# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(People_on_food_stamps)
title: People on food stamps
uri: People-on-food-stamps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28People_on_food_stamps%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/junk-food-stamps-snap">People
On Food Stamps Make Healthier Grocery Decisions Than Most of Us</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Fossil_fuel_divestment)
title: Fossil fuel divestment
uri: 2015-03-19-Fossil-fuel-divestment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_divestment%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/09/10-myths-about-fossil-fuel-divestment-put-to-the-sword">10
Myths about Fossil Fuel Divestment Put to the Sword</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Ecologically_Disastrous_Dams)
title: Ecologically Disastrous Dams
uri: Ecologically-Disastrous-Dams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Ecologically_Disastrous_Dams%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/india-untamed/2015/mar/06/ecologically-disastrous-dams-may-go-ahead">Ecologically
Disastrous Dams [in India] May Get the Go-Ahead</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Voting_rights_for_black_Americans)
title: Voting rights for black Americans
uri: Voting-rights-for-black-Americans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Voting_rights_for_black_Americans%29

content:
<p>
The civil rights movement of the 1960s won voting rights for black
Americans, but Republicans are 
<a href="http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=390768b5d5&e=8283eff9b8">taking
them away again piecemeal</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Seizure_of_property_without_trial)
title: Seizure of property without trial
uri: Seizure-of-property-without-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Seizure_of_property_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
Wyoming's legislature passed a bill to limit seizure of people's
property without a trial, but the governor, a former prosecutor,
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150220/11454530092/wyoming-governor-vetoes-asset-forfeiture-bill-cites-questionable-seizures-support-his-decision.shtml">vetoed
it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(False_DMCA_takedown_notices)
title: False DMCA takedown notices
uri: False-DMCA-takedown-notices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28False_DMCA_takedown_notices%29
content:
<p>
WordPress won a court case against the source of a false DMCA takedown
notice.  Unfortunately, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/09/wordpress-in-court-victory-over-blogger-censored-by-straight-pride-uk">the
culprit has disappeared</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Arrested_for_showing_documentary)
title: Arrested for showing documentary
uri: Arrested-for-showing-documentary
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Arrested_for_showing_documentary%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/09/activist-arrested-for-showing-documentary-in-indian-village">Activist
Arrested for Showing Rape Documentary in Indian Village</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(China_Detains_Feminist_Activists)
title: China Detains Feminist Activists
uri: China-Detains-Feminist-Activists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28China_Detains_Feminist_Activists%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/09/china-detains-feminist-activists-over-international-womens-day">China
Detains Feminist Activists over International Women's Day</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Remote_medical_scanner)
title: Remote medical scanner
uri: Remote-medical-scanner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Remote_medical_scanner%29
content:
<p>
The US government wants to develop a remote medical scanner that can
measure sensitive personal medical data without touching a person.  It
<a href="media/016918e7.Rogers.Off.To.Website.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.aulawreview.org/pdfs/64/64.2/Rogers.Off.To.Website.pdf">proposes
to apply this to people en masse</a> without probable cause to suspect
them of anything.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Protecting_rhinos)
title: Protecting rhinos
uri: Protecting-rhinos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Protecting_rhinos%29
content:
<p>
The Rhino Rescue Project to protect rhinos by 
<a href="http://www.rhinorescueproject.com/faq/">infusing dye and
toxins into their horns</a>.  This is intended to make them unsalable,
and beyond that, to make people scared to ingest any rhino horn, thus
driving down the commercial impetus to kill rhinos.
<p>
The South African government 
<a href="http://www.pachydermjournal.org/index.php/pachy/article/view/351/248">opposes
the plan</a>, claiming it is untested and won't work at all unless it
is done to all rhinos.
<p>
Here's the RRP's 
<a href="http://www.rhinorescueproject.com/noseweek-179-september-2014/">rebuttal</a>.
<p>
It claims the government is trying to keep up the value of its
stockpile of rhino horns, which it plans to sell.
<p>
I don't know whether the infusion method will be effective at driving
down demand.  If the toxin is not enough to cause noticeable symptoms
to users, they may ignore it.  Those who buy rhino horns as trophies
may not care about it.  Still, the idea is worth trying.
<p>
As for the need to do this to all rhinos, that gets easier and easier
as the number of rhinos goes down.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(The_thugs_of_St_Lucia)
title: The thugs of St Lucia
uri: The-thugs-of-St-Lucia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28The_thugs_of_St_Lucia%29
content:
<p>
The thugs of St Lucia are especially thuggish — they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/09/st-lucia-police-had-death-lists-jamaican-investigators-say">made
a list of people to murder</a>.


title: Australia's treatment of asylum-seekers
uri: 2015-03-19-Australia-s-treatment-of-asylum-seekers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Australias_treatment_of_asylum-seekers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Australias_treatment_of_asylum-seekers%29

content:
<p>
UN: Australia's treatment of asylum-seekers amounts to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/09/un-reports-australias-immigration-detention-breaches-torture-convention">torture</a>.
<p>
Abbott's response: tell Australians to blame the UN for "lecturing."
The last thing Australians should do is think about substantive issue.


title: Putin admits ordering military conquest
uri: Putin-admits-ordering-military-conquest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Putin_admits_ordering_military_conquest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Putin_admits_ordering_military_conquest%29

content:
<p>
Putin admits ordering the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/09/vladimir-putin-describes-secret-meeting-when-russia-decided-to-seize-crimea">military
conquest of the Crimea</a>.  This conquest was disguised as a
rebellion, but that was only a flimsy excuse for supporters to fool
themselves.  Some of the population may well have wanted union with
Russia, though the Putinesque "election" gives us no real information
about how many they were.  But that doesn't change the fact that it
was an invasion.
<p>
The "rebellion" in eastern Ukraine has some real supporters,
but that too is an invasion.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Governor_bans_global_heating_terms)
title: Governor bans global heating terms
uri: Governor-bans-global-heating-terms
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Governor_bans_global_heating_terms%29

content:
<p>
Under Republican global heating denialist governor Scott, Florida's
Department of Environmental Protection ordered employees from using
the terms
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/08/florida-banned-terms-climate-change-global-warming">"global warming" and "climate change"</a>.
<p>
Also forbidden are 
"sea-level rise" and
"sustainability".
<p>
Ironically, the term "climate change" was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_June_2014_(Destroyed_by_global_heating)">imposed
by Republicans under the orders of Bush II</a>, instead of "global
warming", so as to downplay the danger.
<p>
I think that neither term does justice to the disaster we are causing,
so I call it "global heating".  Please join me.


title: NATO misrepresents what Gorbachev said
uri: NATO-misrepresents-what-Gorbachev-said
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(NATO_misrepresents_what_Gorbachev_said)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28NATO_misrepresents_what_Gorbachev_said%29

content:
<p>
NATO 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/nato-is-misquoting-mikhail-gorbachev">misrepresented
what Gorbachev said about extending NATO to eastern Europe</a>.
<p>
Proposing to include Ukraine in NATO was a foolish provocation of
Russia.


title: Killing of Russian opposition leader
uri: Killing-of-Russian-opposition-leader
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Killing_of_Russian_opposition_leader)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Killing_of_Russian_opposition_leader%29

content:
<p>
Several Chechens associated with Kadyrov, the lord of Chechnya, have
been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/boris-nemtsov-five-suspects-appear-in-court-over-opposition-leaders-killing">accused
of killing Boris Nemtsov</a>.
<p>
Kadyrov has total power in Chechnya, but does so as a vassal of Putin.
His henchmen would not kill someone in Moscow without orders from him,
and he wouldn't give such orders without clearing it with Putin.  If
indeed his henchmen killed Nemtsov, Putin must have ordered it.
<p>
Apparently the plan is to claim they did it from Islamist fanaticism.
But
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/09/boris-nemtsov-speculation-about-islamist-link-useful-for-kremlin">why
pick Nemtsov</a>, of all people, as their victim?  It does not make
sense.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Ex-ambassador_fired_for_using_Gmail)
title: Ex-ambassador fired for using Gmail
uri: Ex-ambassador-fired-for-using-Gmail
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Ex-ambassador_fired_for_using_Gmail%29

content:
<p>
An ex-ambassador said he was fired by Clinton for using Gmail, which
State Department staff 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/08/clinton-double-standard-on-email-scott-gration">had
been told not to do</a>.
<p>
This may not mean that Clinton was hypocritical.  Clinton did not use
Gmail.  If the rule was "Don't use Gmail", it is a wise rule, and she
didn't violate it herself.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Obesity_in_Puerto_Rico)
title: Obesity in Puerto Rico
uri: Obesity-in-Puerto-Rico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Obesity_in_Puerto_Rico%29
content:
<p>
Puerto Rico is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/puerto-rico-childhood-obesity-law-parents-abuse">considering
a law to fine parents of obese children</a>.
<p>
Before trying this harsh method, how about <em>helping</em> parents,
educating families, and so on?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Another_large_pipeline)
title: Another large pipeline
uri: Another-large-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Another_large_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
Enbridge is building another large pipeline as an alternative to
Keystone XL, 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/opinion/its-not-just-keystone-xl-its-also-line-61.html">stealthily
piece by piece</a>.


title: Reversals on right-to-work and abortion
uri: Reversals-on-right-to-work-and-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_March_2015_(Reversals_on_right-to-work_and_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_%28Reversals_on_right-to-work_and_abortion%29

content:
<p>
Scott Walker says plainly what he plans to do — then 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/03/12760/scott-walker-sneak-attack">does
something else really nasty</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_March_2015_(Euro-zone)
title: Euro-zone
uri: Euro-zone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_March_2015_%28Euro-zone%29
content:
<p>
The euro-zone, a monetary union without a political union, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/08/europe-monetary-union-fiscal-political-anger-south">will
cause increasing suffering</a>, perhaps until it is ripped apart.
<p>
The southern countries that are suffering are going to suffer
increasingly from global heating, too.  Parts of them will become even
drier than they are now.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_March_2015_(Oppression)
title: Oppression
uri: Oppression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_March_2015_%28Oppression%29
content:
<p>
A minority can find itself objectively oppressed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2015/mar/08/the-petrie-multiplier">even
if the people in the majority are not individually worse</a>.


title: Deregulated capitalism and global heating
uri: Deregulated-capitalism-and-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_March_2015_(Deregulated_capitalism_and_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_March_2015_%28Deregulated_capitalism_and_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Naomi Klein: Deregulated capitalism (plutocracy) 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/08/how-will-everything-change-under-climate-change">blocked
correcting the global heating problem when it would have been
easy</a>.  The bigger changes needed now are blocked also by the
"let's be calm and not make any rapid changes" attitude.  But we have
to take strong measures by 2017 to avoid catastrophic heating (beyond
2 degrees).
<p>
I think it is urgently necessary to show the plutocrats that if they
kill
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_(World_food_prices_near_record)">hundreds
of millions of people</a> with global heating, they won't be permitted
to keep their own families out of the collective disaster.
<p>
Political parties 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/08/armando-iannucci-money-at-heart-of-politics-general-election-2015">hardly
ever touch substantive political questions any more</a>, because they
take for granted that anything "bad for business" is out of the
question.
<p>
The survival of civilization is bad for business, so which side are
you on?  Plutocracy, or democracy?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_March_2015_(Nairobi_National_Park)
title: Nairobi National Park
uri: Nairobi-National-Park
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_March_2015_%28Nairobi_National_Park%29
content:
<p>
Nairobi National Park is being chopped up by human activity and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/nairobi-national-park-endangered-city-wildlife-lions">many
species' numbers are dwindling</a>.


title: Investigation of Michael Brown's killing
uri: Investigation-of-Michael-Brown-s-killing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_March_2015_(Investigation_of_Michael_Browns_killing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_March_2015_%28Investigation_of_Michael_Browns_killing%29

content:
<p>
The US investigation of Michael Brown's killing concluded he had 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/us/darren-wilson-is-cleared-of-rights-violations-in-ferguson-shooting.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0">had
a fight with the thug while the thug was still in his car, and also
that he was facing the thug when he was shot dead</a>.
<p>
I am concerned about judging witnesses as credible because their
testimony agrees with "other testimony".  There may have been a more
objective basis not made clear in the article, but the words of the
article are consistent with calling witnesses "credible" if they
support the conclusion that the investigators have reached.
<p>
However, the evidence from bloodstains seems to show it was not
murder.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_March_2015_(Netanyahus_speech)
title: Netanyahu's speech
uri: Netanyahu-s-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_March_2015_%28Netanyahus_speech%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery on 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1425658097">Netanyahu's
speech</a> to (not all of) the US Congress.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Melting_ice_on_Greenland)
title: Melting ice on Greenland
uri: Melting-ice-on-Greenland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Melting_ice_on_Greenland%29
content:
<p>
Melting ice on Greenland leaves a thin smattering of 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/05/1368815/-Greenland-passes-tipping-points-Positive-feedback-accelerates">dust
on the surface</a>, which is enough to absorb more sunlight and speed
up the melting.
<p>
If the Greenland ice sheet melts, sea level will rise by 7 meters (23
feet).  Great cities will be inundated.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Fresh_water_shortages)
title: Fresh water shortages
uri: Fresh-water-shortages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Fresh_water_shortages%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/08/how-water-shortages-lead-food-crises-conflicts">Why
Fresh Water Shortages Will Cause the Next Great Global Crisis</a>.
<p>
The causes are wasteful use, human overpopulation, deforestation and
global heating.
<p>
The crisis is already starting, but since all the causes are
increasing, so will the shortages.  
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_February_2015_(Droughts)">Decades-long
droughts</a> are predicted for California and the US midwest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Drug_testing_for_welfare_applicants)
title: Drug testing for welfare applicants
uri: Drug-testing-for-welfare-applicants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Drug_testing_for_welfare_applicants%29

content:
<p>
Mandatory drug tests for welfare applicants, in the states that have
them, find that 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/02/26/3624447/tanf-drug-testing-states/">very
few parents applying for welfare use illegal drugs</a>.  And denying
welfare even to those few punishes their children horribly.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Palm_oil_from_deforestation)
title: Palm oil from deforestation
uri: Palm-oil-from-deforestation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Palm_oil_from_deforestation%29
content:
<p>
A company proposes to make 230 square km of palm oil plantation in
Peru 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2015/mar/07/palm-oil-peru-23000-hectares-primary-forest">by
cutting down rainforest</a>.  The Peruvian government is not blocking
it.


title: Concealment of public official business
uri: Concealment-of-public-official-business
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Concealment_of_public_official_business)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Concealment_of_public_official_business%29

content:
<p>
Jeb Bush and Scott Walker have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/07/jeb-bush-scott-walker-hillary-clinton-private-emails">used
private email addresses to conceal some public business while in
public office</a>.  Other Republican presidential hopefuls have their
own email scandals.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Social_panics)
title: Social panics
uri: Social-panics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Social_panics%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ww.alternet.org/fear-america/9-social-panics-gripped-nation-were-totally-false-and-did-horrible-lasting-damage">9
Social Panics That Gripped the Nation, Were Totally False, and Did
Horrible Lasting Damage</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Land_mine_removal_in_Colombia)
title: Land mine removal in Colombia
uri: Land-mine-removal-in-Colombia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Land_mine_removal_in_Colombia%29
content:
<p>
Colombia and the FARC agreed to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/colombia-government-and-farc-rebels-agree-to-remove-landmines">truces
to remove land mines</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(The_English_middle_class)
title: The English middle class
uri: The-English-middle-class
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28The_English_middle_class%29
content:
<p>
The English middle class 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/07/vanishing-middle-class-london-economy-divide-rich-poor-england">decreased
43% from 1980 to 2010</a>.  It must have decreased again in the past 5
years.


title: Effect of air quality on children's lungs
uri: Effect-of-air-quality-on-children-s-lungs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Effect_of_air_quality_on_childrens_lungs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Effect_of_air_quality_on_childrens_lungs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/06/3630677/better-air-better-lungs/">Better
air quality</a> helps children's lungs develop better.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Cost_of_burning_gasoline)
title: Cost of burning gasoline
uri: Cost-of-burning-gasoline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Cost_of_burning_gasoline%29
content:
<p>
Gasoline in the US ought to cost 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/05/3630136/social-cost-of-fossil-fuels/">more
than twice its current price</a> to cover the damage caused by burning
it.


title: Using billions to push up stock price
uri: Using-billions-to-push-up-stock-price
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Using_billions_to_push_up_stock_price)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Using_billions_to_push_up_stock_price%29

content:
<p>
Big "US" companies are using their billions, not to invest, or to pay
workers, but 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/03/04/3629120/stock-buybacks/">merely
to push up the stock price</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Gas_emission_cut_pledges_fall_short)
title: Gas emission cut pledges fall short
uri: Gas-emission-cut-pledges-fall-short
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Gas_emission_cut_pledges_fall_short%29

content:
<p>
The gas emission cut pledges for the Paris conference fall 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/07/climate-summit-pledge-fail-carbon-cuts-temperature-rise">far
short of what is needed</a> to prevent global disaster.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Syrian_militias)
title: Syrian militias
uri: Syrian-militias
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Syrian_militias%29
content:
<p>
The US is being dragged towards an alliance with Syrian militias which
are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/05/syria-al-qaeda-defeats-moderate-us-allies-will-us-ally-al-qaeda">as
theocratic and cruel as Saudi Arabia</a>, and have been (or are)
affiliates of al Qa'ida.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(UK_blackmailing_Germany)
title: UK blackmailing Germany
uri: UK-blackmailing-Germany
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28UK_blackmailing_Germany%29
content:
<p>
The UK is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/03/british-refusal-cooperate-spy-inquiry-row-germany">blackmailing
Germany</a> to keep secret what Germany leans about US/UK spying on
German officials.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Ignoring_global_heating)
title: Ignoring global heating
uri: 2015-03-19-Ignoring-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Ignoring_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Human institutions (including major media) tend to ignore the coming
global heating disaster, for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/06/dont-look-away-now-the-climate-crisis-needs-you">psychological
reasons as well as sometimes corrupt ones</a>.
<p>
To overcome this requires many people to start to focus attention
intensely on "leave it in the ground".


title: Punishment for refusing to share password
uri: Punishment-for-refusing-to-share-password
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Punishment_for_refusing_to_share_password)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Punishment_for_refusing_to_share_password%29

content:
<p>
A Canadian faces the threat of 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150305/17491930220/canadian-borader-patrol-charge-traveler-with-obstruction-refusing-to-give-up-his-phone-password.shtml">a
year in prison</a> for refusing to tell his phone password to border
thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(The_voice_spy_Barbie_doll)
title: The voice spy Barbie doll
uri: The-voice-spy-Barbie-doll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28The_voice_spy_Barbie_doll%29
content:
<p>
More about the 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/barbies-digital-makeover-sparks-concerns/a-18290880">voice
spy Barbie doll</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Copyright_of_reviews)
title: Copyright of reviews
uri: Copyright-of-reviews
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Copyright_of_reviews%29
content:
<p>
The dentist who 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/dentist-who-copyrighted-patient-reviews-must-pay-4766/">made
patients agree to assign copyright of any reviews they made about the
dentist</a> has lost in court.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Teaching_religion_as_science)
title: Teaching religion as science
uri: Teaching-religion-as-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Teaching_religion_as_science%29
content:
<p>
State laws to let science teachers 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/staff/2015/03/teach-the-controversy-education-bills-contain-a-revealing-confusion/">teach
imaginary scientific "controversies"</a> are an excuse to replace
science with established religion.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Censorship_of_rape_documentary)
title: Censorship of rape documentary
uri: Censorship-of-rape-documentary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Censorship_of_rape_documentary%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001090.html">India Censors a
Rape Documentary, and the Streisand Effect Goes Nuclear</a>.
<p>
Unfortunately, the BBC got it removed from YouTube.  It may not be
available any more.
<p>
Since I have mentioned YouTube, please note that watching videos there
in the usual way requires 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">running
nonfree software</a>, which you shouldn't do.
<p>
Instead, use youtube-dl.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Security_cooperation_with_Israel)
title: "Security cooperation" with Israel
uri: Security-cooperation-with-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Security_cooperation_with_Israel%29

content:
<p>
The Palestinian Authority has ended 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/06/palestine-halts-security-coordination-israel-west-bank">"security
cooperation" with Israel</a>, saying in effect that it won't maintain
control for Israel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(US_media_coverage_of_Venezuela)
title: US media coverage of Venezuela
uri: US-media-coverage-of-Venezuela
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28US_media_coverage_of_Venezuela%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/06/dont-believe-mainstream-us-media-coverage-venezuela">Don't
Believe Mainstream US Media Coverage of Venezuela</a>.


title: Federal officials becoming lobbyists
uri: Federal-officials-becoming-lobbyists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Federal_officials_becoming_lobbyists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Federal_officials_becoming_lobbyists%29

content:
<p>
Lots of federal officials are about to become lobbyists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/07/washington-revolving-door-lobbying-jobs-obama">for
companies they used to regulate</a>.  This has a corrupting effect on
them while they are officials.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Antiquities_looted_in_Syria)
title: Antiquities looted in Syria
uri: Antiquities-looted-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Antiquities_looted_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
PISSI and other armed groups in Syria are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/how-isis-cashes-illegal-antiquities-trade">looting
and selling antiquities</a>.
<p>
Removing them from a site without documenting them is not as bad as
destroying them.  But it destroys all the information that could have
been obtained from their context.  It is a tragedy that can never be
repaired.
<p>
PISSI's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/07/isis-destroy-libya-cultural-treasures">affiliates
in Libya</a> may destroy ancient remains there.


title: Jailed for showing horror movie to kids
uri: Jailed-for-showing-horror-movie-to-kids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_March_2015_(Jailed_for_showing_horror_movie_to_kids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_March_2015_%28Jailed_for_showing_horror_movie_to_kids%29

content:
<p>
A substitute teacher was told to teach a subject she didn't know, so
she showed a gory and sexual horror movie, and was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/06/us-teacher-sexually-explicit-horror-film-jailed-the-abcs-of-death">imprisoned
for it</a>.
<p>
It wasn't a good thing to do, but shouldn't be a crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(Standardized_testing)
title: Standardized testing
uri: Standardized-testing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28Standardized_testing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/13/how-we-end-war-over-standardized-testing">How
We End The War Over Standardized Testing</a>.


title: Opposition to Canadian state surveillance
uri: Opposition-to-Canadian-state-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(Opposition_to_Canadian_state_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28Opposition_to_Canadian_state_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
There is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/03/13/over-30-leading-digital-rights-pro-democracy-and-civil-liberties-organizations">broad
opposition</a> to Canada's proposed law for more state surveillance.
<p>
The opposition says general surveillance should have more oversight,
but the problems are 
<a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/03/why-the-anti-terrorism-bill-is-really-an-anti-privacy-bill-bill-c-51s-evisceration-of-government-privacy/">much
bigger than that</a>.


title: Washington Post owner gets money from CIA
uri: Washington-Post-owner-gets-money-from-CIA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(Washington_Post_owner_gets_money_from_CIA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28Washington_Post_owner_gets_money_from_CIA%29

content:
<p>
Is the Washington Post a state-funded newspaper?  Not directly or
explicitly, but its owner gets 
<a href="http://fair.org/blog/2015/03/12/wapo-owned-by-cias-webmaster-blasts-venezuelas-state-financed-news/">lots
of money from the CIA and other US agencies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(Acting_strangely_while_black)
title: Acting strangely while black
uri: Acting-strangely-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28Acting_strangely_while_black%29
content:
<p>
It appears Tony Robinson had taken psychedelic mushrooms and was
acting strangely when he was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/13/tony-terrell-robinson-madison-wisconsin-police-shooting-how-it-happened">shot
dead by thugs</a>.  A friend had called them to get help for him.
They could have dealt with him without shooting him.
<p>
We see a pattern of situations where a black or hispanic person is the
object of suspicion — even for something not the slightest bit
wrong, such as carrying an air rifle to the sales clerk in order to
buy it — and thugs resort immediately to deadly force.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(Convicted_of_terrorism)
title: Convicted of "terrorism"
uri: Convicted-of-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28Convicted_of_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
The former (and only elected) president of the Maldives was convicted
of "terrorism", i.e., 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/13/maldives-ex-president-nasheed-jailed-13-years-terrorism-charges">illegally
arresting a judge</a>.
<p>
I don't know whether he arrested a judge, and if so I don't know
whether it was illegal, but it certainly wasn't terrorism.  Therefore
it is clear that this trial was bogus.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(CIA_prisoner_handling)
title: CIA prisoner handling
uri: CIA-prisoner-handling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28CIA_prisoner_handling%29
content:
<p>
The CIA director confirmed that the CIA 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/13/cia-director-explains-u-s-outsources-terror-interrogations/">still
hands over prisoners to other governments and still interrogates
prisoners in collaboration with them</a>.
<p>
That would not be a bad thing if we could count on both countries
to do this in an acceptable way.  However, in the last decade the US
has been known to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-nov-feb.html#24%20December%202009%20(US%20complicity%20with%20torture)">turn
prisoners over to governments that tortured them</a> and even
cooperated in the interrogation while
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-jul-oct.html#12%20October%202008%20(Occupation%20of%20Somalia)">letting
the other country's thugs do the torture</a>.


title: NY Thug Department attempts whitewash
uri: NY-Thug-Department-attempts-whitewash
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(NY_Thug_Department_attempts_whitewash)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28NY_Thug_Department_attempts_whitewash%29

content:
<p>
The New York Thug Department 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/nypd-caught-red-handed-sanitizing-police-brutality-wikipedia-entries/">tried
to whitewash the killing of Eric Garner in Wikipedia<,/A>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(Inequality)
title: Inequality
uri: 2015-03-20-Inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28Inequality%29
content:
<p>
Inequality means 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/12/acapulco-paradox-two-parallel-worlds-each-going-their-own-way">two
parallel human societies</a>, increasingly with different rules for
the poor and for the rich.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(Current_price_of_oil)
title: Current price of oil
uri: Current-price-of-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28Current_price_of_oil%29
content:
<p>
The current low price of oil is because 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/12/big-oils-broken-business-model">renewable
energy and economic slowdown have slowed the expected increase in oil
demand</a>, resulting in a glut.
<p>
The low price is causing cancellation of many dangerous oil extraction
projects.  The article says that the low price will not increase
consumption much.  I hope that is true, but in general one would
expect the demand to be somewhat elastic.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(Imposing_big_fines_on_protesters)
title: Imposing big fines on protesters
uri: Imposing-big-fines-on-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28Imposing_big_fines_on_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Spain's senate approved the law to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/12/spain-security-law-protesters-freedom-expression">impose
big fines on protesters and ban publishing images of thugs</a>.


title: SWAT arrests protesters in their house
uri: SWAT-arrests-protesters-in-their-house
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(SWAT_arrests_protesters_in_their_house)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28SWAT_arrests_protesters_in_their_house%29

content:
<p>
Ferguson protesters were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/12/ferguson-police-arrested-home-raid">arrested
in their house by a SWAT team with guns pointed at them</a>.  They
were suspected of shooting two thugs, simply because they ran away
from the protest after the shots were fired.
<p>
I wonder: was the confiscated pistol legal?  If so, why was it
confiscated?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(CO2_emissions_in_2014)
title: CO2 emissions in 2014
uri: CO2-emissions-in-2014
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28CO2_emissions_in_2014%29
content:
<p>
Due to the economic slowdown in China, and high investment in
renewable energy, the world's CO<sub>2</sub> emissions 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/13/global-emissions-stall-in-2014-following-slowdown-in-chinas-economy">did
not increase</a> in 2014.  That is a step towards avoiding disaster.
<p>
It is not enough, however, because in 2013 we were already emitting
much more CO<sub>2</sub> per year than the Earth's systems could
dispose of.  Thus, the CO<sub>2</sub> level in the atmosphere did
increase in 2014, just as in 2013.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 19_March_2015_(People_in_Crimea_under_Putin)
title: People in Crimea under Putin
uri: People-in-Crimea-under-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#19_March_2015_%28People_in_Crimea_under_Putin%29
content:
<p>
Under Putin, people in the Crimea that express support for Ukraine are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/13/crimea-still-erasing-its-ukrainian-past-a-year-after-russias-takeover">jailed,
fired, even exiled</a>.
<p>
However, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/13/russia-drops-treason-charges-against-svetlana-davydova-ukraine">charges
have been dropped against Svetlana Davydova</a>, who informed Ukraine
of evidence that Russian troops were invading Ukraine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(US_DNA_data_base)
title: US DNA data base
uri: US-DNA-data-base
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28US_DNA_data_base%29
content:
<p>
The US is gradually building up a DNA data base about everyone, taking
samples from everyone who is arrested and all newborns.
<p>
Put this together with the fact that 
<a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/how_dna_is_turning_us_into_a_nation_of_suspects">false
DNA evidence can be constructed to frame someone</a>, and you have a
real problem.
<p>
At present, scientists cannot identify anything in a person's DNA that
would show the person is prone to crime — except a Y chromosome,
which shows that the person is male.  (Most criminals are male.)  In
50 years, maybe that will be possible.  The question would be, what is
the right use to make of that information?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(UK_libel_law)
title: UK libel law
uri: UK-libel-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28UK_libel_law%29
content:
<p>
UK libel law 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/14/pushkin-house-book-judges-criticise-decision-axe-putin-expose">continues
to hamper publication</a> there.


title: Global heating impact on food production
uri: Global-heating-impact-on-food-production
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(Global_heating_impact_on_food_production)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28Global_heating_impact_on_food_production%29

content:
<p>
Projecting how global heating will impact 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/15/climate-change-could-damage-quality-and-raise-cost-of-produce-study-finds">food
production in Australia</a>.  It doesn't look good.


title: Thugs who watched blogger get killed
uri: Thugs-who-watched-blogger-get-killed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(Thugs_who_watched_blogger_get_killed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28Thugs_who_watched_blogger_get_killed%29

content:
<p>
Avijit Roy's widow demands Bangladesh identify and prosecute the thugs
who <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/14/bangladesh-avijit-roy-us-blogger-police">watched
as he was killed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(PISSI_chemical_weapons)
title: PISSI chemical weapons
uri: PISSI-chemical-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28PISSI_chemical_weapons%29
content:
<p>
Kurds say that PISSI 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/14/islamic-state-isis-used-chemical-weapons-peshmerga-kurds">used
chemical weapons</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(CISA_is_worse_than_CISPA)
title: CISA is worse than CISPA
uri: CISA-is-worse-than-CISPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28CISA_is_worse_than_CISPA%29
content:
<p>
CISA is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/13/patriot-act-20-senate-cybersecurity-bill-seen-trojan-horse-more-spying">much
worse than CISPA</a> — think of it as PAT RIOT Act 2.0.


title: Venezuelan supermarkets taking fingerprints
uri: Venezuelan-supermarkets-taking-fingerprints
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(Venezuelan_supermarkets_taking_fingerprints)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28Venezuelan_supermarkets_taking_fingerprints%29

content:
<p>
Some supermarkets in Venezuela now 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28891292">check
purchasers' fingerprints</a>.
<p>
This applies to public supermarkets in provinces near the frontier,
where there is a lot of smuggling.  The smuggling occurs because the
state subsidizes certain commodities for the sake of the poor.  It
would be better to switch to a system like US food stamps.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(Australias_right-wing_government)
title: Australia's right-wing government
uri: Australia-s-right-wing-government
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28Australias_right-wing_government%29

content:
<p>
Australia's right-wing government 
<a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58518">claims that it can't
afford to support so many old people</a>, so it will have to hang them
out to die.
<p>
The argument is fallacious, as usual, and surely based on the
assumption that tax rates on the wealthy will be kept low.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(Destruction_of_ancient_relics)
title: Destruction of ancient relics
uri: Destruction-of-ancient-relics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28Destruction_of_ancient_relics%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://archive.archaeology.org/0903/etc/climate_change.html">effects
of global heating</a> are destroying ancient relics from Chile to
Siberia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(British_adults_in_poverty)
title: British adults in poverty
uri: British-adults-in-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28British_adults_in_poverty%29
content:
<p>
1/4 of British adults before middle age are delaying having children
because the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/mar/13/housing-costs-forcing-buyers-to-desperate-measures">costs
of living are too high</a>.
<p>
Fewer births is a good thing, but there are better ways to achieve
that than by pushing many people into poverty.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2015-03-21-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Global heating 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/12/1370535/-Large-areas-of-Europe-Russia-and-the-US-will-experience-persistant-heat-extremes-during-summer?detail=email">tends
to reduce the summer storms that bring cooler air from the ocean</a>.
As a result, it will tend to increase summer heat waves, above and
beyond the general heating.
<p>
If you want to watch the video on YouTube, please do not view it
directly from the site, since that will run nonfree Javascript code in
your browser.  Protect your freedom by using youtube-dl to download
it.


title: Shi'ite militias torturing Sunni prisoners
uri: Shi-ite-militias-torturing-Sunni-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(Shiite_militias_torturing_Sunni_prisoners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28Shiite_militias_torturing_Sunni_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Last week it emerged that Iraqi Shi'ite militias were 
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/dirty-brigades-us-trained-iraqi-forces-investigated-war/story?id=29193253">torturing
and killing Sunni prisoners</a>.  The US and Iraqi governments said
they were surprised.
<p>
They said the same thing 10 years ago, after Bush forces troops found
Iraqi government agents 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/13/iraqi-military-forces-equipped-u-s-commit-atrocities/">torturing
and killing prisoners</a>.  The troops were ordered to go away and say
nothing about it.
<p>
None so surprised as he who will not remember.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(US_air_strikes_in_Syria)
title: US air strikes in Syria
uri: US-air-strikes-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28US_air_strikes_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
Reports say that US air strikes in Syria have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/13/us-led-forces-responsible-more-100-syrian-civilian-deaths-report">killed
over 100 civilians</a>.
<P>
All in all, that is not very many compared with the 76,000 killed last
year in Syria.
<p>
Most of the US air strikes in Syria have been done on the battlefield.
I expect Syrians to understand that there is no way to make
battlefields safe, and civilians try to stay away from them.
<p>
However, attacks on Raqqa are a different case.  That is not a
battlefield, so air strikes there are more likely to bystanders.  It
is hard to flee Raqqa; 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_February_2015_(PISSI_cruelty_to_women)">even
harder for women</a>.


title: Swedish prosecutors to interview Assange
uri: Swedish-prosecutors-to-interview-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(Swedish_prosecutors_to_interview_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28Swedish_prosecutors_to_interview_Assange%29

content:
<p>
Swedish prosecutors have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/13/breakthrough-swedish-prosecutors-drop-refusal-interview-assange-uk">agreed
to interview Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London</a>.
<p>
There are good reasons to believe that the real purpose of this
interview was only to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#27_July_2012_(Apparent_plans_to_extradite_Assange)">get
their hands on him and render him to the US</a>.  But the Swedish
Supreme Court told them to stop dragging their heels and get the
interview done.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_March_2015_(US_National_Defense_University)
title: US National Defense University
uri: US-National-Defense-University
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_March_2015_%28US_National_Defense_University%29
content:
<p>
A Chilean officer, accused of murdering prisoners for Pinochet, was
allowed to teach for years in the US National Defense University which
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/13/former-pinochet-officer-investigated-torture-and-murder-taught-pentagon">disregarded
the complaints against him</a>.
<p>
The US coordinated and encouraged the repression in Chile and other
nearby countries in the 1970s, and it continued afterward to shield
many of those that carried it out.
<p>
I disagree with one person quoted in the article.  These murders were
not terrorism.  Murder of prisoners is a different crime.  Stretching
the meaning of "terrorism" is an obstacle to clear thinking, so let's
not do it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Redress_for_torture_in_Guantanamo)
title: Redress for torture in Guantanamo
uri: Redress-for-torture-in-Guantanamo
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Redress_for_torture_in_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court ruled Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al-Janko 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/09/no-legal-redress-victim-kafkaesque-nightmare-guantanamo">cannot
sue for damages</a> for the torture he experienced in Guantanamo.
<p>
The proper redress is to prosecute those responsible for torturing him
and many others — starting with Dubaya.  Shame on the Obama
regime for protecting torturers!


title: High efficiency of mass surveillance
uri: High-efficiency-of-mass-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(High_efficiency_of_mass_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28High_efficiency_of_mass_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The high efficiency of massive digital surveillance makes it possible
for the rich to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/10/nsa-gchq-technology-create-social-mobility-spy-on-citizens">flaunt
their riches without fear the rest will rise up against plutocracy</a>.
<p>
In a few decades, the effects of global heating will mean that the
rest, instead of lingering in poverty, start dying instead.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Urgent:_Student_Loan_Bill_of_Rights)
title: Urgent: Student Loan Bill of Rights
uri: Urgent-Student-Loan-Bill-of-Rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Student_Loan_Bill_of_Rights%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/support-the-bill-of-rights">support</a>
the Student Loan Bill of Rights.
<p>
I support this and the proposal to forgive student loans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(UK_reporter_being_prosecuted)
title: UK reporter being prosecuted
uri: UK-reporter-being-prosecuted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28UK_reporter_being_prosecuted%29
content:
<p>
UK reporter John Key is being prosecuted for paying an official for
secrets, which he published and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/04/sun-journalists-prosecution-over-army-exposes-an-outrage-court-told">revealed
big scandals</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Urgent:_Thank_the_FCC)
title: Urgent: Thank the FCC
uri: Urgent-Thank-the-FCC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_the_FCC%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_nn_fcc_thanks">thank
the FCC</a> for supporting net neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Urgent:_No_anti-abortion_rider)
title: Urgent: No anti-abortion rider
uri: Urgent-No-anti-abortion-rider
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_anti-abortion_rider%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Senate_Trafficking">tell
Senate Republicans</a> not to sabotage a bill to aid people who have
been trafficked by adding an anti-abortion rider.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_GM_corn)
title: Urgent: Oppose GM corn
uri: Urgent-Oppose-GM-corn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_GM_corn%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/gmo-corn-india/">call on the
government of India</a> not to allow GM corn.


title: China wants to choose next Dalai Lama
uri: China-wants-to-choose-next-Dalai-Lama
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(China_wants_to_choose_next_Dalai_Lama)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28China_wants_to_choose_next_Dalai_Lama%29

content:
<p>
China 
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-10/china-attacks-dalai-lama-over-bid-to-cease-reincarnation/6296420">demands
that the Dalai Lama must reincarnate in Tibet</a> so that China can
choose the next one.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Arrest_of_labor_leader)
title: Arrest of labor leader
uri: Arrest-of-labor-leader
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Arrest_of_labor_leader%29
content:
<p>
Kalpona Akter, Bangladeshi labor leader, was arrested by The
Children's Place for trespassing as she 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/15/bangladesh-kalpona-akter-arrested-rana-plaza-new-jersey">tried
to deliver a petition</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Fossil_fuel_divestment_movement)
title: Fossil fuel divestment movement
uri: Fossil-fuel-divestment-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_divestment_movement%29
content:
<p>
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/15/climate-change-un-backs-divestment-campaign-paris-summit-fossil-fuels">endorsed
the divestment movement</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Harassment_of_reporter)
title: Harassment of reporter
uri: Harassment-of-reporter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Harassment_of_reporter%29
content:
<p>
The Michigan Attorney General tried to harass a reporter with
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150309/16395830263/michigan-attorney-general-slaps-reporter-with-bogus-subpoenas-doing-her-job.shtml">unjustifiable
subpoenas</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Vandals)
title: Vandals
uri: Vandals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Vandals%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/mar/12/isis-are-not-the-only-ones-committing-great-acts-of-vandalism">[PISSI]
Are Not The Only Ones Committing Great Acts of Vandalism</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_wolves)
title: Urgent: Protect wolves
uri: 2015-03-23-Urgent-Protect-wolves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_wolves%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3691">call
on your representatives</a> to oppose bills to strip wolves of their
endangered species protection.


title: Urgent: Investigate ban on global heating terms
uri: Urgent-Investigate-ban-on-global-heating-terms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Urgent:_Investigate_ban_on_global_heating_terms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_ban_on_global_heating_terms%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/censorship_florida/">call
on Florida</a> to investigate the order not to talk about "global
warming" and "climate change".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Urgent:_Rape_victim_privacy)
title: Urgent: Rape victim privacy
uri: Urgent-Rape-victim-privacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Rape_victim_privacy%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call for 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1137">blocking court
access</a> to rape victims' therapy records.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Urgent:_Oil_refinery_safety)
title: Urgent: Oil refinery safety
uri: Urgent-Oil-refinery-safety
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oil_refinery_safety%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/we-support-the-usw-strike">stand
behind striking Shell oil refinery workers</a> who demand more
attention to safety.


title: Urgent: No imposed arbitration on bank customers
uri: Urgent-No-imposed-arbitration-on-bank-customers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Urgent:_No_imposed_arbitration_on_bank_customers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_imposed_arbitration_on_bank_customers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.civilrights.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=4341">call
on the CFPB</a> to ban banks from imposing arbitration on their
customers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_March_2015_(Urgent:_Disclosure_of_bankster_pay)
title: Urgent: Disclosure of bankster pay
uri: Urgent-Disclosure-of-bankster-pay
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Disclosure_of_bankster_pay%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-big-banks-to-be?">call
on the big US banks</a> to say what they pay executives, especially
those that move to government jobs.
<p>
The government should never hire anyone who has worked for a big bank
in the past 5 years as anything more than a teller.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Urgent:_Cancel_all_student_debt)
title: Urgent: Cancel all student debt
uri: Urgent-Cancel-all-student-debt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_all_student_debt%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://cancelallstudentdebt.com/?code=DFA">call on the US</a>
to cancel all student debt.


title: Urgent: The revolutionary Syrian Kurds
uri: Urgent-The-revolutionary-Syrian-Kurds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Urgent:_The_revolutionary_Syrian_Kurds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_The_revolutionary_Syrian_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/5076?n=95439685.Fduq9S">call
on the US government</a> to support the revolutionary Syrian Kurds
that are fighting PISSI.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Expense_of_reliable_contraception)
title: Expense of reliable contraception
uri: Expense-of-reliable-contraception
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Expense_of_reliable_contraception%29

content:
<p>
The expense of reliable contraception is a force that 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150315">increases
inequality</a>, pushing American women from poor families into poverty
via unwanted pregnancy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Salt_and_autoimmune_diseases)
title: Salt and autoimmune diseases
uri: Salt-and-autoimmune-diseases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Salt_and_autoimmune_diseases%29
content:
<p>
Eating a lot of salt 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/15/salt-worse-than-thought-link-to-autoimmune-disease">makes
autoimmune diseases more likely</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(US_credibility_problem)
title: US credibility problem
uri: US-credibility-problem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28US_credibility_problem%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/10/why-america-lacks-credibility-middle-east">US
credibility problem in the Middle East</a> comes from being
ineffective and inconsistent.  It's not a reason for bullheadedness.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Toronto_college_teachers_on_strike)
title: Toronto college teachers on strike
uri: Toronto-college-teachers-on-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Toronto_college_teachers_on_strike%29

content:
<p>
Thousands of low-paid college teachers in Toronto are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/10/challenge-system-10000-graduate-teachers-strike-against-toronto-schools">on
strike</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Debtors_prison_judge_resigns)
title: Debtor's prison judge resigns
uri: Debtor-s-prison-judge-resigns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Debtors_prison_judge_resigns%29
content:
<p>
Judge Brockmeyer, who sentenced many poor people to debtor's prison in
Ferguson, has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/10/ferguson-debtors-prison-judge-resigns-state-supreme-court-takes-reins">resigned</a>.
<p>
That does not mean victory.  This issue is much bigger than one judge
in one court.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Cutting_carbon_emissions)
title: Cutting carbon emissions
uri: Cutting-carbon-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Cutting_carbon_emissions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/16/world-cannot-prosper-cutting-carbon-emissions-climate-group">World
Cannot Prosper Without Cutting Carbon Emissions, Says Climate
Group</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/16/argument-divesting-fossil-fuels-overwhelming-climate-change">The
Argument for Divesting from Fossil Fuels Is Becoming Overwhelming</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Rapid_heating_of_the_Arctic)
title: Rapid heating of the Arctic
uri: Rapid-heating-of-the-Arctic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Rapid_heating_of_the_Arctic%29
content:
<p>
How the rapid heating of the Arctic 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/mar/16/climate-change-in-the-arctic-is-messing-with-our-weather">leads
to heavy winter snow and intense summer heat</a> in the US and Europe.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(FBI_creates_fantasy_terrorist)
title: FBI creates fantasy terrorist
uri: FBI-creates-fantasy-terrorist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28FBI_creates_fantasy_terrorist%29
content:
<p>
The FBI inveigled Sami Osmakac into agreeing to a 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrorist/">fantasy
terrorist plot</a>.  Are we any safer?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Growth_of_US_poverty)
title: Growth of US poverty
uri: Growth-of-US-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Growth_of_US_poverty%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/16/four-numbers-show-beating-down-middle-america">growth
of US poverty</a> paces the growth of US extreme wealth.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Politics_of_extinction)
title: Politics of extinction
uri: Politics-of-extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Politics_of_extinction%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/16/global-war-nature-and-politics-extinction">A
Global War on Nature and the Politics of Extinction</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Burmese_monks_sue_interior_minister)
title: Burmese monks sue interior minister
uri: Burmese-monks-sue-interior-minister
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Burmese_monks_sue_interior_minister%29

content:
<p>
Burmese monks have sued the interior minister for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/16/buddhist-monks-sue-burma-politician-alleged-police-brutality-mine-protest">burning
protesters with chemical spray</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Biological_effects_of_nanomaterials)
title: Biological effects of nanomaterials
uri: Biological-effects-of-nanomaterials
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Biological_effects_of_nanomaterials%29

content:
<p>
Substances have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/jun/11/law-nanotechnology-regulation">different
biological effects when in nanomaterial form</a>, and science knows
very little about what they are.  Meanwhile, regulatory systems treat
them as equivalent.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(FBI_strands_US_citizens)
title: FBI strands US citizens
uri: FBI-strands-US-citizens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28FBI_strands_US_citizens%29
content:
<p>
The FBI intentionally strands US citizens abroad by putting them on
the "no fly" list, to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/portland-man-tortured-uae-behest-of-fbi">pressure
them to become informants</a>.  Sometimes the FBI has another country
torture them, too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Vanuatu_devastated_by_hurricane)
title: Vanuatu devastated by hurricane
uri: Vanuatu-devastated-by-hurricane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Vanuatu_devastated_by_hurricane%29
content:
<p>
Vanuatu has been devastated by a hurricane, and its president points
out that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/16/vanuatus-president-blames-climate-change-for-extreme-weather">global
heating is part of the cause</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Bread_not_good_for_ducks)
title: Bread not good for ducks
uri: Bread-not-good-for-ducks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Bread_not_good_for_ducks%29
content:
<p>
Bread is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/16/dont-feed-the-ducks-bread-say-conservationists">not
a good food for ducks</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(The_bedroom_tax)
title: The "bedroom tax"
uri: The-bedroom-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28The_bedroom_tax%29
content:
<p>
Poor people in Britain impoverished by the "bedroom tax" have in many
cases 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/16/tenants-hit-by-bedroom-tax-suffer-range-of-health-problems-study-shows">become
ill</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Fukushima_cancer_rates)
title: Fukushima cancer rates
uri: Fukushima-cancer-rates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Fukushima_cancer_rates%29
content:
<p>
Surprisingly many Fukishima children are being <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/09/fukushima-children-debate-thyroid-cancer-japan-disaster-nuclear-radiation">diagnosed with thyroid cancer</a>, but it is not yet clear whether this is due to examining them
for that disease with special care.
<p>
There should be a similar project to examine Japanese children
of the same age from comparable district far away from Fukushima.
It would provide a control group.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Net_neutrality_loophole)
title: Net neutrality loophole
uri: Net-neutrality-loophole
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Net_neutrality_loophole%29
content:
<p>
The FCC's form of network neutrality has a <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-net-neutrality-has-a-massive-copyright-loophole-150315/">big flaw</a>: it encourages
ISPs to punish their customers for the copyright industry.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Park_Yeon-mi)
title: Park Yeon-mi
uri: Park-Yeon-mi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Park_Yeon-mi%29
content:
<p>
Park Yeon-mi, who escaped from North Korea, now <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/15/park-yeon-mi-north-korea-defector">faces efforts to kill or discredit her</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(UK_parties_won't_fund_NHS)
title: UK parties won't fund NHS
uri: UK-parties-won-t-fund-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28UK_parties_won%27t_fund_NHS%29
content:
<p>
The UK right-wing Conservative party and centrist Labour party both
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/15/labour-and-tories-refuse-to-commit-to-doctors-nhs-funding-plea">rejected a demand</a> from MDs to fund the National Health Service properly.
<p>
That would require taxing the rich and their businesses, and these parties
have both surrendered to them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Golden_age_of_surveillance)
title: Golden age of surveillance
uri: Golden-age-of-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Golden_age_of_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Bruce Schneier gave an <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/13/data_and_goliath_bruce_schneier_on">interview</a> on his book about surveillance and what it does to society. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/3/13/part_2_bruce_schneier_on_the">Part 2</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Road_salt_polluting_rivers)
title: Road salt polluting rivers
uri: Road-salt-polluting-rivers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Road_salt_polluting_rivers%29
content:
<p>
US rivers are being <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/03/road-salt-polluting-rivers/">polluted</a> by salt applied to roads in winter. 
<p>
This affects the humans who get their water from the rivers, as well as the animals that live in them or drink from them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Twitter_killing_anonymity)
title: Twitter killing anonymity
uri: Twitter-killing-anonymity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Twitter_killing_anonymity%29
content:
<p>
Under the pretext of preventing abuse Twitter is harassing tor users to give up their anonymity, but it's a <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/03/hey-twitter-killing-anonymitys-dumb-way-fight-trolls/">dumb way to fight trolls.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(PISSI_mock_beheadings)
title: PISSI mock beheadings
uri: PISSI-mock-beheadings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28PISSI_mock_beheadings%29
content:
<p>
PISSI taught prisoners to appear calm when beheaded by subjecting them
to repeated <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/10/isis-tricked-victims-into-appearing-calm-with-beheading-rehearsals">mock beheadings.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 23_March_2015_(Urgent:_Revolutionary_Syrian_Kurds)
title: Urgent: Revolutionary Syrian Kurds
uri: Urgent-Revolutionary-Syrian-Kurds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#23_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Revolutionary_Syrian_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/5076?n=95439685.Fduq9S">call
on the US government</a> to support the revolutionary Syrian Kurds
that are fighting PISSI.


title: Laws keeping people in prostitution and slavery
uri: Laws-keeping-people-in-prostitution-and-slavery
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(Laws_keeping_people_in_prostitution_and_slavery)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28Laws_keeping_people_in_prostitution_and_slavery%29

content:
<p>200 domestic workers the Philippines are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/mar/17/my-employer-hit-face-pushed-down-stairs-filipina-migrant-maids">
stuck in the Philippine
embassy in Saudi Arabia</a>,
 much like Julian Assange, unable to leave
because of charges of illegal sex.
In some cases, this is because they were raped by their employers.</p>
<p>Islamic law treats a woman's testimony as less than a man's, so a
woman who claims to have been raped gets convicted and punished.  That
is one of many gross injustices in Islamic law.</p>
<p>Many Muslims disapprove of that approach to law, but there is no
denying that Islam is where it comes from.</p>
<p>Cruelty in the name of Islam is no less evil than cruelty in the name
of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism.  There are people who
advocate making a special case for Islam, in response to western
colonialism and US aggression against some Muslim countries (though
Saudi Arabia isn't one of them).  That's no excuse!</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia and Qatar are not alone in this.  The UK has a similar
law which is '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/uk-tied-visa-system-turning-domestic-workers-into-modern-day-slaves">
turning domestic workers into modern-day slaves</a>'.
</p>
<p>Domestic workers are enslaved in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/mar/17/global-plight-domestic-workers-labour-rights-little-freedom-abuse">
other places too</a>.
</p>
<p>This is why I 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_December_2013_(Regulating_prostitution_to_make_prostitutes_safer)">
do not support</a>
 calls to prevent enslavement of prostitutes
by banning some aspects of prostitution.
Shall we ban domestic work,
or employing domestic workers?  The methods of trafficking and
enslavenment
are used in many areas of work.</p>
<p>North Koreans are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/20000-north-koreans-working-in-slave-like-conditions-abroad-says-un">
working in
slave-like conditions</a>
 in other countries.
</p>
<p>I suspect they have been sold into slavery by the North Korean
regime.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(Officer_standing_up_to_thugs)
title: Officer standing up to thugs
uri: Officer-standing-up-to-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28Officer_standing_up_to_thugs%29
content:
<p>Police Officer Regina Tasca 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2015/03/16/were-supposed-be-peace-officers-good-cop-who-stopped-brutality-and-got-fired-her">
won her job back</a>.
She sued after being fired for trying to stop her coworkers
from acting like thugs.</p>
<p>She deserves the honor of being called a police officer because
she has demonstrated she isn't a thug.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(Jailed_for_insulting_the_Buddha)
title: Jailed for insulting the Buddha
uri: Jailed-for-insulting-the-Buddha
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28Jailed_for_insulting_the_Buddha%29
content:
<p>People have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/burma-jails-new-zealand-bar-manager-over-insulting-buddha-images">
sentenced to prison</a>
 in Burma for "insulting religion"
by advertising their bar with a poster of the Buddha listening to
headphones.
</p>
<p>What would the Buddha tell the Burmese authorities, if he were there
today?  "The poster makes me smile.  The pain you felt when you saw
that poster comes from your attachments.  For your spiritual progress,
you should meditate more and prosecute less."</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(UK_thugs_protected_sex_offender)
title: UK thugs protected sex offender
uri: UK-thugs-protected-sex-offender
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28UK_thugs_protected_sex_offender%29
content:
<p>UK thugs caught an MP having sex with teenagers in the 1980s,
and were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/17/police-told-drop-child-abuse-case-against-cyril-smith-whistleblower">
ordered to destroy all the evidence</a>
on pain of prosecution.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(Mars_One_publicity_stunt)
title: Mars One publicity stunt
uri: Mars-One-publicity-stunt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28Mars_One_publicity_stunt%29
content:
<p>The controversial Mars One project seems to be a 
<a href="https://medium.com/matter/mars-one-insider-quits-dangerously-flawed-project-2dfef95217d3">
hollow shell</a>.
</p>
<p>Perhaps it was just a publicity stunt.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(Arguments_for_raising_minimum_wage)
title: Arguments for raising minimum wage
uri: Arguments-for-raising-minimum-wage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28Arguments_for_raising_minimum_wage%29

content:
<p>Top Ten 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/16/top-ten-arguments-raising-minimum-wage">
Arguments for Raising the Minimum Wage</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(Technology_changes_human_relations)
title: Technology changes human relations
uri: Technology-changes-human-relations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28Technology_changes_human_relations%29

content:
<p>Doing most of our interaction through computer screens can 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-03-technology-rewriting-rulebook-human-interaction.html">
affect the
nature of social relationships</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(EPA_fails_to_protect_wildlife)
title: EPA fails to protect wildlife
uri: EPA-fails-to-protect-wildlife
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28EPA_fails_to_protect_wildlife%29
content:
<p>The EPA 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/03/16/lawsuit-launched-protect-endangered-wildlife-new-toxic-pesticide">
disregarded legal requirements</a>
 when approving the pesticide flupyradifurone, which resembles
neonicotinoids in that it pervades all the
tissues of the plant.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(No_transparency_on_drone_strikes)
title: No transparency on drone strikes
uri: No-transparency-on-drone-strikes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28No_transparency_on_drone_strikes%29

content:
<p>Obama promised transparency on the use of drones for targeted killings,
but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/16/obama-promised-transparency-drones-were-still-dark">
has not followed through with it</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(Manatee_conservation_works)
title: Manatee conservation works
uri: Manatee-conservation-works
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28Manatee_conservation_works%29
content:
<p>Conservation measures for Florida manatees are effective; it seems that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/16/florida-manatees-record-numbers-survey-conservation">
numbers have increased a little</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(Severe_drought_in_California)
title: Severe drought in California
uri: Severe-drought-in-California
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28Severe_drought_in_California%29
content:
<p>California has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/california-water-drought-nasa-warning">
one year of water left</a>,
 according to a leading scientist.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(Iran_repression)
title: Iran repression
uri: Iran-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28Iran_repression%29
content:
<p>Iran's repression is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/16/un-rapporteur-human-rights-situation-in-iran-worsening">
getting worse</a>
, according to UN special rapporteur.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(Egypt's_new_capital)
title: Egypt's new capital
uri: Egypt-s-new-capital
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28Egypt%27s_new_capital%29
content:
<p>Egypt plans to build a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/mar/16/new-cairo-egypt-plans-capital-city-desert">
new capital city</a>
 in the desert.  So far it is not
clear where the energy and water will come from.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_March_2015_(UK_undercover_thug_campaign)
title: UK undercover thug campaign
uri: UK-undercover-thug-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_March_2015_%28UK_undercover_thug_campaign%29
content:
<p>A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-must-be-protected-and-allowed-to-speak-out-about-undercover-spies-say-campaigners">
campaign</a>
 for the UK government to allow undercover thugs to tell
the public what they did.
</p>


title: Urgent: Reduce corruption of elections
uri: Urgent-Reduce-corruption-of-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(Urgent:_Reduce_corruption_of_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reduce_corruption_of_elections%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-democracy/">call on
Congress</a> to support several bills to reduce the influence of rich
people's money on elections.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(Wind_generators)
title: Wind generators
uri: Wind-generators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28Wind_generators%29
content:
<p>
Within a decade, wind generators 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/03/wind-energy-will-be-cheaper-fossil-fuels-within-decade">will
be cheaper than fossil fuel power plants</a>.
<p>
Unfortunately, we haven't got a decade to wait lackadaisically to cut
down on fossil fuels.  We must take strong measures 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_March_2015_(Deregulated_capitalism_and_global_heating)">by
2017</a>.
<p>
Wind power would be cheaper already if fossil fuels were taxed to
cover the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/mar/18/fossil-fuels-are-way-more-expensive-than-you-think">cost
that their emissions impose on society</a>.
<p>
For gasoline, that is estimated at almost 4 dollars per gallon, more
than the price of gasoline in the US.
<p>
I advocate taxing fossil fuels to cover these costs, mainly so as to
use the market to move society away from them.  As for politicians
that say they will make gasoline cheaper, they are pandering to the
foolish side of human nature.


title: Palestinian resistance to occupation
uri: Palestinian-resistance-to-occupation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(Palestinian_resistance_to_occupation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28Palestinian_resistance_to_occupation%29

content:
<p>
Palestinians are resisting the occupation by 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/17/palestinian-grassroots-resistance-occupation-growing">trashing
Israeli products brought into Palestine</a>.
<p>
This accompanies a growing series of regular and permanent nonviolent
protests against the occupation and theft of Palestinian land.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(Syriza_negotiating_with_Russia)
title: Syriza negotiating with Russia
uri: Syriza-negotiating-with-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28Syriza_negotiating_with_Russia%29
content:
<p>
Syriza is negotiating with Russia as a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/deadlock-over-greek-debt-crisis-could-play-into-russias-hands">possible
saviour from euro-austerity</a>.
<p>
It makes perfect sense to me.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(Rachel_Corrie)
title: Rachel Corrie
uri: Rachel-Corrie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28Rachel_Corrie%29
content:
<p>
Although Israel rejects its responsibility for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/16/12th-anniversary-rachel-corries-death-renewed-calls-justice">crushing
Rachel Corrie to death</a>, activists still rally around her name.


title: US still playing games over Shaker Aamer
uri: US-still-playing-games-over-Shaker-Aamer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(US_still_playing_games_over_Shaker_Aamer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28US_still_playing_games_over_Shaker_Aamer%29

content:
<p>
The US is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/03/17/us-discussed-sending-guantanamo-brit-saudi-despite-promise-uk">still
playing games</a> over Shaker Aamer.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(Pakistan_on_execution_spree)
title: Pakistan on execution spree
uri: Pakistan-on-execution-spree
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28Pakistan_on_execution_spree%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan has gone on an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/pakistan-hangs-12-convicts-death-sentence-expansion">execution
spree</a>, including someone who was
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#07_January_2015_(The_death_penalty)">tortured
into a confession at age 14</a>.


title: White House emails excluded from FoIA
uri: White-House-emails-excluded-from-FoIA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(White_House_emails_excluded_from_FoIA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28White_House_emails_excluded_from_FoIA%29

content:
<p>
Obama followed Bush in 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/03/white-house-officially-decided-its-emails-arent-subject-foia-regulations">excluding
White House emails</a> from the Freedom of Information Act.


title: UK judges dismissed for watching porn
uri: UK-judges-dismissed-for-watching-porn
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(UK_judges_dismissed_for_watching_porn)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28UK_judges_dismissed_for_watching_porn%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/mar/17/three-judges-removed-and-a-fourth-resigns-for-viewing-pornography-at-work">Three
UK judges have been dismissed</a> for the shocking practice of
watching porn.
<p>
I expected such an idiotic policy only from the prudes in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(TBBPA,_TCBPA,_and_weight_gain)
title: TBBPA, TCBPA, and weight gain
uri: TBBPA-TCBPA-and-weight-gain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28TBBPA%2C_TCBPA%2C_and_weight_gain%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/03/your-cellphone-might-be-making-you-fat">flame
retardant common in digital devices</a> may cause weight gain.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(Europes_pesticide_rules)
title: Europe's pesticide rules
uri: Europe-s-pesticide-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28Europes_pesticide_rules%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/europe-pesticides-endocrine-disruptors">The
US Government Is Pressuring Europe to Dial Back Its Pesticide
Rules</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(UK_inheritance_tax)
title: UK inheritance tax
uri: UK-inheritance-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28UK_inheritance_tax%29
content:
<p>
The Tories 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/mar/16/tories-1m-inheritance-tax-giveaway-sensitive-papers-wealthier-households">want
to reduce inheritance tax</a>.  As if the rich people in the UK
didn't have enough advantages already!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(Arafat_death_investigation)
title: Arafat death investigation
uri: Arafat-death-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28Arafat_death_investigation%29
content:
<p>
Two scientific teams concluded that Yasser Arafat was not poisoned;
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/16/yasser-arafat-french-rule-out-foul-play">one
team says it seems that he was</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(Obamas_War_on_Whistleblowers)
title: Obama's War on Whistleblowers
uri: Obama-s-War-on-Whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28Obamas_War_on_Whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning">Obama's
War on Whistleblowers Leaves Administration Insiders Unscathed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(Malaysian_state_crushing_opposition)
title: Malaysian state crushing opposition
uri: Malaysian-state-crushing-opposition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28Malaysian_state_crushing_opposition%29

content:
<p>
Anwar Ibrahim's daughter has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/16/nurul-izzah-anwar-arrest-criticised-malaysia-opposition-anwar-ibrahim">arrested</a>,
unconstitutionally, for making a speech in Malaysia's parliament.
<p>
This defiance of parliamentary immunity shows that the state is
blatantly crushing opposition.


title: From DOE to CEO of nuclear fuel company
uri: From-DOE-to-CEO-of-nuclear-fuel-company
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_March_2015_(From_DOE_to_CEO_of_nuclear_fuel_company)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_%28From_DOE_to_CEO_of_nuclear_fuel_company%29

content:
<p>
A Deputy Secretary of Energy (through 2014) who promoted nuclear power
while in that job has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/16/doe-ceo-revolving-door-spins-washington-top-official-hired-nuclear-company">gone
to work for a nuclear fuel company</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_March_2015_(White_House_and_FOIA)
title: White House and FOIA
uri: White-House-and-FOIA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_March_2015_%28White_House_and_FOIA%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150316/14110430329/white-house-celebrates-national-freedom-information-day-making-office-administration-completely-unfoia-able.shtml">White
House Celebrates National Freedom Of Information Day By Making Office
Of The Administration Completely UnFOIA-able</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_March_2015_(Cameras_in_Hertz_rental_cars)
title: Cameras in Hertz rental cars
uri: Cameras-in-Hertz-rental-cars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_March_2015_%28Cameras_in_Hertz_rental_cars%29
content:
<p>
Hertz 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/03/hertz-puts-cameras-in-some-of-its-rental-cars-but-it-never-meant-to-be-creepy/">puts
cameras in rental cars</a> and says, "Don't worry, we won't watch
you."
<p>
I ask Hertz: do you track cars everywhere?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_March_2015_(California_water_regulations)
title: California water regulations
uri: California-water-regulations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_March_2015_%28California_water_regulations%29
content:
<p>
California's measures to reduce water use seem 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/17/california-tightens-water-regulations-drought-fourth-year">too
weak to do the job</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_March_2015_(UK_tidal_power_scheme)
title: UK tidal power scheme
uri: UK-tidal-power-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_March_2015_%28UK_tidal_power_scheme%29
content:
<p>
This UK is considering a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/17/budget-2015-george-osborne-announce-uk-tidal-power-scheme">massive
tidal power scheme</a>.
<p>
A large subsidy makes sense for projects like this because they help
avoid global heating disaster.  What better use could our money be put
to?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_March_2015_(Jailed_as_a_material_witness)
title: Jailed as a "material witness"
uri: Jailed-as-a-material-witness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_March_2015_%28Jailed_as_a_material_witness%29
content:
<p>
Benito Vasquez-Hernandez has been
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/oregon-man-who-charged-no-crime-has-been-jail-900-days">jailed
for almost 3 years</a> as a "material witness"</a>.  He is going crazy
and does not understand the situation enough to handle a hearing
properly to get out of jail.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_March_2015_(Censorship_of_web_sites)
title: Censorship of web sites
uri: Censorship-of-web-sites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_March_2015_%28Censorship_of_web_sites%29
content:
<p>
France is 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/17/whats-scarier-terrorism-governments-unilaterally-blocking-websites-name/">censoring
web sites for political opinions</a>, and Canada is proposing
legislation to do the same.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_March_2015_(UK_thugs_fear_legal_reprisals)
title: UK thugs fear legal reprisals
uri: UK-thugs-fear-legal-reprisals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_March_2015_%28UK_thugs_fear_legal_reprisals%29
content:
<p>
UK thugs still fear legal reprisals if they talk about 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/17/met-police-cyril-smith-child-sex-abuse-official-secrets-act">the
MP they reportedly found in a sex party with teenagers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_March_2015_(Protection_of_thugs)
title: Protection of thugs
uri: Protection-of-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_March_2015_%28Protection_of_thugs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/egypt-killing-shaimaa-al-sabbagh-protester-unarmed-murder-allegation">Thugs
that attack protesters</a> are protected in Egypt, too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(The_Bardo_museum)
title: The Bardo museum
uri: The-Bardo-museum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28The_Bardo_museum%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/tunisia-shock-gunmen-target-tourists-capital-tunis">
Islamist terrorists attacked tourists</a> visiting the Bardo museum in
Tunis.
<p>
Those fanatics hate the Roman mosaics as well as the tourists that
come
to see them.
<p>
I hope Tunisia does not use this as an excuse for trampling human
rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(Baby_sea_lions)
title: Baby sea lions
uri: Baby-sea-lions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28Baby_sea_lions%29
content:
<p>
Lots of baby sea lions are
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/us/starving-sea-lions-washing-ashore-by-the-hundreds-in-california.html?_r=1">
dying on the California coast</a>.  The heat of
the ocean has pushed the fish away.
<p>
We're going to be seeing thousands of such problems around the world.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(Private_email_accounts)
title: Private email accounts
uri: Private-email-accounts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28Private_email_accounts%29
content:
<p>
Republican presidential candidates
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/hillary-clinton-email-escapades-muckreads">
Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Chris
Christie</a> have scandals about using private email accounts,
like Clinton.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(Melting_Antarctic_glacier)
title: Melting Antarctic glacier
uri: Melting-Antarctic-glacier
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28Melting_Antarctic_glacier%29
content:
<p>
A now melting Antarctic glacier
<a href="http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2015/03/east-antarctica-melting-could-be-explained-by-oceanic-gateways">
could raise sea level 11 feet</a> (3.5
meters).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(Data_from_license_plate_cameras)
title: Data from license plate cameras
uri: Data-from-license-plate-cameras
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28Data_from_license_plate_cameras%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/virginia-passes-shortest-limit-in-us-on-keeping-license-plate-reader-data/">
Virginia has passed a law</a> that data from license plate cameras can
only be kept for a week, unless relevant to an active criminal
investigation.
<p>
I wonder whether thugs will circumvent this rule by giving copies of
the data to other agencies, and private data base companies, which
will not be subject to this rule.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(Divestment_from_fossil_fuels)
title: Divestment from fossil fuels
uri: Divestment-from-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28Divestment_from_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/17/oxford-alumni-hand-back-diplomas-after-school-defers-divestment">
Oxford University refused to decide about divestment</a> from fossil
fuels,
so alumni occupied some university offices, and others are planning to
return their diplomas as a protest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(Amazon_rain_forest_is_sick)
title: Amazon rain forest is sick
uri: Amazon-rain-forest-is-sick
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28Amazon_rain_forest_is_sick%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/18/amazons-trees-remove-third-less-carbon-decade-ago-emissions">
The Amazon rain forest is sick</a>, even where it has not been cut down.
Its ability to sink carbon has been reduced.
<p>
This is a positive feedback effect.  We may have pushed the climate so
far
that it is going to roll over the cliff even if we stop pushing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(French_commedian)
title: French commedian
uri: French-commedian
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28French_commedian%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/french-comedian-dieudonne-mbala-mbala-guilty-condoning-terrorism">
French commedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala</a> was convicted of
"condoning
terrorism".
<p>
Dieudonné's statement, "I feel like Charlie Coulibaly", is not
explicit about its meaning; it requires interpretation.  I think it
means he identifies with both the killers and the victims.  It is
certainly not an endorsement of the killings.  Thus, I think that this
was a miscarriage of justice, even granting that "condoning" can be a
crime.
<p>
However, making the expression of opinions a crime is an attack on
human rights in the first place.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(2_billion_dollars)
title: 2 billion dollars
uri: 2-billion-dollars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%282_billion_dollars%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/switzerland-to-return-sani-abacha-loot-money-to-nigeria">
Switzerland will return</a> 2 billion dollars of dictator Abacha's loot
to Nigeria.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(State_laws_to_permit_discrimination)
title: State laws to permit discrimination
uri: State-laws-to-permit-discrimination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28State_laws_to_permit_discrimination%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/16/1371310/-Georgia-s-horrific-religious-freedom-bill-and-why-it-should-worry-everyone-not-just-gays?detail=email">
Republicans are pushing state laws to permit discrimination</a>
of any kind, as long as it is based on religious.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(Entire_villages)
title: Entire villages
uri: Entire-villages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28Entire_villages%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/iraqi-army-has-destroyed-villages-and-displaced-thousands-ngo-says">
Shi'ite militias</a> destroyed Sunni entire villages last year, fighting
against PISSI.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(Catch_up_with_Ghana)
title: Catch up with Ghana
uri: Catch-up-with-Ghana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28Catch_up_with_Ghana%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/mar/18/ghana-democracy-progress-health-education">
Ghana is making a success of democracy</a>, providing education and health
care to everyone.
<p>
Will the US catch up with Ghana?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(European_Centray_Bank)
title: European Centray Bank
uri: European-Centray-Bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28European_Centray_Bank%29
content:
<p>
10,000 protesters are attacking
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/blockupy-protesters-in-frankfurt-are-you-taking-part">
the poverty-inducing policies of the
European Centray Bank</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(Stirring_up_fear)
title: Stirring up fear
uri: Stirring-up-fear
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28Stirring_up_fear%29
content:
<p>
Netanyahu won reelection by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/18/netanyahu-politics-of-fear-israel-arab">
stirring up fear and calling opponents
traitors</a>.
<p>
He explicitly rejected allowing a Palestinian state, putting him
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/binyamin-netanyahu-victory-causes-international-concern">
openly
against
peace</a> and against most other powers (including the US).
<p>
I hope some of them will have the courage to downgrade diplomatic and
economic
relationships with Israel until it changes this policy and starts
evacuating
its colonies in Palestinian territory.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_March_2015_(Biggest_threats)
title: Biggest threats
uri: Biggest-threats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_March_2015_%28Biggest_threats%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2015/mar/18/irans-leaders-react-to-the-nations-massive-environmental-challenge">
biggest threats to Iran</a> are degraded water, land and air.
The US and Israel are minor worries by comparison.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(Oppression_of_women_in_Gaza)
title: Oppression of women in Gaza
uri: Oppression-of-women-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28Oppression_of_women_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Female family mediators in Gaza try to reduce the effects of the
oppression of women introduced by Hamas.  But they too face the
obstacle of 
<a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/02/gaza-women-mediators-social-reform-family.html">unequal
treatment</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(Fanatics_supported_by_US_charity)
title: Fanatics supported by US charity
uri: Fanatics-supported-by-US-charity
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28Fanatics_supported_by_US_charity%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli fanatics trying to push Palestinians out of Hebron are
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/hebron-fund-israeli-settlers-tax-exempt-irs-avaaz">supported
by a US charity with a tax exemption</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(Israel_trying_to_force_family_out)
title: Israel trying to force family out
uri: Israel-trying-to-force-family-out
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28Israel_trying_to_force_family_out%29

content:
<p>
Israel is trying to force the Sub Laban family out of a house in
Jerusalem where it has lived since the area was under Jordan's
control.  The case uses a bizarre and unfair technicality, 
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=759929">claiming
that the family "abandoned" the house</a> during many years when
Israel fanatics blocked it from using the house.


title: UK banks closing accounts out of fear
uri: UK-banks-closing-accounts-out-of-fear
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(UK_banks_closing_accounts_out_of_fear)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28UK_banks_closing_accounts_out_of_fear%29

content:
<p>
UK banks are closing the accounts of many people and organizations
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/mar/17/charities-and-bookies-among-those-caught-in-money-laundering-dragnet">associated
with anything that banks fear might cause some sort of trouble</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(Sea_level_rise_inundates_Tarawa)
title: Sea level rise inundates Tarawa
uri: Sea-level-rise-inundates-Tarawa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28Sea_level_rise_inundates_Tarawa%29
content:
<p>
Tarawa, and Kiribati in general, are being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/mar/17/pacific-islands-losing-way-of-life-to-climate-change-in-pictures">inundated
as our carbon emissions make sea level rise</a>.


title: US pressed to withdraw funding for Israel
uri: US-pressed-to-withdraw-funding-for-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(US_pressed_to_withdraw_funding_for_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28US_pressed_to_withdraw_funding_for_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Rachel Corrie's family 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/16/12th-anniversary-rachel-corries-death-renewed-calls-justice">presses
the US to obey US law</a> and withdraw funding for Israel on account
of its contempt for Palestinians' human rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(US_Border_Patrol)
title: US Border Patrol
uri: 2015-03-29-US-Border-Patrol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28US_Border_Patrol%29
content:
<p>
The US Border Patrol was expanded so fast that there was no chance to
choose good people or train them right.  So it is no surprise that one
of them 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/15/1369761/-The-U-S-Border-Patrol-law-enforcement-or-just-guys-with-guns">murdered
a border crosser and raped another</a>.
<p>
The question is, will it maintain the impunity typical of thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(Stopping_hog-wild_ticket_writing)
title: Stopping hog-wild ticket writing
uri: Stopping-hog-wild-ticket-writing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28Stopping_hog-wild_ticket_writing%29

content:
<p>
To stop thugs from going hog-wild writing tickets, 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/16/surprise-cops-write-more-tickets-when-th">don't
let the fines go to the organization that employs them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(Arrests_over_Srebrenica_Massacre)
title: Arrests over Srebrenica Massacre
uri: Arrests-over-Srebrenica-Massacre
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28Arrests_over_Srebrenica_Massacre%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/serbia-arrests-seven-men-over-1995-srebrenica-massacre">Serbia
Arrests Seven Men Over 1995 Srebrenica Massacre</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(Pakistani_lawyer_assassinated)
title: Pakistani lawyer assassinated
uri: Pakistani-lawyer-assassinated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28Pakistani_lawyer_assassinated%29
content:
<p>
A lawyer in Pakistan was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/lawyer-for-pakistani-doctor-who-helped-cia-find-osama-bin-laden-shot-dead">assassinated</a>;
he had defended the doctor who helped the US find Osama bin Laden.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_March_2015_(Forest_Sustainability_Certification)
title: Forest Sustainability Certification
uri: Forest-Sustainability-Certification
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_March_2015_%28Forest_Sustainability_Certification%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dw.de/forest-sustainability-certification-gains-ground/a-18300308">Forest
Sustainability Certification Gains Ground</a>.


title: Obama regrets not closing Guantanamo
uri: Obama-regrets-not-closing-Guantanamo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Obama_regrets_not_closing_Guantanamo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Obama_regrets_not_closing_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>Obama 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/18/barack-obama-regrets-not-closing-guantanamo-bay-when-first-elected">
regrets</a>
 that he did not hurry to close the Guantanamo prison.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Tunisians_protest_museum_killings)
title: Tunisians protest museum killings
uri: Tunisians-protest-museum-killings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Tunisians_protest_museum_killings%29

content:
<p>Thousands of Tunisians 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/19/tunisians-streets-denounce-bardo-museum-attack-war-terror">
take to streets</a>
 to denounce Bardo museum attack.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Greece_war_reparations)
title: Greece war reparations
uri: Greece-war-reparations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Greece_war_reparations%29
content:
<p>A German couple paid some of the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/19/german-couple-pay-greece-war-reparation-nafplio-tourists">
war reparations</a>
 that they say each
German owes Greece.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(PISSI_genocide_of_Yazidis)
title: PISSI genocide of Yazidis
uri: PISSI-genocide-of-Yazidis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28PISSI_genocide_of_Yazidis%29
content:
<p>The UN says PISSI's killing of Yazidis 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/19/un-islamic-state-genocide-yazidis-iraq-human-rights-war-crimes">
may be genocide</a>.
</p>
<p>PISSI clearly aimed for genocide.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Vanuatu_climate_change)
title: Vanuatu climate change
uri: Vanuatu-climate-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Vanuatu_climate_change%29
content:
<p>Developed Nations Have Sown the Wind, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/19/developed-nations-sow-wind-vanuatu-reaps-whirlwind">
Vanuatu Has Reaped the Whirlwind</a>.
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/current.html#17_March_2015_(Global_heating)">
Our turn</a>
 is coming soon.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(US_arms_getting_lost)
title: US arms getting lost
uri: US-arms-getting-lost
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28US_arms_getting_lost%29
content:
<p>Weapons provided by the US to client states have 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/pentagon-arms-lost-missing-yemen">
often ended up in the
hands of enemies</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_the_Arctic)
title: Urgent: Protect the Arctic
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-Arctic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_the_Arctic%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone the White House at 1-888-369-5791 and call on Obama
not to allow Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic.
(You will hear a message from Greenpeace first.)
<p>
Maybe you can mention the Atlantic Coast too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Conservationists_murdered)
title: Conservationists murdered
uri: Conservationists-murdered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Conservationists_murdered%29
content:
<p>Turtle egg poachers in Costa Rica are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/19/conservationist-murders-costa-rica-threaten-eco-friendly-reputation">
murdering conservationists</a>
 to stop
them from protecting the eggs.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Bee_extinction_threat)
title: Bee extinction threat
uri: Bee-extinction-threat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Bee_extinction_threat%29
content:
<p>1/10 of bee species in Europe are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/19/nearly-one-in-ten-of-europes-wild-bee-species-face-extinction-says-study">
threatened with extinction</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(US_threatened_Germany)
title: US threatened Germany
uri: US-threatened-Germany
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28US_threatened_Germany%29
content:
<p>The US 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/19/us-threatened-germany-snowden-vice-chancellor-says/">
threatened to punish Germany</a>
 if it gave Snowden asylum or protected him.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Israeli_soldiers_arrest_volunteers)
title: Israeli soldiers arrest volunteers
uri: Israeli-soldiers-arrest-volunteers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Israeli_soldiers_arrest_volunteers%29

content:
<p>Israeli soldiers 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=68235">
arrested international volunteers</a>
 who were escorting
Palestinian children home from kindergarten.
</p>
<p>Israelis often regard anything that keeps Palestinians safe
as an attack on Israel.</p>
<p>An Israeli army unit 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=68228">
invented a rule</a>
 to put land off limits for
Palestinian shepherds as "Jewish grazing grounds".
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(LSE_student_occupation)
title: LSE student occupation
uri: LSE-student-occupation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28LSE_student_occupation%29
content:
<p>Students have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/18/lse-students-occupation-protest-education">
occupied a part of the London School of Economics</a>
 as a protest against "marketisation of higher education".
</p>
<p>Among other demands, they want the cleaning staff to get predictable
hours.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(UK_to_cut_oil_taxes)
title: UK to cut oil taxes
uri: UK-to-cut-oil-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28UK_to_cut_oil_taxes%29
content:
<p>One beneficial effect of the low price of oil is that many oil wells
are being closed, or not started.  That's a step in the right direction:
leaving 80% of fossil fuel in the ground.</p>
<p>The UK government's response is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/mar/18/osborne-gambles-cutting-taxes-north-sea-oil-budget-2015">
tax cut</a>
 to stimulate oil extraction.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Google_cut_ads_on_antiwar_site)
title: Google cut ads on antiwar site
uri: Google-cut-ads-on-antiwar-site
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Google_cut_ads_on_antiwar_site%29
content:
<p>Google 
<a href="http://antiwar.com/blog/2015/03/18/google-disables-all-ads-on-antiwar-com/">
cut off its advertising service</a>
 to antiwar.com because that site
displays photos of torture carried out by the US military.
</p>
<p>Google ads track the user, so when a site displays them, it treats its
visitors badly.  (I think IceCat blocks them but I don't a way to
verify that quickly.)  Sites that take a controversial position, or
have material some people might criticize, have a special duty
not to display ads that work this way.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Polluters_pen_regulation)
title: Polluters pen regulation
uri: Polluters-pen-regulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Polluters_pen_regulation%29
content:
<p>Senators have proposed a bill to regulate the chemical industry,
apparently 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/18/chemical-safety-law-industrys-red-pen-literally-all-over-it">
written by the chemical industry</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Plain_packaging_for_tobacco)
title: Plain packaging for tobacco
uri: Plain-packaging-for-tobacco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Plain_packaging_for_tobacco%29
content:
<p>Australia finds that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/19/cigarette-plain-packaging-laws-reduced-smokings-appeal-to-teenagers-research">
plain packaging for cigarettes reduces smoking</a>,
especially among teenagers.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Thugs_kill_man_with_screwdriver)
title: Thugs kill man with screwdriver
uri: Thugs-kill-man-with-screwdriver
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Thugs_kill_man_with_screwdriver%29
content:
<p>Dallas thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/18/video-dallas-police-shooting-mentally-ill-black-man">
shot Jason Harrison dead</a>
 because he didn't drop his
screwdriver quickly.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Obama_reconsiders_Netanyahu)
title: Obama reconsiders Netanyahu
uri: Obama-reconsiders-Netanyahu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Obama_reconsiders_Netanyahu%29
content:
<p>Obama said he will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/18/obama-netanyahu-israel-election-white-house">
reevaluate the US approach</a>
 to the Israel-Palestine issue
in response to Netanyahu's rejection of peace.
</p>


title: Urgent: No fracked gas export facility
uri: Urgent-No-fracked-gas-export-facility
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Urgent:_No_fracked_gas_export_facility)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_fracked_gas_export_facility%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10268">oppose</a>
the Cove Point fracked gas export facility.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Urgent:_The_peoples_budget)
title: Urgent: The people's budget
uri: Urgent-The-people-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_The_peoples_budget%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.signforgood.com/peoplesbudget/">Support</a> the
people's budget in Congress.


title: Urgent: US nutrition recommendations
uri: Urgent-US-nutrition-recommendations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Urgent:_US_nutrition_recommendations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_US_nutrition_recommendations%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15975">support
taking account of sustainability</a> in US nutrition recommendations.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Diary_of_former_Arkansas_senator)
title: Diary of former Arkansas senator
uri: Diary-of-former-Arkansas-senator
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Diary_of_former_Arkansas_senator%29

content:
<p>
The University of Arkansas 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/03/university-arkansas-pulls-bumpers-diary-clinton">hid
the diary of former senator Bumpers</a>, apparently because it said
unkind things about the Clintons.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Muslim_women_and_veils)
title: Muslim women and veils
uri: Muslim-women-and-veils
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Muslim_women_and_veils%29
content:
<p>
Muslim women who cover their heads "because women are supposed to" are
making a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/20/muslim-woman-veil-hijab">reactionary
political statement against feminism and enlightenment</a>, though
they may not realize it.
<p>
They have a right to make that statement, but we should confront them
with our opposition to it.
<p>
I have a Turkish friend who, on principle, absolutely refuses to cover
her head as a dress code.  She would not do it even for 10 minutes to
accompany me in touring a mosque.  Bravo!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(HK_fears_Beijing_crackdown)
title: HK fears Beijing crackdown
uri: HK-fears-Beijing-crackdown
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28HK_fears_Beijing_crackdown%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/hong-kong-academics-china-pro-democracy">Hong
Kong Fears Beijing Crackdown on Academic Freedom</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(UK_still_investigating_journalists)
title: UK still investigating journalists
uri: UK-still-investigating-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28UK_still_investigating_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The UK is still investigating 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/20/uk-met-police-snowden-investigation-secret/">journalists
that reported on Snowden's revelations</a>, and claims that everything
about the investigation must be secret to avoid helping terrorists.
<p>
For "terrorists" read dissidents, journalists, and sources.


title: Danger of re-identifying "anonymous" data
uri: Danger-of-re-identifying-anonymous-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Danger_of_re-identifying_anonymous_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Danger_of_re-identifying_anonymous_data%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/what-should-we-do-about-re-identification-a-precautionary-approach-to-big-data-privacy/">How
to reduce the danger</a> of re-identifying "anonymous" personal data?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Obstacle_to_ending_poverty)
title: Obstacle to ending poverty
uri: Obstacle-to-ending-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Obstacle_to_ending_poverty%29
content:
<p>
ActionAid, Greenpeace, Oxfam and Civicus say that the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/19/worlds-richest-one-percent-undermine-fight-against-economic-inequalities">power
of the global rich</a> is the obstacle to ending poverty.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Union_action)
title: Union action
uri: Union-action
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Union_action%29
content:
<p>
When governments make union action methods illegal, unions 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/19/unions-fight-workers-bad-law-rights">must
break these laws</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(McDonalds_marketing_to_kids)
title: McDonald's marketing to kids
uri: McDonald-s-marketing-to-kids
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28McDonalds_marketing_to_kids%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/mcdonalds-marketing-kids-mcteachers-night">Beyond
Happy Meals: 5 Devious Ways McDonald's Markets to Kids</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Drones)
title: Drones
uri: Drones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Drones%29
content:
<p>
Drones Aren't Just Toys That Cause a Nuisance.  They're Still 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/20/drones-nuisance-killing-innocent-people">Killing
Innocent People</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Israels_land-grab_in_Jerusalem)
title: Israel's land-grab in Jerusalem
uri: Israel-s-land-grab-in-Jerusalem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Israels_land-grab_in_Jerusalem%29
content:
<p>
The EU says Israel's continuing land-grab in Jerusalem is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/20/jerusalem-at-boiling-point-of-polarisation-and-violence-eu-report">escalating
division and violence</a>.


title: Nestle bottled water plant in California
uri: Nestle-bottled-water-plant-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Nestle_bottled_water_plant_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Nestle_bottled_water_plant_in_California%29

content:
<p>
California campaigners want to stop Nestle from 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/16/1371402/-Water-coalition-to-hold-press-conference-regarding-shutdown-of-Nestle-Plant">pumping
large quantities of water to bottle, and paying a pittance for it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Black_Lives_Matter_protests)
title: Black Lives Matter protests
uri: Black-Lives-Matter-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Black_Lives_Matter_protests%29
content:
<p>
A report says that 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/17/1371589/-James-O-Keefe-Insider-Says-He-Plotted-To-Incite-Violence-Against-Police-Blame-Protesters">a
right-wing activist tried to send provocateurs</a> into Black Lives
Matter protests to stir up violence.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Restriction_of_hepatitis_C_drug)
title: Restriction of hepatitis C drug
uri: Restriction-of-hepatitis-C-drug
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Restriction_of_hepatitis_C_drug%29
content:
<p>
A big pharma company is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2015/mar/20/pharma-accused-of-restricting-access-to-hep-c-drug-in-poor-countries">imposing
tight control</a> on administration of a hepatitis C drug in poor
countries.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Chicago_thugs_sued_for_kidnaping)
title: Chicago thugs sued for kidnaping
uri: Chicago-thugs-sued-for-kidnaping
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Chicago_thugs_sued_for_kidnaping%29

content:
<p>
Three Chicagoans are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/20/homan-square-chicago-police-lawsuit-kidnap-revelations">suing
the thugs</a> for kidnaping them.


title: Journalist fired for reporting corruption
uri: Journalist-fired-for-reporting-corruption
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Journalist_fired_for_reporting_corruption)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Journalist_fired_for_reporting_corruption%29

content:
<p>
Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui and her colleagues were fired
after they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/20/mexican-journalist-carmen-aristegui-mvs-radio-president-enrique-pena-nieto">revealed
a corruption scandal that embarrassed the President</a>.
<p>
Does corruption involving the president of Mexico qualify as news?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Erdogan_on_rampage)
title: Erdoğan on rampage
uri: Erdoğan-on-rampage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Erdogan_on_rampage%29
content:
<p>
Erdoğan is on a rampage against journalistic criticism: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/20/recep-tayyip-erdogan-destroyed-turkish-journalism">61
journalists have been convicted of "defamating" him</a>.
<p>
The very idea of prosecuting someone for "defamation" represents
contempt for freedom of speech.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Californias_water_crisis)
title: California's water crisis
uri: California-s-water-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Californias_water_crisis%29
content:
<p>
To handle California's water crisis 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/20/solve-californias-water-crisis-we-must-change-nations-food-system">requires
big cuts in water use by business</a>, including agriculture.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(TSA_behavior_detection_program)
title: TSA "behavior detection" program
uri: TSA-behavior-detection-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28TSA_behavior_detection_program%29
content:
<p>
If you are anxious about missing your flight, 
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/19/opinions/handeyside-tsa-spot-program/index.html">TSA 
pseudoscience</a> could suppose you look like a terrorist.
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-sues-tsa-records-discredited-behavior-detection-program">ACLU
Sues TSA for Records on Discredited 'Behavior Detection' Program</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Chagos_islands)
title: Chagos islands
uri: 2015-03-30-Chagos-islands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Chagos_islands%29
content:
<p>
A UN court ruled that the UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/19/un-ruling-raises-hope-of-return-for-exiled-chagos-islanders">must
give the Chagos islands back to Mauritius</a>.
<p>
This might allow the Chagos islanders to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-sep-dec.html#12%20September%202004%20(Chagos%20Islands)">return
home</a>, if the UK does not disregard it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Green_roofs_mandated_in_France)
title: "Green roofs" mandated in France
uri: Green-roofs-mandated-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Green_roofs_mandated_in_France%29
content:
<p>
France has mandated 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/20/france-decrees-new-rooftops-must-be-covered-in-plants-or-solar-panels">"green
roofs" for new commercial buildings</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Racism)
title: Racism
uri: 2015-03-30-Racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Racism%29
content:
<p>
Facts can't be racist, but the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/20/race-trevor-phillips-racist-facts-criminalisation-communities">selection
of which facts to present</a> can be racist.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Cathedral_drives_away_the_poor)
title: Cathedral drives away the poor
uri: Cathedral-drives-away-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Cathedral_drives_away_the_poor%29
content:
<p>
Saint Mary's Cathedral, in San Francisco, set up an automatic
sprinkler to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2015/03/19/i-was-hungry-and-you-gave-me-food-i-was-thirsty-and-you-gave-me-drink-i-was">drench
homeless people who slept in its doorways</a>.  How typically San
Francisco.
<p>
If people sleep in doorways it is because society has failed them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Infiltration_of_activist_groups)
title: Infiltration of activist groups
uri: Infiltration-of-activist-groups
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Infiltration_of_activist_groups%29
content:
<p>
The Mall of America 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/18/mall-americas-intelligence-analyst-catfished-black-lives-matter-activists-collect-information/">maintained
a fake Facebook account since 2009</a> to infiltrate various activist
groups.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Tortured_Palestinian_teenagers)
title: Tortured Palestinian teenagers
uri: Tortured-Palestinian-teenagers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Tortured_Palestinian_teenagers%29
content:
<p>
Palestinian teenagers were tortured into confessing to throwing stones,
and have been 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/70902">imprisoned for two years
now</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Proprietary_software)
title: Proprietary software
uri: Proprietary-software
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Proprietary_software%29
content:
<p>
Proprietary software 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/in-app-purchases-a-mobile-app-developers-key-to-consumer-lock-in/a-18314128">increasingly
asks users keep paying and paying</a>.
<p>
This annoyance is a secondary consequence of the fact that the
software isn't free/libre.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Pitcairn_Marine_Reserve)
title: Pitcairn Marine Reserve
uri: Pitcairn-Marine-Reserve
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Pitcairn_Marine_Reserve%29
content:
<p>
Pitcairn Marine Reserve Is an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/19/pitcairn-marine-reserve-is-an-incredible-win-for-the-oceans">Incredible
Win for the Oceans</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(US_plutocratic-military_state)
title: US plutocratic/military state
uri: US-plutocratic-military-state
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28US_plutocratic-military_state%29
content:
<p>
The new order in the US is a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/19/new-deplorable-american-order">plutocratic/military
state</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Netanyahu_pretending)
title: Netanyahu pretending
uri: Netanyahu-pretending
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Netanyahu_pretending%29
content:
<p>
Netanyahu is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/19/binyamin-netanyahu-israel-palestine-two-state-solution">trying
to resume pretending</a> he will accept a Palestinian state.


title: Ban on using the term "climate change"
uri: Ban-on-using-the-term-climate-change
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Ban_on_using_the_term_climate_change)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Ban_on_using_the_term_climate_change%29

content:
<p>
Barton Bibler of the Florida environmental protection agency violated
the ban on using the term "climate change", and was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/19/florida-employee-forced-on-leave-climate-change">told
to get a mental health evaluation</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(France_legalizes_sleep_before_death)
title: France legalizes "sleep before death"
uri: France-legalizes-sleep-before-death
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28France_legalizes_sleep_before_death%29

content:
<p>
France has legalized 
<a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20150317-france-euthanasia-law-end-life-suffering-parliament/">keeping
terminally ill people unconscious at their request</a>.


title: UN to protect ancient sites from PISSI
uri: UN-to-protect-ancient-sites-from-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(UN_to_protect_ancient_sites_from_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28UN_to_protect_ancient_sites_from_PISSI%29

content:
<p>Create UN military unit to protect ancient sites from [PISSI], 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/19/create-un-military-unit-to-protect-ancient-sites-from-isis-says-italy">
says Italy</a>.
</p>
<p>I am in favor of it, but it shouldn't be thought of as a like a
"peacekeeping" unit.  It will have to fight to capture and hold the
sites it protects.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, antiquities in Italy are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/19/saving-italys-cultural-heritage-by-modern-means">
decaying for lack of money</a>
 to preserve them.
</p>
<p>That sort of thing will happen a lot more, a few decades from now, as
global heating leaves many countries barely able to hold on.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(No_end_to_Afghan_war)
title: No end to Afghan war
uri: No-end-to-Afghan-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28No_end_to_Afghan_war%29
content:
<p>War drags on as Obama keeps 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/19/endless-afghan-war-persist-us-base-closures-postponed">
postponing the closure</a>
 of US bases in Afghanistan.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Arctic_sea_ice_lowest_ever)
title: Arctic sea ice lowest ever
uri: Arctic-sea-ice-lowest-ever
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Arctic_sea_ice_lowest_ever%29
content:
<p>Arctic ice has set a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/19/arctic-sea-ice-extent-hits-record-low-for-winter-maximum">
new record low</a>
 for winter.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Gates_funding_fossil_fuel)
title: Gates funding fossil fuel
uri: Gates-funding-fossil-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Gates_funding_fossil_fuel%29
content:
<p>The Gates Foundation has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/19/gates-foundation-has-14bn-in-fossil-fuels-investments-guardian-analysis">
1.4 billion invested</a>
 in fossil fuels.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Eritrean_repression)
title: Eritrean repression
uri: Eritrean-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Eritrean_repression%29
content:
<p>Eritrea Blighted by '
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/mar/19/eritrea-ruthless-repression-human-rights-violations-un-commission">
Ruthless Repression</a>'
And Human Rights Violations,
says UN.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_March_2015_(Urgent:_Disclose_election_spending)
title: Urgent: Disclose election spending
uri: Urgent-Disclose-election-spending
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Disclose_election_spending%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=9F2236D992DAD8ACB3D681C452DDE47C.app334a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1957">
Call on Obama</a>
 to order companies with federal contracts
to disclose their election spending.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Faulty_work_on_Keystone_XL)
title: Faulty work on Keystone XL
uri: Faulty-work-on-Keystone-XL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Faulty_work_on_Keystone_XL%29
content:
<p>Whistleblowers have accused Transcanada, the company behind the
Keystone XL pipeline, of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/19/transcanada-whistleblower-spurs-new-probe-pipeline-giants-safety-record">
doing faulty work on pipelines</a>
 and covering it up.
</p>
<p>This is why the Keystone XL pipeline poses a high threat of local
damage from leaks, as well as a threat to all civilization from
burning the oil that would be shipped through it.</p>


title: Urgent: Legalize feeding the homeless
uri: Urgent-Legalize-feeding-the-homeless
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Urgent:_Legalize_feeding_the_homeless)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Legalize_feeding_the_homeless%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4753?n=96360518.75y2GZ">
Call on 33 US mayors</a>
 to legalize giving food to the homeless.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(US_cities_ban_feeding_homeless)
title: US cities ban feeding homeless
uri: US-cities-ban-feeding-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28US_cities_ban_feeding_homeless%29
content:
<p>33 US cities currently 
<a href="http://www.mic.com/articles/91055/in-33-u-s-cities-it-s-illegal-to-do-the-one-thing-that-helps-the-homeless-most">
ban giving food to the homeless</a>
 or are considering
that policy.
</p>


title: Urgent: Stop Shell funding climate denial
uri: Urgent-Stop-Shell-funding-climate-denial
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_Shell_funding_climate_denial)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Shell_funding_climate_denial%29

content:
<p>Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=B58E6087E3F554C58584C840A56E4DA0.app337a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4578">
Call on Shell</a>
 to stop funding ALEC.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(DDOS_on_anti-censorship_site)
title: DDOS on anti-censorship site
uri: DDOS-on-anti-censorship-site
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28DDOS_on_anti-censorship_site%29
content:
<p>Censorship-avoiding site Greatfire is 
<a href="http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-31967100">
facing a sophisticated DDS
attack</a>,
 perhaps done by China.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Access_to_thugcam_recordings)
title: Access to thugcam recordings
uri: Access-to-thugcam-recordings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Access_to_thugcam_recordings%29
content:
<p>States are proposing laws to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/20/state-legislators-bill-restrict-police-body-camera-video-footage">
limit access to thugcam recordings</a>.
 There need to be limits, for privacy's sake, but the recordings must
be available when they show violence without depending on the thugs'
good will.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Graeber_on_bullshit_jobs)
title: Graeber on bullshit jobs
uri: Graeber-on-bullshit-jobs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Graeber_on_bullshit_jobs%29
content:
<p>David Graeber: since the 70s, society has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/21/books-interview-david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules">
generated "bullshit jobs"</a>
 (that contribute nothing to society's well-being overall) to keep
people employed and and keep leisure time down. Meanwhile, academia
has kicked out the oddballs, who have been forced into bullshit jobs.
</p>
<p>It seems plausible for the period 1970-2007. This does not have to be
an intentional scheme — here's a way it could happen without any
plan. Suppose there are many ways that businesses could get into an
arms race of nonproductive competition. The extent of nonproductive
competition actually practiced will be controlled by macroeconomic
factors such as the level of unemployment. Thus, as productive work
becomes obsolete, it makes room for bullshit to expand.</p>
<p>However, I think this changed with the financial crisis. Nowadays,
business tends to leave people in Mcjobs rather than employing them
for bullshit. Why the change? Perhaps there used to be enough
residual democracy that business was pressured to employ people. Now
the plutocrats have defeated democracy, so they can please themselves.</p>


title: Great Barrier Reef plan shortsighted
uri: Great-Barrier-Reef-plan-shortsighted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Great_Barrier_Reef_plan_shortsighted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Great_Barrier_Reef_plan_shortsighted%29

content:
<p>Abbott's "long term" 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/21/tony-abbott-unveils-plan-to-save-great-barrier-reef">
plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef</a>
 addresses some of the shorter-term problems, but disregards the danger
that global
heating will kill all the coral.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(PISSI_destroys_heritage)
title: PISSI destroys heritage
uri: PISSI-destroys-heritage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28PISSI_destroys_heritage%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/20/isis-destroys-historic-christian-muslim-shrines-iraq">
[PISSI] Destroys Historic Christian And Muslim Shrines in Northern
Iraq</a>.
</p>


title: Would-be terrorists convicted in Canada
uri: Would-be-terrorists-convicted-in-Canada
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Would-be_terrorists_convicted_in_Canada)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Would-be_terrorists_convicted_in_Canada%29

content:
<p>Two would-be Islamist terrorists have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/21/two-men-convicted-of-terrorist-plot-to-attack-new-york-toronto-train">
convicted of planning to attack a train</a>
 in Canada.
</p>
<p>It looks like a typical 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#30_November_2012_(Judges_rebuke_in_FBI_entrapment_case)">
FBI-led fantasy entrapment</a>.
 What they talked about doing sounds bad (though the article is
sketchy about what it was), but if the FBI led them to make the plan,
they probably never would have done anything if left to themselves.</p>
<p>If it is possible to make contact with known potential terrorists,
it is surely possible to monitor them to see if they ever plan
any specific crime, without encouraging them to do so.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Poverty_and_plutocracy_in_Scotland)
title: Poverty and plutocracy in Scotland
uri: Poverty-and-plutocracy-in-Scotland
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Poverty_and_plutocracy_in_Scotland%29

content:
<p>The question of independence for Scotland (or Catalunya, or any other
European region) is secondary, a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2015/mar/21/scotlands-poorest-dont-engage-they-just-survive">
distraction from poverty and plutocracy</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Syria:_Besieged_communities)
title: Syria: Besieged communities
uri: Syria-Besieged-communities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Syria%3A_Besieged_communities%29
content:
<p>Around 600,000 people in Syria are in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/20/report-says-nearly-650000-besieged-in-syria">
besieged communities</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Maryland_thug_being_prosecuted)
title: Maryland thug being prosecuted
uri: Maryland-thug-being-prosecuted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Maryland_thug_being_prosecuted%29
content:
<p>
A thug in Maryland held a gun to a man's head saying "We're [thugs],
we shoot people."  What's amazing is, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/20/maryland-police-officer-indicted-assault-charges">the
thug is being prosecuted</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Curbing_militarization_of_thugs)
title: Curbing militarization of thugs
uri: Curbing-militarization-of-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Curbing_militarization_of_thugs%29
content:
<p>
New Jersey has passed a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/03/20/new-jersey-becomes-first-state-require-local-approval-law-enforcement">law
requiring local government to approve</a> the acquisition of military
weapons and equipment by thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Having_thugs_on_school_premises)
title: Having thugs on school premises
uri: Having-thugs-on-school-premises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Having_thugs_on_school_premises%29
content:
<p>
Some US schools are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/20/awareness-school-prison-pipeline-rises-some-schools-rethink-role-police">reconsidering</a>
whether having thugs on the premises is good for their students.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 31_March_2015_(Urgent:_No_ban_on_abortion)
title: Urgent: No ban on abortion
uri: Urgent-No-ban-on-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#31_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_ban_on_abortion%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.rhrealitycheck.org/page/speakout/no-hyde-in-jvta">insist
on no abortion ban</a> in victims of trafficking bill.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 31_March_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_oil_export_terminal)
title: Urgent: Oppose oil export terminal
uri: Urgent-Oppose-oil-export-terminal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#31_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_oil_export_terminal%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17447">oppose</a>
the Tesoro-Savage oil export terminal, for which the oil to export
would arrive by train.


title: Urgent: End automatic support for Israel
uri: Urgent-End-automatic-support-for-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 31_March_2015_(Urgent:_End_automatic_support_for_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#31_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_automatic_support_for_Israel%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/barackobama-remove-us">call
on Obama</a> to stop the automatic support for Israel in the UN
Security Council.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 31_March_2015_(Urgent:_Food_stamps)
title: Urgent: Food stamps
uri: Urgent-Food-stamps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#31_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Food_stamps%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1140">oppose cuts</a> in
food stamps.


title: Urgent: Ban fracking on public lands
uri: 2015-04-01-Urgent-Ban-fracking-on-public-lands
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 31_March_2015_(Urgent:_Ban_fracking_on_public_lands)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#31_March_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_fracking_on_public_lands%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1808">support</a>
banning fracking on public lands.
<p>
Why the proposed rules are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/20/groups-pan-toothless-fracking-rules-industry-giveaway">inadequate</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 31_March_2015_(GOP_budget)
title: GOP budget
uri: GOP-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#31_March_2015_%28GOP_budget%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/17/gop-budget-slashes-tax-rates-1-percent-safety-net-everyone-else">GOP
Budget Slashes Tax Rates for the 1 Percent, Safety Net for Everyone
Else</a>.


title: Jeb Bush's favors to political supporters
uri: Jeb-Bush-s-favors-to-political-supporters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 31_March_2015_(Jeb_Bushs_favors_to_political_supporters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#31_March_2015_%28Jeb_Bushs_favors_to_political_supporters%29

content:
<p>
Jeb Bush's emails show that he granted 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/jeb-bush-email-trove-reveals-predictable-trail-access-and-favors-top-donors">public
favors</a> to political supporters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 31_March_2015_(Activist_convicted_of_defamation)
title: Activist convicted of "defamation"
uri: Activist-convicted-of-defamation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#31_March_2015_%28Activist_convicted_of_defamation%29

content:
<p>
In Honduras, leading women's rights activist Gladys Lanza has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/mar/18/honduras-women-gladys-lanza-feminism-human-rights">convicted
of "defamation"</a> for taking the side of a woman who accused her
boss of sexual harassment.
<p>
To make "defamation" a crime is in itself oppression.


title: Fired for testing positive for cocaine
uri: Fired-for-testing-positive-for-cocaine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Fired_for_testing_positive_for_cocaine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Fired_for_testing_positive_for_cocaine%29

content:
<p>
A bus driver was fired because tested positive for cocaine 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/19/contaminated-banknotes-caused-bus-driver-test-positive-cocaine">on
account of having handled lots of paper money</a>.
<p>
This particular driver had not used cocaine at all.  But suppose he
had — on a vacation, not on duty.  That is no grounds for firing
someone.
<p>
The only sort of drug test that is legitimate to give is one that
tests for intoxication while on duty.


title: UK whistleblower sentenced to prison
uri: UK-whistleblower-sentenced-to-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(UK_whistleblower_sentenced_to_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28UK_whistleblower_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
The UK has sentenced whistleblower Bettina Jordan to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/20/mod-mole-bettina-jordan-barber-jailed-over-sun-leaks">10
years in prison</a>.  She revealed embarrassing failures that the
government wanted to cover up.
<p>
That she accepted money from journalists makes her less noble than
Snowden, but doesn't alter the fact that her activity served her
country rather than its enemies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(French_nationalist_party)
title: French nationalist party
uri: French-nationalist-party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28French_nationalist_party%29
content:
<p>
The French Socialist Party has neglected working people, who are
turning (absurdly) to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/22/alienated-french-working-class-vote-far-right-claims-analyst">racist
nationalist party</a>, which uses the typical "blame the foreigners,
not the plutocrats" approach.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Prejudging_men_as_predators)
title: Prejudging men as "predators"
uri: Prejudging-men-as-predators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Prejudging_men_as_predators%29
content:
<p>
It is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/22/the-story-of-alice-robert-douglas-fairhurst-lewis-carroll-alice-liddell">a
mistake to prejudge</a> men that adore girls age 8 to 12 as
"predators".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(France_to_abolish_privacy_rights)
title: France to abolish privacy rights
uri: France-to-abolish-privacy-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28France_to_abolish_privacy_rights%29

content:
<p>
France plans to abolish privacy rights by allowing an executive body
to authorize the most intrusive kinds of surveillance, even planting
cameras, microphones and keyloggers in people's homes, 
<a href="https://news.vice.com/article/french-prime-minister-swears-proposed-spying-law-wont-lead-to-widespread-surveillance-of-civilians">without
a court order</a>.
<p>
Among the permitted excuses for unrestrained surveillance are "the
protection of France's economic interests" (such as spying on those
who would denounce a company's wrongdoing) and "the prevention of
collective violence that could seriously disrupt the public peace
(i.e., sabotaging protests).
<p>
This is a grab for tyrannical power.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Rhinos)
title: Rhinos
uri: 2015-04-01-Rhinos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Rhinos%29
content:
<p>
Africa shows little political will to stop the slaughter of rhinos and
elephants.  The northern white rhino is now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/21/wildlife-war-lost-in-africa">extinct
in the wild</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Terrorist_attack_on_Bardo_museum)
title: Terrorist attack on Bardo museum
uri: Terrorist-attack-on-Bardo-museum
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Terrorist_attack_on_Bardo_museum%29

content:
<p>
The terrorist attack on the Bardo museum was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/22/tunisia-terror-attack-tourists">meant
to crush Tunisia's tourism-based economy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Thailands_military_rulers)
title: Thailand's military rulers
uri: 2015-04-01-Thailand-s-military-rulers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Thailands_military_rulers%29
content:
<p>
Thailand's military rulers are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/22/bangkok-big-brother-politics-ruling-party-democracy">trying
to crush logic and consistency</a> as well as democracy, human rights
and environmental protection.


title: When thugs meet psychiatric patients
uri: When-thugs-meet-psychiatric-patients
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(When_thugs_meet_psychiatric_patients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28When_thugs_meet_psychiatric_patients%29

content:
<p>
When thugs try to take psychiatric patients to the hospital, often things
go predictably wrong leading to 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-free-speech/how-police-can-stop-shooting-people-disabilities">the
patients' death</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Roundup_and_cancer)
title: Roundup and cancer
uri: Roundup-and-cancer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Roundup_and_cancer%29
content:
<p>
WHO says that Roundup 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/21/roundup-cancer-who-glyphosate-">'probably'
causes cancer</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Payola)
title: Payola
uri: Payola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Payola%29
content:
<p>
US radio chains want the FCC to legalize 
<a href="http://fair.org/blog/2015/03/17/clear-channel-tells-fcc-covert-commercials-would-be-user-friendly-and-satisfying/">payola</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Redrawing_election_districts)
title: Redrawing election districts
uri: Redrawing-election-districts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Redrawing_election_districts%29
content:
<p>
Measuring 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/19/1370484/-Just-how-strong-are-the-GOP-s-gerrymanders-Daily-Kos-Elections-median-district-scores-explain">how
much advantage Republicans get</a> from drawing election districts
that favor them.


title: Salt water seeping into Florida aquifer
uri: Salt-water-seeping-into-Florida-aquifer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Salt_water_seeping_into_Florida_aquifer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Salt_water_seeping_into_Florida_aquifer%29

content:
<p>
Florida can stop officials from saying "sea level rise" but can't stop
salt water from 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/19/1372031/-The-phenomenon-that-can-not-be-spoken-in-Florida-continues-as-salt-water-intrusion-moves-inland">seeping
into the aquifer</a>.


title: Sheriff confesses to racial profiling
uri: Sheriff-confesses-to-racial-profiling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Sheriff_confesses_to_racial_profiling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Sheriff_confesses_to_racial_profiling%29

content:
<p>
Sheriff Arpaio confessed to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/19/1371893/-Sheriff-Arpaio-admits-to-crimes-in-order-to-avoid-trial-Victims-This-won-t-fly">violating
the court order</a> to cease racial profiling, and hopes to buy his
way out of punishment.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Evolution_denial)
title: Evolution denial
uri: Evolution-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Evolution_denial%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kimbrell/gmo-science-deniers-monsanto-and-the-usda_b_6904606.html">Dow</a>,
the evolution denialist.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_March_2015_(Perpetual_US_wars)
title: Perpetual US wars
uri: Perpetual-US-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_%28Perpetual_US_wars%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/seven-deadly-reasons-why-americas-wars-persist">Why
the US is stuck</a> in perpetual war.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 31_March_2015_(Under_Attack)
title: Under Attack
uri: Under-Attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#31_March_2015_%28Under_Attack%29
content:
<p>
Earth
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/planet-koch.html">under attack
from planet Koch</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Urgent:_Free_anti-slavery_activists)
title: Urgent: Free anti-slavery activists
uri: Urgent-Free-anti-slavery-activists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Free_anti-slavery_activists%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.walkfree.org/mauritania/">Call on Mauritania</a>
to free imprisoned anti-slavery activists.
<p>
When you disable Javascript, this petition may appear to have failed,
but it does in fact function.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Urgent:_Strong_pay-ratio_rule)
title: Urgent: Strong pay-ratio rule
uri: Urgent-Strong-pay-ratio-rule
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Strong_pay-ratio_rule%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.civilrights.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=4361">call
on the Securities and Exchange Commission</a> to make a strong
pay-ratio rule.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Urgent:_Clean_water_regulations)
title: Urgent: Clean water regulations
uri: Urgent-Clean-water-regulations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Clean_water_regulations%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-anheuser-busch-to">call
on Anheuser-Busch</a> to support new clean water regulations.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Urgent:_Pardon_Bernard_Noble)
title: Urgent: Pardon Bernard Noble
uri: Urgent-Pardon-Bernard-Noble
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Pardon_Bernard_Noble%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://dpa.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=Bernard_Noble">call
on Louisiana Governor Jindall</a> to pardon Bernard Noble.


title: Science museums invested in fossil fuel
uri: Science-museums-invested-in-fossil-fuel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Science_museums_invested_in_fossil_fuel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Science_museums_invested_in_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
Calling on US science museums to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/24/us-museums-asked-to-sever-ties-with-fossil-fuel-industry">stop
investing in science-denying fossil fuel companies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(African_elephants)
title: African elephants
uri: African-elephants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28African_elephants%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/24/african-elephants-could-be-extinct-in-wild-within-decades-say-experts">African
Elephants Could Be Extinct in the Wild Within Decades</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(UKs_privatized_prisons)
title: UK's privatized prisons
uri: UK-s-privatized-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28UKs_privatized_prisons%29
content:
<p>
The UK government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/23/ban-prisons-silence-truth-ministry-of-justice">covering
up the barbarity of its privatized prisons</a> by barring campaigners
from seeing them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(The_US_War_on_Drugs)
title: The US "War on Drugs"
uri: The-US-War-on-Drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28The_US_War_on_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
The US "War on Drugs" has created gangs in Mexico that are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/23/can-you-say-blowback-spanish-failed-war-drugs-mexico-and-united-states">as
violent as PISSI</a>, only without the religious aspect.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Protection_of_murderous_officials)
title: Protection of murderous officials
uri: Protection-of-murderous-officials
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Protection_of_murderous_officials%29

content:
<p>
The US has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/23/florida-safe-haven-war-criminals-federal-prosecutors">quietly
stopped protecting</a> some murderous Latin-American officials.


title: Afghans demand prosecution of mob leaders
uri: Afghans-demand-prosecution-of-mob-leaders
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Afghans_demand_prosecution_of_mob_leaders)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Afghans_demand_prosecution_of_mob_leaders%29

content:
<p>
Afghans demand prosecution of the leaders of the mob that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/23/afghan-protesters-demand-justice-for-woman-killed-by-mob-farkhunda">burned
a woman to death based on mad rumors</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Global_heating_rate)
title: Global heating rate
uri: Global-heating-rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Global_heating_rate%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/09/global-warming-set-to-speed-up-to-rates-not-seen-for-1000-years">Global
Warming 'Set to Speed Up to Rates Not Seen for 1,000 Years'</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(FBIs_contempt_for_Congress)
title: FBI's contempt for Congress
uri: FBI-s-contempt-for-Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28FBIs_contempt_for_Congress%29
content:
<p>
The FBI has disregarded the part of the PAT RIOT act that 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/03/patriot_act_section_215_renewal_the_government_hasn_t_released_required.single.html">requires
it to inform Congress</a> of how it is using the massive surveillance
power.
<p>
Just informing Congress is not enough; that power must be eliminated.
Members of Congress should take the FBI's contempt for Congress as an
additional reason to abolish it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Euphemism_for_mass_surveillance)
title: Euphemism for "mass surveillance"
uri: Euphemism-for-mass-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Euphemism_for_mass_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=16315">The Orwellian
Re-Branding of "Mass Surveillance" as Merely "Bulk Collection"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Debt_farms)
title: Debt farms
uri: Debt-farms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Debt_farms%29
content:
<p>
How the European Central Bank dictates to European governments in order to
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29580-the-ecb-s-noose-around-greece-how-central-banks-harness-governments">colonize
entire countries as debt farms</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Food_insecurity)
title: Food insecurity
uri: Food-insecurity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Food_insecurity%29
content:
<p>
The industrial food system claims to deliver "food security", but more
Americans are suffering 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/15/failure-modern-industrial-agriculture">food
insecurity</a> nowadays, and that includes new kinds of food
insecurity (such as obesity due to adding lots of sugar) created by
the food industry.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Attempts_to_privatize_NHS)
title: Attempts to privatize NHS
uri: Attempts-to-privatize-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Attempts_to_privatize_NHS%29
content:
<p>
The right-wing UK government tried to sneakily privatize a 
<a href="
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/16/nhs-privatisation-biggest-history-staffordshire-cancer">large
part of the National Health Service</a>.
<p>
Its goal is to make health care for the non-rich as inaccessible as in
the US.  Over the long term, that will get rid of many superfluous (no
longer worth employing) Britons, a few at a time, and the government
will be able to deny responsibility.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(General_snooping_on_Americans)
title: General snooping on Americans
uri: General-snooping-on-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28General_snooping_on_Americans%29
content:
<p>
Senator Wyden says Obama is permitting too much 
<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/democratic-senator-obama-administration-is-failing-on-domest">general
snooping on Americans</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(UK_intel_agencies_disregard_for_law)
title: UK intel agencies' disregard for law
uri: UK-intel-agencies-disregard-for-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28UK_intel_agencies_disregard_for_law%29

content:
<p>
UK intelligence agencies, found to have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/12/legal-limbo-spies-reside-spook-intelligence-agencies">disregarded
the law</a>, have decided to admit this as a basis for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/12/intelligence-agencies-finally-understand-need-to-step-out-of-the-shadows">changing
the law to legalize most of what they have done</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/12/privacy-advocates-decry-uk-parliament-mass-surveillance-report">Privacy
Advocates Decry UK Parliament Mass Surveillance Report</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(FBI_wants_to_sabotage_all_computers)
title: FBI wants to sabotage all computers
uri: FBI-wants-to-sabotage-all-computers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28FBI_wants_to_sabotage_all_computers%29

content:
<p>
The FBI wants permission to sabotage any and all computers at will,
and 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150317/07440430342/judicial-committee-gives-fbi-first-ok-it-needs-to-hack-any-computer-anywhere-planet.shtml">Congress
is working to authorize it</a>.
<p>
Please don't use 
<a href="/articles/on-hacking.html">the word "hacK"</a> for this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Australias_data_retention_law)
title: Australia's data retention law
uri: Australia-s-data-retention-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Australias_data_retention_law%29
content:
<p>
The Australian government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/23/data-retention-journalist-information-warrants-are-warrants-in-name-only">making
a sham of protecting journalists from massive surveillance</a>.
<p>
The suggestion that journalists and sources should use encryption is
not adequate.  Simply seeing who a journalist is talking with is
enough to catch the sources.


title: Habitat of endangered parrot species cut
uri: Habitat-of-endangered-parrot-species-cut
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Habitat_of_endangered_parrot_species_cut)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Habitat_of_endangered_parrot_species_cut%29

content:
<p>
The Australian right-wing was so eager to increase logging in Tasmania
that it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/23/tasmanian-government-ignored-expert-advice-on-logging-threat-to-swift-parrots">started
cutting down the habitat of an endangered species of parrot</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Campaign_funds_from_BP)
title: Campaign funds from BP
uri: Campaign-funds-from-BP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Campaign_funds_from_BP%29
content:
<p>
Global heating denier Senator Inhofe 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/22/climate-sceptic-us-politician-jim-inhofe-bp-political-action-committee">has
been paid campaign funds by BP</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(The_sexual_revolution_in_the_US)
title: The sexual revolution in the US
uri: The-sexual-revolution-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28The_sexual_revolution_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The sexual revolution has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/22/sex-sexual-revolution-feminism-monogamy">largely
replaced</a>, in the US, with an inexplicable sense of obligation to
find monogamy and reproduce.
<p>
Bleah.


title: New Zealand snoops on WTO candidates
uri: New-Zealand-snoops-on-WTO-candidates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(New_Zealand_snoops_on_WTO_candidates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28New_Zealand_snoops_on_WTO_candidates%29

content:
<p>
New Zealand wanted its trade minister to become head of the WTO, so
its spy organization 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/22/new-zealand-gcsb-spying-wto-director-general/">read
the emails of other candidates</a>.
<p>
This is embarrassing since New Zealand can hardly claim that this was
a matter of national security.  In fact, the security of New
Zealanders depends on getting out of the WTO, whose purpose is to give
businesses power over countries, thus suppressing democracy.
<p>
The WTO 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_(The_political_dominance_of_business_in_Asia)">ought
to be abolished</a>.


title: Suspicious deaths in UK jails and prisons
uri: Suspicious-deaths-in-UK-jails-and-prisons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Suspicious_deaths_in_UK_jails_and_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Suspicious_deaths_in_UK_jails_and_prisons%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/21/500-black-asian-deaths-custody-no-prosecutions">500
minority group members</a> have died suspiciously while in jail or
prison, but no one has ever been prosecuted for this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Heroin_treatment)
title: Heroin treatment
uri: Heroin-treatment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Heroin_treatment%29
content:
<p>
Allowing MDs to give heroin to addicts has 
<a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/can-medical-professionals-safely-administer-heroin-treat-addiction-evidence-says-yes">reduced
the harm of the drug</a> in countries that have tried it.


title: Sentences for nonviolent drug crimes
uri: Sentences-for-nonviolent-drug-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Sentences_for_nonviolent_drug_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Sentences_for_nonviolent_drug_crimes%29

content:
<p>
The US Senate is considering 
<a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/will-us-senate-finally-reform-harsh-mandatory-minimum-sentences-drugs">a
bill to cut the mandatory sentences</a> for nonviolent drug crimes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Walker_against_womens_rights)
title: Walker against women's rights
uri: Walker-against-women-s-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Walker_against_womens_rights%29
content:
<p>
Scott Walker: raider 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/19/1370548/-Scott-Walker-s-supercharged-War-on-Women">against
women's rights</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Sitting_while_black)
title: Sitting while black
uri: Sitting-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Sitting_while_black%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in St Paul arrested a black man for the crime of 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/28/1325409/-St-Paul-police-violently-arrest-a-black-man-for-sitting-on-bench-waiting-for-his-children-VIDEO">sitting
while black</a>.
<p>
If you view those youtube videos, be sure to download them with
youtube-dl, because viewing them from the site itself requires running
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">nonfree
software</a>.


title: Domesticated gorillas die in the wild
uri: Domesticated-gorillas-die-in-the-wild
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Domesticated_gorillas_die_in_the_wild)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Domesticated_gorillas_die_in_the_wild%29

content:
<p>
"Returning" a tribe of domesticated gorillas to the wild is causing
their 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/15/1371165/-Damian-Aspinall-Kills-His-Gorillas">deaths</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Sunnis_of_Yemen_pushed_to_al_Qaida)
title: Sunnis of Yemen pushed to al Qa'ida
uri: Sunnis-of-Yemen-pushed-to-al-Qa-ida
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Sunnis_of_Yemen_pushed_to_al_Qaida%29

content:
<p>
The battle successes of the Shi'ite Houthis are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/22/yemen-sunnis-al-qaida-isis-islamic-state-shia-houthis-sanaa">pushing
the Sunnis of Yemen into the camp of al Qa'ida</a>.


title: Pakistan's army pursues retreating Taliban
uri: Pakistan-s-army-pursues-retreating-Taliban
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 01_April_2015_(Pakistans_army_pursues_retreating_Taliban)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_%28Pakistans_army_pursues_retreating_Taliban%29

content:
<p>
Pakistan's army fought a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/22/pakistan-militants-killed-khyber-clashes-taliban">substantial
battle against the Pakistani Taliban</a>.
<p>
Trying to catch the Taliban when they retreated from the area bespeaks
a serious intention to defeat them, not merely make a show of fighting
them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Costa_Rica_renewables)
title: Costa Rica renewables
uri: Costa-Rica-renewables
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Costa_Rica_renewables%29
content:
<p>Costa Rica has got 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/21/3636823/costa-rica-renewables/">
all its electricity from renewables</a>
 since January 4.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Black_Duck_and_Microsoft)
title: Black Duck and Microsoft
uri: Black-Duck-and-Microsoft
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Black_Duck_and_Microsoft%29
content:
<p>Black Duck, founded by a Microsoft employee, 
<a href="http://techrights.org/2015/03/23/black-duck-raison-detre/">
tries to convince
you not to copyleft</a>
 your code.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Gitmo_torture_continues)
title: Gitmo torture continues
uri: Gitmo-torture-continues
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Gitmo_torture_continues%29
content:
<p>Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi is being 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/24/hunger-striking-guantanamo-detainee-life-endless-horror-movie/">
punished for his Guantanamo hunger
strike by torture in solitary confinement</a>,
 as well as by force feeding.
</p>
<p>The US cannot justify continued imprisonment without trial by the
argument that some released prisoners would fight the US.  In fact,
the wrongs done to those men inspires many others to fight the US.
They should be freed with an apology and compensation.</p>


title: Republicans adopt lobbyist's resolution
uri: Republicans-adopt-lobbyist-s-resolution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Republicans_adopt_lobbyist's_resolution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Republicans_adopt_lobbyist%27s_resolution%29

content:
<p>The Republican Party adopted a resolution 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/24/taiwan-lobbyist-wrote-republican-party-resolution-calling-weapons-taiwan-2/">
written by a lobbyist</a>
 from Taiwan.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Thug_shot_unarmed_incapacitated_man)
title: Thug shot unarmed incapacitated man
uri: Thug-shot-unarmed-incapacitated-man
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Thug_shot_unarmed_incapacitated_man%29

content:
<p>A Pennsylvania thug faces charges of homicide for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/24/pennsylvania-officer-lisa-mearkle-hummesltown">
shooting a motorist who was lying flat on the ground</a>
 after being tazed.
</p>
<p>From this and other incidents I get the impression that US thugs have
learned to shoot whenever they feel some anxiety.
</p>


title: Urgent: stop cuts to social security and health care
uri: Urgent-stop-cuts-to-social-security-and-health-care
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Urgent:_stop_cuts_to_social_security_and_health_care)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_stop_cuts_to_social_security_and_health_care%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/2015_republican_budget?nosig=1&t=1001&akid=13631.1183552.67hzWE">
call on Congress to reject proposals</a>
 to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, directly or indirectly.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Censorship_overturned_in_India)
title: Censorship overturned in India
uri: Censorship-overturned-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Censorship_overturned_in_India%29
content:
<p>India's Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/freedom-of-speech-online-section-66-a-is-struck-down-by-supreme-court-749104">
overturned an internet censorship law</a>.
</p>


title: Urgent: get Koch bros. out of science museums
uri: Urgent-get-Koch-bros-out-of-science-museums
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Urgent:_get_Koch_bros._out_of_science_museums)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_get_Koch_bros._out_of_science_museums%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on US science museums to 
<a href="http://us.greenpeace.org/site/R?i=pgqQVR_1rRuMj0854QKnjg">
kick the Koch brothers
off their boards</a>.
</p>
<p>Don't sell out science for a donation from an anti-scientist.</p>


title: Urgent: support progressive politics in 2016
uri: Urgent-support-progressive-politics-in-2016
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Urgent:_support_progressive_politics_in_2016)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_progressive_politics_in_2016%29

content:
<p>US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/ReadyForBoldness/?source=e1-r1-v7-sidebox&t=1003&akid=26479.636740.eUmrtn">
support big, bold, economic-populist ideas</a>
 in the 2016 election.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Gates_Foundation_and_agribusiness)
title: Gates Foundation and agribusiness
uri: Gates-Foundation-and-agribusiness
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Gates_Foundation_and_agribusiness%29

content:
<p>The Gates Foundation is planning with seed companies and government
agencies how to help seed companies 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/23/secretive-and-seedy-how-aid-donors-are-opening-agribusiness-flood-gates">
take control of agriculture in Africa</a>. 
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Wisconsin_disenfranchisement)
title: Wisconsin disenfranchisement
uri: Wisconsin-disenfranchisement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Wisconsin_disenfranchisement%29
content:
<p>12 percent of the voters in Wisconsin 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/03/12778/voter-id-will-take-effect-wisconsin-heres-what-means">
will be disenfranchised</a>
 by Scott Walker's voter ID law.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Bill_to_protect_thugs)
title: Bill to protect thugs
uri: Bill-to-protect-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Bill_to_protect_thugs%29
content:
<p>A proposed Arizona bill would 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/23/arizona-police-deadly-force-killings-names-secret-law">
conceal the names of killer thugs</a>.
It would also conceal information about thugs that have been punished,
to keep the public from spotting thugs that have a pattern of attacking
people.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Debra_Milke_freed)
title: Debra Milke freed
uri: Debra-Milke-freed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Debra_Milke_freed%29
content:
<p>Debra Milke 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/23/arizona-son-murder-debra-milke-retrial-charges-dismissed">
has been freed</a>
 after over 20 years in prison, where she was sent
by a lying thug.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(US_racism_persists)
title: US racism persists
uri: US-racism-persists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28US_racism_persists%29
content:
<p>Overt racism against blacks 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/23/we-treat-racism-its-going-extinct-its-not">
persists</a>
 in the US; it is not disappearing.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Chicago_stop_and_frisk)
title: Chicago stop and frisk
uri: Chicago-stop-and-frisk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Chicago_stop_and_frisk%29
content:
<p>Chicago searches innocent people on the street 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/23/chicago-stop-and-frisk-four-times-new-york-2011">
far more often</a>
 than New York City used to do so.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(US_distrusts_Netanyahu)
title: US distrusts Netanyahu
uri: US-distrusts-Netanyahu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28US_distrusts_Netanyahu%29
content:
<p>A White House official told an audience of pro-peace American Jews
that Israel 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/23/white-house-israeli-occupation-palestinian-territories-must-end">
must end its occupation of Palestine</a>,
 and that the US doesn't trust Netanyahu to try.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(UK_benefit_excuses)
title: UK benefit excuses
uri: UK-benefit-excuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28UK_benefit_excuses%29
content:
<p>The UK system to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/24/benefit-sanctions-trivial-breaches-and-administrative-errors">
create excuses to starve the unemployed</a>
 is so cruel that it resembles the exaggerated villains of comedy movies.
</p>
<p>This was done by the same party that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_(UK_cruelty_to_the_weak)">
set quotas to report
disabled people as fit for work</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 2_April_2015_(Independent_contractor_swindle)
title: Independent contractor swindle
uri: Independent-contractor-swindle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_%28Independent_contractor_swindle%29
content:
<p>Converting employees into "independent contractors" is an excuse for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/23/city-link-better-capital-deliberately-deceived-workers-financial-troubles-mps">
closing down the business and cheating them of their back pay</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Imprisonment_for_defamation)
title: Imprisonment for "defamation"
uri: Imprisonment-for-defamation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Imprisonment_for_defamation%29
content:
<p>
Rafael Marques de Morais reports on corruption in mining in Angola
and faces 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/22/rafael-marques-de-morais-defies-angolas-president-generals-and-the-power-of-diamond-companies">9
years' imprisonment</a> on charges of "defamation".
<p>
To make "defamation" a crime is a fundamental injustice, an attack
on human rights.  
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_September_2013_(Journalist_arrested_for_writing_about_plagiarism_in_Swiss_university)">European</a> 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#26_November_2012_(The_crime_of_defamation_in_Italy)">countries</a> 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_October_2013_(Web_site_operators_responsible_for_defamation_in_anonymous_comments)">take 
note!</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/22/the-global-extraction-industry-has-become-hallmarked-by-plundering-violence-and-political-corruption">The
Global Extraction Industry Has Become Hallmarked by Plundering,
Violence And Political Corruption</a>.
<p>
This includes 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_April_2014_(Time%27s_up_for_fossil_fuel)">fossil 
fuels</a>.


title: Urgent: Oppose drilling in Arctic Ocean
uri: 2015-04-04-Urgent-Oppose-drilling-in-Arctic-Ocean
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_drilling_in_Arctic_Ocean)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_drilling_in_Arctic_Ocean%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone the white house to 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/SPageNavigator/call_NAT_ExxonValdez.html">oppose
oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean</a>.
<p>
The White House comments line is 202-456-1111.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Urgent:_No_guns_in_school)
title: Urgent: No guns in school
uri: Urgent-No-guns-in-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_guns_in_school%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/5041">reject</a>
the idea of allowing guns in school so women could supposedly protect
themselves from rape.
<p>
This "protection" would hardly be usable in parties and with friends.
Meanwhile, men would carry guns too…
<p>
I think the idea of this is to promote the Guns Everywhere agenda
while misleading people about how rape typically occurs on campus.


title: Urgent: Stop bottling California water
uri: Urgent-Stop-bottling-California-water
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_bottling_California_water)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_bottling_California_water%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/NestleDrought/">call on
California</a> to make Nestle stop pumping out and bottling water.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Urgent:_Reduce_Pentagon_spending)
title: Urgent: Reduce Pentagon spending
uri: Urgent-Reduce-Pentagon-spending
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reduce_Pentagon_spending%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and ask them to support amendments
that reduce Pentagon spending.  Also phone your congresscritter to
vote for the People's Budget.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: Students forced cross sewage channels
uri: Students-forced-cross-sewage-channels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Students_forced_cross_sewage_channels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Students_forced_cross_sewage_channels%29

content:
<p>
A high school near Ramallah can be reached by students only
through sewage channels, as Israel has 
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760064">cut
it off from all other directions</a>.


title: Conference about occupation of Palestine
uri: Conference-about-occupation-of-Palestine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Conference_about_occupation_of_Palestine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Conference_about_occupation_of_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli pressure group 
<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-lobby-uk-officials-attempt-shut-down-univ-southampton-conference">tried
to make the University of Southampton cancel</a> a conference about
the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Indiana_discrimination_law)
title: Indiana discrimination law
uri: Indiana-discrimination-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Indiana_discrimination_law%29
content:
<p>
Indiana is going to pass a law 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/23/1372892/-Indiana-governor-looking-forward-to-signing-bill-that-ensures-sweeping-discrimination">permitting
discrimination against anyone</a>, as long as its motive is religious.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Making_workers_work_7_days_a_week)
title: Making workers work 7 days a week
uri: Making-workers-work-7-days-a-week
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Making_workers_work_7_days_a_week%29

content:
<p>
A bill in Wisconsin would allow companies to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/21/1372457/-Wisconsin-Republicans-Eliminate-Weekends">compel
workers to work 7 days a week</a>.
<p>
Nominally, the workers would have to "agree" to this, but they won't
dare say no.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Misleading_food_stamps_bill)
title: Misleading food stamps bill
uri: Misleading-food-stamps-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Misleading_food_stamps_bill%29
content:
<p>
Montana 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/23/1372773/-MO-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-prevent-food-stamp-recipients-from-buying-fish-among-other-things">proposes
to ban use of food stamps to buy cookies, potato chips, seafood or
steak</a>.
<p>
Considering what a struggle it is for the people that receive food
stamps to afford their necessities, I am sure they hardly ever buy
those things.  The real purpose of this bill is to mislead the public:
to give the impression that being poor in American is painless and
that it is ok to support the poor less.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Funding_of_global_heating_denial)
title: Funding of global heating denial
uri: Funding-of-global-heating-denial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Funding_of_global_heating_denial%29

content:
<p>
Oil companies are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/25/fossil-fuel-firms-are-still-bankrolling-climate-denial-lobby-groups">still
funding global heating denialists</a>.  They now use less prominent
channels, rather than ALEC.


title: Thai military ruler threatens journalists
uri: Thai-military-ruler-threatens-journalists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Thai_military_ruler_threatens_journalists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Thai_military_ruler_threatens_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Thailand's military ruler 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/25/kill-journalists-report-truth-thai-leader-prayuth-chan-ocha">threatens
to kill journalists</a> that don't uphold the government's line.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(British_train_lines_threatened)
title: British train lines threatened
uri: British-train-lines-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28British_train_lines_threatened%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is going to claim 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/24/uks-coastal-railways-vulnerable-to-climate-threat-expert-warns">several
British train lines</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(The_economy)
title: The economy
uri: The-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28The_economy%29
content:
<p>
To think of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/mar/23/growth-inequality-society-commons-commodification-happiness">"the
economy"</a> as a system of making stuff is missing the point.


title: Canada preparing to attack computers
uri: Canada-preparing-to-attack-computers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Canada_preparing_to_attack_computers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Canada_preparing_to_attack_computers%29

content:
<p>
Canada is preparing for 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/23/canada-cse-hacking-cyberwar-secret-arsenal/">"false
flag" attacks on computers</a>.


title: Jeb Bush's second private email account
uri: Jeb-Bush-s-second-private-email-account
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Jeb_Bushs_second_private_email_account)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Jeb_Bushs_second_private_email_account%29

content:
<p>
Jeb Bush had a second private email account 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/25/mystery-around-jeb-bushs-unknown-private-email-account">that
he does not remember</a>.


title: Australian parliament shoots messenger
uri: Australian-parliament-shoots-messenger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Australian_parliament_shoots_messenger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Australian_parliament_shoots_messenger%29

content:
<p>
An Australian member of parliament poured bunker oil on his hands to
show how disgusting it is, asking to ban cruise ships from using it.
Parliament decided to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/25/liberal-andrew-laming-banned-from-parliament-for-pouring-oil-on-hands">shoot
the messenger</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Letting_business_trample_people)
title: Letting business trample people
uri: Letting-business-trample-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Letting_business_trample_people%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/25/is-it-red-tape-repeal-day-or-merely-political-favours-to-business-groups-day">"Getting
rid of red tape"</a> is an excuse for letting business trample people.


title: Interview with Russian conscript soldier
uri: Interview-with-Russian-conscript-soldier
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Interview_with_Russian_conscript_soldier)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Interview_with_Russian_conscript_soldier%29

content:
<p>
An interview with a Russian conscript soldier who was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/25/russia-ukraine-soldier">sent
to fight in Ukraine</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Sanctions_against_Israel)
title: Sanctions against Israel
uri: Sanctions-against-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Sanctions_against_Israel%29
content:
<p>
Netanyahu's rejection of peace with Palestine calls for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/24/only-sanctions-can-change-israeli-policy">sanctions
against Israel</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Decline_of_US_coal)
title: Decline of US coal
uri: Decline-of-US-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Decline_of_US_coal%29
content:
<p>
US coal companies have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/24/us-coal-sector-in-terminal-decline-financial-analysts-say">lost
3/4 of their value</a>, and 200 mines have shut.
<p>
This good news is somewhat undermined by the fact that most of the
decrease in coal use has been replaced with fracked natural gas.  In
order for this to have truly good results we need a policy that will
move aggressively to prevent coal mines from being reopened.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 03_April_2015_(Afghan_government)
title: Afghan government
uri: Afghan-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#03_April_2015_%28Afghan_government%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/03/24/afghanistan-fiction-sovereign-government-us-funding-war-attrition">Afghanistan:
'Fiction' of Sovereign Government, US Funding 'War of Attrition'</a>.


title: False criminal convictions in the US
uri: False-criminal-convictions-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(False_criminal_convictions_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28False_criminal_convictions_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
A study in 1995 concluded that 
<a href="http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm">at least
10,000 people were wrongly convicted of crimes in the US each
year</a>.  Most instance were due to mistaken eyewitnesses.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(US_air_strikes_on_Tikrit)
title: US air strikes on Tikrit
uri: US-air-strikes-on-Tikrit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28US_air_strikes_on_Tikrit%29
content:
<p>
The US started attacking PISSI forces in Tikrit, but the Shi'ite
militias that are leading the attack on Tikrit are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/26/us-air-strikes-tikrit-iraqi-militia-leader">not
happy with this</a>.
<p>
I don't see why US air strikes on Tikrit would be wanted at all.
Doesn't the Iraqi army have artillery that it can bring into range to
fire on the dug-in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI)">PISSI</a>
troops.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Big_Brother_watching_truckers)
title: Big Brother watching truckers
uri: Big-Brother-watching-truckers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Big_Brother_watching_truckers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/safety/big-brother-watches-truckers-now-and-youlater-cars-that-think">Today
Big Brother Watches Truckers, Tomorrow He'll Watch You</a>.
<p>
This has already started with 
<a href="">insurance 
companies that charge extra if you refuse to let the company monitor
where you drive</a>.
<p>
We should prohibit that practice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Urgent:_Support_FASTR)
title: Urgent: Support FASTR
uri: Urgent-Support-FASTR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Support_FASTR%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritters to support 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/locking-public-access-scientific-knowledge-unlocking-scholarly-research">FASTR</a>,  and to ask for the bill to be strengthened to require the research
papers to be published under a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/free-scientific-publishing.html">free/libre
license</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(US_thugs)
title: US thugs
uri: US-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28US_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US thugs' unofficial motto is 
<a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_only_truly_compliant_submissive_citizen_in_a_police_state_is_a_dea">"comply
or die"</a>; but even if you comply, they may still kill you.
<p>
Most thugs would not, I suppose, do the vicious things described in
the article (and in many political notes here).  But nearly all of
them would support a fellow thug that has done those things, by lying
in court if necessary, and that is why they deserve to be called
"thugs".  The few who refuse to support thugs are those who merit the
title of "police officer".
<p>
To change this, we must go against the social pressure to presume all
thugs are admirable except those who have been <em>proved</em> to
beat, kill or frame someone.  We must refuse to speak with deference
about them or presume that they are in the right in a dispute.  When
thugs make accusations, we should distrust what they say about the
facts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Use_of_tear_gas_on_protesters)
title: Use of tear gas on protesters
uri: Use-of-tear-gas-on-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Use_of_tear_gas_on_protesters%29
content:
<p>
The Ferguson thugs have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/26/police-restrict-teargas-settlement-ferguson-protesters">agreed
not to use tear gas on protesters</a>.
<p>
Ferguson is one town out of thousands in the US.  This needs to be
adopted for all of them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Misuse_of_antibiotics)
title: Misuse of antibiotics
uri: Misuse-of-antibiotics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Misuse_of_antibiotics%29
content:
<p>
The US government has proposed to plan to reduce the frequency of
antibiotic-resistant infections, but the crucial step of ceasing
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/26/white-house-antibiotic-resistance-plan">feed
antibiotics to farm animals that aren't sick</a> is not part of the
plan.


title: Antarctic ice shelves melting rapidly
uri: Antarctic-ice-shelves-melting-rapidly
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Antarctic_ice_shelves_melting_rapidly)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Antarctic_ice_shelves_melting_rapidly%29

content:
<p>
Antarctic ice shelves are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/26/collapse-antarcticas-glaciers-ice-melt-sooner-than-thought-scientists-warn">melting
rapidly</a>.  This has no direct effect on sea level, since they are
floating.  But with them gone, the ice sheets on land will be able to
melt faster.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Economic_recovery_for_the_rich)
title: "Economic recovery" for the rich
uri: Economic-recovery-for-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Economic_recovery_for_the_rich%29
content:
<p>
The Spanish government claims the "economy" is recovering, but this
refers to totals.  Apparently it is another bogus 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/26/bank-of-spain-economic-recovery-accelerating">"recovery"
for the rich only</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_fast_track_for_TPP)
title: Urgent: Oppose "fast track" for TPP
uri: 2015-04-05-Urgent-Oppose-fast-track-for-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fast_track_for_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Phone Senator Wyden and call on him to oppose
"fast track" for the TPP.  (202) 224-5244 and (503) 326-7525.
<p>
A new leak on Wikileaks shows that the TPP 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/03/26/tpp-leak-reveals-extraordinary-new-powers-thousands-foreign-firms-challenge-us">would
give 9,000 foreign companies special rights in the US</a>, beyond
those of any US citizen (or US company).
<p>
Here's an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/26/if-you-want-know-why-ttip-would-be-nightmare-look-what-just-happened-canada">example
of this danger</a>, found in the TPP and in the similar proposed TTIP
agreement.  NAFTA has already imposed a similar injustice on US,
Mexico and Canada.  Canada will have to pay 300 million dollars in
compensation for blocking a quarry whose pollution would have harmed
endangered species.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_chemical_safety_bill)
title: Urgent: Oppose "chemical safety" bill
uri: Urgent-Oppose-chemical-safety-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_chemical_safety_bill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/sham_chemical_bill/">oppose</a>
a trojan horse "chemical safety" bill.


title: Urgent: 21st Century Women's Health Act
uri: Urgent-21st-Century-Women-s-Health-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Urgent:_21st_Century_Womens_Health_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_21st_Century_Womens_Health_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.pattymurray.com/act/21st-century">support</a> the
21st Century Women's Health Act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(UK_to_train_modern_Syrian_rebels)
title: UK to train "modern Syrian rebels"
uri: UK-to-train-modern-Syrian-rebels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28UK_to_train_modern_Syrian_rebels%29

content:
<p>
The UK will send soldiers to train
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/26/uk-military-trainers-help-syrian-rebels'>moderate
Syrian rebels</a>", if they can find any.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Omani_journalist_disappeared)
title: Omani journalist disappeared
uri: Omani-journalist-disappeared
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Omani_journalist_disappeared%29
content:
<p>
Omani journalist/dissident Muawiyah Alrawahi was 
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2015/03/omani-blogger-muawiyah-alrawahi-detained-for-more.php">disappeared
as he tried to flee to the UAE</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Microphones_installed_in_NYC)
title: Microphones installed in NYC
uri: Microphones-installed-in-NYC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Microphones_installed_in_NYC%29
content:
<p>
Microphones installed in New York City, supposedly to detect and
localize gunshots, 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/26/rapid-deployment-shotspotter-controversial-urban-microphone-system-aided-aggressive-lobbying/">record
conversations on the street as well</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(US_presidential_candidates)
title: US presidential candidates
uri: US-presidential-candidates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28US_presidential_candidates%29
content:
<p>
US presidential candidates are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/03/eventually-two-billionaires-will-duke-it-out-president-every-four-years">not
interested in those who can obtain mere millions of dollars for
them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Google_Fiber_to_track_TV_watching)
title: Google Fiber to track TV watching
uri: Google-Fiber-to-track-TV-watching
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Google_Fiber_to_track_TV_watching%29

content:
<p>
Google Fiber will 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/03/google-fiber-ads/">track what TV
shows people watch</a>.
<p>
I think it should be illegal for cable TV to take note of that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(UK_secret_trials)
title: UK secret trials
uri: UK-secret-trials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28UK_secret_trials%29
content:
<p>
Erol Incedal was acquitted of planning an act of terrorism, but the UK
stands convicted of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/mar/26/erol-incedal-case-secret-trial-terror">using
secret trials</a>, a prima facie attack on human rights.
<p>
There is no reason to believe any claims officials make to justify
this.  Such officials see no harm in lying to the public; what they
say is only what they <em>would</em> say.
<p>
Whatever act of terrorism Incedal was suspected of, it would have been
less dangerous than secret trials.  Governments have a lot more
potential for violence than individuals, and it is not very long since
the UK used this power for evil by supporting Dubya's invasion of
Iraq.
<p>
Making it a crime to have a book like the Anarchist's Cookbook —
beyond that, anything that leads to "suspicion" — is also
tyranny.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Insecure_internet_voting_system)
title: Insecure internet voting system
uri: Insecure-internet-voting-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Insecure_internet_voting_system%29
content:
<p>
Australia is using an
<a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/teaguehalderman/ivote-vulnerability/">insecure
internet voting system</a>.
<p>
In addition to the software vulnerabilities, remote voting opens the
door for voters to be coerced by their bosses, by abusive spouses,
etc.  It is a foolish risk to permit remote voting except in special
cases such as when people are travelling or in the hospital.
<p>
If young people are not voting, it's because they see the candidates
that might win are working for plutocrats.  Making it less work to
vote is no solution.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Communications_privacy_law)
title: Communications privacy law
uri: Communications-privacy-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Communications_privacy_law%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1701">Congress Needs to Make
Up Its Mind About Communications Privacy Law: Do They Want to Kill It,
Or Strengthen It?</a>
<p>
As a pessimist by nature, I expect them to kill it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Two_cockpit)
title: Two cockpit
uri: Two-cockpit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Two_cockpit%29
content:
<p>
It appears a pilot may have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/26/one-pilot-locked-out-germanwings-planes-cockpit-4u9525-claims-new-york-times">intentionally
crashed an airliner in the Alps</a>.
<p>
Until a few decades ago, large airliners generally had three cockpit
flight crew: pilot, copilot and flight engineer.  It would have been
impossible for one pilot to dive the plane into the ground.
<p>
The switch to just two cockpit was implemented as an efficiency
measure.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Saudi_Arabias_intervention_in_Yemen)
title: Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen
uri: Saudi-Arabia-s-intervention-in-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Saudi_Arabias_intervention_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia (with support from other US allies) is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/26/saudi-arabia-begins-airstrikes-against-houthi-in-yemen">intervening
militarily in Yemen's civil war</a>.
<p>
This must have been approved by the US.
<p>
It seems really stupid for the US to take a side in that civil war, an
opportunity to make enemies — but the consequences will be used
to justify further war.


title: Australia obeys fossil fuel interests
uri: Australia-obeys-fossil-fuel-interests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Australia_obeys_fossil_fuel_interests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Australia_obeys_fossil_fuel_interests%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government's substitute for CO2 emissions reduction
will at best do no good.  It could do 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/26/direct-action-set-up-to-allow-large-rise-in-emissions-says-climate-institute">much
worse</a>.
<p>
The Australian government is simply 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/26/the-real-villains-in-australias-renewables-debacle-three-big-energy-companies">obeying
fossil fuel interests</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Thugs_in_Arab_countries)
title: Thugs in Arab countries
uri: Thugs-in-Arab-countries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Thugs_in_Arab_countries%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in Arab countries are 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/the-key-to-real-change-in-the-middle-east-police-reform-38749">even
worse than US thugs</a>, and this played a role both in stimulating
revolutions and defeating revolutions.


title: Gaza militants accused of war crimes
uri: Gaza-militants-accused-of-war-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Gaza_militants_accused_of_war_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Gaza_militants_accused_of_war_crimes%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International accused Gaza militants of war crimes for using
of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/26/amnesty-international-accuses-militants-in-gaza-of-war-crimes-in-2014-conflict">non-aimable
missiles and mortars</a>.
<p>
(Mortars normally are aimed, like artillery.)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Reducing_food_waste)
title: Reducing food waste
uri: Reducing-food-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Reducing_food_waste%29
content:
<p>
Some stores are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2015/03/25/inglorious-fruits-and-vegetables">selling
imperfect but fresh fruits</a> to reduce food waste.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Death_penalty)
title: Death penalty
uri: 2015-04-05-Death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Death_penalty%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/26/capital-punishment-utah-firing-squad">Why
We Execute People Is the Big Question, Not How</a>.


title: Rapes ignored by US thug departments
uri: Rapes-ignored-by-US-thug-departments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Rapes_ignored_by_US_thug_departments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Rapes_ignored_by_US_thug_departments%29

content:
<p>
It appears that US thug departments have 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/180441/how-did-fbi-miss-over-1-million-rapes">systematically
ignored many accusations of rape, often being cruel to the victims in
the process</a>.  The estimate is that roughly a million rapes were
omitted from statistics between 1995 and 2012.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Religious_coercion_in_US_Air_Force)
title: Religious coercion in US Air Force
uri: Religious-coercion-in-US-Air-Force
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Religious_coercion_in_US_Air_Force%29

content:
<p>
A Republican bill would 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/24/1373020/-House-Republican-introduces-bill-to-require-religious-pledge-of-military-cadets">require
US Air Force cadets to swear a religious oath</a>.
<p>
These harassment policies can be quite effective in excluding people
who are not religious fanatics.  An Atheist in the Air Force Academy
has 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_September_2014_(Atheist_US_Air_Force_officer_is_suing)">sued
against religious coercion</a> there.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Tax_credits_for_campaign_funds)
title: Tax credits for campaign funds
uri: Tax-credits-for-campaign-funds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Tax_credits_for_campaign_funds%29
content:
<p>
John Menard gave Scott Walker 1.5 million in campaign funds, and
received 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/24/1372998/-Scott-Walker-Received-Secret-1-5-Million-Donation-from-Wisconsin-s-Richest-Man">almost
2 million in Wisconsin tax credits</a> for it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Low_oil_price)
title: Low oil price
uri: Low-oil-price
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Low_oil_price%29
content:
<p>
Naomi Klein: we must take advantage of the low oil price to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/25/naomi-klein-shock-oil-price-plunge-opportunity-world-must-seize">cancel
fossil fuel drilling projects</a>.
<p>
I think we should put heavy taxes on fossil fuels, so that the price
for use will be high enough to encourage conservation, while the price
paid to extractors will be low enough to discourage drilling.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Palestines_customs_revenue)
title: Palestine's customs revenue
uri: Palestine-s-customs-revenue
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Palestines_customs_revenue%29
content:
<p>
Israel's <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/25/israels-seizure-palestinian-taxes-sparks-economic-devastation-mounting-resistance">interception
of Palestine's customs revenue</a> is devastating the Palestinian
economy.
<p>
Palestine's application to join the ICC is no valid grounds for
punishment even if Israel fears that some of its officials or soldiers
will be prosecuted for war crimes they committed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Kraft_and_Heinz)
title: Kraft and Heinz
uri: Kraft-and-Heinz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Kraft_and_Heinz%29
content:
<p>
The merger of Kraft and Heinz would create a giant company with
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/25/mega-merger-too-far-kraft-foods-hj-heinz-announce-merger">dangerous
economic power</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Michigan_thugs)
title: Michigan thugs
uri: Michigan-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Michigan_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in Michigan arrested a man and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/25/protesters-detroit-police-officers-video-beating-motorist">beat
him nearly to death</a>.
<p>
They accuse him of possession of some (unstated) sort of drugs.
Whether possessing them is a bad thing, I am not sure.  Whether he
really had them is hard to know, since thugs do frame people by
planting drugs on them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(UK_thug_investigators)
title: UK thug investigators
uri: UK-thug-investigators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28UK_thug_investigators%29
content:
<p>
The UK's commission for investigating crimes by thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/25/mark-duggan-whitewash-death-knell-for-ipcc-police">upholds
their subjective impressions to exonerate them</a>.


title: Labour politicians spied on by UK thugs
uri: Labour-politicians-spied-on-by-UK-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Labour_politicians_spied_on_by_UK_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Labour_politicians_spied_on_by_UK_thugs%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/25/special-branch-watching-me-mp-democracy">spied
on Labour politicians</a> even after they had been elected to
Parliament.
<p>
They need not have bothered, given that the Labour party had by that
time become the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_January_2015_(Right-wing_UK_economic_policy)">center-right 
New Labour</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Radio_Shack_customer_information)
title: Radio Shack customer information
uri: Radio-Shack-customer-information
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Radio_Shack_customer_information%29

content:
<p>
Radio Shack promised not to 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/despite-privacy-policy-radioshack-customer-data-up-for-sale-in-auction/">sell
customer identifying information</a>, but the bankruptcy court is
planning to do precisely that.
<p>
In other words, a company's privacy policy is valid only if the
company does not fail.  But then, most privacy policies are worthless
anyway, because they have 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#26_February_2013_(Facebook_helps_stores_track_users_purchases)">loopholes
permitting the company to screw you</a>.
<p>
If it occurs to you that a site or store's privacy policy would be
relevant, just don't use that site or store.  I have bought things
from Radio Shack, but I paid cash and refused to identify myself.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Distracted_teenagers_on_the_road)
title: Distracted teenagers on the road
uri: Distracted-teenagers-on-the-road
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Distracted_teenagers_on_the_road%29

content:
<p>
Most accidents (more than half) of teenage drivers are caused by
distractions such as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/25/teen-drivers-distractions-car-crashes-phones-friends">phones
or conversation</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(UK_prisons)
title: UK prisons
uri: UK-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28UK_prisons%29
content:
<p>
UK prisons have become 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/25/strangeways-1990-prison-riot-inhumane-conditions">cruel
warehouses</a> for prisoners; all attempt at rehabilitation has been
abandoned in the name of hyper-punitivity and cost-cutting.
<p>
The same is true 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#05_October_2014_(Profiting_from_US_prisoners)">in 
the US</a>.


title: Imprisonment of black American males
uri: Imprisonment-of-black-American-males
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Imprisonment_of_black_American_males)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Imprisonment_of_black_American_males%29

content:
<p>
A black American male who does not finish high school has a 
<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/19/what-are-chances-going-prison/n3g84nR4kJriEwM8nbT6ML/story.html">70%
chance</a> of going to prison.
<p>
This is partly because thugs are biased, and partly because the US has
made life so much harder for poor people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(US_cybersecurity_bill)
title: US "cybersecurity bill"
uri: US-cybersecurity-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28US_cybersecurity_bill%29
content:
<p>
A new US "cybersecurity bill" is 
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/24/house-intelligence-committee-cybersecurity-information-sharing-bill/70375004/">still
inadequate as regards privacy</a>: the ACLU rejects it.
<p>
Please don't use the term "hacking" to refer to breaking security
— that insults us 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hackers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 04_April_2015_(Home_solar_installations)
title: Home solar installations
uri: Home-solar-installations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_April_2015_%28Home_solar_installations%29
content:
<p>
Electric utilities keep on 
<a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/michael-brune/2015/03/solar-rooftop-energy-utilities-attacks">proposing
laws to impede home solar power installations</a>.  We need to fight
off each one.
<p>
In addition, each legislator who supports one of these attacks
should be condemned personally as for sale.


title: Urgent: Stand by Máxima Acuña de Chaupe
uri: Urgent-Stand-by-Máxima-Acuña-de-Chaupe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(Urgent:_Stand_by_Maxima_Acuna_de_Chaupe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stand_by_Maxima_Acuna_de_Chaupe%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/newmont-mining-peru/">stand by
Máxima Acuña de Chaupe</a>, who won a court case to stop
Newmont Mining from destroying her community with a gold mine, and now
is facing violent retaliation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_DARK_act)
title: Urgent: Oppose DARK act
uri: Urgent-Oppose-DARK-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_DARK_act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14356">oppose</a>
the DARK act, that would prohibit states from mandating labeling of
GMOs in foods.


title: Rockefellers to divest from fossil fuels
uri: Rockefellers-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(Rockefellers_to_divest_from_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%28Rockefellers_to_divest_from_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
Even the Rockefeller family was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/27/rockefeller-family-tried-and-failed-exxonmobil-accept-climate-change">unable
to persuade Exxon to stop denying global heating</a>.
<p>
Now
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/27/rockefeller-fund-chairman-moral-duty-divest-fossil-fuels">they
will divest</a>, slowly, from fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(2000_fine_for_insisting_on_a_trial)
title: $2000 fine for insisting on a trial
uri: 2000-fine-for-insisting-on-a-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%282000_fine_for_insisting_on_a_trial%29

content:
<p>
The UK plans to make people convicted of crimes pay an
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/mar/27/court-fees-convicted-criminals-criticised-magistrates-association">extra
fine of around 2000 dollars for having insisted on a trial</a>.  Some
people might plead guilty to avoid this extra fine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(Egyptian_judiciary_killer_clowns)
title: Egyptian judiciary killer clowns
uri: Egyptian-judiciary-killer-clowns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%28Egyptian_judiciary_killer_clowns%29

content:
<p>
Egypt sentenced Hany Amer to death for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/egypt-hany-amer-death-penalty-military-prison-azouli">"crimes"
that occurred after he was disappeared by the state</a>.
<p>
The Egyptian judiciary is a gang of killer clowns.


title: Rights of Russian speakers in Ukraine
uri: Rights-of-Russian-speakers-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(Rights_of_Russian_speakers_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%28Rights_of_Russian_speakers_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/ukraine-russia-solve-nicolai-petro">must
respect the rights and culture</a> of Russian-speaking people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(Abuse_of_state_secrets_privilege)
title: Abuse of "state secrets privilege"
uri: 2015-04-07-Abuse-of-state-secrets-privilege
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%28Abuse_of_state_secrets_privilege%29

content:
<p> 
Dubya's use of "state secrets privilege" to block lawsuits was a big
injustice, but the Obama regime has taken it to
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/26/new-low-obama-doj-federal-courts-abusing-state-secrets-privilege/">the
absurd limit</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(Health_care_for_immigrants)
title: Health care for immigrants
uri: Health-care-for-immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%28Health_care_for_immigrants%29
content:
<p>
The UK has imposed high fees on health care for immigrants, so
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/28/pregnant-migrants-deterred-from-seeking-antenatal-care-by-potential-cost">
pregnant immigrants skip prenatal care</a>.  That leads to evitable
serious medical problems.
<p>
Some give birth at home to avoid the crushing charges for the hospital.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(Green_climate_fund)
title: Green climate fund
uri: Green-climate-fund
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%28Green_climate_fund%29
content:
<p>
The UN's "green climate fund" decided to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/29/un-green-climate-fund-can-be-spent-on-coal-fired-power-generation">
fund coal power</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(Bullying_culture)
title: Bullying culture
uri: Bullying-culture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%28Bullying_culture%29
content:
<p>
In the UK, thugs have a general "<ahref="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/28/police-bullying-culture-detering-whistleblowers-report-warns">macho, arrogant, bullying culture</a>"
that is found in strongest form in the heads of departments.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 06_April_2015_(Slave_workers)
title: Slave workers
uri: Slave-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#06_April_2015_%28Slave_workers%29
content:
<p>
The practice of imprisoning lots of people in order to use them as
slave workers has a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/29/dixie-justice-roots-and-legacy-souths-incarceration-boom">
long history in the US</a>.  Southern states did this
to repress blacks.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Why_banks_like_Clinton)
title: Why banks like Clinton
uri: Why-banks-like-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Why_banks_like_Clinton%29
content:
<p>Banksters hate Elizabeth Warren, but they 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/30/theres-reason-big-banks-arent-mad-hillary">
don't hate Clinton</a>,
 and there's
a good reason for that.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Looks_and_music)
title: Looks and music
uri: Looks-and-music
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Looks_and_music%29
content:
<p>A few decades ago, musicians could succeed without being beautiful.
Now they are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/30/so-sia-hides-herself-so-do-daft-punk-the-only-difference-is-shes-a-woman">
under a lot of pressure to look good;</a>
it almost trumps
how well they can play.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Poverty_and_child_development)
title: Poverty and child development
uri: Poverty-and-child-development
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Poverty_and_child_development%29
content:
<p>Poverty 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/30/brain-development-in-children-could-be-affected-by-poverty-study-shows">
correlates with less brain development</a>
 in schoolchildren.
</p>
<p>Since this is not a controlled study, we don't know whether poverty
causes the reduced brain development. It is implausible that the
children's reduced brain development causes their parents to be poor.
But there may be some other factor that causes both the parents'
poverty and the children's reduced brain development. It would not
be genetic differences, since the study controlled for that.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Open_letter_to_Shell)
title: Open letter to Shell
uri: Open-letter-to-Shell
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Open_letter_to_Shell%29
content:
<p>The UK's former "climate change" diplomat says that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/30/open-letter-shell-ben-van-beurden-john-ashton-climate-change">
Shell is "cynically" trying to block an agreement</a>
 to curb global heating.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Privatization_rip-off)
title: Privatization rip-off
uri: Privatization-rip-off
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Privatization_rip-off%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-privatization-rips-us-all">
How Privatization Rips Us All Off</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Chilling_effect_of_Nemtsov_murder)
title: Chilling effect of Nemtsov murder
uri: Chilling-effect-of-Nemtsov-murder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Chilling_effect_of_Nemtsov_murder%29

content:
<p>Nemtsov's colleagues are trying to continue investigating the Russian
troops
in Ukraine, but after his murder 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/29/nemtsov-colleagues-try-to-continue-investigation-but-face-wall-of-silence">
people are afraid to talk</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Call_for_media_freedom_charter)
title: Call for media freedom charter
uri: Call-for-media-freedom-charter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Call_for_media_freedom_charter%29
content:
<p>Journalist Peter Greste, who was imprisoned for months in Egypt for
reporting, calls for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/26/peter-greste-calls-for-universal-charter-of-media-freedoms">
world-wide charter of media freedom</a>.
</p>
<p>He recognizes that the threat to journalism is not limited to outright
tyrannies.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Neonicotinoid_study_revisited)
title: Neonicotinoid study revisited
uri: Neonicotinoid-study-revisited
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Neonicotinoid_study_revisited%29
content:
<p>The UK government did an experiment with bees and claims that shows
neonicotinoids do not hurt bees. However, the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/26/uk-drew-wrong-conclusion-from-its-neonicotinoids-study-scientist-says">
data from the experiment
show that they do hurt bees</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(General_surveillance_in_Australia)
title: General surveillance in Australia
uri: General-surveillance-in-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28General_surveillance_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>Australia has imposed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/26/mandatory-data-retention-becomes-law-as-coalition-and-labor-combine">
general surveillance of phone and internet contacts</a>.
</p>
<p>The law offers a supposed shield for journalists' sources, but it is
so
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#01_April_2015_(Australias_data_retention_law)">
easily overridden</a>
 that no one should ever rely on it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Threats_to_the_US)
title: Threats to the US
uri: Threats-to-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Threats_to_the_US%29
content:
<p>Republicans, asked to rate threats to the US, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/30/republicans-see-obama-as-bigger-threat-than-putin-and-assad-says-poll">
rate Obama as a bigger
threat</a>
 than Putin or Assad.
</p>
<p>That is rational. Putin and Assad are much worse as rulers than
Obama, but they do not threaten the US. Obama, however, 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">
threatens the
freedom of Americans</a>
 through massive surveillance, and threatens
American democracy with his 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_(Obamas_War_on_Whistleblowers)">
war on whistleblowers</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Australia's_global_heating_policy)
title: Australia's global heating policy
uri: Australia-s-global-heating-policy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Australia%27s_global_heating_policy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/30/australias-climate-change-policy-on-course-for-disastrous-4c-warming">
Australia's [global heating] Policy on Course for 'Disastrous' 4C
Warming</a>.
</p>


title: Urgent: repeal PAT RIOT and FISA acts
uri: Urgent-repeal-PAT-RIOT-and-FISA-acts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Urgent:_repeal_PAT_RIOT_and_FISA_acts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_repeal_PAT_RIOT_and_FISA_acts%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell Congress to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/ssra/?t=1005&akid=13707.1183552.7KsWIW">
pass the bill</a>
 to repeal the PAT RIOT Act
and the FISA Amendments Act.
</p>
<p>Here's 
<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1466">
what the bill does</a>.
 It's quite a lot!
</p>
<p>An 
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/civil-rights/236831-back-to-square-one-on-spying">
argument</a>
 in favor.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Urgent:_extend_CHIP_funding)
title: Urgent: extend CHIP funding
uri: Urgent-extend-CHIP-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_extend_CHIP_funding%29
content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-chip/">
to extend CHIP funding</a>
 for 4 years.
</p>


title: Urgent: tell Obama to consider climate
uri: Urgent-tell-Obama-to-consider-climate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Urgent:_tell_Obama_to_consider_climate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Obama_to_consider_climate%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Obama 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-ceq/">
to order federal agencies to consider
climate effects</a>
when judging new policies.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Indoor_smoking_bans)
title: Indoor smoking bans
uri: Indoor-smoking-bans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Indoor_smoking_bans%29
content:
<p>Bans on indoor smoking have resulted in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/29/world-pollutionwatch-smoking-ban-china">
substantial decreases in pollution levels</a>
 and in heart attacks.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Illegal_sand_mining)
title: Illegal sand mining
uri: Illegal-sand-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Illegal_sand_mining%29
content:
<p>Due to world-wide adoption of concrete for construction, the world is
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/">
running scarce on sand resources</a>,
leading to environmental
degradation, corruption, and even murder.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Fracking_and_employment)
title: Fracking and employment
uri: Fracking-and-employment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Fracking_and_employment%29
content:
<p>The 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/fracking-towns-desperate-laid-workers-they-dont-tell-you-its-all-lie">
fracking boom is over</a>
 in North Dakota, but unemployed Americans
continue moving there looking for work.
</p>
<p>The long-term harm done by fracking outweighs the benefit of employing
people
for a while.  The US government could give a lot of people employment if
it were willing to defy the plutocrats.  All we need to do, to make this
happen, is vote for anti-plutocratic candidates only.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(EPA_ignoring_evidence)
title: EPA ignoring evidence
uri: EPA-ignoring-evidence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28EPA_ignoring_evidence%29
content:
<p>The EPA has 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/food/why-did-govt-give-big-thumbs-notorious-monsanto-pesticide-we-now-believe-causes-cancer">
bent over backwards for decades to ignore evidence</a>
suggesting glyphosate is carcinogenic.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Teaching_evolution_in_Kentucky)
title: Teaching evolution in Kentucky
uri: Teaching-evolution-in-Kentucky
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Teaching_evolution_in_Kentucky%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/03/28/what-its-like-to-teach-evolu.html">
What It's Like to Teach Evolution at the University of Kentucky</a>.
</p>
<p>Promoting free software takes the same sort of patience.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(UK_cuts_cause_rent_hikes)
title: UK cuts cause rent hikes
uri: UK-cuts-cause-rent-hikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28UK_cuts_cause_rent_hikes%29
content:
<p>Cuts in UK funds for poor people's housing are being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/29/tenants-face-70m-rent-rise-as-social-housing-converted-to-affordable-homes">
converted directly into rent raises</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(UK_surveillance_and_journalism)
title: UK surveillance and journalism
uri: UK-surveillance-and-journalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28UK_surveillance_and_journalism%29
content:
<p>Surveillance 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2015/mar/29/deeper-look-surveillance-top-gear-david-cameron">
should worry journalists and the public</a>
 — whatever politicians say.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Urgent:_Restore_Voting_Rights_Act)
title: Urgent: Restore Voting Rights Act
uri: Urgent-Restore-Voting-Rights-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Restore_Voting_Rights_Act%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell Congress to 
<a href="http://www.commongoodaction.org/stand_with_selma_protect_the_voting_rights_act">
restore the Voting Rights Act</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_Clean_Air_Act)
title: Urgent: Protect Clean Air Act
uri: Urgent-Protect-Clean-Air-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_Clean_Air_Act%29
content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to 
<a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=122DA4E53CB48D08D488517029F24F45.app337b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2485">
protect the Clean Air Act</a>.
</p>


title: Urgent: tell Schumer to support diplomacy
uri: Urgent-tell-Schumer-to-support-diplomacy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Urgent:_tell_Schumer_to_support_diplomacy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_tell_Schumer_to_support_diplomacy%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell Senator Schumer, 
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/schumer-must-back-diplomacy">
support diplomacy with Iran</a>
 if you want to be minority leader.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 7_April_2015_(Iran_nuclear_deal_accussations)
title: Iran nuclear deal accussations
uri: Iran-nuclear-deal-accussations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_%28Iran_nuclear_deal_accussations%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/29/john-boehner-iran-nuclear-deal">
Boehner says</a>
 that Iran would not carry out a nuclear deal,
but it is US Republicans that 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_(Nuclear_deal_with_Iran)">
threatened to disobey</a>
 such a deal.
</p>
<p>It is standard practice for politicians that have contempt for most
people to accuse others of the wrongs they themselves are guilty of.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(DEA_parties_funded_by_narco_gangs)
title: DEA parties funded by narco gangs
uri: DEA-parties-funded-by-narco-gangs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28DEA_parties_funded_by_narco_gangs%29

content:
<p>
DEA agents visiting Colombia had
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/26/drug-agents-cartel-funded-columbian-sex">sex
parties funded by narco gangs</a>.
<p>
I don't see any reason DEA agents should not participate in sex
parties, but if they get anything from drug traffickers, it's a form
of corruption.  Those agents must be booted out.
<p>
However, this incident is part of a general pattern.  Prohibition of
drugs makes trafficking profitable, and that money is used to corrupt
officials at all levels.  Even for drugs that are really dangerous,
drugs that are foolish to use, prohibition is a bad response.


title: Urgent: Clean Power Plan for the EPA
uri: Urgent-Clean-Power-Plan-for-the-EPA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Urgent:_Clean_Power_Plan_for_the_EPA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Clean_Power_Plan_for_the_EPA%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4621">call
on your state governor</a> to make a Clean Power Plan for the EPA.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Wrongful_convictions_in_the_US)
title: Wrongful convictions in the US
uri: Wrongful-convictions-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Wrongful_convictions_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/24/1372956/-An-exoneration-happens-every-3-days-in-America-What-this-really-says-about-our-justice-system">Over
1500 Americans</a> convicted of crimes have been exonerated —
found to be innocent, and released from prison.
<p>
This must be a small fraction of those who were wrongfully convicted.
<p>
What can we do to prevent false convictions in the future?
Often they are due to trials that are grossly bad.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(FBI_wants_to_ban_encryption)
title: FBI wants to ban encryption
uri: FBI-wants-to-ban-encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28FBI_wants_to_ban_encryption%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/28/the-fbi-used-to-recommend-encryption-now-they-want-to-ban-it">The
FBI Used to Recommend Encryption.  Now They Want to Ban It</a>.


title: Forcing all corners of life into market
uri: Forcing-all-corners-of-life-into-market
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Forcing_all_corners_of_life_into_market)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Forcing_all_corners_of_life_into_market%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/29/apps-that-let-the-market-invade-private-lives-evgeny-morozov">New
web services</a> that allow everything to be traded and rewarded
monetarily force all corners of life into the market.
<p>
I am glad that I don't use any of them, but I fear that they will
force us to.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(War_on_Sharing)
title: War on Sharing
uri: War-on-Sharing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28War_on_Sharing%29
content:
<p>
An Irish ISP has been 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-isp-to-disconnect-internet-pirates-150328/">forced
by a court to punish users for sharing</a>, even though there is no
law that says so.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(SeaWorlds_cruelty_to_animals)
title: SeaWorld's cruelty to animals
uri: SeaWorld-s-cruelty-to-animals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28SeaWorlds_cruelty_to_animals%29
content:
<p>
A former SeaWorld orca trainer says that the company is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/28/seaworld-trainer-john-hargrove-killer-whale-treatment">cruel
to animals</a> and covers it up with falsehoods.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Domestic_spying)
title: Domestic spying
uri: Domestic-spying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Domestic_spying%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2015/03/26/consenting-to-constitutional-abuses">The
State Is Spying on You Right Now.  Where's the Outrage?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Deforestation_in_Brazilian_Amazon)
title: Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon
uri: Deforestation-in-Brazilian-Amazon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Deforestation_in_Brazilian_Amazon%29

content:
<p>
The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/27/what-lies-behind-recent-surge-amazon-deforestation">doubled
since September</a>.
<p>
It seems to be due to the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_November_2013_(Acceleration_of_deforestation_in_Brazil)">bad
law</a> forced through by pro-deforestation parties.
<p>
One of the underlying causes is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">population
growth</a>.  By having no children, you can avoid increasing all
environmental and resource problems.


title: Budget will shaft non-rich Americans
uri: Budget-will-shaft-non-rich-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Budget_will_shaft_non-rich_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Budget_will_shaft_non-rich_Americans%29

content:
<p>
The Republican-controlled US Congress is moving to pass a budget that
will 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/27/gop-controlled-senate-passes-its-version-disaster-budget">shaft
non-rich Americans</a>.


title: Elizabeth Warren puts heat on banksters
uri: Elizabeth-Warren-puts-heat-on-banksters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Elizabeth_Warren_puts_heat_on_banksters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Elizabeth_Warren_puts_heat_on_banksters%29

content:
<p>
Elizabeth Warren is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/27/what-she-doing-right-report-says-wall-street-ready-punish-dems-over-elizabeth-warren">putting
the heat on banksters</a>; they are threatening to stop giving money
to (other) Democratic candidates as punishment.
<p>
The "Democrats" that serve the banksters only slow the adoption of
dooH niboR government policies.  To stop it and reverse it, we need
people like Warren.


title: Republican governors squeeze hospitals
uri: Republican-governors-squeeze-hospitals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Republican_governors_squeeze_hospitals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Republican_governors_squeeze_hospitals%29

content:
<p>
Republican governors that reject Medicaid expansion are 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/26/1373411/-Baton-Rouge-hospital-closes-ER-thanks-to-Piyush-Jindal">squeezing
hospitals</a>.  Some hospitals in areas of poverty are closing, or
closing their emergency rooms; many more will soon join them.
<p>
The article seems unfair in blaming Louisiana's deficit primarily on
Governor Jindal, since the world fiscal crisis occurred shortly after
he took office in 2008.  The article does not tie Louisiana's deficit
to specific decisions on Jindal's part.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(High_fees_for_college)
title: High fees for college
uri: High-fees-for-college
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28High_fees_for_college%29
content:
<p>
High fees for college 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/27/university-students-sex-work-living-costs-tuition-fee-debts">drive
a substantial number of students into sex work</a>.
<p>
It must be more so in the US where the fees are higher.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Methods_of_execution)
title: Methods of execution
uri: Methods-of-execution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Methods_of_execution%29
content:
<p>
Many methods of execution were promoted as humane, then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/28/utahs-firing-squad-crisis-capital-punishment-us">rejected
later as inhumane</a>.


title: Nondemocratic Arab regional alliance
uri: Nondemocratic-Arab-regional-alliance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Nondemocratic_Arab_regional_alliance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Nondemocratic_Arab_regional_alliance%29

content:
<p>
A bunch of nondemocratic Arab countries propose to set up a regional
alliance 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/28/egypts-president-backs-united-arab-force-to-tackle-regional-security-threats">to
fight against anyone supported by Iran</a>.  Apparently with US
support, too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Depression)
title: Depression
uri: Depression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Depression%29
content:
<p>
People who suffer from depression are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/28/i-suffer-from-depression-depressive-andreas-lubitz-mental-health">unlikely
to want to hurt anyone else</a>; we must not stigmatize depression
even worse.
<p>
It seems that co-pilot Lubitz 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/29/germanwings-flight-9525-mystery-locked-door-silent-pilot-history-illness">had
problems beyond depression</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Fishing_crews_abandoned_on_islands)
title: Fishing crews abandoned on islands
uri: Fishing-crews-abandoned-on-islands
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Fishing_crews_abandoned_on_islands%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia foreign boats from fishing there, so the boat operators
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/28/4000-foreign-fishermen-stranded-on-remote-indonesian-islands">dumped
their crew on remote islands</a>, and the crew are stranded there.
Many were effectively enslaved in their ships, and some still are
enslaved.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Theocratic_Christians)
title: Theocratic Christians
uri: Theocratic-Christians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Theocratic_Christians%29
content:
<p>
Theocratic Christians 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/belief/glaring-brazen-hypocrisy-heart-american-right-wing-christianity">endorse
the right of parents to kill sick children for religious reasons</a>;
it's only fetuses they want to protect.  This is because they regard
women and children as property, like cattle.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(DMV_photo-sharing_plans_dropped)
title: DMV photo-sharing plans dropped
uri: DMV-photo-sharing-plans-dropped
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28DMV_photo-sharing_plans_dropped%29
content:
<p>
California has 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/dmv-photo-sharing-facial-recognition-nixed-california-strategic-plan">dropped
its plans</a> to let thugs around the US use California driver's license
photos for face recognition.
<p>
What about other states?


title: Mexico proposes greenhouse emission limits
uri: Mexico-proposes-greenhouse-emission-limits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Mexico_proposes_greenhouse_emission_limits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Mexico_proposes_greenhouse_emission_limits%29

content:
<p>
Mexico set an example by proposing a greenhouse emissions limitation plan,
but it is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/mexico-plan-cap-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2026">too
little and too late</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Thugs_with_body_cameras_in_schools)
title: Thugs with body cameras in schools
uri: Thugs-with-body-cameras-in-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Thugs_with_body_cameras_in_schools%29

content:
<p>
Having thugs permanently stationed in schools is already bad; giving
them body cameras adds up to a 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-immigrants-rights-technology-and-liberty-racial-justice-national-security/b">big
invasion of students' and teachers' privacy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Big_subsidies_for_rich_Americans)
title: Big subsidies for rich Americans
uri: Big-subsidies-for-rich-Americans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Big_subsidies_for_rich_Americans%29

content:
<p>
A few rich Americans get 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/exposing-americas-billionaire-welfare-ranchers">big
subsidies</a> as public-land ranchers, and the government resists
telling us who they are.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Illegal_marijuana_plantations)
title: Illegal marijuana plantations
uri: Illegal-marijuana-plantations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Illegal_marijuana_plantations%29
content:
<p>
In California, illegal marijuana plantations are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/03/marijuana-farming-drought-salmon-california">using
up the water that water bottlers don't take</a>.  Endangered fish
could be killed by this.
<p>
If marijuana were legalized, it would be grown in ways that are not so
illegal.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Welfare_in_the_UK)
title: Welfare in the UK
uri: Welfare-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Welfare_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
The Tories are considering 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/27/potential-conservative-welfare-cuts-revealed-in-leaked-emails">big
cuts in welfare for the poor</a>.  For right-wingers, welfare is
supposed to be for the rich.
<p>
One proposal is to cut off support for children after the second.
Governments should aim to decrease the birth rate, but making extra
children grow up in poverty is not a good method.  It probably
won't even reduce the birth rate much.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Gag_order_on_UK_govt_employees)
title: Gag order on UK gov't employees
uri: Gag-order-on-UK-gov-t-employees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Gag_order_on_UK_govt_employees%29
content:
<p>
The UK suddenly imposed a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/27/francis-maude-warned-by-scientists-over-chilling-effect-of-new-media-rules">gag
order</a> on all government employees including scientists.
<p>
Canada's right-wing government did the same thing, and we know the reason:
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_May_2014_(Canada_attacks_science)">to
help business suppress science</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Plastic_bead_pollution)
title: Plastic bead pollution
uri: Plastic-bead-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Plastic_bead_pollution%29
content:
<p>
Cleaning up 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/mar/27/microbead-california-pollution-nurdle-law-plastic">plastic
bead pollution in California</a>.  These beads can kill animals by
starving them.


title: Palestinian Authority's customs revenue
uri: Palestinian-Authority-s-customs-revenue
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Palestinian_Authoritys_customs_revenue)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Palestinian_Authoritys_customs_revenue%29

content:
<p>
Netanyahu 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/israel-to-resume-tax-transfers-to-palestinian-authority">yielded</a>
and agreed to give the Palestinian Authority its customs revenue.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Thugs_force_prisoners_to_fight)
title: Thugs force prisoners to fight
uri: Thugs-force-prisoners-to-fight
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Thugs_force_prisoners_to_fight%29
content:
<p>
San Francisco thugs (prison guards, not police this time) 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/27/san-francisco-prison-guards-forced-inmates-game-of-thrones-style-fights">forced
prisoners to fight each other</a> in order to bet on the results, on
pain of being tortured.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Modern_slavery)
title: Modern slavery
uri: 2015-04-09-Modern-slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Modern_slavery%29
content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/mar/27/human-traffickers-face-life-sentence-britain-slavery-bill">wants
to show it is really serious about stopping modern slavery</a> by
sentencing perpetrators to life in prison.
<p>
Since it is an economic crime, such a heavy sentence is neither called
for nor necessary.  I'm sure most people would refrain from trying to
enslave workers if they expected to be sentenced to five years in
prison for it.
<p>
The crucial point is "expected to be".  Even life imprisonment can't
deter criminals if they are confident they won't be caught.  To be
effective in reducing enslavement, what is needed is a series of
measures to put migrants on guard against enslavement, and to detect
enslavement when it occurs.  Also, changing laws that stop slaves from
escaping, as the UK just decided not to do.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Schools_for_non-rich_Americans)
title: Schools for non-rich Americans
uri: Schools-for-non-rich-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Schools_for_non-rich_Americans%29
content:
<p>
One reason schools for non-rich Americans do a bad job is that they
are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/26/revisiting-progressive-education-agenda-whats-happened">not
given enough money</a>.
<p>
Although the schools in poor districts get too little, it still adds
up to a large sum.  This enables the plutocratist politicians to say,
"Look how much money we've wasted on failing schools" as an excuse to
underfund them even more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 08_April_2015_(Medicare)
title: Medicare
uri: Medicare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_%28Medicare%29
content:
<p>
Congress and Obama are planning to make medicare pay doctors more,
necessary because many doctors are refusing medicare patients, but the
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/26/house-passes-medicare-reform-bill-critics-warn-beneficiaries-will-pay-price">cost
is being placed on patients</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Urgent:_Tobin_tax)
title: Urgent: Tobin tax
uri: Urgent-Tobin-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Tobin_tax%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/ftt2015/">call on
Congress</a> to pass the Tobin tax (a tiny tax on financial
transactions).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Urgent:_Sustainable_palm_oil)
title: Urgent: Sustainable palm oil
uri: Urgent-Sustainable-palm-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Sustainable_palm_oil%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/quaker-palm-oil/">call on
Pepsico</a> to get sustainable palm oil.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Working_poor_and_non-working_rich)
title: Working poor and non-working rich
uri: Working-poor-and-non-working-rich
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Working_poor_and_non-working_rich%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/31/rise-working-poor-and-non-working-rich">The
Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Greenhouse_gas_pledges_insufficient)
title: Greenhouse gas pledges insufficient
uri: Greenhouse-gas-pledges-insufficient
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Greenhouse_gas_pledges_insufficient%29

content:
<p>
Countries are making greenhouse gas pledges that are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/31/us-set-to-propose-emissions-cuts-of-28-ahead-of-global-climate-treaty">insufficient
to avoid global disaster</a>.


title: Australian gov't disregards sexual assaults
uri: Australian-gov-t-disregards-sexual-assaults
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Australian_govt_disregards_sexual_assaults)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Australian_govt_disregards_sexual_assaults%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/government-knew-of-abuse-on-nauru-months-before-it-acted-staff-to-allege">chose
to quietly disregard sexual assaults</a> against refugees dumped in
Nauru.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Wildlife_in_Indochina_threatened)
title: Wildlife in Indochina threatened
uri: Wildlife-in-Indochina-threatened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Wildlife_in_Indochina_threatened%29

content:
<p>
Wildlife in Indochina is threatened by 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/saola-the-most-beautiful-animal-you-will-never-see">massive
hunting</a> in even the isolated areas of the jungle.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Editors_arrested_for_sedition)
title: Editors arrested for "sedition"
uri: Editors-arrested-for-sedition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Editors_arrested_for_sedition%29
content:
<p>
Editors of Malaysian Insider were arrested for "sedition" for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/malaysia-arrests-three-editors-sedition-islamic-law">publishing
an article about steps in legislation</a>.
<p>
To have a crime of sedition at all is an attack on human rights.
Malaysia has never respected human rights very well, but it is getting
worse lately.


title: Replacement of democracy with plutocracy
uri: Replacement-of-democracy-with-plutocracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Replacement_of_democracy_with_plutocracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Replacement_of_democracy_with_plutocracy%29

content:
<p>
Plutocratist politicians, organized through ALEC, are using captive
state legislatures to 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/03/12782/alec-backed-war-local-democracy">forbid
city initiatives that are inconvenient for business</a>.
<p>
Their masters, the businesses, are also suing cities that try to do
this.
<p>
The replacement of democracy with plutocracy is converting the US
government into a government of occupation by the rich.  Only
democratic governments can be legitimate.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Drought_in_Australia)
title: Drought in Australia
uri: Drought-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Drought_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is exacerbating 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/31/climate-change-making-droughts-in-australia-worse-as-rain-patterns-shift">drought
in Australia</a>.  This threatens agriculture and cities' water
supplies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Tory_logic_of_austerity)
title: Tory logic of austerity
uri: Tory-logic-of-austerity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Tory_logic_of_austerity%29
content:
<p>
The Tory logic of austerity is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/31/cameron-workers-shirkers-tory-law-benefit-cuts-deserving-poor">stigmatize
a part of the poor and desperate as "undeserving"</a> to win support
for kicking them while they're down.
<p>
If you have been driven to the point of suicide, that means you have
nothing to lose.  Rather than handing your killers an easy victory by
dying quietly, you may as well strike a final blow against them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(No_drugs_for_execution)
title: No drugs for execution
uri: No-drugs-for-execution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28No_drugs_for_execution%29
content:
<p>
The American Pharmacists Association has adopted the position that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/american-pharmacists-association-votes-against-supplying-lethal-injection-drugs">its
members should not provide drugs for execution</a>.
<p>
This is non-binding but may have an effect nonetheless.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(US_predictive_policing)
title: US "predictive policing"
uri: US-predictive-policing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28US_predictive_policing%29
content:
<p>
In the US, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/30/black-americas-state-surveillance">"predictive
policing"</a> typically predicts that if you're black, you're a
criminal.  Blacks are targeted by merciless surveillance.


title: Curbing global heating benefits economy
uri: Curbing-global-heating-benefits-economy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Curbing_global_heating_benefits_economy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Curbing_global_heating_benefits_economy%29

content:
<p>
Curbing global heating would have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/31/limiting-climate-change-economic-benefits-study-finds">tremendous
side benefits for public health and for the real economy</a>.
<p>
Plutocratist governments are more concerned with the banksters'
economy than with the real economy of real work and real benefits for
people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(China_to_ban_foreign_NGOs)
title: China to ban foreign NGOs
uri: China-to-ban-foreign-NGOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28China_to_ban_foreign_NGOs%29
content:
<p>
China is planning to ban foreign NGOs from operating in China 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/30/ngos-china-fear-security-clampdown">unless
they get government sponsorship</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Silk_Road_DEA_agents)
title: Silk Road DEA agents
uri: Silk-Road-DEA-agents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Silk_Road_DEA_agents%29
content:
<p>
DEA agents that investigated the head of Silk Road appear to have
taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from him through 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/30/silk-road-agents-accused-fraud">private
blackmail</a>.
<p>
Amazingly, they are being prosecuted for this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Fired_for_talking_about_low_wages)
title: Fired for talking about low wages
uri: Fired-for-talking-about-low-wages
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Fired_for_talking_about_low_wages%29

content:
<p>
A Days Inn 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/30/after-talking-washington-post-about-low-wages-hotel-worker-fired">fired
Shanna Tippen</a> for talking to a news reporter about the low wages.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Censorship_in_Mexican_radio_news)
title: Censorship in Mexican radio news
uri: Censorship-in-Mexican-radio-news
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Censorship_in_Mexican_radio_news%29

content:
<p>
Censorship in corporate-dominated Mexican radio news broadcasting is
now 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/30/mexicos-journalists-fire/">officially
part of the rules</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 09_April_2015_(Canadian_anti-terror_law)
title: Canadian "anti-terror" law
uri: Canadian-anti-terror-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_%28Canadian_anti-terror_law%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/30/new-canadian-counter-terrorism-law-threatens-environmental-groups/">New
Canadian Counter-Terrorism Law Threatens Environmental Groups</a>.
<p>
Dissidents know better than to believe that the Canadian government
wouldn't apply "anti-terror" measures to them.  The 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-sep-dec.html#18%20November%202006%20(Non-violent%20protests%20is%20terrorism)">US</a>
and the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_March_2014_(Resistance_to_oppression_is_terrorism_in_the_UK)">UK</a>
have already done the like.
<p>
The US has gone even further and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#08_June_2012_(FBI_labels_dissidents_as_terrorists)">labeled
dissidents as "terrorists"</a>.


title: Japan Falls Short on Reducing Carbon Emissions
uri: Japan-Falls-Short-on-Reducing-Carbon-Emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Japan_Falls_Short_on_Reducing_Carbon_Emissions_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Japan_Falls_Short_on_Reducing_Carbon_Emissions_%29

content:
<p>Japan's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/09/japan-to-pledge-20-co2-cut-reports">
CO2 cut pledge</a>
is absurdly inadequate.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Russia's_Web_of_Smoke)
title: Russia's Web of Smoke
uri: Russia-s-Web-of-Smoke
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Russia%27s_Web_of_Smoke%29
content:
<p>Russia's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/09/kremlin-hall-of-mirrors-military-information-psychology">
approach to "information warfare"</a>:
spread so many different lies that the truth can't be separated them.
</p>
<p>This gives everyone an opportunity to blame whoever they want to
blame.
Those who want to blame the US (and the US does plenty to inspire such
an attitude) can find grounds to blame the US for everything.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Drone_Slope_Grows_Slippier)
title: Drone Slope Grows Slippier
uri: Drone-Slope-Grows-Slippier
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Drone_Slope_Grows_Slippier%29
content:
<p>UN Urged to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/09/un-urged-to-ban-killer-robots-before-they-can-be-developed">
Ban 'Killer Robots'</a>
Before They Can Be Developed.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Upgrading_The_Castle)
title: Upgrading The Castle
uri: Upgrading-The-Castle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Upgrading_The_Castle%29
content:
<p>Watch out for the
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/internet-kafkaesque-things">
Internet of Kafkaesque Things</a>.
</p>
<p>And that's aside from their snooping.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Cost_of_Sprawl)
title: Cost of Sprawl
uri: Cost-of-Sprawl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Cost_of_Sprawl%29
content:
<p>A study estimates that sprawl
<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/new-studies-measure-true-cost-sprawl-and-its-more-you-think.html">
costs the US a trillion dollars</a>
a year.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Childhood_Stress_and_Diabetes)
title: Childhood Stress and Diabetes
uri: Childhood-Stress-and-Diabetes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Childhood_Stress_and_Diabetes%29
content:
<p>Stress during childhood
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/09/risk-of-diabetes-type-1-can-be-tripled-by-childhood-stress">
makes diabetes more likely</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(More_Stories_of_North_Charleston)
title: More Stories of North Charleston
uri: More-Stories-of-North-Charleston
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28More_Stories_of_North_Charleston%29

content:
<p>Sheldon Williams is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/09/second-officer-walter-scott-video-sued-stomping">
suing North Charleston</a>,
saying that thugs stamped
on his face and broke bones while he was lying on the floor
handcuffed.  Williams had to wait two hours for medical attention to
his fractures.</p>
<p>That was not murder but it was a crime.  Why isn't it being
prosecuted?</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/09/michael-slager-accused-taser-mario-givens">
Another man is suing</a>
because the thug that killed Scott tased him for
no reason.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Urgent:_Support_Diplomacy_with_Iran)
title: Urgent: Support Diplomacy with Iran
uri: Urgent-Support-Diplomacy-with-Iran
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Diplomacy_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say you
support the framework agreement with Iran, and to oppose
any bill to block diplomacy.  You can call 1-855-686-6927.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Permafrost_Carbon_Bomb)
title: Permafrost Carbon Bomb
uri: Permafrost-Carbon-Bomb
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Permafrost_Carbon_Bomb%29
content:
<p>A study suggests that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/09/arctic-carbon-bomb-may-never-happen-say-scientists">
melting permafrost</a>
won't create sudden catastrophic
global heating — the release is likely to take a longer time.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Carbon_Capture_Dreams)
title: Carbon Capture Dreams
uri: Carbon-Capture-Dreams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Carbon_Capture_Dreams%29
content:
<p>Europe planned to start 10
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/09/carbon-capture-dream-norway-beset-by-delays-fears-doubt-europe">
trial carbon capture and storage plants</a>
this year, but the technology is too hard to master.
</p>
<p>I see nothing wrong with CCS in principle, but there is no reason to
be confident it will work — and even if it does, I doubt fossil
fuels with CCS can compete with renewables on a fair basis.</p>
<p>I think the real motivation for CCS is as an excuse to continue the
current highly subsidized use of fossil fuels.  They say, "Don't worry
about using fossil fuels; CCS will come to the rescue."</p>
<p>If we put a proper tax on greenhouse emissions and eliminate the
subsidies, as we ought to, the fossil fuel companies would be welcome
to try to make CCS work cheaply enough to compete.  We wouldn't have
any stake in whether they succeed.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Unframing_the_Victim)
title: Unframing the Victim
uri: Unframing-the-Victim
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Unframing_the_Victim%29
content:
<p>The video of the shooting of Walter Scott exposed
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/09/shooting-video-exposes-police-propaganda-in-action/">
the functioning of the thugs' lie machine</a>,
which accuses crimes up to murder by framing
the victim.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(France_Investigates_HSBC_Suisse)
title: France Investigates HSBC Suisse
uri: France-Investigates-HSBC-Suisse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28France_Investigates_HSBC_Suisse%29
content:
<p>France will
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/09/hsbc-files-france-expands-investigation-to-include-global-holding-company">
investigate HSBC's global holding company</a>
on suspicions of aiding tax evasion.
</p>


title: On the Wrong Side of the Digital Divide
uri: On-the-Wrong-Side-of-the-Digital-Divide
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(On_the_Wrong_Side_of_the_Digital_Divide)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28On_the_Wrong_Side_of_the_Digital_Divide%29

content:
<p>In the UK, unemployed people are required to waste 35 hours a week
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/09/unconnected-and-out-of-work-the-vicious-circle-of-having-no-internet">
applying uselessly to jobs they won't get</a>.  They are required to do
this
by computer, and those without a computer available find this an
expensive struggle.  When anything goes wrong, they have to skip the
rent or the food.</p>
<p>The overall picture is that people's lives have been made so difficult
that an occasion to punish them is sure to arise.  The comparable thing
in the US is the extractive system of fines and debtor's prison.</p>
<p>It is fine to employ people in jobs that serve the community, as long
as we pay them prevailing wages.  Otherwise it is merely a scheme to
knock down wages.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Anything_Goes)
title: Anything Goes
uri: Anything-Goes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Anything_Goes%29
content:
<p>The staff appointed by Congress to "oversee" US spying
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/09/lobbyists-for-spies-appointed-to-oversee-spying/">
include lobbyists for spying</a>.
</p>
<p>They are the foxes, and the US is their henhouse.  Woe is us.</p>


title: The Right To Vote, Among Other Things
uri: The-Right-To-Vote-Among-Other-Things
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(The_Right_To_Vote,_Among_Other_Things)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28The_Right_To_Vote%2C_Among_Other_Things%29

content:
<p>Proposing
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/08/right-vote-must-be-enshrined-our-constitution">
a constitutional amendment</a>
to affirm that every US citizen of
legal voting age has the fundamental right to vote.
</p>
<p>I suggest that the amendment should take additional concrete steps to
block the now normal practice of blocking on pretext what it would be
unconstitutional to overtly ban — currently applied to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_November_2013_(Supreme_Court_allows_law_designed_to_make_abortion_unavailable)">
abortions</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_(Voting_rights_for_black_Americans)">
voting</a>, and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_March_2015_(US_cities_ban_feeding_homeless)">
being homeless</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Farmers_Fight_Criminalization)
title: Farmers Fight Criminalization
uri: Farmers-Fight-Criminalization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Farmers_Fight_Criminalization%29
content:
<p>Multinational seed companies lobby for various kinds of laws to stop
farmers from sharing seeds, but
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/08/saving-seeds-farmers-rise-against-industry-backed-laws">
the farmers fight back</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Chevron_Clean-up_Fraudulent)
title: Chevron Clean-up Fraudulent
uri: Chevron-Clean-up-Fraudulent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Chevron_Clean-up_Fraudulent%29
content:
<p>Chevron lied about cleaning up oil spills in Ecuador;
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/08/chevron-whistleblower-leaks-smoking-gun-case-ecuadorian-oil-spill">
a whistleblower provided proof</a>.
</p>


title: Urgent: Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership
uri: Urgent-Stop-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_the_Trans-Pacific_Partnership)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_the_Trans-Pacific_Partnership%29

content:
<p>US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Clinton_TPP">
call on Clinton</a>
to come out against the TPP.
</p>


title: Derrick Wheatt, Laurese Glover, and Eugene Johnson
uri: Derrick-Wheatt-Laurese-Glover-and-Eugene-Johnson
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Derrick_Wheatt,_Laurese_Glover,_and_Eugene_Johnson)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Derrick_Wheatt%2C_Laurese_Glover%2C_and_Eugene_Johnson%29

content:
<p>Cleveland thugs disregarded all the witnesses to a shooting and
prosecutors convicted three innocent men for the murder.  The three
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/07/1376122/-Three-black-men-convicted-as-teens-exonerated-released-in-Ohio-after-serving-20-years-in-prison?detail=email">
have been exonerated</a>
after 20 years in prison.
</p>
<p>I wonder what motivated this gross injustice.  This case is far from
unique; the explanation might teach us something about how to prevent
more such cases.
</p>


title: Urgent: Pull Back the Curtain on "American Commitment"
uri: Urgent-Pull-Back-the-Curtain-on-American-Commitment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Urgent:_Pull_Back_the_Curtain_on_American_Commitment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Pull_Back_the_Curtain_on_American_Commitment%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on your federal legislators to
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=1297">
thwart plutocrats' dishonesty</a>
and stand up for network neutrality.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Climate_Change_in_the_Tropics)
title: Climate Change in the Tropics
uri: Climate-Change-in-the-Tropics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Climate_Change_in_the_Tropics%29
content:
<p>The greatest damage from a global heating disaster will come in
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/07/1375493/-The-polar-ice-caps-are-ground-zero-but-the-tropics-will-suffer-the-first-body-blow?detail=email">
the tropics</a>,
as a changes in rain will eliminate entire ecologies such as
the Amazon rain forest.  The millions of species that live in them
will go extinct.
</p>


title: Kansas Cracks Down on Welfare Recipients
uri: Kansas-Cracks-Down-on-Welfare-Recipients
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Kansas_Cracks_Down_on_Welfare_Recipients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Kansas_Cracks_Down_on_Welfare_Recipients%29

content:
<p>Kansas plans to
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/06/1375926/-Kansas-to-limit-welfare-recipients-to-25-a-day-ban-them-from-spending-on-cruise-ships?detail=email">
limit welfare benefits</a> spending to $25 per day.
</p>
<p>So if a poor person
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#15_April_2013_(Debtor's_prison)">
faces debtor's prison</a>
if she doesn't pay a $50 fine, she will go to jail.</p>
<p>If she needs to get her nails done to apply for a job, that will be
excluded too.  Kansas legislators would rather she stay unemployed.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Special_Snowflake_Syndrome)
title: Special Snowflake Syndrome
uri: Special-Snowflake-Syndrome
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Special_Snowflake_Syndrome%29
content:
<p>US right-wingers believe their
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/06/1376057/-The-Special-Snowflake-Syndrome-of-American-Conservatives?detail=email">
religion legitimizes bigotry</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Todd_Kincannon_Goes_to_Jail)
title: Todd Kincannon Goes to Jail
uri: Todd-Kincannon-Goes-to-Jail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Todd_Kincannon_Goes_to_Jail%29
content:
<p>A former leader of the South Carolina Republican Party
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/07/1376162/-Famous-GOP-A-hole-charged-with-criminal-domestic-violence?detail=email">
showed that his hatred extends</a>
beyond trans people and foreigners, and includes his wife.
</p>


title: Urgent: Stop Wall St. Retirement Scams
uri: Urgent-Stop-Wall-St-Retirement-Scams
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_Wall_St._Retirement_Scams)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Wall_St._Retirement_Scams%29

content:
<p>US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/brokerdealers">
call on Senate Democrats</a>
to uphold the Department of
Labor's plans for regulations to protect workers from being swindled
out of their pensions by lying brokers.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Greece_Turns_to_Russia)
title: Greece Turns to Russia
uri: Greece-Turns-to-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Greece_Turns_to_Russia%29
content:
<p>Greece is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/09/greek-pm-alexis-tsipras-russia-visit-reset-relations-eu-vladimir-putin">
giving international support to Russia</a>,
clearly hoping
Russia will rescue Greece from the banksters.  So far, Russia has not
done it.
</p>
<p>The leaders of Syriza need help against the banksters, and Western
governments are on the banksters' side.  I can't blame them for asking
Russia for help.  The West ought to give that help.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Child_Poverty_in_the_UK)
title: Child Poverty in the UK
uri: Child-Poverty-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Child_Poverty_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>Children in the UK are now
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/09/children-uk-victorian-conditions-inequality-child-poverty">
growing up in hunger</a>
and deprivation that can stunt them for life.
</p>
<p>There is no excuse for voting for a party that won't end this.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Don't_Eat_the_Whales)
title: Don't Eat the Whales
uri: Don-t-Eat-the-Whales
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Don%27t_Eat_the_Whales%29
content:
<p>Whaling is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/09/whale-dolphin-meat-yahoo-japan-exceeds-safe-mercury-limits">
dangerous for humans</a>
that eat whale meat, as well as for whales.
</p>


title: Azza Soliman and 16 Others Charged with Public Protesting
uri: Azza-Soliman-and-16-Others-Charged-with-Public-Protesting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 10_April_2015_(Azza_Soliman_and_16_Others_Charged_with_Public_Protesting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#10_April_2015_%28Azza_Soliman_and_16_Others_Charged_with_Public_Protesting%29

content:
<p>The witnesses who saw Shaimaa al-Sabbagh shot at a protest
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/09/egyptian-law-shaimaa-al-sabbagh-witnesses-trial-azza-soliman">
are now on trial</a>
in Egypt for being near the protest.
</p>
<p>The Egyptian government has the full support of the US.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Sharif_Mobley)
title: Sharif Mobley
uri: 2015-04-12-Sharif-Mobley
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Sharif_Mobley%29
content:
<p>
The US had Yemen disappeared Sharif Mobley.  Now the US-supported
Saudi bombing campaign is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/sharif-mobley-yemeni-prison-fears-for-life-smuggled-phone-call">attacking
the airbase where he is imprisoned</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(China_building_artificial_islands)
title: China building artificial islands
uri: China-building-artificial-islands
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28China_building_artificial_islands%29

content:
<p>
China is building artificial concrete islands in the South China Sea
as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/china-great-wall-sand-spratlys-us-navy">military
bases and excuses to claim the undersea oil</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Vague_constitutional_amendments)
title: Vague constitutional amendments
uri: Vague-constitutional-amendments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Vague_constitutional_amendments%29
content:
<p>
US states have passed 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/03/26/3638977/right-to-farm-midwest/">vague
constitutional amendments</a> that allow big farms to claim the right
to disregard environmental protection laws and laws against cruelty to
animals.


title: Israel to deport refugees from Africa
uri: Israel-to-deport-refugees-from-Africa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Israel_to_deport_refugees_from_Africa)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Israel_to_deport_refugees_from_Africa%29

content:
<p>
Israel is going to make refugees from Africa go to some African
country 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/israel-to-deport-eritrean-and-sudanese-asylum-seekers-to-third-countries">or
else be imprisoned</a>.
<p>
People fleeing persecution are entitled to asylum; economic migrants
are not.  However, the distinction is not so sharp.  Sometimes a
person flees real persecution, and chooses to flee to a wealthy
country as a way to get more money.  This is why many people try to
get to the US, Israel, the European Union, and Australia.
It is wrong to send those people back to where they will be
persecuted, but that doesn't have to imply they are entitled to 
entry to the country of their choice.
<p>
However, these countries currently subject the refugees to horrible
treatment to make them go somewhere else.  That can't be justified
and can't really be necessary.
<p>
If we didn't have so much war, so much tyranny, and so much
environmental disaster, fewer people would need to flee persecution.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Presidential_candidates_pretending)
title: Presidential candidates pretending
uri: Presidential-candidates-pretending
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Presidential_candidates_pretending%29

content:
<p>
Several presidential candidates are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/30/candidates-presidential-hopefuls-campaign-finance-fec">pretending
they are not even "testing the waters"</a> hoping to evade campaign
funding rules.  At the same time, they acknowledge that they are
pretending.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(The_tyrant_of_Thailand)
title: The tyrant of Thailand
uri: The-tyrant-of-Thailand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28The_tyrant_of_Thailand%29
content:
<p>
The tyrant of Thailand says he will convert himself from military ruler
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/thai-pm-prayuth-chan-ocha-martial-law-dictator-ruling-article-44">civilian
dictator</a>.
<p>
Not much of a change, it seems.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Clintons_dishonesty)
title: Clinton's dishonesty
uri: Clinton-s-dishonesty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Clintons_dishonesty%29
content:
<p>
Clinton said she ran a private email server so she could send all her
email through one device, but she 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/31/hillary-clinton-ipad-email-blackberry">didn't
use only one device</a>.
<p>
This dishonesty is minor compared with the fundamental dishonesty that
she as a "Democratic" plutocratist shares with the Republican
plutocratists, in pretending to support democracy.  I will not vote
for a plutocratist candidate.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Feminist_newspaper_in_India)
title: Feminist newspaper in India
uri: Feminist-newspaper-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Feminist_newspaper_in_India%29
content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/30/female-reporter-rural-india-khabar-lahariya-feminist-newspaper">interview
with a reporter</a> for a feminist rural newspaper in India.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Mockery_of_US_presidents_prohibited)
title: Mockery of US presidents prohibited
uri: Mockery-of-US-presidents-prohibited
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Mockery_of_US_presidents_prohibited%29

content:
<p>
Mockery of US presidents is 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/30/fascism-much-dixie-state-u-prohibited-fl">prohibited
at Dixie State University</a>.
<p>
That prohibition is un-American.  Mockery of presidents is not.
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to disparage someone,
<em>especially</em> any politician or official, and anyone like me
that publicly campaigns for anything.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Scientists_suing_USDA)
title: Scientists suing USDA
uri: Scientists-suing-USDA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Scientists_suing_USDA%29
content:
<p>
Scientists are suing the US Department of Agriculture, claiming that
they are being 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/27/usda-petition-idUSL2N0WT1TQ20150327">censored
and harassed by the USDA</a> for trying to report results inconvenient
for agribusiness.
<p>
To correct the root of this problem, we need to do away with
agribusiness companies that are so powerful they can corrupt the USDA
(i.e., cause "regulatory capture").  Family farms would pose no such
danger.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(US_govt_use_of_FISA_system)
title: US gov't use of FISA system
uri: US-gov-t-use-of-FISA-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28US_govt_use_of_FISA_system%29
content:
<p>
The US government used the FISA system to investigate two Chinese
accused of a crime that has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/30/gmo-seed-theft-equals-national-security-threat-argues-government">nothing
to do with national security</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Standardized_tests)
title: Standardized tests
uri: Standardized-tests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Standardized_tests%29
content:
<p>
Another reason to cut standardized tests: the companies that do it
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/30/report-big-education-firms-spend-millions-lobbying-pro-testing-policies">spend
millions to lobby for more standardized tests, and against privacy
protections for students that are tested</a>.
<p>
As a general principle, large companies threaten democracy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Lawyer-client_privilege)
title: Lawyer-client privilege
uri: Lawyer-client-privilege
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Lawyer-client_privilege%29
content:
<p>
The UK government 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/03/30/uk-government-trying-prevent-justice-rendition-victims">refused
to stop its lawyers</a> from reading the privileged communications
with lawyers of two victims of "rendition".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Welfare)
title: Welfare
uri: 2015-04-12-Welfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Welfare%29
content:
<p>
A good welfare system 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/welfare-makes-america-more-entrepreneurial/388598/?single_page=true">encourages
people to start more businesses</a>.
<p>
A society which people <em>need</em> to be "entrepreneurial" is a
harsh one.  Being an entrepreneur means taking a gamble, and you
shouldn't gamble what you can't afford to lose.  Society should not
make people gamble what they can't afford to lose.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Australia_forbids_warrant_canaries)
title: Australia forbids warrant canaries
uri: Australia-forbids-warrant-canaries
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Australia_forbids_warrant_canaries%29

content:
<p>
In Australia, warrant canaries are 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/australian-government-minister-dodge-new-data-retention-law-like-this/">forbidden</a>.
<p>
I hope that thousands of Australians will defy this law by stating
that they have never received one of these journalist information
warrants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 11_April_2015_(Subsidized_deforestation)
title: Subsidized deforestation
uri: Subsidized-deforestation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#11_April_2015_%28Subsidized_deforestation%29
content:
<p>
Brazil and Indonesia give 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/31/subsidies-to-industries-that-cause-deforestation-worth-100-times-more-than-aid-to-prevent-it">enormous
subsidies to exports that require deforestation</a>, dwarfing the
subsidies they receive to avoid deforestation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_TPP_fast_track)
title: Urgent: Oppose TPP fast track
uri: 2015-04-12-Urgent-Oppose-TPP-fast-track
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_TPP_fast_track%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://action.usaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=682">this
petition</a> to urge Senator Wyden to oppose fast track for the TPP.
<p>
The TPP is a plan led by sell-out-to-business politicians such as Bush
and Obama to give companies (especially foreign companies)
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_(Trans-Pacific_Partnership_about_giving_corporations_more_power)">deregulation</a>
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_June_2013_(One_Congressman_allowed_to_see_the_TPP)">more
power</a> over the citizens of the US and (initially) 11 other
countries.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Fossil_fuel_shareholder_engagement)
title: Fossil fuel "shareholder engagement"
uri: Fossil-fuel-shareholder-engagement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_shareholder_engagement%29

content:
<p>
The Wellcome Trust says it invests in fossil fuel companies so it can
use "shareholder engagement", but the change it aims for is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/keep-it-in-the-ground-blog/2015/apr/01/what-wellcome-trust-using-access-boardroom-for-fossil-fuel-divestment">inadequate</a>.
<p>
It is already abundantly clear that "engagement" with them 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#17_January_2015_(Oil_companies_unable_to_adapt)">does
not get them to change</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Nuclear_negotiations_with_Iran)
title: Nuclear negotiations with Iran
uri: 2015-04-12-Nuclear-negotiations-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Nuclear_negotiations_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>
The nuclear negotiations with Iran have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/01/iran-nuclear-negotiators-reach-broad-framework-of-understanding">resolved
most of the issues with a broad framework</a>.


title: Texas legislators threaten women's lives
uri: Texas-legislators-threaten-women-s-lives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Texas_legislators_threaten_womens_lives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Texas_legislators_threaten_womens_lives%29

content:
<p>
Texas legislators 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/03/30/3640599/cancer-survivors-planned-parenthood/">threaten
women's lives</a> in order to interfere with abortion and birth
control.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Trash_served_as_food_to_prisoners)
title: Trash served as food to prisoners
uri: Trash-served-as-food-to-prisoners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Trash_served_as_food_to_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Aramark feeds prisoners 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/03/30/3640392/another-day-another-aramark-food-mishap/">food
that was in contact with rats, food taken out of the trash, and moldy
food</a>.
<p>
That's what privatizing government activities tends to lead to.  It's
also typically 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_(Privatization_is_costly_and_harmful)">more
expensive</a> than doing the work with government employees.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Apple_still_working_people_to_death)
title: Apple still working people to death
uri: Apple-still-working-people-to-death
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Apple_still_working_people_to_death%29

content:
<p>
Apple is still 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/labor/another-dead-factory-worker-key-apple-supplier-does-company-even-care">working
people to death</a> to build phones which are 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html">jails</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Ukraine_thugs)
title: Ukraine thugs
uri: Ukraine-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Ukraine_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The Council of Europe says that Ukraine failed to investigate the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/ukrainian-investigations-into-kiev-clashes-lacked-independence">behavior
of the thugs during the Maidan demonstrations in Kiev</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Urgent:_Diplomacy_in_Yemen)
title: Urgent: Diplomacy in Yemen
uri: Urgent-Diplomacy-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Diplomacy_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/obama-press-for-diplomacy">call
on Obama</a> to press for a diplomatic solution in Yemen rather than
supporting Saudi Arabia's bombing campaign.
<p>
The Houthis do not like the US but they do not want to fight the US.
Intervention in Yemen means making enemies avoidably.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Urgent:_Veto_discrimination_law)
title: Urgent: Veto discrimination law
uri: Urgent-Veto-discrimination-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Veto_discrimination_law%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/fair-georgia">call on the
governor of Georgia</a> to veto the religious-based discrimination
law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Urgent:_Regulation_of_payday_loans)
title: Urgent: Regulation of payday loans
uri: Urgent-Regulation-of-payday-loans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Regulation_of_payday_loans%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.civilrights.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=4381">call
for regulation</a> of payday loans so they don't push people further
into debt.
<p>
This is treating the symptom — what we really need is to raise
the minimum wage — but the symptom is worth treating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Urgent:_Reject_banksters_money)
title: Urgent: Reject banksters' money
uri: Urgent-Reject-banksters-money
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_banksters_money%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/dscc_wall_street/">call
on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee</a> to reject
banksters' money.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Urgent:_No_export_of_armed_drones)
title: Urgent: No export of armed drones
uri: 2015-04-13-Urgent-No-export-of-armed-drones
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_export_of_armed_drones%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/kerry_drones_ra">call on
Kerry</a> to drop the plans to export armed drones.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Facebook_has_a_new_trick)
title: Facebook has a new trick
uri: Facebook-has-a-new-trick
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Facebook_has_a_new_trick%29
content:
<p>
Facebook has a new trick to get people to 
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/31/step-1-identify-baby-photo-step-2-hide-baby-photos/">identify
their spouses and babies in photos</a>.


title: Gaza fisherman killed by Israeli soldiers
uri: Gaza-fisherman-killed-by-Israeli-soldiers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Gaza_fisherman_killed_by_Israeli_soldiers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Gaza_fisherman_killed_by_Israeli_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
Gaza fisherman Tawfiq Abu Riyala had an idea: build an artificial reef
to stimulate fish to catch.  Israeli soldiers 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-gaza-fisherman-who-built-his-own-reef--and-was-shot-dead-there-by-an-israeli-gunboat-10141357.html">killed
him for it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(College_tries_to_ban_protest_event)
title: College tries to ban protest event
uri: College-tries-to-ban-protest-event
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28College_tries_to_ban_protest_event%29

content:
<p>
A college in California tried to ban its Students for Justice in
Palestine from holding an event with a 
<a href="http://muzzlewatch.com/2015/03/31/pitzer-students-for-justice-in-palestine-defy-censorship-attempts-with-display-of-mock-israeli-apartheid-wall/">mock-up
of the annexation wall</a>.
<p>
The reason given was that "people might complain".  So what if people
complain?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Imprisonment_with_trial_in_Israel)
title: Imprisonment with trial in Israel
uri: Imprisonment-with-trial-in-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Imprisonment_with_trial_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Israel holds Palestinians prisoner without trial, 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/71012">renewing sentences over
and over</a>.


title: Thugs treating the people as an enemy
uri: Thugs-treating-the-people-as-an-enemy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Thugs_treating_the_people_as_an_enemy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Thugs_treating_the_people_as_an_enemy%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in Oxnard, California, get 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/31/1374603/-Whistleblower-cop-Oxnard-California-police-get-gun-skull-tattoos-every-time-they-shoot-someone">tattoos
for each person they kill</a>.
<p>
They treat the people as an enemy that they are at war with.


title: Comcast suckers man into buying house
uri: Comcast-suckers-man-into-buying-house
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Comcast_suckers_man_into_buying_house)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Comcast_suckers_man_into_buying_house%29

content:
<p>
Comcast suckered a man into buying a house by 
<a href="http://consumerist.com/2015/03/25/new-homeowner-has-to-sell-house-because-of-comcasts-incompetence-lack-of-competition/">saying
he could get broadband there</a>.  Then it said he couldn't, so he has
to sell the house.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Melting_glaciers)
title: Melting glaciers
uri: Melting-glaciers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Melting_glaciers%29
content:
<p>
Melting ice from retreating glaciers is 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/31/1373930/-Massive-Glacier-Melt-and-Fresh-Water-are-Pouring-into-the-Gulf-of-Alaska">pouring
into the Gulf of Alaska</a>.
<p>
This contributes directly to sea level rise, and as land in Alaska is
denuded of ice, it absorbs more sunlight.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Superstitious_Republican_legislator)
title: Superstitious Republican legislator
uri: Superstitious-Republican-legislator
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Superstitious_Republican_legislator%29

content:
<p>
A Republican Christian legislator said a violent attack on a woman was
a punishment 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/31/1374644/-Colorado-Republican-loses-committee-seat-after-saying-attack-on-pregnant-woman-was-curse-from-God">inflicted
on America by his vindictive deity</a>, for allowing abortion.
<p>
Alas, he's not a freak.  This sort of superstitious belief was common
in Christianity (as in many other religions) until it was mostly
cleaned of such things; but US theocratic protestants are bringing it
back.


title: California water bottling plant blockaded
uri: California-water-bottling-plant-blockaded
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(California_water_bottling_plant_blockaded)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28California_water_bottling_plant_blockaded%29

content:
<p>
California activists blockaded a Nestle water bottling plant, which
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/27/1373887/-Activists-Shut-Down-Nestl-Water-Bottling-Plant-in-Sacramento">extracts
water that California can't spare</a>.


title: US military support for Egypt's regime
uri: US-military-support-for-Egypt-s-regime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(US_military_support_for_Egypts_regime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28US_military_support_for_Egypts_regime%29

content:
<p>
While Egypt's regime carries out repression almost like Stalin's,
Obama assures Egypt of 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/31/obama-lifts-freeze-weapons-transfer-egyptian-dictator/">continued
military support</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Standardized_testing)
title: Standardized testing
uri: 2015-04-13-Standardized-testing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Standardized_testing%29
content:
<p>
The high pressure on US students, teachers and schools from standard
tests 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/01/atlanta-cheating-scandal-education-reform">led
many teachers and officials to organize massive cheating</a>.
<p>
Schools are not factories, and the pressure from these testing
policies seems to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_August_2013_(Education_Standards)">harm
education</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Vatican_bank)
title: Vatican bank
uri: Vatican-bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Vatican_bank%29
content:
<p>
The Vatican has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/01/vatican-bank-agrees-tax-treaty-italy">cleaned
up corruption in its bank</a>.


title: UK stops Brit from trying to fight PISSI
uri: UK-stops-Brit-from-trying-to-fight-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(UK_stops_Brit_from_trying_to_fight_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28UK_stops_Brit_from_trying_to_fight_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
While the US and UK support the Kurds that are fighting PISSI, a
British Kurd that tried to go to Iraq and fight for the Kurds 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/01/kurds-protest-british-shilan-ozcelik-terrorism-old-bailey">faces
imprisonment</a> for it.
<p>
Absurd.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2015-04-13-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theconversation.com/lets-call-it-30-years-of-above-average-temperatures-means-the-climate-has-changed-36175">Let's
Call It: 30 Years of Above Average Temperatures Means the Climate Has
Changed</a>.


title: Russia closes Crimea news TV station
uri: Russia-closes-Crimea-news-TV-station
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Russia_closes_Crimea_news_TV_station)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Russia_closes_Crimea_news_TV_station%29

content:
<p>
Russia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/01/crimeas-independent-tatar-tv-news-channel-silenced-by-red-tape">closed
the Crimea's Tatar news TV station</a>.  Even mild criticism of the
state is repressed on TV in Russia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Syracuse_to_divest_from_fossil_fuel)
title: Syracuse to divest from fossil fuel
uri: Syracuse-to-divest-from-fossil-fuel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Syracuse_to_divest_from_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
Syracuse University will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/01/syracuse-university-to-divest-800m-endowment-from-fossil-fuels">divest
from fossil fuel companies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Polar_bears_unable_to_adapt_on_land)
title: Polar bears unable to adapt on land
uri: Polar-bears-unable-to-adapt-on-land
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Polar_bears_unable_to_adapt_on_land%29

content:
<p>
Polar bears seem 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/01/polar-bears-face-starvation-unlikely-adapt-to-land-based-diet">unable
to adapt to eating the foods available on land</a>. Thus, the loss of
polar ice is likely to wipe them out.
<p>
We could maintain a few in zoos, for as long as human civilization is
wealthy and organized enough to have zoos.  When hunger causes wars,
people will eat the animals in the zoo.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Philadelphia_antisemitism_ads)
title: Philadelphia antisemitism ads
uri: Philadelphia-antisemitism-ads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Philadelphia_antisemitism_ads%29
content:
<p>
The Philadelphia-area mass transit system was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/01/hitler-philadelphia-bus-ads">ordered
to publish ads equating Islam with antisemitism</a>.
<p>
The Grand Mufti did support Hitler, but it is a mistake to claim the
Qur'an endorses antisemitism.  It says that Jews and Christians are to
be tolerated as second-class citizens — while other non-Muslims
didn't even have that level of rights.  While this is far from respect
for religious freedom, it is not antisemitism (hatred specifically of
Jews) either.
<p>
Compared with the Christianity of the 7th century, Islam in the 7th
century wasn't bad.  (On the other hand, China in the 7th century was
far more tolerant.)  The unfortunate thing is that Islam's respect for
human rights has not advanced since the 7th century.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(Facebook_violates_EU_law)
title: Facebook violates EU law
uri: Facebook-violates-EU-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28Facebook_violates_EU_law%29
content:
<p>
Facebook's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/facebook-tracks-all-visitors-breaching-eu-law-report">tracking
of users through cookies combined with Like buttons</a> violates EU
law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 12_April_2015_(General_surveillance)
title: General surveillance
uri: General-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#12_April_2015_%28General_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Why general surveillance such as Australia is doing 
<a href="http://theconversation.com/the-security-paradox-individual-privacy-versus-digital-driftnets-38910">makes
individuals and society less safe</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Hrant_Dink)
title: Hrant Dink
uri: Hrant-Dink
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Hrant_Dink%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/hrant-dink.html">What I said about
Hrant Dink</a> in my talks in Turkey (Apr 2015)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(How_much_they_know)
title: How much they know
uri: How-much-they-know
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28How_much_they_know%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/01/google-psychology_n_6984348.html">
Searching the internet for information</a> inflates people's sense
of how much they know and how smart they are.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Led_to_forget)
title: Led to forget
uri: Led-to-forget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Led_to_forget%29
content:
<p>
Americans have been led to forget their
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/03/plutocracy-first-time-around">
tradition of massive strikes
against the plutocracy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(ACLU_has_become_concerned)
title: ACLU has become concerned
uri: ACLU-has-become-concerned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28ACLU_has_become_concerned%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU has become concerned with some of the
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/coming-power-struggles-over-internet-things">
consequences of nonfree
software designed to restrict people</a>.
<p>
I hope the ACLU will recognize that the fix for this is free software.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Underfunding_the_NHS)
title: Underfunding the NHS
uri: Underfunding-the-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Underfunding_the_NHS%29
content:
<p>
The UK government is underfunding the NHS so much that it will face
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/03/basic-nhs-services-could-be-charged-for-after-general-election-bma-chief-says">
pressure to start charging for medical care</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Denied_information)
title: Denied information
uri: Denied-information
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Denied_information%29
content:
<p>
Part of the reason for
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/03/property-insurance-companies-flooded-dark-money-groups-tied-gop-cash/">
the absence of congressional scrutiny of US
massive surveillance programs</a> is that congresscritters not on the
intelligence committee are denied information about them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Pervasive_corruption)
title: Pervasive corruption
uri: Pervasive-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Pervasive_corruption%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine is in the grip of pervasive
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/03/ukraine-save-itself-vladimir-putin-oligarchs">
corruption controlled by
oligarchs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(The_Houthis)
title: The Houthis
uri: The-Houthis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28The_Houthis%29
content:
<p>
The Houthis have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/yemen-houthi-fighters-aden-southern-port-crater-saudi">captured
parts of Aden</a>, despite the US-backed Saudi air campaign.
<p>
The Houthis are allied with the faction of former President Saleh.  In
other words, this is a battle for power between Yemeni factions.
Meddling in this is really foolish, not least because it often
backfires.
<p>
The main effect of the bombing campaign will be to make the new
government of Yemen a firm enemy of the US (and of Saudi Arabia,
but it hardly deserves any sympathy).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Deforestation_in_Canada_and_Russia)
title: Deforestation in Canada and Russia
uri: Deforestation-in-Canada-and-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Deforestation_in_Canada_and_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Fires in Canada and Russia are a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/02/northern-fires-caused-almost-quarter-global-forest-loss-study-shows">very
large contribution to global deforestation</a>, and these forests
regrow very slowly.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Domestic_workers)
title: Domestic workers
uri: Domestic-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Domestic_workers%29
content:
<p>
Domestic workers, amounting to 47 million people, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/02/domestic-workers-47-million-people-worldwide-denied-basic-labour-rights">lack
the usual rights of workers</a>.  They may be required to work up to
22 hours a day.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Reporting_on_fantasy_PISSI_plots)
title: Reporting on fantasy PISSI plots
uri: Reporting-on-fantasy-PISSI-plots
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Reporting_on_fantasy_PISSI_plots%29

content:
<p>
When faraway fanatics "join" 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI)">PISSI</a>,
it makes PISSI 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/04/expansion-more-illusion-reality">appear
more powerful than it really is</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_September_2014_(PIS\
SI)">PISSI</a>,
it makes PISSI
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/04/expansion-more-illusion-\
reality">appear
more powerful than it really is</a>.
<p>
The US media contribute by 
<a href="http://fair.org/blog/2015/04/01/isis-plots-that-dont-actually-involve-isis/">reporting
fantasy PISSI plots as if they were real</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Factory_Farm_Meat)
title: Factory Farm Meat
uri: Factory-Farm-Meat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Factory_Farm_Meat%29
content:
<p>
Factory Farm Meat: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/01/factory-farm-meat-why-vegetarians-ranchers-and-conscious-omnivores-need-unite">Why
Vegetarians, Ranchers and Conscious Omnivores Need to Unite</a>.


title: NHS loses money by hiring temporary staff
uri: NHS-loses-money-by-hiring-temporary-staff
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(NHS_loses_money_by_hiring_temporary_staff)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28NHS_loses_money_by_hiring_temporary_staff%29

content:
<p>
The UK NHS 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/02/nhs-spending-inefficiently-non-permanent-staff-thinktank">loses
money by hiring temporary staff</a> instead of training additional
permanent staff.


title: Doubts about WMDs before Iraq invasion
uri: Doubts-about-WMDs-before-Iraq-invasion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Doubts_about_WMDs_before_Iraq_invasion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Doubts_about_WMDs_before_Iraq_invasion%29

content:
<p>
The CIA document that supposedly proved Saddam Hussein was developing
WMDs 
<a href="https://news.vice.com/article/the-cia-just-declassified-the-document-that-supposedly-justified-the-iraq-invasion">initially
said there was a lot of doubt about this</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Election_psychology)
title: Election psychology
uri: Election-psychology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Election_psychology%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2015/apr/02/democracy-psychology-idiots-election">psychology</a>
of why people keep voting for politicians that take foolish positions.
<p>
The article doesn't mention the intentional influences, such as the
powerful companies and rich owners that promote trickle-down and get
it fixed into treaties so that any correction seems impossible.


title: Boycott campaign against discrimination law
uri: Boycott-campaign-against-discrimination-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Boycott_campaign_against_discrimination_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Boycott_campaign_against_discrimination_law%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/31/revulsion-and-revolt-backlash-against-indianas-pro-discrimination-law-grows">massive
boycott campaign</a> has pressured Indiana into amending the
"religious freedom restoration" law so it does not authorize
businesses to discriminate against persons 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/02/indiana-republicans-religious-freedom">based
on characteristics such as sexual orientation</a>.
<p>
Governor Pence of Indiana had previously defended the law by
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/29/1374244/-Gov-Mike-Pence-is-a-liar">pretending
it didn't authorize that</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Obamas_greenhouse_gas_pledge)
title: Obama's greenhouse gas pledge
uri: Obama-s-greenhouse-gas-pledge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Obamas_greenhouse_gas_pledge%29
content:
<p>
Obama's greenhouse gas pledge sounds good in terms of politics,
but it's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/31/real-way-judge-us-climate-pledge">inadequate
in terms of physics</a>.
<p>
Greenpeace says it 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/31/us-climate-plan-treats-wound-does-not-stop-bleedings">"begins
to treat the wound, but does not stop the bleeding"</a>.


title: Being pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli
uri: Being-pro-Palestinian-and-pro-Israeli
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 13_April_2015_(Being_pro-Palestinian_and_pro-Israeli)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#13_April_2015_%28Being_pro-Palestinian_and_pro-Israeli%29

content:
<p>
For Alice Rothchild, being pro-Palestinian is also being 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/31/when-being-pro-palestinian-and-pro-israeli-same-thing">pro-Israeli</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Ireland_forces_women_to_have_babies)
title: Ireland forces women to have babies
uri: Ireland-forces-women-to-have-babies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Ireland_forces_women_to_have_babies%29

content:
<p>
Ireland forces women to have babies 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/202945/irelands-abortion-law-reveals-complete-contempt-women">against
their will</a>, then makes them suffer poverty as a result.


title: Imprisoned for denouncing prison cruelty
uri: Imprisoned-for-denouncing-prison-cruelty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Imprisoned_for_denouncing_prison_cruelty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Imprisoned_for_denouncing_prison_cruelty%29

content:
<p>
Nabeel Rajab has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/leading-bahraini-activist-nabeel-rajab-arrested-for-highlighting-prison-abuse">imprisoned
in Bahrain for denouncing cruel treatment of prisoners there</a>.
<p>
Bahrain is a US ally and its repression was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#03%20April%202011%20(Intervention%20Against%20Gaddafi)">imposed 
with help of Saudi Arabia</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Urgent:_Free_Purvi_Patel)
title: Urgent: Free Purvi Patel
uri: Urgent-Free-Purvi-Patel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Free_Purvi_Patel%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.rhrealitycheck.org/page/s/condemning-indiana">call
on Indiana</a> to free Purvi Patel and repeal its law against
"feticide".
<p>
You could call that law a form of fetus feticism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Urgent:_Investigate_fast_food_shops)
title: Urgent: Investigate fast food shops
uri: Urgent-Investigate-fast-food-shops
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_fast_food_shops%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/burned_mcdonalds_workers">call
for a federal investigation</a> of fast food shops' disregard for
workers' safety and injuries.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_wildlife)
title: Urgent: Protect wildlife
uri: Urgent-Protect-wildlife
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_wildlife%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2869">call
on your senators</a> to oppose right-wing proposals to endanger
wildlife.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Urgent:_Toxic_fracking_waste)
title: Urgent: Toxic fracking waste
uri: Urgent-Toxic-fracking-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Toxic_fracking_waste%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17550">call
on states</a> to treat fracking waste as toxic, or invite the federal
government to do so.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Urgent:_Victims_of_the_War_on_Drugs)
title: Urgent: Victims of the War on Drugs
uri: Urgent-Victims-of-the-War-on-Drugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Victims_of_the_War_on_Drugs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1247">call
on Obama</a> to commute the sentences of more victims of the War on
Drugs.
<p>
I said, "Please commute the sentences of all the hundreds of thousands
of Americans that are in prison with long sentences for nonviolent
drug offenses."


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Trigger-happy_thugs)
title: Trigger-happy thugs
uri: Trigger-happy-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Trigger-happy_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Even when people try to provoke thugs into killing them, the thugs in
many cases 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/03/idaho-police-shootings-jeanetta-riley-justice-for-arfee">do
not need to rush to kill them</a>, if they take some care.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Illegal_mining_on_Bangka_Island)
title: Illegal mining on Bangka Island
uri: Illegal-mining-on-Bangka-Island
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Illegal_mining_on_Bangka_Island%29
content:
<p>
A big illegal mining operation on Bangka Island, approved in a way
that suggests corruption, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/the-coral-triangle/2015/apr/03/controversial-mine-threatens-indonesian-dive-mecca">threatens
the surrounding coral as well as the people who live on the
island</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Framework_of_deal_with_Iran)
title: Framework of deal with Iran
uri: Framework-of-deal-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Framework_of_deal_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>
The general framework of a deal with Iran has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/02/barack-obama-historic-agreement-iran-core-objectives">published</a>.
<p>
It remains to work out the details.  Meanwhile, Netanyahu opposes the
deal with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/03/iran-deal-threatens-israels-existence-benjamin-netanyahu-tells-obama">paranoid
ranting</a>.  This would be insignificant, except that he will incite
Republicans to sabotage the deal.


title: Obama approves drilling in Chukchi Sea
uri: Obama-approves-drilling-in-Chukchi-Sea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Obama_approves_drilling_in_Chukchi_Sea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Obama_approves_drilling_in_Chukchi_Sea%29

content:
<p>
Obama 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/01/chorus-outrage-obama-administration-approves-arctic-drilling-shell-oil">approved</a>
oil drilling in the Chukchi Sea.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(GMOs_not_contributing_much)
title: GMOs not contributing much
uri: GMOs-not-contributing-much
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28GMOs_not_contributing_much%29
content:
<p>
GMOs are not making a big contribution 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/01/new-report-debunks-myth-gmos-are-key-feeding-world">to
feeding the human world</a>.


title: Teenagers face imprisonment for having sex
uri: Teenagers-face-imprisonment-for-having-sex
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Teenagers_face_imprisonment_for_having_sex)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Teenagers_face_imprisonment_for_having_sex%29

content:
<p>
Four Chicago teenagers face 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/01/teens-charged-for-sex-tape-in-chicago">imprisonment
and a life of punishment</a> for having sex and making a video of it.


title: Imprisonment for criticizing the gov't
uri: 2015-04-14-Imprisonment-for-criticizing-the-gov-t
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Imprisonment_for_criticizing_the_govt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Imprisonment_for_criticizing_the_govt%29

content:
<p>
A Malaysian cartoonist, and his webmaster, face imprisonment for
<a href="http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/cartoonist-zunar-to-face-sedition-charge-on-friday">charges
of criticizing the government</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(French_surveillance_bill)
title: French surveillance bill
uri: French-surveillance-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28French_surveillance_bill%29
content:
<p>
France is considering a bill to threaten journalists, sources and
dissidents with 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/opinion/the-french-surveillance-state.html?_r=1">arbitrary
surveillance without a court order</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Jersey_thugs_beat_man_to_death)
title: Jersey thugs beat man to death
uri: Jersey-thugs-beat-man-to-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Jersey_thugs_beat_man_to_death%29
content:
<p>
New Jersey thugs weren't satisfied to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/01/1374779/-Witness-Jersey-police-punched-kicked-and-dog-bit-Phillip-White-s-face-before-he-died-in-custody">kick
unconscious Phillip White</a>.  They even had their dog bite him.  No
wonder he died.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Phony_anti-net-neutrality_messages)
title: Phony anti-net-neutrality messages
uri: Phony-anti-net-neutrality-messages
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Phony_anti-net-neutrality_messages%29

content:
<p>
Someone has sent phony anti-net-neutrality messages to members of
Congress, 
<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/net-neutrality-email-american-commitment-116553.html">putting
on the names of people who did not approve</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(California_water_conservation_rules)
title: California water conservation rules
uri: California-water-conservation-rules
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28California_water_conservation_rules%29

content:
<p>
California's governor has imposed 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/01/1374903/-California-just-ordered-unprecedented-water-restrictions">new
water conservation rules</a>, but they don't go far enough — for
example, they don't include shutting down the plants that extract
water and bottle it.
<p>
If these measures achieve the stated goal of reducing water use by
25%, that will delay the arrival of extreme hardship for 3 additional
months (15 months from now instead of 12 months).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Generous_welfare_benefits)
title: Generous welfare benefits
uri: Generous-welfare-benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Generous_welfare_benefits%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/sp-gwb033015.php">Generous
Welfare Benefits Make People More Likely to Want to Work, Not
Less</a>.
<p>
Plutocrats don't care about this because they don't need most people
to work, not any more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Freed_after_30_years_on_death_row)
title: Freed after 30 years on death row
uri: 2015-04-14-Freed-after-30-years-on-death-row
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Freed_after_30_years_on_death_row%29

content:
<p>
Anthony Ray Hinton will be freed after 30 years on death row.
His trial was crap, and there was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/02/alabama-death-row-inmate-freed-30-years-anthony-ray-hinton">no
real evidence he was guilty</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Yemeni_protesters_killed_by_Houthis)
title: Yemeni protesters killed by Houthis
uri: Yemeni-protesters-killed-by-Houthis
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Yemeni_protesters_killed_by_Houthis%29

content:
<p>
The inhabitants of south Yemen are not very happy with being conquered
by Houthis.  The latter 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/24/six-yemeni-protesters-killed-houthi-rebels-teargas">shot
and killed protesters</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Sentenced_to_prison_for_abortion)
title: Sentenced to prison for abortion
uri: Sentenced-to-prison-for-abortion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Sentenced_to_prison_for_abortion%29

content:
<p>
Purvi Patel has been sentenced to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/31/indiana-just-sentenced-woman-convicted-feticide-20-years-prison">20
years in prison</a> for trying to give herself an abortion.
<p>
But maybe she didn't even do that.  The conviction is based on
supposition — it 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/gender/20-years-prison-miscarrying-theres-another-law-indiana-needs-fixing">might
have been just a miscarriage</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(California_genocide)
title: California genocide
uri: California-genocide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28California_genocide%29
content:
<p>
The genocide that 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/08/14/567667/-The-Great-California-Genocide">wiped
out the aborigines of California</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Al_Qa'ida_prison_break)
title: Al Qa'ida prison break
uri: Al-Qa-ida-prison-break
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Al_Qa%27ida_prison_break%29
content:
<p>
Al Qa'ida took advantage of the fighting in Yemen to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/al-qaida-frees-senior-terrorist-in-yemen-prison-swoop">free
its supporters from a prison</a> in Yemen.


title: Palestinian Christians blocked from Jerusalem
uri: Palestinian-Christians-blocked-from-Jerusalem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Palestinian_Christians_blocked_from_Jerusalem)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Palestinian_Christians_blocked_from_Jerusalem%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/71063">regularly block
Palestinian Christians</a> from access to Easter ceremonies in
Jerusalem.


title: World Bank funding of private companies
uri: World-Bank-funding-of-private-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(World_Bank_funding_of_private_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28World_Bank_funding_of_private_companies%29

content:
<p>
The World Bank funds private companies, even hedge funds, in an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/02/world-bank-funding-darkness-abuse-ngo-report">occult
manner</a>.
<p>
Supposedly this funding is to promote social goals, but those
companies will eagerly redirect the money to grasping unjust
practices.  The World Bank should not fund them at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Ghoncheh_Ghavami_freed)
title: Ghoncheh Ghavami freed
uri: Ghoncheh-Ghavami-freed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Ghoncheh_Ghavami_freed%29
content:
<p>
Ghoncheh Ghavami has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/british-iranian-goncheh-ghavami-jailed-volleyball-game-charges-dropped-iran">released
from prison in Iran</a>.
<p>
I don't understand why either women or men make such a fuss about
sports, but they shouldn't be imprisoned for it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(UK_fine-debt_trap)
title: UK fine-debt trap
uri: UK-fine-debt-trap
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28UK_fine-debt_trap%29
content:
<p>
The UK right-wing has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/02/bedroom-tax-cuts-council-tax-support-poor-people">increased
taxes for the poor</a>.
<p>
It is the UK's version of the Ferguson fine-debt trap.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(UK_carbon_tax)
title: UK carbon tax
uri: UK-carbon-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28UK_carbon_tax%29
content:
<p>
An increase in the UK carbon tax will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/02/carbon-floor-price-hike-will-trigger-uk-coal-slowdown-say-analysts">close
some coal-fired electric plants</a>.  Unfortunately, the replacement
will be natural gas.  But increasing the tax will encourage
renewables.


title: Urgent: Restrict antibiotic use on farms
uri: Urgent-Restrict-antibiotic-use-on-farms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Urgent:_Restrict_antibiotic_use_on_farms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Restrict_antibiotic_use_on_farms%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1943">call
on your congresscritter</a> to vote for a bill to stop feeding
antibiotics to farm animals, except individual animals that have
infections.


title: Opposition to planned Nicaragua canal
uri: Opposition-to-planned-Nicaragua-canal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Opposition_to_planned_Nicaragua_canal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Opposition_to_planned_Nicaragua_canal%29

content:
<p>
Talking with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/04/nicaragua-farmers-contra-sandinista-resist-grand-canal-construction">Nicaraguan
farmers</a> that oppose the planned Nicaragua canal.
<p>
There are two issues here: proper compensation for farmers' land, and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_(Ecological_consequences_of_a_new_canal_through_Nicaragua)">the 
ecological health of Lake Nicaragua</a>.


title: Artillery attacks on Ukrainian trenches
uri: Artillery-attacks-on-Ukrainian-trenches
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Artillery_attacks_on_Ukrainian_trenches)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Artillery_attacks_on_Ukrainian_trenches%29

content:
<p>
Russian-sponsored rebels continue 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/04/ukraine-trench-warfare/">daily
artillery attacks</a> on Ukrainian trenches near Mariupol.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Wrongly_imprisoned_for_28_years)
title: Wrongly imprisoned for 28 years
uri: Wrongly-imprisoned-for-28-years
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Wrongly_imprisoned_for_28_years%29
content:
<p>
Anthony Ray Hilton was imprisoned for 28 years because the state did
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/04/alabama-death-row-anthony-ray-hilton">sloppy
ballistic testing</a>.
<p>
The failure of his defense to hire a proper expert was icing on the
poisonous cake, because that should not have been necessary; the state
should have made sure its own ballistic tests were done right, and not
prosecuted Hilton in the first place.  Prosecutors are supposed to
seek justice, not convictions based on fudging the truth.
<p>
How sad to give Hilton an iThing.  From one kind of prison to 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary/malware-apple.html">another</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Abu_Dhabi_construction_workers)
title: Abu Dhabi construction workers
uri: Abu-Dhabi-construction-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Abu_Dhabi_construction_workers%29
content:
<p>
Construction workers in Abu Dhabi are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/04/migrant-workers-uae-saadiyat-island-abu-dhabi-battery-hens">still
treated like slaves</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Intrusion_of_advertisements)
title: Intrusion of advertisements
uri: Intrusion-of-advertisements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Intrusion_of_advertisements%29
content:
<p>
The intrusion of advertisements into every cubic meter of public
space, and many physical objects as well as web sites, can be seen as
enclosure of a commons — the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/oliver-burkeman-column/2015/apr/01/commercial-interests-exploit-limited-resource-attention">commons
of attention</a>.
<p>
There's an element of truth to this, but at the same time, it is
possible to refuse to pay much attention to them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(US_adoptee_faces_deportation)
title: US adoptee faces deportation
uri: US-adoptee-faces-deportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28US_adoptee_faces_deportation%29
content:
<p>
Adam Crapser, age 39, was brought to the US at age 3 for adoption.
His adoptive parents never made him a US citizen, and he now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/01/us-adoption-south-korean-immigration-deportation">faces
deportation</a> away from his family to a country he has no memory of.
<p>
The minor crimes he has committed seem, according to the article,
to be consequences of his lack of citizenship.


title: Movie licensing group demands fee from schools
uri: Movie-licensing-group-demands-fee-from-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Movie_licensing_group_demands_fee_from_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Movie_licensing_group_demands_fee_from_schools%29

content:
<p>
A movie licensing group demands 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/movie-licensing-group-demands-350k-from-schools-150402/">1/3
million dollars</a> as a blanket license fee from the schools of one
small region of Spain, for showing some movies.
<p>
If Spain adopted US-style fair use, schools would clearly not need a
license.  Basically, this is another way in which Spain's right-wing
government is the enemy of Spain.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(5_years_after_the_Big_Spill)
title: 5 years after the Big Spill
uri: 5-years-after-the-Big-Spill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%285_years_after_the_Big_Spill%29
content:
<p>
5 years after the Big Spill, many species of wildlife are 
<a href="media/5cf02096.th-of-the-Deepwater-Horizon-Disaster_Five-Years-and-Counting.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.nwf.org/~/media/PDFs/water/2015/Gulf-Wildlife-In-the-Aftermath-of-the-Deepwater-Horizon-Disaster_Five-Years-and-Counting.pdf">still
being harmed by oil and by the dispersants</a> the Billionaire
Polluters poured into the Gulf of Mexico.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Arrest_of_Palestinian_feminist)
title: Arrest of Palestinian feminist
uri: Arrest-of-Palestinian-feminist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Arrest_of_Palestinian_feminist%29
content:
<p>
Israeli troops arrested Palestinian feminist Khalida Jarrar, who is
also a 
<a href="http://samidoun.net/2015/04/breaking-news-palestinian-leader-parliamentarian-khalida-jarrar-arrested-by-israeli-occupation-forces/">leader
in defending the rights of Palestinian prisoners</a>.
<p>
For the pol note about Khalida Jarrar, say she has been imprisoned for
six months, with no charges or trial.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Karl_Rove_refuses_to_apologize)
title: Karl Rove refuses to apologize
uri: Karl-Rove-refuses-to-apologize
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Karl_Rove_refuses_to_apologize%29
content:
<p>
A veteran called on Karl Rove to apologize for his part in the
conquest and invasion of Iraq, but Rove
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/03/asked-veteran-apologize-horrors-iraq-war-karl-rove-says-no">refused</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Transcanada_tar_sands_oil_pipeline)
title: Transcanada tar sands oil pipeline
uri: Transcanada-tar-sands-oil-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Transcanada_tar_sands_oil_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
Transcanada's planned tar sands oil pipeline to the Atlantic has been
delayed for two years due to 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/03/3642589/transcanada-stops-terminal-over-belugas/">rejection
of one planned terminal on environmental grounds</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 14_April_2015_(Dangerous_Facebook_surveillance)
title: Dangerous Facebook surveillance
uri: Dangerous-Facebook-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_%28Dangerous_Facebook_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Facebook predicts who new useds know, based on their 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/02/how-facebook-knows-who-all-your-friends-are-even-better-than-you-do/">phone
lists and email address lists</a>.  Along with the phone and email
lists of all the other useds.
<p>
This is a measure of how complete and dangerous Facebook surveillance
is.
<p>
It implies that giving your email or phone list to a company is
mistreatment of everyone in that list!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Intervention_creates_chaos_in_Yemen)
title: Intervention creates chaos in Yemen
uri: Intervention-creates-chaos-in-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Intervention_creates_chaos_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>The US-backed air intervention is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/us-arms-deliveries-saudi-coalition-yemen-aden">
creating chaos in Yemen</a>,
 and al Qa'ida is capturing some areas.
</p>
<p>If the US had stopped Saudi Arabia from intervening, the Houthis would
have won by now and there would be no room for al Qa'ida to take over
areas.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Cree_Nation_tar_sands_lawsuit)
title: Cree Nation tar sands lawsuit
uri: Cree-Nation-tar-sands-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Cree_Nation_tar_sands_lawsuit%29
content:
<p>Canadian tar sands mines destroy large areas of land and forest
— they are not like ordinary oil wells. And they poison land with
oil spills. The Beaver Lake Cree Nation is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/keep-it-in-the-ground-blog/2015/apr/08/life-above-alberta-tar-sands-why-were-taking-government-to-court">
trying to stop this with
a lawsuit</a>.
</p>


title: How policies could reduce inequality
uri: How-policies-could-reduce-inequality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(How_policies_could_reduce_inequality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28How_policies_could_reduce_inequality%29

content:
<p>How government policies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/08/rising-inequality-technological-change-loss-jobs">
could be designed to reduce inequality</a>
 instead of increasing it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(US_history_with_Iran)
title: US history with Iran
uri: US-history-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28US_history_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>It's understandable that many Iranians hate the US after the 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/07/10-things-didnt-know-weve-done-iran/">
things that the US did and planned to do to Iran</a>.
</p>
<p>Fortunately the Iranian state has the vision to consider a deal
nonetheless.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Science_plagued_by_falsification)
title: Science plagued by falsification
uri: Science-plagued-by-falsification
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Science_plagued_by_falsification%29

content:
<p>Science is 
<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-04/nlmc-sam040215.php">
plagued by widespread falsification</a>
 of data.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Smolensk_plane_crash)
title: Smolensk plane crash
uri: Smolensk-plane-crash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Smolensk_plane_crash%29
content:
<p>The cockpit recording from the plane crash that killed the Polish
president
shows 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/pilots-plane-crash-smolensk-polish-president-pressured-land-thick-fog">
the cause was not foul play</a>.
The passengers pressured the pilots to land although they thought it
was dangerous. This is a common cause of flight accidents.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Indian_thug_drones)
title: Indian thug drones
uri: Indian-thug-drones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Indian_thug_drones%29
content:
<p>Indian thugs plan to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/pepper-spraying-drones-could-be-used-on-unruly-crowds-by-indian-police">
attack protesters with pepper-spraying drones</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(US_should_curb_CIA_crimes)
title: US should curb CIA crimes
uri: US-should-curb-CIA-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28US_should_curb_CIA_crimes%29
content:
<p>40 years ago, the US Senate 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/07/our-intelligence-apparatus-operating-dark">
investigated secret CIA crimes thoroughly
and passed laws to curb them</a>.
 The US needs to do this again.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Facebook_linked_to_depression)
title: Facebook linked to depression
uri: Facebook-linked-to-depression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Facebook_linked_to_depression%29
content:
<p>Being used a lot by Facebook 
<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-04/uoh-usl040615.php">
encourages depression</a>;
 since people
generally post an exaggerated positive picture of their lives, their
lives appear to be better than your own.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Drone_attack_murder_charges)
title: Drone attack murder charges
uri: Drone-attack-murder-charges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Drone_attack_murder_charges%29
content:
<p>Pakistan has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/former-cia-station-chief-pakistan-murder-charges-drone-strike">
brought murder charges against CIA personnel</a>
 accused of being responsible for a drone attack.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(City_staff_attack_homeless)
title: City staff attack homeless
uri: City-staff-attack-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28City_staff_attack_homeless%29
content:
<p>City "outreach to the homeless" staff in Berkeley 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/03/30/3640401/homeless-ambassador-assault/">
attacked two homeless people</a>,
 then tried to frame them with false accusations. One
of them pled guilty! But a video proved they had attacked the
homeless people without grounds.
</p>
<p>I am glad the courts dropped the charges that he had pled guilty to.
You can't count on courts to have that much sense of justice.</p>
<p>Will the employees be prosecuted for their attack?</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Contempt_for_prisoners'_rights)
title: Contempt for prisoners' rights
uri: Contempt-for-prisoners-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Contempt_for_prisoners%27_rights%29

content:
<p>Barrett Brown in prison was banned from using email because he talked
with a reporter.  John Kiriakou was treated as suspicious in prison
for publishing articles about the prison.
</p>
<p>What it adds up to is 
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2015/04/04/barrett-brown-john-kiriakou-the-bureau-of-prisons-deep-contempt-for-first-amendment/">
contempt for prisoners' constitutional rights</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Education_and_inequality)
title: Education and inequality
uri: Education-and-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Education_and_inequality%29
content:
<p>Better education 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/what-education-can-and-cant-do-for-economic-inequality/389754/">
would not reduce economic inequality in the US much</a>.
 That's because the good jobs that people could get via education
are too few to benefit most poor Americans.</p>
<p>We need to pay a living wage to everyone, not just the best educated.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Turkish_bulk_censorship)
title: Turkish bulk censorship
uri: Turkish-bulk-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Turkish_bulk_censorship%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150403/06061530530/turkish-censorship-order-targets-single-blog-post-ends-up-blocking-access-to-60-million-wordpress-sites.shtml">
Turkish Censorship Order Targets Single Blog Post, Ends Up Blocking 
Access To 60 Million Wordpress Sites</a>.
</p>
<p>Censorship of one blog is already too much.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Quebec_to_block_gambling_sites)
title: Quebec to block gambling sites
uri: Quebec-to-block-gambling-sites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Quebec_to_block_gambling_sites%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150405/12444130556/quebec-looking-to-force-isps-to-block-gambling-sites-order-to-protect-own-state-run-gambling-portal.shtml">
Quebec Looking To Force ISPs To Block Gambling Sites In Order To
Protect 
Its Own State-Run Gambling Portal.</a>
</p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Elementary_school_racism)
title: Elementary school racism
uri: Elementary-school-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Elementary_school_racism%29
content:
<p>Systemic racism in the US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/06/decriminalizing-school-discipline-why-black-males-matter">
starts in elementary school</a>
 and continues on through adulthood.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Expand_social_security)
title: Expand social security
uri: Expand-social-security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Expand_social_security%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/can-elizabeth-warren-expand-social-security">
How Elizabeth Warren Made Expanding Social Security Cool.</a>
</p>
<p>She rejected the idea of making various groups of poor people
fight over the "crumbs" left by the rich.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Protesters_board_oil_rig)
title: Protesters board oil rig
uri: Protesters-board-oil-rig
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Protesters_board_oil_rig%29
content:
<p>Greenpeace protesters have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/07/greenpeace-activists-board-arctic-bound-oil-rig">
boarded a Shell drilling</a>
 rig on its way to create an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean.
</p>
<p>I say this with confidence because the US government estimates that
the probability of a major oil spill if Shell goes ahead and drills is
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_February_2015_(Chance_of_major_oil_spill_in_Arctic)">
something like 75%</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(PISSI_mass_grave_found)
title: PISSI mass grave found
uri: PISSI-mass-grave-found
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28PISSI_mass_grave_found%29
content:
<p>PISSI captured 1700 Iraqi soldiers when it captured Tikrit, and
massacred them.  Their 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/isis-bodies-soldiers-exhumed-mass-grave-tikrit">
grave has apparently been found</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Illegal_fishing_boat_sunk)
title: Illegal fishing boat sunk
uri: Illegal-fishing-boat-sunk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Illegal_fishing_boat_sunk%29
content:
<p>The captain of a boat that did illegal fishing, which was followed by
Sea Shepherd for 117 days and could not get away, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/07/captain-deliberately-sank-illegal-fishing-vessel-claim-sea-shepherd-rescuers">
sank the boat to destroy evidence</a>
 of the crime.
</p>
<p>I think this is a victory for Sea Shepherd. I don't think many boat
owners will risk the loss of the boat.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(TSA_behaviour_detection_program)
title: TSA behaviour detection program
uri: TSA-behaviour-detection-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28TSA_behaviour_detection_program%29
content:
<p>The TSA's behavior detection program is useless for finding
terrorists, but 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/06/exclusive-tsa-behavior-detection-program-targeting-immigrants-terrorists/">
catches lots of illegal immigrants,</a>
 and may in fact have been designed for that.
</p>


title: Netanyahu agitating against nuclear deal
uri: Netanyahu-agitating-against-nuclear-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Netanyahu_agitating_against_nuclear_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Netanyahu_agitating_against_nuclear_deal%29

content:
<p>Netanyahu is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/06/binyamin-netanyahu-obama-iran-nuclear-deal">
trying to stir up US Republicans</a>
to block peace between
the US and Iran.
</p>
<p>Netanyahu calls any deal "bad" unless Iran would reject it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Edward_Snowden_bust)
title: Edward Snowden bust
uri: Edward-Snowden-bust
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Edward_Snowden_bust%29
content:
<p>An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/06/edward-snowden-statue-bust-brooklyn-park-covered">
unauthorized statue of Edward Snowden</a>
 appeared in a New York City
park. City staff covered it up and removed it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Ukraine_possible_federalization)
title: Ukraine possible federalization
uri: Ukraine-possible-federalization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Ukraine_possible_federalization%29
content:
<p>Ukraine is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/06/poroshenko-endorses-referendum-on-federalisation-of-ukraine">
considering a federal constitution</a>
 that would enable
people in the Donbas region (for instance) to have some autonomy.
</p>
<p>It's too bad this was not considered a year ago.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Confucius_Institutes)
title: Confucius Institutes
uri: Confucius-Institutes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Confucius_Institutes%29
content:
<p>China has set up a chain of "Confucius Institutes" around the world to
teach Chinese — 
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2014/0822/Academic-flap-turns-up-heat-on-China-s-Confucius-Institutes">
under the political control of the Chinese
government</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Indian_zero-rupee_campaign)
title: Indian zero-rupee campaign
uri: Indian-zero-rupee-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Indian_zero-rupee_campaign%29
content:
<p>Millions of Indians are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/06/india-corruption-bribery-zero-rupee-note">
giving zero-rupee bills when asked for a bribe</a>,
 as an anti-corruption campaign.
</p>
<p>I occasionally distribute zero-dollar bills as a pretend bribe, but I
don't expect US officials to want a real bribe.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Yemen_conflict)
title: Yemen conflict
uri: Yemen-conflict
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Yemen_conflict%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/06/yemen-conflict-war-houthi-sanaa">
Interviews with people in Yemen</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Saving_on_probation)
title: Saving on probation
uri: Saving-on-probation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Saving_on_probation%29
content:
<p>Saving money on probation will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/06/replace-probation-officers-machines-reoffending-rates-rise">
lead to more people in prison</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Manipulative_graphics_in_journalism)
title: Manipulative graphics in journalism
uri: Manipulative-graphics-in-journalism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Manipulative_graphics_in_journalism%29

content:
<p>Omitting part of the data 
<a href="https://medium.com/aj-news/not-fit-to-print-when-good-design-goes-bad-cc52931a2ce0">
can make the rest point to a desired conclusion</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Imprisonment_without_trial)
title: Imprisonment without trial
uri: 2015-04-16-Imprisonment-without-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Imprisonment_without_trial%29
content:
<p>Malaysia will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/06/malaysia-arrests-17-for-alleged-terrorist-attack-plot-in-kuala-lumpur">
imprison people without trial</a>.
</p>
<p>The US set the example for this.  A few years ago, Congress and Obama
passed a law saying that the president 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-nov-feb.html#02%20December%202008%20(Preventive%20Detention)">
can imprison anyone without trial</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(UK_nuclear_waste)
title: UK nuclear waste
uri: UK-nuclear-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28UK_nuclear_waste%29
content:
<p>The UK government dumped a surprise on communities: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/05/law-changed-so-nuclear-waste-dumps-can-be-forced-on-local-communities">
they can't block nuclear waste dumps</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Persecution_of_Iraqi_Sunnis)
title: Persecution of Iraqi Sunnis
uri: Persecution-of-Iraqi-Sunnis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Persecution_of_Iraqi_Sunnis%29
content:
<p>Iraqi Sunnis are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/05/iraqi-sunnis-forced-abandon-homes-identity-survival-shia-militia-isis">
changing their names so as not to be persecuted</a>
 by Shi'ites.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Caring_about_reality)
title: Caring about reality
uri: Caring-about-reality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Caring_about_reality%29
content:
<p>We may be 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/searle20150330">
headed for a "sofalarity"</a>,
 in which people spend so much
time in fantasy worlds, that are presented as vividly as reality, that
they care less about reality.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Harm_of_religious_freedom)
title: Harm of "religious freedom"
uri: Harm-of-religious-freedom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Harm_of_religious_freedom%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150401">
Unfettered Religious Freedom Really Does Mean the Freedom to Do
Harm</a>.
</p>


title: Australian surveillance violates human rights
uri: Australian-surveillance-violates-human-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Australian_surveillance_violates_human_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Australian_surveillance_violates_human_rights%29

content:
<p>The Center for Democracy & Technology reported to the UN how
Australian mass surveillance 
<a href="https://cdt.org/insight/expert-report-led-by-cdt-finds-that-australian-surveillance-violates-human-rights/">
violates human rights norms</a>.
</p>
<p>That was before Australia passed a law 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_(General_surveillance_in_Australia)">
imposing even more surveillance</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(UK_children_go_to_school_sick)
title: UK children go to school sick
uri: UK-children-go-to-school-sick
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28UK_children_go_to_school_sick%29
content:
<p>In Britain, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/apr/05/children-living-in-victorian-conditions-say-teachers">
children go to school sick</a>
 because their parents can't afford
to miss work.
</p>
<p>These are the same poor people that right-wingers call "lazy
scroungers". If you systematically pour a sea of obligations on
people, while cutting out what they stand on, by and by some of them
will sink.
</p>


title: US gov and Gates Foundation imposing commercial seed
uri: US-gov-and-Gates-Foundation-imposing-commercial-seed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(US_gov_and_Gates_Foundation_imposing_commercial_seed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28US_gov_and_Gates_Foundation_imposing_commercial_seed%29

content:
<p>The US government and the Gates Foundation are trying to 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/how-gates-foundation-and-western-countries-are-plotting-take-control-africas-agriculture">
impose commercial seed</a>
 on African agriculture.
</p>
<p></p>


title: Israeli soldiers use live ammo for crowd control
uri: Israeli-soldiers-use-live-ammo-for-crowd-control
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Israeli_soldiers_use_live_ammo_for_crowd_control)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Israeli_soldiers_use_live_ammo_for_crowd_control%29

content:
<p>Israeli soldiers 
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/03/israel-using-live-ammunition-for-palestinian-crowd-control/">
shoot ordinary bullets at Palestinian protests,</a>
 and many Palestinians have been injured. Some killed.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(European_PNR_directive)
title: European PNR directive
uri: European-PNR-directive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28European_PNR_directive%29
content:
<p>Will French citizens accused of sharing be 
<a href="https://edri.org/french-filesharers-banned-from-flying/">
banned from flying</a>?
</p>
<p>There is no reason at all to ban most ex-cons from flying
(unless they are being sought).
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(US_license_plate_tracking)
title: US license plate tracking
uri: US-license-plate-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28US_license_plate_tracking%29
content:
<p>The US government will try to duck responsibility for a nationwide
license plate tracking database by 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/feds-wont-build-license-plate-databasethey-just-want-access-to-one/">
confiding it to a company</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Nationalize_fossil_fuel_companies)
title: Nationalize fossil fuel companies
uri: Nationalize-fossil-fuel-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Nationalize_fossil_fuel_companies%29

content:
<p>The fossil fuel companies owe the public so much, for undeserved
subsidies and for damages, that it 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/50409">
justifies nationalizing them</a>.
</p>
<p>Then the state could order them to stop lobbying against curbing
global heating.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Tories_promise_further_censorship)
title: Tories promise further censorship
uri: Tories-promise-further-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Tories_promise_further_censorship%29

content:
<p>The Tories plan to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/04/tories-promise-to-enforce-age-limits-on-online-pornography">
force UK ISPs to block access</a>
 to sites that have porn
and don't strictly identify their users.
</p>
<p>This won't achieve the supposed goal of stopping teenagers from
accessing porn. They will find other ways, perhaps via friends that
are over 18. However, the attack on internet freedom could be
successful anyway.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Air_pollution_research)
title: Air pollution research
uri: Air-pollution-research
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Air_pollution_research%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/apr/01/pollution-health-risks-epa-supreme-court-free-radicals">
Research</a>
 has associated various kinds of air pollution with increased
vulnerability to the flu, increased vulnerability to allergies, and
with brain damage.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Bill_expanding_NSA_surveillance)
title: Bill expanding NSA surveillance
uri: Bill-expanding-NSA-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Bill_expanding_NSA_surveillance%29
content:
<p>Businesses and Obama 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/01/nsa-corporate-america-push-broad-cyber-surveillance-legislation/">
agree on a bill to expand NSA surveillance</a>
 by letting companies "voluntarily" give data to the government.
</p>
<p>It is more reason not to identify yourself or your activities to any
American company.  However, for some purposes it is hard to avoid
that.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(Gitmo_trials_a_failure)
title: Gitmo trials a failure
uri: Gitmo-trials-a-failure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28Gitmo_trials_a_failure%29
content:
<p>A former Guantanamo military court prosecutor says that 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/opinion/guantanamos-charade-of-justice.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-regionÂ®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region">
the military courts are a failure</a>
 — those prisoners who have charges against them
should be tried in ordinary federal courts.
</p>
<p>Amen.</p>
<p>Those that have no charge to try should be released.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 15_April_2015_(NY_bitcoin_regulations)
title: NY bitcoin regulations
uri: NY-bitcoin-regulations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_April_2015_%28NY_bitcoin_regulations%29
content:
<p>New York State's proposed bitcoin regulations 
<a href="https://cdt.org/blog/revised-ny-bitcoin-regulations-better-but-problems-remain/">
still have problems</a>.
</p>


title: Urgent: Stop bottling water in California
uri: Urgent-Stop-bottling-water-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_bottling_water_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_bottling_water_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/couragecampaign/sign/demand-nestle-immediately">call
on Nestle</a> to stop bottling water in California.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Urgent:_Curbing_global_heating)
title: Urgent: Curbing global heating
uri: Urgent-Curbing-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Curbing_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/shell-dont-go-to-cop-paris/">call
on Shell</a> to stop lobbying against curbing global heating.


title: Urgent: Keep heavy metals out of chocolate
uri: Urgent-Keep-heavy-metals-out-of-chocolate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Urgent:_Keep_heavy_metals_out_of_chocolate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_heavy_metals_out_of_chocolate%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/keep-heavy-metals-out">call
on chocolate companies</a> to keep out the lead and cadmium.


