# articles

title: Laws needed to help reduce cancer rates
uri: Laws-needed-to-help-reduce-cancer-rates
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_February_2014_(Laws_needed_to_help_reduce_cancer_rates)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_February_2014_%28Laws_needed_to_help_reduce_cancer_rates%29

content:
<p>
With cancer rates increasing world-wide due to tobacco, alcohol and
obesity, cancer treatment is not enough — 
<a href="">laws are needed to
make it easier to avoid those dangers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_February_2014_(Drought_in_southwestern_US)
title: Drought in southwestern US
uri: Drought-in-southwestern-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_February_2014_%28Drought_in_southwestern_US%29
content:
<p>
Superstitious Nevada farmers are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/03/nevada-farmers-prayer-drought-western-us-states">holding
prayer sessions</a> asking for an end to the drought in the
southwestern US.
<p>
They ought to be holding Keystone XL protests instead: that would at
least have a chance to reduce the future droughts that are expected to
be much worse.


title: Opting out from tracking by commercial data brokers
uri: Opting-out-from-tracking-by-commercial-data-brokers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_February_2014_(Opting_out_from_tracking_by_commercial_data_brokers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_February_2014_%28Opting_out_from_tracking_by_commercial_data_brokers%29

content:
<p>
One writer tried to "opt out" from tracking by commercial data brokers
and found that the 
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/privacy-tools-opting-out-from-data-brokers">possibility
of doing so is rather spotty</a>.
<p>
I have opted out from these data brokers by paying cash.


title: NPR's whitewash of toxic sewage sludge
uri: NPR-s-whitewash-of-toxic-sewage-sludge
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 05_February_2014_(NPRs_whitewash_of_toxic_sewage_sludge)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#05_February_2014_%28NPRs_whitewash_of_toxic_sewage_sludge%29

content:
<p>
NPR 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/01/12374/nprs-salt-blog-muddies-issue-sewage-sludge">published
a whitewash</a> of toxic sewage sludge.


title: Israel authorizes additional colonies in Palestinian territory
uri: Israel-authorizes-additional-colonies-in-Palestinian-territory
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Israel_authorizes_additional_colonies_in_Palestinian_territory)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Israel_authorizes_additional_colonies_in_Palestinian_territory%29

content:
<p>
Israel continues making a mockery of peace talks by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/05/israel-approves-558-new-homes-east-jerusalem-settlements-palestinian-west-bank">authorizing
additional construction of colonies</a> in Palestinian territory.


title: European Parliament strengthens energy targets
uri: European-Parliament-strengthens-energy-targets
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(European_Parliament_strengthens_energy_targets)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28European_Parliament_strengthens_energy_targets%29

content:
<p>
The European Parliament 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/05/european-parliament-votes-renewables-targets">strengthened
the weak energy targets that the European Commission had proposed</a>.


title: Congress and Obama making America's children go hungry
uri: Congress-and-Obama-making-America-s-children-go-hungry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Congress_and_Obama_making_Americas_children_go_hungry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Congress_and_Obama_making_Americas_children_go_hungry%29

content:
<p>
Congress and Obama, with the cuts in food stamps, are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/05/farm-bill-cuts-food-stamps-wrong">making
America's children go hungry</a>.
<p>
Republicans aim to force US women to have more children and prevent
them from feeding these children.


title: Water being used up by oil and gas drilling in the US
uri: Water-being-used-up-by-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Water_being_used_up_by_oil_and_gas_drilling_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Water_being_used_up_by_oil_and_gas_drilling_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Oil and gas drilling in the US are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/05/fracking-water-america-drought-oil-gas">using
up lots of water in the driest areas</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Laws_against_homosexuality)
title: Laws against homosexuality
uri: Laws-against-homosexuality
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Laws_against_homosexuality%29
content:
<p>
Although Russia has banned saying "It's not bad to be gay", its law is
does not go as far as some 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/05/russia-anti-gay-law-criticism-playing-into-putin-hands">other
countries' laws against homosexuality.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Land_of_opportunity)
title: Land of "opportunity"
uri: Land-of-opportunity
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Land_of_opportunity%29
content:
<p>
Obama harps on "opportunity" to distract from high US inequality, but
the US poor 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/02/son-also-rises-gregory-clark-inequality-upward-mobility">haven't
got much opportunity either</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(CVS_to_stop_selling_tobacco)
title: CVS to stop selling tobacco
uri: CVS-to-stop-selling-tobacco
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28CVS_to_stop_selling_tobacco%29
content:
<p>
CVS has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/05/cvs-us-drugstore-stop-selling-cigarettes-tobacco">decided
to stop selling tobacco</a>.
<p>
I don't advocate banning tobacco, because prohibiting addictive drugs
does great social harm.  However, it should not be sold in pharmacies
because selling it there gives tobacco a sort of medical endorsement.


title: US temporarily ceases drone attacks in Pakistan
uri: US-temporarily-ceases-drone-attacks-in-Pakistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(US_temporarily_ceases_drone_attacks_in_Pakistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28US_temporarily_ceases_drone_attacks_in_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
The US has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/05/us-limits-pakistan-drone-strikes">temporarily
ceased drone attacks in Pakistan</a> to try to encourage peace talks.


title: UK's floods partly due to extractive agriculture
uri: UK-s-floods-partly-due-to-extractive-agriculture
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(UKs_floods_partly_due_to_extractive_agriculture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28UKs_floods_partly_due_to_extractive_agriculture%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/05/how-to-stop-flooding-soil-water-farming-dredging">Extractive
agriculture</a> is part of the cause of the UK's floods.


title: Russia arresting people who monitor environmental damage from Olympic games
uri: Russia-arresting-people-who-monitor-environmental-damage-from-Olympic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Russia_arresting_people_who_monitor_environmental_damage_from_Olympic_games)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Russia_arresting_people_who_monitor_environmental_damage_from_Olympic_games%29

content:
<p>
Russia is arresting people who monitor environmental damage from the
Olympic games, using 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/feb/05/activist-jailed-environment-sochi-olympics">bizarre
and meaningless pretexts</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(Turkey's_new_internet_law)
title: Turkey's new internet law
uri: Turkey-s-new-internet-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28Turkey%27s_new_internet_law%29
content:
<p>
Turkey's new internet
law <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/06/turkey-internet-law-censorship-democracy-threat-opposition">allows
the state to block a web site by administrative decree, and requires
ISPs to record people's contacts.</a>
<p>
Several European countries also block web sites by decree, and the US
government "seizes" domain names by decree.  India has the power to
take down a web site by decree.  These practcies are unjust in any
country.
<p>
The tracking of web visits also exists in Europe and to some extent in
the US.


title: Urgent: Establish a public health care option
uri: Urgent-Establish-a-public-health-care-option
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(Urgent:_Establish_a_public_health_care_option)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Establish_a_public_health_care_option%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of
Massachusetts: <a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/lets-keep-massachusetts?source=mo&fb_test=0&id=89482-2794606-HtHhbDx">sign
this petition</a> for establishing a public health care option.


title: Australian gov't fabricating excuse to end program to promote renewable energy
uri: Australian-gov-t-fabricating-excuse-to-end-program-to-promote-renewabl
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(Australian_gov't_fabricating_excuse_to_end_program_to_promote_renewable_energy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28Australian_gov%27t_fabricating_excuse_to_end_program_to_promote_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government, which will do anything to boost the fossil
fuel industry, is
now <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/06/tony-abbott-launching-a-full-frontal-attack-on-renewable-energy-industry">fabricating
an excuse to end the program to promote renewable energy.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(The_world's_marine_reserves)
title: The world's marine reserves
uri: The-world-s-marine-reserves
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28The_world%27s_marine_reserves%29
content:
<p>
More than half of the world's marine reserves
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/06/protected-areas-fail-aquatic-life">inadequately
protected and fail to encourage wildlife.</a>


title: DEA's guide for how to disguise use of secret snooping data
uri: DEA-s-guide-for-how-to-disguise-use-of-secret-snooping-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(DEA's_guide_for_how_to_disguise_use_of_secret_snooping_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28DEA%27s_guide_for_how_to_disguise_use_of_secret_snooping_data%29

content:
<p>
The DEA's guide
for <a href="https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/03/dea-parallel-construction-guides/">how
to disguise use of secret snooping data has been published.</a>


title: Chaos Computer Club has filed a criminal complaint
uri: Chaos-Computer-Club-has-filed-a-criminal-complaint
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(Chaos_Computer_Club_has_filed_a_criminal_complaint)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28Chaos_Computer_Club_has_filed_a_criminal_complaint%29

content:
<p>
The Chaos Computer Club has filed a criminal
complaint <a href="http://ccc.de/en/updates/2014/complaint">accusing
the German government and other governments of illegal
surveillance.</a>


title: Five predictions made by Karl Marx
uri: Five-predictions-made-by-Karl-Marx
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(Five_predictions_made_by_Karl_Marx)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28Five_predictions_made_by_Karl_Marx%29

content:
<p>
Five predictions made by Karl Marx
that <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/marx-was-right-five-surprising-ways-karl-marx-predicted-2014-20140130">fit
today's extreme form of capitalism.</a>


title: Lured to paying millions in subsidy for big sports events
uri: Lured-to-paying-millions-in-subsidy-for-big-sports-events
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(Lured_to_paying_millions_in_subsidy_for_big_sports_events)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28Lured_to_paying_millions_in_subsidy_for_big_sports_events%29

content:
<p>
Cities and states are lured to paying millions in subsidy for big
sports events based
on <a href="http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/66544296/">wildly
exaggerated estimates of how much the local economy will gain from the
events</a>.
<p>
This article refers to the Superbowl, but it's the same for the
Olympics or the World Cup.
<p>
I would tell the boosters of these games to seek private investment if
they are so profitable.


title: Qatar Airways subjects flight attendants to a regime almost like prison
uri: Qatar-Airways-subjects-flight-attendants-to-a-regime-almost-like-priso
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(Qatar_Airways_subjects_flight_attendants_to_a_regime_almost_like_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28Qatar_Airways_subjects_flight_attendants_to_a_regime_almost_like_prison%29

content:
<p>
Qatar Airways subjects flight attendants to a regime almost like
prison,
<a href="http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/the-truth-about-the-luxury-of-qatar-airways/">firing
them for the slightest infraction of absurd rules.</a>
<p>
Qatar is one of the countries I would never visit.  The required iris
scan is just one of the reasons.  I won't even change planes in the
U.A.E.
<p>
Nobody should ever work in a country that demands exit visas.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(Kim_Dotcom's_lawsuit)
title: Kim Dotcom's lawsuit
uri: Kim-Dotcom-s-lawsuit
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28Kim_Dotcom%27s_lawsuit%29
content:
<p>
New Zealand's digital snooping agency says
it <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11196601">failed
to preserve the data for Kim Dotcom's lawsuit alleging illegal
snooping.</a>


title: UK agents ran DDOS campaigns against Anonymous
uri: UK-agents-ran-DDOS-campaigns-against-Anonymous
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 07_February_2014_(UK_agents_ran_DDOS_campaigns_against_Anonymous)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#07_February_2014_%28UK_agents_ran_DDOS_campaigns_against_Anonymous%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/war-anonymous-british-spies-attacked-hackers-snowden-docs-show-n21361">UK
agents ran DDOS campaigns against Anonymous</a>, interfering with
their chat sites and with all the other sites co-hosted with them.
<p>
I reject the term "DDOS attack".  When activists do it, it is a form
of online protest; I won't call it an "attack" when someone else does
it.  What happened here is that the state sent a crowd of state agents
to protest at a people's houses and the pubs where they meet.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Urgent:_Fix_the_Voting_Rights_Act)
title: Urgent: Fix the Voting Rights Act
uri: Urgent-Fix-the-Voting-Rights-Act
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Fix_the_Voting_Rights_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-congress-to-strengthen">support</a>
fixing the Voting Rights Act.


title: Urgent: Support the Government By The People Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Government-By-The-People-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Urgent:_Support_the_Government_By_The_People_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Government_By_The_People_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/survey_gov_ofbyus/">Support</a>
the Government By The People Act.


title: Egyptian journalist tortured by thugs
uri: Egyptian-journalist-tortured-by-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Egyptian_journalist_tortured_by_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Egyptian_journalist_tortured_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian journalist Hossam al-Meneai was 
<a href="http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2014/02/01/al-meneai-beaten-psychologically-tortured-detention-say-friends/">tortured
by thugs</a>, says the American journalist who was arrested with him.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Japans_secrecy_law)
title: Japan's secrecy law
uri: Japan-s-secrecy-law
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Japans_secrecy_law%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://nader.org/2014/01/24/fukushima-secrecy-syndrome-japan-america/">Americans
need to be concerned</a> about Japan's secrecy law.


title: 2013 was second-hottest recorded non-el-Ni&nacute;o year
uri: 2013-was-second-hottest-recorded-non-el-Ni-nacute-o-year
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(2013_was_second-hottest_recorded_non-el-Nino_year)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%282013_was_second-hottest_recorded_non-el-Nino_year%29

content:
<p>
2013 was the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/feb/06/2013-second-hottest-year-without-el-nino">second-hottest
non-el-Ni&nacute;o year since records began</a>.


title: Iraq gov't imprisons, tortures, and executes women, without trial
uri: Iraq-gov-t-imprisons-tortures-and-executes-women-without-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Iraq_govt_imprisons_tortures_and_executes_women_without_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Iraq_govt_imprisons_tortures_and_executes_women_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
Iraq's US-installed government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/06/iraqi-women-arrested-tortured-human-rights-watch">imprisons
women without trial, tortures them into confessing (or threatens to
rape their daughters), then executes them</a>.  All this to punish
their male relatives.


title: French protection for organizers of the Rwandan massacres
uri: French-protection-for-organizers-of-the-Rwandan-massacres
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(French_protection_for_organizers_of_the_Rwandan_massacres)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28French_protection_for_organizers_of_the_Rwandan_massacres%29

content:
<p>
French protection for organizers of the Rwandan massacres 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/05/paris-trial-elysee-rwanda-genocide">may
be exposed in court</a>.


title: Why the NSA spied on German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
uri: Why-the-NSA-spied-on-German-Chancellor-Gerhard-Schroeder
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Why_the_NSA_spied_on_German_Chancellor_Gerhard_Schroeder)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Why_the_NSA_spied_on_German_Chancellor_Gerhard_Schroeder%29

content:
<p>
The NSA spied on German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder because 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/05-3">he refused
to help Dubya conquer Iraq</a>.


title: Evidence that Sri Lankan soldiers and thugs covered up murders
uri: Evidence-that-Sri-Lankan-soldiers-and-thugs-covered-up-murders
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Evidence_that_Sri_Lankan_soldiers_and_thugs_covered_up_murders)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Evidence_that_Sri_Lankan_soldiers_and_thugs_covered_up_murders%29

content:
<p>
Evidence that Sri Lankan soldiers and thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/05/sri-lankan-forces-committed-flagrant-and-reckless-violations-of-human-rights-report-claims">destroyed
graves to cover up murders</a>, under orders from the high command.
<p>
There is evidence also against the LTTE, which is no surprise.  But
those responsible are dead.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(The_US_Farm_Bill)
title: The US Farm Bill
uri: The-US-Farm-Bill
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28The_US_Farm_Bill%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/02/12378/farm-bill-passes-congress-three-best-and-three-worst-elements">What's
good and what's bad</a> in the US Farm Bill.


title: Evidence that Three Mile Island meltdown made people sick in Pennsylvania
uri: Evidence-that-Three-Mile-Island-meltdown-made-people-sick-in-Pennsylva
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 06_February_2014_(Evidence_that_Three_Mile_Island_meltdown_made_people_sick_in_Pennsylvania)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#06_February_2014_%28Evidence_that_Three_Mile_Island_meltdown_made_people_sick_in_Pennsylvania%29

content:
<p>
Evidence that the Three Mile Island meltdown 
<a href="http://www.nukefree.org/news/peoplediedatthreemileisland">made lots of
people sick in Pennsylvania</a>, and killed animals.


title: Journalist who reported on use of illegal fishing method was killed by fishermen
uri: Journalist-who-reported-on-use-of-illegal-fishing-method-was-killed-by
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Journalist_who_reported_on_use_of_illegal_fishing_method_was_killed_by_fishermen)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Journalist_who_reported_on_use_of_illegal_fishing_method_was_killed_by_fishermen%29

content:
<p>
Cambodian journalist Suon Chan, who reported on use of illegal fishing
methods,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/feb/07/journalist-safety-cambodia">was
killed by fishermen.</a>


title: Campaigning for women's rights in Morocco
uri: Campaigning-for-women-s-rights-in-Morocco
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Campaigning_for_women's_rights_in_Morocco)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Campaigning_for_women%27s_rights_in_Morocco%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/feb/07/ngo-change-morocco-rape-law">Campaigning
for women's rights in Morocco.</a>
<p>
The practice in which relatives despise girls that have been raped is
found in many parts of the world.  In Samoa, men used (and perhaps
still use) surreptitious rape to as a means to force girls to come and
live with them; they knew their families would reject them for being
raped.  This happens because the girl's parents think of her as an
asset rather than as a person.


title: Urgent: Call for extension of unemployment benefits
uri: Urgent-Call-for-extension-of-unemployment-benefits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Urgent:_Call_for_extension_of_unemployment_benefits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_extension_of_unemployment_benefits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="http://action.votevets.org/unemployment">extension of
unemployment benefits.</a>


title: Senator Warren challenged other senators
uri: Senator-Warren-challenged-other-senators
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Senator_Warren_challenged_other_senators)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Senator_Warren_challenged_other_senators%29

content:
<p>
Senator Warren challenged other
senators: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/06-6">does
anyone believe that US enforcement of banking regulations is
working?</a>


title: UK plants to entrust everyone's medical records to propriety software
uri: UK-plants-to-entrust-everyone-s-medical-records-to-propriety-software
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(UK_plants_to_entrust_everyone's_medical_records_to_propriety_software)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28UK_plants_to_entrust_everyone%27s_medical_records_to_propriety_software%29

content:
<p>
The UK plans
to <a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240112828/Atos-to-provide-8m-GP-data-extraction-system">entrust
everyone's medical records</a>
to <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">proprietary
software (which is asking for trouble)</a> made by a company with
a <a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/04/uk-set-to-sell-sensitive-nhs-r.html">track
record for shafting the public,</a> thanks to an inadequate concern
for privacy starting from the top.
<p>
The system will
also <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/06/police-backdoor-access-nhs-health-records">allow
the state easy access to all the data.</a> Naturally.


title: Urgent: Reject the Empty Oceans Act
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-Empty-Oceans-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_the_Empty_Oceans_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_Empty_Oceans_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=9ABD85E0EDF5C01DEF24B511567465C6.app367a?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1559">reject
the Empty Oceans Act.</a>


title: Obama should appoint public interest lawyers as judges
uri: Obama-should-appoint-public-interest-lawyers-as-judges
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Obama_should_appoint_public_interest_lawyers_as_judges)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Obama_should_appoint_public_interest_lawyers_as_judges%29

content:
<p>
Now that Obama can get judges
confirmed, <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/02/elizabeth-warren-judicial-nominations-brennan-center">he
should appoint public interest lawyers as judges.</a>


title: Ukrainian protest leader says thugs captured him and tortured him
uri: Ukrainian-protest-leader-says-thugs-captured-him-and-tortured-him
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Ukrainian_protest_leader_says_thugs_captured_him_and_tortured_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Ukrainian_protest_leader_says_thugs_captured_him_and_tortured_him%29

content:
<p>
A Ukrainian protest leader says
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/06/ukraine-protest-leader-tortured-spy-dmytro-bulatov">thugs
captured him and tortured him into making a confession that he was
paid by the US.</a>


title: UK thug sentenced to prison for making a false accusation
uri: UK-thug-sentenced-to-prison-for-making-a-false-accusation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(UK_thug_sentenced_to_prison_for_making_a_false_accusation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28UK_thug_sentenced_to_prison_for_making_a_false_accusation%29

content:
<p>
A UK thug has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/06/plebgate-keith-wallis-jailed-police-andrew-mitchell">sentenced
to prison for making a false accusation,</a> saying that an important
politician called him a "pleb". The politician, being a Tory, probably
thought this but apparently did not say it.
<p>
While this is the right thing to do, I wonder when the UK, US, and
other countries will start sentencing thugs to prison for making more
serious false accusations against people who are not important
politicians.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Philip_Seymour_Hoffman)
title: Philip Seymour Hoffman
uri: Philip-Seymour-Hoffman
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Philip_Seymour_Hoffman%29
content:
<p>
Philip Seymour Hoffman Is
Another <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/06/russell-brand-philip-seymour-hoffman-drug-laws">Victim
of Extremely Stupid Drug Laws.</a>


title: Campaigning against female genital mutilation
uri: Campaigning-against-female-genital-mutilation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Campaigning_against_female_genital_mutilation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Campaigning_against_female_genital_mutilation%29

content:
<p>
Teenage girls in Britain
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/06/british-somali-young-women-fight-fgm-rhyme-reason">campaigning
against female genital mutilation.</a>
<p>
They know
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/06/female-genital-mutilation-foreign-crime-common-uk">girls
in their communities are at risk.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Journalist_held_and_interrogated)
title: Journalist held and interrogated
uri: Journalist-held-and-interrogated
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Journalist_held_and_interrogated%29

content:
<p>
Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ahmed-shihabeldin/why-i-hate-coming-home-to_b_4676404.html">held
and interrogated for hours every time he returns to the US.</a>


title: Urgent: End the war on marijuana at the federal level
uri: Urgent-End-the-war-on-marijuana-at-the-federal-level
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Urgent:_End_the_war_on_marijuana_at_the_federal_level)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_the_war_on_marijuana_at_the_federal_level%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: ask your congresscritter
to <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=3D05DFA4B08B45595DAB82F2ED3ECB68.app253a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1060">support
bills that would end the war on marijuana at the federal level.</a>


title: Urgent: Call for stopping the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion
uri: Urgent-Call-for-stopping-the-Algonquin-Pipeline-Expansion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Urgent:_Call_for_stopping_the_Algonquin_Pipeline_Expansion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_stopping_the_Algonquin_Pipeline_Expansion%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/stop-the-algonquin-pipeline-expansion?akid=9923.1183552.K7aRIp&rd=1&suppress_one_click=true&t=1005">call
for stopping the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion.</a>


title: Children of the Occupation: Growing up in Palestine
uri: Children-of-the-Occupation-Growing-up-in-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Children_of_the_Occupation:_Growing_up_in_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Children_of_the_Occupation%3A_Growing_up_in_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Children of the
Occupation: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/08/children-of-occupation-growing-up-in-palestine">Growing
up in Palestine.</a>


title: 3000 civilians were killed by fighting in Afghanistan in 2013
uri: 3000-civilians-were-killed-by-fighting-in-Afghanistan-in-2013
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(3000_civilians_were_killed_by_fighting_in_Afghanistan_in_2013)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%283000_civilians_were_killed_by_fighting_in_Afghanistan_in_2013%29

content:
<p>
3000 civilians were killed by fighting in Afghanistan in 2013,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/08/afghan-civilian-casualties-2013-un-deaths">mostly
by the Taliban</a> (as usual).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(New_video_surveillance_systems)
title: New video surveillance systems
uri: New-video-surveillance-systems
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28New_video_surveillance_systems%29

content:
<p>
New video surveillance
systems <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/new-surveillance-technology-can-track-everyone-in-an-area-for-several-hours-at-a-time/2014/02/05/82f1556e-876f-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html">can
see everyone's movements in a whole city.</a>
<p>
Here's
the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security-free-speech/persistent-aerial-surveillance-do-we-want">ACLU's
response.</a>
<p>
What matters is not which people they <em>do</em> track, but which
people they <em>could</em> track after the fact.  If they can track
where journalists or whistleblowers went in the
past, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">democracy
is sunk.</a>


title: Paying partially disabled workers a pittance
uri: Paying-partially-disabled-workers-a-pittance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Paying_partially_disabled_workers_a_pittance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Paying_partially_disabled_workers_a_pittance%29

content:
<p>
In the US it is legal to pay partially disabled workers a pittance,
and <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/02/07/3260081/americans-disabilities-subminimum-wage/">thousands
of people are exploited in this way.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Test_of_900_foods_in_the_UK)
title: Test of 900 foods in the UK
uri: Test-of-900-foods-in-the-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Test_of_900_foods_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
A test of 900 foods in the UK found
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/fake-food-scandal-revealed-tests-products-mislabelled">over
300 were falsely labeled.</a>


title: Arrested for carrying cameras on the street
uri: Arrested-for-carrying-cameras-on-the-street
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Arrested_for_carrying_cameras_on_the_street)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Arrested_for_carrying_cameras_on_the_street%29

content:
<p>
In Egypt people
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/threats-charges-reporting-egypt">arrested
for carrying cameras on the street.</a>


title: Assad has agreed to a truce and to allow civilians to be evacuated from Homs
uri: Assad-has-agreed-to-a-truce-and-to-allow-civilians-to-be-evacuated-fro
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Assad_has_agreed_to_a_truce_and_to_allow_civilians_to_be_evacuated_from_Homs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Assad_has_agreed_to_a_truce_and_to_allow_civilians_to_be_evacuated_from_Homs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/syria-aid-homs-evacuees-geneva-talks">Assad
has agreed to a truce and to allow civilians to be evacuated from
Homs.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 08_February_2014_(Privatized_probation_companies)
title: Privatized probation companies
uri: Privatized-probation-companies
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#08_February_2014_%28Privatized_probation_companies%29

content:
<p>
Privatized probation companies in the
US <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/05/us-profit-probation-tramples-rights-poor">jail
poor people who can't pay the fees.</a>
<p>
These companies have thousands of poor Americans jailed when they are
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/05/witness-nearly-nickeled-and-dimed-jail">too
poor to pay the fines they owe.</a>


title: Law Must Be Free and Accessible to All
uri: Law-Must-Be-Free-and-Accessible-to-All
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(Law_Must_Be_Free_and_Accessible_to_All)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28Law_Must_Be_Free_and_Accessible_to_All%29

content:
<p>
Ralph
Nader: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/the-law-must-be-free-and-accessible_b_4747745.html">The
Law Must Be Free and Accessible to All — Not Secret and
Profitable.</a>


title: US is ignoring efforts towards nuclear disarmament
uri: US-is-ignoring-efforts-towards-nuclear-disarmament
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(US_is_ignoring_efforts_towards_nuclear_disarmament)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28US_is_ignoring_efforts_towards_nuclear_disarmament%29

content:
<p>
The US
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/08-0">ignoring
efforts towards nuclear disarmament.</a>


title: It's no use retraining US workers to fit jobs better
uri: It-s-no-use-retraining-US-workers-to-fit-jobs-better
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(It's_no_use_retraining_US_workers_to_fit_jobs_better)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28It%27s_no_use_retraining_US_workers_to_fit_jobs_better%29

content:
<p>
It's no use retraining US workers to fit jobs better, because
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/07-3">available
jobs are simply far too few.</a>
<p>
Perverse
economics <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/07-2">contribute
to the lack of jobs.</a>


title: Urgent: Don't allow a vote on Fast Track
uri: Urgent-Don-t-allow-a-vote-on-Fast-Track
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(Urgent:_Don't_allow_a_vote_on_Fast_Track)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Don%27t_allow_a_vote_on_Fast_Track%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell Senator
Reid, <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12406">don't
allow a vote on Fast Track.</a>


title: Urgent: Defend EPA regulation of power plant CO2 emissions
uri: Urgent-Defend-EPA-regulation-of-power-plant-CO2-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(Urgent:_Defend_EPA_regulation_of_power_plant_CO2_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_EPA_regulation_of_power_plant_CO2_emissions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators
to <a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=DB9201414B24F1191FAE3D2727E97B6C.app304b?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2223">defend
EPA regulation of power plant CO2 emissions.</a>


title: Urgent: Get the facts right about the Keystone XL
uri: Urgent-Get-the-facts-right-about-the-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(Urgent:_Get_the_facts_right_about_the_Keystone_XL)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Get_the_facts_right_about_the_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15004">sign
this petition</a> calling on Kerry to get the facts right about the
Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline.
<p>
Please do not access this page with Javascript enabled.  I would be
ashamed to have posted the link if you did that.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(Favelas_And_Middle_Classes)
title: Favelas And Middle Classes
uri: Favelas-And-Middle-Classes
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28Favelas_And_Middle_Classes%29
content:
<p>
Brazil's Government Has Set the Favelas And Middle
Classes <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/08/brazil-government-set-favelas-against-middle-classes">Against
Each Other.</a>


title: The Ukrainian Protesters Must Make a Decisive Break with the Far Right
uri: The-Ukrainian-Protesters-Must-Make-a-Decisive-Break-with-the-Far-Right
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(The_Ukrainian_Protesters_Must_Make_a_Decisive_Break_with_the_Far_Right)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28The_Ukrainian_Protesters_Must_Make_a_Decisive_Break_with_the_Far_Right%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/07/ukrainian-protesters-break-with-far-right">The
Ukrainian Protesters Must Make a Decisive Break with the Far
Right.</a>


title: FBI forcing ISPs and phone companies to install metadata monitors
uri: FBI-forcing-ISPs-and-phone-companies-to-install-metadata-monitors
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(FBI_forcing_ISPs_and_phone_companies_to_install_metadata_monitors)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28FBI_forcing_ISPs_and_phone_companies_to_install_metadata_monitors%29

content:
<p>
The FBI is forcing ISPs and phone companies
to <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/yet-another-surveillance-tool-fbi-hands-how-are-they-using-it">install
metadata monitors called "port readers".</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(Haiti_deserves_reparations)
title: Haiti deserves reparations
uri: Haiti-deserves-reparations
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28Haiti_deserves_reparations%29
content:
<p>
Haiti deserves more than forgiveness of it dictator-imposed debt.
<a href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=173737">It
deserves reparations.</a>


title: Palestine has been negotiating for 20 years under grave threat
uri: Palestine-has-been-negotiating-for-20-years-under-grave-threat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(Palestine_has_been_negotiating_for_20_years_under_grave_threat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28Palestine_has_been_negotiating_for_20_years_under_grave_threat%29

content:
<p>
Palestine has been negotiating for 20 years under grave threat; now
Israel
is <a href="http://adam-keller2.blogspot.co.il/2014/02/negotiating-with-gun-to-head.html">starting
to feel the pressure of possible European boycott.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 09_February_2014_(ABC_spins_very_hard)
title: ABC spins very hard
uri: ABC-spins-very-hard
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_%28ABC_spins_very_hard%29
content:
<p>
ABC spins very hard
to <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/02/06/news-you-cant-use-abc-and-your-401k/">pretend
that stock market trends are relevant to most Americans</a>.


title: Urgent: Tell NHS not to sell patient data to companies
uri: Urgent-Tell-NHS-not-to-sell-patient-data-to-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_NHS_not_to_sell_patient_data_to_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_NHS_not_to_sell_patient_data_to_companies%29

content:
<p>
Britons: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/nhs-patient-corporations/">tell
the NHS</a> not to sell patient data to companies.


title: Urgent: Support network neutrality
uri: Urgent-Support-network-neutrality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Urgent:_Support_network_neutrality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter in favor of 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/call/internet_nn_house_call/">network
neutrality</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: UK environmental research organization's dirty deal with Shell
uri: UK-environmental-research-organization-s-dirty-deal-with-Shell
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(UK_environmental_research_organizations_dirty_deal_with_Shell)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28UK_environmental_research_organizations_dirty_deal_with_Shell%29

content:
<p>
The UK's environmental research organization has made a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/feb/07/uk-environmental-science-in-association-with-shell-alice-bell">dirty
deal with Shell</a>.


title: Protesters in Rio de Janeiro occupy main train station
uri: Protesters-in-Rio-de-Janeiro-occupy-main-train-station
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Protesters_in_Rio_de_Janeiro_occupy_main_train_station)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Protesters_in_Rio_de_Janeiro_occupy_main_train_station%29

content:
<p>
Protesters in Rio de Janeiro occupied the main train station and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/rio-fare-protesters-seize-main-station-and-let-commuters-travel-free">let
everyone travel gratis</a>.


title: The Australian plan to kill large sharks
uri: The-Australian-plan-to-kill-large-sharks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(The_Australian_plan_to_kill_large_sharks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28The_Australian_plan_to_kill_large_sharks%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/07/killers-on-the-loose-how-australia-ignores-science-to-cull-vulnerable-sharks">Australian
plan to kill large sharks</a>, which migrate very far, pushes this
endangered species towards extinction to save a tiny number of humans.
<p>
South Africa is concerned that this will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/shark-cull-could-impact-shark-migration-south-africa-warns">wipe
out sharks there too</a>, since sharks swim between the two
continents.


title: Australian Navy sailors burned boat people as punishment
uri: Australian-Navy-sailors-burned-boat-people-as-punishment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Australian_Navy_sailors_burned_boat_people_as_punishment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Australian_Navy_sailors_burned_boat_people_as_punishment%29

content:
<p>
Boat people towed to Java by the Australian Navy in an Australian
lifeboat say the Navy sailors burned people as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/indonesia-objects-again-to-turnbacks-as-second-lifeboat-washes-up-on-java">punishment
for asking to use a toilet</a>.
<p>
Since the Australian government is covering up the whole activity, its
denials are worthless.  If it wants to convince us, it should make
recordings as proof.  As long as it covers up its actions we should
believe all the accusations.


title: When a company sponsors university research on its products
uri: When-a-company-sponsors-university-research-on-its-products
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(When_a_company_sponsors_university_research_on_its_products)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28When_a_company_sponsors_university_research_on_its_products%29

content:
<p>
If vitamins don't address medical problems, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/07/if-vitamins-dont-work-will-sponsored-scientists-be-willing-to-tell-us">will
university researchers funded by a vitamin company tell us</a>?
<p>
I need to point out that the same exact problem exists for the Big
Pharma companies.


title: US Green Party says Farm Bill should be vetoed
uri: US-Green-Party-says-Farm-Bill-should-be-vetoed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(US_Green_Party_says_Farm_Bill_should_be_vetoed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28US_Green_Party_says_Farm_Bill_should_be_vetoed%29

content:
<p>
The US Green Party says the Farm Bill 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=412062&qid=2475948">should
be vetoed</a>.


title: Mainstream media still try to cover up US and UK's actions in Middle East
uri: Mainstream-media-still-try-to-cover-up-US-and-UK-s-actions-in-Middle-E
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Mainstream_media_still_try_to_cover_up_US_and_UKs_actions_in_Middle_East)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Mainstream_media_still_try_to_cover_up_US_and_UKs_actions_in_Middle_East%29

content:
<p>
Mainstream media are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/07/west-criminal-bloodbath-iraq-media-cover-up">still
struggling to cover up US and UK's actions in the Middle East</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Sponsors_of_the_Olympic_games)
title: Sponsors of the Olympic games
uri: Sponsors-of-the-Olympic-games
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Sponsors_of_the_Olympic_games%29
content:
<p>
Sponsors of the Olympic games that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sochi-winter-olympics-sponsor-companies-human-rights">refused
to publicly criticize Putin's repression</a>: Atos, Coca-Cola, Dow
Chemical, General Electric, McDonald's, Omega, Panasonic, Procter &
Gamble, Samsung and Visa.


title: Garry Kasparov on the Sochi Olympics
uri: Garry-Kasparov-on-the-Sochi-Olympics
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Garry_Kasparov_on_the_Sochi_Olympics)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Garry_Kasparov_on_the_Sochi_Olympics%29

content:
<p>
Garry Kasparov says that the Sochi Olympics are all about 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/feb/07/sochi-vladimir-putin-hitler-berlin-garry-kasparov">Putin's
cult of personality</a>.


title: Part of the cause of lower pay for women
uri: Part-of-the-cause-of-lower-pay-for-women
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Part_of_the_cause_of_lower_pay_for_women)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Part_of_the_cause_of_lower_pay_for_women%29

content:
<p>
Part of the cause of lower pay for women is that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/07/social-networks-gender-pay-gap">male
senior managers are afraid of being accused of sexual harassment</a>
if they socialize or meet with women employees.


title: Israeli thugs attack Palestinian protest camp
uri: Israeli-thugs-attack-Palestinian-protest-camp
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Israeli_thugs_attack_Palestinian_protest_camp)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Israeli_thugs_attack_Palestinian_protest_camp%29

content:
<p>
Israeli thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/palestinians-west-bank-protest-site-removed">attacked
a Palestinian protest camp</a> near Jericho.


title: Japanese women organizing sex strike
uri: Japanese-women-organizing-sex-strike
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Japanese_women_organizing_sex_strike)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Japanese_women_organizing_sex_strike%29

content:
<p>
Japanese women are organizing a sex strike 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/tokyo-women-sex-strike-yoichi-masuzoe">against
men that vote for a sexist candidate</a>.


title: UK's privatization of its post office
uri: UK-s-privatization-of-its-post-office
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(UKs_privatization_of_its_post_office)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28UKs_privatization_of_its_post_office%29

content:
<p>
The UK's privatization of its post office was a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/07/royal-mail-privatised-city-estimates-value">giant
give-away to the investors</a>.


title: The way most Internet users use the net is bad
uri: The-way-most-Internet-users-use-the-net-is-bad
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(The_way_most_Internet_users_use_the_net_is_bad)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28The_way_most_Internet_users_use_the_net_is_bad%29

content:
<p>
If you are like most Internet users, the way you use the net
is 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/inquiring-minds-maria-konnikova-mindfulness-multitasking">bad
for you directly</a>, in addition to snooping on you.


title: Unprecedented speed-up of the trade winds
uri: Unprecedented-speed-up-of-the-trade-winds
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Unprecedented_speed-up_of_the_trade_winds)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Unprecedented_speed-up_of_the_trade_winds%29

content:
<p>
An unprecedented speed-up of the trade winds
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/feb/10/unprecedented-trade-winds-global-warming-oceans">driving
the Earth's heat gain into the ocean instead of letting it accumulate
in the atmosphere.</a>
<p>
Aside from the point that the speed-up is cyclical, there's also the
point that the reason it causes heat to go into the ocean is that the
air is hotter than the ocean.  Once the ocean gets sufficiently
hotter, heat will start to remain in the air.
<p>
Today's extreme weather is just a foretaste of what we have already
made inevitable in a few decades.  The question is whether we
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/09/leader-climate-change-weather-olympian-extremes">take
steps now to prevent it from getting even worse.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(We_must_build,_build,_build)
title: We must build, build, build
uri: We-must-build-build-build
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28We_must_build%2C_build%2C_build%29

content:
<p>
To prevent all but the rich from being squeezed out of major cities,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/feb/10/unaffordable-cities-global-scandal-housing-lack">we
must build, build, build.</a>
<p>
The obstacle is zoning that was designed to prevent the sort of
density that we need in order to accommodate everyone.


title: Urgent: Make college tuition gratis
uri: Urgent-Make-college-tuition-gratis
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Urgent:_Make_college_tuition_gratis)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Make_college_tuition_gratis%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the government
to <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/make-public-college-tuition-free">make
college tuition gratis.</a>
<p>
(I try to avoid using the word "free" to mean "zero price" even when
we're not talking about software.)


title: Turks protested state-imposed internet censorship
uri: Turks-protested-state-imposed-internet-censorship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Turks_protested_state-imposed_internet_censorship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Turks_protested_state-imposed_internet_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Once again,
Turks <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/09/turkish-police-crack-down-on-internet-freedom-protest">protested
state-imposed internet censorship on the street.</a>


title: Businesses and products that aim at middle-class customers are failing
uri: Businesses-and-products-that-aim-at-middle-class-customers-are-failing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Businesses_and_products_that_aim_at_middle-class_customers_are_failing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Businesses_and_products_that_aim_at_middle-class_customers_are_failing%29

content:
<p>
Across the
US, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/business/the-middle-class-is-steadily-eroding-just-ask-the-business-world.html">businesses
and products that aim at middle-class customers are failing</a>
— because those customers aren't there any more.


title: Responses to creationists' 22 questions
uri: Responses-to-creationists-22-questions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Responses_to_creationists'_22_questions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Responses_to_creationists%27_22_questions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/06/religion_and_science_answering_creationists_questions.html">Responses
to creationists' 22 questions.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Drug_maintenance)
title: Drug maintenance
uri: Drug-maintenance
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Drug_maintenance%29
content:
<p>
Substitute drug maintenance problems are
pretty <a href="http://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2014/02/guest-post-maia-szalavitz-what-journalis">effective
at saving addicts' lives and enabling them to do useful work.</a>
<p>
I speculate that what makes the substitute drugs safer is that they
are regulated and medically administered.  In other words, part of
what makes the original drug so dangerous is prohibition.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(No-Fly_list)
title: No-Fly list
uri: No-Fly-list
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28No-Fly_list%29
content:
<p>
The US spent 7
years <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-list-bungle/">covering
up the fact that it had put Rahinah Ibrahim on the no-fly list by
mistake</a>.
<p>
This list is punishment without trial, and as such is
a <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#28_March_2013_(No-Fly_List)">prima
facie injustice.</a>


title: Syngenta's own documents prove that it tried to sabotage and discredit Professor
uri: Syngenta-s-own-documents-prove-that-it-tried-to-sabotage-and-discredit
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Syngenta's_own_documents_prove_that_it_tried_to_sabotage_and_discredit_Professor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Syngenta%27s_own_documents_prove_that_it_tried_to_sabotage_and_discredit_Professor%29

content:
<p>
Syngenta's own documents prove that it tried
to <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=all">sabotage
and discredit Professor Hayes</a>, whose work showed that Syngenta's
pesticide atrazine was dangerous.


title: US television has a nearly total blackout about the TPP
uri: US-television-has-a-nearly-total-blackout-about-the-TPP
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(US_television_has_a_nearly_total_blackout_about_the_TPP)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28US_television_has_a_nearly_total_blackout_about_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US television has a
nearly <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/06">total
blackout about the TPP.</a>


title: Republicans set up fraudulent web sites
uri: Republicans-set-up-fraudulent-web-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Republicans_set_up_fraudulent_web_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Republicans_set_up_fraudulent_web_sites%29

content:
<p>
Republicans <a href="http://swampland.time.com/2014/02/05/2014-nrcc-dccc-congress-midterm-elections-websites/">set
up fraudulent web sites pretending to represent Democratic candidates
so as to divert donors' money.</a>
<p>
This reflects the motto of the Republican Party, "By hook or by
crook", as observed
in <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#12_September_2012_(Lawsuits_over_voter_suppression_laws)">voter
suppression laws</a> and distribution of false information
about <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#26_October_2012_(Republicans_tell_voters_wrong_date_and_place_to_vote)">where
to vote,</a> as well as
just <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#18 November 2010 (Misleading campaigns)">plain lying</a> about Democrats.


title: Urgent: Tell Whole Foods to allow workers to leave for emergencies
uri: Urgent-Tell-Whole-Foods-to-allow-workers-to-leave-for-emergencies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_Whole_Foods_to_allow_workers_to_leave_for_emergencies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Whole_Foods_to_allow_workers_to_leave_for_emergencies%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/whole-foods-firing/">tell Whole
Foods</a> to stop firing workers because they have to leave for an
emergency.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Treating_global_heating_as_news)
title: Treating global heating as news
uri: Treating-global-heating-as-news
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Treating_global_heating_as_news%29

content:
<p>
The time scale of global heating makes it 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/03">hard to treat as
news</a>, but it could be the end of all news.


title: US states slowly passing laws to allow assisted suicide
uri: US-states-slowly-passing-laws-to-allow-assisted-suicide
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(US_states_slowly_passing_laws_to_allow_assisted_suicide)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28US_states_slowly_passing_laws_to_allow_assisted_suicide%29

content:
<p>
US states are 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/us/easing-terminal-patients-path-to-death-legally.html">slowly
passing laws to allow the terminally ill to get help in suicide</a>.
<p>
This is a step forward, but it is a shame to limit this escape route
to those who are going to die soon anyway, and exclude people who
can't commit suicide on their own because they are totally physically
incapacitated.  Some of those people face possibly decades of futile
boredom, in some cases combined with horrible pain.


title: Mexican gangsters kidnap girls for prostitution
uri: Mexican-gangsters-kidnap-girls-for-prostitution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Mexican_gangsters_kidnap_girls_for_prostitution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Mexican_gangsters_kidnap_girls_for_prostitution%29

content:
<p>
Mexican gangsters roam villages and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/08/mexico-young-women-sex-trade-drug-gangs">kidnap
girls as young as 7 for prostitution</a>.  No one dares openly resist
them; the corrupt thugs are no help.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Widespread_flooding_in_the_UK)
title: Widespread flooding in the UK
uri: Widespread-flooding-in-the-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Widespread_flooding_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Widespread flooding has shown 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2014/feb/08/storms-lash-coast-uk-long-term-costs">what
a disaster global heating will bring to Britain</a>.
<p>
The hard part will be to make the government confront the costs of
avoiding the disaster, which get higher with delay.


title: Homosexuality of gays fleeing Uganda questioned
uri: Homosexuality-of-gays-fleeing-Uganda-questioned
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Homosexuality_of_gays_fleeing_Uganda_questioned)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Homosexuality_of_gays_fleeing_Uganda_questioned%29

content:
<p>
Now that homosexuals fleeing Uganda can claim asylum because they'd
face persecution there, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/08/home-office-gay-asylum-seekers-questioning">how
to decide if someone is not faking being gay</a>?


title: Arrests for money laundering with bitcoin
uri: Arrests-for-money-laundering-with-bitcoin
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Arrests_for_money_laundering_with_bitcoin)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Arrests_for_money_laundering_with_bitcoin%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/why-are-bitcoiners-going-to-jail-for-money-laundering-while-big-banks-walk">Why
Are Bitcoiners Going to Jail for Money Laundering While Big Banks
Walk?</a>


title: Protesters convicted of being led by thugs to prepare molotov cocktails
uri: Protesters-convicted-of-being-led-by-thugs-to-prepare-molotov-cocktail
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Protesters_convicted_of_being_led_by_thugs_to_prepare_molotov_cocktails)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Protesters_convicted_of_being_led_by_thugs_to_prepare_molotov_cocktails%29

content:
<p>
A bunch of protesters were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/illinois-acquits-nato-protesters-terrorism-law">convicted
of being led by thugs to prepare molotov cocktails</a>, but they were
acquitted of "terrorism" charges.


title: A blow to Australia's immigration policy secrecy
uri: A-blow-to-Australia-s-immigration-policy-secrecy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(A_blow_to_Australias_immigration_policy_secrecy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28A_blow_to_Australias_immigration_policy_secrecy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/08/asylum-seekers-video-shows-lifeboat-under-tow">Another
blow</a> to Australia's immigration policy secrecy, which consists of
"We won't tell you what we're doing" and "How dare you make
accusations?"


title: Imprisoned in Dubai for posting a humorous video
uri: Imprisoned-in-Dubai-for-posting-a-humorous-video
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Imprisoned_in_Dubai_for_posting_a_humorous_video)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Imprisoned_in_Dubai_for_posting_a_humorous_video%29

content:
<p>
Shezanne Cassim was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/09/shezanne-cassim-jail-uae-youtube-video">imprisoned
in Dubai for posting a humorous video</a> that didn't even criticize
country's despicable government.


title: Depletion of groundwater around the world
uri: Depletion-of-groundwater-around-the-world
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 10_February_2014_(Depletion_of_groundwater_around_the_world)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_%28Depletion_of_groundwater_around_the_world%29

content:
<p>
Humans are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/09/global-water-shortages-threat-terror-war">depleting
groundwater</a> around the world, just as global heating is reducing
rainfall in many areas.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Charter_of_Digital_Rights)
title: Charter of Digital Rights
uri: Charter-of-Digital-Rights
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Charter_of_Digital_Rights%29
content:
<p>
European Parliament candidates are asked to sign this
proposed <a href="http://www.wepromise.eu/en/page/charter">Charter of
Digital Rights.</a>
<p>
It is not strong enough on certain issues.  For instance, it fails to
oppose the censorship which many EU countries have already imposed,
and fails to call for an end to existing mass surveillance measures
such as the mandatory data retention for ISPs and phone companies.
<p>
However, I support it anyway.


title: Verizon is slowing Netflix traffic
uri: Verizon-is-slowing-Netflix-traffic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Verizon_is_slowing_Netflix_traffic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Verizon_is_slowing_Netflix_traffic%29

content:
<p>
Now that US network neutrality has been
eliminated, <a href="http://davesblog.com/blog/2014/02/05/verizon-using-recent-net-neutrality-victory-to-wage-war-against-netflix/">Verizon
is slowing Netflix traffic.</a>
<p>
It would be great if Verizon killed off Netflix, whose business is
fundamentally unethical because of DRM.  But there is little chance of
that; eventually they will make a deal, with Netflix paying Verizon
some money.


title: Aristide removed because he was unwilling to privatize
uri: Aristide-removed-because-he-was-unwilling-to-privatize
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Aristide_removed_because_he_was_unwilling_to_privatize)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Aristide_removed_because_he_was_unwilling_to_privatize%29

content:
<p>
Aristide reported in 2005 that Dubya had him removed because he
was <a href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=148513">unwilling
to privatize as the US demanded.</a>


title: Thugs in Egypt and Sudan regularly conspire with kidnapers
uri: Thugs-in-Egypt-and-Sudan-regularly-conspire-with-kidnapers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Thugs_in_Egypt_and_Sudan_regularly_conspire_with_kidnapers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Thugs_in_Egypt_and_Sudan_regularly_conspire_with_kidnapers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/eritreans-enslaved-traffickers-sudan-egypt-torture-camps">Thugs
in Egypt and Sudan regularly conspire with kidnapers</a> that torture
Eritrean refugees to squeeze money out of their relatives.
<p>
To ransom hostages is cowardly; the right thing to do is to hold a
funeral for them, in effect spitting in the kidnapers' faces.  This
takes courage, but discourage kidnapers, whereas a cowardly response
keeps it going.
<p>
It is not clear how the Eritreans first fall into the hands of
traffickers.


title: US gov't destroyed and hid photos of Osama bin Laden body
uri: US-gov-t-destroyed-and-hid-photos-of-Osama-bin-Laden-body
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(US_gov't_destroyed_and_hid_photos_of_Osama_bin_Laden_body)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28US_gov%27t_destroyed_and_hid_photos_of_Osama_bin_Laden_body%29

content:
<p>
The US
government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/bin-laden-death-images-purge-emails-reveal">destroyed
and hid photos of Osama bin Laden body in contempt of a Freedom of
Information Act request.</a>
<p>
What can you expect from these thugs?  They murdered bin Laden to
avoid the inconvenience
of <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#29_May_2011_%28Chomsky_Writes_bin_Laden%29">putting
him on trial.</a>


title: Volunteers who fought against Franco and fascism would be charged with "terrorism"
uri: Volunteers-who-fought-against-Franco-and-fascism-would-be-charged-with
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Volunteers_who_fought_against_Franco_and_fascism_would_be_charged_with_terrorism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Volunteers_who_fought_against_Franco_and_fascism_would_be_charged_with_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
Under today's British laws, the volunteers who fought in Spain against
Franco and
fascism <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/10/orwell-hero-terrorism-syria-british-fighters-damned">would
be charged with "terrorism."</a>


title: Qatar to protect construction workers from abuses
uri: Qatar-to-protect-construction-workers-from-abuses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Qatar_to_protect_construction_workers_from_abuses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Qatar_to_protect_construction_workers_from_abuses%29

content:
<p>
Qatar will undertake
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/qatar-world-cup-2022-workers-welfare-standards">protect
construction workers from abuses, but only on a few specific
projects.</a>


title: Republicans trying to amend US Constitution
uri: Republicans-trying-to-amend-US-Constitution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Republicans_trying_to_amend_US_Constitution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Republicans_trying_to_amend_US_Constitution%29

content:
<p>
Republicans controlling state governments
are <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/02/12379/constitutional-convention-could-cripple-federal-capacity-combat-recession">trying
to amend the US Constitution to require a balanced budget</a>, which
would mean making recessions worse.


title: Culture of 'Impunity' for US Soldiers
uri: Culture-of-Impunity-for-US-Soldiers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(Culture_of_'Impunity'_for_US_Soldiers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28Culture_of_%27Impunity%27_for_US_Soldiers%29

content:
<p>
Overseas, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/10-4">Culture
of 'Impunity' for US Soldiers Guilty of Sexual Assault.</a>
<p>
The first rule of ensuring that a foreign army can get along with
local civilians is to punish any crimes by soldiers against civilians
very sternly.  The US may think it doesn't need to do this.  The US is
mistaken.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(US_military_aid_to_Israel)
title: US military aid to Israel
uri: US-military-aid-to-Israel
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28US_military_aid_to_Israel%29
content:
<p>
The
enormous <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/us-israel-foreign-aid-military-bankroll">US
military aid to Israel</a> includes bombs and planes used to attack
civilians in Gaza.


title: Urgent: Tell General Mills to remove GMOs from its all its cereals
uri: Urgent-Tell-General-Mills-to-remove-GMOs-from-its-all-its-cereals
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_General_Mills_to_remove_GMOs_from_its_all_its_cereals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_General_Mills_to_remove_GMOs_from_its_all_its_cereals%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-general-mills-chairman-remove-gmos-from-all-cereals-not-just-cheerios">tell
General Mills</a> to remove GMOs from all its cereals, not just from
Cheerios.


title: Urgent: Tell World Bank to stop financing land grabs
uri: Urgent-Tell-World-Bank-to-stop-financing-land-grabs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_World_Bank_to_stop_financing_land_grabs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_World_Bank_to_stop_financing_land_grabs%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_forced_evictions_loc_kenya_pa_us/">demand</a>
that the World Bank stop financing land grabs in Kenya and elsewhere.


title: Australian supporter of boycotting Israel sued
uri: Australian-supporter-of-boycotting-Israel-sued
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(Australian_supporter_of_boycotting_Israel_sued)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28Australian_supporter_of_boycotting_Israel_sued%29

content:
<p>
An Australian supporter of boycotting Israel is being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/israel-sanctions-campaigner-violated-australian-race-laws-says-lawsuit">sued
for refusing to support a study application by an Israeli
academic</a>.
<p>
If Lynch's grounds for refusal were as stated, that the scholar was
associated with a university with a campus in a colony in Palestinian
territory, that was political, not racial.  So I think the lawsuit is
mistaken.
<p>
However, I criticize Lynch's decision to apply the boycott to an
individual person.  The American Studies Association, in adopting a
boycott of Israeli academic institutions, emphasized that this was 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#09_December_2013_(The_boycott_of_Israeli_academic_institutions)">not
aimed at Israeli scholars</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(Californias_drought)
title: California's drought
uri: California-s-drought
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28Californias_drought%29
content:
<p>
California's drought may be the worst in 500 years, and it is 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/california-drought-matters-more-just-california">going
to get worse</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(Entitlements_for_the_rich)
title: Entitlements for the rich
uri: Entitlements-for-the-rich
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28Entitlements_for_the_rich%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/10-0">How
Entitlements for the Rich Cheat the Rest of Us</a>.


title: US Catholic school fires teacher for getting pregnant
uri: US-Catholic-school-fires-teacher-for-getting-pregnant
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(US_Catholic_school_fires_teacher_for_getting_pregnant)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28US_Catholic_school_fires_teacher_for_getting_pregnant%29

content:
<p>
A Catholic school in the US 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/catholic-religious-schools-fired-lady-teachers-being-pregnant">fired
a teacher for getting pregnant</a>.


title: China helping Kenya prosecute ivory smugglers
uri: China-helping-Kenya-prosecute-ivory-smugglers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(China_helping_Kenya_prosecute_ivory_smugglers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28China_helping_Kenya_prosecute_ivory_smugglers%29

content:
<p>
China has started helping Kenya 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/china-helps-arrest-suspected-ivory-smuggler-nairobi-kenya">prosecute
ivory smugglers</a>.


title: Thai gov't arrests leader of antidemocratic protest movement
uri: Thai-gov-t-arrests-leader-of-antidemocratic-protest-movement
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(Thai_govt_arrests_leader_of_antidemocratic_protest_movement)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28Thai_govt_arrests_leader_of_antidemocratic_protest_movement%29

content:
<p>
The Thai government has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/thai-police-arrest-senior-protest-leader-bangkok">arrested
a leader of the antidemocratic protest movement</a>.
<p>
I can't criticize the arrest of people that represent a minority and
try to sabotage elections.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(Bottom_trawling)
title: Bottom trawling
uri: Bottom-trawling
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28Bottom_trawling%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/10/bottom-trawling-how-to-empty-the-seas">Bottom
Trawling: How to Empty the Seas in Just 150 Years</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 11_February_2014_(Tar_sands_leaks_in_Canada)
title: Tar sands leaks in Canada
uri: Tar-sands-leaks-in-Canada
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_February_2014_%28Tar_sands_leaks_in_Canada%29
content:
<p>
Tar sands leaks in Canada that were reported last May 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/09/3268751/alberta-tar-sands-leaking/">have
not been stopped</a>.


uri: Bill-in-US-congress-would-punish-universities-for-making-statements-in
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Bill_in_US_congress_would_punish_universities_for_making_statements_in_support_of_a_boycott_of_Israel)

title:
Bill in US congress would punish universities for making statements in
support of a boycott of Israel

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Bill_in_US_congress_would_punish_universities_for_making_statements_in_support_of_a_boycott_of_Israel%29

content:
<p>
A bill in the US congress
would <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/new-us-bill-punish-academic-boycott-inspired-israeli-ambassador?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=e623a8edaf-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-e623a8edaf">punish
universities for making statements in support of a boycott of
Israel.</a>
<p>
It might be harder to punish them for supporting a boycott of
companies and institutions that support the illegal Israeli colonies
in Palestinian territory.


title: US and UK have fallen down in ratings for freedom of the press
uri: US-and-UK-have-fallen-down-in-ratings-for-freedom-of-the-press
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(US_and_UK_have_fallen_down_in_ratings_for_freedom_of_the_press)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28US_and_UK_have_fallen_down_in_ratings_for_freedom_of_the_press%29

content:
<p>
The US and UK
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/feb/12/press-freedom-journalist-safety">fallen
down in ratings for freedom of the press.</a>
<p>
It may not be enough to help us but it is a start.


title: UK gov't to provide "unlimited" funds for repairs
uri: UK-gov-t-to-provide-unlimited-funds-for-repairs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(UK_gov't_to_provide_unlimited_funds_for_repairs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28UK_gov%27t_to_provide_unlimited_funds_for_repairs%29

content:
<p>
After floods have caused tremendous damage to houses and transport in
the UK, the government says it
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/11/uk-floods-david-cameron-unlimited-public-funds">provide
"unlimited" funds for repairs.</a>
<p>
Given their perverse austerity policies, they will take those funds
out of aid for the poor.  But why didn't they offer unlimited funds to
prevent floods — including curbing CO2 emissions that are likely
to make for worse floods in the future?


title: New Suit Against Tokyo Electric Power
uri: New-Suit-Against-Tokyo-Electric-Power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(New_Suit_Against_Tokyo_Electric_Power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28New_Suit_Against_Tokyo_Electric_Power%29

content:
<p>
US Sailors Sick From Fukushima
Radiation <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/11-8">File
New Suit Against Tokyo Electric Power.</a>


title: Iowa farmers tell a presidential hopeful
uri: Iowa-farmers-tell-a-presidential-hopeful
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Iowa_farmers_tell_a_presidential_hopeful)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Iowa_farmers_tell_a_presidential_hopeful%29

content:
<p>
Iowa farmers tell a presidential hopeful that supporting big food
processing
companies <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/02/11-2">does
not mean supporting them.</a>


title: Canada's government is attacking democracy on behalf of oil companies
uri: Canada-s-government-is-attacking-democracy-on-behalf-of-oil-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Canada's_government_is_attacking_democracy_on_behalf_of_oil_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Canada%27s_government_is_attacking_democracy_on_behalf_of_oil_companies%29

content:
<p>
Canada's government
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/11-7">attacking
democracy on behalf of oil companies.</a>


title: Urgent: Support campaign for proper prosecution of rape by soldiers
uri: Urgent-Support-campaign-for-proper-prosecution-of-rape-by-soldiers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Urgent:_Support_campaign_for_proper_prosecution_of_rape_by_soldiers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_campaign_for_proper_prosecution_of_rape_by_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support the campaign
for <a href="http://www.endsexualassault.com/?code=dailykos">proper
prosecution of rape by soldiers.</a>


title: Urgent: Endorse the Google shareholder resolution
uri: Urgent-Endorse-the-Google-shareholder-resolution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Urgent:_Endorse_the_Google_shareholder_resolution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Endorse_the_Google_shareholder_resolution%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Endorse
the <a href="https://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/google_alec_shareholders_sierrarise/">Google
shareholder resolution</a> aimed at Google's support for right-wing
groups such as ALEC.


title: Google wants to detect that lots of people are taking photos or videos
uri: Google-wants-to-detect-that-lots-of-people-are-taking-photos-or-videos
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Google_wants_to_detect_that_lots_of_people_are_taking_photos_or_videos)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Google_wants_to_detect_that_lots_of_people_are_taking_photos_or_videos%29

content:
<p>
Google wants
to <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/google-patent-seeks-to-transmit-your-cellphone-videos-to-law-enforcement.html">detect
that lots of people are taking photos or videos with their phones
— and call the thugs.</a>
<p>
Why should Google be allowed
to <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">know
what people are doing?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Anger_in_Bosnia)
title: Anger in Bosnia
uri: Anger-in-Bosnia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Anger_in_Bosnia%29
content:
<p>
Anger in
Bosnia, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/10-7">But
This Time the People Can Read Their Leaders' Ethnic Lies.</a>


title: Urgent: Protect people rather than mining companies
uri: Urgent-Protect-people-rather-than-mining-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_people_rather_than_mining_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_people_rather_than_mining_companies%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/669">tell the governor of
North Carolina</a> to start protecting people rather than the mining
companies that make toxic pollution.


title: Urgent: Make Farm Bill favor healthful food
uri: Urgent-Make-Farm-Bill-favor-healthful-food
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Urgent:_Make_Farm_Bill_favor_healthful_food)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Make_Farm_Bill_favor_healthful_food%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4018">call
on Agriculture Secretary Vilsack</a> to implement the Farm Bill in a
way that favors healthful food.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Warm_winter_in_Sochi)
title: Warm winter in Sochi
uri: Warm-winter-in-Sochi
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Warm_winter_in_Sochi%29
content:
<p>
It is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/feb/11/sochi-winter-olympics-warmest-ever">so 
warm in Sochi</a> that snowboarders are having trouble.
<p>
In 2054 they will need to hold the winter Olympics in a far more
northerly place.  By 2074, the world will have no attention or money
left to hold such games.


title: Infiltration of undercover thugs in political groups in UK
uri: Infiltration-of-undercover-thugs-in-political-groups-in-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Infiltration_of_undercover_thugs_in_political_groups_in_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Infiltration_of_undercover_thugs_in_political_groups_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
UK victims of undercover thug infiltrators in political groups have
launched a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2014/feb/11/undercover-police-and-policing-ukcrime">campaign
for an independent inquiry</a> into the practice.


title: Seattle area sheriff wants police dept. instead of a thug dept.
uri: Seattle-area-sheriff-wants-police-dept-instead-of-a-thug-dept
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Seattle_area_sheriff_wants_police_dept._instead_of_a_thug_dept.)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Seattle_area_sheriff_wants_police_dept._instead_of_a_thug_dept.%29

content:
<p>
One sheriff in the Seattle area wants to run a 
<a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/02/03/sheriff-fires-cop-who-threatened-to-arrest-me-for-taking-photos-of-cops">police
department</a> instead of a gang of thugs.


title: UK thugs arrest student protesters to get their names
uri: UK-thugs-arrest-student-protesters-to-get-their-names
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(UK_thugs_arrest_student_protesters_to_get_their_names)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28UK_thugs_arrest_student_protesters_to_get_their_names%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs arrested student protesters 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/chomsky-loach-letter-student-protesters-birmingham">for
no reason except to get their names</a>, then the university suspended
them for protesting.
<p>
The thugs had 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/free-speech-threat-universities">besieged
the students for hours</a>.


title: How the NSA Helps the US Assassinate
uri: How-the-NSA-Helps-the-US-Assassinate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(How_the_NSA_Helps_the_US_Assassinate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28How_the_NSA_Helps_the_US_Assassinate%29

content:
<p>
Greenwald/Scahill: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/10-0">How the
NSA Helps the US Assassinate</a>.


title: Human rights lawyer Lynne Stewart railroaded
uri: Human-rights-lawyer-Lynne-Stewart-railroaded
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Human_rights_lawyer_Lynne_Stewart_railroaded)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Human_rights_lawyer_Lynne_Stewart_railroaded%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/10-1">railroading
of human rights lawyer Lynne Stewart</a> demonstrates the degradation
of the US trial system.
<p>
You can see the effects of this in the repeated convictions of
"criminals" who only went along with 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#30_November_2012_(Judges_rebuke_in_FBI_entrapment_case)">plans
suggested by thugs</a> and would never have been able to carry them
out.


title: Woman attacked by thug gets threatened with 7 years in prison
uri: Woman-attacked-by-thug-gets-threatened-with-7-years-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Woman_attacked_by_thug_gets_threatened_with_7_years_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Woman_attacked_by_thug_gets_threatened_with_7_years_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
Cecily McMillan elbowed the person attacking her from behind, who
turned out to be a thug, so she is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/occupy-activist-faces-up-to-seven-years-in-jail-for-assault-on-police-officer">threatened
with 7 years in prison</a>.
<p>
I wonder who groped her breast — was that the thug?
<p>
Thugs often attack innocent people, and make a special point of
attacking people who are particularly virtuous (such as protesters for
good causes).  They are hardly ever prosecuted for this.  If once in a
while they get hit back, that's only a small step towards justice.


title: Indian mining company suing poor villagers
uri: Indian-mining-company-suing-poor-villagers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Indian_mining_company_suing_poor_villagers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Indian_mining_company_suing_poor_villagers%29

content:
<p>
An Indian mining company is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/terra-india/2014/feb/10/india-deforestation-greens-protest-hasty-clearances">suing
poor villagers</a> as well as destroying their forest.


title: Xenophobia rising around the world
uri: Xenophobia-rising-around-the-world
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Xenophobia_rising_around_the_world)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Xenophobia_rising_around_the_world%29

content:
<p>
Xenophobia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/10/mark-harper-cleaner-immigration-bill">rising
around the world</a>: "these are dangerous times to look foreign".
<p>
I understand the pressure to limit immigration.  As millions start to
flee from land that has turned into desert or ocean, this pressure
will become enormous.  No country is obliged to accept millions of
refugees.
<p>
However, it makes a difference that our carbon emissions are
responsible for the spreading deserts and oceans — and 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#02_June_2012_(Carbon_tax_would_help)">stop
them</a>.  If we don't want to accept those millions of refugees we
should stop destroying their land.


title: Spanish judge opens criminal investigation of Chinese ex-officials
uri: Spanish-judge-opens-criminal-investigation-of-Chinese-ex-officials
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Spanish_judge_opens_criminal_investigation_of_Chinese_ex-officials)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Spanish_judge_opens_criminal_investigation_of_Chinese_ex-officials%29

content:
<p>
A Spanish judge has opened a criminal investigation of Chinese
ex-officials for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/spanish-judge-tibet-genocide-china-jiang-zemin-li-peng">crimes
against Tibetans</a>.
<p>
I suspect that the mostly-right-wing US government is pressuring
Spain's government to end this practice.  Obama 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-nov-feb.html#13%20February%202009%20(Obama%20endorses%20Bush%20ploy)">protects
Bush and his torturers from criminal prosecution</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/10-6">Time to Take
a Stand to End US Impunity</a>


title: Obama to imprison another whistleblower
uri: Obama-to-imprison-another-whistleblower
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 12_February_2014_(Obama_to_imprison_another_whistleblower)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_February_2014_%28Obama_to_imprison_another_whistleblower%29

content:
<p>
Obama will imprison 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/stephen-kim-guilty-journalist-classified-infomation">another
whistleblower</a>, who was identified by massive surveillance of
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_May_2013_(Obama_regime_collects_Associated_Presss_phone_records)">journalists' 
phone call records</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Stasi_collected_metadata_too)
title: Stasi collected metadata too
uri: Stasi-collected-metadata-too
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Stasi_collected_metadata_too%29
content:
<p>
The Stasi, the East German secret
police, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/12-0">collected
metadata too.</a> But it could not collect everyone's metadata as the
US does.


title: Obama considering assassination of an American in a country where the US is not at war
uri: Obama-considering-assassination-of-an-American-in-a-country-where-the
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Obama_considering_assassination_of_an_American_in_a_country_where_the_US_is_not_at_war)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Obama_considering_assassination_of_an_American_in_a_country_where_the_US_is_not_at_war%29

content:
<p>
Obama is
considering <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/obama-pressure-disclose-drone-details-citizen-targeted">launching
an assassination of an American in a country where the US is not at
war.</a>
<p>
The fact that no attempt has been made to charge that person with a
crime adds to the scandal, but if there were charges against that
person, that would not justify summary execution.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(CIA_drone_attacks)
title: CIA drone attacks
uri: CIA-drone-attacks
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28CIA_drone_attacks%29
content:
<p>
More about
how <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/">CIA
drone attacks are aimed at SIM cards identified based on metadata.</a>


title: Glenn Greenwald says he will not remain in exile forever
uri: Glenn-Greenwald-says-he-will-not-remain-in-exile-forever
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Glenn_Greenwald_says_he_will_not_remain_in_exile_forever)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Glenn_Greenwald_says_he_will_not_remain_in_exile_forever%29

content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald says he will not remain in exile forever, even though
the US
government <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/10/defying_threats_to_journalism_jeremy_scahill">refuses
to say whether he will be prosecuted for his journalism.</a>


title: Mass surveillance endangers journalism
uri: Mass-surveillance-endangers-journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Mass_surveillance_endangers_journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Mass_surveillance_endangers_journalism%29

content:
<p>
The Committee to Protect Journalists warns
that <a href="http://www.cpj.org/internet/2014/02/media-surveillance-and-the-day-we-fight-back.php">mass
surveillance endangers journalism.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 13_February_2014_(The_Israeli_army)
title: The Israeli army
uri: The-Israeli-army
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#13_February_2014_%28The_Israeli_army%29
content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/66869">shot and killed unarmed
Mohammad Mahmoud Mubarak as he was busy directing traffic</a>.  Then
they claimed he has shot at them first, although he was unarmed and
nobody shot except them.
<p>
The Israeli army arrests Palestinian children and 
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2014/02/10/3939266.htm">tortures
them into signing confessions they can't read</a>.


title: North Carolina protects Duke Energy from penalties for spill
uri: North-Carolina-protects-Duke-Energy-from-penalties-for-spill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 13_February_2014_(North_Carolina_protects_Duke_Energy_from_penalties_for_spill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#13_February_2014_%28North_Carolina_protects_Duke_Energy_from_penalties_for_spill%29

content:
<p>
North Carolina's first response to Duke Energy's coal ash spill was to
minimize it and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/north-carolina-tosses-deal-electric-company-coal-spills">protect
the company from penalties</a>.


title: EU-Israel relations depend on outcome of peace talks with Palestine
uri: EU-Israel-relations-depend-on-outcome-of-peace-talks-with-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 13_February_2014_(EU-Israel_relations_depend_on_outcome_of_peace_talks_with_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#13_February_2014_%28EU-Israel_relations_depend_on_outcome_of_peace_talks_with_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
The EU envoy to Israel says that 
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/EU-envoy-Relations-with-Israel-depend-on-outcome-of-peace-talks-341072">relations
will depend on the outcome of peace talks</a> with Palestine.
<p>
Since the peace talks began, Israel has 
<a href="http://forward.com/articles/192377/israel-razes-most-palestinian-homes-in--years/">accelerated
its demolitions of Palestinians' houses</a>.


title: Yellen acknowledges "economic recovery" failed to provide jobs
uri: Yellen-acknowledges-economic-recovery-failed-to-provide-jobs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 13_February_2014_(Yellen_acknowledges_economic_recovery_failed_to_provide_jobs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#13_February_2014_%28Yellen_acknowledges_economic_recovery_failed_to_provide_jobs%29

content:
<p>
Janet Yellen acknowledged that the US "economic recovery" has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/11/yellen-us-recovery-jobs-report-federal-reserve">failed
to provide jobs</a>.
<p>
While I am glad Yellen recognizes the problem, 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2003-nov-feb.html#9%20January%202004%20(false%20recovery)">interest 
rates have little leverage for correcting it</a>.  Low interest rates
help banksters make more money, but they have no reason to put this
into the rest of the economy.  What we need is to 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_(Number_of_Americans_not_in_work_force_increased)">expand 
deficit spending</a>.  When Obama endorsed the Republicans' goal of
deficit cutting, he screwed the US until we replace him.


title: In Dubai, the law makes every battered wife a prisoner
uri: In-Dubai-the-law-makes-every-battered-wife-a-prisoner
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(In_Dubai,_the_law_makes_every_battered_wife_a_prisoner)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28In_Dubai%2C_the_law_makes_every_battered_wife_a_prisoner%29

content:
<p>
In
Dubai, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/15/my-mother-trapped-uae-nightmarish-legal-system">the
law makes every battered wife a prisoner.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(US_mainstream_media)
title: US mainstream media
uri: US-mainstream-media
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28US_mainstream_media%29
content:
<p>
When US politicians stimulate fear of terrorism in order to take more
control, <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=985">the US
mainstream media support them.</a>


title: Thugs shot Eugene Mallory to death, then made false accusations about him
uri: Thugs-shot-Eugene-Mallory-to-death-then-made-false-accusations-about
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Thugs_shot_Eugene_Mallory_to_death,_then_made_false_accusations_about_him)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Thugs_shot_Eugene_Mallory_to_death%2C_then_made_false_accusations_about_him%29

content:
<p>
Thugs implementing the War on
Drugs <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/13/vid-police-shoot-kill-80-year-old-man-in">shot
Eugene Mallory to death in his bed, then made false accusations about
him</a> (as usual).


title: Former FCC commissioner regrets the consolidation
uri: Former-FCC-commissioner-regrets-the-consolidation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Former_FCC_commissioner_regrets_the_consolidation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Former_FCC_commissioner_regrets_the_consolidation%29

content:
<p>
A former FCC
commissioner <a href="http://www.cjr.org/essay/from_the_desk_of_a_former_fcc.php?page=all">regrets
the media consolidation that the FCC permitted over and over.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Water_in_West_Virginia)
title: Water in West Virginia
uri: Water-in-West-Virginia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Water_in_West_Virginia%29
content:
<p>
Although the water in West Virginia is supposed to be
"safe", <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/west-virginia-chemical-spill-aftermath">people
are still having horrible reactions to it.</a>


title: Law banning private license plate recorders is being challenged
uri: Law-banning-private-license-plate-recorders-is-being-challenged
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Law_banning_private_license_plate_recorders_is_being_challenged)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Law_banning_private_license_plate_recorders_is_being_challenged%29

content:
<p>
A Utah law banning private license plate recorders
is <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/private-firms-argue-first-amendment-right-to-collect-license-plate-data/">being
challenged in court.</a>
<p>
This sort of law is vitally needed to curb massive surveillance.
People must be free to take photos and videos, but companies should
not be allowed to systematically watch everyone.
<p>
The perverse Corporations United decision (to call it what it really
is) in which the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are entitled to
human rights may lead to a bad decision on this law.  Please support
the campaign for a constitutional amendment
to <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_January_2014_%28Urgent:_Counteract_the_Corporations_United_decision%29">cancel
that decision.</a>


title: Anti-Drone activist arrested and tortured
uri: Anti-Drone-activist-arrested-and-tortured
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Anti-Drone_activist_arrested_and_tortured)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Anti-Drone_activist_arrested_and_tortured%29

content:
<p>
Pakistani anti-drone activist Kareem Khan
was <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/14-2">arrested
and tortured by Pakistani thugs.</a>


title: The History of Surveillance and the Black Community
uri: The-History-of-Surveillance-and-the-Black-Community
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(The_History_of_Surveillance_and_the_Black_Community)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28The_History_of_Surveillance_and_the_Black_Community%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/history-surveillance-and-black-community">The
History of Surveillance and the Black Community.</a>


title: Congresscritters in the pocket of the copyright industry
uri: Congresscritters-in-the-pocket-of-the-copyright-industry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Congresscritters_in_the_pocket_of_the_copyright_industry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Congresscritters_in_the_pocket_of_the_copyright_industry%29

content:
<p>
Congresscritters in the pocket of the copyright
industry <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140212/06500626194/another-friend-recording-industry-joins-house-subcommittee-courts-intellectual-property-internet.shtml">abolish
and create subcommittees to make sure Hollywood has power over
you.</a>
<p>
I recommend people join in my almost-boycott of Hollywood: never pay
to see a movie unless you have some reason to believe it is actually
good.  While in theory this is not a complete boycott, in practice the
difference is small.


title: Too warm to hold winter Olympics again
uri: Too-warm-to-hold-winter-Olympics-again
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Too_warm_to_hold_winter_Olympics_again)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Too_warm_to_hold_winter_Olympics_again%29

content:
<p>
Of the 19 places where winter Olympics have been
held, <a href="http://www.popsci.com/article/science/world-without-winter-olympics">13
will be too warm in 2080 to do so again.</a>
<p>
By 2080 I expect the world economy will be too shattered to continue
holding events like the Olympic games.  Thus, I have to admit that
global heating will have occasional minor benefits.  However, they
will be minuscule compared to the disaster.


title: Thugs who shot innocent women won't even be fired
uri: Thugs-who-shot-innocent-women-won-t-even-be-fired
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Thugs_who_shot_innocent_women_won't_even_be_fired)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Thugs_who_shot_innocent_women_won%27t_even_be_fired%29

content:
<p>
The thugs who shot innocent women in LA (while looking for one man)
<a href="http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/02/police-officers-who-shot-two-innocent-women-103-times-wont-be-fired/357771/">won't
even be fired.</a>


title: For US gov't, leaks from people who like drones are good
uri: For-US-gov-t-leaks-from-people-who-like-drones-are-good
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(For_US_gov't,_leaks_from_people_who_like_drones_are_good)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28For_US_gov%27t%2C_leaks_from_people_who_like_drones_are_good%29

content:
<p>
For the US government, leaks from people who like drones are good;
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/14-4">leaks from
people who don't like drones are bad.</a>


title: GMOs Are Killing the Bees, Butterflies, Birds and... ?
uri: GMOs-Are-Killing-the-Bees-Butterflies-Birds-and
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(GMOs_Are_Killing_the_Bees,_Butterflies,_Birds_and...__)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28GMOs_Are_Killing_the_Bees%2C_Butterflies%2C_Birds_and...__%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/14-5">GMOs Are
Killing the Bees, Butterflies, Birds and... ?</a>


title: Pensacola makes it illegal for homeless people to use blankets
uri: Pensacola-makes-it-illegal-for-homeless-people-to-use-blankets
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Pensacola_makes_it_illegal_for_homeless_people_to_use_blankets)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Pensacola_makes_it_illegal_for_homeless_people_to_use_blankets%29

content:
<p>
The latest clever idea for persecuting homeless people: Pensacola has
<a href="http://www.forwardprogressives.com/florida-ordinance-makes-illegal-homeless-use-blankets-protect-weather/">banned
using a blanket or newspaper to protect oneself from the weather</a>.
<p>
Everyone who supported that deserves to be sentenced to a year of
homelessness.


title: Massive surveillance and confirmation bias of investigators
uri: Massive-surveillance-and-confirmation-bias-of-investigators
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Massive_surveillance_and_confirmation_bias_of_investigators)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Massive_surveillance_and_confirmation_bias_of_investigators%29

content:
<p>
Another danger from massive surveillance: once investigators believe
someone is guilty of a crime — any crime — 
<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/the-terrifying-surveillancecaseofbrandonmayfield.html">confirmation
bias</a> will encourage them to focus on whichever parts of the
surveillance information confirm that suspicion, and ignore the parts
that say otherwise.


title: US gov't considers laws requiring remote kill switch in smartphones
uri: US-gov-t-considers-laws-requiring-remote-kill-switch-in-smartphones
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(US_govt_considers_laws_requiring_remote_kill_switch_in_smartphones)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28US_govt_considers_laws_requiring_remote_kill_switch_in_smartphones%29

content:
<p>
California and the US government are considering laws requiring a
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/021314-federal-smartphone-kill-switch-legislation-278760.html">remote
kill switch and erasure feature</a> in all smartphones.
<p>
This would make them even more open to attack by the state.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Abuse_of_state_secrets_privilege)
title: Abuse of state secrets privilege
uri: Abuse-of-state-secrets-privilege
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Abuse_of_state_secrets_privilege%29

content:
<p>
Obama said, "We must not protect information merely because it reveals
the violation of a law or embarrassment to the government", but that's
exactly what the government 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=1015">continues to
do</a>.
<p>
"How far would [officials] be willing to go to cover up serious crimes
such as torture and assassination?"


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 15_February_2014_(Brazil_persecuting_sex_workers)
title: Brazil persecuting sex workers
uri: Brazil-persecuting-sex-workers
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#15_February_2014_%28Brazil_persecuting_sex_workers%29

content:
<p>
Brazil is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/feb/14/brazil-world-cup-2014-sex-industry-human-rights">persecuting
sex workers</a> to "clean up its image".


title: Idaho's "Ag-Gag" Law Latest to Criminalize Defenders of Animals
uri: Idaho-s-Ag-Gag-Law-Latest-to-Criminalize-Defenders-of-Animals
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Idaho's_Ag-Gag_Law_Latest_to_Criminalize_Defenders_of_Animals)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Idaho%27s_Ag-Gag_Law_Latest_to_Criminalize_Defenders_of_Animals%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/13-7">Idaho's
"Ag-Gag" Law Latest to Criminalize Defenders of Animals.</a>


title: Urgent: Reject Obama's anti-abortion judge nominee
uri: Urgent-Reject-Obama-s-anti-abortion-judge-nominee
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_Obama's_anti-abortion_judge_nominee)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Obama%27s_anti-abortion_judge_nominee%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate
to <a href="https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=9B56C553A34F74B5CB8682D88FD544D9.app244a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5797&autologin=true&link1">reject
Obama's anti-abortion judge nominee.</a>


title: Urgent: Stand firm against Republican hostage taking
uri: Urgent-Stand-firm-against-Republican-hostage-taking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Stand_firm_against_Republican_hostage_taking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stand_firm_against_Republican_hostage_taking%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on congressional Democrats
to <a href="https://dailykos.com/campaigns/670">stand firm against
Republican hostage taking.</a>


title: Urgent: Object to GM corn designed to be used with Agent Orange
uri: Urgent-Object-to-GM-corn-designed-to-be-used-with-Agent-Orange
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Object_to_GM_corn_designed_to_be_used_with_Agent_Orange)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Object_to_GM_corn_designed_to_be_used_with_Agent_Orange%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=928A7347550F76193ED07E56AB4B9D2F.app322b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1541&utm_source=Convio">object
to GM corn designed to be used with Agent Orange.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(The_Other_NRA)
title: The Other NRA
uri: The-Other-NRA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28The_Other_NRA%29
content:
<p>
The Other
NRA: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/14-0">National
Restaurant Association Eviscerates Rights of Customers, Workers, and
Children.</a>


title: Natural gas leaks a lot more methane than was previously believed
uri: Natural-gas-leaks-a-lot-more-methane-than-was-previously-believed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Natural_gas_leaks_a_lot_more_methane_than_was_previously_believed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Natural_gas_leaks_a_lot_more_methane_than_was_previously_believed%29

content:
<p>
Natural
gas <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2014/3-questions-francis-osullivan-on-the-climate-impact-of-leaky-methane-0213.html">leaks
a lot more methane, and contributes a lot more to global heating</a>,
than was previously believed.


title: Ocean heating seems to have caused grave damage to coral reef
uri: Ocean-heating-seems-to-have-caused-grave-damage-to-coral-reef
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Ocean_heating_seems_to_have_caused_grave_damage_to_coral_reef)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Ocean_heating_seems_to_have_caused_grave_damage_to_coral_reef%29

content:
<p>
Ocean heating seems to
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/coral-western-australia-damage-marine-heatwaves">caused
grave damage to an old, remote coral reef</a> whose location keeps it
safe from other human-caused depredations.


title: Privatized prison covered up understaffing
uri: Privatized-prison-covered-up-understaffing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Privatized_prison_covered_up_understaffing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Privatized_prison_covered_up_understaffing%29

content:
<p>
A privatized prison in
Idaho <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/13-5">covered
up its understaffing by fraudulent overbilling.</a>
<p>
The million dollar non-fine seems inadequate as a punishment.  The
company ought to be prosecuted and put in its own prison.
<p>
It has been pointed out that one aspect of white privilege is that
whites are less likely to be prosecuted for certain crimes than blacks
are.  By the same criterion, the most privileged class in the US is
that of corporations.


title: Comparing protection of elephants with prohibition of drugs
uri: Comparing-protection-of-elephants-with-prohibition-of-drugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Comparing_protection_of_elephants_with_prohibition_of_drugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Comparing_protection_of_elephants_with_prohibition_of_drugs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/13/save-elephants-farm-them-ivory-tusks">Comparing
protection of elephants with prohibition of drugs.</a>
<p>
There is a significant difference between the two.  Ivory has no
physiological effect; if people like owning ivory, that is just an
acquired taste, which they could easily learn to change.  Nonetheless,
the article could be right.


title: TEPCO Blasted for Withholding Data as Fukushima Radiation Levels Soar
uri: TEPCO-Blasted-for-Withholding-Data-as-Fukushima-Radiation-Levels-Soar
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(TEPCO_Blasted_for_Withholding_Data_as_Fukushima_Radiation_Levels_Soar)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28TEPCO_Blasted_for_Withholding_Data_as_Fukushima_Radiation_Levels_Soar%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/13-2">TEPCO
Blasted for Withholding Data as Fukushima Radiation Levels Soar.</a>


title: Almost 6 million Americans can't vote because of previous criminal convictions
uri: Almost-6-million-Americans-can-t-vote-because-of-previous-criminal-con
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Almost_6_million_Americans_can't_vote_because_of_previous_criminal_convictions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Almost_6_million_Americans_can%27t_vote_because_of_previous_criminal_convictions%29

content:
<p>
Almost <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/13-10">6
million Americans can't vote because of previous criminal
convictions</a>,mainly from minority groups because members of those
groups are more likely to be prosecuted.  This is enough to change the
outcome of elections.


title: Urgent: Reject the environmental impact statement for Keystone XL
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-environmental-impact-statement-for-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_the_environmental_impact_statement_for_Keystone_XL)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_environmental_impact_statement_for_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/kxl_fseis/">tell the State
Department</a> not to follow its joke of an environmental impact
statement for the Keystone XL pipeline, and reject it.


title: Urgent: Have the EPA block Pebble Mine
uri: Urgent-Have-the-EPA-block-Pebble-Mine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Have_the_EPA_block_Pebble_Mine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Have_the_EPA_block_Pebble_Mine%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy;?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3321">call
on Obama</a> to have the EPA block Pebble Mine.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(A_new_geological_period)
title: A new geological period
uri: A-new-geological-period
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28A_new_geological_period%29
content:
<p>
Geologists are seriously considering the idea that humans, through
global heating and ecological disruption, have caused a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2014/feb/05/giant-rats-big-sheep-anthropocene-earth-geological">new
geological period</a>, which they propose to call the Anthropocene.
<p>
I am concerned that the name "Anthropocene" may provoke irrational
pride: some humans may think, "An epoch named after US humans proves
our importance — we've really made it now."  Even people who
would not say this may feel it and be subtly influenced by it.  That
would be most unfortunate, since considering the epoch as an award
would lead people not to recognize this development as the catastrophe
that it is.
<p>
I therefore suggest choosing another name.  The name that best
characterizes what's coming in this epoch is "Obscene".
<p>
Seriously, since the change consists primarily of global heating, how
about "Thermocene"?  The heating is caused mainly by combustion (of
fossil fuel and forests), so how about "Pyrocene"?


title: Court rules warrant required for access to people's prescriptions
uri: Court-rules-warrant-required-for-access-to-people-s-prescriptions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Court_rules_warrant_required_for_access_to_peoples_prescriptions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Court_rules_warrant_required_for_access_to_peoples_prescriptions%29

content:
<p>
An ACLU victory: a federal court ruled that the 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/court-rules-feds-need-warrant-access-drug">government
needs to get a warrant</a> before it can access the confidential data
base of people's prescriptions.
<p>
It's a step in the right direction, but access is still too easy.  The
state should not create a centralized data base of everyone's
prescriptions.


title: Record pace of school shootings in the US
uri: Record-pace-of-school-shootings-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Record_pace_of_school_shootings_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Record_pace_of_school_shootings_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
School shootings are happening in the US at 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/school-shootings-newtown-study-gun-violence">record
pace</a>, and 3/4 of the shooters found their guns at home.


title: Deputy Attorney General's testimony about snooping
uri: Deputy-Attorney-General-s-testimony-about-snooping
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Deputy_Attorney_Generals_testimony_about_snooping)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Deputy_Attorney_Generals_testimony_about_snooping%29

content:
<p>
Congresscritters say Deputy Attorney General James Cole's testimony
about snooping on their phone calls was
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/nsa-james-cole-congress-testimony-surveillance-phone-records'>not
entirely accurate</a>".  It was the usual misleading half-truth.


title: Things you can't do in the US while black
uri: Things-you-can-t-do-in-the-US-while-black
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Things_you_cant_do_in_the_US_while_black)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Things_you_cant_do_in_the_US_while_black%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/21-things-you-cant-do-while-black">21
things</a> you can't do in the US while black.


title: Urgent: Block merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable
uri: Urgent-Block-merger-of-Comcast-and-Time-Warner-Cable
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Block_merger_of_Comcast_and_Time_Warner_Cable)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Block_merger_of_Comcast_and_Time_Warner_Cable%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/consol_comcast_twc/">call on
the US</a> to block the merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
<p>
These are the 
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-comcast-20140212,0,4158731.story">two
biggest US cable operators</a>.
<p>
It should be a no-brainer to block such a merger, but the US
government is too corrupt to be counted on even for no-brainers.
<p>
These two companies are both ALEC members, and ALEC supports their
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/02/12385/how-alec-helps-big-telecom-change-state-laws-corporate-gain">lobbying
campaigns</a> to eliminate local regulation of cable TV and ban public
network access.


title: Freedom to protest in the US is under attack
uri: Freedom-to-protest-in-the-US-is-under-attack
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Freedom_to_protest_in_the_US_is_under_attack)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Freedom_to_protest_in_the_US_is_under_attack%29

content:
<p>
Freedom to protest in the US is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/13/cecily-mcmillan-occupy-trial-civil-liberties">under
systematic attack</a>.


title: Brazilian Landless Workers protest against president's support for agribusiness
uri: Brazilian-Landless-Workers-protest-against-president-s-support-for-agr
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Brazilian_Landless_Workers_protest_against_presidents_support_for_agribusiness)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Brazilian_Landless_Workers_protest_against_presidents_support_for_agribusiness%29

content:
<p>
The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/13/brazil-landless-workers-movement-mst-protest-30th-anniversary">protesting
against President Rousseff's support for agribusiness</a>.
<p>
In the 1990s, I was told, activists of this movement were arrested
on the pretext that they were using unauthorized copies of Windows.
They could not afford authorized copies, of course.  Then I heard
that they had switched to GNU/Linux to protect themselves.


title: Urgent: Tell mainstream media to talk about TPP
uri: Urgent-Tell-mainstream-media-to-talk-about-TPP
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_mainstream_media_to_talk_about_TPP)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_mainstream_media_to_talk_about_TPP%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-the-media-it-s-time-to-expose-the-tpp">tell
the mainstream media</a> to start talking about the TPP.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Support_Children_404)
title: Urgent: Support Children 404
uri: Urgent-Support-Children-404
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Children_404%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=520599">Support
Children 404</a> and demand Russia drop charges against Elena Klimova.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Iran_executes_Arab_poet)
title: Iran executes Arab poet
uri: Iran-executes-Arab-poet
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Iran_executes_Arab_poet%29
content:
<p>
Iran has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/13/iran-middleeast">executed
an Arab poet</a>, labeled as "terrorist".


title: Belgium to give children option of euthanasia
uri: Belgium-to-give-children-option-of-euthanasia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Belgium_to_give_children_option_of_euthanasia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Belgium_to_give_children_option_of_euthanasia%29

content:
<p>
Belgium will give children dying slowly in great pain the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/13/belgium-law-extends-euthanasia-children-all-ages">option
of euthanasia</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(UK_floods_part_of_trend)
title: UK floods part of trend
uri: UK-floods-part-of-trend
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28UK_floods_part_of_trend%29
content:
<p>
The devastating UK floods are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/storms-floods-climate-change-upon-us-lord-stern">part
of a trend</a>: 4 of the 5 wettest years ever recorded have occurred
since 2000.


title: Loopholes for the rich to cut student loan debt
uri: Loopholes-for-the-rich-to-cut-student-loan-debt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Loopholes_for_the_rich_to_cut_student_loan_debt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Loopholes_for_the_rich_to_cut_student_loan_debt%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/02/elizabeth-warren-student-loan-debt">Elizabeth
Warren Calls for Closing Loopholes for the Rich to Cut Student Loan
Debt</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_chained_CPI)
title: Urgent: Oppose chained CPI
uri: Urgent-Oppose-chained-CPI
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_chained_CPI%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9238">tell
Obama</a>, no chained CPI — no cuts in Social Security, not even
veiled cuts.


title: Urgent: Extend the Clean Water Act
uri: Urgent-Extend-the-Clean-Water-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Extend_the_Clean_Water_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Extend_the_Clean_Water_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=10195&autologin=true">extending
the Clean Water Act to all waterways</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Urgent:_Keep_wolves_protected)
title: Urgent: Keep wolves protected
uri: Urgent-Keep-wolves-protected
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_wolves_protected%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2691">call
on the Fish and Wildlife Service</a> not to delist wolves from
protection.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(USA_Freedom_Act_not_enough)
title: USA Freedom Act not enough
uri: USA-Freedom-Act-not-enough
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28USA_Freedom_Act_not_enough%29
content:
<p>
NSA Whistleblower: 
<a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11458">USA
Freedom Act Will Not Go Far Enough To Protect Civil Liberties</a>.
<p>
It 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">falls
short in other ways too</a>.
<p>
We should support it, but we must demand more.


title: Australian plan to kill large sharks violates treaty
uri: Australian-plan-to-kill-large-sharks-violates-treaty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Australian_plan_to_kill_large_sharks_violates_treaty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Australian_plan_to_kill_large_sharks_violates_treaty%29

content:
<p>
The Australian plan to kill large sharks 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/shark-cull-government-in-clear-breach-of-international-obligations">violates
a treaty meant to protect migratory endangered species</a> such as the
great white shark.


title: ISP lobbyists pressured legislatures to ban public broadband
uri: ISP-lobbyists-pressured-legislatures-to-ban-public-broadband
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(ISP_lobbyists_pressured_legislatures_to_ban_public_broadband)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28ISP_lobbyists_pressured_legislatures_to_ban_public_broadband%29

content:
<p>
ISP lobbyists have pressured (or paid?) 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/isp-lobby-has-already-won-limits-on-public-broadband-in-20-states/">20
states' legislatures to ban public broadband</a>.


title: US Republicans' "concern" about future generations
uri: US-Republicans-concern-about-future-generations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(US_Republicans_concern_about_future_generations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28US_Republicans_concern_about_future_generations%29

content:
<p>
If US Republicans are serious in their concern for future generations,
they should protect them from 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/12/republican-house-debt-ceiling-climate-change">global
heating disaster</a>.
<p>
This reasoning won't influence congressional Republicans, because they
don't care about future generations except for the wealthy.  Their
pretended concern is nothing but an excuse to kick the poor today.


title: Protest in Bosnia against privatization
uri: Protest-in-Bosnia-against-privatization
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Protest_in_Bosnia_against_privatization)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Protest_in_Bosnia_against_privatization%29

content:
<p>
The protests in Bosnia are aimed at privatization which (as usual) was
done so as to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/12/bosnians-economic-war-tuzla-protests">screw
the non-rich</a>, and at the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/sarajevo-anti-government-niksic-elections-bosnia-herzegovina">corruption
of the state</a>.
<p>
I don't know the facts, but my guess is that some of the ex-Yugoslav
industries should have been privatized, because they made products for
a competitive market.  That doesn't justify cheating the workers.
Perhaps they should have been turned into worker cooperatives.


title: Nonviolent protester faces three years in prison in Russia
uri: Nonviolent-protester-faces-three-years-in-prison-in-Russia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Nonviolent_protester_faces_three_years_in_prison_in_Russia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Nonviolent_protester_faces_three_years_in_prison_in_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Russian environmentalist Evgeny Vitishko faces 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/12/sochi-environmentalist-jailed-painting-fence-revenge">three
years in prison</a> for spray-painting on a fence.
<p>
Similar repression of nonviolent protest is found also 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#16_January_2014_(Megan_Rice_likely_to_be_imprisoned_for_the_rest_of_her_life)">in 
the US</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(2014_World_Press_Freedom_Index)
title: 2014 World Press Freedom Index
uri: 2014-World-Press-Freedom-Index
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%282014_World_Press_Freedom_Index%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php">Biggest Rises and
Falls in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index</a>.


title: Music factories trying to force ISP to punish customers for sharing
uri: Music-factories-trying-to-force-ISP-to-punish-customers-for-sharing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 14_February_2014_(Music_factories_trying_to_force_ISP_to_punish_customers_for_sharing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_%28Music_factories_trying_to_force_ISP_to_punish_customers_for_sharing%29

content:
<p>
The big music factories are 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-ask-court-to-force-isp-to-disconnect-music-pirates-130212/">trying
to force a major Irish ISP to start punishing customers accused of
sharing</a>.
<p>
To make a deal with the copyright industry is self-delusion.  If you
try to "meet them half way", they come back later and demand the rest.


title: Urgent: Restore Snowden's passport
uri: 2014-02-17-Urgent-Restore-Snowden-s-passport
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Urgent:_Restore_Snowden's_passport)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Restore_Snowden%27s_passport%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8711">call
on the US to restore Snowden's passport.</a>


title: US now allows banks to deal with state-legalized marijuana businesses
uri: US-now-allows-banks-to-deal-with-state-legalized-marijuana-businesses
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(US_now_allows_banks_to_deal_with_state-legalized_marijuana_businesses)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28US_now_allows_banks_to_deal_with_state-legalized_marijuana_businesses%29

content:
<p>
The US
now <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/02/14-3">allows
banks to deal with state-legalized marijuana businesses.</a>


title: Urgent: Call on US to promise no foul play against Snowden
uri: Urgent-Call-on-US-to-promise-no-foul-play-against-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_US_to_promise_no_foul_play_against_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_US_to_promise_no_foul_play_against_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on the US to
promise <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9274">no
foul play against Snowden.</a>


title: Fish farms accused of destroying wild salmon in Scotland
uri: Fish-farms-accused-of-destroying-wild-salmon-in-Scotland
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Fish_farms_accused_of_destroying_wild_salmon_in_Scotland)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Fish_farms_accused_of_destroying_wild_salmon_in_Scotland%29

content:
<p>
Fish farms accused
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/16/fish-farms-wild-scottish-salmon">destroying
wild salmon in Scotland.</a>


title: Urgent: Support Don't Spy on US campaign
uri: Urgent-Support-Don-t-Spy-on-US-campaign
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Urgent:_Support_Don't_Spy_on_US_campaign)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Don%27t_Spy_on_US_campaign%29

content:
<p>
UK citizens: support
the <a href="https://www.dontspyonus.org.uk/org">Don't Spy on US
campaign.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">This
campaign does not go far enough,</a> but it is worth supporting
anyway.


title: Privatization is costly and harmful
uri: Privatization-is-costly-and-harmful
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Privatization_is_costly_and_harmful)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Privatization_is_costly_and_harmful%29

content:
<p>
US cities and states are discovering
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/16-0">privatization
is costly and harmful.</a>
<p>
A private operator has a financial incentive not to do the whole job.
If it sells to the public in a competitive market, people will judge
it on that.  Otherwise, it will screw people without restraint.


title: Urgent: Support network neutrality
uri: 2014-02-17-Urgent-Support-network-neutrality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Urgent:_Support_network_neutrality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
EU
citizens: <a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-parliament-civil-liberties-committee-paves-the-way-for-real-net-neutrality">talk
with your MEPs to support network neutrality.</a>


title: Uganda's law censoring "promotion of homosexuality" has been approved
uri: Uganda-s-law-censoring-promotion-of-homosexuality-has-been-approved
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Uganda's_law_censoring_promotion_of_homosexuality_has_been_approved)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Uganda%27s_law_censoring_promotion_of_homosexuality_has_been_approved%29

content:
<p>
Uganda's law censoring "promotion of homosexuality" and imposing
prison for any touching in
public <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/ugandan-museveni-passes-anti-gay-law">has
been approved.</a>
<p>
The influence of genes on homosexuality
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/15/gay-gene-dangers-research-homophobia">not
a secure base for arguing for equal rights for homosexuals.</a>
<p>
I think the issue is simple.  People who don't want to have sex with
you have a right not to have sex with you, and aside from that it's
none of their business who you have sex with.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Global_heating_denialist_tactic)
title: Global heating denialist tactic
uri: Global-heating-denialist-tactic
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Global_heating_denialist_tactic%29

content:
<p>
A global heating denialist tactic is
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/feb/14/global-warming-consensus-stringer-cnn">misrepresent
the consensus of nearly all climate scientists and pretend it is
something very weak.</a>


title: Efforts to confirm indigenous people's land rights are stalling
uri: Efforts-to-confirm-indigenous-people-s-land-rights-are-stalling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Efforts_to_confirm_indigenous_people's_land_rights_are_stalling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Efforts_to_confirm_indigenous_people%27s_land_rights_are_stalling%29

content:
<p>
As business increasingly looks for land
grabs, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/feb/14/pace-global-land-rights-reform-slowing">efforts
to confirm indigenous people's land rights are stalling.</a>


title: The Syrian peace talks are hopelessly deadlocked
uri: The-Syrian-peace-talks-are-hopelessly-deadlocked
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(The_Syrian_peace_talks_are_hopelessly_deadlocked)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28The_Syrian_peace_talks_are_hopelessly_deadlocked%29

content:
<p>
The Syrian peace talks
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/14/syrian-peace-talks-impasse-five-days-sparring">hopelessly
deadlocked.</a>
<p>
No one has any idea of a feasible form of intervention that would make
things better.


title: Muslim extremist banned from preaching
uri: Muslim-extremist-banned-from-preaching
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Muslim_extremist_banned_from_preaching)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Muslim_extremist_banned_from_preaching%29

content:
<p>
A British Muslim extremist, perhaps a convert (judging from his name),
has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/15/sharia-law-campaign-muslim-groundbreaking-asbo">banned
from preaching</a> on pain of arrest.
<p>
Incitement to murder is legitimately punished.  This man's "vigilante
patrols" may have included attacking passers-by.  (Some such Islamist
vigilantism in Britain has done that.)  If he advocates Shari'a law,
then he has no respect for others' human rights.  He is evidently an
example of the tendency for religions to inspire hatred, which is
common today in Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism.
<p>
But that doesn't justify banning him from stating his views, which is
not a crime.  That tramples <em>his</em> human rights.
<p>
The UK fails to distinguish between "discrimination and persecution"
and stating a political position.


title: Turkish gov't taking control of the judiciary
uri: Turkish-gov-t-taking-control-of-the-judiciary
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Turkish_gov't_taking_control_of_the_judiciary)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Turkish_gov%27t_taking_control_of_the_judiciary%29

content:
<p>
The Turkish government
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/15/turkish-mps-brawl-parliament-erdogan-judiciary-vote">taking
control of the judiciary so as to resist corruption charges against
relatives of ministers.</a>


title: Urgent: Appoint more public interest lawyers as judges
uri: Urgent-Appoint-more-public-interest-lawyers-as-judges
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Urgent:_Appoint_more_public_interest_lawyers_as_judges)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Appoint_more_public_interest_lawyers_as_judges%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/667">call on Obama</a> to
appoint more public interest lawyers as judges rather than corporate
lawyers.


title: Gov't trying to intimidate Australian Broadcasting Corporation
uri: Gov-t-trying-to-intimidate-Australian-Broadcasting-Corporation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Govt_trying_to_intimidate_Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Govt_trying_to_intimidate_Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/16/abc-australia-navy-asylum-seekers-row-tony-abbott-thatcher-bbc">trying
to intimidate</a> the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Massive_extinction_events)
title: Massive extinction events
uri: Massive-extinction-events
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Massive_extinction_events%29
content:
<p>
Earth has had six massive extinction events, each apparently for a
different cause.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/16/sixth-extinction-unnatural-history-elizabeth-kolbert-review">This
one</a> is caused by humans.


title: Congolese exiles face torture if sent back by UK
uri: Congolese-exiles-face-torture-if-sent-back-by-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Congolese_exiles_face_torture_if_sent_back_by_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Congolese_exiles_face_torture_if_sent_back_by_UK%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/16/congo-torture-asylum-seekers">Leaked
orders</a> show Congolese exiles face torture if sent back by the UK.


title: Deaths of construction workers in Qatar due to abusive conditions
uri: Deaths-of-construction-workers-in-Qatar-due-to-abusive-conditions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Deaths_of_construction_workers_in_Qatar_due_to_abusive_conditions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Deaths_of_construction_workers_in_Qatar_due_to_abusive_conditions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/16/qatar-world-cup-400-deaths-nepalese">400
construction workers</a> have died working on sports facilities in
Qatar, due to the abusive conditions.  4000 are expected to be killed
by the time they are used in 2022.


title: Wealthier Americans increasingly unwilling to "pay for them"
uri: Wealthier-Americans-increasingly-unwilling-to-pay-for-them
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Wealthier_Americans_increasingly_unwilling_to_pay_for_them)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Wealthier_Americans_increasingly_unwilling_to_pay_for_them%29

content:
<p>
The wealthier Americans are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/15-6">increasingly
unwilling to "pay for them"</a> (i.e., all the rest).
<p>
We should not give those arrogant bastards any choice about it.


title: Money taken out of war budget to restore veterans' benefits
uri: Money-taken-out-of-war-budget-to-restore-veterans-benefits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Money_taken_out_of_war_budget_to_restore_veterans_benefits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Money_taken_out_of_war_budget_to_restore_veterans_benefits%29

content:
<p>
Senator Sanders 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/15-2">restored cuts
in veterans' pensions</a> by taking the money out of the war budget.
<p>
It is a net plus for Americans because military spending (especially
overseas military spending) benefits mainly a few businesses and makes
few jobs.


title: NY Times adds bias for the sake of appearing unbiased
uri: NY-Times-adds-bias-for-the-sake-of-appearing-unbiased
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(NY_Times_adds_bias_for_the_sake_of_appearing_unbiased)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28NY_Times_adds_bias_for_the_sake_of_appearing_unbiased%29

content:
<p>
The New York Times reported on a sham right-wing "institute", but then
for the sake of
"<a href='http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/02/14/the-bias-of-both-sides-do-it/'>balance</a>"
criticized Liberal groups that don't do the same thing.


title: The harm done by NAFTA and US-Korea free exploitation treaty
uri: The-harm-done-by-NAFTA-and-US-Korea-free-exploitation-treaty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(The_harm_done_by_NAFTA_and_US-Korea_free_exploitation_treaty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28The_harm_done_by_NAFTA_and_US-Korea_free_exploitation_treaty%29

content:
<p>
NAFTA and the US-Korea free exploitation treaty have both done US
workers 
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/02/2013-trade-data-usitc-corrections-of-last-weeks-census-data-show-why-obamas-tpp-fast-track-quest-is-.html">documented
harm</a>.
<p>
US companies said they would create more jobs if NAFTA were signed,
then did the 
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/02/obama-mexico-visit-spotlights-20-year-legacy-of-job-loss-from-nafta-the-pact-on-which-obamas-tpp-is-.html">opposite</a>.


title: Child pornography used as excuse for internet censorship
uri: Child-pornography-used-as-excuse-for-internet-censorship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Child_pornography_used_as_excuse_for_internet_censorship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Child_pornography_used_as_excuse_for_internet_censorship%29

content:
<p>
"<a href='http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/ifpis-child-porn-strategy/'>Child
pornography is great</a>" — as an excuse for internet
censorship.


title: Urgent: Repeal "stand your ground" laws
uri: Urgent-Repeal-stand-your-ground-laws
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Urgent:_Repeal_stand_your_ground_laws)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Repeal_stand_your_ground_laws%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/JordanDavis/">repeal of
"stand your ground" laws that provide an excuse for what is
effectively murder.</a>


title: Urgent: Reject politicization of the NSF grant procedure
uri: Urgent-Reject-politicization-of-the-NSF-grant-procedure
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_politicization_of_the_NSF_grant_procedure)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_politicization_of_the_NSF_grant_procedure%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Congress
to <a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/2901">reject
politicization of the NSF grant procedure.</a>


title: The CEO of AOL tried to shaft the employees on their benefits
uri: The-CEO-of-AOL-tried-to-shaft-the-employees-on-their-benefits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(The_CEO_of_AOL_tried_to_shaft_the_employees_on_their_benefits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28The_CEO_of_AOL_tried_to_shaft_the_employees_on_their_benefits%29

content:
<p>
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/12-2">shaft the
employees on their benefits because a couple of them had big medical
expenses.</a>
<p>
In this context, I have to mention that I don't think it serves
society's interests to go to such lengths to save a very premature
baby which hasn't even started to become a human being.  But that does
not justify Mr Armstrong's position.  There are lots of reasons why
employees (or their family members who are already human beings) might
need expensive medical care.  Also, the point about commercial
pressures that lead women to delay having children and thus face
greater risks when they do is valid.


title: Gates Foundation's plan for redesigning education in US
uri: Gates-Foundation-s-plan-for-redesigning-education-in-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Gates_Foundation's_plan_for_redesigning_education_in_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Gates_Foundation%27s_plan_for_redesigning_education_in_US%29

content:
<p>
Resistance is growing against
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/11-10">Gates
Foundation's plan for redesigning education in the US.</a>


title: The danger of fossil fuels under a right-wing deregulating state
uri: The-danger-of-fossil-fuels-under-a-right-wing-deregulating-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(The_danger_of_fossil_fuels_under_a_right-wing_deregulating_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28The_danger_of_fossil_fuels_under_a_right-wing_deregulating_state%29

content:
<p>
A series of spills and explosions
have <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/13">highlighted
the danger of fossil fuels under a right-wing deregulating state.</a>
<p>
Investigating all sorts of dangerous facilities, and punishing
infractions with stern rectitude, is one of the many necessary jobs
that <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">only
a state can do well.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(The_Moral_Movement)
title: The Moral Movement
uri: The-Moral-Movement
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28The_Moral_Movement%29
content:
<p>
The Moral Movement (against right-wing cruelty) brought 80,000 people
to Raleigh, North Carolina, and
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/12-6">spreading
to other nearby states.</a>
<p>
Bravo!


title: Obama's drone assassination program is illegal
uri: Obama-s-drone-assassination-program-is-illegal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Obama's_drone_assassination_program_is_illegal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Obama%27s_drone_assassination_program_is_illegal%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU warns
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/10-3">Obama's
drone assassination program is illegal.</a>
<p>
Supposedly, in post-constitutional
America, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/17-0">Obama
can kill anyone anywhere for any reason.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Future_global_heating_in_Britain)
title: Future global heating in Britain
uri: Future-global-heating-in-Britain
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Future_global_heating_in_Britain%29

content:
<p>
Future global heating is likely
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/16/water-shortages-electricity-supply-climate-change">cause
Britain worse droughts some of the time, as well as worse floods at
other times.</a>


title: So you think you have nothing to hide…
uri: So-you-think-you-have-nothing-to-hide
content: <p> <a href="http://privacysos.org/node/1325">So you think you have nothing to hide…</a>
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(So_you_think_you_have_nothing_to_hide%26hellip;)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28So_you_think_you_have_nothing_to_hide%2526hellip%3B%29


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Comcast-Time_Warner_Deal)
title: Comcast-Time Warner Deal
uri: Comcast-Time-Warner-Deal
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Comcast-Time_Warner_Deal%29
content:
<p>
Why the Comcast-Time Warner Deal
Is <a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/comcasts-45bn-time-warner-buy-change-everything/">Far
More Dangerous Than You Think.</a>


title: Obama rewarding donors with ambassadorships
uri: Obama-rewarding-donors-with-ambassadorships
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Obama_rewarding_donors_with_ambassadorships)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Obama_rewarding_donors_with_ambassadorships%29

content:
<p>
Obama
is <a href="http://rt.com/usa/obama-diplomatic-posts-appointees-274/">rewarding
donors with ambassadorships a lot more than his predecessors did.</a>


title: Thugs tased and beat up a deaf man for trying to sign at them
uri: Thugs-tased-and-beat-up-a-deaf-man-for-trying-to-sign-at-them
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 17_February_2014_(Thugs_tased_and_beat_up_a_deaf_man_for_trying_to_sign_at_them)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_%28Thugs_tased_and_beat_up_a_deaf_man_for_trying_to_sign_at_them%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in
California <a href="http://rt.com/usa/california-police-taser-deaf-man-097/">tased
and beat up a deaf man for trying to sign at them.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Corporate_Cronyism)
title: Corporate Cronyism
uri: Corporate-Cronyism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Corporate_Cronyism%29
content:
<p>
Corporate
Cronyism: <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21908-corporate-cronyism-the-secret-to-overpaid-ceos">The
Secret to Overpaid CEOs.</a>


title: How NSA combines phone call data with internet contact data
uri: How-NSA-combines-phone-call-data-with-internet-contact-data
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(How_NSA_combines_phone_call_data_with_internet_contact_data)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28How_NSA_combines_phone_call_data_with_internet_contact_data%29

content:
<p>
How the NSA combines phone call data with internet contact data
<a href="http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/02/17/spcma-the-other-nsa-dragnet-sucking-in-americans/">to
collect more information about Americans in general.</a>


title: UK thugs face criminal charges for arresting protester
uri: UK-thugs-face-criminal-charges-for-arresting-protester
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(UK_thugs_face_criminal_charges_for_arresting_protester)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28UK_thugs_face_criminal_charges_for_arresting_protester%29

content:
<p>
Two UK
thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/18/police-criminal-charges-illegally-arrested-student-protester">face
criminal charges for arresting a student protester.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(High-tech_fishing_operations)
title: High-tech fishing operations
uri: High-tech-fishing-operations
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28High-tech_fishing_operations%29
content:
<p>
High-tech fishing operations
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/overfishing-factory-joal-senegal">leaving
Senegal's traditional fishers with no fish.</a>


title: Ray McGovern suing CIA for putting him on a watch list
uri: Ray-McGovern-suing-CIA-for-putting-him-on-a-watch-list
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Ray_McGovern_suing_CIA_for_putting_him_on_a_watch_list)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Ray_McGovern_suing_CIA_for_putting_him_on_a_watch_list%29

content:
<p>
Ray McGovern
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/02/18">suing
the CIA for putting him on a watch list</a> because of his lawful
political activity.


title: True Free Market Proponents Should Support Private-Public Competition
uri: True-Free-Market-Proponents-Should-Support-Private-Public-Competition
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(True_Free_Market_Proponents_Should_Support_Private-Public_Competition)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28True_Free_Market_Proponents_Should_Support_Private-Public_Competition%29

content:
<p>
True Free Market Proponents
Should <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/18/free-market-competition-public-private-sector">Support
Private-Public Competition.</a>


title: Antidemocracy movement in Thailand attacked
uri: Antidemocracy-movement-in-Thailand-attacked
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Antidemocracy_movement_in_Thailand_attacked)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Antidemocracy_movement_in_Thailand_attacked%29

content:
<p>
The antidemocracy movement in
Thailand <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/thai-police-officer-protester-killed-bangkok">attacked
with guns and teargas.</a>


title: Petition against water privatization
uri: Petition-against-water-privatization
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Petition_against_water_privatization)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Petition_against_water_privatization%29

content:
<p>
Over a million EU citizens
have <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/17-5">filed
an initiative petition against water privatization.</a>
<p>
The legal effect of the initiative is only to direct the European
Union to consider the issue.  We will have to see whether this has
more influence than a petition on whitehouse.gov.


title: Students in Venezuela have been protesting for days against Maduro's government
uri: Students-in-Venezuela-have-been-protesting-for-days-against-Maduro-s-g
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Students_in_Venezuela_have_been_protesting_for_days_against_Maduro's_government)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Students_in_Venezuela_have_been_protesting_for_days_against_Maduro%27s_government%29

content:
<p>
University students in Venezuela have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/17/venezuela-leopoldo-lopez-reappears-nicolas-maduro">protesting
for days against Maduro's government</a>, and a leader of the
opposition has been accused of terrorism.
<p>
Several other South American
countries <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/18/venezuela-protests-us-support-regime-change-mistake">condemned
the protesters' violence.</a>
<p>
I can well believe that US diplomats are plotting to overthrow the
government of Venezuela.
The <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2004-jul-oct.html#01 July 2004 (Venezuela)">US supported the coup attempt a decade ago.</a>
However, the
shortages, <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_November_2013_(Price_controls_in_Venezuela)">caused
by price controls,</a> and other real grievances are stimulating real
opposition.
<p>
Accusing protesters of "terrorism" is wrong in Venezuela just as it's
wrong in the US or Russia or Egypt.


title: Sousveillance can become self-implemented surveillance
uri: Sousveillance-can-become-self-implemented-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Sousveillance_can_become_self-implemented_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Sousveillance_can_become_self-implemented_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Sousveillance in a competitive situation can become, in
effect, <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/danaher20140212">a
form of nearly obligatory self-implemented surveillance.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_selling_Roundup)
title: Urgent: Stop selling Roundup
uri: Urgent-Stop-selling-Roundup
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_selling_Roundup%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Monsanto
to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/monsanto-is-killing-the-monarchs/?akid=3949.881131.jfky66&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1002">stop
selling its wildlife-destroying pesticide, Roundup.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Was_Snowden_Justified_)
title: Was Snowden Justified?
uri: Was-Snowden-Justified
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Was_Snowden_Justified_%29
content:
<p>
Debate: <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/14/debate_was_snowden_justified_former_nsa">Was
Snowden Justified?</a> Former NSA Counsel Stewart Baker vs.
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.


title: US and UK surveillance specifically targeted Wikileaks
uri: US-and-UK-surveillance-specifically-targeted-Wikileaks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(US_and_UK_surveillance_specifically_targeted_Wikileaks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28US_and_UK_surveillance_specifically_targeted_Wikileaks%29

content:
<p>
US and UK
surveillance <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/">specifically
targeted Wikileaks.</a>


title: Banks made tremendous money from fees on credit card payments
uri: Banks-made-tremendous-money-from-fees-on-credit-card-payments
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Banks_made_tremendous_money_from_fees_on_credit_card_payments)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Banks_made_tremendous_money_from_fees_on_credit_card_payments%29

content:
<p>
US banks make tremendous money from
the <a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/how-credit-card-gravy-train-running-over-you">fees
on credit card payments.</a>
<p>
In addition, when you use a credit card, they get data about your
purchases.  That's more important to me than the 2% fee.  Don't be
tracked, pay cash!


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Frequency_of_heat_waves_exceeded)
title: Frequency of heat waves exceeded
uri: Frequency-of-heat-waves-exceeded
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Frequency_of_heat_waves_exceeded%29

content:
<p>
The frequency of heat waves in parts of Australia has
already <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/17/heatwave-frequency-surpasses-levels-previously-predicted-for-2030">exceeded
what was forecast for 2030.</a>


title: Kerry gave strong speech about danger of global heating
uri: Kerry-gave-strong-speech-about-danger-of-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Kerry_gave_strong_speech_about_danger_of_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Kerry_gave_strong_speech_about_danger_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Kerry gave a strong speech about
the <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/16/politics/kerry-climate/">danger
of global heating.</a>
<p>
Will he practice what he preached, and kill the Keystone XL pipeline?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Free_enterprise_flaws)
title: Free enterprise flaws
uri: Free-enterprise-flaws
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Free_enterprise_flaws%29
content:
<p>
Free enterprise does a great
job…<a href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/freeEnterprise.html">except
for certain giant and sometimes deadly flaws.</a>


title: Floods in England exacerbated by farm deregulation
uri: Floods-in-England-exacerbated-by-farm-deregulation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Floods_in_England_exacerbated_by_farm_deregulation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Floods_in_England_exacerbated_by_farm_deregulation%29

content:
<p>
Farm deregulation, based on right-wing pander-to-business ideology,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/17/farmers-uk-flood-maize-soil-protection">exacerbated
the floods</a> in England.


title: Fossil fuel use is subsidized almost 2 trillion dollars a year
uri: Fossil-fuel-use-is-subsidized-almost-2-trillion-dollars-a-year
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Fossil_fuel_use_is_subsidized_almost_2_trillion_dollars_a_year)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Fossil_fuel_use_is_subsidized_almost_2_trillion_dollars_a_year%29

content:
<p>
Fossil fuel use is subsidized 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/17/carbon-divestment-emissions-climate-change">almost
2 trillion dollars a year</a>, which makes renewable energy appear
discouragingly expensive.


title: Karzai to change domestic abuse law
uri: Karzai-to-change-domestic-abuse-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Karzai_to_change_domestic_abuse_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Karzai_to_change_domestic_abuse_law%29

content:
<p>
Karzai 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/17/karzai-change-domestic-abuse-law">said
he will change</a> the law that would have stopped abused women from
testifying against the relatives that did it.


title: Right-wing claims bigotry is expression of religious freedom
uri: Right-wing-claims-bigotry-is-expression-of-religious-freedom
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Right-wing_claims_bigotry_is_expression_of_religious_freedom)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Right-wing_claims_bigotry_is_expression_of_religious_freedom%29

content:
<p>
The latest right-wing bigotry tactic is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2014/feb/17/kansas-anti-gay-bill-religious-freedom-test">claim
bigotry is an expression of religious freedom</a>.


title: Venezuela bans Colombian TV channel
uri: Venezuela-bans-Colombian-TV-channel
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Venezuela_bans_Colombian_TV_channel)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Venezuela_bans_Colombian_TV_channel%29

content:
<p>
Venezuela banned a Colombian TV channel which was the only one that
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2014/02/venezuelan-authorities-take-foreign-cable-station.php">gave
substantial coverage to anti-government protests</a>.


title: Urgent: Clarify IRS rules about electioneering by nonprofits
uri: Urgent-Clarify-IRS-rules-about-electioneering-by-nonprofits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Urgent:_Clarify_IRS_rules_about_electioneering_by_nonprofits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Clarify_IRS_rules_about_electioneering_by_nonprofits%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12404">support</a>
clarifying IRS rules about electioneering by nonprofits.


title: Urgent: Oppose bill that bans states from mandating GMO labeling
uri: Urgent-Oppose-bill-that-bans-states-from-mandating-GMO-labeling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_bill_that_bans_states_from_mandating_GMO_labeling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_bill_that_bans_states_from_mandating_GMO_labeling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13068">oppose</a>
the bill to ban states from mandating GMO labeling.


title: Urgent: Government By The People Act
uri: Urgent-Government-By-The-People-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Urgent:Government_By_The_People_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Urgent%3AGovernment_By_The_People_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone to ask your Congresscritter to cosponsor the
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/call/call_gov_ofbyus_nosponsor/">Government
By The People Act</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Paris_censors_street_artist)
title: Paris censors street artist
uri: Paris-censors-street-artist
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Paris_censors_street_artist%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/paris-censors-street-artist-who-criticized-anti-piracy-law-140216/">Paris
Censors Street Artist Who Criticized Anti-Piracy Law</a>.


title: Dangerous jump in births in Egypt in 2012
uri: Dangerous-jump-in-births-in-Egypt-in-2012
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Dangerous_jump_in_births_in_Egypt_in_2012)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Dangerous_jump_in_births_in_Egypt_in_2012%29

content:
<p>
Egypt in 2012 experienced a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/egypt-population-explosion-social-unrest">dangerous
jump in births</a>.
<p>
This was perhaps due to Morsi's policies.


title: Gay rights activist in Sochi arrested for nondisruptive protest
uri: Gay-rights-activist-in-Sochi-arrested-for-nondisruptive-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Gay_rights_activist_in_Sochi_arrested_for_nondisruptive_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Gay_rights_activist_in_Sochi_arrested_for_nondisruptive_protest%29

content:
<p>
Gay rights activist Vladimir Luxuria was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/feb/17/sochi-vladimir-luxuria-gay-rights-banner">arrested</a>
for a nondisruptive protest in Sochi.
<p>
Banning any point of view is an offense against human rights.


title: UK agents harass Edward Snowden's lawyer
uri: UK-agents-harass-Edward-Snowden-s-lawyer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(UK_agents_harass_Edward_Snowdens_lawyer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28UK_agents_harass_Edward_Snowdens_lawyer%29

content:
<p>
The US had subservient UK agents 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/17-2">harass
Jesselyn Radack</a>, Edward Snowden's lawyer, as she was going to the
UK.
<p>
They told her she is on a sort of US no-fly list, the "inhibited
persons" list.  Perhaps as a lawyer she appears "inhibited" when asked
to talk about her clients' affairs.


title: Kim Jong-un could face charges of crimes against humanity
uri: Kim-Jong-un-could-face-charges-of-crimes-against-humanity
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Kim_Jong-un_could_face_charges_of_crimes_against_humanity)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Kim_Jong-un_could_face_charges_of_crimes_against_humanity%29

content:
<p>
The
UN <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/17/north-korea-human-rights-abuses-united-nations">warns
Kim Jong-un</a> that he could face charges at The Hague for crimes
against humanity.
<p>
Here are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/17/torture-executions-rapes-north-korea-human-rights">details
of the charges</a>.
<p>
Even if the Security Council approves the charges, I see no way the
court could have a chance of getting him and trying him.  Still, this
recognition of how monstrous North Korea is may do some good.


title: How Privatization Perverts Education
uri: How-Privatization-Perverts-Education
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(How_Privatization_Perverts_Education)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28How_Privatization_Perverts_Education%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/17">How
Privatization Perverts Education</a>.


title: "Libertarians" who earned fortunes from the gov't
uri: Libertarians-who-earned-fortunes-from-the-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Libertarians_who_earned_fortunes_from_the_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Libertarians_who_earned_fortunes_from_the_govt%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20140209">5
Obnoxious Libertarian Oligarchs Who Earned Fortunes from the
Government They'd Like to Destroy</a>.


title: Australia taught by US to spy on Indonesian gov't
uri: Australia-taught-by-US-to-spy-on-Indonesian-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 18_February_2014_(Australia_taught_by_US_to_spy_on_Indonesian_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#18_February_2014_%28Australia_taught_by_US_to_spy_on_Indonesian_govt%29

content:
<p>
The US taught Australia how to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/australia-spied-indonesia-talks-us-firm">spy
on the Indonesian government about its position in a trade dispute
with the US</a>.
<p>
If the trade dispute was the one about clove-flavored cigarettes,
Indonesia deserves no sympathy for insisting the US allow those deadly
addictive products.  Trade treaties are being used world-wide to block
measures to discourage smoking, which is an additional reason those
treaties must be abolished.  But these treaties and the surveillance
are different issues.


title: "Free trade" agreements block vital regulations on banks
uri: Free-trade-agreements-block-vital-regulations-on-banks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Free_trade_agreements_block_vital_regulations_on_banks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Free_trade_agreements_block_vital_regulations_on_banks%29

content:
<p>
"Free trade"
agreements <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/19">block
vital regulations on banks.</a>


title: Where Syrian Islamists take control, they oppress
uri: Where-Syrian-Islamists-take-control-they-oppress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Where_Syrian_Islamists_take_control,_they_oppress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Where_Syrian_Islamists_take_control%2C_they_oppress%29

content:
<p>
Where Syrian Islamists take
control, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/19/smuggled-video-testimony-harsh-rule-of-syrian-islamista-raqqa">they
oppress women, and men too.</a>


title: UK court ruled in favor of the interrogation of David Miranda
uri: UK-court-ruled-in-favor-of-the-interrogation-of-David-Miranda
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(UK_court_ruled_in_favor_of_the_interrogation_of_David_Miranda)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28UK_court_ruled_in_favor_of_the_interrogation_of_David_Miranda%29

content:
<p>
A UK court <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=1164">ruled
in favor of the interrogation of David Miranda</a> even though it was
intended to interfere with press freedom.
<p>
Laws that authorize oppression are typical of unjust regimes.  All
that court did was confirm, yet again, that the UK is one of them.


title: Proposed "European internet" not meant to protect from massive surveillance
uri: Proposed-European-internet-not-meant-to-protect-from-massive-surveil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Proposed_European_internet_not_meant_to_protect_from_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Proposed_European_internet_not_meant_to_protect_from_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The proposed "European internet"
is <a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/pan-european-internet-network-nonsense-394/">not
meant to protect Europeans from massive surveillance.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Right_to_repair_digital_products)
title: Right to repair digital products
uri: Right-to-repair-digital-products
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Right_to_repair_digital_products%29

content:
<p>
South Dakota is considering a law
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/support-right-repair-south-dakota">give
purchasers of digital products a right to be able to repair them.</a>


title: US gov't has published a falsified history of the Vietnam War
uri: US-gov-t-has-published-a-falsified-history-of-the-Vietnam-War
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(US_gov't_has_published_a_falsified_history_of_the_Vietnam_War)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28US_gov%27t_has_published_a_falsified_history_of_the_Vietnam_War%29

content:
<p>
The US government
has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/18-10">published
a falsified history of the Vietnam War</a> — a work of
propaganda directed at misleading future generations of Americans.


title: Mozilla is planning to put advertising into Firefox
uri: Mozilla-is-planning-to-put-advertising-into-Firefox
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Mozilla_is_planning_to_put_advertising_into_Firefox)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Mozilla_is_planning_to_put_advertising_into_Firefox%29

content:
<p>
Mozilla
is <a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/02/is-mozilla-selling-out/index.htm">planning
to put advertising into Firefox,</a> and talking about it in ways that
don't acknowledge that.


title: Ethiopian gov't snuck spyware into exile's computer through a Word file
uri: Ethiopian-gov-t-snuck-spyware-into-exile-s-computer-through-a-Word-fil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Ethiopian_gov't_snuck_spyware_into_exile's_computer_through_a_Word_file)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Ethiopian_gov%27t_snuck_spyware_into_exile%27s_computer_through_a_Word_file%29

content:
<p>
The Ethiopian
government <a href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/american-sues-ethiopian-government-spyware-infection">snuck
spyware into an Ethiopian exile's computer through a Word file.</a>
<p>
This is one of many
reasons <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">you
should refuse to open a Word file.</a>


title: FEMA falsified the flood risk for 500 rich people's seaside mansions
uri: FEMA-falsified-the-flood-risk-for-500-rich-people-s-seaside-mansions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(FEMA_falsified_the_flood_risk_for_500_rich_people's_seaside_mansions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28FEMA_falsified_the_flood_risk_for_500_rich_people%27s_seaside_mansions%29

content:
<p>
FEMA falsified the flood risk for 500 rich people's seaside mansions
so they could
get <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/18-2">cheap
government flood insurance at our expense.</a>


title: An Ethiopian migrant in Sudan faces capital charges for getting raped
uri: An-Ethiopian-migrant-in-Sudan-faces-capital-charges-for-getting-raped
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(An_Ethiopian_migrant_in_Sudan_faces_capital_charges_for_getting_raped)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28An_Ethiopian_migrant_in_Sudan_faces_capital_charges_for_getting_raped%29

content:
<p>
An Ethiopian migrant in
Sudan <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/sudan-pregnant-alleged-rape-victim-charged-adultery">faces
capital charges for getting raped.</a>


title: Wikipedia Mounts Courtroom Defense for Editor Sued by Politician
uri: Wikipedia-Mounts-Courtroom-Defense-for-Editor-Sued-by-Politician
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Wikipedia_Mounts_Courtroom_Defense_for_Editor_Sued_by_Politician)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Wikipedia_Mounts_Courtroom_Defense_for_Editor_Sued_by_Politician%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/wikipedia-mounts-courtroom-defense-for-editor-sued-by-politician/">Wikipedia
Mounts Courtroom Defense for Editor Sued by Politician.</a>
<p>
The editor (i.e., contributor) was ordered to delete the text that he
wrote in that politician's page, and did so, but others restored it
immediately.  The judge does not seem to understand this.


title: Banksters hired by the White House to work on the TPP
uri: Banksters-hired-by-the-White-House-to-work-on-the-TPP
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Banksters_hired_by_the_White_House_to_work_on_the_TPP)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Banksters_hired_by_the_White_House_to_work_on_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
Two banksters get lots of money from Bank of America and Citigroup and
then were <a href="http://rt.com/usa/tpp-fang-big-banks-577/">hired by
the White House to work on the TPP.</a>
<p>
This is the worst kind of corruption of the government.


title: Former members of Pussy Riot were arrested in Sochi
uri: Former-members-of-Pussy-Riot-were-arrested-in-Sochi
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Former_members_of_Pussy_Riot_were_arrested_in_Sochi)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Former_members_of_Pussy_Riot_were_arrested_in_Sochi%29

content:
<p>
Former members of Pussy Riot
were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/18/pussy-riot-members-protest-song-detention-sochi">arrested
in Sochi, apparently to prevent a hypothetical protest.</a>
<p>
Sochi is under special Olympic repression that is worse than the usual
repression of Russia.


title: Proprietary software developer fights with other proprietary software developers
uri: Proprietary-software-developer-fights-with-other-proprietary-software
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Proprietary_software_developer_fights_with_other_proprietary_software_developers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Proprietary_software_developer_fights_with_other_proprietary_software_developers%29

content:
<p>
One proprietary software
developer <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/02/valve-dns-privacy-flap-exposes-the-murky-world-of-cheat-prevention/">fights
with other proprietary software developers, with the user's computer
as battlefield.</a>


title: Censorship of Wendy Doniger's book, The Hindus, in India
uri: Censorship-of-Wendy-Doniger-s-book-The-Hindus-in-India
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 19_February_2014_(Censorship_of_Wendy_Donigers_book,_The_Hindus,_in_India)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_February_2014_%28Censorship_of_Wendy_Donigers_book%2C_The_Hindus%2C_in_India%29

content:
<p>
Wendy Doniger's book, The Hindus, has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/penguin-books-india-pulps-academic-book-hinduism-doniger">"recalled"
in India by its publisher</a>, which was threatened legally by a Hindu
militant group that didn't like the book.
<p>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/penguin-to-recall-donigers-book-on-hindus/article5677451.ece">More
information</a>.
<p>
The censorship has 
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/web-too-blocks-donigers-book/article5682220.ece">extended
to web downloads</a>.
<p>
This act of censorship has provoked a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/13/indian-conservatives-penguin-hindus-book">world-wide
reaction</a>.
<p>
Many important works are banned in India, including the book Lajja by
Taslima Nasrin which describes persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh.


title: Urgent: Reject the idea that presidents are allowed to kill at will
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-idea-that-presidents-are-allowed-to-kill-at-will
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_the_idea_that_presidents_are_allowed_to_kill_at_will)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_idea_that_presidents_are_allowed_to_kill_at_will%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9288">reject</a>
the idea that presidents are allowed to kill at will.


title: Urgent: Oppose letting poultry agribusinesses inspect their own chickens
uri: Urgent-Oppose-letting-poultry-agribusinesses-inspect-their-own-chicke
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_letting_poultry_agribusinesses_inspect_their_own_chickens)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_letting_poultry_agribusinesses_inspect_their_own_chickens%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/680">call on the
Department of Agriculture</a> not to let poultry agribusinesses
inspect their own chickens.
<p>
That would be letting the fox watch the henhouse.


title: Venezuelan opposition leader surrenders to state
uri: Venezuelan-opposition-leader-surrenders-to-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Venezuelan_opposition_leader_surrenders_to_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Venezuelan_opposition_leader_surrenders_to_state%29

content:
<p>
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/venezuela-opposition-leopoldo-lopez-surrenders">surrendered
to the state</a>, daring the state to prosecute him.
<p>
I don't know what his political platform is.  I suspect it is to
benefit foreign businesses and their local allies, which I do not
support at all.  Nonetheless, he is also standing for political
freedom, in a short-term sense.  Maduro had better get behind this
too.


title: The erroneous idea that everyone needs to be good at math
uri: The-erroneous-idea-that-everyone-needs-to-be-good-at-math
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(The_erroneous_idea_that_everyone_needs_to_be_good_at_math)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28The_erroneous_idea_that_everyone_needs_to_be_good_at_math%29

content:
<p>
On the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/18/maths-more-pointless-than-latin-british-pupils-china">erroneous idea</a> that everyone needs to be good at math.
<p>
Speaking as one who loves math as it ought to be loved — for its
beauty — I agree with the article.  My knowledge of mathematical
logic informs me that it is a fallacy to think that "There are
mathematical jobs available now for workers who are good at math"
implies "If everyone were good at math, there would be mathematical
jobs for everyone."
<p>
The US, especially, has no need to increase workers' productivity.
Its production is high enough.  The US needs to change the economic
system so that everyone can have a decent life, not just the small
fraction whose labor is still in high demand.


title: Why same-sex marriage rights have gained so much in the US
uri: Why-same-sex-marriage-rights-have-gained-so-much-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Why_same-sex_marriage_rights_have_gained_so_much_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Why_same-sex_marriage_rights_have_gained_so_much_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Now we see why same-sex marriage rights have gained so much in the US:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/18/indiana-same-sex-marriage-constitutional-ban">businesses
want to be able to hire gay professionals</a>.
<p>
Legalizing same-sex marriage is the right thing to do.  But if we need
to depend on business support to win for a worthy cause, we can't
defeat the plutocrats' class war that is driving most Americans, gay
or straight, into poverty.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/19/same-sex-marriage-or-civil-unions">The
Casualty of America's Same-Sex Marriage Fight: Civil Unions</a>.


title: North Carolina riverbed coated by toxic coal ash
uri: North-Carolina-riverbed-coated-by-toxic-coal-ash
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(North_Carolina_riverbed_coated_by_toxic_coal_ash)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28North_Carolina_riverbed_coated_by_toxic_coal_ash%29

content:
<p>

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/18/north-carolina-river-coal-ash-spill">North
Carolina riverbed coated by toxic coal ash, officials say</a>.


title: UK makes the poor futilely apply for jobs at grueling pace
uri: UK-makes-the-poor-futilely-apply-for-jobs-at-grueling-pace
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(UK_makes_the_poor_futilely_apply_for_jobs_at_grueling_pace)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28UK_makes_the_poor_futilely_apply_for_jobs_at_grueling_pace%29

content:
<p>
The UK's excuse to crush the poor is to demand they futilely 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/18/welfare-state-jobs-inquiry-culture-fear">apply
for jobs at a grueling pace</a>, or be left to starve.
<p>
This "culture of fear" often leads to hunger and homelessness.


title: Refuting the apologists for the 1%'s class war
uri: Refuting-the-apologists-for-the-1-s-class-war
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Refuting_the_apologists_for_the_1-percents_class_war)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Refuting_the_apologists_for_the_1-percents_class_war%29

content:
<p>
Refuting the apologists for the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/18-12">1%'s class
war</a>.


title: New land-grab for US farmland by big companies
uri: New-land-grab-for-US-farmland-by-big-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 21_February_2014_(New_land-grab_for_US_farmland_by_big_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_February_2014_%28New_land-grab_for_US_farmland_by_big_companies%29

content:
<p>
A new land-grab for US farmland by big companies threatens to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/19-0">increase
consolidation and could make working conditions worse.</a>


title: G8 Brings Big Ag Colonialism to Africa
uri: G8-Brings-Big-Ag-Colonialism-to-Africa
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(G8_Brings_Big_Ag_Colonialism_to_Africa)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28G8_Brings_Big_Ag_Colonialism_to_Africa%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/18-5">G8 Brings
Big Ag Colonialism to Africa</a>
<p>
It's the usual neoliberal "solution": big foreign companies lobby for
permission to
"invest", <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/18/ghana-g8-new-alliance-food-insecurity">which
means taking control.</a>
<p>
The G8 New Alliance facilitates
investors' <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/18/tanzania-large-scale-farming-small-farmers-labourers">"access
to land",</a> which means local people lose their land and end up in
penury.
<p>
Another aspect
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/18/malawi-small-farmers-g8-new-alliance">pushing
farmers to seeds they can't reproduce</a>.  This makes them dependent
on agribusiness and reduces diversity.
<p>
The G8 New Alliance
also <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/19/ethiopia-seed-bank-preserving-diversity-under-threat-g8-new-alliance">threatens
Ethiopia's distributed seed bank.</a>


title: Australia giving away natural resources to foreign mining companies
uri: Australia-giving-away-natural-resources-to-foreign-mining-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Australia_giving_away_natural_resources_to_foreign_mining_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Australia_giving_away_natural_resources_to_foreign_mining_companies%29

content:
<p>
Australia is
practically <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/19/mining-tax-its-time-for-all-australians-to-realise-they-are-being-ripped-off">giving
away its natural resources to foreign mining companies.</a>
<p>
I would guess that a few strategically chosen Australians receive some
of those profits.


title: Urgent: Bringing back postal banking
uri: Urgent-Bringing-back-postal-banking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Urgent:_Bringing_back_postal_banking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Bringing_back_postal_banking%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://dailykos.com/campaigns/682">sign this
petition</a> for bringing back postal banking.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Ecuador's_oil_drilling)
title: Ecuador's oil drilling
uri: Ecuador-s-oil-drilling
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Ecuador%27s_oil_drilling%29
content:
<p>
Ecuador's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/19/new-oil-boom-ecuador-amazon">oil
drilling in the Yasuni National Park</a> is supported by roads it
calls "trails", as it pushes indigenous people off their land.  To
cover up the truth, it restricts access by journalists.
<p>
I would not criticize Ecuador for starting the planning to exploit the
area before formally announcing failure of its plan to permanently
protect the area.  That plan depended on donations from wealthier
countries, and it was already clear that the funds requested were not
forthcoming.  Its failure was not Ecuador's fault.
<p>
However, it appears that Ecuador treated this
as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/19/ecuador-oil-china-yasuni">more
than a contingency plan.</a>
<p>
Meanwhile, Chevron, which is grasping at even imaginary straws to get
out of its judgment for pollution in Ecuador,
is <a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/oil-giant-chevron-abuses-anti-mob-laws-target-cartoonist-mark-fiore-ecuador-suit?paging=off">twisting
the RICO law to claim that any criticism of Chevron is
"racketeering".</a>


title: Urgent: Extend unemployment benefits by cutting the war budget
uri: Urgent-Extend-unemployment-benefits-by-cutting-the-war-budget
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Urgent:_Extend_unemployment_benefits_by_cutting_the_war_budget)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Extend_unemployment_benefits_by_cutting_the_war_budget%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call
for <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/extend-unemployment-assistan?source=c.tw&r_by=1135580">extending
unemployment benefits by cutting the war budget.</a>


title: Kellogg has agreed to buy palm oil only from suppliers that protect wildlife and human rights
uri: Kellogg-has-agreed-to-buy-palm-oil-only-from-suppliers-that-protect-wi
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Kellogg_has_agreed_to_buy_palm_oil_only_from_suppliers_that_protect_wildlife_and_human_rights)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Kellogg_has_agreed_to_buy_palm_oil_only_from_suppliers_that_protect_wildlife_and_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
Kellogg has agreed
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/19/kelloggs-sustainably-sourced-palm-oil">buy
palm oil only from suppliers that protect wildlife and human
rights.</a>
<p>
We will have to keep after Kellogg to truly implement this agreement,
since it will have an incentive to wink at abuses.  However, what
worries me even more is that the unethical suppliers will simply sell
to other companies.  To stop the deforestation caused by palm oil
requires systematic enforcement not dependent on one purchaser.


title: Residents resisting attempt to evict them all for an ecotourism scheme
uri: Residents-resisting-attempt-to-evict-them-all-for-an-ecotourism-scheme
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Residents_resisting_attempt_to_evict_them_all_for_an_ecotourism_scheme)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Residents_resisting_attempt_to_evict_them_all_for_an_ecotourism_scheme%29

content:
<p>
Residents of Ile a Vache, Haiti,
are <a href="http://www.dadychery.org/2014/01/07/haitis-peasants-fight-land-grab-of-offshore-islands-for-ecotourism/">resisting
an attempt to evict them all for an ecotourism scheme.</a>


title: Ukraine thugs attacked 20 journalists as well as many civilian protesters
uri: Ukraine-thugs-attacked-20-journalists-as-well-as-many-civilian-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Ukraine_thugs_attacked_20_journalists_as_well_as_many_civilian_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Ukraine_thugs_attacked_20_journalists_as_well_as_many_civilian_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The Ukraine
thugs <a href="http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/renewed-violence-breaks-out-today-near-ukraines-parliament-at-least-one-injured-336993.html">attacked
20 journalists as well as many civilian protesters.</a>
<p>
The fighting in Kiev
was <a href="http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1392772605">started by thugs
who had been positioned as snipers.</a>


title: Comcast regularly mistreats its broadband customers
uri: Comcast-regularly-mistreats-its-broadband-customers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Comcast_regularly_mistreats_its_broadband_customers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Comcast_regularly_mistreats_its_broadband_customers%29

content:
<p>
Comcast
regularly <a href="https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/URiohL4gfCC">mistreats
its broadband customers.</a>
<p>
If it gets permission to merge and get bigger, this can only get
worse.


title: Urgent: Support use of eminent domain to rescue US home owners
uri: Urgent-Support-use-of-eminent-domain-to-rescue-US-home-owners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Urgent:_Support_use_of_eminent_domain_to_rescue_US_home_owners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_use_of_eminent_domain_to_rescue_US_home_owners%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/EminentDomain/">call on the
Federal Housing Finance Agency</a> to support the use of eminent
domain to rescue US home owners from the banksters.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(The_Australian_shark_cull)
title: The Australian shark cull
uri: The-Australian-shark-cull
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28The_Australian_shark_cull%29
content:
<p>
The Australian shark cull is driven by the aim of reducing tiny risks
to zero, together with exaggeration of those risks, stirred up by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/feb/19/western-australia-shark-cull-irrational-fear">sensationalist
media</a>.
<p>
It's too bad we don't attend with similar determination to the really
big risks: 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#26_February_2013_(Political_injustices_pressure_Americans_towards_obesity)">obesity</a>,
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#19_December_2013_(Australian_gov%27t_will_help_businesses_get_away_with_illegal_pollution)">environmental 
pollution</a>,
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#24_June_2013_(Inequality_and_poverty_in_Brazil)">plutocracy
and its consequent often-deadly poverty</a>, and
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#11_November_2013_(Is_Earth_Fucked)">global 
heating</a>.


title: Deal between protesters and Ukrainian gov't breaks down
uri: Deal-between-protesters-and-Ukrainian-gov-t-breaks-down
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Deal_between_protesters_and_Ukrainian_govt_breaks_down)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Deal_between_protesters_and_Ukrainian_govt_breaks_down%29

content:
<p>
A deal between protesters and the government broke down and thugs
attacked the protesters, who 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/19/ukraine-revolutionary-situation-east-west-violence">fought
back</a>.


title: Guatemala's attorney general forced to leave office early
uri: Guatemala-s-attorney-general-forced-to-leave-office-early
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Guatemalas_attorney_general_forced_to_leave_office_early)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Guatemalas_attorney_general_forced_to_leave_office_early%29

content:
<p>
Guatemala's attorney general, who prosecuted the corrupt and genocidal
elite, has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/feb/19/claudia-paz-y-paz-guatemala-justice-system">forced
to leave office early</a>.


title: Thugs use whips to break up Pussy Riot performance
uri: Thugs-use-whips-to-break-up-Pussy-Riot-performance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Thugs_use_whips_to_break_up_Pussy_Riot_performance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Thugs_use_whips_to_break_up_Pussy_Riot_performance%29

content:
<p>
Thugs broke up a Pussy Riot performance by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/19/pussy-riot-attacked-whips-cossack-milita-sochi-winter-olympics">attacking
the performers with whips</a>.


title: Plastic food packaging leaches hormone-disrupting substances
uri: Plastic-food-packaging-leaches-hormone-disrupting-substances
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(Plastic_food_packaging_leaches_hormone-disrupting_substances)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28Plastic_food_packaging_leaches_hormone-disrupting_substances%29

content:
<p>
People are exposed to low levels of 
<a href="">toxic and hormone-disrupting
substances throughout their lives, as they leach into food from
plastic packaging.  There is very little research into the effects of
this.


title: US protesters sentenced to as much as 5 years in prison
uri: US-protesters-sentenced-to-as-much-as-5-years-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 20_February_2014_(US_protesters_sentenced_to_as_much_as_5_years_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28US_protesters_sentenced_to_as_much_as_5_years_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
US protesters for nuclear disarmament have been sentenced to as much as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/19/nun-jailed-break-in-nuclear-plant">5
years in prison</a>.
<p>
The "sabotage" they were convicted of was symbolic.
<p>
Keep this in mind when other countries threaten large penalties
against protesters.  It's equally wrong when the US does it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 21_February_2014_(Injustice_of_the_TPP)
title: Injustice of the TPP
uri: Injustice-of-the-TPP
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_February_2014_%28Injustice_of_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
A web comic explains the 
<a href="http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/">injustice of the TPP</a>.
<p>
Even if we defeat the TPP, we should not forget the politicians who
are trying to inflict it on us.  They have proved they are on the
wrong side, the 1%'s side.


title: Ukrainian protesters defeat riot thugs
uri: Ukrainian-protesters-defeat-riot-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 21_February_2014_(Ukrainian_protesters_defeat_riot_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_February_2014_%28Ukrainian_protesters_defeat_riot_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Ukrainian protesters defeated riot thugs to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/ukraine-protesters-force-riot-police-independence-square-kiev-battle-control">take
control of Independence Square</a>, but it seems the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_(Deal_between_protesters_and_Ukrainian_govt_breaks_down)">right-wing
extremists</a> are taking the lead among them.


title: Delusional man faces death penalty in Pakistan for blasphemy
uri: Delusional-man-faces-death-penalty-in-Pakistan-for-blasphemy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 21_February_2014_(Delusional_man_faces_death_penalty_in_Pakistan_for_blasphemy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_February_2014_%28Delusional_man_faces_death_penalty_in_Pakistan_for_blasphemy%29

content:
<p>
A delusional man faces the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/pakistan-release-british-man-death-blasphemy-mohammed-ashgar">death
penalty in Pakistan</a> for blasphemy.
<p>
This law is the reason I will not go to Pakistan.
Nobody should go there.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 21_February_2014_(The_protests_in_Venezuela)
title: The protests in Venezuela
uri: The-protests-in-Venezuela
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_February_2014_%28The_protests_in_Venezuela%29
content:
<p>
More about the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/19/venezuela-leopoldo-lopez-court">protests
in Venezuela</a>.
<p>
I do not find it implausible that the US has helped organize the
protests.  I do not find it implausible that a provocateur (either
working for the Venezuelan government or working for the US) has
killed people on both sides.
<p>
In any case, it is clearly wrong to prosecute the leader of a protest
because violence breaks out later.  This resembles what the US did to
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair">Haymarket
martyrs</a>.


title: Whistleblower at Hanford nuclear facility fired
uri: Whistleblower-at-Hanford-nuclear-facility-fired
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 21_February_2014_(Whistleblower_at_Hanford_nuclear_facility_fired)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_February_2014_%28Whistleblower_at_Hanford_nuclear_facility_fired%29

content:
<p>
The cleanup manager at the Hanford nuclear facility was 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/19-4">fired
after informing the public about safety faults</a>.
<p>
Previous whistleblowers were fired, too.  I guess we can't believe
anything the employees say unless they get fired.


title: Volkswagen workers bullied by Republican state politicians
uri: Volkswagen-workers-bullied-by-Republican-state-politicians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 21_February_2014_(Volkswagen_workers_bullied_by_Republican_state_politicians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_February_2014_%28Volkswagen_workers_bullied_by_Republican_state_politicians%29

content:
<p>
Republican state politicians in Tennessee 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/labor/disgusting-gop-tries-bully-american-workers-seeking-union-tennessee-volkswagen-plant">bullied
Volkswagen workers</a>, who then voted not to unionize.


title: Minimum wage needs to be combined with a welfare system
uri: Minimum-wage-needs-to-be-combined-with-a-welfare-system
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 21_February_2014_(Minimum_wage_needs_to_be_combined_with_a_welfare_system)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_February_2014_%28Minimum_wage_needs_to_be_combined_with_a_welfare_system%29

content:
<p>
Republicans have seized on a study that predicts that increasing the
minimum wage would 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/cbo-report-minimum-wage-boost-cut-employment">eliminate
500,000 jobs but lift 900,000 workers out of poverty</a>.
<p>
The minimum wage needs to be combined with a welfare system for
those who are unemployed.  That way, all low-paid workers benefit,
whether they are still working or not.
<p>
To work out an example, suppose half a million jobs are eliminated,
and 50 million minimum-wage workers get a raise.  If those workers pay
3% of their <em>increase in income</em> as tax, that would cover the
costs of supporting the other half-million, and all will be better off
than they are now.
<p>
This sort of system to transfer income from the rich (who have grabbed
an ever-increasing share) to the rest is exactly what we need.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Rand_Paul_on_NSA_spying)
title: Rand Paul on NSA spying
uri: Rand-Paul-on-NSA-spying
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Rand_Paul_on_NSA_spying%29
content:
<p>
Rand Paul: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/20/nsa-violating-american-rights-rand-paul">telling
Americans that the NSA spies on us all does not make it right to do
so</a>.
<p>
I disagree with his "cheating spouse" analogy, since I do not believe
monogamy should be a requirement for love.


title: Why right-wing ideologues deny global heating
uri: Why-right-wing-ideologues-deny-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Why_right-wing_ideologues_deny_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Why_right-wing_ideologues_deny_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing ideologues deny global heating because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/20/climate-change-deniers-markets-fix">confronting
it requires massive governmental activity</a>.
<p>
This is not to say there is no room for markets in preventing this
disaster.  One of the advantages of the carbon tax is that it puts the
free market to work in reducing emissions.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Massive_surveillance_of_forests)
title: Massive surveillance of forests
uri: Massive-surveillance-of-forests
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Massive_surveillance_of_forests%29

content:
<p>
One good use of massive surveillance 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/tracking-deforestation-supply-chains">surveils
forests</a> rather than people.


title: Urgent: Oppose plans for Navy sonar exercises
uri: Urgent-Oppose-plans-for-Navy-sonar-exercises
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_plans_for_Navy_sonar_exercises)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_plans_for_Navy_sonar_exercises%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy;?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3337">call
on the Navy</a> to drop its plans for sonar exercises that will kill
lots of marine mammals.


title: Prostitutes in Italy demand right to pay tax to get a pension
uri: Prostitutes-in-Italy-demand-right-to-pay-tax-to-get-a-pension
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Prostitutes_in_Italy_demand_right_to_pay_tax_to_get_a_pension)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Prostitutes_in_Italy_demand_right_to_pay_tax_to_get_a_pension%29

content:
<p>
Prostitutes in Italy 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/prostitutes-italy-fight-right-pay-tax-qualify-pensions">demand
the right to pay tax and get a pension</a>.


title: America's Highest Paid Government Workers
uri: America-s-Highest-Paid-Government-Workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(America's_Highest_Paid_Government_Workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28America%27s_Highest_Paid_Government_Workers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/02/20">New Report
Exposes America's Highest Paid Government Workers</a>.


title: Wal-Mart won't give workers a raise
uri: Wal-Mart-won-t-give-workers-a-raise
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Wal-Mart_wont_give_workers_a_raise)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Wal-Mart_wont_give_workers_a_raise%29

content:
<p>
Wal-Mart 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/20-0">firmly
denies the idea that it will give its workers a raise</a>.
<p>
However, the worst thing about working for Wal-Mart is that it usually
is 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_June_2013_(Walmart_moving_increasingly_to_temporary_workers)">too
few hours to make a living, and has no benefits or job security</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Urgent:_Support_EU_Net_Neutrality)
title: Urgent: Support EU Net Neutrality
uri: Urgent-Support-EU-Net-Neutrality
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_EU_Net_Neutrality%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens:
<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/02/please-help-save-net-neutrality-in-eu/index.htm">call
on certain MEPs</a> to support a specific aspect of
network neutrality when they vote on Feb 24.


title: Plastic food packaging leaches hormone-disrupting substances
uri: 2014-02-23-Plastic-food-packaging-leaches-hormone-disrupting-substances
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Plastic_food_packaging_leaches_hormone-disrupting_substances)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Plastic_food_packaging_leaches_hormone-disrupting_substances%29

content:
<p>
People are exposed to low levels of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/19/chemicals-leaching-food-packaging-safety-bmj">toxic
and hormone-disrupting substances</a> throughout their lives, as they
leach into food from plastic packaging.  There is very little research
into the effects of this.
<p>
It is a difficult question to study; there is no way to do a
controlled experiment, and it is hard to find comparable populations
that differ mainly in how much they keep food and beverages in plastic
packaging.


title: Press under Threat on Anniversary of Libyan Revolution
uri: Press-under-Threat-on-Anniversary-of-Libyan-Revolution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Press_under_Threat_on_Anniversary_of_Libyan_Revolution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Press_under_Threat_on_Anniversary_of_Libyan_Revolution%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2014/02/press-under-threat-on-anniversary-of-libya-revolut.php">Press
under Threat on Anniversary of Libyan Revolution.</a>


title: Journalist reports that someone was messing with his word processor
uri: Journalist-reports-that-someone-was-messing-with-his-word-processor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Journalist_reports_that_someone_was_messing_with_his_word_processor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Journalist_reports_that_someone_was_messing_with_his_word_processor%29

content:
<p>
Journalist Luke Harding reports
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/20/edward-snowden-files-nsa-gchq-luke-harding">someone
was messing with his word processor as he wrote a book about
Snowden.</a>


title: Urgent: Advocate changes going the opposite of fast track
uri: Urgent-Advocate-changes-going-the-opposite-of-fast-track
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Urgent:_Advocate_changes_going_the_opposite_of_fast_track)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Advocate_changes_going_the_opposite_of_fast_track%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Rep Pelosi and Senator Reid
to <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12421">advocate
changes going the opposite of fast track.</a>


title: Privatization of electricity in Australia
uri: Privatization-of-electricity-in-Australia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Privatization_of_electricity_in_Australia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Privatization_of_electricity_in_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Privatization of electricity in parts of Australia turned out to be
inefficient: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/electricity-privatisation-failure-report-finds">it
caused prices there to shoot up.</a>
<p>
High prices of electricity might have a positive effect: incentivizing
conservation efforts.  But it would have been better to do that with a
tax increase, rather than giving away the increase to private parties.


title: Right-Wingers warn of the danger of a "wage explosion"
uri: Right-Wingers-warn-of-the-danger-of-a-wage-explosion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Right-Wingers_warn_of_the_danger_of_a_wage_explosion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Right-Wingers_warn_of_the_danger_of_a_wage_explosion%29

content:
<p>
Wages in Australia have been falling,
but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2014/feb/20/wages-boom-alarmists-economic-equivalent-climate-change-deniers">right-wingers
warn of the danger of a "wage explosion".</a>
<p>
This is standard right-wing tactic.


title: Australia has put refugees in danger
uri: Australia-has-put-refugees-in-danger
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Australia_has_put_refugees_in_danger)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Australia_has_put_refugees_in_danger%29

content:
<p>
Australia has put refugees in danger
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/20/asylum-seekers-safety-is-compromised-by-this-secretive-government">leaking
their personal data to the countries they fled from.</a>


title: Urgent: Opt out of the UK's lax medical records sharing system
uri: Urgent-Opt-out-of-the-UK-s-lax-medical-records-sharing-system
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Urgent:_Opt_out_of_the_UK's_lax_medical_records_sharing_system)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Opt_out_of_the_UK%27s_lax_medical_records_sharing_system%29

content:
<p>
In the UK: <a href="https://www.faxyourgp.com/">opt out of the UK's
lax medical records sharing system.</a>


title: Islamic oppression reaches a new extreme
uri: Islamic-oppression-reaches-a-new-extreme
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Islamic_oppression_reaches_a_new_extreme)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Islamic_oppression_reaches_a_new_extreme%29

content:
<p>
Islamic oppression reaches a new extreme: in Saudi Arabia, women are
<a href="http://www.arabnews.com/news/525696">not allowed to go to a
medical clinic without a male guardian.</a>


title: Bill to restrict local thugs from acquiring armored vehicles, machine guns, and so on
uri: Bill-to-restrict-local-thugs-from-acquiring-armored-vehicles-machine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Bill_to_restrict_local_thugs_from_acquiring_armored_vehicles,_machine_guns,_and_so_on)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Bill_to_restrict_local_thugs_from_acquiring_armored_vehicles%2C_machine_guns%2C_and_so_on%29

content:
<p>
New Hampshire is considering a bill
to <a href="http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/02/17/police-state-gears-up/">restrict
local thugs from acquiring armored vehicles, machine guns, and so
on.</a>
<p>
The local citizens would be empowered to permit exceptions.
<p>
Let's have this in every state!


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Criticizing_voluntourism)
title: Criticizing "voluntourism"
uri: Criticizing-voluntourism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Criticizing_voluntourism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://medium.com/p/b84d4011d17e">Criticizing
"voluntourism"</a>: don't think that your brief participation in an
aid project will be constructive if you don't have a special skill to
do the job.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(HIV_denialists_are_using_the_DMCA)
title: HIV denialists are using the DMCA
uri: HIV-denialists-are-using-the-DMCA
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28HIV_denialists_are_using_the_DMCA%29

content:
<p>
HIV denialists
are <a href="http://mylespower.co.uk/2014/02/09/the-dmca-situation/">using
the DMCA to censor criticism of their video.</a>


title: Arrested and beat up a man for helping people
uri: Arrested-and-beat-up-a-man-for-helping-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Arrested_and_beat_up_a_man_for_helping_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Arrested_and_beat_up_a_man_for_helping_people%29

content:
<p>
Vindictive San Francisco
thugs <a href="https://medium.com/p/9f53ef6a1c10/">arrested and beat
up a man for helping people who had a bicycle accident.</a>


title: Some poor Venezuelans have joined in protests
uri: Some-poor-Venezuelans-have-joined-in-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Some_poor_Venezuelans_have_joined_in_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Some_poor_Venezuelans_have_joined_in_protests%29

content:
<p>
Some poor Venezuelans
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/venezuelas-poor-protests-chavez-revolution">joined
in protests.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(It_would_take_many_Snowdens)
title: It would take many Snowdens
uri: It-would-take-many-Snowdens
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28It_would_take_many_Snowdens%29
content:
<p>
It would take many Snowdens to give Americans a picture
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/20-4">all the
things the US government is secretly doing that might be
dangerous.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Snipers_killed_protesters_in_Kiev)
title: Snipers killed protesters in Kiev
uri: Snipers-killed-protesters-in-Kiev
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Snipers_killed_protesters_in_Kiev%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/ukraine-snipers-kiev-hotel-makeshift-morgue">Snipers
killed protesters in Kiev.</a>
<p>
Ukrainian
thugs <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/tech-protester-in-kiev-badly-beaten-journalist-killed-as-it-tent-is-burned-by-police/">burned
down the internet tent at the protest camp.</a>
<p>
The western part of Ukraine
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/ukraine-protests-spread-from-kiev">starting
to break away.</a>
<p>
Naturally, the
government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/ukraine-dead-protesters-police">calls
the protesters "terrorists".</a>
<p>
I hear that some sort of deal has been made.


title: Ethiopian woman raped in Sudan won't be executed
uri: Ethiopian-woman-raped-in-Sudan-won-t-be-executed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Ethiopian_woman_raped_in_Sudan_won't_be_executed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Ethiopian_woman_raped_in_Sudan_won%27t_be_executed%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/sudan-court-convicts-gang-raped-teenager-indecent-acts">Ethiopian
woman raped in Sudan won't be executed</a>, but faces a fine she
surely cannot pay.


title: Journalists are now on trial in Egypt for their journalism
uri: Journalists-are-now-on-trial-in-Egypt-for-their-journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Journalists_are_now_on_trial_in_Egypt_for_their_journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Journalists_are_now_on_trial_in_Egypt_for_their_journalism%29

content:
<p>
Al-Jazeera journalists are
now <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/al-jazeera-journalists-appeal-egypt-trial-terrorism">on
trial in Egypt for their journalism.</a>


title: South Africa tried to force a gay rights activist unto a flight to Uganda
uri: South-Africa-tried-to-force-a-gay-rights-activist-unto-a-flight-to-Uga
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(South_Africa_tried_to_force_a_gay_rights_activist_unto_a_flight_to_Uganda)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28South_Africa_tried_to_force_a_gay_rights_activist_unto_a_flight_to_Uganda%29

content:
<p>
South Africa tried
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/south-africa-drops-deportation-case-ugandan-gay-rights-campaigner-paul-semugoma">force
a gay rights activist unto a flight to Uganda</a> where he would face
imprisonment for his political views.


title: US Must Account for 'Turning Wedding Into a Funeral'
uri: US-Must-Account-for-Turning-Wedding-Into-a-Funeral
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(US_Must_Account_for_'Turning_Wedding_Into_a_Funeral')

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28US_Must_Account_for_%27Turning_Wedding_Into_a_Funeral%27%29

content:
<p>
Drone
Report: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/20-4">US
Must Account for 'Turning Wedding Into a Funeral'.</a>


title: If our frack well explodes, you get a free pizza!
uri: If-our-frack-well-explodes-you-get-a-free-pizza
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(If_our_frack_well_explodes,_you_get_a_free_pizza!)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28If_our_frack_well_explodes%2C_you_get_a_free_pizza%21%29

content:
<p>
Chevron: if our frack well
explodes, <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Chevron-Endure-our-fracking-fire-and-the-pizzas-on-us.html">you
get a free pizza!</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(The_copyright_on_The_Hindus)
title: The copyright on The Hindus
uri: The-copyright-on-The-Hindus
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28The_copyright_on_The_Hindus%29
content:
<p>
Readers have served Penguin India with a demand
to <a href="http://www.legallyindia.com/201402144350/Bar-Bench-Litigation/readers-serve-legal-notice-on-penguin">surrender
the copyright on The Hindus if it is not going to publish the book
there.</a>
<p>
I wonder if Doniger's contract says the rights revert to her when the
book goes out of print.


title: Billionaire plans to support candidates that intend to curb global heating
uri: Billionaire-plans-to-support-candidates-that-intend-to-curb-global-hea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Billionaire_plans_to_support_candidates_that_intend_to_curb_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Billionaire_plans_to_support_candidates_that_intend_to_curb_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
The existence of one billionaire who plans to support candidates that
intend to curb global
heating <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/19/tom-steyer-super-pac-climate-change">does
not make it ok to let billionaires determine the results of
elections.</a>


title: Massive extinction at the end of the Permian period
uri: Massive-extinction-at-the-end-of-the-Permian-period
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Massive_extinction_at_the_end_of_the_Permian_period)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Massive_extinction_at_the_end_of_the_Permian_period%29

content:
<p>
The massive extinction at the end of the Permian
period <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2014/an-extinction-in-the-blink-of-an-eye-0210.html">occurred
in a time span between 10,000 and 110,000 years</a> — rapid in
geological time.
<p>
One candidate is a supervolcano that emitted tremendous amounts of
CO2.


title: Urgent: Bring the minimum wage raise bill to a vote
uri: Urgent-Bring-the-minimum-wage-raise-bill-to-a-vote
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Urgent:_Bring_the_minimum_wage_raise_bill_to_a_vote)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Bring_the_minimum_wage_raise_bill_to_a_vote%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Congress
to <a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/Sanders_Minimum_Wage">bring
the minimum wage raise bill to a vote.</a>


title: Republican extremist wants more right-wing policies
uri: Republican-extremist-wants-more-right-wing-policies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 22_February_2014_(Republican_extremist_wants_more_right-wing_policies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#22_February_2014_%28Republican_extremist_wants_more_right-wing_policies%29

content:
<p>
A Republican extremist claims he wants to reduce poverty by pushing
more of the right-wing policies that
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/19/tea-party-mike-lee-unlikely-republican-poverty">increased
poverty in the US so far.</a>


title: Urgent: Respect for wildlife refuge on Merritt Island
uri: Urgent-Respect-for-wildlife-refuge-on-Merritt-Island
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Urgent:_Respect_for_wildlife_refuge_on_Merritt_Island)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Respect_for_wildlife_refuge_on_Merritt_Island%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2695">call
on the FAA</a> to respect the wildlife refuge on Merritt Island.


title: Urgent: Regulate emissions of methane
uri: Urgent-Regulate-emissions-of-methane
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Urgent:_Regulate_emissions_of_methane)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Regulate_emissions_of_methane%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15107">call</a>
for regulating emissions of methane.


title: Family made ill and displaced by tar sands industry
uri: Family-made-ill-and-displaced-by-tar-sands-industry
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Family_made_ill_and_displaced_by_tar_sands_industry)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Family_made_ill_and_displaced_by_tar_sands_industry%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/18/3217921/tar-sands-refugees/">Meet
The Family The Tar Sands Industry Wants To Keep Quiet</a>.


title: Thug shoots teenager after mistaking Wii controller for gun
uri: Thug-shoots-teenager-after-mistaking-Wii-controller-for-gun
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Thug_shoots_teenager_after_mistaking_Wii_controller_for_gun)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Thug_shoots_teenager_after_mistaking_Wii_controller_for_gun%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/20/3309881/cop-shot-boy-holding-wii-controller-lawyer-alleges/">Cop
Allegedly Shot And Killed Teenage Boy After Mistaking His Wii
Controller For A Gun</a>.
<p>
The important issue is not the mistake made on this one occasion but
the general factors that make such mistakes likely.


title: The claim that raising minimum wage will cost jobs
uri: The-claim-that-raising-minimum-wage-will-cost-jobs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(The_claim_that_raising_minimum_wage_will_cost_jobs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28The_claim_that_raising_minimum_wage_will_cost_jobs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/02/19/3307661/cbo-minimum-wage-methodology/">The
Troubling Fine Print In The Claim That Raising The Minimum Wage Will
Cost Jobs</a>.


title: Influence of oil money on Texas legislature
uri: Influence-of-oil-money-on-Texas-legislature
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Influence_of_oil_money_on_Texas_legislature)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Influence_of_oil_money_on_Texas_legislature%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/02/18/14240/saturated-oil-money-texas-legislature-saved-industry-pollution-rule">Saturated
with Oil Money, Texas Legislature Saved Industry from Pollution
Rule</a>.


title: US courts moving to discard the "third party" doctrine
uri: US-courts-moving-to-discard-the-third-party-doctrine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(US_courts_moving_to_discard_the_third_party_doctrine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28US_courts_moving_to_discard_the_third_party_doctrine%29

content:
<p>
US courts are 
<a href="http://privacysos.org/node/1327">moving to discard the "third
party" doctrine</a> which says that people have no "expectation of
privacy" in information that they provide to a "third party".
<p>
If this change is universally adopted, it will only partly reduce the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">harm
done by accumulating massive digital dossiers about everyone</a>.


title: Spying on email between FARC peace negotiators and foreign journalists
uri: Spying-on-email-between-FARC-peace-negotiators-and-foreign-journalists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Spying_on_email_between_FARC_peace_negotiators_and_foreign_journalists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Spying_on_email_between_FARC_peace_negotiators_and_foreign_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Colombia 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/colombie-spying-on-journalists-compromises-19-02-2014,45904.html">spied
on email</a> between FARC peace negotiators and foreign journalists.
<p>
The FARC is Colombia's second-worst terrorist group.  The worst one is
the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2005-jul-oct.html#19%20October%202005%20(Death%20threats%20from%20paramilitaries)">army-backed
paramilitaries</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop allowing veto of judge nominees by a solitary senator
uri: Urgent-Stop-allowing-veto-of-judge-nominees-by-a-solitary-senator
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_allowing_veto_of_judge_nominees_by_a_solitary_senator)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_allowing_veto_of_judge_nominees_by_a_solitary_senator%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/blueslips">call on Senator
Leahy</a> to change the practice that enables a solitary Republican
senator to veto a judge nominee.


title: Urgent: Ban practice of feeding antibiotics to livestock
uri: Urgent-Ban-practice-of-feeding-antibiotics-to-livestock
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Urgent:_Ban_practice_of_feeding_antibiotics_to_livestock)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_practice_of_feeding_antibiotics_to_livestock%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12601">tell
the FDA</a> to ban the practice of feeding antibiotics to livestock
even when they are not sick.


title: Plans for systematic tracking of drivers in the US
uri: Plans-for-systematic-tracking-of-drivers-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Plans_for_systematic_tracking_of_drivers_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Plans_for_systematic_tracking_of_drivers_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The Committee for Public Safety — oops, Department of Homeland
Security — has <em>not</em> canceled its 
<a href="http://privacysos.org/node/1332">plans for systematic
tracking of drivers via license plate recognition</a>.
<p>
It should be illegal for companies to systematically accumulate
records of license plates unless they are (1) invalid or (2) subject
to specific surveillance orders issued by a court.


title: Ukraine may be in process of splitting up
uri: Ukraine-may-be-in-process-of-splitting-up
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Ukraine_may_be_in_process_of_splitting_up)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Ukraine_may_be_in_process_of_splitting_up%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine's parliament removed President Yanukovych, but the country 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/22/yulia-tymoshenko-released-ukraine-lurches-split">may
be in the process of splitting up</a> anyway.
<p>
<a href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/17/us-eu-paying-ukrainian-rioters-protesters-paul-craig-roberts/">Accusations</a>
that Germany and the US are paying protesters in Ukraine.


title: Ecological consequences of a new canal through Nicaragua
uri: Ecological-consequences-of-a-new-canal-through-Nicaragua
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Ecological_consequences_of_a_new_canal_through_Nicaragua)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Ecological_consequences_of_a_new_canal_through_Nicaragua%29

content:
<p>
A new canal through Nicaragua could cause tremendous ecological damage
and is 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-02-canal-nicaragua-rainforests-andwildlife.html">likely
to be of no benefit to most Nicaraguans</a>.
<p>
Container shipping has no need for a canal.  The containers can be
offloaded at one coast, then shipped by rail to the other coast.  This
would require a little more work, but (with a fast train line) could
even reduce shipping time.


title: Hot weather, violent crime and theft
uri: Hot-weather-violent-crime-and-theft
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Hot_weather,_violent_crime_and_theft)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Hot_weather%2C_violent_crime_and_theft%29

content:
<p>
A study concludes that hot weather 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-02-climate-crime.html">increases
violent crime and theft</a>.
<p>
Global heating might then lead to an increase, though it is not
certain that the effects of week-to-week temperature variation would
apply also to a permanent temperature rise.


title: Supposed limits on US surveillance of journalists' communications
uri: Supposed-limits-on-US-surveillance-of-journalists-communications
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Supposed_limits_on_US_surveillance_of_journalists_communications)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Supposed_limits_on_US_surveillance_of_journalists_communications%29

content:
<p>
Supposed limits on US surveillance of journalists' communications are
<a href="http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/02/21/doj-will-continue-to-use-nsls-to-get-journalist-contacts/">meaningless</a>
because they don't apply to using the PAT RIOT act against
journalists.


title: AT&T's misleading surveillance report
uri: AT-T-s-misleading-surveillance-report
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(ATTs_misleading_surveillance_report)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28ATTs_misleading_surveillance_report%29

content:
<p>
AT&T's surveillance report is more misleading than accurate,
because it 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/ma-bell-non-transparency/">omits
80 million NSA targets</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Algorithmic_prison)
title: Algorithmic prison
uri: Algorithmic-prison
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Algorithmic_prison%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/welcome-to-algorithmic-prison/283985/">Welcome
to Algorithmic Prison</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Entrapment_mills_in_the_US)
title: Entrapment mills in the US
uri: Entrapment-mills-in-the-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Entrapment_mills_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operated
<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atf-uses-rogue-tactics-in-storefront-stings-across-the-nation-b99146765z1-234916641.html">entrapment
mills</a> across the US.


title: Proposed ban on aiding military interrogations fails to pass
uri: Proposed-ban-on-aiding-military-interrogations-fails-to-pass
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Proposed_ban_on_aiding_military_interrogations_fails_to_pass)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Proposed_ban_on_aiding_military_interrogations_fails_to_pass%29

content:
<p>
A proposed ban on aiding military interrogations
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/21/us-psychologists-rejects-ban-military-interrogations">won
53% of the votes at the American Psychological Association's
conference</a>, but failed because it needed a 2/3 majority to pass.


title: Egyptian thugs cram 45 prisoners into van and bomb them with tear gas
uri: Egyptian-thugs-cram-45-prisoners-into-van-and-bomb-them-with-tear-gas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Egyptian_thugs_cram_45_prisoners_into_van_and_bomb_them_with_tear_gas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Egyptian_thugs_cram_45_prisoners_into_van_and_bomb_them_with_tear_gas%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/22/cairo-prison-abu-zabaal-deaths-37-prisoners">crammed
45 prisoners into a van meant for 24</a>, left them for hours in
intense heat without water or air, then finished off most of them with
a tear gas bomb.
<p>
Then, of course, the thugs made up lies to excuse this.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Arrest_of_Mexican_drug_kingpin)
title: Arrest of Mexican drug kingpin
uri: Arrest-of-Mexican-drug-kingpin
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Arrest_of_Mexican_drug_kingpin%29

content:
<p>
Is drug kingpin Guzmán the Mexican state's prisoner or its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/22/joaquin-guzman-mexican-drug-lord">ally
and honored guest</a>?


title: Urgent: Oppose imprisonment of protesting nuns
uri: Urgent-Oppose-imprisonment-of-protesting-nuns
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_imprisonment_of_protesting_nuns)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_imprisonment_of_protesting_nuns%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/694">tell the Justice
Department</a> that protesting nuns shouldn't be imprisoned while
banksters enjoy impunity.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Attack_on_wedding_party_in_Yemen)
title: Attack on wedding party in Yemen
uri: Attack-on-wedding-party-in-Yemen
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Attack_on_wedding_party_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
It is impossible to tell whether some of the people in the Yemeni
wedding party were supporters of al Qa'ida, but even if some were, is
it right to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/21-6">attack a
wedding party</a>?


title: US military uses foreign sweatshops
uri: US-military-uses-foreign-sweatshops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(US_military_uses_foreign_sweatshops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28US_military_uses_foreign_sweatshops%29

content:
<p>
The US military produces propaganda clothing in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/23-0">foreign
sweatshops</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Egypts_military_rulers)
title: Egypt's military rulers
uri: Egypt-s-military-rulers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Egypts_military_rulers%29
content:
<p>
Egypt's military rulers are saying the US is plotting against them
while 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/23-2">continuing to
accept lots of US support</a>.


title: Diseases spreading from honeybees to bumblebees
uri: Diseases-spreading-from-honeybees-to-bumblebees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Diseases_spreading_from_honeybees_to_bumblebees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Diseases_spreading_from_honeybees_to_bumblebees%29

content:
<p>
Honeybees are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/20/honeybees-infecting-bumblebees-deadly-diseases">spreading
diseases</a> to bumblebees.


title: Egyptian soldiers attack alleged terrorists from helicopters
uri: Egyptian-soldiers-attack-alleged-terrorists-from-helicopters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Egyptian_soldiers_attack_alleged_terrorists_from_helicopters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Egyptian_soldiers_attack_alleged_terrorists_from_helicopters%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian soldiers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/20/egypt-militants-killed-gunships-sinai-al-qaida-linked">attacked
alleged terrorists from helicopters</a>.
<p>
If the people attacked were indeed bombers associated with al-Qa'ida,
that's a good reason to arrest and prosecute them; but does Egypt need
to attack criminals in Egypt with the army?  This attack is the sort
of thing one would expect in a civil war.


title: Pension funds that invest in fossil fuels
uri: Pension-funds-that-invest-in-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Pension_funds_that_invest_in_fossil_fuels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Pension_funds_that_invest_in_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
Pension funds that invest in fossil fuels are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/parents-pensions-screwing-up-childrens-future">ruining
their clients' descendants' lives</a>.


title: The campaign for privatization of US public schools
uri: The-campaign-for-privatization-of-US-public-schools
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(The_campaign_for_privatization_of_US_public_schools)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28The_campaign_for_privatization_of_US_public_schools%29

content:
<p>
The campaign for privatization of US public schools 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/22-0">started from
a false report</a> of a nonexistent fall in US educational results.


title: Governments promoting dangerous changes in "internet governance"
uri: Governments-promoting-dangerous-changes-in-internet-governance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Governments_promoting_dangerous_changes_in_internet_governance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Governments_promoting_dangerous_changes_in_internet_governance%29

content:
<p>
Governments that want more control over the Internet are using the
revelations about government snooping as an excuse to promote
dangerous changes in
"<a href='https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/22-3'>internet
governance</a>."


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(A_report_from_Venezuela)
title: A report from Venezuela
uri: A-report-from-Venezuela
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28A_report_from_Venezuela%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/02/venezuela-protests-war-zone-explained">A
report from Venezuela.</a>


title: Athabasca River in Alberta is being contaminated by waste from tar sands oil
uri: Athabasca-River-in-Alberta-is-being-contaminated-by-waste-from-tar-san
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Athabasca_River_in_Alberta_is_being_contaminated_by_waste_from_tar_sands_oil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Athabasca_River_in_Alberta_is_being_contaminated_by_waste_from_tar_sands_oil%29

content:
<p>
The Athabasca River in Alberta
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/21-4">being
contaminated by waste from tar sands oil</a>, which was disposed of in
the cheapest possible way: dumped on the ground.


title: Urgent: Preserve funding for vital conservation programs
uri: Urgent-Preserve-funding-for-vital-conservation-programs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Urgent:_Preserve_funding_for_vital_conservation_programs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_funding_for_vital_conservation_programs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress
to <a href="http://tws.convio.net/site/R?i=m__cwNWVXJVfwTqrYp2z2g">preserve
funding for vital conservation programs.</a>


title: UK gov't still denies that its policies have pushed many Britons into hunger
uri: UK-gov-t-still-denies-that-its-policies-have-pushed-many-Britons-into
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(UK_gov't_still_denies_that_its_policies_have_pushed_many_Britons_into_hunger)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28UK_gov%27t_still_denies_that_its_policies_have_pushed_many_Britons_into_hunger%29

content:
<p>
The UK
government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/21/food-banks-dignity-hungry-denial-crisis">still
denies that its policies have pushed many Britons into hunger</a>, and
still pretends that they are poor because they are lazy, as an excuse
to waste their time applying for an inadequate quantity of jobs.
<p>
Food banks are admirable, but their inadequacy demonstrates the need
for adequate government aid for the poor.


title: Anti-Putin protesters convicted of "rioting" and attacking thugs
uri: Anti-Putin-protesters-convicted-of-rioting-and-attacking-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Anti-Putin_protesters_convicted_of_rioting_and_attacking_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Anti-Putin_protesters_convicted_of_rioting_and_attacking_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Anti-Putin protesters from 2012 have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/21/anti-kremlin-putin-protesters-guilty-verdict-court">convicted
of "rioting" and attacking thugs.</a>
<p>
It's probably the "He hit my stick with his head" accusation that
thugs around the world like to make after they attack someone.  Even
in the US, courts tend to believe the thugs if there's no hard
evidence to the contrary.


title: Law to make schools protect personal data of students
uri: Law-to-make-schools-protect-personal-data-of-students
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Law_to_make_schools_protect_personal_data_of_students)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Law_to_make_schools_protect_personal_data_of_students%29

content:
<p>
California is considering a law
to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/technology/scrutiny-in-california-for-software-in-schools.html">make
schools protect personal data of students.</a>
<p>
The proposal is well-meaning, but I think its provisions are
inadequate because the US government will find some way to collect
that personal data.
<p>
The law really should order schools not to release data about their
students to any one except the student, or to another school that the
student wishes to enroll in.


title: Fix the Debt's campaign has failed
uri: Fix-the-Debt-s-campaign-has-failed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Fix_the_Debt's_campaign_has_failed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Fix_the_Debt%27s_campaign_has_failed%29

content:
<p>
Fix the Debt's campaign
to <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/02/12391/fix-debt%E2%80%99s-last-hurrumph">cut
government spending on the non-rich has failed.</a>
<p>
However, if Obama is presenting a smaller deficit as an improvement,
rather than a sign of a failure to stimulate the economy, he is still
a right-wing influence.


title: Urgent: demand an end to (illegal) threats against whistleblower John Kiriakou
uri: Urgent-demand-an-end-to-(illegal)-threats-against-whistleblower-John
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Urgent:_demand_an_end_to_(illegal)_threats_against_whistleblower_John_Kiriakou)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_demand_an_end_to_%28illegal%29_threats_against_whistleblower_John_Kiriakou%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone the Bureau of Prisons
to <a href="http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/kiriakou-bop">demand
an end to (illegal) threats against whistleblower John Kiriakou.</a>


title: The IRS proposals for campaign spending
uri: The-IRS-proposals-for-campaign-spending
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(The_IRS_proposals_for_campaign_spending)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28The_IRS_proposals_for_campaign_spending%29

content:
<p>
The IRS proposals for campaign spending by 501(c)(4) organizations
<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-filings/entry/crew-files-comments-criticizing-irs-rule-501c4-social-welfare-dark-money">don't
go far enough to stop them from filtering dark money</a> from
billionaires and businesses.


title: FCC is trying to defend network neutrality with half-measures
uri: FCC-is-trying-to-defend-network-neutrality-with-half-measures
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(FCC_is_trying_to_defend_network_neutrality_with_half-measures)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28FCC_is_trying_to_defend_network_neutrality_with_half-measures%29

content:
<p>
The FCC
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/21-5">trying to
defend network neutrality with half-measures</a> instead of the common
carrier status that really should apply.


title: Venezuela is filtering the internet as a reaction to the protests
uri: Venezuela-is-filtering-the-internet-as-a-reaction-to-the-protests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Venezuela_is_filtering_the_internet_as_a_reaction_to_the_protests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Venezuela_is_filtering_the_internet_as_a_reaction_to_the_protests%29

content:
<p>
Venezuela
is <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/venezuelas-net-crackdown-escalates">filtering
the internet as a reaction to the protests.</a>


title: Urgent: Do not allow drilling for oil in Arctic waters
uri: Urgent-Do-not-allow-drilling-for-oil-in-Arctic-waters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Urgent:_Do_not_allow_drilling_for_oil_in_Arctic_waters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_allow_drilling_for_oil_in_Arctic_waters%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell the Secretary of the
Interior <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1543&utm_source=MoveOn.org&s_src=1402_MoveOn.org_ArcticAction">not
to allow drilling for oil in Arctic waters.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Killed_for_being_used_by_Facebook)
title: Killed for being used by Facebook
uri: Killed-for-being-used-by-Facebook
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Killed_for_being_used_by_Facebook%29

content:
<p>
Islamist fanatics in
Syria <a href="http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/WOR-syrian-girl-stoned-to-death-for-using-facebook-account-4521918-NOR.html">reportedly
killed a girl for being used by Facebook.</a>
<p>
Being used by Facebook is bad enough — these people need help
quitting, not punishment.


title: Judge Tosses Muslim Spying Suit Against NYPD
uri: Judge-Tosses-Muslim-Spying-Suit-Against-NYPD
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Judge_Tosses_Muslim_Spying_Suit_Against_NYPD)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Judge_Tosses_Muslim_Spying_Suit_Against_NYPD%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=1242">Judge Tosses
Muslim Spying Suit Against NYPD</a>, Says Any Damage Was Caused by
Reporters Who Exposed It.


title: Urgent: Oppose the Keystone XL pipeline
uri: Urgent-Oppose-the-Keystone-XL-pipeline
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_Keystone_XL_pipeline)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Ms Clinton to heed Jeffrey Sachs
and <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/help-jeff-sachs-stop?source=c.tw&r_by=1135580">oppose
the Keystone XL pipeline.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Recommendations_for_UK_NHS)
title: Recommendations for UK NHS
uri: Recommendations-for-UK-NHS
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Recommendations_for_UK_NHS%29
content:
<p>
Recommendations for what the UK NHS should do
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/21/nhs-plan-share-medical-data-save-lives">allay
fears of misuse of people's medical records.</a>
<p>
I think this does not go far enough.  No companies should be given
access to any of this data.
We <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#10 February 2011 (Hide experimental results)">can't trust pharma companies to
investigate the effects of their own drugs,</a> so that work should be
done by universities with no direct contact with the company.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 23_February_2014_(Peace_deal_in_Ukraine)
title: Peace deal in Ukraine
uri: Peace-deal-in-Ukraine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#23_February_2014_%28Peace_deal_in_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
In Ukraine, the protesters and the president
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/21/ukraine-protests-viktor-yanukovych-election">made
a long-term peace deal.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Urgent:_Support_Yevgeniy_Vitishko)
title: Urgent: Support Yevgeniy Vitishko
uri: Urgent-Support-Yevgeniy-Vitishko
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Yevgeniy_Vitishko%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=520622">support</a>
Russian environmentalist Yevgeniy Vitishko.


title: Urgent: Call on the US Olympic Committee to reject BP as a sponsor
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-US-Olympic-Committee-to-reject-BP-as-a-sponsor
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_US_Olympic_Committee_to_reject_BP_as_a_sponsor)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_the_US_Olympic_Committee_to_reject_BP_as_a_sponsor%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/usoc_bp/">call on the US
Olympic Committee</a> to reject Billionaire Polluters as a sponsor.


title: Urgent: BP's suspension from new federal contracts
uri: Urgent-BP-s-suspension-from-new-federal-contracts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Urgent:_BP's_suspension_from_new_federal_contracts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_BP%27s_suspension_from_new_federal_contracts%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12428">call
on the EPA</a> not to lift Billionaire Polluters' suspension from new
federal contracts.
<p>
Make BP mean Billionaires Punished.


title: Monitoring employees' movements and conversations
uri: Monitoring-employees-movements-and-conversations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Monitoring_employees_movements_and_conversations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Monitoring_employees_movements_and_conversations%29

content:
<p>
Some US businesses install lots of 
<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d56004b0-9581-11e3-9fd6-00144feab7de.html">sensors</a>
to monitor employees' movements and conversations.


title: Proposed HTTP 2 spec includes just what the NSA wants
uri: Proposed-HTTP-2-spec-includes-just-what-the-NSA-wants
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Proposed_HTTP_2_spec_includes_just_what_the_NSA_wants)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Proposed_HTTP_2_spec_includes_just_what_the_NSA_wants%29

content:
<p>
The proposed HTTP 2 spec includes 
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001076.html">allowing ISP
proxies to decrypt communications between your computer and any web
site</a>.  Just what the NSA wants!


title: Uganda's president backtracking on anti-homosexuality legislation
uri: Ugandas-president-backtracking-on-anti-homosexuality-legislation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Ugandas_president_backtracking_on_anti-homosexuality_legislation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Ugandas_president_backtracking_on_anti-homosexuality_legislation%29

content:
<p>
Uganda's president Museveni is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/23/uganda-museveni-anti-gay-bill-hold">backtracking</a>
on signing the anti-homosexuality legislation.
<p>
The most clearly unjust provision I've seen listed in this law is its
prohibition on expressing the position that homosexuality is
acceptable.  I'm not saying this provision is more unjust than the
others (I am not trying to compare them on that dimension), but rather
that the injustice of this provision is the most indisputable, because
it violates freedom of speech.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Nefarious_role_of_US_in_Ukraine)
title: Nefarious role of US in Ukraine
uri: Nefarious-role-of-US-in-Ukraine
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Nefarious_role_of_US_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/20-3">In 
Ukraine, Chaos and Violence Hide Nefarious Role of US</a>.
<p>
This article points out a side of the situation which our media tend
to ignore; but it seems to ignore the other side which our media focus
on.  President Yanukovych's thugs were the ones that started shooting
the protesters, and as long as they continued, there was no reason to
criticize the protesters for shooting back.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Civil_disobedience)
title: Civil disobedience
uri: Civil-disobedience
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Civil_disobedience%29
content:
<p>
A lesson in real life for the foolish judges that tell activists they
should limit themselves to the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/20-3">ineffective
and ignored methods of protest that have not been prohibited</a>.
<p>
If any lawful method of protest starts to be effective, the state
finds an excuse to ban it or crush it.  Consider how the Occupy
protests were 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#18_June_2012_(The_City_Of_Oakland)">violently 
crushed</a>. Now consider the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_(Idaho%27s_Ag-Gag_Law_Latest_to_Criminalize_Defenders_of_Animals)">ag-gag 
bills</a>.


title: Acceleration of global heating worse than expected
uri: Acceleration-of-global-heating-worse-than-expected
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Acceleration_of_global_heating_worse_than_expected)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Acceleration_of_global_heating_worse_than_expected%29

content:
<p>
Global heating's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/19-5">reduction
of Arctic sea ice</a> has accelerated global heating worse than
scientists expected.


title: Anti-Putin protesters of 2012 sentenced to 4 years in prison
uri: Anti-Putin-protesters-of-2012-sentenced-to-4-years-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Anti-Putin_protesters_of_2012_sentenced_to_4_years_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Anti-Putin_protesters_of_2012_sentenced_to_4_years_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
The anti-Putin protesters of 2012 have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/24/protests-moscow-court-anti-putin-demonstrators-sentenced">sentenced
to 4 years in prison,</a> a little less
than <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#20_February_2014_%28US_protesters_sentenced_to_as_much_as_5_years_in_prison%29">some
US protesters.</a>


title: Economic growth in Africa is going mainly to the rich
uri: Economic-growth-in-Africa-is-going-mainly-to-the-rich
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Economic_growth_in_Africa_is_going_mainly_to_the_rich)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Economic_growth_in_Africa_is_going_mainly_to_the_rich%29

content:
<p>
Economic growth in
Africa <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/24/poor-losing-out-african-boom">is
going mainly to the rich.</a>
<p>
I suspect "free trade" and other neoliberal dooH niboR policies that
are designed to transfer wealth to the rich.


title: 11 million homes are empty in Europe, as many are homeless
uri: 11-million-homes-are-empty-in-Europe-as-many-are-homeless
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(11_million_homes_are_empty_in_Europe,_as_many_are_homeless)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%2811_million_homes_are_empty_in_Europe%2C_as_many_are_homeless%29

content:
<p>
11 million homes are empty in
Europe, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/23/europe-11m-empty-properties-enough-house-homeless-continent-twice">as
many are homeless.</a>
<p>
Homeless
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/23/ireland-predicted-26000-empty-properties-end-2014">still
increasing in Ireland.</a>


title: Urgent: Cut the nuclear weapons budget
uri: Urgent-Cut-the-nuclear-weapons-budget
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Urgent:_Cut_the_nuclear_weapons_budget)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cut_the_nuclear_weapons_budget%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="http://livableworld.org/explodingbudget/">cut the nuclear
weapons budget.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(NSA_snooped_on_Merkel's_aids)
title: NSA snooped on Merkel's aids
uri: NSA-snooped-on-Merkel-s-aids
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28NSA_snooped_on_Merkel%27s_aids%29

content:
<p>
Ever since Obama told the NSA to stop snooping on Angela Merkel, it
has <a href="http://www.dw.de/report-nsa-spying-on-merkel-aides/a-17452381">snooped
on her aides instead to get the same data.</a>


title: Obama's men continue promoting the TPP
uri: Obama-s-men-continue-promoting-the-TPP
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Obama's_men_continue_promoting_the_TPP)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Obama%27s_men_continue_promoting_the_TPP%29

content:
<p>
Obama's men continue promoting the TPP with
a <a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/02/fact-checking-froman-the-top-10-myths-used-by-obamas-top-trade-official.html">long
string of falsehoods and half-truths.</a>


title: Ukraine now faces threat of IMF shock treatments and "free trade"
uri: Ukraine-now-faces-threat-of-IMF-shock-treatments-and-free-trade
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Ukraine_now_faces_threat_of_IMF_shock_treatments_and_free_trade)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Ukraine_now_faces_threat_of_IMF_shock_treatments_and_free_trade%29

content:
<p>
Ukraine now faces
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/23/ukraine-crisis-western-nations-eu-russia">threat
of IMF shock treatments and "free trade" with the EU.</a>


title: Uganda's president signed the anti-homosexuality and censorship bill
uri: Uganda-s-president-signed-the-anti-homosexuality-and-censorship-bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Uganda's_president_signed_the_anti-homosexuality_and_censorship_bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Uganda%27s_president_signed_the_anti-homosexuality_and_censorship_bill%29

content:
<p>
Uganda's
president <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/24/uganda-president-signs-anti-gay-laws">signed
the anti-homosexuality and censorship bill.</a>


title: Artificial intelligence could make massive surveillance even more dangerous
uri: Artificial-intelligence-could-make-massive-surveillance-even-more-dang
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 24_February_2014_(Artificial_intelligence_could_make_massive_surveillance_even_more_dangerous)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_February_2014_%28Artificial_intelligence_could_make_massive_surveillance_even_more_dangerous%29

content:
<p>
Artificial
intelligence <a href="http://rt.com/news/google-kurzweil-robots-transhumanism-312/">could
make massive surveillance even more dangerous.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_fracking)
title: Urgent: Oppose fracking
uri: Urgent-Oppose-fracking
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fracking%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/rex_tillerson_fracking">tell
the CEO of ExxonMobil</a> that he's not the only one whose backyard
shouldn't be fracked in.
<p>
Don't let the oil companies drive us to frack and fruin.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Denial_of_global_heating)
title: Denial of global heating
uri: Denial-of-global-heating
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Denial_of_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Denial of global heating is a form of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/25/australias-most-effective-pseudoscience-climate-change-denial">pseudoscience</a>.


title: LinkedIn setting up censored Chinese subsidiary
uri: LinkedIn-setting-up-censored-Chinese-subsidiary
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(LinkedIn_setting_up_censored_Chinese_subsidiary)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28LinkedIn_setting_up_censored_Chinese_subsidiary%29

content:
<p>
LinkedIn is setting up a 
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-02-24/linkedin-expands-in-china-with-local-website-limiting-content">censored
Chinese subsidiary</a>.


title: Man in Japan tries and fails to kill without a gun
uri: Man-in-Japan-tries-and-fails-to-kill-without-a-gun
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Man_in_Japan_tries_and_fails_to_kill_without_a_gun)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Man_in_Japan_tries_and_fails_to_kill_without_a_gun%29

content:
<p>
A man in Japan 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/23/1279803/-Random-Mass-Killing-Attempt-In-Japan">tried
to kill strangers</a>, but since he couldn't find a gun, he had to use
a car, and didn't succeed in killing anyone.


title: NYC postpones plan to wake up homeless people sleeping on train
uri: NYC-postpones-plan-to-wake-up-homeless-people-sleeping-on-train
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(NYC_postpones_plan_to_wake_up_homeless_people_sleeping_on_train)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28NYC_postpones_plan_to_wake_up_homeless_people_sleeping_on_train%29

content:
<p>
New York City 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/24/new-york-subways-sleeping-homeless-people">postponed</a>
a plan to wake up all the homeless people sleeping on the E train
line.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Edward_Snowdens_moral_courage)
title: Edward Snowden's moral courage
uri: Edward-Snowden-s-moral-courage
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Edward_Snowdens_moral_courage%29
content:
<p>
Edward Snowden's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/24-1">moral
courage</a>, and why massive surveillance made it necessary.
<p>
I know something about moral courage.  Thousands of programmers could,
in 1983, have decided to reject the enticing profits of proprietary
software and develop a free operating system, but I'm the only one who
did it.
<p>
I had the determination to swim against the current, and keep doing so
despite ridicule, insults, and attempts to convince me to
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html">ruin
everything by compromising too far</a>.  But I didn't have to face a
threat to put me in prison.
<p>
Snowden's act demanded far more moral courage than mine, and I honor
him for that.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Children_murdered_by_Boko_Haram)
title: Children murdered by Boko Haram
uri: Children-murdered-by-Boko-Haram
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Children_murdered_by_Boko_Haram%29

content:
<p>
Boko Haram 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/boko-haram-islamists-nigeria-killing-sleeping-children">murdered
school children sleeping in their dormitory</a>.


title: Advertising designed to look like news articles
uri: Advertising-designed-to-look-like-news-articles
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Advertising_designed_to_look_like_news_articles)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Advertising_designed_to_look_like_news_articles%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/25/yahoo-opens-gemini-native-advertising">Prestigious
journalistic outlets</a> now publish advertising designed to look just
like news articles.


title: Perpetrators of mass murder in Indonesia in power and honored
uri: Perpetrators-of-mass-murder-in-Indonesia-in-power-and-honored
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Perpetrators_of_mass_murder_in_Indonesia_in_power_and_honored)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Perpetrators_of_mass_murder_in_Indonesia_in_power_and_honored%29

content:
<p>
The perpetrators of mass murder in Indonesia in 1965/6 remain in power
and honored.  A documentary that offered them a chance to re-enact the
crimes they are proud of has started a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/25/the-act-of-killing-indonesia-past-present-1965-genocide">debate
about the crime</a>.


title: China's air pollution interferes with agriculture
uri: China-s-air-pollution-interferes-with-agriculture
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Chinas_air_pollution_interferes_with_agriculture)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Chinas_air_pollution_interferes_with_agriculture%29

content:
<p>
China's air pollution is so bad that it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/china-toxic-air-pollution-nuclear-winter-scientists">interferes with agriculture</a>.


title: If Hillary Is the Only Candidate, Where Does She Stand on Keystone XL
uri: If-Hillary-Is-the-Only-Candidate-Where-Does-She-Stand-on-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(If_Hillary_Is_the_Only_Candidate,_Where_Does_She_Stand_on_Keystone_XL)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28If_Hillary_Is_the_Only_Candidate%2C_Where_Does_She_Stand_on_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
If Hillary Is the Only
Candidate, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/25">Where
Does She Stand on Keystone XL?</a>
<p>
I won't vote for a right-winger like Hillary Clinton.  I did not vote
for her husband in 1996 after I had seen what a right-winger he was,
and I did not vote for Obama for the same reason.  It was clear even
in 2008 that he was talking about "Change" to avoid taking a stand for
any important change.
<p>
I think it will be an advance if a woman can get elected president,
just as it was an advance that a black man can get elected president,
but I won't support a candidate because of that person's sex or race.
Nor will I support the Democrats merely because Republicans might be
worse.  <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#17_August_2012_(Mistake_of_choosing_lesser_of_two_evils)">Voting
for the "lesser of two evils" is a road to ever worse.</a> If Ms
Clinton is the Democratic candidate, I will vote Green (again).
<p>
I hope to have the chance to vote for Elizabeth Warren.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Reparations_for_the_slave_trade)
title: Reparations for the slave trade
uri: Reparations-for-the-slave-trade
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Reparations_for_the_slave_trade%29

content:
<p>
Former plantation colonies of the UK
want <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/24/uk-resists-reparation-slavery">reparations
for the slave trade.</a>
<p>
The <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#7_May_2012_(Indian_Tribes)">descendants
of slaves in the US deserve reparations</a> because the effects
continue. Whether this applies to most of the countries in the
Caribbean, I don't know,
but <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#09_February_2014_(Haiti_deserves_reparations)">Haiti
certainly deserves reparations from France.</a>


title: Deal with EU would have limited benefits for Ukrainians
uri: Deal-with-EU-would-have-limited-benefits-for-Ukrainians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Deal_with_EU_would_have_limited_benefits_for_Ukrainians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Deal_with_EU_would_have_limited_benefits_for_Ukrainians%29

content:
<p>
The people of Ukraine 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/25">should think
carefully before making a deal with the EU</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(World-wide_fishing_police_force)
title: World-wide fishing police force
uri: World-wide-fishing-police-force
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28World-wide_fishing_police_force%29

content:
<p>
Proposing a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/25/david-miliband-international-oceans-police-force">world-wide
fishing police force</a>.


title: Yanukovych's millions hidden offshore
uri: Yanukovych-s-millions-hidden-offshore
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Yanukovychs_millions_hidden_offshore)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Yanukovychs_millions_hidden_offshore%29

content:
<p>
Yanukovych's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/25/viktor-yanukovych-gone-where-ukraine-missing-millions">hidden
millions</a> spotlight how easy it is to hide the fruit of corruption
offshore.


title: Temporary cooling due to volcanic eruptions
uri: Temporary-cooling-due-to-volcanic-eruptions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Temporary_cooling_due_to_volcanic_eruptions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Temporary_cooling_due_to_volcanic_eruptions%29

content:
<p>
Volcanic eruptions since 2000 have caused a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/feb/25/global-warming-slowdown-volcanoes-contribute">temporary
cooling</a> that cancels out part of the heating effect of greenhouse
gases.
<p>
To cancel it out entirely would require a higher level of vulcanism.
However, that would work only for a time.  As we pump more greenhouse
gases into the atmosphere, cancelling them out would require a
steadily increasing level of vulcanism.
<p>
Setting aside the harm those eruptions would do if they occurred,
there is no reason to expect them to happen.
<p>
Moreover, 
<a href="http://stallman.org/notes/2013-mar-jun.html#28_March_2013_(Volcanic_Eruptions)">eruptions 
can also emit greenhouse gases</a>, so over the long term they can
make things worse.


title: Dirty tricks used by GCHQ to ruin people's reputations
uri: Dirty-tricks-used-by-GCHQ-to-ruin-people-s-reputations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Dirty_tricks_used_by_GCHQ_to_ruin_peoples_reputations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Dirty_tricks_used_by_GCHQ_to_ruin_peoples_reputations%29

content:
<p>
GCHQ uses 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/">dirty
tricks to ruin people's reputations</a>.  It uses this tactic against
dissidents who are in no sense terrorists.


title: Active whistleblower inside the NSA
uri: Active-whistleblower-inside-the-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Active_whistleblower_inside_the_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Active_whistleblower_inside_the_NSA%29

content:
<p>
There 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/24-4">may be an
active whistleblower</a> inside the NSA now.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Digital_delivery_of_bills)
title: Digital delivery of bills
uri: Digital-delivery-of-bills
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Digital_delivery_of_bills%29
content:
<p>
Is digital delivery of bills and such more sustainable than mailing
paper?  It's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/digital-really-greener-paper-marketing">not
clear</a>.
<p>
What is clear to me is that I'd rather not have the information going
through the internet.  I don't do banking over the internet, and I get
my statements in paper.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Anatomy_of_the_Deep_State)
title: Anatomy of the Deep State
uri: Anatomy-of-the-Deep-State
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Anatomy_of_the_Deep_State%29
content:
<p>
Anatomy of the Deep State: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/24-0">Beneath Veneer
of Democracy, The Permanent Ruling Class</a>.


title: Australians rally against gov't secrecy about treatment of refugees
uri: Australians-rally-against-gov-t-secrecy-about-treatment-of-refugees
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Australians_rally_against_govt_secrecy_about_treatment_of_refugees)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Australians_rally_against_govt_secrecy_about_treatment_of_refugees%29

content:
<p>
Australians 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/24/light-the-dark-vigils-across-australia-following-asylum-seekers-death">rallied</a>
against the government's secrecy about how it is treating refugees.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 25_February_2014_(Attack_on_Sea_Shepherd_vessel)
title: Attack on Sea Shepherd vessel
uri: Attack-on-Sea-Shepherd-vessel
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#25_February_2014_%28Attack_on_Sea_Shepherd_vessel%29
content:
<p>
Sea Shepherd says Japanese whaling ships 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/24/japanese-whaling-fleet-attacked-sea-shepherd-ship-says-activist-group">attacked
one of its vessels</a> in an attempt to damage it.
<p>
Australia's right-wing government does not know what is happening
because it 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#21_December_2013_(No_Australian_coast_guard_vessel_sent_to_monitor_whaling_fleet)">cancelled
a commitment to send a ship to monitor the whaling fleet</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(A_$10.10_minimum_wage)
title: A $10.10 minimum wage
uri: A-10-10-minimum-wage
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28A_%2410.10_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/02/21/3317901/walmart-minimum-wage-prices/">A
$10.10 Minimum Wage Would Make A DVD At Walmart Cost One Cent
More</a>.


title: US Lags Behind World in Temp Worker Protections
uri: US-Lags-Behind-World-in-Temp-Worker-Protections
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(US_Lags_Behind_World_in_Temp_Worker_Protections)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28US_Lags_Behind_World_in_Temp_Worker_Protections%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/us-lags-behind-world-in-temp-worker-protections">U.S. Lags
Behind World in Temp Worker Protections</a>.


title: Obama fighting cuts to the military
uri: Obama-fighting-cuts-to-the-military
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Obama_fighting_cuts_to_the_military)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Obama_fighting_cuts_to_the_military%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/02/obama-fighting-cuts-military">President
Obama Is Fighting Cuts to the Military, Not Demanding Them</a>.


title: The US Should Respect Venezuela's Democracy
uri: The-US-Should-Respect-Venezuela-s-Democracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(The_US_Should_Respect_Venezuelas_Democracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28The_US_Should_Respect_Venezuelas_Democracy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/25-5">The US Should
Respect Venezuela's Democracy</a>.


title: Growth and retreat of Qori Kalis glacier in Peru
uri: Growth-and-retreat-of-Qori-Kalis-glacier-in-Peru
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Growth_and_retreat_of_Qori_Kalis_glacier_in_Peru)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Growth_and_retreat_of_Qori_Kalis_glacier_in_Peru%29

content:
<p>
The growth and retreat of the giant Qori Kalis glacier in Peru has
been 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/science/study-links-melting-peruvian-ice-cap-to-higher-temperatures.html">linked
to world temperature</a>.


title: Public Knowledge condemns bill to legalize unlocking of mobile phones
uri: Public-Knowledge-condemns-bill-to-legalize-unlocking-of-mobile-phones
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Public_Knowledge_condemns_bill_to_legalize_unlocking_of_mobile_phones)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Public_Knowledge_condemns_bill_to_legalize_unlocking_of_mobile_phones%29

content:
<p>
Public Knowledge has condemned a bill to legalize unlocking of
portable phones because it has been 
<a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/press-release/public-knowledge-suspends-support-for-goodlatte-cell-phone-unlocking-bill">modified
so as to endorse in principle the idea that copyright should control
this activity</a>.
<p>
I agree.  The DMCA provisions that ban breaking DRM must be repealed
entirely and replaced with a ban on DRM (digital restrictions
management).
<p>
<a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/">DefectiveByDesign.org</a>


title: 9 of the 10 most unhappy US states are run by Republicans
uri: 9-of-the-10-most-unhappy-US-states-are-run-by-Republicans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(9_of_the_10_most_unhappy_US_states_are_run_by_Republicans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%289_of_the_10_most_unhappy_US_states_are_run_by_Republicans%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/24/1280047/-Nine-out-of-10-most-miserable-states-are-Red-surprising-no-one?detail=email">9
of the 10 most unhappy US states are run by Republicans.</a>


title: Possible execution for calling for independence for the Uighurs
uri: Possible-execution-for-calling-for-independence-for-the-Uighurs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Possible_execution_for_calling_for_independence_for_the_Uighurs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Possible_execution_for_calling_for_independence_for_the_Uighurs%29

content:
<p>
A Uighur
Chinese <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/26/china-condemned-uighur-academic-ilham-tohti-separatism">faces
possible execution for calling for independence for the Uighurs. </a>
<p>
I have no opinion on the question of independence for the Uighurs, but
criminalizing his point of view is clearly wrong.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Pilots_exposed_to_Agent_Orange)
title: Pilots exposed to Agent Orange
uri: Pilots-exposed-to-Agent-Orange
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Pilots_exposed_to_Agent_Orange%29

content:
<p>
Pilots that flew US planes that had previously been used to drop Agent
Orange on
Vietnam <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/25-6">were
exposed to the toxin</a>, perhaps to high levels of it.
<p>
Keep this in mind with regard to the corn that is designed to be
resistant to Agent Orange.


title: Don't shrink the US post office — what the US needs is jobs
uri: Don-t-shrink-the-US-post-office-what-the-US-needs-is-jobs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Don't_shrink_the_US_post_office_%26mdash;_what_the_US_needs_is_jobs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Don%27t_shrink_the_US_post_office_%2526mdash%3B_what_the_US_needs_is_jobs%29

content:
<p>
Don't shrink the US post office
— <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/26">what
the US needs is jobs.</a>


title: A complete US withdrawal from Afghanistan is a good idea
uri: A-complete-US-withdrawal-from-Afghanistan-is-a-good-idea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(A_complete_US_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan_is_a_good_idea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28A_complete_US_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan_is_a_good_idea%29

content:
<p>
A complete US withdrawal from
Afghanistan <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/26">is
a good idea.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Assumptions_about_values)
title: Assumptions about values
uri: Assumptions-about-values
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Assumptions_about_values%29
content:
<p>
Which expenses the media blame for tight
budgets <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/26-2">reflects
assumptions about values.</a>
<p>
When we're talking about proprietary software such as Mr Bill profits
from, don't get distracted by the price paid for it; that's a
secondary problem: proprietary software is
an <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">injustice
even if it costs nothing.</a>


title: The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is leaking
uri: The-Waste-Isolation-Pilot-Plant-is-leaking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(The_Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant_is_leaking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28The_Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant_is_leaking%29

content:
<p>
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, which was supposed to hold nuclear
waste and never ever
leak, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/25-3">is
leaking.</a>
<p>
I'm not sure that this leak is dangerous, but until people understand
how it happened, there is no way of guessing how much more may leak.


title: Ireland faces a lot of embarrassment
uri: Ireland-faces-a-lot-of-embarrassment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Ireland_faces_a_lot_of_embarrassment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Ireland_faces_a_lot_of_embarrassment%29

content:
<p>
Ireland faces a lot of embarrassment
for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jan/23/protest-ireland">imprisoning
anti-military protester Margaretta D'Arcy.</a>


title: Right-wing extremists arrested for plotting an attack on the US gov't
uri: Right-wing-extremists-arrested-for-plotting-an-attack-on-the-US-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Right-wing_extremists_arrested_for_plotting_an_attack_on_the_US_gov't)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Right-wing_extremists_arrested_for_plotting_an_attack_on_the_US_gov%27t%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing extremists have
been <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/24/1279970/-FBI-Arrests-Georgia-Militiamen-Attempting-to-Buy-Bombs-to-Attack-Fedral-Agencies?detail=email">arrested
for plotting an attack on the US government.</a>
<p>
I have no more sympathy for these right-wing militants than for
Islamists, but in both cases we must beware of letting the state
manufacture plots to prosecute people who would otherwise never have
done any harm.


title: Foreign domestic workers in Qatar are subject to slave-like conditions
uri: Foreign-domestic-workers-in-Qatar-are-subject-to-slave-like-conditions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Foreign_domestic_workers_in_Qatar_are_subject_to_slave-like_conditions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Foreign_domestic_workers_in_Qatar_are_subject_to_slave-like_conditions%29

content:
<p>
Foreign domestic workers in Qatar
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/26/qatar-foreign-workers-slave-conditions">subject
to slave-like conditions.</a>
<p>
This <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_November_2013_(UK_visa_law)">happens
in the UK too,</a> and it's unacceptable in either place.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Personalized_news_feeds)
title: Personalized "news" feeds
uri: Personalized-news-feeds
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Personalized_news_feeds%29
content:
<p>
Personalized "news" feeds
are <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/22/1279607/-Bill-Maher-s-warning-to-us-about-only-getting-customized-news?detail=email">atomizing
society and facilitating well-funded pseudoscience such as global
heating denialism.</a>


title: Thug visits a person according to algorithm
uri: Thug-visits-a-person-according-to-algorithm
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(Thug_visits_a_person_according_to_algorithm)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28Thug_visits_a_person_according_to_algorithm%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/19/5419854/the-minority-report-this-computer-predicts-crime-but-is-it-racist">In
Chicago, </a>
<p>
For a thug to visit a person with a sign is not violence and doesn't
deny that person's human rights.  Thugs often bully and threaten
people, but if all the thug does is show up at someone's door with a
sign, that is not bullying.
<p>
Thus far, I don't see any reason why this needs to be restricted or
why it matters what the algorithm is that selects people for visits.
<p>
The real question here is, does that visit tend to make a person less
likely to commit crimes?  And if so, what other effects does it tend
to have?
<p>
If the visits — or other consequences of selection — tend
to have harmful effects on the person selected, that would be a real
problem, and whether race indirectly causes people to be selected
would become a real issue.
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/chicago-police-heat-list-renews-old-fears-about-government-flagging-and">Here's
where this might lead.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 26_February_2014_(The_Patent_System)
title: The Patent System
uri: The-Patent-System
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_February_2014_%28The_Patent_System%29
content:
<p>
The patent system is, at best,
<a
href="media/2a61f33e.45_1_stallman.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/students/publications/llj/pdfs/45_1_stallman.pdf">not
work keeping</a>.


title: Journalist detained and tortured by Somali security agents
uri: Journalist-detained-and-tortured-by-Somali-security-agents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Journalist_detained_and_tortured_by_Somali_security_agents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Journalist_detained_and_tortured_by_Somali_security_agents%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/somalia-security-agents-still-hound-25-02-2014,45925.html">[Somali]
Security Agents Still Hound Journalist After Detaining, Torturing
Him</a>.


title: Pakistani thugs torture man for protesting US drone attacks
uri: Pakistani-thugs-torture-man-for-protesting-US-drone-attacks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Pakistani_thugs_torture_man_for_protesting_US_drone_attacks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Pakistani_thugs_torture_man_for_protesting_US_drone_attacks%29

content:
<p>
Kareem Khan was 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=1257">grabbed by
Pakistani thugs and tortured</a> for campaigning against US drone
attacks.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Turkish_PM_accused_of_corruption)
title: Turkish PM accused of corruption
uri: Turkish-PM-accused-of-corruption
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Turkish_PM_accused_of_corruption%29

content:
<p>
Turkish PM Erdogan is accused of corruption with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/leaked-tapes-calls-erdogan-resign-turkish-pm">phone
call recordings he claims are falsified</a>.
<p>
I don't know what the truth is about these recordings, but it is clear
that he is the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#17_February_2013_(Turkeys_prime_minister)">enemy
of freedom in Turkey</a>.


title: Iranian journalist attacked and arrested while protesting
uri: Iranian-journalist-attacked-and-arrested-while-protesting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Iranian_journalist_attacked_and_arrested_while_protesting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Iranian_journalist_attacked_and_arrested_while_protesting%29

content:
<p>
Iranian journalist and dissident Mohammad Nurizad was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/feb/25/iranian-activist-mohammad-nurizad-attacked-arrested">attacked
and arrested</a> by thugs as he protested in front of the
"intelligence ministry".


title: Agitation in the Crimea for secession from Ukraine
uri: Agitation-in-the-Crimea-for-secession-from-Ukraine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Agitation_in_the_Crimea_for_secession_from_Ukraine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Agitation_in_the_Crimea_for_secession_from_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
In the Crimea, with a Russian-descent majority, there is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/ukraine-separatism-threat-crimea-russia-naval-port">agitation
for secession from Ukraine</a>.
<p>
It seems to me that if the inhabitants of the Crimea want to become
part of Russia, they should be allowed to do so; therefore, I suggest
committing to hold a plebiscite in two years time to decide this.
<p>
That will give the Crimeans a chance to see whether the government of
Ukraine is democratic and to think about whether they really prefer to
be ruled by Putin.


title: North Korean escaper sends leaflets to North Korea
uri: North-Korean-escaper-sends-leaflets-to-North-Korea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(North_Korean_escaper_sends_leaflets_to_North_Korea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28North_Korean_escaper_sends_leaflets_to_North_Korea%29

content:
<p>
North Korean escaper Park Sang Hak sends 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/north-korean-defector-fights-pyongyang-with-thumbdrive-laden-balloons/">balloons
with leaflets</a> over the sky of North Korea.


title: US Army's infiltration of antiwar protesters
uri: US-Army-s-infiltration-of-antiwar-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(US_Armys_infiltration_of_antiwar_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28US_Armys_infiltration_of_antiwar_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The US Army 
<a href="http://www.defendingdissent.org/now/army-spy-ring/">infiltrated
antiwar protesters</a> in Washington State.
<p>
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/25/exclusive_inside_the_army_spy_ring">More
information</a>.


title: Chinese man sues local gov't over cost incurred due to pollution
uri: Chinese-man-sues-local-gov-t-over-cost-incurred-due-to-pollution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Chinese_man_sues_local_govt_over_cost_incurred_due_to_pollution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Chinese_man_sues_local_govt_over_cost_incurred_due_to_pollution%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/25/3326571/chinese-man-sue-government-pollution/">Chinese
Man Demands Local Government Repay Cost Of His Treadmill In Landmark
Anti-Pollution Lawsuit</a>.


title: Over 60 potential sources of pollution along Elk River
uri: Over-60-potential-sources-of-pollution-along-Elk-River
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Over_60_potential_sources_of_pollution_along_Elk_River)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Over_60_potential_sources_of_pollution_along_Elk_River%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/25/3327011/west-virginia-elk-river-water-report/">Over
60 West Virginia Facilities Could Contaminate The Elk River's Water
Supply, Report Finds</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Tiny_GPS_trackers_on_birds)
title: Tiny GPS trackers on birds
uri: Tiny-GPS-trackers-on-birds
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Tiny_GPS_trackers_on_birds%29
content:
<p>
Tiny GPS trackers on birds are providing a wealth of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/feb/26/tracking-technology-birds">surprising
information about their migration practices</a>.
<p>
I'm entirely in favor of this, but the threat of using such trackers
on people should be obvious.


title: Political power of the military-industrial complex
uri: Political-power-of-the-military-industrial-complex
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Political_power_of_the_military-industrial_complex)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Political_power_of_the_military-industrial_complex%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing criticism of needed cuts in the US Army illustrate the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/25/chuck-hagel-pentagon-budget-troop-reduction">political
power of the military-industrial complex</a> that Eisenhower warned
about.


title: The Manifold Lies of Chris Christie
uri: The-Manifold-Lies-of-Chris-Christie
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(The_Manifold_Lies_of_Chris_Christie)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28The_Manifold_Lies_of_Chris_Christie%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/23/1279743/-The-Manifold-Lies-of-Chris-Christie">The
Manifold Lies of Chris Christie</a>.


title: US to make school meals less fattening
uri: US-to-make-school-meals-less-fattening
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(US_to_make_school_meals_less_fattening)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28US_to_make_school_meals_less_fattening%29

content:
<p>
The US will take steps to make school meals 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/white-house-usda-school-free-lunches-michelle-obama">less
fattening</a>.
<p>
This seems like a positive step, but the fact that it needs the
support of beverage companies illustrates the lack of democracy in the
US.  In a democracy, the people would be strong enough to adopt
policies that some businesses don't like.
<p>
Please don't buy any Coca Cola Company products; please support the
world-wide 
<a href="http://killercoke.org/">boycott of Coca Cola Company</a>,
launched because of the murder of union organizers in Colombia.


title: Credit cards to be connected with cell-phone location tracking
uri: Credit-cards-to-be-connected-with-cell-phone-location-tracking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Credit_cards_to_be_connected_with_cell-phone_location_tracking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Credit_cards_to_be_connected_with_cell-phone_location_tracking%29

content:
<p>
Credit cards will be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/25/mastercards-new-phone-location-technology-aims-to-kill-abroad">connected
with cell-phone location tracking</a>.
<p>
Schemes like this, that pressure people to let themselves be tracked,
worry me greatly for the future.  However, this one will only pressure
those that are already surrendering to pressure, by paying with credit
cards.  Don't be tracked — pay cash!


title: Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at fleeing children
uri: Israeli-soldiers-fire-tear-gas-at-fleeing-children
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Israeli_soldiers_fire_tear_gas_at_fleeing_children)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Israeli_soldiers_fire_tear_gas_at_fleeing_children%29

content:
<p>
A few Palestinian children threw stones at some Israeli occupation
soldiers, so the soldiers 
<a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2014/02/israeli-forces-use-tear-gas-against-schoolchildren-in-hebron/">fired
tear gas at a crowd of fleeing children</a>.


title: Israel arrests Palestinian journalist for "incitement"
uri: Israel-arrests-Palestinian-journalist-for-incitement
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Israel_arrests_Palestinian_journalist_for_incitement)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Israel_arrests_Palestinian_journalist_for_incitement%29

content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/67037">arrested a Palestinian
journalist</a> for calling an Israeli official "the mayor of occupied
Jerusalem".
<p>
Does that look like a crime to you?  I don't know whether I agree with
the statement or not, simply because I don't know the pertinent facts
about that man's office; but even if the statement is a stretch, it
must not be a crime.


title: Bringing a Palestinian child back to Gaza after surgery
uri: Bringing-a-Palestinian-child-back-to-Gaza-after-surgery
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Bringing_a_Palestinian_child_back_to_Gaza_after_surgery)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Bringing_a_Palestinian_child_back_to_Gaza_after_surgery%29

content:
<p>
For a Palestinian, getting a permit to bring a 7-year-old child to Gaza
after surgery is 
<a href="http://www.palestinechronicle.com/this-is-no-oversight-this-is-a-policy">not
easy</a>.


title: Cutting back on nurses increases death rate after surgery
uri: Cutting-back-on-nurses-increases-death-rate-after-surgery
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Cutting_back_on_nurses_increases_death_rate_after_surgery)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Cutting_back_on_nurses_increases_death_rate_after_surgery%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/26/nurse-cutbacks-death-rates-data-staffing">Cutting
back on nurses in European hospitals</a> increases the death rate
after surgery.
<p>
US hospitals cut back on nurses 20 years ago.  A friend who was a
nurse quit the profession rather than take legal responsibility for
supervising lots of untrained personnel, more than she could
effectively supervise, and be at risk of a lawsuit if any of them
screwed up.


title: "Social smokers" underestimate danger to their health
uri: Social-smokers-underestimate-danger-to-their-health
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Social_smokers_underestimate_danger_to_their_health)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Social_smokers_underestimate_danger_to_their_health%29

content:
<p>
People who smoke a few cigarettes a day 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/26/social-smokers-underestimate-risks-study">underestimate
the danger to their health</a>.


title: Credit Suisse helped 22000 Americans evade US taxes
uri: Credit-Suisse-helped-22000-Americans-evade-US-taxes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Credit_Suisse_helped_22000_Americans_evade_US_taxes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Credit_Suisse_helped_22000_Americans_evade_US_taxes%29

content:
<p>
The US Senate
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/25/credit-suisse-offshore-tax-senators">pursuing
Credit Suisse for helping 22000 Americans evade US taxes.</a>


title: GCHQ collected Yahoo webcam images of almost 2 million people
uri: GCHQ-collected-Yahoo-webcam-images-of-almost-2-million-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(GCHQ_collected_Yahoo_webcam_images_of_almost_2_million_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28GCHQ_collected_Yahoo_webcam_images_of_almost_2_million_people%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo">GCHQ
collected Yahoo webcam images of almost 2 million people</a>, some of
them nude.
<p>
It's irrelevant for investigation but handy for blackmail.


title: Author Stieg Larsson made progress in investigating the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme
uri: Author-Stieg-Larsson-made-progress-in-investigating-the-murder-of-Prim
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Author_Stieg_Larsson_made_progress_in_investigating_the_murder_of_Prime_Minister_Olof_Palme)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Author_Stieg_Larsson_made_progress_in_investigating_the_murder_of_Prime_Minister_Olof_Palme%29

content:
<p>
Author Stieg
Larsson <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/olaf-palme-murder-inquiry-revoked-alibi-svenska-dagbladet-stieg-larsson">made
progress in investigating the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme.</a>


title: The Reality of Cartel And Monopoly
uri: The-Reality-of-Cartel-And-Monopoly
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(The_Reality_of_Cartel_And_Monopoly)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28The_Reality_of_Cartel_And_Monopoly%29

content:
<p>
The Prevailing Myth of Consumer
Clout <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/25/which-consumer-clout-cartel-monopoly">Distracts
Us From the Reality of Cartel And Monopoly.</a>


title: Proposed geoengineering methods have inherent limits
uri: Proposed-geoengineering-methods-have-inherent-limits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Proposed_geoengineering_methods_have_inherent_limits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Proposed_geoengineering_methods_have_inherent_limits%29

content:
<p>
Proposed geoengineering methods
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/25/geoengineering-side-effects-potentially-disastrous-scientists">inherent
limits and can't counteract global heating.</a>


title: Global heating has not ceased since 2000
uri: Global-heating-has-not-ceased-since-2000
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Global_heating_has_not_ceased_since_2000)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Global_heating_has_not_ceased_since_2000%29

content:
<p>
The US NAS and the Royal Society go on
record <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/27/global-warming-slowdown-not-invalidate-climate-change-science">affirming
that global heating has not ceased since 2000.</a>


title: Missionary confessed he was setting up a spy ring
uri: Missionary-confessed-he-was-setting-up-a-spy-ring
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Missionary_confessed_he_was_setting_up_a_spy_ring)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Missionary_confessed_he_was_setting_up_a_spy_ring%29

content:
<p>
A South Korean missionary arrested months ago in North Korea
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/south-korean-confesses-spying-north-kim-jeong-wook">confessed
he was setting up a spy ring.</a> Under the circumstances, I am
skeptical of this confession.  Truth is of little importance to the
North Korean state.
<p>
Bullying people to make false confessions is,
alas, <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#23 June 2006 (Guantanamo prison guards have coerced confessions they knew
 to be false)">not limited to North Korea.</a>


title: Working hard to market unhealthful foods to children
uri: Working-hard-to-market-unhealthful-foods-to-children
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Working_hard_to_market_unhealthful_foods_to_children)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Working_hard_to_market_unhealthful_foods_to_children%29

content:
<p>
Fast food companies are working hard
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/brands-increase-fast-food-marketing-kids">market
unhealthful foods to children.</a>


title: Indentured servitude called Kafala
uri: Indentured-servitude-called-Kafala
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Indentured_servitude_called_Kafala)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Indentured_servitude_called_Kafala%29

content:
<p>
Foreign workers in Qatar and some other Gulf states
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/26/time-to-end-kafala">forced
into a sort of indentured servitude called Kafala.</a>


title: The cost of caring for disabled middle-class old people
uri: The-cost-of-caring-for-disabled-middle-class-old-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(The_cost_of_caring_for_disabled_middle-class_old_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28The_cost_of_caring_for_disabled_middle-class_old_people%29

content:
<p>
The cost of caring for disabled middle-class old people in the US
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/27/bankrupting-seniors-cost-of-elder-care-usa">regularly
bankrupts them.</a>


uri: Amnesty-International-has-accused-Israeli-soldiers-of-killing-and-woun
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Amnesty_International_has_accused_Israeli_soldiers_of_killing_and_wounding_many_Palestinian_civilians)

title:
Amnesty International has accused Israeli soldiers of killing and wounding
many Palestinian civilians

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Amnesty_International_has_accused_Israeli_soldiers_of_killing_and_wounding_many_Palestinian_civilians%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International has accused Israeli soldiers
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/amnesty-international-israeli-war-crimes-palestinians-west-bank">killing
and wounding many Palestinian civilians for no reason.</a>
<p>
These soldiers enjoy almost total impunity.


title: Urgent: Oppose two anti-environment bills
uri: Urgent-Oppose-two-anti-environment-bills
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_two_anti-environment_bills)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_two_anti-environment_bills%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy;?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1545">call
on your congresscritter</a> to oppose two anti-environment bills.


title: Urgent: Oppose purchase of palm oil made via deforestation
uri: Urgent-Oppose-purchase-of-palm-oil-made-via-deforestation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_purchase_of_palm_oil_made_via_deforestation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_purchase_of_palm_oil_made_via_deforestation%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1573">call
on Proctor and Gamble</a> to commit to stop buying palm oil made via
deforestation.


title: Australian gov't hides from need to curb frequency of droughts
uri: Australian-gov-t-hides-from-need-to-curb-frequency-of-droughts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Australian_govt_hides_from_need_to_curb_frequency_of_droughts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Australian_govt_hides_from_need_to_curb_frequency_of_droughts%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government offers aid to farmers hit by drought now,
but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/26/drought-no-amount-of-assistance-can-fix-a-land-turned-permanently-to-dust">hides
from the need to stop making drought more frequent</a>.


title: 30% insufficiency in fresh water predicted for 2030
uri: 30-insufficiency-in-fresh-water-predicted-for-2030
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(30_percent_insufficiency_in_fresh_water_predicted_for_2030)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%2830_percent_insufficiency_in_fresh_water_predicted_for_2030%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/26-9">30%
insufficiency in fresh water</a> is predicted for 2030.
<p>
I think the fresh water scarcity demonstrates that humanity
needs a new ethic of reproduction and resource use.


title: Fracking likely to delay adoption of renewable energy
uri: Fracking-likely-to-delay-adoption-of-renewable-energy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Fracking_likely_to_delay_adoption_of_renewable_energy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Fracking_likely_to_delay_adoption_of_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
A UN warning: the effect of fracking is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/26/achim-steiner-shale-gas-rush-climate-change-energy">delay
the adoption of renewable energy</a>.


title: Companies trying to make plastic by taking CO2 out of the air
uri: Companies-trying-to-make-plastic-by-taking-CO2-out-of-the-air
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Companies_trying_to_make_plastic_by_taking_CO2_out_of_the_air)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Companies_trying_to_make_plastic_by_taking_CO2_out_of_the_air%29

content:
<p>
Companies are trying to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/aircarbon-sustainable-materials-greenhouse-gases-carbon-dioxide">make
plastic by taking CO<sub>2</sub> out of the air</a>.
<p>
Plastics made in this way should not have to compete on an equal basis
with plastics made from petroleum.  Rather, they should be subsidized
through a greenhouse gas emissions tax, which in their case would be
negative (a subsidy).


title: Palestinian teenager transferred to political prison after two hunger strikes
uri: Palestinian-teenager-transferred-to-political-prison-after-two-hunger
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Palestinian_teenager_transferred_to_political_prison_after_two_hunger_strikes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Palestinian_teenager_transferred_to_political_prison_after_two_hunger_strikes%29

content:
<p>
15-year-old Palestinian prisoner Ubaida Asaid, who is imprisoned
without charges, needed
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/67080">two hunger strikes</a> to
get transferred to a political prison rather than being locked up with
criminals.


title: Convicted anti-fracking protester calls for increased activism
uri: Convicted-anti-fracking-protester-calls-for-increased-activism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(Convicted_anti-fracking_protester_calls_for_increased_activism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28Convicted_anti-fracking_protester_calls_for_increased_activism%29

content:
<p>
Convicted anti-fracking protester Natalie Hynde 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/26/natalie-hynde-ban-fracking-uk-protest-balcombe">calls
for more to resist fracking</a>.


title: US still claims it works to "promote democracy"
uri: US-still-claims-it-works-to-promote-democracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html 27_February_2014_(US_still_claims_it_works_to_promote_democracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#27_February_2014_%28US_still_claims_it_works_to_promote_democracy%29

content:
<p>
The US continues to claim that it works to "promote democracy",
although 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/26-0">its actions
often hardly fit that description</a>.


title: Fossil fuels are becoming more expensive, and this is causing rioting
uri: Fossil-fuels-are-becoming-more-expensive-and-this-is-causing-rioting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Fossil_fuels_are_becoming_more_expensive,_and_this_is_causing_rioting_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Fossil_fuels_are_becoming_more_expensive%2C_and_this_is_causing_rioting_%29

content:
<p>
Fossil fuels are becoming more expensive,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/feb/28/global-riots-protests-end-cheap-fossil-fuels-ukraine-venezuela">this
is causing rioting around the world.</a>


title: What Does a Soviet Submarine Have to Do With US Government Secrecy?
uri: What-Does-a-Soviet-Submarine-Have-to-Do-With-US-Government-Secrecy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(What_Does_a_Soviet_Submarine_Have_to_Do_With_US_Government_Secrecy_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28What_Does_a_Soviet_Submarine_Have_to_Do_With_US_Government_Secrecy_%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/28-9">What Does a
Soviet Submarine Have to Do With US Government Secrecy?</a>


title: Dissident banned from communicating with the press or the public
uri: Dissident-banned-from-communicating-with-the-press-or-the-public
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Dissident_banned_from_communicating_with_the_press_or_the_public)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Dissident_banned_from_communicating_with_the_press_or_the_public%29

content:
<p>
Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/alexei-navalny-russia-opposition-leader-house-arrest">banned
from communicating with the press or the public.</a>


title: Obama's Failure to Live Up to His Own Five Commandments
uri: Obama-s-Failure-to-Live-Up-to-His-Own-Five-Commandments
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Obama's_Failure_to_Live_Up_to_His_Own_Five_Commandments)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Obama%27s_Failure_to_Live_Up_to_His_Own_Five_Commandments%29

content:
<p>
From Guantanamo to Limitless
War, <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/guantanamo-bay-limitless-war-five-commandments-barack-obama">Obama's
Failure to Live Up to His Own Five Commandments.</a>


title: Wang Yam was convicted of murder after a secret trial
uri: Wang-Yam-was-convicted-of-murder-after-a-secret-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Wang_Yam_was_convicted_of_murder_after_a_secret_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Wang_Yam_was_convicted_of_murder_after_a_secret_trial%29

content:
<p>
Wang Yam
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/feb/28/chinese-dissident-secret-trial-fair-european-court-wang-yam">convicted
of murder after a secret trial</a> (obviously unjust), and there is
evidence that the UK government is covering up some sort of
skullduggery. Not the least of this evidence is the decision to
prohibit him from telling the European Court what happened.
<p>
I hope he told someone else who is in a position to tell the public
these secrets.

<p>
<a name="01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_all_kinds_of_fast_track_for_business_empowerment_treaties)"
/>01 March 2014 (<a class="titlelink"
href="#01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_all_kinds_of_fast_track_for_business_empowerment_treaties)">Urgent:
Oppose all kinds of fast track for business empowerment
treaties</a>)
<p>
US citizens: tell Senator Wyden
to <a href="http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/wyden/?t=dXNlcmlkPTUyMzA2MTg4LGVtYWlsaWQ9NTAwMQ==">oppose <em>all</em>
kinds of fast track for business empowerment treaties.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose all kinds of fast track for business empowerment treaties
uri: Urgent-Oppose-all-kinds-of-fast-track-for-business-empowerment-treati
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_<em>all<%2Fem>_kinds_of_fast_track_for_business_empowerment_treaties)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_%3Cem%3Eall%3C%252Fem%3E_kinds_of_fast_track_for_business_empowerment_treaties%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Senator Wyden
to <a href="http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/wyden/?t=dXNlcmlkPTUyMzA2MTg4LGVtYWlsaWQ9NTAwMQ==">oppose <em>all</em>
kinds of fast track for business empowerment treaties.</a>


title: The Express Tribune has given up covering Taliban terrorism
uri: The-Express-Tribune-has-given-up-covering-Taliban-terrorism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(The_Express_Tribune_has_given_up_covering_Taliban_terrorism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28The_Express_Tribune_has_given_up_covering_Taliban_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
The Express Tribune
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/liberal-newspaper-express-tribune-silenced-pakistani-taliban">given
up covering Taliban terrorism after the murder of several of its
employees.</a>


title: Pro-Russia forces have taken over two airports in the Crimea
uri: Pro-Russia-forces-have-taken-over-two-airports-in-the-Crimea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Pro-Russia_forces_have_taken_over_two_airports_in_the_Crimea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Pro-Russia_forces_have_taken_over_two_airports_in_the_Crimea%29

content:
<p>
Pro-Russia forces (probably Russian soldiers out of
uniform) <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/gunmen-crimean-airports-ukraine">have
taken over two airports in the Crimea.</a>
<p>
It seems to be
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/vladimir-putin-crimean-coup-russia-ukraine">full-scale
Russian invasion in disguise.</a>


title: EU will require large companies to report on environmental and social impacts of their operations
uri: EU-will-require-large-companies-to-report-on-environmental-and-social
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(EU_will_require_large_companies_to_report_on_environmental_and_social_impacts_of_their_operations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28EU_will_require_large_companies_to_report_on_environmental_and_social_impacts_of_their_operations%29

content:
<p>
The EU will require large companies
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/eu-reform-listed-companies-report-environmental-social-impact">report
on the environmental and social impacts of their operations.</a>
<p>
This could be the basis for actions to protect the environment and
reduce abuse of workers, but results are not guaranteed; they depend
on followup to these reports.


title: Americans need a lot more information about what their food contains
uri: Americans-need-a-lot-more-information-about-what-their-food-contains
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Americans_need_a_lot_more_information_about_what_their_food_contains)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Americans_need_a_lot_more_information_about_what_their_food_contains%29

content:
<p>
Proposed FDA labeling standards could be a small step forward,
but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/28/michelle-obama-fda-nutrition-labels-not-enough">Americans
need a lot more information about what their food contains.</a>


title: Starved to death after welfare benefits were cut off
uri: Starved-to-death-after-welfare-benefits-were-cut-off
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Starved_to_death_after_welfare_benefits_were_cut_off)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Starved_to_death_after_welfare_benefits_were_cut_off%29

content:
<p>
A British
man <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/28/man-starved-to-death-after-benefits-cut">starved
to death after his welfare benefits were cut off</a> because he was
declared "fit to work".
<p>
In the US, where such benefits are essentially not available to single
adults, I'm sure thousands of unemployed homeless people die from
their situations every year.


title: Burma has ordered Medecins sans Frontieres out of Rakhine state
uri: Burma-has-ordered-Medecins-sans-Frontieres-out-of-Rakhine-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Burma_has_ordered_Medecins_sans_Frontieres_out_of_Rakhine_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Burma_has_ordered_Medecins_sans_Frontieres_out_of_Rakhine_state%29

content:
<p>
Burma
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/burma-medecins-sans-frontieres-rakhine-state">ordered
Medecins sans Frontieres out of Rakhine state,</a> site of
ethnic/sectarian violence, apparently to prevent information on the
extent of the violence from getting out.


title: Google wille challenge decision that gave an actress a copyright claim
uri: Google-wille-challenge-decision-that-gave-an-actress-a-copyright-claim
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Google_wille_challenge_decision_that_gave_an_actress_a_copyright_claim)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Google_wille_challenge_decision_that_gave_an_actress_a_copyright_claim%29

content:
<p>
Google
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/27/google-fights-takedown-anti-muslim-video-innocence-of-muslims">challenge
the decision that gave an actress a copyright claim over the
controversial movie she participated in.</a>


title: Urgent: Investigate the possible murder of Alfred Wright and the possible cover-up
uri: Urgent-Investigate-the-possible-murder-of-Alfred-Wright-and-the-possi
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Investigate_the_possible_murder_of_Alfred_Wright_and_the_possible_cover-up)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_the_possible_murder_of_Alfred_Wright_and_the_possible_cover-up%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Texas
to <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/alfred_wright/?akid=3313.1242918.gd0k2W&rd=1&t=1015">investigate
the possible murder of Alfred Wright and the possible cover-up.</a>


title: Obama says $47k a year makes you "wealthy"
uri: Obama-says-47k-a-year-makes-you-wealthy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Obama_says_$47k_a_year_makes_you_wealthy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Obama_says_%2447k_a_year_makes_you_wealthy%29

content:
<p>
Obama says $47k a year makes you "wealthy"
so <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/26/1280548/--250-000-Makes-You-Middle-Class-But-47-000-Makes-You-Rich?detail=email">Medicare
should charge you more.</a>


title: How Ohio Pulled 4 Billion from Communities and Redistributed It Upwards
uri: How-Ohio-Pulled-4-Billion-from-Communities-and-Redistributed-It-Upward
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(How_Ohio_Pulled_4_Billion_from_Communities_and_Redistributed_It_Upwards)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28How_Ohio_Pulled_4_Billion_from_Communities_and_Redistributed_It_Upwards%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/26/1275645/-How-Ohio-Pulled-4-Billion-from-Communities-and-Redistributed-It-Upwards?detail=email">How
Ohio Pulled 4 Billion from Communities and Redistributed It Upwards
(to the rich).</a>
<p>
It started with a trickle-down tax cut that was supposed to make more
jobs (but naturally didn't).


title: Urgent: Stop approving pesticide-resistent genetically engineered crops
uri: Urgent-Stop-approving-pesticide-resistent-genetically-engineered-crop
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_approving_pesticide-resistent_genetically_engineered_crops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_approving_pesticide-resistent_genetically_engineered_crops%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA
to <a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15177">stop
approving pesticide-resistent genetically engineered crops</a>, and
instead focus on non-toxic integrated pest management.


title: Urgent: Support limiting massive general surveillance
uri: Urgent-Support-limiting-massive-general-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Support_limiting_massive_general_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_limiting_massive_general_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone Senator Reid
to <a href="http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/reid-nsa">support
limiting massive general surveillance.</a>
<p>
The US Freedom Act is just the beginning of what we need, but we need
to start somewhere.


title: Urgent: Tell Ohio officials to cancel their plans to hinder urban blacks from voting
uri: Urgent-Tell-Ohio-officials-to-cancel-their-plans-to-hinder-urban-blac
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_Ohio_officials_to_cancel_their_plans_to_hinder_urban_blacks_from_voting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Ohio_officials_to_cancel_their_plans_to_hinder_urban_blacks_from_voting%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell Ohio officials
to <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/706">cancel their plans
to hinder urban blacks from voting.</a>
<p>
Although these measures were chosen to disproportionately hit blacks,
the motive for them is not racial hatred as such.  Rather, it's a plan
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/27/war-on-voting-rights-joe-biden">rig
the election by Republicans who know that blacks won't vote for
them</a>.


title: Tony B'liar endorses right-wing views
uri: Tony-B-liar-endorses-right-wing-views
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Tony_B'liar_endorses_right-wing_views)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Tony_B%27liar_endorses_right-wing_views%29

content:
<p>
Tony B'liar
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/26/tony-blair-new-labour-hero-political-embarrassment-murdoch">thrown
off his Labour pretensions and endorses right-wing views while he
hangs around with plutocrats.</a>
<p>
For Britain's honor it must prosecute
him, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-sep-dec.html#06 November 2008 (Tortured prisoners)">just as the US needs to prosecute
Dubya.</a>


title: UK gov't ordered a disabled woman to look for work even though she is in a coma
uri: UK-gov-t-ordered-a-disabled-woman-to-look-for-work-even-though-she-is
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(UK_gov't_ordered_a_disabled_woman_to_look_for_work_even_though_she_is_in_a_coma)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28UK_gov%27t_ordered_a_disabled_woman_to_look_for_work_even_though_she_is_in_a_coma%29

content:
<p>
The UK
government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/28/minister-apologise-woman-coma-find-work">ordered
a disabled woman to look for work even though she is in a coma.</a>
<p>
Deciding whether someone is disabled or capable of working calls for
care and thought, if it is to be done right.  However, the right-wing
government would rather treat it as a no-brainer.  Indeed, the job
could be done exactly to the government's liking by a woman in a coma.
Just tell her to "push this button if the person really is disabled."
<p>
Since the state wants to reexamine disabled people frequently, this
could provide work for every comatose person in the UK.


title: Court twisted copyright law to justify banning video
uri: Court-twisted-copyright-law-to-justify-banning-video
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Court_twisted_copyright_law_to_justify_banning_video)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Court_twisted_copyright_law_to_justify_banning_video%29

content:
<p>
A US appeals
court <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/bad-facts-really-bad-law-court-orders-google-censor-controversial-video-based">twisted
copyright law to justify banning the video, "The Innocence of
Muslims".</a>
<p>
The video is full of bigotry and intolerance, and is of no value in my
opinion.  However, the pressure to censor it reflects bigotry and
intolerance too, and courts should not cater to this.
<p>
Above all, we must never surrender freedoms to rescue hostages taken
by the enemies of freedom, and that's in effect what the plaintiff's
situation was.


title: Tricky plan to outfox MEPs that support network neutrality
uri: Tricky-plan-to-outfox-MEPs-that-support-network-neutrality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Tricky_plan_to_outfox_MEPs_that_support_network_neutrality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Tricky_plan_to_outfox_MEPs_that_support_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
The European Commission, which opposes network neutrality,
is <a href="http://edri.org/ec_strategy/">using a tricky plan to
outfox the MEPs that support it.</a>


title: US gov't will keep companies suggestions for reforming NSA surveillance secret
uri: US-gov-t-will-keep-companies-suggestions-for-reforming-NSA-surveillanc
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(US_gov't_will_keep_companies_suggestions_for_reforming_NSA_surveillance_secret)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28US_gov%27t_will_keep_companies_suggestions_for_reforming_NSA_surveillance_secret%29

content:
<p>
The US government says it
will <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/metadata-reform/">keep
companies suggestions for reforming NSA surveillance secret —
for privacy's sake!</a>
<p>
These suggestions are probably worthless, because they are about
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#24_December_2013_(Changes_proposed_by_Obamas_NSA_review_panel_far_from_sufficient)">details
of implementing a minor change that would not really restore our
privacy rights.</a> (That's why Obama proposed it.)
<p>
Nonetheless, the hypocrisy of citing privacy as a reason when the
whole point is wholesale trampling of Americans' privacy stinks.


title: Conflicts of interest in environmental evaluation of the Keystone XL
uri: Conflicts-of-interest-in-environmental-evaluation-of-the-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Conflicts_of_interest_in_environmental_evaluation_of_the_Keystone_XL)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Conflicts_of_interest_in_environmental_evaluation_of_the_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
The State Department is squinting very hard not to see
the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/26/3337221/keystone-state-oig-report/">conflicts
of interest in its environmental evaluation of the Keystone XL
pipeline</a>.  A very narrow investigation saw nothing wrong.
<p>
The sophisticated way to rig an investigation is to decide precisely
what to investigate, how, and who will do it, so as to assure the
desired result.  I think this result reflects a decision to approve
the pipeline no matter what level of obtuseness and dishonesty it may
require.


title: "Stand your ground" laws have shielded over 130 killers
uri: Stand-your-ground-laws-have-shielded-over-130-killers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Stand_your_ground_laws_have_shielded_over_130_killers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Stand_your_ground_laws_have_shielded_over_130_killers%29

content:
<p>
"Stand your ground" laws
have <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/26/3332391/trayvon-martin-years/">shielded
over 130 killers, in a racially biased fashion,</a> and more states
are adopting them.
<p>
Paradoxically, "stand your
ground" <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/27/3339561/south-carolina-cop-shoots-70-year-reaching-cane-traffic-stop/">gives
everyone the same privilege that thugs enjoy.</a>
<p>
The privilege is dangerous in the hands of a thug, and dangerous in
anyone else's hands too.


title: Around 1/3 of the thugs of King City, California, were arrested
uri: Around-1-3-of-the-thugs-of-King-City-California-were-arrested
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Around_1%2F3_of_the_thugs_of_King_City,_California,_were_arrested)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Around_1%252F3_of_the_thugs_of_King_City%2C_California%2C_were_arrested%29

content:
<p>
Around <a href="http://rt.com/usa/king-city-police-cars-047/">1/3 of
the thugs of King City, California, were arrested</a> for impounding
the cars of poor residents in order to make off with them.


title: Urgent: Answer the copyright consultation by the March 5 deadline
uri: Urgent-Answer-the-copyright-consultation-by-the-March-5-deadline
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Answer_the_copyright_consultation_by_the_March_5_deadline)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Answer_the_copyright_consultation_by_the_March_5_deadline%29

content:
<p>
EU
citizens: <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/change-future-copyright-europe-submit-your-comments-european-commission">Please
answer the copyright consultation by the March 5 deadline.</a>


title: Urgent: Delay cutting off food stamps
uri: Urgent-Delay-cutting-off-food-stamps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Delay_cutting_off_food_stamps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Delay_cutting_off_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/709">call on Agriculture
Secretary Vilsack</a> to delay cutting off food stamps for some
families.


title: Urgent: Submit on Copyright in the EU
uri: Urgent-Submit-on-Copyright-in-the-EU
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Submit_on_Copyright_in_the_EU)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Submit_on_Copyright_in_the_EU%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens: Please <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/change-future-copyright-europe-submit-your-comments-european-commission">answer the copyright consultation</a> by the March 5 deadline.


title: Urgent: Insist on GMO Company Responsibility
uri: Urgent-Insist-on-GMO-Company-Responsibility
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Insist_on_GMO_Company_Responsibility)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Insist_on_GMO_Company_Responsibility%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: by March 4,
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12789">submit
a comment to the USDA</a> to insist
that companies that make or grow GMOs must be responsible for
genetic contamination of other farms.


title: Urgent: Call for Shuhada Street Reopening
uri: Urgent-Call-for-Shuhada-Street-Reopening
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 01_March_2014_(Urgent:_Call_for_Shuhada_Street_Reopening)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_Shuhada_Street_Reopening%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/open_shuhada_street_c/?bjlNcab&v=36574
">call on Israel</a> to allow Shuhada Street in Hebron to reopen.


title: Hong Kong press freedom threatened by business ties
uri: Hong-Kong-press-freedom-threatened-by-business-ties
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_February_2014_(Hong_Kong_press_freedom_threatened_by_business_ties)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_February_2014_%28Hong_Kong_press_freedom_threatened_by_business_ties%29

content:
<p>
Hong Kong's press freedom is threatened by the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/press-freedom-knife-attack-hong-kong-editor-ming-pao">business
ties of its mainstream media</a>, much as occurs 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#24_October_2011_(Inside_Austerity_Class)">in 
the US</a>, but Hong Kong journalists are often physically attacked
too.


title: Unidentified soldiers seize regional parliament of Crimea
uri: Unidentified-soldiers-seize-regional-parliament-of-Crimea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_February_2014_(Unidentified_soldiers_seize_regional_parliament_of_Crimea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_February_2014_%28Unidentified_soldiers_seize_regional_parliament_of_Crimea%29

content:
<p>
Unidentified professional soldiers have seized the regional
parliament of the Crimea 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/crimean-parliament-seized-by-unknown-pro-russian-gunmen">on
behalf of Russia</a>.
<p>
I suppose this was arranged by Russia.


title: Egyptian workers start wave of strikes
uri: Egyptian-workers-start-wave-of-strikes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_February_2014_(Egyptian_workers_start_wave_of_strikes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_February_2014_%28Egyptian_workers_start_wave_of_strikes%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian workers have concluded that the new government will do
nothing for them, and have started a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/egyptian-army-runs-cairo-buses-strikes-minimum-wage">wave
of strikes</a>.


title: Navy knew Fukushima dangerously contaminated USS Reagan
uri: Navy-knew-Fukushima-dangerously-contaminated-USS-Reagan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_February_2014_(Navy_knew_Fukushima_dangerously_contaminated_USS_Reagan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_February_2014_%28Navy_knew_Fukushima_dangerously_contaminated_USS_Reagan%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/27-3">Documents Say
Navy Knew Fukushima Dangerously Contaminated the USS Reagan</a>.


title: DOJ ducking scrutiny after misleading Supreme Court
uri: DOJ-ducking-scrutiny-after-misleading-Supreme-Court
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_February_2014_(DOJ_ducking_scrutiny_after_misleading_Supreme_Court)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_February_2014_%28DOJ_ducking_scrutiny_after_misleading_Supreme_Court%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=1366">DOJ Still Ducking
Scrutiny After Misleading Supreme Court on Surveillance</a>.


title: UK conservatives reject plans to reduce child poverty
uri: UK-conservatives-reject-plans-to-reduce-child-poverty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 28_February_2014_(UK_conservatives_reject_plans_to_reduce_child_poverty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#28_February_2014_%28UK_conservatives_reject_plans_to_reduce_child_poverty%29

content:
<p>
The UK Conservatives reject 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/27/osborne-cuts-tory-child-poverty-targets-david-laws">plans
to reduce child poverty</a>.  I guess they conflict with the
Conservatives' plans to increase poverty.


title: Credit Suisse helped 22000 Americans evade US taxes
uri: 2014-03-02-Credit-Suisse-helped-22000-Americans-evade-US-taxes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Credit_Suisse_helped_22000_Americans_evade_US_taxes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Credit_Suisse_helped_22000_Americans_evade_US_taxes%29

content:
<p>
The US Senate
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/25/credit-suisse-offshore-tax-senators">pursuing
Credit Suisse for helping 22000 Americans evade US taxes.</a>


title: GCHQ collected Yahoo webcam images of almost 2 million people
uri: 2014-03-02-GCHQ-collected-Yahoo-webcam-images-of-almost-2-million-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(GCHQ_collected_Yahoo_webcam_images_of_almost_2_million_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28GCHQ_collected_Yahoo_webcam_images_of_almost_2_million_people%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo">GCHQ
collected Yahoo webcam images of almost 2 million people</a>, some of
them nude.
<p>
It's irrelevant for investigation but handy for blackmail.


title: Author Stieg Larsson made progress in investigating the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme
uri: 2014-03-02-Author-Stieg-Larsson-made-progress-in-investigating-the-murder-of-Prim
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Author_Stieg_Larsson_made_progress_in_investigating_the_murder_of_Prime_Minister_Olof_Palme)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Author_Stieg_Larsson_made_progress_in_investigating_the_murder_of_Prime_Minister_Olof_Palme%29

content:
<p>
Author Stieg
Larsson <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/olaf-palme-murder-inquiry-revoked-alibi-svenska-dagbladet-stieg-larsson">made
progress in investigating the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme.</a>


title: The Reality of Cartel And Monopoly
uri: 2014-03-02-The-Reality-of-Cartel-And-Monopoly
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(The_Reality_of_Cartel_And_Monopoly)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28The_Reality_of_Cartel_And_Monopoly%29

content:
<p>
The Prevailing Myth of Consumer
Clout <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/25/which-consumer-clout-cartel-monopoly">Distracts
Us From the Reality of Cartel And Monopoly.</a>


title: Proposed geoengineering methods have inherent limits
uri: 2014-03-02-Proposed-geoengineering-methods-have-inherent-limits
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Proposed_geoengineering_methods_have_inherent_limits)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Proposed_geoengineering_methods_have_inherent_limits%29

content:
<p>
Proposed geoengineering methods
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/25/geoengineering-side-effects-potentially-disastrous-scientists">inherent
limits and can't counteract global heating.</a>


title: Global heating has not ceased since 2000
uri: 2014-03-02-Global-heating-has-not-ceased-since-2000
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Global_heating_has_not_ceased_since_2000)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Global_heating_has_not_ceased_since_2000%29

content:
<p>
The US NAS and the Royal Society go on
record <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/27/global-warming-slowdown-not-invalidate-climate-change-science">affirming
that global heating has not ceased since 2000.</a>


title: Missionary confessed he was setting up a spy ring
uri: 2014-03-02-Missionary-confessed-he-was-setting-up-a-spy-ring
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Missionary_confessed_he_was_setting_up_a_spy_ring)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Missionary_confessed_he_was_setting_up_a_spy_ring%29

content:
<p>
A South Korean missionary arrested months ago in North Korea
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/south-korean-confesses-spying-north-kim-jeong-wook">confessed
he was setting up a spy ring.</a> Under the circumstances, I am
skeptical of this confession.  Truth is of little importance to the
North Korean state.
<p>
Bullying people to make false confessions is,
alas, <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#23 June 2006 (Guantanamo prison guards have coerced confessions they knew
 to be false)">not limited to North Korea.</a>


title: Working hard to market unhealthful foods to children
uri: 2014-03-02-Working-hard-to-market-unhealthful-foods-to-children
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Working_hard_to_market_unhealthful_foods_to_children)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Working_hard_to_market_unhealthful_foods_to_children%29

content:
<p>
Fast food companies are working hard
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/brands-increase-fast-food-marketing-kids">market
unhealthful foods to children.</a>


title: Indentured servitude called Kafala
uri: 2014-03-02-Indentured-servitude-called-Kafala
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Indentured_servitude_called_Kafala)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Indentured_servitude_called_Kafala%29

content:
<p>
Foreign workers in Qatar and some other Gulf states
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/26/time-to-end-kafala">forced
into a sort of indentured servitude called Kafala.</a>


title: The cost of caring for disabled middle-class old people
uri: 2014-03-02-The-cost-of-caring-for-disabled-middle-class-old-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(The_cost_of_caring_for_disabled_middle-class_old_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28The_cost_of_caring_for_disabled_middle-class_old_people%29

content:
<p>
The cost of caring for disabled middle-class old people in the US
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/27/bankrupting-seniors-cost-of-elder-care-usa">regularly
bankrupts them.</a>


uri: 2014-03-02-Amnesty-International-has-accused-Israeli-soldiers-of-killing-and-woun
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Amnesty_International_has_accused_Israeli_soldiers_of_killing_and_wounding_many_Palestinian_civilians)

title:
Amnesty International has accused Israeli soldiers of killing and wounding
many Palestinian civilians

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Amnesty_International_has_accused_Israeli_soldiers_of_killing_and_wounding_many_Palestinian_civilians%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty International has accused Israeli soldiers
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/amnesty-international-israeli-war-crimes-palestinians-west-bank">killing
and wounding many Palestinian civilians for no reason.</a>
<p>
These soldiers enjoy almost total impunity.


title: Urgent: Oppose two anti-environment bills
uri: 2014-03-02-Urgent-Oppose-two-anti-environment-bills
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_two_anti-environment_bills)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_two_anti-environment_bills%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy;?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1545">call
on your congresscritter</a> to oppose two anti-environment bills.


title: Urgent: Oppose purchase of palm oil made via deforestation
uri: 2014-03-02-Urgent-Oppose-purchase-of-palm-oil-made-via-deforestation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_purchase_of_palm_oil_made_via_deforestation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_purchase_of_palm_oil_made_via_deforestation%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1573">call
on Proctor and Gamble</a> to commit to stop buying palm oil made via
deforestation.


title: Australian gov't hides from need to curb frequency of droughts
uri: 2014-03-02-Australian-gov-t-hides-from-need-to-curb-frequency-of-droughts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Australian_govt_hides_from_need_to_curb_frequency_of_droughts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Australian_govt_hides_from_need_to_curb_frequency_of_droughts%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government offers aid to farmers hit by drought now,
but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/26/drought-no-amount-of-assistance-can-fix-a-land-turned-permanently-to-dust">hides
from the need to stop making drought more frequent</a>.


title: 30% insufficiency in fresh water predicted for 2030
uri: 2014-03-02-30-insufficiency-in-fresh-water-predicted-for-2030
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(30_percent_insufficiency_in_fresh_water_predicted_for_2030)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%2830_percent_insufficiency_in_fresh_water_predicted_for_2030%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/26-9">30%
insufficiency in fresh water</a> is predicted for 2030.
<p>
I think the fresh water scarcity demonstrates that humanity
needs a new ethic of reproduction and resource use.


title: Fracking likely to delay adoption of renewable energy
uri: 2014-03-02-Fracking-likely-to-delay-adoption-of-renewable-energy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Fracking_likely_to_delay_adoption_of_renewable_energy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Fracking_likely_to_delay_adoption_of_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
A UN warning: the effect of fracking is to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/26/achim-steiner-shale-gas-rush-climate-change-energy">delay
the adoption of renewable energy</a>.


title: Companies trying to make plastic by taking CO2 out of the air
uri: 2014-03-02-Companies-trying-to-make-plastic-by-taking-CO2-out-of-the-air
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Companies_trying_to_make_plastic_by_taking_CO2_out_of_the_air)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Companies_trying_to_make_plastic_by_taking_CO2_out_of_the_air%29

content:
<p>
Companies are trying to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/aircarbon-sustainable-materials-greenhouse-gases-carbon-dioxide">make
plastic by taking CO<sub>2</sub> out of the air</a>.
<p>
Plastics made in this way should not have to compete on an equal basis
with plastics made from petroleum.  Rather, they should be subsidized
through a greenhouse gas emissions tax, which in their case would be
negative (a subsidy).


title: Palestinian teenager transferred to political prison after two hunger strikes
uri: 2014-03-02-Palestinian-teenager-transferred-to-political-prison-after-two-hunger
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Palestinian_teenager_transferred_to_political_prison_after_two_hunger_strikes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Palestinian_teenager_transferred_to_political_prison_after_two_hunger_strikes%29

content:
<p>
15-year-old Palestinian prisoner Ubaida Asaid, who is imprisoned
without charges, needed
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/67080">two hunger strikes</a> to
get transferred to a political prison rather than being locked up with
criminals.


title: Convicted anti-fracking protester calls for increased activism
uri: 2014-03-02-Convicted-anti-fracking-protester-calls-for-increased-activism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Convicted_anti-fracking_protester_calls_for_increased_activism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Convicted_anti-fracking_protester_calls_for_increased_activism%29

content:
<p>
Convicted anti-fracking protester Natalie Hynde 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/26/natalie-hynde-ban-fracking-uk-protest-balcombe">calls
for more to resist fracking</a>.


title: US still claims it works to "promote democracy"
uri: 2014-03-02-US-still-claims-it-works-to-promote-democracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(US_still_claims_it_works_to_promote_democracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28US_still_claims_it_works_to_promote_democracy%29

content:
<p>
The US continues to claim that it works to "promote democracy",
although 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/26-0">its actions
often hardly fit that description</a>.


title: Political power of the military-industrial complex
uri: 2014-03-02-Political-power-of-the-military-industrial-complex
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Political_power_of_the_military-industrial_complex)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Political_power_of_the_military-industrial_complex%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing criticism of needed cuts in the US Army illustrate the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/25/chuck-hagel-pentagon-budget-troop-reduction">political
power of the military-industrial complex</a> that Eisenhower warned
about.


title: The Manifold Lies of Chris Christie
uri: 2014-03-02-The-Manifold-Lies-of-Chris-Christie
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(The_Manifold_Lies_of_Chris_Christie)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28The_Manifold_Lies_of_Chris_Christie%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/23/1279743/-The-Manifold-Lies-of-Chris-Christie">The
Manifold Lies of Chris Christie</a>.


title: US to make school meals less fattening
uri: 2014-03-02-US-to-make-school-meals-less-fattening
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(US_to_make_school_meals_less_fattening)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28US_to_make_school_meals_less_fattening%29

content:
<p>
The US will take steps to make school meals 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/white-house-usda-school-free-lunches-michelle-obama">less
fattening</a>.
<p>
This seems like a positive step, but the fact that it needs the
support of beverage companies illustrates the lack of democracy in the
US.  In a democracy, the people would be strong enough to adopt
policies that some businesses don't like.
<p>
Please don't buy any Coca Cola Company products; please support the
world-wide 
<a href="http://killercoke.org/">boycott of Coca Cola Company</a>,
launched because of the murder of union organizers in Colombia.


title: Credit cards to be connected with cell-phone location tracking
uri: 2014-03-02-Credit-cards-to-be-connected-with-cell-phone-location-tracking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Credit_cards_to_be_connected_with_cell-phone_location_tracking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Credit_cards_to_be_connected_with_cell-phone_location_tracking%29

content:
<p>
Credit cards will be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/25/mastercards-new-phone-location-technology-aims-to-kill-abroad">connected
with cell-phone location tracking</a>.
<p>
Schemes like this, that pressure people to let themselves be tracked,
worry me greatly for the future.  However, this one will only pressure
those that are already surrendering to pressure, by paying with credit
cards.  Don't be tracked — pay cash!


title: Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at fleeing children
uri: 2014-03-02-Israeli-soldiers-fire-tear-gas-at-fleeing-children
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Israeli_soldiers_fire_tear_gas_at_fleeing_children)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Israeli_soldiers_fire_tear_gas_at_fleeing_children%29

content:
<p>
A few Palestinian children threw stones at some Israeli occupation
soldiers, so the soldiers 
<a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2014/02/israeli-forces-use-tear-gas-against-schoolchildren-in-hebron/">fired
tear gas at a crowd of fleeing children</a>.


title: Israel arrests Palestinian journalist for "incitement"
uri: 2014-03-02-Israel-arrests-Palestinian-journalist-for-incitement
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Israel_arrests_Palestinian_journalist_for_incitement)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Israel_arrests_Palestinian_journalist_for_incitement%29

content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/67037">arrested a Palestinian
journalist</a> for calling an Israeli official "the mayor of occupied
Jerusalem".
<p>
Does that look like a crime to you?  I don't know whether I agree with
the statement or not, simply because I don't know the pertinent facts
about that man's office; but even if the statement is a stretch, it
must not be a crime.


title: Bringing a Palestinian child back to Gaza after surgery
uri: 2014-03-02-Bringing-a-Palestinian-child-back-to-Gaza-after-surgery
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Bringing_a_Palestinian_child_back_to_Gaza_after_surgery)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Bringing_a_Palestinian_child_back_to_Gaza_after_surgery%29

content:
<p>
For a Palestinian, getting a permit to bring a 7-year-old child to Gaza
after surgery is 
<a href="http://www.palestinechronicle.com/this-is-no-oversight-this-is-a-policy">not
easy</a>.


title: Cutting back on nurses increases death rate after surgery
uri: 2014-03-02-Cutting-back-on-nurses-increases-death-rate-after-surgery
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Cutting_back_on_nurses_increases_death_rate_after_surgery)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Cutting_back_on_nurses_increases_death_rate_after_surgery%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/26/nurse-cutbacks-death-rates-data-staffing">Cutting
back on nurses in European hospitals</a> increases the death rate
after surgery.
<p>
US hospitals cut back on nurses 20 years ago.  A friend who was a
nurse quit the profession rather than take legal responsibility for
supervising lots of untrained personnel, more than she could
effectively supervise, and be at risk of a lawsuit if any of them
screwed up.


title: "Social smokers" underestimate danger to their health
uri: 2014-03-02-Social-smokers-underestimate-danger-to-their-health
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Social_smokers_underestimate_danger_to_their_health)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Social_smokers_underestimate_danger_to_their_health%29

content:
<p>
People who smoke a few cigarettes a day 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/26/social-smokers-underestimate-risks-study">underestimate
the danger to their health</a>.


title: Journalist detained and tortured by Somali security agents
uri: 2014-03-02-Journalist-detained-and-tortured-by-Somali-security-agents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Journalist_detained_and_tortured_by_Somali_security_agents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Journalist_detained_and_tortured_by_Somali_security_agents%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/somalia-security-agents-still-hound-25-02-2014,45925.html">[Somali]
Security Agents Still Hound Journalist After Detaining, Torturing
Him</a>.


title: Pakistani thugs torture man for protesting US drone attacks
uri: 2014-03-02-Pakistani-thugs-torture-man-for-protesting-US-drone-attacks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Pakistani_thugs_torture_man_for_protesting_US_drone_attacks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Pakistani_thugs_torture_man_for_protesting_US_drone_attacks%29

content:
<p>
Kareem Khan was 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=1257">grabbed by
Pakistani thugs and tortured</a> for campaigning against US drone
attacks.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Turkish_PM_accused_of_corruption)
title: Turkish PM accused of corruption
uri: 2014-03-02-Turkish-PM-accused-of-corruption
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Turkish_PM_accused_of_corruption%29

content:
<p>
Turkish PM Erdogan is accused of corruption with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/leaked-tapes-calls-erdogan-resign-turkish-pm">phone
call recordings he claims are falsified</a>.
<p>
I don't know what the truth is about these recordings, but it is clear
that he is the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#17_February_2013_(Turkeys_prime_minister)">enemy
of freedom in Turkey</a>.


title: Iranian journalist attacked and arrested while protesting
uri: 2014-03-02-Iranian-journalist-attacked-and-arrested-while-protesting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Iranian_journalist_attacked_and_arrested_while_protesting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Iranian_journalist_attacked_and_arrested_while_protesting%29

content:
<p>
Iranian journalist and dissident Mohammad Nurizad was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/feb/25/iranian-activist-mohammad-nurizad-attacked-arrested">attacked
and arrested</a> by thugs as he protested in front of the
"intelligence ministry".


title: Agitation in the Crimea for secession from Ukraine
uri: 2014-03-02-Agitation-in-the-Crimea-for-secession-from-Ukraine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Agitation_in_the_Crimea_for_secession_from_Ukraine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Agitation_in_the_Crimea_for_secession_from_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
In the Crimea, with a Russian-descent majority, there is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/ukraine-separatism-threat-crimea-russia-naval-port">agitation
for secession from Ukraine</a>.
<p>
It seems to me that if the inhabitants of the Crimea want to become
part of Russia, they should be allowed to do so; therefore, I suggest
committing to hold a plebiscite in two years time to decide this.
<p>
That will give the Crimeans a chance to see whether the government of
Ukraine is democratic and to think about whether they really prefer to
be ruled by Putin.


title: North Korean escaper sends leaflets to North Korea
uri: 2014-03-02-North-Korean-escaper-sends-leaflets-to-North-Korea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(North_Korean_escaper_sends_leaflets_to_North_Korea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28North_Korean_escaper_sends_leaflets_to_North_Korea%29

content:
<p>
North Korean escaper Park Sang Hak sends 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/north-korean-defector-fights-pyongyang-with-thumbdrive-laden-balloons/">balloons
with leaflets</a> over the sky of North Korea.


title: US Army's infiltration of antiwar protesters
uri: 2014-03-02-US-Army-s-infiltration-of-antiwar-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(US_Armys_infiltration_of_antiwar_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28US_Armys_infiltration_of_antiwar_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The US Army 
<a href="http://www.defendingdissent.org/now/army-spy-ring/">infiltrated
antiwar protesters</a> in Washington State.
<p>
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/25/exclusive_inside_the_army_spy_ring">More
information</a>.


title: Chinese man sues local gov't over cost incurred due to pollution
uri: 2014-03-02-Chinese-man-sues-local-gov-t-over-cost-incurred-due-to-pollution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Chinese_man_sues_local_govt_over_cost_incurred_due_to_pollution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Chinese_man_sues_local_govt_over_cost_incurred_due_to_pollution%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/25/3326571/chinese-man-sue-government-pollution/">Chinese
Man Demands Local Government Repay Cost Of His Treadmill In Landmark
Anti-Pollution Lawsuit</a>.


title: Over 60 potential sources of pollution along Elk River
uri: 2014-03-02-Over-60-potential-sources-of-pollution-along-Elk-River
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 27_February_2014_(Over_60_potential_sources_of_pollution_along_Elk_River)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#27_February_2014_%28Over_60_potential_sources_of_pollution_along_Elk_River%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/25/3327011/west-virginia-elk-river-water-report/">Over
60 West Virginia Facilities Could Contaminate The Elk River's Water
Supply, Report Finds</a>.


title: 9 of the 10 most unhappy US states are run by Republicans
uri: 2014-03-02-9-of-the-10-most-unhappy-US-states-are-run-by-Republicans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(9_of_the_10_most_unhappy_US_states_are_run_by_Republicans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%289_of_the_10_most_unhappy_US_states_are_run_by_Republicans%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/24/1280047/-Nine-out-of-10-most-miserable-states-are-Red-surprising-no-one?detail=email">9
of the 10 most unhappy US states are run by Republicans.</a>


title: Possible execution for calling for independence for the Uighurs
uri: 2014-03-02-Possible-execution-for-calling-for-independence-for-the-Uighurs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(Possible_execution_for_calling_for_independence_for_the_Uighurs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28Possible_execution_for_calling_for_independence_for_the_Uighurs%29

content:
<p>
A Uighur
Chinese <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/26/china-condemned-uighur-academic-ilham-tohti-separatism">faces
possible execution for calling for independence for the Uighurs. </a>
<p>
I have no opinion on the question of independence for the Uighurs, but
criminalizing his point of view is clearly wrong.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(Pilots_exposed_to_Agent_Orange)
title: Pilots exposed to Agent Orange
uri: 2014-03-02-Pilots-exposed-to-Agent-Orange
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28Pilots_exposed_to_Agent_Orange%29

content:
<p>
Pilots that flew US planes that had previously been used to drop Agent
Orange on
Vietnam <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/25-6">were
exposed to the toxin</a>, perhaps to high levels of it.
<p>
Keep this in mind with regard to the corn that is designed to be
resistant to Agent Orange.


title: Don't shrink the US post office — what the US needs is jobs
uri: 2014-03-02-Don-t-shrink-the-US-post-office-what-the-US-needs-is-jobs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(Don't_shrink_the_US_post_office_%26mdash;_what_the_US_needs_is_jobs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28Don%27t_shrink_the_US_post_office_%2526mdash%3B_what_the_US_needs_is_jobs%29

content:
<p>
Don't shrink the US post office
— <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/26">what
the US needs is jobs.</a>


title: A complete US withdrawal from Afghanistan is a good idea
uri: 2014-03-02-A-complete-US-withdrawal-from-Afghanistan-is-a-good-idea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(A_complete_US_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan_is_a_good_idea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28A_complete_US_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan_is_a_good_idea%29

content:
<p>
A complete US withdrawal from
Afghanistan <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/26">is
a good idea.</a>


title: The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is leaking
uri: 2014-03-02-The-Waste-Isolation-Pilot-Plant-is-leaking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(The_Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant_is_leaking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28The_Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant_is_leaking%29

content:
<p>
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, which was supposed to hold nuclear
waste and never ever
leak, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/25-3">is
leaking.</a>
<p>
I'm not sure that this leak is dangerous, but until people understand
how it happened, there is no way of guessing how much more may leak.


title: Ireland faces a lot of embarrassment
uri: 2014-03-02-Ireland-faces-a-lot-of-embarrassment
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(Ireland_faces_a_lot_of_embarrassment)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28Ireland_faces_a_lot_of_embarrassment%29

content:
<p>
Ireland faces a lot of embarrassment
for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jan/23/protest-ireland">imprisoning
anti-military protester Margaretta D'Arcy.</a>


title: Right-wing extremists arrested for plotting an attack on the US gov't
uri: 2014-03-02-Right-wing-extremists-arrested-for-plotting-an-attack-on-the-US-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(Right-wing_extremists_arrested_for_plotting_an_attack_on_the_US_gov't)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28Right-wing_extremists_arrested_for_plotting_an_attack_on_the_US_gov%27t%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing extremists have
been <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/24/1279970/-FBI-Arrests-Georgia-Militiamen-Attempting-to-Buy-Bombs-to-Attack-Fedral-Agencies?detail=email">arrested
for plotting an attack on the US government.</a>
<p>
I have no more sympathy for these right-wing militants than for
Islamists, but in both cases we must beware of letting the state
manufacture plots to prosecute people who would otherwise never have
done any harm.


title: Foreign domestic workers in Qatar are subject to slave-like conditions
uri: 2014-03-02-Foreign-domestic-workers-in-Qatar-are-subject-to-slave-like-conditions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(Foreign_domestic_workers_in_Qatar_are_subject_to_slave-like_conditions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28Foreign_domestic_workers_in_Qatar_are_subject_to_slave-like_conditions%29

content:
<p>
Foreign domestic workers in Qatar
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/26/qatar-foreign-workers-slave-conditions">subject
to slave-like conditions.</a>
<p>
This <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#26_November_2013_(UK_visa_law)">happens
in the UK too,</a> and it's unacceptable in either place.


title: Thug visits a person according to algorithm
uri: 2014-03-02-Thug-visits-a-person-according-to-algorithm
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(Thug_visits_a_person_according_to_algorithm)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28Thug_visits_a_person_according_to_algorithm%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/19/5419854/the-minority-report-this-computer-predicts-crime-but-is-it-racist">In
Chicago, </a>
<p>
For a thug to visit a person with a sign is not violence and doesn't
deny that person's human rights.  Thugs often bully and threaten
people, but if all the thug does is show up at someone's door with a
sign, that is not bullying.
<p>
Thus far, I don't see any reason why this needs to be restricted or
why it matters what the algorithm is that selects people for visits.
<p>
The real question here is, does that visit tend to make a person less
likely to commit crimes?  And if so, what other effects does it tend
to have?
<p>
If the visits — or other consequences of selection — tend
to have harmful effects on the person selected, that would be a real
problem, and whether race indirectly causes people to be selected
would become a real issue.
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/chicago-police-heat-list-renews-old-fears-about-government-flagging-and">Here's
where this might lead.</a>


title: US Lags Behind World in Temp Worker Protections
uri: 2014-03-02-US-Lags-Behind-World-in-Temp-Worker-Protections
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(US_Lags_Behind_World_in_Temp_Worker_Protections)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28US_Lags_Behind_World_in_Temp_Worker_Protections%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/us-lags-behind-world-in-temp-worker-protections">U.S. Lags
Behind World in Temp Worker Protections</a>.


title: Obama fighting cuts to the military
uri: 2014-03-02-Obama-fighting-cuts-to-the-military
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(Obama_fighting_cuts_to_the_military)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28Obama_fighting_cuts_to_the_military%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/02/obama-fighting-cuts-military">President
Obama Is Fighting Cuts to the Military, Not Demanding Them</a>.


title: The US Should Respect Venezuela's Democracy
uri: 2014-03-02-The-US-Should-Respect-Venezuela-s-Democracy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(The_US_Should_Respect_Venezuelas_Democracy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28The_US_Should_Respect_Venezuelas_Democracy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/25-5">The US Should
Respect Venezuela's Democracy</a>.


title: Growth and retreat of Qori Kalis glacier in Peru
uri: 2014-03-02-Growth-and-retreat-of-Qori-Kalis-glacier-in-Peru
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(Growth_and_retreat_of_Qori_Kalis_glacier_in_Peru)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28Growth_and_retreat_of_Qori_Kalis_glacier_in_Peru%29

content:
<p>
The growth and retreat of the giant Qori Kalis glacier in Peru has
been 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/science/study-links-melting-peruvian-ice-cap-to-higher-temperatures.html">linked
to world temperature</a>.


title: Public Knowledge condemns bill to legalize unlocking of mobile phones
uri: 2014-03-02-Public-Knowledge-condemns-bill-to-legalize-unlocking-of-mobile-phones
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html 26_February_2014_(Public_Knowledge_condemns_bill_to_legalize_unlocking_of_mobile_phones)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#26_February_2014_%28Public_Knowledge_condemns_bill_to_legalize_unlocking_of_mobile_phones%29

content:
<p>
Public Knowledge has condemned a bill to legalize unlocking of
portable phones because it has been 
<a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/press-release/public-knowledge-suspends-support-for-goodlatte-cell-phone-unlocking-bill">modified
so as to endorse in principle the idea that copyright should control
this activity</a>.
<p>
I agree.  The DMCA provisions that ban breaking DRM must be repealed
entirely and replaced with a ban on DRM (digital restrictions
management).
<p>
<a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/">DefectiveByDesign.org</a>


