# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_December_2014_(China_imposing_strict_conformity)
title: China imposing strict conformity
uri: 2015-01-01-China-imposing-strict-conformity
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_December_2014_%28China_imposing_strict_conformity%29

content:
<p>
China is imposing
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/30/chinese-president-signals-tightening-of-control-over-universities">strict
conformity on views expressed in universities</a>.
<p>
Western countries such as France which prohibit disagreement with the
official view of certain issues, such as the genocide of the
Armenians, provide China with an excuse for its own restrictions on
permitted opinions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_December_2014_(Working_for_nothing_in_the_UK)
title: Working for nothing in the UK
uri: 2015-01-01-Working-for-nothing-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_December_2014_%28Working_for_nothing_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
Many working people in the UK are effectively working for nothing
because
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/dec/29/childcare-cost-pay-families-aviva">their
wages pay for less than the costs of working</a>.
<p>
I suspect the right-wing government would punish them if they quit.


title: TV station in Russia being shut down
uri: 2015-01-01-TV-station-in-Russia-being-shut-down
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_December_2014_(TV_station_in_Russia_being_shut_down)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_December_2014_%28TV_station_in_Russia_being_shut_down%29

content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/29/russian-authorities-siberian-tv2-off-air">last
independent TV station in Russia</a> is being shut down.


title: Company taking over public school system
uri: 2015-01-01-Company-taking-over-public-school-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_December_2014_(Company_taking_over_public_school_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_December_2014_%28Company_taking_over_public_school_system%29

content:
<p>
The public school system of a city in Pennsylvania is being
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/27/pennsylvania-judge-paves-way-private-takeover-public-school-district">turned
over entirely to a company</a>.


title: Nightingale habitat to be bulldozed
uri: 2015-01-01-Nightingale-habitat-to-be-bulldozed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_December_2014_(Nightingale_habitat_to_be_bulldozed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_December_2014_%28Nightingale_habitat_to_be_bulldozed%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has decided to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/28/nightingale-population-government-drive-build-new-homes">permit
the main nightingale habitat site to be bulldozed</a> for new housing.


title: Police officer hounded out of department
uri: 2015-01-01-Police-officer-hounded-out-of-department
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_December_2014_(Police_officer_hounded_out_of_department)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_December_2014_%28Police_officer_hounded_out_of_department%29

content:
<p>
Police officer Joseph Crystal was hounded out of his department
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/26/ex-baltimore-cop-alleges-retaliation-for">after
reporting a thug for attacking a handcuffed prisoner</a>.
<p>
The thug was convicted, got a slap on the wrist, and remains employed
by the department.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_December_2014_(Campaigners_demand_living_wage)
title: Campaigners demand living wage
uri: 2015-01-01-Campaigners-demand-living-wage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_December_2014_%28Campaigners_demand_living_wage%29

content:
<p>
Campaigners are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/26/top-uk-retailers-targeted-price-tag-switch-living-wage">putting
labels on goods in UK stores</a> that make demands to pay their
workers a living wage.


title: Prosecutor tries to bury evidence
uri: 2015-01-01-Prosecutor-tries-to-bury-evidence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Prosecutor_tries_to_bury_evidence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Prosecutor_tries_to_bury_evidence%29

content:
<p>
A headline-minded prosecutor in Arizona tried to charge people with
intentionally killing dogs under their care, hoping to bury 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/26/dropped-animal-cruelty-case-shows-how-au">evidence
that an air conditioner failure was the cause</a>.
<p>
Perhaps kennel companies should be required to take care to detect
nighttime air conditioner failures in time to do something to save the
dogs, but prosecuting hapless employees is not the way to establish
such a regulation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(America_today_vs_40_years_ago)
title: America today vs 40 years ago
uri: 2015-01-01-America-today-vs-40-years-ago
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28America_today_vs_40_years_ago%29

content:
<p>
Compared with 40 years ago, Americans are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/27/are-we-better-we-were-40-years-ago">better
off in some ways and worse in many others</a>.
<p>
The GDP is worthless as a measure of society's economic well-being.
If a plutocrat gets a billion dollars of income by taking $100 in
income away from each of 10 million working people, that is a big
change for the worse, but the GDP registers it as no change.  When an
article presents GDP figures as if they mattered, that indicates a bad
framing of the issues: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
<p>
Using the word 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Monetize">"monetize"</a>
embodies and thus promotes the attitude that the article opposes.


title: Computer manufacturers' back doors
uri: 2015-01-01-Computer-manufacturers-back-doors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Computer_manufacturers_back_doors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Computer_manufacturers_back_doors%29

content:
<p>
When computer manufacturers have back doors to get people's data.
that 
<a href="
https://keybase.io/blog/2014-10-08/the-horror-of-a-secure-golden-key">creates
many threats</a> over and above an antidemocratic government.


title: Raid on radio station in Azerbaijan
uri: 2015-01-01-Raid-on-radio-station-in-Azerbaijan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Raid_on_radio_station_in_Azerbaijan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Raid_on_radio_station_in_Azerbaijan%29

content:
<p>
A US-linked radio station in Azerbaijan is being shut down and its
staff 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/26/us-funded-radio-station-azerbaijan-baku-raided">persecuted</a>.


title: Mall of America to sue protesters
uri: 2015-01-01-Mall-of-America-to-sue-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Mall_of_America_to_sue_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Mall_of_America_to_sue_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The Mall of America and its pet city government 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/12/12696/black-lives-matter-mall-america">plan
to sue "black lives matter" protesters into ruin</a>.


title: Taxpayers may shoulder big banks' losses
uri: 2015-01-01-Taxpayers-may-shoulder-big-banks-losses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Taxpayers_may_shoulder_big_banks_losses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Taxpayers_may_shoulder_big_banks_losses%29

content:
<p>
Big banks' losses due to betting on a high oil price could be imposed
on taxpayers 
<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/russian_roulette_taxpayers_could_be_on_the_hook_for_trillions_in_20141226">due
to the betrayal budget bill</a> that Senator Warren tried to stop.
<p>
Obama, obedient as always to the banksters, lobbied the Senate to pass
it.


title: Mexican farm workers treated as slaves
uri: 2015-01-01-Mexican-farm-workers-treated-as-slaves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Mexican_farm_workers_treated_as_slaves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Mexican_farm_workers_treated_as_slaves%29

content:
<p>
Mexican farm workers, growing produce for the US, are treated as
slaves and 
<a href="http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-labor/">forbidden
to leave the farm</a>.  If caught escaping, they are brutalized.
<p>
<a href="http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-stores/">Forced
to buy food from stores that gouge them</a>, they end the season in
debt.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Protester_imprisoned_in_Vatican)
title: Protester imprisoned in Vatican
uri: 2015-01-01-Protester-imprisoned-in-Vatican
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Protester_imprisoned_in_Vatican%29

content:
<p>
A Femen protester is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/26/femen-activist-steal-baby-jesus-vatican-face-trial">imprisoned
in the Vatican</a>.
<p>
Picking up a statue and holding it in a protest is not "stealing".
What nonsense!  As for "offending religious sentiments", that's
at the core of freedom of speech.


title: Pfizer trying to bully pharmacists
uri: 2015-01-01-Pfizer-trying-to-bully-pharmacists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Pfizer_trying_to_bully_pharmacists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Pfizer_trying_to_bully_pharmacists%29

content:
<p>
Pfizer is trying to 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/12/24/pfizer-threatens-pharmacists.html">bully
pharmacists not to prescribe generic drugs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Feeding_the_homeless_in_London)
title: Feeding the homeless in London
uri: 2015-01-01-Feeding-the-homeless-in-London
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Feeding_the_homeless_in_London%29

content:
<p>
A court told London Activists they could reenter the unused bank
building to serve a meal to the homeless on Christmas, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/25/love-activists-squatters-rbs-serve-christmas-lunch-london">the
court betrayed them immediately after</a> and they were not allowed to
do this.
<p>
One of the activist points out that the UK has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/26/love-activists-empty-buildings-direct-action-homelessness">10
unoccupied buildings for each homeless person</a>.
<p>
The state's refusal to let homeless people live in those buildings
demonstrates its evil priorities.  Making squatting a crime was
vicious too.
<p>
Does anyone know whether the Green Party advocates legalizing
squatting?


title: Criminal charge of insulting the president
uri: 2015-01-01-Criminal-charge-of-insulting-the-president
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Criminal_charge_of_insulting_the_president)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Criminal_charge_of_insulting_the_president%29

content:
<p>
Mehmet Emin Altunses faces the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/26/turkish-school-student-accused-insulting-president-released-custody-erdogan">criminal
charge of insulting the president of Turkey</a>.
<p>
Anyone who loves Turkey must fight to get these charges dropped
so that Turkey does not disgrace itself.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Privatized_UK_parole_officers)
title: Privatized UK parole officers
uri: 2015-01-01-Privatized-UK-parole-officers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Privatized_UK_parole_officers%29

content:
<p>
Privatized UK parole officers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/23/man-prison-job-too-early-morning">put
people back in prison for taking jobs that start too early in the
morning</a>.


title: UK cinema calls thugs to arrests kids
uri: 2015-01-01-UK-cinema-calls-thugs-to-arrests-kids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(UK_cinema_calls_thugs_to_arrests_kids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28UK_cinema_calls_thugs_to_arrests_kids%29

content:
<p>
A cinema in the UK called the thugs to
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/uk-cinema-calls-police-on-kids-with-iphones-over-piracy-concerns-141223/">arrest
some 12-year-olds for bringing iThings with them to the movie</a>.
<p>
The fact that they did not in fact record the movie is a side issue.
What if they had done so?  Since that is not a crime in the UK, the
only complaint the cinema could make is that they violated its rules.
That should not qualify as an "emergency" — the thugs should
have refused to come.
<p>
This is in addition to the general point that laws against sharing
copies of published works are an injustice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Protests_in_Nicaragua_over_canal)
title: Protests in Nicaragua over canal
uri: 2015-01-01-Protests-in-Nicaragua-over-canal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Protests_in_Nicaragua_over_canal%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/24/nicaragua-protests-interoceanic-canal-rivas">Protests
Erupt in Nicaragua over Interoceanic Canal</a>.
<p>
The canal raises two issues.  One is that farmers who will lose their
land don't trust that they will be compensated.  There is an obvious
solution: start buying their land at a fair price now.
<p>
The bigger and harder issue is that of potential ecosystem damage.  I
don't know if there is a way to prevent that.


title: Obama's claims about war in Afghanistan
uri: 2015-01-01-Obama-s-claims-about-war-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Obamas_claims_about_war_in_Afghanistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Obamas_claims_about_war_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
Obama
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/26/barack-obamas-christmas-message-to-troops-you-have-made-us-safer">continues
to claim</a> that the war in Afghanistan made the US safer.


title: Patients forced to waive legal rights
uri: 2015-01-01-Patients-forced-to-waive-legal-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Patients_forced_to_waive_legal_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Patients_forced_to_waive_legal_rights%29

content:
<p>
A public hospital in Alabama
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/24/alabama-public-hospital-serves-poor-lawsuits">makes
patients waive their legal right not to be sued for hospital
bills</a>.
<p>
I don't think poor indebted Americans should feel the slightest shame
about using bankruptcy to escape the medical bills that a civilized
country would never have tried to impose on them.
<p>
Meanwhile, I wonder whether the hospital's contract with these
patients is valid.  If the law says hospitals can't do something to
their patients, can the hospitals set it aside just by getting the
patient to say yes?


title: Celebration of 1914 Christmas truce
uri: 2015-01-01-Celebration-of-1914-Christmas-truce
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Celebration_of_1914_Christmas_truce)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Celebration_of_1914_Christmas_truce%29

content:
<p>
The UK government celebrates the 1914 Christmas truce because it
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/wwi-christmas-truce-history-celebration">doesn't
threaten the idea of war</a>.  Contrast it with the reception of acts
and movements that did.


title: Obama to send mercenaries to Iraq
uri: 2015-01-01-Obama-to-send-mercenaries-to-Iraq
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Obama_to_send_mercenaries_to_Iraq)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Obama_to_send_mercenaries_to_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
Obama
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/25/us-spike-private-mercenaries-iraq-amid-expanding-war-says-senior-official">plans
to send mercenaries to Iraq</a> so he can deny he is sending ground
troops there.
<p>
Mercenaries <em>are</em> troops.


title: Faux News misrepresents protest chant
uri: 2015-01-01-Faux-News-misrepresents-protest-chant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Faux_News_misrepresents_protest_chant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Faux_News_misrepresents_protest_chant%29

content:
<p>
Faux News
<a href="http://gawker.com/slimy-baltimore-fox-affiliate-caught-faking-kill-a-cop-1674040381">cut
a protest chant in mid-sentence</a> to misrepresent it as advocating
the kill of thugs.


title: Syriza's economist demands debt relief
uri: 2015-01-01-Syriza-s-economist-demands-debt-relief
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Syrizas_economist_demands_debt_relief)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Syrizas_economist_demands_debt_relief%29

content:
<p>
Syriza's Marxist economist
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/syriza-john-milios-greece-eurozone">does
not propose leaving the Euro</a>.  Rather he demands debt relief with
that threat in the background.


title: Sony's crackdown threatens free speech
uri: 2015-01-01-Sony-s-crackdown-threatens-free-speech
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Sonys_crackdown_threatens_free_speech)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Sonys_crackdown_threatens_free_speech%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/24/sony-threat-free-speech-north-korea-the-interview">Is
Sony's Crackdown a Bigger Threat to Western Free Speech Than North
Korea?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(UK_bans_activists_from_protests)
title: UK bans activists from protests
uri: 2015-01-01-UK-bans-activists-from-protests
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28UK_bans_activists_from_protests%29

content:
<p>
The UK has used
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/25/revlealed-police-using-pre-charge-bail-muzzle-protesters">bail
conditions</a> to arbitrarily ban hundreds of activists from protests.
<p>
The bogus charges are dropped eventually, but in the mean time,
democracy is the loser.


title: Anti-Arab hate group members arrested
uri: 2015-01-01-Anti-Arab-hate-group-members-arrested
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Anti-Arab_hate_group_members_arrested)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Anti-Arab_hate_group_members_arrested%29

content:
<p>
Israel
<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f9836e5e85ec4800901a2b734786e229/israel-arrests-members-jewish-extremist-group">arrested
members of an anti-Arab hate group</a>, accusing them of various
violent acts.


title: General internet security undermined
uri: 2015-01-01-General-internet-security-undermined
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(General_internet_security_undermined)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28General_internet_security_undermined%29

content:
<p>
The NSA and its friends
<a href="http://opencanada.org/features/the-cyber-security-syndrome/">undermine
general internet security in many ways</a>.
<p>
The NSA has created a
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance_the_terrifying_deals_between_silicon_valley_and_the_security_state/">web
of cooperating companies</a>.  It helps protect them from cracking,
and they allow help the NSA spy on others.


title: Attack on democratic rights in Israel
uri: 2015-01-01-Attack-on-democratic-rights-in-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Attack_on_democratic_rights_in_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Attack_on_democratic_rights_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Israel's parliament is
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-parliament-seeks-to-bar-arab-lawmaker/2014/12/13/51be2156-7fd6-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html">considering
a law to bar the most outspoken Palestinian legislator from
parliament</a>.
<p>
I disagree with Ms Zoabi on her controversial statement: I think
kidnaping children is wrong even in fighting a colonizing occupying
power.  Nonetheless, barring her from election to Parliament attacks
the democratic rights of hundreds of thousands of people, and that is
also wrong.


title: Blocking water privatization in NJ
uri: 2015-01-01-Blocking-water-privatization-in-NJ
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Blocking_water_privatization_in_NJ)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Blocking_water_privatization_in_NJ%29

content:
<p>
New Jersey is trying to clear away the
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/23/new-jersey-poised-pass-legislation-would-speed-water-privatization">democratic
procedures that allow the residents of a city to block water
privatization</a>.
<p>
Governor Christie has a chance to block this by vetoing the bill.
If he does not, it may hurt his presidential chances.


title: Homeless squatters join activists
uri: 2015-01-01-Homeless-squatters-join-activists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_December_2014_(Homeless_squatters_join_activists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_December_2014_%28Homeless_squatters_join_activists%29

content:
<p>
Homeless squatters
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/24/love-activists-protesters-central-london-trafalgar-square">joined
activists who sought to feed them</a>, to occupy a disused bank in
London.  The government sent thugs to kick them out, true to its
policy of screw the poor to help the rich; but two of the activists
climbed on a balcony rather than leave.
<p>
This shows that the UK state regards the idea of feeding homeless
people on Christmas as a danger so urgent that it warrants an eviction
on Christmas eve to prevent it.  (For me, as an Atheist, I don't
particularly care that it was Christmas; I'd disapprove of the
eviction equally much on any day of the year.)
<p>
The court ordered the activists be
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/24/love-activists-christmas-lunch-london-homeless">allowed
to return temporarily to feed the homeless today</a>.  I guess someone
decided to try to smooth over resentment over the eviction.  I hope it
does not succeed in that aim.


title: Thugs shoot another black teenager
uri: 2015-01-01-Thugs-shoot-another-black-teenager
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_December_2014_(Thugs_shoot_another_black_teenager)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_December_2014_%28Thugs_shoot_another_black_teenager%29

content:
<p>
Thugs in St Louis (near Ferguson, that is)
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/24/st-louis-antonio-martin-video-police-shooting">shot
another black teenager</a>, saying he was pointing a gun at them.
<p>
If things happened as the thugs claim, I don't think they did wrong
this time.  But people are right to distrust the thugs and demand
proof, as the thugs have lied so many times before.


title: Court-ordered back door access to computers
uri: 2015-01-01-Court-ordered-back-door-access-to-computers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_December_2014_(Court-ordered_back_door_access_to_computers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_December_2014_%28Court-ordered_back_door_access_to_computers%29

content:
<p>
The US government asks courts to
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/feds-want-apples-help-to-defeat-encrypted-phones-new-legal-case-shows/">order
computer companies to remotely give access to people's computers</a>
— when the companies have power (through back doors) to do so.
<p>
The defense is to use free software that probably does not have a back
door, rather than proprietary software that
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html">almost
certainly does have one</a>.


title: Global heating disrupting butterflies
uri: 2015-01-01-Global-heating-disrupting-butterflies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_December_2014_(Global_heating_disrupting_butterflies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_December_2014_%28Global_heating_disrupting_butterflies%29

content:
<p>
Global heating is disrupting butterflies, so that caterpillars mature
in the autumn and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/24/wall-brown-butterfly-may-be-a-victim-of-climate-change">can't
survive the winter as adults</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop giveaways to Wall Street
uri: 2015-01-01-Urgent-Stop-giveaways-to-Wall-Street
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_December_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_giveaways_to_Wall_Street)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_December_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_giveaways_to_Wall_Street%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://action.civilrights.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=4020">tell
Congress</a> to stop giveaways to Wall Street.


title: Israels disregards Geneva Convention
uri: 2015-01-01-Israels-disregards-Geneva-Convention
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_December_2014_(Israels_disregards_Geneva_Convention)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_December_2014_%28Israels_disregards_Geneva_Convention%29

content:
<p>
Israel blatantly
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20141217_geneva_convention">disregards
the Fourth Geneva Convention</a> in its treatment of occupied
Palestine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_December_2014_(Thugs_threaten_to_imprison_kids)
title: Thugs threaten to imprison kids
uri: 2015-01-01-Thugs-threaten-to-imprison-kids
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_December_2014_%28Thugs_threaten_to_imprison_kids%29

content:
<p>
As two children (ages 10 and 6) were walking home from a park, thugs
grabbed them, took them to their home, then
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/23/cps-threatens-dad-who-let-kids-play-at-p">threatened
to shoot their father</a>.
<p>
I think the father should have refused to sign any papers making
absurd promises, even for a few days, and told the kids, "I can't stop
them from taking you prisoner, but mom and I will rescue you."  Any
child of 6 will understand what that means.
<p>
When I was 6 years old, I walked to school every day.  That's what all
the boys and girls in first grade did, in my ordinary neighborhood
public school in New York City.  How cowardly TV has made Americans.


title: Santa Claus and crew arrested at protest
uri: 2015-01-01-Santa-Claus-and-crew-arrested-at-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_December_2014_(Santa_Claus_and_crew_arrested_at_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_December_2014_%28Santa_Claus_and_crew_arrested_at_protest%29

content:
<p>
Santa Claus and his crew joined a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/23/santa-claus-mrs-claus-and-seven-elves-arrested-blocking-gas-storage-facility">protest
against a natural gas storage facility</a> that is likely to pollute
the regional water supply in nearby Seneca Lake.


title: Urgent: Oppose ISP censorship list
uri: 2015-01-01-Urgent-Oppose-ISP-censorship-list
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_December_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_ISP_censorship_list)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_December_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_ISP_censorship_list%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://cms.fightforthefuture.org/jim-hood-sopa-mpaa/">call
on Mississippi Attorney General Hood</a> to drop his plans for a
mandatory ISP censorship list.
<p>
It does work to sign with Javascript disabled — the page of JSON
data that you get indicates success.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_December_2014_(Australias_carbon_tax_effective)
title: Australia's carbon tax effective
uri: 2015-01-01-Australia-s-carbon-tax-effective
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_December_2014_%28Australias_carbon_tax_effective%29

content:
<p>
Australia's carbon tax was effective in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/24/australia-records-biggest-emissions-drop-in-a-decade-as-carbon-tax-kicks-in">reducing
CO<sub>2</sub> emissions</a>.  That's why the fossil fuel companies'
men were so determined to get rid of it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_December_2014_(Nepalese_worker_deaths_in_Qatar)
title: Nepalese worker deaths in Qatar
uri: 2015-01-01-Nepalese-worker-deaths-in-Qatar
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_December_2014_%28Nepalese_worker_deaths_in_Qatar%29

content:
<p>
Nepalese workers are dying in Qatar at the rate of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/qatar-nepal-workers-world-cup-2022-death-toll-doha">15
a month</a>.  And this doesn't count the workers from India and other
countries.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_December_2014_(Luxembourg_tax_avoidance_leak)
title: Luxembourg tax avoidance leak
uri: 2015-01-01-Luxembourg-tax-avoidance-leak
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_December_2014_%28Luxembourg_tax_avoidance_leak%29

content:
<p>
Luxembourg should not bring charges against the person who 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/luxleaks-tax-source-should-not-be-charged">leaked
the tax avoidance schemes of Luxembourg</a>.


title: Life under the rebels and/or Russia
uri: 2015-01-01-Life-under-the-rebels-and-or-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_December_2014_(Life_under_the_rebels_and_or_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_December_2014_%28Life_under_the_rebels_and_or_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Refugees from Eastern Ukraine and the Crimea report on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/22/ukraine-refugees-home-internally-displaced-people-war-east-russia">life
under the rebels and/or Russia</a>.
<p>
Some of these people could be motivated to exaggerate, but it is
consistent with what Putin does in Russia, and some of them had no
other reason to flee.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_December_2014_(Charges_laid_against_torturers)
title: Charges laid against torturers
uri: 2015-01-01-Charges-laid-against-torturers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_December_2014_%28Charges_laid_against_torturers%29

content:
<p>
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has laid
charges of torture in Germany against two officials of the Bush
regime: 
<a href="http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/12/21/democracy-and-corruption-germany-files-war-crimes/">former
CIA Director Tenet and former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 02_January_2015_(Drone_bombing)
title: Drone bombing
uri: Drone-bombing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#02_January_2015_%28Drone_bombing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/193297/biggest-lesson-war-terror-it-didnt-work">
Imagine if in 2019 the Senate investigates</a> the US drone bombing
campaign as it has investigated torture.
<p>
A
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/18/report-secret-cia-document-admits-us-drone-program-counterproductive">
secret CIA study warned</a> about this in 2009.
<p>
The crucial difference is not between drones and manned bombers or
artillery.  Rather, what makes the US drone bombing campaign both
wrong
and self-defeating is that it is carried out
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/193297/biggest-lesson-war-terror-it-didnt-work">
away from battlefields</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 02_January_2015_(Watch_all_communications)
title: Watch all communications
uri: Watch-all-communications
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#02_January_2015_%28Watch_all_communications%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/10/theresa-may-data-law-catch-paedophiles">
UK minister says</a>, if the government could watch all communications,
it would find more "pedophiles".
<p>
They are not talking finding and imprisoning men that have sex with
children.  They are talking about finding and imprisoning men who have
or redistribute copies of images that depict sex with children, or
perhaps with adolescents labeled as children; they want to imprison
them because there is some chance they would have sex with children,
or with adolescents.  I don't believe that should be done at all.
<p>
This campaign, unjust in itself, is presented as an excuse for total
surveillance of everyone.  That power would of course be used against
other targets — journalists' sources, dissidents, anyone who
gets in the way.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 02_January_2015_(Urgent:_No_GMO_potatoes)
title: Urgent: No GMO potatoes
uri: Urgent-No-GMO-potatoes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#02_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_GMO_potatoes%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/no-gmo-potato">call on fast
food companies</a> not to use GMO potatoes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 02_January_2015_(Zero_tolerance_in_US_schools)
title: "Zero tolerance" in US schools
uri: Zero-tolerance-in-US-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#02_January_2015_%28Zero_tolerance_in_US_schools%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/29/the-top-10-zero-tolerance-follies-of-201">ten
most extreme nasty things</a> US schools did in 2014 in the name of
"zero tolerance".
<p>
These are the worst examples of rigid and extreme enforcement of
rules.  What worries me more is the general attitude of rigid and
extreme enforcement which pervades US schools.


title: 127 prisoners remain in Guantanamo
uri: 127-prisoners-remain-in-Guantanamo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 02_January_2015_(127_prisoners_remain_in_Guantanamo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#02_January_2015_%28127_prisoners_remain_in_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/31/five-guantanamo-prisoners-flown-to-kazakhstan-for-resettlement">released
28 prisoners from Guantanamo during 2014</a>, leaving 127.
<p>
It would take over 5 more years to close the prison if this rate of
release continues.  However, before that it would collide with the US
intention to keep some people in prison for life without trial.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 02_January_2015_(Its_not_so_cold_in_Alaska)
title: It's not so cold in Alaska
uri: It-s-not-so-cold-in-Alaska
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#02_January_2015_%28Its_not_so_cold_in_Alaska%29
content:
<p>
We think of Alaska as a cold place, but Anchorage 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/29/planet-warms-has-anchorage-become-post-sub-zero-city">has
not had a below-0-Farenheit temperature in all of 2014</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 02_January_2015_(Increased_repression_in_China)
title: Increased repression in China
uri: Increased-repression-in-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#02_January_2015_%28Increased_repression_in_China%29
content:
<p>
China has become 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/30/china-repression-dissent-xi-jinping">steadily
more repressive</a> since Xi Jinping took power.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 02_January_2015_(The_impunity_of_thugs)
title: The impunity of thugs
uri: The-impunity-of-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#02_January_2015_%28The_impunity_of_thugs%29
content:
<p>
A former US police officer 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/30/police-officers-violate-rights-punished-accountability">calls
for an end to the impunity of thugs</a>.
<p>
If thugs find a police officer in their midst, they typically regard
that person as a traitor to their gang.
<p>
The racism of the thugs' violence is a secondary wrong: if the people
beaten, framed, maimed, and killed were distributed evenly among all
ethnic groups, it would still be unacceptable.  For thugs to increase
their violence against whites until it matches their violence against
blacks would not be an improvement.  Rather, we must make them
decrease their violence against black Americans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Unorganized_Islamist_terrorists)
title: Unorganized Islamist terrorists
uri: Unorganized-Islamist-terrorists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Unorganized_Islamist_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
Comparing the unorganized Islamist terrorists of today with the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/02/in-the-end-we-forget-the-anarchists-bombers-and-lone-wolves-but-the-hysteria-they-provoke-stays-with-us">unorganized
individual anarchist killings of 115 years ago</a>.


title: Urgent: Support NYC mayor against thugs
uri: Urgent-Support-NYC-mayor-against-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Urgent:_Support_NYC_mayor_against_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Support_NYC_mayor_against_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/survey_deblasio_solidarity/">state
your support</a> for NYC Mayor de Blasio against the thug unions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Why_the_TPP_must_be_defeated)
title: Why the TPP must be defeated
uri: Why-the-TPP-must-be-defeated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Why_the_TPP_must_be_defeated%29
content:
<p>
Bernie Sanders: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/31/ten-reasons-why-tpp-must-be-defeated">Ten
Reasons Why the TPP Must Be Defeated</a>.
<p>
If they do pass the TPP, we must not treat that as the end.
We must 
<a href="media/c9a9c30b.trance-pacific-partnership.en.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/trance-pacific-partnership.en.jpg">remove
our countries from the TPP</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(US_authorizes_crude_oil_export)
title: US authorizes crude oil export
uri: US-authorizes-crude-oil-export
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28US_authorizes_crude_oil_export%29

content:
<p>
The US has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/31/despite-climate-warnings-new-export-rules-open-crude-oil-floodgates">authorized
export of crude oil</a>, which is likely to increase global
consumption and speed humanity towards global heating disaster.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Deadliest_year_in_Afghanistan)
title: Deadliest year in Afghanistan
uri: Deadliest-year-in-Afghanistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Deadliest_year_in_Afghanistan%29
content:
<p>
2014 was the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/31/2014-deadliest-year-afghan-civilians-record">deadliest
year so far for civilians</a> in Afghanistan.
<p>
As of a few years ago, the Taliban killed more civilians than the US
and NATO troops.  I expect that is still true.  Somehow this doesn't
inspire as much hatred towards the Taliban as it does towards the US
and NATO.  However, it is the US and NATO that are keeping the war
going.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Web_sites_blocked_by_India)
title: Web sites blocked by India
uri: Web-sites-blocked-by-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Web_sites_blocked_by_India%29
content:
<p>
India has imposed a 
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/india-blocks-32-websites-including-github-internet-archive-pastebin-vimeo/">blockage
on access to a long list of foreign web sites</a>, including Github,
supposedly because they carry propaganda from PISSI.
<p>
So what if they do?  That is no excuse for censorship such as this.
<p>
PISSI is the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.  To call it the
"Islamic State" is to endorse its claim to represent true Islam.  I do
not wish to give it such support.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Japans_population_decline)
title: Japan's population decline
uri: Japan-s-population-decline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Japans_population_decline%29
content:
<p>
Japan's population is declining slowly as the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/01/japan-suffers-lowest-number-of-births-on-record-as-population-shrinks">birth
rate is substantially below the death rate</a>.
<p>
However, Japan is only 2% of the human population, and the rest is
still growing dangerously.  While there are some inconveniences to a
declining population, they are small compared with the catastrophic
danger of an increasing population.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Torture_in_concentration_camps)
title: Torture in concentration camps
uri: Torture-in-concentration-camps
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Torture_in_concentration_camps%29

content:
<p>
In 1934, when the German concentration camps were political prisons
(the mass killing of Jews came later), prisoners were frequently tortured.
Compare
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/01/dachau-nazi-germany-second-world-war">this
list</a> with US torture practices.


title: France bows to pressure from rich people
uri: France-bows-to-pressure-from-rich-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(France_bows_to_pressure_from_rich_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28France_bows_to_pressure_from_rich_people%29

content:
<p>
France has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/31/france-drops-75percent-supertax">backed
down on its fair tax rate for the rich</a>, under pressure from rich
people who called it "anti-business".
<p>
Plutocrats will say the same thing about any attempt to throw off the
dooH niboR policies they have imposed.  Once we recognize that we have
to defeat the plutocrats, we see the flaw in counterarguments that a
country should bow down to business to help businesses compete against
businesses in other countries.


title: Aggressive policing of minor vandalism
uri: Aggressive-policing-of-minor-vandalism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Aggressive_policing_of_minor_vandalism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Aggressive_policing_of_minor_vandalism%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/12/broken-windows-broken-theory-crime">Crime
statistics</a> do not support the claim that aggressive policing of
minor vandalism reduces other kinds of crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Palestine_asks_to_join_ICC)
title: Palestine asks to join ICC
uri: Palestine-asks-to-join-ICC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Palestine_asks_to_join_ICC%29
content:
<p>
Palestine has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/31/palestinian-president-international-criminal-court">asked
to join the International Criminal Court</a>, after a Security Council
motion calling for a reasonable peace deal was defeated.


title: Protesters in Nashville handle peacefully
uri: Protesters-in-Nashville-handle-peacefully
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Protesters_in_Nashville_handle_peacefully)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Protesters_in_Nashville_handle_peacefully%29

content:
<p>
"I can't breathe" protesters in Nashville were handled peacefully 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/29/nashville-police-responded-peacefully-to">with
understanding rather than thuggishness</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 03_January_2015_(Innocent_people_on_death_row)
title: Innocent people on death row
uri: Innocent-people-on-death-row
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_January_2015_%28Innocent_people_on_death_row%29
content:
<p>
Statistics suggest 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-study-4-percent-defendants-innocent">at
least 4% of the people sentenced to death row in the US are
innocent</a>.  Many of them have been taken off death row and now face
life imprisonment, so little effort is given to proving they are
innocent.
<p>
I was expecting a much larger fraction: a human process that errs
only 4% of the time is pretty reliable, as such things go.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Urgent:_Protest_in_the_UK_today)
title: Urgent: Protest in the UK today
uri: Urgent-Protest-in-the-UK-today
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_in_the_UK_today%29

content:
<p>
In the UK: Protest on Monday for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/02/fare-rises-british-railways-should-be-renationalised-caroline-lucas">renationalization
of trains</a>.
<p>
Every country needs a government that dares disregard what businesses
want in order to serve the public instead.


title: Urgent: Oppose Loreal's use of carcinogens
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Loreal-s-use-of-carcinogens
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_Loreals_use_of_carcinogens)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Loreals_use_of_carcinogens%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/loreal_cancer">call on Loreal</a>
to remove carcinogens from its body-care products.


title: Urgent: Oppose renomination of bankster
uri: 2015-01-05-Urgent-Oppose-renomination-of-bankster
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_renomination_of_bankster)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_renomination_of_bankster%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone Obama and 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/call/Obama_Warren_weiss_call/">urge
him not to renominate bankster Antonio Weiss</a> for a post in the
Treasury Department.


title: Urgent: Curb "Sneak and Peek" searches
uri: Urgent-Curb-Sneak-and-Peek-searches
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Urgent:_Curb_Sneak_and_Peek_searches)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Curb_Sneak_and_Peek_searches%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4886">call
on Obama</a> to curb "Sneak and Peek" searches.
<p>
This practice was introduced in the name of "fighting terrorism", but
it is hardly ever used in terrorist cases; nearly always the targets
have 
<a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/police-using-controversial-patriot-act-authority-everyday-cases-civil-liberties-group/198408/">nothing
to do with terrorism</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(More_US_troops_heading_for_Iraq)
title: More US troops heading for Iraq
uri: More-US-troops-heading-for-Iraq
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28More_US_troops_heading_for_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
More US troops are heading for Iraq, and 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/02/civilian-deaths-soar-iraq-us-soldiers-dig-long-haul">some 
are stationed near the front lines</a>, despite Obama's 
claim that they are not there for combat.


title: UN blocked from inspecting prisons
uri: UN-blocked-from-inspecting-prisons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(UN_blocked_from_inspecting_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28UN_blocked_from_inspecting_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Bangladesh, India and now Britain have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/03/yarls-wood-un-special-rapporteur-censure">blocked
the UN from inspecting the prisons where they hold people to be
deported</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Miami_thugs_taser_homeless_people)
title: Miami thugs taser homeless people
uri: Miami-thugs-taser-homeless-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Miami_thugs_taser_homeless_people%29

content:
<p>
Miami thugs attack people with tasers for things like 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/02/being-homeless-in-miami-may-lead-to-a-ta">sleeping 
in a park</a>.  (Why shouldn't homeless people sleep in a park?  If
you can't offer them a better place to sleep, you have no right to
interfere.)
<p>
Since tasers have not got the thugs to reduce their use of guns,
what good are they?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Thugs_kill_man_for_not_showing_ID)
title: Thugs kill man for not showing ID
uri: Thugs-kill-man-for-not-showing-ID
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Thugs_kill_man_for_not_showing_ID%29

content:
<p>
An evidently rigid employee of an animal shelter didn't like the
defiant non-government ID that Robert Lawrence showed him, and called
the thugs, who <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/02/more-police-wtf-alabama-man-shot-killed">killed
him</a>.
<p>
Calling the thugs over this was clearly wrong.


title: Civilians killed by Afghan soldiers
uri: Civilians-killed-by-Afghan-soldiers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Civilians_killed_by_Afghan_soldiers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Civilians_killed_by_Afghan_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
Afghan soldiers fired mortars on a wedding party, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/02/us-trained-afghan-army-behind-deadly-attack-wedding-party">killing 
around 20 civilians</a>.
<p>
In contrast to what happened when US troops did things like that,
the Afghan government is treating this as seriously wrong.


title: Demands for censorship of Indian film
uri: Demands-for-censorship-of-Indian-film
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Demands_for_censorship_of_Indian_film)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Demands_for_censorship_of_Indian_film%29

content:
<p>
An Indian film that satirizes exploitative Hindu "godmen" has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/02/bollywood-film-pk-hindu-nationalist-protests-india-aamir-khan">provoked
demands for censorship</a>, but it is such a big success that the
government does not dare act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Depictions_of_violence)
title: Depictions of violence
uri: Depictions-of-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Depictions_of_violence%29
content:
<p>
How can 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/danaher20140125">virtual 
child rape</a> (of no real person) deserve prohibition if virtual 
murder (of no real person) does not?
<p>
I don't <em>like</em> doing either one if it appears realistic, but
that's a tangent.


title: Cognitive colonization of US schools
uri: Cognitive-colonization-of-US-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Cognitive_colonization_of_US_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Cognitive_colonization_of_US_schools%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/how-big-companies-microsoft-pearson-are-gearing-profit-our-childrens-successes-and?paging=off">Cognitive 
colonization</a> of US schools.


title: Nicaragua canal protest leader arrested
uri: Nicaragua-canal-protest-leader-arrested
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Nicaragua_canal_protest_leader_arrested)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Nicaragua_canal_protest_leader_arrested%29

content:
<p>
A Nicaragua canal protest organizer was arrested, then 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/02/opponent-nicaragua-canal-beaten-police">beaten 
with a rifle butt</a> so badly he could not lie down.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Egypt_threatens_Amal_Clooney)
title: Egypt threatens Amal Clooney
uri: Egypt-threatens-Amal-Clooney
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Egypt_threatens_Amal_Clooney%29
content:
<p>
Amal Clooney pointed out how Egyptian officials can control the
outcome of trials, and was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/02/egypt-amal-clooney-arrest-al-jazeera-three">threatened
with imprisonment</a> if she said this in Egypt.


title: Kenya suspends anti-terror measures
uri: Kenya-suspends-anti-terror-measures
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Kenya_suspends_anti-terror_measures)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Kenya_suspends_anti-terror_measures%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/02/kenya-high-court-anti-terror-measures-opposition">Kenya
High Court Suspends Anti-Terror Measures After Opposition
Objections</a>.


title: Countries restricting access to internet
uri: Countries-restricting-access-to-internet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(Countries_restricting_access_to_internet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28Countries_restricting_access_to_internet%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/business/international/web-freedom-is-seen-to-be-growing-as-a-global-issue-in-2015.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">Countries
around the world</a> are restricting access to the internet.
<p>
If companies store data about Russian users in Russia, those users
will be less vulnerable to US spying and more vulnerable to Russian
spying.  They will be protected by Russian privacy law, if any (I
doubt it does much for people).  All in all, the users will be worse
off than before.
<p>
However, in a different situation such a law might be a step up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 04_January_2015_(A_reason_not_to_visit_the_US)
title: A reason not to visit the US
uri: A-reason-not-to-visit-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#04_January_2015_%28A_reason_not_to_visit_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Another reason not to visit the US: an accident, such as giving birth
prematurely, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/01/british-couple-hospital-bill-baby-born-new-york">could
leave you broke</a>.


title: Urgent: No palm oil from deforestation
uri: 2015-01-06-Urgent-No-palm-oil-from-deforestation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 05_January_2015_(Urgent:_No_palm_oil_from_deforestation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#05_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_palm_oil_from_deforestation%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/kfc-palm-oil/">call on Kentucky
Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell</a> (all owned by the same
company) to make sure it doesn't get palm oil from deforestation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 05_January_2015_(US_and_Russian_nuclear_rivalry)
title: US and Russian nuclear rivalry
uri: US-and-Russian-nuclear-rivalry
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#05_January_2015_%28US_and_Russian_nuclear_rivalry%29

content:
<p>
US and Russia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/04/us-russia-era-nuclear-rivalry">in
danger of returning to era of nuclear rivalry</a>.


title: Possible prosecution for insulting tweets
uri: Possible-prosecution-for-insulting-tweets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 05_January_2015_(Possible_prosecution_for_insulting_tweets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#05_January_2015_%28Possible_prosecution_for_insulting_tweets%29

content:
<p>
A Briton 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/02/katie-hopkins-illegal-tweeting">faces
possible prosecution</a> for insulting tweets.
<p>
The text of the tweets appears to be

<blockquote>
Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital.
Not so independent when it matters most are we jockville ?

Little sweaty jocks, sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty
Glaswegians just isn't cricket.
</blockquote>

They seem coarse and sarcastic (which is unclear communication), and
may be insulting, though I can't understand who they insult or why.
Nonetheless, they are clearly not threats and it is clearly wrong to
prosecute mere insults.


title: Tiger farming endangers wild tigers
uri: Tiger-farming-endangers-wild-tigers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 05_January_2015_(Tiger_farming_endangers_wild_tigers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#05_January_2015_%28Tiger_farming_endangers_wild_tigers%29

content:
<p>
Tiger farming in China endangers wild tigers because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/03/china-tiger-farms-wildlife-trade">killing
them is cheaper than growing a tiger in a farm</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 05_January_2015_(NATO_assassination_target_list)
title: NATO assassination target list
uri: NATO-assassination-target-list
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#05_January_2015_%28NATO_assassination_target_list%29

content:
<p>
The NATO assassination target list had over 600 people on it in
2009-2011, and officers 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/29/new-snowden-docs-reveal-wider-net-nato-kill-list-targets">launched
attacks when up to 10 civilians (not counting civilian men) might be
killed along with the target</a>.


title: Richest .1% own 22% of wealth
uri: Richest-1-own-22-of-wealth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 06_January_2015_(Richest_.1_percent_own_22_percent_of_wealth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#06_January_2015_%28Richest_.1_percent_own_22_percent_of_wealth%29

content:
<p>
The .1% of richest in the US now own 22% of the wealth.
Pseudo-recoveries, and ensuing bailouts,
<a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2015/01/05/the-real-winners-of-the-recovery-the-superrich/">tend
to benefit them the most</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 06_January_2015_(Small_government)
title: Small government
uri: Small-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#06_January_2015_%28Small_government%29
content:
<p>
The UK's problem, like that in the US and many other countries, is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/05/smaller-state-trouble-deficit-labour-spending">small
government (and big corporations)</a>.


title: Pirate Party rep to rewrite copyright law
uri: Pirate-Party-rep-to-rewrite-copyright-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 06_January_2015_(Pirate_Party_rep_to_rewrite_copyright_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#06_January_2015_%28Pirate_Party_rep_to_rewrite_copyright_law%29

content:
<p>
A Pirate Party representative is
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/in-europe-pirates-are-writing-the-copyright-law-150104/">in
charge of a plan to rewrite copyright law for Europe</a>.


title: Russian dissident defies house arrest
uri: Russian-dissident-defies-house-arrest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 06_January_2015_(Russian_dissident_defies_house_arrest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#06_January_2015_%28Russian_dissident_defies_house_arrest%29

content:
<p>
Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/05/putin-critic-alexei-navalny-defies-house-arrest-cuts-monitoring-tag">kept
under house arrest with no legal grounds</a>, so he has defied it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 06_January_2015_(Liberia_close_to_stopping_Ebola)
title: Liberia close to stopping Ebola
uri: Liberia-close-to-stopping-Ebola
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#06_January_2015_%28Liberia_close_to_stopping_Ebola%29

content:
<p>
Liberia has come
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/05/liberia-close-beating-ebola-cases-dwindle">close
to extinguishing transmission of Ebola virus</a>.


title: Murder of detective investigating thugs
uri: Murder-of-detective-investigating-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 06_January_2015_(Murder_of_detective_investigating_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#06_January_2015_%28Murder_of_detective_investigating_thugs%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/05/metropolitan-police-daniel-morgan-murder-inquiry-obstruct-claims">obstructing
an investigation</a> into the murder of a private detective who was
investigating corrupt thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Urgent:_Reject_the_TPP)
title: Urgent: Reject the TPP
uri: 2015-01-07-Urgent-Reject-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://vk.rootstrikers.org/petitions/13">call on Obama and
Congress</a> to reject the TPP.


title: Urgent: Overturn Corporations United decision
uri: Urgent-Overturn-Corporations-United-decision
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Urgent:_Overturn_Corporations_United_decision)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Overturn_Corporations_United_decision%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for an amendment to 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/cu_5th_anniversary">overturn
the Corporations United decision</a> (calling it what it is, not what
the corporations pretended it was), if you haven't already done so.


title: Entire thug department arrested in Mexico
uri: Entire-thug-department-arrested-in-Mexico
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Entire_thug_department_arrested_in_Mexico)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Entire_thug_department_arrested_in_Mexico%29

content:
<p>
The entire thug department of Medellín de Bravo, in Mexico, has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/mexican-police-force-detained-journalist-disappearance">arrested
on suspicion in collaborating in kidnaping a pesky journalist</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(The_death_penalty)
title: The death penalty
uri: The-death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28The_death_penalty%29
content:
<p>
Shafqat Hussain of Pakistan was 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/05/torture-victim-convicted-14-be-hanged-next-week">tortured
into a confession of involuntary manslaughter</a> when he was 14 years
old.  He will soon be executed for this.
<p>
The death penalty is always wrong, but seeing it used for involuntary
manslaughter is shocking in its own way.


title: Sanders demands release of TPP draft text
uri: Sanders-demands-release-of-TPP-draft-text
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Sanders_demands_release_of_TPP_draft_text)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Sanders_demands_release_of_TPP_draft_text%29

content:
<p>
Bernie Sanders 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/05/incomprehensible-secrecy-sanders-demands-release-trade-agreement-text">demanded
the US Trade Representative release the draft text of the TPP</a>.


title: Proposal for increasing renewable energy sources
uri: Proposal-for-increasing-renewable-energy-sources
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Proposal_for_increasing_renewable_energy_sources)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Proposal_for_increasing_renewable_energy_sources%29

content:
<p>
California Governor Brown 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/05/praise-gov-jerry-browns-announcement-50-renewable-goal-2030-california">proposes
to get half the state's electricity from renewable sources by
2030</a>.
<p>
Progress in converting electric generation is welcome, but the
fraction of electricity generated from renewable sources is the wrong
base for defining goals.  The crucial point is to reduce the total
greenhouse gas emissions.


title: Cuts in US state taxes for corporations
uri: Cuts-in-US-state-taxes-for-corporations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Cuts_in_US_state_taxes_for_corporations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Cuts_in_US_state_taxes_for_corporations%29

content:
<p>
Corporations have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/05/cheating-schoolkids-corporations-dont-pay-their-state-taxes-either">cut
their US state tax bill by more than half since 1980</a> by making
states compete to reduce their taxes.


title: Witness against Kenyan gov't killed
uri: Witness-against-Kenyan-gov-t-killed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Witness_against_Kenyan_govt_killed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Witness_against_Kenyan_govt_killed%29

content:
<p>
A witness in the case that the government of Kenya killed political
opponents was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/witness-mutilated-body-kenya-government-killing-meshack-yebei-william-ruto">killed
before testifying</a>.


title: Bangladesh threatens opposition party leader
uri: Bangladesh-threatens-opposition-party-leader
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Bangladesh_threatens_opposition_party_leader)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Bangladesh_threatens_opposition_party_leader%29

content:
<p>
Bangladesh 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/bangladesh-khaleda-zia-sheikh-hasina-murder-charges-threat">threatens
to imprison the leader of the main opposition party</a> after violence
in a protest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Obamas_greatest_trick)
title: Obama's greatest trick
uri: Obama-s-greatest-trick
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Obamas_greatest_trick%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/06/obama-america-still-at-war-congress-illegal">The
Greatest Trick Obama Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World America
Isn't Still At War</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Universal_health_care)
title: Universal health care
uri: Universal-health-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Universal_health_care%29
content:
<p>
Countries a lot poorer than the US have implemented 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/06/-sp-universal-healthcare-the-affordable-dream-amartya-sen">universal
health care</a>.
<p>
When will the US catch up with Thailand and Rwanda?


title: Ferguson prosecutor faces ethics complaints
uri: Ferguson-prosecutor-faces-ethics-complaints
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Ferguson_prosecutor_faces_ethics_complaints)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Ferguson_prosecutor_faces_ethics_complaints%29

content:
<p>
A member of the grand jury that didn't indict the thug that shot
Michael Brown is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/05/fighting-court-secrecy-ferguson-juror-sues-break-gag-order">suing
for permission to expose how the prosecutor procured that result</a>.
<p>
The same prosecutor faces 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/06/ferguson-prosecutor-hit-ethics-complaint">ethics
complaints</a> about that.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(US_seafood_import_regulations)
title: US seafood import regulations
uri: US-seafood-import-regulations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28US_seafood_import_regulations%29
content:
<p>
The US government will require imported fish and seafood to meet US
standards for
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/06/feds-agree-implement-seafood-import-ban-protect-whales-and-dolphins">protection
of marine mammals</a>.


title: Urgent: Investigate Ferguson prosecutor
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Ferguson-prosecutor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Urgent:_Investigate_Ferguson_prosecutor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_Ferguson_prosecutor%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/supreme-court-of-missouri">call
on the Missouri Supreme Court</a> to investigate whether the
prosecutor acted illegally in the case against Michael Brown's killer.


title: NAACP calls for special prosecutor
uri: NAACP-calls-for-special-prosecutor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(NAACP_calls_for_special_prosecutor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28NAACP_calls_for_special_prosecutor%29

content:
<p>
The NAACP
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/06/naacp-new-grand-jury-michael-brown-shooting">calls
for a special prosecutor and a new grand jury</a> to consider whether
to prosecute the thug that shot Michael Brown.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Tax_cuts_for_the_rich)
title: Tax cuts for the rich
uri: Tax-cuts-for-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Tax_cuts_for_the_rich%29
content:
<p>
Republicans in Congress
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/06/3608364/dynamic-scoring/">plan
to pretend that tax cuts for the rich will not cause the government a
loss of revenue</a>.
<p>
Their scheme is to count the taxes brought in by hypothetical future
economic growth supposedly to be caused by tax cuts.
<p>
Even if that did cause economic growth, it would not make up for the
lost revenue, because most growth in income goes to the rich and the
corporations that don't pay taxes any more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Loss_of_food_stamp_benefits)
title: Loss of food stamp benefits
uri: Loss-of-food-stamp-benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Loss_of_food_stamp_benefits%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/one-million-americans-are-about-lose-their-food-stamp-benefits">One
Million Americans Are About to Lose Their Food Stamp Benefits</a>.


title: Kochs and Walmart clan fight solar panels
uri: Kochs-and-Walmart-clan-fight-solar-panels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Kochs_and_Walmart_clan_fight_solar_panels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Kochs_and_Walmart_clan_fight_solar_panels%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/koch-and-wal-marts-attempt-kill-solar-panels">Kochs
and Walmart Clan Wage Dirty War to Stop You From Putting Solar Panels
on Your Home</a>.


title: Writers threatened by gov't surveillance
uri: Writers-threatened-by-gov-t-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Writers_threatened_by_govt_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Writers_threatened_by_govt_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Writers around the world feel
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/arts/writers-say-they-feel-censored-by-surveillance.html">threatened
by government surveillance</a>, even in "free" countries.
<p>
Prosecution of unwelcome opinions is seeping into
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=11442">even the US</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 07_January_2015_(Digital_mirrors)
title: Digital mirrors
uri: Digital-mirrors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#07_January_2015_%28Digital_mirrors%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mirrors-of-the-future-will-point-out-all-your-flaws-to-sell-you-products">The
Mirrors of the Future Will Point Out All Your Flaws to Sell You
Products</a>.
<p>
I wonder <em>who else</em> they will inform.


title: Urgent: Oppose approval of GMO potato
uri: Urgent-Oppose-approval-of-GMO-potato
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_approval_of_GMO_potato)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_approval_of_GMO_potato%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1763">call
on the FDA</a> not to approve another GMO potato.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Urgent:_Volker_Rule)
title: Urgent: Volker Rule
uri: Urgent-Volker-Rule
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Volker_Rule%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Volcker_Rule_fedreserve">call
for immediate implementation of the "Volker Rule"</a> that was
required by the Dodd-Frank financial reform.
<p>
What we really should do is reenact the Glass-Steagall law
that was repealed in the 90s.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Urgent:_GMO_labeling)
title: Urgent: GMO labeling
uri: 2015-01-09-Urgent-GMO-labeling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_GMO_labeling%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://gmosummit.org/">call on the FDA</a> to require
labeling of GMOs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_Keystone_XL)
title: Urgent: Oppose Keystone XL
uri: 2015-01-09-Urgent-Oppose-Keystone-XL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Keystone_XL%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3638">call
on Congress</a> to vote against the Keystone XL planet-roaster
pipeline.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_abortion_ban)
title: Urgent: Oppose abortion ban
uri: Urgent-Oppose-abortion-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_abortion_ban%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Senate_AbortionBan">tell the
senate</a> you oppose the plan to ban abortions after 20 weeks.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Terrorism_Feeds_on_Societys_Fears)
title: Terrorism Feeds on Society's Fears
uri: Terrorism-Feeds-on-Society-s-Fears
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Terrorism_Feeds_on_Societys_Fears%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/07/charlie-hebdo-clash-civilisation-terrorism-muslims">Terrorism
Feeds on Society's Fears — And the Relentless Questioning of
Muslims' Loyalty Plays Into Its Hands</a>.
<p>
I don't think that PISSI qualifies as "civilization".  It is barbarism
straight out of the 7th century.


title: Oklahoma proposes ban on hiding your face
uri: Oklahoma-proposes-ban-on-hiding-your-face
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Oklahoma_proposes_ban_on_hiding_your_face)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Oklahoma_proposes_ban_on_hiding_your_face%29

content:
<p>
Oklahoma 
<a href="http://mic.com/articles/107636/one-state-is-about-to-make-it-illegal-to-wear-a-hoodie">proposes
to ban hiding your face in public</a>.


title: UK proposes anti-terror measures against children
uri: UK-proposes-anti-terror-measures-against-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(UK_proposes_anti-terror_measures_against_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28UK_proposes_anti-terror_measures_against_children%29

content:
<p>
The UK proposes to 
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11323558/Anti-terror-plan-to-spy-on-toddlers-is-heavy-handed.html">make
teachers report children who are ideologically suspect</a> — "at
risk" for Islamist ideology.
<p>
The article says "toddlers", and that may not be an exaggeration:
the plan seems to include preschool.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Slave_labor_in_South_Korea)
title: Slave labor in South Korea
uri: Slave-labor-in-South-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Slave_labor_in_South_Korea%29
content:
<p>
Disabled and mentally ill Koreans are 
<a href="http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/korea/slaves-endure-a-living-hell-on-remote-south-korean-islands-1.322052">illegally
forced to work on salt mines</a>.  Some try to escape.  Others think
that slave labor is better than life on the street.  South Korea is
not poor: the state should offer them a better alternative.


title: Blocked from public domain by Mickey Mouse
uri: Blocked-from-public-domain-by-Mickey-Mouse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Blocked_from_public_domain_by_Mickey_Mouse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Blocked_from_public_domain_by_Mickey_Mouse%29

content:
<p>
A list of 
<a href="http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2015/pre-1976">books,
films and songs</a> that would have entered the public domain this
month in the US — if not for the Mickey Mouse Copyright Act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(NSAs_attacks_on_internet_security)
title: NSA's attacks on internet security
uri: NSA-s-attacks-on-internet-security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28NSAs_attacks_on_internet_security%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s-war-on-internet-security-a-1010361.html">summary</a>
of the NSA's attacks on internet security.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(FISA_court_oversight_of_FBI)
title: FISA court oversight of FBI
uri: FISA-court-oversight-of-FBI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28FISA_court_oversight_of_FBI%29
content:
<p>
FISA court oversight of the FBI is not only weak, it's a 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141224/14510929524/when-fisa-court-rejects-surveillance-request-fbi-just-issues-national-security-letter-instead.shtml">no-op</a>.
If the FISA says no to the FBI, it just uses the PAT RIOT act instead
to get the same data.
<p>
The FBI also 
<a href="http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/274514/speedreads-fbi-no-warrants-needed-to-track-and-intercept-your-cell-phone">tracks
cell phones without a warrant</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(U.S._Muslims_defend_free_speech)
title: U.S. Muslims defend free speech
uri: U-S-Muslims-defend-free-speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28U.S._Muslims_defend_free_speech%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/07/us-muslims-condemn-paris-terror-attack-defend-free-speech">U.S. Muslims
Condemn Paris Terror Attack, Defend Free Speech</a>.


title: Ways to campaign against use of GMOs
uri: Ways-to-campaign-against-use-of-GMOs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Ways_to_campaign_against_use_of_GMOs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Ways_to_campaign_against_use_of_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
Ways to campaign against use of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/07/consumer-self-defense-12-ways-drive-gmos-and-roundup-market">GMOs
and dangerous pesticides</a>.
<p>
Each GMO is a separate case.  There is nothing inherently harmful
about a GMO.  Nothing makes it inherently safe, either.
<p>
The GMOs that have been farmed in large quantity for years, and eaten
by lots of people, clearly can't pose a big risk of causing illness in
adult humans.  If they were, it would have been apparent in medical
statistics.
<p>
That doesn't mean they are safe for wildlife, however.
(Look at the effect of Roundup on monarch butterflies.)
Or that prenatal exposure is safe for humans.
<p>
Each GMO is a separate case.  If 20 GMOs turn out to be safe, number
21 could be dangerous.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Use_of_big_lies_by_US_politicians)
title: Use of big lies by US politicians
uri: Use-of-big-lies-by-US-politicians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Use_of_big_lies_by_US_politicians%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/07/quarter-americans-and-more-half-republicans-still-believe-iraq-wmd-myth">40%
of Americans</a> believe Bush's lies about weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq.
<p>
This is very bad news because it will encourage US politicians to use
big lies in the future.


title: Palestine approved for ICC membership
uri: Palestine-approved-for-ICC-membership
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Palestine_approved_for_ICC_membership)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Palestine_approved_for_ICC_membership%29

content:
<p>
Palestine's membership in the International Criminal Court has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/07/palestine-member-international-criminal-court-un">approved</a>.


title: Authorization to sue polluters in China
uri: Authorization-to-sue-polluters-in-China
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Authorization_to_sue_polluters_in_China)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Authorization_to_sue_polluters_in_China%29

content:
<p>
China has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/07/china-encourages-environmental-groups-to-sue-polluters">authorized
environmental groups to sue polluters</a>.


title: Corporate Fiction in the Age of GMOs
uri: Corporate-Fiction-in-the-Age-of-GMOs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 09_January_2015_(Corporate_Fiction_in_the_Age_of_GMOs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#09_January_2015_%28Corporate_Fiction_in_the_Age_of_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/07/corporate-fiction-age-gmos">Corporate
Fiction in the Age of GMOs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 08_January_2015_(Terrorist_attack_on_Charlie_Hebdo)
title: Terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo
uri: Terrorist-attack-on-Charlie-Hebdo
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#08_January_2015_%28Terrorist_attack_on_Charlie_Hebdo%29

content:
<p>
A terrorist attack on the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/07/satirical-french-magazine-charlie-hebdo-attacked-by-gunmen">killed
12 people</a>.
<p>
It seems plausible that the killers were Muslim fanatics, although
there is no proof of this yet.  Many Muslims believe they are entitled
to forcibly crush criticism or mockery of their religion.
<p>
If that is the case, their aim is probably to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/07/charlie-hebdo-freedom-fear-terrorists-massacre-war">provoke
France into doing something rash that attacks human rights</a>.
<p>
That's generally not difficult.  France has a history of trashing
freedom of speech.  Charlie Hebdo got its name from 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/07/charlie-hebdo-satire-intimidation-analysis">resisting
French censorship</a>.
<p>
Remember the man who was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#29_June_2013_(Ecuador_as_a_refuge_for_Snowden)">prosecuted
for saying, "Sarkozy, I see you"</a>.  French censorship is not as
violent or broad as Islamic censorship, but that is no excuse for it.


title: Bombardments on civilians in Ukraine
uri: Bombardments-on-civilians-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 08_January_2015_(Bombardments_on_civilians_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#08_January_2015_%28Bombardments_on_civilians_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Both Ukraine and the rebels have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/07/-sp-ukraine-pervomaisk-luhansk-forgotten-city-destroyed-by-war">bombarded
civilian populations</a>.  Ukraine resumed bombarding Pervomaisk in
November.


title: Israeli thugs take orders from fanatics
uri: Israeli-thugs-take-orders-from-fanatics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 08_January_2015_(Israeli_thugs_take_orders_from_fanatics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#08_January_2015_%28Israeli_thugs_take_orders_from_fanatics%29

content:
<p>
Ally Cohen reports on how she sprained her angle in Hebron and
<a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2014/12/extremist-settlers-hurls-abuse-at-injured-ism-activist/">"settler"
fanatics ordered Israeli thugs to order her to move</a>.


title: Israel plans oil extraction from Golan
uri: Israel-plans-oil-extraction-from-Golan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 08_January_2015_(Israel_plans_oil_extraction_from_Golan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#08_January_2015_%28Israel_plans_oil_extraction_from_Golan%29

content:
<p>
Israel plans to extract oil from the 
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/12/israel-oil-drilling-golan-criticised-2014121475759500874.html">occupied
Golan heights</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 08_January_2015_(Family_exiled_from_East_Jerusalem)
title: Family exiled from East Jerusalem
uri: Family-exiled-from-East-Jerusalem
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#08_January_2015_%28Family_exiled_from_East_Jerusalem%29

content:
<p>
In an 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=67422">overt act of
collective punishment</a>, the family of a Palestinian criminal are
being exiled from East Jerusalem.
<p>
This is a part of the West Bank that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-mar-jun.html#20%20March%202010%20(Israel%20backed%20down%20to%20US%20pressure)">Israel
claims to have annexed</a>.
<p>
Israel uses various subterfuges to drive people out of East Jerusalem,
including 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/70174">refusing to draw up land
use plans</a> so it can cite the absence of plans as grounds for
refusing permission for homes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 08_January_2015_(Rushed_trial_imperils_due_process)
title: Rushed trial imperils due process
uri: Rushed-trial-imperils-due-process
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#08_January_2015_%28Rushed_trial_imperils_due_process%29

content:
<p>
The trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being 
<a href="http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2015/01/05/why-the-tsarnaev-trial-represents-the-antithesis-of-due-process">rushed
in a way that imperils due process</a>.
<p>
I think he is probably guilty.  Why not convict him properly after a
fair trial?


title: Ford Tries to Shut Down Independent Repair Tool
uri: Ford-Tries-to-Shut-Down-Independent-Repair-Tool
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 08_January_2015_(Ford_Tries_to_Shut_Down_Independent_Repair_Tool)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#08_January_2015_%28Ford_Tries_to_Shut_Down_Independent_Repair_Tool%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/ford-tries-shut-down-third-party-repair-tool-copyright">Ford
Tries to Shut Down Independent Repair Tool with Copyright</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(Whose_hard_work)
title: Whose hard work?
uri: Whose-hard-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28Whose_hard_work%29
content:
<p>
When people tell you they got rich through hard work, ask them "Whose?"
<p>
— reportedly due to Don Marquis


title: Electricity from renewable sources
uri: Electricity-from-renewable-sources
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(Electricity_from_renewable_sources)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28Electricity_from_renewable_sources%29

content:
<p>
Denmark is on track to generate
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/07/paving-path-towards-climate-goal-denmark-sets-world-record-wind-power">70%
of electricity from renewable sources by 2020</a>.
<p>
If the US set out for that target, it could get tens of thousands
working on installation of generation, millions working as a
multiplier effect, and give humanity a chance at avoiding global
disaster.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(Reforms_for_Missouri_thugs)
title: Reforms for Missouri thugs
uri: Reforms-for-Missouri-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28Reforms_for_Missouri_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The Don't Shoot Coalition proposes reforms to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/07/dont-shoot-coalition-pushes-reformed-police-practices-jefferson-city">make
Missouri thugs a little more like police officers</a>.


title: Americans won't drive more in the future
uri: Americans-won-t-drive-more-in-the-future
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(Americans_wont_drive_more_in_the_future)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28Americans_wont_drive_more_in_the_future%29

content:
<p>
The Federal Highway Administration has
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/07/federal-highway-administration-quietly-acknowledges-driving-boom-over">recognized</a>
that Americans are not going to drive more in the future.
<p>
This can lead to reductions in highway construction and perhaps also
increases in support for efficient mass transit.


title: Criminal charges for making recordings
uri: Criminal-charges-for-making-recordings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(Criminal_charges_for_making_recordings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28Criminal_charges_for_making_recordings%29

content:
<p>
Four animal rights activists face criminal charges for making
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/07/utahs-ag-gag-law-may-have-found-first-legal-targets">recordings
of animal processing in Utah</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(Journalist_accused_of_terrorism)
title: Journalist accused of "terrorism"
uri: Journalist-accused-of-terrorism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28Journalist_accused_of_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
A Dutch journalist has been accused of "terrorism" in Turkey,
apparently
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/dutch-reporter-held-terrorism-charges-turkey">for
journalistic work</a>.


title: Enforcement of UK greenhouse gas targets
uri: Enforcement-of-UK-greenhouse-gas-targets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(Enforcement_of_UK_greenhouse_gas_targets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28Enforcement_of_UK_greenhouse_gas_targets%29

content:
<p>
The UK government is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/06/uk-accused-hypocrisy-plans-limit-enforcement-eu-climate-goals">working
to sabotage enforcement</a> of the UK's greenhouse gas targets.


title: Protesters block pipeline for fracked gas
uri: Protesters-block-pipeline-for-fracked-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(Protesters_block_pipeline_for_fracked_gas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28Protesters_block_pipeline_for_fracked_gas%29

content:
<p>
Protesters in Pennsylvania
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/05/enforcing-will-people-dozens-pipeline-protesters-halt-operations-pennsylvania">blocked
a pipeline for fracked gas</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(Fossil_fuel_reserves)
title: Fossil fuel reserves
uri: Fossil-fuel-reserves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28Fossil_fuel_reserves%29
content:
<p>
A study determined
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/07/much-worlds-fossil-fuel-reserve-must-stay-buried-prevent-climate-change-study-says">which
fossil fuel reserves can be used and which should be left in the
ground</a>.
<p>
It worked by ranking all the reserves in terms of expense to extract,
and aims for no more than 2C of heating — although scientists
now think that is already too much.
<p>
The study concluded that carbon capture and storage won't make much
difference.  I've had the feeling for a long time that it is proposed
only as an excuse not to face how dangerous coal is.
<p>
The UK is in the process of adopting a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/jan/07/why-leaving-fossil-fuels-in-ground-good-for-everyone">mandate
to extract as much fossil fuel as possible</a>.
<p>
Australia is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/08/australia-accelerates-coal-projects-study-buried">accelerating
coal mining plans</a>.
<p>
That's what politicians do who are in the grip of the planet burners.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(Sale_of_peoples_genetic_data)
title: Sale of people's genetic data
uri: Sale-of-people-s-genetic-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28Sale_of_peoples_genetic_data%29
content:
<p>
23andMe has started
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/of-course-23andmes-business-plan-has-been-to-sell-your-1677810999">selling
its customers' genetic data</a>.


title: TV news coverage of CIA torture report
uri: TV-news-coverage-of-CIA-torture-report
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 10_January_2015_(TV_news_coverage_of_CIA_torture_report)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#10_January_2015_%28TV_news_coverage_of_CIA_torture_report%29

content:
<p>
TV news coverage of the Senate's CIA torture report presented
<a href="http://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/torture-advocates-outnumbered-critics-2-to-1/">twice
as many supporters of torture as opponents of torture</a>.
<p>
I'd call watching TV news a form of torture, but that would be
exaggerating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 12_January_2015_(Urgent:_End_solitary_confinement)
title: Urgent: End solitary confinement
uri: Urgent-End-solitary-confinement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#12_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_solitary_confinement%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=32299">support
Amnesty International's campaign</a> to end solitary confinement in US
prisons.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 11_January_2015_(US_thugs_have_new_weapons)
title: US thugs have new weapons
uri: US-thugs-have-new-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#11_January_2015_%28US_thugs_have_new_weapons%29
content:
<p>
US thugs have new weapons to
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/6-creepy-new-weapons-police-and-military-use-subdue-unarmed-people">blind,
deafen, and remotely torture protesters</a>.


title: "Cybersecurity" information sharing bills
uri: Cybersecurity-information-sharing-bills
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 11_January_2015_(Cybersecurity_information_sharing_bills)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#11_January_2015_%28Cybersecurity_information_sharing_bills%29

content:
<p>
EFF:
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/congress-should-say-no-cybersecurity-information-sharing-bills">Congress
Should Say No to "Cybersecurity" Information Sharing Bills</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 11_January_2015_(Chinese_phone_surveillance)
title: Chinese phone surveillance
uri: Chinese-phone-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#11_January_2015_%28Chinese_phone_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Chinese phone apps
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/01/06/tencent_s_wechat_worldwide_internet_users_are_voluntarily_submitting_to.html">spread
Chinese surveillance</a>, even Chinese censorship, to Western
countries.


title: The assassins that attacked Charlie Hebdo
uri: The-assassins-that-attacked-Charlie-Hebdo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 11_January_2015_(The_assassins_that_attacked_Charlie_Hebdo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#11_January_2015_%28The_assassins_that_attacked_Charlie_Hebdo%29

content:
<p>
The assassins that attacked Charlie Hebdo probably wanted to provoke
repression of all Muslims, because
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/08/charlie-hedbo-collusion-terror-jihadi-twisted-logic">coexistence
is what they oppose</a>.


title: Privatized UK benefits-cutting system
uri: Privatized-UK-benefits-cutting-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 11_January_2015_(Privatized_UK_benefits-cutting_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#11_January_2015_%28Privatized_UK_benefits-cutting_system%29

content:
<p>
Even the companies that administer the privatized UK benefits-cutting
system say it
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/patrick-butler-cuts-blog/2015/jan/08/benefit-sanctions-absurd-and-dont-work-mps-told-welfare">achieves
nothing but suffering</a>.
<p>
It is a "parallel, secret penal system" for the disabled and
unemployed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 11_January_2015_(Saudi_blogger_flogged)
title: Saudi blogger flogged
uri: Saudi-blogger-flogged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#11_January_2015_%28Saudi_blogger_flogged%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/saudi-arabia-blogger-raif-badawi-public-flogging">Saudi
Blogger to be Publicly Flogged on Charges He Insulted Islam</a>.
<p>
Censorship is vile, and inexcusable.


title: To make sure America never tortures again
uri: To-make-sure-America-never-tortures-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 11_January_2015_(To_make_sure_America_never_tortures_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#11_January_2015_%28To_make_sure_America_never_tortures_again%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/08/america-never-torture-again-laws-cia">If
America Wants to Make Sure It Never Tortures Again, It Must Choose Law
over Secrecy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 11_January_2015_(How_video_influences_emotions)
title: How video influences emotions
uri: How-video-influences-emotions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#11_January_2015_%28How_video_influences_emotions%29
content:
<p>
How video influences viewers' emotions, even
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/08/flicker-your-brain-on-movies-by-jeffrey-zacks-how-hollywood-has-changed-your-mind">to
the point where fantasy supersedes fact</a>.
<p>
The TV shows that glorify torture must be considerably responsible for
the high level of public support for torture in the US today.
<p>
Please
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Consume">don't
use the word "consume" to refer to watching video</a>.  Watching a
recording does not, in fact, consume it.


title: Republican sabotage of Social Security
uri: Republican-sabotage-of-Social-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 11_January_2015_(Republican_sabotage_of_Social_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#11_January_2015_%28Republican_sabotage_of_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
House Republicans
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/07/hostage-takers-republicans-go-after-social-security-very-first-day">voted
to impose restrictions on the Social Security Administration's
internal finances</a> that could cause it to be unable to function.
<p>
The Republican program is to sabotage all government activities that
protects the public from corporations.  That includes everything that
protects the public from desperation, because
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_(Workers_safety_nets)">desperate
workers will work for crumbs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 12_January_2015_(Urgent:_Ban_ractopamine)
title: Urgent: Ban ractopamine
uri: Urgent-Ban-ractopamine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#12_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_ractopamine%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/ban_ractopamine">call on the
FDA</a> to ban feeding ractopamine to livestock.


title: Freedom to insult people and religion
uri: Freedom-to-insult-people-and-religion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 12_January_2015_(Freedom_to_insult_people_and_religion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#12_January_2015_%28Freedom_to_insult_people_and_religion%29

content:
<p>
Freedom to insult people and religion
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=11754">must not be
limited to Muslims as targets</a>.
<p>
Here are examples of
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/12/sarkozy-art-row">French</a>
<a href="http://www.metbronews.ca/london/world/article/1131758--sarkozy-jail-those-who-browse-terror-websites">political</a>
<a href="http://edri.org/edrigramnumber10-4twitter-censors-anti-sarkozy-accounts/">censorship</a>,
real and attempted.


title: Russia bans transgender people from driving
uri: Russia-bans-transgender-people-from-driving
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 12_January_2015_(Russia_bans_transgender_people_from_driving)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#12_January_2015_%28Russia_bans_transgender_people_from_driving%29

content:
<p>
Russia has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/transgender-people-russia-banned-driving-legal-amendment-dmitry-medvedev">banned
transgender people from driving</a>, along with people into S&M or
who use sex toys.
<p>
Sounds like a twisted parody of Saudi Arabia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 12_January_2015_(How_CIA_plays_US_journalists)
title: How CIA plays US journalists
uri: How-CIA-plays-US-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#12_January_2015_%28How_CIA_plays_US_journalists%29
content:
<p>
How the CIA
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=11711">plays today's US
journalists</a> so as to maintain its impunity and lawlessness.
<p>
This presents President Truman's reasons for separating covert
operations from intelligence.  It seems valid to me.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 12_January_2015_(Metadata_retention)
title: Metadata retention
uri: Metadata-retention
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#12_January_2015_%28Metadata_retention%29
content:
<p>
EU countries
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/08/time_to_rethink_drip_and_any_other_surveillance_laws_warns_eu_parl/">must
reevaluate their laws</a> that require retention of everyone's
metadata.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 12_January_2015_(Feral_horses)
title: Feral horses
uri: Feral-horses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#12_January_2015_%28Feral_horses%29
content:
<p>
Feral horses are overrunning the US west.  It would be good to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/09/eating-wild-horsemeat-america">use
some of them for food</a>.


title: Pesticide Industry Seeks to Leverage Power
uri: Pesticide-Industry-Seeks-to-Leverage-Power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 12_January_2015_(Pesticide_Industry_Seeks_to_Leverage_Power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#12_January_2015_%28Pesticide_Industry_Seeks_to_Leverage_Power%29

content:
<p>
Pesticide Industry Seeks to Leverage Power
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/08/pesticide-industry-seeks-leverage-power-through-eu-us-trade-deal">Through
EU-US Trade Deal</a>.


title: President Rajapaksa voted out of office
uri: President-Rajapaksa-voted-out-of-office
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 12_January_2015_(President_Rajapaksa_voted_out_of_office)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#12_January_2015_%28President_Rajapaksa_voted_out_of_office%29

content:
<p>
President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/sri-lanka-election-shock-as-president-mahinda-rajapaksa-concedes-defeat">voted
out of office</a>.
<p>
His government has used
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jan-apr.html#14%20January%202009%20(Lasantha%20Wickramatunga)">violence
against opposition</a> so it is interesting that he allowed a free
election.


title: LA thugs crush Black Lives Matter protest
uri: LA-thugs-crush-Black-Lives-Matter-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 12_January_2015_(LA_thugs_crush_Black_Lives_Matter_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#12_January_2015_%28LA_thugs_crush_Black_Lives_Matter_protest%29

content:
<p>
Los Angeles thugs
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/06/lapd-black-lives-matter-ezell-ford-michael-brown">crushed
a Black Lives Matter protest</a> outside their headquarters.


title: Urgent: Stop construction of Keystone XL
uri: Urgent-Stop-construction-of-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_construction_of_Keystone_XL)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_construction_of_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/Obama-veto-this-pipeline-for-once-for-all/?sub=taf">call
on Obama</a> to veto the expected bill to authorize construction of
Keystone XL.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_punishing_Palestine)
title: Urgent: Stop punishing Palestine
uri: Urgent-Stop-punishing-Palestine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_punishing_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/rand-paul-quit-bullying-Palestinians">call
on Senator Paul</a> to stop punishing Palestine and accept its
participation in the ICC.


title: Urgent: Oppose prosecution of protesters
uri: Urgent-Oppose-prosecution-of-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_prosecution_of_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_prosecution_of_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://action.sumofus.org/a/moarestitution/">call on the
Mall of America</a> to oppose prosecution of the Black Lives Matter
protesters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Digital_connectedness)
title: Digital connectedness
uri: Digital-connectedness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Digital_connectedness%29
content:
<p>
Digital connectedness, constant with few and short exceptions, goes
with
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/09/an-electronic-apocalypse-is-coming-unless-we-act-now">people
who don't know how to connect except through digital devices</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Arrested_for_using_secure_email)
title: Arrested for using secure email
uri: Arrested-for-using-secure-email
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Arrested_for_using_secure_email%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/were-11-spanish-anarchists-arrested-for-using-secure-email">Were
11 Spanish Anarchists Arrested for Using Secure Email?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Rich_say_the_poor_have_it_easy)
title: Rich say the poor have it easy
uri: Rich-say-the-poor-have-it-easy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Rich_say_the_poor_have_it_easy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/09/amid-time-soaring-inequality-rich-say-poor-have-it-easy">Amid
Time of Soaring Inequality, Rich Say: The Poor Have It Easy</a>.


title: State response to Charlie Hebdo attack
uri: State-response-to-Charlie-Hebdo-attack
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(State_response_to_Charlie_Hebdo_attack)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28State_response_to_Charlie_Hebdo_attack%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/10/charlie-hebdo-attack-free-speech-surveillance">The
Charlie Hebdo Attack Was a Strike Against Free Speech.  So Why Is the
Response More Surveillance?</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/10/will-france-repeat-us-mistakes-after-911">Will
France Repeat US Mistakes after 9/11?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Secret_collaboration_with_CIA)
title: Secret collaboration with CIA
uri: Secret-collaboration-with-CIA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Secret_collaboration_with_CIA%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/09/cias-hidden-hand-democracy-groups">Freedom
House and the National Endowment for Democracy</a> collaborated
secretly with the CIA.


title: Plastic microfibres from synthetic fabric
uri: Plastic-microfibres-from-synthetic-fabric
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Plastic_microfibres_from_synthetic_fabric)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Plastic_microfibres_from_synthetic_fabric%29

content:
<p>
Plastic microfibres come out of synthetic fabric when it is washed,
and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/09/great-lakes-plastic-microfibre-pollution-us">get
caught in the intestines of fish, then get into birds</a>.


title: Censorship and repression in South Korea
uri: Censorship-and-repression-in-South-Korea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Censorship_and_repression_in_South_Korea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Censorship_and_repression_in_South_Korea%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/south-korea-deport-korean-american-accused-praising-north">Censorship
and repression</a> in South Korea.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Massacre_in_Nigeria)
title: Massacre in Nigeria
uri: Massacre-in-Nigeria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Massacre_in_Nigeria%29
content:
<p>
Boko Haram took over a town and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/boko-haram-deadliest-massacre-baga-nigeria">killed
everyone that couldn't run away fast enough</a>.  Perhaps 2000 were
killed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Fossil_fuel-funded_PR_campaign)
title: Fossil fuel-funded PR campaign
uri: Fossil-fuel-funded-PR-campaign
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Fossil_fuel-funded_PR_campaign%29

content:
<p>
Fossil fuel companies are funding a PR campaign that
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/08/carbon-counterattack-how-big-oil-responding-anti-carbon-moment">presents
them as the saviours of humanity</a>, to distract us from their plan
to cause global disaster.
<p>
A study estimated that global heating would kill 100 million people by
2030.  I expect the damage to accelerate as temperature rises ever
faster; by 2050 it is likely to kill tens of millions per year.
<p>
Under these circumstances, even violent attacks on fossil fuel company
installations could be justified on the grounds that they will prevent
a bigger crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Chinese-paid_microbloggers)
title: Chinese-paid microbloggers
uri: Chinese-paid-microbloggers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Chinese-paid_microbloggers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://qz.com/311832/hacked-emails-reveal-chinas-elaborate-and-absurd-internet-propaganda-machine/">How
Chinese paid pro-government microbloggers operate</a>.
<p>
One borough in a small city has 300 of these paid agents.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Images_of_Mohammed)
title: Images of Mohammed
uri: Images-of-Mohammed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Images_of_Mohammed%29
content:
<p>
Islam has a
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/08/does-islam-prohibit-images-of-mohammed-n">rich
tradition old of presenting images of Mohammed</a>, and parts of the
Qur'an espouse toleration of religious dissent and even mockery.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Fallacious_belief:_karma)
title: Fallacious belief: karma
uri: Fallacious-belief-karma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Fallacious_belief%3A_karma%29
content:
<p>
The fallacious belief that people get what they deserve
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/09/karma-schoolboy-ben-azarya-banksy-good-deed">encourages
people's disregard to the suffering people around them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Blogger_sentenced_to_prison)
title: Blogger sentenced to prison
uri: Blogger-sentenced-to-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Blogger_sentenced_to_prison%29
content:
<p>
Tunisia: Blogger Yassine Ayari was sentenced to 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2015/01/06/tunisia-blogger-convicted-military-court">3
years in prison for "insulting the army"</a>.
<p>
By criminalizing insults, the state has insulted itself.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">Posting on Facebook is a
bad idea</a>, but should not be a crime.


title: Responsibility that comes with religion
uri: Responsibility-that-comes-with-religion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Responsibility_that_comes_with_religion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Responsibility_that_comes_with_religion%29

content:
<p>
A Muslim UK minister says Muslims must acknowledge a special
responsibility to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/11/sajid-javid-muslim-communities-special-burden-terrorists-culture-secretary-paris-attackers">oppose
terrorism carried out in the name of their religion</a>.
<p>
With the right to be a Muslim goes the responsibility to recognize
everyone's right not to be a Muslim.  And likewise for any other
persuasion, including Atheism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Has_America_has_gone_crazy)
title: Has America has gone crazy?
uri: Has-America-has-gone-crazy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Has_America_has_gone_crazy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/11/country-crazy-inquiring-minds-elsewhere-want-know">Many
Europeans ask</a> whether America has gone crazy.


title: University divestment from fossil fuels
uri: 2015-01-14-University-divestment-from-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(University_divestment_from_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28University_divestment_from_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/11/stanford-professors-fossil-fuel-investments">3000
Stanford professors</a> called for the university to divest from
fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Chilling_Effects_archive_censored)
title: Chilling Effects archive censored
uri: Chilling-Effects-archive-censored
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Chilling_Effects_archive_censored%29

content:
<p>
The mother of all chilling effects: the Chilling Effects archive of
DMCA threats has 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/chilling-effects-dmca-archive-censors-itself-150110/">censored
itself as a chilling effect of a DMCA threat</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, Canada's new takedown system that resembles the DMCA as a
loophole that 
<a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/01/rightscorp-bmg-exploiting-copyright-notice-notice-system-citing-false-legal-information-payment-demands/">facilitates
copyright trolls</a>.


title: Right-wing view of US wage stagnation
uri: Right-wing-view-of-US-wage-stagnation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Right-wing_view_of_US_wage_stagnation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Right-wing_view_of_US_wage_stagnation%29

content:
<p>
USA Today published an 
<a href="http://fair.org/blog/2015/01/06/usa-today-makes-sure-rich-dont-get-blamed-for-middle-class-stagnation/">establishment
right-wing take on US wage stagnation</a>, "rebutted" by an extreme
right-wing view.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Worst_terrorist_attack_in_Europe)
title: Worst terrorist attack in Europe
uri: Worst-terrorist-attack-in-Europe
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Worst_terrorist_attack_in_Europe%29

content:
<p>
The worst terrorist attack in Europe in recent years was not committed
by Islamists, but by a 
<a href="http://fair.org/blog/2015/01/07/remembering-victims-of-terror-and-forgetting-some-others/">right-wing
fanatic</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Deadly_cold_in_the_US)
title: Deadly cold in the US
uri: Deadly-cold-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Deadly_cold_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The cold in the US today 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/09/icy-cold-and-cut-services-create-dangerous-perfect-storm-homeless">can
be fatal to homeless people</a>, and a lot more people are homeless in
the US now than in the past.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Urgent:_Reject_TPP_fast_track)
title: Urgent: Reject TPP "fast track"
uri: Urgent-Reject-TPP-fast-track
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_TPP_fast_track%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15359">call
on Congress</a> to reject "fast track" for the TPP and insist on
publication of the draft text.


title: Urgent: Keep Olympics away from Boston
uri: Urgent-Keep-Olympics-away-from-Boston
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Urgent:_Keep_Olympics_away_from_Boston)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_Olympics_away_from_Boston%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Boston, it is time to organize to
<a href="http://www.nobostonolympics.org">keep the Olympics away</a>.
<p>
The US Olympic Committee chose Boston rather than other US cities
because of its experience in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/08/boston-us-candidate-host-2024-olympics-rights-violated">denying
human rights</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/3-reasons-why-hosting-the-olympics-is-a-losers-game/260111/">Don't
expect an economic boost</a> for Boston from this.


title: Urgent: Denounce censorship of the press
uri: Urgent-Denounce-censorship-of-the-press
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Urgent:_Denounce_censorship_of_the_press)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Denounce_censorship_of_the_press%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: sign
<a href="http://fr.rsf.org/petitions/charlie/petition.php?lang=en">Reporters
Without Borders' petition</a> denouncing censorship of the press,
including that done by governments.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Urgent:_Dodd-Frank_law)
title: Urgent: Dodd-Frank law
uri: Urgent-Dodd-Frank-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Dodd-Frank_law%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1048">rebuke</a> House
Democrats that voted to weaken the Dodd-Frank law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Middle-Eastern_satire)
title: Middle-Eastern satire
uri: Middle-Eastern-satire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Middle-Eastern_satire%29
content:
<p>
Middle-Eastern
<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/in-the-mideast-as-in-france-satire-is-a-weapon-against-extremists/article22331032/">satire
about PISSI</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 13_January_2015_(Recession_in_Europe)
title: Recession in Europe
uri: Recession-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#13_January_2015_%28Recession_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>
Joseph Stiglitz: the euro is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/09/europe-economic-madness-cannot-continue-greece-elections">driving
Europe into ever-increasing recession</a>, and some day democracy will
make it crack.


title: Urgent: Oppose "Regulatory Accountability Act"
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-Regulatory-Accountability-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_Regulatory_Accountability_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Regulatory_Accountability_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12654">oppose
the "Regulatory Accountability Act"</a>, a plutocratic bill to make
new federal regulations nearly impossible.
<p>
<a href="http://www.sensiblesafeguards.org/press-releases/raa2015-54b4139e5be46">For
more information</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Tracking_of_train_passengers)
title: Tracking of train passengers
uri: Tracking-of-train-passengers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Tracking_of_train_passengers%29
content:
<p>
Right-wingers in favor of total surveillance have seized on the
Charlie Hebdo murders to demand
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/theresa-may-eu-ministers-paris-travel-database-radicalisation-terrorist-networks">total
tracking of all train passengers</a>, which would not have prevented
these murders anyway.  Fortunately there is opposition to these
oppressive plans.
<p>
Amtrak already demands identification from passengers, which is why I
refuse to take Amtrak.


title: Prosecution for Assange, immunity for Petraeus
uri: Prosecution-for-Assange-immunity-for-Petraeus
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Prosecution_for_Assange,_immunity_for_Petraeus)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Prosecution_for_Assange%2C_immunity_for_Petraeus%29

content:
<p>
Senator Feinstein wants to prosecute Julian Assange, but
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=11979">wants General
Petraeus to be let off the hook</a>.


title: Urgent: Let Shaker Aamer return to Britain
uri: Urgent-Let-Shaker-Aamer-return-to-Britain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Urgent:_Let_Shaker_Aamer_return_to_Britain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Let_Shaker_Aamer_return_to_Britain%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=27431">Call
on Obama</a> to let Shaker Aamer return to Britain.


title: Denial of forced prostitution during WWII
uri: Denial-of-forced-prostitution-during-WWII
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Denial_of_forced_prostitution_during_WWII)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Denial_of_forced_prostitution_during_WWII%29

content:
<p>
Those
<a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2015/01/07/issues/never-mind-facts-logic-alone-demolishes-comfort-women-deniers-case/">denying
that the Japanese army forced women to be prostitutes during World War
II</a> are claiming that women were the only class of people that
Japan did not coerce.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(FBI_provocateurs)
title: FBI provocateurs
uri: FBI-provocateurs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28FBI_provocateurs%29
content:
<p>
Eric Taylor McDavid was sentenced to 20 years in prison for being led
by the woman he loved to discuss bombing government facilities.  He
has been freed because she was an
<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article5641188.html">FBI
provocateur</a> and the FBI concealed information from his trial.
<p>
Many other supposed "terrorists" have been railroaded by FBI
provocateurs, most of whom
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#02_March_2013_(Terror_plots_organized_by_the_FBI)">would
never have done anything violent if left to themselves</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, a
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-explosion-rocks-naacp-building-in-colorado-20150106-story.html">real
act of terrorism was committed against the NAACP</a>.  I wonder if
provocateurs were involved.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Urgent:_End_child_slavery)
title: Urgent: End child slavery
uri: Urgent-End-child-slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_End_child_slavery%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-the-un-end-child-slavery">call
on the UN</a> to establish the goal of ending child slavery.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Faux_News)
title: Faux News
uri: Faux-News
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Faux_News%29
content:
<p>
People who watch Faux News are
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/13/928455/-CONFIRMED-New-Study-Proves-That-Fox-News-Makes-You-Stupid">systematically
factually misinformed about issues of US health care</a>.


title: Thug kills two drivers in two years
uri: Thug-kills-two-drivers-in-two-years
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Thug_kills_two_drivers_in_two_years)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Thug_kills_two_drivers_in_two_years%29

content:
<p>
One thug has killed two drivers in two years,
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/09/1356607/-Montana-officer-Grant-Morrison-shoots-and-kills-his-second-unarmed-man-No-charges-in-either-case">with
impunity</a>.
<p>
If you watch the video from youtube, for your own freedom's sake please
use youtube-dl to watch it without
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">nonfree
software</a>.


title: Corruption in Afghan national thug force
uri: Corruption-in-Afghan-national-thug-force
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Corruption_in_Afghan_national_thug_force)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Corruption_in_Afghan_national_thug_force%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/afghanistan-police-payroll-data-watchdog-report">Corruption</a>
plagues the Afghan national thug force.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Plants_that_may_go_extinct)
title: Plants that may go extinct
uri: Plants-that-may-go-extinct
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Plants_that_may_go_extinct%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/missed-connections">Some
plants may go extinct</a> because, from global heating, they bloom
before bumblebees are ready to pollinate them.  Some trees might go
extinct because scale insects that suck their sap reproduce more in
warmer weather.
<p>
And that's only what we are seeing now with around 1C of heating.
With 4C of heating, lots of species might wipe each other out.


title: Rulers that trample freedom of press
uri: Rulers-that-trample-freedom-of-press
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Rulers_that_trample_freedom_of_press)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Rulers_that_trample_freedom_of_press%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/11/paris-rally-charlie-hebdo-free-press-reports-without-borders">Rulers
that trample freedom of the press at home</a> came to Paris to mourn
the murdered cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo.  Will they learn anything?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Urgent:_Gratis_community_college)
title: Urgent: Gratis community college
uri: Urgent-Gratis-community-college
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Gratis_community_college%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/survey_freecollege/">Support
Obama</a> on gratis community college for all Americans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Urgent:_Drop_Title_X)
title: Urgent: Drop "Title X"
uri: Urgent-Drop-Title-X
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_Title_X%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://cms.fightforthefuture.org/stop-titlex/">Tell
Congress</a> to drop "Title X" and give us real net neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Long-term_effects_of_eating_GMOs)
title: Long-term effects of eating GMOs
uri: Long-term-effects-of-eating-GMOs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Long-term_effects_of_eating_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
The experience of eating widely-grown GMOs shows that they do not
cause acute illness, but says nothing about long-term effects.
Long-term feeding experiments have shown
<a href="http://gmosummit.org/former-pro-gmo-scientist/">harm to
animals</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, some of the transgenes get transferred to soil bacteria and
to other plants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Why_Haiti_is_broken)
title: Why Haiti is broken
uri: Why-Haiti-is-broken
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Why_Haiti_is_broken%29
content:
<p>
Haiti is broken
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/haiti-is-broken-because-of-intervention/2015/01/07/26607bac-94f9-11e4-8385-866293322c2f_story.html">because
of international intervention</a> (on behalf of plutocracy).


title: Goldman Sachs trying to threaten Greece
uri: Goldman-Sachs-trying-to-threaten-Greece
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Goldman_Sachs_trying_to_threaten_Greece)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Goldman_Sachs_trying_to_threaten_Greece%29

content:
<p>
Goldman Sachs is
<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/eu_showdown_greece_takes_on_the_vampire_squid_20150110">trying
to threaten Greece</a>, as it has threatened other countries, but it
looks like Syriza will not obey.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(New_Sri_Lankan_govt)
title: New Sri Lankan gov't
uri: New-Sri-Lankan-gov-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28New_Sri_Lankan_govt%29
content:
<p>
President Sirisena accuses Rajapaksa of trying to launch a coup to stop
the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/11/sri-lanka-new-government-investigate-alleged-coup-maithripala-sirisena-mahinda-rajapaksa">counting
of ballots</a>.
<p>
It did seem surprising he would allow himself to be voted out of
office after so much violence against his opponents.
<p>
The new president says he wants to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/11/guardian-view-on-end-of-rajapaksa-era-sri-lanka-sirisena">revert
Rajapaksa's authoritarian changes in the constitution</a>, but it
won't be easy.


title: Discussion of computer security weaknesses
uri: Discussion-of-computer-security-weaknesses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Discussion_of_computer_security_weaknesses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Discussion_of_computer_security_weaknesses%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/01/cfaa_reform_how_laws_are_determining_the_ethics_of_code.html">US
laws increasingly criminalize</a> discussion of computer security
weaknesses in the US.
<p>
That suits the NSA, which wants your computer to be insecure.
<p>
By the way, "code is law" is false in one important case: when you're
using free software.  With free software, you are
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">free
to make it do what you wish</a>.


title: Facebook seeks opposite of net neutrality
uri: Facebook-seeks-opposite-of-net-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Facebook_seeks_opposite_of_net_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Facebook_seeks_opposite_of_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
Facebook
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/11/internet-access-developing-nations-facebook-domination">seeks
to implement the opposite of network neutrality</a>, world-wide.
Accessing Facebook will be gratis, while accessing any other site will
be too expensive for half the human population.
<p>
Considering the way mobile phones track and spy on people, I think
it is a shame that so many people use them now.


title: Muslim tradition of painting Mohammad
uri: Muslim-tradition-of-painting-Mohammad
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Muslim_tradition_of_painting_Mohammad)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Muslim_tradition_of_painting_Mohammad%29

content:
<p>
The Muslim tradition of painting pictures of Mohammad
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/drawing-prophet-islam-muhammad-images">started
in the 1200s</a>.


title: Security forces ignored Charlie Hebdo assassins
uri: Security-forces-ignored-Charlie-Hebdo-assassins
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Security_forces_ignored_Charlie_Hebdo_assassins)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Security_forces_ignored_Charlie_Hebdo_assassins%29

content:
<p>
The Charlie Hebdo assassins were known suspects, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/charlie-hebdo-security-services-paris-attacks">French
security forces had decided they were not worth paying attention
to</a>.
<p>
This shows that additional surveillance power is not what they needed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Hotel_rejects_homeless_people)
title: Hotel rejects homeless people
uri: Hotel-rejects-homeless-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Hotel_rejects_homeless_people%29
content:
<p>
Samaritans booked a hotel suite for six homeless people on Christmas
eve, but the hotel cancelled their reservation because it
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/08/3609625/luxury-hotel-homeless-christmas-cancel/">considered
homeless people suspect</a>.
<p>
For a hotel to require guests to show photo ID is a repressive
practice, regardless of who the guests are.  This is one of the
reasons I avoid hotels whenever possible in my travels.  (The others
are just a matter of taste.)
<p>
While this gift was a pretty gesture, if I were homeless I expect I
could think of a better use for $100 than a night in a hotel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Who's_Afraid_Of_Freedom_Of_Speech)
title: Who's Afraid Of Freedom Of Speech?
uri: Who-s-Afraid-Of-Freedom-Of-Speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Who%27s_Afraid_Of_Freedom_Of_Speech%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://valentin.villenave.net/Who-s-Afraid-Of-Freedom-Of-Speech">In
France, Who's Afraid Of Freedom Of Speech?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Medicaid)
title: Medicaid
uri: Medicaid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Medicaid%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/01/09/3609825/activists-medicaid-2015/">Activists
Across The Country Beg GOP Leaders To Expand Medicaid</a>.  State
governments controlled by the Republican party reject this federal aid
because they object on principle to providing medical care for the
poor.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Collection_of_data_about_students)
title: Collection of data about students
uri: Collection-of-data-about-students
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Collection_of_data_about_students%29

content:
<p>
California has passed a
<a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/parents-challenge-president-to-dig-deeper-on-ed-tech/">very
weak law against the worst kind of abuses</a> by companies that
collect data about students from schools.  Now Obama proposes a
similarly weak federal law, with a weak voluntary policy as backup
alternative.
<p>
Schools should not allow companies to collect <em>any</em> data about
their students.  If a school creates an account on a Microsoft, Apple
or Google server for a student, under the student's name, that is
already a violation of the student's privacy.


title: Scheme for total control of the population
uri: Scheme-for-total-control-of-the-population
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Scheme_for_total_control_of_the_population)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Scheme_for_total_control_of_the_population%29

content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/welcome_to_the_matrix_enslaved_by_technology_and_the_internet_of_things">"Internet
of Things"</a>, and keeping people "connected" through servers run by
companies, is a scheme for total control of the population.
<p>
It is too bad that the article ends with an obligatory rejection of
Luddism, because Luddism simply means being selective about which
technologies to accept.  If we are to consider rejecting a technology
that companies wish to impose on us, rather than ineffectually
complaining about it, we must first be Luddites.


title: Contradictory statements made by Verizon
uri: Contradictory-statements-made-by-Verizon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Contradictory_statements_made_by_Verizon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Contradictory_statements_made_by_Verizon%29

content:
<p>
Verizon has been caught
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/fcc-urged-to-investigate-verizons-two-faced-statements-on-utility-rules/">making
directly contradictory statements to the FCC</a>.
<p>
If the FCC is not too corrupted by business, it could prosecute
Verizon for perjury.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Haitis_Housing_Crisis)
title: Haiti's Housing Crisis
uri: Haiti-s-Housing-Crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Haitis_Housing_Crisis%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/12/ten-facts-about-haitis-housing-crisis">Ten
Facts About Haiti's Housing Crisis</a>.


title: Facebook's judgments about personality
uri: Facebook-s-judgments-about-personality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Facebooks_judgments_about_personality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Facebooks_judgments_about_personality%29

content:
<p>
Facebook can understand a used's personality from "likes"
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-01-digital-footprints-personality-friends-family.html">more
accurately, on the average, than friends and spouses</a> can do so.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(What_Jews_can_learn_from_Muslims)
title: What Jews can learn from Muslims
uri: What-Jews-can-learn-from-Muslims
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28What_Jews_can_learn_from_Muslims%29

content:
<p>
What Jews can learn from Muslims, in regard to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/what-jews-can-learn-from-muslims">respect
for others</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Censorship_on_Facebook)
title: Censorship on Facebook
uri: Censorship-on-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Censorship_on_Facebook%29
content:
<p>
A statement advocating censorship was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/mark-zuckerberg-freedom-speech-facebook">censored
on Facebook</a>.  I suspect the statement was deleted because of the
appearance of the word "nigger" — ironically, to condemn the use
of that word.  That's what tends to happen when censorship is carried
out by idiots.
<p>
That writer deserves freedom to present his views, ironically for the
same reason that his views are wrong.
<p>
People never want to censor what they agree with.  Respect for freedom
of speech means, at heart, respecting the freedom to say what we
disagree with.  We must respect the freedom to call blacks "niggers",
or praise Hitler, even though we disagree and disapprove.  We must
also respect the freedom to advocate censorship, precisely because
otherwise we ourselves endorse censorship.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Prison_sentence_for_being_Atheist)
title: Prison sentence for being Atheist
uri: Prison-sentence-for-being-Atheist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Prison_sentence_for_being_Atheist%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian Atheist Karim Ashraf Mohamed al-Banna has been sentenced to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jan/13/egyptian-student-jailed-for-proclaiming-that-he-is-an-atheist">three
years in prison</a> for saying he is an Atheist.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Ultra-poverty_in_Bangladesh)
title: Ultra-poverty in Bangladesh
uri: Ultra-poverty-in-Bangladesh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Ultra-poverty_in_Bangladesh%29
content:
<p>
It seems that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/jan/12/ultra-poor-pioneering-work-results-bangladesh">$500</a>
can permanently lift a person in Bangladesh out of ultra-poverty.


title: US states cutting funds for pre-school
uri: US-states-cutting-funds-for-pre-school
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(US_states_cutting_funds_for_pre-school)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28US_states_cutting_funds_for_pre-school%29

content:
<p>
US states are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/12/more-evidence-public-beats-private-education">cutting
funds for pre-school</a> which is crucial for students raised in
poverty to catch up with the better off.
<p>
Meanwhile, privatized "public schools" divert money to profits and
executives, and can't be converted back into real public schools.
<p>
The rich in the US are no longer interested in an educated work force.
They consider a large fraction of Americans impoverished.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Elimination_of_democracy_in_Haiti)
title: Elimination of democracy in Haiti
uri: Elimination-of-democracy-in-Haiti
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Elimination_of_democracy_in_Haiti%29

content:
<p>
In Haiti, the US-imposed president Martelly has effectively eliminated
democracy.  He
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/12/5-years-after-haiti-earthquake-sad-state-democracy-and-human-rights">has
not even tried to hold elections</a>.


title: Cost of hypothetical protection from terrorists
uri: Cost-of-hypothetical-protection-from-terrorists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Cost_of_hypothetical_protection_from_terrorists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Cost_of_hypothetical_protection_from_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
In the US, you are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/12/overbearing-arms-america">more
likely to be shot by a toddler than killed by terrorists</a>.
<p>
Why pay such a price — in freedom as well as money —
for hypothetical protection from terrorists?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(India_blocks_Greenpeace_leader)
title: India blocks Greenpeace leader
uri: India-blocks-Greenpeace-leader
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28India_blocks_Greenpeace_leader%29

content:
<p>
India blocked an Indian Greenpeace leader from flying to London for an event,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/12/greenpeace-india-campaigner-prevented-from-travelling-to-the-uk">based
on false accusations</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Groundwater_rights_in_California)
title: Groundwater rights in California
uri: Groundwater-rights-in-California
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Groundwater_rights_in_California%29

content:
<p>
California's new system of groundwater rights is
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/california-drought-almonds-water-use">weak
and won't take effect for six more years</a>.  In the mean time, new
almond plantations are taking up more water, leaving others without
any.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 14_January_2015_(Monsantos_Role_In_Ukraine)
title: Monsanto's Role In Ukraine
uri: Monsanto-s-Role-In-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_January_2015_%28Monsantos_Role_In_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
The IMF bullied Ukraine, on Monsanto's behalf, to
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/12/what-theyre-not-telling-you-about-monsantos-role-ukraine">change
various agricultural laws in favor of corporate GMO plantations</a>.


title: Urgent: Overturn Corporations United
uri: 2015-01-15-Urgent-Overturn-Corporations-United
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Urgent:_Overturn_Corporations_United)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Overturn_Corporations_United%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/cu_5th_anniversary">Call on
Congress once again</a> to overturn the Corporations United decision.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Urgent:_Real_net_neutrality)
title: Urgent: Real net neutrality
uri: Urgent-Real-net-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Real_net_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_resolution_nn/">call
on the FCC</a> to give us real net neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Rajapaksas_trust_in_astrology)
title: Rajapaksa's trust in astrology
uri: Rajapaksa-s-trust-in-astrology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Rajapaksas_trust_in_astrology%29
content:
<p>
Rajapaksa called an election
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/nostradamus-wrong-astrologer-advised-sri-lankas-president-election">based
on advice from an astrologer</a>!  What an idiot!
<p>
The result could be good for Sri Lanka, even though it was bad for
him.
<p>
Hitler also trusted his astrologer, who was an Allied agent and
intentionally gave him bad advice.


title: Designing cities for energy efficiency
uri: Designing-cities-for-energy-efficiency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Designing_cities_for_energy_efficiency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Designing_cities_for_energy_efficiency%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/developing-cities-key-to-climate-action-18528">Designing
growing cities for energy efficiency</a> could make a big difference
in human energy use by 2050.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Afrileaks)
title: Afrileaks
uri: Afrileaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Afrileaks%29
content:
<p>
Afrileaks provides a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/wikileaks-for-africa-introducing-afrileaks">channel
for whistleblowers</a> in Africa.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Copyright_on_MLKs_speeches)
title: Copyright on MLK's speeches
uri: Copyright-on-MLK-s-speeches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Copyright_on_MLKs_speeches%29
content:
<p>
Copyright makes it
<a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-how-selma-filmmakers-made-755242">difficult
to make a movie about the campaigns of Martin Luther King Jr</a>.
<p>
The behavior of his heirs is disgraceful, but the real culprit is
copyright law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Microfinance)
title: Microfinance
uri: Microfinance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Microfinance%29
content:
<p>
Microfinance can help the poor in some circumstances, but
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/oct/08/developing-countries-informal-economies-microfinance-financial-inclusion">it
is not automatic</a>.


title: Response to censorship of Charlie Hebdo
uri: Response-to-censorship-of-Charlie-Hebdo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Response_to_censorship_of_Charlie_Hebdo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Response_to_censorship_of_Charlie_Hebdo%29

content:
<p>
In response to the violent censorship of Charlie Hebdo, ministers of
France and 11 other EU countries propose…
<a href="https://gigaom.com/2015/01/11/eu-response-to-free-speech-killings-more-internet-censorship/">more
censorship</a>!
<p>
They were going to find an excuse for this sooner or later.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Moderate_Democrats)
title: Moderate "Democrats"
uri: Moderate-Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Moderate_Democrats%29
content:
<p>
Moderate "Democrats" might as well be Republicans, and now some Democrats
are
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/09/1356628/-Moderate-Dems-angry-that-Warren-liberals-are-raining-on-their-pro-biz-parade?detail=email">calling
them on it</a>.
<p>
In response to this pressure, they have
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/12/striking-populist-tone-mainstream-dems-push-robin-hood-tax-plan">started
to support a weak version of the "Robin Hood tax"</a>.


title: Cleveland thug department's fatal mistake
uri: Cleveland-thug-department-s-fatal-mistake
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Cleveland_thug_departments_fatal_mistake)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Cleveland_thug_departments_fatal_mistake%29

content:
<p>
Hiring Timothy Loehmann as a thug was a fatal mistake which
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/09/1356660/-The-outrageous-tragic-hiring-of-Officer-Timothy-Loehmann-by-the-Cleveland-PD?detail=email">could
have been avoided</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(NYC_less_hostile)
title: NYC less hostile
uri: NYC-less-hostile
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28NYC_less_hostile%29
content:
<p>
New York City has become a less hostile place
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/12/nypd-brass-to-rank-and-file-start-writin">as
thugs refrain from petty harassment</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Obamas_proposed_cybersecurity_law)
title: Obama's proposed "cybersecurity" law
uri: Obama-s-proposed-cybersecurity-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Obamas_proposed_cybersecurity_law%29

content:
<p>
Obama's proposed "cybersecurity" law
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/13/obama-cybersecurity-bill-privacy-campaigners-warning">endangers
privacy</a> by making it easy for companies to "voluntarily" give
personal data to the government.
<p>
This idea was
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#21_April_2012_(CISPA)">tried
before under the name of CISPA</a>, and defeated.
<p>
However, if we really want privacy, we
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">should
not let those companies have our data</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Rare_spider_threatened)
title: Rare spider threatened
uri: Rare-spider-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Rare_spider_threatened%29
content:
<p>
A small house construction project
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/13/rare-spider-horrid-ground-weaver-threat-radford-quarry-plymouth">could
cause the extinction of a rare spider</a>.
<p>
The UK has streamlined planning so that projects can't be stopped by
niggling considerations like extinction of a species.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Islamism_in_France)
title: Islamism in France
uri: Islamism-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Islamism_in_France%29
content:
<p>
Islamism in France
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/charlie-hebdo-solution-muslims-french-arab-descent-newspaper-fight-racism">attacks
a mostly secularized Muslim community</a>, perhaps tempted in response
to racist exclusion from opportunity.
<p>
Here are some
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/11/1357057/-The-Charlie-Hebdo-cartoons-no-one-is-showing-you?detail=email">examples
of opposition to racism and colonialism in Charlie Hebdo</a>.
<p>
Why did fundamentalists attack Charlie Hebdo, whose principal target
is the Muslim-hating right wing, rather than the right wing
Muslim-haters?  Clearly the fundamentalists are not thinking in
political terms.  Political circumstances may have caused them
alienation, but they rebuilt themselves around irrationality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(UK_PM_wants_to_ban_encryption)
title: UK PM wants to ban encryption
uri: UK-PM-wants-to-ban-encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28UK_PM_wants_to_ban_encryption%29
content:
<p>
The UK's prime minister
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/cameron-ban-encryption-digital-britain-online-shopping-banking-messaging-terror">wants
to ban encryption</a> and establish a total digital police state.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Satire_in_the_Arab_world)
title: Satire in the Arab world
uri: Satire-in-the-Arab-world
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Satire_in_the_Arab_world%29
content:
<p>
In the Arab world, you can satirize PISSI, but it is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jan/12/laughing-in-face-of-danger-satire-in-muslim-world">hard
to satirize much</a> in repressive Egypt, and Turkey is getting
dangerous too.


title: Authoritarians seize on Charlie Hebdo attentat
uri: Authoritarians-seize-on-Charlie-Hebdo-attentat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Authoritarians_seize_on_Charlie_Hebdo_attentat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Authoritarians_seize_on_Charlie_Hebdo_attentat%29

content:
<p>
Authoritarian EU politicians have seized on the Charlie Hebdo attentat
as a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/europe-air-passenger-data-schengen-zone-checks">spurious
excuse for tracking travel</a> within the Schengen zone.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Disappearing_ice_on_Kilimanjaro)
title: Disappearing ice on Kilimanjaro
uri: Disappearing-ice-on-Kilimanjaro
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Disappearing_ice_on_Kilimanjaro%29

content:
<p>
Rushing to climb ice on Kilimanjaro —
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/13/will-gadd-we-were-climbing-ice-that-isnt-going-there-next-week-climate-change">next
week it may be gone forever</a>.


title: Random reprisal from Indonesian troops
uri: Random-reprisal-from-Indonesian-troops
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 15_January_2015_(Random_reprisal_from_Indonesian_troops)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#15_January_2015_%28Random_reprisal_from_Indonesian_troops%29

content:
<p>
Indonesian troops have
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/indonesia-targeting-west-papuans-with-mass-arrests-and-home-burning-reports">arrested
a hundred people in West Papua and burned down a dozen houses</a>, as
a random reprisal for the killing of some soldiers.
<p>
Indonesia forcibly seized West Papua in 1969 with a fishy "election",
and since then has colonized the region with Javanese.


title: Very urgent: No new sanctions against Iran
uri: Very-urgent-No-new-sanctions-against-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Urgent:_No_new_sanctions_against_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_new_sanctions_against_Iran%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to oppose new sanctions against Iran.
There is a new push in the senate to impose more sanctions to sabotage
the nuclear negotiations.  The capitol switchboard number is (202)
224-3121.


title: Reporter James Risen not going to jail
uri: Reporter-James-Risen-not-going-to-jail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Reporter_James_Risen_not_going_to_jail)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Reporter_James_Risen_not_going_to_jail%29

content:
<p>
The US government backed down and 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/us/times-reporter-james-risen-will-not-be-called-to-testify-in-leak-case-lawyers-say.html?_r=0">will
not jail reporter James Risen</a>.
<p>
Now the US should stop threatening 
<a href="http://cpj.org/2015/01/cpj-welcomes-risen-ruling-calls-on-holder-to-ensur.php">journalists</a>
and the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/13/crime-and-cia-embarrassments">patriots
that reveal government incompetence and injustice</a> to them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Price_of_Olympic_games)
title: Price of Olympic games
uri: Price-of-Olympic-games
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Price_of_Olympic_games%29
content:
<p>
If the Olympic games are held in Boston, the US government will spend
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1640">a billion dollars on
increased repression</a> (i.e., "security").


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(CFAA)
title: CFAA
uri: CFAA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28CFAA%29
content:
<p>
Obama
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/eff-statement-president-obamas-cybersecurity-legislative-proposal">wants
to increase the absurdly high penalties of the CFAA</a>.  What we
really need is to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#05_April_2013_(Urgent:_Reduce_the_injustice_of_the_CFAA)">reduce
the scope of the CFAA</a> so that it is clear breaching someone's
nonnegotiated contract is not a crime.
<p>
Meanwhile, the US government neglects its own cybersecurity.  It would
rather bluster and threaten than defend itself.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(This_Treaty_Is_Plutocratic_(TTIP))
title: This Treaty Is Plutocratic (TTIP)
uri: This-Treaty-Is-Plutocratic-(TTIP)
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28This_Treaty_Is_Plutocratic_%28TTIP%29%29

content:
<p>
The TTIP (This Treaty Is Plutocratic) 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/ttip-trade-deal-transatlantic-trade-investment-treaty">aims
to abolish the principle of equality before the law</a>.


title: Campaign against UK massive surveillance
uri: Campaign-against-UK-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Campaign_against_UK_massive_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Campaign_against_UK_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/13/freedom-of-expression-anti-snooping-campaign-launched-ripa-changes">Journalists,
lawyers and MDs</a> are campaigning against UK massive surveillance
plans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(UK_anti-snooping_campaign)
title: UK anti-snooping campaign
uri: UK-anti-snooping-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28UK_anti-snooping_campaign%29
content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/13/freedom-of-expression-anti-snooping-campaign-launched-ripa-changes">anti-snooping
campaign</a> in the UK.


title: Former US Army Ranger's letter to new rangers
uri: Former-US-Army-Ranger-s-letter-to-new-rangers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Former_US_Army_Rangers_letter_to_new_rangers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Former_US_Army_Rangers_letter_to_new_rangers%29

content:
<p>
Rory Fanning, former US Army Ranger, informs new Rangers about 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/13/letter-young-army-ranger-old-one-why-war-terror-shouldnt-be-your-battle">what
they will really be fighting for, and what the results are likely to
be</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Captured_Ukrainian_army_pilot)
title: Captured Ukrainian army pilot
uri: Captured-Ukrainian-army-pilot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Captured_Ukrainian_army_pilot%29
content:
<p>
Ukrainian army pilot Nadia Savchenko says she was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/-sp-fears-grow-nadia-savchenko-ukraine-pilot-hunger-strike-russia-jail">captured
in Ukraine before being taken to Russia</a>, and says she will fast to
death if not released.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Climate_denier_to_oversee_NASA)
title: Climate denier to oversee NASA
uri: Climate-denier-to-oversee-NASA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Climate_denier_to_oversee_NASA%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2015/jan/13/climate-denier-ted-cruz-will-oversee-nasa-what-could-possibly-go-wrong">Climate
Denier Ted Cruz Will Oversee NASA — What Could Possibly Go
Wrong?</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Internet_Surveillance_Plans)
title: Internet Surveillance Plans
uri: Internet-Surveillance-Plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Internet_Surveillance_Plans%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/david-cameron-internet-surveillance-syria-russia-iran-communication">David
Cameron's Internet Surveillance Plans (for the UK) Rival Syria, Russia
And Iran</a>.


title: DataCell suing Mastercard and Visa
uri: DataCell-suing-Mastercard-and-Visa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(DataCell_suing_Mastercard_and_Visa)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28DataCell_suing_Mastercard_and_Visa%29

content:
<p>
The Icelandic company DataCell is suing Mastercard and Visa in the US
for the 
<a href="http://rt.com/usa/214007-datacell-wikileaks-bank-blockade/">money
lost when they refused to send money to Wikileaks via DataCell</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Leaked_CIA_study_on_assassination)
title: Leaked CIA study on assassination
uri: Leaked-CIA-study-on-assassination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Leaked_CIA_study_on_assassination%29

content:
<p>
A leaked CIA study found that assassinating enemies can be 
<a href="https://wikileaks.org/cia-hvt-counterinsurgency/press-release.html">ineffective
or even backfire</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(US_bombs_PISSI_opposition)
title: US bombs PISSI opposition
uri: US-bombs-PISSI-opposition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28US_bombs_PISSI_opposition%29
content:
<p>
The US bombed a PISSI "headquarters building" which turns out to be a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/12/witnesses-us-led-strike-isis-jail-killed-more-50-civilians">jail
where it imprisoned opposition</a>.


title: Albuquerque thug to be charged with murder
uri: Albuquerque-thug-to-be-charged-with-murder
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 16_January_2015_(Albuquerque_thug_to_be_charged_with_murder)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_%28Albuquerque_thug_to_be_charged_with_murder%29

content:
<p>
An Albuquerque thug will be charged with murder for 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/12/1357155/-Big-Big-News-Albuquerque-DA-to-File-Murder-Charges-Against-Two-APD-Officers?detail=email">shooting
a civilian for no good reason</a>.
<p>
This is an occasion for celebration, but to end thugs' reign of
terror this must become the rule instead of the exception.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Urgent:_Environmental_protection)
title: Urgent: Environmental protection
uri: Urgent-Environmental-protection
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Environmental_protection%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1767">call
on your senators</a> to stand firm for environmental protection.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Urgent:_Say_no_to_GMO_potato)
title: Urgent: Say no to GMO potato
uri: Urgent-Say-no-to-GMO-potato
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Say_no_to_GMO_potato%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1763">say
no</a> to a GMO potato.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_TPP)
title: Urgent: Oppose the TPP
uri: 2015-01-17-Urgent-Oppose-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://vk.rootstrikers.org/petitions/13">oppose the TPP</a>
(yes, keep doing it over and over).


title: Urgent: Don't punish Palestine for joining ICC
uri: Urgent-Don-t-punish-Palestine-for-joining-ICC
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Urgent:_Don't_punish_Palestine_for_joining_ICC)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Don%27t_punish_Palestine_for_joining_ICC%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/dont-punish-palestinians-for-diplomacy">call
on Congress</a> not to punish Palestine for joining the ICC.


title: Allowing children to walk outdoors
uri: Allowing-children-to-walk-outdoors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Allowing_children_to_walk_outdoors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Allowing_children_to_walk_outdoors%29

content:
<p>
Thugs and busybodies 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/14/cops-and-cps-threaten-parents-whose-kids">continue
to harass the parents that allowed their children to walk
outdoors</a>.
<p>
There are circumstances under which this treatment would be justified
— if parents are grossly mistreating children.  The insanity is
in the idea that children should never be allowed to be alone.


title: Snooping on records of energy usage
uri: Snooping-on-records-of-energy-usage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Snooping_on_records_of_energy_usage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Snooping_on_records_of_energy_usage%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/obama-calls-for-new-consumer-student-and-energy-data-privacy-laws/">Obama
proposes to make it easier</a> to snoop on your records of energy
usage.
<p>
"Smart meters" should be designed to limit how much data they offer
about your short-term energy usage.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Buildings_destroyed_by_Boko_Haram)
title: Buildings destroyed by Boko Haram
uri: Buildings-destroyed-by-Boko-Haram
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Buildings_destroyed_by_Boko_Haram%29

content:
<p>
Satellite photos demonstrate that Boko Haram destroyed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/14/satellite-images-reveal-devastation-boko-haram-massacre-nigeria">thousands
of buildings</a> in an attempt to kill as many civilians as possible.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Municipal_broadband_networks)
title: Municipal broadband networks
uri: Municipal-broadband-networks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Municipal_broadband_networks%29
content:
<p>
Obama 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/obama-calls-for-end-to-19-state-laws-that-harm-community-broadband/">took
a stand</a> against state laws that ban municipal broadband networks.


title: Urgent: Oppose Keystone XL construction
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Keystone-XL-construction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_Keystone_XL_construction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Keystone_XL_construction%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.350.org/sign/reject-keystone-xl-now/">call on
Obama</a> to veto any bill to construct the Keystone XL planet-roaster
pipeline.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Ridicule_of_religion)
title: Ridicule of religion
uri: Ridicule-of-religion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Ridicule_of_religion%29
content:
<p>
Some Muslims 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/14/charlie-hebdo-poster-burned-muslim-protests">still
think their religion is entitled to immunity from ridicule</a>.
<p>
"Don't ridicule our views, or I will attack you" is an explicit threat
of violence.  "Don't ridicule our views, or some of us might go crazy
and attack you" is a slightly veiled threat of violence.
<p>
Slavoj Žižek: Murderous extremists kill because they are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/14/charlie-hebdo-massacre-are-worst-really-full-passionate-intensity">insecure
about the beliefs they insist on</a>; they have incorporated into
their minds some of the secular attitudes they say they oppose.
<p>
The beginning is a great explanation of why "You shouldn't say such
provocative things about Muslims" is comparable to "You shouldn't wear
such provocative clothing."


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Entrapment_by_US_govt_agents)
title: Entrapment by US gov't agents
uri: Entrapment-by-US-gov-t-agents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Entrapment_by_US_govt_agents%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/12/to-catch-a-non-predator-try-entrapment">To
Catch a Non-Predator, Try Entrapment</a>.  The US government has
agents that present themselves on the net as adult women interested in
dates, hoping to pressure men to agreeing their younger sisters can
come along on a date, to get an excuse to imprison them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Raif_Badawi's_writing)
title: Raif Badawi's writing
uri: Raif-Badawi-s-writing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Raif_Badawi%27s_writing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/14/-sp-saudi-blogger-extracts-raif-badawi">Samples
of the writing</a> for which Raif Badawi has been sentenced to receive
1000 lashes with a whip.
<p>
It is a powerful rebuke to the doctrines of a religion, and
demonstrates why laws banning insult to a religion are tyranny.
<p>
Why should we show any respect to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/14/charlie-hebdo-add-faithophobia-to-my-crimes">religions
that don't respect us</a>?  (Note: If you are not a Muslim, Islam has
little or no respect for your freedom of religion.)
<p>
I like what Badawi has written.  
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_(Freedom_of_speech_in_France)">I
don't like what Mr Dieudonné said nearly so much</a>, but he
too has the right to say it.  Down with French government censorship!


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Bisphenol_A_and_S)
title: Bisphenol A and S
uri: Bisphenol-A-and-S
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Bisphenol_A_and_S%29
content:
<p>
Bisphenol A was adopted widely, then it was found to be an endocrine
disruptor.  So Bisphenol S was adopted as a replacement, without
testing that, and it turns out to have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/13/why-product-bpa-free-label-could-be-cause-concern">similar
effects</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Pressuring_kindergartners_to_read)
title: Pressuring kindergartners to read
uri: Pressuring-kindergartners-to-read
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Pressuring_kindergartners_to_read%29

content:
<p>
Pressuring kindergarten children to learn to read 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/13/testing-anxiety-and-abcs-kindergarten-under-common-core">makes
them anxious and could hurt their education</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop misuse of the term "skeptic"
uri: Urgent-Stop-misuse-of-the-term-skeptic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_misuse_of_the_term_skeptic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_misuse_of_the_term_skeptic%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/skeptics/">tell the
media</a> not to label global heating denialists as "skeptics".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Urgent:_Stricter_limits_for_smog)
title: Urgent: Stricter limits for smog
uri: Urgent-Stricter-limits-for-smog
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stricter_limits_for_smog%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2403">support</a>
the EPA's proposed stricter limits for smog.


title: US handouts to fossil fuel companies
uri: US-handouts-to-fossil-fuel-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(US_handouts_to_fossil_fuel_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28US_handouts_to_fossil_fuel_companies%29

content:
<p>
Measuring 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/13/failure-conscience-groups-urge-congress-fund-social-well-being-not-fossil-fuel">US
handouts to the fossil fuel companies</a>, and how much that money
could do if spent on something beneficial.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Prosecution_of_Ross_Ulbricht)
title: Prosecution of Ross Ulbricht
uri: Prosecution-of-Ross-Ulbricht
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Prosecution_of_Ross_Ulbricht%29
content:
<p>
The prosecution of Ross Ulbricht is 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/13/why-you-should-care-that-trial-of-ross-u">concealing
evidence</a>.
<p>
It also asserts he's responsible for all uses of the Silk Road site.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Housing_for_homeless_veterans)
title: Housing for homeless veterans
uri: Housing-for-homeless-veterans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Housing_for_homeless_veterans%29
content:
<p>
New Orleans found housing for 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/12/1357230/-New-Orleans-finds-homes-for-every-homeless-veteran-in-the-city">every
one of the homeless veterans in the city</a>.  This demonstrates it
can be done, with a will.
<p>
Now how about the homeless non-veterans?  They are people too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Censorship_in_Turkey)
title: Censorship in Turkey
uri: Censorship-in-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Censorship_in_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
Charlie Hebdo exposes the repression of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/14/charlie-hebdo-turkey-block-web-pages-front-cover-muhammad">censorship
in Turkey</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Methane_emissions)
title: Methane emissions
uri: Methane-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Methane_emissions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/14/obama-executive-action-curb-methane-emissions">Obama
Action on Methane Emissions 'Misses 90% of Pollution'</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Deforestation_for_gold)
title: Deforestation for gold
uri: Deforestation-for-gold
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Deforestation_for_gold%29
content:
<p>
Mining The high price of gold is encouraging 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/14/high-gold-prices-causing-increased-deforestation-in-south-america-study-finds">mining
that is based on deforestation</a>.
<p>
There are many problems like this.  What they add up to is, when most
of the Earth is covered with human activities, preserving a fraction
for wildlife is harder than it looks.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Freedom_of_speech_in_France)
title: Freedom of speech in France
uri: Freedom-of-speech-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Freedom_of_speech_in_France%29
content:
<p>
Freedom of speech in France 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=12139">takes another
hit</a>: a comedian has been arrested for a vague statement which the
state interpreted as sympathy for one of the killers.  And that's one
of 54 prosecutions for illegal speech launched in France since the
march to defend freedom of speech.
<p>
Even if someone unambiguously expressed support for the killers,
that would still be part of freedom of speech.


title: Windows users kept in dark about bugs
uri: Windows-users-kept-in-dark-about-bugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Windows_users_kept_in_dark_about_bugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Windows_users_kept_in_dark_about_bugs%29

content:
<p>
Microsoft has stopped informing some users about bugs in Windows.
Now it 
<a href="http://techrights.org/2015/01/13/blaming-the-messenger/">tells
only the NSA</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Prisoner_murdered)
title: Prisoner murdered
uri: Prisoner-murdered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Prisoner_murdered%29
content:
<p>
Prisoner Ricky Martin 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/13/3610674/egregious-prison-death-in-florida/">begged
to be moved away from his violent cellmate</a>, but he wasn't moved,
and he was murdered.
<p>
There is some reason to think the guards arranged for him to be
murdered.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Solar_panels)
title: Solar panels
uri: Solar-panels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Solar_panels%29
content:
<p>
In most large US cities, solar panels are a 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/13/3611057/solar-dollars-and-sense/">very
good investment</a>.


title: LA thugs to use biometric database
uri: LA-thugs-to-use-biometric-database
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(LA_thugs_to_use_biometric_database)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28LA_thugs_to_use_biometric_database%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://rt.com/usa/222295-angeles-county-sheriffs-biometric/">massive
biometric database</a> will help LA thugs track anyone who has ever
been arrested — protesters, as well as criminals.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Captured_child_soldiers)
title: Captured child soldiers
uri: Captured-child-soldiers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Captured_child_soldiers%29
content:
<p>
When the US invaded Afghanistan, it captured 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=11915">child
soldiers</a>.  Does it make sense to keep them in prison now?
<p>
Why charge captured enemy soldiers with a crime for fighting, anyway?


title: "Wearable computers" run by proprietary software
uri: Wearable-computers-run-by-proprietary-software
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Wearable_computers_run_by_proprietary_software)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Wearable_computers_run_by_proprietary_software%29

content:
<p>
Welcome to 'uber-veillance' says Australian Privacy Foundation, as
"wearable computers" run by proprietary software 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/13/its_already_too_late_for_privacy/">snoop
on behalf of companies that control the software</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Autocratic_rule_over_Haiti)
title: Autocratic rule over Haiti
uri: Autocratic-rule-over-Haiti
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Autocratic_rule_over_Haiti%29
content:
<p>
Haiti's US-imposed President Martelly 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/haiti-parliament-dissolved-michel-martelly-crisis">has
not held elections for parliament</a>, which has now dissolved,
enabling Martelly to rule autocratically.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Waste_due_to_medical_billing)
title: Waste due to medical billing
uri: Waste-due-to-medical-billing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Waste_due_to_medical_billing%29
content:
<p>
The waste due to medical billing in the US amounts to almost 
<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/pfan-bw011215.php">400
billion dollars a year</a>.
<p>
We could save it all with a national health service such as Canada
has.


title: Employees coerced into "wellness programs"
uri: Employees-coerced-into-wellness-programs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Employees_coerced_into_wellness_programs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Employees_coerced_into_wellness_programs%29

content:
<p>
US companies are 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/13/us-usa-healthcare-wellness-insight-idUSKBN0KM17C20150113">coercing
employees into "wellness programs"</a>.
<p>
If these "wellness programs" involve using 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_(Wearable_computers_run_by_proprietary_software)">wearable 
surveillance devices</a>, they will mean total surveillance.  Any
activity that pressures people to use them is therefore unjust.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Obamas_War_on_Crackers)
title: Obama's War on Crackers
uri: Obama-s-War-on-Crackers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Obamas_War_on_Crackers%29
content:
<p>
Obama's War on Crackers goes to the point where you could be 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/01/president-obama-waging-war-hackers/">imprisoned
simply for clicking on a link</a> — or talking with people who
did.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/15/obama-urge-expanded-prison-terms-definitions-hackers">Doing
anything on a computer that the owner would not like</a> would be a
crime.
<p>
Please don't use the word "hackers" to refer to people who really do
break security, or people accused of doing so.  That's unfair to us
hackers, who enjoy 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">playful
cleverness</a>.
<p>
The CFAA is already too broad in its definition of crime, as we saw
when it was used against Aaron Swartz and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#14_January_2013_(Aaron_Swartzs_death)">drove
him to suicide</a>.  It needs to be changed in the other direction.
<p>
It would be a strategic error to limit ourselves to criticizing these
changes for the worse.  Eventually they would "compromise" with us,
"meet us half way", by making only part of their changes for the
worse, and they would have silenced our demands.
<p>
What we must do now is reiterate the demand to correct what is already
wrong with the CFAA, so that the "compromise" is to do nothing and we
do not drop our demands to correct the existing injustice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Regressive_tax_policies)
title: Regressive tax policies
uri: Regressive-tax-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Regressive_tax_policies%29
content:
<p>
Americans: check your own state for regressive tax policies.  Do the wealthy
pay a 
<a href="http://www.itep.org/whopays/">lower state tax rate than the
poor</a>?
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/14/1357768/-We-All-Pay-Higher-Tax-Rates-Than-The-Rich-A-Lesson-In-Class-Warfare">Some
conclusions</a> that follow from these facts.


title: Arrested teenager saves thug's life
uri: Arrested-teenager-saves-thug-s-life
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Arrested_teenager_saves_thugs_life)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Arrested_teenager_saves_thugs_life%29

content:
<p>
When thug Franklin Foulks arrested black teenager Jamal Rutledge, then
had a heart attack, Rutledge demonstrated a spark of goodness and
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/14/1357668/-Young-Handcuffed-Thug-Saves-Arresting-Officers-Life">saved
Foulks' life</a>.
<p>
There is no indication that Foulks was acting thuggishly <em>at that
time</em>.  Jamal Rutledge may indeed have committed burglary; his
arrest may have been entirely proper.  I call Foulks a thug because he
works for a thug department.  A priori, I expect that if he had seen
another thug shoot Rutledge for no reason and make false charges, he
would have lied in support of the false charges.  This is what makes
the story ironic.
<p>
It is possible Foulks is an exception.  I hope so, but exceptions are
unusual.


title: Urgent: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
uri: Urgent-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Urgent:_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Warren_CFPB">call on your
senators</a> to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Urgent:_Antarctic_krill)
title: Urgent: Antarctic krill
uri: Urgent-Antarctic-krill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Antarctic_krill%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/cvs-antarctic-krill/">call on
CVS</a> to stop collecting Antarctic krill, whose numbers are
plummeting.


title: Following the path of tyrannical countries
uri: Following-the-path-of-tyrannical-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Following_the_path_of_tyrannical_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Following_the_path_of_tyrannical_countries%29

content:
<p>
Leaders of "free" Western countries are following the path of
tyrannical countries such as China and Russia when they demand 
<a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001084.html">total
surveillance power</a>.
<p>
No amount of "security measures" can perfectly prevent all terrorist
attacks, so there will always be more excuses for added "security
measures".  And note how the number of victims needed to make an
excuse keeps going down.  The French terrorists killed fewer than 20
people, which is surely fewer than are killed on French roads by car
accidents every day, and attacks on human rights are proposed on this
basis.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(New_campaign_for_patent_reform)
title: New campaign for "patent reform"
uri: New-campaign-for-patent-reform
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28New_campaign_for_patent_reform%29

content:
<p>
A new campaign for "patent reform" has been distracted completely by
"trolls" and has 
<a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-knowledge-welcomes-launch-of-new-patent-reform-coalition">lost
sight of all the substantive issues</a>.
<p>
Any measures directed at "trolls" would do nothing to protect software
developers from the worst patent aggressors, such as Apple.
<p>
What we need is to 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">protect
software from patents</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Verizon_enables_snooping)
title: Verizon enables snooping
uri: Verizon-enables-snooping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Verizon_enables_snooping%29
content:
<p>
How Verizon's interference with customers' browsing enables Verizon's
advertising partner to help all manner of snooping web sites 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/verizon-and-turn-break-browser-privacy-protections">reidentify
visitors</a>.


title: Putin's rebels capture part of Donetsk airport
uri: Putin-s-rebels-capture-part-of-Donetsk-airport
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Putins_rebels_capture_part_of_Donetsk_airport)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Putins_rebels_capture_part_of_Donetsk_airport%29

content:
<p>
Putin's rebels in Ukraine are on the offensive and have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/15/russian-backed-separatists-seize-donetsk-airport-ukraine">captured
part of the long-contested Donetsk airport</a>.
<p>
They couldn't possibly have done this without Russia's military
support.


title: Obama allows limited trade with Cuba
uri: Obama-allows-limited-trade-with-Cuba
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Obama_allows_limited_trade_with_Cuba)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Obama_allows_limited_trade_with_Cuba%29

content:
<p>
Obama has allowed 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/15/new-rules-make-it-easier-trade-travel-cuba">limited
trade with Cuba</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Encryption)
title: Encryption
uri: Encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Encryption%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/15/-sp-secret-us-cybersecurity-report-encryption-protect-data-cameron-paris-attacks">Secret
US Cybersecurity Report: Encryption Vital to Protect Private Data</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Environmental_degradation)
title: Environmental degradation
uri: Environmental-degradation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Environmental_degradation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/15/rate-of-environmental-degradation-puts-life-on-earth-at-risk-say-scientists">Rate
of Environmental Degradation Puts Life on Earth At Risk, Say
Scientists</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Brennan_sham_investigation)
title: Brennan sham investigation
uri: Brennan-sham-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Brennan_sham_investigation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=12234">John Brennan
Exonerates Himself with Sham Investigation</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Embarrassment_about_sex)
title: Embarrassment about sex
uri: Embarrassment-about-sex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Embarrassment_about_sex%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/15/embarrassed-sex-child-swedish-parents-cartoon-penises-vaginas">Embarrassed
About Sex?  Then Don't Pass It On To Your Child.</a>
<p>
This was passed on to me, in a strong form, so I oppose all efforts to
pass it on to others.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Oil_companies_unable_to_adapt)
title: Oil companies unable to adapt
uri: Oil-companies-unable-to-adapt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Oil_companies_unable_to_adapt%29
content:
<p>
Environmentalist leader Jonathon Porritt has quit working with Shell
and BP, saying that oil companies are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/15/it-is-impossible-todays-big-oil-companies-adapt-climate-change-jonathon-porritt">structurally
unable to adapt to renewable energy</a>.
<p>
In other words, we need to defeat them — it's them or us.  Them
or human civilization.  Them or half the species alive on Earth.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(CIAs_political_vendetta)
title: CIA's political vendetta
uri: CIA-s-political-vendetta
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28CIAs_political_vendetta%29
content:
<p>
The case against Jeffrey Sterling is the CIA's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/15/revenge-cia-scapegoating-whistleblower-jeffrey-sterling">political
vendetta</a>.


title: Acquittal of those who massacred Dalits
uri: Acquittal-of-those-who-massacred-Dalits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Acquittal_of_those_who_massacred_Dalits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Acquittal_of_those_who_massacred_Dalits%29

content:
<p>
In India, those who massacre Dalits keep getting 
<a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/dalits-angry-bihar-court-acquits-24-accused-1999-massacre-case/1/413339.html">acquitted
by courts</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Limitless_war)
title: Limitless war
uri: Limitless-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Limitless_war%29
content:
<p>
Obama and the Republicans 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/14/white-house-we-look-forward-working-gop-limitless-war-authorization">plan
to authorize</a> limitless war around the world.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Surveillance_state_on_the_attack)
title: Surveillance state on the attack
uri: Surveillance-state-on-the-attack
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Surveillance_state_on_the_attack%29

content:
<p>
The UK wants the US to join in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/15/avid-ameron-ask-us-barack-obama-help-tracking-islamist-extremists-online">attacking
the last shreds of people's privacy rights</a>.
<p>
Snowden gave us a chance to fight against total surveillance, but we
didn't fight vigorously enough, and now the surveillance state is on
the attack.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(SuperPACs)
title: SuperPACs
uri: SuperPACs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28SuperPACs%29
content:
<p>
The rationale for permitting superPACs is that they are independent of
candidates, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/14/public-citizen-report-45-percent-super-pacs-backed-single-candidate-2014">nearly
half of them backed just one candidate</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Offshore_wind_power)
title: Offshore wind power
uri: Offshore-wind-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Offshore_wind_power%29
content:
<p>
Offshore wind power in the Atlantic could provide 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/14/offshore-wind-would-produce-twice-jobs-and-energy-offshore-drilling-atlantic">twice
the jobs and twice the energy of offshore oil drilling</a>.  That's in
addition to protecting marine mammals from explosions and all sea life
from future oil spills.
<p>
I wonder if it is possible to use offshore windmills as a kind of
fence to keep ships away from rocks where they could cause oil spills.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Regulation_of_methane_leaks)
title: Regulation of methane leaks
uri: Regulation-of-methane-leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Regulation_of_methane_leaks%29
content:
<p>
Why the EPA's proposed regulation of methane leaks is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/14/epa-regulate-methane-oil-and-gas-production">too
leaky to do the job</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Taxes_fall_heavily_on_US_poor)
title: Taxes fall heavily on US poor
uri: Taxes-fall-heavily-on-US-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Taxes_fall_heavily_on_US_poor%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/14/how-regressive-local-taxes-are-rewarding-rich">State
and local taxes</a> in the US fall heavily on the poor.


title: Banks weaken financial regulations again
uri: Banks-weaken-financial-regulations-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 17_January_2015_(Banks_weaken_financial_regulations_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#17_January_2015_%28Banks_weaken_financial_regulations_again%29

content:
<p>
Banks weakened US financial regulations 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/14/wall-street-holding-strings-republican-controlled-congress-moves-deregulate-big">yet
again</a>.  As usual, Obama is no obstacle to them.


title: Urgent: Override Corporations United
uri: Urgent-Override-Corporations-United
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 19_January_2015_(Urgent:_Override_Corporations_United)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#19_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Override_Corporations_United%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign
<a href="http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=302314">this petition</a> to amend
the Constitution to override the Corporations United decision.


title: Protection for journalists' communications
uri: Protection-for-journalists-communications
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 19_January_2015_(Protection_for_journalists_communications)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#19_January_2015_%28Protection_for_journalists_communications%29

content:
<p>
The US has
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=12338">adopted some
limited protections</a> for journalists' communications with their
sources.
<p>
However, these can be set aside by the government in any instance, so
they do not protect the most important whistleblowers.  We need to
ensure that people can communicate
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">anonymously</a>.


title: Suicide and sexual assault in US military
uri: Suicide-and-sexual-assault-in-US-military
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 19_January_2015_(Suicide_and_sexual_assault_in_US_military)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#19_January_2015_%28Suicide_and_sexual_assault_in_US_military%29

content:
<p>
For those in the US military, hostile fire is a small danger compared
with
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/16/hansel-and-gretel-military-recruiter">suicide
and sexual assault</a>.


title: Young Peruvian workers stripped of rights
uri: Young-Peruvian-workers-stripped-of-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 19_January_2015_(Young_Peruvian_workers_stripped_of_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#19_January_2015_%28Young_Peruvian_workers_stripped_of_rights%29

content:
<p>
Peru's youths
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/16/peru-labour-law-pulpin-youth-employment-protest">protest</a>
against a law that stripped young workers of the usual rights of
workers.
<p>
I suspect it will lead to denying those rights to all workers.  If
their "solution" to the problem that some people are often unemployed
is to deny them some rights, that will shift the problem to another
group of workers; by and by, they will employ that solution
everywhere.
<p>
President Humala is Peru's Obama: he gave the impression of being
somehow progressive, but he has shown little sign of that since taking
office.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 19_January_2015_(Effects_of_free_trade_treaties)
title: Effects of "free trade" treaties
uri: Effects-of-free-trade-treaties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#19_January_2015_%28Effects_of_free_trade_treaties%29

content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/15/dont-buy-hype-20-years-data-reveals-free-trade-fallacies">harmful
effects</a> of 20 years of "free trade" treaties on the US.


title: Activists sentenced to death en masse
uri: Activists-sentenced-to-death-en-masse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 19_January_2015_(Activists_sentenced_to_death_en_masse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#19_January_2015_%28Activists_sentenced_to_death_en_masse%29

content:
<p>
Egypt is sentencing activists and human rights defenders to death
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/egyptian-judiciary-scant-justice-death-sentences">en
masse</a>.


title: Thugs do target practice on photos of black men
uri: Thugs-do-target-practice-on-photos-of-black-men
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Thugs_do_target_practice_on_photos_of_black_men)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Thugs_do_target_practice_on_photos_of_black_men%29

content:
<p>
Florida thugs do
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2015/01/16/oh-my-god-they-use-you-target-practice-literally">target
practice on photos of black men</a>.  Real, living (for the moment)
black men.


title: Guantanamo diary of prisoner released
uri: Guantanamo-diary-of-prisoner-released
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Guantanamo_diary_of_prisoner_released)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Guantanamo_diary_of_prisoner_released%29

content:
<p>
After
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/guantanamo-diary-a-classified-handwritten-manuscript">6
years of legal wrangling</a>, the Guantanamo diary of prisoner
Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been released for publication.
<p>
Here's a part describing the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/-sp-guantanamo-diary-flight-saw-cockpit-saw-guards-saw-ghosts-of-fellow-detainees">torture
as he was put on a plane in Bagram</a>.
<p>
Here he
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/-sp-guantanamo-diary-false-confession-slahi">negotiates
openly about the false confession he is offering to get better
treatment</a>.  Torture is an effective way of getting
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_September_2013_(Former_US_marine_was_tortured_into_making_false_confession)">false
confessions</a>.


title: SWAT teams pretend to be private charity
uri: SWAT-teams-pretend-to-be-private-charity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(SWAT_teams_pretend_to_be_private_charity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28SWAT_teams_pretend_to_be_private_charity%29

content:
<p>
SWAT teams in Massachusetts pretend to be a private charity
<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/19900-how-a-police-swat-team-becomes-a-charitable-corporation">to
shield themselves from open records law</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(US_customs_reports_to_FBI)
title: US customs reports to FBI
uri: US-customs-reports-to-FBI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28US_customs_reports_to_FBI%29
content:
<p>
US customs
<a href="http://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/news-media/blog/records-show-customs-officers-send-traveler-reading-habits-fbi">reports
to the FBI what people are reading</a>, and interrogate for the FBI.
<p>
If you are a US citizen, and they ask you prying questions, say you
want a lawyer.


title: Library teaching about surveillance
uri: Library-teaching-about-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Library_teaching_about_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Library_teaching_about_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://dclibrary.org/1984">Washington DC library</a> is
teaching people about surveillance.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Press_freedom_in_South_Korea)
title: Press freedom in South Korea
uri: Press-freedom-in-South-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Press_freedom_in_South_Korea%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://cpj.org/blog/2015/01/in-south-korea-deportation-and-defamation-cases-ma.php">In
South Korea, Deportation And Defamation Cases Mark Worrying Slide in
Press Freedom</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Hottest_year_on_record)
title: Hottest year on record
uri: Hottest-year-on-record
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Hottest_year_on_record%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/16/2014-hottest-year-on-record-scientists-noaa-nasa">2014</a>
was the hottest year ever recorded.
<p>
Thus, the "pause" in global heating, when the added heat went mainly
into the oceans rather than the atmosphere, has not continued.


title: Rat eradication allows tortoises to breed
uri: Rat-eradication-allows-tortoises-to-breed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Rat_eradication_allows_tortoises_to_breed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Rat_eradication_allows_tortoises_to_breed%29

content:
<p>
Eradicating rats on one of the Galapagos islands has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2015/jan/16/rat-eradication-galapagos-tortoise-pinzon">enabled
tortoises to start breeding there</a>.


title: London teacher-student sex controversy
uri: London-teacher-student-sex-controversy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(London_teacher-student_sex_controversy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28London_teacher-student_sex_controversy%29

content:
<p>
There is a controversy because a teacher in London who had sex with a
student was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/14/former-london-teacher-convicted-over-affair-with-teenager">not
sentenced to prison</a>.  I get the impression that the teacher and
the student were both lacking in self-discipline.
<p>
The teacher's job requires not being intimate with students.  This
teacher failed to carry out that responsibility, and he should be
fired for this, but there is no reason for it to be a crime.
<p>
Note the absurdity of this criticism:

<blockquote>
As is clear from Annex C of the guidelines on prosecuting child sexual
abuse, a 16-year-old girl cannot 'groom' an adult.
</blockquote>

Laws and regulations specify how to respond to what does occur.  They
cannot dictate that something cannot occur.  The idea of appealing to
a law to claim something could not have happened is nonsense.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Paid_parental_leave)
title: Paid parental leave
uri: Paid-parental-leave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Paid_parental_leave%29
content:
<p>
Obama's paid parental leave for federal employees is a good but small
first step,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/16/obamas-new-paid-parental-leave-for-federal-employees-is-overdue-and-not-enough">falling
far short of international standards</a>.
<p>
I should also point out that any privatization of government jobs
will undo the effect.


title: Sentences for accused sex offenders
uri: Sentences-for-accused-sex-offenders
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Sentences_for_accused_sex_offenders)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Sentences_for_accused_sex_offenders%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/16/sentences-accused-sex-offenders-teach-them-treat-women-like-people">Why
Don't Sentences for Accused Sex Offenders Teach Them to Treat Women
like People?</a>


title: Religious fanatics protest against Charlie Habdo
uri: Religious-fanatics-protest-against-Charlie-Habdo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Religious_fanatics_protest_against_Charlie_Habdo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Religious_fanatics_protest_against_Charlie_Habdo%29

content:
<p>
Religious fanatics in Pakistan
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/pakistan-police-clash-anti-charlie-hebdo-protesters">brought
disrepute on their own religion</a> by protesting against Charlie
Hebdo in its name.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Amazons_tax_dodging_scheme)
title: Amazon's tax dodging scheme
uri: Amazon-s-tax-dodging-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Amazons_tax_dodging_scheme%29
content:
<p>
EU competition regulators say that Amazon's tax dodging scheme
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/16/amazon-eu-sarl-paid-too-little-tax-says-brussels">violates
EU law</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Pope_Francis_on_freedom_of_speech)
title: Pope Francis on freedom of speech
uri: Pope-Francis-on-freedom-of-speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Pope_Francis_on_freedom_of_speech%29

content:
<p>
On Charlie Hebdo Pope Francis is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/16/pope-francis-free-speech-charlie-hebdo">using
the wife-beater's defence</a>.
<p>
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to deny, criticize, offend,
insult or mock any person, group, practice, or belief — whether
we agree with the statement or not.  Countries such as France, which
arrest people for expressing views, do not respect freedom of speech.
<p>
If France draws any lesson from the assassination of Charlie Hebdo
staff, it must be to desist from censorship.


title: Doctor to be punished for treating the poor
uri: Doctor-to-be-punished-for-treating-the-poor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 18_January_2015_(Doctor_to_be_punished_for_treating_the_poor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#18_January_2015_%28Doctor_to_be_punished_for_treating_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
Mississippi is planning to take away Dr Landrum's medical license
because he
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/14/this-88-year-old-doctor-treats-the-poor-out-of-his-toyota-camry-mississippi-wants-to-punish-him-for-it/">treats
poor people from his car</a>.
<p>
Mississippi has
<a href="http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/resources/primers/medicaidmap">rejected
the federal government's offer to give Landrum's patients another way
to get medical care</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Urgent:_Resist_fracking)
title: Urgent: Resist fracking
uri: Urgent-Resist-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Resist_fracking%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1797&">call
on Congress</a> to oppose two bills that would stop the public from
resisting fracking.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Urgent:_Defend_the_environment)
title: Urgent: Defend the environment
uri: Urgent-Defend-the-environment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_the_environment%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3643">call
on Obama</a> to defend the environment from Republican onslaught.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Urgent:_Release_Mohamedou_Slahi)
title: Urgent: Release Mohamedou Slahi
uri: Urgent-Release-Mohamedou-Slahi
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Release_Mohamedou_Slahi%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/free-slahi">call on the US 
government</a> to release Mohamedou Slahi from Guantanamo.


title: Urgent: Oppose weak "network neutrality"
uri: Urgent-Oppose-weak-network-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_weak_network_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_weak_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose the cable companies'
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-aaron/dont-let-congress-and-com_b_6481224.html">weak
version of "network neutrality"</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Urgent:_Condemn_Rand_Paul)
title: Urgent: Condemn Rand Paul
uri: Urgent-Condemn-Rand-Paul
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Condemn_Rand_Paul%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/rand_paul_ssdi">condemn Rand
Paul</a> for attacking social security.
<p>
<em>Of course</em> people receiving Social Security game the system.
They must do so, because the benefits are inadequate.
<p>
They are also inspired by the attitude of the wealthy.  Rich people
and businesses game the system constantly, taking far more although
they don't need it at all.  Let's go after them first.


title: Obama's plan to criminalize disobedience
uri: Obama-s-plan-to-criminalize-disobedience
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Obamas_plan_to_criminalize_disobedience)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Obamas_plan_to_criminalize_disobedience%29

content:
<p>
More about Obama's plan to criminalize any 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/obama-wants-congress-to-increase-prison-sentences-for-hackers/">disobedience
in using a computer</a>.
<p>
For instance, sending a personal email from a work computer, if that
breaks the company's rule, might automatically become a crime.
<p>
It is clear that this proposal has nothing to do with protecting
against anything we really want to prevent.  Rather, it is an example
of the practice of using a notorious attack as excuse for unrelated
prohibitions desired for some other reason.
<p>
Please don't use the word
"<a href='https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html'>hackers</a>"
to mean real or accused security breakers.  That's unfair to us
hackers, who enjoy playful cleverness.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Workplace_injuries)
title: Workplace injuries
uri: Workplace-injuries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Workplace_injuries%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/walmart-osha-workplace-injury-tracking">How
Companies Like Walmart Are Fighting to Keep Workplace Injuries
Secret</a>.


title: Indian writer bullied into quitting
uri: Indian-writer-bullied-into-quitting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Indian_writer_bullied_into_quitting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Indian_writer_bullied_into_quitting%29

content:
<p>
An Indian writer has been bullied into quitting writing by a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/15/indian-author-perumal-murugan-hindu-protests">campaign
of threats</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(No_Insulation_From_our_Wars)
title: No Insulation From our Wars
uri: No-Insulation-From-our-Wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28No_Insulation_From_our_Wars%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/15/paris-warning-no-insulation-wars-arab-muslim-world">Paris
Is a Warning: There Is No Insulation From our Wars</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Anti-slavery_activists_arrested)
title: Anti-slavery activists arrested
uri: Anti-slavery-activists-arrested
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Anti-slavery_activists_arrested%29

content:
<p>
Mauritania has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/17/mauritania-anti-slavery-activists-jailed-biram-ould-abeid">arrested</a>
anti-slavery activists.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Diesel_fuel_spill_in_Canada)
title: Diesel fuel spill in Canada
uri: Diesel-fuel-spill-in-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Diesel_fuel_spill_in_Canada%29
content:
<p>
A fairly small spill of diesel fuel has left Longueuil, Canada, with
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/16/residents-enter-second-day-without-water-future-uncertain-canadian-city-after-diesel">undrinkable
water</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Global_disaster)
title: Global disaster
uri: Global-disaster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Global_disaster%29
content:
<p>
Human impact on ocean life is ramping up, paving the way for
extinctions that could drastically modify ocean ecosystems and cause a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/16/humans-have-brought-worlds-oceans-brink-major-extinction-event">cascade
of extinctions</a>.
<p>
<a href=="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/16/was-easy-just-60-years-neoliberal-capitalism-has-nearly-broken-planet-earth">Unrestrained
capitalism</a> is rolling steadily towards global disaster.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Racism_and_imprisonment_in_the_US)
title: Racism and imprisonment in the US
uri: Racism-and-imprisonment-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Racism_and_imprisonment_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Racism is the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/16/explosive-rates-mass-incarceration-called-major-civil-rights-issue-our-time">key
to the high rate of imprisonment</a> in the US.  It offered the US a
way to reconcile the push to "get tough" on criminals with the
majority's wish not to be treated that way.


title: Senate Democrats who voted for Keystone XL
uri: Senate-Democrats-who-voted-for-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Senate_Democrats_who_voted_for_Keystone_XL)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Senate_Democrats_who_voted_for_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
Here are 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/15/1357943/-Here-are-the-Senate-Democrats-who-voted-to-move-forward-on-building-the-Keystone-pipeline">the
10 Senate Democrats</a> that voted to build Keystone XL.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Increase_in_cases_of_measles)
title: Increase in cases of measles
uri: Increase-in-cases-of-measles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Increase_in_cases_of_measles%29
content:
<p>
In Orange County, poor people's children get vaccinated but wealthier
people give in to superstition.  This is causing a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/17/too-rich-sick-disneyland-measles-outbreak-reflects-anti-vaccination-trend">big
increase in cases of measles</a>.


title: What's done in our name in Guantanamo
uri: What-s-done-in-our-name-in-Guantanamo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Whats_done_in_our_name_in_Guantanamo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Whats_done_in_our_name_in_Guantanamo%29

content:
<p>
The US gave Mohamedou Slahi a "letter from his mother".  It was a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/17/-sp-mom-letter-two-years-imprisonment-slahi">forgery</a>.
<p>
He argues for Americans' right to know 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/17/-sp-guantanamo-diary-the-us-government-is-not-willing-to-be-forthcoming-colin-firth">what
the government does in our name</a> in Guantanamo.
<p>
His main entertainment was the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/17/-sp-guantanamo-diary-rather-be-criminal-sitting-home-with-kids-slahi">predictable
bullshit of the interrogators</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(The_real_US_economy)
title: The real US economy
uri: The-real-US-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28The_real_US_economy%29
content:
<p>
One American climbed to get a good job, through skill, hard work and
luck (i.e., chance), then became unemployed (and therefore
unemployable) when the luck ran out.  So he says, don't look down on
him for 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/16/1358076/-The-unbearable-burden-of-being-poor?detail=email">buying
groceries with a government benefits card then driving away in his
expensive car</a> (until it gets repossessed).
<p>
His dim chances of getting another job, whether a good one or a bad
one, reflect the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#30_March_2013_(US_Economy)">lousy
state of the real US economy for everyone but the rich</a>, which in turn results from years of plutocratic policies on 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_July_2014_(Bill_Clinton%27s_deregulation_of_banks)">banking</a>
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#29_November_2012_(60_percent_of_Americans_support_taxing_rich_more)">taxation</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Urgent:_Tax_Wall_Street)
title: Urgent: Tax Wall Street
uri: Urgent-Tax-Wall-Street
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Tax_Wall_Street%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1065">call on Congress</a>
to tax Wall Street to support the real economy.


title: US businesses with ties to slavery
uri: US-businesses-with-ties-to-slavery
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(US_businesses_with_ties_to_slavery)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28US_businesses_with_ties_to_slavery%29

content:
<p>
US businesses have had 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/19/americide">direct
ties to various kinds of slavery through history</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Export_of_surveillance_systems)
title: Export of surveillance systems
uri: Export-of-surveillance-systems
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Export_of_surveillance_systems%29

content:
<p>
The Swiss government has adopted a policy of transparency about export
of surveillance systems, showing 
<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/?q=node/14">exports to
rather repressive governments such as Ethiopia</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Spying_on_spying)
title: Spying on spying
uri: Spying-on-spying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Spying_on_spying%29
content:
<p>
How the NSA and its rivals 
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-1013409-druck.html">spy
on each other's spying</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Fighting_PISSI)
title: Fighting PISSI
uri: 2015-01-21-Fighting-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Fighting_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Iraq's "vice-president for reconciliation" warns that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/18/lack-politial-process-iraq-renders-us-coalition-bombs-grave-mistake">fighting
PISSI without offering Sunnis a share in democracy could backfire</a>.
<p>
Many of us have said this; it is good for it to be endorsed by someone
perhaps more influential.


title: Anarchist activism with a hacker's touch
uri: Anarchist-activism-with-a-hacker-s-touch
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Anarchist_activism_with_a_hackers_touch)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Anarchist_activism_with_a_hackers_touch%29

content:
<p>
The editors of Strike! magazine approach anarchist activism with a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/18/anarchist-posters-london-bus-tube-police-strike-magazine">hacker's
touch</a>.
<p>
Surprised to see nothing about computer security?  Remember, hacking means
appreciating 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html ">playful
cleverness</a>.  There is no need for computers to be involved, and if
they are, there is no need for it to have anything to do with breaking
or fixing computer security.


title: Protest cancelled after death threat
uri: Protest-cancelled-after-death-threat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Protest_cancelled_after_death_threat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Protest_cancelled_after_death_threat%29

content:
<p>
A right-wing anti-Muslim-immigration party in Germany cancelled a
protest after a leader received a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/18/pegida-rally-dresden-cancelled-terrorist-threat-founder">death
threat</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(European_bloodbaths)
title: European bloodbaths
uri: European-bloodbaths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28European_bloodbaths%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://fair.org/blog/2015/01/11/some-european-bloodbaths-are-more-interesting-than-others/">Some
European Bloodbaths Are More Interesting Than Others</a>.


title: Imprisonment for expressing opinion in France
uri: Imprisonment-for-expressing-opinion-in-France
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Imprisonment_for_expressing_opinion_in_France)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Imprisonment_for_expressing_opinion_in_France%29

content:
<p>
In France, people are being 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/16/in-france-you-can-go-to-jail-for-saying">sentenced
to prison</a> for expressing a favorable opinion of acts of terrorism.


title: Basic citizen's income for al adults
uri: Basic-citizen-s-income-for-al-adults
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Basic_citizens_income_for_al_adults)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Basic_citizens_income_for_al_adults%29

content:
<p>
The UK Green Party proposes a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/18/green-party-citizens-income-natalie-bennett-benefit">basic
citizen's income</a> for all adults.


title: PISSI releases elderly non-Muslim captives
uri: PISSI-releases-elderly-non-Muslim-captives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(PISSI_releases_elderly_non-Muslim_captives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28PISSI_releases_elderly_non-Muslim_captives%29

content:
<p>
PISSI released elderly non-Muslim captives, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/18/islamic-state-releases-yazidi-captives-iraq">instead
of killing them</a>.
<p>
Perhaps its bloodthirstiness was driving some Muslims away.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Email_interferes_with_thinking)
title: Email interferes with thinking
uri: Email-interferes-with-thinking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Email_interferes_with_thinking%29

content:
<p>
Email, and texting, interfere with thinking and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/18/modern-world-bad-for-brain-daniel-j-levitin-organized-mind-information-overload">make
people less efficient</a>.
<p>
I avoid a lot of this problem by receiving email in batches.  If only
there weren't so much of it.


title: Bizarre charity gives suits to young men
uri: Bizarre-charity-gives-suits-to-young-men
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Bizarre_charity_gives_suits_to_young_men)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Bizarre_charity_gives_suits_to_young_men%29

content:
<p>
A bizarre charity offers young men new hope by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/18/new-look-fresh-start-london-suited-booted-charity">giving
them suits</a>.
<p>
I find it hard to imagine the mentality of a person for whom this gift
would make things better.  So strange.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Afghan_Agricultural_Minister)
title: Afghan Agricultural Minister
uri: Afghan-Agricultural-Minister
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Afghan_Agricultural_Minister%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/18/afghan-presidents-pick-for-agricultural-minister-wanted-by-interpol">Afghan
President's Pick for Agricultural Minister Wanted by Interpol for
large-scale tax evasion in Estonia</a>.
<p>
I wonder what export crop he would promote if appointed agriculture
minister.  Pretty flowers, perhaps?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Pollutants_in_fracking_waste)
title: Pollutants in fracking waste
uri: Pollutants-in-fracking-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Pollutants_in_fracking_waste%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/14/3611503/two-new-fracking-pollutants/">Scientists
Discover Two New Pollutants In Fracking Waste</a>.
<p>
No one has monitored the waste for these pollutants, so it is not
clear yet how often they amount to a significant problem.


title: Firing range in Arkansas bans Muslims
uri: Firing-range-in-Arkansas-bans-Muslims
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Firing_range_in_Arkansas_bans_Muslims)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Firing_range_in_Arkansas_bans_Muslims%29

content:
<p>
A firing range in Arkansas has 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/father-and-son-arkansas-turned-away-gun-range-maybe-possibly-looking-muslim">banned
Muslims as customers, together with anyone suspected of being
Muslim</a>.
<p>
Isn't this sort of discrimination illegal?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Thug_practice_of_forfeiture)
title: Thug practice of "forfeiture"
uri: Thug-practice-of-forfeiture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Thug_practice_of_forfeiture%29
content:
<p>
Holder 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/local-and-state-police-cant-use-federal-law-to-seize-assets-anymore/">stopped
local and state thugs from using the US government to seize assets
from people not convicted of crimes</a>.
<p>
They make it standard practice to do this so that they can 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_August_2013_(Forfeiture)">get
the property they seize</a> — which is a corrupting influence.
<p>
The whole practice of "forfeiture" is inherently unjust, because it
amounts to punishment without trial, mislabeled as something else.


title: Europe called on to forgive Greece's debt
uri: Europe-called-on-to-forgive-Greece-s-debt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Europe_called_on_to_forgive_Greeces_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Europe_called_on_to_forgive_Greeces_debt%29

content:
<p>
Some financial experts call on Europe to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/18/should-greece-debt-forgiven-new-idea-europe-syriza">forgive
Greece's debt</a>.
<p>
It should forgive debt (all or part) for all the countries that have
been hit by euro-austerity.  Or in some cases perhaps offer them the
chance to pay starting in 10 years with no interest in the interim.


title: MPs Still Want Curbs on Press Freedom
uri: MPs-Still-Want-Curbs-on-Press-Freedom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(MPs_Still_Want_Curbs_on_Press_Freedom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28MPs_Still_Want_Curbs_on_Press_Freedom%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/18/paris-terror-northern-ireland-control-press-freedom">New
terror or Old Troubles: MPs Still Want Curbs on Press Freedom</a>.
<p>
Which is one reason to distrust any claim they make that people must
cede human rights.


title: Congress doing opposite of what voters want
uri: Congress-doing-opposite-of-what-voters-want
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Congress_doing_opposite_of_what_voters_want)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Congress_doing_opposite_of_what_voters_want%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/16/3612461/poll-voters-want-renewable-energy/">Poll:
[US] Voters Want Pretty Much The Opposite Of What Congress Is
Doing</a>.
<p>
So why were these people elected?  
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_(Voter_Suppression)">Voter-suppression
policies</a> and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#03_November_2014_(Voter-suppression_and_gerrymandering)">gerrymandering</a>
added to the effect of expensive
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jan-apr.html#01%20April%202007%20(Dishonest%20accusations)">media
smear campaigns</a>.
<p>
People can learn to ignore the last one, but the other two can't be so
easily overcome.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Intentional_positive_thinking)
title: Intentional "positive thinking"
uri: Intentional-positive-thinking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Intentional_positive_thinking%29
content:
<p>
Psychological investigation shows why intentional "positive thinking"
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/screw-positive-thinking-why-our-quest-happiness-making-us-miserable-0">can
make people discouraged</a>: "Don't think of a negative thought!" is
as self-defeating as "Don't think of an elephant!".
<p>
In effect, positive thinking amounts to "What, me worry?"
<p>
What's really scary is that Dubya practiced this, and it led him to
assume nothing he did could ever go wrong.  It may have facilitated
the US financial crisis, too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 20_January_2015_(Network_neutrality)
title: Network neutrality
uri: 2015-01-21-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_%28Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
Republicans have introduced a 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/republican-net-neutrality-bill-would-gut-fccs-authority-over-broadband/">bill
to ban the FCC from establishing proper network neutrality</a>.
<p>
By the way, network neutrality means that ISPs do not check what
subscribers are transmitting in any way.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 21_January_2015_(Bigotry_against_Muslims)
title: Bigotry against Muslims
uri: Bigotry-against-Muslims
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#21_January_2015_%28Bigotry_against_Muslims%29
content:
<p>
Vox republished Charlie Hebdo cartoons and received no threats in
response.  When it covered bigotry against Muslims, 
<a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/1/14/7541095/charlie-hebdo-muslims-threats">the 
threats came in</a>.
<p>
I do not use the term "phobia" to describe a form of bigotry;
it is the wrong word.


title: Intimidating the next Aaron Swartz
uri: Intimidating-the-next-Aaron-Swartz
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 21_January_2015_(Intimidating_the_next_Aaron_Swartz)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#21_January_2015_%28Intimidating_the_next_Aaron_Swartz%29

content:
<p>
Obama's push to 
<a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2015-01/2015-01-13.html">increase
penalties for cracking computer systems</a> is completely useless
against foreign state-sponsored crackers, and nearly useless against
professional criminal crackers, because they expect not to be caught.
<p>
But it would be great for intimidating the next Aaron Swartz.
Obama's advisors surely understand this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Urgent:_Raise_minimum_wage)
title: Urgent: Raise minimum wage
uri: 2015-01-23-Urgent-Raise-minimum-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_minimum_wage%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call for raising the minimum wage to 
<a href="http://www.commongoodaction.org/tell_congress_support_an_honest_minimum_wage">$12.50
an hour</a>.


title: Urgent: IRS digital tax filing system
uri: Urgent-IRS-digital-tax-filing-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Urgent:_IRS_digital_tax_filing_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_IRS_digital_tax_filing_system%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://vk.rootstrikers.org/petitions/89">call on the IRS</a>
to implement its own digital tax filing system and stop bowing down to
companies that want to profit from this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Urgent:_Labeling_of_GMOs_in_food)
title: Urgent: Labeling of GMOs in food
uri: Urgent-Labeling-of-GMOs-in-food
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Labeling_of_GMOs_in_food%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1775">oppose</a>
the bill to ban states from requiring labeling of GMOs in food.


title: Testimony of Auschwitz death camp survivor
uri: Testimony-of-Auschwitz-death-camp-survivor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Testimony_of_Auschwitz_death_camp_survivor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Testimony_of_Auschwitz_death_camp_survivor%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/19/you-have-mother">testimony</a>
of one of the few survivors of the Auschwitz death camp.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(TSA_officers_hate_their_job)
title: TSA officers hate their job
uri: TSA-officers-hate-their-job
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28TSA_officers_hate_their_job%29
content:
<p>
A former TSA officer says they all hated their job because 
<a href="http://theweek.com/articles/441310/confessions-former-tsa-officer">they
knew it was causing absurd gratuitous misery</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Software_patents)
title: Software patents
uri: Software-patents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Software_patents%29
content:
<p>
Important businesses 
<a href="http://techrights.org/2015/01/17/abolition-of-software-patents/">have
come out against software patents</a>.


title: EU makes it difficult to ban GM crops
uri: EU-makes-it-difficult-to-ban-GM-crops
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(EU_makes_it_difficult_to_ban_GM_crops)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28EU_makes_it_difficult_to_ban_GM_crops%29

content:
<p>
The EU has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/19/gm-crop-vote-was-just-the-beginning-of-europes-biotech-battle">made
it difficult to ban GM crops</a>, but not impossible.
<p>
US pressure is a considerable part of the blame.  As usual, the US acts
as a bully on behalf of big business; this happens regularly in
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#21_April_2013_(US_bullying_for_stricter_copyright_enforcement)">copyright</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#12_July_2012_(Obama_and_Congress_support_Big_Pharma)">pharmaceuticals</a>
and in agriculture as in this case.


title: Bangladesh shuts down messaging service
uri: Bangladesh-shuts-down-messaging-service
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Bangladesh_shuts_down_messaging_service)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Bangladesh_shuts_down_messaging_service%29

content:
<p>
Bangladesh has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/19/viber-banned-bangladesh-smartphone-messaging-service">shut
down a messaging service that protesters found useful</a>.
<p>
This sort of behavior has been seen in many countries.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Robust_Agenda_for_consumers)
title: "Robust Agenda" for consumers
uri: Robust-Agenda-for-consumers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Robust_Agenda_for_consumers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://consumersunion.org/news/consumer-groups-urge-president-congress-to-support-robust-agenda-for-consumers-in-2015/">Consumer
Groups Urge President, Congress to Support "Robust Agenda" for
Consumers in 2015</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Hate_crime_coverup_in_Argentina)
title: Hate crime coverup in Argentina
uri: Hate-crime-coverup-in-Argentina
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Hate_crime_coverup_in_Argentina%29

content:
<p>
An Argentinian prosecutor who recently charged a government coverup of
a hate crime against Jews in Argentina was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/19/argentinian-prosecutor-buenos-aires-bomb-alberto-nisman-iran">found
dead</a>.


title: UK Tories scurry to empty treasury
uri: UK-Tories-scurry-to-empty-treasury
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(UK_Tories_scurry_to_empty_treasury)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28UK_Tories_scurry_to_empty_treasury%29

content:
<p>
The UK Tories are scurrying to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/19/labour-tories-pet-projects-general-election-sadiq-khan-youth-super-prison">empty
the treasury to their cronies ahead of the general election</a>.  The
expense of new prisons will give them (and Labour too) an excuse for
further cutbacks in support for poor people outside of prison.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Modern-day_lepers)
title: Modern-day lepers
uri: Modern-day-lepers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Modern-day_lepers%29
content:
<p>
Registered sex offenders are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/19/sex-offenders-florida-town-sofia-valiente-miracle-village-photography">"modern-day
lepers"</a>.  A village in Florida shelters 100 of them who are
rejected everywhere else.
<p>
Some of them committed real wrongs.  Others are the targets of
modern-day cruel prudery.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Selma_Alabama)
title: Selma, Alabama
uri: Selma-Alabama
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Selma_Alabama%29
content:
<p>
Selma, Alabama, is today majority black and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/selma-majority-black-city-kids-grow-up-poor-powerful-do-not-care">even
the factory workers get low pay</a>.
<p>
This results from decades of "free trade", union busting, and tax
cutting for business and the rich.
<p>
Oxfam attacks the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/inequality-inevitable-1-per-cent-growth">system
that created today's massive inequality</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(CIA_torture)
title: CIA torture
uri: 2015-01-23-CIA-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28CIA_torture%29
content:
<p>
John Kiriakou asks why the CIA agents that committed torture beyond
what the agency had officially "approved" are 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=11967">not being
prosecuted</a>.
<p>
Kiriakou says the CIA knew that Bush approved the torture before it
started.
<p>
There is more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(EPA_regulation_of_methane_leaks)
title: EPA regulation of methane leaks
uri: EPA-regulation-of-methane-leaks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28EPA_regulation_of_methane_leaks%29

content:
<p>
On the 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/7-things-to-know-epa-methane-limits-18544">status
and prospects</a> of the EPA's plan to regulate methane leaks.


title: UK thugs want all men's DNA samples
uri: UK-thugs-want-all-men-s-DNA-samples
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(UK_thugs_want_all_mens_DNA_samples)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28UK_thugs_want_all_mens_DNA_samples%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/18/valerie-graves-police-call-for-mass-voluntary-dna-screening-of-men">asked
all men in a certain town to "voluntarily" offer DNA samples</a> in
order to identify a murderer by elimination.
<p>
If I were one of those men, I would demand a written commitment from
the state to discard my DNA sample after the test, before agreeing to
give one.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Thug_body_cameras)
title: Thug body cameras
uri: Thug-body-cameras
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Thug_body_cameras%29
content:
<p>
ACLU: thugs 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-immigrants-rights-technology-and-liberty-free-speech/should-officers-be-per">should
not be allowed to view the video in their body cameras before they
write reports on incidents</a>.


title: Global heating denialism in textbooks
uri: Global-heating-denialism-in-textbooks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Global_heating_denialism_in_textbooks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Global_heating_denialism_in_textbooks%29

content:
<p>
West Virginia has 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/us/west-virginia-revisits-science-standards.html">put
global heating denialism into textbooks to please the coal
companies</a>.  As often happens, they call this "balance" —
balancing real science with business propaganda.


title: Chinese thugs arrest journalist's assistant
uri: Chinese-thugs-arrest-journalist-s-assistant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Chinese_thugs_arrest_journalists_assistant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Chinese_thugs_arrest_journalists_assistant%29

content:
<p>
A German journalist in China reports about the 
<a href="http://www.zeit.de/feature/freedom-of-press-china-zhang-miao-imprisonment">arrest
of his assistant</a>, and how the Chinese thugs insisted that China
has rule of law while disregarding Chinese law completely.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Uber_ride_data_collection)
title: Uber ride data collection
uri: Uber-ride-data-collection
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Uber_ride_data_collection%29
content:
<p>
Uber hopes to buy the approval of cities by 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/13/uber-offers-cities-an-olive-branch-its-valuable-trip-data/">collecting
ride data for them</a>.
<p>
Even if this reporting doesn't give personal data on individuals, that
won't change the fact that Uber collects that data and can make it
available to the state in other ways.  We must not accept Uber as a
substitute for taxis and car services that can be used anonymously.
Please 
<a href="https://stallman.org/uber.html">don't do business with
Uber</a>.


title: Over 50% of Mediterranean coast is paved
uri: Over-50-of-Mediterranean-coast-is-paved
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Over_50_percent_of_Mediterranean_coast_is_paved)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Over_50_percent_of_Mediterranean_coast_is_paved%29

content:
<p>
The coast of the Mediterranean is being 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/20/mediterranean-urban-sprawl-kayak">engulfed
by tourist resorts and cities</a>.  In France and Italy, more than 50%
of the Mediterranean coast is paved.


title: Guatemalan thug sentenced for mass murder
uri: Guatemalan-thug-sentenced-for-mass-murder
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Guatemalan_thug_sentenced_for_mass_murder)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Guatemalan_thug_sentenced_for_mass_murder%29

content:
<p>
An important Guatemalan thug has been sentenced to life in prison (in
effect) for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/20/guatemala-jails-police-chief-embassy-attack-pedro-garcia-arredondo">mass
murder of protesters in 1980</a>.
<p>
This is equivalent to a life sentence; he is surely old enough that
he won't live 30 years more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Homes_turned_to_prisons)
title: Homes turned to prisons
uri: Homes-turned-to-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Homes_turned_to_prisons%29
content:
<p>
For millions of Americans who are not in prison, home is a prison,
due to an explosion of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/19/when-your-home-your-prison">monitoring,
sex-offender registries, and other virtual forms of imprisonment</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Florida_prisoners_murdered)
title: Florida prisoners murdered
uri: Florida-prisoners-murdered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Florida_prisoners_murdered%29
content:
<p>
In Florida, an alarming number of prisoners died suspiciously after
telling relatives, 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/14/1357661/-Poisonings-beatings-gassings-Record-346-inmates-die-dozens-of-guards-fired-in-Florida-prisons?detail=email">"The
guards are going to kill me."</a>  In some cases the murders were
witnessed.


title: Thugs can disarm and arrest without killing
uri: Thugs-can-disarm-and-arrest-without-killing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Thugs_can_disarm_and_arrest_without_killing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Thugs_can_disarm_and_arrest_without_killing%29

content:
<p>
When blacks carry what looks like a gun, thugs shoot them dead on
sight.  A white woman drove around shooting at people, even pointing
her gun at a thug, and the thugs managed to 
<a href="http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/news/story/2014/dec/28/womshoots-hixsneighborhood/280032/">disarm
and arrest her without killing her</a>.
<p>
Bravo, but if they can do this with whites, they could do it with
blacks too — if they tried.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Thugs_fire_tear_gas_at_children)
title: Thugs fire tear gas at children
uri: Thugs-fire-tear-gas-at-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Thugs_fire_tear_gas_at_children%29

content:
<p>
A powerful official in Kenya has taken a school's playground; thugs
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/19/brutality-beyond-words-kenyan-police-fire-tear-gas-protesting-children">fired
tear gas at the children when they protested</a>.
<p>
Apparently this is a standard modus operandi for corrupt politicians
in Kenya, and the school just happened to be the one that got
victimized this time.


title: Temp workers not given living wage
uri: Temp-workers-not-given-living-wage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Temp_workers_not_given_living_wage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Temp_workers_not_given_living_wage%29

content:
<p>
Temporary workers supplied by labor agencies 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/jobs-agency-workers-britain-economy-insecure-low-paid-work">never
get a living wage</a>.
<p>
I think it's a good idea to fine businesses that use agency workers
for more than 120 hours a month for 3 successive months for any
particular kind of work.  If a business needs that much work, it
should hire regular staff to do the work.
<p>
However, we should also disconnect funding for social programs from
employment.  A business should pay tax based its gross income, with a
small deduction for each full-time worker employed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Guantanamo_torture)
title: Guantanamo torture
uri: Guantanamo-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Guantanamo_torture%29
content:
<p>
Guantanamo guards forced Mohamedou Ould Slahi to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/19/-sp-guantanamo-diary-team-realized-about-lose-mind-chakrabarti">dry
his toilet with his uniform and sleep in it</a>.


title: Urgent: Regulation of methane leaks
uri: Urgent-Regulation-of-methane-leaks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Urgent:_Regulation_of_methane_leaks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Regulation_of_methane_leaks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=14914&autologin=true">call
for firm and thorough regulation</a> of methane leaks, including
existing systems.


title: Newspaper shut down for printing "I am Charlie"
uri: Newspaper-shut-down-for-printing-I-am-Charlie
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Newspaper_shut_down_for_printing_I_am_Charlie)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Newspaper_shut_down_for_printing_I_am_Charlie%29

content:
<p>
In Iran, a newspaper was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/19/iranian-newspaper-mardom-e-emrooz-shut-down-showing-solidarity-charlie-hebdo">shut
down for publishing a statement "I am Charlie"</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, in France, other sorts of statements have been 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_(Imprisonment_for_expressing_opinion_in_France)">censored</a>.
<p>
Censoring political views is wrong regardless of which views are
censored.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(NY_States_ban_on_fracking)
title: NY State's ban on fracking
uri: NY-State-s-ban-on-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28NY_States_ban_on_fracking%29
content:
<p>
New York State's ban on fracking is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2015/jan/19/what-the-uk-could-learn-from-new-yorks-fracking-ban">based
on numerous studies tying it to harm to human health</a>.
<p>
To prevent global heating disaster, we must leave 80% of the known
fossil fuel reserves in the ground.  Clearly the most dangerous
reserves should be the first on the list not to be extracted.  That
includes anything that would be obtained by fracking, strip mining
(including tar sands) or undersea drilling.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Half_of_the_worlds_wealth)
title: Half of the world's wealth
uri: Half-of-the-world-s-wealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Half_of_the_worlds_wealth%29
content:
<p>
The richest 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/19/global-wealth-oxfam-inequality-davos-economic-summit-switzerland">80
people</a> in the world own half the world's wealth.
<p>
Just 5 years ago, it took over 300 rich people to encompass half the
world's wealth.  Inequality is increasing, which is an injustice.
<p>
By 2016, the richest 1% will own 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/19/richest-1-will-own-more-all-rest-2016">more
than all the rest of the world</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(The_Sony_crack)
title: The Sony crack
uri: The-Sony-crack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28The_Sony_crack%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/19/us-tapped-n-korean-networks-years-ago-providing-proof-of-sony-hack-reports">claims
to have obtained proof</a> that North Korea carried out the Sony
crack, through espionage on computer networks.
<p>
It could be true, but I do not have implicit confidence in the US
government.
<p>
I don't object when the NSA spies on hostile governments such as North
Korea, or even China.  That is its legitimate purpose.  What I object
to is when it spies on everyone including you and me.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Education_reforms)
title: Education "reforms"
uri: Education-reforms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Education_reforms%29
content:
<p>
Many governments are "reforming" education but hardly ever do they determine
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/19/education-school-reforms-children-oecd">whether
the reforms made education better</a>.


title: "Business trips" for Russian soldiers
uri: Business-trips-for-Russian-soldiers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Business_trips_for_Russian_soldiers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Business_trips_for_Russian_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
Since Russia denies sending troops to fight in Ukraine, it has to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/19/russia-official-silence-for-families-troops-killed-in-ukraine">cover
up the Russian soldiers that are killed fighting there</a>.
<p>
Some soldiers refuse to "volunteer" for the "business trip".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Privatized_NHS_hospital)
title: Privatized NHS hospital
uri: Privatized-NHS-hospital
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Privatized_NHS_hospital%29
content:
<p>
A privatized NHS hospital was half owned by its workers, that that did
not prevent it from being a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/hinchingbrooke-hospital-scandal-mutual-privately-run">disastrous
failure</a>.
<p>
Cooperatives are a fine way to organize a business
but that doesn't make them acceptable in public services
where business itself is a bad idea.


title: Absurd charge against Bahrain opposition leader
uri: Absurd-charge-against-Bahrain-opposition-leader
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 22_January_2015_(Absurd_charge_against_Bahrain_opposition_leader)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_%28Absurd_charge_against_Bahrain_opposition_leader%29

content:
<p>
Bahrain has charged the main opposition leader with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/19/bahrain-opposition-leader-accused-plotting-coup-al-wefaq-sheikh-ali-salman">plotting
to overthrow the government by force</a>, which is absurd since the
government has all the force.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 23_January_2015_(Vulnerable_and_feckless)
title: Vulnerable and feckless
uri: Vulnerable-and-feckless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#23_January_2015_%28Vulnerable_and_feckless%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=12260">
Once again</a>, the FBI found a vulnerable and feckless Muslim and
pushed/led him to get ready for an armed attack using the FBI's funds
and the FBI's plan.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 23_January_2015_(Urgent:_Censorshop_of_the_Press)
title: Urgent: Censorshop of the Press
uri: Urgent-Censorshop-of-the-Press
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#23_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Censorshop_of_the_Press%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://fr.rsf.org/petitions/charlie/petition.php?lang=en">
sign Reporters Without Borders'</a> petition denouncing
censorship
of the press, including that done by governments.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 23_January_2015_(Spanish_plutocratic_parties)
title: Spanish plutocratic parties
uri: Spanish-plutocratic-parties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#23_January_2015_%28Spanish_plutocratic_parties%29
content:
<p>
The Spanish plutocratic parties face a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/29/podemos-spanish-party-rises-grassroots-challenge-corruption-elite-party-rule">
 vigorous challenge from
Podemos</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 23_January_2015_(Making_a_Video)
title: Making a Video
uri: Making-a-Video
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#23_January_2015_%28Making_a_Video%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.wafb.com/story/27711944/the-investigators-man-recording-brpd-actions-thrown-to-ground-arrested">
Thugs in Baton Rouge attacked a man for making a video</a>, first stealing
his camera, then knocking him down and jumping on him.  Then they
framed him for a fictional crime.


title: Urgent: No disguised high fructose corn syrup
uri: Urgent-No-disguised-high-fructose-corn-syrup
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 23_January_2015_(Urgent:_No_disguised_high_fructose_corn_syrup)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#23_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_No_disguised_high_fructose_corn_syrup%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/chex_hfcs">tell General
Mills</a> to stop disguising the high fructose corn syrup in its
products.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 23_January_2015_(Hypocritical_big_society_idea)
title: Hypocritical "big society" idea
uri: Hypocritical-big-society-idea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#23_January_2015_%28Hypocritical_big_society_idea%29
content:
<p>
The right-wing UK government used a hypocritical "big society" idea as
a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/20/the-big-society-civil-exchange-audit-shows-coalition-contempt-and-hypocrisy">distraction
from its plan to hurt the poor</a>.  Supposedly charities were going
to pick up the burden that the government dropped — but the
government cut funds for the charities too.
<p>
It did the same thing on the environment, claiming it would be the
"greenest government ever", then cutting subsidies for renewable
energy while increasing support for
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_June_2014_(Fossil_fuel_tax_subsidies)">fossil
fuels</a> and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#21_December_2014_(Renewable_energy_development_undermined)">nuclear
power</a>.


title: Ebola treatment centers need money
uri: Ebola-treatment-centers-need-money
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 23_January_2015_(Ebola_treatment_centers_need_money)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#23_January_2015_%28Ebola_treatment_centers_need_money%29

content:
<p>
New treatment centers are beating Ebola, but money is needed to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/20/un-ebola-chief-calls-for-final-funding-push-to-defeat-virus-in-west-africa">keep
them running until there are zero cases</a>.


title: Urgent: Boycott Koch Industries products
uri: Urgent-Boycott-Koch-Industries-products
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Urgent:_Boycott_Koch_Industries_products)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Boycott_Koch_Industries_products%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/01/1288957/-Sign-the-pledge-Don-t-buy-these-Koch-products?detail=email">boycott</a>
Koch Industries products.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Obamacare_web_site_visitor_data)
title: Obamacare web site visitor data
uri: Obamacare-web-site-visitor-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Obamacare_web_site_visitor_data%29

content:
<p>
The Obamacare web site 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-01-privacy-health-website.html">gives
data to many companies about its visitors</a>; these companies can
integrate that data with other personal data to increase their
knowledge of the person.
<p>
They say that the companies are prohibited from using the data for
"business purposes", but I expect they have already found other ways
to use the data while pretending it is not "for business purposes".
<p>
I wonder if the site requires running nonfree Javascript code.
<p>
Sure, the analysis is useful — but government relationship to
the public should not be designed in a narrowminded way that considers
only the specific project.  This web site should never give any data
about people to any company.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Fracking_causes_earthquakes)
title: Fracking causes earthquakes
uri: Fracking-causes-earthquakes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Fracking_causes_earthquakes%29
content:
<p>
Fracking causes 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/20/yet-another-state-admits-connection-between-fracking-and-earthquakes">medium-size
earthquakes</a> in several US states.
<p>
This is an additional reason to ban them, beyond 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#21_November_2014_(Frackers_pollute_clean_aquifers)">pollution
of water supplies</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_September_2014_(Methane_leaks_from_fracking)">methane
leaks</a>, and the contribution to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#01_July_2012_(Fraking_and_global_heating)">global
heating</a>.


title: World Bank funds drive peasants off land
uri: World-Bank-funds-drive-peasants-off-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(World_Bank_funds_drive_peasants_off_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28World_Bank_funds_drive_peasants_off_land%29

content:
<p>
A World Bank project is funding a project that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/20/ethiopia-human-rights-groups-development-programme-world-bank-villagisation">drives
Ethiopian peasants off their land</a> to use it for plantations.


title: Russian protesters jailed for 10 days
uri: Russian-protesters-jailed-for-10-days
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Russian_protesters_jailed_for_10_days)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Russian_protesters_jailed_for_10_days%29

content:
<p>
Russian protesters were jailed for 10 days for a protest consisting of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/20/holy-water-lenin-mausoleum-two-russian-artists-jailed-10-days">throwing
holy water at the outside of Lenin's mausoleum</a>.
<p>
Since the current regime in Russia is not Communist, this is either a
punishment for "insulting Christianity" or a punishment for "insulting
tyranny".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Obamas_Drone_Program)
title: Obama's Drone Program
uri: Obama-s-Drone-Program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Obamas_Drone_Program%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/19/noam-chomsky-obamas-drone-program-most-extreme-terrorist-campaign-modern-times">Noam
Chomsky: Obama's Drone Program 'The Most Extreme Terrorist Campaign of
Modern Times'</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(No_shortage_of_food)
title: No shortage of food
uri: No-shortage-of-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28No_shortage_of_food%29
content:
<p>
Agribusiness claims only it can fill the world's food shortage.  But
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/18/how-people-can-outwit-global-domination-plans-agribusiness">there
isn't one</a> — and we don't need to let agribusiness dominate
farming.
<p>
World food production would become a lot easier, and a lot better for
the environment, if we ate less meat and especially less beef.  It
would be better for the people eating, too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Fanatical_Muslims_riot_in_Niger)
title: Fanatical Muslims riot in Niger
uri: Fanatical-Muslims-riot-in-Niger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Fanatical_Muslims_riot_in_Niger%29

content:
<p>
Fanatical Muslims in Niger 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/18/niger-rioters-torcn-churches-french-firms-charlier-hebdo-protest">rioted
and attacked Christian churches</a> as punishment for Charlie Hebdo's
cover.


title: Opt-out in location-tracking technology
uri: Opt-out-in-location-tracking-technology
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Opt-out_in_location-tracking_technology)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Opt-out_in_location-tracking_technology%29

content:
<p>
A call for a privacy 
<a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/documents/letter-to-fcc-on-privacy-for-wireless-911-location-technologies">opt-out
in future US location-tracking technology</a>.
<p>
This might actually do some good, because it goes beyond the
inadequate approach of limiting use of data that has been collected.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Secret_US_military_missions)
title: Secret US military missions
uri: Secret-US-military-missions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Secret_US_military_missions%29
content:
<p>
The US has run secret military missions in 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/20/golden-age-black-ops-special-ops-missions-already-105-countries-2015">105
countries since October 1</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/20/why-us-biggest-threat-world-peace">Why
the US is the Biggest Threat to World Peace</a>.


title: Prison sentence for "offensive tweet"
uri: Prison-sentence-for-offensive-tweet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Prison_sentence_for_offensive_tweet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Prison_sentence_for_offensive_tweet%29

content:
<p>
Nabil Rajab was sentenced to prison in Bahrain for an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/20/bahraini-activist-sentenced-six-months-offensive-tweet-islamic-state">"offensive
tweet"</a>.
<p>
France and Britain, do you want to be in a class with Bahrain, or will
you respect 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#16_January_2015_(Response_to_censorship_of_Charlie_Hebdo)">freedom
of expression</a>?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Popes_rejection_of_contraception)
title: Pope's rejection of contraception
uri: Pope-s-rejection-of-contraception
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Popes_rejection_of_contraception%29

content:
<p>
The Pope is reaching for straws to reconcile the rejection of
contraception with his humane general outlook, but that can't be done.
The former 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/20/catholics-breed-like-rabbits-contraception-con-pope">must
go</a>.


title: Using drones to find illegal fishing operations
uri: Using-drones-to-find-illegal-fishing-operations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Using_drones_to_find_illegal_fishing_operations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Using_drones_to_find_illegal_fishing_operations%29

content:
<p>
Mexico will use drones to find the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/20/mexico-unmanned-drones-vaquita-marina-porpoise-endangered-gulf-california">illegal
fishing operations that kill rare porpoises</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Boat_people_on_hunger_strike)
title: Boat people on hunger strike
uri: Boat-people-on-hunger-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Boat_people_on_hunger_strike%29
content:
<p>
Boat people sent by Australia to Manus Island are on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/20/manus-island-hunger-strike-asylum-seekers-carry-out-collapsed-detainees">hunger
strike</a>; their prison guards are confiscating phones so they cannot
document the violence.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(The_word_slut)
title: The word "slut"
uri: The-word-slut
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28The_word_slut%29
content:
<p>
The attempt to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/20/word-slut-feminists-efforts-reclaim-it">remove
the condemnation from the word "slut"</a> seems to have failed.
<p>
I have never understood what is supposed to be wrong about being a
"slut".  I can't see why a woman shouldn't have sex however she likes,
even if she is my lover.
<p>
I love Favianna's attitude, but I avoid referring to sex using the
word "fuck".  It has too much harshness associated with it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Tiger_population)
title: Tiger population
uri: Tiger-population
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Tiger_population%29
content:
<p>
India 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/20/india-tiger-population-increases-endangered-species">claims
success in protecting tigers</a>, saying the population has increased
30% since 2011.
<p>
In the past, India's reported tiger population included many that were
dead; one tiger reserve was found to have no tigers at all.  This time
they seem to counted more carefully.


title: Republican response to State of the Union
uri: Republican-response-to-State-of-the-Union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Republican_response_to_State_of_the_Union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Republican_response_to_State_of_the_Union%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12713/koch-party-delivers-sotu-response">new
Republican senator from Koch Industries</a> will give the Republican
response to Obama's State of the Union address.
<p>
The progressive views that most Americans support may be mentioned
somewhat in Obama's address, now that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/19/politics-gesture">no
one expects him to be able to deliver on them much</a>.  But it is too
little and way too late, from a man who seems not to have been
committed to any principles.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 23_January_2015_(Urgent:_Censorship_of_the_Press)
title: Urgent: Censorship of the Press
uri: Urgent-Censorship-of-the-Press
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#23_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Censorship_of_the_Press%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://fr.rsf.org/petitions/charlie/petition.php?lang=en">
sign Reporters Without Borders'</a> petition denouncing
censorship
of the press, including that done by governments.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(A_call_to_sanity_for_US_parents)
title: A call to sanity for US parents
uri: A-call-to-sanity-for-US-parents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28A_call_to_sanity_for_US_parents%29

content:
<p>
A call to sanity for US parents:
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/18/1358543/-Free-Range-Parents-Display-Parenting-Sanity?detail=email">stop
hovering over your children</a>.


title: MLK speech on US intervention in Vietnam
uri: MLK-speech-on-US-intervention-in-Vietnam
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(MLK_speech_on_US_intervention_in_Vietnam)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28MLK_speech_on_US_intervention_in_Vietnam%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_beyond_vietnam/">Martin
Luther King Jr.'s speech</a> calling for the US to end its
intervention in Vietnam.
<p>
For historic clarity, I should point out some things King did not
know.  For instance, the NLF was run by secret Communists, the Viet
Cong were mostly wiped out, and South Vietnam was ultimately conquered
by the North Vietnamese Army.
<p>
But these details are not enough to invalidate King's main points.  To
preserve a US-friendly dictatorship against another dictatorship could
not justify the violence that the US inflicted on Vietnam.
<p>
The details today are different but the US continues to inflict violence
around the world — and poison its soul thereby.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(UK_cuts_off_unemployment_benefits)
title: UK cuts off unemployment benefits
uri: UK-cuts-off-unemployment-benefits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28UK_cuts_off_unemployment_benefits%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has cut off unemployment benefits to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/20/jobs-revival-benefits-work-jobseekers-allowance">2
million people</a>.  20% of them found work.  It is not clear what
happened to the rest.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/20/jobcentre-hit-squads-benefit-claimants-sanctions">Jobcentre
'Hit Squads' Set Up Benefit Claimants To Fail, Says Former
Official</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Equal_education_requirement)
title: Equal education requirement
uri: Equal-education-requirement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Equal_education_requirement%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/01/19/3612950/senator-turns-back-on-students-of-color-and-civil-rights-in-new-education-bill/">Senate
Republicans aim to abolish the requirement</a> for states to provide
equal education to minority groups.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Personal_monitoring_devices)
title: Personal monitoring devices
uri: Personal-monitoring-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Personal_monitoring_devices%29
content:
<p>
Personal monitoring devices for computers
<a href="http://theconversation.com/youve-heard-of-the-internet-of-things-now-behold-the-internet-of-me-36379">open
the door to employers and governments' forcing people to be
monitored</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Time_for_a_New_Enlightenment)
title: Time for a New Enlightenment
uri: Time-for-a-New-Enlightenment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Time_for_a_New_Enlightenment%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/jan/20/-sp-after-paris-its-time-for-new-enlightenment">After
Paris: It's Time for a New Enlightenment</a>.


title: What copyright industry lawyers believe
uri: What-copyright-industry-lawyers-believe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(What_copyright_industry_lawyers_believe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28What_copyright_industry_lawyers_believe%29

content:
<p>
The copyright industry is so disconnected from reality that
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-internet-would-never-have-existed-without-the-copyright-monopoly-150118/">its
lawyers believe the internet exists due to copyright</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 24_January_2015_(Journalists_on_GCHQ_targets_list)
title: Journalists on GCHQ targets list
uri: Journalists-on-GCHQ-targets-list
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#24_January_2015_%28Journalists_on_GCHQ_targets_list%29

content:
<p>
GCHQ included investigative journalists in a list of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/gchq-intercepted-emails-journalists-ny-times-bbc-guardian-le-monde-reuters-nbc-washington-post">high
priority surveillance targets</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(The_low_paid_jobs_of_most_women)
title: The low paid jobs of most women
uri: The-low-paid-jobs-of-most-women
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28The_low_paid_jobs_of_most_women%29

content:
<p>
Feminists should focus on the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/21/feminists-obsessed-elite-metropolitan-lives-low-paid-females">low
paid jobs of most women</a>, rather than obsessing about the fraction
of females among the few executive positions and corporate board
positions.


title: UK government support for fossil fuel
uri: UK-government-support-for-fossil-fuel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(UK_government_support_for_fossil_fuel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28UK_government_support_for_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
The UK government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/21/six-in-10-uk-onshore-wind-farms-rejected-report">rejects
almost 60% of applications for to build wind power on land</a>.  By
contrast, it has 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#20_August_2013_(UK_won%27t_let_people_block_fracking)">eliminated
local power to reject fracking</a>.
<p>
Both policies reflect the government's general policy of supporting
fossil fuel companies.


title: UK subsidies for nuclear power plant
uri: UK-subsidies-for-nuclear-power-plant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(UK_subsidies_for_nuclear_power_plant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28UK_subsidies_for_nuclear_power_plant%29

content:
<p>
Other EU countries claim that tremendous UK subsidies for a new nuclear
power plant 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/21/austria-to-launch-lawsuit-hinkley-point-c-nuclear-subsidies">violate
EU rules</a>, and will sue.


title: Teacher sent to prison for affair with student
uri: Teacher-sent-to-prison-for-affair-with-student
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Teacher_sent_to_prison_for_affair_with_student)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Teacher_sent_to_prison_for_affair_with_student%29

content:
<p>
A UK teacher that had a many-year affair with a student has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/20/teacher-pupil-affair-pupil-simon-parsons">sent
to prison</a>, wrongly in my view.
<p>
Teachers have a responsibility not to become intimate with students,
but there is no reason to make this a crime.  Teachers who don't carry
out that responsibility should be fired.


title: US thugs can look through walls with radar
uri: US-thugs-can-look-through-walls-with-radar
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(US_thugs_can_look_through_walls_with_radar)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28US_thugs_can_look_through_walls_with_radar%29

content:
<p>
US thugs have radars that look through walls and can 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30904218">detect a person
breathing</a>.
<p>
I wonder what it takes to block that radar.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(UK_ISP_censorship)
title: UK ISP censorship
uri: 2015-01-25-UK-ISP-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28UK_ISP_censorship%29
content:
<p>
One UK ISP has 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30896813">made the higher
level of censorship the default</a>.
<p>
A considerable amount of censorship is mandatory in the UK,
which does not allow freedom on the internet.


title: 5000 Palestinian prisoners in Israel
uri: 5000-Palestinian-prisoners-in-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(5000_Palestinian_prisoners_in_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%285000_Palestinian_prisoners_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Israel holds 
<a href="http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=359">5000
Palestinians</a> prisoner in Israel.  Palestinian prisoners are often
tortured; since 1967, 72 have been tortured to death.  This is the
worst abuse, but there are many more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Israeli_patriotism)
title: Israeli patriotism
uri: Israeli-patriotism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Israeli_patriotism%29
content:
<p>
Moriel Rothman-Zecher refused to become a soldier in the occupation of
Palestine.  Most Israelis call him a "traitor", but he believes that
Israeli patriotism means 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/opinion/why-i-wont-serve-israel.html?_r=0">working
to end the occupation</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Freedom_to_offend)
title: Freedom to offend
uri: Freedom-to-offend
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Freedom_to_offend%29
content:
<p>
Charlie Hebdo (and you) must be 
<a href="http://forward.com/articles/212292/why-charlie-hebdo-must-be-free-to-offend-all-ev/">free
to offend anyone and everyone</a>.


title: Israeli soldiers shooting teenagers dead
uri: Israeli-soldiers-shooting-teenagers-dead
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Israeli_soldiers_shooting_teenagers_dead)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Israeli_soldiers_shooting_teenagers_dead%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers, safe in towers, 
<a href="http://972mag.com/israeli-army-increasing-use-of-live-fire-at-west-bank-protests/101561/">shoot
stone-throwing Palestinian teenagers</a> dead.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(A_deregulated_free_market)
title: A deregulated "free" market
uri: A-deregulated-free-market
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28A_deregulated_free_market%29
content:
<p>
Airlines in the US are a clear example of how a deregulated "free"
market
can <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/01/1355081/-Why-Airlines-Collude-To-Make-Flying-As-Miserable-As-Possible?detail=email">serve
customers badly</a>.
<p>
There is no such thing as "the" free market.  Every market has rules,
and a free market simply means one in which everyone is allowed to
play by the same rules.  Changing the rules can make a big difference
between one free market and another free market.


title: Natural gas burned by US oil wells
uri: Natural-gas-burned-by-US-oil-wells
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Natural_gas_burned_by_US_oil_wells)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Natural_gas_burned_by_US_oil_wells%29

content:
<p>
US oil wells burn 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/18/1180129/-Massive-Fracking-Burnoff-Can-Be-Seen-From-Outer-Space?detail=email">large
amounts of natural gas</a> that are "not worth capturing".
<p>
Why is it worth getting other gas by fracking instead?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_TPP_fast_track)
title: Urgent: Oppose TPP "fast track"
uri: Urgent-Oppose-TPP-fast-track
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_TPP_fast_track%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose "fast track" for the
TPP.  And your senators too!
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.</p>


title: Urgent: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
uri: 2015-01-26-Urgent-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Urgent:_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1075">call on Congress</a>
to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Myth_of_defensive_gun_ownership)
title: Myth of defensive gun ownership
uri: Myth-of-defensive-gun-ownership
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Myth_of_defensive_gun_ownership%29

content:
<p>
A badly designed survey
<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/defensive-gun-ownership-myth-114262.html">overestimated
the rate of defensive use of guns by perhaps a hundred times</a>.  Gun
nuts cite it to bury the fact that guns are used far more to attack
people than to defend people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Antarctic_toothfish_poaching)
title: Antarctic toothfish poaching
uri: Antarctic-toothfish-poaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Antarctic_toothfish_poaching%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/21/antarctic-toothfish-poaching-ships-shrug-off-new-zealand-navy">Antarctic
Toothfish Poaching Ships Shrug Off New Zealand Navy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(New_rule_disrupts_UK_schools)
title: New rule disrupts UK schools
uri: New-rule-disrupts-UK-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28New_rule_disrupts_UK_schools%29
content:
<p>
The UK has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/20/schools-suspend-staff-child-protection-regulations">mulishly
applied a rule meant for people who do day care in their homes</a> to
people who work in schools — firing them if anyone
<em>they live with</em> has been convicted of certain crimes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Car_snooping_device)
title: Car snooping device
uri: Car-snooping-device
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Car_snooping_device%29
content:
<p>
A snooping device that insurance companies put in people's cars turns
out to
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/wireless-device-in-two-million-cars-wide-open-to-hacking/">let
anyone else snoop on or sabotage the car</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Urgent:_Protect_deep-sea_corals)
title: Urgent: Protect deep-sea corals
uri: Urgent-Protect-deep-sea-corals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_deep-sea_corals%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy;?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1663">submit
a comment</a> for protection of deep-sea corals off the US Atlantic
coast.


title: India's film censors hit by scandals
uri: India-s-film-censors-hit-by-scandals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Indias_film_censors_hit_by_scandals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Indias_film_censors_hit_by_scandals%29

content:
<p>
India's film censors are hit by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/21/india-censorship-board-crisis-leela-samson-msg-messenger-of-god-political-interference">scandals</a>.


title: Urgent: Statistics on violence by thugs
uri: Urgent-Statistics-on-violence-by-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Urgent:_Statistics_on_violence_by_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Statistics_on_violence_by_thugs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=32806">call
on the Department of Justice</a> to take statistics on violence by
thugs, then act to restrain it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Climate_myths)
title: Climate myths
uri: Climate-myths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Climate_myths%29
content:
<p>
Matt Ridley's climate myths have been refuted over and over, so
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jan/21/matt-ridley-wants-to-gamble-earths-future-because-wont-learn-from-past">why
won't he drop them</a>?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Thai_workers_in_Israel)
title: Thai workers in Israel
uri: Thai-workers-in-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Thai_workers_in_Israel%29
content:
<p>
Thai migrant workers in Israel are
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/21/israel-thai-workers-farms-human-rights-watch">being
worked like slaves</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Turkish_thugs_sentenced_to_prison)
title: Turkish thugs sentenced to prison
uri: Turkish-thugs-sentenced-to-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Turkish_thugs_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
Two Turkish thugs have been sentenced to prison for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/21/turkish-police-officers-jailed-for-beating-students-to-death">beating
a protester to death</a>.


title: Anti-immigrant party leader poses as Hitler
uri: Anti-immigrant-party-leader-poses-as-Hitler
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Anti-immigrant_party_leader_poses_as_Hitler)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Anti-immigrant_party_leader_poses_as_Hitler%29

content:
<p>
A founder of the anti-immigrant German party Pegida
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/21/pegida-leader-styled-adolf-hitler-lutz-bachmann-german-islamist-terrorists-facebook">posed
as Hitler</a>.  He says it was meant to accompany a satirical novel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Bottom-trawling)
title: Bottom-trawling
uri: 2015-01-26-Bottom-trawling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Bottom-trawling%29
content:
<p>
Put an end to bottom-trawling, which causes
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/21/uk-deep-sea-trawling-fishing">tremendous
ecological damage</a> to get a fairly small quantity of fish.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(California_remains_in_drought)
title: California remains in drought
uri: California-remains-in-drought
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28California_remains_in_drought%29
content:
<p>
Rains in December have stopped, and California
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/after-december-rains-california-comes-up-dry-18562">remains
in drought</a>.


title: Bus passengers attacked by Palestinian
uri: Bus-passengers-attacked-by-Palestinian
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Bus_passengers_attacked_by_Palestinian)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Bus_passengers_attacked_by_Palestinian%29

content:
<p>
A Palestinian man in Tel Aviv
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/21/tel-aviv-bus-attack-stabbing-israel">attacked
passengers on a bus with a knife</a>.
<p>
Stabbing civilians randomly is not brave, or heroic, or right; but it
is indeed a natural response to the occupation, which is a far bigger
wrong.


title: FBI wants to do away with showing probable cause
uri: FBI-wants-to-do-away-with-showing-probable-cause
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(FBI_wants_to_do_away_with_showing_probable_cause)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28FBI_wants_to_do_away_with_showing_probable_cause%29

content:
<p>
The FBI wants to be able to
<a href="http://fee.org/freeman/detail/youll-never-guess-whos-trying-to-hack-your-iphone">search
computers without showing probable cause</a>, if the computer uses Tor
or a VPN.


title: Greenpeace funds arbitrarily blocked
uri: Greenpeace-funds-arbitrarily-blocked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 25_January_2015_(Greenpeace_funds_arbitrarily_blocked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#25_January_2015_%28Greenpeace_funds_arbitrarily_blocked%29

content:
<p>
A court ruled India
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/21/indian-government-ordered-unblock-greenpeace-funds">must
allow Greenpeace to receive funds from abroad</a>.  The government
arbitrarily blocked the funds to stop Greenpeace from protecting the
environment from businesses.


title: Plan to restrict abortion rights blocked
uri: Plan-to-restrict-abortion-rights-blocked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Plan_to_restrict_abortion_rights_blocked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Plan_to_restrict_abortion_rights_blocked%29

content:
<p>
Female Republican congresscritters 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/22/republicans-shelve-abortion-vote-revolt-female-house-members">blocked
a plan to restrict abortion rights</a>.


title: Guatemalan couple unable to rejoin children
uri: Guatemalan-couple-unable-to-rejoin-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Guatemalan_couple_unable_to_rejoin_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Guatemalan_couple_unable_to_rejoin_children%29

content:
<p>
A Guatemalan couple trying to get back to the US to rejoin their
children were swindled by people smugglers and are now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/22/duped-mafia-mexican-couple-border-gang">broke
and stuck in Mexico</a>.
<p>
If you don't dare raise children because "gangs rule the streets", you
should not have children.  Whoever is responsible for Ms Cruz's recent
pregnancy did something wrong — but who was that?
<p>
Was it her fault?  Did she choose to take a chance on getting
pregnant?  If so, she should be punished.  Sterilization would be
appropriate.
<p>
Or did her husband refuse to use condoms and force her to get
pregnant?  Then it is his fault.
<p>
Was she unable to afford reliable birth control?  Then it's the US's
fault for not providing it to her.  How callous to deny birth control
to people who are not in a position to raise children properly!
<p>
Did she use birth control, but it failed, and then she could not get
an abortion?  In that case, the Guatemalan government is to blame.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Measles_at_Disneyland)
title: Measles at Disneyland
uri: Measles-at-Disneyland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Measles_at_Disneyland%29
content:
<p>
Disneyland 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/22/measles-outbreak-disneyland-unvaccinated-kids">tells
children not vaccinated for measles to stay away</a>, after some
workers were infected.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Oppression_of_PISSIs_rule)
title: Oppression of PISSI's rule
uri: Oppression-of-PISSI-s-rule
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Oppression_of_PISSIs_rule%29
content:
<p>
Mosul is almost surrounded by Peshmerga, and seems to be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/mosul-isis-occupation-kurdish-fighters">suffering
already from siege conditions</a> which exacerbate the oppression of
PISSI's rule.
<p>
If you're drafted by PISSI, it is better to frag your commander and
die than to give PISSI any positive service.


title: Killer thug gets off with impunity
uri: Killer-thug-gets-off-with-impunity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Killer_thug_gets_off_with_impunity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Killer_thug_gets_off_with_impunity%29

content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/22/no-civil-rights-charges-darren-wilson-ferguson-michael-brown">could
not find a basis to charge the thug that killed Michael Brown</a>.
<p>
It can't charge him with murder, which is covered by state law.  It
can only accuse him if it found direct evidence of racism.  So another
cop-killer (i.e., killer cop) gets off with impunity.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Contraceptive_pills)
title: Contraceptive pills
uri: Contraceptive-pills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Contraceptive_pills%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2015/jan/22/is-it-true-that-the-pill-causes-brain-tumours">Misleading
statistics</a> falsely make contraceptive pills seem dangerous.
<p>
Doubling a minuscule risk results in a minuscule risk — and it
is not clear the risk really increases at all.


title: Army too corrupt to fight Boko Haram
uri: Army-too-corrupt-to-fight-Boko-Haram
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Army_too_corrupt_to_fight_Boko_Haram)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Army_too_corrupt_to_fight_Boko_Haram%29

content:
<p>
Nigeria's army is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/nigeria-prospects-defeating-boko-haram-look-bleak">too
corrupt</a> to fight Boko Haram, and its government seems to regard it
as a small local problem.


title: "Training" the Iraqi army to fight PISSI
uri: Training-the-Iraqi-army-to-fight-PISSI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Training_the_Iraqi_army_to_fight_PISSI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Training_the_Iraqi_army_to_fight_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
A western official admits it might take 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/iraq-forces-training-fight-isis">two
years</a> to "train" the Iraqi army to be able to fight PISSI.
<p>
Since he would always put a favorable spin, if he says "two years", he
must really think "four years".  But I am skeptical the Iraqi army
will ever have a strong enough will to fight PISSI.  The readiness to
risk death rather than run away can't be taught or bought.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Australias_immigration_policy)
title: Australia's immigration policy
uri: Australia-s-immigration-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Australias_immigration_policy%29
content:
<p>
Australia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/22/journalism-is-not-a-so-why-are-reporters-being-referred-to-police">investigating
reporters who cover immigration issues</a>.
<p>
There should be nothing secret about a country's immigration policy,
but Australia's government knows 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_(A_blow_to_Australias_immigration_policy_secrecy)">its
secret cruelty is extreme</a> and would arouse disgust if revealed.
What reporters have found is already arousing plenty.


title: Punished for protesting against killer drones
uri: Punished-for-protesting-against-killer-drones
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Punished_for_protesting_against_killer_drones)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Punished_for_protesting_against_killer_drones%29

content:
<p>
An interview with Kathy Kelly, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/22/federal-prison-sentence-begins-anti-drone-activist">going
to prison</a> for a protest against killer drones.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Heating_of_the_oceans)
title: Heating of the oceans
uri: Heating-of-the-oceans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Heating_of_the_oceans%29
content:
<p>
Improved measurements of the heating of the oceans shows there was no
"pause" in global heating.  The oceans received 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jan/22/oceans-warming-so-fast-they-keep-breaking-scientists-charts">more
heat in 2014 than ever recorded before</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Dirty_tricks_against_Palestinians)
title: Dirty tricks against Palestinians
uri: Dirty-tricks-against-Palestinians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Dirty_tricks_against_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
Palestinians in an area that Israel has annexed have gone 
<a href="http://972mag.com/palestinians-in-east-jerusalem-go-10-months-with-no-water/101508/">10
months with no water supply</a>.
<p>
Israel does 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=754981">all
sorts of dirty tricks</a> to make Palestinians leave the West Bank,
and especially certain parts of it.
<p>
They hold on because they don't want to surrender to this pressure.


title: Women sentenced to prison for abortions
uri: Women-sentenced-to-prison-for-abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Women_sentenced_to_prison_for_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Women_sentenced_to_prison_for_abortions%29

content:
<p>
Women in El Salvador are 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/19/1358721/-Young-Woman-Serving-30-Years-For-A-Miscarriage-Receives-No-Pardon?detail=email">sentenced
to many years in prison for having abortions, or even
miscarriages</a>.  And this is seeping into the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Antisemitism_in_Argentina)
title: Antisemitism in Argentina
uri: Antisemitism-in-Argentina
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Antisemitism_in_Argentina%29
content:
<p>
Antisemitism is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/21/israeli-backpackers-antisemitic-campaign-patagonia">turning
violent</a> in parts of Argentina.


title: Republican global heating denialism
uri: Republican-global-heating-denialism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Republican_global_heating_denialism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Republican_global_heating_denialism%29

content:
<p>
US Republicans shift to a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/22/us-senate-man-climate-change-global-warming-hoax">modified
form of global heating denialism</a>: their second line of defense to
protect their campaign to cause disaster.
<p>
The US Capitol is on a hill, so they can keep on promoting global
heating even after parts of Washington DC are inundated.


title: Wind and solar power lobbying organizations
uri: Wind-and-solar-power-lobbying-organizations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Wind_and_solar_power_lobbying_organizations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Wind_and_solar_power_lobbying_organizations%29

content:
<p>
Fossil fuel companies and big fossil-fuel-using utilities have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/22/fossil-fuel-firms-accused-renewable-lobby-takeover-push-gas">taken
control of the wind power and solar power lobbying organizations in
Europe</a>, and redirected them to undermine renewable energy
policies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Murder_of_prosecutor_in_Argentina)
title: Murder of prosecutor in Argentina
uri: Murder-of-prosecutor-in-Argentina
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Murder_of_prosecutor_in_Argentina%29

content:
<p>
Argentina's president says 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/prosecutor-death-not-suicide-says-argentinian-president">prosecutor
Nisman was murdered</a>, but that his accusations were based on
others' false testimony.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Life_as_an_Activist_in_Sudan)
title: Life as an Activist in Sudan
uri: Life-as-an-Activist-in-Sudan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Life_as_an_Activist_in_Sudan%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/we-are-the-victims-of-our-own-corrupt-government-life-as-an-activist-in-sudan">"We
Are the Victims of Our Own Corrupt Government" — Life as an
Activist in Sudan</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Greek_debt)
title: Greek debt
uri: Greek-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Greek_debt%29
content:
<p>
The euro zone needs to forgive Greek debt 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/21/greece-profit-german-history-1953-debt-relief">for
its own sake</a> as well as for Greeks' sake.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Wisconsin_state_elections_board)
title: Wisconsin state elections board
uri: Wisconsin-state-elections-board
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Wisconsin_state_elections_board%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in Wisconsin 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12710/gop-injects-partisan-politics-gab-elections-board">want
to politicize the state elections board</a>.
<p>
That would help them use their current position of dominance
to get away with subtle violations of election law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Network_neutrality)
title: Network neutrality
uri: 2015-01-26-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/01/on-net-nuetrality-internet-freedom/">The
World Is Watching Our [US] Net Neutrality Debate, So Let's Get It
Right</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Obama_to_reshape_the_internet)
title: Obama to reshape the internet
uri: Obama-to-reshape-the-internet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Obama_to_reshape_the_internet%29
content:
<p>
Obama Will Fundamentally Reshape the Internet — 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/21/obama-future-of-the-internet-state-of-the-union">perhaps
for the worse</a>.


title: Breakthrough in genetically engineered bacteria
uri: Breakthrough-in-genetically-engineered-bacteria
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Breakthrough_in_genetically_engineered_bacteria)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Breakthrough_in_genetically_engineered_bacteria%29

content:
<p>
A breakthrough makes it possible to create genetically engineered
bacteria that will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/genetically-recoded-organisms-artificial-compounds">die
whenever supplies of certain artificial chemicals run out</a>.


title: Sentence cut out of State of the Union
uri: Sentence-cut-out-of-State-of-the-Union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Sentence_cut_out_of_State_of_the_Union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Sentence_cut_out_of_State_of_the_Union%29

content:
<p>
The Republican Party 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/21/republican-live-stream-cuts-obama-climate-denial-remarks">cut
out one of Obama's sentences</a> when streaming the State of the Union
address.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(The_Koch_primary)
title: The "Koch primary"
uri: The-Koch-primary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28The_Koch_primary%29
content:
<p>
US Republican election candidates have to pass through the 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12715/koch-citizens-united-fifth">"Koch
primary."</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(200_arrests_at_Seneca_Lake)
title: 200 arrests at Seneca Lake
uri: 200-arrests-at-Seneca-Lake
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28200_arrests_at_Seneca_Lake%29
content:
<p>
200 people have been arrested blocking construction of a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/22/200-arrests-ongoing-seneca-lake-uprising">giant
natural gas storage facility that could pollute Seneca Lake for
decades</a>.  This has not stopped the campaign.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Abortion_rights_in_the_US)
title: Abortion rights in the US
uri: Abortion-rights-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Abortion_rights_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Abortion rights should be for all women, but the US has been 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/22/roe-should-be-reality-all-not-just-wealthy-few">choking
them off more and more for the poor</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(UK_thug_kicks_battered_mother)
title: UK thug kicks battered mother
uri: UK-thug-kicks-battered-mother
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28UK_thug_kicks_battered_mother%29
content:
<p>
A UK thug kicked and battered a mother (to make her leave her child's
hospital bed) so badly that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/22/met-police-warren-luke-cleared-kicking-mother-child-hospital">she
needed surgery and remains injured a year later</a>.  He got impunity,
as usual.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Video_proof_of_thug_shooting)
title: Video proof of thug shooting
uri: Video-proof-of-thug-shooting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Video_proof_of_thug_shooting%29
content:
<p>
Video proves thugs 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/01/jerame-reid-police-shot-video">shot
a black man who had got out of his car with his hands up</a>.
<p>
If you watch that video, don't watch it on the youtube site because
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">that
requires running nonfree software</a>.  Use youtube-dl to download it
and watch it without nonfree software.


title: Algorithmic analysis of people's internet activities
uri: Algorithmic-analysis-of-people-s-internet-activities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Algorithmic_analysis_of_peoples_internet_activities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Algorithmic_analysis_of_peoples_internet_activities%29

content:
<p>
When employers select who to hire based on how algorithms analyze
people's internet activities, 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/21/1359060/--Like-That-Post-Lose-Your-Job-Your-Livelihood-Your-Future?detail=email">you
will never know what action might make you unemployable</a>.
<p>
This presumes that there will be a shortage of jobs, so that every
employer will be able to make candidates jump through whatever hoops.
But the same computer systems will ensure that too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Conviction_of_Barrett_Brown)
title: Conviction of Barrett Brown
uri: Conviction-of-Barrett-Brown
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Conviction_of_Barrett_Brown%29
content:
<p>
The conviction of Barrett Brown, based partly on denying that he is a
journalist, 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150122/12112129780/barrett-brown-sentenced-to-63-months-jail-daring-to-do-journalism-hacked-info.shtml">puts
all US journalists in danger</a>.
<p>
His 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/22/barrett-brown-hacking-sentencing-full-statement-text">full
statement</a>.


title: Cooperation between UK and Gaddafi
uri: Cooperation-between-UK-and-Gaddafi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Cooperation_between_UK_and_Gaddafi)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Cooperation_between_UK_and_Gaddafi%29

content:
<p>
The UK government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/22/cooperation-british-spies-gaddafi-libya-revealed-official-papers">assisted
Gaddafi's spies, torturers and thugs, even more than we knew</a>.


title: Trial of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling
uri: Trial-of-CIA-whistleblower-Jeffrey-Sterling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Trial_of_CIA_whistleblower_Jeffrey_Sterling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Trial_of_CIA_whistleblower_Jeffrey_Sterling%29

content:
<p>
The US government's evidence against Jeffrey Sterling is that he had
non-secret documents about using rotary dial phones — which were
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/01/21/u-s-tries-to-convict-jeffrey.html">retroactively
labeled as secret</a>.


title: DEA mass surveillance of phone calls
uri: DEA-mass-surveillance-of-phone-calls
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(DEA_mass_surveillance_of_phone_calls)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28DEA_mass_surveillance_of_phone_calls%29

content:
<p>
The Drug Enforcement Agency has carried out 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-drug-enforcement-agency-halts-huge-secret-data-program-2015-1">massive
indiscriminate surveillance of phone call records</a> for 15 years.


title: Urgent: Accountability of Monsanto
uri: Urgent-Accountability-of-Monsanto
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Urgent:_Accountability_of_Monsanto)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Accountability_of_Monsanto%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/monsanto-agm/">Tell Monsanto
shareholders</a> to vote for accountability.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Tax_loopholes)
title: Tax loopholes
uri: Tax-loopholes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Tax_loopholes%29
content:
<p>
Google, Apple and others are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/21/us-tech-tax-avoidance-google-amazon-apple">lobbying
to prevent governments from closing the tax loopholes</a> that enable
them to pay almost no taxes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Boston_city_employees_gagged)
title: Boston city employees gagged
uri: Boston-city-employees-gagged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Boston_city_employees_gagged%29
content:
<p>
Boston signed a contract that 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150122/05334329775/boston-city-employees-barred-hating-olympics-mayor-says-free-speech-still-intact.shtml">forbids
city employees from criticizing Boston's Olympic bid</a>.
<p>
It is not clear the city has the right to impose this on its
employees, but they might be scared to go against it.  Maybe we can
help them get the courage.


title: Unaccountable, unelected billionaires
uri: Unaccountable-unelected-billionaires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Unaccountable,_unelected_billionaires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Unaccountable%2C_unelected_billionaires%29

content:
<p>
Unaccountable, unelected billionaires 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/jan/22/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-annual-letter-accountability">should
not decide world policies</a>.
<p>
Why the "reverence" for statements from the Gates Foundation?  It
gives grants to many organizations; many more apply for hope for
grants.  These organizations don't dare criticize whatever Gates
decides to say.


title: Houthi rebels overthrow gov't of Yemen
uri: Houthi-rebels-overthrow-gov-t-of-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 26_January_2015_(Houthi_rebels_overthrow_govt_of_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#26_January_2015_%28Houthi_rebels_overthrow_govt_of_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
The Houthi rebels 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/yemeni-government-quits-houthi-rebellion">have
overthrown the government of Yemen</a>, though they said this was not
their aim.
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=12415">They hate al
Qa'ida and the US</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Leaks_of_students_personal_data)
title: Leaks of students' personal data
uri: Leaks-of-students-personal-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Leaks_of_students_personal_data%29

content:
<p>
US schools are starting to become concerned about 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-01-student-digital-privacy-parents-teachers.html">leaks
of students' personal data</a>.


title: Tracking tags on Obamacare web site
uri: Tracking-tags-on-Obamacare-web-site
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Tracking_tags_on_Obamacare_web_site)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Tracking_tags_on_Obamacare_web_site%29

content:
<p>
Activists reproach the Obamacare web site for hosting the tracking
tags that 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-01-privacy-health-website-prompt-reversal.html">enable
companies to monitor visitors to the site</a>.
<p>
It should be illegal for the web site of any government agency, or any
commercial service acting for such an agency, to give out <em>any</em>
visitors' personal data to <em>any</em> other entity unless this is
required by law or the agency publishes those data.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Russian_proxy_forces_in_Ukraine)
title: Russian proxy forces in Ukraine
uri: Russian-proxy-forces-in-Ukraine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Russian_proxy_forces_in_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
Russian proxy forces in Ukraine are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/24/missile-attack-pro-russian-rebels-ukraine-mariupol-donetsk">firing
long-range missiles at Mariupol</a>.
<p>
Mariupol is far away from the area that rebelled.  If the rebels were
really just rebels, they would not be interested in Mariupol.  Putin,
however, has a motive to conquer Mariupol: to link the conquered
Crimea with Russia.
<p>
Thus we have two more proofs that the "rebels" are a Russian proxy
force.  This is in addition to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#14_November_2014_(NATO_says_Russian_tanks_in_Ukraine)">all 
the Russian tanks and heavy weapons they have</a>, and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#22_January_2015_(Business_trips_for_Russian_soldiers)">all
the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(UK_public_housing)
title: UK public housing
uri: UK-public-housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28UK_public_housing%29
content:
<p>
The UK government said it would encourage people to buy the public
housing they live in, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/24/coalition-right-to-buy-pledge">build
replacements</a>.  It did the first but quietly neglected the second.


title: Disappeared Mexican student protesters
uri: Disappeared-Mexican-student-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Disappeared_Mexican_student_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Disappeared_Mexican_student_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Surviving companions of the 43 disappeared Mexican student protesters
insist that the army was involved in the deed, and present 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/24/survivors-mexico-student-attack-guerrero-accuse-army-and-police">proof</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Chinas_repression)
title: China's repression
uri: China-s-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Chinas_repression%29
content:
<p>
As China's repression intensifies, lawyer Pu Zhiquiang who defended
many human rights activists is himself a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/24/crackdown-activists-china-nascent-civil-society-pu-zhiquaing">political
prisoner</a>.
<p>
China is 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-01-china-blocks-vpn-skirt-online.html">blocking
access to some VPNs</a>.


title: Toxic chemicals from California oil wells
uri: Toxic-chemicals-from-California-oil-wells
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Toxic_chemicals_from_California_oil_wells)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Toxic_chemicals_from_California_oil_wells%29

content:
<p>
Oil wells in California were found to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/23/fossil-fuel-industry-gives-california-communities-breath-toxic-air-report">emit
various toxic chemicals into the air</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Fears_of_terrorism)
title: Fears of terrorism
uri: Fears-of-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Fears_of_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
A film festival in Belgium was cancelled because of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/23/terrorism--closure-of-belgian-film-festival">fears
of terrorism</a>.
<p>
Terrorists don't even need a real bomb to cancel an event.


title: Classifying Media and Encryption as a Threat
uri: Classifying-Media-and-Encryption-as-a-Threat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Classifying_Media_and_Encryption_as_a_Threat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Classifying_Media_and_Encryption_as_a_Threat%29

content:
<p>
Committee to Protect Journalists: 
<a href="http://cpj.org/blog/2015/01/classifying-media-and-encryption-as-a-threat-is-da.php">Classifying
Media And Encryption as a Threat Is Danger to Press Freedom</a>.


title: Hollywood glamorization of the CIA
uri: Hollywood-glamorization-of-the-CIA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Hollywood_glamorization_of_the_CIA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Hollywood_glamorization_of_the_CIA%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/23/homeland-legitimizing-torture-lies-and-killer-drones">'Homeland':
Legitimizing Torture, Lies and Killer Drones</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Methane_leaks)
title: Methane leaks
uri: Methane-leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Methane_leaks%29
content:
<p>
Methane leaks in cities mean that 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/bostons-got-gas-as-methane-seeps-from-city-18579">natural
gas contributes more to global heating than was believed</a>.
<p>
The idea that natural gas is a good "bridge" to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions is based on a series of underestimates of its 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_September_2014_(Methane_leaks_from_fracking)">greenhouse
gas impact</a>.


title: Homeless people removed from streets of Manila
uri: Homeless-people-removed-from-streets-of-Manila
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Homeless_people_removed_from_streets_of_Manila)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Homeless_people_removed_from_streets_of_Manila%29

content:
<p>
The Philippines put homeless people from the streets of Manila
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/23/homeless-philippines-taken-off-street-pope-visit">to
a hotel</a> so the city would look nice for the Pope's visit.
<p>
It's funny when they say that they aimed to make Manila look like a
first-world city.  US cities haven't looked like that since the 1970s.
<p>
In the US, they make the city prettier by chasing the homeless out.
This hotel stay was an inefficient form of support for the homeless,
but at least it didn't do them any American-style harm or wrong.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Rhino_poaching)
title: Rhino poaching
uri: Rhino-poaching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Rhino_poaching%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/23/can-anything-stop-the-rhino-poaching-crisis">Can
Anything Stop the Rhino Poaching Crisis?</a>
<p>
I recall reading about a scheme that involved injecting live rhinos'
horns with something that made them unsalable but did not hurt the
rhino.  Why isn't that being used?


title: Two countries reject human rights for children
uri: Two-countries-reject-human-rights-for-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Two_countries_reject_human_rights_for_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Two_countries_reject_human_rights_for_children%29

content:
<p>
The only two countries that have rejected the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/23/us-may-soon-stand-alone-opposing-childrens-treaty">South
Sudan and the US</a>.
<p>
It is funny how legislators that want to approve the TPP would object
to human rights for children as a "violation of sovereignty".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Ethiopias_Media_Crackdown)
title: Ethiopia's Media Crackdown
uri: Ethiopia-s-Media-Crackdown
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Ethiopias_Media_Crackdown%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/23/ethiopias-media-crackdown-is-bad-news-for-africa">Ethiopia's
Media Crackdown Is Bad News for Africa</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(The_genocide_of_the_Armenians)
title: The genocide of the Armenians
uri: The-genocide-of-the-Armenians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28The_genocide_of_the_Armenians%29
content:
<p>
Who remembers the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/23/armenians-want-acknowledgment-that-1915-massacre-was-crime-geoffrey-robertson">genocide
of the Armenians</a>?  And why is it important?
<p>
Turkey commits a crime against freedom by prohibiting recognition of
the genocide carried out by the Ottoman leaders, and France commits a
similar crime by banning denial of the genocide.  Hrant Dink, who
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#13_January_2014_(Freedom_of_speech_in_Turkey_and_France)">defied
the first prohibition and said he would defy the other</a>, should be
our hero.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Viciousness_of_King_Abdullah)
title: Viciousness of King Abdullah
uri: Viciousness-of-King-Abdullah
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Viciousness_of_King_Abdullah%29
content:
<p>
You can't find a more vicious ruler than King Abdullah,
but he was loyal to the plutocracy, so 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/23/saudi-arabias-king-misremembered-man-peace/">many
plutocratist politicians and newspapers whitewash him</a>.
<p>
Compare what Obama said about Abdullah with 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/23/compare-contrast-obamas-reaction-king-abdullah-hugo-chavez/">what
Obama said when Hugo Chavez died</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Relocation_of_rare_animals)
title: "Relocation" of rare animals
uri: Relocation-of-rare-animals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Relocation_of_rare_animals%29
content:
<p>
Many construction projects "relocate" rare animals with the idea that
this will prevent their extinction; but it is done carelessly and
often they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/23/relocation-of-animals-could-drive-some-species-towards-extinction-study">end
up dying</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Brazil_imposes_water_rationing)
title: Brazil imposes water rationing
uri: Brazil-imposes-water-rationing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Brazil_imposes_water_rationing%29

content:
<p>
Brazil has imposed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/23/brazil-worst-drought-history">water
rationing and electric power cuts</a> due to an unprecedented drought.
<p>
In effect, the illegal loggers in the west of Brazil are now
threatening the lives of people in the east, as well as the aborigines
that live in the forests they destroy.  Brazilians from cities must
declare war on illegal logging, and return the plantations to the
jungle.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(UK_tax_and_policy_changes)
title: UK tax and policy changes
uri: UK-tax-and-policy-changes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28UK_tax_and_policy_changes%29
content:
<p>
UK tax and policy changes have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/23/tax-benefits-changes-uk-households-cost-1000-pounds-a-year">hit
the poor</a> worst.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Drone_assassinations)
title: Drone assassinations
uri: Drone-assassinations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Drone_assassinations%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/23/drones-and-new-ethics-war">Drones
and the New Ethics of War</a>.
<p>
Drone assassinations are so imprecise that they kill on the average 
<a href="http://www.reprieve.org/us-drone-strikes-kill-28-unknown-people-for-every-intended-target-new-reprieve-report-reveals.html">28
unknown people for each target killed</a>.
<p>
Anti-drone protester Kathy Kelly's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/23/my-future-prison">statement</a>
about going to prison.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 27_January_2015_(Lake_Urmia)
title: Lake Urmia
uri: Lake-Urmia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#27_January_2015_%28Lake_Urmia%29
content:
<p>
Lake Urmia in Iran has shrunk to just 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2015/jan/23/iran-lake-urmia-drying-up-new-research-scientists-urge-action">10%
of its size in the 70s</a>.  No one is sure why, but I suspect it is
human diversion of water that used to flow into the lake.


title: Urgent: Domestic Corrupt Practices Act
uri: Urgent-Domestic-Corrupt-Practices-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Urgent:_Domestic_Corrupt_Practices_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Domestic_Corrupt_Practices_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for a Domestic Corrupt Practices Act to 
<a href="http://vk.rootstrikers.org/petitions/173">match the Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Freedom-respecting_devices)
title: Freedom-respecting devices
uri: Freedom-respecting-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Freedom-respecting_devices%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/people-will-pay-for-true-ownership">People
will pay a premium</a> for devices they can change the software in.
<p>
I suppose the fact that companies still design computers to prevent
users from changing the software indicates that there are very strong
commercial or legal pressures on them.  We have to change that with
new laws.
<p>
Note that an iThing is an injustice even if jailbroken.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(BBC_news_slant)
title: BBC news slant
uri: BBC-news-slant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28BBC_news_slant%29
content:
<p>
The BBC and its Canadian counterpart 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/20/broadcasters-mouthpieces-of-elite-balanced-news-journalists">slant
the news towards the power of business</a>.


title: Suppression of Senate torture report
uri: Suppression-of-Senate-torture-report
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Suppression_of_Senate_torture_report)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Suppression_of_Senate_torture_report%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/21/cia-torture-report-architect-denounces-republican-claw-back-copies">Republicans
in the senate want to cooperate with Obama</a> in suppressing the
Senate torture report.
<p>
Republicans usually hate everything Democrats do, and obstruct it just
for the sake of obstruction.  But they make an bipartisan exception
for the truly evil.


title: European Commission trade treaties
uri: European-Commission-trade-treaties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(European_Commission_trade_treaties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28European_Commission_trade_treaties%29

content:
<p>
The European Commission is sneakily 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150120/08264429758/european-commissions-clever-ruse-to-introduce-corporate-sovereignty-regardless-ratification-votes-eu.shtml">trying
to make trade treaties give corporations special powers</a> even if
the treaties are not ratified.
<p>
If Syriza wins the Greek election tomorrow, Syriza could block
ratification of these treaties, and it should do so for the sake of
all of Europe.  Has Syriza said anything about this?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Urgent:_Reject_the_TPP)
title: Urgent: Reject the TPP
uri: 2015-01-28-Urgent-Reject-the-TPP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_the_TPP%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=14928">tell
your congresscritter and senators</a> to reject the TPP because it
will surely threaten the environment and block efforts to slow global
heating.


title: False charges against police officer
uri: False-charges-against-police-officer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(False_charges_against_police_officer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28False_charges_against_police_officer%29

content:
<p>
Police officer John Buttress opposed racist searches of people on the
street, so the thugs he works with have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/23/greater-manchester-police-smear-campaign-john-buttress">repeatedly
made false criminal charges against him</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Ungrateful_Senator)
title: Ungrateful Senator
uri: Ungrateful-Senator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Ungrateful_Senator%29
content:
<p>
Senator Joni Ernst grew up poor and her family depended on government
aid.  Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of it.
<p>
Now she ungratefully 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/22/1359464/-Living-within-their-means-Family-of-Senator-Joni-Ernst-received-460-000-in-federal-aid?detail=email">campaigns
to deny the aid to poor families</a> today.


title: Maine kicks 6000 people off food stamps
uri: Maine-kicks-6000-people-off-food-stamps
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Maine_kicks_6000_people_off_food_stamps)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Maine_kicks_6000_people_off_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
The Republican ruling Maine 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/21/1359263/-Maine-boots-thousands-off-of-food-stamps-for-not-having-jobs-that-don-t-exist?detail=email">kicked
6000 people off food stamps</a> because they are supposed to be
working, though there are no jobs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(US_gun_laws_for_whites)
title: US gun laws for whites
uri: US-gun-laws-for-whites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28US_gun_laws_for_whites%29
content:
<p>
US gun laws permitting people to carry guns are 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/22/1359564/-62-year-old-black-grandfather-choked-and-held-down-by-3-white-men-who-see-his-legal-firearm?detail=email">only
for whites</a>.  If you're black and you carry a gun, you are likely
to get attacked even if you don't threaten anyone.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Paying_workers_by_check)
title: Paying workers by check
uri: Paying-workers-by-check
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Paying_workers_by_check%29
content:
<p>
Paying workers by check
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/22/1359446/-Americans-spend-103-billion-a-year-on-predatory-lenders-Postal-banking-could-change-that?detail=email">forces
low-income households to lose $3000 a year</a> to paycheck lenders and
such like.
<p>
If you were a low-wage worker 70 years ago, you didn't have to pay a
substantial part of your wages just to receive the pay owed to you.
You got it in cash.
<p>
This is one way our economy is structured to crush the poor.  Others
include the practice of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_March_2014_(Jailed_for_inability_to_pay_fine_and_fined_for_being_in_jail)">fining 
poor people for being jailed when they can't pay a fee</a>, and the
fact that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_March_2014_(Food_deserts_in_Atlanta_and_Chicago)">poor 
people have access only to expensive food stores</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Fukushima_reactors_in_the_US)
title: Fukushima reactors in the US
uri: Fukushima-reactors-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Fukushima_reactors_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/23/nrc-were-keeping-fukushima-style-nuclear-reactors-going">refuses
to shut down the reactors</a> that are identical to those that failed
disastrously at Fukushima.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Journalism_criminalized_in_the_US)
title: Journalism criminalized in the US
uri: Journalism-criminalized-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Journalism_criminalized_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Quinn Norton says that 
<a href="https://medium.com/message/we-should-all-step-back-from-security-journalism-e474cd67e2fa">proper
journalism about alleged security breaches</a> is now effectively
criminalized in the US, and he does not dare continue it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Google_secret_subpoena)
title: Google secret subpoena
uri: Google-secret-subpoena
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Google_secret_subpoena%29
content:
<p>
Google received a secret subpoena 3 years ago for essentially 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/25/wikileaks-google-staff-emails-us-government">all
its data about some Wikileaks employees</a>.


title: Sites blocked by UK internet filters
uri: Sites-blocked-by-UK-internet-filters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Sites_blocked_by_UK_internet_filters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Sites_blocked_by_UK_internet_filters%29

content:
<p>
UK internet filters to "protect children" block a wide range of web sites,
including 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/24/internet-filters-block-sex-abuse-charities">charities
that help young people</a>.


title: Decreasing wages and spreading poverty
uri: Decreasing-wages-and-spreading-poverty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Decreasing_wages_and_spreading_poverty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Decreasing_wages_and_spreading_poverty%29

content:
<p>
The growth of inequality (the richest 1% will soon own more than the
rest of the world) is linked with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/25/davos-and-myths-of-executive-pay">decreasing
wages and spreading poverty</a>.
<p>
All economic activity 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/25/investors-should-keep-a-moral-compass-inside-their-portfolio">needs
a moral compass</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(How_PISSI_justifies_atrocities)
title: How PISSI justifies atrocities
uri: How-PISSI-justifies-atrocities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28How_PISSI_justifies_atrocities%29

content:
<p>
PISSI justifies a wide range of atrocities 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/25/inside-isis-training-camps">with
examples from the Quran</a>.


title: State of the Union global heating proposals
uri: State-of-the-Union-global-heating-proposals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(State_of_the_Union_global_heating_proposals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28State_of_the_Union_global_heating_proposals%29

content:
<p>
Comparing 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/21/center-biological-diversitys-statement-president-obamas-state-union-address">what
we need to do about global heating</a> with Obama's State of the Union
proposals.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(FBI_computer_cracking)
title: FBI computer cracking
uri: FBI-computer-cracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28FBI_computer_cracking%29
content:
<p>
The FBI wants to be allowed to crack computers under 
<a href="https://privacysos.org/node/1578">very broad and vague search
orders</a>.


title: Prudish campaign against lousy newspaper
uri: Prudish-campaign-against-lousy-newspaper
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Prudish_campaign_against_lousy_newspaper)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Prudish_campaign_against_lousy_newspaper%29

content:
<p>
There is now principled opposition to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/25/should-page-3-campaign-be-abandoned-debate">prudish
campaign to bully a lousy UK newspaper</a> to stop printing bare
breasts on page 3.
<p>
I agree with Fleet Street Fox on this.  What's really wrong with that
paper is <em>everything else</em> in it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Kindness_and_cooperation)
title: Kindness and cooperation
uri: Kindness-and-cooperation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Kindness_and_cooperation%29
content:
<p>
Science has found lots of evidence that kindness and cooperation are
<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/02/201222023301844664.html">part
of biological human nature</a>.
<p>
I would not say, however, that "humans are naturally nice".
Biological human nature is complex and includes other kinds of
attitudes too.


title: Republicans to return Panetta report
uri: Republicans-to-return-Panetta-report
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Republicans_to_return_Panetta_report)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Republicans_to_return_Panetta_report%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in the Senate 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/21/gop-senator-seeks-put-cia-smoking-gun-back-bottle">plan
to give back to the CIA the leaked Panetta report</a> which showed the
senate CIA crimes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(PR_campaign_for_GMOs)
title: PR campaign for GMOs
uri: PR-campaign-for-GMOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28PR_campaign_for_GMOs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/21/seedy-business-new-report-digs-beneath-agrichemical-industrys-high-cost-pr-machine">The
Big Ag $100-million PR campaign for GMOs</a>.


title: Netanyahu sends drones against Hezbollah
uri: Netanyahu-sends-drones-against-Hezbollah
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Netanyahu_sends_drones_against_Hezbollah)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Netanyahu_sends_drones_against_Hezbollah%29

content:
<p>
Why did Netanyahu send drones against Hezbollah, which did not
threaten Israel?  Uri Avnery believes it was to 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1422014990/">provoke
a war so he could win the election</a>.
<p>
But it failed, because Hezbollah declined to help him out.


title: Reason for Britain to leave the EU
uri: Reason-for-Britain-to-leave-the-EU
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Reason_for_Britain_to_leave_the_EU)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Reason_for_Britain_to_leave_the_EU%29

content:
<p>
One reason for the Britain to leave the EU: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/24/britain-must-remain-in-europe-says-goldman-sachs-president">it
is what Goldman Sachs does not want</a>.
<p>
This is not a matter of petty revenge: the power of Goldman Sachs is a
tremendously harmful effect.  Britons suffer greatly from the policies
the UK adopts to be a good platform for that and other big banks, and
so does the rest of the world.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Violent_no-knock_SWAT_raids)
title: Violent no-knock SWAT raids
uri: Violent-no-knock-SWAT-raids
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Violent_no-knock_SWAT_raids%29
content:
<p>
What sort of law should be used to protect people from 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/23/bou-bous-law-would-restrict-no-knock-pol">violent
no-knock SWAT raids</a>?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 28_January_2015_(Progressive_policies)
title: Progressive policies
uri: Progressive-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#28_January_2015_%28Progressive_policies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://fair.org/blog/2015/01/21/progressive-policies-are-popular-so-why-should-democrats-be-afraid-of-them/">Progressive
Policies Are Popular So Why Should Democrats Be Afraid of Them?</a>


title: US stops insisting on driving Assad out
uri: US-stops-insisting-on-driving-Assad-out
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(US_stops_insisting_on_driving_Assad_out)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28US_stops_insisting_on_driving_Assad_out%29

content:
<p>
The US has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/25/us-syrian-regime-change-isis-priority">dropped
the insistence</a> on driving Assad out of power in Syria.
<p>
It has been clear for two years that this 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_June_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Obama_not_to_intervene_in_Syria)">made
no sense</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Genetically_modified_mosquitoes)
title: Genetically modified mosquitoes
uri: Genetically-modified-mosquitoes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Genetically_modified_mosquitoes%29

content:
<p>
Genetically modified mosquitoes (which can't reproduce) 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/25/researchers-mosquito-bites-cure-disease-await-fda-approval">offer
a way to rid Florida of the mosquito's that spread Dengue and
Chikungunya</a>.
<p>
I think it is plausible that these mosquito's are a safe way to prevent
those diseases from spreading, but there are many ways things could go
wrong.  Even though they are unlikely, they might conceivably have
very bad consequences.  I think it would be wise to investigate ways
things could go wrong, to try to make them less likely, or demonstrate
that the consequences would be bounded.


title: Building new homes for the non-rich
uri: Building-new-homes-for-the-non-rich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Building_new_homes_for_the_non-rich)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Building_new_homes_for_the_non-rich%29

content:
<p>
The Obama administration took a small step that will fund building
around 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/22/3614296/national-housing-trust-fund-homelessness/">8000
new homes a year for the non-rich</a>.
<p>
Make that 50 times as big and it would solve the US housing problem
in a reasonable time.


title: Corporations United and Big Oil's bribes
uri: Corporations-United-and-Big-Oil-s-bribes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Corporations_United_and_Big_Oils_bribes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Corporations_United_and_Big_Oils_bribes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/how-citizens-united-paved-the-way-for-big-oils-bribes/">How
Citizens United (sic) Paved the Way for Big Oil's Bribes</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Preventing_natural_gas_terminals)
title: Preventing natural gas terminals
uri: Preventing-natural-gas-terminals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Preventing_natural_gas_terminals%29

content:
<p>
Activists in New York and New Jersey are 
<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/fracktivists-fight-liquefied-natural-gas-terminal-near-nyc/">trying
to prevent natural gas export terminals that would encourage
fracking</a>.
<p>
The low price of oil may make it easier to prevent fracking in the US
as some fracking companies are already folding.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Wikipedia_sides_with_Gamergate)
title: Wikipedia sides with Gamergate
uri: Wikipedia-sides-with-Gamergate
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Wikipedia_sides_with_Gamergate%29

content:
<p>
Wikipedia has taken the side of Gamergate, ruling that the
Gamergate-supporting editors can write the pages about the women that
Gamergate attacked, and 
<a href="http://www.markbernstein.org/Jan15/Infamous.html">banning the
editors who opposed them</a>.
<p>
Many years ago, a clique of people that don't want the GNU system
to be mentioned 
<a href="http://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">took effective control
of pages that concern the GNU/Linux system</a>, expunging the term
"GNU/Linux" from nearly all of them and banning people that tried to
resist.  I tried to activate Wikipedia's decision procedure but was
unable to even get it started.


title: Obama's proposal for reforming mass surveillance
uri: Obama-s-proposal-for-reforming-mass-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Obamas_proposal_for_reforming_mass_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Obamas_proposal_for_reforming_mass_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Obama has 
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/22/us-usa-security-metadata-idUSKBN0KV2NC20150122">dropped
his inadequate proposal</a> for reforming massive surveillance of the
telephone records of everyone in the US (and elsewhere).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Arrested_for_carrying_flash_cards)
title: Arrested for carrying flash cards
uri: Arrested-for-carrying-flash-cards
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Arrested_for_carrying_flash_cards%29

content:
<p>
A court ruled that airport thugs did wrong to arrest Nick George for
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech-national-security-technology-and-liberty/i-was-arrested-learning-foreign-language-t">carrying
flash cards to learn Arabic</a>.


title: UK adopts standard US right-wing lie
uri: UK-adopts-standard-US-right-wing-lie
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(UK_adopts_standard_US_right-wing_lie)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28UK_adopts_standard_US_right-wing_lie%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/26/david-cameron-tax-cuts-reward-for-sacrifice">adopted
a standard US right-wing lie</a>: that rich people got their money by
earning it and deserve to possess it.
<p>
Rich people mostly get their money by investing piles of money, and by
working other people to the bone.  In the past few decade they have
redistributed lots of wealth and lots of income from the rest of the
population to them.  Now we need to redistribute it back.


title: Kurds drive PISSI fighters out of Kobani
uri: Kurds-drive-PISSI-fighters-out-of-Kobani
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Kurds_drive_PISSI_fighters_out_of_Kobani)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Kurds_drive_PISSI_fighters_out_of_Kobani%29

content:
<p>
The Kurds have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/26/kurdish-forces-take-control-kobani-syria">driven
PISSI fighters out of Kobani</a>.
<p>
Kobani has no special strategic significance, but it is good to
prevent civilians from being massacred, and the attempt to take Kobani
has bled PISSI badly.


title: Mass surveillance threatens human rights
uri: Mass-surveillance-threatens-human-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Mass_surveillance_threatens_human_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Mass_surveillance_threatens_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
The Council of Europe determined that the US and UK's massive surveillance
is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/26/mass-surveillance-threat-human-rights-council-europe">fundamental
threat to human rights</a>.
<p>
That is true, but keep in mind that many other countries do massive
surveillance without even the feeble legal limits that the NSA and
GCHQ brush aside.


title: Previous modelling of global eating effects
uri: Previous-modelling-of-global-eating-effects
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Previous_modelling_of_global_eating_effects)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Previous_modelling_of_global_eating_effects%29

content:
<p>
Previous modelling that predicted poor countries would cope with
global heating using their economic growth overlooked a crucial
factor: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jan/26/climate-change-could-impact-poor-much-more-than-previously-thought">due
to global heating, they won't have economic growth</a>.
<p>
Their inability to invest in countering effects of global heating
means that heating will cause even more economic losses.  So the way
to maximize economic growth is to invest in curbing global heating.
<p>
The previous modelling had another flaw: it gave too positive much
significance to economic growth as a factor for general well-being.
Even if a country has economic growth, a plutocratic state will not
spend that on keeping poor people's livelihoods viable; the rich would
rather buy their way out of the consequences of global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(UK_considers_censorship_of_book)
title: UK considers censorship of book
uri: UK-considers-censorship-of-book
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28UK_considers_censorship_of_book%29

content:
<p>
The UK is considering an attack on human rights: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/26/uk-consider-ban-mein-kampf-holocaust-memorial-day">censorship</a>
of a particular book.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Syriza)
title: Syriza
uri: Syriza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Syriza%29
content:
<p>
Syriza won the Greek election and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/26/syriza-forms-government-rightwing-independent-greeks-party">formed
an anti-austerity government</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2015/01/25/syriza-victory-greece-could-be-historic-turning-point-eurozone-economic-policy">Syriza
Victory in Greece Could Be a "Historic Turning Point" for Eurozone
Economic Policy, CEPR Co-Director Says</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/26/syriza-greeks-dream-again-struggle-beginning">Syriza
Has Allowed Greeks to Dream Again.  But the Real Struggle Is Just
Beginning</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Counter-terrorism_spreads_fear)
title: "Counter-terrorism" spreads fear
uri: Counter-terrorism-spreads-fear
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Counter-terrorism_spreads_fear%29

content:
<p>
Terrorism is designed to spread fear.  "Counter-terrorism" 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/26/fbi-surveillance-counterterrorism-entrapment-terror-documentary-sundance">contributes
to spreading fear</a>.
<p>
It is not clear that catching incompetents who can be led into acts of
terrorism does any good for society.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Belfast_Project_interview_tapes)
title: Belfast Project interview tapes
uri: Belfast-Project-interview-tapes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Belfast_Project_interview_tapes%29

content:
<p>
Prosecutors in the UK are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/24/ira-gunmen-face-arrest-boston-college-belfast-project-tapes">trying
to get the interview tapes which the Belfast Project made</a>,
promising confidentiality until the subjects are dead.
<p>
I think the historians of the Belfast Project are honor-bound to
destroy these interviews so as to carry out their promise, for the
sake of future historical projects — even though they would
be imprisoned for this.
<p>
This has nothing to do with the IRA's cause, which I don't support
even slightly.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Severance_pay_for_Target_CEO)
title: Severance pay for Target CEO
uri: Severance-pay-for-Target-CEO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Severance_pay_for_Target_CEO%29
content:
<p>
Target in Canada fired 17000 workers and its CEO.  The severance pay for
the CEO 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/22/1359557/-Compensation-for-ousted-CEO-is-roughly-the-same-as-the-total-compensation-for-17-600-workers?detail=email">equals
the severance pay for 17000 workers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Reporter_flees_Argentina)
title: Reporter flees Argentina
uri: Reporter-flees-Argentina
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Reporter_flees_Argentina%29
content:
<p>
A reporter has fled Argentina due to death threats.  He was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/26/reporter-flees-argentina-after-threats-in-case-of-dead-prosecutor-alberto-nisman">writing
about the recently murdered prosecutor</a>.


title: Everyday harassment provokes mental illness
uri: Everyday-harassment-provokes-mental-illness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Everyday_harassment_provokes_mental_illness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Everyday_harassment_provokes_mental_illness%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/26/sexism-is-making-women-sick">Everyday
harassment and danger of violence</a> provoke mental illness, among
blacks and among women.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 29_January_2015_(Censorship_pressure_in_the_EU)
title: Censorship pressure in the EU
uri: Censorship-pressure-in-the-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#29_January_2015_%28Censorship_pressure_in_the_EU%29
content:
<p>
There is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/25/jewish-leaders-europe-legislation-outlawing-antisemitism">pressure
to ban a broad collection of unsavory political positions and
historical views</a> in the EU.
<p>
I don't like those positions, and I don't agree with those views,
but this censorship violates basic human rights.
<p>
The UK Green Party leader condemned 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/25/terrorist-organisation-membership-no-crime-say-greens">criminalization
of membership in terrorist organizations</a>.
<p>
Certainly having sympathy with the aims of a terrorist organization
should not be a crime — because that is thoughtcrime.
<p>
Membership in an organization that uses criminal means is a borderline
case, because it accepts in a way responsibility for that
organization's actions, not only its aims.
<p>
However, organizations should never be 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_March_2014_(Motorcycle_club_members_charged_with_crime_of_associating)">banned
by decree</a>.  That should require a trial.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Ending_massive_surveillance)
title: Ending massive surveillance
uri: Ending-massive-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Ending_massive_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The EFF's 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/effs-game-plan-ending-global-mass-surveillance">new
plan for ending massive general surveillance</a> would not achieve its
goal.
<p>
It leaves many kinds of surveillance unaddressed:

<ul>
<li>Tracking people in general (not just court-designated suspects)
with cameras as they walk around town.

<li>Tracking cars in general (not just court-designated suspects)
with cameras as they drive around.

<li>Tracking and recording the locations of mobile phones
(not just those of court-designated suspects).

<li>Car insurance that requires you agree to location tracking.

<li>Cars that do location tracking for the manufacturer.

<li>Systems that take photos and audio of passengers in
taxis and buses and make that available remotely.

<li>Appliances such as the Fitbit and "smart" TVs, that send personal
data to centralized data bases.

<li>Web sites that track their visitors and accumulate personal
information for data brokers

<li>"Services" that are bait to get people to identify themselves and
reveal details about themselves.

<li>"Services" that most people can't resist the pressure to use, that
collect data about them.

<li>Centralized data bases that record what prescriptions you got
or what medical conditions you have.

<li>Payment methods that record what people buy.
</ul>

To stop these kinds of surveillance, we must go 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">far
beyond what the EFF proposes</a>.  We have no chance of winning this
in the short term, but if we don't demand it, we will never win it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Shooting_protesters_in_Egypt)
title: Shooting protesters in Egypt
uri: Shooting-protesters-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Shooting_protesters_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>
There seems to be a dispute inside the Egyptian military government
about whether it was acceptable to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/26/egypt-female-protester-death-condemnation-egyptian-state-media">shoot
a female protester dead for no reason</a>.
<p>
Shooting male protesters, however, they do without a qualm.  Did they
get this policy from the US?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Global_heating_effects)
title: Global heating effects
uri: 2015-01-31-Global-heating-effects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Global_heating_effects%29
content:
<p>
Global heating 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/26/climate-change-responsible-super-charging-winter-storms">makes
winter storms stronger</a>.


title: Urgent: Title-II network neutrality
uri: Urgent-Title-II-network-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Urgent:_Title-II_network_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Title-II_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to say, please sign the Ellison-Waters letter and support full 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#20_January_2015_(Network_neutrality)">Title-II
network neutrality</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Oppose donations to Scalise
uri: Urgent-Oppose-donations-to-Scalise
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Urgent:_Oppose_donations_to_Scalise)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_donations_to_Scalise%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1079">call on US
companies</a> not to donate to Representative Scalise, who has
associated with right-wing extremists.


title: Urgent: Support Greece in ending austerity
uri: Urgent-Support-Greece-in-ending-austerity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Urgent:_Support_Greece_in_ending_austerity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Greece_in_ending_austerity%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/Obama-respect-Greek-election">call
on Obama and Congress</a> to use their influence with the EU to
support Greece in ending austerity.


title: Urgent: Stop racial discrimination
uri: Urgent-Stop-racial-discrimination
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Urgent:_Stop_racial_discrimination)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_racial_discrimination%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/petition/south-boston">Tell
McDonalds</a> to stop practicing racial discrimination on its staff.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Urgent:_Medical_Innovation_Act)
title: Urgent: Medical Innovation Act
uri: Urgent-Medical-Innovation-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Medical_Innovation_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://my.elizabethwarren.com/page/s/nihbill">support</a>
Senator Warren's Medical Innovation Act.


title: Pfizer accused of profiteering from poor
uri: Pfizer-accused-of-profiteering-from-poor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Pfizer_accused_of_profiteering_from_poor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Pfizer_accused_of_profiteering_from_poor%29

content:
<p>
Medecins sans Frontiers accused Pfizer of profiteering from poor
countries by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/26/vaccine-price-cut-pledge-pfizer">charging
them too much for pneumococcal disease vaccine</a>.
<p>
I am all in favor of MSF's efforts, but let's not forget what created
the problem and made the efforts necessary: the World Trade
Organization.  The US and Europe pressured most countries to join it,
and one consequence is allowing patents on medicines, which is what
enables Pfizer to impose a high price on vaccines even in poor
countries.
<p>
Pfizer surely lobbied the plutocratic states to get this result, so it
is to blame for creating the opportunity as well as for using it.
<p>
The WTO is also responsible for low pay and bad working conditions
around the world, so it is truly a monster.  Its consequences show up
in many areas of life.  If we ignore the root cause of these problems,
we are reduced to treating symptoms forever.


title: Israel puts minors under house arrest
uri: Israel-puts-minors-under-house-arrest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Israel_puts_minors_under_house_arrest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Israel_puts_minors_under_house_arrest%29

content:
<p>
Israel releases imprisoned minors to house arrest, 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/70384">making parents act as
jailers for their own children</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Obama_proposes_more_oil_drilling)
title: Obama proposes more oil drilling
uri: Obama-proposes-more-oil-drilling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Obama_proposes_more_oil_drilling%29

content:
<p>
Obama proposes more oil drilling 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/27/white-house-obama-plan-offshore-drilling-atlantic-ocean">in
the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Atlantic too</a>.
<p>
None of this is necessary, unless we want to extract too much and
cause
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#28_November_2012_(Predictions_of_increased_US_oil_extraction)">global
heating disaster</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Loss_of_ice_in_the_Andes)
title: Loss of ice in the Andes
uri: Loss-of-ice-in-the-Andes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Loss_of_ice_in_the_Andes%29
content:
<p>
Glaciers in the Andes have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/27/global-warming-glacier-depletion-andes">lost
at least 1/3 of their ice in the last 30 years</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(CIA_whistleblower_convicted)
title: CIA whistleblower convicted
uri: CIA-whistleblower-convicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28CIA_whistleblower_convicted%29
content:
<p>
CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling has been 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/27/jury-convicts-former-cia-officer-jeffrey-sterling-leaking-journalist-violating">convicted</a>.
<p>
Every whistleblower prosecuted or persecuted nails Liberty to the
cross.
<p>
Obama will forgive you for torturing, but not for 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=12601">talking to the
American people</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(The_word_terrorist)
title: The word "terrorist"
uri: The-word-terrorist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28The_word_terrorist%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2015/jan/27/is-it-time-to-stop-using-the-word-terrorist">Proposal</a>
to stop using the word "terrorist".
<p>
"The terror" in revolutionary France was carried out by the Committee
for Public Safety, led by Robespierre.  I wonder if that is where
"Department of Homeland Security" came from.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Tar_sands_pipelines)
title: Tar sands pipelines
uri: Tar-sands-pipelines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Tar_sands_pipelines%29
content:
<p>
A tar sands pipeline even bigger than Keystone XL is 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12716/tar-sands-pipeline-planned-for-dane-county-eclipses-KXL">being
snuck through as an expansion of an existing pipeline</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Saving_the_US_middle_class)
title: Saving the US middle class
uri: Saving-the-US-middle-class
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Saving_the_US_middle_class%29
content:
<p>
To save the US middle class requires 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/27/wall-streets-threat-american-middle-class">curbing
Wall Street's depredations</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Car_tracking_in_the_US)
title: Car tracking in the US
uri: Car-tracking-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Car_tracking_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The Drug Enforcement Administration and other US agencies are creating
a 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-criminal-law-reform/foia-documents-reveal-massive-dea-program-record-ame">nationwide
network of license-plate recognizing cameras</a>, on their way to
tracking all car travel in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(US_student_loan_debt)
title: US student loan debt
uri: US-student-loan-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28US_student_loan_debt%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/27/student-jubilee-liberate-41-million-americans-crushing-loan-debt">A
Student Jubilee! Liberate 41 Million Americans From Crushing Loan
Debt</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Religious_censorship_on_Facebook)
title: Religious censorship on Facebook
uri: Religious-censorship-on-Facebook
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Religious_censorship_on_Facebook%29

content:
<p>
Facebook has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/27/facebook-blocks-turkish-page-insults-prophet-muhammad">yielded
to Turkey's religious censorship</a>, just as previously it 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#01_May_2011_(Urgent:_Urge_Facebook_not_to_partner_with_censors)">yielded
to China's political censorship</a>.


title: Antibiotics in dust from cattle feedlots
uri: Antibiotics-in-dust-from-cattle-feedlots
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Antibiotics_in_dust_from_cattle_feedlots)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Antibiotics_in_dust_from_cattle_feedlots%29

content:
<p>
Dust blowing out of cattle feedlots contains more than just a horrible
smell.  It 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/01/dust-factory-farms-antibiotic-resistant-genes">contains
antibiotics</a> that encourage development of resistance in the
bacteria in the soils (and human bodies) that they get into.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Chinas_use_of_coal)
title: China's use of coal
uri: China-s-use-of-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Chinas_use_of_coal%29
content:
<p>
China's use of coal is levelling off, and actually 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/27/china-coal-production-falls-for-first-time-this-century">decreased
a little in 2014</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Right-wing_UK_economic_policy)
title: Right-wing UK economic policy
uri: Right-wing-UK-economic-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Right-wing_UK_economic_policy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/27/cameron-tax-cuts-voters-labour-austerity">Right-wing
UK economic policy</a> consists of tax cuts (most of the cut goes to
the rich) and cuts on the NHS and social services (hitting the poor
two ways).
<p>
The tax cuts give a small amount of money to some workers, to distract
them from the fact that the combined policy is very bad for them.
<p>
The same dishonest line has succeeded since the 1980s in convincing
working Americans to vote to help the rich screw them.
<p>
As for Labour, it has become a centrist party which fails to
challenges plutocratic rule.  The similar Greek party was just wiped
out, and Britain's Labour Party is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/27/uk-austerity-greece-parallels-labour-toxic-eliteness">headed
for the same thing</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Thug_violence)
title: Thug violence
uri: 2015-01-31-Thug-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Thug_violence%29
content:
<p>
Violent thugs can 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/26/julian-cole-ipcc-police-brutality-allegations">end
your life without quite killing you</a>.


title: Spying on Palestinians in occupied territories
uri: Spying-on-Palestinians-in-occupied-territories
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Spying_on_Palestinians_in_occupied_territories)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Spying_on_Palestinians_in_occupied_territories%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/27/israel-expels-intelligence-veterans-who-refused-spy-occupied-palestinians">43
Israeli intelligence reservists refused</a> to spy on Palestinians in
the occupied territories.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Comcasts_letters_to_the_FCC)
title: Comcast's letters to the FCC
uri: Comcast-s-letters-to-the-FCC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Comcasts_letters_to_the_FCC%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/26/7878239/comcast-twc-fcc-merger-letters-politicians-ghostwritten">Politicians
Are Supporting Comcast's TWC Merger with Letters Ghostwritten by
Comcast</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Copyright_reform)
title: Copyright reform
uri: Copyright-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Copyright_reform%29
content:
<p>
Julia Reda, the sole Pirate Party member of the European Parliament,
has proposed a 
<a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en/copyright-reform-the-european-parliament-must-follow-the-reda-report">copyright
reform directive</a> which goes in the right direction but does not
propose to address the issue of freedom to share.
<p>
The article suggests EU citizens write to MEPs.  I suggest demanding
reform on that issue too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Cheney-Obama_torture_axis)
title: Cheney-Obama torture axis
uri: Cheney-Obama-torture-axis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Cheney-Obama_torture_axis%29
content:
<p>
The Cheney-Obama torture axis 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/26/rejecting-obama-cheney-alliance-against-torture-prosecutions">must
be defeated</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 30_January_2015_(Tax_breaks_for_US_businesses)
title: Tax breaks for US businesses
uri: Tax-breaks-for-US-businesses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#30_January_2015_%28Tax_breaks_for_US_businesses%29
content:
<p>
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are working together on a tax
break 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/26/corporate-tax-break-scheme-gaining-momentum-we-must-stop">intended
to encourage US businesses to pay taxes on their profits</a>.
<p>
Funny that congress never seems to think of simply making them pay
their taxes.  They argue that it is self-defeating to keep the door
closed while the window is open, so they should open the door.  The
idea of shutting the window never occurs to them.

Instructions for bankrupting the country:

<ol>
<li>Pass a dumb law that lets companies or the rich pay less tax,
or in some other way hurt the public interest.

<li>Offer them money or power as an "incentive" not to do it.

<li>Repeat until they own everything.
</ol>

Note how the patent system is an example of this.  The idea of patents
is to discourage 
<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">trade
secrecy</a>, recognized as harmful to society.  In 1800, trade secrecy
meant "Just don't tell anyone your secret method", but nowadays there
are laws to help businesses keep important methods secret, so then the
government turns around and says, "So you won't exercise that extra
power we just gave you, here's a different special power instead.
<p>
Is it stupid or is it corrupt?


title: Urgent: Infrastructure maintenance program
uri: Urgent-Infrastructure-maintenance-program
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_January_2015_(Urgent:_Infrastructure_maintenance_program)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_January_2015_%28Urgent%3A_Infrastructure_maintenance_program%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/pccc_2015_infrastructurejobs/">Support</a>
Bernie Sanders's infrastructure maintenance program.


title: Policy of bombarding civilians' homes
uri: Policy-of-bombarding-civilians-homes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_January_2015_(Policy_of_bombarding_civilians_homes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_January_2015_%28Policy_of_bombarding_civilians_homes%29

content:
<p>
B'Tselem suggests that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/28/israel-policy-targeting-gaza-homes-human-rights">Israel's
leaders may have committed war crimes</a> by establishing a policy of
bombarding Palestinian civilians' homes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_January_2015_(Maiduguri)
title: Maiduguri
uri: Maiduguri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_January_2015_%28Maiduguri%29
content:
<p>
Boko Haram keeps winning against a badly organized Nigerian army, and
has come close to capturing the area's principal city,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/28/-sp-maiduguri-nigeria-boko-haram-future">Maiduguri</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_January_2015_(PISSIs_defeat_at_Kobani)
title: PISSI's defeat at Kobani
uri: PISSI-s-defeat-at-Kobani
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_January_2015_%28PISSIs_defeat_at_Kobani%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/28/australians-fighting-for-isis-reportedly-killed-in-battle-for-kobani">PISSI's
defeat at Kobani</a> can damage it in an important place: its image of
irresistability.
<p>
Thus, even though Kobani as a piece of territory has no particular
strategic significance, the defense of Kobani may have real
significance.
<p>
PISSI stands for "Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq".  Since most
Muslims say it does not represent Islam, why should we call it by a
name that validates its claims to do so?  Moreover, the name "PISSI"
gives the organization the respect it deserves.  I suggest you too
adopt that name, and spread the word.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_January_2015_(Plastic_in_the_ocean)
title: Plastic in the ocean
uri: Plastic-in-the-ocean
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_January_2015_%28Plastic_in_the_ocean%29
content:
<p>
Plastic in the ocean is increasing and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/28/sea-turtles-fall-victim-to-alarming-flood-of-plastics-entering-australian-waters">animals
are swallowing ever more of it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_January_2015_(Italian_writer_faces_prosecution)
title: Italian writer faces prosecution
uri: Italian-writer-faces-prosecution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_January_2015_%28Italian_writer_faces_prosecution%29

content:
<p>
An Italian writer faces prosecution
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/27/italian-writer-erri-de-luca-sabotage-high-speed-rail-line">for
saying that it would be legitimate to sabotage a high-speed train line
being built between Italy and France</a>.
<p>
I disagree with him about the train line.  High-speed trains are a
great thing, and when the network is built up, they replace airplanes.
I hope they finish it soon, because I will use it.
<p>
Freedom of expression means the right to say things we disagree with.
The prosecution of de Luca shows that Italy — like other
European governments — does not respect freedom of expression.
In the US, which does more or less respect that freedom, that sort of
statement is <em>not</em> "incitement" and he could not be prosecuted
for it.
<p>
Shame on you, Italy.  Stop your attempts at censorship, and build the
train line.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html 31_January_2015_(Return_of_white_terror)
title: Return of white terror
uri: Return-of-white-terror
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#31_January_2015_%28Return_of_white_terror%29
content:
<p>
What Martin Luther King led American blacks to do was to
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/29/1011562/-Most-of-you-have-no-idea-what-Martin-Luther-King-actually-did">end
white terror</a>, which they achieved by daring to be beaten and
arrested and filling the jails.
<p>
It makes me sad that this white terror has substantially returned
—
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#02_January_2015_(The_impunity_of_thugs)">mainly
from thugs</a>, but also (with "stand your ground" laws) from
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#01_March_2014_%28Stand_your_ground_laws_have_shielded_over_130_killers%29">any
non-black with a gun</a>.
<p>
Compare the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_(Things_you_cant_do_in_the_US_while_black)">advice
that black teenagers receive</a> today about how not to be shot by
thugs with the 1960s advice described in the first reference above.
<p>
Even worse, since the 1960s the US has come to impose permanent
punishment on people convicted of a crime, or even (in some cases)
accused of one.  It is hard to have a mass movement of idealistic
young people ready to get arrested and pack the jails when they know
they will be excluded from education or employment for life as a
result.


