# articles

feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(ISPs_ordered_to_block_sites)
title: ISPs ordered to block sites
uri: ISPs-ordered-to-block-sites
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28ISPs_ordered_to_block_sites%29
content:
<p>
South Korea has started 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/south-korea-officials-enact-de-facto-sopa-regime-block-foreign-websites">ordering
ISPs to block web sites without a trial</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Emissions_from_gas_and_oil_wells)
title: Emissions from gas and oil wells
uri: Emissions-from-gas-and-oil-wells
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Emissions_from_gas_and_oil_wells%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/14-2">Victims
call for regulation</a> of air emissions from gas and oil wells.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Israel_blocking_peace)
title: Israel blocking peace
uri: Israel-blocking-peace
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Israel_blocking_peace%29
content:
<p>
Anonymous US officials 
<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/05/in-historic-interview-us-officials-blame-end-of-talks-on-israeli-land-theft.html">reportedly
admitted in an interview</a> that Israel is blocking peace.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(How_big_oil_companies_bribe)
title: How big oil companies bribe
uri: How-big-oil-companies-bribe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28How_big_oil_companies_bribe%29
content:
<p>
Big oil companies no longer bribe officials directly — they do
it in 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/exxon-chevron-oil-fixers-silverstein">subtle,
indirect ways</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Ukraine_recruiting_militias)
title: Ukraine recruiting militias
uri: Ukraine-recruiting-militias
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Ukraine_recruiting_militias%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine is following a dangerous course by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/ukraine-civil-war-fears-mount-volunteer-units-kiev-russia">recruiting
volunteer militias to fight separatists</a>.  They could so easily
turn towards atrocities.  Also, neo-Nazis will join these units even
if the units are not officially aligned with neo-Nazis.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Fast-food_workers_to_protest)
title: Fast-food workers to protest
uri: Fast-food-workers-to-protest
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Fast-food_workers_to_protest%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/fast-food-workers-protest-mcdonalds-burger-king">Fast-Food
Workers to Protest in 30 Countries in Support of Higher Pay</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Australias_dooH_niboR_govt)
title: Australia's dooH niboR gov't
uri: Australia-s-dooH-niboR-gov-t
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Australias_dooH_niboR_govt%29
content:
<p>
For Australia's dooH niboR government, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/can-you-believe-tony-abbott-joe-hockey">no
lie is too absurd</a>.
<p>
I suspect they will try to buy the electorate's favor with some sort
of spending or short-term tax cut 4 months before the next election.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Hunger_strikers_in_Guantanamo)
title: Hunger strikers in Guantanamo
uri: Hunger-strikers-in-Guantanamo
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Hunger_strikers_in_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
Prisoners in Guantanamo accuse the US of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/guantanamo-hunger-strikers-force-feeding">falsifying
the number of hunger strikers and using force-feeding as a
punishment</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Lowest-paid_US_workers_organize)
title: Lowest-paid US workers organize
uri: Lowest-paid-US-workers-organize
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Lowest-paid_US_workers_organize%29
content:
<p>
In the US, workers doing the hardest and lowest-paid work are
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/14-0">successfully
organizing</a> even though officially they have no right to unionize.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(In_Bagram_Prison_for_10_years)
title: In Bagram Prison for 10 years
uri: In-Bagram-Prison-for-10-years
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28In_Bagram_Prison_for_10_years%29
content:
<p>
The US kept Briton Yunus Rahmatullah prisoner in Bagram Prison for 10 years
with the connivance of the UK government.  He has just now been freed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Uruguay's_President_Mujica)
title: Uruguay's President Mujica
uri: Uruguay-s-President-Mujica
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Uruguay%27s_President_Mujica%29
content:
<p>
10 admirable things
about <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/15-1">Uruguay's
President Mujica.</a>


title: Obama regime destroying videos of force-feeding
uri: Obama-regime-destroying-videos-of-force-feeding
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Obama_regime_destroying_videos_of_force-feeding)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Obama_regime_destroying_videos_of_force-feeding%29

content:
<p>
Guantanamo prisoners' lawyers have sued
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/15-1">stop
the Obama regime from destroying videos of force-feeding them</a>, as
well as the brutal way the guards grab these very weak memn from their
cells.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Nuclear_negotiations_with_Iran_fail)
title: Nuclear negotiations with Iran fail
uri: Nuclear-negotiations-with-Iran-fail
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Nuclear_negotiations_with_Iran_fail%29

content:
<p>
A new US demand seems likely
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/15-4">make
the nuclear negotiations with Iran fail.</a>


title: Urgent: Protect network neutrality from the FCC
uri: Urgent-Protect-network-neutrality-from-the-FCC
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_network_neutrality_from_the_FCC)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_network_neutrality_from_the_FCC%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_nn_2014?referring_akid=a153476854.118355">protect
network neutrality from the FCC.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Vote_against_Michael_Boggs)
title: Urgent: Vote against Michael Boggs
uri: Urgent-Vote-against-Michael-Boggs
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Vote_against_Michael_Boggs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell your senators
to <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=902">vote
against Michael Boggs.</a>


title: US obsession with an imaginary idea of "sexual predators"
uri: US-obsession-with-an-imaginary-idea-of-sexual-predators
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(US_obsession_with_an_imaginary_idea_of_sexual_predators)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28US_obsession_with_an_imaginary_idea_of_sexual_predators%29

content:
<p>
The US obsession with an imaginary idea of "sexual predators" inspires
policies
that <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/05/05/sexual-predators.html">deny
teenagers the chance to learn to deal with sexuality, while not
helping much against real exploiters</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Vote_for_Proposition_42)
title: Urgent: Vote for Proposition 42
uri: Urgent-Vote-for-Proposition-42
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Vote_for_Proposition_42%29
content:
<p>
California
voters: <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/california-voters-check-yes-42">vote
for Proposition 42</a> (local government transparency) on June 3.


title: Urgent: National Restaurant Association's lobbying
uri: Urgent-National-Restaurant-Association-s-lobbying
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_National_Restaurant_Association's_lobbying)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_National_Restaurant_Association%27s_lobbying%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell your elected
officials <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7326/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17255">not
to listen to the National Restaurant Association's lobbying.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12444/nra-political-spending">Here's
what the NRA does.</a>


title: Urgent: Support renewable energy measures in the EXPIRE act
uri: Urgent-Support-renewable-energy-measures-in-the-EXPIRE-act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Support_renewable_energy_measures_in_the_EXPIRE_act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_renewable_energy_measures_in_the_EXPIRE_act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators
to <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=FnWqcs0G-hG8KUU5F8n_Pg">support
renewable energy measures in the EXPIRE act.</a>


title: A US appeals court ruled that APIs are copyrightable
uri: A-US-appeals-court-ruled-that-APIs-are-copyrightable
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(A_US_appeals_court_ruled_that_APIs_are_copyrightable)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28A_US_appeals_court_ruled_that_APIs_are_copyrightable%29

content:
<p>
A US appeals court ruled
that <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/oracles-java-api-code-protected-by-copyright-appeals-court-rules/">APIs
are copyrightable.</a>
<p>
Here's <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/dangerous-ruling-oracle-v-google-federal-circuit-reverses-sensible-lower-court">why
that is dangerous.</a>
<p>
I've seen reports that this isn't a precedent and won't affect many
other cases, but even if it is not certain disaster, it is a danger of
disaster.


title: Australian gov't launched an army of lies
uri: Australian-gov-t-launched-an-army-of-lies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Australian_gov't_launched_an_army_of_lies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Australian_gov%27t_launched_an_army_of_lies%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/tony-abbotts-budget-emergency-what-are-the-facts">launched
an army of lies to justify its attack on the poor and the
environment.</a>


title: Obama regime officials lied to the Supreme Court
uri: Obama-regime-officials-lied-to-the-Supreme-Court
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Obama_regime_officials_lied_to_the_Supreme_Court)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Obama_regime_officials_lied_to_the_Supreme_Court%29

content:
<p>
Thanks to
Snowden, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/17/government-lies-nsa-justice-department-supreme-court">we
know Obama regime officials lied to the Supreme Court.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose fracking near Chaco Canyon
uri: Urgent-Oppose-fracking-near-Chaco-Canyon
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_fracking_near_Chaco_Canyon)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fracking_near_Chaco_Canyon%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15673">Oppose
fracking near Chaco Canyon.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Lumber_from_Brazil)
title: Urgent: Lumber from Brazil
uri: Urgent-Lumber-from-Brazil
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Lumber_from_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
In the US: tell Lumber
Liquidators, <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=7CFA19FADCBB6E1D1D67D0FEAE8A6AFA.app316a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1619">don't
buy lumber from places in Brazil where most lumber is illegal.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Skeptics_on_NSA_Reform)
title: Skeptics on NSA Reform
uri: Skeptics-on-NSA-Reform
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Skeptics_on_NSA_Reform%29
content:
<p>
Skeptics on NSA
Reform: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/16-0">Beware
the 'Backdoors and Loopholes'.</a>
<p>
We can't solve this problem by limiting how the NSA is allowed to
access massive dossiers about everyone.  We need
to <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">prevent
the accumulation of those databases.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(ABS_News_in_US_presented_a_debate)
title: ABS News in US presented a "debate"
uri: ABS-News-in-US-presented-a-debate
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28ABS_News_in_US_presented_a_debate%29
content:
<p>
ABC News in the US presented a "debate" about Snowden, with two guests
that <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/05/12/abcs-raging-debate-over-edward-snowden/">agreed
in supporting massive surveillance and lying about Snowden.</a>


title: US to increase shipments of arms to Syrian opposition
uri: US-to-increase-shipments-of-arms-to-Syrian-opposition
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(US_to_increase_shipments_of_arms_to_Syrian_opposition)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28US_to_increase_shipments_of_arms_to_Syrian_opposition%29

content:
<p>
The US announced plans
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/16-2">increase
shipments of arms to the "moderate Syrian opposition".</a>
<p>
Whatever kind of arms they get, a fraction will fall into the hands of
al-Qa'ida groups that will either buy them (they are funded by Sa'udi
Arabia!) or steal them.  There is no way to support a just outcome in
Syria by arming rebels.
<p>
Assad, evil as he is, is the lesser evil in Syria
today. <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Syrian_rebels_evacuating_Homs%29">He
is also winning</a>, so opposing him means prolonging the war.
<p>
For the sake of the future, we should investigate whether the US
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_December_2013_%28US_to_sell_more_advanced_weapons_to_Saudi_Arabia%29">helped
or allowed Sa'udi Arabia to foment war in Syria,</a> back when Syrians
were doing
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#10%20April%202011%20%28Syria%20Protests%20Spread%29">peaceful
protests for human rights.</a>


title: Obama allowed medical insurance plans to limit what they will pay
uri: Obama-allowed-medical-insurance-plans-to-limit-what-they-will-pay
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Obama_allowed_medical_insurance_plans_to_limit_what_they_will_pay)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Obama_allowed_medical_insurance_plans_to_limit_what_they_will_pay%29

content:
<p>
Obama has allowed medical insurance plans
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/16-4">limit
what they will pay for a procedure</a>, dumping the rest of the cost
on the patient.
<p>
US hospitals regularly gouge patients, and the only thing that limits
what they charge is
that <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#20_August_2011_%28Twisted_Insurance_Battle%29">insurance
companies push the prices down.</a> If this decision means that
insurance companies won't do that, the result is that most Americans
will be gouged, losing the biggest part of the benefit of medical
coverage.


title: Palestinians' expulsion and their right to return
uri: Palestinians-expulsion-and-their-right-to-return
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Palestinians'_expulsion_and_their_right_to_return)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Palestinians%27_expulsion_and_their_right_to_return%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery on
Palestinians' <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1400258684/">expulsion
from Israel and their right to return.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Roundup_combines_with_metals_in_soil)
title: Roundup combines with metals in soil
uri: Roundup-combines-with-metals-in-soil
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Roundup_combines_with_metals_in_soil%29

content:
<p>
Roundup seems to combine with metals in the soil (present in some
regions)
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/4327?t=1009&akid=10689.1183552.hYcrRe">cause
kidney damage to farm workers.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Report_condemned_thugs)
title: Report condemned thugs
uri: Report-condemned-thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Report_condemned_thugs%29
content:
<p>
A report condemned the
way <a href="http://www.cjad.com/cjad-news/2014/05/15/menard-report-on-student-protests-slams-charest-government">thugs
in Quèbec attacked student protesters.</a>


title: A mask to fool face recognition cameras
uri: A-mask-to-fool-face-recognition-cameras
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(A_mask_to_fool_face_recognition_cameras)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28A_mask_to_fool_face_recognition_cameras%29

content:
<p>
A mask is now available
to <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/urme-anti-surveillance-mask-lets-you-pass-as-someone-else/">fool
face recognition cameras.</a>
<p>
Some countries and some US states have banned masks, essentially
making people helpless to resist surveillance by face-recognition
cameras.


title: Main political parties don't care about poor
uri: Main-political-parties-don-t-care-about-poor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Main_political_parties_don't_care_about_poor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Main_political_parties_don%27t_care_about_poor%29

content:
<p>
With most Britons owning houses, none of the main political parties
cares about
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/16/uk-property-prices-have-made-us-millionaires">suffering
inflicted on the poor (who don't own houses).</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Crime_to_be_homosexual)
title: Crime to be homosexual
uri: Crime-to-be-homosexual
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Crime_to_be_homosexual%29
content:
<p>
Almost half the world's population lives in countries
where <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/16/countries-where-being-gay-is-a-crime">it
is a crime to be homosexual.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_parrotfish_and_corals)
title: Urgent: Protect parrotfish and corals
uri: Urgent-Protect-parrotfish-and-corals
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_parrotfish_and_corals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1589">Tell
the government</a> to protect parrotfish and endangered corals in the
Caribbean.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Block_federal_funds_to_Texas)
title: Urgent: Block federal funds to Texas
uri: Urgent-Block-federal-funds-to-Texas
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Block_federal_funds_to_Texas%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4644?r=120721.BP-QSN">call
on the US government</a> to block federal funds to Texas until Texas
implements federal requirements to protect prisoners from rape.


title: Urgent: Stop raids on marijuana providers
uri: Urgent-Stop-raids-on-marijuana-providers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_raids_on_marijuana_providers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_raids_on_marijuana_providers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://control.mpp.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=2615">ask
your congresscritter</a> to stop US government raids on
state-authorized medical marijuana providers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(The_right_to_insult_religion)
title: The right to insult religion
uri: The-right-to-insult-religion
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28The_right_to_insult_religion%29
content:
<p>
In Pakistan, people accused of "blasphemy", and lawyers that defend
them,
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/16/murder-in-pakistan-police-station-raises-concerns-of-intolerance">murdered
by Muslim fanatics</a>.
<p>
I propose to the US (and any country) to require all immigrants,
perhaps even visitors, to make public statements on video saying "I
affirm people's right to criticize, mock, even insult any religion or
view about religion, no matter who believes in it, even if you or I
believe in it."  Without making this statement, they would not be
allowed entry.
<p>
This way, those unwilling to reject religious intolerance will not be
allowed to bring it with them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Portugal_obeys_banksters)
title: Portugal obeys banksters
uri: Portugal-obeys-banksters
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Portugal_obeys_banksters%29
content:
<p>
Portugal has obeyed banksters' orders to drive wages down, but the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/16/portugal-exit-international-bailout-saturday-eu-imf">banksters
say it has to knock them down even further</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Chinese_banks_disregard_green_policy)
title: Chinese banks disregard green policy
uri: Chinese-banks-disregard-green-policy
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Chinese_banks_disregard_green_policy%29

content:
<p>
China has adopted an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/may/16/what-good-chinas-green-policies-banks-dont-listen">enlightened
policy against financing foreign projects that damage the
environment</a>, but Chinese banks disregard the policy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Global_heating_denial_campaign)
title: Global heating denial campaign
uri: Global-heating-denial-campaign
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Global_heating_denial_campaign%29
content:
<p>
An organized media campaign continues 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/16/murdoch-media-hypes-lone-climate-denial-big-oil">fabricating
a false appearance of doubt</a> about global heating.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Obama_against_network_neutrality)
title: Obama against network neutrality
uri: Obama-against-network-neutrality
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Obama_against_network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/16-3">Net
Neutrality-Defender, Barack Obama, Missing in Action</a>.
<p>
Obama is no fool.  Why did he appoint a telco man to head the FCC?  He
must have expected this to attack network neutrality.  No wonder he
fails to defend it now.
<p>
He's not just "missing in action", he has defected to the enemy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(A_Nazi-free_Europe)
title: A Nazi-free Europe
uri: A-Nazi-free-Europe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28A_Nazi-free_Europe%29
content:
<p>
Never Forget: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/05/16-0">Grandson
of Auschwitz Commandant Fights For A Nazi-Free Europe</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Global_inequality)
title: Global inequality
uri: Global-inequality
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Global_inequality%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/16-5">Global
Inequality and the Destruction of Democracy</a>.
<p>
Taking wealth from others gives a higher rate of return than producing
wealth.  We have to change that.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Millions_killed_in_the_Congo)
title: Millions killed in the Congo
uri: Millions-killed-in-the-Congo
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Millions_killed_in_the_Congo%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/16-3">Millions have
been killed</a> by fighting between factions in the Congo, and the US
keeps stirring it up because of the minerals there.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(US_ISPs_bluff)
title: US ISPs' bluff
uri: US-ISPs-bluff
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28US_ISPs_bluff%29
content:
<p>
The major US ISPs threaten not to make any more investment if the FCC
maintains network neutrality.
<p>
This article says they are 
<a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2014/05/14/fighting-zombie-lies-sorry-isps-title-ii-good-economy">bluffing</a>.
<p>
If we give in to threats from businesses, they will push us around.
We must treat them like any other bully and tell them that we will
never give them what they want for threats.  If they threaten us, we
will make them regret it.
<p>
We could do as some other countries do, and separate the physical
cables from ISP service.  That way we could have a lot more competing
ISPs that communicate over the same cables.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Snooping_on_SkyDrive_storage)
title: Snooping on "SkyDrive" storage
uri: Snooping-on-SkyDrive-storage
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Snooping_on_SkyDrive_storage%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.itproportal.com/2014/05/14/microsoft-openly-offered-cloud-data-fbi-and-nsa/">Microsoft
lets the US government snoop directly</a> on its "SkyDrive" storage
system.
<p>
Letting a company keep your data is for clods.  We could call it a
clod storage system.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Snooping_on_the_public)
title: Snooping on the public
uri: Snooping-on-the-public
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Snooping_on_the_public%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/16/conversnitch-covert-surveillance-art-form-twitter">Coversnitch</a>:
snooping on the public as art.
<p>
In San Francisco, buses have microphones.  In Canberra, taxis have
microphones.  Lampposts with microphones are being sold; where they
have been installed, I don't know.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Religion-based_electioneering_in_India)
title: Religion-based electioneering in India
uri: Religion-based-electioneering-in-India
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Religion-based_electioneering_in_India%29

content:
<p>
Religion-based electioneering
is <a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/05/india-narendra-modi-gets-away-religious-electioneering/">illegal
in India and a BJP candidate is being investigated for this.</a>
<p>
I am of two minds about this law.  It is a limit on freedom of speech,
but not for people in general, only for electoral campaigns.  It is
comparable to limits on campaign spending.  Religion is to India as
money is to the US.


title: Privacy International has sued to end GCHQ
uri: Privacy-International-has-sued-to-end-GCHQ
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Privacy_International_has_sued_to_end_GCHQ)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Privacy_International_has_sued_to_end_GCHQ%29

content:
<p>
Privacy International
has <a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/press-releases/privacy-international-challenges-gchqs-unlawful-hacking-of-computers-mobile-phones">sued
to end GCHQ's practice of breaking computer security (cracking).</a>
<p>
Please <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">don't
call it "hacking".</a>


title: Canada's excuse for abolishing anonymity online
uri: Canada-s-excuse-for-abolishing-anonymity-online
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Canada's_excuse_for_abolishing_anonymity_online)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Canada%27s_excuse_for_abolishing_anonymity_online%29

content:
<p>
Cyber-bullying is
Canada's <a href="http://www.ifex.org/canada/2014/05/15/cyber-bullying_law/">excuse
for abolishing anonymity online.</a>
<p>
A similar law in South Korea was
repealed <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#30_August_2012_%28South_Korea%27s_Supreme_Court%29">because
of its oppression.</a>


title: Obama regime's approach to Snowden's reports
uri: Obama-regime-s-approach-to-Snowden-s-reports
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Obama_regime's_approach_to_Snowden's_reports)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Obama_regime%27s_approach_to_Snowden%27s_reports%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime's approach to Snowden's
reports: <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140509/06205127175/head-in-sand-approach-white-house-bans-current-former-intelligence-staff-discussing-any-media-leaks.shtml">"la
la la I can't hear you."</a>


title: Obama regime calls public-interest policies "trade barriers"
uri: Obama-regime-calls-public-interest-policies-trade-barriers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Obama_regime_calls_public-interest_policies_trade_barriers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Obama_regime_calls_public-interest_policies_trade_barriers%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime calls various
countries' <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/04/new-obama-administration-report-targets-tpp-countries-public-interest-policies-as-trade-barriers-to-.html">public-interest
policies "trade barriers"</a>.  These policies protect health, privacy
and financial stability.
<p>
The US should adopt many of these measures, but you can't expect that
to be done by someone who favors "free trade".
<p>
I sent a message to Senator Markey's office opposing the TPP, and
received a message saying that he judged trade treaties in terms of
gain or loss of US jobs.  While that may have made sense back when
trade treaties affected mostly the amount of exports and imports, it
is absurd today.  Nowadays the main effect of trade treaties on
employed people is that they help the executives and owners get a
bigger share and pay the workers worse.  The treaties also attack our
rights by abolishing public-interest policies and giving business more
power.  Finally, they undermine democracy by giving business lobbies
an additional lever to use.
<p>
So I phoned his office and said the senator was too soft on trade
treaties.
<p>
You can phone your elected officials, too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Gluten-Sensitivity)
title: Gluten-Sensitivity
uri: Gluten-Sensitivity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Gluten-Sensitivity%29
content:
<p>
A very careful scientist rechecked his own discovery of
gluten-sensitivity
and <a href="http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/05/gluten_sensitivity_may_not_exist.html">found
the problem does not really exist.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(US_women_that_advocate_gun_control)
title: US women that advocate gun control
uri: US-women-that-advocate-gun-control
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28US_women_that_advocate_gun_control%29
content:
<p>
US women that advocate gun control
are <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-bullying-open-carry-women-moms-texas">persistently
harassed and threatened by gun nuts.</a>


title: ISPs have been cutting investment for 7 years
uri: ISPs-have-been-cutting-investment-for-7-years
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(ISPs_have_been_cutting_investment_for_7_years)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28ISPs_have_been_cutting_investment_for_7_years%29

content:
<p>
As major US ISPs threaten to stop investing if we don't let them
discriminate on the
internet, <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140514/06500227230/cable-industrys-own-numbers-show-general-decline-investment-over-past-seven-years.shtml">they
have been cutting investment for 7 years.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(More_likely_to_be_fired_that_male_CEOs)
title: More likely to be fired that male CEOs
uri: More-likely-to-be-fired-that-male-CEOs
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28More_likely_to_be_fired_that_male_CEOs%29

content:
<p>
Female CEOs
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/17/female-ceos-more-likely-than-men-to-be-fired">more
likely to be fired that male CEOs</a>, an indication that prejudice is
operating.
<p>
We should not let the treatment of female executives, or even female
not-chosen-as-executives, distract us from the far more larger issue
of the rights of female workers and female unemployed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Planting_milkweed)
title: Planting milkweed
uri: Planting-milkweed
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Planting_milkweed%29
content:
<p>
Some Americans
are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/17-4">planting
milkweed so that monarch butterflies can continue to exist</a>.
<p>
In a few decades, I expect US agricultural land use to diminish due to
global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Urgent:_Investigate_ALEC)
title: Urgent: Investigate ALEC
uri: Urgent-Investigate-ALEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_ALEC%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.standuptoalec.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8502">call
on the Dept of Interior</a> to investigate ALEC for undermining
federal land use policy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Urgent:_Decent_wage_from_McDonalds)
title: Urgent: Decent wage from McDonalds
uri: Urgent-Decent-wage-from-McDonalds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Decent_wage_from_McDonalds%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-mcdonalds-end-mcpoverty-wages-respect-workers-right-to-organize">tell
McDonalds</a> to pay workers a decent wage.


title: Urgent: Make ISP service a common carrier
uri: Urgent-Make-ISP-service-a-common-carrier
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Urgent:_Make_ISP_service_a_common_carrier)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Make_ISP_service_a_common_carrier%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Call for making ISP service a 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/NoSlowLane/">common
carrier</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Fighting_fracking_in_Pennsylvania)
title: Fighting fracking in Pennsylvania
uri: Fighting-fracking-in-Pennsylvania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Fighting_fracking_in_Pennsylvania%29
content:
<p>
Organizing against the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/14-4">toxic local
effects of fracking</a> in Pennsylvania.
<p>
When fighting fracking, we should not forget global heating.  The fact
that 80% of known reserves must be left in the ground is crucial to
this issue because it means we really lose nothing by not extracting
that gas.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Todays_radical_rich)
title: Today's radical rich
uri: Today-s-radical-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Todays_radical_rich%29
content:
<p>
Today's radical rich have come to think like an 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20140507">aristocracy</a>,
regarding the non-rich as their inferiors and whatever they pay the
non-rich as largess.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Bill_Clinton_sides_with_plutocrats)
title: Bill Clinton sides with plutocrats
uri: Bill-Clinton-sides-with-plutocrats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Bill_Clinton_sides_with_plutocrats%29

content:
<p>
Bill Clinton has 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20140516">joined the
class war on the side of the plutocrats</a>.  Meanwhile, Hillary
Clinton stays mum, apparently hoping for a chance to rule the US on
their behalf.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Stop_lies_stop_wars)
title: Stop lies, stop wars
uri: Stop-lies-stop-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Stop_lies_stop_wars%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/swanson20140511">War
depends on lies</a>.  If we can stop the lies, we can stop wars.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Urgent:_David_Barron)
title: Urgent: David Barron
uri: Urgent-David-Barron
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_David_Barron%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate to block the judicial nomination of
David Barron until Obama publishes his
<a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/senate-hold-barron-vote?source=c.tw&fb_test=0&r_by=1135580">
drone assassination legal
memos</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Super_Taxes)
title: Super Taxes
uri: Super-Taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Super_Taxes%29
content:
<p>
Why the
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/05">
Super-Rich Should Pay Super Taxes</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Militarization)
title: Militarization
uri: Militarization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Militarization%29
content:
<p>
Militarization of "policing" is supposed to "protect" us, but it is
the visible face of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/05-2">
a government that serves the plutocrats</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(The_Post-Constitutional_Era)
title: The Post-Constitutional Era
uri: The-Post-Constitutional-Era
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28The_Post-Constitutional_Era%29
content:
<p>
The Post-Constitutional Era: now that the US government can imprison
anyone based on handwaving,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/05-0">
nobody really has any rights</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(A_federal_Ukraine)
title: A federal Ukraine
uri: A-federal-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28A_federal_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Arguing for a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/05-8">
federal Ukraine</a>, in a hurry.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Cecily_McMillan)
title: Cecily McMillan
uri: Cecily-McMillan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Cecily_McMillan%29
content:
<p>
Cecily McMillan was convicted of attacking
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/05-7">
the thug who groped her</a>.
<p>
The fact that the same thug attacked several other protesters was
suppressed.  I doubt any witnesses were allowed to testify about
the general predilection of thugs to lie in court.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Abdullah_Elshamy)
title: Abdullah Elshamy
uri: Abdullah-Elshamy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Abdullah_Elshamy%29
content:
<p>
Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy has been on hunger strike for
100
days
in an Egyptian prison.  He has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/al-jazeera-journalist-abdullah-elshamy-cairo-jail">
held without charges for most of a
year</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Lies_About_Inequality)
title: Lies About Inequality
uri: Lies-About-Inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Lies_About_Inequality%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/05-3">
Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies</a> About Inequality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Slavery)
title: Slavery
uri: Slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Slavery%29
content:
<p>
The leader of Boko Haram says he
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/boko-haram-claims-responsibility-kidnapping-nigeria-schoolgirls">
intends to sell the captured
schoolgirls
as slaves</a>, and claims that Islam legitimizes slavery.
<p>
In the US, the Southern Baptist church was founded so as to endorse slavery.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Most_Important_Economic_Number)
title: Most Important Economic Number
uri: Most-Important-Economic-Number
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Most_Important_Economic_Number%29
content:
<p>
The Most Important Economic Number Isn't GDP or Unemployment. It's
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/05/most-important-economic-number-isnt-gdp-or-unemployment-its-wages">
Wages</a>.
<p>
Decreases in the full extent of unemployment do tend to translate
eventually
into higher wages.
<p>
In the past, stimulating economic growth was an effective way to
decrease unemployment and increase wages.  But this is not true any
more, as the US in recent years has seen lots of growth in total
economic figures with little benefit for workers.  We need to stop
measuring the economy with total wealth, total production, etc.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Plutocratic_regime_change)
title: Plutocratic regime change
uri: Plutocratic-regime-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Plutocratic_regime_change%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/02">
visible effects</a> of plutocratic regime change in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Forced_to_choose)
title: Forced to choose
uri: Forced-to-choose
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Forced_to_choose%29
content:
<p>
Religious fanatics in the US make abortion unobtainable
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/02-0">
pretending to
be assuring they are safe</a>.  The effect is to endanger pregnant women,
who are forced to choose between risky underground abortions and
risky childbirth.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Inheritance_tax)
title: Inheritance tax
uri: Inheritance-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Inheritance_tax%29
content:
<p>
Instead of the inheritance tax, that millions of fools oppose
because of some irrational taboo against "taxing the dead",
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/02/scrap-inheritance-tax-inequality-wealth-income">
how about taxing bequests as ordinary income</a>?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(War_on_Journalism)
title: War on Journalism
uri: War-on-Journalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28War_on_Journalism%29
content:
<p>
The US's reputation for
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/01-2">
freedom of the press is suffering</a> from
Obama's War on Journalism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Urgent:_Google)
title: Urgent: Google
uri: Urgent-Google
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Google%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/google-taxes/">
tell Google</a>, Pay your taxes!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Urgent:_Clean_Energy)
title: Urgent: Clean Energy
uri: Urgent-Clean-Energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Clean_Energy%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2275">ask
your state officials</a> to support clean energy and
oppose the Koch brothers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Mathematicians)
title: Mathematicians
uri: Mathematicians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Mathematicians%29
content:
<p>
Mathematicians,
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/04/27/mathematicians-refuse-to-work.html">
refuse to work for the NSA</a>!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Entrenched_oligarchy)
title: Entrenched oligarchy
uri: Entrenched-oligarchy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Entrenched_oligarchy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/18-8">
Thomas Piketty has demonstrated</a> that the world is moving beyond rule
by an oligarchy of acquired fortunes, to rule by an entrenched
oligarchy of inherited wealth.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Syrian_refugees_in_Australia)
title: Syrian refugees in Australia
uri: Syrian-refugees-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Syrian_refugees_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Australia is trying to pressure Syrian refugees to return to Syria,
and has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/12/five-syrian-asylum-seekers-split-up-to-keep-them-quiet">imprisoned
them separately to weaken them</a>.
<p>
One of them has gone mad from captivity.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(The_Voice_of_America)
title: The Voice of America
uri: The-Voice-of-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28The_Voice_of_America%29
content:
<p>
Congress is considering a bill to turn the Voice of America officially
into a 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/united-states-us-should-not-adopt-information-15-05-2014,46292.html">state-controlled
propaganda outlet</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(US_public_schools_resegregated)
title: US public schools resegregated
uri: US-public-schools-resegregated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28US_public_schools_resegregated%29
content:
<p>
The US has 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/23752-the-60th-anniversary-of-brown-v-board-of-education-in-the-shadow-of-school-choice">resegregated
its public schools</a>, and privatizing them makes segregation even
worse.
<p>
Many "charter schools" are 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/are-charter-schools-in-new-orleans-the-2014-version-of-plantation-education">effectively
prisons</a>, preparing black youth for other prisons.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Famine_and_genocide_in_South_Sudan)
title: Famine and genocide in South Sudan
uri: Famine-and-genocide-in-South-Sudan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Famine_and_genocide_in_South_Sudan%29

content:
<p>
South Sudan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/18/south-sudan-crisis-famine-genocide">faces
famine and genocide</a>.
<p>
I don't know what can be done about it.  Is outside influence fueling
the fighting?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Students_defy_Boko_Haram)
title: Students defy Boko Haram
uri: Students-defy-Boko-Haram
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Students_defy_Boko_Haram%29
content:
<p>
Students in Kano, Northern Nigeria, continue to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/18/nigeria-kano-schoolchildren-boko-haram">defy
Boko Haram for education</a>.
<p>
However, the same spirit of oppression has already conquered Kano
in the form of Shari'a law, with a "morality police" that enforces
a code of prudery that has nothing to do with morality.
<p>
Several African countries 
<a haref="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/17/boko-haram-african-action-nigeria-schoolgirls">agreed
to joint military action</a> against Boko Haram.
<p>
Algeria is not in the list.  I linked to an 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_(The_background_of_Boko_Haram)">article</a> 
that claimed Algeria has stimulated Islamist violence in North Africa.
I found that claim surprising because the government of Algeria fought
such an Islamist movement in the 1990s (after suppressing an election
which the Islamist party won).
<p>
If someone can show me more information about how Algeria relates to
this, I'd appreciate it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Privacy_of_student_records)
title: Privacy of student records
uri: Privacy-of-student-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Privacy_of_student_records%29
content:
<p>
Two senators have proposed a 
<a href="http://epic.org/2014/05/senators-markey-and-hatch-prop.html">law
to protect the privacy of student records</a> that schools let
companies hold.
<p>
This is a step forward but does not go far enough.  It protects
students from some kinds of commercial abuse, but that's all.
<p>
Schools should keep their own records, not entrust them to companies.
They should store nothing but encrypted data in any off-site server.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Control_of_US_laws_and_media)
title: Control of US laws and media
uri: Control-of-US-laws-and-media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Control_of_US_laws_and_media%29
content:
<p>
US corporate media ignored the study that demonstrated US laws are
controlled by elites, demonstrating that the corporate media are also
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/23757-this-just-in-us-ruled-by-the-rich">
controlled by those elites</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(North_Koreas_OGD)
title: North Korea's OGD
uri: North-Korea-s-OGD
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28North_Koreas_OGD%29
content:
<p>
A defector from North Korea says that 
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/05/north-korea-ogd/">Kim
Jong Un is a figurehead</a> for a group that does not talk about
itself, and that most people in the country don't know exists.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Tatars_tortured_and_killed)
title: Tatars tortured and killed
uri: Tatars-tortured-and-killed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Tatars_tortured_and_killed%29
content:
<p>
Not surprisingly, the Putin-supporting Russians that took over Crimea
are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/16/vladimir-putin-crimea-tatars-russian-ukraine">torturing
and killing Tatars that oppose the takeover</a>.
<p>
It's possible that the people of the Crimea would have voted in a free
and fair election to become part of Russia.  The Tatar minority would
be disappointed, but they would not be entitled to a veto.
<p>
But there was no such election, only a Soviet-style charade.
<p>
The pro-Putin forces in Donetsk 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_May_2014_(The_referendum_in_Donetsk)">used 
intimidation</a> to "win" their "election".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Govt_interference_with_IPCC_report)
title: Gov't interference with IPCC report
uri: Gov-t-interference-with-IPCC-report
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Govt_interference_with_IPCC_report%29

content:
<p>
It appears that the US and other governments that favor use of fossil
fuels 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/15/ipcc-un-climate-reports-diluted-protect-fossil-fuel-interests">interfered
with the latest IPCC report</a>, weakening the "summary for
policymakers" to understate the danger.
<p>
A few years ago, global heating deniers fabricated a phony scandal
based on the leaked emails of climate scientists, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#25_November_2011_(Climate_scientists)">distorting 
their words to claim that the scientists were overstating the
danger</a>.  It will be interesting to see whether they condemn the
intervention of much more powerful parties.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Erdogan_aide_kicks_protester)
title: Erdogan aide kicks protester
uri: Erdogan-aide-kicks-protester
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Erdogan_aide_kicks_protester%29
content:
<p>
An aide to would-be Turkish tyrant Erdogan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/turkey-mine-disaster-aid-pm-pictures-kicking-protester">kicked
a protester</a> who was being held by two soldiers acting as thugs.
<p>
Erdogan is right that mines have a long history of fatal accidents
— but why?  Often this is because the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_May_2014_(US_coal_mine_kills_two_miners)">mine 
companies skimp on safety</a>, which they can do because governments
fail to do their job and force the mine companies to do the job right.


title: Death sentence for marrying non-Muslim
uri: Death-sentence-for-marrying-non-Muslim
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Death_sentence_for_marrying_non-Muslim)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Death_sentence_for_marrying_non-Muslim%29

content:
<p>
Sudan has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/sudanese-woman-married-christian-death-sentence-apostasy">sentenced
a woman to death</a> for marrying a non-Muslim.
<p>
The death penalty is always a injustice, but not the only one.
To punish this in any fashion represents denial of human rights.
<p>
Muslim countries typically do not respect religious freedom.  The
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-may-aug.html#23%20July%202010%20(Blasphemy)">oppression
is greatest on non-Muslims</a>, but, as this article shows, they
oppress Muslims too.
<p>
To punish her would be equally unjust if she had had an affair instead
of a marriage.  Neither one is wrong.


title: Religion-based electioneering in India
uri: 2014-05-20-Religion-based-electioneering-in-India
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Religion-based_electioneering_in_India)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Religion-based_electioneering_in_India%29

content:
<p>
Religion-based electioneering
is <a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/05/india-narendra-modi-gets-away-religious-electioneering/">illegal
in India and a BJP candidate is being investigated for this.</a>
<p>
I am of two minds about this law.  It is a limit on freedom of speech,
but not for people in general, only for electoral campaigns.  It is
comparable to limits on campaign spending.  Religion is to India as
money is to the US.


title: Privacy International has sued to end GCHQ
uri: 2014-05-20-Privacy-International-has-sued-to-end-GCHQ
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Privacy_International_has_sued_to_end_GCHQ)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Privacy_International_has_sued_to_end_GCHQ%29

content:
<p>
Privacy International
has <a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/press-releases/privacy-international-challenges-gchqs-unlawful-hacking-of-computers-mobile-phones">sued
to end GCHQ's practice of breaking computer security (cracking).</a>
<p>
Please <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">don't
call it "hacking".</a>


title: Canada's excuse for abolishing anonymity online
uri: 2014-05-20-Canada-s-excuse-for-abolishing-anonymity-online
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Canada's_excuse_for_abolishing_anonymity_online)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Canada%27s_excuse_for_abolishing_anonymity_online%29

content:
<p>
Cyber-bullying is
Canada's <a href="http://www.ifex.org/canada/2014/05/15/cyber-bullying_law/">excuse
for abolishing anonymity online.</a>
<p>
A similar law in South Korea was
repealed <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#30_August_2012_%28South_Korea%27s_Supreme_Court%29">because
of its oppression.</a>


title: Obama regime's approach to Snowden's reports
uri: 2014-05-20-Obama-regime-s-approach-to-Snowden-s-reports
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Obama_regime's_approach_to_Snowden's_reports)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Obama_regime%27s_approach_to_Snowden%27s_reports%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime's approach to Snowden's
reports: <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140509/06205127175/head-in-sand-approach-white-house-bans-current-former-intelligence-staff-discussing-any-media-leaks.shtml">"la
la la I can't hear you."</a>


title: Obama regime calls public-interest policies "trade barriers"
uri: 2014-05-20-Obama-regime-calls-public-interest-policies-trade-barriers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(Obama_regime_calls_public-interest_policies_trade_barriers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28Obama_regime_calls_public-interest_policies_trade_barriers%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime calls various
countries' <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/04/new-obama-administration-report-targets-tpp-countries-public-interest-policies-as-trade-barriers-to-.html">public-interest
policies "trade barriers"</a>.  These policies protect health, privacy
and financial stability.
<p>
The US should adopt many of these measures, but you can't expect that
to be done by someone who favors "free trade".
<p>
I sent a message to Senator Markey's office opposing the TPP, and
received a message saying that he judged trade treaties in terms of
gain or loss of US jobs.  While that may have made sense back when
trade treaties affected mostly the amount of exports and imports, it
is absurd today.  Nowadays the main effect of trade treaties on
employed people is that they help the executives and owners get a
bigger share and pay the workers worse.  The treaties also attack our
rights by abolishing public-interest policies and giving business more
power.  Finally, they undermine democracy by giving business lobbies
an additional lever to use.
<p>
So I phoned his office and said the senator was too soft on trade
treaties.
<p>
You can phone your elected officials, too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(US_women_that_advocate_gun_control)
title: US women that advocate gun control
uri: 2014-05-20-US-women-that-advocate-gun-control
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28US_women_that_advocate_gun_control%29

content:
<p>
US women that advocate gun control
are <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-bullying-open-carry-women-moms-texas">persistently
harassed and threatened by gun nuts.</a>


title: ISPs have been cutting investment for 7 years
uri: 2014-05-20-ISPs-have-been-cutting-investment-for-7-years
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(ISPs_have_been_cutting_investment_for_7_years)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28ISPs_have_been_cutting_investment_for_7_years%29

content:
<p>
As major US ISPs threaten to stop investing if we don't let them
discriminate on the
internet, <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140514/06500227230/cable-industrys-own-numbers-show-general-decline-investment-over-past-seven-years.shtml">they
have been cutting investment for 7 years.</a>


title: More likely to be fired that male CEOs
uri: 2014-05-20-More-likely-to-be-fired-that-male-CEOs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_May_2014_(More_likely_to_be_fired_that_male_CEOs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_May_2014_%28More_likely_to_be_fired_that_male_CEOs%29

content:
<p>
Female CEOs
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/17/female-ceos-more-likely-than-men-to-be-fired">more
likely to be fired that male CEOs</a>, an indication that prejudice is
operating.
<p>
We should not let the treatment of female executives, or even female
not-chosen-as-executives, distract us from the far more larger issue
of the rights of female workers and female unemployed.


title: A US appeals court ruled that APIs are copyrightable
uri: 2014-05-20-A-US-appeals-court-ruled-that-APIs-are-copyrightable
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(A_US_appeals_court_ruled_that_APIs_are_copyrightable)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28A_US_appeals_court_ruled_that_APIs_are_copyrightable%29

content:
<p>
A US appeals court ruled
that <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/oracles-java-api-code-protected-by-copyright-appeals-court-rules/">APIs
are copyrightable.</a>
<p>
Here's <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/dangerous-ruling-oracle-v-google-federal-circuit-reverses-sensible-lower-court">why
that is dangerous.</a>
<p>
I've seen reports that this isn't a precedent and won't affect many
other cases, but even if it is not certain disaster, it is a danger of
disaster.


title: Australian gov't launched an army of lies
uri: 2014-05-20-Australian-gov-t-launched-an-army-of-lies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Australian_gov't_launched_an_army_of_lies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Australian_gov%27t_launched_an_army_of_lies%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/tony-abbotts-budget-emergency-what-are-the-facts">launched
an army of lies to justify its attack on the poor and the
environment.</a>


title: Obama regime officials lied to the Supreme Court
uri: 2014-05-20-Obama-regime-officials-lied-to-the-Supreme-Court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Obama_regime_officials_lied_to_the_Supreme_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Obama_regime_officials_lied_to_the_Supreme_Court%29

content:
<p>
Thanks to
Snowden, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/17/government-lies-nsa-justice-department-supreme-court">we
know Obama regime officials lied to the Supreme Court.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose fracking near Chaco Canyon
uri: 2014-05-20-Urgent-Oppose-fracking-near-Chaco-Canyon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_fracking_near_Chaco_Canyon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fracking_near_Chaco_Canyon%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15673">Oppose
fracking near Chaco Canyon.</a>


title: US to increase shipments of arms to Syrian opposition
uri: 2014-05-20-US-to-increase-shipments-of-arms-to-Syrian-opposition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(US_to_increase_shipments_of_arms_to_Syrian_opposition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28US_to_increase_shipments_of_arms_to_Syrian_opposition%29

content:
<p>
The US announced plans
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/16-2">increase
shipments of arms to the "moderate Syrian opposition".</a>
<p>
Whatever kind of arms they get, a fraction will fall into the hands of
al-Qa'ida groups that will either buy them (they are funded by Sa'udi
Arabia!) or steal them.  There is no way to support a just outcome in
Syria by arming rebels.
<p>
Assad, evil as he is, is the lesser evil in Syria
today. <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_May_2014_%28Syrian_rebels_evacuating_Homs%29">He
is also winning</a>, so opposing him means prolonging the war.
<p>
For the sake of the future, we should investigate whether the US
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_December_2013_%28US_to_sell_more_advanced_weapons_to_Saudi_Arabia%29">helped
or allowed Sa'udi Arabia to foment war in Syria,</a> back when Syrians
were doing
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#10%20April%202011%20%28Syria%20Protests%20Spread%29">peaceful
protests for human rights.</a>


title: Obama allowed medical insurance plans to limit what they will pay
uri: 2014-05-20-Obama-allowed-medical-insurance-plans-to-limit-what-they-will-pay
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Obama_allowed_medical_insurance_plans_to_limit_what_they_will_pay)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Obama_allowed_medical_insurance_plans_to_limit_what_they_will_pay%29

content:
<p>
Obama has allowed medical insurance plans
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/16-4">limit
what they will pay for a procedure</a>, dumping the rest of the cost
on the patient.
<p>
US hospitals regularly gouge patients, and the only thing that limits
what they charge is
that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#20_August_2011_%28Twisted_Insurance_Battle%29">insurance
companies push the prices down.</a> If this decision means that
insurance companies won't do that, the result is that most Americans
will be gouged, losing the biggest part of the benefit of medical
coverage.


title: Palestinians' expulsion and their right to return
uri: 2014-05-20-Palestinians-expulsion-and-their-right-to-return
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Palestinians'_expulsion_and_their_right_to_return)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Palestinians%27_expulsion_and_their_right_to_return%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery on
Palestinians' <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1400258684/">expulsion
from Israel and their right to return.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Roundup_combines_with_metals_in_soil)
title: Roundup combines with metals in soil
uri: 2014-05-20-Roundup-combines-with-metals-in-soil
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Roundup_combines_with_metals_in_soil%29

content:
<p>
Roundup seems to combine with metals in the soil (present in some
regions)
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/4327?t=1009&akid=10689.1183552.hYcrRe">cause
kidney damage to farm workers.</a>


title: A mask to fool face recognition cameras
uri: 2014-05-20-A-mask-to-fool-face-recognition-cameras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(A_mask_to_fool_face_recognition_cameras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28A_mask_to_fool_face_recognition_cameras%29

content:
<p>
A mask is now available
to <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/urme-anti-surveillance-mask-lets-you-pass-as-someone-else/">fool
face recognition cameras.</a>
<p>
Some countries and some US states have banned masks, essentially
making people helpless to resist surveillance by face-recognition
cameras.


title: Main political parties don't care about poor
uri: 2014-05-20-Main-political-parties-don-t-care-about-poor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Main_political_parties_don't_care_about_poor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Main_political_parties_don%27t_care_about_poor%29

content:
<p>
With most Britons owning houses, none of the main political parties
cares about
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/16/uk-property-prices-have-made-us-millionaires">suffering
inflicted on the poor (who don't own houses).</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_parrotfish_and_corals)
title: Urgent: Protect parrotfish and corals
uri: 2014-05-20-Urgent-Protect-parrotfish-and-corals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_parrotfish_and_corals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1589">Tell
the government</a> to protect parrotfish and endangered corals in the
Caribbean.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Block_federal_funds_to_Texas)
title: Urgent: Block federal funds to Texas
uri: 2014-05-20-Urgent-Block-federal-funds-to-Texas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Block_federal_funds_to_Texas%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4644?r=120721.BP-QSN">call
on the US government</a> to block federal funds to Texas until Texas
implements federal requirements to protect prisoners from rape.


title: Urgent: Stop raids on marijuana providers
uri: 2014-05-20-Urgent-Stop-raids-on-marijuana-providers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_raids_on_marijuana_providers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_raids_on_marijuana_providers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://control.mpp.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=2615">ask
your congresscritter</a> to stop US government raids on
state-authorized medical marijuana providers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Chinese_banks_disregard_green_policy)
title: Chinese banks disregard green policy
uri: 2014-05-20-Chinese-banks-disregard-green-policy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Chinese_banks_disregard_green_policy%29

content:
<p>
China has adopted an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/may/16/what-good-chinas-green-policies-banks-dont-listen">enlightened
policy against financing foreign projects that damage the
environment</a>, but Chinese banks disregard the policy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(In_Bagram_Prison_for_10_years)
title: In Bagram Prison for 10 years
uri: 2014-05-20-In-Bagram-Prison-for-10-years
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28In_Bagram_Prison_for_10_years%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/15-0">
US kept Briton Yunus Rahmatullah prisoner</a> in Bagram Prison for 10 years
with the connivance of the UK government.  He has just now been freed.


title: Obama regime destroying videos of force-feeding
uri: 2014-05-20-Obama-regime-destroying-videos-of-force-feeding
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Obama_regime_destroying_videos_of_force-feeding)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Obama_regime_destroying_videos_of_force-feeding%29

content:
<p>
Guantanamo prisoners' lawyers have sued
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/15-1">stop
the Obama regime from destroying videos of force-feeding them</a>, as
well as the brutal way the guards grab these very weak memn from their
cells.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Nuclear_negotiations_with_Iran_fail)
title: Nuclear negotiations with Iran fail
uri: 2014-05-20-Nuclear-negotiations-with-Iran-fail
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Nuclear_negotiations_with_Iran_fail%29

content:
<p>
A new US demand seems likely
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/15-4">make
the nuclear negotiations with Iran fail.</a>


title: Urgent: Protect network neutrality from the FCC
uri: 2014-05-20-Urgent-Protect-network-neutrality-from-the-FCC
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_network_neutrality_from_the_FCC)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_network_neutrality_from_the_FCC%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_nn_2014?referring_akid=a153476854.118355">protect
network neutrality from the FCC.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Vote_against_Michael_Boggs)
title: Urgent: Vote against Michael Boggs
uri: 2014-05-20-Urgent-Vote-against-Michael-Boggs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Vote_against_Michael_Boggs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell your senators
to <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=902">vote
against Michael Boggs.</a>


title: US obsession with an imaginary idea of "sexual predators"
uri: 2014-05-20-US-obsession-with-an-imaginary-idea-of-sexual-predators
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(US_obsession_with_an_imaginary_idea_of_sexual_predators)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28US_obsession_with_an_imaginary_idea_of_sexual_predators%29

content:
<p>
The US obsession with an imaginary idea of "sexual predators" inspires
policies
that <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/05/05/sexual-predators.html">deny
teenagers the chance to learn to deal with sexuality, while not
helping much against real exploiters</a>.


title: Urgent: National Restaurant Association's lobbying
uri: 2014-05-20-Urgent-National-Restaurant-Association-s-lobbying
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_National_Restaurant_Association's_lobbying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_National_Restaurant_Association%27s_lobbying%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell your elected
officials <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7326/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17255">not
to listen to the National Restaurant Association's lobbying.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12444/nra-political-spending">Here's
what the NRA does.</a>


title: Urgent: Support renewable energy measures in the EXPIRE act
uri: 2014-05-20-Urgent-Support-renewable-energy-measures-in-the-EXPIRE-act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_May_2014_(Urgent:_Support_renewable_energy_measures_in_the_EXPIRE_act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_renewable_energy_measures_in_the_EXPIRE_act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators
to <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=FnWqcs0G-hG8KUU5F8n_Pg">support
renewable energy measures in the EXPIRE act.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(US_depends_on_Russian_rocket_engines)
title: US depends on Russian rocket engines
uri: 2014-05-20-US-depends-on-Russian-rocket-engines
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28US_depends_on_Russian_rocket_engines%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/15/us-space-military-programme-russia-sanctions">depends
on Russian rocket engines</a> which its own sanctions now forbid
importing.


title: Urgent: No export of crude from the US
uri: 2014-05-20-Urgent-No-export-of-crude-from-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Urgent:_No_export_of_crude_from_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_export_of_crude_from_the_US%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_crude_export">call on
Obama</a> not to permit export of crude oil from the US.


title: Urgent: No natural gas export facilities
uri: 2014-05-20-Urgent-No-natural-gas-export-facilities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_May_2014_(Urgent:_No_natural_gas_export_facilities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_natural_gas_export_facilities%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call your congresscritters and senators to oppose HR. 6
and S. 2083, bills to authorize liquid natural gas export facilities.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: Canadian mining companies in Latin America
uri: 2014-05-20-Canadian-mining-companies-in-Latin-America
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Canadian_mining_companies_in_Latin_America)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Canadian_mining_companies_in_Latin_America%29

content:
<p>
Canadian mining
companies <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/may/14/canadian-mining-serious-environmental-harm-iachr">harm
the environment in Latin America, after bullying governments to allow
it.</a>


title: Israeli forces demolished some "illegal" settlement housing
uri: 2014-05-20-Israeli-forces-demolished-some-illegal-settlement-housing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Israeli_forces_demolished_some_illegal_settlement_housing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Israeli_forces_demolished_some_illegal_settlement_housing%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
forces <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/israeli-forces-illegal-west-bank-settlement-destroy-houses">demolished
some "illegal" settlement housing.</a>
<p>
The fanatical settlers have generally got government support for their
construction even for houses the government deems "illegal".  (All the
Israeli colonies in the West Bank are illegal under international
law.)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Tax_on_high-frequency_stock_trading)
title: Tax on high-frequency stock trading
uri: 2014-05-20-Tax-on-high-frequency-stock-trading
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Tax_on_high-frequency_stock_trading%29

content:
<p>
Arguing for
a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/14-5">tax on
high-frequency stock trading.</a>
<p>
Of course, one could go further and put a tax on <em>all</em> stock
trading.  Why not?


title: ICC investigating war crimes by British Bush forces
uri: 2014-05-20-ICC-investigating-war-crimes-by-British-Bush-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(ICC_investigating_war_crimes_by_British_Bush_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28ICC_investigating_war_crimes_by_British_Bush_forces%29

content:
<p>
The International Criminal Court
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/14-5">investigating
war crimes by the British Bush forces</a>, based on evidence that the
crimes were carried out following orders, not by rogue individuals.


title: FBI agent who shot and killed Ibragim Todashev
uri: 2014-05-20-FBI-agent-who-shot-and-killed-Ibragim-Todashev
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(FBI_agent_who_shot_and_killed_Ibragim_Todashev)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28FBI_agent_who_shot_and_killed_Ibragim_Todashev%29

content:
<p>
The FBI agent who shot and killed Ibragim Todashev while interrogating
him
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/fbi-agent-boston-bombing-ibragim-todashev-controversial-past">a
former thug with a history of violence.</a>
<p>
If Todashev really attacked them, why did they have no video to show
it?


title: Clinton smears supporters of democracy
uri: 2014-05-20-Clinton-smears-supporters-of-democracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Clinton_smears_supporters_of_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Clinton_smears_supporters_of_democracy%29

content:
<p>
Plutocratist politicians such as President Clinton smear supporters of
democracy
by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/14-2">comparing
our position to "blood lust".</a>


title: Israeli troops keep on shooting Palestinians
uri: 2014-05-20-Israeli-troops-keep-on-shooting-Palestinians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Israeli_troops_keep_on_shooting_Palestinians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Israeli_troops_keep_on_shooting_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
troops <a href="http://972mag.com/photos-palestinian-worker-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-near-gaza-border/90769/">keep
on shooting Palestinians</a> even at a considerable distance inside
the Gaza border.


title: Palestinian journalists held a protest
uri: 2014-05-20-Palestinian-journalists-held-a-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Palestinian_journalists_held_a_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Palestinian_journalists_held_a_protest%29

content:
<p>
On Press Freedom Day, Palestinian
journalists <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/05/palestinian-journalists-violations.html">held
a protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalists.</a>
Israeli forces attacked the protest.


title: Palestinians making houses of earth and roofs of straw
uri: 2014-05-20-Palestinians-making-houses-of-earth-and-roofs-of-straw
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Palestinians_making_houses_of_earth_and_roofs_of_straw)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Palestinians_making_houses_of_earth_and_roofs_of_straw%29

content:
<p>
Palestinians are moving back
to <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/03/palestinians-revive-earthen-architecture-20143271459749440.html">making
houses of earth and roofs of straw.</a> It's easier to rebuild if the
Israeli army demolishes the house.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Urgent:_Action_against_dirty_fuels)
title: Very urgent: Action against dirty fuels
uri: 2014-05-20-Very-urgent-Action-against-dirty-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Action_against_dirty_fuels%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/may-17-national-day-of-action">action
against dirty fuels</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Restoring_peace_in_eastern_Ukraine)
title: Restoring peace in eastern Ukraine
uri: 2014-05-20-Restoring-peace-in-eastern-Ukraine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Restoring_peace_in_eastern_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/ukraine-talks-moscow-plan-regions-osce">starting
to consider a federal approach</a> to restore peace in the eastern
region.


title: Tobacco-pickers become nicotine addicts
uri: 2014-05-20-Tobacco-pickers-become-nicotine-addicts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_May_2014_(Tobacco-pickers_become_nicotine_addicts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_%28Tobacco-pickers_become_nicotine_addicts%29

content:
<p>
Teenage tobacco-pickers in the US become nicotine addicts by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/14/tobacco-farm-child-labor-laws">absorbing
it through their skin</a>.  They often get sick — perhaps from
pesticide exposure.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_Gene_Greens_letter)
title: Urgent: Reject Gene Green's letter
uri: Urgent-Reject-Gene-Green-s-letter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Gene_Greens_letter%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call your congresscritter and say, <em>don't sign Gene
Green's letter because it opposes network neutrality</em>.
<p>
I got the info from 
<a href="http://www.freepress.net/blog/2014/05/12/tell-congress-don%E2%80%99t-sign-cable-industry-letter-against-real-net-neutrality">this
article</a>, but you shouldn't report your call to them because the
page requires 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree
Javascript code</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Urgent:_Support_GMO_labeling)
title: Urgent: Support GMO labeling
uri: Urgent-Support-GMO-labeling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_GMO_labeling%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://oregonright.cp.bsd.net/page/signup/honorary-signer">Support
Oregon's referendum</a> to label GMOs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Abbotts_lies_about_budget_cuts)
title: Abbott's lies about budget cuts
uri: Abbott-s-lies-about-budget-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Abbotts_lies_about_budget_cuts%29
content:
<p>
Abbott 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/19/hospital-cuts-begin-july-tony-abbott-admits">admits
one of his lies</a> about budget cuts in hospitals.
<p>
The cuts will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/19/working-age-poor-will-suffer-most-pain-from-australian-budget">hurt
working age adults and single parents the worst</a>.
<p>
Why not target the rich with tax increases instead?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Attack_on_Libyan_Parliament)
title: Attack on Libyan Parliament
uri: Attack-on-Libyan-Parliament
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Attack_on_Libyan_Parliament%29
content:
<p>
A Libyan warlord's forces 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/18/gunmen-storm-libyan-parliament">attacked
Parliament</a>, saying they were attacking Islamist/terrorist MPs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_May_2014_(Right-wing_idea_of_sexual_morality)
title: Right-wing idea of sexual morality
uri: Right-wing-idea-of-sexual-morality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_May_2014_%28Right-wing_idea_of_sexual_morality%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing legislators in US states are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/18-5">trying to
make divorce more difficult</a>.
<p>
Right-wing theocratic Christians want to force their rigid idea of
sexual morality on everyone.  This is part of that, as their
opposition to sex education, birth control and abortion.  Banning
abortion (de facto, if not de jure) is their first target but they
intend it as the edge of the wedge.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_May_2014_(Urgent:_Thank_Obama)
title: Urgent: Thank Obama
uri: Urgent-Thank-Obama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Obama%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: thank Obama
for <a href="http://livableworld.org/iran2014/">committing to peace
with Iran.</a>


title: Mine company executives accused of deadly negligence
uri: Mine-company-executives-accused-of-deadly-negligence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_May_2014_(Mine_company_executives_accused_of_deadly_negligence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_May_2014_%28Mine_company_executives_accused_of_deadly_negligence%29

content:
<p>
Turkish mine company executives
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/19/turkey-mine-disaster-24-detained">accused
of deadly negligence.</a> People have various suspicions about the
relationship between Erdogan's party and the mine.


title: Obama's proposed trade treaty with Europe
uri: Obama-s-proposed-trade-treaty-with-Europe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_May_2014_(Obama's_proposed_trade_treaty_with_Europe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_May_2014_%28Obama%27s_proposed_trade_treaty_with_Europe%29

content:
<p>
Obama's proposed trade treaty with Europe would increase exports of
natural gas to
Europe, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/19-0">leading
to more fracking in the US.</a>
<p>
Supporters of fracking claim it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
but these estimates neglect
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Fracking_emmissions_much_worse_than_predicted%29">methane
that leaks out of the frack wells.</a>


title: Cecily McMillan sentenced to three months in prison
uri: Cecily-McMillan-sentenced-to-three-months-in-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_May_2014_(Cecily_McMillan_sentenced_to_three_months_in_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_May_2014_%28Cecily_McMillan_sentenced_to_three_months_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
Cecily McMillan has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/19/occupy-cecily-mcmillan-sentenced-three-months-prison">sentenced
to three months in prison.</a>
<p>
She reports on
the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/19-0">reasons
other women were put in jail with her.</a> The reporter who
interviewed her was not allowed to bring in pen or paper.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_May_2014_(Putin_says_he_will_withdraw_troops)
title: Putin says he will withdraw troops
uri: Putin-says-he-will-withdraw-troops
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_May_2014_%28Putin_says_he_will_withdraw_troops%29

content:
<p>
Putin says he
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/19/putin-orders-russian-troop-withdrawal-ukrainian-border">withdraw
Russian troops from the border with Ukraine.</a>
<p>
I have suspected ever since the crisis there began that Putin
instigated it so as to draw attention away the Crimea.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_May_2014_(Baha'i_leaders_imprisoned_)
title: Baha'i leaders imprisoned
uri: Baha-i-leaders-imprisoned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_May_2014_%28Baha%27i_leaders_imprisoned_%29
content:
<p>
Baha'i leaders in Iran have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/may/19/iran-bahai-minority-jail-religion">imprisoned
for 6 years simply for having an unauthorized religion</a>.


title: Urgent: Limit US use of military force
uri: Urgent-Limit-US-use-of-military-force
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_May_2014_(Urgent:_Limit_US_use_of_military_force)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Limit_US_use_of_military_force%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your congresscritter
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-act-with-amash">support
bills to limit US use of military force in specific ways.</a>


title: Eurozone rules remain economically harmful
uri: Eurozone-rules-remain-economically-harmful
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_May_2014_(Eurozone_rules_remain_economically_harmful)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_May_2014_%28Eurozone_rules_remain_economically_harmful%29

content:
<p>
The eurozone rules remain economically harmful,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/18/eurozone-problems-european-elections">there
is no political will to fix this in either direction.</a>


title: Artists turn their work into advertising
uri: Artists-turn-their-work-into-advertising
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_May_2014_(Artists_turn_their_work_into_advertising)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_May_2014_%28Artists_turn_their_work_into_advertising%29

content:
<p>
Now that young people don't understand the meaning of "selling out",
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/05/11/satires_corporate_takeover_community_silicon_valley_and_problem_with_having_it_both_ways/">artists
turn their work into advertising and convince themselves it is ok</a>.
Even when they satirize advertising, it is real advertising.
<p>
This is the original reason why there is no advertising here or in
gnu.org and fsf.org.  Of course advertising based on tracking people
would be even worse.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_May_2014_(Modi_and_the_new_face_of_India)
title: Modi and the new face of India
uri: Modi-and-the-new-face-of-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_May_2014_%28Modi_and_the_new_face_of_India%29
content:
<p>
Pankaj
Mishra: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/16/what-next-india-pankaj-mishra">Narendra
Modi and the new face of India.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(Enbridge_faces_problems_on_line_9)
title: Enbridge faces problems on line 9
uri: Enbridge-faces-problems-on-line-9
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28Enbridge_faces_problems_on_line_9%29
content:
<p>Canadian protesters
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/20-1">
shut down construction</a>
of a tar sands pipeline.
</p>


title: Little deterrent value in Credit Suisse plea deal
uri: Little-deterrent-value-in-Credit-Suisse-plea-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(Little_deterrent_value_in_Credit_Suisse_plea_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28Little_deterrent_value_in_Credit_Suisse_plea_deal%29

content:
<p>Credit Suisse
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/20-4">
pled guilty to helping Americans evade taxes</a>,
and got a slap on the wrist; its stock price went up afterward.
</p>
<p>The bank was not even required to disclose the names of those
Americans.  It shows the US government still does not dare
to get firm with the banksters.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(New_Poor_People's_Movement?_)
title: New Poor People's Movement?
uri: New-Poor-People-s-Movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28New_Poor_People%27s_Movement%3F_%29
content:
<p>Teaching poor Americans how to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/20-5">
organize politically</a>
for the rights and well being of the poor.
</p>


title: Anti Backpage.com bill casts a wide net
uri: Anti-Backpage-com-bill-casts-a-wide-net
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(Anti_Backpage.com_bill_casts_a_wide_net)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28Anti_Backpage.com_bill_casts_a_wide_net%29

content:
<p>A bill intended to stop advertising of coerced or "underage"
prostitutes would
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/anti-backpagecom-bill-will-shut-down-free-speech">
create a much broader system of censorship.</a></p>
<p>I am in favor of taking effective action to end coercion of
prostitutes.</p>


title: Prison industrial complex trumps health research
uri: Prison-industrial-complex-trumps-health-research
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(Prison_industrial_complex_trumps_health_research)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28Prison_industrial_complex_trumps_health_research%29

content:
<p>The US imprisons so many black males that
<a href="http://www.psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law/disproportionate-black-male-incarceration-rates-ruining-medical-research-81154/">
long-term medical studies</a>
are left with few black male subjects.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(ASCE_enlist_Digimarc)
title: ASCE enlist Digimarc
uri: ASCE-enlist-Digimarc
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28ASCE_enlist_Digimarc%29
content:
<p>The American Society of Civil Engineers has hired
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/publishers-targets-university-researchers-pirating-articles-140516/">
a company of copyright bullies</a>
to attack authors that post their own papers.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(Shell_Oil_unafraid_of_stranded_assets)
title: Shell Oil unafraid of stranded assets
uri: Shell-Oil-unafraid-of-stranded-assets
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28Shell_Oil_unafraid_of_stranded_assets%29

content:
<p>Shell denies the carbon bubble by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/20/shell-hits-back-at-carbon-bubble-claims">
projecting increasing use of fossil
fuel.</a>
<p>In other words, Shell's projections blithely assume we will not stop
baking our planet.  Which really means Shell is determined to keep us
baking it.</p>
<p>This is a scheme for mass murder bigger than the world has ever
seen.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(A_friend_in_need)
title: A friend in need
uri: A-friend-in-need
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28A_friend_in_need%29
content:
<p>Russia will
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/20/russia-veto-un-resolution-syria">
veto a UN resolution</a>
to ask the International Criminal Court
to prosecute war criminals in Syria.
</p>


title: Urgent: Stop HRW - U.S. Government coziness
uri: Urgent-Stop-HRW-U-S-Government-coziness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_HRW_-_U.S._Government_coziness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_HRW_-_U.S._Government_coziness%29

content:
<p>Everyone: Call on Human Rights Watch to
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9860">
shut the revolving door</a>
to the CIA.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(NSA_ponders_Freedom_Act)
title: NSA ponders Freedom Act
uri: NSA-ponders-Freedom-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28NSA_ponders_Freedom_Act%29
content:
<p>Even though the amended USA Freedom Act would be only a small step
against massive general surveillance, the NSA is already
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/19/nsa-surveillance-limits-usa-freedom-act">
looking for ways to twist the meaning.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(CIA_won't_do_it_again...)
title: CIA won't do it again...
uri: CIA-won-t-do-it-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28CIA_won%27t_do_it_again...%29
content:
<p>The US says it will
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/20/cia-vaccination-programmes-counterterrorism">
no longer use vaccination programs</a>
as a cover for
spying.
</p>
<p>I fear this will not be enough to convince the Taliban to permit
vaccination.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(War_on_the_workers)
title: War on the workers
uri: War-on-the-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28War_on_the_workers%29
content:
<p>US Republicans in many states have passed laws to encourage theft of
wages, reduce minimum wage, weaken unemployment insurance, and
<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/the-republican-war-on-workers-rights/?smid=tw-share&smv2">
generally attack workers' rights</a>
in favor of business.
</p>


title: One Year After the Edward Snowden Disclosures
uri: One-Year-After-the-Edward-Snowden-Disclosures
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(One_Year_After_the_Edward_Snowden_Disclosures)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28One_Year_After_the_Edward_Snowden_Disclosures%29

content:
<p>
Looking Back One Year After the Edward Snowden Disclosures
- <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/18-0">An
International Perspective.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(Reconstruction_effort_in_Haiti)
title: Reconstruction effort in Haiti
uri: Reconstruction-effort-in-Haiti
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28Reconstruction_effort_in_Haiti%29
content:
<p>
The reconstruction effort in Haiti managed by the Clintons
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304547704579564651201202122">has
been terribly mismanaged.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(Overuse_of_antibiotics_in_animals)
title: Overuse of antibiotics in animals
uri: Overuse-of-antibiotics-in-animals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28Overuse_of_antibiotics_in_animals%29
content:
<p>
The UK wants
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/19/antibiotic-resistance-farm-animals-threatened-uk-cuts">cut
funds for watching for overuse of antibiotics in animals</a>, which
can be deadly for people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(The_melt_rate_of_Antarctic_ice)
title: The melt rate of Antarctic ice
uri: The-melt-rate-of-Antarctic-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28The_melt_rate_of_Antarctic_ice%29
content:
<p>
The melt rate of Antarctic ice
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/19/doubling-of-antarctic-ice-loss-revealed-by-european-satellite">doubled
in just a few years.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(All_sea_turtles_will_be_born_female)
title: All sea turtles will be born female
uri: All-sea-turtles-will-be-born-female
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28All_sea_turtles_will_be_born_female%29

content:
<p>
With a few degrees of global
heating, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/20/more-sea-turtles-will-be-born-female-as-climate-warms-study-shows">all
sea turtles will be born female.</a> Unless they move to beaches
further away from the equator.


title: NSA records all phone calls in Bahamas
uri: NSA-records-all-phone-calls-in-Bahamas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 21_May_2014_(NSA_records_all_phone_calls_in_Bahamas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_May_2014_%28NSA_records_all_phone_calls_in_Bahamas%29

content:
<p>
The
NSA <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/19-7">records
all phone calls in the Bahamas and stores the data for a month</a>,
not for defense against attack, nor even to prevent terrorism —
just to prosecute the War on Drugs.


title: What makes certain video games compulsive
uri: What-makes-certain-video-games-compulsive
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(What_makes_certain_video_games_compulsive)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28What_makes_certain_video_games_compulsive%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/21/candy-crush-angry-birds-psychology-compulsive-casual-games-mobile-flappy-birds">What
makes certain video games compulsive (i.e., addictive).</a>
<p>
I have the same psychological mechanisms as the people who get hooked
on these games.  But I have learned to sit back and think, "Do I
really want to spend a lot of time this way?  Is there something else
I'd rather do?"  I have developed the ability to decide to stop.


title: Australian students protested budget cuts
uri: Australian-students-protested-budget-cuts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Australian_students_protested_budget_cuts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Australian_students_protested_budget_cuts%29

content:
<p>
Thousands of Australian
students <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/thousands-of-students-march-in-protests-against-budget-cuts">protested
against gratuitous dooH niboR budget cuts.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(The_mines_in_Soma,_Turkey)
title: The mines in Soma, Turkey
uri: The-mines-in-Soma-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28The_mines_in_Soma%2C_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
The mines in Soma,
Turkey, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/20/turkish-miner-lax-safety-record-soma-mines">systematically
hide unsafe conditions for the occasional visits of corrupt
inspectors</a>.  The workers don't dare report violations.


title: Useful to continue to refute pseudoscience
uri: Useful-to-continue-to-refute-pseudoscience
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Useful_to_continue_to_refute_pseudoscience)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Useful_to_continue_to_refute_pseudoscience%29

content:
<p>
It is useful to continue
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/may/21/skeptics-pseudoscience-psychics-human-psyche">refute
pseudoscience even though fools will systematically fall for it.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Urgent:_Investor-state_provisions)
title: Urgent: "Investor-state" provisions
uri: Urgent-Investor-state-provisions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Investor-state_provisions%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12496">sign
this petition against "investor-state" provisions</a> that authorize
companies to sue governments for laws that protect the public
interest.


title: Urgent: Support the climate resilience fund
uri: Urgent-Support-the-climate-resilience-fund
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Urgent:_Support_the_climate_resilience_fund)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_climate_resilience_fund%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4151">support
the climate resilience fund.</a>


title: Urgent: Reject the Cove Point gas export project
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-Cove-Point-gas-export-project
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_the_Cove_Point_gas_export_project)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_Cove_Point_gas_export_project%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=11023">reject
the Cove Point gas export project.</a>


title: Israel trying to squeeze out remaining residents
uri: Israel-trying-to-squeeze-out-remaining-residents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Israel_trying_to_squeeze_out_remaining_residents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Israel_trying_to_squeeze_out_remaining_residents%29

content:
<p>
Israel is trying
to <a href="http://972mag.com/living-inside-an-invisible-cage-welcome-to-nabi-samuel/91020/">squeeze
out the remaining residents of Nabi Samuel by putting them effectively
under siege.</a>


title: Israel has arrested several Palestinian defense lawyers
uri: Israel-has-arrested-several-Palestinian-defense-lawyers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Israel_has_arrested_several_Palestinian_defense_lawyers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Israel_has_arrested_several_Palestinian_defense_lawyers%29

content:
<p>
Israel
has <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/05/israel-accused-cracking-down-lawyers-2014512125258477247.html">arrested
several Palestinian defense lawyers.</a>


title: Israeli troops attacked Palestinian homes and a hospital
uri: Israeli-troops-attacked-Palestinian-homes-and-a-hospital
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Israeli_troops_attacked_Palestinian_homes_and_a_hospital)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Israeli_troops_attacked_Palestinian_homes_and_a_hospital%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
troops <a href="http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=25233">attacked
Palestinian homes and a hospital near Jenin.</a>


title: Israeli call to support BDS against Israel
uri: Israeli-call-to-support-BDS-against-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Israeli_call_to_support_BDS_against_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Israeli_call_to_support_BDS_against_Israel%29

content:
<p>
An Israeli call
to <a href="http://972mag.com/after-kerry-only-bds-may-save-the-two-state-solution/91048/">support
boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel</a>, arguing that
nothing else can create the political will to remove the nationalists
that have colonized the West Bank.


title: Israeli blogger grilled by intelligence agency
uri: Israeli-blogger-grilled-by-intelligence-agency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Israeli_blogger_grilled_by_intelligence_agency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Israeli_blogger_grilled_by_intelligence_agency%29

content:
<p>
An Israeli blogger
was <a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/05/19/shabak-revenge-of-the-torturers/">grilled
by the intelligence agency</a> after he requested on Twitter that
people tell him the identities of the agents that torture Palestinian
children.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Preserving_competition)
title: Preserving competition
uri: Preserving-competition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Preserving_competition%29
content:
<p>
The European Union shows what it is like
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/20/eurotunnel-legal-fight-cross-channel-ferry-service">take
the mission of preserving competition seriously.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Urgent:_UNs_Green_Climate_Fund)
title: Urgent: UN's Green Climate Fund
uri: Urgent-UN-s-Green-Climate-Fund
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_UNs_Green_Climate_Fund%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: sign 
<a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15721">this
petition</a> to make sure the UN's Green Climate Fund supports only
renewable energy.


title: Urgent: Rebuke opponents of net neutrality
uri: Urgent-Rebuke-opponents-of-net-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Urgent:_Rebuke_opponents_of_net_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Rebuke_opponents_of_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/dem_turncoats_2014">rebuke
the 20 democrats in Congress</a> who supported the big ISPs against
network neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Martial_law_in_Thailand)
title: Martial law in Thailand
uri: Martial-law-in-Thailand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Martial_law_in_Thailand%29
content:
<p>
The Thai army 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/20/thailand-martial-law-talks-stalemate">imposed
martial law</a> but did not overthrow the government.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(The_climategate_scandal)
title: The climategate "scandal"
uri: The-climategate-scandal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28The_climategate_scandal%29
content:
<p>
A study finds that the climategate "scandal" had only a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/20/climategate-longterm-level-climate-change-scepticism">transient
effect</a> on global heating denialism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Experimenting_on_virulent_viruses)
title: Experimenting on virulent viruses
uri: Experimenting-on-virulent-viruses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Experimenting_on_virulent_viruses%29
content:
<p>
Does experimenting on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/20/virus-experiments-risk-global-pandemic">virulent
viruses</a> pose a risk to humanity?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Murderers_of_Anna_Politkovskaya)
title: Murderers of Anna Politkovskaya
uri: Murderers-of-Anna-Politkovskaya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Murderers_of_Anna_Politkovskaya%29
content:
<p>
The direct murderers of Anna Politkovskaya have been convicted, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/20/anna-politkovskaya-killing-men-convicted-murder">whoever
hired them is still getting away with it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(No_talk_of_Green_Party_in_UK_media)
title: No talk of Green Party in UK media
uri: No-talk-of-Green-Party-in-UK-media
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28No_talk_of_Green_Party_in_UK_media%29

content:
<p>
Journalism in the UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/green-party-support-media-ukip">doesn't
talk about the Green Party</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Violence_in_Turkish_leadership)
title: Violence in Turkish leadership
uri: Violence-in-Turkish-leadership
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Violence_in_Turkish_leadership%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/erdogan-turks-soma-turkish">Violence
towards the common people</a> is established in today's Turkish
leadership.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_May_2014_(Teenagers_killed_by_Israeli_soldiers)
title: Teenagers killed by Israeli soldiers
uri: Teenagers-killed-by-Israeli-soldiers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_May_2014_%28Teenagers_killed_by_Israeli_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers shot and killed Palestinian teenagers with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/20/video-indicates-killed-palestinian-youths-no-threat-israeli-forces">not
even a shred of an excuse</a>.
<p>
The teenagers were far away from the soldiers and doing nothing in
particular.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(NSA_Bill_That_Just_Passed_Is_Weak)
title: NSA Bill That Just Passed Is Weak
uri: NSA-Bill-That-Just-Passed-Is-Weak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28NSA_Bill_That_Just_Passed_Is_Weak%29
content:
<p>
The NSA Bill That Just Passed Is So
Weak, <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/nsa-usa-freedom-act-weak">Original
Backers Voted Against It.</a>


title: Israeli troops uprooted 1,500 fruit trees
uri: Israeli-troops-uprooted-1-500-fruit-trees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Israeli_troops_uprooted_1,500_fruit_trees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Israeli_troops_uprooted_1%2C500_fruit_trees%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
troops <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/05/22">uprooted
1,500 fruit trees on the Nasser family's farm</a> to deny
international volunteers the chance to harvest the fruit.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Weapon_of_Planetary_Destruction)
title: Weapon of Planetary Destruction
uri: Weapon-of-Planetary-Destruction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Weapon_of_Planetary_Destruction%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/22-6">Global
heating is a Weapon of Planetary Destruction</a> that can destroy many
of humanity's greatest cities, and the fuse is already lit.


title: The New Populism challenges plutocracy in the US
uri: The-New-Populism-challenges-plutocracy-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(The_New_Populism_challenges_plutocracy_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28The_New_Populism_challenges_plutocracy_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The New
Populism <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/22-5">challenges
plutocracy in the US.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Techniques_for_getting_out_of_debt)
title: Techniques for getting out of debt
uri: Techniques-for-getting-out-of-debt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Techniques_for_getting_out_of_debt%29

content:
<p>
Don't be embarrassed by being in debt,
but <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/22-4">here are
smart techniques for getting out of debt.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_('Not_Lovin'_It')
title: 'Not Lovin' It'
uri: Not-Lovin-It
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28%27Not_Lovin%27_It%27%29
content:
<p>
'Not Lovin' It': Low-Wage
Workers <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/21-9">Met
by Riot Police Outside McDonald's HQ.</a>


title: former president of Guatemala sentenced to prison
uri: former-president-of-Guatemala-sentenced-to-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(former_president_of_Guatemala_sentenced_to_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28former_president_of_Guatemala_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
The former president of Guatemala has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/22/guatemala-president-portillo-us-court-bribes-prison">sentenced
to prison in the US for taking bribes.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Infection_from_forced_feeding)
title: Infection from forced feeding
uri: Infection-from-forced-feeding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Infection_from_forced_feeding%29
content:
<p>
Ahmed Rabbani, imprisoned without charges in Guantanamo for 10 years,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/22/guantanamo-inmate-vomit-blood-force-feeding">got
an infection from forced feeding and vomited blood.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Recoverable_US_shale_oil_reserves)
title: Recoverable US shale oil reserves
uri: Recoverable-US-shale-oil-reserves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Recoverable_US_shale_oil_reserves%29
content:
<p>
A US government report says recoverable US shale oil
reserves <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/22/two-thirds-write-down-us-shale-oil-gas-explodes-fracking-myth">are
just 40% of what was previously believed</a>.


title: Sea level rise could wipe out lots of farm land
uri: Sea-level-rise-could-wipe-out-lots-of-farm-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Sea_level_rise_could_wipe_out_lots_of_farm_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Sea_level_rise_could_wipe_out_lots_of_farm_land%29

content:
<p>
Sea level rise
could <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/22/west-antarctic-ice-collapse-middle-east-asia-crops">wipe
out lots of farm land in this century.</a>


title: Pakistani TV station accused of blasphemy
uri: Pakistani-TV-station-accused-of-blasphemy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Pakistani_TV_station_accused_of_blasphemy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Pakistani_TV_station_accused_of_blasphemy%29

content:
<p>
The Pakistani TV station that barely escaped being shut
down <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/22/pakistan-geo-news-blasphemy-pakistan-sufi-song-wedding">has
been accused of blasphemy.</a>


title: Thai army has converted martial law into a coup
uri: Thai-army-has-converted-martial-law-into-a-coup
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Thai_army_has_converted_martial_law_into_a_coup)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Thai_army_has_converted_martial_law_into_a_coup%29

content:
<p>
The Thai army
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/22/thailand-army-chief-announces-military-coup">converted
martial law into a coup.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Rising_sea_levels)
title: Rising sea levels
uri: Rising-sea-levels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Rising_sea_levels%29
content:
<p>
Landmark sites in the
US <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2014/may/20/us-landmark-sites-climate-change-statue-of-liberty">threatened
by rising sea levels.</a>


title: Confronting the prejudice against abortion
uri: Confronting-the-prejudice-against-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Confronting_the_prejudice_against_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Confronting_the_prejudice_against_abortion%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/20-1">Confronting
the prejudice against abortion.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(US_build_expensive_advanced_weapons)
title: US build expensive advanced weapons
uri: US-build-expensive-advanced-weapons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28US_build_expensive_advanced_weapons%29

content:
<p>
While China approaches 10,000 miles of bullet train lines, the
US <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/20-0">builds
expensive advanced weapons (trains of bullets).</a>
<p>
I rode the Chinese high speed rail from Beijing to Hangzhou; it took
just 6 hours.  I'm sure lots of air miles are being avoided.  The
nasty thing is that passengers are required to identify themselves,
but the US is becoming ever more like China in that regard.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Female_genital_mutilation)
title: Female genital mutilation
uri: Female-genital-mutilation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Female_genital_mutilation%29
content:
<p>
A doctor will
be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/21/egyptian-doctor-fadl-trial-female-genital-mutilation-landmark-case">prosecuted
in Egypt for carrying out female genital mutilation.</a>


title: Senate confirmed David Barron as a federal judge
uri: Senate-confirmed-David-Barron-as-a-federal-judge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Senate_confirmed_David_Barron_as_a_federal_judge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Senate_confirmed_David_Barron_as_a_federal_judge%29

content:
<p>
The
Senate <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/us-senate-drone-memo-david-barron-nomination">confirmed
David Barron as a federal judge.</a>
<p>
Just seeing his murder memo was only the first step.  The next step
should have been to study it in order to determine his fitness as a
judge.


title: Recordings of force-feeding prisoners in Guantanamo
uri: Recordings-of-force-feeding-prisoners-in-Guantanamo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Recordings_of_force-feeding_prisoners_in_Guantanamo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Recordings_of_force-feeding_prisoners_in_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
The US seems to have made
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/us-forced-acknowledge-guantanamo-force-feedings">extensive
library of recordings of force-feeding prisoners in Guantanamo</a>.


title: Visiting Syrian refugees in camps in Jordan
uri: Visiting-Syrian-refugees-in-camps-in-Jordan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Visiting_Syrian_refugees_in_camps_in_Jordan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Visiting_Syrian_refugees_in_camps_in_Jordan%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/many-ways-die-syria-neil-gaiman-refugee-camp-syria">Visiting
Syrian refugees in camps in Jordan.</a>
<p>
In terms of human rights, both Assad and his Islamist enemies are
horrible.  I don't see how any other side could win.  Perhaps that
means the best thing to do is help Assad win sooner, thus reduce the
bloodshed.
<p>
A crucial question is, who is responsible for the civil war in Syria?
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_May_2014_%28US_to_increase_shipments_of_arms_to_Syrian_opposition%29">Was
it Sa'udi Arabia?  Qatar?  Did the US help them?</a>


title: Contraceptives damage the fertility of freshwater fish
uri: Contraceptives-damage-the-fertility-of-freshwater-fish
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Contraceptives_damage_the_fertility_of_freshwater_fish)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Contraceptives_damage_the_fertility_of_freshwater_fish%29

content:
<p>
Contraceptives <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jun/02/water-system-toxic-contraceptive-pill">damage
the fertility of freshwater fish</a>, but cleaning them out of
wastewater looks to be very expensive.
<p>
It would be good for more women to switch to IUDs.


title: MDs of the National Health Service overworked
uri: MDs-of-the-National-Health-Service-overworked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(MDs_of_the_National_Health_Service_overworked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28MDs_of_the_National_Health_Service_overworked%29

content:
<p>
The UK's right-wing government
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/22/mps-alienating-gps-with-political-attacks-doctor-claims">condemning
the MDs of the National Health Service for being overworked.</a>
<p>
Why are they overworked?  Because the government won't hire enough of
them.


title: Chilean activist abolished student debt
uri: Chilean-activist-abolished-student-debt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Chilean_activist_abolished_student_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Chilean_activist_abolished_student_debt%29

content:
<p>
A Chilean activist abolished the student debt of a failing university
by <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/21-4">burying
the notes that prove the students' debt.</a>


title: NFL gave players dangerous painkillers
uri: NFL-gave-players-dangerous-painkillers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(NFL_gave_players_dangerous_painkillers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28NFL_gave_players_dangerous_painkillers%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/05/20/3439675/nfl-doped-players-with-illegal-painkillers-former-stars-say-in-lawsuit/">NFL
gave players dangerous painkillers to keep them playing</a> despite
injuries, say former players.
<p>
I think people have a right to engage in activities that have a high
risk of injury, but I don't get any pleasure from watching them do it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Unemployment_benefits)
title: Unemployment benefits
uri: Unemployment-benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Unemployment_benefits%29
content:
<p>
A study confirms: ending people's unemployment benefits does not push
them into employment.  It only condemns them to 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/05/20/3439561/long-term-unemployment-jobs-illinois/">hardship</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Contaminated_water_in_jail)
title: Contaminated water in jail
uri: Contaminated-water-in-jail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Contaminated_water_in_jail%29
content:
<p>
After the chemical spill, the jail at Charleston WV gave each prisoner
as little as 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/21/3439864/the-untold-story-of-what-happened-at-an-overcrowded-west-virigina-jail-after-the-chemical-spill/">2
cups of clean water per day</a>.  When the jail went back to using tap
water, prisoners claim it was still contaminated.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(5_national_landmarks_threatened)
title: 5 national landmarks threatened
uri: 5-national-landmarks-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%285_national_landmarks_threatened%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/national-parks-landmarks-climate-threat-17464">Here
Are 5 National Landmarks Facing Climate Threats</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Thinking_about_wrong_actions)
title: Thinking about wrong actions
uri: Thinking-about-wrong-actions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Thinking_about_wrong_actions%29
content:
<p>
Intimidation in college classrooms: some students demand "trigger
warnings" before discussing readings whose material could make someone
feel <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/warning-the-literary-canon-could-make-students-squirm.html">uncomfortable</a>.
<p>
Education should help people think about right and wrong actions, and
that requires encouraging people to think about wrong actions.  The
idea of trying to shield people from thinking about them is misguided.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Obamas_inaction)
title: Obama's inaction
uri: Obama-s-inaction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Obamas_inaction%29
content:
<p>
A year after Obama was confronted in a speech about imprisonment
without trial and the drone assassination campaign, he 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/21-4">has done next
to nothing to end them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Violence_from_both_sides_of_Ukraine)
title: Violence from both sides of Ukraine
uri: Violence-from-both-sides-of-Ukraine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Violence_from_both_sides_of_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Both sides in Ukraine 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/05/un-report-human-rights-ukraine-abduction-journalists-activists">intimidate,
attack and kill</a> those who disagree.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Trademark_threat_against_parody)
title: Trademark threat against parody
uri: Trademark-threat-against-parody
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Trademark_threat_against_parody%29
content:
<p>
Google made a 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/dear-google-parody-not-trademark-infringement">trademark
threat against a parody site</a> that criticizes Google's activities.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Two_counties_ban_GMO_crops)
title: Two counties ban GMO crops
uri: Two-counties-ban-GMO-crops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Two_counties_ban_GMO_crops%29
content:
<p>
Two counties in Oregon have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/21-3">banned
growing GMO crops</a>.  However, the state government may stop one of
the two counties from implementing this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Failure_to_organize_in_the_US)
title: Failure to organize in the US
uri: Failure-to-organize-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Failure_to_organize_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Median income has increased in Canada and Northern Europe, and now
exceeds the US, even though 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/21-2">US workers
have to work harder</a>.
<p>
The reason is clear: US workers fail to organize (through unions and
government) to stop the rich from taking all that is produced.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Russia_Today_reporter_arrested)
title: Russia Today reporter arrested
uri: Russia-Today-reporter-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Russia_Today_reporter_arrested%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/british-journalist-graham-phillips-detained-east-ukraine">arrested</a>
a reporter for Russia Today.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_May_2014_(Mubarak_sentenced_to_prison)
title: Mubarak sentenced to prison
uri: Mubarak-sentenced-to-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_May_2014_%28Mubarak_sentenced_to_prison%29
content:
<p>
Egypt's former president Mubarak has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/hosni-mubarak-jailed-corruption">sentenced
to prison for corruption</a>.
<p>
I expect he is guilty but I doubt his trial was fair.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Crisis_or_cock-up)
title: Crisis or cock-up
uri: Crisis-or-cock-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Crisis_or_cock-up%29
content:
<p>The UK has a scarcity of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/21/no-housing-crisis-just-very-british-sickness">
available places to live</a>,
but maybe not a
shortage of housing space as such.  Rather, the wealthy use more than
before,
leaving little or none for the poor.
</p>
<p>The article argues that the cause is government-given incentives to
invest in housing rather than something productive.  The US also has
such incentives (the tax deduction for mortgage interest), and it
might cause problems in the US too.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Freedom_Act_defanged)
title: Freedom Act defanged
uri: Freedom-Act-defanged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Freedom_Act_defanged%29
content:
<p>EFF Dismayed by
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/eff-dismayed-houses-gutted-usa-freedom-act">
House's Gutted USA FREEDOM Act</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Circumventing_the_law_wholesale)
title: Circumventing the law wholesale
uri: Circumventing-the-law-wholesale
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Circumventing_the_law_wholesale%29
content:
<p>The FBI collects US data for the NSA; then the NSA's data (including
what GCHQ gets by spying on Americans) is
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/how-nsa-transforming-law-enforcement">
used for prosecutions</a>
that have nothing to do with terrorism or national security.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Police_favor_right_wing_protests)
title: Police favor right wing protests
uri: Police-favor-right-wing-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Police_favor_right_wing_protests%29
content:
<p>US thugs are quick to
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/05/law-enforcement-vs-hippies">
attack leftist protesters</a>,
but they leave right-wing "tea party" protesters alone.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Consequences_of_welfare_reform)
title: Consequences of welfare reform
uri: Consequences-of-welfare-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Consequences_of_welfare_reform%29
content:
<p>Clinton's "welfare reform" has (as predicted) wiped out aid to poor
families.  6 million Americans
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/23-6">
get no income</a>
except from food stamps.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Drone_targets_in_Pakistan)
title: Drone targets in Pakistan
uri: Drone-targets-in-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Drone_targets_in_Pakistan%29
content:
<p>Most US drone attacks in Pakistan are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/23-2">
aimed at houses</a>,
but this is hidden because the government calls them "compounds".
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Accelerating_global_system_failure)
title: Accelerating global system failure
uri: Accelerating-global-system-failure
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Accelerating_global_system_failure%29

content:
<p>The military coup in Thailand is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/23/thailand-military-coup-system-failure-peak-oil-climate-food-debt-bomb-prayuth-chan-och">
related to the effects of global heating</a>
and increasing oil prices.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(UK_imposes_fracking_on_landowners)
title: UK imposes fracking on landowners
uri: UK-imposes-fracking-on-landowners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28UK_imposes_fracking_on_landowners%29
content:
<p>The UK government has decided to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/may/23/fracking-shock-and-awe-will-not-win-the-battle-of-britain">
impose fracking</a>
by taking away landowners' legal right to reject it.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(NYT_roots_for_state_control_of_media)
title: NYT roots for state control of media
uri: NYT-roots-for-state-control-of-media
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28NYT_roots_for_state_control_of_media%29

content:
<p>US mainstream media are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/23-5">
supporting the criminalization</a>
of journalists such as Glenn Greenwald.
</p>


title: Urgent: Investigate Todashev execution
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Todashev-execution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Urgent:_Investigate_Todashev_execution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_Todashev_execution%29

content:
<p>Everyone:
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/massachusetts-attorney-general-martha-coakley-we-need-accountability-and-transparency-local">
call on Massachusetts Attorney General Coakley</a>
to investigate the role of Massachusetts thugs in the killing of Ibragim
Todashev.
</p>


title: Method used to destroy Guardian's Snowden docs perplexing
uri: Method-used-to-destroy-Guardian-s-Snowden-docs-perplexing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Method_used_to_destroy_Guadian's_Snowden_docs_perplexing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Method_used_to_destroy_Guadian%27s_Snowden_docs_perplexing%29

content:
<p>Why did GCHQ
<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/what-does-gchq-know-about-our-devices-that-we-dont">
destroy certain specific chips</a>
in the Guardian's computers, such as the trackpad controller?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Worst_places_to_work)
title: Worst places to work
uri: Worst-places-to-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Worst_places_to_work%29
content:
<p>Ranking the world's countries in terms of
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/05/21/a-map-of-the-worst-countries-i.html">
treatment of workers</a>.
<p>The US is embarrassingly low on the list.
</p>


title: Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party
uri: Twitter-Steps-Down-From-the-Free-Speech-Party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Twitter_Steps_Down_From_the_Free_Speech_Party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Twitter_Steps_Down_From_the_Free_Speech_Party%29

content:
<p>Twitter has
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/twitter-steps-down-free-speech-party">
bowed to Russian political censorship</a>
without even being subject to Russian law.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Urgent:_Paid_sick_leave)
title: Urgent: Paid sick leave
uri: Urgent-Paid-sick-leave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Paid_sick_leave%29
content:
<p>US citizens: tell Obama to order US contractors to
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/paid_sick_leave/">
give their employees paid sick leave</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Consumer_Reports_reports_on_consumers)
title: Consumer Reports reports on consumers
uri: Consumer-Reports-reports-on-consumers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Consumer_Reports_reports_on_consumers%29

content:
<p>85% of US online consumers
<a href="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/05/most-consumers-oppose-internet-ad-tracking/index.htm">
oppose Internet ad tracking</a>.</p>
<p>They are focusing on the symptom (ad tracking) rather than the disease
(massive surveillance), but it is a step forward.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Dangerous_by_design)
title: Dangerous by design
uri: Dangerous-by-design
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Dangerous_by_design%29
content:
<p>The US has
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/05/most-dangerous-pedestrian-cities/">
ignored pedestrian safety</a>
for decades in building roads, and it shows.
</p>
<p>Compare the 60,000 pedestrians killed since 2000 with the 3,000 killed
by terrorist attacks.  And that's just in the US!  Wouldn't it be more
useful to have a Global War on Pedestrian Fatalities than a Global War
on Terrorism?</p>


title: Occupy surveilled by counter-terrorist units
uri: Occupy-surveilled-by-counter-terrorist-units
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Occupy_survielled_by_counter-terrorist_units)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Occupy_survielled_by_counter-terrorist_units%29

content:
<p>Revealed: [US]
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/23-7">
Gov't Used Fusion Centers to Spy on Occupy</a>.
</p>
<p>Here is
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/us/officials-cast-wide-net-in-monitoring-occupy-protests.html">
more detail</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(More_perversity)
title: More perversity
uri: More-perversity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28More_perversity%29
content:
<p>A US court ruled in favor of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/23/us-military-force-feeding-guantanamo-detainee-judge">
force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners</a>
on hunger strike.
</p>
<p>This is wrong — for any prisoner.  Everyone has a right to
die.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Protest_and_violence_in_Nigeria)
title: Protest and violence in Nigeria
uri: Protest-and-violence-in-Nigeria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Protest_and_violence_in_Nigeria%29
content:
<p>Teachers in Nigeria
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/may/23/nigerian-teachers-strike-kidnapped-chibok-schoolgirls-boko-haram">
protested the government's weak response</a>
to Boko Haram.
</p>
<p>Other Nigerians are resisting terror by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/23/nigeria-jos-muslims-christians-bombing-unite-government">
preventing sectarian violence</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Solar_power_in_Iran)
title: Solar power in Iran
uri: Solar-power-in-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Solar_power_in_Iran%29
content:
<p>Helping Iran
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/23-4">
move to solar power</a>
could be a win-win solution
to the political problem caused by Iran's enrichment of uranium.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Genocide_in_Iraq)
title: Genocide in Iraq
uri: Genocide-in-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Genocide_in_Iraq%29
content:
<p>Taking Action on
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/23-2">
US Genocide in Iraq</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(More_irony)
title: More irony
uri: More-irony
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28More_irony%29
content:
<p>Russia is about to impose a penalty of up to 5 years in prison
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/24/russia-toughens-punishment-separatist-ideas">
for separatism</a>.
</p>
<p>Even advocating a referendum for secession would get this punishment.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Khalifa_Heftar_and_Operation_Karama)
title: Khalifa Heftar and Operation Karama
uri: Khalifa-Heftar-and-Operation-Karama
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Khalifa_Heftar_and_Operation_Karama%29

content:
<p>Information
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/22/libya-renegade-general-upheaval">
about Haftar</a>,
the commander of the militia that is trying to take
control of Libya.
</p>
<p>If he were doing this against a civilian government with a history of
really governing the country, it would be a military coup.  In fact,
Libya's government is little more than a coalition of militias.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Institutional_meatgrinder)
title: Institutional meat-grinder
uri: Institutional-meat-grinder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Institutional_meatgrinder%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/transgender-16-year-old-solitary-cell-adult-prison">
Kafkaesque proceedings</a>
have put a 16-year-old transgender in Connecticut
in solitary confinement after a life of horrible treatment.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Urgent:_Support_restaurant_workers)
title: Urgent: Support restaurant workers
uri: Urgent-Support-restaurant-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_restaurant_workers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7326/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17255">call
on Congress</a> to stand up to the National Restaurant Association and
support restaurant workers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Urgent:_Reduce_carbon_emissions)
title: Urgent: Reduce carbon emissions
uri: Urgent-Reduce-carbon-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reduce_carbon_emissions%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.behindthebrands.org/en/campaign-news/fed-up-with-climate-change-making-people-hungry,-q-,-take-action">Tell
General Mills and Kellogg</a> to reduce their carbon emissions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Urgent:_Dont_kill_the_internet)
title: Urgent: Don't kill the internet
uri: Urgent-Don-t-kill-the-internet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Dont_kill_the_internet%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/dont_kill_the_internet/">tell
Obama</a>, <em>don't kill the internet</em>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Urgent:_Investigation_of_the_VA)
title: Urgent: Investigation of the VA
uri: Urgent-Investigation-of-the-VA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Investigation_of_the_VA%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.votevets.org/va-investigation">call for an
investigation</a> of the Veterans Administration, not a witch-hunt.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Jamaican_nature_reserve_threatened)
title: Jamaican nature reserve threatened
uri: Jamaican-nature-reserve-threatened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Jamaican_nature_reserve_threatened%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/23/jamaican-iguana-nature-reserve-china-port-project">Chinese
investment project in Jamaica</a> would destroy a nature preserve with
unique species, as well as many local people's livelihoods.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Limitless_war_to_continue)
title: Limitless war to continue
uri: Limitless-war-to-continue
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Limitless_war_to_continue%29
content:
<p>
The House of Representatives voted to continue limitless war.  Here is
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/25/1226405/-Which-39-Democrats-Want-a-War-That-Never-Ends-and-Voted-Against-Sunsetting-the-AUMF">how
representatives voted</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Oregons_sellout_to_Monsanto)
title: Oregon's sellout to Monsanto
uri: Oregon-s-sellout-to-Monsanto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Oregons_sellout_to_Monsanto%29
content:
<p>
The Oregon legislature's 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12486/oregons-gmo-sellout">sellout
to Monsanto</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(UK_thug_union)
title: UK thug union
uri: UK-thug-union
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28UK_thug_union%29
content:
<p>
The UK government blames the thug union for various dishonest
practices and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/21/theresa-may-police-federation-power">plans
to use them as an opportunity to attack the union</a>.
<p>
It may be true that the thugs use the union to strengthen their
cover-ups for attacking people, but some of their wrongdoing is
unrelated to the union and obedient to their commanders.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Predatory_commercial_college)
title: Predatory commercial college
uri: Predatory-commercial-college
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Predatory_commercial_college%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/21/london-college-funding-students-cannot-learn">commercial
college in London</a> is even more predatory than commercial colleges
in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Predatory_economics_in_Canada)
title: Predatory economics in Canada
uri: Predatory-economics-in-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Predatory_economics_in_Canada%29
content:
<p>
In Canada, predatory economics is making people sick, even 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014//05/21-6">killing</a>
them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Voting_in_Queensland)
title: Voting in Queensland
uri: Voting-in-Queensland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Voting_in_Queensland%29
content:
<p>
Queensland, a part of Australia, has made it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/23/queensland-removes-political-donation-limits-and-cuts-reporting-standards">harder
for the poor to vote and easier for the rich to buy elections</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Istanbul_thugs_shoot_at_protesters)
title: Istanbul thugs shoot at protesters
uri: Istanbul-thugs-shoot-at-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Istanbul_thugs_shoot_at_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Istanbul thugs started shooting at protesters, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/22/cleaner-shot-riot-police-istanbul-funeral">hit
a mourner at a funeral</a>.  Tear gas prevented people from treating
him, and he died.


title: Video of Israeli army shooting teenagers
uri: Video-of-Israeli-army-shooting-teenagers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Video_of_Israeli_army_shooting_teenagers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Video_of_Israeli_army_shooting_teenagers%29

content:
<p>
Israel is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/22/footage-palestinian-boys-shot-genuine-btselem">trying
to smear the Palestinian teenagers shot by the army</a> by saying the
video recording was fake.  B'Tselem says it is real.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Pentagon_spreads_imaginary_fears)
title: Pentagon spreads imaginary fears
uri: Pentagon-spreads-imaginary-fears
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Pentagon_spreads_imaginary_fears%29
content:
<p>
The Pentagon is trying to manipulate Americans to condemn Snowden by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/22/pentagon-report-snowden-grave-threat-overblown">spreading
imaginary fears</a> based on documents he says he doesn't have,
assuming they were released in a way the journalists wouldn't do.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_May_2014_(Antibiotic_resistance)
title: Antibiotic resistance
uri: 2014-05-25-Antibiotic-resistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_%28Antibiotic_resistance%29
content:
<p>
Calling for an international effort against antibiotic resistance,
which presents a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/22/antibiotic-resistant-bugs-health-drug">danger
comparable to global heating</a>.
<p>
Imagine if we let companies block our response to this as they block
our response to global heating.  No, you don't have to imagine —
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#01_August_2011_(USDA_Deleted_Report)">they
are doing it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(UK_govt_working_against_public)
title: UK gov't working against public
uri: UK-gov-t-working-against-public
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28UK_govt_working_against_public%29
content:
<p>
The UK government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/25/fracking-energy-solution-solar-shale-gas">changes
laws</a> to encourage fracking, which the public hates, and hamper
solar energy, which the public loves.
<p>
I see only one plausible explanation: ministers are working for the
fossil fuel industry rather than for the public.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Millions_march_against_Monsanto)
title: Millions march against Monsanto
uri: Millions-march-against-Monsanto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Millions_march_against_Monsanto%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/24-1">Millions
Worldwide March Against Monsanto</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(NSA_and_the_copyright_industry)
title: NSA and the copyright industry
uri: NSA-and-the-copyright-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28NSA_and_the_copyright_industry%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/connection-copyright-industry-nsa-140517/">The
Connection Between The Copyright Industry And The NSA</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Student_loan_debt_collectors)
title: Student loan debt collectors
uri: Student-loan-debt-collectors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Student_loan_debt_collectors%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/05/obama-administration-sued-over-student-loan-debt-collector-data">Obama
Administration Sued for Refusing to Disclose Data on Student Loan Debt
Collectors</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Media_pundit_advocates_less_democracy)
title: Media pundit advocates less democracy
uri: Media-pundit-advocates-less-democracy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Media_pundit_advocates_less_democracy%29

content:
<p>
US media pundit David Brooks 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/05/21/david-brooks-democracy-is-a-drag-put-guys-like-me-in-charge/">advocates
reducing democracy in the US</a>, so elites can impose the right-wing
dooH niboR changes he claims Americans want.
<p>
In fact, few Americans want those changes; it's the elites that want
them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Thailands_military_rulers)
title: Thailand's military rulers
uri: Thailand-s-military-rulers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Thailands_military_rulers%29
content:
<p>
Thailand's military rulers are now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/25/thai-junta-dissolves-senate-coup-bangkok">arresting
journalists and academics</a> as well as politicians.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Societys_misogynist_strain)
title: Society's misogynist strain
uri: Society-s-misogynist-strain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Societys_misogynist_strain%29
content:
<p>
Our society's misogynist strain seems to have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/24/elliot-rodgers-california-shooting-mental-health-misogyny">inspired
mass murder by a young man</a> who hated women for rejecting him.
<p>
We can't ban misogyny, but organized efforts could lead many men away
from it.  Proper gun control could reduce the number of victims one
man could succeed in killing.


title: Erdogan fired aide who kicked protester
uri: Erdogan-fired-aide-who-kicked-protester
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Erdogan_fired_aide_who_kicked_protester)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Erdogan_fired_aide_who_kicked_protester%29

content:
<p>
Erdogan <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/24/turkish-pm-aide-sacked-kicking-protester-mining-disaster">fired
the aide who kicked a protester, after first trying to defend him.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/05/official-leg-trauma.html">More
information</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Big_Credit_Suisse's_Sweetheart_Deal)
title: Big Credit Suisse's Sweetheart Deal
uri: Big-Credit-Suisse-s-Sweetheart-Deal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Big_Credit_Suisse%27s_Sweetheart_Deal%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/24-0">Big Credit
Suisse's Sweetheart Deal.</a>


title: Obama supporting Israel's colonization
uri: Obama-supporting-Israel-s-colonization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Obama_supporting_Israel's_colonization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Obama_supporting_Israel%27s_colonization%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Obama has given up on the hopeless peace process, but not
on <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1400845261/">supporting
Israel's increasing colonization of Palestine.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(NBC_TV's_meeting_America)
title: NBC TV's "Meeting America"
uri: NBC-TV-s-Meeting-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28NBC_TV%27s_meeting_America%29
content:
<p>
NBC TV's "Meeting America" series
presents <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/05/20/when-nbc-says-meeting-america-it-means-white-republican-america/">more
of the right-wing white voices that NBC considers
underrepresented.</a>
<p>
NBC belongs to Comcast.


title: Books-A-Million chain of bookstores has ring-wing bias
uri: Books-A-Million-chain-of-bookstores-has-ring-wing-bias
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Books-A-Million_chain_of_bookstores_has_ring-wing_bias)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Books-A-Million_chain_of_bookstores_has_ring-wing_bias%29

content:
<p>
The Books-A-Million chain of
bookstores <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/05/17/are-birminghams-books-right-for-washington-d-c/">has
a systematic policy of right-wing bias</a>.  Ralph Nader is trying to
change it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Tar_sands_oil_by_rail)
title: Tar sands oil by rail
uri: Tar-sands-oil-by-rail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Tar_sands_oil_by_rail%29
content:
<p>
Without Keystone XL, the company threaten
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/23-5">transport
the tar sands oil by rail.</a>


title: Comcast has 100 lobbyists working for planned merger
uri: Comcast-has-100-lobbyists-working-for-planned-merger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Comcast_has_100_lobbyists_working_for_planned_merger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Comcast_has_100_lobbyists_working_for_planned_merger%29

content:
<p>
Comcast
has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/23-0">100
lobbyists working for approval of its planned merger.</a> It is also
lobbying
against <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_March_2014_%28How_Comcast_Plans_to_Rule_American_Cable_and_Internet%29">network
neutrality and supports ALEC.</a>


title: Urgent: Expand protected ocean habitat
uri: Urgent-Expand-protected-ocean-habitat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Urgent:_Expand_protected_ocean_habitat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Expand_protected_ocean_habitat%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Call on the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to
<a href="http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=xGVnQbyXCOt3eMX_p2VxKQ">expand
protected ocean habitat for the North Atlantic right whale</a>.


title: Urgent: Protect bees from neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Urgent-Protect-bees-from-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_May_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_bees_from_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_bees_from_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA
to <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3465">protect
bees from neonicotinoid pesticides.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Urgent:_Restore_the_Voting_Rights_Act)
title: Urgent: Restore the Voting Rights Act
uri: 2014-05-26-Urgent-Restore-the-Voting-Rights-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Restore_the_Voting_Rights_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://action.usaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=622">this
petition</a> to restore the Voting Rights Act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Urgent:_Sign_petition_to_FCC)
title: Urgent: Sign petition to FCC
uri: Urgent-Sign-petition-to-FCC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Sign_petition_to_FCC%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4655?n=71619657.GY8oJQ">this
petition</a> to the FCC for network neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(The_what-the-hell_effect)
title: The what-the-hell effect
uri: The-what-the-hell-effect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28The_what-the-hell_effect%29
content:
<p>
Overcoming the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/may/24/this-column-change-life-what-the-hell-effect">what-the-hell
effect</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Big_Brothers_data_requests)
title: Big Brother's data requests
uri: Big-Brother-s-data-requests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Big_Brothers_data_requests%29
content:
<p>
Large internet companies are suing for permission to disclose the
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/23/google-yahoo-facebook-and-microsoft-say-government-has-no-right-to-suppress-data-request-disclosures/">number
of national security letters they receive</a>.
<p>
What we really need to know is how many people's data they give to Big
Brother.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(World_food_prices_near_record)
title: World food prices near record
uri: World-food-prices-near-record
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28World_food_prices_near_record%29
content:
<p>
World food prices are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/aug/16/africa-famine-food-prices-world-bank">close
to the 2008 record level</a>, and this is exacerbating the shortage of
food in Somalia caused by bad harvests.
<p>
Global heating will make both of these factors worse, and a study
predicts it 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#04_October_2012_(Effect_of_global_heating_on_people)">will 
kill a hundred million people by 2030</a>.  After that, it will get
much worse.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Obama_pretends_torture_ended)
title: Obama pretends torture ended
uri: Obama-pretends-torture-ended
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Obama_pretends_torture_ended%29
content:
<p>
Obama said he would end torture by the US, and 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/25-1">pretends to
have done so</a>, but he did not.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Organic_food_standards_corruption)
title: Organic food standards corruption
uri: 2014-05-26-Organic-food-standards-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Organic_food_standards_corruption%29
content:
<p>
The US Department of Agriculture is 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12480/organic-standards-jeopardy">planning
to corrupt the standards for organic food</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Strict_censorship_in_Thailand)
title: Strict censorship in Thailand
uri: Strict-censorship-in-Thailand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Strict_censorship_in_Thailand%29
content:
<p>
The Thai military government has imposed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/26/thai-king-endorses-army-chief-leader-military-coup">strict
censorship of dissent</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Corruption_of_science)
title: Corruption of science
uri: Corruption-of-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Corruption_of_science%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/26/the-republican-street-fight-over-transparency-in-government.html">Republicans
fight to shield corruption of science</a> by businesses following in
the footsteps of the Tobacco companies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Elsevier_tracking)
title: Elsevier tracking
uri: Elsevier-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Elsevier_tracking%29
content:
<p>
Some academics are concerned that companies such as Elsevier are
<a href="http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/04/29/is-elsevier-going-to-take-control-of-us-and-our-data-the-vice-chancellor-of-cambridge-thinks-so-and-im-terrified/">tracking
and manipulating their activities</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Australian_Aboriginal_children)
title: Australian Aboriginal children
uri: Australian-Aboriginal-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Australian_Aboriginal_children%29
content:
<p>
A large fraction of the Aboriginal children in Australia have been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/26/sorry-day-rallies-call-for-changes-to-state-child-protection-regimes">taken
away from their families to "protect" them</a>.
<p>
It is possible they really need this protection, but if so, that is a
sign of the stress that their families feel, and poverty and racism
probably play a role in causing that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Execution_for_marrying_a_Christian)
title: Execution for marrying a Christian
uri: Execution-for-marrying-a-Christian
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Execution_for_marrying_a_Christian%29

content:
<p>
The government of Sudan plans to execute Meriam Ibrahim for marrying a
Christian, but only later.  In the mean time, she is kept 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/25/sudan-pregnant-woman-death-sentence-meriam-yahya-ibrahim-toddler">shackled
in prison while she waits to give birth</a>.
<p>
When you read about "Islamists", think of this barbarity — this
is what they stand for.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Right-wing_election_in_Colombia)
title: Right-wing election in Colombia
uri: Right-wing-election-in-Colombia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Right-wing_election_in_Colombia%29
content:
<p>
Colombia faces a run-off between the current 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/26/colombia-election-run-off--rightwing-opposition-tops-poll">right-wing
president, Santos, and a foam-at-the-mouth right-wing opponent</a>.
<p>
Neither of them would free Colombia from the bondage of its treaty
with the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Camera_surveillance_in_Australia)
title: Camera surveillance in Australia
uri: Camera-surveillance-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Camera_surveillance_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
An Australian senator is angry that a surveillance camera 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/26/cctv-spying-fears-emerge-after-senators-meeting-caught-on-camera">captured
his meeting with someone</a>.
<p>
I share his indignation, and I claim that you and I deserve the same
respect that he deserves, in the absence of a specific court order.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Protests_against_Chevron)
title: Protests against Chevron
uri: Protests-against-Chevron
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Protests_against_Chevron%29
content:
<p>
Coordinated protests against Chevron were held in 
<a href="http://rt.com/news/160652-anti-chevron-global-protest/">16
countries</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_May_2014_(Heatwave-resistant_chickens)
title: Heatwave-resistant chickens
uri: Heatwave-resistant-chickens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_%28Heatwave-resistant_chickens%29
content:
<p>
There is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/25/chicken-to-beat-killer-heatwaves">project
to breed chickens</a> that won't be killed by the future heat waves we
are in the process of causing.
<p>
To prevent damage from global heating, we would need hundreds of
thousands of programs like this.  It would be so much easier and
cheaper to install renewable energy, and efficiency improvements, and
thus curb global heating.  But that requires putting an end to
plutocratic government.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_the_2,4-D_herbicide)
title: Urgent: Reject the 2,4-D herbicide
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-2-4-D-herbicide
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_2%2C4-D_herbicide%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/ocaactions.cfm?actionnum=14080">Call
on the EPA</a> to reject the 2,4-D herbicide that is likely to be very
toxic.


title: Urgent: No antiaircraft missiles for Syria
uri: Urgent-No-antiaircraft-missiles-for-Syria
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Urgent:_No_antiaircraft_missiles_for_Syria)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_antiaircraft_missiles_for_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-back-welch-jones">urge
Congresscritters</a> to sign the letter urging Obama not to send
portable antiaircraft missiles to Syrian rebels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Thomas_Paine_and_plutocracy_today)
title: Thomas Paine and plutocracy today
uri: Thomas-Paine-and-plutocracy-today
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Thomas_Paine_and_plutocracy_today%29
content:
<p>
What Thomas Paine wrote in the 1770s is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/26-2">applicable to
plutocracy today</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(The_wealth_hidden_from_records)
title: The wealth hidden from records
uri: The-wealth-hidden-from-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28The_wealth_hidden_from_records%29
content:
<p>
Some economists attack Piketty's arguments by ignoring the wealth
that the wealthy have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/26/thomas-piketty-economist-ft-attack-rising-inequality-bling">hidden
from records</a>.
<p>
This may be the real purpose of some luxury goods: to hide wealth.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(European_Parliament_elections)
title: European Parliament elections
uri: European-Parliament-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28European_Parliament_elections%29
content:
<p>
In European Parliament elections, voters swung to a variety of
anti-establishment parties, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/26/europe-unhappy-european-union">mostly
right-wing</a>.
<p>
This article says that the European Union requires fundamental reform.
I've been saying so for years: it needs more democracy, and that lack
of democracy makes it difficult to change the plutocratic policies of
the euro zone.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Battle_to_control_Donetsk_airport)
title: Battle to control Donetsk airport
uri: Battle-to-control-Donetsk-airport
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Battle_to_control_Donetsk_airport%29
content:
<p>
Donetsk rebels seized the local airport, and Ukraine immediately
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/26/poroshenko-peace-donetsk-airport-air-strike-separatists">counterattacked
with air power</a>.
<p>
I continue to believe that the Crimea is what Putin really wanted, and
that he stirred up trouble in the Eastern Ukraine to draw a line under
the seizure of the Crimea.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Consequences_of_NRA_lobbying)
title: Consequences of NRA lobbying
uri: Consequences-of-NRA-lobbying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Consequences_of_NRA_lobbying%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/26/father-isla-vista-victim-gun-control-legislation">Santa
Barbara shootings</a> demonstrate the consequences of NRA lobbying.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Urgent:_Boycott_Scott_products)
title: Urgent: Boycott Scott products
uri: Urgent-Boycott-Scott-products
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Boycott_Scott_products%29
content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/ocaactions.cfm?actionnum=14090">tell
Scott</a> you will boycott its products until it drops the
Roundup-ready grass.
<p>
This GMO grass, engineered to be resistant to Roundup, will not be
eaten by humans.  But the Roundup 
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30097.cfm">could
poison people</a> who play on those perfect lawns.
<p>
Meanwhile, it will get into all the grass around the US, making
organic beef impossible.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Australian_Customs_chief_keeps_mum)
title: Australian Customs chief keeps mum
uri: Australian-Customs-chief-keeps-mum
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Australian_Customs_chief_keeps_mum%29

content:
<p>
The chief of Australian Customs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/27/border-chief-no-idea-ship-indonesia">refused
to tell</a> a senator whether a chart of a ship's entry into
Indonesian waters is accurate.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Professors_can_be_fired_for_tweeting)
title: Professors can be fired for tweeting
uri: Professors-can-be-fired-for-tweeting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Professors_can_be_fired_for_tweeting%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in Kansas have imposed a policy on the state university
that professors can be fired for tweeting 
<a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/05/14/312524014/in-kansas-professors-must-now-watch-what-they-tweet">anything
the university chooses to consider harmful</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(US_still_trying_to_prosecute_Assange)
title: US still trying to prosecute Assange
uri: US-still-trying-to-prosecute-Assange
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28US_still_trying_to_prosecute_Assange%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/05/20/justice-department-release-of-wikileaks-records-could-harm-pending-future-prosecution/">Evidence</a>
that the US is still trying to prosecute Julian Assange.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Secret_negotiation_of_trade_treaty)
title: Secret negotiation of "trade treaty"
uri: Secret-negotiation-of-trade-treaty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Secret_negotiation_of_trade_treaty%29

content:
<p>
The European Commission is negotiating an antidemocratic "trade
treaty" 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140516/06133827253/water-cannons-turned-peaceful-ttip-protestors-brussels-as-public-barred-negotiations.shtml">in
secrecy</a>, and turned water cannon on 1000 protesters in Brussels.
<p>
Based on previous treaties we have ever reason to expect these
negotiators to be trying to attack democracy and human rights.  The
burden is on them to show they have changed their spots.  Surely their
most violent attack on the public is the treaty itself.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(FBI_to_start_recording_interrogations)
title: FBI to start recording interrogations
uri: FBI-to-start-recording-interrogations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28FBI_to_start_recording_interrogations%29

content:
<p>
The FBI will start making 
<a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/21/fbi-reverses-recording-policy-interrogations/9379211/">recordings
of interrogations</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Flame_retardant_laws)
title: Flame retardant laws
uri: Flame-retardant-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Flame_retardant_laws%29
content:
<p>
A renowned burn surgeon has confessed to taking money to make
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/flames/chi-flame-retardants-david-heimbach-20140521,0,6256782.story">false
testimony</a> to support laws requiring use of flame retardants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(X-ray_scanners_moved_to_prisons)
title: X-ray scanners moved to prisons
uri: X-ray-scanners-moved-to-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28X-ray_scanners_moved_to_prisons%29
content:
<p>
The X-ray scanners that exposed American airplane passengers to the
risk of dangerous radiation have been 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140520/08421227293/expensive-tsa-nudie-scanners-find-new-home-prisons.shtml">moved
to prisons</a>.
<p>
The prisoners, I suppose, can't opt out, and if a malfunction in
prison causes a 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#27_May_2011_(Rapescanners_Never_Tested_Properly)">radiation
burn</a> the prisoners might not get proper treatment.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(Misleading_ads_for_painkillers)
title: Misleading ads for painkillers
uri: Misleading-ads-for-painkillers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28Misleading_ads_for_painkillers%29
content:
<p>
Two counties in California are 
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-rx-big-pharma-suit-20140522-story.html#page=1">suing
drug manufacturers</a> alleging that misleading advertisements have
provoked overuse of addictive painkillers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_May_2014_(PTSD)
title: PTSD
uri: PTSD
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_May_2014_%28PTSD%29
content:
<p>
A psychiatrist says that the 
<a href="http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/does-everyone-who-suffers-trauma-have-ptsd/">definition
of PTSD is being stretched</a> to the point where everyone who has
been through a disaster gets that diagnosis.  Of the Bosnians she
treated after the war, most of them had other problems that called for
other treatments.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(US-paid_mercenaries_in_Afghanistan)
title: US-paid mercenaries in Afghanistan
uri: US-paid-mercenaries-in-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28US-paid_mercenaries_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
Obama says he will remove most of the US soldiers from Afghanistan by
2016, but this would not count 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/27-7">US-paid
mercenaries</a>.
<p>
Apparently they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/27/obama-us-afghanistan-force-2014">will
still engage in combat</a> whenever they label an enemy as "al
Qa'ida".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Woman_killed_by_family_in_Pakistan)
title: Woman killed by family in Pakistan
uri: Woman-killed-by-family-in-Pakistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Woman_killed_by_family_in_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
A woman in Pakistan was killed by her family 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/27/pregnant-pakistani-woman-stoned-to-death">for
marrying someone of her own choice</a>.  Her father has been arrested.
I hope he never sees the outside of a jail for the rest of his life.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(University_presidents_salaries)
title: University presidents' salaries
uri: University-presidents-salaries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28University_presidents_salaries%29
content:
<p>
US university presidents are taking 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/27-1">ever-bigger
salaries</a> while paying their teachers ever less.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Massive_snooping_by_US_and_China)
title: Massive snooping by US and China
uri: Massive-snooping-by-US-and-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Massive_snooping_by_US_and_China%29
content:
<p>
The Chinese government 
<a href="http://rt.com/news/161708-china-cyber-spying-us/">criticized
the US</a> for massive snooping.
<p>
Of course, China snoops too, as part of its 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#30_January_2012_(China_Censorship)">system
of massive censorship</a>.
<p>
Both of these governments need to learn to respect human rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Progress_in_technology)
title: Progress in technology
uri: Progress-in-technology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Progress_in_technology%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/technologyProgress.html">Is
Progress in Technology Always Beneficial?</a>
<p>
If a new technology will kill 1/10000 of the people who use a product,
it's not a big cause of death compared with others.  Rather than ban
lots of technologies that may kill a small fraction of people, it
would be more efficient to check technologies when they get in a
position to affect a lot of people, and then require steps to make
them safer — much like OHSA.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Funding_of_private_schools_in_Chile)
title: Funding of private schools in Chile
uri: Funding-of-private-schools-in-Chile
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Funding_of_private_schools_in_Chile%29

content:
<p>
Chile's President Bachelet proposes to reject neoliberal for-profit
educational policies, ending public funding of private schools and
providing 
<a href="http://theconversation.com/sweeping-reforms-set-to-end-for-profit-education-in-chile-26406">gratis
primary and secondary education for all</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Help_Wanted)
title: Help Wanted
uri: Help-Wanted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Help_Wanted%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/27-4">Help Wanted:
Slow and Expensive Corporate Accountant</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(A_Modest_Proposal)
title: A Modest Proposal
uri: A-Modest-Proposal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28A_Modest_Proposal%29
content:
<p>
A Modest Proposal: 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1418">Stop Spying on
Dissidents And Invest "Homeland Security" Money in Climate Change
Response</a>.
<p>
Calling it "climate change" is a mistake, but I agree with the
proposal.  Alas, the plutocrats' lackeys that rule the US don't want
to do either one.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Keep_wifi_networks_passwordless)
title: Keep wifi networks passwordless
uri: Keep-wifi-networks-passwordless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Keep_wifi_networks_passwordless%29
content:
<p>
Keep your wifi network 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/open-wifi-not-copycrime-effs-primer-open-wifi-and-copyright">without
passwords</a>!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Pre-coup_Thai_minister_arrested)
title: Pre-coup Thai minister arrested
uri: Pre-coup-Thai-minister-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Pre-coup_Thai_minister_arrested%29
content:
<p>
A fugitive minister of the pre-coup Thai government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/27/thailand-cabinet-minister-chaisang-condemn-coup-arrest">gave
a surprise press conference and was arrested</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(North_Koreas_supreme_leader)
title: North Korea's "supreme leader"
uri: North-Korea-s-supreme-leader
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28North_Koreas_supreme_leader%29
content:
<p>
Is the "supreme leader" of North Korea 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/27/kim-jong-un-north-korea-supreme-leader-or-state-puppet">a
despot or a puppet</a>?  Or both at once?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(China_to_limit_pollution_from_cars)
title: China to limit pollution from cars
uri: China-to-limit-pollution-from-cars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28China_to_limit_pollution_from_cars%29

content:
<p>
China is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/chinas-choice/2014/may/27/china-scrap-millions-cars-reduce-air-pollution">taking
stern measures</a> to limit pollution from cars.
<p>
In the US, car companies veto such measures.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Global_warming_vs_climate_change)
title: "Global warming" vs "climate change"
uri: Global-warming-vs-climate-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Global_warming_vs_climate_change%29
content:
<p>
Confirmed: it is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/27/americans-climate-change-global-warming-yale-report">mistake
to talk about "climate change"</a> if you want people to appreciate
the disaster it stands for.  "Global warming" gets the issue across
better.
<p>
I use "global heating" instead because it is stronger.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(How_Iran_uses_Facebook)
title: How Iran uses Facebook
uri: How-Iran-uses-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28How_Iran_uses_Facebook%29
content:
<p>
Iran is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/27/briton-eight-jailed-iran-web-insults-facebook">imprisoning
people</a> for political statements on Facebook.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Spains_citizen_politics_party)
title: Spain's "citizen politics" party
uri: Spain-s-citizen-politics-party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Spains_citizen_politics_party%29
content:
<p>
A new "citizen politics" party in Spain has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/27/podemos-citizen-politics-spain-elections-indignados-movement">won
several seats in the European Parliament</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Marketing_by_fossil_fuel_companies)
title: Marketing by fossil fuel companies
uri: Marketing-by-fossil-fuel-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Marketing_by_fossil_fuel_companies%29

content:
<p>
Fossil fuel companies are following the path of the tobacco companies
in 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/big-energy-developing-country-oil-exxon">marketing
heavily to poor countries</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Phone_calls_recorded_by_NSA)
title: Phone calls recorded by NSA
uri: Phone-calls-recorded-by-NSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Phone_calls_recorded_by_NSA%29
content:
<p>
The NSA records 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/27-6">nearly
all phone calls in Afghanistan</a>.
<p>
Maybe that's acceptable during a civil war, which Afghanistan is
experiencing.  But if the US claims to be supporting that country's
government, it should ask that government's permission.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Koch_attack_on_Detroit_rescue_plan)
title: Koch attack on Detroit rescue plan
uri: Koch-attack-on-Detroit-rescue-plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Koch_attack_on_Detroit_rescue_plan%29

content:
<p>
The Koch brothers are now 
<a href="http://grist.org/cities/why-the-koch-brothers-hate-detroit/">attacking
a plan to rescue Detroit</a> from bankruptcy while preserving workers'
pensions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Corporations_United_blocks_vote)
title: Corporations United blocks vote
uri: Corporations-United-blocks-vote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Corporations_United_blocks_vote%29
content:
<p>
A coal company 
<a href="http://grist.org/business-technology/do-coal-companies-have-more-rights-than-voters/">blocked
a vote in St Louis</a>, against public donations to companies that do
unsustainable energy, by citing the Corporations United decision.
<p>
The united corporations called themselves "Citizens United", but I
call them what they are, not what they claim to be.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(The_damage_global_heating_will_cause)
title: The damage global heating will cause
uri: The-damage-global-heating-will-cause
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28The_damage_global_heating_will_cause%29

content:
<p>
Global heating will damage 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-warp-railroad-tracks-sun-kinks-17470">roads,
bridges, railroads and power lines</a>.
<p>
Under a plutocratic state whose masters won't pay enough taxes to
maintain the infrastructure, this will mean lots of expense that will
probably be met by starving more poor people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_May_2014_(Apple_bans_game_about_marijuana)
title: Apple bans game about marijuana
uri: Apple-bans-game-about-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_May_2014_%28Apple_bans_game_about_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
Apple has 
<a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/apple-removes-game-about-growing-marijuana-from-app-store/1100-6419864/">banned
a game about growing marijuana</a> from the iThing app store.
<p>
Games about other crimes such as killing people are still permitted.
Perhaps Apple considers them to be less heinous.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(MH370_)
title: MH370
uri: MH370
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28MH370_%29
content:
<p>The lost Malaysian airliner apparently
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/mh370-is-not-in-the-indian-ocean-search-zone-authorities-say">
did not crash in the search area</a>;
the pings detected from that area appear to have been a red herring.
</p>
<p>The idea that the pilots flew the plane over remote ocean until it ran
out of fuel has always seemed implausible to me, mainly because that
does not fit with the calm way they seem to have diverted the flight.
What motive could they have had for this?  If the satellite tracking
data is truly conclusive, that must be where it went.  Otherwise, I
suspect that they landed the flight somewhere in Asia.</p>
<p>Even if that is so, I doubt that the passengers are still alive.  It
seems unlikely that anyone who arranged the hijacking would be so
principled as to keep the passengers alive as prisoners for months
rather than killing them.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Food_and_land)
title: Food and land
uri: Food-and-land
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Food_and_land%29
content:
<p>The global plantation land-grab
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/28/farmland-food-security-small-farmers">
puts food supplies at risk</a>,
since the plantations produce less food per hectare.
</p>
<p>It's due to maximizing profits rather than minimizing hunger.</p>
<p>In the long run, hunger will take most people if we don't stop
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/children.html">
human population growth</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Bad,_worse,_and_better)
title: Bad, worse, and better
uri: Bad-worse-and-better
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Bad%2C_worse%2C_and_better%29
content:
<p>The EU plans to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/28/shale-gas-russia-eu-renewables-ukraine-crisis">
replace Russian gas with fracking</a>,
when it ought to reduce its need for gas.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Tony_Abbott_gets_tough)
title: Tony Abbott gets tough
uri: Tony-Abbott-gets-tough
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Tony_Abbott_gets_tough%29
content:
<p>The Australian government is moving to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/labor-and-union-call-coalition-strike-penalties-plans-ideological-attack-on-workers">
seize the homes</a>
of workers fined
for striking.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Nasty_business)
title: Nasty business
uri: Nasty-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Nasty_business%29
content:
<p>Privatization of prisons is
<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/page/-/PDFs/Reports/CREW_Private_Prisons_FOIA_secrecy_report_02_18_2014.pdf?nocdn=1">
an obstacle to accountability</a>
about how they are run and respect for prisoners' rights.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Get_'er_done)
title: Get 'er done
uri: Get-er-done
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Get_%27er_done%29
content:
<p>Transcanada does an
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/27/3441674/safety-regulations-keystone/">
incompetent job</a>
of pipeline construction.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Thanks_neighbour!)
title: Thanks, neighbor!
uri: Thanks-neighbor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Thanks_neighbour%21%29
content:
<p><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/05/28/3442210/chicago-cesspool-of-gun-crime-or-victim-of-lax-gun-laws-in-neighboring-states/">
Chicago's gun violence</a>
— which is less than some parts of the US
— is fueled by lax gun laws in nearby states.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Growing_internet_usage_worries_CPP_)
title: Growing internet usage worries CPP
uri: Growing-internet-usage-worries-CPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Growing_internet_usage_worries_CPP_%29

content:
<p>Cambodia's
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/cambodian-cybercrime-draft-law-threatens-freedom-expression-online">
Draft Law</a>
Turns Free Speech into Cybercrime.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Playing_the_game)
title: Playing the game
uri: Playing-the-game
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Playing_the_game%29
content:
<p>Pushing everyone to
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/cut-throat-capitalism-welcome-gig-economy?paging=off">
be a "micro-entrepreneur"</a>
(aka "the gig economy") is a disguise for making workers precarious.
</p>
<p>Entrepreneurs are often praised for "taking risks".  The successful
ones say they deserve reward for the risk they took.  So what does it
mean to force everyone, even people who have no savings, to be
entrepreneurs?  An old adage says, don't gamble what you can't afford
to lose.  Most Americans are barely getting by and are already in
debt.  A social system that requires them to "take risks" is one that
makes life insecure.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Gun_crazies)
title: Gun crazies
uri: Gun-crazies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Gun_crazies%29
content:
<p>Don't let concern for treating mental illness
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/elliot-rodger-and-nra-myth-how-gun-lobby-scapegoats-mental-illness?paging=off">
let guns off the hook</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Exploiting_the_Northwest_Passage)
title: Exploiting the Northwest Passage
uri: Exploiting-the-Northwest-Passage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Exploiting_the_Northwest_Passage%29
content:
<p>Transportation
<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-05/s-mao052714.php">
between the Atlantic and Pacific</a>
via the Arctic opens
new risks of spreading invasive species that can wreak ecological
havoc.
</p>
<p>Here's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/may/28/charles-darwin-finches-blood-sucking-parasite-galapagos-philornis-downsi">
a small example</a>
of what that can do.
</p>
<p>Kudzu in the US is a bigger example.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Democracy_in_Egypt)
title: Democracy in Egypt
uri: Democracy-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Democracy_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>El-Sisi
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/28/egypt-election-extension-credibility-democracy">
extended Egyptian voting</a>
one more day because the turnout is
surprisingly low.
</p>
<p>It looks like a lot of Egyptians don't like the candidate(s) on offer
and are protesting in the only way that is still allowed.  I wonder
what will be done on the extra third day to make more people vote.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Silence_aids_Israeli_aggression)
title: Silence aids Israeli aggression
uri: Silence-aids-Israeli-aggression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Silence_aids_Israeli_aggression%29
content:
<p>Tristan Thomas describes
<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/silence-aids-israeli-aggression/13364">
the web of fear</a>
that intimidates many
from criticizing the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Mahmoud_Abbas_speaks_about_Holocaust)
title: Mahmoud Abbas speaks about Holocaust
uri: Mahmoud-Abbas-speaks-about-Holocaust
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Mahmoud_Abbas_speaks_about_Holocaust%29

content:
<p>When Palestinians
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4521731,00.html">
condemn Hitler's mass murder of Jews</a>, Israeli
politicians get angry because that's supposed to be an Israeli PR
asset.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Isreali_gov_threatens_PHR)
title: Israeli gov threatens PHR
uri: Israeli-gov-threatens-PHR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Isreali_gov_threatens_PHR%29
content:
<p>The Israeli government plans to
<a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/05/physicians-for-human-rights-israel-prof-walden-interview.html">
revoke the tax exemption</a>
of Physicians for Human Rights for criticizing the treatment of illegal
African
immigrants in Israel.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(What_peace_talks?)
title: What peace talks?
uri: What-peace-talks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28What_peace_talks%3F%29
content:
<p>Netanyahu boasted to his supporters about how much he extended Israeli
colonies in Palestine, and
<a href="http://972mag.com/netanyahu-explains-how-he-stood-up-to-the-u-s-kept-building-settlements/91344/">
ridiculed the supposed "peace talks"</a>.
</p>
<p>Those who read Uri Avnery's articles knew all along that Netanyahu did
not take these talks seriously, which made them something between
a desperate long-shot and a sham.</p>


title: Palestinian "detainees" on hunger-strike
uri: Palestinian-detainees-on-hunger-strike
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Palestinian_detainees_on_hunger-strike)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Palestinian_detainees_on_hunger-strike%29

content:
<p>Dozens of Palestinian hunger-strikers in Israeli prisons have been
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/67931">
transferred to hospitals</a>
due to medical problems they have developed.
</p>
<p>They are demanding basic human rights for prisoners, and an end to
imprisonment without trial.</p>


title: DePaul students vote to divest from occupation profiteers
uri: DePaul-students-vote-to-divest-from-occupation-profiteers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(DePaul_students_vote_to_divest_from_occupation_profiteers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28DePaul_students_vote_to_divest_from_occupation_profiteers%29

content:
<p>Students at DePaul University defied dishonest lobbying to
<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/depaul-students-vote-divestment-despite-israeli-government-interference">
vote to call for the university to divest</a>
from companies that provide weapons
or surveillance systems to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
</p>
<p>It is a very narrow boycott, since it does not include companies that
profit from the occupation.  Still, it will be a good first step if
the university adopts the policy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/67847">
Various sorts of boycott</a>
of Israeli companies and institutions are
spreading.
</p>
<p>I support boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli government
institutions and companies that support or profit from the occupation.
I don't advocate the broader boycott of Israeli institutions that some
Palestinians propose, though I adhered to it during
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/palestine-trip.html">
the trip in which they brought me to speak in Palestine.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Rudolph_Randa_treated_well)
title: Rudolph Randa treated well
uri: Rudolph-Randa-treated-well
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Rudolph_Randa_treated_well%29
content:
<p>The US judge that stopped an investigation into Governor Walker's dark
money has
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12489/federal-judge-who-halted-walker-dark-money-criminal-probe-attends-koch-judicial">
regularly accepted lavish "seminar" trips</a>
funded by right-wing groups.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Rolf_Harris_admits_affair)
title: Rolf Harris admits affair
uri: Rolf-Harris-admits-affair
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Rolf_Harris_admits_affair%29
content:
<p>A performer on trial for alleged sexual assault years ago
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/27/rolf-harris-admits-sexual-contact-18-year-old-friend-daughter">
apologizes for an affair</a>
with someone younger than him.
</p>
<p>I don't know whether his statement is true.  What I can say is that if
it is true, there is nothing wrong in it.  Criticism of the
relationship described here is evidently based on ageism and various
sorts of possessiveness.  That would be equally true if the girl had
been 17 years old instead of 18 at the time.</p>


title: Urgent: Save Oregon & California Wild Rivers from Strip Mining
uri: Urgent-Save-Oregon-California-Wild-Rivers-from-Strip-Mining
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Urgent:_Save_Oregon_&_California_Wild_Rivers_from_Strip_Mining)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Save_Oregon_%26_California_Wild_Rivers_from_Strip_Mining%29

content:
<p>US citizens:
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15761">
call for no mining</a>
in a wild area straddling the
California/Oregon border.
</p>


title: Urgent: Revise "Nutrition Facts" labelling
uri: Urgent-Revise-Nutrition-Facts-labelling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Urgent:_Revise_Nutrition_Facts_labelling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Revise_Nutrition_Facts_labelling%29

content:
<p>US citizens:
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4135&autologin=true">
call on the FDA</a>
to make food products report the amount of
added sugar.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Enrique_Nieto_wants_to_sell_off_Pemex)
title: Enrique Peña Nieto wants to sell off Pemex
uri: Enrique-Peña-Nieto-wants-to-sell-off-Pemex
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Enrique_Nieto_wants_to_sell_off_Pemex%29

content:
<p>Mexico's right-wing government is planning to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/27-6">
privatize fossil fuels</a>,
but Mexicans are pushing for an initiative to reverse this.
</p>
<p>In Iran, foreign fossil fuel companies lied about their revenues
so as to cheat the treasury.  They are no more honest now.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Thanks_for_the_bombs)
title: Thanks for the bombs
uri: Thanks-for-the-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Thanks_for_the_bombs%29
content:
<p>The US-established Iraqi government has repeatedly fired
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/27-4">
US-provided missiles and shells</a>
at the hospital in Falluja.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Toys_for_thugs)
title: Toys for thugs
uri: Toys-for-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Toys_for_thugs%29
content:
<p>The US-installed Haitian government used
<a href="http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2014/05/07/us_bioterrorism_in_haiti_us_crowds_next">
US-supplied water cannon</a>
against a protest of schoolgirls who called on the government to pay the
teachers
so that the teachers will go back to work.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Another_Iranian_journalist_jailed)
title: Another Iranian journalist jailed
uri: Another-Iranian-journalist-jailed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Another_Iranian_journalist_jailed%29
content:
<p>Iranian journalist Saba Azarpeik
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/may/28/journalist-saba-azarpeik-arrested-in-iran">
was arrested</a>
for criticizing the
repression of journalists in Iran.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Denial_machine_heats_up)
title: Denial machine heats up
uri: Denial-machine-heats-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Denial_machine_heats_up%29
content:
<p>The Wall Street Journal published an editorial which
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/28/wall-street-journal-denies-global-warming-consensus">
denied not only global heating</a>
but the fact of climate scientists' consensus about it.
</p>
<p>This is part of an organized and funded campaign to cause
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_May_2014_(World_food_prices_near_record)">
hundreds of millions of deaths</a>
(a predicted 100 million by 2030 alone), which is a
plot for mass murder.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_May_2014_(Elizabeth_Warren_called_on_Obama)
title: Elizabeth Warren called on Obama
uri: Elizabeth-Warren-called-on-Obama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_May_2014_%28Elizabeth_Warren_called_on_Obama%29
content:
<p>
Elizabeth Warren called on Obama
to <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/05/elizabeth-warren-obama-federal-reserve-nominees">appoint
people to the Federal Reserve Board who will regulate the banks
strictly</a>.
<p>
Obama won't do it, of course, but it is good to make him take heat
about that.


title: Workers are being exposed to nanoparticles
uri: Workers-are-being-exposed-to-nanoparticles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_May_2014_(Workers_are_being_exposed_to_nanoparticles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_May_2014_%28Workers_are_being_exposed_to_nanoparticles%29

content:
<p>
Workers are
being <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/05/regulation-nanoparticles-workplace-exposure-hazards">exposed
to nanoparticles</a>, some of which may be toxic, but the workers
don't even know.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_May_2014_(Moms_to_EPA)
title: Moms to EPA
uri: Moms-to-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_May_2014_%28Moms_to_EPA%29
content:
<p>
Moms to
EPA: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/28-9">End
Monsanto's Poisoning of America.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_May_2014_(Motive_for_imprisoning_James_Risen)
title: Motive for imprisoning James Risen
uri: Motive-for-imprisoning-James-Risen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_May_2014_%28Motive_for_imprisoning_James_Risen%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime's motive for imprisoning James Risen may be
that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29">he exposed
a grave nuclear mistake.</a>
<p>
Is it good for the country to allow the government to intimidate
journalists that write about government mistakes?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_May_2014_(Bills_to_limit_CEO_pay)
title: Bills to limit CEO pay
uri: Bills-to-limit-CEO-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_May_2014_%28Bills_to_limit_CEO_pay%29
content:
<p>
Various states are
considering <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/28-5">bills
to limit CEO pay, or tax companies more if their CEOs get too much
pay.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_May_2014_(US_inequality_has_increased)
title: US inequality has increased
uri: US-inequality-has-increased
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_May_2014_%28US_inequality_has_increased%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/qa-david-autor-inequality-among-99-percent-0522">US
inequality has increased withing the 99% too.</a>
<p>
The advice to get a college education would be good advice, but higher
income is not a sure thing.  You might find yourself unemployed and
saddled with debts that will ruin your life.


title: Fossil fuel companies can face liability in the future
uri: Fossil-fuel-companies-can-face-liability-in-the-future
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Fossil_fuel_companies_can_face_liability_in_the_future)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Fossil_fuel_companies_can_face_liability_in_the_future%29

content:
<p>
Warning: fossil fuel companies
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/28-7">plot
to keep global heating going can face liability in the future</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Moral_Monday_protesters_arrested)
title: Moral Monday protesters arrested
uri: Moral-Monday-protesters-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Moral_Monday_protesters_arrested%29
content:
<p>
Moral Monday protesters
were <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/28-4">arrested
after a sit-in in the North Carolina Republican legislator's
office.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Is_David_Koch_Getting_a_Tax_Writeoff)
title: Is David Koch Getting a Tax Writeoff
uri: Is-David-Koch-Getting-a-Tax-Writeoff
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Is_David_Koch_Getting_a_Tax_Writeoff%29

content:
<p>
Is David Koch Getting a Tax Writeoff
for <a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12490">Dropping $900K on the
[Wisconsin Governor] Walker Race?</a>


title: Urgent: Protect domestic violence victims
uri: Urgent-Protect-domestic-violence-victims
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_domestic_violence_victims)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_domestic_violence_victims%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Klobuchar_guns">call on
Congress</a> to pass the Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking
Victims Act, to stop convicted perpetrators of those crimes from
buying guns.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Saving_capitalism)
title: Saving capitalism
uri: Saving-capitalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Saving_capitalism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/28/inclusive-capitalism-trojan-horse-global-revolt-henry-jackson-society-pr-growth">Inclusive
Capitalism Initiative is Trojan Horse to Quell Coming Global
Revolt</a>.
<p>
If the rich want to save capitalism, they can do it — by ending
plutocracy.  Free the mass media from corporate control by abolishing
media concentration.  End voter suppression.  Increase the taxes on
the rich, and spend the money on education, medical care,
infrastructure, and support for the poor.
<p>
Or maybe, as the author believes, this is just a front meant to
convince the gullible that there is no need to defeat the plutocrats.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Innocent_defendants_pleading_guilty)
title: Innocent defendants pleading guilty
uri: Innocent-defendants-pleading-guilty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Innocent_defendants_pleading_guilty%29

content:
<p>
A US judge says he thinks somewhere 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/05/27/3441890/new-york-federal-judge-tens-of-thousands-of-innocent-people-have-pleaded-guilty/">between
1 and 8 percent of defendants</a> plead guilty although they are
innocent, to escape long mandatory sentences.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Canada_attacks_science)
title: Canada attacks science
uri: Canada-attacks-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Canada_attacks_science%29
content:
<p>
The government of Canada and that of Alberta are 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/23/3428984/canada-war-on-environmentalists/">attacking
science, journalism and civil society</a> to protect the tar sands oil
extraction from criticism.
<p>
This includes calling Greenpeace "extremists", firing and gagging
scientists, spying on environmental groups, and deporting journalists.
<p>
We think of oil wells as occupying a small spot on the ground.  We
don't realize that extracting tar sands involves massive
deforestation.  It seems to be a kind of strip-mining.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(IMF_on_income_and_wealth_inequality)
title: IMF on income and wealth inequality
uri: IMF-on-income-and-wealth-inequality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28IMF_on_income_and_wealth_inequality%29

content:
<p>
The head of the IMF says that 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/05/imf-christine-lagarde-income-inequality">income
and wealth inequality is harmful</a>, recommending that states provide
education and health care, tax the rich more, and regulate banks
strictly.
<p>
Will any governments listen when the IMF says such things?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Giant_forest_fire_in_Alaska)
title: Giant forest fire in Alaska
uri: Giant-forest-fire-in-Alaska
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Giant_forest_fire_in_Alaska%29
content:
<p>
A giant forest fire is burning in Alaska, 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/26/3441605/alaska-wildfire-bigger-than-chicago/">243
square miles</a> in size.  And it's not even summer yet.
<p>
You can guess what caused this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_May_2014_(Strandings_of_humpback_whales)
title: Strandings of humpback whales
uri: Strandings-of-humpback-whales
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Strandings_of_humpback_whales%29
content:
<p>
Frequent strandings of humpback whales seem to be caused by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/28/humpback-whale-strandings-in-wa-malnutrition-a-major-factor-vets-say">malnutrition</a>.
<p>
I can see various ways in which effects of global heating could be
contributing to this.  For instance, it the whales giving birth could
have moved away from the equator for the temperature and perhaps there
is not enough to eat in the place they have moved to.
<p>
This is a hunch, not a certainty.  The certainty is that global
heating will mess up lots of ecosystems.
<p>
Polar bears in the area around Svalbard are having 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/28/polar-bear-cubs-arctic-climate-change">1/3
as many cubs as usual</a>.  Probably because receding ice has made it
hard for them to find food.


title: Urgent: Nuclear weapon security programs
uri: Urgent-Nuclear-weapon-security-programs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Urgent:_Nuclear_weapon_security_programs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Nuclear_weapon_security_programs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reverse-cuts-programs-prevent-nuclear-terrorism/whRYTd4q">call
on Obama</a> to Keep funding nuclear weapon security programs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Urgent:_Block_ATT-DirectTV_merger)
title: Urgent: Block AT&T-DirectTV merger
uri: Urgent-Block-AT-T-DirectTV-merger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Block_ATT-DirectTV_merger%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_att_direct_roots/">call
on the government</a> to block the AT&T-DirectTV merger.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Urgent:_Medicare_coverage)
title: Urgent: Medicare coverage
uri: Urgent-Medicare-coverage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Medicare_coverage%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9909">support
proposals</a> for specific increases in the extent of Medicare
coverage.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Kerry_calls_Snowden_a_coward)
title: Kerry calls Snowden a coward
uri: Kerry-calls-Snowden-a-coward
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Kerry_calls_Snowden_a_coward%29
content:
<p>
Kerry 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29-3">called
Snowden a coward</a> for not returning to the US to be imprisoned and
silenced.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29-6">Kerry's idea
of loyalty</a> is surrender to the US government, while Snowden
defends America as a land of freedom where laws restrain government
power.
<p>
There are many important jobs for which we 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">need
a state</a>, but the state must respect human rights.
<p>
I suggest that Snowden offer to surrender for prosecution if Bush, his
torturers and those who protect his torturers (such as Obama) do
likewise.


title: Barcelona tries to demolish social center
uri: Barcelona-tries-to-demolish-social-center
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Barcelona_tries_to_demolish_social_center)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Barcelona_tries_to_demolish_social_center%29

content:
<p>
The people of Barcelona 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/can-vies-barcelona-rioting-thirty-arrested">responded
forcefully</a> when the city tried to demolish an occupied social
center (a squat that serves social purposes) that has functioned for
17 years.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(A_year_after_Gezi_park_protests)
title: A year after Gezi park protests
uri: A-year-after-Gezi-park-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28A_year_after_Gezi_park_protests%29
content:
<p>
A year later, the Gezi park protests have shown Turks 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/gezi-park-year-after-protests-seeds-new-turkey">the
possibility and need</a> for disputing with the state.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Lack_of_morphine_due_to_War_on_Drugs)
title: Lack of morphine due to War on Drugs
uri: Lack-of-morphine-due-to-War-on-Drugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Lack_of_morphine_due_to_War_on_Drugs%29

content:
<p>
Thanks to the War on Drugs, people dying of cancer in Senegal 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/african-cancer-patients-dying-unnecessary-pain">can't
get morphine</a>.
<p>
Lots of other people who have surgery surely suffer unnecessarily from
the lack of morphine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Kidnapping_of_Japanese_by_N._Korea)
title: Kidnapping of Japanese by N. Korea
uri: Kidnapping-of-Japanese-by-N-Korea
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Kidnapping_of_Japanese_by_N._Korea%29

content:
<p>
North Korea 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/north-korea-reopen-inquiry-abductions-japanese-cold-war">says
it will investigate again</a> what happened to the Japanese that its
forces kidnaped secretly from Japan.


title: US gov't threatening security researchers
uri: US-gov-t-threatening-security-researchers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(US_gov't_threatening_security_researchers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28US_gov%27t_threatening_security_researchers%29

content:
<p>
The US government
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/29/us-cybercrime-laws-security-researchers">threatening
security researchers with prosecution.</a>
<p>
This suggests that the "security" state has chosen a weak and insecure
internet it can spy on, rather than a secure one we can use.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Who_is_backing_Haftar_in_Libya)
title: Who is backing Haftar in Libya
uri: Who-is-backing-Haftar-in-Libya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Who_is_backing_Haftar_in_Libya%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29-8">Who is
backing Haftar in Libya, and what is he doing?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(The_Egyptian_election)
title: The Egyptian election
uri: The-Egyptian-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28The_Egyptian_election%29
content:
<p>
The Egyptian election proves
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/divided-egypt-dispute-mandate-sisi">Sisi's
support is not the overwhelming majority that he claimed</a>, but
— given his repression — nothing more.


title: Former Russian soldiers have taken control of building
uri: Former-Russian-soldiers-have-taken-control-of-building
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Former_Russian_soldiers_have_taken_control_of_building)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Former_Russian_soldiers_have_taken_control_of_building%29

content:
<p>
A group of former Russian soldiers
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/ukraine-anti-terror-hardens-opposition-donbass">taken
control of a building in Donestk.</a>
<p>
Perhaps they are still, in effect, Russian soldiers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Humanitarian_aid_to_people_in_Syria)
title: Humanitarian aid to people in Syria
uri: Humanitarian-aid-to-people-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Humanitarian_aid_to_people_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Delivery of humanitarian aid to people in
Syria <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/may/30/syrian-aid-effort-failed-charities">has
been a failure.</a>
<p>
I wonder what else can be done.  Would it work to air-drop food
packages to areas Assad won't allow aid to reach?  Or would Assad drop
bombs disguised as food?


title: Urgent: Let Medicaid keep drug costs down
uri: Urgent-Let-Medicaid-keep-drug-costs-down
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Urgent:_Let_Medicaid_keep_drug_costs_down)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Let_Medicaid_keep_drug_costs_down%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Congress
to <a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9909">let
Medicaid keep drug costs down.</a>


title: Urgent: Stop presenting "debates" on global heating
uri: Urgent-Stop-presenting-debates-on-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_presenting_debates_on_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_presenting_debates_on_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell CNN
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/cnn-climate-change-expert?source=c.em.cp&r_by=10610635">stop
presenting "debates" on global heating by having two denialists
converse</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop foreclosures and start helping homeowners
uri: Urgent-Stop-foreclosures-and-start-helping-homeowners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_foreclosures_and_start_helping_homeowners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_foreclosures_and_start_helping_homeowners%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the FHFA
to <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/mel_watt/">stop
foreclosures and start helping homeowners achieve reduction of
principal</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Urgent:_Used's_computer's_microphone)
title: Urgent: Used's computer's microphone
uri: Urgent-Used-s-computer-s-microphone
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Used%27s_computer%27s_microphone%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on
Facebook <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/Facebook-app-taps-phones/">not
to listen to sound through the used's computer's microphone</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(China's_annual_repression)
title: China's annual repression
uri: China-s-annual-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28China%27s_annual_repression%29
content:
<p>
China's annual repression of anything that alludes to the Tiananmen
Square massacre of students
is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/tiananmen-square-anniversary-prompts-campaign-of-silence.html">especially
harsh and broad this year.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Jordan_is_censoring_web_journalism)
title: Jordan is censoring web journalism
uri: Jordan-is-censoring-web-journalism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Jordan_is_censoring_web_journalism%29

content:
<p>
Jordan is censoring web journalism
by <a href="http://www.cpj.org/blog/2014/05/jordans-free-press-record-dims-with-website-restri.php">imposing
licensing of web sites and making sites responsible for readers'
comments</a>.
<p>
Obama and the EU seem to have given their blessing to this repression.


title: Saudi Arabia imposed total censorship and repression
uri: Saudi-Arabia-imposed-total-censorship-and-repression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Saudi_Arabia_imposed_total_censorship_and_repression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Saudi_Arabia_imposed_total_censorship_and_repression%29

content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia
has <a href="http://www.cpj.org/blog/2014/05/saudi-censorship-blurs-lines-between-journalism-ac.php">imposed
total censorship and repression</a>, labeling any sort of dissent as
"terrorism".
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28US_using_grand_juries_to_destroy_dissident_movements%29">The
US</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_March_2013_%28UK_convicts_protester_for_criticising_PM%29">the
UK</a> are moving along the same path, but have not gone so far.


title: NSA admitted Snowden tried to raise issue
uri: NSA-admitted-Snowden-tried-to-raise-issue
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(NSA_admitted_Snowden_tried_to_raise_issue)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28NSA_admitted_Snowden_tried_to_raise_issue%29

content:
<p>
The NSA has admitted
that <a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/05/29/nbc-news-confirms-attempt-by-edward-snowden-to-go-through-channels-at-nsa/">Snowden
tried to go through channels to report massive
surveillance</a>. However, officials systematically quash such
attempts to raise an issue.  The surveillance state created a
Kafkaesque blindness to systematic violation of the Constitution and
human rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Spying-industrial_complex)
title: Spying-industrial complex
uri: Spying-industrial-complex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Spying-industrial_complex%29
content:
<p>
How the spying-industrial
complex <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23969-the-government-corporate-complex-surveillance-for-the-money">encouraged
the buildup of the US total surveillance system.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Gun-rights_extremists_in_Texas)
title: Gun-rights extremists in Texas
uri: Gun-rights-extremists-in-Texas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Gun-rights_extremists_in_Texas%29
content:
<p>
Gun-rights extremists in Texas 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-open-carry-texas-harassment-marine-veteran">harass
anyone that opposes them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Eviction_of_10_million_Americans)
title: Eviction of 10 million Americans
uri: Eviction-of-10-million-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Eviction_of_10_million_Americans%29
content:
<p>
Banksters have kicked 10 million Americans out of their homes, and
when communities organize to resist, cities send thugs and even 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/investigations/10-million-americans-foreclosed-neighborhoods-devastated?paging=off&current_page=1">SWAT
teams to carry out the eviction</a>.
<p>
This is all the more reason to demand that your city get rid of its
SWAT team.  It's unlikely to do anything good for the city's
residents, and has a good chance of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#11_March_2013_(Giving_US_thugs_military_weapons)">killing
them</a> from time to time.


title: NYC bill encourages use of free software
uri: NYC-bill-encourages-use-of-free-software
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(NYC_bill_encourages_use_of_free_software)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28NYC_bill_encourages_use_of_free_software%29

content:
<p>
New York City Councilman Kallos has introduced a bill to 
<a href="http://www.benkallos.com/press-release/tech-legislation-establish-free-and-open-source-software-preference-and-code-sharing-i">encourage
use of free software</a> in the city government.
<p>
It is not the 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.html">strong 
requirement</a> that every government should have, but it is a start.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Privatized_schools_in_New_Orleans)
title: Privatized schools in New Orleans
uri: Privatized-schools-in-New-Orleans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Privatized_schools_in_New_Orleans%29
content:
<p>
New Orleans has closed all its public schools and forced the students
into a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/29-2">segregated
system of privatized schools with inexperienced teachers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Tar_sand_oil_extraction_in_Utah)
title: Tar sand oil extraction in Utah
uri: Tar-sand-oil-extraction-in-Utah
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Tar_sand_oil_extraction_in_Utah%29
content:
<p>
A tar sand oil extraction mine in Utah will threaten to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/29-3">pollute
the Colorado River</a>.
<p>
Another mine operated nearby 30 years ago; the site is still a dead
zone.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Drought_triggered_protests_in_Syria)
title: Drought triggered protests in Syria
uri: Drought-triggered-protests-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Drought_triggered_protests_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
The protests in Syria were 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/syria-climate-years-living-dangerously-symbolia">triggered
by a 6-year drought</a>, for which global heating was probably one of
the causes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Tax_pursuit_of_Britains_poorest)
title: Tax pursuit of Britain's poorest
uri: Tax-pursuit-of-Britain-s-poorest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Tax_pursuit_of_Britains_poorest%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/30/cowardice-francis-maude-tax-google-amazon-poor-families">The
Cowardly Tax Pursuit of Britain's Poorest</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Tony_Abbotts_cuts)
title: Tony Abbott's cuts
uri: Tony-Abbott-s-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Tony_Abbotts_cuts%29
content:
<p>
When Tony Abbott was criticizing the previous government, he
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/tony-abbott-recalls-how-to-deny-cuts-to-pensions">recognized
a reduction in planned future spending increases as a "cut"</a>, but
now that he makes the policy he insists they are different.
<p>
Abbott is becoming the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_(Global_heating_denialism)">suppository
of all sophistry</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Google_muscling_into_other_markets)
title: Google muscling into other markets
uri: Google-muscling-into-other-markets
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Google_muscling_into_other_markets%29

content:
<p>
Google is using its dominant position in one market to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2014/may/29/youtube-indie-music-labels-royalty-rates-video-streaming-audio">muscle
into another</a>, something that a few decades ago would have been
prosecuted.
<p>
The other music streaming services are 
<a  href="https://stallman.org/internet-music.html">unethical  because
of their DRM</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(UK_interest_rates)
title: UK interest rates
uri: UK-interest-rates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28UK_interest_rates%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/30/britain-feasting-on-credit-crunch-hit-2016">770,000
households</a> in the UK face the danger of losing their homes in 2
years when interest rates rise.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 31_May_2014_(Urgent:_User's_computer's_microphone)
title: Urgent: User's computer's microphone
uri: Urgent-User-s-computer-s-microphone
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28Urgent%3A_User%27s_computer%27s_microphone%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on
Facebook <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/Facebook-app-taps-phones/">not
to listen to sound through the user's computer's microphone</a>.


title: Urgent: Remove US from Afghanistan now
uri: Urgent-Remove-US-from-Afghanistan-now
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Urgent:_Remove_US_from_Afghanistan_now)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_US_from_Afghanistan_now%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-president-obama-we-deserve-a-say-in-the-future-of-america-s-longest-war-3">call
on Obama</a> to remove US from Afghanistan now, not years from now.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(NSA_releases_one_email_from_Snowden)
title: NSA releases one email from Snowden
uri: NSA-releases-one-email-from-Snowden
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28NSA_releases_one_email_from_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
The NSA 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/30">released one
email from Snowden</a>, which raises subjects relevant to NSA
lawbreaking but doesn't allege wrongdoing.  Snowden says that this is
only part of what he said to the NSA headquarters.
<p>
The forces of total surveillance and intimidation will tell one lie
after another.  Three cheers for Edward Snowden!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Bush_and_Blairs_conversations)
title: Bush and Blair's conversations
uri: Bush-and-Blair-s-conversations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Bush_and_Blairs_conversations%29
content:
<p>
The UK Chilcot inquiry into why Bush and B'liar invaded Iraq 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/30-3">will
release passages and summaries</a> of their conversations, rather than
the real text.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(The_case_for_hope)
title: The case for hope
uri: The-case-for-hope
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28The_case_for_hope%29
content:
<p>
The case for 
<a href="http://democracyctr.org/news/citizen-action-on-climate-the-case-for-hope-2/">hope</a>
in the fight to curb global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Threats_against_non-voting_Egyptians)
title: Threats against non-voting Egyptians
uri: Threats-against-non-voting-Egyptians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Threats_against_non-voting_Egyptians%29

content:
<p>
El-Sisi threatened to fine Egyptians that did not vote, but they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/30/egypt-revolution-wont-be-undone-sisi-young-activists">still
stayed away in large numbers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Secret_prisoners_in_Bagram)
title: Secret prisoners in Bagram
uri: Secret-prisoners-in-Bagram
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Secret_prisoners_in_Bagram%29
content:
<p>
Keeping US troops in Afghanistan through 2016 means 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/afghanistan-troops-withdrawal-bagram-detainees">keeping
secret prisoners disappeared in Bagram</a> through 2016.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Prisoners_in_Berlin_set_up_union)
title: Prisoners in Berlin set up union
uri: Prisoners-in-Berlin-set-up-union
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Prisoners_in_Berlin_set_up_union%29
content:
<p>
Prisoners in Berlin have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/inmates-berlin-tegel-jail-set-up-union-for-prisoners">set
up a union</a> to demand payment at the minimum wage for their work.
<p>
This cause is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2011-may-aug.html#23_July_2011_(US_Imprisonment_Rate)">important
for everyone</a>.  Do you want slave labor undermining your job?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Hereditary_slavery_in_Niger)
title: Hereditary slavery in Niger
uri: Hereditary-slavery-in-Niger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Hereditary_slavery_in_Niger%29
content:
<p>
The government of Niger is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/niger-first-slavery-conviction-man-jailed-four-years">taking
action against</a> traditional hereditary slavery.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(No_cheap_fix_for_global_heating)
title: No cheap fix for global heating
uri: No-cheap-fix-for-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28No_cheap_fix_for_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Why 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/oct/19/superfreakonomics-geoengineering-wrong">geoengineering</a>
does not offer a cheap fix for global heating, or even any fix at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(The_problems_in_the_VA)
title: The problems in the VA
uri: The-problems-in-the-VA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28The_problems_in_the_VA%29
content:
<p>
On the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/eric-shinseko-resignation-veterans-affairs">problems</a>
in the Veterans Administration.
<p>
Indeed, veterans would not need so much care if Dubya hadn't 
fabricated an excuse to conquer and occupy Iraq, but that's a separate
issue.  The veterans exist, their wounds and illnesses exist, and the
VA owes them treatment.
<p>
While dishonesty about waiting lists is inexcusable, the root cause of
the long waiting lists is failure to spend enough money to provide all
veterans with proper care.  That is the fault of plutocratist
politicians, mostly Republican but some Democrats as well.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Global_heating_and_wars)
title: Global heating and wars
uri: Global-heating-and-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Global_heating_and_wars%29
content:
<p>
Global heating effects are already 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/30/climate-change-war-conflict-military-industrial-complex-syria-egypt-uprising">starting
wars</a>.  The US government is ready to respond so as to maintain and
extend world plutocracy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(21st_Century_Copyright_Extremism)
title: 21st Century Copyright Extremism
uri: 21st-Century-Copyright-Extremism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%2821st_Century_Copyright_Extremism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/30-2">Crashing Down
To Earth: On 21st Century Copyright Extremism</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Glyphosphate)
title: Glyphosphate
uri: Glyphosphate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Glyphosphate%29
content:
<p>
Various 
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30153.cfm">illnesses
in children</a> seem to be associated with exposure to glyphosate; for
some children, removing glyphosate from their food and water leads to
a remission of the illness.
<p>
To get clear proof that glyphosate causes these symptoms requires a
more systematic experiment, but this is enough reason to treat it with
great suspicion.


title: Urgent: Reject the Tyson Foods Anti-Farmer Act
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-Tyson-Foods-Anti-Farmer-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_the_Tyson_Foods_Anti-Farmer_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_Tyson_Foods_Anti-Farmer_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14136">reject
the Tyson Foods Anti-Farmer Act.</a>


title: Urgent: reject bills that endanger the Endangered Species Act
uri: Urgent-reject-bills-that-endanger-the-Endangered-Species-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Urgent:_reject_bills_that_endanger_the_Endangered_Species_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_reject_bills_that_endanger_the_Endangered_Species_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-congress-oppose-doc-hastings-plan-to-weaken-the-endangered-species-act">reject
bills that endanger the Endangered Species Act.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(The_idea_of_digital_natives)
title: The idea of "digital natives"
uri: The-idea-of-digital-natives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28The_idea_of_digital_natives%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/05/you-are-not-a-digital-native-privacy-in-the-age-of-the-internet">idea
of "digital natives"</a> is a confusion when applied to children or
teenagers.  They have learned to use digital technology but that mean
they understand what's good or bad.


title: Thugs went to England to learn torture/brainwashing
uri: Thugs-went-to-England-to-learn-torture-brainwashing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Thugs_went_to_England_to_learn_torture%2Fbrainwashing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Thugs_went_to_England_to_learn_torture%252Fbrainwashing%29

content:
<p>
The thugs of Brazil's military dictatorship went to England
to <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27625540">learn
torture/brainwashing techniques that did not leave physical marks.</a>


title: Iranians set up a phony news site to attack computers
uri: Iranians-set-up-a-phony-news-site-to-attack-computers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Iranians_set_up_a_phony_news_site_to_attack_computers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Iranians_set_up_a_phony_news_site_to_attack_computers%29

content:
<p>
Iranians set up a phony news site
to <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/cyberespionage-attacks-tied-to-hackers-in-iran/?ref=technology">attack
computers of US officials and journalists.</a>
<p>
Attacking computers does not mean these people are
"hackers".  <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">That's
an insulting usage of the word.</a>
<p>
It sounds like some of their methods were playfully clever, so maybe
they really are hackers, but not because they were attacking
computers.


title: Don't believe the claim that Meriam Ibrahim will be freed
uri: Don-t-believe-the-claim-that-Meriam-Ibrahim-will-be-freed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Don't_believe_the_claim_that_Meriam_Ibrahim_will_be_freed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Don%27t_believe_the_claim_that_Meriam_Ibrahim_will_be_freed%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/31/fears-meriam-ibrahim-release-may-not-be-genuine">Don't
believe the claim that Meriam Ibrahim will be freed</a>, say her
lawyers.


title: 6 Cleveland thugs are being prosecuted
uri: 6-Cleveland-thugs-are-being-prosecuted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(6_Cleveland_thugs_are_being_prosecuted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%286_Cleveland_thugs_are_being_prosecuted%29

content:
<p>
6 Cleveland thugs are being prosecuted
for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/31/cleveland-car-chase-russell-williams-police-shooting">shooting
and killing two people in a stopped car.</a>


title: Erdogan sent thugs to pre-empt expected protests
uri: Erdogan-sent-thugs-to-pre-empt-expected-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Erdogan_sent_thugs_to_pre-empt_expected_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Erdogan_sent_thugs_to_pre-empt_expected_protests%29

content:
<p>
Erdogan <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/31-1">sent
thugs to pre-empt the expected protests</a> on the anniversary of the
start of protests last year.
<p>
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#31_May_2014_%28China%27s_annual_repression%29">Looks
like China.</a>


title: 5 Afghan prisoners in Guantanamo for one captured US soldier
uri: 5-Afghan-prisoners-in-Guantanamo-for-one-captured-US-soldier
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(5_Afghan_prisoners_in_Guantanamo_for_one_captured_US_soldier)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%285_Afghan_prisoners_in_Guantanamo_for_one_captured_US_soldier%29

content:
<p>
The
US <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/31/bowe-bergdahl-free-taliban-us-pow-afghanistan">exchanged
5 Afghan prisoners in Guantanamo for one captured US soldier.</a>
<p>
I am glad the US soldier is free, but having five fewer instances of
national shame is a bigger step forward.  The US must either try or
free every one of the prisoners in Guantanamo.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Network_neutrality)
title: Network neutrality
uri: 2014-06-02-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
A Congressman funded by the major ISPs has filed a bill
to <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/congressman-bankrolled-by-isps-tries-to-halt-internet-regulation/">effectively
ban the FCC from establishing network neutrality.</a>


title: The Victims of the School of the Americas
uri: The-Victims-of-the-School-of-the-Americas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(The_Victims_of_the_School_of_the_Americas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28The_Victims_of_the_School_of_the_Americas%29

content:
<p>
Not Forgotten: Street Art
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/31">Remember the
Victims of the School of the Americas.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(NSA's_Shadow_Database)
title: NSA's Shadow Database
uri: NSA-s-Shadow-Database
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28NSA%27s_Shadow_Database%29
content:
<p>
Getting the
Innocent <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/getting-innocent-out-nsas-shadow-database">out
of the NSA's Shadow Database.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(The_rich_dragging_US_economy_down)
title: The rich dragging US economy down
uri: The-rich-dragging-US-economy-down
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28The_rich_dragging_US_economy_down%29

content:
<p>
The rich, by not paying taxes,
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/30-7">dragging
the whole US economy down.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Transporting_lots_of_oil_by_train)
title: Transporting lots of oil by train
uri: Transporting-lots-of-oil-by-train
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Transporting_lots_of_oil_by_train%29

content:
<p>
Laying out the danger
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/30-1">transporting
lots of oil by train.</a>
<p>
We require every car driver to have insurance.  Why not require every
tank car to have insurance too, to cover the small but significant
chance of a fatal explosion?  This way, tiny shipping companies won't
be able to go bankrupt and avoid liability, as happened after the Lac
Megantic fire.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 01_June_2014_(Humans_causing_extinction_of_species)
title: Humans causing extinction of species
uri: Humans-causing-extinction-of-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#01_June_2014_%28Humans_causing_extinction_of_species%29

content:
<p>
Humans
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/30-4">causing
extinction of species at 1000 times the natural rate.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Urgent:_Thank_Pope_Francis)
title: Urgent: Thank Pope Francis
uri: Urgent-Thank-Pope-Francis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Pope_Francis%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://ThankYouPopeFrancis.org">Thank Pope Francis</a> for
recognizing the cruelty of the occupation of Palestine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_HR_4752)
title: Urgent: Oppose HR 4752
uri: Urgent-Oppose-HR-4752
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_HR_4752%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_nn_congress_latta/">Call
on Congress</a> to oppose HR 4752, which would ban the simple right
way to restore network neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Erosion_of_topsoil_in_Maine)
title: Erosion of topsoil in Maine
uri: Erosion-of-topsoil-in-Maine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Erosion_of_topsoil_in_Maine%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-desert-middle-maine-180951555/?no-ist">Desert
of Maine</a> shows what's in store for us if we don't stop farming
practices that cause erosion of topsoil.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Tracking_everyone_who_has_a_mortgage)
title: Tracking everyone who has a mortgage
uri: Tracking-everyone-who-has-a-mortgage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Tracking_everyone_who_has_a_mortgage%29

content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/new-federal-database-will-track-americans-credit-ratings-other-financial-information/article/2549064">plans
to make a database</a> with lots of intrusive information about
everyone in the US that has a mortgage.
<p>
It is possible private data brokers already have all the same
information about them.  Does anyone know?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Religious_repression_in_middle_east)
title: Religious repression in middle east
uri: Religious-repression-in-middle-east
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Religious_repression_in_middle_east%29

content:
<p>
Religious repression in Israel and Arab countries 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/jun/01/middle-eastern-lovers-couples-marrying-cyprus-civil-ceremony">requires
couples to go to Cyprus to marry</a>.


title: Islamist repression of religious freedom
uri: Islamist-repression-of-religious-freedom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Islamist_repression_of_religious_freedom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Islamist_repression_of_religious_freedom%29

content:
<p>
On 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/french-suspect-brussels-jewish-museum-attack-syria">two
occasions</a> there are connection between Islamists fighting in Syria
and murder of Jews.
<p>
This is still a fringe phenomenon, but all Islamists advocate
repression that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#22_September_2012_(Prohibition_of_blasphemy)">violates
freedom of speech</a> and freedom of religion.  In particular, the
religious freedom of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-may-aug.html#03%20June%202007%20(Lina%20Joy)">anyone 
they decide is supposed to be a Muslim</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Tiananmen_Square_25_years_ago)
title: Tiananmen Square 25 years ago
uri: Tiananmen-Square-25-years-ago
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Tiananmen_Square_25_years_ago%29
content:
<p>
Ma Jian, who was a protester at Tiananmen Square 25 years ago,
describes what happened there and the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/tiananmen-square-25-years-every-person-victim-massacre">Chinese
repression of all reference to it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Prosecution_of_reporters_in_Egypt)
title: Prosecution of reporters in Egypt
uri: Prosecution-of-reporters-in-Egypt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Prosecution_of_reporters_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
The Egyptian 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/al-jazeera-trial-prosecution-witnesses-contradict-written-testimony">trial
of three reporters</a> for "endangering national security" shows that
the prosecution is a sick joke.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Fossil_fuel_tax_subsidies)
title: Fossil fuel tax subsidies
uri: Fossil-fuel-tax-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Fossil_fuel_tax_subsidies%29
content:
<p>
The UK government ha given around 4 billion dollars in tax subsidies
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/01/george-osborne-accused-of-exacerbating-climate-change">fossil
fuel extraction in the North Sea in the past few years</a>.  This
while cutting the subsidies for renewable energy.
<p>
The current right-wing government has shown all along, by its policy
changes, that it was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#29_May_2012_(UKs_new_energy_policy)">working
for the fossil fuel companies</a>.
<p>
The UK has had a lot of problems recently with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/01/uk-summer-flash-floods-climate-change-study">flooding</a>.
Global heating is going to make that worse.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Protect_your_ears)
title: Protect your ears
uri: Protect-your-ears
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Protect_your_ears%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/01/lifestyle-permanently-damage-hearing-diet">Protect
your ears</a> from loud music!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(UK_harasses_Somali_refugee)
title: UK harasses Somali refugee
uri: UK-harasses-Somali-refugee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28UK_harasses_Somali_refugee%29
content:
<p>
A Somali refugee who became a British citizen is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/26/british-citizen-passport-control">harassed
and threatened</a> every time he reenters the UK by agents that want
him to become a spy.


title: Lavabit's fate decided in secret hearing
uri: Lavabit-s-fate-decided-in-secret-hearing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Lavabits_fate_decided_in_secret_hearing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Lavabits_fate_decided_in_secret_hearing%29

content:
<p>
Lavabit's fate, and the privacy of all its users, was decided in a
secret hearing in which founder Ladar Levison was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email">not
allowed a lawyer</a>.
<p>
The despicable juridical shenanigans of putting him in contempt of
court without giving him a chance to object are redolent of a banana
republic.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(The_Internet_With_A_Human_Face)
title: The Internet With A Human Face
uri: The-Internet-With-A-Human-Face
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28The_Internet_With_A_Human_Face%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm">The Internet With A Human
Face</a> (an interesting speech).


title: UK imprisoning the mentally handicapped
uri: UK-imprisoning-the-mentally-handicapped
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(UK_imprisoning_the_mentally_handicapped)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28UK_imprisoning_the_mentally_handicapped%29

content:
<p>
Due to insufficient funding, the UK's National Health Service 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/31/nhs-cuts-mental-health-prisons">consigns
mentally handicapped people to prisons</a>, and the prisons treat them
inhumanely.
<p>
One committed suicide because he was bullied.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Looting_of_ancient_sites_in_Egypt)
title: Looting of ancient sites in Egypt
uri: Looting-of-ancient-sites-in-Egypt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Looting_of_ancient_sites_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Looting ancient sites in Egypt has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/egypt-museum-theft-satellite-technology">shot
up</a> since the revolution against Mubarak.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Sale_of_student_data)
title: Sale of student data
uri: Sale-of-student-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Sale_of_student_data%29
content:
<p>
A bankrupt data broker that collected data about students 
<a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/federal-regulators-seek-to-stop-sale-of-students-data/">may
sell the data as an "asset"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(US_drone_assassinations)
title: US drone assassinations
uri: US-drone-assassinations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28US_drone_assassinations%29
content:
<p>
A missive from an anti-drone protester about the multiple levels of
lies and secrecy that surround US drone assassinations.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 02_June_2014_(Our_bacterial_biomes)
title: Our bacterial biomes
uri: Our-bacterial-biomes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#02_June_2014_%28Our_bacterial_biomes%29
content:
<p>
Investigating the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/01/why-antibiotics-making-us-ill-bacteria-martin-blaser">effect
of antibiotic usage</a> on people's bacterial biomes, which might be
part of the cause of increasing rates of various chronic medical
problems.


title: Europe should move faster to renewable energy
uri: Europe-should-move-faster-to-renewable-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Europe_should_move_faster_to_renewable_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Europe_should_move_faster_to_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
The fighting in Ukraine — and the aggressiveness of gas supplier
Russia — should make
Europe <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/ukraine-eu-fuel-energy-crisis-oxfam-europe">wake
up and move faster to renewable energy.</a>


title: Big state payoff to a friend of Chris Christy
uri: Big-state-payoff-to-a-friend-of-Chris-Christy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Big_state_payoff_to_a_friend_of_Chris_Christy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Big_state_payoff_to_a_friend_of_Chris_Christy%29

content:
<p>
Governor Chris Christy got New Jersey law changed,
which <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/christie-donor-property-venture-new-jersey">permitted
a big state payoff to a friend who donated to his campaign.</a>
<p>
Even if these changes were not made specifically for the purpose of
giving a payoff to his friend, they still help rich people at the
expense of the state.


title: Seattle approved increase of minimum wage to $15
uri: Seattle-approved-increase-of-minimum-wage-to-15
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Seattle_approved_increase_of_minimum_wage_to_$15)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Seattle_approved_increase_of_minimum_wage_to_%2415%29

content:
<p>
Seattle
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/seattle-plan-minimum-wage-hike-workers">approved
the increase of minimum wage to $15 an hour,</a> disregarding the
usual claims by businesses that the sky will fall.


title: Sargent Bergdahl was disgusted with the war
uri: Sargent-Bergdahl-was-disgusted-with-the-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Sargent_Bergdahl_was_disgusted_with_the_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Sargent_Bergdahl_was_disgusted_with_the_war%29

content:
<p>
Sargent Bergdahl, freed by the Taliban in an exchange, apparently had
left his post
because <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/bowe-bergdahl-release-anger-colleagues">he
was disgusted with the dishonesty of the war.</a>


title: Constitutional amendment to reverse Corporations United
uri: Constitutional-amendment-to-reverse-Corporations-United
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Constitutional_amendment_to_reverse_Corporations_United)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Constitutional_amendment_to_reverse_Corporations_United%29

content:
<p>
The constitutional amendment that the Senate will vote on
would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/02-3">reverse
the Corporations United (*) decision but would not reject the idea
that corporations are people.</a> They are proposing only a half
solution.
<p>
* Officially called "Citizens United", but I'd rather call them what
they are than what they claim to be.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Don't_Copy_Our_Welfare_Cuts)
title: Don't Copy Our Welfare Cuts
uri: Don-t-Copy-Our-Welfare-Cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Don%27t_Copy_Our_Welfare_Cuts%29
content:
<p>
Don't Copy Our Welfare
Cuts, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/dont-copy-our-welfare-cuts-new-zealand-experts-warn-australia">New
Zealand Experts Warn Australia.</a>


title: Indonesia refuses to resume diplomatic ties with Australia
uri: Indonesia-refuses-to-resume-diplomatic-ties-with-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Indonesia_refuses_to_resume_diplomatic_ties_with_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Indonesia_refuses_to_resume_diplomatic_ties_with_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/abbott-hopes-australia-and-indonesia-will-sign-code-of-conduct-within-weeks">refuses
to resume diplomatic ties with Australia</a> without a commitment not
to spy on Indonesian leaders.
<p>
What about the other Indonesians?  Spying on other countries' leaders
can be justified; spying on everyone is when it becomes Orwellian.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Peace_deal_with_Taliban)
title: Peace deal with Taliban
uri: Peace-deal-with-Taliban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Peace_deal_with_Taliban%29
content:
<p>
Karzai is angry that the
US <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/02-0">made a
deal to exchange prisoners but has not made a peace deal with the
Taliban.</a>
<p>
I don't know whose fault it is that the peace talks have failed.


title: Supreme Court sided with government against James Risen
uri: Supreme-Court-sided-with-government-against-James-Risen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Supreme_Court_sided_with_government_against_James_Risen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Supreme_Court_sided_with_government_against_James_Risen%29

content:
<p>
The US Supreme
Court <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/02-2">sided
with the government against James Risen.</a>
<p>
He will now go to prison to defend the confidentiality of his source.


title: Tortured and imprisoned for possessing tiny quantities of drugs
uri: Tortured-and-imprisoned-for-possessing-tiny-quantities-of-drugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Tortured_and_imprisoned_for_possessing_tiny_quantities_of_drugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Tortured_and_imprisoned_for_possessing_tiny_quantities_of_drugs%29

content:
<p>
In the UAE, people
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/british-student-ahmad-zeidan-jailed-uae-cocaine">tortured
into confessions and imprisoned for possessing tiny quantities of
drugs</a>.
<p>
Ahmad Zeidan was imprisoned for possessing 1/20 of a gram of cocaine.
It was in a car glove compartment; there must be a doubt about whether
he knew it was there.
<p>
There's also the man who
was<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_December_2013_%28Imprisoned_for_having_microscopic_amounts_of_marijuana%29">
imprisoned for a flake of marijuana on the sole of his shoe.</a>
<p>
I do not make flight connections through Dubai or Qatar.  The risk may
be small, but there is no need to run that risk.


title: Proposing taxes to restrain housing price
uri: Proposing-taxes-to-restrain-housing-price
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Proposing_taxes_to_restrain_housing_price)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Proposing_taxes_to_restrain_housing_price%29

content:
<p>
Proposing taxes
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/housing-tax-property-help-to-buy-government-schemes">restrain
the housing price in London and make space available cheaply for
rent</a>.


title: Punished for providing services to people
uri: Punished-for-providing-services-to-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Punished_for_providing_services_to_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Punished_for_providing_services_to_people%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, people will be punished for providing services to people
when they had
some <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/theresa-may-fresh-powers-organised-crime-associates">"reason
to suspect" they were helping a criminal group</a>.
<p>
I'm afraid this means that lots of people won't be able to hire a
lawyer or rent space, even though they are not criminals, because
people will be scared to deal with them.


title: Reinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment
uri: Reinterpretation-of-the-2nd-Amendment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Reinterpretation_of_the_2nd_Amendment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Reinterpretation_of_the_2nd_Amendment%29

content:
<p>
How right-wingers in the National Rifle
Association <a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/nras-constitutional-fraud-truth-behind-right-bear-arms?paging=off">foisted
a reinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment on the US.</a>


title: SWAT team threw flash grenade into crib
uri: SWAT-team-threw-flash-grenade-into-crib
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(SWAT_team_threw_flash_grenade_into_crib)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28SWAT_team_threw_flash_grenade_into_crib%29

content:
<p>
A SWAT team <a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1422">threw a
flash grenade into Bou Bou Phonesavanh's crib</a>, causing terrible
injuries.
<p>
The US government has paid lots of towns to set up SWAT teams even
though they have no real need for one.  Rather than leave the teams
unused, they make rules saying that on conditions XYZ the SWAT team
must be sent "just in case".  That creates lots of opportunities for
the team to injure or kill people, in situations where nothing bad
would have happened without the SWAT team.
<p>
I hope that Bou Bou dies from these injuries, because living with them
would be horrible.


title: Poor Americans lose their jobs because they're jailed
uri: Poor-Americans-lose-their-jobs-because-they-re-jailed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Poor_Americans_lose_their_jobs_because_they're_jailed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Poor_Americans_lose_their_jobs_because_they%27re_jailed%29

content:
<p>
Poor Americans lose their jobs
because <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/wtf-our-tax-dollars-are-being-spent-jail-vet-being-poor">they
are jailed, then are ordered to pay for jailing them.</a>
<p>
I hope Mr Papa and thousands like him tell the state they will never
pay a cent, and dare the state to jail them until it chokes on them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Urgent:_Medical_marijuana_amendment)
title: Urgent: Medical marijuana amendment
uri: Urgent-Medical-marijuana-amendment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Medical_marijuana_amendment%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/mpp/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2677">call
on the Senate</a> to pass the medical marijuana amendment adopted by
the House of Representatives.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Urgent:_Respect_for_workers_rights)
title: Urgent: Respect for workers' rights
uri: Urgent-Respect-for-workers-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Respect_for_workers_rights%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/tmobile-shareholders-workers-rights/2/4/">call
on T-mobile</a> to respect workers' rights in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(NSA_collection_of_face_pictures)
title: NSA collection of face pictures
uri: NSA-collection-of-face-pictures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28NSA_collection_of_face_pictures%29
content:
<p>
The NSA collects 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html">millions
of face pictures</a> from internet communication.
<p>
They could get your face from 
<a href="https://stallman.org/skype.html">Skype</a>, if you use that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Freed_Iranian_human_rights_lawyer)
title: Freed Iranian human rights lawyer
uri: Freed-Iranian-human-rights-lawyer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Freed_Iranian_human_rights_lawyer%29

content:
<p>
An interview with Iranian human rights lawyer 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/iran-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh">Nasrin
Sotoudeh</a>.
<p>
She was freed before the end of her sentence thanks to international
pressure, but is still banned from practising law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Australian_govt_class_war)
title: Australian gov't class war
uri: Australian-gov-t-class-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Australian_govt_class_war%29
content:
<p>
The Australian government's class war can be understood in terms of
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/joe-hockeys-budget-is-an-assault-on-social-justice">very
wealthy constituencies</a> where its leaders are elected.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Lobbying_against_green_energy)
title: Lobbying against green energy
uri: Lobbying-against-green-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Lobbying_against_green_energy%29
content:
<p>
Fossil fuel companies are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/02/energy-uk-calls-for-shift-away-from-green-energy">trying
to use the new right-wing anti-EU MEPs</a> to destroy green energy
targets.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(US_plutocracy_and_inequality)
title: US plutocracy and inequality
uri: US-plutocracy-and-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28US_plutocracy_and_inequality%29
content:
<p>
The effects of growing US plutocracy and inequality 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/02-2">harm society
as a whole</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Chinese_artist_imprisoned_for_art)
title: Chinese artist imprisoned for art
uri: Chinese-artist-imprisoned-for-art
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Chinese_artist_imprisoned_for_art%29

content:
<p>
A Chinese democracy protester, who got asylum in Australia after the
Tiananmen massacre, returned to Beijing to make an art work referring
to the massacre.  He was imprisoned for that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Misogyny_and_sexual_entitlement)
title: Misogyny and "sexual entitlement"
uri: Misogyny-and-sexual-entitlement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Misogyny_and_sexual_entitlement%29
content:
<p>
The concept of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/02">"sexual
entitlement"</a> explains part of misogyny.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Boat_refugees_on_hunger_strike)
title: Boat refugees on hunger strike
uri: Boat-refugees-on-hunger-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Boat_refugees_on_hunger_strike%29
content:
<p>
Boat people seeking refuge in Australia, and sent to Christmas Island,
have underlined their hunger strike by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/hunger-striking-asylum-seekers-sew-their-lips-together">sewing
their mouths shut</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Stopping_Witch_Burning_in_Kenya)
title: Stopping Witch Burning in Kenya
uri: Stopping-Witch-Burning-in-Kenya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Stopping_Witch_Burning_in_Kenya%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/igwe20140530">Stopping
Witch Burning in Kenya?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Wheeler_acts_against_net_neutrality)
title: Wheeler acts against net neutrality
uri: Wheeler-acts-against-net-neutrality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Wheeler_acts_against_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
FCC Commissioner Wheeler repeatedly says he supports network neutrality,
yet he 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/news/does-tom-wheeler-really-not-get-it-or-he-saying-one-thing-and-doing-another">repeatedly
acts against it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Palestines_unity_govt_sworn_in)
title: Palestine's unity gov't sworn in
uri: Palestine-s-unity-gov-t-sworn-in
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Palestines_unity_govt_sworn_in%29
content:
<p>
Palestine's unity government has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/palestinian-unity-government-sworn-in-fatah-hamas">sworn
in</a>, despite Israeli interference.
<p>
The Oslo Agreement called for many things that Israel has not done.  I
recall there was supposed to be a corridor for communication between
Gaza and the West Bank.  Perhaps both sides should finish implementing
that agreement.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Baby's_sex)
title: Baby's sex
uri: Baby-s-sex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Baby%27s_sex%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/best-not-know-sex-of-baby">Why
It's Best Not to Know Your Baby's Sex</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Pressure_on_Ukraine_from_Russia)
title: Pressure on Ukraine from Russia
uri: Pressure-on-Ukraine-from-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Pressure_on_Ukraine_from_Russia%29
content:
<p>
Russia's new method of pressuring Ukraine: requiring 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/gazprom-ukraine-pay-off-gas-debt">prepayment
for natural gas</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(College_tuition_in_Australia)
title: College tuition in Australia
uri: College-tuition-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28College_tuition_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Australia's right-wing government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/university-fee-changes-explained">plans
to increase college tuition fees and the interest for college
loans</a>.  However, graduates whose income is low will not have to
pay back the loans.  So it will still be a lot better than the system
in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Record_heat_in_Australia)
title: Record heat in Australia
uri: Record-heat-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Record_heat_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Australia has suffered the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/02/australia-experiences-its-hottest-two-years-on-record">hottest
two-year period</a> since records started.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 03_June_2014_(Sri_Lankan_refugees_in_Australia)
title: Sri Lankan refugees in Australia
uri: Sri-Lankan-refugees-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_June_2014_%28Sri_Lankan_refugees_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Sri Lankan refugees in Australia would rather die than be sent back
there, and one 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/asylum-seeker-who-set-himself-on-fire-spent-18-months-in-limbo">set
himself on fire</a> because he couldn't stand the uncertainty about
being sent back.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(Urgent:_Vermonts_GMO_labeling_law)
title: Urgent: Vermont's GMO labeling law
uri: Urgent-Vermont-s-GMO-labeling-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Vermonts_GMO_labeling_law%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/monsanto-sues-vermonts/">call on
Monsanto</a> not to sue Vermont for its GMO labeling law.


title: Urgent: Reject tar sands oil pipeline
uri: Urgent-Reject-tar-sands-oil-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_tar_sands_oil_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_tar_sands_oil_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3483">support
Premier Clark</a> of British Columbia in rejecting a tar sands oil
export pipeline.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(Chiquita_lobbying)
title: Chiquita lobbying
uri: Chiquita-lobbying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28Chiquita_lobbying%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/03-5">Why
Chiquita Is Lobbying Against a 9/11 Victims Bill</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(The_USA_Freedumber_Act)
title: The USA Freedumber Act
uri: The-USA-Freedumber-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28The_USA_Freedumber_Act%29
content:
<p>
The USA Freedumber Act actually expands massive surveillance
in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/03-3">several
ways</a>.  It has been converted into a blow against freedom.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(6th_graders_seek_payment_for_labor)
title: 6th graders seek payment for labor
uri: 6th-graders-seek-payment-for-labor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%286th_graders_seek_payment_for_labor%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/03-2">6th Graders
Seeking Payment for Taking Common Core Field Tests</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(Absolute_Computrace)
title: Absolute Computrace
uri: Absolute-Computrace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28Absolute_Computrace%29
content:
<p>
Is 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/17/kaspersky_computrace/">Absolute
Computrace</a> a trojan horse in the BIOSes of millions of computers?
We can't tell, because it is proprietary software.
<p>
The point is, precisely because we can't tell, we should never trust
proprietary software.  It is 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary.html">software for
suckers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(Why_James_Risen_faces_prison)
title: Why James Risen faces prison
uri: Why-James-Risen-faces-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28Why_James_Risen_faces_prison%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/jan/05/energy.g2">Here's
the bombshell</a> for which the Obama regime is going to put James
Risen in prison.
<p>
Do you think Americans should find out when the US government does
such stupid things and the result is harmful?  The US government
thinks it should be able to cover them up so it appears perfect.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(Releasing_Guantanamo_prisoners)
title: Releasing Guantanamo prisoners
uri: Releasing-Guantanamo-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28Releasing_Guantanamo_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
Now that Obama has 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=2443">claimed the right
to release prisoners from Guantanamo with no notice</a>, nothing is
stopping him from trying or releasing every one of the prisoners.
<p>
He must shoulder all the guilt for imprisonment without trial in the
US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(Pope_Francis_disappoints)
title: Pope Francis disappoints
uri: Pope-Francis-disappoints
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28Pope_Francis_disappoints%29
content:
<p>
Disappointingly, Pope Francis 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/pope-tells-couples-have-children-not-pets">urges
people to have children</a>.  Just what the world doesn't need.
<p>
Although the Church opposes artificial birth control, that does not
require urging people to have children.  He ought to urge people to
have humanitarian projects.  That way, you won't feel alone when you
are old.


title: US to work with Palestinian unity gov't
uri: US-to-work-with-Palestinian-unity-gov-t
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(US_to_work_with_Palestinian_unity_govt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28US_to_work_with_Palestinian_unity_govt%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/israel-us-palestinian-unity-government-netanyahu">will
work with</a> the Palestinian unity government.
<p>
Netanyahu is finding himself a little less able to extract support
from the US government.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(CO2_emissions_from_power_plants)
title: CO2 emissions from power plants
uri: CO2-emissions-from-power-plants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28CO2_emissions_from_power_plants%29
content:
<p>
Obama has 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/us/politics/obama-to-offer-rules-to-sharply-curb-power-plants-carbon-emissions.html?_r=0">proposed
limits</a> to require reduced CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from existing
power plants.
<p>
The solution would do a lot of 
<a href="http://earthjustice.org/features/infographic-climate-solution">good</a>,
but it 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/02-8">won't
reduce emissions fast enough</a> to avoid disaster.
<p>
Carbon offsetting is an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/02-5">unreliable
method</a> of reducing emissions.
<p>
We could easily to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/02-4">a lot
more</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(Palestinian_unity_government)
title: Palestinian unity government
uri: Palestinian-unity-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28Palestinian_unity_government%29
content:
<p>
Gush Shalom welcomes the 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1401786829">Palestinian
unity government</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(Illegal_migrants_from_Africa)
title: Illegal migrants from Africa
uri: Illegal-migrants-from-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28Illegal_migrants_from_Africa%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/europe-refugee-crisis-un-africa-processing-centres">Thousands
of illegal migrants</a> are trying to get from Africa into Europe by
any means possible.
<p>
More and more people flee Africa, due to population growth, the
corporate land grab, wars over conflict minerals, and global heating.
Population growth is mostly the fault of poor Africans; the other
causes are not.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 04_June_2014_(Queenslands_privatizations)
title: Queensland's privatizations
uri: Queensland-s-privatizations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#04_June_2014_%28Queenslands_privatizations%29
content:
<p>
Australia's maverick party leader threatens to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/clive-palmer-says-he-will-reverse-any-queensland-government-asset-sales">reverse
Queensland's privatizations</a>.
<p>
Hooray!  Privatization is an assault on the public's assets, carried
out by the state as a surrender to the new owners.  Those owners must
get punished.


title: People who raped a Dalit girl threatened violence against her father
uri: People-who-raped-a-Dalit-girl-threatened-violence-against-her-father
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_June_2014_(People_who_raped_a_Dalit_girl_threatened_violence_against_her_father)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_June_2014_%28People_who_raped_a_Dalit_girl_threatened_violence_against_her_father%29

content:
<p>
The people who raped a Dalit girl (who then killed herself)
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/india-gang-rape-family-threats">threatened
violence against her father for rebuking them.</a>


title: Study find very little social mobility
uri: Study-find-very-little-social-mobility
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_June_2014_(Study_find_very_little_social_mobility)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_June_2014_%28Study_find_very_little_social_mobility%29

content:
<p>
A 30-year study of 800 poor children who started school in Baltimore
in
1982 <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/06/the-long-shadow-poverty-baltimore-poor-children">has
found very little social mobility</a>: if your parents were poor, you
almost certainly end up poor.


title: Innocent people convicted by lies from the FBI crime lab
uri: Innocent-people-convicted-by-lies-from-the-FBI-crime-lab
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_June_2014_(Innocent_people_convicted_by_lies_from_the_FBI_crime_lab)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_June_2014_%28Innocent_people_convicted_by_lies_from_the_FBI_crime_lab%29

content:
<p>
The struggle
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/04/17-3">free
the innocent people convicted by lies from the FBI crime lab.</a>


title: Noam Chomsky: the US surveillance state
uri: Noam-Chomsky-the-US-surveillance-state
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_June_2014_(Noam_Chomsky:_the_US_surveillance_state)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_June_2014_%28Noam_Chomsky%3A_the_US_surveillance_state%29

content:
<p>
Noam Chomsky: the US surveillance
state <a href="http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-surveillance-state-beyond-imagination-being-created-one-freest?paging=off">provides
the secrecy to shield abuses of US power.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_June_2014_(crackers'_latest_prank)
title: Crackers' latest prank
uri: Crackers-latest-prank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_June_2014_%28crackers%27_latest_prank%29
content:
<p>
Some crackers' latest prank is to generate a false report of an
incident
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/04/hackers-trick-police-into-dawn-raid-with-elaborate-swatting-hoax">get
a SWAT team sent to an innocent person's address</a>.
<p>
These people are crackers because they break computer security.  They
are hackers because they
are <a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">practicing
playful cleverness.</a> Unfortunately, being playful and clever does
not ensure that an activity is ethical.  This prank is not innocent:
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#29_October_2012_%28SWAT_team_shoots_teen_to_protect_him_from_himself%29">SWAT
raids kill innocent people.</a>
<p>
However, the prank is merely the trigger for the danger; the root
cause of the danger is
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#16_October_2012_%28Irresponsible_use_of_SWAT_teams%29">policies
that use SWAT teams too often.</a>


title: Koalas have adapted to increased temperature
uri: Koalas-have-adapted-to-increased-temperature
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_June_2014_(Koalas_have_adapted_to_increased_temperature)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_June_2014_%28Koalas_have_adapted_to_increased_temperature%29

content:
<p>
Koalas have adapted to increased temperature in Australia
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/04/koalas-have-learned-a-new-trick-to-beat-the-heat-scientists-say">cooling
their bellies against trees.</a>
<p>
This will get them only so far; eventually the heat will kill them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_June_2014_(Biodiversity_offsetting)
title: Biodiversity offsetting
uri: Biodiversity-offsetting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_June_2014_%28Biodiversity_offsetting%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/jun/03/can-we-have-a-robust-public-debate-on-biodiversity-offsetting">Biodiversity
offsetting</a> is the risky practice of compensating for destruction
of some wildlife habitat by constructing replacement habitat.
<p>
The main flaw is that the habitat we destroy is sure to be destroyed,
but it will take years to see whether the replacement habitat really
functions.  And what do you do if it doesn't?
<p>
This system of offsetting provides the opportunity for developers (and
their state backers) to propose replacements without even trying to
scrutinize the plans carefully.  By the time it becomes apparent that
the replacement habitat was never really used by the ecosystem it was
meant for, nobody will be accountable.


title: Sit-In in mayor's office to protest killings by thugs
uri: Sit-In-in-mayor-s-office-to-protest-killings-by-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_June_2014_(Sit-In_in_mayor's_office_to_protest_killings_by_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_June_2014_%28Sit-In_in_mayor%27s_office_to_protest_killings_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Activists in
Albuquerque <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/albuquerque-protests-police-violence">held
a sit-in in the mayor's office to protest the many killings committed
by thugs.</a>
<p>
One thug pushed a protester to the wall and charged the protester with
attacking him.  Typical thug behavior.  What's unusual is that the
thug said in advance he would do that.  This proves it is an
intentional act to lie and frame someone.  Will this thug be
prosecuted for perjury?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_June_2014_(Domestic_terror_task_force)
title: "Domestic terror task force"
uri: Domestic-terror-task-force
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_June_2014_%28Domestic_terror_task_force%29
content:
<p>
Obama is going
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/obama-revive-domestic-terror-task-force">revive
the "domestic terror task force".</a>
<p>
I suppose this will be another scheme for investigating dissidents and
journalists, as well as once in a while one of the real right-wing
extremists.  Thugs generally feel sympathy towards right-wing
extremists as long as those have not reached the point of actual
killing.


title: Governments investing too much in fossil fuels
uri: Governments-investing-too-much-in-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 05_June_2014_(Governments_investing_too_much_in_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#05_June_2014_%28Governments_investing_too_much_in_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
Governments
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/03/world-not-moving-fast-enough-on-renewable-energy-says-iea">investing
too much in fossil fuel use and not enough in renewable energy.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Cancer_increase_in_Fukushima)
title: Cancer increase in Fukushima
uri: Cancer-increase-in-Fukushima
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Cancer_increase_in_Fukushima%29
content:
<p>There is an increase in the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/09/fukushima-children-debate-thyroid-cancer-japan-disaster-nuclear-radiation">
rate of thyroid gland symptoms</a>
in children living in the area around Fukushima.</p>
<p>It might be a real problem caused by fallout,
or it might just indicate more thorough examination.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(China_to_implement_carbon_cap)
title: China to implement carbon cap
uri: China-to-implement-carbon-cap
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28China_to_implement_carbon_cap%29
content:
<p>China has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/03/china-pledges-limit-carbon-emissions">
pledged to limit CO2 emissions</a>.</p>
<p>Perhaps the government has concluded that drowning Shanghai, Suzhou,
and the whole surrounding region would be a big loss.</p>


title: Urgent: Abolish Corporate Constitutional Rights
uri: Urgent-Abolish-Corporate-Constitutional-Rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Urgent:_Abolish_Corporate_Constitutional_Rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Abolish_Corporate_Constitutional_Rights%29

content:
<p>US citizens: Ask senators to
<a href="http://www.1cp.net/messages/edit?promo_id=1009">
change the proposed constitutional amendment</a>,
SJR 19, to do the whole job — to reject the idea that
human rights apply to corporations.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Urgent:_Support_Harvard_divestment)
title: Urgent: Support Harvard divestment
uri: Urgent-Support-Harvard-divestment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Harvard_divestment%29

content:
<p>Everyone:
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/letter/send_message_harvard/">
support Divest Harvard</a>,
the campaign for Harvard to divest
from fossil fuel.
</p>


title: Urgent: Stop Northern Gateway pipeline
uri: Urgent-Stop-Northern-Gateway-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_Northern_Gateway_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Northern_Gateway_pipeline%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on Premier Clark of British Columbia to
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3483">
stand firm against the tar sands oil pipeline</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Let_them_eat_cake,_on_camera)
title: Let them eat cake, on camera
uri: Let-them-eat-cake-on-camera
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Let_them_eat_cake%2C_on_camera%29
content:
<p>Today's Big Brother
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/04-10">
seduces fools</a>
into encouraging everyone to watch them. 
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Justice_in_America)
title: Justice in America
uri: Justice-in-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Justice_in_America%29
content:
<p>Families of Americans killed in US drone attacks in Yemen
have
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/04-3">
given up on suing</a>
for damages.  US courts have stonewalled them
for years.
</p>
<p>However, a class action by
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/04-4">
prisoners in solitary confinement</a>
will proceed.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Inequity_and_hypocrisy)
title: Inequity and hypocrisy
uri: Inequity-and-hypocrisy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Inequity_and_hypocrisy%29
content:
<p>Before you tell the unemployed to "get a job", you had
better
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/03-4">
find some jobs</a>
they could get.
</p>


title: US gov plays stooge at Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
uri: US-gov-plays-stooge-at-Israeli-Palestinian-peace-talks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(US_gov_plays_stooge_at_Israeli-Palistinian_peace_talks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28US_gov_plays_stooge_at_Israeli-Palistinian_peace_talks%29

content:
<p>How did Kerry manage not to understand that
<a href="http://mondediplo.com/2014/06/02israel-palestine">
Israel had no interest</a>
in making his peace talks a success?
</p>


title: Settlers carry out ethnic cleansing in Israel
uri: Settlers-carry-out-ethnic-cleansing-in-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Settlers_carry_out_ethnic_cleansing_in_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Settlers_carry_out_ethnic_cleansing_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>Israel sent bulldozers to
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/photoblog/20140529_demolition_in_ideis_community">
destroy half the Palestinian village of Id'eis</a>,
which is located in the region near the Jordan that Israel
wants to ethnically cleanse.
</p>
<p>Meanwhile, fanatic settlers are building
<a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2014/05/a-new-illegal-settlement-is-under-construction/">
another "illegal" colony</a>
— that is, one that supposedly has no government approval
— with support from the army.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Eshel_Prison_hunger_strike_continues)
title: Eshel Prison hunger strike continues
uri: Eshel-Prison-hunger-strike-continues
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Eshel_Prison_hunger_strike_continues%29

content:
<p>Israel has put
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=701893">
60 hunger-striking prisoners</a>
in solitary confinement.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Lanzhou_New_Area_Project)
title: Lanzhou New Area Project
uri: Lanzhou-New-Area-Project
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Lanzhou_New_Area_Project%29
content:
<p>China plans to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/04/scientists-warn-against-chinas-plan-to-flatten-over-700-mountains">
level over 700 mountains</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Predicable_consequences)
title: Predicable consequences
uri: Predicable-consequences
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Predicable_consequences%29
content:
<p>Humanity is on track to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/04/mineral-resource-fossil-fuel-depletion-terraform-earth-collapse-civilisation">
exhaust crucial resources</a>
during this century, as predicted in 1972 by the Club of Rome.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(LinkedIn_supports_Chinese_censors)
title: LinkedIn supports Chinese censors
uri: LinkedIn-supports-Chinese-censors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28LinkedIn_supports_Chinese_censors%29
content:
<p>LinkedIn has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/04/linkedin-tiananmen-posts-china-censorship">
imposed Chinese censorship</a>
on users world-wide.
</p>
<p>Perhaps the US should not allow US internet companies to do business
in a way that would subject them to foreign censorship laws.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(UK_disposes_of_open_justice)
title: UK disposes of open justice
uri: UK-disposes-of-open-justice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28UK_disposes_of_open_justice%29
content:
<p>The UK government plans to try people whose identity is secret, in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/04/major-terrorism-trial-secret-first-time-legal-history">
 a secret trial.</a>
They are accused of possessing books, and unspecified
other things.
</p>
<p>Could Stalin have done worse?</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Generational_disappointments)
title: Generational disappointments
uri: Generational-disappointments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Generational_disappointments%29
content:
<p>Tim DeChristopher, who went to prison for sabotaging an oil auction,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/04-4">
rebukes baby-boomers</a>
for not having the courage to resist the system
that is carrying us toward global heating disaster.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(Top_5_NSA_Myths)
title: Top 5 NSA Myths
uri: Top-5-NSA-Myths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28Top_5_NSA_Myths%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/04">
Discredited claims</a>
that the NSA keeps making.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 5_June_2014_(I_like_you_more_when_you're_not_here)
title: I like you more when you're not here
uri: I-like-you-more-when-you-re-not-here
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#5_June_2014_%28I_like_you_more_when_you%27re_not_here%29

content:
<p>Arabs like the US better as a result of Obama's
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/04">
reduction in the visible US military profile</a>
in the Middle East.
Hardly anyone wants the US to attack Syria or Iran.</p>
<p>Yemen, where the US is carrying out drone bombings, was not one of the
countries surveyed.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_USE_Freedumb_Act)
title: Urgent: Oppose the USE Freedumb Act
uri: Urgent-Oppose-the-USE-Freedumb-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_USE_Freedumb_Act%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens:<a href="http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/oppose-freedom-act">
phone your senators to oppose the USE Freedumb Act</a>, the
house-passed caricature of the USA Freedom Act.


title: Urgent: Stop plans to attack Canadians' rights with the TPP
uri: Urgent-Stop-plans-to-attack-Canadians-rights-with-the-TPP
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_plans_to_attack_Canadians'_rights_with_the_TPP)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_plans_to_attack_Canadians%27_rights_with_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell Canada
to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/canada-freetrade-tpp/">stop
plans to attack Canadians' rights with the TPP.</a>


title: Thugs carried a fake cell phone tower
uri: Thugs-carried-a-fake-cell-phone-tower
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Thugs_carried_a_fake_cell_phone_tower)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Thugs_carried_a_fake_cell_phone_tower%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/how-florida-cops-went-door-to-door-with-fake-cell-device-to-find-one-man/">Thugs
carried a fake cell phone tower from door to door</a> to find a
suspect's portable phone.
<p>
We want criminals like that one to be caught.  I think it would be
reasonable for a court to give permission to use a similar device,
which would be programmed with one phone number, to locate that
particular phone in this way.


title: Urgent: Stop printing letters that deny global heating
uri: Urgent-Stop-printing-letters-that-deny-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_printing_letters_that_deny_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_printing_letters_that_deny_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Readers of the Boston
Globe: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/boston-globe-stop-printing?source=mo&id=96712-2794606-4vIsd3x&=&=">ask
the Globe to stop printing letters that deny global heating.</a>


title: It takes more than an election to make a democracy
uri: It-takes-more-than-an-election-to-make-a-democracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(It_takes_more_than_an_election_to_make_a_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28It_takes_more_than_an_election_to_make_a_democracy%29

content:
<p>
It
takes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/syria-egypt-two-polls-same-old-story">more
than an election to make a democracy.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Koch_brothers_asked_Supreme_Court)
title: Koch brothers asked Supreme Court
uri: Koch-brothers-asked-Supreme-Court
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Koch_brothers_asked_Supreme_Court%29

content:
<p>
The Koch brothers have asked the Supreme Court
to <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/06/12498/who-behind-national-right-work-committee-and-its-anti-union-crusade">rule
against "union shop" requirements for public sector workers</a>; this
would lead to low wages and bad working conditions.


title: Australian politicians helped write lobbying materials
uri: Australian-politicians-helped-write-lobbying-materials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Australian_politicians_helped_write_lobbying_materials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Australian_politicians_helped_write_lobbying_materials%29

content:
<p>
Australian
politicians <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/nsw-planning-officials-helped-lobbyist-write-story-backing-controversial-policy">helped
write lobbying materials for businesses</a> that wanted reduced
regulation in planning buildings.


title: Nauru has expelled 5 opposition legislators
uri: Nauru-has-expelled-5-opposition-legislators
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Nauru_has_expelled_5_opposition_legislators)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Nauru_has_expelled_5_opposition_legislators%29

content:
<p>
Nauru
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/nauru-suspends-two-more-opposition-mps">expelled
5 opposition legislators to protect Australia's domination</a>.


title: More housing units in occupied Palestinian territory
uri: More-housing-units-in-occupied-Palestinian-territory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(More_housing_units_in_occupied_Palestinian_territory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28More_housing_units_in_occupied_Palestinian_territory%29

content:
<p>
Israel has announced
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/israel-build-more-homes-settlements">plan
to build 900 more housing units in occupied Palestinian territory</a>.
<p>
Wait a moment, does Netanyahu think the "peace talks" are still going
on?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Facebook_could_control_an_election)
title: Facebook could control an election
uri: Facebook-could-control-an-election
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Facebook_could_control_an_election%29

content:
<p>
Facebook could control an
election <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117878/information-fiduciary-solution-facebook-digital-gerrymandering">just
by selectively deciding who to urge to vote.</a>
<p>
The article repeats a common historical myth, the idea that Dubya won
the 2000 election in Florida.  In fact, his campaign stole the
election.  Katherine Harris falsely disenfranchised around 50,000
black voters based on the similarity of their names to names on a list
of felons.  The voters disenfranchised were not felons, but Harris
vetoed checking who was really a felon.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Urgent:_Sunshine_in_Litigation_Act)
title: Urgent: Sunshine in Litigation Act
uri: 2014-06-07-Urgent-Sunshine-in-Litigation-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Sunshine_in_Litigation_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12468">ask
your Senators</a> to support the Sunshine in Litigation Act, requiring
courts to publish information that is crucial to public safety.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Ellsberg_on_Manning_and_Snowden)
title: Ellsberg on Manning and Snowden
uri: Ellsberg-on-Manning-and-Snowden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Ellsberg_on_Manning_and_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
Daniel Ellsberg: 
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/06/05/daniel-ellsberg-both-manning-snowden-exposed-government-secrecy-to-proper-debate/">Both
Manning & Snowden Exposed Government Secrecy to Proper Debate</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Predicted_El_Nino_event)
title: Predicted El Niño event
uri: Predicted-El-Niño-event
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Predicted_El_Nino_event%29
content:
<p>
The predicted El Niño event will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jun/05/el-nino-coral-reef-earth-amazons">damage
coral world-wide</a>, and due to the higher "normal" temperature, they
will be less able to recover.
<p>
Coral is also endangered by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#12_September_2011_(Coral_Reefs)">ocean 
acidification</a>, and if it is extinct by 2050, many other marine
species will also be extinct, and a large fraction of sea food we eat
will disappear.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Phony_cell_phone_tower_cover-ups)
title: Phony cell phone tower cover-ups
uri: Phony-cell-phone-tower-cover-ups
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Phony_cell_phone_tower_cover-ups%29
content:
<p>
When US thugs use phony cell phone towers, they cover this up by
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1427">deceiving courts</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Activism_alone_wont_suffice)
title: Activism alone won't suffice
uri: Activism-alone-won-t-suffice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Activism_alone_wont_suffice%29
content:
<p>
Falkvinge: activism alone won't suffice; we must 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/activism-isnt-enough-140601/">compete
in elections</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Ways_Snowden_changed_the_world)
title: Ways Snowden changed the world
uri: Ways-Snowden-changed-the-world
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Ways_Snowden_changed_the_world%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/05/what-snowden-revealed-changed-nsa-reform">Four
ways Edward Snowden changed the world</a> — and why the fight's
not over.
<p>
The "authorities" 
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/163916-whistleblowers-deserve-legal-protection/">want
to shoot the messenger</a> and bury his message.
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/message-edward-snowden-one-year-later">A
Message From Edward Snowden, One Year Later</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Phony_cell_phone_towers)
title: Phony cell phone towers
uri: Phony-cell-phone-towers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Phony_cell_phone_towers%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU sued Florida to get records of surveillance through phony
cell phone towers, so US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/04-1">thugs
seized the records to make the Florida court impotent.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Sprint_and_T-mobile_want_merger)
title: Sprint and T-mobile want merger
uri: Sprint-and-T-mobile-want-merger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Sprint_and_T-mobile_want_merger%29
content:
<p>
Now Sprint and T-mobile, two large US phone competitors, 
<a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/sprint-and-t-mobile-agree-on-terms-of-32-billion-deal">want
to merge</a>.
<p>
Such large companies should never be allowed to merge.  Instead, we
should break up their larger competitors, in this case Verizon and
AT&T.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Sustaining_our_oceans)
title: Sustaining our oceans
uri: Sustaining-our-oceans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Sustaining_our_oceans%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/04-2">The Challenge
of Sustaining Our Oceans</a>.


title: GMO corn is the main cause of decline of the monarch butterfly
uri: GMO-corn-is-the-main-cause-of-decline-of-the-monarch-butterfly
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(GMO_corn_is_the_main_cause_of_decline_of_the_monarch_butterfly)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28GMO_corn_is_the_main_cause_of_decline_of_the_monarch_butterfly%29

content:
<p>
A study finds that GMO corn in the US is
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/05-5">main
cause of the decline of the monarch butterfly.</a>


title: Brazil spending more on security against the people
uri: Brazil-spending-more-on-security-against-the-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Brazil_spending_more_on_security_against_the_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Brazil_spending_more_on_security_against_the_people%29

content:
<p>
As Brazilians protest the Brazil's support for the soccer world cup
for spending money on businesses instead of people, the government's
response is
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/05-1">compound
the wrong by spending more on security against the people</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(New_York_Governor's_energy_plan)
title: New York Governor's energy plan
uri: New-York-Governor-s-energy-plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28New_York_Governor%27s_energy_plan%29

content:
<p>
New York Governor
Cuomo's <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/whats-wrong-cuomos-energy-plan">inadequate
and unambitious energy plan.</a>


title: Urgent: Stop sending youth offenders to privatized prisons
uri: Urgent-Stop-sending-youth-offenders-to-privatized-prisons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_sending_youth_offenders_to_privatized_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_sending_youth_offenders_to_privatized_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Florida
to <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/FL_youth_private_prisons/">stop
sending youth offenders to privatized prisons.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Cable_Companies_Are_Astroturfing)
title: Cable Companies Are Astroturfing
uri: Cable-Companies-Are-Astroturfing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Cable_Companies_Are_Astroturfing%29
content:
<p>
Cable Companies
Are <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/cables-companies-are-astroturfing-fake-consumer-support-to-end-net-neutrality">Astroturfing
Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Privatizing_government_services)
title: Privatizing government services
uri: Privatizing-government-services
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Privatizing_government_services%29
content:
<p>
Privatizing government
services <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/06/12503/new-report-documents-how-privatization-steals-wages-harms-communities">hurts
the whole community as well as the workers.</a> The supposed "cost
savings" don't include the costs of the government assistance that the
employees of these contractors will need because of their low pay.


title: Legalization of marijuana in Colorado
uri: Legalization-of-marijuana-in-Colorado
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Legalization_of_marijuana_in_Colorado)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Legalization_of_marijuana_in_Colorado%29

content:
<p>
Legalization of marijuana in Colorado seems to have led to
a <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=712510&qid=3268722">substantial
decrease in crime, and no increase in use by teenagers.</a>
<p>
We need to end the cruel War on Drugs.


title: The Vostok Battalion of pro-Russian rebels
uri: The-Vostok-Battalion-of-pro-Russian-rebels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(The_Vostok_Battalion_of_pro-Russian_rebels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28The_Vostok_Battalion_of_pro-Russian_rebels%29

content:
<p>
The Vostok Battalion of pro-Russian
rebels <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/the-vostok-battalion-shaping-the-eastern-ukraine-conflict">seems
to get money from Russia but maybe not arms.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Defamation_Suits)
title: Defamation Suits
uri: Defamation-Suits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Defamation_Suits%29
content:
<p>
Defamation Suits Used
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/defamation-suits-used-bludgeon-southeast-asian-bloggers-and-independent-press">Bludgeon
Southeast Asian Bloggers and Independent Press.</a>


title: Fortune 500 companies using tax-avoidance schemes
uri: Fortune-500-companies-using-tax-avoidance-schemes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Fortune_500_companies_using_tax-avoidance_schemes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Fortune_500_companies_using_tax-avoidance_schemes%29

content:
<p>
Most of the Fortune 500 companies
are <a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/06/06/majority-of-fortune-500-using-offshore-tax-schemes-to-hide-90-billion/">using
tax-avoidance schemes.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Urgent:_Merkleys_bill)
title: Urgent: Merkley's bill
uri: Urgent-Merkley-s-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Merkleys_bill%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/161/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15819">call
on your senators</a> to cosponsor Merkley's bill to withdraw US troops
from Afghanistan now.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Urgent:_James_Risen)
title: Urgent: James Risen
uri: Urgent-James-Risen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_James_Risen%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9775">call
on Obama</a> not to jail James Risen.
<p>
He is threatened with imprisonment if he does not identify a
whistleblower who would himself probably be sent to prison for many
years.


title: Urgent: Students Emergency Refinancing Act
uri: Urgent-Students-Emergency-Refinancing-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Urgent:_Students_Emergency_Refinancing_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Students_Emergency_Refinancing_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/Cosponsor_StudentLoan/">support</a>
the Students Emergency Refinancing Act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_($200_million_state-subsidized_mall)
title: $200 million state-subsidized mall
uri: 200-million-state-subsidized-mall
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28%24200_million_state-subsidized_mall%29

content:
<p>
Chris Christie has rewarded campaign supporters with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/chris-christie-backers-223m-tax-break">200
million dollars in state money</a> for their a new shopping mall.
<p>
The mall is apparently directed at the wealthiest customers.  In 
the new US of increased inequality, they can buy more, while others
struggle.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(China_to_deport_Guo_Jian)
title: China to deport Guo Jian
uri: China-to-deport-Guo-Jian
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28China_to_deport_Guo_Jian%29
content:
<p>
China 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/china-deport-tiananmen-artist-guo-jian-australia">will
deport Guo Jian</a> to Australia.
<p>
Guo Jian was jailed for an art work that criticized the massacre
of hundreds or thousands of students at Tiananmen Square in 1989.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Elephant_poaching)
title: Elephant poaching
uri: Elephant-poaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Elephant_poaching%29
content:
<p>
Elephant poaching in Kenya is run by organized crime gangs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/africa-wild/2014/jun/06/kenya-at-crossroads-time-to-root-out-wildlife-crime-elites">under
the control of local elites</a> that are "too big to prosecute".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(US_oil_extraction_forecast)
title: US oil extraction forecast
uri: US-oil-extraction-forecast
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28US_oil_extraction_forecast%29
content:
<p>
A forecast says that US oil extraction 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/06/shale-oil-boom-over-energy-revolution-blackouts">will
start falling in about 10 years</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Punishing_the_poor)
title: Punishing the poor
uri: Punishing-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Punishing_the_poor%29
content:
<p>
In London, many poor people can't see a way to get by except by
stealing.  When caught, their are fined, and the fines are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/06/stolen-twixes-racist-abuse-magistrates-court">deducted
from the already-inadequate welfare payments</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Religious_extremism_in_art)
title: Religious extremism in art
uri: Religious-extremism-in-art
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Religious_extremism_in_art%29
content:
<p>
Christian and Jewish religious extremism can be seen in works of art
that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2014/jun/06/samson-suicide-bomber-gove-royal-opera-house">continue
to be admired as classics</a>.
<p>
At present, these works do not seem to inspire suicide bombers, but I
won't take for granted that can't ever happen.


title: Technological "advances" in surveillance
uri: Technological-advances-in-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Technological_advances_in_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Technological_advances_in_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/06/05/technology-and-the-end-of-privacy/">technological
"advances"</a> that make the difference between J Edgar Hoover's FBI
and today's total surveillance state.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Vodaphone)
title: Vodaphone
uri: Vodaphone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Vodaphone%29
content:
<p>
Vodaphone says that several governments 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/vodafone-transparency-report/">tap
into its phone calls directly</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Copyright_infringement_claims)
title: Copyright infringement claims
uri: Copyright-infringement-claims
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Copyright_infringement_claims%29
content:
<p>
Europe's top court 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/web-browsing-is-copyright-infringement-publishers-argue/">ruled
against the publishers' "irrational" claims</a> that looking at web
pages is copyright infringement.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Efforts_to_defend_UK_soil)
title: Efforts to defend UK soil
uri: Efforts-to-defend-UK-soil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Efforts_to_defend_UK_soil%29
content:
<p>
George Monbiot: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/jun/05/the-farming-lobby-has-wrecked-efforts-to-defend-our-soil">The
Farming Lobby Has Wrecked Efforts to Defend Our [UK] Soil</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Rising_sea_level_threatens_Jamestown)
title: Rising sea level threatens Jamestown
uri: Rising-sea-level-threatens-Jamestown
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Rising_sea_level_threatens_Jamestown%29

content:
<p>
Jamestown, the first known English settlement in the US, is being
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/jamestown-settlement-rising-sea-level-threat">inundated
by rising sea level</a>.
<p>
Part of the rise is due to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#04_December_2013_(Scientists_expect_greater_sea_level_rise_than_IPCC_predicts)">global heating</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Gaps_in_Geithners_autobiography)
title: Gaps in Geithner's autobiography
uri: Gaps-in-Geithner-s-autobiography
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Gaps_in_Geithners_autobiography%29
content:
<p>
Geithner's autobiography is full of 
<a href="http://www.vice.com/read/tim-geithner-and-the-con-artist-wing-of-the-democratic-party">gaps,
inconsistencies and falsehoods</a>, all contrived to present the
arsonist as a fireman.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Argentinas_debt_deal)
title: Argentina's debt deal
uri: Argentina-s-debt-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Argentinas_debt_deal%29
content:
<p>
The debt deal that Argentina got is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/argentina-bad-deal-on-debt">not
really such a good deal</a> for Argentina.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Repression_of_Tibetans)
title: Repression of Tibetans
uri: Repression-of-Tibetans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Repression_of_Tibetans%29
content:
<p>
The elected leader of Tibetans in exile 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/tibetan-leader-calls-on-china-end-repressive-policies">calls
on China to relax the repression of Tibetans</a> so they will stop
burning themselves to death.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Drug-resistant_malaria)
title: Drug-resistant malaria
uri: Drug-resistant-malaria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Drug-resistant_malaria%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/05/new-wave-drug-resistant-malaria-burma">Counterfeit
medicine</a> has helped malaria evolve resistance to the drug used to
cure it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(Big_Spill_blowout_protection)
title: Big Spill blowout protection
uri: Big-Spill-blowout-protection
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28Big_Spill_blowout_protection%29
content:
<p>
A US report says that BP's system to protect against a blowout was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/05/bp-deepwater-horizon-spill-report-failures-risks">not
suitable for the purpose</a>, and the same inadequate system is in use
today.
<p>
The US 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#21_April_2014_(Regulation_of_undersea_drilling)">has
not adopted rules to prevent a repetition of the Big Spill</a>.  This
reflects the political power of the oil companies: these dangerous
beasts are too big to cage.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 07_June_2014_(UKs_proposed_secret_trial)
title: UK's proposed secret trial
uri: UK-s-proposed-secret-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_June_2014_%28UKs_proposed_secret_trial%29
content:
<p>
The UK government not only proposes to have a secret trial of
anonymous suspects, it also 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/05/secret-justice-right-for-putin-russia-not-peacetime-britain">wanted
to forbid the press to report</a> on the fact that this was going on.
<p>
Once a state accepts the principle of trampling human rights in the
name of "security", its natural tendency is to keep going further
until people have no rights that it can't deny them.  We have seen
the same in the US, where the president can imprison anyone forever
without a trial.
<p>
A state that escapes from the people's control is more dangerous than
any underground group.  If we are not willing to risk our lives for
democracy and human rights, we won't have them for long.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Urgent:_Raise_the_minimum_wage)
title: Urgent: Raise the minimum wage
uri: 2014-06-08-Urgent-Raise-the-minimum-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_the_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://dga.gospringboard.com/tell-congressional-republicans-raise-minimum-wage">pressure
Republicans</a> to raise the minimum wage.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_Right_Whales)
title: Urgent: Protect Right Whales
uri: Urgent-Protect-Right-Whales
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_Right_Whales%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2737">tell
the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council</a> to maintain the
fishing regulations that protect right whales.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Urgent:_Remove_Koch_from_WGBH_board)
title: Urgent: Remove Koch from WGBH board
uri: Urgent-Remove-Koch-from-WGBH-board
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_Koch_from_WGBH_board%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/koch_free_pbs_petition/">call
on PBS</a> to make WGBH remove a Koch brother from its board of
trustees.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_old-growth_trees)
title: Urgent: Protect old-growth trees
uri: Urgent-Protect-old-growth-trees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_old-growth_trees%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1577">call
on the USDA</a> not to allow a massive cut of old-growth trees in the
Tongass National Forest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Crackdown_on_dissent_in_Thailand)
title: Crackdown on dissent in Thailand
uri: Crackdown-on-dissent-in-Thailand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Crackdown_on_dissent_in_Thailand%29
content:
<p>
Thailand's military rulers are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/critics-thai-junta-warned-police-online-posts-anti-coup">cracking
down on online dissent</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(The_USA_Freedumber_Act)
title: The USA Freedumber Act
uri: 2014-06-08-The-USA-Freedumber-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28The_USA_Freedumber_Act%29
content:
<p>
Senator Warner gets the government to admit that the USA Freedumber
Act 
<a href="http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/06/06/mark-warner-lays-out-how-usa-freedumber-will-put-the-nsa-in-your-smartphone/">would
expand the NSA's access</a> to data about American's phone calls.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Nonviolent_opposition_to_Assad)
title: Nonviolent opposition to Assad
uri: Nonviolent-opposition-to-Assad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Nonviolent_opposition_to_Assad%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/07/syria-nonviolent-movement-freedom-justice">Nonviolent
opposition</a> to Assad's rule continues alongside the armed
rebellion.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(A_world_without_net_neutrality)
title: A world without net neutrality
uri: A-world-without-net-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28A_world_without_net_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/harms-way-dangers-world-without-net-neutrality">In
Harm's Way: The Dangers of a World Without Net Neutrality</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Israeli_thugs_attack_TV_studio)
title: Israeli thugs attack TV studio
uri: Israeli-thugs-attack-TV-studio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Israeli_thugs_attack_TV_studio%29
content:
<p>
Israeli thugs attacked the studio where "Good Morning Jerusalem" was
being broadcast and 
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/israel/2014/06/06/_mada_israel_stopped/">arrested
the personnel and an interview guest</a>.
<p>
They were accused of dissent.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Nigerias_war_on_terror)
title: Nigeria's "war on terror"
uri: Nigeria-s-war-on-terror
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Nigerias_war_on_terror%29
content:
<p>
Nigeria's "war on terror" has involved killing over a thousand
prisoners.  Several journalists have been 
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/06/nigeria-targeting-journalists-boko-haram/">arrested
and tortured</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(CIA_cant_confirm_or_deny)
title: CIA "can't confirm or deny"
uri: CIA-can-t-confirm-or-deny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28CIA_cant_confirm_or_deny%29
content:
<p>
When the CIA jokes that it 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1429">"can't confirm or
deny"</a>, it's a sick joke.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Use_of_diclofenac_in_animals)
title: Use of diclofenac in animals
uri: Use-of-diclofenac-in-animals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Use_of_diclofenac_in_animals%29
content:
<p>
Use of diclofenac in animals 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/07/european-vultures-threat-diclofenac-vets-spain-italy">can
wipe out vultures in Europe</a> as it did in India.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(New_president_of_Ukraine_stubborn)
title: New president of Ukraine stubborn
uri: New-president-of-Ukraine-stubborn
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28New_president_of_Ukraine_stubborn%29

content:
<p>
The new president of Ukraine says he will not accept Russia's conquest
of the Crimea and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/07/ukraine-president-poroshenko-crimea-putin">will
not agree to a federal structure for Ukraine</a>.
<p>
I can't see any sense in being stubbornly opposed to a federal
structure.  As for Crimea, it would be proper to have an honest
election in which those who don't want Russian rule can safely vote.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Macabre_side_of_global_heating)
title: Macabre side of global heating
uri: Macabre-side-of-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Macabre_side_of_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Global heating has its macabre side: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/rising-seas-wash-japanese-war-dead-marshall-islands-graves">floating
corpses out of their graves</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Cost_of_coral_reef_destruction)
title: Cost of coral reef destruction
uri: Cost-of-coral-reef-destruction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Cost_of_coral_reef_destruction%29
content:
<p>
The economic loss caused by destruction of coral reefs has been
estimated at around 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/06-1">12
trillion dollars</a>.
<p>
And that's just one of the big damages that our CO<sub>2</sub>
emissions will cause.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Contamination_from_frack_well)
title: Contamination from frack well
uri: Contamination-from-frack-well
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Contamination_from_frack_well%29
content:
<p>
Matching chemical signatures show that the contamination in Steve
Lipsky's well is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/06-1">coming
straight from Barnett Shale's frack well</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Join_Climate_Fight_Or_Step_Aside)
title: Join Climate Fight 'Or Step Aside'
uri: Join-Climate-Fight-Or-Step-Aside
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Join_Climate_Fight_Or_Step_Aside%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/06">Global
Citizens to Elites: Join Climate Fight 'Or Step Aside'</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Meet_the_Press_propaganda)
title: Meet the Press propaganda
uri: Meet-the-Press-propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Meet_the_Press_propaganda%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/06/02/meet-the-presss-snowden-debate-traitor-or-criminal/">Meet
the Press's Snowden Debate: Traitor or Criminal?</a>
<p>
I haven't had a TV set since 1970, and I've almost never watched Meet
the Press or the other mainstream TV shows that claim to present
political debate.  It would be a hassle for me to see them.  But it
appears that they are propaganda outlets for the plutocratic state in
all but name.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(US_economic_growth_since_the_70s)
title: US economic growth since the 70s
uri: US-economic-growth-since-the-70s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28US_economic_growth_since_the_70s%29
content:
<p>
The New York Times thinks there is a mystery about why 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/06/06/writing-unions-out-of-the-story-on-fighting-poverty/">US
economic growth since the 1970s has not reduced poverty</a>.
<p>
The overall answer is, right-wing dooH niboR policies, but the Times
is not supposed to acknowledge that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(The_freed_Guantanamo_prisoners)
title: The freed Guantanamo prisoners
uri: The-freed-Guantanamo-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28The_freed_Guantanamo_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing distortions claim that 1/3 of the freed Guantanamo
prisoners have "returned to the battlefield" although 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/06/05/botching-the-prisoners-returning-to-the-battlefield-story/">only
4%</a> of them were reported ever to have been on a battlefield
before.
<p>
Even if this claim were true, it would not justify imprisonment
without trial.  Captured enemy combatants should be treated with the
respect due to prisoners of war.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Golden_Dawn_now_openly_Nazi)
title: Golden Dawn now openly Nazi
uri: Golden-Dawn-now-openly-Nazi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Golden_Dawn_now_openly_Nazi%29
content:
<p>
The Golden Dawn party has become openly Nazi and a force for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/07/greece-golden-dawn-fascism-threat-to-democracy">anti-semitic
violence</a>.
<p>
Why do they blame powerless poor foreigners rather than the powerful
businesses that have Greece in a stranglehold?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Children_of_raped_Tutsi_women)
title: Children of raped Tutsi women
uri: Children-of-raped-Tutsi-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Children_of_raped_Tutsi_women%29
content:
<p>
Tutsi women who were raped by those who murdered their families
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/08/rwanda-20-years-genocide-rape-children">sometimes
hated their children</a>.
<p>
Abortions should have been part of the aid that the world gave to
Rwanda after the genocide.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_forests)
title: Urgent: Protect forests
uri: 2014-06-09-Urgent-Protect-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_forests%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.junglistan.org/">call on India</a> to protect
forests from mining companies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Pakistan_shuts_down_news_channel)
title: Pakistan shuts down news channel
uri: Pakistan-shuts-down-news-channel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Pakistan_shuts_down_news_channel%29
content:
<p>
The Geo News TV channel in Pakistan has been shut off as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/pakistani-news-channel-geo-suspended-isi">punishment
for criticizing the country's spy agency</a>, the ISI.
<p>
The ISI has reportedly 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#19%20March%202006%20(President%20of%20the%20Afghan%20senate)">sponsored
the Taliban in Afghanistan</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Govt_spying_on_Vodaphone_customers)
title: Gov't spying on Vodaphone customers
uri: Gov-t-spying-on-Vodaphone-customers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Govt_spying_on_Vodaphone_customers%29

content:
<p>
More about 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/06/vodafone-reveals-secret-wires-allowing-state-surveillance">how
governments spy directly</a> on Vodaphone customers.
<p>
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/05/india-s-snooping-and-snowden">India
is working on that sort of spying</a> directly on all communications
systems.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Global_heating_and_global_disaster)
title: Global heating and global disaster
uri: Global-heating-and-global-disaster
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Global_heating_and_global_disaster%29

content:
<p>
It appears civilization will 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/05-12">fail to
stop</a> global heating and global disaster.
<p>
But we should not give up fighting, because we can still reduce the
scope of the disaster.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 08_June_2014_(Surveillance_debate_anniversary)
title: Surveillance debate anniversary
uri: Surveillance-debate-anniversary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_June_2014_%28Surveillance_debate_anniversary%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/05-5">Edward Snowden
comments</a> on the first anniversary of the surveillance debate that
his heroism made possible.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_June_2014_(Urgent:_Network_neutrality)
title: Urgent: Network neutrality
uri: 2014-06-09-Urgent-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
Send comments in favor of network neutrality to the FCC at
<a href="mailto:openinternet@fcc.gov">openinternet@fcc.gov</a>.
Give the Proceeding Number, which is 14-28.


title: Urgent: Fire DEA administrator Leonhart
uri: Urgent-Fire-DEA-administrator-Leonhart
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_June_2014_(Urgent:_Fire_DEA_administrator_Leonhart)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Fire_DEA_administrator_Leonhart%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=2">Urge
Obama</a> to fire DEA administrator Leonhart.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_June_2014_(Gay_conversion_therapy)
title: Gay conversion therapy
uri: Gay-conversion-therapy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_June_2014_%28Gay_conversion_therapy%29
content:
<p>
The Texas Republican Party has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/08/texas-republicans-vote-to-adopt-gay-conversion-policy">endorsed
conversion therapy</a> which is supposed to convert gays to straights.
<p>
Their position is not real family values, it is correct-family-only
values.


title: Australia puts asylum seekers in danger
uri: Australia-puts-asylum-seekers-in-danger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_June_2014_(Australia_puts_asylum_seekers_in_danger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_June_2014_%28Australia_puts_asylum_seekers_in_danger%29

content:
<p>
After Australia leaked the names of 10,000 asylum seekers, it has
given them just 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/08/at-risk-asylum-seekers-given-only-14-days-to-put-their-case-to-stay">14
days to explain why that leak might put them in danger</a> if sent
back.


title: Former Israeli soldiers describe cruelty
uri: Former-Israeli-soldiers-describe-cruelty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_June_2014_(Former_Israeli_soldiers_describe_cruelty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_June_2014_%28Former_Israeli_soldiers_describe_cruelty%29

content:
<p>
Former Israeli soldiers describe the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/08/israel-soldiers-speak-out-brutality-palestine-occupation">repetitive
cruelty, humiliation and even murder</a> of the occupation of
Palestine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_June_2014_(Palestinian_unity_government)
title: Palestinian unity government
uri: 2014-06-09-Palestinian-unity-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_June_2014_%28Palestinian_unity_government%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Netanyahu says the Palestinian unity government, made of
of ministers not aligned with Hamas or Fatah, is unacceptable because
it 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1402067458/">makes
Hamas responsible</a> for Palestine's conduct towards Israel.
<p>
As Avnery points out, this precise point means that Hamas now upholds
peace with Israel day by day.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_June_2014_(Bill_for_worker-owned_co-ops)
title: Bill for worker-owned co-ops
uri: Bill-for-worker-owned-co-ops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_June_2014_%28Bill_for_worker-owned_co-ops%29
content:
<p>
Vermont senators have proposed 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/03-6">a bill to
facilitate worker-owned cooperative businesses</a> in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_June_2014_(Meats_imported_into_the_US)
title: Meats imported into the US
uri: Meats-imported-into-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_June_2014_%28Meats_imported_into_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The US continues to allow meat imports from certain countries even
though they have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/06-1">privatized
their meat inspection systems</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 09_June_2014_(Global_heating_lawsuit_sidestepped)
title: Global heating lawsuit sidestepped
uri: Global-heating-lawsuit-sidestepped
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_June_2014_%28Global_heating_lawsuit_sidestepped%29

content:
<p>
A US appeals court 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/06-0">found an
excuse</a> to sidestep a lawsuit on behalf of young Americans for the
harm that global heating will do to them.
<p>
This harm is quite likely to include an early death.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(The_State_Dept_under_Clinton)
title: The State Dept under Clinton
uri: The-State-Dept-under-Clinton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28The_State_Dept_under_Clinton%29
content:
<p>
Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department has become an 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/06-8">auxiliary of
US military action</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Japan_to_resume_killing_whales)
title: Japan to resume killing whales
uri: Japan-to-resume-killing-whales
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Japan_to_resume_killing_whales%29
content:
<p>
Japan intends to resume killing whales 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/09/japan-pm-commerical-whaling-shinzo-abe-antartic-hunt">despite
the court order</a>.
<p>
I can't understand why Japan's government insists on continuing an
activity whose economic importance is so small, that is unpopular even
in Japan, and inspires ill will around the world (as if it were
Japan's Guantanamo).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Illegitimate_French_public_debt)
title: Illegitimate French public debt
uri: Illegitimate-French-public-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Illegitimate_French_public_debt%29
content:
<p>
A study by economists concludes that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/09/french-public-debt-audit-illegitimate-working-class-internationalim">60%
of French public debt is illegitimate</a> — imposed on the
country by looters.
<p>
The percentage will be much bigger in poor countries that were easier
for the looters to push around.
<p>
So the next step is to cancel the illegitimate debt.  Is it possible
to distinguish legitimate bonds from illegitimate ones so as to cancel
only the latter?


title: Global heating threatens fruit and nut trees
uri: Global-heating-threatens-fruit-and-nut-trees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Global_heating_threatens_fruit_and_nut_trees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Global_heating_threatens_fruit_and_nut_trees%29

content:
<p>
Global
heating <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/06/californias-fog-disappearing-drought">threatens
fruit and nut trees in California's central valley.</a>


title: Egg production company's illegal practices
uri: Egg-production-company-s-illegal-practices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Egg_production_company's_illegal_practices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Egg_production_company%27s_illegal_practices%29

content:
<p>
Jack DeCoster owned 10% of US egg production, and
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/06/over-easy-one-time-king-us-egg-production-cops-plea">repeatedly
committed fraud as well as mistreatment of employees</a>.  His
company's illegal practices were responsible for making at least 2000
people sick with salmonella.
<p>
The fact that the company was able to continue operating for 14 years
after it was first caught demonstrates that inspection needs to be
stronger.  We must treat companies with the suspicion we would give to
gang members and juvenile delinquents.


title: Investigate Bill Gates' Role in Common Core
uri: Investigate-Bill-Gates-Role-in-Common-Core
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Investigate_Bill_Gates'_Role_in_Common_Core)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Investigate_Bill_Gates%27_Role_in_Common_Core%29

content:
<p>
Time for Congress
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/09-1">Investigate
Bill Gates' Role in Common Core.</a>
<p>
It is interesting that Republicans have said little to oppose the
effective cancellation of states' rights in the area of education.


title: A 13-year-old boy has passed the Turing test
uri: A-13-year-old-boy-has-passed-the-Turing-test
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(A_13-year-old_boy_has_passed_the_Turing_test)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28A_13-year-old_boy_has_passed_the_Turing_test%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/jun/09/13-year-old-boy-passes-the-turing-test-spoof">A
13-year-old boy has passed the Turing test.</a>


title: Israel cites Guantanamo as an example
uri: Israel-cites-Guantanamo-as-an-example
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Israel_cites_Guantanamo_as_an_example)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Israel_cites_Guantanamo_as_an_example%29

content:
<p>
With Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to protest imprisonment
without
trial, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/09/israel-force-feeding-law-palestinian-hunger-strikers">Israel
plans to force-feed them, and cites Guantanamo as an example.</a>
<p>
When the US practices torture, it spreads torture around the world.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Urban_design_and_architecture)
title: Urban design and architecture
uri: Urban-design-and-architecture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Urban_design_and_architecture%29
content:
<p>
Modern urban design and architecture is
systematically <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/09/spikes-homeless-london-metal-alcove-defensive-architecture-poverty">designed
to deny homeless people a place to lie down</a>, so that the callous
and successful will be spared the ugly sight of them.
<p>
The article also explains how aid-cutting right wing governments
develop bureaucratic excuses that systematically refuse homeless
people any help in finding a place to sleep.  This goes hand in hand
with the policies that make so many people homeless.


title: Pakistan's Taliban attacked Karachi airport
uri: Pakistan-s-Taliban-attacked-Karachi-airport
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Pakistan's_Taliban_attacked_Karachi_airport)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Pakistan%27s_Taliban_attacked_Karachi_airport%29

content:
<p>
Pakistan's
Taliban <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/09/pakistan-taliban-karachi-attack-peace-talks">attacked
Karachi airport with suicide bombers</a> and accused the government of
using peace negotiations as a sham.
<p>
The basis for that accusation seems to be that the government did not
cease fire during the talks.  But if no cease-fire was agreed on,
continuing to fight while negotiating was not dishonest.


title: Air conditioning making US cities hotter
uri: Air-conditioning-making-US-cities-hotter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Air_conditioning_making_US_cities_hotter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Air_conditioning_making_US_cities_hotter%29

content:
<p>
Air conditioning
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/09/air-conditioning-raising-night-time-temperatures-us">making
US cities substantially hotter, leading to more use of air
conditioning</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(China_CO2_emissions)
title: China CO2 emissions
uri: China-CO2-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28China_CO2_emissions%29
content:
<p>
China
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/09/chinese-official-plays-down-emission-cut-expectations">quashed
the hopes that it would push for cuts in world CO2 emissions</a>.
<p>
I guess losing Shanghai and Suzhou is not that important to the rulers
of China after all.


title: Urgent: Reduce CO2 emissions from power plants
uri: Urgent-Reduce-CO2-emissions-from-power-plants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Urgent:_Reduce_CO2_emissions_from_power_plants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reduce_CO2_emissions_from_power_plants%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support the EPA
in <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocac?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=11092">reducing
CO2 emissions from power plants.</a>


title: Urgent: End the overuse of antibiotics on farm animals
uri: Urgent-End-the-overuse-of-antibiotics-on-farm-animals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Urgent:_End_the_overuse_of_antibiotics_on_farm_animals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_the_overuse_of_antibiotics_on_farm_animals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="http://www.democrats.com/end-the-overuse-of-antibiotics-on-factory-farms">ending
the overuse of antibiotics on farm animals.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Child_poverty_in_UK)
title: Child poverty in UK
uri: Child-poverty-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Child_poverty_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
The UK government
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/09/child-poverty-goals-unattainable-report">fall
far short in its supposed effort to reduce child poverty.</a>
<p>
That's because its important policies are designed for dooH niboR and
increase child poverty.


title: Western governments and companies supported monarch of Qatar
uri: Western-governments-and-companies-supported-monarch-of-Qatar
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Western_governments_and_companies_supported_monarch_of_Qatar)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Western_governments_and_companies_supported_monarch_of_Qatar%29

content:
<p>
The corrupt association of Western governments and Western companies
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/migrant-workers-dying-qatar-world-cup">supported
the monarch of Qatar in luring hundreds of thousands of migrant
workers into semi-slavery.</a>
<p>
This has proved fatal to hundreds of them, and left a far larger
number trapped or maimed, but it is an injustice to each and every
one.
<p>
I suspect that the government of Nepal declines to act because it
wants the foreign exchange that the migrants send home.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(The_high_expense_of_college)
title: The high expense of college
uri: The-high-expense-of-college
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28The_high_expense_of_college%29
content:
<p>
The high expense of college in the US relates to a change in attitude:
treating college as
a <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/06/08/colleges_are_full_of_it_behind_the_three_decade_scheme_to_raise_tuition_bankrupt_generations_and_hypnotize_the_media/">ticket
to the middle class rather than as a way to give society educated
citizens.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Urgent:_authorize_postal_banking)
title: Urgent: authorize postal banking
uri: Urgent-authorize-postal-banking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_authorize_postal_banking%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/sign-the-petition-allow-post-offices-to-offer-basic-banking-services-1">authorize
postal banking.</a>


title: States that lean right-wing are most dependent
uri: States-that-lean-right-wing-are-most-dependent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(States_that_lean_right-wing_are_most_dependent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28States_that_lean_right-wing_are_most_dependent%29

content:
<p>
In the US, the states that lean right-wing are
also <a href="http://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/">most
dependent on federal government spending.</a>
<p>
It is not obvious what this implies.  My theory is that the
governments of those states have imposed laws that impoverish people,
causing them to get more federal aid per capita.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Serbia_is_threatened_by_censorship)
title: Serbia is threatened by censorship
uri: Serbia-is-threatened-by-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Serbia_is_threatened_by_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Serbia is threatened by censorship — and not just on the
internet; people who criticize state
actions <a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/06/08/letter-from-serbia-we-are-dro.html">face
threats for "ruining the reputation" of the government</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Big_Data_has_inherent_biases)
title: Big Data has inherent biases
uri: Big-Data-has-inherent-biases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Big_Data_has_inherent_biases%29
content:
<p>
Big Data
has <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/04/the-hidden-biases-in-big-data/">inherent
biases from the system that collects it.</a>


title: Urgent: Tell Walmart to stop paying low wages
uri: Urgent-Tell-Walmart-to-stop-paying-low-wages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_Walmart_to_stop_paying_low_wages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Walmart_to_stop_paying_low_wages%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell Walmart
to <a href="http://other98.com/walmart-go-subsidize-yourself">stop
paying wages so low that employees depend on public assistance</a>.


title: Urgent: Call on the EPA to ban neonicotinoids
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-EPA-to-ban-neonicotinoids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_EPA_to_ban_neonicotinoids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_the_EPA_to_ban_neonicotinoids%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4667">call
on the EPA to ban neonicotinoids,</a> which have now
been <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#14_December_2012_%28More_evidence_ties_bee_deaths_to_neonicotinoids%29">tied
very clearly to colony collapse disorder of bees.</a>


title: Killing of two Palestinian teenagers by Israeli troops
uri: Killing-of-two-Palestinian-teenagers-by-Israeli-troops
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Killing_of_two_Palestinian_teenagers_by_Israeli_troops)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Killing_of_two_Palestinian_teenagers_by_Israeli_troops%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch says the killing of two Palestinian teenagers by
Israeli
troops <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/09-4">was
a war crime.</a>


title: Urgent: Vegetables and fruits in school lunches
uri: Urgent-Vegetables-and-fruits-in-school-lunches
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Urgent:_Vegetables_and_fruits_in_school_lunches)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Vegetables_and_fruits_in_school_lunches%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4203&autologin=true">preserve
requirements for vegetables and fruits in school lunches.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Google's_Right_to_be_Forgotten)
title: Google's Right to be Forgotten
uri: Google-s-Right-to-be-Forgotten
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Google%27s_Right_to_be_Forgotten%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://edri.org/forgotten/">Google's Right to be Forgotten
— Industrial Scale Misinformation?</a>
<p>
I just have one small point to criticize: it says "breaching US
intellectual property law", but I think this really refers to
copyright law only.  By
using <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">"intellectual
property"</a>, the article spuriously drags in patent law, trade
secret law, trademark law, publicity rights, and others.
<p>
If it had said "breaching US copyright law", it would be shorter and
clearer -- and correct, too!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Resistance_to_standardized_testing)
title: Resistance to standardized testing
uri: Resistance-to-standardized-testing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Resistance_to_standardized_testing%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/10-1">Resistance to
standardized testing</a> in the US, Canada and Mexico.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Legalization_of_marijuana)
title: Legalization of marijuana
uri: Legalization-of-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Legalization_of_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
Legalization of marijuana makes it possible
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/pot-brownies-cannabis-testing-lab">require
products to provide the dose they say they provide.</a>


title: A plan to protect New York City from rising sea levels
uri: A-plan-to-protect-New-York-City-from-rising-sea-levels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(A_plan_to_protect_New_York_City_from_rising_sea_levels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28A_plan_to_protect_New_York_City_from_rising_sea_levels%29

content:
<p>
A plan to protect New York City from rising sea levels uses
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/a-335m-project-to-save-nyc-from-climate-catastrophe/">enlightened
methods rather than levees that are dead space.</a>
<p>
Any protection that we build will work only up to a certain amount of
sea level rise.  What amount of rise is this project intended to cope
with, and roughly when will it cease to be enough?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Genetic_Testing_of_Citizens)
title: Genetic Testing of Citizens
uri: Genetic-Testing-of-Citizens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Genetic_Testing_of_Citizens%29
content:
<p>
Genetic Testing of Citizens Is
a <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/24184-genetic-testing-of-citizens-is-a-backdoor-into-total-population-surveillance-by-governments-and-companies">Backdoor
Into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Businesses_are_arming_drones)
title: Businesses are arming drones
uri: Businesses-are-arming-drones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Businesses_are_arming_drones%29
content:
<p>
Businesses are <a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1430">arming
drones with not-always-lethal weapons to attack striking workers.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Selfish_right-wing_values)
title: Selfish right-wing values
uri: Selfish-right-wing-values
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Selfish_right-wing_values%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/10/labour-britain-selfishness-market-inequality">Right-wing
policies of cruelty spread selfish right-wing values</a>, which
ultimately make the people in a country more unhappy, even those who
aren't poor.


title: The boats that catch feed for Thai prawn
uri: The-boats-that-catch-feed-for-Thai-prawn
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(The_boats_that_catch_feed_for_Thai_prawn)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28The_boats_that_catch_feed_for_Thai_prawn%29

content:
<p>
The boats that catch feed for Thai prawn
farms <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/10/supermarket-prawns-thailand-produced-slave-labour">are
crewed by slaves, who are beaten and even killed at the whim of the
owners.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Islamist_rebels_conquer_Mosul)
title: Islamist rebels conquer Mosul
uri: Islamist-rebels-conquer-Mosul
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Islamist_rebels_conquer_Mosul%29
content:
<p>
Islamist rebels in Iraq, affiliated with al Qa'ida, have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/iraq-sunni-insurgents-islamic-militants-seize-control-mosul">conquered
Mosul</a>.
<p>
At one point, the Bush forces managed to separate the traditional
Sunni leaders from al Qa'ida by paying them.  Maliki dropped the
practice, and now the fanatics seem to rule the Sunni areas
uncontested.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Root_for_the_World_Cup_protesters)
title: Root for the World Cup protesters
uri: Root-for-the-World-Cup-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Root_for_the_World_Cup_protesters%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/10/world-cup-protesters-fifa-demand-reform">Why
you should</a> root for the World Cup protesters.
<p>
I won't pay attention to the games themselves — I don't
care who wins them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Australian_medical_cuts)
title: Australian medical cuts
uri: Australian-medical-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Australian_medical_cuts%29
content:
<p>
Australian medical cuts will force old, sick and poor people to do
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/old-sick-poor-stop-taking-vital-drugs">without
medicine</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Slavoj_Zizek_on_Ukraine)
title: Slavoj iek on Ukraine
uri: Slavoj-i-ek-on-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Slavoj_Zizek_on_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/ukraine-slavoj-zizek-lenin">Slavoj
iek on Ukraine</a>.
<p>
How ironic is the Russian admiration of Stalin as a sort of great
fascist.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Soviet-style_govt_in_Belarus)
title: Soviet-style gov't in Belarus
uri: Soviet-style-gov-t-in-Belarus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Soviet-style_govt_in_Belarus%29
content:
<p>
A Belarusian politician, from Belarus's short period of democracy,
says that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/soviet-union-comeback">Soviet-style
government is making a comeback</a>.
<p>
Democracy still exists in parts of the old Soviet Union, such as the
Baltic states, Georgia, Armenia, and in Ukraine more or less.
In addition, Kyrgyzstan has a fragile democracy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Cost_of_oil_extraction)
title: Cost of oil extraction
uri: Cost-of-oil-extraction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Cost_of_oil_extraction%29
content:
<p>
Extraction of oil is becoming 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/10/inevitable-demise-fossil-fuel-empire">too
expensive for oil companies</a>, so the rate of extraction will have
to decrease.
<p>
Some companies are writing off substantial amounts of supposed
reserves, but this is not yet proceeding at the rate needed to
eliminate the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_April_2013_(Fossil_fuel_reserves)">carbon
bubble</a>.
<p>
The Koch brothers will try to force the US to move towards toxic coal
rather than towards renewable energy and efficiency improvements.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Privatized_prisons_for_non-citizens)
title: Privatized prisons for non-citizens
uri: Privatized-prisons-for-non-citizens
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Privatized_prisons_for_non-citizens%29

content:
<p>
The US government puts non-citizens into 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/texas-federal-prisons-immigrants-aclu">special
privatized prisons</a> where they are treated horribly.
<p>
Americans, how would you feel if some other country gave special bad
treatment to prisoners who are US citizens, because they are
foreigners?  This is the same.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Global_heating_axis)
title: Global heating axis
uri: Global-heating-axis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Global_heating_axis%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/10/climate-unity-dealt-blow-as-australia-and-canada-take-issue-with-us-stance">Australia
and Canada</a> have made a boil-the-Earth global heating axis.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(The_intervention_in_Libya)
title: The intervention in Libya
uri: The-intervention-in-Libya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28The_intervention_in_Libya%29
content:
<p>
The intervention in Libya has had a lot of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/09-3">bad
consequences</a>.  I say this as one who supported the intervention.
<p>
Would it have been less bad to do nothing and let Gaddafi crush the
rebels?  Was there some other way to prevent this that would have led
to a better outcome?  I don't know.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Walmart_truck_driver_sleep_deprived)
title: Walmart truck driver sleep deprived
uri: Walmart-truck-driver-sleep-deprived
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Walmart_truck_driver_sleep_deprived%29

content:
<p>
A fatal collision between a Walmart truck and a bus was caused by a
truck driver that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/09/tracy-morgan-walmart-truck-driver-hadnt-slept-24-hours">had
not slept in 24 hours</a>.
<p>
I wonder why the driver had not slept for 24 hours.
Was it perhaps that his employer puts drivers under pressure
that in practice requires them to do this to get by?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Climate_Catastrophe)
title: Climate Catastrophe
uri: Climate-Catastrophe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Climate_Catastrophe%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/02/where-is-the-signboard-to-warn-of-a-climate-catastrophe">
Where Is the Signboard</a> to Warn of a Climate Catastrophe?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(TAFTA)
title: TAFTA
uri: 2014-06-11-TAFTA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28TAFTA%29
content:
<p>
In addition to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/30-4">
attacking our rights and undermining regulation of
business</a>,
TAFTA aka TTIP would lead to only a tiny amount of economic growth.
<p>
That growth would not go to workers, because treaties like this give
business more power to drive down wages and hurt working conditions.
The plutocrats would grab all the benefits, and more, leaving workers
worse off than without the treaty.
<p>
TTIP stands for "This Treaty Is Plutocratic".<br>
TAFTA (its other name) stands for "Turn All Freedom To Ashes".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 10_June_2014_(Mental_health_care)
title: Mental health care
uri: Mental-health-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Mental_health_care%29
content:
<p>
Mental health care in the US is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/27/-sp-americas-mental-health-care-system-crisis">
totally inadequate</a>.
<p>
The cause, of course, is insufficient funds, which in turn is caused
by plutocracy.


title: Victims of sexual violence in war should get reparations
uri: Victims-of-sexual-violence-in-war-should-get-reparations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Victims_of_sexual_violence_in_war_should_get_reparations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Victims_of_sexual_violence_in_war_should_get_reparations%29

content:
<p>
The victims of sexual violence in
war <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/11/ending-sexual-violence-conflict-summit-reparations-un-women-mlambo-ngcuka">should
get reparations.</a>
<p>
First of all, they are entitled to abortions, without charge or fuss,
so they are not compelled to bear the child of a rapist who may also
have murdered their relatives or friends.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Mines_in_Congo)
title: Mines in Congo
uri: Mines-in-Congo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Mines_in_Congo%29
content:
<p>
A legal requirement on manufacturers to register their mineral supply
chains
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/congo-mines-no-longer-grip-warlords-militias-report-enough-project">prized
2/3 of the mines in the Congo away from warlords.</a>
<p>
This suggests that registration of the supply chain could also put an
end to other forms of gross industrial wrong, such as deforestation
and exploitative factory conditions.


title: San Francisco will vote on raising the minimum wage
uri: San-Francisco-will-vote-on-raising-the-minimum-wage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(San_Francisco_will_vote_on_raising_the_minimum_wage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28San_Francisco_will_vote_on_raising_the_minimum_wage%29

content:
<p>
San
Francisco <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/san-francisco-15-minum-wage-vote-november">will
vote on raising the minimum wage.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(The_Iraqi_army_is_collapsing)
title: The Iraqi army is collapsing
uri: The-Iraqi-army-is-collapsing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28The_Iraqi_army_is_collapsing%29
content:
<p>
The Iraqi army
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/mosul-isis-gunmen-middle-east-states">collapsing
before attacks by Isis.</a>
<p>
There is a dispute about whether the troops ran away or corrupt
officers pulled them out.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(US_corn_production_in_danger)
title: US corn production in danger
uri: US-corn-production-in-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28US_corn_production_in_danger%29
content:
<p>
US corn
production <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/11/cliamte-threat-america-corn-crop">is
in danger from global heating.</a>


title: Sentenced to 15 years in prison for leading a protest
uri: Sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-leading-a-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Sentenced_to_15_years_in_prison_for_leading_a_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Sentenced_to_15_years_in_prison_for_leading_a_protest%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian freedom Alaa Abd El Fattah has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/egyptian-activist-alaa-abd-el-fattah-jailed">sentenced
to 15 years in prison for leading a protest.</a>
<p>
Many governments imprison people for protesting.  In the
US, <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_April_2014_%28Prosecution_of_Occupy_activists%29">the
thugs attack protesters and then accuse them.</a> Egypt openly admits
that the crime is protesting, thus declares its opposition to human
rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Ukraine's_Tax_Cheats)
title: Ukraine's Tax Cheats
uri: Ukraine-s-Tax-Cheats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Ukraine%27s_Tax_Cheats%29
content:
<p>
How Ukraine's Tax
Cheats <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/ukraine-tax-scam">Stole
Billions from the Country's Coffers.</a>


title: London plans to equip its thugs with water cannon
uri: London-plans-to-equip-its-thugs-with-water-cannon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(London_plans_to_equip_its_thugs_with_water_cannon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28London_plans_to_equip_its_thugs_with_water_cannon%29

content:
<p>
London plans
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/11/boris-johnson-water-cannon-blast-theresa-may">equip
its thugs with water cannon</a> as a symbolic statement of readiness
to repress possible resistance to plutocratic rule.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Chris_Christie's_tax_subsidy_policy)
title: Chris Christie's tax subsidy policy
uri: Chris-Christie-s-tax-subsidy-policy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Chris_Christie%27s_tax_subsidy_policy%29

content:
<p>
Chris Christie's policy, offering a tax subsidy to every company that
threatens to move jobs out of New
Jersey, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/new-jersey-subsidy-program-struggling-economy-christie">has
done a lot of harm to state income and hardly any good for the state's
economy.</a>
<p>
In general, when governments compete to make handouts to businesses,
the businesses gain and the people lose.  When a politician says he
thinks his job includes handouts to companies if they put their jobs
in a certain district, state, or company, that means he has the wrong
political outlook.


title: Urgent: Support the UN plan for ocean sanctuaries
uri: Urgent-Support-the-UN-plan-for-ocean-sanctuaries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Urgent:_Support_the_UN_plan_for_ocean_sanctuaries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_UN_plan_for_ocean_sanctuaries%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Kerry
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1629">support
the UN plan for ocean sanctuaries.</a>


title: Isis, more cruel and vicious than al Qa'ida
uri: Isis-more-cruel-and-vicious-than-al-Qa-ida
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Isis,_more_cruel_and_vicious_than_al_Qa'ida)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Isis%2C_more_cruel_and_vicious_than_al_Qa%27ida%29

content:
<p>
Correction: the Islamist fanatics that have conquered Mosul are not al
Qa'ida.  Their
group, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/isis-too-extreme-al-qaida-terror-jihadi">Isis,
is even more cruel and vicious than al Qa'ida.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(UK_threatens_to_deport_Tamil_refugee)
title: UK threatens to deport Tamil refugee
uri: UK-threatens-to-deport-Tamil-refugee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28UK_threatens_to_deport_Tamil_refugee%29

content:
<p>
The
UK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/sri-lankan-tamil-beaten-raped-deportation-uk">threatens
to deport a Tamil refugee back to Sri Lanka</a> for the second time.
The thugs raped and tortured him after his first deportation.
<p>
He says he will die rather than be sent back there again.
<p>
It is not an accident that the UK does this.  The legal system has
been designed to create excuses to reject refugees, and that
systematically leads to results like these.  If he comes to the point
of killing himself, I hope he does it in a spectacular way that will
shame the officials (both the British and the Sri Lankan) who will
have driven him to it.


title: Public pressure made oil company drop plans to drill
uri: Public-pressure-made-oil-company-drop-plans-to-drill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Public_pressure_made_oil_company_drop_plans_to_drill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Public_pressure_made_oil_company_drop_plans_to_drill%29

content:
<p>
Public pressure has made an oil
company <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/11/soco-oil-virunga-national-park-congo-wwf">drop
plans to drill in Virunga national park</a> (where half the world's
mountain gorillas live).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Cantor_was_defeated)
title: Cantor was defeated
uri: Cantor-was-defeated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Cantor_was_defeated%29
content:
<p>
Congresscritter Cantor
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/us-house-majority-leader-eric-cantor-loses-primary-virginia">defeated
in the Republican primary by a tea party extremist.</a>
<p>
This could cause Republicans to become even more bent on sabotaging
the US government than they were last year.


title: Haitian quake survivors used as 'slaves'
uri: Haitian-quake-survivors-used-as-slaves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Haitian_quake_survivors_used_as_'slaves')

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Haitian_quake_survivors_used_as_%27slaves%27%29

content:
<p>
Haitian quake
survivors <a href="http://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes.com/nouvelles/internationale/haitian_quake_survivors_used_as_slaves_in_building_of_world_cup_.html">used
as 'slaves' in building of World Cup stadium in Brazil.</a>
<p>
Haitian migrant workers are being worked into the ground building
stadiums for the World Cup in Brazil, and the subcontractors that
hired them don't pay them.


