# articles

title: Urgent: Support Vivek Murthy for Surgeon General
uri: Urgent-Support-Vivek-Murthy-for-Surgeon-General
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Urgent:_Support_Vivek_Murthy_for_Surgeon_General)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Vivek_Murthy_for_Surgeon_General%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/stand-up-to-the-nra-and-support-your-nomi">tell
Democrats</a> to stand behind Vivek Murthy for Surgeon General.


title: Urgent: Tell Michelle Obama to call for labeling GMOs
uri: Urgent-Tell-Michelle-Obama-to-call-for-labeling-GMOs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_Michelle_Obama_to_call_for_labeling_GMOs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Michelle_Obama_to_call_for_labeling_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13500">tell
Michelle Obama</a> that if she's interested in food labels, she should
call for labeling GMOs.


title: Urgent: Save the New York Public Library
uri: Urgent-Save-the-New-York-Public-Library
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Urgent:_Save_the_New_York_Public_Library)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Save_the_New_York_Public_Library%29

content:
<p>
In New York City, or able to help remotely: help
<a href="http://savenypl.org/">save the New York Public Library</a>
from a "renovation" that would convert it to 
<a href="http://www.savenypl.org/the-truth-about-the-central-library-plan/">ebooks</a>.


title: $4.5 million settlement for Occupy activist injured by Oakland thugs
uri: 4-5-million-settlement-for-Occupy-activist-injured-by-Oakland-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(4.5_million_settlement_for_Occupy_activist_injured_by_Oakland_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%284.5_million_settlement_for_Occupy_activist_injured_by_Oakland_thugs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/21-6">$4.5
Million Settlement for Anti-War Veteran, Occupy Activist Injured by
Oakland Police</a>.


title: 14,000 aboriginal children taken away from parents
uri: 14-000-aboriginal-children-taken-away-from-parents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(14000_aboriginal_children_taken_away_from_parents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%2814000_aboriginal_children_taken_away_from_parents%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government has taken 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/21/john-pilger-indigenous-australian-families">14,000
aboriginal children</a> away from their parents, in many cases without
giving any reason, and is planning to legislate an excuse to make the
removals permanent.
<p>
This makes me think of the children that were taken away from
dissidents in Argentina who were 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#19_July_2011_(Argentina_Prosecuting_Officers)">murdered
by the US-supported military rulers</a>.  Grandparents continue to try
to find them.


title: The UK's plan to "help" people find work
uri: The-UK-s-plan-to-help-people-find-work
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(The_UKs_plan_to_help_people_find_work)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28The_UKs_plan_to_help_people_find_work%29

content:
<p>
The UK's plan to "help" people find work has placed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/21/work-programme-creates-48000-long-term-jobs-three-years">just
48,000 people in three years</a>.  However, it might appear more
effective if judged by the 300,000 poor unemployed people it provided
an excuse to punish, providing opportunities to claim that they are
unemployed because they are lazy, which is justification for the
government's cruel austerity program.


title: Yahoo, Google and Apple claim right to look at users' emails
uri: Yahoo-Google-and-Apple-claim-right-to-look-at-users-emails
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Yahoo,_Google_and_Apple_claim_right_to_look_at_users_emails)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Yahoo%2C_Google_and_Apple_claim_right_to_look_at_users_emails%29

content:
<p>
Yahoo, Google and Apple claim the right to look at users' emails 
<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/21/yahoo-google-and-apple-claim-right-to-read-user-emails'>"if
necessary"</a>.
<p>
I don't think that this criterion of "protecting the property" of the
company can be justified.  However, there may be times when looking at
users' files is necessary for the maintenance <em>of the mail service
itself</em>.
<p>
In that sort of situation, I think the service operator must be
allowed to do it.  To prevent abuses, the sysadmins who do this should
never be allowed to talk about what they have seen.
<p>
If the criteria are broader than that, we should oppose them.


title: The biggest stockholders in Canadian tar oil sands
uri: The-biggest-stockholders-in-Canadian-tar-oil-sands
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(The_biggest_stockholders_in_Canadian_tar_oil_sands)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28The_biggest_stockholders_in_Canadian_tar_oil_sands%29

content:
<p>
The biggest stockholders in the Canadian tar oil sands are the 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/20/1286250/-Guess-who-s-the-major-stakeholder-in-Canada-s-oil-sands-Of-course-it-s-the-nbsp-Kochs">Koch
brothers</a>.


title: A step forward in understanding causes of Alzheimer's disease
uri: A-step-forward-in-understanding-causes-of-Alzheimer-s-disease
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(A_step_forward_in_understanding_causes_of_Alzheimers_disease)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28A_step_forward_in_understanding_causes_of_Alzheimers_disease%29

content:
<p>
A step forward in understanding the causes of Alzheimer's disease highlights
the 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/20/1286092/-Breakthrough-study-identifies-protein-that-protects-aging-brain-from-Alzheimer-s-and-dementia">need
to send more research funds efforts in that direction</a>, rather than
for war or weapons.
<p>
Republicans oppose research into preventing senility because it might
enable a bunch of embittered old people to <em>stop being
Republican</em>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Uri_Avnery_on_Ukraine)
title: Uri Avnery on Ukraine
uri: Uri-Avnery-on-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Uri_Avnery_on_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery comments on Ukraine, and 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1395415036/">compares
the situation with the one that started World War I</a>.


title: New FDA Food Label Rules Ignore the GMO Elephant in the Room
uri: New-FDA-Food-Label-Rules-Ignore-the-GMO-Elephant-in-the-Room
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(New_FDA_Food_Label_Rules_Ignore_the_GMO_Elephant_in_the_Room)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28New_FDA_Food_Label_Rules_Ignore_the_GMO_Elephant_in_the_Room%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_29532.cfm">New 
FDA Food Label Rules Ignore the GMO Elephant in the Room</a>.


title: How UK thugs get protesters to inform on their movements
uri: How-UK-thugs-get-protesters-to-inform-on-their-movements
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 22_March_2014_(How_UK_thugs_get_protesters_to_inform_on_their_movements)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#22_March_2014_%28How_UK_thugs_get_protesters_to_inform_on_their_movements%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs use 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2014/mar/21/undercover-police-and-policing-peter-francis">both
the carrot (money) and the stick (threats and intimidation)</a> to get
protesters to inform on their movements.
<p>
We also know that once the thugs have informers in political groups,
they don't limit themselves to using the information to stop the
occasional real criminal that might show up.  Thugs work in cahoots
with companies 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_August_2013_(How_did_Shell_get_Irish_thugs_to_attack_protesters)">against 
protesters that criticize the companies' abusive or dangerous
practices</a> and even help companies 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_August_2013_(UK_needs_deep_public_inquiry_into_thugs%27_infiltration)">blacklist 
people that might be "inconvenient"</a>.


title: Urgent: Vivek Murthy for Surgeon General
uri: Urgent-Vivek-Murthy-for-Surgeon-General
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Urgent:_Vivek_Murthy_for_Surgeon_General)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Vivek_Murthy_for_Surgeon_General%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/stand-up-to-the-nra-and-support-your-nomi">tell
Democrats</a> to stand behind Vivek Murthy for Surgeon General.


title: Urgent: Senator Warren's plan for reducing student loan interest rates
uri: Urgent-Senator-Warren-s-plan-for-reducing-student-loan-interest-rates
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(Urgent:_Senator_Warrens_plan_for_reducing_student_loan_interest_rates)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Senator_Warrens_plan_for_reducing_student_loan_interest_rates%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/let-s-end-the-student-debt-crisis">support
Senator Warren's plan</a> for reducing student loan interest rates by
taxing millionaires more.


title: People living from work hour to work hour
uri: People-living-from-work-hour-to-work-hour
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(People_living_from_work_hour_to_work_hour)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28People_living_from_work_hour_to_work_hour%29

content:
<p>
Instead of living from paycheck to paycheck, now people live 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/22-1">from work hour
to work hour</a>, insecure about whether they will get enough work
hours to pay the bills, and on call all the time.
<p>
I suggest passing a law that stores must tell hourly wage workers
their schedule for each week by the previous Friday.  Work outside the
previously stated schedule should be paid time and a half.


title: NSA does snoop on privileged attorney-client communications
uri: NSA-does-snoop-on-privileged-attorney-client-communications
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(NSA_does_snoop_on_privileged_attorney-client_communications)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28NSA_does_snoop_on_privileged_attorney-client_communications%29

content:
<p>
NSA says it 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/03/tepid-nsa-american-bar-association-dialogue-around-spying-lawyers">does
snoop on privileged attorney-client communications</a>, but
<em>usually</em> doesn't really look at them.


title: Thugs that treat sign language as "aggression"
uri: Thugs-that-treat-sign-language-as-aggression
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(Thugs_that_treat_sign_language_as_aggression)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28Thugs_that_treat_sign_language_as_aggression%29

content:
<p>
Thugs' patterns of behavior regularly lead them to 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-free-speech/police-brutality-and-deaf-people">label
a deaf person as "aggressive"</a>, whereupon they beat that person to
within an inch of his life.
<p>
If you personally are not deaf, that doesn't mean you're safe.  Thugs
that treat sign language as "aggression" will treat lots of innocent
activities as "aggression".  If their response to this is to beat
people unconscious, they will beat up (and occasionally kill) lots of
people.  Which, of course, they do.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(Location_tracking)
title: Location tracking
uri: Location-tracking
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28Location_tracking%29
content:
<p>
In location tracking, the past isn't dead; it's 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/fighting-against-phony-location-privacy-protections-states">not
even past</a>.
<p>
I am reminded of the science fiction story (by Asimov?) about a device
that could be used to look at the distant past, whose inventor wanted
to use it to study history, but other people would have used it to
look at more recent past such as 1 day or 1 minute ago.


title: Republicans hate hard-working Americans
uri: Republicans-hate-hard-working-Americans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(Republicans_hate_hard-working_Americans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28Republicans_hate_hard-working_Americans%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/republicans-reveal-they-dont-just-hate-poor-and-jobless-they-hate-hard-working?paging=off">Republicans
Reveal They Don't Just Hate the Poor and Jobless — They Hate
Hard-working Americans!</a>
<p>
If you're not a plutocrat, Republicans will find some excuse to
mistreat you.
<p>
In Georgia they are 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/03/19/3416632/georgia-medicaid-expansion-rejected/">working
hard to make sure poor Americans get sick and die</a>.  That way they
won't be able to vote.


title: Northern India rapidly using up ground water
uri: Northern-India-rapidly-using-up-ground-water
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(Northern_India_rapidly_using_up_ground_water)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28Northern_India_rapidly_using_up_ground_water%29

content:
<p>
Northern India is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/22/water-decide-indian-elections-aam-admi">rapidly
using up its ground water</a>, and global heating is expected to
eliminate the Himalayan spring snow melt.  The result is disaster.
<p>
500 million IUDs, plus social changes to encourage their use, are
urgently needed.


title: Journalist imprisoned in Egypt denied medical care
uri: Journalist-imprisoned-in-Egypt-denied-medical-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(Journalist_imprisoned_in_Egypt_denied_medical_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28Journalist_imprisoned_in_Egypt_denied_medical_care%29

content:
<p>
A journalist imprisoned in Egypt has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/22/al-jazeera-journalist-arm-egypt-mohamed-fahmy-hospital">denied
medical care</a> and his arm no longer works.


title: US judge refuses overbroad digital search warrant
uri: US-judge-refuses-overbroad-digital-search-warrant
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(US_judge_refuses_overbroad_digital_search_warrant)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28US_judge_refuses_overbroad_digital_search_warrant%29

content:
<p>
One US judge has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/21-1">refused an
overbroad digital search warrant</a>.  Will others follow his example?


title: Funny rejection of trickle-down can't-tax-the-rich
uri: Funny-rejection-of-trickle-down-can-t-tax-the-rich
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Funny_rejection_of_trickle-down_cant-tax-the-rich)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Funny_rejection_of_trickle-down_cant-tax-the-rich%29

content:
<p>
The funniest 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/22/lucy-mangan-5-richest-own-more-than-bottom-20-percent">rejection
of trickle-down can't-tax-the-rich that</a> I can recall ever seeing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Facebook_face_recognition)
title: Facebook face recognition
uri: Facebook-face-recognition
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Facebook_face_recognition%29
content:
<p>
Facebook is 
<a href="http://rt.com/usa/deepface-instantaneous-facial-recognition-facebook-706/">doing
research to advance the accuracy of face recognition</a>.
<p>
Soon we will need to wear things on our faces that interfere with face
recognition.  People may enjoy reading 
<em>The Moon Moth</em>, by Jack Vance.


title: Taiwanese students protest trade treaty between Taiwan and China
uri: Taiwanese-students-protest-trade-treaty-between-Taiwan-and-China
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Taiwanese_students_protest_trade_treaty_between_Taiwan_and_China)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Taiwanese_students_protest_trade_treaty_between_Taiwan_and_China%29

content:
<p>
Taiwanese students protested a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/21/taiwan-youth-protests-china-trade-deal">free
trade treaty between Taiwan and China</a>.
<p>
I don't know the details of this treaty, but in general one must
expect those treaties to do harm.


title: Increased and Secretive Cell Phone Surveillance by Local Police
uri: Increased-and-Secretive-Cell-Phone-Surveillance-by-Local-Police
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Increased_and_Secretive_Cell_Phone_Surveillance_by_Local_Police)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Increased_and_Secretive_Cell_Phone_Surveillance_by_Local_Police%29

content:
<p>
'<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/21-9">Stingray</a>':
Increased and Secretive Cell Phone Surveillance by Local Police Raises
Alarms.


title: Russia agrees to European monitoring mission
uri: Russia-agrees-to-European-monitoring-mission
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 23_March_2014_(Russia_aggrees_to_European_monitoring_mission)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_March_2014_%28Russia_aggrees_to_European_monitoring_mission%29

content:
<p>
Russia has agreed to a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/21/ukraine-crisis-russia-agrees-ocse-monitoring-mission">European
monitoring mission</a>.
<p>
I think that Putin is giving an appearance of planning to invade other
parts of Ukraine as a threat so that the question will be not "Can
Putin keep Crimea" but rather "How to stop Putin from taking more."
Then the West and Ukraine will "meet him half way" by letting him keep
the Crimea.
<p>
If so, this agreement suggests that Putin has decided he has pushed
the act far enough, and it is time to make the deal.


title: US hawks make misleading comparison between Ukraine and Afghanistan
uri: US-hawks-make-misleading-comparison-between-Ukraine-and-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(US_hawks_make_misleading_comparison_between_Ukraine_and_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28US_hawks_make_misleading_comparison_between_Ukraine_and_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
US hawks make a 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/03/21/hawks-want-obama-to-be-more-like-jimmy-carter/">misleading
comparison between Ukraine and Afghanistan</a>.
<p>
Judged against what was at stake in the Cold War — people today
often forget what a tyranny the Soviet Union was, and how it kept
other countries under a harsh empire — Brzezinski's clever plan
was not obviously foolish.  We can't blame people in 1979 for not
envisioning that Islamic tyranny could return on a 12th-century model,
or that Afghanistan would devolve into a state of permanent civil war
lasting long after the Soviet Union ceased to exist.


title: Corporations' point of view on Fox News
uri: Corporations-point-of-view-on-Fox-News
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(Corporations_point_of_view_on_Fox_News)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28Corporations_point_of_view_on_Fox_News%29

content:
<p>
Fox News plans to offer corporations a 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/03/18/finally-corporate-america-will-have-a-voice/">chance
to present their point of view on TV</a>, as if they weren't doing
that all the time already.


title: FISA court judge says gov't lawyers misled him in court
uri: FISA-court-judge-says-gov-t-lawyers-misled-him-in-court
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(FISA_court_judge_says_govt_lawyers_misled_him_in_court)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28FISA_court_judge_says_govt_lawyers_misled_him_in_court%29

content:
<p>
A FISA court judge says, in effect, that the government lawyers misled
him in court to get 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/was-fisc-judge-misled-by-govt-lawyers-in-evidence-destruction-spat/">permission
to delete data sought for activists' lawsuits</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(Advances_in_surveillance_technology)
title: Advances in surveillance technology
uri: Advances-in-surveillance-technology
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28Advances_in_surveillance_technology%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/21/as_surveillance_costs_fall_could_the">As
Surveillance Costs Fall, Could the NSA Gain Ability to Record &
Replay Every Call, Everywhere?</a>
<p>
It states the general principle that we were protected in the past
from a high level of surveillance because it was so difficult, but
advances in surveillance technology took away our protection.
<p>
This article also explains how use of Google services (or any other
remote server services) by people in an organization enables the NSA
to identify the individuals in the organization.


title: CIA and NSA Wrongdoing Requires Independent Investigation
uri: CIA-and-NSA-Wrongdoing-Requires-Independent-Investigation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(CIA_and_NSA_Wrongdoing_Requires_Independent_Investigation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28CIA_and_NSA_Wrongdoing_Requires_Independent_Investigation%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11607">CIA
and NSA Wrongdoing Requires Independent Investigation, Says Former
Church Committee Staff</a>.


title: President of Uruguay offers to receive prisoners from Guantanamo
uri: President-of-Uruguay-offers-to-receive-prisoners-from-Guantanamo
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 24_March_2014_(President_of_Uruguay_offers_to_receive_prisoners_from_Guantanamo)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#24_March_2014_%28President_of_Uruguay_offers_to_receive_prisoners_from_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
President Mojica of Uruguay has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/22">offered to
receive some prisoners from Guantanamo in Uruguay</a>.  This may help
make it possible to empty the camp, but to get all the way there
depends on recognition by the US that it can't keep people prisoner
without trial.


title: Plans for possibly reducing nuclear weapons stocks
uri: Plans-for-possibly-reducing-nuclear-weapons-stocks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Plans_for_possibly_reducing_nuclear_weapons_stocks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Plans_for_possibly_reducing_nuclear_weapons_stocks%29

content:
<p>
The conquest of the Crimea has spiked plans for possibly 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2014/mar/23/world-leaders-nuclear-security-russian-ukraine-crisis">reducing
nuclear weapons stocks</a>.


title: Editors, not Snowden, decide which leaks to publish
uri: Editors-not-Snowden-decide-which-leaks-to-publish
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Editors,_not_Snowden,_decide_which_leaks_to_publish)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Editors%2C_not_Snowden%2C_decide_which_leaks_to_publish%29

content:
<p>
Snowden handed all his files to a few journalists and 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=1878">did not keep
them</a>.  Now it is Editors, not Snowden, that decide which leaks to
publish.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Senators_who_have_criticized_the_CIA)
title: Senators who have criticized the CIA
uri: Senators-who-have-criticized-the-CIA
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Senators_who_have_criticized_the_CIA%29

content:
<p>
Senators who have criticized the CIA are fighting only for advantage
within the system that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/23/dianne-feinstein-cia-senate-tony-soprano">maintains
the power for both sides</a>.
<p>
It is up to Americans to take this opportunity to rip apart the CIA's
power, and carry out the US's duty to end torture … and punish
the torturers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(The_spying-industrial_complex)
title: The spying-industrial complex
uri: The-spying-industrial-complex
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28The_spying-industrial_complex%29
content:
<p>
The spying-industrial complex is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/23/eisenhowers-military-industrial-warning-snowden-nsa">part
of the military-industrial complex</a> that President Eisenhower
warned Americans about.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Greek_judges_prosecuting_Golden_Dawn)
title: Greek judges prosecuting Golden Dawn
uri: Greek-judges-prosecuting-Golden-Dawn
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Greek_judges_prosecuting_Golden_Dawn%29

content:
<p>
Greek judges are prosecuting Golden Dawn in Greece as a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/golden-dawn-women-greece-neo-nazis">criminal
conspiracy to commit violence</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(International_law)
title: International law
uri: International-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28International_law%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/22-6">With
International Law in the News, Could We Make the U.S. Comply?</a>


title: 2/3 of US doctors advocate "medicare for all"
uri: 2-3-of-US-doctors-advocate-medicare-for-all
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Two-thirds_of_US_doctors_advocate_medicare_for_all)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Two-thirds_of_US_doctors_advocate_medicare_for_all%29

content:
<p>
2/3 of US doctors now advocate
"<a href='https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/22-5'>medicare for
all</a>" to reduce the administrative load and focus on helping
patients.


title: Wage levels in the UK expected to suffer until 2025
uri: Wage-levels-in-the-UK-expected-to-suffer-until-2025
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Wage_levels_in_the_UK_expected_to_suffer_until_2025)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Wage_levels_in_the_UK_expected_to_suffer_until_2025%29

content:
<p>
Wage levels in many industries in the UK are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/23/pay-key-industries-wont-recover-2025">expected
to suffer from austerity until 2025.
<p>
But wages won't recover in 2025.  By then, the effects of global
heating will be cutting into general standards of living, and millions
of jobs will have been lost to robots.


title: Turkish state's attempt to block access to Twitter
uri: Turkish-state-s-attempt-to-block-access-to-Twitter
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Turkish_states_attempt_to_block_access_to_Twitter)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Turkish_states_attempt_to_block_access_to_Twitter%29

content:
<p>
The Turkish state's first attempt to block access to Twitter was easy
to bypass, but it is 
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/22/turkey-moves-to-block-twitter-at-the-ip-level/">learning
to do better</a>.
<p>
As examples such as China show, it is possible for a state to censor
the Internet in ways that most people can't bypass.  There must be a
few Twitter users in China, but they can't reach many Chinese people
that way.  No technical limits stand between Turkey and tyranny.


title: Legislation to prevent death from overwork
uri: Legislation-to-prevent-death-from-overwork
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Legislation_to_prevent_death_from_overwork)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Legislation_to_prevent_death_from_overwork%29

content:
<p>
The Japanese government is considering 
<a href="http://japandailypress.com/death-from-overwork-bill-to-be-proposed-by-japans-ruling-party-2146150/">legislation
to prevent death from overwork</a>.


title: India's agriculture minister asked people to vote twice
uri: India-s-agriculture-minister-asked-people-to-vote-twice
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Indias_agriculture_minister_asked_people_to_vote_twice)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Indias_agriculture_minister_asked_people_to_vote_twice%29

content:
<p>
India's agriculture minister 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/india-minister-sharad-pawar-urges-supporters-vote-twice">asked
people to vote twice</a>.


title: Egypt sentences over 500 Morsi supporters to death
uri: Egypt-sentences-over-500-Morsi-supporters-to-death
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Egypt_sentences_over_500_Morsi_supporters_to_death)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Egypt_sentences_over_500_Morsi_supporters_to_death%29

content:
<p>
Egypt has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/egypt-death-sentence-529-morsi-supporters">sentenced
over 500 Morsi supporters to death</a>, after a trial that makes
Dubya's "military tribunals" look like the perfection of justice.


title: Libya's gov't showing disrespect for human rights
uri: Libya-s-gov-t-showing-disrespect-for-human-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Libyas_govt_showing_disrespect_for_human_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Libyas_govt_showing_disrespect_for_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
Libya's government is showing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/24/libya-disaster-shames-western-interventionists">disrespect
for human rights</a>, even as the country disintegrates.
<p>
I agree that in principle we have a duty to help fix these problems.
But what could we do?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(13_of_the_14_warmest_years_on_record)
title: 13 of the 14 warmest years on record
uri: 13-of-the-14-warmest-years-on-record
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%2813_of_the_14_warmest_years_on_record%29

content:
<p>
13 of the 14 warmest years on record have occurred 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/24/warmest-years-record-un-global-warming">in
this century</a>.


title: Chinese man sentenced to prison for filing application to hold protest
uri: Chinese-man-sentenced-to-prison-for-filing-application-to-hold-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Chinese_man_sentenced_to_prison_for_filing_application_to_hold_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Chinese_man_sentenced_to_prison_for_filing_application_to_hold_protest%29

content:
<p>
A Chinese man has been sentenced to prison for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/china-tiananmen-square-anniversary-protest-gu-yimin">filing
an application to hold a protest</a> about the Tiananmen Square
massacre.
<p>
You could draw the conclusion that "In China, don't ask, just do it."
On the other hand, by asking he proved an additional point about
Chinese repression.


title: Guards at Guantanamo prison planning for operating into 2017
uri: Guards-at-Guantanamo-prison-planning-for-operating-into-2017
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Guards_at_Guantanamo_prison_planning_for_operating_into_2017)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Guards_at_Guantanamo_prison_planning_for_operating_into_2017%29

content:
<p>
The guards at Guantanamo prison are already 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/23-0">planning for
operating into 2017</a>.
<p>
To clear the name of the United States of America, we must put an end
to imprisonment without trial.  Each prisoner is entitled to a 
<a href="http://stallman.org/guantanamero.html">fair trial or
release</a>.  If that means a risk that a few of them will engage in
terrorism, that does not change what justice means.  But Americans
need not worry about this, because it will not amount to much.  It
will be much less than the terrorism that the Guantanamo prison
inspires in the millions of Muslims that the US has not yet
imprisoned.


title: Promises Broken by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, 25 Years Later
uri: Promises-Broken-by-the-Exxon-Valdez-Oil-Spill-25-Years-Later
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Promises_Broken_by_the_Exxon_Valdez_Oil_Spill,_25_Years_Later)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Promises_Broken_by_the_Exxon_Valdez_Oil_Spill%2C_25_Years_Later%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/23-2">Promises
Broken by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, 25 Years Later</a>.


title: NSA focused specially on cracking Huawei systems
uri: NSA-focused-specially-on-cracking-Huawei-systems
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(NSA_focused_specially_on_cracking_Huawei_systems)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28NSA_focused_specially_on_cracking_Huawei_systems%29

content:
<p>
The NSA 
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-spied-on-chinese-government-and-networking-firm-huawei-a-960199.html">focused
specially on cracking Huawei systems</a>, including Huawei's own
systems.
<p>
Ironically, this is the same thing that the US government has
criticized Huawei for doing to the US.  (That criticism might be valid
for all I know.)


title: Children's books aimed specifically at girls or specifically at boys
uri: Children-s-books-aimed-specifically-at-girls-or-specifically-at-boys
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Childrens_books_aimed_specifically_at_girls_or_specifically_at_boys)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Childrens_books_aimed_specifically_at_girls_or_specifically_at_boys%29

content:
<p>
A reviewer 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/genderspecific-books-demean-all-our-children-so-the-independent-on-sunday-will-no-longer-review-anything-marketed-to-exclude-either-sex-9194694.html">refuses
to review</a> books aimed specifically at girls or specifically at
boys.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Rigid_overprotection_of_kids)
title: Rigid overprotection of kids
uri: Rigid-overprotection-of-kids
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Rigid_overprotection_of_kids%29
content:
<p>
Adrionna Harris took a razor blade away from another student and put
it in the trash, 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/20/student-suspended-for-taking-razor-blade">so
he would not hurt himself</a>.  For this she was suspended from school
by the "humans" in charge of the school, who have taught themselves to
imitate rigidly programmed robots.
<p>
Calling this an "over-reaction" is an injustice because it grants
"zero tolerance" undeserved legitimacy.
<p>
Rigid overprotection is not limited to the US.  A supermarket in the
UK ; he was
"<a href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-26574789'>too
young</a>".  What should three-year-olds eat with, their hands?
<p>
The timidity of the parent's complaint is shocking: is it reasonable
to refuse a 16-year-old a fork?  Or even a table knife?  Are
16-year-olds not supposed to be allowed access to cutlery?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Phone_call_records)
title: Phone call records
uri: 2014-03-26-Phone-call-records
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Phone_call_records%29
content:
<p>
An experiment with volunteers that allowed the investigators to
collect their phone call records proves just 
<a href="http://webpolicy.org/2014/03/12/metaphone-the-sensitivity-of-telephone-metadata/">how
much it is possible to tell about people that way</a>.


title: Poor Americans fall prey to payday loans
uri: Poor-Americans-fall-prey-to-payday-loans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Poor_Americans_fall_prey_to_payday_loans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Poor_Americans_fall_prey_to_payday_loans%29

content:
<p>
Poor Americans fall prey to payday loans that charge 

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/23/payday-lending-interest-banks-advantage-congress">350%
interest per year</a>.


title: Americans jobs that could be automated
uri: Americans-jobs-that-could-be-automated
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 25_March_2014_(Americans_jobs_that_could_be_automated)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#25_March_2014_%28Americans_jobs_that_could_be_automated%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-12/your-job-taught-to-machines-puts-half-u-s-work-at-risk.html">About
the study</a> that found 47% of Americans are in jobs that could be
automated in the next couple of decades.


title: Urgent: Call on Japanese gov't to stop underpaying Fukushima workers
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Japanese-gov-t-to-stop-underpaying-Fukushima-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_Japanese_govt_to_stop_underpaying_Fukushima_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Japanese_govt_to_stop_underpaying_Fukushima_workers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4158?n=62460194.yZ9Ob3">Call
on Japanese government</a> to stop underpaying homeless people working
at Fukushima, and to monitor workers' radiation exposure.


title: Force-feeding similar to water-boarding
uri: Force-feeding-similar-to-water-boarding
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Force-feeding_similar_to_water-boarding)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Force-feeding_similar_to_water-boarding%29

content:
<p>
Force-feeding (of hunger strikers) is 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-prisoners-rights-human-rights/whats-difference-between-force-feeding-and">pretty similar
to water-boarding</a>.
<p>
Even with no mistake, it still verges on torture.


title: FDA cites spoiled experiment as proof that Bisphenol A is safe
uri: FDA-cites-spoiled-experiment-as-proof-that-Bisphenol-A-is-safe
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(FDA_cites_spoiled_experiment_as_proof_that_Bisphenol_A_is_safe)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28FDA_cites_spoiled_experiment_as_proof_that_Bisphenol_A_is_safe%29

content:
<p>
The FDA cited a 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/scientists-slam-fda-study-bpa">spoiled
experiment as proof that Bisphenol A is safe.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(The_My_Lai_cover-up)
title: The My Lai cover-up
uri: The-My-Lai-cover-up
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28The_My_Lai_cover-up%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/24-1">Does New
Look at Documents Reveal Nixon's Hand in My Lai Cover-Up?</a>
<p>
Now we know whose Lai it was.


title: North Dakota oil drilling involves burning lots of natural gas
uri: North-Dakota-oil-drilling-involves-burning-lots-of-natural-gas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(North_Dakota_oil_drilling_involves_burning_lots_of_natural_gas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28North_Dakota_oil_drilling_involves_burning_lots_of_natural_gas%29

content:
<p>
North Dakota oil drilling involves 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/north-dakota-gas-flaring-doubles-pumping-co2-into-air-17212">burning
lots of natural gas</a>, pouring CO<sub>2</sub> into the air for no
use at all.


title: Whistleblower in London thug department driven out
uri: Whistleblower-in-London-thug-department-driven-out
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Whistleblower_in_London_thug_department_driven_out)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Whistleblower_in_London_thug_department_driven_out%29

content:
<p>
A whistleblower in the London thug department, who exposed official
misrepresentations in crime statistics, has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/25/metropolitan-police-whistleblower-crime-figures-resigns">driven
out by management mistreatment as well as bogus accusations</a>.


title: Surveillance power used by UK to catch whistleblower
uri: Surveillance-power-used-by-UK-to-catch-whistleblower
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Surveillance_power_used_by_UK_to_catch_whistleblower)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Surveillance_power_used_by_UK_to_catch_whistleblower%29

content:
<p>
The UK used 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/24/hmrc-criticised-mps-terror-law-tax-whistleblower-hodge">surveillance
power to catch a whistleblower</a> who exposed a scandalous tax deal
with Goldman Sachs.
<p>
We must stop accepting the small danger of "terrorists" as an excuse
for allowing government powers (such as surveillance) that present far
bigger dangers.


title: Jimmy Carter says Snowden has probably benefited US in long term
uri: Jimmy-Carter-says-Snowden-has-probably-benefited-US-in-long-term
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Jimmy_Carter_says_Snowden_has_probably_benefited_US_in_long_term)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Jimmy_Carter_says_Snowden_has_probably_benefited_US_in_long_term%29

content:
<p>
Jimmy Carter says he believes that Snowden has probably 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/23-1">benefited
the United States in the long term</a>.  And he is worried about
monitoring of his own email.


title: Huawei communications equipment puts you at risk of espionage by the US
uri: Huawei-communications-equipment-puts-you-at-risk-of-espionage-by-the-U
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Huawei_communications_equipment_puts_you_at_risk_of_espionage_by_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Huawei_communications_equipment_puts_you_at_risk_of_espionage_by_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The Huawei irony is even greater than I realized: buying Huawei
communications equipment puts you at risk of espionage, not by China,
but 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-chinese-servers-seen-as-spy-peril.html">by
the US</a>.
<p>
Is Huawei a front for Chinese military espionage?  Are Microsoft,
Apple, Google and Facebook fronts for US military espionage?  These
questions raise philosophical issues as well as factual issues.


title: Argentinian thugs regularly jail young poor people for wearing hood or cap
uri: Argentinian-thugs-regularly-jail-young-poor-people-for-wearing-hood-or
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Argentinian_thugs_regularly_jail_young_poor_people_for_wearing_hood_or_cap)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Argentinian_thugs_regularly_jail_young_poor_people_for_wearing_hood_or_cap%29

content:
<p>
In Argentina, thugs
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/03/behind-bars-young-poor-wearing-hat/">regularly
jail young poor people for wearing a hood or cap</a>.
<p>
This denies them job opportunities and turns them into a permanent
underclass.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2014-03-26-Global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-03-permafrost-exacerbates-climate.html">Thawing
of Arctic permafrost</a> exacerbates climate change.
<p>
"There is 100 times more carbon stored belowground than aboveground in  
the arctic, so observed changes in plant productivity are only a very  
small component of the story."
<p>
Global heating is turning a part of Brazil into a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/mar/24/brazil-desperate-for-drought-solutions">desert</a>.


title: Exxon-Mobil pressured to recognize effect of global heating
uri: Exxon-Mobil-pressured-to-recognize-effect-of-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Exxon-Mobil_pressured_to_recognize_effect_of_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Exxon-Mobil_pressured_to_recognize_effect_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
An investment fund's stockholder action pressured Exxon-Mobil to
promise to recognize that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/exxon-mobil-carbon-asset-risk-pressure-oil-gas-investors">its
claimed assets' value might be lost by global heating</a>.
<p>
This is because they are part of the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_August_2013_(Carbon_Bubble)">carbon
bubble</a>.
<p>
Another necessary part of redirecting capital to low-carbon energy is
abolishing the myriad forms of direct and indirect subsidy still given
to fossil fuels.  Consider how the UK has made it easier for local
inhabitants to block wind power (which might annoy them with its
sounds) but far harder for them to block fracking (which might poison
their water, as well as ultimately cause global disaster).


title: Putin's persecution of journalists extends to Crimea
uri: Putin-s-persecution-of-journalists-extends-to-Crimea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Putins_persecution_of_journalists_extends_to_Crimea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Putins_persecution_of_journalists_extends_to_Crimea%29

content:
<p>
Putin's persecution of journalists in Russia has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/crimea-exodus-journalists-activists-tatars">extended
to the Crimea</a>.
<p>
Tatars and dissidents and people with connections with the Ukrainian
state are also being driven out.


title: UK prisons ban sending books to prisoners
uri: UK-prisons-ban-sending-books-to-prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(UK_prisons_ban_sending_books_to_prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28UK_prisons_ban_sending_books_to_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
UK prisons have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/24/ban-books-prisoners-england-wales-authors">banned
sending books to prisoners</a>.  Prisons are supposed to buy books,
but only as a "privilege".


title: Some Muslim organizations saying it is religious duty to protect environment
uri: Some-Muslim-organizations-saying-it-is-religious-duty-to-protect-envir
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Some_Muslim_organizations_saying_it_is_religious_duty_to_protect_environment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Some_Muslim_organizations_saying_it_is_religious_duty_to_protect_environment%29

content:
<p>
Some Muslim religious organizations are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/religion-environment-wildlife-trafficking-indonesia-fatwa-sustainable">saying
that it is a religious duty</a> to protect the environment.


title: Protect Elephants and Gorillas to Sustain Our Forests
uri: Protect-Elephants-and-Gorillas-to-Sustain-Our-Forests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_March_2014_(Protect_Elephants_and_Gorillas_to_Sustain_Our_Forests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_March_2014_%28Protect_Elephants_and_Gorillas_to_Sustain_Our_Forests%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/03/op-ed-protect-elephants-gorillas-sustain-forests/">Protect
Elephants and Gorillas to Sustain Our Forests</a>.


title: Urgent: Protect monarch butterflies from Roundup
uri: Urgent-Protect-monarch-butterflies-from-Roundup
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_monarch_butterflies_from_Roundup)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_monarch_butterflies_from_Roundup%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy;?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3369&autologin=true">call
on the EPA</a> to protect monarch butterflies from Roundup.


title: Urgent: Call on Unilever to stop supporting study organized by deforesters
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Unilever-to-stop-supporting-study-organized-by-defores
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_Unilever_to_stop_supporting_study_organized_by_deforesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Unilever_to_stop_supporting_study_organized_by_deforesters%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/unilever-palm-oil/">call on
Unilever</a> to stop supporting a "study" being organized by
deforesters to gain permission for further deforestation.


title: Refuting 10 myths about poverty in the US
uri: Refuting-10-myths-about-poverty-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Refuting_10_myths_about_poverty_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Refuting_10_myths_about_poverty_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/10-poverty-myths-busted">Refuting
10 myths</a> about poverty in the US.


title: California's poor are losing millions a year to big banks
uri: California-s-poor-are-losing-millions-a-year-to-big-banks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Californias_poor_are_losing_millions_a_year_to_big_banks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Californias_poor_are_losing_millions_a_year_to_big_banks%29

content:
<p>
California's poor are 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/03/big-banks-california-ATM-fees-welfare-benefits">losing
millions a year</a> to the big banks which charge them fees to access
their benefits.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Large_oil_spill_in_Texas)
title: Large oil spill in Texas
uri: Large-oil-spill-in-Texas
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Large_oil_spill_in_Texas%29
content:
<p>
A large oil spill in Texas has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/texas-oil-spill-shipping-birds">polluted
areas where many migrating birds stop off</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(The_Monsanto_Protection_Act)
title: The Monsanto Protection Act
uri: The-Monsanto-Protection-Act
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28The_Monsanto_Protection_Act%29
content:
<p>
The Monsanto Protection Act was 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/monsanto-protection-act-extension_n_3908249.html">enacted
through a Republican dirty trick</a>, but Republicans say that now
that it's a law, it should be forever.


title: Irish thugs "forgot" traffic violations of officials
uri: Irish-thugs-forgot-traffic-violations-of-officials
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Irish_thugs_forgot_traffic_violations_of_officials)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Irish_thugs_forgot_traffic_violations_of_officials%29

content:
<p>
Irish thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/mar/25/irish-independent-ireland">"forgot"
traffic violations of officials</a> including the national head of
thugs.  A journalist broke this scandal, and has been fired as a
reward.


title: WHO study estimates air pollution kills 7 million people each year
uri: WHO-study-estimates-air-pollution-kills-7-million-people-each-year
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(WHO_study_estimates_air_pollution_kills_7_million_people_each_year)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28WHO_study_estimates_air_pollution_kills_7_million_people_each_year%29

content:
<p>
A WHO study estimates that air pollution 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/25/air-pollution-kills-7m-people-a-year">kills
7 million people each year</a>.


title: Commitments to Russia broken by the US
uri: Commitments-to-Russia-broken-by-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Commitments_to_Russia_broken_by_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Commitments_to_Russia_broken_by_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The US has broken 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/24-8">several
commitments to Russia</a> that it made to avoid provoking feelings of
insecurity.


title: Fossil Fuel Industry 25 Years After the Exxon Valdez
uri: Fossil-Fuel-Industry-25-Years-After-the-Exxon-Valdez
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Fossil_Fuel_Industry_25_Years_After_the_Exxon_Valdez)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Fossil_Fuel_Industry_25_Years_After_the_Exxon_Valdez%29

content:
<p>
Fossil Fuel Industry 25 Years After the Exxon Valdez: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/24-10">Still
Reckless After All These Years</a>.


title: Allowing US employers to make decisions about health care for employees
uri: Allowing-US-employers-to-make-decisions-about-health-care-for-employee
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Allowing_US_employers_to_make_decisions_about_health_care_for_employees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Allowing_US_employers_to_make_decisions_about_health_care_for_employees%29

content:
<p>
Allowing US employers to make decisions about health care for their
employees is a 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/03/when_did_we_decide_it_was_ok_to_let_our_bosses_choose_our_health_insurance.html">relic
of the historical development of medical coverage in the US</a>.  It
could be changed.
<p>
The article proposes a change in the way this funding is nominally
structured, and nothing more; but there's another bad side effect of
making each company pay for the health care of its own employees: it's
an incentive to buy robots and fire employees.
<p>
I think should tax businesses based on their income, and use the money
for (among other things) health care for all, whether employed or not.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Democratizing_the_Global_Food_Crisis)
title: Democratizing the Global Food Crisis
uri: Democratizing-the-Global-Food-Crisis
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Democratizing_the_Global_Food_Crisis%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/22664-democratizing-the-global-food-crisis">Democratizing
the Global Food Crisis</a>.


title: Why Charity Can't Replace the Safety Net
uri: Why-Charity-Can-t-Replace-the-Safety-Net
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Why_Charity_Can't_Replace_the_Safety_Net)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Why_Charity_Can%27t_Replace_the_Safety_Net%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/03/21/private_charity_and_the_safety_net_why_philanthropy_can_t_replace_government.html">Why
Charity Can't Replace the Safety Net</a>.


title: Almost 1/5 of US citizens have trouble getting money for food
uri: Almost-1-5-of-US-citizens-have-trouble-getting-money-for-food
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Almost_one-fifth_of_US_citizens_have_trouble_getting_money_for_food)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Almost_one-fifth_of_US_citizens_have_trouble_getting_money_for_food%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/03/24/3418041/mississippi-food-insecurity/">Almost
1/5</a> of United States citizens have trouble getting money for food.


title: Providing homeless people with homes saves the public money
uri: Providing-homeless-people-with-homes-saves-the-public-money
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Providing_homeless_people_with_homes_saves_the_public_money)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Providing_homeless_people_with_homes_saves_the_public_money%29

content:
<p>
Providing homeless people with homes 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/03/24/3418140/charlotte-homeless-study/">saves
the public money</a>.


title: Global heating to make mudslides more frequent
uri: Global-heating-to-make-mudslides-more-frequent
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Global_heating_to_make_mudslides_more_frequent)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Global_heating_to_make_mudslides_more_frequent%29

content:
<p>
After the deadly mudslide in Washington, remember that global heating
is to make such mudslides 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/24/3418117/climate-change-landslides-washington/">more
frequent</a>.
<p>
That's because it will tend to increase the occurrence of make both
droughts and heavy rain/floods.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Chevron_news_site)
title: Chevron "news site"
uri: Chevron-news-site
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Chevron_news_site%29
content:
<p>
Chevron has started a "news site" in Richmond CA as a 
<a href="http://grist.org/news/chevron-creates-its-own-news-outlet-for-a-poor-city-that-it-pollutes/">propaganda
scheme</a> for its own operations in that city.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Photo_used_by_BSA_without_permission)
title: Photo used by BSA without permission
uri: Photo-used-by-BSA-without-permission
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Photo_used_by_BSA_without_permission%29

content:
<p>
The BSA 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/bsa-pirates-busted-140322/">used a
photo without permission</a> in its latest campaign asking people to
report unauthorized copies of nonfree software.
<p>
Please resist the temptation to apply the BSA's propaganda terms
("pirate", "theft", "stolen") to what the BSA did.  Sure it is fun to
point out their hypocrisy, but if you do it that way, you endorse what
the BSA stands for.


title: Boycott and divestment against Israeli occupation of Palestine
uri: Boycott-and-divestment-against-Israeli-occupation-of-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Boycott_and_divestment_against_Israeli_occupation_of_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Boycott_and_divestment_against_Israeli_occupation_of_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Boycott and divestment against the Israeli occupation of Palestine are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/24">spreading</a>,
and the UN report recommends some sanctions too.
<p>
There are two different movements.  Gush Shalom launched boycott of
companies involved in the occupation or profiting from it.
Palestinians called for aiming BSD at all Israeli institutions and
companies except those that oppose the occupation.
<p>
I personally advocate boycott, divestment and sanctions against
organizations that directly support or profit from the occupation
(this includes all Israeli universities, and various companies).


title: Urgent: Stop letting companies replace one toxic chemical with other toxic chemicals
uri: Urgent-Stop-letting-companies-replace-one-toxic-chemical-with-other-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_letting_companies_replace_one_toxic_chemical_with_other_toxic_chemicals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_letting_companies_replace_one_toxic_chemical_with_other_toxic_chemicals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/worse_than_bpa">tell
the EPA</a> to stop letting companies replace one toxic chemical with
other toxic chemicals.


title: Urgent: Include the public in planning about oil and gas extraction
uri: Urgent-Include-the-public-in-planning-about-oil-and-gas-extraction
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Urgent:_Include_the_public_in_planning_about_oil_and_gas_extraction)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Include_the_public_in_planning_about_oil_and_gas_extraction%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15255">call
on the BLM</a> to include the public in planning about oil and gas
extraction in Colorado.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Poor_Americans_way_of_life)
title: Poor Americans' way of life
uri: Poor-Americans-way-of-life
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Poor_Americans_way_of_life%29
content:
<p>
Studying poor Americans' way of life by 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/kathryn-edin-poverty-research-fatherhood">living
next to them</a>.
<p>
Poor women don't get married because they have high standards for
marriage and can't find men that meet those standards.  They have
children anyway, because they want children.  The fathers try to help
support the babies, but can't offer much.  All of them don't get
legally recognized jobs because they can't afford the cost of child
care together with the benefit cuts.
<p>
If we provided better support to poor people, some of these patterns
would change.
<p>
Part of the goal must be convincing those who can't afford to raise
children 
<a href="http://stallman.org/articles/children.html">not to have
children</a>.
<p>
American children make an especially heavy addition to humanity's
footprint because Americans live so wastefully.  We need to change
that, but in the mean time we need to reduce the births in the US.


title: Inequality gets worse when gov't outsources to private companies
uri: Inequality-gets-worse-when-gov-t-outsources-to-private-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Inequality_gets_worse_when_govt_outsources_to_private_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Inequality_gets_worse_when_govt_outsources_to_private_companies%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/25">When the
Government Outsources to Private Companies, Inequality Gets Worse</a>.


title: Virginia law allows genetic counselors to withhold information from patients
uri: Virginia-law-allows-genetic-counselors-to-withhold-information-from-pa
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Virginia_law_allows_genetic_counselors_to_withhold_information_from_patients)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Virginia_law_allows_genetic_counselors_to_withhold_information_from_patients%29

content:
<p>
Virginia passed a law allowing genetic counselors to withhold
information from patients so they 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/virginia-conscience-clause-genetic-counselors-mcauliffe-abortion">won't
know they really ought to get an abortion</a>.


title: Islamists kidnap, torture, and kill polio vaccinator
uri: Islamists-kidnap-torture-and-kill-polio-vaccinator
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Islamists_kidnap_torture_and_kill_polio_vaccinator)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Islamists_kidnap_torture_and_kill_polio_vaccinator%29

content:
<p>
Superstitious Islamists in Pakistan kidnaped a polio vaccinator from
her home, tortured her, then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/25/pakistan-polo-vaccinators-murder-militants-salma-farooqi">killed
her</a>.


title: American Renters Still Cannot Afford Rent Nationwide
uri: American-Renters-Still-Cannot-Afford-Rent-Nationwide
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(American_Renters_Still_Cannot_Afford_Rent_Nationwide)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28American_Renters_Still_Cannot_Afford_Rent_Nationwide%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/03/24-9">New
Report Finds American Renters Still Cannot Afford Rent Nationwide</a>.
<p>
One obstacle to making enough housing for people to live in is zoning
law.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(The_Internet_of_Things)
title: The "Internet of Things"
uri: The-Internet-of-Things
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28The_Internet_of_Things%29
content:
<p>
The "Internet of Things" means that all "things" will help 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/25-4">profile you
for someone else</a>.


title: Russian anti-Putin protester framed for attacking a thug
uri: Russian-anti-Putin-protester-framed-for-attacking-a-thug
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(Russian_anti-Putin_protester_framed_for_attacking_a_thug)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28Russian_anti-Putin_protester_framed_for_attacking_a_thug%29

content:
<p>
A Russian anti-Putin protester was framed for attacking a thug,
although the thug refuses to say it was him, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/25/sentence-indefinite-psychiatric-treatment-protester-mikhail-kosenko">sentenced
to a mental hospital</a>.
<p>
The Soviet Union put dissidents in mental hospitals too, and Putin as
a part of the repression apparatus was well aware of this.
<p>
Even if the people of the Crimea feel Russian, they might not want
to be ruled by Putin if they get a chance to think about it.


title: The ridiculous trial in which 529 Egyptians were sentenced to death
uri: The-ridiculous-trial-in-which-529-Egyptians-were-sentenced-to-death
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_March_2014_(The_ridiculous_trial_in_which_529_Egyptians_were_sentenced_to_death)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_March_2014_%28The_ridiculous_trial_in_which_529_Egyptians_were_sentenced_to_death%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/25/egypt-lawyers-boycott-mass-trial">More
about the ridiculous trial</a> in which 529 Egyptians were sentenced
to death.


title: The UK ban on sending books to prisoners
uri: The-UK-ban-on-sending-books-to-prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_March_2014_(The_UK_ban_on_sending_books_to_prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_March_2014_%28The_UK_ban_on_sending_books_to_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/reality-check/2014/mar/25/books-banned-prisons-justice-secretary">UK
ban on sending books to prisoners</a> does not mean they are not
allowed books to read, but does mean that access to books will be more
difficult and the range of books they can read will be limited.


title: The NSA and CIA can blackmail the president
uri: The-NSA-and-CIA-can-blackmail-the-president
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_March_2014_(The_NSA_and_CIA_can_blackmail_the_president)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_March_2014_%28The_NSA_and_CIA_can_blackmail_the_president%29

content:
<p>
The NSA and CIA 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/24-6">can blackmail
the president</a> by threatening to expose when he said yes to illegal
spying etc.


title: Taiwan gov't rushing to sign free exploitation treaty with China
uri: Taiwan-gov-t-rushing-to-sign-free-exploitation-treaty-with-China
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_March_2014_(Taiwan_govt_rushing_to_sign_free_exploitation_treaty_with_China)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_March_2014_%28Taiwan_govt_rushing_to_sign_free_exploitation_treaty_with_China%29

content:
<p>
Taiwan's government is rushing to sign a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/25/taiwans-protesters-democracy-china-taiwan-strait">free
exploitation treaty with China</a>, which will surely do harm to
Taiwanese workers just as the US's free exploitation treaties do.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_March_2014_(UK_governments_cuts_in_legal_aid)
title: UK government's cuts in legal aid
uri: UK-government-s-cuts-in-legal-aid
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_March_2014_%28UK_governments_cuts_in_legal_aid%29
content:
<p>
The UK government's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/mar/25/stephen-lawrence-lawyer-legal-aid-cuts-imran-khan">cuts
in legal aid</a> will deny justice in kinds of cases where it would
require a lot of work.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_March_2014_(NSAs_phone_call_record_surveillance)
title: NSA's phone call record surveillance
uri: NSA-s-phone-call-record-surveillance
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_March_2014_%28NSAs_phone_call_record_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
All three branches of government approved the NSA's phone call record
surveillance, not because it was valid, but because it had them all
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/25-11">hornswoggled</a>.
<p>
That would leave massive surveillance of Americans' phone calls.
Phone companies keep these records, in some cases for years, and will
hand them over retroactively when Big Brother 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_(Obama_jails_another_whistleblower)">asks
for them in order to find a whistleblower</a>.
<p>
Democracy requires a way for people to communicate without being
identified to Big Brother.


title: Underground cultivation of marijuana causes environmental damage
uri: Underground-cultivation-of-marijuana-causes-environmental-damage
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_March_2014_(Underground_cultivation_of_marijuana_causes_environmental_damage)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_March_2014_%28Underground_cultivation_of_marijuana_causes_environmental_damage%29

content:
<p>
Underground cultivation of marijuana causes 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/marijuana-weed-pot-farming-environmental-impacts">great
environmental damage</a>.
<p>
This problem is caused by prohibition; legalization would reduce the
environmental damage from marijuana cultivation to be comparable to
any other crop.  That 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_March_2014_(Deforestation_continues_in_Asian_countries)">would 
still cause environmental problems</a> but it would cease to
artificially multiply them.


title: Urgent: Sanctions against head of the CIA
uri: Urgent-Sanctions-against-head-of-the-CIA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Urgent:_Sanctions_against_head_of_the_CIA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Sanctions_against_head_of_the_CIA%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/boycott-sanction-cia">Call
on the UN</a> to impose sanctions against John Brennan, head of the
CIA.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(US_and_UK_support_of_dictators)
title: US and UK support of dictators
uri: US-and-UK-support-of-dictators
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28US_and_UK_support_of_dictators%29
content:
<p>
The US and UK condemn oppositionists for supporting dictators, while
being even 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=1976">bigger supporters
of dictators</a>.
<p>
It's wrong for the US and UK to support dictators.  It's also wrong
for others to support dictators, even dictators that the US and UK
oppose.  That much is straightforward.
<p>
Where it becomes complicated is when some country's politics is a
rivalry between one evil and another.  For example, Morsi in Egypt was
in the process of trampling the rights of women, but the coup
introduced an even more cruel regime.  Saddam Hussein was a murderous
dictator but respected Iraqis' rights better, on the whole, than
happens now.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Ethopias_total_surveillance_state)
title: Ethopia's total surveillance state
uri: Ethopia-s-total-surveillance-state
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Ethopias_total_surveillance_state%29

content:
<p>
Ethiopia has constructed a total surveillance state based on
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/03/27/ethopia-the-first-off-the-s.html">ready-made
products obtained from advanced countries</a>, and uses it to impose
total repression.


title: Verizon trying to force customers to move to fiber-based phone lines
uri: Verizon-trying-to-force-customers-to-move-to-fiber-based-phone-lines
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Verizon_trying_to_force_customers_to_move_to_fiber-based_phone_lines)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Verizon_trying_to_force_customers_to_move_to_fiber-based_phone_lines%29

content:
<p>
Verizon is 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/verizon-accused-of-refusing-to-fix-broken-landline-phone-service/">trying
to force customers to move to fiber-based phone lines</a>, although
they won't work when there is a power failure.


title: Billionaires taking control of politics in the US
uri: Billionaires-taking-control-of-politics-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Billionaires_taking_control_of_politics_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Billionaires_taking_control_of_politics_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Billionaires are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/26-3">taking control
of politics</a> in the US.
<p>
I disagree with the first points in the article.  "Obeying the rules"
is no excuse for driving civilization towards the disaster of global
heating.  It is no excuse for kicking the poor when they are down.
<p>
Meanwhile, there is a simple rule for American voters to resist the
billionaires.  On TV, you can see who the billionaires support: the
major candidates that the attack ads don't attack.  Vote for whoever
the attack ads are attacking.


title: The House's NSA Bill Could Allow More Spying Than Ever
uri: The-House-s-NSA-Bill-Could-Allow-More-Spying-Than-Ever
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(The_House's_NSA_Bill_Could_Allow_More_Spying_Than_Ever)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28The_House%27s_NSA_Bill_Could_Allow_More_Spying_Than_Ever%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/25-8">The House's NSA
Bill Could Allow More Spying Than Ever</a>.


title: LA thug department says all cars in LA are under investigation
uri: LA-thug-department-says-all-cars-in-LA-are-under-investigation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(LA_thug_department_says_all_cars_in_LA_are_under_investigation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28LA_thug_department_says_all_cars_in_LA_are_under_investigation%29

content:
<p>
The LA thug department says 
<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2014/3/25/lapd-all-cars-areunderinvestigation.html">all
cars in LA are under investigation</a>.
<p>
It is common for thugs to make outrageous claims, thinking that they
will get away with part of the claims and have nothing to lose.  For
the sake of our rights, we should make sure they have something to
lose.


title: Irish thugs' habit of recording prisoners' conversations with lawyers
uri: Irish-thugs-habit-of-recording-prisoners-conversations-with-lawyers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Irish_thugs_habit_of_recording_prisoners_conversations_with_lawyers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Irish_thugs_habit_of_recording_prisoners_conversations_with_lawyers%29

content:
<p>
Irish thugs appear to have made a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/26/ireland-justice-minister-alan-shatter-garda-bugging-scandal">habit
of recording prisoners' conversations in jail with their lawyers</a>.


title: Conjecture about why working-class people accept austerity without rebelling
uri: Conjecture-about-why-working-class-people-accept-austerity-without-reb
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Conjecture_about_why_working-class_people_accept_austerity_without_rebelling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Conjecture_about_why_working-class_people_accept_austerity_without_rebelling%29

content:
<p>
A surprising conjecture: working-class people accept austerity without
rebelling because they are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/caring-curse-working-class-austerity-solidarity-scourge">habituated
to caring about the comfort of rich people that they work for</a>.


title: Mass surveillance of phone call records
uri: Mass-surveillance-of-phone-call-records
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Mass_surveillance_of_phone_call_records)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Mass_surveillance_of_phone_call_records%29

content:
<p>
Obama has proposed to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/03/25-6">shift
mass surveillance of phone call records from the NSA to the phone
companies</a>.  The EFF has responded with superficial criticism which
makes the basic mistake of treating this window dressing as a
solution.
<p>
Where these data are kept is an insignificant detail.  Hosting them
differently won't protect whistleblowers like 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_February_2014_(Obama_to_imprison_another_whistleblower)">Stephen 
Kim</a> from being identified through them.
<p>
Our democracy depends on these whistleblowers.  To make whistleblowers
and democracy safe, we must make sure that these records are <em>not
saved</em> except about suspects specified by 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">court
orders</a>.
<p>
The USA Freedom Act is 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_February_2014_(USA_Freedom_Act_not_enough)">not
enough</a> either; we should support it, but refuse to consider it as
more than a small step.


title: Anger, Disbelief as Obama Defends US Invasion of Iraq
uri: Anger-Disbelief-as-Obama-Defends-US-Invasion-of-Iraq
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Anger,_Disbelief_as_Obama_Defends_US_Invasion_of_Iraq)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Anger%2C_Disbelief_as_Obama_Defends_US_Invasion_of_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/26-7">Anger,
Disbelief as Obama Defends US Invasion of Iraq</a>.


title: Death of adjunct professor inspires campaign for unionization
uri: Death-of-adjunct-professor-inspires-campaign-for-unionization
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Death_of_adjunct_professor_inspires_campaign_for_unionization)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Death_of_adjunct_professor_inspires_campaign_for_unionization%29

content:
<p>
An 83-year-old adjunct professor, who got no retirement funds from her
25-year career, died after the university suddenly fired her and made
her homeless.  Her death has inspired a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/26-0">campaign for
unionization</a>.


title: Ukraine used as excuse for long-term expansion of US export of natural gas
uri: Ukraine-used-as-excuse-for-long-term-expansion-of-US-export-of-natural
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Ukraine_used_as_excuse_for_long-term_expansion_of_US_export_of_natural_gas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Ukraine_used_as_excuse_for_long-term_expansion_of_US_export_of_natural_gas%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine is definitely being used as an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/25-4">excuse for
long-term expansion of US export of natural gas</a>.
<p>
The gas will be obtained by fracking.  Thus, this means that
companies will invest a lot of money in the assumption that there
will be more fracking in the US and more CO2 emissions abroad.
They will then fight against any attempt to slow down emissions,
driving the US and the world to frack and fruin.
<p>
Environmentalists are trying to stop the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/25-5">construction
of the Cove Point export terminal</a> in Maryland.


title: Fossil fuel companies using Ukraine crisis as excuse to expand exports
uri: Fossil-fuel-companies-using-Ukraine-crisis-as-excuse-to-expand-exports
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Fossil_fuel_companies_using_Ukraine_crisis_as_excuse_to_expand_exports)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Fossil_fuel_companies_using_Ukraine_crisis_as_excuse_to_expand_exports%29

content:
<p>
Fossil fuel companies are using the Ukraine crisis as an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/25/us-expands-gas-exports-in-bid-to-punish-putin-for-crimea">excuse
to expand exports from the US</a>.
<p>
Global heating is more dangerous than Putin, and this policy is likely
to speed it up.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 29_March_2014_(Extreme_weather)
title: Extreme weather
uri: Extreme-weather
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_March_2014_%28Extreme_weather%29
content:
<p>
The worst of the extreme weather would have been 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/24-3">virtually
impossible without the aid of global heating</a>, says the World
Meteorological Organization.
<p>
By 2040, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/25/climate-change-uk-weather-wet-dry-met-office">normal
summer</a> in Europe will resemble the deadly European heatwave of
2003.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Urgent:_Mandatory_GMO_labeling)
title: Urgent: Mandatory GMO labeling
uri: Urgent-Mandatory-GMO-labeling
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Mandatory_GMO_labeling%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12702">tell
the FDA</a> we want mandatory GMO labeling, not a "voluntary" scheme
designed to pre-empt states.


title: Urgent: Renew the Production Tax Credit for wind-based electricity
uri: Urgent-Renew-the-Production-Tax-Credit-for-wind-based-electricity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Urgent:_Renew_the_Production_Tax_Credit_for_wind-based_electricity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Renew_the_Production_Tax_Credit_for_wind-based_electricity%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/renew_the_PTC">call on
Congress</a> to renew the Production Tax Credit for wind-based
electricity.


title: World writers call on Turkey to respect freedom of expression
uri: World-writers-call-on-Turkey-to-respect-freedom-of-expression
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(World_writers_call_on_Turkey_to_respect_freedom_of_expression)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28World_writers_call_on_Turkey_to_respect_freedom_of_expression%29

content:
<p>
World writers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/letters-turkey-freedom-expression">call
on Turkey to respect freedom of expression</a>.


title: Australian gov't plans to streamline approval process for trashing things
uri: Australian-gov-t-plans-to-streamline-approval-process-for-trashing-thi
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Australian_govt_plans_to_streamline_approval_process_for_trashing_things)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Australian_govt_plans_to_streamline_approval_process_for_trashing_things%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government plans to streamline the approval process for
trashing things, including 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/28/great-barrier-reef-indigenous-heritage-one-stop-shop-threat">dumping
waste on the Great Barrier Reef</a>.
<p>
There is a sick rationality to this.  The same government is going all
out to promote CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, which will destroy the Great
Barrier Reef entirely in a few decades.  No wonder it doesn't care if
some parts are destroyed a little sooner.


title: Benefits cut for poor UK families living in apartments with extra room
uri: Benefits-cut-for-poor-UK-families-living-in-apartments-with-extra-room
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Benefits_cut_for_poor_UK_families_living_in_apartments_with_extra_room)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Benefits_cut_for_poor_UK_families_living_in_apartments_with_extra_room%29

content:
<p>
The UK cut benefits for half a million poor families that live in
apartments with an extra room.  Only 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/28/bedroom-tax-moved-home-figures">6%
of them have moved to a smaller apartment</a>.
<p>
This is because there are hardly any smaller apartments available in
the UK — 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_November_2013_(Bedroom_tax_is_an_excuse_to_squeeze_the_poor)">few
were built</a>.
<p>
The rest of those half million families are simply suffering under
pressure to do the impossible.  This serves the government's cruel
purpose, which is to paint them as lazy spongers while pushing them
into worse poverty.


title: Cuban agent says CIA promoted right-wing student movements in Venezuela
uri: Cuban-agent-says-CIA-promoted-right-wing-student-movements-in-Venezuel
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Cuban_agent_says_CIA_promoted_right-wing_student_movements_in_Venezuela)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Cuban_agent_says_CIA_promoted_right-wing_student_movements_in_Venezuela%29

content:
<p>
A Cuban who worked for the CIA (but was a double agent, really working
for his own country) says that the CIA 
<a href="http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/10533">specifically
promoted right-wing student movements</a> in Venezuela.
<p>
He believes that this process started before Chavez was elected; that
the goal was to shift Latin American universities from left-wing
influences to right-wing influences.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(The_charitable-industrial_complex)
title: The "charitable-industrial complex"
uri: The-charitable-industrial-complex
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28The_charitable-industrial_complex%29

content:
<p>
Peter Buffet describes the
"<a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html?_r=0'>charitable-industrial
complex</a>" as a system of conscience laundering for rich people that
create suffering with one hand, while alleviating part of it with the
other hand.


title: US gov't wants to allow any federal judge to authorize searching any computer
uri: US-gov-t-wants-to-allow-any-federal-judge-to-authorize-searching-any-c
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(US_govt_wants_to_allow_any_federal_judge_to_authorize_searching_any_computer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28US_govt_wants_to_allow_any_federal_judge_to_authorize_searching_any_computer%29

content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/feds-want-an-expanded-ability-to-hack-criminal-suspects-computers/">wants
any federal judge to be allowed to authorize searching any
computer</a>.
<p>
This means the FBI could go forum-shopping, bringing all such requests
in whichever district has the judges most likely to say yes and least
concerned with upholding the fourth amendment.


title: Intimidation of countries by tobacco industry enabled by WTO
uri: Intimidation-of-countries-by-tobacco-industry-enabled-by-WTO
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Intimidation_of_countries_by_tobacco_industry_enabled_by_WTO)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Intimidation_of_countries_by_tobacco_industry_enabled_by_WTO%29

content:
<p>
The tobacco industry is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/indonesia-granted-right-to-challenge-australias-plain-packaging-laws">using
various countries as proxies</a> to attack Australia's requirement for
plain packaging of cigarettes.
<p>
The article speculates that they are trying to drag the cases out
because they expect to lose in the end, but meanwhile the WTO enables
them to intimidate other countries.
<p>
It will be good if they do lose, but the WTO will have done
substantial harm in this case even so.  Just one of the ways the WTO
harms most people (while it helps businesses).  The WTO should be
abolished.


title: Google identifies journalist's source by looking at his email
uri: Google-identifies-journalist-s-source-by-looking-at-his-email
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Google_identifies_journalists_source_by_looking_at_his_email)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Google_identifies_journalists_source_by_looking_at_his_email%29

content:
<p>
A journalist says Google identified (and then fired) one of his
sources by 
<a href="http://recode.net/2014/03/25/google-general-counsel-to-arrington-allegation-we-dont-snoop-on-gmail-to-find-leakers/">looking
at his email in gmail</a>.
<p>
It is not a good idea to use an email account run by a big company.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Ukraine_to_be_hit_by_IMF_bailout)
title: Ukraine to be hit by IMF "bailout"
uri: Ukraine-to-be-hit-by-IMF-bailout
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Ukraine_to_be_hit_by_IMF_bailout%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine will be hit by an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/imf-agrees-bailout-ukraine-deal">IMF
"bailout"</a>.
<p>
The article says nothing about how Ukraine will be required to change
its laws, but in the past IMF "aid" has been 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#30_January_2013_(IMF_promotes_harmful_policies_across_Europe)">devastating</a> 
for 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#21_April_2011_(IMF_Prolongs_Poverty)">other
countries</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Global_heating_denialists)
title: Global heating denialists
uri: Global-heating-denialists
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Global_heating_denialists%29
content:
<p>
A philosopher who argued that global heating denialists are doing
something immoral received 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/mar/27/climate-science-denial-funding-criminally-negligent-philosopher-hate-campaign">piles
of hate mail</a>.
<p>
Of course, funding global heating denialists is immoral.  It may be
illegal, too.  Since global heating is likely to kill a large fraction
of the human population, an activity that aims at making sure global
heating continues is attempted murder.  Since it is likely to wipe out
many species, some of which are already endangered and legally
protected, denialist activities may be a criminal conspiracy too.
<p>
We should not let the perpetrators get away with it.  If we can't stop
them in time to prevent their crime, which will dwarf all the
genocides in history put together, we should make sure it is punished.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Turkey_bans_access_to_YouTube)
title: Turkey bans access to YouTube
uri: Turkey-bans-access-to-YouTube
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Turkey_bans_access_to_YouTube%29
content:
<p>
Turkey has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/google-youtube-ban-turkey-erdogan">banned
access to YouTube</a>.


title: How State Secrecy Protects Government Agencies from Embarrassment
uri: How-State-Secrecy-Protects-Government-Agencies-from-Embarrassment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(How_State_Secrecy_Protects_Government_Agencies_from_Embarrassment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28How_State_Secrecy_Protects_Government_Agencies_from_Embarrassment%29

content:
<p>
How State Secrecy Protects Government Agencies from Embarrassment,  
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1361">Then And Now</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Cell_tower_dumps)
title: Cell tower dumps
uri: Cell-tower-dumps
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Cell_tower_dumps%29
content:
<p>
Another form of massive surveillance of portable phone users: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/another-surveillance-technique-another-set-unanswered">cell
tower dumps</a> indicate all phone users in a region at a certain
time.


title: EU governments order ISPs to block access to file-sharing sites
uri: EU-governments-order-ISPs-to-block-access-to-file-sharing-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(EU_governments_order_ISPs_to_block_access_to_file-sharing_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28EU_governments_order_ISPs_to_block_access_to_file-sharing_sites%29

content:
<p>
The EU has in effect 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/eu-court-isps-can-be-forced-to-block-pirate-sites-140327/">adopted
a key part of SOPA</a>: governments order ISPs to block access to
file-sharing sites.


title: How States Are Funding Surveillance Technologies
uri: How-States-Are-Funding-Surveillance-Technologies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(How_States_Are_Funding_Surveillance_Technologies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28How_States_Are_Funding_Surveillance_Technologies%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/following-the-money-how-states-are-funding-surveillance-technologies">Following
the Money</a>: How States Are Funding Surveillance Technologies.


title: Barack Obama: The Least Transparent President in History
uri: Barack-Obama-The-Least-Transparent-President-in-History
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Barack_Obama:_The_Least_Transparent_President_in_History)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Barack_Obama%3A_The_Least_Transparent_President_in_History%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/27">Barack Obama:
The Least Transparent President in History</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Urgent:_Windows_license)
title: Urgent: Windows license
uri: Urgent-Windows-license
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Windows_license%29
content:
<p>
Please 
<a href="http://no.more.racketware.info/index">
sign this petition is against the
practice</a> of requiring people to buy a Windows license along with a
machine.


title: BP was responsible for the oil disaster of the Exxon Valdez
uri: BP-was-responsible-for-the-oil-disaster-of-the-Exxon-Valdez
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(BP_was_responsible_for_the_oil_disaster_of_the_Exxon_Valdez)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28BP_was_responsible_for_the_oil_disaster_of_the_Exxon_Valdez%29

content:
<p>
It was really BP that was 
<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/25_years_after_exxon_valdez_the_hidden_culprit_was_bp_20140323">responsible
for the oil disaster of the Exxon Valdez</a>.  The Exxon ship spilled
the oil, but it was BP that had promised to prepare cleanup
facilities, then didn't prepare them.


title: Domino's Pizza outlets in NY admit to stealing wages from workers
uri: Domino-s-Pizza-outlets-in-NY-admit-to-stealing-wages-from-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Dominos_Pizza_outlets_in_NY_admit_to_stealing_wages_from_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Dominos_Pizza_outlets_in_NY_admit_to_stealing_wages_from_workers%29

content:
<p>
Domino's Pizza outlets in New York have admitted 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/28-2">stealing
wages from their workers</a>.


title: BP has spilled tar sands oil into Chicago's water supply
uri: BP-has-spilled-tar-sands-oil-into-Chicago-s-water-supply
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(BP_has_spilled_tar_sands_oil_into_Chicagos_water_supply)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28BP_has_spilled_tar_sands_oil_into_Chicagos_water_supply%29

content:
<p>
BP has spilled tar sands oil into Chicago's water supply,
and 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/28-1">nobody
knows how much</a>.


title: Homeless mother arrested for leaving kids in car to go to job interview
uri: Homeless-mother-arrested-for-leaving-kids-in-car-to-go-to-job-intervie
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Homeless_mother_arrested_for_leaving_kids_in_car_to_go_to_job_interview)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Homeless_mother_arrested_for_leaving_kids_in_car_to_go_to_job_interview%29

content:
<p>
A homeless unemployed mother in Arizona was 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/03/28-0">arrested
for leaving her kids in the car to go to a job interview</a> —
but what else should she have done?
<p>
Would the state rather she stay unemployed?  Bring them to the job
interview?  Magically put them in another dimension while going to it?
The charges are ridiculous anyway; there's nothing dangerous about
being in a car for 45 minutes with a window open.
<p>
People in this situation should throw it back in the state's teeth by
telling the judge, "I am being prosecuted for doing the best thing I
could have done at the time.  That I am prosecuted for this
demonstrates the cruelty and viciousness of the state.  I will not
cooperate with these unjust proceedings.  Put me in prison and you
will be shamed by your actions for as long as I live.  I will never
apologize or ask forgiveness for what was not wrong, and I will never
pay a cent of ransom to get out."
<p>
She should not allow anyone to pay bail for her, but rather say, "I
refuse bail — drop the charges!"


title: NSA and partners increase capabilities to spy on hypothetical future target
uri: NSA-and-partners-increase-capabilities-to-spy-on-hypothetical-future-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(NSA_and_partners_increase_capabilities_to_spy_on_hypothetical_future_target)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28NSA_and_partners_increase_capabilities_to_spy_on_hypothetical_future_target%29

content:
<p>
The NSA and its partners 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?post_type=article&p=1990">infiltrated
several German companies' computers</a> just to increase its
capabilities to spy on a hypothetical future target.


title: Effects of global heating being felt around the world
uri: Effects-of-global-heating-being-felt-around-the-world
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Effects_of_global_heating_being_felt_around_the_world)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Effects_of_global_heating_being_felt_around_the_world%29

content:
<p>
The effects of global heating are being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/28/ipcc-report-climate-change-report-human-natural-systems">felt
around the world</a>, and further heating will be caused inevitably by
the greenhouse gases already emitted.
<p>
The forecast 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/28/climate-change-bad-expensive-coffee-ipcc">damage
to coffee production</a> won't bother me, and might do no more than
frustrate you, but millions of people who make a living from producing
coffee may become destitute.


title: UK thugs regard the public as an enemy
uri: UK-thugs-regard-the-public-as-an-enemy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(UK_thugs_regard_the_public_as_an_enemy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28UK_thugs_regard_the_public_as_an_enemy%29

content:
<p>
The UK police force behave as thugs because they have come to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/28/public-order-force-peoples-police-stephen-lawrence-taser">regard
the public as an enemy</a>.
<p>
In effect, the thugs are the army of occupation for the rich that the
state serves.


title: New Restrictions on NIH Grants Are Unscientific And Possibly Illegal
uri: New-Restrictions-on-NIH-Grants-Are-Unscientific-And-Possibly-Illegal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(New_Restrictions_on_NIH_Grants_Are_Unscientific_And_Possibly_Illegal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28New_Restrictions_on_NIH_Grants_Are_Unscientific_And_Possibly_Illegal%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/03/there-are-lots-legit-reasons-research-pornography-new-restrictions-nih-grants-are">There
Are Lots of Legit Reasons to Look at Pornography</a>: New Restrictions
on NIH Grants Are Unscientific And Possibly Illegal.


title: US gov't reports on FBI's killing of Todashev
uri: US-gov-t-reports-on-FBI-s-killing-of-Todashev
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(US_govt_reports_on_FBIs_killing_of_Todashev)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28US_govt_reports_on_FBIs_killing_of_Todashev%29

content:
<p>
US government reports on the FBI's killing of Todashev, a suspect
under interrogation, look like a 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1362">whitewash</a>.


title: Obama's Proposal To End NSA Bulk Data Collection Won't Protect Privacy
uri: Obama-s-Proposal-To-End-NSA-Bulk-Data-Collection-Won-t-Protect-Privacy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Obamas_Proposal_To_End_NSA_Bulk_Data_Collection_Wont_Protect_Privacy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Obamas_Proposal_To_End_NSA_Bulk_Data_Collection_Wont_Protect_Privacy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11643">Obama's
Proposal To End NSA Bulk Data Collection Won't Protect Privacy</a>.
<p>
Phone companies should not be allowed to keep your phone call data for
longer than it takes to deliver it to you, in the absence of a
specific court order.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(The_harm_of_corporate_tax_cuts)
title: The harm of corporate tax cuts
uri: The-harm-of-corporate-tax-cuts
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28The_harm_of_corporate_tax_cuts%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/28-7">More Proof
Corporate Tax Cuts Have Done More Harm Than Good</a>.


title: Ukraine's IMF Deal Means Greece-Like Depression
uri: Ukraine-s-IMF-Deal-Means-Greece-Like-Depression
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Ukraine's_IMF_Deal_Means_Greece-Like_Depression)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Ukraine%27s_IMF_Deal_Means_Greece-Like_Depression%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/28">Ukraine's IMF
Deal Means Greece-Like Depression</a>.  I suspected as much.
<p>
The adjustment of exchange rates, and the end of subsidies for
petroleum products, are inevitable; they would happen, sooner or
later, even without IMF intervention.  The other demands of the IMF
are not inevitable.


title: BP Is Recovering Faster Than Environment
uri: BP-Is-Recovering-Faster-Than-Environment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(BP_Is_Recovering_Faster_Than_Environment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28BP_Is_Recovering_Faster_Than_Environment%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/28-2">Four Years
After Gulf Oil Spill, BP Is Recovering Faster Than Environment</a>.


title: AFL-CIO condemns free exploitation treaties
uri: AFL-CIO-condemns-free-exploitation-treaties
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(AFL-CIO_condemns_free_exploitation_treaties)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28AFL-CIO_condemns_free_exploitation_treaties%29

content:
<p>
The AFL-CIO firmly condemns free exploitation treaties along the lines
of NAFTA and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/28-1">says the US
must stop proposing such treaties</a>.
<p>
When will they start calling for cancelling the existing
<a href="media/5902702b.trade-treaty-comic.jpg" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/images/trade-treaty-comic.jpg">antidemocratic
treaties</a>?


title: Obama uses distortions to present US conquest and occupation of Iraq
uri: Obama-uses-distortions-to-present-US-conquest-and-occupation-of-Iraq
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Obama_uses_distortions_to_present_US_conquest_and_occupation_of_Iraq)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Obama_uses_distortions_to_present_US_conquest_and_occupation_of_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
Obama uses 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/28-4">distortions</a>
to present the US conquest and occupation of Iraq as an example of
good conduct.


title: Economic crisis getting worse in many European countries
uri: Economic-crisis-getting-worse-in-many-European-countries
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Economic_crisis_getting_worse_in_many_European_countries)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Economic_crisis_getting_worse_in_many_European_countries%29

content:
<p>
The economic crisis in many European countries is getting worse, as
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/europe-economic-crisis-worse-caritas-report">poverty
and unemployment continue to increase</a>.
<p>
Those who claim things are getting better are talking about economic
totals, which include the wealth of the rich.  Any time someone says
"The economy is getting better — the GDP is rising," that's a
snow job.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(The_natural_sciences)
title: The natural sciences
uri: The-natural-sciences
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28The_natural_sciences%29
content:
<p>
The natural sciences can't tell you the meaning of life, but they can
tell you 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2014/mar/27/giles-fraser-says-scientists-are-replacing-theologians-some-thoughts-on-that">what
life consists of</a>, and that's a good start for the search for
meaning in it.


title: Meager compensation offered to families of workers who died in factory fire
uri: Meager-compensation-offered-to-families-of-workers-who-died-in-factory
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 30_March_2014_(Meager_compensation_offered_to_families_of_workers_who_died_in_factory_fire)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_%28Meager_compensation_offered_to_families_of_workers_who_died_in_factory_fire%29

content:
<p>
Giant US companies such as Walmart have offered 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/us-retailers-bangladesh-fund-paltry">meager
compensation</a> to the families of the workers who died in a factory
fire while making clothing for them to sell.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(NSA_collection_of_phone_call_data)
title: NSA collection of phone call data
uri: NSA-collection-of-phone-call-data
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28NSA_collection_of_phone_call_data%29

content:
<p>
Another reason why 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/lets-lock-down-nsas-shadow-database">limiting
when the NSA can access phone call records is not good enough</a>: the
NSA already has a large collection of phone call data which it can
keep and use almost without limit.


title: Albuquerque thugs shoot homeless man dead
uri: Albuquerque-thugs-shoot-homeless-man-dead
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Albuquerque_thugs_shoot_homeless_man_dead)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Albuquerque_thugs_shoot_homeless_man_dead%29

content:
<p>
Albuquerque thugs attacked a homeless man with a fright grenade, and
when that scared him and he ran away, they took that as an excuse to
shoot him 
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/03/24/albuquerque_cops_assault_and_kill_camping_homeless_man/">dead</a>.
<p>
If anyone deserves to be in a mind-deadening US prison, it is those
thugs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Antibiotic_resistance)
title: Antibiotic resistance
uri: Antibiotic-resistance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Antibiotic_resistance%29
content:
<p>
If antibiotics cease to be useful, many forms of surgery 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/end-abx/">will
become too dangerous</a>, as will kidney dialysis and childbirth.
<p>
The article is misguided where it says that we would also lose the
benefits of keeping animals in cramped conditions in factory farms.
That practice is a principal cause of antibiotic resistance; if we
want antibiotics to keep working for other uses, we have to put an end
to it now.


title: Republican opposition to uncovering conflicts of interest
uri: Republican-opposition-to-uncovering-conflicts-of-interest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Republican_opposition_to_uncovering_conflicts_of_interest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Republican_opposition_to_uncovering_conflicts_of_interest%29

content:
<p>
Many Republicans oppose federal agency plans to find out about
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/26/the-republican-street-fight-over-transparency-in-government.html">conflicts
of interest in scientific research that agency decisions might rely
on</a>.
<p>
This opposition makes sense.  Republicans, in general, stand for
helping companies corrupt the government.  Therefore, they don't want
agencies to resist using scientific studies corrupted by those same
companies.


title: Bad news: the movie industry's income increased again
uri: Bad-news-the-movie-industry-s-income-increased-again
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Bad_news:_the_movie_industrys_income_increased_again)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Bad_news%3A_the_movie_industrys_income_increased_again%29

content:
<p>
Bad news: the movie industry's income 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/piracy-notwithstanding-mpaa-enjoys-a-very-strong-year-again/">increased
again</a>, proving that there is no danger forbidden sharing will wipe
out the movie companies any time soon.
<p>
That's unfortunate.  These companies spend their money on propaganda
campaigns saying that sharing is "piracy", and lobbying for unjust
laws such as SOPA and ACTA.  Much of Europe has 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#30_March_2014_(EU_governments_order_ISPs_to_block_access_to_file-sharing_sites)">effectively
adopted the parts of SOPA</a>.
<p>
I regard the movie companies as enemies of our freedom.  I practice a
not-quite-boycott of Hollywood: I never to pay to see a movie unless I
have reason to think it is good.  In principal, this is quite
different from a total boycott of Hollywood.  In practice, there is
little difference.  If you catch yourself and stop yourself when you
are about to agree to "go see a movie" without knowing which one, you
will join my not-quite-boycott.


title: After seven years, one person removed from US no-fly list
uri: After-seven-years-one-person-removed-from-US-no-fly-list
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(After_seven_years_one_person_removed_from_US_no-fly_list)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28After_seven_years_one_person_removed_from_US_no-fly_list%29

content:
<p>
After seven years, 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/after-seven-years-exactly-one-person-gets-off-the-govt-no-fly-list/">one
person</a> (Rahinah Ibrahim) has been removed from the US no-fly list
by a court.  But nothing has changed in the system, and the next
victim could find it just as difficult as it was for her.
<p>
The no-fly list is punishment without trial and should be considered
unconstitutional.


title: Readers Digest gives in to China's demand for censorship
uri: Readers-Digest-gives-in-to-China-s-demand-for-censorship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Readers_Digest_gives_in_to_Chinas_demand_for_censorship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Readers_Digest_gives_in_to_Chinas_demand_for_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Readers Digest does printing in China, so when printers in China
demanded 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/29/readers-digest-chinese-stooge-censorship">censorship
of a book in English</a>, Readers Digest gave in rather than spend
$30,000 more to print the book.
<p>
This is one of the many forms of harm done by globalization of
business, driven by unjust treaties such as the WTO.


title: Privatised Enforcement: A Threat to Our Civil Liberties Online
uri: Privatised-Enforcement-A-Threat-to-Our-Civil-Liberties-Online
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Privatised_Enforcement:_A_Threat_to_Our_Civil_Liberties_Online)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Privatised_Enforcement%3A_A_Threat_to_Our_Civil_Liberties_Online%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2014/03/27/privatised-enforcement-a-threat-to-our-civil-liberties-online">Privatised
Enforcement: A Threat to Our Civil Liberties Online</a>.
<p>
If you learn that Paypal made an agreement to "protect intellectual
property", those 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">propaganda
words</a> should be a clue that this agreement is bad.  (In fact it
entails cutting service to its own clients.)  I believe it should be
illegal for an important internet service to cut off a client without
going to court.


title: Lawsuit against Baidu rejected on First Amendment grounds
uri: Lawsuit-against-Baidu-rejected-on-First-Amendment-grounds
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Lawsuit_against_Baidu_rejected_on_First_Amendment_grounds)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Lawsuit_against_Baidu_rejected_on_First_Amendment_grounds%29

content:
<p>
A lawsuit against Baidu, for imposing pro-China censorship for users
in the US, has been 
<a href="http://rt.com/news/china-baidu-first-amendment-037/">rejected
on First Amendment grounds</a>.
<p>
This was a no-brainer.  Baidu has no legal obligation to mention
criticism of China, any more than stallman.org has an obligation to
mention right-wing propaganda.
<p>
What's wrong with the internet in China is that netizens can't
find criticism of China somewhere else.


title: Canonical talking about removing Amazon spying search from Ubuntu
uri: Canonical-talking-about-removing-Amazon-spying-search-from-Ubuntu
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Canonical_talking_about_removing_Amazon_spying_search_from_Ubuntu)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Canonical_talking_about_removing_Amazon_spying_search_from_Ubuntu%29

content:
<p>
Canonical is talking about 
<a href="http://techrights.org/2014/03/29/amazon-search-in-ubuntu/">removing
its Amazon spying search</a> from Ubuntu.
<p>
I'd appreciate being informed if and when the main Ubuntu release
ceases to do this spying.


title: Detroit to spend hundreds of millions on new sports arena
uri: Detroit-to-spend-hundreds-of-millions-on-new-sports-arena
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Detroit_to_spend_hundreds_of_millions_on_new_sports_arena)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Detroit_to_spend_hundreds_of_millions_on_new_sports_arena%29

content:
<p>
Detroit, bankrupt, will spend 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/29/detroit-bankrupt-red-wings-arena-divides-community">hundreds
of millions</a> on a new sports arena as a handout for the owners of a
sports team.
<p>
The teams claim that the cities should pay towards these projects
because the cities' economy will grow, but it turns out that the
growth goes mainly to the rich.  Detroit can't afford to be swindled
this way.
<p>
There are worse ways to spend money — they could be buying
surveillance gear or SWAT teams.  On the other hand, they are probably
doing that also.


title: UK activists convicted of "conspiracy" for acts of harassment
uri: UK-activists-convicted-of-conspiracy-for-acts-of-harassment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(UK_activists_convicted_of_conspiracy_for_acts_of_harassment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28UK_activists_convicted_of_conspiracy_for_acts_of_harassment%29

content:
<p>
A UK animal rights activist was convicted of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/28/animal-rights-campaigner-huntingdon-life-sciences-debbie-vincent">"conspiracy"
for acts of harassment</a>, though no evidence was presented in her
trial to connect her with them.
<p>
This is indeed chilling for democratic activity.  Even though I firmly
support use of animals in medical experiments to advance science, I
still defend human rights including protests against those
experiments.


title: Big Pharma's money affects human lives, and journalism too
uri: Big-Pharma-s-money-affects-human-lives-and-journalism-too
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Big_Pharmas_money_affects_human_lives_and_journalism_too)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Big_Pharmas_money_affects_human_lives_and_journalism_too%29

content:
<p>
Big Pharma's money 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/03/27/phrmas-money-affects-human-lives-and-journalism-too/">affects
human lives, and journalism too</a>.


title: Washington Post writer complains about states restoring food stamps
uri: Washington-Post-writer-complains-about-states-restoring-food-stamps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Washington_Post_writer_complains_about_states_restoring_food_stamps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Washington_Post_writer_complains_about_states_restoring_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
A writer in the Washington Post 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/03/27/wapos-twisted-take-on-poor-people-eating/">complains
that states that restore food stamps are using a "loophole"</a> and
that the intended spending cuts, covering .02% of the Federal budget,
might be wiped out.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Reliability_of_trials_in_the_US)
title: Reliability of trials in the US
uri: Reliability-of-trials-in-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Reliability_of_trials_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Iwao Hakamada has been 
<a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/27/national/japanese-court-decides-to-reopen-1966-murder-of-four/">granted
a new trial</a> after 48 years in prison for murder and 30 on death
row, because DNA evidence showed he was not the killer.
<p>
The many convicted murderers who have been proved innocent ought to
make us think about how reliable trials are.  Meanwhile, most
Americans accused of crimes don't dare insist on a trial; they plead
guilty to a lesser charge.  Perhaps many of them really are guilty,
but not all.
<p>
Trials in Egypt are a sick joke, but trials in the US are often not
very good.  When Americans do have a trial, it is a form of 
<a href="http://www.vice.com/read/theater-of-justice">theater</a>, and
the judge's bias (for instance, in favor of the thug that attacked a
protester, against the protester) often determines the outcome.
<p>
US prisons have become harsh — the 
<a href="http://www.vice.com/read/inside-the-kafkaesque-world-of-the-uss-little-guantanamos">goal
of rehabilitation has been dropped</a> — and some prisoners
suffer painful isolation for years.
<p>
Most of the people convicted of "terrorism" in the US didn't really do
any.  Some said they wanted to, but they were 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#20_November_2011_(Self_Imagined_Terrorists)">incompetent 
to really do anything without help from infiltrators</a>.  Some, like
Aref, didn't even do that much.
<p>
The government's manipulation to prevent the prisoners' lawsuit from
being heard are in themselves despicable.


title: India still needs Ambedkar's message for eliminating castes
uri: India-still-needs-Ambedkar-s-message-for-eliminating-castes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(India_still_needs_Ambedkars_message_for_eliminating_castes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28India_still_needs_Ambedkars_message_for_eliminating_castes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.sunday-guardian.com/artbeat/we-need-more-ambedkar-theres-just-not-enough">India
still needs Ambedkar's message for eliminating castes</a>.  Just
equalizing them in some degrees is not enough.


title: UK's two main parties support domination of society by business
uri: UK-s-two-main-parties-support-domination-of-society-by-business
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(UKs_two_main_parties_support_domination_of_society_by_business)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28UKs_two_main_parties_support_domination_of_society_by_business%29

content:
<p>
The UK's two main parties support the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/29/workers-treated-with-contempt-labour-miliband-deborah-orr">domination
of society by business</a>, with slightly different emphasis.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(UK_cuts_in_legal_aid)
title: UK cuts in legal aid
uri: UK-cuts-in-legal-aid
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28UK_cuts_in_legal_aid%29
content:
<p>
UK cuts in legal aid have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/mar/29/legal-aid-cuts-family-courts-children">caused
many trials to become unfair</a>.


title: US school system pays damages for demanding student's social network password
uri: US-school-system-pays-damages-for-demanding-student-s-social-network-p
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(US_school_system_pays_damages_for_demanding_students_social_network_password)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28US_school_system_pays_damages_for_demanding_students_social_network_password%29

content:
<p>
A US school system had to 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140327/07103526705/mn-school-coughs-up-70k-damages-invading-13-year-olds-social-media-space.shtml">pay
damages</a> for demanding a student's password for a social network.


title: EU Parliament must protect network neutrality
uri: EU-Parliament-must-protect-network-neutrality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(EU_Parliament_must_protect_network_neutrality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28EU_Parliament_must_protect_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
The EU Parliament 
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/day-seven-before-the-vote-to-save-net-neutrality-parliamentarians-must-protect-the-open-internet">must
protect network neutrality</a>, but it is 
<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2014/03/27/european-telecoms-single-market-a-false-promise-for-net-neutrality">likely
to go astray</a>.


title: Wikipedia resists pressure from advocates of "alternative medicine"
uri: Wikipedia-resists-pressure-from-advocates-of-alternative-medicine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Wikipedia_resists_pressure_from_advocates_of_alternative_medicine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Wikipedia_resists_pressure_from_advocates_of_alternative_medicine%29

content:
<p>
Wikipedia resists pressure from advocates of "alternative medicine",
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/wikipedia-founder-calls-alt-medicine-practitioners-lunatic-charlatans/">refusing
to legitimize their claims when not supported by scientific
studies</a>.
<p>
Some forms of "alternative medicine" are so widespread that it is
useful to tell readers what they are, but that does not entail
asserting that they work.
<p>
If the proponents of alternative medicine want to present their
arguments in a discussion, they can do so in the discussion page.


title: Woman killed by Florida Governor denying her medical care
uri: Woman-killed-by-Florida-Governor-denying-her-medical-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Woman_killed_by_Florida_Governor_denying_her_medical_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Woman_killed_by_Florida_Governor_denying_her_medical_care%29

content:
<p>
Florida Governor Scott has killed Charlene Dill by 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/22696-is-rick-scott-guilty-of-murder">denying
her medical care</a>.
<p>
5 million other Americans are targeted by the same policies, which are
simply a political game.


title: Mudslide forecast by geologist but not reported to people in the area
uri: Mudslide-forecast-by-geologist-but-not-reported-to-people-in-the-area
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 31_March_2014_(Mudslide_forecast_by_geologist_but_not_reported_to_people_in_the_area)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#31_March_2014_%28Mudslide_forecast_by_geologist_but_not_reported_to_people_in_the_area%29

content:
<p>
A mudslide that has killed between 25 and 50 people was forecast by a
geologist (though he couldn't guess <em>when</em>), but this 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/27/3419880/washington-mudslide-25-dead-communication/">wasn't
reported to people who lived in the area or those who moved in
later</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 02_April_2014_(Urgent:_Tobin_Tax_rally_on_April_4)
title: Very urgent: Tobin Tax rally on April 4
uri: Very-urgent-Tobin-Tax-rally-on-April-4
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#02_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tobin_Tax_rally_on_April_4%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://www.robinhoodtax.org/get-involved">join rallies on
April 4</a> for the Tobin Tax (aka Robin Hood Tax) on financial
transactions.


title: Urgent: Reject Keystone XL carbon emissions
uri: Urgent-Reject-Keystone-XL-carbon-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_Keystone_XL_carbon_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Keystone_XL_carbon_emissions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=12467">call
on Obama</a> to reject the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline because
of the carbon emissions it will cause.


title: Urgent: Reject Keystone XL health problems
uri: Urgent-Reject-Keystone-XL-health-problems
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_Keystone_XL_health_problems)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Keystone_XL_health_problems%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/keystone-xl-is-bad-for-public-health-and-must-be-rejected">join
nurses</a> in calling on Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline
because of the health problems it will cause.
<p>
This is not the worst problem the pipeline will cause,
but we don't have to mention only the worst problem.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(The_cloud)
title: The "cloud"
uri: The-cloud
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28The_cloud%29
content:
<p>
What we have learned from Snowden has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/31/data-storage-nsa-revelations-businesses-snowden">removed
the "cloud" from the eyes of many businesses</a> and even some
governments.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(The_surveillance_state)
title: The surveillance state
uri: 2014-04-02-The-surveillance-state
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28The_surveillance_state%29
content:
<p>
Tech companies are bickering with the surveillance state, but behind
the scenes they mostly 
<a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/the_continuing_.html">continue
to cooperate with it</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(Barbie)
title: Barbie
uri: Barbie
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28Barbie%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/31-2">5 minutes</a>
of playing with a Barbie doll affect young girls (under 7) so that
they think they have only a narrow range of career possibilities.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(US_imprisonment_without_trial)
title: US imprisonment without trial
uri: US-imprisonment-without-trial
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28US_imprisonment_without_trial%29
content:
<p>
Obama <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/31">asked the
Supreme Court not to consider the case</a> of citizens suing to
invalidate the law that authorize the US military to imprison
Americans without trial.
<p>
The appeals court ruled in favor of that provision; unless the Supreme
Court overturns it, no one in the US really has any human rights,
since the state can take them all away at any time.
<p>
The US government refuses to say whether it has already imprisoned
people in this way.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(Japanese_whaling)
title: Japanese whaling
uri: Japanese-whaling
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28Japanese_whaling%29
content:
<p>
The International Court of Justice ruled that Japan's "scientific"
whaling is commerce, not research, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/31/japanese-whaling-halt-antarctic-international-court">ordered
Japan to stop</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(Voter_suppression_laws)
title: Voter suppression laws
uri: Voter-suppression-laws
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28Voter_suppression_laws%29
content:
<p>
Republicans are imposing 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/30">new kinds of
voter suppression laws in swing states</a>, designed to hamper poor,
minority and old people from voting.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(Ukraines_neo-Nazis)
title: Ukraine's neo-Nazis
uri: Ukraine-s-neo-Nazis
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28Ukraines_neo-Nazis%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/30-5">Ukraine's
Inconvenient Neo-Nazis</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(Refusal_to_spy_for_Israel)
title: Refusal to spy for Israel
uri: Refusal-to-spy-for-Israel
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28Refusal_to_spy_for_Israel%29
content:
<p>
Israel told Fadi Al-Qutshan, in Gaza, that to get the medical care he
needed he would have to spy for Israel.  He refused, and 
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/03/spy-live/">died instead</a>.
<p>
This conduct is not a rare exception; it's common practice.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(Icelands_new_cryptocurrency)
title: Iceland's new cryptocurrency
uri: Iceland-s-new-cryptocurrency
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28Icelands_new_cryptocurrency%29
content:
<p>
Iceland has developed a 
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/iceland-auroracoin-financial-crisis-825/">new
cryptocurrency</a> to improve its economic situation.
<p>
There is one point in the article I must criticize: comparing a
currency's value with gold is a form of spin; it says that inflation
is bad, but a certain amount of inflation is useful.  The US dollar
has inflated by more than a factor of 10 since 1960, and if the
Icelandic krone had done the same, that wouldn't be bad for Iceland.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(Texas_abortion_providers)
title: Texas abortion providers
uri: Texas-abortion-providers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28Texas_abortion_providers%29
content:
<p>
The Texas law that eliminated abortion providers in large regions of
the state was 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom-womens-rights/devastating-loss-texas-women">upheld
by a US appeals court</a>.  Women are already being forced to have
children they don't want.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_April_2014_(Student_protests_in_Madrid)
title: Student protests in Madrid
uri: Student-protests-in-Madrid
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_April_2014_%28Student_protests_in_Madrid%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://rt.com/news/spain-protests-students-cuts-769/">'No to
Education Cuts!'  Madrid Rocked by New Wave of Student Protests</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(IPCC_disaster_warning)
title: IPCC disaster warning
uri: IPCC-disaster-warning
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28IPCC_disaster_warning%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/mar/31/ipcc-climate-change-impacts-report-history-warnings">IPCC's
reports</a> have warned of the same disaster for 25 years.  What has
changed is that the disaster becomes more certain, and escape gets
harder and harder as we dawdle.
<p>
Damage is already 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/31/climate-change-report-ipcc-chief">visible
in natural system, and in human activities</a>.
<p>
Many species are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/31/ipcc-climate-report-wildlife-impact">shifting
their ranges toward the poles or higher altitude</a>, but some can't
move, and some will reach geographical barriers such as ocean.
Meanwhile, if the species in an ecosystem don't move equally, the
ecosystems will be scrambled and some species will go extinct, which
could cause the extinction of other species in a domino effect.
<p>
The harm will affect all regions, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/31/climate-change-poor-suffer-most-un-report">poor
people will suffer most</a>.
<p>
Food will become 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/31/climate-change-food-supply-un">scarce
and expensive</a>.  The effect is already occurring.
<p>
The fossil fuel magnates are 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#21_January_2014_(Global_heating_denial_movement_entirely_from_paid_campaign)">trying 
to stop us from escaping</a>, by telling us the problem does not exist
and there's no use trying to avoid it.
<p>
They must figure their money will enable them and their descendants to
avoid the consequences that they will have brought on everyone else.
If those consequences get rid of most of the people they no longer
need to employ, they will consider that a bonus, and the right-wing
practice of demonizing the poor will be their excuse.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Apple:_patent_aggressor)
title: Apple: patent aggressor
uri: Apple-patent-aggressor
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Apple%3A_patent_aggressor%29
content:
<p>
Apple is the world's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/31/apple-sues-samsung-for-2bn">principal
patent aggressor against free software</a>.
<p>
"Patent trolls" are a secondary issue: when people try to focus
criticism primarily on trolls, we should bring up Apple.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Facing_fresh_water_shortage)
title: Facing fresh water shortage
uri: Facing-fresh-water-shortage
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Facing_fresh_water_shortage%29
content:
<p>
With global heating, the world's large tropical and semitropical
cities face a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/31/ipcc-climate-change-cities-manila">shortage
of fresh water and inundation with sea water</a>.
<p>
I might prefer inundation in sea water, even if it is fatal, to
staying alive in the horrible heat.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Al-Jazeera_journalists)
title: Al-Jazeera journalists
uri: Al-Jazeera-journalists
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Al-Jazeera_journalists%29
content:
<p>
Egypt's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/31/egypts-al-jazeera-trial-was-inspired-by-americas-global-war-on-journalism">persecution
of al-Jazeera journalists</a> follows the path of the United States,
which tortured al-Jazeera journalists and accused them of "terrorism".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Australian_thugs)
title: Australian thugs
uri: Australian-thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Australian_thugs%29
content:
<p>
An Australian elected official says that the thugs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/queensland-opposition-leader-seeks-inquiry-into-police-intimidation">intimidating
her meetings with the public</a>.
<p>
Look at the amazing gall of the thug's response: the thugs are good
guys by definition, regardless of what they do.  This is the impunity
that enables thugs to get away with so much violence.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Palm_oil_roundtable_greenwash)
title: Palm oil roundtable greenwash
uri: Palm-oil-roundtable-greenwash
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Palm_oil_roundtable_greenwash%29
content:
<p>
Greenpeace has shown that the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is more 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/greenpeace-procter-gamble-palm-oil-change">greenwashing</a>
than real environmental protection.
<p>
Pretending to compensate the rainforest destruction with theoretical
carbon emission reductions elsewhere is a typical swindle.  This is
why we need an emissions tax rather than "carbon trading".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Bill_Ryan_92_arrested)
title: Bill Ryan, 92, arrested
uri: Bill-Ryan-92-arrested
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Bill_Ryan_92_arrested%29
content:
<p>
Bill Ryan, 92 years old, explains 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/01/at-92-i-was-arrested-for-protesting-against-mining-im-glad-i-took-a-stand">why
he got himself arrested</a> blocking the construction of a large coal
mine that will help destroy civilization.
<p>
Considering how many people that mine will kill, even violent
activities to prevent it from operating are justified by the necessity
doctrine: to prevent a greater crime.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Reaction_to_global_heating)
title: Reaction to global heating
uri: Reaction-to-global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Reaction_to_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The world's reaction to global heating parallels Ibsen's play, An
Enemy of the People: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/31/ipcc-report-world-lose-habitats-climate-change">if
addressing the problem is bad for business, ignore it instead</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Senate_report_on_CIA_torture)
title: Senate report on CIA torture
uri: Senate-report-on-CIA-torture
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Senate_report_on_CIA_torture%29
content:
<p>
<em>Maybe</em> the Senate's report on CIA torture says that 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/03/senate-report-torture-didnt-work-and-cia-lied-about-it">torture
didn't even help intelligence goals</a> and the CIA lied about it.
<p>
Congress should legislate that it is entitled to publish the report,
override any veto, and publish it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(NSA_activities)
title: NSA activities
uri: NSA-activities
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28NSA_activities%29
content:
<p>
The NSA claims that nothing about its activities must ever be
revealed, because public knowledge of them would be dangerous, but it
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=2025">leaks such
information itself for political purposes</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Cops_that_kill_innocent_people)
title: Cops that kill innocent people
uri: Cops-that-kill-innocent-people
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Cops_that_kill_innocent_people%29
content:
<p>
Citizens of Albuquerque 
<a href="http://rt.com/usa/albuquerque-police-tear-gas-269/">protested
against cop-killers</a>.  That is, against the cops that kill innocent
people.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Republicans_vs_Science)
title: Republicans vs Science
uri: Republicans-vs-Science
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Republicans_vs_Science%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22769-the-republican-plan-to-invalidate-scientific-research">The
Republican Plan To Invalidate Scientific Research</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Plant_variety_in_Chile)
title: Plant variety in Chile
uri: Plant-variety-in-Chile
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Plant_variety_in_Chile%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22780-chile-derails-monsanto-law-that-would-privatize-seeds">social
movement in Chile</a> blocked the enactment of plant variety
monopolies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Erdogans_Islamist_party)
title: Erdogan's Islamist party
uri: Erdogan-s-Islamist-party
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Erdogans_Islamist_party%29
content:
<p>
Erdogan's Islamist party, the party of censorship and repression, has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/31/turkey-election-blow-democracy-ironic-erdogan">won
an apparently democratic election</a>.
<p>
The result endangers Turkey's human rights, without which there can't
be real democracy either.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Urgent:_Protest_on_April_15)
title: Urgent: Protest on April 15
uri: Urgent-Protest-on-April-15
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_on_April_15%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://represent.us/action/representation-day/">sign up</a>
for the protest on April 15 against taxation without representation.
<p>
The idea is that our congresscritters represent plutocrats, not us.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Urgent:_Renew_unemployment_benefits)
title: Urgent: Renew unemployment benefits
uri: Urgent-Renew-unemployment-benefits
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Renew_unemployment_benefits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.usaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=615">call
on Boehner</a> to pass the bill to renew unemployment benefits.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Urgent:_Political_spending)
title: Urgent: Political spending
uri: Urgent-Political-spending
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Political_spending%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/mccutcheon_robes">add your
name to the protest</a> against the "justices" that ruled for
unlimited political spending for the rich.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Urgent:_Labeling_of_GMOs)
title: Urgent: Labeling of GMOs
uri: 2014-04-04-Urgent-Labeling-of-GMOs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Labeling_of_GMOs%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13596">tell
Rep. Pompeo</a> he will look like a fool if he sponsors Big Food's law
to stop states from requiring labeling of GMOs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Safety_rules_for_children)
title: "Safety" rules for children
uri: Safety-rules-for-children
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Safety_rules_for_children%29
content:
<p>
One school in New Zealand has thrown away the 
<a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/21/when-one-new-zealand-school-tossed-its-playground-rules-and-let-students-risk-injury-the-results-surprised/">narrow
"safety" rules that restrict children's play</a>, and parents support
the decision.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Prison)
title: Prison
uri: Prison
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Prison%29
content:
<p>
A rich man in the US was convicted of raping his young children.  The
judge sentenced him to probation, saying 
<a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2014/03/28/sunday-preview-du-pont-heir-stayed-prison/7016769/">prison
would be very bad for him</a>.
<p>
That is a valid point — from what I've heard, prison is very bad
for a lot of convicts.  But does this apply only for the rich?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Ocean_temperatures)
title: Ocean temperatures
uri: Ocean-temperatures
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Ocean_temperatures%29
content:
<p>
Traces of coral growth, near Western Australia, give ocean temperature
records starting from 1795.  They show that the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/01/wa-coral-reefs-at-risk-from-highest-ocean-temperatures-in-215-years">ocean
temperature since 1980 has been .5C higher than in the previous period
since 1795</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Illegal_immigrants_in_Greece)
title: Illegal immigrants in Greece
uri: Illegal-immigrants-in-Greece
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Illegal_immigrants_in_Greece%29
content:
<p>
Illegal immigrants in Greece are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/migrants-living-hell-greek-detention-medecins-sans-frontieres-scabies-tb">imprisoned
in horrible conditions</a>.
<p>
I don't think Greece, or the EU, has an obligation to admit everyone
that wants to go there.  But if people are to be imprisoned, they
should be imprisoned in humane conditions.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Tax-dodging_US_companies)
title: Tax-dodging US companies
uri: Tax-dodging-US-companies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Tax-dodging_US_companies%29
content:
<p>
Tax-dodging US companies have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/01-5">nearly a
trillion dollars stored outside the US</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Nationwide_standardized_tests)
title: Nationwide standardized tests
uri: Nationwide-standardized-tests
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Nationwide_standardized_tests%29
content:
<p>
Americans: reject the
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/01-2">nationwide
standardized tests</a> for your children.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Billionaires_votes)
title: Billionaires' votes
uri: Billionaires-votes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Billionaires_votes%29
content:
<p>
Plutocratist American politicians are now 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/01">competing for
the votes of a few billionaire oligarchs</a>, who hope their money can
buy US elections.
<p>
Right-wing billionaires 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/dick-cheney-sheldon-adelson-speech-bomb-iran">applauded
when Cheney talked about attacking Iran</a>.  (Cheney is a 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2005-sep-dec.html#02%20December%202005%20(Cheney%20was%20the%20main%20advocate%20of%20torture)">war
criminal</a> already.)
<p>
Bernie Sanders on the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/01-1">danger of
oligarchy in the US</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(No_deal_vs_grossly_unfair_deal)
title: "No deal" vs grossly unfair deal
uri: No-deal-vs-grossly-unfair-deal
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28No_deal_vs_grossly_unfair_deal%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/01-0">Why you must
choose "no deal"</a> rather than a grossly unfair deal that gives you
a little more than zero.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Public_protests_in_China)
title: Public protests in China
uri: Public-protests-in-China
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Public_protests_in_China%29
content:
<p>
Public protests may have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/chinas-choice/2014/apr/01/china-environment-protests-px">halted
a chemical plant project</a> in China.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(US_submission_to_Israel)
title: US submission to Israel
uri: US-submission-to-Israel
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28US_submission_to_Israel%29
content:
<p>
The US seems to be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/us-may-release-israeli-spy-jonathan-pollard-peace-process">considering
the concession of releasing Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard</a>.  In
exchange, Israel will do something it already agreed to do.
<p>
I would describe this as increasing US submission to Israel.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Girl_Scouts_submit_to_tyranny)
title: Girl Scouts submit to tyranny
uri: Girl-Scouts-submit-to-tyranny
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Girl_Scouts_submit_to_tyranny%29
content:
<p>
The Girl Scouts have a 
<a href='http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140326/18013826701/girl-scouts-get-badge-intellectual-property-maximalism.shtml'>"merit
badge" for submission to copyright tyranny</a>, called (naturally)
"<a href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html'>intellectual
property</a>".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Arming_Syrian_rebels)
title: Arming Syrian rebels
uri: Arming-Syrian-rebels
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Arming_Syrian_rebels%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/31-4">Obama has
agreed</a> to let Saudi Arabia send portable anti-aircraft missiles to
Syrian rebels.
<p>
The danger is that the Islamist fanatics among these rebels will use
them for terrorist purposes, perhaps in another country.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(World_Bank_supports_land-grabs)
title: World Bank supports land-grabs
uri: World-Bank-supports-land-grabs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28World_Bank_supports_land-grabs%29
content:
<p>
The World Bank supports 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/03/31">agribusiness
land-grabs</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(False_arrest_by_thugs)
title: False arrest by thugs
uri: False-arrest-by-thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28False_arrest_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Thugs that arrested a Black art student in Pittsburgh based on nothing
but his appearance lost a lawsuit for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/31/jury-finds-white-pittsburgh-officers-falsely-arrested-black-art-student">false
arrest</a>.
<p>
However, they have been left in impunity for the injuries they caused
by beating him up.  And they have not been sent to prison.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Russia_withdrawing_troops)
title: Russia withdrawing troops
uri: Russia-withdrawing-troops
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Russia_withdrawing_troops%29
content:
<p>
Russia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/31/dmitry-medvedev-crimea-russia-army-border-withdrawal-ukraine">starting
to withdraw troops</a> from the region bordering on Ukraine.
<p>
This reinforces the idea that Putin made a bluff to take more than
Crimea so as to get a "compromise" of keeping Crimea.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 03_April_2014_(Govts_promoting_fossil_fuels)
title: Gov'ts promoting fossil fuels
uri: Gov-ts-promoting-fossil-fuels
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#03_April_2014_%28Govts_promoting_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>
Governments proceed with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/31/act-devastating-effects-climate-change">promoting
fossil fuels despite the need to stop</a>.  Either they don't know
about the devastation they are causing, or they don't care.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Urgent:_Boycott_Koch_companies)
title: Urgent: Boycott Koch companies
uri: Urgent-Boycott-Koch-companies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Boycott_Koch_companies%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/01/1288957/-Sign-the-pledge-Don-t-buy-these-Koch-products">boycott</a>
the Koch brothers' companies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Urgent:_Campaign_against_the_TPP)
title: Urgent: Campaign against the TPP
uri: Urgent-Campaign-against-the-TPP
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Campaign_against_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
Canadians: join the campaign against the TPP, which 
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.ca/">threatens to impose longer
copyright term in Canada</a> (as well as many other injustices).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_Pebble_Mine_project)
title: Urgent: Oppose Pebble Mine project
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Pebble-Mine-project
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Pebble_Mine_project%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/rio-tinto-sockeye-salmon-biggest-mine-pebble-mine-northern-dynasty-bristol-bay/">call
on Rio Tinto</a> to pull out of the Pebble Mine project.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Healthy_diet_for_poor_people)
title: Healthy diet for poor people
uri: Healthy-diet-for-poor-people
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Healthy_diet_for_poor_people%29
content:
<p>
If we hope poor people will eat a healthy diet, we had better 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/02/forcing-veg-throat-five-a-day">give
them money</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Old_forests_and_koalas)
title: Old forests and koalas
uri: Old-forests-and-koalas
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Old_forests_and_koalas%29
content:
<p>
Chopping down old forests and planting new forests 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/02/koalas-may-disappear-in-areas-affected-by-offset-scheme-says-foundation">will
not save the koalas</a> (and other animals) that live in the old ones.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Warming_oceans_damage_coral)
title: Warming oceans damage coral
uri: Warming-oceans-damage-coral
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Warming_oceans_damage_coral%29
content:
<p>
Coral gives evidence of warming oceans, and warming oceans are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/01-1">damaging
the coral</a>.
<p>
In a few decades, the anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub> that is warming the
oceans 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#10_July_2012_(Ocean_acidification_due_to_CO2)">will 
kill the coral directly</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Asylum-seekers_in_Australia)
title: Asylum-seekers in Australia
uri: Asylum-seekers-in-Australia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Asylum-seekers_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Australia will move some imprisoned asylum-seekers to a remote prison
with so few phone lines that it will be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/asylum-seekers-fail-prevent-transfer">hard
for their lawyers to reach them</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Plutocracy_and_global_heating)
title: Plutocracy and global heating
uri: Plutocracy-and-global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Plutocracy_and_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
We 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/02/climate-change-terminate-market-madness-100-months">can't
expect the unaided market to curb global heating</a>, because if it
were going to, it already would have.
<p>
Part of the problem is plutocracy: the fossil fuel companies have
lobbied for and gained big subsidies, including support from the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#17_December_2012_(World_Bank_keeps_financing_coal_mines)">World
Bank</a> as well as 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#07_December_2012_(Urgent:_Cut_subsidies_to_fossil_fuel_companies)">national 
governments</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Racist_charities)
title: Racist "charities"
uri: Racist-charities
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Racist_charities%29
content:
<p>
When the state becomes so cruel that a lot of people need to beg for
help, it provides an opening for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/02/bnp-indigenous-brits-food-banks">racist
"charities"</a> that offer aid only to certain racial groups.
<p>
Thus one cruel right-wing policy feeds into the next.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Political_campaign_donations)
title: Political campaign donations
uri: Political-campaign-donations
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Political_campaign_donations%29
content:
<p>
The Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/supreme-court-strikes-down-cap-campaign-contributions">struck
down a limit on total donations from a person</a> to various political
campaigns.
<p>
This will increase the US tendency to become a plutocracy,
with only forms of democracy.
<p>
Our only hope is if people learn to vote for whoever the attack ads
attack.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Assault_on_freedom_of_speech)
title: Assault on freedom of speech
uri: Assault-on-freedom-of-speech
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Assault_on_freedom_of_speech%29
content:
<p>
The Australian government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/02/coalition-review-of-consumer-laws-may-ban-environmental-boycotts">planning
to ban environmental organizations from organizing boycotts</a>.
<p>
This is a direct assault on freedom of speech for the non-rich.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Authorized_discrimination)
title: Authorized discrimination
uri: Authorized-discrimination
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Authorized_discrimination%29
content:
<p>
A Mississippi bill, already approved by the legislature, would allow
pharmacists to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/mississippi-religious-freedom-law-gay-people">deny
medication to people on religious grounds</a>.
<p>
It would authorize discrimination by other businesses, too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Reform_of_the_NSA)
title: "Reform" of the NSA
uri: Reform-of-the-NSA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Reform_of_the_NSA%29
content:
<p>
"<a href='https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/nsa-reform-bill-intelligence-community-written-intelligence-community-and'>Reform</a>"
of the NSA, by the NSA, for the NSA.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Intention_to_prostitute)
title: "Intention" to prostitute
uri: Intention-to-prostitute
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Intention_to_prostitute%29
content:
<p>
In Phoenix, talking to people you meet on the street is interpreted as
an 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights-criminal-law-reform-hiv-aids-reproductive-freedom-womens-rights/arrested-walking">"intention"
to commit prostitution</a>.
<p>
This is unjust for several reasons: because talking to people is not
really evidence of that, because it is an invitation to racial and
gender profiling, and also because prostitution should not be a crime.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(US_torture_and_surveillance)
title: US torture and surveillance
uri: US-torture-and-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28US_torture_and_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Since 2001 the US government has launched an 
<a href="http://thebaffler.com/blog/2014/04/dragnet_surveillance">Orwellian
attack on the English language</a> to justify both torture and total
surveillance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Global_heating_impact_on_food)
title: Global heating impact on food
uri: Global-heating-impact-on-food
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Global_heating_impact_on_food%29
content:
<p>
A way to bring home the danger of global heating is by focusing on its
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/01/climate-change-food-issue-ipcc-report">impact
on food production</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Afghan_elections)
title: Afghan elections
uri: Afghan-elections
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Afghan_elections%29
content:
<p>
Candidates in the Afghan elections 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/afghanistan-election-candidates-predict-fraud">predict massive fraud</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(NSA_backdoor_search_loophole)
title: NSA backdoor search loophole
uri: NSA-backdoor-search-loophole
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28NSA_backdoor_search_loophole%29
content:
<p>
Clapper admits that the NSA uses a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/nsa-surveillance-loophole-americans-data">backdoor
search loophole</a> to search for Americans' communications data
within its massive collections.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Arizona_restricts_use_of_RU-486)
title: Arizona restricts use of RU-486
uri: Arizona-restricts-use-of-RU-486
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Arizona_restricts_use_of_RU-486%29
content:
<p>
Arizona has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/arizona-law-restricting-non-surgical-abortion-go-effect">restricted
the use of RU-486</a>, using an obsolete high dose as an excuse.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Purchase-tracking_cards)
title: Purchase-tracking cards
uri: Purchase-tracking-cards
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Purchase-tracking_cards%29
content:
<p>
Venezuela is introducing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/venezuela-food-shortage-id-cards">purchase-tracking
cards</a> for subsidized supermarkets.
<p>
I don't see anything wrong with rationing subsidized goods.
(US food stamps are not provided in unlimited quantities.)
<p>
However, this is no substitute for correcting the cause of the
shortages, which I believe is price control.
<p>
The biometric and tracking aspects seem very dangerous.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 04_April_2014_(Irish_thug-bugged_phone_calls)
title: Irish thug-bugged phone calls
uri: Irish-thug-bugged-phone-calls
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#04_April_2014_%28Irish_thug-bugged_phone_calls%29
content:
<p>
The Irish national thug unit 
<a href="http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2014/03/31_bugging-of-conversations-by-an-garda-siochana.html">recorded
phone conversations in jail</a>.  Here's an analysis of what happened,
and perhaps why.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Urgent:_Reverse_Corporations_United)
title: Urgent: Reverse Corporations United
uri: Urgent-Reverse-Corporations-United
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reverse_Corporations_United%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=amend1">call
for amending the Constitution</a> to reverse the Corporations United
and McCutcheon decisions.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Turkey_lifts_ban_on_Twitter)
title: Turkey lifts ban on Twitter
uri: Turkey-lifts-ban-on-Twitter
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Turkey_lifts_ban_on_Twitter%29
content:
<p>
Turkey's constitutional court has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/turkey-lifts-twitter-ban-court-ruling">lifted
the ban on Twitter</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Protests_in_China)
title: Protests in China
uri: Protests-in-China
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Protests_in_China%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/02-7">More
about the protests in China</a> that seem to have blocked construction
of a chemical plant.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Bigotry_of_Christian_fanatics)
title: Bigotry of Christian fanatics
uri: Bigotry-of-Christian-fanatics
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Bigotry_of_Christian_fanatics%29
content:
<p>
Christian fanatics from the US are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/02-5">spreading
bigotry in many African countries</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(IMF_conditions_on_assistance)
title: IMF conditions on "assistance"
uri: IMF-conditions-on-assistance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28IMF_conditions_on_assistance%29
content:
<p>
The IMF is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/02-5">making the
conditions on its "assistance" tougher</a> in terms of crushing the
poor in the countries that are "assisted".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Kerry_condemns_Palestine)
title: Kerry condemns Palestine
uri: Kerry-condemns-Palestine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Kerry_condemns_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
Kerry 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/02-4">condemned
Palestine</a> for the temerity of proposing to adhere to international
human rights conventions.
<p>
I suppose this is because joining them means acting like a state.  The
US wants Palestine to accept an Israeli veto on being a state, along
with Israeli colonization, land grabbing, and water grabbing, etc.
<p>
Palestine's human rights record is 
<a href="">not 
very good</a> but if it signs some human rights treaties, they might
provide a lever to demand improvement.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Fossil-fuel_addiction)
title: Fossil-fuel addiction
uri: Fossil-fuel-addiction
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Fossil-fuel_addiction%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/179113/we-are-now-terminal-stage-our-fossil-fuel-addiction">We
Are Now in the Terminal Stage of Our Fossil-Fuel Addiction</a>,
manifesting itself as delusional thinking.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(The_high-CO2_scenario)
title: The high-CO2 scenario
uri: The-high-CO2-scenario
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28The_high-CO2_scenario%29
content:
<p>
In the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/apr/03/ipcc-un-climate-change-perfect-storm-zombie-oil">high-CO<sub>2</sub>
scenario</a>, by 2100 the temperature will interfere in some places
with outdoor work such as farming.
<p>
Heating will continue after 2100.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Fast_food_wage_theft)
title: Fast food wage theft
uri: Fast-food-wage-theft
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Fast_food_wage_theft%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/02/3422111/wage-theft-poll-mcdonalds/">Hamburgled:
Nine Out Of Ten Fast Food Workers Have Experienced Wage Theft</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Koch_bros_oppose_mass_transit)
title: Koch bros oppose mass transit
uri: Koch-bros-oppose-mass-transit
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Koch_bros_oppose_mass_transit%29
content:
<p>
The Koch brothers are 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/01/3421088/koch-brothers-tennessee/">lobbying
to ban some mass transit projects</a>.
<p>
Apparently they want to maximize the amount of fossil fuel that the
world burns, no matter how outrageous the methods.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Republican_party_mentality)
title: Republican party mentality
uri: Republican-party-mentality
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Republican_party_mentality%29
content:
<p>
The House Republicans passed a bill 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/02/3421941/house-passes-bridenstine-bill/">requiring
NOAA not to study global heating</a>.
<p>
The Senate won't pass it, but it shows the mentality of the Republican
party in the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Exxon_CO2_caps)
title: Exxon CO2 caps
uri: Exxon-CO2-caps
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Exxon_CO2_caps%29
content:
<p>
Exxon tells stockholders 
<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/exxonmobil-carbon-caps-fat-chance-well-just-keep-on-drilling/">not
to worry that its CO<sub>2</sub> generation will ever be capped</a>.
<p>
However, if it isn't capped, the system in which it is possible to own
stock and later sell it could fall apart around 2070 or so.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(NSA_trying_to_destroy_evidence)
title: NSA trying to destroy evidence
uri: NSA-trying-to-destroy-evidence
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28NSA_trying_to_destroy_evidence%29
content:
<p>
The NSA lawyers are 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/court-orders-government-not-destroy-evidence-eff-cases-against-nsa">trying
every sleazy trick</a> to destroy evidence needed for the EFF's
lawsuit against massive surveillance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Neelie_Kroes_letter)
title: Neelie Kroes' letter
uri: Neelie-Kroes-letter
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Neelie_Kroes_letter%29
content:
<p>
Adding subtitles to Neelie Kroes' letter that 
<a href="http://edri.org/commissioner-kroes-letter-meps-net-neutrality-now-subtitles/">pretends
to support network neutrality</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Harassment_by_debt_collectors)
title: Harassment by debt collectors
uri: Harassment-by-debt-collectors
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Harassment_by_debt_collectors%29
content:
<p>
15% of Americans are being 
<a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117213/debt-collector-malpractice-someone-elses-debt-could-ruin-your-credit">harassed
by debt collectors</a>, which often try to cheat or swindle people,
not infrequently for debts they never owed in the first place.
<p>
This system needs to be tightened up, but as for the Americans who
really do have debts they can't pay, the main cause is the bank-state
axis that has loaded Americans with debts and impoverished them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(Poisoning_pigeons_in_Australia)
title: Poisoning pigeons in Australia
uri: Poisoning-pigeons-in-Australia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28Poisoning_pigeons_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Dredging a harbor in Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/02/sea-turtles-were-killed-by-gladstone-harbour-dredging">mobilized
metals into the water</a>, which appear to have poisoned many sea
turtles in the area.
<p>
I suspect that only a fraction of the turtles that were killed
have been counted.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(Urgent:_Solar_Energy)
title: Urgent: Solar Energy
uri: Urgent-Solar-Energy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Solar_Energy%29
content:
<p>
My friend <a href="http://stallman.org/hongfeng.html">Hong Feng</a> is
looking for people who can give advice
about the market conditions for solar energy in various countries
around the world.  If you want to help him, please send email to
hf at hongfeng dot c and then h.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 05_April_2014_(GM_pays_people_off_for_deaths)
title: GM pays people off for deaths
uri: GM-pays-people-off-for-deaths
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#05_April_2014_%28GM_pays_people_off_for_deaths%29
content:
<p>
The new CEO of reorganized General Motors informed the public that
the company chose to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/02-3">pay off
relatives of people killed by faults rather than fix them</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/02-3">More
information</a> on the faults.
<p>
The idea that corporations must serve primarily their shareholders'
interests above those of workers, customers and the public
is a recent development.  
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#18_April_2012_(Shareholders)">It 
started after 1980</a>.  Since that was a change for the worse, let's
not legitimize it or give up on fighting it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(Urgent:_Condemn_US_govt_hypocrisy)
title: Urgent: Condemn US gov't hypocrisy
uri: Urgent-Condemn-US-gov-t-hypocrisy
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Condemn_US_govt_hypocrisy%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9584">support
the movement</a> against US government hypocrisy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(Urgent:_State-legalized_marijuana)
title: Urgent: State-legalized marijuana
uri: Urgent-State-legalized-marijuana
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_State-legalized_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1091&autologin=true">ask
your congresscritter</a> to cosponsor bills to relax the Federal
interference with state-legalized marijuana.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(Protest_against_charter_schools)
title: Protest against charter schools
uri: Protest-against-charter-schools
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28Protest_against_charter_schools%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/04-5">'Stand Up,
Fight Back!': Newark Students Protest Charter Schools</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(Third-party_cookies)
title: Third-party cookies
uri: Third-party-cookies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28Third-party_cookies%29
content:
<p>
How third-party cookies combine for 
<a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dreisman/cookies-that-give-you-away-the-surveillance-implications-of-web-tracking/">substantial
tracking</a>, even if each one contains only a meaningless number.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(Network_neutrality)
title: Network neutrality
uri: Network-neutrality
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
The European Parliament 
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-a-great-step-forward-for-the-free-internet">voted
for network neutrality</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(IMF-imposed_austerity)
title: IMF-imposed austerity
uri: IMF-imposed-austerity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28IMF-imposed_austerity%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine's leaders call the coming 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/04-1">IMF-imposed
austerity</a> "the price of independence".
<p>
They have it backwards: the price of independence will be whatever it
costs Ukraine to throw off the IMF's yoke.
<p>
One of the IMF's requirements is truly necessary: making fossil fuels
more expensive.  That must be done in every country so that less of
them will be used.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(Protests_against_austerity)
title: Protests against austerity
uri: Protests-against-austerity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28Protests_against_austerity%29
content:
<p>
Protesters Against Austerity Fill the Streets of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/04-2">Montreal</a>.
The thugs attacked them, of course.
<p>
There were mass protests against austerity in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/04-3">Brussels</a>
also.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(Kerrys_sham_peace_process)
title: Kerry's sham "peace process"
uri: Kerry-s-sham-peace-process
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28Kerrys_sham_peace_process%29
content:
<p>
Kerry's sham "peace process" has visibly 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/israel-palestine-prisoners-talks-reviewed">fallen
apart</a>.
<p>
The idea of a "fatal blow" to the "peace process" presumes it was
serious and intended to succeed.  However, Israel never had any
intention of making nontrivial concessions, so the process was nothing
but an attempt to pressure Palestine to legitimize what Israel has
taken.
<p>
Its "demise" creates a small opening for peace, but only if more
pressure is placed on Israel.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(The_idea_of_a_war_on_drugs)
title: The idea of a war on drugs
uri: The-idea-of-a-war-on-drugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28The_idea_of_a_war_on_drugs%29
content:
<p>
Most of the American
public <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/03-1">rejects
the idea</a> of a war on drugs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(Media_coverage_of_missing_plane)
title: Media coverage of missing plane
uri: Media-coverage-of-missing-plane
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28Media_coverage_of_missing_plane%29
content:
<p>
Why did the missing airplane get 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/media-attention-missing-malaysian-airplane-flight-370">so
much media coverage</a>?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 06_April_2014_(Cuban_pseudo-Twitter)
title: Cuban pseudo-Twitter
uri: Cuban-pseudo-Twitter
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#06_April_2014_%28Cuban_pseudo-Twitter%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitter-zunzuneo-stir-unrest">indirectly
set up a pseudo-Twitter</a> to give Cuban users a way to communicate
with each other…intended secretly to start riots for a
destabilization campaign.
<p>
Offering Cubans a way to communicate and evade state censorship is
good.  Using this for destabilization is not.  Fortunately, that part
of the plan failed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 7_April_2014_(Don't_tell_anyone)
title: Don't tell anyone
uri: Don-t-tell-anyone
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#7_April_2014_%28Don%27t_tell_anyone%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/07-0">
Eight Headlines</a>
the Mainstream Media Doesn't Have the Courage to Print.
</p>
<p>I'd say it's honesty that they lack, not merely courage.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 7_April_2014_(Take_action_on_toxic_chemicals)
title: Take action on toxic chemicals
uri: Take-action-on-toxic-chemicals
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#7_April_2014_%28Take_action_on_toxic_chemicals%29
content:
<p>US citizens: Tell your congresscritter and senators,
<a href="http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=Qn4Z4DWNcwPGvfE-vP2swg">
support effective regulation</a>
of toxic chemicals, not the phony alternative bill.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 7_April_2014_(More_than_they_need_to_know)
title: More than they need to know
uri: More-than-they-need-to-know
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#7_April_2014_%28More_than_they_need_to_know%29
content:
<p>Using a driver's license as proof of age gives dishonest bars and
bartenders
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/04/proof_of_age_cards_drivers_licenses_display_too_much_personal_info_to_use.html">
an opportunity to extract personal information</a>
they should not get.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 7_April_2014_(Miscarriage_=_Murder?)
title: Miscarriage = Murder?
uri: Miscarriage-Murder
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#7_April_2014_%28Miscarriage_%3D_Murder%3F%29
content:
<p>A woman in Mississippi
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/judge-throws-out-murder-charge-in-mississippi-fetal-harm-case">
no longer faces murder charges</a>
for using cocaine
while pregnant — only 20 years in prison for manslaughter.
</p>
<p>When a fetus does not develop into a human being, no existent human
being has been hurt, except perhaps the parents who may be
disappointed.  It is absurd to punish this woman for possibly
disappointing herself.</p>
<p>When, however, the fetus does become a human being, anything that was
done to the fetus that results in a damaged human being is a real
wrong to a real person.  Pregnant women should not take drugs that
might have this effect.  (I don't know whether that woman's cocaine
use was really likely to cause any harm — it might depend on
when in pregnancy she used it.)</p>
<p>However, imprisoning women for this, even if it is for less than 20
years, is not a good way to discourage such practices.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 7_April_2014_(The_Unknown_Known)
title: The Unknown Known
uri: The-Unknown-Known
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#7_April_2014_%28The_Unknown_Known%29
content:
<p>The
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/06-5">
case for prosecuting</a>
Donald Rumsfeld.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 7_April_2014_(US_OTI_initiatives_in_Latin_America)
title: US OTI initiatives in Latin America
uri: US-OTI-initiatives-in-Latin-America
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#7_April_2014_%28US_OTI_initiatives_in_Latin_America%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/06">
USAID subversion</a>
 has targeted Venezuela and Bolivia, as well as Cuba.
</p>


title: Shell and Rio Tinto lobby against accusations of human rights abuses
uri: Shell-and-Rio-Tinto-lobby-against-accusations-of-human-rights-abuses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 7_April_2014_(Shell_and_Rio_Tinto_lobby_against_accusations_of_human_rights_abuses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#7_April_2014_%28Shell_and_Rio_Tinto_lobby_against_accusations_of_human_rights_abuses%29

content:
<p>Shell and Rio Tinto
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/06/shell-rio-tinto-human-rights-nigeria-kiobel">
asked the UK government</a>
to help them defeat
accusations of human rights violations.
</p>


title: Urgent: End oppressive zero-tolerance
uri: Urgent-End-oppressive-zero-tolerance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(Urgent:_End_oppressive_zero-tolerance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_oppressive_zero-tolerance%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Desoto County School Board, 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/school_pride_zero_tolerance">end
oppressive zero-tolerance</a> and un-punish the child who held up
three fingers.


title: Urgent: Get banks out of commodity business
uri: Urgent-Get-banks-out-of-commodity-business
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(Urgent:_Get_banks_out_of_commodity_business)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Get_banks_out_of_commodity_business%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/letter/fed_cans/">Tell the Federal
Reserve</a> to make banks get out of the commodity business.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(Global_privacy_rights)
title: Global privacy rights
uri: Global-privacy-rights
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28Global_privacy_rights%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/05-2">UN Must 
Reject Mass Surveillance to Protect Global Privacy Rights</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(Senate_report_on_CIA)
title: Senate report on CIA
uri: Senate-report-on-CIA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28Senate_report_on_CIA%29
content:
<p>
The Senate 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/05">plans 
to release only parts</a> of its report on the CIA.  We need the rest
to be leaked.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(Propaganda_efforts_in_Cuba)
title: Propaganda efforts in Cuba
uri: Propaganda-efforts-in-Cuba
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28Propaganda_efforts_in_Cuba%29
content:
<p>
The imitation Twitter for Cuba is just a tiny bit of governments' 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=2058">propaganda
efforts</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(Arrested_for_taking_photos)
title: Arrested for taking photos
uri: Arrested-for-taking-photos
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28Arrested_for_taking_photos%29
content:
<p>
Two reporters for the Toledo Blade were arrested for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/04-7">taking
photos from public places</a> of the outside of a tank factory.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(Solitary_confinement)
title: Solitary confinement
uri: Solitary-confinement
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28Solitary_confinement%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/04/washington-immigration-detainees-hunger-strike-freed-lawsuit">lawsuit
by the ACLU</a> got the US government to let some hunger striking
immigration prisoners out of solitary confinement.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(Desmond_Tutu_condemns_US_laws)
title: Desmond Tutu condemns US laws
uri: Desmond-Tutu-condemns-US-laws
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28Desmond_Tutu_condemns_US_laws%29
content:
<p>
Desmond Tutu 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/04-5">condemns</a>
US laws that aim to punish support for boycotts, divestment and
sanctions against Israel or its occupation of Palestine.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(Breast-groping_thug)
title: Breast-groping thug
uri: Breast-groping-thug
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28Breast-groping_thug%29
content:
<p>
The thug that is prosecuting Cecily McMillan for supposedly elbowing
him (as he groped her breast from behind) is also being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/04/nypd-officer-lawsuit-bovell-guest-mcmillan-occupy">sued
for attacking another protester</a>.
<p>
We should have a "stand your ground" law saying that if someone starts
groping you from behind, you have a right to respond with hands, feet
and elbows before you know who it is.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(The_edge_of_the_climate_cliff)
title: The edge of the climate cliff
uri: The-edge-of-the-climate-cliff
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28The_edge_of_the_climate_cliff%29
content:
<p>
Uncertainty about how far we are from the edge of the climate cliff
tends to mean 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/04/climate-change-uncertainty-stronger-tackling-case">more
risk that things are worse than we expect</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(Spread_of_Ebola_virus)
title: Spread of Ebola virus
uri: Spread-of-Ebola-virus
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28Spread_of_Ebola_virus%29
content:
<p>
Ebola virus is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/04/guinea-ebola-outbreak-sierra-leone-liberia">spreading
around West Africa</a>.
<p>
If fruit-eating bats are responsible, it may not spread beyond that
region, but it could be disastrous there.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(The_financial-political_complex)
title: The financial-political complex
uri: The-financial-political-complex
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28The_financial-political_complex%29
content:
<p>
Arguing we have better chances of reforming the financial-political
complex 
<a href="http://daily.represent.us/lost-win-money-politics-reform/">all
at once</a> than piece by piece.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 07_April_2014_(London_thugs_arrest_quotas)
title: London thugs' arrest quotas
uri: London-thugs-arrest-quotas
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#07_April_2014_%28London_thugs_arrest_quotas%29
content:
<p>
London thugs are pressured into thuggishness by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/04/metropolitan-police-federation-report-arrest-quotas-demoralising">quotas
of arrests</a> imposed on them by higher-up thugs.


title: Urgent: Tell Gates Foundation to stop
uri: Urgent-Tell-Gates-Foundation-to-stop
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_Gates_Foundation_to_stop)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Gates_Foundation_to_stop%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell the Gates Foundation to 
<a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/gatesdivestment">stop investing
in private prisons</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Urgent:_Paycheck_Fairness_Act)
title: Urgent: Paycheck Fairness Act
uri: Urgent-Paycheck-Fairness-Act
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Paycheck_Fairness_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/equal_pay_senate">tell 
your senators</a> to support the Paycheck Fairness Act.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Urgent:_Reduce_student_loan_interest)
title: Urgent: Reduce student loan interest
uri: Urgent-Reduce-student-loan-interest
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reduce_student_loan_interest%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for a 
<a href="http://action.kirstengillibrand.com/t/12171/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=641">reduction
in student loan interest rates</a> so the US stops making money from
struggling graduates.


title: Urgent: Ban pipelines for fracked gas
uri: Urgent-Ban-pipelines-for-fracked-gas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Urgent:_Ban_pipelines_for_fracked_gas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_pipelines_for_fracked_gas%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/massachusetts-petition">call
on the legislature</a> to ban new pipelines for fracked gas in
Massachusetts.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Obamas_drone_attacks)
title: Obama's drone attacks
uri: 2014-04-08-Obama-s-drone-attacks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Obamas_drone_attacks%29
content:
<p>
A US court threw out the lawsuit by relatives of US citizens killed by
Obama's drone attacks, saying that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/05/drone-killings-case-thrown-out-in-us">officials
are immune from prosecution for whatever they do in war</a>.
<p>
Since the US is not officially at war in Yemen, this appears to give
the president the legal authority to kill anyone, anywhere outside the
US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Prosecution_of_Egyptian_activist)
title: Prosecution of Egyptian activist
uri: Prosecution-of-Egyptian-activist
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Prosecution_of_Egyptian_activist%29
content:
<p>
Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who helped the movement that
brought down Mubarak, gives an interview while out on bail.  He is
being 
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/31/exclusive_egyptian_activist_alaa_abdel=">prosecuted
for organizing a protest</a>; also, absurdly, for armed robbery.
<p>
He expects to be imprisoned, along with many other human rights
defenders in Egypt.  His trial is likely to be a sick joke.
<p>
It was sad how many Egyptians that wanted freedom supported the coup
and got themselves Mubarak Heavy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Cuban_internet_access)
title: Cuban internet access
uri: Cuban-internet-access
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Cuban_internet_access%29
content:
<p>
The US-backed Twitter imitation for Cuba will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/05/secret-cuban-twitter-challenge-bloggers-exiles">undermine</a>
all other efforts aimed at offering uncensored internet access to
Cubans.
<p>
Just as the US's use of a vaccination program as cover for finding
Osama bin Laden has undermined the eradication of polio.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(The_election_in_Afghanistan)
title: The election in Afghanistan
uri: The-election-in-Afghanistan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28The_election_in_Afghanistan%29
content:
<p>
The election in Afghanistan had troubles with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/05/afghanistan-presidential-election-voters-hamid-karzai">unexpectedly
high voter turnout</a>.  But it is too soon to tell whether it was
honest.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Profiting_from_global_heating)
title: Profiting from global heating
uri: Profiting-from-global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Profiting_from_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Rich people are trying to buy profit from global heating by 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/31-6">buying up the
resources that will become scarce</a>.
<p>
Those who do this will have a vested interest in pushing global
heating to ensure those resources do become scarce, just as fossil
fuel companies do.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(The_danger_of_peace_has_receded)
title: The danger of peace has receded
uri: The-danger-of-peace-has-receded
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28The_danger_of_peace_has_receded%29
content:
<p>
For Israel's ruling Likud party, 
<a href="http://adam-keller2.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/the-danger-of-peace-has-receded.html">the
danger of peace has receded</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(UAE_thugs_keep_torturing_people)
title: UAE thugs keep torturing people
uri: UAE-thugs-keep-torturing-people
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28UAE_thugs_keep_torturing_people%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in the UAE keep on torturing people and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/05/emirates-police-accused-of-torturing-britons">pushing
them into false confessions</a>.


title: "Peace talks" between Israel and Palestine
uri: Peace-talks-between-Israel-and-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(peace_talks_between_Israel_and_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28peace_talks_between_Israel_and_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
The "peace talks" between Israel and Palestine "failed" because the US
was unwilling to do anything that displeased the most anti-peace camp
in
Israel: <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=687781">the
fanatical "settlers".</a>
<p>
Peace can be made whenever the world puts enough pressure on Israel to
convince the Israeli government to accept a fair deal.
<p>
Perhaps Palestine has been encouraged to defy the US pressure to go
along with useless negotiations because
of <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4507433,00.html">support
from Russia.</a>


title: Public-Private partnership building a hospital
uri: Public-Private-partnership-building-a-hospital
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Public-Private_partnership_building_a_hospital)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Public-Private_partnership_building_a_hospital%29

content:
<p>
A public-private partnership building a hospital in Lesotho, with the
backing of the World Bank,
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/07/lesotho-health-budget-private-consortium-hospital">sucking
up more than half that country's health care budget</a>, starving
rural clinics for funds.
<p>
When you hear "public-private partnership", think "public expense,
private profits".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Eight_Headlines)
title: Eight Headlines
uri: Eight-Headlines
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Eight_Headlines%29
content:
<p>
Eight Headlines the Mainstream
Media <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/07-0">Doesn't
Have the Courage to Print.</a>
<p>
I'd say it's honesty that they lack, not merely courage.


title: Urgent: Support effective regulation of toxic chemicals
uri: Urgent-Support-effective-regulation-of-toxic-chemicals
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Urgent:_Support_effective_regulation_of_toxic_chemicals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_effective_regulation_of_toxic_chemicals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell your congresscritter and
senators, <a href="http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=Qn4Z4DWNcwPGvfE-vP2swg">support
effective regulation of toxic chemicals</a>, not the phony alternative
bill.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Political_censorship_in_Lebanon)
title: Political censorship in Lebanon
uri: Political-censorship-in-Lebanon
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Political_censorship_in_Lebanon%29
content:
<p>
In Lebanon, political censorship
is <a href="http://www.ifex.org/lebanon/2014/03/28/bloggers_facing_threats/">carried
out through libel suits.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Driver's_license_as_proof_of_age)
title: Driver's license as proof of age
uri: Driver-s-license-as-proof-of-age
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Driver%27s_license_as_proof_of_age%29

content:
<p>
Using a driver's license as proof of age gives dishonest bars and
bartenders an opportunity
to <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/04/proof_of_age_cards_drivers_licenses_display_too_much_personal_info_to_use.html">extract
personal information they should not get.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Using_cocaine_while_pregnant)
title: Using cocaine while pregnant
uri: Using-cocaine-while-pregnant
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Using_cocaine_while_pregnant%29
content:
<p>
A woman in Mississippi no longer faces murder charges for using
cocaine while pregnant
— <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/judge-throws-out-murder-charge-in-mississippi-fetal-harm-case">only
20 years in prison for manslaughter.</a>
<p>
When a fetus does not develop into a human being, no existent human
being has been hurt, except perhaps the parents who may be
disappointed.  It is absurd to punish this woman for possibly
disappointing herself.
<p>
When, however, the fetus does become a human being, anything that was
done to the fetus that results in a damaged human being is a real
wrong to a real person.  Pregnant women should not take drugs that
might have this effect.  (I don't know whether that woman's cocaine
use was really likely to cause any harm — it might depend on
when in pregnancy she used it.)
<p>
However, imprisoning women for this, even if it is for less than 20
years, is not a good way to discourage such practices.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Prosecuting_Donald_Rumsfeld)
title: Prosecuting Donald Rumsfeld
uri: Prosecuting-Donald-Rumsfeld
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Prosecuting_Donald_Rumsfeld%29
content:
<p>
The case
for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/06-5">prosecuting
Donald Rumsfeld.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(USAID_subversion)
title: USAID subversion
uri: USAID-subversion
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28USAID_subversion%29
content:
<p>
USAID subversion
has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/06">targeted
Venezuela and Bolivia, as well as Cuba.</a>


title: Shell and Rio Tinto human right violations
uri: Shell-and-Rio-Tinto-human-right-violations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Shell_and_Rio_Tinto_human_right_violations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Shell_and_Rio_Tinto_human_right_violations%29

content:
<p>
Shell and Rio Tinto asked the UK government
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/06/shell-rio-tinto-human-rights-nigeria-kiobel">help
them defeat accusations of human rights violations.</a>


title: Inequality pervades the US "justice" system
uri: Inequality-pervades-the-US-justice-system
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Inequality_pervades_the_US_justice_system)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Inequality_pervades_the_US_justice_system%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/06-2">Inequality
pervades the US "justice" system</a> — compare the rich man who
avoided prison for molesting his children with the homeless woman who
was jailed for leaving her kids in a car during a job interview.


title: Venezuelan opposition leader formally charged
uri: Venezuelan-opposition-leader-formally-charged
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Venezuelan_opposition_leader_formally_charged)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Venezuelan_opposition_leader_formally_charged%29

content:
<p>
Venezuelan opposition leader Lopez has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/05/jailed-venezuelan-opposition-leader-charged-with-inciting-voilence">formally
charged with inciting violence.</a>
<p>
"Inciting violence" must be interpreted in a narrow and strict sense
or else human rights are in danger.
<p>
The opposition gets its strength from the shortages of certain goods.
The US can't be responsible for that.  Buying goods from subsidized
stores and reselling them could cause the state to lose money, but
would not cause a general shortage of those goods in the country.  It
is Maduro's economic policies that cause the shortages.


title: Urgent: Stop CNN global heating denial
uri: Urgent-Stop-CNN-global-heating-denial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_CNN_global_heating_denial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_CNN_global_heating_denial%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4086">tell
CNN</a> to stop broadcasting global heating denialism.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Reports_on_US_drone_attacks)
title: Urgent: Reports on US drone attacks
uri: Urgent-Reports-on-US-drone-attacks
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reports_on_US_drone_attacks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/drone-strike-civilian-deaths">call
on Congress</a> to require regular reports on US drone attacks.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Elections_for_MEPs)
title: Elections for MEPs
uri: Elections-for-MEPs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Elections_for_MEPs%29
content:
<p>
EU citizens: the coming elections for MEPs are 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-next-five-years-could-determine-our-liberties-140406/">very
important for freedom on the internet</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Oppression_in_Bahrain)
title: Oppression in Bahrain
uri: Oppression-in-Bahrain
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Oppression_in_Bahrain%29
content:
<p>
Under the cover of automobile races that distract public attention,
Bahrain's ruler is 
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/bahrain/2014/04/07/rights_violations_f1_formula1/">increasing
the level of oppression</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Blaming_everything_but_guns)
title: Blaming everything but guns
uri: Blaming-everything-but-guns
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Blaming_everything_but_guns%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/how-right-wing-loons-and-pro-gun-nuts-blame-everything-guns-mass-shootings?paging=off">How
Right-Wing Loons and Pro-Gun Nuts Blame Everything But Guns for Mass
Shootings</a>.
<p>
(I think the word "mass" is a too strong for shooting 10 or even 20
people.  "Mass murder" means a lot more victims than that.)


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(IMFs_rescue_of_Ukraine)
title: IMF's "rescue" of Ukraine
uri: IMF-s-rescue-of-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28IMFs_rescue_of_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
The IMF's "rescue" of Ukraine will impose 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/07-7">crushing
poverty</a>.
<p>
Ukrainians may eventually choose to make a deal with Putin instead.
A deal with Russia does not necessary mean a corrupt autocratic
ruler in Ukraine.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Rahinah_Ibrahim_off_no-fly_list)
title: Rahinah Ibrahim off no-fly list
uri: Rahinah-Ibrahim-off-no-fly-list
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Rahinah_Ibrahim_off_no-fly_list%29
content:
<p>
Rahinah Ibrahim 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/07-5">won her
case</a> to get off the US no-fly list, where her name was entered by
mistake; but then her student visa was cancelled because being on the
no-fly list had put her on another list.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Government_destabilization)
title: Government destabilization
uri: Government-destabilization
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Government_destabilization%29
content:
<p>
The US has spent millions on organizations that aim at 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/04/07-6">destabilization
of governments the US does not like</a>.
<p>
Bolivia has a free press, and even in Venezuela newspapers continue to
criticize the government regularly; they don't need a Twitter
imitation to state their views, since those countries don't interfere
with doing so on Twitter.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Dragnet_Nation)
title: Dragnet Nation
uri: Dragnet-Nation
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Dragnet_Nation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/2/dragnet_nation_do_google_facebook_know">Dragnet
Nation: Do Google, Facebook Know More Private Info Than NSA and
Soviet-Era Secret Police?</a>
<p>
The interview demonstrates that the answer is yes.
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">To
protect democracy, we need to dismantle the surveillance system</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Israel_harasses_tours_of_colony)
title: Israel harasses tours of colony
uri: Israel-harasses-tours-of-colony
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Israel_harasses_tours_of_colony%29
content:
<p>
Israel is harassing 
<a href="http://972mag.com/breaking-the-silence-founder-arrested-in-hebron-banned-from-city-for-14-days/89279/">tours
that go to observe the Israeli colony in the middle of the Palestinian
city of Hebron</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(World_Bank_price_for_carbon)
title: World Bank "price for carbon"
uri: World-Bank-price-for-carbon
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28World_Bank_price_for_carbon%29
content:
<p>
The head of the World Bank 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/03/climate-change-battle-food-head-world-bank">talks
about the need to help renewable energy</a>.
<p>
However, when he talks of a "price for carbon" that presumes emissions
trading, which is 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#21_November_2012_(EUs_greenhouse_emissions_cap-and-trade_system_gamed)">not
a reliable system</a> as a carbon tax would be.
<p>
Meanwhile, the World Bank is 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2010-sep-dec.html#16%20September%202010%20(World%20Bank%20backing%20coal%20more%20than%20ever%20before)">funding
giant fossil fuel projects</a>.  The first thing it should do is stop
that.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Union_in_Australia_fined)
title: Union in Australia fined
uri: Union-in-Australia-fined
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Union_in_Australia_fined%29
content:
<p>
A union in Australia has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/31/construction-union-fined-more-than-1m-for-illegal-melbourne-blockade">fined
a million dollars</a> for blockading construction sites for days.
<p>
Meanwhile, companies that break laws get away with slaps on the wrist,
or get the law
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2010-may-aug.html#23%20June%202010%20(Trust%20BP.%20%20Trust%20nuclear%20power,%20too...)">changed 
to please them</a>.  When officials say, "We must enforce the law" to
punish the workers, they pretend they are being even-handed.
<p>
When the law degrades into a scheme to help the rich crush the
non-rich, that justifies the non-rich to break the law to fight back.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Permian_period_global_heating)
title: Permian period global heating
uri: Permian-period-global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Permian_period_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Global heating caused by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/31/methane-producing-microbes-mass-extinction-methanosarcina">methane
generated by a runaway organism</a> might have caused the mass
extinction at the end of the Permian period.
<p>
Now 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_January_2014_(Acceleration_of_greenhouse_gas_output)">another 
runaway organism</a> is producing greenhouse gases and is on the way
to causing another mass extinction.


title: "Peace talks" between Israel and Palestine
uri: 2014-04-09-Peace-talks-between-Israel-and-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 08_April_2014_(Peace_talks_between_Israel_and_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#08_April_2014_%28Peace_talks_between_Israel_and_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
The "peace talks" between Israel and Palestine "failed" because the US
was unwilling to do anything that displeased the most anti-peace camp
in
Israel: <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=687781">the
fanatical "settlers".</a>
<p>
Peace can be made whenever the world puts enough pressure on Israel to
convince the Israeli government to accept a fair deal.
<p>
Perhaps Palestine has been encouraged to defy the US pressure to go
along with useless negotiations because
of <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4507433,00.html">support
from Russia.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(79-year-old_peace_activist)
title: 79-year-old peace activist
uri: 79-year-old-peace-activist
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%2879-year-old_peace_activist%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/23-0">Released
from UK Jail</a>, 79-year-old Peace Activist Vows to Keep Protesting.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Hungarian_electoral_system)
title: Hungarian electoral system
uri: Hungarian-electoral-system
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Hungarian_electoral_system%29
content:
<p>
Hungary's ruling party got a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/07/hungarian-pm-viktor-orban-election-monitors">2/3
majority in parliament with 44% of the vote</a>.
<p>
I'd say that electoral system is unfair, even granted that no single
opposition party got more votes.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Australian_environment_dept.)
title: Australian environment dept.
uri: Australian-environment-dept
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Australian_environment_dept.%29
content:
<p>
The Australian government expresses its contempt for the environment
by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/08/environment-department-to-shed-25-of-its-staff-after-100m-budget-cut">cutting
the operations of the environment department</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Global_heating_violence)
title: Global heating violence
uri: Global-heating-violence
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Global_heating_violence%29
content:
<p>
Causing global heating is a form of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/07-3">violence</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Government_by_the_People_Act)
title: Urgent: Government by the People Act
uri: Urgent-Government-by-the-People-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Government_by_the_People_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/GBTPAct/">Tell
Congress</a> to support the Government by the People Act.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr20#summary/libraryofcongress">more
info</a> about it.


title: Urgent: EPA comment against Keystone XL
uri: Urgent-EPA-comment-against-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_EPA_comment_against_Keystone_XL)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_EPA_comment_against_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://other98.com/sos-epa-epa-its-time-to-stand-up-to-keystone-xl/">call
on the EPA</a> to file a comment against building the Keystone XL
planet-roaster pipeline.


title: Urgent: No tar sands oil in Massachusetts
uri: Urgent-No-tar-sands-oil-in-Massachusetts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_No_tar_sands_oil_in_Massachusetts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_tar_sands_oil_in_Massachusetts%29

content:
<p>
Citizens if Massachusetts: 
<a href="http://act.350.org/letter/TSFNE_MA/">tell Governor
Patrick</a> not to allow tar sands oil into Massachusetts.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_oil_exports_from_US)
title: Urgent: Oppose oil exports from US
uri: Urgent-Oppose-oil-exports-from-US
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_oil_exports_from_US%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15358">oppose
permitting oil exports</a> from the US.
<p>
This would create an incentive to extract ever more oil using
ever more dangerous and expensive methods.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Would-be_killers_without_guns)
title: Would-be killers without guns
uri: Would-be-killers-without-guns
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Would-be_killers_without_guns%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/09-1">20
Stabbed, Nine Hospitalized, No Dead in School Stabbing Spree</a>.
<p>
If would-be killers can't get guns, and have to resort to using
knives, they do a lot less harm.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(US_cuts_corners_on_stewardship)
title: US cuts corners on stewardship
uri: US-cuts-corners-on-stewardship
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28US_cuts_corners_on_stewardship%29
content:
<p>
The US is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/09-8">cutting
corners on stewardship of many potentially dangerous facilities</a>,
including bridges, chemical plants, and nuclear plants and weapons.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(World_Banks_idea_of_development)
title: World Bank's idea of "development"
uri: World-Bank-s-idea-of-development
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28World_Banks_idea_of_development%29
content:
<p>
How the World Bank's idea of "development" systematically promotes
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/09-4">inequality and
poverty</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Butter_vs_margarine)
title: Butter vs margarine
uri: Butter-vs-margarine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Butter_vs_margarine%29
content:
<p>
Looking at all the studies, there is 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/04/butter-not-that-bad">no
evidence that butter is less healthful than margarine</a>.  But it is
also not clear that butter isn't worse.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Human_rights_in_Palestine)
title: Human rights in Palestine
uri: Human-rights-in-Palestine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Human_rights_in_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
The US ought to welcome Palestine's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/08-0">application
to join UN treaties concerned with human rights</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Elizabeth_Warren)
title: Elizabeth Warren
uri: Elizabeth-Warren
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Elizabeth_Warren%29
content:
<p>
Elizabeth Warren attacked Paul Ryan's cruel lies head on, teaching
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/08-4">what it means
to be a Democrat instead of a Republican in Democrat's clothing</a>.
If she runs for president, I will support her.
<p>
I will not support Ms Clinton, who is a phony Democrat like her
husband (and Obama).  I voted Green in the last two presidential
elections, and when people warned me that this might lead to a
Republican victory, I told them Obama was not that different, overall,
from a Republican.  There are some exceptions, to be sure; mainly his
medical care law, which is a big step forward even after the medical
insurance companies half-ruined it.  Nonetheless, he's more right-wing
than Nixon in terms of human rights, war, and the economy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(TSA_fines_John_Brennan)
title: TSA fines John Brennan
uri: TSA-fines-John-Brennan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28TSA_fines_John_Brennan%29
content:
<p>
The TSA (Theater of Security Agency) 
<a href="http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/04/tsa-fines-naked-american-hero.html">fined
John Brennan for taking off his clothes to show he had no bomb</a>,
after a non-trial which is not allowed to consider whether the
regulations in use are unconstitutional.
<p>
Brennan will be able to appeal the decision, but at no point will he
be entitled to a proper trial.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Hostages_held_in_Luhansk)
title: Hostages held in Luhansk
uri: Hostages-held-in-Luhansk
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Hostages_held_in_Luhansk%29
content:
<p>
The pro-Russians that captured a government building in Luhansk are
armed and trained soldiers, and apparently 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/09/ukraine-crisis-pro-russia-separatists-release-people">continue
to hold some hostages</a>.
<p>
These is not a protest, this is a rebellion — or perhaps
an invasion.  The occupiers may well be Russian soldiers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Palm_oil_made_by_deforestation)
title: Palm oil made by deforestation
uri: Palm-oil-made-by-deforestation
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Palm_oil_made_by_deforestation%29
content:
<p>
Proctor and Gamble has agreed to impose 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/09/procter-gamble-bows-to-pressure-on-palm-oil-deforestation">policies
to reject palm oil made by deforestation</a>, but they will take 6
years to become effective.


title: A lot of fossil fuel must not be extracted
uri: A-lot-of-fossil-fuel-must-not-be-extracted
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(A_lot_of_fossil_fuel_must_not_be_extracted)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28A_lot_of_fossil_fuel_must_not_be_extracted%29

content:
<p>
Large companies including BT and Shell
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/08/bt-shell-corporates-trillion-tonnes-carbon">recognized
that a lot of fossil fuel must not be extracted.</a>
<p>
Without more figures, I don't know how "a trillion tons of carbon"
relates to the 80% of the known fossil fuel reserves that need to be
left in the ground.  If you can work that out, or come across an
article that does, please tell me.


title: Margaret Thatcher inspired resistance
uri: Margaret-Thatcher-inspired-resistance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Margaret_Thatcher_inspired_resistance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Margaret_Thatcher_inspired_resistance%29

content:
<p>
Margaret Thatcher was so open about trying to crush the non-rich that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/apr/08/moira-buffini-margaret-thatcher-tricycle-theatre">she
inspired resistance.</a>
<p>
Her successors today pretend that they are doing everything but trying
to crush the non-rich, which is why it is useful to keep pointing out
that that's what they stand for.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Disclose_political_spending)
title: Urgent: Disclose political spending
uri: Urgent-Disclose-political-spending
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Disclose_political_spending%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the SEC
to <a href="http://www.jeffmerkley.com/petition/disclose-the-big-money/">make
public companies disclose their political spending.</a>


title: Urgent: Call for refinancing student loans
uri: Urgent-Call-for-refinancing-student-loans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Call_for_refinancing_student_loans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_refinancing_student_loans%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9518">call
for refinancing student loans.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Stand_up_to_ALEC)
title: Urgent: Stand up to ALEC
uri: Urgent-Stand-up-to-ALEC
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stand_up_to_ALEC%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: tell your state legislators
to <a href="http://act.standuptoalec.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8137">stand
up to ALEC.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Don't_pretend_to_aid_Ukraine)
title: Urgent: Don't pretend to aid Ukraine
uri: Urgent-Don-t-pretend-to-aid-Ukraine
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Don%27t_pretend_to_aid_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell
Obama, <a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/go/644?t=1007&akid=368.44401.CNs3kp">don't
pretend to aid Ukraine </a>by increasing extraction of natural gas
(which usually means fracking).


title: Urgent: Support the Better Off Budget
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Better-Off-Budget
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Support_the_Better_Off_Budget)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Better_Off_Budget%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter
to <a href="http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/better-off-budget/">support
the Better Off Budget.</a>
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.</p>


title: Harvard University investment principles
uri: Harvard-University-investment-principles
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Harvard_University_investment_principles)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Harvard_University_investment_principles%29

content:
<p>
Harvard University
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/08/harvard-university-investment-rules-carbon-divestment-campaign">adopted
investment principles based on human rights and greenhouse gas
reduction.</a>
<p>
Divest Harvard has this response:
<p>
<blockquote>
We're glad that Harvard has recognized the need to align its
investments with its values. However, there are still inconsistencies
in Harvard's investments. Harvard's decision to invest in climate
solutions is an important step forward, but the truth is that we still
have $32.6 million directly invested - and millions more indirectly
invested - in the fossil fuel industry's climate destruction, science
denialism, and political obstruction. We need to divest from the
problem as we invest in new solutions.
</blockquote>


title: No evidence homeopathy has any more effect than placebo
uri: No-evidence-homeopathy-has-any-more-effect-than-placebo
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(No_evidence_homeopathy_has_any_more_effect_than_placebo)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28No_evidence_homeopathy_has_any_more_effect_than_placebo%29

content:
<p>
A review of available experimental data for 60 diseases found that
there
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/homeopathy-is-bunk-study-says">no
evidence homeopathy has any more effect than a placebo</a>, and in
many cases clear evidence that it does not.
<p>
"Treating the whole person" is one of medical quackery's favorite
claims.


title: US is obliged to release Shaker Aamer
uri: US-is-obliged-to-release-Shaker-Aamer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(US_is_obliged_to_release_Shaker_Aamer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28US_is_obliged_to_release_Shaker_Aamer%29

content:
<p>
Shaker Aamer's lawyers argue
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/guantanamo-bay-british-detainee-shaker-aamer-ptsd-release">US
is obliged to release him from Guantanamo due to serious physical and
mental illnesses</a>, some of them probably caused by torture and
cruelty.


title: China is imprisoning anti-corruption protesters
uri: China-is-imprisoning-anti-corruption-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(China_is_imprisoning_anti-corruption_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28China_is_imprisoning_anti-corruption_protesters%29

content:
<p>
China
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/chinese-activists-trial-protests-new-citizens-movement">imprisoning
anti-corruption protesters.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Russian_destabilization_campaign)
title: Russian destabilization campaign
uri: Russian-destabilization-campaign
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Russian_destabilization_campaign%29
content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/ukraine-restraint-fightback-russia-moscow-kiev">Russian
destabilization campaign is under way in eastern Ukraine</a>,
threatening a military invasion as in the Crimea.
<p>
Russia claims that a similar US-led destabilization campaign helped
kick out President Yanukovich.  That might well be true.
<p>
There is a gray area between a destabilization campaign and aiding a
real popular uprising: the subtler the campaign, the more it shades
into rallying the public, and the more it is the public that really
has control, which means the campaign is not so bad.  The "protests"
in Eastern Ukraine smell very fishy to me.
<p>
The occupiers of a building in Kharkiv were removed by Ukrainian
thugs.  I won't criticize that if it was not done in a brutal way.
However, calling them "terrorists" is
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/donetsk-barricades-kharkiv-protest-ukraine-russia">example
of a very dangerous practice.</a> Occupying a building is not
terrorism.
<p>
Protesters in the US have
been <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_December_2013_(Anti-pipeline_protesters_charged_with_terrorist_hoax)">accused
of "terrorism" too.</a> And don't forget
the <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_(Putins_men_claim_Greenpeace_protesters_guilty_of_piracy)">Greenpeace
protesters accused of "piracy" in Russia.</a>
<p>
On the other hand, taking hostages, as pro-Russian protesters did in
one
city, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/09/ukraine-crisis-pro-russia-separatists-release-people">may
qualify as terrorism.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(EU_data_retention_directive)
title: EU data retention directive
uri: EU-data-retention-directive
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28EU_data_retention_directive%29
content:
<p>
The court ruling against the EU data retention directive
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/08/eu-court-overturns-law-snoopers-charter-data-phones-isps">also
cited the further violation of privacy</a> from allowing the data to
be stored outside the reach of EU personal data protection law.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Label_GMOs)
title: Urgent: Label GMOs
uri: Urgent-Label-GMOs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Label_GMOs%29
content:
<p>
In the US: tell Safeway
to <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-safeway-label-gmos-in-your-products">label
GMOs in its store brands.</a>


title: New DA helping to exonerate prisoners
uri: New-DA-helping-to-exonerate-prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(New_DA_helping_to_exonerate_prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28New_DA_helping_to_exonerate_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
A new DA in Brooklyn
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/jonathan-fleming-cleared-brooklyn-killing-25-years">helping
to exonerate prisoners that were wrongly convicted</a> in the teeth of
the evidence.
<p>
This case illustrates prosecutors' power to threaten and bribe
witnesses who are themselves facing charges.


title: Pakistan charging a baby with attempted murder
uri: Pakistan-charging-a-baby-with-attempted-murder
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Pakistan_charging_a_baby_with_attempted_murder)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Pakistan_charging_a_baby_with_attempted_murder%29

content:
<p>
Pakistan has carried the school-to-prison pipeline down to the
preschool
level, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/pakistan-baby-charged-attempted-murder-hiding">charging
a baby with attempted murder.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Israel_ethnic_cleansing)
title: Israel ethnic cleansing
uri: Israel-ethnic-cleansing
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Israel_ethnic_cleansing%29
content:
<p>
UN special rapporteur Richard Falk
has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/23-1">accused
Israel of ethnic cleansing.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Urgent:_Raise_Walmart_wages)
title: Urgent: Raise Walmart wages
uri: Urgent-Raise-Walmart-wages
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_Walmart_wages%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/if-gap-ca-raise-wages-so-can-walmart">tell
Walmart's CEO</a>, if the Gap can raise wages, so can Walmart.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(US_debt_collection_companies)
title: US debt collection companies
uri: US-debt-collection-companies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28US_debt_collection_companies%29
content:
<p>
Debt collection companies in the US engage in illegal harassment, lie
to debtors, and 
<a href="http://consumerist.com/2014/03/20/most-debt-collector-complaints-made-by-consumers-being-hounded-for-money-they-dont-owe/">frequently
demand payment of debts that were never owed</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(US_Common_Core)
title: US "Common Core"
uri: US-Common-Core
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28US_Common_Core%29
content:
<p>
The US "Common Core" is a dangerous educational experiment on US
schools, an 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/18/everything-you-need-to-know-about-common-core-ravitch//?print=1">excuse
for firing lots of teachers and privatizing schools</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(US_blogger_censored)
title: US blogger censored
uri: US-blogger-censored
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28US_blogger_censored%29
content:
<p>
A blogger in the US has been subjected to prior censorship by a court,
which 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/united-states-blogger-held-after-ignoring-prior-14-11-2013,45450.html">jailed
him until he agreed to take down blog posts</a> accusing an official
of having an affair.
<p>
I don't think it matters who officials have sex with, but this seems
dangerous.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(EU-imposed_data_retention)
title: EU-imposed data retention
uri: EU-imposed-data-retention
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28EU-imposed_data_retention%29
content:
<p>
The European Court of Justice ruled that EU-imposed data retention (by
ISPs and phone companies) is 
<a href="http://www.digitalrights.ie/ecj-says-eu-mandated-mass-surveillance-entails-interference-fundamental-rights-practically-entire-european-population/">contrary
to human rights and invalid</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/04/another-huge-win-eu-data-detention-declared-illegal/index.htm">More
information</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Evidence_of_Obama_cover-up)
title: Evidence of Obama cover-up
uri: Evidence-of-Obama-cover-up
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Evidence_of_Obama_cover-up%29
content:
<p>
There is specific evidence that the Obama administration 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/08-2">specifically
aimed to bury intelligence</a> that cast doubt on Assad's
responsibility for the chemical attack.
<p>
It seems there was a high-level push for war, then Obama decided to
abort the war.  Was there anyone else but Obama who could have been
behind the high-level push?  That seems unlikely.  If the high-level
push originated from Obama, did he really change his mind?  That too
seems unlikely.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(US_jailing_mentally_ill_people)
title: US jailing mentally ill people
uri: US-jailing-mentally-ill-people
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28US_jailing_mentally_ill_people%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/record-numbers-mentally-ill-prisons-and-jails">increasingly
keeps mentally ill people in jail</a> rather than treating them in
hospital.
<p>
I suppose this results from politicians' trying to look tough.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(NSA_spied_on_human_rights_leaders)
title: NSA spied on human rights leaders
uri: NSA-spied-on-human-rights-leaders
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28NSA_spied_on_human_rights_leaders%29

content:
<p>
Snowden told the Council of Europe that the NSA 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/08-1">intentionally
spied on leaders</a> of human rights organizations such as Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(Meat_companies_get_more_power)
title: Meat companies get more power
uri: Meat-companies-get-more-power
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28Meat_companies_get_more_power%29
content:
<p>
The European Union has given meat companies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/07/infected-meat-food-inspectors-warning">more
power to divert infected animals back into the food chain</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 09_April_2014_(The_resource_curse)
title: The "resource curse"
uri: The-resource-curse
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#09_April_2014_%28The_resource_curse%29
content:
<p>
With Putin, Russia has fallen victim to the
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/07/eu-energy-strategy-putin-fossil-fuel-autocracy-russia'>resource
curse</a>".
<p>
Unfortunately, the US is also subject to the resource curse.  (Look at
<a href="">those 
who think it is a good thing that US extraction of fossil fuels has
risen</a>.)  "Autocratic government, systemic corruption and
developmental stagnation affecting the general population, combined
with extravagant wealth on the part of controlling elites" describes
US politics today.
<p>
And it's even more so in 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_February_2014_(Canada%27s_government_is_attacking_democracy_on_behalf_of_oil_companies)">Canada</a>
and 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_November_2013_(Priority_of_the_Australian_govt_and_fossil_fuel_industry)">Australia</a>.
<p>
You could say that the world as a whole has fallen victim
to the "resource curse".


title: Urgent: Tell McDonalds to stop stealing
uri: Urgent-Tell-McDonalds-to-stop-stealing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_McDonalds_to_stop_stealing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_McDonalds_to_stop_stealing%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-mcdonald-s-stop-stealing-from-workers-paychecks">Tell
McDonalds</a> to stop stealing workers' pay.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Inhumane_treatment_in_Guantanamo)
title: Inhumane treatment in Guantanamo
uri: Inhumane-treatment-in-Guantanamo
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Inhumane_treatment_in_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
Shaker Aamer suffers several forms of mental illness caused
by the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/09/shaker-aamer-guantanamo-ptsd-release">inhumane
way he is treated in Guantanamo</a>.  The state covers this up with
doublespeak.
<p>
He is even punished by denying him a blanket when his arthritis hurts.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Work_hours_in_France)
title: Work hours in France
uri: Work-hours-in-France
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Work_hours_in_France%29
content:
<p>
France has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/apr/09/new-work-life-balance-france-sweden-laws-countries-better-job-hours-work">prohibited
employers in the digital sector from making employees respond to work
emails after 6pm</a>.
<p>
This means hackers in France now have more time to work on free
software (logiciel libre).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Miami_thug_faces_charges)
title: Miami thug faces charges
uri: Miami-thug-faces-charges
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Miami_thug_faces_charges%29
content:
<p>
A senior Miami thug faces 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/09/miami-police-officer-arrested-caribbean-drug-gang">charges
of working for drug gangs</a>.
<p>
The war on drugs corrupts many officials; that's one of the reasons we
need to put an end to it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Protests_for_privilege)
title: Protests for privilege
uri: Protests-for-privilege
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Protests_for_privilege%29
content:
<p>
Distinguishing the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/09/venezuela-protest-defence-privilege-maduro-elites">street
protests</a> of the middle classes wanting privilege from those of the
poor demanding a decent life.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Greek_workers_strike)
title: Greek workers strike
uri: Greek-workers-strike
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Greek_workers_strike%29
content:
<p>
Greek workers held a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/09-2">general
strike against austerity</a> as a protest also against Merkel's
imperial visit.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Toxic_coal_ash_regulation_in_NC)
title: Toxic coal ash regulation in NC
uri: Toxic-coal-ash-regulation-in-NC
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Toxic_coal_ash_regulation_in_NC%29
content:
<p>
Slavishly subservient mining regulators in North Carolina have
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/09-5">appealed</a>
a court victory that affirmed their power to regulate toxic coal ash.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Charter_schools)
title: Charter schools
uri: Charter-schools
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Charter_schools%29
content:
<p>
The mayor of Chicago is pushing to replace public schools with charter
schools, claiming that the charter schools are superior.  A study
confirms previous results that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/09-12">charter
schools are no better</a>, in educational terms at least.
<p>
They must be better for <em>someone</em>.  I wonder who, and how much
that someone contributes to election campaigns.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Brave_NYC_teachers)
title: Brave NYC teachers
uri: Brave-NYC-teachers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Brave_NYC_teachers%29
content:
<p>
Some brave New York City teachers have declared they will 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/09-9">refuse to help
administer the Common Core tests</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(The_views_of_non-rich_people)
title: The views of non-rich people
uri: The-views-of-non-rich-people
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28The_views_of_non-rich_people%29
content:
<p>
A statistical study confirms that the views of non-rich people have
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/08/rich-people-rule/">negligible
effects on US government policies</a>.  The rich, and special interest
lobbying, have nearly total control.
<p>
And that was <em>before</em> the Supreme Court gave companies and rich
people 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/09-11">even more
power to control elections</a>.
<p>
Plutocracy has squeezed democracy almost completely out of the US
political system.  It follows that the US government is not a
legitimate government; it is a government of occupation for a colonial
system.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Worlds_rate_of_oil_extraction)
title: World's rate of oil extraction
uri: World-s-rate-of-oil-extraction
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Worlds_rate_of_oil_extraction%29
content:
<p>
Jeremy Leggett, oil geologist, claims that the world's rate of oil
extraction will fall short of demand, sometime before 2020, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/28/global-market-shock-oil-crash-2015-peak">perhaps
as soon as 2015</a>.  He also says that a transition to renewable
energy is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/apr/09/5-pathways-post-capitalist-renaissance-oil-man-transition">within
our grasp</a>.
<p>
Unfortunately, the Koch Brothers and their pet politicians are working
so hard to prevent the transition.  A carbon tax is the way to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/09-10">speed it
up</a>, so we can migrate as fast as possible, rather than as slow as
possible.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Ayaan_Hirsi_Alis_honorary_degree)
title: Ayaan Hirsi Ali's honorary degree
uri: Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali-s-honorary-degree
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Ayaan_Hirsi_Alis_honorary_degree%29
content:
<p>
Brandeis University 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/09/brandeis-withdraws-honorary-degree-ayaan-hirsi-ali-college">cancelled
its plan to give Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree</a> because of her
criticism of Islam's cruelty to women.
<p>
Anyone that this shoe fits deserves to feel unwelcome everywhere in
the world.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Sexual_advances)
title: Sexual advances
uri: Sexual-advances
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Sexual_advances%29
content:
<p>
A campaign against sexism 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/09/everyday-sexism-condemns-sexual-advances-mysogynist">appears
to condemn all explicit sexual advances as "harassment"</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Australian_campaign_donors)
title: Australian campaign donors
uri: Australian-campaign-donors
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Australian_campaign_donors%29
content:
<p>
Australia's policy towards Israel and Palestine under the previous
(Labor) government was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/09/bob-carr--gillard-foreign-policy-jewish-donors">determined
directly by campaign donors</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Unlawful_breastfeeding)
title: "Unlawful" breastfeeding
uri: Unlawful-breastfeeding
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Unlawful_breastfeeding%29
content:
<p>
Stephanie Greene was convicted of manslaughter because she breastfed
her daughter while taking morphine, which was prescribed for her
horribly painful and disabling injuries.
<p>
This article argues that there was a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/09/manslaughter-conviction-negligent-breastfeeding-mothers">medical
error in the prosecution's reasoning</a> as well: that normally only a
tiny amount of morphine would get into the milk, not enough to have an
effect on the baby.
<p>
But even if that were not so, you can't blame someone for taking a
prescribed painkiller because of harmful effects she was not warned
of.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Harmless_prank_in_San_Francisco)
title: Harmless prank in San Francisco
uri: Harmless-prank-in-San-Francisco
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Harmless_prank_in_San_Francisco%29
content:
<p>
The latest harmless prank in San Francisco is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/09/san-francisco-smart-car-tipping">turn
a Smart car on its side or its front</a>.
<p>
This operation is basically harmless.  It has some chance of causing
scrapes or breaking a lamp, but minor property damage should not be a
felony.  Evidently California has made its laws too harsh.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(US_in_a_gilded_age_again)
title: US in a "gilded age" again
uri: US-in-a-gilded-age-again
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28US_in_a_gilded_age_again%29
content:
<p>
The US is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/11-6">in a "gilded
age" again</a> because concentration of income to a wealthy few has
gone back up to what it was a century ago.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Urgent:_Extend_unemployment_benefits)
title: Urgent: Extend unemployment benefits
uri: 2014-04-11-Urgent-Extend-unemployment-benefits
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Extend_unemployment_benefits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/call/call_republicans_unemployment/">phone</a>
the Republican leaders in the House of Representatives to extend
unemployment benefits.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(The_timidity_of_the_SEC)
title: The timidity of the SEC
uri: The-timidity-of-the-SEC
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28The_timidity_of_the_SEC%29
content:
<p>
SEC lawyer James Kidney, in his retirement speech, rebuked the agency
for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/04/09">timidity
against the executives of the companies it is supposed to
regulate</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Urgent:_Cancel_Corporations_United)
title: Urgent: Cancel Corporations United
uri: Urgent-Cancel-Corporations-United
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_Corporations_United%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and congresscritter, and say to
co-sponsor S.J.Res.18 & H.J.Res.21, for constitutional amendments
to cancel the Corporations United (<a href="#cu">*</a>) decision.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.
<p id="cu">
<sup>*</sup> To call it what it really is.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_rape_victims)
title: Urgent: Protect rape victims
uri: Urgent-Protect-rape-victims
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_rape_victims%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=520752">tell
Mozambique</a>, don't let rapists push their victims into marriage.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Open_is_not_strong_enough)
title: "Open" is not strong enough
uri: Open-is-not-strong-enough
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Open_is_not_strong_enough%29
content:
<p>
In issues of human rights, not solely in the software field, the
concept of "open" is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/10-3">not strong
enough</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Food_additives_used_in_the_US)
title: Food additives used in the US
uri: Food-additives-used-in-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Food_additives_used_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Around 1000 food additives are used in the US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/10-5">without need
for regulatory approval</a> (or proper investigation).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Why_Obama_did_not_attack_Assad)
title: Why Obama did not attack Assad
uri: Why-Obama-did-not-attack-Assad
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Why_Obama_did_not_attack_Assad%29
content:
<p>
Seymour Hersh writes that Obama decided not to attack Assad in Syria
because 
<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line">he
found out that the gas attack was committed by the Islamists of
al-Nusra</a>.  Before that, he was planning a massive attack.
<p>
Hersh's sources say that Turkey supported al-Nusra in making sarin.
They also say that the CIA was sending US weapons to jihadists in
Syria through Turkey, but in 2013 Obama decided to stop it, and that
Erdogan ordered the attack so as to bring the US into the war against
Assad.
<p>
I still think it is important to find out who started the rebellion in
Syria.  Was that set up by Turkey and Saudi Arabia and the US?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Wisconsin_election_practices)
title: Wisconsin election practices
uri: Wisconsin-election-practices
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Wisconsin_election_practices%29
content:
<p>
Wisconsin is 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12445/wisconsin-had-best-election-practices-us-luckily-republicans-fixed-it">one
of the best US states in running elections</a>, but the Republicans
now in power are doing their best to change that.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Egypt_prosecuting_journalist)
title: Egypt prosecuting journalist
uri: Egypt-prosecuting-journalist
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Egypt_prosecuting_journalist%29
content:
<p>
Egypt is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/09/egypt-arrest-journalist-al-jazeera">prosecuting
yet another al-Jazeera journalist</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Heatland_Institute_on_global_heating)
title: Heatland Institute on global heating
uri: Heatland-Institute-on-global-heating
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Heatland_Institute_on_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
The Heatland<a href="#heatland">*</a> Institute can't make up its mind
whether to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/09/climate-change-report-heartland-institute-debunk-ipcc">claim
there is no global heating or claim global heating is beneficial</a>.
<p>
What they say doesn't need to do any more than keep people too
confused to interfere with what the Koch Brothers want.
<p id="heatland">
<sup>*</sup> Officially "Heartland", but the name "Heatland" fits its
activities better.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(BP_still_poisoning_wildlife)
title: BP still poisoning wildlife
uri: BP-still-poisoning-wildlife
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28BP_still_poisoning_wildlife%29
content:
<p>
The Big Spill is still poisoning dolphins, turtles, oysters and fish
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/09/wildlife-gulf-of-mexico-bp-oil-spill">in
parts of the Gulf of Mexico</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(UK_making_college_expensive)
title: UK making college expensive
uri: UK-making-college-expensive
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28UK_making_college_expensive%29
content:
<p>
The UK is following the US in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/apr/10/university-students-loans-fees-graduate-debt">making
college expensive</a>; students will take 30 years to repay their
loans.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Unions)
title: Unions
uri: Unions
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Unions%29
content:
<p>
Without unions, workers won't be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/10/the-war-on-unions-is-on-its-time-to-fight-back">paid
what their work is worth</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Swindled_by_Roche)
title: Swindled by Roche
uri: Swindled-by-Roche
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Swindled_by_Roche%29
content:
<p>
The Pharma company Roche swindled governments out of billions by
suggesting that Tamiflu was effective against flu symptoms while
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/10/tamiflu-saga-drug-trials-big-pharma">concealing
that experiments had shown the contrary</a>.
<p>
We should not allow these companies to have anything to do with such
experiments.  The government should tax them and spend the money on
the experiments.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 11_April_2014_(Working_people)
title: Working people
uri: Working-people
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#11_April_2014_%28Working_people%29
content:
<p>
Working people should not be condemned to being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/10/working-class-hard-working-families-labour-social-change">"hard-working"
in service of the rich</a>.  Especially not when there is no work
available.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 10_April_2014_(Women_imprisoned_in_Sri_Lanka)
title: Women imprisoned in Sri Lanka
uri: Women-imprisoned-in-Sri-Lanka
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#10_April_2014_%28Women_imprisoned_in_Sri_Lanka%29
content:
<p>
Sri Lanka has imprisoned several women 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/09/sri-lanka-women-tamil-tigers">accused
simply of having some sort of relationship with a suspected Tamil
nationalist leader</a>.
<p>
The Bush forces did 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2004-jul-oct.html#06%20August%202004%20(Imprisoning%20minors)">similar 
things</a> in Iraq.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Urgent:_Divestment_from_fossil_fuel)
title: Urgent: Divestment from fossil fuel
uri: Urgent-Divestment-from-fossil-fuel
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Divestment_from_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/solidarity_harvard_divestment/">sign
up in support</a> of Harvard faculty calling for divestment from
fossil fuel companies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Mutagenic_nanoparticles)
title: Mutagenic nanoparticles
uri: Mutagenic-nanoparticles
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Mutagenic_nanoparticles%29
content:
<p>
Two commonly used kinds of nanoparticles, zinc oxide and silver, 
<a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/tiny-particles-may-pose-big-risk">can
damage DNA</a> if they get into human cells.
<p>
This highlights the danger that a material which is safe when
used in larger units may be dangerous in the form of small particles.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Guinea_mining_licenses_cancelled)
title: Guinea mining licenses cancelled
uri: Guinea-mining-licenses-cancelled
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Guinea_mining_licenses_cancelled%29
content:
<p>
Guinea has cancelled mining licenses obtained, it seems, through 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/09/guinea-strips-beny-steinmetz-bsg-resources-mining-contracts-corruption">corruption</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Coal_industry_education)
title: Coal industry "education"
uri: Coal-industry-education
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Coal_industry_education%29
content:
<p>
Illinois will continue passing along coal industry (Koch brothers?)
"education" 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/illinois-votes-keep-discredited-coal-education-schoolson-eve-upper-big-branch-disaster?paging=off">in
public schools</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(US_border_patrol_thugs)
title: US border patrol thugs
uri: US-border-patrol-thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28US_border_patrol_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Clarisa Christiansen describes how US border patrol agents 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights-technology-and-liberty-criminal-law-reform/why-us-border-patrol-terrorizing">threatened
to attack her</a> as she was driving her children to school, refusing
to say why, and eventually slashed her tire just to be nasty.
<p>
These thugs should be required to make video and audio recordings of
their interactions with the public.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Airplane_wifi_systems)
title: Airplane wifi systems
uri: Airplane-wifi-systems
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Airplane_wifi_systems%29
content:
<p>
Airplane wifi systems spy on users 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/04/gogo-collaboration-feds/">even
more than US law requires</a>, as a "favor" to the US government.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Comcast_and_Time_Warner_Cable)
title: Comcast and Time Warner Cable
uri: Comcast-and-Time-Warner-Cable
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Comcast_and_Time_Warner_Cable%29
content:
<p>
Comcast called Time Warner Cable a competitor until they wanted to
merge, at which point it 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/franken-comcast-called-time-warner-cable-a-competitor-until-they-wanted-to-merge/">started
claiming that the two companies do not compete</a>.
<p>
We should not permit large companies in the same field of business
to merge under any circumstances.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Privacy_violates_trade_treaty)
title: Privacy violates trade treaty
uri: Privacy-violates-trade-treaty
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Privacy_violates_trade_treaty%29
content:
<p>
The US Trade Representative claims that the European Union can't set
its own data centers to protect privacy and block surveillance because
that would 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140409/08121226855/ustr-makes-ill-judged-criticism-european-plans-to-create-eu-only-cloud-response-to-nsa-spying.shtml">violate
a trade treaty</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Singapore_enacts_SOPA)
title: Singapore enacts SOPA
uri: Singapore-enacts-SOPA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Singapore_enacts_SOPA%29
content:
<p>
Singapore rejected a "three strikes" law — and 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140408/17265926846/singapore-says-3-strikes-is-too-intrusive-copyright-reform-so-goes-with-sopa-style-censorship-instead.shtml">enacted
SOPA</a> instead.


title: Thug department condemned for frequently using "deadly force"
uri: Thug-department-condemned-for-frequently-using-deadly-force
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Thug_department_condemned_for_frequently_using_deadly_force)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Thug_department_condemned_for_frequently_using_deadly_force%29

content:
<p>
The Albuquerque thug department has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/10/albuquerque-police-excessive-force-justice-department-report">condemned
for frequently using "deadly force" with no justification.</a>


title: Boycott on investing in fossil fuel companies
uri: Boycott-on-investing-in-fossil-fuel-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Boycott_on_investing_in_fossil_fuel_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Boycott_on_investing_in_fossil_fuel_companies%29

content:
<p>
Desmond Tutu calls for
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/10/divest-fossil-fuels-climate-change-keystone-xl">boycott
on investing in fossil fuel companies.</a>
<p>
I agree, on this, and on the point that it is unconscionable that our
governments continue to offer cooperation (such as the Keystone XL
pipeline)
and <a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2011-mar-jun.html#20%20May%202011%20%28Oil%20Subsidies%29">financial
support</a> to fossil fuels.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_Comcast_what_you_think)
title: Urgent: Tell Comcast what you think
uri: Urgent-Tell-Comcast-what-you-think
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Comcast_what_you_think%29

content:
<p>
In the
US: <a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/David_Cohen/">tell
Comcast what you think</a> of its claim that there are no rational
objections to its proposed merger with another large ISP.


title: Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras visited the US
uri: Glenn-Greenwald-and-Laura-Poitras-visited-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Glenn_Greenwald_and_Laura_Poitras_visited_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Glenn_Greenwald_and_Laura_Poitras_visited_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras visited the US,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/11/journalists-nsa-guardian-polk-award-snowden">were
not harassed by government agents on arrival.</a>
<p>
Poitras used to
be <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#10_April_2012_%28Laura_Poitras%29">harassed
regularly each time she returned to the US.</a>


title: Urgent: Call for ending a big tax loophole for businesses
uri: Urgent-Call-for-ending-a-big-tax-loophole-for-businesses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Urgent:_Call_for_ending_a_big_tax_loophole_for_businesses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_ending_a_big_tax_loophole_for_businesses%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of
Massachusetts: <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=10657">call
for ending a big tax loophole for businesses.</a>


title: Growth for Growth's Sake Will Kill Us All
uri: Growth-for-Growth-s-Sake-Will-Kill-Us-All
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Growth_for_Growth's_Sake_Will_Kill_Us_All)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Growth_for_Growth%27s_Sake_Will_Kill_Us_All%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/11-11">Growth for
Growth's Sake Will Kill Us All.</a>
<p>
In addition to being unsustainable, growth has also become nearly
useless for the non-rich, in countries under plutocratic rule.  The
benefits of growth are seized by the plutocrats so little benefit
trickles down to the rest.
<p>
You can't expect a rising tide to lift your boat if the plutocrats
have taken planks from the hull and demand you lease them back.
<p>
Thus, taking wealth from the rich is a more appropriate policy
nowadays than growth.


title: US Lacks Accurate Drone Civilian Casualty Data
uri: US-Lacks-Accurate-Drone-Civilian-Casualty-Data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(US_Lacks_Accurate_Drone_Civilian_Casualty_Data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28US_Lacks_Accurate_Drone_Civilian_Casualty_Data%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/11-2">US Lacks
Accurate Drone Civilian Casualty Data</a>, says Military Analyst.
<p>
Being more careful, with better data, would be a useful step.  But
really
the <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#26_January_2012_%28Targeted_Killing%29">US
should cease using military force outside of war zones.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Labeling_GMO_salmon)
title: Labeling GMO salmon
uri: Labeling-GMO-salmon
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Labeling_GMO_salmon%29
content:
<p>
The company making the GMO
salmon <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/04/11-0">claims
that the FDA has already decided not to require labeling of this
salmon.</a>
<p>
This is not officially true, but the FDA is doing nothing to rebut the
claim.
<p>
My guess is that the FDA has in fact made that decision, just not
officially.


title: PBS supporting privatization of US public schools
uri: PBS-supporting-privatization-of-US-public-schools
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(PBS_supporting_privatization_of_US_public_schools)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28PBS_supporting_privatization_of_US_public_schools%29

content:
<p>
PBS is firmly and
persistently <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/11-7">supporting
the billionaires' movement for privatization of US public schools</a>.
<p>
PBS's shows have been largely controlled by business since the 1990s,
if not before.  Often you can tell which companies exert the control
over a show because their commercials appear in it.
<p>
Compare this with
the <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_%28Urgent:_Remove_Koch_brother_from_WGBH_board%29">campaign
to pry loose the control of the fossil fuel industry over PBS.</a>


title: Theories endure in the media long after they have been refuted
uri: Theories-endure-in-the-media-long-after-they-have-been-refuted
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Theories_endure_in_the_media_long_after_they_have_been_refuted)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Theories_endure_in_the_media_long_after_they_have_been_refuted%29

content:
<p>
A few scientists publish papers criticism some aspects of the accepted
understanding of global heating.
Their <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/11/climate-change-research-quality-imbalance">theories
sometimes endure in the mainstream media long after they have been
refuted by further data.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Newspapers_printed_black_front_pages)
title: Newspapers printed black front pages
uri: Newspapers-printed-black-front-pages
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Newspapers_printed_black_front_pages%29

content:
<p>
Burmese
newspapers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/11/burma-newspapers-black-front-pages">printed
black front pages to protest the imprisonment of a journalist.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Celebrate_Homeopathy_Awareness_Week)
title: Celebrate Homeopathy Awareness Week
uri: Celebrate-Homeopathy-Awareness-Week
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Celebrate_Homeopathy_Awareness_Week%29

content:
<p>
A scientist says, let's celebrate Homeopathy Awareness Week
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/11/world-homeopathy-awareness-week-homeopathic-preparations">making
the public aware of how absurd and ineffective homeopathy is.</a>


title: Gov't refuses to say where Sharif Mobley is
uri: Gov-t-refuses-to-say-where-Sharif-Mobley-is
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Gov't_refuses_to_say_where_Sharif_Mobley_is)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Gov%27t_refuses_to_say_where_Sharif_Mobley_is%29

content:
<p>
US citizen Sharif Mobley is accused of murder in Yemen, much like
Obama.  Unlike Obama, Mobley was supposed to be prosecuted there; but
now that it is time for a
hearing, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/10/american-citizen-sharif-mobley-missing-yemen">the
government now refuses to say where he is.</a>


title: US Supreme Court narrowed right to remain silent
uri: US-Supreme-Court-narrowed-right-to-remain-silent
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(US_Supreme_Court_narrowed_right_to_remain_silent)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28US_Supreme_Court_narrowed_right_to_remain_silent%29

content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court has narrowed the right to remain silent and not
have that used against you in court, by saying
the <a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/01/another-scotus-decision-slipped-under-the-radar-want-to-rema">right
applies only if you have explicitly cited it.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(US_gov't_seizing_money)
title: US gov't seizing money
uri: US-gov-t-seizing-money
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28US_gov%27t_seizing_money%29
content:
<p>
The US government
is <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/04/file-one-under-big-government-run-amok">seizing
money from people today to cancel "overpayments" in disability
benefits allegedly made to their parents</a>.
<p>
I don't think the US should seize money without a hearing about it.
And it should not be able to seize money from children because of
overpayments to their parents.  Debts are not inherited.


title: US Army leaving behind lots of dangerous things
uri: US-Army-leaving-behind-lots-of-dangerous-things
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(US_Army_leaving_behind_lots_of_dangerous_things)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28US_Army_leaving_behind_lots_of_dangerous_things%29

content:
<p>
The US Army is leaving behind, in
Afghanistan, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/10-0">lots
of dangerous things such as unexploded munitions.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 12_April_2014_(Climate_Change_Is_Not_a_Debate)
title: Climate Change Is Not a Debate
uri: Climate-Change-Is-Not-a-Debate
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_April_2014_%28Climate_Change_Is_Not_a_Debate%29
content:
<p>
Climate Change Is Not a Debate: It Is
a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/10-2">Struggle
That Pits Survivors Against Fossil Fuel Profiteers.</a>


title: Urgent: Reproductive health care access
uri: Urgent-Reproductive-health-care-access
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Urgent:_Reproductive_health_care_access)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reproductive_health_care_access%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/get-involved/actions/co-sponsors.html">support
efforts in Colorado</a> to pass a law protecting access to
reproductive health care.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Urgent:_GMO_labeling)
title: Urgent: GMO labeling
uri: Urgent-GMO-labeling
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_GMO_labeling%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/ocaactions.cfm?actionnum=13738">call
on your congresscritter</a> to oppose the dishonest bill designed to
block states from requiring labeling of GMOs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Commercial_use_of_medical_records)
title: Commercial use of medical records
uri: Commercial-use-of-medical-records
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Commercial_use_of_medical_records%29

content:
<p>
The EFF is campaigning against 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/medical-privacy-digital-technology-can-leave-your-health-history-exposed">commercial
misuse</a> of people's medical records.
<p>
I support this campaign but I think it does not go far enough.
Both companies and governments can misuse our medical records,
so a real solution must make it hard for either of them to get
our records, hard enough that they will only get them in individual
cases, never in bulk.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Fossil_fuel_shock_capitalism)
title: Fossil fuel shock capitalism
uri: Fossil-fuel-shock-capitalism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Fossil_fuel_shock_capitalism%29
content:
<p>
The fossil fuel industry is continuing its policy of shock capitalism
to exploit every crisis, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/10-7">including
Crimea</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(The_concept_of_selling_out)
title: The concept of "selling out"
uri: The-concept-of-selling-out
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28The_concept_of_selling_out%29
content:
<p>
Some teenagers in the US no longer understand the concept of
"<a href='https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/11-9'>selling
out</a>", because they know no other approach to life.
<p>
The article relates that to the 30-year-long campaign to attack public
education, which may be related to it.  However, antisocial networks
such as Facebook may be more responsible for it.  Alone Together, by
Sherry Turkle, says that Facebook encourages people to present phony,
calculated images of themselves.
<p>
Parents can't stop their children from being used by Facebook.  I
wonder if they can teach their children to reject Facebook.  Perhaps
teaching them to distrust what anyone says in Facebook, and that
friendships among people heavily influenced by Facebook tend to be
superficial and empty.  Would that be effective?  I don't know.
<p>
In any case, this is an additional reason not to have children.  Why
go through so much effort to make yet another Facebook used who won't
be able to envision any way of living except self-marketing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(War_on_Terror)
title: War on Terror
uri: War-on-Terror
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28War_on_Terror%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/11-4">War on
Terror's Trickle Down Effect: The FBI's Military Evolution
Exposed</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(FBI_snooping)
title: FBI snooping
uri: FBI-snooping
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28FBI_snooping%29
content:
<p>
The FBI 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1375">did not bother to
question Tamerlan Tsarnaev</a>, but now says his example shows it
needs more snooping authority.
<p>
The Boston Marathon bombers killed four people, not as many as a
recent 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/11/nine-killed-as-truck-hits-bus-carrying-teenagers-in-california">bus
accident</a>, but it has been sensationalized so much that people
perceive it as signifying a far bigger danger.  That makes it an ideal
excuse for efforts to undermine our freedom.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(SEC_surveillance_powers)
title: SEC surveillance powers
uri: SEC-surveillance-powers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28SEC_surveillance_powers%29
content:
<p>
The SEC is blocking reform of the Electronic Communications Privacy
Act by 
<a href="https://cdt.org/sec-wants-new-warrantless-snooping-powers-it-doesnt-need/">demanding
additional surveillance powers</a>.
<p>
Note that even if this reform goes through,
you will still have less rights over your email
when it is in a company than if it is in your home.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(The_FBI_and_Massachusetts)
title: The FBI and Massachusetts
uri: The-FBI-and-Massachusetts
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28The_FBI_and_Massachusetts%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU is suing to get information about 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1374">FBI and Massachusetts
involvement in investigations relating to the Boston marathon
bombing</a>, and whether massive increases in surveillance that
threaten our freedom really provided any security at all.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Japan_apologizes)
title: Japan apologizes
uri: Japan-apologizes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Japan_apologizes%29
content:
<p>
Japan has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/12">apologized for
some atrocities in World War II</a>.  When will the US do likewise?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Andrew_Auernheimers_conviction)
title: Andrew Auernheimer's conviction
uri: Andrew-Auernheimer-s-conviction
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Andrew_Auernheimers_conviction%29
content:
<p>
Andrew Auernheimer's conviction was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/11/andrew-auernheimers-weev-conviction-vacated-hacking">overturned
on appeal on the grounds he was prosecuted in the wrong state</a>.
<p>
This is not the trivial issue it appears at first sight.  The US
prosecuted him in New Jersey, although his case had nothing to do with
New Jersey, because that court tends to stretch the law to give
convictions.  Blocking that approach will protect other people.
<p>
Nonetheless, it means that the twisted logic behind the claim
that Auernheimer's actions were a crime 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/11/andrew_weev_auernheimer_s_conviction_is_overturned_but_cfaa_stands.html">will
not be reconsidered</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(US_deportation_of_Mexicans)
title: US deportation of "Mexicans"
uri: US-deportation-of-Mexicans
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28US_deportation_of_Mexicans%29
content:
<p>
The US has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/11/undocumented-migrants-stuck-tijuana-mexico-us">deported
thousands of "Mexicans"</a> who came to the US as children and don't
know what it is like to live in Mexico.  Many stay in Tijuana, trying
to feel close to their families in the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(McDonalds_toxic_pesticides)
title: McDonalds' toxic pesticides
uri: McDonalds-toxic-pesticides
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28McDonalds_toxic_pesticides%29
content:
<p>
Campaigning to 
<a href="http://www.panna.org/media-center/press-release/rural-MN-residents-urge-mcdonalds-phase-out-toxic-taters">reduce
the toxic pesticides used to make McDonalds' french fries</a>.
<p>
If this succeeds, they will only be bad for the people that eat them
;-).


title: Denying raises to teachers unless they "volunteer"
uri: Denying-raises-to-teachers-unless-they-volunteer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Denying_raises_to_teachers_unless_they_volunteer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Denying_raises_to_teachers_unless_they_volunteer%29

content:
<p>
UK school principals
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/apr/12/teachers-denied-pay-rises-for-not-volunteering">denying
raises to teachers unless they "volunteer" for unpaid extra work.</a>


title: Australian gov't ordered employees to report on their colleagues
uri: Australian-gov-t-ordered-employees-to-report-on-their-colleagues
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Australian_gov't_ordered_employees_to_report_on_their_colleagues)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Australian_gov%27t_ordered_employees_to_report_on_their_colleagues%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government has ordered government employees
to <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/colleagues-told-dob-in-political-web-posts/story-fnii5s3y-1226875635588">report
their colleagues for posting anything on the internet that criticizes
the government.</a>
<p>
You'd expect as much from the mining industry's government of
occupation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Nonfree_test-supervising_software)
title: Nonfree test-supervising software
uri: Nonfree-test-supervising-software
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Nonfree_test-supervising_software%29

content:
<p>
San Jose State University (and probably other universities too)
requires some students
to <a href="http://spartandaily.com/119401/online-proctoring-raises-privacy-concerns">run
nonfree test-supervising software used to impose a regime that must
drive people nuts.</a>
<p>
I'd fail a test in algebra, if I had to spend an hour answering
questions while never looking away from the camera.  And if I were not
allowed to look down at the keyboard, I would make typos too.  A
program that imposes requirements like this must be considered
malware.
<p>
But even if it were not known to be malware, it would be unacceptable
if it is non-free, which is surely the case.


title: Converting US economy into a system of financial parasitism
uri: Converting-US-economy-into-a-system-of-financial-parasitism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Converting_US_economy_into_a_system_of_financial_parasitism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Converting_US_economy_into_a_system_of_financial_parasitism%29

content:
<p>
Financial analyst Eric Garland says that Bain Capital (and similar
leveraged-buyout companies)
are <a href="http://www.ericgarland.co/2014/03/29/parasite-economy/">converting
the US economy into a system of financial parasitism</a>, in which
business decisions are no longer supposed to make sense for the
company, and imposed company debt is put into complex schemes so it
can be resold to a "bigger fool".
<p>
The "bigger fools" in this case are rich and greedy, so I offer no
condolences to whichever one gets stuck with the hot potato.  But the
bursting of this bubble could hurt nearly everyone (except the
parasites that did the leveraged buyouts).


title: US mainstream media and breakdown of the "peace negotiations"
uri: US-mainstream-media-and-breakdown-of-the-peace-negotiations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(US_mainstream_media_and_breakdown_of_the_peace_negotiations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28US_mainstream_media_and_breakdown_of_the_peace_negotiations%29

content:
<p>
US mainstream
media <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/04/08/botching-the-israelpalestine-talks-timeline/">ignored
Israel's breach of the interim deal with Palestine</a>, and blamed
Palestine's response as the cause of the breakdown of the "peace
negotiations".
<p>
Since <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_January_2014_(Israeli_govt_backs_plan_to_keep_West_Bank_permanently_under_siege)">Israel's
government does not want peace,</a> these "peace negotiations" were
never more than a sham, a way for Israel's government to pretend it
wants peace.


title: LA thugs sabotaged their full-time recording devices
uri: LA-thugs-sabotaged-their-full-time-recording-devices
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(LA_thugs_sabotaged_their_full-time_recording_devices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28LA_thugs_sabotaged_their_full-time_recording_devices%29

content:
<p>
LA thugs
have <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/lapd-officers-monkey-wrenched-cop-monitoring-gear-in-patrol-cars/">sabotaged
their full-time recording devices by "losing" the antennas.</a>
<p>
I guess they want to be free to beat people up unmonitored.
<p>
People in general should not be "followed all the time" by the state
or by companies, but thugs are a special case because they have
special power, and because the state gives them near total immunity
for their violence.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Science_teacher_in_LA_was_fired)
title: Science teacher in LA was fired
uri: Science-teacher-in-LA-was-fired
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Science_teacher_in_LA_was_fired%29
content:
<p>
A science teacher in LA
was <a href="http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-lausd-science-teacher-20140410,0,5329192.story">fired
for supervising the construction of devices that could conceivably
launch projectiles</a>.  Someone else thought they "looked like
weapons".
<p>
One might be tempted to say that the school administrators are rash
idiots, but it's not that simple.  The problem is that they think that
their job is to act like rash idiots.  That's what "zero tolerance"
means.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(General_strike_in_Argentina)
title: General strike in Argentina
uri: General-strike-in-Argentina
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28General_strike_in_Argentina%29
content:
<p>
A million workers participated in
a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/11-6">general
strike in Argentina.</a>


title: Subtle campaign of global heating sabotage
uri: Subtle-campaign-of-global-heating-sabotage
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Subtle_campaign_of_global_heating_sabotage)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Subtle_campaign_of_global_heating_sabotage%29

content:
<p>
A subtle campaign of global heating sabotage uses distorted facts to
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/04/11/lets-stop-looking-at-the-downside-of-climate-change/">criticize
climate scientists for not promoting certain dangerous or ineffective
"solutions".</a>
<p>
I wonder where this group gets its funds.


title: Urgent: Support bill to require labeling of GMOs
uri: Urgent-Support-bill-to-require-labeling-of-GMOs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Urgent:_Support_bill_to_require_labeling_of_GMOs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_bill_to_require_labeling_of_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of
Massachusetts: <a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/massachusetts-label-gmos">support
the bill to require labeling of GMOs.</a>


title: UK caught helping CIA run secret prison
uri: UK-caught-helping-CIA-run-secret-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(UK_caught_helping_CIA_run_secret_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28UK_caught_helping_CIA_run_secret_prison%29

content:
<p>
The UK has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/13/cia-black-site-diego-garcia-uk-role">caught
helping the CIA run a secret prison on Diego Garcia.</a>


title: Urgent: Restore what Supreme Court weakened in the 5th Amendment
uri: Urgent-Restore-what-Supreme-Court-weakened-in-the-5th-Amendment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Urgent:_Restore_what_Supreme_Court_weakened_in_the_5th_Amendment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Restore_what_Supreme_Court_weakened_in_the_5th_Amendment%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to try
to <a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/3504?n=65219090.kLd7oe">restore
what the Supreme Court weakened in the 5th Amendment.</a>


title: Citizens of Albuquerque protested the street executions
uri: Citizens-of-Albuquerque-protested-the-street-executions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Citizens_of_Albuquerque_protested_the_street_executions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Citizens_of_Albuquerque_protested_the_street_executions%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of
Albuquerque <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/12-1">protested
the street executions carried out by thugs,</a> to demand that
corrective action be taken in a way that the thugs can't undermine.


title: Snowden summarized the broad reach of NSA
uri: Snowden-summarized-the-broad-reach-of-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 13_April_2014_(Snowden_summarized_the_broad_reach_of_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_April_2014_%28Snowden_summarized_the_broad_reach_of_NSA%29

content:
<p>
Snowden, speaking to the European
Parliament, <a href="http://rt.com/news/snowden-pace-whistleblower-nsa-157/">summarized
the broad reach of NSA massive surveillance.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(CIA_torture_cover-up_exposed)
title: CIA torture cover-up exposed
uri: CIA-torture-cover-up-exposed
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28CIA_torture_cover-up_exposed%29
content:
<p>A leaked copy of part of the Senate's report on CIA torture says that
the CIA tortured lots of people and
<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/04/10/224085/cias-use-of-harsh-interrogation.html">
went beyond what it had got
approval for.</a>
</p>
<p>That the CIA lied to the rest of the US government about its torture
practices does not seem implausible to me.  However, we must not let
this exonerate Bush, who has already admitted approving some kinds of
torture.</p>
<p>The CIA also seems to have
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/11-3">
lied about how many prisoners it held.</a>
</p>
<p>When the CIA says it released a prisoner, I wonder what that means.
Was that person freed?  Released to some other prison?  Released to a
cemetery?  Without a thorough investigation of the facts, we must not
suppose that words used the CIA mean what we would normally expect.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2014/4/11/103623/119">
Here's the text</a>
that was leaked.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Time's_up_for_fossil_fuel)
title: Time's up for fossil fuel
uri: Time-s-up-for-fossil-fuel
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Time%27s_up_for_fossil_fuel%29
content:
<p>Greenpeace: tell the fossil fuel industry
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/14-3">
its time is up.</a>
</p>
<p>Fossil fuel interests corrupt our governments (including
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_(Canada's_government_is_attacking_democracy_on_behalf_of_oil_companies)">
Canada</a>,
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_October_2013_(Australias_govt_seeks_to_cut_research_grants_for_clean_energy)">
Australia</a>,
the
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_March_2014_(UK_govt_plans_to_eliminate_incentives_for_reducing_use_of_fossil_fuels)">
UK</a>
and the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_February_2014_(The_danger_of_fossil_fuels_under_a_right-wing_deregulating_state)">
US</a>),
and
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_November_2013_(Urgent:_Remove_Koch_brother_from_WGBH_board)">
our media</a>,
to push the world into continued dependence on fossil fuels.  This
is a conspiracy to commit mass murder, and <em>all</em> those involved
should be put behind bars.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Urgent:_Sunshine_in_Litigation_Act)
title: Urgent: Sunshine in Litigation Act
uri: Urgent-Sunshine-in-Litigation-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_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 congresscritter</a> to cosponsor the Sunshine in Litigation Act.


title: Urgent: Decent treatment of employees
uri: Urgent-Decent-treatment-of-employees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Urgent:_Decent_treatment_of_employees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Decent_treatment_of_employees%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/kelloggs-shareholders/">call on
Kellogg's</a> to treat its employees and farm workers decently.


title: Urgent: Oppose nomination of bankster
uri: Urgent-Oppose-nomination-of-bankster
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_nomination_of_bankster)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_nomination_of_bankster%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_revolving_door">call on
Obama</a> to withdraw the nomination of a bankster as an official of
the Commerce Department.  The bankster just got a 9-million-dollar
bonus for moving to a position where he will be in a position to help
his former employer.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Reporting_anything_suspicious)
title: Reporting anything "suspicious"
uri: Reporting-anything-suspicious
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Reporting_anything_suspicious%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=16852">asks the
public to report anything "suspicious"</a>, and nearly anything
someone feels strange about can be "suspicious", which makes for a big
data base with lots of info about lots of people.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Phones_with_retina_trackers)
title: Phones with retina trackers
uri: Phones-with-retina-trackers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Phones_with_retina_trackers%29
content:
<p>
Another privacy threat: cell phones with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/11/amazon-3d-smartphone-apple-samsung">always-on
retina trackers</a>.
<p>
The cute "3D" feature they are used to implement is of no real
importance, but I wonder what other information the proprietary
software in those phones can extract using those sensors and give to
companies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(IPCCs_renewable_energy_targets)
title: IPCC's renewable energy targets
uri: IPCC-s-renewable-energy-targets
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28IPCCs_renewable_energy_targets%29
content:
<p>
The IPCC has presented 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/12/ipcc-report-world-must-switch-clean-sources-energy">targets
for renewable energy development</a> to avoid the worst kind of global
heating disaster.
<p>
Since we don't know how precisely how much greenhouse gas emissions it
will take to cause disaster, we should try to exceed these targets by
as much as possible.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(UK_thug_system_of_lying)
title: UK thug system of lying
uri: UK-thug-system-of-lying
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28UK_thug_system_of_lying%29
content:
<p>
The head officers of UK thug departments UK have imposed a system of
lying about crime statistics, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/12/police-officers-fiddling-crime-statistics-england-wales-figures">ordering
other thugs to help lie</a>.
<p>
Crime statistics are 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_February_2014_(Thugs%27_investigations_can%27t_be_trusted)">not 
all that UK thugs lie about</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Being_a_black_male_in_a_US_city)
title: Being a black male in a US city
uri: Being-a-black-male-in-a-US-city
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Being_a_black_male_in_a_US_city%29
content:
<p>
Being a black male in a US city is like being an American in East
Berlin in 1980: 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/what-i-learned-about-stop-and-frisk-from-watching-my-black-son/359962/">continual
harassment by thugs, due to who you are rather than what you do</a>,
creates a sense of constant oppression.
<p>
The US government is considering 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-criminal-law-reform-racial-justice/perversity-profiling">new
rules about racial profiling</a>, that would not change much.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Journalist_Sarah_Harrison)
title: Journalist Sarah Harrison
uri: Journalist-Sarah-Harrison
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Journalist_Sarah_Harrison%29
content:
<p>
British journalist Sarah Harrison explains why she must not return to
the UK: her lawyers warn she 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/14/britain-journalists-terrorists-edward-snowden-nsa">could
be interrogated about her sources, and imprisoned if she does not
answer</a>.
<p>
The only excuse they need is for some thug to say he had a "hunch" she
might be a "terrorist."  And if the thug does not really have such a
hunch, would he refuse to 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_(UK_thug_system_of_lying)">lie
when ordered to do so</a>?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Teachers_protest_privatization)
title: Teachers protest privatization
uri: Teachers-protest-privatization
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Teachers_protest_privatization%29
content:
<p>A public school teacher
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/14-4">
calls on other teachers</a>
to fight against
the billionaires' plan to privatize public schools and turn education
into
a standardized test.
</p>
<p>They plan a protest at the Gates Foundation on June 26.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Modern_slavery)
title: Modern slavery
uri: Modern-slavery
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Modern_slavery%29
content:
<p>Chattel slavery in the US was officially abolished after the Civil
War, but current US prison practices are quite similar to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/14-0">
modern slavery.</a>
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(AFRICOM_thinking_big)
title: AFRICOM thinking big
uri: AFRICOM-thinking-big
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28AFRICOM_thinking_big%29
content:
<p>The US government tells the public its
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/14-2">
military plans in Africa</a>
are small, but it tells construction companies something rather
different.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Smart_ALEC)
title: Smart ALEC
uri: Smart-ALEC
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Smart_ALEC%29
content:
<p>ALEC is about to publish another "Rich States, Poor States" report
which
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/04/14-0">
grades states</a>
on how friendly they are to the rich.
</p>
<p>It turns out this was funded by the Kochs.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(FBI_fiddling_in_Guantanamo_trials)
title: FBI fiddling in Guantanamo trials
uri: FBI-fiddling-in-Guantanamo-trials
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28FBI_fiddling_in_Guantanamo_trials%29

content:
<p>The FBI turned a member of a Guantanamo prisoner's defense team
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/14/guantanamo-bay-hearing-halted-fbi-spying">
into an informant.</a>
</p>
<p>The FBI did this trying to figure out how a prisoner's writings
reached the press.  The US government is keeping the prisoners
incommunicado so that they can't tell us about how they were tortured.
In effect, the whole system of "military tribunals" (which are
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#20 March 2011 (US Criticized by UN HRC)">
corrupt by design</a>)
has been corrupted a second time by the US's torture coverup.</p>


title: Some defendants missing from Gaddafi trial
uri: Some-defendants-missing-from-Gaddafi-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Some_defendants_missing_from_Gaddafi_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Some_defendants_missing_from_Gaddafi_trial%29

content:
<p>Human rights observers were barred from
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/14/libya-war-crimes-trial-gaddafi-sons-observers-barred">
the "open" trial of Gaddafi's sons</a>
and supporters, and not all the defendants were present.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Fallout_from_LIBOR_scandal)
title: Fallout from LIBOR scandal
uri: Fallout-from-LIBOR-scandal
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Fallout_from_LIBOR_scandal%29
content:
<p>The FDIC is
<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_global_banking_game_is_rigged_and_the_fdic_is_suing_20140413">
suing big banks</a>
over a tricky form of derivative,
interest rate swaps, which were rigged through
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_January_2014_(Individual_banksters_face_charges_for_falsifying_Libor_rate)">
the LIBOR lies.</a>
</p>
<p>Aside from the falsification of LIBOR, banks should not be allowed to
invent complex financial derivatives because that's a recipe for
suckering people.  If the bank can make up a game with complicated
rules, it is almost certain to win the game even if the game is not
actually rigged.</p>
<p>Banks are regulated and licensed businesses; they cannot cite "Buyer
beware, especially if you're buying form us" as an all-purpose excuse
for inventing gambling games that endanger the public.</p>


title: Data Retention Directive ruled invalid
uri: Data-Retention-Directive-ruled-invalid
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Data_Retention_Directive_ruled_invalid)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Data_Retention_Directive_ruled_invalid%29

content:
<p>Four main phone companies in Sweden have
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/four-of-swedens-telcos-stop-storing-customer-data-after-eu-retention-directive-overthrown-7000028341/#ftag=RSSf468ffe">
ceased retaining customers' call records</a>,
based on the court ruling against the EU data retention
directive.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Police_supress_criticism)
title: Police suppress criticism
uri: Police-suppress-criticism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Police_supress_criticism%29
content:
<p>UK thugs made three tries to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/13/metropolitan-police-whistleblower-crime-figures">
gag the whistleblower</a>
who exposed falsification of crime statistics.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Please_don't_bother_the_fascists)
title: Please don't bother the fascists
uri: Please-don-t-bother-the-fascists
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Please_don%27t_bother_the_fascists%29

content:
<p>The UK is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/13/criminalisation-of-anti-fascist-protest">
arresting anti-fascist protesters</a>
en masse and forbidding them from protesting any further.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Emboldened_by_chemistry)
title: Emboldened by chemistry
uri: Emboldened-by-chemistry
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Emboldened_by_chemistry%29
content:
<p>CO2 makes many
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/14/entire-marine-food-chain-at-risk-from-rising-co2-levels-in-water">
small fish behave dangerously</a>,
which endangers the entire
marine ecosystem.
</p>
<p>This is not to mention how it can wipe out molluscs and coral.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Roundup_in_our_food_chain)
title: Roundup in our food chain
uri: Roundup-in-our-food-chain
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Roundup_in_our_food_chain%29
content:
<p>A preliminary study of a small number of US mothers found
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_29696.cfm">
high levels of glyphosate</a>
in the breast milk of several of them.
</p>
<p>A larger study is called for, but what's clear already is that
US safety standards have been corrupted by powerful businesses.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Scales_of_justice)
title: Scales of justice
uri: Scales-of-justice
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Scales_of_justice%29
content:
<p>US banksters just about
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/13/wall-street-scandal-sac-steve-cohen-rich-grow-stronger">
always bounce back</a>
from any disgrace, since
they bounce on their piles of money.
</p>
<p>Poor Americans convicted of comparatively minor crimes are locked out
from many careers and educational opportunities.  Practically speaking,
all they are allowed to be is criminals.   The banksters' crimes are
far worse; the harshest consequences should be reserved for them.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(Sadistic_treatment)
title: Sadistic treatment
uri: Sadistic-treatment
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28Sadistic_treatment%29
content:
<p>Egyptian dissidents, imprisoned without trial, say that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/12/egypt-police-rape-dissidents-crackdown-16000-arrested">
thugs raped them</a>
in prison.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(New_moms,_new_customers)
title: New moms, new customers
uri: New-moms-new-customers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28New_moms%2C_new_customers%29
content:
<p>The UK national health service pays a data broker to hand out forms
— and ask new mothers (still recuperating in hospital) for
personal data while
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/13/sales-reps-nhs-maternity-wards-mothers-mums">
they're at it.</a>
</p>
<p>These are the sorts of things that teach children that "everyone and
everything is for sale, all the time, and there's nothing that
shouldn't be for sale".</p>
<p>I think it was a terrible mistake for US cities to sell the names of
stadiums as a form of advertising, because that was a very loud
statement that "everything is for sale".  Any time you're thinking of
letting companies buy something that is public, it means you're not
taxing them enough.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 14_April_2014_(More_Russian_shenanigans_in_Ukraine)
title: More Russian shenanigans in Ukraine
uri: More-Russian-shenanigans-in-Ukraine
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#14_April_2014_%28More_Russian_shenanigans_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>It appears that Russian army units, pretending not to be such, are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/12/pro-russian-protesters-wind-up-tension-in-eastern-ukraine">
capturing cities in eastern Ukraine.</a>
</p>
<p>They seem to have some support from
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/14/ukraine-antiterrorist-campaign-doomed-kiev-authority">
the local civilians,</a>
but there is no way of telling how many civilians do not support them;
those people are facing powerful intimidation now.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Intelligence_agencies_budgets)
title: Intelligence agencies' budgets
uri: Intelligence-agencies-budgets
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Intelligence_agencies_budgets%29
content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/8/we_cant_just_give_a_blank">bill
to make US intelligence agencies publish their budgets</a> might
provide leverage to reduce those budgets.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(US_taxes_on_low-paid_adults)
title: US taxes on low-paid adults
uri: US-taxes-on-low-paid-adults
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28US_taxes_on_low-paid_adults%29
content:
<p>
US taxes have 
<a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=4128">pushed 7
million low-paid adults down into or further down below the poverty
line</a>.
<p>
The adults who are vulnerable to this are those who do not have
custody of any children.
<p>
If anyone asks, "How could we pay for these tax cuts", it's simple:
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-big-to-fail/">tax
the rich more, and tax companies more</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Spending_on_Americas_war_machine)
title: Spending on America's war machine
uri: Spending-on-America-s-war-machine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Spending_on_Americas_war_machine%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/biggest-waste-your-money-taxes-are-paying-americas-war-machine">America's
war machine</a>, far bigger than any other country, should be reduced
so as to spend the money on things we really need.
<p>
Of course, we should increases taxes on rich people and companies too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Prescription_records)
title: Prescription records
uri: 2014-04-16-Prescription-records
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Prescription_records%29
content:
<p>
A detective in Utah 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/curious-cop-downloaded-hundreds-private-prescription">examined
prescription records of hundreds of employees of the Salt Lake City
area</a> looking for something suspicious, to try to find who stole
some morphine.
<p>
I hope that the Fourth Amendment blocks this warranties search, but I
don't think that is enough.  Putting everyone's prescription records
in a central database is asking for trouble.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Jesus_homeless_on_a_bench)
title: Jesus homeless on a bench
uri: Jesus-homeless-on-a-bench
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Jesus_homeless_on_a_bench%29
content:
<p>
A church in North Carolina has illustrated the contradiction between
Christianity and persecuting the homeless, with a bronze statue of
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/04/14-3">Jesus as a
homeless person sleeping on a bench</a>.
<p>
I reject Christianity as a whole, but there are a few aspects of it
that are admirable, and this is one of them.
<p>
Here's an example of the sort of 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/if-you-can-speak-your-money-then-why-asking-money-illegal">persecution</a>
that a sincere Christian can't do.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Illegal_confiscation_of_passport)
title: Illegal confiscation of passport
uri: Illegal-confiscation-of-passport
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Illegal_confiscation_of_passport%29
content:
<p>
The US government illegally confiscated Nader El-Dajani's passport
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/us-passport-confiscated-embassy-nader-el-dajani">without
a hearing</a>, and refuses to say why, or that it has any accusations
against him.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Depriving_Shuafat_of_water)
title: Depriving Shuafat of water
uri: Depriving-Shuafat-of-water
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Depriving_Shuafat_of_water%29
content:
<p>
A court ruled that Israel can't keep Shuafat totally deprived of
water.  So now Israel 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/14/welcome-shuafat-jerusalem-camp-water-palestinians-israel">provides
water between 03:00 and 08:00</a>, the time which is most harassing
for the inhabitants.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Amazons_book_recommendations)
title: Amazon's book recommendations
uri: Amazon-s-book-recommendations
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Amazons_book_recommendations%29
content:
<p>
Amazon's book recommendations are not an honest attempt to figure out
what a customer might like.  Publishers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/amazon-beware-friendly-internet-giants-google-facebook">pay
to have books promoted in this way</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(The_drone_assassination_program)
title: The drone assassination program
uri: The-drone-assassination-program
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28The_drone_assassination_program%29
content:
<p>
Obama officials have proposed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/14/cia-drones-pakistan-us-air-force-documentary">"moving"
the drone assassination program</a> in Pakistan from the CIA to the
military so that it would have to follow clear military rules.  That
proposal was pure pretense, since in fact the US military has been
running these drone assassinations all along.  The "CIA" label is just
an excuse ignoring those rules.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Avoiding_disaster)
title: Avoiding disaster
uri: Avoiding-disaster
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Avoiding_disaster%29
content:
<p>
The IPCC says that our carbon emissions will take us to the brink of
disaster and that we must start vigorously cutting them now if we are
to avoid the big disaster.  However, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/apr/14/ipcc-report-scientists-world-seize-opportunity-roadmap">we
can still afford to do this</a>; the cost will be bearable.
<p>
Australia's government's response is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/14/coal-will-be-a-main-energy-source-for-decades-and-decades-says-greg-hunt">insist
on burning fossil fuels</a>, saying that carbon capture will someday
reduce their emissions.
<p>
Carbon capture for power plant emissions is purely theoretical, but
even if it turns out to be possible, that will be too late to prevent
the disaster.
<p>
Meanwhile, an Australian court 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/apr/14/ipcc-report-climate-change-queensland-alpha-coal-mine-liability">ruled
that coal mines are not responsible for the emissions</a>, on the
grounds that if one mine doesn't provide the desired coal, another
will.
<p>
That ruling is based on the premise that the point is to decide who to
blame, not to prevent disaster.  Preventing the disaster entails
making sure that <em>no</em> mine produces that coal, and that means
first of all not <em>this</em> mine.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Koch_brothers_vs_Jefferson)
title: Koch brothers vs Jefferson
uri: Koch-brothers-vs-Jefferson
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Koch_brothers_vs_Jefferson%29
content:
<p>
How the Koch brothers stack up against 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20140404">Jefferson's
political views</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Spanish_workers_incomes)
title: Spanish workers' incomes
uri: Spanish-workers-incomes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Spanish_workers_incomes%29
content:
<p>
Spanish banksters say it will take 10 years for Spanish workers'
incomes to return to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/14/spain-unemployment-economy-recovery-financial-crisis">level
from before the financial crisis</a> that was caused by the rules of
the euro-zone, which impose 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#28_August_2011_(Spain_Adopts_Limit)">policies
that make any recession worse</a>.
<p>
The "solutions" recommended are part of shock capitalism; they will do
nothing to change the euro-zone rules, or to help workers against the
rich.


title: Drug traffickers causing substantial deforestation
uri: Drug-traffickers-causing-substantial-deforestation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Drug_traffickers_causing_substantial_deforestation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Drug_traffickers_causing_substantial_deforestation%29

content:
<p>
Drug traffickers in Central America
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/15/central-america-deforestation-mexico-drugs-war">causing
substantial deforestation by building roads and runways through
jungles</a>.
<p>
This adds to all the other forms of harm caused by drug prohibition.
The traffickers are directly responsible for the deforestation, and I
do not mean to let them off the hook, but in practice the only way we
can prevent the deforestation (and the other forms of harm) is by
ending prohibition.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Shutting_down_abortion_clinics)
title: Shutting down abortion clinics
uri: Shutting-down-abortion-clinics
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Shutting_down_abortion_clinics%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing Christians
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/15/abortion-law-sweeping-america-red-tape">shutting
down abortion clinics in many states</a> by imposing pointless "safety
requirements" that are impossible to satisfy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Bitcoin_ATMs)
title: Bitcoin ATMs
uri: Bitcoin-ATMs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Bitcoin_ATMs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/15/australias-first-bitcoin-automatic-teller-opens-for-business-in-sydney">There
are now bitcoin ATMs</a>, but since they require users to identify
themselves, I don't see what good they are.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Looking_at_the_IPCC's_call)
title: Looking at the IPCC's call
uri: Looking-at-the-IPCC-s-call
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Looking_at_the_IPCC%27s_call%29
content:
<p>
Looking at the IPCC's
call: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/14/ipcc-message-end-of-business-as-usual-fossil-fuels">what
must humanity do, to avoid global heating disaster.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(The_option_of_other_as_a_gender)
title: The option of "other" as a gender
uri: The-option-of-other-as-a-gender
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28The_option_of_other_as_a_gender%29
content:
<p>
India now offers
people <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/15/india-recognises-transgender-people-third-gender">the
option of "other" as a gender.</a>
<p>
I applaud this move, but raises a difficult question: what symbol will
indicate the toilets for the "other" gender?


title: Chinese human rights lawyers tortured
uri: Chinese-human-rights-lawyers-tortured
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Chinese_human_rights_lawyers_tortured)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Chinese_human_rights_lawyers_tortured%29

content:
<p>
Chinese human rights lawyers
were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/15/chinese-rights-lawyers-police-torture">kept
in a secret prison and tortured.</a> They have fractures to prove it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Air_pollution_in_China)
title: Air pollution in China
uri: Air-pollution-in-China
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Air_pollution_in_China%29
content:
<p>
Air pollution in
China <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/15/china-air-pollution-pacific-climate-us-national-academy-sciences">can
make storms stronger in the western US.</a>


title: Killing of environmentalists and land rights defenders
uri: Killing-of-environmentalists-and-land-rights-defenders
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Killing_of_environmentalists_and_land_rights_defenders)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Killing_of_environmentalists_and_land_rights_defenders%29

content:
<p>
The killing of environmentalists and land rights defenders has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/15/surge-deaths-environmental-activists-global-witness-report">more
than doubled in a decade.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Unrestrained_capitalism)
title: Unrestrained capitalism
uri: Unrestrained-capitalism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Unrestrained_capitalism%29
content:
<p>
Thomas Piketty's economics explain
ow <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/15/low-pay-necessary-evil-inequality-economist-thomas-piketty-wealth-tax">unrestrained
capitalism entrenches wealth and knocks down the poor</a>.
<p>
De Toqueville, in Democracy in America, explained what the solution
was 200 years ago: large fortunes were split up among several heirs at
each generation.  To avoid an oligarchic state, we must always have
some solution.


title: Right-Wing Israeli lobby dominates politicians
uri: Right-Wing-Israeli-lobby-dominates-politicians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Right-Wing_Israeli_lobby_dominates_politicians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Right-Wing_Israeli_lobby_dominates_politicians%29

content:
<p>
An ex-minister in Australia has
exposed <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/15/bob-carr-was-right-to-start-a-debate-on-the-influence-of-the-zionist-lobby">how
thoroughly the right-wing Israeli lobby dominates politicians
there.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Rate_of_meat-eating_is_unsustainable)
title: Rate of meat-eating is unsustainable
uri: Rate-of-meat-eating-is-unsustainable
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Rate_of_meat-eating_is_unsustainable%29

content:
<p>
The western
world's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet">rate
of meat-eating is unsustainable</a>; to avoid various kinds of
disaster, including global heating, we must move to eating much less
meat and dairy products.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Think_of_oneself_as_a_personal_brand)
title: Think of oneself as a "personal brand"
uri: Think-of-oneself-as-a-personal-brand
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Think_of_oneself_as_a_personal_brand%29

content:
<p>
The idea that one should think of oneself as a "personal brand"
directs people's
thinking <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/15/investing-in-a-brilliant-new-youtm-the-rise-and-tyranny-of-the-personal-brand">away
from the collective action they really need.</a>
<p>
I see two problems in that idea:

<ul>
<li>It encourages artificiality and insincerity.  No one is exactly
like anyone else, but each aspect of a person probably resembles that
aspect of many other persons.  If you decide to change just so that
you will stand out in a crowd, that is artificial and insincere.

<li>Workers are mostly interchangeable as regards working as a sales
clerk, an assembly worker, a nurse, or a teacher.  Two sales clerks
may have different personalities, interests and appearances, so that
as persons they are not very similar, but those differences are
irrelevant to getting hired.

<p>Workers in the past realized that they were interchangeable for
their employers.  Rather than trying, each one, to stand out from the
rest of the workforce, they built unions to require employers to
respect the rights of all their workers.
<p>
<p>If you try to confront the work situation alone, treating other
workers as your competition, you're aiming for a kind of success that
at best a small fraction of workers can achieve.
</ul>

I'm an unusual person — I wear, I say, I do things that are
different from most people.  If I were trying to have a "personal
brand", you might say I have succeeded.
<p>
But I never did anything with that as a goal.  I didn't choose any of
these traits to be different from others.  Each of my unusual traits,
I have either because I found it fun, or because I found it useful, or
because I resented and resisted a demand to change it, or because
changing it would have involved an insupportable indignity, or because
I have tried to change it but have not entirely succeeded (yet).
<p>
Be true to yourself, and be true to society as a whole.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 15_April_2014_(Reductions_in_salt_levels_in_foods)
title: Reductions in salt levels in foods
uri: Reductions-in-salt-levels-in-foods
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#15_April_2014_%28Reductions_in_salt_levels_in_foods%29

content:
<p>
Government-led reductions in salt levels in foods, in the UK, appears
responsible for
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/14/research-finds-link-between-drop-in-salt-consumption-and-fall-in-heart-attack-deaths">40%
drop in deaths from strokes and likewise from heart attacks.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose "fast track" for the TPP
uri: 2014-04-17-Urgent-Oppose-fast-track-for-the-TPP
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_fast_track_for_the_TPP)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fast_track_for_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=12351">oppose</a>
"fast track" for the TPP.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(Urgent:_Repeal_the_U_SAP_AT_RIOT_Act)
title: Urgent: Repeal the U SAP AT RIOT Act
uri: Urgent-Repeal-the-U-SAP-AT-RIOT-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal_the_U_SAP_AT_RIOT_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/holt_patriot_act">repeal the
U SAP AT RIOT Act and the FISA Amendments Act</a>, which authorized
the government's collection of much of the dossiers that companies
accumulate.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(Urgent:_Increase_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Increase Social Security
uri: 2014-04-17-Urgent-Increase-Social-Security
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Increase_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/773">tell Democratic
holdouts</a> to endorse increasing Social Security.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(Tar_sands_oil_export_pipeline)
title: Tar sands oil export pipeline
uri: Tar-sands-oil-export-pipeline
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28Tar_sands_oil_export_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
The intended terminus of an alternate tar sands oil export pipeline
from Alberta, running to the West Coast through Canada, has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/14-4">blocked
the pipeline with a referendum</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(US_standardized_tests)
title: US standardized tests
uri: US-standardized-tests
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28US_standardized_tests%29
content:
<p>
The US obtusely 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/14-7">fires teachers
based on students' standardized tests</a>, disregarding the fact that
nearly all the difference in test outcomes results from other factors
such as class size and students' background.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(Protests_in_Russia)
title: Protests in Russia
uri: Protests-in-Russia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28Protests_in_Russia%29
content:
<p>
10,000 people protested in Russia 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/14-3">condemning
Putin's lies about Ukraine</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(Ban_on_vasectomies_in_Iran)
title: Ban on vasectomies in Iran
uri: Ban-on-vasectomies-in-Iran
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28Ban_on_vasectomies_in_Iran%29
content:
<p>
Iran's theocratic ruler has called for banning vasectomies, abortions
and contraception, in an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/15/iran-ban-vasectomies-birthrate">effort
to force people to have more children</a>.
<p>
With human population growth continuing to endanger civilization, such
policies are very dangerous.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(100_schoolgirls_kidnapped)
title: 100 schoolgirls kidnapped
uri: 100-schoolgirls-kidnapped
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28100_schoolgirls_kidnapped%29
content:
<p>
Boko Haram Islamist fanatics 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/15/schoolgirls-kidnapped-suspected-islamists-nigeria">kidnaped
100 schoolgirls as they were taking an exam</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(Technological_singularity)
title: Technological singularity
uri: Technological-singularity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28Technological_singularity%29
content:
<p>
Arguing that a real technological singularity, as Vernor Vinge
envisioned it, is 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/naam20140327">not likely
to occur</a>, especially not any time soon.
<p>
Please do not buy his books (or any books, or anything else) from
<a href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html">Amazon</a>!


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(Privatized_UK_prison)
title: Privatized UK prison
uri: Privatized-UK-prison
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28Privatized_UK_prison%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/15/un-special-rapporteur-manjoo-yarls-wood-home-office">UN
investigator was barred</a> from the UK's privatized prison for people
to be deported.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 16_April_2014_(Control_of_eastern_Ukraine)
title: Control of eastern Ukraine
uri: Control-of-eastern-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#16_April_2014_%28Control_of_eastern_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine's government has started 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/15/ukraine-armed-conflict-east">military
action</a> to recover control of some eastern cities.
<p>
The armed groups that have taken control of buildings and streets are
either rebels or invaders, or a mix of the two.  Referring to them as
"terrorists" is a smear, however: they have shown no inclination
towards violence against anyone but soldiers.  This verges on war, but
it is not terrorism.
<p>
That point might seem like quibbling, but it is very important.  If we
want "free" countries such as the US and the UK to stop making
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_(Anti-pipeline_protesters_charged_with_terrorist_hoax)">opportunistic
accusations of "terrorism" against protesters</a> and 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#4_November_2013_(The_UK_Government%27s_Decision)">journalists'
lovers</a>, we should object whenever the term is stretched.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Florida_discourages_democracy)
title: Florida discourages democracy
uri: Florida-discourages-democracy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Florida_discourages_democracy%29
content:
<p>US citizens:<Esc>
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/771">
call on the Department of Justice</a>
to investigate
Florida's decision to ban toilets from being available at voting
places.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Stop_CIA_arms_trafficking)
title: Stop CIA arms trafficking
uri: Stop-CIA-arms-trafficking
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Stop_CIA_arms_trafficking%29
content:
<p>US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-dont-let-cia?source=c.tw&r_by=1135580">
call on Congress</a>
not to allow the CIA to facilitate delivery
of portable anti-aircraft missiles to Syrian rebels.
</p>
<p>The rebel groups sell arms between them, and also capture arms from
each other.  No matter what care the US might take, jihadis would get
some of them.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Patenting_of_nature)
title: Patenting of nature
uri: Patenting-of-nature
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Patenting_of_nature%29
content:
<p>Everyone: tell Nestle to
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-nigella-sativa/17/2/?akid=4877.5292909.GB5iFK&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1003">
stop trying to patent the use of fennel flowers</a>
as a medicine.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(No_Fracking_in_National_Parks)
title: No Fracking in National Parks
uri: No-Fracking-in-National-Parks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28No_Fracking_in_National_Parks%29
content:
<p>US citizens: call for a
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3423">
ban on fracking</a>
in US national parks.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(GMO_labeling)
title: GMO labeling
uri: GMO-labeling
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28GMO_labeling%29
content:
<p>US citizens:
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-congress-don-t-prohibit-gmo-labeling">
tell Congress</a>,
don't prohibit states from requiring
labeling of GMOs.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Armed_and_Above_the_Law)
title: Armed and Above the Law
uri: Armed-and-Above-the-Law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Armed_and_Above_the_Law%29
content:
<p>US citizens:
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/ramarley_graham/?t=1010&akid=3353.1242918.kaT-vD">
call on the US government</a>
to pursue the thug that
followed an unarmed Black teenager home then killed him there.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(CCA's_Dirty_Business)
title: CCA's Dirty Business
uri: CCA-s-Dirty-Business
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28CCA%27s_Dirty_Business%29
content:
<p>Everyone:
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/end_CCA_contracts">
call on the Governor of Tennessee</a>
to cancel contracts with
privatized prisons.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Help_Stop_Corporate_Welfare)
title: Help Stop Corporate Welfare
uri: Help-Stop-Corporate-Welfare
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Help_Stop_Corporate_Welfare%29
content:
<p>US citizens:
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=70E9A7EB9F7C8C2F9B8BEB456A76E311.app337b?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=10705">
call on Congress</a>
not to renew two loopholes that enable
many companies to get out of paying taxes.
</p>
<p>Please 
<a href="http://signforgood.com/stopcorporatetaxgiveaways/?code=usaction&r=ab">
sign this one too.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/16-4">
$1,259: What Corporate Tax Dodgers Cost the Average Taxpayer.</a>
</p>
<p>(Eliminating these two loopholes would not necessarily save all of
that.)</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Poisoning_the_poor)
title: Poisoning the poor
uri: Poisoning-the-poor
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Poisoning_the_poor%29
content:
<p>A study finds poor people and minority group members in the US face
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/16-3">
40% more exposure to toxic chemicals</a>
than wealthy Whites.
</p>
<p>I think, however, that rather than calling for a more equal
distribution of toxins, we should give priority to reducing toxic
pollution for everyone —
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#2_April_2012_(EPA)">
something that companies resist.</a>
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Because_it's_a_secret...)
title: Because it's a secret...
uri: Because-it-s-a-secret
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Because_it%27s_a_secret...%29
content:
<p>Obama has proposed to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/11/cia-white-house-pressure-leaked-senate-report">
put the CIA in charge</a>
of deciding which parts of
the Senate report on CIA torture should be published.
</p>
<p>In effect, he has taken the CIA's side against the Senate, the
American people, and human decency.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Top_ten_carbon_emitters)
title: Top ten carbon emitters
uri: Top-ten-carbon-emitters
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Top_ten_carbon_emitters%29
content:
<p>The IPCC has laid out clearly
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/apr/13/ipcc-climate-report-a-route-map-for-civilisations-greatest-jour">
what the world needs to do</a>
to avoid global heating disaster.  Since most of the emissions come from
ten
countries (including China and the US), these countries above all must
reduce emissions.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Corporate_welfare_in_action)
title: Corporate welfare in action
uri: Corporate-welfare-in-action
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Corporate_welfare_in_action%29
content:
<p>The
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/16-4">
Tax Breaks (for oil)</a>
That Are Killing the Planet
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Global_warming_in_California)
title: Global warming in California
uri: Global-warming-in-California
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Global_warming_in_California%29
content:
<p>Bombshell: Study Ties Epic California Drought,  Frigid East 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/15/3426810/california-drought-climate-change/">
To Manmade Climate Change.</a>
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Hear_no_evil)
title: Hear no evil
uri: Hear-no-evil
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Hear_no_evil%29
content:
<p>Pennsylvania Teen
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/04/15/3427016/boy-with-disabilities-bullied/">
Convicted Of A Crime</a>
For Recording Bullies At School.
</p>
<p>I think that schools should have a policy of authorizing students who
are being bullied to make recordings of the bullies, so as to show the
school what the bullies are doing, but these should not be distributed
outside the school.  (In particular, they should not be placed on
servers outside the school.)</p>


title: Fracking emissions much worse than predicted
uri: Fracking-emissions-much-worse-than-predicted
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Fracking_emmissions_much_worse_than_predicted)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Fracking_emmissions_much_worse_than_predicted%29

content:
<p>Fracking wells' methane emissions are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/15-4">
up to 1000 times higher than claimed</a>,
and that's even before the fracking starts.
</p>
<p>This means it is stupid and self-defeating to try to reduce
global heating by switching from coal to fracked gas.</p>
<p>In any case, calling it "switching" is misleading
because just as much
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#30_October_2012_(Fracking_increases_overall_CO2_emissions)">
coal continues to be extracted and burned.</a>
Fracking is <em>in addition</em> to coal.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Tennessee_bans_public_rapid_transit)
title: Tennessee bans public rapid transit
uri: Tennessee-bans-public-rapid-transit
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Tennessee_bans_public_rapid_transit%29

content:
<p>The Koch brothers lobbied for
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tennessee-bans-bus-rapid-transit/">
a Tennessee law</a>
to ban construction
of structures to make for more efficient bus transit.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Corrections_Corporation_of_America)
title: Corrections Corporation of America
uri: Corrections-Corporation-of-America
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Corrections_Corporation_of_America%29

content:
<p>Americans, your taxes may be supporting a private prison that
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/congratulations-taxes-you-just-paid-might-be-their-way-private-prison">
profits by keeping imprisonment rates high.</a>
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Cover_your_eyes_please)
title: Cover your eyes please
uri: Cover-your-eyes-please
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Cover_your_eyes_please%29
content:
<p>The people of Arivaca, Arizona, feel the heel of the US Border Patrol
as an occupying army, which also
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-free-speech/photographers-rights-issue-arizona-community-rises-against">
represses those who photograph</a>
their activities.
</p>
<p>The Border Patrol is planning to extend its permanent checkpoints to
New England, repressing all Americans in the name of deportation.</p>


title: Urgent: Call for a ban on fracking in US national parks
uri: Urgent-Call-for-a-ban-on-fracking-in-US-national-parks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Urgent:_Call_for_a_ban_on_fracking_in_US_national_parks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_a_ban_on_fracking_in_US_national_parks%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3423">call
for a ban on fracking in US national parks.</a>


title: Urgent: Don't prohibit states from requiring labeling of GMOs
uri: Urgent-Don-t-prohibit-states-from-requiring-labeling-of-GMOs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Urgent:_Don't_prohibit_states_from_requiring_labeling_of_GMOs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Don%27t_prohibit_states_from_requiring_labeling_of_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell
Congress, <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-congress-don-t-prohibit-gmo-labeling">don't
prohibit states from requiring labeling of GMOs.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on the US government pursue thug
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-US-government-pursue-thug
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_US_government_pursue_thug)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_the_US_government_pursue_thug%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the US government
to <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/ramarley_graham/?t=1010&akid=3353.1242918.kaT-vD">pursue
the thug that followed an unarmed Black teenager home then killed him
there.</a>


title: Urgent: Cancel contracts with privatized prisons
uri: Urgent-Cancel-contracts-with-privatized-prisons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Urgent:_Cancel_contracts_with_privatized_prisons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_contracts_with_privatized_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on the Governor of Tennessee
to <a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/end_CCA_contracts">cancel
contracts with privatized prisons.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Urgent:_Do_not_renew_two_loopholes)
title: Urgent: Do not renew two loopholes
uri: Urgent-Do-not-renew-two-loopholes
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_renew_two_loopholes%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on
Congress <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=70E9A7EB9F7C8C2F9B8BEB456A76E311.app337b?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=10705">not
to renew two loopholes that enable many companies to get out of paying
taxes.</a>
<p>
Please <a href="http://signforgood.com/stopcorporatetaxgiveaways/?code=usaction&r=ab">sign
this one too.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/16-4">$1,259:
What Corporate Tax Dodgers Cost the Average Taxpayer.</a>
<p>
(Eliminating these two loopholes would not necessarily save all of
that.)


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Placebos_proved_effective)
title: Placebos proved effective
uri: Placebos-proved-effective
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Placebos_proved_effective%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/dec/22/placebo-effect-patients-sham-drug">Placebos
proved effective in treating irritable bowel syndrome</a> even with
patients who knew they were getting a placebo.
<p>
Strange, these humans.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(High-pressure_education_in_the_UK)
title: High-pressure education in the UK
uri: High-pressure-education-in-the-UK
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28High-pressure_education_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
High-pressure education in the
UK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/16/culture-overwork-teachers-children-ghosts-schools">can
keep children in school up to 10 hours a day</a>, denying them any
time for personal life.


title: Leader in the Greek Golden Dawn party praised Hitler
uri: Leader-in-the-Greek-Golden-Dawn-party-praised-Hitler
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Leader_in_the_Greek_Golden_Dawn_party_praised_Hitler)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Leader_in_the_Greek_Golden_Dawn_party_praised_Hitler%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/16/greece-golden-dawn-hitler">leader
in the Greek Golden Dawn party praised Hitler.</a> Now there is no
doubt that it is a neo-Nazi party.
<p>
One of the "great" things that Hitler did was conquer Greece.  I
wonder how Greeks feel about that.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(In_War,_Truth_Is_the_First_Casualty)
title: In War, Truth Is the First Casualty
uri: In-War-Truth-Is-the-First-Casualty
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28In_War%2C_Truth_Is_the_First_Casualty%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/04/war-truth-first-casualty">In
War, Truth Is the First Casualty</a>


title: How millionaires pay lower income tax than middle-class
uri: How-millionaires-pay-lower-income-tax-than-middle-class
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(How_millionaires_pay_lower_income_tax_than_middle-class)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28How_millionaires_pay_lower_income_tax_than_middle-class%29

content:
<p>
How US
millionaires <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/15-9">pay
lower income tax rates than middle-class Americans.</a>


title: Rule against sending employees work emails after 6pm
uri: Rule-against-sending-employees-work-emails-after-6pm
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Rule_against_sending_employees_work_emails_after_6pm)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Rule_against_sending_employees_work_emails_after_6pm%29

content:
<p>
The French labor
rule, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/16">against
sending employees work emails after 6pm</a>, says something about
other countries where people let the boss impose their life
priorities.


title: Land-Grab and resource-grab are speeding up
uri: Land-Grab-and-resource-grab-are-speeding-up
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Land-Grab_and_resource-grab_are_speeding_up)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Land-Grab_and_resource-grab_are_speeding_up%29

content:
<p>
Environmental activists are being killed in greater numbers because
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/16/rising-activist-deaths-global-witness">land-grab
and resource-grab are speeding up</a>.


title: CEO Pay Soars As Worker Pay Stagnates
uri: CEO-Pay-Soars-As-Worker-Pay-Stagnates
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(CEO_Pay_Soars_As_Worker_Pay_Stagnates)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28CEO_Pay_Soars_As_Worker_Pay_Stagnates%29

content:
<p>
(In the
US) <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/16-2">CEO Pay
Soars As Worker Pay Stagnates.</a>


title: Canada's tar sands oil extraction threatens to be imitated
uri: Canada-s-tar-sands-oil-extraction-threatens-to-be-imitated
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Canada's_tar_sands_oil_extraction_threatens_to_be_imitated)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Canada%27s_tar_sands_oil_extraction_threatens_to_be_imitated%29

content:
<p>
Canada's tar sands oil
extraction <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/16/canada-becoming-launch-pad-of-a-global-tar-sands-and-oil-shale-frenzy">threatens
to be imitated in many other parts of the world</a> including the US.
The result would be global disaster for certain.
<p>
The "climate bomb" might turn out to be one submunition of a cluster
climate bomb.


title: Murder charges for people running the Rana Plaza
uri: Murder-charges-for-people-running-the-Rana-Plaza
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 17_April_2014_(Murder_charges_for_people_running_the_Rana_Plaza)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_%28Murder_charges_for_people_running_the_Rana_Plaza%29

content:
<p>
People involved in running the Rana Plaza
factory <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/15-5">face
murder charges in Bangladesh.</a>
<p>
I think this charge is unjust.  Running a factory in a badly built
building created a risk of a deadly collapse, but the chance was still
small.  It ought to be a crime, but not murder.
<p>
Contrast this with the fossil fuel industry's lobbying and
disinformation campaign about global heating, which is sure to kill
millions of people (perhaps even billions) unless some stroke of luck
saves them.  That is a real murder plot.
<p>
If the goal is to put an end to using substandard buildings as
factories, it is more effective to impose heavy fines on a large
fraction of the operators whose factories are not protected against
collapse, than to imprison or even execute the few whose factories
actually collapse.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Oil_extraction_from_Yasuni)
title: Oil extraction from Yasuní
uri: Oil-extraction-from-Yasuní
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Oil_extraction_from_Yasuni%29
content:
<p>
Ecuadorians have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/04/16-5">collected
enough signatures for a referendum</a> on whether to extract oil from
Yasuní.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Big_business_lobbying_in_Seattle)
title: Big business lobbying in Seattle
uri: Big-business-lobbying-in-Seattle
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Big_business_lobbying_in_Seattle%29
content:
<p>
Big business in Seattle, trying to undermine implementation of a
living wage law, have made a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/17-3">plan to
disguise their lobbying as coming from mom-and-pop stores</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(The_fighting_in_Mariupol)
title: The fighting in Mariupol
uri: The-fighting-in-Mariupol
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28The_fighting_in_Mariupol%29
content:
<p>
More information about the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/17/mariupol-officials-loyal-kiev-rioters-gunfire">fighting
in Mariupol</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(UK_anti-fracking_protesters)
title: UK anti-fracking protesters
uri: UK-anti-fracking-protesters
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28UK_anti-fracking_protesters%29
content:
<p>
UK anti-fracking protesters including a Green member of Parliament
were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/17/caroline-lucas-cleared-anti-fracking-protest-charges">cleared
of criminal charges</a> over an anti-fracking protest.
<p>
Now who is going to make the thugs stop arresting anti-fracking
protesters.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Microplastics_in_waterways)
title: Microplastics in waterways
uri: Microplastics-in-waterways
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Microplastics_in_waterways%29
content:
<p>
Illinois is trying to get the microplastics out of its refuse, and
thus out of its waterways, but it's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/17-2">going slow
about it</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Egypt_imprisoning_gay_men)
title: Egypt imprisoning gay men
uri: Egypt-imprisoning-gay-men
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Egypt_imprisoning_gay_men%29
content:
<p>
Egypt's government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/17/egypt-gay-community-fears-government-crackdown">imprisoning
lots of gay men</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Rhino_farms)
title: Rhino farms
uri: Rhino-farms
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Rhino_farms%29
content:
<p>
South Africa plans to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/africa-wild/2014/apr/17/trade-in-rhino-horn-asset-stripping-on-an-apocalyptic-scale">farm
rhinos to sell their horns</a>.
<p>
I don't see anything wrong in principle with farming rhinos for their
horns.  If the farmed horn is cheap enough, no one will bother
poaching.  However, this article claims it will be expensive and the
gangs will not slow down their poaching.
<p>
The fact that the horns are sold as phony cures suggests that
educating people that the cure is a lie might help.  Could phony rhino
horn be made from cow hooves or human fingernails?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Genetically_modified_plant)
title: Genetically modified plant
uri: Genetically-modified-plant
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Genetically_modified_plant%29
content:
<p>
A genetically modified plant is being tested which 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/17/trial-gm-genetically-modified-plants-heart-disease-fish-oils-go-ahead">produces
oils that fish normally get from marine algae</a>.
<p>
Since they are not used with a special pesticide regime, and would
either be fed to fish or used as a dietary additive, I don't think
these plants are likely to harm health of humans or wildlife.
However, is there a danger that patented genes will contaminate farms
trying to grow ordinary camelina?
<p>
Would it be possible to cultivate the algae instead?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Snowden's_question_to_Putin)
title: Snowden's question to Putin
uri: Snowden-s-question-to-Putin
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Snowden%27s_question_to_Putin%29
content:
<p>
Snowden's question to Putin about massive surveillance in Russia was
designed to give him a chance to
make <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/18/edward-snowden-defends-decision-question-vladimir-putin-on-surveillance">claims
that could subsequently be studied and challenged.</a>
<p>
Given Snowden's precarious position, I think it took courage to do
this and courage to talk about it after.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(The_Original_Patriots)
title: The Original Patriots
uri: The-Original-Patriots
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28The_Original_Patriots%29
content:
<p>
Tea Party, Taxes and Why the Original Patriots
Would've <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/tea-party-taxes-and-why-patriots-wouldve-revolted-against-surveillance-state">Revolted
Against the Surveillance State.</a>


title: Urgent: Help the EFF develop free software
uri: Urgent-Help-the-EFF-develop-free-software
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Urgent:_Help_the_EFF_develop_free_software)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Help_the_EFF_develop_free_software%29

content:
<p>
Programmers: <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/tech-volunteers-eff-needs-your-help">help
the EFF develop free software to send emails to Congress.</a>


title: Illegal logging is rife in the Peruvian Amazon
uri: Illegal-logging-is-rife-in-the-Peruvian-Amazon
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Illegal_logging_is_rife_in_the_Peruvian_Amazon)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Illegal_logging_is_rife_in_the_Peruvian_Amazon%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/apr/17/illegal-logging-plagues-peruvian-amazon">Illegal
logging is rife in the Peruvian Amazon</a>.  Many logging concessions
are being canceled.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(AI_revenge_on_humans)
title: AI revenge on humans
uri: AI-revenge-on-humans
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28AI_revenge_on_humans%29
content:
<p>
It may be quite difficult to design AIs with desires such that we can
be
sure <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-04-ai-anti-social-potentially-behaviour.html">they
won't take horrible revenge on humans.</a>
<p>
However, the problem may not arise if we stick to AIs that don't have
desires.


title: Companies indirectly bypass nondiscrimination laws
uri: Companies-indirectly-bypass-nondiscrimination-laws
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Companies_indirectly_bypass_nondiscrimination_laws)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Companies_indirectly_bypass_nondiscrimination_laws%29

content:
<p>
Technology and data
mining <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/526401/laws-and-ethics-cant-keep-pace-with-technology/">enable
companies to indirectly bypass nondiscrimination laws.</a>


title: Who Are the Koch Brothers and What Do They Want
uri: Who-Are-the-Koch-Brothers-and-What-Do-They-Want
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Who_Are_the_Koch_Brothers_and_What_Do_They_Want)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Who_Are_the_Koch_Brothers_and_What_Do_They_Want%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/who-are-the-koch-brothers_b_5165995.html">Who
Are the Koch Brothers and What Do They Want?</a>
<p>
Their money has spread acceptance of their pro-exploitation ideas,
which used to be considered shockingly extremist in the US.


title: Some companies wield power that compares with states
uri: Some-companies-wield-power-that-compares-with-states
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Some_companies_wield_power_that_compares_with_states)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Some_companies_wield_power_that_compares_with_states%29

content:
<p>
Companies that amass personal data, such as
Facebook, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rafael-laguna/rise-of-the-data-states-h_b_5162692.html">wield
power that compares with states.</a>
<p>
Since they are not democratically controlled by the people whose data
they control, their power is illegitimate.


title: 8 million Americans signed up for health care
uri: 8-million-Americans-signed-up-for-health-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(8_million_Americans_signed_up_for_health_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%288_million_Americans_signed_up_for_health_care%29

content:
<p>
8 million Americans
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/17/obama-8m-americans-signed-up-healthcare">signed
up under Obama's health care program.</a>
<p>
It is good, as far as it goes; it just doesn't go far enough.


title: "Lamb" dishes proved to have other kinds of meat
uri: Lamb-dishes-proved-to-have-other-kinds-of-meat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Lamb_dishes_proved_to_have_other_kinds_of_meat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Lamb_dishes_proved_to_have_other_kinds_of_meat%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, in a private
test, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/17/fsa-tests-takeaways-lamb-meals-meat">40%
of prepared "lamb" dishes tested proved to have other kinds of
meat</a>.  To address this problem, the UK will cut the budget for
testing food.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Control_of_federal_land)
title: Control of federal land
uri: Control-of-federal-land
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Control_of_federal_land%29
content:
<p>
ALEC is 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12451/congressman-grijalva-requests-investigation-alecs-role-nv-range-fight">pushing
state laws to pressure the US government to give states control of
federal land</a>, the idea being that the states will be pushovers for
mining companies.
<p>
They refer to this with the romantic-sounding name of "sagebrush
rebellion" to make it look like something other than exploitation.
<p>
The Australian government is giving states control over environmental
planning precisely to make it 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_December_2013_(Australian_gov%27t_abolishing_environmental_protection)">easier 
for mining companies to despoil and pollute</a>.


title: Urgent: Cancel contracts with privatized prison company
uri: Urgent-Cancel-contracts-with-privatized-prison-company
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 18_April_2014_(Urgent:_Cancel_contracts_with_privatized_prison_company)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#18_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_contracts_with_privatized_prison_company%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://www.aclu.org/whoiscca">sign this petition
asking</a> the governor of Tennessee to cancel contracts with
privatized prison company CCA.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(The_effects_of_marijuana)
title: The effects of marijuana
uri: The-effects-of-marijuana
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28The_effects_of_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/17/no-weed-won-t-rot-your-brain.html">Discussing
the effects of marijuana can rot your brain,</a> if you're not
careful.


title: Crowdfunded genetic engineering project
uri: Crowdfunded-genetic-engineering-project
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Crowdfunded_genetic_engineering_project)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Crowdfunded_genetic_engineering_project%29

content:
<p>
A crowdfunded genetic engineering
project <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/glowing-plant-project-on-kickstarter-sparks-debate-about-regulation-of-dna-modification/2013/10/03/e01db276-1c78-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html">aims
to produce a glow-in-the-dark variety of arabidopsis</a>, just for
hack value.
<p>
I don't see any danger in glowing arabidopsis.  What scares me is the
possibility of making viruses this way.  However, that can't be
prevented by the sort of regulation that people are thinking of; a
totally secret project could ignore the regulations.


title: Every stage of fracking spreads toxic substances
uri: Every-stage-of-fracking-spreads-toxic-substances
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Every_stage_of_fracking_spreads_toxic_substances)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Every_stage_of_fracking_spreads_toxic_substances%29

content:
<p>
A study finds
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/17-3">every
stage of fracking spreads toxic substances.</a>


title: Hillary Clinton would be another Obama
uri: Hillary-Clinton-would-be-another-Obama
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Hillary_Clinton_would_be_another_Obama)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Hillary_Clinton_would_be_another_Obama%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/17">Hillary Clinton
would be another Obama</a>, giving lip service to the progressive
causes that most Americans support, but only until she gets their
vote.


title: Children near dangerous chemical facility
uri: Children-near-dangerous-chemical-facility
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Children_near_dangerous_chemical_facility)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Children_near_dangerous_chemical_facility%29

content:
<p>
Over 4 million US
children <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/17-6">go
to school within a mile of a dangerous chemical facility</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Thugs_rampaged_through_Evin_prison)
title: Thugs rampaged through Evin prison
uri: Thugs-rampaged-through-Evin-prison
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Thugs_rampaged_through_Evin_prison%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/apr/18/iranian-guards-extreme-violence-inmates-evin-prison">Thugs
rampaged through Evin prison</a>, where some of Iran's political
prisoners are held, breaking prisoners' bones.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Anything_but_carbon_prejudice)
title: "Anything but carbon" prejudice
uri: Anything-but-carbon-prejudice
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Anything_but_carbon_prejudice%29
content:
<p>
The media has
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/18/global-warming-carbon-not-cfcs">"anything
but carbon" prejudice</a>: any scientific paper claiming that global
heating is caused by something other than carbon emissions gets
tremendous media attention.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Fight_against_fracking_continues)
title: Fight against fracking continues
uri: Fight-against-fracking-continues
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Fight_against_fracking_continues%29
content:
<p>
Caroline Lucas:
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/18/fight-against-fracking-protests-fossil-fuels-government">fight
against fracking continues — and I'm proud to rejoin it.</a>
<p>
Russia
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/18/oil-arctic-putin-gazprom-fossil-fuels">started
extracting oil from the Arctic and shipping it to Europe.</a>
Greenpeace's efforts did not succeed in blocking this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Fossil_fuel_subsidies)
title: Fossil fuel subsidies
uri: Fossil-fuel-subsidies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Fossil_fuel_subsidies%29
content:
<p>
Bloomberg New Energy Finance finds
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/aug/03/fossil-fuel-subsidies-renewables">fossil
fuel subsidies are ten times the subsidies for renewable energy.</a>
<p>
It is unconscionable to subsidize an industry as profitable as fossil
fuels, even if it were not causing world-wide disaster.


title: The bombing in Boston and the bombings in Baghdad
uri: The-bombing-in-Boston-and-the-bombings-in-Baghdad
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(The_bombing_in_Boston_and_the_bombings_in_Baghdad)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28The_bombing_in_Boston_and_the_bombings_in_Baghdad%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/18">Comparing the
bombing in Boston and the bombings in Baghdad.</a>
<p>
Dubya is responsible, though indirectly, for all of these bombings
even though the ones he directly ordered were back in 2003.


title: US plans to spend billions on new nuclear bombs
uri: US-plans-to-spend-billions-on-new-nuclear-bombs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(US_plans_to_spend_billions_on_new_nuclear_bombs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28US_plans_to_spend_billions_on_new_nuclear_bombs%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/18-4">US plans
to spend billions on new nuclear bombs.</a>


title: US systematically violates human rights to imprison Muslims
uri: US-systematically-violates-human-rights-to-imprison-Muslims
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(US_systematically_violates_human_rights_to_imprison_Muslims)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28US_systematically_violates_human_rights_to_imprison_Muslims%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/18">US
systematically violates human rights to imprison Muslims</a> thought
to be leaning towards terrorism.
<p>
We're not talking, here, about people who have committed real acts of
violence.  These people have not done that, and most of them have not
even planned to do that.


title: Iraq veterans in US commit a substantial number of killings
uri: Iraq-veterans-in-US-commit-a-substantial-number-of-killings
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Iraq_veterans_in_US_commit_a_substantial_number_of_killings)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Iraq_veterans_in_US_commit_a_substantial_number_of_killings%29

content:
<p>
Iraq veterans in the
US <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/17-6">commit a
substantial number of killings</a>, most of the time not noticed by
the press.
<p>
This is the most extreme aspect of broader psychological damage caused
by sending people to fight a war that only lies can justify.


title: Botswana banned Bushmen from living in the desert and hunting
uri: Botswana-banned-Bushmen-from-living-in-the-desert-and-hunting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Botswana_banned_Bushmen_from_living_in_the_desert_and_hunting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Botswana_banned_Bushmen_from_living_in_the_desert_and_hunting%29

content:
<p>
Botswana
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/18/kalahari-bushmen-hunting-ban-prince-charles">banned
Bushmen from living in the desert and hunting</a>, supposedly for the
sake of wildlife protection, but perhaps really to enhance the income
of the president's family.
<p>
Recruiting them as a society to fight poaching seems likely to be more
effective.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 19_April_2014_(Farmland_in_China_polluted)
title: Farmland in China polluted
uri: Farmland-in-China-polluted
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_%28Farmland_in_China_polluted%29
content:
<p>
1/5 of the farmland in China
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/chinas-choice/2014/apr/18/china-one-fifth-farmland-soil-pollution">polluted
with toxic metals.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Legalization_would_do_a_better_job)
title: Legalization would do a better job
uri: Legalization-would-do-a-better-job
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Legalization_would_do_a_better_job%29

content:
<p>
Officials begging for more ships to capture drug smugglers
<a href="Http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/america-has-a-black-market-problem-not-a-drug-problem/284447/">
cite a list
of reasons that demonstrate</a> that legalization would do a better job.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Leaked_recording)
title: Leaked recording
uri: Leaked-recording
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Leaked_recording%29
content:
<p>
A leaked recording
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/03/31-7">
purports to be a conversation between ministers in
Turkey planning a false-flag attack</a> as an excuse to attack Syria.
<p>
I would not put this past the Turkish government, but at the same time
I think that if it wanted to intervene in Syria it would just do so,
with no need for the false-flag attack.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Misrepresentation_of_science)
title: Misrepresentation of science
uri: Misrepresentation-of-science
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Misrepresentation_of_science%29
content:
<p>
Here's an example of Pielke's
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-p-abraham-phd/roger-pielke-climate-science_b_5038272.html">
misrepresentation of science</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Conversations_in_jail)
title: Conversations in jail
uri: Conversations-in-jail
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Conversations_in_jail%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/26/ireland-justice-minister-alan-shatter-garda-bugging-scandal">
Irish thugs appear to have made a habit</a> of recording prisoners'
conversations in jail with their lawyers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Orange)
title: Orange
uri: Orange
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Orange%29
content:
<p>
Orange, a mobile phone network in France, gives all its customers'
call
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/orange-gives-all-of-its-data-to-frances-nsa/">
data to France's NSA</a>.


title: Urgent: Transparency about Keystone XL
uri: Urgent-Transparency-about-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Urgent:_Transparency_about_Keystone_XL)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Transparency_about_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/kxl_transparency">demand
transparency</a> in the decision about the Keystone XL pipeline.


title: Urgent: Land and Water Conservation Fund
uri: Urgent-Land-and-Water-Conservation-Fund
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Urgent:_Land_and_Water_Conservation_Fund)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Land_and_Water_Conservation_Fund%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=10730">call
on Congress</a> to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Putin_plans_to_ban_anonymity)
title: Putin plans to ban anonymity
uri: Putin-plans-to-ban-anonymity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Putin_plans_to_ban_anonymity%29
content:
<p>
Putin is planning to require 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/russia-will-the-russian-internet-soon-be-18-04-2014,46167.html">registration
and strict censorship</a> on bloggers and discussion sites.
<p>
Anonymity will be forbidden, naturally.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Removal_of_malicious_content)
title: Removal of "malicious content"
uri: Removal-of-malicious-content
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Removal_of_malicious_content%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/04/17/3428321/turkey-twitter-malicious-content/">Turkish
Official Says Twitter Will Help Remove "Malicious Content"</a>.
<p>
This means recordings purporting to reveal corruption of officials.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Rules_for_safe_use_of_Twitter)
title: Rules for safe use of Twitter
uri: Rules-for-safe-use-of-Twitter
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Rules_for_safe_use_of_Twitter%29
content:
<p>
Twitter is 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/16/3427404/twitters-acquisition-of-gnip/">moving
aggressively to extract personal information from its users</a>, for
profiling purposes.
<p>
It may be necessary to develop rules for safe use of Twitter.  I am no
expert, but I suggest these rules.

<ol>
<li> Use only tweets (no private messages).

<li> Conceal your geolocation.

<li>
Don't mention what you personally are doing.  Tweet only your views
and comments on larger issues, or things that you witness.
</ol>

<p>
I hope that people who know more will suggest additional rules.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Patented_hepatitis_C_medicine)
title: Patented hepatitis C medicine
uri: Patented-hepatitis-C-medicine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Patented_hepatitis_C_medicine%29
content:
<p>
A new medicine that reportedly cures hepatitis C 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/04/15/3426886/hepatitis-c-treatment-expensive/">costs
$84,000</a>, which means most of the people who need it can't afford
it.
<p>
If you can hold out 20 years or so, till the patent expires,
the price may come down.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Spread_of_mercury_through_air)
title: Spread of mercury through air
uri: Spread-of-mercury-through-air
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Spread_of_mercury_through_air%29
content:
<p>
In remote US national parks, fish have 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/18/3428394/mercury-fish-remote-national-parks/">high
levels of mercury</a>.  That's because it spreads through the air.
<p>
I wonder if some of the mercury in Alaskan parks came from Chinese
coal-fired electric plants.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Pipeline_through_wildlife_reserve)
title: Pipeline through wildlife reserve
uri: Pipeline-through-wildlife-reserve
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Pipeline_through_wildlife_reserve%29

content:
<p>
Chris Christie is 
<a href="http://grist.org/politics/chris-christie-is-still-trying-to-force-a-pipeline-through-the-new-jersey-pinelands/">making
a second try</a> to drive a natural gas pipeline through a protected
wildlife reserve.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(US_right-wing_terrorists)
title: US right-wing terrorists
uri: US-right-wing-terrorists
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28US_right-wing_terrorists%29
content:
<p>
The US government focuses on the threat of terrorism by Islamist
fanatics, while mostly disregarding 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/18/hate-crime-murders-website-stormfront-report">right-wing
terrorists</a> who in fact do more harm.
<p>
I am not saying that the US should treat right-wing extremists as it
has treated Muslims, denying them freedom of expression and
association on strained pretexts and 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#19_April_2014_(US_systematically_violates_human_rights_to_imprison_Muslims)">fishing
for crimes to accuse them of</a>, or as it has treated animal rights
activists, 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2004-mar-jun.html#31%20May%202004%20(Animal%20rights%20terrorism)">imprisoning
them for running a web site</a> and claiming that is "terrorism".
That's unjust no matter who the target is.  However, there is surely a
middle ground between excess and nothing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(BP_oil_drilling_explosions)
title: BP oil drilling explosions
uri: BP-oil-drilling-explosions
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28BP_oil_drilling_explosions%29
content:
<p>
The US and UK overthrew the elected government of Azerbaijan in 1993
and installed a dictator, in order to help BP get a good deal over
<a href="http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=234c5e2f76&e=8283eff9b8">exporting
oil from Azerbaijan</a>.
<p>
This enabled BP to drill oil wells in the Caspian sea, and one of them
exploded.
<p>
BP's men lied to Congress, saying said their operations were safe and
had had no serious problems.  So BP was allowed to drill in the Gulf
of Mexico and promptly had another explosion.
<p>
An honest government, not corrupted by oil companies. would never
trust BP in any way ever again.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(UK_taxpayers_tax_return_data)
title: UK taxpayers' tax return data
uri: UK-taxpayers-tax-return-data
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28UK_taxpayers_tax_return_data%29
content:
<p>
The UK is considering 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/18/hmrc-to-sell-taxpayers-data">selling
taxpayers' tax return data</a>, "anonymized" (though that may not do
much good).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Keystone_XL_put_off_until_November)
title: Keystone XL put off until November
uri: Keystone-XL-put-off-until-November
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Keystone_XL_put_off_until_November%29

content:
<p>
Obama has put off the decision on the Keystone XL planet-roaster
pipeline 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/18/keystone-xl-pipeline-decision-delayed-november-elections">until
after the elections</a> in November.
<p>
I think Obama intends to approve the pipeline and has intended this
all along.  He knows what harm it will do, and if he cared greatly
about those problems, he would have cancelled it long ago.  I think he
is maneuvering to reduce the condemnation he will receive for
approving it.
<p>
But this does not mean campaigning against the pipeline is useless.
If we can make the approval painful enough, and require evident enough
lies, he may feel compelled to cancel it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Legal_fees_of_those_acquitted)
title: Legal fees of those acquitted
uri: Legal-fees-of-those-acquitted
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Legal_fees_of_those_acquitted%29
content:
<p>
A British MP who was tried and acquitted now 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/130000-poorer-in-fees-nigel-evans-admits-regret-for-past-support-of-legal-aid-cuts-9259579.html">believes
he was wrong to vote to cut the reimbursement</a> of the legal fees of
those who are tried and acquitted.


title: Armed right-wing tax rebels in Nevada
uri: Armed-right-wing-tax-rebels-in-Nevada
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Armed_right-wing_tax_rebels_in_Nevada)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Armed_right-wing_tax_rebels_in_Nevada%29

content:
<p>
Armed right-wing tax rebels in
Nevada <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/nevada-armed-militia-cliven-bundy-victory-federal-government">stood
off US forces to preserve the right to graze cattle in a wildlife
preserve and not pay fees.</a>
<p>
Their readiness to resist the state power would be admirable if they
were doing it in a good cause, but they are doing it for the sake of
their own exploitation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 20_April_2014_(Assad's_forces_have_besieged_18,000)
title: Assad's forces have besieged 18,000
uri: Assad-s-forces-have-besieged-18-000
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#20_April_2014_%28Assad%27s_forces_have_besieged_18%2C000%29

content:
<p>
Assad's forces
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/syria-besieged-refugees-yarmouk-starvation">besieged
18,000 in a part of Damascus</a>, and they are running out of food.
<p>
If the US wants to do something in Syria, how about air-dropping food
to them?
<p>
Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/aleppo-syria-civilians-trapped-siege">Assad's
planes are bombing Aleppo into rubble.</a>


