# articles

title: Urgent: Call on Obama to refrain from foul play against Snowden
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Obama-to-refrain-from-foul-play-against-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Obama_to_refrain_from_foul_play_against_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Obama_to_refrain_from_foul_play_against_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8161">call 
on Obama</a> to refrain from foul play against Edward Snowden.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Urgent:_Defend_the_Right_to_Protest)
title: Urgent: Defend the Right to Protest
uri: Urgent-Defend-the-Right-to-Protest
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_the_Right_to_Protest%29

content:
<p>
In the UK: 
<a href="http://www.defendtherighttoprotest.org/">support</a> Defend 
the Right to Protest.


title: Misleading articles say global warming has slowed
uri: Misleading-articles-say-global-warming-has-slowed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Misleading_articles_say_global_warming_has_slowed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Misleading_articles_say_global_warming_has_slowed%29

content:
<p>
Misleading articles say global warming has slowed, but really
it's just that the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jun/24/global-warming-pause-button">heat 
retained by greenhouse gases is mainly going into the oceans</a> in
recent years rather than into the air.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Americas_worst_charities)
title: America's worst charities
uri: America-s-worst-charities
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Americas_worst_charities%29
content:
<p>
America's worst charities are less than 10% efficient in serving
the causes they raise funds for. <a href="media/c24fd0b8.worst-charities.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/worst-charities.pdf">Here's 
a list</a>.


title: EU law make make it possible to stop UK massive surveillance
uri: EU-law-make-make-it-possible-to-stop-UK-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(EU_law_make_make_it_possible_to_stop_UK_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28EU_law_make_make_it_possible_to_stop_UK_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
UK massive surveillance violates
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/23/european-law-challenge-surveillance-human-rights">the 
European Convention on Human Rights</a>, and EU law may make it
possible to force the UK to stop.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Public_opposition_inevitable)
title: Public opposition inevitable
uri: Public-opposition-inevitable
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Public_opposition_inevitable%29
content:
<p>
Arguing that the hardened power structures today's states are based on
make public opposition 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/23/protests-spirit-of-occupy-alive-istanbul-rio">inevitable</a>.


title: Drought in US southwest destroying forests
uri: Drought-in-US-southwest-destroying-forests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Drought_in_US_southwest_destroying_forests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Drought_in_US_southwest_destroying_forests%29

content:
<p>
The long drought in the US southwest is 
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/megadrought_in_us_southwest_a_bad_omen_for_forests_globally/2665/">destroying 
forests</a> there, through fires and through sheer dryness of the air.
<p>
A large fire can replace forest with grassland, and it can take
centuries for forest to spread back in, even assuming the climate
still permits trees to grow there.


title: Heatland institute trying to block wind farms
uri: Heatland-institute-trying-to-block-wind-farms
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Heatland_institute_trying_to_block_wind_farms)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Heatland_institute_trying_to_block_wind_farms%29

content:
<p>
The Heatland institute is 
<a href="http://grist.org/news/wind-farms-seek-federal-ok-to-kill-eagles-pissing-off-both-left-and-right/">using 
concern about bald eagles and condors</a> to try to block wind farms.
<p>
We should make sure to protect eagles adequately as a species,
but if wind farms are not a significant threat to them, that is
no reason to stop building wind farms.
<p>
The biggest threat to California condors is the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#03_March_2013_(Use_of_lead_ammunition_killing_California_condors)">lead 
bullets in the carcasses they eat</a>. That is where we need to put
the effort to protect them.


title: Oil companies temporarily cease use of sonar guns
uri: Oil-companies-temporarily-cease-use-of-sonar-guns
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Oil_companies_temporarily_cease_use_of_sonar_guns)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Oil_companies_temporarily_cease_use_of_sonar_guns%29

content:
<p>
Oil companies will cease using noisemaking devices that injure marine
mammals' hearing, in some areas of the Gulf of Mexico, for 
<a href="http://grist.org/news/oil-companies-will-curb-use-of-air-guns-that-torment-marine-mammals/">2.5 
years</a>.
<p>
Well, it's a start.


title: UK man wearing jacket in summer charged with "public nuisance"
uri: UK-man-wearing-jacket-in-summer-charged-with-public-nuisance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(UK_man_wearing_jacket_in_summer_charged_with_public_nuisance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28UK_man_wearing_jacket_in_summer_charged_with_public_nuisance%29

content:
<p>
David Mery writes about how London thugs arrested him because they
found it suspicious he was wearing a jacket in summer and did not look
at them when entering the train station — then
<a href="http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html">charged him with 
"public nuisance"</a> because <em>they</em> overreacted and shut the
train station.
<p>
The mere fact that "public nuisance" carries a potential
sentence of life imprisonment is already a reason to
convict the UK state of the crime of repression.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Radioactive_waste_leak_at_Hanford)
title: Radioactive waste leak at Hanford
uri: Radioactive-waste-leak-at-Hanford
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Radioactive_waste_leak_at_Hanford%29
content:
<p>
Radioactive waste has apparently 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-06-state-nuclear-leak.html">leaked 
out of a double-shelled tank</a> at Hanford, WA.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Increasing_human_population)
title: Increasing human population
uri: Increasing-human-population
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Increasing_human_population%29
content:
<p>
Increasing human population is leaving 
<a href="http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/humanftprint.htm">no room 
for many mammals and birds</a>.


title: Australian jailed for nonviolent protest expelled from UK
uri: Australian-jailed-for-nonviolent-protest-expelled-from-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Australian_jailed_for_nonviolent_protest_expelled_from_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Australian_jailed_for_nonviolent_protest_expelled_from_UK%29

content:
<p>
An Australian who was jailed for a nonviolent protest in the UK
will be further punished by 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/boat-race-protester-trenton-oldfield-ordered-leave-uk">expelling 
him</a>.
<p>
I suppose his British wife and child will follow him into exile.
<p>
This is the War on Democracy at work.


title: German parliament votes for resolution against software patents
uri: German-parliament-votes-for-resolution-against-software-patents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(German_parliament_votes_for_resolution_against_software_patents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28German_parliament_votes_for_resolution_against_software_patents%29

content:
<p>
The German parliament voted for a 
<a href="http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number11.12/german-parliament-limit-software-patents">resolution 
against software patents</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Artificially_low_interest_rates)
title: Artificially low interest rates
uri: Artificially-low-interest-rates
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Artificially_low_interest_rates%29
content:
<p>
Banks point out that they can't keep stimulating economies through
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2013/jun/23/kickstarting-growth-threaten-stability-central-bank">artificially 
low interest rates</a>.
<p>
The right way to stimulate the economy is with deficit spending.


title: Pregnant woman in Spain drops baby down drain
uri: Pregnant-woman-in-Spain-drops-baby-down-drain
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Pregnant_woman_in_Spain_drops_baby_down_drain)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Pregnant_woman_in_Spain_drops_baby_down_drain%29

content:
<p>
A pregnant woman in Spain dropped her baby down a drain, because
she <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/spanish-police-arrest-mother-baby-drain">could 
not afford an abortion</a>.
<p>
It should not cost anything for a poor person to get an abortion.


title: State asks thug to find way to smear family of murdered teenager
uri: State-asks-thug-to-find-way-to-smear-family-of-murdered-teenager
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(State_asks_thug_to_find_way_to_smear_family_of_murdered_teenager)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28State_asks_thug_to_find_way_to_smear_family_of_murdered_teenager%29

content:
<p>
An undercover UK thug infiltrator says the state asked him to find a
way to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/23/stephen-lawrence-undercover-police-smears">smear 
the family of a black teenager who was murdered by racists</a>, so as
to blunt the pressure for a proper investigation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Egyptian_army_threatens_protesters)
title: Egyptian army threatens protesters
uri: Egyptian-army-threatens-protesters
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Egyptian_army_threatens_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The Egyptian army threatens proposed mass rallies against Morsi, 
"<a href='http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/egypt-army-demonstrations-mohamed-morsi'>if
they become violent</a>".
<p>
The army can make them "become violent" whenever it wishes, and
has made a practice of 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#7_May_2012_(Egyptians)">trying 
protesters in military courts</a>.


title: Miami will be inundated due to the CO2 already in the air
uri: Miami-will-be-inundated-due-to-the-CO2-already-in-the-air
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Miami_will_be_inundated_due_to_the_CO2_already_in_the_air)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Miami_will_be_inundated_due_to_the_CO2_already_in_the_air%29

content:
<p>
Miami will be 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/23/2199031/scientist-miami-as-we-know-it-today-is-doomed-its-not-a-question-of-if-its-a-question-of-when/">inundated</a>, 
probably before the end of this century, due to the CO<sub>2</sub> we have
already put into the air.
<p>
At least a third of south Florida will vanish with it.  And if we don't
curb the greenhouse gases soon, more of Florida will vanish.  And good bye to
any chance of restoring the Everglades, too, if they are under water.
<p>
The State of Florida does not recognize this, and I can guess why: the
current landowners want to sell their land to someone who doesn't
realize it will melt away.  This is comparable to the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#14_February_2012_(Carbon_Companies)">carbon 
bubble</a>.


title: Margaret Doughty receives US citizenship
uri: Margaret-Doughty-receives-US-citizenship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Margaret_Doughty_receives_US_citizenship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Margaret_Doughty_receives_US_citizenship%29

content:
<p>
Margaret Doughty was 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/06/21/2193991/atheist-approved-citizenship/">given 
US citizenship</a>.
<p>
She was 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#18_June_2013_(Denied_US_citizenship_because_views_not_based_on_religion)">in 
danger of being refused it</a> because regulations say that
conscientious objectors have to present an endorsement from a church.


title: Walmart fires workers for participating in strikes
uri: Walmart-fires-workers-for-participating-in-strikes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Walmart_fires_workers_for_participating_in_strikes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Walmart_fires_workers_for_participating_in_strikes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/06/23/2200081/labor-group-walmart-fired-five-workers-for-participating-in-strikes/">Labor 
Group: Walmart Fired Five Workers For Participating In Strikes</a>.


title: Republicans want to shift funds away from poorest schools
uri: Republicans-want-to-shift-funds-away-from-poorest-schools
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Republicans_want_to_shift_funds_away_from_poorest_schools)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Republicans_want_to_shift_funds_away_from_poorest_schools%29

content:
<p>
House Republicans want to shift federal education funds
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/education/2013/06/23/2200541/under-gop-plan-states-would-be-free-to-take-money-away-from-poorest-schools/">away 
from the poorest schools</a>.


title: Urgent: Support the Udall and the Tester amendments
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Udall-and-the-Tester-amendments
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Urgent:_Support_the_Udall_and_the_Tester_amendments)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Udall_and_the_Tester_amendments%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7003/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14417">support</a> 
the Udall amendment (saying that human rights don't apply to
corporations) and the Tester amendment (affirming the right to
regulate spending on elections).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Edward_Snowden_seeks_asylum)
title: Edward Snowden seeks asylum
uri: Edward-Snowden-seeks-asylum
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Edward_Snowden_seeks_asylum%29
content:
<p>
Edward Snowden left Hong Kong (which refused to detain him) for 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-leaves-hong-kong-moscow">Moscow</a>,
reportedly to head for another country for asylum.


title: Urgent: Strong steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Urgent-Strong-steps-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Urgent:_Strong_steps_to_reduce_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Strong_steps_to_reduce_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3071">call 
on Obama</a> to take strong steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Noam_Chomsky_on_NSA_surveillance)
title: Noam Chomsky on NSA surveillance
uri: Noam-Chomsky-on-NSA-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Noam_Chomsky_on_NSA_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Noam Chomsky: NSA surveillance is an 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/19/nsa-surveillance-attack-american-citizens-noam-chomsky">attack 
on American citizens</a>.
<p>
More of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/19-3">what 
he said</a>.


title: Urgent: Open investigation of NSA's spying programs
uri: Urgent-Open-investigation-of-NSA-s-spying-programs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Urgent:_Open_investigation_of_NSAs_spying_programs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Open_investigation_of_NSAs_spying_programs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter via 1-STOP-323-NSA
and call for an open investigation of the NSA's spying programs.


title: Turkish thugs break up memorial for protesters killed by thugs
uri: Turkish-thugs-break-up-memorial-for-protesters-killed-by-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Turkish_thugs_break_up_memorial_for_protesters_killed_by_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Turkish_thugs_break_up_memorial_for_protesters_killed_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Erdogan insists he is not authoritarian, even as he sends thugs to
break up a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/22/turkey-protests-erdogan-brazil-unrest-taksim">memorial 
for protesters who were killed by thugs</a>.


title: Redd project might protect orangutan habitat
uri: Redd-project-might-protect-orangutan-habitat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 25_June_2013_(Redd_project_might_protect_orangutan_habitat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#25_June_2013_%28Redd_project_might_protect_orangutan_habitat%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/31/worlds-largest-redd-project-indonesia">large 
Redd project</a> in Indonesia might protect orangutan habitat.
<p>
If Birute Galdikas thinks it is good, I'm inclined to trust her.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Urgent:_Protect_brown_bears)
title: Urgent: Protect brown bears
uri: Urgent-Protect-brown-bears
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_brown_bears%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call for Louisiana water projects
to <a href="https://online.nwf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1767">protect
brown bears.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on PBS to stand up to Koch brothers
uri: Urgent-Call-on-PBS-to-stand-up-to-Koch-brothers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_PBS_to_stand_up_to_Koch_brothers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_PBS_to_stand_up_to_Koch_brothers%29

content:
<p>
In the US: call on PBS
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell%2Dthe%2Dcorporation">stand
up to Koch brothers</a> money and show Citizen Koch.


title: Britons should care whether their DNA is in national registry
uri: Britons-should-care-whether-their-DNA-is-in-national-registry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Britons_should_care_whether_their_DNA_is_in_national_registry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Britons_should_care_whether_their_DNA_is_in_national_registry%29

content:
<p>
Why Britons should care whether
their <a href="http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2009/08/engaging_in_the_dna_database_debate.html">DNA
is in the national registry.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Tracking_your_purchasing_habits)
title: Tracking your purchasing habits
uri: Tracking-your-purchasing-habits
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Tracking_your_purchasing_habits%29
content:
<p>
If you allow grocery stores
to <a href="http://www.nocards.org/news/index.shtml#seg3">track your
purchasing habits,</a> in some cases they use that to charge
you <em>more</em>.


title: Latest argument of supporters of massive surveillance
uri: Latest-argument-of-supporters-of-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Latest_argument_of_supporters_of_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Latest_argument_of_supporters_of_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The latest argument of supporters of massive surveillance: we must let
the state take away our freedom because otherwise there will be a big
terrorist attack and
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/18-1">state
would then take away even more freedom.</a>
<p>
Can you spot the unstated pernicious assumption?


title: Some Western clothing sellers agreeing to safety requirements for factories
uri: Some-Western-clothing-sellers-agreeing-to-safety-requirements-for-fact
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Some_Western_clothing_sellers_agreeing_to_safety_requirements_for_factories)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Some_Western_clothing_sellers_agreeing_to_safety_requirements_for_factories%29

content:
<p>
Some Western clothing sellers
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/rana-plaza-factory-disaster-bangladesh-primark">agreeing
to safety requirements</a> for their factories, but Walmart is still
marred and the Gap is a gap.


title: Surveillance can mission-creep without bounds
uri: Surveillance-can-mission-creep-without-bounds
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Surveillance_can_mission-creep_without_bounds)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Surveillance_can_mission-creep_without_bounds%29

content:
<p>
Once "security" surveillance breaks loose from control by the public,
it
can <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/22/gchq-internet-snooping-kafkaesque">mission-creep
without bounds.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Who_is_the_real_traitor_to_the_US)
title: Who is the real traitor to the US
uri: Who-is-the-real-traitor-to-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Who_is_the_real_traitor_to_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Julian Assange
asks, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/22-3">who is
the real traitor to the US?</a>


title: US risks getting stung by Stringer missiles
uri: US-risks-getting-stung-by-Stringer-missiles
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(US_risks_getting_stung_by_Stringer_missiles)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28US_risks_getting_stung_by_Stringer_missiles%29

content:
<p>
The US risks
getting <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/22-0">stung
by Stinger missiles again.</a>
<p>
(Warning: be on the lookout for sarcasm in the article.)


title: Unapproved genetically engineered wheat present in US seed supply
uri: Unapproved-genetically-engineered-wheat-present-in-US-seed-supply
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Unapproved_genetically_engineered_wheat_present_in_US_seed_supply)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Unapproved_genetically_engineered_wheat_present_in_US_seed_supply%29

content:
<p>
Unapproved genetically engineered wheat is
probably <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/22/agriculture-oregon-monsanto-gm-wheat">present
in small quantities in the US seed supply.</a>
<p>
If wheat is not exposed to Roundup, this modified wheat would have no
advantage over normal wheat, so it would probably propagate but not
increase as a fraction of the total supply.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(The_proper_response_for_terrorism)
title: The proper response for terrorism
uri: The-proper-response-for-terrorism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28The_proper_response_for_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
"Keep Calm and Carry On" is the proper response for terrorism, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/22-1">not for 
plutocratic government</a>. That calls for massive protests.


title: Republicans want to dictate NSF funding criteria
uri: Republicans-want-to-dictate-NSF-funding-criteria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Republicans_want_to_dictate_NSF_funding_criteria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Republicans_want_to_dictate_NSF_funding_criteria%29

content:
<p>
Republicans want to require the NSF to fund only research that will
have <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/06/lamar_smith_nsf_funding_you_can_t_mandate_scientific_discovery.html">very 
important results</a>.
<p>
This is ridiculous, since we can't tell in advance which lines of research
will turn out to have very important results.


title: Moroccan thugs use torture to convict dissidents
uri: Moroccan-thugs-use-torture-to-convict-dissidents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Moroccan_thugs_use_torture_to_convict_dissidents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Moroccan_thugs_use_torture_to_convict_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
Moroccan thugs regularly convicts dissidents in occupied Western
Sahara of crimes based on 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/node/116476">torturing 
confessions out of them</a>.
<p>
Sometimes they <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/06/21/morocco-s-fast-track-guilty">forcibly 
push a man's hand against a fabricated statement</a> to "sign" it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Inequality_and_poverty_in_Brazil)
title: Inequality and poverty in Brazil
uri: Inequality-and-poverty-in-Brazil
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Inequality_and_poverty_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
On the great inequality and poverty in Brazil that motivates the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/22/brazil-favelas-frontline-world-cup">protests</a>.
<p>
This inequality and poverty occur despite strong programs to help the
poor, which have reduced poverty in recent years.  The US, by
contrast, is getting worse under the plutocracy.  I hope most
Americans will put a stop to plutocracy before it makes them as poor
as most Brazilians.


title: Canada threatens prosecution of anyone protesting with a mask
uri: Canada-threatens-prosecution-of-anyone-protesting-with-a-mask
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Canada_threatens_prosecution_of_anyone_protesting_with_a_mask)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Canada_threatens_prosecution_of_anyone_protesting_with_a_mask%29

content:
<p>
Canada threatens to imprison anyone 
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/06/19/pol-mask-bill-royal-assent.html">wearing 
a mask during an "unlawful assembly"</a>, which threatens prosecution
of anyone protesting with a mask if the thugs say the protest is
forbidden.


title: Urgent: Oppose raising allowed levels of glyphosate
uri: Urgent-Oppose-raising-allowed-levels-of-glyphosate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_raising_allowed_levels_of_glyphosate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_raising_allowed_levels_of_glyphosate%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/ocaactions.cfm?actionnum=10886">call 
on the EPA</a> not to raise the allowed levels of glyphosate.
<p>
Some new discoveries associating glyphosate with 
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27692.cfm">harm 
to human health</a>.
<p>
It will take more time and study to be sure what level of harm
glyphosate causes, but since the issue is in doubt, we should treat
it cautiously.
<p>
This is in addition to 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_(Toxic_inactive_ingredient_in_Roundup)">other 
dangerous substances in Roundup</a>.


title: Supreme Court bringing back Lochnerism
uri: Supreme-Court-bringing-back-Lochnerism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Supreme_Court_bringing_back_Lochnerism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Supreme_Court_bringing_back_Lochnerism%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court is bringing back 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/21-4">Lochnerism</a>, 
the discredited doctrine that laws can't limit what sort of contracts
companies can make with workers or customers.
<p>
It seems to me that even rejecting the idea that corporations
deserve human rights does not go far enough — because even
if your employer is a human being rather than a corporation,
it should still be possible for laws to limit what he can put
in a contract with you.


title: Corporate concentration of the Internet
uri: Corporate-concentration-of-the-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Corporate_concentration_of_the_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Corporate_concentration_of_the_Internet%29

content:
<p>
The corporate concentration of the Internet is 
<a href="http://www.accuracy.org/release/nsa-spying-helped-by-military-digital-complex-and-commercialized-internet/">ideal 
for massive surveillance</a>.
<p>
The NSA isn't satisfied yet — it wants Congress to give 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/12553023511/nsa-boss-asks-congress-legal-immunity-companies-that-help-nsa-spy-everyone.shtml">legal
immunity</a> to companies that help the NSA spy on people.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(UK_Internet_filters)
title: UK Internet filters
uri: UK-Internet-filters
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28UK_Internet_filters%29
content:
<p>
One variant of <a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/jargon-file-blocked-by-o2-youtube-by-orange">UK 
Internet filters</a> does not (as first thought) block YouTube by
default.  But it does block things such as the Jargon File (i.e., the
Hacker's Dictionary) and a bunch more surprising sites.
<p>
They might correct these specific problems, and the errors vary from
one scheme to another, but these censorship schemes are always full of
errors.  After all, there are too many web pages to have humans judge
them all, so the filtering has to be computed by algorithms.
<p>
Even if there were no errors, censorship is an injustice.  Remember
that the government wants to impose these filters on everyone except
those with private Internet connections.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Store_recordings)
title: Store recordings
uri: Store-recordings
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Store_recordings%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://blog.archive.org/2013/06/15/cost-to-store-all-us-phonecalls-made-in-a-year-in-cloud-storage-so-it-could-be-datamined/">
NSA can easily afford to store recordings</a> of all the phone calls
made in the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(The_Snowden_Principle)
title: The Snowden Principle
uri: The-Snowden-Principle
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28The_Snowden_Principle%29
content:
<p>
The Snowden Principle — and how 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/06/17/the-snowden-principle.html">
the authorities and their pets</a>
respond every time it is applied.
<p>
The accusations against Snowden say his revelations will "be used to
the injury of the United States", but Obama's 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/22/snowden-espionage-charges">
War on Journalism</a> is
what's doing the US injury.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Visit_to_Guantanamo)
title: Visit to Guantanamo
uri: Visit-to-Guantanamo
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Visit_to_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2013/06/20136197533407379.html">
journalist reports of a visit to Guantanamo</a>, where he was not
allowed to talk to any prisoners and hardly even allowed to see them.
<p>
The guards say the prisoners are lying when they talk about the horrible
conditions, but did not allow the journalist to check for himself,
so I believe the prisoners.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(4chan)
title: 4chan
uri: 4chan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%284chan%29
content:
<p>
I'd like to clear up some erroneous information about
<a href="http://stallman.org/to-4chan.html">
where I stand</a>
that is circulating on 4chan and perhaps elsewhere.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Communications_saved_by_the_NSA)
title: Communications saved by the NSA
uri: Communications-saved-by-the-NSA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Communications_saved_by_the_NSA%29
content:
<p>
Obama <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57590364-38/nsa-can-eavesdrop-on-americans-phone-calls-documents-show/">lied</a> 
when he said, "I can say unequivocally is that if you are a
U.S. person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls and the NSA
cannot target your e-mails."
<p>
By contrast, Clapper this time played a word game, making a statement
that didn't really mean what it appeared to mean.
<p>
The NSA saves all communications that it "happens to collect" that are
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/use-of-tor-and-e-mail-crypto-could-increase-chances-that-nsa-keeps-your-data/">encrypted 
or use Tor</a>.
<p>
If you are using encryption because you're discussing committing a
crime, and you never want it to come out, that might be of concern to
you.  As for those of us that use encryption on general principles to
reduce massive surveillance, I don't think we should let this deter
us.


title: Bills in Congress would declassify decisions of FISA court
uri: Bills-in-Congress-would-declassify-decisions-of-FISA-court
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 24_June_2013_(Bills_in_Congress_would_declassify_decisions_of_FISA_court)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#24_June_2013_%28Bills_in_Congress_would_declassify_decisions_of_FISA_court%29

content:
<p>
Bills in Congress would 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/lawmakers-introduce-new-bill-to-compel-govt-to-declassify-secret-court-opinions/">declassify 
the decisions of the FISA court</a>; legislators don't like being kept
so much in the dark.


title: Urgent: Protect endangered species from global heating
uri: Urgent-Protect-endangered-species-from-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Urgent:_Protect_endangered_species_from_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_endangered_species_from_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2125">call 
on Congress</a> to protect endangered species from
global heating.


title: Urgent: Protect whales from undersea oil drilling
uri: Urgent-Protect-whales-from-undersea-oil-drilling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Urgent:_Protect_whales_from_undersea_oil_drilling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_whales_from_undersea_oil_drilling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3111">call 
on the US government</a> to protect whales from undersea oil drilling
in the Arctic.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Urgent:_EPA_investigation_of_fracking)
title: Urgent: EPA investigation of fracking
uri: Urgent-EPA-investigation-of-fracking
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_EPA_investigation_of_fracking%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13791">call 
on Obama and the EPA</a> not to let frackers' friends substitute
themselves for the EPA in investigating fracking.


title: Guantanamo guards adopt two new tortures for prisoners
uri: Guantanamo-guards-adopt-two-new-tortures-for-prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Guantanamo_guards_adopt_two_new_tortures_for_prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Guantanamo_guards_adopt_two_new_tortures_for_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Guantanamo guards have adopted 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/22/us-efforts-guantanamo-hunger-strike">two 
new tortures</a> for prisoners on hunger strike.
<p>
Obama is not "working on" releasing Shaker Aamer and the other
prisoners.  There is no "work" for him to do.  He can order them
released at any time, and the remaining bureaucratic work would be for
others to do.
<p>
What's happening is that Obama refuses to release them, and wants to
pretend he is not responsible for the decision.  Quite a change from,
"the buck stops here."


title: Global heating expected to affect NY City in this century
uri: Global-heating-expected-to-affect-NY-City-in-this-century
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Global_heating_expected_to_affect_NY_City_in_this_century)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Global_heating_expected_to_affect_NY_City_in_this_century%29

content:
<p>
How global heating is expected to affect New York City in 
<a href="media/5aac8621.Ch_2_ClimateAnalysis_FINAL_singles.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.nyc.gov/html/sirr/downloads/pdf/final_report/Ch_2_ClimateAnalysis_FINAL_singles.pdf">this century</a>.


title: Obama sows atmosphere of police state throughout gov't agencies
uri: Obama-sows-atmosphere-of-police-state-throughout-gov-t-agencies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Obama_sows_atmosphere_of_police_state_throughout_govt_agencies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Obama_sows_atmosphere_of_police_state_throughout_govt_agencies%29

content:
<p>
Obama has ordered 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/21-3">criminal 
charges against US government employees who don't report someone they
suspect might be a whistleblower</a>.
<p>
The example of Snowden shows that this won't stop real whistleblowers,
but it will sow the atmosphere of a police state throughout government
agencies.
<p>
Once they are used to living in it themselves, they will see no
reason to hesitate to impose it on the rest of us.


title: Doubts about evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria
uri: Doubts-about-evidence-of-chemical-weapons-use-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Doubts_about_evidence_of_chemical_weapons_use_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Doubts_about_evidence_of_chemical_weapons_use_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
There are doubts about evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria
because of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/21-4">unclear 
chain of custody of the evidence</a>.
<p>
That doubt is only significant if the evidence could have been faked.
I don't know whether it would be feasible to fake it.
<p>
However, it is not crucial, because there is 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_June_2013_(US_military_support_in_Syria)">no 
way to intervene in Syria and expect a good result</a>.  Even if Assad
has used chemical weapons, it would be a mistake to intervene.


title: Urgent: Tell Domino's to stop firing workers who try to organize
uri: Urgent-Tell-Domino-s-to-stop-firing-workers-who-try-to-organize
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Dominos_to_stop_firing_workers_who_try_to_organize)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Dominos_to_stop_firing_workers_who_try_to_organize%29

content:
<p>
In the US: <a href="http://action.fastfoodforward.org/page/speakout/jobbacknow?js=false">tell 
Domino's Pizza</a> to stop firing workers who
try to organize.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Supermarket_purchase-tracking_cards)
title: Supermarket purchase-tracking cards
uri: Supermarket-purchase-tracking-cards
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Supermarket_purchase-tracking_cards%29

content:
<p>
Supermarket purchase-tracking cards make shopping more expensive,
but that's 
<a href="http://nocards.org/essays/discrimination.shtml">just the 
beginning of the harm</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Toxic_inactive_ingredient_in_Roundup)
title: Toxic "inactive" ingredient in Roundup
uri: Toxic-inactive-ingredient-in-Roundup
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Toxic_inactive_ingredient_in_Roundup%29

content:
<p>
Roundup contains other "inactive" ingredients besides glyphosate,
and one of them 
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27101.cfm">appears 
to be toxic</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Comey_not_a_supporter_of_human_rights)
title: Comey not a supporter of human rights
uri: Comey-not-a-supporter-of-human-rights
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Comey_not_a_supporter_of_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
Don't believe Comey is a supporter of human rights.  He 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/21/james-comey-fbi-director-bush-history">supported
waterboarding, wire-tapping and imprisonment without trial</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(The_Privacy_and_Civil_Liberties_Board)
title: The "Privacy and Civil Liberties Board"
uri: The-Privacy-and-Civil-Liberties-Board
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28The_Privacy_and_Civil_Liberties_Board%29

content:
<p>
Obama says that the "Privacy and Civil Liberties Board" will keep
massive surveillance in check, but that board seems to have been
stacked with 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/21/privacy-civil-liberties-obama-secretive">people 
who won't try very hard</a> — if it does anything at all.


title: GCHQ recording phone calls and emails from undersea cables
uri: GCHQ-recording-phone-calls-and-emails-from-undersea-cables
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(GCHQ_recording_phone_calls_and_emails_from_undersea_cables)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28GCHQ_recording_phone_calls_and_emails_from_undersea_cables%29

content:
<p>
GCHQ, the UK equivalent of the NSA, is recording 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa">phone 
calls and emails as well as metadata</a> from undersea cables.
<p>
The system of oversight is more 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/legal-loopholes-gchq-spy-world">loophole</a> 
than substance.


title: Corporate pressure for Facebook to censor material
uri: Corporate-pressure-for-Facebook-to-censor-material
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Corporate_pressure_for_Facebook_to_censor_material)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Corporate_pressure_for_Facebook_to_censor_material%29

content:
<p>
Companies are withdrawing ads from Facebook to pressure it to 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/21/facebook-hate-speech-sky-ad-boycott">block
mysogynist material</a>, including photos of women who have been
attacked.
<p>
I expect I would find those photos unpleasant to look at, and I would
prefer to avoid them.  I understand that advertisers don't want their
ads shown next to those photos.
<p>
However, if commercial pressure makes Facebook delete certain
material, that would be censorship.  When a single company is as
powerful as Facebook is, its decision to refuse to publish something
qualifies as censorship.
<p>
In other words, it is wrong for the range of material you can publish
to be decided by what companies want to have their ads appear next to.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Corporatizing_National_Security)
title: Corporatizing National Security
uri: Corporatizing-National-Security
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Corporatizing_National_Security%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/21-3">Corporatizing 
National Security: What It Means</a>.
<p>
If the NSA stopped outsourcing its work, 
some abuses would be prevented, but we must
also limit what the NSA can collect about us.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(The_World_Food_Prize)
title: The World Food Prize
uri: 2013-06-26-The-World-Food-Prize
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28The_World_Food_Prize%29
content:
<p>
Unsurprisingly, the World Food Prize was 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/06/21">given 
to genetic engineers</a>. The Food Sovereignty Alliance says their
work goes in the wrong direction for ending hunger.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Cities_should_use_public_banks)
title: Cities should use public banks
uri: Cities-should-use-public-banks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Cities_should_use_public_banks%29
content:
<p>
Cities should use 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/21-0">public 
banks</a>, not big banks.
<p>
Aside from this, Americans must demand increased taxes on the rich,
and on businesses.  They must pay their fair share, which is larger
than the fair share of anyone less rich or less powerful.


title: Mining US students' school records and personal data
uri: Mining-US-students-school-records-and-personal-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Mining_US_students_school_records_and_personal_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Mining_US_students_school_records_and_personal_data%29

content:
<p>
Mining US students' 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/21">school 
records and personal data</a>, thanks to the Gates Foundation.


title: US workers forced to pay bank fees to get their pay
uri: US-workers-forced-to-pay-bank-fees-to-get-their-pay
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(US_workers_forced_to_pay_bank_fees_to_get_their_pay)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28US_workers_forced_to_pay_bank_fees_to_get_their_pay%29

content:
<p>
Some US workers are being 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/21-2">forced 
to pay bank fees</a> to get their pay.


title: 2 million people join protests in Brazil
uri: 2-million-people-join-protests-in-Brazil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(2_million_people_join_protests_in_Brazil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%282_million_people_join_protests_in_Brazil%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/21/brazil-protests-president-emergency-meeting">2 
million people</a> have joined the protests in Brazil.


title: Spyware found on the phones and iBad given to Chen Guangcheng
uri: Spyware-found-on-the-phones-and-iBad-given-to-Chen-Guangcheng
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Spyware_found_on_the_phones_and_iBad_given_to_Chen_Guangcheng)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Spyware_found_on_the_phones_and_iBad_given_to_Chen_Guangcheng%29

content:
<p>
When Chen Guangcheng arrived at NYU, he was given phones and an iBad
which had 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/21/spyware-planted-chen-guangcheng-nyu">special 
spyware</a>. That was perhaps intended to make them report his
movements to China's Big Brother was well as to the US Big Brother.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Metadata)
title: Metadata
uri: Metadata
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Metadata%29
content:
<p>
Metadata is more convenient than the "content" of our communications
for building a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/21/nsa-surveillance-metadata-content-obama">dossier 
about each one of us</a>.


title: Undercover thug coauthored McLibel leaflet
uri: Undercover-thug-coauthored-McLibel-leaflet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Undercover_thug_coauthored_McLibel_leaflet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Undercover_thug_coauthored_McLibel_leaflet%29

content:
<p>
One of the authors of the McLibel leaflet was an 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/mclibel-leaflet-police-bob-lambert-mcdonalds">undercover 
thug</a>.


title: The Constitution and the standard of human rights
uri: The-Constitution-and-the-standard-of-human-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(The_Constitution_and_the_standard_of_human_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28The_Constitution_and_the_standard_of_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
Comparing Obama with Bush is a distraction — we need to compare
both of them with 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/21/obama-worse-than-bush">the 
Constitution and the standard of human rights</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Cluster_bombs)
title: Cluster bombs
uri: Cluster-bombs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Cluster_bombs%29
content:
<p>
The first cluster bombs were dropped on England in 1943.  Deadly bomblets
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/jun/21/butterfly-bombs-luftwaffe-cleethorpes-grimsby">still 
show up occasionally</a>.
<p>
More recently, 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#1%20September%202010%20(More%20Geneva%20Convention%20violations%20by%20US%20forces)">the US has dropped large numbers of cluster bombs</a>
which often kill children that play with them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Air_in_Singapore_unbreathable)
title: Air in Singapore unbreathable
uri: Air-in-Singapore-unbreathable
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Air_in_Singapore_unbreathable%29
content:
<p>
Massive forest fires in Sumatra, in many cases set for the purpose of
deforestation (probably bad in itself), are making the
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/21/singapore-air-pollution-record-high">air
in Singapore unbreathable</a>.


title: Increasing CO<sub>2</sub> may be causing spiny bushes to take over Namibia
uri: Increasing-CO2-may-be-causing-spiny-bushes-to-take-over-Namibia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 23_June_2013_(Increasing_CO2_may_be_causing_spiny_bushes_to_take_over_Namibia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_June_2013_%28Increasing_CO2_may_be_causing_spiny_bushes_to_take_over_Namibia%29

content:
<p>
Increasing CO<sub>2</sub> in the air seems to be causing 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/nature-up/2013/jun/21/blind-starving-cheetahs-climate-change">spiny 
bushes</a> to take over Namibia, making survival difficult for
farmers' cattle and for cheetahs.


title: Urgent: Sign the Education Declaration
uri: Urgent-Sign-the-Education-Declaration
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(Urgent:_Sign_the_Education_Declaration)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Sign_the_Education_Declaration%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://educationopportunitynetwork.org/">sign the Education 
Declaration</a>.


title: US Supreme Court gives businesses unjust power over workers
uri: US-Supreme-Court-gives-businesses-unjust-power-over-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(US_Supreme_Court_gives_businesses_unjust_power_over_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28US_Supreme_Court_gives_businesses_unjust_power_over_workers%29

content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court allowed big businesses to impose contracts
denying their clients (small businesses) the 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/20/2189061/even-small-businesses-cant-shake-mega-corporations-chokehold-on-access-to-the-courts/">right 
to class action lawsuits</a>.
<p>
The US had a similar problem in the first third of the 20th century:
the Supreme Court persistently opposed attempts to limit what
contracts could require, and that gave businesses dangerous and unjust
power over workers.


title: Genetic engineering fails to help feed the poor
uri: Genetic-engineering-fails-to-help-feed-the-poor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(Genetic_engineering_fails_to_help_feed_the_poor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28Genetic_engineering_fails_to_help_feed_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
Genetic engineering 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/jun/20/owen-paterson-gm-crops-hunger">fails 
to help feed the poor</a>. Given the requirements for pesticides, it
may not be sustainable either.


title: Jeremy Forrest convicted of "abducting" his pupil
uri: Jeremy-Forrest-convicted-of-abducting-his-pupil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(Jeremy_Forrest_convicted_of_abducting_his_pupil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28Jeremy_Forrest_convicted_of_abducting_his_pupil%29

content:
<p>
Jeremy Forrest was 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/20/jeremy-forrest-guilty-child-abduction">convicted</a> 
of "abducting" his pupil, who wept as she heard the verdict. Evidently
they still love each other, and this is a typical legal lie.
<p>
I am glad for her that she has tried to help his case, because even
though she failed to save him from conviction, she will know she did
the right thing, and will not have to feel guilty.
<p>
From the information published, it appears that Forrest is not good at
relationships, and doesn't have as good judgment as most adults.  A
teenager of 16 may not know her mind either.  If these two were let
alone, I would be surprised if their relationship were to last a year.
It would probably have ended by now — and that would have been a
much better outcome, for both of them, than what the court has done.
<p>
But that failure is not a certainty.  Their relationship might last
despite the adverse circumstances, or even because of them.


title: NSA allowed to keep and use recordings on variety of grounds
uri: NSA-allowed-to-keep-and-use-recordings-on-variety-of-grounds
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(NSA_allowed_to_keep_and_use_recordings_on_variety_of_grounds)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28NSA_allowed_to_keep_and_use_recordings_on_variety_of_grounds%29

content:
<p>
When the NSA taps Americans' communication "inadvertently",
which it does often, it is allowed to keep and use the recordings
on a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant">wide 
variety of grounds</a>.


title: Burden of World Cup and Olympics on Brazil
uri: Burden-of-World-Cup-and-Olympics-on-Brazil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(Burden_of_World_Cup_and_Olympics_on_Brazil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28Burden_of_World_Cup_and_Olympics_on_Brazil%29

content:
<p>
The monetary cost and practical burden of the present soccer world cup
and the coming 2016 Olympics are a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/18-6">substantial 
grievance in Brazil</a>.
<p>
It may henceforth be 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/20/brazil-saying-dont-want-costly-olympics">more 
difficult to get countries to agree to host them</a>. (That article
suggests that world leaders trust Skype and Facebook; I guess the
author doesn't know how foolish it is to trust them.)
<p>
If you live in a democracy and your city is proposing to hold 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#27_July_2012_(Olympic_Games_surveillance_systems)">Olympic
games</a>, organize now to scupper the bid!


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(Has_U.S._started_an_Internet_war)
title: Has U.S. started an Internet war?
uri: Has-U-S-started-an-Internet-war
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28Has_U.S._started_an_Internet_war%29
content:
<p>
Bruce Schneier: 
<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/18/opinion/schneier-cyberwar-policy/index.html">has the US started an Internet war?</a>


title: One Congressman allowed to see the TPP
uri: One-Congressman-allowed-to-see-the-TPP
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(One_Congressman_allowed_to_see_the_TPP)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28One_Congressman_allowed_to_see_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
One Congressman has been 
<a href="http://www.exposetheTPP.org">allowed to see the TPP</a>. He
described it as a "punch in the face to the middle class of America."
<p>
The TPP is likely to undermine drug safety and food safety
regulations, and make medicines 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/fda-warning-tpp-threat-your-health-and-safety">more 
expensive</a>.
<p>
In broad terms, it 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/rule-law-demands-corporations-be-subordinate-government">would 
put businesses above governments</a>.
<p>
The TPP would be the culmination of a long process in which
businesses have negated state power in order to use the state
against us.
<p>
Democracy means that the many non-rich unite to be stronger than
the rich.  To restore democracy, we must establish a state that
will keep businesses under firm control no matter how they squirm.


title: Urgent: Oppose US intervention in Syrian civil war
uri: Urgent-Oppose-US-intervention-in-Syrian-civil-war
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_US_intervention_in_Syrian_civil_war)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_US_intervention_in_Syrian_civil_war%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8149">ask 
your elected officials</a> to oppose intervention in the Syrian civil
war.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(Federal_anti-HIV_funds)
title: Federal anti-HIV funds
uri: Federal-anti-HIV-funds
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28Federal_anti-HIV_funds%29
content:
<p>
The Supreme Court ruled that federal anti-HIV funds 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/06/20/supreme_court_strikes_down_anti_prostitution_pledge_hiv_outreach_organizations.html">cannot 
be conditioned on taking a pledge to condemn prostitution</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(Obama_winning_his_war_on_journalism)
title: Obama winning his war on journalism
uri: Obama-winning-his-war-on-journalism
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28Obama_winning_his_war_on_journalism%29

content:
<p>
The president of the Associated Press warns that Obama is 
<a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/06/20/associated-press-sources-wont-talk-anymore/">winning
his war on journalism</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 22_June_2013_(NSA_directors_claims)
title: NSA director's claims
uri: NSA-director-s-claims
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#22_June_2013_%28NSA_directors_claims%29
content:
<p>
Senators Wyden and Udall say that the NSA director is 
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/06/20/the-importance-of-senators-questioning-nsa-claims-about-secret-surveillance-thwarting-terrorism/">bullshitting 
us</a> when he claims that massive surveillance prevented attacks.
<p>
However, even if it had, mass surveillance is the bigger danger.


title: Urgent: Support Chicago fast food workers' strike
uri: Urgent-Support-Chicago-fast-food-workers-strike
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Chicago_fast_food_workers_strike)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Chicago_fast_food_workers_strike%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.fightfor15.org/page/s/fight-for-15">support the 
strike</a> by Chicago fast food workers.


title: Recognizing negative characteristics in people
uri: Recognizing-negative-characteristics-in-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Recognizing_negative_characteristics_in_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Recognizing_negative_characteristics_in_people%29

content:
<p>
I saw <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/i-know-what-you-think-of-me/">an 
article which makes a false assumption</a> that calls for criticism:
it equates <em>recognizing</em> some negative characteristic in a
person with <em>despising or mocking</em> it.
<p>
Friendship does not call for denying facts about a person, not even
the fact that you find something about your friend annoying.  Denial
isn't required.  You can even criticize them constructively.  However,
being a good friend means not sneering at the annoying characteristics
that you find in your friends.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Republicans_help_defeat_farm_bill)
title: Republicans help defeat farm bill
uri: Republicans-help-defeat-farm-bill
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Republicans_help_defeat_farm_bill%29
content:
<p>
Republicans helped 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-20/farm-law-fails-as-u-s-house-rebellion-upends-subsidy-overhaul.html">defeat 
the farm bill</a>. They realized their constituents wouldn't stand for
cutting food stamps as the Republican leaders wanted to do.


title: Data storage services subject to snooping
uri: Data-storage-services-subject-to-snooping
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Data_storage_services_subject_to_snooping)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Data_storage_services_subject_to_snooping%29

content:
<p>
Professionals must not store information about their clients in
servers that might 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/20/nsa-surveillance-doctors-lawyers-clients-snooped">yield 
that data to Big Brother</a>.
<p>
The lesson is, store your data on your own computers, not in some
service.
<p>
The article uses the term "cloud", but that term 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing">clouds 
the issues</a>. I think we should avoid it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(US_house_prices)
title: US house prices
uri: US-house-prices
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28US_house_prices%29
content:
<p>
US house prices are increasing, but it's 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/20/housing-recovery-is-not-real">big 
real-estate businesses that are buying</a>; Americans who want a place
to live can't afford them.


title: Food production increasing more slowly than human population
uri: Food-production-increasing-more-slowly-than-human-population
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Food_production_increasing_more_slowly_than_human_population)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Food_production_increasing_more_slowly_than_human_population%29

content:
<p>
Food production is increasing 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/20/crop-yeilds-world-population">more 
slowly than the human population</a>.
<p>
We need more effort in reducing birth rates.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Another_war_of_choice)
title: Another "war of choice"
uri: Another-war-of-choice
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Another_war_of_choice%29
content:
<p>
The US is on the brink of another 
"<a href='http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/20-5'>war 
of choice</a>".


title: Countries where children are better off
uri: Countries-where-children-are-better-off
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Countries_where_children_are_better_off)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Countries_where_children_are_better_off%29

content:
<p>
Children are better off in countries that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/20-7">(1) 
give better care to old people and (2) give less profit to the
banks</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Free_trade_never_really_about_trade)
title: "Free trade" never really about trade
uri: Free-trade-never-really-about-trade
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Free_trade_never_really_about_trade%29

content:
<p>
"Free trade" was 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/20-10">never 
really about trade</a>. That's why I call them 
"<a href="media/74513f11.trade-treaty-comic.jpg" data-original-source="http://www.stallman.org/images/trade-treaty-comic.jpg">free 
exploitation agreements</a>".


title: The time it takes to pass through Israeli checkpoint
uri: The-time-it-takes-to-pass-through-Israeli-checkpoint
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(The_time_it_takes_to_pass_through_Israeli_checkpoint)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28The_time_it_takes_to_pass_through_Israeli_checkpoint%29

content:
<p>
Israel says it takes 7 minutes to pass through a checkpoint in the
annexation wall, but empirically it takes 
<a href="http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m98392&hd=&l=e">28 
minutes — on a good day</a>.
<p>
On a bad day, it can take an hour; but this does not count the hours
waiting in line.  Nor does it count the radiation from the body
scanners (we don't know what sort of radiation they use).


title: FBI starting to use surveillance drones
uri: FBI-starting-to-use-surveillance-drones
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(FBI_starting_to_use_surveillance_drones)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28FBI_starting_to_use_surveillance_drones%29

content:
<p>
The FBI is starting to use surveillance drones 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/19/fbi-drones-domestic-surveillance">in 
the US</a>.


title: European responses to US Internet surveillance
uri: European-responses-to-US-Internet-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(European_responses_to_US_Internet_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28European_responses_to_US_Internet_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
(European) Data Protection Responses To PRISM 
"<a href='http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2013/06/data-protection-responses-to-prism-a-smokescreen/index.htm'>A 
Smokescreen</a>".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(The_US_should_have_armed_Afghan_women)
title: The US should have armed Afghan women
uri: The-US-should-have-armed-Afghan-women
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28The_US_should_have_armed_Afghan_women%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/afghanistan-talks-taliban-qatar-cancelled">Karzai's 
complaints</a> scuttled the planned meeting between US and Taliban
representatives.
<p>
Afghan women are worried that the Taliban will deny them 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/19/afghanistan-women-rights-taliban-peace-talks">what 
rights Karzai's regime has established for them</a>.
<p>
The US should have armed Afghan women.  Who knows what sort of gun
a woman has under her burqa, and if a woman kills a talib, there will be
no way to identify her afterward.  Eventually the Taliban would be forced
to order women not to wear burqas.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Cruelty_of_commander_at_Guantanamo)
title: Cruelty of commander at Guantanamo
uri: Cruelty-of-commander-at-Guantanamo
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Cruelty_of_commander_at_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
The commander at Guantanamo intentionally responds to the hunger
strike with 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/20/guantanamo-hunger-strike-bogdan">extreme 
cruelty</a>.


title: 30% of women suffer violence from their lovers
uri: 30-of-women-suffer-violence-from-their-lovers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(30_percent_of_women_suffer_violence_from_their_lovers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%2830_percent_of_women_suffer_violence_from_their_lovers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/20/one-in-three-women-suffers-violence">30% 
of women</a> suffer violence from their lovers at some time.


title: Urgent: Support the Right to Heal initiative
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Right-to-Heal-initiative
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Support_the_Right_to_Heal_initiative)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Right_to_Heal_initiative%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5966/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13332">support 
the Right to Heal initiative</a> for a hearing into the human rights
and health impacts of the US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Mimi_and_Eunice_calendar)
title: Mimi and Eunice calendar
uri: Mimi-and-Eunice-calendar
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Mimi_and_Eunice_calendar%29
content:
<p>
A Mimi and Eunice 
<a href="media/cf17768b.calendar_2013_v2.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/mkwadee/calendar_2013_v2.pdf">calendar</a>.


title: Protesters in Brazil say education more important than football
uri: Protesters-in-Brazil-say-education-more-important-than-football
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Protesters_in_Brazil_say_education_more_important_than_football)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Protesters_in_Brazil_say_education_more_important_than_football%29

content:
<p>
Protesters in Brazil say that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/19-6">education 
is more important than football</a>.
<p>
Of course, that is true, but it is amazing to see large numbers
of Brazilians come to their senses and recognize this.


title: How the FBI justifies shooting an unarmed man
uri: How-the-FBI-justifies-shooting-an-unarmed-man
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(How_the_FBI_justifies_shooting_an_unarmed_man)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28How_the_FBI_justifies_shooting_an_unarmed_man%29

content:
<p>
The FBI's "time-tested" way of judging whether shooting an unarmed man
was justified: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/06/19-1">wait a while 
and say "yes"</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Thank_Senator_Udall)
title: Urgent: Thank Senator Udall
uri: Urgent-Thank-Senator-Udall
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Senator_Udall%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.votevets.org/page/s/udall">thank Senator 
Udall</a> for opposing US involvement in Syria.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Repeal_the_PAT_RIOT_Act)
title: Repeal the PAT RIOT Act
uri: Repeal-the-PAT-RIOT-Act
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Repeal_the_PAT_RIOT_Act%29
content:
<p>
Jim Hightower says, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/19-2">repeal 
the PAT RIOT Act</a>.


title: Urgent: Confirm Gina McCarthy as head of EPA
uri: 2013-06-26-Urgent-Confirm-Gina-McCarthy-as-head-of-EPA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Confirm_Gina_McCarthy_as_head_of_EPA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Confirm_Gina_McCarthy_as_head_of_EPA%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1453">Call 
on your senators</a> to confirm Gina McCarthy as head of the EPA.


title: Urgent: Sanctions on Iceland for killing whales
uri: Urgent-Sanctions-on-Iceland-for-killing-whales
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Sanctions_on_Iceland_for_killing_whales)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Sanctions_on_Iceland_for_killing_whales%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3097">call 
for sanctions on Iceland</a> for killing whales.


title: Urgent: Investigate intelligence gathering by FBI, NSA and CIA
uri: Urgent-Investigate-intelligence-gathering-by-FBI-NSA-and-CIA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Investigate_intelligence_gathering_by_FBI,_NSA_and_CIA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_intelligence_gathering_by_FBI%2C_NSA_and_CIA%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/new-church-comm">call on 
the senate</a> to investigate intelligence gathering by the FBI, NSA
and CIA.


title: Mali reaches cease-fire with Touareg separatists
uri: Mali-reaches-cease-fire-with-Touareg-separatists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Mali_reaches_cease-fire_with_Touareg_separatists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Mali_reaches_cease-fire_with_Touareg_separatists%29

content:
<p>
Mali has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/19/mali-peace-deal-tuareg-insurgents-aid">reached 
a cease-fire</a> with Touareg separatists.


title: UK man gets 11-month prison sentence for refusing to wear clothes
uri: UK-man-gets-11-month-prison-sentence-for-refusing-to-wear-clothes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(UK_man_gets_11-month_prison_sentence_for_refusing_to_wear_clothes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28UK_man_gets_11-month_prison_sentence_for_refusing_to_wear_clothes%29

content:
<p>
A UK man has been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/19/naked-rambler-stephen-gough-jailed-asbo">sentenced 
to 11 months in prison</a> for refusing to wear clothes.
<p>
What horrible damage his nakedness must do to anyone in the vicinity
;-).  I will spare people the sign of my naked body, but I admire his
indomitable spirit.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Sea_level_rise)
title: Sea level rise
uri: 2013-06-26-Sea-level-rise
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/coastal-us-airports-face-increasing-threat-from-sea-level-rise-16126">U.S. 
Airports Face Increasing Threat From Rising Seas</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/look-out-below-antarctic-melting-from-underneath-16128">Look 
Out Below: Antarctic Melting From Underneath</a>.


title: Illinois adopts strict fracking regulations
uri: Illinois-adopts-strict-fracking-regulations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Illinois_adopts_strict_fracking_regulations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Illinois_adopts_strict_fracking_regulations%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/19/2177811/illinois-adopts-nations-strictest-fracking-regulations/">Illinois 
Adopts Nation's Strictest Fracking Regulations</a>.
<p>
Laws like this, if enforced, will give Americans a fighting chance
to protect their drinking water from fracking.  However, there's
also the issue of CO<sub>2</sub> pollution.


title: Republicans creative in finding ways to cut food stamps
uri: Republicans-creative-in-finding-ways-to-cut-food-stamps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Republicans_creative_in_finding_ways_to_cut_food_stamps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Republicans_creative_in_finding_ways_to_cut_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
Republicans are 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/06/19/2181751/the-5-worst-gop-food-stamp-amendments-and-the-democratic-response/">very 
creative</a> in finding ways to cut food stamps and condemn Americans,
who are increasingly poor, to hunger.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Force-feeding)
title: Force-feeding
uri: Force-feeding
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Force-feeding%29
content:
<p>
An interview with George Annas, M.D., about 
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/18/a_medical_ethics_free_zone_guantnamo">force-feeding</a>.


title: Obama plans to hold 48 men without trial
uri: Obama-plans-to-hold-48-men-without-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Obama_plans_to_hold_48_men_without_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Obama_plans_to_hold_48_men_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
Among the 48 men that Obama plans to hold prisoner without trial,
there are 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/government-releases-list-indefinite-detainees-guantanamo">5 
that Obama would like to try in civilian courts</a>.
<p>
Imprisonment without trial negates the idea of human rights.  Every
one of those prisoners deserves to have a fair trial or be released
promptly.  They deserve this because they are human beings.  They
deserve this whether they understand the idea of human rights or not
— because the US is supposed to understand it.
<p>
If an honest and decent president told Congress, "Permit trying these
people in civilian courts, or I will have to release them," Congress
would probably allow them to be tried.  Has Obama ever been honest and
decent as president?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Bank_of_America)
title: Bank of America
uri: Bank-of-America
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Bank_of_America%29
content:
<p>
Bank of America Whistle-blower Bombshell: "We Were Told to Lie" to 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/bank-america-0?paging=off">Rip  
Off Borrowers</a>.
<p>
This will give us another chance to see which US officials
are on our side and which are on the plutocrats' side.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(The_spying_approved_by_Comey)
title: The spying approved by Comey
uri: The-spying-approved-by-Comey
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28The_spying_approved_by_Comey%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/spying-comey-approved-more-important-spying-he-opposed">Is 
the Spying Comey Approved More Important Than the Spying He Opposed?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Companies_can_not_trust_Microsoft)
title: Companies can not trust Microsoft
uri: Companies-can-not-trust-Microsoft
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Companies_can_not_trust_Microsoft%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/06/how-can-any-company-ever-trust-microsoft-again/index.htm">How 
Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again?</a>


title: Metadata reveals what you do rather than what you say
uri: Metadata-reveals-what-you-do-rather-than-what-you-say
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Metadata_reveals_what_you_do_rather_than_what_you_say)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Metadata_reveals_what_you_do_rather_than_what_you_say%29

content:
<p>
Collecting metadata is 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/phew-it-was-just-metadata-not-think-again/">worse 
than listening to you</a>.  Instead of what you say, it records what
you do.


title: Republican wants gender stereotypes taught in elementary school
uri: Republican-wants-gender-stereotypes-taught-in-elementary-school
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Republican_wants_gender_stereotypes_taught_in_elementary_school)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Republican_wants_gender_stereotypes_taught_in_elementary_school%29

content:
<p>
The latest Republican idea: 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/06/19/2182311/gingrey-teach-gender-roles/">teach 
gender stereotypes in elementary school</a>.
<p>
He need not bother.  These stereotypes (and lots of others) are taught
informally to everyone.


title: FISA Amendments Act allows calls and emails to be collected
uri: FISA-Amendments-Act-allows-calls-and-emails-to-be-collected
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(FISA_Amendments_Act_allows_calls_and_emails_to_be_collected)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28FISA_Amendments_Act_allows_calls_and_emails_to_be_collected%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/under-fisa-amendments-act-your-calls-and-emails-cant-be-targeted-they-can">Under 
the FISA Amendments Act, Your Calls and Emails Can't Be "Targeted,"
But They Can Certainly Be Collected</a>.
<p>
Glenn Greenwald explains with great care, and shows how the FISA court
"oversight" is 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/19/fisa-court-oversight-process-secrecy">so 
weak it is effectively none</a>.


title: ACLU sues NY Thug Department over surveillance of Muslim groups
uri: ACLU-sues-NY-Thug-Department-over-surveillance-of-Muslim-groups
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(ACLU_sues_NY_Thug_Department_over_surveillance_of_Muslim_groups)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28ACLU_sues_NY_Thug_Department_over_surveillance_of_Muslim_groups%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU has sued the New York Thug Department over its 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/18/nypd-surveillance-muslims-lawsuit">systematic
infiltration</a> of Muslim groups.


title: US campaigns for "Internet freedom" in other countries
uri: US-campaigns-for-Internet-freedom-in-other-countries
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(US_campaigns_for_Internet_freedom_in_other_countries)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28US_campaigns_for_Internet_freedom_in_other_countries%29

content:
<p>
US campaigns for "Internet freedom" in other countries — a
laudable goal — have been undermined by seeing the US 
<a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/blowback_from_t.html">contempt
for Internet freedom at home</a>.


title: Urgent: Support Citizens' Climate Lobby
uri: Urgent-Support-Citizens-Climate-Lobby
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Citizens_Climate_Lobby)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Citizens_Climate_Lobby%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://citizensclimatelobby.org">support</a> the 
Citizens' Climate Lobby.


title: Urgent: Ban neonicotinoid pesticides in the US
uri: Urgent-Ban-neonicotinoid-pesticides-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1388">call 
for banning neonicotinoid pesticides</a> in the US.


title: Increasing fraction of Israelis favor evacuating colonies
uri: Increasing-fraction-of-Israelis-favor-evacuating-colonies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Increasing_fraction_of_Israelis_favor_evacuating_colonies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Increasing_fraction_of_Israelis_favor_evacuating_colonies%29

content:
<p>
An increasing fraction of Israelis, now almost 1/4, say they favor
evacuating Israel's colonies in Palestine in exchange for 
<a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/06/a-new-poll-israelis-veering-left.html">peace 
with Palestine</a>.


title: Google challenging restrictions on reporting gov't surveillance
uri: Google-challenging-restrictions-on-reporting-gov-t-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Google_challenging_restrictions_on_reporting_govt_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Google_challenging_restrictions_on_reporting_govt_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Google is 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-challenges-us-gag-order-citing-first-amendment/2013/06/18/96835c72-d832-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html">challenging 
the restrictions</a> on reporting the extent of government
surveillance under the PAT RIOT Act.


title: Urgent: Transfer nuclear waste to dry casks
uri: Urgent-Transfer-nuclear-waste-to-dry-casks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Transfer_nuclear_waste_to_dry_casks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Transfer_nuclear_waste_to_dry_casks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=3739">ask 
your senators</a> to push for transferring nuclear waste from "spent
fuel pools" to dry casks.


title: Urgent: Require labeling of GMOs in food
uri: Urgent-Require-labeling-of-GMOs-in-food
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Require_labeling_of_GMOs_in_food)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Require_labeling_of_GMOs_in_food%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/massachusetts%2Dlabel%2Dgmos">call 
for a Massachusetts law</a> to require labeling of GMOs in food.


title: Over 900 Israeli soldiers have gone to Breaking the Silence
uri: Over-900-Israeli-soldiers-have-gone-to-Breaking-the-Silence
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Over_900_Israeli_soldiers_have_gone_to_Breaking_the_Silence)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Over_900_Israeli_soldiers_have_gone_to_Breaking_the_Silence%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://972mag.com/the-soldiers-stories-that-israel-lacks-the-courage-to-hear/73474/">Almost 
a thousand Israeli soldiers</a> have gone to Breaking the Silence
to confess horrible things they have seen or done in the occupation of
Palestine.
<p>
The army responds with excuses for not investigating these reported
crimes.


title: Ishmael Coovadia incensed over trees planted "in his honor"
uri: Ishmael-Coovadia-incensed-over-trees-planted-in-his-honor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Ishmael_Coovadia_incensed_over_trees_planted_in_his_honor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Ishmael_Coovadia_incensed_over_trees_planted_in_his_honor%29

content:
<p>
Ishmael Coovadia was incensed when he received a certificate saying
that the Jewish National Fund had planted trees "in his honor", 
<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/planting-expropriated-ambassador.html">on 
top of an erased Arab village</a>.


title: Urgent: Continue making mines pay for cleaning up their messes
uri: Urgent-Continue-making-mines-pay-for-cleaning-up-their-messes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Urgent:_Continue_making_mines_pay_for_cleaning_up_their_messes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Continue_making_mines_pay_for_cleaning_up_their_messes%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13757">tell 
Congress</a> the EPA should continue making mines pay for cleaning up
their toxic messes.


title: 1000 olive trees burned by Israeli colonists last Saturday
uri: 1000-olive-trees-burned-by-Israeli-colonists-last-Saturday
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(1000_olive_trees_burned_by_Israeli_colonists_last_Saturday)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%281000_olive_trees_burned_by_Israeli_colonists_last_Saturday%29

content:
<p>
Israeli colonists in Palestine burned 
<a href="http://palestinechronicle.com/pa-official-settlers-burn-300-olive-trees-near-nablus/">1000 
olive trees last Saturday</a>.


title: Racist vandals attack cars in Arab village of Abu Ghosh
uri: Racist-vandals-attack-cars-in-Arab-village-of-Abu-Ghosh
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Racist_vandals_attack_cars_in_Arab_village_of_Abu_Ghosh)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Racist_vandals_attack_cars_in_Arab_village_of_Abu_Ghosh%29

content:
<p>
Racist vandals 
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4393746,00.html">attacked 
cars and wrote "Arabs out"</a> in the Arab village of Abu Ghosh.
<p>
Abu Ghosh is full of restaurants that cater to non-Arab clients.  On
my first visit to Israel, my Israeli relatives brought me there for
dinner.  They told me that the that the residents of Abu Ghosh were
considered allies of the Jews in 1947.


title: Israel cheated on deal with Palestinians
uri: Israel-cheated-on-deal-with-Palestinians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Israel_cheated_on_deal_with_Palestinians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Israel_cheated_on_deal_with_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
Israel made a deal with Palestinians so that they would not
ask for UNESCO protection of the old irrigation works of Battir.
Once the UNESCO deadline was passed, Israel 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=604958">cheated 
on the deal</a>.


title: Oppression of Palestinians living in the "seam zone"
uri: Oppression-of-Palestinians-living-in-the-seam-zone
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(Oppression_of_Palestinians_living_in_the_seam_zone)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Oppression_of_Palestinians_living_in_the_seam_zone%29

content:
<p>
For Palestinians whose homes or land fall in the "seam zone"
between the annexation wall and the border of Palestine,
<a href="media/68e0603d.1157660_eng.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.hamoked.org/files/2013/1157660_eng.pdf">ordinary 
activities require military permits</a> which the Israeli military
makes rather hard to obtain.
<p>
A different form of oppression is opposed on Palestinians in 
"<a href='http://btselem.force.com/track/apex/sbm__sbx_emailviewonline?id=701D0000000KXRQIA4'>area
C</a>", which contains a large fraction of the West Bank.


title: EU considers placing limit on biofuels made from food crops
uri: EU-considers-placing-limit-on-biofuels-made-from-food-crops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 21_June_2013_(EU_considers_placing_limit_on_biofules_made_from_food_crops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28EU_considers_placing_limit_on_biofules_made_from_food_crops%29

content:
<p>
The EU is considering placing a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jun/19/eu-votes-biofuels-food-crops">limit 
on biofuels made from food crops</a>. Agribusiness companies are
trying to prevent this, so that they can go on with wasteful
production and make poor people around the world go hungry.


title: Very Urgent: Oppose Israel's plan to force bedouin out of their homes
uri: Very-Urgent-Oppose-Israel-s-plan-to-force-bedouin-out-of-their-homes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_Israels_plan_to_force_bedouin_out_of_their_homes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Israels_plan_to_force_bedouin_out_of_their_homes%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/301/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13809">tell 
Israel's ambassador to the US</a> that you oppose Israel's plan to
force 40,000 bedouin out of their homes.
<p>
Everyone else: 
<a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/no_to_forced_eviction_of_negev_bedouins/?tsyKdab">sign 
this petition</a> about the same point.


title: UK gov't persistently sends asylum seekers back to be tortured
uri: UK-gov-t-persistently-sends-asylum-seekers-back-to-be-tortured
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(UK_govt_persistently_sends_asylum_seekers_back_to_be_tortured)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28UK_govt_persistently_sends_asylum_seekers_back_to_be_tortured%29

content:
<p>
The UK government persistently 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jun/25/failure-on-torture">sends 
asylum seekers back to be tortured</a>, even if they were tortured
again since the previous time they were denied asylum.
<p>
If the state would rather not give them asylum, it should do more
to discourage torture in their home countries.


title: Obama states plans to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions
uri: Obama-states-plans-to-reduce-CO2-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(Obama_states_plans_to_reduce_CO2_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28Obama_states_plans_to_reduce_CO2_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Obama stated possibly significant 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/25/obama-climate-change-speech-more-promises">plans 
to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions</a>, but the details will determine
whether they amount to anything.
<p>
If he is honest, he cannot deny that the Keystone XL pipeline will
greatly increase CO2 emissions.  But he may yet look for an excuse to
<a href="http://grist.org/news/obama-will-ok-keystone-only-if-it-wont-increase-carbon-emissions/">pretend it is not so</a>.
<p>
The Natural Resources Defense Council 
<a href="http://www.nrdc.org/media/2013/130625.asp">supports 
the plan</a>, and so does Greenpeace,
but even if it is carried out in a substantial way, it 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun/25/obama-speech-climate-action-plan-disaster1">won't 
go far enough</a> to prevent global heating disaster.


title: UK policies insufficient to achieve CO2 emissions
uri: UK-policies-insufficient-to-achieve-CO2-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(UK_policies_insufficient_to_achieve_CO2_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28UK_policies_insufficient_to_achieve_CO2_emissions%29

content:
<p>
The UK adopted long-term CO2 emissions targets but its actual policies
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/26/uk-miss-carbon-emissions-targets">insufficient
to achieve them.</a>
<p>
A long-term target is a handy a way to avoid real action.


title: Harder for states to protect wetlands and other aspects of environment
uri: Harder-for-states-to-protect-wetlands-and-other-aspects-of-environment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(Harder_for_states_to_protect_wetlands_and_other_aspects_of_environment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28Harder_for_states_to_protect_wetlands_and_other_aspects_of_environment%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court made
it <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jun/25/supreme-court-florida-property-rights">harder
for states to protect wetlands and other aspects of the
environment</a>, giving landowners priority.
<p>
If taxes on the rich and business were high enough, we could afford to
"compensate" landowners when their land must be protected.


title: German gov't objects strongly to UK spying
uri: German-gov-t-objects-strongly-to-UK-spying
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(German_gov't_objects_strongly_to_UK_spying)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28German_gov%27t_objects_strongly_to_UK_spying%29

content:
<p>
The German government objects strongly
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/25/germany-uk-gchq-internet-surveillance">UK
spying.</a>
<p>
It has a duty
to <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/jakob-augstein-data-spying-programs-threaten-german-security-a-907577.html">protect
its citizens</a> from this spying.


title: Espionage Act in US harsher than laws of other countries
uri: Espionage-Act-in-US-harsher-than-laws-of-other-countries
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(Espionage_Act_in_US_harsher_than_laws_of_other_countries)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28Espionage_Act_in_US_harsher_than_laws_of_other_countries%29

content:
<p>
The Espionage Act in the US
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/edward-snowden-espionage-act-charges">much
harsher than the laws of other countries</a> about leaks to the
public.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(EFF_sticker_considered_a_warning_sign)
title: EFF sticker considered a warning sign
uri: EFF-sticker-considered-a-warning-sign
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28EFF_sticker_considered_a_warning_sign%29

content:
<p>
For the NSA, having an EFF sticker on your computer is considered a
<a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/security/22381/eff-sticker-your-laptop-insider-threat-warning-sign?source=CTWNLE_nlt_security_2013-06-25">"warning
sign".</a>


title: Australia has taken Japan to court for whaling
uri: Australia-has-taken-Japan-to-court-for-whaling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(Australia_has_taken_Japan_to_court_for_whaling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28Australia_has_taken_Japan_to_court_for_whaling%29

content:
<p>
Australia has taken Japan to the World Court for
its <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/whaling-australia-japan">"scientific"
whaling.</a>


title: Urgent: Support amendment to assure voting rights
uri: Urgent-Support-amendment-to-assure-voting-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(Urgent:_Support_amendment_to_assure_voting_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_amendment_to_assure_voting_rights%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support a constitutional amendment
to <a href="http://www.freetovote.org/free?source=vra_partner_fv_em">assure
voting rights.</a>


title: Urgent: reverse Corporations United decision
uri: Urgent-reverse-Corporations-United-decision
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(Urgent:_reverse_Corporations_United_decision)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_reverse_Corporations_United_decision%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12248">sign
this petition</a> in favor of a constitutional amendment to reverse
the Corporations United decision.
<p>
(It is hypocritically referred to as the "Citizens United" decision,
but I prefer to call it what it really is.)


title: 300 untested recreational drugs sold legally
uri: 300-untested-recreational-drugs-sold-legally
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(300_untested_recreational_drugs_sold_legally)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28300_untested_recreational_drugs_sold_legally%29

content:
<p>
300 untested recreational drugs are
now <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/26/legal-highs-drug-control">being
sold, legally.</a>
<p>
Some of them might be safer than tobacco or alcohol.  Some might even
be as safe as marijuana or MDMA, but some might be more dangerous than
those.  It would be better to steer people towards the safer drugs
that are now illegal.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 26_June_2013_(State_power_over_journalism)
title: State power over journalism
uri: State-power-over-journalism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_%28State_power_over_journalism%29
content:
<p>
US mainstream media
choose <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/26-0">state
power over journalism</a>, featuring "journalists" that demand the
arrest not only of Snowden but even of Glenn Greenwald.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Drones_tempt_leaders_to_make_war)
title: Drones tempt leaders to make war
uri: Drones-tempt-leaders-to-make-war
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Drones_tempt_leaders_to_make_war%29
content:
<p>
Drones make war, or assassination, so easy that leaders are very
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/515806/the-world-as-free-fire-zone/">tempted 
to do it</a>.
<p>
The article also shows in detail how Obama's criteria for approving
drone assassinations are deceptive and mean the opposite of what
they appear at first glance to mean.


title: Big sugar companies uprooting Guatemalan peasants
uri: Big-sugar-companies-uprooting-Guatemalan-peasants
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Big_sugar_companies_uprooting_Guatemalan_peasants)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Big_sugar_companies_uprooting_Guatemalan_peasants%29

content:
<p>
Guatemalan peasants are being 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jun/26/guatemala-sugar-land-corn">uprooted 
by big companies that grow sugar cane</a>.


title: EU proposes penalties for distorting market indices
uri: EU-proposes-penalties-for-distorting-market-indices
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(EU_proposes_penalties_for_distorting_market_indices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28EU_proposes_penalties_for_distorting_market_indices%29

content:
<p>
The EU proposes 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jun/26/eu-cracks-down-market-rigging">substantial 
penalties</a> for the individuals and firms that distort market
indices such as Libor.


title: Supremem Court invalidates Defense of Marriage Act
uri: Supremem-Court-invalidates-Defense-of-Marriage-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Supremem_Court_invalidates_Defense_of_Marriage_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Supremem_Court_invalidates_Defense_of_Marriage_Act%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/26/supreme-court-doma-prop-8-rulings">invalidated 
the Defense of Marriage Act</a>, saying that same-sex couples legally
married in any state are entitled to whatever benefits the US
government gives to married couples.


title: Republicans want to force Americans to go to work when sick
uri: Republicans-want-to-force-Americans-to-go-to-work-when-sick
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Republicans_want_to_force_Americans_to_go_to_work_when_sick)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Republicans_want_to_force_Americans_to_go_to_work_when_sick%29

content:
<p>
Republicans want to force Americans to go to work when sick,
and skip visits to the doctor 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/florida-paid-sick-leave-ban">so 
they won't be fired</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Clapper_must_be_fired)
title: Clapper must be fired
uri: Clapper-must-be-fired
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Clapper_must_be_fired%29
content:
<p>
Clapper must be fired for 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2013/06/fire_dni_james_clapper_he_lied_to_congress_about_nsa_surveillance.html">intentional 
premeditated lying to Congress and the public</a>.


title: Urgent: Oppose relaxing requirements for wiretapping
uri: Urgent-Oppose-relaxing-requirements-for-wiretapping
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_relaxing_requirements_for_wiretapping)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_relaxing_requirements_for_wiretapping%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/mass_wiretap/">oppose</a> 
relaxing requirements for wiretapping.


title: UK thugs' practice of spying on and smearing people
uri: UK-thugs-practice-of-spying-on-and-smearing-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(UK_thugs_practice_of_spying_on_and_smearing_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28UK_thugs_practice_of_spying_on_and_smearing_people%29

content:
<p>
The UK <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/duwayne-brooks-lawrences-answers">needs 
a public inquiry</a> into the thugs' systematic practice of spying on
and smearing people who get in their way.


title: Senator Wendy Davis blocks Texas anti-abortion law
uri: Senator-Wendy-Davis-blocks-Texas-anti-abortion-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Senator_Wendy_Davis_blocks_Texas_anti-abortion_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Senator_Wendy_Davis_blocks_Texas_anti-abortion_law%29

content:
<p>
Texas State Senator Wendy Davis 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/26/texas-abortion-vote-defeated-deadline-wendy-davis">personally 
spoke for almost 11 hours</a> to block approval of an anti-abortion
law.
<p>
I have supported the campaign to reform the filibuster in the US
senate to require senators to personally speak on the senate floor as
long as it takes.  I have not supported abolishing the filibuster
entirely, because it's a good thing that this form of resistance is
available when legislators are willing to go to great personal lengths
to do it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Thank_Wendy_Davis)
title: Urgent: Thank Wendy Davis
uri: Urgent-Thank-Wendy-Davis
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Wendy_Davis%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Davis">Thank 
Wendy Davis</a> for blocking the Texas anti-abortion law.


title: Urgent: Support Obama's plan for reducing global heating
uri: Urgent-Support-Obama-s-plan-for-reducing-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Obamas_plan_for_reducing_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Obamas_plan_for_reducing_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://online.nwf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1763">Support 
Obama's plan</a> for reducing global heating.
<p>
It is not enough, but we need to fight those who will oppose it anyway.
<p>
Please sign 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3119">this 
one</a> too.


title: Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act
uri: Supreme-Court-guts-the-Voting-Rights-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Supreme_Court_guts_the_Voting_Rights_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Supreme_Court_guts_the_Voting_Rights_Act%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=198934&qid=645839">gutted 
the Voting Rights Act</a>, opening the way for Republicans to block
millions of Americans (mostly black, Hispanic or poor) from voting.
<p>
The election of Obama has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/26-11">
mistakenly convinced many Americans</a> that
there is no racism.
<p>
But even if Republicans are not racist, they are unscrupulous.
They don't need to hate blacks or hispanics or poor people
to try to disenfranchise them.


title: Supreme Court decision on accountability of Abu Ghraib torturers
uri: Supreme-Court-decision-on-accountability-of-Abu-Ghraib-torturers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Supreme_Court_decision_on_accountability_of_Abu_Ghraib_torturers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Supreme_Court_decision_on_accountability_of_Abu_Ghraib_torturers%29

content:
<p>
Thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision, contractors employed for
torture in Abu Ghraib 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/06/26-6">can't be
sued in the US by their victims</a>.


title: Supreme Court invalidates Defense of Marriage Act
uri: Supreme-Court-invalidates-Defense-of-Marriage-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Supreme_Court_invalidates_Defense_of_Marriage_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Supreme_Court_invalidates_Defense_of_Marriage_Act%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/26/supreme-court-doma-prop-8-rulings">invalidated 
the Defense of Marriage Act</a>, saying that same-sex couples legally
married in any state are entitled to whatever benefits the US
government gives to married couples.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Broken_whistleblower_system)
title: Broken whistleblower system
uri: Broken-whistleblower-system
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Broken_whistleblower_system%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/25-4">Snowden 
Saga Reveals a Broken Whistleblower System</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(NSA_deletes_dishonest_fact_sheet)
title: NSA deletes dishonest "fact sheet"
uri: NSA-deletes-dishonest-fact-sheet
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28NSA_deletes_dishonest_fact_sheet%29
content:
<p>
The NSA deleted the dishonest "fact sheet" from its web site
but <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/26-3">refuses 
to acknowledge this</a>.


title: UK spies find excuses to ignore legal limits
uri: UK-spies-find-excuses-to-ignore-legal-limits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(UK_spies_find_excuses_to_ignore_legal_limits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28UK_spies_find_excuses_to_ignore_legal_limits%29

content:
<p>
A UK politician says that UK spies have found excuses to 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/25/david-davis-spy-agencies-law">ignore
legal limits on what they can do</a>.
<p>
Mother Teresa exploited India's poor sick people, 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2010-may-aug.html#17%20July%202010%20(Mother%20Teresa)">raising 
money but spending none of it on medical care for them</a>.
It would not
surprise me if spies are just as bad.


title: Urgent: Obama's global heating reduction plan
uri: Urgent-Obama-s-global-heating-reduction-plan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Obamas_global_heating_reduction_plan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Obamas_global_heating_reduction_plan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1479">call 
on Congress</a> to approve Obama's global heating reduction plan.
<p>
It is not sufficient, but it is necessary.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Repair_the_Voting_Rights_Act)
title: Urgent: Repair the Voting Rights Act
uri: Urgent-Repair-the-Voting-Rights-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Repair_the_Voting_Rights_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/congress-repair-voting-act">call 
on Congress</a> to repair the Voting Rights Act.


title: Glenn Greenwald presents issues being used to try to smear him
uri: Glenn-Greenwald-presents-issues-being-used-to-try-to-smear-him
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Glenn_Greenwald_presents_issues_being_used_to_try_to_smear_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Glenn_Greenwald_presents_issues_being_used_to_try_to_smear_him%29

content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald presents the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/nsa-revelations-response-to-smears">minor 
issues that mainstream "journalists" want to use to smear him</a>,
hoping we will be distracted from important issues such as how the
government spies on us.


title: Ethnic dimension of civil war in Afghanistan
uri: Ethnic-dimension-of-civil-war-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Ethnic_dimension_of_civil_war_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Ethnic_dimension_of_civil_war_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
The civil war in Afghanistan has an 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/nato-taliban-india-pakistan">ethnic 
dimension</a>, and is also a proxy for the rivalry between India and
Pakistan.


title: Deregulation of logging could wipe out endangered species
uri: Deregulation-of-logging-could-wipe-out-endangered-species
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Deregulation_of_logging_could_wipe_out_endangered_species)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Deregulation_of_logging_could_wipe_out_endangered_species%29

content:
<p>
Deregulation of logging in part of Australia
could <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/27/conservation-victoria-logging-endangered-species">wipe
out endangered species.</a>


title: People across Russia dislike government
uri: People-across-Russia-dislike-government
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(People_across_Russia_dislike_government)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28People_across_Russia_dislike_government%29

content:
<p>
A report suggests that people across
Russia <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/27/fragile-empire-russia-putin-review">dislike
their government,</a> but the Moscow-centered opposition failed
because it lacked a connection with people elsewhere in Russia.
<p>
The article seems to present this as a personal failing of the
opposition activists.  I think that criticism is unfair; they can only
use what they have.  However, this is something that activists in
Russia should think about.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Turkey_threatens_to_block_Twitter)
title: Turkey threatens to block Twitter
uri: Turkey-threatens-to-block-Twitter
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Turkey_threatens_to_block_Twitter%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/27/turkish-government-heads-twitter-showdown">Turkey
threatens to block Twitter</a> unless it submits to Turkish
censorship.
<p>
It is ironic that "insulting Ataturk" is cited as a reason for Turkish
government censorship, since President Erdogan is the worst insult to
Ataturk that there could ever be.
<p>
This example shows that German censorship of Nazis sets a dangerous
precedent for other censorship.  I detest the views of Nazis —
they would kill me just because of my ancestry — but censoring
any political views leads to spreading repression.


title: Governor Perry to try again to pass anti-abortion bill
uri: Governor-Perry-to-try-again-to-pass-anti-abortion-bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Governor_Perry_to_try_again_to_pass_anti-abortion_bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Governor_Perry_to_try_again_to_pass_anti-abortion_bill%29

content:
<p>
Texas Governor Perry called a special session of the state legislature
to try again
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/26/rick-perry-texas-abortion-bill-filibuster">pass
the anti-abortion bill.</a>


title: Companies will stop competing if they know about your purchasing practices
uri: Companies-will-stop-competing-if-they-know-about-your-purchasing-pract
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Companies_will_stop_competing_if_they_know_about_your_purchasing_practices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Companies_will_stop_competing_if_they_know_about_your_purchasing_practices%29

content:
<p>
If companies know all about your purchasing practices, and can offer
you prices based on that
knowledge, <a href="http://guyhasson.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/free-fiction-googlenomics/">they
will stop competing</a>.  They will each arrive at the same price to
offer you.


title: Urgent: CNBC stop denying global heating
uri: Urgent-CNBC-stop-denying-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_CNBC_stop_denying_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_CNBC_stop_denying_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on CNBC
to <a href="https://act.forecastthefacts.org/cms/thanks/stop_cnbc_climate_denial">stop
denying global heating.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Give_Snowden_asylum)
title: Urgent: Give Snowden asylum
uri: Urgent-Give-Snowden-asylum
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Give_Snowden_asylum%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: ask President Correa
to <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1439/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13829">give
Snowden asylum.</a>


title: Urgent: Repeal dangerous parts of PAT RIOT Act
uri: Urgent-Repeal-dangerous-parts-of-PAT-RIOT-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Repeal_dangerous_parts_of_PAT_RIOT_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal_dangerous_parts_of_PAT_RIOT_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=PATRIOTAct_RootsAction">repeal
of the dangerous parts of the PAT RIOT Act.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Texas_continues_executing_people)
title: Texas continues executing people
uri: Texas-continues-executing-people
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Texas_continues_executing_people%29
content:
<p>
Texas <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/500-exeuction-texas-death-row">continues
eagerly executing people</a> even though some of the people executed
were almost certainly innocent.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Future_bank_bailouts)
title: Future bank bailouts
uri: Future-bank-bailouts
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Future_bank_bailouts%29
content:
<p>
The EU has made provisions for future bank bailouts to be done at
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jun/27/eu-deal-bank-bailout-taxpayers">expense
of the banks.</a>
<p>
This is how it should be, but a proper system also requires (1) making
sure that no bank can get too big, and (2) limiting the ways they deal
with each other so that failure of one bank can't pull down other
banks.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Campaign_funds_from_richest_Americans)
title: Campaign funds from richest Americans
uri: Campaign-funds-from-richest-Americans
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Campaign_funds_from_richest_Americans%29

content:
<p>
Almost 1/3 of the campaign funds in US elections now come from
the <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/one-percent-wealthy-dominate-2012-elections-congress">richest
.01% of Americans.</a>
<p>
And this is without considering all the corporate money allowed by the
Corporations United decision; a large fraction of that is surely under
these people's control too.


title: Brazil transport improvements and other reforms
uri: Brazil-transport-improvements-and-other-reforms
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 27_June_2013_(Brazil_transport_improvements_and_other_reforms)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_%28Brazil_transport_improvements_and_other_reforms%29

content:
<p>
Brazil's president Rousseff has
proposed <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/25/brazil-president-dilma-rousseff-reform">transport
improvements and other reforms</a> to try to satisfy the protesters.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(Thugs_removed_protesting_students)
title: Thugs removed protesting students
uri: Thugs-removed-protesting-students
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28Thugs_removed_protesting_students%29
content:
<p>
Chilean <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/chile-student-protesters-evicted-schools">thugs
removed protesting students</a> who had occupied schools that are
supposed to be used as polling places.
<p>
Even if there are problems with the electoral system, or no good
candidates, I don't think occupying polling places is a good idea.


title: Restrain War on Drugs from boosting spread of diseases
uri: Restrain-War-on-Drugs-from-boosting-spread-of-diseases
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(Restrain_War_on_Drugs_from_boosting_spread_of_diseases)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28Restrain_War_on_Drugs_from_boosting_spread_of_diseases%29

content:
<p>
The Support, Don't Punish campaign aims
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/27-6">restrain
the War on Drugs</a> from boosting the spread of diseases.


title: Infiltration of dissident groups is covered by limits that are weak
uri: Infiltration-of-dissident-groups-is-covered-by-limits-that-are-weak
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(Infiltration_of_dissident_groups_is_covered_by_limits_that_are_weak)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28Infiltration_of_dissident_groups_is_covered_by_limits_that_are_weak%29

content:
<p>
Massive US infiltration of dissident groups is covered by limits that
turn out to
be <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/27-7">quite
weak</a>. And there is evidence that infiltrators have intentionally
started violence to discredit protests.


title: Thug Department gave CIA agents excuse to spy on Americans
uri: Thug-Department-gave-CIA-agents-excuse-to-spy-on-Americans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(Thug_Department_gave_CIA_agents_excuse_to_spy_on_Americans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28Thug_Department_gave_CIA_agents_excuse_to_spy_on_Americans%29

content:
<p>
The New York Thug Department gave CIA agents
an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nypd-cia-collaboration-surveillance">excuse
to spy on Americans.</a> And their attitude is, the more people they
spy on, the better.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(Ecuador_stood_up_to_US_threats)
title: Ecuador stood up to US threats
uri: Ecuador-stood-up-to-US-threats
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28Ecuador_stood_up_to_US_threats%29
content:
<p>
Ecuador stood up to US threats to cancel a trade treaty
by <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/27-2">cancelling
it unilaterally.</a>
<p>
In addition, Ecuador offered the US aid in human rights training.


title: Mass protests are called for Sunday in Egypt
uri: Mass-protests-are-called-for-Sunday-in-Egypt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(Mass_protests_are_called_for_Sunday_in_Egypt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28Mass_protests_are_called_for_Sunday_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/tamarod-egypt-morsi-campaign-oppsition-resignation">Mass
protests are called for Sunday in Egypt</a>, by the group that has got
15 million signatures on a petition for Morsi's resignation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(Another_legal_excuse_for_surveillance)
title: Another legal excuse for surveillance
uri: Another-legal-excuse-for-surveillance
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28Another_legal_excuse_for_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
James Comey's threat to resign blocked the NSA's massive surveillance
only until
it <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/james-comey-justice-department-data-monitoring">found
another legal excuse for that surveillance.</a>  That one, he
accepted, it appears.
<p>
The NSA
systematically <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-data-mining-authorised-obama">collected
email metadata about everyone in the US</a> for two years under Obama.
<p>
This apparently included every communication between people whose
identity the NSA did not know (since in that case it would not have
known that either party was a US citizen).


title: UK's program to get disabled people to work failed
uri: UK-s-program-to-get-disabled-people-to-work-failed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(UK's_program_to_get_disabled_people_to_work_failed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28UK%27s_program_to_get_disabled_people_to_work_failed%29

content:
<p>
The UK's program to get disabled people to work
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/27/welfare-work-failing-figures">failure
at its stated purpose.</a> However, it was quite effective at
fabricating excuses to cut off benefits
by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#18_April_2013_(Rigged_ability-to-work_tests_for_disabled_people_in_UK)">falsely
claiming that people were not disabled.</a>


title: Glenn Greenwald conversation monitored
uri: Glenn-Greenwald-conversation-monitored
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(Glenn_Greenwald_conversation_monitored)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28Glenn_Greenwald_conversation_monitored%29

content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald gives suggestive evidence
his <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.print.html">Skype
conversation was monitored.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(Mass_protest_in_Chile)
title: Mass protest in Chile
uri: Mass-protest-in-Chile
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28Mass_protest_in_Chile%29
content:
<p>
Someone started violence before 100,000 started a
peaceful <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/chilean-protesters-street-battles-police">mass
protest in Chile.</a>
<p>
I wonder if the violence was organized by thugs as a provocation.
That is standard thug tactics.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 28_June_2013_(Urgent:_Protect_Bristol_Bay)
title: Urgent: Protect Bristol Bay
uri: Urgent-Protect-Bristol-Bay
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_Bristol_Bay%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA to follow its own conclusions
and <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3063">protect
Bristol Bay, by banning Pebble Mine</a>, if you haven't done so
already.
<p>
The Koch brothers are recruiting lots of people to submit comments in
favor of the mine.  Please help cancel them out!


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Ecuador_as_a_refuge_for_Snowden)
title: Ecuador as a refuge for Snowden
uri: Ecuador-as-a-refuge-for-Snowden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Ecuador_as_a_refuge_for_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/27/ecuador-ideal-refuge-edward-snowden">Why 
Ecuador Would Be an Ideal Refuge for Edward Snowden</a>.
<p>
Criminalizing libel is an injustice, but lots of countries do it,
including the UK, France and Italy.  A man was arrested in France just
for saying "Sarkozy I see you" when he witnessed an injustice.  We
should campaign to abolish these laws, in whatever country suffers
from them, but in the mean time this is no reason to condemn Ecuador.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Heavy_rain_in_Indian_Himalayas)
title: Heavy rain in Indian Himalayas
uri: Heavy-rain-in-Indian-Himalayas
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Heavy_rain_in_Indian_Himalayas%29
content:
<p>
Heavy rain in the Indian Himalayas is not unusual, but
human construction and deforestation turned it into a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/28/india-floods-man-made-disaster">disaster</a>.


title: UK to draw up "national pollinator strategy"
uri: UK-to-draw-up-national-pollinator-strategy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(UK_to_draw_up_national_pollinator_strategy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28UK_to_draw_up_national_pollinator_strategy%29

content:
<p>
The UK says it will draw up a 
"<a href='http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/28/bee-crisis-urgent-review'>national 
pollinator strategy</a>".
<p>
I hope it is a serious attempt to protect pollinators rather than an
excuse to keep using neonicotinoids for longer.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Dependence_on_fracking)
title: Dependence on fracking
uri: Dependence-on-fracking
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Dependence_on_fracking%29
content:
<p>
Dependence on fracking is a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/28/shale-gas-40-years-fracking">foolish 
policy</a> even if it offers riches to those who get the profits.


title: Increasing the wealth and power of Brazil's rich
uri: Increasing-the-wealth-and-power-of-Brazil-s-rich
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Increasing_the_wealth_and_power_of_Brazils_rich)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Increasing_the_wealth_and_power_of_Brazils_rich%29

content:
<p>
President Rousseff has abandoned Lula's commitment to participatory
democracy, human rights and popular movements, while 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/28/protests-brazil-price-progress">focusing 
on increasing Brazil's economic strength</a> — which has the
effect of increasing the wealth and power of Brazil's rich.


title: Urgent: Petition against expulsion of Trenton Oldfield
uri: Urgent-Petition-against-expulsion-of-Trenton-Oldfield
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Urgent:_Petition_against_expulsion_of_Trenton_Oldfield)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Petition_against_expulsion_of_Trenton_Oldfield%29

content:
<p>
UK citizens: sign 
<a href="http://thisisnotagateway.squarespace.com/petition/">this 
petition</a> against the expulsion of Trenton Oldfield.


title: NSA extracts data from the whole world
uri: NSA-extracts-data-from-the-whole-world
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(NSA_extracts_data_from_the_whole_world)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28NSA_extracts_data_from_the_whole_world%29

content:
<p>
The NSA 
<a href="http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/how-nsa-hacks-the-whole-world/article4849218.ece">extracts 
data from the whole world</a>, often through the idiotic cooperation
of other governments.
<p>
Please don't call this 
"<a href='http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html'>hacking</a>" — 
it's an insult to us hackers to compare us with the NSA.


title: Urgent: Rebuke Walmart for firing striking workers
uri: Urgent-Rebuke-Walmart-for-firing-striking-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Urgent:_Rebuke_Walmart_for_firing_striking_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Rebuke_Walmart_for_firing_striking_workers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: rebuke Walmart for firing striking workers.
<p>
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/walmart-firings/2/3/">http://action.sumofus.org/a/walmart-firings/2/3/</a>
<p>
<a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/33/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6782">http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/33/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6782</a>
<p>
(Why not sign both?)


title: Obama trying to punish someone who told us about Stuxnet
uri: Obama-trying-to-punish-someone-who-told-us-about-Stuxnet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Obama_trying_to_punish_someone_who_told_us_about_Stuxnet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Obama_trying_to_punish_someone_who_told_us_about_Stuxnet%29

content:
<p>
Obama is trying to punish 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/general-cartwright-investigated-stuxnet-leak">someone 
who told us about the Stuxnet cyberattack.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(The_dead_zone_in_Gulf_of_Mexico)
title: The dead zone in Gulf of Mexico
uri: The-dead-zone-in-Gulf-of-Mexico
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28The_dead_zone_in_Gulf_of_Mexico%29
content:
<p>
The dead zone in Gulf of Mexico has reached the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/27-8">largest 
extent ever observed</a>.
<p>
It is caused by nitrogen from sewage and fertilizer.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Using_aborted_fetuses_for_research)
title: Using aborted fetuses for research
uri: Using-aborted-fetuses-for-research
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Using_aborted_fetuses_for_research%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/medical-research-cell-division-1.13273">cell 
culture from an aborted fetus</a> has "no doubt saved the lives of
millions of people" through development of important
vaccines. However, even if the abortion had not led to such tremendous
benefits, it was a good thing, because the woman who was pregnant did
not want another baby.
<p>
We must firmly reject the idea that there is something ethically
dubious about using aborted fetuses for research.  These ideas come
from people who want to ban abortions, typically based on religious
dogma; they hope that tainting everything that relates to abortions
can help them achieve that nasty goal.  If they kill millions of real
people along the way, that's just collateral damage.
<p>
I don't think there is any reason to require a patient's consent for
research use of removed tissue unless that research might somehow hurt
the patient.  That is starting to become a possibility, since genetic
analysis of that tissue might reveal things about the patient which
could cause that patient to be denied health insurance or denied
employment.  However, the same analysis can be done for other reasons
and cause the same dangers; meanwhile, those dangers can be prevented
entirely with proper health care laws.
<p>
Likewise, the idea of paying the patient from whom the tissue was
removed is absurd.  What we need from medicine is not the chance of a
windfall on the rare occasions when our cells are used in a big enough
way that we'd get a significant sum.  What we need is for important
research to be done, and for the resulting treatments to be available
to all those that need them.  We can easily have this, if we resume
taxing businesses and the rich sufficiently.
<p>
The demand for this income comes from people who face the effects of
growing inequality that forces many down into poverty.  If they joined
the campaign against plutocracy instead, we might all win.


title: Using a refrigerator to block a cell phone listening device
uri: Using-a-refrigerator-to-block-a-cell-phone-listening-device
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Using_a_refrigerator_to_block_a_cell_phone_listening_device)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Using_a_refrigerator_to_block_a_cell_phone_listening_device%29

content:
<p>
One way to block a cell phone listening device from listening to you and
transmitting the conversation is to put it in a refrigerator, which 
<a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/why-snowdens-visitors-put-their-phones-in-the-fridge/">blocks
the radio signal</a>.
<p>
However, if the programmers of the spy software are clever, they might
make it compress and save the audio and transmit it later when it gets
signal.  Thus, blocking the signal is not reliably sufficient.
Blocking it from hearing you is more reliable, if you can be sure the
audio blockage is adequate.


title: George Orwell's birthday celebrated in Utrecht
uri: George-Orwell-s-birthday-celebrated-in-Utrecht
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(George_Orwells_birthday_celebrated_in_Utrecht)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28George_Orwells_birthday_celebrated_in_Utrecht%29

content:
<p>
George Orwell's birthday was celebrated in Utrecht by putting 
<a href="http://front404.com/george-orwells-birthday-party">party
hats on the surveillance cameras</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Conditions_of_prison_in_Tunisia)
title: Conditions of prison in Tunisia
uri: Conditions-of-prison-in-Tunisia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Conditions_of_prison_in_Tunisia%29
content:
<p>
Foreign protesters released from prisoned in Tunisia describe the
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/femen-activists-tunisia-retract-apology">horrible 
conditions</a> of the prison there.
<p>
Their apology deserved to be withdrawn, since it endorsed the idea
that their protest was wrong.  However, it was bad that they
apologized for it at all.  I understand how this might have required a
sacrifice they could not make, but it still would have been better to
refuse.


title: Reporter accused of treason for covering protests in Turkey
uri: Reporter-accused-of-treason-for-covering-protests-in-Turkey
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Reporter_accused_of_treason_for_covering_protests_in_Turkey)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Reporter_accused_of_treason_for_covering_protests_in_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
President Erdogan 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/egyptian-pm-treason-bbc-reporter">accused 
a reporter of treason</a> for covering the protests in Turkey.
<p>
I wonder if examples of similar claims from the US against journalists
such as Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald encouraged him to think he can
get away with this.


title: Sustainable energy future within grasp
uri: Sustainable-energy-future-within-grasp
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Sustainable_energy_future_within_grasp)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Sustainable_energy_future_within_grasp%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/27-5">A Sustainable 
Energy Future is Within Our Grasp</a>.
<p>
However, governments that kowtow to fossil fuel interests
won't grasp it.


title: Surveillance state will almost inevitably become terror state
uri: Surveillance-state-will-almost-inevitably-become-terror-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Surveillance_state_will_almost_inevitably_become_terror_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Surveillance_state_will_almost_inevitably_become_terror_state%29

content:
<p>
The surveillance state, faced with inevitable unrest because of the
increasing poverty it encourages combined with the effects of global heating,
will almost inevitably become a 
<a href="http://creativetimereports.org/2013/06/25/surveillance-and-the-construction-of-a-terror-state/">terror 
state</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Urgent:_Pardon_Snowden)
title: Urgent: Pardon Snowden
uri: Urgent-Pardon-Snowden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Pardon_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD">call 
on Obama</a> to pardon Snowden.


title: Facebook shuts down pages about protests in Turkey
uri: Facebook-shuts-down-pages-about-protests-in-Turkey
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Facebook_shuts_down_pages_about_protests_in_Turkey)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Facebook_shuts_down_pages_about_protests_in_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
Facebook shut down some pages about protests in Turkey
because they had 
"<a href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23079607'>fake 
profiles</a>". No surprise that people protesting in Turkey may not
want to tell the Turkish state who they are.
<p>
This shows why any communication system that requires users to
identify themselves is inadequate for democracy.  That means Facebook
and Google+ are no good.  (Google+ allows pseudonyms, but since Google
has an office in Turkey, Google would have to tell Turkey the user's
real name.)


title: Urgent: Protest disguised cuts in Social Security
uri: Urgent-Protest-disguised-cuts-in-Social-Security
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Urgent:_Protest_disguised_cuts_in_Social_Security)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_disguised_cuts_in_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
In the US: join
a <a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4055/t/14893/p/salsa/event/common/public/">human
chain protest on Tuesday</a> against disguised cuts in Social
Security.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Wendy_Davis's_filibuster)
title: Wendy Davis's filibuster
uri: Wendy-Davis-s-filibuster
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Wendy_Davis%27s_filibuster%29
content:
<p>
Wendy Davis's filibuster won't permanently stop Texas Republicans from
passing the law
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/wendy-davis-texas-abortion-bill">close
most abortion providers</a>.  But it may reinvigorate supporters of
women's rights in Texas.


title: Germany and UK blocked stricter EU fuel economy standards
uri: Germany-and-UK-blocked-stricter-EU-fuel-economy-standards
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Germany_and_UK_blocked_stricter_EU_fuel_economy_standards)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Germany_and_UK_blocked_stricter_EU_fuel_economy_standards%29

content:
<p>
Germany and the
UK <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/28/angela-merkel-eu-car-emissions">blocked
stricter EU fuel economy standards.</a>
<p>
The German PM was obeying orders from car companies — a form of
corruption common in the plutocracy.  Companies powerful enough to
issue such orders must not be allowed to continue to exist.


title: 26 senators have demanded that the NSA come clean about massive surveillance
uri: 26-senators-have-demanded-that-the-NSA-come-clean-about-massive-survei
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(26_senators_have_demanded_that_the_NSA_come_clean_about_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%2826_senators_have_demanded_that_the_NSA_come_clean_about_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
26 senators have demanded that
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/senators-james-clapper-nsa-data-collection">NSA
come clean about its massive surveillance</a> based on "secret law".


title: Mother of murder victim says it will take time for the thugs to regain her trust
uri: Mother-of-murder-victim-says-it-will-take-time-for-the-thugs-to-regain
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Mother_of_murder_victim_says_it_will_take_time_for_the_thugs_to_regain_her_trust)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Mother_of_murder_victim_says_it_will_take_time_for_the_thugs_to_regain_her_trust%29

content:
<p>
The mother of murder victim Stephen Lawrence says it will take time
for the thugs (who tried to smear her and her relatives)
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/28/doreen-lawrence-time-regain-trust-police">regain
her trust.</a>
<p>
Mere time should not suffice: unless they stop their violence and
lies, and their sabotage of democracy, nobody should trust them.


title: Law that would protect only journalists of the mainstream media
uri: Law-that-would-protect-only-journalists-of-the-mainstream-media
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Law_that_would_protect_only_journalists_of_the_mainstream_media)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Law_that_would_protect_only_journalists_of_the_mainstream_media%29

content:
<p>
The US mainstream media are pushing a federal shield law that would
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17250-protecting-mainstream-journalists-only">protect
only the journalists of the mainstream media.</a>
<p>
These are the
same <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_June_2013_(Traitors_to_journalism)">media
that call Snowden a traitor;</a> not much use for telling us what the
government is really doing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Global_heating_wiping_out_forests)
title: Global heating wiping out forests
uri: Global-heating-wiping-out-forests
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Global_heating_wiping_out_forests%29
content:
<p>
Global heating
is <a href="http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2013/jun/climate-change-threatens-forest-survival-drier-low-elevation-sites">wiping
out forests in Oregon.</a> When trees burn, they don't come back.


title: Require insurance to cover contraception
uri: Require-insurance-to-cover-contraception
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Require_insurance_to_cover_contraception)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Require_insurance_to_cover_contraception%29

content:
<p>
Obama is finalizing a rule that will require insurance to cover
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/308447-obama-administration-finalizes-birth-control-mandate">contraception
for employees of most employers.</a>
<p>
The policy as originally proposed was better, but this is pretty good.
<p>
The issue of "religious" employers would not exist if not for the
misguided US policy of associating health care with employment.  This
causes several problems:
<p>
<ul>
<li>
It gives companies an incentive to replace US workers with foreign
workers or machines, so as to reduce what they pay for their
employees' health care.
<li>
It gives companies an incentive to use part-time workers who are not
entitled to health
coverage.  <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#12_December_2012_(Walmart_to_cut_health_coverage)">Walmart
does this.</a>
<p>
<li>
It means unemployed people often have no health care.  (Though Obama's
health care law may reduce this problem.)
<li>
It gives religious employers an excuse to meddle with the health care
of their employees.
</ul>
<p>
We
should <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-big-to-fail/">tax
companies based on their income,</a> and use the money to provide
health care for all Americans whether employed or not.


title: Harmful software patent was invalidated
uri: Harmful-software-patent-was-invalidated
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Harmful_software_patent_was_invalidated)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Harmful_software_patent_was_invalidated%29

content:
<p>
With a big effort, one very harmful
US <a href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-throttles-notorious-patent-used-threaten-public-transit-systems">software
patent was invalidated.</a>
<p>
One down, hundreds of thousands to go.  It is a shame to talk about
"bad patents" as if only <em>some</em> computational idea patents
might be good.
<p>
Trying to make software safe from patent extortion by fighting patents
one at a time — under the patent system's current rules —
is like trying to make people safe from malaria by swatting mosquitos
(and only the ones that come within reach of your hands).  We need to
get rid of them <em>all</em>, and
I've <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">proposed
the way.</a>


title: Liberal responds to mailing from Rand Paul
uri: Liberal-responds-to-mailing-from-Rand-Paul
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Liberal_responds_to_mailing_from_Rand_Paul)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Liberal_responds_to_mailing_from_Rand_Paul%29

content:
<p>
A Liberal like
me <a href="http://ralphlombreglia.com/2013/06/28/my-letter-to-rand-paul/">responds
to a mailing he received from Rand Paul.</a>
<p>
I agree with most of his points, but I disagree on one of them.  I
don't think we should disparage abortion as "the last resort", because
human population growth is
a <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/children.html">big danger to
life on Earth.</a> I encourage people to have an abortion rather than
a baby.


title: Fast food workers accuse employers of stealing pay and obscuring it
uri: Fast-food-workers-accuse-employers-of-stealing-pay-and-obscuring-it
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(Fast_food_workers_accuse_employers_of_stealing_pay_and_obscuring_it)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28Fast_food_workers_accuse_employers_of_stealing_pay_and_obscuring_it%29

content:
<p>
NYC fast food workers accuse their employers
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/06/27-7">stealing
pay and obscuring it</a> by making it hard to determine what what they
were owed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 29_June_2013_(US_Army_blocking_access_to_Guardian)
title: US Army blocking access to Guardian
uri: US-Army-blocking-access-to-Guardian
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_%28US_Army_blocking_access_to_Guardian%29

content:
<p>
The US Army is blocking access from its computers to
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/28-1">Guardian's
coverage of the NSA spying scandal.</a>
<p>
It is afraid that soldiers who see the unapproved side of the story
will be tempted to take the people's side instead of the government's
side.
<p>
If you know anyone in the US military, offer to show that person the
pages that are blocked.


title: Nuclear settlement between Iran and US
uri: Nuclear-settlement-between-Iran-and-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Nuclear_settlement_between_Iran_and_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Nuclear_settlement_between_Iran_and_US%29

content:
<p>
Iran's new president 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/29/iran-president-election-victory">says 
he wants to reach a nuclear settlement</a> with the US.
<p>
I hope the US looks for a settlement, and offers an end of sanctions
as part of the deal.  We can't take this for granted.  Netanyahu will
use his influence to prevent any settlement, because he wants the US
and Iran to go to war rather than resolve differences peacefully.
<p>
The Iranian regime is a disgusting tyranny, which oppresses women and
sometimes men too.  But the US can't change this by conflict with
Iran; the sanctions drive Iranians into supporting their government.
Resolve this dispute, and the state will have nothing to distract the
people with.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Urgent:_Thank_Wendy_Davis)
title: Urgent: Thank Wendy Davis
uri: 2013-06-30-Urgent-Thank-Wendy-Davis
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Wendy_Davis%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/get-involved/wendy-davis-card.html">thank 
Wendy Davis</a> for defending women's rights with courage.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Stop_and_frisk_by_NY_municipal_thugs)
title: "Stop and frisk" by NY municipal thugs
uri: Stop-and-frisk-by-NY-municipal-thugs
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Stop_and_frisk_by_NY_municipal_thugs%29

content:
<p>
The New York City Council adopted 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/27/new-york-council-votes-stop-and-frisk-oversight">some 
limits</a> on arbitrary searches of people's persons by the municipal
thugs.
<p>
"Stop and frisk" without reasonable grounds for suspicion should not
be allowed at all.


title: Urgent: Sign the Washington Statement on privacy rights and data
uri: Urgent-Sign-the-Washington-Statement-on-privacy-rights-and-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Urgent:_Sign_the_Washington_Statement_on_privacy_rights_and_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Sign_the_Washington_Statement_on_privacy_rights_and_data%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://themaastrix.newsradar.org/">please sign</a> the 
Washington Statement on privacy rights and data.


title: War on Drugs against state legalization of marijuana
uri: War-on-Drugs-against-state-legalization-of-marijuana
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(War_on_Drugs_against_state_legalization_of_marijuana)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28War_on_Drugs_against_state_legalization_of_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
The US Conference of Mayors unanimously called on the Obama regime
<a href="http://blog.mpp.org/prohibition/u-s-mayors-approve-marijuana-resolution-end-the-federal-government-crackdown/06252013/">not
to impose its War on Drugs</a> against state legalization of
marijuana.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(8_years_in_prison_for_threat)
title: 8 years in prison for threat
uri: 8-years-in-prison-for-threat
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%288_years_in_prison_for_threat%29
content:
<p>
Justin Carter is threatened with 8 years in prison for
a <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/texas-teen-makes-violent-joke-during-video-game-is-jailed-for-months/">"threat"
that was followed by "lol, just kidding".</a>
<p>
Note how the "authorities" look for excuses to disregard part of the
truth in order to twist something into a crime.


title: US film studios collaborated with Hitler's regime
uri: US-film-studios-collaborated-with-Hitler-s-regime
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(US_film_studios_collaborated_with_Hitler's_regime)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28US_film_studios_collaborated_with_Hitler%27s_regime%29

content:
<p>
US film
studios <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jun/29/historian-says-hollywood-collaborated-with-nazis">collaborated
with Hitler's regime</a> in the 30s, changing films to avoid losing
revenue from Germany.
<p>
We've seen a similar pattern of US businesses' catering to China and
Chinese censorship in the past decade.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(South_Sudan_oppressing_journalists)
title: South Sudan oppressing journalists
uri: South-Sudan-oppressing-journalists
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28South_Sudan_oppressing_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The people of southern Sudan won freedom from the government of Sudan.
Now the government of South Sudan
is <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/south-sudans-state-actors-turn-on-journalists-and-aid-workers/">oppressing
journalists that criticize it.</a>


title: Barbuda destroying itself to get short-term income
uri: Barbuda-destroying-itself-to-get-short-term-income
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Barbuda_destroying_itself_to_get_short-term_income)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Barbuda_destroying_itself_to_get_short-term_income%29

content:
<p>
The island of Barbuda
is <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/facing-tough-times-barbuda-continues-sand-mining-despite-warnings/">destroying
itself by sand mining</a> to get short-term income.
<p>
Lots of irreplaceable things on Earth will be destroyed forever in
this century, on the same logic.  If we invest in sustainable
activities, we can reduce this — but part of that is having
fewer children.
<p>
Besides which, these beaches, this sand, will probably be inundated in
this century anyway if we don't stop causing sea level to rise.


title: Republicans blame individual Americans for having no work
uri: Republicans-blame-individual-Americans-for-having-no-work
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Republicans_blame_individual_Americans_for_having_no_work)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Republicans_blame_individual_Americans_for_having_no_work%29

content:
<p>
Now that Republicans and Democrats have created a shortage of jobs in
the US,
Republicans <a href="http://socialistworker.org/2013/06/26/washingtons-hunger-games">blame
individual Americans for having no work.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(National-Security_Letter)
title: National-Security Letter
uri: National-Security-Letter
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28National-Security_Letter%29
content:
<p>
What It's Like to Get
a <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/06/what-its-like-to-get-a-national-security-letter.html">"National-Security
Letter"</a>
<p>
(that is, a demand to give data to the state secretly and you'll be
imprisoned if you ever tell anyone).


title: Plutocrats drawn to geoengineering schemes
uri: Plutocrats-drawn-to-geoengineering-schemes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Plutocrats_drawn_to_geoengineering_schemes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Plutocrats_drawn_to_geoengineering_schemes%29

content:
<p>
Some plutocrats are drawn
to <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/15084/geoengineers_gone_wild/">geoengineering
schemes</a> to try to compensate for our CO2 emissions.
<p>
The sulfate scheme is toxic and fails to prevent the other harm done
by CO2: ocean acidification, which
can <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#10_July_2012_(Ocean_acidification_due_to_CO2)">kill
a large fraction of the life</a> in the oceans.
<p>
Removing CO2 by fertilizing plankton would prevent both problems.  It
might be better than allowing the disaster to happen.
<p>
However, we could still probably prevent the disaster through
renewable energy, which would be better than stopping it using drastic
measures.


title: Republicans' response to Obama's climate plan
uri: Republicans-response-to-Obama-s-climate-plan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Republicans'_response_to_Obama's_climate_plan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Republicans%27_response_to_Obama%27s_climate_plan%29

content:
<p>
Republicans' response to Obama's climate plan is
to <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/28/2234351/house-republicans-response-to-obamas-climate-plan-drill-baby-drill/">extract
more fossil fuels.</a>
<p>
Unfortunately, Obama's
plan <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_(Obama_states_plans_to_reduce_CO2_emissions)">isn't
very different from that.</a>


title: Night-mayor and thug chief trying to defeat bill to limit arbitrary searches
uri: Night-mayor-and-thug-chief-trying-to-defeat-bill-to-limit-arbitrary-se
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Night-mayor_and_thug_chief_trying_to_defeat_bill_to_limit_arbitrary_searches)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Night-mayor_and_thug_chief_trying_to_defeat_bill_to_limit_arbitrary_searches%29

content:
<p>
New York's night-mayor Bloomberg, and the thug chief Kelly, are still
trying
to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/nyregion/new-york-city-council-votes-to-increase-oversight-of-police-dept.html">defeat
the bill to limit arbitrary searches.</a>
<p>
The bill would also increase civilian control over the New York thugs,
who have been found to
systematically <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#15_December_2011_(NYC)">repress
human rights.</a>
<p>
Bloomberg
explicitly <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/28/2231761/mayor-bloomberg-nypd-stop-whites-too-much-and-minorities-too-little/">advocates
increased racism</a> in these searches.
<p>
Such racism is wrong, but it's a secondary aspect of the wrong.  The
root of the wrong is allowing thugs to search people arbitrarily.


title: Anyone demonstrating at the site where soldier was killed will be arrested
uri: Anyone-demonstrating-at-the-site-where-soldier-was-killed-will-be-arre
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Anyone_demonstrating_at_the_site_where_soldier_was_killed_will_be_arrested)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Anyone_demonstrating_at_the_site_where_soldier_was_killed_will_be_arrested%29

content:
<p>
The UK says that anyone carrying out a demonstration at the site where
a soldier was
killed <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/29/english-defence-league-leaders-woolwich">will
be arrested</a>. So much for political freedom in the UK.
<p>
Whether we agree with those people's politics is beside the point.


title: Hospital patient throw away 82,000 meals every day
uri: Hospital-patient-throw-away-82-000-meals-every-day
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Hospital_patient_throw_away_82,000_meals_every_day)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Hospital_patient_throw_away_82%2C000_meals_every_day%29

content:
<p>
Hospital
patients <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/29/hospitals-throw-away-quarter-of-food">throw
away 82,000 meals every day</a> in the UK, because the food is so
lousy they don't want to eat it. The staff say they would not eat it
either.
<p>
This is the result of the budget cuts which are intended to ruin and
then destroy the NHS.


title: Susan Rice downplayed effect of Snowden's revelations
uri: Susan-Rice-downplayed-effect-of-Snowden-s-revelations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Susan_Rice_downplayed_effect_of_Snowden's_revelations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Susan_Rice_downplayed_effect_of_Snowden%27s_revelations%29

content:
<p>
US national security advisor Susan
Rice <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/29/edward-snowden-president-susan-rice">downplayed
the effect of Snowden's revelations.</a> We will cite this when
someone says they "hurt the US".
<p>
Of course, what such officials mean by "the US" is the power of the
state, not the collectivity of Americans.  We Americans are "the
enemy" that people
like <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#01_March_2013_(Prosecution_of_Bradley_Manning_follows_standard_tactic_of_deception)">Bradley
Manning are accused of aiding.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html 30_June_2013_(Biometric_cars)
title: Biometric cars
uri: Biometric-cars
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_June_2013_%28Biometric_cars%29
content:
<p>
"Biometric cars"
will <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jun/29/top-gear-biometrics-taming-jeremy-clarkson">monitor
their users in many ways</a>, and of course the data will be
warehoused for companies to hand to the NSA via PRISM.
<p>
We must insist on free software in our cars.


title: Wikileaks participant gave information to FBI for money
uri: Wikileaks-participant-gave-information-to-FBI-for-money
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Wikileaks_participant_gave_information_to_FBI_for_money)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Wikileaks_participant_gave_information_to_FBI_for_money%29

content:
<p>
A Wikileaks participant 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/wikileaks-mole/all/">gave 
information to the FBI for money</a>.  He seems to have done other
nasty things for money too.


title: Traffic Cameras Bring Tiny Ohio Village To A Stop
uri: Traffic-Cameras-Bring-Tiny-Ohio-Village-To-A-Stop
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Traffic_Cameras_Bring_Tiny_Ohio_Village_To_A_Stop)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Traffic_Cameras_Bring_Tiny_Ohio_Village_To_A_Stop%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=196978798">Traffic 
Cameras Bring Tiny Ohio Village To A Stop</a>.


title: War on Drugs against state legalization of marijuana
uri: 2013-07-01-War-on-Drugs-against-state-legalization-of-marijuana
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(War_on_Drugs_against_state_legalization_of_marijuana)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28War_on_Drugs_against_state_legalization_of_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
The US Conference of Mayors unanimously called on the Obama regime
<a href="http://blog.mpp.org/prohibition/u-s-mayors-approve-marijuana-resolution-end-the-federal-government-crackdown/06252013/">not
to impose its War on Drugs</a> against state legalization of
marijuana.


title: US film studios collaborated with Hitler's regime
uri: 2013-07-01-US-film-studios-collaborated-with-Hitler-s-regime
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(US_film_studios_collaborated_with_Hitler's_regime)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28US_film_studios_collaborated_with_Hitler%27s_regime%29

content:
<p>
US film
studios <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jun/29/historian-says-hollywood-collaborated-with-nazis">collaborated
with Hitler's regime</a> in the 30s, changing films to avoid losing
revenue from Germany.
<p>
We've seen a similar pattern of US businesses' catering to China and
Chinese censorship in the past decade.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(South_Sudan_oppressing_journalists)
title: South Sudan oppressing journalists
uri: 2013-07-01-South-Sudan-oppressing-journalists
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28South_Sudan_oppressing_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The people of southern Sudan won freedom from the government of Sudan.
Now the government of South Sudan
is <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/south-sudans-state-actors-turn-on-journalists-and-aid-workers/">oppressing
journalists that criticize it.</a>


title: Barbuda destroying itself to get short-term income
uri: 2013-07-01-Barbuda-destroying-itself-to-get-short-term-income
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Barbuda_destroying_itself_to_get_short-term_income)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Barbuda_destroying_itself_to_get_short-term_income%29

content:
<p>
The island of Barbuda
is <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/facing-tough-times-barbuda-continues-sand-mining-despite-warnings/">destroying
itself by sand mining</a> to get short-term income.
<p>
Lots of irreplaceable things on Earth will be destroyed forever in
this century, on the same logic.  If we invest in sustainable
activities, we can reduce this — but part of that is having
fewer children.
<p>
Besides which, these beaches, this sand, will probably be inundated in
this century anyway if we don't stop causing sea level to rise.


title: Republicans blame individual Americans for having no work
uri: 2013-07-01-Republicans-blame-individual-Americans-for-having-no-work
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Republicans_blame_individual_Americans_for_having_no_work)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Republicans_blame_individual_Americans_for_having_no_work%29

content:
<p>
Now that Republicans and Democrats have created a shortage of jobs in
the US,
Republicans <a href="http://socialistworker.org/2013/06/26/washingtons-hunger-games">blame
individual Americans for having no work.</a>


title: Plutocrats drawn to geoengineering schemes
uri: 2013-07-01-Plutocrats-drawn-to-geoengineering-schemes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Plutocrats_drawn_to_geoengineering_schemes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Plutocrats_drawn_to_geoengineering_schemes%29

content:
<p>
Some plutocrats are drawn
to <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/15084/geoengineers_gone_wild/">geoengineering
schemes</a> to try to compensate for our CO2 emissions.
<p>
The sulfate scheme is toxic and fails to prevent the other harm done
by CO2: ocean acidification, which
can <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#10_July_2012_(Ocean_acidification_due_to_CO2)">kill
a large fraction of the life</a> in the oceans.
<p>
Removing CO2 by fertilizing plankton would prevent both problems.  It
might be better than allowing the disaster to happen.
<p>
However, we could still probably prevent the disaster through
renewable energy, which would be better than stopping it using drastic
measures.


title: Republicans' response to Obama's climate plan
uri: 2013-07-01-Republicans-response-to-Obama-s-climate-plan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Republicans'_response_to_Obama's_climate_plan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Republicans%27_response_to_Obama%27s_climate_plan%29

content:
<p>
Republicans' response to Obama's climate plan is
to <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/28/2234351/house-republicans-response-to-obamas-climate-plan-drill-baby-drill/">extract
more fossil fuels.</a>
<p>
Unfortunately, Obama's
plan <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#26_June_2013_(Obama_states_plans_to_reduce_CO2_emissions)">isn't
very different from that.</a>


title: Night-mayor and thug chief trying to defeat bill to limit arbitrary searches
uri: 2013-07-01-Night-mayor-and-thug-chief-trying-to-defeat-bill-to-limit-arbitrary-se
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Night-mayor_and_thug_chief_trying_to_defeat_bill_to_limit_arbitrary_searches)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Night-mayor_and_thug_chief_trying_to_defeat_bill_to_limit_arbitrary_searches%29

content:
<p>
New York's night-mayor Bloomberg, and the thug chief Kelly, are still
trying
to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/nyregion/new-york-city-council-votes-to-increase-oversight-of-police-dept.html">defeat
the bill to limit arbitrary searches.</a>
<p>
The bill would also increase civilian control over the New York thugs,
who have been found to
systematically <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#15_December_2011_(NYC)">repress
human rights.</a>
<p>
Bloomberg
explicitly <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/28/2231761/mayor-bloomberg-nypd-stop-whites-too-much-and-minorities-too-little/">advocates
increased racism</a> in these searches.
<p>
Such racism is wrong, but it's a secondary aspect of the wrong.  The
root of the wrong is allowing thugs to search people arbitrarily.


title: Anyone demonstrating at the site where soldier was killed will be arrested
uri: 2013-07-01-Anyone-demonstrating-at-the-site-where-soldier-was-killed-will-be-arre
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Anyone_demonstrating_at_the_site_where_soldier_was_killed_will_be_arrested)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Anyone_demonstrating_at_the_site_where_soldier_was_killed_will_be_arrested%29

content:
<p>
The UK says that anyone carrying out a demonstration at the site where
a soldier was
killed <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/29/english-defence-league-leaders-woolwich">will
be arrested</a>. So much for political freedom in the UK.
<p>
Whether we agree with those people's politics is beside the point.


title: Hospital patient throw away 82,000 meals every day
uri: 2013-07-01-Hospital-patient-throw-away-82-000-meals-every-day
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Hospital_patient_throw_away_82,000_meals_every_day)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Hospital_patient_throw_away_82%2C000_meals_every_day%29

content:
<p>
Hospital
patients <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/29/hospitals-throw-away-quarter-of-food">throw
away 82,000 meals every day</a> in the UK, because the food is so
lousy they don't want to eat it. The staff say they would not eat it
either.
<p>
This is the result of the budget cuts which are intended to ruin and
then destroy the NHS.


title: Susan Rice downplayed effect of Snowden's revelations
uri: 2013-07-01-Susan-Rice-downplayed-effect-of-Snowden-s-revelations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Susan_Rice_downplayed_effect_of_Snowden's_revelations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Susan_Rice_downplayed_effect_of_Snowden%27s_revelations%29

content:
<p>
US national security advisor Susan
Rice <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/29/edward-snowden-president-susan-rice">downplayed
the effect of Snowden's revelations.</a> We will cite this when
someone says they "hurt the US".
<p>
Of course, what such officials mean by "the US" is the power of the
state, not the collectivity of Americans.  We Americans are "the
enemy" that people
like <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#01_March_2013_(Prosecution_of_Bradley_Manning_follows_standard_tactic_of_deception)">Bradley
Manning are accused of aiding.</a>


title: Nuclear settlement between Iran and US
uri: 2013-07-01-Nuclear-settlement-between-Iran-and-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Nuclear_settlement_between_Iran_and_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Nuclear_settlement_between_Iran_and_US%29

content:
<p>
Iran's new president 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/29/iran-president-election-victory">says 
he wants to reach a nuclear settlement</a> with the US.
<p>
I hope the US looks for a settlement, and offers an end of sanctions
as part of the deal.  We can't take this for granted.  Netanyahu will
use his influence to prevent any settlement, because he wants the US
and Iran to go to war rather than resolve differences peacefully.
<p>
The Iranian regime is a disgusting tyranny, which oppresses women and
sometimes men too.  But the US can't change this by conflict with
Iran; the sanctions drive Iranians into supporting their government.
Resolve this dispute, and the state will have nothing to distract the
people with.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Stop_and_frisk_by_NY_municipal_thugs)
title: "Stop and frisk" by NY municipal thugs
uri: 2013-07-01-Stop-and-frisk-by-NY-municipal-thugs
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Stop_and_frisk_by_NY_municipal_thugs%29

content:
<p>
The New York City Council adopted 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/27/new-york-council-votes-stop-and-frisk-oversight">some 
limits</a> on arbitrary searches of people's persons by the municipal
thugs.
<p>
"Stop and frisk" without reasonable grounds for suspicion should not
be allowed at all.


title: Urgent: Sign the Washington Statement on privacy rights and data
uri: 2013-07-01-Urgent-Sign-the-Washington-Statement-on-privacy-rights-and-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_June_2013_(Urgent:_Sign_the_Washington_Statement_on_privacy_rights_and_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Sign_the_Washington_Statement_on_privacy_rights_and_data%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://themaastrix.newsradar.org/">please sign</a> the 
Washington Statement on privacy rights and data.


title: Urgent: Protest disguised cuts in Social Security
uri: 2013-07-01-Urgent-Protest-disguised-cuts-in-Social-Security
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Urgent:_Protest_disguised_cuts_in_Social_Security)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_disguised_cuts_in_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
In the US: join
a <a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4055/t/14893/p/salsa/event/common/public/">human
chain protest on Tuesday</a> against disguised cuts in Social
Security.


title: Germany and UK blocked stricter EU fuel economy standards
uri: 2013-07-01-Germany-and-UK-blocked-stricter-EU-fuel-economy-standards
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Germany_and_UK_blocked_stricter_EU_fuel_economy_standards)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Germany_and_UK_blocked_stricter_EU_fuel_economy_standards%29

content:
<p>
Germany and the
UK <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/28/angela-merkel-eu-car-emissions">blocked
stricter EU fuel economy standards.</a>
<p>
The German PM was obeying orders from car companies — a form of
corruption common in the plutocracy.  Companies powerful enough to
issue such orders must not be allowed to continue to exist.


title: 26 senators have demanded that the NSA come clean about massive surveillance
uri: 2013-07-01-26-senators-have-demanded-that-the-NSA-come-clean-about-massive-survei
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(26_senators_have_demanded_that_the_NSA_come_clean_about_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%2826_senators_have_demanded_that_the_NSA_come_clean_about_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
26 senators have demanded that
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/senators-james-clapper-nsa-data-collection">NSA
come clean about its massive surveillance</a> based on "secret law".


title: Mother of murder victim says it will take time for the thugs to regain her trust
uri: 2013-07-01-Mother-of-murder-victim-says-it-will-take-time-for-the-thugs-to-regain
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Mother_of_murder_victim_says_it_will_take_time_for_the_thugs_to_regain_her_trust)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Mother_of_murder_victim_says_it_will_take_time_for_the_thugs_to_regain_her_trust%29

content:
<p>
The mother of murder victim Stephen Lawrence says it will take time
for the thugs (who tried to smear her and her relatives)
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/28/doreen-lawrence-time-regain-trust-police">regain
her trust.</a>
<p>
Mere time should not suffice: unless they stop their violence and
lies, and their sabotage of democracy, nobody should trust them.


title: Law that would protect only journalists of the mainstream media
uri: 2013-07-01-Law-that-would-protect-only-journalists-of-the-mainstream-media
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Law_that_would_protect_only_journalists_of_the_mainstream_media)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Law_that_would_protect_only_journalists_of_the_mainstream_media%29

content:
<p>
The US mainstream media are pushing a federal shield law that would
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17250-protecting-mainstream-journalists-only">protect
only the journalists of the mainstream media.</a>
<p>
These are the
same <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#17_June_2013_(Traitors_to_journalism)">media
that call Snowden a traitor;</a> not much use for telling us what the
government is really doing.


title: Require insurance to cover contraception
uri: 2013-07-01-Require-insurance-to-cover-contraception
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Require_insurance_to_cover_contraception)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Require_insurance_to_cover_contraception%29

content:
<p>
Obama is finalizing a rule that will require insurance to cover
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/308447-obama-administration-finalizes-birth-control-mandate">contraception
for employees of most employers.</a>
<p>
The policy as originally proposed was better, but this is pretty good.
<p>
The issue of "religious" employers would not exist if not for the
misguided US policy of associating health care with employment.  This
causes several problems:
<p>
<ul>
<li>
It gives companies an incentive to replace US workers with foreign
workers or machines, so as to reduce what they pay for their
employees' health care.
<li>
It gives companies an incentive to use part-time workers who are not
entitled to health
coverage.  <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#12_December_2012_(Walmart_to_cut_health_coverage)">Walmart
does this.</a>
<p>
<li>
It means unemployed people often have no health care.  (Though Obama's
health care law may reduce this problem.)
<li>
It gives religious employers an excuse to meddle with the health care
of their employees.
</ul>
<p>
We
should <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-big-to-fail/">tax
companies based on their income,</a> and use the money to provide
health care for all Americans whether employed or not.


title: Harmful software patent was invalidated
uri: 2013-07-01-Harmful-software-patent-was-invalidated
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Harmful_software_patent_was_invalidated)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Harmful_software_patent_was_invalidated%29

content:
<p>
With a big effort, one very harmful
US <a href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-throttles-notorious-patent-used-threaten-public-transit-systems">software
patent was invalidated.</a>
<p>
One down, hundreds of thousands to go.  It is a shame to talk about
"bad patents" as if only <em>some</em> computational idea patents
might be good.
<p>
Trying to make software safe from patent extortion by fighting patents
one at a time — under the patent system's current rules —
is like trying to make people safe from malaria by swatting mosquitos
(and only the ones that come within reach of your hands).  We need to
get rid of them <em>all</em>, and
I've <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">proposed
the way.</a>


title: Liberal responds to mailing from Rand Paul
uri: 2013-07-01-Liberal-responds-to-mailing-from-Rand-Paul
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Liberal_responds_to_mailing_from_Rand_Paul)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Liberal_responds_to_mailing_from_Rand_Paul%29

content:
<p>
A Liberal like
me <a href="http://ralphlombreglia.com/2013/06/28/my-letter-to-rand-paul/">responds
to a mailing he received from Rand Paul.</a>
<p>
I agree with most of his points, but I disagree on one of them.  I
don't think we should disparage abortion as "the last resort", because
human population growth is
a <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/children.html">big danger to
life on Earth.</a> I encourage people to have an abortion rather than
a baby.


title: Fast food workers accuse employers of stealing pay and obscuring it
uri: 2013-07-01-Fast-food-workers-accuse-employers-of-stealing-pay-and-obscuring-it
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Fast_food_workers_accuse_employers_of_stealing_pay_and_obscuring_it)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Fast_food_workers_accuse_employers_of_stealing_pay_and_obscuring_it%29

content:
<p>
NYC fast food workers accuse their employers
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/06/27-7">stealing
pay and obscuring it</a> by making it hard to determine what what they
were owed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(US_Army_blocking_access_to_Guardian)
title: US Army blocking access to Guardian
uri: 2013-07-01-US-Army-blocking-access-to-Guardian
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28US_Army_blocking_access_to_Guardian%29

content:
<p>
The US Army is blocking access from its computers to
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/28-1">Guardian's
coverage of the NSA spying scandal.</a>
<p>
It is afraid that soldiers who see the unapproved side of the story
will be tempted to take the people's side instead of the government's
side.
<p>
If you know anyone in the US military, offer to show that person the
pages that are blocked.


title: UK to draw up "national pollinator strategy"
uri: 2013-07-01-UK-to-draw-up-national-pollinator-strategy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(UK_to_draw_up_national_pollinator_strategy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28UK_to_draw_up_national_pollinator_strategy%29

content:
<p>
The UK says it will draw up a 
"<a href='http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/28/bee-crisis-urgent-review'>national 
pollinator strategy</a>".
<p>
I hope it is a serious attempt to protect pollinators rather than an
excuse to keep using neonicotinoids for longer.


title: Increasing the wealth and power of Brazil's rich
uri: 2013-07-01-Increasing-the-wealth-and-power-of-Brazil-s-rich
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Increasing_the_wealth_and_power_of_Brazils_rich)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Increasing_the_wealth_and_power_of_Brazils_rich%29

content:
<p>
President Rousseff has abandoned Lula's commitment to participatory
democracy, human rights and popular movements, while 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/28/protests-brazil-price-progress">focusing 
on increasing Brazil's economic strength</a> — which has the
effect of increasing the wealth and power of Brazil's rich.


title: Urgent: Petition against expulsion of Trenton Oldfield
uri: 2013-07-01-Urgent-Petition-against-expulsion-of-Trenton-Oldfield
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Urgent:_Petition_against_expulsion_of_Trenton_Oldfield)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Petition_against_expulsion_of_Trenton_Oldfield%29

content:
<p>
UK citizens: sign 
<a href="http://thisisnotagateway.squarespace.com/petition/">this 
petition</a> against the expulsion of Trenton Oldfield.


title: NSA extracts data from the whole world
uri: 2013-07-01-NSA-extracts-data-from-the-whole-world
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(NSA_extracts_data_from_the_whole_world)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28NSA_extracts_data_from_the_whole_world%29

content:
<p>
The NSA 
<a href="http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/how-nsa-hacks-the-whole-world/article4849218.ece">extracts 
data from the whole world</a>, often through the idiotic cooperation
of other governments.
<p>
Please don't call this 
"<a href='http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html'>hacking</a>" — 
it's an insult to us hackers to compare us with the NSA.


title: Urgent: Rebuke Walmart for firing striking workers
uri: 2013-07-01-Urgent-Rebuke-Walmart-for-firing-striking-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Urgent:_Rebuke_Walmart_for_firing_striking_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Rebuke_Walmart_for_firing_striking_workers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: rebuke Walmart for firing striking workers.
<p>
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/walmart-firings/2/3/">http://action.sumofus.org/a/walmart-firings/2/3/</a>
<p>
<a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/33/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6782">http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/33/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6782</a>
<p>
(Why not sign both?)


title: Obama trying to punish someone who told us about Stuxnet
uri: 2013-07-01-Obama-trying-to-punish-someone-who-told-us-about-Stuxnet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Obama_trying_to_punish_someone_who_told_us_about_Stuxnet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Obama_trying_to_punish_someone_who_told_us_about_Stuxnet%29

content:
<p>
Obama is trying to punish 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/general-cartwright-investigated-stuxnet-leak">someone 
who told us about the Stuxnet cyberattack.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Using_aborted_fetuses_for_research)
title: Using aborted fetuses for research
uri: 2013-07-01-Using-aborted-fetuses-for-research
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Using_aborted_fetuses_for_research%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/medical-research-cell-division-1.13273">cell 
culture from an aborted fetus</a> has "no doubt saved the lives of
millions of people" through development of important
vaccines. However, even if the abortion had not led to such tremendous
benefits, it was a good thing, because the woman who was pregnant did
not want another baby.
<p>
We must firmly reject the idea that there is something ethically
dubious about using aborted fetuses for research.  These ideas come
from people who want to ban abortions, typically based on religious
dogma; they hope that tainting everything that relates to abortions
can help them achieve that nasty goal.  If they kill millions of real
people along the way, that's just collateral damage.
<p>
I don't think there is any reason to require a patient's consent for
research use of removed tissue unless that research might somehow hurt
the patient.  That is starting to become a possibility, since genetic
analysis of that tissue might reveal things about the patient which
could cause that patient to be denied health insurance or denied
employment.  However, the same analysis can be done for other reasons
and cause the same dangers; meanwhile, those dangers can be prevented
entirely with proper health care laws.
<p>
Likewise, the idea of paying the patient from whom the tissue was
removed is absurd.  What we need from medicine is not the chance of a
windfall on the rare occasions when our cells are used in a big enough
way that we'd get a significant sum.  What we need is for important
research to be done, and for the resulting treatments to be available
to all those that need them.  We can easily have this, if we resume
taxing businesses and the rich sufficiently.
<p>
The demand for this income comes from people who face the effects of
growing inequality that forces many down into poverty.  If they joined
the campaign against plutocracy instead, we might all win.


title: Using a refrigerator to block a cell phone listening device
uri: 2013-07-01-Using-a-refrigerator-to-block-a-cell-phone-listening-device
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Using_a_refrigerator_to_block_a_cell_phone_listening_device)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Using_a_refrigerator_to_block_a_cell_phone_listening_device%29

content:
<p>
One way to block a cell phone listening device from listening to you and
transmitting the conversation is to put it in a refrigerator, which 
<a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/why-snowdens-visitors-put-their-phones-in-the-fridge/">blocks
the radio signal</a>.
<p>
However, if the programmers of the spy software are clever, they might
make it compress and save the audio and transmit it later when it gets
signal.  Thus, blocking the signal is not reliably sufficient.
Blocking it from hearing you is more reliable, if you can be sure the
audio blockage is adequate.


title: George Orwell's birthday celebrated in Utrecht
uri: 2013-07-01-George-Orwell-s-birthday-celebrated-in-Utrecht
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(George_Orwells_birthday_celebrated_in_Utrecht)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28George_Orwells_birthday_celebrated_in_Utrecht%29

content:
<p>
George Orwell's birthday was celebrated in Utrecht by putting 
<a href="http://front404.com/george-orwells-birthday-party">party
hats on the surveillance cameras</a>.


title: Reporter accused of treason for covering protests in Turkey
uri: 2013-07-01-Reporter-accused-of-treason-for-covering-protests-in-Turkey
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Reporter_accused_of_treason_for_covering_protests_in_Turkey)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Reporter_accused_of_treason_for_covering_protests_in_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
President Erdogan 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/egyptian-pm-treason-bbc-reporter">accused 
a reporter of treason</a> for covering the protests in Turkey.
<p>
I wonder if examples of similar claims from the US against journalists
such as Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald encouraged him to think he can
get away with this.


title: Sustainable energy future within grasp
uri: 2013-07-01-Sustainable-energy-future-within-grasp
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Sustainable_energy_future_within_grasp)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Sustainable_energy_future_within_grasp%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/27-5">A Sustainable 
Energy Future is Within Our Grasp</a>.
<p>
However, governments that kowtow to fossil fuel interests
won't grasp it.


title: Surveillance state will almost inevitably become terror state
uri: 2013-07-01-Surveillance-state-will-almost-inevitably-become-terror-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Surveillance_state_will_almost_inevitably_become_terror_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Surveillance_state_will_almost_inevitably_become_terror_state%29

content:
<p>
The surveillance state, faced with inevitable unrest because of the
increasing poverty it encourages combined with the effects of global heating,
will almost inevitably become a 
<a href="http://creativetimereports.org/2013/06/25/surveillance-and-the-construction-of-a-terror-state/">terror 
state</a>.


title: Facebook shuts down pages about protests in Turkey
uri: 2013-07-01-Facebook-shuts-down-pages-about-protests-in-Turkey
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_June_2013_(Facebook_shuts_down_pages_about_protests_in_Turkey)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_June_2013_%28Facebook_shuts_down_pages_about_protests_in_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
Facebook shut down some pages about protests in Turkey
because they had 
"<a href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23079607'>fake 
profiles</a>". No surprise that people protesting in Turkey may not
want to tell the Turkish state who they are.
<p>
This shows why any communication system that requires users to
identify themselves is inadequate for democracy.  That means Facebook
and Google+ are no good.  (Google+ allows pseudonyms, but since Google
has an office in Turkey, Google would have to tell Turkey the user's
real name.)


title: Restrain War on Drugs from boosting spread of diseases
uri: 2013-07-01-Restrain-War-on-Drugs-from-boosting-spread-of-diseases
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_June_2013_(Restrain_War_on_Drugs_from_boosting_spread_of_diseases)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_June_2013_%28Restrain_War_on_Drugs_from_boosting_spread_of_diseases%29

content:
<p>
The Support, Don't Punish campaign aims
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/27-6">restrain
the War on Drugs</a> from boosting the spread of diseases.


title: Infiltration of dissident groups is covered by limits that are weak
uri: 2013-07-01-Infiltration-of-dissident-groups-is-covered-by-limits-that-are-weak
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_June_2013_(Infiltration_of_dissident_groups_is_covered_by_limits_that_are_weak)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_June_2013_%28Infiltration_of_dissident_groups_is_covered_by_limits_that_are_weak%29

content:
<p>
Massive US infiltration of dissident groups is covered by limits that
turn out to
be <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/27-7">quite
weak</a>. And there is evidence that infiltrators have intentionally
started violence to discredit protests.


title: Thug Department gave CIA agents excuse to spy on Americans
uri: 2013-07-01-Thug-Department-gave-CIA-agents-excuse-to-spy-on-Americans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_June_2013_(Thug_Department_gave_CIA_agents_excuse_to_spy_on_Americans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_June_2013_%28Thug_Department_gave_CIA_agents_excuse_to_spy_on_Americans%29

content:
<p>
The New York Thug Department gave CIA agents
an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nypd-cia-collaboration-surveillance">excuse
to spy on Americans.</a> And their attitude is, the more people they
spy on, the better.


title: Mass protests are called for Sunday in Egypt
uri: 2013-07-01-Mass-protests-are-called-for-Sunday-in-Egypt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_June_2013_(Mass_protests_are_called_for_Sunday_in_Egypt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_June_2013_%28Mass_protests_are_called_for_Sunday_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/tamarod-egypt-morsi-campaign-oppsition-resignation">Mass
protests are called for Sunday in Egypt</a>, by the group that has got
15 million signatures on a petition for Morsi's resignation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_June_2013_(Another_legal_excuse_for_surveillance)
title: Another legal excuse for surveillance
uri: 2013-07-01-Another-legal-excuse-for-surveillance
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_June_2013_%28Another_legal_excuse_for_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
James Comey's threat to resign blocked the NSA's massive surveillance
only until
it <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/james-comey-justice-department-data-monitoring">found
another legal excuse for that surveillance.</a>  That one, he
accepted, it appears.
<p>
The NSA
systematically <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-data-mining-authorised-obama">collected
email metadata about everyone in the US</a> for two years under Obama.
<p>
This apparently included every communication between people whose
identity the NSA did not know (since in that case it would not have
known that either party was a US citizen).


title: UK's program to get disabled people to work failed
uri: 2013-07-01-UK-s-program-to-get-disabled-people-to-work-failed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_June_2013_(UK's_program_to_get_disabled_people_to_work_failed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_June_2013_%28UK%27s_program_to_get_disabled_people_to_work_failed%29

content:
<p>
The UK's program to get disabled people to work
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/27/welfare-work-failing-figures">failure
at its stated purpose.</a> However, it was quite effective at
fabricating excuses to cut off benefits
by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#18_April_2013_(Rigged_ability-to-work_tests_for_disabled_people_in_UK)">falsely
claiming that people were not disabled.</a>


title: Glenn Greenwald conversation monitored
uri: 2013-07-01-Glenn-Greenwald-conversation-monitored
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_June_2013_(Glenn_Greenwald_conversation_monitored)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_June_2013_%28Glenn_Greenwald_conversation_monitored%29

content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald gives suggestive evidence
his <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-snowden-s-files-are-out-there-if-anything-happens-to-him.print.html">Skype
conversation was monitored.</a>


title: Deregulation of logging could wipe out endangered species
uri: 2013-07-01-Deregulation-of-logging-could-wipe-out-endangered-species
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Deregulation_of_logging_could_wipe_out_endangered_species)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Deregulation_of_logging_could_wipe_out_endangered_species%29

content:
<p>
Deregulation of logging in part of Australia
could <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/27/conservation-victoria-logging-endangered-species">wipe
out endangered species.</a>


title: People across Russia dislike government
uri: 2013-07-01-People-across-Russia-dislike-government
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(People_across_Russia_dislike_government)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28People_across_Russia_dislike_government%29

content:
<p>
A report suggests that people across
Russia <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/27/fragile-empire-russia-putin-review">dislike
their government,</a> but the Moscow-centered opposition failed
because it lacked a connection with people elsewhere in Russia.
<p>
The article seems to present this as a personal failing of the
opposition activists.  I think that criticism is unfair; they can only
use what they have.  However, this is something that activists in
Russia should think about.


title: Governor Perry to try again to pass anti-abortion bill
uri: 2013-07-01-Governor-Perry-to-try-again-to-pass-anti-abortion-bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Governor_Perry_to_try_again_to_pass_anti-abortion_bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Governor_Perry_to_try_again_to_pass_anti-abortion_bill%29

content:
<p>
Texas Governor Perry called a special session of the state legislature
to try again
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/26/rick-perry-texas-abortion-bill-filibuster">pass
the anti-abortion bill.</a>


title: Companies will stop competing if they know about your purchasing practices
uri: 2013-07-01-Companies-will-stop-competing-if-they-know-about-your-purchasing-pract
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Companies_will_stop_competing_if_they_know_about_your_purchasing_practices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Companies_will_stop_competing_if_they_know_about_your_purchasing_practices%29

content:
<p>
If companies know all about your purchasing practices, and can offer
you prices based on that
knowledge, <a href="http://guyhasson.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/free-fiction-googlenomics/">they
will stop competing</a>.  They will each arrive at the same price to
offer you.


title: Urgent: CNBC stop denying global heating
uri: 2013-07-01-Urgent-CNBC-stop-denying-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_CNBC_stop_denying_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_CNBC_stop_denying_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on CNBC
to <a href="https://act.forecastthefacts.org/cms/thanks/stop_cnbc_climate_denial">stop
denying global heating.</a>


title: Urgent: Repeal dangerous parts of PAT RIOT Act
uri: 2013-07-01-Urgent-Repeal-dangerous-parts-of-PAT-RIOT-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Repeal_dangerous_parts_of_PAT_RIOT_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal_dangerous_parts_of_PAT_RIOT_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=PATRIOTAct_RootsAction">repeal
of the dangerous parts of the PAT RIOT Act.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Campaign_funds_from_richest_Americans)
title: Campaign funds from richest Americans
uri: 2013-07-01-Campaign-funds-from-richest-Americans
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Campaign_funds_from_richest_Americans%29

content:
<p>
Almost 1/3 of the campaign funds in US elections now come from
the <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/one-percent-wealthy-dominate-2012-elections-congress">richest
.01% of Americans.</a>
<p>
And this is without considering all the corporate money allowed by the
Corporations United decision; a large fraction of that is surely under
these people's control too.


title: Brazil transport improvements and other reforms
uri: 2013-07-01-Brazil-transport-improvements-and-other-reforms
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Brazil_transport_improvements_and_other_reforms)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Brazil_transport_improvements_and_other_reforms%29

content:
<p>
Brazil's president Rousseff has
proposed <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/25/brazil-president-dilma-rousseff-reform">transport
improvements and other reforms</a> to try to satisfy the protesters.


title: UK spies find excuses to ignore legal limits
uri: 2013-07-01-UK-spies-find-excuses-to-ignore-legal-limits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(UK_spies_find_excuses_to_ignore_legal_limits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28UK_spies_find_excuses_to_ignore_legal_limits%29

content:
<p>
A UK politician says that UK spies have found excuses to 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/25/david-davis-spy-agencies-law">ignore
legal limits on what they can do</a>.
<p>
Mother Teresa exploited India's poor sick people, 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2010-may-aug.html#17%20July%202010%20(Mother%20Teresa)">raising 
money but spending none of it on medical care for them</a>.
It would not
surprise me if spies are just as bad.


title: Urgent: Obama's global heating reduction plan
uri: 2013-07-01-Urgent-Obama-s-global-heating-reduction-plan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Obamas_global_heating_reduction_plan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Obamas_global_heating_reduction_plan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1479">call 
on Congress</a> to approve Obama's global heating reduction plan.
<p>
It is not sufficient, but it is necessary.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Repair_the_Voting_Rights_Act)
title: Urgent: Repair the Voting Rights Act
uri: 2013-07-01-Urgent-Repair-the-Voting-Rights-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Repair_the_Voting_Rights_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/congress-repair-voting-act">call 
on Congress</a> to repair the Voting Rights Act.


title: Glenn Greenwald presents issues being used to try to smear him
uri: 2013-07-01-Glenn-Greenwald-presents-issues-being-used-to-try-to-smear-him
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Glenn_Greenwald_presents_issues_being_used_to_try_to_smear_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Glenn_Greenwald_presents_issues_being_used_to_try_to_smear_him%29

content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald presents the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/nsa-revelations-response-to-smears">minor 
issues that mainstream "journalists" want to use to smear him</a>,
hoping we will be distracted from important issues such as how the
government spies on us.


title: Ethnic dimension of civil war in Afghanistan
uri: 2013-07-01-Ethnic-dimension-of-civil-war-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Ethnic_dimension_of_civil_war_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Ethnic_dimension_of_civil_war_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
The civil war in Afghanistan has an 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/nato-taliban-india-pakistan">ethnic 
dimension</a>, and is also a proxy for the rivalry between India and
Pakistan.


title: Urgent: Support Obama's plan for reducing global heating
uri: 2013-07-01-Urgent-Support-Obama-s-plan-for-reducing-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Obamas_plan_for_reducing_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Obamas_plan_for_reducing_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://online.nwf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1763">Support 
Obama's plan</a> for reducing global heating.
<p>
It is not enough, but we need to fight those who will oppose it anyway.
<p>
Please sign 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3119">this 
one</a> too.


title: Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act
uri: 2013-07-01-Supreme-Court-guts-the-Voting-Rights-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Supreme_Court_guts_the_Voting_Rights_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Supreme_Court_guts_the_Voting_Rights_Act%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=198934&qid=645839">gutted 
the Voting Rights Act</a>, opening the way for Republicans to block
millions of Americans (mostly black, Hispanic or poor) from voting.
<p>
The election of Obama has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/26-11">
mistakenly convinced many Americans</a> that
there is no racism.
<p>
But even if Republicans are not racist, they are unscrupulous.
They don't need to hate blacks or hispanics or poor people
to try to disenfranchise them.


title: Supreme Court decision on accountability of Abu Ghraib torturers
uri: 2013-07-01-Supreme-Court-decision-on-accountability-of-Abu-Ghraib-torturers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Supreme_Court_decision_on_accountability_of_Abu_Ghraib_torturers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Supreme_Court_decision_on_accountability_of_Abu_Ghraib_torturers%29

content:
<p>
Thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision, contractors employed for
torture in Abu Ghraib 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/06/26-6">can't be
sued in the US by their victims</a>.


title: Big sugar companies uprooting Guatemalan peasants
uri: 2013-07-01-Big-sugar-companies-uprooting-Guatemalan-peasants
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Big_sugar_companies_uprooting_Guatemalan_peasants)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Big_sugar_companies_uprooting_Guatemalan_peasants%29

content:
<p>
Guatemalan peasants are being 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jun/26/guatemala-sugar-land-corn">uprooted 
by big companies that grow sugar cane</a>.


title: EU proposes penalties for distorting market indices
uri: 2013-07-01-EU-proposes-penalties-for-distorting-market-indices
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(EU_proposes_penalties_for_distorting_market_indices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28EU_proposes_penalties_for_distorting_market_indices%29

content:
<p>
The EU proposes 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jun/26/eu-cracks-down-market-rigging">substantial 
penalties</a> for the individuals and firms that distort market
indices such as Libor.


title: Supreme Court invalidates Defense of Marriage Act
uri: 2013-07-01-Supreme-Court-invalidates-Defense-of-Marriage-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Supreme_Court_invalidates_Defense_of_Marriage_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Supreme_Court_invalidates_Defense_of_Marriage_Act%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/26/supreme-court-doma-prop-8-rulings">invalidated 
the Defense of Marriage Act</a>, saying that same-sex couples legally
married in any state are entitled to whatever benefits the US
government gives to married couples.


title: Republicans want to force Americans to go to work when sick
uri: 2013-07-01-Republicans-want-to-force-Americans-to-go-to-work-when-sick
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Republicans_want_to_force_Americans_to_go_to_work_when_sick)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Republicans_want_to_force_Americans_to_go_to_work_when_sick%29

content:
<p>
Republicans want to force Americans to go to work when sick,
and skip visits to the doctor 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/florida-paid-sick-leave-ban">so 
they won't be fired</a>.


title: Urgent: Oppose relaxing requirements for wiretapping
uri: 2013-07-01-Urgent-Oppose-relaxing-requirements-for-wiretapping
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_relaxing_requirements_for_wiretapping)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_relaxing_requirements_for_wiretapping%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/mass_wiretap/">oppose</a> 
relaxing requirements for wiretapping.


title: UK thugs' practice of spying on and smearing people
uri: 2013-07-01-UK-thugs-practice-of-spying-on-and-smearing-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(UK_thugs_practice_of_spying_on_and_smearing_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28UK_thugs_practice_of_spying_on_and_smearing_people%29

content:
<p>
The UK <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/duwayne-brooks-lawrences-answers">needs 
a public inquiry</a> into the thugs' systematic practice of spying on
and smearing people who get in their way.


title: Senator Wendy Davis blocks Texas anti-abortion law
uri: 2013-07-01-Senator-Wendy-Davis-blocks-Texas-anti-abortion-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_June_2013_(Senator_Wendy_Davis_blocks_Texas_anti-abortion_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_%28Senator_Wendy_Davis_blocks_Texas_anti-abortion_law%29

content:
<p>
Texas State Senator Wendy Davis 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/26/texas-abortion-vote-defeated-deadline-wendy-davis">personally 
spoke for almost 11 hours</a> to block approval of an anti-abortion
law.
<p>
I have supported the campaign to reform the filibuster in the US
senate to require senators to personally speak on the senate floor as
long as it takes.  I have not supported abolishing the filibuster
entirely, because it's a good thing that this form of resistance is
available when legislators are willing to go to great personal lengths
to do it.


title: What anonymous US officials want us to believe
uri: What-anonymous-US-officials-want-us-to-believe
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(What_anonymous_US_officials_want_us_to_believe)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28What_anonymous_US_officials_want_us_to_believe%29

content:
<p>
Anonymous US officials want us to believe that terrorists will 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/27/snowden-is-helping-terrorists-but-dont-quote-me-on-that/">benefit
from knowing about how the US government spies on us all</a>.
<p>
The danger from these terrorists is too small to worry about, and even
if it were doubled, it would still be too small to worry about.  Thus,
if this means Americans might actually be able to protect our privacy
through our own actions, it is good news.
<p>
However, I don't think we can do the job individually.  We need to
organize to limit surveillance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_expanded_fracking)
title: Urgent: Oppose expanded fracking
uri: Urgent-Oppose-expanded-fracking
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_expanded_fracking%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/moniz_exports_fracking">tell 
Energy Secretary Moniz</a> not to encourage more fracking.


title: Negotiations with Abbas would give Netanyahu immediate benefits
uri: Negotiations-with-Abbas-would-give-Netanyahu-immediate-benefits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Negotiations_with_Abbas_would_give_Netanyahu_immediate_benefits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Negotiations_with_Abbas_would_give_Netanyahu_immediate_benefits%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Netanhayu would get 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1372420885/">immediate 
political benefits</a> from starting negotiations with Abbas.  Then he
can spin them out forever with no agreement, to ensure he loses
nothing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Govt_tracking_all_your_contacts)
title: Gov't tracking all your contacts
uri: Gov-t-tracking-all-your-contacts
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Govt_tracking_all_your_contacts%29
content:
<p>
It's <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/25/people-who-urge-calm-over-nsa-spying-make-me-nervous/">wrong</a>, 
and unconstitutional, for the government to track all your contacts
without specific grounds, even if it does not proceed to repress you
in additional ways.


title: How Dangerous is the 'Security/Digital Complex'
uri: How-Dangerous-is-the-Security-Digital-Complex
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(How_Dangerous_is_the_'Security%2FDigital_Complex')

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28How_Dangerous_is_the_%27Security%252FDigital_Complex%27%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://crooksandliars.com/richard-rj-eskow/how-dangerous-securitydigital-com">How
Dangerous is the 'Security/Digital Complex'</a>


title: Unanswered Questions in NSA Disclosures
uri: Unanswered-Questions-in-NSA-Disclosures
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Unanswered_Questions_in_NSA_Disclosures)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Unanswered_Questions_in_NSA_Disclosures%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://medium.com/state-of-play/3ab76bd69332">Unanswered
Questions in NSA Disclosures</a>


title: Japanese gov't unable to decontaminate area near Fukushima
uri: Japanese-gov-t-unable-to-decontaminate-area-near-Fukushima
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Japanese_gov't_unable_to_decontaminate_area_near_Fukushima)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Japanese_gov%27t_unable_to_decontaminate_area_near_Fukushima%29

content:
<p>
The Japanese government was unable to decontaminate an area near
Fukushima to the planned safety level, so it told the inhabitants to
<a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201306290074">go
home with dosimeters</a> to see if they are getting dangerous amounts
of radiation exposure.
<p>
The idea is not necessarily misguided.  The purpose of decontaminating
the ground is so people don't get high exposures of radiation.  If the
ground isn't decontaminated, but people lower their exposures to the
same intended level by staying indoors, they will be just as safe.
<p>
However, some may be rather unhappy about having to spend their lives
indoors.  Perhaps Japan should pay nonathletic geeks to move to
Fukushima, because they will stay indoors and not mind it.
<p>
Meanwhile, we should stop making plans that suppose it is feasible to
decontaminate areas covered with fallout from reactor explosions,
because apparently that can't really be done.


title: Winner of Nobel Peace Prize says Manning deserves one
uri: Winner-of-Nobel-Peace-Prize-says-Manning-deserves-one
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Winner_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_says_Manning_deserves_one)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Winner_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_says_Manning_deserves_one%29

content:
<p>
Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize,
says <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/30/bradley-manning-nobel-peace-prize-candidate">Bradley
Manning deserves one.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Everyone_will_be_an_organ_donor)
title: Everyone will be an organ donor
uri: Everyone-will-be-an-organ-donor
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Everyone_will_be_an_organ_donor%29
content:
<p>
In
Wales, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/30/opt-out-organ-donation-scheme-uk-wales">everyone
will be an organ donor</a> unless he says no in advance.
<p>
This is a good policy and we should copy it.  Meanwhile, if you live
in a place which doesn't have this policy, please fill out the form to
be an organ donor, as I have done.
<p>
I don't think a person's relatives should have any say in the matter.
What happens to that person's corpse might affect their feelings, but
nothing else, and their hurt feelings don't count for much compared
with saving lives.


title: Jeremy Forrest's girlfriend says their relationship was her initiative
uri: Jeremy-Forrest-s-girlfriend-says-their-relationship-was-her-initiative
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Jeremy_Forrest's_girlfriend_says_their_relationship_was_her_initiative)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Jeremy_Forrest%27s_girlfriend_says_their_relationship_was_her_initiative%29

content:
<p>
Jeremy Forrest's girlfriend
says <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/30/jeremy-forrest-schoolgirl-groomed-teacher">their
relationship was her initiative</a>, she still loves him, and she
wants to visit him in prison and marry him after he gets out.
<p>
I would not bet on their relationship's lasting till he gets out of
prison.  Forrest has not been good at making relationships last, and
most 16-year-olds aren't either.  However, she is doing her best to
defend his name against the legal fiction that he kidnaped her.
<p>
The dishonest basis of the prosecution shows clearly in the rebukes of
the judge, the detective, the mother, etc., that Forrest (actually
both of them) perturbed their families.  That could equally well have
been said about Romeo and Juliet, which is a reductio ad absurdam.
(The refutation does not depend on assuming that this couple is like
Romeo and Juliet in any other way.  It's enough that the same argument
would have applied to those two.)
<p>
The court pretends, contrary to all the facts, that Forrest did
something wrong to his girlfriend, while in fact punishing him for how
their relationship made her parents and other people feel.
<p>
After the two were captured, she was forcibly returned to her parents,
and while the articles claimed they were giving her some sort of
support, it is clear they tried to brainwash her into supporting their
way of seeing things.  It is good for her that they failed.
<p>
She should demand a conjugal visit in prison.  That will give those
cruel prudes apoplexy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Ecuador's_new_media_law)
title: Ecuador's new media law
uri: Ecuador-s-new-media-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Ecuador%27s_new_media_law%29
content:
<p>
RSF: Ecuador's new media law
— <a href="http://en.rsf.org/ecuador-new-media-law-mix-of-good-14-06-2013,44795.html">mix
of good principles and bad provisions.</a>
<p>
Ecuador's new election law bans media
from <a href="https://www.cpj.org/2012/01/in-ecuador-reforms-restrict-election-coverage-for.php">promoting
candidates for 90 days before an election</a>.  If interpreted
strictly, this could chill coverage of the campaign and the
candidates.
<p>
The CPJ has many criticisms of Ecuador, some of which are valid while
others seem exaggerated based on the facts I have found.


title: Republicans implementing voter-suppression measures
uri: Republicans-implementing-voter-suppression-measures
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Republicans_implementing_voter-suppression_measures)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Republicans_implementing_voter-suppression_measures%29

content:
<p>
Racist Republican politicians are charging ahead
in <a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/06/section_five_state_attorney_generals_vow_immediate_voter_id_implementation.html">implementing
voter-suppression measures</a> that were blocked under the Voting
Rights Act before the Supreme Court threw it away.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Replacement_for_racist_Jim_Crow_laws)
title: Replacement for racist Jim Crow laws
uri: Replacement-for-racist-Jim-Crow-laws
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Replacement_for_racist_Jim_Crow_laws%29

content:
<p>
The imprisonment of a large fraction of the American black population
— mostly for possession of small amounts of drugs —
amounts to a
disguised <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2716?t=1003&akid=2975.1242918.uXk66e">replacement
for the racist Jim Crow laws</a> that were abolished in the 1960s.


title: Obama's climate plan too little too slow
uri: Obama-s-climate-plan-too-little-too-slow
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Obama's_climate_plan_too_little_too_slow)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Obama%27s_climate_plan_too_little_too_slow%29

content:
<p>
Obama's climate plan
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/25-7">too
little, too slow.</a>
<p>
Instead of an "all of the above" energy plan, we need an "all of the
above" greenhouse gas reduction plan.


title: Nonviolent activists put on domestic terrorist list
uri: Nonviolent-activists-put-on-domestic-terrorist-list
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Nonviolent_activists_put_on_domestic_terrorist_list)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Nonviolent_activists_put_on_domestic_terrorist_list%29

content:
<p>
We know the US considers dissidents "terrorists".  What's news is that
some
specific <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/24-9">nonviolent
activists were put on the "domestic terrorist list".</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(No-Fly_list_is_kafkaesque_excuse)
title: No-Fly list is kafkaesque excuse
uri: No-Fly-list-is-kafkaesque-excuse
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28No-Fly_list_is_kafkaesque_excuse%29
content:
<p>
The no-fly list is a kafkaesque excuse
to <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/06/no-fly-list-orwellian-or-kafkaesque">stick
US citizens in foreign prisons.</a>


title: Thousands protested after thugs killed Kurdish protester
uri: Thousands-protested-after-thugs-killed-Kurdish-protester
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Thousands_protested_after_thugs_killed_Kurdish_protester)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Thousands_protested_after_thugs_killed_Kurdish_protester%29

content:
<p>
Thousands protested in Istanbul
after <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/29/march-istanbul-kurds">Turkish
thugs killed a Kurdish protester.</a>
<p>
The Turkish government has repressed not only Kurds but people who
supported human rights for Kurds.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Stealing_elections)
title: Stealing elections
uri: Stealing-elections
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Stealing_elections%29
content:
<p>
The Supreme Court
has <a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/ku-klux-kourt-kills-kings-dream-law-replaces-voting-rights-act-with-katherine-harris-acts/">opened
the door to stealing elections.</a>


title: Thugs stripped woman and kept her handcuffed in cell for 11 hours
uri: Thugs-stripped-woman-and-kept-her-handcuffed-in-cell-for-11-hours
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Thugs_stripped_woman_and_kept_her_handcuffed_in_cell_for_11_hours)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Thugs_stripped_woman_and_kept_her_handcuffed_in_cell_for_11_hours%29

content:
<p>
UK
thugs <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/28/nottinghamshire-police-officers-pregnant-woman">stripped
a woman and kept her handcuffed</a> in a cell for 11 hours.  They also
beat her up, causing premature birth of her baby.
<p>
It could have been worse — they might have killed her, as they
have done to many others.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Resistance_to_privatization)
title: Resistance to privatization
uri: Resistance-to-privatization
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Resistance_to_privatization%29
content:
<p>
Legal <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/28-3">resistance
to privatization</a> is starting in the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(The_Criminal_N.S.A.)
title: The Criminal N.S.A.
uri: The-Criminal-N-S-A
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28The_Criminal_N.S.A.%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.html?pagewanted=all">The
Criminal N.S.A.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Imprisonment_for_criticizing_the_govt)
title: Imprisonment for criticizing the gov't
uri: Imprisonment-for-criticizing-the-gov-t
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Imprisonment_for_criticizing_the_govt%29

content:
<p>
HRW: <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/06/28/eubahrain-eu-should-demand-release-activists">EU 
Should Demand Release of Activists (in Bahrain)</a>.
<p>
A high school student was sentenced to a 
<a href="http://bahrainrights.org/en/node/6198">year in prison for a 
tweet</a> that criticized the government.
<p>
Unfortunately, the US is 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_(Prosecuted_for_writing_in_chalk_on_the_sidewalk">not 
free of such oppression</a>.


title: A radio system that tracks people behind walls
uri: A-radio-system-that-tracks-people-behind-walls
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(A_radio_system_that_tracks_people_behind_walls)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28A_radio_system_that_tracks_people_behind_walls%29

content:
<p>
A radio system can 
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/new-system-uses-low-power-wi-fi-signal-to-track-moving-humans-0628.html">track 
people behind walls</a>.
<p>
We have to prohibit the state from tracking us all this way.


title: Prosecuted for writing in chalk on the sidewalk
uri: Prosecuted-for-writing-in-chalk-on-the-sidewalk
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Prosecuted_for_writing_in_chalk_on_the_sidewalk)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Prosecuted_for_writing_in_chalk_on_the_sidewalk%29

content:
<p>
Jeff Olson is being prosecuted for 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18058-san-diego-judge-puts-unprecedented-gag-order-on-sidewalk-chalk-protestor-trial">writing 
in chalk on the sidewalk to criticize Bank of America</a>.
<p>
He faces 13 years in prison, and his lawyer has been 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/06/29">forbidden
to talk about the first amendment</a> in the trial.
<p>
The judge apparently realizes how shameful this is, because he has
ordered Olson not to talk about it.
<p>
I moved some IRA money out of Bank of America a couple of weeks ago.
The FSF moved its money out of Bank of America a year or two ago.  If
you have any money there, please move it out.


title: The latest step in giving US corporations human rights
uri: The-latest-step-in-giving-US-corporations-human-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(The_latest_step_in_giving_US_corporations_human_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28The_latest_step_in_giving_US_corporations_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
The latest insane step in giving US corporations human rights
is to 
<a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/06/27/court-rules-hobby-lobby-can-be-considered-a-religious-person/">claim 
they can be religious</a>.


title: Activists seek more information on PRISM
uri: Activists-seek-more-information-on-PRISM
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Activists_seek_more_information_on_PRISM)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Activists_seek_more_information_on_PRISM%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/activists-leverage-stronger-eu-privacy-laws-seek-more">Activists 
Leverage Stronger EU Privacy Laws to Seek More Information on PRISM</a>.


title: Treaty establishing copyright exception for blind people
uri: Treaty-establishing-copyright-exception-for-blind-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Treaty_establishing_copyright_exception_for_blind_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Treaty_establishing_copyright_exception_for_blind_people%29

content:
<p>
Amazingly, WIPO has finalized a treaty establishing a 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/historic-milestone-rights-readers-un-negotiators-finalize-treaty-blind">copyright 
exception for blind people.
<p>
Although the copyright industry has become so greedy that it opposes
the treaty, I fear that they will accept it, and use it to show
that DRM is ok because it no longer shafts blind people.


title: European countries doing massive surveillance for the NSA
uri: European-countries-doing-massive-surveillance-for-the-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(European_countries_doing_massive_surveillance_for_the_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28European_countries_doing_massive_surveillance_for_the_NSA%29

content:
<p>
European countries including Germany do 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/29/european-private-data-america">massive 
surveillance on their citizens</a> for the NSA.


title: Urgent: Guarantee of due process for Snowden
uri: Urgent-Guarantee-of-due-process-for-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Urgent:_Guarantee_of_due_process_for_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Guarantee_of_due_process_for_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/president-obama-guarantee-due-process-edward-snowden">call 
on Obama</a> to guarantee due process for Snowden.
<p>
I hope Snowden never falls into US hands, but that is a different matter.


title: Bond rating agencies corrupted by Morgan Stanley
uri: Bond-rating-agencies-corrupted-by-Morgan-Stanley
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Bond_rating_agencies_corrupted_by_Morgan_Stanley)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Bond_rating_agencies_corrupted_by_Morgan_Stanley%29

content:
<p>
Morgan Stanley 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/financial-ratings-agencies-were-complicit-2008-economic-crash?paging=off">corrupted 
bond rating agencies</a> so they would certify collections of bad
mortgages as super-safe AAA-grade investments.
<p>
Matt Taibbi's long article shows that 
<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-last-mystery-of-the-financial-crisis-20130619">there 
have been no reforms</a> and there is no reason to think that
bond-rating companies will be honest in the future.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Globovision_sold)
title: Globovision sold
uri: Globovision-sold
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Globovision_sold%29
content:
<p>
Globovision, the pointedly anti-government TV station in Venezuela,
has been sold to 
<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/14/world/la-fg-venezuela-globovision-20130515">new 
owners that won't criticize the government strongly</a>.
<p>
Nonetheless, there remains opposition press in Venezuela.


title: Bush forces soldier convicted of murder to be freed
uri: Bush-forces-soldier-convicted-of-murder-to-be-freed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Bush_forces_soldier_convicted_of_murder_to_be_freed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Bush_forces_soldier_convicted_of_murder_to_be_freed%29

content:
<p>
A Bush forces soldier who was convicted of murdering an Iraqi will be
freed because he was 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/marine-iraq-murder-conviction-overturned">held 
in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop massive logging of old-growth trees
uri: Urgent-Stop-massive-logging-of-old-growth-trees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_massive_logging_of_old-growth_trees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_massive_logging_of_old-growth_trees%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=bMrqB_ecatr6djqbiQBD6g">call 
on the government</a> to stop the massive logging of old-growth trees
in Alaska's Tongass National Forest.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Urgent:_Restore_the_Voting_Rights_Act)
title: Urgent: Restore the Voting Rights Act
uri: Urgent-Restore-the-Voting-Rights-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Restore_the_Voting_Rights_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.naacp.org/page/s/vra-no-voting-rights">sign the 
NAACP's petition</a> to restore the Voting Rights Act.


title: Edward Snowden Isn't on the Run… We Are
uri: Edward-Snowden-Isn-t-on-the-Run-We-Are
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Edward_Snowden_Isn't_on_the_Run_We_Are)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Edward_Snowden_Isn%27t_on_the_Run_We_Are%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/27-2">Edward Snowden 
Isn't on the Run… We Are</a>.


title: Why do politicians push for genetically modified food?
uri: Why-do-politicians-push-for-genetically-modified-food
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Why_do_politicians_push_for_genetically_modified_food)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Why_do_politicians_push_for_genetically_modified_food%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/jun/28/gm-food">Why 
do politicians push for genetically modified food</a>, when there are
other good methods to produce desirable food varieties?
<p>
The article speculates, and I agree, that the push comes from
companies such as Monsanto.  It is unfortunate that the article
uses the misleading overgeneralization 
"<a href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html'>intellectual 
property</a>" rather than being clear and specific by saying
"patents".


title: Protesters arrested after blocking train carrying toxic oil
uri: Protesters-arrested-after-blocking-train-carrying-toxic-oil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Protesters_arrested_after_blocking_train_carring_toxic_oil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Protesters_arrested_after_blocking_train_carring_toxic_oil%29

content:
<p>
Global heating protesters were arrested after blocking a train carrying
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/28-0">very 
toxic oil obtained by fracking in the US</a>, for export to Canada.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Pakistan-Afghanistan_relations)
title: Pakistan-Afghanistan relations
uri: Pakistan-Afghanistan-relations
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Pakistan-Afghanistan_relations%29
content:
<p>
Reportedly the UK government is concerned that Pakistan 
may <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/cameron-nudges-pakistan-afghanistan-relations">"neglect"</a> 
relations with Afghanistan.
<p>
Contrast this with the article that says Pakistan's powerful intelligence service <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_June_2013_(Ethnic_dimension_of_civil_war_in_Afghanistan)">regards 
Afghanistan as a proxy for India</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Further_details_of_Prism_published)
title: Further details of Prism published
uri: Further-details-of-Prism-published
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Further_details_of_Prism_published%29

content:
<p>
Further details of Prism have been published, showing that the NSA's
equipment can fish directly and arbitrarily in the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/washington-post-new-slides-prism">data 
bases of companies such as Google and Microsoft</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(James_Madison_on_maintaining_liberty)
title: James Madison on maintaining liberty
uri: James-Madison-on-maintaining-liberty
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28James_Madison_on_maintaining_liberty%29

content:
<p>
What (later president) James Madison said about 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/30-4">maintaining 
liberty</a> versus ceding control to the forces of order and
submission.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Indias_new_surveillance_network)
title: India's new surveillance network
uri: India-s-new-surveillance-network
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Indias_new_surveillance_network%29
content:
<p>
India's new surveillance network is 
<a href="http://qz.com/99019/no-call-email-or-text-will-be-safe-from-indias-surveillance-network/">even 
worse than the NSA's</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://qz.com/92648/think-us-snooping-is-bad-try-italy-india-or-canada/">Italy's and Canada's</a> are too.
<p>
This doesn't make the NSA's spying acceptable.  We must demand that
our governments respect our rights.  It is not enough that some other
state is worse.


title: Urgent: Stop forcing workers to take their pay in debit cards
uri: Urgent-Stop-forcing-workers-to-take-their-pay-in-debit-cards
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_forcing_workers_to_take_their_pay_in_debit_cards)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_forcing_workers_to_take_their_pay_in_debit_cards%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/mcdonalds-debit-card/4/2/">tell 
McDonald's</a> to stop forcing workers to take their pay
in debit cards that charge them fees.
<p>
This practice ought to be illegal.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Massive_protests_against_Morsi)
title: Massive protests against Morsi
uri: Massive-protests-against-Morsi
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Massive_protests_against_Morsi%29
content:
<p>
Massive protests 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/mohamed-morsi-egypt-protests">call 
for Morsi to leave office</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(US_focuses_spying_on_EU_officials)
title: US focuses spying on EU officials
uri: US-focuses-spying-on-EU-officials
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28US_focuses_spying_on_EU_officials%29
content:
<p>
The US has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/30-0">focused 
its spying on EU officials</a>, including the embassies of many 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/nsa-leaks-us-bugging-european-allies">"allies" 
of the US</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 01_July_2013_(Gandhi_the_journalist)
title: Gandhi the journalist
uri: Gandhi-the-journalist
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_July_2013_%28Gandhi_the_journalist%29
content:
<p>
Comparing Snowden and Greenwald to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/30">Gandhi the 
journalist</a>.


title: Urgent: Rally for the Fourth Amendment on July 4
uri: Very-Urgent-Rally-for-the-Fourth-Amendment-on-July-4
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 02_July_2013_(Urgent:_Rally_for_the_Fourth_Amendment_on_July_4)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#02_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Rally_for_the_Fourth_Amendment_on_July_4%29

content:
<p>
In the US: <a href="http://www.restorethefourth.net/">rally for the
Fourth Amendment</a> (limiting searches and seizures) on July 4.


title: Prisoners communicate using toilet pipes
uri: Prisoners-communicate-using-toilet-pipes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Prisoners_communicate_using_toilet_pipes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Prisoners_communicate_using_toilet_pipes%29

content:
<p>
Prisoners in a US jail, locked in their cells for 23 hours a day with
little to
do, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/01-0">communicate
using toilet pipes as speaking tubes.</a>


title: History of using deceptive language to mislead public
uri: History-of-using-deceptive-language-to-mislead-public
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(History_of_using_deceptive_language_to_mislead_public)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28History_of_using_deceptive_language_to_mislead_public%29

content:
<p>
US officials including Obama have
a <a href="http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/misinformation-on-classified-nsa-programs-includes-statements-by-senior-us-officials/2013/06/30/7b5103a2-e028-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_print.html">history
of using deceptive language to mislead the public</a> about massive
surveillance, and even flat-out lies.
<p>
Congress should jail Clapper for this.


title: Countries in EU not on track to meet renewable energy targets
uri: Countries-in-EU-not-on-track-to-meet-renewable-energy-targets
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Countries_in_EU_not_on_track_to_meet_renewable_energy_targets)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Countries_in_EU_not_on_track_to_meet_renewable_energy_targets%29

content:
<p>
Many countries in the EU
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/01/uk-miss-european-renewable-energy-target">not
on track to meet their renewable energy targets</a> for 2020.
<p>
It is difficult to achieve substantial changes by setting a distant
target first.  Success comes from firm policies whose effects can be
predicted.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Tons_of_plastic_trash_pile_up)
title: Tons of plastic trash pile up
uri: Tons-of-plastic-trash-pile-up
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Tons_of_plastic_trash_pile_up%29
content:
<p>
Tons of
plastic <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/01/alaskan-beaches-tonne-garbage">trash
pile up on remote beaches in Alaska</a>, as measured by volunteers who
travel there to collect the trash. In some cases, it's a ton per mile.
And it kills birds and fish.
<p>
If we made some of this stuff biodegradable, it would not pile up so
high.


title: Americans want to believe Hillary Clinton would be a good president
uri: Americans-want-to-believe-Hillary-Clinton-would-be-a-good-president
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Americans_want_to_believe_Hillary_Clinton_would_be_a_good_president)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Americans_want_to_believe_Hillary_Clinton_would_be_a_good_president%29

content:
<p>
Many Americans want to believe that Hillary
Clinton <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/01/hillary-clinton-2016-speculation-danger">would
be a good president.</a>
<p>
I see no indication that she would try to do what America needs any
more than Obama does.  She has not shown an inclination to fight the
authoritarians and plutocrats on any of their major attack fronts
(fossil fuels, banksterism, copyright, austerity/unemployment,
privatization,war on drugs, surveillance).  She's just another bought
politician, another right-wing Democrat.
<p>
Thus, while I would be glad to see the US capable of electing a woman
president, I will not support Ms Clinton just because she's a woman.  A
candidate's gender is as unimportant as a candidate's skin color.


title: Timbuktu saved from theocratic rule but not back to normal
uri: Timbuktu-saved-from-theocratic-rule-but-not-back-to-normal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Timbuktu_saved_from_theocratic_rule_but_not_back_to_normal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Timbuktu_saved_from_theocratic_rule_but_not_back_to_normal%29

content:
<p>
Timbuktu has been saved from theocratic rule, but it
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jul/01/islamist-insurgency-mali-timbuktu">not
back to normal or even close.</a>


title: Austerity continues making unemployment rise
uri: Austerity-continues-making-unemployment-rise
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Austerity_continues_making_unemployment_rise)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Austerity_continues_making_unemployment_rise%29

content:
<p>
Euro-austerity
continues <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/01/eurozone-unemployment-record-high">making
unemployment rise.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Elite_firefighters_killed)
title: Elite firefighters killed
uri: Elite-firefighters-killed
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Elite_firefighters_killed%29
content:
<p>
A
"hotshot" <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/crew-firefighters-die-arizona-wildfire">crew
of elite firefighters was killed</a>, every last one, because the
Arizona fire spread too fast for them.
<p>
High heat and drought and dead trees, which global heating tends to
cause, make fires spread faster.  In effect, these men were killed by
global heating, and it's going to kill a lot more as it gets hotter.


title: Cameron brushed off concern for human rights
uri: Cameron-brushed-off-concern-for-human-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Cameron_brushed_off_concern_for_human_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Cameron_brushed_off_concern_for_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
UK PM Cameron contemptuously brushed
off <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/01/david-cameron-business-amnesty-kazakhstan-deal-nazarbayev">concern
for human rights in Kazakhstan</a>, saying that his reason for going
there was oil and profits, not human rights.
<p>
Of course, we knew already that he puts money above people, but now he
has admitted it.
<p>
Cameron thus gained the
personal <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/kazakhstan-president-david-cameron-vote">endorsement
of the strongman of Kazakhstan:</a>
<p>
That's a strong recommendation for Britons to vote for some other
party, but which one would be better?  Not New Labour, which says it
will not try to reverse most of the harm that the Conservatives have
done.  Perhaps the Green Party.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Possible_to_reduce_use_of_palm_oil)
title: Possible to reduce use of palm oil
uri: Possible-to-reduce-use-of-palm-oil
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Possible_to_reduce_use_of_palm_oil%29

content:
<p>
Private initiatives show it is possible
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/01/penguin-biscuit-makers-palm-oil">reduce
the use of palm oil,</a> the production of which is ecologically
destructive.
<p>
However, I suspect that it will require government actions such as
tariffs to make a big dent in the use of palm oil.  This would require
defeating free exploitation treaties.


title: Chinese herbal medicines have small amounts of pesticides
uri: Chinese-herbal-medicines-have-small-amounts-of-pesticides
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Chinese_herbal_medicines_have_small_amounts_of_pesticides)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Chinese_herbal_medicines_have_small_amounts_of_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
Chinese herbal medicines sold in Europe and North America often have
small amounts
of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/01/chinese-herbal-medicine-pesticides-greenpeace">highly
hazardous pesticides.</a>


title: Sumatran tigers half as numerous as was supposed
uri: Sumatran-tigers-half-as-numerous-as-was-supposed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Sumatran_tigers_half_as_numerous_as_was_supposed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Sumatran_tigers_half_as_numerous_as_was_supposed%29

content:
<p>
Sumatran tigers
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/01/sumatran-tiger-rarer-previously-thought">half
as numerous as was supposed</a>; human activity is the main problem.


title: Grant to create a reserve but now plans to drill for oil
uri: Grant-to-create-a-reserve-but-now-plans-to-drill-for-oil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Grant_to_create_a_reserve_but_now_plans_to_drill_for_oil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Grant_to_create_a_reserve_but_now_plans_to_drill_for_oil%29

content:
<p>
Peru received a grant to create a reserve for wildlife and "isolated"
tribes, but
now <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2013/jul/01/amazon-rainforest-peru-indigenous-tribes">plans
to drill for oil there.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Republicans_punishing_the_unemployed)
title: Republicans punishing the unemployed
uri: Republicans-punishing-the-unemployed
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Republicans_punishing_the_unemployed%29

content:
<p>
The Republicans pretend they can get Americans back to work by 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/opinion/krugman-the-war-on-the-unemployed.html">punishing
the unemployed</a>.
<p>
That's like trying to squeeze blood into a stone, when there's no
space in the stone.


title: US Treasury Secretary trying to undermine Europe's planned tax
uri: US-Treasury-Secretary-trying-to-undermine-Europe-s-planned-tax
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(US_Treasury_Secretary_trying_to_undermine_Europes_planned_tax)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28US_Treasury_Secretary_trying_to_undermine_Europes_planned_tax%29

content:
<p>
The US Treasury Secretary is trying to undermine and destroy Europe's
planned <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17295-does-the-treasury-secretary-have-to-be-a-lobbyist-for-wall-street-in-europe">tax 
on financial transactions</a>, by getting an exemption for the big US
banks.
<p>
Sad to say, under a government that basically represents the rich,
the question is not whether but how it will betray the rest of us.


title: Death of 19 elite firefighters in Arizona
uri: Death-of-19-elite-firefighters-in-Arizona
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Death_of_19_elite_firefighters_in_Arizona)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Death_of_19_elite_firefighters_in_Arizona%29

content:
<p>
The investigation into the death of 19 elite firefighters in Arizona
will focus on the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/arizona-wildfire-investigation-begins-firefighters">immediate 
causes</a>, which might enable avoiding putting teams into such
conditions in the future.
<p>
However, the underlying cause is well understood, predictable,
and correctable with sufficient will: 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-climate-context-behind-the-deadly-arizona-wildfire-16175">global 
heating</a>.


title: UK gov't fights to maintain farm subsidies for the rich
uri: UK-gov-t-fights-to-maintain-farm-subsidies-for-the-rich
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(UK_govt_fights_to_maintain_farm_subsidies_for_the_rich)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28UK_govt_fights_to_maintain_farm_subsidies_for_the_rich%29

content:
<p>
The UK government cuts aid for the poor, but 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/01/farm-subsidies-blatant-transfer-of-cash-to-rich">fights 
to maintain farm subsidies for the rich</a>.
<p>
This is entirely consistent, since its policy is to help the rich and
crush everyone else.


title: Snowden denounces Obama's efforts against him
uri: Snowden-denounces-Obama-s-efforts-against-him
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Snowden_denounces_Obamas_efforts_against_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Snowden_denounces_Obamas_efforts_against_him%29

content:
<p>
Snowden denounces Obama's efforts to block him from receiving asylum,
saying they are 
<a href="http://wikileaks.org/Statement-from-Edward-Snowden-in.html">meant 
to frighten future whistleblowers</a>.


title: Clapper trying to get away with lying to Congress
uri: Clapper-trying-to-get-away-with-lying-to-Congress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Clapper_trying_to_get_away_with_lying_to_Congress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Clapper_trying_to_get_away_with_lying_to_Congress%29

content:
<p>
Clapper is trying to get away with 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/james-clapper-apology-congress-erroneous-response">lying 
to Congress</a> by saying it was the smallest possible lie.
<p>
That excuse could apply to any lie he wants to tell, so we must not
believe anything he says.


title: Urgent: Investigation of the NSA and FBI
uri: Urgent-Investigation-of-the-NSA-and-FBI
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Urgent:_Investigation_of_the_NSA_and_FBI)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Investigation_of_the_NSA_and_FBI%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.credoaction.com/petitions/tell-congress-investigate-nsa-abuses-and-protect-our-constitutional-rights/">call 
for an investigation of the NSA and FBI</a> like the one carried out
by the Church committee in the 70s.


title: Protests in Hong Kong demand democracy
uri: Protests-in-Hong-Kong-demand-democracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Protests_in_Hong_Kong_demand_democracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Protests_in_Hong_Kong_demand_democracy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/thousands-march-hong-kong-democratic-reforms">Large 
protests in Hong Kong</a> demanded real democracy, despite heavy rain.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Egyptian_Army_gives_Morsi_ultimatum)
title: Egyptian Army gives Morsi ultimatum
uri: Egyptian-Army-gives-Morsi-ultimatum
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Egyptian_Army_gives_Morsi_ultimatum%29

content:
<p>
The Egyptian Army 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/01/egypt-thought-democracy-enough-morsi">gave 
Morsi an ultimatum</a>: deliver "the demands of the people" in 48
hours or (it isn't clear what).
<p>
Morsi <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/egypt-army-mohamed-morsi-coup">has 
not yielded</a> to this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Young_educated_Europeans_unemployed)
title: Young, educated Europeans unemployed
uri: Young-educated-Europeans-unemployed
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Young_educated_Europeans_unemployed%29

content:
<p>
Young, educated Europeans find that their skills are of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/jobless-europe-young-qualified">no 
interest to any employers</a>.
<p>
One side effect, falling birth rates, is good for society.  But that
can be achieved in other, less damaging ways.
<p>
I don't think this problem will ever get better as long as the
plutocrats remain in power.  In a few decades, the poverty of
austerity will merge with the increased poverty of global heating.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Urgent:_Subsidized_quality_education)
title: Urgent: Subsidized quality education
uri: Urgent-Subsidized-quality-education
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Subsidized_quality_education%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for offering 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8198">subsidized 
quality education</a> to all.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Stigma_on_widows_in_parts_of_Africa)
title: Stigma on widows in parts of Africa
uri: Stigma-on-widows-in-parts-of-Africa
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Stigma_on_widows_in_parts_of_Africa%29

content:
<p>
Campaigning to change the traditional 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/01/widows-cameroon-free-lives-project">scorn 
for widows</a> in parts of Africa.
<p>
There is no stigma on widows in the US or Europe, so this one seems
absurd to us.  However, we do have a tradition of scorn for other
groups, such as homosexuals, prostitutes, and ephebophiles, and most
people in the US and Europe find that as natural as scorn for widows
seems in parts of Africa.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Snowden_denied_asylum)
title: Snowden denied asylum
uri: Snowden-denied-asylum
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Snowden_denied_asylum%29
content:
<p>
Putin offered Snowden asylum 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/putin-snowden-remain-russia-offer">if 
he stops revealing US dirty secrets</a>. Putin realizes that Snowden
won't want to accept this offer, because he does not seek personal
safety at the cost of letting his country down.
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/ecuador-rafael-correa-snowden-mistake">President 
Correa rejected helping Snowden</a> reach Ecuador to apply for asylum.
<p>
He also said he would consider a US request to deny him
asylum.  I find this extremely disappointing.
<p>
Here is the private (leaked) 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/edward-snowden-letter-president-ecuador">letter 
that Snowden sent to Correa</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(The_Welsh_nationalist_party)
title: The Welsh nationalist party
uri: The-Welsh-nationalist-party
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28The_Welsh_nationalist_party%29
content:
<p>
Many in England tell the Welsh nationalist party they wish it offered
to represent them in England, because of its 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/01/england-new-party-left-plaid-cymru">progressive 
position</a>.
<p>
Perhaps its Welsh supporters could be persuaded they don't need to
separate from England, if they could instead govern England with their
English allies.


title: Urgent: Oppose prosecution of Jeff Olson
uri: Urgent-Oppose-prosecution-of-Jeff-Olson
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_prosecution_of_Jeff_Olson)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_prosecution_of_Jeff_Olson%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=455">call 
on San Diego</a> to drop its prosecution of Jeff Olson for writing a
protest slogan on the sidewalk in wash-away chalk.


title: US army bases block access to reporting about Snowden's revelations
uri: US-army-bases-block-access-to-reporting-about-Snowden-s-revelations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(US_army_bases_block_access_to_reporting_about_Snowdens_revelations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28US_army_bases_block_access_to_reporting_about_Snowdens_revelations%29

content:
<p>
All US army bases are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/01-3">blocking 
access</a> to all reporting about Snowden's revelations of mass
surveillance.
<p>
The authoritarians who have hijacked our government would block access
for all of us if they could — and this blockage may be a
precursor to that.
<p>
Glenn Greenwald called this a "prestigious award for good journalism",
and he's right.  But it is more than an award — it is an
opportunity for activism.
<p>
Is there a US military base near you?
<p>
Print many copies of a few banned articles giving lots of substance
about the issues, showing clearly the well-known newspapers or
magazines they came from, and make a big sign saying, "MASSIVE SPYING:
THE US WANTS TO STOP YOU FROM READING THIS".  Stand near the road, far
enough away from the gate of the base — perhaps around the next
corner in the road, so that soldiers driving by can stop unobserved
— and hold the sign.  Give copies to the people who stop and ask
for them.
<p>
Bring a friend with a videocamera to discourage anyone from messing
with your constitutional rights.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Twelve_True_Patriots_for_July_4)
title: Twelve True Patriots for July 4
uri: Twelve-True-Patriots-for-July-4
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Twelve_True_Patriots_for_July_4%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/01-5">Twelve True 
Patriots for July 4</a>.


title: Online tracking-and-advertising industry
uri: Online-tracking-and-advertising-industry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Online_tracking-and-advertising_industry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Online_tracking-and-advertising_industry%29

content:
<p>
The online tracking-and-advertising industry is 
<a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/07/01/even-the-online-ad-industry-is-outraged-at-prism-and-tempora-but-why/">very 
troubled by Snowden's revelations</a>, knowing that if people get mad
enough at massive general surveillance, they might demand laws that
really put a stop to it.
<p>
I don't mind seeing ads.  I would not bother to block ads on the
Internet if all they did was present a message to me.  However, I find
the tracking done by today's digital advertising unacceptable.
<p>
So how should we support web sites and their services, when those
cost money?
<p>
We should be able to make an anonymous payment to use the site.


title: Bradley Manning supporters march in SF Gay Pride Parade
uri: Bradley-Manning-supporters-march-in-SF-Gay-Pride-Parade
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Bradley_Manning_supporters_march_in_SF_Gay_Pride_Parade)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Bradley_Manning_supporters_march_in_SF_Gay_Pride_Parade%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/01-3">2000 
supporters of Bradley Manning</a> marched in the San Francisco Gay
Pride Parade.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Student_loan_interest_rates)
title: Student loan interest rates
uri: Student-loan-interest-rates
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Student_loan_interest_rates%29
content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/01-0">blocked</a> 
action to keep student loan interest rates down.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Roundup-resistant_weeds)
title: Roundup-resistant weeds
uri: Roundup-resistant-weeds
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Roundup-resistant_weeds%29
content:
<p>
Fighting Roundup-resistant weeds requires 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/01-1">ever-higher 
dosages of highly toxic herbicides</a>.


title: Urgent: Rebuke Texas legislature for trying to ban abortions
uri: Urgent-Rebuke-Texas-legislature-for-trying-to-ban-abortions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Urgent:_Rebuke_Texas_legislature_for_trying_to_ban_abortions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Rebuke_Texas_legislature_for_trying_to_ban_abortions%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/stand-texas-women">rebuke 
the Texas legislature</a> for trying to ban abortions.


title: Organizers for community currency in Kenya charged with "forgery"
uri: Organizers-for-community-currency-in-Kenya-charged-with-forgery
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Organizers_for_community_currency_in_Kenya_charged_with_forgery)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Organizers_for_community_currency_in_Kenya_charged_with_forgery%29

content:
<p>
A community currency in a slum in Kenya 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/17297-the-crime-of-alleviating-poverty-a-local-community-currency-battles-the-central-bank-of-kenya">was 
working well for alleviating poverty</a>, but the organizers have been
charged with "forgery".
<p>
These charges are obviously absurd, but I fear that the state will
excuse them based on a legal lie.


title: Issue of cracking by companies suppressed by UK gov't agency
uri: Issue-of-cracking-by-companies-suppressed-by-UK-gov-t-agency
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Issue_of_cracking_by_companies_suppressed_by_UK_govt_agency)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Issue_of_cracking_by_companies_suppressed_by_UK_govt_agency%29

content:
<p>
A UK government agency knew for years that companies were regularly
breaking into other companies' computers, and 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/22/hacking-soca-companies-report">decided 
to suppress the issue</a>.


title: Drone attacks deadlier per attack to civilians than manned bombers
uri: Drone-attacks-deadlier-per-attack-to-civilians-than-manned-bombers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Drone_attacks_deadlier_per_attack_to_civilians_than_manned_bombers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Drone_attacks_deadlier_per_attack_to_civilians_than_manned_bombers%29

content:
<p>
A US military study found that, empirically, drone attacks in
Afghanistan are 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/us-drone-strikes-afghan-civilians">ten 
times deadlier</a> <em>per attack</em> to civilians than attacks using
manned bombers.
<p>
Meanwhile, the US has little ability to tell whether the casualties
from drone attacks outside Afghanistan were civilians.


title: Snowden drops request for asylum in Russia
uri: Snowden-drops-request-for-asylum-in-Russia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Snowden_drops_request_for_asylum_in_Russia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Snowden_drops_request_for_asylum_in_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Snowden has dropped his request for asylum in Russia 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/edward-snowden-nsa-withdraws-asylum-russia-putin">in 
response to Putin's statement</a> that the condition would be to shut
up.


title: French right-wing candidate faces prosecution for speech
uri: French-right-wing-candidate-faces-prosecution-for-speech
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(French_right-wing_candidate_faces_prosecution_for_speech)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28French_right-wing_candidate_faces_prosecution_for_speech%29

content:
<p>
French right-wing candidate Le Pen 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/marine-le-pen-immunity-lifted">faces 
prosecution</a> for comparing the presence of Muslims praying as an
"occupation".
<p>
This demonstrates how France fails to respect freedom of speech.


title: Population growth and bad gov't policies widen inequality
uri: Population-growth-and-bad-gov-t-policies-widen-inequality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Population_growth_and_bad_govt_policies_widen_inequality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Population_growth_and_bad_govt_policies_widen_inequality%29

content:
<p>
Due to widening inequality, 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/unicef-economic-boom-should-benefit-kids-too/a-16917184">hundreds 
of millions of children</a> remain poor in countries that are not
considered poor overall.
<p>
Part of the cause of this problem is that poor people have too many babies.
However, that's partly our fault for not giving them the reliable
contraception which they can't afford.
<p>
Rapid population growth, caused by 
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/our_overcrowded_planet_a_failure_of_family_planning/2666/">bad 
government policies on birth control and abortion</a>, will push the
biosphere closer to disaster.
<p>
We need to slow this down.


title: Ads that pretending not to be ads on Twitter
uri: Ads-that-pretending-not-to-be-ads-on-Twitter
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Ads_that_pretending_not_to_be_ads_on_Twitter)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Ads_that_pretending_not_to_be_ads_on_Twitter%29

content:
<p>
Twitter is being used for 
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2013/06/27/on-twitter-dubious-health-claims-from-e-cigarette-bots/">advertisements 
that pretend not to be advertisements</a>.


title: Massive surveillance making some Americans hesitate to sign petitions
uri: Massive-surveillance-making-some-Americans-hesitate-to-sign-petitions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Massive_surveillance_making_some_Americans_hesitate_to_sign_petitions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Massive_surveillance_making_some_Americans_hesitate_to_sign_petitions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/02/july-fourth-america-liberty-not-same">Massive
surveillance is making some Americans hesitate to sign petitions</a>
lest they be punished by intensified personal surveillance.
<p>
This is the result of the state's demonstrate practice of treating
dissidents as "terrorist suspects".
<p>
The US is not close to being a dictatorship with one tyrant at the
top, but that's not the only nondemocratic form of government.  What
rules the US now is a plutocracy — government of the people, by
the flunkies, for the rich and their businesses.  It steadily eats
away at what remains of our democracy, while increasing the repression
against those that try to defend it.
<p>
Thus, the fact that a one-dictator state is not likely in the short
term is of less significance than one might have wished.


title: Some Egyptian Islamists say they will fight to impose religion's cruelty
uri: Some-Egyptian-Islamists-say-they-will-fight-to-impose-religion-s-cruel
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Some_Egyptian_Islamists_say_they_will_fight_to_impose_religion's_cruelty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Some_Egyptian_Islamists_say_they_will_fight_to_impose_religion%27s_cruelty%29

content:
<p>
Some Egyptian Islamists say they
will <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/mohamed-morsi-loyalists-islamist">fight
to impose their religion's cruelty on the country.</a>


title: As E-Commerce makes retail more efficient lots of jobs are disappearing
uri: As-E-Commerce-makes-retail-more-efficient-lots-of-jobs-are-disappearin
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(As_E-Commerce_makes_retail_more_efficient_lots_of_jobs_are_disappearing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28As_E-Commerce_makes_retail_more_efficient_lots_of_jobs_are_disappearing%29

content:
<p>
As e-commerce makes retail more
efficient, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/death-of-the-salesmen/309309/">lots
of jobs are disappearing in the US.</a>
<p>
If retail were the only sector increasing efficiency by eliminating
jobs, it might not be a problem.  But it's happening, or will soon
happen, <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#23_May_2013_(Replacement_of_human_workers_by_robots)">in
many other sectors,</a> resulting in a large pool of people who can't
ever get work.  Of course, the plutocrats want to get rid of those
people by condemning them to sickness, or pushing them into crime so
that they can
be <a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2011-may-aug.html#23_July_2011_(US_Imprisonment_Rate)">locked
up and turned into slave labor.</a>
The <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#23_January_2013_(US_school-to-prison_pipeline)">school-to-prison
pipeline</a> is part of that scheme.


title: Respect the rights of all participants in journalism
uri: Respect-the-rights-of-all-participants-in-journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Respect_the_rights_of_all_participants_in_journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Respect_the_rights_of_all_participants_in_journalism%29

content:
<p>
Calling on the US government
to <a href="http://www.freepress.net/blog/2013/06/28/free-press-pushes-justice-department-respect-journalists-rights">respect
the rights of all participants in journalism.</a>


title: Doctors secretly perform medically necessary abortions
uri: Doctors-secretly-perform-medically-necessary-abortions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Doctors_secretly_perform_medically_necessary_abortions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Doctors_secretly_perform_medically_necessary_abortions%29

content:
<p>
Doctors in some Catholic
hospitals <a href="http://catholicwatch.org/reproductive-care-in-catholic-hospitals-the-new-underground-railroad/">secretly
perform medically necessary abortions</a>, hiding the practice so that
bishops can't stop them.
<p>
I wonder if it would be possible to pass an initiative in the State of
Washington saying that hospitals may not impose a policy of refusing
to provide a lawful life-saving medical procedure for non-medical
reasons.  This might make the Catholic Church sell its hospitals
there, which would be a decisive victory.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Thugs_shot_dog_for_no_reason)
title: Thugs shot dog for no reason
uri: Thugs-shot-dog-for-no-reason
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Thugs_shot_dog_for_no_reason%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in a town near
Chicago <a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/cops-shoot-family-dog-just-because">shot
Randy Green's dog for no reason.</a>  The dog had got loose in the
yard, but never showed any hostility towards the thugs.
<p>
I read in an article I don't want to link to (because it focuses on a
video in YouTube) that thugs in California shot a man's dog because he
made a video of them.


title: Brain-Eating amoeba spreading apparently due to global heating
uri: Brain-Eating-amoeba-spreading-apparently-due-to-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Brain-Eating_amoeba_spreading_apparently_due_to_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Brain-Eating_amoeba_spreading_apparently_due_to_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/27/4466280/brain-eating-amoeba-increasing-with-climate-change">brain-eating
amoeba is spreading in range</a>, apparently due to global heating.


title: Rehan Motiwala eventually allowed to fly back to US
uri: Rehan-Motiwala-eventually-allowed-to-fly-back-to-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Rehan_Motiwala_eventually_allowed_to_fly_back_to_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Rehan_Motiwala_eventually_allowed_to_fly_back_to_US%29

content:
<p>
Rehan Motiwala was
eventually <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0629-no-fly-20130629,0,1122175,full.story">allowed
to fly back to US</a>, but does not know whether he is still on the
no-fly list.
<p>
The no-fly list is a form of punishment without trial, and should be
abolished.  If these people were searched very carefully before
boarding a plane, that would achieve the same supposedly intended
result.  Anyone that is not a US citizen and not in the US can simply
be denied a visa.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(US_officials_teasing_the_press)
title: US officials teasing the press
uri: US-officials-teasing-the-press
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28US_officials_teasing_the_press%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2013/06/27/what-an-nsa-charm-offensive-looks-like/">US
officials are teasing the press</a> with vague stories claiming
terrorist groups have somehow learned from Snowden's revelations to
change their communication methods.  But they won't say how, even
though the terrorists presumably already know.
<p>
There are several reasons to suspect that this is manipulation, and
that we wouldn't reach the intended conclusion if we knew all about
it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(China's_massive_surveillance)
title: China's massive surveillance
uri: China-s-massive-surveillance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28China%27s_massive_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Discussion in China about US massive
surveillance <a href="http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/u-s-prism-meet-chinas-golden-shield/?_r=0">sparked
concern there about China's massive surveillance.</a>
<p>
Of course, China's massive surveillance is worse — it does not
have the flimsy limits that apply to the NSA.  This does not make US
surveillance legitimate.  We must hold a "free country" to a higher
standard than that defined by China.


title: The idea that a corporation's prime duty is to make money
uri: The-idea-that-a-corporation-s-prime-duty-is-to-make-money
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(The_idea_that_a_corporation's_prime_duty_is_to_make_money)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28The_idea_that_a_corporation%27s_prime_duty_is_to_make_money%29

content:
<p>
The idea that a corporation's prime duty is to make money for its
shareholders is presented as an unquestionable given, but
it <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-origin-of-the-worlds-dumbest-idea-milton-friedman/">comes
from an article published in 1970.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Fake_drug_checkpoint)
title: Fake drug checkpoint
uri: Fake-drug-checkpoint
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Fake_drug_checkpoint%29
content:
<p>
Since stopping drivers to check for drugs is illegal, thugs in Ohio
are using
a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ohio-police-department-using-fake-drug-checkpoints-to-identify-suspicious-drivers-search-cars/2013/06/30/fe3497fe-e19d-11e2-8657-fdff0c195a79_story.html">fake
drug checkpoint</a> to see if anyone gets worried about it.
<p>
There seems to be no limit to the level of dishonesty thugs will
practice to trample people's rights.
<p>
Of course, imprisoning people for possession of drugs is an injustice
no matter how they identify these people.


title: When all political parties are lousy they trigger protests
uri: When-all-political-parties-are-lousy-they-trigger-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(When_all_political_parties_are_lousy_they_trigger_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28When_all_political_parties_are_lousy_they_trigger_protests%29

content:
<p>
When all the political parties are
lousy, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/02/politics-protest-elites-brazil-egypt-organisation">they
trigger protests,</a> but it's hard for protests alone to bring about
a better government.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Contaminated_meat_from_Australia)
title: Contaminated meat from Australia
uri: Contaminated-meat-from-Australia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Contaminated_meat_from_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Six Months Later,
U.S. Still <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/02">Importing
Contaminated Meat From Australia.</a>
<p>
The US government pretends that Australia's self-inspection system is
adequate because it wants to introduce the same inadequate system in
the US.


title: Urgent: Demand investigation of massive surveillance
uri: Urgent-Demand-investigation-of-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Urgent:_Demand_investigation_of_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Demand_investigation_of_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call your congresscritter
to <a href="http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/church-call">demand
an investigation of massive surveillance</a> like the Church
Committee.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: BP's 20 billion will be exhausted in a few months
uri: BP-s-20-billion-will-be-exhausted-in-a-few-months
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(BP's_20_billion_will_be_exhausted_in_a_few_months)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28BP%27s_20_billion_will_be_exhausted_in_a_few_months%29

content:
<p>
BP's 20 billion dollars for damages from the Big Spill will
be <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/02/bp-depleting-compensation-fund-victims">exhausted
in a few months.</a>
<p>
I hope it will have to pay more, because the damage is ongoing, and
having to pay more will scare oil companies a little.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Iran's_new_president)
title: Iran's new president
uri: Iran-s-new-president
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Iran%27s_new_president%29
content:
<p>
Iran's new president wants
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/iran-president-hassan-rouhani-progressive-views">reduce
censorship and improve human rights.</a>
<p>
That would be a welcome rejection of the worldwide trend.  However, I
think he won't be permitted to go very far in this direction.


title: The Dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY)
uri: The-Dictionary-of-the-Global-War-on-You-(GWOY)
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(The_Dictionary_of_the_Global_War_on_You_(GWOY))

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28The_Dictionary_of_the_Global_War_on_You_%28GWOY%29%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/02-5">The
Dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY).</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(Alberta_is_flooded)
title: Alberta is flooded
uri: Alberta-is-flooded
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28Alberta_is_flooded%29
content:
<p>
Even
as <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/02-4">Alberta is
flooded</a>, its politicians still push accelerated global heating.


title: US gov't blocked access to entire Guardian web site
uri: US-gov-t-blocked-access-to-entire-Guardian-web-site
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 03_July_2013_(US_gov't_blocked_access_to_entire_Guardian_web_site)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_%28US_gov%27t_blocked_access_to_entire_Guardian_web_site%29

content:
<p>
The US government
has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/us-military-blocks-guardian-troops">blocked
access to the entire Guardian web site</a> from military bases in
Afghanistan, South Asia and the Middle East.
<p>
Perhaps they want to keep the troops ignorant so they can be
manipulated into carrying out atrocities and imagining that they are
"serving their country".  Or perhaps they are simply trying to prove
on principle that truth cannot overcome their wall of ignorance.


title: Urgent: Keep student loan interest rates down
uri: Urgent-Keep-student-loan-interest-rates-down
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Urgent:_Keep_student_loan_interest_rates_down)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_student_loan_interest_rates_down%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://democracyforamerica.com/pages/826-extend-the-3-4-rate-for-our-students">ask 
your senators</a> to vote for keeping student loan interest rates
down.


title: Urgent: New criterion for "pre-clearance" in voting rights act
uri: Urgent-New-criterion-for-pre-clearance-in-voting-rights-act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Urgent:_New_criterion_for_pre-clearance_in_voting_rights_act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_New_criterion_for_pre-clearance_in_voting_rights_act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call and ask your congresscritter to fix the voting rights act
by setting up a new criterion for "pre-clearance".  Also send a message through
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=e9TLY5EqTQp7IWb5usY9Bg">this 
page</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: Rise of poverty among children in the US
uri: Rise-of-poverty-among-children-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Rise_of_poverty_among_children_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Rise_of_poverty_among_children_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Poverty among children has been 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/06/24/2203091/child-poverty-rise/?mobile=nc">rising</a>
in the US, showing that the "recovery" is a misnomer.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Think_tank_funding)
title: "Think tank" funding
uri: Think-tank-funding
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Think_tank_funding%29
content:
<p>
Most "think tanks" get funding from companies and this directly
<a href="http://fair.org/home/who-pays-for-think-tanks/">shapes 
the positions they take</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Making_parents_pay_for_school_buses)
title: Making parents pay for school buses
uri: Making-parents-pay-for-school-buses
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Making_parents_pay_for_school_buses%29

content:
<p>
Many parts of the US make parents 
<a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/District_Dossier/2013/06/districts_ask_parents_to_pony_.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2">pay 
for school buses</a>. When this is applied only to magnet schools, it
can have the effect of excluding excellent but poor students from
magnet schools.


title: Media executives and pundits get rich by supporting plutocracy
uri: Media-executives-and-pundits-get-rich-by-supporting-plutocracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Media_executives_and_pundits_get_rich_by_supporting_plutocracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Media_executives_and_pundits_get_rich_by_supporting_plutocracy%29

content:
<p>
While reporters are losing their jobs, a few media executives and
pundits are 
<a href="http://fair.org/slider/cover-story-media-millionaires/">getting 
rich by supporting plutocracy</a>.


title: Clapper's excuse for giving false testimony before Congress
uri: Clapper-s-excuse-for-giving-false-testimony-before-Congress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Clappers_excuse_for_giving_false_testimony_before_Congress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Clappers_excuse_for_giving_false_testimony_before_Congress%29

content:
<p>
Clapper said he gave a false answer because 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/james-clapper-senate-erroneous">he 
"forgot about" the PAT RIOT act</a>.
<p>
No one could "forget about" something so important, for testimony
before Congress, when he had been informed of the question in advance.
His statement is really an expression of contempt for the Senate and
the people.  It says, "I am prepared to tell even the most incredible
lies."


title: Urgent: Negotiate elimination of nuclear weapons
uri: Urgent-Negotiate-elimination-of-nuclear-weapons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Urgent:_Negotiate_elimination_of_nuclear_weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Negotiate_elimination_of_nuclear_weapons%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/161/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13852">call 
on Obama</a> to negotiate elimination of nuclear weapons.


title: Why technological advances have led to more surveillance
uri: Why-technological-advances-have-led-to-more-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Why_technological_advances_have_led_to_more_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Why_technological_advances_have_led_to_more_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/516691/technology-not-law-limits-mass-surveillance/">We 
have relied on technical and economic constraints</a> to the extent of
government surveillance of everyone, so technological advances have
led to more surveillance.


title: Republicans stop denying human cause of global heating
uri: Republicans-stop-denying-human-cause-of-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Republicans_stop_denying_human_cause_of_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Republicans_stop_denying_human_cause_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Republicans have switched from denying that human activity causes
global heating to obstructive 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jul/03/climate-change-carbon-emissions-republicans-obama">quibbling 
about the expense of stopping it</a>.
<p>
"Cap and trade" might be effective if it worked as intended, but the European
experience shows that the system is too easy to game or defraud.  I support
a simple carbon tax.


title: Statements made by NSA officials questioned
uri: Statements-made-by-NSA-officials-questioned
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 04_July_2013_(Statements_made_by_NSA_officials_questioned)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#04_July_2013_%28Statements_made_by_NSA_officials_questioned%29

content:
<p>
Senators accuse NSA officials of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/senators-wyden-udall-nsa-surveillance">misleading 
them on additional points</a>.


title: US security state origin was occupation of the Philippines
uri: US-security-state-origin-was-occupation-of-the-Philippines
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(US_security_state_origin_was_occupation_of_the_Philippines)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28US_security_state_origin_was_occupation_of_the_Philippines%29

content:
<p>
If the US security state resembles a government of occupation, that's
because
its <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17278-from-philippines-to-nsa-111-years-of-the-us-surveillance-state">origin
was in the occupation of the Philippines.</a>
<p>
Biometric ID cards were a central part of this, which is why we must
fight to prevent their adoption, or to put an end to them.
<p>
I support in principle the idea of offering a path to amnesty and
citizenship for the many illegal immigrants in the US; but I oppose
the current immigration bill because of its requirement to increase
the need for a government-issued photo ID card, in effect converting
them into national ID cards.


title: Government-Aligned journalist describes alleged corruption and infighting
uri: Government-Aligned-journalist-describes-alleged-corruption-and-infight
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Government-Aligned_journalist_describes_alleged_corruption_and_infighting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Government-Aligned_journalist_describes_alleged_corruption_and_infighting%29

content:
<p>
In Venezuela, a recording, supposedly of government-aligned journalist
Mario Silva in conversation with a Cuban
agent, <a href="http://transitions.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/21/a_secret_recording_shocks_chavismo">describes
alleged corruption and infighting in the government.</a>
<p>
However, Silva says the conversation did not occur, and the recording
was faked by editing snippets of other conversations.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Mannequins_with_cameras)
title: Mannequins with cameras
uri: Mannequins-with-cameras
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Mannequins_with_cameras%29
content:
<p>
Stores are
using <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-06/in-some-stores-the-mannequins-are-watching-you">mannequins
with cameras to track customers.</a>
<p>
I think there should be laws to limit the ways stores watch their
customers.  Security cameras should be allowed only if their
recordings are not available on the Internet and are deleted within 2
weeks unless there is an incident or court order to justify checking
them.


title: Amnesty International condemned US attempts to stop Snowden from gaining asylum
uri: Amnesty-International-condemned-US-attempts-to-stop-Snowden-from-gaini
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Amnesty_International_condemned_US_attempts_to_stop_Snowden_from_gaining_asylum)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Amnesty_International_condemned_US_attempts_to_stop_Snowden_from_gaining_asylum%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty
International <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/02-4">condemned
US attempts to stop Snowden from gaining asylum</a>, and says that no
country should return Snowden to the US because he might be subject to
inhumane treatment.
<p>
In addition, Amnesty said that Snowden's "crimes" consisted of
revealing violations of human rights and that they must not be
prosecuted at all.


title: Hidden microphone in Ecuadorian embassy in London
uri: Hidden-microphone-in-Ecuadorian-embassy-in-London
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Hidden_microphone_in_Ecuadorian_embassy_in_London)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Hidden_microphone_in_Ecuadorian_embassy_in_London%29

content:
<p>
A hidden microphone
was <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/hidden-microphone-ecuador-embassy-assange">found
in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.</a>


title: Sonar connected to mass strandings of whales
uri: Sonar-connected-to-mass-strandings-of-whales
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Sonar_connected_to_mass_strandings_of_whales)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Sonar_connected_to_mass_strandings_of_whales%29

content:
<p>
Military sonar has been connected
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/03/whales-flee-military-sonar-strandings">mass
strandings of whales.</a>


title: New Zealand law to permit increased surveillance
uri: New-Zealand-law-to-permit-increased-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(New_Zealand_law_to_permit_increased_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28New_Zealand_law_to_permit_increased_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
New Zealand is considering a law
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/03/kim-dotcom-new-zealand-spying-nsa">permit
increased surveillance.</a>


title: Steps to try to improve carbon emissions trading system
uri: Steps-to-try-to-improve-carbon-emissions-trading-system
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Steps_to_try_to_improve_carbon_emissions_trading_system)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Steps_to_try_to_improve_carbon_emissions_trading_system%29

content:
<p>
The European Parliament approved steps to try
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/03/emissions-trading-reforms-pollution-permits">improve
the broken European carbon emissions trading system</a> —
temporarily.


title: Global heating making wildfires go beyond our methods of containment
uri: Global-heating-making-wildfires-go-beyond-our-methods-of-containment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Global_heating_making_wildfires_go_beyond_our_methods_of_containment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Global_heating_making_wildfires_go_beyond_our_methods_of_containment%29

content:
<p>
How global heating is making wildfires
go <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/03/climate-change-wildife-firefighting-arizona-hotshot">beyond
what our methods of containment can handle.</a>


title: Vienna forced Morales to submit his plane to a search for Snowden
uri: Vienna-forced-Morales-to-submit-his-plane-to-a-search-for-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Vienna_forced_Morales_to_submit_his_plane_to_a_search_for_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Vienna_forced_Morales_to_submit_his_plane_to_a_search_for_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
Vienna forced President Morales to submit his plane to
a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/bolivian-president-morales-latin-america">search
for Snowden</a>.  The result is a diplomatic crisis as other South
American countries support Bolivia.


title: Countries that condemned US spying revealed by Snowden denied him asylum
uri: Countries-that-condemned-US-spying-revealed-by-Snowden-denied-him-asyl
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Countries_that_condemned_US_spying_revealed_by_Snowden_denied_him_asylum)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Countries_that_condemned_US_spying_revealed_by_Snowden_denied_him_asylum%29

content:
<p>
Countries that condemned US spying revealed by Snowden nonetheless
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/03/clapper-lying-snowden-eu-bolivia">denied
him asylum</a>, and even blocked President Morales' flight alleging he
might have Snowden with him.
<p>
Morales should show his firmness against this intimidation by going
back to Moscow now to pick up Snowden.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Warmest_decade_since_records_started)
title: Warmest decade since records started
uri: Warmest-decade-since-records-started
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Warmest_decade_since_records_started%29

content:
<p>
2001-2010 was
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/03/unprecedented-climate-extremes-last-decade-un">warmest
decade since records started.</a>


title: Authoritarian states say surveillance "keeps us safe"
uri: Authoritarian-states-say-surveillance-keeps-us-safe
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Authoritarian_states_say_surveillance_keeps_us_safe)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Authoritarian_states_say_surveillance_keeps_us_safe%29

content:
<p>
Westerners made a grave mistake in accepting the creeping general surveillance
that authoritarian states say 
"<a href='http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/03/when-states-monitored-citizens-call-them-authoritarian'>keeps 
us safe</a>".


title: Fallout from French nuclear tests in Polynesia
uri: Fallout-from-French-nuclear-tests-in-Polynesia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Fallout_from_French_nuclear_tests_in_Polynesia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Fallout_from_French_nuclear_tests_in_Polynesia%29

content:
<p>
Fallout from French nuclear tests in Polynesia 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/french-nuclear-tests-polynesia-declassified">spread
plutonium over Tahiti and all of French Polynesia</a>. Increased
levels of cancer have resulted.


title: Misuse of the doctrine of legal negligence
uri: Misuse-of-the-doctrine-of-legal-negligence
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Misuse_of_the_doctrine_of_legal_negligence)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Misuse_of_the_doctrine_of_legal_negligence%29

content:
<p>
Parents whose child died as a result of eating their heroin
have been sentenced to 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/03/parents-jail-toddler-heroin-death">long 
prison terms</a>.
<p>
It is gratuitously cruel to punish people harshly for not preventing a
tragic and unusual accident (tragic for them!), the danger of which
they didn't recognize.  If the goal is to teach other parents to
prevent such dangers, merely publicizing the events of the child's
death would do the job.
<p>
The doctrine of legal negligence has a valid place.  There are common
dangers that everyone is supposed to know about and actively prevent.
But this one seems too unusual to claim everyone should know about it.
<p>
I wonder if the doctrine of legal negligence should be accompanied by
a state responsibility to inform people from time to time of their
responsibilities to avoid accidents.  Not only could that help
legitimize punishing people who fail to carry out those
responsibilities; it might also in practice do far more to reduce
these accidents than the remote threat of punishment.


title: US food companies prepare to block GMO-labeling laws
uri: US-food-companies-prepare-to-block-GMO-labeling-laws
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(US_food_companies_prepare_to_block_GMO-labeling_laws)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28US_food_companies_prepare_to_block_GMO-labeling_laws%29

content:
<p>
Giant US food companies are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/03-9">preparing 
to spend millions</a>, perhaps billions, in many states to block laws
to require labeling of GMOs.


title: US border patrol considers putting weapons on drones
uri: US-border-patrol-considers-putting-weapons-on-drones
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(US_border_patrol_considers_putting_weapons_on_drones)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28US_border_patrol_considers_putting_weapons_on_drones%29

content:
<p>
The US border patrol is considering putting not-usually-lethal weapons
on drones to operate 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/customs-border-protection-considered-weaponizing-drones">near 
the US border</a>.


title: Imposing Christian theocracy in the name of opposing Muslim theocracy
uri: Imposing-Christian-theocracy-in-the-name-of-opposing-Muslim-theocracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Imposing_Christian_theocracy_in_the_name_of_opposing_Muslim_theocracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Imposing_Christian_theocracy_in_the_name_of_opposing_Muslim_theocracy%29

content:
<p>
A bill in North Carolina would 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/07/03/north_carolina_abortion_bill_restrictions_snuck_into_legislation_meant_to.html">shut 
most abortion clinics</a> in the name of preventing the imposition of
Shari'a law in that state.
<p>
Thus, opposing vicious Muslim theocracy (fortunately no threat today
in North Carolina) is used as the excuse to impose vicious Christian
theocracy.


title: NSA ingratiates itself with US children
uri: NSA-ingratiates-itself-with-US-children
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(NSA_ingratiates_itself_with_US_children)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28NSA_ingratiates_itself_with_US_children%29

content:
<p>
The NSA ingratiates itself with US children in school by 
<a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/07/nsa-inside-classrooms.php">putting 
its name on educational materials with various sorts of advice</a>.
<p>
Many of these seem to be good advice, but the side lesson is "The NSA
is your friend".
<p>
It also recruits through the 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/06/07/cryptokids_nsa_teach_your_kids_about_the_nsa_with_the_help_of_cryptocat.html">Cryptokids</a> 
program.


title: The practice of attacking first aid workers
uri: The-practice-of-attacking-first-aid-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(The_practice_of_attacking_first_aid_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28The_practice_of_attacking_first_aid_workers%29

content:
<p>
A US drone attack killed 17 people in Pakistan.  The many wounded had
to wait for medical care because 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/03-0">first aid 
workers were scared to approach them</a>, lest they be bombed in turn.
<p>
The practice of attacking the first aid workers was started
by terrorists, then picked up by the US.
<p>
Killing tourists in retaliation is not legitimate guerrilla war; it
is attacking civilians deliberately, which is even worse than what
the US does with the drones.


title: Why European Nations Must Protect Edward Snowden
uri: Why-European-Nations-Must-Protect-Edward-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Why_European_Nations_Must_Protect_Edward_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Why_European_Nations_Must_Protect_Edward_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/03-9">Why European 
Nations Must Protect Edward Snowden</a>.


title: Germans file criminal charges against the US over NSA spying
uri: Germans-file-criminal-charges-against-the-US-over-NSA-spying
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Germans_file_criminal_charges_against_the_US_over_NSA_spying)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Germans_file_criminal_charges_against_the_US_over_NSA_spying%29

content:
<p>
Individual Germans are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/03-4">filing 
criminal charges</a> against the US over NSA spying.
<p>
I agree with what the German Pirate and Green politicians say.


title: Nestlé's water pumping operations during drought conditions
uri: Nestlé-s-water-pumping-operations-during-drought-conditions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Nestles_water_pumping_operations_during_drought_conditions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Nestles_water_pumping_operations_during_drought_conditions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/03-0">Over 
140,000 Demand Nestlé Reduce Canadian Water Pumping Operations
During Ontario Drought Conditions</a>.
<p>
The government should have the authority to impose these limits,
even if Nestle has a contract to buy water.


title: Requiring warrants to access cell phone location data
uri: Requiring-warrants-to-access-cell-phone-location-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Requiring_warrants_to_access_cell_phone_location_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Requiring_warrants_to_access_cell_phone_location_data%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU is 
<a href="https://www.cdt.org/blogs/0207privacy-groups-say-221-days-location-tracking-requires-warrant">arguing 
in an amicus brief</a> that the state should need a warrant to access
a cell phone's location data.
<p>
<a href="https://www.cdt.org/blogs/0207montana-tells-police-no-location-tracking-without-warrant">Some 
states</a> are passing laws requiring this.
<p>
These laws are a step forward, but they are inadequate.
<p>
A GPS tracker on a car collects data only once it is placed.
Requiring the state to get a warrant before placing a tracker on
someone's car is adequate protection of privacy in regard to that
technology, because it prevents the state from tracking everyone's car
all the time (at least, doing so this way).
<p>
By contrast, requiring the state to get a warrant in order to access
previously recorded cell phone location data is inadequate, because
the system builds a dossier about each person advance, and
the state could take it later if it presents a reason to investigate someone.
This is ideal for fishing expeditions against whistleblowers, or
anyone the state wants to get.  Cell phones perform dangerously
excessive surveillance by collecting this data in the first place.
<p>
To restore privacy rights we must prevent the collection of so much
data about a person unless there is already a warrant.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(FISA_spying_criteria)
title: FISA spying criteria
uri: FISA-spying-criteria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28FISA_spying_criteria%29
content:
<p>
FISA spying criteria were designed carefully to 
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/nsas-spying-americans-not-inadvertent-it-claims">allow 
the NSA to collect lots of information about Americans</a> while
creating excuses to say it was "inadvertent" and we were not
"targeted".


title: Senior gov't officials can lie to Congress
uri: Senior-gov-t-officials-can-lie-to-Congress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Senior_govt_officials_can_lie_to_Congress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Senior_govt_officials_can_lie_to_Congress%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/03-6">If They Can Lie 
About NSA/Snowden, They Can Lie About Syria & Iran</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Urgent:_Protect_orcas)
title: Urgent: Protect orcas
uri: Urgent-Protect-orcas
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_orcas%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://online.nwf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1773">call 
on the US</a> to protect orcas from plans to export
100 million tons of coal per year.
<p>
Of course, burning that coal would endanger all of us by boosting 
CO<sub>2</sub> emissions.


title: European countries that provide communications data to the US
uri: European-countries-that-provide-communications-data-to-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(European_countries_that_provide_communications_data_to_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28European_countries_that_provide_communications_data_to_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy
have all had <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/nsa-spying-europe-claims-us-eu-trade">formal 
agreements</a> to provide communications data (about their citizens)
to the US.


title: Urgent: Oppose US intervention in Syria
uri: Urgent-Oppose-US-intervention-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_US_intervention_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_US_intervention_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1439/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13862">call 
on your congresscritter and senators</a> not to allow US intervention
in Syria.


title: Urgent: Stop use of bank cards with imposed fees as payment
uri: Urgent-Stop-use-of-bank-cards-with-imposed-fees-as-payment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_use_of_bank_cards_with_imposed_fees_as_payment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_use_of_bank_cards_with_imposed_fees_as_payment%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.raiseupmke.org/page/s/workers-shouldn-t-have-to-pay-to-get-paid">call 
on McDonald's</a> to stop using bank cards with imposed fees as the
imposed system of payment.


title: Austerity in Portugal fails ostensible goal
uri: Austerity-in-Portugal-fails-ostensible-goal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Austerity_in_Portugal_fails_ostensible_goal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Austerity_in_Portugal_fails_ostensible_goal%29

content:
<p>
Austerity in Portugal has failed in its ostensible goal, as 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/nils-pratley-on-finance/2013/jul/03/portugal-bond-yields-austerity-eurozone-crisis">bond 
interest rates have shot up</a>.
<p>
The plutocrat's response, 
<a href="media/3cfda0cc.shared-sacrifice.png" data-original-source="http://www.stallman.org/images/shared-sacrifice.png">as 
usual</a>, is to complain that wages haven't been driven down enough
and demand further cuts.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Egyptian_army_removes_Morsi)
title: Egyptian army removes Morsi
uri: Egyptian-army-removes-Morsi
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Egyptian_army_removes_Morsi%29
content:
<p>
The Egyptian army has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/mohamed-morsi-egypt-second-revolution">removed 
Morsi</a> as president.
<p>
Intervention of the military in politics is always dangerous, but in
Egypt the alternative was dangerous too.  The army says it will make
the head of the constitutional court an interim president to hold new
elections for president and congress.  On the other hand, I have read
it has shut some TV channels, including the Egyptian branch of
al-Jazeera.  I don't think I can tell whether this is heading
for democracy or tyranny.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Prejudiced_UK_thug_fired)
title: Prejudiced UK thug fired
uri: Prejudiced-UK-thug-fired
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Prejudiced_UK_thug_fired%29
content:
<p>
A UK thug who called an arrested man a "nigger" has been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/03/met-police-office-racial-slur-sacked">fired</a>.
<p>
In general, expressions of racist views should not be a crime.
Freedom of speech must include the ideas we disagree with.
<p>
However, public officials dealing with the public are a 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#27_October_2012_(UK_thug_unpunished_after_insulting_prisoner)">special 
case</a>,
because they represent the state.  They must conduct themselves
without prejudice — not only in their words, but in their acts
(such as searching people on the street).


title: Campaign to eradicate mice and rats on South Georgia island
uri: Campaign-to-eradicate-mice-and-rats-on-South-Georgia-island
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Campaign_to_eradicate_mice_and_rats_on_South_Georgia_island)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Campaign_to_eradicate_mice_and_rats_on_South_Georgia_island%29

content:
<p>
A campaign to eradicate mice and rats on South Georgia
island <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/04/worlds-largest-rat-extermination">may
allow seabirds to return.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Floods_that_global_heating_will_bring)
title: Floods that global heating will bring
uri: Floods-that-global-heating-will-bring
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Floods_that_global_heating_will_bring%29

content:
<p>
The floods that global heating will bring are likely
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/04/flood-protection-spending-threatening-food-security">destroy
valuable farmland as well as people's homes. </a>


title: Rushing to search for oil in the Arctic
uri: Rushing-to-search-for-oil-in-the-Arctic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Rushing_to_search_for_oil_in_the_Arctic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Rushing_to_search_for_oil_in_the_Arctic%29

content:
<p>
Oil companies
are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/04/uk-energy-companies-arctic-oil">rushing
to search for oil in the Arctic</a>, which will constitute an
additional positive feedback in global heating.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(France_practices_massive_surveillance)
title: France practices massive surveillance
uri: France-practices-massive-surveillance
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28France_practices_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/04/france-electronic-spying-operation-nsa">France
practices massive surveillance</a> on people's communications.


title: Military trying to arrest 300 members of Muslim Brotherhood
uri: Military-trying-to-arrest-300-members-of-Muslim-Brotherhood
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Military_trying_to_arrest_300_members_of_Muslim_Brotherhood)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Military_trying_to_arrest_300_members_of_Muslim_Brotherhood%29

content:
<p>
The Egyptian military is trying
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/04/egypt-military-arrest-warrants-muslim-brotherhood">arrest
300 members of the Muslim Brotherhood.</a>
<p>
Although I condemn their theocratic views, they have a right to
express them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Restore_the_4th!)
title: Restore the 4th!
uri: Restore-the-4th
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Restore_the_4th%21%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/04-1">Restore
the 4th!</a>  A movement to opposing massive government surveillance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Thank_a_Protester)
title: Thank a Protester
uri: Thank-a-Protester
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Thank_a_Protester%29
content:
<p>
Americans: This Independence
Day, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/04-1">Thank a
Protester.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Blocking_payments_to_VPN_companies)
title: Blocking payments to VPN companies
uri: Blocking-payments-to-VPN-companies
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Blocking_payments_to_VPN_companies%29

content:
<p>
Payment companies
are <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vpn-providers-130703/">blocking
payments to VPN companies.</a>
<p>
It looks like a systematic attack on people trying to get around
national censorship or surveillance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Urgent:_Get_workers_rehired)
title: Urgent: Get workers rehired
uri: Urgent-Get-workers-rehired
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Get_workers_rehired%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Aida Alvarez, a director of Walmart, to get
the <a href="http://org.credoaction.com/petitions/aida-alvarez-speak-out-against-walmart-s-attacks-on-workers">workers
fired for striking rehired.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on EPA to adopt strictest C02 emissions
uri: Urgent-Call-on-EPA-to-adopt-strictest-C02-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_EPA_to_adopt_strictest_C02_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_EPA_to_adopt_strictest_C02_emissions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA to adopt
the <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1483&utm_source=Convio">strictest
proposed standards for power plant CO2 emissions.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(Urgent:_Raise_the_minimum_wage)
title: Urgent: Raise the minimum wage
uri: Urgent-Raise-the-minimum-wage
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_the_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: support Rep. Ellison's call
for <a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/raise%2Dthe%2Dminimum%2Dwage%2D19?source=mo&id=70666-2794606-uaFQpnx&=&=">raising
the minimum wage to a living wage.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(The_Clergy_Project)
title: The Clergy Project
uri: The-Clergy-Project
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28The_Clergy_Project%29
content:
<p>
The Clergy Project gives religious
preachers <a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/13/unbelieving-preachers-get-help-to-come-out-as-open-atheists/">support
in coming out as nonbelievers.</a>


title: US photographs the covers of all snail mail in US
uri: US-photographs-the-covers-of-all-snail-mail-in-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 05_July_2013_(US_photographs_the_covers_of_all_snail_mail_in_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_%28US_photographs_the_covers_of_all_snail_mail_in_US%29

content:
<p>
The
US <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&">photographs
the covers of all snail mail in the US</a>, which fills the gaps in
the complete communications dossier for every American.


title: University financial aid staff corrupted by banksters
uri: University-financial-aid-staff-corrupted-by-banksters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(University_financial_aid_staff_corrupted_by_banksters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28University_financial_aid_staff_corrupted_by_banksters%29

content:
<p>
University financial aid staff have been corrupted by banksters
to <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/3/failure_to_stop_doubling_of_student">steer 
students into disadvantageous loans</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Privatizing_our_water)
title: Privatizing our water
uri: Privatizing-our-water
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Privatizing_our_water%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/04-4">There Is 
Nothing Innovative About Privatizing Our Water</a>.
<p>
There is no difficulty investing public funds in water infrastructure.
We just need to tax the rich and businesses enough.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Draft_EU_documents)
title: Draft EU documents
uri: Draft-EU-documents
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Draft_EU_documents%29
content:
<p>
Draft EU documents reveal 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/04-6">plans to use 
"trade treaties" to exclude the public and democracy from regulatory 
issues.


title: European companies may stop hosting their data on US servers
uri: European-companies-may-stop-hosting-their-data-on-US-servers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(European_companies_may_stop_hosting_their_data_on_US_servers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28European_companies_may_stop_hosting_their_data_on_US_servers%29

content:
<p>
European companies may 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/04/european-us-internet-providers-nsa">stop 
hosting their data in US servers</a>, thanks to Snowden's disclosures.
<p>
It's about time!
<p>
The purpose of the term 
"cloud" is to create a 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing">cloud in your mind</a>, that you will use Internet services indiscriminately without posing
crucial questions such as, "Which companies and countries would I be
trusting this data to?  What data would they get?  Would they get
control over how my computing is done?"  If you think about Internet
services with your mind in a "cloud", you will surely make bad
choices.
<p>
There are some Internet services that are acceptable to use, but
companies (and governments!) in Europe must never entrust any of their
data to servers outside Europe.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Unreasonable_searches)
title: Unreasonable searches
uri: Unreasonable-searches
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Unreasonable_searches%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/04/tsa-nsa-unreasonable-searches">What the TSA has in common with the NSA: unreasonable searches</a>.
<p>
I don't object strenuously if someone touches my genitals while
searching me.  I don't see why other people care so much about this.
<p>
Rather, I object to searching people and their baggage for anything
other than weapons that could endanger the safety of the plane.  Being
stabbed with a tiny knife is a tiny danger.  Someone with a tiny knife
could stab you on a plane, or in a store, or on a street.  Where is it
more likely to happen?  On a street.  To trample our rights to avoid
this tiny danger in planes is unjustified.
<p>
The fact is, the TSA searches for anything it can find that can be
used to arrest people — and then tries to fool you about this
with the same sort of dishonest language that the NSA uses.  "We don't
intentionally target your marijuana, etc..  However, if we notice it
inadvertently while checking to see whether you have a forbidden tiny
knife, we inform the [thug] who is waiting near by to arrest you."


title: Morsi may be prosecuted for "insulting the presidency"
uri: Morsi-may-be-prosecuted-for-insulting-the-presidency
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Morsi_may_be_prosecuted_for_insulting_the_presidency)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Morsi_may_be_prosecuted_for_insulting_the_presidency%29

content:
<p>
Morsi may be prosecuted for 
"<a href='http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/04/egypt-morsi-allies-regime'>insulting the presidency</a>".
<p>
There is no insult to the presidency like the president's own actions.
If insulting the presidency were a crime in the US, we would prosecute
Dubya and Obama.
<p>
However, I have a hunch that the Egyptian military does not see the
irony of this, and must have dredged up some words Morsi spoke as an
excuse to prosecute him.
<p>
Freedom of speech includes the right to insult any one, any thing, any
view, and any institution.  Including, of course, the presidency of
any country.


title: Limited available supplies of phosphorus and potassium
uri: Limited-available-supplies-of-phosphorus-and-potassium
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Limited_available_supplies_of_phosphorus_and_potassium)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Limited_available_supplies_of_phosphorus_and_potassium%29

content:
<p>
Limited available supplies of phosphorus and potassium for fertilizers
<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/be-persuasive-be-brave-be-arrested-if-necessary-1.11796">could make today's farming impossible in 40 years</a>.


title: Whistleblower reports on oil companies in the North Sea
uri: Whistleblower-reports-on-oil-companies-in-the-North-Sea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Whistleblower_reports_on_oil_companies_in_the_North_Sea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Whistleblower_reports_on_oil_companies_in_the_North_Sea%29

content:
<p>
A whistleblower reports that oil companies operating in the North Sea
between the UK and Norway make a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/04/piper-alpha-offshore-safety-mockery-whistleblower">mockery 
of safety</a>.


title: New York reduces the number of prisoners and the crime rate
uri: New-York-reduces-the-number-of-prisoners-and-the-crime-rate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(New_York_reduces_the_number_of_prisoners_and_the_crime_rate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28New_York_reduces_the_number_of_prisoners_and_the_crime_rate%29

content:
<p>
New York is reducing the number of prisoners and the crime rate,
and it seems to be due to the use of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/04/alternatives-incarceration-prison-numbers">alternative 
forms of sentencing</a>.
<p>
Private prison companies try to prevent such success.
In fact, some of them fine the state if it doesn't
imprison a certain number of people.
<p>
Meanwhile, the whole US could tremendously reduce the amount
of incarceration by legalizing possession of drugs.  It would
probably reduce the rate of other crimes too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Asylum_for_Snowden)
title: Asylum for Snowden
uri: Asylum-for-Snowden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Asylum_for_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua have
offered <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/06/venezuela-nicaragua-offer-asylum-edward-snowden">asylum
to Edward Snowden.</a>


title: Shamai Leibowitz convicted of espionage for telling public about FBI crimes
uri: Shamai-Leibowitz-convicted-of-espionage-for-telling-public-about-FBI-c
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Shamai_Leibowitz_convicted_of_espionage_for_telling_public_about_FBI_crimes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Shamai_Leibowitz_convicted_of_espionage_for_telling_public_about_FBI_crimes%29

content:
<p>
Shamai Leibowitz
was <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/06-1">convicted
of espionage for telling the public about FBI crimes</a>.  He believes
that Obama punished him in an attempt to teach whistleblowers a lesson
— and thinks that Snowden learned useful lessons from it (though
not the ones Obama had in mind).
<p>
Leibowitz cites "the obligation to our consciences and basic human
rights" as the justification for doing his duty despite laws against
it, but he could also cite the US Constitution.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Saudi_activists_face_jail)
title: Saudi activists face jail
uri: Saudi-activists-face-jail
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Saudi_activists_face_jail%29
content:
<p>
Saudi activists face jail
for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/05/saudi-activists-food-woman-husband">taking
food to woman whose husband left her effectively locked in the
house</a> without enough food or money to get it.


title: Soldiers shot at Muslim Brotherhood's supporters
uri: Soldiers-shot-at-Muslim-Brotherhood-s-supporters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Soldiers_shot_at_Muslim_Brotherhood's_supporters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Soldiers_shot_at_Muslim_Brotherhood%27s_supporters%29

content:
<p>
The Muslim Brotherhood's supporters held a large rally in Cairo, and
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/05/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-streets">soldiers
shot at them.</a>
<p>
Elsewhere in Cairo, Secularists and Islamists fought, and someone
started shooting.  Perhaps that was the army too.
<p>
Rebooting democracy with new elections might be the best thing under
the circumstances; repressing the Muslim Brotherhood would make it
much worse.  Excluding them from democracy for a substantial time
would be oppression; however, what they do when they get power is also
oppression.  It is hard to choose between them.
<p>
One article suggests this might convince Islamists around the world to
give up on seeking power through democracy,
and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/05/failure-egypt-islamist-experiment-violence">use
violence instead.</a>
<p>
This might occur, but what they do when they gain power includes
violence too.
<p>
The second article suggests a stratagem that might have avoided both
of the repressive outcomes.  I don't know enough to judge whether it
would work.


title: Impossible to buy home in London if you're not rich
uri: Impossible-to-buy-home-in-London-if-you-re-not-rich
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Impossible_to_buy_home_in_London_if_you're_not_rich)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Impossible_to_buy_home_in_London_if_you%27re_not_rich%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing UK policies have made
it <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2013/jul/05/debate-decent-housing-human-right">impossible
to buy a home in London if you're not rich</a>, and hard to rent one
either.
<p>
Allowing people to buy their apartments in public housing was
a <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2008-jul-oct.html#01 October 2008 (Public housing)">fundamental mistake,</a> unless the state was
going to build more public housing apartments as fast as they were
sold.


title: Thug who shot man dead may finally face murder prosecution
uri: Thug-who-shot-man-dead-may-finally-face-murder-prosecution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Thug_who_shot_man_dead_may_finally_face_murder_prosecution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Thug_who_shot_man_dead_may_finally_face_murder_prosecution%29

content:
<p>
A UK thug that shot a man dead for no reason
may <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/05/unlawful-killing-met-marksman-azelle-rodney">finally
face a murder prosecution.</a>
<p>
The government went to great lengths to prevent an inquiry.


title: TPP aims to ban advantages that public medical systems offer
uri: TPP-aims-to-ban-advantages-that-public-medical-systems-offer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(TPP_aims_to_ban_advantages_that_public_medical_systems_offer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28TPP_aims_to_ban_advantages_that_public_medical_systems_offer%29

content:
<p>
The TPP aims
to <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/tpp-would-make-health-care-even-more-expensive-less-accountable-less-accessible">ban
the advantages that public medical systems offer</a>, and require
patents on surgical and other medical treatments.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Putin's_feudal_state)
title: Putin's feudal state
uri: Putin-s-feudal-state
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Putin%27s_feudal_state%29
content:
<p>
Dissident Alexey Navalny, in the closing arguments of his trial,
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/05/russian-opposition-destroy-feudal-system-alexey-navalny">condemned
Putin's "feudal" state.</a>


title: US politicians and journalists trying to smear Snowden
uri: US-politicians-and-journalists-trying-to-smear-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(US_politicians_and_journalists_trying_to_smear_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28US_politicians_and_journalists_trying_to_smear_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
US politicians and even journalists are trying to smear Edward Snowden
by fabricating the claim that
he <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/05/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-spy">specifically
collaborated with enemies of the US.</a>
<p>
What he did was collaborate with the American people; but perhaps the
American people qualify as enemies of the US state, considering the
<a href="#06_July_2013_(Trans-Pacific_Partnership_about_giving_corporations_more_power)">plans
for the TPP.</a>


title: Labeling leaders as bandits to excuse killing them
uri: Labeling-leaders-as-bandits-to-excuse-killing-them
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Labeling_leaders_as_bandits_to_excuse_killing_them)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Labeling_leaders_as_bandits_to_excuse_killing_them%29

content:
<p>
The US makes a habit of labeling the Haitian people's leaders as
"bandits"
to <a href="http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/crucifictionofdreadwilme.html">excuse
killing them.</a>
<p>
The Haitian revolution made US leaders uncomfortable because
they <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/weekinreview/ideas-trends-age-revolution-founding-fathers-dreamed-uprisings-except-haiti.html">feared
slaves in the US would rebel next.</a>


title: Verizon want to stop providing land-line telephone service
uri: Verizon-want-to-stop-providing-land-line-telephone-service
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Verizon_want_to_stop_providing_land-line_telephone_service)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Verizon_want_to_stop_providing_land-line_telephone_service%29

content:
<p>
Verizon wants
to <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2013/05/14/pennsylvania-you-are-next-for-verizon-landline-migrations-to-wireless-fcc-says-it-is-fine/">stop
providing land-line telephone service</a> in some areas, and force
people to use a wireless service that is technically limited,
unreliable in disasters,
and <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2013/07/03/ny-attorney-general-to-verizon-either-serve-your-customers-or-sell-and-get-out/">imposes
nasty conditions.</a>


title: Thugs secretly recorded meeting between Brooks and lawyer
uri: Thugs-secretly-recorded-meeting-between-Brooks-and-lawyer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Thugs_secretly_recorded_meeting_between_Brooks_and_lawyer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Thugs_secretly_recorded_meeting_between_Brooks_and_lawyer%29

content:
<p>
UK
thugs <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/05/police-bugging-stephen-lawrence-duwayne-brooks">secretly
recorded a meeting</a> between Duwayne Brooks and his lawyer.
<p>
The thugs were trying
to <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_June_2013_(Campaign_by_UK_thugs_to_smear_and_frame_murder_witness)">frame
Brooks for the murder of his best friend</a>, rather than find who
really did it.


title: Trans-Pacific Partnership about giving corporations more power
uri: Trans-Pacific-Partnership-about-giving-corporations-more-power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 06_July_2013_(Trans-Pacific_Partnership_about_giving_corporations_more_power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_%28Trans-Pacific_Partnership_about_giving_corporations_more_power%29

content:
<p>
Supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership call it a "trade treaty",
but most of it is not about trade at all.  It's
about <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/why-tpp-all-about-corporate-power-not-trade">giving
corporations more power.</a>
<p>
For instance, the TPP would ban the sorts of
regulation <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/tpp-would-make-us-housing-crisis-much-worse">needed
to keep banks from cheating their clients and causing a financial
crisis.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(World_approaching_peak_water)
title: World approaching "peak water"
uri: World-approaching-peak-water
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28World_approaching_peak_water%29
content:
<p>
The world is approaching "peak water", when the 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jul/06/water-supplies-shrinking-threat-to-food">supplies 
of fresh water for growing plants will decrease</a>.  Countries
including the US, India and China are exhausting the aquifers they
use.
<p>
We could make enough food with considerably less water, if we ate a
lot less beef.  However, in the long them, the regions that can't
grow food any more 
<a href="http://stallman.org/articles/children.html">need to stop their 
populations from growing</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Where_should_Snowden_go)
title: Where should Snowden go
uri: Where-should-Snowden-go
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Where_should_Snowden_go%29
content:
<p>
Where should Snowden go to
be <a href="media/bc0099ad.1044392_490495014371540_151192151_n.jpg" data-original-source="http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1044392_490495014371540_151192151_n.jpg">immune
from US authorities?</a>


title: MasterCard resumed allowing donation to Wikileaks
uri: MasterCard-resumed-allowing-donation-to-Wikileaks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(MasterCard_resumed_allowing_donation_to_Wikileaks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28MasterCard_resumed_allowing_donation_to_Wikileaks%29

content:
<p>
MasterCard has
voluntarily <a href="http://wikileaks.org/MasterCard-breaks-ranks-in.html">resumed
allowing donations to Wikileaks.</a>


title: Google shut down Google Reader because
uri: Google-shut-down-Google-Reader-because
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Google_shut_down_Google_Reader_because)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Google_shut_down_Google_Reader_because%29

content:
<p>
Speculation: Google shut down Google Reader because RSS does not fit
with server companies' idea
of <a href="http://www.marco.org/2013/07/03/lockdown">controlling
everything a user does.</a>
<p>
You shouldn't use Facebook or Google+, or any communications service
that demands to know your "real name".


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Amazon's_distributed_sweatshop)
title: Amazon's distributed sweatshop
uri: Amazon-s-distributed-sweatshop
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Amazon%27s_distributed_sweatshop%29
content:
<p>
Amazon's Mechanical Turk service is
a <a href="http://priceonomics.com/who-makes-below-minimum-wage-in-the-mechanical/">distributed
sweatshop.</a>
<p>
It's <a href="http://stallman.org/amazon.html">not the only sweatshop
that Amazon runs.</a> Amazon mistreats independent bookstores,
publishers, authors, the national treasury, and its workers — as
well as <a href="media/d0e54868.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf">readers that use the
Amazon Swindle.</a>


title: Republicans campaigning against fictitious war on coal
uri: Republicans-campaigning-against-fictitious-war-on-coal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Republicans_campaigning_against_fictitious_war_on_coal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Republicans_campaigning_against_fictitious_war_on_coal%29

content:
<p>
Republicans
are <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/07/02/obamas-war-on-coal-isnt-real-but-its-really-in-the-newspaper/">campaigning
against a fictitious "war on coal".</a>
<p>
We <em>should</em> have a war on coal.  Coal mining is done today by
removing the top of a mountain,
which <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#23_August_2011_(Mountaintop_Removal_Mining)">poisons
the surrounding streams</a> permanently. Burning the
coal <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#28_July_2011_(Non-Binding_Guidelines)">produces
pollution that kills people</a>, too. And it contributes greatly to
global heating.
<p>
Therefore, it is no surprise that the corporatocracy in the US has no
"war on coal".  Coal mining continues as before; as the US burns less
coal,
it <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#08_May_2011_(Carbon_emissions)">exports
more to be burned elsewhere.</a>


title: Nevins regrets he listened to Senator Gillibrand
uri: Nevins-regrets-he-listened-to-Senator-Gillibrand
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Nevins_regrets_he_listened_to_Senator_Gillibrand)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Nevins_regrets_he_listened_to_Senator_Gillibrand%29

content:
<p>
Joseph Nevins regrets that he listened to Senator Gillibrand speak
without <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/04-10">protesting
her support for US wars and proxy occupations.</a>


title: Urgent: Sign the Anti-Corruption Pledge
uri: Urgent-Sign-the-Anti-Corruption-Pledge
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Urgent:_Sign_the_Anti-Corruption_Pledge)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Sign_the_Anti-Corruption_Pledge%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.theanticorruptionpledge.org/take-the-pledge/">sign
the Anti-Corruption Pledge</a>.
<p>
For <a href="http://www.rootstrikers.org/">other ways to support</a>.


title: Urgent: Protection of Atlantic herring
uri: Urgent-Protection-of-Atlantic-herring
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Urgent:_Protection_of_Atlantic_herring)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protection_of_Atlantic_herring%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1485&utm_source=Convio">protection
of Atlantic herring</a>; overfishing them leaves many other fish and
whales insufficient food.


title: Thug infiltrator that spied on dissident groups
uri: Thug-infiltrator-that-spied-on-dissident-groups
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Thug_infiltrator_that_spied_on_dissident_groups)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Thug_infiltrator_that_spied_on_dissident_groups%29

content:
<p>
Another UK undercover thug infiltrator
that <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/06/home-office-police-childrens-identities-lambert">spied
on dissident groups,</a> and later managed the whole group of them,
has confessed.


title: Stop judicial bullying of Palestinian activists
uri: Stop-judicial-bullying-of-Palestinian-activists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Stop_judicial_bullying_of_Palestinian_activists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Stop_judicial_bullying_of_Palestinian_activists%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International calls on Israel
to <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/israel-stop-judicial-bullying-palestinian-activists-2013-07-04">stop
judicial bullying of Palestinian activists.</a>


title: Egypt's army shot protesters and shut down TV stations
uri: Egypt-s-army-shot-protesters-and-shut-down-TV-stations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Egypt's_army_shot_protesters_and_shut_down_TV_stations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Egypt%27s_army_shot_protesters_and_shut_down_TV_stations%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's
army <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/egypt-crackdown-morsi-s-supporters-heralds-new-rights-abuses-2013-07-05">shot
protesters supporting Morsi and shut down TV stations</a> that support
the Muslim Brotherhood.
<p>
A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/06/egypt-coptic-priest-killed-sinai">Christian
priest was shot</a>, perhaps sectarian violence.


title: Suppression services of countries collude in kidnapping, disappearance, and torture
uri: Suppression-services-of-countries-collude-in-kidnapping-disappearance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Suppression_services_of_countries_collude_in_kidnapping,_disappearance,_and_torture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Suppression_services_of_countries_collude_in_kidnapping%2C_disappearance%2C_and_torture%29

content:
<p>
The suppression services of Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asian
countries
<a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/cynical-subversion-justice-name-security-returns-torture-central-asia-2013-07-03">collude
regularly in kidnaping, disappearance, and torture</a>.
<p>
They also extradite accused people rapidly, disregarding objections
from the European Court of Human Rights that they are supposedly
committed to obey.
<p>
The US and EU countries are so deeply involved in similar outrage that
they don't dare criticize when Russia does it.


title: South Korea's spy agency sabotaged last presidential election
uri: South-Korea-s-spy-agency-sabotaged-last-presidential-election
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(South_Korea's_spy_agency_sabotaged_last_presidential_election)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28South_Korea%27s_spy_agency_sabotaged_last_presidential_election%29

content:
<p>
South Korea's spy
agency <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/07/05/protests-erupt-in-south-korea-over-spy-agencys-electioneering/">sabotaged
the last presidential election</a> with a massive attack campaign
against opposition parties using large numbers of sockpuppets.
<p>
The campaign was criminal but its leaders have not been punished, and
it is destroying evidence.
<p>
If South Korea doesn't make sure this can't happen again, its will not
have a fair election again.


title: Jay-Z released song through app that spies and extorts
uri: Jay-Z-released-song-through-app-that-spies-and-extorts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Jay-Z_released_song_through_app_that_spies_and_extorts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Jay-Z_released_song_through_app_that_spies_and_extorts%29

content:
<p>
Jay-Z (a rapper, apparently) released a song through a nasty app that
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/arts/music/jay-z-is-watching-and-he-knows-your-friends.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0">spies
on users and extorts them into advertising</a> the song to others.
<p>
If people don't push back <em>hard</em>, in two years this will become
"normal", as have so many other nasty practices.


title: WSJ says Egypt need murderous dictator
uri: WSJ-says-Egypt-need-murderous-dictator
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(WSJ_says_Egypt_need_murderous_dictator)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28WSJ_says_Egypt_need_murderous_dictator%29

content:
<p>
The Wall Street Journal
says <a href="Http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/06/wall-street-journal-editorial-egypt-pinochet">Egypt
needs a murderous dictator.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(UK_deports_Abu_Qatada_to_Jordan)
title: UK deports Abu Qatada to Jordan
uri: UK-deports-Abu-Qatada-to-Jordan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28UK_deports_Abu_Qatada_to_Jordan%29
content:
<p>
The UK has finally succeeded in deporting Abu Qatada to Jordan, but it
is not clear whether there was any reason to do so, as he was never
accused of a crime except based on evidence obtained by 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/abu-qatada-no-terrorist">torture</a>.
<p>
It is especially strange to say the goal was to get him out of the UK,
then oppose bail on the grounds that he might leave the UK.


title: Interview with Kristinn Hrafnsson of WikiLeaks
uri: Interview-with-Kristinn-Hrafnsson-of-WikiLeaks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Interview_with_Kristinn_Hrafnsson_of_WikiLeaks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Interview_with_Kristinn_Hrafnsson_of_WikiLeaks%29

content:
<p>
An <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/7/2/an_attack_on_journalism_wikileaks_on_bradley_manning_trial_fbi_move_to_infiltrate_organization">interview 
with Kristinn Hrafnsson</a> of WikiLeaks.


title: Effects of global heating killing whole forests
uri: Effects-of-global-heating-killing-whole-forests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Effects_of_global_heating_killing_whole_forests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Effects_of_global_heating_killing_whole_forests%29

content:
<p>
We have not taken care of trees well enough, and now the effects of
global heating are 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/trees-life-savers-forests-survival">killing 
whole forests</a>.


title: Eviction and harassment of women's rights activist in China
uri: Eviction-and-harassment-of-women-s-rights-activist-in-China
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Eviction_and_harassment_of_womens_rights_activist_in_China)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Eviction_and_harassment_of_womens_rights_activist_in_China%29

content:
<p>
Ye Haiyan, women's rights activist in China, has been 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/07/china-womens-rights-ye-haiyan-homeless">evicted 
and harassed</a> by local governments, including sending people to
beat her up, accusing her of injuring her attackers, and kicking her
out of her home.


title: How do you know when President Obama is lying?
uri: How-do-you-know-when-President-Obama-is-lying
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(How_do_you_know_when_President_Obama_is_lying)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28How_do_you_know_when_President_Obama_is_lying%29

content:
<p>
How Do You Know When President Obama is Lying? 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/07">MSNBC Won't Tell 
You</a>.


title: Intelligence agencies in Western countries working with the NSA
uri: Intelligence-agencies-in-Western-countries-working-with-the-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Intelligence_agencies_in_Western_countries_working_with_the_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Intelligence_agencies_in_Western_countries_working_with_the_NSA%29

content:
<p>
Snowden says that the NSA works with intelligence agencies in Germany
and various Western countries on a 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/07/edward-snowden-spiegel-nsa-germans">"no 
questions asked" basis</a>.


title: Using location traces from mobile phones to identify people
uri: Using-location-traces-from-mobile-phones-to-identify-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Using_location_traces_from_mobile_phones_to_identify_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Using_location_traces_from_mobile_phones_to_identify_people%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130325/srep01376/full/srep01376.html">95% 
of people</a> can be identified from hourly location traces from their
mobile phones.
<p>
This is why I don't think getting a prepaid phone anonymously
is acceptable.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Email_metadata)
title: Email metadata
uri: Email-metadata
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Email_metadata%29
content:
<p>
Get a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/07/nsa-gchq-metadata-reassurances">picture</a> 
of how thoroughly Big Brother knows about your life by looking at your
email metadata.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Morsis_downfall)
title: Morsi's downfall
uri: Morsi-s-downfall
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Morsis_downfall%29
content:
<p>
The history of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/06-2">Morsi's 
downfall</a>.
<p>
Violating the Egyptian Constitution is not such a grave thing,
considering that it was imposed by Islamists, not long ago, over the
objections of the Secularists.  What is crucial is to establish a
democracy that the people accept and that respects human rights.
<p>
US law <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/06-0">requires 
cutting off aid to Egypt</a> until a democratically elected government
takes office.


title: Russia's libraries protest new law allowing state to block web sites
uri: Russia-s-libraries-protest-new-law-allowing-state-to-block-web-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Russias_libraries_protest_new_law_allowing_state_to_block_web_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Russias_libraries_protest_new_law_allowing_state_to_block_web_sites%29

content:
<p>
Russia's libraries protested a new law allowing the state to 
<a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/07/03/the-day-russias-libraries-stood-still/">block 
web sites accused of sharing</a>.
<p>
The US already practices a form of such oppression, through 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#17_April_2011_(US_Raids_Harm_Rights)">seizing 
domain names without a trial</a>, and has 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#22_January_2012_(SOPA%20And%20PIPA)">narrowly 
escaped laws such as SOPA/PIPA</a> which would extend it.


title: Dissidents in United Arab Emirates convicted of dissent
uri: Dissidents-in-United-Arab-Emirates-convicted-of-dissent
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Dissidents_in_United_Arab_Emirates_convicted_of_dissent)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Dissidents_in_United_Arab_Emirates_convicted_of_dissent%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/uae-critics-sentenced-2013-07-02">68 
dissidents</a> in the United Arab Emirates were convicted of dissent,
in a bogus trial.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Intelligence_lies)
title: Intelligence lies
uri: Intelligence-lies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Intelligence_lies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/03-12">The 
Intelligence Lies Just Keep Coming…</a>


title: This century's first decade: hottest and wettest on record
uri: This-century-s-first-decade-hottest-and-wettest-on-record
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(This_centurys_first_decade_hottest_and_wettest_on_record)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28This_centurys_first_decade_hottest_and_wettest_on_record%29

content:
<p>
The first decade of this century was the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/03">hottest and 
wettest</a> on record.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Urgent:_Confirm_Richard_Cordray)
title: Urgent: Confirm Richard Cordray
uri: Urgent-Confirm-Richard-Cordray
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Confirm_Richard_Cordray%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12147">call 
on your senators</a> to confirm Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.


title: Removal of Observer story about European involvement with NSA
uri: Removal-of-Observer-story-about-European-involvement-with-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Removal_of_Observer_story_about_European_involvement_with_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Removal_of_Observer_story_about_European_involvement_with_NSA%29

content:
<p>
The Observer published a story reporting that various European countries
share personal data with the NSA, then 
<a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/217201/observer-yanks-story-about-nsa-deal-in-europe-based-on-wayne-madsen-conspiracy-theory/">removed 
it</a> after concluding that the source was not dependable.
<p>
I had a political note pointing to that story, which I removed after
the story disappeared.  Until seeing this, I didn't know until now why
it had been deleted.
<p>
If the report was based on documents posted by the NSA, I think that
is sufficient basis to say that the NSA claims that other countries
cooperate with it in the reported ways, and never the nondependable
intermediate source.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(NSA_recruitment_at_college)
title: NSA recruitment at college
uri: NSA-recruitment-at-college
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28NSA_recruitment_at_college%29
content:
<p>
The NSA went to a college to recruit, and students gave it some 
<a href="http://mobandmultitude.com/2013/07/02/the-nsa-comes-recruiting/">hard
questions</a>.


title: Obama regime reimposes secrecy on number of nuclear weapons
uri: Obama-regime-reimposes-secrecy-on-number-of-nuclear-weapons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Obama_regime_reimposes_secrecy_on_number_of_nuclear_weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Obama_regime_reimposes_secrecy_on_number_of_nuclear_weapons%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime has 
<a href="http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/07/pentagon-reverts/">reimposed 
secrecy</a> on the number of nuclear weapons the US has, after
publishing the number once.


title: Google search changed to include more bias
uri: Google-search-changed-to-include-more-bias
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Google_search_changed_to_include_more_bias)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Google_search_changed_to_include_more_bias%29

content:
<p>
Google search has been changed to give overwhelming precedence to
search results that somehow have a 
<a href="http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/54349646327/death-of-organic-search">special 
preference from Google</a>.  In one case, only 7% of the screen was
used to display anything else.  In another case, one had to scroll
down four screens to find anything else.
<p>
I think that my occasional searches will be less vulnerable to this
problem that most people are.  I rarely search for a product or
service in the first place.  I search for other sorts of things
that are less business-oriented.
<p>
It seems silly to use a search engine to search for "Italian
restaurant" — that is not the way to find a <em>good</em>
Italian restaurant.  I would not make the decision to "eat in an
Italian restaurant" in the absence of knowing about a
<em>specific</em> good Italian restaurant that is feasible to eat in.
If there isn't one, I'd rather eat in a good restaurant of some other
kind.
<p>
However, this doesn't make the article's issue unimportant.
A biased search engine is no substitute for an unbiased one.


title: Jeff Olson acquitted of vandalism charges
uri: Jeff-Olson-acquitted-of-vandalism-charges
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Jeff_Olson_acquitted_of_vandalism_charges)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Jeff_Olson_acquitted_of_vandalism_charges%29

content:
<p>
Jeff Olson was 
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-chalk-verdict-20130701,0,1617754.story">acquitted 
of vandalism charges</a> brought because he had written slogans
condemning Bank of America in chalk on the sidewalk.
<p>
However, fear of the hassle of being prosecuted may still have a chilling
effect on what people say.  I suggest holding a mass chalk-in in San Diego
to uphold freedom of of expression.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(FBI_tried_to_entrap_John_Kiriakou)
title: FBI tried to entrap John Kiriakou
uri: FBI-tried-to-entrap-John-Kiriakou
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28FBI_tried_to_entrap_John_Kiriakou%29
content:
<p>
John Kiriakou writes that the FBI 
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/07/02/cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakous-open-letter-to-edward-snowden/">tried 
to entrap him</a> to give them an excuse to prosecute him.
<p>
He warns people never to cooperate with the FBI in any fashion.


title: Crucial points in Bradley Manning's trial withheld from public
uri: Crucial-points-in-Bradley-Manning-s-trial-withheld-from-public
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(Crucial_points_in_Bradley_Mannings_trial_withheld_from_public)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28Crucial_points_in_Bradley_Mannings_trial_withheld_from_public%29

content:
<p>
Obama has 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/06/lack-transparency-tainted-justice-bradley-manning">kept 
the public in the dark</a> about crucial points in Bradley Manning's
trial.
<p>
However, we know the crucial point: Obama is out to get him because he
was loyal to the American people.
<p>
The case against Bradley Manning has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/03-3">gaping 
holes</a>.
<p>
Even if it fails, he will still be imprisoned for the lesser charges
to which he pled guilty.  I suggest we celebrate Bradley Manning Day
annually on Dec 17 (his birthday).


title: UK gov't could demand release of Shaker Aamer if it wanted to
uri: UK-gov-t-could-demand-release-of-Shaker-Aamer-if-it-wanted-to
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 07_July_2013_(UK_govt_could_demand_release_of_Shaker_Aamer_if_it_wanted_to)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_July_2013_%28UK_govt_could_demand_release_of_Shaker_Aamer_if_it_wanted_to%29

content:
<p>
The UK government claims to be powerless to do anything about
Guantanamo, but it
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/06/obama-cameron-guantanamo-bay-shaker-aamer">could 
demand release of Shaker Aamer</a> if it wanted to.


title: US number 27 among countries in median wealth
uri: US-number-27-among-countries-in-median-wealth
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(US_number_27_among_countries_in_median_wealth)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28US_number_27_among_countries_in_median_wealth%29

content:
<p>
The US is now 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/americas-middle-class-27th-richest?paging=off">number 
27 among countries in median wealth</a>, reflecting the effects of
austerity and catering to the banksters.


title: Rimsha Masih brought to safety in Canada
uri: Rimsha-Masih-brought-to-safety-in-Canada
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Rimsha_Masih_brought_to_safety_in_Canada)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Rimsha_Masih_brought_to_safety_in_Canada%29

content:
<p>
Although blasphemy charges were dropped against Rimsha Masih, she still
faced the danger of 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/01/pakistan-girl-accused-blasphemy-canada">lynching 
by Muslim fanatics</a>.  She has been brought to safety in Canada.


title: Urgent: Restrict use of surveillance drones in Massachusetts
uri: Urgent-Restrict-use-of-surveillance-drones-in-Massachusetts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Urgent:_Restrict_use_of_surveillance_drones_in_Massachusetts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Restrict_use_of_surveillance_drones_in_Massachusetts%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu/ma/issues/alert/?alertid=62736066">ask 
your state legislators</a> to restrict surveillance using drones.


title: An excuse for the US to order people to decrypt their files
uri: An-excuse-for-the-US-to-order-people-to-decrypt-their-files
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(An_excuse_for_the_US_to_order_people_to_decrypt_their_files)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28An_excuse_for_the_US_to_order_people_to_decrypt_their_files%29

content:
<p>
The witch-hunt against people who watch "child pornography" may
provide an excuse for US to start 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/decryption-flap/">ordering 
people to decrypt their files</a>.
<p>
Note that "child pornography" in the US includes images of people who
are old enough that they can lawfully have sex in many states.


title: UK gov't proposes to scrap protections against torture
uri: UK-gov-t-proposes-to-scrap-protections-against-torture
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(UK_govt_proposes_to_scrap_protections_against_torture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28UK_govt_proposes_to_scrap_protections_against_torture%29

content:
<p>
The UK government proposes to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/07/abu-qatada-human-rights">scrap 
the protections against torture</a> that blocked its attempts to
deport Abu Qatada.  He returned to Jordan when UK negotiators obtained
assurance he would get a fair trial there.
<p>
It seems to me that if the UK stopped 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#01_June_2013_(UN_Committee_Against_Torture_criticises_UK_policies)">promoting 
and facilitating torture</a>, it might have more success in
discouraging other countries from practicing torture, and then it
would have an easier time deporting unwanted visitors, or even
convincing them to leave, without trampling human rights.


title: Prisoners in Italy ask for execution instead of life in prison
uri: Prisoners-in-Italy-ask-for-execution-instead-of-life-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Prisoners_in_Italy_ask_for_execution_instead_of_life_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Prisoners_in_Italy_ask_for_execution_instead_of_life_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6707865.stm">Hundreds 
of prisoners</a> in Italy, sentenced to life in prison, asked to be
executed instead.
<p>
The death sentence is an injustice, but anyone should have the right
to die (and to ask for help in dying, in case they can't bring
themselves to commit suicide).  There is no reason to deny prisoners
that right.
<p>
There is a valid concern that, if prisoners have the right to get help
in dying, the prison may be set up so as to drive prisoners to want to
die.
<p>
However, prisons can be set up that way in any case, and often are, in
the US.  A number of prisoners in Guantanamo have killed themselves
— but it's 
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/hope-prison-lifer-exhausting-sentence">not 
just there</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Germanys_cooperation_with_the_NSA)
title: Germany's cooperation with the NSA
uri: Germany-s-cooperation-with-the-NSA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Germanys_cooperation_with_the_NSA%29
content:
<p>
Snowden describes how Germany cooperates with NSA 
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/edward-snowden-accuses-germany-of-aiding-nsa-in-spying-efforts-a-909847.html">spying 
on Internet traffic passing through Germany</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(Metadata)
title: Metadata
uri: 2013-07-09-Metadata
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28Metadata%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2013/07/03/me-and-my-metadata-thoughts-on-online-surveillance/">Me 
and my metadata — thoughts on online surveillance</a>.


title: AT&T to sell use of data about cell phone customers
uri: AT-T-to-sell-use-of-data-about-cell-phone-customers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 08_July_2013_(ATT_to_sell_use_of_data_about_cell_phone_customers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#08_July_2013_%28ATT_to_sell_use_of_data_about_cell_phone_customers%29

content:
<p>
AT&T plans to 
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/07/03/how-to-opt-out-of-atts-plan-to-sell-everything-it-knows-about-you-and-your-smartphone-use/">sell 
use of the data</a> it gets about cell phone customers.


title: Rivers and lakes in South Minnesota are polluted
uri: Rivers-and-lakes-in-South-Minnesota-are-polluted
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Rivers_and_lakes_in_South_Minnesota_are_polluted)

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

content:
<p>
1/4 of rivers and lakes in South Minnesota are so polluted by
agricultural nitrogen fertilizer runoff that
they <a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/213247091.html">could
not be used for drinking water.</a>


title: Forcing every user to make a Microsoft service account
uri: Forcing-every-user-to-make-a-Microsoft-service-account
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Forcing_every_user_to_make_a_Microsoft_service_account)

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

content:
<p>
With Windows 8.1, Microsoft is moving step by step closer
to <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/look-the-black-underbelly-of-windows-81-blue-222175">forcing
every user to make a Microsoft service account.</a>  And it will spy
on users'
searches, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html">Ubuntu-style.</a>
<p>
We could call it Windows Prism Edition.


title: Lose an average of 5 years of life due to burning coal
uri: Lose-an-average-of-5-years-of-live-due-to-burning-coal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Lose_an_average_of_5_years_of_live_due_to_burning_coal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Lose_an_average_of_5_years_of_live_due_to_burning_coal%29

content:
<p>
500 million Chinese lose an average of 5 years of life
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/study-estimates-extent-to-which-air-pollution-in-china-shortens-lives-0708.html">due
to burning coal.</a>
<p>
I think that some of the coal they are burning is exported from the
US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Giving_arms_to_school_staff)
title: Giving arms to school staff
uri: Giving-arms-to-school-staff
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Giving_arms_to_school_staff%29
content:
<p>
Republicans say schools should keep students safe
by <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/07/08/2262861/insurers-kansas-armed-teachers-risk/">giving
arms to their staff</a>.  Insurance companies refuse to cover schools
which do that, saying it is too dangerous.


title: 11 year old pregnant due to rape cannot have an abortion
uri: 11-year-old-pregnant-due-to-rape-cannot-have-an-abortion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(11_year_old_pregnant_due_to_rape_cannot_have_an_abortion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%2811_year_old_pregnant_due_to_rape_cannot_have_an_abortion%29

content:
<p>
A Chilean girl, 11 years old, is pregnant due to rape, but
she <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/07/07/2261731/chile-rape-victim-abortion/">cannot
have an abortion there.</a>


title: Privacy Is Lost, And We Are All To Blame
uri: Privacy-Is-Lost-And-We-Are-All-To-Blame
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Privacy_Is_Lost,_And_We_Are_All_To_Blame)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Privacy_Is_Lost%2C_And_We_Are_All_To_Blame%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/17407-privacy-is-lost-and-we-are-all-to-blame">Privacy
Is Lost, And We Are All To Blame.</a>
<p>
Actually, it's not all of us.  I refuse to do many of the foolish
things the article says that we "all" do.  But if <em>you</em> don't
refuse, you are partly to blame.
<p>
So redeem yourself by fighting hard now!


title: GOP want to tax students and not polluters
uri: GOP-want-to-tax-students-and-not-polluters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(GOP_want_to_tax_students_and_not_polluters)

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

content:
<p>
Why GOP Wants
to <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17436-why-gop-wants-to-tax-students-and-not-polluters">Tax
Students and Not Polluters.</a>
<p>
(It wants to discourage studying and encourage polluting.)


title: Epic sued to put an end to FBI's collection of phone call records
uri: Epic-sued-to-put-an-end-to-FBI-s-collection-of-phone-call-records
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Epic_sued_to_put_an_end_to_FBI's_collection_of_phone_call_records)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Epic_sued_to_put_an_end_to_FBI%27s_collection_of_phone_call_records%29

content:
<p>
The Electronic Privacy Information Center sued to put an end to
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jul/08/us-privacy-nsa-fbi-challenge">FBI's
collection of all phone call records.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(UK_will_convert_wheat_into_ethanol)
title: UK will convert wheat into ethanol
uri: UK-will-convert-wheat-into-ethanol
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28UK_will_convert_wheat_into_ethanol%29

content:
<p>
A great step backward:
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/08/biofuels-plant-wheat-vivergo-hull">UK
will convert wheat into ethanol</a>, not very useful as wheat
production is endangered by global heating.


title: Capacity to grow staple foods reaching limits
uri: Capacity-to-grow-staple-foods-reaching-limits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(Capacity_to_grow_staple_foods_reaching_limits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28Capacity_to_grow_staple_foods_reaching_limits%29

content:
<p>
Capacity to grow staple foods, in Europe and Asia,
is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/08/european-capacity-grow-food-scientist">reaching
physical limits.</a>


title: Pakistani gov't condemned Pakistani intelligence
uri: Pakistani-gov-t-condemned-Pakistani-intelligence
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(Pakistani_gov't_condemned_Pakistani_intelligence)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28Pakistani_gov%27t_condemned_Pakistani_intelligence%29

content:
<p>
Pakistani government
report <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/08/osama-bin-laden-pakistan-criticised">condemned
Pakistani intelligence for failing to find Osama bin Laden</a>, and
the US for invading Pakistan to kill him.


title: Australian opposition wants to cut taxes on mining and carbon emissions
uri: Australian-opposition-wants-to-cut-taxes-on-mining-and-carbon-emission
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(Australian_opposition_wants_to_cut_taxes_on_mining_and_carbon_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28Australian_opposition_wants_to_cut_taxes_on_mining_and_carbon_emissions%29

content:
<p>
The Australian opposition wants
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/08/tony-abbott-election-red-tape-green-tape">cut
taxes on mining and carbon emissions.</a>
<p>
Why tax mines if you can dump on poor people instead?


title: UK plans to ban two organizations without trial
uri: UK-plans-to-ban-two-organizations-without-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(UK_plans_to_ban_two_organizations_without_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28UK_plans_to_ban_two_organizations_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
The UK plans
to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/08/theresa-may-to-ben-extremist-groups">ban
two organizations without trial.</a>
<p>
To ban an organization without trial is a violation of freedom of
association.  The fact that other countries (including the US) do it
too is no excuse whatsoever.  Boko Haram is a terrorist group,
responsible for horrible atrocities, according to what I have read;
but there should be a trial to establish this and not merely a
political decision.
<p>
This ban will result in sentences of 10 years in prison for wearing
certain forms of clothing.  I am going to the UK soon, and I don't
know what forms of clothing they are; am I in danger?  Can someone
tell me what I need to avoid?  And can someone try to demonstrate that
this doesn't infringe freedom of expression?
<p>
The <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2006-nov-feb.html#19
 November 2006 (US witch-hunt against charities)">US has applied such
bans to charities</a> that had bent over backwards to follow US rules
in order to aid the poor and not terrorism.


title: Suffering of those that try to get to Europe by boat
uri: Suffering-of-those-that-try-to-get-to-Europe-by-boat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(Suffering_of_those_that_try_to_get_to_Europe_by_boat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28Suffering_of_those_that_try_to_get_to_Europe_by_boat%29

content:
<p>
Pope Francis visited Lampedusa to call attention to
the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/08/pope-francis-condemns-indifference-suffering">suffering
of those that try to get to Europe by boat</a> — and the poverty
in Africa which impels them to do it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(Xbox_One_new_feature_monitoring_users)
title: Xbox One new feature monitoring users
uri: Xbox-One-new-feature-monitoring-users
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28Xbox_One_new_feature_monitoring_users%29

content:
<p>
The Xbox One's great new feature is advertising targeted based on
<a href="http://hothardware.com/News/Microsoft-Integrates-Xbox-One-Advertising-with-Kinect-To-Profile-Users-and-Deliver-Ads/">monitoring
users.</a>


title: US agreement with non-US telecom companies to retrieve data at will
uri: US-agreement-with-non-US-telecom-companies-to-retrieve-data-at-will
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(US_agreement_with_non-US_telecom_companies_to_retrieve_data_at_will)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28US_agreement_with_non-US_telecom_companies_to_retrieve_data_at_will%29

content:
<p>
The US has agreements with non-US telecom companies
to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/agreements-with-private-companies-protect-us-access-to-cables-data-for-surveillance/2013/07/06/aa5d017a-df77-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html">retrieve
data at will.</a>


title: Copyright makes books and songs disappear
uri: Copyright-makes-books-and-songs-disappear
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(Copyright_makes_books_and_songs_disappear)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28Copyright_makes_books_and_songs_disappear%29

content:
<p>
Empirically, <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2290181_code227781.pdf?abstractid=2290181&mirid=1">copyright
makes books and songs disappear</a> after a few years.


title: Nick Turse harassed with accusation that he was a jihadi
uri: Nick-Turse-harassed-with-accusation-that-he-was-a-jihadi
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(Nick_Turse_harassed_with_accusation_that_he_was_a_jihadi)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28Nick_Turse_harassed_with_accusation_that_he_was_a_jihadi%29

content:
<p>
Nick Turse tried to interview US soldiers at a base in Qatar (which in
the Obama fantasy world is not called a base).  He got a runaround,
and on returning to the US
was <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/08-0">harassed
with accusations that he was a jihadi.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 09_July_2013_(Examples_of_Corporate_Tax_Avoidance)
title: Examples of Corporate Tax Avoidance
uri: Examples-of-Corporate-Tax-Avoidance
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_July_2013_%28Examples_of_Corporate_Tax_Avoidance%29

content:
<p>
Four Contemptible Examples
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/08">Corporate Tax
Avoidance.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Free_Software_and_Solidarity_Economy)
title: Free Software and Solidarity Economy
uri: Free-Software-and-Solidarity-Economy
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_%28Free_Software_and_Solidarity_Economy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://stallman.org/personal_declaration.html">Personal Declaration
of Richard Stallman and Euclides Mance</a> on Solidarity Economy and Free
Software.


title: More about the lawsuit to end collection of Americans' phone calls
uri: More-about-the-lawsuit-to-end-collection-of-Americans-phone-calls
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(More_about_the_lawsuit_to_end_collection_of_Americans_phone_calls)

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

content:
<p>
More about the Electronic Privacy Information Center's 
<a href="https://epic.org/privacy/nsa/in-re-epic/">lawsuit to end 
blanket collection</a> of Americans' phone calls.


title: Right-wing think tanks' absurd arguments
uri: Right-wing-think-tanks-absurd-arguments
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Right-wing_think_tanks_absurd_arguments)

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

content:
<p>
Right-wing think tanks and media that repeat their stories
allow the most 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/09">absurd 
arguments</a> to pass as valid.


title: Indonesia limits causes that civil organizations can stand for
uri: Indonesia-limits-causes-that-civil-organizations-can-stand-for
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 10_July_2013_(Indonesia_limits_causes_that_civil_organizations_can_stand_for)

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

content:
<p>
Indonesia has put limits on what sorts of causes a civil organization
can stand for.  A 
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/indonesia/2013/07/08/ormas_law/">wide
range of causes are banned</a>, including amending the constitution.
<p>
The importance of this is shown by the organizations now campaigning
to amend the US constitution to 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_June_2013_(Urgent:_reverse_Corporations_United_decision)">reverse 
the Corporations United decision</a>. Imagine if that were banned.
<p>
Indonesia's official philosophy, Pancasila, demands that everyone have
a religion.  Thus, this law forbids organizations to campaign for the
right to be recognized as an Atheist in Indonesia.


