# articles

title: Repeatedly watching TV coverage of a bombing
uri: Repeatedly-watching-TV-coverage-of-a-bombing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Repeatedly_watching_TV_coverage_of_a_bombing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Repeatedly_watching_TV_coverage_of_a_bombing%29

content:
<p>
Repeatedly watching TV coverage of a
bombing <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/report-media-coverage-can-cause-more-stress-than-being-at-a-bombing-site/">can
cause more stress than witnessing the bombing.</a>
<p>
I know someone in California who was so traumatized by watching
coverage of the Sep 2001 attacks as to become afraid to go outside.
<p>
That morning I made an intentional decision not to watch the coverage.
It would have been both boring and anxiety-producing; all in all, I
preferred to work on an article talking about the danger of
sacrificing our freedom for "security".


title: Saudi Arabia has expelled a million foreign workers
uri: Saudi-Arabia-has-expelled-a-million-foreign-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Saudi_Arabia_has_expelled_a_million_foreign_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Saudi_Arabia_has_expelled_a_million_foreign_workers%29

content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/11/saudi-arabia-migrant-expulsion-ethiopia">expelled
a million foreign workers</a>, treating them horribly.
<p>
To tighten rules for allowing foreign workers, and expel some, is not
in itself wrong.  To kill them, or even to physically abuse them, is
not excused by the decision to expel them.  Denying them the chance to
sell their property is also wrong.


title: Thugs attacked protesters in Ukraine
uri: Thugs-attacked-protesters-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Thugs_attacked_protesters_in_Ukraine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Thugs_attacked_protesters_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/kiev-protests-police-barricades-chainsaws">Thugs
attacked protesters in Ukraine.</a>
<p>
The proposed deal with the EU might have traps in it.  However, being
dominated by Russia is very bad, and rejecting that does not require
submission to the EU's temptation.


title: Uruguay has legalized regulated sale of marijuana
uri: Uruguay-has-legalized-regulated-sale-of-marijuana
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Uruguay_has_legalized_regulated_sale_of_marijuana)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Uruguay_has_legalized_regulated_sale_of_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
Uruguay
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/uruguay-cannabis-marijuana-production-sale-law">legalized
regulated sale of marijuana</a>, but the people may not support it.
<p>
Marijuana is not addictive like tobacco and alcohol; ceasing use of
marijuana does not cause withdrawal symptoms.


title: Homosexuality is once again a crime in India
uri: Homosexuality-is-once-again-a-crime-in-India
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 12_December_2013_(Homosexuality_is_once_again_a_crime_in_India)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_December_2013_%28Homosexuality_is_once_again_a_crime_in_India%29

content:
<p>
Homosexuality
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/india-supreme-court-upholds-ban-gay-sex">once
again a crime in India.</a>


title: Global heating and human trafficking
uri: Global-heating-and-human-trafficking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Global_heating_and_human_trafficking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Global_heating_and_human_trafficking%29

content:
<p>
Global heating leads to extreme weather disasters,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/dec/13/slavery-climate-change-poverty">those
lead the victims to be trafficked.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Too_Many_Secrets)
title: Too Many Secrets
uri: Too-Many-Secrets
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Too_Many_Secrets%29
content:
<p>
Too Many
Secrets: <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20606-too-many-secrets-fixing-the-governments-broken-system-for-classifying-information">Fixing
the Government's Broken System for Classifying Information.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Amnesty_for_Snowden)
title: Amnesty for Snowden
uri: Amnesty-for-Snowden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Amnesty_for_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
Some NSA officials said they
would <a href="http://rt.com/usa/cbs-nsa-amnesty-snowden-212/">consider
amnesty for Snowden if he stops revealing secrets</a>.
<p>
This seems to be pure PR.  They know that Snowden is no longer
revealing any US secrets.  He no longer has any!  Before going to
Russia, he divested himself of all copies so the data would not fall
into Russian hands.  Journalists have the data now.
<p>
Thus, what the NSA officials really proposes is to make Snowden a
hostage to make the journalists stop publishing.


title: ISPs in Venezuela ordered to censor access to sites that publish black market exchange rate
uri: ISPs-in-Venezuela-ordered-to-censor-access-to-sites-that-publish-black
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(ISPs_in_Venezuela_ordered_to_censor_access_to_sites_that_publish_black_market_exchange_rate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28ISPs_in_Venezuela_ordered_to_censor_access_to_sites_that_publish_black_market_exchange_rate%29

content:
<p>
ISPs in Venezuela have been ordered to censor access to sites that
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/internet/2013/12/venezuela-forces-isps-to-police-internet.php">publish
the black market exchange rate between dollars and bolivars.</a>
<p>
This is stupid as well as wrong.  However, when judging the policy,
keep in mind that many countries have similar (and equally wrong)
policies, including quite a few in Europe.
<p>
Price controls tend to cause shortages, so they are generally an
unwise policy.  But they are not unjust like censorship.


title: Schools put students' personal data at risk
uri: Schools-put-students-personal-data-at-risk
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Schools_put_students'_personal_data_at_risk)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Schools_put_students%27_personal_data_at_risk%29

content:
<p>
Schools put students' personal data at risk
by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/education/schools-use-web-tools-and-data-is-seen-at-risk.html">entrusting
them to companies.</a>
<p>
No matter what these companies might put in their contracts,
centralizing data from schools in one company inherently makes them
more vulnerable.  In addition, these technologies increase the amount
of data collection about a student.
<p>
The student's data should be kept on a physical memory that is the
student's property, on loan to the school.  Teachers should be allowed
to look at the data when there is a valid reason, and the physical
memory should be wiped after the term, leaving nothing but the grades.


title: US schools routinely terrify and traumatize kids
uri: US-schools-routinely-terrify-and-traumatize-kids
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(US_schools_routinely_terrify_and_traumatize_kids)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28US_schools_routinely_terrify_and_traumatize_kids%29

content:
<p>
US
schools <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2013/12/lockdown_drills_what_are_school_shooting_trainings_teaching_kids.html">routinely
terrify and traumatize kids in the name of protecting them from terror
and trauma.</a>
<p>
If we banned large magazines and guns that repeat at a high rate, much
of the problem will go away.
<p>
I fear that these lockdowns will teach many children to think in the
direction of shooting a lot of people, in school or elsewhere.  When
that's what you know (or think you know), you will think of that.


title: Poor People Deserve Digital Privacy, Too
uri: Poor-People-Deserve-Digital-Privacy-Too
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Poor_People_Deserve_Digital_Privacy,_Too)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Poor_People_Deserve_Digital_Privacy%2C_Too%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/11/low_income_people_forced_to_use_insecure_digital_systems_to_apply_for_government.html">Poor
People Deserve Digital Privacy, Too.</a>


title: Workers vulnerable to being replaced by machine
uri: Workers-vulnerable-to-being-replaced-by-machine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Workers_vulnerable_to_being_replaced_by_machine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Workers_vulnerable_to_being_replaced_by_machine%29

content:
<p>
Companies have pushed workers to act like machines,
which <a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/12/we-wont-have-to-worry-about-robots-taking-our-jobs-if-we-focus-on-what-were-good-at/">makes
them very vulnerable to being replaced by a machine.</a>
<p>
I think there is some truth in this article.  At the same time, the
approach it recommends won't put millions of long-term-employed back
to work.  If society does not need these people to work, it must offer
them good lives anyway.
<p>
It is incoherent to say "If you don't work, you don't eat" and "There
is no work for you" at the same time.


title: A "small" nuclear war between India and Pakistan
uri: A-small-nuclear-war-between-India-and-Pakistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(A_small_nuclear_war_between_India_and_Pakistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28A_small_nuclear_war_between_India_and_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
A "small" nuclear war between India and Pakistan would produce a small
nuclear winter.  The loss of food
production <a href="media/945ee4e9.nuclear-famine-two-billion-at-risk-2013.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.ippnw.org/pdf/nuclear-famine-two-billion-at-risk-2013.pdf">could
endanger 2 billion people.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(The_UK's_cruel_cuts)
title: The UK's cruel cuts
uri: The-UK-s-cruel-cuts
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28The_UK%27s_cruel_cuts%29
content:
<p>
The UK's cruel
cuts <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/10/welfare-reforms-cut-family-food-budgets">force
many poor Britons to live on 3 dollars a day for food.</a>
<p>
It is no surprise that these policies have not helped people find
work.  That was never a real goal, just an excuse to hurt people.
<p>
The reason these people are unemployed is that there are no jobs for
them, and that is due to the spending cuts.


title: Illegal gold mining is driving deforestation in Peru
uri: Illegal-gold-mining-is-driving-deforestation-in-Peru
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Illegal_gold_mining_is_driving_deforestation_in_Peru)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Illegal_gold_mining_is_driving_deforestation_in_Peru%29

content:
<p>
Illegal gold mining
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/dec/13/undp-climate-change-peru-poverty-reduction">driving
deforestation in Peru.</a>
<p>
I think such phenomena demonstrate the importance of sharply cutting
the birth rate.  People will find ways to get money through
extraction, especially if they have little other opportunity.


title: Greenpeace will continue protests against Arctic oil drilling
uri: Greenpeace-will-continue-protests-against-Arctic-oil-drilling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Greenpeace_will_continue_protests_against_Arctic_oil_drilling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Greenpeace_will_continue_protests_against_Arctic_oil_drilling%29

content:
<p>
Greenpeace declares it
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/13/gazprom-arctic-oil-protest-climate-change">continue
protests against Arctic oil drilling</a>, even in Russia.


title: Urgent: Reinstate workers who were fired for complaining about illegal low wages
uri: Urgent-Reinstate-workers-who-were-fired-for-complaining-about-illegal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Urgent:_Reinstate_workers_who_were_fired_for_complaining_about_illegal_low_wages)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Reinstate_workers_who_were_fired_for_complaining_about_illegal_low_wages%29

content:
<p>
In companies where Domino's Pizza operates: tell the company
to <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=685">reinstate
the workers who were fired for complaining about illegal low
wages.</a>


title: Urgent: Withdraw US troops from Afghanistan
uri: Urgent-Withdraw-US-troops-from-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Urgent:_Withdraw_US_troops_from_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Withdraw_US_troops_from_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://livableworld.org/afghanistanzero/">sign
this petition to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on Obama not to gag John Podesta
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Obama-not-to-gag-John-Podesta
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Obama_not_to_gag_John_Podesta)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Obama_not_to_gag_John_Podesta%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on
Obama <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/free_john_podesta?referring_akid=a134727917.11">not
to gag his new advisor John Podesta regarding the Keystone XL
Earth-roaster pipeline</a>, especially given that corrupt interests
are operating unimpeded.


title: How ALEC presented itself to companies
uri: How-ALEC-presented-itself-to-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(How_ALEC_presented_itself_to_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28How_ALEC_presented_itself_to_companies%29

content:
<p>
Documents show that
ALEC <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/12/12339/did-alec-found-spn-1991-report-suggests-so-exposes-spn-agenda">presented
itself to companies as making their profits its primary goal.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_December_2013_(Renewable_energy_in_South_Africa)
title: Renewable energy in South Africa
uri: Renewable-energy-in-South-Africa
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_December_2013_%28Renewable_energy_in_South_Africa%29

content:
<p>
Renewable energy is growing rapidly in South Africa,
but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/12/solar-wind-power-coal-south-africa">coal
interests want to tie the country permanently to coal exports.</a>


title: Australian gov't abolishing environmental protection
uri: Australian-gov-t-abolishing-environmental-protection
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_December_2013_(Australian_gov't_abolishing_environmental_protection)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_December_2013_%28Australian_gov%27t_abolishing_environmental_protection%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2013/dec/13/coag-one-stop-shop-environmental-approval-deal-alarms-conservationists">abolishing
environmental protection by handing approval power solely to
individual states</a>.


title: Tyrant of North Korea executed his uncle
uri: Tyrant-of-North-Korea-executed-his-uncle
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_December_2013_(Tyrant_of_North_Korea_executed_his_uncle)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_December_2013_%28Tyrant_of_North_Korea_executed_his_uncle%29

content:
<p>
The tyrant of North
Korea <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/north-korea-executes-kim-jong-un-uncle-jang-song-thaek">executed
his uncle, calling him "despicable human scum".</a> Well of course
— he was an official in North Korea, so how could he not be
despicable human scum?


title: Controversial Anti-Protest Law Challenged in Ugandan Court
uri: Controversial-Anti-Protest-Law-Challenged-in-Ugandan-Court
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_December_2013_(Controversial_Anti-Protest_Law_Challenged_in_Ugandan_Court)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_December_2013_%28Controversial_Anti-Protest_Law_Challenged_in_Ugandan_Court%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://rfkcenter.org/in-partnership-with-the-robert-f-kennedy-center-for-justice-and-human-rights-ugandan-civil-society-coalition-files-claim-in-constitutional-court-challenging-the-public-order-management-act-2">Controversial
Anti-Protest Law Challenged in Ugandan Court.</a>


title: 500 prominent writers published manifesto for restoring privacy
uri: 500-prominent-writers-published-manifesto-for-restoring-privacy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_December_2013_(500_prominent_writers_published_manifesto_for_restoring_privacy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_December_2013_%28500_prominent_writers_published_manifesto_for_restoring_privacy%29

content:
<p>
500 prominent writers
have <a href="http://www.pen-international.org/newsitems/international-appeal-writers-against-mass-surveillance/">published
a manifesto for restoring privacy by curbing digital surveillance.</a>
<p>
I agree with their manifesto, because it doesn't insist narrowly that
the solution consists of limiting state access to massive dossiers
while continuing to accumulate them.
<p>
It took me a while to find a place to refer to it, because the
reference I saw was to a page I could not even view, on change.org.
When I tried to view that page, all I got was a brief message saying
the site requires Javascript and cookies even to <em>see</em> a page.
<p>
In addition, they ask people to endorse the statement on change.org.
I won't do that, or refer others to that, because of the requirement
for nonfree Javascript software.
<p>
So I am stating my agreement here.


title: Urgent: Give asylum to Edward Snowden
uri: Urgent-Give-asylum-to-Edward-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_December_2013_(Urgent:_Give_asylum_to_Edward_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Give_asylum_to_Edward_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Urge German PM Merkel
to <a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4000?n=47551240.Yp_ZM1">give
asylum to Edward Snowden in exchange for his testimony.</a>


title: Japanese continue protesting against the new state secrets law
uri: Japanese-continue-protesting-against-the-new-state-secrets-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_December_2013_(Japanese_continue_protesting_against_the_new_state_secrets_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_December_2013_%28Japanese_continue_protesting_against_the_new_state_secrets_law%29

content:
<p>
Japanese <a href="http://japandailypress.com/citizens-continue-protest-against-state-secrets-protection-law-82-of-public-wants-revision-or-abolition-0940668/">continue
protesting against the new state secrets law</a>, which over 80%
condemn.


title: Indiscriminate use of some antibiotics in farm animals
uri: Indiscriminate-use-of-some-antibiotics-in-farm-animals
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_December_2013_(Indiscriminate_use_of_some_antibiotics_in_farm_animals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_December_2013_%28Indiscriminate_use_of_some_antibiotics_in_farm_animals%29

content:
<p>
The FDA is looking
at <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/11/fda-crackdown-antibiotics-animals-meat">stopping
the indiscriminate use of some antibiotics in farm animals.</a>


title: Victoria will legalize sexting by teenagers
uri: Victoria-will-legalize-sexting-by-teenagers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 14_December_2013_(Victoria_will_legalize_sexting_by_teenagers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#14_December_2013_%28Victoria_will_legalize_sexting_by_teenagers%29

content:
<p>
Victoria (a state in Australia)
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/12/sexting-victoria-makes-it-an-offence">legalize
sexting by teenagers but only in narrow age bands</a>.  This is a step
forward but not enough.  No one should be punished for sexting, and
the recipient of the sext shouldn't be punished either.
<p>
The law will also ban sending nude photos of someone else without that
person's consent.  That part seems ok to me.


title: Israel abandoned the plan to force Negev Bedouin off their lands
uri: Israel-abandoned-the-plan-to-force-Negev-Bedouin-off-their-lands
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(Israel_abandoned_the_plan_to_force_Negev_Bedouin_off_their_lands)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28Israel_abandoned_the_plan_to_force_Negev_Bedouin_off_their_lands%29

content:
<p>
Israel
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/12/israel-shelves-plan-relocate-bedouin-negev">abandoned
the plan to force Negev Bedouin off their lands</a> and into
artificial villages where they have no livelihood.
<p>
However, the victory won't necessarily last.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_fast_track_for_TPP)
title: Urgent: Oppose "fast track" for TPP
uri: Urgent-Oppose-fast-track-for-TPP
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fast_track_for_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose "fast track" for the
TPP.
Also <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12285">send
mail through this page.</a>
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: US gov't decided to keep hunger strikes in Guantanamo secret
uri: US-gov-t-decided-to-keep-hunger-strikes-in-Guantanamo-secret
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(US_gov't_decided_to_keep_hunger_strikes_in_Guantanamo_secret)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28US_gov%27t_decided_to_keep_hunger_strikes_in_Guantanamo_secret%29

content:
<p>
The US government has decided
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/12-1">keep
hunger strikes in Guantanamo secret</a> to avoid the odium they shed.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(Plastic_in_the_Pacific_Ocean)
title: Plastic in the Pacific Ocean
uri: Plastic-in-the-Pacific-Ocean
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28Plastic_in_the_Pacific_Ocean%29
content:
<p>
A researcher studying plastic in the Pacific Ocean found
that <a href="http://deepseanews.com/2013/12/how-do-you-figure-out-how-much-plastic-is-in-the-ocean/">plastic
has a larger presence than living organisms.</a>
<p>
It turns out to be difficult to count the plastic in the ocean, and
difficult to filter it out without catching the plankton.


title: Unarmed man charged with shooting people
uri: Unarmed-man-charged-with-shooting-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(Unarmed_man_charged__with_shooting_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28Unarmed_man_charged__with_shooting_people%29

content:
<p>
An unarmed man who did nothing worse than walk into the street has
been <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/nyregion/unarmed-man-is-charged-with-wounding-bystanders-shot-by-police-near-times-square.html?_r=0">charged
with shooting people — who in fact were shot by the thugs.</a>
<p> To hold the criminal responsible for the consequences of the crime
is valid when the crime is comparably grave.  For instance, Dubya and
B'liar should be held responsible for all the killings in Iraq caused
by their invasion, including the killings carried out by the Sunni and
Shi'ite militias as well as by the Bush forces.
<p>
However, putting a hand in a pocket is hardly grave enough to justify
blaming anyone for other people's shootings.  In addition, it gives
the shooters immunity, which encourages them to shoot again.


title: The Theater of Security Agency shows no sense of shame
uri: The-Theater-of-Security-Agency-shows-no-sense-of-shame
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(The_Theater_of_Security_Agency_shows_no_sense_of_shame)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28The_Theater_of_Security_Agency_shows_no_sense_of_shame%29

content:
<p>
The Theater of Security Agency shows no sense of shame after
<a href="http://www.king5.com/news/local/TSA-agent-confiscates-sock-monkeys-toy-pistol-234986321.html">confiscating
a two-inch-long toy pistol that was to be put on a puppet.</a>
<p>
The idea that there is a principle that requires harsh, strict and
pointless application of rules is a collective folly known as "zero
tolerance".  "Zero tolerance" is the basis for
the <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#11_March_2013_%28School-to-prison_pipeline%29">school-to-prison
pipeline.</a> We must condemn the general idea, every time it comes
up, and not only its crazy excesses.


title: Former prime minister of Thailand has been charged with murder
uri: Former-prime-minister-of-Thailand-has-been-charged-with-murder
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(Former_prime_minister_of_Thailand_has_been_charged_with_murder)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28Former_prime_minister_of_Thailand_has_been_charged_with_murder%29

content:
<p>
The former prime minister of Thailand has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/12/former-thai-prime-minister-murder-charges">charged
with murder for ordering snipers to shoot protesters.</a>


title: Coca Cola Company trying to teach US waiters
uri: Coca-Cola-Company-trying-to-teach-US-waiters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(Coca_Cola_Company_trying_to_teach_US_waiters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28Coca_Cola_Company_trying_to_teach_US_waiters%29

content:
<p>
Coca Cola Company is trying
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/11-6">teach US
waiters to discourage people from drinking tap water.</a>
<p>
I usually have only tap water in restaurants, except in Chinese
restaurants where large pots of tea are usually provided.
<p>
See also the <a href="http://www.killercoke.org/">boycott of Coca Cola
Company.</a>


title: Israel, Palestine and Jordan desalination project
uri: Israel-Palestine-and-Jordan-desalination-project
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(Israel,_Palestine_and_Jordan_desalination_project)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28Israel%2C_Palestine_and_Jordan_desalination_project%29

content:
<p>
Israel, Palestine and
Jordan <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/9/dead-sea-read-seajordanisraelpalestinians.html">made
an agreement on a joint desalination project and will divide up the
water.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(Heroic_whistleblowers)
title: Heroic whistleblowers
uri: Heroic-whistleblowers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28Heroic_whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
Heroic
whistleblowers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/11/whistleblowers-open-letter-after-snowden-revelations">call
on spy agency employees to become whistleblowers.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(New_Zealand_border_thugs)
title: New Zealand border thugs
uri: New-Zealand-border-thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28New_Zealand_border_thugs%29
content:
<p>
New Zealand border
thugs <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11171475">took
all of Samual Blackman's computers and disk drives.</a>
<p>
They kept him incommunicado, and demanded he give them his passwords.
<p>
Blackman suspected this was because he went to a meeting in London
about massive surveillance.  The thugs said it is for some kind of
censorship.  We should not assume they told the truth, but if they
did, that is no better.  Censorship is evil too.


title: Protesters that interfere with business
uri: Protesters-that-interfere-with-business
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(Protesters_that_interfere_with_business)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28Protesters_that_interfere_with_business%29

content:
<p>
Today's law in Australia (and the US) would have made it a crime to
send funds to "terrorists" such as Nelson Mandela, and maybe even to
teach anti-apartheid activists how to use a photocopier.  But that's
not enough for right-wing politicians, who want
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/11/the-right-to-protest-is-slowly-being-curtailed-latest-casualty-tasmania">imprison
protesters that interfere with business.</a>
<p>
I guess those right-wing politicians support Putin's plans to imprison
Greenpeace protesters.
<p>
It is a fundamental injustice to allow functionaries to label a group
as "terrorist" without putting the group on trial and convicting it of
that crime.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(The_Volcker_rule)
title: The Volcker rule
uri: 2013-12-15-The-Volcker-rule
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28The_Volcker_rule%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/10-6">The
Volcker rule is so complex, and has many exceptions</a>; it might not
do its job very well.


title: Imprisoned for having a pro-Morsi symbol
uri: Imprisoned-for-having-a-pro-Morsi-symbol
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 13_December_2013_(Imprisoned_for_having_a_pro-Morsi_symbol)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28Imprisoned_for_having_a_pro-Morsi_symbol%29

content:
<p>
An Egyptian teenager has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/egypt-schoolboy-arrested-stationery-morsi-symbol-rabaa">imprisoned
for having a pro-Morsi symbol on a ruler and notebooks in school.</a>
Many others have been punished for displaying the banned symbol.
<p>
Even though I disagree very strongly with what the symbol stands for,
I am against this censorship.


title: Urgent: Call on Washington Post to acknowledge it is owned by owner of Amazon
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Washington-Post-to-acknowledge-it-is-owned-by-owner-of
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Washington_Post_to_acknowledge_it_is_owned_by_owner_of_Amazon)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Washington_Post_to_acknowledge_it_is_owned_by_owner_of_Amazon%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on the Washington Post
to <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8979">acknowledge
it is owned by the owner of Amazon, which has a big contract with the
CIA</a>.


title: Single mother who depend on food stamps have been forgotten
uri: Single-mother-who-depend-on-food-stamps-have-been-forgotten
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Single_mother_who_depend_on_food_stamps_have_been_forgotten)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Single_mother_who_depend_on_food_stamps_have_been_forgotten%29

content:
<p>
The
American <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/17-0">single
mothers who depend on food stamps have been forgotten by the
mainstream media.</a>


title: Suing for the right to plant vegetables in your front yard
uri: Suing-for-the-right-to-plant-vegetables-in-your-front-yard
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Suing_for_the_right_to_plant_vegetables_in_your_front_yard)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Suing_for_the_right_to_plant_vegetables_in_your_front_yard%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/17">Suing for
the right to plant vegetables in your front yard.</a>


title: Snowden asking for asylum in Brazil
uri: Snowden-asking-for-asylum-in-Brazil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Snowden_asking_for_asylum_in_Brazil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Snowden_asking_for_asylum_in_Brazil%29

content:
<p>
Snowden writes to the people of
Brazil <a href="http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2013/12/1386296-an-open-letter-to-the-people-of-brazil.shtml">asking
for asylum there.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Refuting_NSA_falsehoods)
title: Refuting NSA falsehoods
uri: Refuting-NSA-falsehoods
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Refuting_NSA_falsehoods%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/nsa-surveillance-60-minutes-cbs-facts">Refuting
the NSA falsehoods that CBS presented on 60 Minutes.</a>


title: UK's system of Internet censorship
uri: UK-s-system-of-Internet-censorship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(UK's_system_of_Internet_censorship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28UK%27s_system_of_Internet_censorship%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25400009">UK's
system of Internet censorship has been inaugurated.</a>
<p>
People who use the Internet via public access points, schools, and so
on will have no way to turn the censorship off.


title: Imprisoned for having microscopic amounts of marijuana
uri: Imprisoned-for-having-microscopic-amounts-of-marijuana
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Imprisoned_for_having_microscopic_amounts_of_marijuana)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Imprisoned_for_having_microscopic_amounts_of_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
People passing through Dubai airport
are <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-512815/Briton-jailed-years-Dubai-customs-cannabis-weighing-grain-sugar-shoe.html">imprisoned
for having microscopic amounts of marijuana in their pockets or even
on the soles of their shoes</a>.
<p>
I wonder how they detect these microscopic bits of marijuana.  Are
they using
the <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#12_July_2012_%28US_to_deploy_intrusive_lasers%29">inspection
laser system that the US has been developing?</a>
<p>
Some years ago it was reported that most US bank notes had traces of
cocaine.  I wonder if they will start imprisoning people who have US
money on them.
<p>
Don't be a fool — reject all flight transfers in Dubai.  Don't
even think of flying on Emirates.


title: Fracking appears to leak endocrine disruptors
uri: Fracking-appears-to-leak-endocrine-disruptors
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Fracking_appears_to_leak_endocrine_disruptors)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Fracking_appears_to_leak_endocrine_disruptors%29

content:
<p>
Fracking appears in many cases
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/17/fracking-increase-health-risks-hormone">leak
endocrine disruptors into water supply.</a>


title: 'Radical' [CO2] Emissions Reductions
uri: Radical-CO2-Emissions-Reductions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_('Radical'_[CO2]_Emissions_Reductions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28%27Radical%27_%5BCO2%5D_Emissions_Reductions%29

content:
<p>
Scientists
Explore <a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20131212172405-jmar4/">Paths
to 'Radical' [CO2] Emissions Reductions.</a>
<p>
<a href="media/411ad781.radicalplanabstracts_0.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/sites/default/files/radicalplanabstracts_0.pdf">More
information.</a>
<p>
I do not think we need to consider the digital ration cards for carbon
emissions, because a tax on carbon emissions could achieve the same
reductions without the oppressive surveillance.


title: Mother Teresa gave sick people no painkillers and little medical care
uri: Mother-Teresa-gave-sick-people-no-painkillers-and-little-medical-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Mother_Teresa_gave_sick_people_no_painkillers_and_little_medical_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Mother_Teresa_gave_sick_people_no_painkillers_and_little_medical_care%29

content:
<p>
Mother
Teresa <a href="http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/udem-news/news/20130301-mother-teresa-anything-but-a-saint.html">gave
sick poor people no painkillers and little medical care, because she
believed that their suffering was "beautiful".</a> This cruel sadist
raised hundreds of millions of dollars, but didn't spend it to help
them.
<p>
The media campaign to promote her has fooled many Americans into
thinking that she was a great example of charity and goodness.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Chile's_new_President)
title: Chile's new President
uri: Chile-s-new-President
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Chile%27s_new_President%29
content:
<p>
Chile's new President
Bachelet <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/chile-president-elect-michelle-bachelet-election-reforms">promises
reforms to spread the wealth and make education more accessible.</a>


title: European couple in Egypt was jailed for a month
uri: European-couple-in-Egypt-was-jailed-for-a-month
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(European_couple_in_Egypt_was_jailed_for_a_month)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28European_couple_in_Egypt_was_jailed_for_a_month%29

content:
<p>
A European couple in Egypt
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/british-german-couple-held-dahab-egypt-without-charge">jailed
for a month, accused of a crime they couldn't possibly have
committed</a>, apparently only to pretend to the Chinese embassy that
a complaint had been dealt with.
<p>
If this is how the Egyptian state treats foreigners, I shudder at what
it must do to Egyptians.


title: Advertising of prescription drugs in the US
uri: Advertising-of-prescription-drugs-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Advertising_of_prescription_drugs_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Advertising_of_prescription_drugs_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Advertising of prescription drugs in the US
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/16-0">leading
to greater and often improper use of the drugs.</a>


title: Boston Thug Department's automatic license plate recognizers
uri: Boston-Thug-Department-s-automatic-license-plate-recognizers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Boston_Thug_Department's_automatic_license_plate_recognizers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Boston_Thug_Department%27s_automatic_license_plate_recognizers%29

content:
<p>
The Boston Thug Department's automatic license plate recognizers
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/boston-police-indefinitely-suspends-license-plate-reader-program/">collected
millions of records about lawful vehicles, but they repeatedly ignored
one that was stolen.</a>
<p>
Which reminds us not to judge surveillance technology by the official
purpose but rather by its side effects.


title: Some experts call on Japan to hand over handling of Fukushima
uri: Some-experts-call-on-Japan-to-hand-over-handling-of-Fukushima
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Some_experts_call_on_Japan_to_hand_over_handling_of_Fukushima)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Some_experts_call_on_Japan_to_hand_over_handling_of_Fukushima%29

content:
<p>
Some nuclear power experts call on Japan
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/15-1">hand
over the handling of the Fukushima nuclear plants to an international
team.</a>
<p>
The cleanup also needs to have plenty of funds.  TEPCO is hiring the
cheapest workers it can get.
<p>
It appears that substantial amounts
of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/world/asia/with-a-plants-tainted-water-still-flowing-no-end-to-environmental-fears.html?_r=1&">radioactive
cesium are continuing to leak out of the damaged reactors.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Salt_on_roads_in_New_York_State)
title: Salt on roads in New York State
uri: Salt-on-roads-in-New-York-State
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Salt_on_roads_in_New_York_State%29

content:
<p>
Salt on roads in New York State
is <a href="http://grist.org/news/oil-and-gas-drilling-waste-is-being-spread-over-new-york-roads-as-de-icer/">coming
from oil and gas wells,</a> and it tends to be more toxic than
ordinary salt.


title: Amazon cut off access for Christmas
uri: Amazon-cut-off-access-for-Christmas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(Amazon_cut_off_access_for_Christmas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28Amazon_cut_off_access_for_Christmas%29

content:
<p>
Amazon "sold" someone Disney Christmas videos, but not physical
copies; subsequently Amazon, at Disney's
command, <a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/12/15/amazon-takes-away-access-to-pu.html#more-274290">cut
off access for Christmas.</a>
<p>
This demonstrates why we should not trust remote hosting disservices.
Insist on having your own copy which is yours.


title: USaid rejects all support to abortion in poor countries
uri: USaid-rejects-all-support-to-abortion-in-poor-countries
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(USaid_rejects_all_support_to_abortion_in_poor_countries)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28USaid_rejects_all_support_to_abortion_in_poor_countries%29

content:
<p>
USaid rejects all support to abortion in poor countries, and fear of
this leads many women's health clinics in poor
countries <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/16/ethiopia-women-safe-abortion-donor-funding">to
refuse to do abortions at all.</a>


title: 32 Privacy Destroying Technologies
uri: 32-Privacy-Destroying-Technologies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(32_Privacy_Destroying_Technologies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%2832_Privacy_Destroying_Technologies%29

content:
<p>
32 Privacy Destroying Technologies That Are Systematically
Transforming America [and the
world] <a href="http://thetruthwins.com/archives/32-privacy-destroying-technologies-that-are-systematically-transforming-america-into-a-giant-prison">Into
A Giant Prison.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(A_Genentech_scam)
title: A Genentech scam
uri: A-Genentech-scam
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28A_Genentech_scam%29
content:
<p>
A Genentech scam against
Medicare: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/curing-blindness-cheap-way-vs-very-very-expensive-way">selling
a very expensive drug Lucentis where cheap Avastin would work just as
well.</a>
<p>
The article extends too much sympathy to pharma companies.  They
have <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#26_October_2012_(System_for_testing_medicines_corrupted)">corrupted</a>
the medical system
in <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#17%20March%202011%20%28Bribing%20doctors%29">many ways,</a> rip off Americans so much,
and <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#12_July_2012_(Obama_and_Congress_support_Big_Pharma)">lobby
for deadly patents in countries with lots of poor people,</a> so they
don't deserve sympathy.


title: Fighting in Syria as proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran
uri: Fighting-in-Syria-as-proxy-war-between-Saudi-Arabia-and-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(Fighting_in_Syria_as_proxy_war_between_Saudi_Arabia_and_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28Fighting_in_Syria_as_proxy_war_between_Saudi_Arabia_and_Iran%29

content:
<p>
Viewing the fighting in Syria as
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/15/saudia-arabia-iran-proxy-war-syria">proxy
war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.</a>
<p>
I don't think Saudi Arabia is likely to use its influence to hold back
Islamist extremists, since it has spent years funding and supplying
them.  There have been reports about this all along, and the US
government must have know about this.  The US ignored the Saudi
connection as al-Qa'ida, boosted by Saudi money, took over the Syrian
resistance to Iran's friend.  What kind of strategy was that?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(Affluenza)
title: "Affluenza"
uri: Affluenza
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28Affluenza%29
content:
<p>
"Affluenza" is a new excuse
for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/15-1">letting
wealthy people escape punishment for crimes such as vehicular
homicide.</a>
<p>
I doubt whether a 20-year prison sentence is the best way to teach a
16-year-old not to drive while drugged and drunk.  However, I agree
with the article that, whatever society's best response is, the
culprits should not be allowed to pay their way to more favorable
treatment.


title: The ANC abandoned its plans for socialism
uri: The-ANC-abandoned-its-plans-for-socialism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(The_ANC_abandoned_its_plans_for_socialism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28The_ANC_abandoned_its_plans_for_socialism%29

content:
<p>
The ANC, on abolishing
apartheid, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/09-1">abandoned
its plans for socialism to share the wealth with the impoverished</a>.
Did Mandela have a choice?
<p>
I don't advocate a Communism that would abolish private property and
business.  However, the decision to have private business still leaves
a wide range of possible societies.  Cruel societies such as today's
US and Mexico are one option, but today's Scandinavia is also an
option.  Some socialist elements can make society much better for the
non-rich while most work continues to be done by private businesses.


title: Global heating will melt all ice in the Arctic Ocean every summer
uri: Global-heating-will-melt-all-ice-in-the-Arctic-Ocean-every-summer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(Global_heating_will_melt_all_ice_in_the_Arctic_Ocean_every_summer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28Global_heating_will_melt_all_ice_in_the_Arctic_Ocean_every_summer%29

content:
<p>
A US Navy study predicts that before
2019 <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/dec/09/us-navy-arctic-sea-ice-2016-melt">global
heating will melt all the ice in the Arctic Ocean every summer.</a>
<p>
This will cause global heating to accelerate, since the water surface
will absorb more light, which currently the ice reflects out to space.


title: Three Ways the Super-Rich Suck Wealth Out of the Rest of Us
uri: Three-Ways-the-Super-Rich-Suck-Wealth-Out-of-the-Rest-of-Us
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(Three_Ways_the_Super-Rich_Suck_Wealth_Out_of_the_Rest_of_Us)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28Three_Ways_the_Super-Rich_Suck_Wealth_Out_of_the_Rest_of_Us%29

content:
<p>
Three Ways
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/09-2">Super-Rich
Suck Wealth Out of the Rest of Us.</a>


title: When Obama threatened to attack Syria
uri: When-Obama-threatened-to-attack-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(When_Obama_threatened_to_attack_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28When_Obama_threatened_to_attack_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Seymour Hersh: When Obama threatened to attack Syria,
the <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin">US
government did not know whether Sarin was used by Assad's men or by
al-Nusra the Islamist fanatics</a>.  And it still does not know.
<p>
The destruction of chemical weapons is a good outcome, and I continue
to support it.  Cherry-picking intelligence to support a military
attack is the sort of thing Dubya did.


title: Dredging Australia's new coal port
uri: Dredging-Australia-s-new-coal-port
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(Dredging_Australia's_new_coal_port)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28Dredging_Australia%27s_new_coal_port%29

content:
<p>
Dredging Australia's new coal port
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/dec/15/great-barrier-reef-destruction-abbot-point-greg-hunt">likely
to wipe out several protected, endangered species and poison part of
the Great Barrier Reef.</a>
<p>
Burning the coal
will <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#12_September_2011_%28Coral_Reefs%29">kill
the whole thing.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(Ukraine_is_split)
title: Ukraine is split
uri: Ukraine-is-split
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28Ukraine_is_split%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/ukraine-protests-analysis-two-nations">split
between a European-leaning western part that was and a Russian-leaning
eastern part.</a>
<p>
The split mainly derives from the partition of Poland in the late
1700s, when the Russian empire took the eastern part and the Austrian
empire took the western part.  However, the eastern part was under
Mongol rule for centuries before Poland took it.


title: Palm oil producers continue destroying Sumatran rainforest
uri: Palm-oil-producers-continue-destroying-Sumatran-rainforest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(Palm_oil_producers_continue_destroying_Sumatran_rainforest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28Palm_oil_producers_continue_destroying_Sumatran_rainforest%29

content:
<p>
Palm oil
producers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/orangutans-fight-for-survival">continue
destroying Sumatran rainforest.</a> Few orangutans remain.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 16_December_2013_(Giving_legislators_a_raise)
title: Giving legislators a raise
uri: Giving-legislators-a-raise
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#16_December_2013_%28Giving_legislators_a_raise%29
content:
<p>
Giving legislators a raise, in the European
parliament, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/dec/14/politicans-pay-work-ethic-meps">resulted
in their being less committed to their work.</a>
<p>
I don't think this one study can justify concluding that higher pay
necessarily causes less dedication.


title: US budget deal is cruel to the poor
uri: US-budget-deal-is-cruel-to-the-poor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(US_budget_deal_is_cruel_to_the_poor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28US_budget_deal_is_cruel_to_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/11">US
budget deal is cruel to the poor, and panders to the rich and
business</a>.
<p>
It is
a <a href="http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/fraud/us_government/news.php?q=1386984278">compromise
between mainstream right-wing and extreme right-wing</a>.


title: The practice of making computers to last a short time
uri: The-practice-of-making-computers-to-last-a-short-time
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(The_practice_of_making_computers_to_last_a_short_time)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28The_practice_of_making_computers_to_last_a_short_time%29

content:
<p>
The practice of making computers to last a short time and be replaced
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/14/toxic-ewaste-illegal-dumping-developing-countries">tremendously
increases the quantity of toxic e-waste.</a>
<p>
This also increases the demand for certain minerals to the point that
armies fight over mines in Africa.
<p>
Banning the shipment of e-waste to poor countries is proving
ineffective.  Requiring a 3-year warranty for every computer sold
might do a better job.  Many of the purchasers would demand warranty
service, so the manufacturers would have to make their products
cheaper to repair.  In addition, a lot of the waste would end up in
the hands of authorized service agents.  Regulating its disposal by
them would be easier.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(The_next_threat_from_Facebook)
title: The next threat from Facebook
uri: The-next-threat-from-Facebook
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28The_next_threat_from_Facebook%29
content:
<p>
The next threat from
Facebook: <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/facebook-yann-lecun-qa/">using
AI to figure out more about you.</a>
<p>
If you refuse to be one of Facebook's useds and tell the AI about
yourself, it will do what it can with the data it gets from Facebook
surveillance — plus what other people tell it about you.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Islamist_fanatics_in_Syria)
title: Islamist fanatics in Syria
uri: Islamist-fanatics-in-Syria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Islamist_fanatics_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/14/syria-islamist-militants-growing-strength">Islamist
fanatics in Syria greatly outnumber the secular rebels and are better
equipped</a>.  Thus, if Assad's regime is replaced, the replacement
will be worse.


title: Trade treaties used to block anti-smoking measures
uri: Trade-treaties-used-to-block-anti-smoking-measures
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Trade_treaties_used_to_block_anti-smoking_measures)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Trade_treaties_used_to_block_anti-smoking_measures%29

content:
<p>
Tobacco companies pay corrupt
governments <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/health/tobacco-industry-tactics-limit-poorer-nations-smoking-laws.html?pagewanted=all">to
use trade treaties to block anti-smoking measures.</a>
<p>
These murderous treaties must be destroyed!


title: What the state could find out with location data
uri: What-the-state-could-find-out-with-location-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(What_the_state_could_find_out_with_location_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28What_the_state_could_find_out_with_location_data%29

content:
<p>
What the state could find out
with <a href="https://www.aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-all-location-data">location
data from tracking you and other people you know.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(PBS_Budget_Debate)
title: PBS Budget Debate
uri: PBS-Budget-Debate
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28PBS_Budget_Debate%29
content:
<p>
PBS Budget
Debate: <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/12/12/pbs-budget-debate-wall-street-the-right-and-the-further-right/">Wall
Street, the Right and the Further Right.</a>


title: Karzai's conditions to allow some US troops to remain in Afghanistan
uri: Karzai-s-conditions-to-allow-some-US-troops-to-remain-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Karzai's_conditions_to_allow_some_US_troops_to_remain_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Karzai%27s_conditions_to_allow_some_US_troops_to_remain_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
Karzai's conditions to allow some US troops to remain in Afghanistan:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/14/karzai-american-troop-withdrawal-brinkmanship">end
air attacks (including drones) and facilitate peace.</a>


title: Freedom of political speech widely threatened across Europe
uri: Freedom-of-political-speech-widely-threatened-across-Europe
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Freedom_of_political_speech_widely_threatened_across_Europe)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Freedom_of_political_speech_widely_threatened_across_Europe%29

content:
<p>
Freedom of political speech
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/12/edward-snowden-eu-mass-population-surveillance">widely
threatened across Europe.</a>
<p>
For instance, Spain is now considering a law to make it a crime to
"insult Spain".
<p>
This is not to mention the censorship of specific views in many
countries.


title: US drone attack killed 15 people on the way to a wedding in Yemen
uri: US-drone-attack-killed-15-people-on-the-way-to-a-wedding-in-Yemen
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(US_drone_attack_killed_15_people_on_the_way_to_a_wedding_in_Yemen)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28US_drone_attack_killed_15_people_on_the_way_to_a_wedding_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
A US drone
attack <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/12-5">killed
15 people on the way to a wedding in Yemen.</a>
<p>
This is a consequence of using drones as death squads, in places that
are not battlefields.  A wedding party would not travel through a
battlefield; people would recognize the danger and stay under cover.


title: Australia's gun regulations could be a model for the US
uri: Australia-s-gun-regulations-could-be-a-model-for-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Australia's_gun_regulations_could_be_a_model_for_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Australia%27s_gun_regulations_could_be_a_model_for_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Australia's gun
regulations <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/14/america-mass-murder-australia-gun-control-saves-lives">could
be a model for the US.</a>


title: The population of barn owls in UK is crashing
uri: The-population-of-barn-owls-in-UK-is-crashing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(The_population_of_barn_owls_in_UK_is_crashing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28The_population_of_barn_owls_in_UK_is_crashing%29

content:
<p>
The population of barn owls in the UK
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/14/barn-owls-threatened-freak-weather">crashing
because of various human activities.</a>
<p>
Use of rat poison is one of them.  Another is global heating, which
paradoxically makes Britain colder in the winter.


title: Gov't of Colombia makes sure right-wing gangs can get away with rape
uri: Gov-t-of-Colombia-makes-sure-right-wing-gangs-can-get-away-with-rape
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Gov't_of_Colombia_makes_sure_right-wing_gangs_can_get_away_with_rape)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Gov%27t_of_Colombia_makes_sure_right-wing_gangs_can_get_away_with_rape%29

content:
<p>
The government of Colombia makes
sure <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/14/jineth-bedoya-lima-colombia-women">right-wing
gangs can get away with rape so as to keep foreign companies
happy.</a>
<p>
The oppressive treaty with the US is another plan to keep foreign
companies happy.


title: Indonesian soldiers massacred Papuan independence protesters
uri: Indonesian-soldiers-massacred-Papuan-independence-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Indonesian_soldiers_massacred_Papuan_independence_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Indonesian_soldiers_massacred_Papuan_independence_protesters%29

content:
<p>
In
1998, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/west-papuans-tortured-killed-and-dumped-at-sea-tribunal-hears">Indonesian
soldiers massacred Papuan independence protesters, then tortured,
mutilated and killed many of those taken prisoner.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose attempts to weaken the Endangered Species Act
uri: Urgent-Oppose-attempts-to-weaken-the-Endangered-Species-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_attempts_to_weaken_the_Endangered_Species_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_attempts_to_weaken_the_Endangered_Species_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: urge your senators
to <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=ADEFB8444CF9D2660595D52FFB294E80.app338b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1531&utm_source=Convio">oppose
attempts to weaken the Endangered Species Act</a>.


title: Latest Israeli excuses to reject peace with Palestine
uri: Latest-Israeli-excuses-to-reject-peace-with-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Latest_Israeli_excuses_to_reject_peace_with_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Latest_Israeli_excuses_to_reject_peace_with_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery on
the <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1386938454/">latest
Israeli excuses to reject peace with Palestine.</a>


title: Urgent: Cut subsidies to agribusiness, not food stamps
uri: Urgent-Cut-subsidies-to-agribusiness-not-food-stamps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Urgent:_Cut_subsidies_to_agribusiness,_not_food_stamps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Cut_subsidies_to_agribusiness%2C_not_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call your congresscritter to cut subsidies to
agribusiness, not food stamps.
Also <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=686">send
mail through this page.</a>
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Call on India to abolish the law against homosexuality
uri: Urgent-Call-on-India-to-abolish-the-law-against-homosexuality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_India_to_abolish_the_law_against_homosexuality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_India_to_abolish_the_law_against_homosexuality%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on India
to <a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/indias_gay_outrage_loc/?bjlNcab&v=32697">abolish
the law against homosexuality.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Terminator_seeds)
title: "Terminator" seeds
uri: Terminator-seeds
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Terminator_seeds%29
content:
<p>
Brazil may allow use
of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/13-4">"terminator"
seeds</a> (biological restrictions management or BRM).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Fracking_Hell)
title: Fracking Hell
uri: Fracking-Hell
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Fracking_Hell%29
content:
<p>
Fracking
Hell: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/14/fracking-hell-live-next-shale-gas-well-texas-us">What
It's Really Like to Live Next to a Shale Gas Well.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 15_December_2013_(Mass_graves_of_Albanian_Kosovars)
title: Mass graves of Albanian Kosovars
uri: Mass-graves-of-Albanian-Kosovars
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#15_December_2013_%28Mass_graves_of_Albanian_Kosovars%29

content:
<p>
Mass graves of Albanian
Kosovars <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/serbia-hundreds-of-albanians-mass-grave">give
the lie to claims that the Serbs did not commit atrocities there.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Urgent:_Diplomacy_with_Iran)
title: Urgent: Diplomacy with Iran
uri: Urgent-Diplomacy-with-Iran
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Diplomacy_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators at 202-224-3121 and say, no new
sanctions against Iran — give diplomacy a chance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(The_US-Ecuador_investment_treaty)
title: The US-Ecuador investment treaty
uri: The-US-Ecuador-investment-treaty
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28The_US-Ecuador_investment_treaty%29

content:
<p>
The arrogant international "tribunal" set up by a US-Ecuador investment treaty
has already twisted the law and the treaty to make excuses to 
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/12/ecuadors-highest-court-vs-a-foreign-tribunal-who-will-have-the-final-say-on-whether-chevron-will-pay.html">declare
Chevron the winner against Ecuadorians</a>.
<p>
I wonder why Ecuador has not withdrawn from this treaty.  Even if the
treaty should not properly apply to this case at all, other cases will
arise in the future.  The treaty can do no good, only harm.


title: Australia to imprison refugees on accusation, without trial
uri: Australia-to-imprison-refugees-on-accusation-without-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Australia_to_imprison_refugees_on_accusation,_without_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Australia_to_imprison_refugees_on_accusation%2C_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
Australia plans to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/asylum-seekers-living-in-australia-forced-to-sign-code-of-conduct">imprison
refugees on accusation</a>, without trial, by requiring them to sign a
"code of conduct" in which they promise not to commit crimes.
<p>
This means that if they are accused of crimes, rather than trying them
like anyone else, functionaries can decide they have "violated the
code of conduct," cancel their visas, and imprison them right away.
<p>
Meanwhile, the government has changed another "code of conduct", for
ministers, to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/tony-abbott-winds-back-code-of-conduct-to-let-ministers-to-keep-shares-in-public-companies">allow
them to own stock in businesses</a>.
<p>
Since these ministers were chosen to serve the interest of business
anyway, if they have another personal reason to do that it might
change nothing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(The_Nelson_Mandela_Barbie_doll)
title: The Nelson Mandela Barbie doll
uri: The-Nelson-Mandela-Barbie-doll
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28The_Nelson_Mandela_Barbie_doll%29

content:
<p>
Greg Palast: the 
<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/the-mandela-barbie/">Nelson Mandela
Barbie doll</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Palm_scanners_in_schools)
title: Palm scanners in schools
uri: Palm-scanners-in-schools
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Palm_scanners_in_schools%29
content:
<p>
Schools in Puyallup, WA, are installing 
<a href="http://www.trunews.com/parents-outraged-palm-scanning-devices-puyallup-wa-lunchrooms/">palm
scanners</a> for students to identify themselves with.
<p>
I think palm scanners are much less bad than fingerprint scanners,
because people don't leave palmprints on everything they touch.
Perhaps the palm scanners are ok, if the state can't get any personal
data from them.


title: US gov't to deploy laser scanning system to detect chemicals on people
uri: US-gov-t-to-deploy-laser-scanning-system-to-detect-chemicals-on-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(US_govt_to_deploy_laser_scanning_system_to_detect_chemicals_on_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28US_govt_to_deploy_laser_scanning_system_to_detect_chemicals_on_people%29

content:
<p>
The US government plans to deploy a laser scanning system that can
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5923980/the-secret-government-laser-that-instantly-knows-everything-about-you">detect
even tiny quantities of chemicals</a> in people's clothing and
people's bodies.


title: Publisher being tried under censorship laws in Turkey
uri: Publisher-being-tried-under-censorship-laws-in-Turkey
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Publisher_being_tried_under_censorship_laws_in_Turkey)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Publisher_being_tried_under_censorship_laws_in_Turkey%29

content:
<p>
The publisher of a Turkish edition of a raunchy book by Apollinaire is
being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/16/apollinaire-publisher-trial-turkey-don-juan">tried
under censorship laws</a>.


title: Alleged food fraud gang in France arrested
uri: Alleged-food-fraud-gang-in-France-arrested
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Alleged_food_fraud_gang_in_France_arrested)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Alleged_food_fraud_gang_in_France_arrested%29

content:
<p>
An alleged food fraud gang in France has been arrested.  They took the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/illegal-horsemeat-allegations-raids-arrests-france">meat
of horses that had been used in medical experiments</a> and labeled it
as beef.


title: Boycott of Israeli academic institutions
uri: Boycott-of-Israeli-academic-institutions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Boycott_of_Israeli_academic_institutions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Boycott_of_Israeli_academic_institutions%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/education/scholars-group-endorses-an-academic-boycott-of-israel.html">members
of the American Studies Association have approved</a> the boycott of
Israeli academic institutions.
<p>
Palestinians call for this boycott because Israeli universities have
direct connections with the occupation of Palestine.


title: Campaign to secure cheap anti-hepatitis pills
uri: Campaign-to-secure-cheap-anti-hepatitis-pills
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Campaign_to_secure_cheap_anti-hepatitis_pills)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Campaign_to_secure_cheap_anti-hepatitis_pills%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/16/us-hepatitis-price-analysis-idUSBRE9BF0EU20131216">global
campaign</a> aims to secure cheap anti-hepatitis pills.
<p>
The obstacle is the WTO, which 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2013-jan-apr.html#03_April_2013_(Novartis_threatens_India)">requires
countries such as India to allow patents on drugs</a>.
<p>
This murderous policy is one of many reasons that the WTO must be
abolished.


title: Amazon's warehouse workers in Germany on strike
uri: Amazon-s-warehouse-workers-in-Germany-on-strike
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Amazons_warehouse_workers_in_Germany_on_strike)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Amazons_warehouse_workers_in_Germany_on_strike%29

content:
<p>
Amazon's warehouse workers in Germany have gone 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/16/us-amazon-germany-idUSBRE9BF0M220131216">on
strike</a>.
<p>
Bravo!


title: Voicing the People's Anger, Yemen Parliament Calls for Drone Ban
uri: Voicing-the-People-s-Anger-Yemen-Parliament-Calls-for-Drone-Ban
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Voicing_the_Peoples_Anger_Yemen_Parliament_Calls_for_Drone_Ban)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Voicing_the_Peoples_Anger_Yemen_Parliament_Calls_for_Drone_Ban%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/16">Voicing the
People's Anger, Yemen Parliament Calls for Drone Ban</a>.


title: Zoning limits pushing poor people out of US cities
uri: Zoning-limits-pushing-poor-people-out-of-US-cities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Zoning_limits_pushing_poor_people_out_of_US_cities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Zoning_limits_pushing_poor_people_out_of_US_cities%29

content:
<p>
Zoning limits are 
<a href="http://grist.org/cities/pushing-poor-people-to-the-suburbs-is-bad-for-the-environment/">pushing
poor people out of US cities</a> to far-away places from which
commuting is hard and expensive.
<p>
I've opposed housing density limits since I saw this happening
in Cambridge Massachusetts.


title: Buses not funded enough, because rich people don't take buses
uri: Buses-not-funded-enough-because-rich-people-don-t-take-buses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Buses_not_funded_enough,_because_rich_people_dont_take_buses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Buses_not_funded_enough%2C_because_rich_people_dont_take_buses%29

content:
<p>
Around the world, 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/12/brt-middle-class/">buses
are not funded enough</a>, because rich people don't take buses.


title: Guards make noise to keep Ramzi bin al-Shibh from sleeping
uri: Guards-make-noise-to-keep-Ramzi-bin-al-Shibh-from-sleeping
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Guards_make_noise_to_keep_Ramzi_bin_al-Shibh_from_sleeping)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Guards_make_noise_to_keep_Ramzi_bin_al-Shibh_from_sleeping%29

content:
<p>
Ramzi bin al-Shibh, on trial in Guantanamo, keeps trying to tell the
judge
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/guantanamo-bay-prisoner-pretrial-hearing-sleep-deprivation">guards
make noise to keep him from sleeping.</a>
<p>
This is a military kangaroo court rather than a proper trial.  Is that
supposed to make sleep deprivation of the defendant ok?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Obama's_record_on_global_heating)
title: Obama's record on global heating
uri: Obama-s-record-on-global-heating
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Obama%27s_record_on_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Obama's record on global heating: with few
exceptions, <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obama-and-climate-change-the-real-story-20131217">he
supports it.</a>


title: The European Commission objects to UK plans to subsidize nuclear power
uri: The-European-Commission-objects-to-UK-plans-to-subsidize-nuclear-power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(The_European_Commission_objects_to_UK_plans_to_subsidize_nuclear_power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28The_European_Commission_objects_to_UK_plans_to_subsidize_nuclear_power%29

content:
<p>
The European
Commission <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/18/hinkley-point-c-nuclear-subsidy-european-commission">objects
to UK plans to subsidize nuclear power plants.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(America's_Greediest)
title: America's Greediest
uri: America-s-Greediest
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28America%27s_Greediest%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/18-2">America's
Greediest: The 2013 Top Ten.</a>
<p>
Many economists say that
the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/18">inequality
that results from this greed costs even the rich</a>, because it
reduces the total economy.
<p>
Not that it matters ethically.  Hurting the poor couldn't be justified
by enriching the rich.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(211_Journalists_in_World's_Jails)
title: 211 Journalists in World's Jails
uri: 211-Journalists-in-World-s-Jails
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28211_Journalists_in_World%27s_Jails%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/dec/18/journalist-safety-turkey">211
Journalists in World's Jails in 2013.  The worst country is
Turkey.</a>


title: 2013 was filled with extreme weather events
uri: 2013-was-filled-with-extreme-weather-events
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(2013_was_filled_with_extreme_weather_events)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%282013_was_filled_with_extreme_weather_events%29

content:
<p>
2013
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/18/2013-extreme-weather-events">filled
with extreme weather events.</a>


title: Billionaire Polluters found a large new oil field
uri: Billionaire-Polluters-found-a-large-new-oil-field
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Billionaire_Polluters_found_a_large_new_oil_field)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Billionaire_Polluters_found_a_large_new_oil_field%29

content:
<p>
Billionaire Polluters
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/18/bp-gulf-mexico-oil-discovery-deepwater-horizon">found
a large new oil field in the Gulf of Mexico.</a>
<p>
Shall we celebrate?


title: Libyan dissident imprisoned without trial in the UK
uri: Libyan-dissident-imprisoned-without-trial-in-the-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Libyan_dissident_imprisoned_without_trial_in_the_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Libyan_dissident_imprisoned_without_trial_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
Libyan dissident Ziad Hashem
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/18/gaddafi-opponent-torture-mi6-cia">imprisoned
without trial in the UK,</a> apparently based on information that
Libyan torturers extracted from Abd-el-Hakim Belhaj after the UK and
US delivered him to them.
<p>
If extraditing Abd-el-Hakim Belhaj secretly without the usual hearings
was "approved by ministers", it demonstrates that that is insufficient
as a safeguard.


title: Los Angeles Airport shooter has been accused of "terrorism"
uri: Los-Angeles-Airport-shooter-has-been-accused-of-terrorism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Los_Angeles_Airport_shooter_has_been_accused_of_terrorism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Los_Angeles_Airport_shooter_has_been_accused_of_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
The Los Angeles Airport
shooter <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/18/los-angeles-us-crime">has
been accused of "terrorism".</a>
<p>
This attack does seem to be premeditated murder, but I think it is
stretching the term "terrorism" to apply it here.  Stretching strong
words such as "terrorism" is a form of inflation that devalues them.


title: Former headteacher convicted of sexual assault on 5 students, all before 1970
uri: Former-headteacher-convicted-of-sexual-assault-on-5-students-all-befo
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Former_headteacher_convicted_of_sexual_assault_on_5_students,_all_before_1970)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Former_headteacher_convicted_of_sexual_assault_on_5_students%2C_all_before_1970%29

content:
<p>
A British former headteacher (school principal, in US
terms) <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/18/headteacher-convicted-historic-child-sex-offences">has
been convicted of sexual assault on 5 students, all before 1970.</a>
<p>
The victims must have resented this for decades, which pretty clearly
implies they were unwilling at the time.  Thus, I think those acts do
deserve to be crimes.


title: Forms of repression used in Saudi Arabia
uri: Forms-of-repression-used-in-Saudi-Arabia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Forms_of_repression_used_in_Saudi_Arabia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Forms_of_repression_used_in_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights
Watch <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/18/saudi-arabia-arrests-online-critics">reports
various forms of repression used in Saudi Arabia.</a>


title: Wildfire destroyed houses in Big Sur
uri: Wildfire-destroyed-houses-in-Big-Sur
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Wildfire_destroyed_houses_in_Big_Sur)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Wildfire_destroyed_houses_in_Big_Sur%29

content:
<p>
It's December, normally the cooler and wetter season, but
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/big-sur-wildfire-slows-firefighters-added">wildfire
destroyed houses in Big Sur</a>.
<p>
It isn't proven yet, but one must suspect that this reflects the
effects of global heating, which is expected to alter the base
conditions towards the hotter and drier.


title: Vocational school gave radio transmitter tags to students and staff
uri: Vocational-school-gave-radio-transmitter-tags-to-students-and-staff
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Vocational_school_gave_radio_transmitter_tags_to_students_and_staff)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Vocational_school_gave_radio_transmitter_tags_to_students_and_staff%29

content:
<p>
A vocational school in the
UK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/19/college-rfid-chip-tracking-pupils-invasion-privacy">gave
radio transmitter tags to its students and staff for several years
without telling them.</a>
<p>
I think it is misleading to call these "RFIDs" because what they do is
very different.  Their signals show exactly where the wearer is
located.


title: Bill to ban harassment by people who claim supernatural power
uri: Bill-to-ban-harassment-by-people-who-claim-supernatural-power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Bill_to_ban_harassment_by_people_who_claim_supernatural_power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Bill_to_ban_harassment_by_people_who_claim_supernatural_power%29

content:
<p>
The Indian state of Maharashtra has passed a
bill <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/narendra-dabholkar-murder-maharashtra-passes-anti-black-magic-bill/1/331103.html">to
ban harassment by people who claim supernatural power</a>.
<p>
However, <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/step-forward-for-anti-superstition-bill-but-does-it-betray-dabholkar/article1-1162517.aspx">the
bill is weak.</a>
<p>
This is in response to
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/anti-superstition-narendra-dabholkar-shot-dead">murder
of a rationalist campaigner.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Bank_Of_America_played_tricks)
title: Bank Of America played tricks
uri: Bank-Of-America-played-tricks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Bank_Of_America_played_tricks%29
content:
<p>
Bank of
America <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-16/secret-inside-bofa-office-of-ceo-stymied-needy-homeowners.html">played
tricks to avoid modifying American homeowners' mortgages</a>, so it
could foreclose them instead.


title: US senate should release its report into Bush regime torture practices
uri: US-senate-should-release-its-report-into-Bush-regime-torture-practices
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(US_senate_should_release_its_report_into_Bush_regime_torture_practices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28US_senate_should_release_its_report_into_Bush_regime_torture_practices%29

content:
<p>
The US Senate
should <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/release-the-senate-torture-report-101078.html">release
its report into Bush regime torture practices.</a>


title: Lawsuit against NSA bulk collection
uri: Lawsuit-against-NSA-bulk-collection
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Lawsuit_against_NSA_bulk_collection)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Lawsuit_against_NSA_bulk_collection%29

content:
<p>
A lawsuit against NSA bulk collection of phone records has more or
less
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/16-8">won at the
trial court level</a>.  The judge issued a preliminary injunction
ordering the NSA to stop collecting this metadata.
<p>
However, it's not really in effect because it will be appealed.  I
expect this case to go to the Supreme Court before anything really
happens.


title: Protester that kissed a thug's helmet has been charged
uri: Protester-that-kissed-a-thug-s-helmet-has-been-charged
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Protester_that_kissed_a_thug's_helmet_has_been_charged)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Protester_that_kissed_a_thug%27s_helmet_has_been_charged%29

content:
<p>
An Italian protester that kissed a thug's helmet has
been <a href="http://www.thelocal.it/20131212/italian-protesters-kiss-was-sexual-violence">charged
with "sexual violence" and insulting the thug.</a>
<p>
The first charge is blatant distortion of the facts, but the second
shows blatant disrespect for freedom of speech.  Freedom of speech
includes the freedom to insult anyone, especially including officials.
A state that denies this right is clearly in the wrong.


title: Urgent: Forbid employers to look at job candidates' credit reports
uri: Urgent-Forbid-employers-to-look-at-job-candidates-credit-reports
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Urgent:_Forbid_employers_to_look_at_job_candidates'_credit_reports)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Forbid_employers_to_look_at_job_candidates%27_credit_reports%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support Senator Warren's bill
to <a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition_warren_credit_employment/?akid=16998.636740.IgmWFe">forbid
employers to look at job candidates' credit reports</a>.


title: Urgent: Don't go on vacation without extending unemployment benefits
uri: Urgent-Don-t-go-on-vacation-without-extending-unemployment-benefits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Urgent:_Don't_go_on_vacation_without_extending_unemployment_benefits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Don%27t_go_on_vacation_without_extending_unemployment_benefits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell
Congress, <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/don-t-go-on-vacation-without-extending-unemployment-benefits?akid=9639.1183552.VZo7eB">don't
go on vacation without extending unemployment benefits.</a>


title: FDA will move to ban anti-bacterial soaps
uri: FDA-will-move-to-ban-anti-bacterial-soaps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(FDA_will_move_to_ban_anti-bacterial_soaps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28FDA_will_move_to_ban_anti-bacterial_soaps%29

content:
<p>
The FDA will move
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/antibacterial-soap-fda-review">ban
anti-bacterial soaps unless they demonstrate health benefits</a>.
<p>
The bactericides can cause harm, and there is a possibility that the
killing of bacteria may lead indirectly to the spread of asthma
because people's immune systems don't get trained as they should be.


title: 60 Minutes Is Now in the Spin Business
uri: 60-Minutes-Is-Now-in-the-Spin-Business
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(60_Minutes_Is_Now_in_the_Spin_Business)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%2860_Minutes_Is_Now_in_the_Spin_Business%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/17/60-minutes-nsa-journalism-spin">60
Minutes Is Now in the Spin Business.</a>


title: Urgent: Do not allow advertising in public schools
uri: Urgent-Do-not-allow-advertising-in-public-schools
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Urgent:_Do_not_allow_advertising_in_public_schools)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_allow_advertising_in_public_schools%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on
Philadelphia <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12375">not
to allow advertising in its public schools</a>.


title: US border thugs interrogated two New York Times reporters
uri: US-border-thugs-interrogated-two-New-York-Times-reporters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(US_border_thugs_interrogated_two_New_York_Times_reporters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28US_border_thugs_interrogated_two_New_York_Times_reporters%29

content:
<p>
US border
thugs <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131209/14020025509/dhs-interrogates-ny-times-reporters-border-then-denies-having-any-records-about-them.shtml">interrogated
two New York Times reporters about their journalistic activities</a>
as they were returning to the US.  Now the Committee for Public Safety
(oops, Department of Homeland Security) says it has no record of this.


title: Indian diplomat in the US faces criminal charges
uri: Indian-diplomat-in-the-US-faces-criminal-charges
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Indian_diplomat_in_the_US_faces_criminal_charges)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Indian_diplomat_in_the_US_faces_criminal_charges%29

content:
<p>
An Indian diplomat in the
US <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/india-diplomatic-row-consul-arrest-new-york">faces
criminal charges for paying a domestic servant less than the minimum
wage and lying about it in her visa application.</a>
<p>
The servant is also Indian.  Indians should cheer that the US is doing
something to protect poor Indians from exploitation by the Indian
elite.  Reportedly it is a long time since an Indian diplomat was
arrested.  It has probably been an even longer time since Indian
servants' wages were protected in this way.
<p>
The strip search seems excessive, however, for the nature of the
accusation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Senator_Warren's_bill)
title: Senator Warren's bill
uri: Senator-Warren-s-bill
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Senator_Warren%27s_bill%29
content:
<p>
Senator Warren's
bill <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/elizabeth-warren-employers-credit-check">would
stop employers from discriminating (in effect) against poor
people.</a>
<p>
This bill would be a change for the better, but we also need to make
more jobs, which calls for increased government spending.  I'm sure
Senator Warren is in favor of that too.


title: Spineless in Bali: Fooled Again by the WTO
uri: Spineless-in-Bali-Fooled-Again-by-the-WTO
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Spineless_in_Bali:_Fooled_Again_by_the_WTO)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Spineless_in_Bali%3A_Fooled_Again_by_the_WTO%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/17-4">Spineless in
Bali: Fooled Again by the WTO.</a>


title: 50 sailors on US navy ship have got cancer
uri: 50-sailors-on-US-navy-ship-have-got-cancer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(50_sailors_on_US_navy_ship_have_got_cancer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%2850_sailors_on_US_navy_ship_have_got_cancer%29

content:
<p>
50 sailors on a US navy ship that brought aid to the Fukushima area
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/17-1">have got
cancer, and are suing TEPCO</a>.
<p>
The ship carries around 3000 sailors.  For 50 of those healthy adults,
mostly in their 20s, to get cancer in under 3 years is amazing.
<p>
The ship is named after President Reagan, and his name should not be
mentioned without reminding people how he harmed the US.  He gave arms
to terrorists in Lebanon to ransom hostages, to get funds to illegally
fund terrorists in Nicaragua.  He also launched the campaign to
impoverish most Americans, which continues to this day.  His
supporters called him the Great Communicator, but Great Swindler would
fit better.


title: Neonicotinoid pesticides cause brain damage to mouse fetuses
uri: Neonicotinoid-pesticides-cause-brain-damage-to-mouse-fetuses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Neonicotinoid_pesticides_cause_brain_damage_to_mouse_fetuses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Neonicotinoid_pesticides_cause_brain_damage_to_mouse_fetuses%29

content:
<p>
Neonicotinoid
pesticides <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/17/bee-pesticides-harmful-children">cause
brain damage to mouse fetuses, so they may harm human fetuses too.</a>


title: AT&T's latest method in the War on Sharing
uri: AT-T-s-latest-method-in-the-War-on-Sharing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(ATTs_latest_method_in_the_War_on_Sharing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28ATTs_latest_method_in_the_War_on_Sharing%29

content:
<p>
AT&T's latest method in the War on Sharing is a 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/att-invents-new-technology-to-detect-and-ban-filesharing-131214/">new
user-profiling scheme to identify sharers</a>, whom they call
"pirates."
<p>
Please don't call them "pirates" — that is propaganda for the
enemy.
<p>
Falkvinge: 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/free-society-sharing-knowledge-and-culture-131215/">Our
Free Society Stands Or Falls With Our Defense Of Sharing Knowledge And
Culture</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(NSA_whitewash_on_60_Minutes)
title: NSA whitewash on 60 Minutes
uri: NSA-whitewash-on-60-Minutes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28NSA_whitewash_on_60_Minutes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/16-0">The Sad
Decline of '60 Minutes' Continues With This Week's NSA Whitewash</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(Seven_ripoffs)
title: Seven ripoffs
uri: Seven-ripoffs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28Seven_ripoffs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/16-1">Seven Ripoffs
That Capitalists Would Like to Keep out of the Media</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 18_December_2013_(JROTC)
title: JROTC
uri: JROTC
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#18_December_2013_%28JROTC%29
content:
<p>
JROTC uses 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/16-2">lots of
money</a> to convince American teenagers to join the army.  It's
instead of teaching them American history.


title: Admiration of Nelson Mandela's life
uri: Admiration-of-Nelson-Mandela-s-life
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 17_December_2013_(Admiration_of_Nelson_Mandelas_life)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#17_December_2013_%28Admiration_of_Nelson_Mandelas_life%29

content:
<p>
Nelson Mandela's funeral has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/nelson-mandela-laid-to-rest">finished</a>,
after serving to illustrate the political issues of today's South
Africa and how the US helped the apartheid state to capture him.
<p>
I admire Mandela's fight for freedom, and his personal courage, as
much as before, and I reject the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_(Nelson_Mandelas_life_falsified_by_mainstream_media)">idea
that he'd have to be perfect</a> to deserve our admiration.
<p>
However, I am disappointed with the fuss that people make about his
death.  Why fetishize a corpse that used to be the body of a great
person?  A dead body is not a person anymore.  It's not Mandela's
corpse that deserves our admiration, but rather his life.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Morsi_faces_another_prosecution)
title: Morsi faces another prosecution
uri: Morsi-faces-another-prosecution
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Morsi_faces_another_prosecution%29

content:
<p>
Morsi faces another prosecution
on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/18/mohamed-morsi-trial-egypt-hamas-hezbollah">improbable
charges of a terrorist conspiracy including Iran.</a>


title: Facebook studies text that its useds type in and then don't submit
uri: Facebook-studies-text-that-its-useds-type-in-and-then-don-t-submit
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Facebook_studies_text_that_its_useds_type_in_and_then_don't_submit)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Facebook_studies_text_that_its_useds_type_in_and_then_don%27t_submit%29

content:
<p>
Facebook <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/12/facebook-collects-conducts-research-on-status-updates-you-never-post/">carefully
studies all the text that its useds type in and then don't submit.</a>


title: NSA's goal is to eliminate privacy, world wide
uri: NSA-s-goal-is-to-eliminate-privacy-world-wide
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(NSA's_goal_is_to_eliminate_privacy,_world_wide)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28NSA%27s_goal_is_to_eliminate_privacy%2C_world_wide%29

content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald told the EU that
the <a href="http://rt.com/news/greenwald-eu-parliament-testimony-424/">NSA's
goal is to eliminate privacy, world wide.</a>


title: Amnesty for some political prisoners
uri: Amnesty-for-some-political-prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Amnesty_for_some_political_prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Amnesty_for_some_political_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Putin hopes
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/18/pussy-riot-arctic-30-amnesty-putin-winter-olympics-sochi">amnesty
for some political prisoners will wipe away the shame of having
imprisoned them (and others) in the first place.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(On_the_Front_Lines_of_Class_War)
title: On the Front Lines of Class War
uri: On-the-Front-Lines-of-Class-War
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28On_the_Front_Lines_of_Class_War%29

content:
<p>
On the Front Lines of Class
War: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/18-6">Why the
Fight for a Livable Wage is Everyone's Fight.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(US_Budget_Deal)
title: US Budget Deal
uri: US-Budget-Deal
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28US_Budget_Deal%29
content:
<p>
US Budget
Deal: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/18/us-budget-deal-good-bad-stupid">the
Good, Bad And Stupid.</a>


title: UK gov't has allowed vital industries to shrug off rule of law
uri: UK-gov-t-has-allowed-vital-industries-to-shrug-off-rule-of-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(UK_gov't_has_allowed_vital_industries_to_shrug_off_rule_of_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_has_allowed_vital_industries_to_shrug_off_rule_of_law%29

content:
<p>
The UK government, through deregulation and
privatization, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/18/horsemeat-organised-crime-food-banking-industries">has
allowed vital industries including food and banking to shrug off rule
of law.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(The_latest_censorship_proposal)
title: The latest censorship proposal
uri: The-latest-censorship-proposal
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28The_latest_censorship_proposal%29

content:
<p>
The latest censorship
proposal: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/18/jennifer-lawrence-fat-shaming-illegal-barbara-walters-hunger-games">ban
saying that someone is fat.</a>
<p>
Once you accept in principle the idea of forbidding some sort of
insult, there is no natural stopping point; any statement that might
hurt someone's feelings is likely to be banned.
<p>
I do not feel offended when people call me "fat", if they do not mean
it as an insult, since it is undeniably true.  If someone does mean it
as an insult, that indicates a mental confusion on that person's part.
Being fat is not an ethical failing.
<p>
It is amazing that Ms Lawrence is so sensitive to insults to her
appearance — as if Einstein felt crushed if anyone said he was
stupid.  This bespeaks an inner insecurity that disregards objective
reality.  That insecurity is her real problem, not the insults.


title: The Rightwing Attack on Our Solar Future
uri: The-Rightwing-Attack-on-Our-Solar-Future
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(The_Rightwing_Attack_on_Our_Solar_Future)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28The_Rightwing_Attack_on_Our_Solar_Future%29

content:
<p>
Let the Sun Shine
In: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/18-8">The
Rightwing Attack on Our Solar Future.</a>
<p>
It's perfectly logical: someone who wants to sell as much fossil fuel
as possible, and cares nothing about the rest of the world, would try
to discourage, even prohibit installation of solar generators.


title: Trapwire files for "suspicious events"
uri: Trapwire-files-for-suspicious-events
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Trapwire_files_for_suspicious_events)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Trapwire_files_for_suspicious_events%29

content:
<p>
Trapwire files for "suspicious
events" <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/17/exclusive-how-dcpoliceusecitizensasspies.html">show
both idiocy and unofficial racial profiling.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(The_Big_Spill_made_dolphins_sick)
title: The Big Spill made dolphins sick
uri: The-Big-Spill-made-dolphins-sick
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28The_Big_Spill_made_dolphins_sick%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/18/bp-oil-spill-dolphin-deaths-gulf-of-mexico">The
Big Spill made dolphins sick, some fatally.</a>


title: UK gov't will smother the inquiry into rendition
uri: UK-gov-t-will-smother-the-inquiry-into-rendition
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(UK_gov't_will_smother_the_inquiry_into_rendition)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_will_smother_the_inquiry_into_rendition%29

content:
<p>
The UK government will smother the inquiry into rendition
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/18/judge-led-inquiry-rendition-intelligence-security-committee-cameron">handing
it to a picked committee of Parliament instead of a judge.</a>


title: Frackers need not inform the people who live above the wells
uri: Frackers-need-not-inform-the-people-who-live-above-the-wells
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Frackers_need_not_inform_the_people_who_live_above_the_wells)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Frackers_need_not_inform_the_people_who_live_above_the_wells%29

content:
<p>
The UK government apparently fears people's opposition to fracking, so
it
says <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/18/fracking-allowed-homes-without-owners-knowledge-gas-drilling">frackers
need not inform the people who live above the wells.</a>
<p>
This way, if they get sick, it won't occur to them to suspect fracking
is the cause.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Turkish_thugs_fired_and_rebuked)
title: Turkish thugs fired and rebuked
uri: Turkish-thugs-fired-and-rebuked
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Turkish_thugs_fired_and_rebuked%29

content:
<p>
Turkish thugs that dared to arrest well-connected people for
corruption charges have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/18/turkish-pm-corruption-probe-dirty-operation">fired
and rebuked by President Erdogan.</a>


title: How can pressure be put on Putin, and other Russian anti-gay bigots
uri: How-can-pressure-be-put-on-Putin-and-other-Russian-anti-gay-bigots
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(How_can_pressure_be_put_on_Putin,_and_other_Russian_anti-gay_bigots)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28How_can_pressure_be_put_on_Putin%2C_and_other_Russian_anti-gay_bigots%29

content:
<p>
How
can <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/18/billie-jean-king-sochi-olympics-russia-lgbt">pressure
be put on Putin, and other Russian anti-gay bigots?</a>


title: 2012 Olympics did nothing to spur exercise in England
uri: 2012-Olympics-did-nothing-to-spur-exercise-in-England
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(2012_Olympics_did_nothing_to_spur_exercise_in_England)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%282012_Olympics_did_nothing_to_spur_exercise_in_England%29

content:
<p>
Ultimately,
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/18/olympics-fail-create-healthier-active-health-survey-of-england">2012
Olympics did nothing to spur exercise in England.</a> Their legacy to
England consists
of <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#14_March_2012_(Olympic_Burden)">repressive
laws and benefits for the rich.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(ACLU_praises_Edward_Snowden)
title: ACLU praises Edward Snowden
uri: ACLU-praises-Edward-Snowden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28ACLU_praises_Edward_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/18">ACLU
praises Edward Snowden as an American patriot</a>, and refutes the
state's attacks on him.


title: Australian gov't will help businesses get away with illegal pollution
uri: Australian-gov-t-will-help-businesses-get-away-with-illegal-pollution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Australian_gov't_will_help_businesses_get_away_with_illegal_pollution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Australian_gov%27t_will_help_businesses_get_away_with_illegal_pollution%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/18/coalition-cuts-all-government-funding-to-environmental-legal-aid-centres">cease
funding the offices that advise people on protecting themselves from
polluting industries</a>. This is to help businesses get away with
illegal pollution.


title: Australia's Human Rights Commissioner proposes to abolish one kind of censorship
uri: Australia-s-Human-Rights-Commissioner-proposes-to-abolish-one-kind-of
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(Australia's_Human_Rights_Commissioner_proposes_to_abolish_one_kind_of_censorship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28Australia%27s_Human_Rights_Commissioner_proposes_to_abolish_one_kind_of_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Australia's Human Rights Commissioner proposes
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/18/human-rights-commissioner-calls-for-repeal-of-law-banning-offensive-speech">abolish
one kind of censorship, which penalizes some "offensive" views.</a>
<p>
This right-wing politician appears to have little real love for human
rights.  Nonetheless, Australia should abolish this censorship if it
has an opportunity.


title: UK gov't has rejected EU funds for food banks
uri: UK-gov-t-has-rejected-EU-funds-for-food-banks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(UK_gov't_has_rejected_EU_funds_for_food_banks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_has_rejected_EU_funds_for_food_banks%29

content:
<p>
The UK government
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/17/government-under-fire-eu-funding-food-banks">rejected
EU funds for food banks.</a>
<p>
After working so hard to make Britons so poor they cannot afford food,
why would the government let the EU help them escape?  That would
spoil everything!


title: People who get trafficked into the UK get prosecuted rather than helped
uri: People-who-get-trafficked-into-the-UK-get-prosecuted-rather-than-helpe
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(People_who_get_trafficked_into_the_UK_get_prosecuted_rather_than_helped)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28People_who_get_trafficked_into_the_UK_get_prosecuted_rather_than_helped%29

content:
<p>
People who get trafficked into the UK and then forced into growing
marijuana <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/20/trafficking-victims-forced-crime-let-down-police">get
prosecuted rather than helped.</a>
<p>
This particular problem is ultimately the state's fault, since the
right approach to growing marijuana is to legalize it.  However, that
would not eliminate the issue of trafficking; that needs to be
addressed by itself.


title: Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been pardoned
uri: Mikhail-Khodorkovsky-has-been-pardoned
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Mikhail_Khodorkovsky_has_been_pardoned)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Mikhail_Khodorkovsky_has_been_pardoned%29

content:
<p>
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, plutocrat turned political
prisoner, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/mikhail-khodorkovsky-freed-putin-pardon-russia">has
been pardoned.</a>


title: Civil courts can handle captured terrorists
uri: Civil-courts-can-handle-captured-terrorists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Civil_courts_can_handle_captured_terrorists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Civil_courts_can_handle_captured_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
The Warsame case shows
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/somali-terrorism-intelligence-us-officials">civil
courts can handle captured terrorists.</a>
<p>
The ACLU approves of his prosecution,
but <a href="https://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-supports-moving-terror-suspect-us-court-questions-unlawful-military-detention">criticizes
holding Warsame prisoner in a navy ship.</a>


title: Most Americans say it was a mistake to invade Afghanistan
uri: Most-Americans-say-it-was-a-mistake-to-invade-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Most_Americans_say_it_was_a_mistake_to_invade_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Most_Americans_say_it_was_a_mistake_to_invade_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
A poll finds most Americans say it was
a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/19-1">mistake
to invade Afghanistan and want US troops removed faster.</a>
<p>
I am not sure it was a mistake.  The results were good in the
beginning, and if Bush had not invaded Iraq, perhaps things would have
turned out well in Afghanistan.
<p>
However, things are totally screwed now in Afghanistan and the US is
not achieving much by keeping the fighting going.


title: Obama boasts about increasing extraction of fossil fuels
uri: Obama-boasts-about-increasing-extraction-of-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Obama_boasts_about_increasing_extraction_of_fossil_fuels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Obama_boasts_about_increasing_extraction_of_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obama-and-climate-change-the-real-story-20131217">Obama
boasts about increasing extraction of fossil fuels.</a>


title: Weak recommendations of Obama's review of NSA massive surveillance
uri: Weak-recommendations-of-Obama-s-review-of-NSA-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Weak_recommendations_of_Obama's_review_of_NSA_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Weak_recommendations_of_Obama%27s_review_of_NSA_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The
EFF <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/eff-statement-presidents-review-groups-nsa-report">criticizes
the weak recommendations of Obama's review of NSA massive
surveillance.v</a>
<p>
To make democracy safe, we must put an end to the massive accumulation
of data about Americans.


title: The idea of childhood has been swept away by fear
uri: The-idea-of-childhood-has-been-swept-away-by-fear
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(The_idea_of_childhood_has_been_swept_away_by_fear)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28The_idea_of_childhood_has_been_swept_away_by_fear%29

content:
<p>
"Zero tolerance"
means <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20730-the-end-of-childhood-in-the-era-of-the-emerging-american-police-state">the
idea of childhood has been swept away by fear.</a>
<p>
The first step toward obsessive fear was when parents started thinking
that children could never be left alone.  I remember how happy I was,
when I was 8 or so, during those periods when I was home and I could
read without being annoyed by my mother.
<p>
Meanwhile, no one freaked out about the fact that I, and the other
students in my school, walked to school and back on the sidewalks of
Manhattan.


title: UK agents were directed to help cover up US kidnapings and torture
uri: UK-agents-were-directed-to-help-cover-up-US-kidnapings-and-torture
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(UK_agents_were_directed_to_help_cover_up_US_kidnapings_and_torture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28UK_agents_were_directed_to_help_cover_up_US_kidnapings_and_torture%29

content:
<p>
The Gibson report says
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/dec/19/mi5-mi6-questions-torture-terrorism-rendition">UK
agents were directed to help cover up US kidnapings and torture.</a>


title: Islamists in Syria are practicing their usual cruelness
uri: Islamists-in-Syria-are-practicing-their-usual-cruelness
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Islamists_in_Syria_are_practicing_their_usual_cruelness)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Islamists_in_Syria_are_practicing_their_usual_cruelness%29

content:
<p>
The Islamists that have taken control of parts of Syria
are <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/syria-harrowing-torture-summary-killings-secret-isis-detention-centres-2013-12-19">practicing
their usual cruelness, flogging and executing adults and teenagers
after cursory "trials".</a>
<p>
I don't see any feasible way to dislodge them.


title: Engineer at the Big Spill was convicted
uri: Engineer-at-the-Big-Spill-was-convicted
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Engineer_at_the_Big_Spill_was_convicted)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Engineer_at_the_Big_Spill_was_convicted%29

content:
<p>
An engineer at the Big Spill
was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/business/former-bp-employee-found-guilty-in-gulf-spill-case.html">convicted
of obstruction of justice for deleting messages in which the spill
rate was estimated.</a>


title: Urgent: Reject the proposed Monsanto GMO seed factory
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-proposed-Monsanto-GMO-seed-factory
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Urgent:_Reject_the_proposed_Monsanto_GMO_seed_factory)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_proposed_Monsanto_GMO_seed_factory%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: urge Argentina
to <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_monsanto_in_argentina_global_/?bjlNcab&v=32825">reject
the proposed Monsanto GMO seed factory.</a>


title: Urgent: Increase Social Security and rebuke Republican hostage-taking
uri: Urgent-Increase-Social-Security-and-rebuke-Republican-hostage-taking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Urgent:_Increase_Social_Security_and_rebuke_Republican_hostage-taking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Increase_Social_Security_and_rebuke_Republican_hostage-taking%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/610">increasing Social
Security and rebuke Republican hostage-taking</a>.


title: Urgent: Cancel the review of the Keystone XL pipeline by ERM
uri: Urgent-Cancel-the-review-of-the-Keystone-XL-pipeline-by-ERM
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Urgent:_Cancel_the_review_of_the_Keystone_XL_pipeline_by_ERM)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Cancel_the_review_of_the_Keystone_XL_pipeline_by_ERM%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Kerry
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/erm_conflict?referring_akid=a1">cancel
the review of the Keystone XL pipeline by ERM</a>, which has been
found in even more conflict of interest.


title: High speed trains in Europe are expensive
uri: High-speed-trains-in-Europe-are-expensive
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(High_speed_trains_in_Europe_are_expensive)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28High_speed_trains_in_Europe_are_expensive%29

content:
<p>
High speed trains in Europe are so expensive that, for long distances,
<a href="http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/12/high-speed-trains-are-killing-the-european-railway-network.html">they
push most travelers to flying.</a>
<p>
I general prefer to travel by train if it is feasible, partly because
I don't have to identify myself, and also partly because, with my
luggage, "low-cost" airlines are not cheap.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(The_C+%3D_language_project)
title: The C+= language project
uri: The-C-language-project
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28The_C%2B%253D_language_project%29

content:
<p>
The C+= language project, a funny parody of the form of speech of some
feminists,
is <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/14/1618239/github-takes-down-satirical-c-plus-equality-language">getting
kicked off various web platforms in an act of political
censorship.</a>
<p>
Later I was told that BitBucket had deleted it too.
<p>
Equal rights and equal pay, regardless of gender, are causes I
support.
I've <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#12 September 2010 (Kyriarchy)">condemned patriarchy</a>
and <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/castellano-sin-genero.html">proposed
a way to make Spanish gender-neutral.</a>
<p>
I also support satire, <a href="http://stallman.org/saint.html">even
satire of causes I support.</a>
<p>
I will not support censorship.


title: Trashing human rights in Australia
uri: Trashing-human-rights-in-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Trashing_human_rights_in_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Trashing_human_rights_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Trashing human rights
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/19/whos-less-free-andrew-bolt-or-children-in-detention">everyday
practice in Australia.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on bankers to give bonuses to people they made homeless
uri: Urgent-Call-on-bankers-to-give-bonuses-to-people-they-made-homeless
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_bankers_to_give_bonuses_to_people_they_made_homeless)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_bankers_to_give_bonuses_to_people_they_made_homeless%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on banksters
to <a href="http://other98.com/wall-street-give-your-bonuses-to-the-people-you-made-homeless/">give
their holiday bonuses to the people they made homeless.</a>


title: The world may be hitting Peak Food
uri: The-world-may-be-hitting-Peak-Food
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(The_world_may_be_hitting_Peak_Food)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28The_world_may_be_hitting_Peak_Food%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/dec/19/industrial-agriculture-limits-peak-food">The
world may be hitting Peak Food.</a>
<p>
The human
race <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/children.html">needs to hit
Peak Population soon, or we're asking for trouble.</a>


title: Why Taser Is Paying Millions in Secret 'Suspect Injury Or Death' Settlements
uri: Why-Taser-Is-Paying-Millions-in-Secret-Suspect-Injury-Or-Death-Settl
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Why_Taser_Is_Paying_Millions_in_Secret_'Suspect_Injury_Or_Death'_Settlements)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Why_Taser_Is_Paying_Millions_in_Secret_%27Suspect_Injury_Or_Death%27_Settlements%29

content:
<p>
Why Taser
Is <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/13/5207534/why-taser-is-paying-millions-in-secret-suspect-injury-or-death">Paying
Millions in Secret 'Suspect Injury Or Death' Settlements.</a>  When
Does "Less Lethal" Actually Mean "Deadly"?
<p>
Being tased is surely less dangerous than being hit with a bullet.  If
we think of tasing as a substitute for shooting, tasing probably
results in less harm.  But if tasers encourage people to shoot, on the
basis that they are safe, tasers could result in more harm.


title: Law to criminalize suggesting that public employees go on strike
uri: Law-to-criminalize-suggesting-that-public-employees-go-on-strike
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Law_to_criminalize_suggesting_that_public_employees_go_on_strike)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Law_to_criminalize_suggesting_that_public_employees_go_on_strike%29

content:
<p>
Alberta is considering a law
to <a href="http://www.ifex.org/canada/2013/12/19/gag_law_threatens/">criminalize
suggesting that public employees go on strike.</a>


title: South Korea bans all publications from North Korea
uri: South-Korea-bans-all-publications-from-North-Korea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(South_Korea_bans_all_publications_from_North_Korea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28South_Korea_bans_all_publications_from_North_Korea%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/12/north-korea-deleting-history/">South
Korea bans all publications from North Korea</a>, and even access to a
site that analyzes North Korea's internet presence.  (See last
paragraph.)


title: Bill that is supposed to regulate lobbying in the UK
uri: Bill-that-is-supposed-to-regulate-lobbying-in-the-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Bill_that_is_supposed_to_regulate_lobbying_in_the_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Bill_that_is_supposed_to_regulate_lobbying_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
A bill that is supposed to regulate lobbying in the
UK <a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/12/gagging-bill-latest-bleak-midwinter-britains-democracy/">will
tie up citizens' campaigns in red tape.</a>
<p>
I suspect the problem is due to not distinguishing business funding
from other funding.


title: Edward Felten analyzes strained language that Obama's NSA report uses
uri: Edward-Felten-analyzes-strained-language-that-Obama-s-NSA-report-uses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Edward_Felten_analyzes_strained_language_that_Obama's_NSA_report_uses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Edward_Felten_analyzes_strained_language_that_Obama%27s_NSA_report_uses%29

content:
<p>
Edward Felten analyzes the strained language that Obama's NSA report
uses <a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/software-backdoors-and-the-white-house-nsa-panel-report/">to
give the impression that the NSA has not put back doors into software
people use.</a>  If the statements are literally true, they are full
of loopholes.
<p>
They might also be false.  If the NSA officials will lie to Congress,
why wouldn't they lie to us?


title: The FBI also snoops on Americans unjustly
uri: The-FBI-also-snoops-on-Americans-unjustly
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(The_FBI_also_snoops_on_Americans_unjustly)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28The_FBI_also_snoops_on_Americans_unjustly%29

content:
<p>
It's not just the
NSA: <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20670-beyond-the-nsa-other-agencies-spy-on-you-too">the
FBI also snoops on Americans unjustly.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on Obama to grant Snowden immunity
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Obama-to-grant-Snowden-immunity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Obama_to_grant_Snowden_immunity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Obama_to_grant_Snowden_immunity%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/grant_snowden_immunity">call on
Obama</a> to grant Snowden immunity.


title: Volcker Rule Made Meaningless by Abundant Exemptions
uri: Volcker-Rule-Made-Meaningless-by-Abundant-Exemptions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Volcker_Rule_Made_Meaningless_by_Abundant_Exemptions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Volcker_Rule_Made_Meaningless_by_Abundant_Exemptions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/19-2x">Volcker Rule
Made Meaningless by Abundant Exemptions</a>.


title: The political dominance of business in Asia
uri: The-political-dominance-of-business-in-Asia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(The_political_dominance_of_business_in_Asia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28The_political_dominance_of_business_in_Asia%29

content:
<p>
Three different disasters in Asia come from the same cause: the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/2013-disasters-asia-typhoon-haiyan-rana-plaza">political
dominance of business</a>.
<p>
To change this, we should abolish the institutions such as the WTO
that cement their power.


title: UK gov't won't allow investigation of Alexander Litvinenko's death
uri: UK-gov-t-won-t-allow-investigation-of-Alexander-Litvinenko-s-death
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(UK_govt_wont_allow_investigation_of_Alexander_Litvinenkos_death)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28UK_govt_wont_allow_investigation_of_Alexander_Litvinenkos_death%29

content:
<p>
The coroner in charge of investigating the death of Alexander
Litvinenko says that the government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/alexander-litvinenko-coroner-russian-involvement-death-polonium">won't
allow him to investigate properly</a> whether Russian agents murdered
Litvinenko.
<p>
If someone were accused of the murder, that person would deserve a
fair trial, being considered innocent until proven guilty.  However,
for these political purposes, we can presume the Russian state is
guilty.


title: Prostitutes in China sentenced to labor camps, used for profit
uri: Prostitutes-in-China-sentenced-to-labor-camps-used-for-profit
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Prostitutes_in_China_sentenced_to_labor_camps_used_for_profit)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Prostitutes_in_China_sentenced_to_labor_camps_used_for_profit%29

content:
<p>
In China, prostitutes are sentenced to labor camps that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/china-sex-workers-pay-incarceration">use
them for profit</a>.


title: US official says US officials lie all the time
uri: US-official-says-US-officials-lie-all-the-time
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(US_official_says_US_officials_lie_all_the_time)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28US_official_says_US_officials_lie_all_the_time%29

content:
<p>
A US official in Vietnam 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/19-3">told
journalists not to believe anything US officials say</a>, because they
lie all the time.


title: Catholic hospitals' claim that they serve the poor
uri: Catholic-hospitals-claim-that-they-serve-the-poor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Catholic_hospitals_claim_that_they_serve_the_poor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Catholic_hospitals_claim_that_they_serve_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
Catholic hospitals in the US try to excuse their contempt for women's
rights by claiming that they serve the poor.  
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/catholic-hospitals-arent-doing-much-poor">Not
very true nowadays</a>.


title: Maoist dissidents killing perpetrators of pogrom against Dalits
uri: Maoist-dissidents-killing-perpetrators-of-pogrom-against-Dalits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Maoist_dissidents_killing_perpetrators_of_pogrom_against_Dalits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Maoist_dissidents_killing_perpetrators_of_pogrom_against_Dalits%29

content:
<p>
The Indian state has not punished the perpetrators of a pogrom against
Dalits, so the Maoist dissidents are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/bihar-caste-war-maoist-india">killing
them</a>.
<p>
Buddhism in India, by Gail Omvedt, argues that Dalits are the
descendants of India's Buddhists, from the time when the nobles
suppressed Buddhism.


title: Aborted inquiry into UK rendition of Libyan dissidents
uri: Aborted-inquiry-into-UK-rendition-of-Libyan-dissidents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Aborted_inquiry_into_UK_rendition_of_Libyan_dissidents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Aborted_inquiry_into_UK_rendition_of_Libyan_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/rendition-inquiry-questions-uk-involvement-unanswered">aborted
inquiry</a> into UK rendition of Libyan dissidents to Gaddafi's hands
says there is a case to be investigated.


title: Italy to shut or block access to sites without trial
uri: Italy-to-shut-or-block-access-to-sites-without-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Italy_to_shut_or_block_access_to_sites_without_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Italy_to_shut_or_block_access_to_sites_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
Italy will 
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/italys-site-blocking-law-comes-into-effect-a-threat-to-pirate-bay-or-a-curse-on-online-freedom-7000024394/">shut
or block access to sites without trial</a> if they are accused of
facilitating sharing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(The_unemployment_rate)
title: The "unemployment rate"
uri: The-unemployment-rate
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28The_unemployment_rate%29
content:
<p>
Republicans' method for reducing the unemployment rate is to cut
unemployment benefits.  In North Carolina, this made 77,000 people
give up looking for work, so they are not longer counted in the
"<a href='http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-17/north-carolina-shows-how-to-crush-the-unemployed.html'>unemployment
rate</a>".
<p>
It is a mistake to judge the success or failure of government policies
by the official unemployment rate.  The real measure of unemployment
is number of people who are of working age but not working or in
school, and not independently wealthy.


title: Israeli troops shoot Palestinian in the back
uri: Israeli-troops-shoot-Palestinian-in-the-back
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Israeli_troops_shoot_Palestinian_in_the_back)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Israeli_troops_shoot_Palestinian_in_the_back%29

content:
<p>
Israeli troops 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/palestinian-killed-by-israeli-troops-west-bank">shot
a Palestinian in the back</a>, but said he was shooting at them.


title: Cows in the US fed litter from chicken cages
uri: Cows-in-the-US-fed-litter-from-chicken-cages
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Cows_in_the_US_fed_litter_from_chicken_cages)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Cows_in_the_US_fed_litter_from_chicken_cages%29

content:
<p>
Cows in the US are fed litter from chicken cages, and that 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/we-feed-cows-chicken-poop">includes
beef</a>.
<p>
This creates a danger of spreading mad cow disease.


title: The Environmental Defenders Office in Australia
uri: The-Environmental-Defenders-Office-in-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(The_Environmental_Defenders_Office_in_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28The_Environmental_Defenders_Office_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
One of the missions of the Environmental Defenders Office in Australia
is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/dec/19/environmental-defenders-office-defunded-potoroo">make
governments implement legal requirements to protect endangered
species</a>.
<p>
Officials, perhaps in bed with mining or logging interests, seem to
wish to let these species be wiped out.


title: China to require journalists to take ideology exam
uri: China-to-require-journalists-to-take-ideology-exam
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(China_to_require_journalists_to_take_ideology_exam)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28China_to_require_journalists_to_take_ideology_exam%29

content:
<p>
China will require journalists to take an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/chinese-journalists-ideology-exam-media">ideology
exam</a>.


title: UK gov't gives up pursuing large companies for dodged taxes
uri: UK-gov-t-gives-up-pursuing-large-companies-for-dodged-taxes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(UK_govt_gives_up_pursuing_large_companies_for_dodged_taxes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28UK_govt_gives_up_pursuing_large_companies_for_dodged_taxes%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has given up on pursuing large companies for around
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/dec/19/hmrc-lost-nerve-tax-avoiders-mps">60
billion dollars</a> in dodged taxes.


title: $600,000 fine for distributing movie through torrent site
uri: 600-000-fine-for-distributing-movie-through-torrent-site
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(600000_fine_for_distributing_movie_through_torrent_site)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28600000_fine_for_distributing_movie_through_torrent_site%29

content:
<p>
A Swedish man was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/18/bittorrent-pirate-sweden-martin-beck-swebit">fined
$600,000</a> for distributing a movie through a torrent site.
<p>
The copyright industry wants to imprison people for this.  It is part
of the War on Sharing, which we must put an end to.


title: Most Americans want gov't to reduce economic inequality
uri: Most-Americans-want-gov-t-to-reduce-economic-inequality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Most_Americans_want_govt_to_reduce_economic_inequality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Most_Americans_want_govt_to_reduce_economic_inequality%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/18-8">Most
Americans</a> want the government to reduce economic inequality.
<p>
Though the plutocrats have failed to convince most Americans, they
still have other strategies to prevent Americans from exercising
control over the state.


title: Spain's right-wing gov't plans to ban abortions
uri: Spain-s-right-wing-gov-t-plans-to-ban-abortions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Spains_right-wing_govt_plans_to_ban_abortions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Spains_right-wing_govt_plans_to_ban_abortions%29

content:
<p>
Spain's right-wing government will vary its attacks on the non-rich to
attack women instead, by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/18/spain-reform-abortion-fury">banning
abortion with very limited exceptions</a>.


title: Senator Warren's push to increase Social Security
uri: Senator-Warren-s-push-to-increase-Social-Security
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 20_December_2013_(Senator_Warrens_push_to_increase_Social_Security)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#20_December_2013_%28Senator_Warrens_push_to_increase_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
Senator Warren's 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-dc-corporate-establishments-carefully-laid-plans-destroy-social-security-was-badly?paging=off">push
to increase Social Security</a> seems to have made it politically
impossible to cut Social Security.
<p>
This was very important, but we also need to increase government
revenue by increasing taxes on the rich and on businesses.  Also,
while we are in a recession, we need deficit spending.


title: TAFTA threatens to give businesses increased power
uri: TAFTA-threatens-to-give-businesses-increased-power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 19_December_2013_(TAFTA_threatens_to_give_businesses_increased_power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#19_December_2013_%28TAFTA_threatens_to_give_businesses_increased_power%29

content:
<p>
TAFTA, the proposed business deregulation treaty for the US and
Europe, threatens to give many businesses 
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/12/the-top-10-threats-of-the-trans-atlantic-trade-deal-to-us-consumers.html">increased
power</a>.  For instance, it could blow away the just-established 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_December_2013_%28The_Volcker_rule%29">Volcker 
Rule</a>, ban
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#21_November_2012_(Urgent:_Boycott_foods_from_companies_that_opposed_GMO_labelling)">labeling 
of GMOs</a>, make medicines more expensive, and stop countries from
protecting data from spying by other countries.
<p>
TAFTA stands for "Turn All Freedom To Ashes".


title: NSA paid RSA Inc. to make the NSA's ineffective key generator the default option
uri: NSA-paid-RSA-Inc-to-make-the-NSA-s-ineffective-key-generator-the-defa
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(NSA_paid_RSA_Inc._to_make_the_NSA's_ineffective_key_generator_the_default_option)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28NSA_paid_RSA_Inc._to_make_the_NSA%27s_ineffective_key_generator_the_default_option%29

content:
<p>
A Snowden document says that
the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220">NSA
paid RSA Inc. to make the NSA's ineffective key generator the default
option.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/nsa-internet-security-rsa-secret-10m-encryption">More
information.</a>
<p>
If the program is not free, its users are defenseless against malice
at all sorts of levels.


title: What US TV said when the US bombed a wedding party in Yemen
uri: What-US-TV-said-when-the-US-bombed-a-wedding-party-in-Yemen
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(What_US_TV_said_when_the_US_bombed_a_wedding_party_in_Yemen)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28What_US_TV_said_when_the_US_bombed_a_wedding_party_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
Imagine what TV would say if someone bombed a wedding party in the US;
now contrast that with
what <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/12/17/a-wedding-was-bombed-dont-worry-it-was-by-the-us-not-in-the-us/">US
TV said when the US bombed a wedding party in Yemen.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/wedding-guest-drone-strike-deaths">A
Murdoch paper made a joke out of it.</a>


title: Israel puts African refugees in a sort of prison
uri: Israel-puts-African-refugees-in-a-sort-of-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Israel_puts_African_refugees_in_a_sort_of_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Israel_puts_African_refugees_in_a_sort_of_prison%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Israel
puts <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1387543378/">African
refugees in a sort of prison which it pretends is not a prison.</a>
<p>
It reminds him of how other countries treated Jewish refugees trying
to flee from Nazism.
<p>
In the long term, the way to end mass migration for economic motives
is to end the wealth-concentrating policies that keep most people
poor.


title: .9 billion to organizations campaigning to continue global heating
uri: 9-billion-to-organizations-campaigning-to-continue-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(.9_billion_to_organizations_campaigning_to_continue_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28.9_billion_to_organizations_campaigning_to_continue_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Organizations campaigning to continue global
heating <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/conservative-groups-1bn-against-climate-change">received
.9 billion dollars a year in funding over the past 8 years.</a>
<p>
Not all of that money was used to promote global heating; it is not
possible in some cases to separate out what was spent on that and what
was spent on other right-wing causes.


title: Americans whose health insurance plans were canceled will not be fined if they don't get new plans
uri: Americans-whose-health-insurance-plans-were-canceled-will-not-be-fined
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Americans_whose_health_insurance_plans_were_canceled_will_not_be_fined_if_they_don't_get_new_plans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Americans_whose_health_insurance_plans_were_canceled_will_not_be_fined_if_they_don%27t_get_new_plans%29

content:
<p>
Americans whose health insurance plans were recently
canceled <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/obamacare-change-no-fine-health-insurance">will
not be fined if they don't get new plans.</a>
<p>
Obama's health care plan is, overall, a step forward, and this
flexibility is welcome.  But it does cost some people substantial
money because it was designed
to <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#17_July_2011_($200,000,000,000_Windfall)">cater
to the insurance companies </a> and
the <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2009-may-aug.html#05 July 2009 (Pharma's phony 'gift' to Health Care Reform)">drug
companies.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(US_economy_is_not_back_on_track)
title: US economy is not "back on track"
uri: US-economy-is-not-back-on-track
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28US_economy_is_not_back_on_track%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/20-0">US
economy is not "back on track" to give most Americans a decent
life.</a>


title: NSA and GCHQ spied on Unicef and Médecins du Monde
uri: NSA-and-GCHQ-spied-on-Unicef-and-Médecins-du-Monde
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(NSA_and_GCHQ_spied_on_Unicef_and_Medecins_du_Monde)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28NSA_and_GCHQ_spied_on_Unicef_and_Medecins_du_Monde%29

content:
<p>
The NSA and
GCHQ <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/20/gchq-targeted-aid-agencies-german-government-eu-commissioner">spied
on Unicef and Médecins du Monde,</a> in addition to European
officials.


title: Oil and highways mean destroying the forest after poisoning the people
uri: Oil-and-highways-mean-destroying-the-forest-after-poisoning-the-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Oil_and_highways_mean_destroying_the_forest_after_poisoning_the_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Oil_and_highways_mean_destroying_the_forest_after_poisoning_the_people%29

content:
<p>
In the Colombian Amazon, oil and highways
mean <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/dec/20/amazon-dams-roads-threat-rainforest-indigenous">destroying
the forest after poisoning the people</a>.
<p>
The Nukak people lived in the forest by
themselves, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2013/dec/20/nuvak-amazon-colombia-niall-ferguson">until
their forest was cut down for coca plantations.</a>


title: UK judge quashed Libyan dissident Belhaj's lawsuit
uri: UK-judge-quashed-Libyan-dissident-Belhaj-s-lawsuit
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(UK_judge_quashed_Libyan_dissident_Belhaj's_lawsuit)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28UK_judge_quashed_Libyan_dissident_Belhaj%27s_lawsuit%29

content:
<p>
A UK
judge <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/libyan-rendition-claim-uk-interests">quashed
Libyan dissident Belhaj's lawsuit</a>, saying that the he had a valid
case against the UK for handing him to Gaddafi's men, but that this
was unimportant compared with sucking up to the US.


title: A former prosecutor couldn't get NYC thugs to arrest him
uri: A-former-prosecutor-couldn-t-get-NYC-thugs-to-arrest-him
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(A_former_prosecutor_couldn't_get_NYC_thugs_to_arrest_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28A_former_prosecutor_couldn%27t_get_NYC_thugs_to_arrest_him%29

content:
<p>
A former prosecutor found
that <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/i-got-myself-arrested-so-i-could-look-inside-the-justice-system/282360/">he
couldn't get NYC thugs to arrest him for minor crimes, apparently
because he's white</a>.  They just ignored his crimes.
<p>
Once he finally got himself arrested, for spray-painting on city hall,
the prosecutors demanded outrageous and unusual punishments, even
violating standard penal policies, apparently out of pure spite.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Tax_meat)
title: Tax meat
uri: Tax-meat
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Tax_meat%29
content:
<p>
Tax meat
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/tax-meat-cut-methane-emissions-scientists">discourage
its global heating contribution.</a>
<p>
Most Americans would live longer if they ate less meat.


title: Urgent: Do not build a coal port near the Great Barrier Reef
uri: Urgent-Do-not-build-a-coal-port-near-the-Great-Barrier-Reef
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Urgent:_Do_not_build_a_coal_port_near_the_Great_Barrier_Reef)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_build_a_coal_port_near_the_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Lend
Lease <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/barrier-reef-lendlease/">not
to build a coal port near the Great Barrier Reef.</a>


title: Jesus & Mo t-shirts do not have to be censored
uri: Jesus-Mo-t-shirts-do-not-have-to-be-censored
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Jesus_%26_Mo_t-shirts_do_not_have_to_be_censored)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Jesus_%2526_Mo_t-shirts_do_not_have_to_be_censored%29

content:
<p>
The London School of Economics has concluded
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/20/lse-university-apology-students-atheism-tshirt-religion-jesus-muhammad
">Jesus & Mo t-shirts do not have to be censored.</a>
<p>
UK law goes too far in prohibiting expressions of opinion.  If it is
even plausible that pictures of Mohammad are illegal on the grounds
that someone might take offense, freedom of speech is too weak.


title: New York City residents are hurt by Obama's health care program
uri: New-York-City-residents-are-hurt-by-Obama-s-health-care-program
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(New_York_City_residents_are_hurt_by_Obama's_health_care_program)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28New_York_City_residents_are_hurt_by_Obama%27s_health_care_program%29

content:
<p>
New York City residents
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/20/affordable-care-act-healthcare-not-affordable">paradoxically
hurt by Obama's health care program because they have a much better
program available from the city.</a>


title: Some Republicans asked for investigating Clapper for lying to Congress
uri: Some-Republicans-asked-for-investigating-Clapper-for-lying-to-Congress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Some_Republicans_asked_for_investigating_Clapper_for_lying_to_Congress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Some_Republicans_asked_for_investigating_Clapper_for_lying_to_Congress%29

content:
<p>
Some Republicans in the House of
Representatives <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/republicans-consequences-james-clapper-testimony">asked
for investigating Clapper for lying to Congress.</a>
<p>
I support this call.  He deserves to go to jail.


title: Democratic Senators looking for a way to block diplomacy with Iran
uri: Democratic-Senators-looking-for-a-way-to-block-diplomacy-with-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Democratic_Senators_looking_for_a_way_to_block_diplomacy_with_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Democratic_Senators_looking_for_a_way_to_block_diplomacy_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
Democratic Senators are
again <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/iran-nuclear-deal-senate-sanctions-bill">looking
for a way to block diplomacy with Iran.</a>


title: Uganda adopted law punishing homosexuality with life imprisonment
uri: Uganda-adopted-law-punishing-homosexuality-with-life-imprisonment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Uganda_adopted_law_punishing_homosexuality_with_life_imprisonment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Uganda_adopted_law_punishing_homosexuality_with_life_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Uganda has adopted a
law <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/uganda-anti-gay-law-life-imprisonment">punishing
homosexuality with life imprisonment.</a>
<p>
Like many other unjust laws and policies, this one is supposedly "to
protect children".


title: Atrocious conditions refugees are subject to
uri: Atrocious-conditions-refugees-are-subject-to
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Atrocious_conditions_refugees_are_subject_to)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Atrocious_conditions_refugees_are_subject_to%29

content:
<p>
Doctors sent by Australia to treat the imprisoned refugees on
Christmas Island describe
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/revealed-doctors-outrage-over-unsafe-refugee-patients">atrocious
conditions the refugees are subject to.</a>


title: West must not ignore message that its wars stir up hatred
uri: West-must-not-ignore-message-that-its-wars-stir-up-hatred
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(West_must_not_ignore_message_that_its_wars_stir_up_hatred)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28West_must_not_ignore_message_that_its_wars_stir_up_hatred%29

content:
<p>
The West must not ignore the repeated messages
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/20/woolwich-attack-muslim-world-islamophobia">its
wars stir up hatred</a>.
<p>
There are two ways to consider terrorist attacks such as those in New
York in 2001 and in London in 2005: as crimes or as war.
<p>
To consider them as crimes means responding by hunting and prosecuting
the perpetrators — not by launching wars.  If we view the issue
in terms of crime, the attack on Rigby was a crime too and prosecuting
its perpetrators was legitimate.  However, invading Iraq was not
legitimate and we have a duty to prosecute those responsible.
<p>
On the other hand, if we consider those terrorist attacks as war and
say they justify war in response, the enemy can say the same.  Viewed
as war, the killing of Rigby was an attack by a guerrilla force on a
military target.  The US has committed plenty of war crimes, and so
have the Taliban and its supporters, but attacking Rigby wasn't one.
<p>
We can't have it both ways.


title: South Sudan is being torn apart by tribalism
uri: South-Sudan-is-being-torn-apart-by-tribalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(South_Sudan_is_being_torn_apart_by_tribalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28South_Sudan_is_being_torn_apart_by_tribalism%29

content:
<p>
South Sudan is
being <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/south-sudan-violence-precipice-barack-obama">torn
apart by tribalism.</a>


title: Mother writes about joining anti-fracking protest
uri: Mother-writes-about-joining-anti-fracking-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Mother_writes_about_joining_anti-fracking_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Mother_writes_about_joining_anti-fracking_protest%29

content:
<p>
A mother writes about joining an anti-fracking protest because of the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/dec/21/radical-mum-well-sort-of-fracking">threat
to her children's lives from future global heating</a>.
<p>
If you are a young person today, there is considerable danger you will
be killed by global heating — not soon, of course, but when it
reaches the point where millions are starving, and fighting over food,
globalized supply chains could break down, which would make a lot of
technology and industry stop working world-wide.
<p>
We can't predict what <em>will</em> happen, as there are too many
imponderables.  Maybe some lucky surprise will avert the disaster, but
do you want to bet your life on that?  If we are to avoid it, we have
to curb the greenhouse gas emission now.


title: Belgium requires ISPs to find and censor Pirate Bay mirrors
uri: Belgium-requires-ISPs-to-find-and-censor-Pirate-Bay-mirrors
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Belgium_requires_ISPs_to_find_and_censor_Pirate_Bay_mirrors)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Belgium_requires_ISPs_to_find_and_censor_Pirate_Bay_mirrors%29

content:
<p>
Belgium requires ISPs to 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-isps-to-police-the-internet-for-pirate-bay-proxies-131120/">actively
seek out mirrors</a> of the Pirate Bay and censor access to them.
<p>
In other words, it is copyright uber alles.


title: Iraqis believe gov't responsible for violence attributed to al Qa'ida
uri: Iraqis-believe-gov-t-responsible-for-violence-attributed-to-al-Qa-ida
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Iraqis_believe_govt_responsible_for_violence_attributed_to_al_Qaida)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Iraqis_believe_govt_responsible_for_violence_attributed_to_al_Qaida%29

content:
<p>
Iraqis believe that their government, set up by the US, is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/01/no-more-arms-to-iraq-obama-nouri-al-maliki">responsible
for a lot of the violence that the government attributes to al
Qa'ida</a>.


title: Internet giants' opposition to surveillance
uri: Internet-giants-opposition-to-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Internet_giants'_opposition_to_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Internet_giants%27_opposition_to_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/17-6">The Internet
Giants Oppose Surveillance— But Only When the Government Does
It</a>.


title: FCC doesn't bother making TV stations say who pays for ads
uri: FCC-doesn-t-bother-making-TV-stations-say-who-pays-for-ads
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(FCC_doesnt_bother_making_TV_stations_say_who_pays_for_ads)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28FCC_doesnt_bother_making_TV_stations_say_who_pays_for_ads%29

content:
<p>
The FCC could
make TV stations say who pays for the ads but it 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/fcc-broadcast-ad-disclosure-dark-money">doesn't 
bother</a>.


title: UK gov't kills all followup for Gibson report
uri: UK-gov-t-kills-all-followup-for-Gibson-report
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(UK_govt_kills_all_followup_for_Gibson_report)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28UK_govt_kills_all_followup_for_Gibson_report%29

content:
<p>
Although the UK government has effectively 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/20/peter-gibson-inquiry-torture-interrogation">killed
all followup</a> for the Gibson report, the report is enough to prove
plenty of wrongdoing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(20_years_of_NAFTA)
title: 20 years of NAFTA
uri: 20-years-of-NAFTA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%2820_years_of_NAFTA%29
content:
<p>
20 years of NAFTA shows the 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/nafta-twenty-years">harm
that "free trade" treaties do</a>.
<p>
The plutocrats are not satisfied; they want even more.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(The_NDAA)
title: The NDAA
uri: The-NDAA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28The_NDAA%29
content:
<p>
This year's NDAA makes progress on two issues: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/congress-passes-ndaa-defense-budget-sexual-assault-reform">prosecution
of rapists in the military, and releasing prisoners from
Guantanamo</a>.
<p>
Can anyone find out what has happened with the most un-American part
of the NDAA, the provision that allows the military to imprison anyone
without trial if the person is accused of being a "terrorist"?


title: Netanyahu's "security concerns" obsolete and irrelevant
uri: Netanyahu-s-security-concerns-obsolete-and-irrelevant
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Netanyahus_security_concerns_obsolete_and_irrelevant)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Netanyahus_security_concerns_obsolete_and_irrelevant%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Netanyahu's "security concerns" about the Jordan valley
are 
<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37095.htm">obsolete
and militarily irrelevant</a>; their only purpose is to provide an
excuse not to make peace.
<p>
If Kerry could satisfy Netanyahu on this issue, Netanyahu
would fall back on the next excuse.


title: Restrictions on prostitution ruled unconstitutional in Canada
uri: Restrictions-on-prostitution-ruled-unconstitutional-in-Canada
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Restrictions_on_prostitution_ruled_unconstitutional_in_Canada)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Restrictions_on_prostitution_ruled_unconstitutional_in_Canada%29

content:
<p>
Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that restrictions on prostitution are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/prostitute-supreme-court-canada-restrictions">unconstitutional</a>.


title: Israeli soldiers demolish Palestinians shacks during blizzard
uri: Israeli-soldiers-demolish-Palestinians-shacks-during-blizzard
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Israeli_soldiers_demolish_Palestinians_shacks_during_blizzard)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Israeli_soldiers_demolish_Palestinians_shacks_during_blizzard%29

content:
<p>
In the midst of a blizzard, Israeli soldiers are 
<a href="http://972mag.com/during-worst-winter-storm-in-years-idf-razes-palestinian-homes/83628/">demolishing
the shacks and tents</a> Palestinians live in.


title: Donkey carts used in Gaza due to lack of fuel
uri: Donkey-carts-used-in-Gaza-due-to-lack-of-fuel
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Donkey_carts_used_in_Gaza_due_to_lack_of_fuel)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Donkey_carts_used_in_Gaza_due_to_lack_of_fuel%29

content:
<p>
In Gaza, donkey carts are used to pick up rubbish, because there is 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=62338">no fuel</a>
for garbage trucks, or even for pumping water.


title: Israeli soldiers shackle Palestinian children
uri: Israeli-soldiers-shackle-Palestinian-children
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(Israeli_soldiers_shackle_Palestinian_children)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28Israeli_soldiers_shackle_Palestinian_children%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers 
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/demonstrations/20131203_minors_detained_in_kafr_qadum">shackled
Palestinian children aged 6 to 9</a> who were playing with burning
tires and asbestos.
<p>
Burning tires makes fumes, and I suspect breathing them is not good
for children.  Asbestos is quite toxic.  However, that was no reason
to shackle the children.


title: No Australian coast guard vessel sent to monitor whaling fleet
uri: No-Australian-coast-guard-vessel-sent-to-monitor-whaling-fleet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(No_Australian_coast_guard_vessel_sent_to_monitor_whaling_fleet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28No_Australian_coast_guard_vessel_sent_to_monitor_whaling_fleet%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/greg-hunt-misses-deadline-to-monitor-japanese-whaling">disregarded
its previous commitment</a> to send a coast guard vessel to monitor
the Japanese whaling fleet.


title: The commercial version of Christmas
uri: The-commercial-version-of-Christmas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 21_December_2013_(The_commercial_version_of_Christmas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#21_December_2013_%28The_commercial_version_of_Christmas%29

content:
<p>
Christian extremists say that secularists are fighting a "war on
Christmas", but the real War on Christmas is the one 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/20/war-on-christmas-material-culture">waged
by business</a>.
<p>
Speaking as a secularist, I am not fighting a war on Christmas.  I
have no conflict with what Christians do for Christmas, as long as
they don't try to get the government to promote their religion above
my nonreligion.
<p>

What I strongly resent is the commercial version of Christmas, which
blares out at me in every store.


title: Surveillance cameras with audio recording on buses & trains
uri: Surveillance-cameras-with-audio-recording-on-buses-trains
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Surveillance_cameras_with_audio_recording_on_buses_and_trains)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Surveillance_cameras_with_audio_recording_on_buses_and_trains%29

content:
<p>
Surveillance cameras which record audio are being put on 
<a href="http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2012/12/surveillance-cameras-which-record-audio.html">buses
& trains</a>.
<p>
The TSA is 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/on-buses-cameras-are-watching-and-listening/2012/12/02/65f234f2-1a28-11e2-aa6f-3b636fecb829_story.html">funding</a>
this.
<p>
Here are the 
<a href="http://www.vehiclevideocameras.com/mobile-video-applications/paratransit-surveillance.html">specs</a>
on some bus camera and microphone systems.
<p>
There is no possible excuse for microphones in buses.  The arguments
in favor are arguments for listening to everyone everywhere.
<p>
It's not just the NSA.  These systems must be removed and banned.


title: States with more guns have higher murder rates
uri: States-with-more-guns-have-higher-murder-rates
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(States_with_more_guns_have_higher_murder_rates)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28States_with_more_guns_have_higher_murder_rates%29

content:
<p>
A study found that 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/13/2617131/largest-gun-study-guns-murder/">states
with more guns have higher murder rates</a>, and the two rates vary
together over time.


title: Obama's review of the NSA insufficient
uri: Obama-s-review-of-the-NSA-insufficient
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Obamas_review_of_the_NSA_insufficient)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Obamas_review_of_the_NSA_insufficient%29

content:
<p>
Obama's review of the NSA called for 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/10-things-you-should-know-about-nsa-recommendations">substantial
changes</a>.
<p>
However, they involved limiting government access to dossiers,
not limiting the accumulation of dossiers, and
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">this
can't be sufficient</a>.


title: Chinese communist party desperately tries reform and censorship
uri: Chinese-communist-party-desperately-tries-reform-and-censorship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Chinese_communist_party_desperately_tries_reform_and_censorship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Chinese_communist_party_desperately_tries_reform_and_censorship%29

content:
<p>
The Chinese communist party desperately tries 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/22/china-journalism-suppression-of-truth">reform
and censorship</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Domestic_violence_in_England)
title: Domestic violence in England
uri: Domestic-violence-in-England
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Domestic_violence_in_England%29
content:
<p>
A study in which researchers interviewed people at home found that the
rate of domestic violence in England is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/22/domestic-abuse-half-million-victims">substantially
more than was known</a>.  Many are afraid to tell anyone what is
happening to them.


title: Living conditions of migrant workers in Abu Dhabi
uri: Living-conditions-of-migrant-workers-in-Abu-Dhabi
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Living_conditions_of_migrant_workers_in_Abu_Dhabi)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Living_conditions_of_migrant_workers_in_Abu_Dhabi%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/abu-dhabi-migrant-workers-conditions-shame-west">Report
on the living conditions</a> of migrant workers in Abu Dhabi.
<p>
Some 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/abu-dhabi-happiness-island-misery">individual
stories</a>.
<p>
Allowing an employer to hold a worker's passport is the gateway to abuse.


title: Urgent Oppose bill to punish gays even worse in Uganda
uri: Urgent-Oppose-bill-to-punish-gays-even-worse-in-Uganda
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Urgent_Oppose_bill_to_punish_gays_even_worse_in_Uganda)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Urgent_Oppose_bill_to_punish_gays_even_worse_in_Uganda%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/uganda_gay_imprisonment">call
on Uganda's president</a> to veto the bill to punish gays even worse.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/uganda-mps-laws-homosexulaity">More
about this law</a>.


title: Urgent: Forceful action against feeding antibiotics to farm animals
uri: Urgent-Forceful-action-against-feeding-antibiotics-to-farm-animals
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Urgent:_Forceful_action_against_feeding_antibiotics_to_farm_animals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Forceful_action_against_feeding_antibiotics_to_farm_animals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12601">tell
the FDA</a> we need forceful action against feeding antibiotics to
farm animals other than to treat infections.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Flaw_in_Obamas_health_care_law)
title: Flaw in Obama's health care law
uri: Flaw-in-Obama-s-health-care-law
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Flaw_in_Obamas_health_care_law%29

content:
<p>
One flaw in Obama's health care law is that, for many people in the
lower middle class, it 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/business/new-health-law-frustrates-many-in-middle-class.html?pagewanted=all">doesn't
make health care affordable</a>.
<p>
This is no surprise, however.  The law was designed to offer medical
coverage to many of the uninsured poor, while catering to medical
insurance companies.  To reduce costs for others would have required
the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2009-may-aug.html#25%20August%202009%20(Kucinich%20critisizes%20HR3200)">public 
option</a> and big savings would have required a single payer plan.


title: Catholic school students protest dismissal of teacher
uri: Catholic-school-students-protest-dismissal-of-teacher
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Catholic_school_students_protest_dismissal_of_teacher)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Catholic_school_students_protest_dismissal_of_teacher%29

content:
<p>
Catholic school students in Seattle went on strike to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/21/seattle-catholic-schools-firing-gay-vice-principal">protest
the dismissal of a teacher</a> because he had entered a same-sex
marriage.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Raw_data_from_scientific_research)
title: Raw data from scientific research
uri: Raw-data-from-scientific-research
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Raw_data_from_scientific_research%29

content:
<p>
Scientific journals 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-12-lost-science-astonishing.html">must
start insisting that authors provide the raw data</a>, so it does not
get lost.


title: Obama commutes crack cocaine sentences
uri: Obama-commutes-crack-cocaine-sentences
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Obama_commutes_crack_cocaine_sentences)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Obama_commutes_crack_cocaine_sentences%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/20-2">8 Down,
Thousands To Go After Obama Commutes 'Unfair' Crack Cocaine
Sentences</a>.


title: Self-censorship due to NSA surveillance
uri: Self-censorship-due-to-NSA-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Self-censorship_due_to_NSA_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Self-censorship_due_to_NSA_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Many writers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/20/nsa-surveillance-programme-get-worse">self-censor
for fear of NSA surveillance</a>.


title: Ensuring that chemical products are not toxic
uri: Ensuring-that-chemical-products-are-not-toxic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Ensuring_that_chemical_products_are_not_toxic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Ensuring_that_chemical_products_are_not_toxic%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/regulation-remove-toxic-chemicals-supply-chain-household">Proper
government regulation</a> could ensure that chemical products are not
toxic.


title: US govt aims to radically advance facial recognition software
uri: US-govt-aims-to-radically-advance-facial-recognition-software
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(US_govt_aims_to_radically_advance_facial_recognition_software)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28US_govt_aims_to_radically_advance_facial_recognition_software%29

content:
<p>
The US government is aiming to 
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/us-intelligence-wants-radically-advance-facial-recognition-software">radically
advance</a> facial recognition software.
<p>
If that is used against journalists and protesters, it will be
curtains for democracy.


title: Renault Zoe forces car owners to "rent" remote-controlled battery
uri: Renault-Zoe-forces-car-owners-to-rent-remote-controlled-battery
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Renault_Zoe_forces_car_owners_to_rent_remote-controlled_battery)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Renault_Zoe_forces_car_owners_to_rent_remote-controlled_battery%29

content:
<p>
The Renault Zoe 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-consumers-crazy">forces
the owner to "rent" a battery</a> which can be turned off remotely.
<p>
As usual, the EFF advocates a remedy which doesn't go far enough.
It's not enough to make it legal for car owners to defeat these
vicious schemes.  The schemes themselves should be illegal, period.


title: The loophole used by NSA to search Americans' communications
uri: The-loophole-used-by-NSA-to-search-Americans-communications
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(The_loophole_used_by_NSA_to_search_Americans_communications)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28The_loophole_used_by_NSA_to_search_Americans_communications%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/blog/elizabeth-goitein-nsa-backdoor-search-loophole-freedom-act">Explaining
the loophole</a> the NSA uses to search Americans' communications
while "not targeting Americans".
<p>
The article advocates the USA FREEDOM Act, which would limit the
government's right to access digital dossiers.  This would be a step
forward, but 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">nowhere
near enough</a>.


title: Anti-democracy protesters in Thailand boycott election
uri: Anti-democracy-protesters-in-Thailand-boycott-election
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Anti-democracy_protesters_in_Thailand_boycott_election)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Anti-democracy_protesters_in_Thailand_boycott_election%29

content:
<p>
The anti-democracy protesters of Thailand's "Democratic Party" decided
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/21/thailand-opposition-boycott-february-elections">boycott
the coming election</a>, which they know they would lose.


title: Five Ways to Curb Your Child's Materialism
uri: Five-Ways-to-Curb-Your-Child-s-Materialism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Five_Ways_to_Curb_Your_Childs_Materialism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Five_Ways_to_Curb_Your_Childs_Materialism%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/21-0">Five Ways to
Curb Your Child's Materialism This Holiday Season</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(US_student_activism)
title: US student activism
uri: US-student-activism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28US_student_activism%29
content:
<p>
US student activism against 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/21-1">racism and
various forms of oppression</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Morsi_trial)
title: Morsi trial
uri: Morsi-trial
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Morsi_trial%29
content:
<p>
Morsi now faces 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/21/ousted-egyptian-president-mohamed-morsi-third-trial">absurd charges of conspiring with Hamas and Hezbollah</a>.
<p>
The Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni theocratist group.  Hezbollah is a
Shi'ite group, militant but more concerned with defending Shi'ites'
political interests than with religion.  The idea that they would work
together is as ridiculous as the idea that Saddam Hussein and al
Qa'ida would work together — but Dubya found it useful to claim
they did.
<p>
As for the charges of escaping from prison, at that time state agents
went around arresting (and sometimes killing) people for political
reasons.  Zero-tolerance for escapes, and immunity for the captors, is
hardly justice.


title: Kansas restricts speech by professors in state universities
uri: Kansas-restricts-speech-by-professors-in-state-universities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Kansas_restricts_speech_by_professors_in_state_universities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Kansas_restricts_speech_by_professors_in_state_universities%29

content:
<p>
Kansas says state universities can 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/12/19/kansas-board-of-regents-restricts-free-speech-for-academics/">fire
professors</a> for saying anything the university administration says
is "contrary to the best interest of the university".


title: Woman in Texas subjected to medical procedures without consent
uri: Woman-in-Texas-subjected-to-medical-procedures-without-consent
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Woman_in_Texas_subjected_to_medical_procedures_without_consent)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Woman_in_Texas_subjected_to_medical_procedures_without_consent%29

content:
<p>
A woman is suing because thugs in Texas subjected her to 
<a href="http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2013/12/18/lawsuit-woman-faced-illegal-body-cavity-search-observed-bowel-movement/">medical
procedures including X-rays</a>, without her consent.  Then the
hospital tried to make her pay for $5000 for this.


title: Oakland installs surveillance system to suppress protests
uri: Oakland-installs-surveillance-system-to-suppress-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Oakland_installs_surveillance_system_to_suppress_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Oakland_installs_surveillance_system_to_suppress_protests%29

content:
<p>
Oakland installed a combined surveillance system, supposedly to fight
"crime", but its operators were 
<a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-purpose-of-oaklands-surveillance-center/Content?oid=3789230&showFullText=true">only
interested in suppressing protests</a>.
<p>
The ACLU is making a mistake by using timid words like "troubling" to
describe this.  This surveillance is un-American tyranny, and any the
community should demand shutting it down.


title: Thugs awarded for thuggish activity in the US
uri: Thugs-awarded-for-thuggish-activity-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Thugs_awarded_for_thuggish_activity_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Thugs_awarded_for_thuggish_activity_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Awards for the 
<a href="http://www.vice.com/read/this-year-in-bad-cops">most thuggish
thug activity</a> in the US.


title: UK's internet censorship scheme blocks sex education sites
uri: UK-s-internet-censorship-scheme-blocks-sex-education-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(UKs_internet_censorship_scheme_blocks_sex_education_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28UKs_internet_censorship_scheme_blocks_sex_education_sites%29

content:
<p>
The UK's internet censorship scheme blocks sex education sites and
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25430582">sites that help rape
victims</a>.
<p>
Maybe these are mistakes, but every such censorship scheme makes such
mistakes.


title: Anti-pipeline protesters charged with "terrorist hoax"
uri: Anti-pipeline-protesters-charged-with-terrorist-hoax
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Anti-pipeline_protesters_charged_with_terrorist_hoax)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Anti-pipeline_protesters_charged_with_terrorist_hoax%29

content:
<p>
Anti-pipeline protesters displayed a banner, and some glitter fell off
it, so the thugs charged them with a
"<a href='http://www.vice.com/read/two-environmentalists-were-charged-with-terrorism-hoax-for-too-much-glitter-on-their-banner'>terrorist
hoax</a>".
<p>
TransCanada, the company that wants to build the Keystone XL
planet-roaster pipeline, is working with local thug departments and
encouraging them to 
<a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/transcanada-police-presentation-on-protests/7094/">accuse
nonviolent protesters of "terrorism"</a>.
<p>
We need to pass a law making it a crime for officials to make absurd
charges against anyone.


title: Shaker Aamer on book censorship in Guantanamo
uri: Shaker-Aamer-on-book-censorship-in-Guantanamo
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 22_December_2013_(Shaker_Aamer_on_book_censorship_in_Guantanamo)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#22_December_2013_%28Shaker_Aamer_on_book_censorship_in_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
Shaker Aamer gently ridicules the 
<a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/12/why-russell-brand-banned-gitmo">inexplicable
book censorship</a> of the Guantanamo prison guards.
<p>
A recently freed ex-prisoner says the prisoners were subjected to
"<a href='http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/20-5'>meticulous,
daily torture</a>".


title: Rosewood in Madagascar nearly wiped out by illegal logging
uri: Rosewood-in-Madagascar-nearly-wiped-out-by-illegal-logging
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Rosewood_in_Madagascar_nearly_wiped_out_by_illegal_logging)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Rosewood_in_Madagascar_nearly_wiped_out_by_illegal_logging%29

content:
<p>
Rosewood in Madagascar has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/23/madagascar-illegal-logging-rosewood-smuggling">nearly
wiped out by illegal logging,</a> while the government hardly bothers
to intervene.


title: Assad's air force is bombarding civilians with shrapnel bombs
uri: Assad-s-air-force-is-bombarding-civilians-with-shrapnel-bombs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Assad's_air_force_is_bombarding_civilians_with_shrapnel_bombs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Assad%27s_air_force_is_bombarding_civilians_with_shrapnel_bombs%29

content:
<p>
Assad's air force
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/23/syria-barrel-bombs-87-children-dead">bombarding
civilians with shrapnel bombs.</a>


title: Campaign for humane treatment of prisoners in Russia
uri: Campaign-for-humane-treatment-of-prisoners-in-Russia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Campaign_for_humane_treatment_of_prisoners_in_Russia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Campaign_for_humane_treatment_of_prisoners_in_Russia%29

content:
<p>
The two members of Pussy Riot just freed
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/23/freed-pussy-riot-amnesty-prison-putin-humiliation">launch
a campaign for humane treatment of prisoners in Russia.</a>
<p>
This is good, but as an American I wish they
would <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_(Use_of_torture_in_US_prisons)">extend
their campaign to aid prisoners in the US</a>.
<p>
They also called Putin's amnesty, which led to their release, a "PR
move".


title: Absence in the Bay of Fundy of right whales
uri: Absence-in-the-Bay-of-Fundy-of-right-whales
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Absence_in_the_Bay_of_Fundy_of_right_whales)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Absence_in_the_Bay_of_Fundy_of_right_whales%29

content:
<p>
The absence in the Bay of Fundy of right
whales <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/right-whales-go-wrong-way-is-climate-a-factor-16846">may
be due to global heating.</a>


title: Senator Warren's opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline
uri: Senator-Warren-s-opposition-to-the-Keystone-XL-pipeline
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Senator_Warren's_opposition_to_the_Keystone_XL_pipeline)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Senator_Warren%27s_opposition_to_the_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
Senator
Warren's <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/23-5">opposition
to the Keystone XL pipeline shines a light on Clinton's support for
it.</a>


title: RSA Inc responded to disclosure of its secret contract with NSA
uri: RSA-Inc-responded-to-disclosure-of-its-secret-contract-with-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(RSA_Inc_responded_to_disclosure_of_its_secret_contract_with_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28RSA_Inc_responded_to_disclosure_of_its_secret_contract_with_NSA%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/rsa-issues-non-denying-denial-of-nsa-deal-to-favor-flawed-crypto-code/">RSA
Inc responded to the disclosure of its secret contract with the NSA
with a cunningly worded announcement</a> that <em>appears</em> to say
it wasn't true.  However, a careful reading shows it doesn't really
say that.


title: When cooking food in US prisons was privatized
uri: When-cooking-food-in-US-prisons-was-privatized
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(When_cooking_food_in_US_prisons_was_privatized)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28When_cooking_food_in_US_prisons_was_privatized%29

content:
<p>
When cooking food in US prisons was
privatized, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/23-2">Aramark
started serving food that is spoiled or unfit for human consumption,
prepared in unsanitary conditions</a>.
<p>
The only way such a company can make a profit is by mistreating
someone.


title: Long-Term unemployment is a disaster
uri: Long-Term-unemployment-is-a-disaster
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Long-Term_unemployment_is_a_disaster)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Long-Term_unemployment_is_a_disaster%29

content:
<p>
Unemployment is painful,
but <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/10-reasons-long-term-unemployment-national-catastrophe">long-term
unemployment is a disaster.</a>


title: "Open carry" of guns is asking for trouble
uri: Open-carry-of-guns-is-asking-for-trouble
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Open_carry_of_guns_is_asking_for_trouble)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Open_carry_of_guns_is_asking_for_trouble%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/gun-activists-have-new-craze-and-its-more-dangerous-you-think?paging=off">"Open
carry" of guns is asking for trouble</a>, because just seeing guns
causes fear and encourage aggression.


title: Debt costs the Philippines far more than typhoon Haiyan
uri: Debt-costs-the-Philippines-far-more-than-typhoon-Haiyan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Debt_costs_the_Philippines_far_more_than_typhoon_Haiyan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Debt_costs_the_Philippines_far_more_than_typhoon_Haiyan%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/dec/23/philippines-devastated-unfair-debt-typhoon-haiyan">Debt
costs the Philippines far more than typhoon Haiyan</a>. Many of these
loans represent the corruption.  The "aid" for rebuilding often
consists of more loans.
<p>
The Philippines should decide that these loans were predatory and
therefore don't have to be repaid.  The predatory lenders should be
taught a lesson by losing their money.


title: The record companies' manipulation
uri: The-record-companies-manipulation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(The_record_companies'_manipulation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28The_record_companies%27_manipulation%29

content:
<p>
While rich celebrity musicians spread a weak form of feminism, other
musicians
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/23/miley-cyrus-beyonce-celebrity-feminist-2013-women">rejected
the record companies' manipulation.</a>


title: Anti-Austerity movement at the European level
uri: Anti-Austerity-movement-at-the-European-level
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Anti-Austerity_movement_at_the_European_level)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Anti-Austerity_movement_at_the_European_level%29

content:
<p>
Calling for
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/23/technocrats-voted-out-european-elections-austerity">anti-austerity
movement at the European level.</a>


title: French companies fined for paying women less than men
uri: French-companies-fined-for-paying-women-less-than-men
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(French_companies_fined_for_paying_women_less_than_men)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28French_companies_fined_for_paying_women_less_than_men%29

content:
<p>
French companies are
being <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/23/french-firms-fine-gender-equality-laws">fined
for paying women less than men.</a>
<p>
Hear, hear!


title: Urgent: Call on Chick-fil-A to stop harassing artist
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Chick-fil-A-to-stop-harassing-artist
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Chick-fil-A_to_stop_harassing_artist)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Chick-fil-A_to_stop_harassing_artist%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/chick-fil-A-eat-more-kale/2/5/">call
on Chick-fil-A</a> to stop harassing the artist that makes "Eat more
Kale" shirts.


title: Urgent: Eliminate NFL tax exemption
uri: Urgent-Eliminate-NFL-tax-exemption
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Urgent:_Eliminate_NFL_tax_exemption)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Eliminate_NFL_tax_exemption%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://vk.rootstrikers.org/petitions/28?n=20184.rbKxEY">call
for elimination</a> of the National Football League's tax-exemption.
<p>
Here is the 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/nfl-tax-exempt-status-rootstrikers-roger-goodell">background</a>.


title: New style of apology from politicians who get caught
uri: New-style-of-apology-from-politicians-who-get-caught
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(New_style_of_apology_from_politicians_who_get_caught)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28New_style_of_apology_from_politicians_who_get_caught%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/Stop+heard+this+before/9147190/story.html">new
style of apology</a> from a politician that gets caught.


title: Canned voice recordings used by telemarketers
uri: Canned-voice-recordings-used-by-telemarketers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Canned_voice_recordings_used_by_telemarketers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Canned_voice_recordings_used_by_telemarketers%29

content:
<p>
Many telemarketer calls use 
<a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/10/meet-the-robot-telemarketer-who-denies-shes-a-robot/">canned
voice recordings</a>, and a human selects which response to give next.
<p>
I don't see telemarketing as particularly bad, just wasteful and
annoying.  I have never bought anything from a telemarketer, and I
don't let the call go on for more than a few seconds, because I don't
want to spend my time on them.
<p>
It is useful to train yourself out of applying normal ideas of
politeness — for instance, that it is rude to hang up on someone
— to a commercially-motivated call from a stranger.
<p>
I think it might be good to legally require telemarketing calls to
start by playing a recording that says, "Stay on the line if you wish
to talk with a telemarketer."


title: Mariah Carey entertaining a dictator again
uri: Mariah-Carey-entertaining-a-dictator-again
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Mariah_Carey_entertaining_a_dictator_again)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Mariah_Carey_entertaining_a_dictator_again%29

content:
<p>
Mariah Carey is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2013/dec/22/mariah-carey-celebrates-christmas-dictator">entertaining
a dictator</a> again.


title: Protest leaders that brought down Mubarak sentenced to prison
uri: Protest-leaders-that-brought-down-Mubarak-sentenced-to-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Protest_leaders_that_brought_down_Mubarak_sentenced_to_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Protest_leaders_that_brought_down_Mubarak_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
Leaders of the protests that brought down Mubarak have been sentenced
to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/egypt-court-jails-three-leaders-2011-uprising-6th-april-youth-movement">3
years in prison</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Customer_anonymity)
title: Customer anonymity
uri: Customer-anonymity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Customer_anonymity%29
content:
<p>
The Consumer Finance Protection Board receives anonimized credit card
purchase data from a company; that company 
<a href="http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/craig-bannister/govt-bureau-creating-google-earth-every-financial-transaction-senator">gets
it with names</a>, which might facilitate misuse of the data.
<p>
Of course, the underlying problem is that the banks and the stores get
to identify their customers when they pay by credit card.  Thus, it is
better to use an ATM to withdraw money and pay cash.


title: FDA action on antibiotics on farms inadequate
uri: FDA-action-on-antibiotics-on-farms-inadequate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(FDA_action_on_antibiotics_on_farms_inadequate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28FDA_action_on_antibiotics_on_farms_inadequate%29

content:
<p>
FDA action on antibiotics on farms is 
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/ocaactions.cfm?actionnum=12601">inadequate</a>.


title: Authorities try to stop student from delivering speech
uri: Authorities-try-to-stop-student-from-delivering-speech
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Authorities_try_to_stop_student_from_delivering_speech)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Authorities_try_to_stop_student_from_delivering_speech%29

content:
<p>
A Florida student was 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/school-tries-silence-fifth-graders-speech-religion?paging=off">denied
his prize for a speech</a>, when authorities discovered his speech was
about injustice in the name of religion.


title: US pharmacists give teenagers false information
uri: US-pharmacists-give-teenagers-false-information
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(US_pharmacists_give_teenagers_false_information)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28US_pharmacists_give_teenagers_false_information%29

content:
<p>
US pharmacists 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/20/3094731/study-pharmacists-mislead-teens/">frequently
give teenagers false information</a> telling them that they are not
allowed to buy emergency contraception.


title: Treating drug problems instead of punishing them
uri: Treating-drug-problems-instead-of-punishing-them
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Treating_drug_problems_instead_of_punishing_them)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Treating_drug_problems_instead_of_punishing_them%29

content:
<p>
Obama's health care program could be an 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/drugs/healthcare-reform-could-transform-drug-policy-and-mass-incarceration?paging=off">opportunity
to move towards treating drug problems</a> instead of punishing them.


title: Obama regime pretends what Snowden told us is still secret
uri: Obama-regime-pretends-what-Snowden-told-us-is-still-secret
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 23_December_2013_(Obama_regime_pretends_what_Snowden_told_us_is_still_secret)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#23_December_2013_%28Obama_regime_pretends_what_Snowden_told_us_is_still_secret%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/government-releases-new-nsa-info-still-tries-block-groundbreaking-eff-case">pretends
that what Snowden told us is still secret</a>, and had the chutzpah to
tell a judge that there's no proof the NSA is spying on everyone.


title: Urgent: Systematic anti-trafficking policies in Scotland
uri: Urgent-Systematic-anti-trafficking-policies-in-Scotland
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Urgent:_Systematic_anti-trafficking_policies_in_Scotland)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Systematic_anti-trafficking_policies_in_Scotland%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.walkfree.org/support-scotland-proposal-model-anti-slavery-law/">encourage
the proposal</a> for systematic anti-trafficking policies in Scotland.


title: CIA helping Colombian gov't kill and torture FARC members
uri: CIA-helping-Colombian-gov-t-kill-and-torture-FARC-members
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(CIA_helping_Colombian_govt_kill_and_torture_FARC_members)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28CIA_helping_Colombian_govt_kill_and_torture_FARC_members%29

content:
<p>
The CIA is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/22">helping the
Colombian government kill and torture FARC members</a>.
<p>
The FARC is a rebel group which has also financed itself through
drug trafficking and kidnaping.  However, the most vicious terrorist
group in Colombia is the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2007-mar-jun.html#15%20March%202007%20(Paramilitaries%20of%20Colombia)">paramilitaries 
that are linked with the state</a>.


title: Teenagers fleeing Central American to the US
uri: Teenagers-fleeing-Central-American-to-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Teenagers_fleeing_Central_American_to_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Teenagers_fleeing_Central_American_to_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Teenagers are fleeing Central America to the US because they are
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/unaccompanied-children-immigrants-surge-central-america-mexico">threatened
with conscription into criminal gangs</a>.
<p>
The War on Drugs seems to be ultimately at fault.


title: Former BP geologist says Peak Oil reached
uri: Former-BP-geologist-says-Peak-Oil-reached
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Former_BP_geologist_says_Peak_Oil_reached)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Former_BP_geologist_says_Peak_Oil_reached%29

content:
<p>
A former BP geologist says that we have reached Peak Oil, and that the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/dec/23/british-petroleum-geologist-peak-oil-break-economy-recession">rate
of oil extraction will decline from now on</a>.
<p>
Whether this is a bad thing depends on how humanity reacts to it.  The
high price of oil reduces demand: Americans drive less, nowadays, than
they did when oil was cheaper.  The high price of oil encourages
investment in other energy sources — some renewable (solar,
wind, geothermal) and some polluting (coal, fracking, nuclear).
<p>
If only our governments pushed for renewable energy rather than
polluting energy.
<p>
We could use a lot less energy for heating and for transport if we
pushed harder to achieve that.  Amory Lovins showed years ago that a
small fraction of what we now use could do the job.  And mass transit
uses a lot less energy than travel by car.
<p>
The extent of economic inequality in the US is so great that our main
need is not increased production of things, but rather a way for
everyone to get a share.  If the US produced only half as much, we
would get along ok if the poor got a bigger share.


title: Violent Islamists in Egypt bomb municipal thug office
uri: Violent-Islamists-in-Egypt-bomb-municipal-thug-office
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Violent_Islamists_in_Egypt_bomb_municipal_thug_office)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Violent_Islamists_in_Egypt_bomb_municipal_thug_office%29

content:
<p>
Violent Islamists in Egypt carried out a car bombing against a
municipal thug office.  There have been a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/24/egyptian-police-headquarters-explosion">series
of such attacks</a>.
<p>
It is clear that they are inspired by the violent suppression of
the Muslim Brotherhood.


title: Netanyahu admits he does not want peace with Palestine
uri: Netanyahu-admits-he-does-not-want-peace-with-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Netanyahu_admits_he_does_not_want_peace_with_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Netanyahu_admits_he_does_not_want_peace_with_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Extra, extra!  Netanyahu 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/24/israel-demand-release-spy-jonathan-pollard-peace-talks">admits
he doesn't want peace with Palestine</a>!
<p>
He did not say it in so many words, but that's the inescapable
implication.  For Israel to demand release of an American who spied
for Israel — or any other unrelated concession — says,
"Peace isn't something we seek, just something we might do for the US
in exchange for something we want."


title: Israel kills children in Gaza in retaliation for shooting
uri: Israel-kills-children-in-Gaza-in-retaliation-for-shooting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Israel_kills_children_in_Gaza_in_retaliation_for_shooting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Israel_kills_children_in_Gaza_in_retaliation_for_shooting%29

content:
<p>
Palestinians shot an Israeli who was working on the fence around Gaza,
so Israel retaliated with bombs, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/24/israel-gaza-strip-air-strike-fatal-shooting">killing
children in Gaza</a>.
<p>
Although the Israeli who was shot was not a soldier, he was doing a
job that is not entirely civilian in nature, like the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2012-jan-apr.html#23_February_2012_(Iranian_Assassination)">Iranian
nuclear scientists that Israel killed a few years ago</a>.  The
Palestinian children, by contrast, were simply being children.


title: Millions of American families hungry during the holidays
uri: Millions-of-American-families-hungry-during-the-holidays
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Millions_of_American_families_hungry_during_the_holidays)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Millions_of_American_families_hungry_during_the_holidays%29

content:
<p>
Millions of American families received a Christmas gift from Congress:
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/24-0">hunger</a>.


title: Changes proposed by Obama's NSA review panel far from sufficient
uri: Changes-proposed-by-Obama-s-NSA-review-panel-far-from-sufficient
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Changes_proposed_by_Obamas_NSA_review_panel_far_from_sufficient)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Changes_proposed_by_Obamas_NSA_review_panel_far_from_sufficient%29

content:
<p>
Snowden says that Obama's NSA review panel proposed 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/23-7">"cosmetic"
changes</a>.
<p>
I think they might be slightly more than cosmetic,
but they are far from sufficient.  In 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/24">this
interview</a>, Snowden explains what he thinks is needed.
<p>
What I think is needed is to 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">redesign
digital systems</a> so that they don't amass data about users in
general.


title: Supporters of Israel's occupation pressuring US universities
uri: Supporters-of-Israel-s-occupation-pressuring-US-universities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Supporters_of_Israels_occupation_pressuring_US_universities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Supporters_of_Israels_occupation_pressuring_US_universities%29

content:
<p>
Supporters of Israel's occupation of Palestine are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/24-1">pressuring US
universities to boycott the American Studies Association</a>.
Meanwhile, members of the association are receiving hate mail.
<p>
This demonstrates the courage required in the US today
to oppose that pressure group.
<p>
I am sure the ASA will not yield to this pressure, but what happens to
the ASA will influence others.  Thus, it is important to urge
universities not to cease their support for the ASA.


title: Pardoning Alan Turing alone is not enough
uri: Pardoning-Alan-Turing-alone-is-not-enough
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Pardoning_Alan_Turing_alone_is_not_enough)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Pardoning_Alan_Turing_alone_is_not_enough%29

content:
<p>
Pardoning Alan Turing and him alone is not enough: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/24/alan-turing-pardon-wrong-gay-men">75,000
Britons were convicted of homosexuality</a>, and they all deserve the
same apology.
<p>
If the UK wants to deserve a pardon, it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2013/dec/24/gay-rights-alan-turing">needs
to go further</a>.


title: Australia approves destruction of wildlife reserve
uri: Australia-approves-destruction-of-wildlife-reserve
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Australia_approves_destruction_of_wildlife_reserve)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Australia_approves_destruction_of_wildlife_reserve%29

content:
<p>
Australia has approved a coal mine that will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/23/conservationists-to-fight-on-against-china-first-mine-despite-legal-change">destroy
a wildlife reserve</a>, replacing it with "offsets" that are just an
excuse to proceed.


title: Obama may be operating under fear of threats from CIA
uri: Obama-may-be-operating-under-fear-of-threats-from-CIA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Obama_may_be_operating_under_fear_of_threats_from_CIA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Obama_may_be_operating_under_fear_of_threats_from_CIA%29

content:
<p>
Obama may be operating under fear of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/23">threats from
the CIA</a>.
<p>
The appointment of Dulles to the Warren Commission is extremely
suspect because there is no other plausible reason for it except to
enable him to cover things up.


title: Miami and LA sue big banks for racism
uri: Miami-and-LA-sue-big-banks-for-racism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Miami_and_LA_sue_big_banks_for_racism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Miami_and_LA_sue_big_banks_for_racism%29

content:
<p>
Miami and Los Angeles have sued big banks for 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/cities-sue-banking-giants-over-sub-prime-mortgage-debacle">racism
in application of subprime mortgages</a>.


title: Republican gov'ts in 23 states block extension of Medicaid
uri: Republican-gov-ts-in-23-states-block-extension-of-Medicaid
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Republican_govts_in_23_states_block_extension_of_Medicaid)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Republican_govts_in_23_states_block_extension_of_Medicaid%29

content:
<p>
Republican governments in 23 states have blocked Obama's extension of
Medicaid, which will leave around 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/17/twenty-three-states-arent-expanding-medicaid-heres-who-they-leave-behind/">5
million Americans without health care</a>.


title: Afghanistan imposing biometric ID cards
uri: Afghanistan-imposing-biometric-ID-cards
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Afghanistan_imposing_biometric_ID_cards)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Afghanistan_imposing_biometric_ID_cards%29

content:
<p>
Afghanistan is imposing 
<a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/afghanistan-id-cards-ethnic-divisions/25205181.html">biometric
ID cards</a>.
<p>
As a temporary measure for the war with the Taliban, they could be
excuses.  Such circumstances justify measures that normally must be
condemned.  But they will surely be meant as permanent.


title: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility
uri: Time-to-Make-the-Fed-a-Public-Utility
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 24_December_2013_(Time_to_Make_the_Fed_a_Public_Utility)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#24_December_2013_%28Time_to_Make_the_Fed_a_Public_Utility%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/23-7">100 Years Is
Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility</a>.


title: Urgent: Oppose bill that sabotages diplomacy with Iran
uri: Urgent-Oppose-bill-that-sabotages-diplomacy-with-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_December_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_bill_that_sabotages_diplomacy_with_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_December_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_bill_that_sabotages_diplomacy_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/war-with-iran-sherrod">Call
on Senator Sherrod Brown</a> not to support the bill to sabotage
diplomacy with Iran.


title: Obama appears to be planning to sell out his country
uri: Obama-appears-to-be-planning-to-sell-out-his-country
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_December_2013_(Obama_appears_to_be_planning_to_sell_out_his_country)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_December_2013_%28Obama_appears_to_be_planning_to_sell_out_his_country%29

content:
<p>
After pressure, Obama allowed congresscritters to look at the text
— without staff to help them understand the implications —
but they 
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/4/a_corporate_trojan_horse_obama_pushes">can't
tell us what they saw</a>.
<p>
The only plausible reason to negotiate a treaty like this is that
Obama is planning to sell out his country, like Dubya before him.


title: Stories from Americans hit by cuts in food stamps
uri: Stories-from-Americans-hit-by-cuts-in-food-stamps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_December_2013_(Stories_from_Americans_hit_by_cuts_in_food_stamps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_December_2013_%28Stories_from_Americans_hit_by_cuts_in_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
Americans hit by cuts in food stamps tell 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/24/food-stamps-programmes-cuts-working-americans-texas">their
stories</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_December_2013_(Snowden_has_no_insurance_packet)
title: Snowden has no "insurance packet"
uri: Snowden-has-no-insurance-packet
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_December_2013_%28Snowden_has_no_insurance_packet%29

content:
<p>
Snowden says that he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/24/edward-snowden-i-already-won">did
not set up an "insurance packet" for release if he is killed</a>,
since that might have tempted various entities to kill him so as to
cause that data to be released.


title: Computer manufacturers keeping repair manuals secret
uri: Computer-manufacturers-keeping-repair-manuals-secret
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_December_2013_(Computer_manufacturers_keeping_repair_manuals_secret)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_December_2013_%28Computer_manufacturers_keeping_repair_manuals_secret%29

content:
<p>
Many computer manufacturers have adopted a new way of subjugating
users: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/copyright-law-repair-manuals-circular-economy">keeping
the repair manuals secret</a>.
<p>
Unfortunately, the iFixit manuals are not free.  The article says they
are, but it means they are gratis.  I tried to convince Kyle Wiens to
release them under a free license, but failed.  I hope he will change
his mind.


title: Turkish thugs torture man mistaken for a protester
uri: Turkish-thugs-torture-man-mistaken-for-a-protester
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_December_2013_(Turkish_thugs_torture_man_mistaken_for_a_protester)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_December_2013_%28Turkish_thugs_torture_man_mistaken_for_a_protester%29

content:
<p>
Hakan Yaman was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/25/hakan-yaman-lost-eye-gezi-park-protests-turkey">tortured
by Turkish thugs</a> who mistook him for a protester.  (Not that it
would have been justified to torture a real protester.)  They gouged
out an eye and threw him in a fire: attempted premeditated murder.
<p>
The government is has been unable to find the thugs who were
responsible.  Perhaps it has not tried very hard.
<p>
This case is among the most extreme, among the general repression of
the protesters.


title: Palestinians with cancer denied access to medical treatment
uri: Palestinians-with-cancer-denied-access-to-medical-treatment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_December_2013_(Palestinians_with_cancer_denied_access_to_medical_treatment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_December_2013_%28Palestinians_with_cancer_denied_access_to_medical_treatment%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli siege includes 
<a href="http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23883">denying
Palestinians with cancer access to medical treatment</a>, like a cat
toying with mice.


title: Israel and US insist on continuing occupation of 1/4 of West Bank
uri: Israel-and-US-insist-on-continuing-occupation-of-1-4-of-West-Bank
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_December_2013_(Israel_and_US_insist_on_continuing_occupation_of_quarter_of_West_Bank)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_December_2013_%28Israel_and_US_insist_on_continuing_occupation_of_quarter_of_West_Bank%29

content:
<p>
The European Union is trying to pressure Israel and Palestine to make
peace, but Israel and the US 
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/20/us-plans-gazafication-of-the-west-bank/">insist
on a continuing occupation of 1/4 of the West Bank</a>, which would
give Israel control over Palestinian travel and commerce.


title: Israeli troops ransack family's house and steal 5 years of savings
uri: Israeli-troops-ransack-family-s-house-and-steal-5-years-of-savings
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_December_2013_(Israeli_troops_ransack_familys_house_and_steal_5_years_of_savings)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_December_2013_%28Israeli_troops_ransack_familys_house_and_steal_5_years_of_savings%29

content:
<p>
An everyday war crime in Palestine: Israeli troops ransacked a
Palestinian family's house and 
<a href="http://blog.yesh-din.org/en/?p=604">stole 5 years of
savings</a>.


title: US Export-Import Bank to fund project likely to damage environment
uri: US-Export-Import-Bank-to-fund-project-likely-to-damage-environment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 25_December_2013_(US_Export-Import_Bank_to_fund_project_likely_to_damage_environment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#25_December_2013_%28US_Export-Import_Bank_to_fund_project_likely_to_damage_environment%29

content:
<p>
The US Export-Import Bank is planning to fund a project in Australia
that is likely to damage the surrounding environment, but the
environmental impact study 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/24/hancock-mine-call-to-reverse-694m-us-loan-over-environmental-fears">ducked
the question</a>.


title: Pharmaceutical Extortion: Pay Up, or Die
uri: Pharmaceutical-Extortion-Pay-Up-or-Die
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_December_2013_(Pharmaceutical_Extortion:_Pay_Up,_or_Die)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_December_2013_%28Pharmaceutical_Extortion%3A_Pay_Up%2C_or_Die%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/29-4">Pharmaceutical
Extortion: Pay Up, or Die</a>.
<p>
The root of this injustice is patent law, combined with
the failure of the US to do what other advanced governments do:
directly negotiate the price of pharmaceuticals.
<p>
In addition, all countries must remove the funding of studies of drug
effects from the hands of the drug companies, since
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#10%20February%202011%20(Hide%20experimental%20results)">they 
corrupt the results</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_December_2013_(The_fossil_fuel_agenda)
title: The fossil fuel agenda
uri: The-fossil-fuel-agenda
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_December_2013_%28The_fossil_fuel_agenda%29
content:
<p>
The fossil fuel agenda is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/fossil-fuel-agenda-anti-business">anti-business</a>
(as well as anti-civilization and anti-your-survival).
<p>
I hope that this argument wins some support, but the fact that it even
needs to be made demonstrates a fundamental flaw in our current
political system: plutocracy, the political power of business.
<p>
It's due to plutocracy that the fossil fuel companies have the power
to keep humanity stuck on the path to global heating disaster.  Why do
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/dec/26/republicans-congress-climate-change-testimony-risk">Republicans
in Congress deny global heating and its effects</a>?  It's due to
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#11_June_2013_(Keystone_XL_faulty)">fossil
fuel money</a>.
<p>
That's not the only area in which plutocracy oppresses us.  Plutocracy
is why governments propose laws like 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#22_January_2012_(SOPA%20And%20PIPA)">SOPA</a>.
Plutocracy is why the US government proposes to let 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_October_2013_(The_plan_to_let_chicken_farms_do_their_own_inspection)">poultry
producers inspect their own products</a>.  Plutocracy is why the US
government 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_September_2013_(Deceptive_plan_for_voluntary_labeling_of_GMO_foods)">doesn't 
label GMOs</a>.  Plutocracy is how the
banksters
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2009-sep-dec.html#14%20November%202009%20(Consequences%20of%20repealing%20the%20Glass-Steagall%20Act)">abolished 
the Glass-Steagall Act</a> and then 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#1_February_2012_(Foreclosure_Fraud)">fraudulently 
take many Americans' homes</a> and get off scot-free because they are 
"<a href='http://lists.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#16_March_2013_(Too_big_to_jail)'>too 
big to jail</a>."
<p>
And they are planning treaties to give them 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/26-3">increased
power</a>.
<p>
It makes sense to appeal to these illegitimate powers to see when
their interests are threatened by something that threatens us too.
But we must take care, when doing this, not to grant any legitimacy to
their rule.  We need to replace plutocracy with 
<a href="http://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">democracy</a>.


title: De Blasio selects Goldman Sachs executive as deputy mayor
uri: De-Blasio-selects-Goldman-Sachs-executive-as-deputy-mayor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_December_2013_(De_Blasio_selects_Goldman_Sachs_executive_as_deputy_mayor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_December_2013_%28De_Blasio_selects_Goldman_Sachs_executive_as_deputy_mayor%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/24-5">Troubling
Pattern as De Blasio Taps Goldman Sachs Exec</a>.


title: Eviction of Haitians in shantytown with no help or place to go
uri: Eviction-of-Haitians-in-shantytown-with-no-help-or-place-to-go
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_December_2013_(Eviction_of_Haitians_in_shantytown_with_no_help_or_place_to_go)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_December_2013_%28Eviction_of_Haitians_in_shantytown_with_no_help_or_place_to_go%29

content:
<p>
Haitians in a shantytown are being 
<a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR36/023/2013/en/d115c760-c5c8-47aa-87b0-f38d2b5bd381/amr360232013en.html">evicted
with no help or place to go</a>.
<p>
They moved to that shantytown after their homes were 
<a href="http://stallman.org/notes/2010-jan-apr.html#19%20January%202010%20(Disaster%20in%20Haiti)">destroyed
in the earthquake</a> after which large amounts of "aid" from wealthy
countries were offered but 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#19_August_2013_(US-run_international_aid_for_Haiti)">put
into preparing sweatshops</a> rather than helping homeless Haitians.


title: Swarthmore Hillel rejects ban on speakers that criticize Israeli policy
uri: Swarthmore-Hillel-rejects-ban-on-speakers-that-criticize-Israeli-polic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_December_2013_(Swarthmore_Hillel_rejects_ban_on_speakers_that_criticize_Israeli_policy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_December_2013_%28Swarthmore_Hillel_rejects_ban_on_speakers_that_criticize_Israeli_policy%29

content:
<p>
The Swarthmore Hillel society has 
<a href="http://thebeaconmag.com/2013/12/featured-article/swarthmore-hillel-declares-itself-an-open-hillel/">rejected
the parent organization's ban</a> on speakers that criticize Israeli
policy.
<p>
This in response to Harvard Hillel's cancellation of a speech by a
former Israeli parliamentarian who criticizes Israeli policy.


title: Israel arrests leader of nonviolent protests
uri: Israel-arrests-leader-of-nonviolent-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_December_2013_(Israel_arrests_leader_of_nonviolent_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_December_2013_%28Israel_arrests_leader_of_nonviolent_protests%29

content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=659267">arrested</a>
the leader of nonviolent protests in Kafr Qaddum.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_December_2013_(How_lead_got_put_into_gasoline)
title: How lead got put into gasoline
uri: How-lead-got-put-into-gasoline
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_December_2013_%28How_lead_got_put_into_gasoline%29

content:
<p>
How lead got put into gasoline: a 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/how-did-lead-get-our-gasoline-anyway">series
of corrupt influences</a> led to nationwide suffering.


title: Egyptian gov't declares Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist group"
uri: Egyptian-gov-t-declares-Muslim-Brotherhood-a-terrorist-group
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_December_2013_(Egyptian_govt_declares_Muslim_Brotherhood_a_terrorist_group)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_December_2013_%28Egyptian_govt_declares_Muslim_Brotherhood_a_terrorist_group%29

content:
<p>
The Egyptian government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/25/egypt-declares-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-group">declared
the Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist group"</a>, an excuse to say every
member is a criminal.
<p>
Declaring groups "terrorist" without a trial is a gross violation of
human rights.  The US must cease this practice to set an example of
respect for human rights; if it does not, other countries such as
Egypt will surely take inspiration from the US' bad example.


title: Prisoners in Bagram have no right to habeas corpus
uri: Prisoners-in-Bagram-have-no-right-to-habeas-corpus
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 26_December_2013_(Prisoners_in_Bagram_have_no_right_to_habeas_corpus)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#26_December_2013_%28Prisoners_in_Bagram_have_no_right_to_habeas_corpus%29

content:
<p>
A US court 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/25">ruled</a>
that prisoners in Bagram in Afghanistan have no right to habeas corpus.
<p>
It is legitimate to capture enemy soldiers and hold them as prisoners
of war.  (If this were not allowed, prisoners would instead be shot.)
Being a prisoner of war is not punishment for a crime, and no trial is
needed.  Of course, prisoners of war do have rights, and torture
violates them.
<p>
However, the 2010 decision, about people kidnaped in other countries
where the US was not at war, and then transported to Afghanistan just
to hold them in prison, was wrong.  Those cases are exactly like
Guantanamo.


title: Persian exile accuses West of supporting Khomeini's return
uri: Persian-exile-accuses-West-of-supporting-Khomeini-s-return
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_December_2013_(Persian_exile_accuses_West_of_supporting_Khomeinis_return)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_December_2013_%28Persian_exile_accuses_West_of_supporting_Khomeinis_return%29

content:
<p>
A Persian exile accuses the West of supporting Khomeini's return to
Iran and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/22-5">his 
plan to establish a fundamentalist regime.</a></p>
<p>
I don't know that this is true.  I would like to see proof.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_December_2013_(Yasser_Arafat)
title: Yasser Arafat
uri: Yasser-Arafat
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_December_2013_%28Yasser_Arafat%29
content:
<p>
The French and Russian teams that examined Yasser Arafat's remains
say he 
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25518813">was 
not poisoned with polonium-210.</a> These reports contradict the
findings of the Swiss team.</p>
<p>
The French team found polonium-210 and said 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/26/scientists-yasser-arafat-poisoned">it 
was of "natural origin",</a> which does not make sense, as polonium is
exceedingly rare and found only in uranium ore.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_December_2013_(Ten_states_ban_paid_sick_days)
title: Ten states ban paid sick days
uri: Ten-states-ban-paid-sick-days
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_December_2013_%28Ten_states_ban_paid_sick_days%29
content:
<p>
Ten States Have Banned Cities And Counties 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/06/2903871/paid-sick-days-preemption/">From 
Passing Paid Sick Days.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_December_2013_(Los_Angeles_thugs)
title: Los Angeles thugs
uri: Los-Angeles-thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_December_2013_%28Los_Angeles_thugs%29
content:
<p>
LA thugs' latest power trip 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/us/in-a-car-culture-clash-its-los-angeles-police-vs-pedestrians.html?pagewanted=all">is 
against pedestrians.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_December_2013_(Global_Heating)
title: Global Heating
uri: 2013-12-28-Global-Heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_December_2013_%28Global_Heating%29
content:
<p>Global heating is causing scarcity <a href="http://www.dw.de/climate-change-fuels-water-scarcity-and-hunger/a-17325128">
of water and food.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_December_2013_(Nuclear_Arsenal)
title: Nuclear Arsenal
uri: Nuclear-Arsenal
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_December_2013_%28Nuclear_Arsenal%29
content:
<p>Maintaining Nuclear Arsenal 
<a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/26/maintaining-nuclear-arsenal-to-cost-355-billion/">To 
Cost $355 Billion</a></p>
<p>(over 10 years, but still it is a ridiculous waste).</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 27_December_2013_(Ukrainian_journalist_maimed)
title: Ukrainian journalist maimed
uri: Ukrainian-journalist-maimed
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#27_December_2013_%28Ukrainian_journalist_maimed%29
content:
<p>
A journalist in Ukraine was pulled out of her car and maimed by
unknown men after 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/26/ukraine-journalist-activist-tetyana-chernovil-beating">accusing 
a minister of corruption.</a></p>
<p>
That minister is probably in charge of the thugs, and people accuse
him of sending thugs to carry out this attack.</p>


title: Tracking of commercial e-book users
uri: Tracking-of-commercial-e-book-users
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(Tracking_of_commercial_e-book_users)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28Tracking_of_commercial_e-book_users%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/technology/as-new-services-track-habits-the-e-books-are-reading-you.html?pagewanted=all">Some
of the things that e-book stores have learned</a> by tracking the
suckers that use commercial e-books.
<p>
Don't be a sucker — reject these malicious products.
Insist on using only e-books that respect your freedom as much
as ordinary printed books.


title: Ukraine's gov't cites the UK as an example of violating human rights
uri: Ukraine-s-gov-t-cites-the-UK-as-an-example-of-violating-human-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(Ukraine's_gov't_cites_the_UK_as_an_example_of_violating_human_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28Ukraine%27s_gov%27t_cites_the_UK_as_an_example_of_violating_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine's
government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/dec/28/sadiq-khan-attacks-cameron-over-human-rights-court">cites
the UK as an example of violating human rights.</a>


title: Chinese schools are designed for producing great test-takers
uri: Chinese-schools-are-designed-for-producing-great-test-takers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(Chinese_schools_are_designed_for_producing_great_test-takers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28Chinese_schools_are_designed_for_producing_great_test-takers%29

content:
<p>
Chinese schools
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/28/shanghai-china-schools-terrible-not-ideal">designed
for producing great test-takers</a>, which makes them look good when
their students are judged by a standardized test, but lousy in other
respects.
<p>
However, US "school reformers" seem bent on
pushing <a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2012-sep-dec.html#27_September_2012_(Kindergartners_burdened_with_standardized_tests)">US
schools in that direction.</a>


title: Iraq's Sunnis protesting for a year against Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi gov't
uri: Iraq-s-Sunnis-protesting-for-a-year-against-Shi-ite-dominated-Iraqi-go
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(Iraq's_Sunnis_protesting_for_a_year_against_Shi'ite-dominated_Iraqi_gov't)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28Iraq%27s_Sunnis_protesting_for_a_year_against_Shi%27ite-dominated_Iraqi_gov%27t%29

content:
<p>
Iraq's Sunnis have been protesting for a year against the
Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government.  The state sent troops
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/28/six-iraqis-killed-arrest-sunni-protest-leader-ahmad-al-alwani">arrest
a protest leader, and his guards fought back</a>.
<p>
I have no way of judging the claim that the protesters support al
Qa'ida.  It might be true.  Al Qa'ida calls for wiping out the
Shi'ites.
<p>
This unending sectarian war is Dubya's gift to Iraq.  Ironically,
Dubya found a way to wind it
down: <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2007-jul-oct.html#07 August 2007 (Trying to fight the al Qa'ida)">buying the support of the
Sunni clans.</a> But the money
was <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#06 April 2009 (Relative calm in Iraq ends)">cut off as the Bush forces left
Iraq</a> and the Shi'ites don't seem ready to employ it.


title: UK started charging non-citizens for births and antenatal care
uri: UK-started-charging-non-citizens-for-births-and-antenatal-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(UK_started_charging_non-citizens_for_births_and_antenatal_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28UK_started_charging_non-citizens_for_births_and_antenatal_care%29

content:
<p>
The UK has
started <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/27/nhs-charges-pregnant-migrant-women-danger">charging
non-citizens for births and antenatal care</a>, so women who can't
afford this give birth at home without aid.
<p>
The financial "savings" achieved this way will lead to bigger
financial costs, as well as injuries and deaths.  That's part of the
goal: to accustom more people to poverty.  Once this is the norm for
immigrants, it will be applied to Britons.


title: Many internet sites are requiring commenters to identify themselves
uri: Many-internet-sites-are-requiring-commenters-to-identify-themselves
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(Many_internet_sites_are_requiring_commenters_to_identify_themselves)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28Many_internet_sites_are_requiring_commenters_to_identify_themselves%29

content:
<p>
Many internet sites
are <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-12-websites-nasty-comments-anonymity.html">requiring
commenters to identify themselves.</a>
<p>
I am happy to post comments under my name, but I can afford to because
I am in a pretty safe position.  I don't have to fear that I will be
fired if my boss does not like what I say.


title: Turkish prosecutor says thugs interfered with the investigation
uri: Turkish-prosecutor-says-thugs-interfered-with-the-investigation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(Turkish_prosecutor_says_thugs_interfered_with_the_investigation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28Turkish_prosecutor_says_thugs_interfered_with_the_investigation%29

content:
<p>
Turkish prosecutor in charge of the corruption investigation says the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/26/turkish-corruption-prosecutor">thugs
interfered with the investigation</a>.  Meanwhile, the ministry has
removed him from the case.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(If_Snowden_were_tried_in_the_US)
title: If Snowden were tried in the US
uri: If-Snowden-were-tried-in-the-US
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28If_Snowden_were_tried_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
If Snowden were tried in the US, all evidence about the good he has
done for the country, or intended to
do, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/26-1">would be
inadmissible.</a>


title: Poor people in UK can no longer afford heating
uri: Poor-people-in-UK-can-no-longer-afford-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(Poor_people_in_UK_can_no_longer_afford_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28Poor_people_in_UK_can_no_longer_afford_heating%29

content:
<p>
Poor people in the UK can no longer afford
heating, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/27/damp-social-housing-residents-heating-energy-bills">so
their walls are getting wet and moldy, which triggers asthma.</a>


title: Almost 900 people died in US jails in 2011
uri: Almost-900-people-died-in-US-jails-in-2011
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(Almost_900_people_died_in_US_jails_in_2011)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28Almost_900_people_died_in_US_jails_in_2011%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/27/deaths-in-jails-885-inmates">Almost
900 people died in US jails in 2011</a>, often because the thugs in
charge disregard their medical problems.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 28_December_2013_(To_exploit_or_be_exploited)
title: To exploit or be exploited
uri: To-exploit-or-be-exploited
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#28_December_2013_%28To_exploit_or_be_exploited%29
content:
<p>
Plutocracy leaves most Americans with two
choices: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/27/hitchhike-around-american-rethink-us-freedom">to
exploit or be exploited.</a>
<p>
Even so, you can still campaign for progressives against the
illegitimate plutocratic government.


title: Compensation for poor countries damaged by global heating
uri: Compensation-for-poor-countries-damaged-by-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 29_December_2013_(Compensation_for_poor_countries_damaged_by_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_December_2013_%28Compensation_for_poor_countries_damaged_by_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
As the damage of global heating on poor countries becomes increasingly
large and irrefutable, the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/poorer-countries-climate-change-case">rich
polluting countries will have to pay compensation</a>.


title: Right wing gets Americans to curse gov't rather than recapture it
uri: Right-wing-gets-Americans-to-curse-gov-t-rather-than-recapture-it
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 29_December_2013_(Right_wing_gets_Americans_to_curse_govt_rather_than_recapture_it)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_December_2013_%28Right_wing_gets_Americans_to_curse_govt_rather_than_recapture_it%29

content:
<p>
Many Americans have been led to believe that the prime culprit of the
financial crisis was the government, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/29-0">rather than
the banksters</a>.
<p>
The right wing strategy is, after each thing they do to hurt
Americans, to get Americans to curse the government for it, rather
than 
<a href="http://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">recapture
the government and use it for democracy</a>.
<p>
This article makes a common mistake in its rhetoric:
it says that "we" have done some foolish thing, in a way that
implies we have all participated in it.  That's not only
unfair, it is also defeatist.


title: The Dinka-Nuer conflict in South Sudan
uri: The-Dinka-Nuer-conflict-in-South-Sudan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 29_December_2013_(The_Dinka-Nuer_conflict_in_South_Sudan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_December_2013_%28The_Dinka-Nuer_conflict_in_South_Sudan%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/28/reality-of-south-sudan-and-hollywood-stars">The
background</a> of the Dinka-Nuer conflict in South Sudan.


title: Obama keeps selling arms to Saudi Arabia
uri: Obama-keeps-selling-arms-to-Saudi-Arabia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 29_December_2013_(Obama_keeps_selling_arms_to_Saudi_Arabia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_December_2013_%28Obama_keeps_selling_arms_to_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
Obama keeps selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/saudi-arabia-us-human-rights-persecution-activists">repression
of human rights activists</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 29_December_2013_(The_US_drone_program)
title: The US drone program
uri: The-US-drone-program
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_December_2013_%28The_US_drone_program%29
content:
<p>
A drone combat analyst explains that the image is so fuzzy
that they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military">can't
tell whether someone is armed</a>.


title: Arrest of air passenger for carrying flash cards for learning Arabic
uri: Arrest-of-air-passenger-for-carrying-flash-cards-for-learning-Arabic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 29_December_2013_(Arrest_of_air_passenger_for_carrying_flash_cards_for_learning_Arabic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_December_2013_%28Arrest_of_air_passenger_for_carrying_flash_cards_for_learning_Arabic%29

content:
<p>
A judge ruled that the FBI was allowed to arrest an air passenger
for no reason other than 
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/25/federal-judge-rules-that-tsa-fbi-can-detain-and-arrest-you-for-carrying-arabic-flashcards/">carrying
flash cards for learning Arabic</a>.
<p>
Is studying Arabic more suspect than already knowing how to speak
Arabic?  If not, then how about arresting people only for knowing
Arabic?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 29_December_2013_(Egyptian_thugs_storm_university)
title: Egyptian thugs storm university
uri: Egyptian-thugs-storm-university
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_December_2013_%28Egyptian_thugs_storm_university%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian thugs stormed the country's main university, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/29/egypt-student-killed-azhar-battle">attacking
students and burning a dormitory</a>.


title: Federal judge rules that violation of 4th amendment is lawful
uri: Federal-judge-rules-that-violation-of-4th-amendment-is-lawful
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_December_2013_(Federal_judge_rules_that_violation_of_4th_amendment_is_lawful)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_December_2013_%28Federal_judge_rules_that_violation_of_4th_amendment_is_lawful%29

content:
<p>
A federal judge ruled that the NSA's collection of phone records is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/27/judge-rules-nsa-phone-data-collection-legal">lawful</a>.
<p>
This directly contradicts another judge who ruled it was an Orwellian
violation of 4th amendment.  Either or both could be overruled on
appeal.
<p>
The reference to the September 2001 attacks is mistaken, because we
know for a fact that phone surveillance would not have been necessary
for preventing the attacks if the US government had been paying
attention.  
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_(Feinstein-NSA_claims_about_massive_surveillance_and_Sep_11_hijackers_)">The 
US government had various warnings, including the flight student that
wasn't interested in learning to land the plane</a>, but ignored them.   
Dubya had told the FBI to reduce the resources into
counterterrorism.
<p>
It is also irrelevant as a reason.  If the state were allowed to
monitor everything and search everything, it could prevent many kinds
of crimes, as well as many kinds of dissent and whistleblowing, but
that doesn't invalidate the 4th amendment.


title: Cigarettes in plain paper packs encourage quitting
uri: Cigarettes-in-plain-paper-packs-encourage-quitting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_December_2013_(Cigarettes_in_plain_paper_packs_encourage_quitting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_December_2013_%28Cigarettes_in_plain_paper_packs_encourage_quitting%29

content:
<p>
Psychological evidence shows that plain paper packs, not covered by
"cool" branding, make cigarettes less attractive and 
<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100226150/the-evidence-is-clear-plain-packaging-for-cigarettes-works-the-governments-backdown-is-sheer-cowardice/">encourage
quitting</a>.
<p>
That is 
<a href="http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/?p=7591">supported by a
study in Australia</a> which compared smokers that got plain packs
with smokers using the same cigarette brands in attractive packs.
<p>
There is no direct evidence yet about whether it reduces cigarette
consumption.  That would take more time.  However, it is unlikely
to hurt.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_December_2013_(The_UK_censorship_filter)
title: The UK censorship filter
uri: The-UK-censorship-filter
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_December_2013_%28The_UK_censorship_filter%29
content:
<p>
The UK censorship filter blocks more than porn.  It 
<a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/12/camerons-internet-filter-goes-far-beyond-porn-and-was-always-plan">blocks
access to sex education sites, even help-lines</a>.
<p>
It also blocks many 
<a href="http://bsdly.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-uk-porn-filter-blocks-kids-access.html">free
software sites, and even amnesty.org</a>.
<p>
These schemes always make mistakes, and this is proof that that
continues to happen.  But let's not be distracted by the mistakes.
Even if they could fix all the mistakes, which they can't, that would
not make censorship acceptable.  Fixing 90% of the mistakes, which
maybe they could do, would not make it acceptable either.  Down with
censorship and the tyrannical rulers that impose it!


title: Arrest of Al Jazeera correspondents in Egypt
uri: Arrest-of-Al-Jazeera-correspondents-in-Egypt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_December_2013_(Arrest_of_Al_Jazeera_correspondents_in_Egypt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_December_2013_%28Arrest_of_Al_Jazeera_correspondents_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Al Jazeera correspondents in Egypt have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/dec/30/journalist-safety-egypt">arrested
for interviewing members of the Muslim Brotherhood</a>.
<p>
When a government accuses someone of publishing "false news", or says
it is illegal to interview someone because he's been declared a
terrorist (or even convicted in a fair trial of a terrorist act),
that's manifest tyranny.
<p>
The US-backed government of Yemen did something similar to 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_(Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye_receives_Human_Rights_Defenders_award)">Abdulelah
Haidar Shaye</a>, imprisoning him at Obama's request for interviewing
people in al Qa'ida.


title: Resisting privatization of water systems
uri: Resisting-privatization-of-water-systems
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_December_2013_(Resisting_privatization_of_water_systems)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_December_2013_%28Resisting_privatization_of_water_systems%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/dec/30/global-public-water-alliance-evaporate-gwopa">Resisting
and reversing</a> the privatization of water systems.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_December_2013_(TED)
title: TED
uri: TED
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_December_2013_%28TED%29
content:
<p>
TED is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/30/we-need-to-talk-about-ted">based
on the assumption that all we need is a clever new idea</a>.


title: SD cards have processors whose programs can be changed
uri: SD-cards-have-processors-whose-programs-can-be-changed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_December_2013_(SD_cards_have_processors_whose_programs_can_be_changed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_December_2013_%28SD_cards_have_processors_whose_programs_can_be_changed%29

content:
<p>
SD cards (and other memories) have processors whose programs
<a href="http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554">can be
changed</a>.
<p>
If it is normal to change that software — for instance, if
users are sometimes given upgrades — then it is an injustice
that these programs are proprietary.  However, even if it is not
normal to change that software, this is a dangerous vulnerability
to viruses, the NSA, etc.


title: Regulating prostitution to make prostitutes safer
uri: Regulating-prostitution-to-make-prostitutes-safer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html 30_December_2013_(Regulating_prostitution_to_make_prostitutes_safer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_December_2013_%28Regulating_prostitution_to_make_prostitutes_safer%29

content:
<p>
New Zealand offers an example of regulating prostitution that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/24/legal-changes-canada-sex-workers-risk">really
does make prostitutes safer</a>.
<p>
It seems to have worked out well there, based on 
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia-pacific/7927461.stm">anecdotes</a> and 
<a href="http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/parl-support/research-papers/00PLSocRP12051/prostitution-law-reform-in-new-zealand">official
reports</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, the US keeps prostitution illegal and maintains
a stigma against prostitutes, with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/27/grand-theft-auto-v-prostitutes-killed">predictable
results</a>.


title: Urgent: Wait for Edward Snowden at the airport
uri: Urgent-Wait-for-Edward-Snowden-at-the-airport
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Urgent:_Wait_for_Edward_Snowden_at_the_airport)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Wait_for_Edward_Snowden_at_the_airport%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: On Jan 3, make a sign saying "Edward Snowden", go to an
airport, and <a href="https://joindiaspora.com/posts/3457714">wait for
him to arrive</a>.


title: Thug infiltrators threatened nonviolent Occupy Austin protesters
uri: Thug-infiltrators-threatened-nonviolent-Occupy-Austin-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(Thug_infiltrators_threatened_nonviolent_Occupy_Austin_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28Thug_infiltrators_threatened_nonviolent_Occupy_Austin_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Thug infiltrators tried to get Occupy Austin protesters to commit
violence, but the protesters firmly refused.  So the 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/activism/exposed-undercover-agents-occupy-austin-entrapped-protesters-endangered-activists">infiltrators
gave them "lockboxes"</a> — basically tools to strap themselves
together for a sit-in so that removing them would be more work —
then accused them of a felony, "possessing a criminal instrument",
even though legally lockboxes don't qualify.
<p>
Next time you think about how Putin threatens nonviolent protesters
with years in prison, remember that the US does it too.
<p>
The charges about the lockboxes were eventually 
<a href="http://www.popularresistance.org/court-case-involving-occupy-austin-protesters-resolved/">dropped</a>.
<p>
It's not clear whether the court ultimately acknowledged that
it is absurd to call lockboxes a "criminal instrument".


title: UK takes another step towards making NHS nonfunctional
uri: UK-takes-another-step-towards-making-NHS-nonfunctional
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(UK_takes_another_step_towards_making_NHS_nonfunctional)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28UK_takes_another_step_towards_making_NHS_nonfunctional%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has taken 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/31/nhs-staff-laid-off-amid-savings-drive">another
substantial step</a> towards making the National Health Service
nonfunctional.
<p>
If the Labour party still stood for the non-rich, this taste of what
the rich do in power would give it every chance of winning again.


title: Refugees fleeing to Mexico due to gang wars in Central America
uri: Refugees-fleeing-to-Mexico-due-to-gang-wars-in-Central-America
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(Refugees_fleeing_to_Mexico_due_to_gang_wars_in_Central_America)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28Refugees_fleeing_to_Mexico_due_to_gang_wars_in_Central_America%29

content:
<p>
Gang wars in Central America are sending 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/31/central-america-migrants-flee-mexico">large
numbers of refugees</a> fleeing to Mexico.
<p>
Ending the War on Drugs would cut off a lot of the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#02_November_2012_(Legalization_of_marijuana_in_US_states)">money
that fuels the gangs</a>.


title: Stigmatization of those who are unusual
uri: Stigmatization-of-those-who-are-unusual
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(Stigmatization_of_those_who_are_unusual)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28Stigmatization_of_those_who_are_unusual%29

content:
<p>
The human tendency to stigmatize those who are unusual 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/31/romanian-bulgarian-migration-politicians">gets
whipped up in times of hardship</a>.
<p>
Plutocrats find it a useful way to distract people from them.


title: 44 Iraqi Sunni MPs resign in protest
uri: 44-Iraqi-Sunni-MPs-resign-in-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(44_Iraqi_Sunni_MPs_resign_in_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%2844_Iraqi_Sunni_MPs_resign_in_protest%29

content:
<p>
44 Iraqi Sunni MPs resigned in protest of state 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/30-8">attacks
against Sunni nonviolent protesters and the home of an MP</a>.
<p>
Iraq has been unable to establish a state that can hold the sects
together peacefully.  I think that can only lead to more war.


title: Fight against drug patents in India
uri: Fight-against-drug-patents-in-India
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(Fight_against_drug_patents_in_India)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28Fight_against_drug_patents_in_India%29

content:
<p>
India continues to fight against drug patents that 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/30-1">threaten
to kill millions</a>.


title: FAIR's year-end list of US media distortions
uri: FAIR-s-year-end-list-of-US-media-distortions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(FAIRs_year-end_list_of_US_media_distortions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28FAIRs_year-end_list_of_US_media_distortions%29

content:
<p>
FAIR's year-end list of 
<a href="http://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/the-2013-p-u-litzers/">2013
US media distortions</a>.


title: Lead in eggs of chickens grown in city gardens
uri: Lead-in-eggs-of-chickens-grown-in-city-gardens
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(Lead_in_eggs_of_chickens_grown_in_city_gardens)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28Lead_in_eggs_of_chickens_grown_in_city_gardens%29

content:
<p>
If you grow chickens in a city garden, watch out for 
<a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/chemistry/2013/12/scienceshot-scrambled-eggs-hold-lead">lead
in the eggs</a>!


title: Tech companies that boast "disruption" as their goal
uri: Tech-companies-that-boast-disruption-as-their-goal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(Tech_companies_that_boast_disruption_as_their_goal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28Tech_companies_that_boast_disruption_as_their_goal%29

content:
<p>
Tech companies that boast "disruption" as their goal are 
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/21/but-not-so-much-for-the-rest/">on
the way to being hated by the 80 or 90% of Americans</a> who will be
left with only precarious employment.


title: Using one criminal as the excuse to punish all poor families
uri: Using-one-criminal-as-the-excuse-to-punish-all-poor-families
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(Using_one_criminal_as_the_excuse_to_punish_all_poor_families)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28Using_one_criminal_as_the_excuse_to_punish_all_poor_families%29

content:
<p>
President Reagan's "welfare queen" was a real woman whose life was
crime after crime against most everyone she came in contact with.  Her
frauds against the welfare system were 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/12/linda_taylor_welfare_queen_ronald_reagan_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html">illegal
already</a>.
<p>
She was sentenced to prison for some of these frauds, and it looks
like she deserved it.  However, Reagan and Clinton used her as the
excuse to punish all poor families in America, and they did not
deserve this punishment.
<p>
It is important to reduce the rate of births by teenagers,
but instead of doing this the cruel Conservative way, which
consists of pushing poor people's children into worse poverty,
let's do it the kind Progressive way: offer taxpayer-funded
reliable birth control to every teenager.


title: Benjamin Franklin set example of leaking
uri: Benjamin-Franklin-set-example-of-leaking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(Benjamin_Franklin_set_example_of_leaking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28Benjamin_Franklin_set_example_of_leaking%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://harryblutstein.com/history/wikileaks/">Benjamin
Franklin set an example of leaking</a>, 240 years before Manning and
Snowden.


title: South Dakota tax haven for the rich
uri: South-Dakota-tax-haven-for-the-rich
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(South_Dakota_tax_haven_for_the_rich)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28South_Dakota_tax_haven_for_the_rich%29

content:
<p>
South Dakota is a 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-27/moguls-rent-south-dakota-addresses-to-dodge-taxes-forever.html">tax
haven</a> for any rich person that sets up a trust there.


title: Thug sentenced to two years in prison for illegal anal searches
uri: Thug-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison-for-illegal-anal-searches
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 31_December_2013_(Thug_sentenced_to_two_years_in_prison_for_illegal_anal_searches)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#31_December_2013_%28Thug_sentenced_to_two_years_in_prison_for_illegal_anal_searches%29

content:
<p>
Officer Vagnini, who committed illegal anal searches against a series
of people, was 
<a href="http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/milwaukee-cavity-search-spree/">sentenced
to only two years in prison</a>.  That's not much of a sentence for a
serial rapist.  Meanwhile, the other thugs that supported his crime
wave received very light sentences.


title: Federal judge rules that violation of 4th amendment is lawful
uri: 2014-01-01-Federal-judge-rules-that-violation-of-4th-amendment-is-lawful
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 30_December_2013_(Federal_judge_rules_that_violation_of_4th_amendment_is_lawful)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#30_December_2013_%28Federal_judge_rules_that_violation_of_4th_amendment_is_lawful%29

content:
<p>
A federal judge ruled that the NSA's collection of phone records is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/27/judge-rules-nsa-phone-data-collection-legal">lawful</a>.
<p>
This directly contradicts another judge who ruled it was an Orwellian
violation of 4th amendment.  Either or both could be overruled on
appeal.
<p>
The reference to the September 2001 attacks is mistaken, because we
know for a fact that phone surveillance would not have been necessary
for preventing the attacks if the US government had been paying
attention.  
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_October_2013_(Feinstein-NSA_claims_about_massive_surveillance_and_Sep_11_hijackers_)">The 
US government had various warnings, including the flight student that
wasn't interested in learning to land the plane</a>, but ignored them.   
Dubya had told the FBI to reduce the resources into
counterterrorism.
<p>
It is also irrelevant as a reason.  If the state were allowed to
monitor everything and search everything, it could prevent many kinds
of crimes, as well as many kinds of dissent and whistleblowing, but
that doesn't invalidate the 4th amendment.


title: Cigarettes in plain paper packs encourage quitting
uri: 2014-01-01-Cigarettes-in-plain-paper-packs-encourage-quitting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 30_December_2013_(Cigarettes_in_plain_paper_packs_encourage_quitting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#30_December_2013_%28Cigarettes_in_plain_paper_packs_encourage_quitting%29

content:
<p>
Psychological evidence shows that plain paper packs, not covered by
"cool" branding, make cigarettes less attractive and 
<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100226150/the-evidence-is-clear-plain-packaging-for-cigarettes-works-the-governments-backdown-is-sheer-cowardice/">encourage
quitting</a>.
<p>
That is 
<a href="http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/?p=7591">supported by a
study in Australia</a> which compared smokers that got plain packs
with smokers using the same cigarette brands in attractive packs.
<p>
There is no direct evidence yet about whether it reduces cigarette
consumption.  That would take more time.  However, it is unlikely
to hurt.


title: Arrest of Al Jazeera correspondents in Egypt
uri: 2014-01-01-Arrest-of-Al-Jazeera-correspondents-in-Egypt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 30_December_2013_(Arrest_of_Al_Jazeera_correspondents_in_Egypt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#30_December_2013_%28Arrest_of_Al_Jazeera_correspondents_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Al Jazeera correspondents in Egypt have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/dec/30/journalist-safety-egypt">arrested
for interviewing members of the Muslim Brotherhood</a>.
<p>
When a government accuses someone of publishing "false news", or says
it is illegal to interview someone because he's been declared a
terrorist (or even convicted in a fair trial of a terrorist act),
that's manifest tyranny.
<p>
The US-backed government of Yemen did something similar to 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#08_December_2013_(Abdulelah_Haider_Shaye_receives_Human_Rights_Defenders_award)">Abdulelah
Haidar Shaye</a>, imprisoning him at Obama's request for interviewing
people in al Qa'ida.


title: Resisting privatization of water systems
uri: 2014-01-01-Resisting-privatization-of-water-systems
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 30_December_2013_(Resisting_privatization_of_water_systems)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#30_December_2013_%28Resisting_privatization_of_water_systems%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/dec/30/global-public-water-alliance-evaporate-gwopa">Resisting
and reversing</a> the privatization of water systems.


title: SD cards have processors whose programs can be changed
uri: 2014-01-01-SD-cards-have-processors-whose-programs-can-be-changed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 30_December_2013_(SD_cards_have_processors_whose_programs_can_be_changed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#30_December_2013_%28SD_cards_have_processors_whose_programs_can_be_changed%29

content:
<p>
SD cards (and other memories) have processors whose programs
<a href="http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554">can be
changed</a>.
<p>
If it is normal to change that software — for instance, if
users are sometimes given upgrades — then it is an injustice
that these programs are proprietary.  However, even if it is not
normal to change that software, this is a dangerous vulnerability
to viruses, the NSA, etc.


title: Regulating prostitution to make prostitutes safer
uri: 2014-01-01-Regulating-prostitution-to-make-prostitutes-safer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 30_December_2013_(Regulating_prostitution_to_make_prostitutes_safer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#30_December_2013_%28Regulating_prostitution_to_make_prostitutes_safer%29

content:
<p>
New Zealand offers an example of regulating prostitution that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/24/legal-changes-canada-sex-workers-risk">really
does make prostitutes safer</a>.
<p>
It seems to have worked out well there, based on 
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia-pacific/7927461.stm">anecdotes</a> and 
<a href="http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/parl-support/research-papers/00PLSocRP12051/prostitution-law-reform-in-new-zealand">official
reports</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, the US keeps prostitution illegal and maintains
a stigma against prostitutes, with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/27/grand-theft-auto-v-prostitutes-killed">predictable
results</a>.


title: Compensation for poor countries damaged by global heating
uri: 2014-01-01-Compensation-for-poor-countries-damaged-by-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 29_December_2013_(Compensation_for_poor_countries_damaged_by_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#29_December_2013_%28Compensation_for_poor_countries_damaged_by_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
As the damage of global heating on poor countries becomes increasingly
large and irrefutable, the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/poorer-countries-climate-change-case">rich
polluting countries will have to pay compensation</a>.


title: Right wing gets Americans to curse gov't rather than recapture it
uri: 2014-01-01-Right-wing-gets-Americans-to-curse-gov-t-rather-than-recapture-it
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 29_December_2013_(Right_wing_gets_Americans_to_curse_govt_rather_than_recapture_it)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#29_December_2013_%28Right_wing_gets_Americans_to_curse_govt_rather_than_recapture_it%29

content:
<p>
Many Americans have been led to believe that the prime culprit of the
financial crisis was the government, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/29-0">rather than
the banksters</a>.
<p>
The right wing strategy is, after each thing they do to hurt
Americans, to get Americans to curse the government for it, rather
than 
<a href="http://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">recapture
the government and use it for democracy</a>.
<p>
This article makes a common mistake in its rhetoric:
it says that "we" have done some foolish thing, in a way that
implies we have all participated in it.  That's not only
unfair, it is also defeatist.


title: The Dinka-Nuer conflict in South Sudan
uri: 2014-01-01-The-Dinka-Nuer-conflict-in-South-Sudan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 29_December_2013_(The_Dinka-Nuer_conflict_in_South_Sudan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#29_December_2013_%28The_Dinka-Nuer_conflict_in_South_Sudan%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/28/reality-of-south-sudan-and-hollywood-stars">The
background</a> of the Dinka-Nuer conflict in South Sudan.


title: Obama keeps selling arms to Saudi Arabia
uri: 2014-01-01-Obama-keeps-selling-arms-to-Saudi-Arabia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 29_December_2013_(Obama_keeps_selling_arms_to_Saudi_Arabia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#29_December_2013_%28Obama_keeps_selling_arms_to_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
Obama keeps selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/saudi-arabia-us-human-rights-persecution-activists">repression
of human rights activists</a>.


title: Arrest of air passenger for carrying flash cards for learning Arabic
uri: 2014-01-01-Arrest-of-air-passenger-for-carrying-flash-cards-for-learning-Arabic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 29_December_2013_(Arrest_of_air_passenger_for_carrying_flash_cards_for_learning_Arabic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#29_December_2013_%28Arrest_of_air_passenger_for_carrying_flash_cards_for_learning_Arabic%29

content:
<p>
A judge ruled that the FBI was allowed to arrest an air passenger
for no reason other than 
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/25/federal-judge-rules-that-tsa-fbi-can-detain-and-arrest-you-for-carrying-arabic-flashcards/">carrying
flash cards for learning Arabic</a>.
<p>
Is studying Arabic more suspect than already knowing how to speak
Arabic?  If not, then how about arresting people only for knowing
Arabic?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 29_December_2013_(Egyptian_thugs_storm_university)
title: Egyptian thugs storm university
uri: 2014-01-01-Egyptian-thugs-storm-university
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#29_December_2013_%28Egyptian_thugs_storm_university%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian thugs stormed the country's main university, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/29/egypt-student-killed-azhar-battle">attacking
students and burning a dormitory</a>.


title: Ukraine's gov't cites the UK as an example of violating human rights
uri: 2014-01-01-Ukraine-s-gov-t-cites-the-UK-as-an-example-of-violating-human-rights
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 28_December_2013_(Ukraine's_gov't_cites_the_UK_as_an_example_of_violating_human_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_%28Ukraine%27s_gov%27t_cites_the_UK_as_an_example_of_violating_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine's
government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/dec/28/sadiq-khan-attacks-cameron-over-human-rights-court">cites
the UK as an example of violating human rights.</a>


title: Chinese schools are designed for producing great test-takers
uri: 2014-01-01-Chinese-schools-are-designed-for-producing-great-test-takers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 28_December_2013_(Chinese_schools_are_designed_for_producing_great_test-takers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_%28Chinese_schools_are_designed_for_producing_great_test-takers%29

content:
<p>
Chinese schools
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/28/shanghai-china-schools-terrible-not-ideal">designed
for producing great test-takers</a>, which makes them look good when
their students are judged by a standardized test, but lousy in other
respects.
<p>
However, US "school reformers" seem bent on
pushing <a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2012-sep-dec.html#27_September_2012_(Kindergartners_burdened_with_standardized_tests)">US
schools in that direction.</a>


title: Iraq's Sunnis protesting for a year against Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi gov't
uri: 2014-01-01-Iraq-s-Sunnis-protesting-for-a-year-against-Shi-ite-dominated-Iraqi-go
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 28_December_2013_(Iraq's_Sunnis_protesting_for_a_year_against_Shi'ite-dominated_Iraqi_gov't)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_%28Iraq%27s_Sunnis_protesting_for_a_year_against_Shi%27ite-dominated_Iraqi_gov%27t%29

content:
<p>
Iraq's Sunnis have been protesting for a year against the
Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government.  The state sent troops
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/28/six-iraqis-killed-arrest-sunni-protest-leader-ahmad-al-alwani">arrest
a protest leader, and his guards fought back</a>.
<p>
I have no way of judging the claim that the protesters support al
Qa'ida.  It might be true.  Al Qa'ida calls for wiping out the
Shi'ites.
<p>
This unending sectarian war is Dubya's gift to Iraq.  Ironically,
Dubya found a way to wind it
down: <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2007-jul-oct.html#07 August 2007 (Trying to fight the al Qa'ida)">buying the support of the
Sunni clans.</a> But the money
was <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#06 April 2009 (Relative calm in Iraq ends)">cut off as the Bush forces left
Iraq</a> and the Shi'ites don't seem ready to employ it.


title: UK started charging non-citizens for births and antenatal care
uri: 2014-01-01-UK-started-charging-non-citizens-for-births-and-antenatal-care
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 28_December_2013_(UK_started_charging_non-citizens_for_births_and_antenatal_care)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_%28UK_started_charging_non-citizens_for_births_and_antenatal_care%29

content:
<p>
The UK has
started <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/27/nhs-charges-pregnant-migrant-women-danger">charging
non-citizens for births and antenatal care</a>, so women who can't
afford this give birth at home without aid.
<p>
The financial "savings" achieved this way will lead to bigger
financial costs, as well as injuries and deaths.  That's part of the
goal: to accustom more people to poverty.  Once this is the norm for
immigrants, it will be applied to Britons.


title: Many internet sites are requiring commenters to identify themselves
uri: 2014-01-01-Many-internet-sites-are-requiring-commenters-to-identify-themselves
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 28_December_2013_(Many_internet_sites_are_requiring_commenters_to_identify_themselves)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_%28Many_internet_sites_are_requiring_commenters_to_identify_themselves%29

content:
<p>
Many internet sites
are <a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-12-websites-nasty-comments-anonymity.html">requiring
commenters to identify themselves.</a>
<p>
I am happy to post comments under my name, but I can afford to because
I am in a pretty safe position.  I don't have to fear that I will be
fired if my boss does not like what I say.


title: Turkish prosecutor says thugs interfered with the investigation
uri: 2014-01-01-Turkish-prosecutor-says-thugs-interfered-with-the-investigation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 28_December_2013_(Turkish_prosecutor_says_thugs_interfered_with_the_investigation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_%28Turkish_prosecutor_says_thugs_interfered_with_the_investigation%29

content:
<p>
Turkish prosecutor in charge of the corruption investigation says the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/26/turkish-corruption-prosecutor">thugs
interfered with the investigation</a>.  Meanwhile, the ministry has
removed him from the case.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 28_December_2013_(If_Snowden_were_tried_in_the_US)
title: If Snowden were tried in the US
uri: 2014-01-01-If-Snowden-were-tried-in-the-US
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_%28If_Snowden_were_tried_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
If Snowden were tried in the US, all evidence about the good he has
done for the country, or intended to
do, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/26-1">would be
inadmissible.</a>


title: Poor people in UK can no longer afford heating
uri: 2014-01-01-Poor-people-in-UK-can-no-longer-afford-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 28_December_2013_(Poor_people_in_UK_can_no_longer_afford_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_%28Poor_people_in_UK_can_no_longer_afford_heating%29

content:
<p>
Poor people in the UK can no longer afford
heating, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/27/damp-social-housing-residents-heating-energy-bills">so
their walls are getting wet and moldy, which triggers asthma.</a>


title: Almost 900 people died in US jails in 2011
uri: 2014-01-01-Almost-900-people-died-in-US-jails-in-2011
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 28_December_2013_(Almost_900_people_died_in_US_jails_in_2011)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_%28Almost_900_people_died_in_US_jails_in_2011%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/27/deaths-in-jails-885-inmates">Almost
900 people died in US jails in 2011</a>, often because the thugs in
charge disregard their medical problems.


title: Tracking of commercial e-book users
uri: 2014-01-01-Tracking-of-commercial-e-book-users
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 28_December_2013_(Tracking_of_commercial_e-book_users)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_%28Tracking_of_commercial_e-book_users%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/technology/as-new-services-track-habits-the-e-books-are-reading-you.html?pagewanted=all">Some
of the things that e-book stores have learned</a> by tracking the
suckers that use commercial e-books.
<p>
Don't be a sucker — reject these malicious products.
Insist on using only e-books that respect your freedom as much
as ordinary printed books.


title: Congressional Republicans ask IRS to produce one-sided report
uri: Congressional-Republicans-ask-IRS-to-produce-one-sided-report
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Congressional_Republicans_ask_IRS_to_produce_one-sided_report)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Congressional_Republicans_ask_IRS_to_produce_one-sided_report%29

content:
<p>
Congressional Republicans ask the IRS to produce a one-sided report,
creating an appearance of a scandalous political bias, 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/26/1219172/-Here-s-how-Darrell-Issa-manufactured-the-IRS-scandal">which
the same Republicans then attacked</a>.


title: Companies cheat homeless people recruited to work on Fukushima cleanup
uri: Companies-cheat-homeless-people-recruited-to-work-on-Fukushima-cleanup
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Companies_cheat_homeless_people_recruited_to_work_on_Fukushima_cleanup)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Companies_cheat_homeless_people_recruited_to_work_on_Fukushima_cleanup%29

content:
<p>
Japanese companies recruit homeless people to work on the Fukushima cleanup,
then 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-fukushima-workers-idUSBRE9BT00520131230">cheat
them of their wages</a>.
<p>
I'm glad that there is work available for homeless people, but
cheating them is despicable.  (It's common practice for businesses to
cheat workers.)  And this work might be dangerous to them, and to
others if not done right.  It needs to be done by people who know what
they are doing.


title: Services that claim to test your DNA
uri: Services-that-claim-to-test-your-DNA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Services_that_claim_to_test_your_DNA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Services_that_claim_to_test_your_DNA%29

content:
<p>
Services that claim to test your DNA and predict risk of various diseases
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/science/i-had-my-dna-picture-taken-with-varying-results.html?pagewanted=all">don't
really know what they are doing</a>.


title: Jobs for college graduates to be replaced by AIs
uri: Jobs-for-college-graduates-to-be-replaced-by-AIs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Jobs_for_college_graduates_to_be_replaced_by_AIs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Jobs_for_college_graduates_to_be_replaced_by_AIs%29

content:
<p>
Some researchers expect that
<a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/world/asia/computers-jump-to-the-head-of-the-class.html?_r=0">10
to 20 percent of jobs for college graduates</a> will be replaced by
AIs in the next two decades.
<p>
This is in addition to many other jobs that will be eliminated —
drivers, for instance, and supermarket sales jobs.
<p>
We are already seeing the effects of this, in long-term unemployment
of people who have given up looking for jobs.  All economic growth
goes to the rich few, so it creates few jobs.  The jobs lost to
computerization will not be replaced by other jobs.
<p>
If you are a young person now and you are not brilliant or aiming at a
career such as medicine, I recommend that you not get yourself in debt
to go to college.  You'll never pay that debt off.  Instead, organize
for your state to adopt 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_August_2013_(The_college_loan_racket)">Oregon's
plan for funding a college education</a>.  If it takes ten years to
win, you can go to college then, and you'll still be better off.
<p>
Passing the entrance exam for a Japanese university is less
challenging for an AI than you might suppose.  Those exams focus on
rote learning, so passing requires a lot of knowledge but no
creativity.  It does, however, require human-style common sense for
the reading comprehension, and that is the central challenge in AI.


title: Oil extraction from Canadian tar sands spews out mercury
uri: Oil-extraction-from-Canadian-tar-sands-spews-out-mercury
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Oil_extraction_from_Canadian_tar_sands_spews_out_mercury)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Oil_extraction_from_Canadian_tar_sands_spews_out_mercury%29

content:
<p>
Oil extraction from Canadian tar sands 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/12/30/3107761/tar-sands-mercury/">spews
out mercury</a>, which is toxic.
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2005-jan-apr.html#26%20March%202005%20(Lung%20damage%20and%20brain%20damage%20in%20American%20children)">Burning
coal also spews mercury</a>.
<p>
Letting companies "regulate themselves" is a standard right-wing
agenda.  The conservative regime in the US is considering 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_October_2013_(The_plan_to_let_chicken_farms_do_their_own_inspection)">letting
chicken factories inspect themselves</a>.


title: NSA's methods of spying on computers include physical spy devices
uri: NSA-s-methods-of-spying-on-computers-include-physical-spy-devices
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(NSAs_methods_of_spying_on_computers_include_physical_spy_devices)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28NSAs_methods_of_spying_on_computers_include_physical_spy_devices%29

content:
<p>
The NSA's methods of spying on computers include 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/inside-the-nsas-leaked-catalog-of-surveillance-magic/">physical
spy devices</a> such as radio-transmitter USB plugs, as well as
devices they insert into a computer while it is being shipped.
<p>
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/30/glenn_greenwald_the_nsa_can_literally">What
this implies.
<p>
Greenwald and an ACLU lawyer comment on how 
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/30/orwellian_or_a_blunt_tool_conflicting">Obama
is the NSA's trojan horse in the Democratic Party</a>.
<p>
We had a name, in the 1980s, for politicians with views like Obama's:
"Republicans".  I used to be a Democrat … until the Democratic
party as a whole turned conservative and no longer deserved my
support.  However, we are now electing some Democrats worthy of the
name, such as Elizabeth Warren.


title: Owners of factory face murder charges
uri: Owners-of-factory-face-murder-charges
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Owners_of_factory_face_murder_charges)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Owners_of_factory_face_murder_charges%29

content:
<p>
The owners of the factory in which fire killed 112 workers now face
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/31-3">murder
charges</a>.
<p>
I don't think that the executives of western clothing lines deserve to
be charged with murder.  It is more effective to make them responsible
for the working conditions of the factories that make their clothing
— and prosecute <em>every</em> time they fail to check, not just
on the rare occasions when that kills someone.


title: 3 more Guantanamo prisoners released
uri: 3-more-Guantanamo-prisoners-released
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(3_more_Guantanamo_prisoners_released)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%283_more_Guantanamo_prisoners_released%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/31-4">3 more
prisoners</a> in Guantanamo have been released.
<p>
The US has known for 10 years that there was never any reason to
imprison them.


title: Obama keeps lying to whitewash the NSA
uri: Obama-keeps-lying-to-whitewash-the-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Obama_keeps_lying_to_whitewash_the_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Obama_keeps_lying_to_whitewash_the_NSA%29

content:
<p>
Obama 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/31-2">keeps
lying</a> to whitewash the NSA.


title: Oppression of humans by shoot-to-kill rangers in Tanzania
uri: Oppression-of-humans-by-shoot-to-kill-rangers-in-Tanzania
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Oppression_of_humans_by_shoot-to-kill_rangers_in_Tanzania)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Oppression_of_humans_by_shoot-to-kill_rangers_in_Tanzania%29

content:
<p>
Shoot-to-kill rangers protected elephants, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/31/elephant-deaths-rise-tanzania-shoot-to-kill-poachers">oppressed
humans</a>.
<p>
What can the replacement be?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Egypt_applies_US-style_forfeiture)
title: Egypt applies US-style forfeiture
uri: Egypt-applies-US-style-forfeiture
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Egypt_applies_US-style_forfeiture%29

content:
<p>
Egypt is applying 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/31/egypt-al-jazeera-journalists-muslim-brotherhood">US-style
forfeiture</a> to 500 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.


title: Extreme weather disasters in the Caribbean
uri: Extreme-weather-disasters-in-the-Caribbean
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Extreme_weather_disasters_in_the_Caribbean)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Extreme_weather_disasters_in_the_Caribbean%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/31/storms-caribbean-uk-climate-change">Extreme
weather disasters</a> in the Caribbean.


title: Redistribution of US wealth in the past five years
uri: Redistribution-of-US-wealth-in-the-past-five-years
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Redistribution_of_US_wealth_in_the_past_five_years)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Redistribution_of_US_wealth_in_the_past_five_years%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/30-0">The Shocking
Redistribution of [US] Wealth in the Past Five Years</a>.


title: New model says 4C of global heating by 2100
uri: New-model-says-4C-of-global-heating-by-2100
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(New_model_says_4C_of_global_heating_by_2100)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28New_model_says_4C_of_global_heating_by_2100%29

content:
<p>
A new climate model says we are on track for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/31/planet-will-warm-4c-2100-climate">4C
of global heating by 2100</a>.


title: Israeli gov't backs plan to keep West Bank permanently under siege
uri: Israeli-gov-t-backs-plan-to-keep-West-Bank-permanently-under-siege
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Israeli_govt_backs_plan_to_keep_West_Bank_permanently_under_siege)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Israeli_govt_backs_plan_to_keep_West_Bank_permanently_under_siege%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli government displayed its contempt for Kerry's "peace
negotiations" by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/31/israeli-government-jordan-valley-john-kerry-visit">backing
a plan to annex a large fraction of the West Bank</a> in order to keep
it permanently under siege.
<p>
Netanyahu does not care how this affects the "negotiations", since he
has no intention of making a peace agreement.  I think his goal is to
show that he still has the US government cowed; that he can ridicule
the US and the "negotiations" and Kerry won't dare make a peep.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(NSAs_catalog_of_attack_software)
title: NSA's catalog of attack software
uri: NSA-s-catalog-of-attack-software
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28NSAs_catalog_of_attack_software%29

content:
<p>
The NSA's 
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html">catalog
of attack software</a>: they can attack BIOSes, routers, even the
firmware of hard drives.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(NSAs_special_cracking_unit)
title: NSA's special cracking unit
uri: NSA-s-special-cracking-unit
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28NSAs_special_cracking_unit%29
content:
<p>
The NSA has a special unit to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/29/der-spiegel-nsa-hacking-unit-tao">crack
security of machines that are hard to crack</a>.
<p>
It is legitimate to have a unit like this, but its operations must be
very strictly controlled, and we cannot trust officials that lie to
Congress to do that.
<p>
The comparison with "plumbers" is telling, since Nixon used the
same metaphor to describe his team of burglars, whose best known
crime was in the Watergate hotel.


title: States that vote right-wing tend to take from Federal gov't
uri: States-that-vote-right-wing-tend-to-take-from-Federal-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(States_that_vote_right-wing_tend_to_take_from_Federal_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28States_that_vote_right-wing_tend_to_take_from_Federal_govt%29

content:
<p>
States that vote right-wing 
<a href="http://www.occupydemocrats.com/surprise-red-states-actually-take-more-than-blue-states-in-federal-aid/">tend
to take from the Federal government</a>, while Democratic states
contribute.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 01_January_2014_(Another_oil_train_collision)
title: Another oil train collision
uri: Another-oil-train-collision
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#01_January_2014_%28Another_oil_train_collision%29
content:
<p>
Another oil train collided and started 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/31/north-dakota-train-crash-oil">another
big fire</a>.
<p>
We were lucky this time — the collision took place in a deserted
area and it seems nobody was directly hurt.  Oil trains go through
towns and cities, and we can't be lucky every time.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Urgent:_Monsanto_Protection_Act)
title: Urgent: Monsanto Protection Act
uri: Urgent-Monsanto-Protection-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Monsanto_Protection_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://vk.rootstrikers.org/petitions/23?n=199553.11AzE_">call for allowing the Monsanto Protection Act to lapse.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(From_Turing_to_Snowden)
title: From Turing to Snowden
uri: From-Turing-to-Snowden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28From_Turing_to_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
From Turing to Snowden:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/turing-snowden-transatlantic-pact-modern-surveillance">
How US-UK Pact Forged Modern Surveillance</a> (of
everyone).
<p>
It should be noted that the US got various warnings of the September
2001 terrorist attacks, but
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2003-sep-dec.html#13%20October%202003%20%289/11%20warnings%29">
officials did not take the warnings seriously</a>.


title: World's population considers USA to be the biggest threat to world peace
uri: World-s-population-considers-USA-to-be-the-biggest-threat-to-world-pea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 02_January_2014_(World's_population_considers_USA_to_be_the_biggest_threat_to_world_peace)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_%28World%27s_population_considers_USA_to_be_the_biggest_threat_to_world_peace%29

content:
<p>
A world-wide poll found that
the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/31-6">world's
population considers the USA to be the biggest threat to world
peace.</a>


title: Families applying for welfare in Florida can't be required to take drug tests
uri: Families-applying-for-welfare-in-Florida-can-t-be-required-to-take-dru
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 02_January_2014_(Families_applying_for_welfare_in_Florida_can't_be_required_to_take_drug_tests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_%28Families_applying_for_welfare_in_Florida_can%27t_be_required_to_take_drug_tests%29

content:
<p>
An ACLU
victory: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/12/31-3">families
applying for welfare in Florida can't be required to take drug
tests.</a>
<p>
I joined the ACLU when George I criticized Governor Dukakis for being
a "card-carrying member", effectively likening the defense of civil
liberties to Communism.  I asked myself, "If Michael Dukakis can be an
ACLU member, why am I not one?"  Then I joined.


title: 22000 students in New York City are homeless
uri: 22000-students-in-New-York-City-are-homeless
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 02_January_2014_(22000_students_in_New_York_City_are_homeless)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_%2822000_students_in_New_York_City_are_homeless%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/01/homeless-student-new-york-city-speaks">22000
students in New York City are homeless.</a>
<p>
Will Mayor de Blasio help them find shelter?  There are places in New
York City where tents could be set up.


title: Legal marijuana stores are opening in Colorado
uri: Legal-marijuana-stores-are-opening-in-Colorado
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 02_January_2014_(Legal_marijuana_stores_are_opening_in_Colorado)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_%28Legal_marijuana_stores_are_opening_in_Colorado%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/12/31">Legal
marijuana stores are opening in Colorado.</a>


title: Transporting oil by rail is very dangerous
uri: Transporting-oil-by-rail-is-very-dangerous
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 02_January_2014_(Transporting_oil_by_rail_is_very_dangerous)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_%28Transporting_oil_by_rail_is_very_dangerous%29

content:
<p>
Transporting oil by
rail <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/31-10">is
very dangerous, but pipelines are becoming less safe, too.</a>
<p>
Why are pipelines less safe than previously?  Maybe they are just
getting old.  Maybe the government doesn't require as much inspection
and maintenance as before.  Maybe the government has fewer inspectors,
or doesn't dare fine companies enough to make them
comply.  <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#12 January 2011 (Inspection Recommended)">It certainly isn't trying hard
enough.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 02_January_2014_(Global_heating_denialism)
title: Global heating denialism
uri: Global-heating-denialism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_%28Global_heating_denialism%29
content:
<p>
Abbott
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/01/maurice-newman-carbon-tony-abbott">using
his "business advisor" to spread global heating denialism.</a>
<p>
Abbott warned Australia that he isn't
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/13/tony-abbott-gaffe-world-stage">suppository
of all wisdom,</a> but who needs a suppository with shit like this?


title: Netanyahu's demand for recognizing Israel as a "Jewish state"
uri: Netanyahu-s-demand-for-recognizing-Israel-as-a-Jewish-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 02_January_2014_(Netanyahu's_demand_for_recognizing_Israel_as_a_Jewish_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_%28Netanyahu%27s_demand_for_recognizing_Israel_as_a_Jewish_state%29

content:
<p>
Ideas for compromise about Netanyahu's demand
for <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=62563">recognizing
Israel as "a Jewish state" rather than just a state.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 02_January_2014_(The_Israel_double_standard)
title: The Israel double standard
uri: The-Israel-double-standard
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_%28The_Israel_double_standard%29
content:
<p>
The Israel double
standard: <a href="http://972mag.com/the-worlds-blatant-double-standard-in-israels-favor/84499/">other
countries get sanctions for violating human rights, but Israel only
gets a boycott.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 02_January_2014_(Palestinians_in_Jerusalem)
title: Palestinians in Jerusalem
uri: Palestinians-in-Jerusalem
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_%28Palestinians_in_Jerusalem%29
content:
<p>
10,000 Palestinian children living with their parents in Jerusalem
<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/thousands-jerusalem-children-denied-basic-services-israeli-apartheid/13043?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=faecc30fcd-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-faecc30fcd-290644433">can't
get Jerusalem residency cards, or health care , and after they reach
16 they won't be allowed to live with (or even visit) their
mothers.</a>
<p>
Required identity cards are an injustice in themselves, of course,
even if not applied in this discriminatory fashion.


title: 15 things everyone would know if there were a Liberal media
uri: 15-things-everyone-would-know-if-there-were-a-Liberal-media
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 02_January_2014_(15_things_everyone_would_know_if_there_were_a_Liberal_media)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#02_January_2014_%2815_things_everyone_would_know_if_there_were_a_Liberal_media%29

content:
<p>
Daily
Kos: <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/07/1229087/-15-things-everyone-would-know-if-there-were-a-liberal-media?detail=email">15
things everyone would know if there were a Liberal media.</a>


title: Rapists murder Indian girl who reported rapes
uri: Rapists-murder-Indian-girl-who-reported-rapes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Rapists_murder_Indian_girl_who_reported_rapes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Rapists_murder_Indian_girl_who_reported_rapes%29

content:
<p>
An Indian girl who reported rapes was subsequently 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/jan/02/death-gang-rape-victim-india-new-years-eve">murdered
by the rapists</a>.


title: Planned mines in Sweden threaten reindeer
uri: Planned-mines-in-Sweden-threaten-reindeer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Planned_mines_in_Sweden_threaten_reindeer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Planned_mines_in_Sweden_threaten_reindeer%29

content:
<p>
Giant mines planned in Sweden will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/02/reindeer-herds-in-danger-mining-sweden">block
reindeer migration</a>, and dust spread by the mines will kill
reindeer anyway.


title: Global heating melts continental ice and increases sea ice
uri: Global-heating-melts-continental-ice-and-increases-sea-ice
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Global_heating_melts_continental_ice_and_increases_sea_ice)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Global_heating_melts_continental_ice_and_increases_sea_ice%29

content:
<p>
If someone tells you that the ship now caught in sea ice near
Antarctica disproves global heating, here's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/02/antarctic-ship-stranding-delights-climate-change-sceptics">the
real science</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Software_freedom_on_farms)
title: Software freedom on farms
uri: Software-freedom-on-farms
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Software_freedom_on_farms%29
content:
<p>
The software freedom fight comes to the farm, as 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/food/monsantos-terrifying-new-scheme-massive-amounts-data-collection?paging=off">computerized
farm machines</a> have created a battle over whether farms will
control their own computing and data, or be prey to Monsanto and other
large companies.
<p>
It's regrettable that this idealistic author adopts the
anti-idealistic term "open source", which was designed to suppress
this sort of idealism.  Clearly, the suppression does not work 100%,
but it continues to weaken our movement.


title: An Economy That Benefits Ordinary People?
uri: An-Economy-That-Benefits-Ordinary-People
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(An_Economy_That_Benefits_Ordinary_People)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28An_Economy_That_Benefits_Ordinary_People%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/01-4">An Economy
That Benefits Ordinary People? What We Learned From the 1%</a>.
<p>
How to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/01/finance-hold-everyday-life-broken-capitalism">reverse
financialization</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Iraqs_deadliest_year_since_2008)
title: Iraq's deadliest year since 2008
uri: Iraq-s-deadliest-year-since-2008
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Iraqs_deadliest_year_since_2008%29

content:
<p>
2013 was Iraq's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/01/iraq-2013-deadliest-year-since-2008">deadliest
year since 2008</a>.


title: Republicans plan new impediments to abortion
uri: Republicans-plan-new-impediments-to-abortion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Republicans_plan_new_impediments_to_abortion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Republicans_plan_new_impediments_to_abortion%29

content:
<p>
Republicans are planning a 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/30/3107291/anti-choice-lawmakers-plan-2014/">new
series of artificial impediments to abortion</a>.
<p>
Considering the many ways <em>not</em> having an abortion can harm a
woman — before, during, and years after birth — it would
make more sense to require a waiting period for the decision
<em>not</em> to have an abortion.


title: Chomsky on rich countries' race towards disaster
uri: Chomsky-on-rich-countries-race-towards-disaster
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Chomsky_on_rich_countries_race_towards_disaster)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Chomsky_on_rich_countries_race_towards_disaster%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/noam-chomsky-richest-countries-are-racing-us-towards-disaster-while-so-called-primitive?paging=off">Chomsky</a>
on the NSA, earth's destruction, the loss of journalism, the
downgrading of education, and more.


title: NSA, Benghazi and the Monsters of Our Own Creation
uri: NSA-Benghazi-and-the-Monsters-of-Our-Own-Creation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(NSA,_Benghazi_and_the_Monsters_of_Our_Own_Creation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28NSA%2C_Benghazi_and_the_Monsters_of_Our_Own_Creation%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/31-1">NSA, Benghazi
and the Monsters of Our Own Creation</a>: the US government knows
everything but learns nothing.
<p>
The same can be said about al Qa'ida in general.  Despite all its
intelligence gathering, the US has only managed to make al Qa'ida
stronger.


title: ACLU trying to find out about NSA surveillance of Americans
uri: ACLU-trying-to-find-out-about-NSA-surveillance-of-Americans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(ACLU_trying_to_find_out_about_NSA_surveillance_of_Americans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28ACLU_trying_to_find_out_about_NSA_surveillance_of_Americans%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU is trying to find out about the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/31">surveillance of
Americans</a> that the NSA does as a byproduct of supposedly spying on
foreigners.
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/national-security-technology-and-liberty/executive-order-12333-foia-lawsuit">More
info</a>.


title: NSA intercepting laptops bought online
uri: NSA-intercepting-laptops-bought-online
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(NSA_intercepting_laptops_bought_online)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28NSA_intercepting_laptops_bought_online%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/29-0">NSA
Intercepting Laptops Bought Online to Install Spy Malware</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Gmail)
title: Gmail
uri: Gmail
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Gmail%29
content:
<p>
Gmail was 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/google-using-gmail-build-psychological-profiles-hundreds-millions-people?paging=off">planned
from the start as a massive surveillance system</a>, to make
psychological profiles not only of Gmail users but of everyone who
sends mail to Gmail users.


title: NY Times uses truncated time lines to make claims about Gaza
uri: NY-Times-uses-truncated-time-lines-to-make-claims-about-Gaza
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(NY_Times_uses_truncated_time_lines_to_make_claims_about_Gaza)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28NY_Times_uses_truncated_time_lines_to_make_claims_about_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
The New York Times (and other media) use 
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/fun-with-chronology-misreporting-israeli-assault-gaza-201312276433126920.html">truncated
time lines</a> to claim that fighting between Israel and Gaza is
always started by Gazans.
<p>
A few years ago it was noted that it was 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2008-nov-feb.html#01%20January%202009%20(Israel%27s%20PR%20campaign)">typically
Israel that broke the truce</a> with Hamas.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_cuts_in_food_stamps)
title: Urgent: Oppose cuts in food stamps
uri: 2014-01-04-Urgent-Oppose-cuts-in-food-stamps
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_cuts_in_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=696">tell
the Senate</a>, no cuts in food stamps!


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(UKs_back_to_work_schemes)
title: UK's "back to work" schemes
uri: UK-s-back-to-work-schemes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28UKs_back_to_work_schemes%29
content:
<p>
UK local governments use "back to work" schemes as a way to make
people do real work for much less than the minimum wage.


title: UK austerity to create wave of mass homelessness
uri: UK-austerity-to-create-wave-of-mass-homelessness
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(UK_austerity_to_create_wave_of_mass_homelessness)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28UK_austerity_to_create_wave_of_mass_homelessness%29

content:
<p>
UK austerity is about to create a wave of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jan/03/household-finances-breaking-point-shelter">mass
homelessness</a>.


title: Newly released papers expose lies by and about Margaret Thatcher
uri: Newly-released-papers-expose-lies-by-and-about-Margaret-Thatcher
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Newly_released_papers_expose_lies_by_and_about_Margaret_Thatcher)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Newly_released_papers_expose_lies_by_and_about_Margaret_Thatcher%29

content:
<p>
Newly released papers expose several 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/03/denying-margaret-thatcher-failing-1984-national-archives">lies
by and about Margaret Thatcher</a>.
<p>
In particular, there was her lie to the striking miners, claiming she
had no plans to close additional mines.  What else would right-wing
politicians do besides lie?


title: India rich, but half of all Indians abjectly poor
uri: India-rich-but-half-of-all-Indians-abjectly-poor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(India_rich_but_half_of_all_Indians_abjectly_poor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28India_rich_but_half_of_all_Indians_abjectly_poor%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/03/india-dystopia-extremes-resistance-rising-neoliberalism-pilger">Selling
out to business</a> has made India rich, while making half of all
Indians abjectly poor.
<p>
What India needs most is to provide reliable modern contraception to
every woman in India.


title: UK's "porn filter" a system of outsourced state censorship
uri: UK-s-porn-filter-a-system-of-outsourced-state-censorship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(UKs_porn_filter_a_system_of_outsourced_state_censorship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28UKs_porn_filter_a_system_of_outsourced_state_censorship%29

content:
<p>
The UK's "porn filter" is a system of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/03/david-cameron-internet-porn-filter-censorship-creep">outsourced
state censorship</a>, based on the standard idiotic excuse.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Mesh_networks)
title: Mesh networks
uri: Mesh-networks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Mesh_networks%29
content:
<p>
Mesh networks could make the internet 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-seriously-and-not-just-for-the-reasons-you-think/">more
flexible and reduce surveillance</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Icelands_ice_melting_fast)
title: Iceland's ice melting fast
uri: Iceland-s-ice-melting-fast
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Icelands_ice_melting_fast%29
content:
<p>
Iceland's ice is melting fast, and when it goes, Iceland will be 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/icelands-vanishing-ice-16847">short
of water</a>.
<p>
Its longest bridge spans a river that has gone permanently dry.


title: The plan to remove grey wolf from endangered species list
uri: The-plan-to-remove-grey-wolf-from-endangered-species-list
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(The_plan_to_remove_grey_wolf_from_endangered_species_list)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28The_plan_to_remove_grey_wolf_from_endangered_species_list%29

content:
<p>
The plan to remove the grey wolf from the endangered species list is
based on 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-12-delist-gray-wolf-endangers-threatened.html">twisting
the meaning of the law</a> so as to make it systematically
ineffective.


title: Physical surveillance devices that can be installed on computers
uri: Physical-surveillance-devices-that-can-be-installed-on-computers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 03_January_2014_(Physical_surveillance_devices_that_can_be_installed_on_computers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_January_2014_%28Physical_surveillance_devices_that_can_be_installed_on_computers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/31/wikileaks_julian_assange_calls_on_computer">Information
about the tiny physical surveillance devices</a> that the NSA (or
anyone) can install.
<p>
I am not especially bothered by the NSA's having these, since they
won't be installed everywhere (and in the US would require a court
order).  What's dangerous to democracy is 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">general
surveillance applied to everyone</a>.


title: Employees of Mèdecins Sans Frontières seem to have been kidnaped in Syria
uri: Employees-of-Mèdecins-Sans-Frontières-seem-to-have-been-kidnaped-in
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 04_January_2014_(Employees_of_Medecins_Sans_Frontieres_seem_to_have_been_kidnaped_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#04_January_2014_%28Employees_of_Medecins_Sans_Frontieres_seem_to_have_been_kidnaped_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Employees of Mèdecins Sans Frontières seem to have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/03/medecins-sans-frontieres-staff-missing-syria">kidnaped
in Syria.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 04_January_2014_(Ralph_Nader_calls_on_Dubya)
title: Ralph Nader calls on Dubya
uri: Ralph-Nader-calls-on-Dubya
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#04_January_2014_%28Ralph_Nader_calls_on_Dubya%29
content:
<p>
Ralph Nader calls on Dubya
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/03">accept
responsibility for turning Iraq into a place of horror.</a>


title: Urgent: Extend unemployment benefits
uri: Urgent-Extend-unemployment-benefits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 04_January_2014_(Urgent:_Extend_unemployment_benefits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#04_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Extend_unemployment_benefits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate
to <a href="http://caf.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dlDPZxomHvOk4ya3ho3CiYJ%2BK6vZXYX7">extend
unemployment benefits.</a>


title: Bretons protesting tax on truck travel
uri: Bretons-protesting-tax-on-truck-travel
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 04_January_2014_(Bretons_protesting_tax_on_truck_travel)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#04_January_2014_%28Bretons_protesting_tax_on_truck_travel%29

content:
<p>
Bretons
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/03/french-eco-tax-new-generation-breton-red-caps">protesting
and destroying cameras to prevent implementation of a tax on truck
travel.</a>
<p>
Taxes like this are necessary to conserve fuel, and the pain they
impose is nothing compared to the pain they will avoid.  I think the
protesters are making a mistake — like protesting about a visit
to the dentist.
<p>
The tax money should be to stimulate the economy in other ways.


title: Iraqi state allied with non-radical Sunnis
uri: Iraqi-state-allied-with-non-radical-Sunnis
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 04_January_2014_(Iraqi_state_allied_with_non-radical_Sunnis)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#04_January_2014_%28Iraqi_state_allied_with_non-radical_Sunnis%29

content:
<p>
The Iraqi state
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/03/iraqi-tribesmen-troops-attack-islamic-militants-ramadi">allied
with non-radical Sunnis to fight al Qa'ida.</a>
<p>
If Sunnis and Shi'ites can work together, it might offer some hope for
ending the terror in Iraq.


title: Urgent: Ban hunting dolphins to use as bait for sharks
uri: Urgent-Ban-hunting-dolphins-to-use-as-bait-for-sharks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 04_January_2014_(Urgent:_Ban_hunting_dolphins_to_use_as_bait_for_sharks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#04_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_hunting_dolphins_to_use_as_bait_for_sharks%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Peru
to <a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/dolphin_hunt_peru/?bjlNcab&v=33625">ban
hunting dolphins to use as bait for sharks.</a>
<p>
The dolphins are not endangered, but the sharks are on the road to
being wiped out.


title: Urgent: Stop persecution of journalists in the US and UK
uri: Urgent-Stop-persecution-of-journalists-in-the-US-and-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_persecution_of_journalists_in_the_US_and_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_persecution_of_journalists_in_the_US_and_UK%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4104?n=50902283.BQ54IZ">call
on the US and UK governments</a> to stop persecuting journalists that
write about the wrongdoing of the state.


title: Syrian rebels say they have launched outright war with al Qa'ida
uri: Syrian-rebels-say-they-have-launched-outright-war-with-al-Qa-ida
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Syrian_rebels_say_they_have_launched_outright_war_with_al_Qaida)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Syrian_rebels_say_they_have_launched_outright_war_with_al_Qaida%29

content:
<p>
The non-al-Qa'ida Syrian rebels say they have launched 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/03/syrian-opposition-attack-alqaida-affiliate-isis">outright
war with al Qa'ida</a>.
<p>
Before rejoicing, we need to get confirmation of what is really
happening, though that won't be easy to get.


title: Welcome to the New America: Low-Wage Nation
uri: Welcome-to-the-New-America-Low-Wage-Nation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Welcome_to_the_New_America_Low-Wage_Nation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Welcome_to_the_New_America_Low-Wage_Nation%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/03-1">Welcome to
the New America: Low-Wage Nation</a>.


title: USDA wants to deregulate Agent Orange-resistant GM corn
uri: USDA-wants-to-deregulate-Agent-Orange-resistant-GM-corn
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(USDA_wants_to_deregulate_Agent_Orange-resistant_GM_corn)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28USDA_wants_to_deregulate_Agent_Orange-resistant_GM_corn%29

content:
<p>
The USDA says it 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/03-8">wants to
deregulate GM corn that is resistant to Agent Orange</a>.
<p>
Talk about "bringing the war back home"!


title: GAP statement on Snowden and NSA domestic surveillance
uri: GAP-statement-on-Snowden-and-NSA-domestic-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(GAP_statement_on_Snowden_and_NSA_domestic_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28GAP_statement_on_Snowden_and_NSA_domestic_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/01/03-1">The
Government Accountability Project Statement on Edward Snowden and NSA
Domestic Surveillance</a>.


title: Fixing unemployment and inequality in the US
uri: Fixing-unemployment-and-inequality-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Fixing_unemployment_and_inequality_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Fixing_unemployment_and_inequality_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The US does not have a choice between fixing unemployment and fixing
inequality.  
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/03-5">Fixing one
requires fixing the other</a>.


title: Israel Lobby in the US tries again to kill deal with Iran
uri: Israel-Lobby-in-the-US-tries-again-to-kill-deal-with-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Israel_Lobby_in_the_US_tries_again_to_kill_deal_with_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Israel_Lobby_in_the_US_tries_again_to_kill_deal_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>
The Israel Lobby in the US is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/03-4">trying
again</a> to kill the deal with Iran.


title: Israel's control of the Jordan valley
uri: Israel-s-control-of-the-Jordan-valley
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Israels_control_of_the_Jordan_valley)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Israels_control_of_the_Jordan_valley%29

content:
<p>
As the US endorses letting Israel retain control of the Jordan
valley, maintaining a 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1388766494">permanent
siege of Palestine</a>, Netanyahu 
<a href="http://adam-keller2.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/a-suicidal-government.html">demands
even more</a>.


title: Idaho to take back a privatized prison
uri: Idaho-to-take-back-a-privatized-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Idaho_to_take_back_a_privatized_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Idaho_to_take_back_a_privatized_prison%29

content:
<p>
Idaho will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/03/idaho-take-control-privately-run-state-prison">take
back a privatized prison</a> that has been run horribly.
<p>
For a company to squeeze a profit out of a prison, it has to mistreat
the prisoners somehow.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(The_NY_school-to-prison_pipeline)
title: The NY school-to-prison pipeline
uri: The-NY-school-to-prison-pipeline
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28The_NY_school-to-prison_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/177719/its-time-close-new-yorks-school-prison-pipeline">Imploring
Mayor de Blasio</a> to close the school-to-prison pipeline.


title: Effect of global heating in Australia
uri: Effect-of-global-heating-in-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Effect_of_global_heating_in_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Effect_of_global_heating_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/annual/aus/2013/">2013
was Australia's hottest year</a>, and for each of its regions too.
<p>
Abbott says he will bring about a small, insufficient reduction in
emissions by 2020, by methods that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/03/abbott-urged-to-rethink-climate-policy">aren't
likely to work at all</a>.  Planting trees may be good in other ways,
but it takes a long time for them to pull CO<sub>2</sub> out of the
air, assuming they don't die or even burn.
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/jan/03/hottest-year-ever-confirmed-2013-australia-tony-abbott-climate-change">new
planned coal mines</a> would swamp that.
<p>
Meanwhile, Abbott has appointed a "business advisor" that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/jan/01/maurice-newman-tony-abbott-climate-change-denial">campaigns
loudly to deny global heating</a>.
<p>
We can guess what business his advice represents.
<p>
What will we see next on the Abbott and Australia show?  Perhaps this:
Abbott lights a match on Australia, and Australia says, "Hay, Abbott!"


title: The low carbon price in emissions-trading schemes
uri: The-low-carbon-price-in-emissions-trading-schemes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(The_low_carbon_price_in_emissions-trading_schemes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28The_low_carbon_price_in_emissions-trading_schemes%29

content:
<p>
The carbon price in emissions-trading schemes has fallen 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/03/global-carbon-markets-value-dropped-2013">so
low that the schemes do nothing to reduce emissions</a>.


title: UK landlord companies refusing to rent to people on welfare
uri: UK-landlord-companies-refusing-to-rent-to-people-on-welfare
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(UK_landlord_companies_refusing_to_rent_to_people_on_welfare)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28UK_landlord_companies_refusing_to_rent_to_people_on_welfare%29

content:
<p>
Large UK landlord companies are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jan/04/buy-to-let-landlord-evicts-housing-benefit-tenants">refusing
to rent to people on welfare</a>.
<p>
The Tories are evil, greedy monsters that deserve to live on the
street along with the banksters.


title: Senator asks NSA whether it snoops on Congress
uri: Senator-asks-NSA-whether-it-snoops-on-Congress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Senator_asks_NSA_whether_it_snoops_on_Congress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Senator_asks_NSA_whether_it_snoops_on_Congress%29

content:
<p>
Senator Sanders has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/03-7">asked the
NSA whether it snoops on Congress</a>.


title: UK gov't to cut off another aid program
uri: UK-gov-t-to-cut-off-another-aid-program
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(UK_govt_to_cut_off_another_aid_program)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28UK_govt_to_cut_off_another_aid_program%29

content:
<p>
As poor in the UK face hunger and homelessness, the government has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/03/government-stops-emergency-funds-low-income-families">announced
it will cut off another aid program which is meant to help in
"emergencies"</a>.
<p>
It would defeat the purpose of pushing millions into emergencies, if
there's a program that would help.


title: Cambodian thugs shoot protesting garment workers
uri: Cambodian-thugs-shoot-protesting-garment-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Cambodian_thugs_shoot_protesting_garment_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Cambodian_thugs_shoot_protesting_garment_workers%29

content:
<p>
Cambodian thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/03/cambodian-garment-workers-injured-police-open-fire">shot
garment workers</a> protesting for higher pay.
<p>
We must put an end to the treaties that drive countries to 
<a href="media/74513f11.trade-treaty-comic.jpg" data-original-source="http://www.stallman.org/images/trade-treaty-comic.jpg">compete
to offer foreign business the lowest wages</a>.


title: Australian gov't wants Greenpeace activist to pay for "assistance"
uri: Australian-gov-t-wants-Greenpeace-activist-to-pay-for-assistance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Australian_govt_wants_Greenpeace_activist_to_pay_for_assistance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Australian_govt_wants_Greenpeace_activist_to_pay_for_assistance%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government wants Greenpeace activist Colin Russell to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/03/greenpeace-activist-colin-russell-may-be-asked-to-pay-hints-julie-bishop">pay
for the useless "assistance" it gave him</a> when he was persecuted by
Putin.
<p>
In effect, Abbott seeks a way to punish him financially after Putin
jailed him for months.
<p>
This is because Abbott and Putin are on the same side — the
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_(Naomi_Kleins_speech)">extractivist</a>
side.


title: How MIT's callousness and exaggerations condemned Aaron Swartz
uri: How-MIT-s-callousness-and-exaggerations-condemned-Aaron-Swartz
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(How_MIT's_callousness_and_exaggerations_comdemned_Aaron_Swartz)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28How_MIT%27s_callousness_and_exaggerations_comdemned_Aaron_Swartz%29

content:
<p>
How MIT's callousness and
exaggerations <a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2014/01/02/bob-swartz-losing-aaron/">condemned
Aaron Swartz.</a>
<p>
David LaMacchia set up an internet bulletin board site where anyone
could upload and download files.  He didn't put the files in it
himself, but the US government wanted to hold him personally
responsible for the files that were uploaded.  US government
representatives systematically smeared LaMacchia, who on his lawyer's
advice did not dare say they were wrong; but he had already explained
the facts to people at the Artificial Intelligence Lab, and that's
where I heard them.  This article repeats the givernment's claim.
<p>
The government used this smear to push for the passage of the law that
criminalized noncommercial sharing on the Internet, an attack on our
rights that we will have to fight to undo.


title: US puts nonviolent accused "terrorists" in solitary confinement for years
uri: US-puts-nonviolent-accused-terrorists-in-solitary-confinement-for-ye
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(US_puts_nonviolent_accused_terrorists_in_solitary_confinement_for_years)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28US_puts_nonviolent_accused_terrorists_in_solitary_confinement_for_years%29

content:
<p>
The
US <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/177397/how-mohammed-warsame-became-accidental-terrorist">regularly
puts nonviolent accused "terrorists" in solitary confinement for
years</a>, blocking them from discussing their cases properly with
their lawyers, and eventually gets them to plead guilty after their
minds have broken.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(US_prosecution_of_thoughtcrime)
title: US prosecution of thoughtcrime
uri: US-prosecution-of-thoughtcrime
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28US_prosecution_of_thoughtcrime%29
content:
<p>
US suppression of possible Muslim "radicalization" has
been <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/177750/how-tarek-mehanna-went-prison-thought-crime">stretched
to the point of prosecution of thoughtcrime.</a>
<p>
You don't have to be Islamist, or even Muslim, to think that people in
a country conquered by the US have the right to resist occupation.
Anyone who hates oppression believes that.  Why shouldn't Muslims say
that?
<p>
On the other hand, anyone who is such a "good" Muslim as to support
Islam's contempt for women, its cruel Shari'a law, or
its <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2008-mar-jun.html#07 June 2008 (Execution for converting to Christianity)">disrespect for
everyone's religious freedom,</a> deserves plenty of criticism.  You
can't duck the odium of those views by saying it's a religion.


title: Urgent: Do not turn the Endangered Species Act into a hollow absurdity
uri: Urgent-Do-not-turn-the-Endangered-Species-Act-into-a-hollow-absurdity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(Urgent:_Do_not_turn_the_Endangered_Species_Act_into_a_hollow_absurdity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_turn_the_Endangered_Species_Act_into_a_hollow_absurdity%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/protect-the-endangered">Sign
this petition</a> calling on Congress not to turn the Endangered
Species Act into a hollow absurdity.


title: Urgent: Sign petition calling for prosecution of Clapper
uri: Urgent-Sign-petition-calling-for-prosecution-of-Clapper
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(Urgent:_Sign_petition_calling_for_prosecution_of_Clapper)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Sign_petition_calling_for_prosecution_of_Clapper%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/NSA_spying_clapper">sign
this petition calling for prosecution of Clapper for lying to
Congress.</a>


title: Urgent: Sign this petition for Obama to give Snowden amnesty
uri: Urgent-Sign-this-petition-for-Obama-to-give-Snowden-amnesty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(Urgent:_Sign_this_petition_for_Obama_to_give_Snowden_amnesty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Sign_this_petition_for_Obama_to_give_Snowden_amnesty%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/NSA_spying_Snowden">sign
this petition for Obama to give Snowden amnesty.</a>
<p>
And this one:
<a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD">https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD</a>
<p>
There is another campaign asking people to fax Obama copies of the New
York Times editorial that says Snowden should be offered a reduced
punishment.  I think that is an insult to a hero, and I didn't support
it.  I support this instead.


title: Just about all the sides fighting against al Qa'ida
uri: Just-about-all-the-sides-fighting-against-al-Qa-ida
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(Just_about_all_the_sides_fighting_against_al_Qa'ida)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28Just_about_all_the_sides_fighting_against_al_Qa%27ida%29

content:
<p>
Just about all the sides in Syria and Iraq
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/05/iraq-syria-al-qaida-affiliate-isil">fighting
against al Qa'ida.</a> Even some other Islamist militias.
<p>
The defeat of al Qa'ida would mean the defeat of the worst sort of
fanaticism.  However, if the other Islamist militias are part of the
winning side, I fear that women, human rights and non-Muslims in those
areas will still be on the losing side.


title: Taliban attacked and murdered foreign climbers on a mountain in Pakistan
uri: Taliban-attacked-and-murdered-foreign-climbers-on-a-mountain-in-Pakist
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(Taliban_attacked_and_murdered_foreign_climbers_on_a_mountain_in_Pakistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28Taliban_attacked_and_murdered_foreign_climbers_on_a_mountain_in_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
Taliban <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/05/taliban-himalayas-mountain-nanga-parbat-climbers">attacked
and murdered foreign climbers on a mountain in Pakistan,</a> as an
intentional reprisal against people who had nothing to do with the
war.
<p>
This is much nastier than US drone attacks.  Imagine if the US had
deliberately targeted a wedding party while believing that everyone
there was a noncombatant, and you'd have an equivalent for this.
<p>
Pakistan says it has arrested those responsible.


title: US participated directly when Columbia attacked FARC camp in Ecuador
uri: US-participated-directly-when-Columbia-attacked-FARC-camp-in-Ecuador
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(US_participated_directly_when_Columbia_attacked_FARC_camp_in_Ecuador)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28US_participated_directly_when_Columbia_attacked_FARC_camp_in_Ecuador%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/04-3">US
participated directly when Colombia attacked a FARC camp just across
the border in Ecuador.</a>
<p>
The argument that a state has the right to fight its enemies when they
are sheltered by another state is valid in some circumstances, but one
must look at the rest of the situation.  For instance, did the
Ecuadorian government shelter or sponsor that camp (or even know about
it)?  Did Colombia ask Ecuador for assistance in dislodging it?
<p>
There may be other relevant factors.  The Colombian state was and
still is closely connected with the worst terrorist group in Colombia,
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2007-mar-jun.html#15 March 2007 (Paramilitaries of Colombia)">the paramilitaries.</a>
<p>
Although the FARC have degenerated into drug trafficking and kidnap
for profit, they are still better than the paramilitaries.  Is support
for the FARC justified on these grounds?


title: Michael Moore: The Obamacare We Deserve
uri: Michael-Moore-The-Obamacare-We-Deserve
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(Michael_Moore:_The_Obamacare_We_Deserve)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28Michael_Moore%3A_The_Obamacare_We_Deserve%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/michael-moore-obamacare-we-deserve?paging=off">Michael
Moore: The Obamacare We Deserve.</a>
<p>
I'm a real Liberal, and Obama is hardly much of a Liberal, so I don't
silence my views to support him.


title: Israel Cages Palestinian Children in Outdoor Holding Pens During Freezing Storm
uri: Israel-Cages-Palestinian-Children-in-Outdoor-Holding-Pens-During-Freez
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_January_2014_(Israel_Cages_Palestinian_Children_in_Outdoor_Holding_Pens_During_Freezing_Storm)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_January_2014_%28Israel_Cages_Palestinian_Children_in_Outdoor_Holding_Pens_During_Freezing_Storm%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/03-2">Israel Cages
Palestinian Children in Outdoor Holding Pens During Freezing
Storm.</a>


title: "The [unlikely] possibility of success is used to call the majority of people failures"
uri: The-unlikely-possibility-of-success-is-used-to-call-the-majority-of
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(The_[unlikely]_possibility_of_success_is_used_to_call_the_majority_of_people_failures)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28The_%5Bunlikely%5D_possibility_of_success_is_used_to_call_the_majority_of_people_failures%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.vice.com/read/filthy-lucre">"The [unlikely]
possibility of success is used to call the majority of people
failures."</a>


title: US gov't didn't need any more surveillance to stop the Sep 11 attacks
uri: US-gov-t-didn-t-need-any-more-surveillance-to-stop-the-Sep-11-attacks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(US_gov't_didn't_need_any_more_surveillance_to_stop_the_Sep_11_attacks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28US_gov%27t_didn%27t_need_any_more_surveillance_to_stop_the_Sep_11_attacks%29

content:
<p>
The US government didn't need any more surveillance to stop the Sep 11
attacks.  It had plenty of warnings
— <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/30/opinion/bergen-nsa-surveillance-september-11/index.html">here
are the details.</a>


title: Even to preserve public domain requires a fight
uri: Even-to-preserve-public-domain-requires-a-fight
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Even_to_preserve_public_domain_requires_a_fight)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Even_to_preserve_public_domain_requires_a_fight%29

content:
<p>
Even to preserve the public domain from further
attacks <a href="http://everybodyslibraries.com/2014/01/01/public-domain-day-2014-the-fight-for-the-public-domain-is-on-now/">requires
a fight.</a>
<p>
Preserving the public domain is not enough.  Copyright is too
restrictive and we must reduce it.


title: US gov't goes to cruel extremes to collect college debt
uri: US-gov-t-goes-to-cruel-extremes-to-collect-college-debt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(US_gov't_goes_to_cruel_extremes_to_collect_college_debt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28US_gov%27t_goes_to_cruel_extremes_to_collect_college_debt%29

content:
<p>
The US government goes
to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/us/loan-monitor-is-accused-of-ruthless-tactics-on-student-debt.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">cruel
extremes to collect college debt.</a>
<p>
The idea that the US government needs to collect student loans from
those who are unable to work is absurd.  The only "economy" that
depends on collecting this money is that of the evil rich.  Even
asking students to pay for college is right-wing.  If they have to
pay, it should be based on their incomes, as in
the <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_August_2013_%28The_college_loan_racket%29">Oregon
plan.</a>
<p>
What's more, a large part of these debts were for payments to
for-profit colleges that tend to be
a <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#31_July_2012_%28For-profit_colleges%29">waste
of money in the first place.</a> By allowing loans for those colleges,
the government entices people into debts they can't pay.


title: Drug trafficking involves lots of killing
uri: Drug-trafficking-involves-lots-of-killing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Drug_trafficking_involves_lots_of_killing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Drug_trafficking_involves_lots_of_killing%29

content:
<p>
Drug trafficking involves lots of
killing; <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/12/cocaine_trafficking_horrors_users_are_complicit_in_the_atrocities_of_the.single.html">the
number murdered, over decades, may amount to millions.</a>
<p>
Those directly responsible are the killers.  Drug users help create
the circumstances that encourage the traffickers/killers, but they are
not alone in doing
so.  <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#08_August_2012_%28Suffering_caused_by_drug_prohibition%29">Prohibition
plays an equally crucial role.</a>


title: Rich Republicans have put 50 million dollars into defeating Tea Party loonies
uri: Rich-Republicans-have-put-50-million-dollars-into-defeating-Tea-Party
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Rich_Republicans_have_put_50_million_dollars_into_defeating_Tea_Party_loonies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Rich_Republicans_have_put_50_million_dollars_into_defeating_Tea_Party_loonies%29

content:
<p>
Rich Republicans have
put <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/on-christmas-republicans-quietly-declare-war-on-themselves-20131230">50
million dollars into defeating Tea Party loonies</a> whose risible
statements have imperiled their dooH niboR agenda.


title: The Canadian gov't trashed archives of scientific data and research
uri: The-Canadian-gov-t-trashed-archives-of-scientific-data-and-research
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(The_Canadian_gov't_trashed_archives_of_scientific_data_and_research)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28The_Canadian_gov%27t_trashed_archives_of_scientific_data_and_research%29

content:
<p>
The Canadian
government <a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/12/23/Canadian-Science-Libraries/">trashed
archives of scientific data and research,</a> especially pertaining to
the environment.
<p>
Canadian scientists say this was done to sabotage informed resistance
to the extractivist agenda.


title: Urgent: Oppose new sanctions against Iran
uri: Urgent-Oppose-new-sanctions-against-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_new_sanctions_against_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_new_sanctions_against_Iran%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators
to <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=699">oppose
new sanctions against Iran.</a> Give diplomacy a chance.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Long-term_unemployment)
title: Long-term unemployment
uri: Long-term-unemployment
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Long-term_unemployment%29
content:
<p>
Long-term
unemployment <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/02-1">makes
many young people despair and think of suicide.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(The_defensive_patent_license)
title: The "defensive patent license"
uri: The-defensive-patent-license
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28The_defensive_patent_license%29
content:
<p>
The "defensive patent license" ought to be called
the <a href="http://www.defensivepatentlicense.com/content/defensive-patent-license">"still
offensive patent license",</a> because of the exclusion of anything it
calls a "clone" — which is itself dishonest, since it the way
they define it, it includes a lot more than clones.  It
includes <em>any</em> similar functionality.
<p>
Apple could license its patents this way and still use them against
free software smart phones.


title: US plagued by redistributionist politicians
uri: US-plagued-by-redistributionist-politicians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(US_plagued_by_redistributionist_politicians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28US_plagued_by_redistributionist_politicians%29

content:
<p>
The US
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/05">plagued by
redistributionist politicians,</a> redistributing as usual to the
rich.
<p>
I'm proud to be a redistributionist: I say we should move that money
back.


title: Peer pressure turns children into competitive consumers
uri: Peer-pressure-turns-children-into-competitive-consumers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Peer_pressure_turns_children_into_competitive_consumers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Peer_pressure_turns_children_into_competitive_consumers%29

content:
<p>
Peer
pressure <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/05-0">turns
children into competitive consumers.</a>


title: NSA refuses to say whether it snoops on Congress
uri: NSA-refuses-to-say-whether-it-snoops-on-Congress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(NSA_refuses_to_say_whether_it_snoops_on_Congress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28NSA_refuses_to_say_whether_it_snoops_on_Congress%29

content:
<p>
The
NSA <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/04/nsa-spying-bernie-sanders-members-congress">refuses
to say whether it snoops on Congress.</a>
<p>
I suspect it makes special efforts to snoop on Congresscritters, in
order to blackmail them.


title: Underfunding of medical care in UK kills people
uri: Underfunding-of-medical-care-in-UK-kills-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Underfunding_of_medical_care_in_UK_kills_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Underfunding_of_medical_care_in_UK_kills_people%29

content:
<p>
Underfunding of medical care in the
UK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/05/pancreatic-cancer-patients-surgery-abroad">kills
people by slowing down the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer</a>.


title: UK gov't wants to destroy old-growth forests
uri: UK-gov-t-wants-to-destroy-old-growth-forests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(UK_gov't_wants_to_destroy_old-growth_forests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28UK_gov%27t_wants_to_destroy_old-growth_forests%29

content:
<p>
The UK government wants
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/04/ancient-woodland-cut-down-biodiversity-offsetting">destroy
old-growth forests and replace them with tree plantations.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(Jacob_Appelbaum's_speech)
title: Jacob Appelbaum's speech
uri: Jacob-Appelbaum-s-speech
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28Jacob_Appelbaum%27s_speech%29
content:
<p>
The full text of Jacob Appelbaum's speech
about <a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/368564,server-vendors-named-in-nsa-spying-toolkit.aspx">NSA
attack methods and what they can do to computer systems.</a>


title: Urgent: Stop the robbing and swindling of workers in Haiti
uri: Urgent-Stop-the-robbing-and-swindling-of-workers-in-Haiti
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_the_robbing_and_swindling_of_workers_in_Haiti)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_the_robbing_and_swindling_of_workers_in_Haiti%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/haiti-hanes/">call on Hanes</a>
to stop robbing and swindling workers in Haiti.


title: The EU's commitments to free expression: Libel and privacy
uri: The-EU-s-commitments-to-free-expression-Libel-and-privacy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(The_EUs_commitments_to_free_expression:_Libel_and_privacy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28The_EUs_commitments_to_free_expression%3A_Libel_and_privacy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/01/eus-commitments-free-expression-libel-privacy/">The
EU's commitments to free expression: Libel and privacy</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Rhinos)
title: Rhinos
uri: Rhinos
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Rhinos%29
content:
<p>
It appears that rhinos can no longer survive in Kenya except in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/05/kenyan-rhinos-wild-poaching-sanctuaries">special
sanctuaries</a>.  And maybe not even there.


title: Digital Rights Ireland needs help coping with legal costs
uri: Digital-Rights-Ireland-needs-help-coping-with-legal-costs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Digital_Rights_Ireland_needs_help_coping_with_legal_costs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Digital_Rights_Ireland_needs_help_coping_with_legal_costs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.digitalrights.ie/support-us-in-2014/">Digital
Rights Ireland</a> asks for help coping with legal costs imposed when
it asked for permission to intervene in a trial and was denied.
<p>
If not helped, the organization could get shut down.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(CIA_lawyer_approved_torture)
title: CIA lawyer approved torture
uri: CIA-lawyer-approved-torture
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28CIA_lawyer_approved_torture%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/06-1">CIA
Lawyer: Stopping Torture 'Would Have Been Easy,' But I Approved It
Anyway</a>.


title: Proof that governments can reduce poverty
uri: Proof-that-governments-can-reduce-poverty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Proof_that_governments_can_reduce_poverty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Proof_that_governments_can_reduce_poverty%29

content:
<p>
LBJ's War on Poverty 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/06/war-on-poverty-50-years-lyndon-johnson">cut
poverty in the US by 40%</a>.
<p>
It proves that governments can reduce poverty.  But then right-wingers
took power, put an end to these efforts, and drove poverty up again.


title: Conservative media platform for global heating denial
uri: Conservative-media-platform-for-global-heating-denial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Conservative_media_platform_for_global_heating_denial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Conservative_media_platform_for_global_heating_denial%29

content:
<p>
Conservative media provide a platform to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jan/06/climate-change-climate-change-scepticism">3%
of climate scientists</a> who deny global heating, and don't mention
how their predictions have proved wrong in the past.


title: Enemies of al Qa'ida in Syria include other Islamist groups
uri: Enemies-of-al-Qa-ida-in-Syria-include-other-Islamist-groups
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Enemies_of_al_Qaida_in_Syria_include_other_Islamist_groups)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Enemies_of_al_Qaida_in_Syria_include_other_Islamist_groups%29

content:
<p>
The enemies of al Qa'ida in Syria include 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/syria-rebels-free-al-qaida-captives">other
Islamist groups</a>.


title: Five Australians face charges for staying in the same hotel
uri: Five-Australians-face-charges-for-staying-in-the-same-hotel
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Five_Australians_face_charges_for_staying_in_the_same_hotel)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Five_Australians_face_charges_for_staying_in_the_same_hotel%29

content:
<p>
Five Australians face charges of being members of a motorcycle gang
and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/victorian-bikie-gang-suspects-charged-under-queensland-anti-association-laws">staying
in the same hotel</a>.  Being in a hotel is not a crime for people in
general, only for them.
<p>
Next will they pass a law making it a crime to breathe and have your
name?


title: Thousands of bats killed by heat wave in Australia
uri: Thousands-of-bats-killed-by-heat-wave-in-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Thousands_of_bats_killed_by_heat_wave_in_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Thousands_of_bats_killed_by_heat_wave_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
A heat wave 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/thousands-of-bats-killed-by-hot-weather-in-queensland">killed
thousands of bats</a> in an area of Australia.
<p>
In a couple of decades, none of those bats will live anywhere near.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Building_a_house_near_the_coast)
title: Building a house near the coast
uri: Building-a-house-near-the-coast
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Building_a_house_near_the_coast%29

content:
<p>
New South Wales gave permission to build a house near the coast, on
condition it be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/06/court-overrules-climate-change-clause-in-councils-beachfront-house-approval">demolished
in 20 years</a> if sea level rises as expected.
<p>
It is a kind of foresight — at least it does not ignore the
issue — but it seems wasteful and foolish to build a house that
will need to be demolished in 20 years.
<p>
What the court appears to have done is much more foolish: permission
with no foresight at all.


title: Judging who to hire based on Facebook pages
uri: Judging-who-to-hire-based-on-Facebook-pages
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Judging_who_to_hire_based_on_Facebook_pages)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Judging_who_to_hire_based_on_Facebook_pages%29

content:
<p>
Judging who to hire based on Facebook pages seems to be 
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/01/03/facebook-isnt-a-good-way-to-judge-potential-employees-say-researchers/">completely
ineffective</a>. (As well as an invasion of privacy.)


title: Stockpile of confiscated ivory destroyed
uri: Stockpile-of-confiscated-ivory-destroyed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Stockpile_of_confiscated_ivory_destroyed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Stockpile_of_confiscated_ivory_destroyed%29

content:
<p>
China has destroyed a large stockpile of confiscated ivory to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/06/china-crush-ivory-elephant-poaching">campaign
against buying ivory</a>.
<p>
I can't understand the mentality of a person who would buy something
totally frivolous at the cost of rushing a species to extinction.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Overfishing_of_bluefin_tuna)
title: Overfishing of bluefin tuna
uri: Overfishing-of-bluefin-tuna
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Overfishing_of_bluefin_tuna%29
content:
<p>
Bluefin tuna are so overfished that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/world-on-a-plate/2014/jan/06/pacific-bluefin-tuna-auction-overfishing-sushi">most
of the fish caught are juveniles</a>.


title: Failure to start peace negotiations in South Sudan
uri: Failure-to-start-peace-negotiations-in-South-Sudan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Failure_to_start_peace_negotiations_in_South_Sudan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Failure_to_start_peace_negotiations_in_South_Sudan%29

content:
<p>
Peace negotiations in South Sudan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/05/south-sudan-peace-talks-stall-gunfire-juba">failed
to get started</a>.
<p>
Part of the basis for the fighting is 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_December_2013_(South_Sudan_is_being_torn_apart_by_tribalism)">tribal 
hatred</a>, but when interethnic hostility reaches the point of
fighting, often it has been stirred up by politicians.
<p>
I have a suspicion that the oil in the ground has something to do with
it, and that the US government is playing some sort of game to get
control of that oil.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(More_punishment_for_Britons)
title: More punishment for Britons
uri: More-punishment-for-Britons
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28More_punishment_for_Britons%29
content:
<p>
The UK government announces 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/06/george-osborne-more-cuts-year-hard-truths">more
punishment</a> for Britons on the way to a mythical, meaningless
"recovery".


title: Protest in Burma against jailing of journalist
uri: Protest-in-Burma-against-jailing-of-journalist
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Protest_in_Burma_against_jailing_of_journalist)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Protest_in_Burma_against_jailing_of_journalist%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/burmese-journalists-protest-ma-khine-jail-term">Journalists
in Burma protested</a> the jailing of a journalist.
<p>
The charges are typical of states that want to punish journalism and
pretend that it is something else.


title: Stealing Honduran peasants' land to avoid cutting emissions
uri: Stealing-Honduran-peasants-land-to-avoid-cutting-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Stealing_Honduran_peasants_land_to_avoid_cutting_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Stealing_Honduran_peasants_land_to_avoid_cutting_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Honduran peasants' land was stolen to grow palm oil, which provides
"carbon offsets" for international businesses, so they can 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2014/jan/07/honduras-dirty-war-clean-energy-palm-oil-biofuels">avoid
cutting emissions</a>.  Crushing the resistance peasants' resistance
seems to have part of the motive for the coup.
<p>
Emissions trading is a mistake in general; it has been gamed so much
that it achieves nothing, while promoting evil like this in Honduras.
A tax on fuels can't be gamed.


title: Al-Nusra among Syrians fighting the Islamic State of Iraq
uri: Al-Nusra-among-Syrians-fighting-the-Islamic-State-of-Iraq
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Al-Nusra_among_Syrians_fighting_the_Islamic_State_of_Iraq)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Al-Nusra_among_Syrians_fighting_the_Islamic_State_of_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
The Syrians fighting the Islamic State of Iraq include 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/syrian-rebeal-oust-a-qaidi-jihadists-raqqa">al-Nusra</a>,
another al-Qa'ida supporter.


title: Wind energy projects canceled due to cuts in UK support
uri: Wind-energy-projects-canceled-due-to-cuts-in-UK-support
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Wind_energy_projects_canceled_due_to_cuts_in_UK_support)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Wind_energy_projects_canceled_due_to_cuts_in_UK_support%29

content:
<p>
Cuts in UK support for offshore wind energy has led to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/07/rwe-triton-knoll-wind-farm">cancellation
of many projects</a>.


title: Spain reduces fossil fuel use in electricity
uri: Spain-reduces-fossil-fuel-use-in-electricity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Spain_reduces_fossil_fuel_use_in_electricity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Spain_reduces_fossil_fuel_use_in_electricity%29

content:
<p>
Spain 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/06/wind-power-spain-electricity-2013">reduced
fossil fuel use in electricity by around 30%</a> last year due mainly
to installation of a lot of renewable energy generators.


title: Reducing the number of birds and bats killed by wind turbines
uri: Reducing-the-number-of-birds-and-bats-killed-by-wind-turbines
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Reducing_the_number_of_birds_and_bats_killed_by_wind_turbines)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Reducing_the_number_of_birds_and_bats_killed_by_wind_turbines%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/birds-bats-wind-turbines-deadly-collisions">Various
methods are being tested</a> to reduce the numbers of birds and bats
that are killed by wind turbines.


title: New Jersey ignores accusations about attacks by thugs
uri: New-Jersey-ignores-accusations-about-attacks-by-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(New_Jersey_ignores_accusations_about_attacks_by_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28New_Jersey_ignores_accusations_about_attacks_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
New Jersey 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/01/06-0">ignores 99%
of accusations</a> about attacks by thugs.


title: Theft of Americans' retirement funds
uri: Theft-of-Americans-retirement-funds
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Theft_of_Americans_retirement_funds)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Theft_of_Americans_retirement_funds%29

content:
<p>
Stealing Americans' retirement funds in 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/retirement-theft-4-despicable-steps?paging=off">4
despicable steps</a>.


title: Network of pollinator species could collapse suddenly
uri: Network-of-pollinator-species-could-collapse-suddenly
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Network_of_pollinator_species_could_collapse_suddenly)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Network_of_pollinator_species_could_collapse_suddenly%29

content:
<p>
The network of pollinator species and the plants that depend on them
could collapse suddenly 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-01-robust-network-insect-pollinators-collapse.html">if
it is stressed past a certain point</a>.


title: Climate Change Imperils Peru's Drive to End Poverty
uri: Climate-Change-Imperils-Peru-s-Drive-to-End-Poverty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Climate_Change_Imperils_Peru's_Drive_to_End_Poverty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Climate_Change_Imperils_Peru%27s_Drive_to_End_Poverty%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-imperils-perus-drive-to-end-poverty-16886">Climate
Change Imperils Peru's Drive to End Poverty</a>.


title: US mainstream media disparages idea of punishing banksters
uri: US-mainstream-media-disparages-idea-of-punishing-banksters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_January_2014_(US_mainstream_media_disparages_idea_of_punishing_banksters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_January_2014_%28US_mainstream_media_disparages_idea_of_punishing_banksters%29

content:
<p>
US mainstream media 
<a href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/why-arent-big-bankers-in-jail/">persistently
disparage</a> the idea that banksters should be punished for
well-documented crimes, including the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#22%20October%202010%20(Caught%20pants%20down)">fraudulent 
foreclosures</a> against thousands (maybe millions) of American
homeowners.


title: Obama gave up on the war in Afghanistan in 2011
uri: Obama-gave-up-on-the-war-in-Afghanistan-in-2011
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Obama_gave_up_on_the_war_in_Afghanistan_in_2011)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Obama_gave_up_on_the_war_in_Afghanistan_in_2011%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/01/gates-says-obama-gave-afghanistan-three-years-ago">Obama
gave up on the war in Afghanistan in 2011.</a>
<p>
So why didn't he end the war?  Fear of being called a quitter, I
guess.


title: Gov't has responsibility to fight poverty
uri: Gov-t-has-responsibility-to-fight-poverty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Gov't_has_responsibility_to_fight_poverty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Gov%27t_has_responsibility_to_fight_poverty%29

content:
<p>
86% of Americans believe the
government <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/01/07-2">has
the responsibility to fight poverty.</a>
<p>
The fact that so many politicians are elected who oppose this is a
measure of voter suppression and dishonesty of the media.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(JPMorgan_Chase_banking_scandals)
title: JPMorgan Chase banking scandals
uri: JPMorgan-Chase-banking-scandals
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28JPMorgan_Chase_banking_scandals%29

content:
<p>
JPMorgan Chase seems to
be <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/07-12">involved
in just about every banking scandal.</a>


title: Boeing imposed pay and benefit cuts on workers
uri: Boeing-imposed-pay-and-benefit-cuts-on-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Boeing_imposed_pay_and_benefit_cuts_on_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Boeing_imposed_pay_and_benefit_cuts_on_workers%29

content:
<p>
Highly profitable Boeing
has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/07-4">imposed
pay and benefit cuts on its workers by threatening to move
production.</a>
<p>
This is, of course, what the rich generally want to do: pay workers
less.  Laws and treaties need to be changed so that they can't.


title: Body of brain-dead woman who is 20 weeks pregnant is being kept alive
uri: Body-of-brain-dead-woman-who-is-20-weeks-pregnant-is-being-kept-alive
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Body_of_brain-dead_woman_who_is_20_weeks_pregnant_is_being_kept_alive)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Body_of_brain-dead_woman_who_is_20_weeks_pregnant_is_being_kept_alive%29

content:
<p>
The body of a brain-dead woman in Texas who is 20 weeks pregnant is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/texas-pregnant-brain-dead-woman-life-support">being
kept alive so the fetus can be born.</a>
<p>
This might make sense if the father wanted that baby as a relic of his
deceased wife — which he doesn't — except that nobody
knows whether it is healthy.


title: Extreme cold in US may be due to heating of the Arctic
uri: Extreme-cold-in-US-may-be-due-to-heating-of-the-Arctic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Extreme_cold_in_US_may_be_due_to_heating_of_the_Arctic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Extreme_cold_in_US_may_be_due_to_heating_of_the_Arctic%29

content:
<p>
Paradoxically, the extreme cold in the US
today <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/07/us-polar-vortex-global-warming">may
be due to to the heating of the Arctic.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on Disney to stop promoting fracking to children
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Disney-to-stop-promoting-fracking-to-children
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_Disney_to_stop_promoting_fracking_to_children)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Disney_to_stop_promoting_fracking_to_children%29

content:
<p>
In the US: Call on Disney
to <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-radio-disney-to-stop-promoting-oil-and-gas-pipelines-to-kids?akid=9717.1183552.BZXSMK&rd=1&suppress_one_click=true&t=1005">stop
promoting fracking to children.</a>


title: Measurements of atmospheric CO2 may come to an end
uri: Measurements-of-atmospheric-CO2-may-come-to-an-end
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Measurements_of_atmospheric_CO2_may_come_to_an_end)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Measurements_of_atmospheric_CO2_may_come_to_an_end%29

content:
<p>
The longest running sequence of measurements of atmospheric CO2
concentration may come to an end
because <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/jan/07/why-the-keeling-curve-deserves-public-support">funding
has been cut.</a>


title: Wild dolphin keeps trying to play with humans
uri: Wild-dolphin-keeps-trying-to-play-with-humans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Wild_dolphin_keeps_trying_to_play_with_humans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Wild_dolphin_keeps_trying_to_play_with_humans%29

content:
<p>
A wild dolphin that lives near the Australian
coast <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/07/lonely-dolphin-making-human-friends-but-experts-ask-swimmers-to-stay-away">keeps
trying to play with humans and ignores other dolphins.</a>
<p>
There are reasons to avoid accustoming wild animals to people, but
when that has already occurred, there's no use denying it.  At some
point, we might as well accept that this dolphin needs human company.


title: Complaints that fracking wells harmed water supplies in he US
uri: Complaints-that-fracking-wells-harmed-water-supplies-in-he-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(Complaints_that_fracking_wells_harmed_water_supplies_in_he_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28Complaints_that_fracking_wells_harmed_water_supplies_in_he_US%29

content:
<p>
There have been thousands of complaints
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/06/drilling-pollution-complaints-state-reports-pennsylvania">fracking
wells harmed water supplies in he US.</a> Only a few of the complaints
have been confirmed, and maybe many of them are spurious.  However, I
suspect that the tests miss some real problems.
<p>
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#21_June_2011_(Fracking_Chemical_Regulation)">Secrecy
about what chemicals are used in the wells</a> may make it hard to
confirm that contamination is due to fracking.


title: AT&T invites web services to pay to for exemption from data caps
uri: AT-T-invites-web-services-to-pay-to-for-exemption-from-data-caps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_January_2014_(AT%26T_invites_web_services_to_pay_to_for_exemption_from_data_caps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_January_2014_%28AT%2526T_invites_web_services_to_pay_to_for_exemption_from_data_caps%29

content:
<p>
AT&T <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/att-turns-data-caps-into-profits-with-new-fees-for-content-providers/">invites
web services to pay to for exemption from data caps</a>, thus proving
the supposed reason for data caps does not exist.
<p>
The result will
be <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/6/5280566/att-sponsored-data-bad-for-the-internet-the-economy-and-you">to
give bigger companies an advantage of smaller competitors</a>.
<p>
Of course, many of these services are bad in their nature, such as the
movie rentals with DRM.  But that's an independent issue.
<p>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">Please
don't refer to web pages as "content".</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose requiring women to prove rape to justify abortion
uri: Urgent-Oppose-requiring-women-to-prove-rape-to-justify-abortion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_requiring_women_to_prove_rape_to_justify_abortion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_requiring_women_to_prove_rape_to_justify_abortion%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to 
<a href="https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy;pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5795">oppose
bill HR.7</a>, which would require women who were made pregnant by
rape to prove the rape to justify an abortion.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(The_sublet_resale_economy)
title: The sublet/resale economy
uri: The-sublet-resale-economy
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28The_sublet_resale_economy%29
content:
<p>
The "sharing economy" smears the word "sharing" — "sublet/resale
economy" would be a better term.  And note that these activities generate
few jobs, so they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/07/sharing-economy-not-solution-to-jobs-crisis">can't
solve society's real problems</a>.


title: Congress must hold a real investigation of the NSA
uri: Congress-must-hold-a-real-investigation-of-the-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Congress_must_hold_a_real_investigation_of_the_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Congress_must_hold_a_real_investigation_of_the_NSA%29

content:
<p>
Congress 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/07-13">must hold a
real investigation</a> of the NSA.


title: UK gov't guided by meetings with lobbyists
uri: UK-gov-t-guided-by-meetings-with-lobbyists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(UK_govt_guided_by_meetings_with_lobbyists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28UK_govt_guided_by_meetings_with_lobbyists%29

content:
<p>
The UK government considered making alcohol more expensive to
encourage people to drink less, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/08/government-dancing-tune-drinks-industry-doctors">changed
course after 130 meetings with lobbyists</a>.


title: Using SO2 to cancel global heating would cause massive droughts
uri: Using-SO2-to-cancel-global-heating-would-cause-massive-droughts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Using_SO2_to_cancel_global_heating_would_cause_massive_droughts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Using_SO2_to_cancel_global_heating_would_cause_massive_droughts%29

content:
<p>
Pumping sulfur dioxide into the air could cancel global heating, but
it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/08/geoengineering-drought-tropics-climate-change-volcano">would
cause massive droughts</a>.


title: Israeli intelligence continues using torture
uri: Israeli-intelligence-continues-using-torture
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Israeli_intelligence_continues_using_torture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Israeli_intelligence_continues_using_torture%29

content:
<p>
Israeli intelligence continues using torture, 
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Israeli-NGO-accuses-Shin-Bet-of-using-torture-despite-High-Court-ban-337196">distorting
a Supreme Court ruling against torture</a> into meaninglessness.


title: Professor Ahmad Qatamesh freed from Israeli prison
uri: Professor-Ahmad-Qatamesh-freed-from-Israeli-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Professor_Ahmad_Qatamesh_freed_from_Israeli_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Professor_Ahmad_Qatamesh_freed_from_Israeli_prison%29

content:
<p>
Professor Ahmad Qatamesh has been freed from Israeli prison 
<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/sarah-irving/writer-ahmad-qatamesh-freed-after-25-years-administrative-detention">after
2.5 years</a>.  He was never charged with a crime, and Amnesty
International pushed for his release.


title: Gov't of Ghana wants to close refuges for people accused of witchcraft
uri: Gov-t-of-Ghana-wants-to-close-refuges-for-people-accused-of-witchcraft
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Govt_of_Ghana_wants_to_close_refuges_for_people_accused_of_witchcraft)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Govt_of_Ghana_wants_to_close_refuges_for_people_accused_of_witchcraft%29

content:
<p>
The government of Ghana 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/igwe20140105">wants to
close the refuges for people accused of witchcraft</a>; this is likely
to cause those people to be killed.


title: Comparing Arab and Israeli racist insults
uri: Comparing-Arab-and-Israeli-racist-insults
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Comparing_Arab_and_Israeli_racist_insults)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Comparing_Arab_and_Israeli_racist_insults%29

content:
<p>
Comparing 
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4473691,00.html">Arab
and Israeli racist insults</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Superbugs_in_chicken_meat)
title: Superbugs in chicken meat
uri: Superbugs-in-chicken-meat
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Superbugs_in_chicken_meat%29
content:
<p>
Mystery: why does chicken meat from chicken never exposed to antibiotics
carry superbugs 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/organic-chicken-carries-just-many-superbugs-regular">just
as often as other chicken</a>?


title: Jury rules London thugs lawfully shot Mark Duggan
uri: Jury-rules-London-thugs-lawfully-shot-Mark-Duggan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Jury_rules_London_thugs_lawfully_shot_Mark_Duggan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Jury_rules_London_thugs_lawfully_shot_Mark_Duggan%29

content:
<p>
The jury ruled that London thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/08/mark-duggan-lawfully-killed-inquest">lawfully
shot Mark Duggan</a>.
<p>
It's possible that the thugs really believed Duggan had a gun.  It's
possible he did have one, in the box.  It's possible the thug who shot
Duggan really believed at the time that the gun was in his hand.
These are not implausible.
<p>
But it seems clear that someone other than Duggan put the sock-covered
gun on the other side of the fence, and the obvious suspects are thugs
trying to make the shooting look justified.
<p>
I think that calls for its own investigation.


title: Antibiotic resistance is creeping up on us
uri: Antibiotic-resistance-is-creeping-up-on-us
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Antibiotic_resistance_is_creeping_up_on_us)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Antibiotic_resistance_is_creeping_up_on_us%29

content:
<p>
Warning: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/08/resistance-antibiotics-tipping-point-jeremy-farrar">antibiotic
resistance</a> is creeping up on us.


title: Wetlands contaminated with neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Wetlands-contaminated-with-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Wetlands_contaiminated_with_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Wetlands_contaiminated_with_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
Wetlands are being 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/07-7">contaminated
with neonicotinoid pesticides</a>, which threatens disastrous effects on
wildlife.
<p>
These pesticides are 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#14_December_2012_(More_evidence_ties_bee_deaths_to_neonicotinoids)">persistent</a>
Even if we stop using them, it could take years for them to dissipate.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(NAFTA)
title: NAFTA
uri: NAFTA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28NAFTA%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/04-1">NAFTA: 20 Years of Regret for Mexico</a>. (Not to mention the US.)


title: Afghanistan made worse by Obama and Clinton
uri: Afghanistan-made-worse-by-Obama-and-Clinton
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Afghanistan_made_worse_by_Obama_and_Clinton)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Afghanistan_made_worse_by_Obama_and_Clinton%29

content:
<p>
How Obama and Clinton made Afghanistan go from 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/03-3">bad to
worse</a>.


title: How abusive sweatshops receive US tax money
uri: How-abusive-sweatshops-receive-US-tax-money
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(How_abusive_sweatshops_receive_US_tax_money)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28How_abusive_sweatshops_receive_US_tax_money%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/american-tax-dollars-sweatshops?paging=off">How
Uncle Sam's Cash Is Funneled Into Abusive Sweatshops</a> (in
Bangladesh).


title: The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable
uri: The-Internet-of-Things-Is-Wildly-Insecure-And-Often-Unpatchable
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(The_Internet_of_Things_Is_Wildly_Insecure_-_And_Often_Unpatchable)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28The_Internet_of_Things_Is_Wildly_Insecure_-_And_Often_Unpatchable%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/theres-no-good-way-to-patch-the-internet-of-things-and-thats-a-huge-problem/">The
Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often
Unpatchable</a>.
<p>
When the article says "Linux operating system", I think it really does
mean Linux — the kernel Linux, not a complete operating system
such as 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html">GNU/Linux</a>.


title: Enforcement of laws to protect forest in Brazilian Amazonia
uri: Enforcement-of-laws-to-protect-forest-in-Brazilian-Amazonia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Enforcement_of_laws_to_protect_forest_in_Brazilian_Amazonia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Enforcement_of_laws_to_protect_forest_in_Brazilian_Amazonia%29

content:
<p>
In Brazilian Amazonia, enforcement of laws to protect the forest
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jan/07/brazil-amazon-conservation-project-threatened-loggers">so
weak</a> that the loggers barely put a fig leaf over it.


title: Puncturing the argument for keeping Bush forces in Iraq
uri: Puncturing-the-argument-for-keeping-Bush-forces-in-Iraq
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Puncturing_the_argument_for_keeping_Bush_forces_in_Iraq)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Puncturing_the_argument_for_keeping_Bush_forces_in_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/07/john-kerry-right-iraq-no-us-troops">Puncturing
the right-wing claim</a> that the US should have kept the Bush forces
in Iraq.


title: USDA's limited standards for approving GMOs
uri: USDA-s-limited-standards-for-approving-GMOs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(USDAs_limited_standards_for_approving_GMOs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28USDAs_limited_standards_for_approving_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
The USDA's standards for approving GMOs are limited to such narrow
concerns that they are 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/usda-prepares-greenlight-chemical-war-weeds">little
different from deregulation</a>.


title: Activists in 1971 stole FBI documents to prove wrongdoing
uri: Activists-in-1971-stole-FBI-documents-to-prove-wrongdoing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Activists_in_1971_stole_FBI_documents_to_prove_wrongdoing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Activists_in_1971_stole_FBI_documents_to_prove_wrongdoing%29

content:
<p>
In 1971, heroic activists stole FBI documents that 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/us/burglars-who-took-on-fbi-abandon-shadows.html">proved
the FBI was infiltrating US dissidents</a>.
<p>
They found that the FBI had specifically 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/fbi-office-break-in-1971-come-forward-documents">tried
to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into committing suicide</a>.
<p>
One of the activists explains 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/07-11">what they did
and why</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(Droughts_in_Australia)
title: Droughts in Australia
uri: Droughts-in-Australia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28Droughts_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Large parts of Australia are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/08/drought-hit-farmers-call-on-coalition-for-help-as-resources-start-to-dry-up">stricken
by drought again</a>, after just a couple of years of adequate rain
since the previous drought.
<p>
This combines with the effects of the hot weather.  Global heating is
expected to make Australia
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#03_December_2013_(What_4C_of_global_heating_will_mean_for_Australia)">more
arid as well as generally hotter</a>. It is also expected to reduce
global food production; indeed, it seems to be
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_November_2013_(IPCC_report_links_climate_change_to_anticipated_global_food_scarcity)">already 
doing so</a>.


title: India imposes usual tax rate on commercial use of US embassy grounds
uri: India-imposes-usual-tax-rate-on-commercial-use-of-US-embassy-grounds
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_January_2014_(India_imposes_usual_tax_rate_on_commercial_use_of_US_embassy_grounds)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_January_2014_%28India_imposes_usual_tax_rate_on_commercial_use_of_US_embassy_grounds%29

content:
<p>
India has imposed the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/08/india-us-american-embassy-club-row">usual
tax rate</a> on commercial use of the grounds of the US embassy.
<p>
Bravo for this, but the government of India would do a lot more good
for Indians by cracking down on inadequate wages for Indian workers,
whether they are working in the US or in India.


title: UK's Liberal Democrats consider reduction of data collection
uri: UK-s-Liberal-Democrats-consider-reduction-of-data-collection
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_January_2014_(UKs_Liberal_Democrats_consider_reduction_of_data_collection)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_January_2014_%28UKs_Liberal_Democrats_consider_reduction_of_data_collection%29

content:
<p>
The Liberal Democrats in the UK are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/08/surveillance-security-review-lib-dems-gchq-snowden">looking
at a platform involving reducing the collection of data</a>.


