# articles

feed_id: d8c18a6ab7d6170547bdd6524faf211a
title: Clinton's use of private email
uri: Clinton-s-use-of-private-email
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#29_August_2015_%28Clintons_use_of_private_email%29
content:
<p>
Hilary Clinton's use of a private email account
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/26/1415765/-Indictments-will-be-long-State-sent-classified-e-mails-during-Bush-Administration">continued
the practices of the State Department under the Bush regime</a>,
including Condoleezza Rice when she was secretary of state.
<p>
It was a bad practice, and should be changed; but Clinton is not
personally responsible for it.
<p>
Colin Powell explains 
<a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/08/republican-colin-powell-deals-death-blow-hillary-clinton-email-scandal.html">what
normal State Department practice was like</a>.
<p>
I still will not vote for Clinton, because she is in bed with
businesses that it is the president's job to restrain from harming us.


feed_id: 9ef109f4d1f4d45f32bfefa69185421b
title: Koch-funded pseudoscience research
uri: Koch-funded-pseudoscience-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#29_August_2015_%28Koch-funded_pseudoscience_research%29

content:
<p>
The University of Kansas did Koch-funded pseudoscience research whose
purpose was to
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/28/emails-show-koch-industries-backed-effort-undermine-renewable-energy-kansas/">undermine
standards for renewable energy</a>.


feed_id: 282061c92e73fe33511421794d9e43a4
title: Systemic racism in the US
uri: Systemic-racism-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#29_August_2015_%28Systemic_racism_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/swanson20150828">Seven
forms of systemic racism</a> in the US.


feed_id: 9868e703c76876b3e99e542c35bebae4
title: Robbery by bank
uri: Robbery-by-bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#29_August_2015_%28Robbery_by_bank%29
content:
<p>
When the Bank Robs You: Wells Fargo Contractors Allegedly
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/28/wells-fargo-contractors-stole-family-heirlooms/">Stole
Family Heirlooms Rescued From Nazis</a>.


feed_id: 33b922ad706fa6531a1116188fad1db1
title: India's solar energy program
uri: India-s-solar-energy-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#29_August_2015_%28Indias_solar_energy_program%29
content:
<p>
The WTO ruled against India's
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/27/wto-ruling-against-indias-solar-push-threatens-climate-clean-energy">domestic-manufacturing
preferences</a> for subsidized solar equipment.
<p>
It is not clear that this will cripple India's solar energy program,
but considering that that program needs to be much bigger, we should
not let anything get in its way.


feed_id: 9d0f6a276bdf448492ffe49b99b481c3
title: Four months in jail for stealing snacks
uri: Four-months-in-jail-for-stealing-snacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#29_August_2015_%28Four_months_in_jail_for_stealing_snacks%29

content:
<p>
Jamycheal Mitchell was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/28/jamycheal-mitchell-virginia-jail-found-dead">jailed
for 4 months awaiting trial</a> for stealing a few snacks.
<p>
If he had been convicted of such a theft, he probably would have been
sentenced to less time than that.  It is fundamentally unjust to imprison
accused people so long.  In the US, this is typically done only to the poor.
<p>
Most of the people imprisoned this way don't die from the experience.
But Mitchell did.  Jails tend to provide
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#28_December_2013_(Almost_900_people_died_in_US_jails_in_2011)">inadequate
medical care, and grudgingly</a>.  In Mitchell's case, he seems to
have starved himself to death because he could not stand being in
jail.


feed_id: 4f594ef00b2f5ae79b5de419916cf170
title: Urgent: Apology from Senator Kirk
uri: Urgent-Apology-from-Senator-Kirk
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Apology_from_Senator_Kirk%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Senator Kirk to 
<a href="http://action.votevets.org/page/s/kirk">apologize to US
negotiators</a> for comparing them to "Nazi appeasers".


feed_id: 561597003b46873b1e9de93d69538432
title: Urgent: Scrutinize Upland pipeline approval
uri: Urgent-Scrutinize-Upland-pipeline-approval
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Scrutinize_Upland_pipeline_approval%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://sierra.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0016107&id=701310000008lbEAAQ">call
on the State Department</a> to scrutinize the Upland pipeline approval
carefully.
<p>
I gave this text:
<blockquote>
Please carefully check the proposed Upland pipeline for danger of local
pollution and harm.  But you should block the pipeline in any case,
lest Transcanada use it later to send tar sands oil into the US.
</blockquote>


feed_id: ae1748aa2ba1a0b147b288d48c1efadb
title: Urgent: Drop charges against Andy Hall
uri: Urgent-Drop-charges-against-Andy-Hall
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_charges_against_Andy_Hall%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.walkfree.org/drop-the-charges-against-andy-hall-now/">call
on Thailand</a> to drop charges against Andy Hall.
<p>
This page does work with Javascript disabled, although it does
not show an immediate indication of that fact.


feed_id: 977652da7dc20990bb8459021d6e3557
title: Democratic Party debates
uri: Democratic-Party-debates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Democratic_Party_debates%29
content:
<p>
Candidates O'Malley and Sanders accuse the Democratic Party of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/28/martin-omalley-democratic-national-committee-hillary-clinton-primaries">limiting
debates so as to favor Clinton</a>.


feed_id: 90baaec430800628b25f1fbe6dc708b1
title: UK censorship laws
uri: UK-censorship-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28UK_censorship_laws%29
content:
<p>
The British Library 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/28/terror-law-prompts-british-library-to-reject-unique-taliban-archive">didn't
dare accept an archive of Taliban documents</a> for fear of
prosecution under UK censorship laws.
<p>
The fact that the question even arises shows that UK laws are far
outside the realm of justice.  Any law that makes it a crime to have a
copy of some publication is inexcusable tyranny.


feed_id: 77a272e190a6316cbcd796e4c5f3985b
title: US and Russian malware delivery
uri: US-and-Russian-malware-delivery
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28US_and_Russian_malware_delivery%29

content:
<p>
In the US and Russia, the government 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/28/associated_press_sues_fbi_for_impersonating_its_hacks/">impersonates
other organizations' sites</a> to inject malware.


feed_id: cdf47e2b65d5c1cb5209397de82981ae
title: Oil company lobbying
uri: Oil-company-lobbying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Oil_company_lobbying%29
content:
<p>
From January to June, oil companies spent 6 million dollars lobbying
in California
<a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/19/18776399.php">against
laws to limit the damage they do to people</a>.


feed_id: 6a6065a4ada33d0d4e3bde95c042a4b7
title: Shrinking glaciers
uri: Shrinking-glaciers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Shrinking_glaciers%29
content:
<p>
As glaciers shrink and disappear, the water they used to provide in the summer
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/28/shrinking-glaciers-washington-scientists-tribe-study">ceases
to be available for farming</a>.


feed_id: de6d45274f80cbba3d4b5771ea72a1e9
title: Turkey arrests British journalists
uri: Turkey-arrests-British-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Turkey_arrests_British_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Turkey has 
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2015/08/cpj-calls-for-the-release-of-vice-news-reporters-f.php">arrested
British journalists</a>.


feed_id: c43e637ebf180af7e24b6925f3faaffd
title: EPA's pollinator protection plan
uri: EPA-s-pollinator-protection-plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28EPAs_pollinator_protection_plan%29

content:
<p>
US beekeepers say that the EPA's pollinator protection plan is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/08/27/beekeepers-environmentalists-question-epas-commitment-saving-bees">passing
the buck to states that fail to resist the pesticide companies</a>.


feed_id: d087710089a68c914e2dcdc3d3e013d9
title: US military distorting intel about PISSI
uri: US-military-distorting-intel-about-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28US_military_distorting_intel_about_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
It appears that the US military is distorting intelligence about PISSI
to give a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/26/obamas-war-iraq-and-syria-rumbles-are-intel-books-getting-cooked">false
impression of success in fighting it</a>.
<p>
The US military has made public claims about readiness to attack PISSI
which I was skeptical about.  The attack on Mosul, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_February_2015_(Reported_timetable_for_attacking_Mosul)">announced
months ago</a>, has not taken place.
<p>
Underestimating the enemy is a recipe for defeat.


feed_id: 5f6c36fb19e911d878c1f7a1293b9667
title: Subcontracted workers' right to unionize
uri: Subcontracted-workers-right-to-unionize
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Subcontracted_workers_right_to_unionize%29

content:
<p>
The NLRB ruled that some subcontracted temporary workers
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/08/28/labor-board-opens-door-to-unionized-cont">should
be considered employees of the real employer</a>, and have the right
to unionize.
<p>
The use of subcontracting is largely an excuse to pay and treat
workers worse.  It's possible that this decision could reduce
that harm.


feed_id: ef8331400a93e3d4921bf9f5f5a5712c
title: US crackdown on sex workers
uri: US-crackdown-on-sex-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28US_crackdown_on_sex_workers%29
content:
<p>
The US crackdown on sex workers is
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/08/28/asset-forfeiture-for-sex-workers">driven
by the state's desire to steal their money</a>.
<p>
There is a general pattern in the US of governments using oppressive
measures to take people's money.  The Ferguson pattern of repeatedly
fining and jailing poor people is one example.  "Forfeiture" is
another.  The root cause is that we don't tax rich people enough, so
governments are desperate to get money from somewhere or other.


feed_id: a6d38b136261c60a7c75df93ec9d8792
title: Women's rights in Saudi Arabia
uri: Women-s-rights-in-Saudi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Womens_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia has taken a small step towards recognizing women's rights
by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/aug/28/saudi-arabia-women-voting-suffragettes">allowing
them to vote and run for office</a>.
<p>
Since the country is actually ruled by the king, the elected
officials, no matter who votes for them, don't get to decide much.
Still, they could provide practice for a future democracy.


feed_id: bbed1e5ccc32dcabc1f7f7976a47f076
title: Divestment from fossil fuel companies
uri: 2015-08-31-Divestment-from-fossil-fuel-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Divestment_from_fossil_fuel_companies%29

content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/232130/california-academy-of-sciences-will-divest-from-fossil-fuels/">California
Academy of Sciences</a> has decided to divest from fossil fuel
companies.
<p>
Now we must up the pressure on other important science museums.


feed_id: 854d4a997e90bf41ad6a432f98b35e77
title: Women that used Ashley Madison
uri: Women-that-used-Ashley-Madison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Women_that_used_Ashley_Madison%29
content:
<p>
Reports about
<a href="http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/i-know-several-ashley-madison-users-theyre-all-women-and-they-dont-deserve-your-">some
real women</a> that used Ashley Madison.
<p>
It is painful to keep a secret from someone you love, but I put the
blame on the possessiveness that makes it necessary to keep the
other relationship a secret.


feed_id: ea0ec146f4daaf4760a406e35208bd18
title: Eye contact with thugs
uri: Eye-contact-with-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Eye_contact_with_thugs%29
content:
<p>
If you're black in the US, a thug might stop you for looking him in
the eye.  Or
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/ohio-cop-tells-black-man-he-tailed-him-and-pulled-him-over-for-direct-eye-contact/">for
not looking him in the eye</a>.


feed_id: ca8af3584df1af7f8fa2eb3e2aba61fc
title: Republican presidential candidates
uri: Republican-presidential-candidates
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Republican_presidential_candidates%29

content:
<p>
Republican presidential candidates are
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/opinion/paul-krugman-rash-test-dummies-as-republican-candidates-for-president.html">know-nothings
regarding the economy</a>; in particular, in regard to potential or
real economic crises.
<p>
That makes sense, because they're not working for Americans overall,
only for the rich ones that donate their campaign funds.  An economic
crisis, as Naomi Klein has pointed out, is a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#4_March_2013_(US_Economy)">great
opportunity for them to take from other Americans</a>.


feed_id: 629aabd7b1095bd9628fef7072c64534
title: Babies of Iceland's financial crisis
uri: Babies-of-Iceland-s-financial-crisis
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Babies_of_Icelands_financial_crisis%29

content:
<p>
Babies that were in the first trimester of gestation when Iceland had
its financial crisis had, on the average, a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/29/iceland-babies-born-recession-worse-health">lower
than usual birth weight</a>.
<p>
This diagnostic could indicate a higher rate of various problems.


feed_id: 23e321149d81d1990f4b2cd62035fb95
title: United's WiFi service
uri: United-s-WiFi-service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Uniteds_WiFi_service%29
content:
<p>
United's WiFi service
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150827/15022532086/united-flight-wifi-blocks-popular-news-sites.shtml">blocks
many news sites</a>.
<p>
I never sign up for United's in-flight wifi because it would require
me to run nonfree software (Javascript in the page) and to pay in
a way that would identify me.


feed_id: 9337d6b5d1f7eea8975430f115cf3d71
title: China attacks software developers
uri: China-attacks-software-developers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28China_attacks_software_developers%29

content:
<p>
China now attacks the Chinese developers of
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/speech-enables-speech-china-takes-aim-its-coders">software
for circumventing Chinese censorship</a>, and seems to have pressured
Github to delete them and others.
<p>
Did Github give way to that pressure?  The article does not say.
<p>
Some software on Github is free, but most of it is not properly
licensed and thus not free.


feed_id: 14b0f856340cec7b26a2b6eef381dea2
title: Gun violence
uri: 2015-08-31-Gun-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Gun_violence%29
content:
<p>
Will increasing gun violence motivate Americans to overcome the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/29/virginia-tv-shooting-west-virginia-school-gun-violence">power
of the NRA</a>?


feed_id: 3b2918b0e64b15db34b17403e2ff74c7
title: Use of drones to monitor workers
uri: Use-of-drones-to-monitor-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Use_of_drones_to_monitor_workers%29

content:
<p>
Monitor drones are being used in construction to
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540836/new-boss-on-construction-sites-is-a-drone/">identify
workers that are slower than other workers</a>.
<p>
This is part of the "push yourself harder for less pay" economy.


feed_id: e52265af1712019b06b2616c603347bf
title: Egypt sentences journalists to prison
uri: Egypt-sentences-journalists-to-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Egypt_sentences_journalists_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
Egypt has sentenced Al Jazeera journalists to three years in prison,
basically for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/29/egyptian-court-sentences-3-al-jazeera-english-journalists-to-3-years-in-prison">the
crime of reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood</a>.
<p>
The Muslim Brotherhood's political positions violated human rights, of
course, since it was Islamist.  But that doesn't justify prohibiting
it or declaring participation in it a crime.


feed_id: 64289afce34366ba8c467e7e2ac592d3
title: Imposing metal detectors
uri: Imposing-metal-detectors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Imposing_metal_detectors%29
content:
<p>
Europeans are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/29/france-train-attack-eu-ministers-station-scanners-thalys-amsterdam-paris">considering
imposing metal detectors at train stations</a> after an attempted
massacre on a train.
<p>
There are so many places someone could shoot people.  It is silly to
pile security on the last one someone tried to use, especially given
that the dismal failure of this attack will probably incline the next
shooter to try some other sort of place.


feed_id: 5bb5ee02576d57e610655963aab15732
title: Australia's immigration prison
uri: Australia-s-immigration-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Australias_immigration_prison%29
content:
<p>
The private guards at Australia's immigration prison in Nauru
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/28/wilson-security-guards-handcuffed-asylum-seeker-boy-on-nauru-as-a-joke">handcuffed
an 8-year-old boy prisoner as a joke</a>.
<p>
This example is an outlier in its specifics, but it is typical of the
spirit of the Nauru immigration prison.


feed_id: 937b09e98ba443183057f007a7e7b0c2
title: US court accepts NSA's catch-22
uri: US-court-accepts-NSA-s-catch-22
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28US_court_accepts_NSAs_catch-22%29
content:
<p>
A US court accepted the
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/appeals-court-falls-for-governments-shell-game-nsa-spying-case">NSA's
catch-22</a>: if you can't prove you personally were spied on, you
can't sue about whether they are allowed to spy on you.
<p>
Judges that twist the law like this are inviting everyone to spit on
it.


feed_id: 10c8160dbad7b26153701c8b18c6c375
title: Pushing public school teachers out
uri: Pushing-public-school-teachers-out
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Pushing_public_school_teachers_out%29

content:
<p>
An example of what happens
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/aug/29/secret-teacher-resign-after-disappointing-gcse-results">when
teachers are graded based on students' standardized tests</a>.
<p>
In the US and the UK, this practice accompanies a push to replace
public schools with privatized "charter schools".  If the policy is to
punish the teacher whose class tests lowest, or punish the school in
the district that tests lowest, there will always be someone to
punish, always some school that there is an excuse to close.


feed_id: 147c22f1d5b6ecd2c5fec4bc70ec9b55
title: Canadian gov't trying to fire scientist
uri: Canadian-gov-t-trying-to-fire-scientist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#30_August_2015_%28Canadian_govt_trying_to_fire_scientist%29

content:
<p>
The Canadian government is trying to fire scientist Tony Turner
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/28/canadian-scientist-suspended-folk-song-stephen-harper">for
singing a song that criticized the anti-science pollutician
Harper</a>.
<p>
Harper has done
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_May_2014_(Canada_attacks_science)">many</a>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#08_April_2015_(Gag_order_on_UK_govt_employees)">things</a>
to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#23_August_2015_(Anti-science_policies)">suppress
science</a> in Canada so it can't show the harm that his policies are
doing.


feed_id: dc6a7e444cc0cf065248a21f9f35fac7
title: Guatemala
uri: Guatemala
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Guatemala%29
content:
<p>Guatemala's president 
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/8/27/uprising_in_guatemala_could_anti_corruption">
is likely to be impeached</a>
 for corruption, but
his wrongs started with mass murder in the army's US-backed dirty war
to keep the indigenous peoples in submission.
</p>


feed_id: 4cef225610d0c20aa83071a45d7f6bf3
title: Lexmark
uri: Lexmark
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Lexmark%29
content:
<p>Lexmark 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/op-ed-lexmarks-war-against-a-man-who-recycles-toner-cartridges/">
is trying to crush</a>
 the US ink cartridge recycling business
with patents, claiming that cartridges originally sold outside the US
and brought by printer users into the US cannot be recycled.
</p>
<p>I'd get rid of the problem by changing patent law so that Lexmark
can't use patents to prevent independent manufacture of replacement
cartridges for its printers.  The business model which this supports
— cheap printer but cartridges are expensive, or cheap phone but
using it is expensive — systematically leads to nasty
restrictions on the users.  We should therefore get rid of the
business model.</p>
<p>The article spreads confusion by using the term "intellectual
property", which 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">
it is a mistake</a>
 ever to use.
That term incoherently
lumps together a dozen or so laws which have nothing substantial in
common.  Even copyright law and patent law have very little in common
except the one sentence in the constitution that those two laws spring
from.</p>
<p>Calling all these laws "intellectual property" implies that they must
be similar, which is an obstacle to learning what each of them really
says and does.</p>
<p>It also uses other propaganda terms such as 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">
"protected"</a>
.
</p>


feed_id: 8ac6a4bcde383b82a6cb4ae87b9b58bf
title: Baltimore
uri: 2015-08-31-Baltimore
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Baltimore%29
content:
<p>200 people convicted in Baltimore, whose trials were based on
cell-phone tracking that the state did not tell the defense about, 
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/28/baltimore-convictions-challenged-secret-stingray-surveillance/71279112/">
may
get</a>
 new trials.
</p>
<p>Thugs must not be allowed to weasel out of disclosing information that
defendants are entitled to on the basis of signing a non-disclosure
agreement.  If they can't tell defendants when they used the
cell-phone tracker, they should get rid of it.</p>


feed_id: f7536d5a7cab9a0d10da4ac1f800df80
title: US gun nuts
uri: US-gun-nuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28US_gun_nuts%29
content:
<p>Finally US gun nuts 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/28/1295324/--Gun-enthusiasts-threaten-woman-for-selling-a-safer-gun?detail=emailclassic">
found</a>
 one gun that they don't like — a gun
that authenticates its user.  They sent death threats to the seller.
</p>


feed_id: 09d6e5b2f74a988139ca97adcf7186c8
title: Bankster's cruelty
uri: Bankster-s-cruelty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Bankster%27s_cruelty%29
content:
<p>The bankster's cruelty to Greece is a somewhat harsher version of what
they 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/08/30/how-austerity-economics-fraying-europes-social-contract">
are doing</a>
 to other European countries.
</p>
<p>How about copying North Dakota's pharmacy law in other US states?</p>


feed_id: 16776709527645a2ea46a362066ac79a
title: BJP
uri: BJP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28BJP%29
content:
<p>The BJP, now India's ruling party, 
<a href="http://www.tehelka.com/2015/08/bjp-helped-to-massacre-dalits-say-ranveer-sena-activists/?singlepage=">
is tied</a>
 to several massacres of
Dalits.
</p>


feed_id: d64d1caf6023174f51fe3d5fdb3b34bd
title: Chemical Plants
uri: Chemical-Plants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Chemical_Plants%29
content:
<p>China to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/30/china-relocate-chemical-plants-tianjin-blasts-miao-wei-pollution">
Relocate</a>
 Almost 1,000 Chemical Plants in Wake of Tianjin Blasts.
</p>


feed_id: f903b7019cfb4da39af543c7fef9006c
title: Ivory trafficking
uri: Ivory-trafficking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Ivory_trafficking%29
content:
<p>The sadistic Lord's Resistance Army 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/africa-wild/2015/aug/30/case-proven-ivory-trafficking-funds-terrorism">
is involved</a>
 in ivory trafficking.
</p>


feed_id: fb01624c50fc0e64e1cd512864e9e255
title: Norway
uri: Norway
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Norway%29
content:
<p>Norway 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/26/liberia-norway-forest-resources-share-plenty-with-poor">
is paying</a>
 Liberia to keep its forests standing.
</p>


feed_id: ec8dcb4946d3d9c36a8cd3ba5764c099
title: Child labor
uri: Child-labor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Child_labor%29
content:
<p>Banning child labor in making the products we use 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/aug/26/ban-child-labour-developing-countries-imposes-naive-western-ideals-complex-problems">
can have harmful
secondary effects</a>
 when the children live in poor families.
</p>
<p>However, there may be a better solution than child labor, as we can
see when a parent says, "[the children] are making money that is used
to pay their school fees."  Why are there school fees to pay?</p>
<p>In the 80s and 90s, World Bank "aid programs" imposed neoliberal
"structural adjustments" that in many cases replaced gratis schooling
with school fees.  If we undo that externally imposed injustice,
maybe children won't need to work for their school fees.</p>


feed_id: 371fbef0079337db528bed0ff1890fc3
title: Free books in Indianapolis
uri: Free-books-in-Indianapolis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Free_books_in_Indianapolis%29
content:
<p>Indianapolis uses art projects to 
<a href="http://teleread.com/books/the-public-collection-indianapoliss-own-big-free-libraries/">
redistribute</a>
 printed books.
</p>
<p>Please don't use ebooks unless you're prepared to do something like
this with them.</p>


feed_id: ecfcc0fdff994dca135ccf3b1fddf89e
title: Chris Christie
uri: 2015-08-31-Chris-Christie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Chris_Christie%29
content:
<p>Chris Christie 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/30/chris-christie-i-would-track-immigrants-like-fedex-packages">
wants to track</a>
 all visitors to the US all the time, so
as to find them if they overstay their visas.
</p>
<p>How could they do this?  Implanting a portable phone into the
visitor's body would work.  As a bonus, they could listen to all
conversations that take place near the visitor.</p>
<p>Doing this to visitors is a great wrong, but it would not remain
limited to visitors.  It would subsequently be extended to US citizens
the next time some spectacular crime committed by a citizen provides
an excuse.</p>


feed_id: 2a61a28f4df43d63c0c9f59d68a78cc8
title: Malaysia
uri: 2015-08-31-Malaysia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Malaysia%29
content:
<p>Up to 200,000 defied the Malaysian state 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/30/malaysia-protests-calling-for-najib-razak-to-resign-enter-second-day">
to protest</a>
 demanding the
resignation of the prime minister, who doesn't respect democracy very
much.
</p>
<p>Fortunately the thugs refrained from physically attacking them this
time.  That may be due to the participation of the former prime
minister, who didn't respect democracy very much either.  Is this
really a factional power struggle?  Is he trying to co-opt it into
one?</p>


feed_id: 891d8a9f47ed8d542c0fa49aa930d4f5
title: Israel
uri: 2015-08-31-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Israel%29
content:
<p>Israeli veterans, shortly after the 1967 war, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/30/israel-six-day-war-film-censored-voices">
described</a>
 the atrocities
they saw, or carried out.
</p>


feed_id: f116ebfabc21515ab32d5e8b94bda473
title: Arctic sea ice
uri: Arctic-sea-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Arctic_sea_ice%29
content:
<p>The loss of Arctic sea ice 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/30/my-arctic-journey-fragile-ecosystem-northwest-passage">
threatens</a>
 the entire Arctic ecosystem.
Many species may go extinct.
</p>


feed_id: 7c172ca9777a439b8645860770fe10f6
title: Blaming the victim
uri: Blaming-the-victim
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Blaming_the_victim%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/30/web-of-lies-extends-beyond-ashley-madison">
Don't sneer</a>
 at people for the foolish wishful thinking that leads them
to fall for a mostly-fraud like Ashley Madison. The same sort of
foolishness leads people into other frauds.
</p>
<p>Apparently many people don't understand the difference between folly
and evil.  They are fundamentally different.  Being a tempting victim
may be foolish but it isn't evil.  It may be foolish to walk down a
deserted street at 23:00, but it's not wrong.  Therefore, if someone
robs you or rapes you there, your foolish choice may be part of the
cause, but it has no effect on the moral responsibility for the crime,
which falls in this case entirely on those who carried it out.</p>
<p>This confusion supports the practice of blaming the victim (although
people may have other reasons for wanting to do that).</p>


feed_id: 9dccd757311cc6ae61b0f378e938f346
title: Disability benefits
uri: Disability-benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Disability_benefits%29
content:
<p>In the UK, 80 people per month 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/27/thousands-died-after-fit-for-work-assessment-dwp-figures">
die shortly after being labeled as "fit
to work"</a>
 and losing disability benefits.
</p>
<p>Do you think Cameron feels bad about their deaths?  I don't.</p>


feed_id: e5edf3961de2bb3ba798a6f53a4dd13d
title: Identity Checks in EU
uri: Identity-Checks-in-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#31_August_2015_%28Identity_Checks_in_EU%29
content:
<p>The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/29/eu-identity-checks-france-train-attack-bernard-cazeneuve">
wild and useless response</a>
 to an attempted shooting on a European
train: identity checks for everyone.
</p>
<p>There are so many places where you can find a bunch of random people to
shoot
that it makes no sense to take such measures on just one of them.</p>


feed_id: 5ad0bae63a04466f8b48626a87ff05cc
title: Urgent: Planned Parenthood funding
uri: 2015-09-01-Urgent-Planned-Parenthood-funding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Planned_Parenthood_funding%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-war-on-women-8">call
on Congress</a> to protect funding for Planned Parenthood.


feed_id: f52d7aef8caa26f19ec616fbf9b1cb40
title: Urgent: Reject corporate tax giveaway
uri: Urgent-Reject-corporate-tax-giveaway
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_corporate_tax_giveaway%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Schumer_Portman_corporate_tax">tell
Congress</a> to reject the Schumer-Portman corporate tax giveaway.


feed_id: 437b06d863c5adefd44938f62db90b08
title: Tiger sanctuaries in India
uri: Tiger-sanctuaries-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28Tiger_sanctuaries_in_India%29
content:
<p>
A widened road in India 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/india-untamed/2015/aug/31/india-no-country-for-wild-tigers">would
separate some tiger sanctuaries</a>, making it hard for tigers to
survive in any of them.


feed_id: 3e948e41f936292a60f9e0390ada637e
title: Baby foods too sweet
uri: Baby-foods-too-sweet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28Baby_foods_too_sweet%29
content:
<p>
Baby foods in general are too sweet, to the point that they 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/30/baby-foods-found-too-sweet-to-encourage-variety-of-tastes-in-children">interfere
with development of the ability to sense other tastes</a>.
<p>
I would guess that this isn't the only kind of harm that results from
baby food that is too sweet.


feed_id: 25c40692d3ba83afc6c7b5c4b18baf7d
title: Bullshit vs lies
uri: Bullshit-vs-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28Bullshit_vs_lies%29
content:
<p>
On 
<a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=20963">the
difference</a> between bullshit and lies.


feed_id: e4e144eadcdfec266daf0b5afd7e501d
title: US SWAT raids
uri: US-SWAT-raids
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28US_SWAT_raids%29
content:
<p>
US SWAT teams hardly bother to check their information before they
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1803">raid innocent people's
homes</a>.


feed_id: 9c6ca12b22043726e2ec674c3490e29a
title: Saudi Arabia's use of US cluster bombs
uri: Saudi-Arabia-s-use-of-US-cluster-bombs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28Saudi_Arabias_use_of_US_cluster_bombs%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch says Saudi Arabia is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/28/watchdog-group-new-evidence-us-cluster-bombs-used-yemen">using
US cluster bombs in places near civilians</a>.
<p>
If you access the video from youtube, please take care to avoid
running the 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube">nonfree
code included in youtube pages</a>.


feed_id: ef3584649d328e01d9fe9b813c78f117
title: Britons using pensions to pay debt
uri: Britons-using-pensions-to-pay-debt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28Britons_using_pensions_to_pay_debt%29

content:
<p>
Britons in debt are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/30/older-people-cash-in-pension-pots-debts-mortgages">collecting
their state pensions in advance</a> to pay the debt.
<p>
This will leave them destitute later, along with those who invested
their pensions in pyramid schemes.


feed_id: 7eec7b2eeac3ae6ddcf8042c3fee4eeb
title: Making "improvements" to nuclear weapons
uri: Making-improvements-to-nuclear-weapons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28Making_improvements_to_nuclear_weapons%29

content:
<p>
The US is 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/nuclear-weapon-obama-most-expensive-ever">making
"improvements" in nuclear weapons</a> and seems not to consider what
the effects will be when Russia makes similar "improvements" in its
own nuclear weapons.


feed_id: 33861d8ada070136760dc93cbc768e4c
title: Water shortage in the Middle East
uri: Water-shortage-in-the-Middle-East
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28Water_shortage_in_the_Middle_East%29

content:
<p>
Modelling suggests that the Middle Easy will face an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/27/middle-east-faces-water-shortages-for-the-next-25-years-study-says">increasing
water shortage for the next 25 years</a>.
<p>
That doesn't mean it won't get worse after that.
<p>
Drought, related to global heating, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_(Water_supplies_in_Iraq_and_Syria)">provoked
the civil war in Syria</a>.  Drought in other places can cause more
wars.


feed_id: ca892a554fb28e775f618ddf7a564f25
title: China Relocating Chemical Plants
uri: China-Relocating-Chemical-Plants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_%28China_to_relocate%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/30/china-relocate-chemical-plants-tianjin-blasts-miao-wei-pollution">China to Relocate Almost 1,000 Chemical Plants</a> in Wake of Tianjin Blasts.
</p>


feed_id: de75ae3b48b41a55ec877eebd4d42fcd
title: Police standards
uri: Police-standards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Police_standards%29
content:
<p>If police departments in the US had the same standards for employees as fire departments, <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/31/whats-wrong-with-police-in-america/">we'd have police officers instead of thugs.</a></p>
<p>The US needs to reevaluate what their job consists of, and especially
how many of them are needed.  To hire as many as we have now requires
scraping the bottom of the barrel.  We no longer have a high overall
crime rate, and if we ended the war on drugs, we'd have a lot less
crime of all kinds.</p>


feed_id: 9b695e9d994226d0ffcfd5b23451efc1
title: Personal data of students
uri: Personal-data-of-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Personal_data_of_students%29
content:
<p>Several US states <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/technology/tools-for-tailored-learning-may-expose-students-personal-details.html">have passed inadequate laws</a> to protect the privacy of personal data of students in school.</p>
<p>These laws are inadequate because companies should not get
<em>any</em> personal information about <em>any</em> students.
Schools should keep these data, and delete anything that does not need
to be kept.</p>


feed_id: 1b07fa523e8f776bd6a73483ab3234a8
title: "Transparency" for TTIP negotiations
uri: Transparency-for-TTIP-negotiations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Transparency_for_TTIP_negotiations%29

content:
<p>The EU promised "transparency" for the TTIP negotiations, but arranged
to interpret that in a way <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/31/transparency-ttip-documents-big-business
">that adds up to nothing.</a>  Even MEPs can't see anything meaningful.</p>
<p>The first level of dishonesty about this treaty is the idea that it is
about "free trade".  It's really about giving companies more power and
democracy less power.  That's why I call them "corporate supremacy
treaties".</p>


feed_id: 11e365a7a1ffeed18730b3c6b3377214
title: Harm to effective privacy
uri: Harm-to-effective-privacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Harm_to_effective_privacy%29
content:
<p>The practice of publishing anything salacious that we hear other
people saying <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/Passcode-Voices/2015/0826/Opinion-How-digital-voyeurism-is-destroying-privacy">does significant harm to effective privacy.</a></p>
<p>We should distinguish between proof of something really bad, like
violence carried out by a thug, from mere clickbait such as a couple's
breaking up.</p>


feed_id: 2aae38e7f1851797bfa99da95ebc7f9c
title: Rotten judicial system in Egypt
uri: Rotten-judicial-system-in-Egypt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Rotten_judicial_system_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/31/the-guardian-view-on-the-al-jazeera-convictions-a-symptom-of-something-fundamentally-wrong">The conviction of three Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt</a> is a sample of a thoroughly rotten judicial system.</p>
<p>Egypt is one of the countries that I would love to visit, if it were safe.
But I don't feel I would be safe from imprisonment there now.</p>


feed_id: 85f08d0a0378cabcebf690bd796cca6e
title: Leftist condemnation of science
uri: Leftist-condemnation-of-science
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Leftist_condemnation_of_science%29

content:
<p>Chomsky <a href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/1995----02.htm">refutes</a> the perverse postmodern leftist condemnation of science and even rationality.</p>


feed_id: e02df8d34365783731b4590471a5c4ab
title: Filling out tax forms
uri: Filling-out-tax-forms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Filling_out_tax_forms%29
content:
<p>H&R Block Lobbied <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/hr-block-lobbied-bill-could-make-it-pricier-poor-people-file-taxes">to Make Tax Forms Harder for Low-Income People to Fill Out.</a></p>


feed_id: 914076a4b5c6d99ce58cf259ad48a897
title: Trump and white supremacy
uri: Trump-and-white-supremacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Trump_and_white_supremacy%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/28/donald-trump-is-the-new-face-of-white-supremacy/">Donald Trump is the New Face of White Supremacy.</a></p>


feed_id: 045b895b1158fc396add7ff9fed37635
title: Escape from poverty
uri: Escape-from-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Escape_from_poverty%29
content:
<p>Never in US history have most people earned enough to escape from poverty <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/28/the-myth-of-the-middle-class-have-most-americans-always-been-poor/">based on their wages alone.</a></p>
<p>I think the article confuses the point by saying that they "were" poor.
What happened, and the article makes it clear when read carefully,
is that when they weren't poor it was because debt was supporting them.</p>


feed_id: b18ce751571ac39a7f9df65c2119c90d
title: Divest from fossil fuels
uri: 2015-09-02-Divest-from-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Divest_from_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>The city of Newcastle, Australia, which is the world's biggest coal
exporting city, has decided to divest from fossil fuels, recognizing
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/31/newcastle-grasps-what-our-federal-government-cannot-coal-is-the-past">the coal business has no future.</a></p>


feed_id: 0dc405dd1c2e4852a25eb9ff52620b5c
title: Curbing global heating would save money
uri: Curbing-global-heating-would-save-money
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Curbing_global_heating_would_save_money%29

content:
<p>Citibank says curbing global heating would save <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/aug/31/citi-report-slowing-global-warming-would-save-tens-of-trillions-of-dollars">tens of trillions of dollars, </a>not even counting the avoided costs of global heating.</p>
<p>Alaska natives say that global heating has caused drastic changes that are
destroying their way of life, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/31/alaska-climate-change-obama-time-act">and we need to stop it now.</a></p>


feed_id: 599144c7268720da5204e0dda5c46e1a
title: Government inquiry of Nauru
uri: Government-inquiry-of-Nauru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Government_inquiry_of_Nauru%29
content:
<p>Australia's prison in Nauru <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/31/all-children-should-be-removed-from-nauru-detention-senate-inquiry-finds">treats children so horribly</a> that even a government inquiry says no children should be there.</p>
<p>What will Abbott do next?  Remove the children and leave their parents
on Nauru?  That might be cruel enough to be his next step.</p>
<p>The plan to send refugees to Cambodia has failed and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/31/how-australias-deal-to-resttle-asylum-seekers-in-cambodia-deal-went-flat">Cambodia has cancelled it.</a></p>


feed_id: 21cd4f5e0b4bad04f4cca34aef095112
title: US-backed war in Yemen
uri: US-backed-war-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28US-backed_war_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>The US-backed war in Yemen <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/31/21-million-humanitarian-aid-yemen-civil-war-aid-agencies">has blocked delivery of food and medicine,</a> endangering millions.</p>


feed_id: 1e67a9b713562a4262a0604f4fe28a9b
title: Chinese human rights defenders
uri: Chinese-human-rights-defenders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_September_2015_%28Chinese_human_rights_defenders%29

content:
<p>Families of disappeared Chinese human rights defenders <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/31/families-of-chinas-disappeared-say-country-is-a-place-of-fear-and-panic">call on the state</a> to tell them where their relatives are.</p>


feed_id: 62a9321e692355f287d916e5357508fe
title: Sea-level rise
uri: 2015-09-02-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Sea-level_rise%29
content:
<p>
James Hansen and other scientists warn that sea-level rise is likely
to accelerate fast in the future, and could amount to 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/20/sea_level_study_james_hansen_issues_dire_climate_warning.html">10
feet (3 meters) within 50 years</a>.  Or maybe somewhat more or less
time.
<p>
I write this in the Chilean port city of La Serena, substantial parts
of which seem to be less than 3 meters above sea level.  Oops.
<p>
If you're feeling really lucky, you could decide to bet that their
prediction won't happen ever.


feed_id: 7a6424e9bc6cbaae4242c7850cff97c9
title: Australia's immigration prison
uri: 2015-09-02-Australia-s-immigration-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Australias_immigration_prison%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/01/naomi-klein-tells-qa-australians-should-rise-up-in-protest-over-nauru-detainees">Naomi
Klein</a> "I'm a lot more shocked by the fact that migrants made
refugees by wars that your government and my government have
participated in are sent to islands so far away, locked away with no
hope so they take their own lives."
<p>
I don't think we need to ask which of these outrages is worse.


feed_id: 9a75106bb730c954e5d5d924d9e8f9c3
title: Azerbaijan journalist faces imprisonment
uri: Azerbaijan-journalist-faces-imprisonment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Azerbaijan_journalist_faces_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Azerbaijan Journalist Khadija Ismayilova, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/azerbaijan-khadija-ismayilova-verdict">faced
with imprisonment for exposing corruption</a>, says she will continue
even in prison.
<p>
The court mercifully sentenced her to "only" 
<a href="http://cpj.org/2015/09/cpj-condemns-75-year-prison-term-for-khadija-ismay.php">7.5
years in prison</a>.


feed_id: f08fb3b459ed1e4db4f54efa855cd754
title: UK's housing shortage
uri: UK-s-housing-shortage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28UKs_housing_shortage%29
content:
<p>
Economic growth alone will not fix the UK's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/sep/01/housing-crisis-uk-economic-growth-is-not-the-answer">housing
shortage</a>.
<p>
Proper taxation of houses, including higher taxes for any home that
isn't a principal residence, would get the job started.


feed_id: fcb654aec6cb4c80fcae1800089abcb8
title: "Anti-terrorism" laws
uri: Anti-terrorism-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Anti-terrorism_laws%29
content:
<p>
Turkey is the latest country to use "anti-terrorism" laws for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/turkey-charges-three-vice-news-journalists-with-aiding-terrorist-group">repression</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_(Secret_searches_in_the_US)">The
US does it too</a>, and it is wrong in any country.
<p>
In this case, Turkey's (i.e., Erdogan's) aim is to hide his violent
attacks against Kurds.
<p>
The violence started with an attack in the city of Suruc, which was
attributed to PISSI but may have been a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_August_2015_(Turkey_helping_PISSI)">false
flag attack by the Turkish government</a>.


feed_id: 3598bd8431733597ba22217744424f2b
title: Thugs and self-proclaimed psychics
uri: Thugs-and-self-proclaimed-psychics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Thugs_and_self-proclaimed_psychics%29

content:
<p>
Self-proclaimed psychics are a total failure in helping criminal
investigations, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/01/psychics-police-investigation-peter-sutcliffe">thug
departments are very slow to learn this lesson</a>.


feed_id: 6542ef54bf90e06cd9629fc921f9fa22
title: Iran bars music director
uri: Iran-bars-music-director
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Iran_bars_music_director%29
content:
<p>
Israel was unable to stop Daniel Barenboim from conducting in Iran,
but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/01/iran-bars-daniel-barenboim-israeli-citizenship">Iran's
government won't let him in</a>.


feed_id: 1c162fc1d4e918e0dac788eec9a53aab
title: Google accused of rigging search results
uri: Google-accused-of-rigging-search-results
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Google_accused_of_rigging_search_results%29

content:
<p>
Google 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/01/google-accused-abusing-search-dominance-india">faces
accusations in India and Europe</a> of rigging search results to favor
its own sites.
<p>
It would be easy to achieve this result intentionally without
explicitly writing lines of code that say "prefer this Google site".
Some minor details of the Google site could raise the site's priority.


feed_id: 0aab6ab9596a31d437d18afb2c6907fc
title: Manipulation of public opinion
uri: Manipulation-of-public-opinion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Manipulation_of_public_opinion%29

content:
<p>
How the apartheid government of South Africa 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/selling-apartheid-new-book-lays-bare-south-africas-propaganda-war">spent
millions to manipulate public opinion</a> in the US and Europe.


feed_id: 460c2d4f520c781db88ec7d9efc43a95
title: Obama says the right things
uri: Obama-says-the-right-things
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Obama_says_the_right_things%29
content:
<p>
Obama, visiting in Alaska, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/01/barack-obama-in-alaska-global-fight-against-climate-change-starts-here">called
for urgent action to curb global heating</a>.
<p>
Obama is saying the right things; he should make his actions match his
words.


feed_id: aa9b1c728a09f823f1f8a2d51f578ded
title: Journalists in Thailand acquitted
uri: Journalists-in-Thailand-acquitted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Journalists_in_Thailand_acquitted%29

content:
<p>
Journalists in Thailand were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/australian-and-thai-journalists-found-not-guilty-of-defaming-thai-navy">acquitted
of the crime of "defaming the Navy"</a> in reporting on suspicions of
its involvement in human trafficking.
<p>
This is a good outcome, but the root of the problem is in making
defamation a crime.  Freedom of speech includes the right to offend,
criticize, insult, even mock any institution, any practice, any
belief, and any person.


feed_id: c3f30fcb5074e912631d145fee7166c8
title: Plastic objects inside seabirds
uri: Plastic-objects-inside-seabirds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Plastic_objects_inside_seabirds%29

content:
<p>
In some parts of the ocean, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/01/up-to-90-of-seabirds-have-plastic-in-their-guts-study-finds">90%
of seabirds</a> have plastic objects inside them.


feed_id: 48a7a4b4d493c2c7298ed48c2acaace0
title: Studies funded by pharma companies
uri: Studies-funded-by-pharma-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Studies_funded_by_pharma_companies%29

content:
<p>
Some pharma companies are fighting hard to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/31/pfizer-resists-calls-for-greater-clincal-trial-transparency-medicine-drugs">keep
disappointing results of patient studies secret</a>.
<p>
Since it is established that the involvement of pharma companies
corrupts the outcomes of these studies, we should cut them off from it
completely.  Instead of letting them fund the studies, the government
should tax them and use the tax funds to do the studies.


feed_id: e46590b63c19a4a6b76e9e4bee2492c8
title: Heat wave in Europe
uri: Heat-wave-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Heat_wave_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>
The long heat wave in Europe, and the associated drought, has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/31/europe-long-dry-summerq">spoiled
harvests and forced power plants to close</a>.


feed_id: 2fc2f593bacb1173580d581f7f3ff176
title: Urgent: stand up for real journalists
uri: Urgent-stand-up-for-real-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_stand_up_for_real_journalists%29

content:
<p>Everyone: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/jorge_ramos">call on the US press corps</a> to stand up for real journalists rather than anti-rational billionaire candidates.</p>


feed_id: d942145379e7cc5aabe6a5df47d07c54
title: Urgent: protect Bryce Canyon
uri: Urgent-protect-Bryce-Canyon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_protect_Bryce_Canyon%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call for <a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-mining/">protecting Bryce Canyon from coal mining.</a></p>


feed_id: 05afec25311548e131514eb31e3a88a8
title: Urgent: discrimination based on religion
uri: Urgent-discrimination-based-on-religion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_discrimination_based_on_religion_%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Obama to have the Attorney General reconsider
the conclusion that <a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/president-obama-call-end-taxpayer-funded-discrimination?emsrc=Nat_Appeal_AutologinEnabled&emissue=RF
RA&emtype=petition&ms=eml_150831_OLC_RFRA_members&__af=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&/secure/president-obama-take-action?emsrc=Nat_Appeal_Autol
oginEnabled&emissue=RFRA&emtype=petition&ms=eml_150831_OLC_RFRA_members&__af=yuC5t4Y2EBdeaWFmUPXyzUmIKR563NoX1Tnd6Z8L4FSQUy2XKqVUWX
TqO3TBIQ5naS12aVRTVHDsznaqRFE17ypE%2B%2FCXXq%2B4YlbasmRsbn4I5nAVaVx0dVxBedYnchpXXbnVboQ0U5LjXx%2FSTquTh%2FNudGPP6JyeuDo5pA%2Bmiz0w7
hcT06x6SZyn4ppJRuKvj8W0Q%2F9W2E3Q3LBh5nfP4B4uPPmEoocOJfaK3A%2Barlv4Dm6PZHq3FFOpT1psF5aF
">discrimination on the basis of religion is legitimate.</a></p>


feed_id: d131bab4ca748da1abaefb75f229f6a4
title: Urgent: free political prisoners in Vietnam
uri: Urgent-free-political-prisoners-in-Vietnam
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_free_political_prisoners_in_Vietnam%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on Vietnam <a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=41578&ea.tracking.id=MessagingCategory_PrisonersandPeopleatRisk&ac=W1508EAIAR1">to free political prisoners in the coming amnesty.</a></p>


feed_id: a112dfb15b59184728a0098ce0d79039
title: Solitary confinement of "gang leaders"
uri: Solitary-confinement-of-gang-leaders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Solitary_confinement_of_gang_leaders%29

content:
<p>California has agreed to stop keeping supposed "gang leaders" in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/01/california-ends-isolation-gang-leaders-prison">long-term solitary confinement.</a></p>
<p>The article errs in supposing that these prisoners are really
associated with gangs.  That is what they are <em>accused</em> of, but
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_September_2013_(California_prisoners_united_against_inhumane_treatment)">all sorts of silly criteria</a> are used to determine who is a "gang
member".</p>


feed_id: e805b245ed7981fcc9652c3e3d366794
title: Advertising of sex workers
uri: Advertising-of-sex-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Advertising_of_sex_workers%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/01/rentboy-online-brothel-tool-economy-sex-work">Repression</a> against services that enable sex workers to advertise hits them hard.</p>


feed_id: 7f04e67a0979a1400a5c19094f7c3312
title: Massive wildfires in US
uri: Massive-wildfires-in-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Massive_wildfires_in_US%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/01/wildfires-oregon-residents-future-seasons">The massive wildfires in the US</a> have burnt over 2000 square miles.</p>
<p>As we keep turning the heat up, it will get bigger.  Do people want to
bet on which year 20,000 square miles will burn?</p>


feed_id: e94b0ae6c4e9905bf71e0501de6c56e0
title: Temple of Bel
uri: Temple-of-Bel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Temple_of_Bel%29
content:
<p>The Fate of the Temple of Bel Is a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/01/temple-bel-palmyra-isis-yria">Symbol of the Tragedy Engulfing Syria.</a></p>


feed_id: 153b0b48600fa376b8917efda92eb77c
title: Charges for murder of Niloy Chakrabarti
uri: Charges-for-murder-of-Niloy-Chakrabarti
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Charges_for_murder_of_Niloy_Chakrabarti%29

content:
<p>Five Islamists <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/bangladesh-police-charge-islamist-militants-atheist-murder">have been charged</a> with murdering secularist blogger Niloy Chakrabarti.</p>


feed_id: 889ec838496e2292db6811fee87360df
title: Toys and imagination
uri: Toys-and-imagination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Toys_and_imagination%29
content:
<p>a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/sep/01/depriving-your-kids-of-toys-great-idea">Fewer toys</a> can be good for children's imagination.</p>
<p>A few years ago I visited a friend who had a typical large American house,
with several rooms littered with piles of toys.  I was shocked, but I suspect
most Americans would find it normal.</p>


feed_id: 673cee6f321694befb4331b2b1e92c99
title: Real women on Ashley Madison
uri: Real-women-on-Ashley-Madison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Real_women_on_Ashley_Madison%29

content:
<p>The number of real women on Ashley Madison <a href="http://gizmodo.com/ashley-madison-code-shows-more-women-and-more-bots-1727613924">was probably more than previous analysis concluded.</a>  Data to determine their number is not available in the leak.</p>
<p>However, it is clear there were at least 70,000 "female" chatbots.</p>


feed_id: d053619f3f17419380de30f33b1ec0cf
title: Lobby for the Emir of Qatar
uri: Lobby-for-the-Emir-of-Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Lobby_for_the_Emir_of_Qatar%29
content:
<p>Tony B'liar's wife lobbied Hillary Clinton <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/01/hillary-clinton-emails-cherie-blair-lobbied-qatari-royal-family">on behalf of the Emir of Qatar.</a></p>
<p>The article does not show whether Clinton did anything wrong in regard
to this, but it seems sleazy on Ms B'liar's part.</p>


feed_id: 056695f299c88d8b1ccf6502dffc5150
title: Shooting a moving car
uri: Shooting-a-moving-car
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Shooting_a_moving_car%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/01/moving-targets-police-shootings-vehicles-the-counted">US thugs have shot 30 drivers dead this year,</a> ignoring guidance that it's a bad idea to shoot at a moving car.</p>


feed_id: 29274d01a12fd6f6af171f2bd18cd76f
title: Shrinking glaciers
uri: 2015-09-03-Shrinking-glaciers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Shrinking_glaciers%29
content:
<p>Glaciers shrank in the 20th century, but now <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/01/the-shrinking-glaciers-of-austria">they are shrinking twice as fast.</a></p>


feed_id: 4867c909a6b06da9d0a69b487f06e183
title: "Debt relief" in IMF terms
uri: Debt-relief-in-IMF-terms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Debt_relief_in_IMF_terms%29
content:
<p>"Debt relief for Greece", in IMF terms, means only <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/?p=73515@localhost.localdomain
">stretching out the payments.</a></p>


feed_id: ec62d59404d12df0be2fb4e434b1726c
title: Working conditions in Burma
uri: Working-conditions-in-Burma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Working_conditions_in_Burma%29
content:
<p>"Free trade" means clothing companies anywhere in the world <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/31/burma-minimum-wage-uk-retailers">get the benefit of the horrible working conditions in Burma.</a></p>


feed_id: 928cde8da375821f2b01f7f7bf233e5b
title: Toys and imagination
uri: 2015-09-03-Toys-and-imagination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_%28Toys_and_imagination%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/sep/01/depriving-your-kids-of-toys-great-idea">Fewer toys</a> can be good for children's imagination.</p>
<p>A few years ago I visited a friend who had a typical large American house,
with several rooms littered with piles of toys.  I was shocked, but I suspect
most Americans would find it normal.</p>


feed_id: a9a7a7770047e4ef11ca50fc4a23777e
title: Torture charges pressed in Canada
uri: Torture-charges-pressed-in-Canada
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#03_September_2015_%28Torture_charges_pressed_in_Canada%29

content:
<p>
Canada has pressed charges against the Syrian officer that tortured
Maher Arar,
but <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/09/01/charges-filed-case-rendition-torture-maher-arar/">not
yet against the Americans that kidnaped him and handed him over to
Syria for torture</a>.


feed_id: 40f00bff3ea71c9a1252f581e3b94852
title: Genetically engineered salmon
uri: Genetically-engineered-salmon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#03_September_2015_%28Genetically_engineered_salmon%29

content:
<p>
Most US supermarket chains have agreed not to sell genetically
engineered salmon.  
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/31/new-nationwide-push-keep-ge-salmon-out-waters-shelves">Costco
is one of the holdouts</a>.
<p>
I think it is unlikely that the genetically engineered salmon would
harm humans that eat them.  But harm to wild salmon is a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_May_2013_(Genetically_modified_salmon_)">real 
possibility</a>.  There are many other things that could go wrong,
which we would not know how to fix.


feed_id: 702cc9c1860a50f4b6622035bc429923
title: Politicians who don't understand physics
uri: Politicians-who-don-t-understand-physics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#03_September_2015_%28Politicians_who_dont_understand_physics%29

content:
<p>
Politicians that approach global heating like politics as usual don't
understand that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/08/31/why-earth-heating-so-fast-dangerous-difference-between-science-and-political">physics
won't meet them half way for the sake of a deal</a>.


feed_id: 3c4b47f559582ffa563da33ab081ee05
title: Laws changed for fossil fuel
uri: Laws-changed-for-fossil-fuel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#03_September_2015_%28Laws_changed_for_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
Governments set on extracting fossil fuels are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/08/31/how-extreme-energy-leads-extreme-politics">changing
laws so they can ram this down people's throats</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_April_2014_(Union_in_Australia_fined)">Australia</a>
and the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_May_2014_(UK_govt_working_against_public)">UK</a> 
have also changed laws to stop people from preventing extraction of
fossil fuel.


feed_id: e0528ef505460f30915bc17ca8d51d97
title: Mother convicted of endangering child
uri: Mother-convicted-of-endangering-child
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#03_September_2015_%28Mother_convicted_of_endangering_child%29

content:
<p>
A New Jersey mother was convicted of endangering a child that she 
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/nj-supreme-court-rules-that-leaving-a-kid-in-the-car-is-not-automatically-abuse/">left
in the car for 10 minutes</a>.  The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled her
case was judged wrong.
<p>
The article explains the biased thinking that considers bizarre
unlikely dangers as crucial in some cases and insignificant in others.


feed_id: 58ac32696694f79f194a87ac3f5b3e04
title: Mongolia turning into desert
uri: Mongolia-turning-into-desert
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#03_September_2015_%28Mongolia_turning_into_desert%29

content:
<p>
Global heating is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/sep/01/mongolian-nomads-way-of-life-lost-climate-change-in-pictures">turning
Mongolia into a desert</a>, which is a big problem for Mongolians.


feed_id: ca13d3de82a882aff5e74cca54ffa09e
title: Israel leaving Palestinians homeless
uri: Israel-leaving-Palestinians-homeless
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#03_September_2015_%28Israel_leaving_Palestinians_homeless%29

content:
<p>
Israel demolished the Palestinian village of al-Khdeirat, 
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20150531_al_khdeirat_demolitions">leaving
100 people homeless</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, fanatical "settlers" 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/72855">seized a Palestinian
building</a>.
<p>
These demolitions are often 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/01/cruelty-not-human-right">carried 
out with hardly any notice</a> so as to destroy the Palestinians'
movable possessions too.


feed_id: f4da8bbd334d6a10b72d7e1aeea1da3d
title: Pacifist and activist sues Israel
uri: Pacifist-and-activist-sues-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#03_September_2015_%28Pacifist_and_activist_sues_Israel%29

content:
<p>
British pacifist and activist Gary Spedding is suing in Israel 
<a href="http://972mag.com/british-national-challenges-israels-policy-of-deporting-peace-activists/110938/">to
reverse his exclusion from that country</a>, which was done citing
absurd reasons.


feed_id: 6b44a4edc23edc15bf47ea23e4bb2198
title: Israeli courts protect rights some of the time
uri: Israeli-courts-protect-rights-some-of-the-time
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#03_September_2015_%28Israeli_courts_protect_rights_some_of_the_time%29

content:
<p>
Israeli courts carefully protect the rights of the accused when Jews
are accused of pogroms against Palestinians.  The rest of the time, 
<a href="http://blog.yesh-din.org/en/?p=1015">not so much</a>.
<p>
Thus, it seems almost impossible for those guilty of such pogroms
to face any punishment.


feed_id: c520735c5877283b22f74c991b51a2dd
title: San Antonio killing
uri: San-Antonio-killing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#4_September_2015_%28San_Antonio_Murder%29
content:
<p>San Antonio thugs 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/31/1417035/-Police-in-San-Antonio-shot-killed-man-who-had-his-hands-up-didn-t-know-they-were-being-filmed?detail=email">shot a black man who was standing still with his hands
in the air.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 304dbd2b270a93d83a03eaa9a9ec55e4
title: Texas killing
uri: Texas-killing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#4_September_2015_%28Texas_Violence%29
content:
<p>Someone shot a thug in Texas; as a non-sequitur,
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/31/1417147/-The-deeply-disturbing-lie-that-the-death-of-a-Texas-officer-is-connected-to-Black-Lives-Matter?detail=email"> the thugs took this
as an excuse to smear Black Lives Matter.</a>
</p>


feed_id: b653c58c694563956a91f963a2bf2adc
title: World tree count
uri: World-tree-count
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#4_September_2015_%28trees%29
content:
<p>Humans have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/02/scientists-reveal-there-are-3tn-trees-in-world-new-count">eliminated roughly half the trees that the Earth had
a few thousand years ago.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 4b04200fbf3d7bf2e1b0e66afefa4c09
title: Ukraine
uri: 2015-09-04-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#4_September_2015_%28Ukrain%29
content:
<p>Ukraine needs to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/ukraine-soviet-reforms-jaroslav-gritsak">get rid of Soviet government practices more than
Soviet statues.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 24e1dfe4e03c6443080ec721f1278cee
title: Record floods
uri: Record-floods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#4_September_2015_%28floods%29
content:
<p>The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/sep/02/global-warming-intensified-the-record-floods-in-texas-and-oklahoma">record floods in Texas and Oklahoma</a>
 were bigger due to global heating.
</p>


feed_id: ac965b5ec440af0b4ba473b1d2acd138
title: Planned Parenthood
uri: 2015-09-04-Planned-Parenthood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#4_September_2015_%28PlannedParenthood%29
content:
<p>On the dishonest splicing used to 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150902">create a false picture of Planned
Parenthood,</a>
and how it can fool people.
</p>


feed_id: 3755ed6b493e400cb002dae000525f90
title: Carcinogenic e-cigarettes
uri: Carcinogenic-e-cigarettes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#4_September_2015_%28e-cigs%29
content:
<p>Around half of e-cigarettes
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/02/e-cigarette-manufacturers-california-health-watchdog"> produce dangerous levels of formaldehyde
and/or acetaldehyde</a>, which are carcinogens.
<p></p>
<p>Some of them produced 100 times the maximum level allowed in California. </p>
</p>


feed_id: 88921ae441a7818ae8f31cff6b50741c
title: Iran deal
uri: Iran-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#4_September_2015_%28IranDeal%29
content:
<p>The Iran deal now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/iran-nuclear-deal-congress-34th-senator
">has enough support in the US Senate to assure
it will be adopted.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 0f78b329a8be3a71129d4b07aa254ec4
title: Petraeus' bright idea
uri: Petraeus-bright-idea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Petraeus%27_bright_idea%29
content:
<p>General Petraeus' bright idea is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/02/david-petraeus-bright-idea-give-terrorists-weapons-to-beat-isis">to arm al Qa'ida to fight PISSI.</a></p>
<p>They seem to be determined not to arm the revolutionary Kurds,
though they don't talk about the possibility.</p>


feed_id: ed1a84054941e8bee8194bd034329bf4
title: Abortion 'Forgiveness'
uri: Abortion-Forgiveness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Abortion_%27Forgiveness%27%29
content:
<p>The Pope's Abortion 'Forgiveness' Is Good Politics, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/02/pope-francis-abortion-forgiveness-good-politics-changes-nothing-for-women">but Changes Nothing for Women.</a></p>
<p>I see it as a step in the right direction.  Perhaps it will be
followed by other steps.</p>


feed_id: 5a5f3c7f9c873eda5d43834ba354169f
title: Missing bodies from Chechen war
uri: Missing-bodies-from-Chechen-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Missing_bodies_from_Chechen_war%29

content:
<p>20 Years after Chechen War, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/chechnya-anniversary-missing-people-remain">Families Still Searching for Missing Bodies.</a></p>
<p>I am sorry about people's deaths, but when your friends or relatives
die, don't be obsessed with their corpses.  The ancient Egyptians were
foolish about this, but you don't have to be like them.</p>


feed_id: de73b60d8c607cc0a68165a1a25c9ed8
title: Protect Australian penguins
uri: Protect-Australian-penguins
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Protect_Australian_penguins%29
content:
<p>To protect Australian penguins from foxes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/02/conservationists-step-up-anti-fox-effort-after-attack-on-sydney-penguin-colony">is not easy.</a></p>
<p>I suggest another solution: invite the rich people from England that
want to resume fox hunting to go to Australia to do it.</p>


feed_id: 9630364d0c1db1dfd91ef7bc4cfefe8b
title: Global race to the bottom
uri: Global-race-to-the-bottom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Global_race_to_the_bottom%29
content:
<p>The "global race to the bottom", predicted by opponents of
business-dominated globalization, is hitting Europe hard, <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/merkel-austerity-globalization-eu-poverty/">eliminating its social protection for workers' rights.</a></p>
<p>I must point out that making too many humans is a part of the cause
of this problem.  The current population survives by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_August_2014_(Earth_Overshoot_Day)">overusing the Earth's natural systems.</a></p>


feed_id: 379586e0e829a477c09da9c0ce976dc3
title: High limits for emissions
uri: High-limits-for-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28High_limits_for_emissions%29
content:
<p>Australia's limits for greenhouse gas emissions <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/02/direct-action-safeguards-will-allow-industry-to-increase-emissions-analysts">have been set so high</a> that they won't cause any reductions.</p>


feed_id: 6ca2acf954ea7b23ed9cc35ff8228939
title: Endangered Australian animals
uri: Endangered-Australian-animals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Endangered_Australian_animals%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/02/morrissey-attacks-australian-plan-to-cull-2-million-feral-cats">Unthoughtful supporters of animals</a> have condemned the plan to protect
endangered Australian animals by getting rid of many
European-introduced feral cats.</p>


feed_id: 836ac11ee0952e9bf562a8163a50d280
title: Accusations of "terrorist propaganda"
uri: Accusations-of-terrorist-propaganda
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Accusations_of_terrorist_propaganda%29

content:
<p>Erdogan has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/02/turkey-arrests-more-journalists-alleging-terrorist-links-to-erdogan-opponent">accused journalists from a major media group</a> of "terrorist propaganda", as well as the CEO who is probably safe in Britain.</p>
<p>In some ways this is a good sign.  It suggests that Erdogan is getting
desperate, and doing things that may make Turkish voters turn against
him even more.</p>


feed_id: 1d04b2ff28138cc6fe7ef5108999e3dc
title: Nitrogen-fixing bacteria
uri: Nitrogen-fixing-bacteria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Nitrogen-fixing_bacteria%29
content:
<p>Climate mayhem will affect <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/02/climate-change-will-alter-ocean-micro-organisms-crucial-to-food-chain-say-scientists">crucial "nitrogen fixing" ocean bacteria.</a></p>
<p>This is not necessarily going to mean disaster — the other
nutrients these bacteria consume will remain available to everything
that eats these bacteria.  Also, bacteria adapt fast.  Still messing with
such things is one more risk we take by heating up the Earth.</p>


feed_id: 3475ab73908d12aca9860a1794ac2141
title: Destitution in Gaza
uri: Destitution-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Destitution_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>The UN reports that the bombardment and blockade of Gaza have
effectively eliminated its ability to produce what people need to
live, and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/gaza-becoming-uninhabitable-as-society-can-no-longer-support-itself-report">reduced everyone to destitution.</a></p>


feed_id: 7066d75f8cf59b2c9a201e39d182b09c
title: Use of cluster bombs
uri: Use-of-cluster-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Use_of_cluster_bombs%29
content:
<p>PISSI (<a href="#PISSI"><sup>*</sup></a>), Syria, Ukraine, Russia, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/banned-cluster-bombs-syria-ukraine-yemen-sudan-libya">have all used cluster bombs in recent years.</a></p>
<p id="PISSI">
<sup>*</sup>The Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.


feed_id: f2ca866dc63c8b249c037898af178c5f
title: Capitalism and global heating
uri: Capitalism-and-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Capitalism_and_global_heating%29

content:
<p>Tony Abbott and Nancy Klein both say it's impossible to preserve
capitalism and avoid global heating disaster.  They disagree in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/03/tony-abbott-and-naomi-klein-agree-we-cant-beat-climate-change-under-capitalism">whether capitalism is worth the disaster.</a></p>
<p>I disagree with them, because today's rapacious "damn the environment
(and the workers), full speed ahead" capitalism is not the only
possible kind.  It is not the only kind we have tried.  I have seen
rapacious capitalism replace more benign forms of capitalism, as it
crushed the countervailing forces such as democracy and civil society
that used to hold it in check.
<p>It is a mistake to equate "capitalism" with the modern rapacious kind
of capitalism, because that writes off the possibility of pushing
capitalism back into a form we can control and live with, the way we
control and live with fire.
<p>The reason today's rapacious capitalism blocks action to avoid climate
disaster is that it amounts to plutocracy.  Where the fossil fools
control the media and their money buys the polluticians, they can veto
political will for the necessary changes.  We must, one way or another,
bring back democracy, and that requires ending plutocracy.
<p>To be sure, clipping capitalism's claws won't be easy.  But neither
would getting rid of it — and that would raise the question of
what to replace it with.</p>


feed_id: 539c64ba898a054a9600afbab0493734
title: Treatment of fast food workers
uri: Treatment-of-fast-food-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Treatment_of_fast_food_workers%29

content:
<p>"Fast food" was based on <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/?p=24663@localhost.localdomain">making workers more efficient and paying them less.</a>  It has advanced through legal changes that permit worse treatment of workers.</p>


feed_id: ce2d49125eb73a486b8f45e8e3ae385b
title: Violence against tenants
uri: Violence-against-tenants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Violence_against_tenants%29
content:
<p>In the UK, there is such a housing shortage that landlords often
harass tenants and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/sep/02/thousands-of-tenants-suffering-abuse-from-private-landlords
">some even commit violence against them.</a></p>
<p>Strict policing of landlords would help, but what the UK really needs
is enough available housing.</p>


feed_id: 05bb565285335b37c0f4275ae900056b
title: Israel monitors BDS organizations
uri: Israel-monitors-BDS-organizations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Israel_monitors_BDS_organizations%29

content:
<p>Israel <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-reveals-delegitimization-department-spy-boycott-activists?utm_source=EI+
readers&utm_campaign=7c03f52b45-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-7c03f52b45-290644433">has a special unit</a> to "monitor" organizations that advocate boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.</p>
<p>Israel says that this campaign is somehow linked to violent
resistance, Palestinians in the West Bank that support that cause are
called in for interrogation, apparently to intimidate them.</p>
<p>I don't support a boycott of Israel in general, but I do support a boycott
of products made in the Israeli colonies in the West Bank (which violate
the treaties that govern military occupation).</p>


feed_id: 72b32df1ff0e7b9fa53951e61337f634
title: Redistributing income
uri: Redistributing-income
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Redistributing_income%29
content:
<p>Robert Reich <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/01/labor-day-2028">proposes</a> to share all income from patented or trademarked
businesses with the public, as a form of redistribution that couldn't
be evaded by accounting tricks or offshoring.</p>
<p>It might work, but I think my proposed solution, <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">a progressive tax on business income,</a> would also resist such tricks while applying to more
businesses.  It would also pressure big businesses to split up.</p>


feed_id: 855a0e2ff1506d4914610dfb7eaf091f
title: "Voluntary" cybersecurity
uri: Voluntary-cybersecurity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Voluntary_cybersecurity%29
content:
<p>Now that we have proof that the US has corrupted "voluntary"
cybersecurity programs to spy on people, it is even clearer that the
"voluntary" program of CISA <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/amendments-cisa-cybersecurity-bill-fail-all-regards">is an excuse for more spying on people.</a></p>


feed_id: c0a69c1e5c662c8d7650152f39e582a5
title: Rules for shooting stonethrowers
uri: Rules-for-shooting-stonethrowers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Rules_for_shooting_stonethrowers%29

content:
<p>Netanyahu plans <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/netanyahu-hints-easing-rules-firing-palestinian-stone-throwers">to loosen the rules</a> for shooting Palestinian boys that throw stones.</p>
<p>Israeli soldiers have been ignoring the rules already, to kill
Palestinians who were simply running away.</p>


feed_id: 38a5e2f9ac15102a89159f236de1d285
title: Keyless ignition
uri: Keyless-ignition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Keyless_ignition%29
content:
<p>Carmakers Sued Over <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/carmakers-sued-over-deadly-keyless-ignitions/a-18677135">'Deadly' Keyless Ignitions.</a></p>
<p>Plaintiffs say the engine could be running without the user's knowing,
filling up a space with carbon monoxide.</p>


feed_id: 75df8aca0c68d627f445a7ba7acfcc0b
title: Surveillance camera monitors
uri: Surveillance-camera-monitors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#04_September_2015_%28Surveillance_camera_monitors%29

content:
<p>Male surveillance camera monitors use the cameras to follow pretty women.  The Chilean solution: <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150901/09530932133/problem-male-operators-use-surveillance-cameras-ogling-women-mayors-solution
-employ-only-female-operators.shtml">hire only women to run them.</a></p>
<p>If we want to have cameras pointed at our streets for security, <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html#dispersal">they must be security cameras, not surveillance cameras.</a></p>


feed_id: bfd72c6e0b0e1e08d6122ce1469f5438
title: New limits on freedom of speech
uri: New-limits-on-freedom-of-speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28New_limits_on_freedom_of_speech%29

content:
<p>Australia is planning new limits on freedom of speech.  The government
wants to ban "advocating genocide", <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/04/advocating-genocide-to-be-new-under-new-national-security-laws">apparently to be understood in a very loose fashion.</a></p>
<p>According to the article, what Hizb ut-Tahrir advocates is political
change, not genocide.  It advocates a lousy and unjust political
system that wouldn't respect human rights, but then, so do Republicans
(though they don't go quite as far).  Freedom of speech includes the
right to advocate such political systems.</p>
<p>The group's leader appears to have made anti-semitic statements.
Bigotry is expression of an opinion — a despicable opinion, in
my view, but that should not make it a crime.</p>


feed_id: fd54a73bd17effe9e04818e1b02143d7
title: Grooming children for credit card use
uri: Grooming-children-for-credit-card-use
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Grooming_children_for_credit_card_use%29

content:
<p>Banks are grooming children for credit card use <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/04/sam-dastyari-says-banks-are-building-data-profiles-from-kids-as-young-as-five">starting at age 5.</a></p>
<p>If you use credit cards to pay, you are likely to spend more than if you
pay cash.  You can prevent that effect with self-discipline, but you
can't stop them from tracking you.</p>


feed_id: 6dbf409a6eeb0cf99dbd2c7fc8e3d197
title: Exiling Australian citizens
uri: Exiling-Australian-citizens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Exiling_Australian_citizens%29
content:
<p>Australia has (it seems) <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/04/plan-to-strip-citizenship-expected-to-be-backed-by-parliamentary-committee">narrowed the plan to exile citizens with dual citizenship,</a> by limiting it to those that actually fight for terrorist groups that Australia considers enemies.</p>
<p>It is legitimate to punish people for that, by imprisonment for
instance, but taking away citizenship is the wrong way to punish any
sort of crime.  In addition, it can force people to go to a place
where they will be tortured.</p>
<p>I also see a slippery slope here, in that if exile is tolerated in any
kind of case, politicians will propose to extend it to other cases.</p>
<p>I don't think that exile would deter or prevent crimes more than
imprisonment.  Meanwhile, if some accused stay away from Australia to
avoid being tried and imprisoned, that achieves the same effect as
exiling them without the moral onus of imposing exile.</p>


feed_id: d580d46e43796940d37d1b0063fca21f
title: Girls' careers in science
uri: Girls-careers-in-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Girls%27_careers_in_science%29
content:
<p>Toys for girls, and marketing messages for them, encourage passivity
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/04/toys-aimed-at-girls-steering-women-away-from-science-careers">steer girls away from science careers.</a></p>


feed_id: d0f523c159ac7731130edb2b490a2cdb
title: Pacific bluefin tuna
uri: Pacific-bluefin-tuna
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Pacific_bluefin_tuna%29
content:
<p>Warning over Pacific Bluefin Tuna Stocks as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/04/warning-over-pacific-bluefin-tuna-stocks-as-japan-meeting-ends-in-stalemate">Japan Meeting Ends in Stalemate.</a></p>


feed_id: 2524455efdafab8da523f0109a8072f6
title: Employees moving to government service
uri: Employees-moving-to-government-service
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Employees_moving_to_government_service%29

content:
<p>Hillary Clinton <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/09/hillary-clinton-golden-parachutes-elizabeth-warren">finally gave support</a> to the law to ban private bonuses to employees moving to government service.</p>
<p>Her reluctance reflects the fact that her heart is not really in the
cause of weakening plutocracy.  (I don't expect her to try very hard
to get such a law passed.)  Her stance has been clear for a long time,
and I still won't vote for her.</p>


feed_id: 2c0f0d3476e15275a258dc545acf9480
title: Manpower temps
uri: Manpower-temps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Manpower_temps%29
content:
<p>Manpower continues to cheat and underpay temps <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/09/12925/manpower-federal-contractor-wages
">working indirectly for US government agencies.</a></p>


feed_id: a7d719480ec832ee98e8cbec01240db0
title: Warrants for tracking phones
uri: Warrants-for-tracking-phones
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Warrants_for_tracking_phones%29

content:
<p>US federal agencies will henceforth usually <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/03/us-justice-department-tightens-rules-cellphone-tracking-devices">need to get warrants</a> to use stingray devices that track all the cell phones in a region.</p>
<p>I fear that the exceptions will allow this to be done in the most
dangerous possible cases: protest rallies.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the phone company also tracks the movements of each phone,
making them available retroactively.  Thus, I still consider it
unacceptable to carry around a portable phone.</p>


feed_id: 1a9fb6ff4f5529d1f1d829335d6ee02c
title: Target for emissions reduction
uri: Target-for-emissions-reduction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Target_for_emissions_reduction%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/09/california-about-do-something-no-state-has-done">California's assembly</a> is about to vote on a very strong target for greenhouse emissions reduction.</p>


feed_id: 220b17f38332c8e2e45397c79f306e8b
title: Thug indicted for murder
uri: Thug-indicted-for-murder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Thug_indicted_for_murder%29
content:
<p>A Virginia thug has been indicted for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/03/virginia-police-officer-indicted-william-chapman">first degree murder.</a></p>


feed_id: 2ece2c9a24a5b9fc94b8813edb6afbd8
title: Banned documentary in Congo
uri: Banned-documentary-in-Congo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Banned_documentary_in_Congo%29
content:
<p>The "Democratic Republic" of the Congo <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/congo-shutting-down-debate-on-says-director-of-banned-film">has banned a documentary</a> about
a doctor that treats women who have been raped by soldiers and militia
as part of the long-running civil war there.</p>


feed_id: e2767d7a8de57c8a210d6865a6114b7e
title: Recording everything we say
uri: Recording-everything-we-say
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Recording_everything_we_say%29
content:
<p>What if you record, as text, everything you say?  <a href="http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/what-searchable-speech-will-do-to-you">Would that be convenient, or dangerous?</a></p>
<p>With free software, if you choose to record your vocal utterances in
your computer, you will be able to keep your transcript encrypted
so that you control when and how it is used.</p>
<p>But if you use someone else's server to convert the text to speech,
which is an example of <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">SaaSS</a> (service as a software substitute), that someone else will have your transcript from the get-go.</p>


feed_id: 80da43db0201c592a19f0b0e539217ad
title: Paris climate action
uri: Paris-climate-action
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Paris_climate_action%29
content:
<p>The inadequate pledges countries have made for the Paris climate action meeting <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/02/nations-climate-pledges-set-course-disastrous-warming-analysis">would make heating of more than 2C inevitable.</a></p>

A 14-year-old boy in Britain <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/03/boy-14-added-to-police-database-after-sexting-female-classmate">has been put on a "dangerous to children" list</a> for sending a nude photo of himself to a girl the same age.</p>
<p>"Inappropriate" is a keyword for "We want to punish you for this even
though we can't point at anything in it that did wrong to someone."</p>
<p>It is true that sending someone a nude photo of yourself can have bad
consequences.  There are inherent bad consequences: for instance, the
person you sent it to might resent receiving it.  I wouldn't risk sending
a nude photo of me to a woman unless I knew positively that she would
take it favorably — and I'd have to look somewhat more attractive
than I actually do.</p>
<p>But there are also artificial consequences, like being put on the list.</p>


feed_id: 8fe465109c4b57c3a5ee7960bdc1fe88
title: US unions and civil rights movement
uri: US-unions-and-civil-rights-movement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28US_unions_and_civil_rights_movement%29

content:
<p>Remembering how <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/02/when-unions-and-civil-rights-activists-worked-together">US unions worked together with the civil rights movement.</a></p>


feed_id: 80d41df2c8f81b8587550da5351fcc69
title: China's corruption and pollution
uri: China-s-corruption-and-pollution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28China%27s_corruption_and_pollution%29

content:
<p>China's economic advance has been based on uncontrollable corruption
and irreparable pollution, <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31478-china-s-communist-capitalist-ecological-apocalypse">often producing things that go to waste.</a>
<p>Some of the article's claims may be too strong.  I've seen plenty of
passengers in the Chinese high speed trains that I have been in.
Nonetheless, it provides an explanation of why even the draconian rule
of the Chinese Communist Party, which can crush dissidents, can't stop
the corruption or the pollution.</p>


feed_id: bd32cad5737081785a7292a7e91eb028
title: Extreme cold in US Northeast
uri: Extreme-cold-in-US-Northeast
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Extreme_cold_in_US_Northeast%29

content:
<p>Global heating caused the extreme cold in the US Northeast last winter,
and <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/01/1417293/-You-ain-t-seen-nothing-yet-Northeast-s-Next-Winter-Is-Going-to-Be-Freakishly-Cold?detail=email">that cold is going to get worse for quite some time,</a> until the general heating overcomes it.</p>


feed_id: c5e6fe1e859ef427cd765c3b9f3bec82
title: Grand Rapids, Michigan
uri: Grand-Rapids-Michigan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Grand_Rapids%2C_Michigan%29
content:
<p>Rich people's government has made Grand Rapids, Michigan, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/01/1417425/-When-Beer-City-Becomes-Fear-City-How-the-Billionaire-Class-Paints-Over-Poverty?detail=email">a laboratory for dooH niboR.</a>  Even bus rides are more expensive for poor residents, who are now always on the edge of being broke.</p>


feed_id: 37f402d0e3b24cb48946c58b5474cf4d
title: Real peple impersonated by agencies
uri: Real-peple-impersonated-by-agencies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Real_peple_impersonated_by_agencies%29

content:
<p>In the US, state agencies <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/heres-how-law-enforcement-agencies-impersonate-your-friends">sometimes impersonate real people in the net.</a></p>


feed_id: bf27f97e2b342e6404a753e939a80037
title: Thugcam servers
uri: Thugcam-servers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Thugcam_servers%29
content:
<p>Typical thugcams today apparantly have an additional fault: <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3050592/elasticity/police-cameras-the-secret-economy">they transmit everything immediately to a server.</a></p>
<p>That means there is no way for the camera to be on but ultimately not
keep certain periods of the recording.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/539631/controlling-when-the-cameras-record/">The system I have proposed</a>  does not require "cloud infrastructure".  It will save the recordings locally.</p>


feed_id: ca259bb4468e20e5848874e6c0c38529
title: Nuclear compromise with Iran
uri: Nuclear-compromise-with-Iran
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Nuclear_compromise_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>With 34 senators supporting the nuclear compromise with Iran, this could be a breakthrough against the power of the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/03/obama-iran-deal-victory-turning-point-us-israel-relations">Israeli militarists' lobby.</a></p>
<p>I support Israel, as such; that doesn't mean I must support the way it
treats Palestinians in occupied territories.


feed_id: d786ae79a3c017fe5db2581c7cc4179a
title: Teens arrested for photographing their own lovemaking.
uri: Teens-arrested-for-photographing-their-own-lovemaking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28teens_arrested_for_taking_photots_of_there_own_lovemaking%29

content:
<p>
Two US teenagers <a href="http://www.loweringthebar.net/2015/09/teens-charged-with-exploiting-themselves.html">face felony charges for taking photos of their own
lovemaking.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 8ced033c9613d4af38523e5683a38c11
title: Prison thugs face charges
uri: Prison-thugs-face-charges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28California_prison_thugs%29
content:
<p>
California prison thugs face charges, perhaps murder; it appears <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/04/guards-arrested-inmate-death-california-jail">they beat a prisoner to death.</a>
</p>


feed_id: c4d3689c573959e073ca57c9bf05e785
title: Preventing clean energy from succeeding
uri: Preventing-clean-energy-from-succeeding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Preventing_clean_enegry%29
content:
<p>
How Charles Koch <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32615-how-charles-koch-prevents-clean-energy-businesses-from-succeeding">Prevents Clean Energy Businesses From Succeeding.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 6c900dbacbe97a8d9cc3c90df7daf6da
title: Escaped refugees
uri: Escaped-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Escaped_refugees%29
content:
<p>
The Refugees Who Fled to Autralia to Escape Torture <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/04/a-life-in-limbo-the-refugees-who-fled-torture-only-to-end-up-trapped-indefinitely-on-manus">only to End up Trapped Indefinitely on Manus.</a>
</p>


feed_id: 7ade337669b14bc560f9f5978c31a657
title: Urgent: support Planned Parenthood funding
uri: Urgent-support-Planned-Parenthood-funding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_Planned_Parenthood_funding%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/stand_with_planned_parenthood/">call on Democrats</a> to support Planned Parenthood funding firmly.</p>


feed_id: 81cafdc7da5759838bf0494a620ba5d1
title: Urgent: leave the oil in the ground
uri: Urgent-leave-the-oil-in-the-ground
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_leave_the_oil_in_the_ground%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on Obama <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_keep_it_in_the_ground/">to leave the oil in the ground.</a></p>
<p>In a market-based economy, the way to reduce demand is to
make the product expensive.  Leaving oil in the ground will
help do that.  Taxing it more will be even more effective.</p>


feed_id: abdc89fb7f1684247ad1ffa0c3264354
title: Urgent: Craigslist and ivory
uri: Urgent-Craigslist-and-ivory
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Craigslist_and_ivory%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on Craigslist <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/craigslist-ivory/">to make sure it isn't used for selling ivory.</a></p>


feed_id: ca7ed41e90148ebd126e689fa1a4d561
title: Urgent: Rename National Airport
uri: Urgent-Rename-National-Airport
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Rename_National_Airport%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/rename_reagan_airport">call on Boehner</a> to support putting George Washinton's name back on National Airport.</p>
<p>I have never accepted referring to National Airport with the
name of the man who redirected America towards poverty,
and whose response to terrorists that kidnaped Americans was
to trade weapons for their release.</p>


feed_id: 9036e744709b1a89311a104d75ff0324
title: Urgent: criminal record of job applicants
uri: Urgent-criminal-record-of-job-applicants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_criminal_record_of_job_applicants%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Obama to tell Federal government employers <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-obama-ban-the-box?t=1007&akid=4768.1242918.jwb8kF">to stop asking job applicants about their criminal record</a> before considering them as candidates.</p>


feed_id: 024e14df1f81e2fe478bed868c5fd3ab
title: Fossil fuel reserves
uri: 2015-09-07-Fossil-fuel-reserves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_reserves%29
content:
<p>Executives of fossil fuel companies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2015/sep/03/fossil-fuel-executive-pay-climate-crisis">get rewarded</a> for increasing the company's known reserves, regardless of whether those reserves can
ever be used.</p>


feed_id: b3b118e4a3a0b066dfc756f1bdb7944b
title: Social assistance for convicts
uri: Social-assistance-for-convicts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Social_assistance_for_convicts%29

content:
<p>The US punishes people for life after they get a criminal conviction,
in many ways.  One is <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/why-a-criminal-record-shouldnt-disqualify-someone-from-public-assistance/">denying various forms of social assistance.</a></p>
<p>These people are also permanently excluded from many kinds of
employment.  The jobs that they can get don't pay a living wage, which
means that without some sort of social assistance, they are almost
compelled to try more crime.</p>


feed_id: e0ad9c138a38fa2eb8044151ae1dd608
title: Resistance to standardized tests
uri: Resistance-to-standardized-tests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Resistance_to_standardized_tests%29

content:
<p>Popular resistance against standardized tests in New York State: 20%
of the students that were suppose to take the test <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-rebellion-against-standardized-tests-is-exploding/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_ca
mpaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=daily">refused to participate.</a></p>


feed_id: 273cf0d59c1b39461edd9c12f2a37aa6
title: Preacher faces prosection
uri: Preacher-faces-prosection
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Preacher_faces_prosection%29
content:
<p>A Christian preacher in the UK faces prosecution for saying that Islam
is "Satanic".  He refuses to retract and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/03/satanic-islam-belfast-preacher-james-mcconnell-says-will-go-jail-protect-free-speech">dares the state</a> to put him in prison for stating his views.</p>
<p>The UK doesn't respect freedom of speech very well.</p>
<p>I would not call anything "Satanic", not seriously, because that
accusation presumes that devils exist.  But there is <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#21_December_2012_(Violent_oppression_of_women_in_Syria)">plenty to condemn as evil in various religions.</a></p>


feed_id: fd5e72101b672b638b2aed143f1b6a32
title: Copyright extension in Canada
uri: Copyright-extension-in-Canada
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Copyright_extension_in_Canada%29

content:
<p>Canada's corrupt government snuck a <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150902/16490932150/how-record-labels-conspired-to-kill-off-public-domain-beatles-music-canada.shtml">20-year copyright extension</a> into the law as a rider on a budget bill.</p>
<p>A constitution that permits an irrevocable attack on people's rights
to be made so easily needs to be amended.  It must be possible to
shorten copyright just as easily as to lengthen copyright.</p>


feed_id: 4747c3bf401ad61727cd145b03370784
title: Children watching screens
uri: Children-watching-screens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Children_watching_screens%29
content:
<p>A study in the UK found that children who spend more time watching
screens (TV, games, videos) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/04/teenagers-who-watch-screens-in-free-time-do-worse-in-gcses">have substantially lower test scores.</a></p>
<p>This doesn't prove the watching causes the lower scores.</p>


feed_id: c887e46028140cb0be44247f6d2e2f18
title: Pushing students into debt
uri: Pushing-students-into-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Pushing_students_into_debt%29
content:
<p>US universities are <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-03/student-loans-schools-want-the-sky-to-be-the-limit
">campaigning</a> to push students even further into debt.</p>


feed_id: 6ab5570d1ecd0940dd066e5d8475cf14
title: Wind power vs. fracking
uri: Wind-power-vs-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Wind_power_vs._fracking%29
content:
<p>The UK Tories bend over backwards to block wind power, saying they are
protecting from having to live near wind turbines.  And they impose
fracking against the will of people who live nearby.</p>
<p>Curiously, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/04/people-prefer-living-near-wind-turbines-to-fracking-wells-survey">a poll shows</a> that Britons (even Tories) would much rather have wind farms nearby than fracking.</p>
<p>This confirms that the government is working for the fossil fools
rather than for the country or the people.</p>


feed_id: 1a8a2b738d4096249bf9cc0101583941
title: Charging according to zipcode
uri: Charging-according-to-zipcode
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Charging_according_to_zipcode%29

content:
<p>Princeton Review charges more or less for tutoring <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/asians-nearly-twice-as-likely-to-get-higher-price-from-princeton-review">according to the student's zipcode.</a></p>
<p>It's not illegal, but it ought to be.</p>


feed_id: 5f78b21a031cd84ef1fb6c8723fcd23a
title: Hunger strike in Chicago
uri: Hunger-strike-in-Chicago
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Hunger_strike_in_Chicago%29
content:
<p>Chicagoans are on hunger strike against <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/04/chicago-protesters-hunger-strike-school-future-divides-city">the intended closure or privatization</a> of their local high school.</p>


feed_id: f9e65f4bd7d4d2a849c79d7dcec19117
title: Newsman shot in Egypt
uri: Newsman-shot-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Newsman_shot_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>British newsman Mick Deane <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/04/sky-news-cameraman-shot-egypt-flak-jacket-mick-deane">was shot by an Egyptian sniper</a> after his bulletproof vest was confiscated without explanation as he entered Egypt.</p>
<p>This gives rise to a suspicion that it was all a scheme to kill him.</p>


feed_id: 33e078e17d4d5b3a521e482f71eb9d37
title: Dishonest sting videos
uri: Dishonest-sting-videos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Dishonest_sting_videos%29
content:
<p>The dishonest sting videos aimed at Planned Parenthood <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/04/planned-parenthood-arson-clinics">have inspired arson attacks.</a></p>


feed_id: cc2b7c36380ef0e8cabd8a92f16be3ac
title: Killings of thugs
uri: Killings-of-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Killings_of_thugs%29
content:
<p>Republican candidates are trying to find a few killings of thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/04/republicans-black-lives-matter-scapegoating-movement">on Black Lives Matter.</a></p>
<p>While I deplore the murder of a thug, that is not more important than
the murder of any other person.</p>
<p>As for a more general "anti-police culture", the thugs have brought
that on themselves through their actions.</p>


feed_id: ef277911a9d74a7e8b24f3a9b5be5ff2
title: Paris climate deal not strong enough
uri: Paris-climate-deal-not-strong-enough
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Paris_climate_deal_not_strong_enough%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/04/paris-climate-summit-deal-fewer-50-ceos-say-act-on-climate-change">Under half of a list of business magnates polled</a> say a deal from the Paris climate conference would lead them to change anything.</p>
<p>That's an indication that it is not likely to be a strong enough deal
to solve the problem.</p>


feed_id: 33b7fe6b7889c302cf4ed95e68682a44
title: Sierra Leone's medical system
uri: Sierra-Leone-s-medical-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Sierra_Leone%27s_medical_system%29

content:
<p>The world must help Sierra Leone strengthen its medical system
now, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/sep/04/ebola-sierra-leone-oliver-johnson-british-doctor-health-system
">not wait for the next epidemic./a></p>


feed_id: 9d1c2d63c86d24b488b661118d25ae6b
title: Greenpeace in India
uri: Greenpeace-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Greenpeace_in_India%29
content:
<p>The Indian government has banned <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/04/greenpeace-in-india-barred-from-receiving-foreign-funding">foreign donations to Greenpeace</a> — again.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court overruled the ban, the first time.</p>


feed_id: 28913daeb5c937f7a98d3356b5c6d64c
title: Creating money without inflation
uri: Creating-money-without-inflation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Creating_money_without_inflation%29

content:
<p>The US, Europe, Japan and China have been creating lots of money for years, <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/03/quantitative-easing-for-people-jeremy-corbyns-radical-proposal/">without any inflation.</a></p>
<p>This thoroughly refuses the usual right-wing economic argument that
"you can't increase the money supply without causing hyperinflation".</p>
<p>However, <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#03_August_2012_(Keeping_inflation_low)">we do need some inflation,</a> to reduce the value of the debts
that have been imposed on people, cites and countries by dishonest banking
practices.</p>


feed_id: 568037cfa00bef27a678cb2a75cae808
title: GPS dependence
uri: GPS-dependence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28GPS_dependence%29
content:
<p>Dependence on a GPS navigator leads some people's navigational
skills <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/9/2/9242049/gps-maps-navigation">to atrophy.</a></p>


feed_id: d07d4fbb1dcd0589dd8fb5032f114116
title: Guatemala's president resigns
uri: Guatemala-s-president-resigns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Guatemala%27s_president_resigns_%29

content:
<p>Guatemala's President Perez Molina, a graduate of the School of the Americas, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/03/victory-people-guatemalan-president-resigns-disgrace-0">has resigned.</a></p>
<p>The School of the Americas used to teach torture and repression to the offers
of repressive governments.</p>


feed_id: 505546745ef80b79815990e6d390fbd9
title: Living on 2$ a day
uri: Living-on-2-a-day
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Living_on_2%24_a_day%29
content:
<p>Hundreds of thousands of US children <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/03/new-research-documents-growth-extreme-poverty">now live on under 2 dollars a day.</a></p>
<p>For some, this continues for years.</p>


feed_id: 82b2ea9d56ee86440f1488fb787f9758
title: Meta-analysis of shooting
uri: Meta-analysis-of-shooting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Meta-analysis_of_shooting%29
content:
<p>A meta-analysis (of studies without real shooting or real people as
targets) finds that <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/01/1417335/-Scientific-study-confirms-what-we-already-knew-white-people-prefer-to-shoot-black-people?detail=email">white people are quicker to shoot someone if the someone is black.</a></p>


feed_id: b09e37bbd2e93e901842e63ce81aa126
title: Rate of violent crime down
uri: Rate-of-violent-crime-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Rate_of_violent_crime_down%29
content:
<p>
Violent crime has not increased due to protests in Ferguson.  Even
violent crime against thugs has not increased due to protests in
Ferguson.  On the contrary, the rate of violent crime is 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/there-is-absolutely-no-such-thing-as-the-ferguson-effect/">down 
this year</a>.
<p>
Evidently we need more protests to bring the rate of violence down
further.


feed_id: 04ce3afec1989ba78ec48d0e8b4a6523
title: Scientists got paid to lobby for GMOs
uri: Scientists-got-paid-to-lobby-for-GMOs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Scientists_got_paid_to_lobby_for_GMOs%29

content:
<p>Monsanto has used its money <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/us/food-industry-enlisted-academics-in-gmo-lobbying-war-emails-show.html">to get scientists to lobby for GMOs.</a></p>


feed_id: 28b52893d107f1f8755fcc1c74016d82
title: Disappeared students in Mexico
uri: Disappeared-students-in-Mexico
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Disappeared_students_in_Mexico%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/06/probe-mexico-43-missing-students-dismisses-official-story
">Mexico's official explanation</a> for the 43 disappeared students is not just false, it's impossible.</p>


feed_id: 0fefb628b920b331163d15f93876d725
title: Stopping an autonomous car
uri: Stopping-an-autonomous-car
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Stopping_an_autonomous_car%29
content:
<p>It's easy to make an autonomous car stop — for any amount of
time — <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/researcher-hacks-selfdriving-car-sensors">by sending it a signal that it mistakes for a pedestrian.</a></p>
<p>This may not matter for most cars.  After all, you can stop the subway
system for ten or 15 minutes by standing in a door.  Mostly, people
are cooperative enough not to do this.  But it might be dangerous in
some special cases.</p>


feed_id: 3849577a4393aeeb8f63c0fd12f9adf7
title: Corporate profit centers
uri: Corporate-profit-centers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Corporate_profit_centers%29
content:
<p>Turning <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/04/turning-national-parks-into-corporate-profit-centers/">National Parks</a> into Corporate Profit Centers.</p>
<p>I think it is a shame to sell naming rights for stadiums or other
civic buildings.  That act says, "Everything about us is for sale",
and the only reason it happens is that we stopped taxing those
companies enough.</p>


feed_id: 2c8b4fd0147487e60948e9729b14ac24
title: Funds to cope with climate mayhem
uri: Funds-to-cope-with-climate-mayhem
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Funds_to_cope_with_climate_mayhem%29

content:
<p>Wealthy countries pledged 10 billion dollars to help poor countries
cope with the beginnings of climate mayhem, but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/sep/04/climate-change-western-states-fail-to-fulfil-pledge
s-to-developing-countries">almost 6 billion of the funds have not been provided.</a></p>
<p>Basically, spending money to cope with climate mayhem is a foolish
approach.  We can afford it now, but as mayhem gets worse the costs
will double, and double again, and eventually it will be too much.
The only approach we can afford is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.</p>


feed_id: 7c2317fb3074816cbbbaa8beceb2dc09
title: Orphan works and the TPP
uri: Orphan-works-and-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Orphan_works_and_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>The TPP would (it appears) ban a simple legal change that would reduce the danger of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/09/03/in-a-dark-corner-of-the-trans-pacific-partnership-lurks-some-pr
etty-nasty-copyright-law/">republishing many copyrighted works.</a></p>
<p>The article ends with an absurd statement that this "might not be
enough for me to want to throw out the whole deal" — as if there
were something good in it!  But the Treacherous Plutocratic Poison is
nothing but bads.  It is a collection of wrongs proposed by the big
businesses that helped write it.</p>
<p>As for the orphan works, what we should do is legalize sharing copies
of all published works, then let people go to work on them.</p>


feed_id: ffe465fe916a1fae6629858b3c68d4bd
title: Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
uri: Sinking-of-the-Rainbow-Warrior
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior%29

content:
<p>A French diver apologizes for his part in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/06/french-spy-who-sunk-greenpeace-ship-apologises-for-lethal-bombing">sinking the Rainbow Warrior.</a></p>


feed_id: a6e860527cddba2228e89517a3ee2ca3
title: Extent of deforestation
uri: Extent-of-deforestation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Extent_of_deforestation%29
content:
<p>Deforestation in 2014 eliminated an area of forests equivalent to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/02/trees-covering-an-area-twice-the-size-of-portugal-lost-in-2014-study-finds">twice the size of Portugal.</a></p>


feed_id: de3c7a71ec56ae2dc07d3a7a54454fbd
title: Childhood in the US
uri: Childhood-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Childhood_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>Childhood [in the US] Has Become <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/children-testing-schools-education-reform-inequality/">a Period of High-Stakes Preparation for Life in a Stratified Economy.</a>  "If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark."</p>


feed_id: 121fd8c7b901fa7994aa44e73704cef0
title: Proposed Thai constitution
uri: Proposed-Thai-constitution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Proposed_Thai_constitution%29
content:
<p>The Thai military <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/06/thailand-elections-delayed-as-draft-constitution-is-rejected">have failed</a> to get civilians to accept a proposed new constitution that would allow the military to take control again.</p>


feed_id: ff240db4a3f346aeac5dc051803102a2
title: Censorship by Gucci and MPAA
uri: Censorship-by-Gucci-and-MPAA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Censorship_by_Gucci_and_MPAA%29

content:
<p>Gucci and the MPAA are both engines of <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/gucci-sets-trend-for-broad-internet-censorship-150905/
">broad internet censorship.</a></p>
<p>We shouldn't get distracted by which one was first.</p>


feed_id: 949ef6f1607350e367f3fb6f5aae82c4
title: Torture in Burundi
uri: Torture-in-Burundi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Torture_in_Burundi%29
content:
<p>Burundi's president/tyrant <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/05/burundi-security-services-torture-extract-confessions">is using torture against political opposition.</a></p>


feed_id: 6f824f81e8e288e2c49f9e2dfefca229
title: Punitive reactions to teenage sexting
uri: Punitive-reactions-to-teenage-sexting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Punitive_reactions_to_teenage_sexting%29

content:
<p>
The punitive reactions to teenage sexting, and teenage sex, are tied
up with the consequences of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/06/why-police-record-for-sexting">two
prejudices</a>: against male homosexuality, and against females that
don't deny their heterosexuality.


feed_id: d7a0d3f85e39fbcedc6754d3b06b7cb0
title: Self-censorship
uri: Self-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Self-censorship%29
content:
<p>
Knowledge alone is next to useless in countries whose rulers enforce
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/06/internet-gift-world-oppressed-informed-impotence">self-censorship</a>.


feed_id: 143f1d3f83ccb34ffc43243265e99b82
title: Glyphosate
uri: Glyphosate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Glyphosate%29
content:
<p>
California has listed glyphosate as a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/09/04/california-list-worlds-most-commonly-used-herbicide-carcinogen">carcinogen</a>.
This is a step towards limiting use of glyphosate.


feed_id: 7819b019db4b32d58295762d52d9c79d
title: NPR denies presence of Bernie Sanders
uri: NPR-denies-presence-of-Bernie-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28NPR_denies_presence_of_Bernie_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
NPR commentator Mara Liasson, discussing the Democratic nomination
race, not only didn't mention Bernie Sanders — she effectively
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/03/1417908/-Today-NPR-made-Sanders-an-unperson-at-least-for-NPR-listeners">denied
his presence in the race</a>.
<p>
I've had a feeling since the 90s that "NPR" stands for
"Non-Progressive Radio".  Its criticisms of President Clinton
frequently came from the conservative direction.
<p>
If you listen to an NPR station, call or write to say you'd like them
to present Democracy Today to counterbalance All Things Conservative.


feed_id: 46802ff99720312c9f54a6a428f53fc1
title: "Crime" of using strong encryption
uri: Crime-of-using-strong-encryption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Crime_of_using_strong_encryption%29

content:
<p>
The main "crime" of the British journalists arrested in Turkey is that
they 
<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2015/09/03/turkey-v.-encryption-an-attack-on-freedom-of-expression">used
strong encryption</a>.
<p>
Obama and Cameron want to follow the same tyrannical path of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#06_October_2014_(Phone_call_metadata)">denying
privacy to journalists</a> (nowadays everyone is sometimes a
journalist), and to you and me.


feed_id: a7defe84ddf820ca7d00763d479f12a7
title: US-backed intervention in Yemen
uri: US-backed-intervention-in-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28US-backed_intervention_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
The US-backed intervention in Yemen includes lots of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/05/uae-forces-retaliate-50-coalition-troops-yemen-missile-attack">ground
troops from the UAE and Bahrain</a>.
<p>
Bahrain's regime crushed peaceful protests with the help of Saudi
Arabia.  It is thoroughly despicable.
<p>
It is strange to claim that shooting a missile at an ammunition dump
is "cowardly".  What they could one say about bombing a city?


feed_id: 392d2350ee8dd10653a41d6b2368072c
title: Arson attack against Planned Parenthood
uri: Arson-attack-against-Planned-Parenthood
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Arson_attack_against_Planned_Parenthood%29

content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/05/washington-planned-parenthood-fire-arson-officials-say">arson
attack</a> against Planned Parenthood.


feed_id: 1b3da641dbb06fbbdfcbfb0b080f33d7
title: Occupation of Palestine
uri: 2015-09-07-Occupation-of-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Occupation_of_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
Teachers in Israel are 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1441374389/">threatened
with dismissal</a> if they are found to oppose the occupation of
Palestine.


feed_id: 6df9d726195bb45cb5ea9f627a869910
title: Radiation levels near Fukushima down
uri: Radiation-levels-near-Fukushima-down
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Radiation_levels_near_Fukushima_down%29

content:
<p>
In one town near Fukushima, the radiation levels have gone down and
the inhabitants are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/05/fukushima-japan-ends-evacuation-of-naraha-as-radiation-at-safe-level">allowed
to return</a>.


feed_id: 444d6fd1a3810829ce0995ca8e313f94
title: Afghan women's rights
uri: Afghan-women-s-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Afghan_womens_rights%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/sep/05/afghanistan-womens-rights-aid-gender-equality">Afghan
Activists Urge Donors to Make Aid Conditional on Women's Rights</a>.


feed_id: 8829e7e82714d86c3bfc46a0ac96d2f6
title: India to ban large vials of diclofenac
uri: India-to-ban-large-vials-of-diclofenac
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28India_to_ban_large_vials_of_diclofenac%29

content:
<p>
India will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/india-untamed/2015/sep/05/indian-government-takes-major-step-to-save-vultures">ban
large vials of diclofenac</a>, to protect vultures.


feed_id: 220e49cc1474146d881056a5895fc2cc
title: Sleep monitors
uri: Sleep-monitors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Sleep_monitors%29
content:
<p>
Samsung has a product to
<a href="http://fusion.net/story/193514/samsung-sleepsense-loved-ones-mattress/">monitor
whether someone is asleep</a>.  People will start checking on their
lovers this way.
<p>
Don't use a sleep monitor that sends data to a company!


feed_id: ec5be6a5f7cfa219633355a80887b5ad
title: Syrian refugees
uri: 2015-09-07-Syrian-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Syrian_refugees%29
content:
<p>
Just as Syrians are fleeing to Europe en masse, the wealthy countries
gave them another reason to do so: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/05/lack-of-funds-world-food-programme-drops-aid-to-one-third-of-syrian-refugees">they
have not given the UN enough to provide them with food where they
are</a>.


feed_id: 60eead67e2185d0f7bc26bc82fd1756a
title: Urgent: Rename National Airport
uri: 2015-09-07-Urgent-Rename-National-Airport
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Rename_National_Airport%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/rename_reagan_airport">call on Boehner</a> to support putting George Washington's name back on National Airport.</p>
<p>I have never accepted referring to National Airport with the
name of the man who redirected America towards poverty,
and whose response to terrorists that kidnaped Americans was
to trade weapons for their release.</p>


feed_id: 90d6b211a8ed7425eda1f2b8b5695f4c
title: Escaped refugees
uri: 2015-09-07-Escaped-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#06_September_2015_%28Escaped_refugees%29
content:
<p>
The Refugees Who Fled to Australia to Escape Torture <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/04/a-life-in-limbo-the-refugees-who-fled-torture-only-to-end-up-trapped-indefinitely-on-manus">only to End up Trapped Indefinitely on Manus.</a>
</p>


feed_id: df89e8fe26b9b7ac0e6932d7fb2969c3
title: Paris climate action
uri: 2015-09-07-Paris-climate-action
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Paris_climate_action%29
content:
<p>The inadequate pledges countries have made for the Paris climate action meeting <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/02/nations-climate-pledges-set-course-disastrous-warming-analysis">would make heating of more than 2C inevitable.</a></p>


feed_id: 56016c115b9528cf47c7c49763825dbe
title: "Dangerous to children"
uri: Dangerous-to-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_%28Dangerous_to_children%29
content:
<p>A 14-year-old boy in Britain <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/03/boy-14-added-to-police-database-after-sexting-female-classmate">has been put on a "dangerous to children" list</a> for sending a nude photo of himself to a girl the same age.</p>
<p>"Inappropriate" is a keyword for "We want to punish you for this even
though we can't point at anything in it that did wrong to someone."</p>
<p>It is true that sending someone a nude photo of yourself can have bad
consequences.  There are inherent bad consequences: for instance, the
person you sent it to might resent receiving it.  I wouldn't risk sending
a nude photo of me to a woman unless I knew positively that she would
take it favorably — and I'd have to look somewhat more attractive
than I actually do.</p>
<p>But there are also artificial consequences, like being put on the list.</p>


feed_id: fffdc36adf79d37ec66b5746d8a05e0c
title: Thugcam servers
uri: 2015-09-07-Thugcam-servers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_%28Thugcam_servers%29
content:
<p>Typical thugcams today apparently have an additional fault: <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3050592/elasticity/police-cameras-the-secret-economy">they transmit everything immediately to a server.</a></p>
<p>That means there is no way for the camera to be on but ultimately not
keep certain periods of the recording.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/539631/controlling-when-the-cameras-record/">The system I have proposed</a>  does not require "cloud infrastructure".  It will save the recordings locally.</p>


feed_id: 9563bc64d082ca745e1d24949ae00e0d
title: Urgent: extraction from public lands
uri: Urgent-extraction-from-public-lands
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_extraction_from_public_lands%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call for making oil and gas extraction companies <a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-oil/">really pay</a> for extraction from public lands.</p>


feed_id: 4d6dbd13c42c9a1bc06b98ced7abd056
title: Urgent: funding of global heating denial
uri: Urgent-funding-of-global-heating-denial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_funding_of_global_heating_denial%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=8CA3AF72569E2FCC5D2460130D153D3E.app337a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4871">big coal companies</a> to disclose their funding of global heating denial.</p>


feed_id: 11e7b9241f6359daa46ca35625a3faf9
title: Urgent: support breaking up big banks
uri: Urgent-support-breaking-up-big-banks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_breaking_up_big_banks%29

content:
<p>US citizens: Support <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1419?detail=action">Sanders' plan</a> for breaking up the big banks.</p>


feed_id: ddefdce6183f40caff700bc645c541a8
title: Urgent: limit federal "forfeiture"
uri: Urgent-limit-federal-forfeiture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_limit_federal_forfeiture%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call for limiting federal "forfeiture" <a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/abolish-civil-asset-forfeiture
">to people convicted of a crime.</a></p>
<p>"Forfeiture" without criminal conviction is punishment without trial
and should be considered unconstitutional.</p>


feed_id: 695958ac7a5a22e1576bebc1be29f964
title: Urgent: decriminalize hemp
uri: Urgent-decriminalize-hemp
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_decriminalize_hemp%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call for <a href="http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/fully-decriminalize-industrial-hemp">fully decriminalizing industrial hemp.</a></p>


feed_id: a4fc6db7a60ba5531b0a9786b69935fe
title: Threat to free press in Ecuador
uri: Threat-to-free-press-in-Ecuador
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Threat_to_free_press_in_Ecuador%29

content:
<p>Ecuador's president Correa unofficially <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/opinion/ecuadors-political-eruption.html?_r=0
">threatens</a> the free press.</p>


feed_id: 97901159508c9749f136195b7b9e1329
title: Illegal logging in Peru
uri: Illegal-logging-in-Peru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Illegal_logging_in_Peru%29
content:
<p>Peruvian officials ignore a massive illegal logging business, which
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/07/aerial-pictures-reveal-rampant-illegal-logging-in-perus-amazon-forest
">easily seen from the air.</a></p>


feed_id: 785bb4a251c16891dbc7c8d5e506571f
title: Turkey/PKK escalation
uri: Turkey-PKK-escalation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Turkey%252FPKK_escalation%29
content:
<p>The fighting between Turkey and the PKK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/07/turkish-jets-strike-pkk-targets-after-deadly-militant-attack">is escalating.</a></p>
<p>Turkey is accused of starting the fighting with a <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_August_2015_(Turkey_helping_PISSI)">false-flag attack</a> against the PKK, and people suggested that this was Erdoan's maneuver <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_August_2015_(Provoking_PKK)">to increase his party's vote</a> in the elecions that would come.</p>
<p>I think everyone in Turkey — not just the Kurds — deserves
independence from Erdoan's government.</p>


feed_id: 82ecb257443e54b552aa9d18e104c640
title: Novel banned in New Zealand
uri: Novel-banned-in-New-Zealand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Novel_banned_in_New_Zealand%29
content:
<p>New Zealand has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/07/new-zealand-bans-into-the-river-teenage-novel-outcry-christian-group">completely banned a published novel.</a></p>
<p>It doesn't matter that the novel won an award.  Banning even a crappy book
is wrong.
<p>That Christian bullies are behind this doesn't alter the wrong,
but does mean they share the moral onus of the wrong.
<p>It is dangerous to get this book from Amazon, since that requires
identifying yourself.  Get a copy of the e-book from someone that has
one; that is the only mode of distribution of this e-book that doesn't
do wrong to the person it is offered to.</p>


feed_id: 29eb0de0c841bb86826e9c0196d5f5c5
title: Prosperity and the homeless
uri: Prosperity-and-the-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Prosperity_and_the_homeless%29
content:
<p>San Francisco's prosperity, for some, leaves no room <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/07/san-francisco-homelessness-tech-sector">for those who become homeless.</a></p>
<p>A sufficient infusion of money would fix most of this, if it were spent
on toilets, on SROs, and on the mental health facilities that some homeless
people need.</p>


feed_id: 8c67cc8c1e38b38568ebf6b22dc5618c
title: Likely to be killed by thugs
uri: Likely-to-be-killed-by-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Likely_to_be_killed_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>In California, a black male is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/07/california-police-shootings-database-racial-disparity">8 times more likely</a> to be killed by thugs than a while male.</p>
<p>Although we don't know the cause in each case, I am sure this is due
in one way or another to racism.  It may be unconscious.  A thug sees
a black man and feels threatened; a thug sees a bulge in a pocket and
immediately thinks, "It's a gun."  Then the thug shoots.  What it adds
up to is a practice of "shoot first, ask questions later", which is wrong
to apply to anyone.</p>


feed_id: 8932937ebf1d2f15d40c36c3b8c51b7b
title: Deforestation rate still high
uri: Deforestation-rate-still-high
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Deforestation_rate_still_high%29

content:
<p>The rate of deforestation <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/07/rate-of-global-forest-loss-halved-says-un
">has been cut by half since 1990.</a></p>
<p>but it is still too high.</p>


feed_id: 04d7ac4e6fe3bc979447fcf4cf175649
title: Climate mayhem and refugees
uri: Climate-mayhem-and-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Climate_mayhem_and_refugees%29
content:
<p>Failure to Act on Climate [Mayhem] Means an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/07/climate-change-global-warming-refugee-crisis">Even Bigger Refugee Crisis.</p>


feed_id: cdbaa08fb621432fca9d1ce639299219
title: Journalists convicted in Egypt
uri: Journalists-convicted-in-Egypt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Journalists_convicted_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>Peter Greste and two other journalists were convicted in Egypt of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/07/peter-greste-egypts-press-lost-its-freedom-with-me-and-my-al-jazeera-colleagues
">ridiculous "crimes"</a> that would not have violated any law, even
supposing they had really occurred.</p>
<p>But if there had been a law against journalism in this way, it would
be tyrannical.  Even requiring journalists to register is an injustice.</p>


feed_id: 7409632f1c6bb28e9ebb980d987dc784
title: British Airways' pay cut
uri: British-Airways-pay-cut
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28British_Airways%27_pay_cut%29
content:
<p>British Airways is making huge profits but just imposed a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/06/gatwick-ba-cabin-crew-face-big-pay-cuts-or-redundancy">25% pay cut</a> on flight attendants.</p>
<p>BA says it will fire them all, then rehire them for a "new job" with a
different name and lower pay.
<p>I hope workers shut down the whole line, but it is hard to do this
when the government is anti-worker.


feed_id: 746db8bc969096477e43db2c2a705395
title: Income profile of US families
uri: Income-profile-of-US-families
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Income_profile_of_US_families%29

content:
<p>A new, clever, but perhaps misleading way of studying the income
profile of society, based on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/sep/06/america-decline-in-wages-can-be-traced-from-the-george-w-bush-era">comparing the income of the mass of
families over time,</a> shows that under presidents Reagan and Clinton,
the incomes of most individual American families rose steadily.  Under
Bush I, and since 2001, incomes have fallen for most families.</p>
<p>This is interesting, but it is the wrong way to measure how the
economy is treating workers.  It opens the way to an illusion
comparable to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone">Shepard tone,</a> in which each worker's income rises all the time, but the overall
income profile of society does not change at all (or even goes down).
Based on the article, it seems that this is what happened to the US
economy under Reagan and Clinton: almost everyone's individual income
slowly rose as the income profile of society fell.</p>
<p>The customary measurement of income profile is done by comparing
workers of any given age group in different periods — for
instance, workers of age 25 today with workers of age 25 in the 1970s,
1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.  The result shows how society's treatment of
people in a certain situation has changed over time.  That is what
matters for public policy.</p>


feed_id: 11573f9ab9b8d8703dbd683087aa0974
title: Israeli demolition orders
uri: Israeli-demolition-orders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Israeli_demolition_orders%29
content:
<p>Israeli demolition orders cover <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/07/israel-demolish-arab-buildings-west-bank-un-palestinian">17,000 Arab buildings</a> in West Bank.</p>


feed_id: 266c6c6bcd8cc1142878f90fc9b19e87
title: Permanent income in Alaska
uri: Permanent-income-in-Alaska
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Permanent_income_in_Alaska%29
content:
<p>Alaska has invested income from oil leases in an endowment <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/only-state-free-money-alaska
">to permanently provide a basic income.</a></p>
<p>The funds for this don't have to come from oil leases.</p>


feed_id: 0331fe229dd5d0d836bdf08a6157cb14
title: Labor Day 2050
uri: Labor-Day-2050
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Labor_Day_2050%29
content:
<p>Labor Day 2050: How Unchecked Global Warming <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/06/3698814/labor-day-global-warming-productivity-2/">Threatens Labor Productivity.</a></p>
<p>The companies that are making us roast the Earth are probably
connected with those that want to replace these workers with robots.
The robots won't slow down, so the unemployed humans can lie down
and survive on less food.</p>


feed_id: 37db350875fd5ed16d8ba611dea2a4be
title: Popular Unity party manifesto
uri: Popular-Unity-party-manifesto
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Popular_Unity_party_manifesto%29

content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/tsipras-popular-unity-syriza-eurozone-snap-elections/">manifesto</a>
of the Popular Unity party in Greece.


feed_id: 4fe1d3f04a0068ae480fa081d36d2c75
title: Urgent: Stop endless wars
uri: Urgent-Stop-endless-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_endless_wars%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/sowing-seeds-of-hope-on-september-22-2015-to-end-war-poverty-and-climate-chaos">call
on Obama</a> to stop the endless wars needed to get fossil fuels.


feed_id: 8d2b027d28ba3fd2019ba6e3e2e2600b
title: Urgent: The Iran deal
uri: Urgent-The-Iran-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_The_Iran_deal%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/grayson-wasserman-schultz">call
on reps Grayson and Wasserman Schultz</a> to support the Iran deal.


feed_id: 044fd2d8ef805c3d35fa008e57900575
title: Urgent: Stop Arctic oil lease sales
uri: Urgent-Stop-Arctic-oil-lease-sales
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Arctic_oil_lease_sales%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=16381">call
on the US</a> to cancel future Arctic oil lease sales.


feed_id: 20e04dd13fe6882fe8af75e1335b05b1
title: Burundian opposition leader assassinated
uri: Burundian-opposition-leader-assassinated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Burundian_opposition_leader_assassinated%29

content:
<p>
A Burundian opposition leader was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/08/burundi-opposition-spokesman-patrice-gahungu-shot-dead-as-violence-escalates">assassinated</a>.
We must suspect the president/tyrant ordered it done.


feed_id: 52a61a80f585a481580d63df993ff1ac
title: Internet censorship
uri: 2015-09-09-Internet-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Internet_censorship%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/08/how-putin-controls-the-russian-internet/">Putin's
internet censorship lesson</a>: a tyrannical government does not need
to control every byte on the internet to prevent unpleasant news from
reaching the general public.


feed_id: 8e550359ba0c2626d13f5a372a53198d
title: Sleep-deprived students
uri: Sleep-deprived-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Sleep-deprived_students%29
content:
<p>
A neuroscientist calls for starting school at 11am to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/08/start-school-later-11am-students-sleep">let
students sleep later</a>.


feed_id: 5e0ecbc4f5fb320b50d0ce273627a100
title: Turkish sniper thugs
uri: Turkish-sniper-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Turkish_sniper_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Turkish thugs are now
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/08/kurdish-civilians-killed-snipers-turkey-cracks-down-militants">authorized
to shoot protesters</a>, and snipers shoot even non-protesting Kurds
just for walking in the street.  A town has been surrounded by thugs,
who shot people trying to go to a hospital.
<p>
It sounds like occupied Palestine.


feed_id: 8cc21a4de5b08a5f78c2e38884f2ccf7
title: Back doors for government
uri: Back-doors-for-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Back_doors_for_government%29
content:
<p>Back doors introduced for one government's use <a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/tale-three-backdoors">can easily become open to others.</a></p>


feed_id: 6ebd9976dedf0ef17d0093197044517c
title: Argentine prosecutor was murdered
uri: Argentine-prosecutor-was-murdered
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Argentine_prosecutor_was_murdered%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/08/gun-test-debate-argentina-prosecutor">Tests show</a> that Argentine Prosecutor Nisman was murdered.</p>


feed_id: d87857d700d3da540a378bea6bdd75ec
title: Weather in 2070
uri: Weather-in-2070
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Weather_in_2070%29
content:
<p>This year's dry conditions in the Pacific Northwest will be typical weather
in 2070, and the amphibians there will be in <a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-09-climate-pacific-northwest-amphibians-high.html?utm_source=menu&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=item-menu">big trouble.</a></p>
<p>So will the trees, unless we curb our greenhouse emissions fast.</p>


feed_id: eaf93f01b9b8aa58c76446a65d3a6968
title: Methylmercury in the food chain
uri: Methylmercury-in-the-food-chain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Methylmercury_in_the_food_chain%29

content:
<p>Global heating, and the melting of Arctic sea ice, is spreading <a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-09-poison-arctic-human-energy.html?utm_source=menu&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=item-menu">toxic methylmercury</a> which gets into the food chain.</p>
<p>I suspect it will concentrate in predators higher up in the food chain, which
are the species humans typically eat.</p>


feed_id: 373028f3ba69fb9daaed6cf7bc45f183
title: Training Syrian rebels
uri: Training-Syrian-rebels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Training_Syrian_rebels%29
content:
<p>The US recognizes that training Syrian rebels was a flop, and says <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/07/world/middleeast/us-to-revamp-training-program-to-fight-isis.html">it will do better.</a></p>
<p>To succeed at this would require training thousands, and they'd need
real combat experience to get good.  Where could they get that combat
experience without being cut to bits?  Perhaps if they joined up with
the Kurds.</p>


feed_id: 4bce1c2a7b74a5d3e64ede020f193731
title: Corruption and the UK government
uri: Corruption-and-the-UK-government
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Corruption_and_the_UK_government%29

content:
<p>Corruption by banks <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/08/britain-civilised-mafia-state">is built into the structure of the UK government.</a></p>


feed_id: 8045c5968de03d1f0bdd12b2cb86d0ca
title: Discrimination against atheists
uri: Discrimination-against-atheists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Discrimination_against_atheists%29

content:
<p>
<p>A notary working at a bank refused to notarize forms for American Atheists.
<p><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/26/1287516/-America-s-Most-Convenient-Bank-refuses-to-serve-Christians?detail=email
">This refusal may have been illegal.</a></p>
<p>The article has a misleading title, because the beginning is written
in a way that is too clever.</p>


feed_id: b75ab61bbbf3c49d463ffe65825c8244
title: Urgent: End use of Irish tax loophole
uri: Urgent-End-use-of-Irish-tax-loophole
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_use_of_Irish_tax_loophole%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.signherenow.org/etsy-tax-loopholes/pfaw/">Call on
Etsy</a> to stop using the Irish tax loophole.


feed_id: d9bf171c94c0670578431c6da5954881
title: Urgent: Solar power promotion
uri: Urgent-Solar-power-promotion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Solar_power_promotion%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.climatetruth.org/sign/buffett_solar/">call on
Warren Buffett</a> to stop attacking home solar power promotion
anywhere.


feed_id: 56b8471d4e0cbd9e185733e5ee689807
title: China concert bans
uri: China-concert-bans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28China_concert_bans%29
content:
<p>
China shows a pattern of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/08/china-blocks-bon-jovi-gigs">banning
concerts by bands that have in any way acknowledged the Dalai
Lama</a>.  It even tries to intimidate activities in other countries.


feed_id: 8736053933db51493521d2c41621ede8
title: Urgent: Workplace Democracy Act
uri: Urgent-Workplace-Democracy-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Workplace_Democracy_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/workplace-democracy-act">support</a>
Sanders' Workplace Democracy Act.


feed_id: 285abe173658646a36fb804e066e94f8
title: Urgent: $15/hour for Walmart workers
uri: Urgent-15-hour-for-Walmart-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_15_per_hour_for_Walmart_workers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-walmart-workers-need-15-full-time">call
on Walmart</a> to pay workers $15 an hour and give them full-time
work.


feed_id: a0c38d31e1294c532c4846649f90d87c
title: Germany orders Facebook censorship
uri: Germany-orders-Facebook-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Germany_orders_Facebook_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Germany has ordered Facebook to follow 
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Germany-warns-Facebook-Clamp-down-on-Holocaust-denial-or-else-413595">German
limits on freedom of speech</a>.
<p>
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to criticize, offend, insult or
mock any person, or any group of persons.  It includes freedom to say
things that you despise, and things that I despise, even things that
we both despise.  Most countries do not respect freedom of speech very
well.
<p>
What we see is that as commercial communication platforms move from
offering service to people in lots of countries to actually doing
business in lots of countries, they become subject to ever increasing
censorship.
<p>
Thus, the growth of any communication company into a global business
is inherently dangerous to freedom of speech, regardless of the details
of that company.


feed_id: be1bd7efce3354223a855846a55bb40d
title: British supporters of PISSI targeted
uri: British-supporters-of-PISSI-targeted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28British_supporters_of_PISSI_targeted%29

content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2015/sep/08/targeting-british-jihadis-in-syria-does-not-amount-to-long-term-strategy">targeted
and killed some British supporters</a> of PISSI, in Iraq.  Is this a
sensible strategy?
<p>
Was it legitimate to kill them with a missile?  In practice, PISSI and
the UK are fighting a war, and in those circumstances it is morally
justified for the UK to kill PISSI fighters.  Were these men PISSI
fighters?  The articles I have seen have not given that information.
<p>
The UK government says that they were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2015/sep/08/drone-strikes-on-uk-jihadis-raise-key-questions-about-future-conflict">talking
about committing crimes in the UK</a>.  However, that's not the same as
waging war, and is not grounds for killing them in Iraq.
<p>
It seems they did not even have concrete plans.  If they were talking
in a vague way about committing crimes in the UK at some indefinite
time in the future, that shouldn't even be a crime until they make it
concrete.


feed_id: fe5e99373a985ced4db031cad6b8304d
title: Ohio abortion clinics
uri: Ohio-abortion-clinics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Ohio_abortion_clinics%29
content:
<p>
Ohio has created excuses to shut down nearly all abortion clinics.
The next absurd restriction is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/08/ohio-abortion-clinic-planned-parenthood-cincinnati">ban
abortion of fetuses with Down's syndrome</a>.
<p>
This is apparently meant to ensure the birth of people who will vote
Republican.


feed_id: d1d6b3cb5f9aa1cb46d7f4fc8c8b6d0a
title: Sleeping pods for homeless people
uri: Sleeping-pods-for-homeless-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Sleeping_pods_for_homeless_people%29

content:
<p>
A proposal to deploy sleeping pods for San Francisco's homeless people
is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/08/tech-entrepreneurs-san-francisco-homeless-plan-flounders-amid-acrimony">blocked
by lack of cooperation</a>.
<p>
The criticisms officials present in the article may be valid in a
narrow sense.  They might be valid reasons to change something in the
plan.  But they are not valid reasons to give up.
<p>
Officials, if these shelters look like dog houses, could you make them
look different?
<p>
If we ought to do better, does that mean you should do nothing?
<p>
If Gopman's ego is a problem, have you tried to do the project 
without him?
<p>
It appears these objections are being used as excuses.


feed_id: 5bdde3726539329a2521b5fcffc068df
title: US to investigate special forces unit
uri: US-to-investigate-special-forces-unit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28US_to_investigate_special_forces_unit%29

content:
<p>
The US will investigate a special forces unit that 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/us-special-forces-may-have-gone-on-a-murder-spree-in-afghanistan-did-the-army-cover-it-up/">appears
to have systematically murdered prisoners</a> in Afghanistan.


feed_id: babe3bb8b9baead5c4de9b8df763d640
title: Berry farm workers organizing
uri: Berry-farm-workers-organizing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Berry_farm_workers_organizing%29

content:
<p>
Berry farm workers in Mexico and the US are 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-pacific-coast-farm-worker-rebellion/">organizing
to demand more than hunger wages</a>.
<p>
Bravo for the striking farmers that fought back when Mexican thugs
attacked them.
<p>
The ones that thugs ought to be arresting are the business magnates
that try to create "the world's berry company", or "the world's XYZ
company" for any value of XYZ.  Back before Reagan, when anti-trust
law was more than a hollow shell, they wouldn't have dared announce
such a goal.


feed_id: cc416338799e070806e54a13bb0f9857
title: Dogmatic crusading prudery
uri: Dogmatic-crusading-prudery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Dogmatic_crusading_prudery%29
content:
<p>
A private tutor who had a long sexual relationship with an eager
teenager, 20 years ago, is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/07/female-tutor-sexually-abused-boy-during-lessons-at-his-home">now
described as "abusing" and "assaulting" him</a>.  Thus speaks the
voice of dogmatic crusading prudery.
<p>
The "victim" recognizes that he enjoyed his first sexual relationship.
He probably learned a lot from it.  I wish I had had such a chance for
learning about sex when I was a teenager.
<p>
We don't have enough facts to be sure, but I suspect that the reason
he claims now that it hurt him is that he was swept along by the
general revulsion against such sexual relationships into believing
that something bad had been done to him.
<p>
Once he started looking for bad, he could surely find some.  No doubt
the relationship was not ideal.  Probably she didn't love him, just
wanted sex with him.  Some aspects may have been disappointing.
That's normal in any relationship, and especially any first
relationship, but if you're predisposed to find "abuse" you can
perceive any disappointment it as a sign of such.


feed_id: 6eff3ea383cdb78daa68007e29b9ee16
title: Turkey/PKK escalation
uri: 2015-09-09-Turkey-PKK-escalation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_%28Turkey%252FPKK_escalation%29
content:
<p>The fighting between Turkey and the PKK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/07/turkish-jets-strike-pkk-targets-after-deadly-militant-attack">is escalating.</a></p>
<p>Turkey is accused of starting the fighting with a <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#28_August_2015_(Turkey_helping_PISSI)">false-flag attack</a> against the PKK, and people suggested that this was Erdo&gbreve;an's maneuver <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_August_2015_(Provoking_PKK)">to increase his party's vote</a> in the elections that would come.</p>
<p>I think everyone in Turkey — not just the Kurds — deserves
independence from Erdo&gbreve;an's government.</p>


feed_id: d2375f2efe906057d1c66bb6a148fa2c
title: Volunteer
uri: 2015-09-10-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to search for things such as people's email addresses
     or other contact coordinates.</p>


feed_id: 45d8c92bed843c104fb28a757bd60c50
title: Urgent: end US coal leasing
uri: Urgent-end-US-coal-leasing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_end_US_coal_leasing%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/coal_leasing_program?t=1001&akid=15510.1183552.jors2Y">call for an end to US coal leasing.</a></p>
<p>I said, If the lessees had to pay enough to cover the damage of mining
and burning coal, they wouldn't want the coal.</p>


feed_id: 5b2c8a0e9cf3ede4f3781ae0d3b2c786
title: Possession of "extreme pornography"
uri: Possession-of-extreme-pornography
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Possession_of_extreme_pornography%29

content:
<p>Lawyer <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/sep/09/one-lawyers-crusade-defend-extreme-pornography">Myles Jackman</a> defends people in the UK charged with possession
of "extreme pornography", while campaigning to repeal that law.</p>
<p>People are often prosecuted for copies they received unsolicited and
did not know about, or tried to delete.
<p>But even if we consider only people who possess the images
intentionally, the law is unjust and dangerous.  No attempt has been
made to show that those people are hurting others.  The only
justification offered for prohibiting "extreme pornography" is that
many people find it disgusting to see — and that is no
justification at all.
<p>The precise details of what this law prohibits <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_October_2014_(Extreme_pornography_law)">are absurd,</a>  but the details are a side issue.  Any law that prohibits possessing
copies of some sort of work is dangerous to people in the same way.
<p>Throw the dice, and if you roll 4 or less, go to prison!</p>


feed_id: e005be25e9d14ce07cc5b2d3af65397d
title: Trump promotes racism
uri: Trump-promotes-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Trump_promotes_racism%29
content:
<p>A Mexican-American <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/donald-trump-racism-increase-latinos">fears</a> Donald Trump can win the election by
promoting racism, and reports he seems to be already encouraging
expressions of racism.</p>


feed_id: 8ddb0e8a2b905caf1e65fe5d7b4938d6
title: Imaginary criticisms of Planned Parenthood
uri: Imaginary-criticisms-of-Planned-Parenthood
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Imaginary_criticisms_of_Planned_Parenthood%29

content:
<p><a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#28_June_2015_(S.C.R.O.T.U.S.)">SCROTUS</a>'s hearings about imaginary criticisms of Planned Parenthood
are unabashedly <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/09/conservative-lawmakers-planned-parenthood-hearings
">one-sided:</a> Planned Parenthood is not even invited.</p>


feed_id: 6f8ec0e7e6dd189d05e1242fb98bef9d
title: Homosexuality in Africa
uri: Homosexuality-in-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Homosexuality_in_Africa%29
content:
<p>Homosexuality of various kinds was accepted in Africa until <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/being-gay-african-history-homosexuality-christianity">Christianity</a> brought condemnation.</p>
<p>It is, however, a mistake to speak of "true African culture", just as
it is a mistake to speak of "true American culture" or even "true
Yoruba culture".  The one universal in human culture is that any group
may adopt ideas and practices from other groups of humans.  We must
reject the idea that some practices belong to a particular descent
group, or that a certain descent group is obliged to stick to certain
cultural practices.</p>


feed_id: 940161ea16fd6c0c9d9338d94095d778
title: Funds for refugees
uri: Funds-for-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Funds_for_refugees%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/fund-refugee-crisis-tobin-tax-world-currency-trading">The Tobin Tax</a> could provide plenty of funds for refugees.</p>
<p>It could also support education and poor people in our own countries.
We need to make the wealthy pay more tax.</p>


feed_id: 8e1d9ace5256567589d091b87a8f2f99
title: Microsoft's data
uri: Microsoft-s-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_%28Microsoft%27s_data%29
content:
<p>Microsoft is appealing a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/09/microsoft-federal-case-data-security-precedent
">US court order</a> to hand over data stored in Ireland.  Microsoft realizes that losing this would make individuals and
companies outside the US reluctant to store their data in any
Microsoft server.
<p>Of course, they should be reluctant to do that for other reasons.
<p>While I hope Microsoft wins this case, a defeat might help dispel the
"cloud" in the minds of many users that leads them to confide their
data to companies' servers.</p>


feed_id: 19f08183102fcf23350c64cf3a7d66dc
title: Corruption in Egyptian schools
uri: Corruption-in-Egyptian-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Corruption_in_Egyptian_schools%29

content:
<p>
Mariam Malak says that her school (in Egypt) 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/09/egypt-zero-schoolgirl-mariam-malak-corruption-final-exams">swapped
her exam paper with someone else who paid to pass the exam</a>.


feed_id: ac3209c1037d165a68a10ba10fc11e01
title: NYC restaurants to label salty dishes
uri: NYC-restaurants-to-label-salty-dishes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28NYC_restaurants_to_label_salty_dishes%29

content:
<p>
New York City will require restaurants to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/09/new-york-salt-warning-label-chain-restaurants">label
dishes that have lots of salt</a>.


feed_id: 744183ccf1374df6dcc5f586f4918a57
title: New Zealanders protest book ban
uri: New-Zealanders-protest-book-ban
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28New_Zealanders_protest_book_ban%29

content:
<p>
New Zealanders are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/09/new-zealand-protests-planned-in-solidarity-with-banned-book">protesting
forcefully</a> against the banning of a children's book.


feed_id: 1a25313cd2b6a5ed331194b79d7cad0f
title: Women imprisoned by Saudi diplomat
uri: Women-imprisoned-by-Saudi-diplomat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Women_imprisoned_by_Saudi_diplomat%29

content:
<p>
Two Indian women, recruited as domestic servants for a Saudi diplomat,
were freed from 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/09/saudi-arabian-diplomat-india-accused-sexually-abusing-servants-gurgaon">imprisonment
in his apartment</a> and said he had repeatedly raped them.


feed_id: faefc3f665fa8c30bb4f96c7cda35417
title: Sanders leading in Iowa
uri: Sanders-leading-in-Iowa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Sanders_leading_in_Iowa%29
content:
<p>Sanders has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/10/bernie-sanders-tops-hillary-clinton-iowa-polls">taken the lead over Clinton</a> in the Iowa primary.</p>


feed_id: 46a22bc6953617fcecaaccdaa896ba31
title: Fossil fuel lobbyists
uri: Fossil-fuel-lobbyists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_lobbyists%29
content:
<p>Fossil fuel lobbyists <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/10/oil-industry-california-bill-gasoline-sb350">killed</a> California's bill to reduce gasoline use 50% by 2030.</p>
<p>Another victory for those who want to fry the Earth.  Technological
civiliation may collapse in 2080, but at least we will avoid gas
rationing 10 years from now.
<p>If the lobbying campaign builds opposition to monitoring of where
people drive, we may be able to use that for something positive.  We
need to reform and regulate car manufacturers, insurance companies,
car rental companies, license plate recognition cameras, and toll
payment systems.</p>


feed_id: 8f72185acd568b6ab7eba8c951a2727a
title: Lobbying to block fracking regulations
uri: Lobbying-to-block-fracking-regulations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Lobbying_to_block_fracking_regulations%29

content:
<p>The UK is lobbying secretly to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/10/uk-backs-bid-by-fossil-fuel-firms-to-kill-new-eu-fracking-controls-letters-reveal">block</a> EU environmental safety regulations on fracking.</p>
<p>The UK government is the lackey of fossil fuel companies,
putting on a front of supporting renewable energy.</p>


feed_id: 8d053a7658415f974e747b81bee0df37
title: Inequality in Nigeria
uri: Inequality-in-Nigeria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Inequality_in_Nigeria%29
content:
<p>The growing inequality spread by global business means that in Nigeria, as in the US, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/10/africa-rising-villages-left-behind-nigeria">economic growth excludes most people.</a></p>


feed_id: 0f95d97d84a531bc8c89701b06bdcbab
title: Defending land in Brazil
uri: Defending-land-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Defending_land_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>A tribe in Brazil is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/09/amazon-tribe-protecting-forest-bows-arrows-gps-camera-traps">defending its land</a> from illegal loggers by fighting them, because the government has done nothing.</p


feed_id: b1fd693bf4634c630c1d8cee9ead5403
title: Turkish MPs stopped by the army
uri: Turkish-MPs-stopped-by-the-army
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Turkish_MPs_stopped_by_the_army%29

content:
<p>Turkish MPs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/turkish-forces-stop-pro-kurdish-mps-on-protest-march-to-cizre">tried to enter</a> the besieged town of Cizre and were stopped by the army.</p>


feed_id: 1eb121ae7bdd22cf8f5bb9a8a2866b94
title: Netanyahu in the UK
uri: Netanyahu-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Netanyahu_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>Netanyahu, visiting the UK, meets protests calling for him to be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/09/binyamin-netanyahu-flies-to-uk-as-protesters-demand-his-arrest">arrested and tried.</a></p>
<p>The occupation of Palestine, wrong in its own terms, has also played a
role in inspiring Islamism.  In effect, the occupation pulled, while
Saudi Arabia pushed.</p>


feed_id: fe90eb5ed4e3f0ec3ef9b4261b97d40b
title: Evidence for corruption
uri: Evidence-for-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Evidence_for_corruption%29
content:
<p>A UN commission gathered the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/09/guatemala-president-otto-perez-molina-cicig-corruption-investigation">evidence</a> on which the president of Guatemala was indicted for corruption.</p>


feed_id: 1a653b268cd542de0cfb7d3198aa9374
title: Defending land in Brazil
uri: 2015-09-11-Defending-land-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Defending_land_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>A tribe in Brazil is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/09/amazon-tribe-protecting-forest-bows-arrows-gps-camera-traps">defending its land</a> from illegal loggers by fighting them, because the government has done nothing.</p>


feed_id: 37ca97767331e59d444fdd4e5cb67583
title: Boston thugs
uri: 2015-09-11-Boston-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Boston_thugs%29
content:
<p>Boston thugs <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/08/1419525/-Boston-Police-Shun-the-President-over-a-Big-Fat-LIE?detail=email">rebuked</a> (erroneously) Obama for supposedly not caring if
they are killed, but really what bothers them is that Obama is also
concerned about non-thugs.  The thugs consider that a lack of the
respect they deserve.  It may tend to erode the impunity they currently enjoy.
<p>I hope so.


feed_id: 90138efb77e3895ea376ece0bdbeeec2
title: Comcast PR
uri: Comcast-PR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Comcast_PR%29
content:
<p>Vox Media published an <a href="http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8e1257f613&e=23c9f65d66
">"article"</a> which was really PR for its big investor, Comcast.
<p>It's not the first time Vox did something like that.


feed_id: 1f4d745de4f6a78fca9efbd475624bcd
title: Gulf Stream
uri: Gulf-Stream
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Gulf_Stream%29
content:
<p>Melting Arctic ice (including that of Greenland, which is fresh water)
might <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/08/1419533/-Two-new-studies-say-a-melting-Arctic-could-weaken-or-halt-Ocean-Currents?detail=email">slow or shut down the Gulf Stream,</a> which would expose the US and
European Atlantic coasts to great cold in winter.


feed_id: e0ffb5665e8d3ccd9d37b88406c39713
title: Poverty in Europe
uri: Poverty-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Poverty_in_Europe%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/09/europes-one-percent-flourishes-millions-sink-poverty">Poverty is spreading in Europe</a>, the natural result of policies that reduce workers' rights and social support.


feed_id: adeab059eee061ff1d981c70b4ce8aa7
title: National Geographic
uri: National-Geographic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28National_Geographic%29
content:
<p>National Geographic's magazine, TV channel and other media <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geographic-magazine-shifts-to-for-profit-status-with-fox-partnership/2015/0
9/09/7c9f034e-56f0-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.html
">have passed under the control of Faux News.</a>
<p>Faux News has already injected embarrassing things into the National
Geographic TV channel, which has for some years been run jointly with
Faux.
<p>It would have been better to shut down the magazine than let it become
a propaganda outlet.


feed_id: 8b58bdde0ad82e1e4ac2722a09ea7c2a
title: Inequality is killing
uri: Inequality-is-killing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Inequality_is_killing%29
content:
<p>A prominent doctor says that inequality in the UK is killing <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/10/doctor-social-inequality-uk-550-lives-every-day">550 people every day.</a>
<p>That is 200,000 per year, making the September 2001 attacks look like
a pinprick.


feed_id: 390632e0e05ed9d475cc05f4bacf7b14
title: Ancestry.com
uri: Ancestry-com
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Ancestry.com%29
content:
<p>Don't let Ancestry.com analyze your DNA — it will use the
information in ways that can do <a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paulellenbogen/ancestry-com-can-use-your-dna-to-target-ads/">various kinds of harm.</a>


feed_id: 73ef70a8b22da0799cecac6d38deb172
title: Republican power-broker
uri: Republican-power-broker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Republican_power-broker%29
content:
<p>Republican presidential candidates <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/09/jeb-courts-adviser-whos-big-believer-democracy/
">seek support</a> from a Republican power-broker who openly supports plutocracy over democracy.


feed_id: a7071b7c189ae50d3a185dd11cc0bd39
title: Assisted suicide
uri: Assisted-suicide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Assisted_suicide%29
content:
<p>California's assembly <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/09/california-assembly-passes-right-to-die-legislation
">to legalize doctors to assist suicide,</a> but only for those expected to die anyway within 6 months.
<p>Once again, people facing a future of years of untreatable pain or years
of immobile helplessness have been left out.


feed_id: b753dde5e3df813a237c6fe53833cb00
title: Women's prospects
uri: Women-s-prospects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Women%27s_prospects%29
content:
<p>Women's Prospects <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/sep/09/women-business-and-the-law-2016-getting-to-equal-world-bank-report">Limited by Law</a> in 155 Countries.


feed_id: eca44ee6e76071da22070d021f55a50f
title: Russia'a new base
uri: Russia-a-new-base
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Russia%27a_new_base%29
content:
<p>Russia is building a new base <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/09/russia-building-major-military-base-near-ukrainian-border">near the border with Ukraine</a> to support the Russian troops fighting inside Ukraine.


feed_id: ee2e515ba416d93a10e7dd6f887e839a
title: Clinton's militarism
uri: Clinton-s-militarism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Clinton%27s_militarism%29
content:
<p>Clinton says that Obama has been <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/09/hillary-clinton-goes-militaristic-hawkish-think-tank-gives-militaristic-hawkish-speech/">insufficiently militaristic.</a>  She says she will be much quicker to invade, and will deny Israel nothing.
<p>If that's what she says when Sanders in the race, imagine much more militarism
if she defeats Sanders' challenge and becomes president.


feed_id: 0fc2df893cb8e3cc9c3c07767f56ff71
title: Bin Laden's victory
uri: Bin-Laden-s-victory
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Bin_Laden%27s_victory%29
content:
<p>Osama bin Laden's <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/14-years-after-911-the-war-on-terror-is-accomplishing-everything-bin-laden-hoped-it-would/">collosal victory:</a> giving US politicians a chance to
unleash endless wars abroad and military tyranny at home.


feed_id: 2110a2efe7056b8deab072716a369f60
title: Pope's political views
uri: Pope-s-political-views
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Pope%27s_political_views%29
content:
<p>Pope Francis's <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/how-pope-francis-came-to-embrace-not-just-climate-justice-but-liberation-theology/">political views</a> are great,  with one giant exception:
<p>women's control of <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-popes-blind-spot/">whether to have babies.</a>


feed_id: 71136dc790066fbcafb3ec7356fd534a
title: Paranoia in Australia
uri: 2015-09-11-Paranoia-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Paranoia_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>A man asked a 12-year-old for directions in Australia.
A bystander interpreted this as a threat, and so did the thugs
who seek witnesses for this <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/08/cops-public-menace-girl-directions">non-event.</a>
<p>I thought this paranoia was limited to the US.


feed_id: db07b59c21fbd95c6e6b31b1742c70af
title: Toxic wastewater
uri: Toxic-wastewater
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Toxic_wastewater%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/08/fracking-fallout-new-analysis-reveals-over-100-million-gallons-toxic-wastewater">Another danger from fracking:</a> spills of toxic wastewater.</p>


feed_id: faeaf9d247e9028eab703a0426fe238f
title: Exotic Tropical Diseases
uri: Exotic-Tropical-Diseases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Exotic_Tropical_Diseases%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://mosaicscience.com/story/america-tropical-disease">
Global heating is bringing</a> exotic tropical diseases to the US.


feed_id: 87dcb5e02c01a90fdc550823e9174ba3
title: UN intern
uri: UN-intern
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28UN_intern%29
content:
<p>
A UN intern in Geneva
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/13/intern-tent-david-hyde-un-internship-geneva">
was living in a tent because he could not afford
to rent any place to live</a>.  Shockingly, he felt compelled to resign
when this became news.
<p>
Why should he resign?  He didn't do anything wrong.


feed_id: f63da6e7fc63d7adb3fc046e42e6693a
title: Massacre of protesters
uri: Massacre-of-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Massacre_of_protesters%29
content:
<p>
Egyptian officials responsible for the massacre of protesters
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/aug/13/egyptian-officials-could-face-london-arrest-massacres-lawyers">
might be
arrested
if they visit London</a>.


feed_id: c2ffa1d363806de145207bb49d56350d
title: Chemical weapons
uri: Chemical-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Chemical_weapons%29
content:
<p>
Kurds say that PISSI is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/13/kurdish-forces-fighting-isis-attacked-chemical-weapons-reports">
using chemical weapons now</a>.


feed_id: 47e16e4f1967359a7bb637ecf6c508ca
title: Bulldozed protesters
uri: Bulldozed-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Bulldozed_protesters%29
content:
<p>
A driver bulldozed through a group of protesters in Ferguson with an
SUV, and a protester kicked the SUV as it passed.  The kicker faces 4
years in prison;
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/13/ferguson-protester-faces-four-years-jail-over-charges-of-attacking-suv-and-driver">
the driver was not charged at all</a>.


feed_id: 2a510692bfd67d5e1ccbf3c75f47c636
title: Spies
uri: Spies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Spies%29
content:
<p>
At last, some recognition that the "internet of things" will mean that
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/opinion/zeynep-tufekci-why-smart-objects-may-be-a-dumb-idea.html">
every thing in your life spies on you</a>.


feed_id: 5fedfa47c4543eb11e2650e9e029cdd9
title: Solitary confinement
uri: 2015-09-12-Solitary-confinement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Solitary_confinement%29
content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning may be put in solitary confinement as
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/12/chelsea-manning-solitary-confinement-toothpaste-army">
a punishment for
absurd "crimes"</a>.


feed_id: 3e9cef7b3b85e5586cc199d12d72f5cc
title: Bicycles
uri: Bicycles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Bicycles%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/12/become-21st-century-city-los-angeles-plan-aims-curb-car-culture">
The City of Los Angeles will promote use of bicycles.</a>
<p>
The City of Los Angeles is a small part of the urban area we think of
as "Los Angeles".  And, sad to say, living in that area and
socializing with friends — unless you met them in your
neighborhood — require travelling a lot more than 3 miles.  The
area needs a train system that will really reach everywhere, and it
needs to condense from single-family homes into apartment buildings.


feed_id: 3f20cfd5b5ce6244995475182f6cada7
title: Sanders responds
uri: Sanders-responds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Sanders_responds%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/08/12/black-lives-matter-movement-gives-bernie-sanders-racial-justice-agenda-push-it">
Sanders responds to Black Lives Matter</a> pressure with several important
plans to end systemic imposed inequality.
<p>
Many of these measures are vital for other reasons.


feed_id: ebd9bf5df2f29107b47ee35f8fb16359
title: Swedish prosecutor
uri: Swedish-prosecutor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Swedish_prosecutor%29
content:
<p>
Julian Assange rebuked the Swedish prosecutor for letting 5 years go
by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/13/julian-assange-disappointed-after-some-charges-against-him-are-dropped">
without bothering to interview him</a> in London.
<p>
Whatever Assange may have <em>done</em> in Sweden, it is clear that
the Swedish government is not really interested in prosecuting him or
potentially punishing him for that.  Rather, it is using the
prosecution an excuse to harm him.


feed_id: 61d7d9799affe3ee4e0149dc30f09196
title: Egyptian photographer
uri: Egyptian-photographer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Egyptian_photographer%29
content:
<p>
Egyptian photographer Shawkan has been
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2015/08/egypt-should-release-shawkan-photographer-detained.php">
imprisoned for two years</a>.


feed_id: ce5748d0e3948ab8fcbe022a45871161
title: Oil money
uri: Oil-money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Oil_money%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/13/azerbaijan-political-prisoners-leyla-arif-yunus">
Azerbaijan is using its oil</a>, and oil money, to get European
governments
to overlook its tyranny.


feed_id: 2fc239dc3ca77c68a797d6eee1fd7d81
title: Mosquitos
uri: Mosquitos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Mosquitos%29
content:
<p>
In Greenland, in addition to melting the ice, global heating has
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-giant-mosquitoes-are-suddenly-swarming-greenland">
caused
a big increase in mosquitos</a>, which now endanger caribou.


feed_id: 40005be34083135a388641b7a1a7cd90
title: Urgent: support more negotiations with Iran
uri: Urgent-support-more-negotiations-with-Iran
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_support_more_negotiations_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Obama and Congress <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/talk-to-iran-to-help
">to support more negotiations with Iran.</a>


feed_id: 076251f2a3847c9b768933cc82d44f69
title: Urgent: Amazon and glyphosate
uri: Urgent-Amazon-and-glyphosate
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Amazon_and_glyphosate%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on Amazon to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/amazon-glyphosate/">stop selling Glyphosate.</a>
<p>I urge people not to buy anything from Amazon, for <a href="https://www.stallman.org/amazon.html">many reasons</a> unrelated to this,  and I will continue to do so even if this campaign is successful.
<p>I hope you do the same.  There is no incompatibility between that
and signing this petition.


feed_id: 4a16546415b1b49f63c92ee6a66b7dac
title: Urgent: end forfeiture
uri: Urgent-end-forfeiture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_end_forfeiture%29
content:
<p>Citizens of California: phone your assembly member and call
for <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/09/feds-hating-on-due-process-again
">passage of the bill to end forfeiture</a> (i.e., seizure of assets)
unless the person involved is convicted of a crime.
<p>The bill does not go far enough: it allows the assets to be seized
first and the person prosecuted later.  If your car is seized and you
lose your job, and thus your home, you might plead guilty so to get a
place to stay in jail.
<p>But it should still be passed, as a first step.


feed_id: c64d2d2fded2036eff842b88b3ef499e
title: Declining violence rate
uri: Declining-violence-rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Declining_violence_rate%29
content:
<p>The overall rate of human violence <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/11/news-isis-syria-headlines-violence-steven-pinker">continues to decline.</a>
<p>Even counting the contributions of PISSI, the number of people killed
by violence is less now than it was 10 years ago.  It has been declining
ever since the second world war.


feed_id: ae003fdf69ec9d5e3d7d96966598f960
title: Spying on Russian users
uri: Spying-on-Russian-users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Spying_on_Russian_users%29
content:
<p>Apple has allegedly agreed to <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/11/apple_icloud_russia/
">store data</a> about Russian users in Russia so that Putin can spy on them.
<p>Most Russians, those who have nothing particular to fear from the US
government, would be safer with their data in the US.  Most Americans,
those who have nothing particular to fear from the Russian government,
would be safer with their data in Russia.


feed_id: a51fd1b653cd11399c51a80728ed7d79
title: Poor health caused by poverty
uri: Poor-health-caused-by-poverty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Poor_health_caused_by_poverty%29

content:
<p>The poor health and life expectency caused by poverty <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/11/health-inequality-affects-us-all-michael-marmot">falls on everyone that isn't rich,</a> to some degree.


feed_id: 1ba2ace881a4266c1f58629051ac7fc0
title: Secret trial for opposition leader
uri: Secret-trial-for-opposition-leader
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Secret_trial_for_opposition_leader%29

content:
<p>Venezuelan opposition leader <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/venezuela-opposition-leader-leopoldo-lopez-sentenced-to-14-years-in-jail">Leopoldo Lopez</a> was sentenced to a long prison
term after a secret trial.
<p>It is not implausible that a Venezuelan opposition leader would
conspire with the US to commit some sort of crime; in fact, that
happened ten years ago.  But that alone doesn't mean Lopez did so, or
make it legitimate to convict him of doing so other than with proof in
a fair trial.


feed_id: 3edc04feb784540315870a9b634cc345
title: Rosy reports of fighting PISSI
uri: Rosy-reports-of-fighting-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Rosy_reports_of_fighting_PISSI%29

content:
<p>Clapper is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/10/james-clapper-pentagon-military-official">suspected</a> of pressuring a Pentagon intelligence analyst to deliver rosy reports of fighting PISSI.


feed_id: d368e595be110522c8fdf974289543c4
title: Military cooperation with Iran
uri: Military-cooperation-with-Iran
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Military_cooperation_with_Iran%29

content:
<p>The US is not interested in military cooperation with Iran, although <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/10/why-us-and-iran-arent-cooperating-against-isis">that might be the way to defeat PISSI.</a>


feed_id: 111d116f4c3f293f184cc46a302dd420
title: Blocking wind farms
uri: Blocking-wind-farms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Blocking_wind_farms%29
content:
<p>The UK's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/11/tories-set-to-block-navitus-bay-windfarm-off-jurassic-coast
">fossil fool government</a> is now blocking sea-based wind farms
as well as land wind farms.


feed_id: 3b7d870fff05bee87520719500a2ec53
title: Cancer study cancelled
uri: Cancer-study-cancelled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Cancer_study_cancelled%29
content:
<p>Nuclear power lobbyists <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/10/did-pro-nuclear-fanatics-get-us-nuke-regulator-cancel-cancer-study">convinced</a> the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to
cancel a study of cancer rates in the vicinity of US nuclear power
plants.
<p>That agency is considering adopting a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/10/radioactivity-good-you-push
">theory</a> that low doses of radiation are good for people.
<p>To have real facts about the matter might get in the way.


feed_id: f038b13dc7cc2943581ea0ea242e642a
title: Inundation of Pacific islands
uri: Inundation-of-Pacific-islands
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Inundation_of_Pacific_islands%29

content:
<p>Australia and New Zealand <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/pacific-island-leaders-fail-to-shift-australia-and-nz-on-climate-target">rejected</a> the complaints of
Pacific Island nations that will be inundated by global heating.
<p>The callous Australian ministers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/11/peter-dutton-jokes-with-tony-abbott-about-rising-sea-levels-in-pacific-nations">joked about the coming inundation,</a> when they thought they were not being recorded.


feed_id: e7c6e74307674ca53823d1cf301d12c4
title: Abortion and contraception's moral good
uri: Abortion-and-contraception-s-moral-good
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Abortion_and_contraception%27s_moral_good%29

content:
<p>Abortion and contraception are a tremendous moral good: the <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150910
">gateway</a> to a world in which every child born is born healthy, and is wanted by
unstressed and prepared parents.


feed_id: 65460b59756725b7a970ed63a3c491e9
title: Let Vanunu go
uri: Let-Vanunu-go
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Let_Vanunu_go%29
content:
<p>Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/mordechai-vanunu-house-arrest-tv-interview-israel">house arrest</a> for giving an interview.
<p>Israel should let Vanunu go.


feed_id: 5e1546c8a4b32ed49e2007e5e8cad792
title: Snooping by Maldives government
uri: Snooping-by-Maldives-government
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Snooping_by_Maldives_government%29

content:
<p>The Maldives government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/maldives-accused-of-spying-on-imprisoned-mohamed-nasheed-legal-team">snooped</a> on deposed president Nasheed's
conversations with lawyers.
<p>The Maldives government is hardly legitimate, but the UK government
has done <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#01_August_2015_(Illegal_snooping_by_UK_intel_agencies)">similar things,</a>  and I'd expect the US has too.


feed_id: fba315054a1dda4bb71004033f3414bd
title: Ghost fishing gear
uri: Ghost-fishing-gear
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Ghost_fishing_gear%29
content:
<p>Ghost gear — abandoned or lost fishing nets and traps — <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/10/fishing-industry-vows-to-tackle-wildlife-deaths-from-ghost-gear">goes on catching fish,</a> which die as a result.  The losses are enormous.
<p>Fishermen must be made responsible, one way or another, for the damage
or cost imposed by their discarded or lost gear.  Perhaps autonomous
vehicles could be designed to collect it, and the cost borne by fishermen
through taxes.


feed_id: f8174e89d64c50fb6e4b8c5758fd0749
title: Nagging to install Windows
uri: Nagging-to-install-Windows
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Nagging_to_install_Windows%29
content:
<p>Microsoft is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/11/microsoft-downloading-windows-1
">nagging some users</a> to install Windows 10.


feed_id: 64fda3c74d8460c8aaf93313469ac77d
title: New trial for Zach Anderson
uri: New-trial-for-Zach-Anderson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28New_trial_for_Zach_Anderson%29
content:
<p>Teenager Zach Anderson, who was sentenced to <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/09/teen-facing-draconian-prosecution-for-se
">25 years of public scorn</a> for having sex with a girl who said she was 17 years old, will have a
new trial.
<p>The judge in the first trial condemned Anderson for participating in a
general sexual culture that the judge detests.  I have my doubts about
the wisdom of hook-up culture, but that's no reason for prohibiting
it, let alone cracking down on individuals for participating in it.
<p>Two UK teachers that had an affair in an office in the school where
they taught have been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/09/teachers-sex-school-swansea-banned-youtube
">banned from teaching,</a> and the stated reason is
only that a lot of people are expected to think that there was
something wrong with that.
<p>Apparently punishment need not be justified by an actual wrong.
Prejudiced disapproval by others is considered sufficient reason.


feed_id: 627dc388dd9314665bdb56b0a188570d
title: Conditions in Eritrea
uri: Conditions-in-Eritrea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Conditions_in_Eritrea%29
content:
<p>The UK government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/10/britain-refusing-asylum-eritreans-discredited-report
">falsified a study of conditions in Eritrea</a> to create an excuse to send back Eritrean refugees.
<p>The people who did the field work have resigned, condemning the way
their work was distorted in the report.


feed_id: 36d02f645287b8c8361f1d7f7530a69a
title: Cap fossil fuel extraction
uri: Cap-fossil-fuel-extraction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Cap_fossil_fuel_extraction%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/09/cap-fossil-fuel-production-now
">A world-wide plan</a> to cap fossil fuel extraction could be best
for oil consumers as well as fossil fuel companies.


feed_id: 4424b366468687322f67deb3cc8291c7
title: Fossil fuel stock
uri: Fossil-fuel-stock
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_stock%29
content:
<p>The University of California has sold <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/10/california-university-divests-200m-from-coal-and-tar-sands-holdings">200 million dollars of fossil fuel stock,</a> but not on principle — it judges them
not to be a very good investment.
<p>If a drop in demand just happens to reduce the use of some fossil fuels,
that may help us avert disaster, but we'd be fools to count on that to
do the whole job.


feed_id: 29b27aa1081d024ea215f80e29644ba6
title: Fines for empty houses
uri: Fines-for-empty-houses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Fines_for_empty_houses%29
content:
<p>Barcelona has fined banks for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/barcelona-fines-banks-60000-for-empty-homes
">leaving some houses empty.</a>
<p>If applied on a large enough scale, this could do a lot of good.
But the UK needs a much broader policy, heavily taxing anyone
that owns a dwelling that isn't anyone's primary residence.


feed_id: cbeafa4db3da1ebbd06ad2286f7fd826
title: Hiding emails
uri: Hiding-emails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Hiding_emails%29
content:
<p>Hilary Clinton's use of a private email server, perhaps to hide important
State Department emails, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/about-those-e-mails/">continues a tradition followed for decades.</a>
<p>We don't know whether she hid anything important, but Bush regime officials
certainly did so.


feed_id: 9c4b1f9b88492c8b254fd229b926f68f
title: New York City thug
uri: New-York-City-thug
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#13_September_2015_%28NY_Thug%29
content:
<p>One New York City thug has a history of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/11/james-blake-arrest-officer-history-excessive-force">beating people up and pepper
spraying them,</a> then arresting them, for no reason.</p><p></p>


feed_id: 71f30b2d95b17fc8df2806077bf9a33a
title: Volunteer
uri: 2015-09-14-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to help a progressive political candidate by rebuilding
     his web site so you can read it without running nonfree JavaScript code.</p>


feed_id: 22db02fd0b049fd2e3e862850a1793cd
title: Urgent: Tor Node
uri: Urgent-Tor-Node
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Tor_Node%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://act.eff.org/action/support-tor-and-intellectual-freedom-in-libraries">
urge the Kilton library to turn its Tor node back on</a>.


feed_id: d1eeffe1e7b9cf21817c8562b2920a9a
title: Fire conditions in California
uri: Fire-conditions-in-California
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Fire_conditions_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Fire conditions in California are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/12/explosive-wildfire-threatens-california-towns">nearly
explosive</a>: a fire grew from 1 sq mile to 100 sq miles in one day.


feed_id: 44602d23a77e26015df3ce4634bc9b86
title: Officials who don't want to perform duties
uri: Officials-who-don-t-want-to-perform-duties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Officials_who_dont_want_to_perform_duties%29

content:
<p>
Some states have passed laws that allow local officials to stop
performing any marriages, so that they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/12/officials-opting-out-of-all-marriages-same-sex-test-constitution">won't
have to perform same-sex marriages</a>.
<p>
No individual is coerced to hold public office in the US.  If these
officials don't want to perform some of the duties of their offices,
they need only resign, and they will no longer have that duty.


feed_id: 2f0209516eb3425e5b5c8b8ccf4e0c0d
title: Labour Party's new leader
uri: Labour-Party-s-new-leader
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Labour_Partys_new_leader%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/12/jeremy-corbyn-wins-labour-party-leadership-election">leftist
candidate Jeremy Corbyn</a> won the leadership of the Labour Party.
<p>
The "New Labour" Party set up by Tony B'liar was a right-wing party
Tory Lite.  Even when it won, the people didn't win, they only lost
more slowly.
<p>
Here is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/12/what-does-jeremy-corbyn-think">what
Corbyn stands for</a>.
<p>
Two vital issue not mentioned here are curbing global heating and
curbing surveillance.  I would like to see where Corbyn stands on
those.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/12/jeremy-corbyn-victory-easy-bit-grassroots">Recommendations</a>
for what Labour must do now.
<p>
I would like to see Labour and the Green Party merge.


feed_id: e0d765535da31cca261c7c9fdad2c49d
title: Sharks still overfished
uri: Sharks-still-overfished
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Sharks_still_overfished%29
content:
<p>
Despite a reduction in catching sharks only for their fins, sharks are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/12/shark-fin-ban-not-saving-species">still
being overfished</a>.


feed_id: ee0de6dc7e3161d61a2073b5d6a32c1a
title: India covering up murder and torture
uri: India-covering-up-murder-and-torture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28India_covering_up_murder_and_torture%29

content:
<p>
India is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/12/indian-forces-kashmir-accused-human-rights-abuses-coverup">covering
up murder and torture</a> committed by hundreds of soldiers and thugs
in Kashmir.


feed_id: 387c111c10fb79b9c7070b9c1c33c6ba
title: Iraqis protest gov't sectarianism
uri: Iraqis-protest-gov-t-sectarianism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Iraqis_protest_govt_sectarianism%29

content:
<p>
Iraqis are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/10/massive-protest-wave-iraq-challenges-sectarianism">protesting
against government aligned with sects</a>.
<p>
I hope that this is serious, and not a movement of Shi'ites looking
for a way to take all the offices.


feed_id: adf4ec0fe40aae01f8328c7dfccd7502
title: Paramilitaries trained by US Special Forces
uri: Paramilitaries-trained-by-US-Special-Forces
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Paramilitaries_trained_by_US_Special_Forces%29

content:
<p>
American Special Forces Are Still Conducting Training for 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-united-states-is-training-militaries-with-dubious-human-rights-records-again/">Some
of Africa's Most Notorious Paramilitaries</a>.


feed_id: 12f79dced869d1e004506fa48b46bc77
title: School uniforms
uri: School-uniforms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28School_uniforms%29
content:
<p>
Rules for girls' school uniforms 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/10/school-dress-codes-reinforce-the-message-that-womens-bodies-are-dangerous">spread
prudish attitudes</a> about female bodies.
<p>
I wish today's students were inclined to go on strike against school
uniforms, but (according to what I have read) they have been brought
up to an attitude of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_(Students_from_elite_US_universities)">desperate
competition</a> combined with immaturity.


feed_id: 881461dffcd05e7c84791982e26c65af
title: Riding bicycles while black
uri: Riding-bicycles-while-black
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Riding_bicycles_while_black%29
content:
<p>
Someone in a wealthy town in Massachusetts 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/06/1418860/-Bicyling-While-Black-Triggers-Call-to-Police-in-Marblehead-MA">called
911</a> simply because some black kids were riding bicycles.


feed_id: b292d8d5e0538c4ad1a4bf716173f4f5
title: "Urban Shield" trade show
uri: Urban-Shield-trade-show
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Urban_Shield_trade_show%29
content:
<p>
Campaigning to end the "Urban Shield" trade show which 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/11/community-lawmakers-stop-showcase-military-and-surveillance-technology-alameda">promotes
massive surveillance and militarization of thugs</a>.


feed_id: 968a882d8706e932de428fa47b6bd15b
title: Burning all fossil fuels
uri: Burning-all-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Burning_all_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>
A model predicts that burning all fossil fuels 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/11/burning-all-fossil-fuels-will-melt-entire-antarctic-ice-sheet-study-shows">would
melt the entire Antarctic ice sheet, eventually</a>.  This would raise
sea level around 160 feet, adding to the 60 feet or so that would come
from the Greenland ice sheet.  Most of today's large cities would be
inundated.
<p>
The complete melting would take many centuries, but
even the first dose is a bad problem.


feed_id: cd62ebc03058a92c27366c0f5f36f434
title: Prudery
uri: Prudery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Prudery%29
content:
<p>
Prudery alert, men are being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/11/alexander-carter-silk-charlotte-proudman-trump-father-daughter">castigated
for saying their daughters are attractive</a>.
<p>
This comes out in the middle of a dispute about a female lawyer who
publicly rebuked a male lawyer for privately saying that her profile
photo was "stunning", at a time when they had no business to discuss.
<p>
Sexism sometimes takes the form of a man's refusal to take a female
colleague seriously as a professional.  Such refusal is a pattern that
occurs over time.  It can take the form of focusing on the female's
appearance rather than the professional matters at hand.
<p>
A statement of attraction is sometimes part of such a pattern of
disrespect, but not always.  It might be an expression of being swept
away by beauty (it would be if I said it), a polite attempt to put the
woman in a good mood (this was standard etiquette), or looking for a
date.  None of those is inherently incompatible with professional
respect.
<p>
Professional women have encountered many compliments that were part of
a pattern of sexist disrespect, so they have learned to associate the
two.  Hear a compliment, suspect disrespect.  It is not an absurd
suspicion, but that doesn't mean the man is guilty.
<p>
Since the compliment isn't <em>necessarily</em> disrespect, why not
wait a while and see if that man respects you or not?


feed_id: 86f35007f895adf21ec5b2b6efb6a670
title: $15 minimum wage in NY
uri: 15-minimum-wage-in-NY
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28%2415_minimum_wage_in_NY%29
content:
<p>
After ordering a $15 minimum wage for fast food workers, NY Governor
Cuomo proposes to legislate a 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/11/new-york-state-may-get-15-minimum-wage-ford-paid-workers-100-years-ago/">$15
minimum wage for all workers in New York State</a>.


feed_id: 6e75ef62b97fba7665b14c53040aa07e
title: Seattle teachers' strike
uri: Seattle-teachers-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Seattle_teachers_strike%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/11/seattle-teacher-strike-parents-community-supportive">Parents
in Seattle give support</a> to the teachers' strike.


feed_id: 91d91ac4c5cf09980c39692216aebcc5
title: NHS doctors overstressed
uri: NHS-doctors-overstressed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28NHS_doctors_overstressed%29
content:
<p>
The Tory's plan to kill the NHS by underfunding it has caused many doctors
to be overstressed and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2015/sep/11/nhs-doctors-burnt-out-gp-pressure">plan
to take early retirement</a>.


feed_id: b52218bc3128b3af8bfee24d3bfda0eb
title: Evictions for calling 911 too much
uri: Evictions-for-calling-911-too-much
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Evictions_for_calling_911_too_much%29

content:
<p>
Many cities in the US have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/11/domestic-violence-victim-town-wanted-me-evicted-calling-911">laws
to evict tenants that call 911 too much</a>.  The ACLU got rid of this
in Pennsylvania.


feed_id: 88ed87abb18e9083d77ce05ce6e4e7cc
title: Poor health caused by poverty
uri: 2015-09-14-Poor-health-caused-by-poverty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_September_2015_%28Poor_health_caused_by_poverty%29

content:
<p>The poor health and life expectancy caused by poverty <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/11/health-inequality-affects-us-all-michael-marmot">falls on everyone that isn't rich,</a> to some degree.


feed_id: 3c210edd798b693f2a657efb198ce040
title: Bin Laden's victory
uri: 2015-09-14-Bin-Laden-s-victory
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#11_September_2015_%28Bin_Laden%27s_victory%29
content:
<p>Osama bin Laden's <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/14-years-after-911-the-war-on-terror-is-accomplishing-everything-bin-laden-hoped-it-would/">colossal victory:</a> giving US politicians a chance to
unleash endless wars abroad and military tyranny at home.


feed_id: b13fee55bb61a0f95fafd0b60628e5b8
title: Fossil fuel lobbyists
uri: 2015-09-14-Fossil-fuel-lobbyists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#10_September_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_lobbyists%29
content:
<p>Fossil fuel lobbyists <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/10/oil-industry-california-bill-gasoline-sb350">killed</a> California's bill to reduce gasoline use 50% by 2030.</p>
<p>Another victory for those who want to fry the Earth.  Technological
civilization may collapse in 2080, but at least we will avoid gas
rationing 10 years from now.
<p>If the lobbying campaign builds opposition to monitoring of where
people drive, we may be able to use that for something positive.  We
need to reform and regulate car manufacturers, insurance companies,
car rental companies, license plate recognition cameras, and toll
payment systems.</p>


feed_id: fd7fc9d153c07bc3ca07d275e6d841f5
title: Sulfoxaflor
uri: Sulfoxaflor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Sulfoxaflor%29
content:
<p>
An appeals court 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/11/3700777/epa-pesticide-court-ruling/">overruled
the EPA's approval</a> of a new neonicotinoid pesticide, sulfoxaflor.
<p>
It is ironic that the chemical was given a name suggesting the flowers
that would kill bees if this pesticide has been used on them.


feed_id: b0a2f25f4c784256d88acb8bd912c173
title: Climate safety agreement in Paris
uri: Climate-safety-agreement-in-Paris
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Climate_safety_agreement_in_Paris%29

content:
<p>
US Republican leaders are now 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/11/3700163/gop-leaders-embrace-climate-change/">actively
campaigning against</a> any climate safety agreement in Paris.


feed_id: 932afdb8aa316468e982e7531ce1e7c4
title: US policy towards war journalists
uri: US-policy-towards-war-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28US_policy_towards_war_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The US government's policy towards journalists covering a war: if
their coverage doesn't suit the US, they are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/12/us-war-theories-target-dissenters">considered
spies and may be shot on sight</a>.
<p>
The US 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#03_April_2014_(Al-Jazeera_journalists)">did
exactly that to some al-Jazeera journalists</a> in Iraq.
<p>
<a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/08/19/pentagon-manual-calls-some-reporters-spies/">More
information</a>.
<p>
RT is a propaganda outlet for the abuse of power.  So is Faux News.
That doesn't justify shooting their reporters.


feed_id: 266ba4c2c3cbd3dcd7ed57684ec7df8f
title: Freedom of speech
uri: 2015-09-15-Freedom-of-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Freedom_of_speech%29
content:
<p>
In 2007, Brandeis University tried to discipline a professor 
<a href="https://www.thefire.org/brandeis-inexplicable-war-against-its-faculty/">for
explaining the pejorative term "wetback"</a>.  This led to a dispute
between the faculty senate, which defended him, and the administration
which judged that this was "harassment".
<p>
Hindley did not really make a racial slur, but what if he had?  In
general, real use of racial slurs should not be formally punished.
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to say nasty and foolish
things.
<p>
Teachers are a special case, though; they should not gratuitously
insult their students and should not set an example of racism.
<p>
The faculty-administration dispute was resolved as the administration
<a href="http://www.thejustice.org/article/2009/04/committee-on-faculty-rights-and-responsibilities-will-resume-hearing-grievances">agreed
to give somewhat more respect to faculty decisions</a>, but Brandeis
never rescinded its
<a href="https://www.thefire.org/red-alert-at-brandeis-university-administration-must-clear-professors-name/">unjust
decision against Hindley</a>.
<p>
In 2014, people 
<a href="http://www.thejustice.org/article/2014/09/faculty-emails-draw-criticism">attacked
him for describing the Israeli occupation of Palestine as "ethnic
cleansing"</a> and comparing it to the holocaust.
<p>
The occupation does include slow ethnic cleansing on certain parts of
annexed Jerusalem and the West Bank, but comparing it to the holocaust
is an exaggeration.  Israel does not do things that would ever kill
millions of Arabs.  Nonetheless, he has a right to say such things 
on the faculty mailing list.


feed_id: 9b76b41dffcae79328860565f1bd7614
title: Self-undermining warnings
uri: Self-undermining-warnings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Self-undermining_warnings%29
content:
<p>
An example of a widespread self-undermining way of warning about
dangerous practices — in this case, the insecurity of letting
companies have your personal data: to say that 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/organizational-doxing-ashley-madison-hack/403900/">"we"
all do it</a>.
<p>
I suppose the writers see this as a way of chumming up to the readers
so that they will pay attention, but it defeats the purpose, because
it tells readers, "Of course you use those disservices?  Everyone
does.  No one would expect you to do otherwise."
<p>
Use of the term 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing">"the
cloud"</a> compounds the problem.  The only "cloud" is in the minds of
people who formulate their thoughts in terms of a "cloud".
<p>
Readers will go away thinking, "What a shame we are all trapped in
this" rather than "I am going to stop now!"


feed_id: aa6c63903306ed7ec6ce9e997356d4c6
title: US training allies with histories of abuse
uri: US-training-allies-with-histories-of-abuse
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28US_training_allies_with_histories_of_abuse%29

content:
<p>
U.S. Special Forces 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/09/u-s-special-forces-expand-training-allies-histories-abuse/">Expand
Training to Allies With Histories of Abuse</a>.


feed_id: 087fd1dcc266f0065f7442d380c84740
title: Camp Clark and the Demise of Free Speech
uri: Camp-Clark-and-the-Demise-of-Free-Speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Camp_Clark_and_the_Demise_of_Free_Speech%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/09/camp-clark-and-the-demise-of-free-speech/">Camp
Clark and the Demise of Free Speech</a>.


feed_id: de7fc2d29a00957d545aa5bab198e540
title: Austria moving towards total surveillance
uri: Austria-moving-towards-total-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Austria_moving_towards_total_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Austria is 
<a href="https://edri.org/austria-creates-new-agency-with-unprecedented-surveillance-powers/">moving
to legislate nearly total surveillance</a>.
<p>
Austrians, 
<a href="https://www.staatsschutz.at/en/">take action here</a>.
<p>
Governments around the world are launching a broad front pre-emptive
attack against the privacy needed for democracy and the press to
function.


feed_id: 797b60e4e84ab6290d6338183c627002
title: Crimes of the old Tunisian regime
uri: Crimes-of-the-old-Tunisian-regime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Crimes_of_the_old_Tunisian_regime%29

content:
<p>
Parts of the Tunisian state are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/attacks-state-tunisia-truth-commission-crisis-democracy">blocking
investigation of crimes of the old regime</a>.
<p>
This is perhaps because the new president comes from a group linked to
the old regime.  I fear it is taking advantage of terrorist attacks to
permanently clamp down on human rights.


feed_id: 919c8aec97b40f637e1d0b249989e3cc
title: Study of genetically inherited trauma
uri: Study-of-genetically-inherited-trauma
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Study_of_genetically_inherited_trauma%29

content:
<p>
The study that found that children of holocaust survivors inherited
evidence of stress was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/sep/11/why-im-sceptical-about-the-idea-of-genetically-inherited-trauma-epigenetics">too
small and not well designed</a>.  It may be invalid.


feed_id: dfec1d0d48a68f3dba3a794f8aa307a9
title: Yazidi women to fight PISSI
uri: Yazidi-women-to-fight-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Yazidi_women_to_fight_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Yazidi women have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/11/women-taking-on-isis-iraq-yazidi-female-fighters">formed
a militia</a> to fight PISSI(*).
<p>
I suggested 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_February_2015_(PISSI_cruelty_to_women)">arming 
PISSI's escaped female captives</a>.  The US didn't, but the
Revolutionary Kurds did.  The US doesn't help the Kurds because it is
more interested in being nice to Erdo&gbreve;an and the sectarian
Iraqi state than in defeating PISSI.
<p>
* PISSI: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI)">Pseudo-Islamic
State in Syria and Iraq</a>.


feed_id: 004aad317bbed7232e42cb6c75b77f89
title: Guantanamo prisoners denied rights
uri: Guantanamo-prisoners-denied-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Guantanamo_prisoners_denied_rights%29

content:
<p>
As Tariq Ba Odah wastes away in Guantanamo, the US government 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/11/obama-administration-accused-ignoring-geneva-convention-refusal-release-74-pound-guantanamo-detainee/">denies
him rights he is entitled to</a> either as a military prisoner or as
an arrested person.
<p>
A few dozen prisoners in Guantanamo may have committed real crimes.
There are a few handfuls who might fight against the US if released
— but given the thousands of jihadis now fighting for PISSI,
these few would change nothing.  Some of them might find PISSI so
barbarous (by the standards of the jihadis of 2000) that they fight
against it.
<p>
It would be better to release all the prisoners in Guantanamo
immediately, than to undermine everyone's human rights and the rule of
law by continuing to holding them without a fair trial.
<p>
I have no objections to holding some to prosecute them in a proper
court, where there are grounds to do so.


feed_id: 806b111a72802886528979d9256b13a3
title: Trusting government with encryption
uri: Trusting-government-with-encryption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Trusting_government_with_encryption%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001123.html">Why We
Positively, Absolutely, Can't Trust the Government with
Encryption</a>.


feed_id: 583ec4e4a50d3efb7d1aaefd52671302
title: Overprotective parenting
uri: Overprotective-parenting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Overprotective_parenting%29
content:
<p>
Overprotective parenting may be steering the US into a "culture of
victimhood" in which people are 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/11/victimhood-culture-in-america-beyond-dig">quick
to perceive slights, but can't resolve the disputes on their own</a>.
<p>
I say "may" because I don't consider this proven.  And there is
another side to the issue.  In the past, while some groups of children
learned to relate well, others bullied or were bullied, and the
bullied children who couldn't find a way to protect themselves on
their own learned that they were helpless.
<p>
However, there seems to be some truth in the article's point.


feed_id: 8e216ccaf1012bb4575c983bb7e26817
title: International bankruptcy system
uri: International-bankruptcy-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28International_bankruptcy_system%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/11/debt-campaigners-hail-un-vote-as-breakthrough">UN
General Assembly gave its support</a> to setting up an international
bankruptcy system.
<p>
The General Assembly has little power, so mainly this applies pressure
to those countries, such as the US, which are blocking the plan.  I am
sure the US will stop blocking it if we elect Sanders president.  That
is one thing that the president can change alone.


feed_id: a9b9b0aaf5950dcb6c27f96b1f9913dc
title: Euthanasia
uri: Euthanasia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Euthanasia%29
content:
<p>
The Netherlands 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/11/assisted-dying-dutch-end-of-life-netherlands-unbearable-suffering">allows
people to get assistance for euthanasia under a broad range of
circumstances</a>.
<p>
I think that euthanasia assistance should be available to anyone whose
situation or condition makes suicide effectively impossible for that
person.  We don't need to give help to others, since they can commit
suicide without help if they choose to.  But we should make sure that
no one is denied that choice by practical obstacles.
<p>
I feel sad for each person who needs euthanasia to avoid a fate worse
than death, but I understand the choice.
<p>
However, I am not suicidal.  I would choose to live forever, if I
could do so in good enough health to make it a worthwhile and
productive life.  But that technology is not likely to be invented
soon enough for me.


feed_id: 32b302d7796a61a0f996908fe48b7ea8
title: Protest leader charged with absurd crimes
uri: Protest-leader-charged-with-absurd-crimes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Protest_leader_charged_with_absurd_crimes%29

content:
<p>
After a truck almost ran into community leader Wesley West, who leads
Black Lives Matter protests in Baltimore, the thugs 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/10/1420106/-Baltimore-Reverend-arrested-after-almost-being-run-over-by-truck">charged
him with absurd crimes</a>, reminiscent of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#22_June_2015_(China)">China</a>
or 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#02_September_2015_(Azerbaijan_journalist_faces_imprisonment)">Azerbaijan</a>.


feed_id: 6af5b03080011435e7a6843b2cae5f85
title: American prudery
uri: American-prudery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28American_prudery%29
content:
<p>
Cormega Copening is being 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/09/1419868/-Boy-charged-as-adult-for-having-explicit-pictures-of-himself-because-he-s-a-minor">charged
in North Carolina as an adult for making sexy pictures of Cormega
Copening, because Cormega Copening is a minor</a>.
<p>
It's another example of America's prudish and twisted attitude towards
teenagers and their natural occupation, sex.


feed_id: 1c79e82e45c26e9b8620c85f3df3afc3
title: LA garment companies cheat workers
uri: LA-garment-companies-cheat-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28LA_garment_companies_cheat_workers%29

content:
<p>
Garment workers in Los Angeles may not get the benefit of the
increased minimum wage, because those companies 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-jobs-that-were-going-to-leave-theyve-already-left/">flout
labor law frequently</a>.
<p>
From a short-term perspective, a job where you are overworked, injured
and then cheated might seem better than no job at all.  It might seem
like valid reasoning to say we should tolerate companies that cheat
workers in the US, rather than have those companies move and cheat
workers in some other country.
<p>
Taking a longer view, why are those the only choices?  Because of
acceptance of that short-term reasoning.
<p>
I see no reason to allow importation from countries where workers are
treated so badly.  We should tear up the plutocratic treaties that say
we "have to" allow this.


feed_id: 507e05dc78174c42173989e5f20ff9bd
title: Chilean state to sign the TPP
uri: Chilean-state-to-sign-the-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Chilean_state_to_sign_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
President Allende warned against the power of multinational
corporations, and fought against them in Chile.  Now the Chilean state
is planning to complete their victory over Chile, by
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-tpp-will-finish-what-chiles-dictatorship-started/">signing
the TPP</a>.
<p>
Don't make the mistake of calling the TPP a "trade treaty"; its main
purpose is to give those companies the ultimate power and rewrite laws
to suit them.


feed_id: 2b21d6433ca219ab0ce7a0fc380ec8ae
title: Assessing schools
uri: Assessing-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#14_September_2015_%28Assessing_schools%29
content:
<p>
There are 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/these-new-york-schools-arent-just-letting-kids-opt-out-of-testing-theyre-giving-them-an-alternative/">ways
to assess a school</a>, other than giving the students standardized
tests.
<p>
However, the focus on assessing schools, and assessing teachers,
misses the point that many schools in the US don't get enough funds.
Moreover, the children in them are growing up in poverty, which means
they are also 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_(The_permanent_stress_caused_by_poverty)">under
daily stress</a>.  It is very hard for a school to overcome the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#7_April_2015_(Poverty_and_child_development)">mind-damaging
effects</a> of such upbringing.
<p>
In effect, arguing about assessing the school is a way to draw the
conversation away from those issues.


feed_id: 8fe1c7c88de2163038a603ae35df997d
title: Koch brothers' point man
uri: Koch-brothers-point-man
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Koch_brothers%27_point_man%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/14/scott-walker-union-plan-labor-laws">Scott Walker</a> is the Koch brothers' point man for nearly eliminating labor unions in the US.
<p>They want to drive nearly all workers into poverty.


feed_id: fa3c7487c8d596f8b62d3bd2229abe7a
title: Racism makes teenagers sick
uri: Racism-makes-teenagers-sick
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Racism_makes_teenagers_sick%29
content:
<p>New Study: Racism Can Make [Teenagers] Sick — <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/09/experiencing-racial-discrimination-causes-poor-health">for the Rest of Their Lives.</a>


feed_id: 8c301d8a4bebd788a32e3477afa04b38
title: Sierra Nevada snowpack
uri: Sierra-Nevada-snowpack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Sierra_Nevada_snowpack%29
content:
<p>The thin Sierra Nevada snowpack of last winter was the thinnest <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/14/california-drought-sierra-nevada-snowpack-500-year-record-low">in at least 500 years,</a> according to a study based on tree rings.


feed_id: 56050bc5baeee350f5c829a5b8546914
title: Jeremy Corbyn opposes war
uri: Jeremy-Corbyn-opposes-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Jeremy_Corbyn_opposes_war%29
content:
<p>Jeremy Corbyn, new leader of UK Labour, <a href="http://davidswanson.org/node/4910
">is a peace activist.</a>  He seriously opposes US/UK militarism and wars.  He even dares to
criticize Saudi Arabia and Qatar for promoting jihadis in Syria.
<p>I don't oppose war under all circumstances (I don't know whether
Corbyn does either), but I agree with most of his criticism
of what the UK and US actually do.
<p>I support arming the Kurds, and the women that PISSI has raped, to
fight PISSI, but that's not what the US and UK consider doing.


feed_id: ba80cc67c8984cde1957ad601ae410ce
title: Letters written by Koch
uri: Letters-written-by-Koch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Letters_written_by_Koch%29
content:
<p>Koch Industries <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/14/koch-letters-congress/">wrote letters</a> which congresscritters then signed their names to.


feed_id: 7d0822d5e5b259ebc244d8ba0f9742e8
title: Funeral for a pet
uri: Funeral-for-a-pet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Funeral_for_a_pet%29
content:
<p>Don't fall for the pressure to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/14/pet-funerals-rip-off-money">spend a lot of money</a> on a funeral for a pet.
<p>Or a human being — all that matters is remembering the person who died,
not material trappings.


feed_id: 12ffe0e371e4e3cd97cfdcb22448f329
title: New Australian PM
uri: New-Australian-PM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28New_Australian_PM%29
content:
<p>The Australian right-wing government has switched prime ministers, and
the new leader <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/14/australian-leader-tony-abbott-ousted-by-malcolm-turnbull-after-mps-vote">Turnbull</a> formerly favored strong action against global heating.
<p>However, that may not matter, since he says he doesn't plan to change
the current policies.


feed_id: 309e2c545b26e61870112b55c2717c73
title: Prisoners in San Jose
uri: Prisoners-in-San-Jose
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Prisoners_in_San_Jose%29
content:
<p>Prisoners in the San Jose jail say that it is common for the guards to
punch and beat them; the only unusual thing about beating Michael Tyree
is <a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_28758814/san-jose-jail-death-new-details-from-inmates">that he died.</a>


feed_id: 80ba105a94c1cc513677d5db62cd629f
title: Charges by Erdogan
uri: Charges-by-Erdogan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Charges_by_Erdogan%29
content:
<p>Erdogan has charged the co-leader of the HD Party, which supports
human rights, with <a href="http://www.goodmorningturkey.com/politics/investigation-launched-into-hdp-co-chair-demirtas-for-insulting-the-nation/">"crimes"</a> such as terrorism and "insulting Turkishness".
<p>In effect, Erdogan has declared open war on democracy in Turkey.  He
is the biggest insult to Turkishness that has ever been seen.  I hope
that Turkishness defeats Erdogan.


feed_id: ac17a5fe6355b403be3626ccd1ba77ac
title: US fraudulent foreclosure
uri: US-fraudulent-foreclosure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28US_fraudulent_foreclosure%29
content:
<p>The US fraudulent foreclosure scandal <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/14/officials-cover-housing-bubbles-scummy-residue-fraudulent-foreclosure-document/">has spread</a> into the US system of property records.


feed_id: 3914d378227bc9909c982ade2f04877a
title: Pakistan's official censorship
uri: Pakistan-s-official-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Pakistan%27s_official_censorship%29

content:
<p>Pakistan's official censorship is now backed by military threats
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/14/pakistan-press-freedom-army-journalists-military">fabricate accusations against journalists.</a>


feed_id: b53e311a0568694aabe6d5f636dcc972
title: Germany to reimpose border controls
uri: Germany-to-reimpose-border-controls
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Germany_to_reimpose_border_controls%29

content:
<p>
Germany has been overwhelmed with refugees and will reimpose border
controls, effectively 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/13/germany-to-close-borders-exit-schengen-emergency-measures">ending
the Schengen free travel zone</a>.
<p>
There was no way that the welcome for refugees could continue
indefinitely.  There simply can't be room for millions of migrants.
<p>
Thus, when there are so many people fleeing, we need to address the
causes, which include 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#08_September_2015_(Climate_mayhem_and_refugees)">climate mayhem</a>, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_endless_wars)">wars (many created or made worse by the
US)</a>, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_(Ethiopian_tyranny)">local tyranny</a>, and 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_(Land_Grabs)">corporate land grabs</a>.
<p>
Those are the immediate causes that make people flee, but there is
also the deeper long-term cause: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">world population
growth</a>.  We need to reduce the birth rate to the point where the
human population starts to decline.


feed_id: 7d260b5084628dfac9fae533bbb10f1a
title: Urgent: No RFIDs in driver's licenses
uri: Urgent-No-RFIDs-in-driver-s-licenses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_RFIDs_in_drivers_licenses%29

content:
<p>
Residents of California: 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/california-protect-your-drivers-license-privacy">phone
your state legislators</a> to oppose S.B. 249, which would impose
tracking RFIDs in driver's licenses.
<p>
Say you don't want to have <em>any</em> tracking device in your
license.  These "enhanced" drivers licenses are actually sabotaged
drivers licenses, and they shouldn't exist at all.


feed_id: 8430f4ff5d1eab79961484dcb934d45e
title: Urgent: Red Cliffs Desert Reserve
uri: Urgent-Red-Cliffs-Desert-Reserve
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Red_Cliffs_Desert_Reserve%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Red_Cliffs">call on
Congress</a> not to push a road through the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve.


feed_id: 05e49cb98cbb85018ba9ba77680cdc09
title: Manus Island refugee prison
uri: Manus-Island-refugee-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Manus_Island_refugee_prison%29
content:
<p>
The refugees Australia imprisons on Manus Island 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/14/manus-island-refugee-assaulted-by-guard-and-told-to-find-his-own-medicine">have
to buy their own medicine after guards attack them</a>, and they can't
afford both that and food.
<p>
What's happening is that Australians don't want to admit most
refugees, but since explicitly rejecting them would violate a treaty,
Australia concocts underhanded, deniable, even 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#15_July_2015_(Jail_for_speaking_about_asylum_seekers)">secret</a>
pressures to push them away.
<p>
See 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_(Germany_to_reimpose_border_controls)">this
other article on refugees</a>.


feed_id: 46a5cb1917b94fcaa82481b2b8b98d9b
title: UK's tests of fitness to work
uri: UK-s-tests-of-fitness-to-work
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28UKs_tests_of_fitness_to_work%29

content:
<p>
The UK's anxiety-provoking tests to see if someone is fit to work
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/14/ms-sufferers-health-damaged-by-benefits-tests-survey-finds">trigger
relapses of multiple sclerosis</a>.


feed_id: c57c876c34be806073e0fec62a90abae
title: UK businesses want more corporate welfare
uri: UK-businesses-want-more-corporate-welfare
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28UK_businesses_want_more_corporate_welfare%29

content:
<p>
UK businesses want to replace taxes on businesses that emit lots of
CO<sub>2</sub> with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/14/eef-calls-on-downing-street-to-scrap-complex-energy-tax-system">subsidies
for businesses that emit less</a>.
<p>
Supposedly this is for the sake of simplicity.  We're not supposed to
notice that it adds up to an increase in corporate welfare payments.
<p>
Anyone who gets fooled by this must really want to get fooled —
like a plutocratist pollutician.


feed_id: 15d950d49577af950a6706a7e2631aa5
title: Turkey's rabid nationalist ruler
uri: Turkey-s-rabid-nationalist-ruler
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Turkeys_rabid_nationalist_ruler%29

content:
<p>
Across Turkey, 
<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/erdogan-akp-hdp-isis-suruc-gezi/">mobs
have attacked offices of the HD Party, while the army attacks Kurdish
towns</a>.
<p>
The author fears that Erdo&gbreve;an will sabotage the coming election,
perhaps by preventing Kurdish regions from voting, or set the election
aside entirely.
<p>
The US ought to disconnect itself from Erdo&gbreve;an, so that it can
support the Kurds in Syria and Iraq and thus destroy PISSI, and at the
same time support democracy in Turkey.  The success of the HD Party
shows that Kurds and Turks could live together under democracy if only
there were no rabid nationalist ruler to prevent it.


feed_id: 63f2f5a8a72a1c94f7dc4fc767c7ee69
title: ISPs of Portugal to rat on customers
uri: ISPs-of-Portugal-to-rat-on-customers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28ISPs_of_Portugal_to_rat_on_customers%29

content:
<p>
The ISPs of Portugal have made a deal with the copyright industry to
<a href="https://edri.org/portugal-privatised-copyright-law-enforcement-agreement-now-public/">"voluntarily"
rat on their customers</a>.


feed_id: 5fa9db53a04bf00119d513bad3abbfad
title: Burundi independent newspaper
uri: Burundi-independent-newspaper
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Burundi_independent_newspaper%29

content:
<p>
Burundi seems to be 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/burundi-burundian-government-steps-up-11-09-2015,48335.html">creating
excuses to close</a> the main remaining independent newspaper.


feed_id: 537a2da39365c9c2e6b62523a9e6a785
title: UN punishes whistleblowers
uri: UN-punishes-whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28UN_punishes_whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
The UN 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/14/un-united-nations-ostracised-sacked-arrested-whistleblowers">punishes
whistleblowers</a> much as the US does.


feed_id: a6bdd497882a2582d9a1c3cb3482b447
title: Extreme bleaching event in Hawai'i
uri: Extreme-bleaching-event-in-Hawai-i
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Extreme_bleaching_event_in_Hawaii%29

content:
<p>
Hawai'i's coral reefs are facing an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/13/hawaii-coral-bleaching-scientists-predict-worst-ever">extreme
bleaching event</a> due to the unusual heat of the water.  It is 2C to
4C hotter than usual.
<p>
If two bleaching events in successive years is deadly, 50 years from
now nearly every year would be a hot enough to cause a bleaching
event.  But it won't matter by then, because the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#26_April_2015_(Disappear_by_2050)">increased
level of CO<sub>2</sub> in the water will kill all the coral</a>.


feed_id: c5de5fbe7b29124f54fd3fcd3738fe16
title: Pushing to do things faster
uri: Pushing-to-do-things-faster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Pushing_to_do_things_faster%29
content:
<p>
Ralph Nader: pushing to do most things faster 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/12/fast-faster-fastest-why-rush">makes
people do many things worse</a>.
<p>
Nader doesn't notice that massive surveillance is one of the wrongs
done by ordering things on line.
<p>
The only thing I really wish I could do faster is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/doggerel.html#IveBeenAnsweringMyEmail">answer
my email</a>.  But there is no hope of that — it's the thinking
that takes most of the time.


feed_id: ad4781156c470a2302485d226c1d33d7
title: Appeasements
uri: Appeasements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Appeasements%29
content:
<p>
It's a mistake to refer to legislative "compromises" between free
states and slave states, before the US civil war; since the free
states mostly gave slave states what they wanted, in response to
threats to secede, these are properly call 
<a href="http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/160266">"appeasements"</a>.


feed_id: d490d4e67d5922d9af05f9d056d2be57
title: The Internet of Things
uri: 2015-09-16-The-Internet-of-Things
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28The_Internet_of_Things%29
content:
<p>
The Internet of Things doesn't inherently have to be an Internet of
Telemarketers and Snoops.  It could be made of 
<a href="http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2015/09/cory-doctorow-what-if-people-were-sensors-not-things-to-be-sensed/">personal
devices which keep the users' personal data to themselves</a>, while
receiving published data from businesses.
<p>
The only practical way to ensure the devices don't snoop is 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">if
their software is free</a>.
<p>
Many baby monitors (internet-connected cameras, really) have been left
vulnerable to 
<a href="https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2015/09/02/iotsec-disclosure-10-new-vulns-for-several-video-baby-monitors">snooping
by unknown third parties</a>.
<p>
The immediate cause is bad design, but the root cause, in some cases,
is routing the video through the server of a company that shouldn't be
trusted with a view of the inside of your home.


feed_id: f1ff5730b9e50e633beef240cee88768
title: Edward Snowden's path to whistleblowing
uri: Edward-Snowden-s-path-to-whistleblowing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Edward_Snowdens_path_to_whistleblowing%29

content:
<p>
Edward Snowden explains the 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/">experiences and
thought path</a> that led him to blow the whistle on US massive
surveillance of essentially everyone.
<p>
It is interesting that there is proof that another whistleblower
exists within the NSA.  I wonder if someone has heeded the patriotic
exhortation that I put in my emails.
<pre>
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
</pre>


feed_id: 4affe7d30e05b9196d35c965bed468e6
title: Prosecution for corporations' crimes
uri: Prosecution-for-corporations-crimes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Prosecution_for_corporations_crimes%29

content:
<p>
The US Justice Department now says it 
<a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/politics/new-justice-dept-rules-aimed-at-prosecuting-corporate-executives.html?_r=0&referrer=">will
try to prosecute executives responsible for corporations' crimes</a>.
<p>
President Sanders, if supported by Congress, would put real teeth into
this policy.
<p>
If a company stalls for time until its employees can't be prosecuted,
is that obstruction of justice?


feed_id: 69266f2da5f4f7dcc0b1af8c50dba53e
title: Data retention a liability
uri: Data-retention-a-liability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_September_2015_%28Data_retention_a_liability%29
content:
<p>
For companies, data that isn't essential is a 
<a href="https://www.richie.fi/blog/data-is-a-liability.html">liability</a>.
<p>
If that helps convince companies to keep less data about people,
that's a good outcome.  But we should not let our privacy rights be
defined by the interests of companies.  Human rights should take
priority over business interests, and 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">privacy
is a human right</a>.


feed_id: ad83dc44361942c151d1a6ea692d8172
title: FBI's encryption horror stories
uri: FBI-s-encryption-horror-stories
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28FBIs_encryption_horror_stories%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/15/fbi-keeps-telling-purely-theoretical-encryption-horror-stories/">FBI
Keeps Telling Purely Theoretical Encryption Horror Stories</a>.
<p>
Even if there were some real ones, it would amount to a smaller
danger than the danger of a state that watches everyone.


feed_id: 9d25703b45dac7e17c5003d0785a8034
title: The death penalty
uri: 2015-09-17-The-death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28The_death_penalty%29
content:
<p>
It looks like murderer Sneed 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/15/richard-glossip-set-to-die/">claimed
Richard Glossip pressured him to commit the crime</a>, so that Glossip
would be executed instead of Sneed.
<p>
This sort of thing seems not to be unusual.


feed_id: ef9b0c3dbb9305ca5c86d8753b24be67
title: Thugs shoot first, think later
uri: Thugs-shoot-first-think-later
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Thugs_shoot_first_think_later%29

content:
<p>
Once again, thugs shoot first, think later.  This time they saw a man
with a phone and 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/dad-im-shot-man-with-phone-camera-shot-by-police-on-his-own-property/">instantly
assumed it was a gun</a>.
<p>
The victim is Hispanic; whether unconscious racism played a role in
the hasty action is not clear from this article.


feed_id: b82a2b840dd9acd2fdf91b97c0a1eb1f
title: Thai journalist imprisoned without trial
uri: Thai-journalist-imprisoned-without-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Thai_journalist_imprisoned_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
A prominent Thai journalist has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/sep/15/press-freedom-body-demands-release-of-thai-journalist">imprisoned
without trial</a> for an "attitude adjustment".  His attitude towards
the military regime was not slavish enough.


feed_id: fa01d00f538572c8285dcb987421c0cb
title: Massive attack on Turkish media
uri: Massive-attack-on-Turkish-media
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Massive_attack_on_Turkish_media%29

content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's men 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/15/turkish-magazine-nokta-raided-and-copies-seized-for-mock-erdogan-selfie">seized
all copies of a Turkish magazine</a>.
<p>
He is massively attacking Turkish media that dare criticize him.


feed_id: babd316c26f99ee3965e0d40d5e85a3a
title: Employee tracking
uri: 2015-09-17-Employee-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Employee_tracking%29
content:
<p>
A company in California is getting sued for 
<a href="http://www.employmentlawdaily.com/index.php/news/warning-employee-location-tracker-that-works-247-may-invite-litigation/">trying
to track an employee outside work</a>.


feed_id: 6f76abe43d069a9a8e75d75bae94d168
title: Refuge for torturers and war criminals
uri: Refuge-for-torturers-and-war-criminals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Refuge_for_torturers_and_war_criminals%29

content:
<p>
Will the US become the refuge for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/sep/15/lawsuit-war-criminals-living-in-us-yusuf-abdi-ali">all
the world's torturers and war criminals</a>?
<p>
It is already the refuge for American war criminals such as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#17_May_2012_(Dubya_and_Cheney_found_guilty)">Bush
and Cheney</a>.


feed_id: 51f04a1d02679c0cbb01096ca6260500
title: Privatization of government services
uri: Privatization-of-government-services
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Privatization_of_government_services%29

content:
<p>
To replace privatized public housing with expensive condos, a UK
company offered a wheelchair-bound man an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/15/evicting-wheelchair-user-social-housing-luxury-flats-barnet-council-sweets-way">inaccessible
replacement apartment</a>.
<p>
Since he rejects that useless offer, he gets one more option:
homelessness for him and his family.
<p>
This is an instance of how privatization of government services
creates both opportunities and pressure to cheat people.  In practice,
those companies get their profit by underserving the public and/or
paying workers less.
<p>
There may be some public services that don't really need to exist as
public services, but the rest should not be privatized.


feed_id: bd616036992bb94802a13a518773e66f
title: Deadly bombing in Thailand
uri: Deadly-bombing-in-Thailand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Deadly_bombing_in_Thailand%29
content:
<p>
The Thai government says that a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/15/thai-police-say-uighur-trafficking-ring-behind-bangkok-bombing">deadly
bombing</a> was human traffickers' revenge for a crackdown, and was
not motivated by politics.


feed_id: 90e1b20204965ee72505806170748472
title: US chicken processing plants
uri: US-chicken-processing-plants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28US_chicken_processing_plants%29

content:
<p>
Working in a US chicken processing plant is 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/09/peak-inside-industrial-chicken-slaughterhouse">hell
on the workers</a>, because they are forced to work too fast.


feed_id: da5c76f6bd3d3c16f131f58e2e518408
title: Edelman stops global heating denial work
uri: Edelman-stops-global-heating-denial-work
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Edelman_stops_global_heating_denial_work%29

content:
<p>
The PR company Edelman has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/15/edelman-ends-work-with-coal-and-climate-change-deniers">pressured
into ending its work for global heating denialism</a>.
<p>
Thanks to those who signed 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#29_July_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_global_heating_denialism)">the
campaign</a> which helped bring this about.


feed_id: 5333dc0b35153c2d1ab08e26480211a7
title: More reason to fight Uber
uri: More-reason-to-fight-Uber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28More_reason_to_fight_Uber%29
content:
<p>
Uber could be a sign of what 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/15/is-ubers-ultimate-goal-the-privatisation-of-city-governance">privatized
city governance</a> might be like.
<p>
All the more reason to fight it.


feed_id: b3aafa938c929dee87aa342b53827b90
title: US ignored deal to replace Assad 3 years ago
uri: US-ignored-deal-to-replace-Assad-3-years-ago
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28US_ignored_deal_to_replace_Assad_3_years_ago%29

content:
<p>
3 years ago, a Russian ambassador offered a deal by which Assad would
be replaced.  It appears the US distrusted and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/15/west-ignored-russian-offer-in-2012-to-have-syrias-assad-step-aside">ignored
the deal</a>.
<p>
I would not put great faith in Putin, but such deals don't always
depend on faith.


feed_id: db69d7f64bf829ec608cda9fb5e9b81b
title: Urgent: the need for network neutrality
uri: Urgent-the-need-for-network-neutrality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_the_need_for_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>All experts: <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/calling-all-network-engineers-and-computer-scientists-help-defend-net-neutrality">explain to US court</a> the need for network neutrality.


feed_id: 8cf18067b0b004bff0be996ed10f9f5d
title: Urgent: marine national monuments
uri: Urgent-marine-national-monuments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_marine_national_monuments%29

content:
<p>US citizens: Tell President Obama to designate <a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/obama_ne-marine-monuments_2015
">the New England coral canyons and seamounts, and Cashes Ledge,</a> as marine national monuments.


feed_id: ace1563e0d73f946ea601604d582b6f1
title: Urgent: defend Planned Parenthood funding
uri: Urgent-defend-Planned-Parenthood-funding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_defend_Planned_Parenthood_funding%29

content:
<p>US citizens: Congress, defend Planned Parenthood funding; — <a href="http://www.signforgood.com/plannedparenthoodshutdown/?code=PFAW">don't surrender it as a "compromise".</a>


feed_id: eb967f66f55e7cabf7724a95c7a8d97a
title: Urgent: oppose the pro-fossil energy bill
uri: Urgent-oppose-the-pro-fossil-energy-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_the_pro-fossil_energy_bill%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2311">call on the Senate</a> to oppose the pro-fossil energy bill.


feed_id: 95b490077ecac2175d5caff960f6dcac
title: Urgent: Arbys employees
uri: Urgent-Arbys-employees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Arbys_employees%29
content:
<p>Everyone: tell Arbys, <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/arbys/?t=1012">stop helping thugs bully your employees!</a>


feed_id: bd3ccf637721d0861915db280340cfd1
title: Urgent: end garnishing of Social Security
uri: Urgent-end-garnishing-of-Social-Security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_end_garnishing_of_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on Obama to end garnishing Americans' Social
Security benefits <a href="http://www.signherenow.org/dont-garnish-social-security/pfaw/">to repay student loans.</a>


feed_id: 8aa62951003d85a4dbfedbb9a29227cd
title: Urgent: public editor for National Geographic
uri: Urgent-public-editor-for-National-Geographic
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_public_editor_for_National_Geographic%29

content:
<p>Everyone: call on National Geographic Magazine <a href="http://act.climatetruth.org/sign/natgeo/">to appoint a Public Editor.</a>
<p>This might reduce the harm done by letting Faux News take control of it.


feed_id: 5d9ff43dba197114c44b58fedc32a496
title: Urgent: investigate Malaysian whitewash
uri: Urgent-investigate-Malaysian-whitewash
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_investigate_Malaysian_whitewash%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on your congresscritter to investigate whether
Malaysia was whitewashed <a href="http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=69c8629852778ce0c7850f21beb995c8e5487c01c926e30838d6c7ba1bbbafc18e6f27e6c926868b">to grease the skids for the TPP.</a>


feed_id: 02ec597fc1557566bab15a33197404a4
title: Urgent: Alaskan wildlife refuge
uri: Urgent-Alaskan-wildlife-refuge
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Alaskan_wildlife_refuge%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2991
">oppose government plans</a> to build a road through an Alaskan wildlife refuge.
<p>That they plan to spend our money on it is adding insult to injury.


feed_id: efd8f613599c663eba35a7083981662f
title: Iran's law
uri: Iran-s-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Iran%27s_law%29
content:
<p>Iran's law compelling women to hide their bodies is supposedly so men
won't be attracted to them.  But the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2015/sep/15/iran-hijab-backfired-sexual-harassment">"solution"</a> doesn't work.
<p>I think it actually backfires by causing men to obsess over what
they cannot see.


feed_id: 0e97920b9e8d6bd248bedd3740c61445
title: "Female" chatbots
uri: Female-chatbots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Female_chatbots%29
content:
<p>Leaked messages indicate Ashley Madison staff discussed how to <a href="http://gizmodo.com/how-ashley-madison-hid-its-fembot-con-from-users-and-in-1728410265">mislead</a> customers and the State of California about its "female" chatbots.
<p>About 35% of the messages men paid to send to "women" were actually to
chatbots, and real women numbered about 5% of the men.
<p>"Lesbian" chatbots occasionally sent messages to each other,
like making the doctor program talk to itself.


feed_id: 75d4875462c652db160ae1cbe9bc2751
title: Starbucks toilets
uri: Starbucks-toilets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Starbucks_toilets%29
content:
<p>A thug complained after the barista in a Starbucks would not give him
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/14/this-entitled-cop-didnt-deserve-special">special permission to use the toilet</a> unless he bought something.
<p>For once, I am on the side of the thug.  Perhaps the thug complained
because he expected privilege, but use of a toilet should not be a
privilege.  That Starbucks' policy is nasty no matter who it applies
to.  Every establishment with a toilet for customers should offer its use
to anyone who is not causing trouble.


feed_id: 2e4419accf8b19637cd23a52ec3a6f1f
title: US "terrorists"
uri: US-terrorists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28US_terrorists%29
content:
<p>A US <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/12/1420694/-Breitbart-source-arrested-for-terrorism-tried-to-incite-9-11-terrorist-attack?detail=email">right-wing troll</a> gave bomb-making advice to someone he thought
was an Islamist extremist, to bring about a terrorist attack this September 11.
<p>Such an attack would have provided an excuse for additional attacks
on Americans' freedom.  The PAT RIOT Act didn't get them everything they want.
<p>Instead he got arrested.
<p>In general, the US "terrorists" that the FBI arrests are <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_August_2015_(Another_Walter_Mitty_terrorist)">feckless Walter Mittys</a> that the FBI has to cajole into their "threats",  but there is finally one exception.


feed_id: 82dfd26c06b3b0883e110e40088ee118
title: Thug attack in court
uri: Thug-attack-in-court
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Thug_attack_in_court%29
content:
<p>A Denver prosecutor has been ordered to explain to a judge why he didn't
prosecute a thug who gratuitously <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/11/1420513/-Judge-wants-D-A-to-explain-why-he-didn-t-charge-deputy-for-police-brutality?detail=email">attacked and maimed a man in the court.</a>


feed_id: 0d186177be544a28b0b6e0a7805fc717
title: Foreign military bases
uri: Foreign-military-bases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Foreign_military_bases%29
content:
<p>The US has hundreds of foreign military bases, which harm Americans <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-united-states-probably-has-more-foreign-military-bases-than-any-other-people-nation-or-empire-
in-history/">by facilitating wars as well as costing lots of money.</a>


feed_id: 1fb00c35460116ead6679ffe4171828f
title: Wikipedia's "partnership" with Elsevier
uri: Wikipedia-s-partnership-with-Elsevier
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Wikipedia%27s_partnership_with_Elsevier%29

content:
<p>Wikipedia has a started a damaging "partnership" <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/09/wikigate-raises-questions-about-wikipedias-commitment-to-open-access/">with parasitic publisher Elsevier.</a>
<p>For editors to <em>see</em> Elsevier articles is not particularly
harmful, but <em>making links</em> to them would work against
Wikipedia's goal, as well as strengthen the power of a company
that strangles science.
<p>I think Wikipedia should prohibit links to sites with strict paywalls,
and automatically delete them and block insertion of new ones.


feed_id: cbb073bb8276483bccddcd5ea28c1640
title: Avoid deafening whales
uri: Avoid-deafening-whales
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Avoid_deafening_whales%29
content:
<p>The US Navy has been ordered <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/14/whales-dolphins-california-hawaii-us-navy-sonar">to limit loud sonar</a> to avoid deafening whales.


feed_id: b711829d0d7b92af72de73f44ad5506c
title: Tax on financial transactions
uri: Tax-on-financial-transactions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#16_September_2015_%28Tax_on_financial_transactions%29

content:
<p>Brazil's president is dealing with a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/14/brazil-taxes-spending-cuts-recession-economy">budget deficit,</a> and plans to handle half of it with a tax on financial transactions.
<p>At least she is getting things half right, unlike the right-wing governments
that take it all out on the poor.


feed_id: afc898e77be879e371e57e415ea26e63
title: Volunteer
uri: 2015-09-18-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to Look at programs briefly to tell me whether
     they are free software, etc.</p>


feed_id: cd3b39f01b68743fac81ed7a83284fc1
title: Urgent: Water supply appropriation
uri: Urgent-Water-supply-appropriation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Water_supply_appropriation%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on the World Bank to rule that the 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/email-world-bank/">people of El
Salvador can appropriate water supplies to their real needs</a>,
rather than to mining companies.  Human rights must prevail over
business interests.


feed_id: 450c9ef73086c803f003cd5f5f90e786
title: Sea level rise
uri: 2015-09-18-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28Sea_level_rise%29
content:
<p>
Australian aborigines care in oral transmission of history has preserved
accurate reports of the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/16/indigenous-australian-storytelling-records-sea-level-rises-over-millenia">huge
sea level rise that ended 7,000 years ago</a>.
<p>
Sea level rose 120 meters, or almost 400 feet, because of global
heating (the end of the ice age).


feed_id: aa7ef803d732285389c9febb43cc78dd
title: Overfishing of tuna and mackerel
uri: Overfishing-of-tuna-and-mackerel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28Overfishing_of_tuna_and_mackerel%29

content:
<p>
Overfishing of tuna and mackerel have knocked their populations down
by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/15/tuna-and-mackerel-populations-suffer-catastrophic-74-decline-research-shows">3/4
in 40 years</a>.


feed_id: 6546bd683a267b62ac9dec65fa040558
title: Mosquitoes in the Arctic
uri: Mosquitoes-in-the-Arctic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28Mosquitoes_in_the_Arctic%29
content:
<p>
Even 2C of global heating will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/15/arctic-mosquitoes-will-increase-with-climate-change-says-study">increase
the mosquitoes in the Arctic by 50%</a>.


feed_id: 509f2e7ec6dc9bece5e21dc8668fed0a
title: Australia's new right-wing PM
uri: Australia-s-new-right-wing-PM
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28Australias_new_right-wing_PM%29

content:
<p>
Australia's new right-wing prime minister is less wacky than Abbott,
but he 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/progressives-dont-be-fooled-turnbull-will-rule-from-and-for-the-big-end-of-town">still
represents dooH niboR</a>.


feed_id: fd39704974ab04ce770b711e0292866f
title: UK anti-union bill
uri: UK-anti-union-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28UK_anti-union_bill%29
content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/trade-union-bill-civil-rights-working-people-industrial-relations">anti-union
bill</a>, that would make strikes nearly impossible, is a militant
attack on workers.
<p>
But this approach is typical of today's right wing.  The Tories don't
admit they intend make poor people homeless; they do it with a bunch of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#1_September_2011_(UK_homelessness)">cuts
and pressures</a>.  They don't say that they intend to make disabled
people starve if they can't work, rather than find excuses to punish
them by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#31_August_2015_(Disability_benefits)">denying
them disability support</a>.  They claim to support greenhouse gas
emission reduction while launching a series of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#15_July_2015_(UK_greenhouse_gas_reduction_program_killed)">attacks
against programs to achieve this</a>.
<p>
Likewise, the US right wing, since it can't block abortion by
prohibiting abortion, creates 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#23_November_2014_(US_abortion_doctors_on_harassment_and_restrictions)">arbitrary
requirements</a> that are impossible for clinics to meet.


feed_id: 9b6e66d4a84e2b6cd0e05c8760f024e5
title: US and Australian subsidies for coal
uri: US-and-Australian-subsidies-for-coal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28US_and_Australian_subsidies_for_coal%29

content:
<p>
Ending US and Australian subsidies for coal 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/16/us-australian-taxpayers-pay-billions-fund-coal">would
slash carbon emissions</a>.


feed_id: cc24248e15aa4b58b2829d538088d9c3
title: UK sexual "assault" conviction
uri: UK-sexual-assault-conviction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28UK_sexual_assault_conviction%29

content:
<p>
A woman in the UK has been convicted of sexual assault because she had
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/15/woman-convicted-of-impersonating-man-to-dupe-friend-into-having-sex">told
her lover she was male</a>.
<p>
Whatever we think of this pretense, it clearly was not "assault".  If
they want to make gaining sexual consent via misrepresentation a
crime, they should pass another law and call it something else.
<p>
But what kinds of misrepresentation should be criminalized?  Claiming
to be over 16?  Claiming to be under 30?  Claiming to be a virgin?
Claiming lots of experience?  Claiming to be unmarried?  Claiming not
to have other lovers?  Claiming to have been at work the previous
Tuesday night?  Claiming a high income?  Spending like a person with a
high income?  Claiming to have read a certain book?  Pretending to
have read it but without an explicit claim?  Wearing a padded bra or
platform shoes?  Wearing a wig?  Dyeing hair?  Cosmetics?
<p>
If a prostitute lies about what is on offer, that is false
advertising, but not assault.


feed_id: 7f4ac3322420c63f2ebeaf414c2db3de
title: US global influences
uri: US-global-influences
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28US_global_influences%29
content:
<p>
Obama has deftly rebuilt US global influences, 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/barack-obama-is-a-foreign-policy-grandmaster/">mending
relationships with countries that were hardened enemies</a>.
Unfortunately, some of the steps also build the influence of
multinational corporations that the US bows down to.
<p>
Reducing Chinese influence is to a large extent a good thing, when you
consider the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#05_September_2015_(China%27s_corruption_and_pollution)">pervasive
corruption</a> and deepening
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_(Plan_for_more_repression)">political
repression</a> of the Chinese state.  But the US is not immune to
these things; industries including
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_August_2015_(Fossil_fuel_extraction_from_public_lands)">fossil
fuel extraction</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#21_June_2015_(Prescription_drug_costs_in_the_US)">pharma</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_August_2014_(US_deaths_from_lack_of_medical_care)">medical
care</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#19_June_2015_(Control_of_academic_publishing)">publishing</a>,
and plenty of others have corrupted the US government, while
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">massive
surveillance</a> threatens US democracy.  We can't take for granted
that the US will be better than China.


feed_id: 0909c20f8c84a7d06a717caa0033e4c4
title: Iranian troops in Syria
uri: Iranian-troops-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28Iranian_troops_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
Iranian troops are in Syria, 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/are-iran-and-russia-risking-their-own-vietnam-in-syria/">fighting
against militias that support al-Qa'ida</a>.
<p>
As long as they are not fighting the revolutionary Kurds, I won't feel
much outrage.  The sad thing about Syria, since several years ago, the
main military powers are all monsters.


feed_id: 5c7469654474dc8eda11a893e090ab15
title: Traffic fatalities decrease in Colorado
uri: Traffic-fatalities-decrease-in-Colorado
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28Traffic_fatalities_decrease_in_Colorado%29

content:
<p>
Traffic fatalities in Colorado 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/14/1421209/-Since-Colorado-legalized-marijuana-highway-fatalities-are-way-down">have
decreased since it legalized marijuana</a>.


feed_id: 4351a19b77185dd0cde078f1542d7e57
title: Who would Jesus vote for?
uri: Who-would-Jesus-vote-for
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28Who_would_Jesus_vote_for%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/14/1421177/-Transcript-of-Bernie-s-LU-Speech-Mindblowing">Bernie
Sanders' speech</a> to students at a Protestant fundamentalist
university.
<p>
I'd suggest inviting them to think about who Jesus would vote for.  If
a historical Jesus said things like what the gospels report (which is
not at all established), I think he would vote for Sanders.


feed_id: 8e0b248609573ac02a646a36228fb4d7
title: Shackling minors accused of crimes
uri: Shackling-minors-accused-of-crimes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28Shackling_minors_accused_of_crimes%29

content:
<p>
Most US states 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/us-courts-still-shackle-children-minor-crimes">automatically
shackle all minors accused of crimes</a>, regardless of whether there
is any reason to do this.


feed_id: 1af59d14fda83bffe7d3d99dda30f2ba
title: Developing water shortages
uri: Developing-water-shortages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#17_September_2015_%28Developing_water_shortages%29
content:
<p>
The Paris climate conference is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/16/global-drought-why-is-no-one-discussing-fresh-water-at-cop21">not
paying attention to developing water shortages</a>.
<p>
The most important conclusion to draw from today's droughts is the
same one that we draw from all the other consequences of global
heating: we should launch a crash program to cut emissions.
<p>
Alas, this is precisely what many governments have already decided not
to do.
<p>
The second most important conclusion is that we need to limit human
births, if we don't want deaths due to water shortages (and crop
shortages) to limit population.


feed_id: 6cf4d753b46e68bc0ae2e607206a99bb
title: Urgent: republication of orphan works
uri: Urgent-republication-of-orphan-works
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_republication_of_orphan_works%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell the Register of Copyrights you want <a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/09/14/copyright-office-seeks-your-co.html
">a serious plan </a>to allow republication of orphan works.
<p>Since orphan works are not the only ones for which copyright is too
restrictive, I also suggested that the best thing to do is to legalize
noncommercial redistribution of all published works.  I also suggested <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.html">http://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.\
en.html</a> as a way
to distribute any money people must pay as licenses for the scheme.


feed_id: bdfb562cba0299fd38a47fbaa12d3daf
title: Drug tests
uri: 2015-09-18-Drug-tests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Drug_tests%29
content:
<p>Scott Walker wants <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/15/1421480/-Scott-Walker-says-he-wants-to-make-people-go-hungry-for-their-own-good?detail=ema
il">drug tests for people applying for food stamps,</a> as if anyone that smokes pot deserves to starve.
<p>Occasionally smoking pot does not incapacitate a person.  Why should
it even matter, unless you're looking for someone to demonize?


feed_id: ea85970120eccd795dd5f629eb15c755
title: Medical insurance mergers
uri: Medical-insurance-mergers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Medical_insurance_mergers%29
content:
<p>Mergers between US medical insurance companies could paradoxically be
a good thing.  <a href="http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2015/09/14/merge-away/
">If they all merge,</a> the resulting organization could be
nationalized and merged with Medicare.


feed_id: 7e26c772941f074ca8f02a721ee2dead
title: Trump's speaking technique
uri: Trump-s-speaking-technique
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Trump%27s_speaking_technique%29

content:
<p>Donald Trump's speaking technique is a form of a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/15/trump-as-political-pick-up-artist-the-do
">"negging"</a> — meant to pressure the American people into bed with him.


feed_id: 7ac2c7348017eab5c43f92144da3f68d
title: Fast food
uri: Fast-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Fast_food%29
content:
<p>Each day, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/16/one-in-three-us-children-eats-fast-food-on-any-given-day-report-finds">1/3 of US children eat fast food.</a>
<p>I would guess that they include many poor children, whose parents have
trouble paying for fast food but can't provide anything else, because they are working long hours, because they have no cooking
facilities, or because nothing else is available in their "food desert".


feed_id: 76f52983a34de98b7340814359b8d1d4
title: Olympic Games in Korea
uri: Olympic-Games-in-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Olympic_Games_in_Korea%29
content:
<p>The Olympic Games organizers in South Korea <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/16/olympic-organisers-destroy-sacred-south-korean-forest-to-create-ski-run">knocked down</a> a
500-year-protected forest with trees even older.  They say they will
make another one on the same site after the games.
<p>This reminds me of a Roman joke.  When Mummius looted Corinth, he
confided some famous old art works to a ship captain for transport and
said, "Remember, if you damage these, you will have to provide
replacements just like them."


feed_id: 7af9cd3f3fbdc855384abf0b48e628a3
title: Discussion on fighting PISSI
uri: Discussion-on-fighting-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Discussion_on_fighting_PISSI%29

content:
<p>Russia has asked <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/16/russia-proposes-meeting-us-syria-isis">to discuss</a> fighting PISSI with the US.
<p><a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#29_September_2014_(PISSI)">PISSI</a> is the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.


feed_id: 9adc76454626d51d308b4ac754bbd57d
title: Reagen's deal with Iran
uri: Reagen-s-deal-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Reagen%27s_deal_with_Iran%29
content:
<p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/seven-things-reagan-wont-mentioned-tonight-gops-debate/">Some evidence</a> that Reagan made a deal with Iran to keep holding American hostages so that Jimmy Carter would lose the election.


feed_id: c87879ef22c49a0d94a869c44a71296d
title: Glossip's execution postponed
uri: Glossip-s-execution-postponed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Glossip%27s_execution_postponed%29

content:
<p>Richard Glossip's execution has been postponed 2 weeks to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/16/oklahoma-richard-glossip-execution-wednesday-protocol">reconsider whether he is guilty.</a>


feed_id: 6964545a5c479851841c6af5413d9f59
title: American wages
uri: American-wages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28American_wages%29
content:
<p>American Wages <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/16/american-economy-wages-poverty-middle-class-census-bureau
">Remain at 1997 Levels</a> as Recovery Fails to Lift Middle Class.


feed_id: 7e950540c64e86c3818219056919e6ec
title: Air pollution
uri: 2015-09-18-Air-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Air_pollution%29
content:
<p>Air pollution kills more people than <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/16/more-people-die-from-air-pollution-than-malaria-and-hivaids-new-study-shows">malaria and HIV.</a>


feed_id: 82d2ed408b52a4fc7c72c8067f0d7de5
title: Syrians trained by US
uri: Syrians-trained-by-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Syrians_trained_by_US%29
content:
<p>With half a billion dollars, the US has trained <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/16/us-military-syrian-isis-fighters">"four or five"</a> Syrians to fight against PISSI.
<p>The only plan that might succeeds is to help the Kurds strengthen
themselves, but Obama clearly is unwilling to do that, so he chooses
among the useless plans.


feed_id: defb67d7675f0821b4c62eafff2aece9
title: Critic of Moroccan repression
uri: Critic-of-Moroccan-repression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Critic_of_Moroccan_repression%29

content:
<p>Journalist Ali Lmrabet <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/sep/16/moroccan-journalist-writes-again-after-a-10-year-legal-ban">continues to criticize Moroccan repression in Western Sahara,</a> despite being imprisoned, banned from journalism, and exiled.


feed_id: dfd13c3ee8612174f2e120f3798bf094
title: Anti-privacy US officials
uri: Anti-privacy-US-officials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Anti-privacy_US_officials%29
content:
<p>Anti-privacy US officials are praying for a terrorist attack, or
something they can spin as one, to get an opportunity <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/top-intel-lawyer-pushing-anti-encryption-legislation-says-terror-attack-help/">to attack our freedom some more.</a>
<p>About 5 million people die each year in the US.  Each death is
unfortunate, but death will happen to all of us.  If someone kills a
few more, is that a reason to tear up vital freedoms?  We need to
remember that an all-seeing government is the bigger danger.


feed_id: 8620cf9cde6d081b4b7ca40208e9bcd5
title: Fracking of wildlife sites
uri: Fracking-of-wildlife-sites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Fracking_of_wildlife_sites%29
content:
<p>Almost <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/16/new-wave-of-fracking-licences-threatens-hundreds-of-key-english-wildlife-sites">300 scientifically important English wildlife sites</a>  are at risk of being fracked. 
<p>Fracking won't poison the water in all of them, just some fraction.


feed_id: d1a2b99e54b6b8f4c85505a325747a32
title: Social media damages mental health
uri: Social-media-damages-mental-health
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Social_media_damages_mental_health%29

content:
<p>Around 1/5 of teenage girls are so caught up in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/social-media-mental-health-teenagers-government-pshe-lessons">addictive corporate social media</a> that it damages their mental health.
<p>This should not be too surprising.  These apps are proprietary
software, designed by companies to manipulate their users.
It is common to many fields of production that designers make
their products <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_August_2014_(Slot_machines)">as addictive as possible.</a>  The addictiveness of these networks constitutes success in their eyes.


feed_id: c03524f46d9758b39a87cd0738223040
title: Record low for Arctic sea ice area
uri: Record-low-for-Arctic-sea-ice-area
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Record_low_for_Arctic_sea_ice_area%29

content:
<p>The year's minimum Arctic sea ice area is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/16/arctic-sea-ice-shrinks-to-fourth-lowest-extent-on-record">nearly a record.</a>  Only three years (all recent) have reached a lower level.


feed_id: ca4faedea0c9da488c1f65747c17094e
title: Sanders' single-payer medical system
uri: Sanders-single-payer-medical-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Sanders%27_single-payer_medical_system%29

content:
<p>Bernie Sanders' single-payer medical system would cost a little over
half what the US spends today, but the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/15/wall-street-journals-scary-bernie-sanders-price-tag-ignores-health-savings/">Wall Street Journal</a> compares it with zero rather than with our current system.


feed_id: c1efe05649f32651014f6803c66ebe23
title: Criticizing Corbyn
uri: Criticizing-Corbyn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Criticizing_Corbyn%29
content:
<p>Corbyn advocates making the UK a republic, so he kept silent at a
ceremony as "God Save the Queen" was sung.  Plutocrats are spewing
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/sep/16/jeremy-corbyn-and-the-national-anthem-a-press-chorus-of-disapproval
">dishonest venom</a> over this.
<p>They will throw any sort of insults, trying to make him look bad.
Then they will criticize him for being the target of their smears.
<p>Corbyn had to act <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/jeremy-corbyn-national-anthem-authenticity-queen-republican">according to his views,</a> or become another dishonest politician.
<p>I don't have any opinion about that issue.  I am concerned with the policies
of the British government, not about who is the symbolic head of state.


feed_id: f8b5915383ee8cf63565b3f53c0741a3
title: Species-specific pesticides
uri: Species-specific-pesticides
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Species-specific_pesticides%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/540136/the-next-great-gmo-debate/">Small interfering RNA molecules</a> could be used as species-specific pesticides.
<p>This would work on crops that are not genetically modified, by spraying
on the RNA.
<p>Getting them into the cells of the targeted species is a difficulty.
An idea that occurs to me is to build them into a genetically modified
version of a virus that targets that pest species.
<p>The RNA molecule might randomly interfere with other genes in other
species.  However, the virus probably won't get into cells of most
other species.  With two keys that need to fit two locks, the chance
of affecting other wildlife would be much less.
<p>The idea is very interesting, but it is not without danger to the
environment.  It could also conceivably hurt humans — that is
unlikely but needs to be tested.
<p>I don't trust Monsanto to test this carefully, because its interest is
to be careless.


feed_id: 195037f22cf2b76c725642a4f6bf7d88
title: Phone designed to track users
uri: Phone-designed-to-track-users
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Phone_designed_to_track_users%29

content:
<p>The Moto X phone was designed to track users <a href="http://qz.com/89410/google-moto-x-smartphone-will-spy-on-you-247-and-youll-like-it/">more than any phone before.</a>
<p>The article assumes readers value convenience more than freedom, but I hope
that's not true of you.


feed_id: 3fa024c51d8fb9db99deaecc4fcb4fb9
title: Damage to marine life
uri: Damage-to-marine-life
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Damage_to_marine_life%29
content:
<p>Human Activity <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/16/human-activity-pushing-marine-life-brink-collapse">Pushing Marine Life to the Brink of Collapse.</a></p><p></p>


feed_id: 0f0022641f0b851ed1850fa23af3a8a1
title: Children fled Boko Haram
uri: Children-fled-Boko-Haram
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Children_flee%29
content:
<p>1,400,000 children have been sent away from the areas <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/18/un-says-14m-children-have-fled-boko-haram-extremists">where Boko Haram might kidnap them</a></p><p></p>


feed_id: 208bbef589eaf93ab85368868098c43b
title: Crush PISSI
uri: Crush-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Crush_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1441980824/">
Uri Avnery calls for allying with Assad</a> (and the Kurds) to crush
PISSI.


feed_id: b0fa6db9812523f9cd3730599ab9b21e
title: Nixon's election
uri: Nixon-s-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Nixons_election%29
content:
<p>
Nixon arranged to 
<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/yes-nixon-scuttled-the-vietnam-peace-talks-107623">sabotage
Vietnam peace talks in order to get elected president in 1968</a>.
The evidence comes from an official whose secret report is still
secret.
<p>
LBJ privately called it "treason".  Whether it is literally treason, I
don't know, but it is clear Nixon betrayed his country to gain control
of it.  And the following elected Republican president 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_(Reagen%27s_deal_with_Iran)">did
likewise</a>.


feed_id: 567e4c71800ee5c27e711c8848da71b8
title: Nothing to hide, something to fear
uri: Nothing-to-hide-something-to-fear
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Nothing_to_hide%2C_something_to_fear%29

content:
<p>
The arrest of Ahmed Mohamed illustrates one reason why 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/17/ahmed-mohamed-istandwithahmed-counter-terror-andrew-parker">people
with nothing to hide do have something to fear</a>.
<p>
Here are 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/you-may-have-nothing-hide-you-still-have-something-fear">some
more reasons</a>.


feed_id: be4ea6d3a8eb9a0eb493fce279a5c188
title: Heat records
uri: Heat-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Heat_records%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/17/2015-hottest-year-on-record-noaa">Every
month this year has set a heat record</a>, so 2015 will almost surely
be the hottest year ever measured by humans.
<p>
I don't think the record will stand for many years.


feed_id: 7c21dd00ba23c0bce05e0326634ad004
title: TSA baggage locks
uri: TSA-baggage-locks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28TSA_baggage_locks%29
content:
<p>
The Theater of Security Agency does not care that it foolishly 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/17/tsa-doesnt-really-care-luggage-locks-hacked/">showed
how to unlock all the TSA-permitted baggage locks</a>.  The TSA's
comment is that this doesn't endanger airline security, which misses
the point that they've wiped out passenger's baggage security.
<p>
The TSA recognizes there is essentially 
<a href="https://theweek.com/articles/441310/confessions-former-tsa-officer">no
threat against airlines</a>, and the TSA would be
<a href="http://www.infowars.com/internal-tsa-documents-body-scanners-pat-downs-not-for-terrorists/">ineffective
against it if there were one</a>.


feed_id: 674f06cfa428d18486bbfc733f51a117
title: Cameron fossil-all-the-way
uri: Cameron-fossil-all-the-way
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Cameron_fossil-all-the-way%29
content:
<p>
Cameron confirmed that he's fossil-all-the-way by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/17/cameron-gives-top-environment-policy-job-to-oil-man-ahead-of-major-climate-talks">appointing
an oil consultant as his "energy and environment" advisor</a>.
<p>
The consultant will advise on how to convert the environment into
exhaust.


feed_id: 9dcf973ddc1fc1236d56caafbb74b8df
title: Degradation of farmland
uri: Degradation-of-farmland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Degradation_of_farmland%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/sep/15/land-degradation-costs-word-trillions-dollars-year-report-says">cost
of degradation of farmland</a> is 1/6 of the human world's production.
<p>
We can't keep degrading a vital resource at this rate and continue
producing as much as we do.  We need to improve this, but we also need
to stop increasing the human population.


feed_id: 0b2f8bf47e5e165603b3f56b37932f23
title: Evangelical Christian won over by Sanders
uri: Evangelical-Christian-won-over-by-Sanders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Evangelical_Christian_won_over_by_Sanders%29

content:
<p>
Sanders's talk at the fundamentalist university won over one
evangelical Christian who is now his 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/16/1421659/-An-Evangelical-responds-to-Sanders-speech-at-Liberty-U">passionate
supporter</a>.
<p>
If we ignore the question of whether a god exists, and consider only
ethics, Christianity has a good side and a bad side.  Here we see the
good side in pure form.


feed_id: 2fd426f8f96c29f815f4035d64a487b8
title: Bill proposed to protect workers
uri: Bill-proposed-to-protect-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Bill_proposed_to_protect_workers%29

content:
<p>
Democrats have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/16/wage-act-unions-litmus-test-presidential-candidates">proposed
a bill</a> to have the National Labor Relations Board actively protect
workers from wage theft, etc.


feed_id: f78a3bc9d5e3da55c555e4294ef7b431
title: Illegal deforestation in Burma
uri: Illegal-deforestation-in-Burma
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Illegal_deforestation_in_Burma%29

content:
<p>
Demand from China has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/illegal-timber-myanmar-china-forests">accelerated
illegal deforestation</a> in Burma.


feed_id: caa724d1aa05deaaaf5c8ea4f62390a5
title: PAT-RIOT Act
uri: 2015-09-19-PAT-RIOT-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28PAT-RIOT_Act%29
content:
<p>
The first victim of the PAT-RIOT Act explains how the secret snooping order
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/17/fbi-national-security-letters-nick-merrill-surveillance">cut
him off from his family for a decade</a>.
<p>
The last person quoted misused the word "fulsome".  He meant "full".


feed_id: 3760064c7e8407be8bb4d8faef512137
title: Hungarian thugs beat up reporters
uri: Hungarian-thugs-beat-up-reporters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Hungarian_thugs_beat_up_reporters%29

content:
<p>
Hungarian thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/sep/17/three-journalists-beaten-and-detained-by-hungarian-border-police">beat
up two reporters</a> that crossed the border with a bunch of refugees.


feed_id: 7585d36336ee418a1355b8cf687bf3b8
title: Obama's medical care program
uri: Obama-s-medical-care-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Obamas_medical_care_program%29
content:
<p>
US government programs including Obama's medical care program
are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/17/census-data-obamacare-welfare-poverty">helping
millions of people climb out of poverty</a>.
<p>
However, millions of Americans remain in poverty.  These programs
are not sufficient in their present form.


feed_id: 2b798c117a08cee9c80deab847f94744
title: Uruguay pulls out of Trade in Services Agreement
uri: Uruguay-pulls-out-of-Trade-in-Services-Agreement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Uruguay_pulls_out_of_Trade_in_Services_Agreement%29

content:
<p>
Uruguay has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/17/uruguay-shows-way-leaving-secret-trade-deal">pulled
out of the Trade in Services Agreement</a>, one of the corporate
supremacy treaties now being negotiated.
<p>
Hooray for Uruguay, but now we have to make our own countries pull out
of it too.


feed_id: b53c523da51241f5f83282782de1ebfc
title: Peacekeepers
uri: Peacekeepers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Peacekeepers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/un-united-nations-peacekeepers-rwanda-bosnia">What's
the Point of Peacekeepers When They Don't Keep the Peace</a>?


feed_id: de9e46442a4048f080a7eb026bf07f63
title: Global heating denial
uri: 2015-09-19-Global-heating-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
The students and faculty of Flinders University are still fighting to
prevent a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/flinders-university-staff-and-students-keep-fighting-bjrn-lomborg-centre">government-funded
global heating denial center</a> from being established there.


feed_id: a042440f9c8870099127ab88f084b4a3
title: Mozambique's minefields demined
uri: Mozambique-s-minefields-demined
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Mozambiques_minefields_demined%29

content:
<p>
Mozambique's many minefields have been demined, after 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/last-known-landmine-mozambique-destroyed">30
years of work</a>.
<p>
Demining is a hard and dangerous job, but as long as the mines remain,
they tend to kill people from time to time.  Especially children.
<p>
A few scattered mines may remain because no one knows about them.


feed_id: f2a5be656d1384b91f482885011f2e88
title: Case against Ahmed Mohamed dropped
uri: Case-against-Ahmed-Mohamed-dropped
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Case_against_Ahmed_Mohamed_dropped%29

content:
<p>
Ahmed Mohamed 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150916/11363232274/police-drop-case-against-kid-who-made-clock-while-mayor-worries-about-impact-police.shtml">will
not face criminal charges for making a clock</a>.
<p>
Note how the idiots tried to blame Ahmed for their own stupid mistake.
That's exactly what Massachusetts thugs did to Star Simpson.
Fortunately this time they had to drop it.


feed_id: 46785b924c497013bb73d8d0ab55f220
title: Arrested for homemade clock
uri: Arrested-for-homemade-clock
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Arrested_for_homemade_clock%29
content:
<p>
Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/16/sudanse-american-boy-handcuffed-homemade-clock-school">making
a clock and bringing it to school in Texas</a>.
<p>
The teachers and the thugs had no reason to think it was anything but
the clock it really was.  They arrested him because, he being a
Muslim, they decided to regard him as a probable terrorist.
<p>
This idiocy is not limited to Texas.  A similar thing happened to Star
Simpson in Boston, who was punished for an 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-may-aug.html#11%20June%202008%20(Victim%20forced%20to%20apologize)">absurd
"crime"</a>.


feed_id: 100083525becaa2f6dfd6e31a7e8788b
title: Food waste
uri: Food-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Food_waste%29
content:
<p>
The US Department of Agriculture will strive to 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/09/first-time-us-announces-food-waste-goals">cut
food waste in half</a>.


feed_id: b3fc19cb358e5d1896e254df7558bfc3
title: Clinton's emails
uri: Clinton-s-emails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_September_2015_%28Clintons_emails%29
content:
<p>
Did Clinton's private emails 
<a href="http://www.ezilidanto.com/zili/2015/09/whats-missing-about-haiti-in-the-hillary-emails/">conceal
something about Haiti</a>?


feed_id: c793afee73918e5f26163a46f09e80a8
title: Medical insurance mergers
uri: 2015-09-19-Medical-insurance-mergers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Medical_insurance_mergers%29
content:
<p>Mergers between US medical insurance companies could paradoxically be
a good thing.  
<a href="http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2015/09/14/merge-away/">If 
they all merge</a>, the resulting organization could be
nationalized and merged with Medicare.


feed_id: 397bee3be1d1a911129a6503444647ae
title: Trump's speaking technique
uri: 2015-09-19-Trump-s-speaking-technique
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Trump%27s_speaking_technique%29

content:
<p>Donald Trump's speaking technique is a form of 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/15/trump-as-political-pick-up-artist-the-do">"negging"</a> 
— meant to pressure the American people into bed with him.


feed_id: d40452465df8bd630bc2bf4bbaeb3e20
title: Fast food
uri: 2015-09-19-Fast-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Fast_food%29
content:
<p>Each day, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/16/one-in-three-us-children-eats-fast-food-on-any-given-day-report-finds">1/3 
of US children eat fast food</a>.
<p>I would guess that they include many poor children, whose parents
have trouble paying for fast food but can't provide anything else,
because they are working long hours, because they have no cooking
facilities, or because nothing else is available in their "food
desert".


feed_id: b60a17e6d4a82f09604f1fd5a62e6ac3
title: Urgent: End Arctic oil leases
uri: Urgent-End-Arctic-oil-leases
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_Arctic_oil_leases%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.oceana.org/sign/arctic_shellrisk">call on
Obama</a> to let Arctic oil leases expire and not issue new ones.


feed_id: e4f7083b53212119e416b2cf236d73bf
title: Urgent: End slavery
uri: Urgent-End-slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_slavery%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.walkfree.org/end-slavery-us-supply-chains/">support</a>
the Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act
of 2015.
<p>
With Javascript disabled, the page does not acknowledge that you
have signed, but it does work.


feed_id: 2803394ad868a13962ae1e12089cd0ed
title: Trump trying to exploit groundless fears
uri: Trump-trying-to-exploit-groundless-fears
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Trump_trying_to_exploit_groundless_fears%29

content:
<p>
Donald Trump is trying to exploit 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/17/donald-trump-vaccines-autism-debate">groundless
fears about vaccines</a>.  This will do harm even if he loses.
<p>
He is also giving support to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/18/trump-fails-to-correct-questioner-who-calls-obama-muslim-and-not-even-american">lies
about Obama's birth and religion</a>.


feed_id: 6157416e4b92ec6e56823f6051bb7ad7
title: Congress in prudish tizzy
uri: Congress-in-prudish-tizzy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Congress_in_prudish_tizzy%29
content:
<p>
Congress is in a tizzy because US air marshals 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/17/congressman-air-marshals-posed-pornographers-arrange-sex-romp/">made
porn videos with prostitutes using government-issued phones</a>.
<p>
As far as I can see, they didn't cheat the taxpayers, or do wrong
to anyone.  It should not be a scandal.  It would be wrong to punish
anyone for shocking some prudes.
<p>
The article mentions a disability claim that is being investigated.
That is a different issue.


feed_id: c1282fab10e5ea14cb9e370d342fc2a8
title: Urgent: Kick out fossil fuel interests
uri: Urgent-Kick-out-fossil-fuel-interests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Kick_out_fossil_fuel_interests%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for kicking fossil fuel interests out of the 
<a href="http://pollutersoutpeoplein.com/?code=greenpeace2">Paris
climate negotiations</a>.


feed_id: 6451422b3c393cf24b87d375e49d431e
title: Urgent: Oppose H.R. 1737
uri: Urgent-Oppose-H-R-1737
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_H.R._1737%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/leader/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=665">ask
your congresscritter</a> to oppose H.R. 1737, which would top the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from blocking racist practices in
car loans.


feed_id: e541d2516899ac66dd5d3270a5e8dbb7
title: Egyptian tour bombed
uri: Egyptian-tour-bombed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Egyptian_tour_bombed%29
content:
<p>
Mexican tourists say their Egyptian tour was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/mexican-tourists-describe-repeated-egyptian-airstrikes-desert-convoy">bombed
five times across three hours</a>.  Apparently the ground forces that
identified them as tourists was not in communication with the air
force.
<p>
Mistakes like this tend to happen in war.  A poorly trained force
makes more of them, but there is no way to avoid them.  Basically,
tourists and war zones shouldn't mix.


feed_id: 7c8a5014484555ec008fc6d86c9f3559
title: Hungarian thugs beat up journalists
uri: Hungarian-thugs-beat-up-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Hungarian_thugs_beat_up_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Hungarian thugs beat up 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/sep/18/hungarian-border-police-beat-us-say-seven-journalists">seven
journalists covering the movement of refugees</a>.


feed_id: 83dfb6ced788c61f478503fe4a7155f9
title: Facebook surveillance data
uri: Facebook-surveillance-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Facebook_surveillance_data%29
content:
<p>
Facebook will start making real use of 
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/541351/facebooks-like-buttons-will-soon-track-your-web-browsing-to-target-ads/">surveillance
data gained via Like buttons</a>, even about people who are not useds
of Facebook.
<p>
The EFF campaign proposes a partial solution.  In this case, a full solution
is available: use a browser such as 
<a href="https://gnu.org/software/icecats">IceCat</a> which blocks
Like buttons and the other similar third-party tracking schemes.


feed_id: 66336ca85f9cf6736d5016ab1bb72f8e
title: China demands digital back doors
uri: China-demands-digital-back-doors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28China_demands_digital_back_doors%29

content:
<p>
China is demanding foreign companies 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/technology/china-tries-to-extract-pledge-of-compliance-from-us-tech-firms.html">build
back doors into digital products</a>.  That injustice in China offers
a lesson to Americans about why it would be an injustice in the US.
<p>
The article uses the vague confused term "intellectual property",
which can mean so many unrelated things that in this context
it has no clear meaning at all.


feed_id: 994230ee6dfe3f00be0c81e7ee067e33
title: US wages not increasing
uri: US-wages-not-increasing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28US_wages_not_increasing%29
content:
<p>
US wages are
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/depressing-highlights-census-bureaus-new-poverty-data">still
not increasing</a>, belying claims of a "recovery".


feed_id: fdbf70a89a40f23cd8ad9e1b520fc446
title: Cost of mass incarceration
uri: Cost-of-mass-incarceration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Cost_of_mass_incarceration%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/are-americans-finally-facing-up-to-the-true-costs-of-mass-incarceration/">cost
to society</a> of mass incarceration is much larger than the cost of
running prisons.
<p>
Over half of former prisoners remain unemployed five years later.
They'd need a conscience of iron to resist crime when it's the only
opportunity they will ever get.


feed_id: c026d562f4de1fa87f0499a7b2be3ea4
title: LebLibraries Tor node back on
uri: LebLibraries-Tor-node-back-on
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28LebLibraries_Tor_node_back_on%29

content:
<p>
The library of Lebanon, New Hampshire, will resume running its Tor
node, 
<a href="http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/nation/world/18626620-95/library-to-keep-backing-anonymous-network">standing
up to the US government campaign to eliminate privacy</a>.


feed_id: 9744ce4a81ed2b69e7a9825762fd2133
title: More suffering imposed on Honduras
uri: More-suffering-imposed-on-Honduras
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28More_suffering_imposed_on_Honduras%29

content:
<p>
The IMF has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/09/16/honduras-imf-agreement-includes-austerity-measures-may-make-conditions-worse-new">imposed
more suffering on Honduras</a>.  The likely result is for thousands of
Hondurans to sneak into the US.
<p>
Instead of militarizing the US border, the US could tell the IMF
to lay off Honduras.


feed_id: efeffcb0ddabce023eb8dae0999b66c6
title: Bill to ban private prisons
uri: Bill-to-ban-private-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Bill_to_ban_private_prisons%29
content:
<p>
Sanders and other senators have proposed a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/09/16/sanders-ellison-rush-introduce-bill-ban-private-prisons">bill
to ban private prisons</a>.


feed_id: 4a4c37607b4e8a0fe12f755bca4ad0f2
title: Ta-Nehisi Coates
uri: Ta-Nehisi-Coates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Ta-Nehisi_Coates%29
content:
<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/20/ta-nehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me-extract">
to his son</a>
: 'In America, it is traditional to
destroy the black body'.
</p>


feed_id: 3cb429d4ab55ce4ca3acbb89877d21f4
title: Burkina Faso
uri: Burkina-Faso
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Burkina_Faso%29
content:
<p>Protests in Burkina Faso 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/19/burkina-faso-coup-to-be-reversed-violent-protests">
convinced</a>
 the military coup leaders to step down.
</p>


feed_id: cdac900ce55ae190ee46efb2e63b6cd6
title: NHS
uri: 2015-09-21-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28NHS%29
content:
<p>The UK's previous health minister says the NHS 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/19/nhs-collapse-former-health-minister-norman-lamb">
is about to collapse</a>
,
due to the Tories' disguised attempts to destroy it.
</p>


feed_id: f1ca33cc4749b30161da5508d83c304c
title: Seas
uri: Seas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Seas%29
content:
<p>Our Seas 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/20/fish-are-dying-but-human-life-is-threatened-too">
Are Being Degraded</a>
, Fish Are Dying.
If we keep this up, it will hurt us too.
</p>


feed_id: b887e5d9fce7970e8a35c54bd9f971ed
title: Ahmed Mohamed
uri: Ahmed-Mohamed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Ahmed_Mohamed%29
content:
<p>The school officials and the thugs 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/17/1422329/--They-didn-t-think-he-had-a-bomb?detail=email">
never really thought</a>
 Ahmed Mohamed
had a bomb.  They wanted to pretend they thought he had a bomb.
</p>
<p>Treating US schools as preparation for prison 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32848-schools-as-fearmongering-factories-the-case-of-ahmed-m">
reflects</a>
 the attitude
that children are a threat, not our future.
</p>


feed_id: b68931e163bb85f0e0fba361cdf5dbc9
title: Thug departments
uri: Thug-departments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Thug_departments%29
content:
<p>Missouri 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/17/1422235/-Missouri-R-s-Use-Override-Session-to-Allow-Companies-to-Act-as-Private-Police-Forces?detail=email">
has authorized</a>
 companies to run thug departments.  Their
staff would have the same legal powers to arrest people and take their
property, and I suppose the same extralegal powers to beat and kill
people and get away with it.
</p>


feed_id: 74b66c557713220294a96c2d6a7ef03b
title: Disabled and Jobless
uri: Disabled-and-Jobless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Disabled_and_Jobless%29
content:
<p>The Disabled and Jobless 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/20/disabled-benefits-iain-duncan-smith">
Need Help</a>
, Not Harassment.
</p>


feed_id: cf4b84033daa7a6deb5805d50a3c09b2
title: New Orleans debtors prison
uri: New-Orleans-debtors-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28New_Orleans_debtors_prison%29
content:
<p>
New Orleans has been sued for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/18/new-orleans-running-modern-debtors-prison-lawsuit-charges">systematically
jailing the poor to make them pay fine after fine</a>.


feed_id: 44d55e278072b0103757a44fea25ae35
title: Security cameras promote distrust
uri: Security-cameras-promote-distrust
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Security_cameras_promote_distrust%29

content:
<p>
Security cameras to watch your children 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/18/security-cameras-wont-make-our-children-safe">won't
make them safe</a>, they just promote and exploit distrust for
everyone.


feed_id: 2b02ed58b4ea8b3251fbbb90548d0503
title: Pope to canonize Junipero Serra
uri: Pope-to-canonize-Junipero-Serra
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Pope_to_canonize_Junipero_Serra%29

content:
<p>
The pope is about to canonize Junipero Serra, who 
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/why-is-the-radical-pope-about-to-canonize-a-priest-who-helped-enslave-and-murder-native-americans/">established
Spanish missions in California that operated on a system of slave
labor</a>.
<p>
Serra generally has a very positive image; the missions he
established have been made into big tourist attractions.


feed_id: 30cfd481af298d041fdff481c78258e1
title: Student punished for official's mistake
uri: Student-punished-for-official-s-mistake
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Student_punished_for_officials_mistake%29

content:
<p>
A school in Virginia 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/16/virginia-school-suspends-an-11-year-old-for-one-year-over-a-leaf-that-wasnt-marijuana/">kicked
out a student for a year</a> because he brought a leaf to school from
a Japanese maple tree.  A school official thought it was marijuana.
<p>
The crucial point here is not that the official made a mistake, but
that once he knew it was a mistake, he still insisted on punishing the
child.  This attitude towards mistakes characterizes the most cruel
and self-righteous officialdoms.  We see it when people are convicted
of crimes and then proved innocent: the legal system resists
exonerating them.  And now, under the guise of "zero tolerance", we
see it in schools.
<p>
Even if it <em>had</em> been fairly harmless marijuana — or even
some dangerous poison — that would be no reason to punish the
child for it in such a harsh way.  A reprimand ought to be enough.


feed_id: fe69c19682255dd0812d84909bb8b466
title: Elimination of privatized prisons
uri: Elimination-of-privatized-prisons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Elimination_of_privatized_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Sanders' 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/bernie-sanders-private-prisons-video-visitation">bill
to eliminate privatized prisons</a> would also forbid gouging on
prisoners' phone calls.


feed_id: b449fe2ef655a38de24188adf087b318
title: Walker wants partisan Government Accountability Board
uri: Walker-wants-partisan-Government-Accountability-Board
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Walker_wants_partisan_Government_Accountability_Board%29

content:
<p>
Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans want to make the Government
Accountability Board partisan, 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/09/12931/Scott-Walker-Raze-Government-Accountability-Board">so
that they can stop it from investigating any crimes they may
commit</a>.


feed_id: ba64dfdbe432768f2d6539ade28ad32f
title: Cell phone tracking
uri: Cell-phone-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Cell_phone_tracking%29
content:
<p>
Government Argues: 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/18/government-argues-mobile-phone-provider-knows-shouldnt/">If
Your Mobile Phone Provider Knows Where You Are, Why Shouldn't We?</a>
<p>
My conclusion is, the cell phone company should not be allowed to
record where you have been, absent a court order to keep track.


feed_id: 5599e695da193158f4915d77eda6e233
title: Arrests in Indonesia for setting forest fires
uri: Arrests-in-Indonesia-for-setting-forest-fires
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Arrests_in_Indonesia_for_setting_forest_fires%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/18/indonesia-arrests-seven-company-executives-for-illegal-forest-fires">arrested
executives</a>, including one from Asian Pulp and Paper, for setting
forest fires.


feed_id: 0c7cea842b6e801e1d52015524152f59
title: Greek puppet government
uri: Greek-puppet-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Greek_puppet_government%29
content:
<p>
The new Greek "government" will have no autonomy; its actions will be
directed in great detail by the banksters.  It will be a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/18/eurozone-greek-prime-minister-maarten-verway-greece-bailout">puppet
government of occupation</a>.
<p>
Anyone that wants to run to be the puppet does not deserve a vote.
But not every party has agreed to this.  The part of Syriza that voted
against the capitulation has not agreed.
<p>
Patriotic Greeks resisted German occupation in the 1940s; maybe there
are ways to resist the banksters' occupation with underground
activity.
<p>
Greece needs to increase its domestic production of food so that it
can survive a siege after cutting ties with the EU.  Perhaps Greeks
can organize underground ways to interfere with food imports, so as to
increase the market for local farmers.  Is it possible to steal
durable food and stockpile it?


feed_id: e04cca8d584e57c6539d4d6baf1a8d4d
title: Audit of mortgage assignments in Seattle
uri: Audit-of-mortgage-assignments-in-Seattle
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Audit_of_mortgage_assignments_in_Seattle%29

content:
<p>
An audit of a sample of mortgage assignments in Seattle found that
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/18/leaked-seattle-audit-concludes-many-mortgage-documents-void/">all
of them were done illegally</a>, thus void.  If that sample is
representative, nearly all foreclosures there are invalid, and that
has perhaps been the case for years.


feed_id: 0acd93bed65228999e51aa66f8168d22
title: Rhinoceros species on verge of extinction
uri: Rhinoceros-species-on-verge-of-extinction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Rhinoceros_species_on_verge_of_extinction%29

content:
<p>
Several rhinoceros species are on the verge of extinction.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/africa-wild/2015/sep/18/how-not-to-save-the-rhino">What
can be done to save them?</a>
<p>
I think that synthetic rhino horn could work if it is much cheaper
than natural rhino horn — and similar enough to fool purchasers.
Anyone who claimed to sell "natural rhino horn" would probably cheat.
<p>
In the long term, even if we eliminate the threat of poaching, not
much wildlife will remain if humans convert all wild areas into farms
and cities.  We must curb human population growth to enable most wild
species to survive.


feed_id: a1318dc67133271122e3480535047358
title: Repression against protesters
uri: Repression-against-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Repression_against_protesters%29

content:
<p>
US thugs 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/17/decriminalize-dissent">pick
on protesters</a> as well as blacks; the repression against Occupy
Wall Street protesters has not ended.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/17/dont-just-fire-officer-james-frascatore-arrest-him">Don't
Just Fire Officer James Frascatore — Arrest Him</a>.
<p>
The head of the New York thugs' union says that Amy Goodman is
unamerican for saying that.  He also 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/16/1421839/-NYPD-Police-Union-says-anyone-who-questions-the-arrest-of-James-Blake-is-un-American">claims
that we don't understand the dangers that thugs face</a>.
<p>
However, everyone who is black, or tries to exercise the right to
protest, is fully aware of the danger from thugs.


feed_id: 40c5b117c37e8912e3d70d356604529a
title: Deaths caused by defect covered up by GM
uri: Deaths-caused-by-defect-covered-up-by-GM
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Deaths_caused_by_defect_covered_up_by_GM%29

content:
<p>
GM sold cars with a defect that killed 124 people in accidents.  GM
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/17/justice-department-lets-giant-corporation-evade-prosecution-deaths-over-100-people">knew
about the defect and covered it up</a> rather than fixing it.  The US
settled the dispute for a fine that GM can easily afford, and did not
prosecute anyone.


feed_id: 5921240e7389aac9edd26e66ecd5713a
title: ACLU suing Honolulu
uri: ACLU-suing-Honolulu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28ACLU_suing_Honolulu%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU is suing Honolulu for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/17/they-throw-away-our-lives-honolulu-sued-over-homeless-crackdown">systematically
throwing away homeless people's belongings</a>.
<p>
No one wants to be homeless.  They are being stepped on by life.
A city should prioritize kindness to the homeless.


feed_id: 859cc378f411d63a7e7efff18aa46d70
title: Mandatory overprotection of kids
uri: Mandatory-overprotection-of-kids
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Mandatory_overprotection_of_kids%29

content:
<p>
A court in British Columbia says it is 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/17/8-year-olds-cant-be-left-alone-in-britis">illegal
to leave a child under 10 alone for any period of time</a>.
Overprotectiveness is now mandatory.
<p>
When I was 8, the occasional hours alone after I returned from school
(on foot in Manhattan) were times I could study or play in peace.


feed_id: 2f169685ff3dc1d44feecbf97f656aaa
title: "Zero tolerance"
uri: 2015-09-21-Zero-tolerance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Zero_tolerance%29
content:
<p>
When Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for his clock, prejudice may have
played a role, but 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/16/liberals-making-istandwithahmed-about-ra">"zero
tolerance" played a role too</a>.
<p>
If someone brings a real bomb into a school, that is a real threat and
calls for a real response.  But there was never any serious reason to
believe Ahmed's clock was a bomb, and the thugs must have seen quickly
that it lacked the crucial ingredient of any bomb: explosive.
So why arrest him then?  "Zero tolerance", the idea that being
mistaken for a threat makes you guilty.


feed_id: dc4655435f5fdfff038f800e6ba10073
title: Twitter gives priority to tracking trolls
uri: Twitter-gives-priority-to-tracking-trolls
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Twitter_gives_priority_to_tracking_trolls%29

content:
<p>
Twitter has 
<a href="http://saftgurka.com/2015/09/15/tor-and-twitter/">rejected
anonymous communication</a>, saying that it gives priority to tracking
trolls rather than protecting dissidents.
<p>
For instance, Twitter 
<a href="https://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/locked-out-of-twitter-for-using-tor/">blocked
Magnus Hedemark's account because he used it through Tor</a>.
<p>
The article suggests that this includes blocking access to his old
tweets.
<p>
This is one reason why you should <em>never</em> cite a tweet by means
of a link to twitter.com.  Proper practice is to copy it directly into
your article, like any other quotation.
<p>
An additional reason for this is so that Twitter does not get
information about who reads these quotes and the article where you
cite them.
<p>
Twitter 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/twitter-users-keep-getting-locked-out-of-their-accounts-for-using-tor">says
it blocks the accounts because their postings look like spam</a>.  But
if you're willing to consider blocking an account, surely you could
first try some less abrupt response that would teach the user about
the perceived problem.


feed_id: 137d38cc3d8389ff7f464486871e47e4
title: UK to make life impossible for migrants
uri: UK-to-make-life-impossible-for-migrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28UK_to_make_life_impossible_for_migrants%29

content:
<p>
To make life impossible for unauthorized migrants, the UK 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/17/illegal-migrants-in-uk-face-jail-if-caught-driving-a-car">plans
to make it impossible for them to rent housing or drive a car</a>.


feed_id: ebb8054c03a35d3921c819d32753c4b9
title: Th new Australian PM
uri: Th-new-Australian-PM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Th_new_Australian_PM%29
content:
<p>
The new Australian prime minister, who 5 years ago called for moving
to renewable energy sources, has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2015/sep/18/is-new-australian-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-already-a-climate-change-turncoat">changed
sides</a>.


feed_id: 93c9e74752f87c34b939dd2a8186fe7b
title: California thug perversity
uri: California-thug-perversity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28California_thug_perversity%29
content:
<p>
A California thug 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/18/black-teenager-arrested-by-nine-california-police-officers-after-jaywalking">went
wild against a teenager who was walking in a bus lane towards his
bus</a>.
<p>
The thugs will try to excuse this by applying a perversely strict
standard to the teenager's conduct and a perversely loose standard
to their own.


feed_id: ae5d961d5a69a7b615967475e04bb13d
title: Urgent: Wildfire Disaster Funding Act
uri: Urgent-Wildfire-Disaster-Funding-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Wildfire_Disaster_Funding_Act%29

content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/wildfire_funding">support the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act.</a>


feed_id: 712788f4c0d248c497448c978ad1ee81
title: Urgent: drilling in Nova Scotia
uri: Urgent-drilling-in-Nova-Scotia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_drilling_in_Nova_Scotia%29

content:
<p>Everyone: <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/shell-21-day-blowout/">call 
on Canada</a> not to let Shell drill in the Atlantic near
Nova Scotia.
<p>Shell wants to be allowed 21 days to even start to cap the well, if
there is a blowout.


feed_id: c2cc659f9b121bcd67893fb57af0c534
title: Urgent: oppose Cardin's bill
uri: Urgent-oppose-Cardin-s-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_Cardin%27s_bill%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on your senators not to sponsor <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/senators-dont-co-sponsor?source=c.em&r_by=1135580">Cardin's bill</a> which is designed to kill the nuclear deal with Iran.


feed_id: 9c012f9c6354653b9ac20c0a8e190fea
title: Urgent: oppose anti-abortion bill
uri: Urgent-oppose-anti-abortion-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_anti-abortion_bill_%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on your senators to <a href="https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu-action/issues/alert/?alertid=67878691">oppose 
the anti-abortion bill HR 36.</a>


feed_id: fd21e3b2b6c476431d6f84703502f86f
title: Syriza's not-quite-majority
uri: Syriza-s-not-quite-majority
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Syriza%27s_not-quite-majority%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/20/greek-election-syriza-victory-sends-streets-of-athens-into-euphoria">Syriza 
won the Greek election,</a> with about the same not-quite-majority as before.
<p>Greeks may have decided not to blame Syriza for surrendering to the
banksters' economic war.  I think, however, that Greece will suffer more
from this capitulation, over a longer period.


feed_id: 89f1ce4371b95aed2ab4095fff352c55
title: FBI's fingerprint database
uri: FBI-s-fingerprint-database
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28FBI%27s_fingerprint_database%29

content:
<p>The FBI plans to keep fingerprints from everyone that gets a
background check, and put them in a 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/little-fanfare-fbi-ramps-biometrics-programs-yet-again-part-1">searchable 
database</a> along with criminals' fingerprints.
<p>The FBI also wants to build up a searchable face recognition data base
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/little-fanfare-fbi-ramps-biometrics-programs-yet-again-part-2">from 
photos taken on the street</a>.
<p>This looks like the first step in a plan to track all Americans.
<p>We must campaign to stop it.


feed_id: 4d411535b1a5ade020411871ca438a21
title: Identification in Australia
uri: Identification-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Identification_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>Australia 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-09-australia-national-weaponshould.html">plans</a> 
to check people's faces against national ID data bases to identify them.
<p>This is dangerous because it is unreliable, but it would be even more
dangerous if it were reliable.  You can hardly trust the Australian
government, with its <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#26_September_2014_(Massive_and_broad_attack_on_Australians'_freedom)">harsh laws</a> against whistleblowers, not to use this
power for evil.  What that government calls "national security"
is just as likely to mean "national repression".


feed_id: aa3c9c18d11fc7877e0939501798e876
title: Climate emergency
uri: Climate-emergency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Climate_emergency%29
content:
<p>James Hansen says that we face a 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32817-climate-expert-james-hansen-we-ve-got-an-emergency">"climate 
emergency"</a> because positive feedback loops can cause global
heating to speed up.


feed_id: fa40d26c62fb4fed80769508c49f7618
title: Deletion of historic data
uri: Deletion-of-historic-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Deletion_of_historic_data%29
content:
<p>The Canadian government has stealthily and systematically 
<a href="http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all-losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/">destroyed, 
corrupted or stopped collecting data</a> necessary to manage Canada's
economy or protect Canada's environment.
<p>Deletion of historic data sabotages future historical research.


feed_id: 389ba6cd4a79d588455a93b048aa6659
title: FBI's arbitrary demand for data
uri: FBI-s-arbitrary-demand-for-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28FBI%27s_arbitrary_demand_for_data%29

content:
<p>Nicholas Merrill won a case to cancel of the 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/14/federal-court-fully-lifts-fbi-gag-order-first-time-14-years/">gag 
order</a> which said he could not talk about the FBI's arbitrary
demand for data from his business.  But it's not final — the
government will appeal this decision.


feed_id: aadc1f9b83b3c7a5a5f85d098f6c55b5
title: Extreme poverty in the US
uri: Extreme-poverty-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Extreme_poverty_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>Around two million Americans live in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/13/what-its-live-2-day-united-states">extreme 
poverty,</a> with an income of 2 dollars a day or less.
<p>They are essentially compelled to commit crimes to survive, though
they may not like that.
<p>Welfare benefits are no longer available to people in that
situation.  When President Clinton proposed his "welfare reform", it
was clear that it would lead to this.  That is why I did not vote for
Clinton in 1996.


feed_id: 0b474a44de0fd15df66547fefd167135
title: Attempted self-fulfilling prophesy
uri: Attempted-self-fulfilling-prophesy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Attempted_self-fulfilling_prophesy%29

content:
<p>As right-wing Democrats see Sanders advance, their 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/20/bernie-sanders-moment-truth-democrats">last
argument</a> is the attempted self-fulfilling prophesy, "Sanders can't
win".
<p>They also claim that the US has "moved to the right", but really it is
only the government and the media that have moved to the right.  Most
Americans <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#2_June_2015_(Bernie_Sanders)">continue to support</a> the policies Sanders champions.


feed_id: 01e9de897a75a82ebae6931fe30a5d79
title: Ta-Nehisi Coates
uri: 2015-09-21-Ta-Nehisi-Coates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Ta-Nehisi_Coates%29
content:
<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/20/ta-nehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me-extract">to 
his son</a> : 'In America, it is traditional to destroy the black
body'.
</p>


feed_id: 5e6b520aa5f7ddc5de788380c3017307
title: Burkina Faso
uri: 2015-09-21-Burkina-Faso
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Burkina_Faso%29
content:
<p>Protests in Burkina Faso 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/19/burkina-faso-coup-to-be-reversed-violent-protests">convinced</a>
the military coup leaders to step down.
</p>


feed_id: fc8c0df1c7f9fede22b17c51eb73b539
title: NHS
uri: 2015-09-21-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28NHS%29
content:
<p>The UK's previous health minister says the NHS 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/19/nhs-collapse-former-health-minister-norman-lamb">is 
about to collapse</a>, due to the Tories' disguised attempts to destroy it.
</p>


feed_id: b096c4a27977a61040452db3d998c48c
title: Seas
uri: 2015-09-21-Seas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Seas%29
content:
<p>Our Seas 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/20/fish-are-dying-but-human-life-is-threatened-too">Are 
Being Degraded</a>, Fish Are Dying.
If we keep this up, it will hurt us too.
</p>


feed_id: f58296d33580c3320d05702486f0787a
title: Ahmed Mohamed
uri: 2015-09-21-Ahmed-Mohamed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Ahmed_Mohamed%29
content:
<p>The school officials and the thugs 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/17/1422329/--They-didn-t-think-he-had-a-bomb">never 
really thought</a> Ahmed Mohamed had a bomb.  They wanted to pretend
they thought he had a bomb.
</p>
<p>Treating US schools as preparation for prison 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32848-schools-as-fearmongering-factories-the-case-of-ahmed-m">reflects</a>
the attitude that children are a threat, not our future.
</p>


feed_id: d01f656baea65efecd302ef9b8086a5d
title: Thug departments
uri: 2015-09-21-Thug-departments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Thug_departments%29
content:
<p>Missouri 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/17/1422235/-Missouri-R-s-Use-Override-Session-to-Allow-Companies-to-Act-as-Private-Police-Forces">has 
authorized</a>
companies to run thug departments.  Their staff would have the same
legal powers to arrest people and take their property, and I suppose
the same extralegal powers to beat and kill people and get away with
it.
</p>


feed_id: 947ad2bd989aa13825f2b3e7a2315cd6
title: Disabled and Jobless
uri: 2015-09-21-Disabled-and-Jobless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28Disabled_and_Jobless%29
content:
<p>The Disabled and Jobless 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/20/disabled-benefits-iain-duncan-smith">Need 
Help</a>, Not Harassment.
</p>


feed_id: cf7de6f780869ba5597ae8f8238ee6f7
title: FBI's fingerprint database
uri: 2015-09-22-FBI-s-fingerprint-database
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#21_September_2015_%28FBI%27s_fingerprint_database%29

content:
<p>The FBI plans to keep fingerprints from everyone that gets a
background check, and put them in a 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/little-fanfare-fbi-ramps-biometrics-programs-yet-again-part-1">searchable 
database</a> along with criminals' fingerprints.
<p>The FBI also wants to build up a searchable face recognition data base
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/little-fanfare-fbi-ramps-biometrics-programs-yet-again-part-2">from 
photos taken on the street</a>.
<p>This looks like the first step in a plan to track all Americans.
We must campaign to stop it.


feed_id: 31f5680e855e8fde7a7816cbe8dd23d2
title: Urgent: republication of orphan works
uri: 2015-09-22-Urgent-republication-of-orphan-works
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#18_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_republication_of_orphan_works%29

content:
<p>US citizens: tell the Register of Copyrights you want <a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/09/14/copyright-office-seeks-your-co.html
">a serious plan </a>to allow republication of orphan works.
<p>Since orphan works are not the only ones for which copyright is too
restrictive, I also suggested that the best thing to do is to legalize
noncommercial redistribution of all published works.  I also suggested <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.html">http://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.html</a> as a way
to distribute any money people must pay as licenses for the scheme.


feed_id: a035f7fad5c991886dcb83f3c7b10e12
title: Urgent: EACH Woman Act
uri: Urgent-EACH-Woman-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_EACH_Woman_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.signforgood.com/eachwoman/">support the EACH Woman
Act</a>, to provide abortion coverage to all US women.


feed_id: 535e8078908f0f442cbe370c1db62cbc
title: "Fit to work" in the UK
uri: Fit-to-work-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Fit_to_work_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Michael O'Sullivan committed suicide after the UK government (or its
private hatchet-company) 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/21/fit-for-work-assessment-was-trigger-for-suicide-coroner-says">ruled
he was "fit to work"</a>.  He apparently could not bear to face the
rat-race of futile job applications and punishments that the UK calls
"support to return to work".
<p>
No system can perfectly avoid mistakes.  The UK's austerity government
applies great pressure to rule people "fit to work", even 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_(UK_cruelty_to_the_weak)">applying
quotas</a>, which makes this kind of mistake very likely.


feed_id: aaae9e04b66f6b670069a824076f4e27
title: Pope Francis
uri: 2015-09-22-Pope-Francis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Pope_Francis%29
content:
<p>
Americans may be disappointed if they hope Pope Francis will make
substantial changes in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/21/philadelphia-archbishop-pope-francis-not-liberal-america-visit">religious
doctrines</a>.


feed_id: 247b1c3865c0bb4cdb08443c44e99ff6
title: Tsipras set up to fail
uri: Tsipras-set-up-to-fail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Tsipras_set_up_to_fail%29
content:
<p>
Yanis Varoufakis:
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/21/alexis-tsipras-greece-greek-leader-troika-yanis-varoufakis'>The
lenders are the real winners in Greece</a> — Alexis Tsipras has
been set up to fail."


feed_id: e970e9902a88f02d596c76503a22ca82
title: Fossil fuel subsidies
uri: 2015-09-22-Fossil-fuel-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_subsidies%29
content:
<p>
Fossil fuel subsidies amount to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/21/oecd-nations-200bn-subsidisies-fossil-fuels-climate-change">$200
billion a year</a>.


feed_id: 27285dcd61e861d4bc2db896a8b320bb
title: No-fly list
uri: 2015-09-22-No-fly-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28No-fly_list%29
content:
<p>
Fear of the no-fly list is a powerful factor for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/21/two-aging-pacifists-federal-no-fly-list">intimidating
people in the US</a>.


feed_id: 877a076ea68db6ea141c9f3dbb31ebf5
title: BP: Boost Petroleum
uri: BP-Boost-Petroleum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28BP%3A_Boost_Petroleum%29
content:
<p>
In Europe, BP is the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/21/bp-tops-the-list-of-firms-obstructing-climate-action-in-europe">worst
of all the saboteurs</a> opposing policies to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions.
<p>
BP could stand for "Boost Petroleum".


feed_id: 9339946c4356987221e85937166e3e54
title: Imprisoned writers of China
uri: Imprisoned-writers-of-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Imprisoned_writers_of_China%29
content:
<p>
Now that western "leaders" are more interested in China's business
than China's freedom, it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/21/neil-gaiman-authors-chinese-president-jailed-writers">falls
to writers</a> to call on Xi Jinping to free the imprisoned writers of
China.


feed_id: eea7101280b7bf730b4bd406a4175264
title: Indonesia offers to cut emissions
uri: Indonesia-offers-to-cut-emissions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Indonesia_offers_to_cut_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Indonesia offers to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/21/indonesia-promises-to-cut-carbon-emissions-by-29-by-2030">cut
emissions by 40% by 2030</a> if it is given financial aid.
<p>
That is starting to reach the level of cut that might really make a
difference.  The wealthier countries must fulfill their responsibility
and must tax global business to do it.


feed_id: c8b92594a2895b1177c3b6f06dac06f7
title: Money buys US elections
uri: Money-buys-US-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Money_buys_US_elections%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/21/yahoo-finance-drops-mars-explain-money-doesnt-buy-politics/">Correcting</a>
a naive attempt to claim that money doesn't buy US elections.


feed_id: 15f88747ef36ad3da1b9b85391f85dbe
title: Increase in drug prices
uri: Increase-in-drug-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Increase_in_drug_prices%29
content:
<p>
Pharma companies are making some old, proven drugs 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">so
expensive that the prices will kill people</a>.
<p>
These drugs are no longer patented, but the makers control the
distribution of the drug so that would-be competitors can't get
samples.  We should make such anticompetitive behavior a felony.
(I wonder if it already is.)


feed_id: ccc8816989c3d01c11ab4d21a8eb9953
title: Freedom of speech in British universities
uri: Freedom-of-speech-in-British-universities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Freedom_of_speech_in_British_universities%29

content:
<p>
Freedom of speech in British universities is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/20/free-speech-universities-extremism-boycotts">under
attack from the right-wing government and from leftist students</a>.
<p>
The National Union of Students' "no platform" policy started out as a
campaign to refuse to legitimize talks by fascists and racists, and
officially that's 
<a href="media/3c5623d8.No-Platform-2.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.staffsunion.com/pageassets/union/council/resources/No-Platform-2.pdf">still
how it operates</a>.  However, nowadays its real activity is to
<a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/sarah-ditum/2014/03/when-did-no-platform-become-about-attacking-individuals-deemed-disagreeable">prevent
or shut down talks</a> by adherents of a range of views that certain
leftist groups disagree with.
<p>
When a speaker proposes to do great harm to people it is
understandable that they protest the speaker forcefully.  Once in a
while, the community's opposition 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/19/bernie-bashes-billionaires-big-apple-challenges-dem-establishment-nh">may
interfere with a speech</a>, but they did not stop the guest from
speaking.  A systematic effort to prevent someone from giving speeches
is going too far.


feed_id: 2d801334c1dc0cca8834c6b0c78a5d4d
title: Defectors from PISSI
uri: Defectors-from-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Defectors_from_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Suggestion:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/21/protect-isis-defectors-western-governments-urged">protect
and aid defectors</a> from PISSI.


feed_id: a3bb1f0d487b041881a87ddb9dffcf67
title: Threats to freedom of speech in the UK
uri: Threats-to-freedom-of-speech-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_%28Threats_to_freedom_of_speech_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
Freedom of speech is threatened in the UK by the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/21/freedom-of-speech-online-witch-hunts-law--bbc">state
and by private intimidation</a>.
<p>
Sometimes private intimidation takes advantage of state laws that
impose censorship.  The UK libel reform campaign (successful except in
Northern Ireland) was needed because UK 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#18_January_2012_(UK)">libel
law lent itself to censorship</a>.
<p>
Laws against "hate speech" are also wrong in themselves, because they
punish expression of some opinions.  They must be repealed.
<p>
The UK has many other unjust censorship laws, such as the one against
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_(Possession_of_extreme_pornography)">"extreme 
pornography"</a> for which no justification other than prudery has
been offered, and the one against
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-may-aug.html#05%20August%202008%20(University%20supports%20police%20atrocity)">possessing
documents considered suspicious</a>.  They must all go.


feed_id: 14bac73757786bcf0a2e6ba334e2c3c0
title: Facebook surveillance data
uri: 2015-09-22-Facebook-surveillance-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#20_September_2015_%28Facebook_surveillance_data%29
content:
<p>
Facebook will start making real use of 
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/541351/facebooks-like-buttons-will-soon-track-your-web-browsing-to-target-ads/">surveillance
data gained via Like buttons</a>, even about people who are not useds
of Facebook.
<p>
The EFF campaign proposes a partial solution.  In this case, a full solution
is available: use a browser such as 
<a href="https://gnu.org/software/icecat">IceCat</a> which blocks
Like buttons and the other similar third-party tracking schemes.


feed_id: f60e79674d6139e9830d093cb6b803d8
title: Urgent: Deny funding to two Democrats
uri: Urgent-Deny-funding-to-two-Democrats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Deny_funding_to_two_Democrats%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
to deny funding to
<a href="http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/PPFA_Democrats/">the two
Democrats that voted to defund Planned Parenthood</a>.


feed_id: 9dd6fc245d1c1c8adeb47cd130658507
title: Urgent: Tax hedge funds properly
uri: Urgent-Tax-hedge-funds-properly
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Tax_hedge_funds_properly%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the US government to
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/close-carried-interest">tax
hedge funds properly</a> so as to provide support for Syrian refugees
in countries near Syria.


feed_id: a5838451c4c2e223afa524e2e6537452
title: Urgent: Country-of-origin meat labeling
uri: Urgent-Country-of-origin-meat-labeling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Country-of-origin_meat_labeling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate to
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/meat_labeling">preserve the
requirement</a> for country-of-origin meat labeling.


feed_id: 17d9f99c9d0dec41980d710ef7c2745e
title: CO2 and methane from melting permafrost
uri: CO2-and-methane-from-melting-permafrost
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28CO2_and_methane_from_melting_permafrost%29

content:
<p>
A model suggests melting Arctic permafrost will release
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/21/melting-permafrost-could-cost-world-economy-43-trillion-2100-study">hundreds
of billions of tons</a> of CO<sub>2</sub> and methane during this
century.


feed_id: a6a867bc611a35b7a9c7ab4e4625ae83
title: Falsified US intelligence reports
uri: Falsified-US-intelligence-reports
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Falsified_US_intelligence_reports%29

content:
<p>
US intelligence analysts say they were specifically
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/21/bullying-fueled-overly-optimistic-isis-intel-analysts-charge">"bullied"
to distort their reports</a> to exaggerate success against PISSI.
<p>
In addition to outright falsification, the US government is repeating
the Vietnam-War distraction of citing enemy body counts as if they
counted for something.  PISSI can easily recruit replacements;
attrition simply is not effective against PISSI.


feed_id: 6ec097a2b3b8c9b44b728db2acde0ae7
title: Sheriff's office lies to excuse murder
uri: Sheriff-s-office-lies-to-excuse-murder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Sheriffs_office_lies_to_excuse_murder%29

content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/18/1422588/-Texas-police-caught-in-an-enormous-lie-about-their-murder-of-an-unarmed-mother-Yvette-Smith">entire
Bastrop County sheriff's office</a> colluded in lying to excuse the
murder of Yvette Smith.


feed_id: fdd7b1300b4de56ecd2e7ba7cac9fc20
title: Thugs quick to pull out guns
uri: Thugs-quick-to-pull-out-guns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Thugs_quick_to_pull_out_guns%29

content:
<p>
Witnesses in Boston
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/19/1423011/-Bystanders-Scream-Officer-Drop-the-Gun-at-Boston-Cop-and-he-does">convinced
a couple of thugs to put away their guns</a> when they were dealing
with a small crazed unarmed woman who was resisting arrest.
<p>
Both of the thugs were too quick to go for their guns.  Apparently
that is a habit; I think that is the culture of thugs nowadays, and
maybe reflects how they are trained.  If your first response to any
shadow or shade of a threat is to grab your gun, one day you're going
to shoot someone for no good reason.


feed_id: cae9eb9b5faefbfdf4ce220324dcfa47
title: Poorly-paid teachers in US universities
uri: Poorly-paid-teachers-in-US-universities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Poorly-paid_teachers_in_US_universities%29

content:
<p>
Most teachers in US universities are
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/why-is-college-so-expensive-if-professors-are-paid-so-little/">poorly-paid
part-timers</a>.  Some are trying to unionize.
<p>
The growing expense of college in the US is going to the
administrators whose numbers keep increasing.
<p>
It would be interesting to ask colleges to list the ratio of total pay
and benefits for teachers to total pay and benefits for non-teachers.


feed_id: 6b99f2f7f83b795a53bc4ed2020fbd49
title: Civil war in Egypt
uri: Civil-war-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Civil_war_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/22/egypt-successful-war-on-terror-human-cost-north-sinai">fighting
between Egypt and Islamist rebels in the Sinai</a> has become an overt
civil war.  Civilians are accused by each side of supporting the other
side.
<p>
Because Egypt has
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#19_August_2015_(Egyptian_journalists)">criminalized
independent reporting of news about the fighting</a>, the state's
reports of success do not tell us who is really winning this war.
<p>
Human Rights Watch says,
"Destroying homes, neighbourhoods and
livelihoods is a
<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/22/egypt-human-rights-northern-sinai'>textbook
example of how to lose a counterinsurgency campaign</a>."


feed_id: aa6fd1ca5a3737212de6fd6171cb3e5c
title: Volkswagen emission test cheat
uri: Volkswagen-emission-test-cheat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Volkswagen_emission_test_cheat%29

content:
<p>
Volkswagen has admitted
<a href="https://www.petri.com/volkswagen-used-software-to-cheat-on-emissions">programming
its car engine computers to detect the EPA's emission tests</a>, and
run dirty the rest of the time.
<p>
It wasn't just a little.  Cars exceeded emissions standards by up to
35 times, in real driving.


feed_id: 9e5b36ccd99b1edebfdb22f3cee053ed
title: High Brazilian officials sentenced
uri: High-Brazilian-officials-sentenced
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28High_Brazilian_officials_sentenced%29

content:
<p>
High Brazilian officials were
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/21/ex-treasurer-workers-party-sentenced-prison-petrobras-corruption-scandal">sentenced
to long prison terms for corruption</a>.


feed_id: 971ac3d2aaf347f3b82015b3734fd6b5
title: Forced marriage
uri: Forced-marriage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Forced_marriage%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/22/criminalising-forced-marriage-protect-girls">The 
UK is trying very hard</a> to protect girls (typically of Pakistani
descent) from being forced into marriage by families.


feed_id: f21bed621cc1c892d28f19e9a28c67c8
title: Save your life for $50,000
uri: Save-your-life-for-50-000
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Save_your_life_for_%2450%2C000%29

content:
<p>The gouger who increased the cost of the drug 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/22/hillary-clinton-promise-treatment-prices-hits-drug-companies-shares-daraprim">Daraprim</a> 
50 times says, in effect, "If something is going to save your life, it
should cost you $50,000."
<p>Most Americans can't raise $50,000 to save their lives.  Others can
do it once, but then they will be broke and perhaps homeless.
<p>People are impressed with what Clinton said, but Sanders advocates
the larger reform that would take care of this problem and many more.


feed_id: ccd061f64f7c7bbe958727f2ab2e5f2f
title: Mulanje cedars of Malawi
uri: Mulanje-cedars-of-Malawi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Mulanje_cedars_of_Malawi%29
content:
<p>The Mulanje cedars of Malawi 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/22/saving-malawis-national-tree-mulanje-cedar">are 
nearly wiped out.</a> Humans cut them down at a high rate, and they
grow back very very slowly.


feed_id: 87b13ce5e3e52d8b83f65be6d4250ab9
title: Walker is out of the race
uri: Walker-is-out-of-the-race
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Walker_is_out_of_the_race%29
content:
<p>Scott Walker is out of the Republican race, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/22/scott-walkers-withdrawal-from-white-house-race-shows-money-isnt-everything">despite 
lots of money from a few rich people.</a>
<p>Rich people's money for a certain candidate doesn't guarantee
victory, but if it is hard to win without rich people's money, all the
major candidates will tend to be plutocratists.  No matter which
plutocratist wins, we lose.
<p>Thus, I support Sanders.


feed_id: 186a2ef06bfa07a68311aff74edb0302
title: Seabird populations
uri: Seabird-populations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Seabird_populations%29
content:
<p>Seabird populations 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/sep/22/after-60-million-years-of-extreme-living-seabirds-are-crashing">have 
fallen 70% in the past 60 years,</a> due to various human activities
that tend to kill them.
<p>Side effects of global heating could wipe out many species of
seabirds.


feed_id: 199bf5763d587a1e09e2b79825dc8e73
title: Rejection of abortion stigma
uri: Rejection-of-abortion-stigma
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Rejection_of_abortion_stigma%29

content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/22/shoutyourabortion-women-fight-stigma-surrounding-abortions">Women 
are speaking up about their abortions,</a> to reject the stigma that
right-wingers want to put on it.
<p>The 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150922">idiotic
things</a> anti-abortionists say to women who talk about having
abortions, and people who advocate abortion rights.


feed_id: 30d7d4f78bad7331e491d3677e4bf5d6
title: El niño
uri: El-niño
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28El_nino%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/21/el-nino-weather-save-california-destroy-tropics">El 
niño</a> might end California's drought, and cause natural
disasters in other countries in the Pacific.


feed_id: 82755e9ea306608d22caf54c6ebceed8
title: Save Sumatran rhinos
uri: Save-Sumatran-rhinos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Save_Sumatran_rhinos%29
content:
<p>Sumatran rhinos 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/22/sumatran-rhinos-likely-to-become-extinct-warn-environment-experts">will 
go extinct</a> if we don't save them soon.


feed_id: 2f3ebaa01c1e7e87b40a1d77ca785fb3
title: Religious freedom and public service
uri: Religious-freedom-and-public-service
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Religious_freedom_and_public_service%29

content:
<p>Human rights organizations 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/21/new-report-draws-line-between-religious-rights-and-equality">address</a> 
how far a person's religious freedom should apply when carrying out
functions to serve the public.


feed_id: 1e47b30988dddd7adc4c9ffb82ab6228
title: Mistreatment of Younous Chekkouri
uri: Mistreatment-of-Younous-Chekkouri
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Mistreatment_of_Younous_Chekkouri%29

content:
<p>When the US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/09/21/guantanamo-prisoner-tells-release-trauma-first-meeting-lawyer">released</a> 
Younous Chekkouri from imprisonment in Guantanamo, the soldiers
blindfolded and chained him for 10 hours of transport.
<p>That is a strange way to treat someone after concluding there was
no reason to imprison him in the first place.
<p>Now Mr Chekkouri is imprisoned in Morocco.


feed_id: 943d4b5e19b19ba9dd946e615665e9ef
title: Illegally denying asylum
uri: Illegally-denying-asylum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Illegally_denying_asylum%29
content:
<p>US border thugs 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/21/other-refugee-crisis-central-america-usy">regularly 
turn back refugees from Central America,</a> illegally denying them a
chance to ask for asylum.
<p>When they come from Honduras, the US is partly responsible for the
conditions that drove them to flee.


feed_id: dbda004ba6b4f140f57f51d928d85c3d
title: Global system for trading permits
uri: Global-system-for-trading-permits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Global_system_for_trading_permits%29

content:
<p>
Some oil companies ask for a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/22/oil-un-summit-climate-week-paris-carbon-pricing">"global 
price on carbon"</a>, but if this means a global system for trading 
permits, we see from the failure of the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#26_January_2013_(EUs_carbon_emission_trading_system_failing)">European 
example</a> that that approach is too easy to game.


feed_id: 3144ee2e2f9ec829a4101470523a589c
title: DOJ shirking its duties
uri: DOJ-shirking-its-duties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28DOJ_shirking_its_duties%29
content:
<p>
The US "Department of Justice" is shirking its duties by 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/22/group-denounces-dojs-inaction-nine-months-torture-report/">not 
prosecuting CIA torturers</a>.


feed_id: cbb5da51ec5c937ce56b2b0b99209aa9
title: Thugs invade housing project
uri: Thugs-invade-housing-project
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Thugs_invade_housing_project%29

content:
<p>
Dozens of thugs invaded a housing project in London to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/23/sweets-way-occupiers-report-violent-clashes-during-mass-eviction-london">evict 
the hundreds of residents</a>, making most of them homeless.
<p>
People are personally responsible for the actions they agree to be
paid to do.  The thugs who did this cannot excuse it by saying that it
was their job.
<p>
Can anyone find out, and publish, the identity of these thugs?  They
should be shunned and despised by all good people, until they
apologize and resign from their jobs.


feed_id: 50cd9ee4269c2ff9fb761aff67c257ea
title: UN human rights panel
uri: UN-human-rights-panel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28UN_human_rights_panel%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/23/u-s-state-department-welcomes-news-close-ally-saudi-arabia-chosen-head-u-n-human-rights-council-panel/">Travesty</a>:
Saudi Arabia as head of a UN human rights panel.  Even worse travesty:
the US "welcomes" that.


feed_id: dd18e098a7a687874a2174dc323a0850
title: On-line advertising
uri: On-line-advertising
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28On-line_advertising%29
content:
<p>
Cory Doctorow suggests a way to protect on-line advertising: a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/23/how-to-save-online-advertising">special
privileged tracking snoop that we would all decide to trust to track
us</a>.
<p>
If I can't visit a site without being tracked, I won't visit it.
If I won't visit it, I don't mind if it disappears.
<p>
My solution is to pay sites anonymously to visit them.


feed_id: 9e8358a79cb2d18fbaa5ecae8db5ae0c
title: Egypt pardons two imprisoned journalists
uri: Egypt-pardons-two-imprisoned-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Egypt_pardons_two_imprisoned_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Egypt has pardoned the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/egypt-pardons-jailed-al-jazeera-journalists">two 
imprisoned al-Jazeera journalists</a>.
<p>
That's only a small step towards reestablishment of a free press.


feed_id: 747850f2dfe978247672be0b8e63d7fa
title: Clinton's hesitation
uri: Clinton-s-hesitation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Clintons_hesitation%29
content:
<p>
Clinton 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/22/hillary-clinton-opposes-keystone-xl-pipeline">now
opposes</a> the Keystone XL pipeline.
<p>
While this is obviously the right position on that issue, her slowness
to adopt it means she hesitates to support proper action against
global heating.
<p>
Other pipelines for shipment of tar sands oil 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/23/keystone-xl-other-pipeline-projects-transcanada">also
need to be blocked</a>.


feed_id: c135e89397a12a93803527ef00929a4a
title: LA homeless
uri: LA-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28LA_homeless%29
content:
<p>
LA plans to spend $100 million on the homeless, but since that's
nowhere near enough to house them, people worry it could just mean
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/22/los-angeles-100m-homelessness-emergency">shoving
them out of the way</a>.


feed_id: be1441172341d6db1a7e2937acc0a782
title: Pope rushes canonizing Junipero Serra
uri: Pope-rushes-canonizing-Junipero-Serra
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Pope_rushes_canonizing_Junipero_Serra%29

content:
<p>
Pope Francis is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/pope-francis-junipero-serra-sainthood-washington-california">rushing
the process of canonizing Junipero Serra</a>, and could just as easily
slow it down for reconsideration.


feed_id: b57a64198e9721c70babd14a033a2b84
title: Pope condemns death penalty
uri: Pope-condemns-death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Pope_condemns_death_penalty%29
content:
<p>
Víctor Hugo Saldaño is surely a murderer, but he was sentenced to
death because of his race.  The pope has taken up the cause of
commuting his sentence, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/argentinian-mother-pope-francis-son-texas-death-row">condemning
the death penalty as unjust</a>.
<p>
I agree.


feed_id: e9e491c2375ed0256cb2edfe1af203c3
title: Apple bans apps that endorse abortion
uri: Apple-bans-apps-that-endorse-abortion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Apple_bans_apps_that_endorse_abortion%29

content:
<p>
Apple 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/apple-anti-choice-tendencies-showing-in-app-store-reproductive-rights">systematically
bans apps</a> that endorse abortion rights or would help women find
abortions.
<p>
This particular political slant 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/siri-abortion-apple-unintenional-omissions">affects
other Apple services</a>.


feed_id: bcfefa4cdae6ef919e10f30862f0d203
title: Copyright on "Happy Birthday to you"
uri: Copyright-on-Happy-Birthday-to-you
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Copyright_on_Happy_Birthday_to_you%29

content:
<p>
A US court ruled that Warner/Chappel 
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html">does
not have a copyright</a> on the words of "Happy birthday to you".
<p>
It is conceivable that someone else has one, but it is unlikely that
this could ever be established.


feed_id: 64813f2bf47b4505ec020bb2b6556305
title: China demands backdoors
uri: China-demands-backdoors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28China_demands_backdoors%29
content:
<p>
China
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/22/china-pressures-u-s-companies-buckle-strong-encryption-surveillance/">demands
US companies give it backdoors into computers and software</a>.
<p>
The clear need to resist this demand from China should show why we
need to resist the same demand when it comes from the US.


feed_id: a81031ee42ff7bff1f3b815719c73271
title: US college administrative staff
uri: US-college-administrative-staff
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28US_college_administrative_staff%29

content:
<p>
US colleges and universities
<a href="http://necir.org/2014/02/06/new-analysis-shows-problematic-boom-in-higher-ed-administrators/">keep
increasing the number of administrative staff</a>.  This is part of
why they are now so expensive.
<p>
High salaries for executives and managers also contribute.


feed_id: b1e03f92a3db49f90245fca4eeca96e1
title: Plans to take from UK's working poor
uri: Plans-to-take-from-UK-s-working-poor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Plans_to_take_from_UKs_working_poor%29

content:
<p>
The UK government plans to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/22/uk-tax-and-benefit-changes-worsening-inequality-ifs-warns">take
12 billion pounds in government support</a> from the working poor, and
give them 4 billion pounds of increased wages with a raise in the
minimum wage.
<p>
It adds up for a big heap of dooH niboR.


feed_id: 06edd125f8899d8397599422d7784ea2
title: Russian planes helping Assad's army
uri: Russian-planes-helping-Assad-s-army
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28Russian_planes_helping_Assads_army%29

content:
<p>
New Russian planes are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/22/syria-confirms-receipt-russian-jets-isis">helping
Assad's army fight PISSI</a>.
<p>
I suppose they will be used against the other forces in Syria, such as
al Qa'ida and any remaining non-jihadi Arab rebel groups, and maybe
even Kurds, though I think they are not close to Assad's slice of
Syria.


feed_id: 3dc2336e7b9be842e7e22a89f75d7c56
title: ShoutYourAbortion
uri: ShoutYourAbortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#23_September_2015_%28ShoutYourAbortion%29
content:
<p>
The ShoutYourAbortion campaign puts an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/22/i-set-up-shoutyourabortion-because-i-am-not-sorry-and-i-will-not-whisper">end
to the compulsory expression of regret about abortions</a>.
<p>
When defenders of abortion rights treat abortion as a drastic step,
when they dwell on sadness that a woman needed the drastic step rather
than rejoicing that she wasn't forced to have a baby, they hand the
anti-abortion movement a victory.  It is a mistake to use the slogan
"pro-choice", because that implies reluctance to defend the abortion
itself.


feed_id: d024e690dc3129b81a981cbe4411ca37
title: Urgent: oppose CISA
uri: Urgent-oppose-CISA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_CISA%29
content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://www.youbetrayedus.org/?t=dXNlcmlkPTUyMzA2MTg4LGVtYWlsaWQ9OTk5Mg==
">phone your congresscritter to oppose CISA.</a>
<p>We have to fight hard now, because Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and Symantec
just endorsed the bill.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 3fa553d41714544326dd423b23638aee
title: Urgent: negotiations about Syria
uri: Urgent-negotiations-about-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_negotiations_about_Syria%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on your congresscritter to sign <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/back-international-talks?source=c.em&r_by=1135580">Rep Himes's letter</a> calling for negotiations about Syria.


feed_id: 3f78f13128435068ab0e07eb91597074
title: Syrian cartoonist tortured to death
uri: Syrian-cartoonist-tortured-to-death
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Syrian_cartoonist_tortured_to_death%29

content:
<p>Syrian cartoonist <a href="http://en.rsf.org/syria-well-known-syrian-cartoonist-died-22-09-2015,48382.html
">Akram Raslan</a> was apparently tortured to death in Assad's prison.


feed_id: 9f6598718a36fe414a926c5c6fea28c0
title: TTIP and regulation of toxic chemicals
uri: TTIP-and-regulation-of-toxic-chemicals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28TTIP_and_regulation_of_toxic_chemicals%29

content:
<p>The TTIP (This Treaty Is Plutocratic) would <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/22/warning-ttip-aims-defang-local-rules-against-hazardous-chemicals">strip local government</a> of the power to regulate toxic chemicals, including fracking fluids and pesticides.
<p>Responding to criticism of the TTIP, which would offer foreign
companies the opportunity to sue when European laws get in their way,
the European Commission has proposed to change a few details of the
plan, <a href="https://edri.org/enditorial-eu-commission-isds-proposal-threat-to-democracy/
">such as its name.</a>
<p>Offering foreign companies this power would be damaging and wrong.
<p>Offering domestic companies this power would be damaging and wrong.
<p>It's good that the TTIP won't offer domestic companies this power.
<p>Even better, it should not offer this power to foreign companies
either.
<p>Then they might as well cancel the whole thing.


feed_id: 45f7ab7c3c50338e2495463838132f65
title: End population growth
uri: End-population-growth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28End_population_growth%29
content:
<p>Paul Erlich <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/24/popes-climate-stance-is-nonsense-rejects-population-control-says-top-us-scientist">notes</a> that ending global heating won't be enough unless we
also end human population growth.
<p>Humanity has postponed the disaster that Erlich predicted, by lowering
its birth rate, but population continues to grow and the danger is not
gone.  To lift all humans out of poverty, we need to redirect some of
wealthier humans' income to the poor; but this won't work if the poor
humans keep making more poor humans.


feed_id: 911ea0768aed3b3bdb484155991e340d
title: Bribed Judges in Ghana
uri: Bribed-Judges-in-Ghana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Bribed_Judges_in_Ghana%29
content:
<p>A journalist in Ghana made videos of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/24/anas-aremeya-anas-ghana-corruption
">34 judges accepting bribes.</a>


feed_id: 9b4a1fe96585cd087f7339dd8c1f5171
title: Flawed car emissions tests
uri: Flawed-car-emissions-tests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Flawed_car_emissions_tests%29
content:
<p>UK, France and Germany <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-france-and-germany-lobbied-for-flawed-car-emissions-tests-documents-reveal">Lobbied</a> for Flawed Car Emissions Tests.


feed_id: 8bf4cbc2d6429e77f9e14de0e6c98333
title: Clinton's weak plans
uri: Clinton-s-weak-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Clinton%27s_weak_plans%29
content:
<p>Clinton made a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/hillary-clinton-unveils-her-masterplan-to-make-us-clean-energy-superpower">proposal</a> for greenhouse gas reduction, which is not very strong.
<p>Clinton says she wants to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/22/drug-price-gouging-enters-spotlight-candidates-take-big-pharma">limit gross increases in drug prices,</a> but her plan
appears to be weak.  Sanders has a real plan.


feed_id: af707c7d49a3ff0fb2b0dc4ee6f065ee
title: US lost its democracy
uri: US-lost-its-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28US_lost_its_democracy%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/23/jimmy-carter-us-oligarchy-and-corrupting-power-money-politics
">Jimmy Carter acknowledges</a> that the US has lost its democracy.


feed_id: ad619da6a992e7658ac7d4152ad85520
title: "Real ID"
uri: Real-ID
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Real_ID%29
content:
<p>The US government is once again trying to bully US states into cooperating
with "Real ID", which turns drivers' licences into more <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/09/your-air-travel-just-got-way-more-obnoxious">rigid mechanisms of control.</a>
<p>The US will surely back down on this threat if any state refuses to
comply with the demand.  We should make sure states do not.  Indeed,
we should urge other states to <em>stop</em> complying with Real ID.


feed_id: 9be2cb39686afbada533a44303049782
title: Fingerprint records
uri: Fingerprint-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Fingerprint_records%29
content:
<p>Crackers obtained fingerprint records for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/23/us-government-hack-stole-fingerprints">5.6 million Americans</a> when they broke the security of government computers.


feed_id: 76f7cdc1b15f5a9808b9e0478e31f2de
title: Journalist charged with "subversion"
uri: Journalist-charged-with-subversion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Journalist_charged_with_subversion%29

content:
<p><a href="http://cpj.org/2015/09/turkey-jails-reporter-charges-him-with-anti-state-.php
">Another Turkish journalist</a> has been arrested and charged with "subversion".


feed_id: 46d0b28d2c51820966bee677957099d0
title: Supreme Court majority
uri: Supreme-Court-majority
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Supreme_Court_majority%29
content:
<p>Over 10 years, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court
has persistently <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-case-against-the-roberts-court/
">served the powerful at the expense of other Americans.</a>


feed_id: a9c69f86fbdb0c6caba2b368b5dec155
title: Bullet-list presentations
uri: Bullet-list-presentations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Bullet-list_presentations%29
content:
<p>Arguments that bullet-list presentations <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/powerpoint-thought-students-bullet-points-information">undermine careful thought and make it hard to notice errors.</a>


feed_id: cf01993f56f11501c4dbcfbbac607b10
title: Training "moderate" Syrian rebels
uri: Training-moderate-Syrian-rebels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Training_moderate_Syrian_rebels%29

content:
<p>Shortly after the US sent 70 trained Syrian rebels into Syria,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/us-trained-rebel-officer-syria-defected-al-qaida
">one is reported to have defected to al Qa'ida.</a>
<p>The idea of training "moderate" Syrian rebels is just a fig leaf.
What the US needs to do is stop shielding Saudi Arabia, which spews an
extremist form of Islam around the world; but Obama is <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_(US-backed_intervention_in_Yemen)">extending US support for Saudi Arabia.</a>


feed_id: 04a9448bc738c204dbffba07b20ddfd7
title: Ferguson commission
uri: Ferguson-commission
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Ferguson_commission%29
content:
<p>The Ferguson commission <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-ferguson-commission-issued-189-calls-to-action-will-missouri-listen/">did a serious job</a> and recommended almost 200 changes
in laws to eliminate the pervasive injustices observed in Ferguson and many
other places in the US.


feed_id: 0973d10ba294de8477c7ce4d34a889e3
title: The Glossip case is crumbling
uri: The-Glossip-case-is-crumbling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28The_Glossip_case_is_crumbling%29

content:
<p>The Case Against Richard Glossip Is Crumbling,
But <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/09/23/glossip-case-is-crumbling/">He Is Still Scheduled to Die in a Week.</a>


feed_id: c45659b504c36bf0a6fc9e00f1f4954b
title: US nuclear bombs and missiles
uri: US-nuclear-bombs-and-missiles
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28US_nuclear_bombs_and_missiles%29

content:
<p>US construction of nuclear bombs and missiles is hidden in the
"Department of Energy", but <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/meet-the-private-corporations-building-our-nuclear-arsenal/
">it's actually done by companies.</a>
<p>These companies spend millions on lobbying to spend too much money
on nuclear bombs and missiles.


feed_id: 1ba8fbfc4179cbbf7224918cff4f39bb
title: Excuse to shoot 14-year-old
uri: Excuse-to-shoot-14-year-old
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Excuse_to_shoot_14-year-old%29
content:
<p>After New Jersey thugs shot 14-year-old Radazz Hearns, they needed an
excuse, so they claimed he had a gun.  After days of searching they
found a gun, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/21/1423495/-How-and-why-New-Jersey-police-are-attempting-to-frame-an-unarmed-14-year-old-they-shot-7-times?detail=email">150 feet away,</a> and claimed Radazz had thrown it there.
<p>I hope Radazz's injuries do not foreclose his brilliant career in shot
put.


feed_id: e5df3fdf3647f0297f00e1a40b172347
title: Coca Cola's distraction campaigns
uri: Coca-Cola-s-distraction-campaigns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Coca_Cola%27s_distraction_campaigns%29

content:
<p>Coca Cola has been caught funding distraction campaigns so people
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/22/coca-cola-discloses-health-research-funding
">will think about exercize rather than what they eat.</a>


feed_id: fc9e79042c6495f0a78fe573a84c9a2f
title: Advantage of national health service
uri: Advantage-of-national-health-service
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Advantage_of_national_health_service%29

content:
<p>One advantage of a national health service is that it can <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/23/uk-cancer-patients-being-denied-drugs-due-to-inflated-prices-say-experts
">push down the price of medicines.</a>  But this is not working as well as it used to in the UK.


feed_id: f454617943f6a02bd05bf5320944543e
title: "War on cops"
uri: War-on-cops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28War_on_cops%29
content:
<p>After each <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/22/the-eternally-recurring-legend-of-a-war">random blip</a> in killings of US thugs, they claim it is a "war on cops".


feed_id: 19549fad90925522ed32ab66825fb421
title: Sep 2001 "remembrance ceremony"
uri: Sep-2001-remembrance-ceremony
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Sep_2001_remembrance_ceremony%29

content:
<p>James Roux went to a "remembrance ceremony" for the Sep 2001 attacks
because his father was killed in them.  When he found a "program of
military force", <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/22/son-victim-arrested-protesting-military-exploitation-911
">he protested.</a>  Thugs arrested him and framed him
(as usual for thugs), and right-wing media lied about him.


feed_id: 0e5073b22a706ee7d9bfe747c0d696d5
title: Canada should pull out of TPP
uri: Canada-should-pull-out-of-TPP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Canada_should_pull_out_of_TPP%29

content:
<p><p>Canada's prime minister admitted that, in the TPP, he's working for
auto parts companies.  He also implied he would accept a bad deal for Canada
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/09/22/harper-undermines-tpp-negotiations-careless-remarks">in order to serve them.</a>
<p>The criticism of Harper concedes too much to the TPP.  It endorses the
mistaken idea that the TPP is a trade deal, and that Canada ought to
try to negotiate a "good deal".  The TPP is a corporate supremacy
treaty, and its whole purpose is to benefit companies at the expense
of democracy.  Instead of getting distracted with details, Canada
should pull out.


feed_id: da1003782ba0df375f9a79a6bdfb24de
title: Urgent: Action to curb global heating
uri: Urgent-Action-to-curb-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Action_to_curb_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 888-907-6639 and call for
action to curb global heating.  We can build on the momentum created
by pope's speech.
<p>
You can cite the pope if you wish, but I don't think that is crucial.
His support is a big help, but the world's climate scientists are
pertinent authorities.


feed_id: c79eea0e712ed990306e95797d0731f7
title: Urgent: Price of Daraprim
uri: Urgent-Price-of-Daraprim
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Price_of_Daraprim%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the hedge fund manager that increased the price
of Daraprim by 50 times to
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/martin-shkreli/">put the price
back where it was</a>.
<p>
A vague statement that he will lower the price somewhat
should not suffice to take the heat off him.


feed_id: c44fc1343975b6f4dbfdfed2b3730153
title: The Saudi monarchy
uri: The-Saudi-monarchy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28The_Saudi_monarchy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/24/ten-reasons-oppose-saudi-monarchy">Ten
Reasons to Oppose</a> the Saudi Monarchy.


feed_id: cee8f7b1969c1116ce478a67aff16584
title: Billionaires' privatized "charter schools"
uri: Billionaires-privatized-charter-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Billionaires_privatized_charter_schools%29

content:
<p>
A gang of billionaires are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/23/confidential-charter-school-memo-blasted-outline-hostile-takeover">conspiring
to convert half the schools in LA</a> to nonaccountable privatized
"charter schools".


feed_id: aae29f23d2c83b0f9fc642f7371424a4
title: NY thug expected to plead guilty
uri: NY-thug-expected-to-plead-guilty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28NY_thug_expected_to_plead_guilty%29

content:
<p>
A New York thug is expected to plead guilty after
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/22/1423822/-NYPD-officer-claims-he-blacked-out-when-he-walked-up-to-innocent-man-and-shot-him-six-times">walking
up to a car and shooting someone in it, for no rational reason</a>.
But will his punishment be anything more than a paid vacation?


feed_id: 41cc3c9190554b07566a6b804cafc056
title: California thug attack
uri: California-thug-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28California_thug_attack%29
content:
<p>
Emilio Mayfield, who was attacked by a thug on his way to the bus who
then accused him of jaywalking,
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/22/1423731/-Family-confirms-California-teen-who-was-beaten-by-police-was-on-his-way-to-school-didn-t-jaywalk">did
not in fact jaywalk</a>.
<p>
Not that jaywalking would excuse the attack.


feed_id: 94d71e0bc8c25fa7060080dfd5d809f3
title: Copwatch
uri: Copwatch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#25_September_2015_%28Copwatch%29
content:
<p>
Explaining how
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/heres-how-to-cop-watch/">Copwatch
activities</a> work and what they achieve.


feed_id: 9b64fe27eda042eba67bc360a52c8029
title: Urgent: oppose CISA
uri: 2015-09-25-Urgent-oppose-CISA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_CISA%29
content:
<p>US citizens: <a href="https://www.youbetrayedus.org/">phone your 
congresscritter to oppose CISA.</a>
<p>We have to fight hard now, because Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and
Symantec just endorsed the bill.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


feed_id: 41d45396944041a205fd1ceb70455bd3
title: Urgent: negotiations about Syria
uri: 2015-09-25-Urgent-negotiations-about-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Urgent%3A_negotiations_about_Syria%29

content:
<p>US citizens: call on your congresscritter to sign 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/back-international-talks">Rep 
Himes's letter</a> calling for negotiations about Syria.


feed_id: 2049dfce4655c3b6db11f54a4c9bea6f
title: Syrian cartoonist tortured to death
uri: 2015-09-25-Syrian-cartoonist-tortured-to-death
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Syrian_cartoonist_tortured_to_death%29

content:
<p>Syrian cartoonist <a href="http://en.rsf.org/syria-well-known-syrian-cartoonist-died-22-09-2015,48382.html">Akram 
Raslan</a> was apparently tortured to death in Assad's prison.


feed_id: ea8fe85131ad7b023efaffa6febd6569
title: TTIP and regulation of toxic chemicals
uri: 2015-09-25-TTIP-and-regulation-of-toxic-chemicals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28TTIP_and_regulation_of_toxic_chemicals%29

content:
<p>The TTIP (This Treaty Is Plutocratic) would <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/22/warning-ttip-aims-defang-local-rules-against-hazardous-chemicals">strip local government</a> of the power to regulate toxic chemicals, including fracking fluids and pesticides.
<p>Responding to criticism of the TTIP, which would offer foreign
companies the opportunity to sue when European laws get in their way,
the European Commission has proposed to change a few details of the
plan, <a href="https://edri.org/enditorial-eu-commission-isds-proposal-threat-to-democracy/">such as its name.</a>
<p>Offering foreign companies this power would be damaging and wrong.
<p>Offering domestic companies this power would be damaging and wrong.
<p>It's good that the TTIP won't offer domestic companies this power.
<p>Even better, it should not offer this power to foreign companies
either.
<p>Then they might as well cancel the whole thing.


feed_id: 1ff3cc35e45a15336dd1b1b099fb0a38
title: Bribed Judges in Ghana
uri: 2015-09-25-Bribed-Judges-in-Ghana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Bribed_Judges_in_Ghana%29
content:
<p>A journalist in Ghana made videos of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/24/anas-aremeya-anas-ghana-corruption">34 judges accepting bribes.</a>


feed_id: 1c409637953c9a36f23bb349eff36742
title: US lost its democracy
uri: 2015-09-25-US-lost-its-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28US_lost_its_democracy%29
content:
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/23/jimmy-carter-us-oligarchy-and-corrupting-power-money-politics">Jimmy Carter acknowledges</a> that the US has lost its democracy.


feed_id: 6c1e68686fe48301ad111453de3784d7
title: "Real ID"
uri: 2015-09-25-Real-ID
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Real_ID%29
content:
<p>The US government is once again trying to bully US states into cooperating
with "Real ID", which turns drivers' licenses into more <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/09/your-air-travel-just-got-way-more-obnoxious">rigid mechanisms of control.</a>
<p>The US will surely back down on this threat if any state refuses to
comply with the demand.  We should make sure states do not.  Indeed,
we should urge other states to <em>stop</em> complying with Real ID.


feed_id: 7912be8b8cb8270abbe9dab31b7d7112
title: Journalist charged with "subversion"
uri: 2015-09-25-Journalist-charged-with-subversion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Journalist_charged_with_subversion%29

content:
<p><a href="http://cpj.org/2015/09/turkey-jails-reporter-charges-him-with-anti-state-.php">Another Turkish journalist</a> has been arrested and charged with "subversion".


feed_id: acc15aab37115ab8e887d0e9a15217ad
title: Supreme Court majority
uri: 2015-09-25-Supreme-Court-majority
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Supreme_Court_majority%29
content:
<p>Over 10 years, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court
has persistently <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/the-case-against-the-roberts-court/">served the powerful at the expense of other Americans.</a>


feed_id: a5cab6d87778f4c2480bd0e0a4f5ae66
title: Training "moderate" Syrian rebels
uri: 2015-09-25-Training-moderate-Syrian-rebels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Training_moderate_Syrian_rebels%29

content:
<p>Shortly after the US sent 70 trained Syrian rebels into Syria,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/us-trained-rebel-officer-syria-defected-al-qaida">one is reported to have defected to al Qa'ida.</a>
<p>The idea of training "moderate" Syrian rebels is just a fig leaf.
What the US needs to do is stop shielding Saudi Arabia, which spews an
extremist form of Islam around the world; but Obama is <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#07_September_2015_(US-backed_intervention_in_Yemen)">extending US support for Saudi Arabia.</a>


feed_id: e6b8ce66d47275c1d58daebb4271998a
title: US nuclear bombs and missiles
uri: 2015-09-25-US-nuclear-bombs-and-missiles
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28US_nuclear_bombs_and_missiles%29

content:
<p>US construction of nuclear bombs and missiles is hidden in the
"Department of Energy", but <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/meet-the-private-corporations-building-our-nuclear-arsenal/">it's actually done by companies.</a>
<p>These companies spend millions on lobbying to spend too much money
on nuclear bombs and missiles.


feed_id: 45a2cacdd7336ef2191cd18f774cc0c0
title: Excuse to shoot 14-year-old
uri: 2015-09-25-Excuse-to-shoot-14-year-old
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Excuse_to_shoot_14-year-old%29
content:
<p>After New Jersey thugs shot 14-year-old Radazz Hearns, they needed an
excuse, so they claimed he had a gun.  After days of searching they
found a gun, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/21/1423495/-How-and-why-New-Jersey-police-are-attempting-to-frame-an-unarmed-14-year-old-they-shot-7-times">150 feet away,</a> and claimed Radazz had thrown it there.
<p>I hope Radazz's injuries do not foreclose his brilliant career in shot
put.


feed_id: a9dfb39df0d5917f8382844988ea3ea5
title: Coca Cola's distraction campaigns
uri: 2015-09-25-Coca-Cola-s-distraction-campaigns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Coca_Cola%27s_distraction_campaigns%29

content:
<p>Coca Cola has been caught funding distraction campaigns so people
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/22/coca-cola-discloses-health-research-funding">will think about exercise rather than what they eat.</a>


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title: Advantage of national health service
uri: 2015-09-25-Advantage-of-national-health-service
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#24_September_2015_%28Advantage_of_national_health_service%29

content:
<p>One advantage of a national health service is that it can <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/23/uk-cancer-patients-being-denied-drugs-due-to-inflated-prices-say-experts">push down the price of medicines.</a>  But this is not working as well as it used to in the UK.


