on-Journalism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Obamas_War_on_Journalism%29
content:
<p>
First the US came for brash leak sites, and I said nothing because my
newspaper was not a brash leak site.  
<a href="https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/05/virtually-everything-government-did-wikileaks-now-being-done-mainstream-us-reporters">Then 
the US came for me</a>.
<p>
If Obama wins his War on Journalism, the 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/05/21/obama-the-media-and-national-security/government-will-decide-what-we-can-know">government 
will decide what Americans are allowed to know</a>.
<p>
That way leads to corruption, even atrocities.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(76_countries_have_drones)
title: 76 countries have drones
uri: 76-countries-have-drones
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%2876_countries_have_drones%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/23/obama-counter-terrorism-bringing-drones-in-from-the-cold">76
countries have drones</a>.  Would the US government like to see other
countries use them the way the US does?


title: Urgent: Support Warren's bill on student loans
uri: Urgent-Support-Warren-s-bill-on-student-loans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Warren's_bill_on_student_loans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Warren%27s_bill_on_student_loans%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support Senator Warren's bill to give student loans
the <a href="http://dccc.org/loans">same interest rate that the big
banks pay when they borrow.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Sex-related_speech)
title: Sex-related speech
uri: Sex-related-speech
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Sex-related_speech%29
content:
<p>
The US government is trying to make
universities <a href="http://www.volokh.com/2013/05/13/the-administration-says-universities-must-implement-broad-speech-codes-2/">ban
and punish all "unwelcome" sex-related speech</a>, even "dirty jokes".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Urgent:_Release_conscientious_objector)
title: Urgent: Release conscientious objector
uri: Urgent-Release-conscientious-objector
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Release_conscientious_objector%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Kerry to push Israel
to <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/301/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13468">release
conscientious objector Natan Blanc</a> from prison.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Urgent:_Arming_the_Syrian_rebels)
title: Urgent: Arming the Syrian rebels
uri: Urgent-Arming-the-Syrian-rebels
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Arming_the_Syrian_rebels%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the
senate <a href="http://action.votevets.org/syria">not to endorse
arming the Syrian rebels.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Kim_Dotcom_becomes_patent_aggressor)
title: Kim Dotcom becomes patent aggressor
uri: Kim-Dotcom-becomes-patent-aggressor
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Kim_Dotcom_becomes_patent_aggressor%29

content:
<p>
Kim Dotcom becomes
a <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-to-google-twitter-facebook-i-own-security-patent-work-with-me-130523/">patent
aggressor</a>, with a rather absurd patent.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Urgent:_Funding_for_US_national_parks)
title: Urgent: Funding for US national parks
uri: Urgent-Funding-for-US-national-parks
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Funding_for_US_national_parks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=8221">proper
funding for US national parks.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Victims_of_US_Drug_War)
title: Victims of US Drug War
uri: Victims-of-US-Drug-War
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Victims_of_US_Drug_War%29
content:
<p>
Honduran Victims of US Drug
War <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/05/2013515122739553818.html">Still
Await Justice.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Banksters_trying_to_weaken_Dodd-Frank)
title: Banksters trying to weaken Dodd-Frank
uri: Banksters-trying-to-weaken-Dodd-Frank
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Banksters_trying_to_weaken_Dodd-Frank%29

content:
<p>
Banksters are trying
to <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-23/wall-street-seeks-dodd-frank-changes-through-trade-talks.html">weaken
the Dodd-Frank law</a> by policy laundering through free exploitation
treaties.


title: Did Pentagon cry wolf over sequestration
uri: Did-Pentagon-cry-wolf-over-sequestration
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Did_Pentagon_cry_wolf_over_sequestration)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Did_Pentagon_cry_wolf_over_sequestration%29

content:
<p>
Did
the <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/22/191952/did-the-pentagon-cry-wolf-over.html">Pentagon
cry wolf over sequestration?</a>
<p>
The US military budget could and should be cut a lot more.  The US
ought to increase government spending to get people back to work, but
military spending makes fewer jobs than other kinds of spending, so it
would be advisable to transfer money from the military to programs
that are really useful and make more jobs.


title: Boy Scouts to allow gay boys as members
uri: Boy-Scouts-to-allow-gay-boys-as-members
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_May_2013_(Boy_Scouts_to_allow_gay_boys_as_members)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_May_2013_%28Boy_Scouts_to_allow_gay_boys_as_members%29

content:
<p>
The Boy Scouts of
America <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/boy-scouts-end-ban-gay-youths">voted
to allow gay boys as members</a>.
<p>
That is a reduction in discrimination, but when will it allow
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_March_2013_(The_Boy_Scouts)">atheists?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Vladimir_Putin's_goal)
title: Vladimir Putin's goal
uri: Vladimir-Putin-s-goal
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Vladimir_Putin%27s_goal%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/24/vladimir-putin-goal-russian-civil-society">Vladimir 
Putin's Goal Is to Destroy Russian Civil Society</a>.


title: Thugs in UK steal homeless people's possessions
uri: Thugs-in-UK-steal-homeless-people-s-possessions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Thugs_in_UK_steal_homeless_peoples_possessions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Thugs_in_UK_steal_homeless_peoples_possessions%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in the UK stole 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/24/met-police-rough-sleepers-possessions">homeless 
people's possessions</a>.
<p>
Why are they being "criticized" instead of prosecuted for theft?


title: UK gas companies falsely claim gas shortage emergency
uri: UK-gas-companies-falsely-claim-gas-shortage-emergency
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(UK_gas_companies_falsely_claim_gas_shortage_emergency)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28UK_gas_companies_falsely_claim_gas_shortage_emergency%29

content:
<p>
UK gas companies 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/24/energy-suppliers-held-back-gas-uk">falsely 
claimed there was a gas shortage emergency</a>, for speculative
profits apparently.
<p>
Isn't this a crime?


title: Economic damage caused by shutdown of Boston
uri: Economic-damage-caused-by-shutdown-of-Boston
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Economic_damage_caused_by_shutdown_of_Boston)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Economic_damage_caused_by_shutdown_of_Boston%29

content:
<p>
The unnecessary one-day shutdown of Boston caused around 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/table-saw-sawstop-safety-finger-cut">200 
million dollars of economic damage</a>. (Here's 
<a href="#cost-estimate">how I estimate that</a>).
<p>
This was directly harmful, since it shows any future terrorist how to
magnify the effect of his attack.  Aside from that, was that money
well spent?
<p>
200 million dollars could pay for vitamin A supplements for a year for
all the 190 million children that need them, world wide,
which would save the lives of 
<a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_releases_for_journalists/110825_1.html">600,000 
children</a>, more or less.
<p>
350,000 additional children would be saved from blindness.  This costs
<a href="http://www.hki.org/reducing-malnutrition/vitamin-a-supplementation/">one 
dollar per child per year</a>, so 200 million is exactly the amount needed.
<p>
If we limit our consideration to American lives, it costs around
100,000 dollars (very roughly) to treat cancer.  This means with 200
million dollars we could save 
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22415469">2000 Americans who
have cancer and can't afford treatment</a>.
<p>
Every year, 
<a href="http://www.acscan.org/action/ny/updates/1898/">10000 Americans 
with no insurance get cancer</a> and can't afford treatment.
Obamacare may correct some of this problem, but not all; they may not
be able to afford the deductible and their food.
<p>
How stupid to spend over 200 million dollars to avoid the unlikely
chance that a wounded man, on the run and with few supplies, might
kill another handful.  And if we don't reject the idea that this
was a wise decision, it will be repeated over and over, doing
damage each time.
<p>
<div id="cost-estimate" style="font-size:90%;width:90%;margin-left:16px;text-align:justify">
I got the same order of magnitude estimate in two ways.  First,
assuming that 1/4 of the Boston metro area's population (4 million)
could not work that day, and that the loss per person equals cost
1/250 of the annual per capita GDP ($50,000), we multiply and get $200
million.
<p>
Second, the economic cost of a snowstorm that shuts down all of
Massachusetts is
<a href="media/c9aabf97.economic-costs-of-snowstorms.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.highways.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/economic-costs-of-snowstorms.pdf">estimated</a> 
as $265,000,000 per day, and since Boston-Cambridge-Quincy have 85% of
the state's GDP, it would be around 220 million for them.
<p>
The actual shutdown was for Boston, Watertown, Waltham, Newton,
Belmont, Cambridge, Allston/Brighton, and Brookline.  Perhaps it was
justified to shut down Watertown.  How Waltham, Newton, Belmont,
Allston/Brighton, and Brookline compare with Quincy, I don't know, but
this line of reasoning points once again at roughly 200 million.
</div>


title: Obama to "fast track" more free exploitation treaties
uri: Obama-to-fast-track-more-free-exploitation-treaties
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Obama_to_fast_track_more_free_exploitation_treaties)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Obama_to_fast_track_more_free_exploitation_treaties%29

content:
<p>
Obama plans to "fast track" more 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/21-7">free 
exploitation treaties</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Terracide)
title: Terracide
uri: Terracide
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Terracide%29
content:
<p>
Bigger than genocide is terracide: 
<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175703/">killing 
off the earth for profit</a>.
<p>
I suggest setting up a web site to record the identity and deeds of
the terrarists, so they can be punished later, perhaps by taking the
ill-gotten gains away from their descendants.  If they see that their
descendants won't be able to buy their way out of sharing the fate
they impose on the rest of humanity, they may decide not to go down
that path.


title: Urgent: Oppose law that forces 40,000 Bedoin from their homes
uri: Urgent-Oppose-law-that-forces-40-000-Bedoin-from-their-homes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_law_that_forces_40000_Bedoin_from_their_homes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_law_that_forces_40000_Bedoin_from_their_homes%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/no_to_forced_eviction_of_negev_bedouins/">call 
on the Israeli parliament</a> not to pass a law
to force 40,000 Bedouin from their homes.


title: Urgent Oppose letting Koch brothers take over newspapers
uri: Urgent-Oppose-letting-Koch-brothers-take-over-newspapers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Urgent_Oppose_letting_Koch_brothers_take_over_newspapers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Urgent_Oppose_letting_Koch_brothers_take_over_newspapers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=416">urge 
Tribune Company's owners</a> not to let the Koch brothers
take over their newspapers.


title: Some web sites that attract users by not tracking them sell out
uri: Some-web-sites-that-attract-users-by-not-tracking-them-sell-out
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Some_web_sites_that_attract_users_by_not_tracking_them_sell_out)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Some_web_sites_that_attract_users_by_not_tracking_them_sell_out%29

content:
<p>
Some web sites attract users by not tracking them, then 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/when-good-sites-sell-out_b_3310232.html">sell 
out to companies that will track visitors heavily</a>.  Tumblr seems
likely to be the next example.
<p>
To end this problem, we need to shift the Internet from an
advertising-and-surveillance model to a pay-for-access model
with an anonymous payment scheme.  Perhaps one can be built
on Bitcoin.


title: Urgent: Oppose letting Koch brothers take over newspapers
uri: 2013-05-26-Urgent-Oppose-letting-Koch-brothers-take-over-newspapers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_letting_Koch_brothers_take_over_newspapers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_letting_Koch_brothers_take_over_newspapers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=416">urge 
Tribune Company's owners</a> not to let the Koch brothers
take over their newspapers.


title: Urgent: Repeal 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force
uri: Urgent-Repeal-2001-Authorization-for-Use-of-Military-Force
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Urgent:_Repeal_2001_Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal_2001_Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say to repeal
the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Oppose bill requiring back doors in communication software
uri: Urgent-Oppose-bill-requiring-back-doors-in-communication-software
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_bill_requiring_back_doors_in_communication_software)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_bill_requiring_back_doors_in_communication_software%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9252">call 
on Obama</a> not to support a bill to require
back doors in all communication software.
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/caleatwo">More 
information</a>.


title: Urgent: Drop charges against Kaitlyn Hunt
uri: Urgent-Drop-charges-against-Kaitlyn-Hunt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Urgent:_Drop_charges_against_Kaitlyn_Hunt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_charges_against_Kaitlyn_Hunt%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.credoaction.com/petitions/end-the-anti-gay-prosecution-of-kaitlyn-hunt">call 
for dropping charges against Kaitlyn Hunt</a>, accused of having a
girlfriend a few years younger than her.
<p>
While I am prepared to believe that bigotry against gays was part of
the motive for this wrong, the wrong is independent of that. the
prosecution would be equally wrong if either or both of the teenagers
involved were male.


title: Anonymous US gov't spokesman claim presented as certainty
uri: Anonymous-US-gov-t-spokesman-claim-presented-as-certainty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Anonymous_US_gov't_spokesman_claim_presented_as_certainty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Anonymous_US_gov%27t_spokesman_claim_presented_as_certainty%29

content:
<p>
US newspapers quoted an anonymous US government spokesman claiming
that there are Iranian soldiers fighting in Syria,
and <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/22/what-an-anonymous-u-s-official-says-about-iranians-in-syria/">presented
it as certainty.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Criminalizing_homelessness)
title: Criminalizing homelessness
uri: Criminalizing-homelessness
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Criminalizing_homelessness%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/25-1">Criminalizing
homelessness</a>, Houston style: it is a crime to get food out of a
dumpster, or give food to the hungry.
<p>
The most ironic thing is that the people responsible for this are
Christians, and yet they have criminalized acting the way Jesus was
said to act.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(US_doesn't_require_paid_vacations)
title: US doesn't require paid vacations
uri: US-doesn-t-require-paid-vacations
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28US_doesn%27t_require_paid_vacations%29

content:
<p>
The US is the only wealthy country
that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/24">doesn't
require paid vacations</a> for workers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Dynastic_succession)
title: Dynastic succession
uri: Dynastic-succession
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Dynastic_succession%29
content:
<p>
Uganda's president is trying to
institute <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news-item/uganda-activists-arrested-as-disturbing-crackdown-on-media-continues">dynastic
succession</a> and shutting newspapers that criticize.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(What_must_be_done_about_Monsanto)
title: What must be done about Monsanto
uri: What-must-be-done-about-Monsanto
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28What_must_be_done_about_Monsanto%29
content:
<p>
Green Shadow
Cabinet: <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=183&qid=322167">What
must be done about the Monsanto Corporation</a>, and why.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Arpaio_racially_profiled_Latinos)
title: Arpaio racially profiled Latinos
uri: Arpaio-racially-profiled-Latinos
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Arpaio_racially_profiled_Latinos%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/25/joe-arpaio-latinos-arizona-judge">Joe
Arpaio Racially Profiled Latinos</a> in Arizona, Judge Rules.


title: Koch brother blocked movie that criticized him
uri: Koch-brother-blocked-movie-that-criticized-him
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Koch_brother_blocked_movie_that_criticized_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Koch_brother_blocked_movie_that_criticized_him%29

content:
<p>
One of the Koch brothers is on the board of two major PBS stations,
and used that
to <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/21/problems-at-pbs-from-rose-to-koch/">block
broadcast of the movie that criticized him.</a>


title: Prohibitionists try to make pot seem dangerous
uri: Prohibitionists-try-to-make-pot-seem-dangerous
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Prohibitionists_try_to_make_pot_seem_dangerous)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Prohibitionists_try_to_make_pot_seem_dangerous%29

content:
<p>
Prohibitionists still scrape the bottom of the barrel
to <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/obama-drug-czar-pot-marijuana-legalization-choom-gang">try
to make pot seem dangerous.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Internet_repression)
title: Internet repression
uri: Internet-repression
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Internet_repression%29
content:
<p>
China plans
to <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/05/22/how-social-commerce-tighens-chinas-grip-on-the-internet/">ramp
up Internet repression</a> by tying Internet users' IDs to all other
activities.
<p>
People won't dare lend their accounts to dissidents if that means
lending their bank accounts too.
<p>
The US copies most of
the <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#27_April_2012_(NSA_Menace)">repressive
tactics</a> used in China, so I expect the US to copy this one, though
it will require several steps and many years.


title: Obama's talk about drones and Guantanamo insufficient
uri: Obama-s-talk-about-drones-and-Guantanamo-insufficient
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Obama's_talk_about_drones_and_Guantanamo_insufficient)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Obama%27s_talk_about_drones_and_Guantanamo_insufficient%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International explains why Obama's talk about drones and
Guantanamo
is <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/amnesty-international-responds-to-president-obama-s-speech-on-national-security">still
insufficient.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Burma_imposed_limit_of_two_children)
title: Burma imposed limit of two children
uri: Burma-imposed-limit-of-two-children
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Burma_imposed_limit_of_two_children%29

content:
<p>
Burma has imposed
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/25/burma-muslims-two-child-limit">limit
of two children per family</a> on Rohingyas in the region where most
of them live.
<p>
Limiting on the number of children per family is legitimate.  People
cannot be fundamentally entitled to have however many children they
wish, since that can lead to predictable disaster.  However, such a
limit should not be applied selectively to a second-class group.  It
should be applied to everyone.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Photographers_arrested_in_Spain)
title: Photographers arrested in Spain
uri: Photographers-arrested-in-Spain
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Photographers_arrested_in_Spain%29
content:
<p>
Two <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/05/24/outrage-over-arrest-of-two-photojournalists-in-spain/">photographers
were arrested in Spain</a>, not at a protest, but in their homes
because the state is out to get them.


title: Legalizing solely marijuana is misguided goal
uri: Legalizing-solely-marijuana-is-misguided-goal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Legalizing_solely_marijuana_is_misguided_goal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Legalizing_solely_marijuana_is_misguided_goal%29

content:
<p>
David Simon
says <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/25/the-wire-creator-us-drug-laws">legalizing
solely marijuana is a misguided goal</a>, because it would help
American whites while allowing the War on Drugs to continue oppressing
blacks who take and sell cocaine.
<p>
He also says that they need to sell cocaine because that's the only
work available to them.
<p>
I am not convinced.  I think each time we deal a setback to the War on
Drugs will help get rid of the rest of it.  Meanwhile, if cocaine were
decriminalized enough to end the oppression of the War on Drugs, it
would also become far less lucrative.  It would no longer be able to
support all the blacks who can no longer find any other industry.
<p>
What we really need to do is end the oppression of the surplus
Americans.  A lot more Americans are going to become surplus in the
next decade due
to <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514861/its-time-to-talk-about-the-burgeoning-robot-middle-class/">robots
and AI.</a>
<p>
It is the plutocrats who have decided to condemn these people to
poverty, so we must redirect the War on Drugs into a War on
Plutocracy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Awareness_of_global_heating_in_China)
title: Awareness of global heating in China
uri: Awareness-of-global-heating-in-China
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Awareness_of_global_heating_in_China%29

content:
<p>
An art exhibition in China aims
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/chinas-choice/2013/may/25/climate-change-art-exhibition-beijing">raise
awareness of global heating.</a>
<p>
The Chinese government decided to allow this exhibit, since it would
close anything it regarded as unfriendly.  Ironically, the Chinese
government may be more resistant to plutocratic control than the US
government.  The Chinese rulers are the plutocrats, rather than the
servants of the plutocrats, and they realize that China as a whole
(including them) will be poorer if the environment is destroyed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_May_2013_(Obama_should_follow_international_law)
title: Obama should follow international law
uri: Obama-should-follow-international-law
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_May_2013_%28Obama_should_follow_international_law%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch: regarding "War on Terror" and
Guantanamo, <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/24/us-pledges-end-war-close-guantanamo">Obama
should follow international law</a>, which the US has so far ignored.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(Scripps_reporters_branded_hackers)
title: Scripps reporters branded "hackers"
uri: Scripps-reporters-branded-hackers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28Scripps_reporters_branded_hackers%29
content:
<p>
Scripps reporters 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/reporters-use-google-find-breach-get-branded-as-hackers/">branded "hackers"</a>.
<p>
What a gross error — whoever accused them of breaking security
meant to say "crackers".  However, the point is, these reporters did
not break any security.
<p>
Prosecuting unwelcome access even though no security was broken is a
common practice in the US; it was applied to 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#22_July_2011_(Aaron_Swartz_and_JSTOR)">Aaron Swartz</a>
and to Weev, who was actually 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_March_2013_(Andrew_Auernheimer)">convicted</a>.
<p>
And Republicans want to make things 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_March_2013_(A_House_Comittee)">even 
worse</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(Two_million_protested_Monsanto)
title: Two million protested Monsanto
uri: Two-million-protested-Monsanto
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28Two_million_protested_Monsanto%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/26/millions-march-against-monsanto">Two
million people protested</a> Monsanto's growing domination of the
global food supply.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(USDA_responded_to_WTO)
title: USDA responded to WTO
uri: USDA-responded-to-WTO
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28USDA_responded_to_WTO%29
content:
<p>
The USDA responded to a WTO ruling against labeling meat by country of
origin
by <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/05/usda-stands-firm-on-consumer-meat-labels-but-will-the-wto-continue-its-anti-consumer-legacy-and-auth.html">requiring
more information rather than less.</a>
<p>
It is good to see a little bit of defiance of the empire of the
megacorporations, but real defiance would mean putting an end to the
WTO.  Its "benefits" are for the rich anyway, and we could do without
them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(Another_Lebanese_civil_war)
title: Another Lebanese civil war
uri: Another-Lebanese-civil-war
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28Another_Lebanese_civil_war%29
content:
<p>
The Syrian civil war may
trigger <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/26/beirut-rocket-attack-hezbollah-syria">another
Lebanese civil war.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(Patent_on_a_simple_of_timing_in_IVF)
title: Patent on a simple of timing in IVF
uri: Patent-on-a-simple-of-timing-in-IVF
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28Patent_on_a_simple_of_timing_in_IVF%29

content:
<p>
The patent office granted
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/25/embryologist-attacks-cell-cycle-patent">patent
on a simple matter of timing in IVF.</a>
<p>
I agree that the patent office should not stretch what is patentable.
<p>
As a practical issue, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 patents do far more harm,
because they kill people.  These patents prevent births but do not
kill.
<p>
In an age when human population growth threatens to cause the
collapse of civilization, and destroy most of the natural world either
before or just after the collapse, nobody should be doing IVF.  If you
yearn to raise a child, adopt one.  Channel your instinct in a
direction that makes the world
better, <a href="http://www.stallman.org/articles/children.html">not
worse.</a>


title: Apple refuses to pay fair share of taxes
uri: Apple-refuses-to-pay-fair-share-of-taxes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(Apple_refuses_to_pay_fair_share_of_taxes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28Apple_refuses_to_pay_fair_share_of_taxes%29

content:
<p>
Why Should Apple Have Access to Consumers If It Refuses
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/26/technology-apple-amazon-google">Pay
Its Fair Share of Taxes?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(Austerity_myth)
title: Austerity myth
uri: Austerity-myth
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28Austerity_myth%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/26/britain-osborne-austerity-programme-experiment">The
austerity myth</a>: there has never been any evidence that it was
eventually good for most people.
<p>
However, its purpose was to be good for the plutocrats, and the myth
was needed only as an excuse.
<p>
If you buy the book, <a href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html">don't
get it from Amazon!</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(Reverse_love_affair_with_cars)
title: Reverse love affair with cars
uri: Reverse-love-affair-with-cars
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28Reverse_love_affair_with_cars%29
content:
<p>
Walking Activist Fights
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/25-1">Reverse
Our Love Affair With Cars.</a>
<p>
I wish writers would stop saying a mistake is "ours" when I refuse to
make it.


title: Companies to size forest from indigenous people
uri: Companies-to-size-forest-from-indigenous-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(Companies_to_size_forest_from_indigenous_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28Companies_to_size_forest_from_indigenous_people%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia welcomes multinational companies
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/25/indonesia-new-corporate-colonialism">seize
forest from indigenous peoples and cut them down.</a>
<p>
Half of the forest in Sumatra and Borneo has
been <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/26/sumatra-borneo-deforestation-tigers-palm-oil">cut
down in a short time.</a>
<p>
The "moratorium", which only covers new approvals, is like Israel's
current "moratorium" on new colonies.


title: NAACP launching civil disobedience protests
uri: NAACP-launching-civil-disobedience-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(NAACP_launching_civil_disobedience_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28NAACP_launching_civil_disobedience_protests%29

content:
<p>
The NAACP in North Carolina
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/21-2">launching
large civil disobedience protests</a> against the Republican War on
the Poor.


title: Exxon lied about pollution from oil spill
uri: Exxon-lied-about-pollution-from-oil-spill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(Exxon_lied_about_pollution_from_oil_spill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28Exxon_lied_about_pollution_from_oil_spill%29

content:
<p>
Exxon
persistently <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/22-6">lied
about pollution</a> from its tar sands oil spill in Arkansas.
<p>
These companies lie when accidents happen, which helps them get away
with downplay the danger of the systems they are asking for permission
to build.


title: Hezbollah fighting to stop control of Syria
uri: Hezbollah-fighting-to-stop-control-of-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_May_2013_(Hezbollah_fighting_to_stop_control_of_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_May_2013_%28Hezbollah_fighting_to_stop_control_of_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Hezbollah says it
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/25/hezbollah-leader-syria-assad-qusair">fighting
to stop</a> the US, Israel and Salafists together from taking control
of Syria.
<p>
This is ridiculous, since Salafists and Israel could never cooperate,
but there's a grain of truth in it, in that they all seem to be
opposing Assad.


title: Masturbation Is at the Root of the Culture Wars
uri: Masturbation-Is-at-the-Root-of-the-Culture-Wars
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Masturbation_Is_at_the_Root_of_the_Culture_Wars)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Masturbation_Is_at_the_Root_of_the_Culture_Wars%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/05/masturbation-is-at-the-root-of-the-culture-wars/276110/">Masturbation 
Is at the Root of the Culture Wars</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Urgent:_Amendments_to_the_farm_bill)
title: Urgent: Amendments to the farm bill
uri: Urgent-Amendments-to-the-farm-bill
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Amendments_to_the_farm_bill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators about <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27587.cfm">amendments 
to the farm bill</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.
<p>
Here are some <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/26/farm-bill-economic-disaster">Nasty 
things in it</a>.


title: UK gov't wants to block acces to web sites
uri: UK-gov-t-wants-to-block-acces-to-web-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(UK_govt_wants_to_block_acces_to_web_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28UK_govt_wants_to_block_acces_to_web_sites%29

content:
<p>
The UK government wants to block access to web sites because
of the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/26/theresa-may-measures-combat-terrorism">views 
they express</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop the use of drones as death squads
uri: Urgent-Stop-the-use-of-drones-as-death-squads
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_the_use_of_drones_as_death_squads)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_the_use_of_drones_as_death_squads%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/new-national-security-agenda/">support 
the ACLU</a> in calling on Obama to stop using drones as death squads.


title: Worst kind of negotiations for free exploitation treaty approved
uri: Worst-kind-of-negotiations-for-free-exploitation-treaty-approved
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Worst_kind_of_negotiations_for_free_exploitation_treaty_approved)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Worst_kind_of_negotiations_for_free_exploitation_treaty_approved%29

content:
<p>
The European Parliament approved the 
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/tafta-first-step-towards-a-super-acta">worst 
kind</a> of negotiations for a free exploitation treaty with the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Phone_location_data)
title: Phone location data
uri: Phone-location-data
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Phone_location_data%29
content:
<p>
Texas is on the way to pass a law 
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/following-texass-lead-location-tracking">requiring 
the state to get a warrant</a> before it can look at phone location
data.
<p>
While this law would be a step forward, it is far from adequate,
because it is simply intolerable for anyone to accumulate a complete
dossier about your movements regardless of what limits are placed on
subsequent access to the data.  When the state wants to attack
dissidents, journalists and whistleblowers, it will get a warrant.


title: UK gov't wants to block access to web sites
uri: UK-gov-t-wants-to-block-access-to-web-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(UK_govt_wants_to_block_access_to_web_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28UK_govt_wants_to_block_access_to_web_sites%29

content:
<p>
The UK government wants to block access to web sites because
of the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/26/theresa-may-measures-combat-terrorism">views 
they express</a>.


title: Euro zone to attack rights of European workers
uri: Euro-zone-to-attack-rights-of-European-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Euro_zone_to_attack_rights_of_European_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Euro_zone_to_attack_rights_of_European_workers%29

content:
<p>
The euro zone's next plan is to 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/27/europe-demand-structural-reform-over-austerity">attack the rights of European workers</a>.
<p>
In other words, they want to get rid of the laws that make Europe a
better a place to live, for most people, than the US.


title: Swedish gov't cutting taxes on rich, hurting the poor
uri: Swedish-gov-cutting-taxes-on-rich-hurting-the-poor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Swedish_govt_cutting_taxes_on_rich_hurting_the_poor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Swedish_govt_cutting_taxes_on_rich_hurting_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
The Swedish government is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/swedish-riots-inequality-stockholm">cutting 
taxes on the rich</a> and hurting the poor.
<p>
Rioting is unpleasant.  Under ordinary circumstances, it is not
justified.  However, the wrong that is being done to these people is
much worse than the wrong they did.  We must focus on ending the
deeper wrong, the original wrong.


title: UK accuses passengers of "endangering an aircraft"
uri: UK-accuses-passengers-of-endangering-an-aircraft
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(UK_accuses_passengers_of_endangering_an_aircraft)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28UK_accuses_passengers_of_endangering_an_aircraft%29

content:
<p>
The UK has accused two passengers of "endangering an aircraft", but
the alleged crime consisted of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/27/pakistani-plane-suspects-custody">making 
empty threats with no real substance</a>.
<p>
It is legitimate to punish threats of violence, but empty threats are
not a real danger and it is dishonest to claim that they "endangered"
anything.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Austerity_in_the_UK_a_boom_for_banks)
title: Austerity in the UK a boom for banks
uri: Austerity-in-the-UK-a-boom-for-banks
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Austerity_in_the_UK_a_boom_for_banks%29

content:
<p>
Austerity in the UK has meant a boom for banks, but it is about to
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/27/food-banks-struggle-demand-rises">break 
the food banks</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Obamas_speech)
title: Obama's speech
uri: Obamas-speech
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Obamas_speech%29
content:
<p>
Obama's speech allows progressives to imagine that Obama supports
their goals, and allows hawks to imagine he supports theirs, and 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/obama-war-on-terror-speech">does
not say much about what he will actually do</a>.
<p>
That means we have to keep pushing.


title: UK pressured to stay and suffer new free exploitation treaty
uri: UK-pressured-to-stay-and-suffer-new-free-exploitation-treaty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(UK_pressured_to_stay_and_suffer_new_free_exploitation_treaty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28UK_pressured_to_stay_and_suffer_new_free_exploitation_treaty%29

content:
<p>
Pressuring the UK to stay in the EU so it will 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/27/eu-exit-risks-us-trade-deal">suffer 
from a new free exploitation treaty</a>.
<p>
The treaty is likely to include a 
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/tafta-first-step-towards-a-super-acta">nastier 
version of ACTA</a>, as if the Digital Economy Act were not unjust enough.
<p>
Escaping from this will require every country to leave the EU.
<p>
The rest of the treaty will be harmful as well.  In general, "free
trade treaties" give business increased power over the government.
What does business do with this power?  It imposes austerity, evades
taxation, trashes the environment, and hurts workers.  The exact
opposite of what the UK and all countries need.


title: Thugs crush protest in Cambodian sweatshop
uri: Thugs-crush-protest-in-Cambodian-sweatshop
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Thugs_crush_protest_in_Cambodian_sweatshop)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Thugs_crush_protest_in_Cambodian_sweatshop%29

content:
<p>
Thugs <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/27/cambodian-workers-hurt-nike-factory-clash">crushed 
a protest</a> in a Cambodian sweatshop by people working directly or
indirectly for Nike.


title: Google drops support for federated XMPP chat
uri: Google-drops-support-for-federated-XMPP-chat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Google_drops_support_for_federated_XMPP_chat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Google_drops_support_for_federated_XMPP_chat%29

content:
<p>
Google has dropped support for federated XMPP chat, in a move that
tends to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/google-abandons-open-standards-instant-messaging">lock 
users in</a>.
<p>
The change also hurts users' privacy and downgrades the use of free
software clients.  It is better to use other XMPP chat servers
which continue to federate and thus don't lock people in.


title: Thugs in Houston block presentations of rap video
uri: Thugs-in-Houston-block-presentations-of-rap-video
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Thugs_in_Houston_block_presentations_of_rap_video)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Thugs_in_Houston_block_presentations_of_rap_video%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in Houston blocked street presentations of a rap video by 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/may/27/kanye-west-new-slaves-houston">threatening 
to arrest the fans</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Swedish_thugs_oppression_of_blacks)
title: Swedish thugs' oppression of blacks
uri: Swedish-thugs-oppression-of-blacks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Swedish_thugs_oppression_of_blacks%29
content:
<p>
Swedish thugs' oppression of blacks is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/sweden-punishes-rioters-police-stockholm-riots">surprisingly 
similar to that of US thugs</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Mt_Everest_amusement_park)
title: Mt Everest amusement park
uri: Mt-Everest-amusement-park
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Mt_Everest_amusement_park%29
content:
<p>
There is a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/27/mount-everest-ladder-hillary-step">serious 
proposal to install a ladder</a> on Mt Everest to avoid a bottleneck
in the climb.
<p>
This demonstrates that Mt Everest has become an amusement park rather
than a real adventure.  How silly to put so much effort and money into
such a thing.


title: US copyright industry wants to imitate gangsters
uri: US-copyright-industry-wants-to-imitate-gangsters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(US_copyright_industry_wants_to_imitate_gangsters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28US_copyright_industry_wants_to_imitate_gangsters%29

content:
<p>
The US copyright industry is not satisfied with imitating dictators;
now it 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/05/26/us-entertainment-industry-to-c.html">wants 
to imitate gangsters</a>.
<p>
You could tell the report was going to spout nonsense simply from the
terminology used to refer to the act of sharing copies.
<p>
"Intellectual property" is propaganda; worse, it spreads confusion
because it misrepresents various unrelated laws by treating them as a
single thing.  See 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html</a>.
<p>
"Theft" is a falsehood: copying, even when unauthorized, is not theft
under any legal system I know of. See
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Theft">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Theft</a>


title: Political will and firmness required to confront corporations
uri: Political-will-and-firmness-required-to-confront-corporations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Political_will_and_firmness_required_to_confront_corporations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Political_will_and_firmness_required_to_confront_corporations%29

content:
<p>
Robert Reich: with exploiting corporations playing one country against
another, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/corporations-are-stealing-billions-tax-breaks-while-confused-screwed-citizenry-turn-each-other">peoples 
and states ought to unite against them</a>.
<p>
His reasoning is applicable when states, if united, use their power
against corporate dominion.  (Sometimes the EU does put real limits on
corporations.)  United, they can be stronger, in principle.
<p>
However, what is usually lacking when states ought to confront
business is not strength, but political will and firmness.  That does
not require a large country, and it does not benefit from union with
other states whose governments don't have political will and firmness.
<p>
Exiting the EU can in principle be a good thing, if it gets a country
out of a free exploitation agreement that the EU imposes, or an unjust
EU directive such as the Copyright Directive that requires countries
to ban DRM-breaking programs.  Exiting the EU might be absolutely
necessary if it is the way to escape a disaster such as the euro's
deficit limit.  However, it could also be a path to an even more
abject surrender to corporations, as Reich suggests.


title: Systematic infiltration and obstruction of anticorporate protests
uri: Systematic-infiltration-and-obstruction-of-anticorporate-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Systematic_infiltration_and_obstruction_of_anticorporate_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Systematic_infiltration_and_obstruction_of_anticorporate_protests%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="media/512d087b.Dissent20or20Terror20FINAL.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.prwatch.org/files/Dissent%20or%20Terror%20FINAL.pdf">full, 
sad details</a> of systematic US infiltration and obstruction
of anticorporate protests.
<p>
This demonstrates that the US government is on the side of the
plutocrats, and the enemy of the plutocrats' victims (most Americans).


title: Bahrain continues to respond to peaceful protest with repression
uri: Bahrain-continues-to-respond-to-peaceful-protest-with-repression
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Bahrain_continues_to_respond_to_peaceful_protest_with_repression)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Bahrain_continues_to_respond_to_peaceful_protest_with_repression%29

content:
<p>
Bahrain continues to respond to a peaceful protest movement
with repression which 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/21-3">goes as far as 
torture</a>.


title: 24 people killed, nearly 400 injured in Oklahoma tornado
uri: 24-people-killed-nearly-400-injured-in-Oklahoma-tornado
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(24_people_killed_nearly_400_injured_in_Oklahoma_tornado)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%2824_people_killed_nearly_400_injured_in_Oklahoma_tornado%29

content:
<p>
The Oklahoma tornado <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/26/oklahoma-tornado-obama-federal-help">killed 
24 people and injured almost 400</a>.
<p>
What fools, Americans, to be far more worried concerned about smaller
events such as the Boston bombing, especially since extreme weather
events are more common as well as more dangerous.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Deforestation_in_Indonesia)
title: Deforestation in Indonesia
uri: Deforestation-in-Indonesia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Deforestation_in_Indonesia%29
content:
<p>
Deforestation in Indonesia goes with 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/26-0">taking poor 
people's land</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(Get_Apocalyptic)
title: Get Apocalyptic
uri: Get-Apocalyptic
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28Get_Apocalyptic%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/26-2">Get Apocalyptic: Why Radical is 
the New Normal</a>.


title: US govt gives corporations precedence over people
uri: US-govt-gives-corporations-precedence-over-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_May_2013_(US_govt_gives_corporations_precedence_over_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_May_2013_%28US_govt_gives_corporations_precedence_over_people%29

content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/26">officially and 
openly</a> gives big corporations precedence over people.


title: Hounded by press after having sex change operation
uri: Hounded-by-press-after-having-sex-change-operation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Hounded_by_press_after_having_sex_change_operation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Hounded_by_press_after_having_sex_change_operation%29

content:
<p>
What lessons can be learned from the case of teacher Lucy Meadows,
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/28/lucy-meadows-coroner-press-shame">hounded
by the press after having a sex change operation?</a>
<p>
Keeping such a thing secret is impossible, and censorship is
disastrous, but society can learn to recognize that a sex change is
nothing for adults or children to be afraid of.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Solitary_confinement_for_years)
title: Solitary confinement for years
uri: Solitary-confinement-for-years
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Solitary_confinement_for_years%29
content:
<p>
A UK private prisons company is accused of keeping people
in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/28/g4s-south-african-prisoners-isolation">solitary
confinement for years</a>, and denying them medical treatment.
<p>
Their denials are not credible.  If someone is put in a private cell
for his own protection, there is no reason to make that a harsh
regime.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Twitter_a_monopolistic_outlet)
title: Twitter a monopolistic outlet
uri: Twitter-a-monopolistic-outlet
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Twitter_a_monopolistic_outlet%29
content:
<p>
Twitter threatens to become
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/28/twitter-changing-news-media">monopolistic
outlet</a> for all major news media.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Reconnaissance_drones_are_useful)
title: Reconnaissance drones are useful
uri: Reconnaissance-drones-are-useful
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Reconnaissance_drones_are_useful%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/28/drones-changing-face-conservation">Reconnaissance
drones are useful</a> for tracking destructive logging, poaching,
fishing and and farming activities.
<p>
However, they can also see whatever you do in your backyard.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Google_to_show_customized_maps)
title: Google to show customized maps
uri: Google-to-show-customized-maps
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Google_to_show_customized_maps%29
content:
<p>
Google plans to show
people <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/05/google_maps_personalization_will_hurt_public_space_and_engagement.html">"customized
maps"</a> as a way to pressure stores to pay to be visible — but
the harm can go far beyond squeezing money out of all retail
businesses.
<p>
If you ever do a search through Google, do it from a machine shared
with many others, and make sure you have no permanent cookies at the
start of your session.  Best of all, do it from a machine from which
you have never identified yourself to any web site.  Many sites report
all their visitors to Google through Google Analytics, so if you
identified yourself to any of them, Google knows.


title: Long prison terms for medical marijuana
uri: Long-prison-terms-for-medical-marijuana
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Long_prison_terms_for_medical_marijuana)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Long_prison_terms_for_medical_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
Several Americans that use medical marijuana to cope with grave
physical conditions are about to
start <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/28">long
prison terms.</a>
<p>
I hope Duval destroys his house, making it worthless, before the US
government can seize it.


title: Mental disorders should not be hastily defined
uri: Mental-disorders-should-not-be-hastily-defined
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Mental_disorders_should_not_be_hastily_defined)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Mental_disorders_should_not_be_hastily_defined%29

content:
<p>
Mental Disorders
Should <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/28/dsm-5-labelling-normal-responses-mental-disorders">Not
Be Hastily Defined.</a>
<p>
It comes down to a philosophical question about the meaning of
"healthy".  There is more than one way to interpret the same facts.


title: Another pesticide found to harm honeybees
uri: Another-pesticide-found-to-harm-honeybees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Another_pesticide_found_to_harm_honeybees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Another_pesticide_found_to_harm_honeybees%29

content:
<p>
Another
pesticide, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/28/fipronil-fourth-insecticide-risk-honeybees">fipronil,
has been found to harm honeybees.</a>


title: Syrian rebels treated for damage from chemical weapons
uri: Syrian-rebels-treated-for-damage-from-chemical-weapons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Syrian_rebels_treated_for_damage_from_chemical_weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Syrian_rebels_treated_for_damage_from_chemical_weapons%29

content:
<p>
Hundreds of Syrian rebels have been treated
for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/28/syria-medics-treat-rebels-symptoms-chemical-exposure">damage
from chemical weapons.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(200_million_people_refugees_by_2050)
title: 200 million people refugees by 2050
uri: 200-million-people-refugees-by-2050
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28200_million_people_refugees_by_2050%29

content:
<p>
Global heating's effects could
make <a href="http://www.osce.org/eea/14851">200 million people
refugees by 2050.</a>
<p>
Of course, this is a rough estimate.  It could be less, or it could be
more.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(The_smart_city)
title: The smart city
uri: The-smart-city
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28The_smart_city%29
content:
<p>
The "smart city" threatens to
be <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/05/18/the-too-smart-city/q87J17qCLwrN90amZ5CoLI/story.html">too
smart for the residents' good.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Americans'_outrage_and_empathy)
title: Americans' outrage and empathy
uri: Americans-outrage-and-empathy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Americans%27_outrage_and_empathy%29
content:
<p>
The extent of Americans' outrage and empathy for various acts of
violence
is <a href="http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17938-the-many-forms-of-terror">not
proportionate to the acts themselves.</a>
<p>
At least 460
were <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/01-4">killed
in Iraq in April.</a>
<p>
Ironically, the first article starts out by endorsing Americans'
inordinate feelings of anguish and fear about the Boston bombing, and
claiming falsely that we "all" feel it that way.  The reason many
Americans do feel that way is because they are bombarded by messages
telling them that they should and that everyone else does.
<p>
To get Americans on the right track, we must urge people to feel more
concern for other victims, but also stop encouraging a spirit-sapping
excessive reaction to one comparatively small act of violence.  Every
death is a loss to the world, but if you don't know the person who
died and you don't have a chance to prevent the death, don't let it
overcome you.


title: Urgent: Oppose giant coal mine on US public land
uri: Very-Urgent-Oppose-giant-coal-mine-on-US-public-land
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_May_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_giant_coal_mine_on_US_public_land)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_giant_coal_mine_on_US_public_land%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1377">file 
a comment</a> opposing a giant coal mine on US public land.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Evacuation_of_Arctic_research_station)
title: Evacuation of Arctic research station
uri: Evacuation-of-Arctic-research-station
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Evacuation_of_Arctic_research_station%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/0524/Russia-evacuates-drifting-Arctic-research-station-as-ice-floe-melts">Russia 
Evacuates 'Drifting' Arctic Research Station As Ice Floe Melts</a>.


title: Loss of biodiversity threatens humankind's survival
uri: Loss-of-biodiversity-threatens-humankind-s-survival
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Loss_of_biodiversity_threatens_humankinds_survival)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Loss_of_biodiversity_threatens_humankinds_survival%29

content:
<p>
Loss of biodiversity is a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/28-6P">threat to 
humankind's survival</a>, and agribusiness corporations are a
substantial part of the problem.


title: Teacher faces punishment for reminding students of Fifth Amendment
uri: Teacher-faces-punishment-for-reminding-students-of-Fifth-Amendment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Teacher_faces_punishment_for_reminding_students_of_Fifth_Amendment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Teacher_faces_punishment_for_reminding_students_of_Fifth_Amendment%29

content:
<p>
Teacher John Dryden faces punishment for 
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/27/illinois-teacher-in-trouble-for-advising-students-about-fifth-amendment-before-drug-screening-survey/">reminding 
his students of their Fifth Amendment rights</a> before giving them a
non-anonymous survey that asked about their drug use.
<p>
Note the absurdity of claiming that the survey is "proprietary
business information" — that is, a trade secret — after
showing it to hundreds or thousands of students.  But this sort of
impudence is normal for business today.
<p>
The school says the survey results "won't be shared with police", and
maybe that describes the school's intentions, but the school is not
really in a position to keep the state from getting these surveys.
<p>
I wish I could sign the petition in support of Dryden, but the site it is on
requires running nonfree Javascript.


title: Colorado passes laws regulating marijuana sales
uri: Colorado-passes-laws-regulating-marijuana-sales
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Colorado_passes_laws_regulating_marijuana_sales)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Colorado_passes_laws_regulating_marijuana_sales%29

content:
<p>
Colorado has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/28/colorado-governor-signs-marijuana-regulations">passed 
laws regulating marijuana sales</a>, which are now legal.
<p>
I'm not sure there is a reason to limit how much a person can have,
or driving under the influence of marijuana (it doesn't seem to lead
to car accidents), but they are a minor issue compared with the evils
of prohibition.
<p>
But we can expect Obama to attack with cruel force, just as he has
done against medical marijuana.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Facebooks_censorship_power)
title: Facebook's censorship power
uri: Facebook-s-censorship-power
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Facebooks_censorship_power%29
content:
<p>
A campaign convinced Facebook to 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/29/facebook-campaign-violence-against-women">ban 
images that endorse violence against women</a>.
<p>
The photos described sound really disgusting, but the censorship
power that Facebook has is what frightens me most.


title: Toronto thugs break man's ribs for filming them
uri: Toronto-thugs-break-man-s-ribs-for-filming-them
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Toronto_thugs_break_mans_ribs_for_filming_them)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Toronto_thugs_break_mans_ribs_for_filming_them%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in Toronto 
<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/26/exclusive_toronto_police_arrest_man_take_phone_after_attempt_to_fil">broke 
a man's ribs and arrested him</a> because he filmed their excessive
violence against someone else.
<p>
It is clear that their accusations, at the time, were dishonest and meant
solely to intimidate someone from exercising his civic rights and duties.
<p>
It's not enough for the city to compensate their victim.
These thugs need to be jailed.


title: Crime generally goes down after disasters
uri: Crime-generally-goes-down-after-disasters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Crime_generally_goes_down_after_disasters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Crime_generally_goes_down_after_disasters%29

content:
<p>
After disasters, most people stay calm and help each other, and 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/05/26/the_medias_warped_coverage_of_post_disaster_haiti_partner/">crime 
generally goes down</a>. However, the major media (and Hollywood)
spread the myth that riots and fighting (and even disease) are normal.
<p>
By the way, I see nothing even slightly wrong with taking food from
food stores after a disaster that prevents the stores from opening.
To criticize this seems like Randian nonsense.


title: Sireen Khudiri Sawafteh arrested without access to lawyer
uri: Sireen-Khudiri-Sawafteh-arrested-without-access-to-lawyer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Sireen_Khudiri_Sawafteh_arrested_without_access_to_lawyer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Sireen_Khudiri_Sawafteh_arrested_without_access_to_lawyer%29

content:
<p>
Sireen Khudiri Sawafteh has been arrested without access to a lawyer,
because Israel considers her Facebook page a 
"<a href='http://palsolidarity.org/2013/05/free-sireen-sawafteh-arrested-by-israel-on-the-14th-may-2013/P'>danger 
to security</a>".


title: Ireland to require plain packages for cigarettes
uri: Ireland-to-require-plain-packages-for-cigarettes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Ireland_to_require_plain_packages_for_cigarettes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Ireland_to_require_plain_packages_for_cigarettes%29

content:
<p>
Ireland will require 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/28/ireland-plain-cigarette-packets">plain 
packages for cigarettes</a>.
<p>
The arguments against this measure are full of obvious holes; they
will convince only those who don't want to think carefully about them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Arrested_for_a_topless_protest)
title: Arrested for a topless protest
uri: Arrested-for-a-topless-protest
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Arrested_for_a_topless_protest%29
content:
<p>
Members of Femen
were <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/29/tunisia-femen-protest-amina-tyler">arrested
for a topless protest</a> at the "justice" ministry in Tunisia.
<p>
The charges are a clear sign of tyranny.


title: Urgent: Call for continued protection of wolves
uri: Urgent-Call-for-continued-protection-of-wolves
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Urgent:_Call_for_continued_protection_of_wolves)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_continued_protection_of_wolves%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2595">continued
protection of wolves.</a>


title: Expelled from school for no good reason
uri: Expelled-from-school-for-no-good-reason
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Expelled_from_school_for_no_good_reason)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Expelled_from_school_for_no_good_reason%29

content:
<p>
The charges against Kiera Wilmot were dropped, but she remains
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/unexpected-reaction-why-science-experiment-gone-bad-doesnt-make-me-criminal">expelled
from school for no good reason</a>.  She writes about the
consequences, including going to a school that wastes the time of any
intelligent student.
<p>
I hope she learns to feel more indignation.
<p>
"Zero tolerance" means declaring rigidity the highest principle.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Israel_keeps_demolishing_Arab_homes)
title: Israel keeps demolishing Arab homes
uri: Israel-keeps-demolishing-Arab-homes
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Israel_keeps_demolishing_Arab_homes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/regions/jerusalem/6501-jerusalem-demolitions-render-57-palestinians-homeless.html">Israel
keeps demolishing Arab homes in Jerusalem</a> even when Israeli courts
say not to do it.


title: Blocked from treatment by Israeli paperwork
uri: Blocked-from-treatment-by-Israeli-paperwork
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Blocked_from_treatment_by_Israeli_paperwork)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Blocked_from_treatment_by_Israeli_paperwork%29

content:
<p>
A gravely injured Palestinian, in danger of death from his wounds,
was <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=59575">blocked
from treatment all day by Israeli paperwork.</a>
<p>
If Palestine were not occupied, a Palestinian hospital would have been
equipped to treat him.
<p>
Another Palestinian boy of 13 was attacked by Israeli colonists while
on his land, and broke his foot.  Israeli soldiers captured him and
tortured him for
hours, <a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2013/05/updated-with-video-13-year-old-boy-shot-at-by-settlers-tortured-by-soldiers-denied-medical-attention/">keeping
him from medical treatment.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Genetically_modified_salmon_)
title: Genetically modified salmon
uri: Genetically-modified-salmon
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Genetically_modified_salmon_%29
content:
<p>
Genetically modified salmon can hybridize with brown trout and the
hybrids
can <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/29/gm-hybrid-fish-threat-natural-populations">outdo
natural populations.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Moratorium_on_autonomous_killer_robots)
title: Moratorium on autonomous killer robots
uri: Moratorium-on-autonomous-killer-robots
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Moratorium_on_autonomous_killer_robots%29

content:
<p>
Proposing a moratorium
on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/29/killer-robots-ban-un-warning">autonomous
killer robots</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Burmese_forced_to_work_as_slaves)
title: Burmese forced to work as slaves
uri: Burmese-forced-to-work-as-slaves
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Burmese_forced_to_work_as_slaves%29
content:
<p>
Burmese men in Thailand
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/may/29/thailand-slaves-sea-burmese-migrants">forced
to work as slaves on fishing boats</a>, and murdered if they try to
escape.


title: UK hold around 90 prisoners in Afghanistan
uri: UK-hold-around-90-prisoners-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(UK_hold_around_90_prisoners_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28UK_hold_around_90_prisoners_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
The UK holds around 90 prisoners in Afghanistan, and won't hand them
over to the Afghan government
for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/29/british-forces-detainees-afghanistan-philip-hammond">fear
they might be tortured.</a>
<p>
Combatants captured in a war zone can legitimately be treated as
prisoners of war, which means they don't have to be accused of a
crime, and are also not supposed to be punished, let alone tortured.
However, I'm not sure what international law says about people
captured and called combatants who say they were not involved in
fighting.
<p>
I don't see a right answer to this issue.


title: Lost report exposed genocide of indigenous people
uri: Lost-report-exposed-genocide-of-indigenous-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Lost_report_exposed_genocide_of_indigenous_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Lost_report_exposed_genocide_of_indigenous_people%29

content:
<p>
A lost 1967 Brazilian report
which <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/29/brazil-figueiredo-genocide-report">exposed
the genocide of indigenous people</a>, using chemical and biological
weapons as well as bombs and torture and starvation, has been found
and parts leaked.
<p>
No one was punished for it then, and the impunity continues today,
with indigenous people under the
most <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/29/brazil-indigenous-people-violates-rights">furious
attack since the military regime ended.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Poor_people_pushed_off_their_land)
title: Poor people pushed off their land
uri: Poor-people-pushed-off-their-land
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Poor_people_pushed_off_their_land%29
content:
<p>
Around the
world, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/may/29/migration-expulsion-foreign-land-deals">poor
people are being pushed off their land</a> by foreign purchasers who
give them no choice.
<p>
The companies grow food for export, and the people are forced to flee.


title: Hammond plead guilty to extracting Stratfor's files
uri: Hammond-plead-guilty-to-extracting-Stratfor-s-files
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_May_2013_(Hammond_plead_guilty_to_extracting_Stratfor's_files)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_%28Hammond_plead_guilty_to_extracting_Stratfor%27s_files%29

content:
<p>
Jeremy
Hammond <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/28-8">plead
guilty to extracting Stratfor's files</a> for publication, but
courageously refused to apologize for trying to inform the people.
<p>
Stratfor, which was one of Hammond's targets is more dangerous to
Americans than Hammond.  It is part of the tendency for
the <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_May_2013_(Surveillance_of_Occupy_Wall_Street)">US
government to work secretly with corporations against Americans</a>,
which also shows up in other forms.
<p>
However, I do not approve
of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/27/security-stratfor-hackers-credit-cards">using
people's credit cards</a> that were obtained from Stratfor.


title: Toronto thugs break man's ribs for filming them
uri: 2013-05-31-Toronto-thugs-break-man-s-ribs-for-filming-them
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Toronto_thugs_break_man's_ribs_for_filming_them)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Toronto_thugs_break_man%27s_ribs_for_filming_them%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in Toronto 
<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/26/exclusive_toronto_police_arrest_man_take_phone_after_attempt_to_film_takedown_at_sheraton.html">broke 
a man's ribs and arrested him</a> because he filmed their excessive
violence against someone else.
<p>
It is clear that their accusations, at the time, were dishonest and meant
solely to intimidate someone from exercising his civic rights and duties.
<p>
It's not enough for the city to compensate their victim.
These thugs need to be jailed.


title: Egypt considers law to control NGOs strictly
uri: Egypt-considers-law-to-control-NGOs-strictly
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Egypt_considers_law_to_control_NGOs_strictly)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Egypt_considers_law_to_control_NGOs_strictly%29

content:
<p>
Egypt is considering a law to 
<a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/egypt-moves-ahead-law-stifle-non-governmental-organizations-2013-05-29">control 
NGOs strictly</a>, which threatens to stop international human rights
organizations (such as Amnesty International) from operating there.


title: Strain of unapproved GMO wheat found growing in a farm
uri: Strain-of-unapproved-GMO-wheat-found-growing-in-a-farm
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Strain_of_unapproved_GMO_wheat_found_growing_in_a_farm)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Strain_of_unapproved_GMO_wheat_found_growing_in_a_farm%29

content:
<p>
A strain of GMO wheat that was never approved for commercial use
was found 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/29-11">growing in 
a farm in Oregon</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(UK_thugs_serve_Hollywood)
title: UK thugs serve Hollywood
uri: UK-thugs-serve-Hollywood
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28UK_thugs_serve_Hollywood%29
content:
<p>
UK thugs, operating as auxiliaries for Hollywood, 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/five-undercover-police-cars-sent-to-arrest-single-alleged-movie-pirate-130525/">arrested 
a man</a> and then let Hollywood's flunkies interrogate him.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(What_we_can_learn_from_Denmark)
title: What we can learn from Denmark
uri: What-we-can-learn-from-Denmark
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28What_we_can_learn_from_Denmark%29
content:
<p>
Bernie Sanders: 
<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Can-We-Learn-From-Den-by-Bernie-Sanders-130527-546.html">What Can We Learn From Denmark</a>?


title: Israeli soldiers harass Palestinian students at school
uri: Israeli-soldiers-harass-Palestinian-students-at-school
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Israeli_soldiers_harass_Palestinian_students_at_school)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Israeli_soldiers_harass_Palestinian_students_at_school%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers frequently 
<a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2013/05/military-presence-at-hebron-schools-regular-updates-2/">harass 
and block Palestinian students</a> at school or trying to go to
school.


title: US officials refusing to take calls from reporters
uri: US-officials-refusing-to-take-calls-from-reporters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(US_officials_refusing_to_take_calls_from_reporters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28US_officials_refusing_to_take_calls_from_reporters%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime has investigated so many officials, as well as
so many reporters, that officials now 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/us/leaks-inquiries-show-how-wide-a-net-is-cast.html?pagewanted=all">refuse 
even to take calls from reporters</a>.
<p>
Attorney General Holder was directly involved in 
<a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/24/holder-involved-in-decision-to-ask-for-search-warrant-for-reporters-private-emails/">seizing 
records from a reporter</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Cost_of_the_Wall_Street_bailout)
title: Cost of the Wall Street bailout
uri: Cost-of-the-Wall-Street-bailout
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Cost_of_the_Wall_Street_bailout%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/28-5">What did the 
Wall Street bailout cost Americans</a>? 
<p>
The costs are still mounting up.


title: Countries where taxes on the rich have decreased the most
uri: Countries-where-taxes-on-the-rich-have-decreased-the-most
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Countries_where_taxes_on_the_rich_have_decreased_the_most)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Countries_where_taxes_on_the_rich_have_decreased_the_most%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/05/how-rich-got-richer-global-comparisons-edition">countries 
where the rich have gained the most</a> are also the countries where
their taxes have decreased the most.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Religious_censorship_in_Turkey)
title: Religious censorship in Turkey
uri: Religious-censorship-in-Turkey
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Religious_censorship_in_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
Religious censorship in Turkey has reached the point of 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/29/turkey-silencing-guns-and-critics">imprisoning
people even for criticizing the boundaries of religious censorship</a>.
<p>
Anyone who thinks that that statement should be punished
for "insulting religious values" deserves to have his religion
insulted every five minutes.


title: Ugandans protest closure of newspapers and radio stations
uri: Ugandans-protest-closure-of-newspapers-and-radio-stations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Ugandans_protest_closure_of_newspapers_and_radio_stations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Ugandans_protest_closure_of_newspapers_and_radio_stations%29

content:
<p>
Ugandans protested the forced closure of newspapers and radio
stations, so the thugs 
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2013/05/monitor-red-pepper-closures-spark-protests-in-ugan.php">attacked 
journalists covering the protest</a>.
<p>
These newspapers and radio stations were closed because they
reported a plot by the president to set up a dynasty, effectively
eliminating democracy.  I conclude that the report was accurate.


title: Website technician jailed for "defaming the police"
uri: Website-technician-jailed-for-defaming-the-police
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Website_technician_jailed_for_defaming_the_police)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Website_technician_jailed_for_defaming_the_police%29

content:
<p>
In Djibouti, a website technician was jailed for "defaming the police"
because he <a href="http://en.rsf.org/djibouti-website-technician-gets-45-days-in-29-05-2013,44685.html">posted 
photos showing the thugs breaking up a demonstration</a>.
<p>
Strange how governments and thugs blame the people who show their
despicable acts to the public, instead of blaming themselves for
carrying out those acts in the first place.  A lot like criminals.


title: Singapore imposes censorship on Internet news sites
uri: Singapore-imposes-censorship-on-Internet-news-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Singapore_imposes_censorship_on_Internet_news_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Singapore_imposes_censorship_on_Internet_news_sites%29

content:
<p>
Singapore has imposed its censorship for mainstream media on 
<a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130529-singaporean-online-community-angered-new-media-rule">some
Internet news sites</a>.


title: Bosnian Croat leaders convicted of planning ethnic cleansing
uri: Bosnian-Croat-leaders-convicted-of-planning-ethnic-cleansing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Bosnian_Croat_leaders_convicted_of_planning_ethnic_cleansing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Bosnian_Croat_leaders_convicted_of_planning_ethnic_cleansing%29

content:
<p>
Bosnian Croat leaders were convicted of planning the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/may/29/bosnian-croats-convicted-ethnic-yugoslavia">ethnic 
cleansing of Bosnian Muslims</a>.


title: More time given to European countries for budget cuts
uri: More-time-given-to-European-countries-for-budget-cuts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(More_time_given_to_European_countries_for_budget_cuts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28More_time_given_to_European_countries_for_budget_cuts%29

content:
<p>
The masters of European austerity have given several prostrate countries
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/29/europes-austerity-big-worries-editorial">more 
time for their next round of required budget cuts</a>.
<p>
The article is right that this, in itself, is no big change.  But
there is hope that the banksters will be compelled to keep giving them
more time, and more, and it will result in effectively cancelling the
requirement.


title: Republicans attack Obama for his War on Journalism
uri: Republicans-attack-Obama-for-his-War-on-Journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Republicans_attack_Obama_for_his_War_on_Journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Republicans_attack_Obama_for_his_War_on_Journalism%29

content:
<p>
Amazingly, Republicans have started attacking Obama for his 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/29/eric-holder-congress-journalist-leaks">War 
on Journalism</a>.
<p>
What's amazing is that they are attacking Obama for something that is
actually bad.
<p>
Obama's idea of "reviewing" the War on Journalism is to 
<a href="https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/05/why-eric-holder-charge-oversight-eric-holders-surveillance-journalists-policy">let 
the Attorney General review his own conduct</a>.


title: Farming tends to breed useful nutrients out of plants
uri: Farming-tends-to-breed-useful-nutrients-out-of-plants
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Farming_tends_to_breed_useful_nutrients_out_of_plants)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Farming_tends_to_breed_useful_nutrients_out_of_plants%29

content:
<p>
Farming tends to 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/breeding-the-nutrition-out-of-our-food.html?pagewanted=all">breed 
the useful nutrients out of plants</a>, even if that is not
specifically intended.


title: Israeli housing units on Palestinian territory
uri: Israeli-housing-units-on-Palestinian-territory
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Israeli_housing_units_on_Palestinian_territory)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Israeli_housing_units_on_Palestinian_territory%29

content:
<p>
Israel has built 
<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/05/israel-settlement-years.html">16,000 
housing units on Palestinian territory in the past 3 years</a>, and
attacks against Palestinians and their property are increasing too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Prohibition)
title: Prohibition
uri: Prohibition
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Prohibition%29
content:
<p>
Prohibition of fairly safe drugs fuels the invention of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/29/drug-prohibition-rise-legal-highs">legal 
mimics that might be dangerous</a>.


title: Man accused of "terrorism" after giving broadcast interview in UK
uri: Man-accused-of-terrorism-after-giving-broadcast-interview-in-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Man_accused_of_terrorism_after_giving_broadcast_interview_in_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Man_accused_of_terrorism_after_giving_broadcast_interview_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
A man who knows Adebolajo, one of the Woolwich killers, was 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/25/woolwich-suspect-kenya-torture">arrested
in the UK just after giving a broadcast interview</a> about Adebolajo.
<p>
He was accused of "terrorism" but believes he was arrested for saying
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/28/woolwich-killing-doctors-suspect">things 
that the state finds embarrassing</a>.
<p>
One article refers to this man as Abu Nusaybah, while the other refers
to him as Ibrahim Hassan, but they clearly both mean the same man.
I don't know why the discrepancy in names.


title: Companies want to bribe people to accept TVs
uri: Companies-want-to-bribe-people-to-accept-TVs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Companies_want_to_bribe_people_to_accept_TVs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Companies_want_to_bribe_people_to_accept_TVs%29

content:
<p>
Companies want to bribe people to accept TVs
that <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/30/xbox-one-watching-ads-microsoft">keep
track of where they are looking while watching.</a>
<p>
I am glad the article takes account of the difference between getting
a patent on a technique and using it.  The patent, as such, does not
mean Microsoft uses or will use this technique.  It only enables
Microsoft to sue anyone else that uses it.
<p>
Alas, we can't count on Microsoft to use that to protect us from this
abuse.  It is not altruistic enough for that.  More likely it will let
everyone else do this in exchange for paying Microsoft.
<p>
I don't think they will stop with "bribes" — like the "savings"
from identifying yourself to a store, by and by it will morph into
paying extra for not being monitored.  And eventually they will try to
turn off other options.
<p>
This won't affect me: I don't have a TV, because I'd rather spend my
time on other things.  However, if I were inclined to have a TV, I
certainly would not accept one like this.
<p>
I wonder what these systems do if you block the camera, put a photo in
front of it.


title: Banksters ordered subservient congresscritter
uri: Banksters-ordered-subservient-congresscritter
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Banksters_ordered_subservient_congresscritter)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Banksters_ordered_subservient_congresscritter%29

content:
<p>
US banksters ordered their subservient congresscritter to pass a bill
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/28-12">reduce
the weak US regulations on banks.</a>


title: Urgent: Political spending and US Chamber of Commerce
uri: Urgent-Political-spending-and-US-Chamber-of-Commerce
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Urgent:_Political_spending_and_US_Chamber_of_Commerce)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Political_spending_and_US_Chamber_of_Commerce%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Google
to <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12229">disclose
its political spending and stop funding the US Chamber of
Commerce</a>.


title: Urgent: Support increase in social security payments
uri: Urgent-Support-increase-in-social-security-payments
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Urgent:_Support_increase_in_social_security_payments)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_increase_in_social_security_payments%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support Senator Harkin's bill
to <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=422">increase
social security payments.</a>


title: Apple locates itself in Ireland but not a resident there or US
uri: Apple-locates-itself-in-Ireland-but-not-a-resident-there-or-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Apple_locates_itself_in_Ireland_but_not_a_resident_there_or_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Apple_locates_itself_in_Ireland_but_not_a_resident_there_or_US%29

content:
<p>
How Apple locates itself in Ireland
and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/29/apple-ireland-cork-cathy-kearney">arranges
not to be considered resident either there or in the US.</a>
<p>
It's easy to see how to change US law so that this particular trick
won't work — if the US government represents Americans rather
than Irish companies such as Apple.  Just require that a company can't
have a US tax exemption based on being located in some other country
unless it is treated as resident by that country.
<p>
But Apple uses other tricks too, such as the "unlimited companies".
The US could make that stop, too, with a similar condition on taxes.
<p>
Here's
Apple's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/29/apple-tax-profits-ireland-cork">bullshit
excuse, compared with facts.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Lessons_from_the_suffragettes)
title: Lessons from the suffragettes
uri: Lessons-from-the-suffragettes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Lessons_from_the_suffragettes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/29/nine-lessons-suffragettes-feminists">Lessons
from the suffragettes</a> for feminists and other activists today.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Rights_for_dolphins_and_whales)
title: Rights for dolphins and whales
uri: Rights-for-dolphins-and-whales
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Rights_for_dolphins_and_whales%29
content:
<p>
India has established
certain <a href="http://www.dw.de/dolphins-gain-unprecedented-protection-in-india/a-16834519">rights
for dolphins and whales</a>, including the right not to be captured.


title: Stratfor part of a dangerous centralization of power
uri: Stratfor-part-of-a-dangerous-centralization-of-power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Stratfor_part_of_a_dangerous_centralization_of_power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Stratfor_part_of_a_dangerous_centralization_of_power%29

content:
<p>
Julian Assange explains how Stratfor is part of
a <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/29/julian_assange_stratfor_hacker_jeremy_hammond">dangerous
centralization of power</a> under the rubric of "national security".


title: Visa Iceland to cut off donations to Wikileaks
uri: Visa-Iceland-to-cut-off-donations-to-Wikileaks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Visa_Iceland_to_cut_off_donations_to_Wikileaks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Visa_Iceland_to_cut_off_donations_to_Wikileaks%29

content:
<p>
Visa Iceland has found a new excuse
to <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/29/julian_assange_on_meeting_with_google">cut
off donations to Wikileaks</a> and nullify its court victory, but
people can donate easily through June 30.
<p>
After that, indirect donations will still be possible, and not very
hard.


title: Holder appears to have lied to Congress
uri: Holder-appears-to-have-lied-to-Congress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Holder_appears_to_have_lied_to_Congress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Holder_appears_to_have_lied_to_Congress%29

content:
<p>
Attorney General Holder appears to
have <a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/05/29/wikileaks-case-may-prove-holder-lied-to-congress/">lied
to Congress</a> when he said had never "heard of a potential
prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material."


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Imprisoned_whistleblower)
title: Imprisoned whistleblower
uri: Imprisoned-whistleblower
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Imprisoned_whistleblower%29
content:
<p>
Imprisoned whistleblower John Kiriakou writes about life in prison,
including how the 
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/29/imprisoned-cia-torture-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-pens-letter-from-loretto/">
US government violates an agreement</a> approved by the
judge in his case, and how the guards tried to trick him and another
prisoner into fighting, by lying to them both.
<p>
Once he gets out, I hope he will dedicate his life to organizing
opposition to the dishonest and secretive regime that has taken
control over the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Political_confusion)
title: Political confusion
uri: Political-confusion
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Political_confusion%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/30-0">
The US distorts</a> the concept of "weapons of mass distraction"
for purposes of political confusion.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Canadian_thug)
title: Canadian thug
uri: Canadian-thug
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Canadian_thug%29
content:
<p>
A Canadian thug was caught on video threatening to attack a man and 
<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2013/05/08/durham_police_constable_threatens_to_beat_up_man_and_plant_cocaine_on_him_video_shows.html">
frame
him for carrying cocaine</a>.
<p>
In response, the thug force "disciplined" him, but did not even fire him.
It is a real shame that no witness will step forward to get tried and
jailed.
However, if the only thing they can accuse him of is "assault with a
weapon",
that means the laws are weak.  Is it not a crime to threaten to frame
someone?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Remain_on_hunger_strike)
title: Remain on hunger strike
uri: Remain-on-hunger-strike
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Remain_on_hunger_strike%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/30/guantanamo-bay-hunger-strikes-worsens">
Guantanamo prisoners remain on hunger strike</a>, not believing that Obama's
speech
will change anything.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 31_May_2013_(Divest_from_fossil_fuel_companies)
title: Divest from fossil fuel companies
uri: Divest-from-fossil-fuel-companies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#31_May_2013_%28Divest_from_fossil_fuel_companies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/30/fossil-fuel-divestment-climate-change">
Why it is crucial</a> to divest from fossil fuel companies,
as a step towards stopping them from destroying the biosphere


