# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Urgent:_Fairness_for_All_Hoosiers)
title: Urgent: Fairness for All Hoosiers
uri: Urgent-Fairness-for-All-Hoosiers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Fairness_for_All_Hoosiers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Indiana_lgbt_fairness">call
on Indiana</a> to pass the Fairness for All Hoosiers Act, which would
prohibit discrimination against queer people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Radical_fundamentalists)
title: Radical fundamentalists
uri: Radical-fundamentalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Radical_fundamentalists%29
content:
<p>
The people that dominate the Republican Party are not conservatives.
They are 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/27/1068668/-Republicans-are-not-conservative-Radical-Fundamentalists">radical
fundamentalists</a> that call themselves "conservative".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Conditions_of_refugees_in_Nauru)
title: Conditions of refugees in Nauru
uri: Conditions-of-refugees-in-Nauru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Conditions_of_refugees_in_Nauru%29
content:
<p>
Australia diverts refugees to Nauru, which accepts them in return for
Australia's money.  But the conditions of refugees in Nauru are 
<a href="http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/no-way-nauru/">like a
prison</a> — they could plead for asylum somewhere else as
refugees from Nauru.
<p>
Nauru also tries to exclude journalists to cover this up.
<p>
I think it is not inherently wrong for a country that is the target
of economic illegal immigration to send refugees to another country.
But that doesn't excuse doing it in a cruel way like this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Georgia_wants_to_tax_electric_cars)
title: Georgia wants to tax electric cars
uri: Georgia-wants-to-tax-electric-cars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Georgia_wants_to_tax_electric_cars%29

content:
<p>
Georgia wants to tax electric cars to make up for 
<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/georgia-wants-ev-owners-pay-more-oregon-wants-them-pay-less.html">the
gas tax revenue their owners don't pay</a>.
<p>
To reduce fossil fuel use, Georgia ought to raise the gas tax, and tax
fossil fuels used to make electricity.  But that's the opposite of the
orders Republicans get from their plutocratic masters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(US_gun_nuts_encourage_harassment)
title: US gun nuts encourage harassment
uri: US-gun-nuts-encourage-harassment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28US_gun_nuts_encourage_harassment%29

content:
<p>
US gun nuts encourage harassment of the author of a 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/03/3641075/app-wars-free-speech-online-harassment-gun-rights-debate/">program
that reports areas where guns are used or carried in dangerous
ways</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(SF_thugs_fired_for_showing_racism)
title: SF thugs fired for showing racism
uri: SF-thugs-fired-for-showing-racism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28SF_thugs_fired_for_showing_racism%29

content:
<p>
The chief of San Francisco thugs has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/04/san-francisco-police-officers-firing-racist-homophobic-text-messages">fired
some thugs for showing racism</a>.
<p>
Making racist statements should not be a crime, but those with an
official privilege must meet a higher standard than merely not being a
criminal.
<p>
Firing those thugs is not enough for me to call the chief a police
officer, but it is a step in the right direction.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(WikiLeaks_Collateral_Murder_video)
title: WikiLeaks 'Collateral Murder' video
uri: WikiLeaks-Collateral-Murder-video
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28WikiLeaks_Collateral_Murder_video%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/04/five-years-wikileaks-collateral-murder-video-matters-more-ever">Five
Years On, the WikiLeaks 'Collateral Murder' Video Matters More than
Ever</a>.
<p>
The US is using its own helicopters less; now the killing is done by
drones, and by the aircraft of US-supported tyrannical governments
such as Saudi Arabia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Backlash_to_Anti-Gay_Laws)
title: Backlash to Anti-Gay Laws
uri: Backlash-to-Anti-Gay-Laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Backlash_to_Anti-Gay_Laws%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/04/backlash-anti-gay-laws-not-movement-result-one">Backlash
to Anti-Gay Laws Not a Movement, But the Result of One</a>.


title: California's "water conservation" measures
uri: California-s-water-conservation-measures
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Californias_water_conservation_measures)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Californias_water_conservation_measures%29

content:
<p>
California's "water conservation" measures 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/03/dry-california-thirsty-oil-and-big-ag-industries-exempt-water-regulations">do
not cover farms and frackers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Regulation_of_antibiotic_use)
title: Regulation of antibiotic use
uri: Regulation-of-antibiotic-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Regulation_of_antibiotic_use%29
content:
<p>
Oregon is considering 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/01/oregon-seeks-become-first-state-limit-antibiotic-use-factory-farms">bills
to regulate antibiotic</a> use in the 100 biggest animal feeding
operations in the state.


title: World leaders and fossil fuel interests
uri: World-leaders-and-fossil-fuel-interests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(World_leaders_and_fossil_fuel_interests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28World_leaders_and_fossil_fuel_interests%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/03/world-leaders-lack-ambition-tackle-climate-crisis">World
Leaders Lack Ambition to Tackle Climate Crisis</a>.
<p>
Or, rather, fossil fuel interests control their decisions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Using_terrorists_as_an_excuse)
title: Using terrorists as an excuse
uri: Using-terrorists-as-an-excuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Using_terrorists_as_an_excuse%29
content:
<p>
Malaysia is using terrorists, that may or may not really exist, as an
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/malaysia-najib-razak-terrorism-threat-human-rights-detention-without-trial">excuse
to crush human rights</a>.
<p>
The 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#04_February_2015_(The_label_terrorist)">US</a>, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-nov-feb.html#08%20November%202007%20(Defeat%20for%20human%20rights)">UK</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_(French_law_to_fight_terrorism)">France</a>
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_August_2014_(New_counter-terrorism_proposals_in_Australia)">Australia</a>
have followed this path before.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Afghan_government_soldiers)
title: Afghan government soldiers
uri: Afghan-government-soldiers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Afghan_government_soldiers%29
content:
<p>
Afghan government soldiers
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/afghan-soldier-opens-fire-on-us-troops">
continue shooting Americans inside bases</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Cancelled_an_academic_conference)
title: Cancelled an academic conference
uri: Cancelled-an-academic-conference
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Cancelled_an_academic_conference%29

content:
<p>
A UK university cancelled an academic conference about the legitimacy
of Israel as a state,
<a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=790:when-free-speech-becomes-dead-silence-the-israel-lobby-and-a-cowed-academia&catid=53:alerts-2015&Itemid=247">
under pressure from politicians</a>, using concerns
about "safety" as an excuse.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Colleges_track_their_students)
title: Colleges track their students
uri: Colleges-track-their-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Colleges_track_their_students%29
content:
<p>
Many colleges
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/04/is-big-brothers-eye-on-campus/389643/">
track their students in intrusive ways</a>.
<p>
I don't think college students should be required to swipe ID cards.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Typical_right-winger)
title: Typical right-winger
uri: Typical-right-winger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Typical_right-winger%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/07/rand-paul-is-not-a-radical-candidate-he-is-conservative-to-the-bone">
Rand Paul is a typical right-winger</a> except for a few niche issues.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Shoddy_journalism)
title: Shoddy journalism
uri: Shoddy-journalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Shoddy_journalism%29
content:
<p>
Rolling Stone's fraternity rape accusation article, that it later had
to retract, had shoddy journalism,
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/06/rolling-stones-uva-rape-story-wasnt-just">
and Rolling Stone covered it up</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Food_stamp_bill)
title: Food stamp bill
uri: Food-stamp-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Food_stamp_bill%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/03/1375358/-Missouri-Republicans-to-poor-people-Steak-and-seafood-are-too-good-for-you?detail=email">
bill pushed by Republicans in Missouri</a> would ban using food stamps
to buy sea food or steak.
<p>
The people who get food stamps can't afford to buy steak or fresh sea
food even with help.  So why bother prohibiting it?  As an expression
of contempt for the poor.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Faked_his_own_kidnapping)
title: Faked his own kidnapping
uri: Faked-his-own-kidnapping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Faked_his_own_kidnapping%29
content:
<p>
An Israeli faked his own kidnapping, and Israel activated its
<a href="http://972mag.com/israeli-fakes-own-kidnapping-palestinians-pay-the-price/105262/">
standard
harsh response</a> that applies only when Palestinians are the suspects.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Defiance_of_an_arbitrary_order)
title: Defiance of an arbitrary order
uri: Defiance-of-an-arbitrary-order
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Defiance_of_an_arbitrary_order%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4644731,00.html">
Israel imprisoned Khalida Jarrar</a> for remaining in Ramallah (where she
lives and works) in defiance of an arbitrary order exiling her from
there.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Comcast)
title: Comcast
uri: 2015-04-17-Comcast
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Comcast%29
content:
<p>
Comcast has donated to many organizations; now it is telling them to
endorse
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/comcast-recruits-its-beneficiaries-to-lobby-for-time-warner-deal.html">
its proposed merger</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Lack_of_a_living_wage)
title: Lack of a living wage
uri: Lack-of-a-living-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Lack_of_a_living_wage%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/07/maryland-relatives-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-suspected">
Was a family in Maryland killed indirectly</a> by lack of a living wage?
<p>
The article doesn't give enough information to tell for sure,
but I wonder why someone who was employed couldn't afford
to pay an electric bill.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Dying_younger)
title: Dying younger
uri: Dying-younger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Dying_younger%29
content:
<p>
British women are dying younger
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/07/life-expectancy-falls-older-uk-women-public-health-england">
as a result of government cutbacks</a>.
<p>
I suppose Cameron and Osborne are secretly glad.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Nondisclosure_agreements)
title: Nondisclosure agreements
uri: Nondisclosure-agreements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Nondisclosure_agreements%29
content:
<p>
US companies impose nondisclosure agreements on employees and
ex-employees
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/07/corporations-cannot-muzzle-whistleblowers-with-secrecy-agreements-any-longer">
to block them from talking to government regulators</a>.  The SEC just
fined KBR
for using this to cover up fraud.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Framework_nuclear_deal)
title: Framework nuclear deal
uri: Framework-nuclear-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Framework_nuclear_deal%29
content:
<p>
There may be a gap
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/07/iran-nuclear-deal-pitfalls-obama">
between the US version and the Iranian version</a>
of the framework nuclear deal.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Easy_to_buy)
title: Easy to buy
uri: Easy-to-buy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Easy_to_buy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/04/12786/scott-walker%E2%80%99s-supreme-court-coup">
Scott Walker</a> has changed Wisconsin's election system to make them
easy to buy, and he took control over Wisconsin's Supreme Court so it
will ignore his violations of campaign finance laws.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Walter_Scott)
title: Walter Scott
uri: Walter-Scott
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Walter_Scott%29
content:
<p>
A thug shot Walter Scott dead, and accused Scott of stealing his
taser.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/08/bystander-walter-scott-police-shooting-speak-publicly">
Due to a video recording we know that accusation is false</a> and that
the thug shot Scott in the back as he was running away.
<p>
The thug has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/08/michael-slager-south-carolina-officer-walter-scott-fired">
charged with murder</a>.
<p>
Here's the
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/08/walter-scott-shooting-without-video_n_7024404.html">
news report we would be reading</a> if the video had not proved
the thug lied.
<p>
North Charleston is another one of the US cities where a lot of the
population is black, most of the thugs are white, and their conduct
is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/08/protesters-demand-justice-walter-scott-north-charleston">
generally racist</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Record_Rate)
title: Record Rate
uri: Record-Rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Record_Rate%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/08/saudi-arabia-boosts-crude-oil-production-to-highest-level-on-record">
Saudi Arabia is extracting oil</a> at a record rate.
<p>
The decrease in the oil price in the past year must have something to
do with this.  It is clearly an intentional policy rather than an
economic response.  Perhaps it is intended to screw other oil
exporters
such as Russia and Venezuela.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Getting_poorer)
title: Getting poorer
uri: Getting-poorer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Getting_poorer%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/07/jamaica-suffering-most-austere-budget-world-imposed-imf-new-paper-finds">
Jamaicans have been getting poorer</a> for 20 years under the dominion of
the IMF.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Rand_Paul)
title: Rand Paul
uri: Rand-Paul
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Rand_Paul%29
content:
<p>
Rand Paul is
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/rand-paul-climate-change">
a global heating denialist</a>, like the other Republican
candidates.


title: Corrupting America's cultural institutions
uri: Corrupting-America-s-cultural-institutions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Corrupting_America's_cultural_institutions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Corrupting_America%27s_cultural_institutions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/07/big-chill-how-big-money-buying-criticism-big-money">
Wealthy people and companies</a> are corrupting America's cultural
institutions — buying support for their political maneuvers, and
buying a clampdown on opposition to those wealthy donors.
<p>
Thus, Big Money is now corrupting every level of US community life.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Tortured_in_Syria)
title: Tortured in Syria
uri: Tortured-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Tortured_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/06/cia-officials-knew-rendition-victim-was-wrong-guy-kiriakou-reveals">
CIA had Maher Arar tortured in Syria</a> even though many CIA agents
said he was the wrong man.
<p>
It's wrong to torture the "right" man, too, but this reveals an
incredible level of contempt.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Failed_state)
title: Failed state
uri: Failed-state
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Failed_state%29
content:
<p>
Libya, as a failed state, is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/07/four-years-after-nato-backed-ouster-gaddafi-libya-failed-state">
generating the usual bad results</a> of
failed
states in regions of Muslim population: more radicalism and more
bloodshed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Film_company_bully)
title: Film company bully
uri: Film-company-bully
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Film_company_bully%29
content:
<p>
An Australian court
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/07/dallas-buyers-club-piracy-fines-australia">
made ISPs help a film company bully people</a> who
shared
copies of a film.
<p>
Sharing copies of any published work should be legal; governments that
aid the publishers' War on Sharing are doing evil.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(Test_Tibetan_monks)
title: Test Tibetan monks
uri: Test-Tibetan-monks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28Test_Tibetan_monks%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/china-to-test-tibetan-monks-and-nuns-for-patriotism">
China plans to test Tibetan monks</a> on their "patriotism".
  I don't suppose
this means patriotism for Tibet.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 16_April_2015_(The_Class_War_party)
title: The Class War party
uri: The-Class-War-party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_April_2015_%28The_Class_War_party%29
content:
<p>
The Class War party
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/08/iain-duncan-smith-general-election-lisa-mckenzie-class-war">
aims to represent working-class Britons</a> whom
Labour has abandoned.
<p>
I don't think that class war is inevitable; but when the rich start
one, as they have done in Britain and the US, the rest had better
get organized to defeat them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 17_April_2015_(Voting_Machines)
title: Voting Machines
uri: Voting-Machines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#17_April_2015_%28Voting_Machines%29
content:
<p>
Voting machines used in Virginia and Pennsylvania
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/virginia-hacking-voting-machines-security">
allowed
election-rigging via wifi</a>, for anyone that could crack the
machine's WEP password.
<p>
To make it even easier, they used the password "ABCDE".  But that is
the icing on the cake.  There are programs that reliably guess WEP
passwords.  No matter what password they had chosen, the machine would
still have been vulnerable to anyone with some expertise.
<p>
Today's voting computers <em>might</em> have a little better security,
but that doesn't mean they can be trusted.  Even if the security is
enough to thwart random passers-by, that does not mean it will stop
people from the company that made the machine, or people from the
election authority, from rigging the election undetectably.
<p>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/meet-the-e-voting-machine-so-easy-to-hack-it-will-take-your-breath-away/">
Virginia has decertified this machine</a>,
but is the replacement good enough for your elections?  The proper
criteria are more than a little more strict.
<p>
Even if the computer's security isn't so weak that outsiders can crack
it, that doesn't mean you can trust it.  The manufacturer might rig
the election; the election authority might rig the election.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(UK_election_pseudo-event)
title: UK election pseudo-event
uri: UK-election-pseudo-event
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28UK_election_pseudo-event%29
content:
<p>The UK election is now a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/10/the-great-unvetted-public-locked-out-as-party-leaders-tour-sanitised-britain">
pseudo-event</a>,
 like most of US national elections.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Harm_to_marine_ecosystems)
title: Harm to marine ecosystems
uri: Harm-to-marine-ecosystems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Harm_to_marine_ecosystems%29
content:
<p>Marine ecosystems harmed by climate change 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/apr/10/new-paper-shows-how-sensitive-ocean-biosystem-is-to-climate-change">
can take a thousand years
to recover</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Goals_falling_short)
title: Goals falling short
uri: Goals-falling-short
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Goals_falling_short%29
content:
<p>US carbon emissions are decreasing without special pressure,
and the 2020 target 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/10/us-carbon-emissions-set-to-fall-to-lowest-level-in-two-decades">
may be reached early</a>.
</p>
<p>That is because the 2020 target is far short of what we need to do
to avoid disaster.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Irreversible_injustice)
title: Irreversible injustice
uri: Irreversible-injustice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Irreversible_injustice%29
content:
<p>For every 10 executions in the US, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/10/capital-punishment-dead-policy-walking">
one innocent person has been freed
from death row</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Falklands_oil_claim)
title: Falklands oil claim
uri: Falklands-oil-claim
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Falklands_oil_claim%29
content:
<p>Argentina is once again 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/10/britain-argentina-summon-ambassadors-falklands">
trying to demand control of the Falkland Islands</a>.
Aside from distraction in Argentina, the main motor of the dispute is
undersea oil.
</p>
<p>Since we must leave most known oil reserves unextracted, Argentina and
the UK should make an agreement that neither one will extract oil
there.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Translator_shot_by_thugs)
title: Translator shot by thugs
uri: Translator-shot-by-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Translator_shot_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>Mohamed Soltan, visiting Egypt from the US and translating Arabic to
English for a journalist, was shot by thugs, then tortured in prison.
Now he 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/10/sentencing-tomorrow-american-tortured-and-facing-death-penalty-egypt">
faces a long sentence or execution</a>
 based on charges nobody bothered to prove.
</p>


title: Emission rates match Permian extinction
uri: Emission-rates-match-Permian-extinction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Emission_rates_match_Permian_extinction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Emission_rates_match_Permian_extinction%29

content:
<p>Our rate of CO2 emissions today 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/10/oceans-facing-carbon-rates-which-spurred-mass-die-250-million-years-ago">
matches the rate that seems to have killed
90% of all marine species</a>
 at the end of the Permian epoch.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(War_escalates_in_Yemen)
title: War escalates in Yemen
uri: War-escalates-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28War_escalates_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>Saudi bombs are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/10/war-escalates-yemen-risks-disintegration-no-end-sight">
killing lots of civilians</a>
 in Yemen. The continued
fighting between the Houthis (who may still be winning) and the
Hadists is causing devastating conditions (no water for a week) that
will surely kill a lot more.
</p>
<p>It is likely to lead to more wars.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Call_to_rescind_student_debt)
title: Call to rescind student debt
uri: Call-to-rescind-student-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Call_to_rescind_student_debt%29
content:
<p>9 states join many students 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/10/state-attorneys-general-call-feds-forgive-fraudulent-student-loans">
calling for the US to forgive student loans</a>
 that were given out to pay for-profit "colleges" that systematically
mislead
students.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(FBI_entrapment_of_mentally_ill)
title: FBI entrapment of mentally ill
uri: FBI-entrapment-of-mentally-ill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28FBI_entrapment_of_mentally_ill%29
content:
<p>When John Booker was released from mental hospital, two unofficial FBI
agents began 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/10/army-recruit-charged-helping-isis-watched-fbi-given-clearance-army/">
luring him into a fantasy terror plot</a>.
</p>
<p>It is legitimate for the FBI to keep tabs on mentally ill people who
show an interest in terrorism. A few of them might proceed to real
terrorism. It is also legitimate for the FBI to run people in
terrorist circles to find out about real terrorist plans.</p>
<p>However, when the FBI lures Americans into fantasy plots, who would
never
have done anything on their own, it does nothing but harm.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Bogus_threat_of_Venezuela)
title: Bogus threat of Venezuela
uri: Bogus-threat-of-Venezuela
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Bogus_threat_of_Venezuela%29
content:
<p>Obama is under pressure to retract the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/10/obama-administration-downgrades-supposed-threats-posed-cuba-venezuela-ahead">
bogus claims that Venezuela threatens
US national security</a>.
</p>
<p>The only reason for these claims was a desire to impose trade sanctions
that
violate some of the trade treaties that plutocrats have imposed.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Global_heating_prospects.)
title: Global heating prospects.
uri: Global-heating-prospects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Global_heating_prospects.%29
content:
<p>If we extract and burn all the known fossil fuel we could extract, we
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/upshot/if-we-dig-out-all-our-fossil-fuels-heres-how-hot-we-can-expect-it-to-get.html?abt=0002&abg=0">
will heat the Earth by something like 9 degrees C (16 F)</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Progressive_tax_proposal)
title: Progressive tax proposal
uri: Progressive-tax-proposal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Progressive_tax_proposal%29
content:
<p>The Australian Greens 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/08/our-progressive-tax-system-isnt-working-miners-bankers-and-polluters-must-pay-their-share">
propose to make their tax system progressive</a>
 in effect again.
</p>


title: Australian gov shielding multinationals
uri: Australian-gov-shielding-multinationals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Australian_gov_shielding_multinationals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Australian_gov_shielding_multinationals%29

content:
<p>Australia's government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/08/hockey-avoided-naming-multinationals-minimising-tax-to-stay-on-good-terms">
concealing the names of companies that
dodge taxes by shifting profits to tax havens</a>.
</p>
<p>It maintains a "transparent" relationship with them by refusing to
have one with the people. It is clear who it really serves.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(DEA_mass_surveillance_lawsuit)
title: DEA mass surveillance lawsuit
uri: DEA-mass-surveillance-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28DEA_mass_surveillance_lawsuit%29
content:
<p>Human rights groups are 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/08/dea-surveillance-phone-records-crisscross-nsa/">
suing the DEA for its massive surveillance</a>
 of phone calls from the US to 116 other countries.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Being_fair_to_Rand_Paul)
title: Being fair to Rand Paul
uri: Being-fair-to-Rand-Paul
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Being_fair_to_Rand_Paul%29
content:
<p>Rand Paul says it's 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/08/1376356/-Rand-Paul-says-the-stuff-he-said-before-is-now-off-limits?detail=email">
unfair to bring up anything he said in 2009</a>
 when he ran for the Senate.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Urgent:_support_CARERS_act)
title: Urgent: support CARERS act
uri: Urgent-support-CARERS-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_CARERS_act%29
content:
<p>US citizens: ask your congresscritter to 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=4F6FE23A449157A226F9A90E9B8A1A3B.app251a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1257">
support the CARERS act</a>
 to respect state legalization of medical marijuana.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Clinton_trade_treaty_corruption)
title: Clinton trade treaty corruption
uri: Clinton-trade-treaty-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Clinton_trade_treaty_corruption%29
content:
<p>Clinton approved a "trade treaty" with Colombia 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/09/oil-money-flowed-clinton-turned-back-rights-abuses-colombia-report">
after oil companies donated
to a Clinton foundation</a>.
</p>
<p>That treaty is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#17_April_2011_(Trade_Treaty_Bad)">
bad for democracy</a>,
 like all the similar "
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/free_trade.html">
trade treaties</a>".
 We need to elect people that will cancel the existing
ones, starting with 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_(20_years_of_NAFTA)">
NAFTA</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Republican_gerrymandering)
title: Republican gerrymandering
uri: 2015-04-18-Republican-gerrymandering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Republican_gerrymandering%29
content:
<p>North Carolina Republicans 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/08/1376451/-Gerrymandering-congressional-districts-just-wasn-t-enough-for-North-Carolina-nbsp-Republicans?detail=email">
want to restructure local governments</a>
 to give control to Republicans.
</p>
<p>The Republican Party's motto is, "Take power by any possible means."
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Greenpeace_accounts_frozen)
title: Greenpeace accounts frozen
uri: Greenpeace-accounts-frozen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Greenpeace_accounts_frozen%29
content:
<p>India has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/10/greenpeace-bank-accounts-frozen-by-indian-government">
blocked funding to Greenpeace</a>,
 accusing the organization of
"opposing development".
</p>
<p>When you leave things up to businesses, "development" often means
damaging the
environment.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Ban_on_abortion_method)
title: Ban on abortion method
uri: Ban-on-abortion-method
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Ban_on_abortion_method%29
content:
<p>Oklahoma and Kansas passed laws that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/kansas-bans-redefines-dismemberment-abortions">
arbitrarily ban a common method</a>
 used for late abortions.
</p>
<p>Late abortions are allowed in the US only for medical reasons.
The method that was banned is sometimes the safest way to do them.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Donetsk_airport)
title: Donetsk airport
uri: Donetsk-airport
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Donetsk_airport%29
content:
<p>A Russian who lead a pro-Russian unit in Ukraine
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/10/russian-fighter-ukraine-motorola">
said he killed 15 prisoners</a>
 after the capture of Donetsk airport.
</p>


title: Urgent: California water restrictions
uri: Urgent-California-water-restrictions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Urgent:_California_water_restrictions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_California_water_restrictions%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on California to apply water restrictions to
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2011">agriculture,
fracking and water bottling</a>.


title: Urgent: Protection from toxic fire-retardants
uri: Urgent-Protection-from-toxic-fire-retardants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Urgent:_Protection_from_toxic_fire-retardants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protection_from_toxic_fire-retardants%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1691">Call
for protection</a> from toxic fire-retardants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Urgent:_PAT_RIOT_Act_repeals)
title: Urgent: PAT RIOT Act repeals
uri: Urgent-PAT-RIOT-Act-repeals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_PAT_RIOT_Act_repeals%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/ssra/">call for repeal</a> of
parts of the PAT RIOT Act.


title: Kansas welfare benefits spending limit
uri: Kansas-welfare-benefits-spending-limit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Kansas_welfare_benefits_spending_limit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Kansas_welfare_benefits_spending_limit%29

content:
<p>
Kansas plans to limit welfare benefits spending to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/06/1375926/-Kansas-to-limit-welfare-recipients-to-25-a-day-ban-them-from-spending-on-cruise-ships">$25
per day</a>.
<p>
So if a poor person faces 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#15_April_2013_(Debtor%27s_prison)">debtor's
prison</a> if she doesn't pay a $50 fine, she will go to jail.
<p>
If she needs to get her nails done to apply for a job, that will be
excluded too.  Kansas legislators would rather she stay unemployed.
<p>
(It is unreasonable to require employees to to get their nails done,
outside of a few occupations where beauty is the job, but they do.)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Blackwater)
title: Blackwater
uri: Blackwater
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Blackwater%29
content:
<p>
Blackwater (now calling itself "Academi") has been paid 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/31/1374715/-Guess-what-Blackwater-has-been-up-to-recently">half
a billion dollars</a> to train the Afghan government forces to stop
opium production.  Result: opium production has increased.


title: Why Netanyahu wants to block nuclear deal
uri: Why-Netanyahu-wants-to-block-nuclear-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 18_April_2015_(Why_Netanyahu_wants_to_block_nuclear_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_April_2015_%28Why_Netanyahu_wants_to_block_nuclear_deal%29

content:
<p>
Netanyahu admitted that he wants to block the nuclear deal because he
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/07/netanyahu-slips-reveals-reason-opposition-iran-deal">wants
to continue sanctions against Iran and keep it poor</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Urgent:_Close_tax_loopholes)
title: Urgent: Close tax loopholes
uri: Urgent-Close-tax-loopholes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Close_tax_loopholes%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/sanderstaxloopholes">call on
Obama</a> to close tax loopholes by executive order.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Urgent:_Mandatory_labeling_of_GMOs)
title: Urgent: Mandatory labeling of GMOs
uri: Urgent-Mandatory-labeling-of-GMOs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Mandatory_labeling_of_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/congress_gmo_labeling">call
on Congress</a> to pass mandatory labeling of GMOs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Cuba_and_the_US)
title: Cuba and the US
uri: Cuba-and-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Cuba_and_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Cuba and the US are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/11/raul-castro-barack-obama-summit-americas-cuba">moving
towards further reconciliation</a>.
<p>
To end the pointless and harmful embargo of Cuba is a good thing, but
as we all know, the friendship of the US does not necessarily lead a
country to respect human rights — and does tend to lead to
subjugation by the multinational corporations.  Cuba will need to take
care not to go too far in "opening up" to their power.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Conversion_therapy)
title: "Conversion therapy"
uri: Conversion-therapy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Conversion_therapy%29
content:
<p>
Campaigning to ban "conversion therapy" which amounts to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/11/survivors-crusade-conversion-therapy-ban-pray-gay-away">forcing
minors into torture</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(US_government_mass_surveillance)
title: US government mass surveillance
uri: US-government-mass-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28US_government_mass_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/11/the-government-will-hide-its-surveillance-programs-but-they-wont-eliminate-them">repeatedly
goes to extreme lengths</a> to stop us from knowing how it spies on
us.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Minneapolis_thugs)
title: Minneapolis thugs
uri: Minneapolis-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Minneapolis_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in Minneapolis stopped two Arab-Americans in a car and
handcuffed them, then 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/07/1376129/-Pulled-over-for-no-reason-Minneapolis-cop-threatens-to-break-legs-of-teens-before-letting-them-go">threatened
to break their legs</a>.
<p>
The thugs say they thought the two men were thieves, but they have not
demonstrated any basis for that suspicion (the car was not stolen).
they needed a basis to justify making the men prisoner.
<p>
But even if they had had a reason to handcuff those men, that couldn't
justify threatening to maim them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Executive_Order_On_Cyber_Crime)
title: Executive Order On Cyber Crime
uri: Executive-Order-On-Cyber-Crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Executive_Order_On_Cyber_Crime%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/08/white-houses-new-executive-order-cyber-crime-unfortunately-no-joke">The
White House's New Executive Order On Cyber Crime is (Unfortunately) No
Joke</a>.
<p>
It empowers officials to designate anyone as guilty of materially
providing support for "cyber-attacks", without a trial.
<p>
This fits the pattern of letting officials ban organizations without a
trial and letting thugs take people's property without a trial.
<p>
It is obviously unconstitutional, but we can't count on the US Supreme
Court to defend constitutional rights — except for non-human
"persons" and religious nuts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Malaysian_sedition_law)
title: Malaysian sedition law
uri: Malaysian-sedition-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Malaysian_sedition_law%29
content:
<p>
Malaysia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/10/malaysia-strengthens-sedition-law-in-a-black-day-for-free-speech">augmented
its law that makes sedition a crime</a>.
<p>
There is nothing in such a law other than an attack on human rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Vancouver_renewable_energy_pledge)
title: Vancouver renewable energy pledge
uri: Vancouver-renewable-energy-pledge
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Vancouver_renewable_energy_pledge%29

content:
<p>
Vancouver pledges to run 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/10/vancouver-commits-to-run-on-100-renewable-energy">100%
on renewable energy by 20 years from now</a>.  That will include
transportation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Stingray_surveillance)
title: Stingray surveillance
uri: Stingray-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Stingray_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The FBI has organized a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/10/stingray-spying-fbi-phone-dragnet-police">national
conspiracy of local governments</a> to keep courts in the dark about
Stingray surveillance of cell phone activity.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(The_environment_and_stock_value)
title: The environment and stock value
uri: The-environment-and-stock-value
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28The_environment_and_stock_value%29
content:
<p>
Wall Street has been unable to figure out that destroying the
environment means 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/apr/10/brazil-megadrought-wall-st-investors-finance-drought-water">stocks
will lose lots of value</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Global_heating_denial)
title: Global heating denial
uri: 2015-04-20-Global-heating-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
Wisconsin is considering firing all the scientists in its Department
of Natural Resources, and one agency has 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/04/wisconsin-cutting-environmental-science-limiting-talk-of-climate-change/">ordered
its employees not to talk about climate change</a>.
<p>
They should talk about 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#16_March_2015_(Governor_bans_global_heating_terms)">global
heating</a> instead.


title: Secret approval of two oil pipelines
uri: Secret-approval-of-two-oil-pipelines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Secret_approval_of_two_oil_pipelines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Secret_approval_of_two_oil_pipelines%29

content:
<p>
Various groups are 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/10/3644334/state-department-pipeline-lawsuit/">suing
the State Department</a> for secretly approving two oil pipelines.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Western_Canadas_melting_glaciers)
title: Western Canada's melting glaciers
uri: Western-Canada-s-melting-glaciers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Western_Canadas_melting_glaciers%29

content:
<p>
Western Canada's glaciers 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/08/3643791/canada-glacier-loss-2100/">will
be mostly gone by the middle of the century if we don't stop broiling
the Earth</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Iraqi_chemical_weapons)
title: Iraqi chemical weapons
uri: Iraqi-chemical-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Iraqi_chemical_weapons%29
content:
<p>
It turns out that Iraq had some old chemical weapons in 2003; but
Saddam
Hussein <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/10/twelve-years-later-u-s-media-still-cant-get-iraqi-wmd-story-right/">was
not hiding them</a>.
<p>
Some were too dangerous even to dispose of, and international
inspectors had sealed them off.  Some had been lost.
<p>
Either way, they were no justification for war.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Bank_staff_to_protest)
title: Bank staff to protest
uri: Bank-staff-to-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Bank_staff_to_protest%29
content:
<p>
Bank staff are going to protest against 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/04/09/3644834/the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-bank/">orders
to take advantage of other low-paid people</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Pets_killed_over_unpaid_fines)
title: Pets killed over unpaid fines
uri: Pets-killed-over-unpaid-fines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Pets_killed_over_unpaid_fines%29
content:
<p>
The extractive 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/pets-low-income-americans-can-be-killed-over-unpaid-fines">US
system of fees and fines</a> has been applied to pets too.  Sometimes
the result is to kill poor people's dogs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Policies_protecting_profits)
title: Policies protecting profits
uri: Policies-protecting-profits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Policies_protecting_profits%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/defenders-wealth-blame-workers-lousy-recovery-not-policies-protecting-profits">Defenders
of Wealth Blame Workers For Lousy Recovery, Not Policies Protecting
Profits</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Cameras_fail_to_reduce_crime)
title: Cameras fail to reduce crime
uri: Cameras-fail-to-reduce-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Cameras_fail_to_reduce_crime%29
content:
<p>
In Lincoln, Nebraska, cameras in the downtown area 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech-national-security-technology-and-liberty/police-chief-surveillance-cameras-dont-hel">have
not reduced crime or helped identify culprits</a>.  Most other cities
report the same result.
<p>
Since the cameras do infringe privacy, let's get rid of them!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Mass_surveillance)
title: Mass surveillance
uri: Mass-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Mass_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150408/12442930594/why-dont-surveillance-state-defenders-seem-to-care-that-programs-they-love-dont-work.shtml">Why
Don't Surveillance State Defenders Seem To Care That The Programs They
Love Don't Work?</a>
<p>
I have another theory.  I think that the plutocratist government of
the US, which is democratic only in form, wants these tools to keep
the people down.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Massacre_of_refugees_in_Yarmouk)
title: Massacre of refugees in Yarmouk
uri: Massacre-of-refugees-in-Yarmouk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Massacre_of_refugees_in_Yarmouk%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#31_January_2015_(PISSIs_defeat_at_Kobani)">PISSI</a>
is massacring the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/10/yarmouk-is-being-annihilated-palestinians-in-syria-are-left-to-their-fate">15000
or so Palestinians</a> that remain in Yarmouk refugee camp after two
years of siege by Assad's army.
<p>
With Syria being fought over between Assad's forces and jihadis, both
sides are horrible, so what should the world do?  I don't see any answer,
except to defend the Kurds.
<p>
I blame this state of affairs on the rich Arab countries that stirred
up the violent jihadism when Syrians were doing peaceful protests for
democracy.  As I recall, they were 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_August_2014_(US_not_obligated_to_fight_in_Syria)">Saudi
Arabia and Qatar</a>.  But the US is also to blame, for supporting
them (which it continues to do).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Contracting_services)
title: Contracting services
uri: Contracting-services
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Contracting_services%29
content:
<p>
Ancestry.com has government contracts to digitize old census records
and other public records.  Often it does the job by 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150405/08451330553/ancestrycom-employees-caught-throwing-away-thousands-records-they-were-supposed-to-be-archiving-us-government.shtml">throwing
the records away</a>.
<p>
The article supposes that contracting services is typically cheaper
than doing them in-house, but that is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#27_May_2012_(Privatizing_government_operations)">often
false</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, they usually screw the public or their workers, because the
profit must come out of something.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 20_April_2015_(Enslaved_Workers)
title: Enslaved Workers
uri: Enslaved-Workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#20_April_2015_%28Enslaved_Workers%29
content:
<p>
Enslavement of workers occurs in many areas of work, and the methods
used
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/enslaved-workers.html">
patterns of mistreatment are surprisingly similar.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_ocean_ecosystem)
title: Urgent: Protect ocean ecosystem
uri: Urgent-Protect-ocean-ecosystem
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_ocean_ecosystem%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1693">call
for managing herring</a> to protect the ocean ecosystem, not just the
herring catch.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Urgent:_End_too_big_to_jail)
title: Urgent: End "too big to jail"
uri: Urgent-End-too-big-to-jail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_too_big_to_jail%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/end-too-big-to-jail">call
on the Justice Department</a> to end "too big to jail" for banks.


title: Urgent: Toxic oil dispersant regulation
uri: Urgent-Toxic-oil-dispersant-regulation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Urgent:_Toxic_oil_dispersant_regulation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Toxic_oil_dispersant_regulation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacycmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1694">Call
on the EPA</a> to regulate the use of toxic oil dispersants in
response to oil spills in the sea.


title: Many US workers need welfare benefits
uri: Many-US-workers-need-welfare-benefits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Many_US_workers_need_welfare_benefits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Many_US_workers_need_welfare_benefits%29

content:
<p>
Many US workers are paid so little that they 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/business/economy/working-but-needing-public-assistance-anyway.html">need,
and get, various sorts of welfare benefits</a>.
<p>
If we raise the minimum wage, they won't need these benefits.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(The_thug_that_killed_Walter_Scott)
title: The thug that killed Walter Scott
uri: The-thug-that-killed-Walter-Scott
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28The_thug_that_killed_Walter_Scott%29

content:
<p>
The thug that killed Walter Scott has a pattern of violence.  Another
man is suing, saying he has proof that the thug 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/13/michael-slager-walter-scott-stun-gun-lawsuit">shot
him with a taser as he was lying face-down on the street and not
moving</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Facebook_news_censorship)
title: Facebook news censorship
uri: Facebook-news-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Facebook_news_censorship%29
content:
<p>
If Facebook achieves its goal of becoming the main publication site
for journalism, it will be a new chokepoint for 
<a href="http://www.cjr.org/criticism/facebook_news_censorship.php">censorship</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Govt_surveillance_of_journalists)
title: Gov't surveillance of journalists
uri: Gov-t-surveillance-of-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Govt_surveillance_of_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Governments that make surveillance of journalists easy may find that
whistleblowers 
<a href="http://theconversation.com/whistleblowers-may-bypass-the-media-thanks-to-new-data-laws-39877">dump
unredacted data to the public for their own safety</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Death_sentences_in_St_Louis_area)
title: Death sentences in St Louis area
uri: Death-sentences-in-St-Louis-area
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Death_sentences_in_St_Louis_area%29

content:
<p>
In the St Louis area (which includes Ferguson), death sentences are
given preferentially to blacks, after using various subterfuges to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/13/missouri-governor-pressured-execution-andre-cole-white-jury">keep
blacks off the jury</a>.


title: Divestment from fossil fuel companies
uri: 2015-04-22-Divestment-from-fossil-fuel-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Divestment_from_fossil_fuel_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Divestment_from_fossil_fuel_companies%29

content:
<p>
Schools that divest from fossil fuel companies can 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/apr/13/divestment-colleges-universities-finance-fossil-fuels-investments">reinvest
the money profitably in reducing their own energy use</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(French_snooping_bill)
title: French snooping bill
uri: French-snooping-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28French_snooping_bill%29
content:
<p>
French hosting companies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/13/french-surveillance-civil-liberty-criticisms">threaten
to move out of France</a> if the latest snooping bill passes.


title: Films withdrawn from festival in protest
uri: Films-withdrawn-from-festival-in-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Films_withdrawn_from_festival_in_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Films_withdrawn_from_festival_in_protest%29

content:
<p>
The Istanbul International film festival 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/13/film-makers-withdraw-films-istanbul-film-festival">cancelled
showing a film that the government doesn't like</a>, so dozens of
other films have been withdrawn in protest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Fossil_fuel_subsidies)
title: Fossil fuel subsidies
uri: 2015-04-22-Fossil-fuel-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_subsidies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/13/fossil-fuel-subsidies-say-burn-more-carbon-world-bank-president">Fossil
Fuel Subsidies Tempt Us to Burn More Carbon, Says World Bank
Chief</a>.
<p>
This has been said before, but not often enough.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Labour_Party)
title: Labour Party
uri: Labour-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Labour_Party%29
content:
<p>
The Labour Party is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/13/labour-manifesto-ed-miliband">trying
to prove how right-wing it is</a>.
<p>
If I were in the UK I'd vote Green.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Tax_evasion)
title: Tax evasion
uri: Tax-evasion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Tax_evasion%29
content:
<p>
In France, rich people are being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/13/nina-ricci-heir-convicted-of-tax-evasion-in-france-with-help-of-hsbc">prosecuted
for tax evasion</a>.


title: North Sea hit hard by global heating
uri: North-Sea-hit-hard-by-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(North_Sea_hit_hard_by_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28North_Sea_hit_hard_by_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Global heating is hitting the North Sea, off Britain, especially fast,
and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/13/plaice-fish-risk-depletion-rising-temperatures">some
fish species can't live there any more</a>.
<p>
The article does not say whether these species could survive elsewhere
in the world.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(US_leads_in_child_poverty)
title: US leads in child poverty
uri: US-leads-in-child-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28US_leads_in_child_poverty%29
content:
<p>
The US is a leader in child poverty.  As the total wealth grew by 60%,
the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/13/nations-shame-trillions-new-wealth-millions-children-poverty">number
of homeless children in the US also grew by 60%</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Discovery_of_oil_south_of_London)
title: Discovery of oil south of London
uri: Discovery-of-oil-south-of-London
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Discovery_of_oil_south_of_London%29

content:
<p>
The discovery of oil south of London is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/13/greens-texas-surrey-oil-reserves">threat</a>,
not an opportunity.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Handgun_killings)
title: Handgun killings
uri: Handgun-killings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Handgun_killings%29
content:
<p>
A baby in Cleveland 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/13/toddler-shoots-and-kills-one-year-old-boy-in-cleveland-ohio">found
a loaded gun and shot another baby</a>, which died.
<p>
Handgun killings in the US are rising as deaths from car accidents
fall; in 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/04/10/the-17-states-where-guns-kill.html">17
states</a>, guns now kill more people than cars.


title: DEA's collection of phone call records
uri: DEA-s-collection-of-phone-call-records
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(DEAs_collection_of_phone_call_records)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28DEAs_collection_of_phone_call_records%29

content:
<p>
The US government's arguments for the DEA's massive collection of phone call
records 
<a href="http://justsecurity.org/21861/deas-bulk-collection-program/">fail
to show it is either necessary or constitutional</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Government_benefits)
title: Government benefits
uri: Government-benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Government_benefits%29
content:
<p>
Republicans push to control how poor people spend their government
benefits, but there is no push for such controls on how the rich and
the middle-class spend their larger benefits.  Many Americans don't
even understand that those <em>are</em> 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/07/the-double-standard-of-making-poor-people-prove-theyre-worthy-of-government-benefits/">government
benefits</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Criticism_of_religion)
title: Criticism of religion
uri: Criticism-of-religion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Criticism_of_religion%29
content:
<p>
South African writer Zainub Priya Dala says she was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/12/south-african-muslim-author-z-p-dala-allegedly-coerced-mental-hospital">forced
into a mental hospital by her Muslim relatives</a> to coerce her to
withdraw her praise of Salman Rushdie.
<p>
This comes after fanatics tried to stab her on the street.
<p>
There is a strong current among Muslims of believing that people have
no right to criticize their religion, or even talk about it lightly
which is what Rushdie did.  People who think that way are the enemies
of human thought and human rights.  They deserve the disgust of every
decent person.
<p>
The same applies to some Christians who hold similar views.  Even the
<a href="https://stallman.org/saint.html">Church of Emacs</a> is not
entitled to be immune from criticism.
<p>
"Hate speech" laws in many countries, that ban insults to religion,
encourage fanatics to believe they are entitled to suppress criticism
of their beliefs.  These laws not only infringe freedom of expression
directly, they encourage fanatics to go further.


title: GOP lawmakers get taste of discrimination
uri: GOP-lawmakers-get-taste-of-discrimination
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(GOP_lawmakers_get_taste_of_discrimination)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28GOP_lawmakers_get_taste_of_discrimination%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/12/fargo-cafe-lgbt-discrimination-gop-lawmaker-ban">Fargo
Café Praised After Banning GOP Lawmakers in Fight for Gay Rights</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Corporations_that_feed_on_prisons)
title: Corporations that feed on prisons
uri: Corporations-that-feed-on-prisons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Corporations_that_feed_on_prisons%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/06/boycott-divest-and-sanction-corporations-feed-prisons">Boycott,
Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed on Prisons</a>.
<p>
According to the article, corporations currently exploiting prison
labor include Abbott Laboratories, AT&T, AutoZone, Bank of America,
Bayer, Berkshire Hathaway, Cargill, Caterpillar, Chevron, the former
Chrysler Group, Costco Wholesale, John Deere, Eddie Bauer, Eli Lilly,
ExxonMobil, Fruit of the Loom, GEICO, GlaxoSmithKline, Galxo Wellcome,
Hoffmann-La Roche, International Paper, JanSport, Johnson & Johnson,
Kmart, Koch Industries, Mary Kay, McDonaldâs, Merck, Microsoft,
Motorola, Nintendo, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Quaker Oats, Sarah Lee,
Sears, Shell, Sprint, Starbucks, State Farm Insurance, United
Airlines, UPS, Verizon, Victoriaâs Secret, Wal-Mart and Wendyâs.
<p>
I'm not going to boycott all of them, but I will boycott some of them
which have easy alternatives.  (Of course, many of them I would never
do business with anyway.)  You can probably boycott those oil
companies, clothing companies, food/beverage companies, and stores.
<p>
It might be a good idea for the campaign to focus on a few of those
targets first, and help boycott participants inform those targets.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Symbol_of_a_Sick_America)
title: Symbol of a Sick America
uri: Symbol-of-a-Sick-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Symbol_of_a_Sick_America%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/06/rahm-emanuel-symbol-sick-america">Rahm
Emanuel: Symbol of a Sick America</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(US_wars)
title: US wars
uri: US-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28US_wars%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/08/us-wars-barack-obama-saudi-arabia-yemen">The
US Isn't Winding Down Its Wars — It's Just Running Them At Arm's
Length</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Fight215.org)
title: Fight215.org
uri: Fight215-org
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Fight215.org%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-coalition-site-fight215org-launches-amplify-opposition-nsas-mass-surveillance">Fight215.org</a>
is a coalition dedicated to repealing the part of the PAT RIOT Act
that is used to excuse collection of phone call records of everyone in
the US.


title: YouTube marketing junk food to children
uri: YouTube-marketing-junk-food-to-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(YouTube_marketing_junk_food_to_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28YouTube_marketing_junk_food_to_children%29

content:
<p>
YouTube's new focus is 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/how-youtube-big-data-and-big-brands-mean-trouble-kids-and-parents">marketing
junk food to children</a>, collecting data about them all the while.
<p>
Letting children watch YouTube is much worse than letting them watch
TV.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Paying_users_for_being_tracked)
title: Paying users for being tracked
uri: Paying-users-for-being-tracked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Paying_users_for_being_tracked%29
content:
<p>
Another dangerous digital practice: 
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/08/technology/security/insurance-data-tracking/index.html">small
discounts on life insurance in return for being tracked</a> (and
following an imposed regime).
<p>
As with all such "pay the user a little for being tracked" schemes,
the tendency is to put pressure on everyone to be tracked.
Individually rejecting them is just the first step; we should prohibit
them instead.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Corporate_tax_dodging)
title: Corporate tax dodging
uri: Corporate-tax-dodging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Corporate_tax_dodging%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers/sorrystateofcorptaxes.php">strategems
used by 288 big US companies</a> to reduce their tax rate to under
20%.
<p>
CBS, General Electric, Interpublic Group, Jetblue Airways, Mattel,
Owens Corning, PG&E Corp., Prudential Financial, Qualcomm, PEPCO
Holdings, Priceline.com, Ryder System, Time Warner, Weyerhaeuser
and Xerox pay no tax at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Freed_goldfish)
title: "Freed" goldfish
uri: Freed-goldfish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Freed_goldfish%29
content:
<p>
Someone "freed" goldfish in a lake in Colorado.  They reproduced and
are 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/09/1376624/-Someone-released-their-goldfish-and-now-there-are-thousands-of-goldfish-taking-over-a-Colorado-lake">driving
out the native species</a>.
<p>
Don't ever release pets into the wild without consulting experts
about whether it is safe.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Paid_protesters)
title: Paid "protesters"
uri: Paid-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Paid_protesters%29
content:
<p>
Florida is considering an inadequate plan to protect part of the
Everglades from agricultural runoff, so the "Tea Party" held a protest
— with 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/09/1376605/--Tea-party-protest-against-Everglades-conservation-turns-out-to-be-just-a-bunch-of-paid-actors">paid
"protesters"</a>.
<p>
With current levels of Republican dishonesty, one must suspect all
their "protests" of being paid.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Malicious_Javascript)
title: Malicious Javascript
uri: Malicious-Javascript
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Malicious_Javascript%29
content:
<p>
China has a new system for 
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/chinas-great-cannon-taking-censorship-across-country-borders/">injecting
malicious Javascript</a> into users' machines to make them attack any
chosen target site.
<p>
A more 
<a href="https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/">technical
analysis</a> of how it works.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 21_April_2015_(Sexism)
title: Sexism
uri: Sexism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#21_April_2015_%28Sexism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/apr/10/thank-you-ellen-pao-for-teaching-more-people-about-sexism-in-the-workplace">Subtle
sexism</a>, impossible to prove in a court, holds women back in their
careers.
<p>
This issue is far more important than the Ellen Pao case itself,
because it affects a lot of women, not executives only.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_April_2015_(Scapegoat_Economics)
title: Scapegoat Economics
uri: Scapegoat-Economics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_April_2015_%28Scapegoat_Economics%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30032-scapegoat-economics-2015">Scapegoat
Economics 2015</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_April_2015_(Fictional_leftist_media_bias)
title: Fictional "leftist media bias"
uri: Fictional-leftist-media-bias
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_April_2015_%28Fictional_leftist_media_bias%29
content:
<p>
The right-wing owners of the mass media create a myth that each one
opposes a fictional "leftist media bias".  The latest iteration is the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2015/apr/14/political-incorrectness-gone-mad-the-myth-of-the-metropolitan-elite">"metropolitan
elite"</a>.


title: Jailed, fined and forced to plead guilty
uri: Jailed-fined-and-forced-to-plead-guilty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_April_2015_(Jailed_fined_and_forced_to_plead_guilty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_April_2015_%28Jailed_fined_and_forced_to_plead_guilty%29

content:
<p>
St Anne, Missouri, jailed Juan Thompson's mother until she 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/08/how-st-louis-police-robbed-my-family/">pled
guilty to accusations against another woman</a>, and her family had to
pay $1000 to get her out of jail.
<p>
The state later acknowledged this was mistaken identity, but the
guilty plea remains on her record and they can't get the money back.
They don't take trouble to correct mistakes for a poor person.
<p>
Juan's aunt has been unemployed for six years because of a car fine
she could not pay, and his uncle is in jail because he can't pay the
fees for a previous jailing for an unpaid ticket.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_April_2015_(Killer_robots)
title: Killer robots
uri: Killer-robots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_April_2015_%28Killer_robots%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/13/uk-opposes-international-ban-on-developing-killer-robots">complexities</a>
of defining what constitutes a killer robot.
<p>
I am confident a good criterion can be worked out.  If it is more than
one sentence long, that is not a flaw.


title: Green Party against austerity policies
uri: Green-Party-against-austerity-policies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_April_2015_(Green_Party_against_austerity_policies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_April_2015_%28Green_Party_against_austerity_policies%29

content:
<p>
The UK Green Party says it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/14/green-party-manifesto-peaceful-political-revolution-end-austerity-natalie-bennett">will
abolish the cruel austerity policies</a>.
<p>
Vote Green!


title: Greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands
uri: Greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-the-Netherlands
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_April_2015_(Greenhouse_gas_emissions_in_the_Netherlands)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_April_2015_%28Greenhouse_gas_emissions_in_the_Netherlands%29

content:
<p>
In the Netherlands, citizens are suing to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/14/dutch-government-facing-legal-action-over-failure-to-reduce-carbon-emissions">demand
stronger action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions</a>.
<p>
Sea-level rise is a serious matter for the Netherlands.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_April_2015_(US_tax_breaks_for_rich_people)
title: US tax breaks for rich people
uri: US-tax-breaks-for-rich-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_April_2015_%28US_tax_breaks_for_rich_people%29
content:
<p>
Some US special tax breaks that 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/10/1376847/-Yacht-deductions-and-fancy-meals-How-the-rich-rake-in-government-handouts">mainly
benefit rich people</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 22_April_2015_(School-to-prison_pipeline)
title: School-to-prison pipeline
uri: 2015-04-23-School-to-prison-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#22_April_2015_%28School-to-prison_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
Virginia is the worst state for the school-to-prison pipeline.  
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/10/1376872/-11-year-old-has-criminal-and-felony-charges-against-him-for-kicking-trash-can-in-school">An
11-year-old boy was convicted of a felony</a> because he pushed back
when a thug stationed in his school grabbed him.
<p>
The thugs in our schools are there to ruin children's lives.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(The_Hedge_Clippers)
title: The Hedge Clippers
uri: The-Hedge-Clippers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28The_Hedge_Clippers%29
content:
<p>
The Hedge Clippers protest the billionaires
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/14/protesters-slam-wall-street-elites-profiting-misery-workers">
getting rich by squeezing
the poor</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Unprivatizing)
title: Unprivatizing
uri: Unprivatizing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Unprivatizing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/14/booting-corporate-power-communities-are-taking-back-control-their-water">
Towns across the US are unprivatizing</a> their water supplies, but the
TPP
could
put an end to that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_killers)
title: Urgent: killers
uri: Urgent-killers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_killers%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://fair.org/blog-entries/why-does-wapo-protect-identities-of-cops-who-tased-a-shackled-mentally-ill-woman-until-she-died/">
ask the Washington Post</a> to treat killer thugs as it treats
other killers, by publishing their names when writing about them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Right_to_Buy)
title: Right to Buy
uri: Right-to-Buy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Right_to_Buy%29
content:
<p>
Thatcher's "right to buy" public housing apartments left Britain with
insufficient public housing and thus contributed to today's
homelessness.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/14/extending-right-to-buy-conservatives-thatcherism-social-housing">
The Tory solution: do more of it</a>.
<p>
What the UK
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/13/bring-back-squatting-solution-to-housing-crisis">
needs is to legalize squatting again</a>.
<p>
Does the Labour Party advocate this?  What about the Green Party?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Violent_Intimidation)
title: Violent Intimidation
uri: Violent-Intimidation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Violent_Intimidation%29
content:
<p>
Ethiopians Talk of Violent Intimidation As Their Land Is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/ethiopia-villagisation-violence-land-grab">
Earmarked for
Foreign Investors</a>.
<p>
Under a dictatorship such as Ethiopia, nothing that the government
encourages is truly voluntary.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Japanese_nuclear_reactors)
title: Japanese nuclear reactors
uri: Japanese-nuclear-reactors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Japanese_nuclear_reactors%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/japans-post-fukushima-nuclear-restart-plans-dealt-a-blow-by-court-ruling">
Japanese court blocked plans to restart</a> of some nuclear reactors.
The court simply followed the applicable safety criteria and
concluded that the plants are unsafe and vulnerable to earthquakes.
<p>
Japan should start building up solar and wind power.
It is a great way to boost the economy, too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Jason_Rezaian)
title: Jason Rezaian
uri: Jason-Rezaian
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Jason_Rezaian%29
content:
<p>
Iran will finally give Jason Rezaian a chance to discuss the charges
against him with his lawyer — for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/jason-rezaian-iran-washington-post">
a total of one hour before the
trial starts</a>.
<p>
It's not quite as bad as Egypt.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Thugs_in_the_LA_region)
title: Thugs in the LA region
uri: Thugs-in-the-LA-region
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Thugs_in_the_LA_region%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in the LA region chased a fugitive who surrendered.  Just to
handcuff him
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/10/fleeing-from-deputies-lands-southern-cal">
would have been enough</a>, but they tased him, kicked him 17
times, punched him 37 times, and hit him with a stick 4 times.
<p>
After that treatment, he lay still on the ground for 45 minutes,
without medical attention.
<p>
Unfortunately the video of the incident can't be watched without
nonfree software.  I wouldn't run the nonfree code to see it.
I expect that LibreJS will block it.
<p>
His injuries still hurt,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/14/california-man-police-stolen-horse">
but there is no word on how serious</a> they were.


title: Urgent: Fruits and vegetables in school lunches
uri: Urgent-Fruits-and-vegetables-in-school-lunches
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Fruits_and_vegetables_in_school_lunches)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Fruits_and_vegetables_in_school_lunches%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4649">tell
the School Nutrition Association</a> to stop lobbying against fruits
and vegetables in school lunches.
<p>
That organization's name, like those of many lobbying associations,
is deceptive.  It should be called the School Junk Food Association.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Support_the_FAIR_Act)
title: Urgent: Support the FAIR Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-FAIR-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_FAIR_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1215">call
on your congresscritter</a> to support the FAIR Act, which would
partially eliminate the injustice of "civil asset forfeiture".


title: Urgent: Cancel militarized thug unit
uri: Urgent-Cancel-militarized-thug-unit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Cancel_militarized_thug_unit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_militarized_thug_unit%29

content:
<p>
New Yorkers: 
<a href="http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/defund-bratton-s-army">call
for Bratton's militarized thug unit to be canceled</a>.


title: Urgent: Respect for network neutrality
uri: Urgent-Respect-for-network-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Respect_for_network_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Respect_for_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_nn_rod/">call on
Congress</a> to respect network neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_TPP_fast_track)
title: Urgent: Oppose TPP "fast track"
uri: 2015-04-25-Urgent-Oppose-TPP-fast-track
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_TPP_fast_track%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to oppose "fast track" for the TPP.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Improve heavy truck efficiency
uri: Urgent-Improve-heavy-truck-efficiency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Improve_heavy_truck_efficiency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Improve_heavy_truck_efficiency%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4549">support
the EPA's plan</a> to require big efficiency improvements for heavy
trucks.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Endorsement_of_fracking_ban)
title: Urgent: Endorsement of fracking ban
uri: Urgent-Endorsement-of-fracking-ban
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Endorsement_of_fracking_ban%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2035">call
on Clinton</a> to endorse a ban on fracking.
<p>
I do not support Clinton, because I do not expect her to support good
policies like this.  But let's pressure her and give her a chance to
be better than we expect.


title: Urgent: Block Shell's Arctic oil drilling
uri: Urgent-Block-Shell-s-Arctic-oil-drilling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Block_Shells_Arctic_oil_drilling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Shells_Arctic_oil_drilling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=15454">call
on the Department of the Interior</a> to block Shell's Arctic oil
drilling.


title: Urgent: Ban neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: 2015-04-25-Urgent-Ban-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/epa_neonics_ban">call on the
EPA</a> to ban neonicotinoid pesticides.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_censorship_order)
title: Urgent: Oppose censorship order
uri: Urgent-Oppose-censorship-order
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_censorship_order%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/censorship_wisconsin/">call
on Wisconsin</a> to retract its order for some officials not to use
the term "climate change".
<p>
Ironically, the term 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_June_2014_(Destroyed_by_global_heating)">"climate
change"</a> was imposed by Republicans around 13 years ago in an
attempt to disguise the issue that was then called "global warming".
<p>
I call it "global heating" to show the gravity of the problem.


title: Urgent: Oppose mining in public lands
uri: Urgent-Oppose-mining-in-public-lands
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_mining_in_public_lands)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_mining_in_public_lands%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=15504">oppose
coal mining</a> in "roadless" Colorado public lands.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Urgent:_No_neonicotinoid_pesticides)
title: Urgent: No neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Urgent-No-neonicotinoid-pesticides
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17611">Tell
Ace and True Value</a> to stop selling neonicotinoid pesticides.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(PISSI_attacking_Iraq)
title: PISSI attacking Iraq
uri: PISSI-attacking-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28PISSI_attacking_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
PISSI is attacking again in Iraq, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/16/iraqi-city-ramadi-verge-falling-isis-prime-minister">capturing
Ramadi</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Privatization_of_water_supply)
title: Privatization of water supply
uri: Privatization-of-water-supply
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Privatization_of_water_supply%29
content:
<p>
Privatization of water supply is a scheme for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/17/world-water-forum-needs-to-be-more-than-just-a-trade-show-for-privatisation">private
profit from public investment</a>.
<p>
When for-profit businesses get involved in public services, the profit
comes from shafting the public or the employees.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Chinese_thugs_crush_protest)
title: Chinese thugs crush protest
uri: Chinese-thugs-crush-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Chinese_thugs_crush_protest%29
content:
<p>
A protest against a chemical plant's pollution in China was crushed by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/2000-police-used-to-quell-pollution-protest-in-china-which-left-one-dead">2,000
thugs</a>.  It must have been a rather large protest.
<p>
The people are probably getting sick from the polluted water.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Australian_govt_funding)
title: Australian gov't funding
uri: Australian-gov-t-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Australian_govt_funding%29
content:
<p>
The Australian government has no money for the poor, but it is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/17/abbott-government-gives-4m-to-help-climate-sceptic-set-up-australian-centre">funding
global heating denialism</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Genocide_of_Armenians)
title: Genocide of Armenians
uri: Genocide-of-Armenians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Genocide_of_Armenians%29
content:
<p>
The genocide of the Armenians was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/16/the-armenian-genocide-the-guardian-briefing">started
100 years ago</a>.
<p>
In Turkey, as in France, it is impossible to speak honestly about this
issue.  Under those countries' censorship laws, one must choose
between risking prosecution and parroting the official line.  Hrant
Dink, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#13_January_2014_(Freedom_of_speech_in_Turkey_and_France)">hero
of freedom of speech</a>, was prepared to defy both countries to
prosecute him for talking about history.  If you are in one of those
countries and not prepared to go to that length, I recommend that you
respond to the subject by saying that censorship makes honest
discussion of the question impossible in that country.
<p>
Since I am not in Turkey or France, I can speak freely about the
subject.  I condemn the genocide of the Armenians.
<p>
This does not mean condemnation of Turks or Turkey today.  Those who
carried out the genocide of the Armenians are dead.  Turkey's duty
today is to confront its past honestly.  The Turks and Turkey of today
cannot inherit culpability for a wrong committed 100 years ago, but if
they deny or defend that wrong, they make themselves culpable for it.
<p>
Every country with a long history has crimes in that history.  Every
country needs to acknowledge these crimes to go forward honestly, and
apologize for them to go forward ethically.  To deny national crimes
corrupts the spirit.  To ask which country's crime is worse is a
distraction.
<p>
The government of Turkey corrupts the national spirit by denying the
genocide of the Armenians.  The government of Japan likewise corrupts
the national spirit by denying its past crimes, including 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#17_March_2015_(War_crimes_in_history_textbook)">forcing
women into prostitution</a>.
<p>
The US has recognized that it stole land from indigenous peoples, and
apologized for imprisoning Japanese-Americans.  But Republicans in the
US are actively campaigning to cover up a more recent crime: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jul-oct.html#18%20September%202007%20(Believing%20the%20lies)">Dubya's
lies that were the pretext for the conquest and invasion of Iraq</a>.
Woe to the US if it swallows this lie.


title: Professor threatened for expressing disagreement
uri: Professor-threatened-for-expressing-disagreement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Professor_threatened_for_expressing_disagreement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Professor_threatened_for_expressing_disagreement%29

content:
<p>
A professor at Northwestern University faces the 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/15/this-prof-dared-to-challenge-her-student">threat
of disciplinary action</a> for expressing disagreement with current
policy towards handling accusations of rape or not-quite-rape.


title: Big business use of "trade associations"
uri: Big-business-use-of-trade-associations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Big_business_use_of_trade_associations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Big_business_use_of_trade_associations%29

content:
<p>
Big businesses use "trade associations" to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/apr/15/big-business-trade-groups-lobby-against-eu-climate-change">lobby
the EU to continue unchecked fossil fuel use</a>.
<p>
If your MEP has given a phone number to a representative of a "trade
association", you need a different one.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Shells_plan_for_handling_oil_spill)
title: Shell's "plan" for handling oil spill
uri: Shell-s-plan-for-handling-oil-spill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Shells_plan_for_handling_oil_spill%29

content:
<p>
Shell's "plan" for handling an oil spill in the Arctic is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/14/mind-gap-shells-inadequate-arctic-spill-plan">pure
fiction</a>.  The only purpose it serves is as an excuse to pretend
there is a plan.


title: Liability of nuclear reactor companies
uri: Liability-of-nuclear-reactor-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Liability_of_nuclear_reactor_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Liability_of_nuclear_reactor_companies%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/15/greenpeace-condemns-new-international-nuclear-liability-convention">new
treaty</a> indemnifies nuclear reactor companies from essentially any
harm that the reactors might do.


title: In Guantanamo based on mistaken identity
uri: In-Guantanamo-based-on-mistaken-identity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(In_Guantanamo_based_on_mistaken_identity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28In_Guantanamo_based_on_mistaken_identity%29

content:
<p>
The US recognizes that it put Ahmad Rabbani in Guantanamo based on
mistaken identity, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/15/family-emaciated-guantanamo-prisoner-plead-court-help">still
refuses to release him</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(TV_coverage_of_California_drought)
title: TV coverage of California drought
uri: TV-coverage-of-California-drought
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28TV_coverage_of_California_drought%29

content:
<p>
TV coverage of the California drought 
<a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8b4c9c2d73">hardly
ever mentions "climate change" or "global warming"</a>.
<p>
Neither of those terms reflects the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_May_2014_(Global_warming_vs_climate_change)">magnitude
of the danger</a>.  That's why I call it "global heating".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Cruelty_of_Rand_Paul)
title: Cruelty of Rand Paul
uri: Cruelty-of-Rand-Paul
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Cruelty_of_Rand_Paul%29
content:
<p>
Senator Sanders exposed the cruelty of Rand Paul, who 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/22/987624/-Rand-Paul-America-s-hungry-seniors-should-turn-to-charity?detail=email">wants
the state to tell old people with no food to turn to "noble private
charity"</a>.  When "noble private charity" doesn't show up, they will
have to beg.
<p>
If Republicans think that poor people should beg, why do they pass
laws against begging?  Why do they make so many people homeless, if
they hate the homeless so much?
<p>
I think they regard anyone not useful to the plutocrats as
superfluous, and would like to get rid of them — not Nazi-style
with death camps, but out of sight by hunger and sickness.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Ex-thug_admits_framing_people)
title: Ex-thug admits framing people
uri: Ex-thug-admits-framing-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Ex-thug_admits_framing_people%29
content:
<p>
Ex-thug Jeffrey Walker admits he planted drugs (i.e., framed people)
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/14/1377712/-Former-Philadelphia-police-officer-I-planted-drugs-too-many-times-to-count?detail=email">so
many times he has lost count of them</a>.
<p>
I would be skeptical of anything a thug says as a witness; they are
habituated to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2003-sep-dec.html#12_September_2003_(he_started_it)">"testilying"
(as they call it)</a> so they know how to make it appear they are
telling the truth.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Thug_body_camera_footage)
title: Thug body camera footage
uri: Thug-body-camera-footage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Thug_body_camera_footage%29
content:
<p>
California is considering a bill to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/14/1377729/-California-passes-intelligent-legislation-preventing-police-from-viewing-body-camera-footage?detail=email">ban
thugs from looking at their own camera footage before reporting what
they did</a>.
<p>
This is very important.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Coal_polluters_latest_lie)
title: Coal polluters' latest lie
uri: Coal-polluters-latest-lie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Coal_polluters_latest_lie%29
content:
<p>
Coal polluters' 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/16/coal-isnt-solution-to-energy-poverty-solar-energy">latest
lie</a>: that burning a lot of coal would help the world's poor.
<p>
The global heating effects would be disastrous for them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Protests_forbidden_in_Spain)
title: Protests forbidden in Spain
uri: Protests-forbidden-in-Spain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Protests_forbidden_in_Spain%29
content:
<p>
In Spain, protest of nearly any kind is forbidden by blanket
repression.  The only kind of protest remains possible is a 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/14/1377757/-Spanish-citizens-hold-hologram-protest-against-new-gag-law?detail=email">hologram</a>.
<p>
It's clever, but it won't defeat the repression.  What that requires
is for masses to occupy the city and spit on the fines.


title: Student arrested for speaking up to thug
uri: Student-arrested-for-speaking-up-to-thug
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Student_arrested_for_speaking_up_to_thug)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Student_arrested_for_speaking_up_to_thug%29

content:
<p>
Shona Banda is a medical marijuana activist.  Her son talked back to
a prohibition propaganda presentation in school, so thugs grabbed him,
searched her house for marijuana, and now are 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/14/1377680/-Medical-marijuana-activist-in-Kansas-arrested-son-taken-away-after-he-spoke-up-to-D-A-R-E-officer">trying
to take away custody of her son</a>.
<p>
The article refers to a youtube video.  Please do not watch it
directly, since that would require running 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">nonfree
software</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Voter_ID_in_Australia)
title: Voter ID in Australia
uri: Voter-ID-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Voter_ID_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Voter ID in Australia has the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/16/queensland-voter-id-laws-saw-voters-wrongly-turned-away-inquiry-told">same
effect as in the US</a>: it tends to disenfranchise old people,
disadvantaged minority groups, and the disabled.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Recording_thugs)
title: Recording thugs
uri: Recording-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Recording_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US thugs still 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/15/the-frequently-flouted-right-that-implic">arrogantly
interfere with people recording them</a>, and make threats of revenge.
<p>
We need to jail them for this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Sanctions_against_Iran)
title: Sanctions against Iran
uri: Sanctions-against-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Sanctions_against_Iran%29
content:
<p>
Rouhani says Iran 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/15/iranian-president-says-no-nuclear-agreement-without-end-to-all-sanctions">will
not accept a nuclear deal unless all sanctions are lifted
immediately</a>.
<p>
This demonstrates that sanctions can be effective in convincing a
country to make a deal.  But this effectiveness depends on willingness
to end the sanctions in exchange for a reasonable deal.  If the US
offers no carrot, it will get nothing.
<p>
Perhaps the sanctions could be reimposed automatically if the the deal
collapses.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Remote_control_of_airplanes)
title: Remote control of airplanes
uri: Remote-control-of-airplanes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Remote_control_of_airplanes%29
content:
<p>
A German air traffic control organization calls for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/15/germanwings-crash-call-for-technology-to-enable-remote-command-of-plane">remote
control piloting feature for airplanes</a>.
<p>
As a step toward this, it may already be possible to take control of
an air liner 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/15/wi-fi-on-planes-in-flight-hacking-us-government">using
the WiFi on board</a>.
<p>
But I won't do it, because they typically require nonfree Javascript,
and require users to identify themselves (I won't identify myself to
connect to the net).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(FBI_entrapment)
title: FBI entrapment
uri: FBI-entrapment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28FBI_entrapment%29
content:
<p>
When Khalifah al-Akili realized the FBI was trying to entrap him as a
"terrorist", he 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/15/fbi-informant-stung-fbi/">called
in journalists to document what was happening</a>.


title: Humanity pushing world past safe limits
uri: Humanity-pushing-world-past-safe-limits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Humanity_pushing_world_past_safe_limits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Humanity_pushing_world_past_safe_limits%29

content:
<p>
On many dimensions, humanity is pushing the world 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/gallery/2015/apr/14/pushing-beyond-earth-limits-natural-world">past
safe limits</a>.


title: Blackwater mercenaries convicted of murder
uri: Blackwater-mercenaries-convicted-of-murder
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Blackwater_mercenaries_convicted_of_murder)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Blackwater_mercenaries_convicted_of_murder%29

content:
<p>
Blackwater mercenaries were 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/14/blackwater-guards-get-long-sentences-iraq-killings/">convicted
of murdering civilians in Iraq</a> and given long prison sentences.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Massacre_at_Garissa_University)
title: Massacre at Garissa University
uri: Massacre-at-Garissa-University
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Massacre_at_Garissa_University%29
content:
<p>
Al-Shabaab's massacre at Garissa University continued hours longer
because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/kenyan-police-chiefs-misuse-of-plane-fuels-anger-over-garissa-massacre">corruption
delayed the arrival of the commandos</a> who were sent to defeat the
attackers.
<p>
Using the operational plane for training seems like a mistake, too.
It's not corrupt, but it's asking for trouble.  They ought to have
another plane for training.


title: SeaWorld's false statements about orcas
uri: SeaWorld-s-false-statements-about-orcas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(SeaWorlds_false_statements_about_orcas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28SeaWorlds_false_statements_about_orcas%29

content:
<p>
A new lawsuit against SeaWorld demands only that it cease its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/14/seaworld-lawsuit-park-false-statements-orca-welfare">false
statements about the welfare of orcas</a>.
<p>
Let's not romanticize orcas.  The name "killer whale" is a
transposition of "whale killer".  In fact, some groups of orcas make a
habit of ganging up on a family of larger whales in order to kill the
family's young, then eat only the tongues and leave the rest.  (Orcas
are intelligent enough that different groups have different
practices.)  That's nature for you.
<p>
But that doesn't make it good to capture them and treat them with
prolonged cruelty.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Nuclear_deal_with_Iran)
title: Nuclear deal with Iran
uri: 2015-04-25-Nuclear-deal-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Nuclear_deal_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>
Congress and Obama 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/14/iran-nuclear-deal-congress-review">agreed</a>
on a scheme to permit a possible nuclear deal with Iran.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Net_Neutrality)
title: Net Neutrality
uri: Net-Neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Net_Neutrality%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.freepress.net/blog/2015/04/14/congress-still-trying-destroy-net-neutrality">Congress
Is STILL Trying to Destroy Net Neutrality</a>.


title: Dispersant used by BP more toxic than oil
uri: Dispersant-used-by-BP-more-toxic-than-oil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Dispersant_used_by_BP_more_toxic_than_oil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Dispersant_used_by_BP_more_toxic_than_oil%29

content:
<p>
The dispersant used by Billionaire Polluters after the Big Spill is
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-04-dispersant-deepwater-horizon-toxic-corals.html">more
toxic to coral than the oil</a>.


title: Suing Facebook based on Illinois law
uri: Suing-Facebook-based-on-Illinois-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Suing_Facebook_based_on_Illinois_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Suing_Facebook_based_on_Illinois_law%29

content:
<p>
Suing Facebook based on an 
<a href="http://privacysos.org/node/1711">Illinois biometric law</a>
that covers face recognition databases.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Antarctica_melting_faster)
title: Antarctica melting faster
uri: Antarctica-melting-faster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Antarctica_melting_faster%29
content:
<p>
Antarctica is 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30063-melting-accelerates-in-antarctica-so-far-2015-is-hottest-year-yet">melting
faster</a>; NASA now projects 10 feet of sea level rise by 2100.
However, other catastrophes will come faster.  Forests in North and
South America are dying already.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Obamas_support_for_the_TPP)
title: Obama's support for the TPP
uri: Obama-s-support-for-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Obamas_support_for_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
Obama 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30090-white-house-reveals-desperate-lack-of-support-for-tpp">grasps
at straws</a> to claim environmentalists support the TPP.
<p>
Obama's own support for the TPP reveals he is really on the side of
business against the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Driving_while_black)
title: Driving while black
uri: Driving-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Driving_while_black%29
content:
<p>
The danger of driving while black has
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/04/north-carolina-traffic-stops">
increased since 2002</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Fracking_in_Pennsylvania)
title: Fracking in Pennsylvania
uri: Fracking-in-Pennsylvania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Fracking_in_Pennsylvania%29
content:
<p>
Fracking in Pennsylvania is releasing radioactive, carcinogenic radon
gas,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/09/fracking-boom-accompanied-rise-silent-deadly-carcinogen-homes-study">
increasing the amount that seeps from the ground</a> into people's homes.
<p>
Here's the
<a href="media/9a073a00.ehp.1409014.acco.pdf" data-original-source="http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/advpub/2015/4/ehp.1409014.acco.pdf">
full data</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Murdoch_media)
title: Murdoch media
uri: Murdoch-media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Murdoch_media%29
content:
<p>
Murdoch media
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2015/apr/16/ask-the-real-experts-about-ocean-acidification-not-climate-science-deniers">
still publish articles full of nonsense</a> about CO2
emissions
and their consequences.
<p>
This is a conspiracy — between media companies, mouthpieces for
hire, and fossil fuel companies which have lots of money to spend
to keep us burning too much fossil fuel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Compassion_for_the_disabled)
title: Compassion for the disabled
uri: Compassion-for-the-disabled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Compassion_for_the_disabled%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/15/david-cameron-betrayed-disabled-coalition-retrogression">
A disabled Briton expected that Cameron</a>, who had a disabled son, would
feel compassion for the disabled.
<p>
If Cameron were capable of compassion, he would not be a Tory.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Billionaire_Polluters)
title: Billionaire Polluters
uri: Billionaire-Polluters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Billionaire_Polluters%29
content:
<p>
Billionaire Polluters
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/16/bp-dropped-green-energy-projects-worth-billions-to-focus-on-fossil-fuels">
abandoned large renewable energy projects</a> in the
1990s to focus on fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Tyrant_of_Belarus)
title: Tyrant of Belarus
uri: Tyrant-of-Belarus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Tyrant_of_Belarus%29
content:
<p>
The tyrant of Belarus has done what many right-wing politicians would
like to do: make it
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/16/belarus-fine-unemployed-social-parasite-law">
a crime to be unemployed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(World_Bank_projects)
title: World Bank projects
uri: World-Bank-projects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28World_Bank_projects%29
content:
<p>
World Bank projects
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/16/world-bank-breaks-own-rules-indigenous-people-forced-off-land">
force poor people out of their homes with no
compensation</a>, then burn fossil fuel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(New_Zealand's_spy_service)
title: New Zealand's spy service
uri: New-Zealand-s-spy-service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28New_Zealand%27s_spy_service%29
content:
<p>
New Zealand's spy service operated in Bangladesh, giving information
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/15/new-zealand-bangladesh-gcsb-surveillance-human-rights/">
to Bangla spy agencies that practiced torture and murder</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Tax_havens)
title: Tax havens
uri: Tax-havens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Tax_havens%29
content:
<p>
The UK's supposed initiative to close some tax havens was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/15/david-cameron-tax-havens-cayman-islands-david-maclean-lord-blencathra">
a sham
to forestall real action against them</a>, a minister at the time told
one of those tax havens.
<p>
You would not expect right-wing plutocrats to shut down tax-dodging by
rich people or big businesses.  Those are the masters they have sold
out their country to.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Economic_decline)
title: Economic decline
uri: Economic-decline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Economic_decline%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/15/finland-boom-election-recession-oulu-miracle-timber-nokia">
Finland is having a long-term economic decline.</a>
<p>
Finland should vote for a government that will insist on saving Greece
now,
so that Finland can be saved later.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Fear-exaggerating_security_theater)
title: Fear-exaggerating security theater
uri: Fear-exaggerating-security-theater
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Fear-exaggerating_security_theater%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/04/metal_detectors.html">
Metal detectors at major league baseball games</a> are an example of
irrational fear-exaggerating security theater.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Former_Ukrainian_politicians)
title: Former Ukrainian politicians
uri: Former-Ukrainian-politicians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Former_Ukrainian_politicians%29
content:
<p>
Six former Ukrainian politicians have
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/15/ousted-ukraine-president-ally-shot-dead">
died in suspicious circumstances</a>
in two months.
<p>
It is not clear whether they are suicides or murders.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Minimum_Wage)
title: Minimum Wage
uri: Minimum-Wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Minimum_Wage%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/fight-for-15-minimum-wage-protests-new-york-los-angeles-atlanta-boston">
Tens of thousands of low-paid US workers</a> protested demanding a minimum
wage of $15 an hour.
<p>
I am in favor of it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Ethiopia_has_repressed_journalists)
title: Ethiopia has repressed journalists
uri: Ethiopia-has-repressed-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Ethiopia_has_repressed_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Ethiopia has repressed journalists and political opposition as well as
the peasants that
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/14/ethiopians-break-their-silence-against-government-repression-and-forced">
objected to the loss of their land</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Hiding_and_altering_documents)
title: Hiding and altering documents
uri: Hiding-and-altering-documents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Hiding_and_altering_documents%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan officials are hiding and altering documents
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/14/government-investigators-hide-death-row-mans-records">
to ensure that
Shafqat Hussain gets executed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Buying_of_laws)
title: Buying of laws
uri: Buying-of-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Buying_of_laws%29
content:
<p>
Doug Hughes protested against buying of laws
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/gyrocopter-us-capitol-lawn-florida-mailman-campaign-finance-protest">
by landing an ultralight
gyrocopter on the Capitol lawn with letters for congresscritters</a>.
<p>
Of course he was arrested.  We will see how eager the US government is
to
find excuses to imprison dissidents for harmless protests.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Expensive_finishing_schools)
title: Expensive finishing schools
uri: Expensive-finishing-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Expensive_finishing_schools%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/15/art-schools-wealthy-few-culture">
If we value art</a>, we must not let art schools become expensive
finishing schools for the children of the elite.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Burden_on_the_public)
title: Burden on the public
uri: Burden-on-the-public
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Burden_on_the_public%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://rocunited.org/picking-up-the-nras-tab-the-public-cost-of-low-wages-in-the-restaurant-industry/">
low wages paid restaurant workers</a> in the US place a large burden
on
the public, paying for welfare benefits so the workers can get by.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Divest_Harvard)
title: Divest Harvard
uri: Divest-Harvard
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Divest_Harvard%29
content:
<p>
Divest Harvard has
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/14/update-divest-harvard-successfully-stops-business-usual-massachusetts-and">
blockaded two administrative buildings</a> as a
protest.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/14/divestment-protest-expands-harvard-students-block-entrances-university-hall">
Alumni camped out in a building</a> where the Alumni Association had
refused to talk with them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Medical_records_of_whistleblowers)
title: Medical records of whistleblowers
uri: Medical-records-of-whistleblowers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Medical_records_of_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/14/va-scandal-medical-records-of-whistleblo">
Veterans Administration accessed medical records</a> of whistleblowers
looking for some means to discredit them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Environmental_dangers_of_fracking)
title: Environmental dangers of fracking
uri: Environmental-dangers-of-fracking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Environmental_dangers_of_fracking%29

content:
<p>
The EU group which is supposed to study the environmental dangers of
fracking
has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/15/green-groups-accuse-eu-shale-gas-panel-of-fracking-lobby-takeover">
taken over by representatives of fossil fuel companies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Reinterpretation_of_their_religion)
title: Reinterpretation of their religion
uri: Reinterpretation-of-their-religion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Reinterpretation_of_their_religion%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/13/why-is-isis-a-wake-up-call-to-muslim-women">
Some courageous Muslim women call for</a> reinterpretation of their
religion
to respect women's equal rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Thugs_grabbed_children)
title: Thugs grabbed children
uri: Thugs-grabbed-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Thugs_grabbed_children%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/13/maryland-parents-panic-when-their-kids-a">
Thugs grabbed the Meitiv family's children simply for being outdoors</a>,
and held them for hours without telling their parents.  Later they
demanded the parents ransom them by agreeing never to leave them
alone.
<p>
I do not think the parents should have caved in on this vital point.
Since one of the children is 10 years old, I think that they could
understand together what it means to be kidnaped by "authorities", and
that an honorable rescue may take time.
<p>
When I was 10 years old, today's insane American overprotectiveness
had not yet developed.  It did not occur to anyone to claim that
children shouldn't go out by themselves in Manhattan.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Tracking_devices_for_children)
title: Tracking devices for children
uri: Tracking-devices-for-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Tracking_devices_for_children%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/reasontv/2015/04/13/5-insane-devices-for-tracking-your-kids">
Tracking devices for children are very popular.</a>  Their marketing build
up
parents' anxiety so that they will buy "protection".
<p>
The result is to teach young people to accept being tracked all the time.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Another_tax_cut)
title: Another tax cut
uri: Another-tax-cut
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Another_tax_cut%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/13/predictable-death-and-taxes-gop-pushes-billionaire-estate-tax-cut">
Republicans propose</a> another tax cut for millionaires.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Confession)
title: Confession
uri: Confession
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Confession%29
content:
<p>
A black 14-year-old was executed in 1944 after being pressured into a
confession.  Most of what happened to him
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/21/1178154/-The-Ghost-of-George-Stinney-Jr-How-The-Justice-System-Hasn-t-Evolved-As-Much-As-You-Think?detail=emailclassic">
could still happen today</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Working_poor)
title: Working poor
uri: Working-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Working_poor%29
content:
<p>
Being working poor in America is
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/02/1212957/-Being-poor-in-America?detail=emailclassic">
even worse because of the callous
tendency</a> to tell the poor that it's their own fault.
<p>
It's the fault of the plutocrats who imposed policies to give
themselves
more and the rest of us less.  So let's attack those plutocrats and
take
back what they grabbed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Groundwater)
title: Groundwater
uri: Groundwater
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Groundwater%29
content:
<p>
Researchers identified some of the
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-04-fracking-fluid-chemicals-uncovered-contamination.html">
toxins intentionally added to
fracking fluid</a> to kill bacteria in the well.
If they leak into groundwater, they can poison it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(Miscarriage_in_Georgia)
title: Miscarriage in Georgia
uri: Miscarriage-in-Georgia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28Miscarriage_in_Georgia%29
content:
<p>
If you have a miscarriage in Georgia, religious pharmacists may
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/pharmacists-refused-woman-drugs-miscarriage-walmart">
refuse your prescription for misoprostol</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 24_April_2015_(US_trade_court)
title: US trade court
uri: US-trade-court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_%28US_trade_court%29
content:
<p>
A US trade court claimed additional power that could offer movie
companies a way to
<a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/resurrecting-sopa-how-the-mpaa-could-use-the-international-trade-court-to-block-websites">
impose censorship as in SOPA</a>.
<p>
This illustrates the sort of harm that the bogus concept of
"intellectual property" can cause.
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">
By associating unrelated laws</a> and
treating them as one "thing", it encourages policies that treat all
these laws the same way.
<p>
The MPAA is a face of the big movie companies.  Whatever it does, they
are really doing.  Don't let them attack you with one face while
pretending
with the other face to be something other than your enemy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Mandatory_data_retention)
title: Mandatory data retention
uri: Mandatory-data-retention
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Mandatory_data_retention%29
content:
<p>
Germany finds that mandatory data retention makes
<a href="http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/83/87/lang,en/">
very little
difference
to preventing crime or catching criminals</a>.
<p>
Censorship is wrong; catching people who distribute censored
publications can't justify anything.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Anti-SLAPP_law)
title: Anti-SLAPP law
uri: Anti-SLAPP-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Anti-SLAPP_law%29
content:
<p>
Nevada passed an anti-SLAPP law two years ago.  Now some legislators
have
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150416/16534230679/nevada-may-be-about-to-lose-great-anti-slapp-law.shtml">
sneakily planned to get rid of it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Pay_what_you_wish)
title: Pay what you wish
uri: Pay-what-you-wish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Pay_what_you_wish%29
content:
<p>
Some
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/apr/18/cafe-pay-what-you-want-intercepted-ingredients">
restaurants in the UK</a> now ask patrons to pay however much they
wish.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Support_the_falsehood)
title: Support the falsehood
uri: Support-the-falsehood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Support_the_falsehood%29
content:
<p>
The Tulsa thug that shot Eric Harris dead "by mistake"
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/16/1378113/-Tulsa-Deputies-ordered-to-falsify-records-of-reserve-deputy-who-shot-and-killed-Eric-Harris?detail=email">
falsely claimed
to have suitable training</a>, and other deputies were ordered to support
the falsehood.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Social_media_manipulation)
title: Social media manipulation
uri: Social-media-manipulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Social_media_manipulation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://fair.org/home/reporting-on-russias-troll-army-western-media-forget-wests-much-bigger-sophisticated-troll-army/">
The US has a social media manipulation program</a> to match Russia's.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Syrian_rebels)
title: Syrian rebels
uri: Syrian-rebels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Syrian_rebels%29
content:
<p>
Syrian rebels kidnaped Richard Engel and pretended they were Assad
supporters.  Engel was initially fooled, later found out the truth.
NBC then disregarded the correction and
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/17/how-nbc-knowingly-let-syria-rebels-false-war-propaganda-stand-years">
broadcast the initial lies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Abstinence-only)
title: Abstinence-only
uri: Abstinence-only
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Abstinence-only%29
content:
<p>
A student's mother reports what abstinence-only sex "education"
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/17/professors-outrage-sons-terror-based-sex-education-goes-viral">
really
teaches</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Boycotted_standardized_tests)
title: Boycotted standardized tests
uri: Boycotted-standardized-tests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Boycotted_standardized_tests%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/17/massive-boycott-standardized-tests-new-york-students-take-stand-against-corporate">
150,000 students in New York State</a> boycotted standardized tests.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Legitimate_journalism)
title: Legitimate journalism
uri: Legitimate-journalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Legitimate_journalism%29
content:
<p>
For journalists to pay officials for the government's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/apr/18/dont-prosecute-journalists-who-pay-for-public-interest-leaks-says-ex-dpp">
dirty secrets</a>
can be legitimate journalism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Investor-state)
title: Investor-state
uri: Investor-state
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Investor-state%29
content:
<p>
An example of "investor-state" treaty injustice: an international
corporate "court" ruled that
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/17/so-ttip-wont-stop-public-services-being-run-interests-ordinary-people-tell">
Argentina owes a French company</a> $400
million for cancelling privatization of water in Buenos Aires.
<p>
That the company did not keep its promises was considered irrelevant.
<p>
This is the most important reason we must defeat the TPP and the TTIP
(This Treaty Is Plutocratic).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Japan's_population)
title: Japan's population
uri: Japan-s-population
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Japan%27s_population%29
content:
<p>
Japan's population is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/18/japanese-population-falls-to-15-year-low">
slowly falling</a>.
<p>
If only the same were true for the rest of humanity, our problems
would be a lot easier to cope with.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(A_price_on_water)
title: A price on water
uri: A-price-on-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28A_price_on_water%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-04-wont-payputting-price.html">
Putting a price on water.</a>
<p>
I think public water should be sold at market rates, except that
each person should get a certain reasonable amount gratis.
("Person" does not include corporations; they are not persons.)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Sensors_That_Never_Die)
title: Sensors That Never Die
uri: Sensors-That-Never-Die
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Sensors_That_Never_Die%29
content:
<p>
US Military Working to Build Sensors That Never Die,
<a href="http://privacysos.org/node/1717">
Enabling
Persistent
Surveillance in Remote Places</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Moderate_Tory)
title: Moderate Tory
uri: Moderate-Tory
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Moderate_Tory%29
content:
<p>
The head of the Labour Party
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/18/ed-miliband-tories-labour-one-nation-conservatives-eu">
asked for support</a> from "moderate Tories".
<p>
It should change its name to the "Moderate Tory" party; then non-rich
Britons can start a new Labour Party that stands for the non-rich.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Bigotry_against_dalits)
title: Bigotry against dalits
uri: Bigotry-against-dalits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Bigotry_against_dalits%29
content:
<p>
Bigotry against dalits is pervasive in India.  Teachers in a school
forced dalit students to clean the toilets after school hours,
which is not unusual,
<a href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/Dalit-Kids-Forced-to-Clean-School-Toilet-in-Tirunelveli/2015/04/18/article2770035.ece">
but this time it sparked protests</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Work_spreading)
title: Work spreading
uri: Work-spreading
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Work_spreading%29
content:
<p>
With
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/19/work-life-balance-ever-harder">
work spreading into non-work life</a>, increasingly people are
ordered
to smile all the time.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Chlorofluorocarbons)
title: Chlorofluorocarbons
uri: Chlorofluorocarbons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Chlorofluorocarbons%29
content:
<p>
Although humanity has curbed emissions of chlorofluorocarbons, the
ozone
hole they produce is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/18/scientist-who-discovered-hole-in-ozone-layer-warns">
just beginning to heal</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Still_missing_species)
title: Still missing species
uri: Still-missing-species
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Still_missing_species%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/18/lousiana-bp-oil-spill-five-years-not-going-back-to-normal">
Despite what Billionaire Polluters says</a>, parts of the gulf coast
are still missing species that they used to harvest, and people carry
toxins from the oil and the dispersant in their blood.
<p>
BP is spending some of its billions to brainwash the local people
that the problems they see don't exist.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Six_Questions)
title: Six Questions
uri: Six-Questions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Six_Questions%29
content:
<p>
Six questions progressives insist
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/17/hillary-clinton-questions-liberals-immigration-lgbt-rights">
Clinton must answer</a>.
<p>
I could add another one, about pervasive surveillance.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Land_Grabs)
title: Land Grabs
uri: Land-Grabs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Land_Grabs%29
content:
<p>
World Bank-Funded Projects Fueling Land Grabs,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/16/world-bank-funded-projects-fueling-land-grabs-displacement-global-poor">
Displacement of Global
Poor</a>.
<p>
The World Bank and
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/17/world-bank-and-battle-future-farming">
the Battle for the Future of Farming</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/17/world-bank-fossil-fuel-lending-leapt-in-2014-despite-its-calls-to-end-subsidies">
World Bank Fossil Fuel Financing</a> Leapt in 2014 Despite Its Calls to
End
Subsidies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Judging_students)
title: Judging students
uri: Judging-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Judging_students%29
content:
<p>
A study finds US teachers
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/04/teachers-racism-bias-stanford">
judge fictional students more harshly</a>
when the students have names associated with black Americans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Xochimilco's_canals)
title: Xochimilco's canals
uri: Xochimilco-s-canals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Xochimilco%27s_canals%29
content:
<p>
Xochimilco's canals and farms are threatened by construction promoted
by a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/17/mexico-city-canals-chinampas-urban-development">
violent network of corrupt officials</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Insulting_thugs)
title: Insulting thugs
uri: Insulting-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Insulting_thugs%29
content:
<p>
In the name of fighting racism and terrorism,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/17/france-launches-major-anti-racism-and-hate-speech-campaign">
France has increased
repression</a> for insulting thugs.
  The punishment is not limited to insults by terrorists, or to thugs
that belong to minority groups.  It applies to anyone that insults any
thug.
<p>
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to criticize, offend, insult or
mock
any person, organization, idea or practice.  It includes the freedom
to
say things we disapprove of.  France does not respect freedom of
speech.
<p>
You can't crush an idea by banning it — not even a bad idea,
such as
bigotry.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Fossil_Fuel_Financing)
title: Fossil Fuel Financing
uri: Fossil-Fuel-Financing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Fossil_Fuel_Financing%29
content:
<p>
World Bank Fossil Fuel
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/17/world-bank-fossil-fuel-lending-leapt-in-2014-despite-its-calls-to-end-subsidies">
Financing Leapt in 2014</a> Despite Its Calls to
End
Subsidies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Corrupt_Senator_Dodd)
title: Corrupt Senator Dodd
uri: Corrupt-Senator-Dodd
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Corrupt_Senator_Dodd%29
content:
<p>
Corrupt Senator Dodd has become even more corrupt:
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/chris-dodd-former-dem-presidential-aspirant-advises-clients-give-gop-fundraising-impact/">
he is now a
lobbyist</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(TSA_agents_steal)
title: TSA agents steal
uri: TSA-agents-steal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28TSA_agents_steal%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/04/14/airport-workers-including-tsa.html">
TSA agents steal from passengers'</a> baggage, and sometimes destroy
suitcases,
even suitcases that are not locked.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Evidence_with_trojan_horse)
title: Evidence with trojan horse
uri: Evidence-with-trojan-horse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Evidence_with_trojan_horse%29
content:
<p>
Arkansas lawyer Matt Campbell gave the thugs a disk to load with
evidence they were legally required to turn over.  They put
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/lawyer-representing-whistle-blowers-finds-malware-on-drive-supplied-by-cops/">
trojan
horse programs on it along with the data</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Chef_Joan_Cheever)
title: Chef Joan Cheever
uri: Chef-Joan-Cheever
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Chef_Joan_Cheever%29
content:
<p>
Chef Joan Cheever gave food to the homeless with her car, rather than
her food truck, and
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/15/1377891/-Texas-chef-facing-2-000-fine-for-feeding-the-homeless?detail=email">
faces a fine of $2000 for this</a>.
<p>
Cheever will argue that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act permits
her
to give food to the homeless as a loving expression of her religion.
Amen!  But Atheists like me should also be allowed to help the hungry.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(US_drone_attack)
title: US drone attack
uri: US-drone-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28US_drone_attack%29
content:
<p>
Relatives of civilians killed by a US drone attack in Yemen are
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/victim-u-s-drone-strike-gets-day-german-court/">
suing
the US in Germany</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/ramstein/">
Germany provides support</a> to drone attacks in Yemen.
<p>
The US has manufactured excuses to disregard all such cases,
so they have to look for some other way to demand compensation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Facebook's_scheme)
title: Facebook's scheme
uri: Facebook-s-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Facebook%27s_scheme%29
content:
<p>
Facebook's scheme that favors certain internet sites, making them
gratis for users to access,
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/04/internet-org-zero-rating/">
is as noxious to net neutrality</a> as
schemes that artificially slow sites down.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Cacao_and_palm_oil)
title: Cacao and palm oil
uri: Cacao-and-palm-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Cacao_and_palm_oil%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2015/apr/17/can-peru-stop-ethical-chocolate-destroying-amazon">
Cutting the Amazon rain forest</a> in Peru to grow cacao and palm oil.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(No-fly_list)
title: No-fly list
uri: No-fly-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28No-fly_list%29
content:
<p>
The US government
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/reversing-policy-feds-will-now-confirm-or-deny-if-certain-individuals-are-50000">
will now admit that a person is on the no-fly list</a>,
but only after that person asks after having been blocked from a
flight.
<p>
Blocking a person from flying is a denial of that person's ordinary
rights,
so it can only be justified as a punishment for a crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Pat_Down)
title: Pat Down
uri: Pat-Down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Pat_Down%29
content:
<p>
A gay TSA agent
<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/tsa-officers-fired-denver-alleged-grope-scheme-article-1.2185618">
finagled excuses</a> to "pat down" attractive male
passengers.
At least someone got something positive out of the Theater of
Security Agency.
<p>
I generally ask the agents if I could be patted down by woman.  "Why
should only gays get to enjoy this?"


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Sony_Emails)
title: Sony Emails
uri: Sony-Emails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Sony_Emails%29
content:
<p>
Wikileaks republished the Sony emails and documents to demonstrate
the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/16/wikileaks-documents-sony-hacking-school">
connections between Sony and the Democratic Party</a>.
<p>
Part of what these emails reveal is how media companies are
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/sony-emails-show-abc-news-parent-company-exec-discussed-trade-deal-officials-despite-blackout-coverage-abc-news/">
lobbying
for the TPP</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Climate_Inaction)
title: Climate Inaction
uri: Climate-Inaction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Climate_Inaction%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/16/halting-intentional-climate-inaction">
Halting Intentional Climate Inaction.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(iBad_to_every_student)
title: iBad to every student
uri: iBad-to-every-student
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28iBad_to_every_student%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/04/los-angeles-school-district-demands-multi-million-dollar-refund-from-apple/">
Los Angeles has dropped its program</a> to give an iBad to every student.
<p>
Good riddance — but many students will encounter schools that
try
to make them carry computers with proprietary software.  Defending
your
freedom entails refusing to use them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(France's_extreme_right-wing)
title: France's extreme right-wing
uri: France-s-extreme-right-wing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28France%27s_extreme_right-wing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/16/marion-marechal-le-pen-young-face-france-far-right-front-national">
The new face</a> of France's extreme right-wing.
<p>
The Front National generally has a policy of both encouraging and
forcing women to have babies.  That is not only unfair to the women,
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">
it is dangerous for society</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Names_of_the_thugs)
title: Names of the thugs
uri: Names-of-the-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Names_of_the_thugs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/17/hong-kong-protester-ken-tsang-pro-democracy">
A Hong Kong protester demands to know</a> the names of the thugs that
attacked him, so he can prosecute them.
<p>
Bravo!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(VPNs)
title: VPNs
uri: VPNs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28VPNs%29
content:
<p>
Australia's proposed
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/17/vpns-could-be-blocked-under-proposed-copyright-legislation-say-choice">
copyright repression could ban VPNs</a>.
<p>
The international copyright censorship system increasingly comes to
resemble China's political censorship system.  Evidently the motive
for censorship is a minor detail: it comes to the same thing.
<p>
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-vs-community.html">
We must reject the War on Sharing</a> at the root, not quibble about
the details of its repression.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(After_the_Big_Spill)
title: After the Big Spill
uri: After-the-Big-Spill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28After_the_Big_Spill%29
content:
<p>
After the Big Spill, which pushed the limits of undersea oil drilling,
oil companies have pushed
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/apr/17/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-catastrophe-five-years">
the limits even further</a>.
<p>
Cost presents pressure to cut corners and increase the risk.
This tends to create a feedback loop which servos the level of risk
to one where accidents happen as often as the public will stand for.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Climate_hero)
title: Climate hero
uri: Climate-hero
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Climate_hero%29
content:
<p>
Mohamed Nasheed, climate hero, has been
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/16/climate-hero-languishes-prison-lets-fight-get-him-out">
imprisoned by a military coup</a>.
We should campaign to have him released.
<p>
I wonder if fossil fuel companies' money had something to do with the
coup.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Blackwater's_legacy)
title: Blackwater's legacy
uri: Blackwater-s-legacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Blackwater%27s_legacy%29
content:
<p>
Blackwater's legacy:
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/middleeast/blackwaters-legacy-goes-beyond-public-view.html">
spreading the use of mercenaries</a> around the
world.
<p>
Hiring companies to do fighting is dangerous because it augments the
military-industrial complex.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Not_trying_to_prosecute)
title: Not trying to prosecute
uri: Not-trying-to-prosecute
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Not_trying_to_prosecute%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/16/warren-blasts-government-ignoring-blatantly-criminal-activity-wall-street">
Elizabeth Warren rebukes the SEC</a> and the Justice Department for not
trying
to prosecute Wall Street criminals under existing laws.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Plan_for_more_repression)
title: Plan for more repression
uri: Plan-for-more-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Plan_for_more_repression%29
content:
<p>
China confirmed a plan for more repression by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/17/gao-yu-and-document-no-9-china-jails-journalist-for-leaking-state-secrets">
imprisoning the
journalist
that published it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Private_probation_company)
title: Private probation company
uri: Private-probation-company
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Private_probation_company%29
content:
<p>
A private probation enforcement company in Georgia
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/15/3647374/private-probation-lawsuit-ransom/">
holds people for
ransom</a>, imposing arbitrary fees and jailing them if they don't
immediately pay.


title: Oil companies try to buy public opinion
uri: Oil-companies-try-to-buy-public-opinion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Oil_companies_try_to_buy_public_opinion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Oil_companies_try_to_buy_public_opinion%29

content:
<p>
Oil companies sponsor art projects as a way of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/19/oil-companies-arts-sponsorship-cynical-pr-strategy-says-activist">buying
favorable public opinion</a>.
<p>
Those fossil fuel magnates, the Koch brothers, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#2_April_2015_(Urgent:_get_Koch_bros._out_of_science_museums)">sponsor 
science museums</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Restoring_the_estate_tax)
title: Restoring the estate tax
uri: Restoring-the-estate-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Restoring_the_estate_tax%29
content:
<p>
Restoring the estate tax as it was before Dubya's cuts
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/50609">would
cover the cost of college education for all Americans</a>.
<p>
It would have the side benefit of curbing the increase of inequality,
which harms society overall in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_June_2014_(US_plutocracy_and_inequality)">many
ways</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(USA_Freedom_Act_inadequate)
title: "USA Freedom Act" inadequate
uri: USA-Freedom-Act-inadequate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28USA_Freedom_Act_inadequate%29
content:
<p>
The "USA Freedom Act" would only correct part of the PAT RIOT Act.  It
would 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/17/surveillance-reform-usa-freedom-act-nsa-civil-libertarians">continue
to be used to excuse massive surveillance</a>.  We need more than
that.
<p>
Not all massive US government surveillance is based on the PAT RIOT
Act; even eliminating it would not solve the whole problem.  For instance,
surveillance by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_May_2014_(License_plate_camera_data_base)">license 
plate cameras</a> has nothing to do with that law,
but it is dangerous.


title: Urgent: Protect the right to post links
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-right-to-post-links
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_the_right_to_post_links)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_the_right_to_post_links%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://savethelink.org?src=157651">support the campaign</a>
to protect the right to post links.


title: Urgent: Oppose privatizing public land
uri: Urgent-Oppose-privatizing-public-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_privatizing_public_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_privatizing_public_land%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Public_Land_Sale">oppose</a>
privatizing US public land.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_Nestle)
title: Urgent: Stop Nestle
uri: Urgent-Stop-Nestle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Nestle%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Forest Service to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Nestle_Water">stop Nestle
from extracting water in California</a>.  Since Nestle's permit has
expired, it is not legally entitled to extract any more water.


title: Urgent: End subsidies for fossil fuels
uri: Urgent-End-subsidies-for-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Urgent:_End_subsidies_for_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_subsidies_for_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-fossil/">call for
elimination</a> of tax subsidies for fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_TPP)
title: Urgent: Oppose TPP
uri: Urgent-Oppose-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_TPP%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to 
<a href="http://act.sumofus.org/go/8476">oppose "fast track" for the
TPP</a>.
<p>
TPP: Treason, Plutocracy, Plunder
<p>
It means 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/16/trade-rule-makes-it-illegal-favor-local-business-newest-leak-shows-tpp-would-do-and">paying
foreign corporations not to pollute</a>.
<p>
It means 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/16/same-old-fast-track-would-unravel-consumer-protections">trashing
consumer protection</a>, and unsafe food.


title: Urgent: Oppose military spending increase
uri: Urgent-Oppose-military-spending-increase
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_military_spending_increase)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_military_spending_increase%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.usaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=685">oppose
increases</a> in military spending.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Tracking_of_students_keystrokes)
title: Tracking of students keystrokes
uri: Tracking-of-students-keystrokes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Tracking_of_students_keystrokes%29
content:
<p>
Some colleges now 
<a href="http://privacysos.org/node/1710">track a student's every
keystroke</a>, and use algorithms to predict whether they will fail.
<p>
It is a short step from there to presuming who will fail.  But even
collecting this data is a violation of privacy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Israeli_butterfly_drone)
title: Israeli "butterfly drone"
uri: Israeli-butterfly-drone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Israeli_butterfly_drone%29
content:
<p>
Hamas reports capturing an 
<a href="http://privacysos.org/node/1713">Israeli "butterfly
drone"</a> the size of a small bird.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Stingray_surveillance_programs)
title: Stingray surveillance programs
uri: Stingray-surveillance-programs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Stingray_surveillance_programs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://privacysos.org/node/1715">Five Disturbing Things About
The FBI And Local Police Stingray Surveillance Programs</a>.


title: Threat of imprisonment for "squatting"
uri: Threat-of-imprisonment-for-squatting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Threat_of_imprisonment_for_squatting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Threat_of_imprisonment_for_squatting%29

content:
<p>
An anti-eviction protester in the UK is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/14/focus-e15-housing-activist-arrested-on-suspicion-of-squatting">threatened
with a long prison term for "squatting"</a>.
<p>
Squatting must be legalized again.  Does any party say it will
legalize squatting?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Ocean_Dead_Zones)
title: Ocean Dead Zones
uri: Ocean-Dead-Zones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Ocean_Dead_Zones%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-04-ocean-dead-zones-disaster-fish.html">Ocean
'Dead Zones' a Growing Disaster for Fish</a>.


title: US hotel chains not paying living wage
uri: US-hotel-chains-not-paying-living-wage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(US_hotel_chains_not_paying_living_wage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28US_hotel_chains_not_paying_living_wage%29

content:
<p>
US hotel chains that make billions 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/04/12791/hotel-industry-spins-wages-hikes-%22extreme%22-ceo%27s-rake-millions">say
they can't afford to pay workers a living wage</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Greenhouse_gas_emissions_goals)
title: Greenhouse gas emissions goals
uri: Greenhouse-gas-emissions-goals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Greenhouse_gas_emissions_goals%29
content:
<p>
Fossil fuel companies are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/14/german-backlash-grows-against-coal-power-clampdown">trying
to smash Germany's greenhouse gas emissions goals</a>.
<p>
It is the usual short-term idiocy, arguing for global disaster later
rather than some hardship sooner.
<p>
The UK Greens understand how serious the situation is.  They propose
to increase renewable energy as fast as possible, as if it were a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/14/is-the-green-partys-climate-change-plan-realistic">war
for survival</a>.  Which, in fact, it is.
<p>
We can't afford to slow down merely because that would be more
efficient, as if we had all the time in the world.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Ethnic_cleansing_of_Palestinians)
title: Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
uri: Ethnic-cleansing-of-Palestinians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Ethnic_cleansing_of_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
Israel's slow-motion ethnic cleansing of Palestinians proceeds through
an intentionally 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/17/bad-law-east-jerusalem-ethnic-cleansing-palestines-teju-cole">kafkaesque
application of laws</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Mass_imprisonment_in_the_US)
title: Mass imprisonment in the US
uri: Mass-imprisonment-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Mass_imprisonment_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/13/john-legend-mass-incarceration_n_7053996.html">campaign
against mass imprisonment</a> in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Australias_anti-protest_repression)
title: Australia's anti-protest repression
uri: Australia-s-anti-protest-repression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Australias_anti-protest_repression%29

content:
<p>
Australia's anti-protest repression was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/18/g20-laws-cut-protest-numbers-from-likely-120000-to-1000-inquiry-told">very
effective</a>: when 120,000 protesters were expected at the G20, only
1000 dared come.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(US_cybersecurity_bill)
title: US "cybersecurity" bill
uri: 2015-04-26-US-cybersecurity-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28US_cybersecurity_bill%29
content:
<p>
The latest version of the US "cybersecurity" bill still has the big
flaw that companies could 
<a href="http://www.lawfareblog.com/2015/04/homeland-security-committees-cyber-bill-a-missed-opportunity/">disregard
users' privacy "voluntarily"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Surveillance_of_French_citizens)
title: Surveillance of French citizens
uri: Surveillance-of-French-citizens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Surveillance_of_French_citizens%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/unacceptable-surveillance-of-french-citizens-soon-to-be-adopted">Unacceptable
Surveillance of French Citizens Soon To Be Adopted!</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Carbon_reserves)
title: Carbon reserves
uri: Carbon-reserves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Carbon_reserves%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/19/carbon-reserves-held-by-top-fossil-fuel-companies-soar">Carbon
Reserves Held by Top Fossil Fuel Companies Soar</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(EUs_anti-trust_case_against_Google)
title: EU's anti-trust case against Google
uri: EU-s-anti-trust-case-against-Google
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28EUs_anti-trust_case_against_Google%29

content:
<p>
The EU's anti-trust case against Google 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/19/google-dominates-search-real-problem-monopoly-data">doesn't
even try</a> to alter Google's collection of so much data about
people.
<p>
Existing anti-trust law, by focusing on whether companies engage in unfair
competition, fails to protect the public interest.  Even if a company
gets big only by "doing a good job", the resulting situation enables
it to engage in various abuses, and by that point it may be too late
to arrange for it to have competitors again.
<p>
Beyond that, the sheer size of companies makes it had for businesses
to regulate them, and that is dangerous in itself.  We need to go
beyond laws to protect competition and start 
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-big-to-fail/">preventing
companies from getting too big</a>.


title: Boycott of products from Israeli colonies
uri: Boycott-of-products-from-Israeli-colonies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Boycott_of_products_from_Israeli_colonies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Boycott_of_products_from_Israeli_colonies%29

content:
<p>
Israel's Supreme Court approved the law that 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1429363587/">bans
advocating a boycott</a> of products made by Israeli businesses in the
illegal colonies in Palestinian territory.
<p>
We who are outside Israel must push this boycott.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Gun_control_in_the_1800s)
title: Gun control in the 1800s
uri: Gun-control-in-the-1800s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Gun_control_in_the_1800s%29
content:
<p>
Towns in the Wild West had 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/23/1112703/-De-mythologizing-the-Wild-West-gun-laws-were-actually-stricter-then-than-now">stricter
gun control in the 1800s</a> than they have today.


title: Charged with felony for harmless prank
uri: Charged-with-felony-for-harmless-prank
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Charged_with_felony_for_harmless_prank)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Charged_with_felony_for_harmless_prank%29

content:
<p>
A 14-year-old in Florida faces a felony charge because he 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/justice-charging-eight-grader-felony-hacking">changed
the desktop picture on a teacher's computer</a>.
<p>
Little harmless pranks <em>are</em> 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacking</a>.
This should not be a crime <em>at all</em>.


title: Germany's apology for genocide in Namibia
uri: Germany-s-apology-for-genocide-in-Namibia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Germanys_apology_for_genocide_in_Namibia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Germanys_apology_for_genocide_in_Namibia%29

content:
<p>
Germany carried out genocide in Namibia at the start of the 20th
century, and has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/18/pope-francis-armenian-genocide-first-20th-century-namibia">apologized
for it</a>.
<p>
It is useful to report on this crime — I did not know about it,
and I am glad to inform people.  However, the article is too harsh on
Pope Francis for not knowing about it.  Give us a break!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(Value_of_public_domain_photos)
title: Value of public domain photos
uri: Value-of-public-domain-photos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28Value_of_public_domain_photos%29
content:
<p>
A study estimates the value of public domain photos in Wikipedia as
around 
<a href="http://news.illinois.edu/news/15/0413Wikipedia_paper_PaulHeald.html">$250
million dollars per year</a>.
<p>
In other words, this is the value of just part of the benefit
that we get from the fact that the copyrights on photos thru 1923
have expired in the US.
<p>
If we wipe out the copyrights on more recent photos, the additional
benefit will probably be substantial too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 25_April_2015_(War_on_Terrorism)
title: War on Terrorism
uri: War-on-Terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_%28War_on_Terrorism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30086-the-war-on-terrorism-targets-democracy-itself">The
War on Terrorism Targets Democracy Itself</a>.


title: Singled out Federico García Lorca
uri: Singled-out-Federico-García-Lorca
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Singled_out_Federico_Garc%26iacute;a_Lorca)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Singled_out_Federico_Garc%2526iacute%3Ba_Lorca%29

content:
<p>
Documents prove that Franco's forces singled out Federico García
Lorca
and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/23/federico-garcia-lorca-spanish-poet-killed-orders-spanish-civil-war">
murdered him</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Proposed_FAA_regulations)
title: Proposed FAA regulations
uri: Proposed-FAA-regulations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Proposed_FAA_regulations%29
content:
<p>
The proposed FAA regulations for drones
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2015/0422/The-drone-debate-Does-the-coming-swarm-of-flying-gadgets-require-new-privacy-laws">
do not consider the
surveillance issue</a>.
<p>
To protect the public's right to anonymity,
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-04-cameras-everywhere-culture-science-fiction-reality.html">
we need to regulate
systems
that record</a>,
including fixed cameras as well as terrestrial, aquatic and
aerial drones.  More generally,
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">
we need to prevent the collection of
information</a> about people's movements in public places, except for
individuals subject to court-ordered surveillance.
<p>
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/Passcode-Voices/2015/0415/Why-you-have-the-right-to-obscurity">
Obscurity</a>, making it hard to find and correlate all the data about
you,
can play a useful role.
However, in order for obscurity to block governments from collecting
and correlating all of that data, we need more than procedural limits.
Systems must be designed so that collecting and correlating the data
about any one person is substantial work, and there is no economy
of scale to doing this about everyone in parallel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Marching_every_night)
title: Marching every night
uri: Marching-every-night
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Marching_every_night%29
content:
<p>
Protesters are marching every night in Baltimore
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/23/protesters-march-baltimore-freddie-gray">
over the killing of
Freddie Gray by thugs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Half_a_day's_profits)
title: Half a day's profits
uri: Half-a-day-s-profits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Half_a_day%27s_profits%29
content:
<p>
Exxon was fined half a day's profits
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/22/remember-mayflower-exxon-slapped-paltry-fine-tar-sands-pipeline-spill">
for the pipeline break in
Mayflower, Arkansas</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Greenwashing)
title: Greenwashing
uri: Greenwashing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Greenwashing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/22/rip-earth-day-voices-decry-national-day-corporate-greenwash">
Earth Day has been coopted by businesses</a> for greenwashing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(More_of_a_militaris)
title: More of a militarist
uri: More-of-a-militaris
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28More_of_a_militaris%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/22/hillary-hawk">
Clinton has been more of a militarist than Obama</a>, and has been a good
friend of dictators.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Standardized_tests)
title: Standardized tests
uri: 2015-04-26-Standardized-tests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Standardized_tests%29
content:
<p>
US standardized tests
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/22/article-may-be-illegal-lifting-veil-silence-standardized-testing">
threaten both teachers and students</a> with
punishment if they talk <em>after the test</em> about what was in it.
<p>
Teachers are required to sign a commitment never to fail to enforce
this cruel policy.
<p>
Lying to a tyrant is no wrong.  These agreements are morally void,
just like the End User License Agreement of a proprietary program.
Teachers who can't refuse to sign are morally obligated to disobey.
<p>
Parents should tell their schools, "I don't want my child to be
taught by people that sign such an agreement, unless they promise me
they will not carry it out."


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Medical_marijuana_activist)
title: Medical marijuana activist
uri: Medical-marijuana-activist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Medical_marijuana_activist%29
content:
<p>
Medical marijuana activist Shona Banda's
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/21/1379209/-Kansas-medical-marijuana-activist-loses-custody-of-son?detail=email">
son was taken away</a>,
apparently because of her use of medical marijuana.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Right_to_work)
title: Right to work
uri: Right-to-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Right_to_work%29
content:
<p>
"Right to work" laws in some US states should be called "right to less
pay" laws: where they exist,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/22/right-work-debunked-economists-find-anti-worker-laws-lead-lower-wages">
they cost the average worker $1500 a
year</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Landowners_in_Brazil)
title: Landowners in Brazil
uri: Landowners-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Landowners_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
Landowners in Brazil are pushing a constitutional amendment to make
it
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/brazils-indigenous-groups-battle-land-law-change">
easier to take land away from indigenous people</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Appearance_of_tranquility)
title: Appearance of tranquility
uri: Appearance-of-tranquility
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Appearance_of_tranquility%29
content:
<p>
Azerbaijan has imprisoned two human rights defenders
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/azerbaijan-jails-two-rights-campaigners">
based on bogus
charges</a>
for the sake of an appearance of tranquility for the European Games.
<p>
Prominent sports events tend to create pressure and opportunity to
make political problems worse.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Merger)
title: Merger
uri: Merger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Merger%29
content:
<p>
Comcast's proposed merger with Time Warner Cable
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/23/comcast-time-warner-merger-fcc-hearing-death-sentence">
is probably dead</a>.
<p>
Thanks to those who signed petitions against this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Drone_software)
title: Drone software
uri: Drone-software
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Drone_software%29
content:
<p>
The idea of requiring drone software to restrict where drones can fly
is very dangerous.
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/building-regulation-drones">
It would amount to a ban on free software for
drones.</a>
<p>
The article gives far too much legitimacy to the idea that people
should not be allowed to change software in cars.  As a possible cause
of accidents, that will be tiny compared with (1) working on the
mechanical part of the brakes and (2) driving while tired, distracted
or ill.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Sun_Must_Go_Down)
title: Sun Must Go Down
uri: Sun-Must-Go-Down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Sun_Must_Go_Down%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/22/sun-must-go-down-patriot-act">
The Sun Must Go Down on the Patriot [sic] Act.</a>
<p>
That law's proponents called it the "USA PATRIOT Act" to manipulate
Americans; the name is propaganda for the idea that a patriotic
American should favor warrantless surveillance of Americans.  Using
that name endorses that position.
<p>
I call it the "PAT RIOT" or "U SAP AT RIOT" act to show my rejection
of that position.
<p>
Since "USAPATRIOT" is an acronym, we can split it into separate words
as we wish with equal legitimacy.  "U SAP AT RIOT" is just as correct
as "USA PATRIOT".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Copyright_on_phonorecords)
title: Copyright on phonorecords
uri: Copyright-on-phonorecords
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Copyright_on_phonorecords%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/04/the-great-canadian-copyright-giveaway-why-copyright-term-extension-for-sound-recordings-could-cost-consumers-millions/">
Canadian government plans to extend copyright on phonorecords</a>: a
windfall for record companies with a large expected cost to society as
a whole.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(US-supported_bombing)
title: US-supported bombing
uri: US-supported-bombing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28US-supported_bombing%29
content:
<p>
The US-supported bombing of Yemen
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/now-we-all-curse-the-saudis-yemen-reels-in-face-of-month-long-air-strikes">
has protracted the civil war</a>.
The continued fighting is causing great suffering and ingraining
hostility on both sides.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Disappear_by_2050)
title: Disappear by 2050
uri: Disappear-by-2050
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Disappear_by_2050%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/the-coral-triangle/2015/apr/23/coral-triangle-key-part-of-24tn-global-ocean-wealth">
Coral reefs may disappear by 2050</a> due to our CO2 emissions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Influenced_the_Clintons)
title: Influenced the Clintons
uri: Influenced-the-Clintons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Influenced_the_Clintons%29
content:
<p>
Morocco has influenced the Clintons by
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/22/inside-morocco-clinton-influence-campaign/">
giving money to their
foundation</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Journalist_barred)
title: Journalist barred
uri: Journalist-barred
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Journalist_barred%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/22/counter-terror-expo-london-banned/">
journalist from The Intercept was barred</a> from the "Counter Terror
Expo".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Ownership)
title: Ownership
uri: Ownership
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Ownership%29
content:
<p>
We Can't Let
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/">
John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership</a>.
<p>
I'm glad that they have got out of the DMCA exemption rut
and returned to advocating permanent change to the DMCA itself.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Boat_refugees)
title: Boat refugees
uri: Boat-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Boat_refugees%29
content:
<p>
European governments are planning to send most boat refugees from
Africa back to Africa rapidly
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/most-migrants-crossing-mediterranean-will-be-sent-back-eu-leaders-to-agree">
without considering their cases for
asylum</a>.
<p>
Those who are fleeing repression, in places such as Eritrea, should
not be forced to go back there.  But perhaps they can find a safe
asylum
in another African country.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Cybersecurity_Bill)
title: Cybersecurity Bill
uri: Cybersecurity-Bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Cybersecurity_Bill%29
content:
<p>
House Passes Cybersecurity Bill
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/04/house-passes-cybersecurity-bill-despite-privacy-protests/">
Despite Privacy Protests</a>.
<p>
The claim that improving security protects privacy is disingenuous,
because
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">
protecting privacy from crooks does not substitute for
protecting
privacy from the state</a>.  The state has far more power, so the danger
of
its knowing too much about everyone is far greater.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Biggest_Threat)
title: Biggest Threat
uri: Biggest-Threat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Biggest_Threat%29
content:
<p>
The Biggest Threat to the Earth?  We [or most of us, at least] Have
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/04/biggest-threat-earth-many-kids/">
Too Many Kids</a>.
<p>
China's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/india-farmer-suicide-protest">
one-child policy</a> has done tremendous good; it is too bad that
India didn't have one, as it might have avoided suicides like this
one.
<p>
In China as in India, people often get no compensation when driven off
their land, but in wealthier China you might find another way to get
by.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Recognize_emotions)
title: Recognize emotions
uri: Recognize-emotions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Recognize_emotions%29
content:
<p>
Programs that can recognize people's emotions will
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/04/computers-can-now-tell-feel-face/">
enable companies
to manipulate people</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Protect_gorillas)
title: Protect gorillas
uri: Protect-gorillas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Protect_gorillas%29
content:
<p>
Helping to protect gorillas
<a href="http://zpg.populationconnection.org/site/R?i=Ho2FXzGddDCe5uBtGJ5DBA">
by providing contraception to humans
around their habitat</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Not_Resisting)
title: Not Resisting
uri: Not-Resisting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Not_Resisting%29
content:
<p>
Several LA thugs are being prosecuted for attacking people with kicks,
punches or sticks —
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-officer-charged-with-assault-after-videotaped-beating-20150420-story.html#navtype=panel">
people who were shackled or not resisting</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Flexible_work)
title: Flexible work
uri: Flexible-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Flexible_work%29
content:
<p>
When work is "flexible" for the employer, it becomes
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/21/how-new-flexible-economy-making-workers-lives-hell">
an inflexible
shackle for the employee</a>, who can't make plans and often can't get
enough work.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Anti-cancer_diet)
title: Anti-cancer diet
uri: Anti-cancer-diet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Anti-cancer_diet%29
content:
<p>
One proponent of an "anti-cancer diet" admits fabricating her claim
that it cured her.
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/wellness-gurus-belle-gibson-pseudoscience">
She never had cancer at all.</a>
<p>
Even without an intentional liar, people easily convince each other
that a remedy is working when really it does nothing.  You should not
believe an alternative remedy works without a controlled experiment
demonstrating efficacy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(State_attorneys_general)
title: State attorneys general
uri: State-attorneys-general
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28State_attorneys_general%29
content:
<p>
Companies are now organizing state attorneys general
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/22/read-new-york-times-pulitzer-prize-winning-series-corporate-lobbying-state-attorneys-general/">
to lobby for
them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Bees)
title: Bees
uri: Bees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Bees%29
content:
<p>
Bees cannot taste neonicotinoids, so
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/22/bees-may-become-addicted-to-nicotine-like-pesticides-study-finds">
cannot choose to avoid them</a>.
But they may get addicted to them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Vote_Green)
title: Vote Green
uri: Vote-Green
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Vote_Green%29
content:
<p>
In the UK, the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/22/right-to-privacy-could-be-meaningless-in-10-years-under-tory-and-labour-plans">
Tory and Labour parties plan to increase massive
general surveillance</a>.
<p>
Reject them — vote Green.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Witches)
title: Witches
uri: Witches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Witches%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/four-people-accused-of-witchcraft-and-allegedly-tortured-in-papua-new-guinea">
People in New Guinea still believe</a> that deaths are caused
by curses, and seek to kill the "witches" responsible.
<p>
Persecution of "witches" is common in Africa.  The idea that it is
possible to kill by magic seems to be a world-wide pattern of
superstition; it was found in most places in the world.
The awareness that this is impossible is due to modern rationalism.
<p>
In Mexico, according to a book I read, some "witches" really can kill
— with toxic bacteria or fungus they find in caves, not with
curses.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Ebola_virus_through_sex)
title: Ebola virus through sex
uri: Ebola-virus-through-sex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Ebola_virus_through_sex%29
content:
<p>
It is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/apr/22/sexual-health-ebola-semen-sierra-leone">
not easy to convince men in Sierra Leone</a> to stop transmitting
Ebola virus through sex.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(US_Senate_cafeteria)
title: US Senate cafeteria
uri: US-Senate-cafeteria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28US_Senate_cafeteria%29
content:
<p>
A cook in the (outsourced) US Senate cafeteria is on strike.  He has
to work 70 hours a week
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/i-am-a-cook-in-the-us-senate-but-i-still-need-food-stamps-to-feed-my-children">
and still needs food stamps</a>, so low is the pay
of the company that has the contract.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Trafficing_vs_Smuggling)
title: Trafficking vs Smuggling
uri: Trafficing-vs-Smuggling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Trafficing_vs_Smuggling%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/22/migrant-crisis-smuggling-trafficking-politicians-dont-seem-to-know">
Don't confuse</a> trafficking people with smuggling people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Enemy_Forces)
title: Enemy Forces
uri: Enemy-Forces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Enemy_Forces%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/17/1378374/-Documents-obtained-by-CNN-National-Guard-called-Ferguson-protestors-enemy-forces-adversaries?detail=emailN">
Missouri National Guard</a>, in reacting to protests in Ferguson,
officially referred to protesters as "enemy forces".
<p>
That's what you'd expect the forces of a government of occupation to
say
about the occupied people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Criminal_charges)
title: Criminal charges
uri: Criminal-charges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Criminal_charges%29
content:
<p>
The thug who beat up Floyd Dent in Inkster, near Detroit,
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/20/1378993/-Officer-Bill-Melendez-charged-with-misconduct-in-brutal-beating-planting-evidence-on-Floyd-Dent?detail=email">
faces three
criminal charges</a>.
<p>
It would be great, for once, to see a uniformed thug get punished for
such crimes.  But it won't be easy: many in the criminal justice
system have surrendered their honor to the desire for a good
cooperative relationship with the thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Fanatical_Israeli_colonists)
title: Fanatical Israeli colonists
uri: Fanatical-Israeli-colonists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Fanatical_Israeli_colonists%29
content:
<p>
Israelis and Palestinians are
<a href="http://972mag.com/settler-group-tries-to-shut-down-bi-national-memorial-day-event/105702/">
trying to organize a joint event</a> in
Israel.  Fanatical Israeli colonists have asked the government to
sabotage it by keeping the Palestinians away.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Israeli_thugs)
title: Israeli thugs
uri: Israeli-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Israeli_thugs%29
content:
<p>
When Israeli thugs arrested 'Ali Talji Ya'qub, they also punched and
kicked his brother and
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/beating_and_abuse/20150416_beit_rima">
left him unconscious on the street</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Torture_on_Palestinians)
title: Torture on Palestinians
uri: Torture-on-Palestinians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Torture_on_Palestinians%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=68568">
Israeli intelligence regularly uses torture</a> on Palestinians and
extracts false confessions.
<p>
Israel treats shooting an unarmed Palestinian dead as a
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20150414_state_attorney_decision_in_samir_awad_killing">
minor
infraction</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Shaky_Case_for_War)
title: Shaky Case for War
uri: Shaky-Case-for-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Shaky_Case_for_War%29
content:
<p>
This
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/03/cia-iraq-bush-wmd-report">
Declassified CIA Report</a> Shows the Shaky Case for the Iraq War.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Overfishing)
title: Overfishing
uri: Overfishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Overfishing%29
content:
<p>
Overfishing threatens the ecosystem of the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/22/great-barrier-reef-at-risk-as-overfishing-disrupts-food-chain-study-finds">
Great Barrier Reef</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Killer_thug_in_Chicago)
title: Killer thug in Chicago
uri: Killer-thug-in-Chicago
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Killer_thug_in_Chicago%29
content:
<p>
A killer thug in Chicago was acquitted of manslaughter because the
judge said the killing was more like murder.  But
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/22/acquittal-of-chicago-police-officer-in-shooting-death-of-unarmed-woman-prompts-protest-anger-0">
the prosecutor was
unwilling to charge the thug</a> with murder.


title: Oppressive communism to corrupt capitalism
uri: Oppressive-communism-to-corrupt-capitalism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Oppressive_communism_to_corrupt_capitalism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Oppressive_communism_to_corrupt_capitalism%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/22/vietnam-40-years-on-how-communist-victory-gave-way-to-capitalist-corruption">
Vietnam has gone</a> from oppressive communism to corrupt capitalism.
<p>
A Vietnamese novel by Duong Thu Hong, that I read in French, presents
junior party leaders as corrupt and cynical already in 1975.  What is
certain is that the Vietnamese state established an oppressive system
of labor camps after capturing Saigon.  But it appears, from this
article, that it tried to protect workers — until it surrendered
to US economic warfare.
<p>
I visited Vietnam in 2004 when it was about to join the WTO.  I told
the people I knew, "You fought to kick out France, then the US.  Now
you are going to invite in the WTO, which is the empire that rules
France and the US.  What foolishness!"
<p>
Later, at a meeting in Cambodia in 2005, a representative of the
Vietnamese government compared the WTO's rules to the rules of soccer.
My response made everyone laugh at him, since the rules of soccer are
designed to be fair, whereas the rules of the WTO are designed to be
unfair.  Alas, that minor embarrassment didn't alter the trajectory of
the Vietnamese state.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Damage_from_global_heating)
title: Damage from global heating
uri: Damage-from-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Damage_from_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The US is considering
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/what-we-do/people/bobby-magill">
spending billions</a> to make energy systems cope
with the damage from global heating.
<p>
We really should be investing billions in reducing global heating.
Even better, reduce global heating by eliminating the tax breaks for
fossil fuels.  That would save the treasury money.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Single_trader)
title: Single trader
uri: Single-trader
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Single_trader%29
content:
<p>
A single trader is accused of
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-22/mystery-trader-armed-with-algorithms-rewrites-flash-crash-story">
manipulating markets with rapid
computerized trading</a> which allegedly caused a 1000-point stock market
crash in 2010.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Gun-Violence_Research)
title: Gun-Violence Research
uri: Gun-Violence-Research
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Gun-Violence_Research%29
content:
<p>
Bloomberg:
<a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-21/break-the-nra-s-ban-on-gun-violence-research">
Break the NRA's Ban</a> on Gun-Violence Research.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Michael_McAlister)
title: Michael McAlister
uri: Michael-McAlister
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Michael_McAlister%29
content:
<p>
Michael McAlister's prison term of 29 years is over.
It is now almost certain he was not guilty in the first place.
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/04/michael_mcalister_wrongful_conviction_will_gov_mcauliffe_exonerate_an_innocent.html">
But he will be kept in prison for life</a>, unless he confesses
to the rape he did not do.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(We_Didn't_Learn)
title: We Didn't Learn
uri: We-Didn-t-Learn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28We_Didn%27t_Learn%29
content:
<p>
We Didn't Learn Anything From Deepwater Horizon — And We're
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/04/five-years-after-bp-spill-were-still-taking-insane-risks-offshore-drilling">
Going to Pay For It</a>.
<p>
None so blind as officials paid not to see.
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/20/5-years-after-deepwater-horizons-lessons-go-unlearned">
principal lessons of the Big Spill</a>:
  undersea oil well leaks can't be cleaned up, but they can be
  prevented
by not drilling.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Civil_war_in_Yemen)
title: Civil war in Yemen
uri: Civil-war-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Civil_war_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/20/how-us-contributed-yemens-crisis">
US role in creating the current civil war</a> in Yemen.
<p>
The article doesn't explain why the US went from using its arms to
defend Saleh to supporting Saudi Arabia in bombing Saleh's
allies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Leaked_Sony_emails)
title: Leaked Sony emails
uri: Leaked-Sony-emails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Leaked_Sony_emails%29
content:
<p>
Sony is making
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150420/22284530731/our-response-to-sony-sending-us-threat-letter-reporting-companys-leaked-emails.shtml">
legal threats against media organizations</a>, demanding
that they not report on the leaked Sony emails.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Inadequate_measures)
title: Inadequate measures
uri: Inadequate-measures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Inadequate_measures%29
content:
<p>
As governments propose inadequate measures against global heating,
environmental activists in many countries are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/21/climate-talks-activists-environment-un-summits">
getting murdered</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Nonsensical_spin)
title: Nonsensical spin
uri: Nonsensical-spin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Nonsensical_spin%29
content:
<p>
Obama provided his campaign email lists to send out
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/21/organizing-action-formerly-obama-america-tries-calm-democrats-misleading-email-fast-track-trade-authority/">
nonsensical spin
in favor of the TPP</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Falsely_convicted)
title: Falsely convicted
uri: Falsely-convicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Falsely_convicted%29
content:
<p>
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Americans were falsely convicted based
on the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/21/fbi-jail-hair-mass-disaster-false-conviction">
bogus technique of hair identification</a>.  The FBI has admitted
it is bogus, but states resist freeing the victims of this.
<p>
The cause is, prosecutors simply hate to admit that the legal system
can make a mistake.  Some can overcome this, but many aim to defend
every last error.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Urgent:_Schakowsky_letter)
title: Urgent: Schakowsky letter
uri: Urgent-Schakowsky-letter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Schakowsky_letter%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone 202-224-312 and ask your congresscritter to sign
the Schakowsky letter in favor of nuclear diplomacy with Iran.


title: Urgent: Stop bottling water in California
uri: 2015-04-26-Urgent-Stop-bottling-water-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_bottling_water_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_bottling_water_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-california-drought/">call
on Nestle</a> to stop bottling water in California.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_TPP)
title: Urgent: Oppose the TPP
uri: 2015-04-26-Urgent-Oppose-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and your senators
to oppose the TPP.  Say it is wrong to give foreign companies
more rights than US citizens, and urge them to oppose
both "fast track" and the TPP itself.
<p>
I've read (in a mass emailing) that many members of Congress
are undecided on the issue.  We need you to influence them.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Urgent:_Prosecute_CIA_torturers)
title: Urgent: Prosecute CIA torturers
uri: Urgent-Prosecute-CIA-torturers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Prosecute_CIA_torturers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=37672">Call
on the US Justice Department</a> to prosecute CIA torturers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(EC_urged_to_defend_peoples_privacy)
title: EC urged to defend people's privacy
uri: EC-urged-to-defend-people-s-privacy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28EC_urged_to_defend_peoples_privacy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://edri.org/citizens-groups-from-around-the-world-call-on-ec-to-defend-privacy/">Citizens'
groups of many countries</a> urge the European Commission to defend
people's privacy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Computer_security_in_a_smart_city)
title: Computer security in a "smart city"
uri: Computer-security-in-a-smart-city
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Computer_security_in_a_smart_city%29

content:
<p>
The usual bad computer security, in a "smart city", makes it a
<a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/smart-city-technology-may-be-vulnerable-to-hackers/">sabotageable
city</a>.


title: Insurance companies anticipate disasters
uri: Insurance-companies-anticipate-disasters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Insurance_companies_anticipate_disasters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Insurance_companies_anticipate_disasters%29

content:
<p>
Insurance companies are 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/21/3649244/insurance-climate-change-disaster-relief/">trying
to prod the US government to change its policies</a> towards the
likely future not-so-natural disasters.
<p>
The cheapest way to prepare for these is to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, but fossil fuel companies don't want that to be discussed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Bullshit_in_articles_about_climate)
title: Bullshit in articles about climate
uri: Bullshit-in-articles-about-climate
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Bullshit_in_articles_about_climate%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/17/3647947/climate-change-bs-guide/">How
To Tell If The Article About Climate You Are Reading Is B.S., In Four
Easy Steps</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Baltimore_thugs_maim_man)
title: Baltimore thugs maim man
uri: Baltimore-thugs-maim-man
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Baltimore_thugs_maim_man%29
content:
<p>
Baltimore thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/21/doj-opens-federal-investigation-baltimore-freddie-gray">broke
Freddie Gray's neck</a>, and denied him medical attention for hours.
He subsequently died as a result.  How much they maimed him when
arresting him, and how much they did it inside the thug van, is not
clear.
<p>
His relatives believe the thug department is keeping evidence secret
so as to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/20/baltimore-man-dies-after-arrest-prompting-calls-answers-and-accountability">construct
an excuse to protect the thugs responsible</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Risk_of_inadvertent_nuclear_war)
title: Risk of inadvertent nuclear war
uri: Risk-of-inadvertent-nuclear-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Risk_of_inadvertent_nuclear_war%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/20/official-leaks-these-senior-people-do-whatever-they-want">U.S. and
Russian Generals Call for Reducing the Risk of Inadvertent Nuclear
War</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Robot_cook_with_proprietary_recipes)
title: Robot cook with proprietary recipes
uri: Robot-cook-with-proprietary-recipes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Robot_cook_with_proprietary_recipes%29

content:
<p>
A robot cook will pave the way for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2015/apr/20/robo-chef-gadget-cook-dinner-cyborg-kitchen">proprietary
recipes that users can't see</a>.


title: United Airlines bans security researcher
uri: United-Airlines-bans-security-researcher
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(United_Airlines_bans_security_researcher)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28United_Airlines_bans_security_researcher%29

content:
<p>
United Airlines tried to protect itself from thinking about the bad
security of airplane systems, claimed by a security researcher, by
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/researcher-denied-flight-tweet-poking-united-security-30427474">banning
him from flying</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Bottled_water)
title: Bottled water
uri: Bottled-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Bottled_water%29
content:
<p>
In developed countries, we must 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/21/bottled-water-multinational-companies-environment-consumers">reject
the expensive habit of bottled water</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Importance_of_national_guilt)
title: Importance of national guilt
uri: Importance-of-national-guilt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Importance_of_national_guilt%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/21/gunter-grass-haruki-murakami-germany-japan">Günter
Grass, Haruki Murakami And the Importance of National Guilt</a>.


title: Australia to deny tax exemption to rights defenders
uri: Australia-to-deny-tax-exemption-to-rights-defenders
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Australia_to_deny_tax_exemption_to_rights_defenders)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Australia_to_deny_tax_exemption_to_rights_defenders%29

content:
<p>
Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/21/environmental-defenders-tell-inquiry-that-coalition-cuts-will-mean-closures">plans
to deny tax exemption</a> to organizations that give legal aid to
people protecting their rights from abuses by businesses.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Sanctions_against_Iran)
title: Sanctions against Iran
uri: 2015-04-26-Sanctions-against-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Sanctions_against_Iran%29
content:
<p>
The sanctions against Iran hit 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/iranian-human-rights-group-account-blocked-paypal-sanctions">medical
charities, students, even architecture competitions</a>.
<p>
Sanctions enforcement inevitably has uncertainty.  To prevent that
uncertainty from being gamed by Iran requires turning all the
uncertainty into fear for banks, universities, contests, etc.
That inevitably leads to over-application.


title: Course in refuting global heating denial
uri: Course-in-refuting-global-heating-denial
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Course_in_refuting_global_heating_denial)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Course_in_refuting_global_heating_denial%29

content:
<p>
An Australian university offers a course in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/apr/21/university-offering-free-online-course-to-demolish-climate-denial">refuting
the arguments of global heating denialists</a>.


title: Israeli memorial to victims of terrorism
uri: Israeli-memorial-to-victims-of-terrorism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Israeli_memorial_to_victims_of_terrorism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Israeli_memorial_to_victims_of_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
Israeli fanatics 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/israel-adds-name-murdered-palestinian-boy-cemetery-wall-mount-herzl">object
to including a murdered Arab boy</a> in the memorial to victims of
terrorism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Morsi_prison_sentence)
title: Morsi prison sentence
uri: Morsi-prison-sentence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Morsi_prison_sentence%29
content:
<p>
Morsi was sentenced to prison for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/egypts-ex-president-mohamed-morsi-jailed-protest-deaths-muslim-brotherhood">fatal
fight between his supporters and protesters</a>, while he was
president of Egypt.
<p>
Will al-Sisi be tried for the murder of over a thousand Morsi
supporters by thugs, shortly after the military coup?  Not likely.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Still_no_school_in_Chibok)
title: Still no school in Chibok
uri: Still-no-school-in-Chibok
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Still_no_school_in_Chibok%29
content:
<p>
A year after Boko Haram kidnaped 276 girls from Chibok, there is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/21/chibok-nigeria-boko-haram-kidnap-girls-school-borno">still
no school in the town</a>.
<p>
It makes no sense to build a new school there if it would be a magnet
for another kidnaping.  If security been reestablished sufficiently to
make that unlikely, it is important to restart school there.


title: Australian global heating denial center
uri: Australian-global-heating-denial-center
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Australian_global_heating_denial_center)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Australian_global_heating_denial_center%29

content:
<p>
Students at the University of Western Australia are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/21/wa-students-call-for-bjrn-lomborgs-4m-for-climate-research-to-be-rejected">protesting
the government's plan</a> to establish a global heating denial center
there.
<p>
The government is a tool for the fossil fuel companies and has already
promoted denialism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Jobs_threatened_by_machines)
title: Jobs threatened by machines
uri: Jobs-threatened-by-machines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Jobs_threatened_by_machines%29
content:
<p>
Machines are 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/the-machines-are-coming.html">becoming
able to make fine judgments better than humans can</a>.  Many jobs
that require training and skill are in danger of elimination.  They
also give employers more power over employees in other jobs.
<p>
In the short term, we should ban some kinds of machines that would
automate many jobs.  In the longer term, we need to reorganize society
so that people don't need to find work.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Russian_environmentalist_flees)
title: Russian environmentalist flees
uri: Russian-environmentalist-flees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Russian_environmentalist_flees%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/20/russias-leading-environmentalist-flees-to-estonia">Russia's
Leading Environmentalist Flees to Estonia</a> to escape threats to
take away her children.
<p>
Such threats happen 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#05_April_2013_(Thugs_harass_6-year-old_in_Ohio)">in 
the US</a> as well.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Senator_on_oil_company_payroll)
title: Senator on oil company payroll
uri: Senator-on-oil-company-payroll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Senator_on_oil_company_payroll%29
content:
<p>
In Louisiana, a state senator that supports the interests of the oil
companies is 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/04/cartoonish-conflicts-interest-louisianas-legislature">openly
on their payroll</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Summit_of_the_Americas)
title: Summit of the Americas
uri: Summit-of-the-Americas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Summit_of_the_Americas%29
content:
<p>
The Summit of the Americas is principally an 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/no-room-business-usual-summit-americas">opportunity
for businesses to scheme and lobby</a>.


title: 1/6 of US black men absent from society
uri: 1-6-of-US-black-men-absent-from-society
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(One_sixth_of_US_black_men_absent_from_society)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28One_sixth_of_US_black_men_absent_from_society%29

content:
<p>
1/6 of black men in the US are absent from society — they are
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/upshot/missing-black-men.html">either
in prison or died young</a>.


title: Dictatorship and slavery in Eritreas
uri: Dictatorship-and-slavery-in-Eritreas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Dictatorship_and_slavery_in_Eritreas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Dictatorship_and_slavery_in_Eritreas%29

content:
<p>
The reason so many Eritreans try to flee to Europe is that their
country is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/20/crushing-repression-eritreas-citizens-italy-migrant-boats">ruled
by a dictatorship which uses the people as slaves</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Ukraine_plans_to_ban_symbols)
title: Ukraine plans to ban symbols
uri: Ukraine-plans-to-ban-symbols
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Ukraine_plans_to_ban_symbols%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine is planning a law to ban Communist and Nazi symbols
and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/ukraine-decommunisation-law-soviet">criminalize
disagreement with the official line on history</a>.
<p>
This is inexcusable tyranny, comparable to the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/hrant-dink.html">tyranny found
in France and Turkey</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(UK_Green_Party_manifesto)
title: UK Green Party manifesto
uri: UK-Green-Party-manifesto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28UK_Green_Party_manifesto%29
content:
<p>
The UK Green Party manifesto has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/14/greens-election-manifesto-2015-the-key-points">many
good proposals</a>.
<p>
I am disappointed by the absence of a proposal to repeal the crime
of squatting.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Oil_leak_running_since_2004)
title: Oil leak running since 2004
uri: Oil-leak-running-since-2004
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Oil_leak_running_since_2004%29
content:
<p>
A oil leak 
<a href="http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/04/gulf_oil_spill_hidden_2004.html">running
since 2004</a> may have leaked more oil than the Big Spill, but the
public can't tell because everything about it is a trade secret.


title: Initial WHO response to Ebola outbreak
uri: Initial-WHO-response-to-Ebola-outbreak
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Initial_WHO_response_to_Ebola_outbreak)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Initial_WHO_response_to_Ebola_outbreak%29

content:
<p>
WHO said that its initial response to the Ebola outbreak was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/ebola-outbreak-we-simply-could-not-cope-admits-world-health-organisation">not
strong enough to quash the outbreak</a>, so it plans to develop a
large response team for the future.
<p>
After publishing a statement, it then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2015/apr/20/how-who-revised-its-self-criticism-over-ebola-handling">edited
the statement to be less self-critical</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 26_April_2015_(Warning_of_the_Big_Spill)
title: Warning of the Big Spill
uri: Warning-of-the-Big-Spill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_%28Warning_of_the_Big_Spill%29
content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning's diplomatic cables included a 
<a href="http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=4365f6f9cf&e=8283eff9b8">warning
of the Big Spill</a>, because one reported that BP had had a similar
explosion in the Caspian Sea.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Genocide)
title: Genocide
uri: Genocide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Genocide%29
content:
<p>
There is plenty of evidence demonstrating that the genocide of the
Armenians
<a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2901136.ece">was centrally ordered,</a> <a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/toynbee.html">
and centrally covered up.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Shell)
title: Shell
uri: Shell
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Shell%29
content:
<p>Shell Lobbied to Undermine EU <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/27/shell-lobbied-to-undermine-eu-renewables-targets-documents-reveal">
Renewables Targets.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Insurance_Companies)
title: Insurance Companies
uri: Insurance-Companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Insurance_Companies%29
content:
<p>
Insurance companies sell information about their customers to lawyers
who then pester customers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/apr/21/accident-nuisance-calls-insurance">looking 
for their business.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(NYC_Apartments)
title: NYC Apartments
uri: NYC-Apartments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28NYC_Apartments%29
content:
<p>
The "affordable" apartments behind the separate "poor door" in New
York are 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/04/24/3649981/poor-door-affordable/">unaffordable
for any poor person</a>.</p>
<p>New York City has insufficient living quarters for the non-rich.
What could fix this?  One idea is to increase the taxes on dwellings
that are the principal residence of too few people for their size.
Another is to change zoning law to allow construction of lots more
dwellings.  I don't know whether these would be sufficient, but they
have to help.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(New_York_City)
title: New York City
uri: New-York-City
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28New_York_City%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>New York City has deployed almost 150 E-ZPass scanners in places that
have
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/newly-obtained-records-reveal-extensive-monitoring-e-zpass-tags-throughout-new-York">
nothing to do with paying toll.</a>
</p>
<p>As usual, the proposed solution is inadequate, because it would not
prevent massive state surveillance of people's movements.  Systems
like E-ZPass should be illegal; <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">
toll payment should use anonymous
digital cash instead.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Edwin_Lyngar)
title: Edwin Lyngar
uri: Edwin-Lyngar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Edwin_Lyngar%29
content:
<p>
Edwin Lyngar explains how, when he was poor, he voted for politicians
who wanted to crush the poor — <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/07/16/i_was_poor_but_a_gop_die_hard_how_i_finally_left_the_politics_of_shame/">
because he thought poverty
was a sign he deserved to suffer.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Material_Gifts)
title: Material Gifts
uri: Material-Gifts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Material_Gifts%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>It's illegal for lobbyists to give material gifts to a
congresscritter, but not apparently illegal for <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/bill-shuster-admits-personal-relationship-with-lobbyist-117054.html">
the lobbyist to go to
bed with one.
</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Chicago:_30_years_of_Torture)
title: Chicago: 30 years of Torture
uri: Chicago-30-years-of-Torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Chicago%3A_30_years_of_Torture%29
content:
<p>Chicago may compensate the victims of 30 years <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/16/3647515/chicago-torture-victims-see-compensation-first-ever-police-misconduct-fund/">
of torture by
thugs.</a>
</p>
<p>Torture is not an effective way to get true information, but in
Chicago
as elsewhere it works well for extracting false confessions.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Ignored_Law)
title: Ignored Law
uri: Ignored-Law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Ignored_Law%29
content:
<p>
The laws against public sitting or lying down, aimed at punishing
homeless people, were strangely ignored <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/apple-lines-sit-lie-laws/">
when people queued up to spend
money on iThings.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Door-to-Door)
title: Door-to-Door
uri: Door-to-Door
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Door-to-Door%29
content:
<p>
The US is full of door-to-door magazine salesmen, operating as
"independent contractors" for companies that hardly pay them, or even
keep them in debt slavery.  Many of these companies <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/trapped-into-selling-magazines-door-to-door/388601/">
defraud the people
who purchase subscriptions, too.</a></p>
<p>Several aspects of these companies' practice ought to be banned.  I
see no harm in prohibiting the practice of contracting non-employees
to do this kind of work.</p>
<p>However, the root cause of this problem is the spreading poverty in
the US, the cutbacks in welfare, and lack of work through which people
have a chance of supporting their families.  In other words, dooH
niboR.</p>
<p>That's what makes people so desperate that they will come back to
this exploitative work.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Criminal_Attack)
title: Criminal Attack
uri: Criminal-Attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Criminal_Attack%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>As Beatriz Paez was making a recording of US marshalls arresting
someone,
one of them ordered her to stop, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/22/us/california-marshal-smashed-phone/index.html">
then grabbed her phone and crushed
it.</a></p>
<p>Fortunately that criminal attack was caught on another phone.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in New Jersey, the thugs that killed a captive
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150408/14553030595/new-jersey-cop-demands-camera-eyewitness-after-police-dog-allowed-to-maul-prone-suspect.shtml">
also tried to confiscate a video recording of the killing.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Jeffrey_Sterling)
title: Jeffrey Sterling
uri: Jeffrey-Sterling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Jeffrey_Sterling%29
content:
<p>The US government claims that Jeffrey Sterling is not a real
whistleblower, because he "sabotaged" an operation by revealing to
the press that it was misconceived, <a
href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2015/04/21/us-government-former-cia-officer-jeffrey-sterling-is-no-whistleblower-deserves-lengthy-prison-sentence/">failing, and useless.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Sabeen_Mahmud)
title: Sabeen Mahmud
uri: Sabeen-Mahmud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Sabeen_Mahmud%29
content:
<p>Sabeen Mahmud, Pakistani progressive activist, <a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/04/24/woman-behind-pakistans-firs.html">has been
assassinated.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Viruses)
title: Viruses
uri: Viruses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Viruses%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Gene-editing techniques now make it possible to create viruses more
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2015/apr/26/can-we-trust-scientists-self-control">
dangerous than those found in nature.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(School_Bus_Pullution)
title: School Bus Pollution
uri: School-Bus-Pullution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28School_Bus_Pullution%29
content:
<p>Reducing School Bus Pollution Improves <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-04/uom-rsb042315.php">
Children's Health.</a>
And their education, since they are absent less from school.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(NSA)
title: NSA
uri: 2015-04-27-NSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28NSA%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>When the NSA puts a spy or attack technique into use,
other <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/04/the_further_dem.html">
countries are sure to follow.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Business_Regulations)
title: Business Regulations
uri: Business-Regulations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Business_Regulations%29
content:
<p>
The TTIP would create an international commission to veto business
regulations in the US and Europe <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/20/newly-leaked-ttip-draft-reveals-far-reaching-assault-useu-democracy">
on behalf of businesses.</a></p>
<p>TTIP stands for "This Treaty is Plutocratic".</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Murders)
title: Murders
uri: Murders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Murders%29
content:
<p>
Over 100 defenders of the environment and indigenous <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/20/murders-earths-defenders-deadly-trend-continues">
people were
murdered
in 2014.</a>
The rate of murder is increasing.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Russia)
title: Russia
uri: Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Russia%29
content:
<p>
Russia crushes organized opposition by labeling NGOs as "foreign agents",
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/26/harassed-and-shunned-the-russians-labelled-foreign-agents-by-kremlin">
and various sorts of sabotage and harassment.
</a>
</p>
<p>It's possible some of them really are foreign agents, but working for
Putin is more of a betrayal of Russia than working for the US.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Low-Paid_Families)
title: Low-Paid Families
uri: Low-Paid-Families
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Low-Paid_Families%29
content:
<p>How the Tories Dehumanise Low-Paid Families — <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/26/tories-low-paid-families-benefit-units-parents-minimum-wage">
Or Should I Say,
"benefit units."</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Baltimore)
title: Baltimore
uri: Baltimore
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Baltimore%29
content:
<p>The Baltimore thug union compared protesters <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/23/tensions-boil-over-after-baltimore-police-call-protesters-lynch-mob">
to a "lynch
mob".</a></p>
<p>They are inverting the truth — that it was thugs that
killed
someone unjustly.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Los_Angeles)
title: Los Angeles
uri: Los-Angeles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Los_Angeles%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Due to reforms in the governance of the Los Angeles thug department,
thugs that attack citizens are prosecuted, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/26/los-angeles-police-department-lapd-rodney-king-police-violence">
even if the victims survive.

</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Lies)
title: Lies
uri: Lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Lies%29
content:
<p>How one middle-class white man discovered how <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/26/1324819/-Cops-who-lie-the-erosion-of-trust-and-despair?detail=emailclassic">
thugs lie in cold
blood.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Trains)
title: Trains
uri: Trains
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Trains%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Using a computer network for train signaling creates an opportunity
for sabotaging trains <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32402481">
through the computers.
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Legalization_of_Marijuana)
title: Legalization of Marijuana
uri: Legalization-of-Marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Legalization_of_Marijuana%29
content:
<p>Legalization of marijuana is hurting Mexican <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/18/1300289/-Marijuana-legalization-hurting-Mexican-drug-cartels?detail=emailclassic">
drug traffickers and the
DEA.</a></p>
<p>Hitting two monsters with one stoned.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(French_Citizens_Oppose)
title: French Citizens Oppose
uri: French-Citizens-Oppose
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28French_Citizens_Oppose%29
content:
<p>French citizens: oppose the massive <a href="https://sous-surveillance.fr/noscript.php">
surveillance law.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Internet_Services)
title: Internet Services
uri: Internet-Services
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Internet_Services%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Cory Doctorow: The regulations applied to internet services have been
designed by compromises with the biggest companies, and frequently they
would be impossible for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/22/can-anything-curb-dominance-of-internet-big-guns-amazon-google">
any smaller competitor to meet.
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Elections)
title: Elections
uri: 2015-04-27-Elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Elections%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Hong Kong has unveiled its system for phony democratic elections,
with all candidates to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/hong-kong-draft-election-law-unveil-beijing">
be chosen by China.</a>
</p>
<p>When this system is put into effect, I predict they will choose one
bad candidate (the equivalent of Clinton) and a few horrible
candidates (comparable to Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush), aiming to
lure people into campaigning for the bad one.  Then they will tend to
convince themselves that they really agree with and support that bad
candidate, like the majority of Americans whose views on issues
are more progressive than Clinton's and Obama's but support them
anyway.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Plutocratic)
title: Plutocratic
uri: Plutocratic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Plutocratic%29
content:
<p>The TPP could mean foreign banks could sue the US if it restricts
financial derivatives that could cause a financial crisis, and their
investors could sue the US if it <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/24/trans-pacific-partnership-and-death-republic">
declines to give the bank a
bailout.</a></p>
<p>In effect, it means the US (and each signatory) would have to align
each
and every policy to what businesses want, or pay dearly for each
divergence.</p>
<p>TPP stands for Treacherous Plutocratic Poison.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Google)
title: Google
uri: 2015-04-27-Google
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Google%29
content:
<p>
Google proposes to give people robotic personal assistants…that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/26/facebook-isnt-charity-poor-pay-by-surrending-their-data">
spy on them.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Ervin_Edwards)
title: Ervin Edwards
uri: Ervin-Edwards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Ervin_Edwards%29
content:
<p>
Thugs arrested Ervin Edwards for sagging pants, tased him to death
in a cell, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/24/1379943/-Arrested-for-sagging-pants-Ervin-Edwards-tasered-to-death-in-custody-Police-lie-in-report?detail=email">
then lied about what they did.
</a>
</p>
<p>The first wrong was the initial arrest.  Yes, sagging pants are often
a gesture of hostility — but freedom of speech includes the
right to make gestures.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Deutsche_Bank)
title: Deutsche Bank
uri: Deutsche-Bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Deutsche_Bank%29
content:
<p>Deutsche Bank pled guilty to pervasive fraud, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/24/big-bank-crime-century-results-guess-what-no-jail-time-anyone">
and yet nobody was
jailed.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Drone_Attack)
title: Drone Attack
uri: Drone-Attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Drone_Attack%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Obama admitted that a drone attack killed two western captives of the
Taliban, but still refuses to recognize that it was a drone attack,
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/24/white-house-still-attempting-to-pretend">
even though we all know this.</a></p>
<p>The president is unable to remove from our brains the knowledge that
these assassinations are done with drones, but his refusal to be
straight with the American people about his assassination program
is dangerous and unacceptable.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Air_Passengers's_Data)
title: Air Passengers' Data
uri: Air-Passengers-s-Data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Air_Passengers%27s_Data%29
content:
<p>
The EU's plan for collecting air passengers' personal data <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2015/04/21/eu-proposal-on-airline-passenger-data-sharing-no-still-means-no">
is still
too much.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Popeye's_Worker)
title: Popeye's Worker
uri: Popeye-s-Worker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Popeye%27s_Worker%29
content:
<p>Popeye's acted quickly to offer a new job <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/23/1379696/-Popeye-s-makes-job-offer-to-pregnant-worker-who-was-robbed-and-then-fired?detail=email">
to Marissa
Holcomb.</a></p>
<p>I once went into a Popeye's, but when they told me they did not sell
any spinach, I told them "How can you call yourself Popeye's and not
have spinach?" and left without buying anything.</p>
<p>I did this partly on a lark, but I really love spinach and would
eagerly have bought some.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(International_Cooperation)
title: International Cooperation
uri: International-Cooperation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28International_Cooperation%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>International cooperation created a way to receive millions of
refugees
from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/25/war-on-trafficking-wrong-way-to-tackle-crisis-of-migrant-deaths">
It could be applied to today's
refugees.</a></p>
<p>We must also provide more support to refugees in neighboring
countries.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Congress)
title: Congress
uri: Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Congress%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>There is another attempt in Congress to narrow the CFAA to <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/04/aaron_s_law_why_it_s_needed_to_fix_the_horrendously_bad_cfaa.html">
protect
the
next Aaron Swartz.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Water)
title: Water
uri: 2015-04-27-Water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Water%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Shortages of water create increased need for electricity, while
interfering
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/business/energy-environment/troubling-interdependency-of-water-and-power.html">
with generation of electricity.</a>
Fracking uses lots of water to extract natural gas.</p>
<p>Thus, when global heating causes drought, we are pushing ourselves into
a
corner.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Report)
title: Report
uri: 2015-04-27-Report
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Report%29
content:
<p>
Declassified Report Shows Doubts About Value of N.S.A.'s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/us/politics/value-of-nsa-warrantless-spying-is-doubted-in-declassified-reports.html">
Warrantless 
Spying
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(UK:_Privatizing_the_NHS)
title: UK: Privatizing the NHS
uri: UK-Privatizing-the-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28UK%3A_Privatizing_the_NHS%29
content:
<p>The UK government is privatizing the NHS <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/25/far-more-nhs-contracts-going-to-private-firms-than-ministers-admit-privatisation">
very fast, and
quietly.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Propaganda)
title: Propaganda
uri: 2015-04-27-Propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Propaganda%29
content:
<p>Can US propaganda counter Russia's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/25/us-set-to-revive-propaganda-war-as-putin-pr-machine-undermines-baltic-states">
conspiracy ideation?</a></p>
<p>It is hard to convincingly advocate democracy while practicing
plutocracy.  The US needs to make itself more honest if it is
to get any honest support.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Forensic_Methods)
title: Forensic Methods
uri: Forensic-Methods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Forensic_Methods%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Along with hair identification, other forensic methods may be
unreliable; even, in practice, <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/24/badforensics/">
fingerprint identification.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Armenians)
title: Armenians
uri: Armenians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Armenians%29
content:
<p>Politically motivated denial of the genocide of the Armenians is
comparable <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/24/armenians-dont-understand-good-kind-holocaust-denial/">
to politically motivated denial of the genocide of the
Jews.
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Eritrea)
title: Eritrea
uri: Eritrea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Eritrea%29
content:
<p>It won't be easy to stop Libyan people-smugglers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/libyas-people-smugglers-how-will-they-catch-us-theyll-soon-move-on">
by force.</a>
</p>
<p>Convincing the government of Eritrea to be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/24/mediterranean-migrant-crisis-eritrea-western-allies">
less oppressive would
reduce the flow.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Family)
title: Family
uri: Family
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Family%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Researchers found systematic brain differences between 6th grade
students from <a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/link-brain-to-anatomy-academic-achievement-family-income-0417">
low and high income families.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(The_Republican_Party)
title: The Republican Party
uri: The-Republican-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28The_Republican_Party%29
content:
<p>The Republican Party is having <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0422-mcmanus-politics-megadonors-koch-20150422-column.html">
a billionaires' primary.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(California)
title: California
uri: 2015-04-27-California
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28California%29
content:
<p>
California presents an example of school reform that rejects the
austerity and standardized tests <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/23/alternative-failed-education-reform-if-we-want-one">
that plague most of the US.
</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Big_Pharma)
title: Big Pharma
uri: 2015-04-27-Big-Pharma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Big_Pharma%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>The harm done in the US by mismarketing of drugs is around $27 billion
dollars a year, which is comparable to the amount <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/23/calculating-costs-patent-monopolies-and-mismarketing-pharmaceutical-industry">
that Big Pharma
spends on research.
</a></p>
<p>Patents encourage mismarketing just as they encourage research
spending,
so it could be that patents do so much harm through mismarketing
alone
that it outweighs their incentivization of research.  But the raw numbers
exaggerate the benefit of Big Pharma's research, since it focuses
research
on developing the next viagra rather than on curing dangerous
diseases.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Genral_Petraeus)
title: General Petraeus
uri: Genral-Petraeus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Genral_Petraeus%29
content:
<p>A judge sent General Petraeus a message about leaking government
secrets by fining him less <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/23/send-message-judge-sentences-david-petraeus-75-one-speaking-fee">
than he gets paid for one speech.</a>
</p>
<p>That is because Petraeus leaked the secrets for private selfish
reasons.
Heroes such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, who leak secrets
for
ethical and patriotic reasons, are treated much worse.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Cyber_Attacks)
title: Cyber Attacks
uri: Cyber-Attacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Cyber_Attacks%29
content:
<p>A business-motivated scare campaign says Iran carries out lots of
cyber attacks against the US, but the claim is bogus.  Many are not
real attacks, <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/politics/iran-cyberwar-attack-times-norse-aei/">
and the rest might not be by Iran.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Rights_of_Workers)
title: Rights of Workers
uri: Rights-of-Workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Rights_of_Workers%29
content:
<p>
NYU tried to insist on respect for rights of workers constructing its
Abu Dhabi branch, but local contractors took advantages <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/24/nyu-compensate-thousands-migrant-workers-abu-dhabi-complex-nardello-report">
of exceptions
to mistreat 10,000 workers.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(US:_Victims_Of_Drone_Attacks)
title: US: Victims Of Drone Attacks
uri: US-Victims-Of-Drone-Attacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28US%3A_Victims_Of_Drone_Attacks%29
content:
<p>When will the US apologize to the non-western unintended <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/24/obama-drone-apology/">
victims of
drone attacks?</a></p>
<p>Inside Obama's Drone Panopticon: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/25/us-drone-program-secrecy-scrutiny-signature-strikes">
a Secret Machine with No
Accountability.</a>
Choosing targets based on probabilities implies frequent errors, and
frequent killing of civilians.</p>
<p>The root cause of killing so many innocent people is that these
attacks are directed at people's homes in areas that are not
battlefields.  We must recognize the difference between war on a
battlefield and assassination of people off the battlefield.  The
latter is more like terrorism than like war.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Policies)
title: Policies
uri: Policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Policies%29
content:
<p>It is hard for poor people to avoid getting <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/22/1379335/-Anger-Towards-the-Rich?detail=email">
angry at the
rich.</a></p>
<p>It would be wrong to blame the rich for being rich.  We should
not
give in to envy.  The correct and valid reason to blame the rich is
that most of them support dooH niboR policies that hurt the poor.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(The_FBI)
title: The FBI
uri: 2015-04-27-The-FBI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28The_FBI%29
content:
<p>The FBI has replaced integrity <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/23/not-your-grandfathers-fbi">
with "the end justifies the
means".</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Marissa_Holcomb)
title: Marissa Holcomb
uri: Marissa-Holcomb
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Marissa_Holcomb%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Marissa Holcomb was working in Popeye's when an armed robber forced
her to hand over $400 from the cash registers.  <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/22/1379444/-Pregnant-fast-food-worker-robbed-at-gunpoint-told-to-repay-stolen-cash-or-be-fired?detail=email">
The boss told her to
repay the money or get fired.
</a></p>
<p>It is wrong to punish Ms Holcomb this way, but she's doing something
else that she should not have done.  She should not be having another
child while her ability to support her existing children is
precarious.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Global_Problems)
title: Global Problems
uri: Global-Problems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Global_Problems%29
content:
<p>Exhaustion of soil is connected to other global environmental problems
as well as injustices <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/23/living-soil-lies-solution-climate-change">
of the global economy.
</a></p>
<p>We can help reduce  all these problems by having fewer children, and
make
our lives easier and less stressful at the same time.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Koch_Funding)
title: Koch Funding
uri: Koch-Funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Koch_Funding%29
content:
<p>Koch Funding of Universities Shrouded <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/50839">
in Secrecy.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Global_Heating)
title: Global Heating
uri: 2015-04-27-Global-Heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Global_Heating%29
content:
<p>
A study predicts that clouds (which tend to cool the Earth) will give a
little less
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/apr/23/changes-in-water-vapor-and-clouds-are-amplifying-global-warming">
cooling as global heating continues.</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Dzhokhar_Tsarnaev)
title: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
uri: Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Dzhokhar_Tsarnaev%29
content:
<p>In the sentencing phase of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial, the prosecutors
selected one frame out of a video and blocked the defense <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/23/power-dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-middle-finger/">
from
explaining the significance of the whole video.</a>
</p>
<p>It seems they are trying to mislead and manipulate the jury into a
decision
to do something wrong (an execution).</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Freedom_Act)
title: Freedom Act
uri: Freedom-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Freedom_Act%29
content:
<p>
The USA Freedom Act has returned, without last year's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/usa-freedom-act-revised-senate-bill-nsa">
undermining by
Obama.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Poor_People)
title: Poor People
uri: Poor-People
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Poor_People%29
content:
<p>Ideas for teaching people to reject <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/24/tory-war-welfare-suffering-benefits-cap-invalidity">
the War on Poor People.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Senator_Wyden)
title: Senator Wyden
uri: Senator-Wyden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Senator_Wyden%29
content:
<p>Refuting Senator Wyden's <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/why-wyden-has-it-wrong-fast-track-and-tpp">
TPP snow job.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Fossiel_Fuel_Industry)
title: Fossil Fuel Industry
uri: Fossiel-Fuel-Industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Fossiel_Fuel_Industry%29
content:
<p>The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Condemning Us <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/24/fossil-fuel-industry-bianca-jagger-renewable-energy-revolution">
to Climate
Disaster.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Japan's_Crimes)
title: Japan's Crimes
uri: Japan-s-Crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Japan%27s_Crimes%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>A Korean woman who was forced into prostitution by the Japanese army
calls on the prime minister of Japan to stop denying <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/wartime-sex-slave-japan-pm-shinzo-abe-apologise-us-trip">
Japan's crimes in
World War II.
</a></p>
<p></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Chernobyl)
title: Chernobyl
uri: Chernobyl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Chernobyl%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>A project to cover the exploded reactor at Chernobyl is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/24/chernobyl-arch-faces-265m-funding-gap-ahead-of-disasters-29th-anniversary">
short 300
million dollars.</a></p>
<p>A nuclear disaster sucks up money for decades.  Let's not make more of
them.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Drone_Attacks)
title: Drone Attacks
uri: Drone-Attacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Drone_Attacks%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>US drone attacks often kill civilians, but the state tries to duck the
issue.  When, by luck, one of the victims turned out to be an American
prisoner of the Taliban, the US had to admit it, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/24/the-hostages-killed-by-us-drones-are-the-casualties-of-an-inhumane-policy">
which shone a spot of
light on this.</a></p>
<p>Drones plus secret policies for using them add up <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/24/word-uttered-drones/">
to secret
wars.</a>
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(New_age_Thought)
title: New age Thought
uri: New-age-Thought
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28New_age_Thought%29
content:
<p>The sloppy antirationality of New Age thinking proved to be fertile
ground <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/24/belle-gibsons-cancer-lie-is-the-tedious-fulfilment-of-new-age-thought">
for dishonest business.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Muslim_Countries)
title: Muslim Countries
uri: Muslim-Countries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Muslim_Countries%29
content:
<p>Most Muslim countries deny religious freedom to its citizens. 
<a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/28/which-countries-still-outlaw-apostasy-and-blasphemy/">
Here's
a list of countries</a></p>
<p>that forbid ceasing to be a Muslim:</p>
<p>Afghanistan,
Bahrain,
Comoros,
Egypt,
Iran,
Iraq,
Jordan,
Kuwait,
Malaysia,
Maldives,
Mauritania,
Oman,
Pakistan,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
Somalia,
Sudan,
Syria,
UAE,
Yemen.</p>
<p>In addition, the situation in Morocco is unclear; there is no law
punishing this, but there is a fatwa threatening to kill.</p>
<p>Some parts of Northern Nigeria have adopted Muslim law.  They are not
supposed to apply it to non-Muslims, but it is not clear that Muslims
there
can safely stop.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/help/apostasy/index.php">
For further reference.</a></p>
<p>I think
countries should require immigrants and permanent residents to
affirm, in a video for publication, that the principle of religious
freedom applies to everyone, and that it includes the freedom to leave
any religion as well as the freedom to join any religion.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(43_cents_a_month)
title: 43 cents a month
uri: 43-cents-a-month
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%2843_cents_a_month%29
content:
<p>
According to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/22/new-paper-finds-gains-multilateral-trade-liberalization-be-extremely-small">
IMF data</a>, the total economic benefit from "reduced trade
barriers" amounts to about 5 dollars a year per worker.  43 cents a
month,
more precisely.
<p>
This benefit is the purported justification for knocking down wages
and working conditions, and the suppression of democracy
through international
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_November_2013_%28Chapter_from_TPP_leaked%29">
"trade tribunals"</a>.
<p>
These results confirm that we must demand abolition of the WTO
and all the subsequent "free trade" treaties.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Detroit)
title: Detroit
uri: Detroit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Detroit%29
content:
<p>
Detroit is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/20/foreclosure-conveyor-belt-continuing-depopulation-detroit">
planning to evict 1/7 of its population</a> for not paying
property taxes.
They are too poor to pay.
<p>
This surely has some relationship to the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_November_2014_%28Detroits_bankruptcy_plan%29">
bankruptcy of Detroit</a>
and the state-imposed nondemocratic city management.
<p>
In effect, the State of Michigan plans to impose mass homelessness for
the sake of the creditors.  If lackeys like that could not be found to
implement the policy, the creditors would be stymied.  All these
lackeys, from the appointed city manager to the functionaries that
order evictions to the thugs that carry them out, should be sentenced
to homelessness so people passing by can spit on them.
<p>
I admire the lady who threatened to strip her house of every usable
thing if it were foreclosed.  The next logical step would be to wreck
foreclosed houses — or squat in them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Urgent:_Offshore_drilling)
title: Urgent: Offshore drilling
uri: Urgent-Offshore-drilling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Offshore_drilling%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama to
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=F876450746A1DE0EFE1D5F90101622C9.app234a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=15535">
end offshore oil drilling</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Urgent:_Veto_security_bills)
title: Urgent: Veto security bills
uri: Urgent-Veto-security-bills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Veto_security_bills%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_surveillance_cisa_obama/">
call on Obama to veto security bills</a> that endanger
privacy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Urgent:_Mountaintop_Removal)
title: Urgent: Mountaintop Removal
uri: Urgent-Mountaintop-Removal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Mountaintop_Removal%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/end_mtr_ache_act">
pass a moratorium on mountaintop
removal mining</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Urgent:_Abortion_bills)
title: Urgent: Abortion bills
uri: Urgent-Abortion-bills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Abortion_bills%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/House_Abortion_Ban?t=1005&akid=14071.1183552.gVwPVJ">
call on Congress to reject bills</a> to ban abortion after 20
weeks.
<p>
Elective abortion is allowed in the US up to 3 months; after that, a
special reason is already required.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Urgent:_New_DEA_head)
title: Urgent: New DEA head
uri: Urgent-New-DEA-head
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_New_DEA_head%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=E49CBB142F294085D117270BD035157B.app252a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1263">
ask Obama to choose a new head of the DEA</a> who will
reduce mass imprisonment of Americans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Urgent:_surveillance_in_Virginia)
title: Urgent: surveillance in Virginia
uri: Urgent-surveillance-in-Virginia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_surveillance_in_Virginia%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/protect-VA-privacy">
call on Virginia governor McAuliffe to sign the bill</a>
restricting surveillance in Virginia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Missing_weapons)
title: Missing weapons
uri: Missing-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Missing_weapons%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-loses-sight-of-500-million-in-counterterrorism-aid-given-to-yemen/2015/03/17/f4ca25ce-cbf9-11e4-8a46-b1dc9be5a8ff_story.html?hpid=z1">
500 million dollars worth of US weapons</a> have gone missing in Yemen.
<p>
One comforting factor is that that probably is fewer weapons than you
might expect, given the wacky military prices.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Urgent:_Indirect_endorsement)
title: Urgent: Indirect endorsement
uri: Urgent-Indirect-endorsement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Indirect_endorsement%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-dont-endorse?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">
call on Congress to avoid an indirect endorsement</a> of
the occupation of Palestine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Urgent:_Toxic_chemical)
title: Urgent: Toxic chemical
uri: Urgent-Toxic-chemical
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Toxic_chemical%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://action.greenamerica.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16185">
oppose the Vitter-Udall bill</a> that would block states
from regulating toxic chemicals.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Jobs)
title: Jobs
uri: Jobs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Jobs%29
content:
<p>
You could get turned down for a job based solely on how a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/27/algorithms-are-like-invisible-judges-that-decide-our-fates">
program
evaluates the sound of your voice.</a></p>
<p>The issue would not be very important if there were enough good jobs.
The policies that spread poverty are the root of the problem.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(North_Korea)
title: North Korea
uri: North-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28North_Korea%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>North Korea is less different from other tyrannical states than we
normally suppose.  It cannot block the people totally from <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/27/north-korea-cliches-debunked-hazel-smith">
information
about the rest of the world.</a></p>
<p>Nonetheless, North Korea is unusual among tyrannies to some extent.
Its two special characteristics are the continued state of war with
South Korea, and the trade embargo imposed by most of the world as a
result.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(The_US_poor)
title: The US poor
uri: The-US-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28The_US_poor%29
content:
<p>The US poor are now poor in social bonds and relationships <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/20/our-kids-american-dream-in-crisis-robert-putnam-observer-review">
as well as
in money.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Human_Traffickting_Act)
title: Human Trafficking Act
uri: Human-Traffickting-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Human_Traffickting_Act%29
content:
<p>
The Senate's Victims of Human Trafficking Act is dangerous <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/10/senate-victims-of-human-trafficking-act">
in several
ways.  </a>
</p>
<p>When it talks about having the customs agency do more to enforce
"intellectual property", I am sure that refers to something bad.
Whenever that term is used, <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">
something nasty is afoot.</a></p>
<p>The way to protect children from being forced into prostitution is to
legalize prostitution by licensed prostitutes.  Customers could be
required to check the prostitute's license.  If the customer fails to
check, that concrete omission would be legitimate grounds for
punishment.</p>
<p>Minors should not be denied prostitution licenses in a blanket way,
but the state should ask them why they want one and probe their
situation, then offer help so they can avoid prostitution.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Americans)
title: Americans
uri: Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Americans%29
content:
<p>Don't identify middle-class white Americans <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/1-99-percent-class-inequality">
with the 1%.</a>
</p>
<p>The white Americans who are (still) in the middle class are not
downtrodden, but as plutocracy replaced democracy, they too lose
political power.  Those who have political power today are fewer than
1 percent.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Journalists_Imprisonment)
title: Journalists Imprisonment
uri: Journalists-Imprisonment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Journalists_Imprisonment%29
content:
<p>
In Australia, due to the recent state secrets law, journalists face
the threat of imprisonment <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/27/asio-act-review-told-journalists-face-jail-even-if-reporting-on-serious-wrongdoing">
for reporting on serious government
wrongdoing.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Australia)
title: Australia
uri: 2015-04-28-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Australia%29
content:
<p>Reducing Australia's greenhouse emissions will be expensive
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/27/meeting-low-post-2020-emissions-target-could-cost-20bn-under-direct-action">
if the only method used is state expenditure.</a></p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(New_coal_mine)
title: New coal mine
uri: New-coal-mine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28New_coal_mine%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/24/carmichael-mine-may-push-rare-bird-to-extinction-scientists-warn-greg-hunt">
new coal mine in Australia</a> is likely to wipe out the rare
black-throated finch
as well as parts of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28New_coal_mine_will_probably_kill_The_Great_Barrier_Reef%29">
the Great Barrier Reef</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#10_July_2012_%28Ocean_acidification_due_to_CO2%29">
Burning the coal</a> will wipe out a lot more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_seismic_blasting)
title: Urgent: Oppose seismic blasting
uri: Urgent-Oppose-seismic-blasting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_seismic_blasting%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/boem_no-atlantic-seismic-blasting_dems">oppose
seismic blasting in the Atlantic Ocean</a>.  These blasts damage the
hearing of marine mammals.


title: Urgent: Keep fossil fuels in the ground
uri: Urgent-Keep-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Keep_fossil_fuels_in_the_ground)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_fossil_fuels_in_the_ground%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-bigoil/">call on
Obama</a> to keep fossil fuels in the ground.


title: Urgent: Elizabeth Warren's reform agenda
uri: Urgent-Elizabeth-Warren-s-reform-agenda
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Elizabeth_Warrens_reform_agenda)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Elizabeth_Warrens_reform_agenda%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/warrenreformagenda">call on
Democratic leaders</a> to endorse Warren's reform agenda for Wall
Street.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Publish_TPP_text)
title: Urgent: Publish TPP text
uri: Urgent-Publish-TPP-text
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Publish_TPP_text%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://my.elizabethwarren.com/page/s/tpp">support Senator
Warren</a>: publish the TPP text before any vote on "fast track".
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/23/sen-warren-those-promising-tpp-would-be-so-great-prove-it">Senator
Warren to Those Promising TPP Would Be So Great: 'Prove It.'</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose secret trade treaties
uri: Urgent-Oppose-secret-trade-treaties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_secret_trade_treaties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_secret_trade_treaties%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 202-224-3121 and say, "Vote
against fast track for the TPP, and oppose all secret trade treaties
negotiated together with businesses."


title: Urgent: Reconsideration of copyright power
uri: Urgent-Reconsideration-of-copyright-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Reconsideration_of_copyright_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reconsideration_of_copyright_power%29

content:
<p>
Everyone (especially those in the UK): write to
<a href="mailto:office@greenparty.org.uk">office@greenparty.org.uk</a>
to tell the UK Green Party you support its plans to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/23/green-party-plan-to-limit-copyright-attacked-by-writers-and-artists">reconsider
copyright power</a>.  Urge the party not to bow to pressure from the
publishers and some egoistical authors.
<p>
You might wish to cite 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-vs-community.html">http://gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-vs-community.html</a>.
<p>
You might also wish to spread the word via email, blogs and social
media.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 27_April_2015_(Prosecutors)
title: Prosecutors
uri: Prosecutors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#27_April_2015_%28Prosecutors%29
content:
<p>
In the sentencing phase of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial, the prosecutors
selected one frame out of a video and blocked the defense <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/23/power-dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-middle-finger/">
from
explaining the significance of the whole video.</a>
</p>
<p>It seems they are trying to mislead and manipulate the jury into a
decision
to do something wrong (an execution).</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Debt-free_education)
title: Urgent: Debt-free education
uri: Urgent-Debt-free-education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Debt-free_education%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/debt_free_college/">support</a> 
debt-free education in public colleges.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Veto_anti-abortion_bills)
title: Urgent: Veto anti-abortion bills
uri: Urgent-Veto-anti-abortion-bills
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Veto_anti-abortion_bills%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/150421_MTBullock">encourage
Montana Governor Bullock</a> to veto anti-abortion bills.


title: Urgent: Campaign spending restrictions
uri: Urgent-Campaign-spending-restrictions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Campaign_spending_restrictions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Campaign_spending_restrictions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to 
<a href="https://secure.pfaw.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=209">support
the constitutional amendment</a> to authorize campaign spending
restrictions.
<p>
Here are the 
<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-joint-resolution/22/text">details</a>.
<p>
This doesn't entirely fix the problem of the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#26_January_2012_(Citizens_United)">Corporations
United</a> decision, since it does not reject the idea that
corporations are entitled to human rights.  But it would be a
significant step forward.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_fast_track_bill)
title: Urgent: Oppose "fast track" bill
uri: Urgent-Oppose-fast-track-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fast_track_bill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Congress to oppose the "fast track" bill for two
reasons: not only that the TPP is bad, but 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-dont-endorse-1">because
it now defends Israel's occupation of Palestine</a>.


title: Urgent: Responsibility for Big Spill
uri: Urgent-Responsibility-for-Big-Spill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Responsibility_for_Big_Spill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Responsibility_for_Big_Spill%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2411">call
on BP to accept responsibility for the Big Spill.


title: Deflecting criticism with cry of "racism"
uri: Deflecting-criticism-with-cry-of-racism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Deflecting_criticism_with_cry_of_racism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Deflecting_criticism_with_cry_of_racism%29

content:
<p>
Allowing any group to cry "racism" to deflect substantive criticism
creates a sheltered opportunity for crime and oppression.  Here's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/25/tower-hamlets-dictatorship-east-end-lutfur-rahman">one
example</a> of a Bangladeshi politician in the UK.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#25%20October%202010%20(Jewish%20Anti-semitism)">Another
example</a> is Israel, which falsely labels all criticism of its
occupation policies as "anti-semitism".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Ethiopian_tyranny)
title: Ethiopian tyranny
uri: Ethiopian-tyranny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Ethiopian_tyranny%29
content:
<p>
Imprisoned Ethiopian blogger Natnael Feleke
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/ethiopia-blog-zone9-letter-john-kerry">asks
the US to stop supporting the Ethiopian tyranny</a>.
<p>
Ethiopia is a faithful client state that even went so far as to invade
Somalia for the US.  The terrorist organization al-Shabaab is the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_October_2013_(Where_al-Shabaab_came_from)">result
of that invasion</a>.  More often, Ethiopia kicks peasants off their
land for the sake of multinational business.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 28_April_2015_(Plutocracy_in_Honduras)
title: Plutocracy in Honduras
uri: Plutocracy-in-Honduras
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_%28Plutocracy_in_Honduras%29
content:
<p>
The coup in Honduras was based on the excuse that President Zelaya had
a plan to change the constitution — after he left office —
so that future presidents could run for reelection.
<p>
Now the coup-installed government has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/honduran-judges-throw-out-single-term-limit-on-presidency">convinced
the Supreme Court to make that very change</a>.
<p>
The coup had
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#17_July_2012_(US_involvement_with_Honduras)">signs
of support from the US</a>, and its real motive was
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jul-oct.html#28%20September%202009%20(Foreign%20business%20interests%20play%20role%20in%20Honduran%20coup)">protecting
plutocracy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Copyright_reform)
title: Copyright reform
uri: 2015-04-30-Copyright-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Copyright_reform%29
content:
<p>
A coalition proposes<a href="http://www.recreatecoalition.org/our-agenda/"> copyright reform in the US.</a>
<p>The concepts it uses to formulate its ideas ("creators" and "consumers") discourage consideration of any but superficial changes, and these ideas seem to call for small change.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Support_Warren_and_Brown)
title: Urgent: Support Warren and Brown
uri: Urgent-Support-Warren-and-Brown
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Warren_and_Brown%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/obama_warren_brown/">support
Senators Warren and Brown</a> against Obama on the TPP.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Preserve_the_estate_tax)
title: Urgent: Preserve the estate tax
uri: Urgent-Preserve-the-estate-tax
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_the_estate_tax%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stand-with-ben-jerryby-1">call
on Congress</a> to preserve the estate tax.


title: Urgent: Don't finance Australian coal mines
uri: Urgent-Don-t-finance-Australian-coal-mines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Dont_finance_Australian_coal_mines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Dont_finance_Australian_coal_mines%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=15048">tell
the US Ex-Im Bank</a>, don't finance Australian coal mines!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Food_safety_modernization)
title: Urgent: Food safety modernization
uri: Urgent-Food-safety-modernization
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Food_safety_modernization%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Food_Modernization">call on
Congress</a> to fully fund the food safety modernization program.
<p>
It is a good investment: for around
<a href="http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/03/the-future-is-now-for-the-food-safety-modernization-act/">$100
million a year</a>, we can save thousands of lives and avoid $15
billion a year in costs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Publish_full_text_of_TPP)
title: Urgent: Publish full text of TPP
uri: Urgent-Publish-full-text-of-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Publish_full_text_of_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Bernie_Sanders_TPP/">call on
Obama</a> to publish the full text of the TPP and all pending "trade"
agreements.


title: Urgent: Oppose Anti-Civil-Liberties Bill
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Anti-Civil-Liberties-Bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_Anti-Civil-Liberties_Bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Anti-Civil-Liberties_Bill%29

content:
<p>
Canadians:
<a href="http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/canadians-speak-controversial-anti-terrorism-legislation-bill-c-51">oppose</a>
the Anti-Civil-Liberties Bill, C-51.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Defending_freedom_of_speech)
title: Defending freedom of speech
uri: Defending-freedom-of-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Defending_freedom_of_speech%29
content:
<p>
Defending freedom of speech, including the freedom of Charlie Hebdo
and others to criticize Islam, and defy its censorship demands, is a
separate matter from
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/28/i-admire-charlie-hebdos-courage-but-it-does-not-deserve-a-pen-award">evaluating
Charlie Hebdo's statements</a> in either political or artistic terms.
<p>
Courage is a third separate matter.  If the Charlie Hebdo writers had
previously received death threats (I think they had), and carried on
despite the threats, that was courage.  Recognizing that is separate
from evaluating what Charlie Hebdo said.
<p>
I think there is a lot of arrogance and injustice in Islam that
deserves condemnation and ridicule.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Iran_seizes_US-protected_cargo_ship)
title: Iran seizes US-protected cargo ship
uri: Iran-seizes-US-protected-cargo-ship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Iran_seizes_US-protected_cargo_ship%29

content:
<p>
Iran seized a cargo ship that isn't American, which the US has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/28/iran-seizes-marshall-islands-cargo-ship">accepted
the obligation to protect</a>.
<p>
I suspect that the Marshall Islands are one of the "flags of
convenience".  Most of the world's cargo ships fly the flag of one of
the countries that impose little requirement on ships.  This enables
the owners of the ship to save money by skimping on safety
requirements.  Apparently the Marshall Islands flag carries protection
by the US Navy as well.
<p>
I think the US should cancel arrangements for protection of any
shipping unless it flies the US flag and, therefore, complies with US
regulations for safety, pay rates, and so on.


title: Sea-level rise pits humans against tigers
uri: Sea-level-rise-pits-humans-against-tigers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Sea-level_rise_pits_humans_against_tigers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Sea-level_rise_pits_humans_against_tigers%29

content:
<p>
Global heating and sea-level rise are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2015/apr/27/fishermen-bengal-tigers-struggle-survival-indian-sundarbans-in-pictures">pitting
humans against tigers</a> in the Sundarbans.
<p>
In a century or two, the Sundarbans will be inundated entirely.  With
time, adjoining areas now inland might become like what the Sundarbans
are now.  But those areas are full of farmers who will not relinquish
their farms willingly to mangrove trees and tigers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Obamas_criteria_for_drone_attacks)
title: Obama's criteria for drone attacks
uri: Obama-s-criteria-for-drone-attacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Obamas_criteria_for_drone_attacks%29

content:
<p>
Obama announced with great fanfare new, more strict criteria for
drone attacks.  He didn't mention that they
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/27/obama-secretly-loosened-standards-drone-killings-pakistan">did
not apply to Pakistan</a>.


title: Government benefits for rich Americans
uri: Government-benefits-for-rich-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Government_benefits_for_rich_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Government_benefits_for_rich_Americans%29

content:
<p>
Poor Americans desperately need their welfare benefits, which add up
to a small amount compared with the
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/27/entitlements-are-bankrupting-america-rich-keep-taking-them">government
benefits for rich Americans</a>.


title: Protest followed by riot in Baltimore
uri: Protest-followed-by-riot-in-Baltimore
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Protest_followed_by_riot_in_Baltimore)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Protest_followed_by_riot_in_Baltimore%29

content:
<p>
Thousands attended the funeral of Freddie Gray, which became a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/27/no-accountability-no-justice-clashes-erupt-mourners-gather-freddie-gray-funeral">protest
against the violence and impunity of uniformed thugs</a>.
<p>
However,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/28/baltimore-riots-fires-reaction-looting-protesters-hurt-community-unrest-just-beginning">a
riot followed</a>, partly provoked by
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/baltimore-teens-police">obnoxious
racism</a>.
<p>
While I don't feel much sympathy when uniformed thugs are attacked,
doing so plays into their hands.  Meanwhile, burning cars and looting
stores is no more justifiable now than at any other time.  But this
property crime is less grave an issue than homicide.
<p>
Nasty statements by some thugs
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/28/baltimore-obama-troops-riots-police-protesters">helped
provoke the rioting</a>.  Eventually the riot was suppressed by
soldiers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(UK_aid_to_poor_countries)
title: UK "aid" to poor countries
uri: UK-aid-to-poor-countries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28UK_aid_to_poor_countries%29
content:
<p>
UK "aid" to poor countries
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/27/should-aid-money-be-used-tool-expanding-free-markets">promotes
privatization of medical care and education</a> in them.


title: UK ministers and fossil fuel lobbyists
uri: UK-ministers-and-fossil-fuel-lobbyists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(UK_ministers_and_fossil_fuel_lobbyists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28UK_ministers_and_fossil_fuel_lobbyists%29

content:
<p>
UK ministers meet with fossil fuel lobbyists
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/28/fossil-fuel-lobby-given-far-more-access-to-uk-ministers-than-renewables-analysis">far
more than with renewable energy lobbyists</a>.
<p>
This is a quantitative way of measuring the UK government's general
preference for fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Maryland_thug_reform_bills_weakened)
title: Maryland thug reform bills weakened
uri: Maryland-thug-reform-bills-weakened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Maryland_thug_reform_bills_weakened%29

content:
<p>
Bills to reform how Maryland deals with thugs that kill and maim were
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/28/balltimore-freddie-gray-prosecute/">weakened
by pressure from thug unions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Trafficked_children_in_India)
title: Trafficked children in India
uri: Trafficked-children-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Trafficked_children_in_India%29
content:
<p>
Over 100,000 children are trafficked each year in India, many of them
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/28/child-trafficking-india-domestic-labour-chhattisgarh">sold
into domestic slavery</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Saudi_bombardment_of_Yemen)
title: Saudi bombardment of Yemen
uri: Saudi-bombardment-of-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Saudi_bombardment_of_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/28/humanitarian-situation-yemen-catastrophic">continues
bombarding Yemen heavily</a>; the supposed end of the bombardment
campaign appears to have been a Putin-style pretense.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Enslaved_workers)
title: Enslaved workers
uri: Enslaved-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Enslaved_workers%29
content:
<p>
In Mexico City, a woman was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/27/mexico-city-woman-enslaved-dry-cleaning-shop">kept
chained and forced to do ironing</a> in a dry-cleaning store.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Systems_that_profile_people)
title: Systems that profile people
uri: Systems-that-profile-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Systems_that_profile_people%29
content:
<p>
Systems that make profiles on people to help companies sell to them
could be a big help to every unscrupulous company,
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/Passcode-Voices/2015/0427/Opinion-If-predictive-algorithms-craft-the-best-e-mails-we-re-all-in-big-trouble">if
they work</a>.
<p>
They need a source of personal data.  The ones you can't refuse to
contribute to are the email services such as gmail that profile
the people they receive mail from.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(UN_facilities_targeted_in_attacks)
title: UN facilities targeted in attacks
uri: UN-facilities-targeted-in-attacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28UN_facilities_targeted_in_attacks%29

content:
<p>
The UN concluded that Israel directly targeted UN facilities in Gaza
and is responsible for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/27/israel-responsible-gaza-strikes-un-schools-ban-ki-moon">killing
and wounding 250 Palestinians who were sheltering there</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Extreme_heat_and_rain_events)
title: Extreme heat and rain events
uri: Extreme-heat-and-rain-events
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Extreme_heat_and_rain_events%29
content:
<p>
Extreme heat and rain events are happening
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/27/extreme-weather-already-on-increase-due-to-climate-change-study-finds">much
more frequently now than over the 20th century</a>, and this has been
tied to global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Iran_bans_Todays_Women_magazine)
title: Iran bans Today's Women magazine
uri: Iran-bans-Today-s-Women-magazine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Iran_bans_Todays_Women_magazine%29
content:
<p>
Iran banned a magazine,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/27/iran-bans-magazine-white-marriage-unmarried-couples-cohabiting">Today's
Women</a>, for writing about unmarried couples that live together.
<p>
Iranian officials say that their laws which discriminate against women
are not discrimination, on the grounds that they come from religion.
I'd say that indicates a religion that discriminates against women.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 29_April_2015_(Poverty_in_the_UK)
title: Poverty in the UK
uri: Poverty-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#29_April_2015_%28Poverty_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/27/poverty-study-uk-bad-1940s">Poverty
in the UK Is As Bad As the 1940s</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(UK_Government_is_twisting_up_NHS)
title: UK Government is twisting up NHS
uri: UK-Government-is-twisting-up-NHS
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28UK_Government_is_twisting_up_NHS%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing government in the UK is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/30/nhs-gps-are-exhausted-ae-is-overrun-and-hospitals-are-broke-what-went-wrong">twisting up the NHS </a>with "reforms" as well as starving it.
<p>
Only the Green Party offers the added funds that it needs.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Protests_broke_out_in_Jerusalem)
title: Protests broke out in Jerusalem
uri: Protests-broke-out-in-Jerusalem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Protests_broke_out_in_Jerusalem%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://alternativenews.org/english/index.php/special-reports/jerusalem/703-dozen-of-palestinians-injured-in-jerusalem">Protests broke out in East Jerusalem after Israeli thugs shot a teenager dead.</a>
<p>
The thugs say that the teenager tried to stab them. It could be true, but you can't take their word for it.
</p>


title: Pope must support reproductive rights
uri: Pope-must-support-reproductive-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Pope_must_support_reproductive_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Pope_must_support_reproductive_rights%29

content:
<p>
If the Pope wants women's equality, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/30/pope-women-equality-wage-gap-reproductive-rights">he must support reproductive rights.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Australian_censorship_bill)
title: Australian censorship bill
uri: Australian-censorship-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Australian_censorship_bill%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/australian-copyright-censorship-bill-could-block-vpns-and-circumvention">Australian Copyright Censorship Bill could block VPNs and Circumvention Information.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Cutting_taxes)
title: Cutting taxes
uri: Cutting-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Cutting_taxes%29
content:
<p>
Cutting taxes for the non-rich boosts the economy; <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150429140608.htm">cutting taxes for rich has no such effect.</a>
<p>
The poor pay little in the way of income tax, but they pay social security tax and sales tax. Cuts in sales tax could boost the economy, if we compensate by increasing income tax for the rich.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Urgent:_Encourage_eating_less_meat)
title: Urgent: Encourage eating less meat
uri: Urgent-Encourage-eating-less-meat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Encourage_eating_less_meat%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.foe.org/tell-health-dot-gov-partners">support
changing US dietary advice</a> to encourage eating less meat.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Urgent:_Mamana_Bibi)
title: Urgent: Mamana Bibi
uri: Urgent-Mamana-Bibi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Mamana_Bibi%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=27591">call
on Obama</a> to acknowledge and explain the killing of Mamana Bibi.
Western prisoners of the Taliban are not the only unintended victims
whose lives matter.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_the_Clean_Water_Act)
title: Urgent: Protect the Clean Water Act
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-Clean-Water-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_the_Clean_Water_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1703">call
on your congresscritter</a> to oppose HR 1732 and protect the Clean
Water Act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Black_males_growing_up_in_Baltimore)
title: Black males growing up in Baltimore
uri: Black-males-growing-up-in-Baltimore
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Black_males_growing_up_in_Baltimore%29

content:
<p>
Only a small fraction of black males growing up in Baltimore are
killed by thugs, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/28/police-and-black-baltimore">they
all experience the contempt and repeated harassment</a> that
occasionally becomes fatal.
<p>
It is common for Baltimore thugs to 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/28/freddie-gray-and-police-brutality-in-bal">injure
people they have arrested</a>.
<p>
We should not hold victims of systematic oppression to the 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/27/resistance-isnt-always-rational">"perfect
victim" standard</a>.
<p>
Why pent-up resentment shows up in looting and burning nearby stores:
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/25/1347311/--Why-do-they-burn-down-their-own-neighborhood">blacks
feel hatred every time they go in</a>.
<p>
The thugs in Baltimore inexplicably shut down buses and trains just as
high school students got out of school.  Finding themselves 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/how-baltimore-riots-began-mondawmin-purge">trapped</a>,
they were easily led to riot.


title: Drone assassinations vs slitting throats
uri: Drone-assassinations-vs-slitting-throats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Drone_assassinations_vs_slitting_throats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Drone_assassinations_vs_slitting_throats%29

content:
<p>
What's the difference between drone assassinations and slitting a
designated target's throat?  
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/28/challenging-american-exceptionalism">The
former looks cleaner</a>, because it is easy to close your eyes to all
the other people that it kills.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(The_future)
title: The future
uri: The-future
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28The_future%29
content:
<p>
The future, it is said, is already here, but not evenly distributed.
With increasing automation, the future for the US may be that
most adults have no work and subsist on whatever crumbs they can find.
This future can be seen today in some 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/45232">American
Indian tribes</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Price_of_housing_in_the_UK)
title: Price of housing in the UK
uri: Price-of-housing-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Price_of_housing_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
In London, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/apr/29/just-43-homes-on-the-market-affordable-for-first-time-buyers-in-london">just
43 homes for sale are affordable for typical young families</a>.  In
some parts of the UK, all homes on the market are too expensive.
<p>
This is the result of many years of policies that drive up the price
of housing.
<p>
The poor need more help, but the Tories make the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/29/tories-promise-tax-lock-in-latest-move-to-combat-labour">unhelpful
promise not to raise taxes on the rich</a>, thus, not to raise money
to help them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Coming_global_heating_disaster)
title: Coming global heating disaster
uri: Coming-global-heating-disaster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Coming_global_heating_disaster%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44706">The
cataclysmic changes</a> of coming global heating disaster are starting
and visible all around the world.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Obamas_flimsy_lies_and_half-truths)
title: Obama's flimsy lies and half-truths
uri: Obama-s-flimsy-lies-and-half-truths
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Obamas_flimsy_lies_and_half-truths%29

content:
<p>
Obama is spouting 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44672">flimsy
lies and half-truths</a> to support the TPP.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Assassination_of_leaders)
title: Assassination of leaders
uri: Assassination-of-leaders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Assassination_of_leaders%29
content:
<p>
For 25 years, the US has tried to defeat organized activities by
taking out their leaders.  It is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/28/kingpin-strategy-assassination-policy-washington-and-how-it-failed-1990-2015">not
very effective</a>.
<p>
Assassination of leaders used to be scandalous, but the US has
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/28/assassination-american-style-james-bond-or-three-stooges">normalized
it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Protests_funded_by_Koch_brothers)
title: Protests funded by Koch brothers
uri: Protests-funded-by-Koch-brothers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Protests_funded_by_Koch_brothers%29

content:
<p>
Protests against same-sex marriage outside the US Supreme Court
have been 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/28/anti-gay-marriage-group-demonstrating-front-supreme-court-financed-libertarian-koch-brothers/">funded
by the Koch brothers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Big_Coals_Big_Scam)
title: Big Coal's Big Scam
uri: Big-Coal-s-Big-Scam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Big_Coals_Big_Scam%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/28/big-coal-keep-it-in-the-ground-energy-opencast-mines">Big
Coal's Big Scam: Scar the Land for Profit, Then Let Others Pay to Clean
Up</a>.


title: Saudi bombardment blocks humanitarian aid
uri: Saudi-bombardment-blocks-humanitarian-aid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Saudi_bombardment_blocks_humanitarian_aid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Saudi_bombardment_blocks_humanitarian_aid%29

content:
<p>
The Saudi bombardment of Sana'a airport has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/28/aid-flights-to-yemen-blocked-after-saudi-arabia-bombs-airport-runway">prevented
humanitarian aid flights from landing</a>.


title: Air pollution causes low birth weight
uri: Air-pollution-causes-low-birth-weight
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Air_pollution_causes_low_birth_weight)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Air_pollution_causes_low_birth_weight%29

content:
<p>
Air pollution causes low birth weight.  This has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/28/air-pollution-causes-low-birth-weight-beijing-study-shows">established
from statistics in Beijing</a>, because of strenuous measures to
reduce pollution during the olympics there.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Reducing_overuse_of_antibiotics)
title: Reducing overuse of antibiotics
uri: Reducing-overuse-of-antibiotics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Reducing_overuse_of_antibiotics%29
content:
<p>
A big step in reducing antibiotic resistance: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/28/tyson-human-antibiotics-chickens-meat">Tyson
will stop feeding antibiotics to chickens by 2017</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Canadian_greenhouse_emissions)
title: Canadian greenhouse emissions
uri: Canadian-greenhouse-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Canadian_greenhouse_emissions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/28/canada-carbon-emissions-oil-tar-sands">Several
provinces in Canada want to limit greenhouse emissions</a>, and are
trying to do so even without the help of the government of Canada.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Loss_of_forest)
title: Loss of forest
uri: Loss-of-forest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Loss_of_forest%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/28/hundreds-of-millions-of-acres-of-worlds-forest-could-be-lost-by-2030-say-wwf">Half
a million square miles</a> of forest could be lost by 2030.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html 30_April_2015_(Hydroelectric_power_in_California)
title: Hydroelectric power in California
uri: Hydroelectric-power-in-California
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#30_April_2015_%28Hydroelectric_power_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Hydroelectric power in California is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/28/us-drought-california-hydropwer-hoover-dam">60%
idle</a> because of the drought.


title: Japan increases greenhouse reduction targets
uri: Japan-increases-greenhouse-reduction-targets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Japan_increases_greenhouse_reduction_targets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Japan_increases_greenhouse_reduction_targets%29

content:
<p>
Japan has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/30/japan-outlines-2030-carbon-target-ahead-of-paris-climate-summit">increased its greenhouse reduction targets</a>
<p>
It is a good step, but the proposed pledges are still terribly inadequate.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Global_warming_faster_than_expected)
title: Global warming faster than expected
uri: Global-warming-faster-than-expected
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Global_warming_faster_than_expected%29

content:
<p>
The bulk of evidence points to a higher "climate sensitivity".
<p>
It appears <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/apr/30/overlooked-evidence-global-warming-may-proceed-faster-than-expected">doubling the air's CO2 will cause 3C of heating, not just 2C</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Bernie_Sanders_running_for_president)
title: Bernie Sanders running for president
uri: Bernie-Sanders-running-for-president
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Bernie_Sanders_running_for_president%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/bernie-sanders-progressive-democrats-income-inequality-police-reform">Bernie Sanders is running for president</a>.
<p>
He's going to have my vote.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Halt_road_through_Orangutan_Reserve)
title: Halt road through Orangutan Reserve
uri: Halt-road-through-Orangutan-Reserve
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Halt_road_through_Orangutan_Reserve%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/30/indonesian-government-must-halt-road-through-orangutan-reserve-says-green-prize-winner">Indonesian Government Must Halt Road through Orangutan Reserve.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(APA_and_CIA_cooperated_on_torture)
title: APA and CIA cooperated on torture
uri: APA-and-CIA-cooperated-on-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28APA_and_CIA_cooperated_on_torture%29
content:
<p>
The American Psychological Association ran a conference together with the CIA, back in the days when <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/30/emails-show-close-relationship-psychology-group-cia">the two cooperated on torture</a>.
<p>
I thank the APA for changing its rules back and banning its members for participating in torture. Other US institutions such as the US need to take firm steps against torture, too.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(German_intelligence_spied)
title: German intelligence spied
uri: German-intelligence-spied
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28German_intelligence_spied%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/germany-spied-on-european-partners-on-behalf-of-us-for-years">German intelligence spied on French and EU officials' data for the US</a>.
<p>
Germans were incensed that the US had spied on German chancellor.
</p>
<p>
I hope they draw the ethical conclusion (we shouldn't do this to each other) rather than the cynical conclusion (if they do it, why not us).
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(CIA_official_prosecuted_in_Pakistan)
title: CIA official prosecuted in Pakistan
uri: CIA-official-prosecuted-in-Pakistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28CIA_official_prosecuted_in_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
Pakistan has launched a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/04/30/criminal-investigation-launched-pakistan-police-former-cia-station-chiefs-role">criminal prosecution of a CIA official believed to be involved in planning drone attacks</a>.
<p>
I am sure they will probably not be able to catch him, but this will have a political significance anyway.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_DARK_Act)
title: Urgent: Oppose DARK Act
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Oppose-DARK-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_DARK_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose the DARK Act
which would
<ul>
<li> Prevent the Food and Drug Administration from requiring companies
to label GE ingredients.

<li> Prevent states from requiring labeling of genetically modified foods.

<li> Prevent states from banning labelling genetically modified foods
as "natural".
</ul>

<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Recognition of global heating danger
uri: Urgent-Recognition-of-global-heating-danger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Urgent:_Recognition_of_global_heating_danger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Recognition_of_global_heating_danger%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=15083">Support
the Chevron shareholders' measure</a> to recognize the danger of
global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(FBI_still_wants_ban_on_encryption)
title: FBI still wants ban on encryption
uri: FBI-still-wants-ban-on-encryption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28FBI_still_wants_ban_on_encryption%29

content:
<p>
The FBI still 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbi-has-no-idea-how-to-solve-its-encryption-problem">wants
Congress to ban encryption</a>, more or less.


title: Destruction of Canadian archeological sites
uri: Destruction-of-Canadian-archeological-sites
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Destruction_of_Canadian_archeological_sites)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Destruction_of_Canadian_archeological_sites%29

content:
<p>
The archeological sites of northern Canada are 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-great-arctic-thaw-is-seriously-worrying-archaeologists">being
destroyed by global heating</a>.  In a century they will all be
spoiled, if not washed away.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Sudan_repressing_opposition_leaders)
title: Sudan repressing opposition leaders
uri: Sudan-repressing-opposition-leaders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Sudan_repressing_opposition_leaders%29

content:
<p>
Sudan is repressing opposition leaders that asked people to boycott
the phony election.  They face the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/29/sudan-repression-omar-al-bashir-presidential-election-human-rights-watch">danger
of execution, or disappearance</a>.


title: Political activity of UK spy agencies
uri: Political-activity-of-UK-spy-agencies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Political_activity_of_UK_spy_agencies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Political_activity_of_UK_spy_agencies%29

content:
<p>
UK spy agencies have repeatedly acted to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/29/secret-service-officials-discussed-smearing-labour-party-1920s">sabotage
and smear</a> the Labour Party, back before that party betrayed its
own cause.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Gezi_Park_protesters_acquitted)
title: Gezi Park protesters acquitted
uri: Gezi-Park-protesters-acquitted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Gezi_Park_protesters_acquitted%29
content:
<p>
Gezi Park protesters were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/gezi-park-protest-trial-turkish-court-acquits-all-26-defendants">acquitted
of all charges</a>.  The trial was pure politics, just like some that
we saw in the US after the Occupy protests.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Call_for_global_nuclear_disarmament)
title: Call for global nuclear disarmament
uri: Call-for-global-nuclear-disarmament
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Call_for_global_nuclear_disarmament%29

content:
<p>
Iran calls for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/29/iran-calls-nuclear-disarmament-us-israel-world">global
nuclear disarmament</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Global_heating_harm_to_health)
title: Global heating harm to health
uri: Global-heating-harm-to-health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Global_heating_harm_to_health%29
content:
<p>
Global heating will harm Australians' health, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/29/climate-change-will-significantly-affect-australians-health-report-finds">spreading
diseases and causing shortages of food and water</a>.  The poor, the
old and the sick will be hardest hit.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Californias_Disappearing_Water)
title: California's Disappearing Water
uri: California-s-Disappearing-Water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Californias_Disappearing_Water%29
content:
<p>
Starbucks and Safeway are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/starbucks-making-bank-californias-disappearing-water">bottling
water in drought-stricken parts of California</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Pacific_Northwest_feeling_drought)
title: Pacific Northwest feeling drought
uri: Pacific-Northwest-feeling-drought
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Pacific_Northwest_feeling_drought%29

content:
<p>
Even the famously rainy Pacific Northwest is 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/northwest-wet-drought-climate-future-18910">feeling
some drought</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Fraudulent_for-profit_colleges)
title: Fraudulent for-profit colleges
uri: Fraudulent-for-profit-colleges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Fraudulent_for-profit_colleges%29
content:
<p>
Corinthian Colleges has closed, due to a 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/04/27/3651433/corinthian-shuts-dozens-campuses-revealing-deep-problems-profit-college-industry/">big
fine for fraud</a>.
<p>
Despite the short-term difficulties for current victims, this is a
good thing.  For most of those current victims, who wouldn't have got
much benefit from their eventual degrees, it's good that they stop
going uselessly further into debt.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Regulating_fracking_in_Florida)
title: Regulating fracking in Florida
uri: Regulating-fracking-in-Florida
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Regulating_fracking_in_Florida%29
content:
<p>
Florida is 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/28/3651980/florida-bans-fracking-bans/">pushing
a bill to stop towns from regulating fracking</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Palestinian_property_owners_absent)
title: Palestinian property owners "absent"
uri: Palestinian-property-owners-absent
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Palestinian_property_owners_absent%29

content:
<p>
Israel's Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-can-now-legally-seize-palestinian-homes-in-jerusalem-under-absentees-property-law-10184483.html">approved
seizing Palestinian property in Jerusalem</a> by declaring the owners
(who live nearby in occupied Palestine) "absent".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Arab_citizens_of_Israel_protest)
title: Arab citizens of Israel protest
uri: Arab-citizens-of-Israel-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Arab_citizens_of_Israel_protest%29
content:
<p>
Arab citizens of Israel protested at the 
<a href="http://972mag.com/thousands-return-to-destroyed-palestinian-villages-in-israel/105833/">former
site of Hadatha village</a> and ask why they can't move back to
villages that were demolished.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Boycotts_in_Israel)
title: Boycotts in Israel
uri: Boycotts-in-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Boycotts_in_Israel%29
content:
<p>
In Israel it is permitted to call for a boycott of anyone or anything,
<a href="http://972mag.com/you-can-boycott-anything-in-israel-except-the-occupation/105600/">except
the products made by colonies in occupied Palestine</a>.  If you speak
in favor of that, you face the threat of bankruptcy.
<p>
This is part of a general pattern: to protect the occupation, Israel
abolishes human rights within Israel.
<p>
Europe 
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/24/europes-feeble-efforts-to-punish-israel/">should
go beyond talking</a> about labeling those products.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Tory_and_Labours_austerity_plans)
title: Tory and Labour's austerity plans
uri: Tory-and-Labour-s-austerity-plans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Tory_and_Labours_austerity_plans%29

content:
<p>
Paul Krugman 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/28/top-economist-attacks-tory-austerity-labours-limp-response-paul-krugman">condemns</a>
the Tories' redoubled austerity, and Labour's planned austerity lite.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Sex_education)
title: Sex education
uri: 2015-05-01-Sex-education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Sex_education%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/apr/29/schools-teaching-porn-sex-education">If
Schools Are Teaching about Porn, Should They Show It Too?</a>
<p>
I think schools should show videos of realistic sex (various kinds) to
provide a basis for comparison for understanding porn.  They should
also have courses and clubs for teenagers to learn to be good lovers,
so they can avoid feeling anxious about whether they can please their
partners.


title: Burundians protest against ruling party
uri: Burundians-protest-against-ruling-party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Burundians_protest_against_ruling_party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Burundians_protest_against_ruling_party%29

content:
<p>
Burundians are protesting the president's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/burundi-anti-nkurunziza-protests-third-day">plan
to run for reelection despite what the constitution says</a>.


title: Thugs gloat about maiming handcuffed man
uri: Thugs-gloat-about-maiming-handcuffed-man
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Thugs_gloat_about_maiming_handcuffed_man)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Thugs_gloat_about_maiming_handcuffed_man%29

content:
<p>
The thugs that kicked and maimed the (handcuffed) Floyd Dent made a
video gloating about their crime, to pass the time as they 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/27/1380698/-Police-withheld-video-of-officers-laughing-mocking-re-enacting-brutal-beating-of-Floyd-Dent">ignored
his calls for a medic</a>.
<p>
Those sadistic thugs apparently expected other thugs to enjoy this.
They surely know what their fellow thugs think.
<p>
The day when we can count on nearly all cops respond to such actions
by arresting the perps, I will agree they are not thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Fines_based_on_income)
title: Fines based on income
uri: Fines-based-on-income
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Fines_based_on_income%29
content:
<p>
In Finland, fines for speeding and other similar things are 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/26/1380465/-A-Millionaire-In-Finland-Gets-a-58-000-Ticket-For-Doing-64-In-a-50-MPH-Zone">based
on one's income</a>, so that the wealthy cannot shrug them off.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Being_black_vs_being_an_ex-con)
title: Being black vs being an ex-con
uri: Being-black-vs-being-an-ex-con
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Being_black_vs_being_an_ex-con%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/27/1380610/-Black-men-w-no-criminal-record-applying-for-jobs-treated-same-as-white-men-fresh-out-of-prison">Which
is worse for your chances of getting a job in the US</a>: being black,
or having just got out of prison?
<p>
A study found they were equally damaging.  In other words, the
prejudice against blacks equals the distrust of ex-cons.


title: Treating children as helpless prisoners
uri: Treating-children-as-helpless-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Treating_children_as_helpless_prisoners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Treating_children_as_helpless_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Children in the US today are much safer than in the past.  For
preteens to be killed or kidnaped is so rare that it is silly to worry
about it.  There is no reason to treat them as 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/28/why-we-dont-need-helicopter-parenting-ou">helpless
prisoners</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(UK_right-wing_serves_Big_Food)
title: UK right-wing serves Big Food
uri: UK-right-wing-serves-Big-Food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28UK_right-wing_serves_Big_Food%29
content:
<p>
The UK's right-wing government served Big Food by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/28/coalition-derailed-programme-to-save-lives-by-reducing-salt-in-food">cancelling
a life-saving plan to reduce salt levels in processed foods</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Whistleblowers_against_PAT_RIOT_Act)
title: Whistleblowers against PAT RIOT Act
uri: Whistleblowers-against-PAT-RIOT-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Whistleblowers_against_PAT_RIOT_Act%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/28/national-security-whistleblowers-call-repeal-patriot-act">National
Security Whistleblowers Call for Repeal of Patriot (sic) Act</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(UK_Government_is_twisting_up_NHS)
title: UK Government is twisting up NHS
uri: 2015-05-01-UK-Government-is-twisting-up-NHS
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28UK_Government_is_twisting_up_NHS%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing government in the UK is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/30/nhs-gps-are-exhausted-ae-is-overrun-and-hospitals-are-broke-what-went-wrong">twisting up the NHS </a>with "reforms" as well as starving it.
<p>
Only the Green Party offers the added funds that it needs.
</p>


title: Pope must support reproductive rights
uri: 2015-05-01-Pope-must-support-reproductive-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Pope_must_support_reproductive_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Pope_must_support_reproductive_rights%29

content:
<p>
If the Pope wants women's equality, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/30/pope-women-equality-wage-gap-reproductive-rights">he must support reproductive rights.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Urgent:_Encourage_eating_less_meat)
title: Urgent: Encourage eating less meat
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Encourage-eating-less-meat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Encourage_eating_less_meat%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.foe.org/tell-health-dot-gov-partners">support
changing US dietary advice</a> to encourage eating less meat.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_the_Clean_Water_Act)
title: Urgent: Protect the Clean Water Act
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Protect-the-Clean-Water-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_the_Clean_Water_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1703">call
on your congresscritter</a> to oppose HR 1732 and protect the Clean
Water Act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Black_males_growing_up_in_Baltimore)
title: Black males growing up in Baltimore
uri: 2015-05-01-Black-males-growing-up-in-Baltimore
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Black_males_growing_up_in_Baltimore%29

content:
<p>
Only a small fraction of black males growing up in Baltimore are
killed by thugs, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/28/police-and-black-baltimore">they
all experience the contempt and repeated harassment</a> that
occasionally becomes fatal.
<p>
It is common for Baltimore thugs to 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/28/freddie-gray-and-police-brutality-in-bal">injure
people they have arrested</a>.
<p>
We should not hold victims of systematic oppression to the 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/27/resistance-isnt-always-rational">"perfect
victim" standard</a>.
<p>
Why pent-up resentment shows up in looting and burning nearby stores:
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/25/1347311/--Why-do-they-burn-down-their-own-neighborhood">blacks
feel hatred every time they go in</a>.
<p>
The thugs in Baltimore inexplicably shut down buses and trains just as
high school students got out of school.  Finding themselves 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/how-baltimore-riots-began-mondawmin-purge">trapped</a>,
they were easily led to riot.


title: Drone assassinations vs slitting throats
uri: 2015-05-01-Drone-assassinations-vs-slitting-throats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Drone_assassinations_vs_slitting_throats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Drone_assassinations_vs_slitting_throats%29

content:
<p>
What's the difference between drone assassinations and slitting a
designated target's throat?  
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/28/challenging-american-exceptionalism">The
former looks cleaner</a>, because it is easy to close your eyes to all
the other people that it kills.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Obamas_flimsy_lies_and_half-truths)
title: Obama's flimsy lies and half-truths
uri: 2015-05-01-Obama-s-flimsy-lies-and-half-truths
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Obamas_flimsy_lies_and_half-truths%29

content:
<p>
Obama is spouting 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44672">flimsy
lies and half-truths</a> to support the TPP.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Protests_funded_by_Koch_brothers)
title: Protests funded by Koch brothers
uri: 2015-05-01-Protests-funded-by-Koch-brothers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Protests_funded_by_Koch_brothers%29

content:
<p>
Protests against same-sex marriage outside the US Supreme Court
have been 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/28/anti-gay-marriage-group-demonstrating-front-supreme-court-financed-libertarian-koch-brothers/">funded
by the Koch brothers</a>.


title: Saudi bombardment blocks humanitarian aid
uri: 2015-05-01-Saudi-bombardment-blocks-humanitarian-aid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Saudi_bombardment_blocks_humanitarian_aid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Saudi_bombardment_blocks_humanitarian_aid%29

content:
<p>
The Saudi bombardment of Sana'a airport has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/28/aid-flights-to-yemen-blocked-after-saudi-arabia-bombs-airport-runway">prevented
humanitarian aid flights from landing</a>.


title: Air pollution causes low birth weight
uri: 2015-05-01-Air-pollution-causes-low-birth-weight
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Air_pollution_causes_low_birth_weight)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Air_pollution_causes_low_birth_weight%29

content:
<p>
Air pollution causes low birth weight.  This has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/28/air-pollution-causes-low-birth-weight-beijing-study-shows">established
from statistics in Beijing</a>, because of strenuous measures to
reduce pollution during the olympics there.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 30_April_2015_(Hydroelectric_power_in_California)
title: Hydroelectric power in California
uri: 2015-05-01-Hydroelectric-power-in-California
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#30_April_2015_%28Hydroelectric_power_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Hydroelectric power in California is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/28/us-drought-california-hydropwer-hoover-dam">60%
idle</a> because of the drought.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Support_Warren_and_Brown)
title: Urgent: Support Warren and Brown
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Support-Warren-and-Brown
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Warren_and_Brown%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/obama_warren_brown/">support
Senators Warren and Brown</a> against Obama on the TPP.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Preserve_the_estate_tax)
title: Urgent: Preserve the estate tax
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Preserve-the-estate-tax
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_the_estate_tax%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stand-with-ben-jerryby-1">call
on Congress</a> to preserve the estate tax.


title: Urgent: Don't finance Australian coal mines
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Don-t-finance-Australian-coal-mines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Dont_finance_Australian_coal_mines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Dont_finance_Australian_coal_mines%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=15048">tell
the US Ex-Im Bank</a>, don't finance Australian coal mines!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Food_safety_modernization)
title: Urgent: Food safety modernization
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Food-safety-modernization
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Food_safety_modernization%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Food_Modernization">call on
Congress</a> to fully fund the food safety modernization program.
<p>
It is a good investment: for around
<a href="http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/03/the-future-is-now-for-the-food-safety-modernization-act/">$100
million a year</a>, we can save thousands of lives and avoid $15
billion a year in costs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Publish_full_text_of_TPP)
title: Urgent: Publish full text of TPP
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Publish-full-text-of-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Publish_full_text_of_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Bernie_Sanders_TPP/">call on
Obama</a> to publish the full text of the TPP and all pending "trade"
agreements.


title: Urgent: Oppose Anti-Civil-Liberties Bill
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Oppose-Anti-Civil-Liberties-Bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_Anti-Civil-Liberties_Bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Anti-Civil-Liberties_Bill%29

content:
<p>
Canadians:
<a href="http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/canadians-speak-controversial-anti-terrorism-legislation-bill-c-51">oppose</a>
the Anti-Civil-Liberties Bill, C-51.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Iran_seizes_US-protected_cargo_ship)
title: Iran seizes US-protected cargo ship
uri: 2015-05-01-Iran-seizes-US-protected-cargo-ship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Iran_seizes_US-protected_cargo_ship%29

content:
<p>
Iran seized a cargo ship that isn't American, which the US has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/28/iran-seizes-marshall-islands-cargo-ship">accepted
the obligation to protect</a>.
<p>
I suspect that the Marshall Islands are one of the "flags of
convenience".  Most of the world's cargo ships fly the flag of one of
the countries that impose little requirement on ships.  This enables
the owners of the ship to save money by skimping on safety
requirements.  Apparently the Marshall Islands flag carries protection
by the US Navy as well.
<p>
I think the US should cancel arrangements for protection of any
shipping unless it flies the US flag and, therefore, complies with US
regulations for safety, pay rates, and so on.


title: Sea-level rise pits humans against tigers
uri: 2015-05-01-Sea-level-rise-pits-humans-against-tigers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Sea-level_rise_pits_humans_against_tigers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Sea-level_rise_pits_humans_against_tigers%29

content:
<p>
Global heating and sea-level rise are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2015/apr/27/fishermen-bengal-tigers-struggle-survival-indian-sundarbans-in-pictures">pitting
humans against tigers</a> in the Sundarbans.
<p>
In a century or two, the Sundarbans will be inundated entirely.  With
time, adjoining areas now inland might become like what the Sundarbans
are now.  But those areas are full of farmers who will not relinquish
their farms willingly to mangrove trees and tigers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Obamas_criteria_for_drone_attacks)
title: Obama's criteria for drone attacks
uri: 2015-05-01-Obama-s-criteria-for-drone-attacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Obamas_criteria_for_drone_attacks%29

content:
<p>
Obama announced with great fanfare new, more strict criteria for
drone attacks.  He didn't mention that they
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/27/obama-secretly-loosened-standards-drone-killings-pakistan">did
not apply to Pakistan</a>.


title: Government benefits for rich Americans
uri: 2015-05-01-Government-benefits-for-rich-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Government_benefits_for_rich_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Government_benefits_for_rich_Americans%29

content:
<p>
Poor Americans desperately need their welfare benefits, which add up
to a small amount compared with the
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/27/entitlements-are-bankrupting-america-rich-keep-taking-them">government
benefits for rich Americans</a>.


title: Protest followed by riot in Baltimore
uri: 2015-05-01-Protest-followed-by-riot-in-Baltimore
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Protest_followed_by_riot_in_Baltimore)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Protest_followed_by_riot_in_Baltimore%29

content:
<p>
Thousands attended the funeral of Freddie Gray, which became a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/27/no-accountability-no-justice-clashes-erupt-mourners-gather-freddie-gray-funeral">protest
against the violence and impunity of uniformed thugs</a>.
<p>
However,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/28/baltimore-riots-fires-reaction-looting-protesters-hurt-community-unrest-just-beginning">a
riot followed</a>, partly provoked by
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/baltimore-teens-police">obnoxious
racism</a>.
<p>
While I don't feel much sympathy when uniformed thugs are attacked,
doing so plays into their hands.  Meanwhile, burning cars and looting
stores is no more justifiable now than at any other time.  But this
property crime is less grave an issue than homicide.
<p>
Nasty statements by some thugs
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/28/baltimore-obama-troops-riots-police-protesters">helped
provoke the rioting</a>.  Eventually the riot was suppressed by
soldiers.


title: UK ministers and fossil fuel lobbyists
uri: 2015-05-01-UK-ministers-and-fossil-fuel-lobbyists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(UK_ministers_and_fossil_fuel_lobbyists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28UK_ministers_and_fossil_fuel_lobbyists%29

content:
<p>
UK ministers meet with fossil fuel lobbyists
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/28/fossil-fuel-lobby-given-far-more-access-to-uk-ministers-than-renewables-analysis">far
more than with renewable energy lobbyists</a>.
<p>
This is a quantitative way of measuring the UK government's general
preference for fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Maryland_thug_reform_bills_weakened)
title: Maryland thug reform bills weakened
uri: 2015-05-01-Maryland-thug-reform-bills-weakened
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Maryland_thug_reform_bills_weakened%29

content:
<p>
Bills to reform how Maryland deals with thugs that kill and maim were
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/28/balltimore-freddie-gray-prosecute/">weakened
by pressure from thug unions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(UN_facilities_targeted_in_attacks)
title: UN facilities targeted in attacks
uri: 2015-05-01-UN-facilities-targeted-in-attacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28UN_facilities_targeted_in_attacks%29

content:
<p>
The UN concluded that Israel directly targeted UN facilities in Gaza
and is responsible for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/27/israel-responsible-gaza-strikes-un-schools-ban-ki-moon">killing
and wounding 250 Palestinians who were sheltering there</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Veto_anti-abortion_bills)
title: Urgent: Veto anti-abortion bills
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Veto-anti-abortion-bills
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Veto_anti-abortion_bills%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/150421_MTBullock">encourage
Montana Governor Bullock</a> to veto anti-abortion bills.


title: Urgent: Campaign spending restrictions
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Campaign-spending-restrictions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 29_April_2015_(Urgent:_Campaign_spending_restrictions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#29_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Campaign_spending_restrictions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to 
<a href="https://secure.pfaw.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=209">support
the constitutional amendment</a> to authorize campaign spending
restrictions.
<p>
Here are the 
<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-joint-resolution/22/text">details</a>.
<p>
This doesn't entirely fix the problem of the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#26_January_2012_(Citizens_United)">Corporations
United</a> decision, since it does not reject the idea that
corporations are entitled to human rights.  But it would be a
significant step forward.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_fast_track_bill)
title: Urgent: Oppose "fast track" bill
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Oppose-fast-track-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fast_track_bill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Congress to oppose the "fast track" bill for two
reasons: not only that the TPP is bad, but 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-dont-endorse-1">because
it now defends Israel's occupation of Palestine</a>.


title: Urgent: Responsibility for Big Spill
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Responsibility-for-Big-Spill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Responsibility_for_Big_Spill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Responsibility_for_Big_Spill%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2411">call
on BP to accept responsibility for the Big Spill.


title: Deflecting criticism with cry of "racism"
uri: 2015-05-01-Deflecting-criticism-with-cry-of-racism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_April_2015_(Deflecting_criticism_with_cry_of_racism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_April_2015_%28Deflecting_criticism_with_cry_of_racism%29

content:
<p>
Allowing any group to cry "racism" to deflect substantive criticism
creates a sheltered opportunity for crime and oppression.  Here's
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/25/tower-hamlets-dictatorship-east-end-lutfur-rahman">one
example</a> of a Bangladeshi politician in the UK.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#25%20October%202010%20(Jewish%20Anti-semitism)">Another
example</a> is Israel, which falsely labels all criticism of its
occupation policies as "anti-semitism".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_seismic_blasting)
title: Urgent: Oppose seismic blasting
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Oppose-seismic-blasting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_seismic_blasting%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/boem_no-atlantic-seismic-blasting_dems">oppose
seismic blasting in the Atlantic Ocean</a>.  These blasts damage the
hearing of marine mammals.


title: Urgent: Keep fossil fuels in the ground
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Keep-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Keep_fossil_fuels_in_the_ground)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_fossil_fuels_in_the_ground%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-bigoil/">call on
Obama</a> to keep fossil fuels in the ground.


title: Urgent: Elizabeth Warren's reform agenda
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Elizabeth-Warren-s-reform-agenda
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Elizabeth_Warrens_reform_agenda)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Elizabeth_Warrens_reform_agenda%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/warrenreformagenda">call on
Democratic leaders</a> to endorse Warren's reform agenda for Wall
Street.


title: Urgent: Oppose secret trade treaties
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Oppose-secret-trade-treaties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_secret_trade_treaties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_secret_trade_treaties%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 202-224-3121 and say, "Vote
against fast track for the TPP, and oppose all secret trade treaties
negotiated together with businesses."


title: Urgent: Reconsideration of copyright power
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-Reconsideration-of-copyright-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 28_April_2015_(Urgent:_Reconsideration_of_copyright_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reconsideration_of_copyright_power%29

content:
<p>
Everyone (especially those in the UK): write to
<a href="mailto:office@greenparty.org.uk">office@greenparty.org.uk</a>
to tell the UK Green Party you support its plans to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/23/green-party-plan-to-limit-copyright-attacked-by-writers-and-artists">reconsider
copyright power</a>.  Urge the party not to bow to pressure from the
publishers and some egoistical authors.
<p>
You might wish to cite 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-vs-community.html">http://gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-vs-community.html</a>.
<p>
You might also wish to spread the word via email, blogs and social
media.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 27_April_2015_(Urgent:_surveillance_in_Virginia)
title: Urgent: surveillance in Virginia
uri: 2015-05-01-Urgent-surveillance-in-Virginia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_April_2015_%28Urgent%3A_surveillance_in_Virginia%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/protect-VA-privacy">
call on Virginia governor McAuliffe to sign the bill</a>
restricting surveillance in Virginia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Urgent:_Defeat_Obama_on_fast_track)
title: Urgent: Defeat Obama on "fast track"
uri: Urgent-Defeat-Obama-on-fast-track
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Defeat_Obama_on_fast_track%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/salsa/web/questionnaire/public/?questionnaire_KEY=34">defeat
Obama on "fast track"</a> — phone your congresscritter today to
oppose it.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Urgent:_Let_section_215_expire)
title: Urgent: Let section 215 expire
uri: Urgent-Let-section-215-expire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Let_section_215_expire%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/Section215">tell Congress</a>
to let section 215 of the PAT RIOT act expire.
<p>
We must 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/29/nsa-data-collection-program-must-end">eliminate</a>
the PAT RIOT Act's massive data collection, not try to "fix" it.


title: Urgent: Stop pipeline expansion scheme
uri: Urgent-Stop-pipeline-expansion-scheme
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_pipeline_expansion_scheme)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_pipeline_expansion_scheme%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/enbridge_emails">call on
Obama and Kerry</a> to quash Enbridge's pipeline development that was
approved secretly in an illegal manner.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Urgent:_Prosecute_US_torturers)
title: Urgent: Prosecute US torturers
uri: Urgent-Prosecute-US-torturers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Prosecute_US_torturers%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=37672">call
on Attorney General Lynch</a> to prosecute US torturers.


title: Urgent: Investigate killing of Freddie Gray
uri: Urgent-Investigate-killing-of-Freddie-Gray
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Urgent:_Investigate_killing_of_Freddie_Gray)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_killing_of_Freddie_Gray%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/gov-hogan-justice4freddiegray/">call
on Maryland Governor Hogan</a> to have the state attorney general
investigate the killing of Freddie Gray, and to step back from
militarization of thugs and repression.


title: Republicans craft excuse to hamstring EPA
uri: Republicans-craft-excuse-to-hamstring-EPA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Republicans_craft_excuse_to_hamstring_EPA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Republicans_craft_excuse_to_hamstring_EPA%29

content:
<p>
Republicans have crafted an 
<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1030">excuse
to hamstring the EPA</a>: to prohibit it from considering the results
of scientific studies unless all their data and software are
published.
<p>
In medical studies, the data is personal medical data that and can't
be released.  Aside from that, ideally the studies should be published
as specified here.  The problem is that the EPA looks at some 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/29/3652747/epa-secret-science-bill-passes-senate-committee/">50,000
studies each year</a>, and the EPA does not run them, so it would have
to disregard them.
<p>
If Congress wants to improve scientific publication standards, it
should require funded researchers to publish more of their data,
methods and code, and provide funds to do this.


title: Another reason why TTIP must be defeated
uri: Another-reason-why-TTIP-must-be-defeated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Another_reason_why_TTIP_must_be_defeated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Another_reason_why_TTIP_must_be_defeated%29

content:
<p>
The US Congress has sneakily voted to 
<a href="http://forward.com/opinion/306743/congress-backs-israeli-rights-war-on-settlement-boycotts/">pressure
European governments through TTIP not to boycott or label products
made in Israeli colonies in Palestinian territory</a>.
<p>
This would add one more to the many reasons why the TTIP must be
defeated.  That Treaty Is Plutocratic.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Jailed_Baltimore_protesters)
title: Jailed Baltimore protesters
uri: Jailed-Baltimore-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Jailed_Baltimore_protesters%29
content:
<p>
People arrested at protests in Baltimore are having 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/29/baltimore-justice-system-protests-curfew">high
bail</a> imposed; most will therefore be jailed until trial, perhaps
months in the future.
<p>
Does Maryland charge people fees for being jailed?  Some of these
people may spend their whole lives in jail because they can't pay the
fees.
<p>
However, the state backed down on one point, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/freddie-gray-protests-across-us-as-baltimore-is-forced-to-free-100-suspects">freed
those who were not yet charged with anything</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Major_expansion_of_govt_surveillance)
title: Major expansion of gov't surveillance
uri: Major-expansion-of-gov-t-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Major_expansion_of_govt_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/house-just-passed-major-expansion-government-surveillance-guise-cybersecurity">The
House Just Passed a Major Expansion of Government Surveillance in the
Guise of Cybersecurity</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Vatican_archive_offered_to_Argentines)
title: Vatican archive offered to Argentines
uri: Vatican-archive-offered-to-Argentines
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Vatican_archive_offered_to_Argentines%29

content:
<p>
Pope Francis offered the Vatican's archive to help Argentines find out
about the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/pope-francis-argentina-orders-vatican-open-files-dictatorship">fate
of their disappeared relatives</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Stingray_capability)
title: Stingray capability
uri: Stingray-capability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Stingray_capability%29
content:
<p>
Prosecutors in St Louis have 
<a href="http://privacysos.org/node/1720">dropped cases to avoid
disclosing Stingray capability</a> in court.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Pennsylvania_law_silences_convicts)
title: Pennsylvania law silences convicts
uri: Pennsylvania-law-silences-convicts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Pennsylvania_law_silences_convicts%29

content:
<p>
A Pennsylvania law effectively 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/how-pennsylvanias-silencing-act-infringes-prisoners-freedom-speech">bars
convicts from publishing statements about their cases (or anything
else that victims dislike)</a>.
<p>
This means they can't say they are innocent, or ask for help proving
they are innocent.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Captives_rescued_from_Boko_Haram)
title: Captives rescued from Boko Haram
uri: Captives-rescued-from-Boko-Haram
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Captives_rescued_from_Boko_Haram%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/boko-harams-former-catives-need-intensive-psychological-care">300
female captives</a> were rescued from Boko Haram last week.  Some of
them had become supporters of Boko Haram.
<p>
I am not sure what conclusion to draw when captives say that they had
been treated well.  What is the boundary between brainwashing and
recruiting?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Facebook_Is_Eating_the_Internet)
title: Facebook Is Eating the Internet
uri: Facebook-Is-Eating-the-Internet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Facebook_Is_Eating_the_Internet%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/facebook-is-eating-the-internet/391766/">Facebook
Is Eating the Internet</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Eradication_of_German_measles)
title: Eradication of German measles
uri: Eradication-of-German-measles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Eradication_of_German_measles%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/german-measles-declared-eradicated-from-north-and-south-america">German
Measles Declared Eradicated from North and South America</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Fossil_fuel_health_risk)
title: Fossil fuel health risk
uri: Fossil-fuel-health-risk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_health_risk%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/30/fossil-fuels-new-tobacco-health-risk">Fossil
Fuels Are the New Tobacco When It Comes to Health Risk</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Conditions_in_Baltimore)
title: Conditions in Baltimore
uri: Conditions-in-Baltimore
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Conditions_in_Baltimore%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/29/baltimores-police-poverty-fueled-youth-revolt/">conditions
in Baltimore</a> that led to the killing of Freddie Gray and to the
riot as a response.
<p>
<a href="https://theconversation.com/baltimore-riots-the-fire-this-time-and-the-fire-last-time-and-the-time-between-40926">More</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Baltimore_activist_snatched_by_thugs)
title: Baltimore activist snatched by thugs
uri: Baltimore-activist-snatched-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Baltimore_activist_snatched_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Joseph Kent, Baltimore activist, was snatched by thugs and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/29/baltimore-protester-kidnapped-on-live-tv-joseph-kent">disappeared
for 16 hours</a> until a lawyer found him.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(MLK_explains_black_rioting)
title: MLK explains black rioting
uri: MLK-explains-black-rioting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28MLK_explains_black_rioting%29
content:
<p>
Martin Luther King Jr. explains black rioting: by taking property, the
rioters shock a society that 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/what-martin-luther-king-thought-about-urban-riots">values
property more than it values some people</a>.


title: GCHQ recordings of plaintiffs and their lawyers
uri: GCHQ-recordings-of-plaintiffs-and-their-lawyers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(GCHQ_recordings_of_plaintiffs_and_their_lawyers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28GCHQ_recordings_of_plaintiffs_and_their_lawyers%29

content:
<p>
A UK intelligence court ordered GCHQ to delete its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/29/gchq-destroy-legally-privileged-communications-rendition-victim-sami-al-saadi-ruling">recordings
of discussions between Libyan plaintiffs and their lawyers</a>.


title: On-line universities and proprietary spyware
uri: On-line-universities-and-proprietary-spyware
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(On-line_universities_and_proprietary_spyware)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28On-line_universities_and_proprietary_spyware%29

content:
<p>
Some on-line universities 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/technology/online-test-takers-feel-anti-cheating-softwares-uneasy-glare.html">make
students install proprietary spyware to take tests</a>.
<p>
If you are considering taking an online course, I urge you to verify
in advance whether it will require this or any other nonfree software
— and, if so, complain and don't sign up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Special_privileges_given_to_thugs)
title: Special privileges given to thugs
uri: Special-privileges-given-to-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Special_privileges_given_to_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Many US states have laws giving 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/04/24/the-police-officers-bill-of-rights/">special
privileges to thugs who are being investigated for wrongdoing</a>.
<p>
A few of these ought to be rights for everyone that is interrogated;
most of them should simply be eliminated.  What is clear is that we
must not shield criminal thugs, and we must facilitate civilian review
boards for thug departments.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Libel_censorship_in_the_UK)
title: Libel censorship in the UK
uri: Libel-censorship-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Libel_censorship_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Because libel reform in the UK did not cover Northern Ireland, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/28/going-clear-the-film-scientologists-dont-want-you-to-see">the
entire UK is still subject to libel censorship</a>; for instance, the
film Going Clear which exposes the Church of Scientology cannot be
broadcast there.
<p>
However, self-defeating licensing arrangements are part of the cause
of the problem.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(White_condemnation_of_Baltimore_riots)
title: White condemnation of Baltimore riots
uri: White-condemnation-of-Baltimore-riots
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28White_condemnation_of_Baltimore_riots%29

content:
<p>
The condemnation of Baltimore riots by whites is part of the system
that 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/28/1380944/-The-Dominant-White-Response-to-Baltimore-Shows-Why-Black-Residents-are-Justified-in-their-Anger">drives
the blacks of Baltimore to riot from despair</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Orlando_thug_brutality)
title: Orlando thug brutality
uri: Orlando-thug-brutality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Orlando_thug_brutality%29
content:
<p>
Robert Liese wasn't killed by a thug, he only got a 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/29/1381264/-Orlando-PD-begins-investigation-into-brutality-of-handcuffed-victim-and-it-is-getting-messy">broken
spleen that had to be removed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Income_inequality_killing_Americans)
title: Income inequality killing Americans
uri: Income-inequality-killing-Americans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Income_inequality_killing_Americans%29

content:
<p>
Income inequality is killing Americans: since Reagan instituted
plutocratic government, the US has fallen behind other advanced
countries in 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/29/1381134/-NYTimes-Conservative-Economics-and-Income-Inequality-Are-Literally-Killing-Us">survival
rates for young and old</a>.
<p>
The article exempts globalization from blame, but that was no natural
phenomenon; it was a policy crafted by the plutocrats and imposed by
right-wing politicians such as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jul-oct.html#08%20September%202007%20(Capitalism%20killing%20Democracy)">Clinton</a>,
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#5_September_2011_(Free_trade_treaties)">Obama</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Home_invasion_and_murder_by_thugs)
title: Home invasion and murder by thugs
uri: Home-invasion-and-murder-by-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Home_invasion_and_murder_by_thugs%29
content:
<p>
A thug 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/29/1381314/-Father-of-black-Detroit-youth-shot-by-ICE-agent-They-brought-my-son-downstairs-and-executed-him">entered
Terrance Kellom's home with no warrant, shot Terrance dead in cold
blood</a>, then procured a warrant and claimed Terrance was attacking
him with a hammer.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(The_price_of_running_for_president)
title: The price of running for president
uri: The-price-of-running-for-president
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28The_price_of_running_for_president%29

content:
<p>
Jimmy Carter says he couldn't have afforded to run for president under
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/29/1380834/-Jimmy-Carter-I-Couldn-t-Afford-To-Run-For-POTUS-Today-And-Other-Reasons-We-Love-This-Man">today's
corrupt system</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Recovery_for_the_rich)
title: "Recovery" for the rich
uri: 2015-05-02-Recovery-for-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Recovery_for_the_rich%29
content:
<p>
Spain is now enjoying a "recovery" 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/apr/30/eurozone-recovery-defies-the-odds-unemployment">for
the rich</a> alone, like the US and many other countries.
<p>
That's what happens when a government aims to create "economic growth"
according to totals by means of policies to knock down workers.
<p>
Banksters call this worthless "recovery" a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/30/eurozone-recovery-hopes-boosted-as-spain-announces-gdp-rise">"shining
example" for other countries that knuckle under</a>.  Have faith in
trickle-down, they say, and pretend you're getting a share of the
plutocrats' loot.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(UN_attacks_whistleblowers)
title: UN attacks whistleblowers
uri: UN-attacks-whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28UN_attacks_whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/un-accused-of-reckless-disregard-for-allegations-of-peacekeeper-child-abuse">The
UN attacks whistleblowers</a>, just as many governments do.
<p>
Governments and other large organizations need powerful schemes to
protect whistleblowers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Condemnation_of_repression)
title: Condemnation of repression
uri: Condemnation-of-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Condemnation_of_repression%29
content:
<p>
The mayor of Ankara accused the US State Department of hypocrisy for
criticizing Turkish repression in Gezi Park and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/turkey-ankara-mayor-sexist-twitter-attack-baltimore">failing
to criticize US repression in Baltimore</a>.
<p>
His argument is right; his conclusion is backwards.  They both deserve
to be condemned.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Species_facing_extinction)
title: Species facing extinction
uri: Species-facing-extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Species_facing_extinction%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/30/one-in-six-of-worlds-species-faces-extinction-due-to-climate-change-study">1/6
of living species</a> face extinction due to global heating.
<p>
Here are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/apr/30/animals-and-plants-that-could-be-lost-because-of-climate-change-in-pictures">some
examples</a>.
<p>
Many more species face extinction due to other human activities such
as destruction of habitats.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Mohamed_Nasheeds_trial)
title: Mohamed Nasheed's trial
uri: Mohamed-Nasheed-s-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Mohamed_Nasheeds_trial%29
content:
<p>
Mohamed Nasheed's trial was a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/30/release-mohamed-nasheed-maldives-president-conviction">sick
joke</a>, an excuse to imprison someone politically undesirable.


title: Rand Paul trying to kill net neutrality
uri: Rand-Paul-trying-to-kill-net-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Rand_Paul_trying_to_kill_net_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Rand_Paul_trying_to_kill_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
Rand Paul is 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/rand-paul-who-accepts-bitcoin-donations-is-trying-to-kill-net-neutrality">trying
to kill the FCC's net neutrality regulations</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Dyson_spheres)
title: Dyson spheres
uri: Dyson-spheres
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Dyson_spheres%29
content:
<p>
SETI has looked for galaxies showing signs of highly advanced
civilizations filling their galaxies with Dyson spheres, and there are
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/25/1380254/-Is-There-Any-Intelligent-Life-Out-There-Maybe-Not">none</a>.
<p>
Perhaps every intelligent species soon learns to live with lower
energy use or wipes itself out.
<p>
Or perhaps Dyson spheres are not feasible.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Thugs_threaten_Albuquerque_DA)
title: Thugs threaten Albuquerque DA
uri: Thugs-threaten-Albuquerque-DA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Thugs_threaten_Albuquerque_DA%29
content:
<p>
The Albuquerque district attorney that is prosecuting thugs for murder
has been warned 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/28/1380326/-Albuquerque-DA-told-to-fear-for-her-safety-courtesy-police">thugs
might murder her</a>.
<p>
They already tried framing her son.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Antarctic_icebergs_breaking_off)
title: Antarctic icebergs breaking off
uri: Antarctic-icebergs-breaking-off
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Antarctic_icebergs_breaking_off%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is causing icebergs to break off and move away from
Antarctica.  They 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/29/1380632/-Iceberg-B-34-frees-itself-from-Antarctica-s-Getz-ice-sheet-and-proceeds-to-scour-the-sea-floor">scrape
the sea bottom clear</a>, eliminating life much the way a trawler
does.


title: Insurance companies violate health care law
uri: Insurance-companies-violate-health-care-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Insurance_companies_violate_health_care_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Insurance_companies_violate_health_care_law%29

content:
<p>
Many US medical insurance companies 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/29/insurance-companies-blatantly-ignore-acas-free-birth-control-mandate">violate
the contraception requirements of Obama's health care law</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 01_May_2015_(Assassination_planners_sentenced)
title: Assassination planners sentenced
uri: Assassination-planners-sentenced
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#01_May_2015_%28Assassination_planners_sentenced%29
content:
<p>
Men involved in planning the assassination of Malala Yousafzai have received
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/malala-yousafzai-pakistan-court-jailed-attack-terrorism">long prison sentences in Pakistan</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Governments_censorship)
title: Governments censorship
uri: Governments-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Governments_censorship%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/01/not-in-our-name-world-press-freedom-day-116-days-after-charlie-hebdo">Many governments have responded to the Charlie Hebdo attacks with
cenorship of one kind or another</a>, demonstrating how freedom of the
press remains threatened.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Fraud_by_charters_schools)
title: Fraud by charters schools
uri: Fraud-by-charters-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Fraud_by_charters_schools%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/29/fraud-waste-and-lies-charter-schools-cheating-communities-out-millions-dollars">$200 million in fraud by charters schools has been identified</a>, but the
investigators think they have barely scratched the surface.
<p>
Perhaps this explains why state legislators have been so eager to
create charter schools.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Avoiding_consumption_for_competition)
title: Avoiding consumption for competition
uri: Avoiding-consumption-for-competition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Avoiding_consumption_for_competition%29

content:
<p>
Marx pointed out that the crucial issue for everyone is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/01/may-day-marx-capitalism-work-class">what relationship to have with capitalism.</a>
<p>
Unlike the author, and unlike what he supposes "we" want, I do not
make "reward and leisure" my goals.  I want to do as much as I can to
make the world better, while avoiding extremes of pain and insecurity.
Unlike the author of the article, I don't think I'm a hypocrite, and
it's not so hard to avoid.  You can avoid it too.  Refuse to be drawn
into consumption for the hell of it or for competition.
</p>


title: Minnesota's moose population is crashing
uri: Minnesota-s-moose-population-is-crashing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Minnesota's_moose_population_is_crashing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Minnesota%27s_moose_population_is_crashing%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/01/moose-mortality-scientists-mystery-animals-decline">The moose populatoin in Minnesota is crashing</a>.  It is not clear why,
but global heating is suspected.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Baltimore_thugs_lied)
title: Baltimore thugs lied
uri: Baltimore-thugs-lied
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Baltimore_thugs_lied%29
content:
<p>
Baltimore thugs claimed that the other prisoner said said Freddie Gray
intentionally injured himself. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/01/freddie-gray-protests-prisoner-police-van-donta-allen-baltimore"> The other prisoner says this was a
lie.</a>
<p>
The lie was in a document that was leaked.
</p>
<p>
Perhaps the leak was intentional.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Facing_global_heating_disaster)
title: Facing global heating disaster
uri: Facing-global-heating-disaster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Facing_global_heating_disaster%29
content:
<p>
What path exists to lead from the insufficient Paris agreement to
a chance of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/01/climate-change-nicholas-stern-paris-summit-global-warming">avoiding global heating disaster.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Amnesty_to_rich_tax_evaders_in_UK)
title: Amnesty to rich tax evaders in UK
uri: Amnesty-to-rich-tax-evaders-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Amnesty_to_rich_tax_evaders_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/may/01/hsbc-files-uk-tax-officials-under-fire-for-allowing-payment-amnesty">The UK offered an easy amnesty to known rich tax evaders.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Lynching_charge_in_California)
title: Lynching charge in California
uri: Lynching-charge-in-California
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Lynching_charge_in_California%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/lynching-charge-dropped-african-american-california">In California, it is commonplace to charge protestors that de-arrest
other protestors with "lynching".</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 02_May_2015_(Alvaro_Horrible_faces_investigation)
title: Alvaro Horrible faces investigation
uri: Alvaro-Horrible-faces-investigation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#02_May_2015_%28Alvaro_Horrible_faces_investigation%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/colombia-high-court-president-spying">Colombia's ex-president Alvaro Horrible faces investigation</a>, accused of organizing a spy ring that snooped on his electoral opponents.
<p>
Horrible is also associated with Colombia's worst terrorists, the
army-sponsored paramilitares.
</p>


title: Urgent: Remove endorsement of Israel's colonies
uri: Urgent-Remove-endorsement-of-Israel-s-colonies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Urgent:_Remove_endorsement_of_Israels_colonies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_endorsement_of_Israels_colonies%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/bernie-sanders-help-stop">call
on Bernie Sanders to help</a> get the sneaky endorsement of Israel's
colonies in Palestine out of the "fast track" bill.
<p>
Of course, Sanders opposes "fast track", as everyone should.
But he may still be able to do this.


title: Urgent: Attention to predictable flood damage
uri: Urgent-Attention-to-predictable-flood-damage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Urgent:_Attention_to_predictable_flood_damage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Attention_to_predictable_flood_damage%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4669">call
on the US government</a> to pay attention to predictable flood damage
due to global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Urgent:_Anti-Keystone_Unity_letter)
title: Urgent: Anti-Keystone Unity letter
uri: Urgent-Anti-Keystone-Unity-letter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Anti-Keystone_Unity_letter%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3693">co-sign</a>
the anti-Keystone Unity letter.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Urgent:_Ban_GM_salmon)
title: Urgent: Ban GM salmon
uri: Urgent-Ban-GM-salmon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_GM_salmon%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2075&autologin=true">call
on the FDA</a> to ban genetically modified salmon.
<p>
These growing these salmon can 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_May_2013_(Genetically_modified_salmon_)">endanger
wild salmon populations</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Automation_at_the_cost_of_jobs)
title: Automation at the cost of jobs
uri: Automation-at-the-cost-of-jobs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Automation_at_the_cost_of_jobs%29
content:
<p>
A robot has been developed to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/01/gribbot-robot-meat-industry-chicken-employment">debone
chickens</a>.
<p>
This article repeats some of the usual bogus arguments businesses make
to get their own way.  They cite economics in these arguments then
ignore the economics that refutes them.
<p>
If profit margins are small, that implies nothing about automation
since automation won't change that.  In such a Red Queen's race, no
advance in efficiency is objectively necessary.  If one competitor
adopts an advance, the others must; but once they all adopt it, their
competitive situation has not changed much.  Meanwhile, if the advance
did not exist, or were prohibited, none of the competitors would miss
it.
<p>
Concerned about whether workers can handle an expected increase in
chicken production?  No need to be; they certainly can, if the
companies hire more workers in proportion.
<p>
Do workers suffer from fatigue and repetitive strain?  If so, slow
down the line and hire a few more workers.  A non-plutocratic
government would require this.  It would increase costs per chicken a
little, but since that increase will apply to all competitors, they
will cope easily by increasing prices a little.
<p>
If it were solely a matter of how to debone chickens, I'd rejoice if
people no longer had to do this grueling, dangerous and gory job
— provided they were not made homeless as a result.  Under
plutocratic austerity, that's the probable outcome.  We must not
permit more automation until we provide decently for those whose work
is not needed.
<p>
This is why I shout out to people using the automated self-checkout
machines: "If you use those machines, you are putting Americans out of
work."
<p>
Yesterday, an employee stationed near the machines at a Safeway store
responded with "Yes".  Someone got the message.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Iranians_imprisoned_for_their_views)
title: Iranians imprisoned for their views
uri: Iranians-imprisoned-for-their-views
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Iranians_imprisoned_for_their_views%29

content:
<p>
Iran's foreign minister claimed that Iran does not imprison people for
their views.  In response, people posted many 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/iranian-foreign-minister-angers-supporters-human-rights-charlie-rose">examples
of people in prison for their political views or for their
religion</a>.
<p>
It is standard practice for any state that calls itself "Islamic" to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#19_February_2012_(Blasphemy)">trample
freedom of religion</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Using_solely_renewable_energy)
title: Using solely renewable energy
uri: Using-solely-renewable-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Using_solely_renewable_energy%29
content:
<p>
Tesla's battery may smooth the path to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/01/tesla-battey-elon-musk-energy">using
solely renewable energy</a>.
<p>
Even though this product may be very important, it should not have
been given an exemption from income tax.  That should be forbidden
entirely.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Aden_besieged_by_street_fighting)
title: Aden besieged by street fighting
uri: Aden-besieged-by-street-fighting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Aden_besieged_by_street_fighting%29
content:
<p>
Aden is besieged by street fighting as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/yemen-people-suffer-lack-food-power-medical-aid-battles-rage-on">Houthis
continue trying to take the city</a>.
<p>
If not for the Saudi intervention, the Houthis might well have won
this war already with much less violence.  But now the fighting is
likely to drag on indefinitely, with no winner but many losers.  It
could end up like Iraq, with a cycle of massacres back and forth.
<p>
Even if it does not reach that point, it will be another failed state
in which al Qa'ida will have every opportunity.  I have to wonder, is
the US making sure its favorite bogey man remains threatening?  Is the
US being macchiavellian, or idiotically incompetent?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Austerity)
title: Austerity
uri: 2015-05-03-Austerity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Austerity%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/01/food-banks-most-people-at-the-school-gates-have-used-them">Poor
Britons</a> have to walk miles to a food bank because they have no
money for a bus, and some have to return spaghetti because they have
no money for electricity to cook it.
<p>
This is what austerity means: slowly starve the poor and pretend it is
their fault that the rich are getting paid instead.
<p>
The Tories plan to make it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/01/cameron-avoids-ruling-out-child-benefit-cuts-question-time">even
more cruel</a>.  Anything to give those billionaires more billions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Impact_of_global_heating_on_coffee)
title: Impact of global heating on coffee
uri: Impact-of-global-heating-on-coffee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Impact_of_global_heating_on_coffee%29

content:
<p>
Global heating will impact coffee.  It won't be extinct in 2050, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/01/coffee-catastrophe-beckons-as-climate-change-threatens-arabica-plant">the
supplies will be limited</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(UK_police_monitoring_MP_candidate)
title: UK police monitoring MP candidate
uri: UK-police-monitoring-MP-candidate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28UK_police_monitoring_MP_candidate%29
content:
<p>
UK police are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2015/may/01/police-monitored-political-movements-of-candidate-standing-against-nigel-farage">monitoring
the public speaking</a> of a Green Party candidate for MP.


title: Colombian ex-president faces investigation
uri: Colombian-ex-president-faces-investigation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Colombian_ex-president_faces_investigation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Colombian_ex-president_faces_investigation%29

content:
<p>
Colombia's ex-president Alvaro Horrible faces investigation, accused
of organizing a spy ring that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/colombia-high-court-president-spying">snooped
on his electoral opponents</a>.
<p>
Horrible is also associated with Colombia's worst terrorists, the
army-sponsored 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#25_April_2011_(Columbia_Paramilitaries)">paramilitares</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Divestment_from_fossil_fuels)
title: Divestment from fossil fuels
uri: 2015-05-03-Divestment-from-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Divestment_from_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>
The Church of England 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/30/church-of-england-ends-investments-in-heavily-polluting-fossil-fuels">will
divest from some fossil fuels</a>.


title: Elimination of NASA's climate research
uri: Elimination-of-NASA-s-climate-research
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Elimination_of_NASA's_climate_research)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Elimination_of_NASA%27s_climate_research%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/01/house-science-committee-guts-nasa-earth-sciences-budget/">Republicans aim to eliminate NASA's climate research</a>.
<p>
Like tobacco companies before them, the fossil fuel companies want to pretend that their products may not be dangerous. One way is to hamper efforts to observe the results.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(No_more_austerity)
title: No more austerity
uri: No-more-austerity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28No_more_austerity%29
content:
<p>
Paul Krugman: the world has demostrated (yet again) that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr/29/the-austerity-delusion">government spending cuts make a recession worse</a>, but US and UK politicians still insist on more cuts.
<p>
Krugman theorizes that this is a front for knocking down the poor.
</p>
<p>
That helps business by making workers desperate to accept low wages and precarious conditions.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(Stop_racism_and_thug_violence)
title: Stop racism and thug violence
uri: Stop-racism-and-thug-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28Stop_racism_and_thug_violence%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/may-day/protests-racial-justices-workers.rights">This year's US May Day events called for ending racism and thug violence</a> as well as better working conditions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(TSA's_PreCheck_Program)
title: TSA's PreCheck Program
uri: TSA-s-PreCheck-Program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28TSA%27s_PreCheck_Program%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/tsas-precheck-program-whitelist-or-blacklist">The TSA's PreCheck Program: a Whitelist or a Blacklist?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 03_May_2015_(May_Day_protest_crushed_in_Istanbul)
title: May Day protest crushed in Istanbul
uri: May-Day-protest-crushed-in-Istanbul
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#03_May_2015_%28May_Day_protest_crushed_in_Istanbul%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/turkish-protesters-clash-police-may-day-rally-istanbul">Erdogan crushed the annual May Day protest in Istanbul</a> to prove the Turkish state is serious about repression of protest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Urgent:_End_Pentagon_slush_fund)
title: Urgent: End Pentagon slush fund
uri: Urgent-End-Pentagon-slush-fund
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_Pentagon_slush_fund%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://livableworld.org/pentagon_budget_petition_april2015/">tell
Congress</a> to stop feeding the Pentagon slush fund.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Urgent:_Forgive_student_loans)
title: Urgent: Forgive student loans
uri: Urgent-Forgive-student-loans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Forgive_student_loans%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-corinthian/">call on
the Department of Education</a> to forgive the loans of students of
Corinthian Colleges.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Path_towards_justice_in_Baltimore)
title: Path towards justice in Baltimore
uri: Path-towards-justice-in-Baltimore
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Path_towards_justice_in_Baltimore%29
content:
<p>
Freddie Gray's relatives called for an end to rioting in Baltimore;
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/01/freddie-gray-family-calls-for-peace-police-officers-charged">having
thugs charged with crimes</a> is a path towards justice.


title: Proposed law to imprison whistleblowers
uri: Proposed-law-to-imprison-whistleblowers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html 04_May_2015_(Proposed_law_to_imprison_whistleblowers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#04_May_2015_%28Proposed_law_to_imprison_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>
Tunisia is considering a law that would imprison whistleblowers for 10
years for revealing state secrets including crimes such as torture,
criminalize making a video recording in a jail or police station, and
criminalize insulting the army (on vague conditions that don't protect
human rights).
<p>
<a href="https://nawaat.org/portail/2015/04/23/loi-de-repression-des-agressions-contre-les-forces-armees-le-gouvernement-essid-dans-les-pas-de-la-troika/">Reference
in French</a>.


