# articles

title: Urgent: Protest outside a Turkish embassy or consulate
uri: Urgent-Protest-outside-a-Turkish-embassy-or-consulate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Urgent:_Protest_outside_a_Turkish_embassy_or_consulate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_outside_a_Turkish_embassy_or_consulate%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/turkey/2013/07/08/stand_still_action/">protest 
on July 28</a> by standing still outside a Turkish embassy or
consulate.


title: Intense US surveillance in South America
uri: Intense-US-surveillance-in-South-America
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Intense_US_surveillance_in_South_America)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Intense_US_surveillance_in_South_America%29

content:
<p>
Thanks to Snowden, countries in South America, many supposedly friends
of the US, know about intense US surveillance, including 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/09-0">business
secrets as well as military secrets</a>.


title: Double standard of justice applied to Christians and Muslims
uri: Double-standard-of-justice-applied-to-Christians-and-Muslims
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Double_standard_of_justice_applied_to_Christians_and_Muslims)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Double_standard_of_justice_applied_to_Christians_and_Muslims%29

content:
<p>
Both Christians and Muslims in the US occasionally throw up a
religiously-motivated murderer.  More of them have been Christian.
Irrationally, the US heavily infiltrates the Muslims and doesn't
bother the Christians.  Meanwhile, a double standard of justice is
applied to the two groups: general statements condemning the
government are recognized as acceptable under the first amendment
when Christians say them, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/09-3">put Muslims in
jail</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Urgent:_Fix_the_Voting_Right_Act)
title: Urgent: Fix the Voting Right Act
uri: Urgent-Fix-the-Voting-Right-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Fix_the_Voting_Right_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.kirstengillibrand.com/t/12104/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=626">call</a> 
for replacing the part of the Voting Right Act
that the Supreme Court destroyed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Rupert_Murdoch_being_investigated)
title: Rupert Murdoch being investigated
uri: Rupert-Murdoch-being-investigated
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Rupert_Murdoch_being_investigated%29
content:
<p>
Rupert Murdoch is being investigated after a recording was leaked
in which he said that 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jul/09/police-investigate-rupert-murdoch-recorded-meeting">paying 
police for information was standard practice</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Small_ISP_in_Utah_protects_customers)
title: Small ISP in Utah protects customers
uri: Small-ISP-in-Utah-protects-customers
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Small_ISP_in_Utah_protects_customers%29

content:
<p>
One small ISP in Utah 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/xmission-isp-customers-privacy-nsa">protects 
its customers from massive surveillance</a>.


title: Jury rules that guards killed Jimmy Mubenga
uri: Jury-rules-that-guards-killed-Jimmy-Mubenga
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Jury_rules_that_guards_killed_Jimmy_Mubenga)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Jury_rules_that_guards_killed_Jimmy_Mubenga%29

content:
<p>
A jury ruled that 
<A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/09/jimmy-mubenga-unlawfully-killed-inquest-jury">guards 
killed Jimmy Mubenga</a> while deporting him from the UK to Angola.


title: Retired FISA Judge speaks out against secret courts
uri: Retired-FISA-Judge-speaks-out-against-secret-courts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Retired_FISA_Judge_speaks_out_against_secret_courts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Retired_FISA_Judge_speaks_out_against_secret_courts%29

content:
<p>
Retired Judge Robinson, whose responsibilities including supervising
the FISA court, say it has ignored its legal authority and is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jul/09/fisa-courts-judge-nsa-surveillance">unable
to keep surveillance in check</a>.


title: 2 million rural Tibetans forcibly relocated by China
uri: 2-million-rural-Tibetans-forcibly-relocated-by-China
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(2_million_rural_Tibetans_forcibly_relocated_by_China)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%282_million_rural_Tibetans_forcibly_relocated_by_China%29

content:
<p>
China has forcibly relocated 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/china-deepen-struggle-dalai-lama">2 
million rural Tibetans</a>, forcing them into towns where they have no
income.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Google_funds_global_heating_denial)
title: Google funds global heating denial
uri: Google-funds-global-heating-denial
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Google_funds_global_heating_denial%29

content:
<p>
Google is raising funds for senators that 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/09/google-climate-denier-jim-inhofe">pretend 
there is no global heating</a>, and has funded a denialist legal
harassment organization.


title: Egyptian troops shoot and kill pro-Morsi protesters
uri: Egyptian-troops-shoot-and-kill-pro-Morsi-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Egyptian_troops_shoot_and_kill_pro-Morsi_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Egyptian_troops_shoot_and_kill_pro-Morsi_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian troops 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/egypt-violence-51-killed-morsi">shot 
and killed pro-Morsi protesters</a>.


title: Ellsberg says Snowden was right to flee
uri: Ellsberg-says-Snowden-was-right-to-flee
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Ellsberg_says_Snowden_was_right_to_flee)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Ellsberg_says_Snowden_was_right_to_flee%29

content:
<p>
Daniel Ellsberg says that Snowden was 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/08-5">right 
to flee</a>; the Obama regime has no respect for legal rights when it
is out to get someone.
<p>
No one has an obligation to face unjust prosecution by an evil regime.


title: Obama ceases to speak about creating jobs to fight global heating
uri: Obama-ceases-to-speak-about-creating-jobs-to-fight-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Obama_ceases_to_speak_about_creating_jobs_to_fight_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Obama_ceases_to_speak_about_creating_jobs_to_fight_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Obama talks about the danger of global heating, but has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/08/obama-green-jobs-climate-change">given 
up on proposing to create jobs by addressing that danger</a>.
<p>
My analysis of the reason is slightly different.  Unemployment is
still a great problem in the US, but Obama sees no need to even talk
about trying to address it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_Insider_Threat_Program)
title: Urgent: Oppose "Insider Threat Program"
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Insider-Threat-Program
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Insider_Threat_Program%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8211">tell 
your senators</a> you object to telling federal employees to report
their coworkers for anything that seems out of the ordinary.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Stopping_elephant_poaching_in_Africa)
title: Stopping elephant poaching in Africa
uri: Stopping-elephant-poaching-in-Africa
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Stopping_elephant_poaching_in_Africa%29

content:
<p>
Perhaps 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/africa-wild/2013/jul/09/guns-war-elephant-poachers">traditional 
values in Africa</a> might help stop poaching of elephants.
<p>
Another idea that occurs to me, as a last resort: cut off all but the
root of the elephants' tusks, and attach ceramic prostheses for them
to use instead.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(UK_thugs_kick_man_after_tasing_him)
title: UK thugs kick man after tasing him
uri: UK-thugs-kick-man-after-tasing-him
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28UK_thugs_kick_man_after_tasing_him%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs tased a man, then kicked him after he fell on his face.
Apparently he had not complied with an 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/09/police-investigate-taser-brighton">order 
to "put his hands up"</a>.  Perhaps the tasing left him unable to
move.
<p>
Reportedly the man was trying to steal food.  Stealing is bad, in
general; but there is an exception: anyone unable to get food to eat,
in a land with plentiful food, is entitled to take food to eat.
<p>
It's possible this man had food to eat, and was taking something fancy
that he did not need.  That would be wrong.  But if he was going
hungry for want of food, that is the state's fault, and there was no
reason he should starve when food was to be had.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Chinese_thugs_shoot_Tibetan_monks)
title: Chinese thugs shoot Tibetan monks
uri: Chinese-thugs-shoot-Tibetan-monks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Chinese_thugs_shoot_Tibetan_monks%29
content:
<p>
Chinese thugs 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/chinese-police-shot-tibetan-monks">shot 
Tibetan monks</a> who were carrying out a ceremony.


title: Sexual violence against women in Egypt
uri: Sexual-violence-against-women-in-Egypt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Sexual_violence_against_women_in_Egypt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Sexual_violence_against_women_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Many Egyptian men, and even religious authorities, 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/sexual-violence-egypt-target-woman">say 
women deserve and want to be raped</a>, if they don't stay at home.
<p>
Many Western men make claims of a similar spirit based on different
actions women take.


title: Improving safety in factories in Bangladesh
uri: Improving-safety-in-factories-in-Bangladesh
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Improving_safety_in_factories_in_Bangladesh)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Improving_safety_in_factories_in_Bangladesh%29

content:
<p>
European clothing labelers have committed to improving safety in factories
in Bangladesh, but 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/08/retail-bangladesh-factories-improve-safety-deal">US 
companies have mostly refused to support this</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Bribery)
title: Bribery
uri: Bribery
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Bribery%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jul/09/global-corruption-survey-bribery">1/4 
of all people surveyed</a>, world wide, paid a bribe last year.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Extreme_heat_waves_in_Australia)
title: Extreme heat waves in Australia
uri: Extreme-heat-waves-in-Australia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Extreme_heat_waves_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
The probability of extreme heat waves in Australia is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/08/australian-heatwaves-likely-global-warming">five 
times</a> what it was years ago, due to global heating.


title: UK troops alienated population and strengthened Taliban
uri: UK-troops-alienated-population-and-strengthened-Taliban
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(UK_troops_alienated_population_and_strengthened_Taliban)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28UK_troops_alienated_population_and_strengthened_Taliban%29

content:
<p>
UK troops in
Helmand <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/10/uk-forces-helmand-afghanistan">alienated
the population and strengthened the Taliban</a>, according to a study.


title: Le Carre's fiction can't do justice to Snowden's truth
uri: Le-Carre-s-fiction-can-t-do-justice-to-Snowden-s-truth
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Le_Carre's_fiction_can't_do_justice_to_Snowden's_truth)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Le_Carre%27s_fiction_can%27t_do_justice_to_Snowden%27s_truth%29

content:
<p>
Even Le Carre's latest
fiction <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/le-carre-snowden-fiction-truth">can't
do justice to Snowden's truth.</a>


title: Disabled veteran told to remove uniform to enter ceremony to honor him
uri: Disabled-veteran-told-to-remove-uniform-to-enter-ceremony-to-honor-him
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Disabled_veteran_told_to_remove_uniform_to_enter_ceremony_to_honor_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Disabled_veteran_told_to_remove_uniform_to_enter_ceremony_to_honor_him%29

content:
<p>
Irony of ironies,
a <a href="http://rt.com/usa/marine-security-tsa-terrorist-853/">disabled
veteran was told to remove his uniform</a> to enter the California
State Capital, where he was invited to a ceremony to honor him.  His
medals set off the medal detector.  But this was hard for him to do,
due to his permanent injuries.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Baning_pants_that_sag)
title: Baning pants that sag
uri: Baning-pants-that-sag
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Baning_pants_that_sag%29
content:
<p>
Some US cities
are <a href="http://www.alternet.org/saggy-pants-legislation-latest-racial-profiling-laws?paging=off">banning
wearing of pants that sag.</a>


title: Plutocratic politicians dodge pressure to run economy
uri: Plutocratic-politicians-dodge-pressure-to-run-economy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Plutocratic_politicians_dodge_pressure_to_run_economy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Plutocratic_politicians_dodge_pressure_to_run_economy%29

content:
<p>
Plutocratic politicians are giving us progress on gay rights so they
can dodge the pressure
to <a href="http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/are-corporations-trying-distract-us-social-issues-while-they?paging=off">run
the economy for the benefit of all.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Comparing_US_NSA_with_Stasi)
title: Comparing US NSA with Stasi
uri: Comparing-US-NSA-with-Stasi
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Comparing_US_NSA_with_Stasi%29
content:
<p>
Comparing the data collection of
the <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/05/stasi-vs-the-u-s-nsa-back-to-back-whos-worse-and-by-how-much/">US
NSA with that of the former East German NSA</a> ("Stasi", in German).


title: France stopped punishing file-sharing with disconnection from Internet
uri: France-stopped-punishing-file-sharing-with-disconnection-from-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(France_stopped_punishing_file-sharing_with_disconnection_from_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28France_stopped_punishing_file-sharing_with_disconnection_from_Internet%29

content:
<p>
France has stopped punishing file-sharing
with <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/three-strikes-and-youre-still-in-france-kills-piracy-disconnections-130709/">disconnection
from the Internet</a>, but has not stopped attacking individuals for
sharing.
<p>
Meanwhile, Ireland has adopted
a <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/irish-supreme-court-backs-three-strikes-anti-piracy-scheme-130704/">similar
unjust plan</a>.
<p>
French and Irish Internet subscribers, like those everywhere, should
run WiFi nets without passwords so as to avoid being instruments of
unjust state power.  Both file sharing and Internet anonymity are at
stake.


title: All data collected about you is "secret"
uri: All-data-collected-about-you-is-secret
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(All_data_collected_about_you_is_secret)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28All_data_collected_about_you_is_secret%29

content:
<p>
The NSA says all the data it collected about you
is <a href="http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/tikkundaily/nsa-rejecting-every-foia-request-made-us-citizens?page=entire">"secret",</a>
even if you are not suspected of anything.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(FBI_nominee_defends_surveillance)
title: FBI nominee defends surveillance
uri: FBI-nominee-defends-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28FBI_nominee_defends_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Obama FBI Nominee
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/09-9">Defends
NSA's Dragnet Surveillance.</a>  He also wants to attack protection of
journalists' sources.


title: Urgent: Tell Google to stop funding global heating denialists
uri: Urgent-Tell-Google-to-stop-funding-global-heating-denialists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Google_to_stop_funding_global_heating_denialists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Google_to_stop_funding_global_heating_denialists%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/google_stop_funding_inhofe">tell 
Google</a> to stop funding Senator Inhofe and other
global heating denialists.


title: Complexity used as excuse for irresponsibility
uri: Complexity-used-as-excuse-for-irresponsibility
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Complexity_used_as_excuse_for_irresponsibility)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Complexity_used_as_excuse_for_irresponsibility%29

content:
<p>
One aspect of corporate power today is that the managers are 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/welcome-to-age-irresponsibility">never
responsible for anything they do wrong</a>.  They can always say the
system is so complex that nobody could possibly monitor it.
<p>
Part of the motive for treaty-imposed globalization of business was to
make things so complex that businesses could use this excuse.  Thus,
cancelling those treaties 
(<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_(One_Congressman_allowed_to_see_the_TPP)">needed
to restore democracy</a>) would also help with that.


title: 30,000 California prisoners start hunger strike
uri: 30-000-California-prisoners-start-hunger-strike
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(30000_California_prisoners_start_hunger_strike)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%2830000_California_prisoners_start_hunger_strike%29

content:
<p>
30,000 California prisoners have started a 
<a href="http://rt.com/usa/california-prisoners-hunger-strike-852/">hunger 
strike</a> to protest 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#20_June_2012_(Innocent_in_solitary_confinement_for_18_years)">long-term 
solitary confinement</a>, which is a form of brainwashing.


title: The arguments used by the Obama regime to justify surveillance
uri: The-arguments-used-by-the-Obama-regime-to-justify-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(The_arguments_used_by_the_Obama_regime_to_justify_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28The_arguments_used_by_the_Obama_regime_to_justify_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The arguments used by the Obama regime to justify massive surveillance would
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/what-if-government-hid-bugs-and-video-cameras-every">equally 
well justify putting surveillance devices in every home</a>.
<p>
Of course, that's exactly what is being done, in the form of the
portable phone (which can be remotely converted into a 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2008-mar-jun.html#11%20March%202008%20(FBI%20uses%20cellphones%20to%20eavesdrop%20conversations)">listening
device</a>) and the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_(Xbox_One_new_feature_monitoring_users)">Xbox 
One</a>.
<p>
These devices are not mandatory; we have the option to reject them.
That does no good unless we <em>do</em> reject them.


title: Burning 1/3 of fossil fuel reserves is likely to trigger runaway greenhouse effect
uri: Burning-1-3-of-fossil-fuel-reserves-is-likely-to-trigger-runaway-green
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Burning_1%2F3_of_fossil_fuel_reserves_is_likely_to_trigger_runaway_greenhouse_effect)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Burning_1%252F3_of_fossil_fuel_reserves_is_likely_to_trigger_runaway_greenhouse_effect%29

content:
<p>
Burning even 1/3 of the fossil fuel reserves is likely
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jul/10/james-hansen-fossil-fuels-runaway-global-warming">trigger
a runaway greenhouse effect</a> through release of methane hydrides
from tundra and sea bottoms.
<p>
Look at Venus for an example of where that goes.
<p>
We may be only 10 years away from this disaster.  Or maybe 30 years.
Whichever it is, the fossil fuel companies are forcing Earth to
disaster.


title: Apple convicted of conspiring with publishers to fix e-book prices
uri: Apple-convicted-of-conspiring-with-publishers-to-fix-e-book-prices
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Apple_convicted_of_conspiring_with_publishers_to_fix_e-book_prices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Apple_convicted_of_conspiring_with_publishers_to_fix_e-book_prices%29

content:
<p>
Apple has
been <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/10/apple-guilty-ebook-prices-trial">convicted
of conspiring with publishers to fix e-book prices</a>.
<p>
While I disapprove of fixing prices, we must compare it with what
Amazon does.  Since Amazon is so close to a monopoly, it can
effectively fix prices all by itself.  The ban on price fixing makes
sense only as part of a comprehensive policy to prevent any one
company from being in such a position.
<p>
However, the price of ebooks is a minor issue compared with the
<a href="media/cd73126c.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.stallman.org/articles/ebooks.pdf">injustice of
most e-books</a>.  I wouldn't buy an e-book from Apple or Amazon even
for a negative price.


title: Swedish agency that wiretaps Russian communications for NSA
uri: Swedish-agency-that-wiretaps-Russian-communications-for-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Swedish_agency_that_wiretaps_Russian_communications_for_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Swedish_agency_that_wiretaps_Russian_communications_for_NSA%29

content:
<p>
A Swedish agency that wiretaps Russian communications for the NSA
also <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/07/documents-sweden-wiretapping-russias-international-traffic-for-the-nsa/">conceals
vital intelligence from the Swedish navy.</a>


title: Modern intensive agriculture can backfire
uri: Modern-intensive-agriculture-can-backfire
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Modern_intensive_agriculture_can_backfire)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Modern_intensive_agriculture_can_backfire%29

content:
<p>
Modern intensive agriculture can backfire in strange ways.  Slugs
thrive because their predators are wiped out,
so <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/jul/10/slug-pesticides-metaldehyde-drinking-water">people
kill them with chemicals that we then have to ingest.</a>
<p>
Now put this together
with <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/07/superweeds-and-superinsects-still-bedeviling-monsanto-crops">superweeds</a>
and the fact that
we're <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_(World_approaching_peak_water)">running
out of water for agriculture,</a> and compare that with
the <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_June_2013_(Africas_birth_rate_higher_than_expected)">increasing
population</a> and you wind up with a choice, soon, between birth
control now and starvation in a decade.


title: Antarctic krill may die out in a few decades
uri: Antarctic-krill-may-die-out-in-a-few-decades
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Antarctic_krill_may_die_out_in_a_few_decades)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Antarctic_krill_may_die_out_in_a_few_decades%29

content:
<p>
A study finds that tiny Antarctic krill, which are food for a large
part of sea life,
may <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/planet-oz/2013/jul/10/krill-antarctica-study-ocean-acidification-climate">die
out in a few decades due to acidification</a> of the ocean from the
CO2 we are pumping out.
<p>
Many species of whales eat krill.  We don't have to worry about
whaling if the whales will starve.
<p>
The Great Barrier Reef's health was estimated as "poor" in 2011 due
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/10/great-barrier-reef-report-card">heavy
rain in the neighboring land.</a>
<p>
The coral has declined by 50% since 1985.


title: UK gov't report warns droughts will devastate food production
uri: UK-gov-t-report-warns-droughts-will-devastate-food-production
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(UK_gov't_report_warns_droughts_will_devastate_food_production)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_report_warns_droughts_will_devastate_food_production%29

content:
<p>
A UK government report
warns <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/10/droughts-hot-dry-summers-england">droughts
will devastate food production</a> there starting in ten years or so.


title: Phone transmitting lots of personal data
uri: Phone-transmitting-lots-of-personal-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Phone_transmitting_lots_of_personal_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Phone_transmitting_lots_of_personal_data%29

content:
<p>
A user found that his Motorola Droid X2 phone
was <a href="http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listening.html">transmitting
lots of personal data to Motorola.</a>
<p>
He could have prevented this if his phone allowed him to install a
software load consisting of entirely free software.


title: Urgent: Oppose exempting mines from environmental regulations
uri: Urgent-Oppose-exempting-mines-from-environmental-regulations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_exempting_mines_from_environmental_regulations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_exempting_mines_from_environmental_regulations%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter
to <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13885">oppose
HR 761</a>, which would exempt mines from many environmental
regulations.


title: Urgent: Support removal of US troops from Afghanistan next year.
uri: Urgent-Support-removal-of-US-troops-from-Afghanistan-next-year
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_removal_of_US_troops_from_Afghanistan_next_year.)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_removal_of_US_troops_from_Afghanistan_next_year.%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://action.votevets.org/page/s/zero-option?source=em130709">support
removal of US troops from Afghanistan next year.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(US_failed_to_protect_marine_species)
title: US failed to protect marine species
uri: US-failed-to-protect-marine-species
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28US_failed_to_protect_marine_species%29

content:
<p>
The US has failed to take action to
protect <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/09/us-failed-protect-marine-life">endangered
marine species.</a>


title: Urgent: Vote to reduce student loan interest rates
uri: Urgent-Vote-to-reduce-student-loan-interest-rates
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Urgent:_Vote_to_reduce_student_loan_interest_rates)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Vote_to_reduce_student_loan_interest_rates%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell your senators to vote
to <a href="http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8229">reduce
student loan interest rates.</a>


title: Israeli army used Palestinian children as human shields
uri: Israeli-army-used-Palestinian-children-as-human-shields
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Israeli_army_used_Palestinian_children_as_human_shields)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Israeli_army_used_Palestinian_children_as_human_shields%29

content:
<p>
The UN has concluded that
the <a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10350">Israeli
army used Palestinian children as human shields</a>.  Some soldiers
have been convicted of this, but they got no punishment.
<p>
When Israeli troops take over a peaceful Palestinian village, is it
training, or just
to <a href="http://972mag.com/show-them-whos-boss-how-palestinian-villages-turn-into-idf-training-grounds/75218/">show
them who's boss?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Military_trial_for_peaceful_protest)
title: Military trial for peaceful protest
uri: Military-trial-for-peaceful-protest
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Military_trial_for_peaceful_protest%29

content:
<p>
Two Palestinians face
a <a href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/2013007_military_tries_noneviolent_demonstarators">military
trial for a peaceful protest</a> in their village.  The army had
declared the village a "closed military zone" to provide an excuse.
The prosecutor admitted the real goal is to deny Palestinians the
right to protest over the theft of land from their village.


title: Israeli troops arrested Palestinian film-maker
uri: Israeli-troops-arrested-Palestinian-film-maker
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Israeli_troops_arrested_Palestinian_film-maker)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Israeli_troops_arrested_Palestinian_film-maker%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
troops <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/messenger-occupation-filmmaker.html">arrested
Palestinian film-maker Mohammad al-Azza</a>.  They didn't fracture his
skull, they just hit him where they fractured it last time.


title: Israeli colony in Palestine destroyed Palestinians' farmland
uri: Israeli-colony-in-Palestine-destroyed-Palestinians-farmland
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 11_July_2013_(Israeli_colony_in_Palestine_destroyed_Palestinians'_farmland)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_%28Israeli_colony_in_Palestine_destroyed_Palestinians%27_farmland%29

content:
<p>
An Israeli colony in
Palestine <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65790">destroyed
Palestinians' farmland</a> by pumping sewage onto it.
<p>
Fanatics from other
colonies <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65788">carried out a
pogrom</a> against Bedouin in Palestine. "Pogrom" is the word that was
used when Russians did likewise to Jews.  My mother told me about how
her mother lived in fear of pogroms.
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/regions/hebron/6705-photos-israeli-army-invades-hebron-hills-village-.html">Soldiers
ransacked another Palestinian village</a>, whose inhabitants are
threatened with expulsion.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Egypts_military_arrests_journalists)
title: Egypt's military arrests journalists
uri: Egypt-s-military-arrests-journalists
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Egypts_military_arrests_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's military has arrested journalists from 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/egypt-al-jazeera-intimidation">Al 
Jazeera and other foreign media</a>.


title: Walmart rejects scheme for improving factory safety in Bangladesh
uri: Walmart-rejects-scheme-for-improving-factory-safety-in-Bangladesh
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Walmart_rejects_scheme_for_improving_factory_safety_in_Bangladesh)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Walmart_rejects_scheme_for_improving_factory_safety_in_Bangladesh%29

content:
<p>
Walmart and other US companies have rejected the binding scheme for
improving factory safety in Bangladesh.  They have set up
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/10/bangladesh-factory-safety-sham">their 
own dummy plan</a> so they can pretend to be doing something about the
problem.


title: US and China agree to cooperate on reducing pollution
uri: US-and-China-agree-to-cooperate-on-reducing-pollution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(US_and_China_agree_to_cooperate_on_reducing_pollution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28US_and_China_agree_to_cooperate_on_reducing_pollution%29

content:
<p>
The US and China agreed to cooperate on reducing pollution and global heating,
but they are only considering 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/10/america-china-cooperation-reduce-climate-change">nibbling 
around the edges</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Spike_in_pesticide_use)
title: Spike in pesticide use
uri: Spike-in-pesticide-use
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Spike_in_pesticide_use%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/09-6">Pesticide 
Use Spikes as GMO Failure Cripples Corn Belt</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Election_in_Zimbabwe_rigged_again)
title: Election in Zimbabwe rigged again
uri: Election-in-Zimbabwe-rigged-again
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Election_in_Zimbabwe_rigged_again%29
content:
<p>
The election in Zimbabwe is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/10/zimbabwe-morgan-tsvangirai-robert-mugabe-elections">rigged 
again</a>, but opposition leader Tsvangirai has not done a good job of
winning support either.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(UKs_welfare_cuts)
title: UK's welfare cuts
uri: UK-s-welfare-cuts
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28UKs_welfare_cuts%29
content:
<p>
The UK's welfare "changes" (cuts dressed up as a reform) have 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/10/food-bank-rise-welfare-changes">tripled
the number of people turning to private charity for food</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(The_power_to_stop_NSA_surveillance)
title: The power to stop NSA surveillance
uri: The-power-to-stop-NSA-surveillance
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28The_power_to_stop_NSA_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
How do we build the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/10">power 
to stop NSA surveillance</a>.


title: Nonuniformed thugs attack University of Virginia student
uri: Nonuniformed-thugs-attack-University-of-Virginia-student
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Nonuniformed_thugs_attack_University_of_Virginia_student)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Nonuniformed_thugs_attack_University_of_Virginia_student%29

content:
<p>
Nonuniformed thugs 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/28/1219672/-University-of-Virginia-student-arrested-in-near-fatal-mix-up-with-police-for-buying-bottled-water?detail=email">attacked 
a University of Virginia student for buying a six-pack of soda-water.</a>
They later said they thought she had bought beer.  She did not know
they were official thugs and tried to drive away.
<p>
They charged her three felonies: failure to read thugs' minds, failure
to clairvoyantly recognize them as thugs, and attempted
self-protection when attacked by a group of threatening strangers.
These are not official felonies, of course.  They represent what
plainclothes thugs generally do people who try to protect themselves
when attacked by an armed group of strangers for no obvious reason.
<p>
Fortunately the charges were dropped.  But the thugs deserved to be
fired at the very least.  Firing might be sufficient in this case
since they didn't permanently injure the victims.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(11-year-old_Chilean_pregnant_girl)
title: 11-year-old Chilean pregnant girl
uri: 11-year-old-Chilean-pregnant-girl
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%2811-year-old_Chilean_pregnant_girl%29
content:
<p>
There is a dispute about whether the 11-year-old Chilean pregnant girl
was raped.  Her mother said the sexual relations were voluntary.  The
girl said the man hurt her, which might mean she does consider it
rape, or might mean something else.
<p>
She also says she wants to have the baby, and was 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/10/chilean-president-praises-raped-pregnancy">praised 
by plutocrat president Piñera</a>.
<p>
Piñera calls her position "maturity"; I call it childish folly.  I
won't rebuke her for having sex with anyone she chooses to have it
with, as long as they take precautions so it goes no further than
that.  But I doubt that she is ready to have children, either
medically or psychologically, and it seems that she is putting her
health at risk if she does not get an abortion (though it is not
stated why).  In other words, Piñera is urging her to risk grave harm.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Allowable_greenhouse_gas_emissions)
title: Allowable greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Allowable-greenhouse-gas-emissions
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Allowable_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29

content:
<p>
To avoid disastrous ocean acidification, ice melt, and decrease of
food production, in addition to disastrous global heating, requires a
much stricter 
<a href="media/a5da2570.steinacher2013nat_multiple_climate_targets_AOP.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~steinach/climate_targets/steinacher2013nat_multiple_climate_targets_AOP.pdf">limitation 
on the amount of greenhouse gas emitted</a>.


title: Senators and Congresscritters who support reversal of Corporations United
uri: Senators-and-Congresscritters-who-support-reversal-of-Corporations-Uni
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Senators_and_Congresscritters_who_support_reversal_of_Corporations_United)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Senators_and_Congresscritters_who_support_reversal_of_Corporations_United%29

content:
<p>
See which US senators and congresscritters support a constitutional
amendment to <a href="http://www.united4thepeople.org/113/">reverse 
the Corporations United decision</a> (to 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2011-nov-feb.html#26_January_2012_(Citizens_United)">call 
it what it really is</a>).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Pakistani_report_on_Osama_bin_Laden)
title: Pakistani report on Osama bin Laden
uri: Pakistani-report-on-Osama-bin-Laden
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Pakistani_report_on_Osama_bin_Laden%29

content:
<p>
Tariq Ali: the Pakistani report on Osama bin Laden admits to incompetence
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/osama-bin-laden-report-pakistan">cover 
up something worse</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(al-Nusra)
title: al-Nusra
uri: al-Nusra
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28al-Nusra%29
content:
<p>
Interviews with Syrians about 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/10/syria-al-nusra-front-jihadi">al-Nusra</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Egyptian_military)
title: Egyptian military
uri: Egyptian-military
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Egyptian_military%29
content:
<p>
The Egyptian military have called for 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/10/muslim-brotherhood-badie-arrested-egypt">arrest 
of more leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood</a>, meanwhile imposing a
plan to amend rather than replace the constitution that it imposed.


title: Republicans want US children to go hungry
uri: Republicans-want-US-children-to-go-hungry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Republicans_want_US_children_to_go_hungry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Republicans_want_US_children_to_go_hungry%29

content:
<p>
"Pro-life" Republicans want US children to 
<a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/07/08/how-can-a-pro-life-legislator-fight-to-gut-snap/">go 
hungry</a>.
<p>
They value "human" life only before a human is born.


title: Horrible treatment of prisoners in US-funded private prison
uri: Horrible-treatment-of-prisoners-in-US-funded-private-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Horrible_treatment_of_prisoners_in_US-funded_private_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Horrible_treatment_of_prisoners_in_US-funded_private_prison%29

content:
<p>
Mexican prisoners (who say they were forced to sign blank confessions)
are being treated horribly in a new 
<a href="http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/4358-indigenous-oaxacan-political-prisoners-caught-in-the-drug-war-prison-boom">US-funded 
private prison</a>.


title: Saudi princess living in the US charged with keeping a slave
uri: Saudi-princess-living-in-the-US-charged-with-keeping-a-slave
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Saudi_princess_living_in_the_US_charged_with_keeping_a_slave)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Saudi_princess_living_in_the_US_charged_with_keeping_a_slave%29

content:
<p>
A Saudi princess living in the US has been charged with 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jul/11/saudi-princess-accused-slavery">keeping 
a Kenyan woman as a domestic slave</a>.


title: French parliament votes for free software in higher education
uri: French-parliament-votes-for-free-software-in-higher-education
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(French_parliament_votes_for_free_software_in_higher_education)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28French_parliament_votes_for_free_software_in_higher_education%29

content:
<p>
The French parliament voted to give free software (logiciel libre)
<a href="http://www.april.org/en/first-time-france-parliament-votes-legislation-gives-priority-free-software">priority 
in higher education</a>.
<p>
"Priority" is a rather weak preference; it is too easy to justify
making an exception.  Also, this doesn't apply to primary and
secondary schools.  However, it is a good step forward.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Greenpeace_civil_disobedience)
title: Greenpeace civil disobedience
uri: Greenpeace-civil-disobedience
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Greenpeace_civil_disobedience%29
content:
<p>
Greenpeace is making a success of a range
of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/11/greenpeace-london-shard-arctic-protest">civil
disobedience campaigns.</a>


title: Afghan gov't moved to protect people who torture child brides
uri: Afghan-gov-t-moved-to-protect-people-who-torture-child-brides
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Afghan_gov't_moved_to_protect_people_who_torture_child_brides)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Afghan_gov%27t_moved_to_protect_people_who_torture_child_brides%29

content:
<p>
The Afghan government has moved
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/afghan-judges-free-sahar-guls-torturers">protect
people who torture child brides.</a>


title: Journalist a social network rather than a profession
uri: Journalist-a-social-network-rather-than-a-profession
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Journalist_a_social_network_rather_than_a_profession)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Journalist_a_social_network_rather_than_a_profession%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2013/jul/11/who-is-journalist-bradley-manning-trial">Journalism
is now a social network</a> rather than a profession.


title: Burma has convicted 25 people of murders
uri: Burma-has-convicted-25-people-of-murders
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Burma_has_convicted_25_people_of_murders)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Burma_has_convicted_25_people_of_murders%29

content:
<p>
Burma has convicted 25 people of murders carried out in
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/burma-buddhists-jailed-mob-attacks">pogrom
against Muslims.</a>


title: US underestimated the monetary value of damage caused by Big Spill
uri: US-underestimated-the-monetary-value-of-damage-caused-by-Big-Spill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(US_underestimated_the_monetary_value_of_damage_caused_by_Big_Spill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28US_underestimated_the_monetary_value_of_damage_caused_by_Big_Spill%29

content:
<p>
The US has underestimated the monetary value of
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/11/us-assessment-bp-oil-spill-damage">damage
caused by the Big Spill.</a>


title: Deeper corporate crime behind the oil train explosion
uri: Deeper-corporate-crime-behind-the-oil-train-explosion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Deeper_corporate_crime_behind_the_oil_train_explosion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Deeper_corporate_crime_behind_the_oil_train_explosion%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/true-north/2013/jul/11/1">deeper
corporate crime behind the oil train explosion</a> in Lac-Megantic.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Microsoft_helped_NSA_spy_on_users)
title: Microsoft helped NSA spy on users
uri: Microsoft-helped-NSA-spy-on-users
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Microsoft_helped_NSA_spy_on_users%29
content:
<p>
Microsoft changed several systems
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data">help
the NSA spy on users</a>. These systems include Skype, web chats,
email, and remote file storage.
<p>
This means that Microsoft's claims about encryption and privacy in
these programs and services are effectively fraudulent.
<p>
There is no US law requiring user software for encryption to have a
back door.  But you can't trust encryption unless it is done by a free
program in your own computer.


title: UK thugs spied on anti-racism campaigners
uri: UK-thugs-spied-on-anti-racism-campaigners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(UK_thugs_spied_on_anti-racism_campaigners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28UK_thugs_spied_on_anti-racism_campaigners%29

content:
<p>
The UK thugs
systematically <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/11/stephen-lawrence-special-branch-mcpherson-inquiry">spied
on anti-racism campaigners</a> who were supporting a man they were
trying to frame, looking for "subversives".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Fracking_can_cause_large_earthquakes)
title: Fracking can cause large earthquakes
uri: Fracking-can-cause-large-earthquakes
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Fracking_can_cause_large_earthquakes%29

content:
<p>
A study
suggests <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jul/11/fracking-water-injection-major-earthquakes">fracking
can cause large earthquakes.</a> (It is known to cause small ones.)


title: The Horrible Psychology of Solitary Confinement.
uri: The-Horrible-Psychology-of-Solitary-Confinement
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(The_Horrible_Psychology_of_Solitary_Confinement.)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28The_Horrible_Psychology_of_Solitary_Confinement.%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/solitary-confinement-2/">The
Horrible Psychology of Solitary Confinement.</a>


title: Journalists should expect surveillance
uri: Journalists-should-expect-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Journalists_should_expect_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Journalists_should_expect_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Journalists should learn
to <a href="http://www.cpj.org/security/2013/07/post-snowden-time-for-journalists-to-get-smart.php">expect
surveillance and protect themselves from it.</a>
<p>
I find the term "Hidden Wiki" strange and misleading, but Tor is a
good thing.


title: Abortion restrictions in North Carolina
uri: Abortion-restrictions-in-North-Carolina
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Abortion_restrictions_in_North_Carolina)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Abortion_restrictions_in_North_Carolina%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in North Carolina attached
severe <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/07/10/2279941/north-carolina-abortion-motorcycle/">abortion
restrictions</a> to a bill about motorcycle safety.


title: US schools need to study freedom of speech
uri: US-schools-need-to-study-freedom-of-speech
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(US_schools_need_to_study_freedom_of_speech)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28US_schools_need_to_study_freedom_of_speech%29

content:
<p>
US high schools and colleges need
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/whether-high-school-or-college-students-speech-rights-are-being-threatened-onlin-0">study
freedom of speech. </a>


title: Censorship and repression in Turkey copied to social media
uri: Censorship-and-repression-in-Turkey-copied-to-social-media
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Censorship_and_repression_in_Turkey_copied_to_social_media)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Censorship_and_repression_in_Turkey_copied_to_social_media%29

content:
<p>
Censorship and repression in Turkey is
being <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/online-and-information-control-persists-turkey">copied
from traditional media to social media.</a>


title: Human rights organizations in France sued tech companies and US agencies
uri: Human-rights-organizations-in-France-sued-tech-companies-and-US-agenci
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Human_rights_organizations_in_France_sued_tech_companies_and_US_agencies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Human_rights_organizations_in_France_sued_tech_companies_and_US_agencies%29

content:
<p>
Human rights organizations in France have sued tech companies and US
agencies for
their <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/11/us-usa-security-france-idUSBRE96A0OF20130711">cooperation
in handing over the data of French citizens.</a>


title: Researchers build an all-optical transistor
uri: Researchers-build-an-all-optical-transistor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Researchers_build_an_all-optical_transistor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Researchers_build_an_all-optical_transistor%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/computing-with-light-0704.html">Researchers
build an all-optical transistor</a>


title: Campaign against using Facebook now has support from Venezuela
uri: Campaign-against-using-Facebook-now-has-support-from-Venezuela
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Campaign_against_using_Facebook_now_has_support_from_Venezuela)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Campaign_against_using_Facebook_now_has_support_from_Venezuela%29

content:
<p>
My campaign against using Facebook now has 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/11/us-usa-security-venezuela-facebook-idUSBRE96A01120130711">support 
from Venezuela</a>.
<p>
It is useful to be able to communicate with people, but let's not use
a platform that hands your data to the CIA.  What we really want is
a distributed system where your data is in your own server and made
available to others as you see fit.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(A_victory_against_copyrighted_laws)
title: A victory against copyrighted laws
uri: A-victory-against-copyrighted-laws
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28A_victory_against_copyrighted_laws%29

content:
<p>
A victory in the US against 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/publicresourceorg-prevails-free-speech-case-over-publishing-safety-standards">copyrighted 
laws</a>.


title: Nationalism, Tech Giants, and Spy States
uri: Nationalism-Tech-Giants-and-Spy-States
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 12_July_2013_(Nationalism_Tech_Giants_and_Spy_States)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_July_2013_%28Nationalism_Tech_Giants_and_Spy_States%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/08-4">Nationalism, 
Tech Giants, and Spy States</a>. Why don't big tech companies lobby to 
keep their customers' data private?


title: Urgent: Support prisoners on hunger strike in California
uri: Urgent-Support-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-in-California
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_prisoners_on_hunger_strike_in_California)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_prisoners_on_hunger_strike_in_California%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51040/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11455">support</a> 
the prisoners on hunger strike in California.
<p>
There may be a good reason for imprisoning them, but that doesn't
justify cruelty.


title: Urgent: Stop support of deforestation in Indonesia
uri: Urgent-Stop-support-of-deforestation-in-Indonesia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_support_of_deforestation_in_Indonesia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_support_of_deforestation_in_Indonesia%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Kellogg to 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/kellogg-palm-oil/3/2/">stop 
supporting deforestation in Indonesia</a> (for palm oil plantations). 


title: Urgent: Elimination of filibuster for presidential appointments
uri: Urgent-Elimination-of-filibuster-for-presidential-appointments
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Urgent:_Elimination_of_filibuster_for_presidential_appointments)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Elimination_of_filibuster_for_presidential_appointments%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=469">support</a>
elimination of the filibuster, for presidential appointments.


title: UK "open for business", marketing cigarettes to young people
uri: UK-open-for-business-marketing-cigarettes-to-young-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(UK_open_for_business_marketing_cigarettes_to_young_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28UK_open_for_business_marketing_cigarettes_to_young_people%29

content:
<p>
The UK put off plans to discourage marketing of cigarettes to young people
in order to show it is 
"<a href='http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/12/plans-plain-cigarette-packaging-shelved'>open 
for business</a>".
<p>
This demonstrates that "open for business" is the wrong thing for any
country to try to be.


title: Justin Carter faces absurd charges for joke
uri: Justin-Carter-faces-absurd-charges-for-joke
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Justin_Carter_faces_absurd_charges_for_joke)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Justin_Carter_faces_absurd_charges_for_joke%29

content:
<p>
Justin Carter, accused of making a threat in an explicitly labeled joke,
received a gift of money for bail, but still faces 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/facebook-post-terrorist-texas-teenager">absurd 
charges</a>.


title: Peaceful protests in Rio de Janeiro turn violent
uri: Peaceful-protests-in-Rio-de-Janeiro-turn-violent
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Peaceful_protests_in_Rio_de_Janeiro_turn_violent)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Peaceful_protests_in_Rio_de_Janeiro_turn_violent%29

content:
<p>
Organized peaceful protests in Rio de Janeiro turned violent after
discovery of a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/thousands-streets-brazil-protests">box 
of molotov cocktails</a>, which might have been planted by thugs so as
to be discovered.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Legalization_of_abortion_in_Ireland)
title: Legalization of abortion in Ireland
uri: Legalization-of-abortion-in-Ireland
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Legalization_of_abortion_in_Ireland%29

content:
<p>
Ireland has legalized abortion in 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/ireland-law-abortion-rights">some 
limited situations</a>. This decision, defying threats from the
Catholic Church, is an important victory for women and for humanity,
even though it does not go far enough.
<p>
Meanwhile, the law imposes a harsh penalty on abortions in other
circumstances.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Opposition_to_the_Olympics)
title: Opposition to the Olympics
uri: Opposition-to-the-Olympics
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Opposition_to_the_Olympics%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3531">San 
Francisco</a> mounted real opposition to a bid to hold the Olympics there.
<p>
So did 
<a href="http://nogameschicago.com/">Chicago</a>, although the
campaign failed.


title: CO<sub>2</sub> emissions must be cut even more sharply
uri: CO2-emissions-must-be-cut-even-more-sharply
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(CO2_emissions_must_be_cut_even_more_sharply)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28CO2_emissions_must_be_cut_even_more_sharply%29

content:
<p>
If we are to avoid the other disasters that CO2 emissions will cause,
aside from those due to temperature, we need to 
<a href="https://oceanacidification.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/limiting-global-warming-is-not-enough/">cut 
emissions even more sharply</a>.


title: Palestinian prisoners have been on hunger strike for months
uri: Palestinian-prisoners-have-been-on-hunger-strike-for-months
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Palestinian_prisoners_have_been_on_hunger_strike_for_months)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Palestinian_prisoners_have_been_on_hunger_strike_for_months%29

content:
<p>
Palestinian prisoners, imprisoned without trial, have been 
<a href="http://samidoun.ca/2013/07/new-hunger-strike-update-from-addameer-and-information-on-all-striking-prisoners/">on 
hunger strike for months</a>.


title: Palestinian children face life imprisonment
uri: Palestinian-children-face-life-imprisonment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Palestinian_children_face_life_imprisonment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Palestinian_children_face_life_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Palestinian children chosen at random face life imprisonment after
being <a href="http://samidoun.ca/2013/07/alert-save-the-hares-boys-5-palestinian-children-face-life-imprisonment-with-no-evidence-for-no-documented-crime/">tortured 
into confessing to throwing stones</a>. It is not clear whether any
stones were actually thrown.


title: Twitter has given France personal data
uri: Twitter-has-given-France-personal-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Twitter_has_given_France_personal_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Twitter_has_given_France_personal_data%29

content:
<p>
Twitter has given France the personal data about people
who <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/12/twitter-data-french-antisemitic-tweets">posted
anti-semitic insults.</a>
<p>
These insults are nasty, but censorship is nastier.


title: UK gov't cancelled plans to require plain packages
uri: UK-gov-t-cancelled-plans-to-require-plain-packages
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(UK_gov't_cancelled_plans_to_require_plain_packages)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_cancelled_plans_to_require_plain_packages%29

content:
<p>
The UK government
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/12/plain-cigarette-packaging-anger-ministers">cancelled
plans to require plain packages</a>, based on reasons that can't be
serious.  The UK government austerity policies aim to reduce the
number of jobs, and plain packages in terms of marketing need not be
easy to counterfeit.


title: Obama regime considering reducing bulk collection of phone records
uri: Obama-regime-considering-reducing-bulk-collection-of-phone-records
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Obama_regime_considering_reducing_bulk_collection_of_phone_records)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Obama_regime_considering_reducing_bulk_collection_of_phone_records%29

content:
<p>
Senator Wyden says the Obama regime is
"considering" <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/senator-ron-wyden-white-house-data-collection">reducing
the bulk collection of Americans' phone records.</a>
<p>
I would not trust the Obama regime to really do so, but what this
shows is that the movement against massive surveillance is strong
enough to win something real.


title: Newark's Adoption of Stop-and-Frisk Transparency Policy
uri: Newark-s-Adoption-of-Stop-and-Frisk-Transparency-Policy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Newark's_Adoption_of_Stop-and-Frisk_Transparency_Policy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Newark%27s_Adoption_of_Stop-and-Frisk_Transparency_Policy%29

content:
<p>
ACLU-NJ Praises Newark's Adoption
of <a href="http://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2013/07/09/aclu-nj-praises-newarks-adoption">Stop-and-Frisk
Transparency Policy.</a>
<p>
I think the celebration is premature.  This policy may be a step
forward if it makes thugs do that less, or shows people how bad it is.
But thugs shouldn't have the power to search you at any time on the
street without cause.


title: Republican policies cause suffering for modern families
uri: Republican-policies-cause-suffering-for-modern-families
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Republican_policies_cause_suffering_for_modern_families)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Republican_policies_cause_suffering_for_modern_families%29

content:
<p>
Republican "pro-family" policies
cause <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/12/kate-middleton-baby-american-way-birth">suffering
for modern families.</a>
<p>
Having a baby in the US is especially expensive and dangerous to the
mother, and Republican policies put the safer alternatives such as
contraception and abortion out of some women's reach.
<p>
If the article's author thinks babies are adorable and something to
celebrate, she should not claim we all feel that way.  I don't, and
you don't have to.  When a baby is born, we should help it achieve a
good life, but the world would be no worse off if that baby had not
been born.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Wild_elephants_and_humans_in_conflict)
title: Wild elephants and humans in conflict
uri: Wild-elephants-and-humans-in-conflict
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Wild_elephants_and_humans_in_conflict%29

content:
<p>
The spread of human activities in
India <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/terra-india/2013/jul/12/india-man-elephant-conflict-escalates">has
brought wild elephants and humans into conflict.</a>


title: Republicans killing the immigration bill
uri: Republicans-killing-the-immigration-bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Republicans_killing_the_immigration_bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Republicans_killing_the_immigration_bill%29

content:
<p>
The Republicans in the House
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/12/sabotaging-immigration-reform-house-republicans">killing
the immigration bill.</a>
<p>
I'm in favor of offering immigrants without papers a path to
citizenship, but the immigration bill has another provision which
would require employees to have state-issued ID cards, making them in
effect almost national ID cards.  I thing this is a change in the
wrong direction.
<p>
If we don't want a surveillance state, we must start opposing and
reversing surveillance measures.


title: Alex Navalny will likely be imprisoned on bogus charges for opposing Putin
uri: Alex-Navalny-will-likely-be-imprisoned-on-bogus-charges-for-opposing-P
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Alex_Navalny_will_likely_be_imprisoned_on_bogus_charges_for_opposing_Putin)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Alex_Navalny_will_likely_be_imprisoned_on_bogus_charges_for_opposing_Putin%29

content:
<p>
Alexei Navalny is running for mayor of Moscow, but will most likely
be <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/alexei-navalny-kremlin-jail-russia-embezzlement">imprisoned
on bogus charges for opposing Putin.</a>


title: Snowden has asked for asylum temporarily in Russia
uri: Snowden-has-asked-for-asylum-temporarily-in-Russia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Snowden_has_asked_for_asylum_temporarily_in_Russia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Snowden_has_asked_for_asylum_temporarily_in_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Snowden
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/edward-snowden-full-statement-moscow">asked
for asylum temporarily in Russia</a> until he can get to one of the
Latin American countries that has offered him asylum.


title: Florida banned all Internet connections
uri: Florida-banned-all-Internet-connections
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Florida_banned_all_Internet_connections)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Florida_banned_all_Internet_connections%29

content:
<p>
Florida set out to ban Internet cafes, which is unjust, and
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/09/1222332/-Stupid-Republican-tricks-special-edition-Florida-accidently-bans-linking-computers-to-internet?detail=email">accidentally
banned all Internet connections.</a>


title: Urgent: Call for an investigation of oil companies
uri: Urgent-Call-for-an-investigation-of-oil-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Urgent:_Call_for_an_investigation_of_oil_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_an_investigation_of_oil_companies%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for
an <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12260">investigation
of oil companies</a> for manipulating the price of oil.


title: Urgent: Stand firm against Walmart bullying and sign living wage act
uri: Urgent-Stand-firm-against-Walmart-bullying-and-sign-living-wage-act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Urgent:_Stand_firm_against_Walmart_bullying_and_sign_living_wage_act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stand_firm_against_Walmart_bullying_and_sign_living_wage_act%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: urge the mayor of Washington DC
to <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=475">stand
firm against Walmart bullying and sign the living wage law.</a>
<p>
Any community is better off without a Walmart store.  Walmart
systematically <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_June_2013_(Walmart_moving_increasingly_to_temporary_workers)">pushes
down wages.</a>


title: Urgent: Call for negotiation with Iran
uri: Urgent-Call-for-negotiation-with-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Urgent:_Call_for_negotiation_with_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_negotiation_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/dent-price">call
for serious negotiation with Iran</a> about uranium enrichment.


title: Urgent: Support reinstitution of the Glass Steagall Act
uri: Urgent-Support-reinstitution-of-the-Glass-Steagall-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_reinstitution_of_the_Glass_Steagall_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_reinstitution_of_the_Glass_Steagall_Act%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://my.elizabethwarren.com/page/s/glass-steagall">support
reinstitution of the Glass Steagall Act</a> to separate banking from
investment gambling.


title: Don't celebrate election of president approved by theocracy
uri: Don-t-celebrate-election-of-president-approved-by-theocracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Don't_celebrate_election_of_president_approved_by_theocracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Don%27t_celebrate_election_of_president_approved_by_theocracy%29

content:
<p>
Don't celebrate the election of an Iranian
president <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iran-blog/2013/jul/12/iran-hassan-rouhani-green-movement">approved
by the theocracy.</a>
<p>
The election was not free, since candidates were limited by the
theocratic regime.  The new president is not to be celebrated, as he
will not give human rights Iranians.  However, he might be open to a
reasonable settlement on the uranium refining dispute, and the US
should be ready to make one.
<p>
In order to do this, the US will have to defy the Israeli hawks'
lobby, that want conflict between the US and Iran regardless of the
pretext.


title: Air pollution kills 2.5 million people a year
uri: Air-pollution-kills-2-5-million-people-a-year
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Air_pollution_kills_2.5_million_people_a_year)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Air_pollution_kills_2.5_million_people_a_year%29

content:
<p>
Air pollution, mostly soot and
ozone, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/12/air-pollution-deaths-climate-change">kills
2.5 million people a year.</a>
<p>
The soot comes from diesel engines, power plants and coal fires.  The
ozone comes from engines.


title: Mining companies pressuring the Australian government
uri: Mining-companies-pressuring-the-Australian-government
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Mining_companies_pressuring_the_Australian_government)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Mining_companies_pressuring_the_Australian_government%29

content:
<p>
Mining companies are pressuring the Australian government to
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/coal-seam-gas-project-environment">relax
environmental protections on exploratory drilling.</a>
<p>
If the drilling finds gas, supposedly it would provide 1/4 of the gas
that New South Wales would plan to burn.  So what?  We already have
far more supplies of fossil
fuels <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_(Burning_1%2F3_of_fossil_fuel_reserves_is_likely_to_trigger_runaway_greenhouse_effect)">than
we dare use</a>; what good is it to find more?


title: Fires in Indonesia on palm oil plantations
uri: Fires-in-Indonesia-on-palm-oil-plantations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 13_July_2013_(Fires_in_Indonesia_on_palm_oil_plantations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_July_2013_%28Fires_in_Indonesia_on_palm_oil_plantations%29

content:
<p>
Some of the large fires in Indonesia are
on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/12/sustainable-palm-oil-pollution-crisis">palm
oil plantations.</a>
<p>
Some of them are members of
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/palm-oil-industry-indonesia-fires">Roundtable
on Sustainable Palm Oil.</a>


title: Urgent: Maintain EPA's regulation of toxic coal ash
uri: Urgent-Maintain-EPA-s-regulation-of-toxic-coal-ash
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Urgent:_Maintain_EPAs_regulation_of_toxic_coal_ash)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Maintain_EPAs_regulation_of_toxic_coal_ash%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/senate_coal_ash/">tell your 
senators</a> not to weaken the EPA's regulation of toxic coal ash.


title: Urgent: Oppose lobbying against improved fuel efficiency
uri: Urgent-Oppose-lobbying-against-improved-fuel-efficiency
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_lobbying_against_improved_fuel_efficiency)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_lobbying_against_improved_fuel_efficiency%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3761">tell 
UPS</a> to stop lobbying against improved fuel efficiency.


title: Texas republicans pass law to restrict abortion
uri: Texas-republicans-pass-law-to-restrict-abortion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Texas_republicans_pass_law_to_restrict_abortion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Texas_republicans_pass_law_to_restrict_abortion%29

content:
<p>
Texas Republicans 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/13/texas-passes-anti-abortion-law">passed 
their law to restrict abortion</a>, which will probably be blocked as
unconstitutional.


title: Student writes about NSA recruitment event
uri: Student-writes-about-NSA-recruitment-event
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Student_writes_about_NSA_recruitment_event)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Student_writes_about_NSA_recruitment_event%29

content:
<p>
One of the students who talked back to NSA recruiters
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/12-9">writes about 
the experience</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Malala_Yousafzai_addresses_UN)
title: Malala Yousafzai addresses UN
uri: Malala-Yousafzai-addresses-UN
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Malala_Yousafzai_addresses_UN%29
content:
<p>
Malala Yousafzai 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/malala-yousafzai-un-taliban-militants-speech">addressed 
the UN</a> on her 16th birthday, advocating the cause of providing
education to the 57 million children who are denied schooling.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Overfishing_in_the_Mediterranean)
title: Overfishing in the Mediterranean
uri: Overfishing-in-the-Mediterranean
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Overfishing_in_the_Mediterranean%29
content:
<p>
Overfishing in the Mediterranean is coming back to haunt humans
as 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/12/mediterranean-visitors-warned-jellyfish-numbers-rising">jellyfish 
take over many beaches in the Mediterranean</a>.


title: Obama regime's new guidelines for investigating leaks
uri: Obama-regime-s-new-guidelines-for-investigating-leaks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Obama_regimes_new_guidelines_for_investigating_leaks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Obama_regimes_new_guidelines_for_investigating_leaks%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime says it 
<a htrg="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/justice-department-guidelines-media-leak">will 
(for the time being) not get search warrants against reporters</a>
that publish leaks to find their contacts.
<p>
Unfortunately, this doesn't do as much good as one might hope.  Thanks
to the massive surveillance that Snowden has revealed, they can find
the reporters' sources without a subpoena on the reporters.


title: Portuguese Socialist Party rejects further austerity
uri: Portuguese-Socialist-Party-rejects-further-austerity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Portuguese_Socialist_Party_rejects_further_austerity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Portuguese_Socialist_Party_rejects_further_austerity%29

content:
<p>
The Portuguese Socialist Party has rejected further austerity, which was
demanded in return for 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/portugal-borrowing-costs-bailout">yet 
another "bailout"</a>.
<p>
"Bail out" means "we're pushing your country out the door of the plane".


title: EU encourages corporate land-grab in Cambodia
uri: EU-encourages-corporate-land-grab-in-Cambodia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(EU_encourages_corporate_land-grab_in_Cambodia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28EU_encourages_corporate_land-grab_in_Cambodia%29

content:
<p>
The EU 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/12/cambodia-sugar-eu-policy">encourages 
the corporate land-grab</a> in Cambodia.


title: Tension between secular and jihadist rebels in Syria
uri: Tension-between-secular-and-jihadist-rebels-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Tension_between_secular_and_jihadist_rebels_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Tension_between_secular_and_jihadist_rebels_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Secular and jihadist rebels in Syria are 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/free-syrian-army-officer-killed">on 
the brink of fighting each other</a>.
<p>
If they do become enemies, that might have the paradoxical result of
opening a path for foreign aid to the secular rebels without helping
the jihadis.  However, that doesn't mean it would be a good idea to
get hitched to the FSA.


title: Latin American countries respond to blockage of Evo Morales' plane
uri: Latin-American-countries-respond-to-blockage-of-Evo-Morales-plane
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Latin_American_countries_respond_to_blockage_of_Evo_Morales_plane)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Latin_American_countries_respond_to_blockage_of_Evo_Morales_plane%29

content:
<p>
Latin American countries including Brazil and Argentina will 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/12-7">withdraw
their ambassadors to Spain, France, Italy and Portugal</a> for the
blockage of Evo Morales' plane.
<p>
This will have a real impact.  I won't try to guess whether it will be
enough.


title: US attacking world standards of human rights
uri: US-attacking-world-standards-of-human-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(US_attacking_world_standards_of_human_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28US_attacking_world_standards_of_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
The US is attacking world standards of human rights 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/12-4">in order 
to get Snowden</a>.
<p>
It is also 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/12-5">denouncing 
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch</a> for standing up for
Snowden's human rights, and for what he did for everyone else's human
rights.
<p>
Obama 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/edward-snowden-russian-moscow-meeting">replied 
to Snowden's statement</a> by rebuking Putin for repressing human
rights organizations in Russia.
<p>
That is a valid criticism.  Putin's regime is not in general a
supporter of whistleblowers.  It did not just kill whistleblower
Sergei Magnitsky in prison; it 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/12/magnitsky-trial-putin-justice">put 
him on trial after death</a>. (I am sure Snowden wishes he could go
straight to South America without needing Russian help.)
<p>
However, that doesn't excuse what Obama is doing to punish an American
hero.  "Better than Putin" is no standard for judging our own
government.


title: House Republicans have removed food stamps from the farm bill entirely
uri: House-Republicans-have-removed-food-stamps-from-the-farm-bill-entirely
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(House_Republicans_have_removed_food_stamps_from_the_farm_bill_entirely)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28House_Republicans_have_removed_food_stamps_from_the_farm_bill_entirely%29

content:
<p>
House Republicans
have <a href="http://www.offthechartsblog.org/house-should-vote-down-stand-alone-farm-bill/">removed
food stamps from the farm bill entirely.</a>


title: Republican leaders made a plan to sabotage Obama in every way
uri: Republican-leaders-made-a-plan-to-sabotage-Obama-in-every-way
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Republican_leaders_made_a_plan_to_sabotage_Obama_in_every_way)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Republican_leaders_made_a_plan_to_sabotage_Obama_in_every_way%29

content:
<p>
Republican leaders met and made
a <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17449-why-we-have-a-do-nothing-congress">specific
plan to sabotage Obama in every way.</a>
<p>
However, their sabotage campaign is broader than that.  They also try
to sabotage everything that contributed to women's rights, the
wellbeing of poor Americans. or
even <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/10/2281601/house-votes-to-block-light-bulb-efficiency-standards/">energy
efficiency</a>.
<p>
Obama is easy for the friends of the plutocrats to sabotage, since he
never tries very hard to oppose them.  A real friend of most Americans
would have used the Republicans' sabotage plan to attack them.  But
since he won't do that, it is up to us to do it.


title: US neglects activities that could really make world more secure
uri: US-neglects-activities-that-could-really-make-world-more-secure
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(US_neglects_activities_that_could_really_make_world_more_secure)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28US_neglects_activities_that_could_really_make_world_more_secure%29

content:
<p>
As the US directs ever more resources into "security", which includes
massive surveillance and war,
it <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/11">neglects
the activities that could really make the world more secure</a>.
<p>
Avoiding global heating disaster is one of those activities.  The
Pentagon recognizes that the effects of global heating will cause
"instability" (wars, mass migration, etc.), but Congress and the
President do not pay due attention to this.


title: Billionaire says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor
uri: Billionaire-says-Eliminating-The-Minimum-Wage-Will-Help-The-Poor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Billionaire_says_Eliminating_The_Minimum_Wage_Will_Help_The_Poor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Billionaire_says_Eliminating_The_Minimum_Wage_Will_Help_The_Poor%29

content:
<p>
Billionaire Koch Brother
Says <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/10/2280101/charles-koch-minimum-wage/">Eliminating
The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor.</a>
<p>
He suggests that we judge US wages by comparing them with wages in
other countries, which implies a great reduction in US wages.  That's
an admission of what we figured the US plutocrats want.


title: Judge ordered Microsoft to give Chevron massive amounts of personal data
uri: Judge-ordered-Microsoft-to-give-Chevron-massive-amounts-of-personal-da
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Judge_ordered_Microsoft_to_give_Chevron_massive_amounts_of_personal_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Judge_ordered_Microsoft_to_give_Chevron_massive_amounts_of_personal_data%29

content:
<p>
A federal
judge <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/10/2275611/federal-judge-authorizes-chevrons-sweeping-subpoena-of-activists-internet-data/">ordered
Microsoft to give Chevron massive amounts of personal data</a> on 30
anonymous Internet activists tangentially related to Chevron's lawsuit
against Ecuador.


title: Local Leaders Threaten Hong Kong Press Freedom
uri: Local-Leaders-Threaten-Hong-Kong-Press-Freedom
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Local_Leaders_Threaten_Hong_Kong_Press_Freedom)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Local_Leaders_Threaten_Hong_Kong_Press_Freedom%29

content:
<p>
China, <a href="http://www.cpj.org/blog/2013/07/china-local-leaders-threaten-hong-kong-press-freed.php">Local
Leaders Threaten Hong Kong Press Freedom.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on US not to allow seismic test with very loud noises off the Atlantic coast
uri: Urgent-Call-on-US-not-to-allow-seismic-test-with-very-loud-noises-off
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_US_not_to_allow_seismic_test_with_very_loud_noises_off_the_Atlantic_coast)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_US_not_to_allow_seismic_test_with_very_loud_noises_off_the_Atlantic_coast%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the
US <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1409&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=qbka0x7vk4.app334a">not
to allow seismic test with very loud noises off the Atlantic
coast.</a>  It can kill whales by deafening them.


title: Urgent: Call on Starbucks to move to compostable containers
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Starbucks-to-move-to-compostable-containers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Starbucks_to_move_to_compostable_containers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Starbucks_to_move_to_compostable_containers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Starbucks
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/starbucks%2Dchange%2Dfrom">move
to compostable containers.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Urgent:_Reform_the_filibuster)
title: Urgent: Reform the filibuster
uri: Urgent-Reform-the-filibuster
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Reform_the_filibuster%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: sign this campaign
to <a href="http://www.reformthefilibuster.com/roadblocks/long/">reform
the filibuster.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Moral_dilemmas_of_Syria_and_Egypt)
title: Moral dilemmas of Syria and Egypt
uri: Moral-dilemmas-of-Syria-and-Egypt
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Moral_dilemmas_of_Syria_and_Egypt%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery:
the <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1373636731">moral
dilemmas of Syria and Egypt.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Time_Magazine's_idea_of_a_discussion)
title: Time Magazine's idea of a discussion
uri: Time-Magazine-s-idea-of-a-discussion
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Time_Magazine%27s_idea_of_a_discussion%29

content:
<p>
Time Magazine's idea of a discussion on US budget policy was to
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/07/09/time-sends-simpson-and-norquist-to-the-zoo/">present
two Republicans who disagree on some details.</a>
<p>
It could have been worse: they could have presented a Republican and a
Democrat like Obama that is little different from a Republican.


title: Anchor Has to Remind You You're Not Watching an Ad
uri: Anchor-Has-to-Remind-You-You-re-Not-Watching-an-Ad
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Anchor_Has_to_Remind_You_You're_Not_Watching_an_Ad)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Anchor_Has_to_Remind_You_You%27re_Not_Watching_an_Ad%29

content:
<p>
At NBC News,
the <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/07/10/at-nbc-news-the-anchor-has-to-remind-you-youre-not-watching-an-ad/">Anchor
Has to Remind You You're Not Watching an Ad.</a>


title: Americans with an income under $200,000 a year are negligible
uri: Americans-with-an-income-under-200-000-a-year-are-negligible
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Americans_with_an_income_under_$200,000_a_year_are_negligible)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Americans_with_an_income_under_%24200%2C000_a_year_are_negligible%29

content:
<p>
TV pundit David Gregory
treated <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/07/08/to-millionaire-tv-host-anybody-who-gets-a-paycheck-makes-more-than-200000/">Americans
with an income under $200,000 a year as negligible.</a>


title: Parents in UK won't let their children wander outdoors
uri: Parents-in-UK-won-t-let-their-children-wander-outdoors
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(Parents_in_UK_won't_let_their_children_wander_outdoors)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28Parents_in_UK_won%27t_let_their_children_wander_outdoors%29

content:
<p>
Many parents in the
UK <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/13/no-freedom-play-outside-children">won't
let their children wander outdoors</a>.  As a result, children hardly
ever go outdoors, and when they do, it is like a package tour in a
foreign country.
<p>
The same thing happens in the US: parents are terrified of allowing
children to be alone.  These children are totally dependent on parents
for transportation, and the parents are stressed by the need to do
this.


title: UK union leader suggests that unions drop their support for Labour party
uri: UK-union-leader-suggests-that-unions-drop-their-support-for-Labour-par
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 14_July_2013_(UK_union_leader_suggests_that_unions_drop_their_support_for_Labour_party)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#14_July_2013_%28UK_union_leader_suggests_that_unions_drop_their_support_for_Labour_party%29

content:
<p>
A UK union leader will suggests that
unions <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/13/bob-crow-unions-form-new-labour-party">drop
their support for today's "Labour" party</a>, which has become almost
as plutocratic as the Tory party.


title: Urgent: Release EPA report about flammable tap water
uri: Urgent-Release-EPA-report-about-flammable-tap-water
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Urgent:_Release_of_EPA_report_about_flammable_tap_water)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Release_of_EPA_report_about_flammable_tap_water%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13149">call 
on the EPA</a> to release its report about
flammable tap water due to fracking.


title: Australia's treatment of asylum seekers
uri: Australia-s-treatment-of-asylum-seekers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Australias_treatment_of_asylum_seekers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Australias_treatment_of_asylum_seekers%29

content:
<p>
Australia deposits asylum seekers in a prison in Papua New Guinea
while their cases are heard.  A committee that is supposed to monitor
how these prisoners are treated has never actually met.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(DuckDuckGo_cant_guarantee_anonymity)
title: DuckDuckGo can't guarantee anonymity
uri: DuckDuckGo-can-t-guarantee-anonymity
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28DuckDuckGo_cant_guarantee_anonymity%29

content:
<p>
DuckDuckGo <a href="http://etherrag.blogspot.jp/2013/07/duck-duck-go-illusion-of-privacy.html">can't 
guarantee anonymity for users' searches</a> even given the best will
in the world.  And neither could any other search engine in the US.
<p>
The NSA could be monitoring the search requests before they arrive
at DuckDuckGo's servers.  Those servers are hosted by Amazon,
and Amazon could monitor them too.
<p>
BUT, if you visit through Tor, you block that.


title: Return of bison to former American prairie
uri: Return-of-bison-to-former-American-prairie
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Return_of_bison_to_former_American_prairie)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Return_of_bison_to_former_American_prairie%29

content:
<p>
The return of bison to part of the former American prairie 
<a href="http://blog.nwf.org/2013/07/yellowstone-bison-revitalize-prairie-on-fort-peck-reservation-in-one-year/">restores
the ecology</a>.


title: Debunking the lies that try to excuse TAFTA
uri: Debunking-the-lies-that-try-to-excuse-TAFTA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Debunking_the_lies_that_try_to_excuse_TAFTA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Debunking_the_lies_that_try_to_excuse_TAFTA%29

content:
<p>
Debunking the 
<a href="http://corporateeurope.org/blog/unravelling-spin-guide-corporate-rights-eu-us-trade-deal">lies 
that try to excuse TAFTA</a> (and other free exploitation treaties).
<p>
A further one: the idea that economic growth will benefit most people
no matter how it is brought about.  If the means to achieve growth
serve the rich in other ways, they will get the increased income
and the rest may be worse off.


title: Facing over a hundred years in prison for posting a link
uri: Facing-over-a-hundred-years-in-prison-for-posting-a-link
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Facing_over_a_hundred_years_in_prison_for_posting_a_link)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Facing_over_a_hundred_years_in_prison_for_posting_a_link%29

content:
<p>
Barrett Brown faces 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/united-states-for-investigating-private-11-07-2013,44924.html">over 
a hundred years in prison</a> for posting a link to the (already
published) data obtained from Stratfor.


title: Kyrgyzstan wonders why UK shields son of former dictator
uri: Kyrgyzstan-wonders-why-UK-shields-son-of-former-dictator
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Kyrgyzstan_wonders_why_UK_shields_son_of_former_dictator)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Kyrgyzstan_wonders_why_UK_shields_son_of_former_dictator%29

content:
<p>
Kyrgyzstan, the one democracy in central Asia, wonders why the UK
shields the son of the former dictator, who is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/14/kyrgyzstan-president-atambayev-maxim-bakiyev">accused 
of stealing tremendous amounts of money</a>.


title: UK gov't arbitrarily cancels citizenship of dual nationals
uri: UK-gov-t-arbitrarily-cancels-citizenship-of-dual-nationals
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(UK_govt_arbitrarily_cancels_citizenship_of_dual_nationals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28UK_govt_arbitrarily_cancels_citizenship_of_dual_nationals%29

content:
<p>
The UK government 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/14/obama-secret-kill-list-disposition-matrix">arbitrarily 
cancels</a> the citizenship of dual nationals, typically when they are
outside the country.


title: US gov't blocks tax reforms that would prevent tax avoidance
uri: US-gov-t-blocks-tax-reforms-that-would-prevent-tax-avoidance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(US_govt_blocks_tax_reforms_that_would_prevent_tax_avoidance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28US_govt_blocks_tax_reforms_that_would_prevent_tax_avoidance%29

content:
<p>
The US government is the principal opponent of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/14/us-tax-avoidance-google-amazon">tax 
reforms to prevent Internet companies from escaping taxes</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Guantanamo_hunger_strike_numbers)
title: Guantanamo hunger strike numbers
uri: Guantanamo-hunger-strike-numbers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Guantanamo_hunger_strike_numbers%29
content:
<p>
The Guantanamo prison guards are 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/14/guantanamo-hunger-strike-numbers">trying 
to pretend that fewer prisoners are now on hunger strike</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Acquittal_of_George_Zimmerman)
title: Acquittal of George Zimmerman
uri: Acquittal-of-George-Zimmerman
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Acquittal_of_George_Zimmerman%29
content:
<p>
The acquittal of George Zimmerman 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/14/open-season-black-boys-verdict">could 
encourage racist whites</a> to attack black teenagers presuming
they are criminals, and then kill them.
<p>
Black leaders in the US want George Zimmerman to be tried on a federal
charge of 
"<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/14/george-zimmerman-trial-trayvon-martin">violating 
civil rights.</a>"
<p>
I don't support this campaign because I think the practice is a sneaky
way to violate the constitutional prohibition of double jeopardy.
<p>
Something needs to be changed in the law so as to avoid encouraging
such killings, but I am not sure what it should be.


title: Tasers fired at the chest can cause heart attack
uri: Tasers-fired-at-the-chest-can-cause-heart-attack
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Tasers_fired_at_the_chest_can_cause_heart_attack)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Tasers_fired_at_the_chest_can_cause_heart_attack%29

content:
<p>
The manufacturer of tasers says, 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/14/police-tasers-cardiac-arrest-warnings">don't 
fire at the chest — it can cause a heart attack</a>.  Can you 
guess what body part thugs usually fire at?


title: Australian right-wing's phony "plan" to confront global heating
uri: Australian-right-wing-s-phony-plan-to-confront-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Australian_right-wings_phony_plan_to_confront_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Australian_right-wings_phony_plan_to_confront_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
The Australian right-wing "plan" to confront global heating is
a phony plan 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/jul/08/tony-abbott-climate-policy-australia">developed 
by deniers</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Net_neutrality_in_Europe)
title: Net neutrality in Europe
uri: Net-neutrality-in-Europe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Net_neutrality_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.edri.org/schroedinger-NN">Leaked 
Regulation: Schrödinger's net neutrality on its way in Europe</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Resisting_massive_surveillance)
title: Resisting massive surveillance
uri: Resisting-massive-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Resisting_massive_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
To resist massive surveillance, people must learn to 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/14/privacy-in-social-media-age">reject 
invitations to use services that surveil their users</a>.
<p>
Although the article has a valid point, it undermines itself with the
typical defeatist statements that "we" all engage in these
surveillance-feeding practices now.  Readers might well suppose that
if "everyone does it" then there is no point seriously thinking of stopping.
<p>
But it's not all of us, only some of us.  It <em>is</em> possible to
say no.  I have never used Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat,
Foursquare, Google+ or Path.  (I might consider using Twitter for
tweeting, if it were convenient for me.)  I don't have a portable
phone because I don't want to tell a phone company everywhere I go.


title: How US pressures Internet companies into cooperating with Prism
uri: How-US-pressures-Internet-companies-into-cooperating-with-Prism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(How_US_pressures_Internet_companies_into_cooperating_with_Prism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28How_US_pressures_Internet_companies_into_cooperating_with_Prism%29

content:
<p>
How the US pressures Internet companies into cooperating with Prism:
by <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/how-the-u.s-forces-net-firms-to-cooperate-on-surveillance/">threatening 
to install their own surveillance gear without the companies'
help</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Privacy_International_sues_UK_govt)
title: Privacy International sues UK gov't
uri: Privacy-International-sues-UK-gov-t
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Privacy_International_sues_UK_govt%29

content:
<p>
Privacy International is suing the UK government over its 
<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/press-releases/privacy-international-files-legal-challenge-against-uk-government-over-mass">massive
surveillance practices</a>.
<p>
Other human rights organizations are 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/14/pricacy-campaigners-review-snooping-laws">demanding 
changes in surveillance policies</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Edward_Snowden_was_right_to_flee)
title: Edward Snowden was right to flee
uri: Edward-Snowden-was-right-to-flee
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Edward_Snowden_was_right_to_flee%29
content:
<p>
Daniel Ellsberg: 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-ellsberg-nsa-leaker-snowden-made-the-right-call/2013/07/07/0b46d96c-e5b7-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_print.html">Edward Snowden was right to flee</a>; the US of today
is "not the same country" as the one Ellsberg dared to remain in.
<p>
The <a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/07/08/snowden-and-venezuela-my-biza.html">latest 
media campaign to smear Snowden</a> is to point out that Venezuela is
guilty of some wrongful surveillance too.
<p>
Surveillance of people because they are opposed to government policies
is no more legitimate in Venezuela than it is 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_June_2013_(US_has_history_of_applying_spy_mechanisms_to_domestic_dissent)">in 
the US</a>.


title: US officials' misleading statements about surveillance practices
uri: US-officials-misleading-statements-about-surveillance-practices
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(US_officials_misleading_statements_about_surveillance_practices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28US_officials_misleading_statements_about_surveillance_practices%29

content:
<p>
US officials have a 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lawmakers-say-administrations-lack-of-candor-on-surveillance-weakens-oversight/2013/07/10/8275d8c8-e97a-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_print.html">pattern 
of making misleading (or outright dishonest) statements</a> about
surveillance practices.


title: Psychological manipulation of gratis-to-play games
uri: Psychological-manipulation-of-gratis-to-play-games
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Psychological_manipulation_of_gratis-to-play_games)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Psychological_manipulation_of_gratis-to-play_games%29

content:
<p>
How gratis-to-play games psychologically 
<a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/194933/">manipulate 
players into paying over and over</a> to have a chance of winning.
<p>
There is nothing exploitative in a chess set, a deck of cards, or an
ordinary board game; the company that sells them doesn't manipulate
the game you play so as to pressure or trick you into buying more of
its product.  Those are the standard of comparison by which we can see
if some other game is exploitative.  When you see how these companies
fool people into spending money, I hope you will decide never to deal
with them.


title: John Kiriakou on getting medical treatment in prison
uri: John-Kiriakou-on-getting-medical-treatment-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(John_Kiriakou_on_getting_medical_treatment_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28John_Kiriakou_on_getting_medical_treatment_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
John Kiriakou explains 
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/07/09/cia-whistleblower-in-letter-describes-breaking-his-finger-in-prison-being-denied-immediate-treatment/">what 
he had to go through</a> to get medical treatment when he broke his
finger while in prison.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Phone_call_records)
title: Phone call records
uri: Phone-call-records
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Phone_call_records%29
content:
<p>
Once phone call records are saved and made available for later
examination, governments examine them for the
<a href="http://www.wyndhamweekly.com.au/story/1628329/experts-slam-wyndham-councils-data-snooping/">smallest 
of reasons</a>.


title: Nina Paley on limiting mass immigration
uri: Nina-Paley-on-limiting-mass-immigration
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Nina_Paley_on_limiting_mass_immigration)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Nina_Paley_on_limiting_mass_immigration%29

content:
<p>
Nina Paley on limiting mass immigration … 
<a href="http://www.ninapaley.com/Words/rants.html">of sperm</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(TAFTA)
title: TAFTA
uri: TAFTA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28TAFTA%29
content:
<p>
The benefit of increased trade from TAFTA is projected to amount to
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/07/taftas-trade-benefit-a-candy-bar.html">three 
cents per person per day</a>.
<p>
Of course, that benefit won't be evenly divided.  It will be for the
rich.  The rest will get only the fallout from everything else in the
treaty, whose name stands for Turn All Freedom To Ashes.


title: Skanska construction quits US Chamber of Commerce
uri: Skanska-construction-quits-US-Chamber-of-Commerce
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Skanska_construction_quits_US_Chamber_of_Commerce)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Skanska_construction_quits_US_Chamber_of_Commerce%29

content:
<p>
Skanska construction quit the US Chamber of Commerce because that organization
is <a href="http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/07/11/another-company-leaves-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-over-the-organizations-environmental-policies/">lobbying 
against green construction methods</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Summarizing_the_dangers_of_fracking)
title: Summarizing the dangers of fracking
uri: Summarizing-the-dangers-of-fracking
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Summarizing_the_dangers_of_fracking%29

content:
<p>
Summarizing the dangers of fracking: 
<a href="http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/07/09/obamas-support-of-fracking-undermines-his-goal-of-reducing-greenhouse-gases/">polluting 
the water globally, and increasing heating globally</a>.


title: Obama plans to keep troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014
uri: Obama-plans-to-keep-troops-in-Afghanistan-beyond-2014
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Obama_plans_to_keep_troops_in_Afghanistan_beyond_2014)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Obama_plans_to_keep_troops_in_Afghanistan_beyond_2014%29

content:
<p>
Obama plans to keep troops in Afghanistan 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/13-1">far 
beyond 2014</a>.


title: Many vertebrate species can't survive global heating
uri: Many-vertebrate-species-can-t-survive-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Many_vertebrate_species_cant_survive_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Many_vertebrate_species_cant_survive_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
An experiment found many vertebrate species 
<a href="http://uanews.org/story/ua-study-evolution-too-slow-to-keep-up-with-climate-change">can't 
adapt fast enough</a> to survive global heating.
<p>
They can adapt to 1C of temperature change in a million years, not 2C
(let alone 4C) in a hundred years.


title: GlaxoSmithKline is accused of bribing doctors in China
uri: GlaxoSmithKline-is-accused-of-bribing-doctors-in-China
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(GlaxoSmithKline_is_accused_of_bribing_doctors_in_China)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28GlaxoSmithKline_is_accused_of_bribing_doctors_in_China%29

content:
<p>
GlaxoSmithKline
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/15/glaxosmithkline-china-bribery-allegations">accused
of bribing doctors in China.</a>
<p>
I won't say it can't be true.


title: Demand that Texas investigate why state troopers confiscated tampons
uri: Demand-that-Texas-investigate-why-state-troopers-confiscated-tampons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Demand_that_Texas_investigate_why_state_troopers_confiscated_tampons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Demand_that_Texas_investigate_why_state_troopers_confiscated_tampons%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=483">Demand
that Texas investigate why state troopers confiscated tampons</a>


title: Oyster reefs and wetlands provide vital protection
uri: Oyster-reefs-and-wetlands-provide-vital-protection
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Oyster_reefs_and_wetlands_provide_vital_protection)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Oyster_reefs_and_wetlands_provide_vital_protection%29

content:
<p>
Oyster reefs and
wetlands <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/07/habitat-protects-map">provide
vital protection</a> from the ocean inundations that global heating
will bring.


title: FISA court rubber-stamps massive surveillance
uri: FISA-court-rubber-stamps-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(FISA_court_rubber-stamps_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28FISA_court_rubber-stamps_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
How the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/14-4">FISA
court rubber-stamps massive surveillance.</a>


title: Palestinian prisoners are still hunger striking
uri: Palestinian-prisoners-are-still-hunger-striking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Palestinian_prisoners_are_still_hunger_striking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Palestinian_prisoners_are_still_hunger_striking%29

content:
<p>
Palestinian prisoners are
still <a href="http://samidoun.ca/2013/07/take-action-75-days-of-strike-abdullah-barghouthi-in-health-crisis-implement-the-demands-of-jordanian-hunger-strikers/">hunger
striking.</a>


title: Attacking individual scientists with insults and lawsuits
uri: Attacking-individual-scientists-with-insults-and-lawsuits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Attacking_individual_scientists_with_insults_and_lawsuits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Attacking_individual_scientists_with_insults_and_lawsuits%29

content:
<p>
Those who wish to discredit science operate by attacking individual
scientists, with insults and lawsuits.  Scientists
have <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jul/15/global-warming-games-legal-defense-fund">organized
to defend science from this.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Banning_abortions)
title: Banning abortions
uri: Banning-abortions
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Banning_abortions%29
content:
<p>
We must directly confront those who pretend that banning abortions is
an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/abortion-should-be-womans-choice-equals">expression
of concern for people.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(Russian_surveillance)
title: Russian surveillance
uri: Russian-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28Russian_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Russia wants to make multinational Internet
companies <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/global/nsa-leaks-stir-plans-in-russia-to-control-net.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">cooperate
with Russian surveillance rather than US Internet surveillance</a>,
regarding data about Russia and Russians.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 15_July_2013_(The_NSA_mission)
title: The NSA mission
uri: The-NSA-mission
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_%28The_NSA_mission%29
content:
<p>
The NSA says its mission is
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-nsa-collect-it-all">collect
"all" data, and it effectively targets everyone.</a>


title: Afghan gov't soldiers continue shooting gov't and NATO troops
uri: Afghan-gov-t-soldiers-continue-shooting-gov-t-and-NATO-troops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_(Afghan_govt_soldiers_continue_shooting_govt_and_NATO_troops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%28Afghan_govt_soldiers_continue_shooting_govt_and_NATO_troops%29

content:
<p>
Afghan government soldiers continue shooting government troops and
NATO troops.  One who was caught and arrested has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/15/afghan-nato-soldier-killer-escape">escaped 
through the help of one of the officers in charge of the prison</a>.
<p>
These events demonstrate that the Taliban inspire a kind of loyalty
which Karzai's government can't compete with.  It is difficult to win a fight
against that sort of disadvantage.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_(The_killing_of_Trayvon_Martin)
title: The killing of Trayvon Martin
uri: The-killing-of-Trayvon-Martin
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%28The_killing_of_Trayvon_Martin%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/16/trayvon-martin-black-men-killed">Alice 
Walker's reflections</a> on the killing of Trayvon Martin.
<p>
The chain of events that directly led to his killing started when a
white racist assumed a young black man was a criminal mainly because
of his looks, then pursued him.  That must happen fairly often in the
US.  If it leads to a fight, there is some chance one of the people
will be killed (most likely the young black man).
<p>
A crucial psychological principle is that the probability of
punishment and the frequency of punishment matter more than the amount
of punishment.  If we want to prevent repetition of this chain of
events, it would be more effective to punish or discourage some event
near the start, rather than an unusual outcome.  Perhaps limiting
carrying concealed weapons is a good solution.


title: Mining company uses masked armed guards
uri: Mining-company-uses-masked-armed-guards
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_(Mining_company_uses_masked_armed_guards)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%28Mining_company_uses_masked_armed_guards%29

content:
<p>
A mining company, freshly given state permission to pollute water
supplies,
uses <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2013/07/walker-backed-mine-hires-militiamen-intimidate-protesters">masked
armed guards to "protect" itself from imaginary violent
protesters</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_(World_Bank_backing_big_dams_in_Africa)
title: World Bank backing big dams in Africa
uri: World-Bank-backing-big-dams-in-Africa
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%28World_Bank_backing_big_dams_in_Africa%29

content:
<p>
The World Bank is once
again <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/jul/16/world-bank-dams-africa">backing
big dams in Africa</a>, despite the visible problems of their previous
big dams in Africa.
<p>
I wonder if the companies that use most of the electricity from these
dams are related to mining.  If so, these dams could be regarded as
another projection of the political power of the mining companies.


title: Chinese gov't persecuting anticorruption activists
uri: Chinese-gov-t-persecuting-anticorruption-activists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_(Chinese_gov't_persecuting_anticorruption_activists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%28Chinese_gov%27t_persecuting_anticorruption_activists%29

content:
<p>
The Chinese government
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/16/chinese-crackdown-corruption-campaigners">persecuting
anticorruption activists</a>, thus undermining its own proclaimed
campaign against corruption.


title: EU deals for cooperation with Israel now required to exclude Israeli colonies
uri: EU-deals-for-cooperation-with-Israel-now-required-to-exclude-Israeli-c
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_(EU_deals_for_cooperation_with_Israel_now_required_to_exclude_Israeli_colonies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%28EU_deals_for_cooperation_with_Israel_now_required_to_exclude_Israeli_colonies%29

content:
<p>
All EU deals for cooperation with Israel are
now <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/16/eu-israel-settlement-exclusion-clause">required
to explicitly exclude Israeli colonies in Palestinian territory</a>
— specifically, the West Bank.


title: Urgent: Write to Obama against the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline
uri: Urgent-Write-to-Obama-against-the-Keystone-XL-planet-roaster-pipeline
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_(Urgent:_Write_to_Obama_against_the_Keystone_XL_planet-roaster_pipeline)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Write_to_Obama_against_the_Keystone_XL_planet-roaster_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=VLjcrfbactTN1WbtowlEBQ">write
to Obama against the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline.</a>


title: Urgent: Approve Gina McCarthy as head of the EPA.
uri: Urgent-Approve-Gina-McCarthy-as-head-of-the-EPA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_(Urgent:_Approve_Gina_McCarthy_as_head_of_the_EPA.)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Approve_Gina_McCarthy_as_head_of_the_EPA.%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators
to <a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2079">approve
Gina McCarthy as head of the EPA.</a>


title: 'You Can Trust Good Guys to Spy on You'
uri: You-Can-Trust-Good-Guys-to-Spy-on-You
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_('You_Can_Trust_Good_Guys_to_Spy_on_You')

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%28%27You_Can_Trust_Good_Guys_to_Spy_on_You%27%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/07/15-0">'You Can
Trust Good Guys to Spy on You'</a>: The Difference Between Bush's
Spying and Obama's Spying, as Explained by 'Obama'.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_(2.3_meters_of_sea-level_rise)
title: 2.3 meters of sea-level rise
uri: 2-3-meters-of-sea-level-rise
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%282.3_meters_of_sea-level_rise%29
content:
<p>
A study
confidently <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/15/sea-levels-rise-global-warming">predicts
2.3 meters of sea-level rise per degree</a> of increase in the global
average temperature.
<p>
Thus, two degrees rise would mean many coastal cities are in big
trouble.  And it will require vigorous efforts to avoid even worse
trouble.


title: SEC prosecuting underling involved in massive fraud
uri: SEC-prosecuting-underling-involved-in-massive-fraud
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 16_July_2013_(SEC_prosecuting_underling_involved_in_massive_fraud)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_July_2013_%28SEC_prosecuting_underling_involved_in_massive_fraud%29

content:
<p>
The SEC is prosecuting an underling who was involved in a massive
fraud,
but <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/prosecuting-tourre-goldman-sec-failure">shows
no interest in prosecuting the higher-ups.</a>
<p>
I don't think it is wrong to prosecute Fabrice Tourre if he knew what
he was doing.  (I don't need to try to judge, for myself, whether he
did.)  The wrong is in letting the others off the hook, and failing to
change banking law so it can't happen again.


title: Urgent: Ban US from spending money to arm Syrian rebels
uri: Urgent-Ban-US-from-spending-money-to-arm-Syrian-rebels
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Urgent:_Ban_US_from_spending_money_to_arm_Syrian_rebels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_US_from_spending_money_to_arm_Syrian_rebels%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: ask your congresscritter to support an amendment
to <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/block-syria-arms">ban
the US from spending Pentagon money to arm Syrian rebels.</a>
<p>
A spending ban is not airtight.  When Congress banned spending money
to aid right-wing rebels in Nicaragua, Reagan arranged for private
arms dealers to ransom American hostages by selling arms to their
terrorist kidnappers, then used the "private" profits to fund those
rebels.  Obama might try the same thing.
<p>
Still, the spending ban is a good step forward.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Urgent:_Repair_the_Voting_Rights_Act)
title: Urgent: Repair the Voting Rights Act
uri: 2013-07-18-Urgent-Repair-the-Voting-Rights-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Repair_the_Voting_Rights_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="http://action.kirstengillibrand.com/t/12104/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=629">repair
the Voting Rights Act.</a>


title: Urgent: Support UN efforts toward global nuclear disarmament
uri: Urgent-Support-UN-efforts-toward-global-nuclear-disarmament
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_UN_efforts_toward_global_nuclear_disarmament)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_UN_efforts_toward_global_nuclear_disarmament%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="http://www.nuclearfreefuture.org/2013/07/07/tell-president-obama-the-time-is-right-and-the-world-is-ready-to-negotiate-the-elimination-of-nuclear-weapons/">support
UN efforts toward global nuclear disarmament.</a>


title: Urgent: Order gov't contractors to pay living wage
uri: Urgent-Order-gov-t-contractors-to-pay-living-wage
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Urgent:_Order_gov't_contractors_to_pay_living_wage)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Order_gov%27t_contractors_to_pay_living_wage%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/govtcontracters_National/">order
government contractors to pay a living wage.</a>


title: Urgent: Prevent pollution that makes US beaches unsafe
uri: Urgent-Prevent-pollution-that-makes-US-beaches-unsafe
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Urgent:_Prevent_pollution_that_makes_US_beaches_unsafe)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Prevent_pollution_that_makes_US_beaches_unsafe%29

content:
<p>
Urgent: US citizens: call on the EPA
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=8629">prevent
the pollution that frequently makes US beaches unsafe.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Urgent: Cancel_the_F35_fighter_jet)
title: Urgent: Cancel the F35 fighter jet
uri: Urgent-Cancel-the-F35-fighter-jet
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A%20Cancel_the_F35_fighter_jet%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="http://org.credoaction.com/petitions/the-f-35-is-a-bad-deal-for-america?akid=8374.1183552.nwgB0j&rd=1&t=1004">cancel
the F35 fighter jet.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Long-term_unemployment_in_UK)
title: Long-term unemployment in UK
uri: Long-term-unemployment-in-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Long-term_unemployment_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
Long-term unemployment in the UK
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/17/uk-unemployment-falls-claimant-count-data">reached
a 17-year high.</a>


title: PayPal blocks payment for books with "Iran" in title
uri: PayPal-blocks-payment-for-books-with-Iran-in-title
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(PayPal_blocks_payment_for_books_with_Iran_in_title)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28PayPal_blocks_payment_for_books_with_Iran_in_title%29

content:
<p>
PayPal <a href="http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2013/07/paypal-and-the-word-iranian.html">blocks 
payment for books</a> that have "Iran" in their name.


title: Former Senator Gordon Humphrey supports Snowden
uri: Former-Senator-Gordon-Humphrey-supports-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Former_Senator_Gordon_Humphrey_supports_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Former_Senator_Gordon_Humphrey_supports_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
Former Senator Gordon Humphrey says 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/16-10">Snowden did 
the right thing</a> and wishes him success in finding asylum.


title: The concept of homicide by a corporation
uri: The-concept-of-homicide-by-a-corporation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(The_concept_of_homicide_by_a_corporation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28The_concept_of_homicide_by_a_corporation%29

content:
<p>
On resurrecting the concept of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/16-8">homicide by a 
corporation</a> in the US.
<p>
I am left wondering why the practice ceased.
If it was done before under state law, why not now?


title: Feminism fights to free men as well as women
uri: Feminism-fights-to-free-men-as-well-as-women
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Feminism_fights_to_free_men_as_well_as_women)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Feminism_fights_to_free_men_as_well_as_women%29

content:
<p>
Feminism fights to free men as well as women 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2013/jul/16/feminism">from 
patriarchy</a>.


title: 10 commentaries on George Zimmerman verdict
uri: 10-commentaries-on-George-Zimmerman-verdict
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(10_commentaries_on_George_Zimmerman_verdict)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%2810_commentaries_on_George_Zimmerman_verdict%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/16/zimmerman-not-guilty-verdict-top-commentaries">10 
commentaries</a> on the George Zimmerman verdict.


title: Urgent: Call on McDonalds to stop making workers pay to collect pay
uri: Urgent-Call-on-McDonalds-to-stop-making-workers-pay-to-collect-pay
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_McDonalds_to_stop_making_workers_pay_to_collect_pay)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_McDonalds_to_stop_making_workers_pay_to_collect_pay%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/prepaid/">call on 
McDonalds</a> to stop making workers pay to collect their pay.


title: India's new wealth directed towards a few
uri: India-s-new-wealth-directed-towards-a-few
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Indias_new_wealth_directed_towards_a_few)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Indias_new_wealth_directed_towards_a_few%29

content:
<p>
Amartya Sen's new book points out how India has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/16/amartya-sen-india-dirty-fighter">directed 
its new wealth towards a few</a>.  50% of Indians have no access to a
toilet, and 50% of the children are stunted by malnutrition.  Poorer
neighboring countries have done much better for the poor, and so has
China.


title: Shipment of oil around North America by rail
uri: Shipment-of-oil-around-North-America-by-rail
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Shipment_of_oil_around_North_America_by_rail)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Shipment_of_oil_around_North_America_by_rail%29

content:
<p>
Large and increasing quantities of oil are being shipped around North America
by rail, making 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/16/canada-oil-spill-transport-risk-pipeline">disasters 
only a matter of time</a>.
<p>
Pipelines would solve this problem, but they won't prevent the bigger
disaster that burning oil is likely to cause.  We need a "none of
the above" solution — move away from fossil fuels.


title: Another pesticide banned by EU to protect honeybees
uri: Another-pesticide-banned-by-EU-to-protect-honeybees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Another_pesticide_banned_by_EU_to_protect_honeybees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Another_pesticide_banned_by_EU_to_protect_honeybees%29

content:
<p>
The EU has banned 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/16/eu-fipronil-ban-bees">another 
pesticide</a> to protect honeybees.


title: Russia blocks creation of marine life sanctuary
uri: Russia-blocks-creation-of-marine-life-sanctuary
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Russia_blocks_creation_of_marine_life_sanctuary)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Russia_blocks_creation_of_marine_life_sanctuary%29

content:
<p>
Russia blocked the creation of a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/16/antarctica-marine-reserve-plan">marine 
life sanctuary near Antarctica</a>.
<p>
This is a victory for the short term over the long term.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Morsis_supporters_continue_protesting)
title: Morsi's supporters continue protesting
uri: Morsi-s-supporters-continue-protesting
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Morsis_supporters_continue_protesting%29

content:
<p>
Morsi's supporters continue 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/16/egypt-clashes-police-morsi-supporters">protesting</a>, 
while talks between them and the government were a failure.


title: A world in which no one wanted by the US can find shelter
uri: A-world-in-which-no-one-wanted-by-the-US-can-find-shelter
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(A_world_in_which_no_one_wanted_by_the_US_can_find_shelter)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28A_world_in_which_no_one_wanted_by_the_US_can_find_shelter%29

content:
<p>
The US is trying to create a world in which 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/16-4">no 
one the US wants to get can find shelter</a>.


title: Urgent: Oppose cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security
uri: Urgent-Oppose-cuts-to-Medicare-Medicaid-Social-Security
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 17_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_cuts_to_Medicare_Medicaid_Social_Security)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_cuts_to_Medicare_Medicaid_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://other98.com/take-the-no-cuts-to-social-security-pledge/">ask 
your congresscritter</a> to sign the Grayson-Takano letter, promising
to vote against any bill that would cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social
Security.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Amazon_warehouse_working_conditions)
title: Amazon warehouse working conditions
uri: Amazon-warehouse-working-conditions
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Amazon_warehouse_working_conditions%29

content:
<p>
Workers in an Amazon warehouse and shipping center walk all day
under the orders of a computer, and are
<a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672939/think-your-office-is-soulless-check-out-this-amazon-fulfillment-center#2">forbidden 
even to speak to each other</a>.


title: Urgent: Close Guantanamo and free or charge each prisoner
uri: Urgent-Close-Guantanamo-and-free-or-charge-each-prisoner
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Urgent:_Close_Guantanamo_and_free_or_charge_each_prisoner)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Close_Guantanamo_and_free_or_charge_each_prisoner%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and say, close the Guantanamo prison
and free or charge each prisoner.  Don't allow imprisonment without
trial.  The Senate will vote soon on the issue.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: Spanish ruling party accused of corruption
uri: Spanish-ruling-party-accused-of-corruption
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Spanish_ruling_party_accused_of_corruption)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Spanish_ruling_party_accused_of_corruption%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing Spanish ruling party is accused of corruption,
but hopes to survive by 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/17/spain-revenge-mariano-rajoy">refusing 
to acknowledge it</a>.


title: Ecosystems changed drastically by global heating
uri: Ecosystems-changed-drastically-by-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Ecosystems_changed_drastically_by_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Ecosystems_changed_drastically_by_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Global heating changes ecosystems drastically, in the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/17/antarctic-ice-loss-ocean-ecology">Southern 
Ocean and in Missouri</a>.


title: Absence of Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt's new cabinet
uri: Absence-of-Muslim-Brotherhood-from-Egypt-s-new-cabinet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Absence_of_Muslim_Brotherhood_from_Egypts_new_cabinet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Absence_of_Muslim_Brotherhood_from_Egypts_new_cabinet%29

content:
<p>
The Muslim Brotherhood complains of being excluded from Egypt's new
cabinet
but <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/17/morsi-supporters-protest-islamists-cabinet">maybe
it is actually boycotting the cabinet</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Rules_for_filibusters)
title: Rules for filibusters
uri: Rules-for-filibusters
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Rules_for_filibusters%29
content:
<p>
The Senate has not formally changed the rules for filibusters,
but when Democrats showed they would do so, Republicans 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/16/1224091/-The-filibuster-is-dead-Long-live-the-filibuster">gave 
up on obstructing many of Obama's nominations</a>.
<p>
I advocate changing the rules so that a filibuster must be carried out
physically by senators prepared to speak as long as necessary.


title: Urgent: Ban neonicotinoid pesticides in the US
uri: 2013-07-19-Urgent-Ban-neonicotinoid-pesticides-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Urgent:_Ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/usa_save_the_bees/">call for 
legislation</a> to ban neonicotinoid pesticides in the US.


title: Three degrees of separation from a terrorist suspect
uri: Three-degrees-of-separation-from-a-terrorist-suspect
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Three_degrees_of_separation_from_a_terrorist_suspect)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Three_degrees_of_separation_from_a_terrorist_suspect%29

content:
<p>
The NSA says it is allowed to investigate anyone up to 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/17/nsa-surveillance-house-hearing">three 
degrees of separation from a terrorist suspect</a>. That would be a
large fraction of the US.  It got this broad permission from the FISA
court.


title: Chinese control of Internet public opinion
uri: Chinese-control-of-Internet-public-opinion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Chinese_control_of_Internet_public_opinion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Chinese_control_of_Internet_public_opinion%29

content:
<p>
Chinese control of Internet public opinion is becoming more subtle,
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/14/china-great-firewall-put-out">involving 
spin as much as outright deletion</a>.
<p>
This resembles what businesses do to shape Internet public opinion.
John Dvorak presented evidence that 
<a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412083,00.asp">Microsoft 
was doing this to create a favorable attitude towards Windows 8</a>.


title: UK thugs tried to undermine campaign for proper murder investigation
uri: UK-thugs-tried-to-undermine-campaign-for-proper-murder-investigation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(UK_thugs_tried_to_undermine_campaign_for_proper_murder_investigation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28UK_thugs_tried_to_undermine_campaign_for_proper_murder_investigation%29

content:
<p>
A UK thug chief admits that undercover thugs 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/16/stephen-lawrence-family-undercover-police">gathered 
evidence about the relatives of murdered Stephen Lawrence</a>.
<p>
There was no reason to suspect them of any crime, but they were
campaigning for a proper investigation of Lawrence's death.
(Fortunately their campaign was successful, and found the real
killers.)


title: Leak suggests EU is about to abandon network neutrality
uri: Leak-suggests-EU-is-about-to-abandon-network-neutrality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Leak_suggests_EU_is_about_to_abandon_network_neutrality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Leak_suggests_EU_is_about_to_abandon_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
A leak suggests that the EU is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/17-5">about to 
abandon network neutrality</a>.


title: Surveillance of cars by license plate readers
uri: Surveillance-of-cars-by-license-plate-readers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Surveillance_of_cars_by_license_plate_readers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Surveillance_of_cars_by_license_plate_readers%29

content:
<p>
As Americans campaign against NSA surveillance, we should also limit
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jul/17/million-american-license-plate-privacy-tracking">surveillance 
of cars</a> by license plate readers.
<p>
These systems can serve valid purposes, but they are unacceptable if
they surveil everyone.  They must be designed so that they don't
really "see" a car unless its plate is on a list, and only a specific
court order about a specific plate should put it on the list.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Back_door_into_CPU_chips)
title: Back door into CPU chips
uri: Back-door-into-CPU-chips
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Back_door_into_CPU_chips%29
content:
<p>
It's possible that Intel has given the NSA a 
<a href="http://steveblank.com/2013/07/15/your-computer-may-already-be-hacked-nsa-inside/">back 
door into CPU chips</a>.
<p>
In any case, upgradeable microcode that isn't free software means that
these processors require nonfree installed software to run.


title: Lawsuit filed to end massive gov't collection of phone records
uri: Lawsuit-filed-to-end-massive-gov-t-collection-of-phone-records
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Lawsuit_filed_to_end_massive_govt_collection_of_phone_records)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Lawsuit_filed_to_end_massive_govt_collection_of_phone_records%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="https://www.eff.org/cases/first-unitarian-church-los-angeles-v-nsa">coalition 
led by the EFF</a> has sued to put an end to massive government
collection of Americans' phone call records.
<p>
The Free Software Foundation is one of the plaintiffs.
Here's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/16-5">more 
information</a> about the range of organizations.
<p>
Sad to say, even if this suit is successful, it won't go far enough
to give us privacy rights.  We must not allow a complete dossier
about every American to be there, just waiting for the government to
have some reason to investigate him.
<p>
Bills proposed to put an end to massive surveillance also 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/bills-fail-fix-unconstitutional-nsa-spying">do 
not go far enough</a> to really solve the problem.


title: ALEC pushing hard to privatize US public schooling
uri: ALEC-pushing-hard-to-privatize-US-public-schooling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(ALEC_pushing_hard_to_privatize_US_public_schooling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28ALEC_pushing_hard_to_privatize_US_public_schooling%29

content:
<p>
ALEC is pushing hard
to <a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12175">privatize US public
schooling.</a>


title: Stand you ground law enabled Zimmerman to escape
uri: Stand-you-ground-law-enabled-Zimmerman-to-escape
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Stand_you_ground_law_enabled_Zimmerman_to_escape)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Stand_you_ground_law_enabled_Zimmerman_to_escape%29

content:
<p>
How
Florida's <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12181/after-zimmerman-let%E2%80%99s-end-stand-your-ground">"stand
your ground" law enabled Zimmerman to escape</a> conviction.
<p>
I support repeal of these "stand your ground" laws.  This would
reintroduce the "duty to retreat", so that shooting must be the last
resort means for defending oneself, rather than the first priority.
<p>
However, it is clear that Zimmerman did not approach Martin in a
friendly way, saying "Hi, what's up?"  Zimmerman must have tried to
threaten Martin in some way — something that gave Martin a
motive to fight with him.  Perhaps Zimmerman said, "What are you doing
here?"
<p>
Thus I suggest another change in the law: to make it a crime to
approach someone in a threatening way while carrying a weapon, or
perhaps while carrying a concealed weapon, outside of certain special
exceptions.
<p>
Cars can be deadly.  We allow people to own and drive cars, but we
require them to get training and pass a test, and we punish certain
dangerous ways of using them (while drunk, racing on the street, etc).
Why not do the same with guns?  Carrying a gun could bring with it the
special responsibility not to accost people and demand they explain
themselves.
<p>
Punishing these actions even when they don't result in a death —
and they usually don't — would teach most of the Zimmermans of
the world to avoid the sort of conduct that led to this killing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Movement_for_a_basic_income)
title: Movement for a basic income
uri: Movement-for-a-basic-income
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Movement_for_a_basic_income%29
content:
<p>
The movement for a basic income aims
to <a href="http://www.basicincome.org/">give every citizen an income
that is adequate for a non-luxurious life.</a>
<p>
The more work gets automated, the more necessary a basic income will
become.  However, in order to make it possible, we need to make sure
that the owners of the robots can't dodge taxes.


title: UK examined people's phone call and Internet contact data
uri: UK-examined-people-s-phone-call-and-Internet-contact-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(UK_examined_people's_phone_call_and_Internet_contact_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28UK_examined_people%27s_phone_call_and_Internet_contact_data%29

content:
<p>
The UK examined people's phone call and Internet contact data
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/18/people-falsely-accused-internet-data-disclosure">half
a million times in the past year.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Tech_companies_pressuring_US)
title: Tech companies pressuring US
uri: Tech-companies-pressuring-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Tech_companies_pressuring_US%29
content:
<p>
Many tech companies are pressuring the US to allow them to publish
information about the number of users that
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/18/tech-companies-appeal-barack-obama-surveillance">US
has demanded info about using National Security Letters.</a>


title: House Judiciary Committee criticisms of NSA's surveillance
uri: House-Judiciary-Committee-criticisms-of-NSA-s-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(House_Judiciary_Committee_criticisms_of_NSA's_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28House_Judiciary_Committee_criticisms_of_NSA%27s_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
House Judiciary
Committee <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/18-5">criticisms
of the NSA's general surveillance.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Russia_has_become_a_tyranny)
title: Russia has become a tyranny
uri: Russia-has-become-a-tyranny
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Russia_has_become_a_tyranny%29
content:
<p>
Russia has become
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/putin-rival-sentence-alexei-navalny-opposition">flat-out
tyranny that crushes all opposition,</a> even weak and powerless
opposition.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Snowden,_True_Hope_for_Change.)
title: Snowden, True Hope for Change.
uri: Snowden-True-Hope-for-Change
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Snowden%2C_True_Hope_for_Change.%29
content:
<p>
Edward
Snowden, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/16-9">True
Hope for Change.</a>
<p>
Could we convince him to run for president?


title: Russian dissident sentenced to 5 years in prison
uri: Russian-dissident-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Russian_dissident_sentenced_to_5_years_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Russian_dissident_sentenced_to_5_years_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has
been <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/alexei-navalny-five-years-prison-russia">sentenced
to 5 years in prison</a> after an absurd trial.


title: Israeli army arrested a 5-year-old Palestinian
uri: Israeli-army-arrested-a-5-year-old-Palestinian
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Israeli_army_arrested_a_5-year-old_Palestinian)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Israeli_army_arrested_a_5-year-old_Palestinian%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://972mag.com/watch-idf-detains-5-year-old-in-hebron-blindfolds-and-handcuffs-father/75594/">Israeli
army arrested a 5-year-old Palestinian</a>, supposedly for throwing a
stone at a car.
<p>
The army says he was not arrested, which I consider a lie.  It
probably represents a policy of abusing language.


title: Families cut off from olive trees by Israel's annexation wall
uri: Families-cut-off-from-olive-trees-by-Israel-s-annexation-wall
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Families_cut_off_from_olive_trees_by_Israel's_annexation_wall)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Families_cut_off_from_olive_trees_by_Israel%27s_annexation_wall%29

content:
<p>
25 Palestinian families
are <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65808">cut off from their
olive trees by Israel's annexation wall.</a>  They heard chainsaws,
but could not approach their trees to see that 1150 of them were being
cut down.
<p>
Another Palestinian was forced out of his house by fanatical
"settlers" who
later <a href="http://972mag.com/on-land-theft-and-violence-neither-i-nor-you-shall-have-it/75685/">stole
his olive harvest</a>.  Recently they set fire to it.  The army won't
allow him to go there and see what the damage was.
<p>
The army says it's all his fault; that his house's proximity to a
colony (i.e., "settlement") "causes friction".


title: Bumblebee colonies have dangerous parasites
uri: Bumblebee-colonies-have-dangerous-parasites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Bumblebee_colonies_have_dangerous_parasites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Bumblebee_colonies_have_dangerous_parasites%29

content:
<p>
3/4 of the bumblebee colonies imported into the UK
have <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/18/bumblebees-honeybees-parasite-infection">dangerous
parasites.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Additional_austerity_in_Greece)
title: Additional austerity in Greece
uri: Additional-austerity-in-Greece
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Additional_austerity_in_Greece%29
content:
<p>
Greece's government of occupation
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/greece-samaras-austerity-cuts-public-sector">imposed
an additional austerity measure.</a>
<p>
They do it step by step so that people won't see, at any point, how
bad a change it will add up to.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Mass_protests_to_keep_land)
title: Mass protests to keep land
uri: Mass-protests-to-keep-land
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Mass_protests_to_keep_land%29
content:
<p>
Peasants in Catatumbo, Colombia, are
staging <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/jul/18/colombian-farmers-disputes-land">mass
protests demanding government protection so they can keep their
land.</a>
<p>
In some parts of Colombia, the "paramilitaries", essential gangs of
thieves connected to the army and supported by the state, have invaded
villages and killed lots of peasants to scare the survivors into
selling their land very cheap.  I suspect that the "land that
communities were forced to abandon", which "fell into the hands of
businesses", was the subject of this practice.  If so, the subsequent
owners would have been involved with the paramilitaries.
<p>
The previous president, Alvaro Horrible (officially "Uribe"), was
found to have connections with the paramilitaries.  I don't know of
any evidence against the current president, Nonsantos; but since he
was previously the minister in charge of the army, I would not be
surprised if he had such connections.


title: Bounty to anyone that shoots down a drone
uri: Bounty-to-anyone-that-shoots-down-a-drone
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 18_July_2013_(Bounty_to_anyone_that_shoots_down_a_drone)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_%28Bounty_to_anyone_that_shoots_down_a_drone%29

content:
<p>
A town in Colorado proposes
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/colorado-town-ponders-drone-bounty">pay
a bounty to anyone that shoots down a drone aircraft.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on Obama not to nominate New York's Chief of Thugs
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Obama-not-to-nominate-New-York-s-Chief-of-Thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Obama_not_to_nominate_New_Yorks_Chief_of_Thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Obama_not_to_nominate_New_Yorks_Chief_of_Thugs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/no-ray-kelly">call 
on Obama</a> not to nominate New York's notoriously unjust Chief of
Thugs to head the Department of Homeland Suppression.


title: Urgent: Call on AARP to stop sponsoring Rush Limbaugh
uri: Urgent-Call-on-AARP-to-stop-sponsoring-Rush-Limbaugh
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_AARP_to_stop_sponsoring_Rush_Limbaugh)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_AARP_to_stop_sponsoring_Rush_Limbaugh%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/aarp%2Drescue%2Dyour%2Dname%2D1">call 
on the AARP</a> to stop sponsoring Rush Limbaugh.
<p>
The AARP purports to represent retired people in the US,
while <a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2003-sep-dec.html#1_December_2003_(AARP_Protests)">lobbying 
for right-wing policies that would harm their interests</a>. This is
why I am not a member of the AARP.


title: Urgent: Oppose the "Monsanto & Animal Torture Protection Amendment"
uri: Urgent-Oppose-the-Monsanto-Animal-Torture-Protection-Amendment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_Monsanto_and_Animal_Torture_Protection_Amendment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_Monsanto_and_Animal_Torture_Protection_Amendment%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10879">call 
your congresscritter</a> to oppose the "Monsanto & Animal
Torture Protection Amendment", the latest perversely cruel Republican measure.
It would ban states from regulating farms, whether to avoid inhumane treatment
of animals, or to require labeling of GMOs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(CIA_agent_arrested_in_Panama)
title: CIA agent arrested in Panama
uri: CIA-agent-arrested-in-Panama
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28CIA_agent_arrested_in_Panama%29
content:
<p>
A CIA agent has been arrested in Panama, and may be extradited
to Italy where he has been 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/18">convicted of 
kidnaping for the US</a>.


title: UK gov't actively helps corporations buy influence
uri: UK-gov-t-actively-helps-corporations-buy-influence
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(UK_govt_actively_helps_corporations_buy_influence)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28UK_govt_actively_helps_corporations_buy_influence%29

content:
<p>
The UK government 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/18/lobbying-buying-influence-taints-politics">actively 
and structurally</a> helps corporations buy influence where it does
the most harm.


title: Texas Governor Perry signs anti-abortion law
uri: Texas-Governor-Perry-signs-anti-abortion-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Texas_Governor_Perry_signs_anti-abortion_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Texas_Governor_Perry_signs_anti-abortion_law%29

content:
<p>
Texas Governor Perry signed the restrictive anti-abortion law, 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/rick-perry-texas-abortion-bill">pretending 
to the last that it will protect women</a>. In fact it is likely to
kill women instead, by forcing them to choose between underground
abortion and childbirth, each of which is dangerous compared with a
proper abortion in a proper facility.
<p>
The law is likely to be overturned by courts, though.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Detroits_bankruptcy)
title: Detroit's bankruptcy
uri: Detroit-s-bankruptcy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Detroits_bankruptcy%29
content:
<p>
Detroit's bankruptcy will be 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/18/detroit-pensions-liability-iceberg">devastating 
to retired workers</a>, since US bankruptcy law gives priority to the
banks that inveigled Detroit into bad investments.


title: Gina McCarthy confirmed as head of EPA
uri: Gina-McCarthy-confirmed-as-head-of-EPA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Gina_McCarthy_confirmed_as_head_of_EPA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Gina_McCarthy_confirmed_as_head_of_EPA%29

content:
<p>
Gina McCarthy has been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/18/senate-approves-epa-administrator-republicans">confirmed 
as the head of the EPA</a>.
<p>
She wants to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  Alas, as long as
the president wants to use "all of the above" sources of energy, it is
impossible to make enough progress towards reducing them.


title: Obama regime won't say if it will continue collecting phone records
uri: Obama-regime-won-t-say-if-it-will-continue-collecting-phone-records
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Obama_regime_wont_say_if_it_will_continue_collecting_phone_records)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Obama_regime_wont_say_if_it_will_continue_collecting_phone_records%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/white-house-silent-renewal-nsa-court-order">refuses 
to say</a> whether it will continue collecting records of all the
phone calls in the US.


title: Peru to give solar panels to poor people
uri: Peru-to-give-solar-panels-to-poor-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Peru_to_give_solar_panels_to_poor_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Peru_to_give_solar_panels_to_poor_people%29

content:
<p>
Peru will give solar panels to 
<a href="http://planetsave.com/2013/07/15/peru-to-power-2-million-of-its-poorest-by-solar-energy/">2 
million poor people</a>.


title: Strange flowers and fruits found near Fukushima
uri: Strange-flowers-and-fruits-found-near-Fukushima
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Strange_flowers_and_fruits_found_near_Fukushima)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Strange_flowers_and_fruits_found_near_Fukushima%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/07/18">Strange 
flowers and fruits</a> have been found near Fukushima, apparently
developmental anomalies due to radioactive fallout.
<p>
I don't know whether the descendants of these plants
would have similar anomalies.  It is an interesting question.


title: Unprovoked Egyptian soldiers planned attack against protesters
uri: Unprovoked-Egyptian-soldiers-planned-attack-against-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Unprovoked_Egyptian_soldiers_planned_attack_against_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Unprovoked_Egyptian_soldiers_planned_attack_against_protesters%29

content:
<p>
When Egyptian soldiers 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/egyptian-security-attack-on-morsi-supporters">killed 
51 protesters</a>, it was planned and unprovoked attack against
civilians who were only praying.


title: Gay rights activist tortured and murdered in his home
uri: Gay-rights-activist-tortured-and-murdered-in-his-home
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Gay_rights_activist_tortured_and_murdered_in_his_home)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Gay_rights_activist_tortured_and_murdered_in_his_home%29

content:
<p>
A gay rights activist in Cameroon was 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/cameroon-gay-rights-activist-killed">tortured 
and murdered in his home</a>.


title: ALEC pushes bills to reduce compensation for injuring people
uri: ALEC-pushes-bills-to-reduce-compensation-for-injuring-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(ALEC_pushes_bills_to_reduce_compensation_for_injuring_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28ALEC_pushes_bills_to_reduce_compensation_for_injuring_people%29

content:
<p>
ALEC is pushing bills in many states to reduce the 
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12172">compensation businesses pay 
when they injure people</a>.
<p>
If these bills pass, big corporations will do more things that injure
people.  They are psychopaths by their structure, and too big to be
restrained by anyone's human conscience; "I'll sue" is the only
language they understand.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Arbitrarily_refused_asylum)
title: Arbitrarily refused asylum
uri: Arbitrarily-refused-asylum
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Arbitrarily_refused_asylum%29
content:
<p>
People who arrive in Australia by boat will
be <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/19/australia-asylum-policy-harshest-policy">arbitrarily
refused asylum.</a>
<p>
In other words, asylum is only for those wealthy enough, and
unpersecuted enough, to get on a plane.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Corporate_Internet_surveillance)
title: Corporate Internet surveillance
uri: Corporate-Internet-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Corporate_Internet_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/19-0">Corporate
Internet surveillance</a> is nasty in its own right, not solely
because all the data is available to Big Brother.


title: California prison guards are retaliating sadistically
uri: California-prison-guards-are-retaliating-sadistically
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(California_prison_guards_are_retaliating_sadistically)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28California_prison_guards_are_retaliating_sadistically%29

content:
<p>
California prison guards
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/california-prison-hunger-strike-retaliation">retaliating
sadistically for the prisoners' hunger strike.</a>
<p>
Many of
the <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_July_2013_(30000_California_prisoners_start_hunger_strike)">so-called
"gang members"</a> have been "identified" based on coincidences.


title: Egypt's new gov't has cracked down on media that don't support it
uri: Egypt-s-new-gov-t-has-cracked-down-on-media-that-don-t-support-it
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Egypt's_new_gov't_has_cracked_down_on_media_that_don't_support_it)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Egypt%27s_new_gov%27t_has_cracked_down_on_media_that_don%27t_support_it%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's new government
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/egypt-protests-muslim-brotherhood-crackdown">cracked
down on media that don't support it.</a>
<p>
This could mean they hope to get away with killing protesters because
we won't see it.


title: Egypt is cooperating with Israel in besieging Gaza
uri: Egypt-is-cooperating-with-Israel-in-besieging-Gaza
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Egypt_is_cooperating_with_Israel_in_besieging_Gaza)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Egypt_is_cooperating_with_Israel_in_besieging_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Egypt
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/palestinians-gaza-city-smuggling-tunnels">cooperating
with Israel in besieging Gaza</a>.  Very little construction materials
and fuel are now reaching Gaza, and people find it hard to get out.


title: Spanish thugs attacked thousands of people protesting
uri: Spanish-thugs-attacked-thousands-of-people-protesting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Spanish_thugs_attacked_thousands_of_people_protesting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Spanish_thugs_attacked_thousands_of_people_protesting%29

content:
<p>
Spanish
thugs <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/clashes-madrid-protesters-demand-rajoy-resign">attacked
thousands of people protesting</a> against austerity and the
government's <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_(Spanish_ruling_party_accused_of_corruption)">demonstrated
corruption.</a>


title: High economic growth rates have become impossible
uri: High-economic-growth-rates-have-become-impossible
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(High_economic_growth_rates_have_become_impossible)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28High_economic_growth_rates_have_become_impossible%29

content:
<p>
Some economists predict
that <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jul/19/economy-end-growth-resource-scarcity-costs">high
economic growth rates have become impossible</a>, because resource
availability now limits growth, and productivity per worker is not
increasing.
<p>
Productivity per worker increased greatly in the US from 1973 to 2013,
but workers did not get a corresponding raise.  This shows that
workers' income is not really tied to their productivity.  For US
workers to get a raise, they need to fight for it politically.
<p>
In addition, increases in productivity per worker nowadays tend to go
with reducing the number of workers, and that's no good for most
people.  In the next decade, robots could tremendously boost
productivity per worker in the US, by putting millions of Americans
out of work, and they will never find another job.  The number of jobs
in the US
has <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_(As_E-Commerce_makes_retail_more_efficient_lots_of_jobs_are_disappearing)">not
increased in decades.</a>
<p>
I am glad that the article points out how important it is to reduce
the population growth in the rest of this century.


title: Public Citizen fought to establish Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
uri: Public-Citizen-fought-to-establish-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Burea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 19_July_2013_(Public_Citizen_fought_to_establish_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_July_2013_%28Public_Citizen_fought_to_establish_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau%29

content:
<p>
Public
Citizen <a href="http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/07/18/cordray-confirmation-another-public-citizen-victory">fought
to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,</a> and fought
for years to get Richard Cordray confirmed as its head.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(An_excuse_to_recreate_segregation)
title: An excuse to recreate segregation
uri: An-excuse-to-recreate-segregation
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28An_excuse_to_recreate_segregation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://hechingerreport.org/content/as-charter-schools-come-of-age-measuring-their-success-is-tricky_12647/">Charter 
schools</a> in the US are often an excuse to recreate segregation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Turning_education_into_a_factory)
title: Turning education into a factory
uri: Turning-education-into-a-factory
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Turning_education_into_a_factory%29
content:
<p>
The Gates Foundation is trying to "reform" education by optimizing it
as one might optimize a factory — resulting in 
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/The-Gates-Effect/140323/">schools
more like factories</a>. Hardly anyone in education dares to express
doubt about whether this is a good thing, because they are all
desperate for Gates' money.
<p>
There would be no need to turn education into a factory for efficiency's sake
if we were collecting enough taxes from the rich.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Urgent:_Protect_whales_near_Alaska)
title: Urgent: Protect whales near Alaska
uri: Urgent-Protect-whales-near-Alaska
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_whales_near_Alaska%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2823">Call 
on the US</a> not to allow prospecting for oil near Alaska using air
guns that deafen whales.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Urgent:_Restrict_shark_fin_trade)
title: Urgent: Restrict shark fin trade
uri: Urgent-Restrict-shark-fin-trade
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Restrict_shark_fin_trade%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1489">call 
on the National Marine Fisheries Service</a> to cooperate with state
laws that restrict the shark fin trade.


title: Urgent: Repeal the "stand your ground" law
uri: Urgent-Repeal-the-stand-your-ground-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Urgent:_Repeal_the_stand_your_ground_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal_the_stand_your_ground_law%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=491">call 
on your state legislature</a> to repeal the "stand your ground" law,
if your state has one.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(UK_cancels_some_arms_exports_to_Egypt)
title: UK cancels some arms exports to Egypt
uri: UK-cancels-some-arms-exports-to-Egypt
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28UK_cancels_some_arms_exports_to_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
The UK has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/uk-revokes-arms-export-licenses-egypt">cancelled 
some arms exports to Egypt</a> because the arms might be used to
repress protesters.
<p>
The US is 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#18_March_2013_(Urgent:_Strong_arms_control_treaty_for_guns)">legally 
required to do likewise</a> but is ignoring the requirement.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(UK_admits_to_pandering_to_Putin)
title: UK admits to pandering to Putin
uri: UK-admits-to-pandering-to-Putin
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28UK_admits_to_pandering_to_Putin%29
content:
<p>
The UK admits that it 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/litvinenko-inquiry-request-rejected-russia">rejected 
an inquiry into Litvinenko's death</a> in order to pander to Putin.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(American_racism)
title: American racism
uri: American-racism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28American_racism%29
content:
<p>
The Zimmerman case is a return to the "business as usual" of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/19/killing-trayvon-martin-business-as-usual">American
racism</a>.


title: "Aiding the enemy" charge against Bradley Manning still not dismissed
uri: Aiding-the-enemy-charge-against-Bradley-Manning-still-not-dismissed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Aiding_the_enemy_charge_against_Bradley_Manning_still_not_dismissed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Aiding_the_enemy_charge_against_Bradley_Manning_still_not_dismissed%29

content:
<p>
The judge in Bradley Manning's trial upheld the basic concept that
informing the American people implies aiding "the enemy", under
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/19/bradley-manning-trial-aiding-the-enemy-charge">certain 
circumstances</a>.
<p>
Whether Manning will be punished under this heading remains to be seen, 
but the United States of America is already being punished.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Stopping_businesses_from_tax_dodging)
title: Stopping businesses from tax dodging
uri: Stopping-businesses-from-tax-dodging
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Stopping_businesses_from_tax_dodging%29

content:
<p>
The OECD has made a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/g20-report-warns-global-tax-chaos">list 
of proposed changes</a> to stop businesses from tax dodging.
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-big-to-fail/">My 
proposal</a> could also help.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Zambian_govt_arresting_reporters)
title: Zambian gov't arresting reporters
uri: Zambian-gov-t-arresting-reporters
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Zambian_govt_arresting_reporters%29
content:
<p>
The Zambian government is blocking access to exile news sites
and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/jul/19/press-freedom-zambia">arresting 
their reporters</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Obama_rebuked_Putin)
title: Obama rebuked Putin
uri: Obama-rebuked-Putin
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Obama_rebuked_Putin%29
content:
<p>Obama rebuked Putin for trying to lock up people that disclose the
state's dirty secrets, even as the US made sure a fleeing
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/20/press-freedoms-manning-risen">
international criminal would not be extradited.</a></p>
<p>I agree with Obama's rebuke: prosecuting whistleblowers is wrong when
the Putin regime does it — just as wrong as when the Obama
regime does it.  However, as an American, I believe Americans have a
particular responsibility to defend freedom and justice in our own
country.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Definitions)
title: Definitions
uri: Definitions
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Definitions%29
content:
<p>Can we assume that "terrorism" means violence?  Can we assume
that a "weapon of mass destruction" can kill thousands of people?  Not
when the <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/counterterroris_1.html">
US government is talking.</a>
</p>
<p>When the US government says "terrorists", think "dissidents",
and you can judge its proposals properly.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(McDonalds)
title: McDonalds
uri: McDonalds
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28McDonalds%29
content:
<p>McDonalds published a suggested budget employees which says they need
a second job, and continues by saying they <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/19-3">
can't afford food, medical
care, or heat in the winter.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Turkish_Protest_Movement)
title: Turkish Protest Movement
uri: Turkish-Protest-Movement
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Turkish_Protest_Movement%29
content:
<p>The Turkish protest movement continues activities <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/20/turkish-protests-enlightened-emboldened">
every day.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Remember,_Remember_the_4th_Amendment)
title: Remember, Remember the 4th Amendment
uri: Remember-Remember-the-4th-Amendment
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Remember%2C_Remember_the_4th_Amendment%29

content:
<p>The NSA is considering leaving people's phone call records "in" the
phone companies — and searching it there, Prism-style, still
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/intelligence-chiefs-nsa-data-collection">
without individual warrants.</a></p>
<p>This would not respect the 4th Amendment, or our freedom, but it would
given them a way to confuse the issue.</p>
<p>Note the argument that it is ok to collect everyone's communications
records ("metadata") because they are "information that the
telecommunications companies obtain and keep for their own business
purposes."  The implicit premise is that if it is legitimate for a
business to amass certain information about those who choose to be
its clients, then the government is entitled to systematically seize
all that information.  This is blatant contempt for the 4th
Amendment.</p>
<p>However, it is also true that any data that businesses record about
people could be obtained by the state, and amounts to a massive
dossier about each person.  We must <em>make</em> businesses collect
and retain less information about people — regardless of
"business purpose".
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(James_Risen)
title: James Risen
uri: James-Risen
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28James_Risen%29
content:
<p>Reporter James Risen may have to go to jail <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jul/19/us-press-publishing-us-constitution-and-civil-liberties">
to protect a
whistleblower.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(UK_Conservative_Party)
title: UK Conservative Party
uri: UK-Conservative-Party
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28UK_Conservative_Party%29
content:
<p>The UK Conservative Party's main election strategist also works, in
parallel, as a PR agent for many businesses, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/19/david-cameron-fracking-lynton-crosby">
including tobacco and
fracking.
</a></p>
<p>In effect, he is an embedded lobbyist.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(The_NSA_Collecting_Data)
title: The NSA Collecting Data
uri: The-NSA-Collecting-Data
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28The_NSA_Collecting_Data%29
content:
<p>The NSA has announced that it will continue collecting data about
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/nsa-extended-verizon-trawl-through-court-order">
all phone calls in the US.</a></p>
<p>This represents an act of defiance against freedom-minded Americans,
meant to make us despair and give up.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Indonesia)
title: Indonesia
uri: Indonesia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Indonesia%29
content:
<p>Global political organizing, using available satellite data, made it
possible to put pressure on Indonesia to take action against massive
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/19/indonesia-forest-fires-smog-crisis">
fires that are set by humans.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Panama:_CIA)
title: Panama: CIA
uri: Panama-CIA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Panama%3A_CIA%29
content:
<p>Panama reportedly allowed the CIA agent wanted for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/cia-milan-chief-released-panama">
kidnaping in
Italy
to return to the US.</a>
</p>
<p>The US has a lot of power over the
government of Panama, enough apparently
even to spring a kidnaper.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(NSA)
title: NSA
uri: NSA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28NSA%29
content:
<p>The ex head of the NSA is campaigning to imprison journalists,
citing Glenn Greenwald <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/07/19/former-nsa-chief-smears-glenn-greenwald/">
as the base of his campaign.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Obama_rebukes_Putin)
title: Obama rebukes Putin
uri: Obama-rebukes-Putin
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Obama_rebukes_Putin%29
content:
<p>Obama rebuked Putin for trying to lock up people that disclose the
state's dirty secrets, even as the US made sure a fleeing
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/20/press-freedoms-manning-risen">
international criminal would not be extradited.</a></p>
<p>I agree with Obama's rebuke: prosecuting whistleblowers is wrong when
the Putin regime does it — just as wrong as when the Obama
regime does it.  However, as an American, I believe Americans have a
particular responsibility to defend freedom and justice in our own
country.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/18-3">More such 
irony</a>.</p>


title: Barrett Brown could be sentenced to 105 years in prison for journalistic activity
uri: Barrett-Brown-could-be-sentenced-to-105-years-in-prison-for-journalist
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Barrett_Brown_could_be_sentenced_to_105_years_in_prison_for_journalistic_activity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Barrett_Brown_could_be_sentenced_to_105_years_in_prison_for_journalistic_activity%29

content:
<p>
Journalist Barrett Brown <a href="http://freebarrettbrown.org/">could
be sentenced to 105 years in prison for journalistic activity</a>,
including posting a link to a site with scandalous information that
had been obtained by a cracker from HBGary.


title: Protest in US permitted in theory but not in practice
uri: Protest-in-US-permitted-in-theory-but-not-in-practice
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Protest_in_US_permitted_in_theory_but_not_in_practice)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Protest_in_US_permitted_in_theory_but_not_in_practice%29

content:
<p>
Protest in the US is getting the same treatment as abortion clinics in
Texas: a series of laws, enforced with bizarre strictness, leave it
<a href=" https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/15-0">permitted in
theory but not in practice.</a>
<p>
Our response to this must be to say that such laws are just bricks in
the wall, and breaking them is not wrong.
<p>
The same applies to laws that forbid government officials from telling
us how the state really treats us.


title: TAFTA treaty a means to bypass democracy
uri: TAFTA-treaty-a-means-to-bypass-democracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(TAFTA_treaty_a_means_to_bypass_democracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28TAFTA_treaty_a_means_to_bypass_democracy%29

content:
<p>
The proposed TAFTA treaty is purely a means to let a range of
businesses
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/us-trade-deal-with-europe-hype">bypass
democracy to get rid of the regulations they don't like.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Lt._Adam_Cohen_faces_prosecution)
title: Lt. Adam Cohen faces prosecution
uri: Lt-Adam-Cohen-faces-prosecution
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Lt._Adam_Cohen_faces_prosecution%29
content:
<p>
Lt. Adam
Cohen <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/15/us-air-force-sexual-assault-adam-cohen">faces
prosecution</a> instigated by the officer he accused of raping him.
<p>
It seems crazy to prosecute anyone for homosexuality after the law was
changed so that it is no longer illegal


title: Concealed weapons in the Trayvon Martin killing
uri: Concealed-weapons-in-the-Trayvon-Martin-killing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Concealed_weapons_in_the_Trayvon_Martin_killing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Concealed_weapons_in_the_Trayvon_Martin_killing%29

content:
<p>
The crucial role
of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/george-zimmerman-gun-conceal-carry">concealed
weapons in the Trayvon Martin killing.</a>


title: US phone and telecom privacy coalition
uri: US-phone-and-telecom-privacy-coalition
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(US_phone_and_telecom_privacy_coalition)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28US_phone_and_telecom_privacy_coalition%29

content:
<p>
Big US phone and telecom companies have formed
a <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17610-telecomm-companies-implicated-in-nsa-spying-unite-to-lobby-congress-on-digital-privacy">"privacy
coalition" to lobby for something.</a>


title: Urgent: Humane release for Herman Wallace
uri: Urgent-Humane-release-for-Herman-Wallace
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Urgent:_Humane_release_for_Herman_Wallace)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Humane_release_for_Herman_Wallace%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call
for <a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=520059&msource=W1307EAIAR2">humane
release for Herman Wallace</a>, who has been in solitary confinement
for 40 years and now has terminal cancer.


title: The 3 Most Absurdly Outdated Internet Laws
uri: The-3-Most-Absurdly-Outdated-Internet-Laws
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(The_3_Most_Absurdly_Outdated_Internet_Laws)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28The_3_Most_Absurdly_Outdated_Internet_Laws%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/3-most-outdated-tech-laws">The
3 Most Absurdly Outdated Internet Laws</a> (in the US, that is).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Talks_about_starting_talks)
title: Talks about starting talks
uri: Talks-about-starting-talks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Talks_about_starting_talks%29
content:
<p>
The "talks" Kerry has arranged to start are
actually <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/20/israel-to-free-heavyweight-palestinian-prisoners">talks
about starting talks.</a>
<p>
It looks like they will not go so far as to start actual peace talks.


title: Israel and Palestine restart negotiations
uri: Israel-and-Palestine-restart-negotiations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 20_July_2013_(Israel_and_Palestine_restart_negotiations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_July_2013_%28Israel_and_Palestine_restart_negotiations%29

content:
<p>
Kerry has convinced Israel and Palestine
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/20/israel-release-palestinian-prisoners-talks">restart
negotiations.</a> However, an unusually honest remark from an Israeli
official suggests that Israel wants to be able to say, "See, we are
negotiating,"
while <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2008-jan-apr.html#13 April
 2008 (Israel's hidden anti-peace agenda)">making sure no agreement is
reached.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(National_Constitutions_Update)
title: National Constitutions Update
uri: National-Constitutions-Update
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28National_Constitutions_Update%29
content:
<p>
Updates to <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/constitution-suggestions.html">Suggestions
for National Constitutions.</a>


title: Obama trying to confront the WTO's ruling against "dolphin-safe" tuna labels
uri: Obama-trying-to-confront-the-WTO-s-ruling-against-dolphin-safe-tuna
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Obama_trying_to_confront_the_WTO's_ruling_against_

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Obama_trying_to_confront_the_WTO%27s_ruling_against_

content:
<p>
Obama is trying to confront the WTO's ruling against "dolphin-safe"
tuna labels
by <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/07/obama-administration-stands-firm-on-dolphin-safe-tuna-labels-will-the-wto-authorize-trade-sanctions.html">making
the criterion stricter, rather than by weakening it.</a>
<p>
This is a good response to the specific problem, but it is a general
problem and the general solution is to do away with
the <a href="media/5902702b.trade-treaty-comic.jpg" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/images/trade-treaty-comic.jpg">"free
trade" treaties.</a>


title: Personal privacy and government transparency conflict
uri: Personal-privacy-and-government-transparency-conflict
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Personal_privacy_and_government_transparency_conflict)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Personal_privacy_and_government_transparency_conflict%29

content:
<p>
The pending publication of lists of people who get state pensions in
California spotlights the point
where <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20130721,0,1949777.column">personal
privacy and government transparency conflict.</a>
<p>
I value freedom more than transparency; I think the list of people who
get pensions should not be published.
<p>
If that statement surprises you, you may be misinformed about my
views.  For instance, I never advocated "open source"; that's
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">slogan
of people who disagree with me.</a> I
advocate <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">"free
software", free as in freedom.</a>
<p>
See also
<a href="http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler">Evgeny Morozov's
article</a> on the difference between the two.


title: Goldman Sachs intentionally delaying the delivery of aluminum
uri: Goldman-Sachs-intentionally-delaying-the-delivery-of-aluminum
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Goldman_Sachs_intentionally_delaying_the_delivery_of_aluminum)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Goldman_Sachs_intentionally_delaying_the_delivery_of_aluminum%29

content:
<p>
How Goldman Sachs makes big profits
by <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/vampire-squid-has-set-its-sights-your-beer-ca">intentionally
delaying the delivery of aluminum to US factories.</a>


title: Pogroms against Dalits have never stopped
uri: Pogroms-against-Dalits-have-never-stopped
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Pogroms_against_Dalits_have_never_stopped)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Pogroms_against_Dalits_have_never_stopped%29

content:
<p>
In
India, <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade180713.htm">pogroms
against "uppity" Dalits have never stopped.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Blocking_searches_in_search_engines)
title: Blocking searches in search engines
uri: Blocking-searches-in-search-engines
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Blocking_searches_in_search_engines%29

content:
<p>
The UK wants to extend its witchhunt against "child pornography"
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/21/cameron-block-child-sex-searches">blocking
searches in search engines.</a>
<p>
Don't they do that in China already?
<p>
There are other materials on the web that are deemed "illegal".  If
search engines accept this form of censorship, the next step will be
to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/07/15/dhs-warns-employees-not-to-read-leaked-nsa-information/">make
them block searches for Snowden's revelations.</a>
<p>
I find gruesomely violent pornography disgusting, as disgusting as
gruesomely violent nonpornography.  However, censorship is far more
disgusting.  The UK is rife with censorship, and that's the injustice
it ought to address.


title: UK privatized payment of support for refugees
uri: UK-privatized-payment-of-support-for-refugees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(UK_privatized_payment_of_support_for_refugees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28UK_privatized_payment_of_support_for_refugees%29

content:
<p>
The UK privatized payment of support for refugees, and some people
have
been <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/21/g4s-contractor-failures-eviction-claims">evicted
because the company didn't do the job.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Urgent:_Put_heat_on_McDonald's)
title: Urgent: Put heat on McDonald's
uri: Urgent-Put-heat-on-McDonald-s
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Put_heat_on_McDonald%27s%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/mcdonalds-heatwave/?akid=1952.881131.2jpWot&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1001">put
heat on McDonald's</a> for telling workers to keep working in the
kitchen during a heat wave with the air conditioner broken.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Uri_Avnery_thanks_Europe)
title: Uri Avnery thanks Europe
uri: Uri-Avnery-thanks-Europe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Uri_Avnery_thanks_Europe%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1374256076">Uri
Avnery thanks Europe</a> for making government cooperation and
contracts exclude Israeli institutions and businesses that have any
connection to Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine.
<p>
I did not realize before that this included European government
purchases.  That will put substantial pressure on Israeli business.
<p>
Avnery's article was evidently written before the announcement that
Israel and Palestine have agreed to hold talks about having peace
talks.  Based on his past writings, I expect he will show that these
talks about talks don't really change anything.


title: Urgent: Support rule change for filibusters
uri: Urgent-Support-rule-change-for-filibusters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_rule_change_for_filibusters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_rule_change_for_filibusters%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=493">sign
this petition</a> to the Senate to support a rule change so that
filibusters require senators to actually speak on the senate floor.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Tea_plantations_pay_starvation_wages)
title: Tea plantations pay starvation wages
uri: Tea-plantations-pay-starvation-wages
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Tea_plantations_pay_starvation_wages%29

content:
<p>
Tea plantations in
Assam <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/20/poverty-tea-pickers-india-child-slavery">pay
starvation wages</a>, and claim they "can't afford" to pay more.
<p>
Of course they can afford it.  They simply have to raise the price.
That's fine — we can pay a little more for our tea.
<p>
The poverty of the workers pushes them to fall prey to selling their
children to be domestic slaves.  This is a separate problem, and could
be tackled by informing people around India about the dishonesty of
these recruiters/purchasers.


title: Papal visit to Brazil will be occasion for protests
uri: Papal-visit-to-Brazil-will-be-occasion-for-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Papal_visit_to_Brazil_will_be_occasion_for_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Papal_visit_to_Brazil_will_be_occasion_for_protests%29

content:
<p>
A papal visit to Brazil will be
the <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130717/anonymous-calls-rio-protest-during-papal-visit">occasion
for protests</a>, both against the public subsidy for the visit, and
against some positions of the Catholic Church.


title: Protest transformed HSBC banks into food banks
uri: Protest-transformed-HSBC-banks-into-food-banks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Protest_transformed_HSBC_banks_into_food_banks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Protest_transformed_HSBC_banks_into_food_banks%29

content:
<p>
A protest by UK
Uncut <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/20/uk-uncut-closure-hsbc-tax">transformed
HSBC banks into food banks.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Privacy)
title: Privacy
uri: Privacy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Privacy%29
content:
<p>Even if someone gives away a lot of his privacy, that doesn't excuse
taking away <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/12/why-cant-offline-borns-tell-difference-between-voluntary-and-forced-actions/">
the rest of it.</a></p>
<p>A lot of the "voluntary" giving away of privacy results from
"services" that are designed to herd people into doing so.
Even young people would maintain their privacy more if they
were not systematically pressured to surrender it.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Pharma_Companies)
title: Pharma Companies
uri: Pharma-Companies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Pharma_Companies%29
content:
<p>Pharma companies are using astroturf "patient groups" to campaign
against a requirement to publish <em>all</em> the studies <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/21/big-pharma-secret-drugs-trials">
that test
the effects of drugs.</a>
</p>
<p>This requirement would make it harder for pharma companies to
misrepresent
the effectiveness or safety of drugs.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Snowden)
title: Snowden
uri: Snowden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Snowden%29
content:
<p>
In Finland, a citizen's initiative proposes Snowden's Law, which would
punish excessive surveillance on citizens as a crime, <a href="http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number11.14/finland-lex-snowden">
while protecting
whistleblowers.
</a>
</p>
<p>A German author calls on Germany to offer Snowden asylum
because in <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/21-3">
the past it drove so many to seek asylum.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(CIA_Torture_Prison)
title: CIA Torture Prison
uri: CIA-Torture-Prison
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28CIA_Torture_Prison%29
content:
<p>Poland is trying to investigate the secret CIA torture prison
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/21-0">
that a previous government allowed to operate.
</A></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Ethiopia)
title: Ethiopia
uri: Ethiopia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Ethiopia%29
content:
<p>Ethiopia: Anti-Terror Law Terrorising <a href="http://www.dc4mf.org/en/node/3957">
Journalists.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(US_Goverment)
title: US Goverment
uri: US-Goverment
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28US_Goverment%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Evidence that the US government records and saves the content of lots
of phone calls, in the absence of specific cause — <1>not just the
call records.
</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Antonio_Morrison)
title: Antonio Morrison
uri: Antonio-Morrison
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Antonio_Morrison%29
content:
<p>Thugs on a power trip arrested Antonio Morrison for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jul/21/antonio-morrison-barking-police-dog-florida">
barking at their
dog.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Protest)
title: Protest
uri: Protest
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Protest%29
content:
<p>Extinct golden toads will protest in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/21/banks-golden-toads-protest">
British banks.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Peace_Talks)
title: Peace Talks
uri: Peace-Talks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Peace_Talks%29
content:
<p>Kerry's Israel-Palestine peace talks seem <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/21/israel-palestinian-peace-talks-doubt">
not to be really
happening.</a></p>


title: US banksters trying to use EU to get rid of regulations
uri: US-banksters-trying-to-use-EU-to-get-rid-of-regulations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(US_banksters_trying_to_use_EU_to_get_rid_of_regulations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28US_banksters_trying_to_use_EU_to_get_rid_of_regulations%29

content:
<p>
US banksters, with Obama's quiet help, are 
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/07/is-commissioner-barnier-the-fat-cats-meow.html">trying 
to use the EU</a> to get rid of the weak and inadequate bank
regulations of the Dodd-Frank bill.


title: Urgent: End long-term solitary confinement in California prisons
uri: Urgent-End-long-term-solitary-confinement-in-California-prisons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Urgent:_End_long-term_solitary_confinement_in_California_prisons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_End_long-term_solitary_confinement_in_California_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/ca-hunger-strike">call 
on California</a> to end long-term solitary confinement in its
prisons.


title: Offensive US cyberwar actions around he world
uri: Offensive-US-cyberwar-actions-around-he-world
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Offensive_US_cyberwar_actions_around_he_world)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Offensive_US_cyberwar_actions_around_he_world%29

content:
<p>
The US is conducting 
<a href="http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1307.html#10">offensive 
cyberwar actions</a> around the world.


title: US cannot campaign for Internet freedom abroad
uri: US-cannot-campaign-for-Internet-freedom-abroad
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(US_cannot_campaign_for_Internet_freedom_abroad)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28US_cannot_campaign_for_Internet_freedom_abroad%29

content:
<p>
The US cannot campaign for Internet freedom abroad while 
<a href="http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1307.html#1">trashing it
at home</a>.


title: Number of deaths in the US due to not taking the usual vaccines
uri: Number-of-deaths-in-the-US-due-to-not-taking-the-usual-vaccines
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Number_of_deaths_in_the_US_due_to_not_taking_the_usual_vaccines)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Number_of_deaths_in_the_US_due_to_not_taking_the_usual_vaccines%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Anti-Vaccine_Body_Count/Home.html">thousand 
people</a> have died in the US since 2007 due to not getting the usual
vaccines.


title: Only "official" journalists to get protection
uri: Only-official-journalists-to-get-protection
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Only_official_journalists_to_get_protection)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Only_official_journalists_to_get_protection%29

content:
<p>
The Department of "Justice", in drawing up conditions for protecting
journalism, is defining a class of privileged 
<a href="http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/12/in-bid-to-placate-legacy-media-doj-moves-closer-to-instituting-official-press/">"official" 
journalists</a> who will get protection, in order to deny it to most
journalists.
<p>
Of course, the protected journalists will be those from the mainstream
media, who will usually support the state (with occasional exceptions).


title: US gov't pretends Snowden's leaks still secret
uri: US-gov-t-pretends-Snowden-s-leaks-still-secret
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(US_govt_pretends_Snowdens_leaks_still_secret)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28US_govt_pretends_Snowdens_leaks_still_secret%29

content:
<p>
Staff at the Committee for Public Safety <a href="#note">*</a> have
been <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/07/15/dhs-warns-employees-not-to-read-leaked-nsa-information/">ordered
not to view certain Washington Post articles on computers not
classified "secret"</a>, because then for bureaucratic reasons they
will have to go through a sort of secrecy exorcism.
<p>
The US government pretends that Snowden's leaks are still secret, and
is carrying this to the level of lunacy.
<p>
A person that persistently denies reality is dangerous.  A powerful
state that persistently denies reality is extremely dangerous.  These
delusions could become a "reason" to kill people.
<p>
<a name="note">
* Officially, the "Department of Homeland Security".</a>


title: Use of information in court derived from massive surveillance
uri: Use-of-information-in-court-derived-from-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Use_of_information_in_court_derived_from_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Use_of_information_in_court_derived_from_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The US takes <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/double-secret-surveillance.html">two 
contradictory positions</a> about disclosing when it uses information
in court that was derived from massive surveillance.  Each position is
used to block judicial consideration of the constitutionality of
massive surveillance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Display_of_arrogance_by_NY_thugs)
title: Display of arrogance by NY thugs
uri: Display-of-arrogance-by-NY-thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Display_of_arrogance_by_NY_thugs%29
content:
<p>
New York thugs display their arrogance by 
<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/nypd-imperial-march-darth-vader-police.html">playing 
the storm troopers' theme from Star Wars out of their cars</a>.


title: Press photographer Mandi Wright attacked by thug
uri: Press-photographer-Mandi-Wright-attacked-by-thug
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Press_photographer_Mandi_Wright_attacked_by_thug)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Press_photographer_Mandi_Wright_attacked_by_thug%29

content:
<p>
As press photographer Mandi Wright filmed thugs arresting someone on
the street, a thug in civilian clothes 
<a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20130716/NEWS01/307160018/photographer-free-press-mandi-wright-video-arrested">attacked 
her, stole her video camera, and threatened her with prosecution</a>.


title: "Command influence" on judge in Bradley Manning's trial
uri: Command-influence-on-judge-in-Bradley-Manning-s-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Command_influence_on_judge_in_Bradley_Mannings_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Command_influence_on_judge_in_Bradley_Mannings_trial%29

content:
<p>
The judge in Bradley Manning's trial 
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/19/is-judge-deborah-lind-bradley-manning-s-biggest-enemy.html">nearly 
always decides questions in favor of the prosecution</a>.
<p>
This does not surprise me.  It looks like an instance of a fundamental
flaw in military trials, known as "command influence".  The judge is a
military officer who reports ultimately to Obama, Obama wants Manning
convicted, and the judge knows this.  The judge wants to be promoted,
and the people who will decide on her promotion also work for Obama
and want Manning convicted.  What would an ambitious judge do?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(MIT_secrets)
title: MIT secrets
uri: MIT-secrets
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28MIT_secrets%29
content:
<p>
MIT requested and got the chance to keep MIT secrets out of the
documents that the Secret Service is required to turn over to reporter
Kevin Poulsen.  This leads Edward Felten to suspect that MIT is
<a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/mit-asks-to-intervene-in-swartz-foia-suit/">looking 
for a chance to spin the discussion of some MIT actions</a> that might
appear nasty.


title: Obama trying to confront the WTO's ruling against dolphin-safe tuna labels
uri: 2013-07-22-Obama-trying-to-confront-the-WTO-s-ruling-against-dolphin-safe-tuna
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 21_July_2013_(Obama_trying_to_confront_the_WTO's_ruling_against_dolphin-safe_tuna_labels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_July_2013_%28Obama_trying_to_confront_the_WTO%27s_ruling_against_dolphin-safe_tuna_labels%29

content:
<p>
Obama is trying to confront the WTO's ruling against "dolphin-safe"
tuna labels
by <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/07/obama-administration-stands-firm-on-dolphin-safe-tuna-labels-will-the-wto-authorize-trade-sanctions.html">making
the criterion stricter, rather than by weakening it.</a>
<p>
This is a good response to the specific problem, but it is a general
problem and the general solution is to do away with
the <a href="media/5902702b.trade-treaty-comic.jpg" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/images/trade-treaty-comic.jpg">"free
trade" treaties.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Amina_Sboui)
title: Amina Sboui
uri: Amina-Sboui
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Amina_Sboui%29
content:
<p>Amina Sboui could be imprisoned for 9 years for her <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/17/tunisia-grant-feminist-activist-pretrial-release">
nonviolent
protest.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Indonesia's_Law)
title: Indonesia's Law
uri: Indonesia-s-Law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Indonesia%27s_Law%29
content:
<p>Human Rights Watch condemns Indonesia's law that <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/17/indonesia-amend-law-mass-organizations">
restricts mass
organizations.</A></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Kashmir)
title: Kashmir
uri: Kashmir
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Kashmir%29
content:
<p>Indian border <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/19/india-unarmed-protesters-killed-kashmir">
thugs killed protesters</a> in Kashmir.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(China)
title: China
uri: China
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28China%29
content:
<p>China closed a think tank connected with criticism of the government,
based on lies as usual, and has arrested the lawyers that try <a href="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/crackdown-07192013104827.html">
to
defend
arrested activists.
</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(2055)
title: 2055
uri: 2055
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%282055%29
content:
<p>A study forecasts that starting around 2055 there will be a period
every year when there is <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-07-ice-free-arctic.html">
no ice in the Arctic.</A></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Global_Heating)
title: Global Heating
uri: Global-Heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Global_Heating%29
content:
<p>Global heating could deprive <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/bc-ccc071813.php">
Volta Basin of water.</a></p>
<p>This would be a disaster for several African countries.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(FBI_Claims)
title: FBI Claims
uri: FBI-Claims
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28FBI_Claims%29
content:
<p>FBI experts often made claims about hair matching, convicting people of
murder,
<a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/07/18/fbi-found-scientific-errors-in-27-death-penalty-convictions/">
which could not be sustained by the real science.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Prosecution)
title: Prosecution
uri: Prosecution
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Prosecution%29
content:
<p>Barrett Brown Prosecution Threatens Right to Link, <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/indictment-barrett-brown-threatens-right-link-could-criminalize-routine-journalism">
Could Criminalize
 
Routine Journalism Practices.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Kuwaiti_Activist)
title: Kuwaiti Activist
uri: Kuwaiti-Activist
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Kuwaiti_Activist%29
content:
<p>
A Kuwaiti activist has been sentenced to prison for offending the
potentate and offending Islam,
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/16/troubling-trend-kuwait-punishment-offending-emir-twitter">with
tweets</a>.</p>
<p>
To punish either of those things is an outright injustice.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Ocean)
title: Ocean
uri: Ocean
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Ocean%29
content:
<p>A large fraction of mercury in the ocean, which makes fish dangerous
to eat in quantity, is due to human industrial activity, <a href="https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/07/harvard-researchers-warn-legacy-mercury-environment">
and it will
persist in the ocean for centuries or millennia.</a></p>
<p>The main activities adding to this pollution are gold mining and coal
burning.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Plants)
title: Plants
uri: Plants
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Plants%29
content:
<p>With greater heat, plants lose ability to remove <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/uoy-inj071913.php">
ozone from the
air.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Puerto_Rico)
title: Puerto Rico
uri: Puerto-Rico
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Puerto_Rico%29
content:
<p>The Puerto Rico thug department will be reformed in an attempt <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-free-speech/victory-historic-agreement-will-overhaul-puerto-rico-police">
to 
end their systematic thuggishness.
</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Hudson_River)
title: Hudson River
uri: Hudson-River
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Hudson_River%29
content:
<p>Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Widespread in Hudson River, <a href="https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-widespread-hudson-river-study-finds">
Study
Finds.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(US_Government)
title: US Government
uri: US-Government
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28US_Government%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The US government is now allowed to produce "news reports" (i.e.,
propaganda) <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/07/u-s-government-funded-news-comes-home/">
and show them in the US.
</A>
Henceforth the security state won't have to depend on the mainstream
media to make propaganda for it.</p>


title: Form to fill out to turn off censorship on UK Internet connections
uri: Form-to-fill-out-to-turn-off-censorship-on-UK-Internet-connections
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Form_to_fill_out_to_turn_off_censorship_on_UK_Internet_connections)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Form_to_fill_out_to_turn_off_censorship_on_UK_Internet_connections%29

content:
<p>
Here's the form people will have to fill out
to <a href="http://www.vortex.com/uk-isp-filtering-form">turn off
censorship on their UK Internet connections.  </a>


title: Why humanity has failed to take the necessary action to stop global heating
uri: Why-humanity-has-failed-to-take-the-necessary-action-to-stop-global-he
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Why_humanity_has_failed_to_take_the_necessary_action_to_stop_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Why_humanity_has_failed_to_take_the_necessary_action_to_stop_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Why humanity
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/22/climate-change-reasons-failure">failed
to take the necessary action to stop global heating.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Norwegian_woman_in_Dubai_pardoned)
title: Norwegian woman in Dubai pardoned
uri: Norwegian-woman-in-Dubai-pardoned
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Norwegian_woman_in_Dubai_pardoned%29
content:
<p>
A Norwegian woman in Dubai told the thugs she had been raped, and was
sentenced to prison for non-marital sex.
Now <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/22/dubai-rape-case-woman-pardoned">she
has been "pardoned".</a>
<p>
This is one of the perverse cruelties of Islamic law: a woman who
accuses rape, unless the rapist confesses, will in general be punished
in this way.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Morsi's_family_say_they_will_sue)
title: Morsi's family say they will sue
uri: Morsi-s-family-say-they-will-sue
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Morsi%27s_family_say_they_will_sue%29

content:
<p>
Morsi's family say they
will <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/22/morsi-family-egyptian-army-chief-criminal">sue
over his imprisonment without trial.</a>


title: High Civilian Death Toll in CIA Drone Strikes
uri: High-Civilian-Death-Toll-in-CIA-Drone-Strikes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(High_Civilian_Death_Toll_in_CIA_Drone_Strikes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28High_Civilian_Death_Toll_in_CIA_Drone_Strikes%29

content:
<p>
Leaked Pakistani Report
Confirms <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/22-0">High
Civilian Death Toll in CIA Drone Strikes.</a>


title: The US Government Metamorphosing Into the Borg
uri: The-US-Government-Metamorphosing-Into-the-Borg
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(The_US_Government_Metamorphosing_Into_the_Borg)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28The_US_Government_Metamorphosing_Into_the_Borg%29

content:
<p>
The US Government
Is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/22-0">Metamorphosing
Into the Borg.</a>


title: UK Conservatives' strategist advised companies how to exploit failings of NHS
uri: UK-Conservatives-strategist-advised-companies-how-to-exploit-failings
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(UK_Conservatives'_strategist_advised_companies_how_to_exploit_failings_of_NHS)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28UK_Conservatives%27_strategist_advised_companies_how_to_exploit_failings_of_NHS%29

content:
<p>
The UK Conservatives' "strategist" advised companies how
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/21/tory-strategist-lynton-crosby-lobbying">exploit
the "failings" of the NHS.</a>
<p>
Perhaps he advises the Conservatives on how to change the NHS to make
more "failings" that he can then advise other clients on how to
exploit.


title: Syrian cartoonist given Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning
uri: Syrian-cartoonist-given-Award-for-Courage-in-Editorial-Cartooning
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Syrian_cartoonist_given_Award_for_Courage_in_Editorial_Cartooning)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Syrian_cartoonist_given_Award_for_Courage_in_Editorial_Cartooning%29

content:
<p>
Syrian cartoonist Akram Reslan has been given
the <a href="http://www.dc4mf.org/en/content/political-cartoonist-paying-heavy-price">Award
for Courage in Editorial Cartooning</a>.  He cannot personally accept
it because he is in prison.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Urgent:_Reduce_price_of_medicines)
title: Urgent: Reduce price of medicines
uri: Urgent-Reduce-price-of-medicines
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Reduce_price_of_medicines%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: ask your congresscritter to cosponsor a move to
<a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4055/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6870">reduce
the price of medicines for a subset of Medicaid patients.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Riot_started_in_France)
title: Riot started in France
uri: Riot-started-in-France
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Riot_started_in_France%29
content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/21/paris-riots-police-identity-check-muslim">riot
started in France</a> when thugs checked the identity of a woman with
her face covered.
<p>
I have to admire such firm defense of a custom against the state.  At
the same time, it is a shame that the custom being defended is a form
of women that women are pressured into.
<p>
I have to wonder whether her husband really attacked the thugs.  It
could be true, but thugs often fabricate such accusations.
<p>
It is not only Muslim women who should have the right to cover their
faces.  Everyone must have this, especially in a protest, in case they
wish to avoid the danger of retaliation — from the state, from
their employers, or from
the <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#04_March_2012_(Blacklists)">state
and their employers in collusion.</a>


title: Urgent: Ban some uses of neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Urgent-Ban-some-uses-of-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Urgent:_Ban_some_uses_of_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_some_uses_of_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to support the bill
to <a href="http://org.credoaction.com/petitions/tell-congress-stop-the-pesticide-that-is-killing-bees">ban
some uses of neonicotinoid pesticides.</a>


title: Treasury secretary supports continued austerity
uri: Treasury-secretary-supports-continued-austerity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(Treasury_secretary_supports_continued_austerity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28Treasury_secretary_supports_continued_austerity%29

content:
<p>
Obama's treasury
secretary <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/21/treasury-secretary-jack-lew-greece">supports
continued austerity in Europe.</a> He told the Greek government to
keep on making
the <a href="media/b19443e8.shared-sacrifice.png" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/images/shared-sacrifice.png">people
sacrifice.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Russias_new_copyright_enforcement_law)
title: Russia's new copyright enforcement law
uri: Russia-s-new-copyright-enforcement-law
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Russias_new_copyright_enforcement_law%29

content:
<p>
Russia's new copyright enforcement law allows 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/russias-anti-piracy-law-triggers-blackouts-and-protests-130720/">blocking 
web sites without even a trial</a>, like SOPA/PIPA.
<p>
Please do not make the mistake of referring to sharing as 
"<a href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy'>piracy</a>".
That's the enemy's propaganda.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Obamas_escalating_war_on_journalism)
title: Obama's escalating war on journalism
uri: Obama-s-escalating-war-on-journalism
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Obamas_escalating_war_on_journalism%29

content:
<p>
Obama's escalating war on journalism directed at the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/22">security state</a>.


title: Interception of all pager messages in the US in 2001
uri: Interception-of-all-pager-messages-in-the-US-in-2001
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Interception_of_all_pager_messages_in_the_US_in_2001)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Interception_of_all_pager_messages_in_the_US_in_2001%29

content:
<p>
Who was intercepting 
<a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/leaked_911_text.html">all 
pager messages in the US in 2001</a>?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Assads_plan_to_expel_Sunnis)
title: Assad's plan to expel Sunnis
uri: Assad-s-plan-to-expel-Sunnis
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Assads_plan_to_expel_Sunnis%29
content:
<p>
Assad seems to be 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/22/syria-sunnis-fear-alawite-ethnic-cleansing">planning 
to expel Sunnis</a> from a strip of Syria from Damascus to the coast.


title: Urgent: Human rights for people, not for corporations
uri: Urgent-Human-rights-for-people-not-for-corporations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Urgent:_Human_rights_for_people,_not_for_corporations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Human_rights_for_people%2C_not_for_corporations%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12266">support 
a constitutional amendment</a> saying that human rights are for people,
not for corporations.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Crisis_for_US_agriculture)
title: Crisis for US agriculture
uri: Crisis-for-US-agriculture
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Crisis_for_US_agriculture%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/opinion/our-coming-food-crisis.html?pagewanted=all">Global 
heating is colliding with business-imposed agricultural policies</a>
to create a crisis for US agriculture.


title: Texas school district to track kids with surveillance cameras
uri: Texas-school-district-to-track-kids-with-surveillance-cameras
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Texas_school_district_to_track_kids_with_surveillance_cameras)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Texas_school_district_to_track_kids_with_surveillance_cameras%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/17/texas_northside_school_district_drops_rfid_tracking_privacy_not_the_main.html">Texas 
School District Drops RFID Chips, Will Track Kids With Surveillance
Cameras Instead</a>.


title: Visualizing phone location tracking data
uri: Visualizing-phone-location-tracking-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Visualizing_phone_location_tracking_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Visualizing_phone_location_tracking_data%29

content:
<p>
Visualizing phone location tracking data as 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/design/2013/07/a-years-worth-of-location-data-transformed-into-a-beautiful-record/">music</a>.


title: Opening film for Durban film festival banned
uri: Opening-film-for-Durban-film-festival-banned
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Opening_film_for_Durban_film_festival_banned)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Opening_film_for_Durban_film_festival_banned%29

content:
<p>
Director Jahmil Qubeka's film, which was due to open the Durban film festival, 
has been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/22/south-africa-film-censorship-pornography">banned as "child pornography"</a>.
<p>
Don't be surprised — this is what censorship does.


title: US gov't now allowed to produce and show propaganda
uri: US-gov-t-now-allowed-to-produce-and-show-propaganda
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(US_govt_now_allowed_to_produce_and_show_propaganda)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28US_govt_now_allowed_to_produce_and_show_propaganda%29

content:
<p>
The US government is now
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/07/u-s-government-funded-news-comes-home/">allowed 
to produce "news reports" (i.e., propaganda)</a> and show them in the US.
Henceforth the security state won't have to depend on the mainstream
media to make propaganda for it.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 22_July_2013_(US_Governent)
title: US Government
uri: 2013-07-23-US-Government
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#22_July_2013_%28US_Governent%29
content:
<p>Evidence that the US government records and saves the content of lots
of phone calls, in the absence of specific cause — <a href="http://blog.rubbingalcoholic.com/post/52913031241/its-not-just-metadata-the-nsa-is-getting-everything">not just the
call records</a>.
</a></p>


title: Very urgent: Reduce PAT RIOT act surveillance power
uri: Very-urgent-Reduce-PAT-RIOT-act-surveillance-power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Urgent:_Reduce_PAT_RIOT_act_surveillance_power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Reduce_PAT_RIOT_act_surveillance_power%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/nsa_amash/">email your 
congresscritter</a> in favor of reducing the PAT RIOT act surveillance
power.
<p>
Pass the word: Support the 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130723/01361323896/dueling-house-amendments-over-cutting-nsa-surveillance-funding-one-is-red-herring-to-trick-congress.shtml">Amash 
amendment</a>, not the deceptive Nugent amendment.
<p>
Also phone — that has more effect.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


title: How Californians enacted a tax increase for the rich
uri: How-Californians-enacted-a-tax-increase-for-the-rich
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(How_Californians_enacted_a_tax_increase_for_the_rich)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28How_Californians_enacted_a_tax_increase_for_the_rich%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/23-0">How
Californians enacted a tax increase for the rich.</a> The state's
"Democratic" governor wanted to tax mainly the workers.


title: Congress reduced sentencing disparity between crack and other cocaine
uri: Congress-reduced-sentencing-disparity-between-crack-and-other-cocaine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Congress_reduced_sentencing_disparity_between_crack_and_other_cocaine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Congress_reduced_sentencing_disparity_between_crack_and_other_cocaine%29

content:
<p>
The US congress reduced the sentencing disparity between crack and
other cocaine, but Obama's men don't want the prisoners already
convicted under the old higher sentences
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/23/us-v-blewett-obama-justice-department-shame">have
their sentences reduced.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Increased_goat-herding_in_Asia)
title: Increased goat-herding in Asia
uri: Increased-goat-herding-in-Asia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Increased_goat-herding_in_Asia%29
content:
<p>
Increased goat-herding in Asia
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/23/snow-leopards-yaks-cashmere-gaots-fashion">driving
many wild species into a little marginal land.</a>
<p>
That area can't support so much human population.


title: Important butterfly species in Europe have declined by half
uri: Important-butterfly-species-in-Europe-have-declined-by-half
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Important_butterfly_species_in_Europe_have_declined_by_half)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Important_butterfly_species_in_Europe_have_declined_by_half%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/23/grassland-butterflies-europe-population">Important
butterfly species in Europe have declined by half</a>, threatening
pollination.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Does_the_NSA_Tap_That_)
title: Does the NSA Tap That?
uri: Does-the-NSA-Tap-That
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Does_the_NSA_Tap_That_%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/23">Does the NSA
Tap That?</a> What We Still Don t Know About the Agency s Internet
Surveillance.


title: Detroit and Goldman Sachs: Makers and Takers.
uri: Detroit-and-Goldman-Sachs-Makers-and-Takers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Detroit_and_Goldman_Sachs:_Makers_and_Takers.)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Detroit_and_Goldman_Sachs%3A_Makers_and_Takers.%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/23-1">Detroit and
Goldman Sachs: Makers and Takers.</a>


title: Australia delivers gay asylum seekers to persecution
uri: Australia-delivers-gay-asylum-seekers-to-persecution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Australia_delivers_gay_asylum_seekers_to_persecution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Australia_delivers_gay_asylum_seekers_to_persecution%29

content:
<p>
When Australia forcibly renders asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea,
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/23/gay-asylum-seekers-papua-new-guinea">it
delivers gay asylum seekers to persecution.</a>


title: Pretending wind turbines cause health problems
uri: Pretending-wind-turbines-cause-health-problems
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Pretending_wind_turbines_cause_health_problems)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Pretending_wind_turbines_cause_health_problems%29

content:
<p>
An astroturf campaign pretends
that <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/23/abbott-wind-turbines-health-effects">wind
turbines cause health problems.</a>
<p>
I wonder if this is funded by coal mining companies.


title: Big banks get bailouts — big cities don't
uri: Big-banks-get-bailouts-big-cities-don-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Big_banks_get_bailouts_%26mdash;_big_cities_don't)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Big_banks_get_bailouts_%2526mdash%3B_big_cities_don%27t%29

content:
<p>
In the
US, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/22-5">big banks
get bailouts — big cities don't.</a>
<p>
And auto companies get bailouts at
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/23/detroit-decline-distinctively-capitalist-failure">expense
of their workers and the cities where they live.</a>
<p>
The auto companies outflanked the unions through "globalization"
(outsourcing).  Democracy should not allow outsourcing to low-wage
countries as an excuse to knock wages down.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Wild_koalas_are_being_wiped_out)
title: Wild koalas are being wiped out
uri: Wild-koalas-are-being-wiped-out
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Wild_koalas_are_being_wiped_out%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/23/conservation-group-failure-koala-protection">Wild
koalas are being wiped out</a> by cutting down the trees they live on.


title: Preserving the wild relatives of crops
uri: Preserving-the-wild-relatives-of-crops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Preserving_the_wild_relatives_of_crops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Preserving_the_wild_relatives_of_crops%29

content:
<p>
Preserving the wild relatives of crops such as wheat and potato
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/23/wild-crop-seeds-boost-economy">could
be worth $200 billion over the foreseeable future.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Obama's_mega-gift_to_the_banksters)
title: Obama's mega-gift to the banksters
uri: Obama-s-mega-gift-to-the-banksters
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Obama%27s_mega-gift_to_the_banksters%29

content:
<p>
The next installment of Obama's mega-gift to the banksters:
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/22-4">making
Lawrence Summers chairman of the Federal Reserve.</a>


title: Examining officials and companies that promote massive surveillance
uri: Examining-officials-and-companies-that-promote-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Examining_officials_and_companies_that_promote_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Examining_officials_and_companies_that_promote_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Examining officials and companies
that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/22-7">promote
massive surveillance and profit from it too.</a>


title: Intervention in Syria likely to lead to unintended and unpredictable consequences
uri: Intervention-in-Syria-likely-to-lead-to-unintended-and-unpredictable-c
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Intervention_in_Syria_likely_to_lead_to_unintended_and_unpredictable_consequences)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Intervention_in_Syria_likely_to_lead_to_unintended_and_unpredictable_consequences%29

content:
<p>
The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff warned senators that
intervention in Syria is likely to lead
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/22/us-military-intervention-syria">unintended
and unpredictable consequences.</a>


title: Digital license plates could lead to more surveillance
uri: Digital-license-plates-could-lead-to-more-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(Digital_license_plates_could_lead_to_more_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28Digital_license_plates_could_lead_to_more_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
California's planned "digital license plates" could lead to
<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/16/5571548/privacy-group-warns-against-california.html">even
more surveillance of car travel.</a>


title: The World Bank invests in mining companies
uri: The-World-Bank-invests-in-mining-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 23_July_2013_(The_World_Bank_invests_in_mining_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#23_July_2013_%28The_World_Bank_invests_in_mining_companies%29

content:
<p>
The World Bank invests in mining companies, then pressures countries
to rewrite their mining
laws <a href="http://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/conflict-of-interest-world-bank-to-rewrite-haiti-mining-law-while-invested-in-mining-in-haiti-through-the-ifc/">to
favor those companies.</a>


title: Thug put on "desk duty" after leaking confidential gov't data
uri: Thug-put-on-desk-duty-after-leaking-confidential-gov-t-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Thug_put_on_desk_duty_after_leaking_confidential_govt_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Thug_put_on_desk_duty_after_leaking_confidential_govt_data%29

content:
<p>
A thug who leaked photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-pictures-sergeant-sean-murphy">tentatively
punished</a>.
<p>
It is interesting to compare this case with that of Edward Snowden.
Both released confidential government data, but beyond that the
circumstances were very different.  Whereas Snowden's leaks told
us about massive and grave government abuses, Murphy's only attempted
to make Tsarnaev look bad — for shallow reasons.
<p>
Tsarnaev is accused of murdering several strangers, and I see no doubt
about his guilt.  This is the basis of my opinion of him.  Only a fool
judges someone morally based on how handsome or how weak he looks.
How foolish it would be to think better of Tsarnaev due to a photo in
Rolling Stone.  How foolish it would be to think worse of him due to
photos leaked by Murphy.


title: NSA says it can't search its own emails
uri: NSA-says-it-can-t-search-its-own-emails
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(NSA_says_it_cant_search_its_own_emails)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28NSA_says_it_cant_search_its_own_emails%29

content:
<p>
The NSA says it 
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-says-it-cant-search-own-emails">can't 
search its own emails</a>.
<p>
That's ridiculous — it can search yours and mine.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Utahs_ag-gag_law)
title: Utah's "ag-gag law"
uri: Utah-s-ag-gag-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Utahs_ag-gag_law%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/23-7">Suing to 
overturn</a> Utah's "ag-gag law".


title: Congress and Justice Department's attempts to define "journalism"
uri: Congress-and-Justice-Department-s-attempts-to-define-journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Congress_and_Justice_Departments_attempts_to_define_journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Congress_and_Justice_Departments_attempts_to_define_journalism%29

content:
<p>
Congress and the Justice Dept's Dangerous Attempts to Define  
"Journalist" 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/congress-and-justice-depts-dangerous-attempts-define-journalist-threaten-exclude">Threaten 
to Exclude Bloggers</a>.


title: Congress considers "patent reform" bills
uri: Congress-considers-patent-reform-bills
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Congress_considers_patent_reform_bills)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Congress_considers_patent_reform_bills%29

content:
<p>
Congress is considering 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/momentum-continues-hill-patent-reform">two 
"patent reform" bills</a>.
<p>
They are small steps for the better.  They might reduce the total
amount of harm done by patents in computing, and some other fields,
but don't try to really solve the problem.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Al_Qaida_attacks_Iraqi_prisons)
title: Al Qa'ida attacks Iraqi prisons
uri: Al-Qa-ida-attacks-Iraqi-prisons
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Al_Qaida_attacks_Iraqi_prisons%29
content:
<p>
Al Qa'ida attacked three Iraqi large prisons simultaneously, and 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/al-qaida-iraq-prison-raids-abu-ghraib">freed
hundreds of prisoners</a>, including some of its followers.
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2007-mar-jun.html#12%20May%202007%20(Iraq%20and%20Al%20Qaida)">Al 
Qa'ida operates in Iraq</a> thanks to the US conquest and occupation of
Iraq.
<p>
Iraq is experiencing the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#12_February_2013_(Iraqs_intersectarian_war)">return 
of the sectarian killing</a>, which also started as a result of the US
conquest and occupation of Iraq.


title: If company uses bitcoin no guarantee it isn't a scam
uri: If-company-uses-bitcoin-no-guarantee-it-isn-t-a-scam
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(If_company_uses_bitcoin_no_guarantee_it_isn't_a_scam)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28If_company_uses_bitcoin_no_guarantee_it_isn%27t_a_scam%29

content:
<p>
If a company uses bitcoin, that
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/24/bitcoin-alleged-ponzi-fraud">no
guarantee it isn't a scam.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Troops_at_breaking_point)
title: Troops at breaking point
uri: Troops-at-breaking-point
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Troops_at_breaking_point%29
content:
<p>
Hagel: "Troops At a Breaking Point";
Vets: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/23-10">"Then
Bring Us Home".</a>


title: US trying to stifle resistance to genetically engineered foods
uri: US-trying-to-stifle-resistance-to-genetically-engineered-foods
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(US_trying_to_stifle_resistance_to_genetically_engineered_foods)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28US_trying_to_stifle_resistance_to_genetically_engineered_foods%29

content:
<p>
The US is trying
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jul/24/gm-crops-ghana-us-genetically-modified-food">stifle
resistance to genetically engineered foods in Ghana.</a>


title: Require farms to disclose when they use certain especially toxic pesticides
uri: Require-farms-to-disclose-when-they-use-certain-especially-toxic-pesti
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Require_farms_to_disclose_when_they_use_certain_especially_toxic_pesticides)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Require_farms_to_disclose_when_they_use_certain_especially_toxic_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
Activists in Hawai'i are pushing for a local law
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/23-3">require
farms to disclose when they use certain especially toxic
pesticides</a>, which are suspected of poisoning the drinking water.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Mali_is_being_rushed_into_elections)
title: Mali is being rushed into elections
uri: Mali-is-being-rushed-into-elections
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Mali_is_being_rushed_into_elections%29

content:
<p>
Mali is
being <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/24/mali-does-not-need-rush-elections">rushed
into elections</a>, which are not being held very well.  Many eligible
voters have been dropped from the list, apparently due to
carelessness.


title: Asylum seekers imprisoned by Australia are often raped
uri: Asylum-seekers-imprisoned-by-Australia-are-often-raped
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Asylum_seekers_imprisoned_by_Australia_are_often_raped)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Asylum_seekers_imprisoned_by_Australia_are_often_raped%29

content:
<p>
A former guard says that asylum seekers imprisoned by Australia in
Manus Island
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/24/manus-island-rape-detainees">often
raped and often try to commit suicide.</a>
<p>
Salvation Army staff who have been
there <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/24/nauru-riot-inevitable-salvation-army">support
the claims.</a>


title: Rubber-Stamp Approval of Dangerous GE Seeds
uri: Rubber-Stamp-Approval-of-Dangerous-GE-Seeds
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Rubber-Stamp_Approval_of_Dangerous_GE_Seeds)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Rubber-Stamp_Approval_of_Dangerous_GE_Seeds%29

content:
<p>
USDA
Fast-Tracks <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/23-9">"Rubber-Stamp"
Approval of "Dangerous" GE Seeds.</a>


title: Dishonest scheme that triggered the financial crisis
uri: Dishonest-scheme-that-triggered-the-financial-crisis
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Dishonest_scheme_that_triggered_the_financial_crisis)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Dishonest_scheme_that_triggered_the_financial_crisis%29

content:
<p>
Greg
Palast <a href="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-frog-who-crushed-the-world">explains
the dishonest scheme that triggered the financial crisis</a>, and the
small part in it played by the only participant that is being
prosecuted.
<p>
I see no need to use the smear term "frog" to refer to someone who is
French.  And what's wrong with garlic, anyway?


title: Urgent: Limits on keeping data from license plate readers
uri: Urgent-Limits-on-keeping-data-from-license-plate-readers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Urgent:_Limits_on_keeping_data_from_license_plate_readers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Limits_on_keeping_data_from_license_plate_readers%29

content:
<p>
Massachusetts citizens: 
<a href="https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu/ma/issues/alert/?alertid=62782436">call 
for limits</a> on keeping data from automatic license plate readers.


title: Urgent: Raise the US minimum wage to $10.10 per hour
uri: Urgent-Raise-the-US-minimum-wage-to-10-10-per-hour
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Urgent:_Raise_the_US_minimum_wage_to_10.10_per_hour)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_the_US_minimum_wage_to_10.10_per_hour%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/raise-the-minimum-wage-18">this 
petition</a> to raise the US minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.


title: Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye freed
uri: Journalist-Abdulelah-Haider-Shaye-freed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Journalist_Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye_freed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Journalist_Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye_freed%29

content:
<p>
Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye has been freed in response to
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/yemen-journalist-us-drone-strike-released">public pressure</a>.
He had been accused of aiding the rebels thanks to his reporting on
a US drone attack that killed civilians, and was kept in prison due
to pressure from Obama.
<p>
His release has conditions, though: he has to stay in the capital,
and thus cannot investigate any more drone attacks.


title: Protecting privacy can be interpreted as felonies under the CFAA
uri: Protecting-privacy-can-be-interpreted-as-felonies-under-the-CFAA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Protecting_privacy_can_be_interpreted_as_felonies_under_the_CFAA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Protecting_privacy_can_be_interpreted_as_felonies_under_the_CFAA%29

content:
<p>
Standard technique for protecting privacy on-line can be 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/07/the-catch-22-of-internet-commerce-and-privacy-could-mean-youre-the-bad-guy/">interpreted
as felonies</a> under the CFAA.


title: Stores trying new methods of identifying physical customers
uri: Stores-trying-new-methods-of-identifying-physical-customers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 24_July_2013_(Stores_trying_new_methods_of_identifying_physical_customers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_July_2013_%28Stores_trying_new_methods_of_identifying_physical_customers%29

content:
<p>
Stores are trying 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/23/privacy_self_regulation_and_consumer_tracking_euclid_and_the_future_of_privacy.html">new 
methods of tracking and identifying</a> physical customers.


title: Urgent: More state support of mass transit in Massachusetts
uri: Urgent-More-state-support-of-mass-transit-in-Massachusetts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Urgent:_More_state_support_of_mass_transit_in_Massachusetts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_More_state_support_of_mass_transit_in_Massachusetts%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: call for 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=8663">more 
state support of mass transit</a>.


title: Legislators introduce pro-oil bills after trip to Alberta
uri: Legislators-introduce-pro-oil-bills-after-trip-to-Alberta
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Legislators_introduce_pro-oil_bills_after_trip_to_Alberta)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Legislators_introduce_pro-oil_bills_after_trip_to_Alberta%29

content:
<p>
ALEC brought state legislators on a tour of tar sand mines, paid for
by oil companies and Alberta, and they subsequently 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12160/keystone-academy-where-legislators-learn-etiquette-serving-special-interests">introduced 
pro-oil bills</a>.
<p>
Such handsome "thank you" notes suggest these legislators
have more to be grateful for than just a trip to Alberta.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Israels_arrest_of_a_5-year-old_boy)
title: Israel's arrest of a 5-year-old boy
uri: Israel-s-arrest-of-a-5-year-old-boy
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Israels_arrest_of_a_5-year-old_boy%29

content:
<p>
What is the context for Israel's 
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/hebron/20130717_sarit_michaeli_op_ed">arrest 
of a 5-year-old boy</a>?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Stand_your_ground_laws)
title: "Stand your ground" laws
uri: Stand-your-ground-laws
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Stand_your_ground_laws%29
content:
<p>
"Stand your ground" laws have led to 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/06/11384/seven-faces-nraalec-approved-stand-your-ground-law">many 
shootings</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Urgent:_Increase_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Increase Social Security
uri: Urgent-Increase-Social-Security
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Increase_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/harkin_begich/">call on the 
Senate</a> to increase Social Security.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Urgent:_March_for_peace_and_justice)
title: Urgent: March for peace and justice
uri: Urgent-March-for-peace-and-justice
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_March_for_peace_and_justice%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://www.unitedforpeace.org/2013/07/07/august-24th-carry-a-banner-for-peace-50th-anniversary-march-on-washington/">march 
on Washington</a> for peace and justice.


title: Israeli soldier shoots representative of human rights group
uri: Israeli-soldier-shoots-representative-of-human-rights-group
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Israeli_soldier_shoots_representative_of_human_rights_group)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Israeli_soldier_shoots_representative_of_human_rights_group%29

content:
<p>
An Israeli soldier 
<a href="http://972mag.com/btselem-spokesperson-injured-at-west-bank-protest-soldier-knowingly-shot-in-my-direction/76172/">shot 
a representative of the human rights group B'tselem</a> who was
filming the weekly protest at Nabi Saleh.
<p>
The video shows that she was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet at
close range, in violation of orders and safety standards, for no good
reason.  Not so unusual, actually, because the army doesn't punish the
soldiers that do this.


title: More retailers ban products from Israeli colonies
uri: More-retailers-ban-products-from-Israeli-colonies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(More_retailers_ban_products_from_Israeli_colonies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28More_retailers_ban_products_from_Israeli_colonies%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4408239,00.html">Three 
retail chains in the Netherlands</a> have decided not to sell products
made by Israeli colonies in Palestinian territory.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Kerrys_peace_talks)
title: Kerry's peace talks
uri: Kerry-s-peace-talks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Kerrys_peace_talks%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2013/07/21/israel-palestinian-talks-going-nowhere-slowly/">Both 
Israel and Palestine</a> assume that Kerry's peace talks will go
nowhere.


title: Israeli army and right-wing "settlers": good cop bad cop
uri: Israeli-army-and-right-wing-settlers-good-cop-bad-cop
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Israeli_army_and_right-wing_settlers_good_cop_bad_cop)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Israeli_army_and_right-wing_settlers_good_cop_bad_cop%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli army and the right-wing "settlers" play 
"<a href='http://blog.yesh-din.org/en/?p=354'>good 
cop / bad cop</a>" to Palestinians.
<p>
"Settlers" have repeatedly attacked the Jaber family and 
<a href="http://www.altro.co.il/newsletters/show/3573?key=f54236a1840e1ce87c8abb26afd2c346">destroyed 
their trees, irrigation systems and homes</a>, hoping to drive them
out and steal their land.
<p>
A right-wing mob 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65856">attacked a Bedouin 
village</a> in Israel.


title: Electric companies in the UK imported and burned more coal
uri: Electric-companies-in-the-UK-imported-and-burned-more-coal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Electric_companies_in_the_UK_imported_and_burned_more_coal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Electric_companies_in_the_UK_imported_and_burned_more_coal%29

content:
<p>
US fracking reduced US coal consumption.  This made coal cheap,
so <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/25/coal-one-third-uk-energy">electric
companies in the UK imported and burned more coal.</a>
<p>
This shows the error in supposing that fracking means that gas
replaces coal.  Not as long as a market determines the price of coal
and we fail to drive the price up artificially.


title: Rush Holt running against an Obama-like suck-up to Wall Street
uri: Rush-Holt-running-against-an-Obama-like-suck-up-to-Wall-Street
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Rush_Holt_running_against_an_Obama-like_suck-up_to_Wall_Street)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Rush_Holt_running_against_an_Obama-like_suck-up_to_Wall_Street%29

content:
<p>
In the Democratic primary on Aug 10 for senator from New Jersey, Rush
Holt (who calls for repealing the PAT RIOT Act)
is <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/bookers_defense_of_wall_street.html">running
against an Obama-like suck-up to Wall Street.</a>


title: Refugees often have to do without contraceptives
uri: Refugees-often-have-to-do-without-contraceptives
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Refugees_often_have_to_do_without_contraceptives)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Refugees_often_have_to_do_without_contraceptives%29

content:
<p>
Refugees often have to
do <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/jul/25/refugees-family-planning-health-syria">without
contraceptives</a>, so they have babies in the worst possible
circumstances for someone to be born into.


title: Anti-Terrorism laws intimidate and hamper humanitarian aid
uri: Anti-Terrorism-laws-intimidate-and-hamper-humanitarian-aid
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Anti-Terrorism_laws_intimidate_and_hamper_humanitarian_aid)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Anti-Terrorism_laws_intimidate_and_hamper_humanitarian_aid%29

content:
<p>
Anti-"terrorism"
laws <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jul/25/counter-terrorism-humanitarian-aid-study">intimidate
and hamper humanitarian aid.</a>


title: Right-wing terrorist paramilitaries killed more
uri: Right-wing-terrorist-paramilitaries-killed-more
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Right-wing_terrorist_paramilitaries_killed_more)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Right-wing_terrorist_paramilitaries_killed_more%29

content:
<p>
A study sponsored by the Colombian government says that the
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/colombia-conflict-death-toll-commission">right-wing
terrorist paramilitaries killed more than the left-wing guerrillas</a>
that are officially labeled as "terrorist".


title: Anonymous blog breathes political opposition into Zimbabwe
uri: Anonymous-blog-breathes-political-opposition-into-Zimbabwe
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Anonymous_blog_breathes_political_opposition_into_Zimbabwe)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Anonymous_blog_breathes_political_opposition_into_Zimbabwe%29

content:
<p>
An <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/robert-mugabe-baba-jukwa-zimbabwe">anonymous
blog breathes political opposition into Zimbabwe.</a>
<p>
This is an example of the importance of anonymous publication on the
Internet.


title: Amendment to limit NSA collection of phone records was defeated
uri: Amendment-to-limit-NSA-collection-of-phone-records-was-defeated
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Amendment_to_limit_NSA_collection_of_phone_records_was_defeated)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Amendment_to_limit_NSA_collection_of_phone_records_was_defeated%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/nsa-surveillance-amash-amendment-narrow-defeat">amendment
to limit NSA collection of phone records was defeated</a>, but very
narrowly.
<p>
This shows that we have hope of winning if we keep pushing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(UK_NHS_running_short_of_doctors)
title: UK NHS running short of doctors
uri: UK-NHS-running-short-of-doctors
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28UK_NHS_running_short_of_doctors%29
content:
<p>
The UK National Health Service
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/25/nhs-staff-shortage-pay-kings-fund">running
short of doctors.</a>
<p>
The government is trying surreptitiously to destroy the NHS, by
cutting its funds so it does a bad job.


title: Refugees from Syria overwhelming region
uri: Refugees-from-Syria-overwhelming-region
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Refugees_from_Syria_overwhelming_region)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Refugees_from_Syria_overwhelming_region%29

content:
<p>
Refugees from Syria
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/24/syria-refugee-crisis-world">overwhelming
the surrounding region.</a>
<p>
1/4 of the population are now refugees.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_July_2013_(Loss_of_Arctic_sea_ice)
title: Loss of Arctic sea ice
uri: Loss-of-Arctic-sea-ice
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_%28Loss_of_Arctic_sea_ice%29
content:
<p>
The loss of Arctic sea ice
could <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jul/24/arctic-melt-methane-economy-time-bomb">trigger
a giant release of methane</a>, which would cause tremendous global
heating.
<p>
The damage could amount to 60 trillion dollars.
<p>
How does that compare with the cost of writing off 4/5 of the world's
fossil fuel reserves, so as to prevent this disaster?


title: Urgent: Tell Google to stop funding global heating denialists
uri: 2013-07-26-Urgent-Tell-Google-to-stop-funding-global-heating-denialists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Google_to_stop_funding_global_heating_denialists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Google_to_stop_funding_global_heating_denialists%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/google-climate-deniers/">tell 
Google</a> not to fund global heating denialists such as the
Competitive Enterprise Institute.


title: Urgent: Support freedom for Pussy Riot
uri: Urgent-Support-freedom-for-Pussy-Riot
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_freedom_for_Pussy_Riot)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_freedom_for_Pussy_Riot%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/c.6oJCLQPAJiJUG/b.8465995/k.6D0D/Pussy_Riot__Writeathon/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx">tell 
Putin</a> you support freedom for Pussy Riot.


title: US restaurant chains don't want to pay workers for sick days
uri: US-restaurant-chains-don-t-want-to-pay-workers-for-sick-days
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(US_restaurant_chains_dont_want_to_pay_workers_for_sick_days)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28US_restaurant_chains_dont_want_to_pay_workers_for_sick_days%29

content:
<p>
US restaurant chains are 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12173/other-nra-national-restaurant-association-pushes-preemption-paid-sick-days">organizing 
to fight</a> against laws requiring paid sick days for restaurant
workers.


title: North Carolina Senate pushes attack on voting rights
uri: North-Carolina-Senate-pushes-attack-on-voting-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(North_Carolina_Senate_pushes_attack_on_voting_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28North_Carolina_Senate_pushes_attack_on_voting_rights%29

content:
<p>
After the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, the North Carolina
Senate is pushing a 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12191/voting-rights-act-shambles-north-carolina-kicks-voter-suppression-high-gear">broad 
and drastic attack on voting rights</a>.


title: Head of Egyptian army asks public to rally against "terrorists"
uri: Head-of-Egyptian-army-asks-public-to-rally-against-terrorists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(Head_of_Egyptian_army_asks_public_to_rally_against_terrorists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28Head_of_Egyptian_army_asks_public_to_rally_against_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
The head of the Egyptian army 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/24/egypt-army-chief-support-citizens">asked 
the public to rally against "terrorists"</a>, which apparently is
meant to refer to the Muslim Brotherhood.
<p>
Morsi continues to be 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/24/egypt-army-release-mohamed-morsi">imprisoned 
without charges</a>.


title: Relatives of Guantanamo prisoners ask US Senate for justice
uri: Relatives-of-Guantanamo-prisoners-ask-US-Senate-for-justice
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(Relatives_of_Guantanamo_prisoners_ask_US_Senate_for_justice)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28Relatives_of_Guantanamo_prisoners_ask_US_Senate_for_justice%29

content:
<p>
Relatives of Guantanamo prisoners 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/24/guantanamo-detainee-relatives-senators">ask 
the US Senate for justice</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(Koch_Industries_oil_speculator)
title: Koch Industries: oil speculator
uri: Koch-Industries-oil-speculator
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28Koch_Industries_oil_speculator%29
content:
<p>
Koch Industries is an 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/23-9">oil speculator</a>.


title: Hypocrisy of "informed" debate on spying
uri: Hypocrisy-of-informed-debate-on-spying
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(Hypocrisy_of_informed_debate_on_spying)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28Hypocrisy_of_informed_debate_on_spying%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/24-2">NSA 
Opponents Call Out White House for Hypocrisy of "Informed" Debate on
Spying</a>.


title: NY Thug Commissioner tries to justify stop-and-frisk policy
uri: NY-Thug-Commissioner-tries-to-justify-stop-and-frisk-policy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(NY_Thug_Commissioner_tries_to_justify_stop-and-frisk_policy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28NY_Thug_Commissioner_tries_to_justify_stop-and-frisk_policy%29

content:
<p>
Thug Commissioner Kelly claims his practice of searching people with
no grounds is justified by 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/24/factchecking-ray-kelly-nypd-wsj">the 
big drop in the murder rate that happened before he started it</a>.


title: Loss of Arctic sea ice and the giant methane escape
uri: Loss-of-Arctic-sea-ice-and-the-giant-methane-escape
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(Loss_of_Arctic_sea_ice_and_the_giant_methane_escape)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28Loss_of_Arctic_sea_ice_and_the_giant_methane_escape%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jul/24/arctic-ice-free-methane-economy-catastrophe">More 
about</a> loss of Arctic sea ice and the giant methane escape.


title: European Investment Bank to stop financing ordinary coal plants
uri: European-Investment-Bank-to-stop-financing-ordinary-coal-plants
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(European_Investment_Bank_to_stop_financing_ordinary_coal_plants)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28European_Investment_Bank_to_stop_financing_ordinary_coal_plants%29

content:
<p>
The European Investment Bank has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/24/eu-coal-power-plants-carbon-emissions-climate">decided 
to stop financing ordinary coal plants</a>.


title: How some rich Americans propose to help the poor
uri: How-some-rich-Americans-propose-to-help-the-poor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(How_some_rich_Americans_propose_to_help_the_poor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28How_some_rich_Americans_propose_to_help_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
Some rich Americans propose to help the poor by 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/24-2">eliminating 
the minimum wage and soup kitchens</a>.
<p>
"Dump them in the ocean and see if they drown," is their philosophy.


title: Greater torrential rains expected in the UK
uri: Greater-torrential-rains-expected-in-the-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(Greater_torrential_rains_expected_in_the_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28Greater_torrential_rains_expected_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
The UK will see even greater torrential rains in the future, 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/24/worse-floods-uk-climate-warms">due 
to global heating</a>.
<p>
And that's not counting the flooding of the coasts.


title: US-style economic inequality bad for business
uri: US-style-economic-inequality-bad-for-business
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(US-style_economic_inequality_bad_for_business)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28US-style_economic_inequality_bad_for_business%29

content:
<p>
US-style economic inequality is bad
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/24/10-reason-us-economy-stuck">even for business</a>.
<p>
Alas, it may not be bad for the banks.  Today's banks seek to make a
killing through fraud, not a reliable income from providing a service
to society.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Urgent:_Expand_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Expand Social Security
uri: Urgent-Expand-Social-Security
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Expand_Social_Security%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/now-is-the-time-to-expand">this 
petition</a> to expand Social Security.


title: Persecution of journalists by Turkish gov't
uri: Persecution-of-journalists-by-Turkish-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Persecution_of_journalists_by_Turkish_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Persecution_of_journalists_by_Turkish_govt%29

content:
<p>
The Turkish government is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/24-7">systematically 
persecuting journalists who covered the protests</a>.


title: Unions should be speaking out against Prism
uri: Unions-should-be-speaking-out-against-Prism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Unions_should_be_speaking_out_against_Prism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Unions_should_be_speaking_out_against_Prism%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/15346/why_nsa_surveillance_should_alarm_labor/">If 
Unions Are Not Speaking Out Against Prism, It Is Because They Have
Short Memories</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Americas_Real_Subversives)
title: America's Real Subversives
uri: America-s-Real-Subversives
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Americas_Real_Subversives%29
content:
<p>
America's Real Subversives: 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/25/america-subversives-fbi-spying-nsa-surveillance">FBI 
Spying Then, NSA Surveillance Now</a>.


title: France eliminates law against offending the president
uri: France-eliminates-law-against-offending-the-president
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(France_eliminates_law_against_offending_the_president)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28France_eliminates_law_against_offending_the_president%29

content:
<p>
France has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/insulting-french-president-criminal-offence">eliminated 
the unjust law making it a crime to "offend the president"</a>. This
leaves in place the unjust law making it a crime to defame the
president (and other officials).


title: Another Tunisian secular political leader assassinated
uri: Another-Tunisian-secular-political-leader-assassinated
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Another_Tunisian_secular_political_leader_assassinated)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Another_Tunisian_secular_political_leader_assassinated%29

content:
<p>
Another Tunisian secular political leader has been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/tunisia-opposition-leader-gunned-down">assassinated</a>.


title: Turkish regime and publishers colluding to censor criticism
uri: Turkish-regime-and-publishers-colluding-to-censor-criticism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_July_2013_(Turkish_regime_and_publishers_colluding_to_censor_criticism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_July_2013_%28Turkish_regime_and_publishers_colluding_to_censor_criticism%29

content:
<p>
Turkish editor Yavuz Baydar says that publishers and the regime are
colluding to 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/jul/24/press-freedom-turkey">censor 
criticism of the state</a>.
<p>
In the US, <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#06_April_2013_(US_mainstream_media)">the regime works for the megacorporations and the
megacorporations own the mainstream media</a>, so it comes out the same.


title: Israeli expansionists buying houses in Arab quarter of Jerusalem
uri: Israeli-expansionists-buying-houses-in-Arab-quarter-of-Jerusalem
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Israeli_expansionists_buying_houses_in_Arab_quarter_of_Jerusalem)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Israeli_expansionists_buying_houses_in_Arab_quarter_of_Jerusalem%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/27/the-new-jerusalem">Israeli
expansionists are buying houses in the Arab quarter of Jerusalem</a>,
while putting Arabs under pressure to sell.
<p>
If all they did was offer to buy, and did not couple that with
harassment, I would not criticize it.


title: Scientist won award from NSA then condemned the NSA
uri: Scientist-won-award-from-NSA-then-condemned-the-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Scientist_won_award_from_NSA_then_condemned_the_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Scientist_won_award_from_NSA_then_condemned_the_NSA%29

content:
<p>
Dr. Joseph Bonneau won an award from the NSA,
then <a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/google-engineer-wins-nsa-award-then-says-nsa-should-be-abolished">condemned
the NSA while accepting it.</a>


title: Most Americans want to end the War in Afghanistan
uri: Most-Americans-want-to-end-the-War-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Most_Americans_want_to_end_the_War_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Most_Americans_want_to_end_the_War_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/26-1">Most
Americans want to end the War in Afghanistan</a> and believe it does
not improve the security of the US.
<p>
When I supported attacking the Taliban, it was to end the oppression
of the Afghanistanis.  They appreciated that, in the first years when
Afghanistan mostly experienced peace.  I did not think the Taliban
would resurge and turn life in Afghanistan into permanent war.


title: Is requiring corporations to disclose their political spending partisan
uri: Is-requiring-corporations-to-disclose-their-political-spending-partisa
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Is_requiring_corporations_to_disclose_their_political_spending_partisan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Is_requiring_corporations_to_disclose_their_political_spending_partisan%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/07/24/nothing-partisan-about-political-spending-disclosure/">Is
requiring corporations to disclose their political spending
"partisan"?</a>
<p>
This is not partisan in terms of Democrat and Republican; lots of
people in both parties support it.  However, if we imagine a struggle
between Bow to Business party and the Restore Democracy party, on this
scale it is partisan, and the government should be partisan too.


title: Businesses want TAFTA to exclude politics from deciding policies
uri: Businesses-want-TAFTA-to-exclude-politics-from-deciding-policies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Businesses_want_TAFTA_to_exclude_politics_from_deciding_policies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Businesses_want_TAFTA_to_exclude_politics_from_deciding_policies%29

content:
<p>
Businesses want TAFTA
to <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/07/tafta-industry-comments-and-democracy.html">exclude
"politics" from deciding policies</a> that affect business.  For
"politics", read "democracy".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(#Summerheat_Activists_Arrested)
title: #Summerheat Activists Arrested
uri: Summerheat-Activists-Arrested
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28%23Summerheat_Activists_Arrested%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/07/26-2">#Summerheat
Activists Arrested</a> Protesting State Dept Contractor Who Lied About
TransCanada Ties.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_('Bailouts_For_Banks,_Not_People')
title: 'Bailouts For Banks, Not People'
uri: Bailouts-For-Banks-Not-People
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28%27Bailouts_For_Banks%2C_Not_People%27%29

content:
<p>
As Detroit Drowns, GOP
says: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/26-5">'Bailouts
For Banks, Not People'.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Two_assassinated_Tunisian_leaders)
title: Two assassinated Tunisian leaders
uri: Two-assassinated-Tunisian-leaders
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Two_assassinated_Tunisian_leaders%29
content:
<p>
The two assassinated Tunisian leaders
were <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/26/tunisian-opposition-killed-same-gun">shot
with the same gun.</a>


title: Egyptian thugs killed at least 38 Morsi supporters
uri: Egyptian-thugs-killed-at-least-38-Morsi-supporters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Egyptian_thugs_killed_at_least_38_Morsi_supporters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Egyptian_thugs_killed_at_least_38_Morsi_supporters%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/27/morsi-supporters-killed-egypt-cairo">Egyptian
thugs killed at least 38 Morsi supporters</a> who wanted to continue a
sit-in protest.


title: Tsvangirai accuses Mugabe of election fraud and dishonesty
uri: Tsvangirai-accuses-Mugabe-of-election-fraud-and-dishonesty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Tsvangirai_accuses_Mugabe_of_election_fraud_and_dishonesty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Tsvangirai_accuses_Mugabe_of_election_fraud_and_dishonesty%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/26/morgan-tsvangirai-zimbabwe-election-row">Tsvangirai
accuses Mugabe of election fraud and dishonesty</a>.  Strangely, the
head of the African monitoring team went so far as to claim there were
no such complaints.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(New_president_of_Iran)
title: New president of Iran
uri: New-president-of-Iran
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28New_president_of_Iran%29
content:
<p>
The new president of Iran seems to have
brought <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/26/signs-of-change-iran-rouhani-inauguration">small
but visible relaxations of some tyrannical practices.</a>


title: Car ignition locks depend on security through obscurity
uri: Car-ignition-locks-depend-on-security-through-obscurity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Car_ignition_locks_depend_on_security_through_obscurity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Car_ignition_locks_depend_on_security_through_obscurity%29

content:
<p>
Car ignition locks depend on security through obscurity, and car
companies
have <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/26/scientist-banned-revealing-codes-cars">gagged
scientists who discovered the secret algorithm</a> and were going to
publish a paper about it.
<p>
The manufacturers should have published the algorithm themselves and
let the public hammer on it for a few years, before trusting it so
far.


title: Path for the US to Return to Its Better Self
uri: Path-for-the-US-to-Return-to-Its-Better-Self
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Path_for_the_US_to_Return_to_Its_Better_Self)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Path_for_the_US_to_Return_to_Its_Better_Self%29

content:
<p>
Manning And
Snowden <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/26/manning-snowden-us-better-self">Light
Path for the US to Return to Its Better Self.</a>


title: Summary of the environmental disasters we will cause by 2050
uri: Summary-of-the-environmental-disasters-we-will-cause-by-2050
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Summary_of_the_environmental_disasters_we_will_cause_by_2050)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Summary_of_the_environmental_disasters_we_will_cause_by_2050%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jul/26/royal-baby-radical-eco-warrior-2050">summary
of the environmental disasters we will cause by 2050</a> if we don't
change course now.


title: Scientist who led flawed study that appeared to exonerate neonicotinoid
uri: Scientist-who-led-flawed-study-that-appeared-to-exonerate-neonicotinoi
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Scientist_who_led_flawed_study_that_appeared_to_exonerate_neonicotinoid)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Scientist_who_led_flawed_study_that_appeared_to_exonerate_neonicotinoid%29

content:
<p>
A senior UK scientist who led a flawed study that appeared to
exonerate neonicotinoid
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/26/government-bee-scientist-pesticide-firm">gone
to work for a company that produces one of them.</a>
<p>
Officials that take actions to help business are often rewarded with a
job later on.


title: Global heating denialist became editor at Reuters
uri: Global-heating-denialist-became-editor-at-Reuters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Global_heating_denialist_became_editor_at_Reuters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Global_heating_denialist_became_editor_at_Reuters%29

content:
<p>
A global heating denialist became editor at Reuters
and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/26/reuters-climate-change-scepticism-coverage">cut
the coverage of climate issues by 50%</a>, says a reporter who quit in
response.
<p>
This makes me wonder: why did Reuters hire him?  I have a hunch this
was not an accident.


title: UK thugs spied on Janet Alder and her lawyer
uri: UK-thugs-spied-on-Janet-Alder-and-her-lawyer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(UK_thugs_spied_on_Janet_Alder_and_her_lawyer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28UK_thugs_spied_on_Janet_Alder_and_her_lawyer%29

content:
<p>
It
appears <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/26/ipcc-investigates-police-spied-alder-family">UK
thugs spied on Janet Alder and her lawyer</a>, while she campaigned
for justice for her brother, who had died while held by the thugs.
<p>
Comparison with the thugs' handling of some other cases suggests they
may have sought a way to smear Ms Adler so as to distract attention
from their own dirty deeds.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Boycott_of_Russian_vodka)
title: Boycott of Russian vodka
uri: Boycott-of-Russian-vodka
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Boycott_of_Russian_vodka%29
content:
<p>
Punishing Putin's anti-gay repression with
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/26/russia-vodka-boycott-gay-law">boycott
of Russian vodka.</a>
<p>
Alas, the campaign has apparently missed the mark by targeting a brand
of vodka that is not Russian any more.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(The_movie_Cars_a_commercial_for_toys)
title: The movie Cars a commercial for toys
uri: The-movie-Cars-a-commercial-for-toys
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28The_movie_Cars_a_commercial_for_toys%29

content:
<p>
The movie Cars was profitable
… <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jul/26/blockbuster-film-industry-fan-base-box-office">as
a commercial for toys.</a>
<p>
Do you want to watch a movie that is effectively a commercial for
toys?  Do you want your children to see it?  If you are worried they
will watch porn, you've been distracted from the truly harmful media.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_July_2013_(Drug_prohibition_kills)
title: Drug prohibition kills
uri: Drug-prohibition-kills
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_July_2013_%28Drug_prohibition_kills%29
content:
<p>
Drug prohibition kills — not only through the gangs that it
fuels, but also
by <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/26/pma-victims-war-drugs-prohibition-archaic-laws">making
fairly safe drugs fatal.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose making Larry Summers head of Federal Reserve Bank
uri: Urgent-Oppose-making-Larry-Summers-head-of-Federal-Reserve-Bank
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_making_Larry_Summers_head_of_Federal_Reserve_Bank)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_making_Larry_Summers_head_of_Federal_Reserve_Bank%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/dont-let-larry-summers">oppose</a> 
making Larry Summers head of the Federal Reserve Bank.


title: Israel blocks EU projects to help Palestinians
uri: Israel-blocks-EU-projects-to-help-Palestinians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Israel_blocks_EU_projects_to_help_Palestinians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Israel_blocks_EU_projects_to_help_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
Since the EU decided that cooperation with Israel may not include
helping Israel to colonize Palestine, Israel has retaliated by
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/26/israel-freezes-co-operation-eu-palestinian">blocking 
EU projects to help Palestinians</a>.
<p>
In effect, Israel is using Palestinians as hostages.  
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2004-jan-apr.html#22%20April%202004%20(Israeli%20border%20police)">Not 
for the first time</a>.


title: Egyptian military investigates Morsi for working with Hamas
uri: Egyptian-military-investigates-Morsi-for-working-with-Hamas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Egyptian_military_investigates_Morsi_for_working_with_Hamas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Egyptian_military_investigates_Morsi_for_working_with_Hamas%29

content:
<p>
The Egyptian military is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/26/egyptian-army-question-morsi-hamas-links">investigating 
Morsi</a> for working with Hamas as the revolution started.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(US_blacks_still_face_big_disadvantage)
title: US blacks still face big disadvantage
uri: US-blacks-still-face-big-disadvantage
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28US_blacks_still_face_big_disadvantage%29

content:
<p>
US blacks still face a big disadvantage in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/25-1">getting 
jobs and entering the middle class</a>.
<p>
The plutocratic parties have a plan for eliminating this disparity:
shrink the middle class so nobody has much chance of entering it.


title: Senate plans trade war against any country that shelters Snowden
uri: Senate-plans-trade-war-against-any-country-that-shelters-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Senate_plans_trade_war_against_any_country_that_shelters_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Senate_plans_trade_war_against_any_country_that_shelters_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
The Senate is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/25-11">planning 
trade war</a> against any country that shelters Snowden.


title: US support for Colombia's gov't during massacres
uri: US-support-for-Colombia-s-gov-t-during-massacres
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(US_support_for_Colombias_govt_during_massacres)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28US_support_for_Colombias_govt_during_massacres%29

content:
<p>
How the US supported Colombia's government as its right-wing gangs were
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/25-4">carrying 
out massacre after massacre</a>.


title: Candidate Obama's tribute to whistleblowers
uri: Candidate-Obama-s-tribute-to-whistleblowers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Candidate_Obama's_tribute_to_whistleblowers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Candidate_Obama%27s_tribute_to_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/25-6">Obama's Tribute to Whistleblowers Disappears Two Days after First
Snowden Revelations</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Public_giveaways_to_sports_teams)
title: Public giveaways to sports teams
uri: Public-giveaways-to-sports-teams
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Public_giveaways_to_sports_teams%29
content:
<p>
Packaging public giveaways to sports teams in complex deals disguises
the fact that they are 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/sports-stadium-subsidy-taxpayers-washington-dc">public
giveaways to sports teams</a>.


title: Halliburton pleads guilty to destruction of evidence
uri: Halliburton-pleads-guilty-to-destruction-of-evidence
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Halliburton_pleads_guilty_to_destruction_of_evidence)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Halliburton_pleads_guilty_to_destruction_of_evidence%29

content:
<p>
Halliburton has pled guilty to destruction of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/26/halliburton-destroying-gulf-oil-evidence">evidence 
about the big spill</a>. The fine is so tiny, for a company like
Halliburton, that it will hardly be noticed.


title: Protection of Internet speech from state laws
uri: Protection-of-Internet-speech-from-state-laws
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Protection_of_Internet_speech_from_state_laws)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Protection_of_Internet_speech_from_state_laws%29

content:
<p>
US law protects Internet speech from state laws.  State attorneys general
are asking to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/state-ags-threaten-gut-cda-230-speech-protections">abolish 
that protection</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/cda-230-success-cases-wikipedia">Wikipedia 
could be destroyed</a> if their plan is adopted.


title: Effort that it takes to increase the number of tigers that survive
uri: Effort-that-it-takes-to-increase-the-number-of-tigers-that-survive
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Effort_that_it_takes_to_increase_the_number_of_tigers_that_survive)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Effort_that_it_takes_to_increase_the_number_of_tigers_that_survive%29

content:
<p>
An example in Nepal shows the sort
of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/28/tigers-extinct-endangered-patrol-nepal">effort
that it takes to increase the number of tigers that survive.</a>
<p>
In 40 years, will anyone have money to protect tigers, elephants,
rhinos, penguins, and thousands of other endangered species?  Not if
we continue causing global heating disaster.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Charade_disguises_sweatshops_in_India)
title: Charade disguises sweatshops in India
uri: Charade-disguises-sweatshops-in-India
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Charade_disguises_sweatshops_in_India%29

content:
<p>
A complex
"ethical" <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/28/india-sweated-labour">charade
disguises sweatshops in India.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Egypt:_Snipers_were_shooting_to_kill)
title: Egypt: Snipers were shooting to kill
uri: Egypt-Snipers-were-shooting-to-kill
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Egypt%3A_Snipers_were_shooting_to_kill%29

content:
<p>
Egypt: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/28/egypt-injuries-snipers">"The
Injuries Were Very Precise as The Snipers Were Shooting To Kill".</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/27/arab-spring-stifled-by-armies-and-militias">The
Arab Spring Is Being Stifled by the Force of Arms.</a>


title: Consumerist economy is unsustainable and already starting to collapse
uri: Consumerist-economy-is-unsustainable-and-already-starting-to-collapse
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Consumerist_economy_is_unsustainable_and_already_starting_to_collapse)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Consumerist_economy_is_unsustainable_and_already_starting_to_collapse%29

content:
<p>
The consumerist economy is a recent thing, and it
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/27-0">unsustainable
and already starting to collapse</a>.  Which poses the question of how
to move forward.


title: Congresscritters who voted to continue collecting all US phone call data
uri: Congresscritters-who-voted-to-continue-collecting-all-US-phone-call-da
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Congresscritters_who_voted_to_continue_collecting_all_US_phone_call_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Congresscritters_who_voted_to_continue_collecting_all_US_phone_call_data%29

content:
<p>
The congresscritters who voted to continue collecting all US phone
call data
are <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/">getting
paid more by the companies that profit from doing it.</a>


title: Villagers think of supporting al Qa'ida
uri: Villagers-think-of-supporting-al-Qa-ida
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Villagers_think_of_supporting_al_Qa'ida)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Villagers_think_of_supporting_al_Qa%27ida%29

content:
<p>
In rural Yemen, villagers think of supporting al Qa'ida so they will
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/yemen-civilians-drone-strikes-battleground">get
paved roads and electricity.</a> (They fear drone attacks in any
case.)


title: Urgent: Require publicly traded corporations to disclose political spending
uri: Urgent-Require-publicly-traded-corporations-to-disclose-political-spe
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Urgent:_Require_publicly_traded_corporations_to_disclose_political_spending)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Require_publicly_traded_corporations_to_disclose_political_spending%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: comment to the SEC in support
of <a href="http://citizen.org/sec-disclosure-action">requiring
publicly traded corporations to disclose their political spending.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Urban_Surveillance_State_Prototype)
title: Urban Surveillance State Prototype
uri: Urban-Surveillance-State-Prototype
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Urban_Surveillance_State_Prototype%29

content:
<p>
Urban Surveillance State Prototype in
Oakland <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18106-urban-surveillance-state-prototype-in-oakland-exemplifies-security-mission-creep">Exemplifies
"Security" Mission Creep.</a>
<p>
Kafka's
America: <a href="http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=14346">Secret
Courts, Secret Laws, and Total Surveillance.</a>


title: Big Brother pushing companies to hand over SSL master keys
uri: Big-Brother-pushing-companies-to-hand-over-SSL-master-keys
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Big_Brother_pushing_companies_to_hand_over_SSL_master_keys)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Big_Brother_pushing_companies_to_hand_over_SSL_master_keys%29

content:
<p>
Big Brother
is <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595202-38/feds-put-heat-on-web-firms-for-master-encryption-keys/">pushing
companies to hand over SSL master keys.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Overreaction_of_the_week)
title: Overreaction of the week
uri: Overreaction-of-the-week
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Overreaction_of_the_week%29
content:
<p>
Overreaction of the week: a college in the US is pressuring students
to <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/lookie-here-college-scans-students-eyeballs/">use
iris scans to get entry to college buildings</a>, supposedly for their
safety.
<p>
If you have any contact with students there, please ask them to "opt
out".  We must oppose all new "security" measures unless there is a
specific strong local justification.  School shootings in the US are a
very small cause of death, so small that they don't justify contorting
peoples lives in any matter at all.
<p>
I have opted out of the RFID-equipped ID cards that are the main
method of getting into the MIT building where my office is.


title: Secret only from us, not from the enemies
uri: Secret-only-from-us-not-from-the-enemies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Secret_only_from_us,_not_from_the_enemies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Secret_only_from_us%2C_not_from_the_enemies%29

content:
<p>
The big secrets Manning and Snowden revealed
were <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/25-3">secret
only from us, not from the enemies the US admits to.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_July_2013_(Crimes_against_Dalits)
title: Crimes against Dalits
uri: Crimes-against-Dalits
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_July_2013_%28Crimes_against_Dalits%29
content:
<p>
In some parts of
India, <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/of-every-100-held-in-haryana-for-crime-against-dalits-92-walk-free/1147472/">nearly
all those accused of crimes (including murder) against Dalits go
free</a> because the witnesses are intimidated into not testifying.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Comic:_Trance_Pacific_Partnership)
title: Comic: Trance Pacific Partnership
uri: Comic-Trance-Pacific-Partnership
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Comic%3A_Trance_Pacific_Partnership%29

content:
<p>
New cartoon: <a href="http://stallman.org/trance-pacific-partnership.html">Trance Pacific Partnership</a>.


title: Urgent: Support voter's rights in the US
uri: Urgent-Support-voter-s-rights-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_voters_rights_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_voters_rights_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=VRA">sign this petition</a>
calling on Congress to replace
the recently invalidated parts of the Voting Rights Act.


title: Urgent: Support removal of troops from Afghanistan
uri: Urgent-Support-removal-of-troops-from-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_removal_of_troops_from_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_removal_of_troops_from_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://livableworld.org/afghanistanzero">sign this petition</a>
to remove all US troops from Afghanistan.


title: Urgent: Support progressive college plan
uri: Urgent-Support-progressive-college-plan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_progressive_college_plan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_progressive_college_plan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8303">support
extending Oregon's plan</a>
for paying for college
to the whole US.
<p>
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/175166/oregon-trail-end-student-debt">More
information.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose plan to destroy Great Barrier Reef
uri: Urgent-Oppose-plan-to-destroy-Great-Barrier-Reef
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_plan_to_destroy_Great_Barrier_Reef)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_plan_to_destroy_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/australian_coal_disaster_global/">oppose
the Australian plan</a>
to destroy the Great Barrier Reef
by shipping giant amounts of coal across it.
<p>
When I signed, I mentioned that burning so much coal will cause
ocean acidification that
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#12_September_2011_%28Coral_Reefs%29">is
likely to kill nearly all the world's coral</a>.


title: Urgent: Oppose dangerous parts of PAT RIOT and FISA Amendments
uri: Urgent-Oppose-dangerous-parts-of-PAT-RIOT-and-FISA-Amendments
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_dangerous_parts_of_PAT_RIOT_and_FISA_Amendments)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_dangerous_parts_of_PAT_RIOT_and_FISA_Amendments%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/stopnsa">call on Congress</a>
to repeal the dangerous parts of the 
PAT RIOT Act and FISA Amendments Act.


title: Urgent: Halt environmental review of Keystone XL pipeline
uri: Urgent-Halt-environmental-review-of-Keystone-XL-pipeline
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Urgent:_Halt_environmental_review_of_Keystone_XL_pipeline)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Halt_environmental_review_of_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign <a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13986">this 
petition</a> calling on Kerry to halt the environmental review of the
Keystone XL pipeline and first investigate a lie by a company engaged
to work on it.


title: Urgent: Oppose appointing Summers as head of Federal Reserve
uri: Urgent-Oppose-appointing-Summers-as-head-of-Federal-Reserve
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_appointing_Summers_as_head_of_Federal_Reserve)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_appointing_Summers_as_head_of_Federal_Reserve%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://forgetlarry.org/">this 
petition</a> against appointing Summers as head of the Federal
Reserve.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Cancelling_the_sequester)
title: Cancelling the sequester
uri: Cancelling-the-sequester
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Cancelling_the_sequester%29
content:
<p>
Cancelling the sequester could add 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/26/2359781/report-canceling-sequestration-could-add-up-to-16-million-jobs/">1.6 
million jobs in the US</a>.


title: A way to remove CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere
uri: A-way-to-remove-CO2-from-the-atmosphere
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(A_way_to_remove_CO2_from_the_atmosphere)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28A_way_to_remove_CO2_from_the_atmosphere%29

content:
<p>
Biochar provides 
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/07/biochar-could-turn-back-clock-on-climate/">a 
way to remove CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere</a>. However, to
prevent further heating, it would need to be used on a tremendous
scale.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Human_rights_in_Egypt)
title: Human rights in Egypt
uri: Human-rights-in-Egypt
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Human_rights_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>
Human rights organizations 
<a href="http://www.cihrs.org/?p=7008&lang=en">call on Egypt's 
military</a> to respect human rights and the laws that protect them.


title: Obama regime may send Shaker Aamer to Saudi Arabia
uri: Obama-regime-may-send-Shaker-Aamer-to-Saudi-Arabia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Obama_regime_may_send_Shaker_Aamer_to_Saudi_Arabia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Obama_regime_may_send_Shaker_Aamer_to_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime may send Shaker Aamer to Saudi Arabia to be tortured,
so that he will be 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/26/new-threat-shaker-aamer">unable 
to testify about how the US tortured him</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(FISA_court_made_even_more_lax)
title: FISA court made even more lax
uri: FISA-court-made-even-more-lax
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28FISA_court_made_even_more_lax%29
content:
<p>
Justice Roberts' selections have 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/us/politics/robertss-picks-reshaping-secret-surveillance-court.html?pagewanted=all">made 
the FISA court even more of a push-over than it was designed to be</a>.


title: US gov't promises not to torture or execute Edward Snowden
uri: US-gov-t-promises-not-to-torture-or-execute-Edward-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(US_govt_promises_not_to_torture_or_execute_Edward_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28US_govt_promises_not_to_torture_or_execute_Edward_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/us-government-says-it-will-refrain-torturing-executing-edward-snowden">US 
Government Promises Not to Torture or Execute Edward Snowden</a>.


title: Rich boys get special treatment from Australian thugs and courts
uri: Rich-boys-get-special-treatment-from-Australian-thugs-and-courts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Rich_boys_get_special_treatment_from_Australian_thugs_and_courts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Rich_boys_get_special_treatment_from_Australian_thugs_and_courts%29

content:
<p>
The thugs and courts in Australia are 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/26/too-privileged-jail-lawyer-australia">trained 
to let rich boys get away with crimes</a>, while they fatally attack
Aboriginals who have done nothing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Defenders_of_NSA_spying_in_Congress)
title: Defenders of NSA spying in Congress
uri: Defenders-of-NSA-spying-in-Congress
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Defenders_of_NSA_spying_in_Congress%29

content:
<p>
The defenders of NSA spying in Congress are the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/25-2">loyal machines
of both parties</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Acupuncture)
title: Acupuncture
uri: 2013-07-29-Acupuncture
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Acupuncture%29
content:
<p>
After 3,000 studies, there is no evidence that acupuncture provides any
significant benefit other than that of a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jul/26/acupuncture-sceptics-proof-effective-nhs">placebo</a>.


title: Obama regime argues that officials should be autonomous
uri: Obama-regime-argues-that-officials-should-be-autonomous
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Obama_regime_argues_that_officials_should_be_autonomous)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Obama_regime_argues_that_officials_should_be_autonomous%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime argues, in court, that its officials should be
autonomous and should 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/26-0">not have to 
worry about laws or courts</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(The_coup_against_Morsi)
title: The coup against Morsi
uri: The-coup-against-Morsi
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28The_coup_against_Morsi%29
content:
<p>
The coup against Morsi seems to have been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/26/egypt-general-sisi-warned-violence">organized 
since November</a>, and Sisi's call for mass rallies could be
interpreted as calling for massive violence against Morsi's
supporters.


title: BP claims to be victim of the Big Spill
uri: BP-claims-to-be-victim-of-the-Big-Spill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(BP_claims_to_be_victim_of_the_Big_Spill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28BP_claims_to_be_victim_of_the_Big_Spill%29

content:
<p>
Billionaire Polluters claims to be
the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/26-6">victim
of the Big Spill.</a>


title: Bahrain Parliament Upholds Banning Protests in Capital
uri: Bahrain-Parliament-Upholds-Banning-Protests-in-Capital
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Bahrain_Parliament_Upholds_Banning_Protests_in_Capital)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Bahrain_Parliament_Upholds_Banning_Protests_in_Capital%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://rt.com/news/bahrain-ban-protest-capital-706/">Bahrain
Parliament Upholds Banning Protests in Capital.</a>
<p>
The government started the violence and has committed most of it, but
in typical dishonest fashion it puts the blame on the victims.


title: Global heating effects are biggest threat to agriculture in UK
uri: Global-heating-effects-are-biggest-threat-to-agriculture-in-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Global_heating_effects_are_biggest_threat_to_agriculture_in_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Global_heating_effects_are_biggest_threat_to_agriculture_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
UK farmers say that global heating effects are
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/28/weather-heatwaves-climate-change-uk-farming">biggest
threat to agriculture in the UK.</a>
<p>
The heat wave this summer was
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/28/heatwaves-weather-farms-crops">disaster
for the wheat crop.</a>
<p>
This is a big threat in the US, and around the world, but we don't
hear much about it in the mainstream media.


title: Thousands Turn Out Against New Spy Powers in New Zealand
uri: Thousands-Turn-Out-Against-New-Spy-Powers-in-New-Zealand
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Thousands_Turn_Out_Against_New_Spy_Powers_in_New_Zealand)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Thousands_Turn_Out_Against_New_Spy_Powers_in_New_Zealand%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://rt.com/news/new-zealand-protest-bill-683/">Thousands
Turn Out Against New Spy Powers in New Zealand.</a>


title: Americans in or near poverty or unemployment
uri: Americans-in-or-near-poverty-or-unemployment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Americans_in_or_near_poverty_or_unemployment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Americans_in_or_near_poverty_or_unemployment%29

content:
<p>
4/5 of Americans are forecast
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/28-1">live in
or near poverty or unemployment.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Treaty_to_defend_peasants'_rights)
title: Treaty to defend peasants' rights
uri: Treaty-to-defend-peasants-rights
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Treaty_to_defend_peasants%27_rights%29

content:
<p>
The US leads the opposition to a treaty
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/28-0">defend
peasants' rights.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(GMO_corn)
title: GMO corn
uri: GMO-corn
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28GMO_corn%29
content:
<p>
GMO corn could
be <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/28-1">causing
allergic reactions in some people.</a>


title: What the FBI Needs to Tell Americans About Its Use of Drones
uri: What-the-FBI-Needs-to-Tell-Americans-About-Its-Use-of-Drones
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(What_the_FBI_Needs_to_Tell_Americans_About_Its_Use_of_Drones)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28What_the_FBI_Needs_to_Tell_Americans_About_Its_Use_of_Drones%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/what-fbi-needs-tell-americans-about-its-use-drones">What
the FBI Needs to Tell Americans About Its Use of Drones.</a>
<p>
The US border patrol wants
to <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/26/fbi_admits_in_letter_to_rand_paul_that_it_s_used_domestic_drones_10_times.html">install
not-usually-lethal weapons on drones.</a>
<p>
Note that the US border patrol can operate at a considerable distance
from the border, and the border includes all coastlines, so this area
includes
a <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#27_March_2013_(US_border_patrol_drones)">large
fraction of the US population.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Leaked_Philip_Morris_documents)
title: Leaked Philip Morris documents
uri: Leaked-Philip-Morris-documents
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Leaked_Philip_Morris_documents%29
content:
<p>
Leaked Philip Morris documents show that the public position of
tobacco companies, that the UK should wait and study the effect of
imposing plain packaging, was
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/28/philip-morris-plain-packaging">false
front for a planned lobbying campaign.</a>


title: Black government minister target of racist abuse
uri: Black-government-minister-target-of-racist-abuse
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Black_government_minister_target_of_racist_abuse)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Black_government_minister_target_of_racist_abuse%29

content:
<p>
The first black government minister in Italy is
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/28/cecile-kyenge-targeted-bananas-insult">target
of racist abuse.</a>
<p>
Racism is despicable, and people of good will in Italy should condemn
it and use this as an opportunity to examine racism in Italy.
<p>
However, prosecuting people for throwing bananas (regardless of who is
the target or why) would be an offense against democracy.  Bananas are
not dangerous weapons.  People should not be prosecuted for that way
of expressing disapproval, not even when their reasons are despicable.


title: Aiding the enemy charge endangers journalism in the US
uri: Aiding-the-enemy-charge-endangers-journalism-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Aiding_the_enemy_charge_endangers_journalism_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Aiding_the_enemy_charge_endangers_journalism_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/25-8">"aiding
the enemy" charge endangers journalism in the US.</a>


title: UK censorship will include many categories of sites
uri: UK-censorship-will-include-many-categories-of-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(UK_censorship_will_include_many_categories_of_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28UK_censorship_will_include_many_categories_of_sites%29

content:
<p>
UK censorship will include, by
default, <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/uk-porn-filter-censorship-extends-beyond-pornography-one-isp-fighting-back-1361379">many
categories of sites</a> including "web forums" and "web-blocking
circumvention tools".
<p>
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/uk-porn-filter-will-censor-other-content-too-isps-reveal-130726/">More
info.</a>


title: FBI says it won't scan people's irises secretly
uri: FBI-says-it-won-t-scan-people-s-irises-secretly
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(FBI_says_it_won't_scan_people's_irises_secretly)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28FBI_says_it_won%27t_scan_people%27s_irises_secretly%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2012/06/eye-crime-fbi-building-database-iris-scans/56481/">FBI
says it won't scan people's irises secretly.</a>
<p>
Do you trust any assure from the FBI?  I don't.  We already know that
they play word games with their assurances.


title: Urgent: Support 21<sup>st</sup> Century Glass Steagall Act
uri: Urgent-Support-21st-Century-Glass-Steagall-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_21st_Century_Glass_Steagall_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_21st_Century_Glass_Steagall_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/warren_g_steagall?referring_akid=a120561147.11">tell Congress</a>
to pass Sen. Warren's 21<sup>st</sup> Century Glass
Steagall Act.


title: Kicked out for having chocolate on school trip
uri: Kicked-out-for-having-chocolate-on-school-trip
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_July_2013_(Kicked_out_for_having_chocolate_on_school_trip)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_%28Kicked_out_for_having_chocolate_on_school_trip%29

content:
<p>
Zero tolerance on a school trip: an unemployed mother was thrown into
debt to collect her daughter, who
was <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10190649/Child-banned-from-school-trip-for-eating-chocolate.html">kicked
out for having chocolate.</a>
<p>
When someone in a position of power demands people agree to strict
conditions, I don't think that buys any moral authority.  For Holli to
bring chocolate on her trip for her friends was about as wrong as
violating a publisher's selfish EULA — that is, not wrong at
all.


title: Evidence against Bradley Manning is being kept secret
uri: Evidence-against-Bradley-Manning-is-being-kept-secret
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_July_2013_(Evidence_against_Bradley_Manning_is_being_kept_secret)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_%28Evidence_against_Bradley_Manning_is_being_kept_secret%29

content:
<p>
Crucial <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/bradley-manning-trial-security_n_3654516.html?1374788000">evidence
against Bradley Manning is being kept secret,</a> including an alleged
chat conversation with someone from WikiLeaks which the government
cites to insult WikiLeaks.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_July_2013_(Narrow_escape_from_a_forced_marriage)
title: Narrow escape from a forced marriage
uri: Narrow-escape-from-a-forced-marriage
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_%28Narrow_escape_from_a_forced_marriage%29

content:
<p>
A 10-year-old girl in Yemen had
a <a href="https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/reportsfeatures/a-narrow-escape">narrow
escape from a forced marriage.</a>


title: Effect on children when mothers take cocaine
uri: Effect-on-children-when-mothers-take-cocaine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_July_2013_(Effect_on_children_when_mothers_take_cocaine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_%28Effect_on_children_when_mothers_take_cocaine%29

content:
<p>
When mothers take cocaine, that seems to
have <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2013-07-22/news/40709969_1_hallam-hurt-so-called-crack-babies-funded-study">no
long-term effect on their children</a>.  However, growing up in
poverty does horrible things to children.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_July_2013_(Tuesday_Cain_defends_abortion_rights)
title: Tuesday Cain defends abortion rights
uri: Tuesday-Cain-defends-abortion-rights
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_%28Tuesday_Cain_defends_abortion_rights%29

content:
<p>
Tuesday Cain defends abortion rights
and <a href="http://www.xojane.com/issues/billy-cain-tuesday-cain-jesus-isnt-a-dick-so-keep-him-out-of-my-vagina">sticks
it to the Christian theocratic bigots.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_July_2013_(Recycling_of_e-waste)
title: Recycling of e-waste
uri: Recycling-of-e-waste
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_%28Recycling_of_e-waste%29
content:
<p>
A bill in Congress
would <a href="http://mikethompson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=343718">require
recycling of e-waste in the US.</a>


title: Organizations reject US-based Internet hosting and services
uri: Organizations-reject-US-based-Internet-hosting-and-services
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_July_2013_(Organizations_reject_US-based_Internet_hosting_and_services)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_%28Organizations_reject_US-based_Internet_hosting_and_services%29

content:
<p>
Concern about snooping is leading many organizations outside the US to
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/25/nsa-snooping-is-hurting-u-s-tech-companies-bottom-line/">reject
US-based Internet hosting and services</a>, as they should.
<p>
When you consider using some Internet service, even for a single
interaction, it is important to scrutinize carefully the privacy
implications of using it.  In other words, the right attitude is
exactly the opposite of the attitude
suggested <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing">by
the word "cloud".</a>


title: US gov't tries to make Internet companies hand over users' passwords
uri: US-gov-t-tries-to-make-Internet-companies-hand-over-users-passwords
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_July_2013_(US_gov't_tries_to_make_Internet_companies_hand_over_users'_passwords)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_%28US_gov%27t_tries_to_make_Internet_companies_hand_over_users%27_passwords%29

content:
<p>
The US government tries to make Internet
companies <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595529-38/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/">hand
over users' passwords for cracking purposes.</a>


title: Thug agent caught on camera planting cocaine
uri: Thug-agent-caught-on-camera-planting-cocaine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_July_2013_(Thug_agent_caught_on_camera_planting_cocaine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_%28Thug_agent_caught_on_camera_planting_cocaine%29

content:
<p>
An undercover thug agent was caught on
camera <a href="http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s3107069.shtml">planting
cocaine to frame the owner of a smoking paraphernalia shop</a>.
<p>
The things sold by the store are legal because they can be used to
smoke addictive, deadly tobacco, but they can also be used to smoke a
less dangerous illegal drug.


title: US is at war with a secret list of enemies
uri: US-is-at-war-with-a-secret-list-of-enemies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_July_2013_(US_is_at_war_with_a_secret_list_of_enemies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_%28US_is_at_war_with_a_secret_list_of_enemies%29

content:
<p>
Obama says the US is at war with a list of enemies, and
the <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/who-are-we-at-war-with-thats-classified">list
is secret.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Undermining_democracy_through_media)
title: Undermining democracy through media
uri: Undermining-democracy-through-media
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Undermining_democracy_through_media%29

content:
<p>
How media bosses in Turkey 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/in-turkey-media-bosses-are-undermining-democracy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">undermine 
democracy</a>.
<p>
Much the same thing happens in the <a href="http://fair.org/">US
mainstream media</a>, except that instead of catering directly to the
US government, they cater to the business interests that are 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#24_October_2011_(Inside_Austerity_Class)">above 
the US government</a>.


title: UK to charge high fee for complaints against employers
uri: UK-to-charge-high-fee-for-complaints-against-employers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(UK_to_charge_high_fee_for_complaints_against_employers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28UK_to_charge_high_fee_for_complaints_against_employers%29

content:
<p>
The UK will protect employers from accusations of sexual harassment
and racial discrimination by charging a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/jul/29/protest-employment-tribunal-fees">high 
fee</a> for each complaint.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Cambodian_election)
title: Cambodian election
uri: Cambodian-election
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Cambodian_election%29
content:
<p>
The opposition in Cambodia says that the ruling party 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/29/cambodia-opposition-election-results-dispute">rigged 
the election</a> by leaving over a million people off the voting list.
<p>
It's like <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-sep-dec.html#15%20December%202008%20(Remembering%20twisted%20logic%20of%20Supreme%20Court)">what 
Dubya did in Florida in 2000</a>, only bigger.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Movie_subtitle_fansite_raided)
title: Movie subtitle fansite raided
uri: Movie-subtitle-fansite-raided
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Movie_subtitle_fansite_raided%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/10/fan-subtitle-site-raided-by-copyright-industry-aided-by-police/">Movie 
Subtitle Fansite Raided By Copyright Industry And Police</a>.


title: Comparing the cases of Edward Snowden and Robert Lady
uri: Comparing-the-cases-of-Edward-Snowden-and-Robert-Lady
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Comparing_the_cases_of_Edward_Snowden_and_Robert_Lady)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Comparing_the_cases_of_Edward_Snowden_and_Robert_Lady%29

content:
<p>
Comparing the cases of Edward Snowden and Robert Lady demonstrates
what it means for the US to
have <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/edward-snowden-robert-seldon-lady">tremendous
global power and use it with arrogance.</a>


title: Arrested in Russia for interviewing gays
uri: Arrested-in-Russia-for-interviewing-gays
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Arrested_in_Russia_for_interviewing_gays)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Arrested_in_Russia_for_interviewing_gays%29

content:
<p>
A Dutch documentary crew
was <a href="http://www.lgbtnet.ru/en/content/dutch-activists-arrived-back-home-netherlands">arrested
in Russia for interviewing gays to make a film.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Free_Trade_with_Vietnam)
title: Free Trade with Vietnam
uri: Free-Trade-with-Vietnam
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Free_Trade_with_Vietnam%29
content:
<p>
Obama wants "free trade" with Vietnam,
which <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/25-1">achieves
low export prices with child labor and slave labor and prohibits trade
unions.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://stallman.org/trance-pacific-partnership.html">See my
latest cartoon.</a>


title: Some governors face persistent protests
uri: Some-governors-face-persistent-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Some_governors_face_persistent_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Some_governors_face_persistent_protests%29

content:
<p>
Some plutocratic Republican
governors <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12196/state-capitols-north-carolina-wisconsin-and-florida-rumble-citizen-protest">face
persistent protests.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Attack_on_Turkish_democracy)
title: Attack on Turkish democracy
uri: Attack-on-Turkish-democracy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Attack_on_Turkish_democracy%29
content:
<p>
Yavuz Baydar: My sacking is
an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/29/my-sacking-attack-turkish-democracy">attack
not just on journalism, but on Turkish democracy.</a>


title: Egypt's gov't reactivated repressive units of thugs
uri: Egypt-s-gov-t-reactivated-repressive-units-of-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Egypt's_gov't_reactivated_repressive_units_of_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Egypt%27s_gov%27t_reactivated_repressive_units_of_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's government has
formally <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/29/egypt-restores-secret-police-units">reactivated
repressive units of thugs.</a>


title: Today's Apple sweatshops nastier than before
uri: Today-s-Apple-sweatshops-nastier-than-before
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Today's_Apple_sweatshops_nastier_than_before)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Today%27s_Apple_sweatshops_nastier_than_before%29

content:
<p>
Today's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/29/apple-investugates-claims-china-factory">Apple
Pegatron sweatshops are even nastier than the Foxconn sweatshops</a>
it used before.
<p>
Just because you're not pregnant, should that make it ok to require
you to work 11 hours a day, 6 days a week?  Apple is culpable if its
products are made by people working a longer workweek than is allowed
in the US.


title: Hawaii offer homeless people gratis ticket to the US mainland
uri: Hawaii-offer-homeless-people-gratis-ticket-to-the-US-mainland
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Hawaii_offer_homeless_people_gratis_ticket_to_the_US_mainland)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Hawaii_offer_homeless_people_gratis_ticket_to_the_US_mainland%29

content:
<p>
Hawaii offer homeless people
a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/29/2371121/hawaii-homeless/">gratis
ticket to the US mainland.</a> The danger is that thugs may bully
people into leaving.
<p>
If this were applied only to people with an invitation to live with
someone in another state, or whose last domicile was in another state,
it might do more good than harm.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(NSA:_permission_to_spy_in_Germany)
title: NSA: permission to spy in Germany
uri: NSA-permission-to-spy-in-Germany
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28NSA%3A_permission_to_spy_in_Germany%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dw.de/nsa-permission-to-spy-in-germany/a-16981062">NSA:
permission to spy in Germany.</a>


title: Two steps back for media freedom in US
uri: Two-steps-back-for-media-freedom-in-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Two_steps_back_for_media_freedom_in_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Two_steps_back_for_media_freedom_in_US%29

content:
<p>
One step
forward, <a href="http://en.rsf.org/united-states-one-step-forward-two-steps-back-29-07-2013,44986.html">two
steps back for media freedom (in the US)</a>.


title: Abdulelah Haider Shaye is no longer in prison
uri: Abdulelah-Haider-Shaye-is-no-longer-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye_is_no_longer_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye_is_no_longer_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
Abdulelah Haider Shaye is no longer in prison, but will be blocked
from committing further embarrassing acts of investigative journalism
in Yemen
by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/29-6">two years
of house arrest.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(World_Rallies_Behind_Bradley_Manning)
title: World Rallies Behind Bradley Manning
uri: World-Rallies-Behind-Bradley-Manning
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28World_Rallies_Behind_Bradley_Manning%29

content:
<p>
'Do the Right
Thing': <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/29-1">World
Rallies Behind Bradley Manning.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Russia's_persecution_of_gays)
title: Russia's persecution of gays
uri: Russia-s-persecution-of-gays
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Russia%27s_persecution_of_gays%29
content:
<p>
Russia's persecution of gays
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/29/russia-war-on-gays-sochi-olympics">reaching
extreme levels of cruelty.</a>
<p>
Is Stolichnaya vodka Russian?
<p>
It seems to me that the company is not Russian, and if it claims on
the bottle to be Russian, that is false advertising.  The company
cannot complain about being targeted as Russian if it has brought
that on itself by a false claim.  And maybe it should be prosecuted
for that claim.  However, this is not going to achieve the aim of
punishing Putin.
<p>
Boycotting brands that are actually made in Russia could start.
<p>
In regard to the Olympics, if male athletes publicly kiss each other
and female athletes publicly kiss each other, that would embarrass
Putin.  They don't need to actually be gay.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(UK_cuts_help_for_vulnerable_children)
title: UK cuts help for vulnerable children
uri: UK-cuts-help-for-vulnerable-children
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28UK_cuts_help_for_vulnerable_children%29

content:
<p>
The UK government talks about "protecting children" through censorship
to cover up
for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/29/judicial-review-cuts-teenagers">cuts
in real help for vulnerable children.</a>
<p>
If you don't like prostitution, it seems to me you ought to help
people avoid being prostitutes who wish to avoid it, rather than
stigmatizing or attacking
prostitutes.  <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/29/sex-prostitution-st-kilda">Stigmatizing
prostitutes causes them suffering and danger.</a>


title: Australia must stop investing in carbon
uri: Australia-must-stop-investing-in-carbon
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Australia_must_stop_investing_in_carbon)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Australia_must_stop_investing_in_carbon%29

content:
<p>
Australia
must <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/jul/23/divestment-campaign-climate-change-fossil-fuels-australia">stop
investing in carbon.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Thugs_in_schools)
title: Thugs in schools
uri: Thugs-in-schools
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Thugs_in_schools%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in schools combined with "zero tolerance" policies
lead systematically to 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130722/18401023892/zero-tolerance-policies-put-students-hands-bad-cops.shtml">arresting, 
injuring and killing students</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Proposed_UK_Internet_censorship)
title: Proposed UK Internet censorship
uri: Proposed-UK-Internet-censorship
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Proposed_UK_Internet_censorship%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/family-filters-wont-block-soft-porn-david-cameron-retreats-in-war-on-internet-porn-admitting-there-will-be-problems-down-the-line-8726991.html">Proposed 
UK Internet censorship</a> would be dangerous, ineffective, and
inconsistent.
<p>
And it might distract people from other sorts of censorship —
such as increasing blockage of sites used for sharing copies of works.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Entrepreneurship)
title: Entrepreneurship
uri: Entrepreneurship
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Entrepreneurship%29
content:
<p>
Thomas Friedman aims to make massive US poverty look acceptable:
holding out hope of very unlikely kinds of success and 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/friedman-welcome-to-the-sharing-economy.html?pagewanted=all">pretending
we could all do it</a>.
<p>
Being an entrepreneur involves taking a risk: most of those who try
this fail.  Around 1990 I read that 90% of new businesses in the US
failed within 5 years; I doubt it has changed much.  Most Americans
can't afford to take a risk like this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Oil_spills_in_Alberta)
title: Oil spills in Alberta
uri: Oil-spills-in-Alberta
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Oil_spills_in_Alberta%29
content:
<p>
Oil spills in Alberta show 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/29/alberta-oil-spills-tar-sands-canada">how 
toxic tar sands oil is</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Green_objection_to_technologies)
title: Green objection to technologies
uri: Green-objection-to-technologies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Green_objection_to_technologies%29
content:
<p>
Green objection to technologies are 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/jul/29/scientists-greens-children-enlightenment">not 
anti-science</a>; rather, they are against extrapolating too far from
limited scientific knowledge.


title: Immigration bill would expand prison population
uri: Immigration-bill-would-expand-prison-population
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Immigration_bill_would_expand_prison_population)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Immigration_bill_would_expand_prison_population%29

content:
<p>
The immigration bill would 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/28-0">expand the 
prison population</a>.


title: Mexico spying on activists and journalists
uri: Mexico-spying-on-activists-and-journalists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Mexico_spying_on_activists_and_journalists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Mexico_spying_on_activists_and_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Mexico is 
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/mexico/2013/07/24/finfisher_use/">spying 
on the communications</a> of activists and journalists.


title: Thousands in Germany protest NSA surveillance
uri: Thousands-in-Germany-protest-NSA-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Thousands_in_Germany_protest_NSA_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Thousands_in_Germany_protest_NSA_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-07-thousands-germany-protest-nsa-surveillance.html">Thousands 
in Germany Protest NSA Surveillance</a>.


title: Ex-CIA agent convicted of involvement in kidnaping
uri: Ex-CIA-agent-convicted-of-involvement-in-kidnaping
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Ex-CIA_agent_convicted_of_involvement_in_kidnaping)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Ex-CIA_agent_convicted_of_involvement_in_kidnaping%29

content:
<p>
Ex-CIA agent Sabrina De Sousa, who was convicted by Italy of
involvement in the kidnaping of abu Omar, says that 
<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/27/197823/us-allowed-italian-kidnap-prosecution.html">Condoleezza 
Rice and Dubya personally approved the kidnaping</a> but the US and
Italy are scapegoating the underlings.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_fast_food_workers)
title: Urgent: Support fast food workers
uri: Urgent-Support-fast-food-workers
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_fast_food_workers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/noretaliation/">call
on US fast food chains</a>
not to retaliate against workers
that strike.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_whistleblowers)
title: Urgent: Support whistleblowers
uri: Urgent-Support-whistleblowers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://action.whistleblowers.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11664">tell Obama</a>
to stop prosecuting whistleblowers.


title: Urgent: Oppose fracking near Grand Junction
uri: Urgent-Oppose-fracking-near-Grand-Junction
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_fracking_near_Grand_Junction)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fracking_near_Grand_Junction%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3173">call
on the Bureau of Land Management</a>
not to allow fracking
in the Grand Valley area of Colorado near Grand Junction.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Urgent:_Support_negotiation_with_Iran)
title: Urgent: Support negotiation with Iran
uri: Urgent-Support-negotiation-with-Iran
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_negotiation_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1439/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14019">call
on your senators</a>
to support serious negotiation with Iran.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_plant_variety_patents)
title: Urgent: Oppose plant variety patents
uri: Urgent-Oppose-plant-variety-patents
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_plant_variety_patents%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens:
<a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/">call
for a ban</a> on patenting plant varieties.
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28EU_Plant_variety_patents%29">More info.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_July_2013_(EU_Plant_variety_patents)
title: EU Plant variety patents
uri: EU-Plant-variety-patents
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28EU_Plant_variety_patents%29
content:
<p>
The European Patent Office
<a href="http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/information/news/new-wave-patents-plants">is
issuing patents on new varieties of food plants</a>.
<p>
The German parliament
<a href="http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/information/news/german-parliament-prohibits-patents-plants-and-animals-conventional-breeding">has
banned these patents</a>.


title: Swedish man drugged into confessing declared innocent
uri: Swedish-man-drugged-into-confessing-declared-innocent
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Swedish_man_drugged_into_confessing_declared_innocent)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Swedish_man_drugged_into_confessing_declared_innocent%29

content:
<p>
A Swedish man who was drugged into confessing to multiple murders has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/sweden-europe-news">declared
innocent.</a>


title: Israeli thugs attacked and arrested peaceful protesters
uri: Israeli-thugs-attacked-and-arrested-peaceful-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Israeli_thugs_attacked_and_arrested_peaceful_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Israeli_thugs_attacked_and_arrested_peaceful_protesters%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/israel-protect-citizens-rights-protest-peacefully-against-forced-evictions-2013-07-31">Israeli
thugs attacked and arrested peaceful protesters</a> against the plan
to demolish Bedouin villages.


title: Russia plans to track cell phones in the Moscow subway
uri: Russia-plans-to-track-cell-phones-in-the-Moscow-subway
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Russia_plans_to_track_cell_phones_in_the_Moscow_subway)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Russia_plans_to_track_cell_phones_in_the_Moscow_subway%29

content:
<p>
Russia plans
to <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/moscow-metro-says-new-tracking-system-is-to-find-stolen-phones-no-one-believes-them/">track
cell phones in the Moscow subway.</a>


title: US agreed to inform defendants when FISA spying was used
uri: US-agreed-to-inform-defendants-when-FISA-spying-was-used
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(US_agreed_to_inform_defendants_when_FISA_spying_was_used)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28US_agreed_to_inform_defendants_when_FISA_spying_was_used%29

content:
<p>
The US agreed
to <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/us-must-tell-defendants-when-spying-is-used-to-build-case-against-them/">inform
defendants when FISA spying was used in making the case against
them.</a>
<p>
This puts an end to a catch-22 that made
it <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#01_March_2013_(Excuse_to_prevent_judicial_challenge_of_wiretapping_program)">impossible
ever to challenge the legality of that spying in court.</a>


title: 82 of Top 100 Companies Used Tax Havens in 2012
uri: 82-of-Top-100-Companies-Used-Tax-Havens-in-2012
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(82_of_Top_100_Companies_Used_Tax_Havens_in_2012)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%2882_of_Top_100_Companies_Used_Tax_Havens_in_2012%29

content:
<p>
New
Study: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/31-2">82
of Top 100 Companies Used Tax Havens in 2012.</a>


title: Urgent: Support an amendment to reverse the Corporations United decision
uri: Urgent-Support-an-amendment-to-reverse-the-Corporations-United-decisi
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Urgent:_Support_an_amendment_to_reverse_the_Corporations_United_decision)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_an_amendment_to_reverse_the_Corporations_United_decision%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter
to <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/632/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14040">support
an amendment to reverse the Corporations United decision</a> (*)
<p>
* To call it what it really is.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: Did US Help New Zealand Spy on War Crimes Reporter?
uri: Did-US-Help-New-Zealand-Spy-on-War-Crimes-Reporter
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Did_US_Help_New_Zealand_Spy_on_War_Crimes_Reporter_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Did_US_Help_New_Zealand_Spy_on_War_Crimes_Reporter_%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/31-0">Did US
Help New Zealand Spy on War Crimes Reporter?</a>


title: Why Bradley Manning deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
uri: Why-Bradley-Manning-deserves-the-Nobel-Peace-Prize
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Why_Bradley_Manning_deserves_the_Nobel_Peace_Prize)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Why_Bradley_Manning_deserves_the_Nobel_Peace_Prize%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/31-1">Why Bradley
Manning deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.</a>
<p>
Receiving this prize will give Manning a chance to face the real
consequences of his actions, which (aside from Obama's retaliation)
are very good consequences indeed.


title: Campaign against the constantly expanding surveillance state
uri: Campaign-against-the-constantly-expanding-surveillance-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Campaign_against_the_constantly_expanding_surveillance_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Campaign_against_the_constantly_expanding_surveillance_state%29

content:
<p>
Senator Wyden talks about
his <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/senator-ron-wyden-nsa-surveillance-interview">campaign
against the constantly expanding surveillance state.</a>


title: Israeli settlers attacking the house of "Youth Against Settlements"
uri: Israeli-settlers-attacking-the-house-of-Youth-Against-Settlements
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Israeli_settlers_attacking_the_house_of_"Youth_Against_Settlements")

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Israeli_settlers_attacking_the_house_of_%22Youth_Against_Settlements%22%29

content:
<p>
Israeli settlers
keep <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65877">attacking the house
of "Youth Against Settlements"</a> in Hebron, most recently by
shooting at it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Urgent:_Thank_Senator_Reid)
title: Urgent: Thank Senator Reid
uri: Urgent-Thank-Senator-Reid
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Senator_Reid%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: Thank Senator Reid
for <a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/thank_you_senator_reid_AR?akid=142.44401.8ZvGy3&rd=1&t=1007">connecting
wildfires with global heating.</a>


title: Israel's expulsion of Bedouin from their homes
uri: Israel-s-expulsion-of-Bedouin-from-their-homes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Israel's_expulsion_of_Bedouin_from_their_homes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Israel%27s_expulsion_of_Bedouin_from_their_homes%29

content:
<p>
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay
criticized <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/world/middleeast/un-official-asks-israel-to-reconsider-bill-on-bedouins.html?_r=0">Israel's
expulsion of Bedouin from their homes.</a>


title: Negotiations that go nowhere useful for Israel
uri: Negotiations-that-go-nowhere-useful-for-Israel
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Negotiations_that_go_nowhere_useful_for_Israel)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Negotiations_that_go_nowhere_useful_for_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery says that the negotiations that Kerry has started can only
succeed if
the <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1374852900/">US
ensures both sides get what they need most.</a>
<p>
A lawyer for Volunteers for Human Rights talks about defending human
rights in Israel, and says that peace talks are
a <a href="http://972mag.com/the-peace-process-has-become-a-major-enemy-of-human-rights/76592/">distraction
that enables Israel to get away with anything.</a>
<p>
Starting peace talks
also <a href="http://972mag.com/the-cost-of-kerrys-breakthrough-part-2/76197/">releases
the boycott pressure that was starting to make Israel
uncomfortable.</a>
<p>
All in all, having talks that go nowhere is quite useful for Israel.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Israeli_annexation_wall)
title: Israeli annexation wall
uri: Israeli-annexation-wall
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Israeli_annexation_wall%29
content:
<p>
The Israeli annexation wall
will <a href="http://imemc.org/article/65887">separate the Cremisan
Monastery in Bethlehem from most of its land.</a>


title: Netanyahu authorized new colony in East Jerusalem
uri: Netanyahu-authorized-new-colony-in-East-Jerusalem
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Netanyahu_authorized_new_colony_in_East_Jerusalem)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Netanyahu_authorized_new_colony_in_East_Jerusalem%29

content:
<p>
Netanyahu expressed his contempt for peace talks
by <a href="http://imemc.org/article/65886">authorizing a new colony
in East Jerusalem.</a>


title: "Moral Monday" protests in North Carolina
uri: Moral-Monday-protests-in-North-Carolina
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Moral_Monday_protests_in_North_Carolina)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Moral_Monday_protests_in_North_Carolina%29

content:
<p>
"Moral Monday" protests in North Carolina have focused public
attention on the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/30-7">right-wing 
policies most people disapprove of</a>.
<p>
The governor's popularity has dropped 20%.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Iran_foreign_minister_nominee)
title: Iran foreign minister nominee
uri: Iran-foreign-minister-nominee
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Iran_foreign_minister_nominee%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/29/us-iran-usa-zarif-idUSBRE96S0VO20130729">Iran 
Nominee Seen As Olive Branch to United States</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Election_in_Zimbabwe)
title: Election in Zimbabwe
uri: Election-in-Zimbabwe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Election_in_Zimbabwe%29
content:
<p>
As Zimbabwe votes, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/zimbabwe-election-rural-violence-mars-campaign">Mugabe's 
violent intimidation</a> is limited to rural
areas where the world doesn't notice so much.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Convictions_against_Bradley_Manning)
title: Convictions against Bradley Manning
uri: Convictions-against-Bradley-Manning
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Convictions_against_Bradley_Manning%29

content:
<p>
Bradley Manning was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/bradley-manning-wikileaks-judge-verdict">convicted 
on most of the charges</a>.
<p>
He was found innocent of "aiding the enemy", but convicted on other charges
that threaten journalism in general.
<p>
Meanwhile, those guilty of real war crimes including torture and kidnaping
receive <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/30-2">Obama's 
protection</a>.
<p>
Shame on you, Obama!


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Protests_in_Bulgaria)
title: Protests in Bulgaria
uri: Protests-in-Bulgaria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Protests_in_Bulgaria%29
content:
<p>
Persistent protests in Bulgaria brought down one government and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/30/bulgaria-protests-europe">may
bring down another</a>.


title: Asylum seekers in the UK on hunger strike
uri: Asylum-seekers-in-the-UK-on-hunger-strike
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Asylum_seekers_in_the_UK_on_hunger_strike)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Asylum_seekers_in_the_UK_on_hunger_strike%29

content:
<p>
Asylum seekers in the UK are on a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/jul/30/asylum-detainee-hunger-strike">hunger 
strike to death</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Nastiness_towards_women)
title: Nastiness towards women
uri: Nastiness-towards-women
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Nastiness_towards_women%29
content:
<p>
Characters on MMORPGs that appear female are subject to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2013/jul/30/sexism-abuse-twitter-woman-gaming-experience">repeated
nastiness</a> which isn't done to characters that appear male.  One woman
demonstrated this by trying both ways of presenting her character.
<p>
I can't understand what motivates men to be so nasty to women, and I
think we should condemn threats of violence.  At the same time, I
think everyone needs to learn not to bow to verbal hostility from
strangers.
<p>
This is why I admire 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_July_2013_(Tuesday_Cain_defends_abortion_rights)">Tuesday 
Cain</a>, the Texas girl who rebuked the right-wing misogynists that
called her a "slut" because of her political sign.
<p>
By the way, the word "slut" is twisted in the first place.  It
presumes that there is something immoral about a female's being
disposed to have sex.  Why should that be immoral for a female, any
more than it is immoral for a male?  Or any more than it is immoral to
be monogamous, or celibate?  The word packages two kinds of prejudice,
anti-female and anti-sex.  No wonder theocratic Christians use it.
<p>
If we dispute whether person X is a slut, we endorse the prejudices in
the word.  We should condemn the word instead.  I have never used the
word "slut".


title: Reckless endangerment of species in Australia
uri: Reckless-endangerment-of-species-in-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Reckless_endangerment_of_species_in_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Reckless_endangerment_of_species_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/30/environmentalists-government-scrap-forestry-deal">Transferring 
control of forests in Australia to the states</a> has led to reckless
endangerment of species.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Zero-hours_contracts)
title: "Zero-hours contracts"
uri: Zero-hours-contracts
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Zero-hours_contracts%29
content:
<p>
"Zero-hours contracts" make the lowest paid employees 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/jul/30/buckingham-palace-zero-hours-contracts">even 
more precarious</a>.
<p>
I agree that this should be illegal.


title: New EPA chief calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
uri: New-EPA-chief-calls-for-reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(New_EPA_chief_calls_for_reducing_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28New_EPA_chief_calls_for_reducing_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29

content:
<p>
New EPA chief Gina McCarthy calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
and points out that this 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/30/epa-chief-climate-change-speech">will 
create jobs in the US</a>.
<p>
It has already 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#11%20September%202010%20(Green%20energy%20fairing%20well%20in%20EU)">created 
lots of jobs</a> in some other countries.


title: Obama proposes to cut taxes for corporations
uri: Obama-proposes-to-cut-taxes-for-corporations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Obama_proposes_to_cut_taxes_for_corporations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Obama_proposes_to_cut_taxes_for_corporations%29

content:
<p>
Obama <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/obama-grand-bargain-jobs-republicans">proposes 
to cut taxes for corporations</a>, as a "bargain" with Republicans
whose goal is to spread poverty.
<p>
Half of Americans consider themselves middle class, but the fact is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/30/obama-grand-bargain-speech-middle-class">80% 
will need government assistance</a> before retirement age.
<p>
Paying for this assistance calls for more taxes on the rich.
That's also what's needed to enable lots of Americans to become
middle class once again.
<p>
Eliminating business tax deductions is a good idea, but it won't go
far enough, and there should be no cuts in the tax rate.  Meanwhile,
what really needs to be changed are the loopholes that permit
offshoring of profits.


title: Dredging in Gladstone Harbour, Australia, linked to sick crabs
uri: Dredging-in-Gladstone-Harbour-Australia-linked-to-sick-crabs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Dredging_in_Gladstone_Harbour_Australia_linked_to_sick_crabs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Dredging_in_Gladstone_Harbour_Australia_linked_to_sick_crabs%29

content:
<p>
Dredging in Gladstone Harbour, Australia, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/30/gladstone-harbour-dredging-link-mud-crab-disease">released 
toxic metals</a> which are making crabs in the area sick.


title: Journalist interviews Taliban fighter
uri: Journalist-interviews-Taliban-fighter
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Journalist_interviews_Taliban_fighter)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Journalist_interviews_Taliban_fighter%29

content:
<p>
A journalist interviews a 
<a href="http://www.vice.com/read/confessions-of-a-taliban-fighter">Taliban 
fighter</a>.


title: Tough copyright laws chill innovation
uri: Tough-copyright-laws-chill-innovation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Tough_copyright_laws_chill_innovation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Tough_copyright_laws_chill_innovation%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/tough-copyright-laws-chill-innovation-tech-companies-warn-lawmakers-130727/">Tough 
Copyright Laws Chill Innovation, Tech Companies Warn Lawmakers</a>.
<p>
They refer to the value of innovation because that's a value
that Congress claims to care about.  I think freedom to share
is more important than innovation.
<p>
The twisted values of Congress are reflected also in the use of the
term 
"<a href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html'>intellectual 
property</a>" in the name of this committee.


title: Robbed by thugs, then framed for having drugs
uri: Robbed-by-thugs-then-framed-for-having-drugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Robbed_by_thugs_then_framed_for_having_drugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Robbed_by_thugs_then_framed_for_having_drugs%29

content:
<p>
Being robbed by thugs, then framed for having drugs, is standard
practice in the US.  Here's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/29">one example</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(The_long_war_in_Colombia)
title: The long war in Colombia
uri: The-long-war-in-Colombia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28The_long_war_in_Colombia%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/29-5">Enough! 
Accounting and Remembering the Long War in Colombia</a>.


title: Privatized government services in the UK
uri: Privatized-government-services-in-the-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Privatized_government_services_in_the_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Privatized_government_services_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, many privatized government services and government-created
monopolies have fallen to a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/29/serco-biggest-company-never-heard-of">company 
that has been charged with cheating the government</a>.
<p>
You'd expect the government to ban this company from new contracts,
and terminate old ones, if it wanted the public treasury not to be
cheated.  But the contracts are written so the company gets a bonus no
matter how badly it ruins the service.  Hmm, perhaps the whole point
was for the public treasury to be cheated.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Regulation_of_recreational_drugs)
title: Regulation of recreational drugs
uri: Regulation-of-recreational-drugs
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Regulation_of_recreational_drugs%29

content:
<p>
Why recreational drugs must be 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/30/australia-drugs-legal">regulated 
instead of banned</a>.


title: Global heating denialists on Senate Environment Committee
uri: Global-heating-denialists-on-Senate-Environment-Committee
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Global_heating_denialists_on_Senate_Environment_Committee)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Global_heating_denialists_on_Senate_Environment_Committee%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/29/climate-committee-republicans">All 
8 Republicans</a> in the Senate Environment Committee are global
heating denialists.
<p>
Meanwhile, the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/planet-oz/2013/jul/30/marshall-islands-climate-change-pacific-forum-nuclear-testing">Marshall 
Islands</a> face inundation from its effects.
<p>
Let's challenge those fools, who are certainly rich, to buy land in the
Marshall Islands with all their money.


title: Israeli settlers attacking the house of "Youth Against Settlements"
uri: 2013-08-02-Israeli-settlers-attacking-the-house-of-Youth-Against-Settlements
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_August_2013_(Israeli_settlers_attacking_the_house_of_Youth_Against_Settlements)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_August_2013_%28Israeli_settlers_attacking_the_house_of_Youth_Against_Settlements%29

content:
<p>
Israeli settlers
keep <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65877">attacking the house
of "Youth Against Settlements"</a> in Hebron, most recently by
shooting at it.


title: Thatcher considered trade unions the enemy
uri: Thatcher-considered-trade-unions-the-enemy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Thatcher_considered_trade_unions_the_enemy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Thatcher_considered_trade_unions_the_enemy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/margaret-thatcher-trade-union-reform-national-archives">Thatcher
considered trade unions "the enemy".</a>
<p>
It is typical of plutocratic states to consider working people as the
enemy.


title: Obama scuttled Congressional testimony for critics of mass surveillance
uri: Obama-scuttled-Congressional-testimony-for-critics-of-mass-surveillanc
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Obama_scuttled_Congressional_testimony_for_critics_of_mass_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Obama_scuttled_Congressional_testimony_for_critics_of_mass_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/31-5">Obama
scuttled Congressional testimony for critics of mass surveillance</a>,
with a last-minute request for House Democrats to meet with him at the
scheduled time.


title: The Bradley Manning trial: Slow Death For Democracy
uri: The-Bradley-Manning-trial-Slow-Death-For-Democracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(The_Bradley_Manning_trial:_Slow_Death_For_Democracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28The_Bradley_Manning_trial%3A_Slow_Death_For_Democracy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/07/30-3">The
Bradley Manning trial: Slow Death For Democracy.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/31-7">Ten important
revelations</a> the world received from Bradley Manning.


title: Surveillance and the Corrosion of Internet Freedom
uri: Surveillance-and-the-Corrosion-of-Internet-Freedom
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Surveillance_and_the_Corrosion_of_Internet_Freedom)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Surveillance_and_the_Corrosion_of_Internet_Freedom%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/30/surveillance-and-corrosion-internet-freedom">Surveillance
and the Corrosion of Internet Freedom.</a>


title: Summary of MIT's report about the case of Aaron Swartz
uri: Summary-of-MIT-s-report-about-the-case-of-Aaron-Swartz
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Summary_of_MIT's_report_about_the_case_of_Aaron_Swartz)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Summary_of_MIT%27s_report_about_the_case_of_Aaron_Swartz%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/mit-swartz-report-faq-0730.html">summary
of MIT's report about the case of Aaron Swartz.</a>
<p>
MIT says it was neutral in regard to whether Swartz should be
prosecuted.
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/31/aaron-swartz-mit-report-family-critical">Swartz
family say that MIT favored the prosecution in subtle ways</a>, but
even if it had been neutral, that is wrong when someone faces an
absurd prosecution for actions that help the public.
<p>
MIT should atone for this by committing to defend anyone who is
prosecuted for "crimes" that involve sharing scientific information
with the public.


title: Urgent: Petition for oversight of NSA and require individual warrants
uri: Urgent-Petition-for-oversight-of-NSA-and-require-individual-warrants
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Urgent:_Petition_for_oversight_of_NSA_and_require_individual_warrants)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Petition_for_oversight_of_NSA_and_require_individual_warrants%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1129.php">sign
this petition</a> for proper oversight of the NSA and to require
individual warrants.


title: One further nasty side effect of the War on Drugs
uri: One-further-nasty-side-effect-of-the-War-on-Drugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(One_further_nasty_side_effect_of_the_War_on_Drugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28One_further_nasty_side_effect_of_the_War_on_Drugs%29

content:
<p>
One further nasty side effect of the War on Drugs: it is
as <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/07/mail-from-the-velvet-cybercrime-underground/">easy
as pie to frame anyone</a> by mailing drugs to him and giving the
thugs an anonymous tip when the mail will arrive.


title: Monsanto increased power over farmers
uri: Monsanto-increased-power-over-farmers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Monsanto_increased_power_over_farmers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Monsanto_increased_power_over_farmers%29

content:
<p>
Argentina is planning to change laws to
give <a href="http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/4402-battle-over-seeds-heats-up-in-argentina">Monsanto
increased power over farmers</a> there.
<p>
This
has <a href="http://upsidedownworld.org/main/argentina-archives-32/4403-argentina-millions-against-monsanto">inspired
protests.</a>


title: Planned surveillance system has generated substantial local opposition
uri: Planned-surveillance-system-has-generated-substantial-local-opposition
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Planned_surveillance_system_has_generated_substantial_local_opposition)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Planned_surveillance_system_has_generated_substantial_local_opposition%29

content:
<p>
Oakland's planned surveillance system
has <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/oakland-accepts-federal-funds-for-controversial-vast-surveillance-setup/">generated
substantial local opposition.</a>
<p>
Don't listen to defeatist propaganda saying "It's too late, privacy is
dead" on the one hand, and "This is just an upgrade" on the other.  We
can defeat surveillance, if we recognize it as tyranny and demand
"Whatever change is necessary".


title: Russia will move away from Foreign-Made electronic components
uri: Russia-will-move-away-from-Foreign-Made-electronic-components
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Russia_will_move_away_from_Foreign-Made_electronic_components)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Russia_will_move_away_from_Foreign-Made_electronic_components%29

content:
<p>
<p>
Russia
will <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/29/us-usa-security-russia-idUSBRE96S0RO20130729">move
away from using foreign-made electronic components in sensitive
activities</a>, fearing they may have spy features or back doors.
<p>
This is a wise policy; several years ago I read that the Pentagon was
concerned about possible malicious features in Chinese chips.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Convicted_of_insulting_Islam)
title: Convicted of insulting Islam
uri: Convicted-of-insulting-Islam
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Convicted_of_insulting_Islam%29
content:
<p>
Raif Badawi, the founder of the Free Saudi Liberals website, has been
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/30/saudi-arabia-600-lashes-7-years-activist">convicted
of "insulting Islam".</a>
<p>
The evil regime also threatened to kill Badawi if he stopped being a
Muslim.  Human rights include, for any person, the right not to be a
Muslim.  Or not to be a Christian.  Or not to be a Buddhist.  Or not
to be an Atheist.
<p>
If you feel in the mood to insult Islam, you don't need to say
anything yourself.  Just spread the word about these events, and
behold! Islam insults itself.


title: NTSB proposes to require cars to have wireless communication systems
uri: NTSB-proposes-to-require-cars-to-have-wireless-communication-systems
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(NTSB_proposes_to_require_cars_to_have_wireless_communication_systems)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28NTSB_proposes_to_require_cars_to_have_wireless_communication_systems%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/23/19643634-ntsb-calls-for-wireless-technology-to-let-all-vehicles-talk-to-each-other?lite">NTSB
proposes to require cars to have wireless communication systems.</a>
<p>
There are two dangers here.  First, we already know that many car
systems have bad security, and many wireless systems have bad
security.  Anything like WiFi in a car could enable someone to cause a
crash.
<p>
Even if the car does not turn out to have this problem, it could prove
to be an excuse to deny car owners control over any of the software in
their cars -- even the software in the entertainment systems.
<p>
Second, if a car can be identified from its transmissions, this will
become another surveillance system for tracking everyone.
<p>
We must insist that the design be such as to avoid both of these sorts
of problems.


title: Australia plans to dump nuclear waste on Aboriginal land
uri: Australia-plans-to-dump-nuclear-waste-on-Aboriginal-land
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Australia_plans_to_dump_nuclear_waste_on_Aboriginal_land)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Australia_plans_to_dump_nuclear_waste_on_Aboriginal_land%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/31/muckaty-aboriginal-land-nuclear-waste">Australia
plans to dump nuclear waste on Aboriginal land</a> after bribing one
of the many concerned groups to "give permission".


title: Learn some of the NSA's dirty secrets
uri: Learn-some-of-the-NSA-s-dirty-secrets
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Learn_some_of_the_NSA's_dirty_secrets)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Learn_some_of_the_NSA%27s_dirty_secrets%29

content:
<p>
Close attention to what Senators Wyden and Udall say to Clapper
enables us
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/31-5">learn some
of the NSA's dirty secrets.</a>


title: Florida has refused to investigate how FBI agent killed Ibragim Todashev
uri: Florida-has-refused-to-investigate-how-FBI-agent-killed-Ibragim-Todash
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Florida_has_refused_to_investigate_how_FBI_agent_killed_Ibragim_Todashev)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Florida_has_refused_to_investigate_how_FBI_agent_killed_Ibragim_Todashev%29

content:
<p>
Florida
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/florida-ibragim-todashev-shooting">refused
to investigate how an FBI agent killed Ibragim Todashev.</a> It would
be embarrassing if an investigation found it was murder.


title: Biofuel factory that would operate from plant waste
uri: Biofuel-factory-that-would-operate-from-plant-waste
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Biofuel_factory_that_would_operate_from_plant_waste)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Biofuel_factory_that_would_operate_from_plant_waste%29

content:
<p>
A competition for making a commercial scale biofuel factory that
would <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/01/uk-biofuel-plants-prize">operate
from plant waste</a> reiterates that we should not be making biofuels
from plants that use water, fertilizer or land that could grow other
crops.


title: Very urgent: Protest against massive surveillance on August 4
uri: Very-urgent-Protest-against-massive-surveillance-on-August-4
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Urgent:_Protest_against_massive_surveillance_on_August_4)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_against_massive_surveillance_on_August_4%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://1984day.com/">join a protest on August 4</a> against 
massive surveillance.


title: Very urgent: Tell Sallie Mae to stop supporting ALEC
uri: Very-urgent-Tell-Sallie-Mae-to-stop-supporting-ALEC
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Sallie_Mae_to_stop_supporting_ALEC)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Sallie_Mae_to_stop_supporting_ALEC%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4022/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6950">tell 
Sallie Mae</a> to stop supporting ALEC.


title: Uruguay's congress votes to legalize marijuana
uri: Uruguay-s-congress-votes-to-legalize-marijuana
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Uruguays_congress_votes_to_legalize_marijuana)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Uruguays_congress_votes_to_legalize_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
Uruguay's congress has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/01/uruguay-first-legal-marijuana-market">voted 
to legalize marijuana</a>.
<p>
The people who say that cocaine users started with marijuana could
equally well say they started with beer, or mate, or water.
Nearly all of them surely used those three first.


title: "Third party doctrine" undermines privacy rights
uri: Third-party-doctrine-undermines-privacy-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Third_party_doctrine_undermines_privacy_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Third_party_doctrine_undermines_privacy_rights%29

content:
<p>
The "third party doctrine", that people have no privacy rights over
data held by someone else, systematically undermines privacy rights in
the US.  An appeals court 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/fifth-circuit-approves-warrantless-cell-phone-tracking">ruled 
no search warrant is needed</a> to collect people's cell phone
location data from the phone company.
<p>
It is not enough to limit government access to massive surveillance
data.  We must prevent the accumulation of those dossiers in the first
place.  Therefore, what we really need is to forbid phone companies
from keeping that data for more than a few days.


title: Water in Colorado river insufficient for Phoenix
uri: Water-in-Colorado-river-insufficient-for-Phoenix
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Water_in_Colorado_river_insufficient_for_Phoenix)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Water_in_Colorado_river_insufficient_for_Phoenix%29

content:
<p>
The water in the Colorado river is insufficient to keep Phoenix going,
and <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/07/water-colorado-river">global 
heating is reducing the flow</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Fracking_in_North_Dakota_wasteful)
title: Fracking in North Dakota wasteful
uri: Fracking-in-North-Dakota-wasteful
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Fracking_in_North_Dakota_wasteful%29

content:
<p>
Fracking in North Dakota 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/31/us-fracking-industry-gas-flaring">wastes 
and burns 30% of the gas extracted</a> — equivalent to running a
million more cars.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Mannings_unjust_trial)
title: Manning's unjust trial
uri: Manning-s-unjust-trial
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Mannings_unjust_trial%29
content:
<p>
Manning's trial was unjust because the Espionage Act 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning-let-down-by-law">facilitates
the War on Whistleblowers</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Election-rigging_in_Zimbabwe)
title: Election-rigging in Zimbabwe
uri: Election-rigging-in-Zimbabwe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Election-rigging_in_Zimbabwe%29
content:
<p>
Mugabe's opponents charge 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/mugabe-rivals-condemn-zimbabwe-polls">nonviolent 
election-rigging</a> is going on.


title: US to use declassified info as propaganda
uri: US-to-use-declassified-info-as-propaganda
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(US_to_use_declassified_info_as_propaganda)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28US_to_use_declassified_info_as_propaganda%29

content:
<p>
The US is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/us-government-declassifies-court-order-nsa-surveillance">declassifying 
some info about surveillance</a> as a form of propaganda, stuffing it
with false claims.
<p>
But officials had to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/us-senate-intelligence-officials-nsa">retract 
a piece of bullshit</a> — that collecting complete phone call
records was their "most important tool".
<p>
They are 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/31/us-usa-security-intelligence-idUSBRE96U03320130731">trying 
to pretend that it is ok</a> to collect bulk information about
everyone because only computers, not humans, pay attention to most of
it.
<p>
On the contrary, simply to accumulate these dossiers is unacceptable
no matter where they are kept.  The state should only be allowed to start
building a dossier about someone given a court order.


title: Egypt's gov't says it will break up protest camps
uri: Egypt-s-gov-t-says-it-will-break-up-protest-camps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Egypts_govt_says_it_will_break_up_protest_camps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Egypts_govt_says_it_will_break_up_protest_camps%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's military-dominated government says it will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/egypt-disperse-muslim-brotherhood-morsi-camps">break 
up the pro-Morsi protest camps</a>.
<p>
That probably means an even bigger massacre.
<p>
I dislike the Muslim Brotherhood's politics as much as anyone in the
world does, but they do not deserve to be attacked on the street.


title: Standards written by school privatizer
uri: Standards-written-by-school-privatizer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_August_2013_(Standards_written_by_school_privatizer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_August_2013_%28Standards_written_by_school_privatizer%29

content:
<p>
A school privatizer in Indiana and Florida wrote standards to 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12198/former-indiana-superintendent-lauded-alec-and-education-privatizers-cheats-school">ensure
a campaign donor would get a high mark</a>.


