# articles

feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(The_billionaire_bailout_society)
title: The billionaire bailout society
uri: The-billionaire-bailout-society
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28The_billionaire_bailout_society%29

content:
<p>
The billionaire bailout society, and 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/weve-got-billionaire-bailout-society-and-99-may-never-recover-it-our-lifetimes?paging=off">how
to get rid of it</a>.
<p>
I think that a tax on gross income of the big banks might also help.


title: US Green Party praises Manning and Snowden
uri: US-Green-Party-praises-Manning-and-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(US_Green_Party_praises_Manning_and_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28US_Green_Party_praises_Manning_and_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
The US Green Party 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/whistleblowers-expose-black-budget">praises
the whistleblowers Manning and Snowden</a>.


title: Chicago Mayor apologizes for police unit that tortured suspects
uri: Chicago-Mayor-apologizes-for-police-unit-that-tortured-suspects
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Chicago_Mayor_apologizes_for_police_unit_that_tortured_suspects)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Chicago_Mayor_apologizes_for_police_unit_that_tortured_suspects%29

content:
<p>
The mayor of Chicago apologized for a police unit that 
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0912/Chicago-Mayor-Rahm-Emanuel-apologizes-for-two-decades-of-police-torture-video">tortured
many suspects to frame them</a>.


title: Journalist Michael Hastings killed in car explosion
uri: Journalist-Michael-Hastings-killed-in-car-explosion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Journalist_Michael_Hastings_killed_in_car_explosion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Journalist_Michael_Hastings_killed_in_car_explosion%29

content:
<p>
Journalist Michael Hastings 
<a href="http://www.infowars.com/michael-hastings-feared-his-mercedes-had-been-tampered-with/">said 
he was afraid to drive his car</a>, but he did anyway, and promptly
got killed in what looked like a car accident.


title: Declassified US document says h-bomb nearly exploded accidentally
uri: Declassified-US-document-says-h-bomb-nearly-exploded-accidentally
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Declassified_US_document_says_h-bomb_nearly_exploded_accidentally)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Declassified_US_document_says_h-bomb_nearly_exploded_accidentally%29

content:
<p>
A declassified US document says that an h-bomb that fell from a
disintegrating B-52 bomber was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/20/goldsboro-revisited-declassified-document">one
switch away from exploding</a>, and that switch could have triggered
accidentally too.
<p>
For those who won't run the nonfree Javascript in this page, I have
posted two screenshots: 
<a href="media/cd623b07.RS1651-058-1.png" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/images/US-documents/RS1651-058-1.png">page
1</a>, 
<a href="media/a4a500c3.RS1651-058-2.png" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/images/US-documents/RS1651-058-2.png">page
2</a>.


title: The tax on people with welfare support and have an "extra" bedroom
uri: The-tax-on-people-with-welfare-support-and-have-an-extra-bedroom
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(The_tax_on_people_with_welfare_support_and_have_an_extra_bedroom)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28The_tax_on_people_with_welfare_support_and_have_an_extra_bedroom%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing tax on anyone who gets welfare support and has an
"extra" bedroom is theoretically supposed to make housing more
efficient, but in some cases it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/20/bedroom-tax-despair-tory-village">forces
people to move far away from their families and leave their houses
empty</a>.
<p>
Working people that vote for a plutocratic party such as the
Conservatives are asking for suffering, but they still don't deserve
it.


title: Arguments against total surveillance
uri: Arguments-against-total-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Arguments_against_total_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Arguments_against_total_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/20/how_to_tell_your_mother_and_bosses_why_they_should_protest_surveillance.html">list
of arguments</a> we can use to overcome the idiotic position of those
who want total surveillance.


title: UK gov't imposes fee to stop women from defending their rights
uri: UK-gov-t-imposes-fee-to-stop-women-from-defending-their-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(UK_govt_imposes_fee_to_stop_women_from_defending_their_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28UK_govt_imposes_fee_to_stop_women_from_defending_their_rights%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has imposed a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/sep/21/government-betraying-new-mothers-yvette-cooper">prohibitive
fee</a> to stop women illegally denied their jobs after maternity
leave from defending their rights.


title: Health workers in Syria in danger
uri: Health-workers-in-Syria-in-danger
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Health_workers_in_Syria_in_danger)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Health_workers_in_Syria_in_danger%29

content:
<p>
Health workers in Syria are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/21/healthcare-workers-syria-international-protection">in
danger from Assad's army</a>.


title: "Pink pork" often carries hepatitis E virus
uri: Pink-pork-often-carries-hepatitis-E-virus
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Pink_pork_often_carries_hepatitis_E_virus)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Pink_pork_often_carries_hepatitis_E_virus%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/21/chefs-pork-pink">"Pink
pork"</a> often carries the hepatitis E virus, which can be fatal to
humans.


title: Senate's bill to shield journalists
uri: Senate-s-bill-to-shield-journalists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Senates_bill_to_shield_journalists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Senates_bill_to_shield_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The Senate's bill to shield journalists has become 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/senate-revises-media-shield-law-better-its-still-imperfect">a
little closer to adequate</a>.
<p>
But it is still 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/united-states-senate-committee-s-amendments-19-09-2013,45201.html">far
short</a> of what is required.


title: Latest iThings less environmentally friendly
uri: Latest-iThings-less-environmentally-friendly
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Latest_iThings_less_environmentally_friendly)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Latest_iThings_less_environmentally_friendly%29

content:
<p>
The latest iThings are 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/ifixit-teardown-apples-latest-iphones-not-as-green-as-schiller-claims/">a
step back</a> in terms of environmental friendliness and
recyclability.


title: UK tried to take over Belgian computers
uri: UK-tried-to-take-over-Belgian-computers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(UK_tried_to_take_over_Belgian_computers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28UK_tried_to_take_over_Belgian_computers%29

content:
<p>
The UK tried to take over the computers of 
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/british-spy-agency-gchq-hacked-belgian-telecoms-firm-a-923406.html">Belgium's
national telecommunications infrastructure</a>.
<p>
Belgium is supposed to be an ally of the UK.  The Belgian government
is now 
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/belgian-prime-minister-angry-at-claims-of-british-spying-a-923583.html">very
angry</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(House_Republicans_vote)
title: House Republicans vote
uri: House-Republicans-vote
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28House_Republicans_vote%29
content:
<p>
House Republicans voted to 
<a hef="http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/09/20/house-votes-to-cut-food-stamps-by-40-billion/">cut
food stamps drastically</a>, and to 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/us/politics/house-spending-bill.html?pagewanted=all">eliminate
funds for health care</a>.


title: Workers in London defeat plan to use fingerprint-checking timeclocks
uri: Workers-in-London-defeat-plan-to-use-fingerprint-checking-timeclocks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Workers_in_London_defeat_plan_to_use_fingerprint-checking_timeclocks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Workers_in_London_defeat_plan_to_use_fingerprint-checking_timeclocks%29

content:
<p>
Cleaning workers in the London subways 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/london-tube-staff-oppose-introduction-of-fingerprint-recognition-machines/a-17100347">went
on strike to block fingerprint-checking timeclocks</a>, and defeated
the plan.


title: Children working on farms in North Carolina unprotected
uri: Children-working-on-farms-in-North-Carolina-unprotected
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Children_working_on_farms_in_North_Carolina_unprotected)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Children_working_on_farms_in_North_Carolina_unprotected%29

content:
<p>
Children working on farms in North Carolina have to work for 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/17/north-carolina-choosing-not-protect-child-farmworkers">10
hours a day, without protection from pesticides</a>.


title: Kidnap of poor children and teenagers in Delhi
uri: Kidnap-of-poor-children-and-teenagers-in-Delhi
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Kidnap_of_poor_children_and_teenagers_in_Delhi)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Kidnap_of_poor_children_and_teenagers_in_Delhi%29

content:
<p>
Gangs 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/delhis-missing-children-forced-into-farm-labor/a-17090804">kidnap
poor children and teenagers</a> in Delhi, and sell them into slavery
in nearby rural areas.
<p>
The thugs' lack of interest suggests to me that they are getting
bribed.


title: US "military cooperation" programs in Latin America
uri: US-military-cooperation-programs-in-Latin-America
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(US_military_cooperation_programs_in_Latin_America)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28US_military_cooperation_programs_in_Latin_America%29

content:
<p>
The US uses 
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/09/u-s-urged-to-curb-militarisation-in-latin-america/">"military
cooperation" programs</a> to get around human rights laws and
encourage military coups and militarist regimes in Latin America.
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2010-jan-apr.html#23%20February%202010%20(US%20training%20terrorists)">Colombia</a>
and
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#10_June_2012_(Insecurity_forces_in_Honduras)">Honduras</a>
are the clearest examples.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Merkel_Victory_a_Blow_to_Europe)
title: Merkel Victory a Blow to Europe
uri: Merkel-Victory-a-Blow-to-Europe
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Merkel_Victory_a_Blow_to_Europe%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/23">Merkel
Victory a Blow to Europe Reeling Under Austerity's Thumb</a>.


title: Planned coal mines in Queensland, Australia
uri: Planned-coal-mines-in-Queensland-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Planned_coal_mines_in_Queensland_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Planned_coal_mines_in_Queensland_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Planned coal mines in Queensland, Australia, would suck up so much
water that they would 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/23/coal-australia">devastate
local agriculture</a>.
<p>
Burning the coal would devastate agriculture world-wide, but that
would take more time.


title: Netanyahu's response after Palestinian shoots Israeli soldier
uri: Netanyahu-s-response-after-Palestinian-shoots-Israeli-soldier
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Netanyahus_response_after_Palestinian_shoots_Israeli_soldier)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Netanyahus_response_after_Palestinian_shoots_Israeli_soldier%29

content:
<p>
A Palestinian shot an Israeli soldier, so as punishment, Netanyahu
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/israeli-soldiers-deaths-protests">sent
colonists back into a disputed house in Hebron</a> (where Israelis
have
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#07%20April%202011%20(Israeli%20Colonists)">pushed
Palestinians out of important parts of the city</a>).


title: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova reports on prison conditions
uri: Nadezhda-Tolokonnikova-reports-on-prison-conditions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Nadezhda_Tolokonnikova_reports_on_prison_conditions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Nadezhda_Tolokonnikova_reports_on_prison_conditions%29

content:
<p>
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot says that that women in her
prison are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/pussy-riot-hunger-strike-prison">forced
to work 17 hours a day and get only 4 hours of sleep</a>.


title: Microrefuges for cold-adapted plant species
uri: Microrefuges-for-cold-adapted-plant-species
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Microrefuges_for_cold-adapted_plant_species)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Microrefuges_for_cold-adapted_plant_species%29

content:
<p>
Microrefuges may enable some cold-adapted plant species to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/23/arctic-alpine-plants-temperature-rise">avoid
extinction due to global heating</a>.
<p>
Whether they can hang on depends on how much global heating occurs.
If the Earth heats up by 8C on the average, in the Arctic it will be
more.


title: UN agency urges decriminalization of sex work
uri: UN-agency-urges-decriminalization-of-sex-work
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(UN_agency_urges_decriminalization_of_sex_work)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28UN_agency_urges_decriminalization_of_sex_work%29

content:
<p>
A UN agency urges decriminalization of sex work so as to end
<a href="media/2700fd2b.Sex-Work-and-the-Law-in-Asia-and-The-Pacific-UN.pdf" data-original-source="http://nothing-about-us-without-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Sex-Work-and-the-Law-in-Asia-and-The-Pacific-UN.pdf">transmission
of diseases</a>.
<p>
In principle, I see nothing wrong with requiring use of condoms or
requiring that sex workers get regular tests for diseases they might
spread.  It is normal to have safety standards on various kinds of
work, including food preparation, for the sake of public health.
<p>
How could this do any harm?  Only if there are people who desperately
need to do sex work; but that implies the state is failing to take
care of people who are poor and ill.


title: Israeli soldiers throw EU diplomat to the ground as she tries to deliver aid
uri: Israeli-soldiers-throw-EU-diplomat-to-the-ground-as-she-tries-to-deliv
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Israeli_soldiers_throw_EU_diplomat_to_the_ground_as_she_tries_to_deliver_aid)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Israeli_soldiers_throw_EU_diplomat_to_the_ground_as_she_tries_to_deliver_aid%29

content:
<p>
An EU
diplomat <a href="http://rt.com/news/eu-diplomats-manhandled-israeli-147/">tried
to deliver tents to Palestinians</a> whose homes had been demolished
by Israeli soldiers.  More soldiers attacked them, and took away the
tents and the truck they were brought in.
<p>
Incredibly, the Israeli government condemns the diplomat for punching
a soldier in the face after they had 
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/EU-calls-on-Israel-to-explain-IDF-mistreatment-of-diplomats-in-West-Bank-326721">thrown
her to the ground</a>.
<p>
And they did the same thing again to a group of other diplomats, and
to the Red Cross.
<p>
These arrogant bastards think they are entitled to do anything they
like to anyone, then condemn even the slightest resistance.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/press_releases/1379713504/">what
Gush Shalom has to say about it</a>.


title: Americans recognize that their lives are getting worse
uri: Americans-recognize-that-their-lives-are-getting-worse
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Americans_recognize_that_their_lives_are_getting_worse)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Americans_recognize_that_their_lives_are_getting_worse%29

content:
<p>
Americans are recognizing that their lives are getting worse and that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/22/american-dream-wages-stagnate-delusional-myth">government
policies are responsible</a>.


title: Data on the effects of unjust trade treaties
uri: Data-on-the-effects-of-unjust-trade-treaties
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Data_on_the_effects_of_unjust_trade_treaties)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Data_on_the_effects_of_unjust_trade_treaties%29

content:
<p>
Obama's chosen "trade advisors" continue to tell him that unjust trade
treaties will boost US exports, though the 
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/09/obamas-corporate-export-council-ignores-dismal-export-data-backs-more-of-the-same-trade-deals.html">facts
say otherwise</a>.
<p>
They say this because they represent the businesses that want these
treaties, as Obama well knows.
<p>
How the treaties affect US exports is a side issue — what's
important is that these treaties give companies 
<a href="media/4730e56b.tradetreaty-news.jpg" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/images/tradetreaty-news.jpg">more power
to hurt people</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Users_sue_LinkedIn)
title: Users sue LinkedIn
uri: Users-sue-LinkedIn
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Users_sue_LinkedIn%29
content:
<p>
Users are suing LinkedIn for 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/linkedin-sued-by-users-who-say-it-hacked-their-e-mail-accounts/">surreptitiously
collecting their email address lists for spamming</a>.
<p>
LinkedIn can figure out the name to associate with your email address
by <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6425444">finding it
in other people's address lists</a>, where they may have associated it
with your name.
<p>
Note that if they get this data from Gmail, then your correspondents
have already told Google to associate that address with your name, and
that's bad too.


title: Cutting fossil fuel combustion would save millions of lives
uri: Cutting-fossil-fuel-combustion-would-save-millions-of-lives
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Cutting_fossil_fuel_combustion_would_save_millions_of_lives)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Cutting_fossil_fuel_combustion_would_save_millions_of_lives%29

content:
<p>
Cutting fossil fuel combustion would save 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/22/clean-air-climate-change-lives">millions
of lives</a>, over the course of the century, from reduction in air
pollution — over and above avoiding global heating disaster.


title: Egypt has banned the Muslim Brotherhood
uri: Egypt-has-banned-the-Muslim-Brotherhood
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Egypt_has_banned_the_Muslim_Brotherhood)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Egypt_has_banned_the_Muslim_Brotherhood%29

content:
<p>
Egypt
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/24/banning-muslim-brotherhood-egypt-islamists">banned
the Muslim Brotherhood.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Drug_addicts_in_prison)
title: Drug addicts in prison
uri: Drug-addicts-in-prison
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Drug_addicts_in_prison%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/24/michael-douglas-emmys-son-prison-system">US
puts drug addicts in prison and offers them nothing to do except take
drugs</a>, for which they get sentenced to more time in prison.
<p>
Over 700,000 people were arrested in the US last year
for <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/09/16/police-made-one-marijuana-arrest-every-42-seconds-in-2012">possession
of marijuana.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(US_nuclear_plants_close)
title: US nuclear plants close
uri: US-nuclear-plants-close
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28US_nuclear_plants_close%29
content:
<p>
Economic
conditions <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/24/us-nuclear-power-closures">have
made US nuclear plants close</a>, and more may follow.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Cruel_right-wing_Americans)
title: Cruel right-wing Americans
uri: Cruel-right-wing-Americans
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Cruel_right-wing_Americans%29
content:
<p>
Cruel right-wing Americans
say <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/24/snap-artemis-wildland-food-stamps">people
who get food stamps should get a job.</a>  Alas, many of them already
have a job and they can't live on the low pay.
<p>
So how
about <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_August_2013_(Low_wages_in_US)">raising
the minimum wage?</a>


title: Lawyer blocked from accompanying drone victims
uri: Lawyer-blocked-from-accompanying-drone-victims
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Lawyer_blocked_from_accompanying_drone_victims)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Lawyer_blocked_from_accompanying_drone_victims%29

content:
<p>
Victims of drone attacks in Pakistan are coming to testify in
Congress, but their lawyer seems to have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/24/us-accused-drone-hearing-lawyer-visa-pakistan">intentionally
blocked from accompanying them</a>. The victims are reluctant to come
without their lawyer.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Nuclear_negotiations_with_Iran)
title: Nuclear negotiations with Iran
uri: Nuclear-negotiations-with-Iran
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Nuclear_negotiations_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
Obama asked Kerry
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/24/obama-iran-un-general-assembly-speech">lead
nuclear negotiations with Iran.</a>
<p>
This opens the possibility of a negotiated end to Syria's civil war. I
am glad Obama has recognized the US wrong in overthrowing Iran's
democratic government in 1953.  I hope this will lead to apologizing.


title: Playwright pursued by authorities
uri: Playwright-pursued-by-authorities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 24_September_2013_(Playwright_pursued_by_authorities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#24_September_2013_%28Playwright_pursued_by_authorities%29

content:
<p>
Playwright <a href="http://www.ifex.org/lebanon/2013/09/13/play_about_censors_censored/">pursued
by Lebanese authorities for his play on censorship.</a>


title: Urgent: Avoid killing an estimated thousand whales
uri: Urgent-Avoid-killing-an-estimated-thousand-whales
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 24_September_2013_(Urgent:_Avoid_killing_an_estimated_thousand_whales)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#24_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Avoid_killing_an_estimated_thousand_whales%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the "Defense" Department
to <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3053">change
Navy plans to avoid killing an estimated thousand whales by deafening
them.</a>


title: Thugs beat up and arrested journalists
uri: Thugs-beat-up-and-arrested-journalists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 24_September_2013_(Thugs_beat_up_and_arrested_journalists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#24_September_2013_%28Thugs_beat_up_and_arrested_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Angolan
thugs <a href="http://www.cpj.org/2013/09/angolan-police-assault-detain-journalists.php">beat
up and arrested journalists</a> who covered the release of protesters
who had been arrested.


title: Funding surveillance on the local level
uri: Funding-surveillance-on-the-local-level
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 24_September_2013_(Funding_surveillance_on_the_local_level)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#24_September_2013_%28Funding_surveillance_on_the_local_level%29

content:
<p>
Department of Homeland
Security <a href="http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=14829">funding
surveillance on the local level.</a>


title: Urgent: Free human rights lawyer Anas Barghouti
uri: Urgent-Free-human-rights-lawyer-Anas-Barghouti
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 24_September_2013_(Urgent:_Free_human_rights_lawyer_Anas_Barghouti)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#24_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Free_human_rights_lawyer_Anas_Barghouti%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Israel
to <a href="http://samidoun.ca/2013/09/take-action-palestinian-lawyer-anas-barghouti-arrested-by-israeli-occupation/#freeanas">free
human rights lawyer Anas Barghouti.</a>


title: Convicted of giving information to journalists
uri: Convicted-of-giving-information-to-journalists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 24_September_2013_(Convicted_of_giving_information_to_journalists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#24_September_2013_%28Convicted_of_giving_information_to_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Whistleblower Donald Sachtleben has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/24/yemen-leak-sachtleben-guilty-associated-press">convicted
of giving information to journalists</a>. He was identified through
the seizure of the phone records for 20 staff of the Associated Press.
<p>
He was also convicted of possessing "child" pornography, which is
defined to include images of anyone under 18.  You shouldn't assume
that having those images is in any way wrong — but even if in
his case it were wrong, it would not justify prosecuting him for
giving information to the public.


title: Treatment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons
uri: Treatment-of-Palestinians-in-Israeli-prisons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 24_September_2013_(Treatment_of_Palestinians_in_Israeli_prisons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#24_September_2013_%28Treatment_of_Palestinians_in_Israeli_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Leena Jawabreh writes about
the <a href="http://samidoun.ca/2013/09/facing-imprisonment-in-israeli-jails-a-palestinian-womans-testimony-by-leena-jawabreh/">treatment
she and other Palestinian prisoners encounter in Israeli prisons.</a>


title: Taliban killed 85 Christians leaving church
uri: Taliban-killed-85-Christians-leaving-church
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 24_September_2013_(Taliban_killed_85_Christians_leaving_church)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#24_September_2013_%28Taliban_killed_85_Christians_leaving_church%29

content:
<p>
Pakistani
Taliban <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/pakistan-church-bombings-christian-minority">killed
85 Christians leaving church</a>, saying this it was a reprisal
against US drone attacks.
<p>
The drone attacks ought to be stopped, because they kill many innocent
civilians.  However, what these fanatics do is no better.


title: Urgent: Oppose the Monsanto Protection Act
uri: Urgent-Oppose-the-Monsanto-Protection-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 24_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_Monsanto_Protection_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#24_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_Monsanto_Protection_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators
to <a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm">oppose
the Monsanto Protection Act.</a>
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Fazil_Say_retried_for_blasphemy)
title: Fazıl Say retried for "blasphemy"
uri: Fazıl-Say-retried-for-blasphemy
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Fazil_Say_retried_for_blasphemy%29

content:
<p>
Fazıl Say was retried and again 
<a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-pianist-fazil-say-sentenced-to-10-months-in-prison-for-blasphemy-in-retrial.aspx?pageID=238&nID=54824&NewsCatID=341">sentenced
to prison for "blasphemy"</a>.
<p>
Evil religious tyrants!


title: Urgent: Call on Attorney General Holder to fight voter suppression laws
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Attorney-General-Holder-to-fight-voter-suppression-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Attorney_General_Holder_to_fight_voter_suppression_laws)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Attorney_General_Holder_to_fight_voter_suppression_laws%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14308">call
on Attorney General Holder</a> to fight hard against voter suppression
laws.


title: Urgent: Oppose strip mining for shale oil in wilderness area
uri: Urgent-Oppose-strip-mining-for-shale-oil-in-wilderness-area
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_strip_mining_for_shale_oil_in_wilderness_area)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_strip_mining_for_shale_oil_in_wilderness_area%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3233">call
on Utah</a> not to permit strip mining for shale oil in a wilderness
area.


title: Urgent: Support Obama's refusal to bow to threats over debt ceiling
uri: Urgent-Support-Obama-s-refusal-to-bow-to-threats-over-debt-ceiling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Obamas_refusal_to_bow_to_threats_over_debt_ceiling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Obamas_refusal_to_bow_to_threats_over_debt_ceiling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=577">Tell
Obama</a> you support his refusal to bow to Republican threats over
the debt ceiling.


title: Double-blind study shows magnets don't reduce pain of arthritis
uri: Double-blind-study-shows-magnets-don-t-reduce-pain-of-arthritis
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Double-blind_study_shows_magnets_dont_reduce_pain_of_arthritis)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Double-blind_study_shows_magnets_dont_reduce_pain_of_arthritis%29

content:
<p>
A double-blind study found that 
<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/magnets-fail-to-relieve-arthritis-pain/?_r=0">wearing
magnets fails to reduce the pain of arthritis</a>.
<p>
The fact that so many people believe the magnets help them testifies
to people's tendency to be misled by cures.  I suppose ancient
Egyptians were quite convinced that their magic amulets reduced the
pain of arthritis.


title: NSA officials who misled court not investigated
uri: NSA-officials-who-misled-court-not-investigated
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(NSA_officials_who_misled_court_not_investigated)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28NSA_officials_who_misled_court_not_investigated%29

content:
<p>
Two FISA court judges separately asked the Department of Justice to
investigate NSA officials for misleading the court.  But there was 
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/19/nsa-surveillance-justice-opr-investigation/2805867/">no
investigation</a>.
<p>
I suppose they used their influence to avoid one.


title: Subcontracting food service to Sodexo cheats students and soldiers
uri: Subcontracting-food-service-to-Sodexo-cheats-students-and-soldiers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Subcontracting_food_service_to_Sodexo_cheats_students_and_soldiers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Subcontracting_food_service_to_Sodexo_cheats_students_and_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
Subcontracting food service to Sodexo cheats students, soldiers, whoever has
to eat it — and 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12221/outsourcing-america-sodexo-food-service-contractor-siphons-cash-kids-and-soldiers">the
public too</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Advertising)
title: Advertising
uri: Advertising
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Advertising%29
content:
<p>
Some shoppers waiting in checkout lines are so 
<a href="http://priceonomics.com/are-smartphones-making-us-less-impulsive/">absorbed
with smartphones</a> that they become resistant to manipulation aimed
at provoking impulse buying.
<p>
The article insults our intelligence by pretending that we are all
suckers both for marketing and for portable phones.  I don't know
about you, but I resist them both pretty well.  Nonetheless, I linked
to the article because it has an interesting point about advertising.
<p>
Let's pass laws to ban retail stores (and hotels) from using computers
from using sensors to recognize anything about their customers except
that they are shoplifting, and from interfering in any way with
communication to their computers.  There is no reason these companies
should be allowed to do whatever they wish to people.


title: Chemical and nuclear weapons in Israel and Egypt
uri: Chemical-and-nuclear-weapons-in-Israel-and-Egypt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Chemical_and_nuclear_weapons_in_Israel_and_Egypt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Chemical_and_nuclear_weapons_in_Israel_and_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
In negotiations about chemical weapons in Syria and possible future
Iranian nuclear weapons, the US must recognize
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/opinion/global/lets-be-honest-about-israels-nukes.html?_r=2&">chemical
weapons in Israel and Egypt, and real Israeli nuclear weapons</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Israeli_destroys_Bedouin_camp)
title: Israeli destroys Bedouin camp
uri: Israeli-destroys-Bedouin-camp
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Israeli_destroys_Bedouin_camp%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli army destroyed a 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=61110">Bedouin
camp</a>; previously it had destroyed the village that they lived in
before 1967.


title: UK border thugs interrogate Yemeni human rights activist
uri: UK-border-thugs-interrogate-Yemeni-human-rights-activist
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(UK_border_thugs_interrogate_Yemeni_human_rights_activist)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28UK_border_thugs_interrogate_Yemeni_human_rights_activist%29

content:
<p>
UK border thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/24/border-force-intimidate-human-rights-workers">interrogated
a Yemeni human rights activist</a> who was coming to give a speech at
a conference.  This is apparently because he helps to represent
victims of drone attacks.
<p>
The supposed reason for the interrogation was suspicion of terrorism,
but what they actually asked him about were the plans of the British
human rights organization Reprieve that he works for.  This is prima
facie evidence that the UK government dishonestly abuses this power.


title: Rouhani's speech a move towards future negotiation
uri: Rouhani-s-speech-a-move-towards-future-negotiation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Rouhanis_speech_a_move_towards_future_negotiation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Rouhanis_speech_a_move_towards_future_negotiation%29

content:
<p>
Although Rouhani refused to talk with Obama at the UN, his speech was a move
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/iranian-president-speech-walks-middle-ground">towards
future negotiation</a>, which will begin between 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_(Nuclear_negotiations_with_Iran)">foreign ministers</a>.


title: Putin threatens to imprison Greenpeace activists for 15 years
uri: Putin-threatens-to-imprison-Greenpeace-activists-for-15-years
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 25_September_2013_(Putin_threatens_to_imprison_Greenpeace_activists_for_15_years)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_September_2013_%28Putin_threatens_to_imprison_Greenpeace_activists_for_15_years%29

content:
<p>
Putin 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/24/russia-greenpeace-piracy-oil-rig-protest">threatens
to declare Greenpeace activists guilty of "piracy"</a> and imprison
them for 15 years.
<p>
The excuse for this charge, that Russian troops chose to imagine that
the Greenpeace protesters carried a bomb, is ridiculous, but it is
also irrelevant.  Under Putin, show trials issue whatever verdict
Putin tells them to.
<p>
I expect Putin will try to use the threat to negotiate for some sort
of concession from Greenpeace which would corrupt its spirit for the
long term.  That would be a much bigger victory for him than putting
some activists in prison.  I hope Greenpeace has the firmness to
refuse any long-term concession.
<p>
The Greenpeace protesters were nonviolent, but when a tyrant puts
nonviolent protesters in prison, violent action against the tyrant
ceases to be wrong.


title: Urgent: Spousal benefits for same-sex couples
uri: Urgent-Spousal-benefits-for-same-sex-couples
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Urgent:_Spousal_benefits_for_same-sex_couples)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Spousal_benefits_for_same-sex_couples%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the US to require all states
to <a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/stop-denying-benefits-same-sex-couples-serving-national-guard">recognize
spousal benefits for same-sex couples</a> involving National Guard
members.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Urgent:_Mining_in_Oak_Flat)
title: Urgent: Mining in Oak Flat
uri: Urgent-Mining-in-Oak-Flat
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Mining_in_Oak_Flat%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14276">oppose
a hasty plan to allow mining in Oak Flat without public hearings.</a>


title: US spied on phone calls of highest Greek officials
uri: US-spied-on-phone-calls-of-highest-Greek-officials
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(US_spied_on_phone_calls_of_highest_Greek_officials)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28US_spied_on_phone_calls_of_highest_Greek_officials%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://wikileaks-press.org/us-caught-spying-on-greek-diplomatic-communications-in-2004-2005/">US
spied on the phone calls of the highest Greek officials</a> in
2004-2005.


title: The post office a savings bank too
uri: The-post-office-a-savings-bank-too
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(The_post_office_a_savings_bank_too)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28The_post_office_a_savings_bank_too%29

content:
<p>
The US could solve several financial problems at once by having
the <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/24/what-we-could-do-with-a-postal-savings-bank/">post
office become a savings bank too.</a>


title: NSA spied on phone calls of Martin Luther King Jr
uri: NSA-spied-on-phone-calls-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(NSA_spied_on_phone_calls_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28NSA_spied_on_phone_calls_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/nsa-surveillance-anti-vietnam-muhammad-ali-mlk">NSA
spied in the 60s on phone calls of Martin Luther King Jr</a>, as well
as other political activists and journalists.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Pilots_asleep_at_wheel)
title: Pilots asleep at wheel
uri: Pilots-asleep-at-wheel
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Pilots_asleep_at_wheel%29
content:
<p>
The EU
proposes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/airbus-pilots-asleep-autopilot-caa">relaxing
rules designed to make sure pilots don't fall asleep at the wheel</a>,
but the existing rules don't always prevent it.


title: Facebook censored an ACLU post about censorship
uri: Facebook-censored-an-ACLU-post-about-censorship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Facebook_censored_an_ACLU_post_about_censorship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Facebook_censored_an_ACLU_post_about_censorship%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/naked-statue-reveals-one-thing-facebook-censorship">Facebook
censored an ACLU post about censorship.</a>
<p>
This is a further reason why Facebook is the wrong place for your
posting.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Prescription_records)
title: Prescription records
uri: Prescription-records
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Prescription_records%29
content:
<p>
The DEA Thinks You Have No Constitutionally Protected Privacy Interest
in <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/dea-thinks-you-have-no-constitutionally-protected">Your
Confidential Prescription Records.</a>


title: Can We Prevent a Full-Blown Police State
uri: Can-We-Prevent-a-Full-Blown-Police-State
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Can_We_Prevent_a_Full-Blown_Police_State)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Can_We_Prevent_a_Full-Blown_Police_State%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/activism/we-live-under-total-surveillance-state-america-can-we-prevent-it-evolving-full-blown-police?paging=off">We
Live Under a Total Surveillance State in America</a> — Can We
Prevent It from Evolving into a Full-Blown Police State?


title: Surveillance devices can track all phone calls in area
uri: Surveillance-devices-can-track-all-phone-calls-in-area
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Surveillance_devices_can_track_all_phone_calls_in_area)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Surveillance_devices_can_track_all_phone_calls_in_area%29

content:
<p>
Surveillance
devices <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/meet-the-machines-that-steal-your-phones-data/">can
track all the phone calls in an area</a>, even thousands.  Some just
get the identifying numbers while others record conversations.


title: "If you see something, say something"
uri: If-you-see-something-say-something
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(If_you_see_something,_say_something)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28If_you_see_something%2C_say_something%29

content:
<p>
"If you see something, say something" turns out to mean, in practice,
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130924/10470524637/documents-obtained-aclu-show-fusion-centers-broad-surveillance-americans-everyday-activities.shtml">"Help
build a database about anything vaguely suspect about everyone."</a>


title: Playboy making legal threats to shut down parody
uri: Playboy-making-legal-threats-to-shut-down-parody
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Playboy_making_legal_threats_to_shut_down_parody_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Playboy_making_legal_threats_to_shut_down_parody_%29

content:
<p>
Playboy is making legal threats
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/dear-playboy-eff-defends-groups-targeted-bogus-takedowns">shut
down a parody campaign that criticizes it.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose all cuts in food stamps
uri: Urgent-Oppose-all-cuts-in-food-stamps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 26_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_all_cuts_in_food_stamps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#26_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_all_cuts_in_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=583">this
petition</a> to oppose all cuts in food stamps.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 26_September_2013_(Schizophrenia)
title: Schizophrenia
uri: Schizophrenia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#26_September_2013_%28Schizophrenia%29
content:
<p>
The imaginary voices that schizophrenics hear are different in
different cultures — and one study found it is 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/opinion/luhrmann-the-violence-in-our-heads.html?_r=0">possible
to influence the voices so that they become gentler</a>.


title: Time Warner signing up superintendents to rat on residents
uri: Time-Warner-signing-up-superintendents-to-rat-on-residents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 26_September_2013_(Time_Warner_signing_up_superintendents_to_rat_on_residents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#26_September_2013_%28Time_Warner_signing_up_superintendents_to_rat_on_residents%29

content:
<p>
Time Warner is signing up building superintendents to 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/nyregion/for-building-superintendents-free-cable-comes-with-fine-print.html?hp">rat
on building residents</a> as the price of a cable hookup, instead of
money.
<p>
I have a suspicion that cable boxes nowadays snoop on their users.
Nowadays, they talk over the Internet.  Any computer that is inside
your home and not yours is a possible snooping point.


title: Australian politician proposes to ban boycott campaigns
uri: Australian-politician-proposes-to-ban-boycott-campaigns
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 26_September_2013_(Australian_politician_proposes_to_ban_boycott_campaigns)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#26_September_2013_%28Australian_politician_proposes_to_ban_boycott_campaigns%29

content:
<p>
An Australian politician from the party that controls the state
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/25/consumer-boycott-ban-does-senator-richard-colbeck-hate-orangutans">proposes
to ban boycott campaigns</a>.
<p>
It shows the true colors of the right wing: "All power to the rich".


title: UK's Green Party MP faces criminal charges for nonviolent protest
uri: UK-s-Green-Party-MP-faces-criminal-charges-for-nonviolent-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 26_September_2013_(UKs_Green_Party_MP_faces_criminal_charges_for_nonviolent_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#26_September_2013_%28UKs_Green_Party_MP_faces_criminal_charges_for_nonviolent_protest%29

content:
<p>
The UK's Green Party MP faces criminal charges for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/25/green-caroline-lucas-charged-fracking-protest">nonviolent
protest</a>.
<p>
Perhaps she will be accused of "piracy".


title: Facebook designed to get users addicted to vanity
uri: Facebook-designed-to-get-users-addicted-to-vanity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 26_September_2013_(Facebook_designed_to_get_users_addicted_to_vanity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#26_September_2013_%28Facebook_designed_to_get_users_addicted_to_vanity%29

content:
<p>
Facebook is designed to get users 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/25/facebook-vain-tools-ideology-sharing-users">addicted
to vanity</a>.


title: Mines in South American to pay medical compensation to miners
uri: Mines-in-South-American-to-pay-medical-compensation-to-miners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 26_September_2013_(Mines_in_South_American_to_pay_medical_compensation_to_miners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#26_September_2013_%28Mines_in_South_American_to_pay_medical_compensation_to_miners%29

content:
<p>
Mines in South Africa will have to pay compensation to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/25/south-african-gold-miners-payout-anglo-american">miners
who got lung disease from their work</a>.
<p>
This will not only pay for their medical treatment, but compel the
mines to take precautions for the health of other miners in the
future.


title: Putin says Greenpeace activists aren't pirates after all
uri: Putin-says-Greenpeace-activists-aren-t-pirates-after-all
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 26_September_2013_(Putin_says_Greenpeace_activists_arent_pirates_after_all)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#26_September_2013_%28Putin_says_Greenpeace_activists_arent_pirates_after_all%29

content:
<p>
Putin says that the Greenpeace activists are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/25/vladimir-putin-greenpeace-kenya-mall-attack">not
pirates after all</a>.
<p>
However, he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/greenpeace-activists-denied-bail-russia-court-piracy">has
not told the prosecutors not to charge them with piracy</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Urgent:_Defend_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Defend Social Security
uri: Urgent-Defend-Social-Security
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support the congresscritters
that <a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8614">joined
a protest to defend Social Security. </a>


title: Urgent: US campaign contribution limits
uri: Urgent-US-campaign-contribution-limits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Urgent:_US_campaign_contribution_limits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_US_campaign_contribution_limits%29

content:
<p>
On October 8: join a protest in the
US <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/issues/government-people/mccutcheon-v-fec-activist-toolkit">against
the attempt to further undermine US campaign contribution limits.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Private_prisons)
title: Private prisons
uri: Private-prisons
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Private_prisons%29
content:
<p>
When government activities are privatized, the company has to squeeze
somewhere to make its big
bucks.  <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12255/violence-abuse-and-death-profit-prisons-geo-group-rap-sheet">Here's
how private prisons do it.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose plans to impose tyranny on Internet
uri: Urgent-Oppose-plans-to-impose-tyranny-on-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_plans_to_impose_tyranny_on_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_plans_to_impose_tyranny_on_Internet%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://openmedia.org/censorship?utm_source=roots&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=apec">oppose
the TPP plans to impose tyranny on the Internet.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/trance-pacific-partnership.html">Why
would anyone sign such a thing?</a>


title: Deceptive plan for "voluntary" labeling of GMO foods
uri: Deceptive-plan-for-voluntary-labeling-of-GMO-foods
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Deceptive_plan_for_voluntary_labeling_of_GMO_foods)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Deceptive_plan_for_voluntary_labeling_of_GMO_foods%29

content:
<p>
Two Democratic Senators have asked the FDA to finalize
a <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_28376.cfm">deceptive
plan for "voluntary" labeling of GMO foods</a> — one that would
block state requirements for mandatory labeling.


title: Copyright industry propaganda campaign
uri: Copyright-industry-propaganda-campaign
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Copyright_industry_propaganda_campaign)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Copyright_industry_propaganda_campaign%29

content:
<p>
The copyright industry
is <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/mpaa-school-propaganda/">designing
a massive propaganda campaign for US schools. </a>


title: Turkish protesters suffering from tear gas
uri: Turkish-protesters-suffering-from-tear-gas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Turkish_protesters_suffering_from_tear_gas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Turkish_protesters_suffering_from_tear_gas%29

content:
<p>
Thousands of Turkish protesters
are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/world/europe/turkish-protesters-are-still-said-to-be-ailing-from-tear-gas.html">still
suffering from the tear gas.</a>
<p>
11 were maimed by tear gas canisters shot at their faces by thugs that
sought to cause bodily harm.
<p>
The tyrannical Turkish government is not content with this.  It plans
to make it a crime for doctors to treat wounded protesters.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Texas's_voter_ID_law)
title: Texas's voter ID law
uri: Texas-s-voter-ID-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Texas%27s_voter_ID_law%29
content:
<p>
Texas's voter ID law
is <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/26/2683971/dorothy-card-voter-id/">disenfranchising
people because of bureaucratic hoops they can't jump through.</a>
<p>
Rich people can solve such problems; it's the poor who get blocked.


title: Urgent: Stop recording absurd suspicions reported by people
uri: Urgent-Stop-recording-absurd-suspicions-reported-by-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_recording_absurd_suspicions_reported_by_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_recording_absurd_suspicions_reported_by_people%29

content:
<p>
In the US: call on the US government
to <a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/stop-the-suspicion">stop to
recording absurd suspicions reported by people made paranoid by "If
you see something, say something."</a>
<p>
That campaign should be stopped, because its main effect is to provoke
an inordinate fear of terrorists — inordinate given the real
risk of being harmed by terrorists compared with other real dangers.


title: US women's access to birth control
uri: US-women-s-access-to-birth-control
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(US_women's_access_to_birth_control)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28US_women%27s_access_to_birth_control%29

content:
<p>
Obama's health care law
has <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/26/2684031/world-contraception-day-2013/">improved
US women's access to birth control,</a> but schools often mislead
teenagers about it.


title: Urgent: NBC news job is to correct lies not repeat them
uri: Urgent-NBC-news-job-is-to-correct-lies-not-repeat-them
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Urgent:_NBC_news_job_is_to_correct_lies_not_repeat_them)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_NBC_news_job_is_to_correct_lies_not_repeat_them%29

content:
<p>
In the US: tell NBC news that its job is
to <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-nbc-news-correcting-republican-lies-is-part-of-your-job?akid=9018.1183552.lP-ZkK&rd=1&t=1002">correct
politicians' lies, not just repeat them.</a>


title: Urgent: Give Yelp a bad review for supporting ALEC
uri: Urgent-Give-Yelp-a-bad-review-for-supporting-ALEC
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Urgent:_Give_Yelp_a_bad_review_for_supporting_ALEC)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Give_Yelp_a_bad_review_for_supporting_ALEC%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://TELLYELP.NO">give Yelp a bad review for
supporting ALEC,</a> the business-driven machine for right-wing state
laws in the US.


title: Right-wing gov't of Australia beholden to coal companies
uri: Right-wing-gov-t-of-Australia-beholden-to-coal-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_September_2013_(Right-wing_gov't_of_Australia_beholden_to_coal_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_September_2013_%28Right-wing_gov%27t_of_Australia_beholden_to_coal_companies%29

content:
<p>
The new right-wing government of Australia is so beholden to coal
companies that it is rushing illegally
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/26/climate-commission-abbott">shut
down a successful initiative that has boosted investment in clean
energy.</a>
<p>
Australia's targets for greenhouse gas reduction
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/27/coalition-raise-emissions-reduction-target">hopelessly
inadequate.</a>
<p>
Any target set for 7 years in the future, not accompanied by a
specific implementation plan, is an excuse for doing nothing.


title: Urgent: Oppose Monsanto Protection Act
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Monsanto-Protection-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_Monsanto_Protection_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Monsanto_Protection_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=589">email 
your congresscritter</a> to oppose the Monsanto
Protection Act.
<p>
The Senate just rejected it, so we have a great chance of winning, but
it isn't automatic.


title: Sudan shuts off Internet and kills protesters
uri: Sudan-shuts-off-Internet-and-kills-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Sudan_shuts_off_Internet_and_kills_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Sudan_shuts_off_Internet_and_kills_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Sudan's cruel government responded to protests by 
<a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/09/26/protests-in-sudan-dozens-feared-dead/">shutting
off the Internet and then killing protesters</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Malaysian_artists_works_seized)
title: Malaysian artist's works seized
uri: Malaysian-artist-s-works-seized
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Malaysian_artists_works_seized%29

content:
<p>
A Malaysian artist's works were 
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/malaysia/2013/09/17/artwork_seized/">seized</a>
because they criticized various politicians.


title: States in the US running out of drugs for executions
uri: States-in-the-US-running-out-of-drugs-for-executions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(States_in_the_US_running_out_of_drugs_for_executions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28States_in_the_US_running_out_of_drugs_for_executions%29

content:
<p>
Many states in the US are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/ohio-execution-drug-pentobarbital-eu-boycott">running
out of drugs for executions</a>.


title: UK gov't study on how to make the public feel good about wars
uri: UK-gov-t-study-on-how-to-make-the-public-feel-good-about-wars
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(UK_govt_study_on_how_to_make_the_public_feel_good_about_wars)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28UK_govt_study_on_how_to_make_the_public_feel_good_about_wars%29

content:
<p>
The UK government did a study on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/26/mod-study-sell-wars-public">how
to make the public feel good about wars</a>.


title: Breaking the link between palm oil and deforestation
uri: Breaking-the-link-between-palm-oil-and-deforestation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Breaking_the_link_between_palm_oil_and_deforestation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Breaking_the_link_between_palm_oil_and_deforestation%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/tighter-standards-palm-oil-deforestation">Breaking
the link</a> between palm oil and deforestation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Hassan_Rouhani)
title: Hassan Rouhani
uri: Hassan-Rouhani
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Hassan_Rouhani%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/26/iranian-bomb-hassan-rouhani-sanctions">If
We Fear an Iranian Bomb, We Should Back Hassan Rouhani</a>.


title: Tunisian rapper sentenced to prison for song
uri: Tunisian-rapper-sentenced-to-prison-for-song
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Tunisian_rapper_sentenced_to_prison_for_song)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Tunisian_rapper_sentenced_to_prison_for_song%29

content:
<p>
Ahmed Ben Ahmed, Tunisian rapper, has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/tunisia-rapper-jailed-insult-police">sentenced
to prison for a song</a> that criticized thugs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Somalis_in_Kenya_fear_reprisals)
title: Somalis in Kenya fear reprisals
uri: Somalis-in-Kenya-fear-reprisals
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Somalis_in_Kenya_fear_reprisals%29

content:
<p>
Somalis in Kenya 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/kenya-somalis-fear-westgate-backlash">fear
reprisals</a> for the terrorist attack.
<p>
There must be some way for Somalis in Kenya to organize against
al-Shabaab, thus both demonstrating their opposition to terrorism and
helping to defeat al-Shabaab.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_September_2013_(Japan_rushing_harsh_secrecy_bill)
title: Japan rushing harsh secrecy bill
uri: Japan-rushing-harsh-secrecy-bill
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_September_2013_%28Japan_rushing_harsh_secrecy_bill%29

content:
<p>
Japan's government is rushing a harsh secrecy bill that would 
<a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/25/editorials/drop-antidemocratic-secrecy-bill/">punish
reporters and their sources</a>.


title: Leaders of Greek fascist party arrested
uri: Leaders-of-Greek-fascist-party-arrested
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(Leaders_of_Greek_fascist_party_arrested)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28Leaders_of_Greek_fascist_party_arrested%29

content:
<p>
The leaders of the Greek fascist party have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/28/greek-police-golden-dawn-leader-nikolaos-michaloliakos">arrested
and charged with "founding a criminal organization".</a>
<p>
These charges may be true, if they planned to provoke the violence
that their followers have carried out.  However, political views in
and of themselves, even fascist views, can't justify labeling a
political party a "criminal organization".  If they could, the
Republican Party would qualify, since its purpose is to help
businesses rip off most Americans.


title: 30 years to global heating disaster
uri: 30-years-to-global-heating-disaster
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(30_years_to_global_heating_disaster)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%2830_years_to_global_heating_disaster%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/27/ipcc-world-dangerous-climate-change">30
years to global heating disaster, says the IPCC.</a>
<p>
Mocking the need to cut back on fossil
fuels, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2013/sep/27/ipcc-climate-change-report-global-warming">governments
continue to push to extract more.</a>
<p>
Here's an example of
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/28/climate-change-energy-bills-george-osborne">stupid
short-term thinking.</a>
<p>
If every government says "We don't want to be in the lead", none will
go anywhere.


title: Rouhani making effort for reconciliation with US
uri: Rouhani-making-effort-for-reconciliation-with-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(Rouhani_making_effort_for_reconciliation_with_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28Rouhani_making_effort_for_reconciliation_with_US%29

content:
<p>
Rouhani is making every possible effort for
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/27/iran-president-hassan-rouhani-us-nuclear-talks">reconciliation
with the US.</a>
<p>
Uri Avnery: for Netanyahu, Rouhani is the most horrible possible
president of
Iran, <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1380282300/">because
he doesn't do or say anything hostile.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(Non-Cash_payments)
title: Non-Cash payments
uri: Non-Cash-payments
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28Non-Cash_payments%29
content:
<p>
An additional reason to reject non-cash payment:
it <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2013/sep/27/cashless-society-spend-money-clinkle">encourages
spending without realizing how much you're spending.</a>
<p>
This is in addition to avoiding being tracked.


title: Urgent: Stop pressure on other countries to import tar sands oil
uri: Urgent-Stop-pressure-on-other-countries-to-import-tar-sands-oil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_pressure_on_other_countries_to_import_tar_sands_oil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_pressure_on_other_countries_to_import_tar_sands_oil%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/ustr_tarsands/">call on the
US Trade Representative</a> to stop pressuring other countries to
import tar sands oil.


title: Urgent: Tell Facebook, Google and Yelp to quit ALEC
uri: Urgent-Tell-Facebook-Google-and-Yelp-to-quit-ALEC
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Facebook_Google_and_Yelp_to_quit_ALEC)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Facebook_Google_and_Yelp_to_quit_ALEC%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/alec-facebook-google-yelp/">tell
Facebook, Google and Yelp</a> to quit ALEC.
<p>
ALEC is a right-wing scheme by which businesses twist state
legislators to pass the bills those businesses want.


title: Farmers see the effects of global heating
uri: Farmers-see-the-effects-of-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(Farmers_see_the_effects_of_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28Farmers_see_the_effects_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Farmers around the world see the effects of global heating, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/27/ipcc-climate-change-world-farmers">in
weather, in water supplies, and in pests</a>.


title: Global heating will hit poor countries hardest
uri: Global-heating-will-hit-poor-countries-hardest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(Global_heating_will_hit_poor_countries_hardest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28Global_heating_will_hit_poor_countries_hardest%29

content:
<p>
Global heating 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/27/climate-change-poor-countries-ipcc">will
hit poor countries hardest</a>, with floods here and droughts there.


title: The H-bomb accidentally dropped over North Carolina
uri: The-H-bomb-accidentally-dropped-over-North-Carolina
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(The_H-bomb_accidentally_dropped_over_North_Carolina)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28The_H-bomb_accidentally_dropped_over_North_Carolina%29

content:
<p>
The h-bomb accidentally dropped over North Carolina got ready to fire,
and only 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/27/atomic-bomb-north-carolina-video">one
unreliable switch</a> stopped it from detonating.


title: Migrant workers in Qatar worked to death
uri: Migrant-workers-in-Qatar-worked-to-death
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(Migrant_workers_in_Qatar_worked_to_death)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28Migrant_workers_in_Qatar_worked_to_death%29

content:
<p>
Migrant workers in Qatar are worked to death — 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/26/qatar-world-cup-migrant-workers-dead">400
die every year</a>, and it could rise to 600 a year due to
construction for the soccer world cup.
<p>
The International Labor Organisation says that the Qatar government
allows this to happen, because it
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/27/qatar-failing-forced-labour-un">does
not properly inspect the working conditions of migrant workers</a>.
<p>
The deadly heat of today's Qatar will be found in many more parts of the 
world if we don't limit our CO<sub>2</sub> emissions.


title: California prisoners united against inhumane treatment
uri: California-prisoners-united-against-inhumane-treatment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(California_prisoners_united_against_inhumane_treatment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28California_prisoners_united_against_inhumane_treatment%29

content:
<p>
Todd Ashker, California hunger strike organizer, says the prisoners
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/27/california-prison-hunger-strike-todd-ashker">will
resume their hunger strike if they don't get humane treatment</a>.
<p>
He managed to unite prisoners of different races, overcoming the
foolish racism that divides them and makes them easy to manipulate.
<p>
The guards say that solitary confinement is a punishment for belonging
to a gang, but they label someone a gang member on the flimsiest
pretexts, and the only way to get out of solitary is to 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#23_October_2012_(Solitary_confinement_in_California)">accuse 
others</a> (truly or not).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_September_2013_(Human-caused_global_heating)
title: Human-caused global heating
uri: Human-caused-global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28Human-caused_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The IPCC report concludes that human-caused global heating is
virtually a certainty.
<p>
Here are the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/27/ipcc-climate-report-six-things-learned">main
points</a>.
<p>
Melting sea ice means that traditional travel routes in the Arctic are
now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/sep/27/ipcc-climate-change-wwf-arctic">unsafe</a>.
<p>
How 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/27/global-warming-ipcc-report-humans">human
greenhouse gas emissions</a> relate to the heating.
<p>
Why the deniers' arguments are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/sep/27/global-warming-pause-mirage-ipcc">bogus</a>.
<p>
It comes down to, how big does a danger have to be before you try to
save yourself?


title: Humanity's weak response to global heating
uri: Humanity-s-weak-response-to-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Humanity's_weak_response_to_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Humanity%27s_weak_response_to_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
If scientists had said that an asteroid had a 90% chance of hitting
the Earth in a few decades, we'd be going all-out to deflect it.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/28/observer-editorial-climate-change-government-must-act">Contrast
that with humanity's weak response to global heating.</a>
<p>
Part of the difference is that no big companies would profit by
keeping the asteroid on its collision course.


title: Painting houses in shantytown to improve view from hotel
uri: Painting-houses-in-shantytown-to-improve-view-from-hotel
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Painting_houses_in_shantytown_to_improve_view_from_hotel)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Painting_houses_in_shantytown_to_improve_view_from_hotel%29

content:
<p>
The Haitian government is painting the houses in a shantytown
to <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/09/haitian-government-applies-make-up-to-misery/">improve
the view from an expensive new hotel.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Flowers_can't_be_pollinated)
title: Flowers can't be pollinated
uri: Flowers-can-t-be-pollinated
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Flowers_can%27t_be_pollinated%29

content:
<p>
Global heating changes some plants such that
their <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/09/rising-temperatures-hurt-pollination-and-food-production/">flowers
can't be pollinated.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Republican_extortion_campaign)
title: Republican extortion campaign
uri: Republican-extortion-campaign
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Republican_extortion_campaign%29

content:
<p>
US Republicans are considering
making <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/republicans-consider-blocking-net-neutrality-among-debt-ceiling-demands/">abolition
of network neutrality one of the goals of their extortion
campaign.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Google_will_be_fined_in_France)
title: Google will be fined in France
uri: Google-will-be-fined-in-France
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Google_will_be_fined_in_France%29

content:
<p>
Google will be fined in France
for <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-09-france-sanction-google-privacy.html">not
telling users how it uses their personal data.</a>


title: Global heating will increase number of severe thunderstorms in US
uri: Global-heating-will-increase-number-of-severe-thunderstorms-in-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Global_heating_will_increase_number_of_severe_thunderstorms_in_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Global_heating_will_increase_number_of_severe_thunderstorms_in_US%29

content:
<p>
A study concludes global heating
will <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-09-global-severe-thunderstorm-conditions.html">increase
the number of severe thunderstorms in the US.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Record_heat_in_China)
title: Record heat in China
uri: Record-heat-in-China
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Record_heat_in_China%29
content:
<p>
Record heat in China
is <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/28/2696221/thumb-sized-hornets-attack-warming-2/">enabling
deadly hornets to spread.</a>


title: In Fragmented Forests, Rapid Mammal Extinctions
uri: In-Fragmented-Forests-Rapid-Mammal-Extinctions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(In_Fragmented_Forests,_Rapid_Mammal_Extinctions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28In_Fragmented_Forests%2C_Rapid_Mammal_Extinctions%29

content:
<p>
In Fragmented
Forests, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/science/in-fragmented-forests-rapid-mammal-extinctions.html">Rapid
Mammal Extinctions.</a>
<p>
So if we don't maintain large tropical forests, we will wipe out many
species.


title: Climate Change Report Makes Deniers Overheat
uri: Climate-Change-Report-Makes-Deniers-Overheat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Climate_Change_Report_Makes_Deniers_Overheat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Climate_Change_Report_Makes_Deniers_Overheat%29

content:
<p>
The New IPPC Climate Change
Report <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/28/ipcc-climate-change-deniers">Makes
Deniers Overheat.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Useless_safety_measures)
title: Useless "safety" measures
uri: Useless-safety-measures
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Useless_safety_measures%29
content:
<p>
Schools in the US and elsewhere
are <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/03/07/silly-school-safety-solutions/">tying
themselves in knots for useless "safety" measures.</a>
<p>
These foolish measures only waste time and scare children.  Having a
thug in the school tends
to <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#23_January_2013_(US_school-to-prison_pipeline)">ruin
children's lives.</a>


title: Mainstream media lumping whistleblowers with murderers
uri: Mainstream-media-lumping-whistleblowers-with-murderers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Mainstream_media_lumping_whistleblowers_with_murderers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Mainstream_media_lumping_whistleblowers_with_murderers%29

content:
<p>
Mainstream media found
an <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/09/23/whistleblowers-and-mass-shooters-time-connects-the-dots/">excuse
to lump heroic whistleblowers together with mass murderers.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(China's_CO2_emissions)
title: China's CO2 emissions
uri: China-s-CO2-emissions
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28China%27s_CO2_emissions%29
content:
<p>
China's move from burning coal to burning natural gas won't reduce CO2
emissions, because
the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/26/chinas-efforts-to-clean-up-air-pollution-could-be-a-climate-disaster/">gas
will be obtained from coal.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Urgent:_Accord_with_Iran)
title: Urgent: Accord with Iran
uri: Urgent-Accord-with-Iran
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Accord_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: tell
Congress <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1439/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14346">not
to spoil the possibility for accord with Iran.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Global_Frackdown)
title: Urgent: Support Global Frackdown
uri: Urgent-Support-Global-Frackdown
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Global_Frackdown%29

content:
<p>
Everywhere: <a href="http://www.globalfrackdown.org/">support the
Global Frackdown on Oct 19.</a>


title: Urgent: Tell Barilla you will boycott its products
uri: Urgent-Tell-Barilla-you-will-boycott-its-products
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Barilla_you_will_boycott_its_products)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Barilla_you_will_boycott_its_products%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell Barilla you
will <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/no-barilla-pasta-for?source=mo&id=75473-2794606-QtWkWCx&=&=">boycott
its products until the owner takes back what he said about gay
people</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Urgent:_Internet_freedom)
title: Urgent: Internet freedom
uri: Urgent-Internet-freedom
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Internet_freedom%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Verizon
to <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_Verizon_come_clean/?akid=4450.9489429.y7qX-w&rd=1&t=1006">clean
up its act in regard to Internet freedom,</a> and help send it soap to
do this with.


title: Effect of climate disaster on Australia
uri: Effect-of-climate-disaster-on-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Effect_of_climate_disaster_on_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Effect_of_climate_disaster_on_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Detailing the effect of climate disaster on
Australia: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/27/climate-change-report-hotter-australia">the
Kakadu wetlands will cease to exist, being inundated, and so will many
species.</a>
<p>
Since Australia has already experienced temperatures of 50C, it can
expect to experience temperatures of 56C by the end of the century.
That is 132F.  It's almost as high as the highest air temperature ever
measured on Earth (in Death Valley: 57 degrees).


title: Using the DMCA to shut down web sites
uri: Using-the-DMCA-to-shut-down-web-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Using_the_DMCA_to_shut_down_web_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Using_the_DMCA_to_shut_down_web_sites%29

content:
<p>
Any little twerp can use the DMCA to shut down a web site he does not
like with an invalid 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130925/01355924650/copyright-as-censorship-using-dmca-to-take-down-websites-accurately-calling-out-racist-comments.shtml">takedown 
demand</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Solar_and_wind_power)
title: Solar and wind power
uri: Solar-and-wind-power
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Solar_and_wind_power%29
content:
<p>
Solar and wind power vary, sometimes unpredictably, and this requires
cycling fossil-fuel generators on and off more often.  Modeling shows
the costs of doing this
are <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/09/cost-of-the-variability-of-renewable-energy-is-dwarfed-by-the-savings/">just
a few percent of the savings in fuel costs.</a>


title: US uses no-fly list to bully people
uri: US-uses-no-fly-list-to-bully-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(US_uses_no-fly_list_to_bully_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28US_uses_no-fly_list_to_bully_people%29

content:
<p>
The US uses the no-fly list
to <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/no-fly-list-where-fbi-goes-fishing-informants">bully
people into giving information,</a> offering to take them off the list
if they report on some enemies.
<p>
This demonstrates that it has nothing to do with suspecting that those
people would attack an airplane.  The no-fly list is not being used to
flights, merely as a handy way to harass people.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Drug_mix_called_krokodil)
title: Drug mix called "krokodil"
uri: Drug-mix-called-krokodil
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Drug_mix_called_krokodil%29
content:
<p>
The drug mix called "krokodil"
reportedly <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/zombie-apocalypse-drug-reaches-us-not-joke">damages
the user's body and brain, but feels like heroin and is cheaper</a>,
so desperate users turn to it.
<p>
From what I've read, people can use heroin for decades, fairly safely,
if they can get it in a pure and reliable form: the danger comes from
impurities.  If registered heroin addicts could get their supply from
doctors, they would be safe and nobody would use krokodil.


title: FBI flying drones for surveillance since 2006
uri: FBI-flying-drones-for-surveillance-since-2006
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(FBI_flying_drones_for_surveillance_since_2006)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28FBI_flying_drones_for_surveillance_since_2006%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/09/26/61530.htm">FBI
has been flying drones for surveillance since 2006.</a>
<p>
It is true that they are not qualitatively different from looking at
people from aircraft.  They are a big quantitative increase in the
amount of surveillance that is feasible.


title: Insurance companies starting to lobby for carbon tax
uri: Insurance-companies-starting-to-lobby-for-carbon-tax
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Insurance_companies_starting_to_lobby_for_carbon_tax)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Insurance_companies_starting_to_lobby_for_carbon_tax%29

content:
<p>
US insurance companies have no doubt about the danger of global
heating, and
are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/business/insurers-stray-from-the-conservative-line-on-climate-change.html?pagewanted=all">starting
to lobby for a carbon tax.</a>


title: "Independent" panel to investigate NSA is a swindle
uri: Independent-panel-to-investigate-NSA-is-a-swindle
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Independent_panel_to_investigate_NSA_is_a_swindle)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Independent_panel_to_investigate_NSA_is_a_swindle%29

content:
<p>
The "independent" panel that will supposedly investigate the NSA's
civil liberties violations is a swindle: it is
effectively <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/22-1">controlled
by the same office that the NSA reports to.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(US_corporate_welfare)
title: US corporate welfare
uri: US-corporate-welfare
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28US_corporate_welfare%29
content:
<p>
Certain kinds of US corporate
welfare <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/23">amounts
to $6000 per family.</a>
<p>
I don't think this includes all the forms of corporate welfare.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Senator_Cruz_mini-filibuster)
title: Senator Cruz mini-filibuster
uri: Senator-Cruz-mini-filibuster
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Senator_Cruz_mini-filibuster%29
content:
<p>
As Senator Cruz carried out his mini-filibuster against Obama's
imperfect health care
plan, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/26-11">200 or
so Americans died from lack of health coverage</a>. If Obama's health
care plan were in effect, it would have saved many of them.  But
single-player health care, a national health system, would save them
all and save money too.


title: Containment technology at Fukishima has failed
uri: Containment-technology-at-Fukishima-has-failed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Containment_technology_at_Fukishima_has_failed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Containment_technology_at_Fukishima_has_failed%29

content:
<p>
Another improvised piece
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/26-1">containment
technology at Fukishima has failed.</a>


title: Proposed bill to limit NSA massive collection of phone and email records
uri: Proposed-bill-to-limit-NSA-massive-collection-of-phone-and-email-recor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(Proposed_bill_to_limit_NSA_massive_collection_of_phone_and_email_records)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28Proposed_bill_to_limit_NSA_massive_collection_of_phone_and_email_records%29

content:
<p>
Senator Wyden and others have proposed a 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/in-new-bill-four-senators-attack-nsas-bulk-data-collection/">bill
to limit NSA massive collection of phone and email records</a>.
<p>
However, 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/us/politics/senators-push-to-preserve-nsa-phone-surveillance.html">Senator
Feinstein is pushing to continue the massive surveillance</a>.


title: NSA tracks Americans' social networks
uri: NSA-tracks-Americans-social-networks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(NSA_tracks_Americans_social_networks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28NSA_tracks_Americans_social_networks%29

content:
<p>
The NSA 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html?pagewanted=all">tracks
Americans' social networks</a>, and Facebook is just one of its
sources.
<p>
Thus, if you talk about your friends in Facebook, you're ratting on
them.  If you say that you saw John and Arthur, you tell the NSA that
John knows Arthur.  If John and Arthur are dissidents, or journalists,
your information will help the government suppress dissent or
journalism.
<p>
Don't do it!


title: NRA Tried To Stifle Study Showing Gun Retailers Support Background Checks
uri: NRA-Tried-To-Stifle-Study-Showing-Gun-Retailers-Support-Background-Che
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_September_2013_(NRA_Tried_To_Stifle_Study_Showing_Gun_Retailers_Support_Background_Checks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_September_2013_%28NRA_Tried_To_Stifle_Study_Showing_Gun_Retailers_Support_Background_Checks%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/27/2690521/gun-dealers-background-checks/">NRA
Tried To Stifle Study Showing Gun Retailers Support Background
Checks</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Pseudo-random_number_generators)
title: Pseudo-random number generators
uri: Pseudo-random-number-generators
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Pseudo-random_number_generators%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/21/rsa-emc-warning-encryption-system-nsa">
RSA warns</a> users to stop using certain pseudo-random number generators
in its products, concerned that the NSA may have deliberately made the
standard weak.


title: Urgent: Put loan funds into cleanup of Fukushima disaster
uri: Urgent-Put-loan-funds-into-cleanup-of-Fukushima-disaster
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Urgent:_Put_loan_funds_into_cleanup_of_Fukushima_disaster)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Put_loan_funds_into_cleanup_of_Fukushima_disaster%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8598">call
on Obama</a> to redirect the loan funds for new nuclear power plants
into the cleanup of the Fukushima disaster.


title: Urgent: Change senators' stand regarding FDA rules on GMO labelling
uri: Urgent-Change-senators-stand-regarding-FDA-rules-on-GMO-labelling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Urgent:_Change_senators_stand_regarding_FDA_rules_on_GMO_labelling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Change_senators_stand_regarding_FDA_rules_on_GMO_labelling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-senators-warren">call
on Senators Warren and Udall</a> to change their stand regarding FDA
rules on GMO labelling.


title: Underground distribution of abortion pills in the US
uri: Underground-distribution-of-abortion-pills-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Underground_distribution_of_abortion_pills_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Underground_distribution_of_abortion_pills_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The repression of abortion rights in the US has created demand for
<a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/09/25/the-last-resort-an-interview-with-an-illegal-abortion-provider/">underground
distributors of abortion pills</a>.
<p>
I do endorse these activities.  If women can't get safe and legal
abortion, at least they should be able to get this kind of help.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Civil_commitment)
title: "Civil commitment"
uri: Civil-commitment
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Civil_commitment%29
content:
<p>
In the US, non-rich people accused of any sort of sexual crime get
advice to make a plea bargain for "civil commitment", which in
practice means
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/26/civil-commitment-sex-offenders">indefinite
imprisonment</a>.


title: US Joint Strike Fighter behind schedule with big cost overruns
uri: US-Joint-Strike-Fighter-behind-schedule-with-big-cost-overruns
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(US_Joint_Strike_Fighter_behind_schedule_with_big_cost_overruns)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28US_Joint_Strike_Fighter_behind_schedule_with_big_cost_overruns%29

content:
<p>
The US Joint Strike Fighter is tremendously behind schedule with 
<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2013/09/joint-strike-fighter-lockheed-martin">big
cost overruns</a>, partly due to being ill-conceived at several
levels.  And it is not what the American people really need.


title: Thousands imprisoned without charges in Egypt
uri: Thousands-imprisoned-without-charges-in-Egypt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Thousands_imprisoned_without_charges_in_Egypt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Thousands_imprisoned_without_charges_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Thousands of Egyptians — protesters, journalists and bystanders
— have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/29/canadians-hunger-strike-egyptian-jail-beaten">imprisoned
without charges for months</a>, and some foreigners too.


title: Arrest of Brazilian reporter at Yale
uri: Arrest-of-Brazilian-reporter-at-Yale
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Arrest_of_Brazilian_reporter_at_Yale)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Arrest_of_Brazilian_reporter_at_Yale%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/sep/28/brazilian-journalist-yale-university-police">Yale
had a Brazilian reporter arrested</a>.  She sought to speak to a
Brazilian judge, who was in a seminar there, and who did not want to
talk with her.
<p>
He doesn't have an obligation to talk with her, and Yale has no
obligation to let her into a private event.  But she did not try to go
into the event; she only entered a building which the public was
apparently welcome to enter.  That was no reason to arrest her.


title: Saudi Arabian women imprisoned for trying to bring food to the needy
uri: Saudi-Arabian-women-imprisoned-for-trying-to-bring-food-to-the-needy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Saudi_Arabian_women_imprisoned_for_trying_to_bring_food_to_the_needy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Saudi_Arabian_women_imprisoned_for_trying_to_bring_food_to_the_needy%29

content:
<p>
Two Saudi Arabian women 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/29/saudia-arabia-women-activists-jail">will
be imprisoned</a> for trying to bring food to a woman who (they had
been told) was locked up with her children and had run out of food.
<p>
Giving food to the needy is banned in some parts of the US, too.
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/08/26-1">https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/08/26-1</a>
gives a recent example from South Carolina.  Members of Food Not Bombs
faced felony charges in San Francisco in the 90s for distributing
food, and one was in danger of imprisonment under the "three strikes"
law.
<p>
These US laws are not meant to protect patriarchal power, but rather
business profits.  Homeless people are unsightly, but feeding them
would cost something, so businesses try to sweep them away, so they
will starve where people can't see them or boost the profits of
privatized prisons.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Organ_donation_in_the_US)
title: Organ donation in the US
uri: Organ-donation-in-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Organ_donation_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The US should stop leaving it up to people to volunteer for organ
donation in the event of their death.  
<a href="http://rall.com/2013/09/20/syndicated-column-why-isnt-organ-donation-mandatory">Over
6000 Americans</a> die every year for lack of an organ to transplant.
<p>
I criticize Rall's decision to protest the inequities of the US organ
transplant system by refusing to donate.  Such refusal exacerbates the
lack of organs which causes those inequities.  I signed up as an organ
donor when I first got a driver's license.
<p>
I disagree with one of his statements.  That someone believes in a
religion does not imply the person is an idiot.  What these people
lack is not intelligence, but rather the moral courage to face the
painful likely truths.  Some of them go to extreme lengths of
cleverness to construct arguments that bury the fallacy where it is
hard to see.
<p>
However, I agree with his conclusion, and with the point that we
should stop being superstitious about corpses.  This means, in
particular, that we should stop making a fuss over the corpses of the
deceased.  This fuss is strongly encouraged by the mainstream media,
and that could lap over into the issue of organ donation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Tunisias_Islamist_govt_to_resign)
title: Tunisia's Islamist gov't to resign
uri: Tunisia-s-Islamist-gov-t-to-resign
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Tunisias_Islamist_govt_to_resign%29

content:
<p>
Tunisia's Islamist government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/28/tunisia-islamist-government-to-resign">will
resign</a> so new elections can be held.


title: Indian girls sold, tricked, kidnaped into prostitution
uri: Indian-girls-sold-tricked-kidnaped-into-prostitution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Indian_girls_sold_tricked_kidnaped_into_prostitution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Indian_girls_sold_tricked_kidnaped_into_prostitution%29

content:
<p>
Pre-teen Indian girls are sold, tricked or kidnaped into prostitution,
then
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/28/trafficked-india-red-light-districts">kept
in small cages</a> until they are broken.
<p>
I post this link because the issue is important — but don't get
the "interactive e-book" that it advertises!  That is nonfree software
combined with DRM.  It requires using an iThing!  This attacks the
freedom of whoever reads it.
<p>
Using an iThing is not as bad as being kidnaped and raped, but since
it's 
<a href="media/d0e54868.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf">easy to avoid</a>, you'd be a
fool not to avoid it.


title: Businesses owned by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs
uri: Businesses-owned-by-Morgan-Stanley-and-Goldman-Sachs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Businesses_owned_by_Morgan_Stanley_and_Goldman_Sachs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Businesses_owned_by_Morgan_Stanley_and_Goldman_Sachs%29

content:
<p>
Bank holding companies such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are
<a href="http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/09/23/the-story-of-bankers-stuff/">not
allowed to own ordinary businesses</a>, so why doesn't the US make
them sell those?


title: Containment technology at Fukushima has failed
uri: Containment-technology-at-Fukushima-has-failed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Containment_technology_at_Fukushima_has_failed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Containment_technology_at_Fukushima_has_failed%29

content:
<p>
Another improvised piece
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/26-1">containment
technology at Fukushima has failed.</a>


title: Wild rhinos could be extinct within a decade
uri: Wild-rhinos-could-be-extinct-within-a-decade
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Wild_rhinos_could_be_extinct_within_a_decade)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Wild_rhinos_could_be_extinct_within_a_decade%29

content:
<p>
With the accelerating rate of
poaching, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/01/rhino-horn-poaching-south-africa">wild
rhinos could be extinct within a decade.</a>


title: 22,000 Indians face eviction for new steel plant
uri: 22-000-Indians-face-eviction-for-new-steel-plant
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(22,000_Indians_face_eviction_for_new_steel_plant)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%2822%2C000_Indians_face_eviction_for_new_steel_plant%29

content:
<p>
22,000
Indians <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/01/posco-steel-india-united-nations-odisha">face
eviction for a new steel plant</a>, and a forest would be cut down for
it.


title: Destroying mosquitoes and preventing diseases
uri: Destroying-mosquitoes-and-preventing-diseases
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Destroying_mosquitoes_and_preventing_diseases)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Destroying_mosquitoes_and_preventing_diseases%29

content:
<p>
Destroying mosquitoes and preventing
diseases <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/01/punjab-fish-dengue-mosquito">by
means of tilapia.</a>


title: Inundation of home caused by global heating
uri: Inundation-of-home-caused-by-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Inundation_of_home_caused_by_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Inundation_of_home_caused_by_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
A Kiribati man seeks asylum in New Zealand from
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/01/climate-change-refugee-new-zealand">inevitable
slow inundation of his home, caused by global heating.</a>
<p>
Sooner or later, it will be impossible for anyone to live in Kiribati.
This will be the fault of the rest of the world.  What will we do?


title: Fraudulent arguments of global heating denialists
uri: Fraudulent-arguments-of-global-heating-denialists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Fraudulent_arguments_of_global_heating_denialists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Fraudulent_arguments_of_global_heating_denialists%29

content:
<p>
More <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/oct/01/ipcc-global-warming-projections-accurate">fraudulent
arguments of global heating denialists.</a>
<p>
Curiously, economists whose theories have much weaker scientific
support <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/oct/01/climate-change-ipcc">don't
face similar opposition.</a>
<p>
Perhaps those who fund global heating denialism in the mainstream
media are happy with those economic theories.


title: Nuclear power reactors shut down by jellyfish
uri: Nuclear-power-reactors-shut-down-by-jellyfish
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Nuclear_power_reactors_shut_down_by_jellyfish)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Nuclear_power_reactors_shut_down_by_jellyfish%29

content:
<p>
Nuclear power reactors in Sweden were shut down
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/01/jellyfish-clog-swedish-nuclear-reactor-shutdown">jellyfish
in the coolant pipes.</a>
<p>
Various human activities contribute to causing jellyfish blooms.
Overfishing can do it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Shutdown_of_the_US_government)
title: Shutdown of the US government
uri: Shutdown-of-the-US-government
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Shutdown_of_the_US_government%29
content:
<p>
Republicans have forced
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/01/us-government-shutdown-takes-effect-workers">shutdown
of the US government</a>, if they don't get their demands to keep some
20 million poor working Americans from getting heath care.


title: Mexico suffers from violence and threats against journalists
uri: Mexico-suffers-from-violence-and-threats-against-journalists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Mexico_suffers_from_violence_and_threats_against_journalists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Mexico_suffers_from_violence_and_threats_against_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Mexico suffers
from <a href="http://en.rsf.org/mexico-threats-and-censorship-at-peak-in-30-09-2013,45259.html">widespread
and continuing violence and threats against journalists.</a> The
government gives the matter low priority.


title: FBI activities that should be cancelled
uri: FBI-activities-that-should-be-cancelled
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(FBI_activities_that_should_be_cancelled)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28FBI_activities_that_should_be_cancelled%29

content:
<p>
ACLU: several FBI activities that should
be <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty-free-speech/axe-wasteful-and-abusive-fbi-programs">cancelled
entirely.</a>


title: Boston Thug Department investigated nonviolent anti-war groups
uri: Boston-Thug-Department-investigated-nonviolent-anti-war-groups
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Boston_Thug_Department_investigated_nonviolent_anti-war_groups)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Boston_Thug_Department_investigated_nonviolent_anti-war_groups%29

content:
<p>
The Boston Thug
Department <a href="http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=14944">investigated
nonviolent anti-war groups for no valid reason</a>, and still has not
come clean about the practice.


title: Urgent: Stop trying to hold the US hostage
uri: Urgent-Stop-trying-to-hold-the-US-hostage
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_trying_to_hold_the_US_hostage)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_trying_to_hold_the_US_hostage%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone and email your congresscritter, if he's Republican,
saying
to <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=592">stop
trying to hold the US hostage.</a>


title: NSA cell phone location data in bulk
uri: NSA-cell-phone-location-data-in-bulk
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(NSA_cell_phone_location_data_in_bulk)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28NSA_cell_phone_location_data_in_bulk%29

content:
<p>
The NSA is cagey when asked whether it collects
Americans' <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/it-sure-sounds-nsa-tracking-your-location">cell
phone location data in bulk</a>.  Apparently it does this and wants to
pretend it does not.


title: Urgent: Working conditions in tomato farms
uri: Urgent-Working-conditions-in-tomato-farms
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Urgent:_Working_conditions_in_tomato_farms)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Working_conditions_in_tomato_farms%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: demand that Wendy's sign up
to <a href="http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1786&ea.campaign.id=22853&ea.url.id=171750&ea.campaigner.email=AFtdkeSOljschvbH16KG5A==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0">decent
working conditions in tomato farms.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(Netanyahu_deal_with_Iran)
title: Netanyahu deal with Iran
uri: Netanyahu-deal-with-Iran
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28Netanyahu_deal_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>
Netanyahu asked Obama
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/binyamin-netanyahu-obama-iran-sanctions">reject
any deal with Iran.</a>
<p>
No surprise there.  Will Obama have the strength to disobey?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_October_2013_(The_Law_Belongs_To_Everyone)
title: The Law Belongs To Everyone
uri: The-Law-Belongs-To-Everyone
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_October_2013_%28The_Law_Belongs_To_Everyone%29
content:
<p>
EFF to standards
organizations: <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/law-belongs-everyone-we-tell-standards-organizations">The
Law Belongs To Everyone.</a>


title: NSA keeps every person's metadata for at least a year
uri: NSA-keeps-every-person-s-metadata-for-at-least-a-year
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(NSA_keeps_every_persons_metadata_for_at_least_a_year)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28NSA_keeps_every_persons_metadata_for_at_least_a_year%29

content:
<p>
The NSA keeps every person's metadata for at least a year, and uses it
to profile the person's
"<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-americans-metadata-year-documents">pattern
of life</a>".


title: Arrest of Chinese teenager for microblog postings
uri: Arrest-of-Chinese-teenager-for-microblog-postings
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Arrest_of_Chinese_teenager_for_microblog_postings)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Arrest_of_Chinese_teenager_for_microblog_postings%29

content:
<p>
A Chinese teenager faced 
<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/where-the-crime-of-retweeting-can-land-you-in-jail-20130928-2ul3g.html">prosecution
for his microblog postings</a>, but was freed in response to public
protest</a>.
<p>
If he has learned to check the facts before posting, that's not a bad
lesson.  But under a government that doesn't value truth, annoying
facts may be labeled as 
"<a href='http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_(NSA_describes_political_opposition_to_US_drone_attacks_as_enemy_action)'>malicious 
propaganda</a>".
<p>
The article leaves me wondering whether the man who was found dead
really committed suicide, and whether there will be an investigation
to determine this.


title: More casualties of the War on Drugs
uri: More-casualties-of-the-War-on-Drugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(More_casualties_of_the_War_on_Drugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28More_casualties_of_the_War_on_Drugs%29

content:
<p>
More casualties of the War on Drugs: they thought they were buying
MDMA but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/30/manchester-warehouse-project-ecstasy-fatality">it
wasn't</a>


title: Protesters in Sudan demand resignation of tyrannical ruler
uri: Protesters-in-Sudan-demand-resignation-of-tyrannical-ruler
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Protesters_in_Sudan_demand_resignation_of_tyrannical_ruler)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Protesters_in_Sudan_demand_resignation_of_tyrannical_ruler%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/sudan-protesters-president-omar-al-bashir">Protesters
in Sudan</a> demand the resignation of the tyrannical ruler.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Carbon_budget)
title: Carbon budget
uri: Carbon-budget
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Carbon_budget%29
content:
<p>
The world's governments must agree on a
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/29/carbon-budget-talks-urgent-ipcc-lord-stern'>carbon
budget</a>", dividing up the amount of additional greenhouse gas
emissions that the world can stand.


title: Audio recording pretending to be Chavez
uri: Audio-recording-pretending-to-be-Chavez
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Audio_recording_pretending_to_be_Chavez)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Audio_recording_pretending_to_be_Chavez%29

content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/29/hugo-chavez-voice-venezuela-president">audio
recording pretends to be Chavez</a> saying he is still alive.
<p>
I can readily believe this is part of a US-lead destabilization
campaign, since it 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-sep-dec.html#14%20October%202008%20(Human%20Rights%20Watch%20criticized%20Chavez)">would 
not be the first</a>.


title: UN team to identify and destroy Assad's chemical weapons
uri: UN-team-to-identify-and-destroy-Assad-s-chemical-weapons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(UN_team_to_identify_and_destroy_Assads_chemical_weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28UN_team_to_identify_and_destroy_Assads_chemical_weapons%29

content:
<p>
A UN team will soon go to Syria to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/29/un-inspectors-syria-dismantle-chemical-weapons-cache">identify
and then destroy Assad's chemical weapons</a>.


title: Colombian farmers' strike provoked by treaty with US
uri: Colombian-farmers-strike-provoked-by-treaty-with-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Colombian_farmers_strike_provoked_by_treaty_with_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Colombian_farmers_strike_provoked_by_treaty_with_US%29

content:
<p>
The Colombian farmers' strike was provoked by the treaty with the US
that 
<a href="http://www.beppegrillo.it/en/2013/09/the_destruction_of_colombia.html">required
them to use only GMO seeds</a>.


title: Thugs attack students protesting against hiring of Gen. Petraeus
uri: Thugs-attack-students-protesting-against-hiring-of-Gen-Petraeus
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(Thugs_attack_students_protesting_against_hiring_of_Gen._Petraeus)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28Thugs_attack_students_protesting_against_hiring_of_Gen._Petraeus%29

content:
<p>
CUNY students 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/09/21-1">protested
against hiring General Petraeus as a professor</a>, so New York City
thugs attacked them and made false charges against them.


title: NSA describes political opposition to US drone attacks as enemy action
uri: NSA-describes-political-opposition-to-US-drone-attacks-as-enemy-action
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_October_2013_(NSA_describes_political_opposition_to_US_drone_attacks_as_enemy_action)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28NSA_describes_political_opposition_to_US_drone_attacks_as_enemy_action%29

content:
<p>
NSA documents describe political opposition to US drone attacks as a
kind of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/25/nsa-uk-drone-opponents-threats">enemy
action</a>.
<p>
The idea that people deserve "due process of law" before they are
assassinated is described as enemy propaganda.  The list of "adversary
propaganda themes" also includes several points I've made: that
terrorism is a small danger compared with others (including that of a
rogue state such as the US), that drone attacks stimulate hostility to
the US, and that drones kill lots of noncombatants.  According to the
NSA, reality is the enemy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Wastewater_from_fracking)
title: Wastewater from fracking
uri: Wastewater-from-fracking
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Wastewater_from_fracking%29
content:
<p>
Wastewater from
fracking <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/dangerous-radioactivity-fracking-waste-pennsylvania">sometimes
contains a lot of radium, and it can make fish dangerous to eat.</a>


title: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev being held in total isolation
uri: Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev-being-held-in-total-isolation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Dzhokhar_Tsarnaev_being_held_in_total_isolation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Dzhokhar_Tsarnaev_being_held_in_total_isolation%29

content:
<p>
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers say he
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/02/boston-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-lawyers-conditions">being
held in total isolation except for lawyers' visits.</a>
<p>
This is clearly cruel and unusual punishment, except that quibble that
it isn't a punishment.


title: Canadian activists blocking Keystone XL
uri: Canadian-activists-blocking-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Canadian_activists_blocking_Keystone_XL)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Canadian_activists_blocking_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
Canadian activists are doing a great job
of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/09/30">blocking
the Keystone XL pipeline</a> and out-PR'ing its would-be constructor.


title: Vietnamese dissident convicted after unfair trial
uri: Vietnamese-dissident-convicted-after-unfair-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Vietnamese_dissident_convicted_after_unfair_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Vietnamese_dissident_convicted_after_unfair_trial%29

content:
<p>
Vietnamese dissident Le Quoc Quan
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/02/vietnam-dissident-le-quoc-quan-jailed">convicted
of tax evasion after an unfair trial.</a>


title: Assad's troops report rebels massacred Alawite civilians
uri: Assad-s-troops-report-rebels-massacred-Alawite-civilians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Assad's_troops_report_rebels_massacred_Alawite_civilians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Assad%27s_troops_report_rebels_massacred_Alawite_civilians%29

content:
<p>
Some of Assad's troops report
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/02/syria-massacre-reports-alawites-assad">rebels
massacred Alawite civilians after capturing their home villages.</a>


title: Republican attempts to cut Americans' retirement aid
uri: Republican-attempts-to-cut-Americans-retirement-aid
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Republican_attempts_to_cut_Americans'_retirement_aid)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Republican_attempts_to_cut_Americans%27_retirement_aid%29

content:
<p>
Republican attempts to cut Americans' retirement aid are spread by
NGOs
that <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19150-report-exposes-the-right-wing-tag-team-plotting-against-pensions">falsely
claim there is a shortage of funds for it.</a>


title: Hundreds or thousands of Chinese rushed into Tienanmen Square
uri: Hundreds-or-thousands-of-Chinese-rushed-into-Tienanmen-Square
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Hundreds_or_thousands_of_Chinese_rushed_into_Tienanmen_Square)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Hundreds_or_thousands_of_Chinese_rushed_into_Tienanmen_Square%29

content:
<p>
Hundreds or thousands of
Chinese <a href="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/protest-10012013105806.html">rushed
into Tienanmen Square with petitions for the government, and were
arrested.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(80,000_Ethiopians_protested)
title: 80,000 Ethiopians protested
uri: 80-000-Ethiopians-protested
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%2880%2C000_Ethiopians_protested%29
content:
<p>
80,000
Ethiopians <a href="http://en.rsf.org/ethiopie-big-demonstration-against-law-used-01-10-2013,45264.html">protested
publicly against the "anti-terrorism" law</a> which has (naturally)
been used to imprison journalists and dissidents.


title: Penalizing the farmers of poor countries
uri: Penalizing-the-farmers-of-poor-countries
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Penalizing_the_farmers_of_poor_countries)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Penalizing_the_farmers_of_poor_countries%29

content:
<p>
WTO negotiations are heading
towards <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/10/wto-stingy-with-the-poor-generous-with-the-rich/">penalizing
the farmers of poor countries.</a>


title: Linking Greek fascists to violence and threats
uri: Linking-Greek-fascists-to-violence-and-threats
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Linking_Greek_fascists_to_violence_and_threats)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Linking_Greek_fascists_to_violence_and_threats%29

content:
<p>
The Greek government says it has
proof <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/01/golden-dawn-court-charges-murder-assault">linking
Greek fascists to violence and threats</a>. The testimony of people
who tried to leave the party and were then threatened would constitute
real proof.
<p>
Greeks have every reason to hate <em>some</em> foreigners —
foreign banksters and eurocrats.  Rather than hating a poor immigrant
who would like nothing better than to take a job, they should hate the
rich plutocrat who takes away thousands of jobs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Obama's_health_care_law)
title: Obama's health care law
uri: Obama-s-health-care-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Obama%27s_health_care_law%29
content:
<p>
Obama's health care law is expected
to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/08/left-behind-stories-from-obamacares-31-million-uninsured/?tid=pm_pop">extend
medical coverage to 25 million Americans, but leave 31 million still
without it.</a>
<p>
This is part of why we need a national health system.  The other part
is that single-payer would save a large fraction of the cost —
as much as half.


title: Accept gifts and lose public health care
uri: Accept-gifts-and-lose-public-health-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Accept_gifts_and_lose_public_health_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Accept_gifts_and_lose_public_health_care%29

content:
<p>
Some of the people injured by the Boston bombers were given gifts that
they can't accept because they
would <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/16/2625731/boston-bombing-victims-cash-checks/">lose
their public health care.</a>


title: NGOs corrupted by working with companies
uri: NGOs-corrupted-by-working-with-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(NGOs_corrupted_by_working_with_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28NGOs_corrupted_by_working_with_companies%29

content:
<p>
Many large environmentalist NGOs have been
partly <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/01/green-ngos-big-business-naomi-klein">corrupted
by working with companies.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Businesses_against_workers)
title: Businesses against workers
uri: Businesses-against-workers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Businesses_against_workers%29
content:
<p>
The Egyptian government continues
to <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/10/egypt-paying-a-price-for-cheap-labour/">support
businesses against workers.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Homelessness_a_crime)
title: Homelessness a crime
uri: Homelessness-a-crime
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Homelessness_a_crime%29
content:
<p>
Hungary's government has allowed localities to
make <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/10/01/dispatches-criminalizing-hungary-s-homeless">homelessness
a crime.</a>
<p>
Many US cities do something more or less like this.


title: Urgent: Hold vigil at sundown on Oct 5 for the Arctic 30
uri: Urgent-Hold-vigil-at-sundown-on-Oct-5-for-the-Arctic-30
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Urgent:_Hold_vigil_at_sundown_on_Oct_5_for_the_Arctic_30)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Hold_vigil_at_sundown_on_Oct_5_for_the_Arctic_30%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://members.greenpeace.org/survey/start/582/">hold a vigil
at sundown on Oct 5</a> in support of the Arctic 30, nonviolent
protesters charged with "piracy".


title: Urgent: Drop false charges against protesting CUNY students
uri: Urgent-Drop-false-charges-against-protesting-CUNY-students
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Urgent:_Drop_false_charges_against_protesting_CUNY_students)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_false_charges_against_protesting_CUNY_students%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for dropping the false charges against protesting
CUNY students and 
<a href="http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/cuny-petraeus">investigating 
the thugs</a> who falsely accused them.


title: Urgent: Oppose use of sugar from land grabs
uri: Urgent-Oppose-use-of-sugar-from-land-grabs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_use_of_sugar_from_land_grabs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_use_of_sugar_from_land_grabs%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.behindthebrands.org/en-us/actnow">call on
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Associated British Foods</a> to make sure their
sugar doesn't come from land grabs.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Private_virtual_schools_in_the_US)
title: Private "virtual schools" in the US
uri: Private-virtual-schools-in-the-US
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Private_virtual_schools_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Private "virtual schools" in the US do a bad job of education, but
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/10/12257/junk-bonds-junk-schools-cyber-schools-fleece-taxpayers-phantom-students-and-faili">claim
lots of money from US cities</a> for students who are not even
attending.
<p>
I suspect that they are also teaching the kids to use nonfree malware
such as Windows or MacOS.  This is wrong — 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html">no school
should teach nonfree software</a>.


title: Urgent: Call on Google to stop listing sales of ivory
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Google-to-stop-listing-sales-of-ivory
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Google_to_stop_listing_sales_of_ivory)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Google_to_stop_listing_sales_of_ivory%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/google-ivory-trade/5/33/">call on
Google</a> to stop listing sales of ivory.


title: Court papers show demands FBI made to Lavabit
uri: Court-papers-show-demands-FBI-made-to-Lavabit
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Court_papers_show_demands_FBI_made_to_Lavabit)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Court_papers_show_demands_FBI_made_to_Lavabit%29

content:
<p>
Court papers show that the FBI 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/03/lavabit-ladar-levison-fbi-encryption-keys-snowden">demanded
to attach its own computer</a> to collect data from Lavabit.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Closure_of_Silk_Road_site)
title: Closure of Silk Road site
uri: Closure-of-Silk-Road-site
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Closure_of_Silk_Road_site%29
content:
<p>
The closure of the Silk Road site will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/03/silk-road-drug-selling-website-fbi">mainly
benefit narcotrafficker gangs</a>.


title: Quoting statements criticizing the king a crime in Thailand
uri: Quoting-statements-criticizing-the-king-a-crime-in-Thailand
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Quoting_statements_criticizing_the_king_a_crime_in_Thailand)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Quoting_statements_criticizing_the_king_a_crime_in_Thailand%29

content:
<p>
In Thailand, even quoting and rebuking a statement that criticizes the
king is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/03/thai-monarchy-lese-majesty-laws">crime</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Angola_imprisons_teenage_dissident)
title: Angola imprisons teenage dissident
uri: Angola-imprisons-teenage-dissident
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Angola_imprisons_teenage_dissident%29

content:
<p>
Angola has imprisoned a teenage dissident for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/03/nito-alves-teenage-resistance-angola">trying
to make t-shirts that criticize the regime</a>.


title: UK surveillance faces court challenge
uri: UK-surveillance-faces-court-challenge
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(UK_surveillance_faces_court_challenge)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28UK_surveillance_faces_court_challenge%29

content:
<p>
UK surveillance faces a court challenge at the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/03/gchq-legal-challenge-europe-privacy-surveillance">European
level</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(The_Hyde_Amendment)
title: The Hyde Amendment
uri: The-Hyde-Amendment
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28The_Hyde_Amendment%29
content:
<p>
The Hyde Amendment, which banned Medicaid from covering abortions, was
the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/03/hyde-amendment-abortion-gop-women">initial
wedge</a> of the right-wing campaign to abolish abortion rights (and
contraception, and then other sex-related rights).
<p>
Democrats in the Senate are in the position of defending the status
quo against a persistent enemy.  That is always a weak position
because the enemy can always suggest, "Meet us half way today (and
tomorrow we'll demand more)."  It is stronger to make a
counter-demand.  They have already got too much.
<p>
Senate Democrats should stop passing bills to resume government
spending and do nothing else.  Rather, they should put repeal of the
Hyde amendment into these bills — and offer to compromise on
just extending the spending limit.


title: Dissident Iranian filmmaker's passport confiscated
uri: Dissident-Iranian-filmmaker-s-passport-confiscated
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Dissident_Iranian_filmmakers_passport_confiscated)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Dissident_Iranian_filmmakers_passport_confiscated%29

content:
<p>
A dissident Iranian filmmaker's passport was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/03/rasoulof-iran-panahi-human-rights">confiscated</a>,
so he cannot go to Europe to collect an award.
<p>
He faces a future sentence of imprisonment already.
<p>
I would guess that this part of the state is controlled by the
ayatollahs and not by the president.


title: Effect of vehicle exhaust fumes on some flowers
uri: Effect-of-vehicle-exhaust-fumes-on-some-flowers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Effect_of_vehicle_exhaust_fumes_on_some_flowers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Effect_of_vehicle_exhaust_fumes_on_some_flowers%29

content:
<p>
Vehicle exhaust fumes react with chemicals in some flowers,
so that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/03/traffic-fumes-honeybees-scent-flowers">honeybees
can't smell them</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Heat_waves)
title: Heat waves
uri: Heat-waves
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Heat_waves%29
content:
<p>
Heat waves can kill, and they are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/oct/03/global-warming-heat-waves">occurring
in places that rarely had them before</a>.
<p>
People in poor countries will be unable to much to cope with the
problem.  This is why 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#04_October_2012_(Effect_of_global_heating_on_people)">100
million deaths due to global heating</a> are predicted by 2030.


title: Global heating and logging threaten wild koalas
uri: Global-heating-and-logging-threaten-wild-koalas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Global_heating_and_logging_threaten_wild_koalas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Global_heating_and_logging_threaten_wild_koalas%29

content:
<p>
Global heating on one side, and logging on the other, threaten the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/03/australia-animal-welfare">survival
of wild koalas</a>.
<p>
Koalas are worth a lot of money to Australia, but the rich will figure
out how to preserve them in captivity for the tourists while wiping
them out everywhere else.


title: Iliya Troyanov barred from entering the US
uri: Iliya-Troyanov-barred-from-entering-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Iliya_Troyanov_barred_from_entering_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Iliya_Troyanov_barred_from_entering_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The US barred entry to German citizen Iliya Troyanov, apparently
because he 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/02-2">launched a
petition condemning NSA surveillance</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(For-profit_prisons)
title: For-profit prisons
uri: For-profit-prisons
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28For-profit_prisons%29
content:
<p>
For-profit prisons 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/02-9">gouge in
myriad ways</a>, from prisoners' phone calls to medical care.


title: NSA stores everyone's metadata for up to a year
uri: NSA-stores-everyone-s-metadata-for-up-to-a-year
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(NSA_stores_everyones_metadata_for_up_to_a_year)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28NSA_stores_everyones_metadata_for_up_to_a_year%29

content:
<p>
The NSA stores 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/30-3">everyone's
metadata</a> for up to a year.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Failure_of_the_War_on_Drugs)
title: Failure of the War on Drugs
uri: Failure-of-the-War-on-Drugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Failure_of_the_War_on_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
The War on Drugs has failed, if 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/01-2">judged by
its ostensible goals</a>.
<p>
However, it seems to have done a good job of enabling politicians to
say "Look how tough I am!"


title: Greenpeace protesters and journalist charged with piracy
uri: Greenpeace-protesters-and-journalist-charged-with-piracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Greenpeace_protesters_and_journalist_charged_with_piracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Greenpeace_protesters_and_journalist_charged_with_piracy%29

content:
<p>
Greenpeace protesters and a journalist have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/british-filmmaker-greenpeace-piracy-kieron-bryan">charged
with piracy</a> even though Putin recognized that these charges are
absurd.


title: Ocean more acidic than ever in the past 300 million years
uri: Ocean-more-acidic-than-ever-in-the-past-300-million-years
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_October_2013_(Ocean_more_acidic_than_ever_in_the_past_300_million_years)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_October_2013_%28Ocean_more_acidic_than_ever_in_the_past_300_million_years%29

content:
<p>
Our CO<sub>2</sub> emissions have made the ocean 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/ocean-acidification-carbon-dioxide-emissions-levels">more
acidic than ever in the past 300 million years</a> (or more).
<p>
The article does not make it clear whether the ocean was more acidic
300 million years ago, or it's merely that our data go back only 300
million years.


title: Xi Jinping stricter and nastier tyrant than previous one
uri: Xi-Jinping-stricter-and-nastier-tyrant-than-previous-one
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Xi_Jinping_stricter_and_nastier_tyrant_than_previous_one)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Xi_Jinping_stricter_and_nastier_tyrant_than_previous_one%29

content:
<p>
Xi Jinping, the new head of the Chinese Communist Party, has turned
out to be
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/xi-jinping-china-communist-leadership">stricter
and nastier tyrant than the previous one.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Imam_in_Kenya_was_shot)
title: Imam in Kenya was shot
uri: Imam-in-Kenya-was-shot
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Imam_in_Kenya_was_shot%29
content:
<p>
An imam in Kenya with indirect links to
al-Shabaab <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/muslims-clash-police-kenyan-cleric-shot-dead">was
shot</a>, and Muslims say the thugs shot him.


title: Two significant victories recently over Obama
uri: Two-significant-victories-recently-over-Obama
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Two_significant_victories_recently_over_Obama)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Two_significant_victories_recently_over_Obama%29

content:
<p>
Progressive Americans have
gained <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/04/syria-summers-voters-obama-2008-voice">two
significant victories recently over Obama: Summers and Syria.</a>


title: Non-orthodox Jewish women in Israel face oppression
uri: Non-orthodox-Jewish-women-in-Israel-face-oppression
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Non-orthodox_Jewish_women_in_Israel_face_oppression)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Non-orthodox_Jewish_women_in_Israel_face_oppression%29

content:
<p>
Non-orthodox Jewish women in Israel face oppression from orthodox
sexists that try
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2013/oct/04/ultra-orthodox-gender-segregation-core-israel">impose
segregation on public buses.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Farming_flies_on_waste_products)
title: Farming flies on waste products
uri: Farming-flies-on-waste-products
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Farming_flies_on_waste_products%29

content:
<p>
Farming flies on waste
products, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/04/flies-fish-food-factory-south-africa">to
make food for farming fish.</a>


title: Turkish gov't gross and deadly human rights violations
uri: Turkish-gov-t-gross-and-deadly-human-rights-violations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Turkish_gov't_gross_and_deadly_human_rights_violations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Turkish_gov%27t_gross_and_deadly_human_rights_violations%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International concludes the Turkish
govt <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/turkey-accused-gross-human-rights-violations-gezi-park-protests-2013-10-02">committed
gross and even deadly human rights violations against protesters.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Surveillance_state)
title: Surveillance state
uri: Surveillance-state
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Surveillance_state%29
content:
<p>
A surveillance state is one in which
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/03/edward-snowden-files-john-lanchester">surveillance
establishment can look at anything it wants to</a>.  Do we want to
live in a surveillance state?


title: Wineries planning to move production to cooler areas
uri: Wineries-planning-to-move-production-to-cooler-areas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Wineries_planning_to_move_production_to_cooler_areas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Wineries_planning_to_move_production_to_cooler_areas%29

content:
<p>
French wineries are
already <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/vineyards-climate-change-threat">planning
to move production to cooler areas to flee global heating.</a>


title: US prosecuting 13 members of Anonymous
uri: US-prosecuting-13-members-of-Anonymous
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(US_prosecuting_13_members_of_Anonymous)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28US_prosecuting_13_members_of_Anonymous%29

content:
<p>
The US
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/03/anonymous-hacking-members-indicted">prosecuting
13 members of Anonymous</a> for participating
in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/17/anonymous-wikileaks-protest-amazon-mastercard">Internet
protests,</a> which the government calls "attacks".


title: Urgent: Support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Employment-Non-Discrimination-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Urgent:_Support_the_Employment_Non-Discrimination_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Employment_Non-Discrimination_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators to
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/R?i=rl3WJ7B28WqBw4S1Ahob2A">support
the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.</a>
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Blame for the government shutdown
uri: Urgent-Blame-for-the-government-shutdown
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Urgent:_Blame_for_the_government_shutdown)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Blame_for_the_government_shutdown%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell US mass media
to <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-the-media-don-t-blame-both-parties-for-the-government-shut-down">stop
pretending that both major parties' are equally to blame for the
government shutdown.</a>


title: Urgent: Reject stationing F-35 fighter plane in VT
uri: Urgent-Reject-stationing-F-35-fighter-plane-in-VT
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Urgent:_Reject_stationing_F-35_fighter_plane_in_VT)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_stationing_F-35_fighter_plane_in_VT%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: urge the Burlington VT city council
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/burlington-city-council?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">reject
stationing the expensive and non-functional F-35 fighter plane
there</a>.


title: FBI got journalist phone call records
uri: FBI-got-journalist-phone-call-records
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(FBI_got_journalist_phone_call_records)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28FBI_got_journalist_phone_call_records%29

content:
<p>
Journalist Raymond Bonner knows
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/03/company-a-telecom-coached-fbi-spy">FBI
got his phone call records</a> from when he was in Indonesia from some
US company, trying to track down a minor detail he got from some US
official.


title: Urgent: Call on Kerry to dismiss ERM
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Kerry-to-dismiss-ERM
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Kerry_to_dismiss_ERM)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Kerry_to_dismiss_ERM%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/act/fire_erm_sumofus/?template_set=optimized_petition_page">Call
on Kerry</a> to dismiss ERM, the company responsible for the attempted
whitewash of the Keystone XL pipeline's dangers.


title: Urgent: Oppose plan for fracked gas storage facility in NY
uri: Urgent-Oppose-plan-for-fracked-gas-storage-facility-in-NY
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_plan_for_fracked_gas_storage_facility_in_NY)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_plan_for_fracked_gas_storage_facility_in_NY%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1505">oppose</a>
the plan for a large fracked gas storage facility near Seneca Lake in
New York State.


title: Sharing of copies has not harmed publishing businesses
uri: Sharing-of-copies-has-not-harmed-publishing-businesses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Sharing_of_copies_has_not_harmed_publishing_businesses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Sharing_of_copies_has_not_harmed_publishing_businesses%29

content:
<p>
A study finds that widespread sharing of copies has not harmed
publishing businesses and in some cases 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-hurting-the-entertainment-industry-121003/">benefits 
them</a>.
<p>
Getting our sold-out governments to pay attention to this
rather than obey the copyright industry will take a big fight.


title: Environmental damage in the US due to fracking
uri: Environmental-damage-in-the-US-due-to-fracking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Environmental_damage_in_the_US_due_to_fracking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Environmental_damage_in_the_US_due_to_fracking%29

content:
<p>
Fracking is already causing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/04/fracking-us-toxic-waste-water-washington">tremendous
environmental damage</a> in the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(NSAs_attacks_on_the_internet)
title: NSA's attacks on the internet
uri: NSA-s-attacks-on-the-internet
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28NSAs_attacks_on_the_internet%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/04/nsa-attacks-internet-bruce-schneier">NSA's
attacks on the internet</a> must be made public — that is the
only way to make it secure.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Climates_point_of_no_return)
title: Climate's 'point of no return'
uri: Climate-s-point-of-no-return
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Climates_point_of_no_return%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/we-are-terrifyingly-close-to-the-climates-point-of-no-return/280076/">We
Are Terrifyingly Close to the Climate's 'Point of No Return'</a>.


title: US mainstream media on gov't shutdown
uri: US-mainstream-media-on-gov-t-shutdown
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(US_mainstream_media_on_govt_shutdown)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28US_mainstream_media_on_govt_shutdown%29

content:
<p>
How US mainstream media would report on the government shutdown 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/09/30/potential_government_shutdown_how_would_the_u_s_media_report_on_it_if_it.html">if
it were happening in some other country</a>.


title: Japanese gov't drawing up state secrecy bill
uri: Japanese-gov-t-drawing-up-state-secrecy-bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Japanese_govt_drawing_up_state_secrecy_bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Japanese_govt_drawing_up_state_secrecy_bill%29

content:
<p>
The Japanese government is drawing up a state secrecy bill.
It published a draft — 
<a href="http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20131003p2a00m0na014000c.html">entirely
blacked out</a>.


title: Dissidents in the US face imprisonment
uri: Dissidents-in-the-US-face-imprisonment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Dissidents_in_the_US_face_imprisonment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Dissidents_in_the_US_face_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Dissidents in the US face imprisonment for 30 years for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/nun-protesting-nuclear-weapons-denied-appeal">symbolic
act of protest</a>.


title: Revised constitution in Dominican Republic
uri: Revised-constitution-in-Dominican-Republic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Revised_constitution_in_Dominican_Republic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Revised_constitution_in_Dominican_Republic%29

content:
<p>
A revised constitution in the Dominican Republic 
<a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46152">threatens
to leave many inhabitants of Haitian descent stateless</a>.


title: Bogus scientific paper tests effectiveness of peer review
uri: Bogus-scientific-paper-tests-effectiveness-of-peer-review
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Bogus_scientific_paper_tests_effectiveness_of_peer_review)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Bogus_scientific_paper_tests_effectiveness_of_peer_review%29

content:
<p>
A bogus scientific paper served as an experimental apparatus to test
the effectiveness of peer review.  It 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2013/oct/04/open-access-journals-fake-paper">did
not show up very well</a>.
<p>
The article uses the term "open access".  I think that term tends to
lead to bad results, and we should campaign instead for 
<a href="http://stallman.org/articles/free-scientific-publishing.html">free/libre
scientific publishing</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(NSAs_attacks_on_Tor)
title: NSA's attacks on Tor
uri: NSA-s-attacks-on-Tor
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28NSAs_attacks_on_Tor%29
content:
<p>
Snowden's papers say that the NSA 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/nsa-gchq-attack-tor-network-encryption">can't
generally break the Tor network</a>, but it has attacked the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa-users-online-anonymity">Tor
browser bundle</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(US_blocks_military_aid_to_Rwanda)
title: US blocks military aid to Rwanda
uri: US-blocks-military-aid-to-Rwanda
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28US_blocks_military_aid_to_Rwanda%29

content:
<p>
The US has blocked military aid to Rwanda because of its support
for a rebel group in the Congo which 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/04/us-military-aid-rwanda-m23-child-soldiers">uses
child soldiers</a>.
<p>
Rwanda's president has done a good job in many ways, but he
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#14_December_2012_(US_and_UK_paralyzed_with_guilt_over_genocide_in_Rwanda)">persistently
intervenes in the Congo</a> causing bloody instability there.
<p>
In addition, he 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#29%20January%202011%20(Rwandan%20Officials%20Sentenced)">interferes
with dissent</a>.


title: Soldiers shoot at protesters in Cairo
uri: Soldiers-shoot-at-protesters-in-Cairo
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Soldiers_shoot_at_protesters_in_Cairo)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Soldiers_shoot_at_protesters_in_Cairo%29

content:
<p>
Thousands protested in Cairo support of the Muslim Brotherhood, and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/egyptian-army-muslim-brotherhood-cairo">soldiers
shot at them</a>.
<p>
I totally disagree with the Muslim Brotherhood's political ideas, but
I defend their right to protest peacefully for them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(NSA_making_us_less_safe)
title: NSA making us less safe
uri: NSA-making-us-less-safe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28NSA_making_us_less_safe%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/04-5">The NSA is
Making Us All Less Safe</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Where_al-Shabaab_came_from)
title: Where al-Shabaab came from
uri: Where-al-Shabaab-came-from
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Where_al-Shabaab_came_from%29
content:
<p>
Remember where al-Shabaab came from: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/kenya-westgate-mall-attacks">Bush</a>
decided to wipe out the new Islamist government that had established a
modicum of control over Somalia.
<p>
At the time, it was described as an Ethiopian intervention, but I
reported the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2006-nov-feb.html#28%20December%202006%20(War%20in%20Somalia)">evidence
that it was backed by the US</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Antibiotic_overprescription)
title: Antibiotic overprescription
uri: Antibiotic-overprescription
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Antibiotic_overprescription%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/10/scary-truth-about-antibiotic-overprescription">The
Scary Truth About Antibiotic Overprescription</a>.


title: Global heating denial in mainstream media
uri: Global-heating-denial-in-mainstream-media
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Global_heating_denial_in_mainstream_media)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Global_heating_denial_in_mainstream_media%29

content:
<p>
The funded global heating denial campaign is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/04/global-warming-sceptics-discredit-ipcc">rampaging
through the mainstream media</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/oct/04/global-warming-debate-not-about-science">Let's
Be Honest — the Global Warming Debate Isn't About Science</a>.


title: US media pay little attention to Americans living in poverty
uri: US-media-pay-little-attention-to-Americans-living-in-poverty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(US_media_pay_little_attention_to_Americans_living_in_poverty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28US_media_pay_little_attention_to_Americans_living_in_poverty%29

content:
<p>
US media pay little attention to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/05/american-media-ignores-poverty-issues">50 
million Americans</a> that live in poverty.
<p>
This is what suits the plutocrats who more or less control the
mainstream media.


title: Head ayatollah and President Ruhani reach out to the US
uri: Head-ayatollah-and-President-Ruhani-reach-out-to-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Head_ayatollah_and_President_Ruhani_reach_out_to_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Head_ayatollah_and_President_Ruhani_reach_out_to_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The head ayatollah said President Ruhani 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/05/iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei">went
too far</a> in reaching out to the US.
<p>
He's right that the US can't be trusted, and right that US policy
towards Iran is largely 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2006-may-aug.html#06%20August%202006%20(AIPAC,%20the%20Israeli%20hawks)">controlled 
by the lobby that backs the Israeli government</a>. What he has done
in Iran is 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2009-may-aug.html#23%20June%202009%20(Shah%20Khamenei%27s%20tyranny)">even 
worse</a>, but his point is true nonetheless.  The onus is on the US
government, to show it can be trusted and can defy the lobby.


title: Anti-fracking protesters drive away frackers
uri: Anti-fracking-protesters-drive-away-frackers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(Anti-fracking_protesters_drive_away_frackers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28Anti-fracking_protesters_drive_away_frackers%29

content:
<p>
Anti-fracking protesters drove away frackers from one site after a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/04-8">persistent
campaign</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(UKs_extradition_treaty_with_the_US)
title: UK's extradition treaty with the US
uri: UK-s-extradition-treaty-with-the-US
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28UKs_extradition_treaty_with_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The UK's safeguardless, automatic extradition treaty with the US
is still causing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/oct/04/liberty-warns-threat-uk-citizens-trial-overseas">injustice</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-sep-dec.html#08%20September%202008%20(Extradition%20of%20UK%20cracker%20McKinnon)">More
about what's wrong with it</a>.


title: US now #1 in oil and gas extraction
uri: US-now-1-in-oil-and-gas-extraction
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(US_now_#1_in_oil_and_gas_extraction)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28US_now_%231_in_oil_and_gas_extraction%29

content:
<p>
The US is now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/04/us-oil-natural-gas-production-russia-saudi-arabia">#1
in oil and gas extraction</a>. Is each country to compete in pushing
the ecosphere off the climate cliff?
<p>
(Why does the article call it "production"?  We're not <em>making</em>
these fossil fuels.)


title: NASA's exclusion of Chinese scientists
uri: NASA-s-exclusion-of-Chinese-scientists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_October_2013_(NASAs_exclusion_of_Chinese_scientists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_October_2013_%28NASAs_exclusion_of_Chinese_scientists%29

content:
<p>
An absurd US law forbids Chinese people from entering any NASA
building, and many US scientists are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/05/us-scientists-boycott-nasa-china-ban">boycotting
a NASA conference about exoplanets</a> because of its exclusion of
Chinese scientists.


title: Urgent: Protest against massive surveillance
uri: Urgent-Protest-against-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Urgent:_Protest_against_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_against_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
In the US: protest against <a href="https://optin.stopwatching.us/">massive
surveillance</a> in Washington DC on Oct 26.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Naming_the_Dead_project)
title: Naming the Dead project
uri: Naming-the-Dead-project
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Naming_the_Dead_project%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.dw.de/transparency-to-secret-drone-war-in-pakistan/a-17132249">Naming
the Dead project</a> aims to identify and describe all the people
killed by drone attacks in Pakistan.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Republicans_use_bullying_tactics)
title: Republicans use bullying tactics
uri: Republicans-use-bullying-tactics
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Republicans_use_bullying_tactics%29

content:
<p>
Republicans use bullying tactics because this
has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/02">worked for
them over and over.</a>


title: Edward Snowden thanks the European Parliament
uri: Edward-Snowden-thanks-the-European-Parliament
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Edward_Snowden_thanks_the_European_Parliament)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Edward_Snowden_thanks_the_European_Parliament%29

content:
<p>
Edward Snowden thanks the European Parliament for addressing the issue
of massive surveillance,
saying <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/01-8">"The
work of a generation is beginning here."</a>


title: NSA's bogus claims get coverage in mainstream media
uri: NSA-s-bogus-claims-get-coverage-in-mainstream-media
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(NSA's_bogus_claims_get_coverage_in_mainstream_media)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28NSA%27s_bogus_claims_get_coverage_in_mainstream_media%29

content:
<p>
The NSA's bogus claims that massive surveillance thwarts lots terror
plots
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/10/04/when-can-you-trust-the-nsas-claims-about-the-nsa/">get
coverage in the mainstream media.  Refutations get ignored.</a>
<p>
Even if massive surveillance did thwart some terrorist plots, they
would be those of the small, minor terrorists.  The biggest terrorist
is the US government, and to put a stop to its terrorism we need
whistleblowers and protests — which means, no massive
surveillance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Urgent:_Pass_the_farm_bill)
title: Urgent: Pass the farm bill
uri: Urgent-Pass-the-farm-bill
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Pass_the_farm_bill%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell Congress
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=E336E75D56C66D91FE9B367CDF148CC7.app330a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=3823">pass
the farm bill.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Surreptitious_DNA_Collection)
title: Surreptitious DNA Collection
uri: Surreptitious-DNA-Collection
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Surreptitious_DNA_Collection%29
content:
<p>
Celebrities, the Police,
and <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/capital-punishment-criminal-law-reform-technology-and-liberty/celebrities-police-and">Surreptitious
DNA Collection.</a>


title: Piracy in Somalia mostly suppressed
uri: Piracy-in-Somalia-mostly-suppressed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_October_2013_(Piracy_in_Somalia_mostly_suppressed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_October_2013_%28Piracy_in_Somalia_mostly_suppressed%29

content:
<p>
Piracy in Somalia has been 
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/09/how-to-fight-pirates.html">mostly
suppressed</a>, through the use of the method I suggested: 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#25_October_2012_(Battle_against_piracy)">armed
guards on ships</a>.


title: Some Greenpeace protesters kept isolated 23 hours a day
uri: Some-Greenpeace-protesters-kept-isolated-23-hours-a-day
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Some_Greenpeace_protesters_kept_isolated_23_hours_a_day)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Some_Greenpeace_protesters_kept_isolated_23_hours_a_day%29

content:
<p>
Some Greenpeace protesters
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/07/health-greenpeace-activists-russia-piracy">being
kept isolated 23 hours a day.</a>
<p>
Prisoners in
California <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_September_2013_%28California_prisoners_united_against_inhumane_treatment%29">went
on hunger strike over such treatment.</a>


title: Thugs in US equipped like occupying army
uri: Thugs-in-US-equipped-like-occupying-army
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Thugs_in_US_equipped_like_occupying_army)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Thugs_in_US_equipped_like_occupying_army%29

content:
<p>
The thugs in the US
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/militarization-local-police-america">increasingly
equipped like an occupying army.</a>


title: Joe Nacchio as CEO of Qwest resisted gov't pressure to spy on customers
uri: Joe-Nacchio-as-CEO-of-Qwest-resisted-gov-t-pressure-to-spy-on-customer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Joe_Nacchio_as_CEO_of_Qwest_resisted_gov't_pressure_to_spy_on_customers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Joe_Nacchio_as_CEO_of_Qwest_resisted_gov%27t_pressure_to_spy_on_customers%29

content:
<p>
Joe Nacchio as CEO of
Qwest <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30/a-ceo-who-resisted-nsa-spying-is-out-of-prison-and-he-feels-vindicated-by-snowden-leaks/">resisted
government pressure to spy on customers</a>.  So the government denied
Qwest other contracts, which may have created the pretext to prosecute
him.  And he was forbidden to mention this in his trial.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Going_tipless)
title: Going tipless
uri: Going-tipless
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Going_tipless%29
content:
<p>
Going tipless enabled the Linkery to
provide <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/08/tipless_restaurants_the_linkery_s_owner_explains_why_abolishing_tipping.single.html">better
service for a lower price and pay its staff well.</a>
<p>
I am entirely in favor of eliminating tips and paying the staff a
decent wage.
<p>
<a href="http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-restaurant-part-1-overview/">More
explanation</a>, including how the system of tipping is racist and
sexist.
<p>
The story has 6 parts; I think the last two are most important.


title: Policies to redistribute income and wealth
uri: Policies-to-redistribute-income-and-wealth
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Policies_to_redistribute_income_and_wealth)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Policies_to_redistribute_income_and_wealth%29

content:
<p>
Government policies to redistribute income and wealth
are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/07-0">extremely
effective, as demonstrated by the US.</a>


title: Nobel Peace Prize committee does not dare displease the US
uri: Nobel-Peace-Prize-committee-does-not-dare-displease-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Nobel_Peace_Prize_committee_does_not_dare_displease_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Nobel_Peace_Prize_committee_does_not_dare_displease_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Since the start of this century, the Nobel Peace Prize committee
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/07">does not dare
to displease the US.</a>


title: World Bank promoting privatization of water supply
uri: World-Bank-promoting-privatization-of-water-supply
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(World_Bank_promoting_privatization_of_water_supply)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28World_Bank_promoting_privatization_of_water_supply%29

content:
<p>
The World Bank
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/07/world-bank-private-water-firms">promoting
privatization of water supply.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Neural_stimulation_research)
title: Neural stimulation research
uri: Neural-stimulation-research
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Neural_stimulation_research%29
content:
<p>
Neural stimulation research is approaching the point where
it <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/oct/07/neuroscience-psychology">may
be used on soldiers and prisoners,</a> perhaps even brainwashing
soldiers not to tell the public about government crimes.


title: Sudanese dictatorship confiscating newspapers in bulk
uri: Sudanese-dictatorship-confiscating-newspapers-in-bulk
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Sudanese_dictatorship_confiscating_newspapers_in_bulk)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Sudanese_dictatorship_confiscating_newspapers_in_bulk%29

content:
<p>
The Sudanese dictatorship is confiscating newspapers in bulk, thus
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/oct/07/press-freedom-sudan">driving
the papers out of business.</a>


title: History of conflict between Haiti and Dominican Republic
uri: History-of-conflict-between-Haiti-and-Dominican-Republic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(History_of_conflict_between_Haiti_and_Dominican_Republic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28History_of_conflict_between_Haiti_and_Dominican_Republic%29

content:
<p>
The history of conflict
between <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/dominican-republic-haiti-long-history-conflict">Haiti
and the Dominican Republic.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Richmond's_eminent_domain_plan)
title: Richmond's eminent domain plan
uri: Richmond-s-eminent-domain-plan
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Richmond%27s_eminent_domain_plan%29

content:
<p>
This article argues that the details of Richmond's eminent domain plan
are
a <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/california-mortgage-grabs-are-a-terrible-idea.html">profit
scheme for an "advisor" company.</a>
<p>
If this is true, it ought to be corrected, but it does not invalidate
the basic idea.


title: Former minister kept in dark about GCHQ massive surveillance
uri: Former-minister-kept-in-dark-about-GCHQ-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Former_minister_kept_in_dark_about_GCHQ_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Former_minister_kept_in_dark_about_GCHQ_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Former minister Chris Huhne, who was in the UK's National Security
Council, says he
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/06/prism-tempora-cabinet-surveillance-state">kept
in the dark about GCHQ massive surveillance.</a>


title: Afghanistan's voter registration system
uri: Afghanistan-s-voter-registration-system
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Afghanistan's_voter_registration_system)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Afghanistan%27s_voter_registration_system%29

content:
<p>
Afghanistan's voter registration system is a
shambles, <a href="http://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/warning-bells-over-slow-electoral-reform-and-voter-registration-for-2014">ideal
for fraud.</a>


title: Companies cutting workers to part time
uri: Companies-cutting-workers-to-part-time
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Companies_cutting_workers_to_part_time)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Companies_cutting_workers_to_part_time%29

content:
<p>
Companies are cutting workers to part
time, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/us-employers-slash-hours-avoid-obamacare">to
exploit a loophole in Obama's health care law.</a>
<p>
This is because the law does not go far enough.  The state should
provide health care for everyone, employed or not, and get the money
(which will be much less than it costs now) by taxes that have nothing
to do with employment.
<p>
Social Security should also be handled this way.  Taxing businesses
based on employment in the US gives them an incentive to employ fewer
people in the US.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(The_banksters'_men)
title: The banksters' men
uri: The-banksters-men
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28The_banksters%27_men%29
content:
<p>
Once Obama won the 2008 election, he ditched his progressive economic
advisors
and <a href="http://www.ronsuskind.com/confidencemen/">appointed a new
team of the banksters' men.</a> They then made sure Obama did nothing
to protect us from the banksters.


title: Urgent: Stop pressure on Europe to deny dirtiness of tar sands oil
uri: Urgent-Stop-pressure-on-Europe-to-deny-dirtiness-of-tar-sands-oil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_pressure_on_Europe_to_deny_dirtiness_of_tar_sands_oil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_pressure_on_Europe_to_deny_dirtiness_of_tar_sands_oil%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/ustr_tarsands_foe/">call on
the US Trade Representative</a> to stop pressuring Europe to deny the
dirtiness of tar sands oil.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_Keystone_XL)
title: Urgent: Oppose Keystone XL
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Keystone-XL
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Keystone_XL%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/509">call on Congress</a>
to resist Republican demands to approve Keystone XL in exchange for
release of hostages.


title: Urgent: Call on WGBH to show Citizen Koch
uri: Urgent-Call-on-WGBH-to-show-Citizen-Koch
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_WGBH_to_show_Citizen_Koch)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_WGBH_to_show_Citizen_Koch%29

content:
<p>
In the Boston area: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/workingfamilies/sign/wgbh-boston-air-citizen">call
on WGBH</a> to show Citizen Koch.


title: Urgent: Support a motion to end the shutdown
uri: Urgent-Support-a-motion-to-end-the-shutdown
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Urgent:_Support_a_motion_to_end_the_shutdown)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_a_motion_to_end_the_shutdown%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/518">call on Republican
congresscritters</a> to support a motion to end the shutdown.


title: Democratic and Republican parties oppose independent documentary
uri: Democratic-and-Republican-parties-oppose-independent-documentary
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Democratic_and_Republican_parties_oppose_independent_documentary)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Democratic_and_Republican_parties_oppose_independent_documentary%29

content:
<p>
The Democratic Party joined the Republican Party in opposing a plan
to make an 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/09/30/dems-and-gop-agree-independent-journalism-is-bad-news/">independent
documentary</a> about Hillary Clinton.


title: Urgent: Put pressure on Democrats that voted to shut down gov't
uri: Urgent-Put-pressure-on-Democrats-that-voted-to-shut-down-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Urgent:_Put_pressure_on_Democrats_that_voted_to_shut_down_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Put_pressure_on_Democrats_that_voted_to_shut_down_govt%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8646">put
pressure on the renegade Democrats</a> that voted with the Republicans
to shut down the government.


title: UK's zero-tolerance policy on racist statements
uri: UK-s-zero-tolerance-policy-on-racist-statements
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(UKs_zero-tolerance_policy_on_racist_statements)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28UKs_zero-tolerance_policy_on_racist_statements%29

content:
<p>
The UK's zero-tolerance policy on racist statements has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/06/tottenham-fans-yid-chants-west-ham">collided
with soccer fans</a> that insist on chanting "Yid army" as an
expression of pro-semitism.
<p>
I call it "zero-tolerance" because it resembles, in its gratuitous
harshness, the "zero-tolerance" policies of US schools that form the
entry valve of the 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#23_January_2013_(US_school-to-prison_pipeline)">school-to-prison
pipeline</a>.


title: Campaigning for single-payer universal health care in the US
uri: Campaigning-for-single-payer-universal-health-care-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Campaigning_for_single-payer_universal_health_care_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Campaigning_for_single-payer_universal_health_care_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Campaigning for 
<a href="http://www.singlepayeraction.org/">single-payer universal
health care</a> in the US.


title: Russia installing NSA-like Internet surveillance facilities
uri: Russia-installing-NSA-like-Internet-surveillance-facilities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Russia_installing_NSA-like_Internet_surveillance_facilities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Russia_installing_NSA-like_Internet_surveillance_facilities%29

content:
<p>
Russia is installing NSA-like 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/russia-monitor-communications-sochi-winter-olympics">Internet
surveillance facilities</a>.  Sochi, where the Olympic games will be
held, is getting the new facilities first.
<p>
The Olympic games have a pattern of imposing surveillance that does
not go away afterward.


title: US inequality: function of political power
uri: US-inequality-function-of-political-power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(US_inequality_function_of_political_power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28US_inequality_function_of_political_power%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/27-9">US Inequality
Is Simply a Function of Political Power</a>.
<p>
Thus, no policy is likely to benefit the non-rich, while the rich keep
taking ever more away from us.


title: Jokes labeled as "hate incidents" in UK
uri: Jokes-labeled-as-hate-incidents-in-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Jokes_labeled_as_hate_incidents_in_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Jokes_labeled_as_hate_incidents_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, any joke that refers to a group of people can be labeled as
a
"<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/06/lord-sugar-investigated-police-complaint-tweet">hate
incident</a>".
<p>
That's where it leads when people are prosecuted for expressing
opinions.  Even odious opinions must not be censored.


title: Jailing people for sharing in Japan
uri: Jailing-people-for-sharing-in-Japan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Jailing_people_for_sharing_in_Japan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Jailing_people_for_sharing_in_Japan%29

content:
<p>
Jailing people for sharing 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/jail-for-file-sharers-does-nothing-to-increase-music-sales-131003/">has
not boosted music sales</a> in Japan.
<p>
Even if it had done so, that would not justify it.  Sharing is good,
and sharing is our right; if the copyright industry tries to deny
this right, we must crush it so it can no longer threaten us.
However, the fact that this did not achieve its supposed goal
might be useful in convincing politicians that care more about
the copyright industry's money than about people.
<p>
On the other hand, they might instead try executing anyone that
shares.


title: Power-tripping prosecutor goes after foreign student in Florida
uri: Power-tripping-prosecutor-goes-after-foreign-student-in-Florida
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Power-tripping_prosecutor_goes_after_foreign_student_in_Florida)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Power-tripping_prosecutor_goes_after_foreign_student_in_Florida%29

content:
<p>
A foreign student in Florida faces prosecution for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/05/cristiano-ronaldo-letter-miami-fan-charges">running
onto a soccer field to embrace the victorious player he admires</a>.
He could be kicked out of school and deported.
<p>
The player begged the prosecutor to drop the charges, but the
prosecutor does not care.  He has an opportunity to ruin someone's
life, legally, and he's not going to let it go to waste.
<p>
However, this power-tripping prosecutor
(<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#17_March_2013_(Aaron_Swartz_lawyers_accuse_prosecutor_of_misconduct)">remember
Aaron Swartz?</a>) is only the trigger for a much larger standing
injustice: that many systems are designed to further and permanently
punish anyone who has ever been convicted of any crime.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Sudanese_govt_buying_up_newspapers)
title: Sudanese gov't buying up newspapers
uri: Sudanese-gov-t-buying-up-newspapers
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Sudanese_govt_buying_up_newspapers%29

content:
<p>
The tyrannical government of Sudan is 
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/09/sudans-government-silences-press-ownership/">buying
up all the newspapers</a> so as to control them.


title: Unauthorized sharing not destroying copyright industry
uri: Unauthorized-sharing-not-destroying-copyright-industry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Unauthorized_sharing_not_destroying_copyright_industry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Unauthorized_sharing_not_destroying_copyright_industry%29

content:
<p>
Sad to say, unauthorized sharing is 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-hurting-the-entertainment-industry-121003/">not
destroying the copyright industry</a>.
<p>
These companies lobby for nasty laws, while paying a pittance to the
artists (aside from a few stars).  I hope we do away with them.
Meanwhile, I've proposed 
<a href="http://stallman.org/articles/end-war-on-sharing.html">new
systems for supporting artists better</a> than the current system
does.


title: Freedom to criticize officials in South America
uri: Freedom-to-criticize-officials-in-South-America
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(Freedom_to_criticize_officials_in_South_America)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28Freedom_to_criticize_officials_in_South_America%29

content:
<p>
The freedom to criticize officials is 
<a href="http://www.freedomhouse.org/blog/latin-americas-drive-internet-content-control">threatened
in some countries in South America</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_October_2013_(The_US_intervention_in_Afghanistan)
title: The US intervention in Afghanistan
uri: The-US-intervention-in-Afghanistan
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_October_2013_%28The_US_intervention_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
Obama has decided to end the US intervention in Afghanistan, aside
from thousands of troops that will remain.  The supposed benefits
for Afghanistan turn out to be 
<a href="http://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/warning-bells-over-slow-electoral-reform-and-voter-registration-for-2014">mostly
fictitious</a>, but the dead will stay dead.


title: UK thugs accused of editing video footage
uri: UK-thugs-accused-of-editing-video-footage
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(UK_thugs_accused_of_editing_video_footage)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28UK_thugs_accused_of_editing_video_footage%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs are accused of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/07/hillsborough-police-footage-victims-families">editing
their video footage of the Hillsborough disaster</a>, presumably as
part of their 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#15_November_2012_(2444_UK_thugs_being_investigated)">campaign
to put the blame on the victims</a>.


title: Brazil accuses Canada of spying on Mining and Energy Ministry
uri: Brazil-accuses-Canada-of-spying-on-Mining-and-Energy-Ministry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Brazil_accuses_Canada_of_spying_on_Mining_and_Energy_Ministry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Brazil_accuses_Canada_of_spying_on_Mining_and_Energy_Ministry%29

content:
<p>
Brazil has 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/10/07/world/americas/ap-lt-brazil-canada-spying.html">accused
Canada of spying</a> on Brazil's Mining and Energy Ministry.
<p>
That ministry probably does not engage in "terrorism" in the usual
sense, but it does something worse: pouring CO2 into the air.
However, Canada's government is not trying to stop that, rather to
compete to fry our planet even faster.  This would be industrial
espionage, pure and simple.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Advances_in_profiling_users)
title: "Advances" in profiling users
uri: Advances-in-profiling-users
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Advances_in_profiling_users%29
content:
<p>
"Advances" in profiling users enable surveillance companies to
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/technology/selling-secrets-of-phone-users-to-advertisers.html?pagewanted=all">determine
that several computers belong to the same person</a>.


title: Netanyahu shows no intention of making peace with Palestine
uri: Netanyahu-shows-no-intention-of-making-peace-with-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Netanyahu_shows_no_intention_of_making_peace_with_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Netanyahu_shows_no_intention_of_making_peace_with_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Netanyahu's latest speech 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/07/israel-binyamin-netanyahu-palestinians">claims
that Israel's colonies in Palestine are not an issue</a>.  This shows
that he has no intention of making peace with Palestine, and that
Israel's participation in peace talks is only a pretense to continue
the slow ethnic cleansing and land theft.
<p>
I think Netanyahu calculates that he will lose nothing from displaying
the truth, because his political control over the US government is too
strong for it to resist in any way.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Manta_rays_in_the_Maldives)
title: Manta rays in the Maldives
uri: Manta-rays-in-the-Maldives
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Manta_rays_in_the_Maldives%29
content:
<p>
For several years, manta rays in the Maldives have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/07/manta-rays-lacking-libido-maldives">hardly
ever tried to reproduce</a>.


title: Violent Islamist rebellion spreading in Egypt
uri: Violent-Islamist-rebellion-spreading-in-Egypt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Violent_Islamist_rebellion_spreading_in_Egypt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Violent_Islamist_rebellion_spreading_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/07/gunmen-kill-six-egyptian-soldiers">Violent
Islamist rebellion</a> is spreading in Egypt.
<p>
This is a natural response to banning the Islamist political party.
When the Army says that all protesters will be treated as foreign
agents (i.e., put on trial), they are likely to rebel.
<p>
Most Egyptians had come to oppose Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The army could have rebooted democracy by allowing the Muslim
Brotherhood to compete in new elections (and win seats in parliament
but without controlling the government).  Instead it chose to exclude
them from democracy, setting up what is effectively military rule.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(The_IPCC_report)
title: The IPCC report
uri: The-IPCC-report
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28The_IPCC_report%29
content:
<p>
The central point of the IPCC report is the carbon budget: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/oct/07/un-climate-change-panel-graphs-ipcc-report">how
much more carbon we can burn</a> without provoking disaster.


title: Urgent: Oppose giving prizes to dangerous biotech
uri: Urgent-Oppose-giving-prizes-to-dangerous-biotech
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_October_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_giving_prizes_to_dangerous_biotech)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_giving_prizes_to_dangerous_biotech%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/world-food-prize-monsanto-syngenta/5/2/">demand</a>
that the World Food Prize Organization stop giving its prizes to
dangerous biotech.


title: Carbon tax to pay cost of disasters caused by global heating
uri: Carbon-tax-to-pay-cost-of-disasters-caused-by-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Carbon_tax_to_pay_cost_of_disasters_caused_by_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Carbon_tax_to_pay_cost_of_disasters_caused_by_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Proposing a carbon tax to raise
money <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/08/2749971/new-jersey-group-disaster-relief-preparedness-fund/">to
pay for the cost of weather disasters caused by global heating.</a>


title: Would-Be migrants drowned in a boat trying to reach Italy
uri: Would-Be-migrants-drowned-in-a-boat-trying-to-reach-Italy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Would-Be_migrants_drowned_in_a_boat_trying_to_reach_Italy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Would-Be_migrants_drowned_in_a_boat_trying_to_reach_Italy%29

content:
<p>
Hundreds of would-be
migrants <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/08/shame-behind-migrant-tragedy-lampedusa">drowned
in a boat trying to reach Italy.</a>  What are the implications of
this?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Bulk_Collection_of_Americans_Data)
title: Bulk Collection of Americans Data
uri: Bulk-Collection-of-Americans-Data
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Bulk_Collection_of_Americans_Data%29

content:
<p>
Bills Offer Clear
Choice: <a href="https://www.cdt.org/blogs/jake-laperruque/0810bills-offer-clear-choice-end-bulk-collection-americans%E2%80%99-data-or-endorse-it">End
Bulk Collection of Americans Data or Endorse It.</a>


title: Moscow protester sentenced to indefinite imprisonment
uri: Moscow-protester-sentenced-to-indefinite-imprisonment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Moscow_protester_sentenced_to_indefinite_imprisonment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Moscow_protester_sentenced_to_indefinite_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
A nonviolent Moscow protester
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/08/bolotnaya-trial-moscow-man-sentenced-psychiatric-treatment">convicted
of "calling for mass riots"</a> and sentenced to indefinite
imprisonment in a mental hospital.


title: Russia bans books and imprisons people for having copies
uri: Russia-bans-books-and-imprisons-people-for-having-copies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Russia_bans_books_and_imprisons_people_for_having_copies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Russia_bans_books_and_imprisons_people_for_having_copies%29

content:
<p>
Russia bans books by labeling them "extremist", and
even <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/08/russian-court-bans-quran-translation">imprisons
people for having copies.</a>
<p>
The <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-mar-jun.html#01%20June%202008%20%28The%20crime%20of%20reading%20a%20book%29">UK
also imprisons people for having copies of books</a>, but in the UK
there is no list of which books are banned, so one can't tell.


title: Plans to protect from effects of global heating
uri: Plans-to-protect-from-effects-of-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Plans_to_protect_from_effects_of_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Plans_to_protect_from_effects_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
20% of the world's cities now have plans for monumental and expensive
adaptations
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/tackling-climate-change-copenhagen-sustainable-city-design">protect
themselves from the effects of global heating.</a>
<p>
This won't protect our food supply from global heating.  We ought to
be cutting down CO2 emissions so that we never reach that disastrous
point.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Malala_Yusafzai_reminds_Obama)
title: Malala Yusafzai reminds Obama
uri: Malala-Yusafzai-reminds-Obama
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Malala_Yusafzai_reminds_Obama%29
content:
<p>
Malala Yusafzai reminds Obama that he needs
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/08">negotiate
with the Taliban.</a>


title: Urgent: Withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan
uri: Urgent-Withdrawal-of-troops-from-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Urgent:_Withdrawal_of_troops_from_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Withdrawal_of_troops_from_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8649">call
on the US government</a> to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan soon.


title: Urgent: Mining in public lands is not more important than visitors
uri: Urgent-Mining-in-public-lands-is-not-more-important-than-visitors
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Urgent:_Mining_in_public_lands_is_not_more_important_than_visitors)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Mining_in_public_lands_is_not_more_important_than_visitors%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/stop-mining-public-lands-while-visitors-are-locked-out">tell
the government</a> to stop treating mining in public lands as more
important than visitors.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Washingtons_Warring_Brothers)
title: Washington's Warring Brothers
uri: Washington-s-Warring-Brothers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Washingtons_Warring_Brothers%29
content:
<p>
Washington's Warring Brothers: the 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19254-washingtons-warring-brothers">Republican
and Democratic Parties</a>.


title: Karzai's condition for letting foreign troops stay longer
uri: Karzai-s-condition-for-letting-foreign-troops-stay-longer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Karzais_condition_for_letting_foreign_troops_stay_longer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Karzais_condition_for_letting_foreign_troops_stay_longer%29

content:
<p>
Karzai demands respect for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/08/hamid-karzai-afghanistan">Afghan
sovereignty over military action</a> as a condition for letting
foreign troops stay any longer.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Eight_stages_of_genocide)
title: Eight stages of genocide
uri: Eight-stages-of-genocide
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Eight_stages_of_genocide%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.genocidewatch.org/genocide/8stagesofgenocide.html">eight
stages of genocide</a>.


title: Divestment campaign putting pressure on fossil fuel companies
uri: Divestment-campaign-putting-pressure-on-fossil-fuel-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Divestment_campaign_putting_pressure_on_fossil_fuel_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Divestment_campaign_putting_pressure_on_fossil_fuel_companies%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/08/campaign-against-fossil-fuel-growing">divestment
campaign</a> is putting pressure on fossil fuel companies.


title: UK boy and girl scouts no longer have to take religious oath
uri: UK-boy-and-girl-scouts-no-longer-have-to-take-religious-oath
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(UK_boy_and_girl_scouts_no_longer_have_to_take_religious_oath)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28UK_boy_and_girl_scouts_no_longer_have_to_take_religious_oath%29

content:
<p>
UK boy and girl scouts will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/08/scouts-pledge-welcomes-non-believers">no
longer have to take a religious oath</a>.
<p>
The Boy Scouts of America still requires that.


title: Catholic Church supports shutdown of US gov't
uri: Catholic-Church-supports-shutdown-of-US-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Catholic_Church_supports_shutdown_of_US_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Catholic_Church_supports_shutdown_of_US_govt%29

content:
<p>
The Catholic Church supports the shutdown of the US government in
order to 
<a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/10/06/at-any-cost-how-catholic-bishops-pushed-for-a-shutdown-and-even-a-default-over-birth-control/">attack
birth control</a>.


title: Lunatics in Texas want Garden of Eden story taught as science
uri: Lunatics-in-Texas-want-Garden-of-Eden-story-taught-as-science
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Lunatics_in_Texas_want_Garden_of_Eden_story_taught_as_science)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Lunatics_in_Texas_want_Garden_of_Eden_story_taught_as_science%29

content:
<p>
Lunatic Texas right-wingers plan to 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/belief/texas-fundamentalists-pushing-public-schools-teach-garden-eden-science?paging=off">make
textbooks teach that the Garden of Eden story is science</a>.


title: Turkey considers law to allow pre-emptive arrests of suspected protesters
uri: Turkey-considers-law-to-allow-pre-emptive-arrests-of-suspected-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_October_2013_(Turkey_considers_law_to_allow_pre-emptive_arrests_of_suspected_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_October_2013_%28Turkey_considers_law_to_allow_pre-emptive_arrests_of_suspected_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Turkey is considering a law to allow pre-emptive arrests of suspected
protesters, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/07-4">without a
trial</a>.
<p>
That would be an overt rejection of human rights.  It reflects the
fact that the Islamist party feels it can get away with absolutely
anything.


title: Harvard Business School restrictive subscriptions
uri: Harvard-Business-School-restrictive-subscriptions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Harvard_Business_School_restrictive_subscriptions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Harvard_Business_School_restrictive_subscriptions%29

content:
<p>
Harvard Business School outrageously says its restrictive
subscriptions for university
licenses <a href="http://www.digitopoly.org/2013/10/06/harvard-business-school-publishing-crosses-the-evil-academic-line/">don't
allow classroom use.</a>
<p>
Librarians, you must organize to fight back against nasty terms with a
boycott.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_October_2013_(Profiting_from_the_Poor)
title: Profiting from the Poor
uri: Profiting-from-the-Poor
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_October_2013_%28Profiting_from_the_Poor%29
content:
<p>
Profiting from the
Poor: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/08-1">Outsourcing
Social Services Puts Most Vulnerable at Risk.</a>


title: Nestlé pumps water out of ground where water is scarce
uri: Nestlé-pumps-water-out-of-ground-where-water-is-scarce
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_October_2013_(Nestle_pumps_water_out_of_ground_where_water_is_scarce)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_October_2013_%28Nestle_pumps_water_out_of_ground_where_water_is_scarce%29

content:
<p>
Nestlé pumps water out of the ground in places where water is
scarce,
<a href="http://urbantimes.co/magazine/2013/06/nestle-the-global-search-for-liquid-gold/">forcing
inhabitants to buy their water back.</a>
<p>
In Pakistan, it is not safe to drink water straight from the faucet
But you can boil it or filter it, and that's much cheaper than buying
it bottled.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_October_2013_('Economic_Growth'_in_Africa)
title: 'Economic Growth' in Africa
uri: Economic-Growth-in-Africa
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_October_2013_%28%27Economic_Growth%27_in_Africa%29

content:
<p>
World Bank
Admits: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/08-7">'Economic
Growth' in Africa = Resource Extraction, Inequality, Poverty.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_October_2013_(Swim_with_dolphins_then_eat_them)
title: Swim with dolphins then eat them
uri: Swim-with-dolphins-then-eat-them
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_October_2013_%28Swim_with_dolphins_then_eat_them%29

content:
<p>
Taiji, Japan, invites tourists
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/09/dolphins-swim-eat-taiji-japan">swim
with dolphins then eat them.</a>


title: Faux News tries to condemn Obama for shutdown
uri: Faux-News-tries-to-condemn-Obama-for-shutdown
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_October_2013_(Faux_News_tries_to_condemn_Obama_for_shutdown)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_October_2013_%28Faux_News_tries_to_condemn_Obama_for_shutdown%29

content:
<p>
Faux News tries to condemn Obama for the shutdown while claiming
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/09/government-shutdown-fox-news-coverage">we'd
be better off with much less government.</a>
<p>
I am not an anarchist, and it's not merely because I have a pro-state
gland.  It's because there are many important things we need
governments to do.  For instance, to provide food and shelter to the
poor.  To fund scientific research and tests of new drugs.  To provide
education and health care to all.  To build roads and passenger
trains.  To take care of national parks.  To inspect many sorts of
businesses to make sure they don't injure their employees, their
customers, or bystanders.  To impose a decent minimum wage and help
workers form unions.
<p>
Of course, the state needs to pay for this, and that requires taxing
the rich, as we used to do.


title: Urgent: Oppose giving more power political power to businesses
uri: Urgent-Oppose-giving-more-power-political-power-to-businesses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_giving_more_power_political_power_to_businesses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_giving_more_power_political_power_to_businesses%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://citizensunited2.com">tell the Supreme Court</a> you
are incensed about giving more political power to businesses.


title: Urgent: Extend clean water rules to smaller waterways
uri: Urgent-Extend-clean-water-rules-to-smaller-waterways
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Urgent:_Extend_clean_water_rules_to_smaller_waterways)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Extend_clean_water_rules_to_smaller_waterways%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=9235">call
on the EPA</a> to extend clean water rules to smaller waterways.


title: Responsibility for killings in Greece
uri: Responsibility-for-killings-in-Greece
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Responsibility_for_killings_in_Greece)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Responsibility_for_killings_in_Greece%29

content:
<p>
Greek fascists' did the killing, but those really responsible are
<a href="http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=b2c4368622&e=8283eff9b8">plutocratist officials</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Violation_of_Geneva_conventions)
title: Violation of Geneva conventions
uri: Violation-of-Geneva-conventions
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Violation_of_Geneva_conventions%29

content:
<p>
Keeping Abu Anas al-Liby prisoner on a ship 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/08/us-detention-libya-al-liby-ship">violates
Geneva conventions</a>; it is not as bad as other recent US treatment
of prisoners, but still not right.
<p>
If Abu Anas is not a prisoner of war, then he can only be a criminal
suspect under arrest.  Was he informed of his Miranda rights before
questioning?


title: Interest in state health coverages exchanges exceed expectations
uri: Interest-in-state-health-coverages-exchanges-exceed-expectations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Interest_in_state_health_coverages_exchanges_exceed_expectations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Interest_in_state_health_coverages_exchanges_exceed_expectations%29

content:
<p>
The interest in the state health coverages exchanges set up by Obama's
health care bill exceeded expectations, and the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/08/obamacare-insurance-online-exchanges-rebound">servers
in many states could not cope</a>.


title: CDC can't track down outbreak of salmonella
uri: CDC-can-t-track-down-outbreak-of-salmonella
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(CDC_cant_track_down_outbreak_of_salmonella)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28CDC_cant_track_down_outbreak_of_salmonella%29

content:
<p>
The CDC can't track down an outbreak of salmonella because its
employees have been 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/08/2747641/shutdown-salmonella-outbreak/">furloughed</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Nelson_Kanuk_sues_Alaska)
title: Nelson Kanuk sues Alaska
uri: Nelson-Kanuk-sues-Alaska
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Nelson_Kanuk_sues_Alaska%29
content:
<p>
Nelson Kanuk is suing Alaska for 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/04/2726421/student-sue-alaska-climate-change/">failing
to cope with global heating</a>.


title: Death of 363 boat people near Lampedusa was no accident
uri: Death-of-363-boat-people-near-Lampedusa-was-no-accident
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Death_of_363_boat_people_near_Lampedusa_was_no_accident)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Death_of_363_boat_people_near_Lampedusa_was_no_accident%29

content:
<p>
The death of 363 boat people near Lampedusa was no accident, but
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/07-12">result of
intentional policies, including past prosecution of fishermen for
rescuing drowning migrants.</a>
<p>
I don't think any country has an obligation to admit any and all
people that wish to move there.  But every country has an obligation
to overcome the plutocratic system that is responsible for driving so
many people to flee their homes.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(How_the_NSA_deploys_malware)
title: How the NSA deploys malware
uri: How-the-NSA-deploys-malware
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28How_the_NSA_deploys_malware%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/how-nsa-deploys-malware-new-revelations">How
the NSA deploys malware.</a> Its much like the way other attackers do
it.
<p>
The article treats Flash Player as legitimate, but in
fact <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html">it
too is malware, with a surveillance feature</a> and digital handcuffs.
This should be no surprise, since commonly used proprietary software
is often malware.  The fact that the program is proprietary means it
is <a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/why-free-software-is-more-important-now-than-ever-before">controlled
by one "owner" and not by the users — which is reason aplenty to
refuse to run it.</a>


title: Republicans and Democrats threaten "grand bargain"
uri: Republicans-and-Democrats-threaten-grand-bargain
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Republicans_and_Democrats_threaten_grand_bargain)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Republicans_and_Democrats_threaten_grand_bargain%29

content:
<p>
Republicans and Democrats
again <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/10/12267/dear-wwii-vets-forget-about-monument-they-are-gunning-your-social-security">threaten
a "grand bargain":</a> trading retired Americans' pensions and medical
care to the plutocrats in exchange for campaign support and other
favors.


title: Blacklisted workers will receive compensation
uri: Blacklisted-workers-will-receive-compensation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Blacklisted_workers_will_receive_compensation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Blacklisted_workers_will_receive_compensation%29

content:
<p>
The UK construction workers who
were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/10/construction-firms-compensate-workers-blacklist">illegally
blacklisted (with state help) will receive compensation.</a>


title: Libya's prime minister was kidnapped
uri: Libya-s-prime-minister-was-kidnapped
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Libya's_prime_minister_was_kidnapped)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Libya%27s_prime_minister_was_kidnapped%29

content:
<p>
Libya's prime minister
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/libyan-prime-minister-ali-zeidan-freed-kidnap">kidnapped
by armed men, who released him a short while later</a>.
<p>
This reflects
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/prime-minister-abduction-low-libya">general
weakness of the Libyan state.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Resistance_to_US_demands)
title: Resistance to US demands
uri: Resistance-to-US-demands
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Resistance_to_US_demands%29
content:
<p>
Resistance to US demands
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/07-9">intensifying
across Latin America.</a>


title: Urgent: Uphold the International Criminal Court
uri: Urgent-Uphold-the-International-Criminal-Court
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Urgent:_Uphold_the_International_Criminal_Court)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Uphold_the_International_Criminal_Court%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on African governments
to <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/justice_for_africa_icc/?bjlNcab&v=30049">uphold
the International Criminal Court.</a>


title: Yelling insults at children and teenagers
uri: Yelling-insults-at-children-and-teenagers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Yelling_insults_at_children_and_teenagers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Yelling_insults_at_children_and_teenagers%29

content:
<p>
Yelling insults at children and
teenagers <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/on-parenting/study-says-yelling-as-harmful-as-spanking-in-disciplining-kids-so-what-should-parents-do/2013/10/01/dcb01b74-1bf1-11e3-8685-5021e0c41964_print.html">can
do lasting harm,</a> much like striking them.


title: Notifying reporters when data subpoena'd from third parties
uri: Notifying-reporters-when-data-subpoena-d-from-third-parties
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Notifying_reporters_when_data_subpoena'd_from_third_parties)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Notifying_reporters_when_data_subpoena%27d_from_third_parties%29

content:
<p>
A California law
requires <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/usa-califoria-journalists-idUSL1N0HU01K20131004?irpc=932">notifying
reporters when their records or data are subpoena'd from third
parties</a>.
<p>
This should apply to everyone.  Storage that a company provides to you
or holds about you should be treated, in regard to searches, like your
property, just as an apartment you rent is treated as your property.
<p>
But that alone is not enough to protect whistleblowers.  We need the
right, and the practical opportunity, to communicate, without being
systematically tracked unless there is a prior court order to justify
it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Austerity_in_Europe)
title: Austerity in Europe
uri: Austerity-in-Europe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Austerity_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>
Red Cross: austerity in Europe is
creating <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/austerity-europe-debt-red-cross">protracted
poverty, unemployment, and despair.</a>
<p>
Stiglitz: the US and European financial system
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2013/oct/10/financial-crisis-keynesians-eurozone-recession">still
badly broken and fails to serve the needs of most people.</a>
<p>
I'm a Keynesian all the time — and you can be, too.  It just
takes recognizing that the anti-Keynesians are the plutocrats.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Nuclear_power_plants_in_Vietnam)
title: Nuclear power plants in Vietnam
uri: Nuclear-power-plants-in-Vietnam
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Nuclear_power_plants_in_Vietnam%29

content:
<p>
Obama will punish Vietnam for its arrest of dissidents with
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/10/us-signs-nuclear-technology-deal-vietnam">deal
to build nuclear power plants there.</a>
<p>
It is a clever scheme, but has a big flaw: the Vietnamese who will
suffer from future accidents and wastes won't be the elite that order
the arrests.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(US_left_chemical_bombs_in_Panama)
title: US left chemical bombs in Panama
uri: US-left-chemical-bombs-in-Panama
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28US_left_chemical_bombs_in_Panama%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/09-8">The US
left some chemical bombs in Panama</a>, and Panama wants the US to get
rid of them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Gentrification)
title: Gentrification
uri: Gentrification
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Gentrification%29
content:
<p>
"Revitalizing" cities through
gentrification <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/10/gentrification-not-urban-renaissance">does
not help the poor inhabitants</a> — rather, it pushes them out
to someplace further away.
<p>
I like it when cities are pretty and safe, and have lot of places to
buy little luxuries such as cupcakes, but that must not erase the
issue of poverty from our minds.  We need a society where everyone can
enjoy those treats.  We need to tax the rich more, and use the money
to lift people out of poverty.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Solar_power_systems_in_Bangladesh)
title: Solar power systems in Bangladesh
uri: Solar-power-systems-in-Bangladesh
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Solar_power_systems_in_Bangladesh%29

content:
<p>
Bangladesh has installed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/oct/10/low-carbon-world-sceptics-climate-change">a
million solar power systems</a>, and is installing hundreds of
thousands of new ones per year.
<p>
"One solar energy system every four minutes" in the US sounds
impressive, but it amounts to only some 130,000 a year — far
below what we could achieve if policies were set up to encourage it
instead of obstructing it.
<p>
California electric utilities are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/09-0">trying to
obstruct local solar electric generation</a>.
<p>
The excuse that the utilities give is incoherent.  Suppose someone did
get energy from the grid to charge a battery, and sold it back later.
If the prices are unvarying, he'd lose money on the deal, because the
utility would sell it at a higher price and buy it back at a lower
price.  Therefore, the systems would be designed to avoid this.
<p>
If, however, the price of electricity varies from moment to moment
according to usage and availability (which is a recommended practice),
people would have an incentive to charge their batteries when
electricity is cheap and sell the electricity back to the grid when
electricity is expensive.  And this is exactly what society needs to
reduce the problem of peak demand.


title: Arrest of members of Congress supporting immigration reform
uri: Arrest-of-members-of-Congress-supporting-immigration-reform
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Arrest_of_members_of_Congress_supporting_immigration_reform)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Arrest_of_members_of_Congress_supporting_immigration_reform%29

content:
<p>
Members of Congress were 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/09-2">arrested
along with other protesters</a> supporting immigration reform.
<p>
I support most of these immigration reforms in principle, but part of
the plan is something I oppose: an increased surveillance requirement
placed on employers.


title: Haitian cholera victims and relatives sue the UN
uri: Haitian-cholera-victims-and-relatives-sue-the-UN
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Haitian_cholera_victims_and_relatives_sue_the_UN)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Haitian_cholera_victims_and_relatives_sue_the_UN%29

content:
<p>
Haitian cholera victims and relatives have 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/09-7">sued the
United Nations</a>, which was responsible for introducing cholera to
Haiti.
<p>
They are suing in the US.  I fear that the US court will find an
excuse to dismiss the case.


title: Student in Wales punished after shaving head for charity
uri: Student-in-Wales-punished-after-shaving-head-for-charity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Student_in_Wales_punished_after_shaving_head_for_charity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Student_in_Wales_punished_after_shaving_head_for_charity%29

content:
<p>
A school in Wales punished a student who shaved his head to raise
money for charity, until
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-24398589">250
other students went on strike to defend him</a>.
<p>
Bravo for all these students.
<p>
The school head claims that this punishment was a matter of
maintaining "high standards".  He said nothing to explain how a shaven
head is less "high" than an unshaven one.  Is he measuring "height of
standards" based on the height of the student's hair?  Perhaps that
school would be better off if its head were shorn.


title: Woman shot dead in car chase in Washington DC
uri: Woman-shot-dead-in-car-chase-in-Washington-DC
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Woman_shot_dead_in_car_chase_in_Washington_DC)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Woman_shot_dead_in_car_chase_in_Washington_DC%29

content:
<p>
Miriam Carey, who was 
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/miriam-carey-capitol-suspect-suffered-post-partum-depression/story?id=20465157">shot
dead in a car chase in Washington DC</a>, believed President Obama was
electronically monitoring her home.
<p>
If she had a cell phone in the home, or a "smart meter", that
particular belief was true!  She may well have been insane anyway.


title: Interview with religious lunatic on US Supreme Court
uri: Interview-with-religious-lunatic-on-US-Supreme-Court
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Interview_with_religious_lunatic_on_US_Supreme_Court)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Interview_with_religious_lunatic_on_US_Supreme_Court%29

content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/antonin-scalia-2013-10/index3.html">interview
with a religious lunatic</a> who is, alas for us, on the US Supreme
Court.


title: Prions that can be taken up in plants
uri: Prions-that-can-be-taken-up-in-plants
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Prions_that_can_be_taken_up_in_plants)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Prions_that_can_be_taken_up_in_plants%29

content:
<p>
Some kinds of prions (infectious proteins that cause brain degradation)
can be taken up in plants, and then 
<a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12260">infect animals that eat
those plants</a>.


title: Kuwait says it has medical test to detect gays
uri: Kuwait-says-it-has-medical-test-to-detect-gays
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Kuwait_says_it_has_medical_test_to_detect_gays)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Kuwait_says_it_has_medical_test_to_detect_gays%29

content:
<p>
Kuwait says it has a 
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4438343,00.html">medical
test to detect gays</a>, and will use this to prevent gays from
entering the country.


title: NFL's knowledge of brain damage impacts concealed for 15 years
uri: NFL-s-knowledge-of-brain-damage-impacts-concealed-for-15-years
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(NFLs_knowledge_of_brain_damage_impacts_concealed_for_15_years)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28NFLs_knowledge_of_brain_damage_impacts_concealed_for_15_years%29

content:
<p>
The US National Football League has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/oct/09/pbs-league-of-denial-nfl-gladiators">concealed
for 15 years</a> the knowledge that the head impacts football players
undergo cause brain damage.
<p>
If even an 18-year-old high school player shows signs of this brain
damage, high schools should not have football teams.
<p>
If you are worried about the small danger that your child might be
shot in a school, but you're not worried your child might play
football and suffer brain damage, maybe you played too much football
yourself.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Obama_cuts_military_aid_to_Egypt)
title: Obama cuts military aid to Egypt
uri: Obama-cuts-military-aid-to-Egypt
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Obama_cuts_military_aid_to_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Obama has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/09/egypt">cut
military aid to Egypt</a>, recognizing that the military has set up a
repressive regime.


title: Putin's men claim Greenpeace protesters guilty of piracy
uri: Putin-s-men-claim-Greenpeace-protesters-guilty-of-piracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Putins_men_claim_Greenpeace_protesters_guilty_of_piracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Putins_men_claim_Greenpeace_protesters_guilty_of_piracy%29

content:
<p>
Putin's men 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/09/russian-investigators-claim-greenpeace-ship-carried-illegal-drugs-heroin">claim
that the Greenpeace protesters are guilty of piracy</a> because they
had recreational drugs on the Greenpeace ship.
<p>
Aside from apparently being a falsehood, this claim is also absurd.
Possession of recreational drugs is not be piracy.  And since the
Greenpeace protesters had no intention of talking their ship into
Russia, it would be none of Russia's business.
<p>
Putin defies logic openly, as a form of intimidation: "See, when I
feel like putting you in prison, I won't hesitate to do so based on
claims that are obviously false."


title: Fabric factories in Bangladesh have fatal fires too
uri: Fabric-factories-in-Bangladesh-have-fatal-fires-too
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_October_2013_(Fabric_factories_in_Bangladesh_have_fatal_fires_too)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_October_2013_%28Fabric_factories_in_Bangladesh_have_fatal_fires_too%29

content:
<p>
Although many western clothing retailers have signed up to require
inspection of clothing factories in Bangladesh, the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/09/bangladesh-aswad-factory-safety-net">fabric
factories have fatal fires too</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(Gay_Testing_proposed_by_Kuwait)
title: "Gay Testing" proposed by Kuwait
uri: Gay-Testing-proposed-by-Kuwait
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28Gay_Testing_proposed_by_Kuwait%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/11/gulf-countries-medical-checks-transgender-expats">"gay
testing" proposed by Kuwait is meant only for migrant workers</a>, but
it's proposed for several neighboring countries too.
<p>
Either way, it is medically impossible.


title: Urgent: Free Albert Woodfox from prison
uri: Urgent-Free-Albert-Woodfox-from-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(Urgent:_Free_Albert_Woodfox_from_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Free_Albert_Woodfox_from_prison%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Louisiana
to <a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=520358">free
Albert Woodfox from prison</a> unless/until he is convicted in a
proper trial.


title: Use of free software in school is banned in South Africa
uri: Use-of-free-software-in-school-is-banned-in-South-Africa
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(Use_of_free_software_in_school_is_banned_in_South_Africa)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28Use_of_free_software_in_school_is_banned_in_South_Africa%29

content:
<p>
South Africa's Department of Basic Education seems to have been bought
out by
Microsoft: <a href="http://dkeats.com/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=gen21Srv8Nme0_40332_1381256759&userid=7050120123">use
of free software in school is banned.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(Russian_state_pays_Internet_trolls)
title: Russian state pays Internet trolls
uri: Russian-state-pays-Internet-trolls
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28Russian_state_pays_Internet_trolls%29

content:
<p>
The Russian
state <a href="http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=38052">pays
Internet trolls to pounce on dissent and criticism.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2005-sep-dec.html#20%20November%202005%20%28Great%20Firewall%20of%20China%29">China
does the same.</a>


title: Fracking hurts US climate change credibility
uri: Fracking-hurts-US-climate-change-credibility
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(Fracking_hurts_US_climate_change_credibility_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28Fracking_hurts_US_climate_change_credibility_%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/11/fracking-us-climate-credibility-shale-gas">Fracking
hurts US climate change credibility</a>


title: NASA says Chinese not banned from coming conference
uri: NASA-says-Chinese-not-banned-from-coming-conference
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(NASA_says_Chinese_not_banned_from_coming_conference)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28NASA_says_Chinese_not_banned_from_coming_conference%29

content:
<p>
NASA says
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/11/nasa-chinese-scientists-conference-ban">Chinese
nationals are treated no differently from other foreigners</a>, and
are not banned from the coming conference, but they were told by
mistake that they were banned.
<p>
Now they know they are not arbitrarily banned, but it is too late now
for them to get security checks before the conference.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(France's_ban_on_fracking)
title: France's ban on fracking
uri: France-s-ban-on-fracking
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28France%27s_ban_on_fracking%29
content:
<p>
France's ban on fracking is
now <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/11/france-fracking-ban-shale-gas">fully
legislated.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(Randian_plutocrats)
title: Randian plutocrats
uri: Randian-plutocrats
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28Randian_plutocrats%29
content:
<p>
Who's responsible for the government shutdown?  Who was responsible
for the financial
crisis?  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/11/who-responsible-us-shutdown-2008-meltdown-slavoj-zizek">Randian
plutocrats, says Slavoj Žižek


title: Right-Wing media cover scientists that deny anthropogenic global heating
uri: Right-Wing-media-cover-scientists-that-deny-anthropogenic-global-heati
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(Right-Wing_media_cover_scientists_that_deny_anthropogenic_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28Right-Wing_media_cover_scientists_that_deny_anthropogenic_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
How right-wing
media <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/oct/11/climate-change-political-media-ipcc-coverage">disproportionately
cover the few scientists that deny anthropogenic global heating</a>,
and supplement them with nonscientists and by misrepresenting real
scientists, to present a false impression of balance.
<p>
They are doing something
similar <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/11/false-equivalence-balance-media">with
the US government shutdown.</a>
<p>
The reason is clear: the same right-wing machine is at work, first
creating bogus arguments that sound reasonable in a sound bite, second
giving the spokesmen lots of air time.


title: Skype being investigated in Luxemburg
uri: Skype-being-investigated-in-Luxemburg
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(Skype_being_investigated_in_Luxemburg)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28Skype_being_investigated_in_Luxemburg%29

content:
<p>
Skype is
being <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/11/skype-ten-microsoft-nsa">investigated
in Luxemburg for snooping for the NSA.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(Oakland_thugs_tricked_city_council)
title: Oakland thugs tricked city council
uri: Oakland-thugs-tricked-city-council
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28Oakland_thugs_tricked_city_council%29

content:
<p>
The Oakland thugs, already guilty of repeated
violence, <a href="http://socialistworker.org/2013/10/09/confronting-police-war-games">tricked
the city council into approving funds for an exercise for SWAT
teams</a> from around the US and the world.
<p>
The US government encourages the creation of SWAT teams by offering
funds for them.  Thus, the US has far too many of them.  But once the
team exists, it needs practice, so cities give them practice by
sending them on a routine basis to apply shock and awe to people
asleep in their homes.  If they don't shoot you dead, they can give
you a fatal heart attack.
<p>
The rate of non-police violence in the US has gone way down since 20
years ago.  The US does need some SWAT teams, but I think 40 of them
would suffice if each could travel by helicopter: one each in the
biggest 30 urban areas, one in Hawaii, one in Alaska, and 8 more to
scatter around the less populated parts of the country.


title: Web site operators responsible for defamation in anonymous comments
uri: Web-site-operators-responsible-for-defamation-in-anonymous-comments
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_October_2013_(Web_site_operators_responsible_for_defamation_in_anonymous_comments)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_October_2013_%28Web_site_operators_responsible_for_defamation_in_anonymous_comments%29

content:
<p>
The European Court of Human Rights ruled
that <a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/10/european-ruling-spells-trouble-online-comment/">web
site operators are responsible for defamation in anonymous
comments</a>, and maybe all comments.
<p>
If this is not reversed, it will stop most sites from allowing
comments.


title: "Free countries" suppressing protests
uri: Free-countries-suppressing-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(Free_countries_suppressing_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28Free_countries_suppressing_protests%29

content:
<p>
"Free countries" around the world are suppressing protests.  This
article presents 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/global-suppression-protest">9
examples</a> including the US.


title: European austerity boosting support for right-wing extremists
uri: European-austerity-boosting-support-for-right-wing-extremists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(European_austerity_boosting_support_for_right-wing_extremists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28European_austerity_boosting_support_for_right-wing_extremists%29

content:
<p>
European austerity, and the unwillingness of the left to defy it, is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/hollande-warns-rise-nationalists-europe-elections">boosting
support for right-wing extremists</a> across Europe.


title: Chomsky summarizes US dishonesty in dealing with Iran
uri: Chomsky-summarizes-US-dishonesty-in-dealing-with-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(Chomsky_summarizes_US_dishonesty_in_dealing_with_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28Chomsky_summarizes_US_dishonesty_in_dealing_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
Chomsky summarizes 
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/chomsky-interview-foreign-policy-960/">US
dishonesty in dealing with Iran</a>, with Syria's chemical weapons,
and massive NSA snooping.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(UKs_sexual_risk_to_the_public)
title: UK's "sexual risk to the public"
uri: UK-s-sexual-risk-to-the-public
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28UKs_sexual_risk_to_the_public%29
content:
<p>
The UK government wants to restrict the rights of supposed potential
"sexual risk to the public" even 
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24461921">without charging them
with a crime</a>.


title: US and Canada censoring and corrupting science
uri: US-and-Canada-censoring-and-corrupting-science
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(US_and_Canada_censoring_and_corrupting_science)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28US_and_Canada_censoring_and_corrupting_science%29

content:
<p>
The governments of the US and Canada are censoring and corrupting science
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/10/obama-harper-modes-support-fossil-fuel-development/">for
the sake of the fossil fuel industry</a>.


title: Thugs' use of license plate cameras at political rallies
uri: Thugs-use-of-license-plate-cameras-at-political-rallies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(Thugs_use_of_license_plate_cameras_at_political_rallies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28Thugs_use_of_license_plate_cameras_at_political_rallies%29

content:
<p>
The Virginia State Thugs made a data base about millions of cars using
license plate cameras, and 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/virginia-state-police-used-license-plate-readers">specifically
recorded everyone that went to political rallies</a>.


title: India requires voter-verified paper ballots from voting machines
uri: India-requires-voter-verified-paper-ballots-from-voting-machines
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(India_requires_voter-verified_paper_ballots_from_voting_machines)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28India_requires_voter-verified_paper_ballots_from_voting_machines%29

content:
<p>
India's Supreme Court ruled that electronic voting machines 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/supreme-court-india-voter-verifiable-paper-audit-trails-must-be-used">must
generate voter-verified paper ballots</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(EU_data_protection_rules)
title: EU data protection rules
uri: EU-data-protection-rules
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28EU_data_protection_rules%29
content:
<p>
3,000 US companies have promised to handle EU citizens' data following
EU data protection rules, but 30% of them are not following these
rules … and 
<a href="http://euobserver.com/justice/121695">neither is the NSA<a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(Kidnap_of_Libyan_premier)
title: Kidnap of Libyan premier
uri: Kidnap-of-Libyan-premier
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28Kidnap_of_Libyan_premier%29
content:
<p>
Libyan premier Ali Zeidan was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/libyan-pm-kidnapping-zeidan">kidnaped
by men among his own guards</a>, who said they had "arrested" him.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(Aluminum_in_baby_formula_in_the_UK)
title: Aluminum in baby formula in the UK
uri: Aluminum-in-baby-formula-in-the-UK
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28Aluminum_in_baby_formula_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
Baby formula in the UK has a 
<a href="
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/10/formula-milk-babies-aluminium-health">substantial
concentration of aluminum</a>; a group of scientists says this is
dangerous.
<p>
I wonder if US baby formula has a similar amount of aluminum.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(Iranian_thugs_arrest_partygoers)
title: Iranian thugs arrest partygoers
uri: Iranian-thugs-arrest-partygoers
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28Iranian_thugs_arrest_partygoers%29

content:
<p>
Iranian thugs arrested at least 17 partygoers and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/iran-arrests-network-homosexual-satanists">accused
them of being "homosexuals and satanists"</a>.


title: Special gyms for members of Congress
uri: Special-gyms-for-members-of-Congress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(Special_gyms_for_members_of_Congress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28Special_gyms_for_members_of_Congress%29

content:
<p>
Special gyms for members of Congress are 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/10/08/2748461/members-only-congressional-gyms-deemed-essential-remain-open-during-shutdown">considered
"essential" during the shutdown</a>, but 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/07/this-cancer-patients-treatment-is-on-hold-because-of-the-government-shutdown/">experimental
cancer treatments are not</a>.


title: The plan to let chicken farms do their own inspection
uri: The-plan-to-let-chicken-farms-do-their-own-inspection
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(The_plan_to_let_chicken_farms_do_their_own_inspection)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28The_plan_to_let_chicken_farms_do_their_own_inspection%29

content:
<p>
When the company being audited pays for the audit, and selects the
auditor, that's a conflict of interest.  Redesigning the system 
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/experiment-puts-auditing-under-scrutiny-1009.html">works
wonders for catching violations</a>.
<p>
This conflict of interest is comparable to the one involved in 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#10%20February%202011%20(Hide%20experimental%20results)">having
would-be drug manufacturers pay for experiments to test the drug</a>.
<p>
This also shows why the current US plan to let chicken farms do their
own inspection is really stupid.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(The_trial_of_BP_for_the_Big_Spill)
title: The trial of BP for the Big Spill
uri: The-trial-of-BP-for-the-Big-Spill
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28The_trial_of_BP_for_the_Big_Spill%29

content:
<p>
The trial of BP (Billionaire Polluters) for the Big Spill shows 
<a href="http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/10/09/bp-trial-should-offer-a-renewed-opportunity-to-deal-with-the-failings-of-offshore-regulations-and-oversight/">points
where federal regulations need to be tightened</a>, and have not been.


title: AT&T wants to abolish regulations that protect subscribers
uri: AT-T-wants-to-abolish-regulations-that-protect-subscribers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_October_2013_(ATT_wants_to_abolish_regulations_that_protect_subscribers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_October_2013_%28ATT_wants_to_abolish_regulations_that_protect_subscribers%29

content:
<p>
AT&T wants to convert all residential phone lines to VOIP, and
take the opportunity to abolish the 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/att-the-internet-is-awesome-so-lets-get-rid-of-phone-regulations/#p3">regulations
that protect subscribers from abuses</a>.
<p>
Using a technical advance as an opportunity to deal people a legal
setback is an instance of 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallmans-law.html">Stallman's
Law</a>.
<p>
Most Americans have very few choices of ISPs.  We should take the
regulations for phone companies and apply them directly to ISPs.  If
we make ISPs common carriers, they won't be allowed to discriminate in
any way.


title: 10 cigarettes a day is very dangerous
uri: 10-cigarettes-a-day-is-very-dangerous
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(10_cigarettes_a_day_is_very_dangerous)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%2810_cigarettes_a_day_is_very_dangerous%29

content:
<p>
A study of smokers' health records found that
even <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/11/smoking-deadlier-than-thought-study">10
cigarettes a day is very dangerous.</a>  On the average, smoking costs
10 years of life.


title: Red Cross will resume food distribution in the UK
uri: Red-Cross-will-resume-food-distribution-in-the-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Red_Cross_will_resume_food_distribution_in_the_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Red_Cross_will_resume_food_distribution_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
The Red Cross
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/11/red-cross-to-distribute-food-to-britains-poor-and-hungry">resume
food distribution in the UK.</a> Evidently right-wing austerity
policies are very effective.


title: Insurance companies pay drivers to report car's location
uri: Insurance-companies-pay-drivers-to-report-car-s-location
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Insurance_companies_pay_drivers_to_report_car's_location)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Insurance_companies_pay_drivers_to_report_car%27s_location%29

content:
<p>
Insurance companies pay drivers
to <a href="http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/gps-telematics-boxes-provide-cheaper-insurance-for-young-drivers-50002428/">report
the car's location all the time.</a>
<p>
This is typical of the sleazy ways that surveillance technology is
foisted upon those not determined to reject it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Urgent:_No_fast_track_for_the_TPP)
title: Urgent: "No fast track for the TPP."
uri: Urgent-No-fast-track-for-the-TPP
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_No_fast_track_for_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell
Congress, <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12263">"No
fast track for the TPP."</a>
<p>
"Fast track" would amount
to <a href="media/a0fed06f.trance-pacific-partnership.en.jpg" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/images/trance-pacific-partnership.en.jpg">putting
Congress in a trance.</a>
<p>
Seriously, <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/10/fast-track-new-report-proves-difficulty-of-defending-the-indefensible.html">here's
why "fast track" is dangerous.</a>


title: Israeli colonists in Palestine continue violence
uri: Israeli-colonists-in-Palestine-continue-violence
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Israeli_colonists_in_Palestine_continue_violence)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Israeli_colonists_in_Palestine_continue_violence%29

content:
<p>
Israeli colonists in Palestine continue their
violence, <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/10/uk-israel-palestinians-vandalism-idUKBRE9990J820131010">this
time setting fire to cars.</a>


title: Honduran Rights Defenders to be Jailed
uri: Honduran-Rights-Defenders-to-be-Jailed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Honduran_Rights_Defenders_to_be_Jailed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Honduran_Rights_Defenders_to_be_Jailed%29

content:
<p>
Rio Blanco
Dam: <a href="http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/10846">Honduran
Rights Defenders to be Jailed</a> while Transnational Investors are
Above the Law.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Officials_scared_to_talk_to_press)
title: Officials scared to talk to press
uri: Officials-scared-to-talk-to-press
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Officials_scared_to_talk_to_press%29

content:
<p>
Obama's War on Journalism is making
officials <a href="http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php">scared
to talk to the press.</a>


title: "Experts" asked about attack on Syria had financial stake
uri: Experts-asked-about-attack-on-Syria-had-financial-stake
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Experts_asked_about_attack_on_Syria_had_financial_stake)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Experts_asked_about_attack_on_Syria_had_financial_stake%29

content:
<p>
The main US media "experts" asked about whether the US should attack
Syria
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/report-cites-conflicts-of-interest-by-media-analysts-in-syria-debate/2013/10/10/b2df6b50-3119-11e3-9c68-1cf643210300_story.html">had
a financial stake in it</a>, which the media usually did not disclose.


title: New systems for tracking users from one device to another
uri: New-systems-for-tracking-users-from-one-device-to-another
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(New_systems_for_tracking_users_from_one_device_to_another)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28New_systems_for_tracking_users_from_one_device_to_another%29

content:
<p>
Google and Microsoft are developing new systems for 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/private-tracking-arms-race/">tracking
users from one device to another</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Facebook_cancels_search_opt-out)
title: Facebook cancels search opt-out
uri: Facebook-cancels-search-opt-out
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Facebook_cancels_search_opt-out%29

content:
<p>
Facebook 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/opted-out-of-facebook-search-not-anymore-youre-not-says-facebook/">cancelled
the search opt-out</a> for users that had it enabled.
<p>
Unfriend Facebook today!


title: Guantanamo hunger strike broken with harassment and torture
uri: Guantanamo-hunger-strike-broken-with-harassment-and-torture
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Guantanamo_hunger_strike_broken_with_harassment_and_torture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Guantanamo_hunger_strike_broken_with_harassment_and_torture%29

content:
<p>
The US broke the Guantanamo hunger strike with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/12/us-military-stormed-hunger-striker-cell">harassment
and torture</a>.


title: India's Supreme Court rules against mandatory national identity card
uri: India-s-Supreme-Court-rules-against-mandatory-national-identity-card
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Indias_Supreme_Court_rules_against_mandatory_national_identity_card)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Indias_Supreme_Court_rules_against_mandatory_national_identity_card%29

content:
<p>
India's Supreme Court ruled that the national identity card 
<a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/aadhaar-cards-supreme-court-uidai-illegal-immigrants-anil-divan/1/311349.html">cannot
be mandatory for government services</a>.
<p>
This is because the Indian constitution 
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/aadhaar-infringes-privacy/article5160686.ece">provides
a right of privacy</a>.


title: Urgent: Free the protesters arrested by Border Patrol
uri: Urgent-Free-the-protesters-arrested-by-Border-Patrol
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Urgent:_Free_the_protesters_arrested_by_Border_Patrol)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Free_the_protesters_arrested_by_Border_Patrol%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/rosamaria/">demand</a> that the
Border Patrol free the protesters it arrested.


title: Urgent: Tell congressional Republicans to stop playing games
uri: Urgent-Tell-congressional-Republicans-to-stop-playing-games
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_congressional_Republicans_to_stop_playing_games)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_congressional_Republicans_to_stop_playing_games%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.usaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=579">tell
congressional Republicans</a> to stop playing games and putting our
country at stake.


title: Preparations for armed repression in the US
uri: Preparations-for-armed-repression-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Preparations_for_armed_repression_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Preparations_for_armed_repression_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The Committee for Public Safety (officially, Department of Homeland
Security) is 
<a href="http://atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GECON-02-101013.html">preparing
for armed repression in the US</a> — perhaps the next time there
is a financial crisis.  The US has not taken the necessary steps to
prevent a repeat of what happened in 2008.


title: Urgent: Tell newspapers to stop publishing letters that deny known facts
uri: Urgent-Tell-newspapers-to-stop-publishing-letters-that-deny-known-fac
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_newspapers_to_stop_publishing_letters_that_deny_known_facts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_newspapers_to_stop_publishing_letters_that_deny_known_facts%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/tell_newspapers_stop_publishing_climate_denial/">tell
major newspapers</a> to follow the LA Times and stop publishing
letters that deny known facts such as global heating.


title: "Guns Save Lives Day" celebrates anniversary of Newton
uri: Guns-Save-Lives-Day-celebrates-anniversary-of-Newton
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Guns_Save_Lives_Day_celebrates_anniversary_of_Newton)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Guns_Save_Lives_Day_celebrates_anniversary_of_Newton%29

content:
<p>
Here's chutspah: "Guns Save Lives
Day" <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/11/2770371/newtown-anniversary-gun-event/">celebrates
the anniversary of the Newtown shootings.</a>
<p>
They're wrong, though: the facts show
that <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Guns_dont_make_people_safe_from_violence%29">more
guns means more deaths.</a>


title: Stop saying that Columbus "discovered" the Americas
uri: Stop-saying-that-Columbus-discovered-the-Americas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Stop_saying_that_Columbus_discovered_the_Americas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Stop_saying_that_Columbus_discovered_the_Americas%29

content:
<p>
Let's <a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/stop-saying-columbus-discovered-new-world?paging=off">stop
saying that Columbus "discovered" the Americas</a> — they were
inhabited, not "empty", and their inhabitants knew about them.
<p>
Much of the Americas was, in fact, nearly empty a short while after
the Europeans came, but that was because smallpox killed 90% of the
inhabitants.


title: Greyson and Tarek released from Egyptian prison
uri: Greyson-and-Tarek-released-from-Egyptian-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Greyson_and_Tarek_released_from_Egyptian_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Greyson_and_Tarek_released_from_Egyptian_prison%29

content:
<p>
John Greyson and Tarek Loubani have been released from the Egyptian
prison where they
were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/11/canadian-greyson-loubani-ordeal-egyptian-prison">imprisoned
for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and subject to
beatings.</a>
<p>
They were freed, eventually, because they are Canadians —
thousands of Egyptians are suffering in similar conditions for similar
non-reasons, and with little hope of escape.
<p>
Once freed from prison, they were blocked from returning to Canada by
the Egyptian no-fly list.  These lists represent punishment without
trial; the US uses its no-fly list as an excuse
to <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_October_2013_%28US_uses_no-fly_list_to_bully_people%29">bully
and intimidate.</a> For justice's sake, the US must abolish the no-fly
list.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Urgent:_Resist_Rep._Ribble)
title: Urgent: Resist Rep. Ribble
uri: Urgent-Resist-Rep-Ribble
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Resist_Rep._Ribble%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: Rep. Ribble wants to convert retired Americans' lives to
Rubble.
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/ribble-republicans-are-coming-for-your-social-security">Sign
this petition calling on Congress to resist.</a>
<p>
We could also send Ribble a Ribble'd suggestion for what he can go and
do with himself.


title: Dalits will meet to convert to Buddhism
uri: Dalits-will-meet-to-convert-to-Buddhism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Dalits_will_meet_to_convert_to_Buddhism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Dalits_will_meet_to_convert_to_Buddhism%29

content:
<p>
Ten thousands Dalits will meet
to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/Thousands-of-dalits-to-embrace-Buddhism-in-Junagadh/articleshow/23999534.cms">convert
to Buddhism.</a>
<p>
In India, this requires filling out a form for the state, which
records each person's religious identity.
<p>
My contact says that many of them will practice Dr. Ambedkar's
rationalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navayana">Navayana
form of Buddhism.</a>
<p>
Indian Dalits face violent oppression. Uppercaste Hindus who murdered
26 Dalits inhabitants of the same village
were <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/after-acquittals-fear-haunts-dalit-hamlet/article5222175.ece">recently
acquitted in court</a>, and the survivors fear they will now be
attacked with impunity.


title: US using grand juries to destroy dissident movements
uri: US-using-grand-juries-to-destroy-dissident-movements
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(US_using_grand_juries_to_destroy_dissident_movements)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28US_using_grand_juries_to_destroy_dissident_movements%29

content:
<p>
The US is
using <a href="http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/how-grand-juries-are-manipulated-fbi-intimidate-political-dissidents-and-radicals?paging=off">grand
juries to destroy dissident movements,</a> questioning dissidents
suspected of nothing but dissent, demanding information about other
dissidents suspected of nothing but dissent, and them with threatening
potential life imprisonment.


title: Urgent: Make POSCO Steel respect human rights in India
uri: Urgent-Make-POSCO-Steel-respect-human-rights-in-India
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Urgent:_Make_POSCO_Steel_respect_human_rights_in_India)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Make_POSCO_Steel_respect_human_rights_in_India%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Warren Buffett
to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/buffett-steel/2/2/?akid=2447.881131.0hAK-i&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1001">make
POSCO Steel respect human rights in India.</a>


title: Babies display ideas of right and wrong
uri: Babies-display-ideas-of-right-and-wrong
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Babies_display_ideas_of_right_and_wrong)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Babies_display_ideas_of_right_and_wrong%29

content:
<p>
Even 3-month-old
babies <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/12/babies-moral-life">display
ideas of right and wrong.</a>


title: Researchers accuse WHO of politicizing research
uri: Researchers-accuse-WHO-of-politicizing-research
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Researchers_accuse_WHO_of_politicizing_research)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Researchers_accuse_WHO_of_politicizing_research%29

content:
<p>
Researchers accuse WHO of politicizing research
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/oct/13/world-health-organisation-iraq-war-depleted-uranium">deny
the effects of US depleted uranium in Iraq.</a>
<p>
There is plenty of evidence of the birth defects that the WHO report
denies,
and <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2006-jan-apr.html#25%20January%202006%20%28Depleted%20Uranium%29">reasons
to associate them with DU.</a>


title: Austerity's effects seen in wealthier and poorer countries
uri: Austerity-s-effects-seen-in-wealthier-and-poorer-countries
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Austerity's_effects_seen_in_wealthier_and_poorer_countries)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Austerity%27s_effects_seen_in_wealthier_and_poorer_countries%29

content:
<p>
Austerity's effects can be seen in both wealthier and poorer
countries, in the form
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/13/observer-editorial-low-wages-exploitation">squeezed
wages and unhealthy conditions for everyone.</a>


title: Apparent Afghan soldiers shot at US soldiers
uri: Apparent-Afghan-soldiers-shot-at-US-soldiers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Apparent_Afghan_soldiers_shot_at_US_soldiers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Apparent_Afghan_soldiers_shot_at_US_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
Four the fourth time in a
month, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/13/afghanistan-insider-attack-us-soldier">apparent
Afghan soldiers shot at US soldiers in Afghanistan.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Eating_popcorn_in_a_movie_theater)
title: Eating popcorn in a movie theater
uri: Eating-popcorn-in-a-movie-theater
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Eating_popcorn_in_a_movie_theater%29

content:
<p>
Eating popcorn in a movie
theater <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/13/eating-popcorn-cinema-advertisers">makes
advertising ineffective.</a>
<p>
If their explanation is correct, eating anything would do the job,
even carrot sticks or celery.  And perhaps just thinking and
subvocalizing something else, such as "No" or "I don't need this",
would also do the job, as long as you don't forget to do it.  These
methods might be effective against advertising in other situations
such as watching TV.  It would be interesting to test these
conjectures.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(The_nation_has_been_modified)
title: "The nation has been modified…"
uri: The-nation-has-been-modified
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28The_nation_has_been_modified%29
content:
<p>
<a href="media/0978ceff.nation_has_been_modified.jpg" data-original-source="http://kuvaton.com/browse/27849/nation_has_been_modified.jpg">"The
nation has been modified…"</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Being_homeless_in_New_York_City)
title: Being homeless in New York City
uri: Being-homeless-in-New-York-City
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Being_homeless_in_New_York_City%29

content:
<p>
Mary writes
about <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/13/homeless-nyc-people-you-meet">being
homeless in New York City.</a>
<p>
She lost her job, then her apartment.  Without an apartment, she can't
possibly get either a job or an apartment.  Our right-wing government,
that doesn't dare tax the rich, won't do anything for her.
Republicans say her homelessness is proof she deserves it, and
Democrats don't face the issue.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Sri_Lanka's_ruler_protecting_crony)
title: Sri Lanka's ruler protecting crony
uri: Sri-Lanka-s-ruler-protecting-crony
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Sri_Lanka%27s_ruler_protecting_crony%29

content:
<p>
Sri Lanka's ruler is protecting a crony who appears to
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/13/prince-charles-help-briton-sri-lanka">shot
and killed a British Red Cross worker.</a>
<p>
The tyrant has had dissidents
and <a href="http://stallman.org/notes/2008-nov-feb.html#14%20January%202009%20%28Lasantha%20Wickramatunga%29">journalists
killed,</a> so he must use his cronies to do this; protecting them
from accusations must be normal practice.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(Banks_redlining_indirectly)
title: Banks redlining indirectly
uri: Banks-redlining-indirectly
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28Banks_redlining_indirectly%29
content:
<p>
When banks generate loan offers for individual applicants, that opens
the door for them to
do <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/denied-for-that-loan-soon-you-may-thank-online-data-collection/">redlining
indirectly and avoid punishment.</a>


title: New NIST hash code standard suspected of NSA corruption
uri: New-NIST-hash-code-standard-suspected-of-NSA-corruption
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 13_October_2013_(New_NIST_hash_code_standard_suspected_of_NSA_corruption)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#13_October_2013_%28New_NIST_hash_code_standard_suspected_of_NSA_corruption%29

content:
<p>
A new NIST hash code standard now being developed
is <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/can-you-trust-nist">suspected
of NSA corruption.</a>


title: Urgent: Drop charges against Honduran activists
uri: Urgent-Drop-charges-against-Honduran-activists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Urgent:_Drop_charges_against_Honduran_activists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_charges_against_Honduran_activists%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/drop-bogus-charges-on">call
on the US government</a> to tell Honduras to drop the absurd charges
against Honduran activists.
<p>
The US government supported the coup that put this right-wing
government in power in Honduras, so it is a proper place to put
pressure on about this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(UK_austerity)
title: UK austerity
uri: UK-austerity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28UK_austerity%29
content:
<p>
UK austerity will make the next generations of middle class people and
the poorest suffer lives that are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/12/middle-class-young-people-future-worse-parents">worse
than their parents'</a>.
<p>
Not everyone will suffer — the 1% are doing quite well.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Elections_in_Azerbaijan_rigged)
title: Elections in Azerbaijan rigged
uri: Elections-in-Azerbaijan-rigged
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Elections_in_Azerbaijan_rigged%29
content:
<p>
The elections in Azerbaijan were rigged to the point of being a joke.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/12/azerbaijan-demonstrators-beaten-election-protest">Thugs
attacked the protesters</a>.


title: US forces arrest Talib as Afghan intelligence agents try to recruit him
uri: US-forces-arrest-Talib-as-Afghan-intelligence-agents-try-to-recruit-hi
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(US_forces_arrest_Talib_as_Afghan_intelligence_agents_try_to_recruit_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28US_forces_arrest_Talib_as_Afghan_intelligence_agents_try_to_recruit_him%29

content:
<p>
US forces in Afghanistan arrested a Talib while he was talking with
Afghan intelligence agents who were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/12/afghanistan-taliban-latif-mehsud-kerry-talks">trying
to recruit him</a>.
<p>
So are they incompetent, or trying to keep their enemy around to
justify fighting?


title: Campaigning to require companies to disclose pesticides used
uri: Campaigning-to-require-companies-to-disclose-pesticides-used
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Campaigning_to_require_companies_to_disclose_pesticides_used)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Campaigning_to_require_companies_to_disclose_pesticides_used%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Kaua'i are campaigning to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/12-3">require
companies to tell the public what pesticides they use</a>.


title: Congress and the President taking it out on seniors
uri: Congress-and-the-President-taking-it-out-on-seniors
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Congress_and_the_President_taking_it_out_on_seniors)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Congress_and_the_President_taking_it_out_on_seniors%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/12-0">Congress and
the President: Just Because You Were Bullied, Don't Take It Out on Our
Seniors</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Nuclear_power_plants)
title: Nuclear power plants
uri: Nuclear-power-plants
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Nuclear_power_plants%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/12-2">Atomic Energy
Unnecessary, Uneconomic, Uninsurable, Unevacuable and Unsafe</a>.
<p>
I'm currently reading Normal Accidents, by Charles Perrow.
You might think that accidents involving several independent things
going wrong in combination would be so unlikely as to be negligible.
That's if you expect nuclear power plants to be maintained at a very high
standard.  The book explains that it is usual for various valves
and devices and meters to be broken.  To have just one thing wrong
is normal; for several to combine is not rare.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(The_US_government)
title: The US government
uri: The-US-government
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28The_US_government%29
content:
<p>
A right-wing strategy to crush people's spirit: say government can't
do anything good, paralyze government so it really can't, then
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/08-1">convince
people to give up on trying</a>.
<p>
The US government has done great things: for example, Social Security,
Medicaid, Medicare, the Endangered Species Act, the Americans with
Disabilities Act, the Voting Rights Act, and many more.
<p>
What's broken is not the government itself, but rather our political
system, and the fault is that people give credence to what the right
wing says.  That's because they've found ways to buy officials and the
media with plutocrats' money.


title: UK Labour Party pledges to be harsh towards the unemployed
uri: UK-Labour-Party-pledges-to-be-harsh-towards-the-unemployed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(UK_Labour_Party_pledges_to_be_harsh_towards_the_unemployed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28UK_Labour_Party_pledges_to_be_harsh_towards_the_unemployed%29

content:
<p>
The UK Labour Party pledges to be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/12/labour-benefits-tories-labour-rachel-reeves-welfare">almost
as harsh towards the unemployed as the Tory Party is</a>.
<p>
Punishing all those non-workers is a convenient way to distract people
from the reason so many people in the UK don't work: not enough jobs.
Boost the economy, tax the offshorers, and spend the money on useful
activities; soon there will be plenty of jobs.  Most of the unemployed
eagerly go back to work, because they'd really like to get more income
than benefits provide, and only the disabled will remain unemployed.


title: Tasering, prosecuting, and punishing kids
uri: Tasering-prosecuting-and-punishing-kids
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Tasering_prosecuting_and_punishing_kids)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Tasering_prosecuting_and_punishing_kids%29

content:
<p>
What can justify 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-free-speech/what-could-justify-using-taser-8-year-old-girl">tasering
an 8-year-old</a>?
<p>
Or 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-human-rights/prosecution-not-way-save-10-year-old-child">prosecuting
a 10-year-old</a> for sexual abuse?
<p>
Or 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/boy-15-kills-self-after-facing-expulsion-and-sex-offender-status-streaking">punishing
a 15-year-old for life</a>, for streaking?


title: Japanese gov't not investigating complaint of "comfort women"
uri: Japanese-gov-t-not-investigating-complaint-of-comfort-women
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Japanese_gov't_not_investigating_complaint_of_comfort_women)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Japanese_gov%27t_not_investigating_complaint_of_comfort_women%29

content:
<p>
The Japanese government pledged to investigate the complaints of WWII
"comfort women" (foreign women forced into prostitution for the
Japanese
army), <a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201310130064">then
decided not to do it.</a>
<p>
When the Indonesian government complained, a Japanese official said
this was "tantamount to saying that Japan was not trustworthy".
Indeed.


title: Companies working on Fukushima disregarding medical tests for workers
uri: Companies-working-on-Fukushima-disregarding-medical-tests-for-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Companies_working_on_Fukushima_disregarding_medical_tests_for_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Companies_working_on_Fukushima_disregarding_medical_tests_for_workers%29

content:
<p>
Companies working on the Fukushima nuclear reactors
are <a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201310120042">disregarding
requirements for medical tests for the workers.</a>


title: Sentenced to prison for making a harsh accusation
uri: Sentenced-to-prison-for-making-a-harsh-accusation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Sentenced_to_prison_for_making_a_harsh_accusation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Sentenced_to_prison_for_making_a_harsh_accusation%29

content:
<p>
An opposition politician in Ecuador has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/oct/14/human-rights-rafael-correa">sentenced
to prison for making a harsh accusation against President Correa.</a>
<p>
For the most part I admire Correa; this is the one exception.
Respecting freedom of speech means, above all, respecting the right to
say things we dislike.  Freedom of speech includes the right to
condemn any person, any activity, and any belief — even Correa,
even me, even you.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(How_to_prepare_for_global_heating)
title: How to prepare for global heating
uri: How-to-prepare-for-global-heating
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28How_to_prepare_for_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/13/climate-change-survivors-guide-global">How
to prepare for future global heating in the future in the UK.</a>
<p>
It will be different in other places.  In many parts of the US, you
should prepare for drought, extreme heat and lots of fires.


title: The Gates Foundation's newest gift to American students
uri: The-Gates-Foundation-s-newest-gift-to-American-students
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(The_Gates_Foundation's_newest_gift_to_American_students)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28The_Gates_Foundation%27s_newest_gift_to_American_students%29

content:
<p>
The Gates Foundation's newest gift to American
students: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/business/deciding-who-sees-students-data.html?pagewanted=all">collecting
lots of their personal data to help market nonfree software to
them.</a>
<p>
They
also <a href="media/cd73126c.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.stallman.org/articles/ebooks.pdf">envisage
recommending e-books</a>, some of them surely covered by DRM and/or
unjust contracts.
<p>
The InBloom software is described as "open source".  I suppose this
refers to some software used to access the site, and I also suppose
this software
is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html">free but
not copylefted</a> so as to encourage using it in nonfree programs to
foist onto schools and students.
<p>
A free, noncopylefted program is not an injustice in itself,
but <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html">it is a weak
point, making society prone to injustices.</a>
<p>
Teachers don't need fancy software to "customize lessons in real
time".  They just need to listen to their students.  But such
adaptation is only possible if the class is small enough, and that
would cost money.  You'd have to start taxing the rich again.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(US_returning_to_19th_century)
title: US returning to 19th century
uri: US-returning-to-19th-century
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28US_returning_to_19th_century%29
content:
<p>
The US
is <a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/7-signs-america-has-regressed-back-harsh-cruel-19th-century?paging=off">returning
to 19th century in politics, human rights, and work.</a>


title: Lawyers say GCHQ is spying on their emails with clients
uri: Lawyers-say-GCHQ-is-spying-on-their-emails-with-clients
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Lawyers_say_GCHQ_is_spying_on_their_emails_with_clients)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Lawyers_say_GCHQ_is_spying_on_their_emails_with_clients%29

content:
<p>
The lawyers for Libyan dissidents, who are suing the UK for handing
them over to Gaddafy, say
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/13/gchq-accused-monitoring-privileged-emails-lawyer-client-libya">GCHQ
is spying on their privileged emails with their clients.</a>


title: Who should decide whether spy agencies' dirty work should be published
uri: Who-should-decide-whether-spy-agencies-dirty-work-should-be-published
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Who_should_decide_whether_spy_agencies'_dirty_work_should_be_published)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Who_should_decide_whether_spy_agencies%27_dirty_work_should_be_published%29

content:
<p>
Who should decide whether spy agencies' dirty work should be
published?
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/13/snowden-leaked-secrets-guardian-trustworthy">The
state which runs them, or newspapers?</a>


title: Urgent: Replace anyone that votes to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid
uri: Urgent-Replace-anyone-that-votes-to-cut-Social-Security-Medicare-or
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Urgent:_Replace_anyone_that_votes_to_cut_Social_Security,_Medicare_or_Medicaid)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Replace_anyone_that_votes_to_cut_Social_Security%2C_Medicare_or_Medicaid%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8670">tell
Congress</a> you will work to replace anyone that votes to cut Social
Security, Medicare or Medicaid.


title: UK and Scotland compete to pander to oil companies
uri: UK-and-Scotland-compete-to-pander-to-oil-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(UK_and_Scotland_compete_to_pander_to_oil_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28UK_and_Scotland_compete_to_pander_to_oil_companies%29

content:
<p>
The UK and would-be-independent Scotland are competing to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/09/north-sea-oil-climate-mary-robinson">pander
to oil companies</a> extracting what's left of oil in the North Sea.
<p>
I speculate that each of them wants the oil companies to help buy
votes in the coming referendum about independence for Scotland.  I
think the question of Scottish independence from the UK is a side
issue; what matters in Scotland, and everywhere else, is independence
from corporate power.  If I were a citizen of Scotland I'd probably
vote for whichever side the oil companies don't support.


title: "Game of Drones" campaign to end US drone attacks
uri: Game-of-Drones-campaign-to-end-US-drone-attacks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Game_of_Drones_campaign_to_end_US_drone_attacks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Game_of_Drones_campaign_to_end_US_drone_attacks%29

content:
<p>
Kalaya'an Medoza of Amnesty International writes about US drone
attacks and the 
<a href="http://blog.amnestyusa.org/amnesty/why-i-fight-to-end-the-gameofdrones/">"Game
of Drones" campaign</a> to end them.


title: Regulation of UK press may be used to censor reports
uri: Regulation-of-UK-press-may-be-used-to-censor-reports
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Regulation_of_UK_press_may_be_used_to_censor_reports)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Regulation_of_UK_press_may_be_used_to_censor_reports%29

content:
<p>
Regulation of the UK press, proposed to deal with reporters' snooping
in people's answering machines, may be used to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/11/secret-state-itching-gag-press">censor
reports about government snooping</a> instead.


title: US whistleblowers praise Snowden's heroism
uri: US-whistleblowers-praise-Snowden-s-heroism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(US_whistleblowers_praise_Snowdens_heroism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28US_whistleblowers_praise_Snowdens_heroism%29

content:
<p>
US whistleblowers who brought Edward Snowden an award for integrity
<a href="http://rt.com/news/rt-whistleblowers-snowden-prize-983/">praise
his heroism</a>.


title: Illegal tree cutting creating catastrophe in Aceh
uri: Illegal-tree-cutting-creating-catastrophe-in-Aceh
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Illegal_tree_cutting_creating_catastrophe_in_Aceh)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Illegal_tree_cutting_creating_catastrophe_in_Aceh%29

content:
<p>
Illegal tree cutting is creating a 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/world/asia/in-indonesia-environmentalists-see-a-disaster-in-the-making.html?pagewanted=all">catastrophe
in Aceh</a>.
<p>
It is mostly for producing palm oil, which does harm world-wide.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Normal_weather_in_2050)
title: "Normal" weather in 2050
uri: Normal-weather-in-2050
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Normal_weather_in_2050%29
content:
<p>
By 2050, "normal" weather will be 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/10/historically-unprecedented-climates-to-arrive-by-mid-century/">outside
today's normal range</a>.


title: Oppressive Canadian copyright law will wipe out VPNs in Canada
uri: Oppressive-Canadian-copyright-law-will-wipe-out-VPNs-in-Canada
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Oppressive_Canadian_copyright_law_will_wipe_out_VPNs_in_Canada)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Oppressive_Canadian_copyright_law_will_wipe_out_VPNs_in_Canada%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/canada-wants-vpns-to-log-and-warn-pirating-customers-131011/">Oppressive
Canadian copyright law</a> will wipe out VPNs in Canada.
<p>
Hollywood and the music factories would like to eliminate VPNs
as part of their goal to monitor all communications.


title: Microsoft proposes having gov't protect our privacy by imposing DRM
uri: Microsoft-proposes-having-gov-t-protect-our-privacy-by-imposing-DRM
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(Microsoft_proposes_having_govt_protect_our_privacy_by_imposing_DRM)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28Microsoft_proposes_having_govt_protect_our_privacy_by_imposing_DRM%29

content:
<p>
Microsoft proposes having the government protect our privacy by
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520226/microsoft-thinks-drm-can-solve-the-privacy-problem/">imposing
DRM</a> to control companies' use of it.
<p>
There are just two gaping flaws in this plan.  First, the DRM is a
gratuitous part of the scheme.  If we have regulations on what companies
can do with the data, the threat to punish them for violations would be
why they obey the regulations.  The DRM really changes nothing.
<p>
More fundamentally, this would do nothing to protect us from abuse by
the government or its agents, which are the most dangerous abuser of
personal data because their abuse 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/a-necessary-evil-what-it-takes-for-democracy-to-survive-surveillance/">threatens
democracy itself</a>.


title: US house builders keep mineral fracking rights for ground underneath houses
uri: US-house-builders-keep-mineral-fracking-rights-for-ground-underneath-h
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_October_2013_(US_house_builders_keep_mineral_fracking_rights_for_ground_underneath_houses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_October_2013_%28US_house_builders_keep_mineral_fracking_rights_for_ground_underneath_houses%29

content:
<p>
US house builders keep the mineral/fracking rights for the ground
underneath the houses, and try to 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/09/us-usa-fracking-rights-specialreport-idUSBRE9980AZ20131009">lull
buyers into failing to notice</a>.


title: Malala Yousafzai tells Obama drone attacks are fueling terrorism
uri: Malala-Yousafzai-tells-Obama-drone-attacks-are-fueling-terrorism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Malala_Yousafzai_tells_Obama_drone_attacks_are_fueling_terrorism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Malala_Yousafzai_tells_Obama_drone_attacks_are_fueling_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10/11/malala-yousafzai-meets-with-the-obamas-in-the-oval-office/">Obama
met Malala Yousafzai</a>, and she told him that drone attacks are fueling
terrorism.


title: Working in a Bangladeshi sweatshop with 9-year-old mentor
uri: Working-in-a-Bangladeshi-sweatshop-with-9-year-old-mentor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Working_in_a_Bangladeshi_sweatshop_with_9-year-old_mentor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Working_in_a_Bangladeshi_sweatshop_with_9-year-old_mentor%29

content:
<p>
What it's like working in a Bangladeshi sweatshop with a 
<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/10/11/i_got_hired_at_a_bangladesh_sweatshop_meet_my_9yearold_boss.html">9-year-old
mentor</a>.
<p>
If we organize to force wages and safety conditions up, the parents
will make enough money without sending children to work.  And if we
distribute gratis contraception, that too will help a lot.


title: TSA has it in for passengers with attached medical devices
uri: TSA-has-it-in-for-passengers-with-attached-medical-devices
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(TSA_has_it_in_for_passengers_with_attached_medical_devices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28TSA_has_it_in_for_passengers_with_attached_medical_devices%29

content:
<p>
The TSA has it in for 
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/11/phoenix-airport-screening-draws-angry-complaints/2970589/">passengers
with medical devices attached to their bodies</a>.


title: Chilling effect of Obama's War on Journalism
uri: Chilling-effect-of-Obama-s-War-on-Journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Chilling_effect_of_Obamas_War_on_Journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Chilling_effect_of_Obamas_War_on_Journalism%29

content:
<p>
Journalists note the 
<a href="http://towcenter.org/blog/the-effects-of-mass-surveillance-on-journalism/">chilling
effect</a> of Obama's War on Journalism.
<p>
The Committee to Protect Journalists reports on the danger to press
freedom around the world — and now, thanks to Obama, 
<a href="http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php">in
the US as well</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Undercover_thugs)
title: Undercover thugs
uri: Undercover-thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Undercover_thugs%29
content:
<p>
In New York City, undercover thugs 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/nyregion/undercover-just-about-everywhere.html">infiltrate
just about every dissident activity</a> — even Occupy Sandy,
which helped people who had been rendered homeless by Hurricane Sandy.
<p>
An undercover thug in California 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/09/riverside-cop-tricks-autistic-teen-into/print">bullied
vulnerable students with "special needs" into buying pot</a>, then
got them expelled and even jailed.
<p>
This is part of the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#23_January_2013_(US_school-to-prison_pipeline)">school-to-prison
pipeline</a>. A school should not allow undercover thugs to prey on
students.


title: No real security gained from massive general surveillance
uri: No-real-security-gained-from-massive-general-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(No_real_security_gained_from_massive_general_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28No_real_security_gained_from_massive_general_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The NSA head has effectively admitted that the US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/08/nsa-bulk-metadata-surveillance-intelligence">gains
no real security against terrorist attacks</a> from massive general
surveillance.
<p>
Posing the question in terms of whether massive surveillance has ever
prevented any violence in the US is a gratuitous concession to the
NSA.
<p>
The suppression of leaks is extremely dangerous, in the same way a
nuclear power plant is dangerous: there's a small but substantial
chance it will cause a massive catastrophe (fallout, for the nuclear
plant; tyranny, for the War on Journalism).  The September 2001 attack
were a pinprick compared with this.
<p>
Even if massive surveillance prevented one attack on that scale each
decade, that would not justify massive surveillance.  300 additional
deaths per year, set against the population of the US, is a tiny risk.
In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, we can pay that
price to maintain our freedom.


title: Effects of the shutdown on health and science
uri: Effects-of-the-shutdown-on-health-and-science
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Effects_of_the_shutdown_on_health_and_science)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Effects_of_the_shutdown_on_health_and_science%29

content:
<p>
The CDC was unable to track an outbreak of 
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/08/salmonella-chicken-outbreak/2941783/">antibiotic-resistant
salmonella</a> because part of its operations were shut down.
<p>
Irreplaceable transgenic mice 
<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/10/230750627/shutdown-imperils-costly-lab-mice-years-of-research">will
die if they are not fed</a>, dealing a setback to medical research.
<p>
Most of the US military is less essential to our safety than the CDC
and those mice.  In fact, 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_August_2013_(Significant_reduction_in_US_military_forces)">most of it isn't necessary at all</a>.


title: Soot pollution correlates with low birth weight
uri: Soot-pollution-correlates-with-low-birth-weight
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Soot_pollution_correlates_with_low_birth_weight)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Soot_pollution_correlates_with_low_birth_weight%29

content:
<p>
The level of soot
pollution <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/15/study-air-pollution-traffic-low-birthweight">correlates
with low birth weight.</a>


title: Japan pressured tyrant Suharto to ban book
uri: Japan-pressured-tyrant-Suharto-to-ban-book
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Japan_pressured_tyrant_Suharto_to_ban_book)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Japan_pressured_tyrant_Suharto_to_ban_book%29

content:
<p>
Japan pressured Indonesian tyrant Suharto
to <a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201310140100">ban
an Indonesian book about the Indonesian "comfort women".</a>
<p>
I read about 1/3 of the book, as part of practicing Indonesian.  Many
of these women were so ashamed of how they had been treated that after
the war they didn't try to contact their families, which simply regard
them as lost.
<p>
How absurd it is to be ashamed because someone else did wrong to you!
But that's the twisted idea that patriarchal society teaches to women.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(NSA_collection)
title: NSA collection
uri: NSA-collection
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28NSA_collection%29
content:
<p>
The NSA has
collected <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/nsa-collects-millions-address-books-buddy-lists">millions
of email address books, buddy lists, etc.</a>


title: Poor morale of workers at Fukushima
uri: Poor-morale-of-workers-at-Fukushima
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Poor_morale_of_workers_at_Fukushima)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Poor_morale_of_workers_at_Fukushima%29

content:
<p>
Mistakes at Fukushima may be
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/15/fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-cleanup">result
of poor morale of workers.</a>
<p>
TEPCO could fix the problem by paying them more and giving them good
benefits.  Hiring through contractors is generally going to lead to
bad morale.


title: Parents stopped insisting children contribute to household chores
uri: Parents-stopped-insisting-children-contribute-to-household-chores
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Parents_stopped_insisting_children_contribute_to_household_chores)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Parents_stopped_insisting_children_contribute_to_household_chores%29

content:
<p>
Americans parents have stopped insisting
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/15/american-helicopter-parents-household-chores">their
children contribute to household chores.</a>


title: Sonar system responsible for causing whales to strand themselves
uri: Sonar-system-responsible-for-causing-whales-to-strand-themselves
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Sonar_system_responsible_for_causing_whales_to_strand_themselves)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Sonar_system_responsible_for_causing_whales_to_strand_themselves%29

content:
<p>
A sonar system used to map the ocean floor
seems <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/15/stranded-whales-sonar-underwater">responsible
for causing 100 whales to strand themselves on Madagascar.</a>
<p>
Some sonar systems produce extremely loud sound that can deafen whales
or drive them frantic to escape.  The sound does not penetrate the
air, so I suspect that stranding themselves is a way to escape the
sound.  However, when whales strand themselves, it is usually fatal.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(The_threat_to_democracy)
title: The threat to democracy
uri: The-threat-to-democracy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28The_threat_to_democracy%29
content:
<p>
The threat to democracy
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/obamacare-trade-superversion-subversion-threat-state">not
subversion but superversion</a> by the plutocrat class that has
seceded from all countries.


title: UN committee sold out to biofuel interests
uri: UN-committee-sold-out-to-biofuel-interests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(UN_committee_sold_out_to_biofuel_interests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28UN_committee_sold_out_to_biofuel_interests%29

content:
<p>
The UN Committee on World Food Security
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/14/un-biofuels-food-violations">sold
out to biofuel interests.</a>
<p>
Specifically, the kind of biofuels that substitute for growing food,
and use so much fertilizer
that <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_August_2013_%28The_kind_of_biofuel_that_oil_companies_promote%29">they
don't reduce fossil fuels.</a>
<p>
Other biofuels that don't compete with crops might be a good thing,
but they aren't ready for production yet.


title: China conscripts students to work under inhumane conditions
uri: China-conscripts-students-to-work-under-inhumane-conditions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(China_conscripts_students_to_work_under_inhumane_conditions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28China_conscripts_students_to_work_under_inhumane_conditions%29

content:
<p>
China <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/forced-student-labour-china-apple">conscripts
students to work under inhumane conditions</a> in factories making
Apple products, Playstations, and other computer products.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(A_freak_early_blizzard)
title: A freak early blizzard
uri: A-freak-early-blizzard
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28A_freak_early_blizzard%29
content:
<p>
A freak early
blizzard <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/south-dakota-cattle-rancher-losses">killed
tens of thousands of cattle in South Dakota.</a>
<p>
I wonder if global heating had something to do with it.


title: Qatar arrested two German journalists
uri: Qatar-arrested-two-German-journalists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Qatar_arrested_two_German_journalists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Qatar_arrested_two_German_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Qatar arrested two German journalists
who <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/14/qatar-detained-two-germans-world-cup">took
video of the working conditions of migrant workers.</a>
<p>
At least they were released later.  Obama
is <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_August_2013_%28Manning_sentenced_to_35_years_in_prison%29">not
so forgiving to whistleblowers,</a> and compare this also with
the <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#24_July_2013_%28Utahs_ag-gag_law%29">ag-gag
laws of some US states.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Taxi_driver_says_Duggan_had_no_gun)
title: Taxi driver says Duggan had no gun
uri: Taxi-driver-says-Duggan-had-no-gun
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Taxi_driver_says_Duggan_had_no_gun%29

content:
<p>
The London riots were set off when thugs shot and killed Mark Duggan,
whom they had found in a taxi.  They say he was holding a gun and
looked threatening.
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/14/mark-duggan-taxi-driver-inquest">taxi
driver says Duggan had no gun, and was running away.</a>
<p>
The driver also said that a thug threatened to shoot him if he kept
looking at Duggan.  It looks sounds like
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testilying">thugs are
testilying again.</a>
<p>
The rioters were imprisoned for their rather small physical looting.
The big looters, the companies that pay no
taxes, <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#24_August_2012_%28UK_law_to_help_companies_pay_less_taxes%29">have
been left alone.</a> Will the thugs be prosecuted at all?


title: The ouster of José Bustani in 2002 by Dubya
uri: The-ouster-of-José-Bustani-in-2002-by-Dubya
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(The_ouster_of_Jose_Bustani_in_2002_by_Dubya)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28The_ouster_of_Jose_Bustani_in_2002_by_Dubya%29

content:
<p>
José Bustani, former head of the Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, says 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/14-0">Dubya
engineered his ouster</a> because he wanted to investigate Iraq to see
if it had chemical weapons.
<p>
Clearly Bush did not want any facts getting in the way of his
fictions.  This will add to the case to convict Dubya of the crime of
aggressive war, following the Nuremberg example.


title: 40,000 anti-nuclear protesters march in Tokyo
uri: 40-000-anti-nuclear-protesters-march-in-Tokyo
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(40000_anti-nuclear_protesters_march_in_Tokyo)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%2840000_anti-nuclear_protesters_march_in_Tokyo%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/14-1">40,000
anti-nuclear protesters</a> marched in Tokyo demanding the end of
nuclear power in Japan.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(GE_gives_the_US_the_shaft)
title: GE gives the US the shaft
uri: GE-gives-the-US-the-shaft
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28GE_gives_the_US_the_shaft%29
content:
<p>
General Electric repeatedly gives the US the shaft, but the US
government still 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/14-4">panders to
it</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Republican_extorsionism)
title: Republican extorsionism
uri: Republican-extorsionism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Republican_extorsionism%29
content:
<p>
Republicans have changed the reasons for their extorsionism; now it's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/shutdown-republicans-government-spending-delusions">budget
cuts</a>.
<p>
The US needs to increase government spending in order to get out of
recession.  For the past decade, spending has focused on war, which
produces nothing that people really need, and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2011-sep-dec.html#20_November_2011_(Military_Jobs)">isn't
even good at creating jobs</a>.  Spending on 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#17_October_2012_(The_Green_New_Deal)">clean
energy</a> would do wonders.
<p>
However, Obama has been weak on this front, and even 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#23_November_2011_(The_Supercommitte)">adopted
budget cuts as a goal</a>, which is why we have the destructive
sequester.


title: Egypt and Israel combining to starve Gaza
uri: Egypt-and-Israel-combining-to-starve-Gaza
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Egypt_and_Israel_combining_to_starve_Gaza)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Egypt_and_Israel_combining_to_starve_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Egypt and Israel are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/14/gaza-chokes-israel-egypt-economic">combining
to starve Gaza</a>.  Food, water, and electricity are scarce, and
construction has nearly stopped.


title: Former president of China faces prosecution in Spain
uri: Former-president-of-China-faces-prosecution-in-Spain
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_October_2013_(Former_president_of_China_faces_prosecution_in_Spain)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Former_president_of_China_faces_prosecution_in_Spain%29

content:
<p>
Hu Jintao, former president of China, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/14/china-spanish-court-hu-jintao-genocide">faces
prosecution in Spain</a> for genocide in Tibet.
<p>
The actions of the Chinese government in Tibet qualify as tyranny and
oppression.  To call them "genocide" seems like a stretch, since they
are not aimed at exterminating the Tibetan people or anything close to
that.  They are somewhat comparable to the Israeli occupation of
Palestine.


title: Colombian farmers trying to recover land face threats
uri: Colombian-farmers-trying-to-recover-land-face-threats
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Colombian_farmers_trying_to_recover_land_face_threats)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Colombian_farmers_trying_to_recover_land_face_threats%29

content:
<p>
Colombian farmers trying to recover land that was extorted from them
by the
paramilitaries <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/16/colombian-farmers-death-reclaim-lost-land">face
threats, even murder.</a>
<p>
The paramilitaries are right-wing thugs that
were <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#22_July_2011_%28Colombian_Congressional_President%29">linked
to cronies of former president Alvaro Horrible.</a> They were the
worst terrorists in Colombia, and maybe still are.


title: Russian opposition politician will be barred from elections
uri: Russian-opposition-politician-will-be-barred-from-elections
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Russian_opposition_politician_will_be_barred_from_elections)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Russian_opposition_politician_will_be_barred_from_elections%29

content:
<p>
Russian opposition politician Navalny will
be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/16/alexei-navalny-freed-russian-court">barred
from elections for many years.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Real_wages_in_UK_continue_falling)
title: Real wages in UK continue falling
uri: Real-wages-in-UK-continue-falling
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Real_wages_in_UK_continue_falling%29

content:
<p>
Real wages in the
UK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/16/uk-unemployment-average-pay-rise-inflation">continue
falling due to austerity policies.</a>


title: UK gov't pushing for investigation of the Guardian
uri: UK-gov-t-pushing-for-investigation-of-the-Guardian
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(UK_gov't_pushing_for_investigation_of_the_Guardian)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_pushing_for_investigation_of_the_Guardian%29

content:
<p>
The UK government
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/16/snowden-leaks-david-cameron-investigate-guardian">pushing
for an investigation of the Guardian</a> for publishing Snowden's
disclosures.
<p>
The principal threat to the freedom and well-being of Britons is the
UK government, with its austerity and its total surveillance.


title: Related wild plants and forgotten crops
uri: Related-wild-plants-and-forgotten-crops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Related_wild_plants_and_forgotten_crops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Related_wild_plants_and_forgotten_crops%29

content:
<p>
Related wild plants and forgotten crops offer a way
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/world-food-day-sustainable-crops">achieve
the results that some hoped to get from genetic engineering.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Iran_proposed_plausible_framework)
title: Iran proposed plausible framework
uri: Iran-proposed-plausible-framework
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Iran_proposed_plausible_framework%29

content:
<p>
Iran has proposed a plausible framework for
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2013/oct/16/iran-nuclear-talks-geneva">agreement
on uranium enrichment.</a>


title: Ireland will prohibit one form of tax avoidance scheme
uri: Ireland-will-prohibit-one-form-of-tax-avoidance-scheme
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Ireland_will_prohibit_one_form_of_tax_avoidance_scheme)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Ireland_will_prohibit_one_form_of_tax_avoidance_scheme%29

content:
<p>
Ireland
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/16/ireland-closes-loopholes-tax-haven-noonan">prohibit
one form of tax avoidance scheme.</a>
<p>
If you come across an analysis of how much effect this will or won't
have, I'd be glad to see it.


title: Tamil refugee in Australia tried to commit suicide
uri: Tamil-refugee-in-Australia-tried-to-commit-suicide
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Tamil_refugee_in_Australia_tried_to_commit_suicide)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Tamil_refugee_in_Australia_tried_to_commit_suicide%29

content:
<p>
A Tamil refugee in Australia, imprisoned on suspicion without a
hearing, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/15/tamil-refugee-tried-to-hang-himself-in-detention-asylum-advocates-say">tried
to commit suicide.</a>
<p>
If I understand the article right, he despaired because the new
government cancelled plans to give hearings in such these cases.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Sandy_Hook_school_being_demolished)
title: Sandy Hook school being demolished
uri: Sandy-Hook-school-being-demolished
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Sandy_Hook_school_being_demolished%29

content:
<p>
The Sandy Hook elementary school
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/15/sandy-hook-elementary-school-demolition-contractors">being
demolished under tight security.</a>
<p>
This seems like a silly waste of money to me.  It can't help the
people who were shot; nothing can help the dead.  As for their
families, it doesn't really help them either; it only encourages them
not to recover.
<p>
The constructive thing would be to repair the building and put it back
to use, or turn it into a memorial to campaign for better gun control.


title: Google+ users protesting Google's plan
uri: Google-users-protesting-Google-s-plan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Google+_users_protesting_Google's_plan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Google%2B_users_protesting_Google%27s_plan%29

content:
<p>
Google+ users are protesting Google's plan to use their names and
faces in advertisements
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/15/eric-schmidt-face-google-ads-shared-endorsement">putting
Eric Schmidt's photo in their profiles.</a>
<p>
I post this because I find it a good hack; but if you use Google+, I
suggest that rather than joining this hack, you stop using it.
Communications services that require users to give their real names
are a threat to privacy.  I urge you to join me in rejecting Google+
until they change that policy.


title: Urgent: Tell Yelp's CEO to stop supporting ALEC
uri: Urgent-Tell-Yelp-s-CEO-to-stop-supporting-ALEC
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Yelps_CEO_to_stop_supporting_ALEC)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Yelps_CEO_to_stop_supporting_ALEC%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/alec_yelp/">tell Yelp's
CEO</a> to stop supporting ALEC.
<p>
ALEC is a right-wing scheme by which 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#18_May_2012_(ALEC_funds)">businesses
twist state legislators</a> to pass the bills those businesses want.


title: Urgent: Protect atmosphere from planned coal terminal
uri: Urgent-Protect-atmosphere-from-planned-coal-terminal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Urgent:_Protect_atmosphere_from_planned_coal_terminal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_atmosphere_from_planned_coal_terminal%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14434">campaign</a>
to protect Washington State and the Earth's atmosphere from a planned
giant coal export terminal.


title: Urgent: Abolish weapons of mass destruction world wide
uri: Urgent-Abolish-weapons-of-mass-destruction-world-wide
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Urgent:_Abolish_weapons_of_mass_destruction_world_wide)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Abolish_weapons_of_mass_destruction_world_wide%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: sign 
<a href="http://www.globalzero.org/demand-zero/WMD-petition">this
campaign</a> to abolish weapons of mass destruction world wide.


title: Danger of unregulated US chemical plants
uri: Danger-of-unregulated-US-chemical-plants
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_October_2013_(Danger_of_unregulated_US_chemical_plants)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_October_2013_%28Danger_of_unregulated_US_chemical_plants%29

content:
<p>
Unregulated US chemical plants keep exploding, sometimes killing
bystanders.  There are 500 plants in which 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/15/texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion-regulation">one
accident could threaten 100,000 people</a>.
<p>
This dwarfs the danger of terrorism.  So why does the US spend so much
on the Committee for Public Safety (better known as the Department of
Homeland Security), and hardly anything on inspecting and regulating
chemical plants?  I suspect a few reasons:
<ol>
<li>
It is more political useful to make people hyper-afraid of
certain minority groups than hyper-afraid of factories.
<li>
Spending on "security" is profitable for companies while
regulating their plants is inconvenient for them.
</ol>


title: Urgent: Demand $15 an hour for fast food workers
uri: Urgent-Demand-15-an-hour-for-fast-food-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Urgent:_Demand_$15_an_hour_for_fast_food_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Demand_%2415_an_hour_for_fast_food_workers%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/7-billion-t/?utm_campaign=LowPay&utm_medium=email&utm_source=7-billion-a-t">demand</a>
that US fast food chains pay their workers $15 an hour.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_CISPA)
title: Urgent: Oppose CISPA
uri: Urgent-Oppose-CISPA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_CISPA%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/CISPA_r3/">tell your
senators</a> to oppose CISPA.
<p>
Yes, 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#19_April_2013_(House_of_representatives_approves_CISPA)">that
monster has come back to life</a>.  Politicians such as Senator
Feinstein, that want total surveillance, are pushing it again.


title: US harassing friends of Ibragim Todashev
uri: US-harassing-friends-of-Ibragim-Todashev
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(US_harassing_friends_of_Ibragim_Todashev)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28US_harassing_friends_of_Ibragim_Todashev%29

content:
<p>
The US is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/15/us-authorities-accused-of-intimidating-associates-of-chechen-killed-by-fbi">harassing
the friends of Ibragim Todashev</a>, who was shot dead by an FBI agent
while several agents were interrogating him in his home.
<p>
The false accusation that he tried to attack them (he'd have to have
been crazy to try, under the circumstances, unless he had super
powers) is 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2003-sep-dec.html#12_September_2003_(he_started_it)">standard
practice for thugs</a>.
<p>
We have no way of knowing whether Todashev really confessed to
involvement in murder.  It might be true, or it might be another lie.
If it's true, he deserved a trial, not summary execution.
<p>
The US had no obligation to extend his girlfriend's visa; deporting
her straightaway for overstaying would have been legitimate.  However,
to extend the visa, then cancel it because she gave an interview to a
magazine, is dangerous injustice.  Never mind whether it is fair to
her: it attacks journalism, and that threatens all Americans,
<p>
Perhaps Todashev revealed, when interrogated, some sort of knowledge
that the US government did not want us to find out, and killing him
was a way to suppress it.  Perhaps an FBI agent felt insulted, lost
his head, and shot Todashev in the heat of anger.  Perhaps the agents
wanted to pin a murder on him and did not want him around to deny it.
We have no way of knowing, but it's clear that that agent must be
prosecuted.
<p>
The FBI has a "time-tested" procedure for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/06/19-1">investigating
shootings by its agents</a>, which always concludes they were
justified.


title: Plutocratist extremists try to justify attack on retirement funds
uri: Plutocratist-extremists-try-to-justify-attack-on-retirement-funds
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Plutocratist_extremists_try_to_justify_attack_on_retirement_funds)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Plutocratist_extremists_try_to_justify_attack_on_retirement_funds%29

content:
<p>
The plutocratist extremists of "Fix the Debt" are now trying to use
the government shutdown (engineered by plutocratist extremists) to
justify their 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/10/12271/erskine-bowles-and-alan-simpson-reach-new-heights-hypocrisy-fix-debt-ad">attack
on Americans' retirement funds</a>.
<p>
Plutocratist extremists in Congress are attacking them too.


title: Israel cancels plan for military training exercise
uri: Israel-cancels-plan-for-military-training-exercise
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Israel_cancels_plan_for_military_training_exercise)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Israel_cancels_plan_for_military_training_exercise%29

content:
<p>
Under public pressure, Israel cancelled a 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=638763">plan
to force Palestinians to leave their homes</a> for a military training
exercise.


title: BMW and Daimler block EU requirement to limit CO2 emissions
uri: BMW-and-Daimler-block-EU-requirement-to-limit-CO2-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(BMW_and_Daimler_block_EU_requirement_to_limit_CO2_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28BMW_and_Daimler_block_EU_requirement_to_limit_CO2_emissions%29

content:
<p>
BMW and Daimler used the complicit German government to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/15/germany-blocks-eu-car-emissions-law">block
an EU requirement</a> to limit the CO<sub>2</sub> emissions of cars.


title: US fast food workers' dependence on public assistance
uri: US-fast-food-workers-dependence-on-public-assistance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(US_fast_food_workers_dependence_on_public_assistance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28US_fast_food_workers_dependence_on_public_assistance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/15/fast-food-low-wages-high-cost-taxpayers">Half
the fast food workers in the US</a> depend on public assistance.
<p>
Many other low-paid workers are in the same boat.
We need a higher minimum wage, and it must include all workers.
<p>
But more change is needed: businesses should not be taxed more
for employing more workers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(UK_spy_agencies_misled_Parliament)
title: UK spy agencies misled Parliament
uri: UK-spy-agencies-misled-Parliament
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28UK_spy_agencies_misled_Parliament%29

content:
<p>
The UK spy agencies misled Parliament when they wanted a law to allow
broad surveillance, concealing the fact that they were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/16/mps-peers-may-snoopers-charter">already
doing it</a>.


title: State departments in Illinois try to teach kids to love coal
uri: State-departments-in-Illinois-try-to-teach-kids-to-love-coal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(State_departments_in_Illinois_try_to_teach_kids_to_love_coal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28State_departments_in_Illinois_try_to_teach_kids_to_love_coal%29

content:
<p>
A couple of state departments in Illinois are getting into hot water
for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/14-6">trying to
teach kids to love coal</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Obamas_meeting_with_Malala)
title: Obama's meeting with Malala
uri: Obama-s-meeting-with-Malala
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Obamas_meeting_with_Malala%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/15-4">Dear President
Obama, What Have You Fixed by Meeting Malala?</a>


title: What Obama can't stand about Snowden
uri: What-Obama-can-t-stand-about-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(What_Obama_cant_stand_about_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28What_Obama_cant_stand_about_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
What Obama can't stand about Snowden is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/15-8">Snowden's
patriotism</a>. It's the same patriotism that compelled other
whistleblowers to act.


title: Urgent: Stop buying sugar from land grabbers
uri: Urgent-Stop-buying-sugar-from-land-grabbers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_buying_sugar_from_land_grabbers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_buying_sugar_from_land_grabbers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Coca Cola and Pepsico
to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/land-grabs/3/4/">stop buying
sugar from land grabbers.</a>


title: US towns tried outsourcing town government to company
uri: US-towns-tried-outsourcing-town-government-to-company
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(US_towns_tried_outsourcing_town_government_to_company)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28US_towns_tried_outsourcing_town_government_to_company%29

content:
<p>
Some US towns created by wealthy people to cut their
taxes <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/10/12272/outsourced-cities-brought-you-ch2m-hill">tried
outsourcing the entire town government to a company</a>.  Of course,
they got shafted.
<p>
Privatizing government services is generally harmful, since the
company has to mistreat someone in order to make a profit.  The main
exception is when the privatization results in giving the public a
competitive market with a considerable number of providers.
<p>
Although these towns have stopped outsourcing their whole governments,
they continue to abandon the rest of their county, and the rest of
their country, with the typical callousness of the rich, who wish poor
Americans would crawl away to the cemetery and drop dead, after
extracting from them whatever useful labor can be got from them.
<p>
Those rich people deserve to be slapped down.  When non-plutocrats
retake control of the Georgia legislature they should put those towns
back into the counties they have tried to abandon.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(False_balance_in_media)
title: False balance in media
uri: False-balance-in-media
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28False_balance_in_media%29
content:
<p>
False balance — giving crackpots equal prominence with real
experts
— <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/16/anti-vaccination-activists-should-not-be-given-a-say-in-the-media">gives
the crackpots even more influence than presenting them alone.</a>
<p>
This is what makes the theocrats' scheme of "teaching the controversy"
about evolution so harmful.  The fossil fuel companies' paid global
heating deniers use it too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Poverty_isn't_due_to_welfare)
title: Poverty isn't due to welfare
uri: Poverty-isn-t-due-to-welfare
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Poverty_isn%27t_due_to_welfare%29
content:
<p>
Poverty isn't due to
welfare, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/16/welfare-doesnt-cause-poverty-it-is-necessary-for-more-equality">any
more than sickness is due to hospitals.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Snapchat_photos)
title: Snapchat photos
uri: Snapchat-photos
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Snapchat_photos%29
content:
<p>
Snapchat photos can only be seen for a short period of time by their
intended
recipients, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/15/snapchat-hands-snaps-pictures-to-federal-law-enforcement">but
if the state gets them first, it can see them as long as it wants.</a>
<p>
Note that this system depends on nonfree software.  The feature that
makes them disappear is a form of DRM.


title: Global Heating devastating moose population
uri: Global-Heating-devastating-moose-population
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Global_Heating_devastating_moose_population)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Global_Heating_devastating_moose_population%29

content:
<p>
Global heating seems to
be <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/science/earth/something-is-killing-off-the-moose.html">devastating
the moose population.</a>


title: Global Heating endangers foliage of New England
uri: Global-Heating-endangers-foliage-of-New-England
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Global_Heating_endangers_foliage_of_New_England)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Global_Heating_endangers_foliage_of_New_England%29

content:
<p>
Global
heating <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/foliage-season-under-fire-from-climate-change-16607">endangers
the colorful fall foliage of New England.</a>
<p>
Already leaves are turning color two weeks later than they did 30
years ago, but future effects may be more than a mere change in
schedule.


title: Requiring information about pesticide use
uri: Requiring-information-about-pesticide-use
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Requiring_information_about_pesticide_use)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Requiring_information_about_pesticide_use%29

content:
<p>
Kaua'i has passed the
law <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/us-hawaii-kauai-gmcrops-idUSBRE99F0MD20131016">requiring
information about pesticide use.</a>


title: Hidden gov't use of telephone metadata surveillance
uri: Hidden-gov-t-use-of-telephone-metadata-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Hidden_gov't_use_of_telephone_metadata_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Hidden_gov%27t_use_of_telephone_metadata_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The EFF is suing
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/new-amicus-brief-urges-court-order-criminal-discovery-surveillance-programs">uncover
hidden government use of telephone metadata surveillance</a> which was
concealed when people were put on trial.


title: Obama eliminated limits on arms exports
uri: Obama-eliminated-limits-on-arms-exports
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Obama_eliminated_limits_on_arms_exports)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Obama_eliminated_limits_on_arms_exports%29

content:
<p>
Obama has given weapons manufacturers
a <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/in-big-win-for-defense-industry-obama-rolls-back-limits-on-arms-export">big
gift by eliminating limits on arms exports.</a>


title: Corruption of UK gov't government extended to Chinese banks
uri: Corruption-of-UK-gov-t-government-extended-to-Chinese-banks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Corruption_of_UK_gov't_government_extended_to_Chinese_banks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Corruption_of_UK_gov%27t_government_extended_to_Chinese_banks%29

content:
<p>
The corruption of the UK government by banks
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2013/oct/16/andrew-tyrie-questions-chinese-banks-uk">being
extended to Chinese banks.</a>
<p>
The UK needs to recover its sovereignty from these banks, which would
include abolishing the City of London
which <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#5_November_2011_%28London_Banksters%29">serves
as their political instrument.</a>


title: Reasons not to trust claims national security is threatened by leaks
uri: Reasons-not-to-trust-claims-national-security-is-threatened-by-leaks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Reasons_not_to_trust_claims_national_security_is_threatened_by_leaks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Reasons_not_to_trust_claims_national_security_is_threatened_by_leaks%29

content:
<p>
10
reasons <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/16/national-security-leaks-gchq-nsa-intelligence-agencies">not
to trust claims national security is threatened by leaks.</a>
<p>
Besides, we can't trust anything they say.  We know they are ready to
lie whenever it suits them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_October_2013_(Republicans_appear_to_have_caved)
title: Republicans appear to have caved
uri: Republicans-appear-to-have-caved
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_October_2013_%28Republicans_appear_to_have_caved%29

content:
<p>
Republicans appear to have caved in
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/16/senate-leaders-strike-debt-ceiling-deal-shutdown">allowed
the US government to resume operations.</a>
<p>
The ability of Democrats to face them down is potentially good.  Now
all we need is to elect Democrats that stand for most people's
interests and freedom, unlike Obama.


title: Urgent: Tell European Parliament you want strong data protection
uri: Urgent-Tell-European-Parliament-you-want-strong-data-protection
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_European_Parliament_you_want_strong_data_protection)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_European_Parliament_you_want_strong_data_protection%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens: tell the European
Parliament <a href="http://www.edri.org/eudatap-act">you want strong
data protection.</a>


title: Potential for improvements in energy efficiency in cars and homes
uri: Potential-for-improvements-in-energy-efficiency-in-cars-and-homes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(Potential_for_improvements_in_energy_efficiency_in_cars_and_homes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28Potential_for_improvements_in_energy_efficiency_in_cars_and_homes%29

content:
<p>
Amory Lovins describes
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/17">tremendous
potential for improvements in energy efficiency in cars and homes.</a>


title: Gov't of Gujarat trying to harass Dalits
uri: Gov-t-of-Gujarat-trying-to-harass-Dalits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(Gov't_of_Gujarat_trying_to_harass_Dalits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28Gov%27t_of_Gujarat_trying_to_harass_Dalits%29

content:
<p>
The government of Gujarat, which is Hindu nationalist,
is <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Dalit-conversions--Gujarat-govt-orders-probe/1183094/">trying
to harass the Dalits that converted to Buddhism.</a>
<p>
The law claims to protect "religious freedom", but its real aim is to
try to stop Dalits from officially ceasing to be considered Hindus.


title: How Bush regime forced ouster of Jose Bustani
uri: How-Bush-regime-forced-ouster-of-Jose-Bustani
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(How_Bush_regime_forced_ouster_of_Jose_Bustani)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28How_Bush_regime_forced_ouster_of_Jose_Bustani%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/world/to-ousted-boss-arms-watchdog-was-seen-as-an-obstacle-in-iraq.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&">How
the Bush regime forced the ouster of Jose Bustani</a> a head of the
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, then lied about
it.


title: Privacy Fears Grow as Cities Increase Surveillance
uri: Privacy-Fears-Grow-as-Cities-Increase-Surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(Privacy_Fears_Grow_as_Cities_Increase_Surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28Privacy_Fears_Grow_as_Cities_Increase_Surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-grows-in-cities.html?pagewanted=all">Privacy
Fears Grow as Cities Increase Surveillance.</a>
<p>
Collecting a dossier of everywhere every car has been is too much
surveillance; it should be illegal to make or operate such equipment.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(Is_the_NSA_blackmailing_officials_)
title: Is the NSA blackmailing officials?
uri: Is-the-NSA-blackmailing-officials
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28Is_the_NSA_blackmailing_officials_%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/prospect-blackmail-nsa">Is
the NSA blackmailing officials?</a>


title: UK gov't will invite Chinese companies into planned UK nuclear power reactors
uri: UK-gov-t-will-invite-Chinese-companies-into-planned-UK-nuclear-power-r
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(UK_gov't_will_invite_Chinese_companies_into_planned_UK_nuclear_power_reactors)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_will_invite_Chinese_companies_into_planned_UK_nuclear_power_reactors%29

content:
<p>
The UK government
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/17/china-buy-uk-nuclear-power-stations-george-osborne">invite
Chinese companies into planned UK nuclear power rectors.</a>
<p>
Do they want these plants to have accidents?
<p>
I'm not the only one who sees <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/17/nuclear-expert-warning-chinese-role-uk-plants">danger
in this</a>.


title: More fossil fuel than was previously believed
uri: More-fossil-fuel-than-was-previously-believed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(More_fossil_fuel_than_was_previously_believed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28More_fossil_fuel_than_was_previously_believed%29

content:
<p>
Fossil fuel companies want us to celebrate
because <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/15-3">there
is even more fossil fuel than was previously believed.</a>
<p>
The only problem with them is that burning them would cause global
heating catastrophe.
<p>
The UK government wants
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/17/uk-hub-arctic-oil-exploration-greenpeace">promote
oil extraction in the Arctic.</a>
<p>
This is what Naomi Klein called
"extractionism": <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Naomi_Kleins_speech%29">they
regard nature and other people as resources to be used up.</a> It's a
murderous plan.


title: Human agriculture needs genetic diversity provided by small farms
uri: Human-agriculture-needs-genetic-diversity-provided-by-small-farms
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(Human_agriculture_needs_genetic_diversity_provided_by_small_farms)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28Human_agriculture_needs_genetic_diversity_provided_by_small_farms%29

content:
<p>
Human agriculture needs the genetic diversity provided by small farms,
but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/oct/17/gm-agriculture-not-answer-seed-diversity">unjust
laws have wiped out 75% of the crop diversity that we once had.</a>
<p>
If plant variety monopolies reduce crop diversity, they are doing the
opposite of their purpose, and that is sufficient grounds to repeal
them.  Of course, the treaties that require these monopolies must be
torn up, for many other reasons.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(Vehicle_exhaust_and_factory_fumes)
title: Vehicle exhaust and factory fumes
uri: Vehicle-exhaust-and-factory-fumes
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28Vehicle_exhaust_and_factory_fumes%29

content:
<p>
A study estimates that vehicle exhaust and factory
fumes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/17/air-pollution-causes-cancer-world-health-organisation-who">cause
230,000 cases of lung cancer annually.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(First_survey_of_slavery)
title: First survey of slavery
uri: First-survey-of-slavery
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28First_survey_of_slavery%29
content:
<p>
The first survey of slavery says
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/17/29-million-people-enslaved-global-index">29
million people are enslaved.</a> Half of them are in India.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(UK_thugs_lied)
title: UK thugs lied
uri: UK-thugs-lied
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28UK_thugs_lied%29
content:
<p>
The UK thugs who accused a politician of calling them
"plebs" <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/17/plebgate-mitchell-pretty-sore-treatment-clegg">seem
to have lied in multiple ways.</a>
<p>
There are plenty of true reasons to condemn Tory politicians, but that
doesn't justify lying about them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(Stand_your_ground_laws)
title: "Stand your ground" laws
uri: 2013-10-19-Stand-your-ground-laws
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28Stand_your_ground_laws%29
content:
<p>
How "stand your ground"
laws <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20121117160056/http://www.thestate.com/2012/04/06/2222709/scoppe-a-license-to-kill.html">give
everyone a license to kill.</a>


title: Suspended from school for bringing drawing of a nonrealistic bomb
uri: Suspended-from-school-for-bringing-drawing-of-a-nonrealistic-bomb
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(Suspended_from_school_for_bringing_drawing_of_a_nonrealistic_bomb)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28Suspended_from_school_for_bringing_drawing_of_a_nonrealistic_bomb%29

content:
<p>
A student was suspended from school in South Carolina
for <a href="http://www.wyff4.com/news/local-news/greenville-news/upstate-mom-special-needs-son-suspended-for-drawing-bomb/-/9654794/22444084/-/xffpnq/-/index.html">bringing
to school a drawing of a nonrealistic bomb</a>, imitating a video
game.
<p>
"Zero tolerance" is a damaging practice, and it deserves condemnation
in general.  What it means in practice is, "We have to be idiotic
because we made an idiotic rule and now we have to follow it."
<p>
Note how the school officials duck the question of whether their
actions are legitimate by claiming to protect the privacy of the
victim.  That's a standard symptom of abuse of power.
<p>
The students now have a great chance to take those officials down a
peg with an "I am Spartacus" response.  Imagine if 50 of the best
students hand the principal similar bomb drawings and say, "I'd like
to take a few days off from school, so now you have to suspend me!"
They would find a way to change this idiotic rule.


title: Urgent: Explain budget figures as a fraction of the total
uri: Urgent-Explain-budget-figures-as-a-fraction-of-the-total
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_October_2013_(Urgent:_Explain_budget_figures_as_a_fraction_of_the_total)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Explain_budget_figures_as_a_fraction_of_the_total%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on the New York Times
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/nytimes-sulliview-put">explain
budget figures as a fraction of the total.</a>


title: Urgent: Urge leaders to pressure Russia to free Greenpeace protesters
uri: Urgent-Urge-leaders-to-pressure-Russia-to-free-Greenpeace-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Urgent:_Urge_leaders_to_pressure_Russia_to_free_Greenpeace_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Urge_leaders_to_pressure_Russia_to_free_Greenpeace_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/public-schools-children-poverty-south-west">urge
the leaders of Brazil, India, South Africa and the EU</a> to pressure
Russia to free the Greenpeace protesters facing absurd criminal
charges.


title: Urgent: Investigate judge who denied a 16-year-old an abortion
uri: Urgent-Investigate-judge-who-denied-a-16-year-old-an-abortion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Urgent:_Investigate_judge_who_denied_a_16-year-old_an_abortion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_judge_who_denied_a_16-year-old_an_abortion%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/get-involved/nejudge-srvy-naral.html">call
for an investigation</a> of a judge who denied a 16-year-old an
abortion from his personal bias.
<p>
It is crazy to demand that minors get permission for an abortion, but
not get permission to have a baby.  The abortion is safer in every
sense.


title: Public school students from poor families
uri: Public-school-students-from-poor-families
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Public_school_students_from_poor_families)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Public_school_students_from_poor_families%29

content:
<p>
In 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/public-schools-children-poverty-south-west">17
states</a>, most students in public school are from poor families.
<p>
I wonder what fraction of school-age children in those states are from
poor families.  That fraction has increased quite a bit thanks to
plutocratist policies.


title: Progressive Insurance misleads people about in-car tracking
uri: Progressive-Insurance-misleads-people-about-in-car-tracking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Progressive_Insurance_misleads_people_about_in-car_tracking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Progressive_Insurance_misleads_people_about_in-car_tracking%29

content:
<p>
Progressive Insurance misleads people about 
<a href="http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-is-progressive-insurance-lying.html">what
it can do with the data it gets from its in-car tracking device</a>, and
the data might cost drivers dearly.
<p>
Some of the arguments in the article seem mistaken to me.  Even though
"telematics devices" commonly include GPS, it doesn't follow that
everything which is called a "telematics device" has a GPS.  The fact
that the patent cites the possibility of a GPS also doesn't imply this
device has one.  Perhaps the company is telling the truth when it says
there is no GPS in the device.
<p>
But it's a fact that cell phones are tracked all the time by
triangulation even without GPS.  Sending reports in real time by a
cell phone connection makes this device an injustice; that practice
ought to be illegal.  The data should be saved in the device, which
the driver would hand in from time to time.
<p>
I refuse to carry a tracking device on my person, and I would not
allow one in my car either.
<p>
In addition, the device should not record any data except the data
that are supposed to be used.  If it is meant to check for certain
risky driving practices, it should only record those.  For instance,
if the issue is accelerating very rapidly or braking hard, it should
record instances of those, but should not record acceleration or
breaking when they are not excessive — or the speed.
<p>
With these changes, the device would be acceptable.


title: Australian legislator's change in position on coal mining
uri: Australian-legislator-s-change-in-position-on-coal-mining
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Australian_legislators_change_in_position_on_coal_mining)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Australian_legislators_change_in_position_on_coal_mining%29

content:
<p>
An Australian legislator 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/coalition-mp-george-christensen-seeks-legal-advice-over-ad">plans
to sue the author of ad</a> that pointed out how he changed to support
coal mining and trash the Great Barrier Reef, and suggested that "they
got to him" to change his mind.
<p>
This change of position must have an explanation, and he has not
presented a plausible one.


title: Australian scientists consider relocating wildlife to new areas
uri: Australian-scientists-consider-relocating-wildlife-to-new-areas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Australian_scientists_consider_relocating_wildlife_to_new_areas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Australian_scientists_consider_relocating_wildlife_to_new_areas%29

content:
<p>
Australian scientists are considering trying to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/17/australia-relocate-wildlife-climate-change">relocate
wildlife to new areas</a> as global heating makes their existing
habitat uninhabitable.
<p>
Organisms do try to shift their range, but they run into trouble
because 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_July_2013_(Many_vertebrate_species_cant_survive_global_heating)">many
of them can't shift fast enough</a> to keep up with heating at the
rate it is occurring.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(UN_joins_Malala_Yousefzai)
title: UN joins Malala Yousefzai
uri: UN-joins-Malala-Yousefzai
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28UN_joins_Malala_Yousefzai%29
content:
<p>
The UN joins Malala Yousefzai in concluding that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/un-rapporteur-heyns-drone-strikes-yemen-pakistan">US
drone attacks are unjust and fuel hatred</a>.


title: Hundreds of homes in Australia destroyed by wildfires
uri: Hundreds-of-homes-in-Australia-destroyed-by-wildfires
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Hundreds_of_homes_in_Australia_destroyed_by_wildfires)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Hundreds_of_homes_in_Australia_destroyed_by_wildfires%29

content:
<p>
Wildfires have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/new-south-wales-worst-bushfires-decade">destroyed
hundreds of homes</a> in Australia, and it's still early spring.
<p>
"Normally" the fire season would not even have started yet, but thanks
to global heating, this is likely to become the new normal, until it
gets even worse.


title: Protesting in Baltimore city center
uri: Protesting-in-Baltimore-city-center
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Protesting_in_Baltimore_city_center)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Protesting_in_Baltimore_city_center%29

content:
<p>
Baltimore tried to ban protests in the city center.  The ACLU 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/free-speech-rights-significantly-expanded-baltimores-inner-harbor">made
it change policy</a>.


title: Blogger arrested or posting cartoons
uri: Blogger-arrested-or-posting-cartoons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Blogger_arrested_or_posting_cartoons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Blogger_arrested_or_posting_cartoons%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/algeria/2013/10/13/arrested_for_posting_cartoons/">Blogger
Arrested for Posting Cartoons of Algeria's President</a>.


title: Obama claims Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over NSA case
uri: Obama-claims-Supreme-Court-has-no-jurisdiction-over-NSA-case
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Obama_claims_Supreme_Court_has_no_jurisdiction_over_NSA_case)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Obama_claims_Supreme_Court_has_no_jurisdiction_over_NSA_case%29

content:
<p>
Obama, enemy of the fourth amendment as usual, asked the Supreme Court
not to consider a case about NSA surveillance, 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-10-court-case-nsa-cyber-snooping.html">claiming
it has no jurisdiction</a>.


title: Is it better to farm rhinos for their horns
uri: Is-it-better-to-farm-rhinos-for-their-horns
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Is_it_better_to_farm_rhinos_for_their_horns)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Is_it_better_to_farm_rhinos_for_their_horns%29

content:
<p>
Is it better to farm rhinos for their
horns, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/18/legalising-rhino-horn-ivory-trade">or
keep a ban on trading their horns?</a>
<p>
I've read that it is possible to inject something into the horn that
makes it unsalable while not hurting the rhino.  Isn't that the ideal
solution?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Using_Facebook_graph_search)
title: Using Facebook graph search
uri: Using-Facebook-graph-search
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Using_Facebook_graph_search%29
content:
<p>
Using Facebook graph search makes it a lot easier
to <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/529448/facebook_stalker_tool_uses_graph_search_powerful_data_mining/">find
details of someone's life in order to attack him.</a>


title: Tens of Thousands March for 'Free Public Education'
uri: Tens-of-Thousands-March-for-Free-Public-Education
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Tens_of_Thousands_March_for_'Free_Public_Education')

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Tens_of_Thousands_March_for_%27Free_Public_Education%27%29

content:
<p>
Chile: Led by
Students, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/18-5">Tens
of Thousands March for 'Free Public Education'.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Turn_Back_the_Clock_on_FISA_Courts)
title: Turn Back the Clock on FISA Courts
uri: Turn-Back-the-Clock-on-FISA-Courts
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Turn_Back_the_Clock_on_FISA_Courts%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/blog/entry/turn-back-the-clock-on-fisa-courts-approval-of-domestic-spying">Turn
Back the Clock on FISA Courts.</a>


title: NSA surveillance was used to find agent of al Qa'ida
uri: NSA-surveillance-was-used-to-find-agent-of-al-Qa-ida
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(NSA_surveillance_was_used_to_find_agent_of_al_Qa'ida)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28NSA_surveillance_was_used_to_find_agent_of_al_Qa%27ida%29

content:
<p>
NSA surveillance was used to find Hassan Ghul, an agent of al Qa'ida,
and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/documents-reveal-nsas-extensive-involvement-in-targeted-killing-program/2013/10/16/29775278-3674-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_print.html">send
a drone to kill him.</a>
<p>
I would not criticize the US government for spying on the foreign
communications of specific people for specific reasons in order to
catch people such as Hassan Ghul, or thwart their plans.  However,
spying on all of us is a different issue.  It has nothing to do with
finding someone in Pakistan.
<p>
Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_October_2013_%28Malala_Yousafzai_tells_Obama_drone_attacks_are_fueling_terrorism%29">drone
attacks are bad for other reasons.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Remaining_US_family_farms)
title: Remaining US family farms
uri: Remaining-US-family-farms
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Remaining_US_family_farms%29
content:
<p>
The remaining US family farms
are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/18-2">waiting
to be sold to agribusiness if nothing is done.</a>


title: Wall Street Journal blocked reporters
uri: Wall-Street-Journal-blocked-reporters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Wall_Street_Journal_blocked_reporters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Wall_Street_Journal_blocked_reporters%29

content:
<p>
The Wall Street Journal blocked reporters from reporting on
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/oct/18/wallstreetjournal-news-corporation">scandal
of journalistic spying by Murdoch's other newspapers.</a>


title: Feinstein-NSA claims about massive surveillance and Sep 11 hijackers
uri: Feinstein-NSA-claims-about-massive-surveillance-and-Sep-11-hijackers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Feinstein-NSA_claims_about_massive_surveillance_and_Sep_11_hijackers_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Feinstein-NSA_claims_about_massive_surveillance_and_Sep_11_hijackers_%29

content:
<p>
Puncturing Feinstein-NSA claims
about <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/18-3">massive
surveillance and one of the Sep 11 hijackers.</a>
<p>
The US government ignored warnings about that hijacker, which would
have provided grounds to tap his phone.


title: US gov't shutdown had done damage to scientific research
uri: US-gov-t-shutdown-had-done-damage-to-scientific-research
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(US_gov't_shutdown_had_done_damage_to_scientific_research)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28US_gov%27t_shutdown_had_done_damage_to_scientific_research%29

content:
<p>
The Republicans' US government shutdown has
done <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/18/republicans-antiscience-shutdown-cost">tremendous
damage to scientific research</a>, in many cases causing a lasting
setback.
<p>
The Republicans probably consider this a victory, because they
consider science a threat to their fantasy world.
<p>
It would be useful to prepare a reserve fund to preserve strains of
lab mice, for when the Republicans try it again.


title: Republican Party pretends to represent black Americans
uri: Republican-Party-pretends-to-represent-black-Americans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Republican_Party_pretends_to_represent_black_Americans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Republican_Party_pretends_to_represent_black_Americans%29

content:
<p>
The Republican
Party <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/18/republican-party-minority-voters-skindeep">pretends
to represent black Americans,</a> in addition to pretending to
represent white Americans.


title: Snowden got rid of all secret files before he went to Moscow
uri: Snowden-got-rid-of-all-secret-files-before-he-went-to-Moscow
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Snowden_got_rid_of_all_secret_files_before_he_went_to_Moscow)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Snowden_got_rid_of_all_secret_files_before_he_went_to_Moscow%29

content:
<p>
Snowden explains how he made sure Russia could not get any US secrets
from him: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/18">he
got rid of all his secret files before he went to Moscow.</a>
<p>
He also explains why reporting the injustices of the NSA's massive
surveillance to the people responsible for doing it would have been
completely futile.
<p>
I admire Snowden tremendously.  He recognized what needed to be done,
and he planned it with the greatest care.  Thank you, Snowden!
<p>
Only one thing went wrong: he got stuck in Russia.  He must hate
receiving shelter from Putin.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(isoHunt_shutdown)
title: isoHunt shutdown
uri: isoHunt-shutdown
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28isoHunt_shutdown%29
content:
<p>
isoHunt, a search engine for torrents, was compelled by an MPAA
lawsuit to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/18/isohunt-bittorrent-search-shut-mpaa">shut
down</a>.
<p>
Since isoHunt was a profitmaking activity, it was is on the border of
what I think should be legalized.  Perhaps its shutdown is not wrong.
But any victory for the MPAA is a defeat for Internet users.


title: Pretending there is a pause in global heating
uri: Pretending-there-is-a-pause-in-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Pretending_there_is_a_pause_in_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Pretending_there_is_a_pause_in_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
There is no pause in global heating, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/oct/18/global-warming-pause-meaning">if
you ignore 98% of what's going on</a>, you can pretend there is one.


title: UK ministries illegally keep millions of old files secret
uri: UK-ministries-illegally-keep-millions-of-old-files-secret
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(UK_ministries_illegally_keep_millions_of_old_files_secret)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28UK_ministries_illegally_keep_millions_of_old_files_secret%29

content:
<p>
UK ministries are illegally keeping 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/18/foreign-office-historic-files-secret-archive">millions
of old files</a> secret.


title: Movement against privatization of trains in the UK
uri: Movement-against-privatization-of-trains-in-the-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Movement_against_privatization_of_trains_in_the_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Movement_against_privatization_of_trains_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
A movement has emerged against 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/18/east-coast-mainline-petition-halt-privatisation">privatization
of trains in the UK</a>.


title: High school students in Paris protest deportation of student
uri: High-school-students-in-Paris-protest-deportation-of-student
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(High_school_students_in_Paris_protest_deportation_of_student)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28High_school_students_in_Paris_protest_deportation_of_student%29

content:
<p>
High school students in Paris went on 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/17-8">strike</a>
after one of them was deported.
<p>
In general, I don't think any country is obliged to accept as an
immigrant anyone that wants to move there.  However, it appears that
Leonarda Dibrani is an example of a special case: people who have been
in the country since such a young age that they don't know any other
home.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Ownership_of_personal_data)
title: "Ownership" of personal data
uri: Ownership-of-personal-data
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Ownership_of_personal_data%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/scientists-must-spearhead-ethical-use-of-big-data-97578.html">Albert-László
Barabási: Scientists must spearhead ethical use of big
data</a>.
<p>
The idea that you should "own" your personal data sounds nice, if you
wish to think of human rights as deriving from property.  I think that
is perverted: human rights are more important and fundamental than
property.  In any case, it is clearly insufficient to protect us from
dangerous surveillance.  What you own, you're entitled to sell, and
businesses are adept at getting most people to "voluntarily" 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_(Progressive_Insurance_misleads_people_about_in-car_tracking)">give 
up enough data to make a tremendous dossier</a>.
<p>
We need to ensure that systems 
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">do
not ask people to surrender such data</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Reagans_bogus_idea_of_trickle_down)
title: Reagan's bogus idea of "trickle down"
uri: Reagan-s-bogus-idea-of-trickle-down
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Reagans_bogus_idea_of_trickle_down%29

content:
<p>
How Ronald Reagan's bogus idea of "trickle down", which George I
called "voodoo economics", 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/18-0">threw the US
into decline and debt</a>.
<p>
As a means to achieve its stated, supposed aims, Reaganomics was a
failure.  But he probably wasn't sincere about it anyway.  Considered
as a scheme to enrich the rich and screw the rest of us, it was a
great success.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(The_Tea_Party's_true_colors)
title: The Tea Party's true colors
uri: The-Tea-Party-s-true-colors
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28The_Tea_Party%27s_true_colors%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/18-1">The Strange
Stalinization of the American Right</a>.
<p>
Stalinist political authoritarianism has little to do with the
political questions that distinguish right-wing and left-wing.
<p>
It does not surprise me that the Tea Party has revealed that its true
colors are the confederate colors of a slave system.  But that does
not mean they are racist.  They are equal opportunity rip-off artists,
eager to impoverish most Americans of whatever race.


title: Whistleblower Captain Swenson receives medal of honor
uri: Whistleblower-Captain-Swenson-receives-medal-of-honor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Whistleblower_Captain_Swenson_receives_medal_of_honor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Whistleblower_Captain_Swenson_receives_medal_of_honor%29

content:
<p>
Captain Swenson 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/10/17-0">received
the medal of honor for saving rounded soldiers</a>, after having been
subject to many lies as a whistleblower.


title: Attempts made by Hungarian gov't to shut down art exhibit
uri: Attempts-made-by-Hungarian-gov-t-to-shut-down-art-exhibit
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Attempts_made_by_Hungarian_govt_to_shut_down_art_exhibit)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Attempts_made_by_Hungarian_govt_to_shut_down_art_exhibit%29

content:
<p>
The Hungarian government has tried repeatedly to shut an art exhibit
in Austria that
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/hungary/2013/10/10/banning_art/">compares
a racist right-wing Hungarian party to Nazis</a>.
<p>
I don't generally compare the parties and officials I criticize to
Nazis, because they usually don't deserve it.  The article suggests
that that party does deserve it.


title: Former coal executive turned activist
uri: Former-coal-executive-turned-activist
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_October_2013_(Former_coal_executive_turned_activist)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_October_2013_%28Former_coal_executive_turned_activist%29

content:
<p>
Ian Dunlop, former coal executive, asks shareholders of a mining
company to make him their representative in the annual meeting so as
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/17/coal-executive-turned-climate-change-activist-fights-for-seat-on-bhp-board">accuse
the company of sabotaging environmental protection</a>.


title: Moroccan editor has been imprisoned
uri: Moroccan-editor-has-been-imprisoned
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Moroccan_editor_has_been_imprisoned)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Moroccan_editor_has_been_imprisoned%29

content:
<p>
A Moroccan editor has been imprisoned
for <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/sometimes-link-just-link-free-ali-anouzla">posting
a link to a news article that linked to a "terrorist" video on
YouTube.</a>
<p>
The fact that the video is on YouTube, a US company, adds additional
absurdity to the accusation.  However, posting links should never be a
crime.
<p>
I've been told that Morocco liberalized its laws around 2000 to
respect human rights more, but Dubya pressured Morocco to retract part
of the change.  In general, "anti-terrorist" laws are more dangerous
than terrorists.


title: Bullying often results from being bullied
uri: Bullying-often-results-from-being-bullied
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Bullying_often_results_from_being_bullied)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Bullying_often_results_from_being_bullied%29

content:
<p>
Bullying
often <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/19/mother-florida-child-abuse">results
from being bullied.</a>


title: UK Labour Party promising to be harsher on poor than Tories
uri: UK-Labour-Party-promising-to-be-harsher-on-poor-than-Tories
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(UK_Labour_Party_promising_to_be_harsher_on_poor_than_Tories)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28UK_Labour_Party_promising_to_be_harsher_on_poor_than_Tories%29

content:
<p>
The UK Labour Party
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/19/union-chiefs-rachel-reeves-labour-welfare-pledge">promising
to be harsher towards the poor than the Tories</a>.
<p>
The unions should kill off the Labour party and make a new one.


title: UK gov't trying to ruin National Health Service
uri: UK-gov-t-trying-to-ruin-National-Health-Service
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(UK_gov't_trying_to_ruin_National_Health_Service)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_trying_to_ruin_National_Health_Service%29

content:
<p>
The UK government is trying
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/19/police-cars-act-ambulances-ae-overflows">ruin
the National Health Service by cutting funds</a>.  Sometimes there is
a 7-hour wait for an ambulance.


title: Urgent: Cuts in Medicare and Social Security
uri: Urgent-Cuts-in-Medicare-and-Social-Security
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Urgent:_Cuts_in_Medicare_and_Social_Security)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Cuts_in_Medicare_and_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: urge Obama not to negotiate with
Republicans <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12325">about
cuts in Medicare and Social Security.</a>


title: Campaign to free Canadians in Egypt
uri: Campaign-to-free-Canadians-in-Egypt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Campaign_to_free_Canadians_in_Egypt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Campaign_to_free_Canadians_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
How the campaign to free Canadians Tarek Loubani and John
Greyson <a href="http://podur.org/node/1052">from nonsensical
imprisonment in Egypt worked</a>, and what it tells us about Egypt.
<p>
They got out after two months.  Many innocent people imprisoned by the
US in
Guantanamo <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#19_June_2013_%28List_of_people_held_indefinitely_without_trial_in_Guantanamo%29">are
still there.</a>


title: Population of monarch butterflies has crashed
uri: Population-of-monarch-butterflies-has-crashed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Population_of_monarch_butterflies_has_crashed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Population_of_monarch_butterflies_has_crashed%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://blog.nwf.org/2013/10/where-are-migratory-monarchs-this-fall/?s_email_id=20131019_MEM_ENG_WLO_October_Edition%7CSTAct">population
of monarch butterflies has crashed.</a>


title: Snowden learned that reporting problems to management was useless
uri: Snowden-learned-that-reporting-problems-to-management-was-useless
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Snowden_learned_that_reporting_problems_to_management_was_useless)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Snowden_learned_that_reporting_problems_to_management_was_useless%29

content:
<p>
Snowden learned the hard way that reporting problems to management was
useless, when he reported a security hole in the CIA's software to his
boss
and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/world/snowden-says-he-took-no-secret-files-to-russia.html?pagewanted=all">got
slapped down as a troublemaker.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(The_Drone_Paradox)
title: The Drone Paradox
uri: The-Drone-Paradox
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28The_Drone_Paradox%29
content:
<p>
The Drone Paradox: use of drones seems to
be <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pereira20131016">more
tolerated than would be use of manned bombers or cruise missiles</a>,
even in the same situation.


title: What to do about high level of economic inequality
uri: What-to-do-about-high-level-of-economic-inequality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(What_to_do_about_high_level_of_economic_inequality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28What_to_do_about_high_level_of_economic_inequality%29

content:
<p>
A CNN TV program asked rich CEOs what to do about the high level of
economic inequality in the US.  Naturally
they <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/10/15/occupy-and-inequality-zakaria-listens-to-ceos/">suggested
not doing anything about it.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Don't_believe_the_New_York_Times)
title: Don't believe the New York Times
uri: Don-t-believe-the-New-York-Times
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Don%27t_believe_the_New_York_Times%29

content:
<p>
Don't believe the New York Times when it says
that <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/10/16/searing-memories-of-defaults-and-selective-memory-at-the-new-york-times/">defaulting
on loans generally harms a country.</a>


title: TSA Loudspeakers Threaten Travelers With Arrest
uri: TSA-Loudspeakers-Threaten-Travelers-With-Arrest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(TSA_Loudspeakers_Threaten_Travelers_With_Arrest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28TSA_Loudspeakers_Threaten_Travelers_With_Arrest%29

content:
<p>
TSA
Loudspeakers <a href="http://www.infowars.com/tsa-loudspeakers-threaten-travelers-with-arrest-for-joking-about-security/">Threaten
Travelers With Arrest For Joking About Security.</a>
<p>
Perhaps this is meant to refer to threats as jokes, not jokes in
general.  If so, they should say so.


title: Another Canadian oil train has exploded
uri: Another-Canadian-oil-train-has-exploded
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Another_Canadian_oil_train_has_exploded)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Another_Canadian_oil_train_has_exploded%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/19/canada-rail-fire-derailment">Another
Canadian oil train has exploded.</a>
<p>
Fortunately, this time the inhabitants of the town were not killed,
but I fear their houses were destroyed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_October_2013_(Libya_on_the_verge_of_breaking_up)
title: Libya on the verge of breaking up
uri: Libya-on-the-verge-of-breaking-up
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_%28Libya_on_the_verge_of_breaking_up%29

content:
<p>
Libya is on
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/19/assassination-libya-civil-war-gaddafi-benghazi">verge
of breaking up.</a>
<p>
There is nothing sacred about the frontiers of Libya, which was
created artificially after World War I, fusing together various
provinces of the Ottoman empire.  However, renewed war would be very
bad.  I hope that they reach some sort of settlement without a lot of
bloodshed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Washington_State)
title: Washington State
uri: Washington-State
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Washington_State%29
content:
<p>Washington State has sued the Grocery Manufacturers Association for
disguising payments to campaign against the state's <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_28546.cfm">
GMO labeling
initiative.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Fukushima_Cleanup_Workers)
title: Fukushima Cleanup Workers
uri: Fukushima-Cleanup-Workers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Fukushima_Cleanup_Workers%29
content:
<p>
Fukushima cleanup workers are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/16-2">
badly paid and their morale is
suffering.
</a>
That tends to provoke mistakes, which are occasionally very
dangerous.  For instance, any mistake in handling the very hot and
dangerous "spent fuel" in Fukishima #4 could lead to spewing far more
radioactive material.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Ralph_Nader)
title: Ralph Nader
uri: Ralph-Nader
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Ralph_Nader%29
content:
<p>Ralph Nader explains how the Democratic Party has faded to the
point where it has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/18-8">
no positive program to offer.</a></p>
<p>A few Democrats, such as the two new senators from Massachusetts, do
have good positive programs.</p>
<p>Most, including Obama, endorse <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/17">
the harmful goal of budget cuts,</a>
which serves only the rich.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Report)
title: Report
uri: Report
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Report%29
content:
<p>
A report from a journalist who spent a day with a thug patrol in
London, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/oct/20/stop-and-search-streets-police">
watching how people are searched.
</a></p>
<p>It appears that some sort of grounds are required to search someone,
that searches are not totally arbitrary.  That is a step in the right
direction; I don't think New York thugs need any grounds to search
someone on the street.</p>
<p>I expect the thug department picked a model officer for the
journalists to follow, and that he was on his best behavior.  Thus,
the usual facts are probably worse than the picture this article
presents.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(JP_Morgan)
title: JP Morgan
uri: JP-Morgan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28JP_Morgan%29
content:
<p>
JP Morgan may have to pay 13 billion dollars as a penalty for
various crimes connected <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/20/jpmorgan-banking">
with the housing and fiscal crisis.</a></p>
<p>I wonder how this compares with what it gained from the crisis.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Software)
title: Software
uri: Software
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Software%29
content:
<p>
Ransomeware programs encrypt all the data on a computer, then demand a
payment
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/oct/19/cryptolocker-attacks-computer-ransomeware">
to get the decryption key.
</a></p>
<p>When the article says this "only affects PCs", I think that means it
only affects Windows and that a PC running <a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html">
the GNU/Linux system </a>
is
safe.</p>
<p>However, the crucial technical question is about your mail-reading
program through which the program is introduced.  If you ask to see
more than a one-line summary of the message, will that run programs in
the message?  We've known for years in the free software community
that that must not happen.</p>
<p>With my mail reader, Rmail in Emacs, I'd have to go out of my way to
copy the program into a file to get it to run.  I would hardly do that
for a program sent to me by a bank.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(US_Spying)
title: US Spying
uri: US-Spying
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28US_Spying%29
content:
<p>Fresh Leak on US Spying: <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-hacked-email-account-of-mexican-president-a-928817.html">
NSA Accessed Mexican President's
Email.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Treaties)
title: Treaties
uri: Treaties
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Treaties%29
content:
<p>
"Investor-state" treaties, which allow companies to sue governments in
kangaroo courts, are theoretically unjust.  Now the practical <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/10/investors-are-increasingly-challenging-states-constitutional-court-decisions-in-investor-state-tribu.html">
harm is
showing up around the world.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(GMO_Agriculture)
title: GMO Agriculture
uri: GMO-Agriculture
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28GMO_Agriculture%29
content:
<p>
GMO agriculture inherently lowers the diversity of crops, and makes
agriculture more <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/oct/17/gm-agriculture-not-answer-seed-diversity">
vulnerable to biological and climatic
disasters.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Irish)
title: Irish
uri: Irish
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Irish%29
content:
<p>An Irish environmental group will sue the UK for planning to build a
nuclear
power plant <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/19/irish-charity-legal-challenge-hinkley-nuclear-plant">
just 150 miles away from Ireland.</a>
</p>
<p>Ireland will be vulnerable to fallout emitted if the plant has a
disastrous accident, if the wind is from the east.  Of course, the UK
will be vulnerable if the wind is from the west.</p>
<p>The promise to pay twice the going price for electricity represents a
giant subsidy.  No one wants to build a nuclear power plant without a
giant subsidy.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Japanese_Young_Women)
title: Japanese Young Women
uri: Japanese-Young-Women
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Japanese_Young_Women%29
content:
<p>
Half of young Japanese women (and a large fraction of young men) have
no romantic relationship.  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex">
The result is a big decrease in
births.</a></p>
</p> I am sad for the people who have despaired of finding love.  I
understand how women reject marriage if the price is losing their
careers.  The characteristics of normal Japanese marriage strike me as
very unpleasant, and well worth avoiding; but a couple could decide
together to have a different sort of marriage.

As for the decrease in births, given that the human population
is
increasing, I think that is a good thing.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Smooth_Criminal)
title: Smooth Criminal
uri: Smooth-Criminal
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Smooth_Criminal%29
content:
<p>Smooth Criminal: Chevron Sues Rainforest Communities <a href="http://amazonwatch.org/news/2013/1015-smooth-criminal-chevron-sues-rainforest-communities-it-contaminated?utm_source=Amazon+Watch+Newsletter+and+Updates">
It
Contaminated.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Muslim_Brotherhood)
title: Muslim Brotherhood
uri: Muslim-Brotherhood
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Muslim_Brotherhood%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Many Egyptians admire the head of the army for his violent suppression
of the Muslim Brotherhood.  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/egypt-general-sisi-mania">
He may run for president and win
honestly.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Explaining_How)
title: Explaining How
uri: Explaining-How
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Explaining_How%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Explaining how mediums and ouija boards fool people,
and how unconscious <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/20/seances-and-science">
decisionmaking fools people too, in a sense.
</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Australia)
title: Australia
uri: Australia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Australia%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>As the Australian right-wing government goes all-out to fry the world,
Australia is already burning.  The Labor Party seems <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/oct/20/carbon-price-repeal-shorten-abbott-repent">
to have made
the carbon tax a fundamental position.
</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Village)
title: Village
uri: Village
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Village%29
content:
<p>
A partially communist village provides a spot of hope in the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/marinaleda-spanish-communist-village-utopia">
state-imposed despair</a> of Andalucía in Spain.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Earthjustice)
title: Earthjustice
uri: Earthjustice
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Earthjustice%29
content:
<p>
Earthjustice reports several court victories to protect whales, coral
reefs, <a href="http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=pb0Be_NImQHh2kdP1dsTgg">
and the environment in the US.
</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Mexico)
title: Mexico
uri: Mexico
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Mexico%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Mexico has prohibited genetically modified corn.  And other victories
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/20-2">
against hidden GMOs in the US.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(3D-Printed_Guns)
title: 3D-Printed Guns
uri: 3D-Printed-Guns
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%283D-Printed_Guns%29
content:
<p>3D-printed guns, good for just one shot, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/business/international/european-authorities-wary-of-3-d-guns-made-on-printers.html?pagewanted=all">
might really be
dangerous.</a></p>
<p>It would be silly to make a fuss about the possibility of bringing
such guns into airplanes or trains.  There are other deadly weapons
that current airport security won't stop, such as a strong thread with
which someone might be strangled.  With either weapon, a killer might
manage to kill someone before being overcome by other passengers, but
this danger is too small to be worth much protective effort.  It's
only barely worth worrying about bringing real guns onto an airplane,
since the shooter couldn't crash the plane; if he just wants to kill
some people, a shopping mall or city street is a softer target.

However, assassinating an official with a printed gun might be
a
significant danger, and might call for new security measures on
government offices.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Women_March)
title: Women March
uri: Women-March
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Women_March%29
content:
<p>Ecuadorian Women March in <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/10/17/ecuadorian-women-march-in-defense-of-the-amazon/">
Defense of the Amazon.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Corruption)
title: Corruption
uri: 2013-10-21-Corruption
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Corruption%29
content:
<p>Corruption in Peru Aids Cutting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/world/americas/corruption-in-peru-aids-cutting-of-rain-forest.html?pagewanted=all">
of Rain Forest.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Ilija_Trojanow)
title: Ilija Trojanow
uri: Ilija-Trojanow
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Ilija_Trojanow%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The US has still given no explanation of why it barred German
anti-surveillance activist Ilija Trojanow <a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/10/surveillance-critic-barred-us/">
from visiting the US
for a conference.</a></p>
<p>He has personal experience with being spied on in East Germany, where
his family was suspected of supporting freedom and human rights.
Now the US is following in East Germany's footsteps.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Urgent:_Call_On_Congress)
title: Urgent: Call On Congress
uri: Urgent-Call-On-Congress
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_On_Congress%29
content:
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/no_debt_ceiling?referring_akid=a127407039.1183">
abolish the debt ceiling.</a></p>
<p></p>
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_October_2013_(Urgent:_US_Citizens)
title: Urgent: US Citizens
uri: Urgent-US-Citizens
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_October_2013_%28Urgent%3A_US_Citizens%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>US citizens: call for ending the required minimum quota <a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/quota?akid=890.439815.8lhICa&rd=1&t=1003">
for
imprisoning illegal immigrants.
</a></p>


