# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Corruption_in_UKs_cabinet)
title: Corruption in UK's cabinet
uri: Corruption-in-UK-s-cabinet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Corruption_in_UKs_cabinet%29
content:
<p>
Corruption has been discovered at the center of the UK's cabinet,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/02/jeremy-heywood-civil-service-hospitality-centrica-goldman-sachs">in
someone who is not a minister</a>.
<p>
The ministers are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_September_2014_(Price_of_meeting_UK_ministers)">overtly
corrupt</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Spyware_to_protect_children)
title: Spyware to "protect children"
uri: Spyware-to-protect-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Spyware_to_protect_children%29
content:
<p>
US thugs and prosecutors are distributing software to "protect
children", which is really 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/computercop-dangerous-internet-safety-software-hundreds-police-agencies">spyware</a>.
<p>
Americans are so 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_(Overprotection_of_children)">insanely
obsessed with overprotecting children</a> that you can get them to
swallow almost any form of abuse in the name of doing that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 02_October_2014_(Euro-zone_austerity)
title: Euro-zone austerity
uri: Euro-zone-austerity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#02_October_2014_%28Euro-zone_austerity%29
content:
<p>
Stiglitz: The euro-zone austerity has caused 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/01/austerity-eurozone-disaster-joseph-stiglitz">tremendous
harm</a>, all of which could have been avoided.
<p>
If you judge these budget cuts in terms of the supposed goals of
nations' policies, they are failure.  But they are very effective as
an intentional 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#09_June_2013_(Anti-shock_doctrines)">shock
(as Naomi Klein puts it)</a> to transfer wealth to the plutocrats.


title: Urgent: Support network neutrality
uri: 2014-10-04-Urgent-Support-network-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Urgent:_Support_network_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the other Democratic FCC commissioners
to <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=1065">support
network neutrality</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Non-denial_denials)
title: Non-denial denials
uri: Non-denial-denials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Non-denial_denials%29
content:
<p>
Non-denial
denials <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6068">should
make reporters suspicious</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Judging_women_by_their_femininity)
title: Judging women by their femininity
uri: Judging-women-by-their-femininity
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Judging_women_by_their_femininity%29

content:
<p>
Sexism in everyday
life <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/oct/03/when-will-we-stop-calling-successful-women-abrasive">manifests
by judging women by their femininity</a>, even in contexts where their
capabilities and achievements are more pertinent.


title: The killing of Palestinians suspected of murder
uri: The-killing-of-Palestinians-suspected-of-murder
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(The_killing_of_Palestinians_suspected_of_murder)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28The_killing_of_Palestinians_suspected_of_murder%29

content:
<p>
In Israel, even
ministers <a href="http://972mag.com/a-slightly-less-crazy-israel/96968/">describe
the killing of Palestinians suspected of murder as an
"assassination"</a>, and the official in charge says he chose not to
try to arrest them.
<p>
(This is the last of several topics covered in the article.)


title: Sweden will officially recognize Palestine
uri: Sweden-will-officially-recognize-Palestine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Sweden_will_officially_recognize_Palestine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Sweden_will_officially_recognize_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Sweden
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/03/sweden-recognise-state-palestine">officially
recognize Palestine</a>.


title: European convention on human rights
uri: European-convention-on-human-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(European_convention_on_human_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28European_convention_on_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
The Tories
would <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/03/tories-plan-uk-withdrawal-european-convention-on-human-rights">withdraw
the UK from the the European convention on human rights</a>.


title: Turkey will fight to protect Kobani from PISSI
uri: Turkey-will-fight-to-protect-Kobani-from-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Turkey_will_fight_to_protect_Kobani_from_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Turkey_will_fight_to_protect_Kobani_from_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
Turkey
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/03/isis-threat-kobani-turkey-prime-minister-ahmet-davutoglu">fight
to protect Kobani from PISSI</a>.
<p>
I too wonder why the US does not destroy PISSI's tanks that are
operating there.  There is very little danger of mistaking civilians
for a tank.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Loss_of_biodiversity)
title: Loss of biodiversity
uri: Loss-of-biodiversity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Loss_of_biodiversity%29
content:
<p>
Humanity is not on track to meet its commitment to slow down
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/03/global-biodiversity-targets-2020-habitat-wildlife-scientists-say">rate
of loss of biodiversity</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Hong_Kong_protest_movement)
title: Hong Kong protest movement
uri: Hong-Kong-protest-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong_protest_movement%29
content:
<p>
The "CEO" of Hong Kong refused to
resign <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/03/hong-kong-protests-demonstrations-ebb-after-chief-executive-offers-talks">but
agreed to talks with the protest movement</a>.
<p>
In Hong
Kong, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/03/hong-kong-violent-clashes-residents-storm-protest-site">1000
enemies of democracy attacked 100 democracy protesters</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Mass_haul-out_of_walrus)
title: Mass haul-out of walrus
uri: Mass-haul-out-of-walrus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Mass_haul-out_of_walrus%29
content:
<p>
The mass haul-out of walrus is
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/03/walrus-alaska-beach-climate-change-arctic-ice">symptom
of damage to a specific ocean ecosystem that depends on sea
ice</a>. With more heating, eventually there won't be any sea ice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Paywall_Protected_Torrent)
title: Paywall Protected Torrent
uri: Paywall-Protected-Torrent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Paywall_Protected_Torrent%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/thom-yorke-releases-album-via-bittorrent-140926/">Thom
Yorke Sells New Album via Paywall Protected Torrent</a>.
<p>
This is much more ethical than other internet music sale schemes.  The
only thing wrong with it is that paying requires identification and
nonfree Javascript code.  (We've verified that free bittorrent clients
work.)
<p>
If they accepted anonymous payment and didn't require Javascript to
pay, I could endorse it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Construction_in_Gaza)
title: Construction in Gaza
uri: Construction-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Construction_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Israel is pressuring the UN
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/03/gaza-reconstruction-plan-un-israel-blockade">strictly
control all construction in Gaza on Israel's behalf</a>.


title: EPA has power to ban mountaintop mines
uri: EPA-has-power-to-ban-mountaintop-mines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(EPA_has_power_to_ban_mountaintop_mines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28EPA_has_power_to_ban_mountaintop_mines%29

content:
<p>
A court ruled the
EPA <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/02/victory-clean-water-blow-mountaintop-removal-west-virginia">has
the power to ban mountaintop mines</a>. Now the EPA needs to do this
broadly.
<p>
Civilization's survival depends on greatly reducing greenhouse gas
emissions.  Making coal (and other fossil fuels) scare is a great way
to make the market boost investment in renewables.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Urgent:_Impeach_judge_Fuller)
title: Urgent: Impeach judge Fuller
uri: Urgent-Impeach-judge-Fuller
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Impeach_judge_Fuller%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Fuller_Impeach">call on
Congress</a> to impeach judge Fuller.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2014-10-04-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Australia's record hot September, a year ago, would have been a freak
occurrence 50 years ago.  Global heating has made it a fairly likely event
that will happen 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/oct/03/scientists-find-human-fingerprints-all-over-australias-hottest-year-on-record">once
every 6 years or so</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Export_of_uranium_from_Australia)
title: Export of uranium from Australia
uri: Export-of-uranium-from-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Export_of_uranium_from_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/03/australias-uranium-deal-with-india-risks-weakening-safeguards">proposes
to drop previous nuclear weapons controls</a> when exporting uranium
to India.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Obamas_demand_for_secret_hearing)
title: Obama's demand for secret hearing
uri: Obama-s-demand-for-secret-hearing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Obamas_demand_for_secret_hearing%29

content:
<p>
A US judge 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6043">rejected Obama's
demand</a> for a secret hearing about the torture of Guantanamo force
feeding.


title: Germany imposes internet filtering
uri: Germany-imposes-internet-filtering
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 03_October_2014_(Germany_imposes_internet_filtering)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#03_October_2014_%28Germany_imposes_internet_filtering%29

content:
<p>
Germany imposes internet filtering on routers (which I suppose
includes those in ISPs as well as those in people's homes), blocking
sites with no trial, and claims that the names of the censored sites
are a "secret".
<p>
A site that posted the list of blocked domains was 
<a href="https://neocities.org/blog/german-censorship">threatened with
blockage itself</a>.
<p>
Germany also made a rather shocking claim that posting this list in
the US is illegal under US law, on the grounds that some of the
censored sites display "child pornography".
<p>
Some works are disgusting, but censorship is more disgusting.
<p>
"Child pornography" is an all-purpose excuse to attack human rights on
the internet.  The FBI and Holder are now using it as an excuse to
demand to be able to snoop on everyone's computers.  This "cure" is
worse than the disease.


title: Very urgent: Oppose neonicotinoid dose increase
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-neonicotinoid-dose-increase
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 04_October_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_neonicotinoid_dose_increase)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#04_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_neonicotinoid_dose_increase%29

content:
<p>

US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/syngenta_bees?nosig=1&t=1006">oppose
Syngenta's request</a> to <em>increase</em> the dose of bee-killing
neonicotinoid pesticides.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 04_October_2014_(DRM_in_coffee_machines)
title: DRM in coffee machines
uri: DRM-in-coffee-machines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#04_October_2014_%28DRM_in_coffee_machines%29
content:
<p>
Keurig, the company that brought DRM to coffee machines, is being 
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/keurig-coffee-sued-for-600m-by-ontario-based-club-coffee-1.2783633">sued
in Canada for it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 04_October_2014_(Plutocrats_targeting_middle_class)
title: Plutocrats targeting middle class
uri: Plutocrats-targeting-middle-class
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#04_October_2014_%28Plutocrats_targeting_middle_class%29

content:
<p>
Now that the plutocrats have reduced UK workers to penury, they are
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11109845/Why-arent-the-British-middle-classes-staging-a-revolution.html">targeting
what's left of the middle class</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 04_October_2014_(Tar_sands_strip_mining_in_Utah)
title: Tar sands strip mining in Utah
uri: Tar-sands-strip-mining-in-Utah
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#04_October_2014_%28Tar_sands_strip_mining_in_Utah%29

content:
<p>
Protesters oppose 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/02/more-protesters-arrested-over-tar-sands-mining-utah">tar
sand strip mining in Utah</a>.  As in Canada, these mines cause
tremendous local environmental damage while advancing global heating
disaster.


title: Obama's justification for attacking PISSI
uri: Obama-s-justification-for-attacking-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 04_October_2014_(Obamas_justification_for_attacking_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#04_October_2014_%28Obamas_justification_for_attacking_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
Obama 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/isis-al-qaida-obama-administration-argument-same-strikes-break">says
that PISSI is part of al-Qa'ida</a>, as justification for attacking
PISSI, even though the two are fighting each other.
<p>
Reportedly al-Nusra recently said it was 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_September_2014_(Syrian_al_Qa%27ida_affiliate_joins_PISSI)">allying
with PISSI</a>.  If that really happens, it would validate Obama's
argument.
<p>
However, I don't think the US should be authorized to make
war everywhere in the world by a 13-year-old vote.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Urgent:_End_the_siege_of_Gaza)
title: Urgent: End the siege of Gaza
uri: 2014-10-06-Urgent-End-the-siege-of-Gaza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_the_siege_of_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stand-with-ellison-lee?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">call
on Congress and Obama</a> to direct US diplomacy towards ending the
siege of Gaza.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Extremists_in_Japanese_govt)
title: Extremists in Japanese gov't
uri: Extremists-in-Japanese-gov-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Extremists_in_Japanese_govt%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing extremists in the Japanese government are denying the facts
about 
<a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20140929205504-w9w05/">forcing
women from conquered peoples to act as prostitutes for Japanese
soldiers</a>.
<p>
The worst crime was committed by the societies that despised these
women for the way they were treated.  Many of them did not go home
after the war, certain their families would reject them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Arming_moderate_Syrian_rebels)
title: Arming "moderate" Syrian rebels
uri: Arming-moderate-Syrian-rebels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Arming_moderate_Syrian_rebels%29
content:
<p>
Obama's strategy of arming "moderate" Syrian rebels to defeat PISSI is
fantasy, and even 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/02/analysts-sound-alarm-myth-moderate-syrian-rebels">confirmed
Syrian enemies of Assad say so</a>.
<p>
Even a 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-unifying-the-moderate-opposition-is-the-biggest-challenge-in-syria/2014/09/30/b93426f0-48c7-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html">right-wing
commentator acknowledges this</a>.
<p>
So did 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/opinion/president-obama-thomas-l-friedman-iraq-and-world-affairs.html">Obama,
not long ago</a>.  (Search the article for "fantasy".)
<p>
On the other hand, if the Turkish army is willing to fight PISSI in
Syria, it could win.  Since Turkey is mainly Sunni, Syrian Sunnis who
fear Assad would massacre them for their sect could trust Turkey not
to do that.  (Turkey is no great defender of human rights, but it may
be good enough for this.)  This might enable the Syrian Sunnis to
reject PISSI.
<p>
Other things could go wrong: the Turkish army might start fighting
Kurds in Syria, for instance.  But there is hope of avoiding that.
<p>
There are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/02/heres-everything-wrong-white-houses-war-islamic-state">many
problems with Obama's plan</a> for dealing with PISSI.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 5_October_2014_(Senate)
title: Senate
uri: Senate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#5_October_2014_%28Senate%29
content:
<p>
If the Senate continues blocking the small reform of the "USA Freedom
Act", parts of it will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/04/nsa-surveillance-reform-politicians-2015">
expire entirely next year.
</a></p>
<p>Let's hope so.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 5_October_2014_(2022_Olympic_Games)
title: 2022 Olympic Games
uri: 2022-Olympic-Games
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#5_October_2014_%282022_Olympic_Games%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Four cities have dropped their bids for the 2022 Olympic Games,
because the <a href="http://m.bbc.com/sport/winter-olympics/29455789">
IOC demands too much money.</a>
</p>
<p>The only remaining bids are from corrupt, tyrannical countries which
don't care.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 5_October_2014_(Turkish)
title: Turkish
uri: Turkish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#5_October_2014_%28Turkish%29
content:
<p>As PISSI closes in on Kobani, Turkish troops <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/turkey-troops-isis-siege-kobani-refugees-rape-and-murder">
have not
intervened.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Hong_Kong_anti-protesters)
title: Hong Kong anti-protesters
uri: Hong-Kong-anti-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong_anti-protesters%29
content:
<p>
A Hong Kong opposition legislator accuses the government of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/hong-kong-legislator-accuses-government-triads-against-protesters">sending
gangsters to attack the protesters</a>.
<p>
It looks like the thugs, or some of them, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/hong-kong-protesters-cleared-monday-chief-executive">cooperated
with the gangsters</a>.
<p>
Even if some of the anti-protesters are being honest about their
motives, they are unpatriotic to put their immediate income above
democracy.  Shame on them!
<p>
Naturally, China's imposed "chief executive" cites the danger of more
such nonuniformed attacks against the protests as an excuse to order a
uniformed attack against the protest.  That's tyrant logic for you.
We should be prepared to denounce it when we see it in our own
countries.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Ignoring_global_heating)
title: Ignoring global heating
uri: 2014-10-06-Ignoring-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Ignoring_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The more subtle form of global heating denial: rather than denying
outright that fossil fuels are making the Earth hotter, 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/09/29/the-other-kind-of-climate-change-denial/">simply
ignoring this in discussing issues where it is significant</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Netanyahus_and_Abbass_UN_speeches)
title: Netanyahu's and Abbas's UN speeches
uri: Netanyahu-s-and-Abbas-s-UN-speeches
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Netanyahus_and_Abbass_UN_speeches%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1412339094/">What
do Netanyahu's and Abbas's UN speeches mean?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Investment_in_renewable_energy)
title: Investment in renewable energy
uri: Investment-in-renewable-energy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Investment_in_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
Naomi Klein says, although private businesses invest in renewable
energy for their own interests, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/03/yep-strawmen-do-keep-coming">we
need four times as much investment as what they are doing</a>, and
there is no reason to expect businesses to go that far without the
state's help or pressure.
<p>
The enormous government 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_(US_govt_subsidies_for_fossil_fuels)">subsidies 
for fossil fuels</a> are pertinent here, because they push the market
towards fossil fuels, and will continue to do so.  Transferring the
subsidy to renewables would push the market towards renewables, and a
carbon tax would do likewise.


title: Sunni tribal leaders distrust Obama
uri: Sunni-tribal-leaders-distrust-Obama
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Sunni_tribal_leaders_distrust_Obama)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Sunni_tribal_leaders_distrust_Obama%29

content:
<p>
Sunni tribal leaders in Iraq 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/world/middleeast/isis-iraq-airstrikes.html?_r=0">do
not trust Obama's new "Iraqi government" not to oppress them</a>, so
they feel they must stay on the side of PISSI.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Koch_brothers_toxic_empire)
title: Koch brothers' toxic empire
uri: Koch-brothers-toxic-empire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Koch_brothers_toxic_empire%29
content:
<p>
The Koch brothers' toxic empire is 
<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-20140924">toxic
to the financial system as well as to the biosphere</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Labeling_food_with_GMOs)
title: Labeling food with GMOs
uri: Labeling-food-with-GMOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Labeling_food_with_GMOs%29
content:
<p>
Labeling food with GMOs will cost food businesses a total of 
<a href="http://oregonrighttoknow.org/uncategorized/consumers-union-gmo-labeling-will-cost-consumers-less-than-a-penny-a-day/">less
than a penny per day per consumer</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Bloodthirsty_republicans)
title: Bloodthirsty republicans
uri: Bloodthirsty-republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Bloodthirsty_republicans%29
content:
<p>
Bloodthirsty republicans 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=5998">want to kill
people who try to get into the White House</a>, rather than arresting
them.


title: Americans should be protesting, too
uri: Americans-should-be-protesting-too
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Americans_should_be_protesting,_too)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Americans_should_be_protesting%2C_too%29

content:
<p>
Lessig: Americans 
<a href="http://www.lessig.org/2014/10/we-should-be-protesting-too/">should
be protesting for democracy</a> like the people of Hong Kong.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Holders_Disappointing_Tech_Legacy)
title: Holder's Disappointing Tech Legacy
uri: Holder-s-Disappointing-Tech-Legacy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Holders_Disappointing_Tech_Legacy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/holders-disappointing-tech-legacy">Holder's
Disappointing Tech Legacy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Brain_myth)
title: Brain myth
uri: Brain-myth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Brain_myth%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/live/2014/oct/02/the-greatest-brain-myth-there-ever-was">Debunking
the myth</a> that we "only use 10% of our brains".
<p>
Every part of the brain gets used in various kinds of mental
processes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Thatcher)
title: Thatcher
uri: Thatcher
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Thatcher%29
content:
<p>
Margaret Thatcher was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/03/miners-strike-thatcher-real-enemy-within-extremism">planning
to call striking miners, and the whole Labour Party, "the enemy
within", more or less traitors</a>.  Only an opportune terrorist
bombing led her to change her rhetoric.  But her systematic state
violence and frame-ups made her the real "enemy within".
<p>
Millions of Britons had 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#14_April_2013_(BBC_omits_Ding-Dong!_The_Witch_is_Dead_from_top_20_broadcast)">good
reason to celebrate Thatcher's death</a>, but her successors today are
pushing far beyond Thatcher to push them into penury.  Today's Tories
don't speak with venom about the non-rich but kick them harder.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/03/healthcare-companies-links-tories-nhs-contracts">Companies
with Links to Tories "Have Won Â£1.5bn Worth of NHS Contracts."</a>
<p>
If the NHS contracts work out to companies, the companies will get
their profits by squeezing either the patients or the employees.
Such contracts should not be allowed at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Being_self-employed)
title: Being self-employed
uri: Being-self-employed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Being_self-employed%29
content:
<p>
Nowadays, being self-employed mostly means doing an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/03/self-employed-osborne-entrepreneurs">unglamorous
job with no job security and does not get a living wage</a>.
<p>
Being an entrepreneur (not counting funded startups) means taking a
risk with your money — gambling on your success.  There's a
small chance you will make a lot, and a big chance you will lose all.
<p>
You shouldn't gamble what you can't afford to lose, and nowadays most
Americans (and Britons) are so close to the edge that they can't
afford to lose anything.  Therefore, it is foolish for them to be
"entrepreneurial".  When politicians say they want most people to be
"entrepreneurial," it means they intend to make most people's lives
risky.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Guantanamo_force-feeding_videos)
title: Guantanamo force-feeding videos
uri: Guantanamo-force-feeding-videos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Guantanamo_force-feeding_videos%29

content:
<p>
Judge Kessler 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/03/guantanamo-force-feeding-videos-released">ordered
the US government to publish</a> videos of force-feeding in
Guantanamo.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Russian_proxy_invasion_of_Ukraine)
title: Russian proxy invasion of Ukraine
uri: Russian-proxy-invasion-of-Ukraine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Russian_proxy_invasion_of_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
The Russian proxy invasion of Ukraine is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/03/pro-russia-rebels-donetsk-airport-ukraine">trying
to capture Donetsk airport with tanks</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 05_October_2014_(Profiting_from_US_prisoners)
title: Profiting from US prisoners
uri: Profiting-from-US-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#05_October_2014_%28Profiting_from_US_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
US prisons make prisoners 
<a href="http://time.com/3446372/criminal-justice-prisoners-profit/">pay
for food, medical care, even toilet paper</a>.  If relatives want to
give prisoners money for this, they have to go thru companies that
take almost half the money.
<p>
The other way prisoners can pay for this is by working, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2011-may-aug.html#23_July_2011_(US_Imprisonment_Rate)">for
a pittance</a>, for private companies, thus undermining the standard
of living for Americans not in prison.
<p>
It should be forbidden for the government to contract parts of its
operations to companies in this way.  They should all be done by
people with civil service jobs.  But prison should not make prisoners
or their poor relatives pay for what they need either to live, to be
healthy, or to be rehabilitated.
<p>
And when prisoners work for companies, they must be paid the
prevailing wage for the work they do.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Obama's_plan_to_fight_PISSI)
title: Obama's plan to fight PISSI
uri: Obama-s-plan-to-fight-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Obama%27s_plan_to_fight_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Obama's plan to strengthen "moderate" Syrian opposition to fight
against PISSI has so many problems that the
US <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/06/us-undecided-syria-rebels-fight-islamic-state">can't
find suitable "moderate" Syrian opposition to support</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Cost_of_global_heating)
title: Cost of global heating
uri: Cost-of-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Cost_of_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Estimates of the cost of curbing global heating need to be set against
the costs of failing to do so.
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/oct/06/tackling-global-warming-improve-health-save-lives-money">medical
costs of global heating will be bigger than people realize</a>.


title: Morocco imprisons tourist for "being gay"
uri: Morocco-imprisons-tourist-for-being-gay
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Morocco_imprisons_tourist_for_being_gay)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Morocco_imprisons_tourist_for_being_gay%29

content:
<p>
Morocco has imprisoned a
tourist, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/06/british-man-ray-cole-70-jailed-four-months-morocco-gay">convicting
him of "being gay"</a>.


title: HK executive's strategy against protesters
uri: HK-executive-s-strategy-against-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(HK_executives_strategy_against_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28HK_executives_strategy_against_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The Hong Kong executive defeated the protesters by <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/06/hong-kong-protests-exhaustion-sets-in">waiting
for them to lose hope</a>.


title: The World's Open Dumps Are Growing
uri: The-World-s-Open-Dumps-Are-Growing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(The_World's_Open_Dumps_Are_Growing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28The_World%27s_Open_Dumps_Are_Growing%29

content:
<p>
Smelly, Contaminated, Full of
Disease: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/06/smelly-contaminated-disease-worlds-open-dumps">the
World's Open Dumps Are Growing</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(A_monstrous_censorship_law)
title: A monstrous censorship law
uri: A-monstrous-censorship-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28A_monstrous_censorship_law%29
content:
<p>
Australian
senators <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/george-brandis-has-silently-swept-away-your-freedoms-20140929-10nev6.html">voted
for a monstrous censorship law without reading it</a>.
<p>
If you see government agents kill people, either accidentally or
intentionally, it will
be <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/media-reporting-of-asio-killings-illegal-under-new-national-security-laws-says-law-expert-20140930-10o9i2.html">illegal
for you to tell anyone</a>.


title: UK thugs to investigate themselves
uri: UK-thugs-to-investigate-themselves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(UK_thugs_to_investigate_themselves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28UK_thugs_to_investigate_themselves%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs have been directed
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2014/oct/06/police-concede-allegations-over-attempts-to-turn-activists-into-informers-are-serious">investigate
their own intimidation of political activists</a>.


title: Staff take sexual advantage of prisoners
uri: Staff-take-sexual-advantage-of-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Staff_take_sexual_advantage_of_prisoners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Staff_take_sexual_advantage_of_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
In a privatized immigration prison in
Texas, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/03/usa-immigration-texas-idUSL2N0RX2W520141003">the
staff take sexual advantage of the prisoners</a>.
<p>
In ordinary language, a prisoner is anyone kept in prison.  When the
authorities try to impose distinctions, with words such as "detainee",
I think that is a plan to avoid the odium of the word "prisoner" for
cases such as these.  Why help them?  I call these people "prisoner".


title: Clinton admits anti-democratic meddling
uri: Clinton-admits-anti-democratic-meddling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(Clinton_admits_anti-democratic_meddling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28Clinton_admits_anti-democratic_meddling%29

content:
<p>
Clinton admits in her book that, while claiming to support returning
Zelaya to the presidency of Honduras, she
was <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/hillary-clinton-honduraslatinamericaforeignpolicy.html">actually
moving secretly to prevent his return</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Urgent:_Labeling_pink_slime)
title: Urgent: Labeling "pink slime"
uri: Urgent-Labeling-pink-slime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Labeling_pink_slime%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the USDA
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/label_pink_slime">require
labeling of food containing ammonia-treated meat, "pink slime"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Expensive_unnecessary_dental_work)
title: Expensive unnecessary dental work
uri: Expensive-unnecessary-dental-work
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Expensive_unnecessary_dental_work%29

content:
<p>
Dentists in the US
are <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/dentist-ripping-you-off">increasingly
likely to recommend expensive unnecessary dental work</a>.
<p>
This appears to be due to the economic pressure placed on dentists by
changes in dentistry, including large companies with hundreds of
offices.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Universal_basic_health_care)
title: Universal basic health care
uri: Universal-basic-health-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Universal_basic_health_care%29
content:
<p>
The Ebola epidemic
shows <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/oct/06/ebola-universal-health-coverage">the
need for universal basic health care to extend even to the poorest
places</a>.


title: Strong target for energy efficiency
uri: Strong-target-for-energy-efficiency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Strong_target_for_energy_efficiency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Strong_target_for_energy_efficiency%29

content:
<p>
The UK could boost the economy, and not only for the wealthy,
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/06/energy-efficiency-target-uk-economy">setting
a strong target for energy efficiency</a>.
<p>
The government is not interested, perhaps because it aims to make
workers desperate and penurious, not make jobs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Phone_call_metadata)
title: Phone call metadata
uri: Phone-call-metadata
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Phone_call_metadata%29
content:
<p>
UK
thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/05/police-chris-huhne-reporter-phone-records">used
a journalist's phone call metadata to identify a source</a>, after a
judge told them they were not entitled to that information.
<p>
They used the notorious R.I.P. act, which was the death knell for
privacy of communications in the UK.  This law also makes it a crime
not to answer thugs' questions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(PISSIs_script)
title: PISSI's script
uri: PISSI-s-script
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28PISSIs_script%29
content:
<p>
If you want to "do something" about PISSI (aka ISIS), be careful you are
not following 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/05/isis-islamic-state-bombing">their
script</a>.


title: Global heating threatens agriculture
uri: Global-heating-threatens-agriculture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Global_heating_threatens_agriculture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Global_heating_threatens_agriculture%29

content:
<p>
Latin America has mostly eliminated hunger, but global heating threatens
to bring it back by 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26635-latin-america-on-a-dangerous-precipice">damaging
agriculture</a>.
<p>
A growing population won't help.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(US_thugs_attacking_CopWatch)
title: US thugs attacking CopWatch
uri: US-thugs-attacking-CopWatch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28US_thugs_attacking_CopWatch%29
content:
<p>
US thugs around the country are attacking CopWatch groups and their
leaders with 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26527-police-departments-retaliate-against-organized-cop-watch-groups-across-the-us">threats
and even bogus arrests</a>.
<p>
Is spitting in a thug's face really a felony?  If so, the first step
in ending the thugs' reign of terror is to change that law — and
many others with it.  Thugs regularly abuse their power; they must
have less of it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Support_for_HK_protests)
title: Support for HK protests
uri: Support-for-HK-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Support_for_HK_protests%29
content:
<p>
Some US dissidents are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/05/accusing-hong-kong-activists-being-tools-us-policy-both-ignorant-and-dangerous">claiming
that the Hong Kong protests are a US plot</a>.
<p>
Those critics seem to be more anti-US than pro-freedom.
<p>
If the US is indeed supporting the protests in Hong Kong, I'm glad
that for once it is doing something good.  I'd say the same thing if
it were demonstrated that China or Venezuela had supported Occupy Wall
Street or other legitimate democratic activity in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(HeForShe_manifesto)
title: HeForShe manifesto
uri: HeForShe-manifesto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28HeForShe_manifesto%29
content:
<p>
I support Emma Watson's 
<a href="http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2014/9/emma-watson-gender-equality-is-your-issue-too">HeForShe
manifesto</a>.
<p>
It took me a while to find it in textual form; I don't want to link to
a video that would lead people to run nonfree software.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Using_TTIP_to_attack_regulations)
title: Using TTIP to attack regulations
uri: Using-TTIP-to-attack-regulations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Using_TTIP_to_attack_regulations%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/01/leaked-ttip-documents-reveal-powerful-chemical-industry-wins">Chemical
companies are using the TTIP</a> to attack regulations to protect
against toxic chemical spills.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Monopolies_on_old_drugs)
title: Monopolies on old drugs
uri: Monopolies-on-old-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Monopolies_on_old_drugs%29
content:
<p>
An inexpensive 20-year-old drug for an unusual medical condition may
soon cost patients $80,000, due to a 
<a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/12895858/1/catalyst-pharma-closer-to-unconscionable-price-hike-for-rare-disease-drug.html">legal
maneuver by drug barons</a>.
<p>
The long-known generic drug colchicine, used for gout, was made a
monopoly through a similar maneuver.
<p>
The same sort of corrupt scheme for new monopolies on old drugs exists
in Europe.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Continued_support_for_Afghan_govt)
title: Continued support for Afghan gov't
uri: Continued-support-for-Afghan-gov-t
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Continued_support_for_Afghan_govt%29

content:
<p>
Obama has signed an agreement with the contrived Afghan government to
keep propping it up for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/30/signed-agreement-locks-ten-more-years-afghan-war">10
more years</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(NSA_snooping_authorized)
title: NSA snooping "authorized"
uri: NSA-snooping-authorized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28NSA_snooping_authorized%29
content:
<p>
Most NSA snooping is "authorized" by 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/new-documents-shed-light-one-nsas-most-powerful-tools">Reagan's
executive order 12333</a>.  This snooping has no oversight by Congress
or courts.  Although the government says this is to prevent
"terrorism", that is nothing more than an all-purpose excuse.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Video_games)
title: Video games
uri: Video-games
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Video_games%29
content:
<p>
A list of 
<a href="http://leighalexander.net/list-of-ethical-concerns-in-video-games-partial/">ethical
issues</a> that someone else sees in regard to video games.
<p>
I agree with most of them, but conspicuously absent is the direct
injustice that most video games commit against their users: 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.html">the game
software is not free/libre</a>.  Indeed, the article goes so far as to
condemn "unsanctioned clones" for being "free" (i.e., gratis, not
freedom-respecting).  That's where I disagree with the article.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Facing_an_age_of_extinction)
title: Facing an age of extinction
uri: Facing-an-age-of-extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Facing_an_age_of_extinction%29
content:
<p>
Humanity is pounding the natural world so hard that even common
species are not safe from extinction.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/05/threatened-species-cannot-afford-to-lose-age-of-extinction">Many
species that humans depend on face extinction</a>.
<p>
Don't forget that a the species that inspire human interest, such as
tigers, orangutans and pandas, are used for campaigns to protect the
entire ecosystems they live in; if we lose them, it will be because
we lost the thousands of other species that live along with them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Tories_proposed_tax_cuts)
title: Tories' proposed tax cuts
uri: Tories-proposed-tax-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Tories_proposed_tax_cuts%29
content:
<p>
The Tories' proposed tax cuts will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/02/cameron-tax-cuts-benefit-middle-and-high-earners-not-poor">help
only the non-poor, while the benefit cuts to pay for them will shaft
the poor</a>.
<p>
We've seen similar 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#09_August_2011_(Cuts_Funding,_Rejects_Grants)">dooH
niboR misdirection from US Republicans</a>, who got support from
foolish workers who these same Republicans then impoverish.


title: Urgent: No palm oil from destroyed forests
uri: Urgent-No-palm-oil-from-destroyed-forests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(Urgent:_No_palm_oil_from_destroyed_forests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_palm_oil_from_destroyed_forests%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4263">call
on giant fast food companies</a> to stop using palm oil from farms
created by destroying forests and peat swamps.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(Urgent:_Free_Ghoncheh_Ghavami)
title: Urgent: Free Ghoncheh Ghavami
uri: Urgent-Free-Ghoncheh-Ghavami
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Free_Ghoncheh_Ghavami%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=31813&ea.tracking.id=Country_Iran~MessagingCategory_PrisonersandPeopleatRisk-PrisonersofConscience~MessagingCategory_WomensRights~Region_MiddleEastandNorthAfrica">write
to the political leaders of Iran</a> on behalf of Ghoncheh Ghavami, an
Iranian woman threatened with dying in prison because she wanted to
watch a sports match.


title: Urgent: Investigate bank regulators
uri: Urgent-Investigate-bank-regulators
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(Urgent:_Investigate_bank_regulators)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_bank_regulators%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:  
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/warren_goldman_sachs_tapes">Call
for an investigation</a> of submissive bank regulators that don't dare
enforce regulations on Goldman Sachs.


title: Bureaucratization and marketization
uri: Bureaucratization-and-marketization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(Bureaucratization_and_marketization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28Bureaucratization_and_marketization%29

content:
<p>
An argument that the bureaucratization and marketization of society is
<a href="http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit">partly
responsible for putting an end to major technological advances</a>
since 1970.


title: Clinton owes Ray McGovern an apology
uri: Clinton-owes-Ray-McGovern-an-apology
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(Clinton_owes_Ray_McGovern_an_apology)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28Clinton_owes_Ray_McGovern_an_apology%29

content:
<p>
Hillary Clinton owes Ray McGovern an apology, because the State
Department under her direction 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/26/1332553/-Hilary-Clinton-Loses">persecuted
dissident Ray McGovern</a>.
<p>
I agree, but I lost my respect for Ms Clinton long ago for other
reasons.


title: Cell phone trackers in NYC phone booths
uri: Cell-phone-trackers-in-NYC-phone-booths
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(Cell_phone_trackers_in_NYC_phone_booths)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28Cell_phone_trackers_in_NYC_phone_booths%29

content:
<p>
500 New York City phone booths have devices to 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6163">track cell phones
that pass by</a>.
<p>
The city says it will remove them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(Turkey_makes_trade_with_PISSI)
title: Turkey makes trade with PISSI
uri: Turkey-makes-trade-with-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28Turkey_makes_trade_with_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Turkey 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/06/turkey-britons-swap-deal-isis-hostages-reports">traded
PISSI soldiers interned in Turkey for Turkish civilians captured by
PISSI</a>.
<p>
PISSI is the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.


title: Biden apologizes for telling truth
uri: Biden-apologizes-for-telling-truth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(Biden_apologizes_for_telling_truth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28Biden_apologizes_for_telling_truth%29

content:
<p>
Vice President Biden was forced to apologize for telling the truth
about 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/10/joe-biden-apologizes-telling-truth">US
"allies" that funded the growth of the jihadi movement in Syria</a>
(leading to PISSI).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 07_October_2014_(UK_arms_exports_to_Israel)
title: UK arms exports to Israel
uri: UK-arms-exports-to-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_October_2014_%28UK_arms_exports_to_Israel%29
content:
<p>
UK arms exports to Israel 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/06/government-military-export-licences-israel">may
be illegal</a> under UK law.


title: HK executive's strategy against protesters
uri: 2014-10-08-HK-executive-s-strategy-against-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(HK_executives_strategy_against_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28HK_executives_strategy_against_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The Hong Kong executive defeated the protesters by <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/06/hong-kong-protests-exhaustion-sets-in">waiting
for them to lose hope</a>.


title: UK thugs to investigate themselves
uri: 2014-10-08-UK-thugs-to-investigate-themselves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(UK_thugs_to_investigate_themselves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28UK_thugs_to_investigate_themselves%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs have been directed
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2014/oct/06/police-concede-allegations-over-attempts-to-turn-activists-into-informers-are-serious">investigate
their own intimidation of political activists</a>.


title: Clinton admits anti-democratic meddling
uri: 2014-10-08-Clinton-admits-anti-democratic-meddling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 06_October_2014_(Clinton_admits_anti-democratic_meddling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Clinton_admits_anti-democratic_meddling%29

content:
<p>
Clinton admits in her book that, while claiming to support returning
Zelaya to the presidency of Honduras, she
was <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/hillary-clinton-honduraslatinamericaforeignpolicy.html">actually
moving secretly to prevent his return</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Twitter_fighting_PAT_RIOT_act)
title: Twitter fighting PAT RIOT act
uri: Twitter-fighting-PAT-RIOT-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Twitter_fighting_PAT_RIOT_act%29
content:
<p>
Twitter is suing to overturn the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/07/twitter-lawsuit-inform-users-us-government-surveillance">PAT
RIOT act's gag provisions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Urgent:_Send_a_bankster_to_jail)
title: Urgent: Send a bankster to jail
uri: Urgent-Send-a-bankster-to-jail
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Send_a_bankster_to_jail%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://other98.com/eric-holder-dont-ignore-wall-streets-crimes/">tell
Holder</a>, send a bankster to jail before you leave office.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Students_killed_in_Mexico)
title: Students killed in Mexico
uri: Students-killed-in-Mexico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Students_killed_in_Mexico%29
content:
<p>
In Mexico, plutocratist politicians allied with drug gangs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/07/mass-grave-mexico-drug-war-killing-children">killing
students that oppose the abolition of rural schools</a>.
<p>
The plutocrats that dominate Mexico via NAFTA don't want any money
to be spent on educating poor rural Mexicans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(UKs_National_Crime_Agency)
title: UK's National Crime Agency
uri: UK-s-National-Crime-Agency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28UKs_National_Crime_Agency%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/07/national-crime-agency-surveillance-security-civil-liberties-keith-bristow">The
National Crime Agency Would Take [The UK] Back to Soviet-Style
Surveillance</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Young_jobless_people)
title: Young jobless people
uri: Young-jobless-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Young_jobless_people%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/07/politicians-bullying-young-workless-people-into-jobs">Politicians
Should Stop Bullying Young Jobless People into Trying to Find
Work</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Terrorist_movements)
title: Terrorist movements
uri: Terrorist-movements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Terrorist_movements%29
content:
<p>
Long experience shows that the only way to deal with terrorist
movements (other than small gangs without public support) is to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/07/-sp-how-to-talk-to-terrorists-isis-al-qaida">negotiate
with them</a>.
<p>
This may not apply to PISSI today, which is more of a barbarian horde
than a terrorist movement.  It can be defeated in battle, at this
stage.  If that happens, it may morph into a terrorist movement.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(PISSI_capturing_Kobani)
title: PISSI capturing Kobani
uri: PISSI-capturing-Kobani
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28PISSI_capturing_Kobani%29
content:
<p>
PISSI is slowly capturing parts of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/07/isis-militants-enter-kobani-on-syrias-border-with-turkey">Kobani</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Evidence_links_Roundup_to_cancer)
title: Evidence links Roundup to cancer
uri: Evidence-links-Roundup-to-cancer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Evidence_links_Roundup_to_cancer%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/26614-monsanto-s-roundup-linked-to-cancer">Many
forms of evidence</a> link Roundup to increased rates of cancer in
humans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Education_in_Finland)
title: Education in Finland
uri: Education-in-Finland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Education_in_Finland%29
content:
<p>
Finland's schools demand 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/06/why-finlands-schools-are-top-notch">less
school time, have hardly any standardized tests</a>, and students come
out very well educated.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Guantanamo_force-feeding_videos)
title: Guantanamo force-feeding videos
uri: 2014-10-08-Guantanamo-force-feeding-videos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Guantanamo_force-feeding_videos%29

content:
<p>
Guantanamo 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6198">force-feeding
videos</a> show that torture is still practiced there, even against
prisoners that are admittedly not criminals and have been "cleared for
release".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(UK_corporate_welfare)
title: UK corporate welfare
uri: UK-corporate-welfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28UK_corporate_welfare%29
content:
<p>
The UK government is talking about cutting human welfare funds to dump
people into the street.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/06/benefits-corporate-welfare-research-public-money-businesses">Why
not cut corporate welfare instead</a>?


title: Glasgow University voted to divest from fossil fuels
uri: Glasgow-University-voted-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Glasgow_University_voted_to_divest_from_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Glasgow_University_voted_to_divest_from_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
Glasgow
University <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/08/glasgow-becomes-first-university-in-europe-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels">voted
to divest from fossil fuels</a>.


title: Urgent: Allow requests for funds for abortions
uri: Urgent-Allow-requests-for-funds-for-abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Urgent:_Allow_requests_for_funds_for_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Allow_requests_for_funds_for_abortions%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell GoFundMe
to <a href="https://dailykos.com/campaigns/967?detail=email">allow
requests for funds for abortions</a>.  Abortion is not like terrorism,
violence or addictive drugs.


title: Urgent: Distributing military hardware to thug departments
uri: Urgent-Distributing-military-hardware-to-thug-departments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Urgent:_Distributing_military_hardware_to_thug_departments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Distributing_military_hardware_to_thug_departments%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Pentagon
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/dod_police_militarization">stop
distributing military hardware to thug departments in the US</a>.


title: Amazon's "digital editions" spy system
uri: Amazon-s-digital-editions-spy-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Amazon's_digital_editions_spy_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Amazon%27s_digital_editions_spy_system%29

content:
<p>
Amazon's "digital editions" spy
system <a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/">sends
users' complete reading logs to Amazon</a>.
<p>
Amazon says this is legitimate because users agree to it in the EULA,
but pressuring people to click "Ok, spy on me" does not excuse it.
<p>
This article focuses on the fact that the NSA can watch this data
passing on the net, avoiding the need to use the PAT RIOT act to
collect it directly from Amazon.  It legitimizes Amazon's snooping by
saying that's needed to <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org">enforce
DRM</a>, which legitimizes DRM too.  According to the article's view,
all this would be fine, if only Amazon didn't also <em>leak</em>
everyone's dossier.
<p>
As a defense of readers' rights, this is pitifully weak.  DRM, being
evil itself, can't justify anything.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Windows_10_total_snooping)
title: Windows 10 total snooping
uri: Windows-10-total-snooping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Windows_10_total_snooping%29
content:
<p>
Windows
10 <a href="http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/microsofts-windows-10-permission-watch-every-move.html">requires
users to give permission for total snooping</a> on their files,
commands, text input, and voice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Cruel_UK_prisons)
title: Cruel UK prisons
uri: Cruel-UK-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Cruel_UK_prisons%29
content:
<p>
UK prisons have
become <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/08/chief-inspector-prisons-nick-hardwick-denied-second-term">so
cruel that the government plans to fire the inspector of prisons</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Baltimore's_inner_harbor)
title: Baltimore's inner harbor
uri: Baltimore-s-inner-harbor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Baltimore%27s_inner_harbor%29
content:
<p>
Baltimore's inner harbor will
be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/08/us-east-coast-cities-face-frequent-flooding-due-to-climate-change">flooded
roughly 900 hours a year</a>, on the average, by 2045 — due to
global heating.
<p>
A few decades later, it will be permanently inundated.
<p>
Many other US coastal cities and towns face similar problems that we
are bringing on ourselves.


title: US food products containing soy or corn
uri: US-food-products-containing-soy-or-corn
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(US_food_products_containing_soy_or_corn)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28US_food_products_containing_soy_or_corn%29

content:
<p>
Consumer Reports found
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/07/gmos-are-everywhere-and-should-be-labeled-consumer-reports-finds">nearly
all US food products containing soy or corn are made with GMOs</a>,
even if they are misleadingly labeled as "natural".


title: Clinton endorsed policy of endless war
uri: Clinton-endorsed-policy-of-endless-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Clinton_endorsed_policy_of_endless_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Clinton_endorsed_policy_of_endless_war%29

content:
<p>
Clinton
has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/07/hillary-clinton-embraces-endless-war-doctrine">openly
endorsed the policy of endless war</a>.
<p>
Put this together with NSA snooping and the systematic dishonesty of
the mainstream press, and it adds up to 1984 lite.
<p>
The main threat to Americans comes from plutocracy.  Plutocracy could
kill millions of Americans in the coming decade, mainly through the
poverty it imposes.  Compared with this, underground terrorists are a
tiny threat.
<p>
Back when Dubya was president, I speculated that he and al Qa'ida were
both working to cause the endless war that suited them both.  It seems
the same for the US and PISSI.  Not that they have explicitly
conspired to do this together.  Rather, each side expects to gain
domestic power from endless war.  So PISSI offers bait, and the US
government jumps for it.


title: Terrorism is gift that keeps on giving
uri: Terrorism-is-gift-that-keeps-on-giving
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Terrorism_is_gift_that_keeps_on_giving)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Terrorism_is_gift_that_keeps_on_giving%29

content:
<p>
For the fascist plans of US officials, terrorism (real or imaginary)
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/america-panic-terror-isis-iraq">is
the gift that keeps on giving</a>.
<p>
The author makes a mistake by saying that "we" have adopted these
foolish attitudes, because that effectively insists the reader can't
reject them.  We can all reject them — it just takes a tiny bit
of moral fiber.  I reject them every time they come up, and you can,
too.


title: Endless war programmed by US officials
uri: Endless-war-programmed-by-US-officials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Endless_war_programmed_by_US_officials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Endless_war_programmed_by_US_officials%29

content:
<p>
US officials, Republican and Democrat, have programmed an 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6278">endless war all
around the world</a>.
<p>
It is endless by nature, because its tactics generate more enemies,
and have never won a victory anywhere.


title: US policy distinction between Iraq and Syria
uri: US-policy-distinction-between-Iraq-and-Syria
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(US_policy_distinction_between_Iraq_and_Syria)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28US_policy_distinction_between_Iraq_and_Syria%29

content:
<p>
The US makes an abstract policy distinction between Iraq and Syria,
and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/07/us-kurds-iraq-isis-massacre-syria-kobani">in
Syria only attacks PISSI's logistical support, not its troops</a>.
This is why it has not provided close air support to the Kurds
fighting to defend Kobani.
<p>
Meanwhile, the US wants Turkey to fight this battle, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/07/us-turkey-diplomacy-isis-kurds-kobani">Turkey
would rather fight Assad that PISSI</a>.
<p>
Close air support is the only sort of fighting that the US ought to do
against PISSI.  Once it starts attacking urban facilities, it causes
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_September_2014_(US_widening_air_bombing_in_Iraq)">civilian
casualties</a>.


title: Exaggeration about PISSI foreigners
uri: Exaggeration-about-PISSI-foreigners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Exaggeration_about_PISSI_foreigners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Exaggeration_about_PISSI_foreigners%29

content:
<p>
The chance that foreigners fighting for PISSI will return home and
commit violence there has been 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6012">exaggerated
beyond what past experience suggests</a>.
<p>
Politicians seeking to abolish human rights 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-nov-feb.html#13%20February%202005%20(After%20seeing%20they%20were%20lied%20to)">persistently
exaggerate the danger of terrorism</a>.


title: Questioning the claims of "psychics"
uri: Questioning-the-claims-of-psychics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Questioning_the_claims_of_psychics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Questioning_the_claims_of_psychics%29

content:
<p>
The author of leaflets questioning the validity of "psychics"' claims
to talk with the dead has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/oct/07/campaign-psychic-sally-morgan">threatened
with a lawsuit by a psychic</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(How_Big_Pharma_bilks_Americans)
title: How Big Pharma bilks Americans
uri: How-Big-Pharma-bilks-Americans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28How_Big_Pharma_bilks_Americans%29

content:
<p>
How the Big Pharma companies 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/06/why-we-allow-big-pharma-rip-us">make
Americans pay more for medicines than people in any other country</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Ellsberg_on_Obamas_Iraq_strategy)
title: Ellsberg on Obama's Iraq strategy
uri: Ellsberg-on-Obama-s-Iraq-strategy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Ellsberg_on_Obamas_Iraq_strategy%29

content:
<p>
Daniel Ellsberg judges Obama's Iraq strategy against the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/06/ellsberg-sees-vietnam-risks-isis-war">facts
of the Vietnam War<a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Criticisms_of_fracking_deleted)
title: Criticisms of fracking deleted
uri: Criticisms-of-fracking-deleted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Criticisms_of_fracking_deleted%29

content:
<p>
New York Governor Cuomo had criticisms of fracking 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/06/did-ny-govs-office-edit-politically-inconvenient-findings-fracking-study">deleted
from a scientific report</a>.
<p>
Cuomo pretends to be neutral on the issue while secretly trying to
impose fracking on the unwilling citizens of New York.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Harassment_of_US_freedom_group)
title: Harassment of US freedom group
uri: Harassment-of-US-freedom-group
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Harassment_of_US_freedom_group%29

content:
<p>
The UK freedom group Cage was almost forced to shut down by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/06/cage-complaint-bank-accounts-closed">official
harassment</a> including closure of its bank accounts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(Enxet_land)
title: Enxet land
uri: Enxet-land
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28Enxet_land%29
content:
<p>
The Enxet people, in Paraguay, keep winning legal victories to get
back the land they were kicked off.  But 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/oct/07/paraguay-supreme-court-historic-land-ruling">the
government has been reluctant to implement these decisions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(UK_NHS_grossly_underfunded)
title: UK NHS grossly underfunded
uri: UK-NHS-grossly-underfunded
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28UK_NHS_grossly_underfunded%29
content:
<p>
The UK National Health Service is so underfunded that it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/07/fund-nhs-properly-or-charge-for-hospital-beds-says-senior-executive">will
soon have to charge fees for hospital beds</a>, fees which poor people
can't pay.


title: How Nigeria quashed Ebola outbreak
uri: How-Nigeria-quashed-Ebola-outbreak
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(How_Nigeria_quashed_Ebola_outbreak)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28How_Nigeria_quashed_Ebola_outbreak%29

content:
<p>
Nigeria quashed its Ebola outbreak quickly, because it had a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/oct/07/nigeria-ebola-experience-teach-world
">strong enough medical system</a> to do what was necessary.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 08_October_2014_(The_Great_Barrier_Reef)
title: The Great Barrier Reef
uri: The-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#08_October_2014_%28The_Great_Barrier_Reef%29
content:
<p>
Australia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/07/great-barrier-reef-dredge-approval-suicide-reef-authority">destroyed
the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's credibility as well as
its ability to do is job</a>.
<p>
This was not suicide, it was murder: the government wants nothing
to stand in the way of its plans that include destroying the reef.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Criminal_record)
title: Criminal record
uri: Criminal-record
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Criminal_record%29
content:
<p>
65 million Americans have a criminal
record; <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26576-applying-to-college-with-a-criminal-record">many
US colleges exclude all of them in blanket fashion</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Employers_plead_for_sympathy)
title: Employers plead for sympathy
uri: Employers-plead-for-sympathy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Employers_plead_for_sympathy%29
content:
<p>
Employers plead for sympathy because they can't find people to hire,
but <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/10/if-you-pay-them-they-will-come">really
it's just that they won't pay enough</a>.


title: Fight to Tax Soda in San Francisco
uri: Fight-to-Tax-Soda-in-San-Francisco
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Fight_to_Tax_Soda_in_San_Francisco)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Fight_to_Tax_Soda_in_San_Francisco%29

content:
<p>
Inside
the <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/inside-san-franciscos-7-million-soda-tax">$7
Million Fight to Tax Soda in San Francisco</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Jewish_National_Fund)
title: Jewish National Fund
uri: Jewish-National-Fund
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Jewish_National_Fund%29
content:
<p>
The Jewish National Fund is actively involved
in <a href="http://972mag.com/despite-denials-jnf-to-continue-eviction-effort-of-jerusalem-palestinians/28489/">trying
to kick a Palestinian family out of its home near Jerusalem</a>.
<p>
Some of the JNF's tree planting campaigns
were <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#21_June_2013_%28Ishmael_Coovadia_incensed_over_trees_planted_in_his_honor%29">carried
out over former Arab villages whose inhabitants had either fled or
been expelled</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Ebola_epidemic)
title: Ebola epidemic
uri: Ebola-epidemic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Ebola_epidemic%29
content:
<p>
The World Bank says 20 billion dollars must be provided
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/ebola-crisis-world-bank-president-jim-kim-failure">quash
the Ebola epidemic</a>.


title: EU Climate and Energy Commissioner
uri: EU-Climate-and-Energy-Commissioner
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(EU_Climate_and_Energy_Commissioner)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28EU_Climate_and_Energy_Commissioner%29

content:
<p>
Former Oil
Mogul <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/09/former-oil-mogul-confirmed-as-eu-climate-and-energy-commissioner">Confirmed
as EU Climate and Energy Commissioner</a>.
<p>
He will surely find ways to obstruct progress in decarbonization;
whoever proposed him for the post must have done so with this goal in
mind.  Whatever controls are set up to make sure he does his job, they
can't stop him from dragging his feet.
<p>
Thus, I fear, the fossil fuel companies have neutralized the only
center of political power that was sincerely trying to avert global
heating.  I fear that they have murdered many of those who are reading
this.


title: A law making it easier for businesses to fire workers
uri: A-law-making-it-easier-for-businesses-to-fire-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(A_law_making_it_easier_for_businesses_to_fire_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28A_law_making_it_easier_for_businesses_to_fire_workers%29

content:
<p>
Italy's prime minister Renzi pushed
through <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/italy-pm-matteo-renzi-wins-confidence-vote-labour-reforms">a
law making it easier for businesses to fire workers</a>, hoping that
in exchange the EU will avoid punishing Italy more.
<p>
These "reforms" are part of the world-wide campaign by business to set
countries against each other in a competition for letting business
have more power and workers less power.  Step by step, business gets
to do want it wants, leaving most people poor.
<p>
I doubt that the plutocrats will keep their side of this deal.
Appeasing them is foolish; the more power they get, the more they can
demand more power.


title: Rebel group has taken the capital of Yemen
uri: Rebel-group-has-taken-the-capital-of-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Rebel_group_has_taken_the_capital_of_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Rebel_group_has_taken_the_capital_of_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
A Shi'ite rebel
group <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/09/yemen-rebellion-intrigue-syria-iraq">has
taken the capital of Yemen</a>, perhaps with the cooperation of the
president.
<p>
It opposes the Wahhabi missionaries sent by Saudi Arabia.  Saudi
Arabia seems to be the root of a large part of the theocratic cruelty
in the Arab world,
and <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_September_2014_%28US_allied_with_vicious_regimes%29">spreads
this with the backing of the US</a>.


title: A thug in St Louis shot a black teenager
uri: A-thug-in-St-Louis-shot-a-black-teenager
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(A_thug_in_St_Louis_shot_a_black_teenager)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28A_thug_in_St_Louis_shot_a_black_teenager%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/09/st-louis-police-officer-shoots-dead-black-teenager-off-duty">thug
in St Louis shot a black teenager</a>, then claimed the teenager had
fired shots with the sandwich his friends said he was carrying.
<p>
It would not be beyond a thug to plant a gun on the deceased.


title: Facebook and Master Card will join forces
uri: Facebook-and-Master-Card-will-join-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Facebook_and_Master_Card_will_join_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Facebook_and_Master_Card_will_join_forces%29

content:
<p>
Facebook and Master Card will join forces
to <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/mastercard-to-mine-facebook-user-data-20141006-10qrqy.html">profile
Master Card customers so banks can push them to spend more</a>.
<p>
By doing this, Master Card is ratting on its customers.  This
reinforces the point that using a credit card enables others to take
advantage of you.  It also interferes with your efforts to limit your
spending.
<p>
Don't be tracked — pay cash.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Ebola)
title: Ebola
uri: 2014-10-10-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Ebola%29
content:
<p>
Ebola virus 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/how-long-ebola-sperm">may
persist a human's semen and milk</a> months after the person has
recovered from it.


title: Turkey allows reinforcements to join PISSI
uri: Turkey-allows-reinforcements-to-join-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Turkey_allows_reinforcements_to_join_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Turkey_allows_reinforcements_to_join_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
Turkey
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/kobani-isis-turkey-kurds-ypg-syria-erdogan">blocking
Kurds from joining the defense of Kobani</a>, while allowing
reinforcements to join PISSI.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Business_domination_of_public_TV)
title: Business domination of public TV
uri: Business-domination-of-public-TV
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Business_domination_of_public_TV%29

content:
<p>
US public TV governing boards are 
<a href="http://wp.me/p2AI9o-nnrO">dominated by business
executives</a>.
<p>
Business also dominates public TV stations through its 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#29_May_2011_(Commercials_on_PBS)">money</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(50000_SWAT_raids_per_year)
title: 50,000 SWAT raids per year
uri: 50-000-SWAT-raids-per-year
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%2850000_SWAT_raids_per_year%29
content:
<p>
With 50,000 SWAT raids per year in the US, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/08/how-many-people-must-be-maimed-or-killed-we-end-militarization-our-police-forces">lots
of people will inevitably get hurt badly</a>.


title: Superstition leads to murder in UK
uri: Superstition-leads-to-murder-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Superstition_leads_to_murder_in_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Superstition_leads_to_murder_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/more-cases-ritual-child-abuse-linked-witchcraft-beliefs-reported-police">Superstition
about witches</a> leads to murder, even in the UK.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Australia_spying_law)
title: Australia spying law
uri: Australia-spying-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Australia_spying_law%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/07/australia-spying-law-meets-grassroots-resistance">Australia
Spying Law Meets Grassroots Resistance</a>.
<p>
The Australian government's duty is to keep Australians safe …
from total surveillance.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Democracy_in_Syria)
title: Democracy in Syria
uri: Democracy-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Democracy_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/08/why-world-ignoring-revolutionary-kurds-syria-isis">Revolutionary
Kurds</a> in Syria have established the sort of popular democracy we
would hope that the whole Middle East could have.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Release_of_Brit_jailed_in_Morocco)
title: Release of Brit jailed in Morocco
uri: Release-of-Brit-jailed-in-Morocco
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Release_of_Brit_jailed_in_Morocco%29

content:
<p>
The British tourist jailed in Morocco for being homosexual was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/british-tourist-ray-cole-morocco-homosexual-acts">released</a>.
His Moroccan friend or lover is not so fortunate.


title: Helping wildlife by legalizing marijuana
uri: Helping-wildlife-by-legalizing-marijuana
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Helping_wildlife_by_legalizing_marijuana)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Helping_wildlife_by_legalizing_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
Extinction of wildlife is another problem that the US could partially
solve by 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/10/marijuana-fisher-threatened-rat-poison">legalizing
marijuana</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Thugs_sued)
title: Thugs sued
uri: Thugs-sued
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Thugs_sued%29
content:
<p>
Jamal Jones is suing thugs for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/08/police-sued-for-using-stun-gun-on-man-after-smashing-car-window">breaking
car windows and attacking him only for not carrying identification</a>
(which he had no obligation to carry).
<p>
It is not enough to sue the thugs and the city; that is no deterrent
for thugs.  We need to prosecute them.
<p>
I hope, if you are ever on a jury, that you will reject any
presumption that thugs are telling the truth.  
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#07_February_2013_(Testilying_thugs)">Lying
in court is habitual with them</a>.


title: Attacks on Palestinians' water supply
uri: Attacks-on-Palestinians-water-supply
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Attacks_on_Palestinians_water_supply)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Attacks_on_Palestinians_water_supply%29

content:
<p>
Israel has 
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/219512-israels-water-war-crimes">repeatedly
attacked Palestinians' water supply and sewage systems</a> for more
than a decade.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Israel_to_demolish_homes)
title: Israel to demolish homes
uri: Israel-to-demolish-homes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Israel_to_demolish_homes%29
content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers told the inhabitants of the village of Khirbet Um
al-Jimal that all their homes will be 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/69306">demolished at some
undetermined date</a>.


title: Urgent: Protect coral and sponge habitat
uri: Urgent-Protect-coral-and-sponge-habitat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_coral_and_sponge_habitat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_coral_and_sponge_habitat%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1041&autologin=true">call
on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council</a> to protect coral
and sponge habitat in the Bering Sea.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Giant_coal_mine_in_Australia)
title: Giant coal mine in Australia
uri: Giant-coal-mine-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Giant_coal_mine_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Indian environmentalists are suing to block a giant coal mine in
Australia which 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/09/carmichael-mine-indian-conservation-group-joins-legal-battle-with-adani">would
export coal to pollute India</a> (as well as polluting the whole world
with CO<sub>2</sub>).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Mass_surveillance_of_phone_users)
title: Mass surveillance of phone users
uri: Mass-surveillance-of-phone-users
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Mass_surveillance_of_phone_users%29

content:
<p>
Despite everything the US government says about encryption in phones,
the fact is that 
<a href=" https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6541">they still make
massive surveillance of everyone easier than before people used
them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(False_confessions)
title: False confessions
uri: False-confessions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28False_confessions%29
content:
<p>
Burmese expatriates in Thailand confessed to killing two British
tourists, but now they say they were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/thailand-backpacker-murders-suspects-confession-retract">tortured
into a false confession</a>.
<p>
I believe them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(US_jails_mentally_ill_poor)
title: US jails mentally ill poor
uri: US-jails-mentally-ill-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28US_jails_mentally_ill_poor%29
content:
<p>
In the US, 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/181845/mental-illness-homelessness-drug-addiction-do-these-sound-crimes">people
with harmless mental illnesses end up in jail</a> unless they are
rich.
<p>
Once jailed, they are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jul-oct.html#11%20July%202009%20(Debtors%27%20prison)">put
in debt for their imprisonment</a>, so they may never be able to get
out.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Human_cab_drivers)
title: Human cab drivers
uri: Human-cab-drivers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Human_cab_drivers%29
content:
<p>
Uber 
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/28/5758734/uber-will-eventually-replace-all-its-drivers-with-self-driving-cars">plans
to do away with human cab drivers</a>.
<p>
It would be easy for a non-plutocratic government to prohibit this,
and that's what every country ought to do, unless/until every person
gets an adequate basic income so people don't need to be employed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Educational_success)
title: Educational success
uri: Educational-success
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Educational_success%29
content:
<p>
Children of East Asian (mainly Chinese) immigrants 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/east-asian-school-success-culture-curriculum-teaching">excel
even in mediocre Australian schools</a>.
<p>
This suggests that the root cause of the high educational success of
various East Asian countries may not be particularly due to how the
schools there are run.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(ACLU_legal_victory_in_Ferguson)
title: ACLU legal victory in Ferguson
uri: ACLU-legal-victory-in-Ferguson
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28ACLU_legal_victory_in_Ferguson%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU won a legal victory: the Ferguson thugs are 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/07/3577001/judge-to-ferguson-police-you-cant-arrest-protesters-for-standing-still/">not
allowed to arrest protesters just for standing still</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Massive_Mongolian_Mine)
title: Massive Mongolian Mine
uri: Massive-Mongolian-Mine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Massive_Mongolian_Mine%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/26655-massive-mongolian-mine-endangers-nomads-water-way-of-life">Massive
Mongolian Mine Endangers Nomads' Water, Way of Life</a>.
<p>
However, the bigger culprit is global heating, which is hitting
Mongolia more than most of the world, and drying it up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 10_October_2014_(Mercury_pollution_hurts_songbirds)
title: Mercury pollution hurts songbirds
uri: Mercury-pollution-hurts-songbirds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_October_2014_%28Mercury_pollution_hurts_songbirds%29

content:
<p>
Mercury pollution 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26679-heavy-metal-songs-contaminated-songbirds-sing-the-wrong-tunes">damages
the brains of songbirds</a>.


title: Urgent: Approve Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General
uri: Urgent-Approve-Vivek-Murthy-as-Surgeon-General
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_October_2014_(Urgent:_Approve_Vivek_Murthy_as_Surgeon_General)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Approve_Vivek_Murthy_as_Surgeon_General%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/nra_ebola_murthy">resist
the NRA and approve Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_October_2014_(Control_of_forests)
title: Control of forests
uri: Control-of-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_October_2014_%28Control_of_forests%29
content:
<p>
Arguing that putting the local inhabitants or indigenous people in
control of
forests <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/09/climate-change-and-deforestation-will-not-be-solved-trick">works
better than REDD for ending deforestation</a>.
<p>
I see some questionable points.  For instance, the danger that the
forest's trees may die even if protected exists no matter how we try
to protect them.  Global heating is killing a lot of pine trees in the
US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_October_2014_(Customers'_call_records)
title: Customers' call records
uri: Customers-call-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_October_2014_%28Customers%27_call_records%29
content:
<p>
UK mobile phone networks'
computers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/automatic-police-access-customers-mobile-phone-records-like-cash-machine-ripa-three-ee-vodafone">provide
customers' call records to the state automatically whenever asked</a>,
without even checking for a legally valid order.
<p>
A legally valid order made by thugs, without the need to justify it to
anyone, is not morally valid.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Sharif_Mobley)
title: Sharif Mobley
uri: Sharif-Mobley
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Sharif_Mobley%29
content:
<p>
The US government says it knows where Sharif Mobley is,
but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/sharif-mobley-yemen-urine-family-us-disappeared">refuses
to tell his family</a>.


title: NSA sends agents to install spy devices
uri: NSA-sends-agents-to-install-spy-devices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(NSA_sends_agents_to_install_spy_devices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28NSA_sends_agents_to_install_spy_devices%29

content:
<p>
The NSA sends agents
to <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6622">install spy
devices in networks in various countries</a>, including apparently the
US.
<p>
For the US government to do this to a rather hostile government such
as China does not seem wrong to me.  Doing this to Germany and South
Korea would be a low blow against an ally <em>if</em> it was done
without those states' approval (we don't know).  If those states
approved of the act, it might mean that they are spying massively on
their own citizens.


title: Urgent: Limit US war in Syria and Iraq
uri: Urgent-Limit-US-war-in-Syria-and-Iraq
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Urgent:_Limit_US_war_in_Syria_and_Iraq)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Limit_US_war_in_Syria_and_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress and Obama
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/help-the-progressive">limit
US war in Syria and Iraq</a>.


title: Campaign to slow down installation of solar power in the US
uri: Campaign-to-slow-down-installation-of-solar-power-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Campaign_to_slow_down_installation_of_solar_power_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Campaign_to_slow_down_installation_of_solar_power_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Walmart's owners support organizations
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/10/report-documents-walmart-heirs-efforts-destroy-rooftop-solar-revolution">campaign
to slow down installation of solar power in the US</a>.


title: Corporate land grabs and "development"
uri: Corporate-land-grabs-and-development
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Corporate_land_grabs_and_development)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Corporate_land_grabs_and_development%29

content:
<p>
Farmers and indigenous peoples are protesting the World Bank's support
for <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/10/farmers-indigenous-peoples-and-ngos-take-streets-ten-cities-demanding-end-world">corporate
land grabs and "development" that helps business take from the
poor</a>.


title: Malala Yousufzai can't return home
uri: Malala-Yousufzai-can-t-return-home
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Malala_Yousufzai_can't_return_home)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Malala_Yousufzai_can%27t_return_home%29

content:
<p>
Malala Yousufzai, admired around the
world, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/10/malala-yousufzai-pride-pakistan-nobel-peace-prize">can't
return home because of death threats from the Taliban</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Turkey_denying_entry_to_refugees)
title: Turkey denying entry to refugees
uri: Turkey-denying-entry-to-refugees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Turkey_denying_entry_to_refugees%29

content:
<p>
Turkey
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/kobani-srebrenica-un-turkey-syria-isis">denying
entry to 10,000 Kurdish civilian refugees trying to flee Kobani</a>.
<p>
The US could airdrop ammunition and food to the Kurds fighting for
Kobani.  Since the plan is already to arm opponents of PISSI, why not
these, now?


title: Sugar consumption made memory worse
uri: Sugar-consumption-made-memory-worse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Sugar_consumption_made_memory_worse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Sugar_consumption_made_memory_worse%29

content:
<p>
An experiment on adolescent rats finds
that <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/10/new-study-teens-may-have-memory-trouble-if-they-keep-drinking-soda">heavy
sugar consumption made their memory worse</a>.
<p>
This does not prove sugar has the same effects on human adolescents,
but it might be so.
<p>
Other studies have found that low-calorie sweeteners fool the brain
into preparing for
sugar, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#02_February_2013_%28Brominated_vegetable_oil_in_Gatorade%29">causing
confusion when the calories do not arrive</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Resistence_by_indigenous_peoples)
title: Resistance by indigenous peoples
uri: Resistance-by-indigenous-peoples
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Resistence_by_indigenous_peoples%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International says that the government of Guatemala, together
with Canadian mining companies, provoke resistance by indigenous
peoples
by <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26695-guatemalan-government-canadian-mining-industry-responsible-for-violent-conflicts">setting
up mines near their homes without consulting them.</a>


title: Transport of toxic chemicals by rail
uri: Transport-of-toxic-chemicals-by-rail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Transport_of_toxic_chemicals_by_rail)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Transport_of_toxic_chemicals_by_rail%29

content:
<p>
A train carrying hazardous chemicals 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/08/fiery-derailment-puts-spotlight-hazardous-train-shipments">derailed
in the middle of a Canadian town</a>.
<p>
No one was directly injured, but the toxic smoke from the burning
chemicals may cause people respiratory problems down the line.


title: Walmart trying to cut health insurance
uri: Walmart-trying-to-cut-health-insurance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Walmart_trying_to_cut_health_insurance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Walmart_trying_to_cut_health_insurance%29

content:
<p>
Walmart is pushing 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/08/amid-soaring-profits-walmart-cut-30000-workers-health-insurance">reducing
the hours on 30,000 workers</a> so as to deny them health insurance.
<p>
The US laws that associate medical care with employment implement a
bad policy.  For instance, it is an incentive to replace workers with
robots.  Companies should pay for people's health care through taxes
that would only increase if the company replaces workers with robots.
The laws ought to be changed so that everyone gets medical care,
regardless of the person's life situation.
<p>
This does not excuse Walmart's conduct.  Ethics are separate from law;
taking advantage of a bad law to screw people legally is just as wrong
as screwing them illegally.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Boston_thug_racism)
title: Boston thug racism
uri: Boston-thug-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Boston_thug_racism%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU studied statistics on how Boston thugs searched pedestrians
and found a 
<a href="https://www.aclum.org/stopandfrisk">gross pattern of
racism</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(NSA_propaganda_activities)
title: NSA propaganda activities
uri: NSA-propaganda-activities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28NSA_propaganda_activities%29
content:
<p>
The NSA was asked for a 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6570">list of the
information it has disclosed to reporters</a>.  It responded that the
list is too secret to show.
<p>
The NSA is trying to hide its propaganda activities.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Crypto_Wars_Redux)
title: Crypto Wars Redux
uri: Crypto-Wars-Redux
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Crypto_Wars_Redux%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/09/crypto-wars-redux-why-the-fbis-desire-to-unlock-your-private-life-must-be-resisted">Crypto
Wars Redux: Why the FBI's Desire to Unlock Your Private Life Must Be
Resisted</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Defending_Kobani_against_PISSI)
title: Defending Kobani against PISSI
uri: Defending-Kobani-against-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Defending_Kobani_against_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
The US has begun 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/battle-for-kobani-rages-us-air-strikes-isis">bombing
PISSI fighters attacking Kobani</a>.  Since then, Kurdish forces have
started advancing.
<p>
PISSI is the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Lego_cancels_Shell_marketing)
title: Lego cancels Shell marketing
uri: Lego-cancels-Shell-marketing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Lego_cancels_Shell_marketing%29
content:
<p>
A pressure campaign (which I supported here) has convinced Lego to
cancel its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/09/lego-ends-shell-partnership-following-greenpeace-campaign">marketing
collaboration with Shell</a>.
<p>
This sort of thing is very important: we need to strip the fossil fuel
companies of the little maneuvers that they use to disguise the
murderous nature of their plans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Ebola)
title: Ebola
uri: 2014-10-12-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Ebola%29
content:
<p>
Hundreds of thousands of fools 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/excalibur-spanish-ebola-patient-dog-euthanised">wanted
to risk spreading Ebola to humans to save a dog</a>.
<p>
Nobody knows whether a dog can pass Ebola to humans, but let's not
find out the hard way.


title: Australian journalists and sources
uri: Australian-journalists-and-sources
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 11_October_2014_(Australian_journalists_and_sources)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_%28Australian_journalists_and_sources%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/09/anti-terrorism-bill-police-to-get-power-to-secretly-search-suspects-house">Australia
proposes to imprison journalists and their sources</a> for publishing
information about secret searches of people's homes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_October_2014_(Arrest_of_Kurds_in_Turkey)
title: Arrest of Kurds in Turkey
uri: Arrest-of-Kurds-in-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_October_2014_%28Arrest_of_Kurds_in_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
Kurds fleeing into Turkey have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/syrians-fleeing-kobani-ypg-suspicion-turkey">arrested
without charges</a> and accused of fighting PISSI.
<p>
It's unlikely to be true, since some of them are children.  However,
if some of them really did fight PISSI, it is disgusting to punish
anyone for that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_October_2014_(Big_banks_face_criminal_charges)
title: Big banks face criminal charges
uri: Big-banks-face-criminal-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_October_2014_%28Big_banks_face_criminal_charges%29

content:
<p>
Big US banks once again face 
<a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/big-banks-face-another-round-of-u-s-charges/?_php=true&_type=blogs&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0">criminal charges</a>, but the executives will
probably get off unscathed yet again.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_October_2014_(TTIP)
title: TTIP
uri: TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_October_2014_%28TTIP%29
content:
<p>
The European Commission is 
<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/michael-efler/how-european-commission-is-trying-to-smother-debate-on-ttip">inventing
strained legalistic excuses</a> to block a referendum opposing the
TTIP.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_October_2014_(UK_agricultural_workers_exploited)
title: UK agricultural workers exploited
uri: UK-agricultural-workers-exploited
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_October_2014_%28UK_agricultural_workers_exploited%29

content:
<p>
Agricultural workers in the UK are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/08/wisbech-migrant-workers-exploited-gangmasters-eastern-europe">stripped
of their passports and their pay, and gouged on rent</a>.
<p>
This is a world-wide pattern, much like what happens to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_(Deaths_of_construction_workers_in_Qatar_due_to_abusive_conditions)">construction
workers in Qatar</a>.
<p>
A government that doesn't want to let businesses exploit people could
adopt laws that make it harder to get away with this.  One approach
would be to make the farms directly liable for how the temp agency
treats the temporary workers.  It would help to prosecute the
executives and staff of the temp agency, as well as the agency, for
any wrongdoing; I can't tell from the article whether this is already
done.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_October_2014_(Mexico_protests)
title: Mexico protests
uri: Mexico-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_October_2014_%28Mexico_protests%29
content:
<p>
Large protests around Mexico 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/mexico-protests-student-teachers-missing">demand
release of the 43 students disappeared by thugs</a>.
<p>
It looks like the thugs murdered them, but this is not yet certain.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_October_2014_(Philadelphia_students_strike)
title: Philadelphia students strike
uri: Philadelphia-students-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_October_2014_%28Philadelphia_students_strike%29
content:
<p>
Philadelphia students went on strike 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/08/students-walk-out-after-attack-union-defends-public-education">in
solidarity with their teachers</a>, whose contract was cancelled.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 12_October_2014_(Public_defense_failure)
title: Public defense failure
uri: Public-defense-failure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#12_October_2014_%28Public_defense_failure%29
content:
<p>
Manuel Velez was convicted of murder because 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/08/innocent-man-released-prison-after-nine-years-four-death-row">the
public defender didn't bother to investigate the evidence that proved
he was innocent</a>.
<p>
The cruel prosecutors gave him a choice between a new trial (on
charges already known to be false), which would probably have meant
keeping him in jail for a year or two, and pleading guilty to a
smaller false charge.  Evidently they are more interested in
pretending they are never wrong than in justice.
<p>
The main cause of these repeated injustices is that we don't have
enough public defenders in the US.  They can't possibly do a proper
job for so many clients.  Most of the time they advise clients to make
a deal and accept a lesser charge, whether it is true or not.


title: Allowing thugs to confer to coordinate testimony
uri: Allowing-thugs-to-confer-to-coordinate-testimony
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Allowing_thugs_to_confer_to_coordinate_testimony)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Allowing_thugs_to_confer_to_coordinate_testimony%29

content:
<p>
UK thug chiefs insist
on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/11/mark-duggan-met-police-can-confer-on-fatal-shooting-statements
">allowing thugs to confer to coordinate their testimony.</a>


title: Urgent: Pass the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act
uri: Urgent-Pass-the-Family-and-Medical-Insurance-Leave-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Family_and_Medical_Insurance_Leave_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Pass_the_Family_and_Medical_Insurance_Leave_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/pass_the_family_act">pass
the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act.</a>


title: Urgent: Pressure Turkey to let Kurds cross the border
uri: Urgent-Pressure-Turkey-to-let-Kurds-cross-the-border
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Urgent:_Pressure_Turkey_to_let_Kurds_cross_the_border)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Pressure_Turkey_to_let_Kurds_cross_the_border%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Call on Obama
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/obama-press-turkey-to">pressure
Turkey to let Kurds cross the border</a>, whether to defend Kobani or
escape from massacre there.


title: Court order to get journalists' phone records
uri: Court-order-to-get-journalists-phone-records
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Court_order_to_get_journalists'_phone_records)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Court_order_to_get_journalists%27_phone_records%29

content:
<p>
The UK
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/police-ripa-powers-journalists-surveillance">require
a court order to get journalists' phone records</a>.
<p>
That is a small step in the right direction.  I have to ask, however,
who this will apply to.  On the internet, anyone can be a journalist.
<p>
In addition, journalists reporting on ticklish issues such as
government snooping must arrange to communicate with their sources in
a way that can't be tracked.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Cuba_fighting_Ebola)
title: Cuba fighting Ebola
uri: Cuba-fighting-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Cuba_fighting_Ebola%29
content:
<p>
Cuba
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/cuba-leads-fights-against-ebola-africa">sent
more doctors to fight Ebola than any other country</a>.


title: Facebook to get even more info on digital activities
uri: Facebook-to-get-even-more-info-on-digital-activities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Facebook_to_get_even_more_info_on_digital_activities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Facebook_to_get_even_more_info_on_digital_activities%29

content:
<p>
Facebook now combines "Like" button tracking data with data from
Facebook itself to
get <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/facebook-increases-its-tracking-reach-atlas-and-users-have-little-choice-about-it">even
more information about people's digital activities</a>.
<p>
Facebook does not tell other companies the identities of users, but
they can identify users based on data they get elsewhere.
<p>
"Like" button surveillance
even <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#14_October_2011_%28Facebook_Like%29">tracks
people who are not useds of Facebook (i.e., never had a Facebook
account).</a>
<p>
However, you can block "Like" button tracking with the GNU browser,
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/icecat">IceCat</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Urgent:_Take_action_against_TTIP)
title: Urgent: Take action against TTIP
uri: Urgent-Take-action-against-TTIP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Take_action_against_TTIP%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Europe and the
US: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/11/time-end-corporate-trade-regimes-global-attack-democracy">take
action against TTIP</a> (This Treaty Is Plutocratic).


title: Saudi Arabia repressing anyone that endorses human rights
uri: Saudi-Arabia-repressing-anyone-that-endorses-human-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Saudi_Arabia_repressing_anyone_that_endorses_human_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Saudi_Arabia_repressing_anyone_that_endorses_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia, always tyrannical, is
now <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/10/saudi-arabia-unleashing-systematic-and-ruthless-repression-against-dissenters-report">systematically
repressing anyone that endorses human rights</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Vietnam_War)
title: Vietnam War
uri: Vietnam-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Vietnam_War%29
content:
<p>
The Pentagon is trying
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/10/pentagon-accused-whitewashing-history-vietnam-war-era">paint
the Vietnam War as a glorious triumph</a>.


title: Biggest decrease in standard of living
uri: Biggest-decrease-in-standard-of-living
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Biggest_decrease_in_standard_of_living)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Biggest_decrease_in_standard_of_living%29

content:
<p>
British workers
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/11/british-pay-squeeze-worst-150-years-tuc-study">experiencing
the biggest decrease in standard of living in 150 years</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Overprotecting_children)
title: Overprotecting children
uri: Overprotecting-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Overprotecting_children%29
content:
<p>
In the US today, parents who would dare resist overprotecting their
children <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/11/operation-kid-freedom-making-our-communities-safe-children-take-risks">face
threats from other parents</a>.
<p>
When I was six years old, I walked 5 blocks to school in Manhattan.
Not that I was unusual — this is how everyone got to school.  We
all knew how to cross streets.  We all understood traffic lights,
since there were traffic lights at every intersection.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(No_Fly_List)
title: No Fly List
uri: No-Fly-List
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28No_Fly_List%29
content:
<p>
For the first time, the US
government <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/11/first-government-officially-tells-aclu-clients-their-no-fly-list-status">has
officially informed 13 Americans whether they are on the No Fly
List</a>.
<p>
This is just a small step towards justice.  The No Fly List is a
deprivation of rights.  The US government should not be allowed to put
anyone on this list without a trial.


title: Local pollution in parts of the Great Barrier Reef
uri: Local-pollution-in-parts-of-the-Great-Barrier-Reef
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Local_pollution_in_parts_of_the_Great_Barrier_Reef)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Local_pollution_in_parts_of_the_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
Local pollution in parts of the Great Barrier
Reef <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/10/great-barrier-reef-a-massive-chemistry-experiment-gone-wrong">impedes
photosynthesis, which leads to higher CO2 levels locally</a>.


title: Adobe's "digital editions" spy system
uri: Adobe-s-digital-editions-spy-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 09_October_2014_(Adobe's_digital_editions_spy_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#09_October_2014_%28Adobe%27s_digital_editions_spy_system%29

content:
<p>
Adobe "digital editions" spy
system <a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/">sends
users' complete reading logs to Amazon</a>.
<p>
Adobe says this is legitimate because users agree to it in the EULA,
but pressuring people to click "Ok, spy on me" does not excuse it.
<p>
This article focuses on the fact that the NSA can watch this data
passing on the net, avoiding the need to use the PAT RIOT act to
collect it directly from Adobe.  It legitimizes the snooping by saying
that's needed to enforce DRM, which legitimizes DRM too.  According to
the article's view, all this would be fine, if only Adobe didn't also
<em>leak</em> everyone's dossier.
<p>
As a defense of readers' rights, this is pitifully weak.  <a
href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org">DRM, being evil itself</a>, can't
justify anything.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_all_waterways)
title: Urgent: Protect all waterways
uri: Urgent-Protect-all-waterways
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_all_waterways%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=10586">call 
on the EPA</a> to protect all waterways.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Centralized_social_networks)
title: Centralized social networks
uri: Centralized-social-networks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Centralized_social_networks%29
content:
<p>
Centralized social networks can learn a lot about people that 
don't directly give them data, 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/privacy-friendster/">through
what others say about them and even who knows them</a>.
<p>
In other words, you should insist that your friends not mention you by
name or email address in anything they post on centralized social
networks.
<p>
I think this applies to gmail as well.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Plutocratic_governments)
title: Plutocratic governments
uri: Plutocratic-governments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Plutocratic_governments%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/07/bullying-corporations-enemy-within-business-politicians">Business
is the "enemy within"</a> countries with plutocratic governments.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(RSAs_secret_contract_with_NSA)
title: RSA's secret contract with NSA
uri: RSA-s-secret-contract-with-NSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28RSAs_secret_contract_with_NSA%29
content:
<p>
When RSA installed key generation code that had been weakened by the
NSA, it wasn't just ingenuous — it took 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220">money
from the NSA</a> to do so.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Removal_of_Carbon_Sink_sculpture)
title: Removal of "Carbon Sink" sculpture
uri: Removal-of-Carbon-Sink-sculpture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Removal_of_Carbon_Sink_sculpture%29

content:
<p>
Fossil fuel companies and their pet politicians made the University of
Wyoming get rid of a sculpture that 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/us/controversy-lingers-over-wyoming-universitys-removal-of-carbon-sink.html">reminded
people about the effects of global heating on forests in that
region</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Domestic_coercive_control)
title: Domestic "coercive control"
uri: Domestic-coercive-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Domestic_coercive_control%29
content:
<p>
There is a proposal in the UK to prohibit domestic "coercive control",
but identifying that might require a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/10/domestic-abuse-criminalise-coercive-control-emotional-financial-sexual-physical">difficult
judgment call</a>.
<p>
What strikes me is that the methods used for domestic coercive control
have a lot in common with the methods used for enslavement of farm
laborers and domestic workers.  Criminalizing such enslavement has not
been very effective at stopping it.  Could it be more effective to
change other systems so that these methods of control can't be used or
don't work?
<p>
For instance, if banks automatically gave one spouse access to a
limited amount of money from the other spouse's account — not
enough to substantially harm the other spouse, but enough for the one
spouse to get by — one element of coercive control would not
work.  If spouses were required to jointly view the deed of their
residence once in a while, another element used in this instance would
not be possible.  Other elements could also be blocked.
<p>
Enough such concrete measures would often prevent coercive control,
and otherwise would make it require a cut-and-dried violation that
could be prosecuted easily without a difficult judgment call.


title: Publication of autobiography stopped
uri: Publication-of-autobiography-stopped
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Publication_of_autobiography_stopped)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Publication_of_autobiography_stopped%29

content:
<p>
A UK court 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/10/wife-injunction-abuse-book-son">stopped
publication of an autobiography</a> on the grounds that it might cause
pain to the author's son.
<p>
In the US, which respects freedom of speech much more than the UK,
this decision would be called "prior restraint", which is more or less
unconstitutional, though I would not trust today's US Supreme Court
to stand by that principle or (any human right, when it's for actual
humans rather than corporations).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Death_of_an_Unpunished_Dictator)
title: Death of an Unpunished Dictator
uri: Death-of-an-Unpunished-Dictator
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Death_of_an_Unpunished_Dictator%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.bostonhaitian.com/columns/2014/reflections-death-unpunished-dictator">Reflections
on the Death of an Unpunished Dictator</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Deadly_shootings_by_thugs)
title: Deadly shootings by thugs
uri: Deadly-shootings-by-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Deadly_shootings_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>
A young black male is 
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/deadly-force-in-black-and-white">21
times more likely to be shot dead by US thugs than a young white
male</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(US_military_budget)
title: US military budget
uri: US-military-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28US_military_budget%29
content:
<p>
Obama pretends that the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/09/critics-obama-draconian-cuts-have-been-us-public-services-not-war-budget">US
military budget</a> has suffered intolerable cuts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Damage_to_coral_reefs_from_CO2)
title: Damage to coral reefs from CO2
uri: Damage-to-coral-reefs-from-CO2
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Damage_to_coral_reefs_from_CO2%29

content:
<p>
The damage to coral reefs from CO<sub>2</sub> could amount to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/09/greenhouse-gas-emissions-could-trigger-trillion-dollar-coral-reef-problem">a
trillion dollars <em>annually</em> in losses to humanity</a>, by the
end of this century.


title: Reporter faces imprisonment in Korea
uri: Reporter-faces-imprisonment-in-Korea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Reporter_faces_imprisonment_in_Korea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Reporter_faces_imprisonment_in_Korea%29

content:
<p>
A Japanese reporter in Korea 
<a href="http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001629863">faces 7
years imprisonment</a> for reporting the existence of a rumor about
the president.
<p>
Did you think it must be North Korea, which is of course a total
tyranny?  Sad to say, it is South Korea.
<p>
If the report was false — if the rumor did not exist — it
might be legitimate to sue the reporter for claiming it did.  However,
nothing can justify prosecution for an insult.  Freedom of speech
means having the right to insult everyone, even President Park, even
me, even you.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Danger_of_debt_crisis)
title: Danger of debt crisis
uri: Danger-of-debt-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Danger_of_debt_crisis%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/10/poor-nations-debt-crisis-developing-countries">Dozens
of poor countries</a> are in danger of sliding into a debt crisis.
<p>
Many of these debts were more or less imposed by outside pressure and
accepted by rulers that were tyrants or traitors.  Those debts should
be considered entirely invalid.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Thousands_marched_in_St_Louis)
title: Thousands marched in St Louis
uri: Thousands-marched-in-St-Louis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Thousands_marched_in_St_Louis%29
content:
<p>
Thousands marched in St Louis
on <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/10/11/243114/thousands-march-in-st-louis-against.html?sp=/99/200/">behalf
of Michael Brown and against thug violence</a>. Fortunately, this time
the thugs did not engage in more violence against the protesters.


title: European Commission proposes insane blanket deregulation
uri: European-Commission-proposes-insane-blanket-deregulation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(European_Commission_proposes_insane_blanket_deregulation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28European_Commission_proposes_insane_blanket_deregulation%29

content:
<p>
The European Commission
proposes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/eu-business-deregulation-concern-worker-rights">insane
blanket deregulation (except for the biggest companies).</a> The rest
would be allowed to pollute however they like.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Theocratic_fascism)
title: Theocratic fascism
uri: Theocratic-fascism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Theocratic_fascism%29
content:
<p>
Identifying PISSI
as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/12/will-no-one-help-kurds-fight-fascism">a
form of theocratic fascism</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop pinkwashing toxic and carcinogenic fracking
uri: Urgent-Stop-pinkwashing-toxic-and-carcinogenic-fracking
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_pinkwashing_toxic_and_carcinogenic_fracking)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_pinkwashing_toxic_and_carcinogenic_fracking%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on the Susan G. Komen Foundation
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/komen_fracking">stop
pinkwashing toxic and carcinogenic fracking</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/09/pinkwashing-fracking-company-teams-susan-g-komen-end-breast-cancer-forever">More
information.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Reagan's_order_12333)
title: Reagan's order 12333
uri: Reagan-s-order-12333
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Reagan%27s_order_12333%29
content:
<p>
Reagan's order 12333 lets the US government collect all sorts of data
about Americans
by <a href="http://elitedaily.com/life/interview-americas-newest-whistleblower-country-counting-millennials/716133/">copying
it from mirror servers located outside the US</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, Snowden says
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/snowden-state-surveillance-britain-no-limits">snooping
by the UK government on its cities has no practical limit</a>.


title: Hong Kong protesters being attacked
uri: Hong-Kong-protesters-being-attacked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Hong_Kong_protesters_being_attacked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong_protesters_being_attacked%29

content:
<p>
Hong Kong protesters
are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/business/protesters-are-targets-of-scrutiny-through-their-phones.html">being
attacked with military-grade Chinese malware</a>.


title: UK National Health Service underfunded
uri: UK-National-Health-Service-underfunded
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(UK_National_Health_Service_underfunded)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28UK_National_Health_Service_underfunded%29

content:
<p>
The UK National Health Service
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/12/nhs-staff-why-we-are-striking">so
underfunded that it is paying staff poverty wages</a>.
<p>
The NHS needs a lot more money, and it needs to come from the rich
(including businesses).  However, making housing cheaper would help
the workers get by; that too depends on increasing taxes on the homes
of the rich.


title: Putin has withdrawn a substantial fraction of troops from near border
uri: Putin-has-withdrawn-a-substantial-fraction-of-troops-from-near-border
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Putin_has_withdrawn_a_sustantial_fraction_of_troops_from_near_border)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Putin_has_withdrawn_a_sustantial_fraction_of_troops_from_near_border%29

content:
<p>
Putin
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/vladimir-putin-russian-troops-ukraine-border">withdrawn
a substantial fraction of troops from near the border with Ukraine</a>.
<p>
This could still leave substantial numbers to sneak into Ukraine and
attack.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(California_aquifers_contaminated)
title: California aquifers contaminated
uri: California-aquifers-contaminated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28California_aquifers_contaminated%29

content:
<p>
California
aquifers <a href="http://rt.com/usa/194620-california-aquifers-fracking-contamination/">contaminated
with billions of gallons of fracking wastewater</a>.


title: Attempt to block block nuclear power plants
uri: Attempt-to-block-block-nuclear-power-plants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Attempt_to_block_block_nuclear_power_plants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Attempt_to_block_block_nuclear_power_plants%29

content:
<p>
There will be a last-ditch attempt
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/12/ecotrcity-legal-challenge-eu-hinkley-point-c-subsidy-nuclear">block
two new nuclear power plants in the UK, on the grounds that the
subsidy will be a burden for the country</a>.
<p>
The reason that it is a burden is that the same amount of money could
buy a lot more in renewable energy and negawatts (improved
efficiency).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(HK_democracy_protests_resume)
title: HK democracy protests resume
uri: HK-democracy-protests-resume
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28HK_democracy_protests_resume%29
content:
<p>
Hong Kong democracy protesters have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/hong-kong-protesters-government-pulls-out-talks">resumed
large protests</a> after the government reneged on talks.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(NY_airplane_cleaners_on_strike)
title: NY airplane cleaners on strike
uri: NY-airplane-cleaners-on-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28NY_airplane_cleaners_on_strike%29

content:
<p>
Airplane cleaners in New York went on strike 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/airline-cabin-cleaners-strike-over-ebola-fears-at-laguardia-airport">demanding
protection from diseases in vomit and shit that they have to clean
up</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(US_coal_mine_methane_leaks)
title: US coal mine methane leaks
uri: US-coal-mine-methane-leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28US_coal_mine_methane_leaks%29
content:
<p>
Satellite data suggest that coal mines in the US southwest are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/10/satellite-data-shows-surprising-methane-hotspot-in-us-southwest">leaking
lots of methane</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Wisconsin_voter-ID_law_blocked)
title: Wisconsin voter-ID law blocked
uri: Wisconsin-voter-ID-law-blocked
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Wisconsin_voter-ID_law_blocked%29

content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/10/voter-id-law-blocked-us-supreme-court-wisconsin-texas">blocked
the voter-ID law</a> in Wisconsin.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 13_October_2014_(Carbon-neutral_homes)
title: Carbon-neutral homes
uri: Carbon-neutral-homes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_%28Carbon-neutral_homes%29
content:
<p>
The Netherlands has renovated 300,000 apartments so that they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/10/uk-looks-to-dutch-model-to-make-100000-homes-carbon-neutral-by-2020">don't
need fossil fuel or external electricity</a>, and 100,000 will be
renovated in the UK.
<p>
This scheme is very good, but its scale is minuscule: 100,000 homes in
a country of 64 million people is a drop in the bucket.  Its
significance is to show that humanity can still save itself from
global heating disaster, if it can overcome plutocracy to do similar
things on a large scale.


title: Urgent: Drop forced arbitration clauses
uri: Urgent-Drop-forced-arbitration-clauses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Urgent:_Drop_forced_arbitration_clauses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_forced_arbitration_clauses%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://other98.com/revoke-wall-streets-license-steal/">call
on banks</a> to drop their forced arbitration clauses.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Urgent:_Demilitarize_US_thugs)
title: Urgent: Demilitarize US thugs
uri: Urgent-Demilitarize-US-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Demilitarize_US_thugs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://unitedforferguson.com/">this petition</a> to
demilitarize and reform US thugs.


title: UK MPs vote to recognize Palestine
uri: UK-MPs-vote-to-recognize-Palestine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(UK_MPs_vote_to_recognize_Palestine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28UK_MPs_vote_to_recognize_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
UK MPs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/13/mps-vote-to-recognise-palestinian-state">voted
to recognize Palestine</a>.  Unfortunately it was a non-binding vote.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(UK_university_education_cost)
title: UK university education cost
uri: UK-university-education-cost
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28UK_university_education_cost%29
content:
<p>
The UK has adopted the US model for university education, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/oct/12/have-universities-been-privatised-by-stealth">requiring
students to take out huge loans</a>.  Nonetheless, many are desperate
to go to a university because wages for non-graduates have been
knocked down.  Indeed, many graduates won't get good jobs because
there are too many.
<p>
The only aspect which is not quite as bad as the US
is that graduates with low incomes won't have to pay as much.


title: UK values submarines above children
uri: UK-values-submarines-above-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(UK_values_submarines_above_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28UK_values_submarines_above_children%29

content:
<p>
Next year, most children in the UK will be living in poverty.  The UK
hasn't got the billions needed to help them, because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/12/cant-fix-child-poverty-but-spend-billions-replacing-trident-lauren-laverne">nuclear
missile submarines have higher priority</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(New_antiplutocratic_parties)
title: New antiplutocratic parties
uri: New-antiplutocratic-parties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28New_antiplutocratic_parties%29
content:
<p>
New antiplutocratic parties have had 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/13/europe-new-politics-grassroots-resistance-podemos-syriza">success
in several European countries</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Sea_level_rise)
title: Sea level rise
uri: 2014-10-15-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
The sea level rise of the past century is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/sea-level-rise-unmatched-6000-years-global-warming">record
for 6000 years</a>.  (That is when the melting of the ice age ice
sheets finished.)
<p>
Even if we stop pumping out greenhouse gas, the Earth will continue
getting hotter for quite some time due to the greenhouse gas we have
already pumped out.  That's ignoring the possibility that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#30%20March%202009%20(Methane%20hydrate)">positive
feedback effects will release more</a>.  And it will take centuries
for the effect of that heat to finish melting all the ice it is going
to melt.
<p>
We will have to lower the greenhouse gas level substantially below the
present level to get the ice to stop melting.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Persecution_of_Koreans_in_Japan)
title: Persecution of Koreans in Japan
uri: Persecution-of-Koreans-in-Japan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Persecution_of_Koreans_in_Japan%29

content:
<p>
In Japan, right-wing extremists with support of officials in the
ruling party 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/13/japan-ruling-party-far-right-extremists-liberal-democratic">call
for persecution of Korean residents</a>, and have launched a campaign
of threats against journalists that cover Japan's war crimes.
<p>
The Korean residents of Japan are descendants of Koreans forcibly
taken to work in Japan when Korea was under Japanese rule.  Those
alive today were born in Japan, but in Japan that does not give them
citizenship.
<p>
Naturalization in Japan is not like naturalization in the US; it
requires denying one's previous identity and trying to act totally
Japanese.  These people of Korean descent might be willing to get
Japanese citizenship, but they don't want to deny their identity.


title: Computerized recognition of voices
uri: Computerized-recognition-of-voices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Computerized_recognition_of_voices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Computerized_recognition_of_voices%29

content:
<p>
Computerized recognition of people's voices is being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/13/millions-of-voiceprints-quietly-being-harvested-as-latest-identification-tool">employed
on a large scale</a>.
<p>
I don't mind if bank customers can use this authenticate themselves to
the bank.  What worries me is that it can also be used to track
people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Wind_power_in_Europe)
title: Wind power in Europe
uri: Wind-power-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Wind_power_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>
Taking account of externalities, wind power is the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/13/wind-power-is-cheapest-energy-unpublished-eu-analysis-finds">cheapest
form of generation in Europe</a>.
<p>
Coal costs more than double.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Safer,_more_accessible_abortions)
title: Safer, more accessible abortions
uri: Safer-more-accessible-abortions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Safer%2C_more_accessible_abortions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/the-safer-more-affordable-abortion-only-available-in-two-states/381321/?single_page=true">Remotely
supervised use of prescribed abortion pills</a> can make abortions
safer and more accessible.


title: Sexual harassment female students face in UK
uri: Sexual-harassment-female-students-face-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Sexual_harassment_female_students_face_in_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Sexual_harassment_female_students_face_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
The level
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/oct/11/campus-nightmare-female-students-rise-sexual-harassment">sexual
harassment female students face in UK universities</a> today is
amazing.
<p>
I think it is largely the same in US universities, but I never saw
anything like this when I was studying at Harvard in 1970-74.
<p>
I think the social pressure to get drunk is the worst part of it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Pushing_Europe_into_depression)
title: Pushing Europe into depression
uri: Pushing-Europe-into-depression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Pushing_Europe_into_depression%29

content:
<p>
Germany's government
is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/09/germany-is-killing-its-economy-and-europes-too/">practicing
economic harshness for harshness' sake, and pushing Europe into
depression</a>.


title: Girls expect to have no control over their lives
uri: Girls-expect-to-have-no-control-over-their-lives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Girls_expect_to_have_no_control_over_their_lives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Girls_expect_to_have_no_control_over_their_lives%29

content:
<p>
A world-wide survey found that
around <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/12/girls-worldwide-fear-future-with-no-control-over-lives">half
of all girls expect to have no control over their lives</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Reports_on_al_Qa'ida's_magazine)
title: Reports on al Qa'ida's magazine
uri: Reports-on-al-Qa-ida-s-magazine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Reports_on_al_Qa%27ida%27s_magazine%29

content:
<p>
Peter van
Buren <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/10/i-read-al-qaedas-inspire-mag-so-you-dont-get-arrested">reviews
reports on al Qa'ida's magazine</a>.
<p>
In tyrannical states such as the UK, you could be imprisoned just for
having a copy of the magazine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Wearing_my_Impeach_God_button)
title: Wearing my "Impeach God" button
uri: Wearing-my-Impeach-God-button
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Wearing_my_Impeach_God_button%29
content:
<p>
A week ago I made a connection in Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, and was
wearing my "Impeach God" button.  A pilot said it takes courage to
wear such a button there.  It did not seem to me that I was being
particularly courageous.
<p>
However, a rather strange conversation ensued on the subsequent
flight: a flight attendant said, "I feel offended by your button.
Please take it off."
<p>
I responded, "I don't see why you should feel offended, unless
… you're not a god, are you?"
<p>
She: "No, but I believe in god."
<p>
I: "Well, I don't."
<p>
She: "But you're putting your views all over me!"
<p>
I: "Actually, I'm putting them all over me.  I can't make you wear
such a button, and I wouldn't try."
<p>
At that point, she let the issue drop.


title: University divestment from fossil fuel
uri: University-divestment-from-fossil-fuel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(University_divestment_from_fossil_fuel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28University_divestment_from_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
The Australian National University decided to divest from some fossil
fuel companies, which occasioned 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/13/coalition-accused-of-bullying-anu-after-criticism-of-fossil-fuel-divestment">absurd
rebukes</a> from right-wing politicians that represent the fossil fuel
companies.
<p>
There is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/13/tony-abbott-says-coal-is-good-for-humanity-while-opening-mine">no
limit to how far they will go</a> to increase fossil fuel sales.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(The_evil_of_the_Koch_brothers)
title: The evil of the Koch brothers
uri: The-evil-of-the-Koch-brothers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28The_evil_of_the_Koch_brothers%29
content:
<p>
The evil of the Koch brothers includes 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/08/1335246/-Yes-the-Koch-brothers-really-are-that-nbsp-evil">racism,
as well as voter-suppression, dooH niboR and frying Earth's
ecosphere</a>.


title: US allows cancelling 60% of pensions
uri: US-allows-cancelling-60-of-pensions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(US_allows_cancelling_60%25_of_pensions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28US_allows_cancelling_60%2525_of_pensions%29

content:
<p>
The US now allows bankrupt cities to cancel 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/04/1333828/-This-week-in-the-war-on-workers-Bankruptcy-judge-calls-for-impoverishing-retirees?detail=email">60%
of retired workers' pensions</a>.
<p>
They can't live on what remains.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Pirate_Party_electoral_success)
title: Pirate Party electoral success
uri: Pirate-Party-electoral-success
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Pirate_Party_electoral_success%29

content:
<p>
The Pirate Party had an electoral success in 
<a href="http://piratetimes.net/pirates-to-enter-several-local-czech-parliaments/">Czech
local elections</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Generic_equivalent_drugs)
title: Generic equivalent drugs
uri: Generic-equivalent-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Generic_equivalent_drugs%29
content:
<p>
Around 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26721-big-pharma-lobbies-hard-to-end-india-s-distribution-of-affordable-generic-drugs">10
million people with HIV owe their lives to generic equivalent
drugs</a>.  The Obama regime is pressuring India to stop making them,
which would kill millions of those people within a few years.
<p>
The Nazis murdered 7 million civilians.  This could murder more than 7
million of those now in treatment, and more millions in the future.
The US officials behind this are aiming to be literally worse than the
Nazi leaders convicted at Nuremberg of crimes against humanity.
<p>
The article uses the incoherent propaganda term 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">"intellectual
property"</a>, which the pharma companies love because it interferes
with critical thinking about their unjust demands.
<p>
The pharma companies claim that only patents can enable them to do
research into new lifesaving drugs, but the fact is they don't
do much of that research.  It is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#26%20May%202006%20(Break%20the%20grip%20of%20the%20big%20drug%20companies)">usually
government funded</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Dow_Chemical_cover-up)
title: Dow Chemical cover-up
uri: Dow-Chemical-cover-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Dow_Chemical_cover-up%29
content:
<p>
Dow Chemical 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26759-the-ghost-in-the-gmo-machine">covered
up knowledge of the medical damage done by its toxic pesticide,
chlorpyrifos</a>; now the question is whether the EPA has the guts to
do its job to prevent more sickness.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 14_October_2014_(Thousands_march_in_St_Louis)
title: Thousands march in St Louis
uri: Thousands-march-in-St-Louis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#14_October_2014_%28Thousands_march_in_St_Louis%29
content:
<p>
Thousands marched in St Louis 
<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/10/11/243114/thousands-march-in-st-louis-against.html?sp=/99/200/">on
behalf of Michael Brown and against thug violence</a>.  Fortunately,
this time the thugs did not engage in more violence against the
protesters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Urgent:_Curb_methane_leaks)
title: Urgent: Curb methane leaks
uri: Urgent-Curb-methane-leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Curb_methane_leaks%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://support.edf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=cut_pollution_from_oil_and_gas_industry">call
on Obama</a> to take action quickly to curb methane leaks from oil and
gas extraction.
<p>
It appears this 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#13_October_2014_(US_coal_mine_methane_leaks)">needs
to be done for coal mining</a> too.


title: Putin to shut down human rights organization
uri: Putin-to-shut-down-human-rights-organization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Putin_to_shut_down_human_rights_organization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Putin_to_shut_down_human_rights_organization%29

content:
<p>
Russia's principal human rights organization since Soviet times,
founded by Andrei Sakharov, is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/russian-human-rights-group-faces-threat-closure">going
to be shut down by Putin</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Sports_drinks)
title: "Sports drinks"
uri: Sports-drinks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Sports_drinks%29
content:
<p>
"Sports drinks" are mostly used outside of the context of sports,
and are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/14/energy-drinks-significant-health-risk-who-study-finds">bad
for people's health</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Isolation_of_young_and_old)
title: Isolation of young and old
uri: Isolation-of-young-and-old
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Isolation_of_young_and_old%29
content:
<p>
Modern western society isolates the young and the old, leaving them
with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/14/age-of-loneliness-killing-us">no
idea of anything to want except wealth</a>.
<p>
The statistics cited are from the UK, but I expect it is true in the
US as well.
<p>
When hippies wished to live in communes, it had to be a rejection of
the beginnings of this.  The communes failed because just wishing
isn't enough to make a new social system succeed.
<p>
The loneliness of old people, many of whom had children, shows that
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">having children
is not a solution</a>.
<p>
Being part of some other sort of community, such as a political
activist community that defends people who are being exploited, can
make your life a lot less lonely as well as helping others.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Ireland_to_close_a_tax_loophole)
title: Ireland to close a tax loophole
uri: Ireland-to-close-a-tax-loophole
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Ireland_to_close_a_tax_loophole%29

content:
<p>
Ireland will close 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/ireland-abolish-double-irish-tax-scheme-apple">one
of the tax loopholes</a> that multinational corporations use to avoid
paying tax on their income cross Europe.
<p>
However, Ireland's low corporation tax still constitutes
beggar-thy-neighbor.  The rest of Europe, if it were not corrupted by
those same corporations, would make Ireland stop this.


title: Reclaiming Louisiana land lost to sea
uri: Reclaiming-Louisiana-land-lost-to-sea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Reclaiming_Louisiana_land_lost_to_sea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Reclaiming_Louisiana_land_lost_to_sea%29

content:
<p>
Louisiana plans a megaproject to reclaim some of the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/lost-louisiana-the-race-to-reclaim-vanished-land-back-from-the-sea">2000
square miles lost to the sea in the last century</a>.
<p>
In principle, it is a good idea, but it will be futile if we don't
stop pumping out the greenhouse gases that melt icecaps and raise
sea level even more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Bolivia_reelects_Morales)
title: Bolivia reelects Morales
uri: Bolivia-reelects-Morales
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Bolivia_reelects_Morales%29
content:
<p>
President Morales of Bolivia was reelected after his socialist
policies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/14/evo-morales-reelected-socialism-doesnt-damage-economies-bolivia">reduced
poverty and grew the economy</a>.
<p>
You can cause economic growth with right-wing policies too, as the US
and UK have demonstrated, but doing it that way increases poverty.


title: Kurds in Turkey fighting the state
uri: Kurds-in-Turkey-fighting-the-state
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Kurds_in_Turkey_fighting_the_state)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Kurds_in_Turkey_fighting_the_state%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/turkish-jets-bombard-kurdish-positions-pkk">Fighting
has flared up</a> between Kurds in Turkey and the Turkish state.
<p>
This fighting seems to have been provoked by Turkey's policy of
passively helping PISSI to capture Kobani.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(UK_to_deport_activist_to_Pakistan)
title: UK to deport activist to Pakistan
uri: UK-to-deport-activist-to-Pakistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28UK_to_deport_activist_to_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
The UK plans to deport Liaquat Ali Hazara to Pakistan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/uk-deport-pakistani-activist-liaquat-ali-hazara">where
he faces death threats from religious fanatics</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(North_Korea_keeping_people_hungry)
title: North Korea keeping people hungry
uri: North-Korea-keeping-people-hungry
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28North_Korea_keeping_people_hungry%29

content:
<p>
North Korea is keeping its people hungry to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/why-north-korea-exporting-food-china">export
rice to wealthier China</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Wisconsins_voter_ID_law)
title: Wisconsin's voter ID law
uri: Wisconsin-s-voter-ID-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Wisconsins_voter_ID_law%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/10/12628/war-witches-reagan-judge-denounces-myth-voter-fraud">Various
Republican forms of political sabotage</a> worked together to support
Wisconsin's voter ID law, leading to a split between modern "hold
power no matter how" Republicans and older Republicans who have some
loyalty to the ideals of a free political system.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Moral_Monday_protests)
title: "Moral Monday" protests
uri: Moral-Monday-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Moral_Monday_protests%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/13/fight-back-protesters-stage-moral-monday-civil-disobedience-actions-ferguson">Weekly
"Moral Monday" protests</a> have begun in Ferguson and in nearby St
Louis.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 15_October_2014_(Privately_hired_thugs)
title: Privately hired thugs
uri: Privately-hired-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#15_October_2014_%28Privately_hired_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The practice of privately hiring thugs with the legal power to arrest,
or to look the other way, 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=817916&qid=4027925">endangers
the rights of those who aren't paying</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(Urgent:_Cancel_oil_exploration)
title: Urgent: Cancel oil exploration
uri: Urgent-Cancel-oil-exploration
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_oil_exploration%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3599">Call
on Obama</a> to cancel oil exploration on the Atlantic coast, which
will make loud sounds that injure whales and dolphins.
<p>
I put this as my message.
<blockquote>
To avoid global heating disaster, we need to leave 80% of
fossil fuel reserves in the ground.  Finding more reserves
is at best a waste, and when it injures whales, it is worse
than a waste.
</blockquote>


title: Rates of amputations for US diabetics
uri: Rates-of-amputations-for-US-diabetics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(Rates_of_amputations_for_US_diabetics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Rates_of_amputations_for_US_diabetics%29

content:
<p>
US diabetics are 
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-14/diabetes-what-explains-the-higher-rate-of-amputations-for-blacks">three
times as likely to get a leg amputated if they are black, than if they
are white</a>.
<p>
It is not clear why, but it has to be due to prejudice one way or
another.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(Two_nurses_catch_Ebola_in_Dallas)
title: Two nurses catch Ebola in Dallas
uri: Two-nurses-catch-Ebola-in-Dallas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Two_nurses_catch_Ebola_in_Dallas%29

content:
<p>
Nurses accuse Dallas hospital of having 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/dallas-nurses-accuse-hospital-sloppy-safety-ebola">inadequate
equipment to protect them from Ebola, and lousy procedures too</a>.
Two of them have caught an Ebola infection.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(UK_fracking)
title: UK fracking
uri: UK-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28UK_fracking%29
content:
<p>
The UK plans to allow fracking companies to put 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/uk-to-allow-fracking-companies-to-use-any-substance-under-homes">"any
substance" under people's homes, without informing them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(Harassment)
title: Harassment
uri: Harassment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Harassment%29
content:
<p>
Even being wealthy graduates of prestigious schools doesn't 
enable US blacks to protect their children from 
<a href="http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2014/10/08/pages/7596/index.xml">racist
insults</a>.
<p>
What makes the most impression on me is how far blacks in the US have
to bend over backwards to avoid being falsely accused or treated with
prejudice.  These precautions seem to have been mostly effective
— being called a nasty name is not that bad on the scale of
human injustice — but it's unfair for anyone to have to do that.
<p>
Meanwhile, think of all the people (black or not) who <em>aren't</em>
in the families of wealthy graduates of prestigious schools.  They
don't deserve to be harassed either.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(Japans_national_tradition)
title: Japan's "national tradition"
uri: Japan-s-national-tradition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Japans_national_tradition%29
content:
<p>
Whaling interests in Japan 
<a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/10/14/national/researcher-aims-to-bust-myth-of-japans-whale-eating-culture/">paid
a PR company in the 1970s to fabricate a "national tradition"</a> of
eating whale meat.


title: Making it hard for minors to get abortions
uri: Making-it-hard-for-minors-to-get-abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(Making_it_hard_for_minors_to_get_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Making_it_hard_for_minors_to_get_abortions%29

content:
<p>
For minors in the US, getting a judge's permission for an abortion is
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/teen-abortion-judicial-bypass-parental-notification">painful
harassment, often followed by arbitrary denial</a>.
<p>
Just getting out of school to go to a court in another town
may be a struggle.
<p>
I don't understand how people who generally agree it is not a good
thing for poor minors to have children come to support laws
making it hard for them to avoid doing so.


title: A repeating tendency of SWAT raids
uri: A-repeating-tendency-of-SWAT-raids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(A_repeating_tendency_of_SWAT_raids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28A_repeating_tendency_of_SWAT_raids%29

content:
<p>
A SWAT team shot and 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141004/15443628731/swat-team-raids-house-kills-homeowner-because-criminal-who-burglarized-house-told-them-to.shtml">killed
a homeowner who tried to protect himself from a repeat burglary</a>.
He didn't know that the burglar claimed to have stolen drugs from him.
<p>
I don't see anything saying where this took place, except that it is
in the US.  Can anyone tell me?
<p>
Thieves do steal drugs and drug equipment.  Perhaps it was reasonable
to investigate the accusation against Hooks.  The central problem is
the repeating tendency of SWAT raids to kill innocent people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(NYC_thug_violence)
title: NYC thug violence
uri: NYC-thug-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28NYC_thug_violence%29
content:
<p>
New York City thugs keep on 
<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/cop-knocks-out-teen-for-smoking-cigarette-video.html">bashing
and injuring unarmed people</a> who are not even suspected of doing
anything seriously wrong.
<p>
If you want to watch the YouTube video, please download
it using youtube-dl.  If you view it from the site directly,
that requires either 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">Flash
or nonfree Javascript code</a>.
<p>
Another New York City thug 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/nyregion/man-accuses-officer-of-taking-more-than-1000-video-prompts-investigation.html?_r=1">stole
a thousand dollars from a man</a> after harassing him because he
objected to how the thug was treating his friend.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(Sabotage_of_TLS_security)
title: Sabotage of TLS security
uri: Sabotage-of-TLS-security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Sabotage_of_TLS_security%29
content:
<p>
A US wireless ISP is reportedly 
<a href="Https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141012/06344928801/revealed-isps-already-violating-net-neutrality-to-block-encryption-make-everyone-less-safe-online.shtml">sabotaging
TLS security by acting as a man in the middle</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(Public_banks)
title: Public banks
uri: Public-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Public_banks%29
content:
<p>
How a city can set up a 
<a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/10/14/building-ark-protect-public-revenues-next-meltdown/">public
bank</a> and make its funds secure against failure of the big bankster
banks.


title: Israel destroys village's power grid
uri: Israel-destroys-village-s-power-grid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(Israel_destroys_villages_power_grid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Israel_destroys_villages_power_grid%29

content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/planning_and_building/20141002_destruction_of_power_grid_in_khirbet_a_twayel">destroyed
the power grid</a> of a Palestinian village that Israel threatens to
demolish entirely.


title: Imprisoned Palestinian Parliament members
uri: Imprisoned-Palestinian-Parliament-members
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(Imprisoned_Palestinian_Parliament_members)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28Imprisoned_Palestinian_Parliament_members%29

content:
<p>
Israel continues to keep 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=732223">33
members of the Palestinian Parliament in prison, mostly without
charges</a>.
<p>
The kidnaping and murder of three teenagers is used as the pretext for
this, although these elected officials had nothing to do with it.
<p>
Imagine if Palestinians could put Israeli right-wing politicians in
prison because 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_(Israeli_hate_for_Arabs)">Israeli
fanatics murdered a Palestinian teenager</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 16_October_2014_(The_PKK)
title: The PKK
uri: The-PKK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#16_October_2014_%28The_PKK%29
content:
<p>
One Administration's Terrorist Is Another's Freedom Fighter.  Just Ask
the <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6724">PKK</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_October_2014_(Death_sentence_for_dissent)
title: Death sentence for dissent
uri: Death-sentence-for-dissent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_October_2014_%28Death_sentence_for_dissent%29
content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia sentenced a Shi'ite religious leader to death,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/saudi-arabia-death-sentence-shia-nimr-baqir-human-rights">for
"crimes" amounting to dissent</a>.


title: Rape threats against TV personality
uri: Rape-threats-against-TV-personality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_October_2014_(Rape_threats_against_TV_personality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_October_2014_%28Rape_threats_against_TV_personality%29

content:
<p>
A TV personality has received 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/16/richard-madeley-chloe-trolls-rape-threats-prosecution">rape
threats</a> after speaking in favor of allowing a convict to resume
his previous job after release from prison for rape.  Her daughter
received rape threats too.
<p>
You may agree or disagree with her statement, but threats are not
justified as a response.
<p>
The US imposes so many kinds of exclusions on ex-cons that, unless
they are geniuses, they are almost condemned to a life of crime.  This
is not in society's interest; it results from politicians' desire to
look tough.  I don't know whether it is the same in the UK.
<p>
It seems to me that people who object to giving this particular ex-con
this particular job back view sports stars as symbols of an ideal
person.  A rapist is a bad choice for an ideal person, but then, I
don't consider professional sports as the site to find ideal persons
in.  I think it is just a well-paid job.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_October_2014_(Privatization_of_state_services)
title: Privatization of state services
uri: Privatization-of-state-services
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_October_2014_%28Privatization_of_state_services%29

content:
<p>
US state governors are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/15/outsourcing-public-services-governors-push-privatization-disastrous-results">privatizing
state services for profit</a>.  In some cases, their own profit.
<p>
It is not just states.  Chicago 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#14_June_2012_(New_York_parking_meter_privatization)">privatized
parking meters</a> and was greatly shafted.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 17_October_2014_(Persecution_of_reporters_sources)
title: Persecution of reporters' sources
uri: Persecution-of-reporters-sources
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#17_October_2014_%28Persecution_of_reporters_sources%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/15/leak-prosecutions-obama-takes-it-11-or-should-we-say-526">Obama's
persecution of reporters' sources</a>, and how it dwarfs previous US
history.


title: Why no banksters go to jail in the US
uri: Why-no-banksters-go-to-jail-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Why_no_banksters_go_to_jail_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Why_no_banksters_go_to_jail_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Matt Taibbi
explains <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/17/us-justice-divide-crime-punishment-wall-street-ferguson">why
no banksters go to jail in the US</a>, while so many blacks and
welfare recipients do: because thugs systematically harass those
groups seeking (and inventing) excuses to arrest them.
<p>
It's not policing, it's occupation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Corruption_charges_in_Turkey)
title: Corruption charges in Turkey
uri: Corruption-charges-in-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Corruption_charges_in_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
The corruption charges against high officials in
Turkey <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/17/turkish-prosecutors-drop-corruption-case">have
been dropped</a>.  Many of the officials involved in bringing the
charges
had <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#01_September_2014_%28Erdogan_has_continued_to_arrest_Turkish_thugs%29">faced
official retribution</a>.
<p>
Either the charges were bogus and placed for political reasons, as
Erdogan says, or they were valid and he has protected his party
colleagues' abuse of power.  I have no way of determining which it
was.


title: Coal ship leaving Australia blocked
uri: Coal-ship-leaving-Australia-blocked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Coal_ship_leaving_Australia_blocked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Coal_ship_leaving_Australia_blocked%29

content:
<p>
Pacific
Islanders <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/17/pacific-islanders-blockade-newcastle-coal-port-to-protest-rising-sea-levels">blocked
a coal ship leaving Australia</a>.
<p>
Combustion of fossil fuel is inundating their islands little by
little.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_August_2014_%28Pacific_Islands_drowning%29">A
few have already become uninhabitable</a>.


title: Prosecuted for filming in West Papue
uri: Prosecuted-for-filming-in-West-Papue
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Prosecuted_for_filming_in_West_Papue)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Prosecuted_for_filming_in_West_Papue%29

content:
<p>
French documentary makers are
being <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/16/indonesia-free-french-reporters-detained-papua">prosecuted
for filming in West Papua</a>, where foreign journalists are not
allowed.
<p>
Indonesia took over West Papua by force in the 1960s when the Dutch
pulled out, and has sent large numbers of Javanese colonists.  It's
somewhat like China and Tibet.


title: Colleges reshaped by plutocracy and budget cutting
uri: Colleges-reshaped-by-plutocracy-and-budget-cutting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Colleges_reshaped_by_plutocracy_and_budget_cutting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Colleges_reshaped_by_plutocracy_and_budget_cutting%29

content:
<p>
State colleges in the US today have
been <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/182153/should-you-go-college">reshaped
by plutocracy and budget cutting</a>, along with hiring patterns, so
that students from poor backgrounds are likely to end up with debts
and no good job.
<p>
There are some exceptions, of course.  If you have talent in a
professional field, and you study hard, you can still get a job.  For
a while.


title: China banned logging in state forests
uri: China-banned-logging-in-state-forests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(China_banned_logging_in_state_forests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28China_banned_logging_in_state_forests%29

content:
<p>
China
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/17/china-tests-outright-logging-ban-in-state-forests">banned
logging in state forests</a> in its most heavily forested province.
<p>
In the US, businesses control politicians.  In China, the politicians
own and control the businesses, or else the state owns them.  While
Chinese politicians can be quite corrupt, they can also take action to
protect China's future from rogue businesses, in a way that US
politicians no longer can do.


title: How Whisper users can be identified
uri: How-Whisper-users-can-be-identified
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(How_Whisper_users_can_be_identified)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28How_Whisper_users_can_be_identified%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/17/whisper-private-secret-sharing-app-anonymity">How
Whisper users can be identified</a> based on the vague geolocation
data Whisper keeps.


title: The power to encrypt people's data
uri: The-power-to-encrypt-people-s-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(The_power_to_encrypt_people's_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28The_power_to_encrypt_people%27s_data%29

content:
<p>
The FBI presented cases to prove
that <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6956">it needs the
power to encrypt people's data</a>.  All of the cases were bogus.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Iraqi_army)
title: Iraqi army
uri: Iraqi-army
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Iraqi_army%29
content:
<p>
Why the US-constructed Iraqi
army <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/4-biggest-takeaways-americas-effort-build-iraqi-army">couldn't
and wouldn't fight PISSI</a>.
<p>
Basically, the idea of setting up a client state and training its army
to fight for it (i.e., for the US) doesn't work.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Cuts_aimed_at_poor_people)
title: Cuts aimed at poor people
uri: Cuts-aimed-at-poor-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Cuts_aimed_at_poor_people%29
content:
<p>
US budget cuts aimed at poor
people <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/15/budget-cuts-dont-save-money">don't
ultimately reduce spending</a>. But they sure do help demonize the
poor, which is what right-wing politicians need.


title: Urgent: End racism in Boston thug dept.
uri: Urgent-End-racism-in-Boston-thug-dept
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Urgent:_End_racism_in_Boston_thug_dept.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_racism_in_Boston_thug_dept.%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: sign 
<a href="https://www.aclum.org/stopandfrisk/petitions">this
petition</a> calling on Boston to put an end to racism in its thug
department.


title: Urgent: Solidarity with HK protesters
uri: Urgent-Solidarity-with-HK-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Urgent:_Solidarity_with_HK_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Solidarity_with_HK_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: sign 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/hong_kong_protesters?t=1002">this
petition</a> of solidarity with Hong Kong democracy protesters.


title: How Microsoft shuts down companies
uri: How-Microsoft-shuts-down-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(How_Microsoft_shuts_down_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28How_Microsoft_shuts_down_companies%29

content:
<p>
Microsoft 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/microsoft-pinkerton/">uses US
courts to shut down companies by seizing their domain names so
clients cannot contact them</a>.  The court cases go on without informing
the targeted companies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Australias_millenials)
title: Australia's millenials
uri: Australia-s-millenials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Australias_millenials%29
content:
<p>
In Australia, government policy makes millenials poor and the rest
of society blames them for it.  Many of them, not realizing the fault
isn't theirs, are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/17/generation-y-didnt-go-crazy-in-a-vacuum-how-can-we-enjoy-life-when-our-future-is-so-uncertain">going
crazy</a>.
<p>
The first step in not going crazy is to realize that the injustice is
imposed by the state.  The second step is to unite to kick out
plutocracy.  If the rich were not getting richer, there would be
enough for the aged and the young.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(New_TPP_leak)
title: New TPP leak
uri: New-TPP-leak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28New_TPP_leak%29
content:
<p>
A new leak of the part of the draft 
<a href="media/c9a9c30b.trance-pacific-partnership.en.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/trance-pacific-partnership.en.jpg">Trans-Pacific
Partnership</a> shows that the US is pushing mass murder in the form
of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/16/leaked-tpp-chapter-exposes-sweet-deals-big-pharma-and-us-bully-tactics">tightened
patent power on medicines</a>.
<p>
This treaty does harm already, although it is still a draft, simply by
using the 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">propaganda term
"intellectual property"</a> to lump together various unrelated laws.
<p>
To repeat that term is to boost the confusion — and we don't
have to repeat it.  Since I identified the term as a
confusion-spreader, ten years ago, I have not used it once.
<p>
I will say that the TPP negotiators put the bogus label "intellectual
property" on this chapter but I will not use the term myself.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Minimum_wage_of_the_1960s)
title: Minimum wage of the 1960s
uri: Minimum-wage-of-the-1960s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Minimum_wage_of_the_1960s%29
content:
<p>
Raising the minimum wage to match what it was in the 1960s would 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/16/raising-minimum-wage-would-take-least-17-million-workers-public-assistance-and">save
1.7 million Americans from needing public assistance</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Fighting_PISSI)
title: Fighting PISSI
uri: Fighting-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Fighting_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/16/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-seven-worst-case-scenarios-battle-islamic-state">Seven
potential disasters</a> that could result from fighting PISSI.
<p>
It appears to me that we must accept sectarian partition of Iraq.  It
has, de facto, already happened, and accepting it is the only way to
convince Iraqi Sunnis they can protect themselves without PISSI.
<p>
PISSI is the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI)">Pseudo-Islamic
State in Syria and Iraq</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(UK_NHS_staff_shortages)
title: UK NHS staff shortages
uri: UK-NHS-staff-shortages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28UK_NHS_staff_shortages%29
content:
<p>
The UK NHS is so underfunded that its staff shortages 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/17/nhs-staff-shortages-risk-patients-cqc-report">endanger
patients</a>.
<p>
The reason the NHS is underfunded is plutocratic refusal to tax
businesses and the rich; they demand to be subsidized instead.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Student_protesters_in_Egypt)
title: Student protesters in Egypt
uri: Student-protesters-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Student_protesters_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6905">Egypt's US-Backed
Military Regime is Brutalizing Student Protestors</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(TPP)
title: TPP
uri: TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28TPP%29
content:
<p>
The latest TPP draft 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-tpp-draft-reveals-tough-anti-piracy-measures-141016/">proposes
to make coffeehouses liable when their patrons use the internet for
sharing</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(GCHQ_and_NSA)
title: GCHQ and NSA
uri: GCHQ-and-NSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28GCHQ_and_NSA%29
content:
<p>
Annie Machon: 
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/195716-nsa-gchq-selling-privacy-surveillance/">GCHQ
prostituting itself to the NSA</a> over the last few years.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Peoples_voiceprints)
title: People's voiceprints
uri: People-s-voiceprints
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Peoples_voiceprints%29
content:
<p>
ACLU: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/creation-giant-voiceprint-databases">the
dangers</a> posed by collecting millions of people's voiceprints.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Whisper_records_user_locations)
title: Whisper records user locations
uri: Whisper-records-user-locations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Whisper_records_user_locations%29

content:
<p>
Whisper, which promises its users anonymity, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/-sp-whispers-secret-safest-place-internet-tracks-users">records
their location at each post</a>.  The pattern of a single user's
movements can more or less identify who that user is.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/-sp-whisper-privacy-policy-terms-of-service">More
dirt on whisper</a>.


title: All MPs of Golden Dawn face charges
uri: All-MPs-of-Golden-Dawn-face-charges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(All_MPs_of_Golden_Dawn_face_charges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28All_MPs_of_Golden_Dawn_face_charges%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/greece-golden-dawn-mps-tried-criminal-offences">All
the MPs</a> of the Golden Dawn party face charges of murder and other
acts of violence.
<p>
This worries me.  The party is neo-Nazi, and some of its members
commit violence, but are all of them directly implicated in the
violence — or are they going to be tried for their political
views?
<p>
This resembles 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#02_September_2011_(Israel_Attacks_Hamas)">the way Israel arrested hundreds of Hamas supporters
and even MPs</a> using a real crime as a pretext.


title: Pushing people into self-employment
uri: Pushing-people-into-self-employment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Pushing_people_into_self-employment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Pushing_people_into_self-employment%29

content:
<p>
The crass remarks of a Tory minister reveal an already-existing abuse,
where people are pushed into self-employment so as to pay them 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/16/lord-freud-crass-self-employment-wages">less
than a minimum wage</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 18_October_2014_(Thugs_raid_journalists_house)
title: Thugs raid journalist's house
uri: Thugs-raid-journalist-s-house
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_October_2014_%28Thugs_raid_journalists_house%29
content:
<p>
New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager revealed evidence of the ruling
party's dirty political tricks; then thugs 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6870">raided his house
and seized his computers</a>.
<p>
Evidently the politicians that control New Zealand prefer to keep
crime secret rather than behave honestly.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(NY_thugs_driving_records_private)
title: NY thugs' driving records private
uri: NY-thugs-driving-records-private
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28NY_thugs_driving_records_private%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in New York State 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6829">say that they can
collect information on everyone's driving because that's public</a>;
but when a reporter asked to see their records about him, they claimed
it was secret.


title: Campaign reduces rhino horn demand
uri: Campaign-reduces-rhino-horn-demand
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Campaign_reduces_rhino_horn_demand)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Campaign_reduces_rhino_horn_demand%29

content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/16/rhino-horn-demand-in-vietnam-drops-by-more-than-33-in-one-year">education
campaign</a> in Vietnam has cut the demand for rhino horn by 33%, by
correcting the superstitious idea that it is beneficial.
<p>
Can anyone make plausible imitation rhino horn?
It would work just as well as the real thing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Finfisher)
title: Finfisher
uri: Finfisher
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Finfisher%29
content:
<p>
Privacy International calls for prosecution of the British company
that made the Finfisher intrusion/spying program, 
<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/news/press-releases/privacy-international-files-criminal-complaint-on-behalf-of-bahraini-activists">used
by the cruel Bahraini regime to attack activists in England</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Morocco)
title: Morocco
uri: Morocco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Morocco%29
content:
<p>
Ray Cole describes how in Morocco he was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/ray-cole-interview-jailed-morocco-homosexual">accused
based on irrelevant evidence, jailed incommunicado, and bullied into
signing a statement he could not read</a>.
<p>
The prison guards also lied to the British consul, saying Cole did not
want to see him.
<p>
It seems clear they treat Moroccans just as badly.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Massive_biometrics_capture)
title: Massive biometrics capture
uri: Massive-biometrics-capture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Massive_biometrics_capture%29
content:
<p>
Australia's government 
<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/opposition-grows-to-storage-of-photo-and-biometric-data-20141015-116lur.html">proposes
massive biometrics capture</a>, but may not succeed in imposing it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Fracking)
title: Fracking
uri: 2014-10-19-Fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Fracking%29
content:
<p>
If a lot of natural gas is obtained by fracking, it will squeeze out
renewable energy and likely result in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/gas-boom-from-unrestrained-fracking-linked-to-emissions-rise">more
greenhouse gas emissions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Reducing_the_weak_to_desperation)
title: Reducing the weak to desperation
uri: Reducing-the-weak-to-desperation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Reducing_the_weak_to_desperation%29

content:
<p>
A Tory minister called for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/15/tory-message-disabled-lord-freud-minimum-wage">paying
the disabled less than minimum wage</a>, stating explicitly the
right-wing goal of reducing the weak to desperation.
<p>
The same goal is at work in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_May_2013_(Free_US_workers_losing_jobs_to_prisoners)">making
prisoners work for companies that pay them a pittance</a>.  This
reduces jobs and wages for people outside prison, and more of them
will end up in prison, making a vicious cycle.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(CO2_emissions-trading_scheme)
title: CO2 emissions-trading scheme
uri: CO2-emissions-trading-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28CO2_emissions-trading_scheme%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/europe-needs-to-fix-or-ditch-its-emissions-trading-scheme">Europe
Needs to Fix Or Ditch Its Emissions-Trading Scheme</a>.
<p>
A carbon tax would be better.  One of the problems with the European
emissions-trading scheme is that it is too easily gamed: companies can
get credit for industries that have simply failed, for instance, and
emissions credits are so cheap that nobody really needs to conserve.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Private_police_foundations)
title: Private "police foundations"
uri: Private-police-foundations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Private_police_foundations%29
content:
<p>
Private "police foundations" 
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/private-donors-supply-spy-gear-to-cops">buy
controversial massive surveillance equipment</a> and donate it to thug
departments across the US, bypassing democratic decisionmaking about
what these systems should do.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Fish_in_offshore_oil_wells)
title: Fish in offshore oil wells
uri: Fish-in-offshore-oil-wells
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Fish_in_offshore_oil_wells%29
content:
<p>
Offshore oil wells are great 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/californias-most-productive-fisheries-the-offshore-oil-rigs/">habitats
for fish</a>.
<p>
Burning oil generates CO<sub>2</sub> which 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_April_2014_(Emboldened_by_chemistry)">makes
some fish dangerously uncautious</a> and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#30_May_2011_(Acidification)">will
kill (at a sufficient concentration) many shelled animals</a>.
<p>
But we could plant suitable structures without using them to extract
oil.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Depleted_uranium_use)
title: Depleted uranium use
uri: Depleted-uranium-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Depleted_uranium_use%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26703-iraqi-doctors-call-depleted-uranium-use-genocide">Iraqi
Doctors Call Depleted Uranium Use "Genocide"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Call_for_thug_accountability)
title: Call for thug accountability
uri: Call-for-thug-accountability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Call_for_thug_accountability%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/26822-from-chicago-to-geneva-a-call-for-police-accountability-for-violence-and-torture">From
Chicago to Geneva, a Call for Police Accountability for Violence and
Torture</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Colombian_farmers_suing_BP)
title: Colombian farmers suing BP
uri: Colombian-farmers-suing-BP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Colombian_farmers_suing_BP%29
content:
<p>
Colombian farmers are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/15/colombian-farmers-sue-bp-british-court">suing
BP in Britain</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Farm_pesticides_and_suicide)
title: Farm pesticides and suicide
uri: Farm-pesticides-and-suicide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Farm_pesticides_and_suicide%29
content:
<p>
Farm pesticides have been 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/26793-pesticide-use-by-farmers-linked-to-high-rates-of-depression-suicides">linked
to an increase in depression and suicide</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Texas_abortion_providers)
title: Texas abortion providers
uri: 2014-10-19-Texas-abortion-providers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Texas_abortion_providers%29
content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/oct/14/supreme-court-blocks-texas-abortion-law">allowed
some Texas abortion providers to reopen</a> … until the case is
finally decided.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Massive_surveillance)
title: Massive surveillance
uri: Massive-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Massive_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism says that massive surveillance
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6746">violates human
rights as defined by the UN</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Thugs_attack_HK_protesters)
title: Thugs attack HK protesters
uri: Thugs-attack-HK-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Thugs_attack_HK_protesters%29
content:
<p>
Thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/hong-kong-police-clear-tunnel-by-force-in-crackdown-on-protesters">attacked
Hong Kong protesters</a> and closed some of their barricades.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(100_students_in_Egypt_arrested)
title: 100 students in Egypt arrested
uri: 100-students-in-Egypt-arrested
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28100_students_in_Egypt_arrested%29

content:
<p>
100 students were arrested in Egypt this week 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/cairo-bomb-blast-islamic-militants-death-sentence">for
protesting</a>.
<p>
Violent Islamist fanatics continue to fight the regime with terrorism,
but all in all their violence is less than what the military regime
directed at peaceful Islamist fanatic protesters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(43_disappeared_students)
title: 43 disappeared students
uri: 43-disappeared-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%2843_disappeared_students%29
content:
<p>
The mass graves found in Mexico appear not to contain the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/mexican-students-not-found-mass-graves">43
disappeared students</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Gun_threat_against_feminist)
title: Gun threat against feminist
uri: Gun-threat-against-feminist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Gun_threat_against_feminist%29
content:
<p>
A talk by feminist Anita Sarkesian was cancelled due to a mysogynist
threat to shoot her, backed up by a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/15/anita-sarkeesian-feminist-games-critic-cancels-talk">state
law that prohibited stopping people from bringing weapons into the
auditorium</a>.
<p>
That law says, in effect, that anyone people threaten to shoot cannot
speak in public.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Private_charities)
title: Private charities
uri: Private-charities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Private_charities%29
content:
<p>
Private charities are 
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-13/why-private-donations-arent-helping-americas-poor#r=discussed">nowhere
near capable of giving America's tens of millions of poor people the
help they need</a>.


title: Prosecuted for filming in West Papua
uri: Prosecuted-for-filming-in-West-Papua
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 19_October_2014_(Prosecuted_for_filming_in_West_Papua)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#19_October_2014_%28Prosecuted_for_filming_in_West_Papua%29

content:
<p>
French documentary makers are
being <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/16/indonesia-free-french-reporters-detained-papua">prosecuted
for filming in West Papua</a>, where foreign journalists are not
allowed.
<p>
Indonesia took over West Papua by force in the 1960s when the Dutch
pulled out, and has sent large numbers of Javanese colonists.  It's
somewhat like China and Tibet.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Stand_your_ground)
title: "Stand your ground"
uri: Stand-your-ground
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Stand_your_ground%29
content:
<p>
Right wing judges and officials don't want "stand your ground" laws to
apply to
women <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/10/15/stand-your-ground-unless-youre-abused-usually-black-woman">defending
themselves from violent domestic partners</a>.
<p>
Indeed, those laws
are<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Stand_your_ground_laws_have_shielded_over_130_killers%29">
meant to allow white men (who dare carry guns in public) to kill black
men</a> (who know thugs would fabricate an excuse to beat them and
arrest them if they carried guns in public). Helping women was never
the intention.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Using_war_to_stay_in_power)
title: Using war to stay in power
uri: Using-war-to-stay-in-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Using_war_to_stay_in_power%29
content:
<p>
Navalny, after a relaxation in the terms of his house arrest, accuses
Putin
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/17/putin-is-destroying-russia-why-base-his-regime-on-corruption-asks-navalny">using
war to stay in power</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Minimum-Wage_pay_is_too_little)
title: Minimum-Wage pay is too little
uri: Minimum-Wage-pay-is-too-little
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Minimum-Wage_pay_is_too_little%29

content:
<p>
The people who clean the UK foreign ministry protested that their
minimum-wage pay
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/17/whitehall-cleaner-hmrc-campaign-living-wage">too
little to live in London and do the job.</a>
<p>
The article demonstrates the harm done by subcontracting, which gives
the state and other companies a way to hire people for low wages and
say "we're not responsible, since we don't employ them."
<p>
A company or agency that gets workers through a subcontractor should
be directly responsible for how they are treated and how much they are
paid.


title: Man Sues Germany for Drone Killings of Civilians
uri: Man-Sues-Germany-for-Drone-Killings-of-Civilians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Man_Sues_Germany_for_Drone_Killings_of_Civilians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Man_Sues_Germany_for_Drone_Killings_of_Civilians%29

content:
<p>
Yemeni
Man <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/15/yemeni-man-sues-germany-role-us-drone-killings-civilians">Sues
Germany for Role in US Drone Killings of Civilians</a>.


title: Urgent: An end to trials of GMO wheat
uri: Urgent-An-end-to-trials-of-GMO-wheat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Urgent:_An_end_to_trials_of_GMO_wheat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_An_end_to_trials_of_GMO_wheat%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1665">an
end to trials of GMO wheat</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Illegal_Copying)
title: Illegal Copying
uri: Illegal-Copying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Illegal_Copying%29
content:
<p>
Illegal Copying
Has <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/illegal-copying-has-always-created-jobs-growth-and-prosperity-141019/">Always
Created Jobs, Growth, And Prosperity</a>.


title: Punishing prison guards that are whistleblowers
uri: Punishing-prison-guards-that-are-whistleblowers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Punishing_prison_guards_that_are_whistleblowers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Punishing_prison_guards_that_are_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>
The UK government
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/20/prisons-whistleblowers-threatened-with-dismissal">punishing
prison guards that are whistleblowers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Citizen's_right_to_vote)
title: Citizen's right to vote
uri: Citizen-s-right-to-vote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Citizen%27s_right_to_vote%29
content:
<p>
The US needs a constitutional amendment
to <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/10/20/6997315/voting-rights-amendment-affirmative-right-to-vote">establish
every citizen's right to vote</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Long-Acting_birth_control)
title: Long-Acting birth control
uri: Long-Acting-birth-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Long-Acting_birth_control%29
content:
<p>
There's finally an effective way to end teen pregnancy:
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20141014">long-acting
birth control</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Hatred_against_disabled)
title: Hatred against disabled
uri: Hatred-against-disabled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Hatred_against_disabled%29
content:
<p>
The UK government's real attitude towards the disabled is now patent:
to stir up hatred against
them <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/20/disabled-lord-freud-austerity">while
pushing them into hopeless poverty</a>.
<p>
People who hate the disabled will forget to hate the plutocrats that
really deserve it.
<p>
A worldwide survey of happiness finds that people are generally
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20141017">happier in
societies with "big government"</a> that runs ample welfare programs.


title: UK gov't want to collect data without warrant
uri: UK-gov-t-want-to-collect-data-without-warrant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(UK_gov't_want_to_collect_data_without_warrant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28UK_gov%27t_want_to_collect_data_without_warrant%29

content:
<p>
The UK government wants to be able
to <a href="http://rt.com/uk/197576-isis-social-media-government/">collect
data from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube automatically (without a
warrant, of course)</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(The_TPP)
title: The TPP
uri: The-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28The_TPP%29
content:
<p>
The US wants to use the TPP to 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/cyber-espionage-and-trade-agreements-ill-fitting-and-dangerous-combination">impose
criminal penalties on access to trade secrets through a computer</a>,
with no protection even for journalists investigating dangerous or
unjust practices.
<p>
This calls to mind the "Ag-Gag" bills 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_March_2014_(ACLU_and_others_to_challenge_Idahos_ag-gag_law)">designed
to criminalize undercover investigations of shameful or illegal farm
practices</a>.


title: Finnish parliament won't consider petitions
uri: Finnish-parliament-won-t-consider-petitions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Finnish_parliament_wont_consider_petitions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Finnish_parliament_wont_consider_petitions%29

content:
<p>
Finland has a system for the public to propose revised laws by
petition; then the parliament is supposed to vote on these changes.  A
petition for small relaxation in harsh copyright law was rejected by a
committee as too radical.
<p>
So far, parliament has 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141016/09594728848/finnish-parliament-refuses-to-consider-crowdsourced-copyright-law-any-other-bill-drafted-public.shtml">rejected
all six of the petitions without voting on any of them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Senates_report_on_CIA_torture)
title: Senate's report on CIA torture
uri: Senate-s-report-on-CIA-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Senates_report_on_CIA_torture%29
content:
<p>
The Senate's still unpublished report on CIA torture 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/17/report-senate-report-cia-will-sidestep-look-bush-torture-team">intentionally
disregards the role of higher officials in the Bush regime</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Neonicotinoid_pesticide)
title: Neonicotinoid pesticide
uri: Neonicotinoid-pesticide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Neonicotinoid_pesticide%29
content:
<p>
A study found that a neonicotinoid pesticide, used on soy beans, provides
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/17/epa-study-highly-toxic-bee-killing-pesticides-yield-little-or-no-benefits">little
or no benefit in production</a>.
<p>
Farmers may still want to use it, if it gives a little benefit, but we
should not allow them to do so.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Tracking_of_peoples_movements)
title: Tracking of people's movements
uri: Tracking-of-people-s-movements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Tracking_of_peoples_movements%29
content:
<p>
A Florida court ruled that tracking a person's movements in real time
through cell phone data 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/florida-court-requires-warrant-cell-tower-data/">requires
a warrant</a>.
<p>
This is a good decision, but I still don't feel like carrying a cell
phone and giving that data to anyone.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Chevron_trying_to_buy_elections)
title: Chevron trying to buy elections
uri: Chevron-trying-to-buy-elections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Chevron_trying_to_buy_elections%29

content:
<p>
Will Chevron succeed in buying 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/17/purchase-election-chevron-shows-we-have-oligarchy-not-democracy-sanders">municipal
elections in Richmond, California</a>?


title: French senate votes for censorship
uri: French-senate-votes-for-censorship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(French_senate_votes_for_censorship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28French_senate_votes_for_censorship%29

content:
<p>
The French senate voted for the Loi Cazeneuve, which imposes 
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/terrorism-bill-the-french-senate-adopts-the-law-eroding-liberties">dangerous
censorship</a>.


title: Pressure to divest from fossil fuels
uri: Pressure-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Pressure_to_divest_from_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Pressure_to_divest_from_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
Environment defenders are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/18/fossil-fuel-divestment-climate-change-activists-take-aim-at-australias-banks">moving
their money out of Australia's big banks to pressure them to divest
from fossil fuels</a>.  They claim $250 million has already been moved
for this reason.
<p>
This goes with warnings that fossil fuel reserves are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_August_2013_(Carbon_Bubble)">a
bubble that has to burst</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Death_sentences_for_blasphemy)
title: Death sentences for blasphemy
uri: Death-sentences-for-blasphemy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Death_sentences_for_blasphemy%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/18/lahore-high-court-asia-bibi-death-penalty">continues
sentencing people to death for blasphemy</a>, after trials that would
be unjust even for a real crime.
<p>
Changing the trials and the penalties would make the blasphemy law do
less damage, but would not make it just.  Freedom of speech includes
the freedom to offend or insult any person, real or imaginary.
Criminalizing blasphemy was wrong in Britain, just as it is wrong in
Pakistan today.
<p>
The unfair trials are a second injustice, and the murder of
politicians is a third.  What all three have in common is that they
are perpetrated by religious fanatics who believe they are entitled to
use force against those who would criticize them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(HK_protests)
title: HK protests
uri: HK-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28HK_protests%29
content:
<p>
The Hong Kong protest has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/18/hong-kong-protests-violence-flares-again-activists-retake-streets">grown
to around 10,000 again</a>, and thugs had to give up on attacking the
protesters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Mexicos_disappeared_students)
title: Mexico's disappeared students
uri: Mexico-s-disappeared-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Mexicos_disappeared_students%29
content:
<p>
Protesters in Mexico 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/18/mexico-protests-acapulco-student-teachers-missing">continue
to demand return of the 43 disappeared students</a>, and also take
actions to denounce and apologize for other protesters' violence.
<p>
All those mass graves, whether they contain these students or not, are
testimony to the violence that Mexico has experienced from the "war on
drugs".  When a war is on drugs, its violence affects everyone
indiscriminately.


title: CIA report on arming foreign rebels
uri: CIA-report-on-arming-foreign-rebels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(CIA_report_on_arming_foreign_rebels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28CIA_report_on_arming_foreign_rebels%29

content:
<p>
An internal report of the CIA found that arming rebels in other
countries 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/15/cias-own-study-finds-us-arming-foreign-rebels-failed-operation">has
almost never been effective</a>.
<p>
In many cases it was a good thing that this failed, since the US was
attacking governments with local support, for reasons of commercial
interest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Haitis_former_dictator_dead)
title: Haiti's former dictator dead
uri: Haiti-s-former-dictator-dead
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Haitis_former_dictator_dead%29
content:
<p>
Although Haiti's former dictator "Baby Doc" is dead, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/14/haiti-baby-doc-gone-political-repression-alive-and-well">his
repression continues</a> under President Martelly.  Martelly is also
fabricating charges against Aristide.
<p>
The US 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#11_June_2011_(Haiti_Cable_Fraudulent_Election)">intervened
shamelessly</a> to make Martelly "president".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Detroit_water_rates)
title: Detroit water rates
uri: Detroit-water-rates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Detroit_water_rates%29
content:
<p>
Detroit's bankruptcy-imposed government continues 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/16/testing-human-right-water-detroit">trying
to make people with no income pay high rates for water</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Renewable_electric_generation)
title: Renewable electric generation
uri: Renewable-electric-generation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Renewable_electric_generation%29
content:
<p>
Germany and Nordic countries are developing so much renewable electric
generation capacity that they 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/17/proving-power-renewables-wind-making-dirty-fuels-obsolete-northern-europe">can
retire some fossil fuel plants</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Khomeini_said_no_to_WMDs)
title: Khomeini said no to WMDs
uri: Khomeini-said-no-to-WMDs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Khomeini_said_no_to_WMDs%29
content:
<p>
Ayatollah Khomeini 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/17/when-ayatollah-said-no-nukes">decided
that Iran cannot make weapons of mass destruction</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(James_Risens_new_book)
title: James Risen's new book
uri: James-Risen-s-new-book
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28James_Risens_new_book%29
content:
<p>
A review of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/14/risens-new-book-exposes-corrupt-zealotry-us-war-terror">Pay
Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War</a>, by James Risen.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Kurdish reinforcements)
title: Kurdish reinforcements
uri: Kurdish-reinforcements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Kurdish%20reinforcements%29
content:
<p>The US dropped weapons and supplies <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/us-drops-weapons-to-kurds-in-syria">
to Kurds in Kobani.</a>
and appears to have convinced Turkey to let Kurdish <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/turkey-iraqi-kurds-kobani-isis-fighters-us-air-drops-arms">
reinforcements
in.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Cost_savings_costing_society)
title: "Cost savings" costing society
uri: Cost-savings-costing-society
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Cost_savings_costing_society%29
content:
<p>
<p>"Cost savings" obtained by screwing the poor and sick often cost
society
dearly.  For instance, the UK could save 8 billion pounds a year
by spending a mere 1/3 billion <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/20/mental-health-care-new-mothers-cost-study">
on mental health care for
mothers.</a></p>
<p>Reducing spending or deficits is only an excuse.  When right-wingers
succeed in doing this, they turn around and cut taxes for the wealthy
or businesses, thus creating another deficit that they "need" to
reduce by screwing the poor and sick.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Secret trial in UK)
title: Secret trial in UK
uri: Secret-trial-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Secret%20trial%20in%20UK%29
content:
<p>An accused terrorist in the UK is being tried <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/13/jury-uk-first-major-terrorism-trial-heard-secret">
partly in
secret.</a></p>
<p>A secret trial is an unjust trial, but we have already seen enough to
condemn one the charges, that of "possessing a document".  For there
to be any work that it is forbidden to have a copy of is incompatible
with human rights.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Canada_punishes_NGOs_with_audits)
title: Canada punishes NGOs with audits
uri: Canada-punishes-NGOs-with-audits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Canada_punishes_NGOs_with_audits%29

content:
<p>
The Canadian government is punishing NGOs with audits for writing to
the government about issues, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/revenue-canada-targets-birdwatchers-for-political-activity-1.2799546">
which is supposed to be legal for
them.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Deceptive_business_practices)
title: Deceptive business practices
uri: Deceptive-business-practices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Deceptive_business_practices%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/14/deceit-default-setting-hedge-fund-tax-haven">
Deceptive practice</a> has become standard practice for many
businesses.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Democratic_school)
title: Democratic school
uri: Democratic-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Democratic_school%29
content:
<p>
A democratic primary/secondary <a href="http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/10/students-lead-the-learning-experience-at-democratic-schools/">
school in the US.</a></p>


title: Urgent: No palm oil from deforestation
uri: Urgent-No-palm-oil-from-deforestation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Urgent:_No_palm_oil_from_deforestation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_palm_oil_from_deforestation%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Tell McDonalds to adopt a policy to make sure
its palm oil does <a href="http://act.sumofus.org/go/6113?t=1001&akid=7531.881131.je9vOW">
not cause deforestation.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Republicans)
title: Republicans
uri: Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Republicans%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Republicans insanely condemn Obama's rational response to the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/19/ebola-america-fear-barack-obama-virus">
danger
of Ebola virus.</a></p>
<p>What they demand to avoid at all costs is what will make the US safer
from Ebola and other future epidemics: supporting proper public health
systems in poor countries. </p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Privatization_in_Africa)
title: Privatization in Africa
uri: Privatization-in-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Privatization_in_Africa%29
content:
<p>
Western-imposed privatization and spending cuts in Africa produced
weak
health care systems that can't cope with <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/16/assassination-public-health-systems-driving-ebola-crisis-experts-warn">
epidemics such as
Ebola.</A></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(PISSI)
title: PISSI
uri: 2014-10-21-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28PISSI%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>PISSI enslaves captured women.  Some have escaped, and then a strange
thing happens: they feel ashamed, rather than proud <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/19/isis-forced-marriage-syria-iraq-women-kidnapped">
of their strength
and courage.
</a></p>
<p>I think this reflects twisted patriarchal gender attitudes, the same
ones that provide the soil for PISSI to grow in.</p>
<p>If you want to watch the video from youtube, don't watch it embedded
— that uses nonfree software.  Instead, fetch it with
youtube-dl.</p>
<p>PISSI captures and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/oct/19/victims-of-isis-non-western-journalists-dont-make-headlines">
kills Iraqi journalists too.</A></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Automation)
title: Automation
uri: Automation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Automation%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Automation is the central factor behind a 10% fall in wages for
British
workers without unusual marketable skills, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/18/economy-bleak-british-workers-technology">
and it is going to get
worse.</a>
More or less the same is happening in the US.</p>
<p>The solution is obvious: tax the rich to spread the benefits that
automation provides.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Indigenous_Peoples_Day)
title: Indigenous Peoples' Day
uri: 2014-10-21-Indigenous-Peoples-Day
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Indigenous_Peoples_Day%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Seattle celebrated Indigenous Peoples' Day, rather than celebrating
the
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/13/seattle_marks_indigenous_people_s_day">
man who started killing and enslaving them.
</a></p>
<p>If you want to listen to the audio, for please use one of the
alternative
formats that work without enabling Javascript code.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Coal_Companies)
title: Coal Companies
uri: Coal-Companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Coal_Companies%29
content:
<p>
Coal companies used the G20 meeting to lobby for more coal mining,
presenting coal <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/mining-companies-lobby-g20-leaders-to-back-coal-as-future-of-energy">
as the savior of the world.</a></p>
<p>It's ridiculous, of course, but officials often support ridiculous
claims
to get funds for their election campaigns, or work in retirement.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Facebook)
title: Facebook
uri: 2014-10-21-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Facebook%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Facebook is still suspending the accounts of drag queens
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/17/facebook-still-freezing-accounts-despite-apology-drag-queens-real-names">
that don't reveal their official names.
</a></p>
<p>However, Facebook is trying to convince them to stay,
so it can do drag net surveillance.</p>


title: UK proposes privatized prison for teenagers
uri: UK-proposes-privatized-prison-for-teenagers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(UK_proposes_privatized_prison_for_teenagers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28UK_proposes_privatized_prison_for_teenagers%29

content:
<p>
The UK is cutting the budget for education for teenagers in prison,
but it proposes to build a privatized prison for teenagers
as an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/17/super-prison-children-ministry-justice-physical-punishment">
excuse to legalize using force against them.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Edzard_Ernst)
title: Edzard Ernst
uri: Edzard-Ernst
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Edzard_Ernst%29
content:
<p>Edzard Ernst, hero of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/19/edzard-ernst-outspoken-professor-of-complementary-medicine">
scientific medicine.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Amazon_deforestation_doubles)
title: Amazon deforestation doubles
uri: Amazon-deforestation-doubles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Amazon_deforestation_doubles%29
content:
<p>
The rate of deforestation in the Amazon rain forest <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/19/amazon-deforestation-satellite-data-brazil">
has doubled
since
a year ago.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Beware_the_BitLicense)
title: Beware the BitLicense
uri: Beware-the-BitLicense
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Beware_the_BitLicense%29
content:
<p>
Beware the <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/beware-bitlicense-new-yorks-virtual-currency-regulations-invade-privacy-and-hamper">
BitLicense.</a></p>


title: Erdogan refuses to help defend Kurds
uri: Erdogan-refuses-to-help-defend-Kurds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Erdogan_refuses_to_help_defend_Kurds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Erdogan_refuses_to_help_defend_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
Erdogan says Turkey will not help the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/19/turkey-will-not-cooperate-us-support-kurds-erdogan">
US defend Kurds.</a>
This formalizes what was already apparent.</p>
<p>So much for Obama's dream coalition.  However, the US can bring
food, arms and Kurdish fighters to Kobani by air without Turkey's
help.</p>


title: Pharmaceuticals and wildlife destruction
uri: Pharmaceuticals-and-wildlife-destruction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Pharmaceuticals_and_wildlife_destruction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Pharmaceuticals_and_wildlife_destruction%29

content:
<p>
Human pharmaceuticals could be to blame for part of the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/13/drugs-flushed-into-the-environment-could-be-cause-of-wildlife-decline">massive
destruction of wildlife</a> now occurring.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Repeated_attacks_on_HK_protesters)
title: Repeated attacks on HK protesters
uri: Repeated-attacks-on-HK-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Repeated_attacks_on_HK_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Thugs have repeatedly attacked the massed protesters in Hong Kong.
The protesters resist the sticks and pepper spray <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/19/hong-kong-protesters-police-clash-second-night">
without
attacking.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Christian_doctrine_of_hell)
title: Christian doctrine of hell
uri: Christian-doctrine-of-hell
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Christian_doctrine_of_hell%29
content:
<p>
Has the Christian Doctrine of Hell Become an <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20141006">
Awkward
Liability?</a></p>


title: Right-to-die activist fasts to death
uri: Right-to-die-activist-fasts-to-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Right-to-die_activist_fasts_to_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Right-to-die_activist_fasts_to_death%29

content:
<p>
Jean Davis, 86 years old, fasted to death because her children
were forbidden to help her <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/19/right-to-die-campaigner-starved-herself-jean-davies">
get a less difficult death.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Transport_of_Kurdish_peshmerga)
title: Transport of Kurdish peshmerga
uri: Transport-of-Kurdish-peshmerga
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Transport_of_Kurdish_peshmerga%29

content:
<p>
Is it possible for the US to bring Kurdish peshmerga from Iraq to
Kobani by helicopter?  That might save the Kurds of Kobani.
<p>
Is it possible for the US to airdrop food and ammunition to them?
Even if half of it fell into the hands of the jihadis, that half would
make no material difference (they already have plenty of both), and
the other half might save the Kurds of Kobani.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Being_Homeless_in_USA)
title: Being Homeless in USA
uri: Being-Homeless-in-USA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Being_Homeless_in_USA%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/14/ten-facts-about-being-homeless-usa">Ten
Facts about Being Homeless in USA</a>.
<p>
Basically, governments don't help the homeless as much
and persecute them more.


title: Increase in suicides in UK prisons
uri: Increase-in-suicides-in-UK-prisons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Increase_in_suicides_in_UK_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Increase_in_suicides_in_UK_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Inadequate staffing is causing an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/17/-sp-inmate-suicide-figures-reveal-human-toll-prison-crisis">increase
in suicides in UK prisons</a>.
<p>
In some cases, the suicide seems to be a reaction to mistreatment.
How can it make sense to put a suicidal person, not accused of doing
anything wrong to others, in prison "for his safety"?  Even a
well-staffed prison is not a safe or secure place.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Children_enslaved_in_Italy)
title: Children enslaved in Italy
uri: Children-enslaved-in-Italy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Children_enslaved_in_Italy%29
content:
<p>
4000 African children who got into Italy appear to have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/oct/17/african-child-migrants-italian-traffickers-forced-labour-sexual-exploitation">kidnaped
and enslaved</a>.


title: Divestment from fossil fuel companies
uri: 2014-10-21-Divestment-from-fossil-fuel-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Divestment_from_fossil_fuel_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Divestment_from_fossil_fuel_companies%29

content:
<p>
The aim of divestment from fossil fuel companies is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/17/climate-change-make-big-polluters-pay-fossil-fuel-industries">show
that these investments are odious, and force them to pay for all the
future damage they have caused</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Global_heating_effects_nonuniform)
title: Global heating effects nonuniform
uri: Global-heating-effects-nonuniform
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Global_heating_effects_nonuniform%29

content:
<p>
The effects of global heating are nonuniform.  The average October
temperature in Pt Barrow 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/17/ice-loss-sends-alaskan-temperatures-soaring-by-7c">has
risen 7C (12F) since 34 years ago</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(NY_Times_definition_of_democracy)
title: NY Times definition of "democracy"
uri: NY-Times-definition-of-democracy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28NY_Times_definition_of_democracy%29

content:
<p>
The New York Times once again defines "democracy" in Latin America as
"<a href='https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=6964'>submitting to
the USA</a>".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Hong_Kong_protest)
title: Hong Kong protest
uri: Hong-Kong-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Hong_Kong_protest%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/17/hong-kong-police-dismantle-mong-kok-protest-sites">Thugs
repeatedly clear away protest areas</a> in Hong Kong.
<p>
If the 400,000 who supported the protests were to keep protesting,
the antidemocratic government might have to yield.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(The_repressed_Christian_US_South)
title: The repressed Christian US South
uri: The-repressed-Christian-US-South
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28The_repressed_Christian_US_South%29

content:
<p>
Google search statistics suggest that 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20141017">porn is
especially popular</a> in the repressed Christian south of the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Large_centralized_power_plants)
title: Large centralized power plants
uri: Large-centralized-power-plants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Large_centralized_power_plants%29

content:
<p>
Large centralized power plants carry 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/oct/20/while-didcot-b-burned-renewable-energy-powered-on">large
unreliability</a>.


title: Microsoft's "immutable laws of security"
uri: Microsoft-s-immutable-laws-of-security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Microsofts_immutable_laws_of_security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Microsofts_immutable_laws_of_security%29

content:
<p>
Microsoft's "immutable laws of security" ironically imply
(law 1 and 2) that 
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc722487.aspx">if
Windows is on your computer, it's not secure</a>.


title: Imprisonment for tearing up a photo
uri: Imprisonment-for-tearing-up-a-photo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Imprisonment_for_tearing_up_a_photo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Imprisonment_for_tearing_up_a_photo%29

content:
<p>
Zainab Al-Khawaja faces 7 years' imprisonment in Bahrain for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/20/bahrain-human-rights-attack-tortured">tearing
up a photo of the king</a>.
<p>
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to insult any person, any
group, any organization, and any idea.
<p>
Bahrain used Saudi troops to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#20%20February%202011%20(Protesters%20attacked)">crush 
protests</a>, with 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#03%20April%202011%20(Intervention%20Against%20Gaddafi)">total 
US backing</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 21_October_2014_(Gamergate)
title: Gamergate
uri: Gamergate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#21_October_2014_%28Gamergate%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/10/gamergate-explained">Gamergate
explained</a>.
<p>
Here's what I think of this.

<ul>
<li>
The principal wrong in this issue consists of
the threats of rape and murder made against some commentators.
These threats are inexcusable.
Even supposing the targets' statements were mistaken or dishonest,
that would not justify these threats.

<li> The integrity of journalism is a significant issue, in regard to
computer games as in every other area.  However, according to this
article, the initial accusation that a game designer exercised dishonest
influence on a journalist is demonstrably false.

<p>
Meanwhile, US journalism is subject to distorting influence in regard
to issues such as 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#07_September_2014_(Debates_between_right-wing_pundits_that_all_agree)">war</a>, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#14%20February%202011%20(Aristide%20vs%20US)">destabilization 
campaigns</a>, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_(Hamas_is_forcing_Israel_to_kill_Palestinian_children)">supporting 
tyrannical allies</a>, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#26_September_2012_(Distorted_coverage_of_global_heating)">global 
heating, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#01_November_2011_(Treaties_Don%27t_Create_Job)">"free 
trade" treaties</a>, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#07_October_2013_(NSA%27s_bogus_claims_get_coverage_in_mainstream_media)">massive 
surveillance</a>, and 
<a href="http://fair.org">others</a>.
<li>
The quality of journalism is also a significant issue.
Journalism about computer games is generally lousy
because it focuses solely on what playing the game is like,
and disregards the grave ethical flaw nearly all
these games have: a nonfree software engine.
</ul>
<p>
If you value your freedom, rather than arguing about whether a review
of a nonfree game was accurate in regard to secondary aspects,
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.html">refuse to run 
nonfree games</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Kurdish reinforcements)
title: Kurdish reinforcements
uri: 2014-10-22-Kurdish-reinforcements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Kurdish%20reinforcements%29
content:
<p>The US dropped weapons and supplies <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/us-drops-weapons-to-kurds-in-syria">
to Kurds in Kobani.</a>
and appears to have convinced Turkey to let Kurdish <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/turkey-iraqi-kurds-kobani-isis-fighters-us-air-drops-arms">
reinforcements
in.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Canada_punishes_NGOs_with_audits)
title: Canada punishes NGOs with audits
uri: 2014-10-22-Canada-punishes-NGOs-with-audits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Canada_punishes_NGOs_with_audits%29

content:
<p>
The Canadian government is punishing NGOs with audits for writing to
the government about issues, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/revenue-canada-targets-birdwatchers-for-political-activity-1.2799546">
which is supposed to be legal for
them.</a></p>


title: Urgent: No palm oil from deforestation
uri: 2014-10-22-Urgent-No-palm-oil-from-deforestation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Urgent:_No_palm_oil_from_deforestation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_palm_oil_from_deforestation%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Tell McDonalds to adopt a policy to make sure
its palm oil does <a href="http://act.sumofus.org/go/6113?t=1001&akid=7531.881131.je9vOW">
not cause deforestation.</a></p>


title: UK proposes privatized prison for teenagers
uri: 2014-10-22-UK-proposes-privatized-prison-for-teenagers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(UK_proposes_privatized_prison_for_teenagers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28UK_proposes_privatized_prison_for_teenagers%29

content:
<p>
The UK is cutting the budget for education for teenagers in prison,
but it proposes to build a privatized prison for teenagers
as an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/17/super-prison-children-ministry-justice-physical-punishment">
excuse to legalize using force against them.</a></p>


title: Erdogan refuses to help defend Kurds
uri: 2014-10-22-Erdogan-refuses-to-help-defend-Kurds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Erdogan_refuses_to_help_defend_Kurds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Erdogan_refuses_to_help_defend_Kurds%29

content:
<p>
Erdogan says Turkey will not help the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/19/turkey-will-not-cooperate-us-support-kurds-erdogan">
US defend Kurds.</a>
This formalizes what was already apparent.</p>
<p>So much for Obama's dream coalition.  However, the US can bring
food, arms and Kurdish fighters to Kobani by air without Turkey's
help.</p>


title: Pharmaceuticals and wildlife destruction
uri: 2014-10-22-Pharmaceuticals-and-wildlife-destruction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Pharmaceuticals_and_wildlife_destruction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Pharmaceuticals_and_wildlife_destruction%29

content:
<p>
Human pharmaceuticals could be to blame for part of the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/13/drugs-flushed-into-the-environment-could-be-cause-of-wildlife-decline">massive
destruction of wildlife</a> now occurring.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Repeated_attacks_on_HK_protesters)
title: Repeated attacks on HK protesters
uri: 2014-10-22-Repeated-attacks-on-HK-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Repeated_attacks_on_HK_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Thugs have repeatedly attacked the massed protesters in Hong Kong.
The protesters resist the sticks and pepper spray <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/19/hong-kong-protesters-police-clash-second-night">
without
attacking.</a></p>


title: Right-to-die activist fasts to death
uri: 2014-10-22-Right-to-die-activist-fasts-to-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 20_October_2014_(Right-to-die_activist_fasts_to_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#20_October_2014_%28Right-to-die_activist_fasts_to_death%29

content:
<p>
Jean Davis, 86 years old, fasted to death because her children
were forbidden to help her <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/19/right-to-die-campaigner-starved-herself-jean-davies">
get a less difficult death.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_October_2014_(Urgent:_Impeach_Judge_Fuller)
title: Urgent: Impeach Judge Fuller
uri: Urgent-Impeach-Judge-Fuller
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Impeach_Judge_Fuller%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/fuller_impeach">call on
Congress</a> to impeach Judge Fuller, who pled guilty to attacking his
wife.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_October_2014_(Future_of_journalism_in_the_US)
title: Future of journalism in the US?
uri: Future-of-journalism-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_October_2014_%28Future_of_journalism_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/official-sources-may-be-the-only-sources/">The
future of journalism in the US: will "official sources" be the only
sources?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_October_2014_(Inverted_totalitarianism)
title: Inverted totalitarianism
uri: Inverted-totalitarianism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_October_2014_%28Inverted_totalitarianism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/20/imperative-revolt">How
to rebel against "inverted totalitarianism"</a>?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_October_2014_(US_security_policy)
title: US "security" policy
uri: US-security-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_October_2014_%28US_security_policy%29
content:
<p>
A scholar argues that US "security" policy is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/20/reality-national-security-state-trumps-delusions-us-democracy">decided
by an entrenched bureaucracy, not by elected officials</a>.
<p>
This may be true in practice, but a president opposed to massive
surveillance could stop it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_October_2014_(Cluster_bombs_dropped_on_Donetsk)
title: Cluster bombs dropped on Donetsk
uri: Cluster-bombs-dropped-on-Donetsk
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_October_2014_%28Cluster_bombs_dropped_on_Donetsk%29

content:
<p>
It appears 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/21/cluster-bombs-ukraine-human-rights-watch">Ukraine
dropped cluster bombs on Donetsk</a>.


title: Nigeria's vigorous response to Ebola
uri: Nigeria-s-vigorous-response-to-Ebola
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_October_2014_(Nigerias_vigorous_response_to_Ebola)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_October_2014_%28Nigerias_vigorous_response_to_Ebola%29

content:
<p>
How Nigeria's vigorous response 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/nigeria-ebola-crackdown-example-to-world">quashed
Ebola in that country</a>.


title: Putting dissidents in mental hospitals
uri: Putting-dissidents-in-mental-hospitals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_October_2014_(Putting_dissidents_in_mental_hospitals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_October_2014_%28Putting_dissidents_in_mental_hospitals%29

content:
<p>
Putin has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/russian-artist-cuts-off-earlobe-protest-forced-psychiatric-treatment-dissidents">reestablished
the Soviet practice</a> of declaring dissidents mentally incompetent
and imprisoning them in mental hospitals.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_October_2014_(Solving_Urban_Homelessness)
title: Solving Urban Homelessness
uri: Solving-Urban-Homelessness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_October_2014_%28Solving_Urban_Homelessness%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/20/housing-first-the-counterintuitive-method-for-solving-urban-homelessness">Housing
First: the 'Counterintuitive' Method for Solving Urban
Homelessness</a>.


title: Occupy Parliament Square in London
uri: Occupy-Parliament-Square-in-London
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 22_October_2014_(Occupy_Parliament_Square_in_London)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#22_October_2014_%28Occupy_Parliament_Square_in_London%29

content:
<p>
Democracy protesters have occupied Parliament Square in London for
several days.  Recently they were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/19/occupy-protesters-parliament-square-london">attacked
by thugs using a law designed pre-emptively to criminalize protest
camps</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop pro-fracking ads on NPR
uri: Urgent-Stop-pro-fracking-ads-on-NPR
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_pro-fracking_ads_on_NPR)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_pro-fracking_ads_on_NPR%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=12160">tell
NPR</a> to stop running pro-fracking ads.


title: Urgent: Regulation of refinery pollution
uri: Urgent-Regulation-of-refinery-pollution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Urgent:_Regulation_of_refinery_pollution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Regulation_of_refinery_pollution%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/epa_refinery_comments">call
on the EPA</a> to regulate toxic pollution from oil refineries.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Urgent:_Have_Congress_vote_on_war)
title: Urgent: Have Congress vote on war
uri: Urgent-Have-Congress-vote-on-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Have_Congress_vote_on_war%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say, have Congress 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/call/hconres114_calls/">vote on
whether the US should fight PISSI</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Occupation_of_Palestine)
title: Occupation of Palestine
uri: Occupation-of-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Occupation_of_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
The permanent occupation of Palestine is accompanied by a permanent
<a href="http://972mag.com/how-the-very-concept-of-human-rights-has-failed-palestinians/97883/">rejection
of the idea that Palestinians under Israeli rule have human
rights</a>.


title: Bush's chief of "environmental quality"
uri: Bush-s-chief-of-environmental-quality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Bushs_chief_of_environmental_quality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Bushs_chief_of_environmental_quality%29

content:
<p>
Bush's appointed a paid global heating denialist as his chief of
"environmental quality", whereupon he 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08climate.html?_r=1&">imposed
changes on government scientific reports</a> to minimize the danger.
<p>
Are you a young person?  That official was putting your life in
danger.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(US_spy_agency_personnel)
title: US spy agency personnel
uri: US-spy-agency-personnel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28US_spy_agency_personnel%29
content:
<p>
US spy agency personnel can get away with perjury, destruction of
evidence, torture, kidnaping and assassination.  The only unforgivable
crime is telling the people how they are spitting on our rights.
<p>
Laura Poitras talks about 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/20/edward-snowden-and-golden-age-spying">her
experience working with Edward Snowden</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Blackwater_guards_convicted)
title: Blackwater guards convicted
uri: Blackwater-guards-convicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Blackwater_guards_convicted%29
content:
<p>
Blackwater security guards were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/22/us-jury-convicts-blackwater-security-guards-iraq">convicted
of manslaughter</a>.
<p>
However, the higher-ups who put them in a position to kill Iraqis are
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=7242">not being
prosecuted</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Geneva_homeless_shelters)
title: Geneva homeless shelters
uri: Geneva-homeless-shelters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Geneva_homeless_shelters%29
content:
<p>
In Geneva, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/22/new-cold-war-geneva-switzerland-fallout-bunkers-homeless-shelters">old
fallout shelters</a> are now in use as homeless shelters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Vietnamese_blogger_exiled)
title: Vietnamese blogger exiled
uri: Vietnamese-blogger-exiled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Vietnamese_blogger_exiled%29
content:
<p>
An imprisoned Vietnamese blogger was removed from jail and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/22/vietnam-blogger-jailed-for-posts-about-china-deported-us">put
straight on a plane to exile in the US</a>.
<p>
Ironically, it seems the statements that he was jailed for were a
nationalistic criticism of China, not a campaign for freedom.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Terrorism)
title: "Terrorism"
uri: Terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Terrorism%29
content:
<p>
Note to Canada: it is not "terrorism" to kill 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=7196">soldiers of a
country at war</a>.
<p>
One can argue it is treason for a Canadian to thus take sides against
his own country.
<p>
The ethics of this are a complicated question.  Was Mr Rouleau
fighting on behalf of Iraqis devastated by Bush's conquest and
occupation of Iraq (done with Canada's help), or was he fighting on
behalf of the PISSI which is more cruel than Bush ever dreamed of
being?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Facebook_claims_loss_in_UK)
title: Facebook claims loss in UK
uri: Facebook-claims-loss-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Facebook_claims_loss_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
Facebook juggles its books to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/22/facebook-uk-corporation-tax">claim
that it has "lost money" in the UK</a>.
<p>
Make Facebook lose money for real!  
<a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">Don't be a used of
Facebook</a>!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Large_dam_project_in_India)
title: Large dam project in India
uri: Large-dam-project-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Large_dam_project_in_India%29
content:
<p>
India is railroading a large dam project through 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/india-untamed/2014/oct/22/indias-largest-dam-given-clearance-but-still-faces-flood-of-opposition">slipshod
environmental review</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Drug-resistant_TB)
title: Drug-resistant TB
uri: Drug-resistant-TB
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Drug-resistant_TB%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/22/drug-resistant-tuberculosis-tb-global-threat">Drug-Resistant
Tuberculosis Poses Global Threat, Warn Doctors</a>.


title: Australia's treatment of asylum seekers
uri: 2014-10-23-Australia-s-treatment-of-asylum-seekers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Australias_treatment_of_asylum_seekers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Australias_treatment_of_asylum_seekers%29

content:
<p>
An Australian MP 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/22/asylum-seekers-andrew-wilkie-takes-australia-to-international-criminal-court">asked
the ICC to investigate</a> Australia's treatment of asylum seekers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Phthalates)
title: Phthalates
uri: Phthalates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Phthalates%29
content:
<p>
Just about everyone is exposed to phthalates that seep out of
plastics, and they have various 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2014/oct/21/how-household-plastics-could-ruin-your-sex-life-phthalates">harmful
effects on people</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Rising_sea_levels_in_Venice)
title: Rising sea levels in Venice
uri: Rising-sea-levels-in-Venice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Rising_sea_levels_in_Venice%29
content:
<p>
Rising sea levels due to global heating are affecting gondolas in
Venice: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/21/venice-gondola-rising-waters-iron-ornament-stern-risso">they
have trouble getting under the old bridges</a>.
<p>
By and by, Venice will have to be dammed off from the Adriatic Sea,
and water pumped out of the lagoon all the time.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Afghanistans_poppy_production)
title: Afghanistan's poppy production
uri: Afghanistan-s-poppy-production
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Afghanistans_poppy_production%29
content:
<p>
Afghanistan's poppy production 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2014/oct/21/the-indigenous-land-rights-ruling-that-could-transform-canada">has
hit a record level</a>.  Since the government tries to destroy
poppies, they are grown mainly in areas controlled by the Taliban.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(UK_fracking_investigators)
title: UK fracking investigators
uri: UK-fracking-investigators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28UK_fracking_investigators%29
content:
<p>
The UK will have the "risks and benefits" of fracking investigated by
a team 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/21/former-environment-agency-head-to-lead-industry-funded-fracking-task-force">funded
by frackers</a>.
<p>
The team says it will be "impartial", the way Faux News is "fair and
balanced".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Canadian_indigenous_peoples_land)
title: Canadian indigenous people's land
uri: Canadian-indigenous-people-s-land
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Canadian_indigenous_peoples_land%29

content:
<p>
Canadian indigenous people are using their traditional land title to
protect the environment, so the Canadian government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2014/oct/21/the-indigenous-land-rights-ruling-that-could-transform-canada">trying
to force them to sell nearly all their land for a pittance</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Euphemisms_that_dehumanize)
title: Euphemisms that dehumanize
uri: Euphemisms-that-dehumanize
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Euphemisms_that_dehumanize%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/21/cleansing-stock-doublespeak-people-killing">"Cleansing
the Stock" And Other Ways Governments Talk About Human Beings</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Books_banned_by_US_schools)
title: Books banned by US schools
uri: Books-banned-by-US-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Books_banned_by_US_schools%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing US school boards are banning 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/21/us-adds-poverty-to-dangerous-reading-lists">books
about poverty and social classes</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(CVS_to_penalize_competitors)
title: CVS to penalize competitors
uri: CVS-to-penalize-competitors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28CVS_to_penalize_competitors%29
content:
<p>
The drugstore chain CVS 
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/20/7017031/cvs-reportedly-plans-to-punish-pharmacies-that-still-sell-tobacco">owns
a company that reimburses drug stores from insurance companies</a>.
<p>
The idea of penalizing people for using drug stores that cell
cigarettes might be good, but one drug store should not be able to
decide on such policies towards its competitors.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Workers_rights_undermined)
title: Workers' rights undermined
uri: Workers-rights-undermined
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Workers_rights_undermined%29
content:
<p>
The euro-zone countries are reacting to a repeat recession by
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=817964&qid=4075299">undermining
workers' rights yet again</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Giving_food_to_homeless_people)
title: Giving food to homeless people
uri: Giving-food-to-homeless-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Giving_food_to_homeless_people%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/21/us-cities-criminalizing-sharing-food-homeless-report">More
US cities are making it a crime</a> to give food to homeless people.
<p>
The right-wing idea is that homeless people are homeless because they
are lazy; they were punished enough, they would find jobs.  Of course,
other right-wing policies have made sure there are no jobs for them
and that jobs don't pay enough to rent a place to live.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Attacks_on_Canada)
title: Attacks on Canada
uri: Attacks-on-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Attacks_on_Canada%29
content:
<p>
Canada has seen 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/22/ottawa-shootings-canadian-intelligence-failure">two
attacks by isolated Islamists against soldiers in Canada</a>.
<p>
Several responses that Canada will be tempted to make, but must not make:


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(ISPs_that_dont_rat_on_customers)
title: ISPs that don't rat on customers
uri: ISPs-that-don-t-rat-on-customers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28ISPs_that_dont_rat_on_customers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/iinet-in-new-legal-battle-against-film-studios-over-piracy-7000034940/">An
ISP in Australia</a> is resisting copyright industry demands to rat on
their customers.
<p>
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-internet-provider-refuses-to-expose-30000-alleged-pirates-140909/">One
in the US</a> is doing this too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(Great_Barrier_Reef)
title: Great Barrier Reef
uri: Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28Great_Barrier_Reef%29
content:
<p>
Dredging the Great Barrier Reef for coal exports will endanger
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/23/great-barrier-reef-dredging-could-damage-fish-populations-says-study">development
of fish larvae</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(UCLs_sustainability_institute)
title: UCL's "sustainability institute"
uri: UCL-s-sustainability-institute
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28UCLs_sustainability_institute%29
content:
<p>
University College London has set up a "sustainability institute"
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/23/fossil-fuel-divestment-campaign-targets-ucl-and-bhp-billiton">funded
by a giant mining company</a>.
<p>
It must be difficult for people at that institute to be honest about
the damage caused by mining.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 23_October_2014_(TVs_to_monitor_users)
title: TVs to monitor users
uri: TVs-to-monitor-users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#23_October_2014_%28TVs_to_monitor_users%29
content:
<p>
TVs will be designed to 
<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/mobile-wireless/3581835/your-online-tv-watching-is-now-being-tracked-across-devices/">monitor
their users</a>.
<p>
This article uses the perverse concept of "consuming" video.
That word enables the writer to demonstrate his sophistication
in disregarding all aspects of a situation except the economics,
and getting even that wrong.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Urgent:_Nuclear_Negotiations)
title: Urgent: Nuclear Negotiations
uri: Urgent-Nuclear-Negotiations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Nuclear_Negotiations%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on prominent Democrats to support nuclear
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/hillaryclinton-senwarren?source=c.em&r_by=1135580">
negotiations with Iran.
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Mysogyny)
title: Misogyny
uri: Mysogyny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Mysogyny%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The internet is crawling with misogyny, and any woman doing something
controversial is likely to be attacked by <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/the-unsafety-net-how-social-media-turned-against-women/381261/?single_page=true">
posted threats of
violence.</a></p>
<p>The examples cited in this article seem sick and twisted to me, but
the worst thing I find in it is the assumption that women who are
raped, or even seen semi-nude, have something to be ashamed of.
That's the explicit assumption of the Indian rapists that make videos
of the act, as well as their victim who was interviewed.  She expects
people to condemn and shun her if they know she was raped.  People who
do that are committing the most basic injustice.</p>
<p>We can see this attitude in the firing, by an elite Canadian high
school,
of a drama teacher because who made <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/22/73-year-old-teacher-dismissed-after-softcore-porn-past-comes-to-light">
porn films in 1970.</a>
(She is now 73 years old.)</p>
<p>What, the administrators ask, will today's high school students think
from knowing their teacher made porn 45 years ago?  Perhaps "Older
generations were just like us"?  Or perhaps, "Our administration wants
women to be weak and susceptible to misogyny"?
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Herbicide)
title: Herbicide
uri: Herbicide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Herbicide%29
content:
<p>Earthjustice and farmers have sued to block <a href="http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=pcxnGCh3UIy13DLbZJJDOQ">
use of 2,4-D
herbicide</a>
(best known as part of the toxic Agent Orange that the US dropped
on
Vietnam).
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Energy)
title: Energy
uri: Energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Energy%29
content:
<p>
The EU has adopted the target of cutting greenhouse <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/eu-leaders-agree-to-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-40-by-2030">
gas emissions by
40%
by 2030.
</a></p>
<p>It is an ambitious target, but it lacks firm
measures to achieve the goal.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Australia plans a new policy for boosting fossil fuel
<a href="http://theconversation.com/planned-cut-to-renewable-energy-target-a-free-kick-for-fossil-fuels-33317">
investment and holding back growth of renewable energy.
</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Wisconsin)
title: Wisconsin
uri: Wisconsin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Wisconsin%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The Republican candidate for attorney general of Wisconsin wants
criminal
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/10/12636/ag-candidate-supports-reforming-john-doe-law-protect-politicians">
investigation laws changed to give politicians special privilege.
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Obama)
title: Obama
uri: Obama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Obama%29
content:
<p>Is Obama Stalling Until Republicans Can Bury the <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=7294">CIA Torture
Report?</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(BBC)
title: BBC
uri: BBC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28BBC%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The BBC presented a documentary accusing the ruling Rwandan Patriotic
Front
of broad war crimes.  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/23/rwanda-calls-bbc-banned-over-controversial-documentary">
In response, it proposes to ban the BBC in
Rwanda.
</a></p>
<p>That seems like a plea of guilty.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Fossil_Fuel)
title: Fossil Fuel
uri: Fossil-Fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Fossil_Fuel%29
content:
<p>
Fossil fuel interests have spent 7 million dollars to defeat a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/22/big-oil-spending-millions-kill-local-anti-fracking-measure">
referendum to ban fracking in Santa Barbara County.
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Selling_Data)
title: Selling Data
uri: Selling-Data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Selling_Data%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Schools and hospitals in the US are selling data about the students
and patients <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/restoring-privacy-era-big-data">
they are supposed to serve.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Online_Avatars)
title: Online Avatars
uri: Online-Avatars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Online_Avatars%29
content:
<p>Civil liberties advocate opposes use of online avatars <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/23/civil-liberties-advocate-opposes-use-of-online-avatars-to-catch-sex-offenders">
to catch sex
offenders.</a>
</p>
<p>There are two issues here.  First, the question of whether a person
should face prosecution for a fictitious crime against a fictitious
person.  Second, supposing the answer is yes, there is the issue
of entrapment, luring the person to commit the fictitious crime.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(UK's_Economy)
title: UK's Economy
uri: UK-s-Economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28UK%27s_Economy%29
content:
<p>The UK's economy has experienced a structural change of low pay for
workers,
starting <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/low-pay-breaking-britain-public-finances-tax">
in 2003, and apparently permanent.</a></p>
<p>Now that the UK has more or less exempted the rich and multinational
companies
from tax, the tax burden falls mainly on workers.  Thus, the low pay
wipes out tax revenue.  The rich and businesses must be put into the tax
base.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Investigation)
title: Investigation
uri: Investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Investigation%29
content:
<p>Elizabeth Warren Demands An Investigation <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/10/elizabeth-warren-nonbank-mortgage-servicer">
Of Mortgage
Companies.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Chicago_Police_Department)
title: Chicago Police Department
uri: Chicago-Police-Department
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Chicago_Police_Department%29
content:
<p>Amid Shootings, Chicago Police Department <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26986-amid-shootings-chicago-police-department-upholds-culture-of-impunity">
Upholds Culture of
Impunity.</a>
</p>
<p>Some killer thugs even get awards.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Gough_Whitlam)
title: Gough Whitlam
uri: Gough-Whitlam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Gough_Whitlam%29
content:
<p>Gough Whitlam, Australia's great social reformer, was removed from
office
by a CIA scheme.  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence">
A CIA agent admits it.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Track)
title: Track
uri: Track
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Track%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>A company installed "beacons" to track passersby's phones
<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/hidden-beacons-were-also-installed-in-la-and-chicago">
in four US cities.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(El_Salvador)
title: El Salvador
uri: El-Salvador
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28El_Salvador%29
content:
<p>El Salvador s Fight Against Gold Mine Will <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/10/21/244144/el-salvadors-fight-against-gold.html#storylink=omni_popular#wgt=pop">
Be Decided in D.C.</a>
</p>
<p>These treaties do not deserve to be obeyed, only torn up.
That's what the Salvadoran government should do.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 24_October_2014_(Driver)
title: Driver
uri: Driver
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#24_October_2014_%28Driver%29
content:
<p>FTDI's proprietary driver for its USB-to-serial chips
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/windows-update-drivers-bricking-usb-serial-chips-beloved-of-hardware-hackers/">
sabotages alternative replacement chips when it finds them.
</a>
</p>
<p>The driver can be used for sabotage because it is nonfree
software.</p>
<p>There is nothing whatsoever wrong with making other compatible 
chips, and it is wrong to call them "counterfeit" unless they
are sold dishonestly.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(Armed_drones_used_for_policing)
title: Armed drones used for policing
uri: Armed-drones-used-for-policing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28Armed_drones_used_for_policing%29

content:
<p>
Armed drones used for policing
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/23/police-use-drones-may-threaten-human-rights-un-expert">could
threaten human rights</a>.
<p>
I agree, but there is one countervailing factor.  Soldiers and thugs
can use rubber-coated steel bullets and tear-gas canisters to kill by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jan-apr.html#25%20April%202009%20(Hitting%20protestors)">intentionally
shooting them at people's heads</a>.  A drone operated by a human
through remote control would not enable such accurate shooting.


title: "Sex offenders" forced to be homeless
uri: Sex-offenders-forced-to-be-homeless
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(Sex_offenders_forced_to_be_homeless)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28Sex_offenders_forced_to_be_homeless%29

content:
<p>
In Miami-Dade County, hundreds of people labeled as "sex offenders"
are forced to be homeless because
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/23/pushed-homelessness-their-own-government">every
available living space is covered by the areas where they are
forbidden to live</a>.
<p>
The US is extremely energetic about labeling people as
"<a href='https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#30_July_2011_(Teens_Put_On_List_For_Life)'>sex
offenders</a>" which means they are punished in many ways for the rest
of their lives.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(US_atrocities_in_Viet_Nam)
title: US atrocities in Viet Nam
uri: US-atrocities-in-Viet-Nam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28US_atrocities_in_Viet_Nam%29
content:
<p>
The US government has a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/23/one-my-lai-month">PR
campaign to cover up the atrocities in Viet Nam</a> and make that
unjust war appear glorious.  It wants to bury the fact that atrocities
by US forces were commonplace.
<p>
"You can't separate this effort to justify the terrible wars of 50
years ago from the terrible wars of today."


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(Manipulation_of_stock_prices)
title: Manipulation of stock prices
uri: Manipulation-of-stock-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28Manipulation_of_stock_prices%29
content:
<p>
US corporations
<a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/goldman-makes-it-official-that-the-stock-market-is-manipulated-buybacks-drive-valuations.html">manipulate
their stock prices by buying back shares</a>.  Some companies borrow
money to do this, which over time puts the company in greater debt.
Others are sitting on piles of uninvested cash and can do this without
borrowing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(Murder_confessions_in_Thailand)
title: Murder confessions in Thailand
uri: Murder-confessions-in-Thailand
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28Murder_confessions_in_Thailand%29

content:
<p>
The Burmese migrants that confessed to a murder in Thailand say that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/burmese-men-koh-tao-murders-confessed-death-threats-thai-police-torture-claims">the
thugs threatened to kill them and dump them if they didn't
confess</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(Rana_Plaza_factory_collapse)
title: Rana Plaza factory collapse
uri: Rana-Plaza-factory-collapse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28Rana_Plaza_factory_collapse%29
content:
<p>
The survivors and relatives of the workers killed in the collapse of
the Rana Plaza factories have only
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/oct/24/rana-plaza-compensation-justice-garment-factory-workers">begun
to get compensation</a>.
<p>
What is really needed is an end to the business-controlled
globalization that lets multinational companies make states such as
Bangladesh compete to allow the worst exploitation of workers.  Let's
replace it with a new form of worker-focused globalization, in which
countries legislate that "If you sell goods here, the factories that
make them must pay and treat workers according to our standards, no
matter where they are working."


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(The_Love_Commandos)
title: The Love Commandos
uri: The-Love-Commandos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28The_Love_Commandos%29
content:
<p>
The Love Commandos in India
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/24/bollywood-runaway-couples-love-commandos-max-pinckers-photobook">protect
couples who run away</a> from families that want to force them to
marry others.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(UK_wildlife_habitat_protection)
title: UK wildlife habitat protection
uri: UK-wildlife-habitat-protection
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28UK_wildlife_habitat_protection%29

content:
<p>
On land and now on sea, the organizations responsible for protecting
wildlife habitat in the UK
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/oct/24/ripping-up-the-sea-floor-on-behalf-of-royal-profits">have
become friendly with the industries that destroy it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(Japanese_govt_corruption_scandals)
title: Japanese gov't corruption scandals
uri: Japanese-gov-t-corruption-scandals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28Japanese_govt_corruption_scandals%29

content:
<p>
Several
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/japan-trade-minister-tepco-shares-yoichi-miyazawa">corruption
scandals</a> have hit the Japanese government.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(Russian_media_censorship)
title: Russian media censorship
uri: Russian-media-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28Russian_media_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Russian journalists must now operate from Latvia due to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/23/russian-journalists-meduza-project-latvia-kremlin-crackdown">Russian
media censorship</a>.
<p>
Will we see Australian journalists operating from Indonesia due to
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#11_October_2014_(Australian_journalists_and_sources)">Australian
media censorship</a>?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 25_October_2014_(Censorship_of_US_prisoners)
title: Censorship of US prisoners
uri: Censorship-of-US-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#25_October_2014_%28Censorship_of_US_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
Pennsylvania has passed a law allowing
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/21/prisoner-gag-law-attack-fundamental-free-speech-rights-say-critics">arbitrary
censorship of public statements by prisoners and even former
prisoners</a>.
<p>
The US government led the way for this with its
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jul-oct.html#1%20October%202009%20(Transcript%20of%20Guantanamo%20prisoner%27s%20testimony)">censorship
of testimony about prisoners in Guantanamo</a> about how they were
tortured.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Right_to_sue)
title: Right to sue
uri: Right-to-sue
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Right_to_sue%29
content:
<p>
1/3 of the most popular US web sites make
users <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/upshot/one-third-of-top-websites-restrict-customers-right-to-sue.html">give
up the right to sue over various sorts of mistreatment</a>.
<p>
States should be prohibit this practice, but until they do, people
should refuse to use sites that try to escape justice.


title: Many Britons switching to Green Party
uri: Many-Britons-switching-to-Green-Party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Many_Britons_switching_to_Green_Party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Many_Britons_switching_to_Green_Party%29

content:
<p>
Many Britons are fed up with the right-wing Labour Party and
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/25/green-party-surge-bristol-west">switching
to the Green Party</a>.


title: Local thug departments collecting people's phone call records
uri: Local-thug-departments-collecting-people-s-phone-call-records
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Local_thug_departments_collecting_people's_phone_call_records)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Local_thug_departments_collecting_people%27s_phone_call_records%29

content:
<p>
Local thug departments in Virginia
are <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/virginia-police-secretively-stockpiling-private-phone-records/">collecting
people's phone call records and redistributing them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Apple's_random_hardware_address)
title: Apple's random hardware address
uri: Apple-s-random-hardware-address
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Apple%27s_random_hardware_address%29

content:
<p>
Apple announced that iThings would randomize the WiFi hardware address
to protect privacy, but it tuns out to do
this <a href="http://rt.com/usa/192680-apple-mac-random-flaw/">only in
unusual circumstances</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(UK_proposes_a_vague_law)
title: UK proposes a vague law
uri: UK-proposes-a-vague-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28UK_proposes_a_vague_law%29
content:
<p>
The UK proposes a vague law
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/oct/23/computer-users-damage-national-security-face-jail">imprison
computer users that "damage national security"</a>, including
whistleblowers.
<p>
It is idiotic to pass a law against "using computers to do XYZ".  If
XYZ should be crime, what difference does it make whether it is done
with a computer, with a pen, or however it might be?


title: Obama can work with Republicans just fine
uri: Obama-can-work-with-Republicans-just-fine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Obama_can_work_with_Republicans_just_fine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Obama_can_work_with_Republicans_just_fine%29

content:
<p>
Obama can work with Republicans just fine when it comes
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/24/when-it-comes-torture-silence-bipartisan">suppressing
information about torture by the US government</a>.


title: Fracking near New York State's Seneca lake
uri: Fracking-near-New-York-State-s-Seneca-lake
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Fracking_near_New_York_State's_Seneca_lake)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Fracking_near_New_York_State%27s_Seneca_lake%29

content:
<p>
Protesters <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/24/activists-form-human-blockade-stop-community-becoming-gas-station-fracking">blocked
fracking near New York State's Seneca lake</a>, which is a source of
drinking water.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Europe's_greenhouse_gas_pledge)
title: Europe's greenhouse gas pledge
uri: Europe-s-greenhouse-gas-pledge
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Europe%27s_greenhouse_gas_pledge%29

content:
<p>
Greenpeace and other environmental groups say
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/24/climate-needs-radical-shock-treatment-eu-pledges-only-smelling-salts">Europe's
greenhouse gas pledge is shamefully weak</a>.


title: UK gov't spied on history professors
uri: UK-gov-t-spied-on-history-professors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(UK_gov't_spied_on_history_professors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28UK_gov%27t_spied_on_history_professors%29

content:
<p>
The UK
government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/mi5-spied-historians-eric-hobsbawm-christopher-hill-secret-files">spied
on history professors who were members of the Communist party</a>,
even reading their mail, with no reason to suspect them of having
anything but an opinion.
<p>
It spied on various academics and writers just because they agreed to
a statement against nuclear weapons.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(UK_thugs_repress_protests)
title: UK thugs repress protests
uri: UK-thugs-repress-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28UK_thugs_repress_protests%29
content:
<p>
UK
thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/24/arrested-parliament-square-free-speech-occupy-protest-arrest">repress
protests near Parliament</a> to the point of arresting people for
passing around bottles of water.
<p>
They
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/occupy-protesters-forced-to-hand-over-pizza-boxes-and-tarpaulin">forced
to hand over pizza boxes</a> because the thugs say they might be
useful for sleeping.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Time_period_of_yellow_lights)
title: Time period of yellow lights
uri: Time-period-of-yellow-lights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Time_period_of_yellow_lights%29
content:
<p>
The sleazy government of
Chicago <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/chicago_generated_77000_additional_red_light_tickets_by_shortening_yellow_l">shortened
the time period of yellow lights in order to trap motorists into more
fines</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Gyroscopes_in_mobile_phones)
title: Gyroscopes in mobile phones
uri: Gyroscopes-in-mobile-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Gyroscopes_in_mobile_phones%29
content:
<p>
Gyroscopes in mobile phones are so sensitive
that <a href="http://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/">they can pick up
the sound of nearby voices</a>.  This allows apps to eavesdrop even if
they are not allowed to use the microphone.
<p>
Note that this is a separate issue from conversion of phones into
listening devices, which the NSA and other entities can do through the
phone's universal back door.  Thus, this facility doesn't make the
phone more of a listening device than it was; but it does allow more
parties to use it as a listening device.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_('Koch_Congress')
title: 'Koch Congress'
uri: Koch-Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28%27Koch_Congress%27%29
content:
<p>
'Koch
Congress' <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/24/koch-congress-could-make-oligarchy-official">Could
Make Oligarchy Official</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Protect_us_from%26hellip;what_)
title: Protect us from…what?
uri: Protect-us-from-what
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Protect_us_from%2526hellip%3Bwhat_%29

content:
<p>
The NSA has to listen to
everything <a href="media/10a8d29e.slides-djb-20141018-a4.pdf" data-original-source="http://cr.yp.to/talks/2014.10.18/slides-djb-20141018-a4.pdf">to
protect us from…what?</a>
<p>
(The part I'm referring to is the first 8 slides.  After that comes
very technical material.)
<p>
The Committee to Protect Journalists says that US government
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/blog/2014/10/doj-resistance-to-encryption-jeopardizes-journalis.php">resistance
to encryption endangers journalists</a>.
<p>
That is true, but the first and broadest danger to journalists comes
from
metadata: <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">tracking
who talks with whom</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Prison_for_cartoon)
title: Prison for cartoon
uri: Prison-for-cartoon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Prison_for_cartoon%29
content:
<p>
A man in the UK has been sentenced for prison
for <a href="http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/anime-fan-convicted-over-illegal-7958896">having
a cartoon depicting a fictional child in some sort of sexual
situation</a>.
<p>
The advocates of this kind of censorship started by saying they were
trying to protect real children from being abused in order to take
their photos.  Making such photos should be a crime, and is a crime,
but that is no reason to prohibit possessing copies of the photos.
<p>
However, they have already gone far beyond that.  No child was harmed
in drawing the cartoon.
<p>
To criminalize possession of copies of anything published — no
matter what it is — is oppressive, and leads to many other forms
of tyranny.


title: Pennsylvania's prisoner-gagging law
uri: Pennsylvania-s-prisoner-gagging-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Pennsylvania's_prisoner-gagging_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Pennsylvania%27s_prisoner-gagging_law%29

content:
<p>
Pennsylvania's prisoner-gagging law seems to
be <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/10/22/a-new-way-to-silence-mumia-abu-jamal/">aimed
first of all to gag Mumia abu-Jamal</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop collection of your data
uri: Urgent-Stop-collection-of-your-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_collection_of_your_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_collection_of_your_data%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/data-snatchers">announce your
general support</a> for campaigning against collecting your data.


title: Fanatics threaten activist with death
uri: Fanatics-threaten-activist-with-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Fanatics_threaten_activist_with_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Fanatics_threaten_activist_with_death%29

content:
<p>
An activist set up 
<a href="http://themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/threats-to-kill-beat-up-touch-a-dog-organiser-surface-online">events
for Malaysians to get used to petting dogs</a>, and is now getting
death threats from religious fanatics.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Islamist_rebels_in_Egypt)
title: Islamist rebels in Egypt
uri: Islamist-rebels-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Islamist_rebels_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>
Islamist rebels in Egypt have a persistent campaign of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/25/egypt-declares-state-of-emergency-in-sinai-after-checkpoint-bombing">attacking
Egyptian soldiers</a>.
<p>
These rebels deserve condemnation for seeking to impose the rules of
their religion on everyone, which tramples their human rights.
<p>
However, when al-Sisi calls them "terrorists", that is a lie.
Terrorism means attacking civilians; attacking soldiers or state
institutions is rebellion.
<p>
Al-Sisi calls even peaceful opposition "terrorism".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(US_media_exploiting_Ebola)
title: US media exploiting Ebola
uri: US-media-exploiting-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28US_media_exploiting_Ebola%29
content:
<p>
US media are trying to exploit Ebola by 
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001080.html">spreading
panic</a> about anyone who might have come anywhere near it.
<p>
This is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/24/ebola-quarantine-new-york-new-jersey-west-africa">having
political results already</a> from politicians that want to look
tough.
<p>
Americans interested in helping to treat sick people in Africa
will now either (1) return home through some other place
or (2) decide not to go.
<p>
These people should take precautions, but it isn't
necessary to lock them up, costing them their jobs
and perhaps making them homeless afterward.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Moral_slide_of_intel_agencies)
title: 'Moral slide' of intel agencies
uri: Moral-slide-of-intel-agencies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Moral_slide_of_intel_agencies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/24/mi6-whistleblowers-accuses-intelligence-agencies-annie-machon">MI6
Whistleblower's Partner Accuses Intelligence Agencies of 'Moral
Slide'</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(CIA_torture_report_delays)
title: CIA torture report delays
uri: CIA-torture-report-delays
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28CIA_torture_report_delays%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=7340">Frustrated CIA
Blames Torture Report Delays on Senators Who Want It To Be
Intelligible</a>.
<p>
The right thing for the senators to do is to publish what they see fit
and tell the CIA to jump in the lake.  And then start a new Church
Committee investigation that will tear the CIA open from top to
bottom.  You can't stop its abuses while handling it with kid gloves.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Liberian_burial_rituals)
title: Liberian burial rituals
uri: Liberian-burial-rituals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Liberian_burial_rituals%29
content:
<p>
People in Liberia are clinging to traditional burial rituals to the
point of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/ebola-cremation-ruling-secret-burials-liberia">killing
their relatives and killing themselves</a>.
<p>
They kill their relatives by denying them treatment for whatever
disease they have.  They kill themselves by washing and handling the
bodies of the dead, some of whom died of Ebola.
<p>
They are acting like idiots, but they don't deserve the consequence
that they are bringing on themselves.


title: PISSI chemical weapons accusations
uri: PISSI-chemical-weapons-accusations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(PISSI_chemical_weapons_accusations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28PISSI_chemical_weapons_accusations%29

content:
<p>
There are accusations that PISSI has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/kurds-fear-isis-chemical-weapon-kobani">used
chemical weapons on a few occasions on a small scale</a>.
<p>
I have to wonder: since Saddam Hussein destroyed his chemical weapons,
how did any survive.


title: Fanatics demand punishment of journalists
uri: Fanatics-demand-punishment-of-journalists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Fanatics_demand_punishment_of_journalists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Fanatics_demand_punishment_of_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Muslim fanatics in Afghanistan demand the punishment of journalists
who wrote an article that they believe 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/afghanistan-express-article-isis-taliban-islam-blasphemy">criticizes
their religion</a>.
<p>
Shame on anyone whose religion includes believing people are not
allowed to insult it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Not_enough_jobs_in_the_UK)
title: Not enough jobs in the UK
uri: Not-enough-jobs-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Not_enough_jobs_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
The UK government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/24/iain-duncan-smith-disabled-ms-parkinsons-dwp">classifying
thousands of people with incurable degenerative diseases as "likely to
be able to work again soon"</a>.
<p>
Even if some Britons only pretend to be disabled, why bother to
"catch" them?  There aren't enough jobs in the UK for all the people
who are looking for work.  There aren't enough jobs in the UK to start
pushing wages up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(EUs_new_CO2_emissions_target)
title: EU's new CO2 emissions target
uri: EU-s-new-CO2-emissions-target
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28EUs_new_CO2_emissions_target%29
content:
<p>
The EU's new target for reduced CO<sub>2</sub> emissions is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/24/europe-and-the-why-me-approach-to-decarbonisation">considered
a weak target by environmentalists</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop lobbying against solar power
uri: Urgent-Stop-lobbying-against-solar-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_lobbying_against_solar_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_lobbying_against_solar_power%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/walmart_rooftop_solar">tell
the owners of Walmart</a> to stop lobbying against installation of
home solar power.
<p>
I think this is one additional reason not to buy from Walmart.
I never get anything there.


title: Massive protests continue in Mexico
uri: Massive-protests-continue-in-Mexico
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Massive_protests_continue_in_Mexico)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Massive_protests_continue_in_Mexico%29

content:
<p>
Mexico is still having massive protests about the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/23/protesters-torch-city-hall-demand-justice-missing-mexican-students">disappearance
of 43 protesting students</a>.


title: Political control of South Florida
uri: Political-control-of-South-Florida
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 26_October_2014_(Political_control_of_South_Florida)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#26_October_2014_%28Political_control_of_South_Florida%29

content:
<p>
Parts of South Florida want to split off from Florida and form a new
state to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/23/not-political-survival-faced-rising-climate-risks-south-florida-city-votes-secession">get
rid of the political control of global heating deniers</a>.  One more
foot of sea level rise will destroy the water supply and sewage
systems of South Florida.


title: Least religious generation in US history
uri: Least-religious-generation-in-US-history
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_October_2014_(Least_religious_generation_in_US_history)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_October_2014_%28Least_religious_generation_in_US_history%29

content:
<p>
The US millennial generation is the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/26/millennials-godless-politics-religous-conservatives">least
religious generation in US history</a>.  Churches are shrinking, and
in the long term, the theocratic Christian right-wing is going to get
weaker.
<p>
In effect, this election is the Christian fanatics' last chance at
grabbing political power, and if they get it, the only way they can
hold on to it is by denying the vote to those who will later take it
away from them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_October_2014_(Silencing_any_view_is_tyranny)
title: Silencing any view is tyranny
uri: Silencing-any-view-is-tyranny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_October_2014_%28Silencing_any_view_is_tyranny%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/26/banning-peoples-views-even-internet-trolls-is-wrong">Silencing
Extreme Views, Even If They Are Those of Internet Trolls, Is
Wrong</a>.
<p>
It is not just wrong, it is tyranny.


title: Financial and technical "disruptions"
uri: Financial-and-technical-disruptions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_October_2014_(Financial_and_technical_disruptions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_October_2014_%28Financial_and_technical_disruptions%29

content:
<p>
Financial "disruption" and technical "disruption" work together to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/25/darker-side-pay-per-laugh-innovations-silicon-valley">track
more, control more, and charge more</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_October_2014_(UKs_university_system)
title: UK's university system
uri: UK-s-university-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_October_2014_%28UKs_university_system%29
content:
<p>
The UK's university system remains better than the US system in one
way: the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/19/tuition-fees-essential-part-of-golden-opportunity">payments
made by graduates depend on their incomes</a>.
<p>
My main motive for going to college was fascination for learning.  I
hardly thought about making money afterward; I assumed I would become
a professor but I rarely thought that far ahead.  It was easy in the
US in the 60s and 70s to follow an artistic or scholarly fascination
and let income take care of itself, because the US still allowed most
people a share in its income.
<p>
We should not blame today's students for giving high priority to their
careers after they graduate, but the fact that they do so is a
disadvantage for society.  It will change when we get rid of
plutocracy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_October_2014_(Authoritarian_regime_in_Egypt)
title: Authoritarian regime in Egypt
uri: Authoritarian-regime-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_October_2014_%28Authoritarian_regime_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/19/cairo-egypt-government-crackdown-adhaf-soueif">In
Egypt, an Authoritarian Regime Holds Sway Again</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_October_2014_(Loss_of_Arctic_ice)
title: Loss of Arctic ice
uri: Loss-of-Arctic-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_October_2014_%28Loss_of_Arctic_ice%29
content:
<p>
The loss of Arctic ice has made 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/26/global-warming-has-doubled-risk-harsh-winters-eurasia-research-finds">severe
winters in Eurasia twice as likely as before</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_October_2014_(Woman_executed_in_Iran)
title: Woman executed in Iran
uri: Woman-executed-in-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_October_2014_%28Woman_executed_in_Iran%29
content:
<p>
A woman in Iran was executed for killing a man that she said was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/25/iran-reyhaneh-jabbari-executes-appeals">trying
to rape her</a>.
<p>
I believe her claim, especially since there was no other plausible
account of what happened.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(UK_attack_on_the_poor)
title: UK attack on the poor
uri: UK-attack-on-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28UK_attack_on_the_poor%29
content:
<p>
The UK attack on the poor has gone so far
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/27/todays-britain-poor-forced-steal-food-banks">poor
people must steal food to eat</a> — or steal more expensive
things in order to get into jail.
<p>
People who are hungry are entitled to steal food.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Life_under_the_rule_of_PISSI)
title: Life under the rule of PISSI
uri: Life-under-the-rule-of-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Life_under_the_rule_of_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Some people in Mosul say
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/27/citizens-mosul-iraq-economic-collapse-repression-isis-islamic-state">life
under the rule of PISSI is a disaster</a> even if you're not being
singled out for punishment.
<p>
This suggests they would be glad to have the chance for a government
that won't repress them.  The problem is where that could come from.


title: Australian plan to "protect" the Great Barrier Reef
uri: Australian-plan-to-protect-the-Great-Barrier-Reef
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Australian_plan_to_protect_the_Great_Barrier_Reef)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Australian_plan_to_protect_the_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
The Australian plan to "protect" the Great Barrier Reef
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/27/great-barrier-reef-protection-plan-ignores-threat-climate-change">ignores
the damage that global heating will do</a>.


title: Turning old camera phones into remote surveillance cameras
uri: Turning-old-camera-phones-into-remote-surveillance-cameras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Turning_old_camera_phones_into_remote_surveillance_cameras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Turning_old_camera_phones_into_remote_surveillance_cameras%29

content:
<p>
A company wants to pay people
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/27/-sp-placemeter-app-street-view-window-new-york-smartphone">turn
old camera phones into remote surveillance cameras</a>.
<p>
How is this different from stationing a human there to count people?
They couldn't afford to station humans full time in very many places.
And if they argue that they don't or can't recognize individuals, what
assurance do we have that they won't be recognizing individuals using
the same technique 10 years from now?
<p>
I think it should be illegal to set up a camera looking for more than
a short time at a place where the public is admitted, if it makes the
video remotely accessible.  Individuals, and especially the state,
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">should
have to get a court order before they can do this</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Voting_by_email)
title: Voting by email
uri: Voting-by-email
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Voting_by_email%29
content:
<p>
New
Jersey's <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/26/new-jersey-e-voting.html">emergency
experiment with voting by email</a> ran into various practical
problems in addition to the fundamental ones you'd expect, and there
is no way of knowing how many votes were lost.
<p>
It is amusing how the artificial concern with voter fraud, stoked to
provide a basis
for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#21_July_2012_%28Republican_voter-suppression%29">stopping
poor and disabled people from voting</a>, is not applied to internet
voting.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Fear_of_Ebola)
title: Fear of Ebola
uri: Fear-of-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Fear_of_Ebola%29
content:
<p>
Fear of
Ebola <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/10/ebola-america-panic-hysteria">elicits
bizarre reactions</a>.
<p>
Hoax
news <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/22/7028983/fake-news-sites-are-using-facebook-to-spread-ebola-panic">contributes
to the panic</a>.
<p>
Ironically, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/23/ebola-malware-spam-email-world-health-organization">Ebola
is being used to spread computer viruses</a>. But they probably can't
hurt you if you are running GNU/Linux.


title: When foreign fighters want to leave PISSI
uri: When-foreign-fighters-want-to-leave-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(When_foreign_fighters_want_to_leave_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28When_foreign_fighters_want_to_leave_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
When foreign fighters want to leave PISSI,
it <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/25/isis-threatens-kill-british-jihadis-wanting-to-come-home">holds
them prisoner and threatens to kill them</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, when Britons who went to Syria to fight against Assad go
home because they don't support PISSI, the UK puts them in prison.


title: Capturing and centralizing the internet
uri: Capturing-and-centralizing-the-internet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Capturing_and_centralizing_the_internet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Capturing_and_centralizing_the_internet%29

content:
<p>
Giant web site companies
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/26/couch-potatoes-killed-internet-dream">capturing
and centralizing the internet</a>, so that now 30 companies generate
half the traffic in the US.  They are converting it primarily into a
broadcast medium.
<p>
I almost never access those companies' sites.  In my view, the only
good use of the internet is what they don't do.
<p>
Fortunately there is still enough of that to make a big difference
from what the world was like before the internet.


title: Urgent: Oppose plan to make money laundering easier
uri: Urgent-Oppose-plan-to-make-money-laundering-easier
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_plan_to_make_money_laundering_easier)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_plan_to_make_money_laundering_easier%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Reublican_payday_handout">oppose
the Republican plan to make money laundering easier</a> so as to help
dishonest payday loan companies that make phony loans.
<p>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/27/house-republicans-money-laundering_n_5717877.html">More
information</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Unusual_behavior_on_Amtrak)
title: Unusual behavior on Amtrak
uri: Unusual-behavior-on-Amtrak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Unusual_behavior_on_Amtrak%29
content:
<p>
On
Amtrak, <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty-criminal-law-reform/odds-are-you-are-suspicious">almost
any unusual behavior is considered "suspicious"</a> and is grounds for
filing a report, perhaps arresting you, and perhaps stealing your
money.
<p>
In practice it rarely happens to whites.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Compare_US_reaction)
title: Compare US reaction
uri: Compare-US-reaction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Compare_US_reaction%29
content:
<p>
Compare the US reaction
to <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=7370">killings of US
citizens by Israelis and by Palestinians</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 27_October_2014_(UK_slumlords)
title: UK slumlords
uri: UK-slumlords
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_October_2014_%28UK_slumlords%29
content:
<p>
UK
slumlords <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/25/shelter-ban-revenge-evictions-rogue-landlords-tenants">evict
tenants for complaining about unhealthy conditions</a>.


title: Top-level Spanish politicians arrested
uri: Top-level-Spanish-politicians-arrested
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Top-level_Spanish_politicians_arrested)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Top-level_Spanish_politicians_arrested%29

content:
<p>
Top-level Spanish politicians have been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/27/spanish-authorities-arrest-51-anti-corruption-sweep">arrested
and accused of corruption</a>.


title: Arctic Ocean crossed without icebreaker
uri: Arctic-Ocean-crossed-without-icebreaker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Arctic_Ocean_crossed_without_icebreaker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Arctic_Ocean_crossed_without_icebreaker%29

content:
<p>
The Arctic Ocean has warmed so much that a ship was able to cross it
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/oct/26/weatherwatch-arctic-warming-northwest-passage-siberia">from
the Atlantic to the Pacific without an icebreaker</a>.
<p>
If this were the only effect of global heating, it would be great.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 28_October_2014_(Male_rage)
title: Male rage
uri: Male-rage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#28_October_2014_%28Male_rage%29
content:
<p>
Male rage 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/27/why-are-some-men-so-angry">threatens
women and men</a>.  Why are some men so angry?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Mobile_phones_and_billboards)
title: Mobile phones and billboards
uri: Mobile-phones-and-billboards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Mobile_phones_and_billboards%29
content:
<p>
A mobile phone company sells data about the people in the vicinity of
billboards —
<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/mobile-wireless/3524360/ee-gives-mobile-user-data-to-ad-agency-to-improve-outdoor-advertising-results/">personal
characteristics and what they are doing at the time</a>.
<p>
It plans to go even further and inform the billboard company about the
interests of people who are approaching.  This way, even the
billboards will know you're a
<a href="https://stallman.org/comics.html#dog">dog</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Demonization_of_Gary_Webb)
title: Demonization of Gary Webb
uri: Demonization-of-Gary-Webb
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Demonization_of_Gary_Webb%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/27/myth-free-press">demonization
of Gary Webb and the denunciation of his report about CIA drug
smuggling</a> shows how much the US mainstream media are under the
control of the power structure.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(US_hospitals_invent_new_fees)
title: US hospitals invent new fees
uri: US-hospitals-invent-new-fees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28US_hospitals_invent_new_fees%29
content:
<p>
US hospitals and clinics
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/27/us-profit-health-care-industry-always-innovating-new-ways-steal-your-money">invent
new fees</a> to defeat attempts to limit costs.  Often these new fees
are not covered by insurance, leaving patients broke.


title: Verizon tracking info in HTTP requests
uri: Verizon-tracking-info-in-HTTP-requests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Verizon_tracking_info_in_HTTP_requests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Verizon_tracking_info_in_HTTP_requests%29

content:
<p>
Verizon sabotages its customers by
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/verizons-perma-cookie/">inserting
tracking info into their HTTP requests</a> so web sites can track
them.


title: Punishing people for voluntary sex
uri: Punishing-people-for-voluntary-sex
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Punishing_people_for_voluntary_sex)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Punishing_people_for_voluntary_sex%29

content:
<p>
Malaysia's main opposition leader has started an appeal against a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/anwar-ibrahim-begins-appeal-against-sodomy-conviction">criminal
conviction for "sodomy"</a>.
<p>
Whatever the details, they don't matter ethically.  It is wrong to
punish people for voluntary sex.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Feminism_lite)
title: "Feminism lite"
uri: Feminism-lite
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Feminism_lite%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/28/feminism-lite-is-letting-down-the-women-who-need-it-the-most">'Feminism
Lite' Is Letting Down the Women Who Need It the Most</a>.


title: Thugs to prevent protest against G20
uri: Thugs-to-prevent-protest-against-G20
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Thugs_to_prevent_protest_against_G20)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Thugs_to_prevent_protest_against_G20%29

content:
<p>
Australian thugs have been given
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/ordinary-citizens-at-risk-of-mass-arrests-during-g20-says-civil-liberties-group">special
powers to prevent protests</a> against the G20 meeting in Brisbane.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Thank_the_troops_PR_campaign)
title: "Thank the troops" PR campaign
uri: Thank-the-troops-PR-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Thank_the_troops_PR_campaign%29
content:
<p>
What is the meaning of the PR campaign in the US to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/27/why-do-we-keep-thanking-troops">"thank
the troops"</a>?
<p>
The article contains links to amazon.com;
<a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">please don't buy any books
that way</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(A_call_on_Obama_to_end_US_torture)
title: A call on Obama to end US torture
uri: A-call-on-Obama-to-end-US-torture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28A_call_on_Obama_to_end_US_torture%29

content:
<p>
Nobel Peace Prize winners call on Obama to clearly
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/27/fellow-nobel-peace-laureates-obama-stain-us-torture-your-job-repair">end
US torture with full disclosure of past torture practices, and an end
to imprisonment without trial</a>.
<p>
I think this is too forgiving.  Those who performed torture, and
especially those who ordered it, must be prosecuted.


title: Israeli troops plan to demolish the school of Samra
uri: Israeli-troops-plan-to-demolish-the-school-of-Samra
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(Israeli_troops_plan_to_demolish_the_school_of_Samra)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28Israeli_troops_plan_to_demolish_the_school_of_Samra%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
troops <a href="http://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/index.php/news-2/news2014/766-samra-popular-school-threatened-with-demolition#action">plan
to demolish the school of Samra</a>, built by the inhabitants.
<p>
This is part of the bit-by-bit ethnic cleansing plan for that region.


title: More apartments for Israelis in Palestinian territory
uri: More-apartments-for-Israelis-in-Palestinian-territory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(More_apartments_for_Israelis_in_Palestinian_territory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28More_apartments_for_Israelis_in_Palestinian_territory%29

content:
<p>
Netanyahu <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/69533">ordered
construction of 1000 more apartments for Israelis in Palestinian
territory</a> annexed to East Jerusalem.
<p>
A major Israeli construction
company <a href="http://972mag.com/major-israeli-construction-company-pulls-out-of-settlement-industry/98089/">will
stop building Israeli colonies in the West Bank due to international
boycott pressure</a>.


title: Urgent: Do not bring back Bush's policy on torture
uri: Urgent-Do-not-bring-back-Bush-s-policy-on-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(Urgent:_Do_not_bring_back_Bush's_policy_on_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_bring_back_Bush%27s_policy_on_torture%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on
Obama <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/StopTorture">not to
bring back Bush's policy on torture</a>.


title: Segregation of Palestinians on commuter buses
uri: Segregation-of-Palestinians-on-commuter-buses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(Segregation_of_Palestinians_on_commuter_buses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28Segregation_of_Palestinians_on_commuter_buses%29

content:
<p>
Israel has
imposed <a href="http://972mag.com/segregating-the-evening-commute-to-the-west-bank/98041/">segregation
of Palestinians on commuter buses</a> in an indirect deniable way.


title: First time olive harvest in 14 years
uri: First-time-olive-harvest-in-14-years
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(First_time_olive_harvest_in_14_years)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28First_time_olive_harvest_in_14_years%29

content:
<p>
For the first time in 14
years, <a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2014/10/palestinian-man-successfully-harvests-olives-for-the-first-time-in-14-years/">Hashem
Azzeh has been able to harvest his olives</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(Tracking_Snail_Mail)
title: Tracking Snail Mail
uri: Tracking-Snail-Mail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28Tracking_Snail_Mail%29
content:
<p>
The U.S. Government Is Suddenly Way,
Way <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=7507">More
Interested In Tracking Snail Mail</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(Mass_Hysteria_about_Ebola)
title: Mass Hysteria about Ebola
uri: Mass-Hysteria-about-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28Mass_Hysteria_about_Ebola%29
content:
<p>
How Mass Hysteria about Ebola
Is <a href="http://www.bordc.org/blog/how-mass-hysteria-about-ebola-violating-our-rights">Violating
Our Rights</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(US_Sues_AT%26T)
title: US Sues AT&T
uri: US-Sues-AT-T
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28US_Sues_AT%2526T%29
content:
<p>
US Sues AT&T,
Alleges <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/us-sues-att-alleges-severe-throttling-of-unlimited-data-customers/">Severe
Throttling of "Unlimited Data" Customers</a>.


title: FBI Creates Fake Seattle Times Page
uri: FBI-Creates-Fake-Seattle-Times-Page
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(FBI_Creates_Fake_Seattle_Times_Page)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28FBI_Creates_Fake_Seattle_Times_Page%29

content:
<p>
Newspaper Outraged
After <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/newspaper-outraged-as-fbi-creates-fake-seattle-times-page-to-nab-suspect/">FBI
Creates Fake Seattle Times Page to Nab Suspect</a>
<p>
The US government keeps using impersonations to catch people, without
considering the harm this will do.  It had someone run an unauthorized
vaccination program to find Osama bin Laden, and the resulting
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#07_September_2012_%28Pakistan_punishes_Save_the_Children%29">resentment
is stopping us from eliminating polio</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(GMOs)
title: GMOs
uri: GMOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28GMOs%29
content:
<p>
GMOs
<a href="https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/genetically-modified-organisms-risk-global-ruin-says-black-swan-author-e8836fa7d78">require
applying the precautionary principle</a> because if GMOs do harm, it
can be a spreading global harm.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Blocking_Americans_from_voting)
title: Blocking Americans from voting
uri: Blocking-Americans-from-voting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Blocking_Americans_from_voting%29

content:
<p>
US Republicans are
<a href="http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/index.html">secretly
planning to deny millions of Americans the right to vote</a> based on
dubious claims that they are registered in two states.
<p>
The trick is to compile the list carelessly so that it includes lots
of people with similar names.  Then they can deny all these people the
right to vote without really investigating far enough to determine
that they are not guilty.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Early_stages_of_global_heating)
title: Early stages of global heating
uri: Early-stages-of-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Early_stages_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
The early stages of global heating:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2014/oct/29/diet-climate-maple-syrup-coffee-global-warming">less
maple syrup, fewer cherries … chocolate too expensive</a>.
<p>
Corn production is dropping as a permanent thing, but occasionally
there is a wheat harvest failure due to extreme weather.  This will
get more frequent too; in 30 years it may happen all the time.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Nurse_Kaci_Hickox)
title: Nurse Kaci Hickox
uri: Nurse-Kaci-Hickox
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Nurse_Kaci_Hickox%29
content:
<p>
Nurse Kaci Hickox, who does not have an Ebola infection as far as
medicine can tell, says she
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/maine-nurse-defiant-maine-ebola-quarantine">will
sue if the state of Maine tries to impose a quarantine on her</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Six_Arab_countries_join_PISSI)
title: Six Arab countries join PISSI
uri: Six-Arab-countries-join-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Six_Arab_countries_join_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Six Arab countries join PISSI in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/28/arab-states-share-isis-ideology-islam">endorsing
the execution of anyone that ceases to be a Muslim</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Venezuelas_thugs)
title: Venezuela's thugs
uri: Venezuela-s-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Venezuelas_thugs%29
content:
<p>
President Maduro
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/venezuela-president-to-revamp-police-force">promises
to reform the country's thugs</a> after some were accused of killing a
politician.
<p>
The head of a Venezuelan government agency told me a decade ago that
the thugs made a practice of arresting people on false charges to get
ransom, and even heads of agencies were not safe.
<p>
Chavez did not cause this — it was happening before he became
president.  He did not, however, take strong action to stop it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Extreme_pornography_law)
title: "Extreme pornography" law
uri: Extreme-pornography-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Extreme_pornography_law%29
content:
<p>
A man who was
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/six-months-on-bail--for-being-sent-spoof-video-of-a-tiger-having-sex-that-was-really-a-man-in-a-tiger-suit-9819776.html">jailed
and almost convicted of "possession of extreme pornography"</a> (a
video he had failed to delete fully) is campaigning to change that
law.
<p>
This "extreme pornography" law needs to be repealed, not just
reformed.  Various kinds of animals, including cats, dogs, gorillas,
and dolphins, sometimes enjoy and even ask for sexual activities with
humans.  To prohibit the act, or images of it, is sheer authoritarian
prudery.  Necrophilia can't hurt the person who died (nothing can), so
there is no reason to prohibit the act, let alone images of it.
<p>
However, the fundamental point is that prohibiting the possession
of a copy of something — no matter what it is — is tyranny
and puts everyone in danger.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Oil_from_the_Big_Spill)
title: Oil from the Big Spill
uri: Oil-from-the-Big-Spill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Oil_from_the_Big_Spill%29
content:
<p>
Between 1 and 12 percent of the oil from the Big Spill is 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/10/bp-deepwater-horizon-study-oil-ocean-floor">lying
at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico</a>.
<p>
Where the rest is, nobody knows.  But the oil on the bottom will be
toxic for sea-bottom life as long as it remains there.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Control_of_US_judicial_elections)
title: Control of US judicial elections
uri: Control-of-US-judicial-elections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Control_of_US_judicial_elections%29

content:
<p>
State judges in many US states are elected, and wealthy political
interests are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/judicial-elections-citizens-united-karl-rove">spending
money to control the elections</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Empathy_Deficit_Disorder)
title: Empathy Deficit Disorder
uri: Empathy-Deficit-Disorder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Empathy_Deficit_Disorder%29
content:
<p>
Many Republican officials (and some Democrats) suffer from 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/28/empathy-deficit-disorder">Empathy
Deficit Disorder</a>.


title: Weak reform proposed for banksters
uri: Weak-reform-proposed-for-banksters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Weak_reform_proposed_for_banksters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Weak_reform_proposed_for_banksters%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/28/london-whale-sized-loopholes-wall-street-pay-reform">US
proposal to stop incentivizing banksters</a> to take dangerous risks
is so weak it is laughable.


title: 150 peshmerga allowed across Turkey
uri: 150-peshmerga-allowed-across-Turkey
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(150_peshmerga_allowed_across_Turkey)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28150_peshmerga_allowed_across_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
Turkey has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/iraq-kurdish-fighters-fly-turkey-kobani-peshmerga-syria-isis">allowed
150 peshmerga</a> to cross to defend Kobani.
<p>
How can that number be enough?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Military_trials_for_protesters)
title: Military trials for protesters
uri: Military-trials-for-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Military_trials_for_protesters%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/egypt-civilian-infrastructure-army-jurisdiction-miltary-court">Al-Sisi
decreed</a> that protesters (or anyone accused of any offense on a
public street) can be given military trials.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Ban_on_abortion_pills_in_Ireland)
title: Ban on abortion pills in Ireland
uri: Ban-on-abortion-pills-in-Ireland
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Ban_on_abortion_pills_in_Ireland%29

content:
<p>
Irish politicians 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/irish-politician-abortion-pill-dublin-republic-socialist-td-ruth-coppinger-pro-choice-activists-mari">will
take abortion pills to protest the ban</a> on using them in Ireland.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Dictatorship_in_Eritrea)
title: Dictatorship in Eritrea
uri: Dictatorship-in-Eritrea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Dictatorship_in_Eritrea%29
content:
<p>
Dissidents in Eritrea, penetrating a curtain of repression and
censorship, say that the shortages resemble North Korea, except that
the regime is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/oct/28/eritrean-resistance-pressure-isais-afewerki">kept
in power by Ethiopians personally loyal to the dictator</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Secret_searches_in_the_US)
title: Secret searches in the US
uri: Secret-searches-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Secret_searches_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Dubya got a law to permit secret searches claiming this was needed to
stop "terrorism".  The US has used this power 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/peekaboo-i-see-you-government-uses-authority-meant-terrorism-other-uses">51
times in investigations of "terrorism", and 11,000 times for other
purposes</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Big_data)
title: "Big data"
uri: Big-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Big_data%29
content:
<p>
How to stop companies from 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-racial-justice/ftc-needs-make-sure-companies-arent-using-big-data-discri">using
"big data" to disguise racial bias through use of algorithms</a>.


title: Use of first-person singular pronouns
uri: Use-of-first-person-singular-pronouns
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Use_of_first-person_singular_pronouns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Use_of_first-person_singular_pronouns%29

content:
<p>
A psychological study found 
<a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=15355">no correlation
between frequent use of first-person singular pronouns and actual
narcissism</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(Funding_for_Australias_coal_port)
title: Funding for Australia's coal port
uri: Funding-for-Australia-s-coal-port
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28Funding_for_Australias_coal_port%29

content:
<p>
Big US banks have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/28/us-banks-vow-not-to-fund-great-barrier-reef-coal-port-say-activists">refused
to fund</a> Australia's big new coal port.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(US_Supreme_Court)
title: US Supreme Court
uri: US-Supreme-Court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28US_Supreme_Court%29
content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court 
<a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/hollow_justice_and_courts_of_order_in_an_age_of_government_sanctioned_tyran">repeatedly
decides to give thugs more power and citizens fewer rights</a>.


title: American tried in secret court in Yemen
uri: American-tried-in-secret-court-in-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 29_October_2014_(American_tried_in_secret_court_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#29_October_2014_%28American_tried_in_secret_court_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
It appears Sharif Mobley was put on trial in a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/27/un-questions-us-and-yemen-over-disappeared-american">secret
court set up by Yemen in subservience to the US</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(Ethics_of_various_candy_brands)
title: Ethics of various candy brands
uri: Ethics-of-various-candy-brands
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28Ethics_of_various_candy_brands%29

content:
<p>
On
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/10/12642/tricky-treats">the
ethics</a> of various brands of candy available in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(US_officials_despise_Netanyahu)
title: US officials despise Netanyahu
uri: US-officials-despise-Netanyahu
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28US_officials_despise_Netanyahu%29

content:
<p>
High US officials despise Netanyahu, and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/binyamin-netanyahu-a-chickenshit-say-us-officials-in-explosive-interview">say
so anonymously</a>.
<p>
If they start saying this overtly, the US
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/the-crisis-in-us-israel-relations-is-officially-here/382031/?single_page=true">might
do what's necessary for peace</a>: to make Israel reverse its
land-and-water-grab in Palestinian territory.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(Coverage_of_Hong_Kong_protests)
title: Coverage of Hong Kong protests
uri: Coverage-of-Hong-Kong-protests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28Coverage_of_Hong_Kong_protests%29

content:
<p>
The coverage of the Hong Kong protests is teaching the young people of
Hong Kong that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/hong-kong-protests-confidence-media">the
mainstream press is an instrument of the Chinese state</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(Iranian_journalists_arrested)
title: Iranian journalists arrested
uri: Iranian-journalists-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28Iranian_journalists_arrested%29
content:
<p>
In Iran,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/oct/28/iranian-journalists-detained-reporting-acid-attacks">even
reporting crimes can get journalists arrested</a> if it embarrasses
the state.


title: Money spent by thugs to fight protesters
uri: Money-spent-by-thugs-to-fight-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(Money_spent_by_thugs_to_fight_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28Money_spent_by_thugs_to_fight_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in the St Louis area have spent
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/28/ferguson-police-spending-thousands-riot-gear-protests">over
$172,000</a> on equipment to fight protesters.
<p>
How about spending that much on ending racist practices?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(The_Making_of_the_Warrior_Cop)
title: The Making of the Warrior Cop
uri: The-Making-of-the-Warrior-Cop
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28The_Making_of_the_Warrior_Cop%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/swat-warrior-cops-police-militarization-urban-shield">The
Making of the Warrior Cop</a>.


title: GCHQ collects data without warrant
uri: GCHQ-collects-data-without-warrant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(GCHQ_collects_data_without_warrant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28GCHQ_collects_data_without_warrant%29

content:
<p>
The UK admits that GCHQ collects data without a warrant, effectively
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/29/gchq-nsa-data-surveillance">whenever
it wants to</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 30_October_2014_(Urgent:_Network_neutrality)
title: Urgent: Network neutrality
uri: 2014-10-31-Urgent-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#30_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/googlesupportnn/">Call on
Google</a> to stand for network neutrality.


title: US oil and gas extraction forecasts
uri: US-oil-and-gas-extraction-forecasts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(US_oil_and_gas_extraction_forecasts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28US_oil_and_gas_extraction_forecasts%29

content:
<p>
Forecasts of a high rate of US oil and gas extraction turn out to be
based on oil company figures that were designed to attract investors.
The real potential is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/28/revolution-wasnt-why-fracking-phenomenon-will-leave-us-high-and-dry">much
less</a>.
<p>
If the worst problem we faced was that oil and gas might become
expensive, this would be bad news.  However, this is good news since
it will encourage investment in renewable energy and energy
efficiency.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(Arctic_plunder_by_Shell)
title: Arctic plunder by Shell
uri: Arctic-plunder-by-Shell
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28Arctic_plunder_by_Shell%29
content:
<p>
Shell 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/28/shell-wants-five-more-years-carry-out-arctic-plunder">asked
the US for a 5 year extension</a> in trying to do dangerous underwater
oil drilling in the Arctic.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(Increase_in_child_poverty)
title: Increase in child poverty
uri: Increase-in-child-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28Increase_in_child_poverty%29
content:
<p>
Child poverty has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/28/generation-cast-aside-child-poverty-rise-worlds-richest-countries">increased
in many of the world's wealthiest countries</a>.
<p>
That's directly due to plutocratic policies of transferring income to
the wealthiest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(Australias_thugs)
title: Australia's thugs
uri: Australia-s-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28Australias_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Australia has created 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/30/g20-police-from-outside-queensland-will-be-exempt-from-local-investigations">special
obstacles to investigating violence by thugs</a> against protesters or
bystanders outside the G20 meeting.
<p>
Since thugs enjoy near impunity to start with, this means they will be
allowed to wreak havoc and repression.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(Punitive_drug_laws)
title: Punitive drug laws
uri: Punitive-drug-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28Punitive_drug_laws%29
content:
<p>
An official UK study finds that punitive drug laws 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/30/punitive-drug-laws-are-failing-study">don't
even succeed in reducing the use of the prohibited drugs</a>.
<p>
They do, however, succeed in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#13_July_2012_(US_citizens_barred_from_voting)">ruining
lots of people's lives</a>; in the US mostly people from the minority
groups that thugs seek excuses to arrest.


title: Hungary's distorted election system
uri: Hungary-s-distorted-election-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(Hungarys_distorted_election_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28Hungarys_distorted_election_system%29

content:
<p>
The Hungarian regime has hollowed out democracy by setting up a
distorted election system, but has avoided measures that would make a
lot of people angry 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/budapest-viktor-orban-democracy-edge-hungary">until
just now</a>.


title: FBI wants power to break in computers
uri: FBI-wants-power-to-break-in-computers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(FBI_wants_power_to_break_in_computers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28FBI_wants_power_to_break_in_computers%29

content:
<p>
The FBI is trying very quietly to get the power to break the security
of computers in the US and elsewhere, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/29/fbi-powers-hacking-computers-surveillance">essentially
unsupervised</a>.
<p>
Once a judge authorizes some investigation, the FBI would be allowed
to break into any and all computers in the world as part of that
investigation, and would be left entirely on its own in choosing those
targets.
<p>
The FBI 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/29/fbi-hacking-press-internet-users">subverts
various web sites to attack their visitors</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(UK_nuclear_fuel_storage_ponds)
title: UK nuclear fuel storage ponds
uri: UK-nuclear-fuel-storage-ponds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28UK_nuclear_fuel_storage_ponds%29
content:
<p>
UK nuclear fuel storage ponds are an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/29/sellafield-nuclear-radioactive-risk-storage-ponds-fears">accident
waiting to happen</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(BBC_excludes_Green_Party)
title: BBC excludes Green Party
uri: BBC-excludes-Green-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28BBC_excludes_Green_Party%29
content:
<p>
The BBC found an excuse to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/29/bbc-refuses-include-green-party-televised-leader-debates-general-election">exclude
the Green Party from election debates</a>.  Not right wing enough,
apparently.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(Illegal_fishing_of_swordfish)
title: Illegal fishing of swordfish
uri: Illegal-fishing-of-swordfish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28Illegal_fishing_of_swordfish%29
content:
<p>
Italy's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/29/illegal-med-fishing-claims-up-to-two-tons-of-swordfish-per-boat-per-day">failure
to stop illegal fishing of swordfish</a> could wipe them out in the
Mediterranean in three years.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(Reelection_of_Rousseff)
title: Reelection of Rousseff
uri: Reelection-of-Rousseff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28Reelection_of_Rousseff%29
content:
<p>
Brazilians talk about the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/obligatory-voting-socialism-corruption-brazilians-tell-us-what-they-think-about-rouseffs-re-election">reelection
of President Rousseff</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html 31_October_2014_(The_freedom_to_offend)
title: The freedom to offend
uri: The-freedom-to-offend
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_%28The_freedom_to_offend%29
content:
<p>
The publisher of a poster showing two 19th century men kissing was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/kazakhstan-pushkin-gay-kiss-poster">ordered
to pay damages to people who found the idea offensive</a>.
<p>
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend, so this decision is
illegitimate censorship.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Overuse_of_antibiotics)
title: Overuse of antibiotics
uri: Overuse-of-antibiotics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Overuse_of_antibiotics%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/10/29/3585884/antibiotics-doctors-survey/">97%
of US doctors are concerned</a> about the danger of overuse of
antibiotics.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(School-to-prison_pipeline)
title: School-to-prison pipeline
uri: 2014-11-01-School-to-prison-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28School-to-prison_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
The school-to-prison pipeline in Minneapolis starts with
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/30/3586105/if-youre-a-black-kid-in-minneapolis-youre-16-times-more-likely-to-be-arrested-for-these-offenses/">arresting
black children for "truancy", "disorderly conduct" or
homelessness</a>.


title: Imprisoned for "disturbing" a soldier
uri: Imprisoned-for-disturbing-a-soldier
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Imprisoned_for_disturbing_a_soldier)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Imprisoned_for_disturbing_a_soldier%29

content:
<p>
Palestinian nonviolent protester has been
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=66538">imprisoned
for "disturbing an Israeli soldier"</a>.
<p>
Using such pretexts to imprison protesters is a sign of tyranny.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Records_of_phone_calls)
title: Records of phone calls
uri: Records-of-phone-calls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Records_of_phone_calls%29
content:
<p>
Australia's government wants to record all phone calls
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/30/metadata-retention-what-will-happen-to-your-phone-and-web-records-now">in
a data base it could search without restriction</a>.
<p>
This would directly threaten all whistleblowers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(US_rushing_to_approve_GM_salmon)
title: US rushing to approve GM salmon
uri: US-rushing-to-approve-GM-salmon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28US_rushing_to_approve_GM_salmon%29

content:
<p>
The US is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/29/panama-regulators-could-slow-us-approval-of-gm-salmon">rushing
to approve genetically modified salmon</a>, while Panama has fined the
operator of the salmon hatchery they would come from.
<p>
These salmon threaten to contaminate wild salmon with the artificially
introduced gene, which
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2010-sep-dec.html#21%20November%202010%20(FWS%20on%20GM%20salmon)">could
wipe out wild salmon stocks</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Verizon_funds_censored_news_site)
title: Verizon funds censored news site
uri: Verizon-funds-censored-news-site
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Verizon_funds_censored_news_site%29

content:
<p>
Verizon is funding an
<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/politics/verizon-sugarstring-us-surveillance-net-neutrality/">explicitly
censored technology news site</a> which has a commitment not to
discuss network neutrality or massive surveillance.
<p>
Many mainstream media hush up or mistreat these issues.  What is
amazing is to admit it.


title: Costs imposed by UK state schools
uri: Costs-imposed-by-UK-state-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Costs_imposed_by_UK_state_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Costs_imposed_by_UK_state_schools%29

content:
<p>
UK state schools, which are supposed to be gratis, impose
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/oct/29/hidden-costs-of-state-schools-causing-hardship-for-millions-says-report">large
costs that poor families can't pay</a>.  The biggest cost is the
uniform.


title: Harassment of journalists entering the US
uri: Harassment-of-journalists-entering-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Harassment_of_journalists_entering_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Harassment_of_journalists_entering_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The US harasses many journalists entering the US, in some cases
<a href="https://cpj.org/blog/2014/10/for-journalists-coming-into-us-policies-that-borde.php">just
to make their lives difficult</a>.


title: US oil and gas extraction forecasts
uri: 2014-11-01-US-oil-and-gas-extraction-forecasts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 31_October_2014_(US_oil_and_gas_extraction_forecasts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#31_October_2014_%28US_oil_and_gas_extraction_forecasts%29

content:
<p>
Forecasts of a high rate of US oil and gas extraction turn out to be
based on oil company figures that were designed to attract investors.
The real potential is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/28/revolution-wasnt-why-fracking-phenomenon-will-leave-us-high-and-dry">much
less</a>.
<p>
If the worst problem we faced was that oil and gas might become
expensive, this would be bad news.  However, this is good news since
it will encourage investment in renewable energy and energy
efficiency.


title: Hungary's distorted election system
uri: 2014-11-01-Hungary-s-distorted-election-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 31_October_2014_(Hungarys_distorted_election_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#31_October_2014_%28Hungarys_distorted_election_system%29

content:
<p>
The Hungarian regime has hollowed out democracy by setting up a
distorted election system, but has avoided measures that would make a
lot of people angry 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/budapest-viktor-orban-democracy-edge-hungary">until
just now</a>.


title: FBI wants power to break in computers
uri: 2014-11-01-FBI-wants-power-to-break-in-computers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 31_October_2014_(FBI_wants_power_to_break_in_computers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#31_October_2014_%28FBI_wants_power_to_break_in_computers%29

content:
<p>
The FBI is trying very quietly to get the power to break the security
of computers in the US and elsewhere, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/29/fbi-powers-hacking-computers-surveillance">essentially
unsupervised</a>.
<p>
Once a judge authorizes some investigation, the FBI would be allowed
to break into any and all computers in the world as part of that
investigation, and would be left entirely on its own in choosing those
targets.
<p>
The FBI 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/29/fbi-hacking-press-internet-users">subverts
various web sites to attack their visitors</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(Ethics_of_various_candy_brands)
title: Ethics of various candy brands
uri: 2014-11-01-Ethics-of-various-candy-brands
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28Ethics_of_various_candy_brands%29

content:
<p>
On
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/10/12642/tricky-treats">the
ethics</a> of various brands of candy available in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(US_officials_despise_Netanyahu)
title: US officials despise Netanyahu
uri: 2014-11-01-US-officials-despise-Netanyahu
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28US_officials_despise_Netanyahu%29

content:
<p>
High US officials despise Netanyahu, and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/binyamin-netanyahu-a-chickenshit-say-us-officials-in-explosive-interview">say
so anonymously</a>.
<p>
If they start saying this overtly, the US
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/the-crisis-in-us-israel-relations-is-officially-here/382031/?single_page=true">might
do what's necessary for peace</a>: to make Israel reverse its
land-and-water-grab in Palestinian territory.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(Coverage_of_Hong_Kong_protests)
title: Coverage of Hong Kong protests
uri: 2014-11-01-Coverage-of-Hong-Kong-protests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28Coverage_of_Hong_Kong_protests%29

content:
<p>
The coverage of the Hong Kong protests is teaching the young people of
Hong Kong that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/hong-kong-protests-confidence-media">the
mainstream press is an instrument of the Chinese state</a>.


title: Money spent by thugs to fight protesters
uri: 2014-11-01-Money-spent-by-thugs-to-fight-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(Money_spent_by_thugs_to_fight_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28Money_spent_by_thugs_to_fight_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in the St Louis area have spent
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/28/ferguson-police-spending-thousands-riot-gear-protests">over
$172,000</a> on equipment to fight protesters.
<p>
How about spending that much on ending racist practices?


title: GCHQ collects data without warrant
uri: 2014-11-01-GCHQ-collects-data-without-warrant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(GCHQ_collects_data_without_warrant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28GCHQ_collects_data_without_warrant%29

content:
<p>
The UK admits that GCHQ collects data without a warrant, effectively
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/29/gchq-nsa-data-surveillance">whenever
it wants to</a>.


title: Israeli troops plan to demolish the school of Samra
uri: 2014-11-01-Israeli-troops-plan-to-demolish-the-school-of-Samra
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(Israeli_troops_plan_to_demolish_the_school_of_Samra)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28Israeli_troops_plan_to_demolish_the_school_of_Samra%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
troops <a href="http://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/index.php/news-2/news2014/766-samra-popular-school-threatened-with-demolition#action">plan
to demolish the school of Samra</a>, built by the inhabitants.
<p>
This is part of the bit-by-bit ethnic cleansing plan for that region.


title: More apartments for Israelis in Palestinian territory
uri: 2014-11-01-More-apartments-for-Israelis-in-Palestinian-territory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(More_apartments_for_Israelis_in_Palestinian_territory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28More_apartments_for_Israelis_in_Palestinian_territory%29

content:
<p>
Netanyahu <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/69533">ordered
construction of 1000 more apartments for Israelis in Palestinian
territory</a> annexed to East Jerusalem.
<p>
A major Israeli construction
company <a href="http://972mag.com/major-israeli-construction-company-pulls-out-of-settlement-industry/98089/">will
stop building Israeli colonies in the West Bank due to international
boycott pressure</a>.


title: Urgent: Do not bring back Bush's policy on torture
uri: 2014-11-01-Urgent-Do-not-bring-back-Bush-s-policy-on-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(Urgent:_Do_not_bring_back_Bush's_policy_on_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_bring_back_Bush%27s_policy_on_torture%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on
Obama <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/StopTorture">not to
bring back Bush's policy on torture</a>.


title: Segregation of Palestinians on commuter buses
uri: 2014-11-01-Segregation-of-Palestinians-on-commuter-buses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(Segregation_of_Palestinians_on_commuter_buses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28Segregation_of_Palestinians_on_commuter_buses%29

content:
<p>
Israel has
imposed <a href="http://972mag.com/segregating-the-evening-commute-to-the-west-bank/98041/">segregation
of Palestinians on commuter buses</a> in an indirect deniable way.


title: First time olive harvest in 14 years
uri: 2014-11-01-First-time-olive-harvest-in-14-years
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(First_time_olive_harvest_in_14_years)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28First_time_olive_harvest_in_14_years%29

content:
<p>
For the first time in 14
years, <a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2014/10/palestinian-man-successfully-harvests-olives-for-the-first-time-in-14-years/">Hashem
Azzeh has been able to harvest his olives</a>.


title: FBI Creates Fake Seattle Times Page
uri: 2014-11-01-FBI-Creates-Fake-Seattle-Times-Page
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 30_October_2014_(FBI_Creates_Fake_Seattle_Times_Page)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#30_October_2014_%28FBI_Creates_Fake_Seattle_Times_Page%29

content:
<p>
Newspaper Outraged
After <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/newspaper-outraged-as-fbi-creates-fake-seattle-times-page-to-nab-suspect/">FBI
Creates Fake Seattle Times Page to Nab Suspect</a>
<p>
The US government keeps using impersonations to catch people, without
considering the harm this will do.  It had someone run an unauthorized
vaccination program to find Osama bin Laden, and the resulting
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#07_September_2012_%28Pakistan_punishes_Save_the_Children%29">resentment
is stopping us from eliminating polio</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Blocking_Americans_from_voting)
title: Blocking Americans from voting
uri: 2014-11-01-Blocking-Americans-from-voting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Blocking_Americans_from_voting%29

content:
<p>
US Republicans are
<a href="http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/index.html">secretly
planning to deny millions of Americans the right to vote</a> based on
dubious claims that they are registered in two states.
<p>
The trick is to compile the list carelessly so that it includes lots
of people with similar names.  Then they can deny all these people the
right to vote without really investigating far enough to determine
that they are not guilty.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Early_stages_of_global_heating)
title: Early stages of global heating
uri: 2014-11-01-Early-stages-of-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Early_stages_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
The early stages of global heating:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2014/oct/29/diet-climate-maple-syrup-coffee-global-warming">less
maple syrup, fewer cherries … chocolate too expensive</a>.
<p>
Corn production is dropping as a permanent thing, but occasionally
there is a wheat harvest failure due to extreme weather.  This will
get more frequent too; in 30 years it may happen all the time.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Control_of_US_judicial_elections)
title: Control of US judicial elections
uri: 2014-11-01-Control-of-US-judicial-elections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Control_of_US_judicial_elections%29

content:
<p>
State judges in many US states are elected, and wealthy political
interests are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/judicial-elections-citizens-united-karl-rove">spending
money to control the elections</a>.


title: Weak reform proposed for banksters
uri: 2014-11-01-Weak-reform-proposed-for-banksters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Weak_reform_proposed_for_banksters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Weak_reform_proposed_for_banksters%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/28/london-whale-sized-loopholes-wall-street-pay-reform">US
proposal to stop incentivizing banksters</a> to take dangerous risks
is so weak it is laughable.


title: 150 peshmerga allowed across Turkey
uri: 2014-11-01-150-peshmerga-allowed-across-Turkey
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(150_peshmerga_allowed_across_Turkey)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28150_peshmerga_allowed_across_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
Turkey has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/iraq-kurdish-fighters-fly-turkey-kobani-peshmerga-syria-isis">allowed
150 peshmerga</a> to cross to defend Kobani.
<p>
How can that number be enough?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Military_trials_for_protesters)
title: Military trials for protesters
uri: 2014-11-01-Military-trials-for-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Military_trials_for_protesters%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/egypt-civilian-infrastructure-army-jurisdiction-miltary-court">Al-Sisi
decreed</a> that protesters (or anyone accused of any offense on a
public street) can be given military trials.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Ban_on_abortion_pills_in_Ireland)
title: Ban on abortion pills in Ireland
uri: 2014-11-01-Ban-on-abortion-pills-in-Ireland
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Ban_on_abortion_pills_in_Ireland%29

content:
<p>
Irish politicians 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/irish-politician-abortion-pill-dublin-republic-socialist-td-ruth-coppinger-pro-choice-activists-mari">will
take abortion pills to protest the ban</a> on using them in Ireland.


title: Use of first-person singular pronouns
uri: 2014-11-01-Use-of-first-person-singular-pronouns
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Use_of_first-person_singular_pronouns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Use_of_first-person_singular_pronouns%29

content:
<p>
A psychological study found 
<a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=15355">no correlation
between frequent use of first-person singular pronouns and actual
narcissism</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Funding_for_Australias_coal_port)
title: Funding for Australia's coal port
uri: 2014-11-01-Funding-for-Australia-s-coal-port
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Funding_for_Australias_coal_port%29

content:
<p>
Big US banks have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/28/us-banks-vow-not-to-fund-great-barrier-reef-coal-port-say-activists">refused
to fund</a> Australia's big new coal port.


title: American tried in secret court in Yemen
uri: 2014-11-01-American-tried-in-secret-court-in-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(American_tried_in_secret_court_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28American_tried_in_secret_court_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
It appears Sharif Mobley was put on trial in a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/27/un-questions-us-and-yemen-over-disappeared-american">secret
court set up by Yemen in subservience to the US</a>.


title: Verizon tracking info in HTTP requests
uri: 2014-11-01-Verizon-tracking-info-in-HTTP-requests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Verizon_tracking_info_in_HTTP_requests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Verizon_tracking_info_in_HTTP_requests%29

content:
<p>
Verizon sabotages its customers by
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/verizons-perma-cookie/">inserting
tracking info into their HTTP requests</a> so web sites can track
them.


title: Punishing people for voluntary sex
uri: 2014-11-01-Punishing-people-for-voluntary-sex
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Punishing_people_for_voluntary_sex)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Punishing_people_for_voluntary_sex%29

content:
<p>
Malaysia's main opposition leader has started an appeal against a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/anwar-ibrahim-begins-appeal-against-sodomy-conviction">criminal
conviction for "sodomy"</a>.
<p>
Whatever the details, they don't matter ethically.  It is wrong to
punish people for voluntary sex.


title: Thugs to prevent protest against G20
uri: 2014-11-01-Thugs-to-prevent-protest-against-G20
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(Thugs_to_prevent_protest_against_G20)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28Thugs_to_prevent_protest_against_G20%29

content:
<p>
Australian thugs have been given
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/ordinary-citizens-at-risk-of-mass-arrests-during-g20-says-civil-liberties-group">special
powers to prevent protests</a> against the G20 meeting in Brisbane.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 29_October_2014_(A_call_on_Obama_to_end_US_torture)
title: A call on Obama to end US torture
uri: 2014-11-01-A-call-on-Obama-to-end-US-torture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_%28A_call_on_Obama_to_end_US_torture%29

content:
<p>
Nobel Peace Prize winners call on Obama to clearly
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/27/fellow-nobel-peace-laureates-obama-stain-us-torture-your-job-repair">end
US torture with full disclosure of past torture practices, and an end
to imprisonment without trial</a>.
<p>
I think this is too forgiving.  Those who performed torture, and
especially those who ordered it, must be prosecuted.


title: Top-level Spanish politicians arrested
uri: 2014-11-01-Top-level-Spanish-politicians-arrested
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_October_2014_(Top-level_Spanish_politicians_arrested)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_October_2014_%28Top-level_Spanish_politicians_arrested%29

content:
<p>
Top-level Spanish politicians have been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/27/spanish-authorities-arrest-51-anti-corruption-sweep">arrested
and accused of corruption</a>.


title: Arctic Ocean crossed without icebreaker
uri: 2014-11-01-Arctic-Ocean-crossed-without-icebreaker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_October_2014_(Arctic_Ocean_crossed_without_icebreaker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_October_2014_%28Arctic_Ocean_crossed_without_icebreaker%29

content:
<p>
The Arctic Ocean has warmed so much that a ship was able to cross it
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/oct/26/weatherwatch-arctic-warming-northwest-passage-siberia">from
the Atlantic to the Pacific without an icebreaker</a>.
<p>
If this were the only effect of global heating, it would be great.


title: Australian plan to "protect" the Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2014-11-01-Australian-plan-to-protect-the-Great-Barrier-Reef
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_October_2014_(Australian_plan_to_protect_the_Great_Barrier_Reef)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_October_2014_%28Australian_plan_to_protect_the_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
The Australian plan to "protect" the Great Barrier Reef
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/27/great-barrier-reef-protection-plan-ignores-threat-climate-change">ignores
the damage that global heating will do</a>.


title: Turning old camera phones into remote surveillance cameras
uri: 2014-11-01-Turning-old-camera-phones-into-remote-surveillance-cameras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_October_2014_(Turning_old_camera_phones_into_remote_surveillance_cameras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_October_2014_%28Turning_old_camera_phones_into_remote_surveillance_cameras%29

content:
<p>
A company wants to pay people
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/27/-sp-placemeter-app-street-view-window-new-york-smartphone">turn
old camera phones into remote surveillance cameras</a>.
<p>
How is this different from stationing a human there to count people?
They couldn't afford to station humans full time in very many places.
And if they argue that they don't or can't recognize individuals, what
assurance do we have that they won't be recognizing individuals using
the same technique 10 years from now?
<p>
I think it should be illegal to set up a camera looking for more than
a short time at a place where the public is admitted, if it makes the
video remotely accessible.  Individuals, and especially the state,
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">should
have to get a court order before they can do this</a>.


title: When foreign fighters want to leave PISSI
uri: 2014-11-01-When-foreign-fighters-want-to-leave-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_October_2014_(When_foreign_fighters_want_to_leave_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_October_2014_%28When_foreign_fighters_want_to_leave_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
When foreign fighters want to leave PISSI,
it <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/25/isis-threatens-kill-british-jihadis-wanting-to-come-home">holds
them prisoner and threatens to kill them</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, when Britons who went to Syria to fight against Assad go
home because they don't support PISSI, the UK puts them in prison.


title: Capturing and centralizing the internet
uri: 2014-11-01-Capturing-and-centralizing-the-internet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_October_2014_(Capturing_and_centralizing_the_internet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_October_2014_%28Capturing_and_centralizing_the_internet%29

content:
<p>
Giant web site companies
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/26/couch-potatoes-killed-internet-dream">capturing
and centralizing the internet</a>, so that now 30 companies generate
half the traffic in the US.  They are converting it primarily into a
broadcast medium.
<p>
I almost never access those companies' sites.  In my view, the only
good use of the internet is what they don't do.
<p>
Fortunately there is still enough of that to make a big difference
from what the world was like before the internet.


title: Urgent: Oppose plan to make money laundering easier
uri: 2014-11-01-Urgent-Oppose-plan-to-make-money-laundering-easier
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 28_October_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_plan_to_make_money_laundering_easier)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_October_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_plan_to_make_money_laundering_easier%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Reublican_payday_handout">oppose
the Republican plan to make money laundering easier</a> so as to help
dishonest payday loan companies that make phony loans.
<p>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/27/house-republicans-money-laundering_n_5717877.html">More
information</a>.


title: Urgent: Why Wheeler resists net neutrality
uri: Urgent-Why-Wheeler-resists-net-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Urgent:_Why_Wheeler_resists_net_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Why_Wheeler_resists_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/fcc_wheeler_rainbow/">call on
FCC commissioner Wheeler</a> to state why he resists proper network
neutrality.


title: Urgent: Action against voter-suppression
uri: Urgent-Action-against-voter-suppression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Urgent:_Action_against_voter-suppression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Action_against_voter-suppression%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/BrianKempDoJ_share/?t=1006">call
on the Justice Department</a> to take action against Georgia's
voter-suppression disenfranchisement of 40,000 voters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Urgent:_Close_pollution_loophole)
title: Urgent: Close pollution loophole
uri: Urgent-Close-pollution-loophole
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Close_pollution_loophole%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=14597&autologin=true">call
on the EPA</a> to close the loophole about pollution made in starting
up and shutting down plants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Sodastream_to_move_out_of_colony)
title: Sodastream to move out of colony
uri: Sodastream-to-move-out-of-colony
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Sodastream_to_move_out_of_colony%29

content:
<p>
Sodastream 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/29/sodastream-move-factory-west-bank-israel-slash-forecast">will
move its factory out</a> of an illegal colony in Palestinian
territory.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Child_and_forced_labor)
title: Child and forced labor
uri: Child-and-forced-labor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Child_and_forced_labor%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://theconversation.com/global-supply-chains-link-us-all-to-shame-of-child-and-forced-labour-33593">Global
Supply Chains Link Us All to Shame of Child And Forced Labour</a>.
<p>
These complex supply chains are due to business-driven globalization,
and that does so many 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_May_2013_(Where_have_all_the_jobs_gone)">other 
kinds of harm</a> that we might as well get rid of them all at once.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Sweden_recognizes_Palestine)
title: Sweden recognizes Palestine
uri: Sweden-recognizes-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Sweden_recognizes_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
Sweden has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/30/sweden-officially-recognises-state-palestine">recognized
the state of Palestine</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(A_chance_to_sue_the_British_govt)
title: A chance to sue the British gov't
uri: A-chance-to-sue-the-British-gov-t
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28A_chance_to_sue_the_British_govt%29

content:
<p>
Abdel Hakim Belhaj has won the chance to sue the British government
for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/30/abdel-hakim-belhaj-court-kidnap-mi6-cia-torture">helping
Gaddafi get him and torture him</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Reforestation_campaigns)
title: Reforestation campaigns
uri: Reforestation-campaigns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Reforestation_campaigns%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/30/regreening-program-to-restore-land-across-one-sixth-of-ethiopia">Giant
reforestation campaigns</a> are starting in Africa.


title: False labels on shrimp sold in US
uri: False-labels-on-shrimp-sold-in-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(False_labels_on_shrimp_sold_in_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28False_labels_on_shrimp_sold_in_US%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/world-on-a-plate/2014/oct/30/shrimp-prawns-seafood-fraud-oceana-sustainability-overfishinga">1/3
of the shrimp on sale in the US</a> carry false labels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Homeless_US_schoolchildren)
title: Homeless US schoolchildren
uri: Homeless-US-schoolchildren
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Homeless_US_schoolchildren%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/a-national-disgrace-number-of-homeless-students-reaches-record-levels">Over
a million</a> schoolchildren in the US are homeless.
<p>
This is a national shame, and reflects the greed of the illegitimate
rulers of the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 01_November_2014_(Computerized_voting_machines)
title: Computerized voting machines
uri: Computerized-voting-machines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#01_November_2014_%28Computerized_voting_machines%29
content:
<p>
Computerized voting machines in the US are already 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/27093-e-votes-flip-d-to-r-in-texas-r-to-d-in-illinois-more-trouble-with-touch-screens-2014-edition">committing
fraud</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 2_November_2014_(Urgent:_NPR_Climate_Reporting)
title: Urgent: NPR Climate Reporting
uri: Urgent-NPR-Climate-Reporting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#2_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_NPR_Climate_Reporting%29

content:
<p>In the US: tell NPR not to cut its <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/NPR_Dont_Abandon_Environment">
climate reporting.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 2_November_2014_(Urgent:_FCC)
title: Urgent: FCC
uri: Urgent-FCC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#2_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_FCC%29
content:
<p>US citizens: tell the FCC that its latest phony network-neutrality plan
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/">
is still no good.
</a></p>
<p>Here's more <a href="http://www.freepress.net/node/106617">
information.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 2_November_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_Shell)
title: Urgent: Call on Shell
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Shell
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#2_November_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Shell%29
content:
<p>Everyone: call on Shell to stop funding ALEC's <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4369">
global heating
denial.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Internet_use_tax)
title: Internet use tax
uri: Internet-use-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Internet_use_tax%29
content:
<p>
Hungary's
government <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/31/mass-protests-push-hungary-cancel-controversial-internet-tax">backed
down on plans for an internet use tax</a>.
<p>
Orban's general strategy is to avoid doing things that make lots of
people angry.


title: Latest proposed way to export tar sands oil
uri: Latest-proposed-way-to-export-tar-sands-oil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Latest_proposed_way_to_export_tar_sands_oil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Latest_proposed_way_to_export_tar_sands_oil%29

content:
<p>
The latest proposed way to export tar sands oil
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/30/proposed-mega-pipeline-tar-sands-opponents-vow-its-not-going-happen">a
pipeline to Canada's Atlantic coast</a>.  Lots of people are
determined to block it.


title: Silly and gratuitous defense against Ebola
uri: Silly-and-gratuitous-defense-against-Ebola
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Silly_and_gratuitous_defense_against_Ebola)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Silly_and_gratuitous_defense_against_Ebola%29

content:
<p>
Canada has adopted
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/31/canada-ebola-suspends-visas-west-africa">silly
and gratuitous defense against Ebola</a>.
<p>
If someone was exposed to Ebola a whole month ago, there is no chance
he would have a contagious case of Ebola today.  Either he has
recovered already or he didn't catch it at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Deforestation_in_the_Amazon)
title: Deforestation in the Amazon
uri: Deforestation-in-the-Amazon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Deforestation_in_the_Amazon%29
content:
<p>
Deforestation in the
Amazon <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/31/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-weather-droughts-report">may
be causing the drought in Sao Paulo</a>.


title: PAT RIOT act used for War on Drugs
uri: PAT-RIOT-act-used-for-War-on-Drugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(PAT_RIOT_act_used_for_War_on_Drugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28PAT_RIOT_act_used_for_War_on_Drugs%29

content:
<p>
The US government got more power with the PAT RIOT act in the name of
"protecting us" from terrorism,
but <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/10/patriot-act-warrants-used-more-drugs-terrorism">uses
that power mainly for the insane War on Drugs</a>.
<p>
The War on Drugs does far more damage to the US than terrorism.
<p>
The UK is high on the War on Drugs: ministers insist on "toughness"
even though the people, the press and even most members of Parliament
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/01/ministers-war-on-drugs-policy-british">are
ready to end it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(fair-trade_porn)
title: "fair-trade" porn
uri: fair-trade-porn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28fair-trade_porn%29
content:
<p>
Interviews
with <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/01/ethical-porn-fair-trade-sex">makers
of "fair-trade" porn</a>.
<p>
I have always been puzzled by those who assume that "porn" means
"violent" or "cruel".  The arbitrary exclusion of kind, nonviolent sex
from the category of porn seems perverse to me.


title: How We're Changing the World's Climate
uri: How-We-re-Changing-the-World-s-Climate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(How_We're_Changing_the_World's_Climate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28How_We%27re_Changing_the_World%27s_Climate%29

content:
<p>
IPCC
Report: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/31/ipcc-report-six-graphs-that-show-how-were-changing-the-worlds-climate">Six
Graphs That Show How We're Changing the World's Climate</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Rigging_markets)
title: Rigging markets
uri: Rigging-markets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Rigging_markets%29
content:
<p>
Corporations demand "free markets"
while <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/31/corporate-destruction-free-markets-rules-us">rigging
markets in their own interests</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(Violent_video_games)
title: Violent video games
uri: Violent-video-games
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28Violent_video_games%29
content:
<p>
Violent video games don't make people kill, but they
do <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/10/science-gamergate-video-games-violence">tend
to make people more aggressive and less empathetic</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html 02_November_2014_(framing_Krishna_Maharaj)
title: framing Krishna Maharaj
uri: framing-Krishna-Maharaj
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#02_November_2014_%28framing_Krishna_Maharaj%29
content:
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An ex-thug in Miami says that other
thugs <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/30/i-know-brit-was-framed-says-new-witness-28-years-after-miami-jailing">talked
about how they were framing Krishna Maharaj</a>.


