# articles

feed_id: afcc55c327222518d75ccd9258768296
title: Restored Voting Rights
uri: Restored-Voting-Rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Restored_Voting_Rights%29
content:
<p>
Governor McAuliffe of Virginia has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/22/virginia-just-took-step-uproot-tragic-history-voter-suppression">restored the voting rights</a> of 13,000 people previously convicted of felonies.  He promised to do this for the other 200,000 disenfranhised people
in Virginia, but it is going to take time; some will miss the next election.


feed_id: c0cbdfbde925e7b35427f5405a6ed5f0
title: War on the poor
uri: War-on-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28War_on_the_poor%29
content:
<p>
Republican policies amount to a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/22/escalating-war-low-income-families">war on the poor</a>.


feed_id: bf1adc2734c8cf66ac6d3ecaa7125fef
title: Seven changes to save the euro
uri: Seven-changes-to-save-the-euro
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Seven_changes_to_save_the_euro%29
content:
<p>
Joseph Stiglitz: Seven Changes Needed to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/22/seven-changes-needed-to-save-the-euro-and-the-eu">Save the Euro And the EU</a>.
<p>
However, this doesn't include the changes needed to make the EU a good
thing.  To be a good thing, it has to be democratic.


feed_id: 7ee78b490786d229d6e76cf7d732cb2b
title: Burkini bans in France
uri: Burkini-bans-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Burkini_bans_in_France%29
content:
<p>
Lots of French women <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/23/burkini-bans-in-france-have-sales-of-full-body-swimsuit-soaring-says-designer">want burkinis</a>, and mostly not for religious reasons.


feed_id: d49aed149010f2f43c93498e5d55a9ab
title: How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War
uri: How-Foreign-Aid-Became-a-Casualty-of-War
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28How_Foreign_Aid_Became_a_Casualty_of_War%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/aug/23/humanitarian-airstrikes-reassuring-gloss-actions-politicians-peter-gill-today-we-drop-bombs-tomorrow-we-build-bridges">How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War</a>: the UN agencies for
humanitarian relief have been integrated into making war, to the point
that locally targeted enemies fight against them.
<p>
The UK is going to cut its contribution to relief for civilians
affected by war, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/23/priti-patel-foreign-aid-world-poverty">but not its contribition to affecting them</a>.


feed_id: c8a4b3521f95b88e60f57f379fbc9a12
title: Scientists can't communicate to public
uri: Scientists-can-t-communicate-to-public
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Scientists_can%27t_communicate_to_public%29

content:
<p>
Maybe teaching people about science is not the effective way
to defeat <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2016/aug/23/scientists-losing-science-communication-skeptic-cox">pseudoscientific superstition</a>.


feed_id: 32d4664dc121fa27a9c7f7a98623eab1
title: Sea Shepherd Will Keep Harassing
uri: Sea-Shepherd-Will-Keep-Harassing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Sea_Shepherd_Will_Keep_Harassing%29

content:
<p>
Sea Shepherd Will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/23/sea-shepherd-will-keep-harassing-japanese-whaling-boats-despite-us-court-ruling">Keep Harassing</a> Japanese Whaling Boats Despite US Court
Ruling.


feed_id: da9c27916353fa458c0a3f6e1422a589
title: Ferguson and Local School Board
uri: Ferguson-and-Local-School-Board
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Ferguson_and_Local_School_Board%29

content:
<p>
Hereâs How Ferguson Has <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/federal-judge-just-ruled-ferguson-school-board-voting">Kept Blacks off the Local School Board</a>.


feed_id: 0c5d5687c080a1a0995f80f68c1fa56a
title: Teaching Americans about racist terrorism
uri: Teaching-Americans-about-racist-terrorism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Teaching_Americans_about_racist_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
Teaching Americans about <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/bryan-stevenson-interview-lynching">racist terrorism</a>: The Equal Justice Initiative
investigates past lynchings to make a museum about the practice.
<p>
The word "terrorism" applies to lynching because these murders were
intended to intimidate blacks from protesting against the racist laws
of the South, and even from fully exercising the limited rights they
nominally had.


feed_id: c70392deae6eaa8a6c618e7986cd6718
title: Turkey vows to cleanse border region
uri: Turkey-vows-to-cleanse-border-region
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Turkey_vows_to_cleanse_border_region%29

content:
<p>
Turkey is helping some anti-Assad Arabs to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/22/turkey-vows-to-cleanse-border-region-of-isis-militants">capture Jarablus </a>before the Kurds do.


feed_id: 0f82e2e94761cf7dbfbd8f17a190efc3
title: US troops sent back to Lashkar Gah
uri: US-troops-sent-back-to-Lashkar-Gah
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28US_troops_sent_back_to_Lashkar_Gah%29

content:
<p>
Obama has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/22/us-troops-sent-afghanistan-taliban-lashkar-gah">sent a small number of US troops</a> "temporarily" back to
Lashkar Gah.
<p>
I said, years ago, that the Afghan government did not inspire enough
loyalty to defeat the Taliban, and that the US could either keep
propping it up or let it fall.  Perhaps Obama really thought it could
stand up without US forces.  Or perhaps he wanted to let it fall,
but couldn't go through with it.  In any case, the US once again
has the choice to either prop it up or let it fall.


feed_id: f8466b3818a0b13dd8a43c20b9cc9fd3
title: Mexico's president lied
uri: Mexico-s-president-lied
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Mexico%27s_president_lied%29
content:
<p>
Mexico's president learned to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/22/mexico-president-enrique-pena-nieto-plagiarized-thesis-law-degree">lie in law school</a>: 29% of his thesis was plagiarized.


feed_id: 9d7a6fe6f37cc2ccab13c02d6d998794
title: Wipe Out Cholera in Haiti
uri: Wipe-Out-Cholera-in-Haiti
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Wipe_Out_Cholera_in_Haiti%29
content:
<p>
What the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/22/what-un-must-do-wipe-out-cholera-haiti">UN Must Do</a> To Wipe Out Cholera in Haiti.


feed_id: 199460ac9aeb5b907a83ad7eab87c8d0
title: Enterprise Rent-A-Car has begun supporting ALEC.
uri: Enterprise-Rent-A-Car-has-begun-supporting-ALEC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Enterprise_Rent-A-Car_has_begun_supporting_ALEC.%29

content:
<p>
Enterprise Rent-A-Car has begun <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/22/alec-enterprise-car-rental-environmental-laws">supporting ALEC</a>.
<p>
I don't think it makes any difference that the support is
<em>ostensibly</em> about one particular issue.  Any support for ALEC
makes ALEC more powerful.


feed_id: 74e53f414468518d639b42a1d58dbe6f
title: Urgent: Get phthalates out of food
uri: Urgent-Get-phthalates-out-of-food
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Get_phthalates_out_of_food%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/take-action-get-these">call
on the FDA</a> to get phthalates out of our food.


feed_id: b62ff9a613b1d81e881701f81643652d
title: Urgent: Release video of killer thug
uri: Urgent-Release-video-of-killer-thug
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Release_video_of_killer_thug%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/justice-sylville-smith-release-tape/">demand immediate release</a> of the video of the killing
of Sylville Smith.


feed_id: e6fae195bc663f955454a7e9981d30d5
title: Urgent: Ban shipping tar sands oil
uri: Urgent-Ban-shipping-tar-sands-oil
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_shipping_tar_sands_oil%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/ban_oil_tankers">call on
Obama</a> to ban export of tar sands oil by ship.


feed_id: 856c8d85da588d686c943c1b8a14eece
title: Urgent: Alcohol tax
uri: Urgent-Alcohol-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Alcohol_tax%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call for taxing alcohol enough to 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/end-subsidized-intoxication">cover
the social cost of its use</a>.


feed_id: 5c4fe251fa133e9af213c860a8dfd048
title: Nuclear disarmament
uri: Nuclear-disarmament
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Nuclear_disarmament%29
content:
<p>
Australia is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/21/australia-attempts-to-derail-un-plan-to-ban-nuclear-weapons">sabotaging
UN efforts</a> toward nuclear disarmament.


feed_id: 53a030eaac46a7106a622b97738240e6
title: Repression in religions
uri: Repression-in-religions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Repression_in_religions%29
content:
<p>
Liberals 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/20/muslims-liberal-society-uk-france-shared-values">need
to condemn the repressive aspects and varieties of Islam</a>, while
refusing to treat Muslims as second-class citizens.
<p>
But that is not just for Muslims.  Other religions have their own
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Tarico20160820">oppressive
aspects and sects</a>.  We must not let any religion off the hook for
its oppression on the grounds that it is a religion.


feed_id: d51986a5456dedc6581b1b12b614624c
title: Companies want names on mountains
uri: Companies-want-names-on-mountains
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Companies_want_names_on_mountains%29

content:
<p>
Companies now want to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/20/branding-mountain-kyrgyzstan-mount-trident-christopher-ward-watches">pay
to have mountains named after them</a>.


feed_id: 3d261aa1cad852c80a6b5fe3333c8690
title: Blacks can't hope for much from Clinton
uri: Blacks-can-t-hope-for-much-from-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Blacks_cant_hope_for_much_from_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Extra, extra!  Trump makes a good point about Clinton: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/what-do-you-have-to-lose-donald-trump-appeals-for-black-vote">blacks
can't hope for much from her</a>.
<p>
However, that doesn't mean they should vote for Trump.  That would
make as much sense as strapping on a big lead weight and hoping it
will make you float.  Black Americans should vote for Jill Stein.


feed_id: 397c7070239a34581ccbdaa2513c77b7
title: Possibility of new cold war with Russia
uri: Possibility-of-new-cold-war-with-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Possibility_of_new_cold_war_with_Russia%29

content:
<p>
The military-industrial complex sees a bonanza in the
possibility of a new cold war with Russia, and 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/08/19/nato-weapons-industry/">thinks
of Clinton as the road to get it</a>.


feed_id: 0e63abe1603cd44424b5696d3b5a9d56
title: Germany to ban face veils in some places
uri: Germany-to-ban-face-veils-in-some-places
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Germany_to_ban_face_veils_in_some_places%29

content:
<p>
It looks like Germany will ban face veils or masks in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/19/german-interior-minister-backs-burqa-bans-public-places">certain
specific places</a>, but not in general on the street.
<p>
For public offices, in court, etc., I don't have a quarrel with this
— but why, I wonder, do people need to see your face when you
are driving a car?


feed_id: f72478fcff12fd1b3c7880cf64367cb2
title: US abuses prisoners awaiting deportation
uri: US-abuses-prisoners-awaiting-deportation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28US_abuses_prisoners_awaiting_deportation%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/18/us-border-patrol-facility-images-tucson-arizona">Photos
from a security camera</a> show how the US abuses prisoners awaiting
deportation.  15 people were made to sleep in one cell, with no beds
or bedding, only mylar blankets (which don't keep you warm if they are
squashed against the floor).


feed_id: dedebe3561500cdb5c8b9f50c939e2cd
title: Zoning laws
uri: Zoning-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Zoning_laws%29
content:
<p>
Zoning laws are a 
<a href="http://www.fastcoexist.com/3062229/how-excessive-zoning-regulations-hamper-social-mobility-and-increase-inequality">major
obstacle to building enough housing</a> in the US.


feed_id: ebc2e73d9ee01bcf71c04cd9ae7626b9
title: Post-election media empire
uri: Post-election-media-empire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Post-election_media_empire%29
content:
<p>
Are Donald Trump, Stephen Bannon, Roger Ailes 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/20/are-donald-trump-stephen-bannon-roger-ailes-cooking-post-election-media-empire">Cooking
Up a Post-Election Media Empire</a>?
<p>
That would make sense of Trump's actions, which seem more calculated
to build support for that business than to win an election.


feed_id: 603649b076dbb3ccc2a7aa8dee2dad31
title: Milwaukee black ghetto police state
uri: Milwaukee-black-ghetto-police-state
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Milwaukee_black_ghetto_police_state%29

content:
<p>
The black ghetto in Milwaukee is a police state — all there is
for teenagers is 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/when-i-was-kid-sherman-park-there-were-problems-police-now-it-feels-police-state">regular
harassment by the thugs</a>.


feed_id: 910de89e4efb7fa4d7e1eb6d6576a831
title: Obesity in the UK
uri: Obesity-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#24_August_2016_%28Obesity_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Theresa May was going to act to reduce obesity, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/21/theresa-mays-first-test-was-obesity-strategy-and-she-has-failed-health-experts-say">backed
down</a> against the food corporations.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/18/tories-obesity-inequality-fat-class-issue-self-esteem-social-status">Inequality
is one of the causes of obesity</a>, but Tories consider increased
inequality a sacred duty.


feed_id: 63dfff0e5e1a45b4a46f97e638c5faaf
title: Republican gerrymandering
uri: 2016-08-27-Republican-gerrymandering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#23_August_2016_%28Republican_gerrymandering%29
content:
<p>
Even a Clinton landslide has no chance of overcoming 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/21/real-way-2016-election-rigged">Republican
gerrymandering</a>.
<p>
The American people no longer decide who controls the House.


feed_id: 1363985f16f06a76c7b3fdb5c96bbc45
title: US jails trap poor women
uri: US-jails-trap-poor-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28US_jails_trap_poor_women%29
content:
<p>
US jails systematically trap poor women, even 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/women-in-jails-increasing-faster-than-men-vera-institute-justice">more
so than poor men</a>.


feed_id: 34890ffc851a8a96d17380057f5ae6cf
title: Indian women standing up to harassment
uri: Indian-women-standing-up-to-harassment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Indian_women_standing_up_to_harassment%29

content:
<p>
Indian women are standing up to feared harassment by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/aug/26/women-walk-alone-blank-noise-india-reclaim-streets-fear-harrassment">going
for unaccompanied walks in their cities</a>.


feed_id: dfd60a6a487cca6ed1cce440b28590bb
title: Trauma faced by Nauru prisoners
uri: Trauma-faced-by-Nauru-prisoners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Trauma_faced_by_Nauru_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Anna Neistat of Amnesty International says that that prisoners in
Nauru have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/26/ive-worked-in-most-conflict-zones-ive-never-seen-such-high-rates-of-trauma-as-on-nauru">worse
trauma, in general, than people in the conflict zones</a> where she
has worked.


feed_id: f2c0277688a472b20d8170e382210f6f
title: Cuts to UK's NHS
uri: Cuts-to-UK-s-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Cuts_to_UKs_NHS%29
content:
<p>
The Tories have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/26/what-do-you-know-about-planned-nhs-cuts">cut
the UK's National Health Service to the point where it can't
continue</a>, so now they plan big cuts and call it "transformation".
<p>
I've seen people refer to death as a "transformation", too, but that
doesn't convince me that I'd like to die.


feed_id: bd77e15b5ca98e13801c1df862b846f9
title: Mylan's jacked-up prices
uri: Mylan-s-jacked-up-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Mylans_jacked-up_prices%29
content:
<p>
The EpiPen "savings card" 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/25/under-pressure-mylan-will-expand-patient-assistance-for-epipen/">won't
help most Americans that need them</a>.
<p>
Mylan is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/24/epipen-ceo-hiked-prices-heather-bresch-mylan">raising
prices on lots of medicines</a>, not just EpiPen.


feed_id: f9c4e2e36cd8931bcc64a9a94092741c
title: Exposure to PCBs and autism
uri: Exposure-to-PCBs-and-autism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Exposure_to_PCBs_and_autism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/23/1563125/-Scientists-are-linking-chemicals-produced-in-the-1970s-to-increased-autism-today-not-vaccines">Fetal
exposure to PCBs</a> correlates with autism.


feed_id: 27111f30903f7e9efeb11fd946df933d
title: Facebook to combine data from WhatsApp
uri: Facebook-to-combine-data-from-WhatsApp
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Facebook_to_combine_data_from_WhatsApp%29

content:
<p>
Facebook bought WhatsApp and committed not to combine that data with
Facebook's other data.  Now it is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/25/whatsapp-backlash-facebook-data-privacy-users">going
to do just that</a>.
<p>
For Facebook, any commitment is meant to be broken, after a delay for
people to forget about it.


feed_id: 025c484eefce08a81f212fde7c0f189d
title: Honduran reporter sentenced to prison
uri: Honduran-reporter-sentenced-to-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Honduran_reporter_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
In Honduras, reporter Ariel Armando D'Vicente has been sentenced to
years in prison 
<a href="http://cl.s4.exct.net/?qs=baf3f28acc8a733f9830a0376ae32ee4f5404e3398515157dd7c0ec6d53abc75">for
accusing a thug commander of taking bribes</a>.


feed_id: fa7405a03424b2b21a972863cf56331c
title: Temporary energy storage in old oil wells
uri: Temporary-energy-storage-in-old-oil-wells
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Temporary_energy_storage_in_old_oil_wells%29

content:
<p>
Old oil wells, made watertight, can be used for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/aug/25/electricity-storage-underground-quidnet-energy">temporary
energy storage</a>.


feed_id: dacc9119838735b9da115b5df9a7be8a
title: Former Abu Ghraib prisoner leads PISSI
uri: Former-Abu-Ghraib-prisoner-leads-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Former_Abu_Ghraib_prisoner_leads_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
Al-Baghdadi, now the leader of PISSI, was a prisoner in Abu Ghraib.
He was 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/08/25/u-s-military-now-says-isis-leader-was-held-in-notorious-abu-ghraib-prison/">likely
tortured by the Bush forces</a>.
<p>
It's the clearest possible demonstration of how Dubya's crimes have
come back to haunt the US.  We Americans should prosecute Dubya (and
his henchmen) for these crimes, not only because that will encourage
Iraqis to forgive the US for them, but because justice and our
country's honor demand it.


feed_id: 4bd9f7878fedb19a008b648d72801d13
title: Hundreds of thousands of guns missing
uri: Hundreds-of-thousands-of-guns-missing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Hundreds_of_thousands_of_guns_missing%29

content:
<p>
The Pentagon has lost track of hundreds of thousands of guns that it
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/25/pentagon-has-no-idea-where-hundreds-thousands-guns-went-iraq-and-afghanistan">shipped
to Iraq and Afghanistan</a>.
<p>
I suppose PISSI got a lot of them in Iraq, while the Taliban got them
in Afghanistan.


feed_id: 4caec59fadb997b61faa38057facffea
title: The burkini ban in France
uri: The-burkini-ban-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28The_burkini_ban_in_France%29
content:
<p>
The Burkini Ban Shows 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/26/burkini-ban-france-failed-minorities-muslim">How
Badly France Has Failed Its Minorities</a>.
<p>
"French politicians should admit 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/25/burkini-french-muslim-isis">beach-loving
Muslim women are allies</a> in the fight against perverted [PISSI]
ideology."


feed_id: 2a3711a341a8fb522a01855170c2eeec
title: Thugs in schools
uri: 2016-08-28-Thugs-in-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Thugs_in_schools%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in schools don't just arrest students and direct their lives
towards prison.  They also 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/children-tasered-school-police-officers">tase
them gratuitously</a> in the process.


feed_id: 5628d75d2215c47fc20cea68bfef6021
title: Encrypted messaging services
uri: Encrypted-messaging-services
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Encrypted_messaging_services%29
content:
<p>
The EU may require encrypted messaging services to 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/23/world/europe/ap-eu-europe-security.html">decrypt
messages on demand</a>.
<p>
The question is, what will happen when the software is properly
designed, so that the developers can't decrypt messages?


feed_id: 7ff3add1cb6f1fb38b4c6c0ac7b56627
title: Shot by thug for using sign language
uri: Shot-by-thug-for-using-sign-language
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Shot_by_thug_for_using_sign_language%29

content:
<p>
A thug 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/22/1562643/-NC-Trooper-Shoots-and-Kills-Deaf-Mute-Man">shot
and killed Daniel Kevin Harris for making gestures</a>, which were in
fact sign language (he was deaf).


feed_id: e54c5ee97e31c1c73e0d1c82c7aab38c
title: Radioactive waste scattered by explosion
uri: Radioactive-waste-scattered-by-explosion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Radioactive_waste_scattered_by_explosion%29

content:
<p>
An explosion scattered radioactive waste inside the Waste Isolation
Pilot Plant, and it will cost 
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-mexico-nuclear-dump-20160819-snap-story.html">nearly 
a billion dollars</a> to clean it up.


feed_id: bbd9b1a871a98b349107c1ffe7aca636
title: School dollars gone to business
uri: School-dollars-gone-to-business
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28School_dollars_gone_to_business%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/24/where-has-all-money-our-schools-gone">Where
have our school dollars gone?</a>  Gone to business, every one.
<p>
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn.


feed_id: 94d99d0a3cc8b2ca8cb07e4f466cd1d2
title: Murder of secular publisher in Bangladesh
uri: Murder-of-secular-publisher-in-Bangladesh
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Murder_of_secular_publisher_in_Bangladesh%29

content:
<p>
Bangladesh has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/bangladesh-police-arrest-six-suspected-islamic-militants">arrested
a suspect</a> in the murder of a secular publisher Faisal Arefin
Dipan.


feed_id: fd938aac6acff983fa0036832814528a
title: People without enough food in Oklahoma
uri: People-without-enough-food-in-Oklahoma
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28People_without_enough_food_in_Oklahoma%29

content:
<p>
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, many people can't get enough food, partly because
they 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/25/tulsa-oklahoma-community-garden-urban-farming-oasis-food-desert">can't
reach a grocery store</a>.


feed_id: 11cd308c0bc2df091f7794aa55ba4eb5
title: Dildos in Texas university campuses
uri: Dildos-in-Texas-university-campuses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Dildos_in_Texas_university_campuses%29

content:
<p>
In Texas, it is lawful to carry a gun in university campuses but
illegal to carry a dildo.  Students are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/25/cocks-not-glocks-texas-campus-carry-gun-law-protest">protesting
by carrying dildos</a>.


feed_id: fef3f2c801bf1260fdb0cbab3178f367
title: Sanders's new organization
uri: Sanders-s-new-organization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Sanderss_new_organization%29
content:
<p>
Sanders's new organization, Our Revolution, has been hit by a
management dispute: most of the employees quit because they 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/25/fleeing-the-bern-half-of-staff-quit-sanders-legacy-project-before-it-begins">objected
to the chosen leader</a>.


feed_id: f0448700cfe55e36bff396e1e7737e84
title: Getting paid for votes
uri: Getting-paid-for-votes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Getting_paid_for_votes%29
content:
<p>
A rabid Trump supporter suggests that he in the habit of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/24/nigel-farage-donald-trump-rally-hillary-clinton">getting
paid for votes</a>, or at least considers the practice legitimate.


feed_id: e0b4b10363e034640e8c9f591a6b938b
title: Scientists against fossil fuel extraction
uri: Scientists-against-fossil-fuel-extraction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Scientists_against_fossil_fuel_extraction%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/25/letter-signed-by-154-australian-experts-demands-climate-policy-match-the-science">154
Australian scientists</a> wrote to the prime minister calling for
curbing fossil fuel extraction before it is too late.
<p>
They 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/aug/25/climate-scientists-write-another-open-letter-warning-of-unfolding-crisis-for-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-to-ignore">expect
him to ignore the letter</a>, because he's a puppet of the fossil fuel
industry, but they have to try anyway.


feed_id: c8f071fb12b1ffe6db611be3ccfb3ae0
title: Use of chemical weapons in Syria
uri: Use-of-chemical-weapons-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Use_of_chemical_weapons_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/25/assad-regime-isis-chemical-attacks-syria-un-investigators">Investigators
accuse Assad's men and PISSI</a> of using chemical weapons in Syria.


feed_id: 75589d500c1f19fe327c42e97fc1b0c4
title: Bigotry based on appearance
uri: Bigotry-based-on-appearance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Bigotry_based_on_appearance%29
content:
<p>
People who appear to be Muslims or Arabs face bigotry that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/25/racist-profiling-bigotry-headscarf-flight">manifests
as treating them as suspects</a> based on nothing but readiness to
jump to a conclusion.
<p>
The same thing happens to blacks in the US, but they tend to get shot
for no reason, rather than pulled off an airplane for no reason.


feed_id: 46e31db8cbaeeac69c18388958350245
title: Urgent: Quit ALEC
uri: Urgent-Quit-ALEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Quit_ALEC%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.climatetruth.org/sign/Enterprise/">call on
Enterprise car rental</a> to quit ALEC.


feed_id: d2a6eeae9c7db775b1225797f4ee47bd
title: Urgent: Cut price of EpiPen
uri: Urgent-Cut-price-of-EpiPen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Cut_price_of_EpiPen%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-immoral-price-gouging">call
on Mylan</a> to cut the price of the EpiPen emergency allergy
treatment.  At its new high price, people will die because they can't
afford it.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/08/24/epipen-uproar-highlights-companys-family-ties-to-congress/">more
information</a>.


feed_id: 21a1c42041f1a7cf007a4143cd7e710a
title: Urgent: Stop arms sale to Saudi Arabia
uri: Urgent-Stop-arms-sale-to-Saudi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_arms_sale_to_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone and urge your congresscritter to sign the
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/house-lycm-letter-stop-saudi-arms-deal">Lieu-Yoho-Conyers-Mulvaney
letter</a> against the arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: fe3ff0e60757848f1fb7238753c6c932
title: How Pentagon used to spy on antiwar movement
uri: How-Pentagon-used-to-spy-on-antiwar-movement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28How_Pentagon_used_to_spy_on_antiwar_movement%29

content:
<p>
The Pentagon has admitted, and prohibited, 
<a href="http://bordc.org/news/new-defense-department-policy-bans-spying-practices-army-used-u-s-antiwar-activists-years/">some
ways it used to spy on the antiwar movement</a>.


feed_id: 4b8f9029d73c438a3d7a8ed1253afd8f
title: Apple's tax dodging
uri: Apple-s-tax-dodging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Apples_tax_dodging%29
content:
<p>
As the EU considers whether 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/apple-taxes-european-commission">Apple's
tax dodging</a> is illegal, the US threatens to "retaliate" if the EU
determines that it is.
<p>
The ironic thing here is that Apple famously keeps this money parked
outside the US so as not to pay any US taxes on it.
<p>
The US ought to retaliate by making European companies pay more US
tax; but that would require government by the people, for the people.
I expect our current government — by the corporations, for the
plutocrats — to do the corrupt thing: look for a way to hurt
Europe to make it keep Apple's taxes down.
<p>
Shame on you, Obama.


feed_id: 5ba678c1dcbe27c6117b8fe81c73005c
title: Thugs using airborne surveillance
uri: Thugs-using-airborne-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Thugs_using_airborne_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Baltimore's thugs are secretly using an airborne wide area camera
which enables them to 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/baltimore-police-secretly-running-aerial-mass-surveillance-eye-sky">track
any person or vehicle's movements across the city</a>.
<p>
We need to make it illegal for anyone, even the state, to carry out
systematic collection of images that enable such tracking.
<p>
The thugs say there was no "conspiracy" to conceal the airborne
surveillance — they just 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/24/baltimore-police-aerial-surveillance-cameras">didn't
bother telling anyone about it</a>.  Same difference.
<p>
They say people should not be concerned, because it's not different in
principle from their network of ground-based surveillance cameras.
<p>
That's true: those cameras should be eliminated too.  We should not
allow anyone to systematically watch large numbers of people as they
go around the city.


feed_id: 2045f133b6cf3dc3d0fb578d206a561b
title: Trump's choice of words
uri: Trump-s-choice-of-words
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Trumps_choice_of_words%29
content:
<p>
George Lakoff: Trump chooses his words very carefully, even though
sometimes dishonestly, and 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/24/understanding-trumps-use-language">intentionally
communicates gruesome messages</a> via hints he knows his supporters
will get.


feed_id: acd9629ba1ee444ba55270963b481c9a
title: Long commutes and obesity
uri: Long-commutes-and-obesity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Long_commutes_and_obesity%29
content:
<p>
A long commute 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/24/uk-commuters-consume-800-extra-calories-a-week-rsph-report">tends
to promote obesity</a>.


feed_id: f0f1ba98e10f5573b4143e7a1edbd8e6
title: Graduate TAs and RAs allowed to unionize
uri: Graduate-TAs-and-RAs-allowed-to-unionize
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Graduate_TAs_and_RAs_allowed_to_unionize%29

content:
<p>
Graduate students who work as teaching assistants or research
assistants in the US are now 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/23/major-ruling-grad-students-win-right-unionize-private-universities">allowed
to form unions</a>.
<p>
I hope that adjunct professors unionize too.


feed_id: fa3cf42a7894fa50d4c6f36006799ed5
title: Theater of Security Agency
uri: 2016-08-28-Theater-of-Security-Agency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Theater_of_Security_Agency%29
content:
<p>
The Theater of Security Agency suspected a child's external pacemaker
was a bomb, so they 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/08/23/tsa-agents-detained-nine-year-old-boy-be">searched
him all over and made the family miss their flight</a>.
<p>
They said this was because he lacked a certain form that he had never
previously been asked for.


feed_id: 5de38ff7d2f5fb3927ba992bfbe862b3
title: Bangladesh's proposed censorship bill
uri: Bangladesh-s-proposed-censorship-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Bangladeshs_proposed_censorship_bill%29

content:
<p>
Bangladesh's proposed "cyber-security" law is actually a sweeping
censorship bill which would 
<a href="http://cl.s4.exct.net/?qs=6363999b96d93939f93fb2da7e33e79f2103cea00984b8fc56e5750498bda3d7">imprison
people for stating certain unwanted views and opinions</a>.
<p>
This resembles 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/hrant-dink.html">what France
and Turkey have already done</a>.


feed_id: 276bd4202d17bb251a1dbf03a59c5b09
title: Repression against women in France
uri: Repression-against-women-in-France
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Repression_against_women_in_France%29

content:
<p>
In France, repression as begun 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/french-burkini-ban-row-escalates-clothing-incident-woman-police-nice-beach">against
women who cover their heads and arms and legs while at the beach</a>.
<p>
Wearing a hijab <em>is</em> a provocation, like wearing a cross.
Freedom of speech (in the broad sense) includes the right to make
provocative statements.  If you disagree, say something back.
<p>
However, that's not the worst repression here.  Much worse is the
threat to punish people for posting photos and videos of the thugs at
work.  Posting them is our only defense against whatever brutality
feel inclined to impose.
<p>
Foolish and Dangerous (and illiberal): 
<a href="https://lauren.vortex.com/2016/08/foolish-and-dangerous-europes-clothing-attacks-against-muslim-women">Europe's
Clothing Attacks</a> Against Muslim Women.
<p>
This is ethically no different from Iran's clothing police that punish
women for <em>not</em> covering up as much as their oppressive
religion requires.
<p>
A century ago, a bathing suit like the burkini was illegal in the US.
It was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/the-burkini-ban-what-it-really-means-when-we-criminalise-clothes">considered
too revealing</a>.
<p>
Does anyone know whether the burkini is prohibited in Iran?


feed_id: a7aff64eb47d34792275d6f24410a623
title: High birth rate in Africa
uri: High-birth-rate-in-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28High_birth_rate_in_Africa%29
content:
<p>
High Birth Rates And Poverty 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/aug/25/high-birth-rates-poverty-undermine-generation-african-children-odi-report">Undermine
a Generation of African Children</a>.


feed_id: e16f7ec335532a9b22dbd26ef13ee8a7
title: Dag Hammarskjöld's plane
uri: Dag-Hammarskjöld-s-plane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Dag_Hammarskjoelds_plane%29
content:
<p>
Ban Ki-moon 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/dag-hammarskjold-crash-ban-ki-moon-un-investigator">wants
information from the US, UK and Belgium</a> to determine whether Dag
Hammarskjöld's plane was shot down.


feed_id: d13fde8c956eee4b3220c61110cffd67
title: Anthropogenic global heating
uri: Anthropogenic-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Anthropogenic_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Anthropogenic global heating can be detected in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/24/human-induced-climate-change-began-earlier-than-previously-thought">measurements
from 1830</a>.


feed_id: 9d885a15218e2a7519f28f2e2181ae55
title: Neighbors stop thugs from killing child
uri: Neighbors-stop-thugs-from-killing-child
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Neighbors_stop_thugs_from_killing_child%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in Newark ran after a child with drawn guns, and only a 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/shotgun-toting-cops-chase-10-year-old-boy-through-streets-newark-thinking-he-was">human
chain of neighbors stopped them from killing him</a>.  The thugs said
he resembled a suspect they were looking for, someone who actually
looked nothing like the child — except that they had the same
skin color.


feed_id: 6d93a6b26db4280b970fb48f8bb58f08
title: "Homeland security" in high school
uri: Homeland-security-in-high-school
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Homeland_security_in_high_school%29

content:
<p>
Some US high schools have special "homeland security" programs that
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/books/why-earth-are-we-allowing-homeland-security-department-public-high-schools">train
students for jobs imposing strict order on the US</a>.
<p>
However, the security measures of the school itself strike me as even
worse.  They are a lesson in subservience, ideal for a subject people.


feed_id: 9b15d830384dfbc41d3abcee9e75607e
title: US backs Islamist tyrant
uri: US-backs-Islamist-tyrant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28US_backs_Islamist_tyrant%29
content:
<p>
The US has backed Turkey in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/turkey-and-us-unite-to-oust-isis-curb-kurds-syria">demanding
that the Kurds yield Manbij</a>.
<p>
It makes me sad to see the US take the side of Islamist tyrant
Erdo&gbreve;an against the secular libertarian Kurds.


feed_id: a310a8dcbfd85cc3a7af79b527e73d5e
title: US prison thugs threaten imprisoned women
uri: US-prison-thugs-threaten-imprisoned-women
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28US_prison_thugs_threaten_imprisoned_women%29

content:
<p>
Women imprisoned for a long time, awaiting a decision about whether
they can stay in the US, have temporarily stopped their hunger strike
because the prison thugs 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/24/migrant-mothers-pennsylvania-center-hunger-strike-berks">threatened
to take their children away</a>.
<p>
The prison is operating in violation of a court order not to hold them
for more than 20 days.  Some have been jailed for a whole year.
<p>
This prison is not officially called a "prison". but that's what it
is.


feed_id: fd8255a2254b7ad2788de65fc9d7c478
title: Prisoners deprived of water in Texas
uri: Prisoners-deprived-of-water-in-Texas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_August_2016_%28Prisoners_deprived_of_water_in_Texas%29

content:
<p>
Some Texas prisoners get half as much water as people normally need,
even though the 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/08/24/deadly-heat-in-u-s-prisons-is-killing-inmates-and-spawning-lawsuits/">extreme
heat conditions inside the prison mean they need more than normal</a>.
The heat can be deadly.


feed_id: e9773de03ab63e1200722f556da19c71
title: Volunteer
uri: 2016-09-16-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to help install new political notes on the site.  If you'd like to
	   help me in this way,
	   please write to rms at gnu period org.</p>


feed_id: 495a8ad3aa240d3e16780e1316595297
title: Professors locked out by LIU
uri: Professors-locked-out-by-LIU
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Professors_locked_out_by_LIU%29

content:
<p>
Long Island University planned in advance to lock out all the
professors.  
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/13/gutting-university-no-end-sight-unprecedented-liu-faculty-lockout">Administrators
have been ordered to teach as scabs</a> in fields they are not
qualified to teach.
<p>
The students support the professors against the administration.


feed_id: 53f79ace9123639cdb23e0d964cea112
title: Accusations of anti-semitism at CCNY
uri: Accusations-of-anti-semitism-at-CCNY
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Accusations_of_anti-semitism_at_CCNY%29

content:
<p>
The Students for Justice in Palestine at City College, New York,
campaigns to end Israel's occupation of Palestine.  As typically
happens, it was accused of supporting anti-semitism.  An investigation
found that this accusation was 
<a href="http://forward.com/news/349612/investigation-of-alleged-hostility-to-jews-among-pro-palestinian-activists/">nearly
totally false</a>.
<p>
The City College campus is not entirely free of anti-semitism, but
that and the SJP are separate.


feed_id: 619668926dfd34791bad034f94bb3d8b
title: Gazans denied travel for medical treatment
uri: Gazans-denied-travel-for-medical-treatment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Gazans_denied_travel_for_medical_treatment%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://english.wafa.ps/page.aspx?id=9Ki3zLa42905025240a9Ki3zL">1/3
of Gazans</a> that ask for permission to travel for medical treatment
do not get permission.  Most of those don't even get an answer.


feed_id: 46ad9018c266ee3cd3b9d81316f4840e
title: Israel demonstrates double standard
uri: Israel-demonstrates-double-standard
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Israel_demonstrates_double_standard%29

content:
<p>
Israel demonstrates its double standard when it legalizes houses built
without permission by Jews, and 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=73669">demolishes
houses built without permission by Palestinians</a>.


feed_id: 55e5ffa1bbd5ba585f669cd8e7b2fa16
title: Libya a failed state
uri: Libya-a-failed-state
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Libya_a_failed_state%29
content:
<p>
Libya has become a failed state in which there are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/14/libya-civil-war-future-dark-fate-government-sealed-uk-cameron">many
factions that don't trust each other</a> at all.  They also distrust
foreign support, for good reason.  There is no obvious path out of
that.


feed_id: 0f26ee1bd491f2abf30fe398ddf6f720
title: No sign of harm from fluoridation
uri: No-sign-of-harm-from-fluoridation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28No_sign_of_harm_from_fluoridation%29

content:
<p>
A meta-analysis found proof that fluoridation 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/14/fluoride-in-water-safe-tooth-decay-iq-cancer">does
not cause cancer and does not reduce children's IQ</a>.  There is no
sign it does any harm.


feed_id: 2a0d53985de87b1230d9257e3944e434
title: If Americans could sue Salafi Arabia
uri: If-Americans-could-sue-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28If_Americans_could_sue_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
If Americans could sue Salafi Arabia for the September 2001 attacks,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/13/911-saudi-arabia-bill-opens-us-avalanche-lawsuits">who
could sue the US</a>?


feed_id: 26f4a3c0e957f8daa86a758b415ab8d3
title: Chile privatized pensions
uri: Chile-privatized-pensions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Chile_privatized_pensions%29
content:
<p>
Chile privatized its version of social security 35 years ago.
Now it turns out that the resulting pensions are <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/09/heres-cautionary-tale-pension-privatization-chile">barely enough to live on</a>.
The private fund managers paid themselves big management fees and took
all the capital gains away from the retirees.


feed_id: 71e2e9d9bd6fd321e6ed1fdad8b70065
title: Trump's approach is bunk
uri: Trump-s-approach-is-bunk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Trump%27s_approach_is_bunk%29
content:
<p>
Trump spreads bullshit in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2016/sep/13/trumps-approach-is-bunk-science-lies-and-the-us-presidential-election">regard to science</a>, just as on other topics.


feed_id: 08e7c72d228f220b1a045258f1bffbeb
title: Clinton obeys banksters
uri: Clinton-obeys-banksters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Clinton_obeys_banksters%29
content:
<p>
Clinton believes that the Federal Reserve is sacrosanct and that presidents
should <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37573-hillary-clinton-and-the-church-of-the-sacred-fed">not even express an opinion</a> about its decisions.
<p>
Well, we already knew that she was inclined to obey the banksters.


feed_id: 6f86f4f08fb97d330e03b023990e063d
title: The Dangers of Countering Violent Extremism
uri: The-Dangers-of-Countering-Violent-Extremism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28The_Dangers_of_Countering_Violent_Extremism%29

content:
<p>
The US government is recruiting teachers and therapists to report on
Muslims who meet vague and unsupported guesswork criteria suggesting they
might later be radicalized.
<p>
Some mental health professionals explain why <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/almost-addicted/201607/the-dangers-countering-violent-extremism-cve-programs">they will refuse to do this</a>.


feed_id: 0f408ac7527c35b00e73810f85a9e8aa
title: Thugs intimidate people to provide DNA samples
uri: Thugs-intimidate-people-to-provide-DNA-samples
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Thugs_intimidate_people_to_provide_DNA_samples%29

content:
<p>
US thugs <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/dna-dragnet-in-some-cities-police-go-from-stop-and-frisk-to-stop-and-spit">intimidate people</a> into "voluntarily" providing DNA samples for permanent inclusion in a massive data base.


feed_id: 37e3bde356764f539f458208c3753c2b
title: Don't Punish Chelsea Manning
uri: Don-t-Punish-Chelsea-Manning
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Don%27t_Punish_Chelsea_Manning%29

content:
<p>
Don't Punish Chelsea Manning â- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/release-chelsea-manning-wikileaks-hunger-strike">Release Her</a>


feed_id: 256b75a273909c72607187a5f5a2240b
title: Sony was sued by users
uri: Sony-was-sued-by-users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Sony_was_sued_by_users%29
content:
<p>
Sony was sued by users after its firmware downgrade for the Playstation 3
took away the capability to run GNU/Linux on it.  Now it will offer them
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/youre-a-step-closer-to-getting-55-from-the-ps3-linux-debacle-lawsuit/">money as a settlement</a>.
<p>
This is not enough to stop companies from making such changes in the future.
We should either make it a crime, or make sure it is impossible.


feed_id: 0269614b95bb35480027e535f6629423
title: Prison and CIA Whistleblower
uri: Prison-and-CIA-Whistleblower
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Prison_and_CIA_Whistleblower%29

content:
<p>
CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling was <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/13/i-was-a-cia-whistleblower-now-im-a-black-inmate-heres-how-i-see-american-racism/">imprisoned for giving information</a> to the New York Times.  Prison treats him harshly because he is black.
<p>
Shame on you, Obama, for your <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">war on journalists' sources</a>.  We need
to make digital systems safe for democracy.


feed_id: 28109ce0f557157d0c7cb095db626ed1
title: Ruthless Tories boundary changes
uri: Ruthless-Tories-boundary-changes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Ruthless_Tories_boundary_changes%29

content:
<p>
The Tories want to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/boundary-changes-tories-ruthless-gerrymandering">reshape the UK's election districts</a> to give themselves
an advantage in future elections.


feed_id: 915b92e606674ed82d2faa49ebd434e5
title: Snowden and Obama
uri: Snowden-and-Obama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Snowden_and_Obama%29
content:
<p>
Snowden presents arguments why <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/13/edward-snowden-why-barack-obama-should-grant-me-a-pardon">Obama should pardon him</a>.
<p>
Jill Stein <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/pardon-edward-snowden-jill-stein">supports the call</a>.


feed_id: 7caf37343e00522434a95b90ced57b02
title: Democratic socialism is gaining support in the US
uri: Democratic-socialism-is-gaining-support-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Democratic_socialism_is_gaining_support_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Democratic <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/12/seizing-moment-young-socialists-take-old-democratic-guard">socialism</a> is gaining support in the US


feed_id: 33577a507d8159bbf4a6eae9d3fb905f
title: September 11 remembering Lives and Liberties
uri: September-11-remembering-Lives-and-Liberties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28September_11_remembering_Lives_and_liberties%29

content:
<p>
The price for US "<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/09/september-11-remembering-lives-and-liber">homeland security</a>" is paid in freedom and in money.
If we consider only the money, it is a ridiculously inefficient way
to save lives, costing over a hundred million dollars per life saved.
<p>
We could save a lot more lives by spending the money on medical care.


feed_id: 18e38b74b8bea4715573950b5efb4de2
title: LAPD Honors Officers who don't use Deadly Force
uri: LAPD-Honors-Officers-who-don-t-use-Deadly-Force
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28LAPD_Honors_Officers_who_don%27t_use_Deadly_Force%29

content:
<p>
Los Angeles and other cities give medals to police officers who
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/12/lapd-awards-officers-who-didnt-deadly">de-escalate a confrontation</a> and avoid violence.
<p>
As for thugs, their representatives object to the very idea of honoring
or teaching such techniques.  Thugs are supposed to solve every problem
by immediate killing.


feed_id: 801c52e240c0c2ef9ea7f0725b377565
title: Hottest August ever recorded
uri: 2016-09-16-Hottest-August-ever-recorded
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Hottest_August_ever_recorded%29

content:
<p>
This August was the hottest August <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/12/climate-change-here-august-was-another-hottest-month-record-books">ever recorded</a>.  It followed the hottest July ever recorded, which followed the hottest June ever recorded, and so on for almost a year.
<p>
The <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/12/no-need-wait-future-global-warming-impacts-are-happening-right-here-right-now">climate mayhem</a> this process will cause has already started.


feed_id: 6c2b7d167944f95977ff0f0e2c738db7
title: Voters fighting for their rights
uri: Voters-fighting-for-their-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Voters_fighting_for_their_rights%29

content:
<p>
Republican state governments are still fighting hard to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/12/latest-case-shows-voters-fighting-til-election-day-their-rights">block minority</a> and poor voters in November.


feed_id: cc9851dd7aa142d8608062777e1baa81
title: Urgent: Reform the Calgang database
uri: Urgent-Reform-the-Calgang-database
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reform_the_Calgang_database%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of California: 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/demand-california-fix-calgang-its-deeply-flawed-gang-database">call
on Governor Brown</a> to sign AB 2298, the bill to reform the Calgang
database.


feed_id: 48503d76fab25b63f682a379c357d414
title: Indigenous Environmental Network
uri: Indigenous-Environmental-Network
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Indigenous_Environmental_Network%29

content:
<p>
Indigenous Environmental Network has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/12/big-difference-standing-rock-native-leadership-all-around">united
tribes around the US</a> to oppose environmentally dangerous projects,
with support from other ethnic groups too.
<p>
If the Dakota Access pipeline is built, it would produce 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/12/dakota-access-pipeline-will-lock-emissions-30-coal-plants">100
million tons of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions per year</a>.
<p>
The very efficiency of the pipeline would make ending the oil
extraction very difficult, as the owners would do just about anything
to recover their investment.  Our government lacks the courage to tell
a company, "We are going to shut you down to stop your pollution."


feed_id: 1b890bfa5c95ca9e996caeb8f6a6ba85
title: Algorithm-based injustice
uri: Algorithm-based-injustice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Algorithm-based_injustice%29
content:
<p>
Blatant wrongs such as Facebook's censorship of photo of the burned,
naked Vietnamese girl are just the tip of the iceberg of
<a href="https://medium.com/@katecrawford/artificial-intelligence-is-hard-to-see-a71e74f386db">algorithm-based
injustice</a>, and there is no way to measure what it adds up to.


feed_id: 116dd03038f4589c924340721ed5ff41
title: Thug offenders
uri: Thug-offenders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Thug_offenders%29
content:
<p>
When one town fires a thug for misconduct, 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/us/whereabouts-of-cast-out-police-officers-other-cities-often-hire-them.html">some
other town nearby will surely hire him</a>.
<p>
Perhaps we need a "registered thug offender list" to prevent this.


feed_id: 5ad2720df1543052c6190335c27732a3
title: The Trump Foundation
uri: The-Trump-Foundation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28The_Trump_Foundation%29
content:
<p>
The Trump Foundation 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-donald-trump-retooled-his-charity-to-spend-other-peoples-money/2016/09/10/da8cce64-75df-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html">raises
money from others</a>, not from Trump, but he lets people think that
the money it hands out is from him.


feed_id: 2bfb37a380fbbfa89a05be3718c42a83
title: Facebook censorship
uri: 2016-09-16-Facebook-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Facebook_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Jim Wright forcefully condemned the pressure put on Americans to
endorse all the bellicose or dangerous "responses" to the September 11
attacks.  Facebook 
<a href="http://www.stonekettle.com/2016/09/renegade-911.html">censored
it</a>, apparently for political reasons.
<p>
This shows the danger of depending on facebook.


feed_id: 1caf36d4bff3917d3596fc09b5b2ff03
title: "Cultural appropriation"
uri: Cultural-appropriation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Cultural_appropriation%29
content:
<p>
Lionel Shriver 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/lionel-shrivers-full-speech-i-hope-the-concept-of-cultural-appropriation-is-a-passing-fad">tears
the opposition to "cultural appropriation" to shreds</a>.  If
presenting the viewpoint of someone different from you were rejected,
storytelling would be impossible.  But even the opposition that some
now demand would impoverish culture for everyone.
<p>
Here's a real example: Sikhs in the UK tried to stop a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/12/arrested-protesters-part-of-attempt-to-reclaim-sikh-religion">Sikh-style
wedding between a Sikh and a non-Sikh</a>.  They made the claim that
the Sikh religious ceremony is the property of Sikhs, so no one else
has the right to hold such a ceremony.  This possessiveness violates
the religious freedom of others.  No matter what your religious
practices may be, you have no right to stop others from following
similar practices.
<p>
This applies to other cultural practices, too.  Before my foot injury,
I enjoyed doing Croatian dances and Serbian dances, although my
enjoyment of them was shadowed in the 90s when those two countries
were at war.  I am proud to cook Italian dishes and Chinese dishes,
even though I probably don't do them quite like a good Italian or
Chinese cook.  I read that Iraqis in the 1960s used to cook the
Persian dish fesenjan, knowing full well that it was Persian.  Bravo
for them — fesenjan is delicious.  They are entitled to do this,
and so am I, and so are you.  Culture is for imitating, and obstacles
to such imitation are an injustice.
<p>
There are fatuous ways to imitate.  When a Mexican restaurant hands
out sombreros and customers wear them, the customers are being
childish, and I could criticize the restaurant for is leading them to
be childish.  Do they enjoy that food, or are they only using it as an
excuse for a fantasy?  And why should they need an excuse?  If you
want to fantasize about being in Mexico, go ahead, but do you really
need a sombrero, or a restaurant?
<p>
It is possible to imitate a cultural practice in an embarrassingly
ignorant way, or even an insulting way.  But there are lots of ways to
be embarrassingly ignorant, or to insult someone.  That is no reason
to condemn imitation.


feed_id: 3fed3d0ea5cabee796d6dcbb51bab340
title: Reasons not to have children
uri: Reasons-not-to-have-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Reasons_not_to_have_children%29

content:
<p>
Why We Should Have Fewer Children: to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/12/why-we-should-have-fewer-children-save-the-planet-climate-change">Save
the Planet</a>.
<p>
Many churches block women from access to contraception and abortion,
effectively 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/religions-role-in-the-global-population-crisis">forcing
them to have too many children</a>.
<p>
There are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">plenty of other
reasons</a> why it is advisable not to have children under current
circumstances.


feed_id: 455b64e1c254c1fb6f391d90d18430bc
title: NAFTA
uri: 2016-09-16-NAFTA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28NAFTA%29
content:
<p>
Canada has suffered greatly from NAFTA, and companies are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/12/nafta-tpp-canada-hasnt-learned-free-trade-mistakes">suing
because they have been blocked from fracking or mining</a> to protect
water supplies and endangered species.
<p>
NAFTA 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_(NAFTA)">has 
harmed Mexico even more</a>, and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#27_June_2016_(Transcanada_sues_US)">the 
US as well</a>.
<p>
The reason a treaty between three countries has harmed all three is
that it's a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy
treaty</a>.  Its effects are to harm the environment and the non-rich
in all countries that sign.


feed_id: 90087f54f9c4176e92045ea090f99cfe
title: Obsessing with the Sept 2001 attacks
uri: Obsessing-with-the-Sept-2001-attacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Obsessing_with_the_Sept_2001_attacks%29

content:
<p>
The US would do well to stop obsessing with the September 2001
terrorist attacks.  Pledging to dwell on them 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/12/what-if-america-happened-forget-september-11th-attacks">perpetuates
the fear-driven errors and injustices</a> of those years.
<p>
Where I was on September 11, 2001 is not important.  What I did that
day would have been important, if it had succeeded.  I started writing
an article about the next attack, which I foresaw would be 
<a href="media/c8cfb30a.brave-and-free.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/brave-and-free.jpg">directed at
Americans' freedom</a> by American officials in the name of
"security".


feed_id: 48771b285c2fe797a14956f0c8b83a92
title: Oil drilling off South Australian coast
uri: Oil-drilling-off-South-Australian-coast
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Oil_drilling_off_South_Australian_coast%29

content:
<p>
Oil drilling off the coast of South Australia risks 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/the-risk-is-too-high-why-locals-dont-want-bp-in-the-great-australian-bight">long-term
local damage</a> at each step.
<p>
That's a high price for a certainty of adding to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#20_February_2016_(Fight_to_keep_fossil_fuel_in_ground)">global
damage</a>.


feed_id: 142cb01f849ea9a5eb5fe091e02c0a83
title: Facebook blocks activist's account
uri: Facebook-blocks-activist-s-account
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Facebook_blocks_activists_account%29

content:
<p>
Facebook 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/12/facebook-blocks-shaun-king-black-lives-matter">blocked
the account of activist Shaun King</a> after he posted a racist email
that was sent to him.


feed_id: a8c9bd6eaff5cc6cf74bffa7279fdd62
title: Canadians banned from visiting the US
uri: Canadians-banned-from-visiting-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Canadians_banned_from_visiting_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Canadians are 
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pot-border-banned-waiver-1.3752278">banned
from visiting the US simply because they admit they used marijuana in
Canada</a> — which is an absurd policy even if their usage of
pot was illegal in Canada.
<p>
The US has done much nastier things to Canadian visitors, such as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-mar-jun.html#31%20March%202010%20(Peter%20Watts%20convicted%20in%20USA%20)">the
beating given to science fiction writer Peter Watts</a>.
<p>
Every road in Canada that leads to the US should have a sign,
"Warning, Unprovoked Beatings Ahead."


feed_id: fb429e37eee70ec60d641ba510f53365
title: Endangered species protection loopholes
uri: Endangered-species-protection-loopholes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Endangered_species_protection_loopholes%29

content:
<p>
The endangered species protection conditions that Australia imposed on
a new coal mine are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/12/adanis-carmichael-coalmine-proves-environment-laws-too-weak-report">full
of loopholes</a>.
<p>
Worse, the idea of "offsets for destroyed habitat" is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#08_December_2012_(Biodiversity_offsetting)">inherently
absurd</a>.
<p>
But that's nothing compared to the inherent idiocy of allowing a new
coal mine.  We
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#21_April_2016_(Coal_vs_Coral)">need
to shut down coal mining</a> as quickly as we can.


feed_id: 10ef192502f3a107d1cc6ce71a65f054
title: Corporation owners' wealth
uri: Corporation-owners-wealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Corporation_owners_wealth%29
content:
<p>
The idea that corporations should put the owners' wealth above all
else repeatedly 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/11/corporate-governance-deepwater-horizon-shareholders">leads
to great harm</a>.
<p>
Contrary to the way it appears, that idea was not always accepted.
In the US, its adoption 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#18_April_2012_(Shareholders)">dates 
from the 1980s</a>.


feed_id: 1d96c526494b51d03e1f573ab4e035bc
title: Coerced into prostitution for food
uri: Coerced-into-prostitution-for-food
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Coerced_into_prostitution_for_food%29

content:
<p>
Many US teenagers are coerced into prostitution by their need for
food.  In poor communities, there is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/12/teens-america-hunger-food-poverty">no
other work for them</a>.  Those not sexually attractive enough to
succeed that way have to resort to even more desperate measures, such
as stealing food or salable items, or selling drugs.
<p>
Stealing food should not be a crime when you need it to live.
Italy's court 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#5_May_2016_(Stealing_food_to_eat_is_not_a_crime)">made 
a wise decision on that</a>.  But we are wrong to put people in a
position where they need to do this just to live.
<p>
It is clear who is to blame for this state of affairs: the plutocrats
that are taking an ever-larger share of our wealth and squeezing
everyone else.


feed_id: 85b630d6fbbb9d8919ad6bd6233838e6
title: Amy Goodman faces charges for reporting
uri: Amy-Goodman-faces-charges-for-reporting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_September_2016_%28Amy_Goodman_faces_charges_for_reporting%29

content:
<p>
Amy Goodman faces charges for covering the 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/arrest-warrant-issued-for-journalist-after-covering-dakota-access-pipeline-protests-95770fac4372">private
thugs' attack on pipeline protesters</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#8_September_2016_(Attack_on_Dakota_Access_Pipeline_protesters)">More
information</a> about that attack.


feed_id: 294749adcfce661f02a2bda4923f907f
title: Nigeria is facing famine
uri: Nigeria-is-facing-famine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Nigeria_is_facing_famine%29
content:
<p>
Nigeria is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/13/nigerians-facing-desperate-hunger-accuse-officials-of-stealing-food-un-brink-famine">facing famine</a>, especially in the northern area where
Boko Haram is a threat.


feed_id: 9abebf9d373ad8cf64755a1e18ffff6a
title: Replacing a candidate
uri: Replacing-a-candidate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Replacing_a_candidate%29
content:
<p>
Is it possible for a party <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/12/hillary-clinton-pneumonia-diagnosis-campaign-candidate">to replace a candidate in September</a>?
<p>
I hope so.  To be confident of winning the election, the Democratic
party should replace Clinton with Bernie Sanders.


feed_id: c0cc5a814223ad698045699e56cff0e3
title: How police can spy on phones
uri: How-police-can-spy-on-phones
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28How_police_can_spy_on_phones%29

content:
<p>
Stingray devices that track all the cell phones in the nearby area are
extremely easy to use, and have almost no controls to restrain state
suppression forces from <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/long-secret-stingray-manuals-detail-how-police-can-spy-on-phones/">breaking laws at the spur of the moment</a>.


feed_id: 56a543a433af48fc58f63cb8bf1f4370
title: More strikes in northern Yemen
uri: More-strikes-in-northern-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28More_strikes_in_northern_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
A Salafi/US <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/12/bombed-potato-chip-factory-school-doctors-without-borders-facility-and-now-water">bombing attack in Yemen</a> killed workers drilling a well,
then came back a few minutes later to kill the people who were
giving first aid.
<p>
This "double-tap" tactic is used by many terrorist groups.


feed_id: 8861632b36765452b06f3eeb7e65d300
title: Corporations have more income than 180 countries
uri: Corporations-have-more-income-than-180-countries
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Corporations_have_more_income_than_180_countries%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/12/10-biggest-corporations-make-more-money-most-countries-world-combined-0">10 biggest corporations</a> have more income than 180 countries.


feed_id: 3e30fe2aa385db5e4c3e54a25b8eea3c
title: Sugar Industry paid research
uri: Sugar-Industry-paid-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Sugar_Industry_paid_research%29

content:
<p>
Influential research that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report">downplayed the role of sugar</a> in causing
heart disease was funded by the sugar industry, which also meddled in
the publication.


feed_id: 281e5f46d065672cf8ba12ec05dea925
title: Pharma Company gives half a million dollars
uri: Pharma-Company-gives-half-a-million-dollars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Pharma_Company_gives_half_a_million_dollars%29

content:
<p>
Insys Therapeutics gave half a million dollars to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/pharma-opioid-marijuana/">oppose legalization
of marijuana</a> in Arizona because it has a pharmaceutical product that
contains a chemical found also in marijuana.  It therefore may be a coincidence that the company also sells an opioid painkiller.
<p>
Which one do you think is more expensive, the marijuana-like artificial drug
or natural marijuana?


feed_id: 780d6010f3e55e3b18eecf970a1f7c2c
title: Trump plans to destroy public schools
uri: Trump-plans-to-destroy-public-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Trump_plans_to_destroy_public_schools%29

content:
<p>
Trump supports school vouchers as a way to partly subsidize private schools
for families that can <em>almost</em> afford them.  The money would
be <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/trumps-plan-to-destroy-pu_b_11972118.html">taken away from public schools</a>.


feed_id: d68586147379387e6ad160c55dd6cbaa
title: North Dakota Protesters lost court case
uri: North-Dakota-Protesters-lost-court-case
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28North_Dakota_Protesters_lost_court_case%29

content:
<p>
Protesters in North Dakota heard that they had lost their court case;
then, the same day, that various US government departments had
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/12/north-dakota-standing-rock-protests-civil-rights">reconsidered the pipeline's permit</a>.


feed_id: 91b824c1f7f45444f9eea36339c567a7
title: Pittsburgh water contamination
uri: Pittsburgh-water-contamination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Pittsburgh_water_contamination%29

content:
<p>
Pittsburgh water has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/12/pittsburgh-water-expensive-rust-colored-corrosive">contaminated with poisonous metals</a> for years, and Veolia is being sued for mismanaging the system.


feed_id: e403949905dc359fa3126e7a3a2309ca
title: EEG can steal your most private secrets
uri: EEG-can-steal-your-most-private-secrets
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28EEG_can_steal_your_most_private_secrets%29

content:
<p>
Don't agree to let anything authenticate you by your EEG, since the
system will also <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/eeg-identification-can-steal-your-most-private-secrets">find out a lot about you</a>.
<p>
The only way you can trust an EEG authentication system
is if you own it and it runs solely free software.


feed_id: 1247abc4e90d9837374c470c5b20d6c6
title: Paramount issue DMCA takedown notice
uri: Paramount-issue-DMCA-takedown-notice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Paramount_issue_DMCA_takedown_notice%29

content:
<p>
Paramount, the movie company, issued a <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/paramount-wipes-infringing-ubuntu-torrent-google-160909/">DMCA takedown notice</a> for a torrent containing Ubuntu GNU/Linux, claiming that it infringes the
copyright on a movie.
<p>
If I were sharing a Transformers movie, I'd be ashamed of myself, but
not as ashamed as Paramount should be for making it.  But the War on
Sharing is much worse.


feed_id: 99e861d22002e1e3aafd949ec3d98919
title: UK investigates Britons who join Kurds
uri: UK-investigates-Britons-who-join-Kurds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28UK_investigates_Britons_who_join_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
When Britons go to Syria to join the Kurds in fighting PISSI,
the UK government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/11/ex-soldier-isis-police-investigation-joe-robinson-syria">absurdly investigates</a> them for "terrorism".


feed_id: d30bc7f09f605ab5de00a3e5be378a76
title: BBC and global heating denial
uri: BBC-and-global-heating-denial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28BBC_and_global_heating_denial%29

content:
<p>
The BBC continues to treat <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/sep/12/bbc-climate-coverage-is-evolving-but-too-slowly">global heating denial</a> the respect it
doesn't deserve.


feed_id: 2062134b7a4f4bbf975aae1fd671c96e
title: Reported crop damage
uri: Reported-crop-damage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Reported_crop_damage%29
content:
<p>
Farmers that ignored Monsanto's request not to spray dicamba on a GMO crop
have caused <a href="http://www.alternet.org/food/10-states-report-crop-damage-illegal-herbicide-use-monsantos-gmo-seeds">lots of damage</a> to neighboring farms.


feed_id: 62da4f86e2c64f80feb6b4273256e745
title: Turkey coup arrests
uri: Turkey-coup-arrests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Turkey_coup_arrests%29
content:
<p>
Ahmet and Mehmet Altan, novelist and professor, have been arrested in Turkey
on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/11/turkey-coup-ahmet-altan-mehmet">absurd charges</a>.
<p>
They are accused of announcing the military coup with "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/11/brothers-critical-turkish-regime-arrested-after-tv-programme">subliminal messages</a>", which is comparable to accusing the weather of making a cloud which reminded someone of a human face.


feed_id: ffd92badd4144ea19be40daa785b8a30
title: Students arrested before protests
uri: Students-arrested-before-protests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Students_arrested_before_protests%29

content:
<p>
Brazilian thugs <a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazil-Police-Used-Infiltrators-to-Detain-Peaceful-Protestors-20160909-0003.html">arrested students</a> before protests.


feed_id: 6ca11cc7b15046320e1f8da2bfb4d700
title: Polluting effect of brakes and tires
uri: Polluting-effect-of-brakes-and-tires
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Polluting_effect_of_brakes_and_tires%29

content:
<p>
Truck brakes and tires release dangerous particulate air pollution,
and the amounts have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/11/polluting-effect-wear-brakes-tyres-pollutionwatch">increasing over the years</a>.


feed_id: abe4edc902fc3de3e31dc8868d693502
title: Globalization and business-supremacy
uri: Globalization-and-business-supremacy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Globalization_and_business-supremacy%29

content:
<p>
Trump is winning support from former Democrats in deindustrialized
communities hit badly by 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/09/what-workers-arent-hearing-democrats">business-dominated
globalization and business-supremacy treaties</a>.


feed_id: 4abae82031f04b5d6b766363ac6a0bc3
title: World Vision cancels activities in Gaza
uri: World-Vision-cancels-activities-in-Gaza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28World_Vision_cancels_activities_in_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
The charity World Vision has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/10/world-vision-halts-gaza-projects-and-cuts-jobs-amid-claims-funds-sent-to-hamas">cancelled
all its activities in Gaza</a>, apparently responding to accusations
that the funds were diverted to Hamas military groups.


feed_id: afce8b3f5d58418bfd1780dfa6139e4c
title: Urgent: Kratom
uri: Urgent-Kratom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Kratom%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/senate-kratom-dea">call
on the DEA</a> not to ban kratom.


feed_id: b9e5590c893b0c9ebd1495295fb9ef26
title: Urgent: Keep fossil fuels in the ground
uri: 2016-09-16-Urgent-Keep-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_fossil_fuels_in_the_ground%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.signforgood.com/keepitintheground/">call on
Obama</a> to keep fossil fuels on public lands in the ground.


feed_id: 365cbca89a46bc970663b3c70bc9f1d8
title: UK's chartered deportation flight
uri: UK-s-chartered-deportation-flight
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28UKs_chartered_deportation_flight%29

content:
<p>
The UK's chartered deportation flight to Jamaica was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/08/50-people-snatched-deported-jamaica-uk-immigration">cruel
and unjust on every dimension</a>.
<p>
Their families in the UK may never again see their dear, deported
relatives.  Some face a likelihood of death as a result of being sent
to a country where they don't know anyone and can't get the medicine
they need.
<p>
I am always sad when I see that a petition I would like to support is
hosted on change.org.  That site requires visitors to run nonfree
Javascript code in order to sign any petition.  I won't publish a
suggestion that people do this.  I wish the site maintainers would fix
that.
<p>
Alternatively, would someone who knows Javascript like to figure out
how the site works and write a free script or Web-extensions front end
for signing petitions on that site?
<p>
I wish I could sign the petition, but it is on a site that requires
nonfree Javascript code, so I will neither sign it nor suggest that
anyone else do so.


feed_id: 62eac48796a0d64d2aaa279908728c31
title: Trump's lies about charity
uri: Trump-s-lies-about-charity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Trumps_lies_about_charity%29
content:
<p>
Trump 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/8/1568194/-Multiple-Charities-Tell-WaPo-s-Fahrenthold-They-Didn-t-Receive-Donations-Trump-Fnd-Reported-To-IRS">repeatedly
lies</a> saying he gave money to charity which the charity did not
receive.


feed_id: 60fd3b9757620e5c8c26ff63673e1b7a
title: Doping of athletes without their knowledge
uri: Doping-of-athletes-without-their-knowledge
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Doping_of_athletes_without_their_knowledge%29

content:
<p>
An East German skater describes how she was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/09/i-didnt-know-i-was-being-doped-marie-katrin-kanitz">given
doping drugs without her knowledge, which later caused her to develop
psychosis.


feed_id: 242e8b7d89e82200030e7adccab71483
title: Trump praises suppression of protest
uri: Trump-praises-suppression-of-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Trump_praises_suppression_of_protest%29

content:
<p>
Trump praised the Chinese government's 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/09/why_donald_trump_loves_vladimir_putin.html">bloody
suppression of the protest for democracy in Tian An Men Square</a>,
and now associates closely with leading white supremacists in the US.
<p>
I think Trump was honest in what he said about China.  He doesn't
support democracy, or freedom and justice for all; on the contrary, he
thinks the strongest should control everyone else.


feed_id: f1c97a7341d66830d3f34e823a1c2b2b
title: US and Russia make deal to fight together
uri: US-and-Russia-make-deal-to-fight-together
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28US_and_Russia_make_deal_to_fight_together%29

content:
<p>
The US and Russia have made a deal to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/10/syria-ceasefire-deal-tentative-negotiate-kerry-lavrov-us-russia">fight
PISSI and former al-Nusra</a>, and push the other Syrian sides into a
cease fire.


feed_id: 2ca591a347d7129aff77c33ef2398acb
title: Prisoners go on strike
uri: Prisoners-go-on-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Prisoners_go_on_strike%29
content:
<p>
Prisoners across the US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/09/call-end-slavery-nationwide-prison-strike-kicks">went
on strike on Friday</a> against dangerous working conditions and
against wages as low as a few cents an hour.
<p>
I think it is legitimate to require prisoners to work to keep the
prison going, as long as the working conditions are not oppressive.
However, when they compete with free workers they should get a union
wage.
<p>
Otherwise, they are being used by plutocrats to drive everyone's wages
down.


feed_id: a6153c9305c5efd386a8cf1e2f7f57c9
title: Fatal injuries inflicted by US thugs
uri: Fatal-injuries-inflicted-by-US-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Fatal_injuries_inflicted_by_US_thugs%29

content:
<p>
The rate of serious or fatal injuries inflicted by US thugs has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/police-involved-injuries-civilian-harvard-study">increased
50% since 2001</a>.


feed_id: 623547f94d232a89adf6907068897341
title: The kratom plant
uri: The-kratom-plant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28The_kratom_plant%29
content:
<p>
The kratom plant provides a mild high, and can help heroin addicts
stop taking heroin.  Absurdly, the US government 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/09/kratom-ban-harmless-herb-heroin-users">proposes
to ban it, and ban research on it too</a>.


feed_id: 5c0225b0f88181571748c9eef4a37c7d
title: Facebook censorship
uri: 2016-09-16-Facebook-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Facebook_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Facebook 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/facebook-reinstates-napalm-girl-photo">made
an exception to its censorship rules</a> to permit distribution of the
photo of the Vietnamese girl burnt by US napalm.
<p>
This does not make it acceptable for Facebook to be in a position to
decide what news sites can publish.


feed_id: 0e0360a7b374fc079054a2dc878cc6bf
title: Trump keeps praising Putin
uri: Trump-keeps-praising-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Trump_keeps_praising_Putin%29
content:
<p>
As Trump keeps praising Putin, 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/09/from-russian-tv-network-little-love-for-donald-trump/">RT
presses Trump harder than the feckless US media</a>.
<p>
Maybe Putin doesn't love Trump.  For me, Trump's admiration of Putin
is despicable regardless of what Putin thinks of Trump.


feed_id: 6137d5310c87a789192e32e52329b081
title: Trump
uri: 2016-09-16-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Trump%29
content:
<p>
Trump has admitted he 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/09/donald-trump-pam-bondi-greg-abbott">expects
to get something in return for his investments in politicians'
campaigns</a>.


feed_id: 63c4523bc3f8988d3f18c9adfb94e6c9
title: 5-year prison sentence without charge
uri: 5-year-prison-sentence-without-charge
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%285-year_prison_sentence_without_charge%29

content:
<p>
Iran has sentenced Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/09/british-iranian-woman-jailed-five-years-in-iran-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe">5
years in prison</a>.  Maybe now it will announce charges against her.
<p>
This reminds me of the Fannish Inquisition, where the first thing is
the verdict (always "guilty"), followed by the charges.  Except that
the sentence came at the end (Eric Raymond was sentenced to fuck
himself to death with a computer, but given 50 years to do it).
<p>
Alas, in Iran it is no joke.


feed_id: e94653cc525a5cefa06b4b8a1db33510
title: Driver killed by thug at traffic stop
uri: Driver-killed-by-thug-at-traffic-stop
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Driver_killed_by_thug_at_traffic_stop%29

content:
<p>
A Mississippi thug has been indicted for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/ricky-ball-shooting-mississippi-jury-indicts-police-officer-canyon-boykin">killing
a black driver during a traffic stop</a>.  The thug said that the
driver pulled a gun, but since he had not turned on his body camera,
he has not been believed.  Especially since it seems the gun was
planted by other thugs.


feed_id: cb5fa5bde6024980fee70f30c91bc400
title: Israel trying to instigate Palestinian civil war
uri: Israel-trying-to-instigate-Palestinian-civil-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Israel_trying_to_instigate_Palestinian_civil_war%29

content:
<p>
Israel is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/08/israel-pushing-palestinian-civil-war">trying
to instigate a Palestinian civil war</a>.
<p>
I consulted with someone from the Israeli peace movement, who said
that the article is basically accurate but it is not clear whether
Lieberman can convince the army leadership to do what he wants.


feed_id: 5e80910f4e06f909beac941d71806fb3
title: Increased prices for healthful foods
uri: Increased-prices-for-healthful-foods
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Increased_prices_for_healthful_foods%29

content:
<p>
Institute for Development Studies and Oxfam say that increased prices
for healthful foods 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/09/global-food-crisis-cultural-shift-junk-food-researchers-oxfam-ids">from
2008 to 2012</a> pushed millions of parents around the world to work
long hours for cash, and buy fattening fast food for their children.


feed_id: 3c4e0ca4c81d2827ff434b47d17cdabf
title: Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia
uri: Sale-of-arms-to-Saudi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Sale_of_arms_to_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
Should we sell arms to Saudi Arabia 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/09/wolf-blitzer-is-worried-defense-contractors-will-lose-jobs-if-u-s-stops-arming-saudi-arabia/">just
to keep arms manufacturing jobs going</a>?  Some numbskulls think so.


feed_id: f412f68e3f2960929fb4f304a36239e4
title: Violence in South Sudan
uri: Violence-in-South-Sudan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#14_September_2016_%28Violence_in_South_Sudan%29
content:
<p>
Violence in South Sudan 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/09/violence-south-sudan-orchestrated-by-government-un-report-reveals">Orchestrated
by Government</a>, UN Report Reveals.


feed_id: 5e6a30a7fddd56e5488c7d2ec3f00309
title: Urgent: Investigate Trump for bribery
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Trump-for-bribery
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_Trump_for_bribery%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for an investigation of <a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/investigate-trump-bribery/">Trump for bribery</a>.


feed_id: 118f847729f9e9f4ac5fd2f6fe68bb3c
title: Urgent: call on Burger King to reject GMO apples
uri: Urgent-call-on-Burger-King-to-reject-GMO-apples
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_Burger_King_to_reject_GMO_apples%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Burger King to <a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2741">reject GMO apples</a>.


feed_id: 1e105856b63aea5f88e1017530c13a44
title: EU energy reduction target
uri: EU-energy-reduction-target
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28EU_energy_reduction_target%29
content:
<p>
The EU has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/06/eu-energy-reduction-target-six-years-early-greenhouse-gas-emissions">already met its 2020 target</a> for reduced fossil fuel use.
<p>
This shows that conservation efforts can be a success.  However, the
EU targets are not really ambitious -- even though they are better
than most of the rest of the world.


feed_id: 1439e8987a8af068d0419751f732f69b
title: Barbara Lee's Lone Vote
uri: Barbara-Lee-s-Lone-Vote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Barbara_Lee%27s_Lone_Vote%29
content:
<p>
Rep. Barbara Lee <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/11/barbara-lees-lone-vote-on-sept-14-2001-was-as-prescient-as-it-was-brave-and-heroic/">warned 15 years ago</a> that the Authorization to Use
Military Force was a "blank check to the president to attack anyone
involved in the Sept. 11 events -- anywhere, in any country, without
regard to our nation's long-term foreign policy, economic and national
security interests, and without time limit."
<p>
Her only error was to make the statement too narrow.  The words
"involved in the Sept. 11 events" need to be deleted.


feed_id: 488ee0d335e7beceebb48b5713ce7f85
title: Trump supporters agree with racist views
uri: Trump-supporters-agree-with-racist-views
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Trump_supporters_agree_with_racist_views%29

content:
<p>
Large fractions of Trump supporters agree with <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/is-hillary-clinton-right-about-trump-supporters-this-is-what-the-polling-data-says-2b37625a1df3?gi=85a351d0f45c">various racist views</a>,
in some cases almost 50%.


feed_id: 10b16d0385e98c2899bb733a82bc1b11
title: Racism towards Eastern European people
uri: Racism-towards-Eastern-European-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Racism_towards_Eastern_European_people%29

content:
<p>
The campaign to take the UK out of the European Union <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/11/i-dont-speak-my-native-language-in-public-eastern-europeans-on-post-referendum-life">stirred up racist hostility</a> towards people from Eastern Europe, and similar
forms of racism are increasing all across Europe.


feed_id: c58ecb0587ab1b8ea8f1bf872a9e0271
title: Brazil asked to respect protesters' rights
uri: Brazil-asked-to-respect-protesters-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Brazil_asked_to_respect_protesters%27_rights%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch calls on Brazil to respect protestersâ rights
and investigate the <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/09/07/brazil-guarantee-protesters-rights">attacks by thugs</a> on protesters.


feed_id: 98bc335207d6d81853b44aa527eaf6cd
title: Shocking truth about election rigging
uri: Shocking-truth-about-election-rigging
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Shocking_truth_about_election_rigging%29

content:
<p>
US elections are extremely vulnerable to rigging, through voting computers
and through dishonest (<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37486-the-shocking-truth-about-election-rigging-in-america
">and illegal</a>) practices.


feed_id: e4e298456b2db4c651002dcf280a6099
title: Violence against women
uri: 2016-09-16-Violence-against-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Violence_against_women%29
content:
<p>
Violence against women is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/06/violence-against-women-epidemic-female-equality">pervasive problem</a> that is constantly met with distraction responses.


feed_id: 6639c53fb59df53340203f8fce24265a
title: North Korea nuclear power
uri: North-Korea-nuclear-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28North_Korea_nuclear_power%29
content:
<p>
North Korea demands recognition as a "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/11/north-korea-demands-recognition-as-legitimate-nuclear-state-pyongyang">legitimate</a>" nuclear power.


feed_id: 09c106b5adf983e0ff3114b45426a5f8
title: CIA torture report
uri: CIA-torture-report
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28CIA_torture_report%29
content:
<p>
How the CIA attacked the Senate's report on CIA torture
and tried to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/11/cia-torture-report-aftermath-daniel-jones-senate-investigation">justify torture</a>.


feed_id: 2a229d52247e4872f9d4dac4d8e1b0e1
title: Global heating and air turbulence
uri: Global-heating-and-air-turbulence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Global_heating_and_air_turbulence%29

content:
<p>
Global heating has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/11/cost-bumpy-flights-air-turbulence-global-warming-united-airlines">increased the prevalence of clean air turbulence</a>
which can strike an airplane without warning and cause injuries.


feed_id: b57a9f32e23f0c887c57a4da826a9430
title: Federal regulation saves millions of lives
uri: Federal-regulation-saves-millions-of-lives
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Federal_regulation_saves_millions_of_lives%29

content:
<p>
The US regulation for automobile safety <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/10/federal-regulation-saves-millions-lives">forced car manufacturers to
make changes</a> that have prevented 3.5 million deaths and many millions
of injuries.
<p>
It was possible in the 1960s to adopt such a regulation because the US still
had a functioning democracy.  Under today's plutocracy, business does not
allow this.


feed_id: 55f00cf09d4c640c47ccc7fce2485e12
title: DNA data from patients
uri: DNA-data-from-patients
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28DNA_data_from_patients%29
content:
<p>
Use of DNA data from patients needs to be <a href="https://theconversation.com/why-you-should-worry-about-the-privatization-of-genetic-data-62591">better regulated</a>.


feed_id: 55f2b49b48982726711be66ba66b7454
title: Miners and the UK thugs
uri: Miners-and-the-UK-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Miners_and_the_UK_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Recently published papers, formerly secret, show that UK thugs conspired to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/10/orgreave-miners-strike-planned-police-attack-evidence-inquiry">attack a group of miners and frame them</a>, with support from ministers including Prime Minister Thatcher.


feed_id: acd35153c82abd8bf453ed6851ebc6be
title: Corruption in the Maldives
uri: Corruption-in-the-Maldives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Corruption_in_the_Maldives%29
content:
<p>
Al-Jazeera broadcast the documentary about corruption in 
the Maldives, and the tyrant responded by raiding a newspaper office.
The <a href="http://cl.s4.exct.net/?qs=7de1bb1f16763f241fd40519a580d4e5aa04b8066d8c80b3e54f442b885307d3">editor has fled abroad</a>.


feed_id: 9dcf23dca1ecd5eb128ca4a2892ce05b
title: Pharma opioid maker bankrolls opposition
uri: Pharma-opioid-maker-bankrolls-opposition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Pharma_opioid_maker_bankrolls_opposition%29

content:
<p>
A company that sells the opioid fentanyl is donating money to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/09/seriously-sinister-big-pharma-opioid-maker-bankrolls-opposition-pro-pot-referendum">oppose legalization of marijuana</a> in Arizona.  Apparently the company's executives believe that they will sell
more addictive opioids if they can deny people a safer option.


feed_id: 208de086f0dc5211993c32a30c1f9f39
title: Soil our best shot at cooling the planet
uri: Soil-our-best-shot-at-cooling-the-planet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Soil_our_best_shot_at_cooling_the_planet%29

content:
<p>
Humanity is depleting soil at a rapid rate: 1/3 of all arable land has
been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/arable-land-soil-food-security-shortage">ruined in 40 years</a>.
<p>
It is hard to believe we can avoid mass starvation in another 40 years.
Remember this if you ever think of having a child.
<p>
Perhaps <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/sep/10/soil-our-best-shot-at-cooling-the-planet-might-be-right-under-our-feet">regenerative farming</a> can repair this damage.


feed_id: 751a5a84e1acb9986666cf8d0dffcc3c
title: Blood Money laws
uri: Blood-Money-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Blood_Money_laws%29
content:
<p>
Samia Shahid's father and her ex-husband conspired to kill her;
the ex-husband did the deed, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/06/samia-shahid-father-alleged-hoped-to-use-blood-money-laws-to-get-away-with">expecting the father to "pardon" him</a>
on her behalf.


feed_id: c0354f6ba7ecb6a7b43177f414153202
title: Trump admires Putin
uri: Trump-admires-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Trump_admires_Putin%29
content:
<p>
Trump admires Putin because Trump <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/09/why_donald_trump_loves_vladimir_putin.html">admires all authoritarian rulers</a>.
Trump admires them for squashing whoever gets in their way,
and never mind things like human rights.
<p>
In other words, Trump is un-American and hates everything the US
stands for.


feed_id: 5a42063e4cbcb62161dc69f53f0ff21c
title: Chelsea Manning on hunger strike
uri: Chelsea-Manning-on-hunger-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Chelsea_Manning_on_hunger_strike%29

content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning has started a hunger strike to demand to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/chelsea-manning-hunger-strike-bullying-wikileaks">treated
as female</a>, and an end to harassment measures.


feed_id: 60bdd8fd289e914872a82a750827f982
title: Sanctions failed to stop North Korea
uri: Sanctions-failed-to-stop-North-Korea
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#13_September_2016_%28Sanctions_failed_to_stop_North_Korea%29

content:
<p>
Sanctions failed to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons,
but a <a href="http://www.globalzero.org/blog/north-koreas-latest-nuclear-test-proves-status-quo-isnt-working">world-wide rejection</a> of nuclear weapons might be worth trying.


feed_id: 96ca3b79a4446601ceaabd3cf1150396
title: Urgent: Reject Exxon sponsorship
uri: Urgent-Reject-Exxon-sponsorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Exxon_sponsorship%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.climatetruth.org/sign/AGU">call on the American
Geophysical Union</a> to reject sponsorship by Exxon.
<p>
On the correct pronunciation of
"<a href='https://www.stallman.org/articles/exxon.html'>Exxon</a>".


feed_id: c62e62bf19d732fcbe2ac3e1cca4de86
title: Urgent: Decent wage for employees
uri: Urgent-Decent-wage-for-employees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Decent_wage_for_employees%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/mcdonalds-and-walmart">call
on McDonalds and Walmart</a> to pay employees a decent wage.


feed_id: fa1e86c22660550ac3dfcc91dc31d63c
title: Urgent: Thank Kaepernick for protest
uri: Urgent-Thank-Kaepernick-for-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Thank_Kaepernick_for_protest%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/kaepernick">Thank
Kaepernick</a> for his protest.


feed_id: 874f0086ab2394ba3d5beeaa0cdacefe
title: Eliminating malaria
uri: Eliminating-malaria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Eliminating_malaria%29
content:
<p>
21 countries 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/09/malaria-sri-lanka-china-iran-malaysia-end-for-disease">stand
a good chance of eliminating malaria by 2020</a>.
<p>
To get the rest of the world would mainly take a sufficient lump sum
of money.


feed_id: 2c1adac4f9147d65f39a141712c5db6f
title: Voter suppression in Texas
uri: Voter-suppression-in-Texas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Voter_suppression_in_Texas%29
content:
<p>
"Texas is 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/doj-catches-texas-violating-the-court-order-against-its-voter-suppression-law-d0f750460c23">violating
a court order intended to prevent it from suppressing the vote</a>,
according to the U.S. Department of Justice."


feed_id: cdaf869d105c0ddc335dacffe200fe8f
title: UN Human Rights Chief urges action
uri: UN-Human-Rights-Chief-urges-action
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28UN_Human_Rights_Chief_urges_action%29

content:
<p>
UN Human Rights Chief Urges Action 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/06/un-human-rights-chief-urges-action-against-western-demagogues">Against
Western 'Demagogues'</a>.


feed_id: bb353ce7ae60c88b7ead6f1ed666118a
title: Mechanics of democracy under attack
uri: Mechanics-of-democracy-under-attack
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Mechanics_of_democracy_under_attack%29

content:
<p>
Between voter suppression and the possible rigging of voting machines,
and the design of the Democratic primaries to favor establishment
candidates such as Clinton, the mechanics of democracy are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/08/war-vs-democracy">under
attack</a>.


feed_id: d0905f5ac870d5372494480933efb78a
title: LitterGram
uri: LitterGram
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28LitterGram%29
content:
<p>
Facebook's Instagram division 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/instagram-lawyers-anti-litter-app-change-name-littergram-instagram">demands
that the activist campaign LitterGram change its name</a>.
<p>
I hope LitterGram stands firm long enough for public pressure to come
to its support.


feed_id: 9932ec26e4659a6740edec4f56c39c40
title: Mainstream coverage of pipeline protests
uri: Mainstream-coverage-of-pipeline-protests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Mainstream_coverage_of_pipeline_protests%29

content:
<p>
US TV network news has mentioned the pipeline protests just once:
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/08/48-words-4-am-all-network-news-has-say-about-pipeline-protests">less
than a minute, at 4am, and biased against the protesters</a>.
<p>
I don't have a TV set, but I sometimes go to places where people are
watching them.  I actively avoid watching mainstream TV news programs,
figuring that their purpose is only to poison our minds.


feed_id: 83b070d28b03db858e27bac47a362ac6
title: Nothing progressive about Clinton
uri: Nothing-progressive-about-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Nothing_progressive_about_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Clinton is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/08/hillary-clinton-trying-really-hard-repel-progressives">making
it very clear</a> that there is nothing progressive about her.
<p>
Some of us never expected anything different of her.  We should learn
to reject right-wing Democrats the way we reject Republicans.  You
can't build democracy and give people in general a good life if your
main goal contradicts that.


feed_id: 3d0bbcaba9f1bb8a3d87ece334e4f1b3
title: Thugs want to arrest Jill Stein
uri: Thugs-want-to-arrest-Jill-Stein
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Thugs_want_to_arrest_Jill_Stein%29

content:
<p>
North Dakota thugs want to arrest Jill Stein for spraying graffiti on
a bulldozer as part of a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/08/arrest-warrants-issued-jill-stein-says-campaign-proud-pipeline-protest">protest
against the new pipeline</a>.
<p>
No sign that they want to arrest the private security guards that
used dogs and pepper spray to attack protesters.  These "laws"
are just instruments for plutocracy.  Nothing here about democracy.


feed_id: 6220d9df06a06140452a949dd84fdd0e
title: BART paranoia
uri: BART-paranoia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28BART_paranoia%29
content:
<p>
The reason toilets in many BART stations are closed is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/bay-area-rapid-transit-bart-trash-urine-smell-elevator">paranoia
about terrorism</a>.
<p>
It may be true, to some small degree, that the toilets are a security
risk.  But there must be thousands of such small risks, and it is
folly to pay any real price to eliminate one of them.  Thus, while I
am glad BART has found a way to convince itself that it has made the
toilets "safe", it made a mistake shutting them at all.


feed_id: 5204678377f4c8321c2bb50a28926ab1
title: Author of article about "god's love"
uri: Author-of-article-about-god-s-love
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Author_of_article_about_gods_love%29

content:
<p>
Catholic Herald published an article about "god's love" and declined
to mention that the author was a high official 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/sep/09/catholic-herald-refuses-publish-torture-victims-article">responsible
for sending Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his wife to Libya for Qadhafi's men
to torture</a>.
<p>
Then it refused to publish an article by Belhaj that asks for the
author to understand and apologize.


feed_id: 859a183255cc25c73d736863b418d8a9
title: Global civilization
uri: Global-civilization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Global_civilization%29
content:
<p>
There is only one global civilization nowadays, and differences
between groups fall in the gaps between the many areas of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/09/isis-global-civilisation-google-yuval-noah-harari">near
universal agreement</a>.


feed_id: e067a351ae690e86c335aa55b33eb9a4
title: The tech business
uri: The-tech-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28The_tech_business%29
content:
<p>
"Increasingly the tech business is all about 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/09/iphone-7-shows-technology-part-of-fashion-industry">making
good products artificially redundant and mediocre ones seem
relevant</a>."


feed_id: a76ffff969d0d2d0e10bd0f873ebd648
title: Facebook censorship of news
uri: Facebook-censorship-of-news
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Facebook_censorship_of_news%29
content:
<p>
Facebook's power over journalism has morphed into 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-napalm-girl-photo-vietnam-war">censorship
of the news</a>.
<p>
The Prime Minister of Norway posted to criticize the censorship.
Facebook 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/facebook-deletes-norway-pms-post-napalm-girl-post-row">deleted
his post</a>.
<p>
It is dangerous for Facebook to have this much power.  Instead of
trying to compromise, we should take it away.
<p>
Instead of the proposed "link tax" that would serve no valid public
purpose, I suggest passing a law that would stop Facebook from
distributing journalistic works published elsewhere.  Perhaps this
could apply to companies that have over total of over 1 million user
accounts, or generally to all companies that run social networks.
These sites should be allowed only to make links to independent
original publication sites.
<p>
Another idea is to tax publication of each such article, with the tax
rate determined by the number of users the company has.  To republish
a few articles each day would not cost them much; to publish thousands
would be prohibitively expensive.


feed_id: 3d47fe48834f56dbd3320b9b2e266dff
title: Air pollution and human deaths
uri: Air-pollution-and-human-deaths
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Air_pollution_and_human_deaths%29

content:
<p>
Air pollution 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/08/making-case-clean-air-world-bank-says-pollution-cost-global-economy-5-trillion">causes
1/10 of all human deaths</a>.  The economic cost in lost work due to
illness is tremendous too.
<p>
The harm falls disproportionately on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/07/black-lives-matter-protesters-air-pollution-race-issue-london">poor
people and mistreated minorities</a>.


feed_id: 7cb83aae90958a0ed353a883b16f9b8b
title: UC outsourcing IT support to India
uri: UC-outsourcing-IT-support-to-India
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28UC_outsourcing_IT_support_to_India%29

content:
<p>
The University of California is outsourcing IT support to India and
wants the employees that will be fired to 
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/3117602/it-outsourcing/university-of-california-to-send-some-it-jobs-to-india.html">train
their own replacements</a>.
<p>
If they have courage they will quit before doing that.


feed_id: 0806a33dfab743388b9cb05f9f847010
title: Germany to pay for mass surveillance
uri: Germany-to-pay-for-mass-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Germany_to_pay_for_mass_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Germany
<a href="http://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-pour-cash-into-mass-surveillance/a-19537549">to
Pour Cash into Mass Surveillance</a>.


feed_id: 12e0d7291146c4c020b5b0c31bd8ca65
title: US tax code needs reform
uri: US-tax-code-needs-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28US_tax_code_needs_reform%29
content:
<p>
Elizabeth Warren: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/08/elizabeth-warren-apples-tax-shirking-schemes-show-congress-must-reform-us-code">Apple's
Tax-Shirking Schemes</a> Show Congress Must Reform US Code.


feed_id: a4f72c821941b72b4237948a82f5a31e
title: Apple
uri: 2016-09-16-Apple
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Apple%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/living-in-apples-future/499214/">How
Apple Sells its Controlling Ways as Futurism</a>.
<p>
Should we trust Apple?  No way!  I will not join the oppressive future
that Apple has in mind for us.


feed_id: 1ff1fdddfa300daff06d6e6a4c688d4c
title: Murder of Ferguson protest leader
uri: Murder-of-Ferguson-protest-leader
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Murder_of_Ferguson_protest_leader%29

content:
<p>
Ferguson protest leader Darren Seals was murdered, and the thugs were
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/08/ferguson-protest-leader-darren-seals-shot-dead-burning-car">visibly
careless about investigating the killing</a>.
<p>
I have a feeling that thugs had something to do with his death.


feed_id: 637ae4f6264676ecd7c158fc2b74402c
title: Destruction of Earth's wilderness
uri: Destruction-of-Earth-s-wilderness
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Destruction_of_Earths_wilderness%29

content:
<p>
Humans Have Destroyed 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/08/humans-have-destroyed-a-tenth-of-earths-wilderness-in-25-years-study">a
Tenth of Earth's Wilderness in 25 Years</a>.
<p>
Don't assume it will take another 225 years to destroy the rest.
It will tend to accelerate, as people get increasingly desperate.


feed_id: 9c4c22c340928e8ce7d1f05a178f7d92
title: Slaves on fishing boats around Hawaii
uri: Slaves-on-fishing-boats-around-Hawaii
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Slaves_on_fishing_boats_around_Hawaii%29

content:
<p>
The crews of fishing boats operating around Hawaii are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/08/premium-fish-hawaii-undocumented-workers-seafood">forbidden
to leave the boats</a>, as they have no US visas, so they are
effectively used as slaves.


feed_id: b0a256faf14ef34dffabbf8f93f0ee95
title: Trump's praise for Putin
uri: Trump-s-praise-for-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Trumps_praise_for_Putin%29
content:
<p>
Trump praised Putin as a 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37303057">"leader"</a>.
<p>
Putin is indeed a leader — an authoritarian leader who spits on
the rights of Russians that don't want to follow him.


feed_id: 6fcd8f9e44586a00947348ae5e473711
title: Trump's tax plan
uri: 2016-09-16-Trump-s-tax-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Trumps_tax_plan%29
content:
<p>
Trump plans to 
<a href="http://atfactionfund.azurewebsites.net/2016/08/17/the-five-worst-ideas-in-trumps-new-tax-plan/">reduce
taxes on rich people and businesses in five ways</a>.
<p>
Makes it pretty clear whose side he is on.


feed_id: 5fe7c879623c79ac83eb22c4dcf47740
title: Louisiana floods
uri: Louisiana-floods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Louisiana_floods%29
content:
<p>
Global heating made the record-breaking Louisiana floods 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/07/global-warming-likely-doubled-chances-historic-louisiana-rainfall-study-finds">between
40% and 100% more probable</a>.


feed_id: 7c222f8367ae8362d976db6250a57ed7
title: Teenage girls habitually retouch photos
uri: Teenage-girls-habitually-retouch-photos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Teenage_girls_habitually_retouch_photos%29

content:
<p>
Most teenage girls with smartphones habitually retouch their photos,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/08/thinner-retouching-girls-image-manipulation-women">presenting
a fictional beauty</a>.
<p>
The next step would be to avoid physically meeting anyone.


feed_id: db5d8e0ce060ed40dbfd7aa4b88f4ddc
title: Tories cutting funds for disabled people
uri: Tories-cutting-funds-for-disabled-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Tories_cutting_funds_for_disabled_people%29

content:
<p>
The Tories are cutting the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/08/rhiannon-carer-disabled-dad-benefits-slashed">funds
that enable disabled people to live</a>.


feed_id: 024423e1d5458e4807be0410e8ce9c6b
title: The TPP
uri: 2016-09-16-The-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28The_TPP%29
content:
<p>
The TPP 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/06/tpp-would-make-climate-goals-nearly-impossible-reach-report">would
make it essentially impossible to curb global heating</a> as called
for in the Paris agreement.


feed_id: b92154f3d9e616df52bbffc921a990b0
title: Veterans who sit with Kaepernick
uri: Veterans-who-sit-with-Kaepernick
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Veterans_who_sit_with_Kaepernick%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/colin-kaepernick-black-lives-matter-veterans-anthem/">Rory
Fanning</a> is one of many veterans who sit, not stand, with Colin
Kaepernick.


feed_id: 8104aaad75dac0f0c9272ec54d67147e
title: Greece "bail out"
uri: Greece-bail-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Greece_bail_out%29
content:
<p>
Greece has been 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/05/greece-faces-standoff-over-bailout-funds-after-athens-fails-to-impose-reforms">showing
signs of resistance</a> to the harsh conditions of the "bail-out" of
its creditors.


feed_id: b587bba8c9864300babef754f908d6ae
title: Discouraging support for PISSI
uri: Discouraging-support-for-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Discouraging_support_for_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
Google is trying a method of discouraging support for PISSI by leading
people who seem interested in its propaganda to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/07/google-program-to-deradicalize-jihadis-will-be-used-for-right-wing-american-extremists-next/">videos
made by witnesses to its oppression</a>.
<p>
Another article, paywalled alas, suggests that the program is
effective at attracting people's attention.


feed_id: 39e1b0c4ce43294f817c6f2161ea650f
title: UK's new snooper's charter
uri: UK-s-new-snooper-s-charter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28UKs_new_snoopers_charter%29
content:
<p>
The UK's new snooper's charter is being considered in the House of
Lords, and 
<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/tell-friend-uk-ip-bill-back/">nearly
all that was oppressive in it is still there</a>.


feed_id: bb082e74578fb8b5f930d0778dd08e41
title: Defeating pervasive snooping
uri: Defeating-pervasive-snooping
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Defeating_pervasive_snooping%29

content:
<p>
It 
<a href="http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2016/09/cory-doctorowthe-privacy-wars-are-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-worse/">might
take giant class-action lawsuits</a> to defeat pervasive snooping by
the Internet of Stings.


feed_id: 0d85f63aa8c590e311b0571f8b0f84b8
title: Tories cut funds for tax audits
uri: Tories-cut-funds-for-tax-audits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Tories_cut_funds_for_tax_audits%29

content:
<p>
The Tories have cut funds for tax audits, which enables rich people
and businesses to get away with more cheating.  They even 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/08/hmrc-thrall-big-business-tax-collection-labour">allow
businesses to write laws to tax them less</a>.  Can treason be clearer
than this?


feed_id: 9dbab3f07fa38bdaba9ac3c258816b3e
title: Condemnation of abuse against women
uri: Condemnation-of-abuse-against-women
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Condemnation_of_abuse_against_women%29

content:
<p>
Not All Men Commit Abuse against Women.  But 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/08/men-abuse-women-condemn-male-violence-masculine">All
Must Condemn It</a>.


feed_id: 759593e17ee01a8a3e6df951ba56604e
title: The US presidential debates
uri: The-US-presidential-debates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28The_US_presidential_debates%29
content:
<p>
The US presidential debates are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/06/jill-stein-blasts-two-party-cartel-controlling-presidential-debates">designed
by the two major parties to protect them and avoid serious
confrontation of ideas</a>.  Therefore they make sure not to admit
other candidates — but most Americans think they should admit
others.
<p>
The League of Women Voters used to run these debates, but after it
allowed a third-party candidate to participate, the two major parties
took the debates away from the League so that this could not happen
again.


feed_id: ed4cbef84f2fb47922c4ec7ef0562fef
title: Leading US advisers against new cold war
uri: Leading-US-advisers-against-new-cold-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Leading_US_advisers_against_new_cold_war%29

content:
<p>
Some leading US advisors are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/07/good-beginnning-end-empire">advising
against a new cold war with Russia</a>.
<p>
The reason we still see propaganda for making more US arms is, I
suspect, the power of the large companies that make the arms and that
want our money to go to them, rather than to more constructive
purposes (medical care, infrastructure, schools, public transit,
welfare, etc.).


feed_id: 3a3ea3f96741e3fbef4c4eece487e94f
title: Businesses with more rights than people
uri: Businesses-with-more-rights-than-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Businesses_with_more_rights_than_people%29

content:
<p>
A US court sustained Uber's practice of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/07/uber-drivers-class-action-lawsuit-us">barring
its drivers from class-action suits</a>.
<p>
This law gives businesses more rights than people.  It must be
reversed.


feed_id: 5e9493a8b3556ac3364bbd1bae9bdb0a
title: Planet roasters pay state attorneys general
uri: Planet-roasters-pay-state-attorneys-general
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Planet_roasters_pay_state_attorneys_general%29

content:
<p>
Republican state attorneys general 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/09/13136/RAGA-Clean-Power-Plan">sold
their time to planet roasters</a> for whom they are now attacking the
clean power plan.


feed_id: baa48ba10020bd79c98829ada4a19371
title: Climate mayhem
uri: 2016-09-16-Climate-mayhem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Climate_mayhem%29
content:
<p>
Amitav Ghosh warns that global heating will lead to the
"<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/08/amitav-ghosh-climate-change-is-like-death-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it'>politics
of the armed lifeboat</a>", with rich countries fighting to keep
millions from fleeing places where they can no longer live.
Meanwhile, the rich countries have their own vulnerability: they
depend on lots of technical systems to keep functioning, such as
electric power supply, and don't know how to function when those fail.
<p>
I've pointed out the vulnerability of globalized manufacturing: a war
or disaster in one area can disrupt the whole world's production of
some part that is needed for various products.  Climate mayhem is
already provoking wars, and disasters of the sort that used to be
called "natural", and this will tend to increase as the decades pass.


feed_id: a57b4d88cdeb99311ee8a6dc9c8ae34e
title: Prosecutions based on lies
uri: Prosecutions-based-on-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Prosecutions_based_on_lies%29
content:
<p>
People in Oakland demand that some Oakland thugs be prosecuted for two
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/07/oakland-police-officers-fired-sexual-misconduct-scandal">phony
"crimes"</a> after they had sex with a teenage prostitute.
<p>
I am against giving thugs any special privileges, but I oppose
prosecuting them (or anyone) based on lies.
<p>
It used to be that one dishonest law defined sex with someone under a
certain (varying) age as "rape", which it clearly isn't.  It is now
joined by another dishonest law that defines sex with a prostitute
under that age as "human trafficking", which it clearly isn't.  These
laws establish a state policy of proclaiming a falsehood as truth, and
punishing people based on the falsehood.  The lie is essential for
misleading the public into supporting these punishments.
<p>
When the law sets out to lie, it is worse than an ass.  It is a
man-eating tiger.


feed_id: 00497c080a2527a8504ae132f8ecce33
title: Fukushima reactor "ice wall"
uri: Fukushima-reactor-ice-wall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Fukushima_reactor_ice_wall%29
content:
<p>
Rain from a typhoon 
<a href="http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201609020020.html">melted
part of the "ice wall"</a> that is supposed to keep ground water out
of the ruined Fukushima reactors.
<p>
With somewhat more rain, the contaminated water would have come out to
the surface and run along the ground.  It appears that nothing can be
done to completely prevent water from flowing through the site and
becoming contaminated.


feed_id: 6a6699a6d9fa2c2adb073f1190280c61
title: Urgent: Regulate use of customer data
uri: Urgent-Regulate-use-of-customer-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Regulate_use_of_customer_data%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/petition-fcc-finalize-privacy-rules/">call
on the FCC</a> to finish regulating cable companies' use of data about
what customers watch.
<p>
The FCC won't go far enough, but it is still a step forward.


feed_id: 5a31535a9e7e8ede708184405e121952
title: Urgent: Stop violence against protesters
uri: Urgent-Stop-violence-against-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_violence_against_protesters%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-state-of-north">call
on North Dakota</a> to stop private violence against pipeline
protesters and investigate possible illegalities on the attackers'
part.


feed_id: 863ee38600a5f39baf07f751399861d2
title: Urgent: Investigate voter suppression
uri: 2016-09-16-Urgent-Investigate-voter-suppression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_voter_suppression%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/doj_votesuppression_dems/">call
on the Department of Justice</a> to investigate Trump's voter
intimidation campaign and other Republican voter suppression.


feed_id: ce64905a2164433c9b202a4aeb536a42
title: The attempt to eliminate cash
uri: The-attempt-to-eliminate-cash
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28The_attempt_to_eliminate_cash%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/09/06/cash-means-freedom-which-is-why-so-many">recent
trend among plutocrats</a> is the attempt to eliminate cash.
<p>
The rich can make large bank transfers anonymous by routing them
through shadow companies in tax havens.


feed_id: 48c7f8eb4a910c86653432d56bee3642
title: Moral idiocy
uri: Moral-idiocy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Moral_idiocy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/06/america-and-plague-moral-idiocy">Moral
idiocy</a> — the tendency to think that morality does not apply
to one's own actions — is found in many of those who have pushed
the US into war.


feed_id: a875744728f9c367536334a257d64a0d
title: Big pipelines want to merge
uri: Big-pipelines-want-to-merge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Big_pipelines_want_to_merge%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/06/enbridge-spreads-tentacles-acquire-spectra-creating-pipeline-enemy-1">Two
big US pipeline companies</a> want to merge.
<p>
It should never be permitted for two companies that are among the
largest 10 in any industry to merge.


feed_id: 28afd39d628146494d47175e72db9a51
title: UK rushing deportations
uri: UK-rushing-deportations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28UK_rushing_deportations%29
content:
<p>
The UK is rushing to deport people to Jamaica even though all their
families are in the UK, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/06/protest-jamaican-embassy-against-deportation-flight">before
their appeals are even heard</a>.


feed_id: 7d777442f7f5b53d817846b569c8133a
title: Constantly testing children in school
uri: Constantly-testing-children-in-school
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Constantly_testing_children_in_school%29

content:
<p>
The real purpose of constantly testing children in school may be to
provide an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/06/michael-rosen-justine-greening-testing-attainment-gap">excuse
to call teachers failures and privatize public schools</a>.


feed_id: 23ace0d41884c3630df7adf8ffbaf66b
title: Texas's Mexican heritage
uri: Texas-s-Mexican-heritage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Texass_Mexican_heritage%29
content:
<p>
Texas proposes a text to teach about Texas's Mexican heritage.  People
of Mexican background say it is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/07/mexican-heritage-textbook-texas-offensive-stereotypes">full
of insulting stereotypes</a>.


feed_id: 30d5fdd164c9b40d3904c9e96ec0b54c
title: Maldives tyrant lashes out
uri: Maldives-tyrant-lashes-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Maldives_tyrant_lashes_out%29
content:
<p>
The Maldives tyrant has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/07/maldives-newspaper-raided-after-corruption-claims-against-president">attacked
opposition leaders and a newspaper</a> using the expected al-Jazeera
documentary as a pretext.


feed_id: 63dcb334728742998149e4b72e74479c
title: iThing without headphone jack
uri: iThing-without-headphone-jack
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28iThing_without_headphone_jack%29

content:
<p>
As predicted, Apple's latest iPhone has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/07/apple-iphone-no-headphone-jack-second-generation-watch">no
headphone jack</a>.
<p>
This is directly nasty, since it means users need to get special,
expensive headphones.  It is also a preparation for possible future
DRM plans.
<p>
One reason you shouldn't buy this iThing is that Apple 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/07/dont-buy-new-iphone-apple-eu-taxes-controversy">dodges
US taxes by diverting its profits offshore</a>.
<p>
Of course, you'd be a fool to buy or use a product that runs only
nonfree software, and has 
<a href="http://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html">malicious
functionalities</a> such as censorship.


feed_id: df61e50761a1faed403d32b1b7697b95
title: Trump's hawkishness
uri: Trump-s-hawkishness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Trumps_hawkishness%29
content:
<p>
Trump now claims he 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/07/donald-trump-us-military-spending-sequester-isis">wants
to greatly increase US military spending and send the US Army to fight
PISSI</a>.
<p>
Clinton is hawkish too, but this is even more hawkish.


feed_id: 6c79c83b2d4192b21ef6fcadba5924b6
title: "Climate pledges" from heating denial funders
uri: Climate-pledges-from-heating-denial-funders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Climate_pledges_from_heating_denial_funders%29

content:
<p>
Large companies, including Google, have signed 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/companies-climate-action-climate-deniers-a554cd2b1729">"climate
pledges"</a> but give money to campaigns of global heating denialists.


feed_id: 61b3486e2e7f5fc1ef03c7344f6bf3b0
title: Wildlife conservation
uri: Wildlife-conservation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Wildlife_conservation%29
content:
<p>
We need to be concerned about protecting endangered species 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/07/pandas-endangered-geometric-tortoise-apes-bears">even
if they are not cute or closely related to humans</a>.
<p>
The most vital actions for wildlife conservation are (1) to cap global
heating and (2) to avoid increasing the human population.  Global
heating will wipe out most species that live only in a limited range,
because that range will no longer be suitable for them.


feed_id: 4e922b3bbfdd484449e3661c7f8169c2
title: Antibiotic resistance
uri: 2016-09-16-Antibiotic-resistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Antibiotic_resistance%29
content:
<p>
Resistance to the last resort antibiotic, 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/09/utis-are-about-get-lot-harder-treat">colistin</a>,
is developing in farms already.


feed_id: 2840c1cf3749fad401a541650380d6fc
title: The African National Congress
uri: The-African-National-Congress
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28The_African_National_Congress%29

content:
<p>
Young supporters of the African National Congress marched on its
headquarters
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/07/occupy-luthuli-house-south-africa-anc-turning-on-itself">demanding
that the whole leadership resign</a>.
<p>
The ANC after Mandela has been totally disappointing.


feed_id: 9e8ea2f20bb3f32c7586ebb3ee9d37d8
title: Public defenders stretched thin
uri: Public-defenders-stretched-thin
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Public_defenders_stretched_thin%29

content:
<p>
Public defenders in the US are stretched so thin that many non-rich
Americans charged with crimes get 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/07/public-defender-us-criminal-justice-system">no
advice except "plead guilty"</a>.


feed_id: 0151cfc3492e1cdd50410ae12428463a
title: Methane bubbling from melting permafrost
uri: Methane-bubbling-from-melting-permafrost
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Methane_bubbling_from_melting_permafrost%29

content:
<p>
Methane is 
<a href="http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/casestudy/news/n0681-now-the-proof-permafrost-bubbles-are-leaking-methane-200-times-above-the-norm/">bubbling
out of the ground</a> from melting permafrost in Belyy island.
<p>
It is unprecedented, but the danger is that it will become commonplace.
<p>
This is just part of how burning fossil fuels is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/07/oceans-heating-big-problem-blue-planet-iucn-report">causing
disaster</a>.


feed_id: 72b91adbf34b2dc78ea0486233376917
title: Air pollution and Alzheimer's disease
uri: Air-pollution-and-Alzheimer-s-disease
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Air_pollution_and_Alzheimers_disease%29

content:
<p>
Air pollution from combustion 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/05/toxic-air-pollution-particles-found-in-human-brains-links-alzheimers">may
be contributing to Alzheimer's disease</a>.


feed_id: 1bf60ecb985feb186254c2d672e12211
title: A step towards return to lynching
uri: A-step-towards-return-to-lynching
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28A_step_towards_return_to_lynching%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/06/brock-turner-stanford-sexual-assault-case-ohio-armed-protest">Protesters
carrying rifles</a> appeared outside the home of Brock Turner in Ohio.
<p>
I find armed protests to be frightening.  This group says it wasn't
threatening to kill Turner, but it is a step towards return to
lynching.
<p>
The idea of shooting a rapist in the act is absurd, since that would
never be necessary.  For instance, anyone who was present at the scene
and determined to intervene could have made Turner stop without any
weapons. Just to confront an angry person, he would have found it
necessary to stand up.
<p>
Turner's punishment will continue for years, or perhaps the rest of
his life, since he has been put on the sex offender list.
That's another political issue.


feed_id: d989af03704dcdf5cd34b9d023ff9626
title: Irish thugs blame victim
uri: Irish-thugs-blame-victim
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Irish_thugs_blame_victim%29
content:
<p>
After an organized gang of Irish teenagers beat up a gay man, the
Irish thugs 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/06/victim-of-homophobic-attack-in-dublin-reports-the-garda-to-police-watchdog">tried
to put the blame on him</a>.


feed_id: 07fe608931b07906670bd8836be8876c
title: Humpback whale populations
uri: Humpback-whale-populations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_%28Humpback_whale_populations%29
content:
<p>
Most humpback whale populations 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/06/humpback-whales-endangered-species-list">will
be taken off the endangered species list</a>, as they have grown
considerably since the ban on whaling 50 years ago.
<p>
In this case, it may be safe to delist them, since whaling remains banned.
However, when wolves were delisted because their numbers in the US had grown,
that was the signal for several states to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_May_2014_(US_wolf_populations)">encourage
hunters to kill them</a>.  This is likely to drive wolf numbers down
to the point that they will need protection again.
<p>
To prevent that, there needs to be an intermediate level of partial
protection.


feed_id: 9eb26022e93a02fe8fc46c2e04db6d5b
title: Secret donors secret agendas
uri: Secret-donors-secret-agendas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Secret_donors_secret_agendas%29

content:
<p>
Scott Walker's fundraiser directed campaign donations from
embarrassing sources to an "independent" PAC.  This seems to
be <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/09/13140/secret-donors-secret-agendas-guardian-pulls-back-curtain-walker-john-doe">illegal</a>.


feed_id: d4c1f95e7ffc93b82ed3570c692dd3f5
title: Farm workers overtime pay
uri: Farm-workers-overtime-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Farm_workers_overtime_pay%29
content:
<p>
California has given farm workers the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/sep/14/california-overtime-farm-workers-union">right to overtime pay</a>.


feed_id: 958cb97411290acdab16be6c2f527021
title: Ex-president Lula faces corruption charges
uri: Ex-president-Lula-faces-corruption-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Ex-president_Lula_faces_corruption_charges%29

content:
<p>
Ex-president Lula faces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/14/brazil-petrobras-oil-kickback-scandal-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva">corruption charges</a>.  The judge seems to be honest and nonpartisan.


feed_id: 01c16c074874d3dce65e9d0f818763a4
title: Urgent: Protect CFPB and Dodd-Frank law
uri: Urgent-Protect-CFPB-and-Dodd-Frank-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_CFPB_and_Dodd-Frank_law%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to protect the <a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/stop-wall-street-attack-cfpb/?source=rootstrikers&t=1001&akid=4598.96703.ueSU6m">CFPB and Dodd-Frank law</a> from the Republican attack.


feed_id: 4b21c4d9ac8278ce38472813c5ee2df6
title: Humanity and Marine Extinction
uri: Humanity-and-Marine-Extinction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Humanity_and_Marine_Extinction%29

content:
<p>
Our extermination of large marine animals will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/14/humanity-driving-unprecedented-marine-extinction">disrupt ecosystems for millions of years.


feed_id: 216348db959860ec8490703cdded0624
title: Leaked documents, corporate cash and politics
uri: Leaked-documents-corporate-cash-and-politics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Leaked_documents%2C_corporate_cash_and_politics%29

content:
<p>
Wisconsin Supreme Court judge Prosser voted to kill a state investigation
into <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/14/corporate-cash-john-doe-files-scott-walker-wisconsin">suspected illegalities</a> in his own re-election campaign's fund raising.
<p>
Some of the money came from Trump.  That may not have been illegal,
but it should show Americans where Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/14/john-doe-files-scott-walker-wisconsin">stands on democracy</a>.
(He's against it.)


feed_id: 46a67041eb8f1d463e471ec543385dd4
title: Marijuana Prohibition Winds Down
uri: Marijuana-Prohibition-Winds-Down
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Marijuana_Prohibition_Winds_Down%29

content:
<p>
Maybe the DEA wants to ban kratom so as to have something to do
when <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/09/13/as-marijuana-prohibition-winds-down">marijuana is legalized</a>.


feed_id: 9caf7c0db8eb8d88178c913d06419029
title: Thug who didn't shoot black man is fired
uri: Thug-who-didn-t-shoot-black-man-is-fired
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Thug_who_didn%27t_shoot_black_man_is_fired%29

content:
<p>
Some cities give medals to cops (perhaps they qualify as police
officers) that de-escalate confrontations to a peaceful end, but one
thug department in West Virginia fired an employee <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/13/cop-who-didnt-shoot-black-man-fired-for">for not killing a
man</a> who was carrying an unloaded weapon.


feed_id: c0b9e83c05f5178e699e3b7cb841d27a
title: HUD Guidance on Nuisance Ordinances
uri: HUD-Guidance-on-Nuisance-Ordinances
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28HUD_Guidance_on_Nuisance_Ordinances%29

content:
<p>
Housing and Urban Development took a step to get <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/13/aclu-statement-hud-guidance-nuisance-ordinances">rid of the local laws</a> that evict people for calling 911.


feed_id: 8dbd8767d507d02204190d274d32c52b
title: 30 million without medical insurance
uri: 30-million-without-medical-insurance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%2830_million_without_medical_insurance%29

content:
<p>
Obama's medical insurance law reduced the number of Americans without
medical coverage by 40%, but that still leaves almost <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/13/stronger-rx-obamacare-needed-cover-everyone-and-control-costs-physician-leader">30 million
people without coverage</a>.  Meanwhile, many who do have medical insurance
have to pay unaffordable amounts from their own pockets.
<p>
We need a national health service, like what Canada has.  Nearly all
advanced countries have one.


feed_id: 89f9da37aa76f6389409ec2dbb3daa19
title: Donald Trumpâs Not Anti-War
uri: Donald-Trumpâ-s-Not-Anti-War
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Donald_Trump%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99s_Not_Anti-War%29

content:
<p>
Donald Trumpâs Not Anti-War, He Just Wants the U.S. Military to Focus
on <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/14/donald-trumps-not-anti-war-just-wants-u-s-military-focus-stealing-oil/">Stealing Oil</a>.


feed_id: 8e3cc4aae30adc9c04b18749c88e3c2e
title: Monsanto wants to merge with Bayer
uri: Monsanto-wants-to-merge-with-Bayer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Monsanto_wants_to_merge_with_Bayer%29

content:
<p>
Monsanto wants to merge with Bayer, but this concentration in the seed
and pesticide business must not be allowed, and it would <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/14/corporate-watchdog-raises-alarm-about-proposed-bayer-monsanto-merger-monsanto">violate US
antitrust law</a>.


feed_id: 87f602b3ef3b9fb0778be7d227f82847
title: Corporate Tax deserters
uri: Corporate-Tax-deserters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Corporate_Tax_deserters%29
content:
<p>
US-based companies that leave cash parked outside the US should lose
all the legal advantages of being "<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/14/why-corporate-tax-deserters-shouldnt-get-beneftis-being-american-corporations">US companies</a>".
<p>
I disagree with Reich when he legitimizes contributions from corporations to
political campaigns.  Even the companies that <em>don't</em> dodge taxes should
not be allowed to get in the way of democracy.


feed_id: ac5be932725ef2e72fe1b99557a39eda
title: Frightened Americans
uri: Frightened-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Frightened_Americans%29
content:
<p>
15 years of fear-mongering have made Americans so frightened that they
assumed the man giving away teddy bears must have a <a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/man-handing-out-teddy-bears-terrifies-town/">vicious intention</a>.
<p>


feed_id: e4075f1ed6722d32bc097affbada1575
title: Afghanistan Corruption
uri: Afghanistan-Corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Afghanistan_Corruption%29
content:
<p>
US aid funds, distributed in Afghanistan without much accounting,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/14/afghanistan-corruption-us-military-taliban-security">boosted corruption there</a>.  Corruption was their tradition already, but the US gave them a lot more money to be corrupt with.


feed_id: bd224e471ba1925243dc56d32705130d
title: How sugar companies distorted medicine
uri: How-sugar-companies-distorted-medicine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28How_sugar_companies_distorted_medicine%29

content:
<p>
More about how sugar companies <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/09/your-sweet-tooth-might-just-wreck-your-heart">distorted medicine in the 1960s</a> and continue trying to distort it now.


feed_id: e91e9475225d550aaa83c1bbd19413db
title: Governemnts crack anyone's computers
uri: Governemnts-crack-anyone-s-computers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Governemnts_crack_anyone%27s_computers%29

content:
<p>
Governments now regularly crack anyone's computers to <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/cant-let-governments-hack-away-human-rights/">spy on them</a>,
and they are rapidly discarding all effective legal restraint.
<p>
Please don't call security-breaking "hacking"; that is an insult to us
hackers.  Please call it "cracking".
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">Articles on Hacking</a>


feed_id: bafc38f131f8056e1080968856bbef00
title: Five Deadly Sins of Big Pharma
uri: Five-Deadly-Sins-of-Big-Pharma
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Five_Deadly_Sins_of_Big_Pharma%29

content:
<p>
Five <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/12/five-deadly-sins-big-pharma">Deadly Sins</a> of Big Pharma.


feed_id: ac39280859537bbac1d76b336e60e668
title: Trump and Iraq War
uri: Trump-and-Iraq-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Trump_and_Iraq_War%29
content:
<p>
Donald Trump, After Blasting Iraq War,
Picks Top Iraq Hawk as <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/donald-trump-after-blasting-iraq-war-picks-top-iraq-hawk-as-security-adviser/">Security Adviser</a>.
<p>
Here's what it suggests to me: Trump wants to say one thing out loud
to the public and another thing quietly to the military-industrial complex.


feed_id: 6f8324bec0a9947deca570e62686d69c
title: Facebook consulting with Israel
uri: Facebook-consulting-with-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Facebook_consulting_with_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Facebook is consulting with Israel about <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/facebook-is-collaborating-with-the-israeli-government-to-determine-what-should-be-censored/">censorship of Palestinians</a>.
<p>
The lines are drawn in different places for Israelis and Arabs.


feed_id: 0abdd1c7ee7b099d67079e2f105c4109
title: Charges against Oakland thugs
uri: Charges-against-Oakland-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Charges_against_Oakland_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Here is a <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/bay-area-police-sex-scandal-update">summary of charges</a> against Oakland thugs from their involvement
with non-adult prostitute Celeste Guap.
<p>
The first two -- sex with a minor and engaging in prostitution -- should
not be crimes at all.  "Lewd act in public" should at most be a minor crime.
The others should be crimes.


feed_id: e2754c12b7337990caa0b3cf8d3c0c04
title: Urgent: W3C
uri: Urgent-W3C
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_W3C%29
content:
<p>
Join Demonstrations
against <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/world_wide_web_consortium_being_followed_protests">DRM
    in W3C standards</a>.


feed_id: a34fe2e3e03334029f41690a90736f13
title: Urgent: Protect CFPB and Dodd-Frank law
uri: 2016-09-16-Urgent-Protect-CFPB-and-Dodd-Frank-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_CFPB_and_Dodd-Frank_law%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to protect the <a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/stop-wall-street-attack-cfpb/">CFPB and Dodd-Frank law</a> from the Republican attack.


feed_id: fe78a2e96e9f2918c87126410c758648
title: Greater Good vs Lesser Evil
uri: Greater-Good-vs-Lesser-Evil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Greater_Good_vs_Lesser_Evil%29
content:
<p>
Greater Good Versus Lesser Evil: don't make the mistake of
<a href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/voteGood.html">voting
for an evil candidate</a>.


feed_id: 01691397c01795de54244979ae69212b
title: Thugs in schools
uri: 2016-09-17-Thugs-in-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Thugs_in_schools%29
content:
<p>
In the two year period 2011-2012, thugs in schools made
<a href="http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_233.27.asp">64000
arrests</a>.
<p>
From 2013 through 2015, 
<a href="http://data.huffingtonpost.com/2016/school-police/mississippi">59
people were shot in schools and 124 were injured by shooting in
schools</a>.
<p>
Even though they are not the same periods, it is clear that having a
thug in your child's school is hundreds of times as likely to ruin the
child's life as to protect it.


feed_id: c6367d691fe08939a32f2eb41da2a388
title: Chelsea Manning
uri: 2016-09-17-Chelsea-Manning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Chelsea_Manning%29
content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/14/chelsea-manning-ends-hunger-strike-after-winning-battle-for-gender-transition-surgery">gained
her demands for gender-change treatment</a> and ended her hunger
strike.


feed_id: 78299e677a0092c95ae519c9cd606f0d
title: Republican Party and Big Oil
uri: Republican-Party-and-Big-Oil
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Republican_Party_and_Big_Oil%29

content:
<p>
Trump and the Republican Party Are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/sep/14/trump-and-the-republican-party-are-doing-big-oils-bidding">Doing
Big Oil's Bidding</a>.


feed_id: 2f99b67c32e8efd1752fecbf2dbef753
title: e-cigarettes
uri: e-cigarettes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28e-cigarettes%29
content:
<p>
Why it is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2016/sep/14/why-cant-scientists-agree-on-e-cigarettes-vaping">difficult
and takes time</a> to determine whether e-cigarettes are helpful or
harmful.


feed_id: 0cbf750dbd46b8d707a494a939f22f2d
title: Consumerism and extinction
uri: Consumerism-and-extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Consumerism_and_extinction%29
content:
<p>
"Extinction is the 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/14/extinction-let-others-kill-albatross-gorilla-whale-shark-conumerism'>bycatch
of consumerism</a>."
<p>
If you refuse to have children, you will do some good.


feed_id: fe3c423054182b049574005f0efb3ce7
title: Toxic chemicals in household dust
uri: Toxic-chemicals-in-household-dust
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Toxic_chemicals_in_household_dust%29

content:
<p>
Household dust contains 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/14/toxic-chemicals-household-dust-health-cancer-infertility">many
chemicals known to be toxic to humans</a>.
<p>
If it is in our products, it will get into the dust.


feed_id: a972fbbe54473f581cd6764e267d4e79
title: Pentagon preparing for global heating
uri: Pentagon-preparing-for-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Pentagon_preparing_for_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
The Pentagon has decided to consider future global heating effects 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/14/military-experts-climate-change-significant-security-risk">in
every aspect of its operations</a>.
<p>
Why don't the rest of us?


feed_id: 017dbea16d72e8ad8872e94810975b32
title: Loss of jobs to computers
uri: Loss-of-jobs-to-computers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Loss_of_jobs_to_computers%29
content:
<p>
A study predicts computers will replace 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/13/artificial-intelligence-robots-threat-jobs-forrester-report">6%
of existing US jobs in just 5 years</a>.  Even if it overestimates by
2, losing just 3% of jobs would be a disaster already.
<p>
The US has no plan for how to help the millions of newly unemployed.
As increasing numbers of people compete for fewer jobs, 
plutocratist politicians will surely blame those who lose
for not being superior enough to win.   Some will try to
organize whites to gang up to deny blacks a chance in these contests;
but that tactic, besides being unjust, won't suffice for long.
By 2030 there won't be enough jobs even for the whites.
<p>
Here's an idea: tax the use of automated drivers, customer service,
and other things, and use that money to give the unemployed a decent
life.


feed_id: 950f1ba8e8a14f12e01df50f470fb202
title: Power of international corporations
uri: Power-of-international-corporations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Power_of_international_corporations%29

content:
<p>
The UN Human Rights Council is sponsoring negotiations for an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/13/corporations-running-world-used-be-science-fiction-now-its-reality">international
treaty to restrain the power</a> of international corporations.


feed_id: c941c72a1e73a2ba33c3151c3828d454
title: Young Americans want protection
uri: Young-Americans-want-protection
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Young_Americans_want_protection%29

content:
<p>
Young Americans continue their lawsuit to require the US government to
protect them (and everyone else) 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/13/its-time-we-were-heard-another-day-court-climate-kids">from
the disasters that global heating will increasingly cause</a>.


feed_id: 06fe9c26a53254874049a861016759e0
title: Very urgent: SJ Res 39
uri: Very-urgent-SJ-Res-39
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_SJ_Res_39%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators at (202) 224-3121 to support 
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/senate-oppose-saudi-arms-deal">SJ
Res 39</a>, which is the resolution to disapprove the proposed giant
arms sale to Salafi Arabia.
<p>
This arms sale is meant to continue the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#11_August_2016_(Saudi_Arabia_115billion_military_equipment_from_US)">US-Salafi
bombardment of Yemen</a>.


feed_id: 19fbb45e4cd6ceda4c6c5aaa5bb145ff
title: Sea-level rise
uri: 2016-09-18-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Sea-level_rise%29
content:
<p>
The population of the Marshall Islands are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/15/marshall-islands-climate-change-springdale-arkansas">fleeing,
a few at a time, to the US</a>.  It is clear the islands are doomed by
sea-level rise.  They would all be wise to by the end of the agreement
in 2023, except for those who are likely to die anyway before the
islands are uninhabitable, which will take just a few decades.


feed_id: 0d5518fb5490b774bb05815651f05ef8
title: UK to build new nuclear power plant
uri: UK-to-build-new-nuclear-power-plant
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28UK_to_build_new_nuclear_power_plant%29

content:
<p>
The UK decided to build the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/15/absurd-hinkley-point-c-cheaper-cleaner">absurdly
expensive</a> Hinkley Point nuclear power plant, which will produce
the most expensive electricity available and dangerous nuclear wastes
besides.
<p>
The tremendous expense will hold back investment in renewable
generation and power storage.


feed_id: 1ff680f463bc3b57eade722693b300b6
title: Urgent: Democracy
uri: Urgent-Democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Democracy%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/comcau/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1790">call
on debate moderator Lester Holt</a> to focus on making democracy
represent everyone.


feed_id: ea7af14ba71175d6882b314ef0e139f2
title: Being disabled in London
uri: Being-disabled-in-London
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Being_disabled_in_London%29
content:
<p>
Junior Sterling, who needs a wheelchair, is housed in London in an
infested apartment with moldy walls.  The shower is turned off, and
the kitchen can't be used.  It is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/15/london-paralympics-games-maker-legacy-living-conditions-disabled-person-homeless">not
easy for him to get down stairs to go anywhere</a>.


feed_id: c2f3d15f20d516362c2a6b73f281b10b
title: Militia member testifies against Duterte
uri: Militia-member-testifies-against-Duterte
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Militia_member_testifies_against_Duterte%29

content:
<p>
A Philippine militia member testified that Duterte
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/15/philippines-president-drug-dealers-rodrigo-duterte-extrajudicial-killings-crocodile">ordered
him and his colleagues to carry out murder</a>.  They killed a
thousand people.


feed_id: a4150cf9d517c2a2c44bc4db72f07aa7
title: Guantanamo prisoners
uri: 2016-09-18-Guantanamo-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Guantanamo_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
In the past 8 years,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/15/guantanamo-ex-prisoners-continue-to-turn-up-on-battlefield-says-us">just
9 prisoners</a> released from Guantanamo have joined groups that fight
the US.
<p>
How many others joined those same groups because they were angry about
Guantanamo?  Surely more than 9000.
<p>
We should release all the prisoners in Guantanamo, or in a few cases
give them a fair trial.


feed_id: 9ce913b539b009f78eef7c6c81c64bdd
title: Total surveillance
uri: 2016-09-18-Total-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Total_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The staff at one Finnish company set up a sensor and computer system
to indicate vacant toilet stalls and to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2016/sep/15/in-offices-of-the-future-sensors-may-track-your-every-move-even-in-the-bathroom">see
where in the office their friends are working</a>.
<p>
When the staff decide to do this, it is a good hack; but you know
it won't take long for employers or insurance companies to impose
total surveillance.


feed_id: 9cb5d02164d9fcac5f81aa5faef02fa6
title: Water shortages
uri: 2016-09-18-Water-shortages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Water_shortages%29
content:
<p>
Doñana national park in Spain has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/15/spain-could-be-first-eu-country-with-national-park-listed-as-in-danger">lost
most of its water supply to human activities</a>, and the wildlife
there are in danger.
<p>
India hasn't enough water for all the human activity, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/15/india-angry-clashes-karnataka-water-wars-run-deep-tamil-nadu">riots
are breaking out</a> about a decision of how to divide it up.
<p>
In Spain, the problem is due to business, but the amount of
agriculture in the world today is a problem because of human
population.  With only one billion people, we would have no problem.
<p>
In India, the problem is directly related to overpopulation.  India
must curb its population growth to have a chance of lifting its people
out of poverty.


feed_id: 6d37a2896306968c74b96b74efe85585
title: Climate models
uri: 2016-09-18-Climate-models
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Climate_models%29
content:
<p>
Climate models now permit scientists to quickly determine
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/sep/15/was-that-climate-change-scientists-are-getting-faster-at-linking-extreme-weather-to-warming">how
much global heating contributed to any particular weather event</a>,
including unnatural disasters.


feed_id: 6d230dd7f6f4896eda1c04b0f78e56d4
title: Urgent: Remove deforestation from beef
uri: Urgent-Remove-deforestation-from-beef
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_deforestation_from_beef%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5408">Call
on several large companies to remove deforestation from their beef.


feed_id: 9dec055bec589cf545de7706eb939893
title: Urgent: Reject anti-science riders
uri: Urgent-Reject-anti-science-riders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_anti-science_riders%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5400">urge
your congresscritter</a> to reject anti-science riders in the budget
bill.


feed_id: 7dc051788fd02d6acb96e0185fd40be8
title: Ethiopian Olympic runner has asylum
uri: Ethiopian-Olympic-runner-has-asylum
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Ethiopian_Olympic_runner_has_asylum%29

content:
<p>
Feyisa Lilesa, Ethiopian Olympic runner,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/14/feyisa-lilesa-being-an-athlete-allowed-me-to-be-the-voice-of-my-people">made
a gesture of support for the Oromo people</a> when he raced.  Now he
has asylum in the US, as he would be persecuted if he returned there.
<p>
Many Americans respond to Colin Kaepernick's protest by trying to make
the US more like Ethiopia.
<p>
The Oromo are running into the combination of ethnic hostility and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#04_August_2015_(Obama_visits_Ethiopia)">state-supported
corporate landgrab</a>.


feed_id: 4c19e48fc966bee268bd96774951ed50
title: Urgent: Robust tax on financial transactions
uri: Urgent-Robust-tax-on-financial-transactions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Robust_tax_on_financial_transactions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/defazio_ftt">call on
Congress</a> to pass a robust tax on financial transactions.


feed_id: 3df5464c59eb04903fa334c02a367494
title: Nuclear weapons
uri: 2016-09-18-Nuclear-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#17_September_2016_%28Nuclear_weapons%29
content:
<p>
While Trump makes rash threats of nuclear war, Clinton
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/13/no-one-asking-clinton-or-trump-about-no-1-threat-security">avoids
the issue of how to deal with nuclear weapons</a>.
<p>
I disagree with the idea that nuclear weapons are the number one
threat to security.  The number one threat is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#12_September_2016_(Climate_mayhem)">global
heating</a>.  Nuclear weapons may be number 2.


feed_id: 269c387728036c0a506014e65fa6bcf3
title: Hidden sound patterns
uri: Hidden-sound-patterns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#20_September_2016_%28Hidden_sound_patterns%29
content:
<p>
Specific everyday words are correlated, in the world's languages, with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/16/universal-language-sound-associations-meaning-linguistics">specific sounds</a>.


feed_id: 3785aff6d87cf43faf45860828ee819a
title: Medical Marijuana
uri: Medical-Marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#20_September_2016_%28Medical_Marijuana%29
content:
<p>
Colombia has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/colombia-cannabis-growers-legalisation">legalized</a> medical marijuana.


feed_id: 5dd7004090c159925606b44d48ca9184
title: Accidental bombing of Assad's troops
uri: Accidental-bombing-of-Assad-s-troops
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Accidental_bombing_of_Assads_troops%29

content:
<p>
US planes 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/17/russia-says-us-led-airstrikes-hit-syrian-troops-killing-62-and-wounding-dozens">bombed
some of Assad's troops</a>.  The US says this was a mistake; Russia
says it was intentional, but that claim is absurd.
<p>
The claim is absurd because hitting Assad's troops in that one place
doesn't serve any US interests.  Putin is pushing another nutty
conspiracy theory, hoping to be believed by people who will believe
any accusation as long as it's against the US.


feed_id: 348af475180ab10e9d0c689e36aa28c7
title: Resources used by dogs and cats
uri: Resources-used-by-dogs-and-cats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Resources_used_by_dogs_and_cats%29

content:
<p>
A dog or cat in a wealthy country 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/nov/13/ethical-living-carbon-emissions">uses
a lot of resources</a>.
<p>
Of course, having a pet is less long-term ecological burden than
making another 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">human being</a>.
But why not have a parakeet or cockatiel?  They are delightful and
sweet, eat only plants, and not a large quantity of those.


feed_id: 93af30a35b4c7ec72e743a97f9f8dc3f
title: No medical care for sick refugee on Nauru
uri: No-medical-care-for-sick-refugee-on-Nauru
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28No_medical_care_for_sick_refugee_on_Nauru%29

content:
<p>
A refugee imprisoned on Nauru by Australia has severe heat disease and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/18/nauru-refugee-denied-emergency-evacuation-after-suspected-heart-attack">needs
medical care he cannot get in Nauru</a>.  Australia decided to make
him stay on Nauru.


feed_id: d8183feba2e97e811ec599074732cf90
title: Risk of oil extraction in the Arctic
uri: Risk-of-oil-extraction-in-the-Arctic
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Risk_of_oil_extraction_in_the_Arctic%29

content:
<p>
We should not let the squabble for resources under the Arctic Ocean
distract us from the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/17/arctic-exploitation-battleground">magnitude
of the global heating disaster</a> that makes the squabble possible.
<p>
It is more important than ever to prevent oil extraction in the
Arctic.  To the risks of drilling for it and pumping it have now been
added the certain disaster of burning it.
<p>
If someone can find a way to collect and ship the methane that will
increasingly bubble out of the sea bottom, that would be a good fuel
to use.  It would cause less global heating (for the first several
decades) burned as CO<sub>2</sub> than in the air as methane.


feed_id: c26e346f625cf092265d6e161a3d6bc9
title: Urgent: Drop charges against Amy Goodman
uri: Urgent-Drop-charges-against-Amy-Goodman
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_charges_against_Amy_Goodman%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/journ_nodapl_goodman/">call for
dropping charges</a> against Amy Goodman.


feed_id: 48d144247d8c824705284cee45b74241
title: Eritrea
uri: 2016-09-21-Eritrea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Eritrea%29
content:
<p>
Eritrea Is a Prison State — No Wonder So Many Are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/18/eritrea-is-a-prison-state-no-wonder-so-many-are-desperate-to-escape">Desperate
to Escape</a>.
<p>
The description reminds me of the Soviet Union under Stalin, but even
more so.
<p>
Does anyone know whether the US loves and supports the dictator of
Eritrea?  
<p>
The neighboring countries, Egypt and Ethiopia, are
US-supported dictatorships.  Ethiopia remains hostile to Eritrea.  I
wonder if it is possible for Eritrean activists to get Ethiopian
sponsorship to organize to overthrow the dictator.


feed_id: 928f66178143891ac6538ae0005d1c34
title: Tory cuts in welfare payments
uri: Tory-cuts-in-welfare-payments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Tory_cuts_in_welfare_payments%29

content:
<p>
The Tories say the announced, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/18/no-more-welfare-cuts-under-theresa-may-says-minister-damian-green-end-to-austerity">pending
cuts in welfare payments</a> will be the last ones.
<p>
They have not promised to stop the policies that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#06_July_2013_(Impossible_to_buy_home_in_London_if_you%27re_not_rich)">reduce 
public housing and drive up rents</a>, or to stop sabotaging the NHS
to convert it into a US-style system that will 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#12_August_2012_(Lives_that_are_sacred_to_Republicans)">let 
non-wealthy Britons die</a> like non-wealthy Americans.


feed_id: 0e6f96204945e3e8302edc97c688c7af
title: Israel has secret agency to fight boycott
uri: Israel-has-secret-agency-to-fight-boycott
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Israel_has_secret_agency_to_fight_boycott%29

content:
<p>
Israel has created a secret agency to try to fight the Palestinian
boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign, 
<a href="http://alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/196-israel-s-anti-bds-taskforce-enjoys-unchecked-power-to-struggle-against-terror">which
it calls "terrorism"</a>.  It uses public propaganda, a network of
foreign supporters, and secret operations, and aims to set up laws
blocking participation in that campaign.
<p>
The propaganda includes widely spread disinformation.  For instance,
the boycott does not apply to Israelis (human beings) at all, only to
Israeli institutions and corporations under certain conditions.
<p>
I do not support that campaign overall, but I support the efforts
to block Israel from crushing it with prohibitions.  It is wrong to
label this nonviolent campaign as "terrorism" or to equate it with
antisemitism (a form of bigotry which which I condemn).
<p>
Israel has already adopted a law that punishes individuals and
organizations that advocate the limited boycott of West Bank colonies
and factories therein.  Gush Shalom was forced to drop that boycott,
lest it be destroyed through this law.  I, as a supporter in spirit of
Gush Shalom, continue to advocate this boycott, since I am safe
outside Israel.


feed_id: 067d978f6491904a155d47b2c74b494b
title: Pressure to rent textbooks from Amazon
uri: Pressure-to-rent-textbooks-from-Amazon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Pressure_to_rent_textbooks_from_Amazon%29

content:
<p>
Some US colleges now 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/nyregion/as-amazon-arrives-the-campus-bookstore-is-a-books-store-no-more.html">nearly
force students</a> to rent textbooks from Amazon.
<p>
If you are a student at such a college, please 
<a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">refuse to buy from
Amazon</a>.  Everyone should refuse to buy from Amazon.


feed_id: 2c4d3392b11bde9325e85c322c882b7d
title: How to respond if thugs ask for your DNA
uri: How-to-respond-if-thugs-ask-for-your-DNA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28How_to_respond_if_thugs_ask_for_your_DNA%29

content:
<p>
An ACLU staffer suggests 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/police-want-your-dna-prove-youre-innocent-do-you-give-it-them">a
way to respond</a> if thugs ask for your DNA to see if you are a
suspect.


feed_id: 0e0f6372e1bbacd67f8629928ccfdc34
title: Global heating and violence
uri: Global-heating-and-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Global_heating_and_violence%29
content:
<p>
Global heating could make people 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/in-the-heat-of-the-moment-37aebe13d8bf">more
inclined to violence</a>.


feed_id: 2172dd99ce93bc1afcf73a42faf17067
title: California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
uri: California-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28California_to_reduce_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29

content:
<p>
California is 
<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/california-has-an-ambitious-plan-to-tackle-climate-change-could-it-work/">trying
to lead the way</a> in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.


feed_id: f380cb269dbc5a1d920f64fe868ab1e8
title: Open WiFi
uri: Open-WiFi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Open_WiFi%29
content:
<p>
The EU Court of Justice ruled that operating an open WiFi network
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/eu-court-open-wifi-operator-not-liable-for-pirate-users-160916/">does
not make one liable for damages to the copyright industry</a>.
<p>
However, the court suggested that the enemies of sharing might get an
order to put a password on the WiFi network.  That may do just as much
harm as was threatened.
<p>
I urge people in Europe to systematically operate open WiFi networks
so that there are too many for our enemies to get rid of.


feed_id: 8edc1bac29cbf00500cfb8b4869425a6
title: US media ignore CIA torture investigation
uri: US-media-ignore-CIA-torture-investigation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28US_media_ignore_CIA_torture_investigation%29

content:
<p>
The Guardian published long articles about how the Senate investigators
struggled with the CIA to get the truth about CIA torture.  US media
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/16/us-media-ignores-cia-cover-torture">ignore
the story completely</a>.


feed_id: 66f8502e8f5fb2efe14e1464f992413d
title: Urgent: Oppose Bayer-Monsanto merger
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Bayer-Monsanto-merger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Bayer-Monsanto_merger%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2759">sign
this petition opposing the merger of Bayer and Monsanto.


feed_id: 5d37f80a0cdb1390e89679c7396de900
title: Trump's lies
uri: Trump-s-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Trumps_lies%29
content:
<p>
When Trump accepted that Obama was born in the US, he took the
opportunity to spread 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/every-line-donald-trumps-birther-statement-lie">additional
bullshit lies</a>.
<p>
Everything he says about what he would do if elected is bullshit;
if you believe any of it, you're asking to be taken.


feed_id: 1c3bea7afebaa1b0cd82ea61f93911c7
title: Tracking people by bluetooth
uri: Tracking-people-by-bluetooth
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Tracking_people_by_bluetooth%29

content:
<p>
Bluetooth devices 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/hands-on-blue-hydra-can-expose-the-all-too-unhidden-world-of-bluetooth/">frequently
announce their identities</a>, even when on standby, making it easy to
track people by whatever bluetooth stuff they are carrying.


feed_id: 14c9c88b2c74d459e5a4d245afa5b1ad
title: Wetiko
uri: Wetiko
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Wetiko%29
content:
<p>
The Sioux word
"<a href='http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/17/learning-standing-rock-sioux'>wetiko</a>"
denotes a sort of hubris in which people think they can dominate
nature.


feed_id: 8731124d2516209eb3ecc0fc7cc7162c
title: Plastic pollution
uri: Plastic-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Plastic_pollution%29
content:
<p>
A plan for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/16/global-movement-envisions-ruture-rree-rrom-plastic-pollution-major-us-companies">bringing
an end to plastic pollution</a>, particularly in the ocean.


feed_id: e37a27fa9b1b44d969c095580c065678
title: Legalizing medical marijuana
uri: Legalizing-medical-marijuana
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Legalizing_medical_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
Legalizing medical marijuana leads to a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/16/confirming-big-pharma-fears-study-suggests-medical-marijuana-laws-decrease-opioid">decrease
in opioid use</a>.


feed_id: 826356994bb4e607a92d736cc502feaf
title: Urgent: Change Copyright
uri: Urgent-Change-Copyright
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Change_Copyright%29
content:
<p>
EU citizens: 
<a href="https://www.changecopyright.org/">sign</a> the Change
Copyright petition.
<p>
I post this while holding my nose about some points in the formulation
of the petition.  For instance, its mention of Facebook and Instagram
without condemnation grants them undeserved legitimacy.  Also, it
describes publications as "content".
<p>
These are definitely not all the changes needed in copyright in the
EU, but they are needed and they are not bad.
<p>
The page malfunctions with LibreJS, but it does work when Javascript
is entirely disabled.


feed_id: b3046932ca64e723edc4662c3315f318
title: The purpose of copyright law
uri: The-purpose-of-copyright-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28The_purpose_of_copyright_law%29

content:
<p>
India's Supreme Court recognized the true purpose of copyright law:
to 
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/photocopying-not-infringement-of-copyright-delhi-high-court/article9115016.ece">serve
the public</a>.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">my
explanation</a> of that issue.


feed_id: 2b7121a0ba60c4f82f33fe60e3fc3d28
title: Wells Fargo
uri: Wells-Fargo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Wells_Fargo%29
content:
<p>
Wells Fargo executives claim, in effect, that the company is too big
to be managed.  Thus, Public Citizen proposes the company 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/16/wells-fargo-too-big-manage">should
split up</a>.


feed_id: 224ad24563b932c11104507606917694
title: Drug factory waste dumped to local waters
uri: Drug-factory-waste-dumped-to-local-waters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Drug_factory_waste_dumped_to_local_waters%29

content:
<p>
Drug factories release their wastes, including antibiotics, into local
waters —
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/17/how-big-pharmas-industrial-waste-fueling-rise-superbugs-worldwide">promoting
drug resistance</a>.
<p>
The simplest way to end this is to impose a rising tax on antibiotics
made in factories that have not certified acceptable waste handling.
The tax would start small, but it would be twice as much in the second
year, three times as much in the third year, and so on.  Manufacturers
would make sure to correct their problem within a few years.


feed_id: 6281fa2741a94a01c729030cf6f3e836
title: Urgent: Revoke Dakota Access Pipeline permits
uri: Urgent-Revoke-Dakota-Access-Pipeline-permits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Revoke_Dakota_Access_Pipeline_permits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2027">call
on Obama</a> to revoke the permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline.


feed_id: 52c9fcf0f97029f63e187441ce2e4c1b
title: Baclofen for curing alcoholism
uri: Baclofen-for-curing-alcoholism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Baclofen_for_curing_alcoholism%29

content:
<p>
The drug baclofen 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/16/baclofen-controversial-pill-cure-alcoholism">seems
to cure a lot of patients from alcoholism</a>.  Some are permanently
cured.


feed_id: e38d4168d57a3e2d8b9e475a517ab677
title: MDMA for treating PTSD
uri: MDMA-for-treating-PTSD
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28MDMA_for_treating_PTSD%29
content:
<p>
Experiments find that MDMA 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/16/mdma-ptsd-therapy-trauma-maps-medical-study">can
be very good for treating PTSD</a>.


feed_id: 821e2e63761547b14768bcb9a9105fe6
title: Leadership
uri: Leadership
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Leadership%29
content:
<p>
What makes a good leader?  Perhaps having the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/16/jeremy-corbyn-leadership-david-cameron-libya-labour">courage
to take unpopular stands that are vindicated by subsequent
history</a>.


feed_id: e947ef7a26e7c1f3e7afaea1a9dd191f
title: Kashmiri activist jailed arbitrarily
uri: Kashmiri-activist-jailed-arbitrarily
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Kashmiri_activist_jailed_arbitrarily%29

content:
<p>
India blocked Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez from traveling to
Geneva to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/kashmiri-activist-detained-and-barred-from-leaving-india-to-attend-un-summit">submit
a report about Kashmir to the UN Human Rights Council</a>.  He was
then jailed arbitrarily for no stated reason.


feed_id: c9e2c2dd27cc985ff728b850cef96433
title: Prisoners in the US on strike
uri: Prisoners-in-the-US-on-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Prisoners_in_the_US_on_strike%29

content:
<p>
Tens of thousands of prisoners in the US are probably on strike,
but it is 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/the-largest-prison-strike-in-u-s-history-enters-its-second-week/">hard
for them to get news out</a>.


feed_id: 803dce9313a44c4b62a9d652ece228a0
title: FBI investigations of banksters
uri: FBI-investigations-of-banksters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28FBI_investigations_of_banksters%29

content:
<p>
Senator Warren called on the FBI to release its internal
investigations of banksters so we can see 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/15/elizabeth-warren-asks-newly-chatty-fbi-director-to-explain-why-doj-didnt-prosecute-banksters/">how
they decided not to accuse them of crimes</a>.


feed_id: 5d2dc51a21e080407fa8cc56d767a3e0
title: Thugs explain why they killed tweenager
uri: Thugs-explain-why-they-killed-tweenager
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Thugs_explain_why_they_killed_tweenager%29

content:
<p>
The thugs who killed Tyre King 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/09/15/when-facts-are-not-facts-all-and-cops-are-killing-black-children">claim
that he pulled out his airgun and pointed it at them</a>.
<p>
Not a very plausible story.


feed_id: 402af15ecad52c8ad8fa0732befcd265
title: Repression in North Dakota
uri: Repression-in-North-Dakota
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Repression_in_North_Dakota%29
content:
<p>
Dakota thugs have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/15/peaceful-dakota-access-protesters-face-felony-charges-escalating-police-action">charged
nonviolent pipeline protesters with felonies</a>.  This is repression
getting serious.


feed_id: e663aad9c12b9e54325c366d548d6955
title: Trump's tax returns
uri: 2016-09-21-Trump-s-tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Trumps_tax_returns%29
content:
<p>
Trump can't release his tax returns because 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/15/trump-jr-says-dad-cant-release-tax-returns-because-media-biased">people
would find a lot to criticize</a>.


feed_id: aaf0c335332d557d51da373d462dd577
title: Trump's energy policy
uri: Trump-s-energy-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Trumps_energy_policy%29
content:
<p>
Trump's energy policy is to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/15/trump-unveils-his-dumpster-fire-energy-policy-and-its-really-scary">burn
everything in sight, fill the air with toxic pollution, and melt the
ice caps</a>.
<p>
He doesn't say, but I guess he figures his family will buy its way out
of the resulting disaster.


feed_id: ec816a7023e0183a964079d0000cc72d
title: Italian undercover infiltrator thug
uri: Italian-undercover-infiltrator-thug
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Italian_undercover_infiltrator_thug%29

content:
<p>
Italian anti-fascist activists say that an undercover thug infiltrator
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/15/police-carlo-neri-accused-of-urging-anti-fascist-activists-to-commit-arson">tried
to convince them to commit arson</a>.  They were not inclined towards
violence.


feed_id: f4fde112e146a3f014ae412c98b9d40e
title: Chinese thugs beat up HK journalists
uri: Chinese-thugs-beat-up-HK-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Chinese_thugs_beat_up_HK_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Chinese thugs beat up and arrested Hong Kong journalists who were
<a href="https://www.cpj.org/2016/09/chinese-police-detain-assault-hong-kong-journalist.php">trying
to visit a town where people are protesting</a>.


feed_id: 3a7d762eb43ffbffb93f7b1ffc027ed7
title: Google-funded privacy conference
uri: Google-funded-privacy-conference
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Google-funded_privacy_conference%29

content:
<p>
The Federal Trade Commission held a consultation about privacy with
researchers … 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/15/tech-money-lurks-behind-government-privacy-conference/">funded
by Google</a>.
<p>
I fear that the questions considered will be minor details of a
fundamentally unacceptable system that collects massive data about
everyone.


feed_id: 57ab721908989a1f658002329f4a44d8
title: North America's bird population
uri: North-America-s-bird-population
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28North_Americas_bird_population%29

content:
<p>
The bird population of North America has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/15/silent-skies-north-america-lost-15-billion-birds-1970s-says-report">dropped
by 1.5 billion since the 1970s</a>, due to human activities of course.


feed_id: 528726acc758780b01c77e9703caf2ba
title: Scott Walker's ties to Wisconsin Club for Growth
uri: Scott-Walker-s-ties-to-Wisconsin-Club-for-Growth
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28Scott_Walkers_ties_to_Wisconsin_Club_for_Growth%29

content:
<p>
Full details on Scott Walker's ties to the "independent" political
action group, 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/09/13141/fundraising-corporate-treasury-fund-express-advocacy">Wisconsin
Club for Growth</a>.


feed_id: 81b41cc9a1e76e5d5f0ea8d66861bf4d
title: Culture exists to be remixed
uri: Culture-exists-to-be-remixed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28Culture_exists_to_be_remixed%29

content:
<p>
Culture exists to be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/15/jay-rayner-happy-eater-its-ok-to-play-with-your-food">remixed</a>
— reject any attempt to forbid remix.


feed_id: 3734451d240924262335414cde7d8662
title: Free speech at universities
uri: Free-speech-at-universities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28Free_speech_at_universities%29
content:
<p>
Universities must be safe spaces for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/16/safe-spaces-free-speech-university-prevent-no-platforming-academic-freedom">free
speech</a>.


feed_id: 98abb13b3515d7717883490bd983609f
title: Number of poor people in the US
uri: Number-of-poor-people-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28Number_of_poor_people_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The US government
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/14/federal-poverty-line-too-damn-low">underestimates
the number of poor people</a> by setting the "poverty level" too low.


feed_id: 59805ac31e1d4f0c19c4a322c106034a
title: UK internet filtering plan
uri: UK-internet-filtering-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28UK_internet_filtering_plan%29
content:
<p>
The UK is considering setting up a
<a href="http://www.heraldonline.com/news/business/article101779772.html">national
internet filter to block malware sites</a>.  This is supposed to be ok
because the UK imposes filtering on the internet.  However, that just
shows the injustice of the UK.
<p>
Here are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/15/gchq-great-british-firewall-creates-dangerous-norm-government-controls-information">more
arguments against the plan</a>.


feed_id: 06e388d96a88457b64951079cbf61622
title: Ohio thugs shoot another tweenager
uri: Ohio-thugs-shoot-another-tweenager
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28Ohio_thugs_shoot_another_tweenager%29

content:
<p>
For the second time, thugs in Ohio
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/15/columbus-police-shoot-dead-13-year-old-bb-gun-ohio-tyree-king">shot
a tweenager for carrying an air gun</a>.
<p>
It appears that they were so quick to shoot that they didn't bother to
check the situation.  911 was informed that the gun was "probably
fake".  Did the 911 operators ignore this or did the thugs ignore
this?


feed_id: 43771b2c790d7d2d91ffedc1be485347
title: ICC to hear environmental destruction cases
uri: ICC-to-hear-environmental-destruction-cases
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28ICC_to_hear_environmental_destruction_cases%29

content:
<p>
The International Criminal Court will henceforth consider cases of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/sep/15/hague-court-widens-remit-to-include-environmental-destruction-cases">environmental
destruction or taking people's land</a>.


feed_id: 1cbb9e5d202fa40f464dbe8f51222bd0
title: Big debts for worthless degrees
uri: Big-debts-for-worthless-degrees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28Big_debts_for_worthless_degrees%29

content:
<p>
ITT Tech charged students lots of money for degrees which did not
enable them to get the promised jobs.  It has shut down, but its
former students are stuck with big debts for the loans to pay for the
worthless degrees.  They have started a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/14/stung-profound-betrayal-itt-tech-students-launch-debt-strike">debt
strike</a>.


feed_id: b3e7992a43011852851ef97beb3217a6
title: Violence against protesters
uri: Violence-against-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28Violence_against_protesters%29
content:
<p>
Thugs often legitimize the violence of Trump supporters against protesters,
and the major media
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/14/normalization-deplorables">don't
mention it much any more</a>.


feed_id: 5d80492c7bf3bebe8452674c44b131d6
title: US Marine Corps drill instructors
uri: US-Marine-Corps-drill-instructors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28US_Marine_Corps_drill_instructors%29

content:
<p>
US Marine Corps drill instructors go in for
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/09/13/drill-instructor-accused-of-repeatedly-running-a-clothes-dryer-with-a-muslim-marine-inside/">frequent
brutality and hazing</a>, sometimes causing serious injury, and drove
one cadet to death.


feed_id: 06ae5bddb3814604775666163f45f113
title: Why Monsanto-Bayer merger would be harmful
uri: Why-Monsanto-Bayer-merger-would-be-harmful
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28Why_Monsanto-Bayer_merger_would_be_harmful%29

content:
<p>
More on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/14/bayer-takeover-monsanto-66-billion-deal">why
the Monsanto-Bayer merger would be harmful</a>.
<p>
Would the combined company be called "Monyer"?


feed_id: 6350935e9978d9e373206419ad41995d
title: Trump's business
uri: Trump-s-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28Trumps_business%29
content:
<p>
If Trump becomes president, his business will turn into a pile of
<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-national-security-498081.html">conflicts
of interest involving foreign entities</a>.


feed_id: 0b5bed7a38d4faf4072453d5d4694621
title: Syrian gov't blocking humanitarian aid
uri: Syrian-gov-t-blocking-humanitarian-aid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_September_2016_%28Syrian_govt_blocking_humanitarian_aid%29

content:
<p>
The Syrian government is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/15/syria-breaching-ceasefire-deal-by-blocking-aid-convoys-says-un">blocking
UN humanitarian aid</a> in Syria.
<p>
I wonder how much the cease fire is holding, aside from that.


feed_id: c07fb1dffa6ce9270faba0a97003c1f1
title: Charges against Oakland thugs
uri: 2016-09-21-Charges-against-Oakland-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_September_2016_%28Charges_against_Oakland_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Here is a <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/bay-area-police-sex-scandal-update">summary of charges</a> against Oakland thugs from their involvement
with non-adult prostitute Celeste Guap.
<p>
The first two — sex with a minor and engaging in prostitution
— should not be crimes at all.  "Lewd act in public" should at
most be a minor crime.  The others should be crimes.


feed_id: c462747498f5c0aa73d8ca3c37eceb98
title: The Syrian cease-fire has problems
uri: The-Syrian-cease-fire-has-problems
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28The_Syrian_cease-fire_has_problems%29

content:
<p>
The Syrian cease-fire <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/week-old-syrian-ceasefire-hangs-in-balance">has problems</a>, but the US and Russia have not
given up hope.
<p>
The other problem is that the US and allies bombed Syrian troops on
one occasion, in a town besieged by PISSI. The US says that this was
a mistake and that PISSI was the intended target.


feed_id: e7dae180d15acfa27eb96ed0aceaa642
title: Violate NO2 emissions
uri: Violate-NO2-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Violate_NO2_emissions%29
content:
<p>
Many car companies sell diesel cars that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/19/many-car-brands-emit-more-pollution-than-volkswagen-report-find">grossly violate</a> NO2 emissions standards.
<p>
It's not just Volkswagen.
<p>
This pollution causes lots of deaths, but the EU does not seem to be
taking the issue very seriously.


feed_id: 78af082078d9e69a14fe2edab7138864
title: Apologies to his daughter
uri: Apologies-to-his-daughter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Apologies_to_his_daughter%29
content:
<p>
Peter Van Buren apologizes to his daughter for an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/post-911-america-terrorism-fear-us-diploma">America contorted
and sickened</a> by irrational fear of terrorism.


feed_id: b6a190bcc57ab672b959bfa8c08cdc93
title: Air pollution in Indonesia kills 100,000
uri: Air-pollution-in-Indonesia-kills-100-000
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Air_pollution_in_Indonesia_kills_100%2C000%29

content:
<p>
A statistical model suggests that air pollution from the forest fires
in Indonesia last year <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/haze-indonesia-forest-fires-killed-100000-people-harvard-stud">killed around</a> 100,000 people.
<p>
Those fires were set in order to destroy rainforest and create plantations.


feed_id: 8de148871bdf7e359dd39e1ea4c526ce
title: Turkey is blocking Syrian refugees
uri: Turkey-is-blocking-Syrian-refugees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Turkey_is_blocking_Syrian_refugees_%29

content:
<p>
Turkey is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/turkey-syrian-refugees-resettlement-blocked-us-degree">blocking Syrian refugees</a> from accepting resettlement offers from the US simply because they have university degrees.
<p>
The motive may be a valid one.


feed_id: 4c048604b88ba460f11b987b456e545a
title: Urgent: Hold Wells Fargo accountable
uri: Urgent-Hold-Wells-Fargo-accountable
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Hold_Wells_Fargo_accountable%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the DOJ to hold Wells Fargo <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/wells_fargo_cfpb?t=1002&akid=19725.1183552.qZUBM5">executives accountable</a> for the recently admitted massive fraud against large numbers of customers.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/16/its-sen-warren-vs-wells-fargo-weasels-over-rescinding-executive-bonuses">More information</a>.


feed_id: 97c85ec81a3571ef5093e2bc7cb070e5
title: New study undercuts climate myth
uri: New-study-undercuts-climate-myth
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28New_study_undercuts_climate_myth%29

content:
<p>
Experiments show that more CO2 than now won't help plants, but future
higher temperatures <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/sep/19/new-study-undercuts-favorite-climate-myth-more-co2-is-good-for-plant">will hurt plants</a>.


feed_id: a0a978db4e992b9e7832ba7c479d71e3
title: Give Snowden a Medal
uri: Give-Snowden-a-Medal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Give_Snowden_a_Medal%29
content:
<p>
Don't Just Pardon Edward Snowden; <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/18/dont-just-pardon-edward-snowden-give-the-man-a-medal">Give the Man a Medal</a>.


feed_id: dfcbc3e2dda92a9eeb64897da0ef5e7c
title: Global Heating spreading
uri: Global-Heating-spreading
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Global_Heating_spreading%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/19/tree-death-california-hawaii-sudden-oa">spreading plant plagues</a> that are wiping out many species of trees and other plants in forests around the world.


feed_id: ffa9adca7fae715421219ed7bd370a0a
title: Does Alexa listen always
uri: Does-Alexa-listen-always
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Does_Alexa_listen_always%29
content:
<p>
"When Alexa is <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/Security-culture/2016/0916/When-Alexa-is-listening-what-do-you-tell-houseguests">listening</a>, what do you tell houseguests?"
<p>
I think you should unplug the device for the sake of your guests'
privacy. You'd be a fool to believe it listens only at the times they
claim it does.
<p>
When I stayed in a home with an Alexa device in the room where I
often worked, I unplugged it.


feed_id: daae494beceab0c418f2c90efe46c8eb
title: Airport-style secuirty theater
uri: Airport-style-secuirty-theater
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Airport-style_secuirty_theater%29

content:
<p>
Airport-style security theater has been applied to the Smithsonian museums
and even Arlington National Cemetary. It <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/19/new-security-at-museums-and-monuments-is-bad-for-visitors-and-worse-for-the-united-states">does no good</a> and lots of harm.
<p>
I might have wanted to visit some Smithsonian museums if I were ever
in DC again, but not if there's a 30-minute wait to get in.
<p>
The author's conclusion is not strong enough: we are already far
beyond the point where security measures compromises our principles.
These searches are just a big annoyance, but it is no disaster to stay
away from those places. Other "<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">security</a>" measures, such as massive
surveillance, put democracy in danger.


feed_id: 3e6ff1f1277a42f1f35eccd3840b699c
title: Taxpayers paid for Stadiums
uri: Taxpayers-paid-for-Stadiums
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Taxpayers_paid_for_Stadiums%29
content:
<p>
U.S. Taxpayers Have Been <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/12/us-taxpayers-have-spent-over-three-bill">Forced to Pay</a> Over $3.2 Billion on Sports Stadiums.


feed_id: 2e3379987f0cedf21e86610dd0352a03
title: Mega methane emissions
uri: Mega-methane-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Mega_methane_emissions%29
content:
<p>
Dams in tropical areas cause mega <a href="https://www.internationalrivers.org/resources/greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-dams-faq-406">methane emissions</a>.


feed_id: 91f82e8ebe48c86da54cc57b7782f8f5
title: Unable to get a job because of a database
uri: Unable-to-get-a-job-because-of-a-database
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Unable_to_get_a_job_because_of_a_database%29

content:
<p>
David Smith was unable to get a job because a data base <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/whats-in-a-middle-name-read-about-david-smiths-background-check-snafu/">recorded a criminal</a> named David Smith.
<p>
I agree that these data base checks should be more careful, but in
addition, if we don't want to force all real ex-cons to pursue a life
of crime, we need to make sure that lawful jobs are available to them.


feed_id: 8ffd2cd46485864d5e8640bd16e2f217
title: Thug handcuffed a 10-year-old
uri: Thug-handcuffed-a-10-year-old
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Thug_handcuffed_a_10-year-old%29

content:
<p>
A school thug <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/16/1570891/-Seven-year-old-handcuffed-for-crying-family-and-ACLU-sue">handcuffed</a> a 10-year-old kid for crying. Literally.


feed_id: 3d633e2b9736c02f08bccba12d8bcfb6
title: Washington Post calls for prosecution
uri: Washington-Post-calls-for-prosecution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Washington_Post_calls_for_prosecution%29

content:
<p>
The Washington Post calls for prosecution of its <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/18/washpost-makes-history-first-paper-to-call-for-prosecution-of-its-own-source-after-accepting-pulitzer">own news source</a>  (Snowden, that is).


feed_id: 724c1ddbb7b79adcadf7aa85fc807e40
title: Indian army base attacked
uri: Indian-army-base-attacked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Indian_army_base_attacked%29
content:
<p>
An Indian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/18/india-accuses-pakistan-of-being-terrorist-state-17-die-kashmir">army base in Kashmir</a> was attacked by suicide bombers apparently based in Pakistan.
<p>
Pakistan has a long history of supporting terrorism/guerrilla in
Kashmir. However, not everyone in Kashmir that criticizes Indian rule
is a supporter of terrorism. India's repressive laws in Kashmir are not
that different from terrorism.
<p>
Around 1950, India promised Kashmiris a referendum about whether
Kashmir would be part of India or not. India should hold the
referendum and allow Kashmiris to decide the question in a peaceful
way.


feed_id: b47cd574600ce1682543debe1cb197da
title: Urgent: Public option for medical coverage
uri: Urgent-Public-option-for-medical-coverage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Public_option_for_medical_coverage%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition-strike-back-we-want-public-option/">Call
on Democrats</a> to push for a public option for medical coverage.
<p>
This was part of Obama's original proposal, but lobbying from private
insurance companies pressure Congress to remove it.  Now we see the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#3_September_2016_(Aetnas_misleading_PR)">results 
they were lobbying for</a>.
<p>
Private insurance is the wrong model for medical care,
since everyone needs that and we must make sure no one is left out.


feed_id: 900c51d071b380bee7d8b539369eeebf
title: Urgent: Thug violence investigators
uri: Urgent-Thug-violence-investigators
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Thug_violence_investigators%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to 
<a href="https://pen.org/police-retaliation/PDA">investigate
harassment of people that document thugs' violence</a>, and train
thugs to respect their rights.


feed_id: 492bdf708878ca7f259ecb0aa82d6254
title: Canadian Arctic warm enough to swim
uri: Canadian-Arctic-warm-enough-to-swim
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Canadian_Arctic_warm_enough_to_swim%29

content:
<p>
In the Canadian Arctic, it is now 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-canoed-to-the-arctic-ocean-and-what-do-i-find-a-balmy-beach">sometimes
warm enough to swim</a>.


feed_id: 89d79854ac7871fccfddf44506c18237
title: Gasoline spill in Alabama
uri: Gasoline-spill-in-Alabama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Gasoline_spill_in_Alabama%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/16/alabama-gasoline-pipeline-spill-fuel-shortages-emergency">gasoline
pipe broke</a> in Alabama and spilled a million gallons.
<p>
Through a great stroke of luck, this spill avoided polluting rivers
and flowing down to the Gulf of Mexico.  Next time, we might not be so
lucky.  Clearly the laws about pipeline maintenance have to be
enforced strictly.  If ever there was a place for zero tolerance, this
is it.  "Fail to check your pipeline every month, go to prison."


feed_id: 5d356d200144bf6725f3fd02e5950e72
title: FBI agents to pretend to be journalists
uri: FBI-agents-to-pretend-to-be-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28FBI_agents_to_pretend_to_be_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The FBI decided to allow agents to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/15/the-fbis-own-watchdog-signs-off-on-agents-impersonating-journalists/">pretend
to be journalists</a>.
<p>
While that has a clear short-term advantage, in the long run it
threatens journalism.


feed_id: 99c5dcec64d9f3b7d3dcc386b016730d
title: Overuse of resources
uri: 2016-09-23-Overuse-of-resources
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Overuse_of_resources%29
content:
<p>
Photographer Edward Burtynsky says his photos show that: 'We've
reached peak everything', as we
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/15/edward-burtynsky-photography-interview">overuse
every major resource</a>.


feed_id: b1e4b3d906155a1c52729ba9c48d06ce
title: Going to war without real need
uri: Going-to-war-without-real-need
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Going_to_war_without_real_need%29

content:
<p>
Our leaders 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/14/leaders-britain-war-tony-blair-david-cameron-iraq-libya">go
to war without real need</a>, and without paying attention to the harm
that it may cause a few steps down the road.


feed_id: 571924b4966e1485bf95e0c022bc613a
title: Peace possible in Israel/Palestine
uri: Peace-possible-in-Israel-Palestine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Peace_possible_in_Israel%2BPalestine%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery says that peace can happen even between old enemies.  He
believes that 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1474036974/">a
true Palestinian state can make peace possible</a> in
Israel/Palestine.


feed_id: 171a0b8d1ebb7d1a40cb38df89f454de
title: Florida Everglades
uri: Florida-Everglades
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Florida_Everglades%29
content:
<p>
A large US project will 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/16/florida-everglades-restoration-bill-toxic-algae-blooms">direct
more water into the Florida everglades</a>.
<p>
To try to reestablish lost wetlands could be useful in the long term
but only if we curb global heating.  The whole of the Everglades are
under 4 meters above sea level.  If global heating continues, a large
part of the Everglades will be inundated in this century, and the rest
afterwards.


feed_id: 1175c4159ed0052f63a4042727d00c58
title: Trump's "press conference" for new hotel
uri: Trump-s-press-conference-for-new-hotel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Trumps_press_conference_for_new_hotel%29

content:
<p>
Trump announced a "press conference" in Washington DC which was really
just 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/reporters-complain-donald-trump-conning-media-even-help/">publicity
for his new hotel</a>.
<p>
The US press are so obsessed with "balance" that they are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#16_September_2012_(Impression_of_balance_in_journalism)">putty 
in the hands of a bullshitter</a> such as Trump.


feed_id: eb0834566aa09586767b7003f730da6c
title: Election campaign donations from foreigners
uri: Election-campaign-donations-from-foreigners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Election_campaign_donations_from_foreigners%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in the Federal Election Commission 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/fec-republicans-kill-attempt-to-block-foreign-money-in-u-s-elections/">killed
a proposed rule designed to block foreigners from donating to US
election campaigns</a>.


feed_id: ffa54d3f636f17ef57dafc043f1b8b14
title: Norway to kill 47 wolves out of 68
uri: Norway-to-kill-47-wolves-out-of-68
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Norway_to_kill_47_wolves_out_of_68%29

content:
<p>
Norway 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/16/norway-wolf-cull-government-wwf-friends-earth-environment-protest">intends
to kill 47 wolves</a> out of a total of 68 living in the country.
<p>
It is always possible for a species to multiply out of control, but 22
wolves in a country the size of Norway can hardly be too many.


feed_id: eb43d78432bdc1855ca996b5ea6a4e5d
title: Urgent: Vote on new federal judges
uri: Urgent-Vote-on-new-federal-judges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Vote_on_new_federal_judges%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/McConnell_Grassley_Judges">call
on Senate Republican leaders</a> to vote on new federal judges.


feed_id: e1bd8daa23ce735b50fe56a9f9a45524
title: Former NY prison thugs sentenced
uri: Former-NY-prison-thugs-sentenced
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Former_NY_prison_thugs_sentenced%29

content:
<p>
Six former New York prison thugs have been sentenced to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/16/former-rikers-island-officers-sentenced-prison-inmate-beating">years
in prison for beating up a prisoner</a>.


feed_id: 8eef608edd877b9b149e1b794dda2312
title: Trump returns to suggesting assassination
uri: Trump-returns-to-suggesting-assassination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Trump_returns_to_suggesting_assassination%29

content:
<p>
Trump has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/16/trump-miami-clinton-disarm-security-obama-birther">returned
to suggesting the idea of assassinating Clinton</a>.  Apparently he
thinks his supporters are more murderous than hers.


feed_id: 0ec352a00a0ac7a646aefea4d67902e2
title: Sociology of Sexualities
uri: Sociology-of-Sexualities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Sociology_of_Sexualities%29
content:
<p>
Professor Plante teaches a course called Sociology of Sexualities, but
she had to omit coverage of sexual violence because too many students
said it
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/15/ithaca-college-professor-stopped-teachin">triggered
their trauma memories</a>.


feed_id: 441ebfcfa3a0847579c8f82553db4b2e
title: NJ thugs take people's cash
uri: NJ-thugs-take-people-s-cash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28NJ_thugs_take_peoples_cash%29
content:
<p>
When New Jersey thugs take people's cash without charging them with a
crime, they go through legal shenanigans to
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/15/new-jersey-police-seize-171-from-man-cha">push
up the filing fee to challenge the seizure</a>.  Victims have to pay
more money to object than was actually taken from them.
<p>
My view is that "civil forfeiture", i.e. punishing people on mere
suspicion, is unjust and unconstitutional.  The law claims that it
isn't a punishment, but the law is lying.


feed_id: dd1c513290fb632cf91af22a06449be7
title: Civilian sites hit by Salafi Arabia's air attacks
uri: Civilian-sites-hit-by-Salafi-Arabia-s-air-attacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Civilian_sites_hit_by_Salafi_Arabias_air_attacks%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/third-of-saudi-airstrikes-on-yemen-have-hit-civilian-sites-data-shows">1/3
of Salafi Arabia's air attacks in Yemen</a> have hit civilian sites.


feed_id: e139cb1f53b916db9e23584fbea7cd2f
title: Poor Americans jailed and fined
uri: Poor-Americans-jailed-and-fined
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Poor_Americans_jailed_and_fined%29

content:
<p>
When poor Americans get out of jail, typically broke, they are 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/09/10/what-its-like-to-be-in-debt-to">told
they have to pay a fine right away</a>.


feed_id: 8c2180d0683b1a02bcb836e0df4ae2dc
title: Cal Israel-Palestine class cancelled
uri: Cal-Israel-Palestine-class-cancelled
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Cal_Israel-Palestine_class_cancelled%29

content:
<p>
UC Berkeley's administrators cancelled a class that was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/15/uc-berkeley-israel-palestine-class-suspended-decal">dedicated
to studying and criticizing Israel's occupation of Palestine</a>.
<p>
It is an error to equate criticism of Israeli policy with
antisemitism, but it seems valid that an academic course should not
endorse a specific political position.


feed_id: d187fe7c9d8725aa14160a8189230add
title: Urgent: Investigation of Crosscheck scheme
uri: Urgent-Investigation-of-Crosscheck-scheme
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigation_of_Crosscheck_scheme%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com/petition/">call for an
investigation</a> of the Crosscheck scheme for disfranchising
minority voters.


feed_id: 8013a05ab183cabcf8c78203312d6230
title: Urgent: Protect pollinators
uri: Urgent-Protect-pollinators
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_pollinators%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4075">call
on Obama</a> to make the EPA take quick action to protect pollinators.


feed_id: ec20e5caaa7321b95d57f2cd0cfd2f44
title: Illegal logging in Indonesia
uri: Illegal-logging-in-Indonesia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Illegal_logging_in_Indonesia%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia has made a deal with the EU to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/15/indonesia-and-eu-announce-historic-deal-on-timber-trade">indicate
the source of all timber</a>.  This is an attempt to end illegal
logging.


feed_id: a6e0a104b6092d6f4a4af4f44afeeb96
title: Extra-polluting diesel fuel sent to Africa
uri: Extra-polluting-diesel-fuel-sent-to-Africa
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Extra-polluting_diesel_fuel_sent_to_Africa%29

content:
<p>
European countries are sending Africa diesel fuel that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/15/trafigura-vitol-bp-dump-dirty-diesel-africa-swiss-ngo-public-eye">produces
extra high levels of toxic air pollution</a>.


feed_id: 6f1343a5db810a69ea19991eb885f03f
title: US increasing donation to Israel
uri: US-increasing-donation-to-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28US_increasing_donation_to_Israel%29

content:
<p>
The US is increasing its annual donation to Israel to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/14/benjamin-netanyahu-added-100000-settlers-now-the-u-s-rewards-him-with-largest-aid-package-ever/">38
billion dollars</a>.  The donation consists of US military equipment
plus support for extension of Israeli colonies in the West Bank.


feed_id: 698457f35d527d6d50eb42daa38d5d27
title: Internet-controlled vibrator lawsuit
uri: Internet-controlled-vibrator-lawsuit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28Internet-controlled_vibrator_lawsuit%29

content:
<p>
A company that makes internet-controlled vibrators is being sued for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/14/wevibe-sex-toy-data-collection-chicago-lawsuit">collecting
lots of personal information</a> about how people use them.
<p>
The company's statement that it anonymizes the data may be true,
but it doesn't really matter.  If it sells the data to a data broker,
the data broker can figure out who the user is.


feed_id: 3b8290e3d4bf04525a17765207244e96
title: NHS "junior doctors" back down from strike
uri: NHS-junior-doctors-back-down-from-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_%28NHS_junior_doctors_back_down_from_strike%29

content:
<p>
The Tories have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2016/sep/16/jeremy-hunt-has-won-a-battle-against-junior-doctors-but-not-the-war">made
the NHS "junior doctors" back down from their planned strikes</a>.
<p>
The term "junior doctor" sounds like a sort of apprentice, but that is
not what it means.  Those people are not trainees.  Unfortunately, I
have been unable to find a clear, simple description of just who the
term does include.  These news articles never give even a hint.
<p>
The result of this is that the NHS will increasingly struggle to
find doctors.  It will have to use people that are less qualified,
and run them ragged so they make lots of mistakes.
<p>
The Tories surely know this; surely they are banking on it as an
excuse to say that the NHS is a failure.  Then they can replace it
with a US-style system that provides real health care only to the
wealthiest Britons.


feed_id: 9f25097d9ffdcaddc044e05eae35aa20
title: The purpose of copyright law
uri: 2016-09-23-The-purpose-of-copyright-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_%28The_purpose_of_copyright_law%29

content:
<p>
An Indian court recognized the true purpose of copyright law:
to 
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/photocopying-not-infringement-of-copyright-delhi-high-court/article9115016.ece">serve
the public</a>.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">my
explanation</a> of that issue.


feed_id: 2619b78ddcbd16bf55380c22bccb05eb
title: Massive surveillance in Belgium
uri: Massive-surveillance-in-Belgium
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Massive_surveillance_in_Belgium%29

content:
<p>
Belgium 
<a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/09/belgium-new-surveillance-law/">proposes
to legalize massive surveillance</a> with few restraints.
<p>
This is more dangerous to a free society than a few underground
terrorists.  By the way, now that Belgium is making a real effort
to find terrorists, I think there will be few further attacks.
The existing police powers are sufficient.


feed_id: 13c79d9c217a03cf64f6215bba931729
title: Trump defends thugs that kill blacks
uri: Trump-defends-thugs-that-kill-blacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Trump_defends_thugs_that_kill_blacks%29

content:
<p>
Trump 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/donald-trump-clinton-charlotte-unrest-philadelphia">defends
the thugs that kill blacks</a>.
<p>
He appeals to, and endorses (deniably, of course), every kind of
bigotry or cruelty in the US that is widespread enough to get him
substantial support.  He should run on the Hate Party ticket.
<p>
Clinton, by contrast, is a more conventional Republican.


feed_id: 81f3f79ed0238cc7a4b4dd0ba8276e6b
title: Global heating denial
uri: 2016-09-27-Global-heating-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
How global heating denialists can believe 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/sep/23/how-climate-science-deniers-can-accept-so-many-impossible-things-all-at-once">many
contradictory "arguments"</a> at once.


feed_id: ce046032338d25d3f6ae8c12c65c920e
title: Bicycle helmets
uri: Bicycle-helmets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Bicycle_helmets%29
content:
<p>
It is now clear that bicycle helmets 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/22/bicycle-helmets-reduce-risk-of-serious-head-injury-by-nearly-70-study-finds">cut
the danger of a head injury in half</a>, and the reduces the danger of
a serious or fatal head injury even more.


feed_id: eec958f126ebe7c45596385d19cb8980
title: Molly Crabapple on Trump
uri: Molly-Crabapple-on-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Molly_Crabapple_on_Trump%29
content:
<p>
Molly Crabapple comments about Trump, the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jul/25/50-shades-of-trump-parody-molly-crabapple">sex
fetish of the angry ignorant</a>.


feed_id: a0abf653eefea827a967f17e53a8727d
title: Statue of Gandhi in Ghana University
uri: Statue-of-Gandhi-in-Ghana-University
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Statue_of_Gandhi_in_Ghana_University%29

content:
<p>
Professors and students in Ghana University want the statue of Gandhi
removed, saying he was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/22/petition-calls-for-gandhi-statue-to-be-removed-from-ghana-university">bigoted
against Africans and endorsed the caste system</a> (which he did).
<p>
I suggest they replace it with a statue of Dr Ambedkar.


feed_id: df157ec4f8a0aed199b743fef279f18b
title: Hydrofluorocarbons
uri: Hydrofluorocarbons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Hydrofluorocarbons%29
content:
<p>
Hydrofluorocarbons, used in refrigerators, are an important 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/22/100-countries-phase-out-hydrofluorocarbons-greenhouse-gas">greenhouse
gas</a>.


feed_id: f35066ad2bb6688594507d3a82303e0d
title: Paris climate goal
uri: Paris-climate-goal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Paris_climate_goal%29
content:
<p>
"Paris climate goal will be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/22/paris-climate-goal-will-de-difficult-if-not-impossible-to-hit">'difficult
if not impossible to hit'</a>."  Especially since 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#7_September_2016_(Paris_climate_agreement)">few
if any countries are really even trying</a>.


feed_id: 12f8e095df869631fcb8374e615ed61a
title: Thugs discuss false charges against protester
uri: Thugs-discuss-false-charges-against-protester
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Thugs_discuss_false_charges_against_protester%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in Connecticut were 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/21/aclu-connecticut-state-troopers-caught-o">recorded
discussing what false charges to make</a> against an inconvenient
protester, after they illegally took away his recording device.


feed_id: bc0e023f61ab6440bfdd130837791771
title: Poor countries in debt
uri: Poor-countries-in-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Poor_countries_in_debt%29
content:
<p>
Poor countries borrowed lots of money, under the influence I suppose
of banksters from rich countries that worked with corrupt governments
or dictators.  Now they won't be able to pay it back, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/21/united-nations-unctadwarns-debt-crisis-poor-developing-countries-oil-prices">a
financial crisis is feared</a>.
<p>
This looks like an instance of what Naomi Klein calls the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_June_2013_(Anti-shock_doctrines)">Shock
Doctrine</a>.


feed_id: 08fcdcad27cef83bc53c82c6a5a926a4
title: Assad attacking Aleppo
uri: Assad-attacking-Aleppo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Assad_attacking_Aleppo%29
content:
<p>
Now that the cease-fire is completely out of the way, Assad is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/22/syria-army-new-aleppo-offensive-ceasefire">attacking
Aleppo</a>.


feed_id: bd4833771ca1efd4981a6f2ca0d81eb9
title: Renters demand affordable housing
uri: Renters-demand-affordable-housing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Renters_demand_affordable_housing%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37706-renters-unite-to-demand-affordable-housing">Renters
Unite to Demand Affordable Housing</a>.


feed_id: 56590b5eb57d1769c7c54c81287cb41c
title: Claim of "no racism" before Obama
uri: Claim-of-no-racism-before-Obama
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Claim_of_no_racism_before_Obama%29

content:
<p>
Trump's Ohio campaign manager 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/trump-campaign-chair-kathy-miller-resigns-ohio-racism-obama">claimed
there was "no racism" before Obama was elected president</a>.  What, I
wonder, was the NAACP fighting about 60 years ago?


feed_id: bdeda6cf3b27a281be4786847f189c62
title: Urgent: No oil or natural gas extraction leases
uri: Urgent-No-oil-or-natural-gas-extraction-leases
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_No_oil_or_natural_gas_extraction_leases%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2031">call
on the Bureau of Land Management</a> to stop selling leases to extract
oil and natural gas.


feed_id: 1d5b6bf2c3b268a15340ca4cc4a431fa
title: Soil not as carbon-absorbent as thought
uri: Soil-not-as-carbon-absorbent-as-thought
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#25_September_2016_%28Soil_not_as_carbon-absorbent_as_thought%29

content:
<p>
Soil
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/22/soil-carbon-storage-not-the-climate-change-fix-it-was-thought-research-finds">cannot
absorb as much carbon as scientists had thought</a>.  That means the
situation is worse than we thought.


feed_id: 0f69861ba2eb4437641e1c6814b0bfd9
title: Police raids based on IP address
uri: Police-raids-based-on-IP-address
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Police_raids_based_on_IP_address%29

content:
<p>
EFF: A
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/digital-equivalent-rumor-should-never-lead-police-raid">Digital
Rumor</a> (such as an IP address) Should Never Lead to a Police Raid.


feed_id: bb932ab9e1a4eab7c830ab6e062d542c
title: Killer of Terence Crutcher charged
uri: Killer-of-Terence-Crutcher-charged
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Killer_of_Terence_Crutcher_charged%29

content:
<p>
The killer of Terence Crutcher
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/terence-crutcher-betty-shelby-manslaughter-tulsa">has
been charged</a>.


feed_id: d7cf409cd2d626f5307cc117911edafd
title: The "gig economy"
uri: The-gig-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28The_gig_economy%29
content:
<p>
The "gig economy" means goodbye to the 8-hour work day, pensions,
medical benefits, unemployment insurance, and coverage for accidents
at work.  And
<a href="https://indypendent.org/2016/09/19/apped-be-screwed">goodbye
even to the minimum wage</a>.
<p>
We can call it the universal sweatshop, with a large fraction
of the income going to the parasites that own the platforms.
<p>
Some of the systems that helped full-time workers need to be
redesigned to fit independent workers.  However, beside that, we
should use our democracy to make all the platforms treat workers
decently.


feed_id: 5a8f78cc996ccdbc69405f08d6daee02
title: Brazil's corrupt Congress
uri: Brazil-s-corrupt-Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Brazils_corrupt_Congress%29
content:
<p>
Brazil's corrupt Congress tried to sneakily pass a bill to give the
members of congress
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/20/brazil-congress-sneak-grab-at-self-amnesty-shows-the-deep-corruption-of-its-new-ruling-faction/">amnesty
for the corruption charges against them</a>.


feed_id: 3f22ffd573e780db872bb7e9f94ba757
title: Crackers break Tesla car security
uri: Crackers-break-Tesla-car-security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Crackers_break_Tesla_car_security%29

content:
<p>
Crackers broke the security in a Tesla car and took
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/tesla-model-s-chinese-hack-remote-control-brakes">remote
control of its brakes</a>.
<p>
This is possible because the design of the car's systems does not make
security a priority.  If the car's computers were properly
compartmentalized, the car's web browser would not be able to do
anything to the brakes.


feed_id: 40ff548bb4140b2dba742f4cfcc0beb9
title: US economy still in recession
uri: US-economy-still-in-recession
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28US_economy_still_in_recession%29

content:
<p>
The US economy has not yet recovered from the recession of 2008.  The
real unemployment rate is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/19/hold-champagne-job-market-far-recovered">a
lot more than the official 5 percent</a>.


feed_id: f809c1a888710ee443fc54829a1abf01
title: UK snooper's charter
uri: UK-snooper-s-charter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28UK_snoopers_charter%29
content:
<p>
The UK is almost finished adopting Theresa May's snooper's charter,
which is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/19/unknown-government-surveillance-after-brexit">vague
in calculated ways</a>.  There is no way to tell whether the
surveillance will be total or merely orwellian.
<p>
It won't prevent the occasional terrorist attack, or course, but it will
be
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">>devastating
to democracy and freedom in the UK</a>.


feed_id: 8f8a4a6d8744a335be841de8ca72b066
title: Israeli colonists in Palestinian state
uri: Israeli-colonists-in-Palestinian-state
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Israeli_colonists_in_Palestinian_state%29

content:
<p>
Recognizing a Palestinian state in the whole of the West Bank doesn't
require expelling the Israeli colonists or compensating them.  Just
<a href="http://prospect.org/article/so-let-settlers-stay-they-wont">invite
them to stay</a> — as expats.


feed_id: cfc0f1d23342effe205623efeb2b4c3c
title: Imprisonment without trial in Israel
uri: Imprisonment-without-trial-in-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Imprisonment_without_trial_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Malik al-Qadi, imprisoned without charges or trial in Israel, has been
<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/prisoners-begin-mass-hunger-strike-support-jailed-student-fighting-death">on
hunger strike for 100 days</a>.  He has decided to choose death rather
that accept arbitrary imprisonment.
<p>
Israel has just put
<a href="http://english.wafa.ps/page.aspx?id=r87ZD0a42959275161ar87ZD0">36
more Palestinians in prison without trial</a>.
<p>
The word "detained" refers to what happens to me frequently when
someone in the street recognizes me and wants to talk.  To use such a
word to describe putting someone in prison is a ridiculous
understatement, so I never use the word for that.


feed_id: 67aab35dfb43ee4901fae921be66b58a
title: Facebook censorship
uri: 2016-09-27-Facebook-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Facebook_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Facebook has censored a number of
<a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en/On-Facebook-antiracists-censorship">French
anti-racist campaigners</a>.


feed_id: 82b35c168eb2d84035dab472e28dd017
title: Voter ID laws
uri: 2016-09-27-Voter-ID-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Voter_ID_laws%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/20/myth-pervasive-voter-fraud">False-balance
journalism</a> has convinced half of all Americans that individual
voter fraud is a significant problem.
<p>
Actually, the only voter fraud that is a significant problem
is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_(Urgent:_Investigation_of_Crosscheck_scheme)">fraudulently
stopping blacks and hispanics from voting</a>.
<p>
The proper response to "But you need a government ID to buy medicine"
is, "That's an injustice, too."  The abuse of opioids does harm,
but we can reduce that harm by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_(Legalizing_medical_marijuana)">legalizing
marijuana</a> and by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#30_May_2016_(Oxycontin)">eliminating
the very high doses that are supposed to last a whole day</a>.


feed_id: d218ce77cd6ce6ef0b5d8ab053cccc21
title: Urgent: Investigate Gilead for tax dodging
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Gilead-for-tax-dodging
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_Gilead_for_tax_dodging%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/gilead">call for an
investigation</a> of the pharma company Gilead for tax dodging.


feed_id: 91a63de1848c21c739e954ba0559e3e2
title: Urgent: Oppose voter suppression
uri: 2016-09-27-Urgent-Oppose-voter-suppression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_voter_suppression%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://www.signforgood.com/protectthevote/">Oppose</a> voter
suppression measures.


feed_id: 7713827b395f491291e6a3008136ea88
title: Urgent: Public insurance plan
uri: Urgent-Public-insurance-plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Public_insurance_plan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/publicoption">call for adding a
public insurance plan option</a> to Obama's medical care system.


feed_id: 78138e94f27e8990ccc2c263c80c9959
title: Grief-stricken people give bad safety advice
uri: Grief-stricken-people-give-bad-safety-advice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Grief-stricken_people_give_bad_safety_advice%29

content:
<p>
When parents are grief-stricken because their child died in a freak
accident, they are
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/is-newspaper-trying-to-make-this-5-year-olds-death-even-sadder/">likely
to advocate very bad "safety measures"</a>.  Let's not get our safety
advice from people in that state.


feed_id: b71d9a15b5ee8c500fc88a47d551f421
title: Thugs' perception of large black man
uri: Thugs-perception-of-large-black-man
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Thugs_perception_of_large_black_man%29

content:
<p>
Many thugs
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/21/terence-crutcher-wasnt-bad-dude-just-black-man-in-america">regard
any large black man as threatening</a>.  Therefore they would shoot
him dead given half an excuse.


feed_id: b2bb61340744eef79845bfc2f8d9608a
title: Air attack on Syrian aid convoy
uri: Air-attack-on-Syrian-aid-convoy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Air_attack_on_Syrian_aid_convoy%29

content:
<p>
Syrian aid workers say that the air attack on their aid convoy
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/21/syria-aid-convoy-attack-what-evidence-claims-russia-to-blame">lasted
a whole hour</a>.
<p>
Russia is the chief suspect for the attack because it was done
accurately at night — something Assad's air force generally
cannot do.


feed_id: e7e2269cc9064da83b8947cb438d9313
title: Fitbit not for weightloss
uri: Fitbit-not-for-weightloss
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Fitbit_not_for_weightloss%29
content:
<p>
Fitbit is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/21/fitness-trackers-may-not-aid-weight-loss-study-finds">not
very good</a> for helping people lose weight.
<p>
Meanwhile, it gives the manufacturer personal information
(which it then offers to sell back to the user).


feed_id: 095ae32a6ea0e3e2b16acf23eebdd807
title: Carrying a book while black
uri: Carrying-a-book-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Carrying_a_book_while_black%29
content:
<p>
Thugs shot and killed Keith Scott, apparently because he
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/21/protesters-clash-with-police-in-charlotte-after-fatal-shooting-of-black-man">tried
to pull a book on them</a> (though they claimed it was a gun).
<p>
I hope someone throws the book at them now.


feed_id: 24119eb464b83c93da975dfd1c32c941
title: FBI malware
uri: FBI-malware
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28FBI_malware%29
content:
<p>
The FBI inserted malware into thousands of computers
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/20/evidence-fbi-gathered-while-running-porn-site-thrown-out-again/">based
on an invalid, inadequate court order</a>.  The Supreme Court has
already declared such orders valid for the future, which is dangerous
to everyone.


feed_id: dffc9edf5ccbcc71f8216ad577079a7a
title: Avoiding climate mayhem
uri: Avoiding-climate-mayhem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Avoiding_climate_mayhem%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/20/breaking-climate-procrastination-habit-how-bring-america-sustainable">8
suggestions</a> for the next president to avoid climate mayhem.


feed_id: 3f4be5e94fb5d6f070b9f10f76b19bb2
title: Wells Fargo bank encourages cheating
uri: Wells-Fargo-bank-encourages-cheating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Wells_Fargo_bank_encourages_cheating%29

content:
<p>
Wells Fargo bank is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/20/7-hard-rounds-questions-john-stumpf-wells-fargo-ceo">set
up to systematically encourage cheating customers</a>, and this has
resulted it cheating for years.


feed_id: 8a6328552fb6d8aa676628fa9ef86f45
title: Finland's educational system
uri: Finland-s-educational-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Finlands_educational_system%29
content:
<p>
In Finland, children
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/20/grammar-schools-play-europe-top-education-system-finland-daycare">don't
start school classes until age 7</a>.  Before that, they play —
sometimes freely, sometimes led by a teacher.
<p>
After that, there is no need to struggle to get your children into
a good school, because all the schools are good.
<p>
Another key to Finland's great educational system is a very good
welfare system that ensures that hardly any children live in poverty.
That saves them from stress that could contort their minds later in
life.
<p>
To a large extent, the cause of bad educational outcomes is (1)
insufficient funds for the school and (2) poverty in children's lives.
Thus, when the US and the UK construct excuses to put the blame on
the teachers, the teachers are being used as scapegoats.


feed_id: 01037f02058ba146ac10ecb754d33624
title: Toxic waste from fracking
uri: Toxic-waste-from-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Toxic_waste_from_fracking%29
content:
<p>
Frackers dump toxic waste straight
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/19/obama-administration-urged-halt-dumping-offshore-fracking-waste-gulf-mexico">into
the Gulf of Mexico</a>.


feed_id: f0813dac5c66a5a1b6edc9af297ebe09
title: Changing diaper considered sexual assault
uri: Changing-diaper-considered-sexual-assault
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Changing_diaper_considered_sexual_assault%29

content:
<p>
In Arizona, bathing a baby or changing a diaper
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/19/in-arizona-parents-could-go-to-jail-for">is
now sexual assault</a>.  This is the natural development of the
general US paranoia about anything that involves an adult and a child.
<p>
Officials surely won't prosecute <em>every</em> adult that touches a
baby's behind — only those that officials dislike for some
reason.
<p>
Curiously, I read that in the past it was common for Hopi mothers
to rub male babies' penises to calm them down.


feed_id: 9d923cf51830b7ec0b56786873981954
title: Big US banks privately fund fossil fuels
uri: Big-US-banks-privately-fund-fossil-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Big_US_banks_privately_fund_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
Some big US banks sponsored "climate week" to publicly endorse curbing
global heating, but
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/19/big-bank-greenwashing-exposed-major-climate-week-sponsors-fund-fossil-fuels">privately
they still fund fossil fuels</a>.
<p>
The banks are Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and BNP Paribas.  Bank
of America is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/19/despite-climate-commitment-bank-america-still-funds-dakota-access-pipeline">funding
the Dakota Access Pipeline</a>.
<p>
Whenever a large company that is heavily involved with fossil fuels
talks about reducing emissions from <em>its own operations</em>, it
always strikes me as a distraction campaign.


feed_id: 1adf7be866f7be6433f6d9668d7104b1
title: Romanian gymnasts brutally beaten
uri: Romanian-gymnasts-brutally-beaten
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Romanian_gymnasts_brutally_beaten%29

content:
<p>
Romanian gymnasts were
<a href="http://www.romania-insider.com/dark-secret-behind-romanian-gymnastics-performances/">brutally
beaten by their trainers</a> when they did not perform well.


feed_id: a87d3f4410c419b203ad0a38424e286c
title: Public option vs single payer system
uri: Public-option-vs-single-payer-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Public_option_vs_single_payer_system%29

content:
<p>
The public option is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/19/public-option-back-our-enthusiasm-should-be-tempered">not
the same</a> as a single payer system, and would not bring us the same
advantages.


feed_id: 55ea53a294dd666a8a95b451bad0c3ff
title: Thugs lie to justify killing
uri: Thugs-lie-to-justify-killing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Thugs_lie_to_justify_killing%29

content:
<p>
Thugs shot Terence Crutcher dead while he had his hands in the air.
Various thugs have told lies to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/20/video-shows-terence-crutcher-not-reaching-car-shot-lawyer-says/">try
to make the killing appear justified</a>.
<p>
That's thugs for you.


feed_id: 1729579d689aa461e5472463d48cee1d
title: Reduced mentions of global heating by Clinton
uri: Reduced-mentions-of-global-heating-by-Clinton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#24_September_2016_%28Reduced_mentions_of_global_heating_by_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
Once Sanders conceded the Democratic nomination to Clinton, she
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/20/hillary-clinton-dropped-climate-change-from-speeches-after-bernie-sanders-endorsement">cut
down her mention of global heating by 50%</a>.


feed_id: 97e2e6da92963b8bea3cb1ab7bc6d1bc
title: Why are police inside public schools
uri: Why-are-police-inside-public-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Why_are_police_inside_public_schools%29

content:
<p>
Aside from a few schools which are <a href="
http://theconversation.com/why-are-police-inside-public-schools-64723">especially violent</a>, students are safer if there is <em>not</em> a thug in the school.


feed_id: a31c65432433ef5cbb393bab256f0360
title: Trump foundation charity
uri: Trump-foundation-charity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Trump_foundation_charity%29
content:
<p>
The Clinton Foundation is a real charity with some associated abuses.
By contrast, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/21/trump-foundation-charity-settle-legal-disputes-reporting">Trump Foundation</a> is a pile of abuse with some
occasional associated charity.
<p>
Trump used money from his "charity" to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/trump-foundation-settlements-golf-course-mar-a-lago">pay legal judgments</a> against him.
<p>
Trump avoids losing support when these wrongs (perhaps crimes) are exposed
by refusing to recognize that they are shameful.


feed_id: fb8310b670a618168a71b68f3127c675
title: Turkey plans safe zone in northern Syria
uri: Turkey-plans-safe-zone-in-northern-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Turkey_plans_safe_zone_in_northern_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Turkey plans to conquer a certain area of northern Syria, currently
divided among rebels, PISSI and the Kurds, and <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/erdogan-says-turkey-plans-to-create-safe-zone-in-northern-syria">settle Syrian refugees there</a>.


feed_id: 895493bfff25114405d2af294de5830c
title: Israel whitewash protocol
uri: Israel-whitewash-protocol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Israel_whitewash_protocol%29
content:
<p>
The Israeli military does a <a href="http://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/201609_whitewash_protocol">lousy job</a> of investigating itself for
possible war crimes.


feed_id: 2a196c6e303c54ae2101b52c38f1060a
title: National Academy of Sciences warn Trump
uri: National-Academy-of-Sciences-warn-Trump
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28National_Academy_of_Sciences_warn_Trump%29

content:
<p>
375 members of the National Academy of Sciences warn Trump
that <a href="http://responsiblescientists.org/">nature would punish</a> his planet-roasting plans grievously.


feed_id: 659e7af03460ef717fe65e13dfa31b5e
title: Global coral bleaching
uri: Global-coral-bleaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Global_coral_bleaching%29
content:
<p>
The past year's global <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/22/global-coral-bleaching-event-might-become-new-normal-expert-warns">coral bleaching</a> event might be an annual event 10 years from now, as the heating accelerates.


feed_id: 04b0551fb3a1834d342f94d5f2ab950e
title: Pesticide serious harm to honeybees
uri: Pesticide-serious-harm-to-honeybees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Pesticide_serious_harm_to_honeybees%29

content:
<p>
Bayer and Syngenta did research which determined that their
neonicotinoid pesticides harm honeybee colonies, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/22/pesticide-manufacturers-own-tests-reveal-serious-harm-to-honeybees">then covered it up</a>.


feed_id: e5e0d0254fdde556f88d5e66e4664b0b
title: Campaign to encourage vasectomy
uri: Campaign-to-encourage-vasectomy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Campaign_to_encourage_vasectomy%29

content:
<p>
Campaigning to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/sep/22/family-planning-falling-behind-men-missing-piece-vasectomy">encourage vasectomy</a> world-wide can reduce population growth.


feed_id: c9f4b2fbad73dee75675110e71f58cfc
title: Senate fails to block arms sales
uri: Senate-fails-to-block-arms-sales
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Senate_fails_to_block_arms_sales%29

content:
<p>
The US Senate <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/us-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-senate">failed to block</a> the arms sale to Salafi Arabia.


feed_id: 1e8d3f2b9c8311d2f908be268a20a455
title: China imprisons Ai Weiwei's lawyer
uri: China-imprisons-Ai-Weiwei-s-lawyer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28China_imprisons_Ai_Weiwei%27s_lawyer%29

content:
<p>
China has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/22/china-lawyer-for-ai-weiwei-jailed-for-12-years-in-severe-retaliation">imprisoned</a> Ai Weiwei's lawyer
<p>
This is part of a general campaign to make it easy to ignore laws
when persecuting dissidents.


feed_id: 29d4d7e941557a8f0aa7944f7f3401af
title: Dakota Access destroys historical artifacts
uri: Dakota-Access-destroys-historical-artifacts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Dakota_Access_destroys_historical_artifacts%29

content:
<p>
Archaeologists and historians condemn the Dakota Access pipeline for destroying
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/archeologists-denounce-dakota-access-pipeline-artifacts">historical artifacts</a>.


feed_id: 6ee2f5de1f54099e626494c228e8ea01
title: Exxon's climate deception
uri: Exxon-s-climate-deception
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Exxon%27s_climate_deception%29
content:
<p>
The SEC is investigating <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/20/sec-probe-called-possible-moment-reckoning-exxons-climate-crimes">Exxon's climate deception</a>
as possible fraud against stockholders.


feed_id: e6268d9af2f3aa817834842c2aa98f9b
title: Suspended from school for reporting knife
uri: Suspended-from-school-for-reporting-knife
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Suspended_from_school_for_reporting_knife%29

content:
<p>
Kyler Davies, on the first day of school, found a knife in his
backpack which had been purchased used. He turned it in, and was
<a href="http://wwmt.com/news/local/branch-co-mother-says-son-was-suspended-from-school-after-reporting-knife">suspended from school</a>.
<p>
Kyler and his classmates got a valid lesson about the injustice of
applying "zero tolerance" in a school. But we do wrong to make
students learn such things the hard way.


feed_id: ce9fcb79997b9e388d910fa4dde4eba4
title: Ghostly Death on Great Barrier Reef
uri: Ghostly-Death-on-Great-Barrier-Reef
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Ghostly_Death_on_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
A coral reef used for lots of movies has 30% of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/22/its-a-depressing-sight-climate-change-unleashes-ghostly-death-on-great-barrier-reef">coral dead</a> and more dying.
<p>
It is part of the Great Barrier Reef.


feed_id: d4a6987657c64e491b33b9adb8fad29f
title: Preventing antibiotic resistance.
uri: Preventing-antibiotic-resistance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Preventing_antibiotic_resistance.%29

content:
<p>
The countries in the UN have agreed to prioritize preventing
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/09/united-nations-antibiotic-resistance">antibiotic resistance</a>.
<p>
To carry out this pledge requires changing laws.


feed_id: c1b45e0f84c7ee79aeb2d9a5dbfb5514
title: TV Manufacturers and energy ratings
uri: TV-Manufacturers-and-energy-ratings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28TV_Manufacturers_and_energy_ratings%29

content:
<p>
Samsung, LG and Vizio TV sets are designed to be energy-efficient in
<a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/21/us-tests-reveal-major-tv-manufacturers-may-be-manipulating-energy-ratings">government tests</a>, but not in real use.


feed_id: 0d3a226ca228b98a0073d63ab5151732
title: Radio device can detect emotions
uri: Radio-device-can-detect-emotions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_%28Radio_device_can_detect_emotions%29

content:
<p>
A radio device can <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/robotics-hardware/mooddetecting-sensor-could-help-machines-respond-to-emotions">detect people's</a> heartbeat and determine their emotions from that.
<p>
It should be illegal to operate such a device in such a way that it
could detect people outside your own residence without a court order
limited to a specific place and time period.


feed_id: d4947b95e97f88f4757c1dc55379d796
title: Living as low-level programmer in SF
uri: Living-as-low-level-programmer-in-SF
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Living_as_low-level_programmer_in_SF%29

content:
<p>
Low-level programmers in San Francisco 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/labor/hacker-house-blues-my-life-12-programmers-2-rooms-and-one-21st-century-dream">work
15-hour days and can rent a closet for $1500 a month</a>.
<p>
Give it up and become an activist for Sanders — you have a
better chance of a decent life that way.


feed_id: 763db134696b361783b013b32323070c
title: Wage gap between White and Black Americans
uri: Wage-gap-between-White-and-Black-Americans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Wage_gap_between_White_and_Black_Americans%29

content:
<p>
Wage Gap Between White And Black Americans Is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/wage-gap-black-white-americans">Worse
Today Than in 1979</a>.


feed_id: f7f26e18bfa313536c0d4060e339b745
title: US still plans solitary confinement for Manning
uri: US-still-plans-solitary-confinement-for-Manning
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28US_still_plans_solitary_confinement_for_Manning%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/20/chelsea-manning-gender-surgery-suicide-attempt-punishment">still
plans to punish Chelsea Manning with solitary confinement</a> for her
suicide attempt.
<p>
You have to be 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#20_June_2012_(Innocent_in_solitary_confinement_for_18_years)">vicious</a>
to punish a person for despairing of life.


feed_id: f14b2ae8e08d6168b97262eedb50104e
title: Subsidies for fossil fuels
uri: Subsidies-for-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Subsidies_for_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>
The US and China have released 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/20/us-and-china-release-fossil-fuel-subsidy-peer-reviews">lists
of their subsidies for fossil fuels</a>.
<p>
I wonder when the planet roasters will propose a special subsidy for
amphibious cars as the way to cope with the increasing floods caused
by global heating.


feed_id: a207428f0a6dee61f597c0b2982485cb
title: Activist convicted by Thai military regime
uri: Activist-convicted-by-Thai-military-regime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Activist_convicted_by_Thai_military_regime%29

content:
<p>
Activist Andy Hall was convicted by the Thai military regime for
investigating and reporting on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/20/british-activist-found-guilty-thailand-report-alleging-labour-abuses">enslavement
of workers in Thailand</a>.
<p>
We should suspect every company in Thailand of using enslaved workers,
since the state will not allow people to distinguish which of them do
and which of them don't.


feed_id: 0431feae48f40bdbbf53cc85797aeb2a
title: Isolation in today's society
uri: Isolation-in-today-s-society
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Isolation_in_todays_society%29
content:
<p>
Today's society is so isolating that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/20/loneliness-next-great-moneyspinner">people
are starting to pay for dining companions and walks</a>.
<p>
I don't see anything wrong with offering these services, or using
them, but the need for them is a symptom of a deep problem which is
very important.
<p>
I suspect the cause is so much use of digital communications.


feed_id: 632bbd5199555abb62dc3a3234370cf5
title: The Trade In Services Agreement
uri: The-Trade-In-Services-Agreement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28The_Trade_In_Services_Agreement%29

content:
<p>
The leaked text of the Trade In Services Agreement shows that
negotiators are planning to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/20/global-trade-deal-threatens-paris-climate-goals-leaked-documents-show">directly
oppose efforts to save Earth from global heating disaster</a>.
<p>
The draft text calls for "energy neutrality" between renewable and
fossil fuels, and a ban on subsidies for renewable energy.
<p>
Would it require an end to fossil fuel subsidies?  I doubt it.  The
planet roasters will have set up some sort of loophole for themselves.


feed_id: 5f9a31c2a7fcd111cffe5a60a761a325
title: State-mandated deletion of news articles
uri: State-mandated-deletion-of-news-articles
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28State-mandated_deletion_of_news_articles%29

content:
<p>
Italy's Supreme Court ruled that newspapers must delete articles
after two years, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/20/how-italian-courts-used-the-right-to-be-forgotten-to-put-an-expiry-date-on-news">if
someone objects to them</a>.


feed_id: 79db2f78ba1cb2c767ced37e4550531d
title: Haiti's trajectory of permanent poverty
uri: Haiti-s-trajectory-of-permanent-poverty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Haitis_trajectory_of_permanent_poverty%29

content:
<p>
Haiti has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/20/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-documentary-charts-the-dangers-of-deforestation">cut
down its forests</a>; the Dominican Republic has preserved them.  This
makes a big difference.
<p>
However, don't think that Haitians chose the wrong path because of
some absurd fault of theirs.  The heavy burden of reparations, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#16_May_2015_(Frances_debt_to_Haiti)">imposed
by France in exchange for recognizing Haiti's independence</a>,
probably helped direct Haiti into a trajectory of permanent poverty,
which
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-nov-feb.html#25%20January%202010%20(Real%20history%20in%20Haiti)">the 
US has helped perpetuate ever since</a>.


feed_id: 85aaec4ae5eacb4aee065f4ca58af575
title: Facebook gaining dangerous power
uri: Facebook-gaining-dangerous-power
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Facebook_gaining_dangerous_power%29

content:
<p>
Facebook 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/sep/20/why-facebook-is-public-enemy-number-one-for-newspapers-and-journalism">threatens
to subsume newspapers and magazines</a>, gaining unprecedented power.
<p>
When a company has dangerous power, it is irrelevant whether it got
that "fairly" in a "in a competitive open market".  We should not let
that irrelevance distract us from what matters: protecting ourselves
from their power.


feed_id: 840c96585fc394f2591344e63370a703
title: UN food aid trucks bombed
uri: UN-food-aid-trucks-bombed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28UN_food_aid_trucks_bombed%29
content:
<p>
Either Russia or Syria bombed UN food aid trucks, in a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/20/un-suspends-all-aid-convoy-movements-in-syria-after-airstrike">gross
war crime</a>.
<p>
Putin will surely try to equate this to the accidental US bombing
of Syrian soldiers in a town besieged by PISSI.  That's a typical
Putinesque background lie.


feed_id: f42817ceff95e64de91f8ea6bf8e7c4c
title: Harmful children's toys
uri: Harmful-children-s-toys
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Harmful_childrens_toys%29
content:
<p>
A mother explains 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/18/movements-need-imagination-which-why-im-not-buying-my-kids-any-more-toys">why
she has stopped buying toys for her children</a>, since they cause
several kinds of harm.
<p>
Too bad the author doesn't apply the same ability to analyze and judge
to the question of how she plays music.  She would see that the modern
"replacements" for CDs have problems comparable to those of Toys R Us.


feed_id: 120467d35dbde28f2e40ecb04ef12d08
title: UC Berkeley reinstates canceled class
uri: UC-Berkeley-reinstates-canceled-class
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28UC_Berkeley_reinstates_canceled_class%29

content:
<p>
UC Berkeley has reinstated the class on the occupation of Palestine
after determining that it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/uc-berkeley-palestine-class-controversy">did
not impose a specific point of view</a>.


feed_id: 792e51c58cc75385a7bca8c3c8fb17e8
title: False-balance news stories
uri: False-balance-news-stories
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28False-balance_news_stories%29
content:
<p>
Matt Taibbi: Today's false-balance news stories exist because 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/18/stop-whining-about-false-balance">the
public has encouraged that approach to journalism</a>, and other bad
approaches.
<p>
When people do things that cause harm, the first obvious idea is to
call it "human error".  They are clearly making bad choices.  But we
can look more deeply and ask, did the system encourage these errors?
<p>
When lots of people make a foolish choice, there is generally a
systemic explanation.  People don't choose clickbait because they like
to be disappointed by the story they finally see.  Rather the
functioning of journalism is a system, and the system has a flaw that
leads to results we find flawed.
<p>
People don't prefer clickbait because they like to be disappointed by
the story they finally see.  And news sites don't deliver clickbait,
or horse-race journalism, because that's what readers people sincerely
and deeply want.  Rather, they are operating in a system which leads
publishers and readers to go down that path.
<p>
Can we find a way to change the system of publication so that it gives
different results?
<p>
Perhaps surveillance-based advertising is part of why the system works
this way.  We need to get rid of that anyway, for privacy's sake.
Would that have the byproduct of encouraging better journalism?


feed_id: 7fede47b897631ddb3abce6eaa2c2343
title: Italy considering internet censorship law
uri: Italy-considering-internet-censorship-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Italy_considering_internet_censorship_law%29

content:
<p>
Italy is considering a law that would fine web site operators for
publishing 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2016/09/18/italy-on-the-verge-of-the-stup.html">anything
that someone takes offense at</a>.


feed_id: 47aca1813d3edb797d66decee8609110
title: Competition among UK water companies
uri: Competition-among-UK-water-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Competition_among_UK_water_companies%29

content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/19/uk-water-regulator-backs-plan-to-open-up-market">plans
competition among water companies</a>.
<p>
I hope it produces better results than competition among train lines.


feed_id: 0e29c216a80f180dd0ac45a03af47116
title: AFL-CIO's narrow view of oil extraction
uri: AFL-CIO-s-narrow-view-of-oil-extraction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28AFL-CIOs_narrow_view_of_oil_extraction%29

content:
<p>
The AFL-CIO takes a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/19/afl-cio-planet-earth-drop-dead">narrow
view of oil extraction and pipelines</a>: anything that makes jobs
today is good.


feed_id: 21993fa64db32b3ad5b67d67f8fce98b
title: Killer thugs probably lied
uri: Killer-thugs-probably-lied
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Killer_thugs_probably_lied%29
content:
<p>
The thugs that killed 13-year-old Tyre King probably
lied when they claimed he pulled his BB-gun on them, because
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/tyre-king-shooting-columbus-police-examiner">"more
likely than not" he was running away when they killed him</a>.


feed_id: d4f1e66d793615fad9d92cea3d42967a
title: UK austerity agenda
uri: UK-austerity-agenda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28UK_austerity_agenda%29
content:
<p>
The [UK] Austerity Agenda Isn't Over.  More People Will Sink 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/19/austerity-agenda-poverty-damian-green-benefit-social-security">Further
Into Poverty</a>.


feed_id: 1227d069fbb0cfa8016ce90047a9bc6b
title: Trump's trickle-down economic plan
uri: Trump-s-trickle-down-economic-plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Trumps_trickle-down_economic_plan%29

content:
<p>
Reich: Every Aspect of Trump's Trickle-Down Economic Plan 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/reich-every-aspect-trumps-trickle-down-economic-plan-benefits-him">Benefits
Him</a>.


feed_id: fae3d8a7b3733f06a0afe09ce4b2642f
title: Experiments on animals essential
uri: Experiments-on-animals-essential
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Experiments_on_animals_essential%29

content:
<p>
Experiments on animals are essential, in some cases, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/19/contrary-to-emotive-reporting-scientists-testing-on-greyhounds-are-not-dr-frankensteins">for
progress in medicine</a>.
<p>
I am in favor of these experiments.


feed_id: 5701b239de4e1a1c5a618bf1b3894b61
title: Soak-the-poor law in Chickasaw
uri: Soak-the-poor-law-in-Chickasaw
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Soak-the-poor_law_in_Chickasaw%29

content:
<p>
A soak-the-poor law in Chickasaw, Alabama, that 
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016/09/14/gulf-coast-town-repeals-ordinance-criminalizing-poor-after-splc-action">made
it a crime not to pay a water bill</a>, has been repealed.
<p>
A soak-the-poor legal system in Ferguson 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_September_2014_(Policies_that_keep_poor_people_out)">led 
to systematic repression of the black inhabitants</a> there.


feed_id: 052d79f86e6af50405630a988d486899
title: Urgent: Hold Wells Fargo accountable
uri: 2016-09-27-Urgent-Hold-Wells-Fargo-accountable
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#22_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Hold_Wells_Fargo_accountable%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the DOJ to hold Wells Fargo <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/wells_fargo_cfpb">executives accountable</a> for the recently admitted massive fraud against large numbers of customers.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/16/its-sen-warren-vs-wells-fargo-weasels-over-rescinding-executive-bonuses">More information</a>.


feed_id: 70e211e3850fecb1d71bdd3a1c8d8111
title: Teachers fired to pay for "security" devices
uri: Teachers-fired-to-pay-for-security-devices
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Teachers_fired_to_pay_for_security_devices%29

content:
<p>
Some US schools are 
<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/the-school-security-industry-is-cashing-in-big-on-public-fears-of-mass-shootings/">firing
teachers to pay for expensive high-tech "security" devices</a> to
"protect" against dangers so rare it is better to ignore them.


feed_id: 234127bdf2feffe622417286a2556940
title: Tar sands mining
uri: Tar-sands-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Tar_sands_mining%29
content:
<p>
Tar sands mining causes 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/22/study-confirms-tar-sands-poisoning-air-first-nations-community">intense
toxic local air pollution</a>, as well as disastrous global
CO<sub>2</sub> pollution.


feed_id: f338997c7f7e258caa1ee6bd413ded74
title: Fired for trying to report fraud
uri: Fired-for-trying-to-report-fraud
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Fired_for_trying_to_report_fraud%29

content:
<p>
A Wells Fargo employee 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/21/1572730/-Wells-Fargo-workers-coming-out-of-the-woodwork-to-say-that-they-pointed-out-frauds-and-were-fired">tried
to report the widespread fraud</a>, and was fired on a pretext.


feed_id: 8c7f04bdcdcded973f77af7c5def813a
title: Urgent: Train thugs in de-escalation
uri: Urgent-Train-thugs-in-de-escalation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Train_thugs_in_de-escalation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/stop-police-killing-communities">call
on Congress</a> to pass the Preventing Tragedies Between Police and
Communities Act, to train thugs in de-escalation methods.


feed_id: 06e3ed4384d79717afd846ca67084ec1
title: Bogus forensic methods allowed by DOJ
uri: Bogus-forensic-methods-allowed-by-DOJ
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Bogus_forensic_methods_allowed_by_DOJ%29

content:
<p>
The Department of Justice 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/fbi-and-doj-vow-to-continue-using-junk-science-rejected-by-white-house-report/">says
it will ignore the conclusion</a> that some forensic methods, used in
trials to convict people, are bogus.


feed_id: fb1feffce9c88ef7efdaf62a1462ea2b
title: ACLU protects students
uri: ACLU-protects-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28ACLU_protects_students%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/students-are-pulling-a-kaepernick-all-over-america-and-being-threatened-for-it/">protects
students</a> when schools try to punish them for not giving positive
endorsement to the national anthem or the pledge of allegiance.


feed_id: 9c2be0f03e6fce4bbc72744992f8ec58
title: The existing fossil fuel mines and wells
uri: The-existing-fossil-fuel-mines-and-wells
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28The_existing_fossil_fuel_mines_and_wells%29

content:
<p>
Continuing to operate the existing fossil fuel mines and wells until
they are exhausted would be
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/22/fossil-fuel-expansion-has-reached-skys-limit-report">enough
to exceed 2C of global heating</a>.  To avoid disaster, we have to
shut them down "prematurely".
<p>
Since exceeding 2C of heating would kill millions of people, I think
that someone who destroys fossil fuel infrastructure should be able to
claim the necessity defense (preventing a much, much bigger crime).


feed_id: 6095d2329a02d6a1384a4a7d4db2e919
title: Attacks on Americans' freedom
uri: Attacks-on-Americans-freedom
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Attacks_on_Americans_freedom%29

content:
<p>
With each apparent act of terrorism, it 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/09/22/due-process-terrorism-liberty">takes
less and less to excuse another attack on Americans' freedom</a>.
<p>
Trump is the attacker now, but Clinton is not much of a defender of
our liberty.


feed_id: 13dd2e3580d38f29ee2a4b121a45966a
title: The anti-war movement
uri: The-anti-war-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28The_anti-war_movement%29
content:
<p>
Under 8 years of Obama, the American people have \
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/22/eugene-v-debs-and-urgent-need-new-anti-war-movement">forgotten
the anti-war movement</a>.


feed_id: b8cebde45fa3f7f6656dcfe298e01ec9
title: President Rousseff's impeachment
uri: President-Rousseff-s-impeachment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28President_Rousseffs_impeachment%29

content:
<p>
Brazil's acting president Temer admitted that the motive for President
Rousseff's impeachment was her economic policies, 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/brazils-president-michel-temer-says-rousseff-was-impeached-for-refusing-his-economic-agenda/">not
any wrongdoing on her part</a>.


feed_id: 1c2571ffa36c5c77d45b2ba56c151655
title: Campaigning against injustice
uri: Campaigning-against-injustice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Campaigning_against_injustice%29

content:
<p>
To end an injustice, you must 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/labour-party-two-choices-marketing-movement-building">campaign
clearly against it</a>.  Resist the temptation to try to market
yourself to the people who don't support the goal.
<p>
"Imagine if … Rosa Parks had said that … 'we understand
the publicâs legitimate concerns' on desegregation."


feed_id: cdb833267caa43f677f765e8c7dcc7c5
title: Elephant poaching
uri: 2016-09-27-Elephant-poaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Elephant_poaching%29
content:
<p>
Arguing that the only way to end poaching of elephants is to legalize
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/total-ban-ivory-disastrous-elephants-legalise-it">raising
elephants for their ivory</a>.
<p>
I am not sure what will work.


feed_id: ee34b64eca56b619d7ce1fb8665f6dc0
title: CIA prison torture
uri: CIA-prison-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28CIA_prison_torture%29
content:
<p>
Prisoners tortured by the CIA under the Bush regime 
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/03/dark-prisoners-cia-torture-programme-160326051331796.html">describe
the torture</a>.


feed_id: ffbe5278fd0ba520c49452213bda8a4a
title: Massive illegal data collection
uri: Massive-illegal-data-collection
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Massive_illegal_data_collection%29

content:
<p>
Germany's surveillance agency did massive illegal data collection and
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160916/06311435537/leaked-oversight-report-shows-illegal-surveillance-massive-constitutional-violations-germanys-intelligence-service.shtml">shared
the results with the NSA</a>.


feed_id: 7da545d4e0487326189a012a7c4ec033
title: "Free trade"
uri: Free-trade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Free_trade%29
content:
<p>
"Free trade" 
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-19/free-trade-s-unwilling-victims">cuts
poor people's wages but not their cost of living</a>.  It tends to
reduce the price of manufactured goods, but it doesn't reduce the
price of food, and it can make housing more expensive.  Poor people
spend most of their money on food and housing.


feed_id: 19feed0338c4254b5ff17f0a2c3e4013
title: Oculus founder spreading irrational insults
uri: Oculus-founder-spreading-irrational-insults
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_%28Oculus_founder_spreading_irrational_insults%29

content:
<p>
The billionaire founder of Oculus is 
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/22/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-billionaire-secretly-funding-trump-s-meme-machine.html">funding
a project to spread irrational insults</a> about Clinton, to support
Trump.
<p>
I disapprove of Clinton's right-wing views, so I won't vote for her.
But this tactic discredits those who do it, demonstrating that Trump
is the candidate of the rich bastards without scruples.


feed_id: 1d74a85e2636654a85c1623afd5b543e
title: Crimes committed by Salafi Arabia
uri: Crimes-committed-by-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Crimes_committed_by_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
The UK is blocking a UN investigation of war crimes 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/24/yemen-britain-human-rights-inquiry">committed
by Salafi Arabia in bombarding Yemen</a>.


feed_id: ffcff8ab679a995016e38e584db26923
title: African gray parrots endangered
uri: African-gray-parrots-endangered
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28African_gray_parrots_endangered%29

content:
<p>
African gray parrots are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/24/cites-endangered-species-meeting-johannesburg">endangered
in the wild</a> because of capturing them for use as pets.
<p>
The experience of being captured and caged is terribly traumatic for a
wild parrot.  Never buy a pet parrot without verifying it was raised
by human breeders.


feed_id: 75273d31e343978a103da4d1539102a6
title: Siege of Aleppo reimposed
uri: Siege-of-Aleppo-reimposed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Siege_of_Aleppo_reimposed%29
content:
<p>
Assad's forces and Russia have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/24/aleppo-siege-tighten-bashar-al-assad-water-two-million">reimposed
the siege of Aleppo</a>, and are bombarding civilians and rescue
workers.  They bombed the water supply station for the besieged half
of the city.


feed_id: ec7a34f85e4947b129391bd93e3724fa
title: Politically oriented crackers
uri: Politically-oriented-crackers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Politically_oriented_crackers%29

content:
<p>
Modern politically oriented crackers 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/technology/hackers-trawl-user-data-in-hopes-a-small-target-will-lead-to-a-big-one.html">try
to crack everyone's email</a> in the hope of finding some dirt on some
target.


feed_id: a05a8891c0e1258a388751e324e79d9c
title: Neoliberal globalization
uri: Neoliberal-globalization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Neoliberal_globalization%29
content:
<p>
The ideology of neoliberal globalization is losing out in politics to
something even worse, exemplified by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/24/only-liberalism-can-thwart-demagogues">Putin,
Trump, Erdogan and other authoritarians</a>.
<p>
Watch out for a pitfall.  The neoliberal elite (not to be confused
with US Liberals, of whom I am an example) may be weakening
politically, but the plutocrats who set it up and profited from it
keep getting more and more power along with a bigger share of the
world's wealth.


feed_id: 06fbffd9e526a4914e8ce5f43b64860e
title: Clinton's claims and proposals
uri: Clinton-s-claims-and-proposals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Clintons_claims_and_proposals%29

content:
<p>
Clinton 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/23/hillary-clinton-national-security-plan-isis-baghdadi">says
she can destroy PISSI by killing its leader</a>.  That will be about
as effective as killing bin Laden was for destroying al Qa'ida —
not very.
<p>
Meanwhile, she proposes to "balance" privacy with surveillance, but I
think the respect for privacy will be effectively only for show.  The
only real way to respect people's privacy is to redesign systems 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">not
to collect data about people</a>.


feed_id: 3445b90145c63e283a0b6940b63e2fc2
title: Charged with felony for parody
uri: Charged-with-felony-for-parody
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Charged_with_felony_for_parody%29

content:
<p>
Anthony Novak posted a parody of the local thug department's Facebook page.
They 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/21/ohio-man-arrested-for-mocking-cops-files">charged
him with a felony</a> for this, and actually took it to trial.  Now he
is suing them.


feed_id: 009f62404b9d7028cd8202ee336b2785
title: Thug departments' use of surveillance
uri: Thug-departments-use-of-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Thug_departments_use_of_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Some US cities are 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/let-there-be-light-cities-across-america-are-pushing-back-against-secret">taking
action to limit</a> how their thug departments use surveillance.


feed_id: c3372986e56aa7318be8bcbaf6ba48a7
title: Manning sentenced to 7 days of solitary
uri: Manning-sentenced-to-7-days-of-solitary
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Manning_sentenced_to_7_days_of_solitary%29

content:
<p>
Ultimately the US sentenced Chelsea Manning to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/chelsea-manning-sentenced-to-solitary-confinement-for-suicide-attempt/">7
days of solitary</a>.  That's not a lot, compared with what she
endured in the past.
<p>
Solitary confinement as a punishment for a suicide attempt is an
absurd idea, since 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/24/chelsea-manning-suicide-attempt-solitary-confinement-health-experts">solitary
confinement tends to encourage suicide</a>.
<p>
Perhaps the army wanted to drive Chelsea Manning to suicide,
and then mostly backed down due to public criticism, but kept
a token 7 days to save face.


feed_id: e525c1093e5229dbba52a8829a327319
title: Thug chokes 911 caller to death
uri: Thug-chokes-911-caller-to-death
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Thug_chokes_911_caller_to_death%29

content:
<p>
Tawon Boyd called 911, and when the thugs came, one 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/24/baltimore-man-tawon-boyd-dies-after-he-called-911
">choked him to death</a>.


feed_id: cc48c77a377ea2d50491acc2a6b5ff14
title: Global heating may eradicate lobsters
uri: Global-heating-may-eradicate-lobsters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Global_heating_may_eradicate_lobsters%29

content:
<p>
Lobsters 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/24/lobsters-climate-change-oceans-marine-life-seafood-research">may
be eradicated from US waters</a> by global heating.  Perhaps they will
survive in the Arctic.


feed_id: 03f06b9059eeca992b3f44cfca40e3e5
title: Corbyn
uri: Corbyn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Corbyn%29
content:
<p>
Corbyn won the Labour leadership campaign — with a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/24/jeremy-corbyn-mark-ii-looks-like-a-leader-clear-coherent-vision">higher
percentage than last year</a>.  Labour's large right-wing fringe in
Parliament must start acting constructively.


feed_id: a0f1f9a80f024f16bd8364d3379e0d27
title: Egyptian thugs
uri: 2016-09-28-Egyptian-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Egyptian_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Egyptian thugs 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/24/new-twist-in-case-of-italian-student-giulio-regenis-in-egypt">killed
five people</a> and accused them of killing Giulio Regeni, but now
admit that they didn't do it and probably had nothing to do with it.


feed_id: 7b5bd1b93538248d7c6fe1b36566551d
title: Britain a tax haven
uri: Britain-a-tax-haven
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Britain_a_tax_haven%29
content:
<p>
Britain is a tax haven and its foreign dependencies are even worse.
Some Tory politicians 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/do-we-want-post-brexit-britain-world-class-tax-haven-amber-rudd">already
use them to dodge taxes</a>.


feed_id: eaaf9608255f7d2c651e6d43318ce6d3
title: The idea of "parenting"
uri: The-idea-of-parenting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28The_idea_of_parenting%29
content:
<p>
Criticizing the idea of 
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/why-do-we-think-we-can-create-the-perfect-kid/">"parenting"</a>.


feed_id: be5baf62fdaadadbd4c78f3bf0dbf11f
title: "Non-violent extremism"
uri: Non-violent-extremism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Non-violent_extremism%29
content:
<p>
The UK government defines "non-violent extremism" as a threat,
essentially a policy of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/britain-extremism-global-effects">punishing
dissidents for being dissidents</a>, and its example gives other
countries an excuse to punish other kinds of dissidents.


feed_id: 9f1dae95621fcc2c7d3a73090007430e
title: Charlotte thugs caught lying
uri: Charlotte-thugs-caught-lying
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Charlotte_thugs_caught_lying%29

content:
<p>
A video 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/no-gun-near-keith-scotts-body-in-video-recorded-by-his-wife-seconds-after-killing-2/">shows
Charlotte thugs were lying</a> when they said that a gun fell at Keith
Scott's feet when he was shot.
<p>
Apparently the thugs planted the gun there.
<p>
Protesters marched through the town 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/we-want-the-tapes-charlotte-protesters-demand-justice-on-third-night-of-protests/">demanding
that the thugs release their videos</a>.


feed_id: a007afff9f9f171a61f680283f7666cd
title: Foreign money in US elections
uri: Foreign-money-in-US-elections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Foreign_money_in_US_elections%29

content:
<p>
SCROTUS rejected trying to limit 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/fec-republicans-kill-attempt-to-block-foreign-money-in-u-s-elections/">campaign
donations from foreign-owned companies</a>.


feed_id: 4bbdfb43db81c6860d4672eb6a4e0fa1
title: Push for peace
uri: Push-for-peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Push_for_peace%29
content:
<p>
John Kiriakou 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/24/cia-torture-whistleblower-quest-peace-must-be-part-election">calls
for Americans to push for peace</a>, and reminds us that CIA torture
was directly approved by Dubya.


feed_id: ec4bb3cbcd3247234b71d683f3e358e9
title: "Kill them first" wrong action outside of war
uri: Kill-them-first-wrong-action-outside-of-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Kill_them_first_wrong_action_outside_of_war%29

content:
<p>
A former UK soldier says that he planted listening devices in the
homes of suspected IRA terrorists, and those devices are probably
still operating.
<p>
And he says he was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/23/army-bugged-sinn-fein-members-ira-ceasefire-soldier-northern-ireland">sent
on a mission to shoot two of them dead</a>, because they were believed
to be about to go shoot soldiers.
<p>
It is legitimate for a court to order surveillance of specific
criminal suspects, but I don't think the army bothered to make it
legitimate in that way.
<p>
It is legitimate to take action to stop a killing, but outside of war,
"kill them first" is the wrong action to take.


feed_id: ba56bf70b535f0af49ab6cd149a191de
title: Urgent: Release of videos made by thugs
uri: Urgent-Release-of-videos-made-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Release_of_videos_made_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/nc-bodycams-keith-scott/">call
for the US government to pressure North Carolina</a> to repeal its law
restricting release of videos made by thugs.
<p>
The new law prohibits 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/23/release-tapes-demand-transparency-grows-charlotte-and-beyond">release
of thug videos without a court order</a>.
<p>
The ACLU explains why the thug videos showing the killing of Keith
Scott 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/23/charlotte-shooting-shows-why-video-transparency-vital">ought
to be published</a>.


feed_id: 9296690acb691b9842f2cf477c49ed9e
title: Trump's promise to fossil fuel executives
uri: Trump-s-promise-to-fossil-fuel-executives
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Trumps_promise_to_fossil_fuel_executives%29

content:
<p>
Trump promised fossil fuel executives he would give them 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/23/trump-fossil-fuel-execs-you-will-me-so-much">everything
they want</a>.  Even more than Clinton would give them.
<p>
Since Trump makes a habit of lying, he might have lied to them.
But we cannot take that for granted.


feed_id: d5bb5a76880bec5042fb60e767247dbd
title: Trump's lies
uri: 2016-09-29-Trump-s-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Trumps_lies%29
content:
<p>
Did Trump lie in a debate with Jeb Bush, 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/23/1573520/-Donald-Trump-lied-like-always-but-this-one-might-be-a-felony">or
did he lie in court</a>?
<p>
There is one other possibility: he could have lied both times.


feed_id: c4f70e13165efffb1001be095f5c62ad
title: A police state under Trump
uri: A-police-state-under-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28A_police_state_under_Trump%29
content:
<p>
Donald Trump's Police State … he wants to 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/donald-trump-stop-and-frisk-blacks-round-up-millions-of-hispanics/501032/">abolish
the constitutional rights of blacks and Hispanics</a>.


feed_id: 0ea773bbffc7911b0880cf3474644e36
title: Bad laws lure US money into finance
uri: Bad-laws-lure-US-money-into-finance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Bad_laws_lure_US_money_into_finance%29

content:
<p>
Bad laws lure US money into finance instead of useful industry, and
the result is a 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/fairfield-county/501215/">large
reduction of investment in real activity</a>.


feed_id: c470473d9ce36df4aaf2da94e21e2674
title: DuPont and Monsanto violate health standards
uri: DuPont-and-Monsanto-violate-health-standards
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28DuPont_and_Monsanto_violate_health_standards%29

content:
<p>
DuPont and Monsanto regularly violate health standards in 
<a href="http://inthesetimes.com/features/monsanto_dupont_migrant_labor_camp_abuses.html">their
treatment of migrant workers</a>.


feed_id: 00289ecb679ae551dc56183162eff06d
title: UK deports people before they can appeal
uri: UK-deports-people-before-they-can-appeal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28UK_deports_people_before_they_can_appeal%29

content:
<p>
The UK regularly deports people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/27/deport-first-out-of-country-appeal-jamaica-mass-deportations-home-office">before they can appeal</a>, and has made
out-of-country appeal so expensive and difficult that hardly any of
them can try it.
<p>
Some have been deported back to persecution.
<p>
The UK is starting to collect nationality data about children in
school, which seems to be designed to catch children in school to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/27/pupil-data-collection-scheme-dangerous-threat-children-safety-teacher-parent">deport them</a>.


feed_id: c21f691cea54ddb3184704ad28ac3812
title: Boosted US wages
uri: Boosted-US-wages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Boosted_US_wages%29
content:
<p>
A little bit of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/27/us-data-progressive-policies-reduce-poverty">progressive policy</a> has boosted US wages for a
significant fraction of workers.


feed_id: 3661c0a167d2369555e74d8c196ce45a
title: Germany orders Facebook
uri: Germany-orders-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Germany_orders_Facebook%29
content:
<p>
Germany has ordered Facebook to <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/27/germany-orders-facebook-stop-collecting-whatsapp-phone-numbers-user-data">delete the data</a> that came from WhatsApp.


feed_id: 959ded1e0b4fd365e25c685bb97dfa17
title: ICC Sentences Islamic Militant
uri: ICC-Sentences-Islamic-Militant
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28ICC_Sentences_Islamic_Militant_%29

content:
<p>
ICC Sentences <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/27/timbuktu-shrines-icc-sentences-islamic-militant-nine-years-destruction-ahmad-al-faqi-al-mahdi">Islamic Militant</a> to Nine Years over Timbuktu Destruction.


feed_id: 5cb85627a14d343e9e7b2473bc6d0529
title: China's air pollution
uri: China-s-air-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28China%27s_air_pollution%29
content:
<p>
A study estimates that China's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/27/more-than-million-died-due-air-pollution-china-one-year">air pollution</a> kills a million people per year.
<p>
That would be 5% to 10% of all deaths in China


feed_id: 109bfae41625d5e6d8569596ee4db1a2
title: Nestle water grabs
uri: Nestle-water-grabs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Nestle_water_grabs%29
content:
<p>
For those that want to <a href="http://www.infactcanada.ca/nestle_boycott_product.htm">boycott Nestle</a> because of its water grabs,
here is a list of brands that Nestle owns.


feed_id: fdd883833ba4aa8d0731abff573dec39
title: Russian "bunker-buster" bombs
uri: Russian-bunker-buster-bombs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Russian_bunker-buster_bombs_%29

content:
<p>
The Russian "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/26/syria-aleppo-russia-bunker-buster-bomb-reports">bunker-buster</a>" bombs used on Aleppo are so powerful that buildings collapse just from the shock waves of the explosions. Their
inhabitants die.


feed_id: 245ed2c06c225929ce160da16be8a5f4
title: EFF takes a strong stance against HP
uri: EFF-takes-a-strong-stance-against-HP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28EFF_takes_a_strong_stance_against_HP%29

content:
<p>
The EFF takes a strong stance against HP's <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/what-hp-must-do-make-amends-its-self-destructing-printers">printer DRM</a>.
<p>
The one thing I would add is, "We must change the law to make DRM a felony."


feed_id: f8936ffb61374e999c9d2bb0e1b5e78e
title: End Male Guardianship of Women.
uri: End-Male-Guardianship-of-Women
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28End_Male_Guardianship_of_Women.%29

content:
<p>
Thousands of Saudis <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/26/saudi-arabia-protest-petition-end-guardianship-law-women">Sign Petition</a> to End Male Guardianship of Women.


feed_id: e91c0a05cf3c3923e9b92ee8746477cc
title: Facebook closed more accounts
uri: Facebook-closed-more-accounts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Facebook_closed_more_accounts%29

content:
<p>
Facebook <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/26/13055862/facebook-israel-palestinian-journalists-censorship">closed the accounts</a> of some Palestinian journalists,
but reenabled them after public criticism.


feed_id: 1c677e7ca50b879844c94c901cb0c586
title: Urgent: Americans should sue Saudi Arabia
uri: Urgent-Americans-should-sue-Saudi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Americans_should_sue_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 202-224-3121 in support of
the bill to <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/JASTA-veto-override-call-in">allow Americans</a> to sue Saudi Arabia for terrorist acts,
just as they can sue some other countries.


feed_id: 352d78bb8b8ef3ff5bf07f9b23095c3f
title: Urgent: Carried interest tax loophole
uri: Urgent-Carried-interest-tax-loophole
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Carried_interest_tax_loophole%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for <a href="https://www.signherenow.org/petition/close-tax-loopholes/epi/">closing</a> the carried interest tax loophole.


feed_id: 777d86c6b77761dedb7ef882a9bdb979
title: Urgent: Presidential Tax Transparency Act
uri: Urgent-Presidential-Tax-Transparency-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Presidential_Tax_Transparency_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate to vote on the <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/bring-the-presidential-tax-transparency-act-to-a-vote-2">Presidential Tax Transparency Act</a>.


feed_id: 5e4e346f21469d6fd570a7c0b00ac58d
title: Urgent: Pardon Snowden now
uri: Urgent-Pardon-Snowden-now
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Pardon_Snowden_now%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Obama to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-president-obama-pardon-edward-snowden-now/?source=demandprogress-kick&t=1001&akid=4684.96703.bTxOFt">pardon Snowden now</a>.


feed_id: b1b19d97d36c3646c5c3d88ea80f6755
title: Lenovo don't want you to run GNU/Linux
uri: Lenovo-don-t-want-you-to-run-GNU-Linux
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Lenovo_don%27t_want_you_to_run_GNU%2BLinux%29

content:
<p>
Lenovo gratuitously made some new laptops <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_microsoft_signature_pc_program_now/">incompatible with Linux</a>, so the GNU/Linux system cannot run.


feed_id: c44b65e6f3226f118ae44a90dec972f8
title: Netherlands to end use of coal by 2030
uri: Netherlands-to-end-use-of-coal-by-2030
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Netherlands_to_end_use_of_coal_by_2030%29

content:
<p>
The Netherlands will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/23/dutch-parliament-votes-to-close-down-countrys-coal-industry">end use of coal</a> by 2030.
<p>
I fear this is still not fast enough.


feed_id: 8ff4d3bec51a3f95ab641af7e251692b
title: Airplane Emissions
uri: Airplane-Emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Airplane_Emissions%29
content:
<p>
Governments <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/26/planes-need-to-stop-existing-in-a-parallel-universe-when-it-comes-to-the-climate-fight">timidly</a> approach the idea of reducing greenhouse gas
emissions from airplanes:
<p>
"Please, sirs, could we have some less?"


feed_id: 7bee8534f2133ea36172eca69f80cab6
title: Editors murder being investigated
uri: Editors-murder-being-investigated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Editors_murder_being_investigated%29

content:
<p>
The murder of editor Lasantha Wickrematunge is being investigated;
an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/26/body-sri-lanka-journalist-foresaw-murder-exhumed">official is suspected</a> of carrying it out.


feed_id: 65bfb6e2ef2fe9609b79eae271da2f1e
title: Spanish banksters on trial
uri: Spanish-banksters-on-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Spanish_banksters_on_trial%29
content:
<p>
65 Spanish banksters are on trial, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/25/former-imf-head-rodrigo-rato-on-trial-over-bankers-luxury-sprees">accused of stealing</a> from their
banks. One of them was also a minister for the right-wing party that
used to form the government.


feed_id: 5169721b39d115d8d370a1ab150c850a
title: Urgent: Call on the DOJ
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-DOJ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_the_DOJ%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to <a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/film-police2">investigate the
thugs</a> that have harassed and framed people for recording the thugs'
wrongdoing.


feed_id: 53a226f0daff3443518d68594f608a29
title: Immigrants Don't Steal Jobs or Wages
uri: Immigrants-Don-t-Steal-Jobs-or-Wages
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Immigrants_Don%27t_Steal_Jobs_or_Wages%29

content:
<p>
Immigrants Don't <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/25/immigrants-dont-steal-jobs-or-wages-billionaires-do">Steal Jobs or Wages</a>. Billionaires Do.


feed_id: 1b8873dd0303ea26aab3093cdf0a6bf5
title: Protest the Banks
uri: Protest-the-Banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Protest_the_Banks%29
content:
<p>
One way all of us can can fight to curb fossil fuel investments such
as the Dakota Access pipeline is to <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/24/why-standing-rock-needs-to-be-a-two-front-war-against-big-oil-and-big-banks/">protest the banks</a> that finance them.
<p>
The big banks hurt society in many ways, so let's take our money out!
<p>
The Clean Energy Future plan shows how the US can <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/25/jobs-justice-and-clean-energy-future">reduce greenhouse
gases</a> greatly while creating lots of jobs.
<p>
Alas, poor bankers, it won't give them the fossil fuel subsidies that they
are getting now from enormous investments such as pipelines.


feed_id: 96853a4b957e8bf1c36d43626498435a
title: China intimidates Hong Kong cinemas
uri: China-intimidates-Hong-Kong-cinemas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28China_intimidates_Hong_Kong_cinemas%29

content:
<p>
China has intimidated cinemas in Hong Kong so that they refuse to show
a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/26/yellowing-film-hong-kong-umbrella-movement-struggles-to-be-seen-cinema">documentary about the protests</a> there two years ago.


feed_id: 1c3fce0ee469ac867c6a64be81dde2d0
title: Urgent: Stop Dakota Access pipeline
uri: Urgent-Stop-Dakota-Access-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Dakota_Access_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2742">call
on Obama</a> to fully stop the Dakota Access pipeline.


feed_id: 3566cd03af55636807b2f877bc3e0050
title: Urgent: Mountaintop mining regulations
uri: Urgent-Mountaintop-mining-regulations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Mountaintop_mining_regulations%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1901">call
for stronger regulations</a> on on mountaintop removal mining and
requirements for local cleanup.
<p>
What we really need is to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_(EPA_has_power_to_ban_mountaintop_mines)">ban
it entirely</a>, because continuing to burn coal means global
disaster.


feed_id: e31ce357f156d09a41bb01278e4637d1
title: Prosecution for "insulting Islam"
uri: Prosecution-for-insulting-Islam
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Prosecution_for_insulting_Islam%29

content:
<p>
A Christian in Jordan was on trial for "insulting Islam".  Even worse,
he was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/25/jordanian-writer-shot-dead-trial-insulting-islam-nahed-hattar">assassinated
before the end of the trial</a>.
<p>
The Jordanian government, by prosecuting people like him, encourages
violence.


feed_id: 3a0528e937ea42fbebb5210276c60219
title: Drug use in Nazi Germany
uri: Drug-use-in-Nazi-Germany
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Drug_use_in_Nazi_Germany%29
content:
<p>
Almost everyone in Nazi Germany took drugs, including the leaders, the
soldiers, the workers, and the housewives.  It was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/25/blitzed-norman-ohler-adolf-hitler-nazi-drug-abuse-interview">state
policy</a>.
<p>
Meth made blitzkrieg possible, but the long-term drug use surely
ground everyone down.  Defeat was almost inevitable, given enemies
that didn't use amphetamines.


feed_id: 908d38d8d6bc8d6dc546ca1e8ba0a43f
title: The TPP
uri: 2016-09-29-The-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28The_TPP%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/25/obama-failed-asian-pivot-china-ascendant">latest
effort to impose the Treacherous Plutocratic Poison</a> is to present
it as a form of global rivalry between the US and China.
<p>
To make us panic, they trace a chain of what-ifs leading to a possible
conquest of Taiwan by China.
<p>
So, plutocrats — if there is something about the TPP that is so
important, why don't you remove the unjust parts?  Then no one would
fight against it.


feed_id: d78db3c80002729ea4cfe909f9563ee3
title: Sale of looted artifacts
uri: Sale-of-looted-artifacts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Sale_of_looted_artifacts%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.dw.com/en/germanys-new-cultural-protection-law-welcomed-abroad/a-19564008">new
German law</a> will crimp the sale of looted artifacts.


feed_id: f669bb7b8570ea11a15a30a25497ff91
title: Exclusion of journalists from rallies
uri: Exclusion-of-journalists-from-rallies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Exclusion_of_journalists_from_rallies%29

content:
<p>
A hotel where Trump was going to hold an event 
<a href="https://rsf.org/en/news/us-rsf-deplores-arrest-journalist-outside-trump-campaign-event">arrested</a>
a journalist who was asking whether he would be allowed into the
event.
<p>
The right-wing bigotry party in France is 
<a href="https://rsf.org/en/news/france-rsf-decries-national-front-ban-certain-journalists">excluding
some journalists from its rallies</a>, too.


feed_id: 211550bc833ccf4be180c09053a1a85d
title: Videos of the killing of Keith Scott
uri: Videos-of-the-killing-of-Keith-Scott
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Videos_of_the_killing_of_Keith_Scott%29

content:
<p>
The Charlotte thug department released some videos of the killing of
Keith Scott, which show he was 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/24/charlotte-police-video-keith-scotts-killing-released/">not
threatening anyone</a>.


feed_id: 4fbe930739f1f9dfcd4ca7643a3bc986
title: When brothels are prohibited
uri: When-brothels-are-prohibited
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28When_brothels_are_prohibited%29

content:
<p>
Most of the UK's brothels are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/24/organised-crime-behind-uk-sex-trade">connected
to criminal gangs that are involved in other illegal activities</a>.
<p>
This is the natural result of prohibiting brothels.  When selling
alcohol was a crime in the US, the underground alcohol trade was
mostly controlled by mafiosi.  Now it is mostly controlled by a few
large companies, but they are not quite as bad as the mafia.  (And our
governments could and should have stopped the companies from merging.)
<p>
We should legalize them, and regulate them to protect their workers.


feed_id: afc796a0acfeb292b689526cf467fe83
title: Very urgent: Political spending disclosures
uri: Very-urgent-Political-spending-disclosures
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#28_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Political_spending_disclosures%29

content:
<p>
Senator McConnell and others are risking shutting down the US
government merely to protect publicly traded corporations from being
required to disclose their political spending.  So 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/comcau/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1804">not
to this</a>.


feed_id: 17ef1db9c309b4c16afe26bd5de25f83
title: Don't give birthdate to online services
uri: Don-t-give-birthdate-to-online-services
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Dont_give_birthdate_to_online_services%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2016-09-online-birthdatecreating.html">Don't
give your (real) birthdate</a> to an online service!
<p>
Actually, if the service wants to know who you are, you are well
advised not to use it at all.


feed_id: cafb4dd99e0584eb75bfe673a420675d
title: CETA
uri: 2016-09-30-CETA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28CETA%29
content:
<p>
Despite a lot of opposition to CETA, it is 
<a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/09/ttip-dying-ceta-new-analysis/">not
dead yet</a>.


feed_id: f703eef3eac0fd87e58037836d9c19b5
title: Tiger farming
uri: Tiger-farming
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Tiger_farming%29
content:
<p>
China is under pressure to stop 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/27/china-accused-of-defying-its-own-ban-on-breeding-tigers-to-profit-from-body-parts">breeding
tigers for selling the parts</a>.
<p>
I wonder why poaching continues with so much tiger farming.  Surely
farmed tigers are cheaper than wild tigers, so why does anyone take
the risk of hunting them and smuggling them?


feed_id: 4a1eb608b70123769eb00f128297826e
title: Carbon "offsets"
uri: Carbon-offsets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Carbon_offsets%29
content:
<p>
Airlines want to use carbon "offsets" as an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/27/can-the-aviation-industry-finally-clean-up-its-emissions">excuse
to continue increasing their greenhouse gas emissions, or else
biofuels to reduce them</a>.  But neither method is reliable.
<p>
Growing plants specifically to make biofuel is sustainable only if
they don't need fertilizer, pesticide, or much cultivation.  And the
"offsets" are often fictitious, such as planting trees and hoping that
they grow.


feed_id: 9be9791914908a7f0ec3735ec45f8739
title: Banning fracking
uri: Banning-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Banning_fracking%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/27/shale-gas-fracking-cement-decline-uk-manufacturing-ineos">distraction
campaign for fossil fools</a>: banning fracking would cause "decline
of manufacturing" in the UK.
<p>
This "decline" is by comparison with an imaginary world, in which
global heating was not happening, and offshoring and automation of
manufacturing had not happened.


feed_id: 87bbaae2dc1fb79b92fbfa96424e5c70
title: Right-wing extremist terrorists
uri: Right-wing-extremist-terrorists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Right-wing_extremist_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
The latest US terrorist attack was carried out by a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/27/houston-shooting-nazi-emblems">right-wing
extremist</a>.
<p>
Overall, right-wing extremists commit a large fraction of US terrorist
violence.  Don't assume that Islamists are more dangerous than
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#7_December_2015_(Religions)">Christianists</a>.
<p>
However, terrorism from all sources is a small danger in the US.
Don't worry about it too much.


feed_id: 3cbad1ee271e90fd1aeb63b5c2d0e909
title: Plastic microfibers in synthetic fabrics
uri: Plastic-microfibers-in-synthetic-fabrics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Plastic_microfibers_in_synthetic_fabrics%29

content:
<p>
Washing synthetic fabrics releases lots of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/27/washing-clothes-releases-water-polluting-fibres-study-finds">plastic
microfibers</a> that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#22_June_2016_(Plastic_microfibers)">harm 
marine life</a>.


feed_id: 03c704fb3163f4c712662803b86adca5
title: Undersea fossil fuel extraction dispute
uri: Undersea-fossil-fuel-extraction-dispute
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Undersea_fossil_fuel_extraction_dispute%29

content:
<p>
Australia and East Timor are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/26/australia-fails-in-attempt-to-block-timor-leste-maritime-boundary-case">disputing
which one will have the right to extract undersea fossil fuels</a> and
help destroy civilization.
<p>
The only safe answer to a dispute about 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#19_September_2016_(Risk_of_oil_extraction_in_the_Arctic)">who
can exploit new fossil fuel deposits</a> is, "Neither of you!
Nobody!"


feed_id: f273a42fde171c0cee1dd167bf9c4ad3
title: Thugs in Pakistan
uri: Thugs-in-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Thugs_in_Pakistan%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in Pakistan 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/26/pakistan-police-accused-of-illegally-killing-hundreds-of-suspects-a-year">intentionally
kill hundreds, perhaps thousands of people every year</a>, then claim
they were "resisting arrest".
<p>
They also use torture to extract confessions.
These confessions 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_(Chicago:_30_years_of_Torture)">may 
easily be false</a>.


feed_id: 96342e30efcd310865ce299cc4dc4603
title: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
uri: Comic-Book-Legal-Defense-Fund
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Comic_Book_Legal_Defense_Fund%29

content:
<p>
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/25/fight-to-save-comics-from-censor-neil-gaiman-comic-book-legal-defense-fund">defends
US artists from censorship</a>.
<p>
I endorse its firm stand on freedom of expression: there must be no
legal limits of "obscenity" or "blasphemy" on what people can draw,
write or say.


feed_id: 90d9efbb3f327894058e7c17dd3afad8
title: Wells Fargo fraud
uri: Wells-Fargo-fraud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Wells_Fargo_fraud%29
content:
<p>
Wells Fargo workers who were 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/24/wells-fargo-scandal-class-action-lawsuit-sales-quota">fired
or punished for resisting pressure to commit fraud</a> are now suing
the bank.
<p>
Wells Fargo has been 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37720-wells-fargo-whistleblower-they-are-all-riding-the-stagecoach-to-hell">using
quotas to pressure staff into fraud</a> for years, in various
different areas.


feed_id: bda8241a64f3a586d2edeb778969dcd9
title: War crime investigations
uri: War-crime-investigations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28War_crime_investigations%29
content:
<p>
Tony B'liar thinks it is a terrible shame that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/25/tony-blair-voices-anger-at-pursuit-of-british-soldiers-for-alleged-war-abuses">British
soldiers face investigation and possible prosecution</a> for possible
war crimes.
<p>
What's worse, current ministers think the same.
<p>
However, one minister 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/25/boris-johnson-russia-could-be-guilty-war-crimes-syria">wants
Russian officials investigated</a> for war crimes.
<p>
I think both sides should be investigated.


feed_id: b1ab0b7e4da962678516064898892b87
title: UK confiscates journalist's passport
uri: UK-confiscates-journalist-s-passport
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28UK_confiscates_journalists_passport%29

content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/24/syrian-journalist-zaina-erhaim-passport-held-assad-request">confiscated
a Syrian journalist's passport</a> because Assad's men said it was
"stolen".


feed_id: 4f9c68d30cf02e8749807d1a04396844
title: Section 702 of FISA
uri: Section-702-of-FISA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Section_702_of_FISA%29
content:
<p>
Section 702 of FISA supposedly authorizes massive surveillance of
non-Americans' communications, but in fact it 
<a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/33111/correcting-record-section-702-prerequisite-meaningful-surveillance-reform-part-ii/">collects
lots of Americans' communications</a> too.


feed_id: 6851309a8da10adb5e343e44e749f55f
title: NSA's "upstream" surveillance
uri: NSA-s-upstream-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28NSAs_upstream_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Unprecedented and 
<a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/33044/unprecedented-unlawful-nsas-upstream-surveillance/">Unlawful</a>:
The NSA's "Upstream" Surveillance.
<p>
While we talk about unjust massive surveillance of the internet, keep
in mind that unjust massive surveillance is 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">not
limited to internet use</a>.


feed_id: 0c7974cb89a9580554c590a9c7b7c470
title: Consumer Review Freedom Act
uri: Consumer-Review-Freedom-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Consumer_Review_Freedom_Act%29
content:
<p>
A small but dangerous loophole in the Consumer Review Freedom Act
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/copyright-loophole-could-undermine-important-consumer-protection-bill">needs
to be fixed before it is adopted</a>.


feed_id: 5bb874402f1ce66d78ebf95441200782
title: Swiss massive surveillance law
uri: Swiss-massive-surveillance-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Swiss_massive_surveillance_law%29

content:
<p>
Switzerland's people 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/25/switzerland-votes-in-favour-of-greater-surveillance">voted
to permit massive government surveillance</a>.
<p>
That article doesn't state how the law 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/01/25/how-a-small-company-in-switzerland-is-fighting-a-surveillance-law-and-winning/">allows 
too much surveillance</a>.


feed_id: f9e759ab19c8b25b3aba4b7d62ecbd6e
title: Canada approves new LNG pipeline
uri: Canada-approves-new-LNG-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28Canada_approves_new_LNG_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
Canada has
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/28/climate-commitments-be-damned-trudeau-oks-carbon-bomb-lng-project">approved
a new pipeline for natural gas export</a> that would bust its
greenhouse gas targets.
<p>
The world
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_(The_existing_fossil_fuel_mines_and_wells)">cannot
afford to keep operating the existing fossil fuel mines and wells</a>.
Creating new ones is suicidal.


feed_id: 7e5a8c94fb1c5fa4a87e9eef7b363b48
title: UK government and arms firms
uri: UK-government-and-arms-firms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28UK_government_and_arms_firms%29
content:
<p>
UK Government
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/29/uk-government-works-hand-in-glove-arms-firms-campaign-against-arms-trade">Works
"Hand in Glove" with Arms Firms</a>, Say Campaigners.


feed_id: b83c2fa1cb23db0a19ddcf5e7d96f5a8
title: Confronting antisemitism
uri: Confronting-antisemitism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28Confronting_antisemitism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/29/antisemitism-labour-progressive-momentum-naz-shah">How
to confront antisemitism</a> in the UK Labour Party without defending
Israel's occupation of Palestine.


feed_id: 4ca7e9895732d91986e8c1a904cf743c
title: Desalination of Persian Gulf water
uri: Desalination-of-Persian-Gulf-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28Desalination_of_Persian_Gulf_water%29

content:
<p>
Desalination of water from the Persian Gulf is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/sep/29/peak-salt-is-the-desalination-dream-over-for-the-gulf-states">making
the water there saltier</a>, so desalination gets more expensive.


feed_id: 1a28a2440d314b55a228942670f5381e
title: Thugs infiltrate Black Lives Matter protest
uri: Thugs-infiltrate-Black-Lives-Matter-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28Thugs_infiltrate_Black_Lives_Matter_protest%29

content:
<p>
The New York City thug department
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/29/nypd-black-lives-matter-undercover-protests">infiltrated</a>
a Black Lives Matter protest.


feed_id: 9f9f525ac9ba3f315a6c5f378c30907b
title: Sudan using chemical weapons
uri: Sudan-using-chemical-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28Sudan_using_chemical_weapons%29
content:
<p>
Sudan is using chemical weapons
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/29/chemical-weapons-used-against-darfuris-war-crime">against
people in Darfur</a>.


feed_id: cbcdae5bd72c2c7f8eefc0a409502d43
title: HP's new printer cartridge DRM
uri: HP-s-new-printer-cartridge-DRM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28HPs_new_printer_cartridge_DRM%29
content:
<p>
Perhaps HP said it will retract its
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/29/hp-timebomb-software-update">new
printer cartridge DRM</a>.
<p>
I can't tell for certain whether that is what HP has pledged to do.
Does anyone know?


feed_id: 663cce102f92ff2cc5fe0dd27772cd71
title: Gary Johnson
uri: Gary-Johnson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28Gary_Johnson%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/09/gary-johnson-wants-crush-bernie-revolution-good">Why
I do not support Gary Johnson</a> for president.


feed_id: 0bb8de37cb60dda0885373487a358b8a
title: The FEC
uri: The-FEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28The_FEC%29
content:
<p>
A federal court ordered the Federal Election Commission to take
action against
<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/news/feckless-f-e-c-rebuked/">blatant
illegality</a>.
<p>
The FEC is totally paralyzed, neutralized by Republicans that want no
obstacles to their use of billionaires' money.


feed_id: db866882775e7c966e32e92f9e6992c6
title: Trump's requests of special treatment
uri: Trump-s-requests-of-special-treatment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28Trumps_requests_of_special_treatment%29

content:
<p>
A civil rights museum
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/26/1574615/-Trump-barred-from-civil-rights-museum-after-his-cronies-made-demands-and-bullied-the-staff">refused</a>
Trump's requests for special treatment if he visited there.
<p>
Anyone that publicly accepts a meeting with Trump, and any institution
that welcomes him, is being used by him.


feed_id: be6f63b2da130c262dc8059d79d4d965
title: Slavish loyalty to Israel
uri: Slavish-loyalty-to-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#02_October_2016_%28Slavish_loyalty_to_Israel%29
content:
<p>
An Israeli right-wing party leader suggested
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Bennett-US-election-period-is-opportunity-to-annex-parts-of-West-Bank-468744">using
the US election as an opportunity to annex Palestinian territory</a>.
<p>
His idea is to make a monkey out of the US while candidates are
falling on their faces
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#11_September_2015_(Clinton%27s_militarism)">pledging
slavish loyalty to Israel</a>.
<p>
Israel has already claimed to annex land around Jerusalem, and this
claim shouldn't be respected either.


feed_id: 88d911895132ee3e496ef12890fa0d33
title: Urgent: Federal birth control funds
uri: Urgent-Federal-birth-control-funds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Federal_birth_control_funds%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/titlex_public_comment">support
Obama's new rule</a> that states can't arbitrarily block federal birth
control funds.


feed_id: 6d4f9f705eaec47a697eef85486af968
title: Thugs attack teenager for refusing their help
uri: Thugs-attack-teenager-for-refusing-their-help
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Thugs_attack_teenager_for_refusing_their_help%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in Maryland pulled a teenager off her bike, then 
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/22/video-white-cops-pepper-spray-black-girl-after-she-falls-off-her-bike.html">pepper-sprayed
her while she was handcuffed</a>.  Her "crime" was saying she didn't
want help from the thugs, after her bike collided with a car.


feed_id: 3dec7650db1b897832a4c4388cfe9f8a
title: "Obscene" songs a crime in Australia
uri: Obscene-songs-a-crime-in-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Obscene_songs_a_crime_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Censorship spreads: part of Australia has 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37426651">made
singing an "obscene" song a crime</a>.


feed_id: 9a1bfbd868574bcd6c14f1e01c132956
title: Thugs kill e-cigarette-wielding man
uri: Thugs-kill-e-cigarette-wielding-man
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Thugs_kill_e-cigarette-wielding_man%29

content:
<p>
Alfred Olango in El Cajon was killed by thugs who 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/28/police-say-black-man-killed-by-officer-near-san-diego-was-holding-e-cigarette">didn't
take the time to see that he was holding an e-cigarette</a> rather
than a gun.
<p>
The thugs said he was holding it "in firing position", but that is not
the way people hold e-cigarettes, so I think they made it up.


feed_id: cd73da3c2d688bf20e30b0febea7ec1f
title: Planet roasters blame wind power for blackout
uri: Planet-roasters-blame-wind-power-for-blackout
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Planet_roasters_blame_wind_power_for_blackout%29

content:
<p>
A powerful storm knocked down part of the power grid in South
Australia, and planet roasters are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/29/south-australia-blackout-explained-renewables-not-to-blame">falsely
claiming</a> the cause of the blackout was too much use of wind power.
<p>
But even if their claim were true, their argument would be absurd.
If we could save the world from global disaster at the price
of an occasional blackout, what a relief that would be.


feed_id: 151ca7e413a7b695a426ece664ebc915
title: Re-identifying anonymized data
uri: Re-identifying-anonymized-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Re-identifying_anonymized_data%29
content:
<p>
Australia proposes to make it a crime to re-identify anonymized data,
but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/29/george-brandis-to-criminalise-re-identifying-published-government-data">only
data published by the state</a>.
<p>
It is an interesting idea for protecting privacy.  Of course, it
should have limited exceptions for security testing and research in
certain cases.  But as long as it only applies to data that came from
the state, it can't address much of the problem.


feed_id: 3ac26315fc4cdde84763d56ca8ad8ee2
title: Internet censorship
uri: 2016-10-03-Internet-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Internet_censorship%29
content:
<p>
The European Parliament has 
<a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en/terrorism-directive-european-parliament-cowardly-surrender-outrageous-security-call">approved
arbitrary internet censorship</a>, without even a trial, as an
"anti-terrorist" measure.


feed_id: 3a6c8f36616100002100b463dd1eec5a
title: FBI agent fired for reporting rule-breaking
uri: FBI-agent-fired-for-reporting-rule-breaking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28FBI_agent_fired_for_reporting_rule-breaking%29

content:
<p>
FBI agent Parkinson 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/28/justice-department-is-fighting-fired-fbi-agents-use-of-whistleblower-defense/">reported
other employees for breaking rules</a>, and was fired.  The Department
of Justice is going to great lengths to screw him.
<p>
Using the FBI's plane for personal travel is defrauding the US
treasury.  It is valid to report that.  However, when this person
complains that someone uses the services of a prostitute, or watches
porn, he is being a jerk.  He should stop harassing other staff about
their personal lives.
<p>
However, he shouldn't have been fired for that, or falsely accused.


feed_id: 27683b683421e58218724aca0d2695eb
title: Former intel head of Peru convicted of murder
uri: Former-intel-head-of-Peru-convicted-of-murder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Former_intel_head_of_Peru_convicted_of_murder%29

content:
<p>
The former intelligence head of Peru has been convicted of murdering
three people in his headquarters.  
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/peru-spy-vladimiro-montesinos-sentenced-forced-disappearances">15,000
others were disappeared</a> in that period.


feed_id: 845100b8f0f640cb408aa5264ccd7767
title: Congress overrides Obama's veto
uri: Congress-overrides-Obama-s-veto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Congress_overrides_Obamas_veto%29
content:
<p>
Congress overrode Obama's veto and passed the bill to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/28/victims-state-sponsored-terror-deserve-justice-sponsors-terror-need-be-held">end
Salafi Arabia's immunity</a> from lawsuits about supporting terrorist
attacks in the US.
<p>
I don't know whether the Salafi state directly supported any such
attacks.  However, the Salafi sect, which it has spread around the
Muslim world, is the basis for 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#11_August_2011_(Beheading_Fuels_Backlash)">a 
lot of cruelty</a>, and perhaps indirectly for terrorism.


feed_id: f99fc865aa089fccd43cd4793c62ce62
title: The asylum seekers dumped on Manus island
uri: The-asylum-seekers-dumped-on-Manus-island
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28The_asylum_seekers_dumped_on_Manus_island%29

content:
<p>
Nearly all the asylum seekers that Australia dumped on Manus island
are valid refugees in real danger of persecution if they return home.
Australia cannot forcibly send them back.
<p>
So it is trying to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/29/its-simply-coercion-manus-island-immigration-policy-and-the-men-with-no-future">coerce
and bribe them into "voluntarily" going back</a> into danger of
torture or imprisonment.


feed_id: be7aee6ad0348c9be439fd5cfeef3f17
title: Attacks on medical facilities in Syria
uri: Attacks-on-medical-facilities-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Attacks_on_medical_facilities_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Physicians for Human Rights says medical facilities in Syria have been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/sep/28/aleppo-hospitals-are-latest-casualty-in-attacks-by-the-syrian-regime">attacked
400 times</a>, nearly always by Assad's side.
<p>
Assad's men just 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/aleppo-two-hospitals-bombed-out-of-service-syria-airstrikes">bombed
Eastern Aleppo's two largest hospitals</a> — twice in one day.
<p>
Meanwhile, in Yemen it is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_August_2016_(Salafi_Arabia_bombs_another_hospital)">Salafi 
Arabia</a> (backed by the US) that attacks hospitals.


feed_id: 3b6a46c35b199bfb216cf7147e466b09
title: Journalist prosecuted for reporting corruption
uri: Journalist-prosecuted-for-reporting-corruption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Journalist_prosecuted_for_reporting_corruption%29

content:
<p>
Russian journalist Denis Korotkov obtained from poll workers a sticker
to let him vote many times.  He used it, and reported on doing so.
Now 
<a href="https://cpj.org/2016/09/russian-journalist-to-be-tried-for-alleging-electi.php">he
is being prosecuted</a>, but not the corrupt poll workers that gave
out these stickers.


feed_id: 4ba4176d3d425ea95b3fa3e36d5f222c
title: Attacks against Eastern European expats in UK
uri: Attacks-against-Eastern-European-expats-in-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Attacks_against_Eastern_European_expats_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
The UK's referendum about leaving the EU was preceded by an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/28/hate-crime-horrible-spike-brexit-vote-metropolitan-police">increase
in attacks against Eastern European expats</a>, and there were even
more attacks after the vote.


feed_id: 584f73ac842c75343dab2f708e73bf24
title: US trade sanctions on Syria
uri: US-trade-sanctions-on-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28US_trade_sanctions_on_Syria%29
content:
<p>
US trade sanctions on Syria 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/28/u-s-sanctions-are-punishing-ordinary-syrians-and-crippling-aid-work-u-n-report-reveals/">impede
humanitarian aid</a>, including medical supplies.  The limits on funds
transfers have encouraged an underground banking system, which PISSI
finds useful.


feed_id: e582b3892c113aa1b544ae9fb0418f5c
title: Ukraine considers book censorship
uri: Ukraine-considers-book-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Ukraine_considers_book_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/28/ukraine-prepares-to-ban-anti-ukrainian-russian-books">considering
a law</a> to censor Russian books that criticize Ukraine.
<p>
What a horrible idea.


feed_id: 419fe38e2a9a111eeae69e2ff31c6282
title: Wells Fargo executives' punishment
uri: Wells-Fargo-executives-punishment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Wells_Fargo_executives_punishment%29

content:
<p>
Wells Fargo executives will 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/27/wells-fargo-sales-tactics-investigation-john-stumpf">forfeit
millions in pay</a>, but they ought to be prosecuted for engineering
massive fraud.


feed_id: ec16910bda60bd44f9808d82c639a654
title: Governor Christie
uri: Governor-Christie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Governor_Christie%29
content:
<p>
Governor Christie 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/27/chris-christie-laughed-when-told-bridge-plot-top-official-testifies">laughed</a>
when an official told him about the traffic jams caused by the bridge
lane closures, as they were happening.


feed_id: db6f924590c80633bd54c0505153a6e0
title: Unsafe levels of air pollution
uri: Unsafe-levels-of-air-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Unsafe_levels_of_air_pollution%29
content:
<p>
According to the World Health Organization, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/27/air-pollution-skyrocketing-worldwide-public-health-emergency-who">90%
of the world's population</a> lives in zones with air pollution above
safe levels.
<p>
The article says "92%", but I expect that is excessive precision.


feed_id: 3095723609b54a8b0b4acc41d83a00e6
title: Israel blocks patient from going to medical exam
uri: Israel-blocks-patient-from-going-to-medical-exam
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Israel_blocks_patient_from_going_to_medical_exam%29

content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8400">blocked Nadia Abu Nahla from
travelling out of Gaza</a> for a medical exam.
<p>
She needs the exam to see if her breast cancer is coming back.


feed_id: 541748f1c82df2259cc1667d0d44ff64
title: Gaza aid boats
uri: Gaza-aid-boats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Gaza_aid_boats%29
content:
<p>
Gush Shalom calls on Israel to 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1464389870">allow
the current Gaza aid boats to land</a>.
<p>
Orly Noy explains why she, as a citizen of Israel, 
<a href="http://972mag.com/why-ill-be-on-the-gaza-flotilla-this-jewish-new-year/122198/">feels
a responsibility to participate</a>.


feed_id: 0099a9b8e882ddb36fcf881e7b287140
title: The Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2016-10-03-The-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28The_Great_Barrier_Reef%29
content:
<p>
To save the Great Barrier Reef from short term threat 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/28/lack-of-tree-clearing-reforms-a-roadblock-to-saving-great-barrier-reef">requires
protecting the forests of Northeast Australia</a>.


feed_id: 3b6a3ab3062553fe5be5dfe8a05bde76
title: Destruction of cultural heritage a war crime
uri: Destruction-of-cultural-heritage-a-war-crime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Destruction_of_cultural_heritage_a_war_crime%29

content:
<p>
The International Criminal Court has recognized destruction of
cultural heritage as a kind of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/28/destruction-of-heritage-weapon-of-war-timbuktu-shrines-irina-bokova">war
crime</a>.
<p>
Destruction of cultural heritage happens in many other situations,
too.  Salafi Arabia has 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#22%20April%202006%20(Bonfire%20of%20the%20hypocrisies)">destroyed 
much of Islam's oldest cultural heritage</a>.  The Dakota Access
pipeline 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_September_2016_(Dakota_Access_destroys_historical_artifacts)">threatens 
to destroy cultural heritage</a>, too.
<p>
What should we say about the Bush forces' carelessness which 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-sep-dec.html#27%20September%202004%20(The%20End%20of%20the%20Beginning%20of%20Civilization)">allowed
the relics of the beginning of human civilization to be looted</a> and
their archaeological information scrambled?


feed_id: 56b6a56f65d84ea52b9195603c10b904
title: Refugees forced out of Manus island prison
uri: Refugees-forced-out-of-Manus-island-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#2_October_2016_%28Refugees_forced_out_of_Manus_island_prison%29

content:
<p>
Australia is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/27/no-future-for-you-here-australia-and-png-push-to-clear-out-manus-detainees">forcing
refugees it sent to Manus island to leave the former prison</a>.
<p>
However, those who have tried to live anywhere else found themselves
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#26_May_2016_(Resettling_refugees_in_papua_guinea)">under
attack from the local population</a>.


feed_id: bdb4e3270a9a2c443eac8ad690678b99
title: Earth Temps not seen in 2 million years
uri: Earth-Temps-not-seen-in-2-million-years
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Earth_Temps_not_seen_in_2_million_years%29

content:
<p>
A study suggests Earth could hit <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/27/earth-locked-hitting-hottest-temps-past-2-million-years-study">9C of global heating</a> (compared with 1900) within the next few thousand years.
<p>
If technological civilization survives, we will be able to remove the
greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Perhaps with tailored bacteria.
But if global heating's consequences put an end to high-tech manufacturing
and science, everything we are letting loose will develop on its own.


feed_id: a486c62d48c329947a11266ed18ff194
title: Urgent: Block Monsanto-Bayer merger
uri: Urgent-Block-Monsanto-Bayer-merger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Monsanto-Bayer_merger%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for the US to <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/monsanto_bayer">block</a> the Monsanto-Bayer merger.


feed_id: 6d40ed8237473f48087183a5ed6a1140
title: US teen pregnancy rate is falling
uri: US-teen-pregnancy-rate-is-falling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28US_teen_pregnancy_rate_is_falling%29

content:
<p>
The US teen pregnancy rate is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/28/us-teenage-birth-rates-fall-again">falling</a>, as more teenagers use contraception.
<p>
But the US still has a higher teen pregnancy rate than other
developed countries.


feed_id: 4dc72e6eab02a6eda87c7de6d3fefbbb
title: MH-17 was shot down by a Russian Buk missile.
uri: MH-17-was-shot-down-by-a-Russian-Buk-missile
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28MH-17_was_shot_down_by_a_Russian_Buk_missile.%29

content:
<p>
The Dutch <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/flight-mh17-shot-down-by-missile-brought-in-from-russia-ukraine-malaysia-airlines">investigation concludes</a> that flight MH-17 was shot down by a Russian Buk missile.
<p>
The launcher was spotted various times on its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/27/mh17-inquiry-missile-launch-buk-ukraine-russia">route</a> to the territory of the Ukrainian rebels.
<p>
Of course it was a mistake. No one involved in that war would have
fired intentionally at an airliner.
<p>
It would be wrong to prosecute the soldiers that fired the missile for
this mistake. Errors are frequent in the fog of war, and they should
not be criminalized.


feed_id: 30481f009cb6366059ba6f208cf3d2dc
title: UK Junior Doctors high court challenge
uri: UK-Junior-Doctors-high-court-challenge
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28UK_Junior_Doctors_high_court_challenge%29

content:
<p>
The UK government got <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/28/junior-doctors-high-court-challenge-new-contract-jeremy-hunt">court approval</a> to impose a harmful contract on most of the doctors in the National Health Service.
<p>
They planned a week-long strike, met criticism because that could have
harmed patients, and their strength was defeated by this. The end result
is a victory for the plutocrats.


feed_id: ab147a3feb3d49db4cc7acb364a4b188
title: âCorporate feminismâ oppresses women.
uri: â-Corporate-feminismâ-oppresses-women
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%98Corporate_feminism%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99_oppresses_women.%29

content:
<p>
Fussing about the fraction of high executives that are women is not
just irrelevant for most women; it is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/28/corporate-feminism-women-glass-ceiling">systematic distraction</a> from
the systematic factors that keep most women poor.


feed_id: ce54c1319f220348778267dbf82d1f12
title: More water in space
uri: More-water-in-space
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28More_water_in_space%29
content:
<p>
Now that we have found several bodies in the solar system that have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/28/discovery-water-jupiter-space-alien-life-europa">liquid water</a>, we should look for life in them.


feed_id: 1b9ed80b0e1ecbedd2e75d8ffcd22dcb
title: Amazon crude oil US imports
uri: Amazon-crude-oil-US-imports
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Amazon_crude_oil_US_imports%29
content:
<p>
The US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/28/amazon-crude-oil-us-imports-rainforest-destruction-study">drives destruction</a> of the Amazon rain forest by importing oil extracted there.


feed_id: f240a735ffedc22a5b57028151cf1288
title: The UK's empty buildings
uri: The-UK-s-empty-buildings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28The_UK%27s_empty_buildings%29
content:
<p>
The UK must put <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/28/occupation-empty-former-hq-property-management-company-camelot-guardians-squatting-social-housing">empty buildings</a> to use as residences.
<p>
Residential property that has no primary residents,
or too few, should be taxed very heavily. A few millionaires
may still keep them, while supporting the treasury usefully.
The rest will sell off their investment properties, and people
will be able to live in them again.


feed_id: 5aa03c1e2e3ebbe6257dd22b439c8560
title: The world passes 400ppm carbon dioxide threshold
uri: The-world-passes-400ppm-carbon-dioxide-threshold
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28The_world_passes_400ppm_carbon_dioxide_threshold%29

content:
<p>
Our atmosphere has permanently exceeded 400 parts per million of CO2, on
the road to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/28/the-world-passes-400ppm-carbon-dioxide-threshold-permanently">climate disaster</a>.
<p>
Even if human industry stops, it would take millennia for the CO2 level
to come back down to the safe level of 350 ppm.


feed_id: b7db20b6fedc1ca49df9e2bd850efa7d
title: Banning Nuclear Weapons
uri: Banning-Nuclear-Weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Banning_Nuclear_Weapons%29
content:
<p>
The UN may call for negotiations on a new <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/28/banning-nuclear-weapons-is-crucial-for-global-health">nuclear disarmament treaty</a>.
<p>
This would be a good idea. Mutually Assured Destruction could
work between the US and the Soviet Union, but it doesn't work at all
against underground groups.


feed_id: 42c45073bcf570509c4a2004ad3f2ab9
title: Another Police killing
uri: Another-Police-killing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Another_Police_killing%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in El Cajon, California, say they shot and killed a black man
because he pointed something at them in a "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/28/police-killing-black-man-el-cajon-san-diego-protest">shooting stance</a>".
<p>
He did not have a weapon, and there is no information on what it was
the victim was pointing. But a witness said his hands were up when he
was shot. Sounds like thugs fibbing again.


feed_id: b72c4085596c8e1bddf7e677e5778bac
title: Rare bird being driven to extinction
uri: Rare-bird-being-driven-to-extinction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Rare_bird_being_driven_to_extinction%29

content:
<p>
Helmeted hornbills are being wiped out by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/28/rare-bird-being-driven-to-extinction-by-poaching-for-its-red-ivory-bill">poaching and palm oil</a>.
<p>
The bill appears to be valuable only because it is rare. In other words,
a stream of fools draws other fools to follow them.


feed_id: 27a913eb72d4e4d5155756a623d04560
title: New York City accelerates emissions efforts
uri: New-York-City-accelerates-emissions-efforts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28New_York_City_accelerates_emissions_efforts%29

content:
<p>
New York City, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/27/new-york-city-emissions-sea-level-rise-climate-change">staring inundation</a> in the face, will increase its push for renewable energy.
<p>
What it really needs to do is to force the big banks to stop
financing fossil fuel projects.


feed_id: d57cf26150fcce3ffac95638803a433f
title: Pollution and spills in region of Peru
uri: Pollution-and-spills-in-region-of-Peru
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Pollution_and_spills_in_region_of_Peru%29

content:
<p>
As oil was extracted from the indigenous Loreto region of Peru, the money
was extracted too, but the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2016/sep/27/perus-president-amazon-indigenous-protestors">pollution and spills remain</a>.


feed_id: 6c776407a4e5e363f1f25b385cd1dc28
title: Only Way to Save Life on Earth
uri: Only-Way-to-Save-Life-on-Earth
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Only_Way_to_Save_Life_on_Earth%29

content:
<p>
No Fracking, Drilling or Digging: It's the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/27/fracking-digging-drilling-paris-agreement-fossil-fuels">Only Way</a> to Save Life on Earth.
<p>
In theory there is another way, but it is hardly feasible.


feed_id: cff64aa0254fda28066e4106b80dd275
title: Neural networks
uri: Neural-networks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Neural_networks%29
content:
<p>
Neural networks have been <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/read/neural-networks-are-alarmingly-good-at-identifying-blurred-faces">trained to recognize</a> blurred and pixillated faces.
<p>
This means current blurring and pixillation are no longer adequate for making
a face unrecognizable.


feed_id: 584881ce5a1c2ce577172ffb9619906a
title: Syracuse teens in jail
uri: Syracuse-teens-in-jail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Syracuse_teens_in_jail%29
content:
<p>
In Syracuse [jail], A [teenager] Can Be <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/syracuse-child-can-be-thrown-solitary-singing-whitney-houston">Thrown in Solitary</a> for Singing Whitney Houston.
<p>
The people in jail are minors but they are not children. It is important
to avoid infantilizing teenagers. However, the point of the article
remains valid.


feed_id: 6c0a9fd141dad1cd07183beff0aaef9e
title: Bridgegate Trial
uri: Bridgegate-Trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Bridgegate_Trial%29
content:
<p>
Testimony suggests that Governor Christie knew about the plan to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/27/bridgegate-trial-chris-christie-knew-david-wildstein">harass Fort Lee</a> and its mayor by causing a traffic jam.


feed_id: 32bab1faf794f0ad59961a8be8a7cd88
title: Children should walk
uri: Children-should-walk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Children_should_walk%29
content:
<p>
Requiring children to be <a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/walking-to-school-is-less-dangerous-than-not-walking/">driven everywhere</a>, rather than walk, is dangerous
to them and harmful to society.


feed_id: 994e206be9b7c8b7b2d0a22a1696d3d1
title: Republican attorneys and Exxon
uri: Republican-attorneys-and-Exxon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Republican_attorneys_and_Exxon%29

content:
<p>
Republican state attorneys general <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/09/13148/gop-attorneys-general-held-private-meetings-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-exxon">met secretly with Exxon</a> to plan how to protect it from prosecution for its fraudulent global heating denial.


feed_id: 47eaec2ff9ea22cfb94cdc3cecb98375
title: UK Preacher convicted
uri: UK-Preacher-convicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28UK_Preacher_convicted%29
content:
<p>
A religious nut in the UK has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/26/preacher-found-guilty-after-telling-muslim-she-would-burn-in-hell">convicted</a> of the crime of telling a woman she would "burn in hell" for wearing tight pants.
<p>
While that religious doctrine is cruel, people should not be punished
for stating it.


feed_id: dac49f1aedc878f45ff0194cb84f9537
title: Obama blocks citizens
uri: Obama-blocks-citizens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Obama_blocks_citizens%29
content:
<p>
Obama has effectively <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/26/obama-administration-finalizes-new-rules-impeding-citizens-ability-use">blocked citizens</a> from petitioning for endangered species protection.
<p>
The new rules are so hard that they make it effectively impossible.


feed_id: e65a83439cb33d5c0bc0f6f7d5d0ae26
title: Protesters and Dakota Pipeline
uri: Protesters-and-Dakota-Pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Protesters_and_Dakota_Pipeline%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/26/lockdown-tactic-spreads-iowa-nodapl-resistance">Protesters</a> keep blocking the parts of the Dakota Access pipeline construction that the government has not stopped.


feed_id: bc2586fd5a3ba2c4467fcd81da71a87b
title: Corporation Politics
uri: Corporation-Politics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_September_2016_%28Corporation_Politics%29
content:
<p>
Trying to have a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/26/corporations-politics-are-tractor-trailer-drifting-your-lane">democracy</a> where corporations can act in politics
is like driving on a highway with long heavy trucks that think they own the road.
<p>
The beginning of what we need is to amend the US Constitution to say that
human rights are for real persons, not for corporations.


feed_id: da6011702879691c9a8fd8036fa7aca4
title: Urgent: Pardon Snowden now
uri: 2016-10-03-Urgent-Pardon-Snowden-now
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#29_September_2016_%28Urgent%3A_Pardon_Snowden_now%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Obama to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-president-obama-pardon-edward-snowden-now/">pardon Snowden now</a>.


feed_id: cc21b8224870ead620a15e1d4d3a5059
title: Pressure to buy
uri: Pressure-to-buy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Pressure_to_buy%29
content:
<p>

Another reason why you shouldn't let web sites know who you are
or what machine you are coming from: web sites are likely to move
from targeted advertising to choosing what to show you <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rinesi20161003">in order
to manipulate you to buy things</a>.


feed_id: b89e660a876440e10e7e43d8985562e3
title: Drone warfare
uri: Drone-warfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Drone_warfare%29
content:
<p>

Obama is worried that <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/10/03/obama-worries-future-presidents-will-wage-perpetual-covert-drone-war/">his successor will escalate</a> world-wide drone
warfare.
<p>
I agree, but he would have done well to try to limit the president's power
to spread war when he had time and a better chance of success.


feed_id: d84cc53edc4e7f86885823e7ae0fa0b1
title: Curb speculation
uri: Curb-speculation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Curb_speculation%29
content:
<p>

Canada <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/03/canada-housing-market-measures-tax-bill-morneau">has taken measures to curb speculation</a> by foreigners in housing
in Canada.


feed_id: 3ed15736c2377a5eaffc8a0f582740aa
title: Canada proposes carbon emissions tax
uri: Canada-proposes-carbon-emissions-tax
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Canada_proposes_carbon_emissions_tax%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/03/canada-carbon-emissions-tax-paris-climate-agreement">Canada's government has proposed a carbon emissions tax</a>.


feed_id: 8ddc3c57923014b9516e0f8edee4d859
title: The Trump Foundation
uri: 2016-10-04-The-Trump-Foundation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28The_Trump_Foundation%29
content:
<p>

New York State ordered the Trump Foundation to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/03/donald-trump-foundation-donations-new-york">stop fundraising in
that state</a>, as it has ignored laws about registration and auditing of
charities.
<p>
It is also apparently guilty of diverting funds to Trump's private uses.
He could end up in jail for this.


feed_id: daee33f2fd6eaa8fb32f15028d49fdbc
title: Greek thugs
uri: Greek-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Greek_thugs%29
content:
<p>

Greek thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/03/greek-police-fire-teargas-at-pensioners-during-anti-austerity-protest-athens">fired tear gas</a> at a protest of a thousand retired people.
<p>
Old people are physically weak, but the thugs felt afraid because they
have a moral weakness: defending an austerity government.


feed_id: 486ad954f686848dcb8bf82efdbd27ac
title: Black immigrants in US
uri: Black-immigrants-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Black_immigrants_in_US%29
content:
<p>

Black immigrants in the US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/03/black-immigrants-us-deportation-rates-criminal-convictions">are more likely to be deported</a> after
committing crimes than non-black immigrants, in similar cases.


feed_id: a8f21cf9c2ed2bb0b387f10a48f97769
title: CIA tortures
uri: 2016-10-04-CIA-tortures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28CIA_tortures%29
content:
<p>
CIA torture victims, later released, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/03/cia-torture-electric-chair-black-site">deserve compensation for the crime
committed against them</a>.


feed_id: e269cabbc24de36b698d39427a55898e
title: Stop gentrification
uri: Stop-gentrification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Stop_gentrification%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/03/last-battle-brooklyn-new-york-americas-most-unaffordable-place-buy-home">Tenants in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, fight to stop gentrification</a>.
<P>
These struggles are worth trying, but what we really need is a lot
more housing construction in our cities.  To unlock this, we must
eliminate the zoning requirements that limit how much housing can be
built.
<p>
It is ok if the new housing is only for rich people, as long as there
is plenty of it.  That will drive down the price of the existing housing.


feed_id: 9b7754d69d77faa15dcdf4306bf1efad
title: Tax on plastic bags
uri: Tax-on-plastic-bags
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Tax_on_plastic_bags%29
content:
<p>

The tax on plastic bags in stores in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2016/oct/03/six-billion-plastic-bags-cant-be-wrong-so-what-do-we-tax-next">has been a great success
in reducing litter</a>.  90% of people carry bags with them all the time.
<p>
I've done that for several years now.


feed_id: 0033a99be64fe4ace801aa8895422cef
title: Peace agreement with FARC
uri: Peace-agreement-with-FARC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Peace_agreement_with_FARC%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/03/colombias-peace-further-away-is-further-away-but-it-may-still">Colombians voted to reject the peace agreement with the FARC</a>.
The cease-fire remains in effect.


feed_id: d46da301fb9da0a8e61aaab69367bd56
title: Global heating will bring hurricanes
uri: Global-heating-will-bring-hurricanes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Global_heating_will_bring_hurricanes%29

content:
<p>


On top of rising seas, global heating will bring bigger hurricanes
with bigger storm surges. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/01/climate-change-brings-cyclone-risk-to-persian-gulf-study-warns">There will be hurricanes in places where
they don't happen now</a>.


feed_id: 8072ae1d5080633721029b250a897877
title: Apple uses forced labor in China
uri: Apple-uses-forced-labor-in-China
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Apple_uses_forced_labor_in_China%29

content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/19/your-new-iphone-features-oppression-inequality-vast-profit">Apple is using forced labor in China</a> and making people work 60 hours a
week.  Despite its enormous profits, it won't allow the expense of
pushing workers less or attracting workers by choice.
<p>
The products being made <a href="http://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html">oppress their users</a>, too.


feed_id: ee7248c37b52a3d95a24c872bfa20998
title: US Liberals
uri: US-Liberals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28US_Liberals%29
content:
<p>

<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/23/talking-strangers-journey-heart-right">One reason why some working-class US whites feel Liberals don't
understand them and don't care</a>.
<p>
When it's a fact that some people feel this way, we can't argue with
the facts.  But I think they've drawn the wrong conclusion for who is
responsible for what has happened to them.  I say the ones to blame
are the plutocrats that made the "waiting line" stall and move
backwards.  This is where distraction propaganda enters the issue:
it focuses their attention on the blacks who were advanced in the line
rather than on the billionaires that screwed workers in general.


feed_id: e2aee7ac730bdae84447351910d091ed
title: Plutocrats causes unemployment
uri: Plutocrats-causes-unemployment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Plutocrats_causes_unemployment%29
content:
<p>
Plutocratic politicians <a href="http://theconversation.com/suspending-welfare-payments-wont-help-young-people-get-jobs-66116">cause unemployment through macro-level policies</a>.
They promote the inadequate "solution" of job training as a distraction
so people won't demand a real solution.


feed_id: 843b16b342d91e3010dae13fb0d07f97
title: Plutocracy makes people sick
uri: Plutocracy-makes-people-sick
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Plutocracy_makes_people_sick%29
content:
<p>
Plutocracy makes people sick: vaccinating chickens for salmonella in
the US would prevent around 80,000 infections per year, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/food/when-agribusinesses-control-government-people-die">but chicken
farmers vetoed it to avoid the expense</a>.
<p>
The system is culpable because it gives business this power, and the
farmers are culpable for using this power.


feed_id: 7f8b5d9c415f47fbc309abbf6d6fd9a6
title: Journalists arrested in Brazil
uri: Journalists-arrested-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Journalists_arrested_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
Local journalists in Brazil <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/02/brazil-police-arrest-journalists-reporting-on-rio-evictions">were arrested for covering the massive eviction</a>
of slum residents whose homes had been demolished.


feed_id: 92a6a2cba9782bfba6fc0b824fd9bd74
title: Trump causes jobs to disappear
uri: Trump-causes-jobs-to-disappear
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Trump_causes_jobs_to_disappear%29
content:
<p>

<a href="http://theconversation.com/can-trump-create-millions-of-jobs-dont-bet-on-it-66104">Trump is great at causing jobs to disappear</a>.  His casinos were
"profitable" only because he used them to borrow money, then used
bankruptcy to avoid paying it back.


feed_id: ecee27af5f8b0530b622734f52a2bb37
title: Trump and Clinton agree on National Security
uri: Trump-and-Clinton-agree-on-National-Security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Trump_and_Clinton_agree_on_National_Security%29

content:
<p>

On National Security, Trump and Clinton <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/19505/on-national-security-trump-and-clinton-found-plenty-to-agree-on">Found Plenty To Agree On</a>.
<p>
In addition, they both condemn Snowden, which shows they're on the
spooks' side, against journalism and democracy.


feed_id: c58cbfd8710a43aa3e149ac166f37c2e
title: Human action in nature
uri: Human-action-in-nature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Human_action_in_nature%29
content:
<p>

In many cases, invasive species flourish because some other competing
species <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/30/how-to-eradicate-grey-squirrels-without-firing-a-shot-pine-martens">was wiped out by human action</a>.


feed_id: ab6cd34c2f39ad29ec10cdeab4475ebd
title: Hosting companies snooping
uri: Hosting-companies-snooping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Hosting_companies_snooping%29
content:
<p>
The hosting companies that run virtual servers for other companies are
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/01/you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-whos-collecting-your-data/">getting into the snooping game</a>.
<p>
This means yet another reason why web site privacy policies are
worthless: they apply only to the companies that publish them, which
are the ones that use the virtual servers -- not to the hosting
companies that run them.


feed_id: f9f209b9eab004840e5d8497ef6c3211
title: Greenhouse gas emissions
uri: 2016-10-04-Greenhouse-gas-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Greenhouse_gas_emissions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/26/us-climate-change-emissions-miss-2025-target-research">The US does not have a plan in place</a> to meet the inadequate greenhouse gas
reduction commitments it has made.


feed_id: 0fd02cbaf3122813736d118447277e8d
title: Facebook and Google enjoy power
uri: Facebook-and-Google-enjoy-power
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Facebook_and_Google_enjoy_power%29

content:
<p>

Facebook and Google enjoy so much power <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/28/google-facebook-powerful-secretive-empire-transparency">that it makes them dangerous</a>.
<p>
I personally avoid being directly influenced by them because I almost
never access them -- but when they have influence over society as a
whole, the consequences affect everyone.  I can't avoid the effects of
that influence, but I can and do avoid being an agent for their
influence.


feed_id: 0b749f9d4390c8c04fa93db62518d256
title: Thailand
uri: 2016-10-04-Thailand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Thailand%29
content:
<p>
The Thai government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/amnesty-thailand-torture-report-launch-cancelled-police-warning">stopped Amnesty International representatives from
announcing a report on torture by the Thai police</a>, by threatening to
arrest them for "having the wrong kind of visa".


feed_id: 59d6e6e83f688681ee30848e8bfd68fe
title: Syria
uri: 2016-10-04-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Syria%29
content:
<p>


Despite the atrocious nature of Russia's attack on east Aleppo, it would be
absurd for the US to intervene against it.  Kerry wanted to do this,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/01/syria-strikes-audio-john-kerry-russia-warns-us">but Obama wisely refused</a>.
<p>
Islamists such as formerly-al-Nusra (also formerly al-Qa'ida) are the
main force on the other side, and it makes no sense to intervene in
their favor.
<p>
The only force in Syria that deserves support is that of the Kurds,
and it is far away from Aleppo.
<p>
The West <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/28/west-aleppo-syrians-bombardment-assad">Has to Look Beyond Aleppo's Agony</a>.


feed_id: 14878fed5dcaf04e3d4d2b7301be21fe
title: Protest in Ethiopia
uri: Protest-in-Ethiopia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Protest_in_Ethiopia%29
content:
<p>

Thugs attacked a protest in Ethiopia with tear gas, causing a stampede
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/02/ethiopia-many-dead-anti-government-protest-religious-festival">that killed 50 people</a>.
<p>
They were protesting against the tyrannical nature of the government
of Ethiopia.


feed_id: 63302615d9dc1ff4b0fd4f7be852e8db
title: Puffins
uri: Puffins
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Puffins%29
content:
<p>


<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/02/butterfish-big-problem-for-little-puffins-eastern-egg-rock">Climate mayhem endangers puffins</a>.


feed_id: dec56a59824799b9d15df1c32cff84ed
title: Trump avoided paying taxes
uri: Trump-avoided-paying-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Trump_avoided_paying_taxes%29
content:
<p>


Perhaps we know why Trump doesn't want to show his tax returns:
he claimed a billion-dollar loss in the 90s and may have used this
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/02/donald-trump-may-have-avoided-paying-tax-for-18-years-says-report">to avoid paying any tax since then</a>.


feed_id: 01b162d31e02b5cee46d1bcc18eb20f4
title: Cease voter suppression
uri: Cease-voter-suppression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Cease_voter_suppression%29
content:
<p>


Wisconsin Republicans <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/29/1576014/-Wisconsin-flouting-judge-s-orders-continuing-to-disenfranchise-black-voters?detail=email&link_id=16&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-the-trump-meltdown-continues-and-at-the-worst-possible-time&email_referrer=the-trump-meltdown-continues-and-at-the-worst-possible-time&email_subject=the-trump-meltdown-continues-and-at-the-worst-possible-time">are defying court orders</a> to cease voter
suppression.


feed_id: 7c9a7f088216532be27253ba30b4c42f
title: Companies' political expendatures
uri: Companies-political-expendatures
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Companies%27_political_expendatures%29

content:
<p>
The Center for Political Accountability has pressured many large companies
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/01/doing-what-feds-wont-corporate-political-disclosure">adopt policies of reporting their political expendatures</a>.


feed_id: 90b7bf51de0a387ca37893f85cd2287c
title: Thugs in schools
uri: 2016-10-04-Thugs-in-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Thugs_in_schools%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/30/school-cop-arrests-black-teen-for-steali">Student Ryan Turk is being prosecuted</a> for "stealing" a milk carton
from his school's lunch room.  Although he wasn't stealing it, since
he was entitled to milk with his lunch.  The Authorities are
unyielding; apparently they want to put someone in jail no matter how.
<p>
Parents, protect your children: insist on NO THUGS in your school!


feed_id: 32c352046b75e2c0b2def146e979953b
title: US investigates Mylan
uri: US-investigates-Mylan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28US_investigates_Mylan%29
content:
<p>
The US government is investigating Mylan, manufacturer of the EpiPen,
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/feds-go-after-mylan-for-scamming-medicaid-out-of-millions-on-epipen-pricing/">for misrepresentation to avoid taxes</a>.


feed_id: 6076336b6d9b22df403c84caf0a99fb9
title: Quantitave easing
uri: Quantitave-easing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Quantitave_easing%29
content:
<p>

Quantitative easing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2016/sep/28/quantitative-easing-qe-pernicious-effects-favour-wealthy-tax-middle-class">keeps wages down, hurting workers, and keeps bank
interest down, hurting the middle class</a>.


feed_id: 20c28249545777eb24953516d4319b9b
title: Snowden
uri: 2016-10-04-Snowden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Snowden%29
content:
<p>

The Justice Department <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/29/fbi-says-edward-snowden-is-reason-companies-are-resisting-handing-over-phone-records/">found that Snowden was directly responsible</a> for reducing
the frequency of certain kinds of surveillance in the US.


feed_id: df1f6c8296840db2d8685de343849b29
title: Wells Fargo
uri: 2016-10-04-Wells-Fargo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Wells_Fargo%29
content:
<p>

Wells Fargo's pressure to sell its customers more kinds of accounts
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/29/wells-fargos-cross-selling-mania-goes-back-more-15-years">was established by 2000</a>.


feed_id: 2cc50c1d9b13424a1949960970e6b5a2
title: Resegregation
uri: Resegregation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Resegregation%29
content:
<p>
Integrating the US schools gave blacks a better education, and they came
out better educated.  Now resegregation <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/29/lost-language-integration">has cancelled that out</a>.


feed_id: 19225b6b117cc66e4f9280d2dbac3103
title: Mainstream economists
uri: Mainstream-economists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Mainstream_economists%29
content:
<p>


Mainstream economists <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/29/economists-keep-getting-it-wrong-because-media-coverup-their-mistakes">keep reaching wrong conclusions based on bad
theories</a>, predicting that a plutocratist policy will have good results
for people in general.  When the opposite happens, they say, "What a
surprise!  Nobody could have predicted this!"



Then the plutocrats forgive them so they can make more such predictions.


feed_id: d61fba187c0a1b37924e63c07751ddf8
title: Sue the US
uri: Sue-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Sue_the_US%29
content:
<p>

Obama (and US newspapers) think it is dangerous to let relatives of
drone attack casualties sue the US, but <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/01/big-papers-want-foreign-companies-not-war-crime-victims-sue-us">want to allow foreign companies
to sue the US</a>.


feed_id: 832f6f2b7dbc4eb0368d7998e98457d7
title: Syria's "White Helmet"
uri: Syria-s-White-Helmet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Syria%27s_White_Helmet%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/10/01/syrias-white-helmets-risk-everything-to-save-the-victims-of-airstrikes/">About Syria's "White Helmet" rescue volunteers</a>.


feed_id: daab29b7aafa36d49833f1c340cc29cc
title: Solar energy
uri: Solar-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Solar_energy%29
content:
<p>

A deceptive ballot question in Florida surreptitiously <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/09/29/1575927/-Koch-brothers-and-fossil-fuel-utilities-poised-to-destroy-roof-top-solar-in-Florida">aims at
abolishing "net metering"</a>, which was set up to encourage people to
invest in solar panels.


feed_id: dc54a610ab376fc04fa1024ff4a19222
title: Bombing hospitals in Syria
uri: Bombing-hospitals-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Bombing_hospitals_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>


<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/30/syria-msf-urges-syrian-government-and-its-allies-stop-indiscriminate-bombing">MSF asks Syria to please stop bombing hospitals</a>.


feed_id: bfca47eac2569b3d3091e8657de6101e
title: Prison strikes in US
uri: Prison-strikes-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Prison_strikes_in_US%29
content:
<p>


Prison strikes <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/30/striking-prisoners-are-bending-arc-moral-universe-closer-justice">continue in 40 or more US prisons</a>.
<p>
"Prisons are the new plantations" -- a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/29/the-13th-review-ava-duvernay-new-york-film-festival-prisons-plantations-race-law-us">scheme to convert many US
blacks</a> (and quite a few whites) into the equivalent of slave labor.


feed_id: 0eab3b92b03443e5b4cd0e3a242f4d50
title: Trump campaign
uri: Trump-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Trump_campaign%29
content:
<p>


Trump <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/09/29/1575957/-GOP-nominee-Donald-Trump-singles-out-non-Christians-at-rally-and-asks-crowd-what-to-do-with-them?detail=email&link_id=6&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-viral-meme-is-touching-some-nerves-and-may-be-one-of-the-most-powerful-quotes-this-election-year-2&email_referrer=viral-meme-is-touching-some-nerves-and-may-be-one-of-the-most-powerful-quotes-this-election-year-2&email_subject=viral-meme-is-touching-some-nerves-and-may-be-one-of-the-most-powerful-quotes-this-election-year">harasses and intimidates non-Christians</a> at his rallies.


feed_id: d38558eaa9d635abf6751af5005c8cd4
title: The Trump Foundation
uri: 2016-10-04-The-Trump-Foundation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28The_Trump_Foundation%29
content:
<p>


The Trump Foundation <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/30/1576200/-Trump-Foundation-not-even-certified-to-take-donations-may-have-to-give-everything-back?detail=email&link_id=9&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-viral-meme-is-touching-some-nerves-and-may-be-one-of-the-most-powerful-quotes-this-election-year-2&email_referrer=viral-meme-is-touching-some-nerves-and-may-be-one-of-the-most-powerful-quotes-this-election-year-2&email_subject=viral-meme-is-touching-some-nerves-and-may-be-one-of-the-most-powerful-quotes-this-election-year">operated as slush fund</a> for Trump's personal needs,
receiving money from people that had some reason to give it to Trump.
But it never obtained state authorization to ask for donations,
Trump may have to return all the money.


feed_id: 8b82cb45ad2608ed40ed936105627ba7
title: Military intervention in Syria
uri: Military-intervention-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Military_intervention_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>


<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/30/when-direct-military-intervention-not-direct-military-intervention">With US bombers and commandos fighting in Syria</a>, how can they claim it
is "not direct military intervention"?


feed_id: 214ebe39f5a97b88f2ff0b1f8f45bc4d
title: War crimes in Yemen
uri: War-crimes-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28War_crimes_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>


The UN Human Rights Council <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/30/capitulating-saudis-un-shamefully-backs-compromise-probe-yemen-crimes">abandoned the independent investigation</a>
of war crimes in Yemen.


feed_id: 8aa64778d01986d23899e4992e06f530
title: Global heating
uri: 2016-10-04-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>


Forget Paris, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/30/forget-paris-scientists-say-radical-change-only-way-stay-below-2-degrees">Scientists Say 'Radical Change' Only Way to Stay Below 2
Degrees</a> (of global heating).


feed_id: f5e6c127da0f46893af3a8397fb1d4f1
title: Glyphosate in honey
uri: Glyphosate-in-honey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Glyphosate_in_honey%29
content:
<p>


Some kinds of honey and oatmeal in the US <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/09/30/fda-tests-confirm-oatmeal-baby-foods-contain-residues-monsanto-weed-killer">contain significant levels</a>
of glyphosate.


feed_id: 16d36c173390e562b9853e89a5809f91
title: Trump spent money illegally
uri: Trump-spent-money-illegally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Trump_spent_money_illegally%29
content:
<p>


Trump <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2016/09/29/donald-trump-lie-explosive-cuban-scandal.html">illegally spent money in Cuba</a> looking for business opportunities there.


feed_id: db5b322ee7c99fc45688fe442a1c99b0
title: Dangerous trucks
uri: Dangerous-trucks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28Dangerous_trucks%29
content:
<p>


Certain types of trucks, that limit the driver's vision, are particularly
dangerous to cyclists.  London <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/30/lorries-face-london-ban-plans-improve-safety-cyclists">plans to ban them</a> for safety.


feed_id: db252604c38d310ccb883d2bdd0f78ba
title: TTIP
uri: 2016-10-04-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#4_October_2016_%28TTIP%29
content:
<p>

Obama is trying to put the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/30/ttip-eu-and-us-trade-negotiators-seek-to-get-talks-back-on-track">TTIP "back on track" to run us all over</a>, and is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/30/dont-believe-what-you-read-people-really-do-care-about-free-trade">still trying</a> to impose the TPP on us.
<p>

The TPP is treacherous plutocratic poison.  If they impose it, we will
not surrender.  We will fight until we eliminate the TPP, and we will
end the political careers of the traitors that voted for it.


feed_id: d18aa176ced1e12a114d1bf5012a5d6e
title: Clean Power Plan
uri: Clean-Power-Plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Clean_Power_Plan%29
content:
<p>


Plutocratist state governments <a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/10/11/20303/state-cutbacks-recalcitrance-hinder-clean-air-act-enforcement">are undermining</a> the Clean Power Plan.


feed_id: cbdefd6cff2cd748ae462da06b861be2
title: Collecting data
uri: Collecting-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Collecting_data%29
content:
<p>


<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/yahoo-wants-to-patent-billboards-that-spy-on-the-public-for-targeted-ads/">Yahoo has presented</a>, through a patent application, the idea of
collecting data about people and cars passing by a location
to choose what ads to display on a billboard.
<p>
The patent application itself is not particularly an issue (other than
as an example of a practice, computational idea patents, that is bad
in general).  Collecting data as envisioned in the application is the
issue.
<p>
The most important issue is not the <em>use</em> of these data for
choosing ads, but <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">collecting the data at all</a>.  We need laws to prevent that.


feed_id: b71767445871aebdc29cc884a3f5df79
title: Japan is retailing against UNESCO
uri: Japan-is-retailing-against-UNESCO
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Japan_is_retailing_against_UNESCO%29

content:
<p>


Japan is retaliating against UNESCO <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/14/japan-halts-unesco-funding-nanjing-massacre-row">for recognizing documents</a> about
the massacre in Nanjing in World War II.


feed_id: 650e898262a71bfe202f97ea82c9cea6
title: Use of hydrofluocarbons
uri: Use-of-hydrofluocarbons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Use_of_hydrofluocarbons%29
content:
<p>


The world has agreed to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (powerful
greenhouse gases) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/15/climate-change-environmentalists-hail-deal-to-limit-use-of-hydrofluorocarbons">starting in 2024</a>.
<p>
Short-sighted politicians wanted to start many years later, and India
will not start until 2028.  What idiocy!


feed_id: e52fe8868f65d225e6623a70fb7e3703
title: Tax on sugar drinks
uri: Tax-on-sugar-drinks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Tax_on_sugar_drinks%29
content:
<p>


<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/15/portugal-to-levy-sugar-tax-on-soft-drinks-in-2017">Portugal plans a tax on sugary drinks</a>. However, the tax rules might encourage companies to game the system
by putting 79 grams of sugar in each liter.  Why not tax per weight of
sugar?
<p>
And why leave out dairy drinks and fruit juices?  There is a lot of
added sugar in many fruit juices.


feed_id: 3f3e6a86c0d2772ed4d1b5437c7be1da
title: El Salvador
uri: 2016-10-16-El-Salvador
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28El_Salvador%29
content:
<p>


A mining company <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/oct/14/el-salvador-world-bank-tribunal-dismisses-oceanagold-mining-firm-250m-claim">lost its attempt</a> to use a business-supremacy to sue
El Salvador for banning a gold mine in the name of environmental
standards.


feed_id: c879959d6699bb8dd20909cee5a16888
title: Possession of drugs
uri: Possession-of-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Possession_of_drugs%29
content:
<p>


More Americans <a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/10/police_arrest_more_people_for.html">are arrested for simple possession of drugs</a>
than for all kinds of violent crimes combined.


feed_id: dc91fb100f5a1b6a0e4ee9f4923f6319
title: Anti-abortion bill in Poland
uri: Anti-abortion-bill-in-Poland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Anti-abortion_bill_in_Poland%29
content:
<p>

Poland's government dropped one anti-abortion bill, <a href="https://globalvoices.org/2016/10/13/new-abortion-ban-proposals-in-poland-mean-the-black-protest-movement-isnt-over-yet/">but is now
developing another</a>, which is likely to ban emergency contraception also.


feed_id: 05945a94d95a348594095d8036fe35d7
title: Trump
uri: 2016-10-16-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Trump%29
content:
<p>

Trump <a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2016/10/12/trumps-brilliant-manipulation-of-the-science-of-group-conflict/">has used the psychology of group conflict</a> to convince tens of millions
of Americans to support him no matter what, even if he does things
they would previously have condemned with outrage.


feed_id: 0e343c4060949d41ff7457985e350cca
title: Ami Goodman
uri: Ami-Goodman
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Ami_Goodman%29
content:
<p>


In the prosecution of Amy Goodman, the prosecutor <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/taibbi-on-amy-goodman-arrest-for-covering-dakota-pipeline-story-w444754">argued</a> that covering
the attacks on pipeline protesters meant she was a protester rather
than a journalist.
<p>
Not only is this false, but even if it were true, it would not justify
criminal charges for making a video of a protest.


feed_id: 7c9ec088cf64f9536621ed5ba2837f83
title: Chicago thugs
uri: 2016-10-16-Chicago-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Chicago_thugs%29
content:
<p>


In the Chicago thug department, <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/ct-chicago-police-complaints-met-20161013-story.html">69 thugs have received</a> over 70
complaints each. The average thug gets 5 complaints in an entire career.
<p>
Even if some fraction of complaints are erroneous, it is clear that those
thugs have a systematic pattern of wrongdoing.
<p>
Most thugs are not likely to beat people up or kill them.  However,
nearly all of them support the false accusations that other thugs make
after beating up or killing someone,


feed_id: 7d68ab4a07ebf650e5fdb0b72edef1e6
title: Republicans
uri: 2016-10-16-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Republicans%29
content:
<p>


<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/13/republicans-civil-war-and-everyone-elses">Trump is the natural culmination</a> of increasingly harsh Republican
policies of the past few decades.  Republicans who have participated
in the development of this harshness cannot evade responsibility
by criticizing Trump now.


feed_id: 212cabbe67044d873378574c766dee48
title: Senator has shafted miners
uri: Senator-has-shafted-miners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Senator_has_shafted_miners%29
content:
<p>


Republican Senator McConnell, of West Virginia, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/13/were-dying-flies-sick-retired-coal-miners-betrayed-gop-senators">has shafted the miners</a>
whose pensions were eliminated by coal companies that brought about
bankruptcies.


feed_id: f9c400b5fb2f59e047e9d28713494d9d
title: Leaks problems
uri: Leaks-problems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Leaks_problems%29
content:
<p>


<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/13/if-trump-leaks-are-ok-and-clinton-leaks-arent-theres-problem">If Trump Leaks Are OK and Clinton Leaks Aren't, There's a Problem</a>.


feed_id: 0e1a66ad7ae1d42fa4d34708a189f0c4
title: Anas Abdalla
uri: Anas-Abdalla
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Anas_Abdalla%29
content:
<p>


Anas Abdalla was convicted in the UK of trying to go to Syria and
fight for PISSI.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/13/anas-abdalla-man-who-rejected-mi5-offer-partially-secret-trial">It seems</a> that UK agents put him under tremendous
pressure to be an informer and harassed him when he didn't.
<p>
That doesn't excuse trying to fight for PISSI, but that harassment
may have driven him to do it.


feed_id: 7cd694d872904f8a594a405589b8edf1
title: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
uri: 2016-10-16-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau%29

content:
<p>


A US appeals court <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/11/ruling-against-wall-street-watchdog-decried-reckless-and-partisan">ruled that the president must be allowed to fire</a>
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
<p>
This is victory for the banksters, who have too much influence on
President Obama and would have too much influence on President
Clinton.
<p>
Perhaps this 3-judge decision will be appealed to the whole appeals court.


feed_id: 23c08218171b0ef2b11b3e9fb3bc4c38
title: Trump sexual assault
uri: Trump-sexual-assault
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Trump_sexual_assault%29
content:
<p>


A contestant on The Apprentice <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/14/donald-trump-summer-zervos-apprentice-sexual-assault">describes</a> how she resisted Trump when
he grabbed her.
<p>
Trump did not say that he could "grope and kiss women without their
consent".  What he said was that, due to his fame, all women would
"let him do it".  If that were really true, it would not be "sexual
assault".  It would be consensual sex.
<p>
However, his claim is apparently false.  Lots of women are saying that
they did not consent at all, and that they fought him off.


feed_id: 25e287f58bef794bcea385dea1b403f2
title: Criticizing the banks
uri: Criticizing-the-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Criticizing_the_banks%29
content:
<p>


A Clinton speechwriter <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/10/14/aide-planted-anti-bank-comments-in-one-paid-clinton-speech-to-throw-reporters-off-the-scent/">put a line criticizing the banks</a> into a speech
for Deutsche Bank, in case it ever got leaked.
<p>
I wouldn't call this dishonest -- provided she really said that line
in her private speech.  However, it doesn't mean that she really will
do anything against the will of the banksters.


feed_id: c4d223f6247afddf2d23c2c51eac37c9
title: Nation Health Service
uri: Nation-Health-Service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Nation_Health_Service%29
content:
<p>


The Tories <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/14/no-extra-money-for-nhs-theresa-may-tells-health-chief">are going to make the National Health Service collapse</a>
under the pressures they have imposed for 6 years.


feed_id: 720d8627818ca9fde5c81aa6778487b5
title: Sexism
uri: 2016-10-16-Sexism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Sexism%29
content:
<p>


In one scientific field, women PhDs <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/female-geoscientists-get-worse-recommendation-letters-than-men-do/">get (in general) less enthusiastic
recommendations</a> for jobs than men PhDs get.
<p>
This doesn't prove that sexism is responsible, but one has to suspect that,
given that sexism has been proved on so many other questions.


feed_id: 34e2ecd072ced4c26c93fd45595abbe8
title: CETA
uri: 2016-10-16-CETA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28CETA%29
content:
<p>

Two regions of Belgium <a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/10/ceta-signing-scuppered-belgium-regional-governments/">have declared</a> that they veto CETA.
<p>
Europeans must mobilize to support them against dishonest pressure
from banksters.


feed_id: f078cbef2f54d70aeaef1f0ffa7bef11
title: Elizabeth Warren
uri: 2016-10-16-Elizabeth-Warren
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Elizabeth_Warren%29
content:
<p>



Elizabeth Warren <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/elizabeth-warren-mary-jo-white-sec-barack-obama">accused the head of the Security and Exchange Commission</a>
of being a sell-out to the businesses the SEC regulates, and said that
she needs to be replaced.


feed_id: 2364dc26e8f2f729dc13afc1439e75a5
title: Civil partnership
uri: Civil-partnership
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Civil_partnership%29
content:
<p>

Heterosexuals in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/14/heterosexual-couple-are-first-in-britain-to-become-civil-partners">can now go to the Isle of Man to form a civil
partnership</a> instead of a marriage.


feed_id: f791e869536f1a3ca21e5776a14d1a43
title: Rising sea levels
uri: 2016-10-16-Rising-sea-levels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#16_October_2016_%28Rising_sea_levels%29
content:
<p>


Coastal cities around the world <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/14/global-sea-levels-rising-fast-cities-most-at-risk-flooding-un-habitat">are trying to figure out</a> what to do
about rising sea levels.
<p>
The real solution is what will solve lots of other problems at the
same time: curb greenhouse gas emissions with dispatch.
Trying to cope is not only harder, it is futile beyond this century.


