# articles

feed_id: 6214903c206b9f57e62fe5ff881b6db2
title: Thugs lie, lie, and lie
uri: Thugs-lie-lie-and-lie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_January_2017_%28Thugs_lie%2C_lie%2C_and_lie%29
content:
<p>
Thugs lie, lie, and lie. It's all <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/18/1621943/-The-prevalence-of-lies-by-police-gives-new-meaning-to-protect-and-serve">to protect and serve…themselves</a>.
<p>
Blue Lies Matter!


feed_id: 9af66b6196c371209810f13eb71e93d8
title: Skyrocketing price of infant epilepsy drug
uri: Skyrocketing-price-of-infant-epilepsy-drug
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_January_2017_%28Skyrocketing_price_of_infant_epilepsy_drug%29

content:
<p>
Mallinckrodt raised the price of a drug for infant epilepsy <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/19/1622359/-This-company-raised-the-price-of-a-drug-by-85-000-to-make-sick-babies-more-profitable">from $50 to $34,000</a>.


feed_id: 3949e20cad83d008b88eb8ddb077d30b
title: The loser wanted to militarize the US
uri: The-loser-wanted-to-militarize-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_January_2017_%28The_loser_wanted_to_militarize_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The loser wanted to militarize the US in spirit <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/20/trump-team-wanted-red-squarenorth-korea-style-parade-tanks-and-missiles-reports">with a Soviet-style parade of tanks and missiles</a> in Washington DC.


feed_id: db9f8b3afa5d1db60dfe757a0816938b
title: UK illegally rushed deportations
uri: UK-illegally-rushed-deportations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_January_2017_%28UK_illegally_rushed_deportations%29

content:
<p>
The UK illegally rushed deportations of 10,000 asylum seekers, some of whom were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/20/uk-high-court-rules-10000-asylum-seekers-treated-unfairly-detained-fast-track">sent back to be tortured</a>.


feed_id: 9f8590f4bdd1a5b1acd483c4b1bfaf88
title: STASI capitalism
uri: STASI-capitalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_January_2017_%28STASI_capitalism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/20/digital-giants-workers-robots-film-employee-monitoring-the-circle">Constant monitoring of employees</a>, while on duty and even when off, adds up to STASI capitalism.


feed_id: fa2bdf0b488a2eadd1aec3f15ca9f948
title: Urgent: Rally against troll's cabinet
uri: Urgent-Rally-against-troll-s-cabinet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Rally_against_troll%27s_cabinet%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://act.moveon.org/event/stop_trumps_swamp_cabinet/">join
a rally on Tuesday Jan 24</a> against the troll's swamp creature
cabinet.


feed_id: 37e84960103184f7654658cdbe2ac661
title: Swamp creatures sit-in
uri: Swamp-creatures-sit-in
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Swamp_creatures_sit-in%29
content:
<p>
A sit-in <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/18/government-sachs-protesters-dressed-swamp-creatures-launch-sit-goldman-hq">protest by "swamp creatures" against Government Sachs</a>.


feed_id: fb31a9743b53f391b9bf879f76798eb2
title: SCROTUS wants to replace medical insurance
uri: SCROTUS-wants-to-replace-medical-insurance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28SCROTUS_wants_to_replace_medical_insurance%29

content:
<p>
SCROTUS say they want to <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/39136-the-fatal-flaws-of-any-post-aca-republican-replacement-plan">"replace" Obama's medical insurance plan</a>, but their design goals lead inevitably to failure.


feed_id: f62867e6546fb6445bb2ad586bf45001
title: Primate species extinction
uri: Primate-species-extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Primate_species_extinction%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/18/over-half-of-worlds-wild-primate-species-face-extinction-report-reveals">Over Half of World's Wild Primate Species Face Extinction</a>, report reveals.


feed_id: 8eb089c0c4e037168a3780d5648f2e9b
title: Violence against Dakota Access protesters
uri: Violence-against-Dakota-Access-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Violence_against_Dakota_Access_protestors%29

content:
<p>
Protests against the Dakota Access pipeline are continuing, and so is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/dakota-access-pipeline-protesters-police-used-excessive-force">violence by thugs against protesters</a>.


feed_id: a7f93dbecac4440b12044af99b297223
title: Guantanamo: imprisonment without trial
uri: Guantanamo-imprisonment-without-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Guantanamo%3A_imprisonment_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
Obama has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/guantanamo-bay-detainees-obama-final-transfers">never seriously tried to end imprisonment without trial</a>, the central injustice of the Guantanamo prison.
<p>
He has freed 200 prisoners that were held without trial, but by accepting the idea that some 25 prisoners can't be tried or freed, he has endorsed that unjust practice.
<p>
The US has a moral obligation to try or release every single one of them, without exceptions.


feed_id: 9b9332ab706d5010eafbfda7a961c37e
title: The loser confused names
uri: The-loser-confused-names
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28The_loser_confused_names%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/eu-chief-executive-trump-name-mix-up">The loser confused two EU "presidents"</a>.


feed_id: 440a604f78dea3d74481610d92dd26bc
title: Iraq recaptures eastern Mosul
uri: Iraq-recaptures-eastern-Mosul
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Iraq_recaptures_eastern_Mosul%29
content:
<p>
Iraq has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/18/iraq-has-retaken-east-mosul-from-isis-says-army-general">recaptured the eastern side of Mosul from PISSI</a>, aside from a few pockets.
<p>
However, in Syria, PISSI forces surrounded the airport in besieged Deir ez-Zor, which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/17/islamic-state-deir-ez-zor-syria-world-food-programme">will make air supply of the city difficult</a>.


feed_id: 524be3feff66456aeb5473909fe631af
title: EFF: limit the power of EULAs
uri: EFF-limit-the-power-of-EULAs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28EFF%3A_limit_the_power_of_EULAs%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/one-weird-trick-improve-copyright-fix-eulas">EFF calls on Congress</a> to limit the power of EULAs.
<p>
I take a stronger position: EULAs should be legally void.


feed_id: d583d73d2e8864f4ea4c441e0c6f39b1
title: 2016 hottest year in 115,000 years
uri: 2016-hottest-year-in-115-000-years
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%282016_hottest_year_in_115%2C000_years%29

content:
<p>
2016 was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/18/2016-hottest-year-ever-recorded-and-scientists-say-human-activity-to-blame">the hottest year since at least 115,000 years ago</a>.
<p>
We will have an even hotter year, next time there is an El Niño
event.


feed_id: 00ef98b73dcf2fc787e36939787e0807
title: Legalize pharmaceuticals from Canada
uri: Legalize-pharmaceuticals-from-Canada
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Legalize_pharmaceuticals_from_Canada%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/corybooker-come-back">call on Senator Booker to support legalizing import of pharmaceuticals</a> from Canada.


feed_id: c6f2899f2b24e8d439a9eb96f162fdbd
title: DeVos wants guns for schools
uri: DeVos-wants-guns-for-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28DeVos_wants_guns_for_schools%29
content:
<p>
DeVos wants schools to have guns <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/betsy-devos-guns-schools-grizzly-bears">for the sake of shooting "potential grizzlies"</a> in the school.
<p>
When it comes to protection from bears, a fence is safer for the children (and for the bears) than a gun.
<p>
Many reasons why <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/17/civil-rights-advocates-concerned-betsy-devos-will-not-stand-all-children">Betsy DeVos should not be head of the Department of Education</a>.


feed_id: d881ee1434edaf0985759fd001931b68
title: Paris peace conference not serious
uri: Paris-peace-conference-not-serious
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Paris_peace_conference_not_serious%29

content:
<p>
The Paris peace conference <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/paris-peace-conference-damp-squib-170115080656426.html">is not a serious effort to bring about peace</a> between Israel and Palestine.
<p>
A serious effort would require convincing the Israeli government to be serious about peace, and that requires some sort of pressure.


feed_id: bcc2fbc9b0969a73f81790580531b541
title: Israeli soldiers attack protesters
uri: Israeli-soldiers-attack-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Israeli_soldiers_attack_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers <a href="http://imemc.org/article/non-violent-bethlehem-march-attacked-by-israeli-military/">attacked a nonviolent protest</a> in Bethlehem.
<p>
I think it is foolish to make a fuss about a corpse—but even when a protest concerns a foolish issue, that doesn't justify attacking the protesters.


feed_id: 52ddb6b8ae0898197f811d0ffbb3603f
title: Israeli army destroying 2000 olive trees
uri: Israeli-army-destroying-2000-olive-trees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Israeli_army_destroying_2000_olive_trees%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli army is destroying 2000 olive trees belonging to Palestinians to make a <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=74759">new road to one of the illegal colonies</a> on Palestinian territory.


feed_id: 6b925b091ad3b5d343aa78d48b5aace9
title: Republicans unhappy contraception lowers abortion rate
uri: Republicans-unhappy-contraception-lowers-abortion-rate
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Republicans_unhappy_contraception_lowers_abortion_rate%29

content:
<p>
The US abortion rate has dropped considerably, but Republicans will not be happy about this, because it is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/17/anti-choice-republicans-likely-ignore-key-reason-abortion-rate-decline">due to more use of contraception</a>.
<p>
And Obama's medical insurance system helped pay for it.
<p>
Republicans don't actually care about babies, they just want to punish women for having sex.


feed_id: 959fc4100095f9202aed1e85ef7d6052
title: Building for flood resilience
uri: Building-for-flood-resilience
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Building_for_flood_resilience%29
content:
<p>
Cities are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/18/rebuild-by-design-competition-disaster-respone-climate-change">investigating how to build flood resilience</a>.
<p>
Coping with sea level rise is a short-term approach. For the long term, it's an hopeless— excuse for not confronting the problem.


feed_id: 4e78567bfce164f4e3b340f7021e7565
title: Troll manipulation techniques
uri: Troll-manipulation-techniques
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Troll_manipulation_techniques%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/donald-trump-media-manipulation-tactics">Several techniques that the troll uses</a> to manipulate opponents.
<p>
I suggest that the first step in resisting is to ignore his empty spectacle. Don't show footage of him, and let some analyst report once a month on what he said during that time. Pay attention to what he actually does.


feed_id: a1f85c07ce9c0be23aac60fd9c402335
title: Israeli thugs kill Palestinian teacher
uri: Israeli-thugs-kill-Palestinian-teacher
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Israeli_thugs_kill_Palestinian_teacher%29

content:
<p>
Israeli thugs, suppressing protests at the demolition of Arab homes, saw a Palestinian teacher driving a car. They panicked and assumed he was going to attack them, so <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/18/israeli-arab-killed-in-clashes-with-police-over-home-demolitions">they shot him dead</a>.


feed_id: f6f4dcedf07397a4b9514d95fd0d5b13
title: Sexual harassment in Pudzer's restaurants
uri: Sexual-harassment-in-Pudzer-s-restaurants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Sexual_harassment_in_Pudzer%27s_restaurants%29

content:
<p>
Pudzer's restaurant chains have a particularly high level of sexual harassment, perhaps <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/trickle-down-effect-team-trumps-labour-secretary-nominee-andrew-puzder">inspired by his personal attitude towards women</a>.


feed_id: 2fb7b5183ab3c659f6a2366192d178eb
title: Puerto Rico collective
uri: Puerto-Rico-collective
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Puerto_Rico_collective%29
content:
<p>
A community in Puerto Rico <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/18/people-power-puerto-rico-canal-community-escaped-gentrification">collectivized its land to resist gentrification</a>.


feed_id: 65382524743c376e9831332585501f70
title: General Kelly conflict of interest ties
uri: General-Kelly-conflict-of-interest-ties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28General_Kelly_conflict_of_interest_ties%29

content:
<p>
General Kelly, nominated by the loser to head the Department of Homeland Security, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/homeland-security-pick-gen-john-kelly-fails-to-disclose-ties-to-defense-contractors/">omitted two more business relationships from his conflict of interest forms</a>.


feed_id: 7b672132b4b9e6facd09224746586262
title: Obama commutes Manning sentence
uri: Obama-commutes-Manning-sentence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Obama_commutes_Manning_sentence%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/chelsea-manning-will-be-free-in-may/">Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence</a>. She is supposed to be released from prison on May 17.
<p>
I hope the troll won't find some excuse to undo this.
<p>
I don't agree with those who say Manning has "suffered enough," because <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_(Don%27t_Punish_Chelsea_Manning)">I don't think she deserved to be punished at all</a>. Her releases to the public were a service to justice.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_March_2015_(Obamas_War_on_Whistleblowers)">Obamas's War on Whistleblowers</a> launched the US in the direction of covering up wrongdoing rather than correcting it.
<p>
This will give the troll a head start on repression.


feed_id: 231cc302463712e67b3833760f16bea5
title: Companies sponsoring inauguration
uri: Companies-sponsoring-inauguration
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Companies_sponsoring_inauguration%29

content:
<p>
Companies have a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/16/despite-growing-disapproval-and-protest-corporate-cash-floods-trump-inauguration">chance to bribe each new president</a> by sponsoring inauguration activities. This year is no different.


feed_id: 25e6b63f32830213f52263cd9fd68d7f
title: Congresscritter sneaks away from constituents
uri: Congresscritter-sneaks-away-from-constituents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Congresscritter_sneaks_away_from_constituents%29

content:
<p>
A Republican congresscritter offered to meet with his constituents, but when he discovered they were all very unhappy with his vote to eliminate Obama's medical insurance law, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/16/overwhelmed-voters-angry-about-aca-repeal-gop-rep-sneaks-out-backdoor">he snuck out the back</a>.


feed_id: a866a8caae25a59677914391d137e04a
title: Economic hardship for Americans
uri: Economic-hardship-for-Americans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Economic_hardship_for_Americans%29

content:
<p>
Most Americans have fallen into economic hardship, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/16/how-american-life-continued-deteriorate-2016">shown clearly by a wide range of statistics</a>.


feed_id: dfc4f18efac8f97fbb8df8da0e881ea2
title: Denied the right to vote
uri: Denied-the-right-to-vote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Denied_the_right_to_vote%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html">Martin Luther King, Jr., puts clearly</a> why the laws of today's Republican-dominated states are unjust. Search for "being denied the right to vote."


feed_id: b3fd5996c968f16e03230c430cdca16b
title: Loser foreign policy prejudiced
uri: Loser-foreign-policy-prejudiced
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Loser_foreign_policy_prejudiced%29

content:
<p>
As long as the loser knows he <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Eskow20170116">owns certain hotels in foreign countries</a>, that will prejudice his foreign policy decisions.


feed_id: 8dec26669bc80c813e3e54b115789e68
title: Exxon/Tillerson conflict of interest
uri: Exxon-Tillerson-conflict-of-interest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Exxon%252FTillerson_conflict_of_interest%29

content:
<p>
Exxon's <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/exxonmobil-state-department/">frequent business with the State Department</a> constitutes a big conflict of interest for Tillerson.


feed_id: f62f78ac6f1cf3019c83a12f9724ee46
title: Mother burns daughter alive
uri: Mother-burns-daughter-alive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Mother_burns_daughter_alive%29
content:
<p>
A Pakistani mother has been convicted of murdering her daughter. The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/17/pakistani-mother-sentenced-to-death-for-burning-daughter-alive">daughter had married the man of her own choice</a>.
<p>
This crime was horrible, and convicting someone for this crime is a big step forward for Pakistan. However, no one should be executed.


feed_id: 3ef53decfca4591ca19c3935197af3ae
title: Philanthrocapitalism
uri: 2017-01-29-Philanthrocapitalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Philanthrocapitalism%29
content:
<p>
Beware the <a href="media/b520ad83.edwards_WEB.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.futurepositive.org/edwards_WEB.pdf">perversion known as philanthrocapitalism</a>—the idea that civil society, charity and mutual help should be conceptualized and structured on business lines.


feed_id: 0eae14c9dab59b712c09e32fd1c08e2e
title: Russia, disinformation, and Sweden
uri: Russia-disinformation-and-Sweden
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Russia%2C_disinformation%2C_and_Sweden%29

content:
<p>
Russia is accused of running a disinformation and confusion campaign <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/11/russia-waging-information-war-in-sweden-study-finds">to keep Sweden from joining NATO</a>.


feed_id: 398c102cd7f252fadba675c424746648
title: Seed sale prohibitions
uri: Seed-sale-prohibitions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Seed_sale_prohibitions%29
content:
<p>
The wealthy powers, together with the Gates Foundation, have <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170103/05344436390/tanzanian-farmers-face-12-years-prison-selling-seeds-as-theyve-done-generations.shtml">prohibited informal sale and sharing of seeds</a>. Only registered varieties may be sold now.
<p>
Farmers who continue traditional practices face 12 years in prison and a fine that no Tanzanian farmer can afford.
<p>
It is a shame that the article uses the term "intellectual property rights", since that <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">spreads confusion</a>.
<p>
It also uses the term "patented", but plant variety monopolies do not work like patents. The differences are bigger than the similarities.


feed_id: 2e028ad2513b4727973ea98eaf76212c
title: Pakistani dissidents kidnapped
uri: Pakistani-dissidents-kidnapped
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Pakistani_dissidents_kidnapped%29

content:
<p>
Several Pakistani dissidents who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/10/pakistan-military-critics-dissapearances-dissent-crackdown">criticize the power of the military</a> were kidnaped recently.
<p>
One suspects the military did it.


feed_id: e552141ceffb01546ae4328322934029
title: Internet eroding democracy?
uri: Internet-eroding-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Internet_eroding_democracy_%29
content:
<p>
The internet age witnesses <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jan/11/can-democracy-survive-the-fourth-industrial-revolution-should-it">the loss of effective democracy</a>, and the internet is helping the process along.


feed_id: 7d69a8593dd63cb665781da9c4aa8602
title: Selling private medical data
uri: Selling-private-medical-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Selling_private_medical_data%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/10/medical-data-multibillion-dollar-business-report-warns">Your Private Medical Data Is for Sale</a>.
<p>
Clinics sell it in "anonymized" form, but data brokers combine that with prescription data to figure out who it pertains to.
<p>
I think drug stores should be forbidden to release any data about prescriptions they fill to anyone under any circumstances, except to patients about themselves, to state agencies, or under subpoena.


feed_id: 20e99ea29942ea2b3a8697fc92fabf01
title: The richest 8 people
uri: The-richest-8-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28The_richest_8_people%29
content:
<p>
The richest 8 people, together, now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/16/eight-people-earn-more-billion-economics-broken">own more than the poorest half of humanity</a>.
<p>
The article is mistaken in excusing Mr Gates. He got his money through proprietary (unjust) software, and substantial parts of his "philanthropy" are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_January_2016_(Bill_Gates_charter-school_power_play)">harmful meddling</a>.
<p>
The Gates Foundation also acts as a tax-deductible marketing arm for Microsoft. It buys Windows licenses from Microsoft at the official price (though they cost Microsoft zero), then "donates" them to schools where they teach students dependence on Windows.


feed_id: 4bb56b1bb4d74141169730e2bd36841b
title: Local militance challenges elite power
uri: Local-militance-challenges-elite-power
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#24_January_2017_%28Local_militance_challenges_elite_power%29

content:
<p>
On <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/16/building-institutions-revolt">building local militance to challenge elite power</a>.


feed_id: 90c429b9cb7735e8b52a3c46c12419cf
title: President Kong
uri: President-Kong
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#1_February_2017_%28President_Kong%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1485520711/">Uri Avnery on President Kong.</a>


feed_id: e92116df121ab8d6aa9d83585e23f4f2
title: Other deranged people
uri: Other-deranged-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#1_February_2017_%28Other_deranged_people%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/nyregion/queens-ny-jfk-attack.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0">The troll inspires other deranged people</a> to attack Muslims in the US.


feed_id: 08242aaedf33e826ebf79e8c0fc9145a
title: Email
uri: Email
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#1_February_2017_%28Email%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/lawyer-for-inventor-of-e-mail-sends-threat-letter-over-social-media-posts/">Ayyadurai</a>, the self-styled "inventor of email", sent a threatening
letter
demanding deletion of posts from Diaspora.
<p>
The letter also attempts to bully the recipient and journalists not to
publish the letter — though publishing it would surely be fair use.


feed_id: 0de4f55050cc8d0eefbeb71db984a22c
title: Holocaust Remembrance Day
uri: Holocaust-Remembrance-Day
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#1_February_2017_%28Holocaust_Remembrance_Day%29
content:
<p>
The troll's statement in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/white-house-holocaust-remembrance-day-no-jews">peculiarly
avoided mentioning Jews or antisemitism</a>.


feed_id: 6b642cda824401d1bb479f023998ceca
title: Cancelled lawsuits
uri: Cancelled-lawsuits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#1_February_2017_%28Cancelled_lawsuits%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/mark-zuckerberg-drops-hawaii-land-lawsuits">Zuckerberg cancelled the lawsuits</a> that were intended to force hundreds
of
Hawaiians to sell land to him.


feed_id: f93406282e9118f916f61daab6767266
title: Special tax loophole
uri: Special-tax-loophole
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#1_February_2017_%28Special_tax_loophole%29
content:
<p>
A special tax loophole
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39240-a-special-loophole-for-trump-s-millionaire-cabinet">applies to some appointed federal officials</a>.
<p>
I can see the reason for having an exception like this.  Since they
are
required by law to sell their assets, that could impose a big tax
liability
on them, which would be somewhat unfair.  But perhaps the duration of
the tax deferral should be limited to a year after they leave the
appointed
office.


feed_id: 249ad6177a971dbc54ad18492a67d636
title: Volunteer
uri: 2017-02-02-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to (in India) make and sell buttons that say, "DON'T BE
	 TRACKED  PAY CASH", to resist the campaign against
	 cash.  Talk with a local company that makes buttons, buy a
	 batch of 50 to 500 buttons for a quantity price, then sell
	 them for 2 or 3 times that price.</p>


feed_id: 179e5f69befd0721c52cb675e7cc1761
title: Americans' voting rights under threat
uri: Americans-voting-rights-under-threat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Americans_voting_rights_under_threat%29

content:
<p>
The cheater, his appointees and other Republicans are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/25/trumps-voter-fraud-lie-dubbed-prelude-massive-suppression">preparing
a massive attack</a> on Americans' voting rights.


feed_id: 0f0fe17cb644b5ab0401f0ae6c51dfb6
title: Attacks on abortion rights beginning
uri: Attacks-on-abortion-rights-beginning
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Attacks_on_abortion_rights_beginning%29

content:
<p>
The Republicans' attacks on abortion rights are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/26/war-on-abortion-donald-trump">just
beginning</a>.
<p>
They do not seek to reduce the number of abortions; they use abortion
as an excuse to harm and repress women.


feed_id: 1973036055cbae065744f60960af8d06
title: Bahraini activist on trial for writing
uri: Bahraini-activist-on-trial-for-writing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Bahraini_activist_on_trial_for_writing%29

content:
<p>
Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab is on trial for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2017/jan/26/activist-faces-prison-for-saying-journalists-are-banned-from-bahrain">writing
that journalists and international NGOs are banned from Bahrain</a>.
<p>
He could be imprisoned for 17 years for a true statement.


feed_id: 1173aeeac59dc4ea5aec9752f47037c0
title: Theresa May's visit to Turkey
uri: Theresa-May-s-visit-to-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Theresa_Mays_visit_to_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
UK: "Theresa May's visit to Turkey 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/26/theresa-may-turkey-betrays-liberal-values'>betrays
our liberal values</a>."


feed_id: a042672f4f3ac272cab90d466e148afd
title: Opposition to coal in South Africa
uri: Opposition-to-coal-in-South-Africa
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Opposition_to_coal_in_South_Africa%29

content:
<p>
Opposition to coal is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/26/south-africa-makhado-coal-mining-conflict-locals-energy-policy">organizing
in South Africa</a>.


feed_id: 6faa27e4ad4e7b56abb7b19015e7ce91
title: Troll undermining Justice Department
uri: Troll-undermining-Justice-Department
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Troll_undermining_Justice_Department%29

content:
<p>
The troll is undermining the Justice Department by 
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/why-trumps-meetings-with-ceos-seeking-mergers-trouble-observers">meeting
directly with companies that want to merge</a>.
<p>
The Obama administration was too weak in stopping mergers.  If the
troll strengthens the barriers to mergers, I will applaud that.  But I
think he is more likely to do the exact opposite.


feed_id: c65e53031b89acea1d0e72871c0d287e
title: Secretary of the Interior
uri: Secretary-of-the-Interior
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Secretary_of_the_Interior%29
content:
<p>
The troll's saboteur nominee for Secretary of the Interior 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/how-trumps-interior-secretary-nominee-would-endanger-americas-public-lands-and">wants
to roast Earth's ecosphere with coal</a>.


feed_id: 01cc2616c67cb9264281f618ced4ee0b
title: Another pipeline leak
uri: Another-pipeline-leak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Another_pipeline_leak%29
content:
<p>
Another 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/25/oil-spill-iowa-trump-keystone-dakota-access-pipeline">pipeline
leak</a> reminds us that all oil pipelines leak sooner or later.
<p>
They leak more often than necessary because the companies 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#1_February_2012_(Pipeline_Safety)">skimp
on testing for flaws</a>.


feed_id: eb840ddf2a1b718dc6797495a84f6ccf
title: Canadian version of the TTIP
uri: Canadian-version-of-the-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Canadian_version_of_the_TTIP%29
content:
<p>
CETA, the Canadian version of TTIP (This Treaty Is Plutocratic), is
<a href="https://edri.org/despite-large-opposition-ceta-limps-forward-european-parliament/">not
necessarily dead yet</a>.  It may yet undermine democracy in the
European Union.


feed_id: 9a7ee6fcfba4f84c7e8b812535d6af08
title: Britons with working-class background
uri: Britons-with-working-class-background
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Britons_with_working-class_background%29

content:
<p>
Britons with a working-class background are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/26/workers-from-poorer-backgrounds-face-class-earnings-penalty-study">paid
7% less</a> (on the average) than equally qualified workers in the
same job that have a privileged class background.


feed_id: 768eb4c9c5982d41296392ba8b017eb2
title: Sanctuary for unauthorized immigrants
uri: Sanctuary-for-unauthorized-immigrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Sanctuary_for_unauthorized_immigrants%29

content:
<p>
The troll 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/25/sanctuary-cities-trump-executive-order-immigration">threatens
to cut off federal aid</a> to cities that offer sanctuary to
unauthorized immigrants.
<p>
This would exceed his constitutional authority, and 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/nyregion/outraged-mayors-vow-to-defy-trumps-immigration-order.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">cities
plan to resist</a>.


feed_id: 7b797cf0b03bba7aae978467cb767cf5
title: "Free trade" treaties
uri: Free-trade-treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Free_trade_treaties%29
content:
<p>
Trading with other countries does not require "free trade" treaties.
Instead of "free trade", every country needs 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/25/trump-declares-tpp-still-dead-so-now-what">trade
it can regulate</a> so that business don't gain 
<a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">supremacy over
democracy</a>.
<p>
One thing we should put into international treaties is more
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_December_2016_(Business_supremacy)">tax-enforcement
cooperation</a>.


feed_id: 962f11f71fbf07702bfa5911abb3c016
title: Unusual large wildfires in Chile
uri: Unusual-large-wildfires-in-Chile
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Unusual_large_wildfires_in_Chile%29

content:
<p>
Unusual high temperatures are fueling 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/25/chile-fire-firefighting-international-help">unusual
large wildfires in Chile</a>.
<p>
Whatever may be the immediate cause of the fires, it is clear that
their underlying cause is global heating.  That is not a matter of
negligence; 
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#exxon">Exxon</a>'s
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_July_2016_(Exxon_continues_to_fund_denial_of_global_heating)">funded
and knowingly dishonest denialism</a> is a form of sabotage.


feed_id: 8e0d9afccf94456ce083994e1ae8dfd0
title: Very urgent: Oppose law to bankrupt protesters
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-law-to-bankrupt-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_law_to_bankrupt_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Minnesota: 
<a href="http://bordc.org/news/stop-minnesotas-anti-protest-law/">oppose</a>
the proposed state law to bankrupt protesters.
<p>
Everyone else, please tell people you know in Minnesota.


feed_id: f6571928dc36fc6266a44f8e6dca2b11
title: Very urgent: Oppose confirmation of Tom Price
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-confirmation-of-Tom-Price
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_confirmation_of_Tom_Price%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone senators to 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/call/call_block_price/">oppose
confirmation of Tom Price</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: a10ab64658e5e207888eb0728938d7ef
title: Troll's plan to resume torture
uri: Troll-s-plan-to-resume-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Trolls_plan_to_resume_torture%29
content:
<p>
The troll's plan to resume torturing prisoners in secret prisons is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/25/trump-executive-order-torture-black-sites-guantanamo-bay">facing
opposition in Congress</a>.
<p>
His official press manipulator claims that the draft executive order
didn't come from the White House, and
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/25/white-house-distances-itself-black-site-order-after-outrage">suggests
that the loser has nothing to do with it</a>.  However, the troll has
spoken in favor of these actions.
<p>
Why bother looking for ways to reconcile these claims.  The statement
comes from someone of no credibility.  The simplest explanation is
that it's another "alternate fact" (i.e., lie).
<p>
The scenarios where torture is purportedly necessary are so 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/26/torture-baby-time-bomb-terrorist-trump-lee-hurst-comedian">strained
and unrealistic</a> that they will probably never occur in real life.


feed_id: c3a04b29b8d356f63e2ef256aa3badbf
title: US war crimes
uri: US-war-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28US_war_crimes%29
content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning was punished for revealing US war crimes.  Obama and
his men 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/25/injustices-mannings-ordeal">never
took action about them</a>.


feed_id: f5542449e90b61a0800c9ae916ef22d7
title: Troll immigration plans
uri: Troll-immigration-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Troll_immigration_plans%29
content:
<p>
The troll plans to stop issuing visas to citizens of 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/25/trumps-muslim-immigration-executive-order-if-we-bombed-you-we-ban-you/">seven
Muslim countries where the US has made hostile interventions</a>.  But
not Salafi Arabia, which is the root of Islamism world-wide.
<p>
I've proposed that requiring immigrants and non-tourist visitors to
publish a video statement in favor of human rights.  They could make
the statement, reading a provided standard text in their own language,
to the immigration officials, who would publish it on a web site.
<p>
By making this statement they will publicly declare their rejection of
Islamism.


feed_id: 11bec3e0029db06ede96e6a103dbdf93
title: Why torture does not "work"
uri: Why-torture-does-not-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Why_torture_does_not_work%29
content:
<p>
Since the troll persists in claiming that torture "works" to get
information, here's an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/nov/04/2">explanation
of why torture does not "work"</a>.
<p>
A specific example of its failure: when US agents tortured Ibn
as-Sheikh al-Libi, he 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#08_May_2011_(Finding_Osama_bin_Laden)">said
what he knew Dubya wanted to hear</a>.  This helped Dubya start a war
of aggression whose harmful consequences continue to ramify in Iraq,
Syria, and elsewhere.
<p>
But even if torture did "work" in a narrow sense, it would be a
vicious crime, and the harm it does would spread.
<p>
Practicing torture implants an inhumane attitude, which then manifests
itself in a range of inhumanity: general cruelty to all prisoners,
imprisonment without trial, collateral murder, and other atrocities.
<p>
These atrocities cause great suffering directly.  They also provoke
hatred.  How many jihadis have been provoked by Guantanamo and US
torture?  Surely thousands.


feed_id: 4d8a14d43eea7a15406cb05981631561
title: Troll's conflicts of interest
uri: Troll-s-conflicts-of-interest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Trolls_conflicts_of_interest%29
content:
<p>
The cheater said his businesses would make "no new deals", as an
inadequate substitute for selling them off; but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/25/trump-hotels-ceo-no-new-deals">that
was a lie</a>.


feed_id: 9acd73228010898b019987484ae4a6fb
title: DeVos linked to student debt collection companies
uri: DeVos-linked-to-student-debt-collection-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28DeVos_linked_to_student_debt_collection_companies%29

content:
<p>
Betsy DeVos is 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/01/13207/betsy-devos-ethics-report-reveals-ties-student-debt-collection-firm">connected</a>
with companies that collect student debts.


feed_id: 500a654aaeea8c9f4ea5f2d9070243d6
title: Troll declares war on our health
uri: Troll-declares-war-on-our-health
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Troll_declares_war_on_our_health%29

content:
<p>
The troll has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/01/24/trump-declares-war-environment-first-week-job">declared
war</a> on our environment and our health.


feed_id: a6c1c1bd1270f5d582ffd295a0d91512
title: International fund for abortion aid
uri: International-fund-for-abortion-aid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28International_fund_for_abortion_aid%29

content:
<p>
The Netherlands is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/25/netherlands-trump-gag-rule-international-safe-abortion-fund">organizing
an international fund for abortion aid</a> to compensate for the harm
done by the US global gag rule.
<p>
A medical charity doesn't need to give referrals about abortion if
there is a separate organization next door that provides abortion
information.


feed_id: 8bd29c070e0cf34dc98ed6f3476187ab
title: The troll's lies
uri: The-troll-s-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28The_trolls_lies%29
content:
<p>
Judging the troll's firehose of lies against 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/25/george-orwell-donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-1984">1984</a>.
<p>
Let's not forget that each one of the troll's lies is an implicit
threat to punish those who won't publicly support the lie.


feed_id: 0e1be728d36d0f88218b74cf614cf779
title: Repression of protesters
uri: Repression-of-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_%28Repression_of_protesters%29
content:
<p>
Republicans in Minnesota 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/25/minnesota-protesters-bill-liable-policing-costs">want
to impose huge liability</a> on protesters convicted of even minor
"crimes."
<p>
Since those "crimes" mean basically whatever a thug says, civil
disobedience (and maybe all mass protest) would be crushed.
<p>
This reminds me of the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#07_December_2012_(Israels_Boycott_Law)">Israeli
repression method</a> of imposing unlimited liability on anyone who
advocates any sort of political boycott against Israeli colonization
of Palestinian territory.


feed_id: 896a4b0f500bd16fc8f061424203c419
title: False accusations from Republicans
uri: False-accusations-from-Republicans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#29_January_2017_%28False_accusations_from_Republicans%29

content:
<p>
The loser 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/25/donald-trump-voter-fraud-investigation-illegal-voting">wants
to launch a massive investigation of the millions of imaginary
"illegal voters"</a> that he claims gave Clinton a majority of votes.
<p>
False accusations standard Republican practice — 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-jul-oct.html#31%20October%202008%20(False%20accusations)">they
destroyed ACORN this way</a>, and used them against 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#23_May_2015_(Politicians_distort_science_about_heating)">climate
scientists</a> and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#29_January_2016_(Anti-abortion_activists_indicted)">Planned
Parenthood</a>.
<p>
I think the loser's plan is to create a lot of smoke so he can claim
it proves there was a fire.  It will also be useful for deflecting
attention from 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_December_2016_(Republican_election-rigging)">the
real election-rigging</a> that the Republicans did last year.


feed_id: 0a3b7db2fecd482694e34f9037302081
title: Turkish soldier extradition refused
uri: 2017-02-02-Turkish-soldier-extradition-refused
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_January_2017_%28Turkish_soldier_extradition_refused%29

content:
<p>
The Greek Supreme Court refused Erdogan's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/26/greek-court-turns-down-extradition-request-eight-turkish-officers-ankara-failed-coup">request to extradite eight Turkish soldiers</a> that sought asylum in Greece.
<p>
They were sent to rescue troops that participated in the coup, but they themselves were not part of the coup. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/22/greek-supreme-court-called-on-to-refuse-turkish-soldiers-extradition">For Erdogan, however, association implies guilt</a>.


feed_id: cdece5b25e25ed2747fe81412867fa7a
title: Urgent: Resist troll's saboteur cabinet
uri: Urgent-Resist-troll-s-saboteur-cabinet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Resist_trolls_saboteur_cabinet%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/democrats_resist/">call
on Senate democrats</a> to resist the troll's saboteur cabinet.


feed_id: 2d9dee0deef8a91bf4d5d0f1d15144bf
title: Urgent: Cancel Dakota Access Pipeline
uri: Urgent-Cancel-Dakota-Access-Pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_Dakota_Access_Pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=62835">call
on the troll</a> to cancel the Dakota Access Pipeline and respect the
right to protest.


feed_id: b960f517e2c13deb8f20307af9c62df9
title: Urgent: No live press-manipulation on TV
uri: Urgent-No-live-press-manipulation-on-TV
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_live_press-manipulation_on_TV%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/trump_press_briefings">call
on TV networks</a> not to show the troll's press-manipulation rallies
live.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/23/1624011/-CNN-refused-to-air-the-White-House-press-conference-live-Others-should-follow-suit">more
information</a>.


feed_id: 9020902db75f6f03b85af5b53157cdfd
title: Urgent: Oppose troll's saboteur cabinet
uri: Urgent-Oppose-troll-s-saboteur-cabinet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_trolls_saboteur_cabinet%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and call on them to oppose
the troll's saboteur cabinet as hard as they can.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 20b4b41f3ee8e98b185fb636d6f529ba
title: Urgent: Reject H.R. 490
uri: Urgent-Reject-H-R-490
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_H.R._490%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/no_abortion_ban">call on
Congress</a> to reject H.R. 490, the bill to ban nearly all abortions.


feed_id: c7cb4b5ca6724a8ab9366b3ab13292b9
title: US border thugs
uri: US-border-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28US_border_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US border thugs have 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/fear-materialized-border-agents-demand-social-media-data-americans">demanded
that US citizens turn over their social media names, and passwords for
their phones</a>.
<p>
This is illegal and unconstitutional, but hey, would thugs care?
<p>
I am disappointed that the article uses the terms
"<a href='https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content'>content</a>"
and
"<a href='https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing'>cloud</a>".


feed_id: dd27d86d8b337bd1adcfa54bb3a4777a
title: California to collect less data about people
uri: California-to-collect-less-data-about-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28California_to_collect_less_data_about_people%29

content:
<p>
California is planning to thwart the troll by 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/california-databases-must-not-be-used-target-immigrants-and-muslims">collecting
and storing less data about people</a>.
<p>
Finally, politicians are tackling dangerous surveillance in the only
way that is really effective.


feed_id: 59289b9ac09dae664b670a0ac2cf665a
title: Users identified in "anonymized" data
uri: Users-identified-in-anonymized-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Users_identified_in_anonymized_data%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170123/08125136548/one-more-time-with-feeling-anonymized-user-data-not-really-anonymous.shtml">70%
of users</a> (from a set of volunteers) could be reidentified in
"anonymized" browsing data by correlating it with their tweets.


feed_id: 43ae9d338c57619676481cf672345ac7
title: Torture of Palestinian prisoners
uri: 2017-02-02-Torture-of-Palestinian-prisoners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Torture_of_Palestinian_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Some Israeli officials admitted torturing Palestinian prisoners, and
we have some 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170126214546/https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/5q112d/torture_israelistyle_as_described_by_the/">details
about the practices they use</a>.
<p>
The head Khmer Rouge torturer admitted in court that torture was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jan/27/even-torturers-admit-that-torture-doesnt-work">ineffective
at getting information from suspects</a>.  That was inevitable, since
most of them had no real information to give — just like most of
the prisoners in Guantanamo.


feed_id: 4fe131041a6d0cf1c7f5181581b8469a
title: Protest against ignorantism
uri: Protest-against-ignorantism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Protest_against_ignorantism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/jan/27/scientists-are-planning-to-march-on-washington-heres-why">Scientists
are planning a protest</a> in Washington against ignorantism.


feed_id: bbfa53cf41b64995a669699125b84bfd
title: Social Security and Medicare
uri: Social-Security-and-Medicare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Social_Security_and_Medicare%29
content:
<p>
The troll said he 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/26/trump-vows-make-paul-ryans-nightmarish-budget-vision-reality">supports
Paul Ryan's plan to destroy Social Security and Medicare</a>.


feed_id: 9672d6d0a8181d0d5829db7cf87eaae1
title: Student arrested for throwing paper airplane
uri: Student-arrested-for-throwing-paper-airplane
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Student_arrested_for_throwing_paper_airplane%29

content:
<p>
A high school student threw a paper airplane at a teacher's head and
was arrested by the school thug.  He 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/26/teen-throws-paper-airplane-in-class-he-w">faces
30 days in jail</a>.
<p>
It is dangerous to have thugs in a school.


feed_id: 3fe287d7067d0f9d582acff3aefe63f0
title: Medical insurance and global heating
uri: Medical-insurance-and-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Medical_insurance_and_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Repealing Obama's medical insurance system would hit people from one
side while 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/26/climate-change-raises-stakes-affordable-healthcare-coverage">global
heating effects hit them from the other side</a>.


feed_id: 864442f358f2af1f71d6e20023ed8008
title: Troll's Labor Secretary nominee
uri: Troll-s-Labor-Secretary-nominee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Trolls_Labor_Secretary_nominee%29

content:
<p>
Workers File More Than Thirty
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/01/26/workers-file-more-thirty-wage-theft-harassment-intimidation-complaints-against-0"Wage
Theft, Harassment, Intimidation</a> Complaints Against Brands Owned by
[the troll's] Embattled Labor Secretary Nominee.


feed_id: 0a536fa656ac8d46813a006057891511
title: The murder of Jamar Clark
uri: The-murder-of-Jamar-Clark
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28The_murder_of_Jamar_Clark%29
content:
<p>
Kathy Kelly was 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/26/white-silence-equals-violence-awaiting-verdict">convicted
of protesting the murder of Jamar Clark</a>.  The man's name was
hardly mentioned in the trial.


feed_id: f712442643115aad60e5aba493c1fa4d
title: Urgent: Freedom Agenda
uri: Urgent-Freedom-Agenda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Freedom_Agenda%29
content:
<p>
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: support the
<a href="https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu/ma/callalert/index.tt?alertid=74896626&type=ST">ACLU's Freedom Agenda</a>.
<p>
Here's the
<a href="https://aclum.org/our-work/aclu-freedom-agenda/">description of it</a>.


feed_id: 9ad098cdf239b28886d398513b662cd8
title: Urgent: Thanks senators
uri: Urgent-Thanks-senators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Thanks_senators%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/we-thank-senatordurbin?r_by=1135580">thank two senators for blocking a senate resolution</a>
to condemn the UN for defending Palestinians' rights.


feed_id: 4b3a70d59fb902d3024c64bbdbb8ead4
title: Robots to wipe out good jobs
uri: Robots-to-wipe-out-good-jobs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Robots_to_wipe_out_good_jobs%29
content:
<p>
Robots in the near term will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2017/jan/22/the-new-robot-revolution-will-take-the-bosss-job-not-the-gardeners">wipe out many of the better-paid jobs</a> that still exist, leaving only low-paid service jobs to repay the student loans of many graduates.
<p>
Most of the ruling class have no plan to avoid mass descent into poverty.


feed_id: 2d50f2fb45abe0f4fe089df3d3723841
title: Business-Supremacy Treaties
uri: 2017-02-03-Business-Supremacy-Treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Business-Supremacy_Treaties%29
content:
<p>
Now that the US has withdrawn from the TPP, what about <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/01/23/president-trumps-executive-orders-formally-bury-tpps-corpse-what-about-ttip-tisa">other business-supremacy treaties</a>?


feed_id: 06722140c37389175429db30a31a14a0
title: Americans think they will get rich
uri: Americans-think-they-will-get-rich
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Americans_think_they_will_get_rich%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/the-dark-side-of-american-optimism/513680/">Americans are unrealistically optimistic</a> about their chances of getting rich.  That makes them sitting ducks for right-wingers that promise them lower taxes, supposing they do someday get rich.


feed_id: 3ba43168fe5bea6c56c585d6c71ee69d
title: Israeli reporters repeating lies
uri: Israeli-reporters-repeating-lies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Israeli_reporters_repeating_lies%29

content:
<p>
Most Israeli reporters repeat the <a href="https://972mag.com/by-siding-with-the-police-the-media-incites-against-arab-citizens/124680/">lies thugs tell about Palestinians they kill</a>.


feed_id: f98b0cdd02000f1291670b701b54e836
title: Harassing Arab bus drivers
uri: Harassing-Arab-bus-drivers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Harassing_Arab_bus_drivers%29
content:
<p>
Israeli extremists have organized a <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/israel-arab-bus-drivers-lehava-far-right-incitement-racism.html">campaign to harass Arabs that drive buses</a>.


feed_id: f3492b2bd2c0b387a7309df710fecbc8
title: Turning the March Into a Movement
uri: Turning-the-March-Into-a-Movement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Turning_the_March_Into_a_Movement%29

content:
<p>
The Women's March a week ago was a powerful act of defiance, but in order for it to lead to victory <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/25/turning-march-movement">people must form and join organizations</a>.


feed_id: d98ac54e2bb9e95e3d9bd87911467648
title: Protesting Palestinian home demolitions
uri: Protesting-Palestinian-home-demolitions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Protesting_Palestinian_home_demolitions%29

content:
<p>
5000 Israeli Jews and Arabs <a href="https://972mag.com/photos-thousands-of-palestinians-and-israelis-protest-home-demolitions/124640/">protested Israel's demolitions</a> of Palestinians' homes.


feed_id: 138ac7ffffc82cb813f53534add0e125
title: US left-oriented movements should unite
uri: US-left-oriented-movements-should-unite
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28US_left-oriented_movements_should_unite%29

content:
<p>
US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/27/pipelines-refugees-donald-trump-administration">left-oriented movements should unite</a>, as the troll and his hate group attack all the areas of resistance together.


feed_id: 8f414c4a92e83e358b6fb72301167997
title: Tepid resistance to the troll's nominees
uri: Tepid-resistance-to-the-troll-s-nominees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Tepid_resistance_to_the_troll%27s_nominees%29

content:
<p>
Democrats' tepid resistance to the troll's nominees reflects <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/27/democrats-flawed-donald-trump-strategy-wont-protect-us">a mistaken strategy</a> that will fail to inspire Americans for the struggle to come.


feed_id: 987436d2c038152f0bea1666205e9ad0
title: Appears 'The World Is Preparing for War'
uri: Appears-The-World-Is-Preparing-for-War
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Appears_%27The_World_Is_Preparing_for_War%27%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/27/mikhail-gorbachev-appears-world-preparing-war">Mikhail Gorbachev: Appears 'The World Is Preparing for War'</a>.


feed_id: 0a73892cefbfe475ce1108da1f6d0dcf
title: Rules for evaluating news stories
uri: Rules-for-evaluating-news-stories
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Rules_for_evaluating_news_stories%29

content:
<p>
Here are some suggested <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-media-trump-commentary-idUSKBN14O17D">rules for evaluating news stories</a> that refer to anonymous sources like an intelligence analyst.
<p>
The Kuwaiti ambassador claims he was not pressured to move the event to the troll's hotel, but I am not sure I believe him. He argues that it is ridiculous to think that Kuwait would need to influence the US government by its choice of where to hold a reception—and that's a valid point, except that it's not a matter of influencing the US government, it's a matter of the troll's personal desire for money, which seems to be more important to him that any sense of US interest.
<p>
Another element, for me, is that I think the troll would not try very hard to conceal such things, so it is plausible to me that quite a few people could have leaked the information.


feed_id: 30fe6e81a47182b1025258f268255324
title: Carolyn Bryant confesses she lied
uri: Carolyn-Bryant-confesses-she-lied
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Carolyn_Bryant_confesses_she_lied%29

content:
<p>
Black teenager Emmett Till was lynched in 1955 because Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, said he had grabbed her and insulted her. Much later <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/emmett-till-book-carolyn-bryant-confession">she admitted that she had lied</a>.


feed_id: 899afe6d846f11407dba87edb510e893
title: Coal lobbyist in charge of environment crimes
uri: Coal-lobbyist-in-charge-of-environment-crimes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Coal_lobbyist_in_charge_of_environment_crimes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/27/coal-doj-trump/">The cheater put a coal lobbyist in charge</a> of prosecution of some environmental crimes.


feed_id: b11db66d6d187cabfa165c33f2e7c716
title: Troll blocks Muslim countries
uri: Troll-blocks-Muslim-countries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Troll_blocks_Muslim_countries%29
content:
<p>
The troll's executive order blocking entry to everyone from 7 Muslim countries was done in a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/28/trumps-muslim-ban-is-culmination-of-war-on-terror-mentality-but-still-uniquely-shameful/">gratuitously cruel</a> way.
<p>
It is basically irrelevant to protection from terrorism, but will be very effective at provoking some, playing into the hands of jihadis.
<p>
The ban has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/28/airports-us-immigration-ban-muslim-countries-trump">stranded Iraqi refugees</a> already granted visas, who are in danger at home because they worked for the US there.
<p>
Permanent residents who came from those countries don't dare leave the US as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/28/rights-groups-flooded-with-calls-as-people-fear-re-entry-to-us-will-be-denied">they might not be allowed back in</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/28/protesters-demand-release-refugees-jfk-trumps-muslim-ban-sows-chaos/">Protesters at Kennedy Airport</a> have brought about release into the US of one of the blocked Iraqis.


feed_id: 4c964a264de9130a2721b830cc2eb0d5
title: UK rewards Erdogan with fighter jets
uri: UK-rewards-Erdogan-with-fighter-jets
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28UK_rewards_Erdogan_with_fighter_jets%29

content:
<p>
The UK has rewarded Erdogan's tyranny with a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/28/theresa-may-signs-100m-fighter-jet-deal-with-turkeys-erdogan">big sale of fighter planes</a>.


feed_id: 8baccf4202ef7f0acb0e95cdb7e052cc
title: Labor leaders refuse to vote
uri: Labor-leaders-refuse-to-vote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Labor_leaders_refuse_to_vote%29
content:
<p>
Several leaders of Labour, and I think not the Blairite sellout wing, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/28/jo-stevens-i-quit-shadow-cabinet-article-50-labour-values">refuse to vote for leaving the UK</a>.


feed_id: a41b3dfc4b7157d6ec0a7151172a4cc2
title: Arkansas bans common abortion method
uri: Arkansas-bans-common-abortion-method
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Arkansas_bans_common_abortion_method%29

content:
<p>
Arkansas has passed a law <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/01/27/arkansas-governor-signs-ban-most-common-method-second-trimester-abortion">banning the usual method of abortions</a> in the second trimester.
<p>
Abortions in the second trimester are done only based on specific justifications, usually medical.


feed_id: 502b0c64f611b33bcd9f5a6e2c3b0182
title: Sonny Purdue will endanger human health
uri: Sonny-Purdue-will-endanger-human-health
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Sonny_Purdue_will_endanger_human_health%29

content:
<p>
Sonny Purdue as Secretary of Agriculture would <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/27/trumps-pick-ag-secretary-has-bigly-ties-big-ag-and-big-food">support "farmers" that are big corporations</a>, and endanger the health of humans.


feed_id: c09173c5e722675b3ad23f4e1ba2e559
title: Opinion turning against Big Agriculture
uri: Opinion-turning-against-Big-Agriculture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Opinion_turning_against_Big_Agriculture%29

content:
<p>
Public opinion is slowly turning against <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/27/big-ag-cover-will-factory-farming-finally-stop-its-culture-abuse">Big Agriculture's practices of mistreatment of animals</a>.
<p>
The ag-gag censorship bills have been unable to stop it.
<p>
Ending these practices is important for humans' health in two ways. One is that if meat costs more we will <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#29_November_2015_(Eating_less_meat)">eat less of it and live longer</a>. The other is that keeping the animals alive in such harmful conditions requires lots of antibiotics, and using the antibiotics on them <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#21_May_2016_(Antibiotics)">breeds resistant bacteria that already kill people</a>.


feed_id: 668b46d446048b9220fe52c862be7129
title: Troll's Labor Secretary nominee
uri: 2017-02-03-Troll-s-Labor-Secretary-nominee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Trolls_Labor_Secretary_nominee%29

content:
<p>
Workers File More Than Thirty
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/01/26/workers-file-more-thirty-wage-theft-harassment-intimidation-complaints-against-0">Wage
Theft, Harassment, Intimidation</a> Complaints Against Brands Owned by
[the troll's] Embattled Labor Secretary Nominee.


feed_id: cd9eb67b1c4caa00bb6d03edf2d47747
title: White supremacists US thug departments
uri: White-supremacists-US-thug-departments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28White_supremacists_US_thug_departments%29

content:
<p>
White supremacists and other right-wing extremists are present in many
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-investigated-white-supremacist-infiltration-of-law-enforcement/">US thug departments</a>.


feed_id: d6b97d2d3ebf7b30dd2509b58b0f6b23
title: Amnesty International
uri: Amnesty-International
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Amnesty_International%29
content:
<p>Amnesty International <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/philippines-police-paid-to-kill-alleged-drug-offenders-says-amnesty-rodrigo-duterte">accuses the Philippines thugs</a> of paying for
murder, planting evidence, and extorting money from the families of
the people they kill.


feed_id: 746c9485e99c37624da3ef3752dd46a6
title: Very urgent: Oppose Pudzer
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-Pudzer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Pudzer%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to oppose Pudzer as Secretary of
Labor.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 52ca181012277bc3a7d453e44195fee6
title: Very urgent: Oppose DeVos
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-DeVos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_DeVos%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to oppose DeVos as Secretary
of Education.
<p>
Two Republican senators have already said they won't vote for her.
With one more Republican, and if no Democrats defect, DeVos will lose.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: d8953187d3d84227cf568ea5cb1e1a21
title: Very urgent: Oppose Tim Price
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-Tim-Price
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Tim_Price%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to oppose Tim Price.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: a34fb08900f989b0fce75e4f16df20d8
title: Urgent: Oppose troll's Supreme Court nominees
uri: Urgent-Oppose-troll-s-Supreme-Court-nominees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_trolls_Supreme_Court_nominees%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/defend_SCOTUS">call on
Democratic senators</a> to oppose the troll's Supreme Court nominees.


feed_id: a627a4f48b2bbaab0cb096a39532587d
title: Urgent: Troll's conflict of interest data
uri: Urgent-Troll-s-conflict-of-interest-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Trolls_conflict_of_interest_data%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-release-donald-trumps-full-tax-returns-all-information-needed-verify-emoluments-clause-compliance">sign
this White House petition</a> calling on the troll to release tax
returns and conflict of interest data.


feed_id: c1b6555d86e3866939c6bcab1e96d03d
title: Urgent: Save data from troll's men
uri: Urgent-Save-data-from-troll-s-men
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Save_data_from_trolls_men%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/26/1625402/-NASA-s-rogue-account-put-out-a-plea-for-help-here-s-how-YOU-can-help-archive-critical-information">Help
NASA</a> save data from the troll's men.


feed_id: 2c91b10bd7d8517339eda33251ae377e
title: Urgent: Resist troll's budget cuts
uri: Urgent-Resist-troll-s-budget-cuts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Resist_trolls_budget_cuts%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_cuts">call on
Democrats</a> to do all possible to resist the troll's budget cuts.


feed_id: fa043036781d7fc449b48e765d5503d8
title: Urgent: Disclosures from the troll
uri: Urgent-Disclosures-from-the-troll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Disclosures_from_the_troll%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/provide-proof-the-president">call
on Congress</a> to require the troll to show he is no longer
financially involved in the Dakota Access Pipeline.


feed_id: 04327c8f3bc3e9d0cac31734f6cfc580
title: Officials urged to "kick sand in the gears"
uri: Officials-urged-to-kick-sand-in-the-gears
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Officials_urged_to_kick_sand_in_the_gears%29

content:
<p>
A former US official who resigned in disgust under Bush I urges
officials to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/29/should-officials-resign-when-the-government-goes-crazy/">"kick
sand in the gears" until they are fired</a>, rather than quitting
immediately.
<p>
That is a drastic response, and would be a harmful overreaction under
ordinary circumstances, but these are not ordinary and I think it is
justified against the troll and the saboteur cabinet.


feed_id: 59ea9f6dfdd4917d1a7eb4ef985b644e
title: Kurdish forces accused of torture
uri: Kurdish-forces-accused-of-torture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Kurdish_forces_accused_of_torture%29

content:
<p>
Kurdish forces are accused of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/children-iraq-isis-say-tortured-human-rights-watch">torturing
prisoners</a> accused of supporting PISSI.
<p>
The article talks about "children", but it really means "minors".
Given the age range of 11 to 17, it is clear that some (most?) of the
prisoners are teenagers, but some are really children.
<p>
I point this out to avoid a frequent kind of error, but it makes no
important difference in this case.  Torturing teenagers is just as
wrong as torturing children.  Likewise for torturing adults.


feed_id: 43051069099f938cf45669f1f1fa9c2b
title: Abrupt dismissal by the troll
uri: Abrupt-dismissal-by-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Abrupt_dismissal_by_the_troll%29
content:
<p>
The infant's abrupt 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/state-department-purge-trump-foreign-policy">dismissal
of the State Department's second-level management</a> will leave the
department on blind autopilot for weeks or months.


feed_id: a8eedd6c4d7bac4f774fcfc8baa427e1
title: US border thugs
uri: 2017-02-06-US-border-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28US_border_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US border thugs who surprised visitors and returning students with the
news that their US visas had been canceled also 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/29/trumps-muslim-ban-triggers-chaos-heartbreak-and-resistance/">charged
them with attempting to enter the US illegally</a>.
<p>
Are they imitating the troll's vicious dishonesty, or is this merely
the natural tendency of a thug when the opportunity arises?


feed_id: 9cbfb4f27d3b6c0375f1ea6cecda02a3
title: PISSI poison gas lab
uri: PISSI-poison-gas-lab
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28PISSI_poison_gas_lab%29
content:
<p>
The Iraqi army presented a captured 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/chemical-weapons-found-in-mosul-in-isis-lab-say-iraqi-forces">PISSI
poison gas lab facility</a>.


feed_id: 5af530bacdd2cb4e46d2b5f8a618d91a
title: Troll's exclusion order
uri: Troll-s-exclusion-order
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Trolls_exclusion_order%29
content:
<p>
A court cancelled the troll's exclusion order, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/28/federal-judge-stays-deportations-trump-muslim-executive-order">only
for those that were en route with a valid visa when the order was
issued</a>.
<p>
This deals with the most acute part of the problem, but everyone with
a valid visa or a green card should be allowed in, unless there is
some specific personal reason which should be examined in a personal
hearing.
<p>
Pointlessly 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/oscars-organiser-says-us-ban-on-iranian-nominee-extremely-troubling">excluding
the Iranian cast and director of an oscar-nominated film</a> is going
to make the troll look bad.


feed_id: fcc45a11f14dfd7348ab9dd61db16463
title: Superstition
uri: Superstition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Superstition%29
content:
<p>
Some in India 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/witch-hunters-return-river-island-assam-india">still
blame inexplicable mishaps on witches</a>, and kill the witches.
<p>
This happens in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#01%20August%202010%20(Witchcraft)">parts
of Africa</a>, too.


feed_id: 7bfc2278ca2183e00efada0ea94cf94f
title: Lobbying bans for federal officials
uri: Lobbying-bans-for-federal-officials
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Lobbying_bans_for_federal_officials%29

content:
<p>
The troll has done something I think is good: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/28/lobbying-ban-trump-executive-order-isis-strategy">long-period
bans on many federal officials from lobbying</a>.
<p>
This doesn't cover members of Congress, since that requires a law.
Such a law is called for.


feed_id: 817361f2c35f30b989f26ae49c798470
title: Protect America
uri: Protect-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Protect_America%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/technology/donald-trump-social-networks-protests.html">A broad and large movement to protect America from the troll</a>
is taking shape, and got a big boost from the initial Muslim ban.


feed_id: 72d1c98f0d0081af324ce232508b5990
title: Tracks the start
uri: Tracks-the-start
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Tracks_the_start%29
content:
<p>
The troll's repression of Muslims
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/30/german-ambassador-1933-hostility-jews-aimed-mainly-immigrants">tracks the start of Hitler's
repression</a> of Jews.


feed_id: 03611f332ac88e9e4830de8ca5f3841d
title: Partial Muslim ban
uri: Partial-Muslim-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Partial_Muslim_ban%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/29/trump-asked-for-a-muslim-ban-giuliani-says-and-ordered-a-commission-to-do-it-legally/">It is fair to call the troll's precipitous immigration restrictions a
partial Muslim ban because that's how he intended it.</a>  Giuliani says
that the troll asked for advice on he could make such a ban fit
legal requirements.


feed_id: 5ea8697b82ad6e938ca6074a03f10207
title: Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals
uri: Hi-Tech-Pharmaceuticals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Hi-Tech_Pharmaceuticals%29
content:
<p>
Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals sued scientist Pieter Cohen for a scientific
paper
<a href="https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/supplement-harvard-pieter-cohen/">reporting an illegal and possibly dangerous chemical was present in
various
Hi-Tech "nutritional supplements"</a>.
<p>
The company lost, but its head hopes that the expense of defending it
will scare off any scientists that think of criticizing in the future.


feed_id: d07a36e05145a2d3d0718f0ec12c67a3
title: Playing into PISSI's hands
uri: Playing-into-PISSI-s-hands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Playing_into_PISSI%27s_hands%29
content:
<p>
The loser's partial Muslim ban is playing into PISSI's hands: PISSI
stated its intention to
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jihadist-groups-hail-trumps-travel-ban-as-a-victory/2017/01/29/50908986-e66d-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html">use terrorism to provoke stupid reactions like
this</a>.


feed_id: 8c526fe8b07472f337bb2c35d8b08541
title: Natural World Heritage Sites
uri: Natural-World-Heritage-Sites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Natural_World_Heritage_Sites%29
content:
<p>
More Than 100 Natural World Heritage Sites
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/more-than-100-natural-world-heritage-sites-degraded-by-human-activity-says-report">Degraded by Human Activity</a>.


feed_id: fe89de8845e6d48c03f85f69504e6b58
title: Robo-Signing
uri: Robo-Signing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Robo-Signing%29
content:
<p>
Mnuchin Again Denies Robo-Signing,
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/mnuchin-again-denies-robo-signing-despite-yet-more-evidence-he-is-lying/">Despite Yet More Evidence He Is
Lying</a>.


feed_id: ed643a9c14d113e6ba58d91c330875f0
title: Value-added tax
uri: Value-added-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Value-added_tax%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/saudi-arabia-tax-approved-oil-revenues-slump">Salafi Arabia has had to start taxing residents</a>, but did it in the
worst possible way: with a value-added tax (effectively a sales tax)
that falls hardest on the poor and spares the rich.


feed_id: 01a7fd490452485cf3c56297cf8d3b88
title: Prosecuted for defamation
uri: Prosecuted-for-defamation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Prosecuted_for_defamation%29
content:
<p>
An
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/indonesia-police-accuse-muslim-hardliner-of-defaming-founding-president-sukarno">Indonesian Islamist who pushed for the prosecution of Jakarta's
mayor for blasphemy</a> is being prosecuted for defamation.
<p>
Making defamation a crime is the same wrong as making blasphemy a
crime.  Freedom of speech includes the right to speak ill of any
person and any religion.


feed_id: 45aae974278c0d5594fcd3f965e6ddeb
title: Arrested covering a protest
uri: Arrested-covering-a-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Arrested_covering_a_protest%29
content:
<p>
Washington DC thugs
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/riot-charges-dropped-three-journalists-inauguration-protests">dropped charges against some of the journalists</a>
arrested covering a protest.  But not all.


feed_id: bfc0719d57b119d17686f558504c17d3
title: Refugees in danger
uri: Refugees-in-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Refugees_in_danger%29
content:
<p>
The UN warns that the troll's ban on admitting refugees
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/us-travel-ban-united-nations-refugees-syria">will put
20,000 refugees in danger</a>.


feed_id: b9097fa054973c2db9146da182d88ddf
title: Politicizing National Security
uri: Politicizing-National-Security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Politicizing_National_Security%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/steve-bannon-nsc-politics-national-security">Steve Bannon NSC Seat Risks Politicizing National Security</a>, Former
Officials
Warn.
<p>
The troll politicizes all decisions — he lacks the concept that some
issues are more important in their own right than his political
tactics.


feed_id: eda902fca668ed790f8493a4e5937c4c
title: Christian refugees
uri: Christian-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#5_February_2017_%28Christian_refugees%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/evangelical-christians-trump-travel-ban-christian-refugees">Several US Christian leaders denounced</a> the idea of giving Christian
refugees
priority because of their religion.


feed_id: 5374ad474ad98ddf1878895e85aeaddb
title: Tax cut for American multinationals
uri: Tax-cut-for-American-multinationals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_February_2017_%28Tax_cut_for_American_multinationals%29

content:
<p>
Supposedly American multinationals said they would "create lots of
jobs" if given a big tax cut.  But now that they think they can
actually get it, they are saying they 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/05/corporations-prepare-to-gorge-on-tax-cuts-trump-claims-will-create-jobs/">will
give the money to their stockholders instead</a>.
<p>
Letting businesses abuse workers and the public treasury in your
country can sometimes convince businesses to move jobs there from
other coutries.  If only one country do this, it gets an economic
boost (though probably little trickles down to the now increasingly
mistreated workers).
<p>
But when countries in general join this competition, it becomes a
policy of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_October_2013_(Cutting_taxes_to_win_business_away_from_other_jurisdictions)">"beggar
thy neighbor"</a> which ultimately benefits businesses at the expense
of all countries.


feed_id: 1656ea4a349593c21771d35fee59e25e
title: Avoiding global heating disaster
uri: 2017-02-06-Avoiding-global-heating-disaster
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_February_2017_%28Avoiding_global_heating_disaster%29

content:
<p>
Bill McKibben: the troll has reduced our slim chances of avoiding
global heating disaster, but they are not zero.  We 
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/with-the-ascent-of-trump-is-it-game-over-for-the-climate-fight">must
not give up</a>.
<p>
In addition, our efforts now might reduce somewhat the scope of the
disaster even if it is too late to avoid it.  Maybe half a billion
humans could survive this century instead of a hundred million.  Maybe
we could keep technological civilization going.
<p>
American plutocrats hope to survive that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/29/silicon-valley-new-zealand-apocalypse-escape">disaster
in New Zealand</a>.  They think they can condemn the world to disaster
and protect their own families from the consequences.
<p>
If they knew today that they could not succeed at this, because the
dying masses would drag them back to share in those consequences, they
might change their plans and prevent the disaster.


feed_id: 59b3977b540f095fdf65f444316906ad
title: Angela Sutton
uri: Angela-Sutton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_February_2017_%28Angela_Sutton%29
content:
<p>
Angela Sutton: "I am 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/28/speech-womens-march-you-needed-hear">the
woman you don't see</a> when you walk down the street sipping your
Starbucks coffee."


feed_id: 690689b2e0b56c2f59adf25740ad9fd0
title: Torture
uri: 2017-02-06-Torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_February_2017_%28Torture%29
content:
<p>
Torture seen as a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/28/torture-worksto-produce-fake-news-and-thats-how-we-got-iraq">system
for producing fake news</a>.


feed_id: 2f868595be2cfd7dea437aedf0fe6fd9
title: Troll's immigration restrictions
uri: Troll-s-immigration-restrictions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_February_2017_%28Troll%27s_immigration_restrictions%29

content:
<p>
The troll's new immigration restrictions will be a
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/world/middleeast/muslims-trump-visa-restrictions-.html">big
boost to jihadis and Muslim terrorists</a> around the world.


feed_id: 55d883ee898af14e84ac2a130e186267
title: US medical insurance system
uri: US-medical-insurance-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_February_2017_%28US_medical_insurance_system%29
content:
<p>
One effect of the screwy US medical insurance system is that you
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/27/what-happens-when-doctors-only-take-cash">can't
find out what anything will cost</a>.


feed_id: 937c6c86ccb1d3177d839b6287370419
title: Temporary vs long-term unemployemnt in UK
uri: Temporary-vs-long-term-unemployemnt-in-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_February_2017_%28Temporary_vs_long-term_unemployemnt_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
Temporarily unemployed people in the UK are more likely to be obese,
because they are rejected by many employers.  However, long-term
unemployed people are more likely to be very thin, because they
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/29/unemployed-more-likely-to-be-underweight-than-obese">don't
have enough access to food</a>.


feed_id: 0dbb1598b81d5ca6b9be107b882344c3
title: US national parks
uri: 2017-02-06-US-national-parks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_February_2017_%28US_national_parks%29
content:
<p>
Americals of all political camps love the national parks.  Maybe
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/29/trump-america-parks-employees-enemies-of-state">the
troll's attack on them</a>, and threat to eliminate them, will teach some
Americans a lesson about him.


feed_id: 0b48ab0a62cccf6e1f814eb14bea32a8
title: US farm practices
uri: US-farm-practices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_February_2017_%28US_farm_practices%29
content:
<p>
If the UK wants a trade deal with the US, it will have to accept the
possibly dangerous products of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/29/britain-us-trade-deal-gm-food-eu-rules">US
farm practices</a>.


feed_id: 149df962971e648612b1f904174f2f31
title: Robots to wipe out good jobs
uri: 2017-02-06-Robots-to-wipe-out-good-jobs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#2_February_2017_%28Robots_to_wipe_out_good_jobs%29
content:
<p>
Robots in the near term will 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2017/jan/22/the-new-robot-revolution-will-take-the-bosss-job-not-the-gardeners">wipe
out many of the better-paid jobs</a> that still exist, leaving only
low-paid service jobs to repay the student loans of many graduates.
<p>
Most of the ruling class have no plan to avoid mass descent into poverty.


feed_id: 49a9d14bcc6e81de33c2ead643377ae0
title: Urgent: Block Gorsuch
uri: Urgent-Block-Gorsuch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Gorsuch%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/block-neil-gorsuch/?source=demandprogress&t=1001&akid=5158.96703.JNVFJ5">block Gorsuch</a>.


feed_id: 22246ee9a354bdaae2e86073f2201e7f
title: Urgent: Block Troll's Supreme Court nominee
uri: Urgent-Block-Troll-s-Supreme-Court-nominee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Troll%27s_Supreme_Court_nominee%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Senate Democrats to <a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/stop-trump-scotus/?t=1001&refcode=g-SCOTUS0131.d-20170131.m-8841.s-28970&akid=8841.1906019.DEGqB9">block the troll's Supreme Court nominee</a> by all means possible.


feed_id: 7f169ec6d26d7d2295d5e0321063305b
title: Urgent: Ban Bannon from NSC
uri: Urgent-Ban-Bannon-from-NSC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_Bannon_from_NSC%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Call the Senate Committee on Homeland Security at
202-224-4751 and say that no individual whose primary responsibility
is political in nature (such as Bannon) should be allowed on the NSC
or authorized to attend its meetings.


feed_id: 1be7c3c4dc99b88f0f10e5dec0abf548
title: Urgent: Defend pollution regulations
uri: Urgent-Defend-pollution-regulations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_pollution_regulations%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/SPageNavigator/CongressionalReviewAct;jsessionid=00000000.app330b?utm_source=crm&utm_content=PlainBodyLink1&autologin=true#start&NONCE_TOKEN=1A23E7441AECAB49F1CF77B0558E2F6E">defend pollution regulations</a>.


feed_id: 5998e9598e041415ee0f4f5eb430f320
title: Urgent: Intervention in Yemen
uri: Urgent-Intervention-in-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Intervention_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-invoke-war-powers?r_by=1135580">invoke War Powers on the intervention in Yemen</a> before any military escalation against Iran.


feed_id: 9708d150e9d640a456bfd7bc6497b9c8
title: Urgent: Israel's occupation of Palestine
uri: Urgent-Israel-s-occupation-of-Palestine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Israel%27s_occupation_of_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Massachusetts citizens: call your state legislator and state senator
to oppose a bill designed to punish supporters of the campaign of
boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel's occupation of Palestine.</p>
<p>
Here's <a href="media/b3c8f3e5.MA20Anti-Boycott20Legislation_20Analysis.pdf" data-original-source="https://org.salsalabs.com/o/301/images/MA%20Anti-Boycott%20Legislation_%20Analysis.pdf">an explanation of the bill</a>.


feed_id: 5cd43d1615f8445507e5a7ac2653e9dc
title: Canadian journalists face threats of imprisonment
uri: Canadian-journalists-face-threats-of-imprisonment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Canadian_journalists_face_threats_of_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Canadian journalists face <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/315758-sorry-american-journalists-canada-is-no-press-freedom-paradise#bottom-story-socials">threats of imprisonment</a>, much as US journalists do.


feed_id: 501266de9ac492e6547882ad51dc355f
title: We must study and maintain nonviolent discipline
uri: We-must-study-and-maintain-nonviolent-discipline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28We_must_study_and_maintain_nonviolent_discipline%29

content:
<p>
We must study and maintain <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/03/our-resistance-must-not-descend-chaos-practical-suggestions-growing-movement">nonviolent discipline</a> in our protests against
the troll's real and threatened violence.


feed_id: 259efc55814eb1129d8cb29b9e9a4aee
title: "Fascism Forever" club
uri: Fascism-Forever-club
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Fascism_Forever_club%29
content:
<p>
Gorsuch as an undergraduate joked about founding a "<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/2/1628945/-Gorsuch-s-Fascism-Forever-Club-and-doing-unconstitutional-takes-a-little-longer-Kissinger-quote">Fascism Forever</a>" club
and repeatedly quoted Kissinger to countenance doing the unconstitutional.
<p>
Such jokes <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/about-that-kissinger-quote-neil-gorsuch-likes/">indicate something</a> about the person who makes them.
<p>
If Gorsuch in the years since then had persistently demonstrated the
rejection of what those jokes imply, I'd say we should overlook them.
But there is no sign of that.


feed_id: 7f6b5eca20727556762e6003092e2fad
title: Romanian prime minister backs down
uri: Romanian-prime-minister-backs-down
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Romanian_prime_minister_backs_down%29

content:
<p>
Romanian protesters have made the prime minister <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/04/romania-government-retracts-decree-after-protests">back down</a> from pardoning the politicians convicted of corruption.


feed_id: 40258e060dc4a2529d72a8455cec2a31
title: Division between church and state
uri: Division-between-church-and-state
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Division_between_church_and_state%29

content:
<p>
The troll reportedly wants to permit churches to endorse political candidates
and to permit various kinds of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/02/trump-seeks-take-wrecking-ball-division-between-church-and-state">religiously-motivated bigotry</a>.


feed_id: f6bea684107f1906e163ea9a27c10b17
title: The troll's partial ban on Muslims
uri: The-troll-s-partial-ban-on-Muslims
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28The_troll%27s_partial_ban_on_Muslims%29

content:
<p>
The troll's partial ban on Muslims included automatically denying
their applications for citizenship and permanent residency.
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/02/lawsuit-argues-trump-immigration-ban-unlawfully-targets-us-residents-seeking">The ACLU sued stop this</a>.
<p>
Now it seems that the troll <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/03/dhs-walks-back-immigration-directives-as-muslim-ban-chaos-continues/">cancelled this</a>.
<p>
Perhaps he found out he was going to lose the case.


feed_id: c1aa7870d0e388abdc2a8b2a3f308f85
title: Pipeline protester Ken Ward
uri: Pipeline-protester-Ken-Ward
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Pipeline_protester_Ken_Ward%29
content:
<p>
Pipeline protester Ken Ward, facing decades in prison for shutting off
a pipeline by turning a valve, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/02/just-time-trump-jury-says-defense-planet-no-crime">got a mistrial</a>.
<p>
Some jurors must have
been convinced by his arguments that he was acting to protect our world.


feed_id: d7035d0c02ac5dc09d35821d82d25bfc
title: The troll is a salesman
uri: The-troll-is-a-salesman
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28The_troll_is_a_salesman%29
content:
<p>
The troll is a salesman more than a businessman. His approach to
"creating jobs", like his approach to "creating casinos", is to <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Rushkoff20170201">borrow a lot of money.


feed_id: 22d0f92ba0952e9fd457ecfbd1e94170
title: Trump travel ban
uri: Trump-travel-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Trump_travel_ban%29
content:
<p>
 A court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/04/democrats-react-trump-travel-ban-judge-ruling">temporarily suspended</a> the troll's partial ban on Muslims, so the troll said this was done by a "'so-called' judge".
<p>
I think the troll is trying to build up mob support for defying the
judiciary so he can in effect rule by decree.


feed_id: 11e629cf07d8ee2a12fa5c8f92c06f99
title: Romania Protests
uri: Romania-Protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Romania_Protests%29
content:
<p>
Large protests against <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/romania-crisis-deepens-as-anti-corruption-protest-enters-fourth-day">releasing</a> imprisoned corrupt politicians continue all around Romania.


feed_id: 0752ef4538ada6192079421fa1d459fe
title: Umberto Eco analyzes fascism.
uri: Umberto-Eco-analyzes-fascism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Umberto_Eco_analyzes_fascism.%29

content:
<p>
Umberto Eco <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/">analyzes fascism</a>.


feed_id: 9b31b56b0a09dd5ffb8adeaa747ebf77
title: Antisemitism is rising in the US
uri: Antisemitism-is-rising-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Antisemitism_is_rising_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/04/us-jewish-community-centers-bomb-threats">Antisemitism is</a> rising in the US: 50 bomb threats since the start of the year.
<p>
We can't trace these directly to the troll, but we know he is partly
responsible in general ways, such as his association with Bannon who
has encouraged antisemitic extremism, and his "holocaust remembrance"
announcement which avoided mention of Jews.
<p>
Antisemitism was once normal and accepted in the US, just like bigotry
against blacks. However, awareness of the holocaust mostly suppressed
antisemitism starting when I was a child; thus, I have escaped that
bigotry, though my mother told me about encountering it when she was
young. I never expected to see it come back in the US.
<p>
It's one more item for the list of the troll's injustices to humanity.


feed_id: 8f5089a425008eb81728e7ce37a5dea0
title: Annual giant forest fires in Indonesia
uri: Annual-giant-forest-fires-in-Indonesia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Annual_giant_forest_fires_in_Indonesia%29

content:
<p>
Annual giant forest fires in Indonesia produce pollutinn that kills
many thousands, perhaps a hundred thousand, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/feb/04/indonesian-air-pollution-death-justice">release tremendous amounts of greenhouse gases.
<p>
Stopping them is difficult because giant companies set the fires.


feed_id: f9cc3ee1491326ca2eb9d1b804d104c1
title: Bought out and undermined by Obama
uri: Bought-out-and-undermined-by-Obama
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Bought_out_and_undermined_by_Obama%29

content:
<p>
The Netroots, <a href="http://www.ianwelsh.net/lessons-for-the-resistance-from-the-bush-resistance/">progressive resistance against Dubya</a>, was bought out and
undermined by Obama and other nonprogressive Democrats.
<p>
It failed because it couldn't replace the nonprogressive Democrats.
<p>
This time we must do better.


feed_id: 23803a5ef908dac55e1440364cfe4df2
title: [The cheater] Retains Direct Tie to Businesses
uri: The-cheater-Retains-Direct-Tie-to-Businesses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28%5BThe_cheater%5D_Retains_Direct_Tie_to_Businesses%29

content:
<p>
[The cheater] Retains Direct Tie to Businesses, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/04/donald-trump-business-ethics-washington-hotel">Documents Show</a>.
<p>
Impeachment is called for.


feed_id: 201afc74badf62c08407748078a17a5f
title: Cheater owes customers 6 million dollars
uri: Cheater-owes-customers-6-million-dollars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#10_February_2017_%28Cheater_owes_customers_6_million_dollars%29

content:
<p>
The cheater tried to <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/1/1628660/-The-president-of-the-United-States-of-America-was-just-told-to-pay-6-mil-for-trying-to-scam-people">cheat customers</a> of a golf course he bought; a
court ruled he owes them 6 million dollars.
<p>
The infant never accepts defeat, so he will appeal the decision. He
figures that if he makes them go through enough steps he will win by
intimidation sooner or later.


feed_id: 6a2d77b8692007fab68d35d179f90fe9
title: Urgent: No Uber CEO in troll's Business Council
uri: Urgent-No-Uber-CEO-in-troll-s-Business-Council
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_Uber_CEO_in_trolls_Business_Council%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-uber-trump-council">call
on the CEO of Uber to leave the troll's Business Council.


feed_id: 8ab8ad705b4eccbcfcb91e2914427919
title: Urgent: Reject bigoted policies
uri: Urgent-Reject-bigoted-policies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_bigoted_policies%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sign-petition-demand-congress-reject-trumps-anti-muslim-policies/">call
on Congress</a> to reject the troll's bigoted policies against
Muslims.


feed_id: 86f84a91427b715ace0c7d456fc90b76
title: Urgent: No press manipulation rally broadcasts
uri: Urgent-No-press-manipulation-rally-broadcasts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_press_manipulation_rally_broadcasts%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trumps_lies">call on TV
networks</a> to stop broadcasting Kellyanne Conway and the troll's
press manipulation rallies.


feed_id: c26eb07577e9781ae038e7c82c1fb0cd
title: Tepco Executives
uri: Tepco-Executives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Tepco_Executives%29
content:
<p>
Executives of Tepco face prosecution for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/29/former-tepco-bosses-charged-fukushima">failing to take action</a> to keep the Fukushima reactors safe in the event of a tsunami.


feed_id: 38163fd5aeb79e1117224499d4300ef9
title: Compassion International
uri: Compassion-International
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Compassion_International%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/christian-charity-set-to-withdraw-from-india-after-funding-blocked">India has forbidden</a> Compassion International, a Christian charity for children, from bringing 60 million dollars of foreign funds into India.


feed_id: 593d0eb5f06d838a336bde82ce4eeb3d
title: Greeks Euro
uri: Greeks-Euro
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Greeks_Euro%29
content:
<p>
Most Greeks now believe it was a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/grexit-greece-debt-crisis-eu-germany-us">mistake to have joined the euro</a>. Greece needs to get out of the Euro zone so that it can throw off the power of the Euro-banksters, whose demands for Greece to pay of its debt have pushed Greece into <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_(Greece_showdown_with_Euro-banksters)">ever-increasing debt</a>.


feed_id: 65dd13d2252a03b61a0dd6caca17eee7
title: Sweden Carbon Neutral
uri: Sweden-Carbon-Neutral
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Sweden_Carbon_Neutral%29
content:
<p>
Sweden will aim to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/03/sweden-criticises-us-climate-stance-as-it-reveals-ambitious-carbon-emissions-law">carbon neutral by 2045</a>. Whether this is fast enough to avoid disaster (if the whole world did it), I am not sure. Perhaps if the emissions are reduced enough in the next 10 years, it would be ok to take 20 more years to reduce them to zero.

What is clear is that Sweden can't avoid disaster by itself no matter how good a job it does.


feed_id: 0c1d9095b39c382f048ac570d15f8672
title: Men and masculinity
uri: Men-and-masculinity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Men_and_masculinity%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/men-womens-march-feminism-donald-trump">Drawing lessons about men and masculinity</a> from the success of the troll—a parody of all the worst aspects of traditional masculinity.


feed_id: b7d4dda74f38c9938294efe9428c7c7f
title: FARC soldiers
uri: FARC-soldiers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28FARC_soldiers%29
content:
<p>
As the FARC soldiers lay down arms, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/farc-colombia-peace-deal-transition-normal-life">crime rackets</a> that they used to operate are being taken over by others, including Colombia's worst terrorists, the <span lang="es">paramilitares</span>. Those are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#12_April_2016_(Right-wing_terrorists_in_Colombia)">right-wing terrorists</a> connected with the army.


feed_id: cade4f2bc5b2c294f79b72d3843e7e95
title: CO2 and algae poisons
uri: CO2-and-algae-poisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28CO2_and_algae_poisons%29
content:
<p>
Increasing CO2 makes some <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/03/rising-carbon-emissions-could-kill-off-vital-corals-by-2100-study-warns">algae produce poisons and kill coral</a>.


feed_id: 7191c7a4ce9d701b911aa9f5bcf37540
title: Troll and China
uri: Troll-and-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Troll_and_China%29
content:
<p>
As the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/03/donald-trump-making-china-great-again-xi-jinping">troll drives away allies</a>, China is winning more.


feed_id: 6599e1bc9a70bc9dfced8b40a98d6899
title: Vanuatu junk food
uri: Vanuatu-junk-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Vanuatu_junk_food%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/south-pacific-islands-vanuatu-torba-ban-western-junk-food-health-organic">Vanuatu has banned import of junk food</a>.


feed_id: b505973268c28233c54bc88fcf341214
title: Australia's coal lobbyist
uri: Australia-s-coal-lobbyist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Australia%27s_coal_lobbyist%29
content:
<p>
Australia's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/03/turnbulls-new-energy-adviser-worked-for-coal-industry-lobby-group">"climate and energy adviser"</a> was a coal industry lobbyist. One must suppose that his advice will be to burn more coal and destroy civilization.


feed_id: ee3f1d7fc6335f81899a48e4e05c0bfd
title: CIA Deputy Director
uri: CIA-Deputy-Director
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28CIA_Deputy_Director%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/02/trumps-cia-chief-selects-major-torture-operative-to-be-agencys-deputy-director/">Trump’s CIA Chief Selects Major Torture Operative to be Agency’s Deputy Director</a>. The troll seems to be seriously gung ho about torture.
<p>
I suspect he wants his supporters to get vicariously high on violence, whether it happens or not. This would enable him to use them to approve other violence.


feed_id: c3718a0e3e822275a90280830001f185
title: Guns for the mentally incompetent
uri: Guns-for-the-mentally-incompetent
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Guns_for_the_mentally_incompetent%29

content:
<p>
SCROTUS in the House of Representatives <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/gun-control-congress-social-security-mental-disorders">voted to allow mentally incompetent people to own guns</a>. Next will be toddlers: don't they deserve to be able to keep guns in their cribs?


feed_id: f181467331f04fb179ec7d09ebc011c5
title: US sanctions on Russia
uri: US-sanctions-on-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28US_sanctions_on_Russia%29
content:
<p>
A small <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/02/what-the-russian-technology-sanction-shift-really-means/">relaxation of US sanctions on Russia</a> is not corruption.


feed_id: 8446cd1f507068238fd7b07fc254656f
title: Sit-in ended segregation
uri: Sit-in-ended-segregation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Sit-in_ended_segregation%29
content:
<p>
A peaceful but illegal sit-in protest in 1960 sparked a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/01/57-years-ago-today-how-four-college-students-started-revolution">wave of protests that ended segregation</a> in stores across the American south.


feed_id: b1f0ad8cec17cded8286d44e95d1eae3
title: Drug company deregulation
uri: Drug-company-deregulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Drug_company_deregulation%29
content:
<p>
The cheater said he would make drug companies lower their prices. But now it seems <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/31/1628064/--Negotiator-Trump-caves-to-big-pharma">he wants to deregulate them instead</a>. Depending on which regulations he gets rid of, that would allow them either to charge even more, or to sell drugs which are totally unsafe.


feed_id: 4526be2d52fd08bf1148f3aee1b731ed
title: Bill to limit DMCA
uri: Bill-to-limit-DMCA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Bill_to_limit_DMCA%29
content:
<p>
A bill in Congress would <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/new-bipartisan-bill-proposes-real-fixes-bad-copyright-law">reduce the scope of the DMCA</a>'s prohibition on breaking all sorts of digital handcuffs. This would reduce the injustice, but that part of the DMCA is entirely unjust and should be repealed entirely. DRM is an injustice and the government should help us get rid of it.


feed_id: 4eeeefcb9bc56e9d88311f41049d9bd5
title: Anti-terrorist education
uri: Anti-terrorist-education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Anti-terrorist_education%29
content:
<p>
Rumors say that the troll wants the US anti-terrorist educational activity to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-extremists-program-exclusiv-idUSKBN15G5VO?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social">focus exclusively on Islamist violence</a>, thus giving clear sailing to the violent right-wing extremists that the troll encourages.


feed_id: 343ab87c3d1ef1035073321e0cd4fed1
title: SCROTUS federal land
uri: SCROTUS-federal-land
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28SCROTUS_federal_land%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/02/republican-selling-public-lands-bill-withdraw-jason-chaffetz">backed off the plan to sell large amounts of federal land</a>, due to public opposition.


feed_id: bc1c9882584dada8a73b6ce4ebbcbf5f
title: Refugees in UK
uri: Refugees-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Refugees_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
The UK admits refugees from persecution, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/uk-refugees-conflict-zones-destitute-red-cross">then makes them go hungry</a>.


feed_id: dfd68fde69371b74e31809b798dc1565
title: Amusing Ourselves to Death
uri: Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death%29
content:
<p>
Comparing the troll with the book, <cite title="Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business">Amusing Ourselves to Death</cite>, that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/02/amusing-ourselves-to-death-neil-postman-trump-orwell-huxley">predicted some of what digital mass media do to people</a>. I'm more or less immune to the direct effects because I stay away from those technologies.


feed_id: c4bcce80ab227ba4487d06fdddc9896e
title: Rohingya refugees
uri: Rohingya-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Rohingya_refugees%29
content:
<p>
Bangladesh proposes to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/02/bangladesh-government-plan-move-rohingya-remote-island-human-catastrophe">force Rohingya refugees to an island that floods</a> every high tide. This would be effectively to kill them. If Bangladesh does not stabilize its population, it will turn into a game of musical land lots with lives eliminated at each turn.


feed_id: 33d1486d62fd2f0e74de540dced8c7f1
title: Reporter violently pushed
uri: Reporter-violently-pushed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Reporter_violently_pushed%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/french-journalist-thrown-out-of-marine-le-pen-press-conference">French right-wing party violently pushed a reporter</a> out of a press conference, for asking an inconvenient question. Then the party officials claimed that thugs had ordered the expulsion, which if true would mean that the thugs were intervening politically and ought to be fired.


feed_id: 8ac5a427722ef37ec3c5dbeba589974a
title: Counterterrorism operation
uri: Counterterrorism-operation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Counterterrorism_operation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/trump-approved-yemen-raid-five-days-after-inauguration">"US military officials say Trump approved counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence or ground support."</a>


feed_id: 7713e900fba26e855d480fa1554da882
title: Facebook and fake news
uri: Facebook-and-fake-news
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Facebook_and_fake_news%29
content:
<p>
Facebook has taken a <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/31/facebook-tweaks-the-feed-to-bury-fake-news-and-clickbait/">positive step to avoid boosting fake news</a>. Despite this, many reasons remain to <a href="/facebook.html">refuse to be used by Facebook</a>. Sad to say, <a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/01/31/the-future-of-fake-news-is-rea.html">research is advancing on generating fake audio in someone's voice, and fake video using someone's face</a>.


feed_id: 8d54a83aca4faff0177829437c603aa8
title: Unemployed Americans
uri: Unemployed-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Unemployed_Americans%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/27/federal-reserve-bankers-mocked-unemployed-americans-behind-closed-doors/">Federal Reserve heads mocked unemployed Americans</a> in a meeting, in effect blaming them for suffering from macroeconomic circumstances. It's convenient for plutocrats to have high unemployment, since that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#05_February_2013_(Work_in_the_US_morphing_into_sweatshop_labor)">makes workers desperate and easy to abuse</a> and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#27_March_2016_(Urgent:_Fight_practice_of_wage_theft)">easy to cheat</a>.
<p>
We need a government that will be on our side against the banksters (and other rich and powerful individuals and businesses).


feed_id: 51260df89c2a6d106bf6cef38bde3257
title: Israel's colonial empire
uri: Israel-s-colonial-empire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Israel%27s_colonial_empire%29
content:
<p>
Israel is <a href="https://972mag.com/how-we-can-stop-the-normalization-of-the-occupation/124767/">one of the last states to maintain a colonial empire</a>. Others include <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#20_June_2016_(Protesters_arrested_in_Indonesia)">Indonesia</a>, in West Papua, and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#18%20February%202011%20(Injustice%20In%20Morocco)">Morocco</a>, in Western Sahara.


feed_id: b068fb8d4320356e2c6f67f15a7c2393
title: Unions
uri: 2017-02-10-Unions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Unions%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS want to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/02/republicans-unions-right-to-work-bill">destroy unions</a> all across the US with so-called "right to work" laws.
<p>
They want the rich to be united, as in "Citizens" United, while the non-rich are set against each other.


feed_id: 8a011177e1af3648cd59074ea33682e1
title: Systematic phishing campaign
uri: Systematic-phishing-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Systematic_phishing_campaign%29
content:
<p>
A systematic phishing campaign <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/02/egyptian-rights-activists-are-targeted-by-sophisticated-hacking-attacks/">targets human rights defenders</a> in Egypt. Presumably it is run by the Egyptian military dictatorship or some state friendly to it.


feed_id: 9e6be5cea3f7356c2fa78e3fc9836e52
title: Central American refugees
uri: Central-American-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Central_American_refugees%29
content:
<p>
Central American <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/central-america-young-refugees-cam-trump-travel-ban">refugees from violence there have been excluded</a> by the troll.


feed_id: d50c5e9890fcac3c47516354c459ddba
title: Right-wing extremist subreddits
uri: Right-wing-extremist-subreddits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Right-wing_extremist_subreddits%29

content:
<p>
Reddit has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/02/reddit-bans-far-right-groups-altright-alternativeright">banned two right-wing extremist subreddits</a> associated with the groups sponsored by Bannon.


feed_id: 6bd0cd6f81aadfafb950d4ba17606675
title: Pregnant women using meth
uri: Pregnant-women-using-meth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Pregnant_women_using_meth%29
content:
<p>
In South Africa, pregnant women using meth are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/south-africa-schoolchildren-failing-crystal-meth-pregnancy">creating many mentally handicapped, aggressive children</a>.
<p>
This harms society, but especially harms those children. To save more children from being victims of that incurable lifelong damage, we should give those women long-term birth control so they will not make and harm any more children.


feed_id: 324da674b62dfaf4a73b4cb98b126ebe
title: Nauru and Manus Island refugees
uri: Nauru-and-Manus-Island-refugees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Nauru_and_Manus_Island_refugees%29

content:
<p>
Obama made an agreement to accept many of the refugees that Australia has imprisoned on Nauru and Manus Island. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/02/australia-struggling-to-save-refugee-agreement-after-trumps-fury-at-dumb-deal">The troll doesn't like refugees</a> and this has created hostility between the two countries.
<p>
The Australian government is a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_February_2016_(Fight_to_keep_fossil_fuel_in_ground)">planet-roaster government</a>, like the troll. Anything that creates conflict between them has a tendency to make for good.


feed_id: ec9323db738992cb50c22a243a277601
title: Nomads in Kenya invade conservancy
uri: Nomads-in-Kenya-invade-conservancy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Nomads_in_Kenya_invade_conservancy%29

content:
<p>
Under pressure from drought, nomads in Kenya have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/02/armed-herders-elephant-kenya-wildlife-laikipia">invaded the most important wildlife conservancy</a>.
<p>
In an overpopulated world, it may be possible in theory for people to coexist with wild areas—as long as all goes well. But we can't suppose expect everything will go well all the time. Overpopulating humanity will wipe out natural ecosystems, as the last step of trying to survive—a few years before masses of humans begin dying.
<p>
To avoid this future requires we do all we can to encourage use of birth control and reduction of birth rate.


feed_id: 021983390363f2426da150062096de5d
title: Building rush in UK increases flooding
uri: Building-rush-in-UK-increases-flooding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Building_rush_in_UK_increases_flooding%29

content:
<p>
Building a million more separate houses in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/02/rush-to-build-new-homes-will-increase-flooding-experts-warn">will increase flooding</a>. The solution is to build more densely—near mass transit lines.


feed_id: 15f6395330b0de08c1b4e22ea894b3e6
title: Plastic packaging sustainably disposable
uri: Plastic-packaging-sustainably-disposable
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Plastic_packaging_sustainably_disposable%29

content:
<p>
Some companies aim to make all their <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/feb/02/packaging-plastics-pollution-recycling-unilever-dove-marks-spencer">plastic packaging sustainably disposable</a>. This is a big step towards eliminating plastic waste, but the concomitant requirement is to get all purchasers to dispose of the packaging properly.


feed_id: 3a68e075ee598b9e555ad1fa6fd176d9
title: Kenyan garment workers
uri: Kenyan-garment-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Kenyan_garment_workers%29
content:
<p>
Can garment workers in Kenya <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/feb/02/kenya-fashion-industry-low-wage-textiles">escape the race-to-the-bottom</a> of globalized production? Changes in some treaties might help.


feed_id: da27017f3a5c019aca9a3aedfeac2b8c
title: Bannon, China, War
uri: Bannon-China-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Bannon%2C_China%2C_War%29
content:
<p>
Since the infant seems to be putting Bannon in charge of national security issues, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/steve-bannon-donald-trump-war-south-china-sea-no-doubt">the fact that he expected war with China should be of some concern</a>.


feed_id: ff8839eeacde01eca7bede75c92f1143
title: Netherlands ballots
uri: Netherlands-ballots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Netherlands_ballots%29
content:
<p>
The Netherlands will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/dutch-will-count-all-election-ballots-by-hand-to-thwart-cyber-hacking">count ballots by hand</a> to protect the security of their elections. <a href="/evoting.html">All countries should adopt this wise policy</a>.


feed_id: 43dacd4873aa3ca439afd3cef10fbf78
title: Troll threatens Mexico invasion
uri: Troll-threatens-Mexico-invasion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Troll_threatens_Mexico_invasion%29

content:
<p>
The troll <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/bad-hombres-reports-claim-trump-threatened-to-send-troops-to-mexico">reportedly threatened to invade Mexico</a>, while talking on the phone with the president of Mexico.
<p>
I hope the president of Mexico ended the phone call at that point, because to continue it would have been servile.


feed_id: 2c2740e0e01ca56137fd4ed12c5d49e5
title: Theresa May patient data
uri: Theresa-May-patient-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Theresa_May_patient_data%29
content:
<p>
Theresa May, when minister for surveillance and repression, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/01/home-office-asked-former-nhs-digital-boss-to-share-data-to-trace-immigration-offenders">tried to make the NHS hand over patient data</a> to the state, looking for unauthorized immigrants.
<p>
Now the UK has a new plan for denying medical care to unauthorized immigrants: demanding two kinds of ID before people can get treatment.


feed_id: 00323ff5bf4a798aeace73dbc1235485
title: Executives protected from prosecution
uri: Executives-protected-from-prosecution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Executives_protected_from_prosecution%29

content:
<p>
We must stop letting companies pay fines to <a href="https://www.johnkay.com/2017/01/21/personal-liability-means-deterring-repeat-offences-corporate-crime/">protect their executives from prosecution</a>.


feed_id: af6db504f88f0792952e1f38e3b2ac42
title: US potable water shortage
uri: US-potable-water-shortage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28US_potable_water_shortage%29
content:
<p>
The US is <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/01/americas-coming-water-affordability-crisis.html">heading for a shortage of potable water</a> in 25 years or so. The price of water is rising so fast that many of US households may be unable to afford water in a few years.


feed_id: 9abf0e8a2f14db27f3d309e0e4dfa239
title: Why troll staff lies
uri: Why-troll-staff-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Why_troll_staff_lies%29
content:
<p>
Contrasting the troll's lies with most politicians' and diplomat's deception: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-23/why-trump-s-staff-is-lying">the troll uses lies to get underlings that will obey</a> with no scruples, while intimidating everyone else into obeying from fear. And it's a strategy aimed at the short term only.


feed_id: 31e623252b1c3a8bf5fade82286391d8
title: Schumer allowing nominees
uri: Schumer-allowing-nominees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Schumer_allowing_nominees%29
content:
<p>
New York Senator Schumer, the leader of Senate Democrats, is <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/news/chuck-schumer-leader-of-the-resistance-keeps-approving-trumps-nominees-9601481">weak in opposing the troll's saboteur cabinet nominees</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/01/filibuster-everything-thousands-demand-schumer-do-more-stop-trump">Thousands protested</a> at his apartment calling on him to "wake up".


feed_id: 1c86937ee2e7b35f69ff30c1edb86284
title: DMCA: right to repair
uri: DMCA-right-to-repair
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28DMCA%3A_right_to_repair%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/wont-someone-please-think-bikers">right to repair should include motorcycles</a>. Of course, what we really need to do is repeal that part of the DMCA.


feed_id: 53c5c1d0bd46887be0b96734c8002319
title: France's homeless face harassment
uri: France-s-homeless-face-harassment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28France%27s_homeless_face_harassment%29

content:
<p>
Homeless refugees in France face <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/france-prosecuting-citizens-crimes-solidarity-170122064151841.html">continual harassment</a> by thugs, and people that help them (for instance, with food or transportation) face prosecution, sometimes on false or patently illegal charges.


feed_id: 46ff3d0efa8a7e50a0d23bee0d5592d0
title: Policies to harass immigrants
uri: Policies-to-harass-immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Policies_to_harass_immigrants%29
content:
<p>
City <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-these-six-american-towns-laws-targeting-the-illegals-didnt-go-as-planned/2017/01/26/b3410c4a-d9d4-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html">policies to harass unauthorized immigrants</a> have in some cases been rolled back by courts.


feed_id: 991d1dd305611d3cdff39c55f8d2c3c2
title: Troll discards ethics rule
uri: Troll-discards-ethics-rule
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Troll_discards_ethics_rule%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trump-white-house-appears-kill-obamas-ethics-rule-appointees-may-not-be-signing">The troll has discarded Obama's ethics rule</a> that somewhat impeded the president's appointed officials from acting corruptly for their own profit.


feed_id: fdaf8afc8932ba00aac39298723225da
title: Snooping on Women's Marches
uri: Snooping-on-Women-s-Marches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Snooping_on_Women%27s_Marches%29
content:
<p>
Some US thug departments are refusing to say whether they used <a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/01/27/were-police-snooping-on-women.html">stingrays to snoop</a> on the participants in the Women's Marches.


feed_id: 219177f3189e63bf179330afed46b92b
title: Dept Labor deletes whistleblower website
uri: Dept-Labor-deletes-whistleblower-website
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Dept_Labor_deletes_whistleblower_website%29

content:
<p>
The Department of Labor has assisted Wells Fargo in getting away with mistreatment of workers, by <a href="https://nypost.com/2017/01/27/whistleblower-site-for-wells-fargo-workers-vanishes/">deleting a web site for whistleblowers</a> there.


feed_id: be92665b82988a3d8991c80350758f8a
title: Windows 10 forced updates
uri: Windows-10-forced-updates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Windows_10_forced_updates%29
content:
<p>
Windows 10 <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-windows-10-forced-updates-auto-restarts-are-the-worst/">forced software changes can sabotage the user</a> terribly if Microsoft chooses an inconvenient time to do them. Since the article is in the mainstream media, it suggests only to buy another computer that serves a master that doesn't do this particular form of nastiness. It completely ignores the possibility of installing a free operating system in the PC—which doesn't even require buying a new computer.


feed_id: d678feaa7e179c1d6b250956142118cc
title: Driverless cars
uri: Driverless-cars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Driverless_cars%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driving-cars/">Driverless cars</a> will have trouble participating in social interactions with pedestrians and other drivers.
<p>
This article is perceptive—however, not surprisingly someone in the tech industry, it ignores the danger of massive surveillance through cars, which can lead to giant disasters.


feed_id: 5d7e17380704cee7ffd94f41e7be3ef3
title: Chrome DRM module
uri: Chrome-DRM-module
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Chrome_DRM_module%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/google-quietly-makes-optiona.html">Google has made Chrome automatically install the DRM module</a>. This makes it dangerous for security researchers in the US to investigate possible insecurity in Chrome. <a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=686430">More information</a>.


feed_id: 65cc8d2416bdacf31fab3746939a4f09
title: Loyal to the Constitution
uri: Loyal-to-the-Constitution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Loyal_to_the_Constitution%29
content:
<p>
To preserve the US Constitution, members of Congress must act like adults and be <a href="https://medium.com/@lessig/rules-for-a-constitutional-crisis-f236e3284fbe">loyal to the Constitution</a>. Unfortunately, most of them are Republicans and their goal is to win power for their plutocratic masters <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/05/pizzagate-lie-what-it-says-about-society-real">by hook or by crook</a>.


feed_id: 1641f8029aa63cd2951b018cca8538d4
title: Putin promised troll 19% of oil company
uri: Putin-promised-troll-19-of-oil-company
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Putin_promised_troll_19%2525_of_oil_company%29

content:
<p>
The leaked intelligence dossier says that Putin promised the troll 19% of a principal Russian oil company <a href="https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5">if the troll drops sanctions</a>. It looks like this gift is already being carried out.


feed_id: ffb4bf23c63e7eb2cfa541d62fcf0209
title: Troll's actions
uri: Troll-s-actions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Troll%27s_actions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://tompepinsky.com/2017/01/30/weak-and-incompetent-leaders-act-like-strong-leaders/">The troll's actions</a> could indicate either strength and decisiveness, or weakness and confusion.


feed_id: 01d70dec3c0fc2be59f22f392934c7ed
title: Five year old handcuffed at airport
uri: Five-year-old-handcuffed-at-airport
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Five_year_old_handcuffed_at_airport%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/white-house-five-year-old-boy-detained-dulles-international-airport-hours-sean-spicer-pose-security-a7554521.html">A US citizen was held for hours in an airport</a> because he was entering with his mother who is Iranian. The citizen, 5 years old, was handcuffed because he was considered a "security threat"—or so the troll's press manipulator said.


feed_id: 8a9f5ededfb654fb26a048a0e81b2686
title: Superstitious Burmese
uri: Superstitious-Burmese
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Superstitious_Burmese%29
content:
<p>
Superstitious Burmese <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/feb/01/the-traditional-cures-threatening-myanmars-wildlife-in-pictures">endanger various species for the sake of "natural remedies"</a>.


feed_id: 7a2240843949d7682730a222f8fa3220
title: PISSI applauded troll's entry cutoff
uri: PISSI-applauded-troll-s-entry-cutoff
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28PISSI_applauded_troll%27s_entry_cutoff%29

content:
<p>
PISSI has applauded the troll's entry cutoff for Iraqis and Syrians. The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/30/iraqi-mps-call-for-us-entry-ban-as-translators-condemn-betrayal">government of Iraq responded with hostility</a>.
<p>
The loser could get Iraq, Syria and Turkey to be aligned with Russia. Hmm, perhaps that's one of the missions he was given.


feed_id: bda0cea1473f16643c9994fadcaea368
title: How did troll choose countries to ban?
uri: How-did-troll-choose-countries-to-ban
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28How_did_troll_choose_countries_to_ban_%29

content:
<p>
How did the troll <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/saudi-arabia-egypt-excluded-from-trumps-ban">choose the seven target countries</a> for the partisan Muslim ban?
<p>
The article's title seems to suggest that extending the ban by adding countries to it would make it better, but that not the central point.


feed_id: 6f378a7316ff9744d6218305eb7077ef
title: European Union wants no cash
uri: European-Union-wants-no-cash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28European_Union_wants_no_cash%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/01/things-just-got-serious-europes-war-cash.html">European Union wants to get rid of cash</a>, but some countries and many people are opposed to this.
<p>
If you live in the European Union (especially Sweden), you can oppose this by using a button company to make a batch of buttons saying "DON'T BE TRACKED  PAY CASH", then selling them to others? Use a translation in your local language if that will be more effective.


feed_id: 83bace82e0bb51dfbf8a3eea22b133f7
title: New surveillance app
uri: New-surveillance-app
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28New_surveillance_app%29
content:
<p>
A new surveillance app will monitor people's actions and communications to <a href="https://theconversation.com/helping-universities-combat-depression-with-mobile-technology-67033">check for depression</a>. The information will be available to "counselors".
<p>
I suspect that later versions will be made mandatory for employees of various companies, and that they will inform Human Resources.


feed_id: 4df16ca758a2acaa26d7d97b9555bf20
title: Spikes for sleepers
uri: Spikes-for-sleepers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Spikes_for_sleepers%29
content:
<p>
People in Manchester, England, took direct action against <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/30/manchester-residents-anti-homeless-spikes-rough-sleepers">spikes designed to stop people from sleeping</a>—by putting cushions on them.


feed_id: f3e691a25146a251a1859bd2270d6077
title: Britons petition to exclude the loser
uri: Britons-petition-to-exclude-the-loser
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Britons_petition_to_exclude_the_loser%29

content:
<p>
One million Britons have signed a petition <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/anti-trump-petition-to-prevent-uk-state-visit-passes-1m-signatures">not to allow the loser to make a state visit</a> there.


feed_id: 207036b0bab6cb20927db37bc117fa26
title: Secret Service investigates tweeting journalist
uri: Secret-Service-investigates-tweeting-journalist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Secret_Service_investigates_tweeting_journalist%29

content:
<p>
A journalist was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/twitter-troll-trump-josh-hadley-secret-service-press-freedom">investigated by the Secret Service</a> after posting jokes on Twitter that referred to hypothetical assassination of the troll. This infringed his freedom of speech, as understood under US law.


feed_id: 548e929710db499a54ce08bffbb61c0a
title: Trump's Cabinet Picks Are Wrong
uri: Trump-s-Cabinet-Picks-Are-Wrong
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Trump%27s_Cabinet_Picks_Are_Wrong%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/30/heres-how-we-know-trumps-cabinet-picks-are-wrong-on-human-caused-global-warming">Here's How We Know Trump's Cabinet Picks Are Wrong on Human-Caused Global Warming</a>.


feed_id: 4b93afe2564445c8f1edb8e6f17ae968
title: Possible 30 years for pipeline protesters
uri: Possible-30-years-for-pipeline-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Possible_30_years_for_pipeline_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Pipeline protesters in Washington State, and journalists that covered the protest, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/30/anti-pipeline-activists-and-film-makers-face-prison-raising-fears-for-free-press">face up to 30 years in prison from the repressive state</a>.


feed_id: 5b44fe18f1556026327b0e2c894f09e0
title: One of Aung San Suu Kyi's advisors assassinated
uri: One-of-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-s-advisors-assassinated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28One_of_Aung_San_Suu_Kyi%27s_advisors_assassinated%29

content:
<p>
A Burmese Muslim who was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/30/myanmar-of-aung-san-suu-kyi-adviser-raises-fears-of-unrest">one of Aung San Suu Kyi's advisors was assassinated</a>. Political motives are presumed.


feed_id: c89d1b35ebb0d2d188cbf9d8e2946744
title: Americans should organize general strikes
uri: Americans-should-organize-general-strikes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Americans_should_organize_general_strikes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/travel-ban-airport-protests-disruption">Americans should organize to carry out general strikes</a>. <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/kettling-wikileaks.html">Disruption and inconvenience are a necessary price</a> for effective protest.
<p>
The author is unaware of the injustice that both Uber and Lyft commit <em>against their passengers</em>. Do <a href="/uber.html">delete your Uber account</a> if you have one, but don't replace it with another nonfree surveillance app such as Lyft.


feed_id: 257947a030a5ee7b47ea1e8a4776f7ae
title: Troll could manipulate statistics
uri: Troll-could-manipulate-statistics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Troll_could_manipulate_statistics%29

content:
<p>
Statisticians fear the troll will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/statistics-trump-administration-numbers-manipulation">manipulate future economic statistics</a>, or simply end the making of measurements that would show harm that is occurring.


feed_id: d2c71c957aafc9270b8699c61caf21f5
title: Oil drilling destroying Amazon coral reef
uri: Oil-drilling-destroying-Amazon-coral-reef
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Oil_drilling_destroying_Amazon_coral_reef%29

content:
<p>
A unique coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon is likely to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/30/first-images-unique-brazilian-coral-reef-mouth-amazon">destroyed soon by oil drilling</a>.


feed_id: 2cec551d2fbcd770112bb708f10da7b7
title: 23% rise in Human Rights appeals
uri: 23-rise-in-Human-Rights-appeals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%2823%2525_rise_in_Human_Rights_appeals%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jan/30/turkey-coup-hungary-romania-prison-rise-echr-applications-human-rights">Turkey, Hungary and Romania drive 23% rise in appeals</a> to the European Court of Human Rights.


feed_id: 3c7444fb2949ca69d2d572a576626388
title: Bernie Sanders: Corporate Media
uri: Bernie-Sanders-Corporate-Media
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Bernie_Sanders%3A_Corporate_Media%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://inthesetimes.com/features/bernie-sanders-corporate-media-threatens-our-democracy.html">Bernie Sanders: How Corporate Media Threatens Our Democracy</a>.


feed_id: 3db009dcf72df7f7e915daa57d4aa4b1
title: Guber undercuts taxi strike
uri: Guber-undercuts-taxi-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Guber_undercuts_taxi_strike%29
content:
<p>
Many large tech companies <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/technology/silicon-valleys-ambivalence-toward-trump-turns-to-anger.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0">condemn or criticize</a> the troll's partial Muslim ban, but Uber took the opportunity to undercut the taxi drivers' protest strike. 
<p>
Now many users are <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/29/deleteuber-s-creator-resist-trump-or-pay-a-price.html">boycotting Uber</a> demanding that it <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_December_2016_(Republican_election-rigging)">stop helping the loser</a>. This would be a good reason to <a href="/uber.html">boycott Guber</a>, and it adds to the other reasons, such as mistreatment of its workers.
<p>
But even without a boycott, customers should reject Guber (and other such services including Lyft and Bridj) because <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">they are surveillance systems</a> and <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">require running a nonfree app</a>.


feed_id: db68e32f65e155c0e51f58a2db8e9c89
title: Troll's demolition derby
uri: Troll-s-demolition-derby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Troll%27s_demolition_derby%29
content:
<p>
The troll's demolition derby is meant to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/29/donald-trumps-demolition-derby">wreck US government agencies</a>.
<p>
Then Republicans will point to the wreckage and say, "See, this proves the government can't help anyone." They've been playing that game since Reagan's days.


feed_id: 844d04b5846d1e78083d41e2d744b2a0
title: Bannon at National Security Council meetings
uri: Bannon-at-National-Security-Council-meetings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Bannon_at_National_Security_Council_meetings%29

content:
<p>
The troll will <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/29/unprecedented-trump-adds-bannon-national-security-council-kicks-out-intelligence">exclude the chief military and intelligence officers</a> from National Security Council meetings, and invite Bannon instead.


feed_id: 2bc7f5473d7f89a38d59ec359f7f553a
title: UK Banks threatening to leave country
uri: UK-Banks-threatening-to-leave-country
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28UK_Banks_threatening_to_leave_country%29

content:
<p>
Banks in the UK are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/29/brexit-banks-britain-financial-crisis">distracting attention from their crimes and misdeeds</a> by threatening to leave the country.
<p>
There's only one valid reason for the UK to leave the EU and that is to get rid of the EU laws that give the rich (such as banksters) too much power. But Tories don't want to do that—on the contrary, they will let themselves be "forced" to give the rich more power.


feed_id: 00ac17e0c85472282386746227d1c815
title: Returning residents face grilling
uri: Returning-residents-face-grilling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Returning_residents_face_grilling%29

content:
<p>
The troll has decided that most permanent residents (green card holders) will be allowed to return to the US, but not necessarily all, and it is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/politics/white-house-official-in-reversal-says-green-card-holders-wont-be-barred.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0">not automatic</a> for anyone. Thus, they face being grilled and threatened on return to the US.
<p>
They could be compelled to surrender the passwords to their phones, or pressured to become informants.


feed_id: 6fb2c82c4821dda768e2c5aede0450bb
title: Troll's incomplete Muslim ban blocks students
uri: Troll-s-incomplete-Muslim-ban-blocks-students
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Troll%27s_incomplete_Muslim_ban_blocks_students%29

content:
<p>
Many students in US universities are covered by the troll's incomplete Muslim ban, and some were caught outside the US and are <a href="https://thetech.com/2017/01/29/immigration-order-blocks-students-from-mit">unable to return to their studies</a>.


feed_id: 7fc50eeafe15e41cb94909babb61f50d
title: Ways US Indian reservations can resist oppression
uri: Ways-US-Indian-reservations-can-resist-oppression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Ways_US_Indian_reservations_can_resist_oppression%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/29/5-ways-indian-country-can-resist-trumps-chaos">How US Indian reservations can resist right-wing oppression</a> coming from state and federal levels.


feed_id: 77d7cb07bb247bc050e3a7f10e797942
title: UK warehouse a dangerous place to work
uri: UK-warehouse-a-dangerous-place-to-work
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28UK_warehouse_a_dangerous_place_to_work%29

content:
<p>
A warehouse in the UK is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/29/140-jd-sports-staff-hospital-warehouse-rochdale">such a dangerous place to work</a> that ambulances take 35 people per year to hospitals from there.


feed_id: 5c9d338b21d11877b902cbe021772d02
title: Bricks and bottles hurled where homeless live
uri: Bricks-and-bottles-hurled-where-homeless-live
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Bricks_and_bottles_hurled_where_homeless_live%29

content:
<p>
Violent right-wing fanatics <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/29/bricks-bottles-hurled-windows-central-london-squat-belgravia-eaton-square">attacked a squat in London where homeless people live</a>, throwing bricks and poles through the windows.


feed_id: 36ffdda1a6352c6b8fe5de6e82eb92bc
title: Tech companies recalling staff
uri: Tech-companies-recalling-staff
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_February_2017_%28Tech_companies_recalling_staff%29

content:
<p>
Many large tech companies are <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/28/silicon-valley-publicly-denounces-trumps-ban-on-muslim-refugees/">bringing staff back to the US in a hurry</a>, who originate from countries that the troll might ban next.


feed_id: 6644591aa2b91a82a9292ec8c7fd823b
title: Deutsche Bank
uri: 2017-02-10-Deutsche-Bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Deutsche_Bank%29
content:
<p>
Deutsche Bank will
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/01/deutsche-bank-pulls-out-of-coal-projects-to-meet-paris-climate-pledge">cease funding new coal power plants</a> and some coal
mines.
<p>
It is a substantial part of what every bank must do, to protect
humanity and other living species from disaster.


feed_id: e99dbcdc0417d52ea74d8f13b7b63600
title: Subversion
uri: Subversion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Subversion%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/zimbabwean-pastor-evan-mawarire-anti-mugabe-protests-arrested-harare">leader of Zimbabwean protests</a> against Mugabe has been arrested and
accused
of "subversion".


feed_id: 2e18c1cb599d25c737ed0deb2cc5900e
title: Immigration thugs
uri: Immigration-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Immigration_thugs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/01/cnn-mohammed-tawfeeq-trump-travel-ban-lawsuit">Immigration thugs continued to jail US permanent residents</a>
of Iraqi origin, trying to return to the US, after the order saying
they were allowed to return.


feed_id: e7dbdf4df65e43bd3dcfd1eb0620e4e0
title: Methane Leaks
uri: Methane-Leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Methane_Leaks%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/01/environment-republicans-congress-climate-methane-parks">preparing to abolish recent regulations</a> to make extractors
limit methane leaks and limit harm done by mountaintop removal coal
mining.
<p>
They are seriously embarking on a course of mass murder and the
possible collapse of civiliation.
<p>
It would be interesting to make an order of magnitude estimate of how
many people are likely to be killed by removing one mountaintop and
extracting the coal.  Each one kills people both by pollution that
makes them sick, and in long term by global heating.


feed_id: 448d56f2f11683c27a2924f832070477
title: Censorship Playbook
uri: Censorship-Playbook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Censorship_Playbook%29
content:
<p>
Trump's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/31/trumps-copying-the-bush-censorship-playbook-scientists-arent-standing-for-it">Copying the Bush Censorship Playbook</a>.  Scientists Aren't
Standing for It.


feed_id: 69ef4eda355060fd2aa4a3004c861d2e
title: Eastern Ukraine
uri: Eastern-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Eastern_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Fighting in eastern Ukraine is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/kiev-and-kremlin-trade-blame-surge-in-fighting-in-east-ukraine-russia-backed-rebels">getting hotter</a>.
<p>
The article says it isn't clear which side is escalating, but the fact
that the fight is going against Ukraine suggests that Russia is doing
so.


feed_id: 7c884d53ca730de0a1afd0f00484ce46
title: Steve Bannon
uri: Steve-Bannon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Steve_Bannon%29
content:
<p>
"Steve Bannon is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/31/steve-bannon-most-dangerous-man-in-america">calling the shots in the White House</a>. That's
terrifying."
<p>
"America First in pugilism, parochialism and misplaced
protectionism."
<p>
What We're Witnessing Is a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/31/acting-attorney-general-sally-yates-firing-us-constitution">Stress Test of the US Constitution</a>.


feed_id: 1c37bd8eb0e6a6cf5f6ce1d38596d8de
title: Totally irrational
uri: Totally-irrational
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Totally_irrational%29
content:
<p>
The troll's executive
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/trump-takes-two-steps-backwards-in-public-protection-regulations">order to eliminate two regulations for each new
one</a>
is totally irrational.
<p>
Its superficial purpose is to prevent necessary regulations.  Its
deeper purpose is to convince people irrationally that regulations
that
protect the public are all bad.


feed_id: 0ebba5c785c5dd38776a692a077b730a
title: State agents
uri: State-agents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28State_agents%29
content:
<p>
A Dutch hacker and Tor admin
<a href="http://www.burojansen.nl/bvd-aivd/dutch-secret-service-tries-to-recruit-tor-admin/">recounts how state agents tried to
recruit</a>
him for underground activities.


feed_id: fba9df8b71a45a17546a39e3b111ffe9
title: Protect Data
uri: Protect-Data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Protect_Data%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/01/how-scientists-can-protect-their-data-from-the-trump-administration/">How Scientists Can Protect Their Data</a> From the Trump Administration.


feed_id: 1e3ddac438c6d08a271d16c0ee8ed916
title: Coup Fantasies
uri: Coup-Fantasies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Coup_Fantasies%29
content:
<p>
Donât Give In To Coup Fantasies;
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/31/dont-give-coup-fantasies-power-more-straightforward">Power Is More Straightforward</a>.


feed_id: 6a7ba8e5099ce0a726e273b2465b7bbf
title: Mistreatment of workers
uri: Mistreatment-of-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Mistreatment_of_workers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jan/31/employment-tribunal-cases-down-70-since-fees-introduced">The Tories have reduced claims for mistreatment of workers by 70%
by imposing a fee on such claims.</a>  The result is that lots
of poor women can't defend their rights


feed_id: 8dda7fa025e93ae38547c6d2494c016c
title: Stop Trump
uri: Stop-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Stop_Trump%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/31/how-do-we-stop-trump-and-win-gains-justice-and-equality">How Do We Stop Trump and Win Gains</a> in Justice and Equality?


feed_id: e6b4d31b0bfcad058b857b0db34421ad
title: Peaceful protesters
uri: Peaceful-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Peaceful_protesters%29
content:
<p>
Peaceful protesters in Cameroon
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/cameroon-activists-to-remain-in-jail-as-terrorism-trial-is-delayed">face execution</a>.


feed_id: 93d43f133b192ec33278142e96fd9880
title: Urgent: Rebuke
uri: Urgent-Rebuke
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Rebuke%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/31/enabling-trump-angus-king-and-these-three-dems-let-tillerson-advance">rebuke the democrats that voted to advance</a> Tillerson's
nomination.


feed_id: 4c58af1f6369a67d5e3b5ff701b83338
title: Extremists
uri: Extremists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Extremists%29
content:
<p>
White supremacists and other right-wing
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-investigated-white-supremacist-infiltration-of-law-enforcement/">extremists are present in many
US thug departments</a>.


feed_id: 8107c9f65fc7de75b96af1193341b3a9
title: Honduran Coup
uri: Honduran-Coup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Honduran_Coup%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/honduras-environmental-activists-global-witness-violence-berta-caceres">Tying Honduran politicians and plutocrats to the murder of over 120
environmental activists</a> since the military coup that installed an
oppressive government.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_October_2016_(Assassination_attempt_on_environmental_defenders)">Clinton seems to have endorsed the coup.</a>


feed_id: 598b058b7ff865fc7b10df880f60728e
title: Urgent: Overturn ban
uri: Urgent-Overturn-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Overturn_ban%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-overturn-trumps?r_by=1135580">call on Congress</a> to overturn the troll's partial ban on
visiting Muslims.


feed_id: 9fa0734bcd2d08b1a3e393410ab686de
title: Urgent: Resist and delay
uri: Urgent-Resist-and-delay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Resist_and_delay%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: Phone your senators to
<a href="https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/content/senate-30-hours/?source=em170130-pt">resist and delay</a> the troll's
cabinet nominees.


feed_id: 9e9ffa69bdb84fabf9d73abe41e25663
title: Urgent: Warren's bill
uri: Urgent-Warren-s-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Warren%27s_bill%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: support Senator Warren's bill to require president and
vice president to divest from
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/warren_trump_conflict_m">conflicts of interest</a>.


feed_id: 5ca91f999a888864a6986e57628336b3
title: Urgent: Sanctuary Cities
uri: Urgent-Sanctuary-Cities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Sanctuary_Cities%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/mayors-dontgivein-trump-support-sanctuary-cities/?t=1008&akid=6768.1242918.idkASU">call on mayors of sanctuary cities not to yield</a> to the
troll's
pressure.


feed_id: e827755c16f8e65dbece0fac536e810a
title: Urgent: Pipeline
uri: Urgent-Pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Pipeline%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/dapl_comments?t=1003&akid=21476.1183552.nSTeAo">call on the Army Corps of Engineers not to approve</a> the
Dakota Access Pipeline.
<p>
Here's the comment I submitted.
<blockquote>
The Dakota Access pipeline means disaster.  You must consider
the threats it poses to to drinking water supplies (a likely future
disaster, as pipelines generally leak sooner or later), sacred sites
and indigenous rights, and contribution to global heating and
exacerbation of its now inevitable disaster.  If the full range of
threats are included in your environmental study, Iâm confident you
will determine that the Dakota Access pipeline must not be
built.
</blockquote>


feed_id: 02d90000062f277c8eaf92fc7c778bbd
title: Anger from voters
uri: Anger-from-voters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Anger_from_voters%29
content:
<p>
Democratic Senator Whitehouse encountered anger from hundreds of
voters who showed up to criticize him for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/30/latest-dem-lawmaker-forced-answer-constituents-failing-resist-trump">approving
some of the loser's saboteur cabinet nominees</a>.


feed_id: 25cd2797d1e22e9c01699c7656661bc1
title: Protester Ken Ward faces 30 years in prison
uri: Protester-Ken-Ward-faces-30-years-in-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Protester_Ken_Ward_faces_30_years_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
Protester Ken Ward has been 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/30/facing-decades-prison-climate-activist-says-we-have-no-choice-direct-action">prohibited
from arguing a necessity defense</a> as he goes on trial for shutting
the valve on a pipeline.  He could be imprisoned for 30 years.


feed_id: f664ce068426a65027a64b4c785f21ea
title: Troll wants to override Dodd-Frank law
uri: Troll-wants-to-override-Dodd-Frank-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Troll_wants_to_override_Dodd-Frank_law%29

content:
<p>
The troll wants to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/30/putting-economy-risk-trump-vows-do-big-number-dodd-frank">risk
another financial crisis</a> by overriding the Dodd-Frank financial
reform bill that was designed to try to prevent one.
<p>
The Dodd-Frank law does not go far enough — what we really need
is to bring back the Glass-Steagal act.  However, getting rid of
Dodd-Frank would make things much worse.


feed_id: ff8a32becf4714d3cbfd281f3118b9e6
title: Troll's partial Muslim ban
uri: Troll-s-partial-Muslim-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Trolls_partial_Muslim_ban%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/01/30/calling-out-chaos-cruelty-incompetence-unconstitutionality-washington-state-will">Washington
State will sue</a> to cancel the troll's partial Muslim ban.


feed_id: 591c9c5e785ce3f311486fa824f81d9e
title: Troll's temperament and character
uri: Troll-s-temperament-and-character
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Trolls_temperament_and_character%29

content:
<p>
The troll is causing disasters that reflect his temperament and character,
and this is likely to get worse, as he 
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/a-clarifying-moment-in-american-history/514868/">makes
more enemies and gets more angry</a>.  This could end in calamity.


feed_id: fff55c73f169ac1d1fd81fc1ee305a98
title: Women protesting miscarriage-harassment law
uri: Women-protesting-miscarriage-harassment-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Women_protesting_miscarriage-harassment_law%29

content:
<p>
Women are protesting Texas's absurd miscarriage-harassment law by 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/27/1626124/-Women-are-sending-Texas-Gov-Greg-Abbott-used-tampons-pads-to-protest-extreme-law">mailing
their used tampons to the state governor</a>.


feed_id: 5317641e4d94de9b6678338eda636110
title: Troll angry rather than grateful
uri: Troll-angry-rather-than-grateful
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Troll_angry_rather_than_grateful%29

content:
<p>
In the heart of the loser: 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/27/1626134/-No-Better-Description-Of-This-Ungrateful-Angry-Monster-Has-Ever-Been-Written">despite
all the advantages that were handed to him</a>, he feels no gratitude,
only anger that he wasn't given even more.


feed_id: 0bd7f0573c81332a75354d09a1b8d768
title: Privatization of US gov't land
uri: Privatization-of-US-gov-t-land
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Privatization_of_US_govt_land%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/public-lands-sell-congress-bureau-management-chaffetz">want
to privatize gigantic areas</a> of US government land.


feed_id: d6a6452b33d1ab4f56cea027e9ae0297
title: Alcohol industry
uri: Alcohol-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Alcohol_industry%29
content:
<p>
Alcohol Industry 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/01/alcohol-industry-subverting-science-to-prevent-greater-regulation-study-finds">Subverting
Science</a> to Prevent Greater Regulation, Study Finds.


feed_id: 0837005297ccf859c329fefddb5b602d
title: Fish stocks in Bay of Bengal crashing
uri: Fish-stocks-in-Bay-of-Bengal-crashing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Fish_stocks_in_Bay_of_Bengal_crashing%29

content:
<p>
Between 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/bay-bengal-depleted-fish-stocks-pollution-climate-change-migration">overfishing
and sewage effluent</a>, fish stocks in the Bay of Bengal are
crashing.
<p>
Only massive contraception can save the people of that overpopulating
region.


feed_id: a73013d392184a2a20f8f187e9c35bdb
title: FBI agents ignore rules
uri: FBI-agents-ignore-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28FBI_agents_ignore_rules%29
content:
<p>
The FBI has rules about infiltrating political and religious
organizations, rather weak rules though they are, but agents are
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/hidden-loopholes-allow-fbi-agents-to-infiltrate-political-and-religious-groups/">allowed
to ignore them essentially at will</a>.


feed_id: d058df48ac56646a47d168c73f28dd31
title: FBI racial profiling
uri: FBI-racial-profiling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28FBI_racial_profiling%29
content:
<p>
The FBI has 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/despite-anti-profiling-rules-the-fbi-uses-race-and-religion-when-deciding-who-to-target/">ignored
Obama's orders</a> to stop racial profiling.


feed_id: 2b02599c8cb033b5413abf5e62c505b6
title: FBI seizes journalists' phone records
uri: FBI-seizes-journalists-phone-records
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28FBI_seizes_journalists_phone_records%29

content:
<p>
The FBI makes 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/secret-rules-make-it-pretty-easy-for-the-fbi-to-spy-on-journalists-2/">standard
practice</a> of seizing journalists phone records without a court
order.
<p>
This is exactly the threat to democracy which is why we must stop
systems from keeping records of who people talk with.


feed_id: b5c29313c882490101dea486f9399e54
title: Moral lessons of the holocaust
uri: Moral-lessons-of-the-holocaust
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Moral_lessons_of_the_holocaust%29

content:
<p>
The moral lesson of the holocaust is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/lessons-holocaust-being-forgotten-prince-charles-world-jewish-relief">being
forgotten</a>.


feed_id: 645a5206e4c7132e2a969d2ea77f2ade
title: Defeating the troll
uri: Defeating-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Defeating_the_troll%29
content:
<p>
To defeat the troll, we need to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/31/anti-trump-resistance-fail-ditch-establishment-democrats">replace
right-wing establishment Democratic officials that resemble
Clinton</a>.


feed_id: f3517c4d85cdeff28b0758d7db054baa
title: US funding cuts to UN agencies
uri: US-funding-cuts-to-UN-agencies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28US_funding_cuts_to_UN_agencies%29

content:
<p>
US Funding Cuts to UN Agencies 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/31/un-funding-cuts-us-trump-administration">Would
Be Costly for Peace And Security</a>.


feed_id: 443c55f8a057a13c33d44c65fac7da11
title: Protesters in Romania
uri: Protesters-in-Romania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Protesters_in_Romania%29
content:
<p>
Protesters in Romania <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/romanians-protests-emergency-law-prisoner-pardons-corruption">Denounce Plan</a> to Decriminalise Misconduct Offences.
<p>
This could enable many convicted corrupt politicians to get out of prison.


feed_id: f2f17987486cfbed151a066a99942222
title: Two Young children arrested in British school
uri: Two-Young-children-arrested-in-British-school
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Two_Young_children_arrested_in_British_school%29

content:
<p>
Two young children were effectively arrested in their British school
because they had a toy gun. Based on their skin color, they were
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/01/children-detained-toy-gun-prevent-strategy">treated as terrorists</a>. Now they are terrified in school and out.
<p>
This treatment was part of official government "terrorism prevention"
policy, part of the fear-tyranny-industrial complex.


feed_id: 2a7e625b28b54845d5c04ab4ad2bd05f
title: Impact of Trumps Muslim Ban
uri: Impact-of-Trumps-Muslim-Ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Impact_of_Trumps_Muslim_Ban%29
content:
<p>
How various <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/here-some-human-misery-caused-president-trumps-muslim-ban-those-most-impacted">people are suffering</a> due to the troll's partial ban on Muslims,
which was implemented in terms of seven specific countries.


feed_id: 78ebebcd8d4bcdb29fd7ba2b60b76477
title: Will the Philippines return to rule of law?
uri: Will-the-Philippines-return-to-rule-of-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Will_the_Philippines_return_to_rule_of_law_%29

content:
<p>
Do-dirty has ordered the Philippine thugs to stop their anti-drug
operations (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-orders-police-stop-anti-drug-operations">targeted killings</a>).
<p>
Will the Philippines return to rule of law?


feed_id: 3cc3262ca2b2734332ba6d5e278aa633
title: State belief Britain
uri: State-belief-Britain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28State_belief_Britain%29
content:
<p>
Only the state can enable everyone to have a good life, but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/01/state-belief-britain-30-years-hollowing-out-government">plutocratist policies and propaganda</a> have convinced many people to give up on the idea of using the state for that purpose.
<p>
As the wealthy take more and more of the world's wealth, they are
crushing people slowly to death. Only reestablished democracy can
save us.


feed_id: ca01c6c49e52adec2e67e60efd7293df
title: Homosexual Iranian refugees
uri: Homosexual-Iranian-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Homosexual_Iranian_refugees_%29
content:
<p>
Homosexual Iranian refugees who were excluded precipitously from the US
fear Turkey will send them back to Iran to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/us-travel-ban-leaves-iranian-lgbt-refugees-in-limbo">face persecution</a>.


feed_id: 865107d153239730169d48053e58be32
title: Islamophobia has killed innocent Canadians
uri: Islamophobia-has-killed-innocent-Canadians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Islamophobia_has_killed_innocent_Canadians%29

content:
<p>
Canada: "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/quebec-city-mosque-shooting-canada-far-right-politics">Islamophobia</a> has killed innocent Canadians".
<p>
Faux News eagerly claimed that the QuÃ©bec shooting was done by a
Muslim (actually one of the worshippers at the mosque, who fled when
the bigot started shooting), and didn't withdraw the false claim until
Prime Minister Trudeau <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/fox-news-deletes-false-quebec-shooting-tweet-justin-trudeau-mosque">demanded it</a>.


feed_id: a85377c99ee0dcbfd229825deb228b05
title: Democrats Should Hold the Line
uri: Democrats-Should-Hold-the-Line
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Democrats_Should_Hold_the_Line%29

content:
<p>
Why Democrats Should <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jan/31/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-nomination-democrats-filibuster">Hold the Line</a> And Filibuster against Neil Gorsuch.


feed_id: 1b3d501f775f4cb272221221a2b752e4
title: Homeless people resist
uri: Homeless-people-resist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Homeless_people_resist%29
content:
<p>
Homeless people have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/01/homeless-people-and-supporters-resist-being-moved-on-from-melbourne-camp
">refused to be forced away</a> from the main train
station in Melbourne, where they have camped.
<p>
I would like to know more about the "social housing" that the city
wants to move them to, and why they don't want to go.


feed_id: 68780de2cd379e3673461f7120ba9b3f
title: Israel represses nonviolent protesters
uri: Israel-represses-nonviolent-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Israel_represses_nonviolent_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Israel represses Palestinian <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/whos-afraid-of-nonviolence.html?ref=opinion&_r=0">nonviolent protesters</a> with false accusations. A prominent example is Issa Amro, who received a UN
award as a human rights defender.
<p>
Even worse, it shows contempt for freedom of speech. Supposing that
the protester had indeed called a soldier "stupid", what kind of
state makes that a crime? A tyrannical state.
<p>
Also a <a href="
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n03/yonatan-mendel/activestills">dishonest state</a>, which systematically denies the facts of the occupation.


feed_id: b51bef413f69d911959e0b408c8c3ee6
title: Israeli Law to Legalize Land Theft
uri: Israeli-Law-to-Legalize-Land-Theft
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Israeli_Law_to_Legalize_Land_Theft%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli Law to <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/1.768366"></a>Legalize Land Theft (only from Palestinians): it
would declare Israel a criminal state and call for sanctions.


feed_id: bfe80b0dac726bc1520d5c612d6178b2
title: Israel "systematic killing" in Gaza
uri: Israel-systematic-killing-in-Gaza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Israel_systematic_killing_in_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
The Council of Europe adopted a report rebuking Israel for "<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4912525,00.html">systematic
killing</a>" in Gaza, as well as the siege and its consequences.
<p>
The report calls for an investigation by the International Criminal
Court, which I hope will take place.
<p>
Gaza's infrastructure is on the <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/gazas-infrastructure-on-the-verge-of-collapse-report-warns/">verge of collapse</a>, and the blame falls mainly on Israel.


feed_id: 4a3501000416e3be4742280bef71a8ab
title: Robot Warehouse Workers
uri: Robot-Warehouse-Workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Robot_Warehouse_Workers%29
content:
<p>
A robot is being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/31/hand-ocado-robot-shopping-fruit-vegetables">developed to replace</a> food warehouse workers.
<p>
The total number of jobs lost in the US could be in the hundreds of
thousands.


feed_id: bae1b21cfcccd0f3c517a1d49e1a9754
title: Deutsche Bank fined
uri: Deutsche-Bank-fined
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Deutsche_Bank_fined%29
content:
<p>
Deutsche Bank has been fined over half a billion dollars for not trying to avoid <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/31/deutsche-bank-fined-630m-over-russia-money-laundering-claims">laundering money from Russia</a>.


feed_id: cedd87b0efc66f18071bd451444dba9e
title: Four states have sued the troll
uri: Four-states-have-sued-the-troll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Four_states_have_sued_the_troll%29

content:
<p>
Four states have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/31/trump-travel-ban-state-lawsuits">sued to overturn</a> the troll's partial ban on Muslim visitors.
<p>
The troll's nominee for the Supreme Court is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jan/31/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-nomination">right-wing extremist</a> and might swing the decision on those cases.


feed_id: a08036e4bdd895e58c33d6a158bcef7f
title: Israel extends its colonies
uri: Israel-extends-its-colonies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Israel_extends_its_colonies%29
content:
<p>
Israel is going all out to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/israel-west-bank-settlement-homes">extend its colonies</a> in Palestinian territory.


feed_id: 4c03541c9d30f264f7e706fcf6bf7b18
title: Mac repair company threatens customers
uri: Mac-repair-company-threatens-customers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Mac_repair_company_threatens_customers%29

content:
<p>
A repair company for Macintoshes is sending threatening lawyer letters to
customers that <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170130/07464236587/mac-repair-company-igeniuses-sends-legal-threats-to-unhappy-customers-demanding-2500-per-negative-review.shtml">published complaints</a>.
<p>
If the victims say "so sue me", they would win in court. But many of them
are likely to panic and pay what was demanded.
<p>
Note that it is possible to install GNU/Linux in a Mac.


feed_id: 71a784c0d8dc4ea652a95ea4c4fbb46d
title: Sally Yates
uri: Sally-Yates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Sally_Yates%29
content:
<p>
When <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/31/sally-yates-us-constitution-two-fatalities-monday-night-massacre">Sally Yates</a> was appointed as acting head of the Justice
Department, Senator Sessions asked her to commit to defend the
Constitution by rejecting unconstitutional orders from the president.
She did exactly that, and the troll fired her for it.


feed_id: e8b12a5e7e182f9b4dbbda588aa1b3ee
title: Tesla Battery Farm
uri: Tesla-Battery-Farm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Tesla_Battery_Farm%29
content:
<p>
Tesla is producing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jan/31/tesla-battery-farm-california-energy-elon-musk">electric storage facilities</a> to help meet peak electric demand using renewable sources.
<p>
Wise governments would announce plans to buy lots of batteries over
many years, to create an incentive for R&D and production volume that
would drive the cost of production down.


feed_id: ddd2fd7adebf9cb2b8fcb4ae23361447
title: Democratic senators block nominees
uri: Democratic-senators-block-nominees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Democratic_senators_block_nominees%29

content:
<p>
Democratic senators blocked two of the troll's <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/senate-democrats-citing-lies-stall-votes-on-trumps-nominations-of-mnuchin-and-price/">saboteur nominees</a> by
refusing to attend the committee meeting which had to vote on them.
<p>
This tactic could be used against all the nominees if the Democrats
are united.
<p>
Naturally, Republicans called this shocking and unheard-of, although
they did the same thing a few years ago. That's the standard
Republican dishonesty, to demand that Democrats follow the bipartisan
comity which they themselves have completely rejected.


feed_id: f8620bf9e276db2bef82625c825de3e1
title: Extreme right-wing advances in the UK
uri: Extreme-right-wing-advances-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Extreme_right-wing_advances_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
Extreme right-wing advances in the UK have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/reports-of-antisemitic-incidents-increase-to-record-levels-in-uk">stimulated hatred</a> against
Jews as well as against Muslims.


feed_id: c445cdd494c734bd8bd734d376d8361e
title: Extremist murders six Muslims
uri: Extremist-murders-six-Muslims
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_February_2017_%28Extremist_murders_six_Muslims%29
content:
<p>
A right-wing extremest in QuÃ©bec <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/31/attacks-quebec-charleston-trump-far-right-terrorism">murdered six Muslims</a> in a mosque.
<p>
He seems to have been inspired by the French right-wing polician Le Pen.
Other right-wing politicians inspire murderers, too.


feed_id: 7b5e7f0d79245187f83603a6d184a6e4
title: WhiteHouseInc.org
uri: WhiteHouseInc-org
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28WhiteHouseInc.org%29
content:
<p>
The troll has shut down the phone number to call the White House and
leave a message for the president.  So Sanders has set up
WhiteHouseInc.org, where you can 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/30/trump-shut-down-white-house-comment-line-so-tool-lets-you-call-one-his-businesses">send
him a message via one of his businesses</a>.


feed_id: ba029dd6c4d230eea4bb13629d826eac
title: Responding to emergencies
uri: Responding-to-emergencies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Responding_to_emergencies%29
content:
<p>
The troll does not seem to understand 
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/315761-is-the-trump-administration-ready-for-the-worst">what's
required in responding to emergencies</a>.
<p>
Republicans since Reagan have claimed that the government can't do a
good job of helping people, to build support for eliminating the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#19_September_2015_(Obamas_medical_care_program)">effective
programs that do so</a>.  They find it inconvenient when the facts to
undercut that claim.  Thus, they have every reason to stop government
programs such as FEMA, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, food
stamps and welfare from working well.  And they don't have enough
civic virtue to override their political interest.


feed_id: 5b802b3e157febfc2e8b51687fc7d053
title: Iranians in the US separated from families
uri: Iranians-in-the-US-separated-from-families
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Iranians_in_the_US_separated_from_families%29

content:
<p>
Many Iranians that live in the US have been 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/iranians-stranded-by-us-ban-tells-of-jobs-at-risk-and-families-in-disarray">separated
from their families because they were temporarily out of the
country</a>.
<p>
They are being forced to give the passwords to their phones, which
means the US gets to know everything about them.


feed_id: 50f1d11135cd1a01d9d893c2ff5a6994
title: Thugs in the Philippines
uri: Thugs-in-the-Philippines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Thugs_in_the_Philippines%29
content:
<p>
Philippine President Do-dirty admits to being "embarrassed" that thugs
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/philippines-disband-police-anti-drugs-units-war-rodrigo-duterte-south-korea">killed
a South Korean businessman</a>, assuming he was a drug dealer.
<p>
Even with its laws for trials, the US still gets mistaken convictions.
With no trial, just a gunshot, mistakes are far more likely.


feed_id: f635b7841f693fe92a2e1346aeb67826
title: Troll's prohibition on entering the US
uri: Troll-s-prohibition-on-entering-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Trolls_prohibition_on_entering_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The troll's precipitous prohibition on entering the US was not well
thought out, partly because the troll didn't consult very many people
about it.  Even some Republicans recognize it 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/republicans-call-trumps-muslim-ban-a-self-inflicted-wound">will
strengthen jihadis and terrorists</a>.
<p>
Some immigration agents are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/customs-border-protection-agents-trump-muslim-country-travel-ban">deporting
people in defiance of the court decision</a>.
<p>
US border thugs who surprised visitors and returning students with the
news that their US visas had been canceled also 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/29/trumps-muslim-ban-triggers-chaos-heartbreak-and-resistance/">charged
them with attempting to enter the US illegally</a>.
<p>
Are they imitating the troll's vicious dishonesty, or is this merely
the natural tendency of a thug when the opportunity arises?
<p>
Peter Watts, Canadian, was also banned from entering the US for a
period of many years after he was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-sep-dec.html#15%20December%202009%20(How%20the%20law%20really%20works)">convicted
of a bogus crime against the border thug that beat him up</a>.


feed_id: fa64a55ac65d89e0f871cd9e9620ed63
title: The monster fire in Chile
uri: The-monster-fire-in-Chile
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28The_monster_fire_in_Chile%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/chiles-forest-fires-poor-planning-fire-chiefs-monoculture-fire-breaks">Bad
forest management</a> contributed to the monster fire in Chile, which
threatens the city of Constitución.


feed_id: 76b66f896f87813a40fc35eb6363db0f
title: Greece showdown with Euro-banksters
uri: Greece-showdown-with-Euro-banksters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Greece_showdown_with_Euro-banksters%29

content:
<p>
Greece and the Euro-banksters are heading for the showdown, after a
secret IMF report says that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/greece-three-weeks-away-explosive-debt-problems-imf-alexis-tsipras">traveling
the path the banksters impose would make Greece's debt snowball</a>.


feed_id: 837d5127797c552febd36fe13e256fee
title: Obama's medical insurance system
uri: Obama-s-medical-insurance-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Obamas_medical_insurance_system%29

content:
<p>
Republicans still can't find a way to repeal Obama's medical insurance
system without 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/meanwhile-in-obamacare-republican-disarray-follows-trumps-first-order">making
lots of their constituents very very mad</a>.
<p>
If those constituents were aware of how Republicans' other changes
will hurt them, they would make those stop too.


feed_id: d608d7c3c1b52437f640ff30c1db5dff
title: Women's human rights
uri: Women-s-human-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Womens_human_rights%29
content:
<p>
The UN Human Rights Committee ruled that 
<a href="https://rewire.news/article/2017/01/27/how-a-un-committees-ruling-on-abortion-in-ireland-holds-countries-accountable/">denial
of abortion rights violated a woman's human rights</a>.


feed_id: 4f23c99279c83727e48e55cc138c1886
title: Finding common cause with the downtrodden
uri: Finding-common-cause-with-the-downtrodden
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Finding_common_cause_with_the_downtrodden%29

content:
<p>
The UK Labour Party 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/29/white-working-class-deserve-to-be-listened-to-by-left">needs
to listen to white working class Britons' concerns</a> rather than
dismiss them out of hand as "racist".  Even though some of what they
say is racist.
<p>
The same applies to the US Democratic Party.  We need to find common
cause with downtrodden people who do racist scapegoating, without
endorsing their racism.
<p>
Most of the necessary change consists to ceasing to treat plutocratic
bankster rule as inevitable and start fighting to eliminate it.


feed_id: 8d559dd7b56e78f9737faddecdcff5a9
title: City government of Charlotte
uri: City-government-of-Charlotte
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28City_government_of_Charlotte%29
content:
<p>
North Carolina's Republicans have threatened to eliminate the city
government of Charlotte if it continues to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/24/1624472/-Charlotte-mayor-GOP-has-threatened-to-dissolve-our-city-council-for-protecting-LGBT-rights">stand
against bigotry</a>.


feed_id: df54fa5b5d5de0d9d92e75d016aea829
title: Torture of human rights lawyers in China
uri: Torture-of-human-rights-lawyers-in-China
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Torture_of_human_rights_lawyers_in_China%29

content:
<p>
The European Union 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/eu-demands-china-investigate-torture-of-lawyer-and-release-political-prisoners">formally
called on China to investigate</a> its arrest and torture of human
rights lawyers.


feed_id: 9fee9bd528c7bb47dfa6b1c67386cb08
title: Ground raids in Yemen
uri: Ground-raids-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_February_2017_%28Ground_raids_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
The troll has, apparently, brought back the practice of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/al-qaida-suspects-yemen-killed-raid-us-commandos">sending
soldiers on ground raids in Yemen</a>.
<p>
In this raid there were substantial casualties on both sides, as well
as many civilians.  At least the target was a real al-Qa'ida base.
<p>
Killing 14 members of al-Qa'ida and an officer is insignificant as a
blow against that organization.  What determines its strength is how
well it can recruit.  The troll's ban against visits from Yemen and
other countries is sure to strengthen al-Qa'ida recruiting, generally
and especially in Yemen.


feed_id: 264414568dad3f02c80658e62083d4fe
title: Nigerian hunters
uri: Nigerian-hunters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Nigerian_hunters%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/08/antelope-hunter-boko-haram-nigeria">Nigerian hunters try to free captives from Boko Haram</a>, but their
funding has been cut and they don't get the help they need from the
army.


feed_id: 9b077ebb860d57d52372ca1d97915e6a
title: Discourage FOIA
uri: Discourage-FOIA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Discourage_FOIA%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/fbi-foia-records-requests-email-fax/">The FBI will discourage FOIA requests</a> by ceasing to accept them by
email.


feed_id: 89316f730af3a561d41b870bbd9dba8a
title: Intrusive biometrics
uri: Intrusive-biometrics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Intrusive_biometrics%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/07/railways-could-use-eye-scans-to-charge-passengers-say-industry-plans">To get people to accept intrusive biometrics</a>, UK railroads propose to
use
this to enable people to pay fares faster.
<p>
The same could be achieved by making more entry gates,
but that would not teach people to accept surveillance.


feed_id: 53d8556a1f024b6517a1185e696f4d54
title: Verify ages
uri: Verify-ages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Verify_ages%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/06/uk-malicious-communications-social-media-bill/">UK is considering a law to require social networks to verify
users'
ages</a> (and thus their identifies) or else impose censorship on them for
their "protection".


feed_id: f6a4308f0ef644886aef82e0e8f76ec6
title: Impeaching the troll
uri: Impeaching-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Impeaching_the_troll%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/06/house-can-start-impeachment-against-trump-now">40% of Americans are in favor of impeaching the troll</a>, and 12% are not
sure.


feed_id: 2a676fb75490f54e27073d973f489608
title: EPA
uri: 2017-02-12-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28EPA%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS are proposing various bills to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/06/house-science-committee-plans-make-epa-great-again-destroying-it">hamstring the EPA</a>, or even
abolish it.


feed_id: 227f18d31c27b45392cca9869863033d
title: Bermuda
uri: Bermuda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Bermuda%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/06/uk-tax-haven-bermuda-financial-secrecy-offshore-companies">Bermuda objects to being required to correct some of the openings
for tax evasion</a> and cheating and argues that other countries also have
policies that facilitate this.
  What a non-sequitur.
<p>
Every country change the laws that help the rich and businesses to
hide profits, and each step forward in any country will focus pressure
on the countries that fail to do so.


feed_id: 8ae9c36666085b5c6ecb64afa1f46ae4
title: French elections
uri: French-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28French_elections%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/06/facebook-and-google-tackle-fake-news-ahead-of-french-elections/">Keeping fake news out</a> of the coming French elections.
  Suspicions are that Putin will direct efforts to elect the
right-wing extremist Le Pen.


feed_id: 69b92386296ab26fb7fbe6ac95bb8cc0
title: Elections in Haiti
uri: Elections-in-Haiti
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Elections_in_Haiti%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/can-rex-tillerson-pull-a_b_14631368.html">The troll upholds and continues</a> Obama's practice of rigging elections
in Haiti.


feed_id: d919bc729fd7666646e1258f03df5c9f
title: Sentenced to read
uri: Sentenced-to-read
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Sentenced_to_read%29
content:
<p>
A judge
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/07/vandals-sentenced-to-read-books-about-racism-and-antisemitism">sentenced racist teenage vandals to read 35 books that could
help
them recognize the humanity of people</a> they blindly hate.


feed_id: 8f7550c41b7ab13b5f30f0014daa29fc
title: Hundreds of microphones
uri: Hundreds-of-microphones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Hundreds_of_microphones%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/08/privacy-comissioner-grave-concerns-listening-devices-moreton-bay-council-australia">city in Australia has placed hundreds of microphones in public
places</a>
to record people's conversations.
<p>
There are also microphones in taxis in Canberra, and buses in San
Francisco.  No matter what supposed justification there is, the danger
of listening to people is more important.  We must get rid of them.


feed_id: 24bef96eda9eed5e9c2f053428827244
title: Poisoned
uri: Poisoned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Poisoned%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/kremlin-critic-in-coma-was-poisoned-by-undefined-substance">Russian dissident was poisoned</a> last week with a substance not yet
identified.
  It was the second such attack.


feed_id: fc51f57bfe58a226e0e3dcc80edda8e1
title: Miseducator DeVos
uri: Miseducator-DeVos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Miseducator_DeVos%29
content:
<p>
We failed to convince a third Republican to reject miseducator DeVos
as Secretary of Education.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/07/betsy-devos-confirmed-education-secretary-pence-trump-cabinet">She was confirmed on Tuesday.</a>


feed_id: 1b84e76853e0bc843020ff44a990eecf
title: UK welfare
uri: 2017-02-12-UK-welfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28UK_welfare%29
content:
<p>
The latest reshuffle of the UK's welfare system
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/07/universal-credit-flaws-pushing-claimants-towards-debt-and-eviction-warning">requires people to
wait 6 weeks before benefits begin</a>.  During this time they often can't
afford rent or food.
<p>
We are supposed to think of this as a minor detail or side effect of a
large change, but I think it is the opposite.  They make "reforms"
that change many things, but the overall effect is less money for the
poor.  Since less money for the poor is exactly the Tories' general
aim, I think that the "reforms" are meant as excuses for this.


feed_id: 3f96a5e1116aca08bcdc85e6a2d40758
title: Domestic violence
uri: 2017-02-12-Domestic-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Domestic_violence%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/putin-approves-change-to-law-decriminalising-domestic-violence">Russia has greatly reduced the penalties</a> for beating a spouse or
children so badly that it causes bruises.
  In effect, the state is now encouraging domestic violence.
<p>
Has the troll already advocated such laws?  If not, I expect he will.


feed_id: 72389c5ccb8bc8e4a2d22b840cb84c56
title: Terrorism
uri: 2017-02-12-Terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Terrorism%29
content:
<p>
The mainstream media tend to give the impression that Islamist
terrorism is directed mainly at non-Muslims.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/07/media-under-reports-threat-islamic-terrorism-to-muslims-trump-white-house-list">Actually nearly all the
targets are Muslims</a>.


feed_id: 406fdbde116a75266ae0b6011e06185a
title: Hungary
uri: Hungary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Hungary%29
content:
<p>
Hungary
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/hungary-submits-plans-automatically-detain-all-asylum-seekers-donald-trump-viktor-orban-zoltan-kovacs">plans to imprison all asylum seekers</a>.
<p>
The idea of calling these prisons "shelters" reminds me of what the
British did when they put all the Boer civilians in prisons, which
they called "concentration camps".


feed_id: 3c7e42c777c621fb5c115a967497c6e9
title: Legitimizes theft
uri: Legitimizes-theft
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Legitimizes_theft%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/palestinians-demand-action-against-israel-over-settlements-law">Palestinians ask other countries</a> to punish Israel with sanctions for
the newly adopted law that legitimizes theft of Palestinians' land
by fanatical colonists.


feed_id: b50e9c0bbd72cdd1a0f083ee2ee3082f
title: Other kinds of thoughts
uri: Other-kinds-of-thoughts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Other_kinds_of_thoughts%29
content:
<p>
Other kinds of thoughts
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/07/trump-liberals-hate-brain-amygdala-neuroscience">can suppress the fast racist response</a>.


feed_id: 7b30fe2dee0f160183e80cdd996394aa
title: Shield his lies
uri: Shield-his-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Shield_his_lies%29
content:
<p>
To shield his lies from refutation, the troll wants to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/07/trump-disempower-institutions-protect-truth">destroy the
institutions that protect the truth</a>.


feed_id: c21519d90d3f3ec5b7314c922cad0334
title: Canadian border
uri: Canadian-border
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Canadian_border%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/us-refugees-canada-border-trump-travel-ban">Refugees in the US</a> are walking across the Canadian border so they
can apply for asylum there.


feed_id: 56c53bd407e4373315b589a03f98b335
title: Global heating effects
uri: 2017-02-12-Global-heating-effects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Global_heating_effects%29
content:
<p>
Global heating effects, including heavy rains, have damaged many
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/07/floods-erosion-ruining-britains-significant-sites-climate-change">historic
places and sites of natural beauty in Britain</a>.
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2014/may/20/us-landmark-sites-climate-change-statue-of-liberty">Statue of Liberty and other US historic sites</a> are vulnerable to
damage from global heating effects.
<p>
We won't have to worry about the Statue of Liberty if the troll
succeeds in making liberty obsolete for everyone but him.


feed_id: 7812b0b9fb77d72f094b21e888df4007
title: Coal Barons
uri: Coal-Barons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Coal_Barons%29
content:
<p>
Australia's planet-roaster government has recognized that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/07/why-coal-fired-power-handouts-would-be-an-attack-on-climate-and-common-sense">coal is now
so uneconomic</a> that the way to get new coal mines started is to
subsidize them.
<p>
In other words, the coal barons have taken control of the country with
their denialist lies, and now like a virus will direct the country's
machinery to enriching them while endangering everyone else.


feed_id: 0470844784dbfe3c51ade3a0141bf814
title: Assad's men
uri: Assad-s-men
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Assad%27s_men%29
content:
<p>
Amnesty International says that Assad's men
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/up-to-13000-secretly-hanged-in-syrian-jail-says-amnesty">killed thousands of
prisoners</a> by hanging, and thousands more by torture and starvation.
<p>
The available information stops in 2015; there is no information on
whether the executions continued then.


feed_id: a515831e7b6524a88c22f1a02805b92e
title: Coverage
uri: Coverage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Coverage%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/05/lesson-media-missed-about-dangers-scapegoating">Every US TV network gave far more coverage</a> to a Canadian murderer who
was a Muslim than to a Canadian murderer who was a right-wing
extremist and killed Muslims.


feed_id: ec51aa5611db61acd422c9ecbfe73b49
title: Average bank
uri: Average-bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Average_bank%29
content:
<p>
Your average bank is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/05/extreme-vetting-not-banks">far more likely to ruin Americans' lives</a> than
your average immigrant.  That's why the troll wants "extreme vetting"
for immigrants and not for banks.


feed_id: 497705c40f8e6d31eb7a7220e41db111
title: Regime change
uri: Regime-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_February_2017_%28Regime_change%29
content:
<p>
The troll
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/trump-authoritarianism-judiciary-regime-change">acts as if he were seeking regime change</a> in the US.
<p>
Bernie Sanders: Trump
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/05/bernie-sanders-trump-fraud-sending-nation-authoritarian-direction">'Is a Fraud'</a> Sending Nation in 'Authoritarian
Direction'.


feed_id: 5215a374530b56a58336c56e0c54bf6a
title: Behavioral inspection
uri: Behavioral-inspection
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_February_2017_%28Behavioral_inspection%29
content:
<p>
The TSA's "behavioral" inspection has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/08/tsa-screening-racial-religious-profiling-aclu-study">no scientific base</a>, it is just
an excuse for racial profiling.


feed_id: fc548c0d82141a4ce5edd36a880eb4b4
title: Support
uri: Support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_February_2017_%28Support%29
content:
<p>
The troll is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/08/turkey-dismisses-4400-public-servants-erdogan-trump-phone-call">giving Erdo&gbreve;an support and encouragement</a>.
<p>
This is probably partly because Turkey is fighting PISSI, but it will
support ErdoÄan's repression too.  I fear for the Kurds.  Their
support for secularity and human rights will not win any support from
the the troll.


feed_id: 41e1794697336ea16d89030918fe8c32
title: Danger
uri: Danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_February_2017_%28Danger%29
content:
<p>
The danger of terrorism in the US is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/08/trump-muslim-terrorists-gun-violence-america-deaths">minuscule compared with the
danger of other people with guns</a>.  Babies with guns kill a lot more
Americans than terrorists do.


feed_id: c6d73a77e0937d67a348578191904abb
title: Microbead Ban
uri: Microbead-Ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_February_2017_%28Microbead_Ban%29
content:
<p>
Microbead Ban
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/08/microbead-ban-should-include-all-products-washed-down-the-drain-say-campainers">Should Include All Products Washed Down the Drain</a>, Say
Campaigners.


feed_id: e1c4c329cc2d3ebbd78e645420da7d64
title: Orphanages
uri: Orphanages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_February_2017_%28Orphanages%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/feb/08/i-worked-in-orphanages-for-years-but-now-know-there-is-no-substitute-for-family">An orphanage worker condemns the whole idea of orphanages</a>, saying we
must enable children to stay with their families.
<p>
With some funds it would be possible to enable many of these children
to live with families.  But it is not going to be easy for a single
parent to care for five children, even with money, if the parent has
to work as well.
<p>
We must give poor people help in <em>having fewer children</em>.


feed_id: ec5d83f9e99f01bd2c737a6dfa85a99b
title: Local participatory activities
uri: Local-participatory-activities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_February_2017_%28Local_participatory_activities%29

content:
<p>
Local participatory activities, even if initially shallow,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/08/take-back-control-bottom-up-communities">have the
possibility to lead to creation of real communities</a>.


feed_id: 74c70be71efd65f400885c2b88b37fe5
title: Bill to limit DMCA
uri: 2017-02-12-Bill-to-limit-DMCA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#9_February_2017_%28Bill_to_limit_DMCA%29
content:
<p>
A bill in Congress would <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/new-bipartisan-bill-proposes-real-fixes-bad-copyright-law">reduce the scope of the DMCA</a>'s prohibition on breaking all sorts of digital handcuffs. This would reduce the injustice, but that part of the DMCA is entirely unjust and should be repealed entirely. DRM is an injustice and the government should help us get rid of it.</p>

<p>This is pertinent again because this bill has been reintroduced in the
new congress.</p>


feed_id: e978877842157a252f596ba73324e6c1
title: The real face
uri: The-real-face
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_February_2017_%28The_real_face%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/07/iranian-supreme-leader-thanks-trump-exposing-real-face-america">Iran's theocratic supreme leader thanked the troll</a> for demonstrating
that the US leaders cannot be trusted, revealing "the real face of the
US."
<p>
This will harm Iran; it will strengthen the extremists in domestic
politics.


feed_id: 2117a2a0fd5dcc9959c7b21e39b38721
title: Polluter Emails
uri: Polluter-Emails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_February_2017_%28Polluter_Emails%29
content:
<p>
Lawsuit Filed Against Trump Nominee Scott Pruitt for
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/07/lawsuit-filed-against-trump-nominee-scott-pruitt-denying-public-access-polluter">Denying Public
Access
to
Polluter Emails</a>.


feed_id: df988b76e3f497c8e3878bbd6588b829
title: Inhumane Acts for Trump
uri: Inhumane-Acts-for-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_February_2017_%28Inhumane_Acts_for_Trump%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/07/ordinary-americans-carried-out-inhumane-acts-trump">Ordinary Americans Carried Out Inhumane Acts for Trump.</a>
<p>
Perhaps there were immigration thugs that imprisoned travelers merely
because they thought they had orders to do so.  But those orders could
not require handcuffing people who were not dangerous, denying them
food, or denying them a wheelchair.  The people who do that went
beyond
obeying orders.  They were eager to mistreat someone, and their orders
gave them license to do so.


feed_id: 16d4660ff83b9e33b0b6da513abef89f
title: Brutal agenda
uri: Brutal-agenda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_February_2017_%28Brutal_agenda%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/08/mia-ayliffe-chung-trump-terrorism-list">"How dare Trump use my daughterâs death to further his brutal agenda."</a>


feed_id: 9dc05f1d6033f8fab340988de6058825
title: Urgent: Dissenters
uri: Urgent-Dissenters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Dissenters%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition-muslim-ban/?source=e170131_2121-fin-3mo&amount=10&t=1003&akid=37183.636740.AuQyEp">support State Department dissenters</a> that criticized the
partial ban on Muslims.
<p>
<a href="media/d8b87b4e.Dissent-Memo.pdf" data-original-source="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3438487/Dissent-Memo.pdf">Here's what they wrote.</a>


feed_id: 08864f40dd70e2aa0bdf1efac6ab7e5a
title: Troll's disregard for uncertainty
uri: Troll-s-disregard-for-uncertainty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28Trolls_disregard_for_uncertainty%29

content:
<p>
The troll approved a ground raid in Yemen, disregarding uncertainty
about who was there.  It 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/02/trumps-yemen-raid-killed-newborn-baby-and-scores-civilians">killed
lots of civilians</a>.


feed_id: ce4645e4367654a57801c327dce960c8
title: Organizing resistance to the troll
uri: Organizing-resistance-to-the-troll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28Organizing_resistance_to_the_troll%29

content:
<p>
How to organize resistance to the loser so it can go 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/02/resisting-trump-what">beyond
protests</a> and have long-term effects.


feed_id: 0d87f823230cfb3f69fee6a8d2d8931a
title: Canadian Rings of Peace
uri: Canadian-Rings-of-Peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28Canadian_Rings_of_Peace%29
content:
<p>
Canadians Form 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/quebec-shooting-canadians-rings-of-peace-mosques-solidarity">'Rings
of Peace' Around Mosques</a> After Quebec Shooting.


feed_id: ba034ffd653bcb8eaf0bc57b58c3ad14
title: Checking executive orders
uri: Checking-executive-orders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28Checking_executive_orders%29
content:
<p>
The troll's executive order for the partial ban on Muslims 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/03/trump-dodd-frank-act-executive-order-financial-regulations">disregarded
the executive order about the procedure for checking executive
orders</a>, which was designed to avoid gratuitous mistakes.
<p>
The troll is aiming for the sort of misery that other presidents tried
to avoid.


feed_id: feca7e015a70ad0577bd7ecde31a7db2
title: Travis County stands firm as sanctuary
uri: Travis-County-stands-firm-as-sanctuary
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28Travis_County_stands_firm_as_sanctuary%29

content:
<p>
Travis County in Texas stands firm as a sanctuary, 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/03/texas-governor-goes-to-war-with-austin-over-immigration-enforcement/">resisting
Governor Abbott's threats</a> to cut unrelated funding as a
punishment.
<p>
Such threats are probably unconstitutional, but Republicans don't
care.  Any threat will do, to intimidate.
<p>
The responses from Travis County are good for retaining support from
the people there, but I think it is crucial to publicly attack Abbott
in ways that will hurt him state-wide.  I would think of showing how
he is dishonest, cruel, false to the Constitution, and un-American.


feed_id: 553c0e9a4ab77ce42bb60ac9b7497aea
title: Resistance to troll's cruelest plans
uri: Resistance-to-troll-s-cruelest-plans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28Resistance_to_trolls_cruelist_plans%29

content:
<p>
California is 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/03/california-moves-to-become-a-sanctuary-state-as-texas-takes-a-hard-line/">passing
laws</a> to resist the troll's cruelest plans.


feed_id: 623bef5d4561feab6188cd39c340b965
title: Troll's belligerence towards Iran
uri: Troll-s-belligerence-towards-Iran
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28Trolls_belligerence_towards_Iran%29

content:
<p>
[The troll's] belligerence towards Iran 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/03/trumps-belligerence-towards-iran-plays-into-the-hands-of-tehrans-hardliners">plays
into the hands of Tehran's hardliners</a>.


feed_id: 522e63035cb22456284411f8f650ccf5
title: Tory mistreatment of disabled people
uri: Tory-mistreatment-of-disabled-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28Tory_mistreatment_of_disabled_people%29

content:
<p>
If the UK leaves the EU, Tories will be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/02/eu-red-tape-disabled-people-care-jobs-education">able
to mistreat disabled people</a> to their heart's content.


feed_id: fbd3d3a8f32071e80b7e70dfd514bf35
title: ALEC
uri: 2017-02-14-ALEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28ALEC%29
content:
<p>
The corrupt head of the UK branch of ALEC has been 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/02/corporate-dark-money-power-atlantic-lobbyists-brexit">appointed
to design a trade treaty with the US</a> that would subjugate the UK
permanently to the US.


feed_id: 38013c4ca57062ab4f59e61e1c8efdd0
title: Republicans ignoring rules
uri: Republicans-ignoring-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#13_February_2017_%28Republicans_ignoring_rules%29
content:
<p>
Since the senate rules don't allow a committee to vote with no
Democrats present, the Republicans in the Finance Committee 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/01/rules-dont-apply-gop-finance-committee-approves-nominees-without-dems">decided
to ignore the rules</a>.
<p>
Is it valid to suspend the rules without a quorum?  It sounds like
cheating to me — which fits the Republican political philosophy
of "by hook or by crook."


feed_id: f7276f51428962bab84d7ae3a9efb8c4
title: Urgent: Oppose bill to jail parents
uri: Urgent-Oppose-bill-to-jail-parents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_bill_to_jail_parents%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/dont-punish-harmless">oppose</a>
the Rhode Island bill to jail parents that leave a child in a car.


feed_id: 4b4e8149d1c836aead8f679290d253ec
title: Urgent: Require declaration of war before first strike
uri: Urgent-Require-declaration-of-war-before-first-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Require_declaration_of_war_before_first_strike%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://livable.cp.bsd.net/page/signup/tell-congress-passHR669S200">call
on Congress</a> to prohibit a nuclear first strike without a prior
declaration of war.


feed_id: 5ca12fd9fb71f9c02d9b336362a6cf8b
title: Urgent: Remove dams on Snake River
uri: Urgent-Remove-dams-on-Snake-River
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_dams_on_Snake_River%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3153">support
removing dams on the Snake River</a> so that salmon and orcas can
survive.


feed_id: 9082dd0faae3a4901c68b1a15b502d9d
title: Urgent: No legalized religious discrimination
uri: Urgent-No-legalized-religious-discrimination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_legalized_religious_discrimination%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/FADA">call on congress</a>
not to legalize discrimination based on religion as an excuse.


feed_id: 1ba6b9db17475b893cf5de685d0b8874
title: Bombardment of Yemen causing famine
uri: Bombardment-of-Yemen-causing-famine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Bombardment_of_Yemen_causing_famine%29

content:
<p>
The Salafi Arabian bombardment of Yemen is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/08/yemen-food-crisis-we-are-broken-bombing-hunger">causing
famine</a>.


feed_id: 0346cfea080e9ad6e195b07597bfc173
title: Obama gives tycoon PR opportunity
uri: Obama-gives-tycoon-PR-opportunity
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Obama_gives_tycoon_PR_opportunity%29

content:
<p>
While the nation writhes in agony, Obama ignores that and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/08/barack-obama-richard-branson-kitesurfing-trip-necker-island">gives
a tycoon a great PR opportunity</a>.
<p>
This disappoints many Americans who have for 8 years invested in Obama
more hope than he should rationally inspire.


feed_id: 1106aa8f34e1bf2e1e9fb96119c33967
title: Israeli fanatics cut down trees
uri: Israeli-fanatics-cut-down-trees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Israeli_fanatics_cut_down_trees%29

content:
<p>
Israeli fanatics cut down 
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775334">700 olive and
almond trees</a> near Nablus, part of their unremitting efforts to
drive Palestinians away from places where they are taking Palestinian
land.


feed_id: 861c1d791f23ca770d274bf22c2de8c1
title: Troll rebuked by Admiral Mullen
uri: Troll-rebuked-by-Admiral-Mullen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Troll_rebuked_by_Admiral_Mullen%29

content:
<p>
Admiral Mullen, formerly head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/6/1630525/-Former-Chairman-of-the-Joint-Chiefs-of-Staff-says-Bannon-should-removed-from-Nat-Security-Council">rebuked
the troll for putting Bannon on the National Security Council</a>.


feed_id: 71a0b4fa507e8e9ef35526566845be0c
title: Using the White House for marketing
uri: Using-the-White-House-for-marketing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Using_the_White_House_for_marketing%29

content:
<p>
Melania Trump intended to use her presence in the White House to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/07/melania-trump-planned-use-presidency-profit-machine-herself">market
fashion products</a>.
<p>
Influenced perhaps by her husband?


feed_id: 8d6979528891e13f36bc784a98623ecc
title: Coal ash disposal
uri: Coal-ash-disposal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Coal_ash_disposal%29
content:
<p>
A landfill company 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/07/landfill-drops-defamation-lawsuit-against-community-activists-agrees">sued
activists that opposed plans to put coal ash in a landfill</a>.  The
ACLU defended them and won.


feed_id: 0b04ef9a391dfca4e4e69cbf08390203
title: Security of voting machines
uri: Security-of-voting-machines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Security_of_voting_machines%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/07/house-gop-quietly-moves-kill-commission-charged-securing-elections">planning
to abolish the federal agency that helps states maintain the
security</a> of voting machines.
<p>
Maybe Republicans want to rig elections digitally, as well as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#12_November_2016_(The_election_was_stolen)">stopping
hundreds of thousands of marginalized Americans from voting</a>.


feed_id: ae41b9f1460e0304fe6a7264df2635f7
title: Israelis to refuse draft
uri: Israelis-to-refuse-draft
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Israelis_to_refuse_draft%29
content:
<p>
Atalya Ben-Abba and other Israelis are about to 
<a href="https://972mag.com/my-sister-is-refusing-to-join-the-idf-and-i-couldnt-be-prouder/125044/">refuse
to be drafted and go to prison instead</a>.


feed_id: 678c76cd025cc2764ff7227145ee366f
title: Boycott of Israeli products
uri: 2017-02-15-Boycott-of-Israeli-products
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Boycott_of_Israeli_products%29
content:
<p>
Israel is 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-debates-controversial-anti-boycott-bill-banning-bds-supporters-a7561286.html">considering
a law to refuse entry to anyone that supports a boycott</a> of Israeli
products.


feed_id: c370e00528edb1eb6214f8fe8f14655e
title: Jews and Arabs protest
uri: Jews-and-Arabs-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Jews_and_Arabs_protest%29
content:
<p>
Thousands of Jews And Arabs Attend a 
<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-march-in-tel-aviv-to-protest-treatment-of-arabs/">Protest
against the Treatment of the Arab Community</A>.


feed_id: 5f9b01d980c20a59d3d50c65f20c6320
title: 12-year-old boy prosecuted and jailed
uri: 12-year-old-boy-prosecuted-and-jailed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%2812-year-old_boy_prosecuted_and_jailed%29

content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="http://imemc.org/article/12-year-old-circus-student-kidnapped-by-israeli-forces/">prosecuted
and jailed</a> a 12-year-old Palestinian boy.


feed_id: 6e9cfc825631d74892e7bc5736d55ccf
title: Repression carried out by Israeli soldiers
uri: Repression-carried-out-by-Israeli-soldiers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Repression_carried_out_by_Israeli_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
In Breaking the Silence, former Israeli soldiers report on the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/08/netanyahu-breaking-the-silence-israel-theresa-may">repressive
practices they were ordered to carry out</a>.


feed_id: c1143e3c26c91f32d6a416e106e7d7ff
title: Protests against Republicans
uri: Protests-against-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Protests_against_Republicans%29
content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/6/1630552/-Totally-detached-from-reality-White-House-spokesman-says-protesters-are-paid-professionals">claim
that the protests against them are full of "paid protesters"</a>.
<p>
How much money would it have cost to pay a million people to protest?
We progressives are not backed by billionaires — we can't afford
to do that.  Only Republicans can.
<p>
It is standard Republican practice to accuse the opposition, falsely,
of using the methods that they themselves use.


feed_id: ab93bb7744c57899033ae30eebf7f703
title: Dakota Access pipeline
uri: Dakota-Access-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Dakota_Access_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
The Army Corps of Engineers is rushing to complete the Dakota Access pipeline,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/07/dakota-access-pipeline-approved-standing-rock-sioux">skipping
the steps that are normally required</a>.
<p>
This is to make sure that the environmental impacts are never studied
and that no court can rule on the legality of the project before it
is too late.
<p>
Since the pipeline will contribute to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#04_October_2012_(Effect_of_global_heating_on_people)">mass
murder</a>, I think that sabotaging it with violence so that it cannot
be used would be justified on the principle of necessity for
preventing a greater crime.


feed_id: 4c652fa29c6c990fc5b43a9d11da40d8
title: Addiction to portable phones
uri: Addiction-to-portable-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Addiction_to_portable_phones%29
content:
<p>
Sherry Turkle: 
<a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/18/sherry-turkle-not-anti-technology-pro-conversation">campaigning
to reestablish direct conversation</a> between people in a world of
people who are addicted to portable phones.
<p>
She doesn't put this together with the fact that the technology, being
proprietary, is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#18_July_2012_(Addiction)"><u>designed</u>
to be addictive</a>.  The users generally don't have control over this
or any other aspect of it, so they can't make it less addictive.


feed_id: 548ccff24b2d312340f9e7c0b85d0569
title: Prisoner phone calls
uri: Prisoner-phone-calls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_February_2017_%28Prisoner_phone_calls%29
content:
<p>
Ajit Pal, the troll's head of the FCC,
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170207/06154236652/new-fcc-boss-decides-cool-if-phone-monopolies-want-to-rip-off-inmate-families.shtml">supports charging prisoners $14
an hour for phone calls</a>.
<p>
This panders to those who want to grind the heel on prisoners, and
will please many supporters of the troll.  It will have the byproduct
of increasing crime in the future, as prisoners who have limited
communication with their families and friends will be less likely to
fit back into society after they are released.  (Most prisoners are
released, you know.)  So they will be led back to a life of crime.
<p>
But the main effect will be to enrich some companies, whose owners
Pai seems to consider his cronies.


feed_id: 7fb963cd2ff9df559d5682cbf98a6344
title: Wish they weren't mothers
uri: Wish-they-weren-t-mothers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Wish_they_weren%27t_mothers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/11/breaking-taboo-parents-who-regret-having-children">People don't want to hear</a> that some mothers wish they weren't mothers.
Those who talk about it face personal insults.
<p>
Women who have babies are pressured into adopting the narrow and
suffocating social role and attitudes prescribed for mothers.  They
understand why other people find them dull, because they find it dull
themselves.
<p>
I hear from people who are happy to have children.  I can understand
how it might make someone happy, in a world of plenty where raising
children is not a crushing burden and where there is no anxiety
that something might go wrong.
<a href="/articles/children.html">But I can't imagine being happy with
it in the world we are in.</a>


feed_id: 5550fda67f4e4ad00926a8359c8f5f20
title: More about Flynn
uri: More-about-Flynn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28More_about_Flynn%29
content:
<p>
More about Flynn's apparent
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/flynn-trump-washington-post-russia">hint to a Russian ambassador that the troll
would drop sanctions</a> if elected.
<p>
The troll has
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/9/1631858/-Donald-Trump-has-successfully-buried-the-story-that-worries-him-most">mostly succeeded in distracting the US press</a> from the
scandal
of his involvement with Russia.


feed_id: a7e064ea9f68558f1f029ff471701ce4
title: Speaking without thinking
uri: Speaking-without-thinking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Speaking_without_thinking%29
content:
<p>
The troll's habit of speaking without thinking is providing useful
<a href="https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/feb/10/trumps-comments-likely-to-cause-heartburn-for-us-l/">help for
lawyers challenging some of his policies in court</a>.


feed_id: 4bbab8e5718db2028a18863b0b8a896a
title: Record low
uri: Record-low
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Record_low%29
content:
<p>
As the extent of January Arctic sea ice hits a record low, a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/12/plan-to-refreeze-arctic-before-ice-goes-for-good-climate-change">macroengineering plan to rebuild Arctic sea ice must now be
considered</a>.
<p>
This plan would not be treating a symptom.  The loss of sea ice is a
result of global heating, but also a cause of more global heating.


feed_id: c5ffcab4e343983efe35f5f5bff54455
title: Witch hunt
uri: Witch-hunt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Witch_hunt%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/12/blacklisted-erdogans-witch-hunt-forces-turkish-families-into-world-of-fear-and-isolation">The 120,000 victims of ErdoÄan's witch hunt</a> find themselves
blacklisted, unable to get any kind of work, and fearing that their
bank accounts might be seized at any time.
<p>
Those who are arrested do not get a fair trial.  They are told the
only way to get out of jail is to name some "co-conspirators", which
often means additional innocent targets for the witch-hunt.


feed_id: 5cafd6d75bd1dfc798e060d32f46d53e
title: UK house builders
uri: UK-house-builders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28UK_house_builders%29
content:
<p>
UK house builders are holding back the supply of new houses
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/feb/12/profitable-for-developers-to-keep-britain-short-of-houses">to push up
the price</a>.
<p>
The diamond mining companies hold back the supply of diamonds to keep
the price up, but we can disregard this because nobody really needs a
diamond.  Everyone needs a home to live in.


feed_id: 74b54354fb188f1a125dd8913f91468f
title: Behind paywalls
uri: Behind-paywalls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Behind_paywalls%29
content:
<p>
One district court
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/federal-court-rules-against-publicresourceorg-says-public-safety-laws-can-be">ruled in favor of storing government regulations
behind paywalls</a>.
<p>
The case is not over.


feed_id: 2245ecc277231ea66f8a9a2a85bb27d7
title: ANti-abortion protests
uri: ANti-abortion-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28ANti-abortion_protests%29
content:
<p>
Anti-abortion protests at Planned Parenthood offices were met by
numerous
supporters,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/11/planned-parenthood-protests-abortion-supporters">in some cases greatly outnumbering the protesters</a>.
<p>
It is very important to speak up visibly and publicly against the
right-wing
supporters of the troll.


feed_id: c9d7b496b70968ce71077f307f077bda
title: Illegal voting
uri: Illegal-voting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Illegal_voting%29
content:
<p>
Rosa MarÃ­a Ortega, a Mexican citizen who has lived in the US since
infancy and thought she was allowed to vote,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/11/texas-voter-fraud-mexican-national">was sentenced to 8 years
in prison for illegal voting</a>.
<p>
I don't think the term "fraud" applies, since she did not lie about
anything.
She just registered and voted.
<p>
The unusual severity of her sentence was caused by talking about the
troll's
fictitious claims.  It will probably cause her to deported to a
country
she has no memory of living in, and may not be able to survive in.


feed_id: fbb74a686f1192ce0c6e3fb457e2ed21
title: Belligerency of PISSI
uri: Belligerency-of-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Belligerency_of_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Increasing the belligerency of PISSI
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/11/as-tensions-rise-steve-bannon-and-isis-get-closer-to-their-common-goal-civilizational-war/">may serve Bannon's apocalyptic
desires</a>.


feed_id: b5bddfb8e0c8e9093b29c6f843c5b0da
title: 500-pound bomb
uri: 500-pound-bomb
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28500-pound_bomb%29
content:
<p>
An unexploded 500-pound bomb dropped on Thessaloniki in World War II
was just found, and before trying to defuse it, they are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/11/unexploded-ww2-bomb-prompts-huge-thessaloniki-greece-evacuation">evacuating
people over a mile away</a>.
<p>
A bomb that size can demolish a building, but such a large evacuation
seems hypercautious.  The evacuation will do substantial economic harm
and it too has a chance of causing harm to someone's health.


feed_id: b1880635846beb6f771fa0689841492b
title: Excluding Iranian refugees
uri: Excluding-Iranian-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Excluding_Iranian_refugees%29
content:
<p>
Excluding Iranian refugees — typically fleeing because they are
opposed to the Islamist regime — is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/11/iran-shahrzad-changalvaee-trump-travel-ban">self-defeating for the US as well
as cruel to them</a>.


feed_id: 3f57cad3674570466719c517464d24d5
title: Power to override
uri: Power-to-override
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Power_to_override%29
content:
<p>
The troll may appear stupid to progressives when he talks about a
"'so-called' judge", but he is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/11/americans-arent-attached-democracy-rule-law">dog-whistling to his supporters</a>.
Most of them think he should have the power to override judges.


feed_id: d30bf63ceed7df84d2663b6bff916f3a
title: Protectionist trade policy
uri: Protectionist-trade-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Protectionist_trade_policy%29
content:
<p>
The troll
<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadians-want-trudeau-to-stand-up-to-trump-even-if-it-leads-to-trade-war-poll/article33948451/">wants the US to adopt protectionist trade policies but wants
Canada to do the opposite</a>.  Canadians would rather have a trade war.
<p>
In opposing the troll,
<a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/02/dont-side-neoliberalism-opposing-trump.html">we must not defend neoliberalism</a> and its "free
trade" agenda.
<p>
I am against "free trade" because that tends, in practice, to give
big business power over the nation.  "Free trade" treaties are really
<a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy treaties</a>.
<p>
I am not particularly concerned with tariffs, and not against buying
things
from other countries.  What we must do is make it difficult to move
production
from one country to another in order to cut wages for workers of all
countries.


feed_id: 68180ee8c284d3117f4fd3f4f1e93a24
title: Years behind
uri: Years-behind
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Years_behind%29
content:
<p>
In the UK, smart children from a background of poverty are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/09/bright-but-poor-students-uk-years-behind-better-off-peers-study-claims">years
behind
smart children from a rich background</a>, in what they learn.


feed_id: 35e58f1413b565919f31bcffa8325bfb
title: Cyborg Bill of Rights
uri: Cyborg-Bill-of-Rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Cyborg_Bill_of_Rights%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/02/01/the-cyborg-bill-of-rights-v1-0.html">The Cyborg Bill of Rights v1.0.</a>
<p>
I think another principle is required, that persons are entitled to
control over all software implanted in them.  This means that the
software must be free, and each person must get a copy of the source
code of that software, the power to install modified versions into
perself, and the power to stop others from installing modified
versions
into per.


feed_id: a45be5a43d274742528b9b71dd874cfd
title: Swindling customers
uri: Swindling-customers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Swindling_customers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/heres-how-time-warner-cable-was-ripping-you-off-all-those-years">Time Warner Cable has been sued</a>, accusing executives of knowingly
swindling customers for years.


feed_id: d4b5916cfe8bb1cd6cd75ce55d1a8d62
title: Strongman
uri: Strongman
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Strongman%29
content:
<p>
A tyrant or cruel strongman needs lots of underlings to exercise
power.  Nonviolent resistance operates by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/01/worried-american-democracy-study-activist-techniques">convincing many underlings
not to carry out the orders</a>.


feed_id: 8d0ac6d82d83e7022cf5e4cadb5b68ae
title: Isolated
uri: Isolated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Isolated%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/trump-white-house-aides-strategy.html">Reportedly the troll spends his days</a> in the White House isolated,
lonely, and communicating with few other people.  He gets his news
from cable TV, which means he has a very biased picture including a
reflection of himself.  He could easily be fooled by his own
propaganda.
<p>
He might decide after a few months of this that it is no fun,
and resign.
<p>
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/02/06/stephen-bannon-fooled-trump-in.html">Perhaps Bannon is taking advantage</a> of the troll's habitual careless
approach
to give himself more power.


feed_id: e038e0bdc327caa20fb68245eb473a05
title: Enemy of democracy
uri: Enemy-of-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Enemy_of_democracy%29
content:
<p>
Coretta Scott King's letter opposing confirmation of Sessions as a US
judge
<a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3259988/Scott-King-1986-Letter-and-Testimony-Signed.txt">shows what an enemy of democracy he is</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/8/1631422/-Helping-black-voters-in-Alabama-should-get-you-200-years-in-prison-according-to-Jeff-Sessions">Sessions tried to prosecute people for helping black voters
fill out their absentee ballots</a>, and aimed to get them sentenced
to 200 years in prison.


feed_id: 10bc37af0c3862dad7faa8bdf06dc9fa
title: Bumblebee
uri: Bumblebee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Bumblebee%29
content:
<p>
Troll's 60-day
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/10/trump-rusty-patched-bumblebee-extinction-regulations">delay on new regulations could wipe out</a> the rusty
patched bumblebee.


feed_id: 0879cf4087ff4684aceac68f6c1f0027
title: Judicial courage
uri: Judicial-courage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Judicial_courage%29
content:
<p>
The appeals court's decision to keep the troll's partial ban on
Muslims
suspended is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/10/travel-ban-court-opinion-ninth-circuit-analysis">an example of judicial courage</a>.


feed_id: e9c467909de1fb29b029e8d439516ca7
title: Mar-a-Lago
uri: Mar-a-Lago
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Mar-a-Lago%29
content:
<p>
Every visit of the troll to Mar-a-Lago is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/11/palm-beach-businesses-cost-trump-mar-a-lago">a disaster for businesses in
Palm Beach</a>.  Some will have to close.


feed_id: ab23c7e8fcaeaffbbff9687d7abd975b
title: Republican smear campaign
uri: Republican-smear-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Republican_smear_campaign%29
content:
<p>
The 2015 Republican smear campaign against Planned Parenthood
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/09/clinic-violence-increased-following-planned-parenthood-smear-campaign">failed
to find any illegality but succeeded in stirring up right-wing
extremist violence</a>.


feed_id: 3b5c0d2c4ab72b7f464197696ca82915
title: Leaving the EU
uri: Leaving-the-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Leaving_the_EU%29
content:
<p>
Most of those Britons who voted for leaving the EU aimed to reduce the
number of immigrants.  An economic projection suggests this will
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/10/brexit-will-cause-vanishingly-small-fall-in-net-migration-report">reduce
the number little, if at all</a>.


feed_id: 9b541301aeca4c11c262e09b727a942d
title: Brave New World
uri: Brave-New-World
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Brave_New_World%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/10/fake-news-not-new-and-huxley-not-orwell-messenger-time-reread-neil-postman">The troll is closer, so far,</a> to Brave New World than to 1984.
<p>
However, considering how the troll threatens people, and uses
the state to inflict suffering on many, 1984 is certainly part of it.


feed_id: 8475b6cf0eac2373c8d891d0f9efb127
title: Sanctions against Russia
uri: Sanctions-against-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Sanctions_against_Russia%29
content:
<p>
Flynn discussed US sanctions against Russia with the Russian
ambassador in the month before the inauguration — meaning
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/national-security-adviser-flynn-discussed-sanctions-with-russian-ambassador-despite-denials-officials-say/2017/02/09/f85b29d6-ee11-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html?tid=ss_tw-amp&utm_term=.be70d3c0aa65">the denials
of Pence and others were false</a>.


feed_id: eed81f424c33b959c8f9cc0d5c54b077
title: Ethics rule
uri: Ethics-rule
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Ethics_rule%29
content:
<p>
Even when SCROTUS rebuke Republicans for ethics rule violations,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/10/kellyanne-conways-ethics-jason-chaffetz">they continue to protect those Republicans</a>.


feed_id: 5e2e9cb70eb4e8f151f05c1bd2951b44
title: David Friedman
uri: David-Friedman
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28David_Friedman%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/randpaul-oppose-private?r_by=1135580">Call on the Senate to block the appointment of David Friedman</a> as
ambassador to Israel.  He leads an organization that funds
construction
of colonies in Palestinian territory.


feed_id: eb38e4f18b66feaf2c5c69b44fbe1ab7
title: Destroy the career
uri: Destroy-the-career
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Destroy_the_career%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/09/trump-does-not-know-what-civil-forfeitur">The troll threatened to "destroy the career" of a Texas legislator</a>
that proposed curtail "civil forfeiture", taking people's property
without prosecuting them let alone convicting them.  But the troll
seems not to have understood what it means.


feed_id: baf648cda6a76ae5316d724698ebae45
title: Boycott Us
uri: Boycott-Us
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Boycott_Us%29
content:
<p>
Ilana Hammerman: Why I, as a Proud Israeli,
<a href="http://apjp.org/why-i-an-israeli-want-the-worl/2017/1/30/why-i-as-a-proud-israeli-want-the-world-to-boycott-us.html">Want the World to Boycott
Us</a>.


feed_id: 82868a2f7e5a2d45ac02e3e5859404ac
title: Army veterans
uri: Army-veterans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Army_veterans%29
content:
<p>
US Army veterans have returned to the pipeline protest camp, pledging
to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/11/standing-rock-army-veterans-camp">defend
protesters with their bodies</a>.


feed_id: 26ae47c8152e7567f5a3e751185a0bdf
title: Urgent: Clean up
uri: Urgent-Clean-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Clean_up%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=21063&tag=mining">hold mining companies accountable for
clean-up</a>.


feed_id: ed741981a5e0a315293e962694939335
title: Wildfire
uri: 2017-02-16-Wildfire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Wildfire%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/11/unprecedented-fire-danger-for-nsw-as-heatwaves-continues-across-south-east">wildfire danger in eastern Australia</a> is now "off the scale".  They
had to extend the scale up from 100 to 150.
<p>
The immediate cause is due to conditions that vary.  It probably won't
be this bad next year, and even 30 years from now it won't be this bad
every year.
<p>
However, many of these conditions will become gradually worse, on the
average, due to global heating.  It is expected to increase the
frequency of droughts and the frequency of heavy rains.  In 30 years,
there will be occasional years that extend the scale to 200 or 300.
Expect towns and villages to have no trees or bushes, and be
surrounded by 50-meter firebreaks.


feed_id: f300d1ffecd6b9ad9120162fe2654c42
title: Apartments
uri: Apartments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Apartments%29
content:
<p>
From desperation, apartments are now being made in London that have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/feb/11/welcome-rabbit-hutch-britain-land-ever-shrinking-home">space only for a bed, a toilet and a shower</a>.


feed_id: e2ffb3384527f482169c48cdca87fb66
title: IRA
uri: IRA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28IRA%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/11/toby-lanzer-donors-stretched-more-mega-crises-than-ever">UN assistant secretary general compares Boko Haram to the IRA</a>
and says that Nigeria has learned it cannot get rid of Boko Haram.
<p>
I never felt any sympathy for the IRA's cause, and I still don't.  But
the IRA never tried to kidnap girls and turn them into slaves or
suicide bombers, and one can at least understand its cause without
having to be a fanatic.  Does a large minority in a part of Nigeria
really support Boko Haram including its violence, or does it support a
less violent position from which the extremists go to Boko Haram?


feed_id: 55f054d0e8041086aa40e5e578711614
title: Waste food
uri: Waste-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Waste_food%29
content:
<p>
Adults under 35 waste more food, apparently because they want to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/10/instagram-generation-fuelling-uk-food-waste-mountain-study-sainsburys">show
off a large platefull on Instagram</a>.
<p>
The study that found this was in the UK, but I expect the US is just
the same.
<p>
How silly it is to show off the food on your plate!  Unless it is a
work of art.  I've eaten a few times in my life in restaurants where
that was the case, and I appreciated it — but what I particularly
want from food is for it to be delicious when it has disappeared into
my mouth.
<p>
And if there is food left over, how silly to throw it away!


feed_id: 7642c3b5c701a0e3124fc8844e771dbd
title: Make up the cuts
uri: Make-up-the-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Make_up_the_cuts%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/09/eight-countries-join-global-fight-against-trumps-anti-abortion-move">8 countries have now joined forces to make up the cuts in aid</a> to be
caused
by the troll's global gag rule against aid to organizations that
mention
"abortion".
<p>
Bravo!  I hope American individuals who donate to global women's
health provision can also redirect their aid to this fund rather than
to funds which don't counter the anti-abortion extremism of the US.


feed_id: e67aa758c20c92ba056399e85690c8a0
title: Couples' names
uri: Couples-names
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Couples%27_names%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2017/feb/09/miriam-gonzalez-durantez-is-right-to-object-to-being-called-mrs-clegg">Most Americans hold a sexist attitude towards married couples' names:</a>
they condemn women who don't change their last names, but strangely
don't condemn men for doing the same thing.  When you look into
the reasons, you find broader sexism.


feed_id: f81d70bcfab986a56cd169906b8b6779
title: Ethics rules
uri: Ethics-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Ethics_rules%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/09/experts-top-aide-plain-and-simple-broke-ethics-law-promoting-trump-brand">Kellyanne Conway directly broke US ethics rules</a> by promoting Ivanka
Trump's clothing line.
<p>
The troll's standard practice is to violate all ethics standards in
the most blatant way, in effect saying "You can't stop me!"  Conway
must have felt she could and ought to do likewise.  It will be
interesting
to see if Republicans allow her to be punished for this.


feed_id: ad4bd248c30542cf0813f62eec6303e4
title: Air attacks
uri: Air-attacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Air_attacks%29
content:
<p>
The US publishes a list of air attacks in Afghanistan, but it is
bogus:
<a href="http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/airstrikes-unreported-syria-iraq-afghanistan-islamic-state-al-qaeda-taliban">thousands of attacks were left out of the list</a>.


feed_id: c3a7435b9e4c26979a552826ee0f9b18
title: Successful protests
uri: Successful-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Successful_protests%29
content:
<p>
Successful protests against the Trump regime
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/how-to-beat-trump/515736/">should look for a broad
base and should demonstrate they are patriotic</a>.
<p>
I agree with most of the article's points, but some of them betray the
author's right-wing positions.  We would be fools to limit ourselves
to criticizing only things that Marco Rubio wouldn't do; he like all
the Republican presidential candidates is a right-wing extremist and
would do great wrong if given the chance.
<p>
Defending abortion rights is a crucial issue, and we shouldn't seek
more support by dropping that issue.


feed_id: 6e6df241b14c23a00029d97cdbb65164
title: High priority
uri: High-priority
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28High_priority%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/09/arizona-guadalupe-garcia-de-rayos-deported-protests">The troll has told the border patrol to give high priority</a> to
deporting
unauthorized immigrants who were prosecuted in the past for working
without
permission.
<p>
They are now treated just like people who committed violent crimes.


feed_id: 7ae8b6e0dccdfd4d20ada76ea1f055d3
title: See you in court
uri: See-you-in-court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28See_you_in_court%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/09/judges-deny-trump-travel-ban-enforcement-uphold-order">US appeals court upheld the restraining order</a> that suspended
the troll's partial ban on Muslim visitors.
<p>
The infant responded, "See you in court", as if he thought he would
sue the judges.


feed_id: c0c56323960441efb30f79eedcc8860d
title: Flipped out
uri: Flipped-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Flipped_out%29
content:
<p>
The troll flipped out in a phone call when Putin
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/09/trump-putin-call-nuclear-deal-new-start-treaty">proposed extending
the most recent nuclear arms limitation treaty</a>.


feed_id: 23ec21f92ce40a2656108c30434737ea
title: Urgent: GMO
uri: Urgent-GMO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_GMO%29
content:
<p>
In the US:
<a href="http://cfs.center/rejectgeapple">call on supermarkets to reject GMO apples</a> that disguise
when they have spoiled.
<p>
You can sign this petition with Javascript disabled using the
<a href="https://stallman.org/salsalabs-method.html">salsalabs workaround</a>.


feed_id: 6c178a4956d10d704f18bb3d1d3abe34
title: Big Mistake
uri: Big-Mistake
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Big_Mistake%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/10/liberals-right-identity-politics-progressive">The Democratic Party would be making a big mistake</a> if it focuses on
helping the white workers whose pay has gone down in the past 3
decades.
<p>
I agree with the article's conclusion, but we should not suppose that
right-wing democrats abandoned white workers because they were focused
on nondiscrimination.  It's more the opposite: after Bill Clinton
sold out to the rich in the 90s, mainstream Democrats would no longer
offer a New Deal, so nondiscrimination was all they had left.
<p>
When dooH niboR is making the non-rich poor, if they are not wise
enough to see this, they tend to break up into groups that compete
with each other.  Especially if right-wingers encourage this and
nobody discourages it.  But if Democrats offer everyone a chance to
have comfortable a life, they can work together for that.


feed_id: 8ee0b8773c8414081a33a949fd4a2800
title: Taiwan
uri: Taiwan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Taiwan%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/10/donald-trump-agrees-support-one-china-policy-phone-call-xi-jinping">The troll has reversed himself in regard to supporting Taiwan's
independence.</a>
<p>
Too bad.  I have long been disappointed with the US's timid bowing to
China's demand; it looked like this was one of the few areas where
the troll might make something better.
<p>
Overall, the troll is moving towards
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/10/china-u-turn-is-latest-sign-trump-may-turn-out-to-be-a-paper-tiger">continuing the foreign policy
of previous presidents</a>.


feed_id: 46c5257683527d5a8271a1b94d4d73c5
title: Aid to Gambia
uri: Aid-to-Gambia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Aid_to_Gambia%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/10/european-union-eu-pledges-225m-rescue-package-newly-democratic-the-gambia-adama-barrow">EU is offering a lot of aid to Gambia</a> under its newly elected
president.
<p>
I hope someone can check the deal for strings that might be bad for
the country.  Such strings in the fine print are common in foreign
aid.


feed_id: e0df68bfa55bfaac257bdd0e8ebb5104
title: Secondary Causes
uri: Secondary-Causes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Secondary_Causes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/10/fake-news-russia-comey-poor-answers-why-donald-trump-won">Democrats must stop blaming secondary causes of Clinton's defeat</a> and
recognize the fault is that the party has not tried to oppose dooH
niboR.


feed_id: e0bf829243ed04c53b3d7f45a7a0ff7c
title: Pipeline protesters
uri: Pipeline-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Pipeline_protesters%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/10/standing-rock-fbi-investigation-dakota-access">FBI is investigating pipeline protesters</a>, by visiting activists
and
hoping
to lead the activists into saying something about the movement.


feed_id: f500a72ca45bbf9c13895f939914bae1
title: Religious tolerance
uri: Religious-tolerance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Religious_tolerance%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://justicenews.co.in/attacks-muslims-dalits-grew-sharply-india-modi-us-report/21986">Religious tolerance has deteriorated in India</a>, as Sikhs, Christians
and Muslims face persecution and even forced conversion.  The
theocratic BJP government has contributed to this.


feed_id: 5f692df6d42243efe67db7dc3e241c42
title: Treated as criminals
uri: Treated-as-criminals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Treated_as_criminals%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/10/oxford-university-circulate-criminalised-image-black-man">Even in prestigious universities</a>, some students and alumni are treated
as criminals because their skin color inspires suspicion.


feed_id: e0d9923566cd5e714376bc814c316e7f
title: Without proper intelligence
uri: Without-proper-intelligence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Without_proper_intelligence%29
content:
<p>
The troll
<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/us-military-officials-trump-ordered-raid-in-yemen-that-killed-us-navy-seal-was-approved-without-sufficient-intelligence-2017-2">approved the ground raid in Yemen without proper
intelligence</a> (in either sense of the word).  Not a great surprise
that it was a military failure
   as well as
<a href="http://europe.newsweek.com/trumps-yemen-raid-killed-nine-children-what-went-wrong-554611">killing many civilians</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/08/sean-spicer-anyone-and-he-means-anyone-who-criticizes-yemen-raid-owes-apology-dead">The troll's mouthpiece:</a> we must all call the raid a
success because one of the raiders died.
<p>
This attempt to manipulate people through their patriotism to
supporting unjust wars is nothing new.  Dubya called on Americans to
support the occupation of Iraq because it was done by the US Army.  My
response to this was to say that he had hijacked the US Army and it
was now the Bush forces.  It was used during the Vietnam War, so
people posted bumber stickers saying, "Support our troops in Vietnam
— bring them home."
<p>
But the troll is taking it to an extreme that is almost risible.


feed_id: 1e70851d861eea9cb1b41c8c84fa2d79
title: Urgent: Regulations
uri: Urgent-Regulations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Regulations%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?alertId=5552&pg=makeACall">phone your senators to call on them to respect and
preserve regulations that protect Americans</a> from harm from industry
and not override them.


feed_id: 34652fb39e3823e29da66acf5ae5b5e6
title: Unaccompanied child refugees
uri: Unaccompanied-child-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Unaccompanied_child_refugees%29
content:
<p>
The UK had a policy of accepting unaccompanied child refugees that
come to the EU, but
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/08/taking-cues-trump-uk-quietly-shuts-door-child-refugees">the government quietly cancelled the policy</a>
hoping no one would notice.


feed_id: 57d97ff8d1c6f0cf96c30f5c7bac408a
title: More Prisoners
uri: More-Prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28More_Prisoners%29
content:
<p>
The troll
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/08/gitmo-20-called-disaster-draft-executive-order-reveals-trump-plan-expand-offshore">wants to put more prisoners in Guantanamo</a>.
<p>
Anyone captured or arrested and accused of supporting PISSI could be
put there.
<p>
PISSI fighters captured in Syria or Iraq should be held there as
prisoners of war.


feed_id: 18abfc582be236d6ce5320ff14fa6c2b
title: Teachers
uri: 2017-02-16-Teachers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Teachers%29
content:
<p>
If teachers wear body cameras,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/08/body-cameras-schools-students-suspects-teachers">it will destroy trust between teachers
and students</a>.


feed_id: 2dea2a99bbfd175f683823f59921c9fc
title: No Christian
uri: No-Christian
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28No_Christian%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/5/1630377/-Christian-Pastor-It-s-Time-We-Stopped-Calling-Donald-Trump-a-Christian">Recognition from a Christian</a> that the troll is no Christian.


feed_id: 9747cb80e6719361b1ffa3f9081fd5f1
title: Campaigning against cyberbullying
uri: Campaigning-against-cyberbullying
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Campaigning_against_cyberbullying%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/07/1631066/-Is-Melania-Trump-boycotting-her-husband">Melania Trump appears to have ignored her commitment</a> to campaigning
against cyberbullying, unless perhaps she's boycotting her husband.


feed_id: 54a70328418aa3cf57f67a4e1d81391c
title: Out of Wells Fargo
uri: Out-of-Wells-Fargo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Out_of_Wells_Fargo%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/08/seattle-just-divested-billions-wells-fargo-over-dakota-access-pipeline">Seattle has decided to move its account out of Wells Fargo bank.</a>
<p>
Seattle moves billions of dollars through that account each year.  If
each dollar money remains there a month on the average, the account
probably has a balance of hundreds of millions of dollars.
<p>
Unfortunately, Seattle can't actually change how it does this banking
until late next year.  But you can move your money out of the
DAPL-funding banks next week.  They are
<blockquote>
Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, BayernLB, BBVA, BNP Paribas, Citigroup,
CrÃ©dit Agricole, DNB ASA, ICBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, Mizuho Bank,
Natixis, SMBC, SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, TD Bank,
Wells Fargo.
</blockquote>
<p>
It is also important on general principles to stop doing business with
the big banks that provoked the financial crisis of 2008.  I moved
money out of Bank of America several years ago for that reason.


feed_id: ddf27625842ae9a13d37142639f0a270
title: Infiltrated political groups
uri: Infiltrated-political-groups
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Infiltrated_political_groups%29
content:
<p>
It appears that the UK thug group that infiltrated political groups
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/08/inquiry-over-met-police-intelligence-unit-claimed-to-have-destroyed-files">destroyed documents after being told to preserve them</a>.


feed_id: 60df69469a3d64f99af364391ef504d3
title: Hina Shamsi
uri: Hina-Shamsi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Hina_Shamsi%29
content:
<p>
Hina Shamsi was
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/08/flying-home-abroad-border-agent-stopped-and-questioned-me-about-my-work-aclu">harassed by US border thugs about working for the ACLU</a>
and travelling to other countries, while being a Pakistani citizen.
<p>
She being a lawyer responded to them with a lecture about the laws
they were ignoring.
<p>
A Canadian Muslim was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/10/canadian-muslim-us-border-questioning">harassed trying to visit the US with
her family</a>.
<p>
I am trying to think of a good way to respond to thugs' questions
which try to put one on the defensive by putting some nasty
construction on innocent activities.  Perhaps, "Why do you wear
glasses and black shoes?"


feed_id: 32484078ded883d5fc2cca62c5c0eeaa
title: Intel
uri: Intel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Intel%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/09/intel-fab-42-arizona-plant-trump-obama">Intel Gives [Troll] credit</a> for $7bn US Factory it Announced under
Obama.
<p>
What this says is that Intel is willing to support the troll by
repeating his lies.


feed_id: 595c60884012707e81f171d68a666851
title: iCloud
uri: iCloud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28iCloud%29
content:
<p>
Apple iCloud Hoards
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/02/09/apple-safari-web-history-deleted-stored-icloud/">'Deleted' Browser History</a>.


feed_id: 87da63d1756bc0111b030dedd3dcb69b
title: Bots and agents
uri: Bots-and-agents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Bots_and_agents%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/our-bots-ourselves/513839/">Dependence on future bots and agents could be debilitating</a>, especially
if they contain nonfree software.


feed_id: a16460803d060effc48699364e1d9a64
title: Dana-Farber
uri: Dana-Farber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Dana-Farber%29
content:
<p>
Doctors, students and patients condemn Dana-Farber for holding a
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/doctors-in-resistance/515868/">fund-raising event at the troll's hotel</a>.


feed_id: 2a4851fb1652a2756155a4335ca39c8a
title: Sooner or later
uri: Sooner-or-later
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Sooner_or_later%29
content:
<p>
Sooner or later an Islamist terrorist attack will kill a few
Americans.  The troll more or less ignores right-wing terrorist
attacks, but an Islamist attack will give him a welcome opportunity
for repression and massive snooping.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/09/trump-terrorism-policies-attack">Americans had better prepare now to defend our freedom from the troll</a>
if and when that happens.
<p>
Sad to say, the events in Boston a few years ago show that killing
even three people can lead to a nationwide media frenzy, and to
irrational self-destructive responsess such as shutting down a whole
large city.


feed_id: b3ce1a517edeb07d3ed3d5a2e4273eca
title: Manus Island
uri: 2017-02-16-Manus-Island
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Manus_Island%29
content:
<p>
The refugees dumped on Manus Island
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/10/manus-refugee-who-collapsed-and-died-sought-medical-help-13-times-in-two-months">have to wait weeks for medical
attention for serious problems</a>, and are denied treatment rather than
sending them to Australia.  Then the state lies to cover it up.
<p>
It seems pretty clear that the officials in charge of this have
dehumanized the refugees.  I'd guess that by now most of the people
employed now to deal with them dehumanize them — because the decent
ones have left by now.  The doctors are to some extent an exception,
because they have medical ethics to strengthen them.


feed_id: 33bb421bcc5ec5fad222bcb65c25db93
title: Temperatures in Australia
uri: Temperatures-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Temperatures_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Temperatures in Australia are reaching 48C, which creates various
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2017/feb/10/extreme-heat-health-fire-power-cut-warnings-south-eastern-australia">dangers to lives and property</a>.
<p>
The planet-roaster ruling coalition is not satisfied and hopes
to achieve 53C in a few decades.


feed_id: e58738c36d0f1cfb24df296ad8c49b66
title: Thousands of Troops
uri: Thousands-of-Troops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Thousands_of_Troops%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/09/us-commander-afghanistan-requests-new-troops-russia-taliban">Send thousands more troops to Afghanistan???</a>
<p>
The corrupt Afghan government can't inspire people to fight for it and
win the war.  The US can prop up the Afghan government for as long as
it wants to keep spending lots of money on continuing the war, but the
only
way the war can end is to let the Taliban win.


feed_id: 3d771bae8f9ea628bfbd695e27d8202b
title: Trump Inc
uri: Trump-Inc
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_%28Trump_Inc%29
content:
<p>
It's not clear whether
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/09/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-nordstrom-ethics-laws">Kellyanne Conway is working for the White House
or for Trump Inc</a>.  Maybe there is no difference any more.


feed_id: 6a89b0479b78b49aba3aee007f85a8b7
title: Urgent: Block Gorsuch
uri: 2017-02-16-Urgent-Block-Gorsuch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Gorsuch%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: tell your senators to <a href="http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/letter/170131_trumpscotus/?t=1001&akid=2201.390021.ovfvu1">block Gorsuch</a>. 


feed_id: 923243b867ab9790549babf40cf4745d
title: Urgent: Muslim Brotherhood
uri: Urgent-Muslim-Brotherhood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Muslim_Brotherhood%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: insist that designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist organization" <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/potus-designating-muslim?r_by=1135580">would hurt the US</a>. It is a violation of human rights when government arbitrarily labels an organization as guilty of terrorism or of anything else. Each accused party must get a fair trial. 


feed_id: b0c1bb8981075a7a377deffdd840e211
title: Urgent: Stop Bannon's Takeover
uri: Urgent-Stop-Bannon-s-Takeover
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Bannon%27s_Takeover%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-congress-stop-bannons?akid=177549.2794606.zgkr2k&rd=1&source=mo&t=1017">stop Bannon's takeover of national security decisions</a>. 


feed_id: 231330733075473451809a5a5f67f44e
title: Urgent: Oppose Muslim Ban
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Muslim-Ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Muslim_Ban%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on senators to <a href="https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu-action/issues/alert/?alertid=75062626">oppose the partial ban on Muslims</a>. 


feed_id: 3a676876812fe80065080c3b036312e2
title: Urgent: Dakota Access Pipeline
uri: Urgent-Dakota-Access-Pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Dakota_Access_Pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4159">oppose fast-tracking the Dakota Access Pipeline</a>. 


feed_id: dc12add8235208d1db759647b4aea2c7
title: Urgent: DMCA
uri: Urgent-DMCA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_DMCA%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.openmedia.org/censorshipmachine?src=161169">oppose plans to make the DMCA worse</a>. 


feed_id: 0687988650c91a46980c6bea5cfa0513
title: Urgent: Oppose Gorsuch
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Gorsuch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Gorsuch%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call for <a href="https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/s/oppose-judge-neil-gorsuch-for-scotus">full opposition to Gorsuch</a>. 


feed_id: 48bba32e5aa51c432cdeec7905f68289
title: Urgent: Quit "business advisory panel"
uri: Urgent-Quit-business-advisory-panel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Quit_business_advisory_panel%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on US business leaders to <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Trump_CEOs?t=1005&akid=21604.1183552.rZOYFv">quit the troll's "business advisory panel"</a>. The only advice he would follow is bad advice. 


feed_id: 200f443a4b3e918aed8928dba2c99134
title: Urgent: Oppose excuse for war with Iran
uri: Urgent-Oppose-excuse-for-war-with-Iran
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_excuse_for_war_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: oppose trying to use fighting between Houthis and Salafi Arabia as an <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/nytimes-dont-make-yemens?r_by=1135580">excuse for war between the US and Iran</a>. Since Salafi Arabia and the US started, and continue, a war against the Houthis, one can hardly blame the Houthis for firing back on a Salafi Arabian ship or a US ship. 


feed_id: eed5ed158db35a1c784dfd4f654c3d4b
title: Urgent: Dakota Access Pipeline
uri: 2017-02-16-Urgent-Dakota-Access-Pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Dakota_Access_Pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: The Army Corps of Engineers is supposedly accepting comments about the Dakota Access Pipeline, but its comment page has shut off. So <a href="https://other98action.org/take-action-write-your-dapl-public-comment-to-the-army-corps-of-engineers-now/">submit your comment via activists</a>.


feed_id: 229994766cc7899d4eb7243c687d2203
title: "Iron Fist" Policy
uri: Iron-Fist-Policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Iron_Fist_Policy%29
content:
<p>
"We Fear Soldiers More Than Gangsters": El Salvador's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/06/el-salvador-gangs-police-violence-distrito-italia">"Iron Fist" Policy Turns Deadly</a>. The US could fix most of this problem by ending the War on Drugs. 


feed_id: 09a081f35ba4cad90ad26423d957c4e6
title: Women on Strike
uri: Women-on-Strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Women_on_Strike%29
content:
<p>
Proposing that women go on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/women-strike-trump-resistance-power">strike against male violence and for reproductive rights</a>. I wish they wouldn't define this as for women only. I would support that campaign if I am welcome. 


feed_id: 7bfb23f2b574a592535da5cb9ced18b2
title: Clean Air Act
uri: Clean-Air-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Clean_Air_Act%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/feb/06/repeal-without-replace-a-dangerous-gop-strategy-on-obamacare-and-climate">plan to deactivate climate protection</a> by changing the Clean Air Act to exclude greenhouse gases. 
<p>
For Americans in general, this policy is like waiting till you have a toothache to visit the dentist. However, the plutocrats that SCROTUS serve expect to buy their way out of the consequences. Will we let them? 


feed_id: ccf823e86d548c8503138b41715b52b7
title: Sure Start
uri: Sure-Start
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Sure_Start%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/sure-start-children-worked-why-theresa-may-out-to-kill-it">Tories are killing Sure Start</a>, which successfully improved education for UK children in poverty. Everything suggests that the Tories want poor people to be badly educated and thus easy to swindle and confuse. 


feed_id: f81fd05cac8d51e7c6c4f6fd49483776
title: Scientific Censorship
uri: Scientific-Censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Scientific_Censorship%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/06/australias-chief-scientist-compares-trump-to-stalin-over-climate-censorship">troll's scientific censorship</a> is comparable to Stalin's. We will depend on whistleblowers like Snowden to tell us what EPA scientists find out. 


feed_id: 63a77bcd5b8783865345cc1ba1d72bf8
title: Blocking Yiannopoulos
uri: Blocking-Yiannopoulos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Blocking_Yiannopoulos%29
content:
<p>
Blocking Yiannopoulos from speaking at Berkeley <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/free-speech-milo-yiannopoulos-alt-right-far-right">redounded to his advantage</a>. It was foolish as well as wrong. 


feed_id: fcde808c6cc1ddb78adfd258b9ee0388
title: Civil war in Afganistan
uri: Civil-war-in-Afganistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Civil_war_in_Afganistan%29
content:
<p>
As the civil war in Afganistan moves closer to cities, the number of civilian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/06/afghanistan-civilian-casualties-children-killed-maimed-un-report">casualties in 2016 was the highest</a> since 2001. 


feed_id: aaa27e97a9fc39159694712061e61752
title: Financial Advisors
uri: Financial-Advisors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Financial_Advisors%29
content:
<p>
The troll wants to allow financial advisors to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/05/should-financial-advisers-put-us-before-them-debate-is-back-on-the-table">knowingly give clients advice</a> that goes against their interest. That fits his general alignment: for banksters, against everyone else. 


feed_id: 5ce1001eb13c888281b42de44691ac32
title: Twitter raw emotion
uri: Twitter-raw-emotion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Twitter_raw_emotion%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/how_donald_trump_skillfully_taps_into_twitters_ocean_of_emotional_chaos">Twitter favorizes raw emotion</a>—not wisdom, logic, honesty, creativity or anything of independent value. The infant knows how to take advantage of that. 


feed_id: 58e3d64c44785ab937f44ec0654249d0
title: Personal data
uri: Personal-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Personal_data%29
content:
<p>
California is considering <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/california-databases-must-not-be-used-target-immigrants-and-muslims">laws to reduce the range of personal data collected</a> by its agencies, as well as refusing to give some of it to the federal government. Both prongs are good, but the first is especially heartening. To make democracy safe, we need to limit collection of personal data by <em>all</em> sorts of entities. 


feed_id: 9075aa295cd2811c3dde92d7970e6efe
title: Statue of Liberty
uri: Statue-of-Liberty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Statue_of_Liberty%29
content:
<p>
Der Spiegel cartoon: the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/05/germany-der-spiegel-cover-trump-statue-of-liberty">troll has beheaded the Statue of Liberty</a>. It is useful of <cite>Der Spiegel</cite> to warn Americans while we may be able to prevent this. 


feed_id: d16c09737b74db87d21d206cb1b58eb6
title: Obama's medical insurance system
uri: 2017-02-16-Obama-s-medical-insurance-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Obama%27s_medical_insurance_system%29

content:
<p>
More Republicans face crowds of angry constituents for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/05/republicans-obamacare-affordable-care-act-repeal">planning to eliminate</a> Obama's medical insurance system. 


feed_id: 110d8a16d266ef84efdf30bafa491c38
title: National Security Letters
uri: National-Security-Letters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28National_Security_Letters%29
content:
<p>
Because the FBI uses "national security letters" without judicial supervision, and those who receive them are forbidden to talk about them, the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/national-security-letters-demand-data-that-companies-arent-obligated-to-provide/">FBI knowingly uses them</a> to demand information such as people's email contents, which are supposedly exempt from them. 


feed_id: 485726d87b83c5be7f13f8387fdd4a7d
title: Immigration coercion
uri: Immigration-coercion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Immigration_coercion%29
content:
<p>
US immigration thugs, exceeding their authority in applying the partial ban on Muslims, coerced several people to "voluntarily" sign away their permanent residence visas. Now that the ban has been suspended, those people still cannot come. 
<p>
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/cleveland-clinic-doctor-forced-to-leave-country-after-trump-order">Dr. Suha Abushamma</a> was deported in that way. Some of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/trump-travel-ban-yemenis-coerced-relinquish-green-card">these people are suing</a>. 


feed_id: ccd5d786100fb459aa83001dd6818c71
title: Idle Disabled People
uri: Idle-Disabled-People
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Idle_Disabled_People%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/05/tory-britain-disabled-people-church-of-england-gay-rights-diane-abbott">In Tory Britain, Disabled People Are Seen as Idle</a> (as an excuse to cut their support money). 


feed_id: 92fc328a3061e7ab997d523b558b50d3
title: Iranian refugee
uri: Iranian-refugee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Iranian_refugee%29
content:
<p>
An Iranian refugee who smuggled himself from Manus Island to Fiji was sent back to Manus peremptorily while his legal case was still going on. He now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/05/iranian-refugee-who-sought-asylum-in-fiji-expected-to-face-papua-new-guinea-court">faces prosecution</a> there for leaving. What a succession of evil treatments he has lived through. 


feed_id: 63128f2f285f1df12591916e8fde40e3
title: Former Israeli minister
uri: Former-Israeli-minister
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Former_Israeli_minister%29
content:
<p>
A former Israeli minister <a href="http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8733">had to cancel a visit to Belgium</a> because she would have been prosecuted there for war crimes. 


feed_id: 2f9bdc27554f6441fa4d07ef7c5dc6e0
title: Amir Othman Darweesh
uri: Amir-Othman-Darweesh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Amir_Othman_Darweesh%29
content:
<p>
Israeli thugs <a href="http://imemc.org/article/east-jerusalem-teen-detained-at-night-and-beaten-during-interrogation/">arrested 14-year-old Amir Othman Darweesh and beat him up in jail</a>. 


feed_id: ceae84007ca744a61843fe5688391e47
title: Yaqoub Abu Al-Qiaan
uri: Yaqoub-Abu-Al-Qiaan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Yaqoub_Abu_Al-Qiaan%29
content:
<p>
Israeli thugs <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2017/01/israeli-extrajudicial-execution/">murdered Israeli Arab Yaqoub Abu Al-Qiaan</a>. They shot him while he was driving a car; he lost control of it due to his wounds, and it injured and killed some. 
<p>
Instead of retaliating against those responsible (themselves), the thugs murdered Abu Al-Qiaan by denying him medical aid while he bled to death. 
<p>
These events occurred during protests as the <a href="https://972mag.com/when-the-high-court-has-to-intervene-so-a-palestinian-family-can-mourn/124737/">thugs were about to demolish the whole village</a> where he lived. 


feed_id: a2d43038849bf96661102a68e75e167a
title: International Criminal Court
uri: International-Criminal-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28International_Criminal_Court%29
content:
<p>
Several African countries <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jan/31/african-leaders-plan-mass-withdrawal-from-international-criminal-court">plan to withdraw</a> from the International Criminal Court. <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#17%20July%202010%20(Charged%20with%20genocide)">Dubya's opposition weakened the ICC</a>. 


feed_id: 2be3af2ff1df1151d98fb22886483879
title: FBI informants
uri: FBI-informants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28FBI_informants%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/when-informants-are-no-longer-useful-the-fbi-can-help-deport-them/">FBI offers Muslims "temporary immigration relief"</a> if they become informants. When the informants are no longer useful, the FBI helps deport them. 


feed_id: 7e15d7fe7e36ca5dc759bf7074eb9907
title: US Nazis
uri: US-Nazis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28US_Nazis%29
content:
<p>
US Nazis planned a hate march in Whitefish, Montana, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/05/richard-spencer-whitefish-neo-nazi-march">no Nazis showed up</a> on the appointed day, even though local Jews were offering handouts of matzo-ball soup. The article offers insight about how to defeat Nazi hate through a sort of aikido resistance. 


feed_id: 4dc132f93a6cf6156302a5663a44e637
title: Arecibo radio telescope
uri: Arecibo-radio-telescope
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Arecibo_radio_telescope%29
content:
<p>
The Arecibo radio telescope <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/05/arecibo-telescope-closure">faces closure</a> for lack of funds. 


feed_id: ffdfcf36aa70c0d62a4cc9b103b9b583
title: "So-called" Judge
uri: So-called-Judge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28So-called_Judge%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/05/james-robart-judge-derided-by-trump-known-for-fairness-and-helping-children">About the judge</a> that the troll referred to as "so-called" for deciding against the troll. 


feed_id: 1b0a1f317194362db9c8ad40a67068ec
title: Senkaku islands
uri: Senkaku-islands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Senkaku_islands%29
content:
<p>
China is slowly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/05/china-v-japan-new-global-flashpoint-senkaku-islands-ishigaki">extending military domination</a> over the Japanese Senkaku islands. For years it has used threats of force to stop Japanese fishing boats from going there. 
<p>
Since oil seems to be part of the motivation for this dispute, as well as many other disputes in the sea near China, the best solution would be for all the countries involved to agree never to extract any fossil fuel from the sea bottom there. We need to leave 80% of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, plus all other unknown fossil fuels. Why not start with fuels that there is a dispute over? 


feed_id: 9a25c36d0e2022edec6190c4e371b811
title: Clothing front companies
uri: Clothing-front-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Clothing_front_companies%29
content:
<p>
Due to business-dominated globalization, international clothing front companies use workers of age 14 that are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/05/child-labour-myanmar-high-street-brands">paid under 20 cents an hour</a>. 
<p>
Making countries compete to permit the lowest wages and the worst abuses is what <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy treaties</a> were designed to do. We must abolish them so that workers in each country can organize. 


feed_id: 873767676800b0b9df82390d2ef8867b
title: Cuts to social support
uri: Cuts-to-social-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Cuts_to_social_support%29
content:
<p>
The Tories are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/05/social-care-council-tax-communities-bill-blame-government">arranging to quietly impose further cuts</a> in vital social support, hoping fools will blame the local councils (which will decide what crucial activities to cut) instead of the Tories (that will decide how much to cut). 


feed_id: ec1684a4bc52095fbe2b513d0ebad1e4
title: Steele's dossier
uri: Steele-s-dossier
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Steele%27s_dossier%29
content:
<p>
An alleged Russian source for Steele's dossier about the troll and Russia <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ex-kgb-spy-cited-in-the-trump-blackmail-dossier-just_us_588e3f0de4b0cd25e4904a24">died mysteriously</a> in Moscow. This doesn't prove everything in the dossier is true, but does lend it some additional credibility. 


feed_id: 3c2537ffde6947774ef1bc2e09b34b53
title: Legalization of marijuana
uri: 2017-02-16-Legalization-of-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Legalization_of_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
Legalization of marijuana in some US states has <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/03/legalizing-marijuana-could-hurt-mexican">hurt Mexican drug cartels</a> through a big decrease in smuggling marijuana to the US. Ending the War on Drugs would be far more effective at this than any wall. And it would end the other evils caused by a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#14_December_2016_(War_on_Drugs_in_Mexico)">war that is blitzed out of its mind on drugs</a>. 


feed_id: c1b1de94c5102f730013ff22eef1940e
title: Unhinged Trump
uri: Unhinged-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Unhinged_Trump%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/04/ready-fire-aim-how-unhinged-trump-threatening-us-national-security">Ready... Fire... Aim: How an Unhinged Trump Is Threatening US National Security</a>. Of course, atrocities and precipitous injustice are worse than merely self-destructive—they are wrong. 


feed_id: 812716ee0aba574d4674cf401f3af9db
title: South Dakota voters
uri: South-Dakota-voters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28South_Dakota_voters%29
content:
<p>
South Dakota voters passed an <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/2/1629306/-South-Dakota-GOP-literally-declared-state-of-emergency-to-repeal-voter-approved-ethics-reform-law">initiative for campaign financing</a>. The legislators spat in their faces by abolishing it. 


feed_id: 846487d5ff1fabfd3728a0c5365ccb10
title: Beth Fukumoto
uri: Beth-Fukumoto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Beth_Fukumoto%29
content:
<p>
Hawaii's republican legislators <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/03/1629390/-Fearless-Hawaii-Republican-removed-as-leader-for-speaking-against-Trump-at-Women-s-March">removed Minority Leader Beth Fukumoto</a> because she supported the Women's March and rejects bullying. 


feed_id: 8a47d667443b4075e428eb23a5cc7f42
title: Muslim Ban
uri: Muslim-Ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Muslim_Ban%29
content:
<p>
Many federal judges have separately concluded that the partial ban on Muslims is almost sure to be rejected as unconstitutional, and thus issued temporary stays on its execution. Here are the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/04/though-blocked-now-trumps-unconstitutional-muslim-ban-deserves-total-destruction">reasons why it is unconstitutional</a>. 


feed_id: 7bd26244612527437bfe9b69de17ee48
title: Animal treatment
uri: Animal-treatment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Animal_treatment%29
content:
<p>
The troll has <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/trump-administration-blacks-out-animal-welfare-information">cut off public access to USDA inspectors' reports</a> about how animals are treated at sites ranging from circuses to research labs. 


feed_id: 729a12417e068c124565015a5f64f1ca
title: Paul Ryan
uri: Paul-Ryan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Paul_Ryan%29
content:
<p>
Paul Ryan hopes to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/not-so-spineless-paul-ryan-plans-to-use-trumps-chaos_us_5893a1f8e4b061551b3dfcc9">attack non-rich Americans financially</a> while we are paying attention to the troll's acts of gratuitous cruelty.


feed_id: 4692505f788baa8db0c5224876c265a6
title: Net neutrality
uri: 2017-02-16-Net-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Net_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
The FCC <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/technology/317854-fcc-suspends-probes-of-telecommunications-firms">suspended investigations</a> into ISPs that are violating the net neutrality rules. The troll will have it eliminate those rules. 


feed_id: 619ea3f3666ebccaa01389dea67142f0
title: Haiti elections
uri: Haiti-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Haiti_elections%29
content:
<p>
The US continues <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/former-candidates-moise-j_b_14602702.html">rigging elections in Haiti</a> and installing corrupt presidents of its own choice. 


feed_id: a5b8d93a013496a7d6a4c5866986d42d
title: Bowling Green
uri: Bowling-Green
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Bowling_Green%29
content:
<p>
The imaginary "Bowling Green terrorist plot" was <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/03/in-bowling-green-fbi-foiled-fbi-plot">a plot concocted by the FBI</a> to (in imagination) aid al Qa'ida in Iraq. If the plot had been real, it would have been wrongdoing, but it would have harmed no one in the US. 


feed_id: ec2d1d2b96a9d20deb9c17602998b1b2
title: Terrorism and Liberty
uri: Terrorism-and-Liberty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Terrorism_and_Liberty%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/02/03/trump-terrorism-and-liberty">Terrorism Is Only a Real Threat If It Frightens Us into Destroying Our Liberties</a>. 


feed_id: d1d7f99cc7f65ce9562e3264ffbe5e5d
title: Uri Avnery
uri: 2017-02-16-Uri-Avnery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Uri_Avnery%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: the <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1486131657/">boycott of products of Israeli colonies in Palestinian territory</a> is wisest, because it can teach Israelis the importance of respecting the boundary between Israel and Palestine. I agree in principle, but I am starting to think that it will take sanctions on Israel to make the Israeli right wing stop establishing more colonies. 


feed_id: 425b0b12b5699912c5246cf1713fa8ef
title: Deregulatory executive orders
uri: Deregulatory-executive-orders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Deregulatory_executive_orders%29

content:
<p>
In an act of spectacular betrayal, the troll's recent deregulatory executive orders give Wall Street more <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/03/spectacular-betrayal-trump-hands-economy-back-over-wall-street">power to cause an economic crisis</a>. Wall Street wants the deregulation so as to cheat others, and likes economic crises too because they provide more opportunities to cheat others (for instance, the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#16_November_2015_(Fraudulent_foreclosure_of_home)">millions of fraudulent foreclosures</a> that Obama forgave them for). 


feed_id: 2fbffa63b9eff7fba29ad70a78d87a96
title: Attacks on women
uri: Attacks-on-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Attacks_on_women%29
content:
<p>
A UK MP says that the abusive attacks directed at women politicians
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/14/diane-abbott-misogyny-and-abuse-are-putting-women-off-politics">discouraging women from entering politics</a>.
<p>
Freedom of speech means people have a right to say rather nasty things
to anyone. They have a right to say things we consider disgusting.
<p>
But that doesn't mean we should not show our disgust for them
and pressure them to stop.


feed_id: 791f92bc38c615d83bfab2d541f74f62
title: Teaching Children
uri: Teaching-Children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Teaching_Children%29
content:
<p>
In an Age of Robots, <a href="http://www.monbiot.com/2017/02/16/factory-outlet/">Schools Are Teaching Our Children to be Redundant</a>.


feed_id: eb0c98d8aa718fc6255a629c18bb9a80
title: Kim Jong-nam poisoned
uri: Kim-Jong-nam-poisoned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Kim_Jong-nam_poisoned%29
content:
<p>
Kim Jong-un's brother, who had criticized him and fled, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/15/kim-jong-nam-assassinated-south-korea-us-officials">died in an
airport</a> after saying someone had put a contact poison on his face.
<p>
A suspect has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/15/kim-jong-nam-malaysian-police-arrest-female-suspect-over-death">arrested</a>.


feed_id: 7719b08e334fb5cf4184d2b34b0e79b9
title: Feminism depoliticized
uri: Feminism-depoliticized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Feminism_depoliticized%29
content:
<p>
Feminism <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/15/why-i-am-not-a-feminist-by-jessa-crispin-review">must not be depoliticized into self-pampering</a>.
It must fight to end the power that men usually have over women.


feed_id: b51cf93c869c514bde3411702a8e5e77
title: Rape "accident"
uri: Rape-accident
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Rape_accident%29
content:
<p>
French <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/13/protests-over-alleged-rape-by-french-pol">thugs claimed that they anally raped a teenager "by accident"</a>.
<p>
I guess the resulting riots were an accident too.


feed_id: e6e3b48dce7478defd6e7baba2c3863a
title: Anti-abortion laws
uri: 2017-02-17-Anti-abortion-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Anti-abortion_laws%29
content:
<p>
Theocratic <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/13/oklahoma-republican-pushing-anti-choice-bill-calls-women-hosts">Republicans in Oklahoma are proposing anti-abortion laws
that make no sense</a> except to religious nuts. One would ban abortions
based on genetic abnormality in the fetus.
<p>
Another would require a woman to get the fetus's father's approval for
an abortion. If an abortion should require this, what about the
more drastic act of having a baby?


feed_id: 75db9a16e482700825938aa37a8eb379
title: Urgent: Keep wolves protected
uri: 2017-02-17-Urgent-Keep-wolves-protected
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_wolves_protected%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3155">call for Keeping wolves in Alaska protected</a> on wildlife refuges.


feed_id: de21a7c5ce986b2ebc0bb81c3213a239
title: Urgent:Stand against Gorsuch
uri: Urgent-Stand-against-Gorsuch
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Urgent%3AStand_against_Gorsuch%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/call/SCOTUS_Dems">phone your Democratic senators</a> and urge them to stand
firm against Gorsuch.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 4e895a0ab0875c90292aff5962fa5e20
title: Urgent: HR 608
uri: Urgent-HR-608
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_HR_608%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/back-gabbard-bill-to">call on Congress to support HR 608</a>, which is designed
to pressure Salafi Arabia about its war in Yemen since that makes
it an ally of al Qa'ida.


feed_id: 458f52cf8d0e91de64da2350a9f1dbc0
title: Digital Repression Bill
uri: Digital-Repression-Bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Digital_Repression_Bill%29
content:
<p>
The Tories' Digital Repression Bill proposes a <a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2017/ten-years-jail-for-file-sharers-the-governments-gift-to-copyright-trolls">ten-year prison term
for sharing copies of almost anything</a>, on or off the internet.


feed_id: de41e275a3537400966bc07e19f495fe
title: 43% of children in need
uri: 43-of-children-in-need
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%2843%2525_of_children_in_need%29
content:
<p>
43% of American children live in families that are <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/cums-ayc020817.php">barely able to
afford basic needs</a>. This fraction has increased since 2009.


feed_id: 5c17098a06ed5e6a083eb0c606e608a3
title: Racial wealth gap
uri: Racial-wealth-gap
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Racial_wealth_gap%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="media/853b8cc2.Asset20Value20of20Whiteness.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Asset%20Value%20of%20Whiteness.pdf">US racial wealth gap</a> between blacks and whites has built up through
generations of discrimination, and personal efforts such as education,
working hard, and marriage are insufficient to overcome the effects.


feed_id: 6662b4137188329a502fe38903af9b44
title: Neoliberal Capitalism
uri: Neoliberal-Capitalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Neoliberal_Capitalism%29
content:
<p>
Exposing the Myths of Neoliberal Capitalism -- and <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39393-exposing-the-myths-of-neoliberal-capitalism-an-interview-with-ha-joon-chang">why the troll is not likely
to change it</a> in the way that would help Americans.
<p>
Insecure work, often involving forcing workers to be "self-employed",
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/14/insecure-work-bad-uk-economy-tuc-zero-hours-contracts">impoverishes the state as well as the individual workers</a>.
<p>
Part of the remedy for this is to stop basing the taxation of
businesses on how much they pay to employees. The practice gives
businesses a perverse incentive to have fewer employees. Regardless
of how they achieve that, it is not what we want to incentivize.


feed_id: 6986ffe7e08110da4b045f8999f48819
title: Gorsuch abortion ban
uri: Gorsuch-abortion-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Gorsuch_abortion_ban%29
content:
<p>
Gorsuch wants the Supreme Court to ban abortion and ban assisted
suicide. Here is a suggestion for <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/how-the-democrats-can-stop-neil-gorsuch">how Democrats could defeat his
nomination</a>: by showing that he argued that Merrick Garland should
have been confirmed.
<p>
I didn't support the campaigns in favor of confirming Garland, partly
because I was sure Republican senators would ignore them, and because
he's a "centrist" and corporatist, too right-wing for me to support.
I agree he is much less bad than Gorsuch.


feed_id: 8f6ab39dd0c0418a400c7db21f3b56c0
title: Income share decline
uri: Income-share-decline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Income_share_decline%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/income-share-of-bottom-50-is-collapsing-finds-researchers-including-piketty-2017-02-07">income of the bottom 50% of Americans</a> in 1978 was 20%.
As of 2015 it was 12%.


feed_id: f19607b50f144e134d76691edb2b554f
title: Employers refuse accommodations
uri: Employers-refuse-accommodations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Employers_refuse_accommodations%29

content:
<p>
South Dakota legislators defended the rights of employers to <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/state-lawmaker-pregnant-workers-quit-132e218a66c5">refuse to make feasible accommodations</a> for pregnant women.
<p>
This amounts to defending the profits or convenience of the powerful
(bosses) against the needs of the weak (employees, female ones in this
case). And telling these women, "just quit your job" means, for many,
"just starve," due to other forms of cruelty that these same legislators
support.


feed_id: 95fb3c9fe85c3e25e259ebeeef75dc10
title: Spyware installed
uri: Spyware-installed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Spyware_installed%29
content:
<p>
Spyware was <a href="https://citizenlab.org/2017/02/bittersweet-nso-mexico-spyware/">installed into the phones</a> of Mexicans that advocate
a tax on soda with sugar.


feed_id: 739ff4477fe74173a093487f75cc2d46
title: US border thugs
uri: 2017-02-17-US-border-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28US_border_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Canada is looking at <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pre-clearance-border-canada-us-1.3976123">authorizing US border thugs</a> to violate the rights
of Canadians trying to enter the US.
<p>
Canadians, I hope you organize to stop this.


feed_id: c0dbda31d2825a542a7ab8bd8182af4a
title: March for Education
uri: March-for-Education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28March_for_Education%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/peoples-march-for-educati_b_14718484.html">People's March for Education Justice</a> 
is planned for several US cities.


feed_id: 0e6c6d1759128322957c43569fd275ac
title: Urgent: Pruitt
uri: Urgent-Pruitt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Pruitt%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to oppose the nomination of Pruitt to head the EPA. <a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=duxB1aMKqrpD8OkLAT7iqw">Pruitt wants to eliminate the EPA</a>, but sabotaging it would be the next best thi
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/skip_whcd?t=1002&akid=21696.1183552.x0TreS">call on journalists to skip</a> the White House correspondents'
dinner.


feed_id: 40193f892be9889413bb6c8a66822627
title: Power grab
uri: Power-grab
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Power_grab%29
content:
<p>
Americans,
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/when-the-fire-comes.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0">prepare yourselves now to oppose the power grab</a>
that the troll has already said he intends to make as soon
as a terrorist or military attack gives him an opportunity.


feed_id: c8452b6d36a95a9c20dc87e990cc6bbe
title: NAFTA
uri: 2017-02-17-NAFTA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28NAFTA%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/12/nafta-has-harmed-mexico-lot-more-any-wall-could-do">NAFTA
  hurt Mexicans more than any wall could.</a>  NAFTA and the previous
application of neoliberal policies starting in the 1980s ended income
growth and poverty reduction in Mexico.
<p>
NAFTA has harmed workers in the US, too.
<p>
Calling NAFTA a "trade treaty" leads people to erroneously suppose
that it is a compromise between conflicting interests of various
countries — that each decision in NAFTA would pit the interests of
Mexicans against the interests of Americans and the interests of
Canadians.
<p>
In fact, NAFTA is a
<a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy treaty</a>,
and it pit the interest of plutocrats in Canada, Mexico and the US
against the interests of most people in Canada, Mexico and the US.
That's why we need to get rid of it.


feed_id: cdabd8b171d08c51b5974f9df485102c
title: Blackout
uri: Blackout
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Blackout%29
content:
<p>
The prime minister of Australia knew that an electric blackout was due
to a failure in a gas plant, but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/13/malcolm-turnbull-was-told-gas-plant-shut-down-before-south-australia-blackout">publicly blamed the extent of
renewable electric generation</a>.
<p>
This shows he is willing to lie to destroy civilization.


feed_id: 54e13d1be85398d1ae277dfcf8250e31
title: Policy towards Iran
uri: Policy-towards-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Policy_towards_Iran%29
content:
<p>
US policy towards Iran is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/12/iran-challenging-three-american-truths">based on three assumptions that are mostly
false</a>.
<p>
Iran is not expansionist, and is mostly rational about its foreign
policy — perhaps more so than the US.  However, it is a mistake to
call Iran a democracy, since the principal political authority is the
council of religious rulers and the people have no avenue to replace
them except revolution.  Iran's democracy is limited to lower levels;
reformist presidents have been thwarted.
<p>
Iran is somewhat evil, since it represses non-Muslims (Zoroastrians
and Bahais terribly, Christians less so) and dissidents.  In this
dimension it is considerably worse than what the troll tried to do to
Muslims.  It represses Muslims too, by imposing religious rules
that many Iranian Muslims don't want to follow.
<p>
However, it is not as bad as Salafi Arabia in religious repression.


feed_id: f21849e4273bffccb2ce1071d74be217
title: One call
uri: One-call
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28One_call%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/TYT2017021012">The troll says</a> that he "hasn't got one call" to oppose
the Dakota Access Pipeline.
<p>
That's true, because he shut off the phone line to call the White
House.  He hasn't got one call about anything.


feed_id: 19f63f4f067ddf8800b0129bcd56819a
title: Informers
uri: Informers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Informers%29
content:
<p>
Four US Muslim schools and community organizations have rejected
federal
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/fourth-muslim-group-rejects-federal-grant-fight-extremism-45420617">grants conditioned on turning into informers</a> on the people
they serve.
<p>
They feel it would corrupt them.


feed_id: ddccb0883d8604b1d302e412a50d3420
title: Speech police
uri: Speech-police
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Speech_police%29
content:
<p>
Many US universities have "bias response teams"
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2017/02/08/report-28-million-students-attend-univer">which are effectively
the speech police</a>.
<p>
I might despise some of the bias that these teams try to stop; in
other cases, I might agree with it, because their scope is wide.
However, students have a right to state their views regardless of what
I think of them.


feed_id: 34aa8972507c056d47242f7a378595dc
title: Muscular distrophy
uri: Muscular-distrophy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Muscular_distrophy%29
content:
<p>
A drug company will henceforth
<a href="http://fortune.com/2017/02/10/muscular-dystrophy-drug-us/">charge Americans $89000 for an old drug</a>
for treating muscular distrophy, available in most countries for under
a dollar.
<p>
The company says that insurance will pay for most of it.  Perhaps so,
if you have insurance (tens of millions of Americans still don't).
Even so, your deductible and your co-pay might bankrupt you.
<p>
This is the consequence of a bad artificial monopoly law that ought to
be repealed.  In addition, the US should have a National Health
Service to drive the price down for everyone.


feed_id: 9867f7247446b7d881fd41828204792b
title: Urgent: methane
uri: Urgent-methane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_methane%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=00000000.app330a?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4174">to continue the methane leak limits</a>.


feed_id: f21284c465f274e3efdfe4daca5d5ef5
title: Urgent: Chaffetz
uri: Urgent-Chaffetz
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Chaffetz%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/chaffetz_conway_corruption?t=1003&akid=21694.1183552.mkHn_9">call on Rep. Chaffetz to do his job</a> and investigate
Kellyanne Conway's ethics violation.


feed_id: 1fe51cdc718c7c8dbefb19fa284f4843
title: Burn out
uri: Burn-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Burn_out%29
content:
<p>
The UK's National Health Service, after years of increasingly
insufficient funding, is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/11/stressed-out-doctors-anaesthetists-survey-nhs">making doctors burn out before they are
finished training</a>.
<p>
The NHS worked very well, and cost much less than the US medical
system, but the Tories didn't like that.  Starving the NHS ever more
of funds over a period of several years has brought it to the verge
of cracking.


feed_id: 944ae19a789e9922f20c2d1444e6feae
title: ACLU membership
uri: ACLU-membership
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28ACLU_membership%29
content:
<p>
In reaction to the troll, the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/12/american-civil-liberties-union-rides-high-anti-trump-wave">membership of the ACLU has doubled</a>.
<p>
I first joined in a similar way.  When Bush I called Dukakis a "card
carrying member of the ACLU", in effect insinuating that defending the
US Constitution was the equivalent of joining the Communist Party, I
asked myself, "Why I am I not an ACLU member?"  Before that, it had
never occurred to me that this was a choice I could make.
<p>
If you reside in the US, are you an ACLU member?  If not, why not?


feed_id: 0d7c65edad517cd70c4a22a04b34c541
title: Maelstrom of evictions
uri: Maelstrom-of-evictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Maelstrom_of_evictions%29
content:
<p>
Low incomes and rising rents have made the US a maelstrom of
evictions.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/12/americas-eviction-epidemic-matthew-desmond-housing-crisis">Millions of Americans are evicted each year.</a>
<p>
I wish they could get their shit together to riot and stop the
evictions.


feed_id: 5a1b992cb2a88c5af1ce4a7e4a25c895
title: Republicans in Congress
uri: Republicans-in-Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Republicans_in_Congress%29
content:
<p>
Republicans in Congress are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/12/republican-congress-members-face-tide-of-protest-in-home-districts">feeling lots of pressure</a> from their
constituents.
<p>
They don't really want to serve their constituents, only to use them.
For the moment they are holding the line for their plutocratic
masters.  But they may have trouble doing that in October 2018.


feed_id: a06f8982169cf6c19123c115ed1809cf
title: Famine
uri: Famine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Famine%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/12/famine-looms-four-countries-aid-system-struggles-yemen-south-sudan-nigeria-somalia">Tens of millions of people face famine</a> in Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria
and Somalia.


feed_id: 033a91e1a27eac92e47668492af92139
title: Thug unions
uri: Thug-unions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Thug_unions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/TYT20170206">Thug unions hope for Sessions' support</a> in eliminating court-ordered
settlements that required thugs to change policies to protect people's
lives from the thugs.


feed_id: a6af275f5cce918598a8f0d51b216e54
title: Mess up the EPA
uri: Mess-up-the-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Mess_up_the_EPA%29
content:
<p>
A bill proposed by SCROTUS would mess up the EPA badly for
reasons that are subtle and not obvious.
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/05/republicans-want-to-make-the-epa-great-again-by-gutting-health-regulations/">This explains them.</a>


feed_id: 799a91922164e108b1d1980efbcbd8a8
title: Truth
uri: Truth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Truth%29
content:
<p>
Some fake news is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/06/liberal-fake-news-shift-trump-standing-rock">starting to target right-wing authoritarians</a>.
<p>
Even if that helps in some narrow sense to fight the troll and his
saboteurs, it won't help us make truth great again.  But it may give
us a chance to do that, by organizing to reject fake news intended
to appeal to us.
<p>
Ironically, the article encourages people to believe news articles
without careful thought by endorsing the foolish concept idea that
people <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Consume">"consume" news</a>.
                        You can't be thoughful about judging what
you consume, but you can be thoughful about judging what you read
or hear.


feed_id: 0a4ecddf71199cabde3a89392c7ff995
title: Ingrained poverty
uri: Ingrained-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Ingrained_poverty%29
content:
<p>
Ingrained poverty is not simply a matter of people's lacking certain
resources.  To lead a people out of ingrained poverty
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/feb/08/obsession-with-ending-poverty-is-where-development-is-going-wrong">involves more
than simply giving them certain specific things</a>.
<p>
The article has some cheap shot arguments which are mistaken.
Eliminating public defacation won't make people prosperous but it can
reduce transmission of diseases and it can help the stigmatized caste
that collects the waste.
<p>
School for today's 5-year-olds won't educate today's 25-year-olds, but
will educate the 25-year-olds of 20 years from now, and it could be a
lot easier to teach 5-year-olds than 25-year-olds.  Even if learning
to read won't assure children a future job, it will help them think
about their world.
<p>
However, the overall point about creating prosperity seems valid.
<p>
Birth control and reduced birth rate is a crucial part of creating
prosperity.  A rapidly growing population has not got a chance for
prosperity to get ahead of births.


feed_id: e7b3cd7471bdc8f721529cd6c4d7dea7
title: Character assassination
uri: Character-assassination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Character_assassination%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://news.vice.com/story/germany-fake-news-election-migrants">Fake news is being used</a> for character assassination against German
politicians.


feed_id: f6fe0d2a959261de4fdfb5c757fb16a8
title: Civil War
uri: Civil-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Civil_War%29
content:
<p>
Many American
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/some-of-trumps-advisers-want-a-new-civil-war-we-must-not-let-them-have-it">right-wing extremists want another civil war</a>.
Some dream of bringing back slavery.


feed_id: eafc69581c2ae8cea5c041449d7903ae
title: Tracking Your Health
uri: Tracking-Your-Health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Tracking_Your_Health%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/Passcode-Voices/2017/0201/Does-the-health-data-industry-prioritize-profits-or-patients">Almost every company involved in health care in the US is selling
"anonymized" patient data</a>, from which only the patient's name and
address is missing.  It is easy to correlate that data with other data
to reidentify the patient.
<p>
My main medical provider invited me to communicate through a service I
call "Tracking Your Health".  When I saw that its "privacy" policy
permitted selling my data provided it is "anonymized", I rejected it.
<p>
(I would have rejected it anyway, because communication with the web
site
requires running nonfree Javascript code.  And because the terms say
that they can change the terms at any time.)


feed_id: 7992c6e70b5e4f985f885912180253bf
title: Future campaigns
uri: Future-campaigns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Future_campaigns%29
content:
<p>
The cheater wants to give people a tax deduction for supporting his
future campaigns.  They will only have to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/11/trump-and-taxes">launder the money through a
church</a>.
<p>
Other candidates will be able to do more or less the same thing,
but they won't get the support of the billionaires that could really
win big.


feed_id: 73705ea80339b802dd708eb654905c2f
title: Appreciation of truth
uri: Appreciation-of-truth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Appreciation_of_truth%29
content:
<p>
Daniel Dennett
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/12/daniel-dennett-politics-bacteria-bach-back-dawkins-trump-interview">puts fake news in the context</a> of a world in which
appreciation
of truth and facts is being lost.


feed_id: f6d4ada7f2911d1c06a8e259b5e3d525
title: Patent protection racket
uri: Patent-protection-racket
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Patent_protection_racket%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://techrights.org/2017/02/09/microsoft-patent-tax-sheep-clothing/">Microsoft</a> is inviting that GNU/Linux distributors pay for "protection"
from patents.
  It is the patent protection racket.


feed_id: df0778f7ecffe0b2c67ddf864b099f59
title: Human contribution
uri: Human-contribution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Human_contribution%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/12/humans-causing-climate-to-change-170-times-faster-than-natural-forces">human contribution to global heating:</a> 1.7C per century (so far).
The natural contribution: .01C per century.
<p>
The human contribution is increasing, since it is causing consequences
that increase the rate of heating.


feed_id: abe8302cea93325931f52104332e17d7
title: Enforcement division
uri: Enforcement-division
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Enforcement_division%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/09/trump-administration-considering-eradication-epas-enforcement-arm-report">The loser is thinking of eliminating the EPA's enforcement division.</a>
  That would be almost equivalent to doing away with those annoying
antipollution regulations, since polluters could usuall simply ignore
them.


feed_id: c94814cc33e46278e3bd4516dc9a7e9c
title: Cruelty
uri: Cruelty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Cruelty%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/10/jeff-sessions-without-tears">Attorney General Sessions will display cruelty and inflict many kinds
of suffering</a> on Americans who are disadvantaged, including seeking
opportunities to punish people who are not guilty.


feed_id: 80bdd287f64ca7525a3f024506678780
title: Refugee minors
uri: Refugee-minors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Refugee_minors%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/10/sleeping-in-the-undergrowth-the-children-still-hoping-to-get-to-the-uk">About the refugee minors in France</a> that now can't go to the UK.
<p>
They believe that staying in France would be horrible, and if thugs
are patrolling to stop charities from giving them food and sleeping
bags, perhaps they are right.  On the other hand, conditions if they
got to the UK might be even worse.  For those that can be legally
accepted in France, staying there is probably a good idea.


feed_id: 1096ee20cdf729d3f380d3780cae4c8d
title: War of independence
uri: War-of-independence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28War_of_independence%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery summarizes the history of Israel's war of independence,
and
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1486732062/">how expulsions of Arabs and Jews from their homes fit into it</a>.


feed_id: a1f65ee355379daee3176106bac195f0
title: Demanding information
uri: Demanding-information
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Demanding_information%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/10/step-one-impeachment-congressmans-probe-targets-trumps-conflicts-interest">Representative Nadler has used a special kind of petition</a> to force the
House Judiciary Committee to vote on demanding information from the
troll
about his conflicts of interest and his dealings with Russia.
<p>
The Republicans can vote no and defeat it, but this will put them on
record
as defending his trashing the Constitution.


feed_id: 9bcbccc91996d3d5e204294df9e17b39
title: Urgent: Milwauke county
uri: Urgent-Milwauke-county
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Milwauke_county%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: oppose plans to make Milwaukee county thugs
<a href="https://somos.presente.org/petitions/sheriff-clarke-don-t-turn-your-sheriffs-into-ice-agents-no-287g/?akid=1581.439815.c5_ruB&rd=1&source=m1_sub&t=1003">double as
US immigration thugs</a>.


feed_id: 98de80a585d486ab1db2c91bbfbd6f77
title: Urgent: Support NEA/H
uri: Urgent-Support-NEA-H
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Support_NEA%252FH%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://www.signherenow.org/petition/save-endowments/pfaw/">Support preserving the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities</a>.


feed_id: 6166af9931ddfdd5a3dc0f62373fb701
title: Urgent: Paris Climate Agreement
uri: Urgent-Paris-Climate-Agreement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Paris_Climate_Agreement%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the troll to stand by the <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4184">Paris climate agreement</a>. It's <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_April_2016_(Paris_climate_agreement)">insufficient to avoid disaster</a> but it will reduce the disaster somewhat.
The White House comments line is 202-456-1111.


feed_id: 53a16a13703bafa05b6e38a505b4f5e8
title: Urgent: Football players
uri: Urgent-Football-players
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Football_players%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/stand-for-something/?t=1006&akid=6964.1242918.NSdM_x">thank the US football players</a> that refuse to visit the troll.


feed_id: 9d1bf4e6553981f0ade3db48d42786ad
title: Urgent: Russia
uri: Urgent-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Russia%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the House Judiciary Committee to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/investigate-trump-and-1?akid=177878.2794606.xUzkOH&rd=1&source=mo&t=1006">investigate the troll's conflicts of interest and connections</a> to the Russian government.


feed_id: 130625ecad31e5c915f6095a00364414
title: Voting rights
uri: Voting-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Voting_rights%29
content:
<p>
Voting rights defenders in Georgia have got a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/10/voting-advocates-announce-settlement-exact-match-lawsuit-georgia">court order to block</a> one Republican scheme for voter suppression. Alas, Republicans keep inventing new methods to do this, and for each election several schemes are in effect to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_December_2016_(Republican_election-rigging)">rig the election</a>. 


feed_id: 38bfc5d390ead6aaa09b99bff20b1f4f
title: TPP
uri: 2017-02-17-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28TPP%29
content:
<p>
Many young vaguely-progressives naively assume that the TPP must have been good because Obama supported it and the troll opposed it. This <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/11/trump-catastrophe-so-was-tpp">article explains what is dangerous</a> about the TPP and other <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy treaties</a>. We also need to teach people that Obama was not much of a progressive, and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_(Bogus_progressive)">Clinton even less so</a>. 


feed_id: b8b955237ce5e85b2d7fdc6448729af6
title: Mossack Fonseca
uri: 2017-02-17-Mossack-Fonseca
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Mossack_Fonseca%29
content:
<p>
The founders of Mossack Fonseca, the wealth-hiding company, have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/11/panama-papers-mossack-fonseca-fonders-refused-bail">arrested for money laundering</a>. Accusations stemming from Brazil's investigation are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/11/brazils-corruption-scandal-spreads-across-south-america">spreading around Latin America</a>. The current president of Panama and a former president of Peru are involved, as is the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#8_June_2016_(Brazils_corrupt_acting_president)">current president of Brazil</a>. 


feed_id: fd49a6992d3f852d65c28ed7cd1c5934
title: Tracking in India
uri: Tracking-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Tracking_in_India%29
content:
<p>
India is forcing nearly everyone into a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/feb/09/fingerprint-payments-privacy-fears-india-banknotes">system that tracks people</a> through fingerprints and iris scans, and records all payments. It may also use a universal basic income to <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/164978/UBI-in-India">force people into total surveillance</a>. Whether the Aadhar system's security can be broken is a side issue of minor importance. The principal danger is what the state will do with the data. The Modi government leans toward <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_August_2016_(Repression_in_religions)">repression</a>, and more power to track everyone means more power to repress both minorities and dissidents. 


feed_id: b3a4d0d7b5e7d9957ad7bed5715e6a93
title: Urgent: Don't let men veto abortion
uri: Urgent-Don-t-let-men-veto-abortion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Don%27t_let_men_veto_abortion%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell Oklahoma legislators: <a href="http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/170213_consentlaws">don't let men veto abortion</a>.


feed_id: 40cfaeea86b86010f53a606ffed30c4c
title: Urgent: Budget cuts
uri: Urgent-Budget-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Budget_cuts%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_cuts_pda/">reject the troll's budget cuts</a>.


feed_id: ebf1b4dc1e7d592d89fea8969d393965
title: Original intent
uri: Original-intent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Original_intent%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing extremist judges such as Gorsuch hide their plans behind
a fictional idea of "original intent" which systematically <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58a58239e4b0b0e1e0e206ea">ends
up meaning "right-wing"</a>.


feed_id: ac7205cae5b4159881ab455332d80efe
title: Systematic repression
uri: Systematic-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Systematic_repression%29
content:
<p>
<a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/16/china-eliminating-civil-society-by-targeting-human-rights-activists-report">Systematic repression and torture</a> effectively treats all defense of
human rights in China as crime.
<p>
Torture includes denying people treatment for diabetes and cancer.

<P>


feed_id: b3febf95f127879f95071afcf1ede488
title: Demented guns
uri: Demented-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Demented_guns%29
content:
<p>
<a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/nra-republicans-gun-control-science">SCROTUS eliminated</a> a rule, made under Obama, that forbids demented old people
from buying guns.
<p>
I don't know whether demented people will misuse guns very often, but
they often mistake their relatives for burglars. Those who are well
enough to grab and shoot a gun could shoot their relatives.
<p>
If there is no research on whether those people are likely to misuse guns,
why is that? Because Republicans have prohibited federal funding for
any research about gun violence. Step 1: ensure there is no research.
Step 2: cite the lack of research as a reason to eliminate a rule.


feed_id: e6eb93c2977356e21169a91fab1910cc
title: Thugs attack black
uri: Thugs-attack-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Thugs_attack_black%29
content:
<p>
In London, blacks and people of mixed black-white ancestry are
<a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/16/black-and-mixed-race-people-in-london-more-likely-to-be-tasered">disproportionately attacked with tasers</a>, showing that the thugs are
applying a double standard.
<p>
US thugs are disproportionately violent towards nonwhites, too.


feed_id: 1a47de528d77c978d075d4479c12d2d0
title: Cambodia forest
uri: Cambodia-forest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Cambodia_forest%29
content:
<p>
In Cambodia, the big threat to the rain forest is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/feb/16/arrested-killed-activists-fighting-save-cambodias-forests-prey-lang">cutting the trees
for timber</a>.


feed_id: ae4a91a0451bfca93861e4638e16b2dc
title: Troll's motto
uri: Troll-s-motto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Troll%27s_motto%29
content:
<p>
Instead of Truman's "The Buck Stops Here", <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/16/donald-trump-evading-responsibility-art-form-mike-flynn">the troll's motto</a> is "The
Buck Never Gets Here."


feed_id: e61727495301ee789f5a6351308a8c13
title: Global heating
uri: 2017-02-18-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is affecting a worldwide oceanic current system. As a
result, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/feb/16/scientists-study-ocean-absorption-of-human-carbon-pollution">the ocean is absorbing more CO2</a> than was previously forecast.
<p>
This slows global heating somewhat but speeds up ocean acidification,
which can wipe out coral, molluscs, and many other forms of life
in the ocean.


feed_id: 111c6f5b99201b2985d04b743b2e395b
title: Premature Births
uri: Premature-Births
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Premature_Births%29
content:
<p>
Air pollution may <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/feb/16/premature-births-air-pollution-maternal-health-who-study">cause millions</a> of premature births.


feed_id: 60a9721f713dc94e3c65c063dd807d26
title: Antarctic record low
uri: Antarctic-record-low
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Antarctic_record_low%29
content:
<p>
The extent of Antarctic sea ice has hit a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/antarctic-sea-ice-shrinks-to-smallest-ever-extent">record low</a>.
<p>
Before this year, Antarctic sea ice was growing, and this was cited
by global heating denialists who erroneously presented it as evidence
there was no heating.


feed_id: 11908c0e23f47ae627dd58440e733266
title: Company bribery
uri: Company-bribery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Company_bribery%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS and the troll have <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/14/donald-trump-anti-corruption-rules-dodd-frank-oil-companies">eliminated the requirement for US
extraction companies to disclose their bribery</a> of foreign governments.


feed_id: 7884755f442bdf58217eff223215b233
title: Investigate Kellyanne
uri: Investigate-Kellyanne
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Investigate_Kellyanne%29
content:
<p>
The Office of Government Ethics <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/14/kellyanne-conway-ethics-violation-ivanka-trump">called on the troll</a> to investigate
Kellyanne Conway's violation of ethics rules.


feed_id: ef3cd9a2959647390e60342971c6521b
title: Fake news
uri: 2017-02-18-Fake-news
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Fake_news%29
content:
<p>
Fake news from the White House: an Arkansas case <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/14/voter-fraud-illegal-voting-white-house-sarah-huckabee-sanders">which found no voting
by any ineligible voters</a> is cited as proving there are lots of them.


feed_id: dd5b7e7a1eeed22da710c0fc15ddb9de
title: Urgent: Campaign against snooper's charter
uri: Urgent-Campaign-against-snooper-s-charter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Campaign_against_snoopers_charter%29

content:
<p>
UK citizens (and anyone else): Support Liberty's campaign against the
snooper's charter by sending a donation to

<pre>
Liberty
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Sort Code: 15-30-00
Account Number: 71186809
</pre>

or by mailing a check to

<pre>
Liberty House
26-30 Strutton Ground
London SW1P 2HR.
</pre>

They also accept donations digitally, but their web site
requires nonfree software to do that, and you shouldn't
run nonfree software.


feed_id: 8767bc48fce700c7eb425c0973fbb77e
title: Urgent: Prison visits
uri: Urgent-Prison-visits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Prison_visits%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/help-me-make-it-easier-to-visit-loved-ones-in-jail">call
on US prisons</a> that implement virtual visits with prisoners not to
use this as an excuse to ban real visits.
<p>
I am worried about these virtual visits.  Does the visitor have to run
a nonfree program?  I suspect it does.


feed_id: acb7d7f319a7f680a9ba0befef5cc5f5
title: Urgent: Research about pollinators
uri: Urgent-Research-about-pollinators
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Research_about_pollinators%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=19965">call
for continuing research</a> about pollinators despite the troll's
hiring freeze.
<p>
You will need to use the
<a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs method</a> to overcome a
Javascript problem.


feed_id: fa4f0ccf4547e1b36ab580dbc0091799
title: Prosecuted for sharing banned book
uri: Prosecuted-for-sharing-banned-book
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Prosecuted_for_sharing_banned_book%29

content:
<p>
Natalya Sharina is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/09/ukrainian-librarian-house-arrest-court-of-human-rights-natalya-sharina-russia">being
prosecuted</a> in Russia for letting people read a banned Ukrainian
nationalist book.
<p>
The staff of the Ukrainian library say that the copy that thugs
reported finding there wasn't theirs — they planted it.


feed_id: 248c8ec2adc5f4b679bd1290f063e660
title: Paris treaty pledges
uri: Paris-treaty-pledges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Paris_treaty_pledges%29
content:
<p>
To carry out the Paris treaty pledges, the EU must
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/09/eu-must-shut-all-coal-plants-by-2030-to-meet-paris-climate-pledges-study-says">close
all coal-burning power plants by 2030</a>.
<p>
To do its share of avoiding disaster surely requires more and sooner.


feed_id: 218d60bcaafefc35157f3c5fb91494ab
title: Troll's Jan 25 executive order
uri: Troll-s-Jan-25-executive-order
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Trolls_Jan_25_executive_order%29

content:
<p>
The famous "border wall" is the least of the
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/09/trump-administration-prepares-to-execute-vicious-executive-order-on-deportations/">nasty
things</a> in the troll's Jan 25 executive order.


feed_id: 12f76714328cb0596034afdebe171f30
title: Bribing the president of the US
uri: Bribing-the-president-of-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Bribing_the_president_of_the_US%29

content:
<p>
It's easy to bribe the president of the US: just
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/sure-fire-way-funnel-dark-money-donald-trump-book-his-hotels">stay
at one of his hotels and buy some thousand-dollar bottles of wine</a>.
<p>
I once bribed Congressman Barnie Frank with a zero-dollar bill.  I had
the ambition of someday bribing the president that way, but I realized
it was unlikely I'd ever meet the president of the US.
<p>
Now I see I could easily give the president a nonzero bribe, but I
wouldn't want to.


feed_id: 8d9548d0359e61bd9e83ef507b2cb001
title: Appointment of Sessions
uri: Appointment-of-Sessions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Appointment_of_Sessions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/09/jeff-sessions-donald-trumps-radical-republicans">responsible
for appointing Sessions</a>, just as much as the troll is.


feed_id: af7dc99e3d72006a482dbc1c3ebe13b3
title: Yazidis included in troll's ban
uri: Yazidis-included-in-troll-s-ban
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Yazidis_included_in_trolls_ban%29

content:
<p>
Yazidis from Iraq, accepted as refugees, were
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/09/travel-ban-yazidis-isis-genocide-iraq">included
in the troll's partial Muslim ban</a> (although they are not Muslims).


feed_id: 0abf0ccf940321ee1dd069a765510031
title: Mental stimulation and IQ
uri: Mental-stimulation-and-IQ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Mental_stimulation_and_IQ%29
content:
<p>
A study found that UK parents give more mental stimulation to the
first-born child, on the average, and it is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/09/first-born-children-have-better-thinking-skills-study-says">reflected
in their IQ</a>.


feed_id: 8f16f4976f25f0312df2d2695aa499cb
title: Jobs vulnerable to replacement by robots
uri: Jobs-vulnerable-to-replacement-by-robots
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Jobs_vulnerable_to_replacement_by_robots%29

content:
<p>
Many kinds of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/09/robots-taking-white-collar-jobs">human
relationship jobs</a> now appear vulnerable to replacement by robots.


feed_id: 7eeab49de09af736c88abc8d00bd6ab7
title: Syria
uri: 2017-02-18-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Syria%29
content:
<p>
13 million Syrians have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/09/syria-plight-worlds-conscience-stephen-obrien">trouble
getting the necessities of life</a>.  600,000 are in towns under
siege.  Most of them are besieged by Assad's army, but some are
besieged by PISSI.  4 million more live in areas that are hard to
reach, sometimes because of fighting.  UN aid can't reach many of
these people.


feed_id: f95072f946786da04d7a15ef1039e8fb
title: Cognitive behaviour therapy
uri: Cognitive-behaviour-therapy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Cognitive_behaviour_therapy%29
content:
<p>
For curing bulimia, 20 weekly sessions of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/jan/23/psychological-therapies-mental-illness-dodo-bird-verdict">cognitive
behaviour therapy</a> was far more effective than 20 weekly sessions
of psychoanalysis, or even 100 weekly sessions of psychoanalysis.


feed_id: 99b9a660c14b915dd1257017e0a18ee1
title: Market manipulation by power companies
uri: Market-manipulation-by-power-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Market_manipulation_by_power_companies%29

content:
<p>
Australian gas-burning power companies are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/09/nsw-power-shortage-warning-after-revelation-sa-blackouts-forecast-hours-beforehand">choosing
to keep power plants off line so as to manipulate the market</a>.
<p>
Australia's planet-roaster government is trying to use this
to argue for burning more fossil fuels.


feed_id: 7f819d9a42983a05a59c7aca9df3a45f
title: Troll's bullying
uri: Troll-s-bullying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Trolls_bullying%29
content:
<p>
The loser is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/08/trump-nordstrom-tweet-ethics-bob-casey">trying
to bully the store Nordstrom</a> for dropping his daughter's celebrity
clothing line.


feed_id: cd295088e000944910f6b751a057d601
title: America's "paid protesters" unpaid
uri: America-s-paid-protesters-unpaid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Americas_paid_protesters_unpaid%29

content:
<p>
America's "paid protesters" were
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/08/dear-so-called-president-trump-wheres-my-protest-paycheck">ripped
off 181 million dollars of pay</a> in just one day.


feed_id: e6b2af6d1f43747c284420059b0e214b
title: Medicaid
uri: 2017-02-18-Medicaid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Medicaid%29
content:
<p>
The troll
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/08/trumps-plan-medicaid-would-decimate-services-people-disabilities">wants
to convert Medicaid into a block grant</a>, for states to use as they
wish.  Many states would eliminate care for disabled people.
<p>
Furthermore, the block grant would not be increased to cover the need,
so it will increasingly fall short, almost forcing each state to keep
cutting this care.


feed_id: a229055b723ddce5b58fd30eb4bc1acb
title: FOIA requests
uri: FOIA-requests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28FOIA_requests%29
content:
<p>
The FBI says that new restrictions on FOIA requests
<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/fbi-foia-efoipa-freedom-of-information-act-fax-email/">will
be lifted when its new web site becomes active</a>.
<p>
If the FBI follows through on this, the matter won't be a real
problem.


feed_id: 15af399fec9c336e55ecd01e1743f8e4
title: President of Sri Lanka
uri: President-of-Sri-Lanka
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28President_of_Sri_Lanka%29
content:
<p>
The president of Sri Lanka <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/15/all-is-forgiven-sri-lankan-pm-says-returning-asylum-seekers-wont-be-charged">promised not to prosecute rejected refugees</a> returned there.


feed_id: 0df9a6d306672cfa70b0429b99121697
title: Loser expresses contempt
uri: Loser-expresses-contempt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Loser_expresses_contempt%29
content:
<p>
The loser expresses <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/15/trump-yank-shake-us-president-handshakes-self-serving">contempt for people when shaking their hands</a>.


feed_id: e94f1d963e96106409f75188ce880837
title: Leaked policies
uri: Leaked-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Leaked_policies%29
content:
<p>
Leaks have made the troll <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/14/flynn-resignation-shows-leaks-under-trump-are-working-keep-em-coming">pull back from several nasty policies</a> before officially ordering them. This demonstrates how democracy depends on leaks.


feed_id: faaa6a0ad04c5dc7398ba58a85e1c12f
title: Officials' tax returns
uri: Officials-tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Officials%27_tax_returns%29
content:
<p>
A Democratic representative has invoked a rule by which <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/11/1632589/-New-Jersey-congressman-invokes-1924-tax-law-giving-Congress-power-to-examine-Trump-s-tax-returns">Congress can inspect officials' tax returns</a> for conflicts of interest. 


feed_id: 7d3bd798cdf379fe27f6d7e1ab989b72
title: Campaign aids and Russians
uri: Campaign-aids-and-Russians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Campaign_aids_and_Russians%29
content:
<p>
US intelligence officials say that the troll's campaign aids <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/14/donald-trump-campaign-russia-intelligence-contact">talked frequently with Russian officials</a>. 


feed_id: f72c306049e58d0a2de4231ba66148d9
title: Tories to jail leakers
uri: Tories-to-jail-leakers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Tories_to_jail_leakers%29
content:
<p>
The Tories propose to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/11/journalists-obtain-leaked-official-material-could-sent-prison/">jail journalists</a> that publish government leaks. The UK has been drifting steadily into tyranny, with increasing <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_November_2016_(UK_surveillance_law)">surveillance</a>, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_November_2016_(New_UK_censorship_rules)">censorship</a>, and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_(Digital_Repression_Bill)">repression</a>. It is logical that such a state would take this additional step
into out-and-out repression of the press.
<p>
And natural that the Tories, when criticized for this proposal, pretend that the law's obvious consequences would not occur, for some magic reason <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/13/no-10-denies-plans-would-curb-freedom-of-journalists-and-whistleblowers">they decline to explain</a>. 


feed_id: 8aa344753ff7a06724ff79b2f5acbf07
title: Unite
uri: Unite
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Unite%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/13/how-labor-and-climate-united-can-trump-trump">Unions and climate defenders</a> now have an opportunity to unite.


feed_id: 21365461f4d9aed228aebd4fb1e796b6
title: To possess a copy
uri: To-possess-a-copy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28To_possess_a_copy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/teen-girl-sends-teen-boy-5-sexts-his-choice-350-years-in-prison-or-lifetime-registered-as-violent-sex-offender/">A girl sent Zachary photos</a> of herself in underwear, so he will have to
register
as a "violent sex offender" for all his life.
<p>
Merely to possess a copy of anything should not be a crime.


feed_id: 00c46e680a0e0892f7fbace333973a6f
title: Reconciliation
uri: Reconciliation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Reconciliation%29
content:
<p>
Hamas in Gaza elected a hardline leader that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/13/hamas-elects-hardliner-yahya-sinwar-as-its-gaza-strip-chief">opposes any
reconciliation with Israel</a>.
  In effect, a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#1_May_2016_(Netanyahu_has_no_wish_to_make_peace)">miror image of Netanyahu</a>.


feed_id: 68b703d8bdf14f628e4191718d198a48
title: Flynn resigned
uri: Flynn-resigned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Flynn_resigned%29
content:
<p>
Michael Flynn has resigned as the troll's national security advisor
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/report-michael-flynn-has-just-resigned-national-security-advisor">because of his contacts with Russia</a>.
<p>
Of all the troll's advisors, Bannon endangers national security the
most, since
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#15_February_2017_(Belligerency_of_PISSI)">he is attracted to the idea of starting a war</a>.


feed_id: 7907d08867a89cbd31ea2ecf5969ddba
title: Breaking his door down
uri: Breaking-his-door-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Breaking_his_door_down%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/feb/14/police-force-entry-to-stormzys-house-after-reports-that-he-was-burgling-it">A UK rapper was awakened by thugs breaking his door down</a>.  Someone saw
him
entering his house and assumed he was a burglar.
<p>
The article doesn't say, but I hazard a guess that he is black.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-may-aug.html#22 July 2009 (Harvard professor arrested breaking into his own home)">A similar thing happened</a> to a black Harvard professor who was reported
to
the thugs for trying to get into his house in Cambridge, Massachusets.


feed_id: ff0e1e6d4710e1fea397a54a04ffbc3c
title: CETA
uri: 2017-02-18-CETA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28CETA%29
content:
<p>
The European Parliament voted to approve CETA,
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170215/07332936717/canada-eu-trade-deal-ratified-european-union-now-needs-approval-all-member-states-national-parliaments.shtml">but national governments still have a chance to block it</a>.


feed_id: 23463a639f9b046d725b64aa86ab16b4
title: DNA samples
uri: DNA-samples
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28DNA_samples%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/san-diego-police-targets-african-american-children-unlawful-dna-collection">The ACLU is suing to destroy DNA samples</a> taken by thugs after
illegally
harassing some teenagers (apparently because of their skin color).


feed_id: b73afbbf0c419b7a7c6aeac6fc49a9ea
title: Geolocation data
uri: Geolocation-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Geolocation_data%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/proposed-federal-law-demands-probable-cause-warrants-for-geolocation-data/">proposed federal law would require thugs get court orders</a> before
they collect people's geolocation data.


feed_id: 9cb0b530fe869d26d0f66e9c1195eba9
title: Community college students
uri: Community-college-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Community_college_students%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/02/08/513902272/the-number-of-hungry-and-homeless-students-rises-along-with-college-costs">A survey of US community college students found</a> that 13% of them are
homeless and 20% don't get enough food.
<p>
<a href="http://www.futurity.org/food-poverty-hunger-families-1358482-2/">Some US teenagers have to go hungry</a> so their younger siblings can eat.
<p>
Part of the solution to this is providing reliable birth control to
everyone at no charge.  But once children are born, society must make
sure they get everything they need to grow up well and capable.


feed_id: 11de73ab008a3aa6135a2d40e1682aa9
title: Attacking the EPA
uri: Attacking-the-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Attacking_the_EPA%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/stopping-epa-overreach-act-redefines-what-pollutant-and-stops-regulation-greenhouse-gases.html">SCROTUS are attacking the EPA in several ways at once.</a>


feed_id: b1f970867e1792e6a224b58d5d565d10
title: 100F
uri: 100F
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28100F%29
content:
<p>
It was over 100F in Oklahoma recently — an
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/its-been-45-above-normal-in-oklahoma-this-february-ba30f7bde27a">astounding sign of
global heating</a>.


feed_id: dc77d0267426269a979b28d37c5c4d1c
title: Distrust and rivalry
uri: Distrust-and-rivalry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Distrust_and_rivalry%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/upheaval-is-now-standard-operating-procedure-inside-the-white-house/2017/02/13/d65dee58-f213-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html">The troll's management approach</a> creates distrust and rivalry.


feed_id: 0db1013a5372ac7e7f54f8b1f1430f36
title: Systematically seizes
uri: Systematically-seizes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Systematically_seizes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2017/02/legalizing-palestinian-israeli/">Israel systematically seizes land and houses belonging to Palestinians</a>
that live outside Israel — even when the reason for that is that
Israel
won't allow them to live inside Israel.


feed_id: 31475b1d87763d17d1cd142b337764f2
title: Nonviolent activists prosecuted
uri: Nonviolent-activists-prosecuted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Nonviolent_activists_prosecuted%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestine-activists-spain-could-face-prison-over-matisyahu-boycott-call?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=22556afa9c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-22556afa9c-290644433">Nonviolent pro-Palestine activists in Spain are being prosecuted</a> for
urging a music festival to exclude a musician who campaigns against
rights for Palestine.
<p>
Whatever you might think about the issue of the occupation of
Palestine,
it could not justify prosecuting people for taking a stand on the
matter.


feed_id: 1cf086186fd91e3a72e11d62b5abb701
title: 6 Crucial Questions
uri: 6-Crucial-Questions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%286_Crucial_Questions%29
content:
<p>
6 crucial
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/14/michael-flynn-and-6-big-questions">questions about the troll and Flynn</a>.


feed_id: 1ebd473ab616e5b01afc993560231df3
title: Against users
uri: Against-users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Against_users%29
content:
<p>
Ajit Pai as head of the FCC is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/14/trump-administrations-other-war-media">systematically for big companies and
against users</a> of technology.


feed_id: e480cb69d080cf51bdff0f03a5f06fa1
title: Christian leaders
uri: Christian-leaders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Christian_leaders%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/14/taking-care-refugees-moral-duty">500 US Christian leaders have called for welcoming refugees</a>, and
rejected the troll's partial ban on Muslim visitors.


feed_id: 3cea4aea3c59c32e66ba52e7f7651f61
title: Tax returns
uri: Tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Tax_returns%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS in a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/14/ignoring-public-outcry-republicans-block-effort-obtain-trumps-taxes">House committee blocked the demand for the troll to show</a>
the committee his tax returns.
<p>
In other words, they really really want him to get away with anything
whatsoever.


feed_id: 90e18c4fde88e8bd1329879097632647
title: Showdown with banksters
uri: Showdown-with-banksters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Showdown_with_banksters%29
content:
<p>
Greece's leaders have refused to make more cuts, thus in effect
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/14/greece-defies-creditors-over-more-cuts-as-economy-shrinks-unexpectedly">causing a showdown with the euro-banksters that are crushing</a> the
country.
<p>
It is worrysome that the IMF seems to have gone back to the side of
the banksters.
<p>
Has anyone tried to estimate the number of peopl in Greece that the
euro-banksters have killed?  If you see such an estimate, please send
it to me.


feed_id: 6bcd7c8a98337e56a6fb5f7ce36eec39
title: Theocratic agenda
uri: Theocratic-agenda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Theocratic_agenda%29
content:
<p>
Pence is putting allies into the US government to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/14/pence-places-conservative-evangelical-allies-all-corners-white-house">push his theocratic
agenda</a>.


feed_id: f0e275c39cdc5a4c31830e095c103743
title: US corn
uri: US-corn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28US_corn%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/14/mexico-fires-back-targets-us-corn-farmer">proposed law in Mexico would ban import</a> of US corn.
<p>
This might help Mexican peasants support themselves.


feed_id: 2267ac73090f4c77327296a4fcaa8523
title: Mines in Australia
uri: Mines-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Mines_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Mines in Australia are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/15/mining-boom-clean-up-could-cost-taxpayers-billions-says-australia-institute">covering up what it will cost to clean up</a> the
mines once they are exhausted.


feed_id: cf9f8b90affc68c255c5d38a83b7deed
title: Federal taxes
uri: Federal-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Federal_taxes%29
content:
<p>
Some Americans are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/tax-refusing-pay-protest-trump">refusing to pay federal taxes as a protest against
the loser</a>.
<p>
The really bad things that the US does with its money, such as
spending more on the military than all its main rivals put together
and bombing people around the world, while bailing out the big banks
that are our country's worst enemies, did not start this year.


feed_id: d9ae02cbd071b6cd628e8ffcdaa74e08
title: Press Corps
uri: Press-Corps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Press_Corps%29
content:
<p>
The White House "press corps" is shifting its membership,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/15/conspiracy-laden-blog-no-place-white-house-press-corps">downgrading
mainstream media and inviting trollish extremists</a>.
<p>
Imagine calling the New York Times "liberal", and you see how
extremist they are.


feed_id: bfbcceee7896c06d9494c2a647b791bc
title: Fingerprint-scanning
uri: Fingerprint-scanning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Fingerprint-scanning%29
content:
<p>
Apple proposes a fingerprint-scanning touch screen — which would make
it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/15/apple-removing-iphone-home-button-fingerprint-scanning-screen">difficult to use it at all without having your fingerprints taken</a>.


feed_id: 1a177289a936e918dc19615fa45e08a6
title: "Science advice"
uri: Science-advice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Science_advice%29
content:
<p>
There are still a few scientists, outside the climate field, that deny
global heating.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/trump-science-adviser-william-happer-climate-change-cult">The troll has chosen one hard-core denialist</a> to give
him "science advice".


feed_id: 58922db3a8e0761caa11fa7445d64cb4
title: Selling water
uri: 2017-02-18-Selling-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Selling_water%29
content:
<p>
Selling water from exotic sources
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/feb/15/luxury-water-for-80-a-bottle-its-ignorant-insensitive-and-irresponsible">reflects and encourages a propensity
for the rich to engage in frivolous waste</a>.
<p>
One more reason why we need to transfer a lot of their money to poor
people.
Even if it won't lift everyone out of poverty, it will reduce the
tendency
that pushes society into increasing levels of frivolous waste.


feed_id: 86e7f09634d672d2ce74488661015b9c
title: Repress whistleblowers
uri: Repress-whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Repress_whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
The previous UK law to repress whistleblowers and journalists was
covered up
so Parliament would not realize what it was passing.  The current
attempt
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/15/whistleblowers-law-commission-official-secrets-act">was also supposed to be covered up</a>, but this time that failed.
<p>
Now Britons have a chance to fight to prevent repression.


feed_id: ee9e1582a282f27cd6c351e978103c58
title: Neonicotinoids
uri: 2017-02-18-Neonicotinoids
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Neonicotinoids%29
content:
<p>
The EU ban on neonicotinoids allows "emergency" exceptions,
and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/15/eu-criticised-over-emergency-authorisations-of-banned-bee-harming-pesticides">some countries authorize these without real scrutiny</a>.


feed_id: d3f2dd1cdcd823ee541c57213f621c63
title: Ethical tone
uri: Ethical-tone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Ethical_tone%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/15/lying-got-michael-flynn-fired-trump-white-house">The troll sets the ethical tone of the administration</a>.  By his
constant lying and cheating, he inspires everyone to lie and cheat.
<p>
If you didn't want to lie and cheat, would you accept a job with
him?<br>
Would he offer you one?


feed_id: e1c60e0148cf6e9629b51637820a8d55
title: Contacts with Russian intelligence
uri: Contacts-with-Russian-intelligence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Contacts_with_Russian_intelligence%29

content:
<p>
A former confidant of the troll, being investigated by the FBI over
contacts with Russian intelligence,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/roger-stone-trump-investigation-russia-intelligence">asks for an official
investigation</a>.


feed_id: c6940df8b63da08ca4bd4a3534768f43
title: Emissions trading scheme
uri: Emissions-trading-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Emissions_trading_scheme%29
content:
<p>
The EU parliament has voted for a tightening of the greenhouse gas
emissions trading scheme.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/15/meps-approve-overhaul-of-eu-carbon-emissions-trading-scheme-european-parliament-paris-climate-deal">Emitters gamed it and made it totally ineffective</a>.
<p>
The fact that even with the reforms it is still not tight enough to
work very well shows that they still have far too much power.


feed_id: d3adf673756e516b3912dfe053d8aef4
title: Supporting in principle
uri: Supporting-in-principle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Supporting_in_principle%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/15/trump-says-palestinian-statehood-isnt-necessary-for-peace-netanyahu-calls-him-the-greatest/">troll abolished the US policy</a> of supporting in principle a
Palestinian state.


feed_id: 1bb1841fe4faf7500dce4baa2f938782
title: Forced to withdraw
uri: Forced-to-withdraw
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Forced_to_withdraw%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/andrew-puzder-withdraws-labor-secretary-nomination">Pudzer has been forced to withdraw</a>, after criticism convinced some
Republican senators to reject him.
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/15/labor-pick-andy-puzder-is-already-in-jeopardy-now-hes-being-sued-for-wage-fixing/">His companies has now been sued</a> for illegal wage-fixing conspiracy
between the franchises that are (notionally) "independent" and
competing businesses.
<p>
That's typical of how businesses today try to have it both ways.
<p>
Alas, this victory comes afer most of the saboteurs, including those
in the crucial areas of climate and human rights, got through.


feed_id: 05eeee5b2e4434c61e5a1d2724928d04
title: Undocumented 'Dreamer'
uri: Undocumented-Dreamer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Undocumented_%27Dreamer%27%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/seattle-daca-dreamer-arrested-judge-trump-immigration">Seattle Judge Demands an Explanation</a> after Undocumented 'Dreamer'
Arrested.
<p>
He has been in the US since he was a child.


feed_id: 557170384aebdae73e51ccbfb71da04d
title: Pruitt
uri: Pruitt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Pruitt%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/14/financial-backers-of-epa-pick-scott-pruitt-have-faced-hundreds-of-pollution-actions/">Saboteur nominee Pruitt</a> is connected with 15 companies that have been
disciplined many times by the EPA.


feed_id: 95a9664a280de3cd498ed1863a1dc939
title: Host
uri: Host
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Host%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/14/pregnant-women-hosts-anti-choice-republican-dystopia">Republicans say it out loud:</a> a pregnant woman is a "host".
  In effect, they consider women incubators.


feed_id: 9fa519189457430fb52f4036ea644a4e
title: Tax junk foods
uri: Tax-junk-foods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Tax_junk_foods%29
content:
<p>
Proposal:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/15/australia-would-save-34bn-if-junk-food-taxed-and-fresh-food-subsidised-says-study">tax junk foods and subsidize healthful foods</a>.


feed_id: 36220c1161fe5b3b64bb252e4aef06fa
title: Common cause
uri: Common-cause
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Common_cause%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/02/13213/alec-embraces-trumpism">ALEC has made common cause with the troll</a> to
eliminate regulations that protect us from being
poisoned or cheated by businesses.


feed_id: 9df104952fa798de96fa4dfe870cf802
title: Renewed fighting
uri: Renewed-fighting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Renewed_fighting%29
content:
<p>
It is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/avdiivka-frontline-ukraine-war-russia-backed-separatists">hard to determine which side is responsible</a> for the renwed
fighting in eastern Ukraine.


feed_id: 59cb18ae713fd3cba05a5a32304f6430
title: Special relationship
uri: Special-relationship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Special_relationship%29
content:
<p>
Theresa May is trying to perpetuate the "special relationship" with
the US
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/14/will-trump-presidency-finally-kill-myth-of-special-relationship">by sucking up to the troll</a>.
<p>
There is a name for this kind of relationship: "slavish subservience".


feed_id: f2cac8c32b54be4f603d8300d0a686a7
title: Retirement
uri: Retirement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Retirement%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/14/wealthy-retire-austerity-pensioners-work">Plutocratic
  states are attacking the idea of retirement</a>, by reducing
pensions to the point where people can't really live on them.
<p>
There's no money for pensions because it's all needed for dooH niboR.


feed_id: 4e18706756885f7466a57a555b6b29ad
title: Work is hell
uri: Work-is-hell
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Work_is_hell%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/05/20/work-is-hell/">For over a billion people working poor</a>, work is hell.
<p>
To a large extent this is because a rich few get too
much of a share of the total.


feed_id: 2aea7f240f32d863989d252371fe907f
title: Bought by ISPs
uri: Bought-by-ISPs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#17_February_2017_%28Bought_by_ISPs%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/13/naacp-trump-netneutrality/">NAACP and other civil rights groups have been bought by major ISPs</a>
and now campaign against network neutrality regulations.


feed_id: 63decf05e98f32106d8113d40260c8df
title: Stingrays
uri: Stingrays
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Stingrays%29
content:
<p>
A Republican congresscritter (Chaffetz) has proposed two good bills, for a change. One would <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/15/chaffetz-wants-cops-to-get-a-warrant-bef">require a court order aimed at a specific person</a> before the state can use a stingray to track cell phones. The other would ban all other use of stingrays.


feed_id: 3acccc84e2d181577a05686305dd7982
title: Annexation of the West Bank
uri: Annexation-of-the-West-Bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Annexation_of_the_West_Bank%29
content:
<p>
Israeli leaders no longer have to pretend to want to make peace with Palestine or end the occupation of the West Bank. They can come out and admit <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/15/farewell-doublespeak-israels-vision-future-terrifying">their real goal—annexation of the West Bank</a>.


feed_id: 5260d1ed810d4a8ddc5313677d17c263
title: Bill to weaken the CFPB
uri: Bill-to-weaken-the-CFPB
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Bill_to_weaken_the_CFPB%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS have introduced <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/15/republicans-launch-bicameral-salvos-against-wall-street-watchdog">a bill to weaken the CFPB</a> so that it couldn't protect people much any more.


feed_id: 66eab74e12252fbe97feb372f1f603f7
title: Lesson about solidarity
uri: Lesson-about-solidarity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Lesson_about_solidarity%29
content:
<p>
Teaching a lesson about solidarity, the <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/14/1633812/-Fifth-graders-unanimously-vote-to-forfeit-basketball-season-instead-of-kicking-girls-off-their-team">5th grade basketball team</a> in a Catholic school voted to forfeit the season's competition rather than obey a rule that would have required kicking out the two girls on the team.


feed_id: 789bcbe08a536c4af2f7ccf15f62800f
title: Flynn's contacts with Russia
uri: Flynn-s-contacts-with-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Flynn%27s_contacts_with_Russia%29

content:
<p>
The head of the House Intelligence Committee <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/14/1633641/-House-intelligence-chair-rolls-over-for-Trump-rules-out-investigating-Russia-connections">insists there is nothing to investigate</a> about Flynn's contacts with Russia.


feed_id: 5265f426b4f1b61302557c0afa7b691d
title: Retirement savings plan
uri: Retirement-savings-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Retirement_savings_plan%29
content:
<p>
On behalf of Wall Street, SCROTUS propose to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/15/stop-congress-killing-retirement-savings-low-moderate-income-workers">eliminate California's new retirement savings plan</a>.


feed_id: 7bede312c4e89bcc3066d166fa3a6961
title: UK Housing
uri: UK-Housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28UK_Housing%29
content:
<p>
Buyers of new houses in the UK get a sort of warranty, but they are being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/16/new-home-owners-gagged-over-poor-build-and-compensation-claims">forced to sign nondisclosure agreements</a> for the complaints they are compensated for.


feed_id: 56406085c60cc74b2b163a4ba75623f1
title: UK "jobcenters"
uri: UK-jobcenters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28UK_jobcenters%29
content:
<p>
The staff of UK "jobcenters" treat unemployed people as chiselers to be kept down, not as citizens to be helped. They <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/16/daniel-blake-realistic-life-benefits">arbitrarily punish anyone that is not subservient</a> by making them go hungry or even homeless.
<p>
It can't be the case that everyone working in every "jobcenter" has spontaneously developed a cruel streak. The ethical tone of the organization comes from its leaders, and we know they have sometimes had quotas for punishments. They have done this, and I would guess they did it intentionally. Every penny less provided to the poor is one more penny for dooH niboR.
<p>
Thus they demonstrate, once again, that <a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg" title="Anuran Bevan cartoon">the Tories are lower than vermin</a>.


feed_id: 14839e8edc80ed8185900761dae48ea6
title: Flynn's links with Russia
uri: Flynn-s-links-with-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Flynn%27s_links_with_Russia%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/14/congress-republicans-michael-flynn-investigation">SCROTUS refuse to investigate</a> Flynn's links with Russia. They only want to investigate the leaks that told us about those links. In the same way, some Democrats attack the cracking of Democratic Party emails <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_August_2016_(DNC_server_crack)">to distract attention</a> from the anti-Sanders dishonesty of the party officials.


feed_id: dc46cf94ac26920db981f85edead059c
title: Mexican arrested
uri: Mexican-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#18_February_2017_%28Mexican_arrested%29
content:
<p>
The loser's regime has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/14/dreamer-arrested-daniel-ramirez-medina-daca-immigration">arrested a Mexican</a> who was brought to the US as a child, and who was employed pursuant to permission given him under Obama. That's the troll's cruelty at work—intended to reinforce the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_(Trump_defends_thugs_that_kill_blacks)">support of people who support him</a> for his cruelty. 


feed_id: 9fcae8582d58b2cd4f731c64f663cb84
title: Theocons
uri: Theocons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Theocons%29
content:
<p>
Contrasting <a href="http://theweek.com/articles/679058/trumps-theofascist">Bannon's theocratic agenda</a> with the previous generation
of "theocons".


feed_id: cc98605a762ec17d2e4ef38d3116d458
title: Right-wing fantasy terrorists
uri: Right-wing-fantasy-terrorists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#19_February_2017_%28Right-wing_fantasy_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
The FBI is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/dylann-roof-copycat-south-carolina-charleston-shooting">now
pursuing right-wing fantasy terrorists</a> as well as Islamist fantasy
terrorists.


feed_id: 9dc00c52178d2cfdde8228a189c7b8f0
title: Troll's nominee for Secretary of Labor
uri: Troll-s-nominee-for-Secretary-of-Labor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#19_February_2017_%28Trolls_nominee_for_Secretary_of_Labor%29

content:
<p>
The loser's new nominee for Secretary of Labor 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/alexander-acosta-trump-labor-secretary-civil-rights-hiring">did
a bad job in the Justice Department</a> (that's assuming it wasn't
intentional).


feed_id: 6e1a474fe9d3031aea64206eda7620f7
title: Jailed for asking for protection
uri: Jailed-for-asking-for-protection
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#19_February_2017_%28Jailed_for_asking_for_protection%29

content:
<p>
US border thugs jailed a Mexican woman as she was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/texas-undocumented-woman-arrested-el-paso-domestic-violence">in
court asking for an order to protect her from a violent man</a>.
<p>
This sort of thing will make unauthorized immigrants frightened of
asking for protection.
<p>
Another immigrant 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/daca-man-arrested-seattle-loses-status-trump">faces
deportation because of a tattoo</a> which border thugs claim is
suspicious.  They don't think it is necessary to charge him with any
crime, let alone to try him for it.


feed_id: ac746be3a55a6575a0c9874d904146b0
title: Investigation of death in French jail
uri: Investigation-of-death-in-French-jail
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#19_February_2017_%28Investigation_of_death_in_French_jail%29

content:
<p>
The death in French jail of Adama Traoré in July is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/adama-traore-death-in-police-custody-casts-long-shadow-over-french-society">still
being investigated</a>.


feed_id: 725dde9133af7dc2e5afd093624c97d0
title: Plans to crush civil society in the US
uri: Plans-to-crush-civil-society-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#19_February_2017_%28Plans_to_crush_civil_society_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The troll is already 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/17/trump-weapon-stamp-out-grassroots-resistance-executive-order">planning
ways to crush civil society</a> in the US.


feed_id: e1ce6da1152233de7848cf2574028084
title: Attack on MSF hospital
uri: Attack-on-MSF-hospital
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#19_February_2017_%28Attack_on_MSF_hospital%29
content:
<p>
It appears 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/17/msf-inquiry-indicates-russia-was-behind-hospital-bombing-in-syria-medecins-sans-frontieres">Russia
and Syria</a> were behind an attack on an MSF hospital in Syria a year
ago.


feed_id: 472da330d74668910d0935a7b4b93dc4
title: Giant coral reef at mouth of Amazon River
uri: Giant-coral-reef-at-mouth-of-Amazon-River
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#19_February_2017_%28Giant_coral_reef_at_mouth_of_Amazon_River%29

content:
<p>
A giant coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon River is unlike all
other known reefs because it thrives under light-blocking sediment.
Scientists are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/17/we-are-rewriting-the-textbooks-first-dives-to-amazon-coral-reef-stun-scientists">just
beginning to explore it</a> and have found many new species.
<p>
It will be killed by ocean acidification if spilled oil from wells to
be drilled nearby don't get it first.


feed_id: 87943c1d5666bb1b1cb672bd47b2316f
title: Immigrants strike
uri: Immigrants-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#19_February_2017_%28Immigrants_strike%29
content:
<p>
Immigrants across the US 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/day-without-immigrants-protest-restaurants-economy-trump">went
on strike</a>, shutting many restaurants and some other businesses.


feed_id: 72ab86970d0a144595e06a4e7eb905bb
title: Urgent: Prohibit US nuclear first strike
uri: Urgent-Prohibit-US-nuclear-first-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Prohibit_US_nuclear_first_strike%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Support the bill to <a href="http://petitions.signforgood.com/TrumpNukes">prohibit a US nuclear first strike</a>.


feed_id: 0bf35ede857e721ceb924f34eb735525
title: Urgent: investigate White House ethics violations
uri: Urgent-investigate-White-House-ethics-violations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_investigate_White_House_ethics_violations%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-congress-investigate-ethics-violations-trump-white-house/">investigate White House ethics
violations</a>.


feed_id: cc1f73d99c023eee4955d52ae1b5eb46
title: Urgent: Support the Global HER Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Global-HER-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Global_HER_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support the Global HER Act which would <a href="http://p2a.co/1csTClv">overturn the global
gag rule</a>.
<p>
This petition is run by Population Connection, which I am a member of.


feed_id: 84a7d4331ce9fcf76407e033a0c45342
title: Canada: proprietary payroll system
uri: Canada-proprietary-payroll-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Canada%3A_proprietary_payroll_system%29

content:
<p>
Canada switched to a proprietary payroll system a year ago for paying government employees. Many <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/world/canada/government-workers-pay.html?_r=0">employees have gone unpaid for months</a>. The article was published in November but the situation is basically unchanged.


feed_id: 336ddb0c3608f5013c0707e8c8420e38
title: Demanding Bosses
uri: Demanding-Bosses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Demanding_Bosses%29
content:
<p>
The loser is an extreme example of a common phenomenon: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/16/donald-trump-us-president">bosses that think they can demand anything</a>.
<p>
That does not conflict with the conclusion that he is on the edge of insanity. There are many sorts of psychological problems which, in their extreme forms, can be called insanity, but have less severe forms that certainly aren't insanity.


feed_id: d1a558e9d8059df8996d17220eb0d0b7
title: "Smart city"
uri: Smart-city
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Smart_city%29
content:
<p>
"Smart city" often means <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/smart-cities-surveillance-and-new-streetlights-san-jose">massive surveillance</a>. I've concluded that anything described as "smart" is very likely to be an injustice. There are exceptions, but be very suspicious of them.


feed_id: 7568df582401cef4596ebc06ccb9d255
title: LinkedIn for Profiling
uri: LinkedIn-for-Profiling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28LinkedIn_for_Profiling%29
content:
<p>
Microsoft is converting LinkedIn into a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/feb/16/the-resume-is-dead-your-next-click-might-determine-your-next-job">system for tracking and profiling</a> people as employees. This makes it highly dangerous.


feed_id: 187387d51200c442f9c0560a959abf59
title: Stolen Property
uri: Stolen-Property
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Stolen_Property%29
content:
<p>
New Jersey Governor Christie <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170208/16002436671/chris-christie-says-asset-forfeiture-transparency-is-bad-law-enforcement-vetoes-unanimously-supported-bill.shtml">vetoed a bill</a> to require thugs and prosecutors to report on the property they "seize" (i.e., steal) from people without charging them with crimes. His reasons are absurd.
<p>
I hope the legislature can and will ignore his no-op "compromise" and override the veto. They have the votes for it.


feed_id: d05dc21eb6cc73d794b680a8c926d7c1
title: One month of "government"
uri: One-month-of-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28One_month_of_government%29
content:
<p>
<a>One month of "government"</a> by the loser shows he doesn't know how to do anything well, except <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_January_2017_(Media_begs_to_be_manipulated)">troll the media</a> and keep his hard-core supporters fired up.


feed_id: 7cf323a465fb923fc2cd385002835f9e
title: Training Afghan soldiers
uri: Training-Afghan-soldiers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Training_Afghan_soldiers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-new-battle-for-afghanistan/">US warhawks want to send more US troops to Afghanistan</a> "to train Afghan soldiers", and there is no political will in Congress to refuse. No amount of training will enable government soldiers to fight as well as religious fanatics. The only real decision for the US to make about the Afghan government is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#13_December_2014_(Afghanistans_government)">how long to prop it up</a>.


feed_id: 554c5095809c57e02db698765997fcaa
title: Immigration thugs
uri: 2017-02-20-Immigration-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Immigration_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US immigration thugs can <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/17/loose-classification-rules-give-ice-broad-authority-to-classify-immigrants-as-gang-members/">label you as a "gang member" based on vaguely
suggestive "evidence"</a>.


feed_id: 6d1894e2f8139bda527e64a90ad76a01
title: Empathy
uri: 2017-02-20-Empathy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Empathy%29
content:
<p>
Empathy is not necessary for thinking about good and bad, and if we
assume that it is, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/18/politics-age-of-empathy-reason-paul-nuttall">we may fail to try to do justice</a> to those who (for other
reasons) we cannot empathize with.


feed_id: e69c51bfe125e3a0bade0e806f726db6
title: Guard training
uri: Guard-training
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Guard_training%29
content:
<p>
The UK has cut prison guards in half, firing the most experienced ones.
The remaining ones have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2017/feb/18/mental-health-issues-prison-privatisation-violence-drugs-liz-truss-reform">no training in how to deal with the prisoners
that are being driven mad</a> by prison conditions.


feed_id: bc0b286d79c216dbf5f8749c0e530a58
title: Urgent: Abuse deportation
uri: Urgent-Abuse-deportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Abuse_deportation%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell the US not to <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/el-paso-ice"> target survivors of domestic abuse</a> for
deportation.


feed_id: e8d5ed4104f6e238cab6e658a8d6c9b9
title: Immigration thugs
uri: 2017-02-20-Immigration-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Immigration_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The US immigration thugs held a meeting with congresscritters, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/17/hispanic-dems-blast-dictatorial-shenanigans-meeting-ice">but
members of the House Hispanic Caucus were not allowed</a>.


feed_id: 8c0439a6777c5fd3934d869dbb81ee71
title: Ryan insurance
uri: Ryan-insurance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Ryan_insurance%29
content:
<p>
Paul Ryan's scheme for medical insurance would make it cheaper for
healthy people (provided they don't have a problem) and <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/17/paul-ryan-has-plan-take-away-insurance-tens-millions-people">impossibly
expensive</a> for everyone else.
<p>
Here are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/17/five-gop-health-care-buzz-phrases-you-need-inoculate-yourself-against">other Republican schemes</a> to deny millions of Americans
medical care.


feed_id: 668f3352098fa767c0bd16157da6abfa
title: Journalist prosecution
uri: Journalist-prosecution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#20_February_2017_%28Journalist_prosecution%29
content:
<p>
The Committee to Protect Journalists reports on <a href="https://cpj.org/blog/2017/02/journalists-covering-standing-rock-face-charges-as.php">10 journalists who
are being prosecuted</a> for covering pipeline protests.
<p>
This is in addition to protesters. Federal <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/18/standing-rock-activists-justice-department-new-arrests">thugs are arresting
pipeline protesters</a> away from the protests, and charging them with
horrible "crimes".
<p>
This is a policy of systematic repression, intended to crush
Americans' spirit so they won't resist. I hope it has the opposite
effect.


feed_id: 29cf210c3a0dd1cbfa6e4b67f56a5cbf
title: Urgent: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
uri: 2017-02-21-Urgent-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_cfpb">call on Senate
Democrats</a> to defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.


feed_id: 5ab2524d7c574da7c59c29aaf3b7cb17
title: Troll uses private email server
uri: Troll-uses-private-email-server
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Troll_uses_private_email_server%29

content:
<p>
The troll and his appointed White House staff use a
<a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/25/trumps-most-senior-staff-use-a-private-email-server/">private
email server</a>.
<p>
Remember the exaggerated attacks on Clinton for using a private email
server.


feed_id: 991b3f28389052ed8cd2861c312c7573
title: Making the whole community less safe
uri: Making-the-whole-community-less-safe
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Making_the_whole_community_less_safe%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/16/an-immigration-crackdown-that-could-make">Arresting
and deporting people for participating in public safety activities</a>
makes the whole community less safe.


feed_id: 9b409e64c00e00647aaf9ef6f1a5ca44
title: US thugs' use of stingrays
uri: US-thugs-use-of-stingrays
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28US_thugs_use_of_stingrays%29
content:
<p>
US thugs 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/16/law-enforcement-continue-to-dodge-attemp">go
to great lengths to hide their use</a> of stingrays.


feed_id: cf8a9fc2a3225afd62eb7f841920cc08
title: Coal-burning power plants to be shut
uri: Coal-burning-power-plants-to-be-shut
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Coal-burning_power_plants_to_be_shut%29

content:
<p>
Two big coal-burning power plants in the US are expected to shut
because they are 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/14/the-wests-largest-coal-fired-power-plant-is-closing-not-even-trump-can-save-it/">no
longer economical</a>.
<p>
The article ignores the most important reason we need to turn off
coal-burning power plants: as one step to avoid global disaster.
<p>
By the way, global heating disaster could eliminate a lot more jobs
than are provided today by fossil fuels.  Human society is taking a
terrible and stupid risk by continuing the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_(Subsidies_for_fossil_fuels)">subsidies
that keep fossil-fuel-burning power plants running</a>.  But that's
plutocracy for you.


feed_id: 36df358ea33e23cb0fff52e3dfb0ffeb
title: Troll punishes California
uri: Troll-punishes-California
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Troll_punishes_California%29
content:
<p>
The troll punished California by 
<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smith/article132551589.html">refusing
federal aid for the evacuation of areas threatened</a> by the damage
to the Oroville dam.
<p>
This could be retaliation for opposition to the troll's other cruelty.
For example, California is moving ahead 
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-trump-calls-california-out-of-1486332113-htmlstory.html">making
the whole state a "sanctuary" for unauthorized immigrants</a>.
<p>
The term "sanctuary" is misleading.  No city or state can stop
immigration thugs from operating — all it can do is deny the
cooperation of its own agencies.


feed_id: 3598b83e6e31ba2fa8cde7ea85d35a97
title: Troll was warned about Flynn lies
uri: Troll-was-warned-about-Flynn-lies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Troll_was_warned_about_Flynn_lies%29

content:
<p>
Sally Yates 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-warned-white-house-that-flynn-could-be-vulnerable-to-russian-blackmail-officials-say/2017/02/13/fc5dab88-f228-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html">warned
the troll in January</a> that Flynn was covering up contacts with
Russia.
<p>
The troll fired Yates but not Flynn.  He continued to defend Flynn
until the fact that Flynn was lying became public knowledge.
<p>
I wonder why the troll cared about public pressure about those lies.
Was it that some SCROTUS demanded it?


feed_id: c8825796706c5be5fee0e96c0fefa5c8
title: SCROTUS
uri: 2017-02-21-SCROTUS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28SCROTUS%29
content:
<p>
The biggest danger to the US today is not the troll.  It is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a>, who
we now see will support the troll's actions and overlook his
dishonesty
<a href="http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/7/14454370/trump-autocracy-congress-frum">almost
without limit</a>.
<p>
The troll's executive orders have been 
<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/president-trump-has-done-almost-nothing-214775">mainly
for show</a>.  (The article overlooks the fact that the executive
order about the Dakota Access pipeline did cause construction to
restart.)
<p>
Alas, his appointees are doing real harm, and so are SCROTUS.
<p>
This is why 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/16/undeterred-lawmakers-hiding-resistance-prepares-recess">confronting
SCROTUS now in their districts</a> is so important.
<p>
Their intention is to bamboozle the public so as to serve the
plutocrats, but the public can make that more difficult.


feed_id: c8e6fb5b367f8e8e4912416b32190442
title: Medical care cuts and deaths
uri: Medical-care-cuts-and-deaths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Medical_care_cuts_and_deaths%29
content:
<p>
The Tories do not like the study which blames medical care cuts for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/17/health-cuts-most-likely-cause-major-rise-mortality-study-claims">30,000
more deaths in 2015 than in previous years</a>.
<p>
Britons, are you letting minor dangers such as terrorism distract you?
<p>
Americans, our medical system is much worse than Britain's NHS, even
in its current degraded form.  How many Americans die each year from
this?


feed_id: c82ef4f93883a381983b3ddcc2e6cfab
title: Counting homeless people
uri: Counting-homeless-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Counting_homeless_people%29
content:
<p>
US volunteers try every two years to count all the homeless people,
but they 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/homeless-count-population-america-shelters-people">overlook
a large fraction</a>, maybe more than 1/3.


