# articles

title: Google Play deletes man's whole collection of downloaded books
uri: Google-Play-deletes-man-s-whole-collection-of-downloaded-books
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_August_2013_(Google_Play_deletes_mans_whole_collection_of_downloaded_books)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_August_2013_%28Google_Play_deletes_mans_whole_collection_of_downloaded_books%29

content:
<p>
Google Play 
<a href="http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1e13597c.1308">deleted
a man's whole collection of downloaded books</a> because it saw he was
in Singapore.
<p>
Android normally comes with Google Play, which is 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html">nonfree</a>,
so it's no surprise that it is malware too.  Replicant, the free
version of Android, does not contain Google Play.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_August_2013_(The_college_loan_racket)
title: The college loan racket
uri: The-college-loan-racket
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_August_2013_%28The_college_loan_racket%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ripping-off-young-america-the-college-loan-scandal-20130815?print=true">college 
loan racket</a> screws all young Americans unless they are rich.  If
you go to college, you'll spend your life in debt; otherwise you can't
get a job except at McDonalds.
<p>
Even if you're really smart and get a good job after college, you're
not safe; you will be ruined permanently if you get fired or disabled.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/06-8">Oregon's 
plan</a> might be a solution: paying students' tuition in exchange for
a share of their income.
<p>
However, people with poverty level incomes, or living on disability or
other assistance, should not have to pay anything.  They can barely
get by anyway.


title: Boy Scouts of America bullying Hacker Scouts
uri: Boy-Scouts-of-America-bullying-Hacker-Scouts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 26_August_2013_(Boy_Scouts_of_America_bullying_Hacker_Scouts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_August_2013_%28Boy_Scouts_of_America_bullying_Hacker_Scouts%29

content:
<p>
The Boy Scouts of America are 
<a href="http://hacker-scouts.org/blog/hacker-scouts-and-bsa">bullying</a> 
the Hacker Scouts, an organization which is very different in spirit
and purpose.
<p>
The BSA bans Atheists as members, which makes it discreditable in
substance too.


title: Colombians protest US-Colombia free trade treaty
uri: Colombians-protest-US-Colombia-free-trade-treaty
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 25_August_2013_(Colombians_protest_US-Colombia_free_trade_treaty)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_August_2013_%28Colombians_protest_US-Colombia_free_trade_treaty%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/25">200,000 
Colombians</a> protested the US-Colombia free trade treaty, as part of
a national strike.
<p>
Of course, the government said the strikers are controlled by the FARC
and called them "terrorists".  The FARC are terrorists, but not the
biggest and worst terrorists in Colombia.  That honor goes to the
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_July_2013_(Right-wing_terrorist_paramilitaries_killed_more)">state-sponsored paramilitaries</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(South_African_equivalent_of_the_NSA)
title: South African equivalent of the NSA
uri: South-African-equivalent-of-the-NSA
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28South_African_equivalent_of_the_NSA%29

content:
<p>
The South African equivalent of the NSA is explicitly meant for
spying on South Africans, so it doesn't need to stretch the rules
repeatedly — it 
<a href="http://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/rica-puts-south-africa-under-closer-surveillance-than-americans.htm">monitors 
everything</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Bogus_investigations_of_the_NSA)
title: Bogus investigations of the NSA
uri: Bogus-investigations-of-the-NSA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Bogus_investigations_of_the_NSA%29
content:
<p>
Three bogus investigations of the NSA are 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/three-illusory-investigations-nsa-spying-are-unable-succeed">designed 
to reassure us that no major change is needed</a>.


title: Obama's plan to link student aid to college tuition
uri: Obama-s-plan-to-link-student-aid-to-college-tuition
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Obamas_plan_to_link_student_aid_to_college_tuition)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Obamas_plan_to_link_student_aid_to_college_tuition%29

content:
<p>
Colleges say Obama's plan to link student aid to college tuition could
motivate colleges to 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-23/college-leaders-wary-of-obama-plan-linking-college-aid-to-rank.html">reject 
students that need aid</a>.
<p>
Overall, the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_August_2013_(The_college_loan_racket)">Oregon 
solution</a> looks better. It could be used to put pressure to cut
costs.


title: Liberia shuts down newspaper for reporting on corruption
uri: Liberia-shuts-down-newspaper-for-reporting-on-corruption
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Liberia_shuts_down_newspaper_for_reporting_on_corruption)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Liberia_shuts_down_newspaper_for_reporting_on_corruption%29

content:
<p>
The newspaper FrontPageAfrica has been closed, and its publisher
jailed, for 
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2013/08/liberian-news-outlet-shut-down-publisher-jailed.php">reporting 
on corruption in Liberia</a>.


title: Australia's recently established marine reserves
uri: Australia-s-recently-established-marine-reserves
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Australias_recently_established_marine_reserves)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Australias_recently_established_marine_reserves%29

content:
<p>
Australia's right-wing party says it will cater to fishermen by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/marine-life-fishing-coalition-review">eliminating
recently established marine reserves</a>.
<p>
There is no one less concerned with the long term health of fisheries
than the fishermen.  They have a culture of short-term thinking, which
is why they object to marine reserves; that reserves increase fish
stocks outside, and lead to higher catches a few years later, is too
long-term for them to appreciate.


title: Anti-gun-control forces concentrate money to defeat legislators
uri: Anti-gun-control-forces-concentrate-money-to-defeat-legislators
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Anti-gun-control_forces_concentrate_money_to_defeat_legislators)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Anti-gun-control_forces_concentrate_money_to_defeat_legislators%29

content:
<p>
Anti-gun-control forces are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/26/gun-fight-colorado-nra">concentrating 
their money</a> to defeat Colorado legislators who voted for gun
control.


title: Japan demonstrates that stimulating the economy still works
uri: Japan-demonstrates-that-stimulating-the-economy-still-works
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Japan_demonstrates_that_stimulating_the_economy_still_works)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Japan_demonstrates_that_stimulating_the_economy_still_works%29

content:
<p>
Japan is demonstrating that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/26/japan-recovery-us-deficit-hawks">stimulating 
the economy</a> still works.
<p>
We knew that in the US, too; but the plutocrats arranged for lots of
economists to say that we need to cut the deficit.


title: Urgent: Oppose military involvement in Syria
uri: Urgent-Oppose-military-involvement-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_military_involvement_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_military_involvement_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
phone the White House
at 202-456-1111 to oppose
military involvement in Syria.
<p>
Also,
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/161/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13972">sign
this petition</a>.


title: Poor people logistically compelled to eat expensively
uri: Poor-people-logistically-compelled-to-eat-expensively
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Poor_people_logistically_compelled_to_eat_expensively)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Poor_people_logistically_compelled_to_eat_expensively%29

content:
<p>
Many poor people are logistically compelled to eat expensively; to eat
cheap and healthy food, that theoretically would save them money, is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/27/jamie-oliver-poverty-ready-meals-tv">out 
of practical range for them</a>.


title: Tunisian group banned by prime minister
uri: Tunisian-group-banned-by-prime-minister
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Tunisian_group_banned_by_prime_minister)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Tunisian_group_banned_by_prime_minister%29

content:
<p>
A Tunisian group has been banned, accused of responsibility for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/tunisia-declares-ansar-al-shari-terrorists">assassinating 
two politicians</a>.</p>
<p>The group might be guilty for all I know, but that should be proved
in court, not decided by an official.
</p>


title: Greece should refuse to be "rescued" again
uri: Greece-should-refuse-to-be-rescued-again
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Greece_should_refuse_to_be_rescued_again)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Greece_should_refuse_to_be_rescued_again%29

content:
<p>
Greece should refuse to be "rescued" again, since the previous
"rescues" have only 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/27/greece-rescue-package">made 
things worse.</a></p>


title: Jailed for failure to pay alimony while out of work
uri: Jailed-for-failure-to-pay-alimony-while-out-of-work
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Jailed_for_failure_to_pay_alimony_while_out_of_work)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Jailed_for_failure_to_pay_alimony_while_out_of_work%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-26/jail-becomes-home-for-husband-stuck-with-lifetime-alimony.html">Jail 
Becomes Home for Husband Stuck With Lifetime Alimony</a>.</p>
<p>A professor told me he had been ordered to pay alimony and child
support exceeding his salary.  The sad thing is, he had a way to get
that money.  An evil way: proprietary software.  It would have been
more ethical to go to jail.</p>


title: Former mayor of Salt Lake City to sue NSA
uri: Former-mayor-of-Salt-Lake-City-to-sue-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Former_mayor_of_Salt_Lake_City_to_sue_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Former_mayor_of_Salt_Lake_City_to_sue_NSA%29

content:
<p>
The former mayor of Salt Lake City plans to sue the NSA for <a
href="http://rt.com/usa/rocky-anderson-nsa-olympics-016/">spying on
all communications there</a> prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics
there.</p>


title: NSA was already tapping emails in 1997
uri: NSA-was-already-tapping-emails-in-1997
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(NSA_was_already_tapping_emails_in_1997)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28NSA_was_already_tapping_emails_in_1997%29

content:
<p>
Entrepreneur Chris Kitze says that in 1997 the NSA had already
stuck computers into his company to 
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/privacy-breached-security-us-nsa-898/">tap all emails</a>.</p>


title: Google intimately involved with US gov't
uri: Google-intimately-involved-with-US-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Google_intimately_involved_with_US_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Google_intimately_involved_with_US_govt%29

content:
<p>
Julian Assange: Google has become 
<a href="http://thestringer.com.au/google-and-the-nsa-whos-holding-the-shit-bag-now/#.Uhn_TvnVDpU">intimately 
involved</a> with the US
government.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(NSA_spies_on_EU_UN_and_IAEA)
title: NSA spies on EU, UN, and IAEA
uri: NSA-spies-on-EU-UN-and-IAEA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28NSA_spies_on_EU_UN_and_IAEA%29
content:
<p>
The NSA 
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-nsa-documents-show-how-the-us-spies-on-europe-and-the-un-a-918625-druck.html">systematically 
spies on the EU, the UN, and the IAEA</a>. It has nothing to do with
stopping terrorism, or even dissidents.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Slogan_of_unthinking_patriotism)
title: Slogan of unthinking patriotism
uri: Slogan-of-unthinking-patriotism
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Slogan_of_unthinking_patriotism%29
content:
<p>
In the US, 
"<a href='http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/25-4'>support 
the troops</a>" is the slogan of unthinking patriotism.


title: UN inspectors in Syria to ignore crucial question
uri: UN-inspectors-in-Syria-to-ignore-crucial-question
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(UN_inspectors_in_Syria_to_ignore_crucial_question)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28UN_inspectors_in_Syria_to_ignore_crucial_question%29

content:
<p>
UN inspectors in Syria are only supposed to determine whether chemical
weapons were used, not 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/syria-un-no-impunity-chemical-attack">who 
used them</a>.
<p>
However, the latter is the crucial question.


title: Zurich to provide safe facility for prostitutes
uri: Zurich-to-provide-safe-facility-for-prostitutes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Zurich_to_provide_safe_facility_for_prostitutes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Zurich_to_provide_safe_facility_for_prostitutes%29

content:
<p>
Zurich will provide a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/26/zurich-drive-in-garages-prostitutes">safe 
facility</a> for prostitutes to work in.


title: UK rebuked for its threats to the Guardian
uri: UK-rebuked-for-its-threats-to-the-Guardian
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(UK_rebuked_for_its_threats_to_the_Guardian)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28UK_rebuked_for_its_threats_to_the_Guardian%29

content:
<p>
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/26/nsa-leaks-david-cameron-newspapers">rebuked 
the UK</a> for its threats to the Guardian.


title: The damage of privatization in Britain
uri: The-damage-of-privatization-in-Britain
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(The_damage_of_privatization_in_Britain)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28The_damage_of_privatization_in_Britain%29

content:
<p>
The damage of privatization in Britain, illustrated by taking a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/aug/26/great-british-seaside-selloff">seaside 
holiday</a>.


title: General monitoring of people causes psychological harm
uri: General-monitoring-of-people-causes-psychological-harm
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(General_monitoring_of_people_causes_psychological_harm)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28General_monitoring_of_people_causes_psychological_harm%29

content:
<p>
General monitoring of people causes various kinds of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/aug/26/nsa-gchq-psychology-government-mass-surveillance">psychological
harm</a>.


title: Cuba cedes to US pressure, bars Snowden from travelling
uri: Cuba-cedes-to-US-pressure-bars-Snowden-from-travelling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 27_August_2013_(Cuba_cedes_to_US_pressure_bars_Snowden_from_travelling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#27_August_2013_%28Cuba_cedes_to_US_pressure_bars_Snowden_from_travelling%29

content:
<p>
Reportedly Cuba ceded to US pressure to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/edward-snowden-moscow-cuba">bar 
Snowden from travelling</a>.
<p>
This despite the fact that the US 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2007-mar-jun.html#12%20May%202007%20(Luis%20Posada)">protects 
terrorists that made attacks in Cuba</a> and
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#21_April_2012_(The_Cuban_Five)">imprisoned 
the Cuban 5</a> for infiltrating anti-Cuban terrorist groups and
warning when they were going to attack.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Heroism_of_Manning_and_Snowden)
title: Heroism of Manning and Snowden
uri: Heroism-of-Manning-and-Snowden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Heroism_of_Manning_and_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
The heroism of Manning and Snowden will mean
nothing <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/28-9">if
the debate about how to judge them distracts us from the central
issue</a>: our government is trashing the constitution with massive
surveillance.


title: Egypt's rulers framing arrested protesters
uri: Egypt-s-rulers-framing-arrested-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Egypt's_rulers_framing_arrested_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Egypt%27s_rulers_framing_arrested_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's military rulers seem to
be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/cairo-detains-siblings-ireland-raid-mosque">framing
arrested protesters</a> in order to "prove" that the Muslim
Brotherhood is terrorist.


title: Iranian blogger on hunger strike getting ill
uri: Iranian-blogger-on-hunger-strike-getting-ill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Iranian_blogger_on_hunger_strike_getting_ill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Iranian_blogger_on_hunger_strike_getting_ill%29

content:
<p>
An imprisoned Iranian blogger on hunger
strike <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2013/aug/28/iran-blogger-hossein-ronaghi-maleki-hunger-strike">is
getting ill.</a>


title: NY Thug Department arbitrarily labels some mosques as "terrorists"
uri: NY-Thug-Department-arbitrarily-labels-some-mosques-as-terrorists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(NY_Thug_Department_arbitrarily_labels_some_mosques_as_terrorists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28NY_Thug_Department_arbitrarily_labels_some_mosques_as_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
The New York Thug
Department <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/nypd-surveillance-mosques-terror-spying">arbitrarily
labels some mosques as "terrorist" and investigates anyone who goes
into them.</a>


title: Iranian Parliament has voted to sue the US
uri: Iranian-Parliament-has-voted-to-sue-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Iranian_Parliament_has_voted_to_sue_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Iranian_Parliament_has_voted_to_sue_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Now that the CIA has admitted responsibility for the coup in Iran that
toppled it democratic government in
1953, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/iran-lawsuit-us-1953-coup">the
Iranian Parliament has voted to sue the US.</a>
<p>
There is plenty of justification for this suit, in the abstract; but
Iran's current theocratic tyranny is part of the damage, and a suit is
not going to fix that.  Meanwhile, is there any court where such a
suit could be heard and a judgment enforced?


title: Why military intervention in Syria would be wrong
uri: Why-military-intervention-in-Syria-would-be-wrong
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Why_military_intervention_in_Syria_would_be_wrong)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Why_military_intervention_in_Syria_would_be_wrong%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-28/fitzpatrick-syria/4918406">Why
military intervention in Syria would be wrong.</a>
<p>
It is hard to demonstrate what happened well
enough <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2013/aug/28/chemical-weapons-syria-evidence-based-justice">for
the purposes of justice.</a>
<p>
A measured attack against
Syria <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/syria-air-strikes-chemical-for-against">would
change nothing.</a>
<p>
On the other hand, an attack powerful enough to make Assad really
notice
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/bashar-al-assad-syria">would
have unpredictable effects.</a>
<p>
If the goal is to deter other dictators from using chemical weapons,
it would be more effective to wait for a chance to punish Assad
cleanly.
<p>
Hans Blix believes the military sponsors of both sides
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/chemical-weapons-west-global-policeman">could
make them agree to peace.</a>


title: Urgent: Action against Walmart's low wages
uri: Urgent-Action-against-Walmart-s-low-wages
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Urgent:_Action_against_Walmart's_low_wages)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Action_against_Walmart%27s_low_wages%29

content:
<p>
In the US: support an action on Sep
5 <a href="http://corporateactionnetwork.org/campaigns/stand-with-the-walmart-60">against
Walmart's low wages.</a>


title: Thug faces criminal charges for trying to frame press photographer
uri: Thug-faces-criminal-charges-for-trying-to-frame-press-photographer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Thug_faces_criminal_charges_for_trying_to_frame_press_photographer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Thug_faces_criminal_charges_for_trying_to_frame_press_photographer%29

content:
<p>
A New York City thug faces criminal charges for trying
to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/nyregion/officer-is-indicted-on-charges-of-lying-about-photographers-arrest.html">frame
a press photographer.</a>
<p>
It's about time — but it will take more than one thug on trial
to make thugs stop testilying.


title: Journalism harder, slower and less secure
uri: Journalism-harder-slower-and-less-secure
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Journalism_harder,_slower_and_less_secure)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Journalism_harder%2C_slower_and_less_secure%29

content:
<p>
Barry Eisler suggests the arrest of David Miranda indicates that
surveillance state
is <a href="http://pressthink.org/2013/08/to-make-journalism-harder-slower-less-secure/">trying
to make journalism harder, slower and less secure.</a>
<p>
He may well be right; this does not contradict my theory, that it is
<a href="http://stallman.org/articles/beyond-intimidation.html">trying
to declare journalism criminal.</a>


title: Urgent: Do not attack Syria without consulting Congress
uri: Urgent-Do-not-attack-Syria-without-consulting-Congress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Urgent:_Do_not_attack_Syria_without_consulting_Congress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_attack_Syria_without_consulting_Congress%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on
Obama <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/president-obama-dont-18?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">not
to attack Syria without consulting Congress.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(US_on_side_of_al_Qa'ida)
title: US on side of al Qa'ida
uri: US-on-side-of-al-Qa-ida
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28US_on_side_of_al_Qa%27ida%29
content:
<p>
The US
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/28-1">planning to
fight in Syria on the side of al Qa'ida.</a>
<p>
Obama's intended attack might
be <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/28-3">meant to
keep Iran isolated</a> (i.e., scupper the opportunity for a peace
deal).


title: Evidence that Assad's men used chemical weapons
uri: Evidence-that-Assad-s-men-used-chemical-weapons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Evidence_that_Assad's_men_used_chemical_weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Evidence_that_Assad%27s_men_used_chemical_weapons%29

content:
<p>
The evidence that Assad's men used chemical
weapons <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/israeli-intelligence-intercepted-syria-chemical-talk">came
from an Israeli signal interception unit.</a>
<p>
Israel has been trying to get the US to fight Syria for a year or two.
Thus, I have to wonder whether this "intelligence" was fabricated for
the purpose.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Crop_losses_in_2012)
title: Crop losses in 2012
uri: Crop-losses-in-2012
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Crop_losses_in_2012%29
content:
<p>
The Federal Crop Insurance Program paid
for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/27-4">17
billion dollars in crop losses in 2012</a>, far more than normal, due
to extreme weather that will keep getting worse.


title: What the Assault on Whistleblowers Has to Do With War on Syria
uri: What-the-Assault-on-Whistleblowers-Has-to-Do-With-War-on-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(What_the_Assault_on_Whistleblowers_Has_to_Do_With_War_on_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28What_the_Assault_on_Whistleblowers_Has_to_Do_With_War_on_Syria%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/28-0">What the
Assault on Whistleblowers Has to Do With War on Syria.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Urgent:_Paying_for_college)
title: Urgent: Paying for college
uri: Urgent-Paying-for-college
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Paying_for_college%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: support Senator
Merkley's <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/let-s-change-the-way-we-pay-for-college?akid=8747.1183552.Jmbp1r&rd=1&t=1006">plan
for paying for college.</a>


title: Review of various bills to reverse Corporations United decision
uri: Review-of-various-bills-to-reverse-Corporations-United-decision
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Review_of_various_bills_to_reverse_Corporations_United_decision)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Review_of_various_bills_to_reverse_Corporations_United_decision%29

content:
<p>
Free Speech for People reviews the 
<a href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/node/593">various bills</a> to
amend the Constitution to reverse the Corporations United<sup>*</sup>
decision.
<p>
<div class="footnote"><sup>*</sup> To call that organization what it really is.
  Its official name is "Citizens United".</div>


title: Many schemes used in parallel to take Palestinian land
uri: Many-schemes-used-in-parallel-to-take-Palestinian-land
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Many_schemes_used_in_parallel_to_take_Palestinian_land)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Many_schemes_used_in_parallel_to_take_Palestinian_land%29

content:
<p>
Israel uses <a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/nonviolence/5456-silent-nakba-israel%E2%80%99s-slow-displacement-of-palestinian-farmers">many 
schemes in parallel</a> to take Palestinian land.
<p>
And now that "peace negotiations" have been announced, Netanyahu has
<a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2013/08/25/israel-announces-more-settlement-expansion/">sped 
up construction in Palestine</a>.


title: Israeli "settlers" attack Palestinian shepherd with iron rod
uri: Israeli-settlers-attack-Palestinian-shepherd-with-iron-rod
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Israeli_settlers_attack_Palestinian_shepherd_with_iron_rod)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Israeli_settlers_attack_Palestinian_shepherd_with_iron_rod%29

content:
<p>
Israeli "settlers" in Palestinian territory 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=60756">attacked a
Palestinian shepherd</a> with an iron rod.
<p>
They killed and injured sheep, too.
<p>
The Israeli administration 
<a href="http://972mag.com/in-west-bank-the-logic-of-annexation-supersedes-the-rule-of-law/77651/">bends 
over backwards</a> to help "settlers" harass Palestinians and drive
them off their land.


title: Systematic Israeli torture of Palestinian minors
uri: Systematic-Israeli-torture-of-Palestinian-minors
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Systematic_Israeli_torture_of_Palestinian_minors)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Systematic_Israeli_torture_of_Palestinian_minors%29

content:
<p>
B'tselem documents the systematic Israeli 
<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-children-routinely-tortured-some-threatened-rape-israel-rights-group">torture 
of Palestinian minors</a>.


title: Israeli Arabs trying to return to lands temporarily confiscated in 1948
uri: Israeli-Arabs-trying-to-return-to-lands-temporarily-confiscated-in-194
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Israeli_Arabs_trying_to_return_to_lands_temporarily_confiscated_in_1948)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Israeli_Arabs_trying_to_return_to_lands_temporarily_confiscated_in_1948%29

content:
<p>
Israeli Arabs are 
<a href="http://972mag.com/authorities-threaten-displaced-communitys-return-to-village-near-lebanon/77734/">trying 
to return</a> to lands from which they were ordered to leave, a few
weeks after Israel was established.


title: Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 54<sup>th</sup> time
uri: Israel-demolishes-Bedouin-village-for-54th-time
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Israel_demolishes_Bedouin_village_for_54th_time)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Israel_demolishes_Bedouin_village_for_54th_time%29

content:
<p>
Israel demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib for the 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=624467">54<sup>th</sup>
time</a>. Jailed residents, offered release on the condition that they
not return there, said they'd rather stay in prison.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(The_Leveraged_Buyout_of_America)
title: The Leveraged Buyout of America
uri: The-Leveraged-Buyout-of-America
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28The_Leveraged_Buyout_of_America%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/27/the-leveraged-buyout-of-america/">The 
Leveraged Buyout of America</a>.


title: Wisconsin to give half a million dollars to lobbying organization
uri: Wisconsin-to-give-half-a-million-dollars-to-lobbying-organization
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Wisconsin_to_give_half_a_million_dollars_to_lobbying_organization)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Wisconsin_to_give_half_a_million_dollars_to_lobbying_organization%29

content:
<p>
Wisconsin has arranged to give half a million dollars to a 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12224/wisconsin-prepares-hand-half-million-taxpayer-funds-koch-tied-gop-lobby-shop">right-wing
lobbying organization</a>.
<p>
After all the budget cuts and union-busting, the state has a little
cash on hand.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Seed_freedom)
title: Seed freedom
uri: Seed-freedom
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Seed_freedom%29
content:
<p>
Vandana Shiva: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/seed-freedom-hunger-malnutrition-biodiversity">Seed 
freedom</a> is the answer to hunger and malnutrition.


title: Former UK military high commanders warn against attacking Syria
uri: Former-UK-military-high-commanders-warn-against-attacking-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Former_UK_military_high_commanders_warn_against_attacking_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Former_UK_military_high_commanders_warn_against_attacking_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Former UK military high commanders 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/military-syria-attacks">warn 
against attacking Syria</a>.
<p>
Using a military attack to "send a message" is a rather inarticulate
form of communication, as the US found out when it tried 
"<a href='http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/events/2002_Symposium/2002Papers_files/revisited.htm'>graduated
response</a>" in the Vietnam War.


title: Kenya allows polygamy in one direction only
uri: Kenya-allows-polygamy-in-one-direction-only
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Kenya_allows_polygamy_in_one_direction_only)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Kenya_allows_polygamy_in_one_direction_only%29

content:
<p>
A woman in Kenya wants to marry two willing men, but the state 
is sexist and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/kenyan-woman-marry-two-men">won't 
allow polygamy to go in that direction</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 28_August_2013_(Satirizing_Putin_now_forbidden)
title: Satirizing Putin now forbidden
uri: Satirizing-Putin-now-forbidden
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#28_August_2013_%28Satirizing_Putin_now_forbidden%29
content:
<p>
In Russia, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/painting-vladimir-putin-underwear">satirizing 
Putin</a> is now forbidden.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Urgent:_Kill_the_Keystone_XL)
title: Urgent: Kill the Keystone XL
uri: Urgent-Kill-the-Keystone-XL
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Kill_the_Keystone_XL%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14198">kill
the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline now.</a>


title: Japanese gov't sued anti-nuclear protesters
uri: Japanese-gov-t-sued-anti-nuclear-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Japanese_gov't_sued_anti-nuclear_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Japanese_gov%27t_sued_anti-nuclear_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The Japanese government
has <a href="http://www.panorientnews.com/en/news.php?k=2030">sued
anti-nuclear sit-in protesters,</a> demanding the equivalent of
$100,000 from each leader.


title: Big downsides for US intervention in Syria
uri: Big-downsides-for-US-intervention-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Big_downsides_for_US_intervention_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Big_downsides_for_US_intervention_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff listed several options for
US intervention in Syria
— <a href="http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/dempsey-lays-out-military-options-for-us-in-syria-1.231651">all
with big downsides.</a>
<p>
The UK's published intelligence
report <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/29/uk-report-chemical-attack-syria">adds
nothing to previous speculation about chemical weapons in Syria.</a>


title: US does not know where chemical weapons are stored now in Syria
uri: US-does-not-know-where-chemical-weapons-are-stored-now-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(US_does_not_know_where_chemical_weapons_are_stored_now_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28US_does_not_know_where_chemical_weapons_are_stored_now_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US intelligence officials say
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/29-2">US
does not know where chemical weapons are stored now in Syria</a>, or
who controls them, and that it does not have firm evidence that Assad
ordered their use.
<p>
I wonder if Obama will prosecute the officials for this leak.


title: Fast food workers strike and protest
uri: Fast-food-workers-strike-and-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Fast_food_workers_strike_and_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Fast_food_workers_strike_and_protest%29

content:
<p>
Fast food workers held
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/29/us-fast-food-workers-strike-low-wages">strike
and protest across the US.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Poverty's_consequences)
title: Poverty's consequences
uri: Poverty-s-consequences
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Poverty%27s_consequences%29
content:
<p>
Poverty's consequences, such as preoccupation with short-term
difficulties,
effectively <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/29/poverty-mental-capacity-complex-tasks">cut
people's intelligence.</a>


title: Egypt has arrested al-Jazeera reporters
uri: Egypt-has-arrested-al-Jazeera-reporters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Egypt_has_arrested_al-Jazeera_reporters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Egypt_has_arrested_al-Jazeera_reporters%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/29/al-jazeera-journalists-arrested-cairo">Egypt
has arrested al-Jazeera reporters</a>, accusing them of threatening
national security and supporting Morsi.
<p>
I do not support of Morsi, but no one should be arrested or banned
from reporting based on who they support.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Marijuana_dealers)
title: Marijuana dealers
uri: Marijuana-dealers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Marijuana_dealers%29
content:
<p>
The US says
it <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/feds-agree-not-hassle-smallish-marijuana-vendors-colorado-and-washington">won't
prosecute marijuana dealers</a> that sell "small amounts" to adults,
in states which have legalized it.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Secret_US_government_programs)
title: Secret US government programs
uri: Secret-US-government-programs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Secret_US_government_programs%29
content:
<p>
Secret US government programs amount to at
least <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/29-4">75
billion dollars a year.</a>


title: Fukushima showed us costs of nuclear power
uri: Fukushima-showed-us-costs-of-nuclear-power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Fukushima_showed_us_costs_of_nuclear_power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Fukushima_showed_us_costs_of_nuclear_power%29

content:
<p>
Fukushima showed us the intolerable costs of nuclear power. The
citizens of Vermont show us
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/29/nuclear-power-dangers-fukushima-vermont">benefits
of shutting it down.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Restoring_liberty)
title: Restoring liberty
uri: Restoring-liberty
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Restoring_liberty%29
content:
<p>
America's next president
had <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/29/2016-presidential-race-surveillance-liberty">better
believe in restoring liberty.</a>


title: Israeli soldiers danced with Palestinians
uri: Israeli-soldiers-danced-with-Palestinians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Israeli_soldiers_danced_with_Palestinians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Israeli_soldiers_danced_with_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers danced with Palestinians at a wedding in Hebron.  The
Israeli government says it
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/29/israel-gangnam-idf-soldiers">punish
them for this act of</a> fraternization with people who are supposed
to be "the enemy".


title: One Year After Drone Strike on Anti-Terrorist Yemeni Preacher
uri: One-Year-After-Drone-Strike-on-Anti-Terrorist-Yemeni-Preacher
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(One_Year_After_Drone_Strike_on_Anti-Terrorist_Yemeni_Preacher)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28One_Year_After_Drone_Strike_on_Anti-Terrorist_Yemeni_Preacher%29

content:
<p>
One Year After Drone Strike on Anti-Terrorist Yemeni Preacher, Still
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/29">No Apology
From Obama.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Teacher_Uprisings_in_Mexico)
title: Teacher Uprisings in Mexico
uri: Teacher-Uprisings-in-Mexico
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Teacher_Uprisings_in_Mexico%29
content:
<p>
Teacher Uprisings in Mexico
a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/28-1">Lesson
in Defending Public Education.</a>


title: Urgent: Tell Obama not to bomb Syria
uri: Urgent-Tell-Obama-not-to-bomb-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Obama_not_to_bomb_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Obama_not_to_bomb_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_syria">Tell Obama</a>
not to bomb Syria.


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to oppose attacking Syria
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-oppose-attacking-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_oppose_attacking_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Congress_to_oppose_attacking_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8463">call 
on your congresscritter</a> not to support attacking Syria.  "The
choice is not between doing nothing and bombing the Syrian people."


title: Urgent: Restore "stream buffer" limitations on coal mining
uri: Urgent-Restore-stream-buffer-limitations-on-coal-mining
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Urgent:_Restore_stream_buffer_limitations_on_coal_mining)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Restore_stream_buffer_limitations_on_coal_mining%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1499">call
on the US</a> to restore the "stream buffer" limitations on
mountaintop removal coal mining.


title: Painting of Putin an Medvedyev in female clothing seized
uri: Painting-of-Putin-an-Medvedyev-in-female-clothing-seized
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Painting_of_Putin_an_Medvedyev_in_female_clothing_seized)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Painting_of_Putin_an_Medvedyev_in_female_clothing_seized%29

content:
<p>
A painting showing Putin and Medvedyev in female clothing has been
seized in Russia and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/painting-vladimir-putin-underwear">called
illegal with no explanation</a>.
<p>
I understand the logic.  In Russia, Putin is the ultimate standard of
good.  To show Putin doing something is to say it is good.  To show
Putin in homosexual guise is therefore propaganda for homosexuality.
;-}


title: Church group threatened with arrest for feeding homeless people
uri: Church-group-threatened-with-arrest-for-feeding-homeless-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Church_group_threatened_with_arrest_for_feeding_homeless_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Church_group_threatened_with_arrest_for_feeding_homeless_people%29

content:
<p>
A church group that feeds homeless people in Raleigh, North Carolina,
was told they'd be 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/08/26-1">arrested
if they did not stop</a>.  It is illegal to feed the homeless there.
<p>
The Republicans who voted for this law probably claim to be
Christians, but they'd put Jesus in prison too.  When they talk about
"family values" they mean "Walton and Koch family values".


title: What would Martin Luther King Jr. say?
uri: What-would-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-say
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(What_would_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._say)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28What_would_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._say%29

content:
<p>
Envisioning 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/martin-luther-king-surveillance-world">what
Martin Luther King Jr. might say today</a> in the age of plutocracy.


title: Questions about what would happen after a US attack on Syria
uri: Questions-about-what-would-happen-after-a-US-attack-on-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Questions_about_what_would_happen_after_a_US_attack_on_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Questions_about_what_would_happen_after_a_US_attack_on_Syria%29

content:
<p>
The public deserves answers to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/syria-attack-consequences-questions">questions 
about what would happen</a> after a US attack on Syria — and why
possible paths for peace are not being pursued instead.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Kings_I_have_a_dream_speech)
title: King's "I have a dream speech"
uri: King-s-I-have-a-dream-speech
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Kings_I_have_a_dream_speech%29
content:
<p>
AT&T can use King's "I have a dream" speech to sell phones, but
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130828/02464324331/let-freedom-ka-ching-50th-anniversary-i-have-dream-att-can-use-speech-to-sell-phones-you-cant-post-it.shtml">you 
can't post it</a>.


title: NSA's data regularly used to blackmail officials
uri: NSA-s-data-regularly-used-to-blackmail-officials
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(NSAs_data_regularly_used_to_blackmail_officials)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28NSAs_data_regularly_used_to_blackmail_officials%29

content:
<p>
Whistleblower Russell Tice says that the NSA's data is 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18166-will-nsa-metadata-be-used-to-blackmail-you">regularly 
used to blackmail officials</a> including members of Congress.
<p>
NSA sysadmins can 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130826/12223124315/1000-sys-admins-can-copy-any-nsa-document-without-anyone-knowing-about-it-think-only-snowden-did.shtml">access 
any data about anyone</a>.  Snowden used this to inform us all, but a
criminal-minded sysadmin could use this to get data to blackmail
someone.
<p>
Aside from blackmail, here are some 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18390-spy-on-me-im-innocent">bad 
things</a> that could happen to <em>you</em> thanks to massive
surveillance.


title: California to expand access to early abortions
uri: California-to-expand-access-to-early-abortions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(California_to_expand_access_to_early_abortions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28California_to_expand_access_to_early_abortions%29

content:
<p>
California will 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/08/27/2535131/california-lawmakers-abortion-access/">expand 
access</a> to early abortions.


title: Sea animals face disaster from CO<sub>2</sub> in the water
uri: Sea-animals-face-disaster-from-CO2-in-the-water
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Sea_animals_face_disaster_from_CO2_in_the_water)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Sea_animals_face_disaster_from_CO2_in_the_water%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/27/2244321/ocean-acidification-major-threat-marine-life-study-confirms/">wide 
range of sea animals</a> face disaster from CO<sub>2</sub> in the
water.
<p>
They evolved to live in water, not seltzer.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(India_bans_shark_finning)
title: India bans shark finning
uri: India-bans-shark-finning
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28India_bans_shark_finning%29
content:
<p>
India bans 
<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/endangered-species/india-becomes-largest-nation-ban-shark-finning.html">shark 
finning</a>.


title: Walmart tries to pretend it supports manufacturing in the US
uri: Walmart-tries-to-pretend-it-supports-manufacturing-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Walmart_tries_to_pretend_it_supports_manufacturing_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Walmart_tries_to_pretend_it_supports_manufacturing_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Walmart is trying to 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/walmarts-latest-scheme-replace-middle-class-underclass-forced-buy-its-shoddy-goods?paging=off">pretend 
that it supports manufacturing in the US</a>.
<p>
Any company that has 25% of the grocery sales in the US ought to be
split up just for that.


title: Students' public postings monitored by a company
uri: Students-public-postings-monitored-by-a-company
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Students_public_postings_monitored_by_a_company)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Students_public_postings_monitored_by_a_company%29

content:
<p>
A company 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/school-district-hires-firm-monitor-student-social-media-postings">monitors 
students' public postings</a> on behalf of schools.
<p>
Since they are public, the company has a right to do this.  It would
become wrong if the school starts punishing students for things they
say (such as criticism of the school, dissident views, etc).


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 29_August_2013_(Your_metadata)
title: Your metadata
uri: Your-metadata
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#29_August_2013_%28Your_metadata%29
content:
<p>
Given your metadata, people can find out about 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/in-aclu-lawsuit-scientist-demolishes-nsa-its-just-metadata-excuse/">addictions, 
sex, and accusations</a>.


title: Urgent: Demand fast food companies give workers a raise
uri: Urgent-Demand-fast-food-companies-give-workers-a-raise
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(Urgent:_Demand_fast_food_companies_give_workers_a_raise)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Demand_fast_food_companies_give_workers_a_raise%29

content:
<p>
In the
US: <a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/letter/?utm_campaign=LowPay">sign
this petition</a> demanding fast food companies give workers a raise
and <a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/fastfood-solidarity/">this
one</a> demanding they not retaliate against workers who strike.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(China_accelerating_arrests)
title: China accelerating arrests
uri: China-accelerating-arrests
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28China_accelerating_arrests%29
content:
<p>
China
is <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1298316/infographic-activists-list-chinese-political-arrests-shows">accelerating
the arrests of people who criticize the state.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(UK_voted_not_to_attack_Syria)
title: UK voted not to attack Syria
uri: UK-voted-not-to-attack-Syria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28UK_voted_not_to_attack_Syria%29
content:
<p>
The UK
parliament <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/britain-votes-against-military-action-syria">voted
not to attack Syria.</a> Thus, Obama won't have UK support.
<p>
The "discreet and limited" attack on Syria that Obama is considering
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/29/obama-us-strike-syria-assad-strength">would
not have much effect on Assad's military capability.</a>
<p>
There are other ways to deter further use of chemical weapons, either
by Assad or by other countries.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/29/syria-more-courage-to-say-nothing-can-do">It
Takes More Courage To Say There Is Nothing Outsiders Can Do.</a>


title: Stand With Colombian Protests Against the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
uri: Stand-With-Colombian-Protests-Against-the-U-S-Colombia-Free-Trade-Agr
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(Stand_With_Colombian_Protests_Against_the_U.S.-Colombia_Free_Trade_Agreement_(FTA))

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28Stand_With_Colombian_Protests_Against_the_U.S.-Colombia_Free_Trade_Agreement_%28FTA%29%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12297">Stand
With Colombian Protests Against the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
(FTA)</a>


title: Obama regime's policy on state-legalized marijuana
uri: Obama-regime-s-policy-on-state-legalized-marijuana
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(Obama_regime's_policy_on_state-legalized_marijuana)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28Obama_regime%27s_policy_on_state-legalized_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
It's not clear what the Obama regime's policy on state-legalized
marijuana <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/29-7">will
really mean in practice.</a>


title: US supports the military-industrial complex
uri: US-supports-the-military-industrial-complex
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(US_supports_the_military-industrial_complex)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28US_supports_the_military-industrial_complex%29

content:
<p>
The US turns readily to war and to military "aid"
because <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/29-8">it
supports the military-industrial complex.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(US_Intervention)
title: US Intervention
uri: US-Intervention
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28US_Intervention%29
content:
<p>Relating US intervention <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines">
in Syria to oil.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(Protests)
title: Protests
uri: Protests
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28Protests%29
content:
<p>
Anti-trade-treaty protests in Bogota were crushed by soldiers
sent <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/31/colombia-troops-patrol-streets-bogota">
by Colombian President Non-santos (*).</a></p>
<p>He cited the usual pretexts.</p>
<p>* Officially "Santos", but Colombians will understand my name for him.
</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(UK_Thugs)
title: UK Thugs
uri: UK-Thugs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28UK_Thugs%29
content:
<p>
UK thugs had no time to listen to Nazim Din explain that they had
arrested the wrong one of his sons, so one pushed him and knocked him
down.  (This was easy as he was on crutches.)  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/30/ipcc-police-death-nazim-din">
Mr Din died of a heart
attack.</a>
</p>
<p></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(War)
title: War
uri: War
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28War%29
content:
<p>Are Chemical Weapons <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/syria-chemical-weapons-explainer">
Reason Enough to Go to War?</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(Iran)
title: Iran
uri: Iran
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28Iran%29
content:
<p>Iran, Not Syria, Is the West's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/30-3">
Real Target.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(The_US)
title: The US
uri: The-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28The_US%29
content:
<p>The US tacitly helped Saddam Hussein use <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/26-5">
chemical weapons against
Iran.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(New_Zealand)
title: New Zealand
uri: New-Zealand
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28New_Zealand%29
content:
<p>
New Zealand has adopted a law that intends to prevent issuance
of new patents <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/in-historic-vote-new-zealand-bans-software-patents/">
covering computer programs "as such".</a>
</p>
<p>I have not seen the exact text of this law.  I hope that it is
airtight.
The European Patent Office is operating under a treaty which
excludes
"computer programs as such" from patentability, but has issued
thousands of computational technique patents despite the words of the
treaty on the grounds that they cover techniques, not programs as
such.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, they failed to protect programs from lawsuits
under the
existing patents, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">
as I've recommended,</a>so it will take around 20 years
for this to eliminate the problem.</p>
<p></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(Data_Brokers)
title: Data Brokers
uri: Data-Brokers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28Data_Brokers%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Data brokers are collecting and correlating a lot <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/not-just-nsa-data-brokers-amass-detailed-profiles-everyone-online">
more data
about people than you may realize.</a></p>
<p>If this sort of snooping is "essential" for the success of some
business,
we must make that business fail!  Meanwhile, it is possible to keep
most of our lives out of their data bases, and I do so.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(Data)
title: Data
uri: Data
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28Data%29
content:
<p>
In a setback for journalism, UK thugs were given court approval to
seize and search people's memories <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/30/david-miranda-police-powers-data">
for "communication of material to
an enemy".
</a>
This is meant to refer to leaked information about dirty deeds that
the government is keeping secret from its principal enemy, the people.
Naturally, knowledge of these dirty deeds might help other enemies too,
so this is a pretext for the state to attack all the enemies at once.</p>
<p>This is in addition to material that "could be useful to terrorists",
which covers amost anything when applied to someone assumed to be
inclined towards terrorism.</p>
<p>The UK laws invoked are blatant disrespect for human rights, as are
many of the "anti-terror" laws there and in other countries.
Terrorism exists, but it is a minor danger compared with the deadly
practices these laws are used to cover up.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(Zimbabwe)
title: Zimbabwe
uri: Zimbabwe
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28Zimbabwe%29
content:
<p></p>
<p>Tsvangirai accused Mugabe of rigging the Zimbabwe election in several
ways
<a href="http://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/08/10/zim-elections-nikuv-paid-10-million-to-rig/">
including manipulating the voters' rolls.
</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(Argentina's_Government)
title: Argentina's Government
uri: Argentina-s-Government
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28Argentina%27s_Government%29
content:
<p>Argentina's government has made a <a href="http://upsidedownworld.org/main/argentina-archives-32/4416-a-deal-with-the-devil-argentina-reaches-a-fracking-agreement-with-chevron">
secret fracking deal with
Chevron.</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 31_August_2013_(Businesses)
title: Businesses
uri: Businesses
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_August_2013_%28Businesses%29
content:
<p>
Businesses are pushing states to ban adherence to the LEED
environmental construction standards, <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/leed-green-building-standards-ban">
and substitute lax greenwash
standards.</a></p>


title: Urgent: Support plan for students to pay for college based on earnings
uri: Urgent-Support-plan-for-students-to-pay-for-college-based-on-earnings
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(Urgent:_Support_plan_for_students_to_pay_for_college_based_on_earnings)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_plan_for_students_to_pay_for_college_based_on_earnings%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/let-s-change-the-way-we-pay-for-college">support 
Senator Merkley's plan</a> for students to pay for college based on
their earnings.


title: Urgent: Launch honest environmental review of Keystone XL
uri: Urgent-Launch-honest-environmental-review-of-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(Urgent:_Launch_honest_environmental_review_of_Keystone_XL)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Launch_honest_environmental_review_of_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Secretary of State Kerry to launch an 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=8765">honest
environmental review</a> of the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline.


title: West Papuans who say they advocate independence face charges of treason
uri: West-Papuans-who-say-they-advocate-independence-face-charges-of-treaso
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(West_Papuans_who_say_they_advocate_independence_face_charges_of_treason)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28West_Papuans_who_say_they_advocate_independence_face_charges_of_treason%29

content:
<p>
West Papuans face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/30/west-papua-arrests-freedom-flotilla">charges
of treason</a> for saying they advocate independence from Indonesia.
<p>
Indonesia took over West Papua by force.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(Censorship_cannot_be_excused)
title: Censorship cannot be excused
uri: Censorship-cannot-be-excused
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28Censorship_cannot_be_excused%29
content:
<p>
Evidence 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/aug/30/porn-relationships-sexual-aggression-research">does
not support claims</a> that pornography promotes violence or sexism.
<p>
Since censorship is always dangerous, censorship of pornography cannot
be excused.


title: Raped low-caste women in India face contempt and intimidation
uri: Raped-low-caste-women-in-India-face-contempt-and-intimidation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(Raped_low-caste_women_in_India_face_contempt_and_intimidation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28Raped_low-caste_women_in_India_face_contempt_and_intimidation%29

content:
<p>
The rape of middle-class women in India spurs indignation,
but when poor low-caste women are raped, they face 
<a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/caste-skews-indias-view-of-rape/story-e6frg6so-1226706934297">contempt
and intimidation</a>.


title: CEOs claim they deserve enormous pay
uri: CEOs-claim-they-deserve-enormous-pay
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(CEOs_claim_they_deserve_enormous_pay)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28CEOs_claim_they_deserve_enormous_pay%29

content:
<p>
CEOs 
<a href="http://prospect.org/article/why-supersized-ceo-pay-worst%E2%80%94-three-charts">claim
they deserve their enormous pay</a> because they do such a great job.
Of those that got the most money in the past 20 years, 40% got fired
for failure, led their companies into trouble for fraud, or helped
cause the financial crisis.


title: Lawsuit demands release of OLC opinions
uri: Lawsuit-demands-release-of-OLC-opinions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(Lawsuit_demands_release_of_OLC_opinions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28Lawsuit_demands_release_of_OLC_opinions%29

content:
<p>
A lawsuit 
<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/entry/crew-sues-doj-for-refusing-to-release-olc-memos">demands
the publication of the formal legal opinions</a> used by the US
government as the basis for its actions and to shield officials from
prosecution.  They are, effectively, secret law.


title: Urgent: Demand fast food companies give workers a raise
uri: 2013-08-31-Urgent-Demand-fast-food-companies-give-workers-a-raise
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(Urgent:_Demand_fast_food_companies_give_workers_a_raise)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Demand_fast_food_companies_give_workers_a_raise%29

content:
<p>
In the
US: <a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/letter/?utm_campaign=LowPay">sign
this petition</a> demanding fast food companies give workers a raise
and <a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/fastfood-solidarity/">this
one</a> demanding they not retaliate against workers who strike.


title: Stand With Colombian Protests Against the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
uri: 2013-08-31-Stand-With-Colombian-Protests-Against-the-U-S-Colombia-Free-Trade-Agr
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(Stand_With_Colombian_Protests_Against_the_U.S.-Colombia_Free_Trade_Agreement_(FTA))

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28Stand_With_Colombian_Protests_Against_the_U.S.-Colombia_Free_Trade_Agreement_%28FTA%29%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12297">Stand
With Colombian Protests Against the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
(FTA)</a>


title: Obama regime's policy on state-legalized marijuana
uri: 2013-08-31-Obama-regime-s-policy-on-state-legalized-marijuana
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(Obama_regime's_policy_on_state-legalized_marijuana)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28Obama_regime%27s_policy_on_state-legalized_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
It's not clear what the Obama regime's policy on state-legalized
marijuana <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/29-7">will
really mean in practice.</a>


title: US supports the military-industrial complex
uri: 2013-08-31-US-supports-the-military-industrial-complex
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html 30_August_2013_(US_supports_the_military-industrial_complex)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#30_August_2013_%28US_supports_the_military-industrial_complex%29

content:
<p>
The US turns readily to war and to military "aid"
because <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/29-8">it
supports the military-industrial complex.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(US_Intervention_in_Syria)
title: US Intervention in Syria
uri: US-Intervention-in-Syria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28US_Intervention_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>Relating US intervention in Syria to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines">oil.</a></p>


title: Anti-trade-treaty protests in Bogota crushed by soldiers
uri: Anti-trade-treaty-protests-in-Bogota-crushed-by-soldiers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(Anti-trade-treaty_protests_in_Bogota_crushed_by_soldiers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28Anti-trade-treaty_protests_in_Bogota_crushed_by_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/31/colombia-troops-patrol-streets-bogota">Anti-trade-treaty 
protests in Bogota</a> were crushed by soldiers sent by Colombian
President Non-santos<sup>*</sup>.</p>
<p>He cited the usual pretexts.</p>
<div class="footnote"><sup>*</sup> Officially "Santos", but Colombians will understand my name for him.</div>


title: Man dies after being knocked down by UK thugs
uri: Man-dies-after-being-knocked-down-by-UK-thugs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(Man_dies_after_being_knocked_down_by_UK_thugs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28Man_dies_after_being_knocked_down_by_UK_thugs%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs had no time to listen to Nazim Din explain that they had
arrested the wrong one of his sons, so one pushed him and knocked him
down.  (This was easy as he was on crutches.)  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/30/ipcc-police-death-nazim-din">
Mr Din died of a heart
attack.</a>
</p>
<p></p>


title: Are Chemical Weapons Reason Enough to Go to War?
uri: Are-Chemical-Weapons-Reason-Enough-to-Go-to-War
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(Are_Chemical_Weapons_Reason_Enough_to_Go_to_War)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28Are_Chemical_Weapons_Reason_Enough_to_Go_to_War%29

content:
<p>
Are Chemical Weapons <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/syria-chemical-weapons-explainer">
Reason Enough to Go to War?</a></p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(Syria_is_not_the_Wests_real_target)
title: Syria is not the West's real target
uri: Syria-is-not-the-West-s-real-target
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28Syria_is_not_the_Wests_real_target%29

content:
<p>
Iran, Not Syria, Is the West's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/30-3">
Real Target.</a></p>


title: The US helped Saddam Hussein use chemical weapons against Iran
uri: The-US-helped-Saddam-Hussein-use-chemical-weapons-against-Iran
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(The_US_helped_Saddam_Hussein_use_chemical_weapons_against_Iran)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28The_US_helped_Saddam_Hussein_use_chemical_weapons_against_Iran%29

content:
<p>
The US tacitly helped Saddam Hussein use 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/26-5">chemical 
weapons against Iran.</a></p>


title: Law to prevent patents covering computer programs "as such"
uri: Law-to-prevent-patents-covering-computer-programs-as-such
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(Law_to_prevent_patents_covering_computer_programs_as_such)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28Law_to_prevent_patents_covering_computer_programs_as_such%29

content:
<p>
New Zealand has adopted a law that intends to prevent issuance of new
patents covering computer programs 
"<a href='http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/in-historic-vote-new-zealand-bans-software-patents/'>as
such</a>".
</p>
<p>I have not seen the exact text of this law.  I hope that it is
airtight.  The European Patent Office is operating under a treaty
which excludes "computer programs as such" from patentability, but has
issued thousands of computational technique patents despite the words
of the treaty on the grounds that they cover techniques, not programs
as such.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, they failed to protect programs from lawsuits under the
existing patents, 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">as 
I've recommended</a>, so it will take around 20 years for this to
eliminate the problem.</p>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(Data_Brokers)
title: Data Brokers
uri: 2013-09-01-Data-Brokers
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28Data_Brokers%29
content:
<p>Data brokers are collecting and correlating a lot 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/not-just-nsa-data-brokers-amass-detailed-profiles-everyone-online">more 
data about people than you may realize.</a></p>
<p>If this sort of snooping is "essential" for the success of some
business, we must make that business fail!  Meanwhile, it is possible
to keep most of our lives out of their data bases, and I do so.</p>


title: UK thugs get court approval to seize and search people's memories
uri: UK-thugs-get-court-approval-to-seize-and-search-people-s-memories
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(UK_thugs_get_court_approval_to_seize_and_search_peoples_memories)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28UK_thugs_get_court_approval_to_seize_and_search_peoples_memories%29

content:
<p>
In a setback for journalism, UK thugs were given court approval to
seize and search people's memories for 
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/30/david-miranda-police-powers-data'>communication
of material to an enemy</a>".  This is meant to refer to leaked
information about dirty deeds that the government is keeping secret
from its principal enemy, the people.  Naturally, knowledge of these
dirty deeds might help other enemies too, so this is a pretext for the
state to attack all the enemies at once.</p>
<p>This is in addition to material that "could be useful to
terrorists", which covers almost anything when applied to someone
assumed to be inclined towards terrorism.</p>
<p>The UK laws invoked are blatant disrespect for human rights, as are
many of the "anti-terror" laws there and in other countries.
Terrorism exists, but it is a minor danger compared with the deadly
practices these laws are used to cover up.</p>


title: Mugabe accused of rigging Zimbabwe election in several ways
uri: Mugabe-accused-of-rigging-Zimbabwe-election-in-several-ways
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(Mugabe_accused_of_rigging_Zimbabwe_election_in_several_ways)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28Mugabe_accused_of_rigging_Zimbabwe_election_in_several_ways%29

content:
<p>
Tsvangirai accused Mugabe of rigging the Zimbabwe election in several
ways including 
<a href="http://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/08/10/zim-elections-nikuv-paid-10-million-to-rig/">manipulating the voters' rolls</a>.</p>


title: Argentina makes secret fracking deal with Chevron
uri: Argentina-makes-secret-fracking-deal-with-Chevron
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(Argentina_makes_secret_fracking_deal_with_Chevron)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28Argentina_makes_secret_fracking_deal_with_Chevron%29

content:
<p>
Argentina's government has made a 
<a href="http://upsidedownworld.org/main/argentina-archives-32/4416-a-deal-with-the-devil-argentina-reaches-a-fracking-agreement-with-chevron">secret 
fracking deal with Chevron.</a></p>


title: Businesses push for ban on adherence to LEED construction standards
uri: Businesses-push-for-ban-on-adherence-to-LEED-construction-standards
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 31_August_2013_(Businesses_push_for_ban_on_adherence_to_LEED_construction_standards)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#31_August_2013_%28Businesses_push_for_ban_on_adherence_to_LEED_construction_standards%29

content:
<p>
Businesses are pushing states to ban adherence to the LEED
environmental construction standards, and substitute 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/leed-green-building-standards-ban">lax greenwash standards</a>.</p>


title: Urgent: Support plan for students to pay for college based on earnings
uri: 2013-09-01-Urgent-Support-plan-for-students-to-pay-for-college-based-on-earnings
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_August_2013_(Urgent:_Support_plan_for_students_to_pay_for_college_based_on_earnings)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_plan_for_students_to_pay_for_college_based_on_earnings%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/let-s-change-the-way-we-pay-for-college">support 
Senator Merkley's plan</a> for students to pay for college based on
their earnings.


title: Urgent: Launch honest environmental review of Keystone XL
uri: 2013-09-01-Urgent-Launch-honest-environmental-review-of-Keystone-XL
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_August_2013_(Urgent:_Launch_honest_environmental_review_of_Keystone_XL)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Launch_honest_environmental_review_of_Keystone_XL%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Secretary of State Kerry to launch an 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=8765">honest
environmental review</a> of the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline.


title: West Papuans who say they advocate independence face charges of treason
uri: 2013-09-01-West-Papuans-who-say-they-advocate-independence-face-charges-of-treaso
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_August_2013_(West_Papuans_who_say_they_advocate_independence_face_charges_of_treason)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_August_2013_%28West_Papuans_who_say_they_advocate_independence_face_charges_of_treason%29

content:
<p>
West Papuans face 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/30/west-papua-arrests-freedom-flotilla">charges
of treason</a> for saying they advocate independence from Indonesia.
<p>
Indonesia took over West Papua by force.


title: Raped low-caste women in India face contempt and intimidation
uri: 2013-09-01-Raped-low-caste-women-in-India-face-contempt-and-intimidation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_August_2013_(Raped_low-caste_women_in_India_face_contempt_and_intimidation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_August_2013_%28Raped_low-caste_women_in_India_face_contempt_and_intimidation%29

content:
<p>
The rape of middle-class women in India spurs indignation,
but when poor low-caste women are raped, they face 
<a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/caste-skews-indias-view-of-rape/story-e6frg6so-1226706934297">contempt
and intimidation</a>.


title: CEOs claim they deserve enormous pay
uri: 2013-09-01-CEOs-claim-they-deserve-enormous-pay
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_August_2013_(CEOs_claim_they_deserve_enormous_pay)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_August_2013_%28CEOs_claim_they_deserve_enormous_pay%29

content:
<p>
CEOs 
<a href="http://prospect.org/article/why-supersized-ceo-pay-worst%E2%80%94-three-charts">claim
they deserve their enormous pay</a> because they do such a great job.
Of those that got the most money in the past 20 years, 40% got fired
for failure, led their companies into trouble for fraud, or helped
cause the financial crisis.


title: Lawsuit demands release of OLC opinions
uri: 2013-09-01-Lawsuit-demands-release-of-OLC-opinions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_August_2013_(Lawsuit_demands_release_of_OLC_opinions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_August_2013_%28Lawsuit_demands_release_of_OLC_opinions%29

content:
<p>
A lawsuit 
<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/entry/crew-sues-doj-for-refusing-to-release-olc-memos">demands
the publication of the formal legal opinions</a> used by the US
government as the basis for its actions and to shield officials from
prosecution.  They are, effectively, secret law.


title: Urgent: Demand fast food companies give workers a raise
uri: 2013-09-01-Urgent-Demand-fast-food-companies-give-workers-a-raise
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_August_2013_(Urgent:_Demand_fast_food_companies_give_workers_a_raise)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Demand_fast_food_companies_give_workers_a_raise%29

content:
<p>
In the
US: <a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/letter/?utm_campaign=LowPay">sign
this petition</a> demanding fast food companies give workers a raise
and <a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/fastfood-solidarity/">this
one</a> demanding they not retaliate against workers who strike.


title: Stand With Colombian Protests Against the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
uri: 2013-09-01-Stand-With-Colombian-Protests-Against-the-U-S-Colombia-Free-Trade-Agr
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_August_2013_(Stand_With_Colombian_Protests_Against_the_U.S.-Colombia_Free_Trade_Agreement_(FTA))

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_August_2013_%28Stand_With_Colombian_Protests_Against_the_U.S.-Colombia_Free_Trade_Agreement_%28FTA%29%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12297">Stand
With Colombian Protests Against the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
(FTA)</a>


title: Obama regime's policy on state-legalized marijuana
uri: 2013-09-01-Obama-regime-s-policy-on-state-legalized-marijuana
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_August_2013_(Obama_regime's_policy_on_state-legalized_marijuana)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_August_2013_%28Obama_regime%27s_policy_on_state-legalized_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
It's not clear what the Obama regime's policy on state-legalized
marijuana <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/29-7">will
really mean in practice.</a>


title: US supports the military-industrial complex
uri: 2013-09-01-US-supports-the-military-industrial-complex
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 30_August_2013_(US_supports_the_military-industrial_complex)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#30_August_2013_%28US_supports_the_military-industrial_complex%29

content:
<p>
The US turns readily to war and to military "aid"
because <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/29-8">it
supports the military-industrial complex.</a>


title: Japanese gov't sued anti-nuclear protesters
uri: 2013-09-01-Japanese-gov-t-sued-anti-nuclear-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Japanese_gov't_sued_anti-nuclear_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Japanese_gov%27t_sued_anti-nuclear_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The Japanese government
has <a href="http://www.panorientnews.com/en/news.php?k=2030">sued
anti-nuclear sit-in protesters,</a> demanding the equivalent of
$100,000 from each leader.


title: Big downsides for US intervention in Syria
uri: 2013-09-01-Big-downsides-for-US-intervention-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Big_downsides_for_US_intervention_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Big_downsides_for_US_intervention_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff listed several options for
US intervention in Syria
— <a href="http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/dempsey-lays-out-military-options-for-us-in-syria-1.231651">all
with big downsides.</a>
<p>
The UK's published intelligence
report <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/29/uk-report-chemical-attack-syria">adds
nothing to previous speculation about chemical weapons in Syria.</a>


title: US does not know where chemical weapons are stored now in Syria
uri: 2013-09-01-US-does-not-know-where-chemical-weapons-are-stored-now-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(US_does_not_know_where_chemical_weapons_are_stored_now_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28US_does_not_know_where_chemical_weapons_are_stored_now_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US intelligence officials say
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/29-2">US
does not know where chemical weapons are stored now in Syria</a>, or
who controls them, and that it does not have firm evidence that Assad
ordered their use.
<p>
I wonder if Obama will prosecute the officials for this leak.


title: Fast food workers strike and protest
uri: 2013-09-01-Fast-food-workers-strike-and-protest
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Fast_food_workers_strike_and_protest)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Fast_food_workers_strike_and_protest%29

content:
<p>
Fast food workers held
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/29/us-fast-food-workers-strike-low-wages">strike
and protest across the US.</a>


title: Egypt has arrested al-Jazeera reporters
uri: 2013-09-01-Egypt-has-arrested-al-Jazeera-reporters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Egypt_has_arrested_al-Jazeera_reporters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Egypt_has_arrested_al-Jazeera_reporters%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/29/al-jazeera-journalists-arrested-cairo">Egypt
has arrested al-Jazeera reporters</a>, accusing them of threatening
national security and supporting Morsi.
<p>
I do not support of Morsi, but no one should be arrested or banned
from reporting based on who they support.


title: Fukushima showed us costs of nuclear power
uri: 2013-09-01-Fukushima-showed-us-costs-of-nuclear-power
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Fukushima_showed_us_costs_of_nuclear_power)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Fukushima_showed_us_costs_of_nuclear_power%29

content:
<p>
Fukushima showed us the intolerable costs of nuclear power. The
citizens of Vermont show us
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/29/nuclear-power-dangers-fukushima-vermont">benefits
of shutting it down.</a>


title: Israeli soldiers danced with Palestinians
uri: 2013-09-01-Israeli-soldiers-danced-with-Palestinians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Israeli_soldiers_danced_with_Palestinians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Israeli_soldiers_danced_with_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers danced with Palestinians at a wedding in Hebron.  The
Israeli government says it
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/29/israel-gangnam-idf-soldiers">punish
them for this act of</a> fraternization with people who are supposed
to be "the enemy".


title: One Year After Drone Strike on Anti-Terrorist Yemeni Preacher
uri: 2013-09-01-One-Year-After-Drone-Strike-on-Anti-Terrorist-Yemeni-Preacher
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(One_Year_After_Drone_Strike_on_Anti-Terrorist_Yemeni_Preacher)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28One_Year_After_Drone_Strike_on_Anti-Terrorist_Yemeni_Preacher%29

content:
<p>
One Year After Drone Strike on Anti-Terrorist Yemeni Preacher, Still
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/29">No Apology
From Obama.</a>


title: Urgent: Tell Obama not to bomb Syria
uri: 2013-09-01-Urgent-Tell-Obama-not-to-bomb-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Obama_not_to_bomb_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Obama_not_to_bomb_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/obama_syria">Tell Obama</a>
not to bomb Syria.


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to oppose attacking Syria
uri: 2013-09-01-Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-oppose-attacking-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_oppose_attacking_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Congress_to_oppose_attacking_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8463">call 
on your congresscritter</a> not to support attacking Syria.  "The
choice is not between doing nothing and bombing the Syrian people."


title: Urgent: Restore "stream buffer" limitations on coal mining
uri: 2013-09-01-Urgent-Restore-stream-buffer-limitations-on-coal-mining
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Urgent:_Restore_stream_buffer_limitations_on_coal_mining)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Restore_stream_buffer_limitations_on_coal_mining%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1499">call
on the US</a> to restore the "stream buffer" limitations on
mountaintop removal coal mining.


title: Painting of Putin an Medvedyev in female clothing seized
uri: 2013-09-01-Painting-of-Putin-an-Medvedyev-in-female-clothing-seized
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Painting_of_Putin_an_Medvedyev_in_female_clothing_seized)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Painting_of_Putin_an_Medvedyev_in_female_clothing_seized%29

content:
<p>
A painting showing Putin and Medvedyev in female clothing has been
seized in Russia and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/painting-vladimir-putin-underwear">called
illegal with no explanation</a>.
<p>
I understand the logic.  In Russia, Putin is the ultimate standard of
good.  To show Putin doing something is to say it is good.  To show
Putin in homosexual guise is therefore propaganda for homosexuality.
;-}


title: Church group threatened with arrest for feeding homeless people
uri: 2013-09-01-Church-group-threatened-with-arrest-for-feeding-homeless-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Church_group_threatened_with_arrest_for_feeding_homeless_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Church_group_threatened_with_arrest_for_feeding_homeless_people%29

content:
<p>
A church group that feeds homeless people in Raleigh, North Carolina,
was told they'd be 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/08/26-1">arrested
if they did not stop</a>.  It is illegal to feed the homeless there.
<p>
The Republicans who voted for this law probably claim to be
Christians, but they'd put Jesus in prison too.  When they talk about
"family values" they mean "Walton and Koch family values".


title: What would Martin Luther King Jr. say?
uri: 2013-09-01-What-would-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-say
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(What_would_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._say)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28What_would_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._say%29

content:
<p>
Envisioning 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/martin-luther-king-surveillance-world">what
Martin Luther King Jr. might say today</a> in the age of plutocracy.


title: Questions about what would happen after a US attack on Syria
uri: 2013-09-01-Questions-about-what-would-happen-after-a-US-attack-on-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Questions_about_what_would_happen_after_a_US_attack_on_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Questions_about_what_would_happen_after_a_US_attack_on_Syria%29

content:
<p>
The public deserves answers to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/syria-attack-consequences-questions">questions 
about what would happen</a> after a US attack on Syria — and why
possible paths for peace are not being pursued instead.


title: NSA's data regularly used to blackmail officials
uri: 2013-09-01-NSA-s-data-regularly-used-to-blackmail-officials
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(NSAs_data_regularly_used_to_blackmail_officials)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28NSAs_data_regularly_used_to_blackmail_officials%29

content:
<p>
Whistleblower Russell Tice says that the NSA's data is 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18166-will-nsa-metadata-be-used-to-blackmail-you">regularly 
used to blackmail officials</a> including members of Congress.
<p>
NSA sysadmins can 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130826/12223124315/1000-sys-admins-can-copy-any-nsa-document-without-anyone-knowing-about-it-think-only-snowden-did.shtml">access 
any data about anyone</a>.  Snowden used this to inform us all, but a
criminal-minded sysadmin could use this to get data to blackmail
someone.
<p>
Aside from blackmail, here are some 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18390-spy-on-me-im-innocent">bad 
things</a> that could happen to <em>you</em> thanks to massive
surveillance.


title: California to expand access to early abortions
uri: 2013-09-01-California-to-expand-access-to-early-abortions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(California_to_expand_access_to_early_abortions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28California_to_expand_access_to_early_abortions%29

content:
<p>
California will 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/08/27/2535131/california-lawmakers-abortion-access/">expand 
access</a> to early abortions.


title: Sea animals face disaster from CO2 in the water
uri: 2013-09-01-Sea-animals-face-disaster-from-CO2-in-the-water
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Sea_animals_face_disaster_from_CO2_in_the_water)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Sea_animals_face_disaster_from_CO2_in_the_water%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/27/2244321/ocean-acidification-major-threat-marine-life-study-confirms/">wide 
range of sea animals</a> face disaster from CO<sub>2</sub> in the
water.
<p>
They evolved to live in water, not seltzer.


title: Walmart tries to pretend it supports manufacturing in the US
uri: 2013-09-01-Walmart-tries-to-pretend-it-supports-manufacturing-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Walmart_tries_to_pretend_it_supports_manufacturing_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Walmart_tries_to_pretend_it_supports_manufacturing_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Walmart is trying to 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/walmarts-latest-scheme-replace-middle-class-underclass-forced-buy-its-shoddy-goods?paging=off">pretend 
that it supports manufacturing in the US</a>.
<p>
Any company that has 25% of the grocery sales in the US ought to be
split up just for that.


title: Students' public postings monitored by a company
uri: 2013-09-01-Students-public-postings-monitored-by-a-company
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Students_public_postings_monitored_by_a_company)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Students_public_postings_monitored_by_a_company%29

content:
<p>
A company 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/school-district-hires-firm-monitor-student-social-media-postings">monitors 
students' public postings</a> on behalf of schools.
<p>
Since they are public, the company has a right to do this.  It would
become wrong if the school starts punishing students for things they
say (such as criticism of the school, dissident views, etc).


title: Review of various bills to reverse Corporations United decision
uri: 2013-09-01-Review-of-various-bills-to-reverse-Corporations-United-decision
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Review_of_various_bills_to_reverse_Corporations_United_decision)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Review_of_various_bills_to_reverse_Corporations_United_decision%29

content:
<p>
Free Speech for People reviews the 
<a href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/node/593">various bills</a> to
amend the Constitution to reverse the Corporations United<sup>*</sup>
decision.
<p>
<div class="footnote"><sup>*</sup> To call that organization what it really is.
  Its official name is "Citizens United".</div>


title: Many schemes used in parallel to take Palestinian land
uri: 2013-09-01-Many-schemes-used-in-parallel-to-take-Palestinian-land
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Many_schemes_used_in_parallel_to_take_Palestinian_land)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Many_schemes_used_in_parallel_to_take_Palestinian_land%29

content:
<p>
Israel uses <a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/nonviolence/5456-silent-nakba-israel%E2%80%99s-slow-displacement-of-palestinian-farmers">many 
schemes in parallel</a> to take Palestinian land.
<p>
And now that "peace negotiations" have been announced, Netanyahu has
<a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2013/08/25/israel-announces-more-settlement-expansion/">sped 
up construction in Palestine</a>.


title: Israeli "settlers" attack Palestinian shepherd with iron rod
uri: 2013-09-01-Israeli-settlers-attack-Palestinian-shepherd-with-iron-rod
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Israeli_settlers_attack_Palestinian_shepherd_with_iron_rod)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Israeli_settlers_attack_Palestinian_shepherd_with_iron_rod%29

content:
<p>
Israeli "settlers" in Palestinian territory 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=60756">attacked a
Palestinian shepherd</a> with an iron rod.
<p>
They killed and injured sheep, too.
<p>
The Israeli administration 
<a href="http://972mag.com/in-west-bank-the-logic-of-annexation-supersedes-the-rule-of-law/77651/">bends 
over backwards</a> to help "settlers" harass Palestinians and drive
them off their land.


title: Systematic Israeli torture of Palestinian minors
uri: 2013-09-01-Systematic-Israeli-torture-of-Palestinian-minors
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Systematic_Israeli_torture_of_Palestinian_minors)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Systematic_Israeli_torture_of_Palestinian_minors%29

content:
<p>
B'tselem documents the systematic Israeli 
<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-children-routinely-tortured-some-threatened-rape-israel-rights-group">torture 
of Palestinian minors</a>.


title: Israeli Arabs trying to return to lands temporarily confiscated in 1948
uri: 2013-09-01-Israeli-Arabs-trying-to-return-to-lands-temporarily-confiscated-in-194
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Israeli_Arabs_trying_to_return_to_lands_temporarily_confiscated_in_1948)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Israeli_Arabs_trying_to_return_to_lands_temporarily_confiscated_in_1948%29

content:
<p>
Israeli Arabs are 
<a href="http://972mag.com/authorities-threaten-displaced-communitys-return-to-village-near-lebanon/77734/">trying 
to return</a> to lands from which they were ordered to leave, a few
weeks after Israel was established.


title: Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 54th time
uri: 2013-09-01-Israel-demolishes-Bedouin-village-for-54th-time
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Israel_demolishes_Bedouin_village_for_54th_time)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Israel_demolishes_Bedouin_village_for_54th_time%29

content:
<p>
Israel demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib for the 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=624467">54<sup>th</sup>
time</a>. Jailed residents, offered release on the condition that they
not return there, said they'd rather stay in prison.


title: Wisconsin to give half a million dollars to lobbying organization
uri: 2013-09-01-Wisconsin-to-give-half-a-million-dollars-to-lobbying-organization
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 29_August_2013_(Wisconsin_to_give_half_a_million_dollars_to_lobbying_organization)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_%28Wisconsin_to_give_half_a_million_dollars_to_lobbying_organization%29

content:
<p>
Wisconsin has arranged to give half a million dollars to a 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12224/wisconsin-prepares-hand-half-million-taxpayer-funds-koch-tied-gop-lobby-shop">right-wing
lobbying organization</a>.
<p>
After all the budget cuts and union-busting, the state has a little
cash on hand.


title: Former UK military high commanders warn against attacking Syria
uri: 2013-09-01-Former-UK-military-high-commanders-warn-against-attacking-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Former_UK_military_high_commanders_warn_against_attacking_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Former_UK_military_high_commanders_warn_against_attacking_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Former UK military high commanders 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/military-syria-attacks">warn 
against attacking Syria</a>.
<p>
Using a military attack to "send a message" is a rather inarticulate
form of communication, as the US found out when it tried 
"<a href='http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/events/2002_Symposium/2002Papers_files/revisited.htm'>graduated
response</a>" in the Vietnam War.


title: Kenya allows polygamy in one direction only
uri: 2013-09-01-Kenya-allows-polygamy-in-one-direction-only
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Kenya_allows_polygamy_in_one_direction_only)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Kenya_allows_polygamy_in_one_direction_only%29

content:
<p>
A woman in Kenya wants to marry two willing men, but the state 
is sexist and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/kenyan-woman-marry-two-men">won't 
allow polygamy to go in that direction</a>.


title: Egypt's rulers framing arrested protesters
uri: 2013-09-01-Egypt-s-rulers-framing-arrested-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Egypt's_rulers_framing_arrested_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Egypt%27s_rulers_framing_arrested_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's military rulers seem to
be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/cairo-detains-siblings-ireland-raid-mosque">framing
arrested protesters</a> in order to "prove" that the Muslim
Brotherhood is terrorist.


title: Iranian blogger on hunger strike getting ill
uri: 2013-09-01-Iranian-blogger-on-hunger-strike-getting-ill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Iranian_blogger_on_hunger_strike_getting_ill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Iranian_blogger_on_hunger_strike_getting_ill%29

content:
<p>
An imprisoned Iranian blogger on hunger
strike <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2013/aug/28/iran-blogger-hossein-ronaghi-maleki-hunger-strike">is
getting ill.</a>


title: NY Thug Department arbitrarily labels some mosques as "terrorists"
uri: 2013-09-01-NY-Thug-Department-arbitrarily-labels-some-mosques-as-terrorists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(NY_Thug_Department_arbitrarily_labels_some_mosques_as_terrorists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28NY_Thug_Department_arbitrarily_labels_some_mosques_as_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
The New York Thug
Department <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/nypd-surveillance-mosques-terror-spying">arbitrarily
labels some mosques as "terrorist" and investigates anyone who goes
into them.</a>


title: Iranian Parliament has voted to sue the US
uri: 2013-09-01-Iranian-Parliament-has-voted-to-sue-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Iranian_Parliament_has_voted_to_sue_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Iranian_Parliament_has_voted_to_sue_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Now that the CIA has admitted responsibility for the coup in Iran that
toppled it democratic government in
1953, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/iran-lawsuit-us-1953-coup">the
Iranian Parliament has voted to sue the US.</a>
<p>
There is plenty of justification for this suit, in the abstract; but
Iran's current theocratic tyranny is part of the damage, and a suit is
not going to fix that.  Meanwhile, is there any court where such a
suit could be heard and a judgment enforced?


title: Why military intervention in Syria would be wrong
uri: 2013-09-01-Why-military-intervention-in-Syria-would-be-wrong
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Why_military_intervention_in_Syria_would_be_wrong)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Why_military_intervention_in_Syria_would_be_wrong%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-28/fitzpatrick-syria/4918406">Why
military intervention in Syria would be wrong.</a>
<p>
It is hard to demonstrate what happened well
enough <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2013/aug/28/chemical-weapons-syria-evidence-based-justice">for
the purposes of justice.</a>
<p>
A measured attack against
Syria <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/syria-air-strikes-chemical-for-against">would
change nothing.</a>
<p>
On the other hand, an attack powerful enough to make Assad really
notice
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/bashar-al-assad-syria">would
have unpredictable effects.</a>
<p>
If the goal is to deter other dictators from using chemical weapons,
it would be more effective to wait for a chance to punish Assad
cleanly.
<p>
Hans Blix believes the military sponsors of both sides
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/chemical-weapons-west-global-policeman">could
make them agree to peace.</a>


title: Urgent: Action against Walmart's low wages
uri: 2013-09-01-Urgent-Action-against-Walmart-s-low-wages
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Urgent:_Action_against_Walmart's_low_wages)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Action_against_Walmart%27s_low_wages%29

content:
<p>
In the US: support an action on Sep
5 <a href="http://corporateactionnetwork.org/campaigns/stand-with-the-walmart-60">against
Walmart's low wages.</a>


title: Thug faces criminal charges for trying to frame press photographer
uri: 2013-09-01-Thug-faces-criminal-charges-for-trying-to-frame-press-photographer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Thug_faces_criminal_charges_for_trying_to_frame_press_photographer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Thug_faces_criminal_charges_for_trying_to_frame_press_photographer%29

content:
<p>
A New York City thug faces criminal charges for trying
to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/nyregion/officer-is-indicted-on-charges-of-lying-about-photographers-arrest.html">frame
a press photographer.</a>
<p>
It's about time — but it will take more than one thug on trial
to make thugs stop testilying.


title: Journalism harder, slower and less secure
uri: 2013-09-01-Journalism-harder-slower-and-less-secure
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Journalism_harder,_slower_and_less_secure)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Journalism_harder%2C_slower_and_less_secure%29

content:
<p>
Barry Eisler suggests the arrest of David Miranda indicates that
surveillance state
is <a href="http://pressthink.org/2013/08/to-make-journalism-harder-slower-less-secure/">trying
to make journalism harder, slower and less secure.</a>
<p>
He may well be right; this does not contradict my theory, that it is
<a href="http://stallman.org/articles/beyond-intimidation.html">trying
to declare journalism criminal.</a>


title: Urgent: Do not attack Syria without consulting Congress
uri: 2013-09-01-Urgent-Do-not-attack-Syria-without-consulting-Congress
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Urgent:_Do_not_attack_Syria_without_consulting_Congress)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_attack_Syria_without_consulting_Congress%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on
Obama <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/president-obama-dont-18?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">not
to attack Syria without consulting Congress.</a>


title: Evidence that Assad's men used chemical weapons
uri: 2013-09-01-Evidence-that-Assad-s-men-used-chemical-weapons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(Evidence_that_Assad's_men_used_chemical_weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28Evidence_that_Assad%27s_men_used_chemical_weapons%29

content:
<p>
The evidence that Assad's men used chemical
weapons <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/israeli-intelligence-intercepted-syria-chemical-talk">came
from an Israeli signal interception unit.</a>
<p>
Israel has been trying to get the US to fight Syria for a year or two.
Thus, I have to wonder whether this "intelligence" was fabricated for
the purpose.


title: What the Assault on Whistleblowers Has to Do With War on Syria
uri: 2013-09-01-What-the-Assault-on-Whistleblowers-Has-to-Do-With-War-on-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 28_August_2013_(What_the_Assault_on_Whistleblowers_Has_to_Do_With_War_on_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#28_August_2013_%28What_the_Assault_on_Whistleblowers_Has_to_Do_With_War_on_Syria%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/28-0">What the
Assault on Whistleblowers Has to Do With War on Syria.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(South_African_equivalent_of_the_NSA)
title: South African equivalent of the NSA
uri: 2013-09-01-South-African-equivalent-of-the-NSA
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28South_African_equivalent_of_the_NSA%29

content:
<p>
The South African equivalent of the NSA is explicitly meant for
spying on South Africans, so it doesn't need to stretch the rules
repeatedly — it 
<a href="http://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/rica-puts-south-africa-under-closer-surveillance-than-americans.htm">monitors 
everything</a>.


title: Obama's plan to link student aid to college tuition
uri: 2013-09-01-Obama-s-plan-to-link-student-aid-to-college-tuition
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Obamas_plan_to_link_student_aid_to_college_tuition)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Obamas_plan_to_link_student_aid_to_college_tuition%29

content:
<p>
Colleges say Obama's plan to link student aid to college tuition could
motivate colleges to 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-23/college-leaders-wary-of-obama-plan-linking-college-aid-to-rank.html">reject 
students that need aid</a>.
<p>
Overall, the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#26_August_2013_(The_college_loan_racket)">Oregon 
solution</a> looks better. It could be used to put pressure to cut
costs.


title: Liberia shuts down newspaper for reporting on corruption
uri: 2013-09-01-Liberia-shuts-down-newspaper-for-reporting-on-corruption
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Liberia_shuts_down_newspaper_for_reporting_on_corruption)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Liberia_shuts_down_newspaper_for_reporting_on_corruption%29

content:
<p>
The newspaper FrontPageAfrica has been closed, and its publisher
jailed, for 
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2013/08/liberian-news-outlet-shut-down-publisher-jailed.php">reporting 
on corruption in Liberia</a>.


title: Australia's recently established marine reserves
uri: 2013-09-01-Australia-s-recently-established-marine-reserves
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Australias_recently_established_marine_reserves)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Australias_recently_established_marine_reserves%29

content:
<p>
Australia's right-wing party says it will cater to fishermen by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/marine-life-fishing-coalition-review">eliminating
recently established marine reserves</a>.
<p>
There is no one less concerned with the long term health of fisheries
than the fishermen.  They have a culture of short-term thinking, which
is why they object to marine reserves; that reserves increase fish
stocks outside, and lead to higher catches a few years later, is too
long-term for them to appreciate.


title: Anti-gun-control forces concentrate money to defeat legislators
uri: 2013-09-01-Anti-gun-control-forces-concentrate-money-to-defeat-legislators
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Anti-gun-control_forces_concentrate_money_to_defeat_legislators)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Anti-gun-control_forces_concentrate_money_to_defeat_legislators%29

content:
<p>
Anti-gun-control forces are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/26/gun-fight-colorado-nra">concentrating 
their money</a> to defeat Colorado legislators who voted for gun
control.


title: Japan demonstrates that stimulating the economy still works
uri: 2013-09-01-Japan-demonstrates-that-stimulating-the-economy-still-works
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Japan_demonstrates_that_stimulating_the_economy_still_works)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Japan_demonstrates_that_stimulating_the_economy_still_works%29

content:
<p>
Japan is demonstrating that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/26/japan-recovery-us-deficit-hawks">stimulating 
the economy</a> still works.
<p>
We knew that in the US, too; but the plutocrats arranged for lots of
economists to say that we need to cut the deficit.


title: Urgent: Oppose military involvement in Syria
uri: 2013-09-01-Urgent-Oppose-military-involvement-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_military_involvement_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_military_involvement_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
phone the White House
at 202-456-1111 to oppose
military involvement in Syria.
<p>
Also,
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/161/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13972">sign
this petition</a>.


title: Poor people logistically compelled to eat expensively
uri: 2013-09-01-Poor-people-logistically-compelled-to-eat-expensively
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Poor_people_logistically_compelled_to_eat_expensively)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Poor_people_logistically_compelled_to_eat_expensively%29

content:
<p>
Many poor people are logistically compelled to eat expensively; to eat
cheap and healthy food, that theoretically would save them money, is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/27/jamie-oliver-poverty-ready-meals-tv">out 
of practical range for them</a>.


title: Tunisian group banned by prime minister
uri: 2013-09-01-Tunisian-group-banned-by-prime-minister
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Tunisian_group_banned_by_prime_minister)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Tunisian_group_banned_by_prime_minister%29

content:
<p>
A Tunisian group has been banned, accused of responsibility for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/tunisia-declares-ansar-al-shari-terrorists">assassinating 
two politicians</a>.</p>
<p>The group might be guilty for all I know, but that should be proved
in court, not decided by an official.
</p>


title: Greece should refuse to be "rescued" again
uri: 2013-09-01-Greece-should-refuse-to-be-rescued-again
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Greece_should_refuse_to_be_rescued_again)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Greece_should_refuse_to_be_rescued_again%29

content:
<p>
Greece should refuse to be "rescued" again, since the previous
"rescues" have only 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/27/greece-rescue-package">made 
things worse.</a></p>


title: Jailed for failure to pay alimony while out of work
uri: 2013-09-01-Jailed-for-failure-to-pay-alimony-while-out-of-work
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Jailed_for_failure_to_pay_alimony_while_out_of_work)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Jailed_for_failure_to_pay_alimony_while_out_of_work%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-26/jail-becomes-home-for-husband-stuck-with-lifetime-alimony.html">Jail 
Becomes Home for Husband Stuck With Lifetime Alimony</a>.</p>
<p>A professor told me he had been ordered to pay alimony and child
support exceeding his salary.  The sad thing is, he had a way to get
that money.  An evil way: proprietary software.  It would have been
more ethical to go to jail.</p>


title: Former mayor of Salt Lake City to sue NSA
uri: 2013-09-01-Former-mayor-of-Salt-Lake-City-to-sue-NSA
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Former_mayor_of_Salt_Lake_City_to_sue_NSA)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Former_mayor_of_Salt_Lake_City_to_sue_NSA%29

content:
<p>
The former mayor of Salt Lake City plans to sue the NSA for <a
href="http://rt.com/usa/rocky-anderson-nsa-olympics-016/">spying on
all communications there</a> prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics
there.</p>


title: NSA was already tapping emails in 1997
uri: 2013-09-01-NSA-was-already-tapping-emails-in-1997
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(NSA_was_already_tapping_emails_in_1997)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28NSA_was_already_tapping_emails_in_1997%29

content:
<p>
Entrepreneur Chris Kitze says that in 1997 the NSA had already
stuck computers into his company to 
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/privacy-breached-security-us-nsa-898/">tap all emails</a>.</p>


title: Google intimately involved with US gov't
uri: 2013-09-01-Google-intimately-involved-with-US-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Google_intimately_involved_with_US_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Google_intimately_involved_with_US_govt%29

content:
<p>
Julian Assange: Google has become 
<a href="http://thestringer.com.au/google-and-the-nsa-whos-holding-the-shit-bag-now/#.Uhn_TvnVDpU">intimately 
involved</a> with the US
government.</p>


title: UN inspectors in Syria to ignore crucial question
uri: 2013-09-01-UN-inspectors-in-Syria-to-ignore-crucial-question
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(UN_inspectors_in_Syria_to_ignore_crucial_question)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28UN_inspectors_in_Syria_to_ignore_crucial_question%29

content:
<p>
UN inspectors in Syria are only supposed to determine whether chemical
weapons were used, not 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/syria-un-no-impunity-chemical-attack">who 
used them</a>.
<p>
However, the latter is the crucial question.


title: Zurich to provide safe facility for prostitutes
uri: 2013-09-01-Zurich-to-provide-safe-facility-for-prostitutes
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Zurich_to_provide_safe_facility_for_prostitutes)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Zurich_to_provide_safe_facility_for_prostitutes%29

content:
<p>
Zurich will provide a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/26/zurich-drive-in-garages-prostitutes">safe 
facility</a> for prostitutes to work in.


title: UK rebuked for its threats to the Guardian
uri: 2013-09-01-UK-rebuked-for-its-threats-to-the-Guardian
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(UK_rebuked_for_its_threats_to_the_Guardian)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28UK_rebuked_for_its_threats_to_the_Guardian%29

content:
<p>
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/26/nsa-leaks-david-cameron-newspapers">rebuked 
the UK</a> for its threats to the Guardian.


title: The damage of privatization in Britain
uri: 2013-09-01-The-damage-of-privatization-in-Britain
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(The_damage_of_privatization_in_Britain)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28The_damage_of_privatization_in_Britain%29

content:
<p>
The damage of privatization in Britain, illustrated by taking a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/aug/26/great-british-seaside-selloff">seaside 
holiday</a>.


title: General monitoring of people causes psychological harm
uri: 2013-09-01-General-monitoring-of-people-causes-psychological-harm
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(General_monitoring_of_people_causes_psychological_harm)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28General_monitoring_of_people_causes_psychological_harm%29

content:
<p>
General monitoring of people causes various kinds of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/aug/26/nsa-gchq-psychology-government-mass-surveillance">psychological
harm</a>.


title: Cuba cedes to US pressure, bars Snowden from travelling
uri: 2013-09-01-Cuba-cedes-to-US-pressure-bars-Snowden-from-travelling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 27_August_2013_(Cuba_cedes_to_US_pressure_bars_Snowden_from_travelling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_%28Cuba_cedes_to_US_pressure_bars_Snowden_from_travelling%29

content:
<p>
Reportedly Cuba ceded to US pressure to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/edward-snowden-moscow-cuba">bar 
Snowden from travelling</a>.
<p>
This despite the fact that the US 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2007-mar-jun.html#12%20May%202007%20(Luis%20Posada)">protects 
terrorists that made attacks in Cuba</a> and
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#21_April_2012_(The_Cuban_Five)">imprisoned 
the Cuban 5</a> for infiltrating anti-Cuban terrorist groups and
warning when they were going to attack.


title: Urgent: Raise taxes on business and protect social security
uri: Urgent-Raise-taxes-on-business-and-protect-social-security
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Urgent:_Raise_taxes_on_business_and_protect_social_security)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Raise_taxes_on_business_and_protect_social_security%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: sign 
<a href="http://action.usaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=551">this
petition</a> to raise taxes on business and protect social security.


title: Ignorance of the National Institute on Drug Abuse
uri: Ignorance-of-the-National-Institute-on-Drug-Abuse
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Ignorance_of_the_National_Institute_on_Drug_Abuse)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Ignorance_of_the_National_Institute_on_Drug_Abuse%29

content:
<p>
The National Institute on Drug Abuse displays 
<a href="http://blog.mpp.org/research/national-institute-on-drug-abuse-shows-they-know-nothing-about-marijuana/08212013/">total
ignorance about marijuana</a>.
<p>
What drugs are they taking?


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Obamas_push_for_war_in_Syria)
title: Obama's push for war in Syria
uri: Obama-s-push-for-war-in-Syria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Obamas_push_for_war_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
Ralph Nader: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/31">Obama, 
You Cannot Start a War by Yourself</a>.
<p>
Obama said he will 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/31/syrian-air-strikes-obama-congress">consult 
Congress</a> before attacking Syria, but did not say he will abide by
Congress's decision.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/31/syria-assad-war-criminal">Assad
Is a War Criminal, But an Attack Will Do Nothing for the People of
Syria</a>.


title: Saudi Arabia uses unjust law to attack human rights groups
uri: Saudi-Arabia-uses-unjust-law-to-attack-human-rights-groups
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Saudi_Arabia_uses_unjust_law_to_attack_human_rights_groups)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Saudi_Arabia_uses_unjust_law_to_attack_human_rights_groups%29

content:
<p>
In Saudi Arabia, operating an "unregistered organization" is a crime.
This evidently unjust law is used to 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/08/29/saudi-arabia-rights-groups-blocked-operating">attack 
human rights groups</a>.


title: Pakistani TV network faces prosecution
uri: Pakistani-TV-network-faces-prosecution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Pakistani_TV_network_faces_prosecution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Pakistani_TV_network_faces_prosecution%29

content:
<p>
A Pakistani TV network faces prosecution for 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/pakistan-tv-network-prosecuted-under-anti-29-08-2013,45117.html">broadcasting 
pictures of a rebel attack</a>.


title: Google deletes anti-oil videos from YouTube
uri: Google-deletes-anti-oil-videos-from-YouTube
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Google_deletes_anti-oil_videos_from_YouTube)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Google_deletes_anti-oil_videos_from_YouTube%29

content:
<p>
Google 
<a href="http://priceofoil.org/2013/08/28/youtube-sides-big-oil/">deleted 
two anti-oil videos</a> from YouTube.
<p>
I would guess that both removals were based on strained, invalid
copyright claims.


title: Tunisian journalist faces five years in jail
uri: Tunisian-journalist-faces-five-years-in-jail
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Tunisian_journalist_faces_five_years_in_jail)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Tunisian_journalist_faces_five_years_in_jail%29

content:
<p>
A Tunisian journalist faces five years in jail for 
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2013/08/tunisian-journalist-charged-for-filming-attack-on.php">filming 
when someone threw eggs at a minister</a>.


title: Proposed law in Bangladesh might threaten human rights defenders
uri: Proposed-law-in-Bangladesh-might-threaten-human-rights-defenders
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Proposed_law_in_Bangladesh_might_threaten_human_rights_defenders)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Proposed_law_in_Bangladesh_might_threaten_human_rights_defenders%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.fidh.org/bangladesh-information-and-communication-technology-amendment-act-likely-13875">proposed
law</a> in Bangladesh might threaten human rights defenders.


title: Indonesian regime forced indigenous leaders to sign away land
uri: Indonesian-regime-forced-indigenous-leaders-to-sign-away-land
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Indonesian_regime_forced_indigenous_leaders_to_sign_away_land)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Indonesian_regime_forced_indigenous_leaders_to_sign_away_land%29

content:
<p>
The Indonesian
regime <a href="http://intercontinentalcry.org/west-papua-elders-forced-to-sign-away-land-to-pt-mayora-one-of-indonesias-leading-food-brands/">forced
indigenous leaders in West Papua to sign away land to a large
agribusiness</a>, threatening to label them as "separatists" and
punish them otherwise.
<p>
I don't know whether they are separatists, but they have every right
to be.  The inhabitants of West Papua have no cultural or historical
relationship with Indonesia, which took over the region by force.
Subsequently
it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmigration_program">sent
large numbers of Javanese to colonize the area.</a>


title: GCHQ snoops on nearly all of Europe's Internet traffic
uri: GCHQ-snoops-on-nearly-all-of-Europe-s-Internet-traffic
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(GCHQ_snoops_on_nearly_all_of_Europe's_Internet_traffic)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28GCHQ_snoops_on_nearly_all_of_Europe%27s_Internet_traffic%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dw.de/gchq-reported-to-have-access-to-almost-all-european-internet-traffic/a-17053061">GCHQ
snoops on nearly all of Europe's Internet traffic.</a>


title: Guards kicking and beating prisoners in an Angolan prison
uri: Guards-kicking-and-beating-prisoners-in-an-Angolan-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Guards_kicking_and_beating_prisoners_in_an_Angolan_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Guards_kicking_and_beating_prisoners_in_an_Angolan_prison%29

content:
<p>
A video made inside an Angolan prison
shows <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/angola-shocking-footage-appears-show-appalling-abuse-prisoners-2013-08-28">guards
kicking and beating prisoners who were sitting on the ground</a>,
perhaps as a nonviolent protest.
<p>
Prisoners in California
are <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_July_2013_(30000_California_prisoners_start_hunger_strike)">protesting
against long-term solitary confinement which is effectively equivalent
to torture.</a>


title: Neelie Kroes Pushing Telcos' Agenda to End Net Neutrality
uri: Neelie-Kroes-Pushing-Telcos-Agenda-to-End-Net-Neutrality
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Neelie_Kroes_Pushing_Telcos'_Agenda_to_End_Net_Neutrality)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Neelie_Kroes_Pushing_Telcos%27_Agenda_to_End_Net_Neutrality%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/neelie-kroes-pushing-telcos-agenda-to-end-net-neutrality">Neelie
Kroes Pushing Telcos' Agenda to End Net Neutrality.</a>


title: Rich in US increased wealth while most Americans lost
uri: Rich-in-US-increased-wealth-while-most-Americans-lost
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Rich_in_US_increased_wealth_while_most_Americans_lost)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Rich_in_US_increased_wealth_while_most_Americans_lost%29

content:
<p>
Even before 2009,
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/26-0">rich in
the US increased their wealth while most Americans lost.</a> (Since
2009, this process has gone even further.)


title: High radiation levels have been found near a water tank at Fukushima
uri: High-radiation-levels-have-been-found-near-a-water-tank-at-Fukushima
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(High_radiation_levels_have_been_found_near_a_water_tank_at_Fukushima)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28High_radiation_levels_have_been_found_near_a_water_tank_at_Fukushima%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/01/fukushima-radiation-levels-higher-japan">High
radiation levels have been found near a water tank at Fukushima,</a>
and it is not clear where the radiation came from.
<p>
The company failed to notice this high level of radiation before
because
the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23918882">measurements
maxed out the meter that was used.</a>


title: Budget cuts and spread of fire near Yosemite
uri: Budget-cuts-and-spread-of-fire-near-Yosemite
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Budget_cuts_and_spread_of_fire_near_Yosemite)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Budget_cuts_and_spread_of_fire_near_Yosemite%29

content:
<p>
Budget
cuts <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/01/yosemite-wildfire-congress-funding">prevented
measures that might have retarded the spread of the fire near
Yosemite.</a>


title: Obama refuses to treat Congress's vote on Syria as binding
uri: Obama-refuses-to-treat-Congress-s-vote-on-Syria-as-binding
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Obama_refuses_to_treat_Congress's_vote_on_Syria_as_binding)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Obama_refuses_to_treat_Congress%27s_vote_on_Syria_as_binding%29

content:
<p>
Obama's men say that
he <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/01/obama-congress-syria-authorization">refuses
to treat Congress's vote on whether to attack Syria as binding.</a>
<p>
If Congressional opposition is strong enough, he may give way to it.
<p>
The essential point:
<p>
<blockquote>
It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire
than having one's national "credibility" depend upon periodically
bombing other countries.
</blockquote>


title: Urgent: Schools and teachers should not promote brands
uri: Urgent-Schools-and-teachers-should-not-promote-brands
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Urgent:_Schools_and_teachers_should_not_promote_brands)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Schools_and_teachers_should_not_promote_brands%29

content:
<p>
In the US: insist that schools and teachers
should <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12299">not
promote (let alone require) specific brands of products to their
students.</a>


title: Urgent: Women who were forced into prostitution by Japanese Army
uri: Urgent-Women-who-were-forced-into-prostitution-by-Japanese-Army
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Urgent:_Women_who_were_forced_into_prostitution_by_Japanese_Army)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Women_who_were_forced_into_prostitution_by_Japanese_Army%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Japanese government
to <a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/3023">apologize to the
women who were forced into prostitution by the Japanese Army</a>, and
give them compensation for this crime.
<p>
You'll note that I call for prostitution and associated activities to
be legal, when they are done voluntarily.  This is basically because
there are no grounds to ban them, but the change would also help
protect prostitutes from various wrongs, including the wrong of being
forced into prostitution.


title: State distracts people with rooting for sports teams
uri: State-distracts-people-with-rooting-for-sports-teams
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(State_distracts_people_with_rooting_for_sports_teams)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28State_distracts_people_with_rooting_for_sports_teams%29

content:
<p>
As Roman emperors managed the people with bread and circuses,
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jun/15/football-socialism-crack-cocaine-people">modern
state distracts people with rooting for sports teams.</a>


title: Uri Avnery comments on Obama and Syria
uri: Uri-Avnery-comments-on-Obama-and-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Uri_Avnery_comments_on_Obama_and_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Uri_Avnery_comments_on_Obama_and_Syria%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1377860226/">Uri
Avnery comments on Obama and Syria.</a>
<p>
Avnery's arguments that Assad's men would not have used poison gas at
this time seem valid.  However, it seems rather unlikely that the
rebels have poison gas rockets, and somewhat unlikely they would have
been so unscrupulous as to kill lots of civilians on their own side.
This leaves me unable to attribute the attack to either side.
<p>
I also can't envision what a good outcome in Syria would consist of.
Assad is an oppressor and the Islamists would be oppressors; Syria
should not be ruled by either of them, but I don't see how any other
government could arise.  The unending war between them is horrible,
but fighting to help one oppressor beat another is horrible too.
<p>
Perhaps in time the two camps will divide Syria and the fighting will
taper off.


title: Eliminating one species can have disastrous results on ecosystem
uri: Eliminating-one-species-can-have-disastrous-results-on-ecosystem
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Eliminating_one_species_can_have_disastrous_results_on_ecosystem)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Eliminating_one_species_can_have_disastrous_results_on_ecosystem%29

content:
<p>
The example of sea otters demonstrates
how <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/01/john-finnemore-sea-otters-badgers">eliminating
one species can have disastrous results on an entire ecosystem.</a>
<p>
Humans change ecosystems in many ways.  When Europeans first visited
what is now Sydney, the forest was sparse — because the
aborigines kept burning it.  Large trees lived through the fires, but
bushes burnt up.  The Europeans did not allow fires, and this led to
dense forests.


title: People of endangered islands are converting to renewable energy
uri: People-of-endangered-islands-are-converting-to-renewable-energy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(People_of_endangered_islands_are_converting_to_renewable_energy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28People_of_endangered_islands_are_converting_to_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
The people of endangered islands in the Pacific Ocean
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/01/pacific-islands-climate-change">converting
to renewable energy</a>, hoping the rest of the world will follow this
example before their homes are underwater.


title: How Mexican state is tied to drug cartels
uri: How-Mexican-state-is-tied-to-drug-cartels
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(How_Mexican_state_is_tied_to_drug_cartels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28How_Mexican_state_is_tied_to_drug_cartels%29

content:
<p>
Journalist Anabel Hernandez braves threats
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/01/mexico-drugs-anabel-hernandez-narcoland">document
how the Mexican state is tied to the drug cartels.</a>
<p>
If they legalize the drug trade, this will become only as bad as the
domination of the US by businesses.


title: US shift towards low-pay dead-end jobs
uri: US-shift-towards-low-pay-dead-end-jobs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(US_shift_towards_low-pay_dead-end_jobs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28US_shift_towards_low-pay_dead-end_jobs%29

content:
<p>
The US shift towards low-pay dead-end jobs is triggered by 
<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/how-technology-wrecks-the-middle-class/">technological
"advances" that we might be better off without</a>, combines with 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/26/technology_and_the_fall_of_the_middle_class.html">government 
policies that serve the rich</a>.


title: Ukrainian thugs plant old gun and grenade in Femen's headquarters
uri: Ukrainian-thugs-plant-old-gun-and-grenade-in-Femen-s-headquarters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Ukrainian_thugs_plant_old_gun_and_grenade_in_Femens_headquarters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Ukrainian_thugs_plant_old_gun_and_grenade_in_Femens_headquarters%29

content:
<p>
Ukrainian thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/femen-ukraine-police-planting-guns">planted
an old gun and grenade</a> in the headquarters of Femen.


title: "Anti-terror" measures threaten survival of a free nation
uri: Anti-terror-measures-threaten-survival-of-a-free-nation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Anti-terror_measures_threaten_survival_of_a_free_nation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Anti-terror_measures_threaten_survival_of_a_free_nation%29

content:
<p>
Terrorists can kill people, but to threaten the survival of a free
nation as the US or UK requires 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/27/real-threat-terrorist-politicians-national-security">"anti-terror" 
measures</a>.


title: The persistent surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.
uri: The-persistent-surveillance-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(The_persistent_surveillance_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28The_persistent_surveillance_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.%29

content:
<p>
J Edgar Hoover's 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/j-edgar-hoover-war-martin-luther-king">persistent 
surveillance</a> of Martin Luther King Jr.


title: United Arab Emirates sentences dissidents to long prison terms
uri: United-Arab-Emirates-sentences-dissidents-to-long-prison-terms
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(United_Arab_Emirates_sentences_dissidents_to_long_prison_terms)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28United_Arab_Emirates_sentences_dissidents_to_long_prison_terms%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.fidh.org/united-arab-emirates-criminalising-political-dissent-13879">Dissidents
and human rights lawyers</a> in the United Arab Emirates have been
sentenced to long prison terms.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Use_of_toxic_weapons_by_the_US)
title: Use of toxic weapons by the US
uri: Use-of-toxic-weapons-by-the-US
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Use_of_toxic_weapons_by_the_US%29

content:
<p>
As Obama talks about punishing Assad for using toxic weapons, we
should not forget that the US has done this too, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/27-3">repeatedly</a>.
<p>
Assad cannot excuse use of chemical weapons by saying "The US did it
too."  Both Assad and the US are wrong.  If we put Assad on a list to
be "sent a message", the US government should be at the top of the
list.


title: 1000 Iraqis killed by terrorist attacks in July
uri: 1000-Iraqis-killed-by-terrorist-attacks-in-July
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(1000_Iraqis_killed_by_terrorist_attacks_in_July)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%281000_Iraqis_killed_by_terrorist_attacks_in_July%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/31/iraq-car-bomb-ramadi-kills-12">1000 
Iraqis</a> were killed by terrorist attacks in July.


title: US and UK directly aided Saddam Hussein's weapons programs
uri: US-and-UK-directly-aided-Saddam-Hussein-s-weapons-programs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(US_and_UK_directly_aided_Saddam_Husseins_weapons_programs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28US_and_UK_directly_aided_Saddam_Husseins_weapons_programs%29

content:
<p>
The US and UK directly aided Saddam Hussein's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/31-1">biological 
and chemical weapons programs</a>.


title: Finnish Supreme Court rules in favor of censorship
uri: Finnish-Supreme-Court-rules-in-favor-of-censorship
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Finnish_Supreme_Court_rules_in_favor_of_censorship)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Finnish_Supreme_Court_rules_in_favor_of_censorship%29

content:
<p>
The Finnish supreme court ruled in favor of 
<a href="http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number11.16/finnish-supreme-court-decision">censoring
a site that published a list of the sites that are censored in
Finland</a>.


title: Measures to reduce tobacco addiction can be blocked using TPP
uri: Measures-to-reduce-tobacco-addiction-can-be-blocked-using-TPP
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Measures_to_reduce_tobacco_addiction_can_be_blocked_using_TPP)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Measures_to_reduce_tobacco_addiction_can_be_blocked_using_TPP%29

content:
<p>
Tobacco companies will be able to use the Trans-Pacific Partnership to
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/08/health-advocates-denounce-obama-for-caving-to-big-tobacco-in-tpp.html">block 
measures to reduce tobacco addiction</a>.
<p>
Americans, let's defeat this treaty now, so that we don't have to
protest like Colombians.
<p>
<a href="http://stallman.org/trance-pacific-partnership.html">http://stallman.org/trance-pacific-partnership.html</a>


title: The claim that North Dakota has benefited from fracking
uri: The-claim-that-North-Dakota-has-benefited-from-fracking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(The_claim_that_North_Dakota_has_benefited_from_fracking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28The_claim_that_North_Dakota_has_benefited_from_fracking%29

content:
<p>
The claim that North Dakota has benefited from fracking is mostly
<a href="http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/08/26/north-dakota-oil-boom-not-what-it-seems/">hot 
exhaust gas</a>.


title: Massive protests against US-Colombia trade treaty continue
uri: Massive-protests-against-US-Colombia-trade-treaty-continue
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 01_September_2013_(Massive_protests_against_US-Colombia_trade_treaty_continue)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_September_2013_%28Massive_protests_against_US-Colombia_trade_treaty_continue%29

content:
<p>
The Colombian people have been devastated by the unjust trade treaty
with the US, and 
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/08/colombia-uprising-is-this-what-free-trade-looks-like.html">massive
protests continue</a> despite government repression.
<p>
"Free trade" treaties 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#14_March_2012_(Oppose_the_TPP)">systematically 
weaken democracy</a>; they are generally good for some businesses, and
bad for everyone else.


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to oppose bombing Syria
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-oppose-bombing-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_oppose_bombing_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Congress_to_oppose_bombing_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/dont_bomb_syria/">call on 
Congress</a> to oppose bombing Syria.


title: Facebook users can no longer decline use of their names in ads
uri: Facebook-users-can-no-longer-decline-use-of-their-names-in-ads
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Facebook_users_can_no_longer_decline_use_of_their_names_in_ads)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Facebook_users_can_no_longer_decline_use_of_their_names_in_ads%29

content:
<p>
Facebook <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/30/facebook_data_usage_policy_rejigged_again/">will
no longer allow users to decline to let their names be used in
advertisements</a>.  More than ever, Facebook is really Suckerberg.
<p>
In addition, Facebook secretly collects users' phone numbers.  The
article says it is not clear why.  Perhaps it's a favor for the NSA.


title: Egypt jamming al-Jazeera transmissions
uri: Egypt-jamming-al-Jazeera-transmissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Egypt_jamming_al-Jazeera_transmissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Egypt_jamming_al-Jazeera_transmissions%29

content:
<p>
Egypt is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/02/egypt-accused-jamming-al-jazeera">jamming 
al-Jazeera transmissions</a>.
<p>
This is in addition to 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#29_August_2013_(Egypt_has_arrested_al-Jazeera_reporters)">impeding 
al-Jazeera from broadcasting</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Obamas_new_poodle)
title: Obama's new poodle
uri: Obama-s-new-poodle
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Obamas_new_poodle%29
content:
<p>
Explaining to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/sep/02/america-new-poodle-francois-hollande">Francois 
Hollande</a> what it means to be Obama's new poodle.


title: Crop pests spreading away from equator
uri: Crop-pests-spreading-away-from-equator
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Crop_pests_spreading_away_from_equator)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Crop_pests_spreading_away_from_equator%29

content:
<p>
A study of 600 crop pests finds they have been spreading away from the
equator at 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/02/climate-change-crop-pests">almost 
2 miles a year</a>, on the average.
<p>
The spread is not uniform.  Some pests, in some regions, have spread
hundreds of miles northward.


title: AT&T maintains complete database of cell phone calls
uri: AT-T-maintains-complete-database-of-cell-phone-calls
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(ATT_maintains_complete_database_of_cell_phone_calls)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28ATT_maintains_complete_database_of_cell_phone_calls%29

content:
<p>
AT&T maintains a complete database of cell phone call records
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/02/nsa-dea-at-t-call-records-access">going 
back to 1987</a> for the US government to examine at will.


title: Protests against gov't corruption in the Philippines
uri: Protests-against-gov-t-corruption-in-the-Philippines
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Protests_against_govt_corruption_in_the_Philippines)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Protests_against_govt_corruption_in_the_Philippines%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/08/27/million-people-march-against-corruption-in-the-philippines/">Hundreds
of thousands</a> protested government corruption in the Philippines.
<p>
The US government is fundamentally corrupt too, selling laws to the
businesses that bid the most.


title: German newspaper faces prosecution for mentioning a web site
uri: German-newspaper-faces-prosecution-for-mentioning-a-web-site
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(German_newspaper_faces_prosecution_for_mentioning_a_web_site)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28German_newspaper_faces_prosecution_for_mentioning_a_web_site%29

content:
<p>
In Germany, a newspaper faces prosecution for mentioning the 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/journalists-face-criminal-complaint-for-mentioning-name-of-pirate-site-130830/">name 
of a web site</a> that facilitates unauthorized copying.


title: Greek fascist party puts Jewish communist on trial
uri: Greek-fascist-party-puts-Jewish-communist-on-trial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Greek_fascist_party_puts_Jewish_communist_on_trial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Greek_fascist_party_puts_Jewish_communist_on_trial%29

content:
<p>
The Greek fascist party has put a Jewish communist 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/01/absurd-golden-dawn-hound-friend-court">on 
trial for a violent-sounding statement</a>, but the fascists are not
tried even when they commit violence.


title: Leader of Burmese protest sentenced to two years in prison
uri: Leader-of-Burmese-protest-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 02_September_2013_(Leader_of_Burmese_protest_sentenced_to_two_years_in_prison)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_%28Leader_of_Burmese_protest_sentenced_to_two_years_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
The leader of a Burmese protest against imposition of a mine has been
sentenced to 
<a href="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/letpadaung-08292013190047.html">two
years in prison</a>. The charges amount to "protesting", under other
names.
<p>
In Burma, the mine is Chinese-owned, but similar protests are
occurring in 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#07_November_2012_(Thugs_planted_weapons_on_killed_miners)">South 
Africa</a> and <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#28_November_2011_(Peru_Gold_Mine_Protests)">Peru</a>
(and elsewhere) against mines owned by Western companies.


title: Effects of the chronic stress in the lives of poor people
uri: Effects-of-the-chronic-stress-in-the-lives-of-poor-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_September_2013_(Effects_of_the_chronic_stress_in_the_lives_of_poor_people_)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_September_2013_%28Effects_of_the_chronic_stress_in_the_lives_of_poor_people_%29

content:
<p>
The chronic stress in the lives of poor people makes them
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/sep/03/payday-lenders-psychological-vulnerabilities-wonga">vulnerable
to predatory lending with enormous interest rates</a>.


title: Slowdown in atmospheric heating since 2000
uri: Slowdown-in-atmospheric-heating-since-2000
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_September_2013_(Slowdown_in_atmospheric_heating_since_2000)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_September_2013_%28Slowdown_in_atmospheric_heating_since_2000%29

content:
<p>
The slowdown in atmospheric heating since 2000 fits a model based on a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/03/global-warming-pacific-ocean-puzzle-piece">climatic 
oscillation in the Pacific Ocean</a> with a period of a few decades.
<p>
This oscillation drives the extra heat down into the ocean so that it doesn't
all remain in the air.  This half of the cycle won't last forever.


title: Negotiations with Iran might help make peace in Syria
uri: Negotiations-with-Iran-might-help-make-peace-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_September_2013_(Negotiations_with_Iran_might_help_make_peace_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_September_2013_%28Negotiations_with_Iran_might_help_make_peace_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Serious negotiations with Iran 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/03/for-syria-sake-end-iran-isolation">might 
help make peace</a> in Syria.


title: Afghan gov't forces taking heavy casualties
uri: Afghan-gov-t-forces-taking-heavy-casualties
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_September_2013_(Afghan_govt_forces_taking_heavy_casualties)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_September_2013_%28Afghan_govt_forces_taking_heavy_casualties%29

content:
<p>
Afghan government forces are taking 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/02/afghanistan-government-abandons-taliban-victims">heavy 
casualties</a> as the Taliban attack.
<p>
To defeat the Taliban would require a determination to win, which I
don't think that Karzai's corrupt government can ever inspire.


title: Assad using schools to shield forces
uri: Assad-using-schools-to-shield-forces
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_September_2013_(Assad_using_schools_to_shield_forces)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_September_2013_%28Assad_using_schools_to_shield_forces%29

content:
<p>
Assad is moving forces into schools to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/02/syrian-forces-us-missile-targets">shield 
them from a possible US attack</a>.
<p>
I think this violates the Geneva conventions.


title: Conflicting reports about chemical weapons used in Syria
uri: Conflicting-reports-about-chemical-weapons-used-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 03_September_2013_(Conflicting_reports_about_chemical_weapons_used_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#03_September_2013_%28Conflicting_reports_about_chemical_weapons_used_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Some reports attribute chemical weapons to Assad's men and others to
the Sa'udi-supported al-Nusra Islamist group.  
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/02-3">Neither can be 
proved</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_attacking_Syria)
title: Very urgent: Oppose attacking Syria
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-attacking-Syria
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_attacking_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to 
<a href="http://fcnl.org/issues/middle_east/take_action_syria/">oppose 
attacking Syria</a>.
<p>
Also use 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8463">this 
page</a> to write to your congresscritter about it.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: People should have a chance to value work itself
uri: People-should-have-a-chance-to-value-work-itself
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(People_should_have_a_chance_to_value_work_itself)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28People_should_have_a_chance_to_value_work_itself%29

content:
<p>
People should have a chance to value work itself, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/03-2">not
<em>only</em> as a way to get money</a>.


title: "Child porn" laws interfere with journalism
uri: Child-porn-laws-interfere-with-journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(Child_porn_laws_interfere_with_journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28Child_porn_laws_interfere_with_journalism%29

content:
<p>
Richard Falkvinge: "child porn" laws aren't as bad as you think
— they're
<a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2012/09/child-porn-laws-arent-as-bad-as-you-think-theyre-much-much-worse-2449840.html">much 
much worse</a>.  They cause a litany of injustices, including
interference with journalism of the most socially important kind.


title: The complexity of the parallel Syrian conflicts
uri: The-complexity-of-the-parallel-Syrian-conflicts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(The_complexity_of_the_parallel_Syrian_conflicts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28The_complexity_of_the_parallel_Syrian_conflicts%29

content:
<p>
The complexity of the 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/in-syria-its-a-case-of-all-or-nothing-8792975.html">parallel 
Syrian conflicts</a>, and why US intervention could not thread the
maze.


title: Israel refuses to explain why troops killed Palestinian journalists
uri: Israel-refuses-to-explain-why-troops-killed-Palestinian-journalists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(Israel_refuses_to_explain_why_troops_killed_Palestinian_journalists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28Israel_refuses_to_explain_why_troops_killed_Palestinian_journalists%29

content:
<p>
In December 2012, Israeli troops killed Palestinian journalists
(noncombattants) with a missile.  Israel still 
<a href="http://972mag.com/why-did-the-idf-assassinate-two-palestinian-journalists/78049/">refuses 
to explain why</a>.


title: Palestinian family moves into cave after soldiers demolish house
uri: Palestinian-family-moves-into-cave-after-soldiers-demolish-house
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(Palestinian_family_moves_into_cave_after_soldiers_demolish_house)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28Palestinian_family_moves_into_cave_after_soldiers_demolish_house%29

content:
<p>
A Palestinian family in a suburb annexed to East Jerusalem has 
<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-home-demolished-family-moves-to-cave/">moved
to a cave</a> which used to be their stable, after soldiers demolished
their house.


title: Israelis protest against plan to destroy Bedouin villages
uri: Israelis-protest-against-plan-to-destroy-Bedouin-villages
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(Israelis_protest_against_plan_to_destroy_Bedouin_villages)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28Israelis_protest_against_plan_to_destroy_Bedouin_villages%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/politics/israeli-sosaciety/6976-1-000-march-in-tel-aviv-against-prawer">Israelis
protested</a> against the government's plan to destroy Bedouin
villages in the Negev.


title: Rubber-coated metal bullets used against protesters
uri: Rubber-coated-metal-bullets-used-against-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(Rubber-coated_metal_bullets_used_against_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28Rubber-coated_metal_bullets_used_against_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Israeli human rights groups call for an end to 
<a href="http://www.acri.org.il/en/2013/08/02/acri-btselem-rubber-bullets/">shooting
rubber-coated metal bullets at protests</a>. These bullets, while
promoted as nonlethal, have killed many people and a sharpshooter can
maximize that chance.


title: Peace between Israel and Palestine
uri: Peace-between-Israel-and-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(Peace_between_Israel_and_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28Peace_between_Israel_and_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
Uri Avnery discusses 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=60918">what 
is needed for peace between Israel and Palestine</a>, including most
controversially that Israel must apologize for the catastrophe that
Zionism caused for Palestinians.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(The_West_Bank)
title: The West Bank
uri: The-West-Bank
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28The_West_Bank%29
content:
<p>
Jeff Cohen: 
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/30/my-surprisingly-inspiring-trip-to-the-west-bank/">My 
Surprisingly Inspiring Trip to the West Bank</a>.


title: Sri Lanka stepping up repression of Tamils and dissidents
uri: Sri-Lanka-stepping-up-repression-of-Tamils-and-dissidents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(Sri_Lanka_stepping_up_repression_of_Tamils_and_dissidents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28Sri_Lanka_stepping_up_repression_of_Tamils_and_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
In 2009, Sri Lanka's forces killed perhaps 70,000 Tamil civilians;
then they massacred captured rebels.  The government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/03/sri-lanka-slaughter-no-fire-zone">stepping
up the repression</a> of Tamils and dissidents.
<p>
The article mentions the assassination of Lasantha Wickrematunge, whose 
<a href="http://stallman.org/notes/2008-nov-feb.html#14%20January%202009%20(Lasantha%20Wickramatunga)">posthumous
last editorial</a> accused the state of killing him.


title: Global heating predicted to change rainfall in Brazil
uri: Global-heating-predicted-to-change-rainfall-in-Brazil
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(Global_heating_predicted_to_change_rainfall_in_Brazil)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28Global_heating_predicted_to_change_rainfall_in_Brazil%29

content:
<p>
Global heating is predicted to change rainfall in Brazil and
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/03/brazil-food-crops-climate-change">damage
agriculture</a>.


title: Obama trying to win Republican support
uri: Obama-trying-to-win-Republican-support
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 04_September_2013_(Obama_trying_to_win_Republican_support)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#04_September_2013_%28Obama_trying_to_win_Republican_support%29

content:
<p>
Obama is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/03/obama-strategy-assad-republicans-syria">proposing
a larger intervention in Syria</a> to win Republican support.
<p>
I would support intervention to topple Assad if his likely replacement
were not Islamists.


title: Urgent: Limit "for-profit colleges" from driving students into debt
uri: Urgent-Limit-for-profit-colleges-from-driving-students-into-debt
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(Urgent:_Limit_for-profit_colleges_from_driving_students_into_debt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Limit_for-profit_colleges_from_driving_students_into_debt%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/stop-for-profit-colleges-from-taking-advantage-of-students">Support 
government measures</a> to limit "for-profit colleges" from driving
students into debt.


title: Obama regime puts gag order on journalist Barret Brown
uri: Obama-regime-puts-gag-order-on-journalist-Barret-Brown
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(Obama_regime_puts_gag_order_on_journalist_Barret_Brown)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28Obama_regime_puts_gag_order_on_journalist_Barret_Brown%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/04/barrett-brown-gag-order-us-government">trying
to forbid journalist Barrett Brown (and his lawyers) from talking to
the media</a>.
<p>
Brown's charges mainly have to do with 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#30_May_2013_(Hammond_pleads_guilty_to_extracting_Stratfor%27s_files)">posting 
a link to a web page</a> where data obtained from Stratfor had been
posted by others.
<p>
He also posted a page of violent threats against a US agent who was
hounding him.  Brown he seems to be guilty on this one point, so I
cannot claim he has done nothing wrong.  However, the other charges
raise a more important issue — Obama, as usual, is attacking
freedom of the press.
<p>
Even if they gag Barrett Brown, others including me will continue
informing Americans about the injustice of this case, and that Obama
is the enemy of journalism and democracy in the US.
<p>
Later: 
<a href="http://rt.com/usa/barrett-brown-gag-order-423/">the gag 
order was issued</a>.
<p>
We can make the US government regret this
by talking about the case even more.


title: US stopping EU from taxing airlines for CO2 emissions
uri: US-stopping-EU-from-taxing-airlines-for-CO2-emissions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(US_stopping_EU_from_taxing_airlines_for_CO2_emissions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28US_stopping_EU_from_taxing_airlines_for_CO2_emissions%29

content:
<p>
The US is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/04/barack-obama-climate-change-carbon-emissions">using
a manipulable international organization</a> to stop the EU from
taxing airlines for their CO<sub>2</sub> emissions.


title: US appeals court decides in favor of vulture funds
uri: US-appeals-court-decides-in-favor-of-vulture-funds
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(US_appeals_court_decides_in_favor_of_vulture_funds)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28US_appeals_court_decides_in_favor_of_vulture_funds%29

content:
<p>
A US appeals court decided in favor of vulture funds that are betting
they can
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/04/we-need-fair-system-for-restructuring-sovereign-debt">destroy 
plans to restructure the debt of bankrupt countries</a>.


title: Egyptian military gov't labels dissidents "Islamists" to arrest them
uri: Egyptian-military-gov-t-labels-dissidents-Islamists-to-arrest-them
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(Egyptian_military_govt_labels_dissidents_Islamists_to_arrest_them)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28Egyptian_military_govt_labels_dissidents_Islamists_to_arrest_them%29

content:
<p>
The Egyptian military government arrests 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/world/middleeast/egypt-widens-crackdown-and-meaning-of-islamist.html?ref=muslimbrotherhoodegypt&_r=0">any 
sort of dissidents</a>, even leftist, and people who get in their way,
on the pretext that they are "Islamists".


title: The tanks holding contaminated water at Fukushima
uri: The-tanks-holding-contaminated-water-at-Fukushima
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(The_tanks_holding_contaminated_water_at_Fukushima)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28The_tanks_holding_contaminated_water_at_Fukushima%29

content:
<p>
The tanks holding contaminated water at Fukushima were 
<a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/02/national/leaks-feared-when-fukushima-no-1-water-tanks-constructed/">built 
in a hurry</a>, with quality control set aside.
<p>
Maybe the haste was necessary at the time — but, if so, they
should have built more solid replacement tanks once the water was
initially contained.
<p>
Even 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/04/fukushima-radiation-deadly-new-high">higher 
radiation levels</a> have been found near the tanks.
<p>
It is impossible to keep the cost of nuclear power down, given
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/sep/04/fukushima-farce-nuclear-industry-flaw">all 
the risks</a>.
<p>
It is an exaggeration to describe a nuclear reactor as a "slow motion
detonation", like describing your metabolism as a "slow motion fire".
But that doesn't invalidate the conclusions.


title: US videotapes of the torture of Mohammed al-Qahtani
uri: US-videotapes-of-the-torture-of-Mohammed-al-Qahtani
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(US_videotapes_of_the_torture_of_Mohammed_al-Qahtani)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28US_videotapes_of_the_torture_of_Mohammed_al-Qahtani%29

content:
<p>
The Center for Constitutional Rights is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/09/03-0">suing for
release</a> of US videotapes of the torture of Mohammed al-Qahtani.


title: EU considers plan to put speed limiters on all cars
uri: EU-considers-plan-to-put-speed-limiters-on-all-cars
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(EU_considers_plan_to_put_speed_limiters_on_all_cars)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28EU_considers_plan_to_put_speed_limiters_on_all_cars%29

content:
<p>
The EU is considering a 
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/road-safety/10278702/EU-plans-to-fit-all-cars-with-speed-limiters.html">plan 
to put speed limiters on all cars</a>.
<p>
Making the system warn the driver could be a good thing; making it a
hard limit would be nasty, as speed limits on some roads are too low.
<p>
I worry also about whether this system would do surveillance.  Having
a camera recognize speed limit signs would not inherently imply
surveillance, but if the system keeps a history of the signs it sees
or the speed of the car at each time, that would effectively add up to
surveillance.  As for the vaguely described satellite-based system,
that might involve surveillance depending on details.


title: Israel cheating Palestinian Authority
uri: Israel-cheating-Palestinian-Authority
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(Israel_cheating_Palestinian_Authority)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28Israel_cheating_Palestinian_Authority%29

content:
<p>
Israel is cheating the Palestinian Authority of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/03/palestine-loses-300m-trade-taxes-israel">300 
million dollars a year</a>.


title: Don't believe the whitewash of Larry Summers
uri: Don-t-believe-the-whitewash-of-Larry-Summers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(Dont_believe_the_whitewash_of_Larry_Summers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28Dont_believe_the_whitewash_of_Larry_Summers%29

content:
<p>
Don't believe the whitewash of Larry Summers — here's a 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12232/failing-fed-reporters-guide-paper-trail-surrounding-larry-summers">series
of times when he supported harmful or unjust economic policies</a>.


title: Urgent: Pressure Iceland to stop killing whales
uri: Urgent-Pressure-Iceland-to-stop-killing-whales
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(Urgent:_Pressure_Iceland_to_stop_killing_whales)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Pressure_Iceland_to_stop_killing_whales%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on US officials
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=399CFFA26DECE3D961FE34D279E38028.app367a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1393">pressure
Iceland to stop killing whales.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(Assange_filed_a_complaint)
title: Assange filed a complaint
uri: Assange-filed-a-complaint
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28Assange_filed_a_complaint%29
content:
<p>
Assange has filed a complaint
against <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/julian-assange-seeks-investigation-into-fbi-us-intelligence-activity-20130903-2t1so.html">illegal
US espionage and perhaps theft carried out in Europe.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(The_NSA_spied_on_al-Jazeera)
title: The NSA spied on al-Jazeera
uri: The-NSA-spied-on-al-Jazeera
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28The_NSA_spied_on_al-Jazeera%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-spied-on-al-jazeera-communications-snowden-document-a-919681.html">The
NSA spied on al-Jazeera.</a>


title: Should We Fall Again for "Trust Me"
uri: Should-We-Fall-Again-for-Trust-Me
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(Should_We_Fall_Again_for_Trust_Me)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28Should_We_Fall_Again_for_Trust_Me%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/03-9">Kerry, Should
We Fall Again for "Trust Me"?</a>


title: Many leaks of radioactive water at Fukushima
uri: Many-leaks-of-radioactive-water-at-Fukushima
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(Many_leaks_of_radioactive_water_at_Fukushima)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28Many_leaks_of_radioactive_water_at_Fukushima%29

content:
<p>
There seem to
be <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/04-4">many
leaks of radioactive water at Fukushima</a>, and only straws to grasp
at to stop it from leaking into the ocean.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 05_September_2013_(Iowa_banned_telemedicine)
title: Iowa banned telemedicine
uri: Iowa-banned-telemedicine
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#05_September_2013_%28Iowa_banned_telemedicine%29
content:
<p>
Iowa has interfered with attacked abortion rights
by <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/03/2565221/iowa-telemedicine-vote-ban/">banning
use of telemedicine — only in regard to abortions.</a>


title: Urgent: Drop private prison companies
uri: Urgent-Drop-private-prison-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Urgent:_Drop_private_prison_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Drop_private_prison_companies%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/privateprison_divestment/">call 
on investors</a> to drop private prison companies.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_SOPA)
title: Urgent: Oppose SOPA
uri: Urgent-Oppose-SOPA
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_SOPA%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/sopas-back">oppose</a> 
Obama's plan to bring back SOPA.


title: Right-wing Republican billionaire wants Obama to attack Syria
uri: Right-wing-Republican-billionaire-wants-Obama-to-attack-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Right-wing_Republican_billionaire_wants_Obama_to_attack_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Right-wing_Republican_billionaire_wants_Obama_to_attack_Syria%29

content:
<p>
A right-wing Republican billionaire wants Obama to attack Syria,
apparently because he's a supporter of 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/sheldon-adelson-president-obama-bombing-syria">Israeli 
expansionism</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(The_Domestic_Workers_Treaty)
title: The Domestic Workers Treaty
uri: The-Domestic-Workers-Treaty
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28The_Domestic_Workers_Treaty%29
content:
<p>
All countries should ratify the Domestic Workers Treaty, which 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/03/domestic-workers-treaty-goes-force">gives
domestic workers the same rights that other workers get</a>.


title: Surveillance of the Internet in European countries
uri: Surveillance-of-the-Internet-in-European-countries
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Surveillance_of_the_Internet_in_European_countries)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Surveillance_of_the_Internet_in_European_countries%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dw.de/europe-vs-nsa-know-thyself-know-thy-neighbor/a-17061649">Are 
other European countries surveilling the Internet</a> like the US and
UK?


title: Aggressive campaign to spread stories that support China's gov't
uri: Aggressive-campaign-to-spread-stories-that-support-China-s-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Aggressive_campaign_to_spread_stories_that_support_Chinas_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Aggressive_campaign_to_spread_stories_that_support_Chinas_govt%29

content:
<p>
The president of China called for an 
<a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1302857/president-xi-jinping-rallies-party-propaganda-war-internet">aggressive
campaign</a> to have people spread stories that support the
government.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Great_Lakes_shrinking)
title: Great Lakes shrinking
uri: Great-Lakes-shrinking
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Great_Lakes_shrinking%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is making the Great Lakes 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/hubs-water-adaptation">shrink</a>.


title: Travis McCrea's apology letter to the US border guards agency
uri: Travis-McCrea-s-apology-letter-to-the-US-border-guards-agency
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Travis_McCreas_apology_letter_to_the_US_border_guards_agency)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Travis_McCreas_apology_letter_to_the_US_border_guards_agency%29

content:
<p>
Travis McCrea of the Canadian Pirate Party 
<a href="http://falkvinge.net/2013/09/04/open-letter-to-us-border-patrol-cbp/">apologizes
to the US border guards agency</a> for misunderstanding them, over and
over, while they held him prisoner for two hours.


title: Would Bombing Syria Deter the Use of Chemical Weapons?
uri: Would-Bombing-Syria-Deter-the-Use-of-Chemical-Weapons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Would_Bombing_Syria_Deter_the_Use_of_Chemical_Weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Would_Bombing_Syria_Deter_the_Use_of_Chemical_Weapons%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/would-bombing-syria-deter-use-chemical-weapons">Would 
Bombing Syria Deter the Use of Chemical Weapons?</a>


title: University presidents' rates of pay
uri: University-presidents-rates-of-pay
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(University_presidents_rates_of_pay)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28University_presidents_rates_of_pay%29

content:
<p>
University presidents
are <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/charts-college-presidents-overpaid-pay">demanding
skyrocketing rates of pay</a>, like business CEOs.


title: Collecting the voices of anti-fundamentalists Muslims
uri: Collecting-the-voices-of-anti-fundamentalists-Muslims
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Collecting_the_voices_of_anti-fundamentalists_Muslims)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Collecting_the_voices_of_anti-fundamentalists_Muslims%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://opendemocracy.net/5050/deniz-kandiyoti-karima-bennoune/your-fatwa-does-not-apply-here">Collecting
the voices of anti-fundamentalists Muslims.</a>


title: Reform of massive government snooping
uri: Reform-of-massive-government-snooping
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Reform_of_massive_government_snooping)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Reform_of_massive_government_snooping%29

content:
<p>
Some things Obama should do if he were serious
about <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/04/when-will-obama-get-serious-about-nsa-reform">reform
of massive government snooping.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Genetically_engineered_rice)
title: Genetically engineered rice
uri: Genetically-engineered-rice
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Genetically_engineered_rice%29
content:
<p>
Genetically engineered rice, touted as a supposed solution to Vitamin
A shortage in parts of the world,
has <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_28251.cfm">not
been tested enough to be sure it really helps, or even is safe.</a>


title: Urgent: Support reform of the US mining law
uri: Urgent-Support-reform-of-the-US-mining-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Urgent:_Support_reform_of_the_US_mining_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_reform_of_the_US_mining_law%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14224">support
reform of the US mining law</a>, to reduce pollution and make mining
companies pay.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Majuro_declaration)
title: Majuro declaration
uri: Majuro-declaration
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Majuro_declaration%29
content:
<p>
In the Majuro declaration, Australia and New Zealand agreed to the
need
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/sep/06/majuro-declaration-climate-change-collective-responsibility">end
greenhouse gas emissions.</a>
<p>
There is no way to eliminate them completely; we breathe out CO2.
(The biosphere can absorb a certain rate of emissions.)  However, the
goal of eliminating the emissions is correct as a first approximation.


title: US continues to protect right-wing murderers
uri: US-continues-to-protect-right-wing-murderers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(US_continues_to_protect_right-wing_murderers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28US_continues_to_protect_right-wing_murderers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/09/05-3">The US
continues to protect right-wing murderers</a>, including the man
accused of murdering singer Victor Jara in Chile as part of the
US-organized coup.
<p>
The US does not mention this when it criticizes countries that protect
Edward Snowden.


title: Abortion based on the sex of fetus
uri: Abortion-based-on-the-sex-of-fetus
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Abortion_based_on_the_sex_of_fetus)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Abortion_based_on_the_sex_of_fetus%29

content:
<p>
Some countries
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/jeremy-hunt-cps-not-prosecute-abortion-doctors">banned
selective abortion based on the sex of the fetus</a>.  They mean well,
but this is as bad as any other attack on abortion rights.
<p>
When women decide on abortion based on the sex of the fetus, that
usually reflects bigotry against women, which we should oppose.
However, the worldwide conservative assault against abortion rights
(and, beyond that, contraception, homosexual rights, and more) must be
opposed too.  To support any plan to restrict abortions supports that
assault and puts all sorts of sexual freedoms in danger.  If intended
as a way to oppose bigotry, it may backfire, since the religious
groups that oppose abortion tend to be very sexist.
<p>
We should denounce and oppose sexist bigotry in other ways, not this
way.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(FinFisher_repression_software)
title: FinFisher repression software
uri: FinFisher-repression-software
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28FinFisher_repression_software%29

content:
<p>
There
is <a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/finfisher-spyware-technology-debate-351/">no
way to prevent the FinFisher repression software from falling into the
hands of repressive states</a> such as Bahrain.
<p>
The article says that FinFly can attack "any" computer, but in fact
that depends on what system is running.  Perhaps it attacks mobile
phones through
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-back-doors.html">universal
back door that they all have.</a>


title: Republicans excuse to cut food stamps
uri: Republicans-excuse-to-cut-food-stamps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Republicans_excuse_to_cut_food_stamps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Republicans_excuse_to_cut_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
Republicans still pretend that the poor in the US are "unwilling to
work" as
an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/us/as-debate-reopens-food-stamp-recipients-continue-to-squeeze.html?pagewanted=all">excuse
to cut the food stamps that they depend on.</a>
<p>
Of course, they are responsible for the policies that result in not
enough jobs and low pay.  They kick Americans coming and going.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Nigeria_plans_to_follow_US)
title: Nigeria plans to follow US
uri: Nigeria-plans-to-follow-US
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Nigeria_plans_to_follow_US%29
content:
<p>
Nigeria plans to follow the US example
with <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-09/04/nigeria-phone-bugging">unlimited
snooping on portable phones.</a>


title: Taliban murdered Indian woman who wrote about her escape
uri: Taliban-murdered-Indian-woman-who-wrote-about-her-escape
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Taliban_murdered_Indian_woman_who_wrote_about_her_escape)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Taliban_murdered_Indian_woman_who_wrote_about_her_escape%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/escape-from-taliban-author-shot-afghanistan">Taliban
murdered an Indian woman who wrote about her escape</a> from
Afghanistan in the 90s.  She returned to Afghanistan later.
<p>
The Taliban's oppression of women is the reason that I supported the
conquest of Afghanistan in 2001.  If I could snap my fingers and kill
all the Taliban, I would do it immediately — but there is no way
to do that, and with no better leader than Karzai to oppose them, it
is impossible to defeat them in Afghanistan.  Defeating them would
require many Afghans to be determined to fight them, not just to
dislike them.
<p>
An army of Afghan women, who would prefer death to surrendering to the
Taliban, might have been able to defeat them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Forget_Red_Lines)
title: Forget Red Lines
uri: Forget-Red-Lines
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Forget_Red_Lines%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/05-7">Forget Red
Lines: Obama Should Eat His Words on Syria.</a>


title: US public libraries under pressure to install filters
uri: US-public-libraries-under-pressure-to-install-filters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(US_public_libraries_under_pressure_to_install_filters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28US_public_libraries_under_pressure_to_install_filters%29

content:
<p>
US public libraries are under government pressure
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/cost-censorship-libraries-10-years-under-childrens-internet-protection-act">install
filters, and these filters often block quite a lot</a>.  You can push
back against this.


title: NSA perversion of commercial encryption software
uri: NSA-perversion-of-commercial-encryption-software
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(NSA_perversion_of_commercial_encryption_software)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28NSA_perversion_of_commercial_encryption_software%29

content:
<p>
The NSA has worked with companies to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security">introduce 
weaknesses into commercial encryption software</a>.
<p>
If the US government stood for the American people, and this coup had
been achieved against enemy governments, I'd congratulate the NSA in
principle (and I'd be glad if we did not find out about it).  But the
US government works for the plutocrats, and the victims of this are
us.
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html">This 
article</a> covers the same issue but has some different information.


title: UN inspectors to test for use of chemical weapons more thoroughly
uri: UN-inspectors-to-test-for-use-of-chemical-weapons-more-thoroughly
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(UN_inspectors_to_test_for_use_of_chemical_weapons_more_thoroughly)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28UN_inspectors_to_test_for_use_of_chemical_weapons_more_thoroughly%29

content:
<p>
The UN inspectors 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/syrian-chemical-weapons-tests-sarin">will 
do a more thorough job</a> of testing for use of chemical weapons.


title: Snowden receives Whistleblower Prize
uri: Snowden-receives-Whistleblower-Prize
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Snowden_receives_Whistleblower_Prize)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Snowden_receives_Whistleblower_Prize%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/04-2">Accepting
Whistleblower Prize, Snowden Declares This Belongs to the Public'</a>.


title: Strict measures introduced to cut air pollution in Beijing
uri: Strict-measures-introduced-to-cut-air-pollution-in-Beijing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Strict_measures_introduced_to_cut_air_pollution_in_Beijing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Strict_measures_introduced_to_cut_air_pollution_in_Beijing%29

content:
<p>
China has introduced 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/09/anti-pollution-rules-beijing-air">extremely
strict measures</a> to cut air pollution in Beijing.


title: Rats exposed to Roundup-ready corn die younger
uri: Rats-exposed-to-Roundup-ready-corn-die-younger
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Rats_exposed_to_Roundup-ready_corn_die_younger)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Rats_exposed_to_Roundup-ready_corn_die_younger%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/05/gm-food-cancers-fsa">Prof
Séralini's study</a> found that rats exposed for two years to
Roundup, or to Roundup-ready corn, die younger.
<p>
The studies used as the basis for approving GMOs last too short a time
to test for this effect.


title: Pat Robertson accused of massive fraud
uri: Pat-Robertson-accused-of-massive-fraud
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Pat_Robertson_accused_of_massive_fraud)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Pat_Robertson_accused_of_massive_fraud%29

content:
<p>
Pat Robertson is accused of a massive fraud: raising millions for a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/05/mission-congo-pat-robertson-aid-rwanda">nonexistent
medical aid campaign</a> for Zaire.


title: Attempt to make airlines pay for CO2 emissions mostly defeated
uri: Attempt-to-make-airlines-pay-for-CO2-emissions-mostly-defeated
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Attempt_to_make_airlines_pay_for_CO2_emissions_mostly_defeated)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Attempt_to_make_airlines_pay_for_CO2_emissions_mostly_defeated%29

content:
<p>
With help from from the US, the organization that regulates airlines
has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/05/un-aviation-agency-emissions-icao">mostly
defeated</a> the European attempt to make them pay for CO<sub>2</sub>
emissions.
<p>
This is in exchange for a small step towards a weak tax that may never
even go into effect.
<p>
This shows that Obama is on the side of the companies that want to fry
our planet.


title: Deaths in the US due to air pollution
uri: Deaths-in-the-US-due-to-air-pollution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 06_September_2013_(Deaths_in_the_US_due_to_air_pollution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_September_2013_%28Deaths_in_the_US_due_to_air_pollution%29

content:
<p>
Air pollution 
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-early-deaths-each-year-in-the-us-0829.html">kills
200,000 people a year in the US</a>, and they lose around 10 years of
their lives.


title: VERY Urgent: Full abortion coverage in health care for congressional staff
uri: VERY-Urgent-Full-abortion-coverage-in-health-care-for-congressional-s
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Urgent:_Full_abortion_coverage_in_health_care_for_congressional_staff)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Full_abortion_coverage_in_health_care_for_congressional_staff%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5715">call 
on the US</a> to insist on full abortion coverage in the health care
for congressional staff.


title: US army threatens soldier for reporting a security hole
uri: US-army-threatens-soldier-for-reporting-a-security-hole
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(US_army_threatens_soldier_for_reporting_a_security_hole)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28US_army_threatens_soldier_for_reporting_a_security_hole%29

content:
<p>
A US soldier 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130903/18021524397/officer-brings-security-flaw-to-armys-attention-army-threatens-him-with-jail-if-he-talks-about-it.shtml">reported 
a security hole</a> to the army, and the response was to tell him not
to talk about it, since the army does not intend to fix it.
<p>
This same attitude appears whenever someone reveals US government
dirty deeds.  Rather than concluding, "We should have thought twice
before doing something like this," the state concludes, "Anyone who
talks about this is our enemy and should be punished."


title: 86% of US internauts make effort to cover up Internet use
uri: 86-of-US-internauts-make-effort-to-cover-up-Internet-use
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(86_percent_of_US_internauts_make_effort_to_cover_up_Internet_use)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%2886_percent_of_US_internauts_make_effort_to_cover_up_Internet_use%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/americans-go-to-great-lengths-to-mask-their-web-travels-survey-finds/">86% 
of US internauts</a> do something to cover up their Internet use from
snoopers.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Cost_of_attacking_Syria)
title: Cost of attacking Syria
uri: Cost-of-attacking-Syria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Cost_of_attacking_Syria%29
content:
<p>
Attacking Syria is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/09/05-1">likely to 
cost a billion dollars</a>, and could cost far more.
<p>
If we could expect it to result in an important change for the better,
it might be worth that cost — but we can't expect that.
<p>
Intervention in Syria against a tyrant could be justified if
<ol>
<li>
The Syrian people wanted it (in fact, many do and many don't).
<li>
We could be confident that the new government would establish
freedom and human rights (not likely with al-Nusra).
</ol>


title: Kenya to withdraw from International Criminal Court
uri: Kenya-to-withdraw-from-International-Criminal-Court
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Kenya_to_withdraw_from_International_Criminal_Court)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Kenya_to_withdraw_from_International_Criminal_Court%29

content:
<p>
Citing the US as an example, Kenya's parliament 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/kenya-icc-international-criminal-court">voted 
to withdraw from the International Criminal Court.


title: The US has broken the Internet's social contract
uri: The-US-has-broken-the-Internet-s-social-contract
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(The_US_has_broken_the_Internets_social_contract)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28The_US_has_broken_the_Internets_social_contract%29

content:
<p>
The US has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying">broken 
the Internet's social contract</a>.  Internet and software engineers:
if you have helped corrupt the Internet, tell Bruce Schneier about it.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security">More 
information</a> about the NSA's corruption of encryption software
world-wide.


title: Production of iThings using a sweatshop again
uri: Production-of-iThings-using-a-sweatshop-again
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Production_of_iThings_using_a_sweatshop_again)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Production_of_iThings_using_a_sweatshop_again%29

content:
<p>
Production of iThings is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/05/workers-rights-flouted-apple-iphone-plant">using 
a sweatshop again</a>.


title: UK solution to lack of jobs is to punish people
uri: UK-solution-to-lack-of-jobs-is-to-punish-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(UK_solution_to_lack_of_jobs_is_to_punish_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28UK_solution_to_lack_of_jobs_is_to_punish_people%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing UK solution to a lack of jobs is
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/06/uk-lowest-paid-classed-not-working-enough">punish
people that don't work enough hours.</a>
<p>
Perhaps some of them have zero-hours contracts
which <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#01_August_2013_(Zero-hours_contracts)">don't
give them enough hours and forbid them to work for anyone else.</a>


title: Fruit juices and drinks can be bad for your health
uri: Fruit-juices-and-drinks-can-be-bad-for-your-health
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Fruit_juices_and_drinks_can_be_bad_for_your_health)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Fruit_juices_and_drinks_can_be_bad_for_your_health%29

content:
<p>
Fruit juices and fruit drinks appear healthful but
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/07/smoothies-fruit-juices-new-health-risk">fructose
can be bad for your health.</a>


title: Some Internet censors in the UK block VPNs
uri: Some-Internet-censors-in-the-UK-block-VPNs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Some_Internet_censors_in_the_UK_block_VPNs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Some_Internet_censors_in_the_UK_block_VPNs%29

content:
<p>
Some Internet censors in the UK block VPNs
because <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/uk-internet-filter-blocks-vpns-australia-to-follow-soon-130905/">"they
are a way to evade censorship".</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Horror_of_cluster_bombs)
title: Horror of cluster bombs
uri: Horror-of-cluster-bombs
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Horror_of_cluster_bombs%29
content:
<p>
The New York Times reported on the horror of cluster
bombs, <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/09/05/the-strange-thing-about-cluster-bombs/">"maiming
and destroying indiscriminately"</a>, when dropped by Assad's men.
<p>
It doesn't talk about how bad they are when used by the US.


title: Alternatives to military action in Syria
uri: Alternatives-to-military-action-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Alternatives_to_military_action_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Alternatives_to_military_action_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/06-3">Six
alternatives to military action in Syria.</a>
<p>
These are in addition to the alternative I've asked everyone to
support, which is
for <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_(Urgent:_Call_for_Peace_Negotiations_in_Syria)">Obama
and Rouhani to negotiate.</a>


title: Kerry is pretending he did not support the invasion of Iraq
uri: Kerry-is-pretending-he-did-not-support-the-invasion-of-Iraq
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Kerry_is_pretending_he_did_not_support_the_invasion_of_Iraq)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Kerry_is_pretending_he_did_not_support_the_invasion_of_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/09/06-0">Kerry is
pretending he did not support the invasion of Iraq.</a>


title: US government aims to policies resembling the British ones
uri: US-government-aims-to-policies-resembling-the-British-ones
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(US_government_aims_to_policies_resembling_the_British_ones)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28US_government_aims_to_policies_resembling_the_British_ones%29

content:
<p>
With "free trade" treaties,
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/06-9">US
government aims to policies resembling the British ones that provoked
the American Revolution.</a>
<p>
The difference is that this time the whole world is colonized by the
rich.


title: The Startling Size of US Military Operations in Africa
uri: The-Startling-Size-of-US-Military-Operations-in-Africa
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(The_Startling_Size_of_US_Military_Operations_in_Africa)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28The_Startling_Size_of_US_Military_Operations_in_Africa%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/us-military-bases-africa">The
Startling Size of US Military Operations in Africa.</a>


title: Obama's claims about the use of chemical weapons
uri: Obama-s-claims-about-the-use-of-chemical-weapons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Obama's_claims_about_the_use_of_chemical_weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Obama%27s_claims_about_the_use_of_chemical_weapons%29

content:
<p>
Obama's claims about the use of chemical weapons in Syria need to be
probed to check their validity, just like Bush's claims that Saddam
Hussein had such
weapons.  <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/06-8">Here
are many specific points of doubt that members of Congress should
demand answers for.</a>


title: Analysis of the possible results of attacking Syria
uri: Analysis-of-the-possible-results-of-attacking-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Analysis_of_the_possible_results_of_attacking_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Analysis_of_the_possible_results_of_attacking_Syria%29

content:
<p>
An <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/06-7">analysis of
the possible results of attacking Syria</a>, showing how it could go
very wrong.


title: Number of Americans not in work force increased
uri: Number-of-Americans-not-in-work-force-increased
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Number_of_Americans_not_in_work_force_increased)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Number_of_Americans_not_in_work_force_increased%29

content:
<p>
The US "unemployment rate" fell, but
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/06/us-jobless-numbers-economic-recovery">number
of Americans not in the work force increased by half a million.</a>
<p>
The Federal Reserve has tried to boost the economy by buying bonds,
but it
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/06/bad-economic-stimulus-quantitative-easing">not
clear this does any good for the economy of most people.</a>
<p>
The right way to stimulate the economy is
with <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#27_August_2013_(Japan_demonstrates_that_stimulating_the_economy_still_works)">deficit
spending;</a> but with Republicans and Obama accepting the harmful
goal of deficit reduction, nothing can be done about unemployment.


title: Israel charges taxes but gives nothing
uri: Israel-charges-taxes-but-gives-nothing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Israel_charges_taxes_but_gives_nothing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Israel_charges_taxes_but_gives_nothing%29

content:
<p>
Israel charges the inhabitants of Shu'fat refugee camp taxes
but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2013/sep/06/israel-wall-palestinian-ill-treatment">gives
them nothing, not even sanitation.</a>


title: Victims of undercover thug infiltrators
uri: Victims-of-undercover-thug-infiltrators
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Victims_of_undercover_thug_infiltrators)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Victims_of_undercover_thug_infiltrators%29

content:
<p>
Victims of undercover thug infiltrators in the UK
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2013/sep/06/undercover-police-and-policing-lawrence">boycotting
an internal inquiry run by the thug department</a>, and demand a
public inquiry.


title: Floor tiles that track where people are walking
uri: Floor-tiles-that-track-where-people-are-walking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Floor_tiles_that_track_where_people_are_walking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Floor_tiles_that_track_where_people_are_walking%29

content:
<p>
Floor tiles that generate electricity
also <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/sep/06/school-carpet-energy-tracks-pupils">track
where people are walking.</a>
<p>
I think these are acceptable in heavily trafficked areas, but they
should be designed so they cannot distinguish one person's step from
another's.


title: South Korea banned fish imports from a large section of the Japanese coast
uri: South-Korea-banned-fish-imports-from-a-large-section-of-the-Japanese-c
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(South_Korea_banned_fish_imports_from_a_large_section_of_the_Japanese_coast)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28South_Korea_banned_fish_imports_from_a_large_section_of_the_Japanese_coast%29

content:
<p>
South
Korea <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/06/south-korea-fish-japan-fukushima">banned
fish imports from a large section of the Japanese coast</a> due to
fears over radioactive contamination.
<p>
The fears may be exaggerated, but Japan is paying for its failure to
provide good information about the extent of contamination, which
might be due to a desire to cover it up.


title: Urgent: Insist on Full Abortion Coverage
uri: Urgent-Insist-on-Full-Abortion-Coverage
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Urgent:_Insist_on_Full_Abortion_Coverage)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Insist_on_Full_Abortion_Coverage%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5715">call
on the US</a>
to insist on full abortion coverage
in the health care for congressional staff.  


title: Urgent: Call for Peace Negotiations in Syria
uri: Urgent-Call-for-Peace-Negotiations-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Urgent:_Call_for_Peace_Negotiations_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_Peace_Negotiations_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/solution_for_syria_loc/?bjlNcab&v=28842">call
on presidents Obama and Rouhani</a> to negotiate
peace in Syria.


title: Urgent: Support Eritrea's Prisoners
uri: Urgent-Support-Eritrea-s-Prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 07_September_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Eritreas_Prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Eritreas_Prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=bhKLLYPBJeKRJ1OQG&s=hhKWI8MLIgKSL4OFJqH&m=cdJLLRNrHgKMK1J">call
on Eritrea</a>
to identify all the prisoners in its secret
prisons, and charge them with real crimes or release them.


title: Egyptian labor lawyer arrested and released
uri: Egyptian-labor-lawyer-arrested-and-released
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Egyptian_labor_lawyer_arrested_and_released)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Egyptian_labor_lawyer_arrested_and_released%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/08/egyptian-activists-crackdown-islamists-widen">An
Egyptian labor lawyer was arrested and released.</a>
<p>
Other liberals suspect this was a trial balloon to gauge public
support for imprisoning activists.


title: Charged with murder, after he shot his wife at her request
uri: Charged-with-murder-after-he-shot-his-wife-at-her-request
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Charged_with_murder,_after_he_shot_his_wife_at_her_request)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Charged_with_murder%2C_after_he_shot_his_wife_at_her_request%29

content:
<p>
A man in Kentucky is likely to
be <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/29/kentucky-wife-killed-cancer/2726239/">charged
with murder, after he shot his wife at her request</a>.  She couldn't
bear the pain of terminal cancer any longer.
<p>
I wish she could have asked for a gentler sort of death, but since the
state forbade her that, I think he was right to grant her request.


title: Syrian rebels that were attacked with poison gas
uri: Syrian-rebels-that-were-attacked-with-poison-gas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Syrian_rebels_that_were_attacked_with_poison_gas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Syrian_rebels_that_were_attacked_with_poison_gas%29

content:
<p>
This article talks
about <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2013/05/27/chemical-war-in-syria_3417708_3218.html">Syrian
rebels that were attacked with poison gas.</a>
<p>
Here's a suggestion: the US should give the Syrian rebels plenty of
gas masks and systems to detect poison gas.
<p>
If Assad's men are using poison gas, this will thwart them somewhat.
If they aren't using poison gas, this will do nothing.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(US_destabilized_Syria_and_Iraq)
title: US destabilized Syria and Iraq
uri: US-destabilized-Syria-and-Iraq
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28US_destabilized_Syria_and_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/06/the_baby_and_the_baath_water.html">US
destabilized Syria and Iraq</a> starting in the 1940s, which led to
the dictatorships of Saddam Hussein and Hafez al-Assad.
<p>
The article links to a number of things (videos?) and encourages you
to enable JavaScript and load Flash Player in order to view them.  I
hope you know better than to do either of those things!
<p>
Is there any way to see the videos without doing that?


title: 27 states are doing face recognition
uri: 27-states-are-doing-face-recognition
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(27_states_are_doing_face_recognition)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%2827_states_are_doing_face_recognition%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/ready-fire-aim-ohio-officials-implement-statewide-face">27
states are doing face recognition</a> using the data base of drivers
licenses and similar state IDs.
<p>
Thus, the march of laws requiring state IDs for more and more
activities — boarding a flight, opening a bank account, buying
sleeping pills and pain killers — is, in effect, pressure to
subject people to face recognition.


title: Urgent: Inspect the Texas chemical factories
uri: Urgent-Inspect-the-Texas-chemical-factories
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Urgent:_Inspect_the_Texas_chemical_factories)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Inspect_the_Texas_chemical_factories%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on OHSA
to <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/398">inspect the Texas
chemical factories that refused fire inspections.</a>


title: The Wealthy "Make Mistakes", the Poor Go to Jail
uri: The-Wealthy-Make-Mistakes-the-Poor-Go-to-Jail
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(The_Wealthy_Make_Mistakes,_the_Poor_Go_to_Jail)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28The_Wealthy_Make_Mistakes%2C_the_Poor_Go_to_Jail%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/08/wall-street-versus-poor-in-america">The
Wealthy "Make Mistakes", the Poor Go to Jail.</a>


title: Gov't of Azerbaijan threatens and jails journalists and dissidents
uri: Gov-t-of-Azerbaijan-threatens-and-jails-journalists-and-dissidents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Gov't_of_Azerbaijan_threatens_and_jails_journalists_and_dissidents)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Gov%27t_of_Azerbaijan_threatens_and_jails_journalists_and_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
The government of
Azerbaijan <a href="http://www.hrw.org/node/118595">threatens and
jails journalists and dissidents</a>, like many others.  What's
unusual is that it gave apartments to 150 journalists to buy their
favorable reporting.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Fiji's_constitution)
title: Fiji's constitution
uri: Fiji-s-constitution
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Fiji%27s_constitution%29
content:
<p>
Fiji's government is planning a constitution
that <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/04/fiji-revise-draft-constitution-protect-rights">doesn't
uphold human rights.</a>


title: NSA Has Compromised the Entirety of Internet
uri: NSA-Has-Compromised-the-Entirety-of-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(NSA_Has_Compromised_the_Entirety_of_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28NSA_Has_Compromised_the_Entirety_of_Internet%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/07-0">Experts
Warn NSA Has Compromised the Entirety of Internet.</a>
<p>
In my view, corporate data-collection on users, and data retention by
ISPs and phone companies, and deep packet inspection encouraged by the
copyright industry, took big steps to compromise the Internet.


title: Urgent: Investigation of US Internet surveillance
uri: Urgent-Investigation-of-US-Internet-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Urgent:_Investigation_of_US_Internet_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Investigation_of_US_Internet_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on major Internet companies
to <a href="https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9297">demand
a full public investigation of US Internet surveillance.</a>


title: Urgent: Tell Gerber not to allow GMO apples in baby food
uri: Urgent-Tell-Gerber-not-to-allow-GMO-apples-in-baby-food
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Gerber_not_to_allow_GMO_apples_in_baby_food)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Gerber_not_to_allow_GMO_apples_in_baby_food%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14237">tell
Gerber not to allow GMO apples in baby food.</a>


title: Naomi Klein proposes new agenda for the left
uri: Naomi-Klein-proposes-new-agenda-for-the-left
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Naomi_Klein_proposes_new_agenda_for_the_left)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Naomi_Klein_proposes_new_agenda_for_the_left%29

content:
<p>
Naomi
Klein <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/04">proposes a
new agenda for the left</a>, based on stopping global heating, and
fighting all the other abuses that interfere with doing so.
<p>
The UN's climate study says we
have <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/03-2">little
time left to avert a mass extinction of species</a> and the danger of
destroying civilization.
<p>
By ignoring what global heating is going to do, our society is living
a lie.  This lie
has <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/our-society-living-massive-lie-about-threat-climate-change-its-time-wake?paging=off">various
psychological manifestations.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Zero-Hour_contracts)
title: Zero-Hour contracts
uri: Zero-Hour-contracts
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Zero-Hour_contracts%29
content:
<p>
1/5 of the workers in British companies are
on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/08/zero-hours-contracts-unite-survey">zero-hour
contracts.</a>
<p>
Are there similar employment schemes in the US?


title: Tens of thousands protested in Tunisia
uri: Tens-of-thousands-protested-in-Tunisia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Tens_of_thousands_protested_in_Tunisia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Tens_of_thousands_protested_in_Tunisia%29

content:
<p>
Tens of thousands protested in
Tunisia, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/07/protesters-tunisia-government">demanding
that the Ennahda (Islamist) party step down.</a>


title: Tokyo elected to bear burden of 2020 Olympics
uri: Tokyo-elected-to-bear-burden-of-2020-Olympics
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 08_September_2013_(Tokyo_elected_to_bear_burden_of_2020_Olympics)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#08_September_2013_%28Tokyo_elected_to_bear_burden_of_2020_Olympics%29

content:
<p>
Tokyo was elected to bear
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/sep/07/tokyo-host-2020-olympic-games">burden
and harm of the 2020 Olympics.</a>  Madrid and Istanbul have escaped,
for now.
<p>
The Olympic games leave behind nasty surveillance, unjust laws, and
huge debts.  Large companies get the profits
while <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#28_April_2013_(Vendors_banned_from_selling_local_traditional_food)">keeping
local small businesses and street vendors out.</a>


title: Urgent: Stop the government from snooping on us
uri: Urgent-Stop-the-government-from-snooping-on-us
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_the_government_from_snooping_on_us)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_the_government_from_snooping_on_us%29

content:
<p>
Phone your elected representatives via 1-STOP-323-NSA and say you
want them to stop the government from snooping on us.


title: 160 lobbyists hired to kill regulation of tobacco marketing
uri: 160-lobbyists-hired-to-kill-regulation-of-tobacco-marketing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(160_lobbyists_hired_to_kill_regulation_of_tobacco_marketing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28160_lobbyists_hired_to_kill_regulation_of_tobacco_marketing%29

content:
<p>
Phillip Morris has hired 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/07/tobacco-philip-morris-millions-delay-eu-legislation">160
people</a> to lobby to delay and thus kill regulation of tobacco
marketing.


title: Morsi to face charges on crime of "insulting the judiciary"
uri: Morsi-to-face-charges-on-crime-of-insulting-the-judiciary
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Morsi_to_face_charges_on_crime_of_insulting_the_judiciary)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Morsi_to_face_charges_on_crime_of_insulting_the_judiciary%29

content:
<p>
Morsi will face charges on the crime of 
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/07/egypt-suspected-militants-sinai'>insulting 
the judiciary</a>".
<p>
To make it a crime to insult someone — no matter who! —
is in itself injustice.
<p>
However, jailing journalists is even worse.
<p>
A prize-winning Egyptian journalist has been 
<a href="http://www.cpj.org/2013/09/egypt-detains-journalist-for-publishing-false-info.php">arrested
for "publishing false information"</a>.
<p>
The jailing of Abu-Deraa shows there is every reason to
distrust what the Egyptian government says about its attacks in the
Sinai, just as we distrust what the US says about drone attacks in
Pakistan.  There may be some real Islamist terrorists there, but that
doesn't mean the government's story is true.  We can't be sure that
the shells allegedly found on railroad tracks really existed.  If they
did, they might have been planted by the army to be "found".
<p>
Meanwhile, this article also shows that Egypt is now joining Israel to
besiege Gaza.


title: US gov't deficit now back to normal levels
uri: US-gov-t-deficit-now-back-to-normal-levels
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(US_govt_deficit_now_back_to_normal_levels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28US_govt_deficit_now_back_to_normal_levels%29

content:
<p>
The US government deficit is now 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/07-4">back to
normal levels</a>, which is bad since what we need now is deficit
spending to get people back to work.


title: Nothing shown to tie chemical weapons in Syria to Assad's men
uri: Nothing-shown-to-tie-chemical-weapons-in-Syria-to-Assad-s-men
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Nothing_shown_to_tie_chemical_weapons_in_Syria_to_Assads_men)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Nothing_shown_to_tie_chemical_weapons_in_Syria_to_Assads_men%29

content:
<p>
Rep. Grayson says the US government has shown him 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/07">nothing</a>
that ties chemical attacks in Syria to Assad's men.
<p>
Kerry and McCain are citing an "expert" who is a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/07-5">paid lobbyist
for the anti-Assad forces</a>, and connected with a right-wing think
tank that generally wants military escalation.
<p>
What Obama and Kerry say now is "just trust me", but former US
intelligence professionals say they are misleading us.  
<a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2013/09/06/obama-warned-on-syrian-intel/">Here's 
why</a>.
<p>
I will trust Thomas Drake, 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#27_May_2011_(Thomas_Drake_on_Trial)">a 
heroic whistleblower</a>, over Obama or Kerry
on anything at any time.


title: It's easier to buy an assault weapon than to vote in the US
uri: It-s-easier-to-buy-an-assault-weapon-than-to-vote-in-the-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Its_easier_to_buy_an_assault_weapon_than_to_vote_in_the_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Its_easier_to_buy_an_assault_weapon_than_to_vote_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
In the US, it's 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/29/2550851/guns/">easier 
to buy an assault weapon than to vote</a>.


title: Journalist arrested for writing about plagiarism in Swiss university
uri: Journalist-arrested-for-writing-about-plagiarism-in-Swiss-university
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Journalist_arrested_for_writing_about_plagiarism_in_Swiss_university)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Journalist_arrested_for_writing_about_plagiarism_in_Swiss_university%29

content:
<p>
Prize-winning Swiss journalist Ludovic Rocchi has been 
<a href="http://blog.wan-ifra.org/2013/08/28/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-prosecutor-four-cops-and-an-award-winning-journalist">arrested
for writing about plagiarism in a Swiss university</a>.
<p>
Independent of the facts of this case, for "defamation" to be a crime
is injustice in itself.


title: Lord's Resistance Army killing elephants for ivory
uri: Lord-s-Resistance-Army-killing-elephants-for-ivory
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Lords_Resistance_Army_killing_elephants_for_ivory)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Lords_Resistance_Army_killing_elephants_for_ivory%29

content:
<p>
The Lord's Resistance Army is 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/africas-rebels-turn-to-ivory-trade/a-17069459">killing 
elephants for ivory</a>.
<p>
It used to 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2006-may-aug.html#31%20August%202006%20(Brutality%20in%20Uganda%20might%20come%20to%20an%20end)">kidnap
children and conscript them</a>.


title: Attacks on speech and journalism in Tunisia
uri: Attacks-on-speech-and-journalism-in-Tunisia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Attacks_on_speech_and_journalism_in_Tunisia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Attacks_on_speech_and_journalism_in_Tunisia%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/tunisia/2013/09/05/radio_strike/">Public
Radio Journalists in Tunisia Go on Strike to Protest Political
Interference</a>.
<p>
Tunisian rappers were 
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/05/tunisia-rappers-sentenced-prison">sentenced
to prison</a> for a song that criticized the thugs. Before arresting
them, the thugs beat them up.  Whatever the criticism was, the thugs
probably deserve it.


title: Flaws in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
uri: Flaws-in-the-Electronic-Communications-Privacy-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Flaws_in_the_Electronic_Communications_Privacy_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Flaws_in_the_Electronic_Communications_Privacy_Act%29

content:
<p>
Snowden's disclosures underscore the importance of correcting some
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/06-4">flaws in the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act</a>, even though it is not
enough to make email respect our privacy.


title: The impaired judgment of poor people
uri: The-impaired-judgment-of-poor-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(The_impaired_judgment_of_poor_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28The_impaired_judgment_of_poor_people%29

content:
<p>
Poor people lack more than money — they lack bandwidth to
confront all the stressful problems of their lives, and that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/07/scarcity-sendhil-mullainathan-shafir-review">leads
systematically to bad thinking</a>.


title: US fails to show valid arguments for attacking Syria
uri: US-fails-to-show-valid-arguments-for-attacking-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(US_fails_to_show_valid_arguments_for_attacking_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28US_fails_to_show_valid_arguments_for_attacking_Syria%29

content:
<p>
The US has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/07-1">failed to
show valid arguments</a> to conclude that attacking Syria is
"necessary" to avoid a worse evil.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Big_data_surveillance_records)
title: "Big data" surveillance records
uri: Big-data-surveillance-records
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Big_data_surveillance_records%29

content:
<p>
If "big data" surveillance records become available to everyone, 
<a href="http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/privacy-and-big-data/big-data-small-hands">many
people will misuse them</a> much as the US government does now.


title: "Rescue" of trafficked children in the UK
uri: Rescue-of-trafficked-children-in-the-UK
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Rescue_of_trafficked_children_in_the_UK)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Rescue_of_trafficked_children_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
When trafficked children in the UK are "rescued", they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/07/child-slavery-trafficking-theresa-may">often
run away with their slavemasters within a couple of days</a>.
<p>
It seems to be because they don't think they are safe once "rescued".
Some of them experience being jailed — not likely to make them
feel the state will protect them.


title: Proposed bill to forbid NSA back doors in encryption systems
uri: Proposed-bill-to-forbid-NSA-back-doors-in-encryption-systems
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Proposed_bill_to_forbid_NSA_back_doors_in_encryption_systems)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Proposed_bill_to_forbid_NSA_back_doors_in_encryption_systems%29

content:
<p>
Rush Holt has proposed a bill to 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/07/us/politics/legislation-seeks-to-bar-nsa-tactic-in-encryption.html?pagewanted=all">forbid 
the NSA to introduce back doors into encryption systems</a>.
<p>
It is a good first step, but it must apply to all parts of the
government and their contractors.  If it applies only to the NSA, the
activity will be shifted elsewhere.


title: Credibility of the NSA and US gov't
uri: Credibility-of-the-NSA-and-US-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Credibility_of_the_NSA_and_US_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Credibility_of_the_NSA_and_US_govt%29

content:
<p>
Glenn Greenwald: One big problem the NSA and US government generally
have had since our reporting began is that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/07/nsa-encryption-us-uk-press-freedoms">their
defenses offered in response to each individual story are quickly
proven to be false by the next story</a>, which just further
undermines their credibility around the world.


title: Putin proposes to insist Assad hand over all chemical weapons to "international control"
uri: Putin-proposes-to-insist-Assad-hand-over-all-chemical-weapons-to-inte
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Putin_proposes_to_insist_Assad_hand_over_all_chemical_weapons_to_international_control)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Putin_proposes_to_insist_Assad_hand_over_all_chemical_weapons_to_international_control%29

content:
<p>
Putin proposes to insist
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/russia-syria-hand-over-chemical-weapons">Assad
hand over all chemical weapons to "international control".</a>
<p>
This would deal with the problem, if it works.  And if it doesn't
work, all the other responses that are available now would still be
available.  So why is Kerry trying to talk it down?  The reason,
whatever it is, can't be good.
<p>
If Obama does accept this, his war-talk will have had a good result by
getting Putin to agree to this.


title: China plans increase in coal-fired electric generation
uri: China-plans-increase-in-coal-fired-electric-generation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(China_plans_increase_in_coal-fired_electric_generation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28China_plans_increase_in_coal-fired_electric_generation%29

content:
<p>
China plans a
tremendous <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/china-conflict-coal-fired-plants-water">increase
in coal-fired electric generation,</a> but a lack of available water
might stop it.
<p>
That's good, because this coal-burning would cause global disaster.


title: NSA is spying on the Brazilian state oil company
uri: NSA-is-spying-on-the-Brazilian-state-oil-company
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(NSA_is_spying_on_the_Brazilian_state_oil_company)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28NSA_is_spying_on_the_Brazilian_state_oil_company%29

content:
<p>
Snowden files show that
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-brazil-oil-petrobras">NSA
is spying on the Brazilian state oil company, Petrobras.</a>
<p>
This is scandalous because it is clearly meant for commercial
advantage, not for defending the US against attack.


title: Many products contain plastic microbeads
uri: Many-products-contain-plastic-microbeads
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Many_products_contain_plastic_microbeads)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Many_products_contain_plastic_microbeads%29

content:
<p>
Many products such as facial cleansers contain plastic microbeads.
After
use, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/09/microbeads-cleanser-ocean-pollution">they
end up in waterways and harm various forms of life.</a>
<p>
I don't think they degrade in any short time.


title: Urgent: Remind your progressive senators that attacking Syria is not progressive
uri: Urgent-Remind-your-progressive-senators-that-attacking-Syria-is-not-p
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Urgent:_Remind_your_progressive_senators_that_attacking_Syria_is_not_progressive)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Remind_your_progressive_senators_that_attacking_Syria_is_not_progressive%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Minnesota and
Wisconsin: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/09-0">remind
your progressive senators that attacking Syria is not progressive.</a>


title: Americans die due to unpleasantness of TSA airport security
uri: Americans-die-due-to-unpleasantness-of-TSA-airport-security
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Americans_die_due_to_unpleasantness_of_TSA_airport_security)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Americans_die_due_to_unpleasantness_of_TSA_airport_security%29

content:
<p>
About 500 Americans die per year due to
the <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/excess_automobi.html">unpleasantness
of TSA airport security.</a>


title: Urgent: Convert to safer processes that won't explode
uri: Urgent-Convert-to-safer-processes-that-won-t-explode
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Urgent:_Convert_to_safer_processes_that_won't_explode)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Convert_to_safer_processes_that_won%27t_explode%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama to have the EPA pressure chemical plants
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1465&s_src=openspace">convert
to safer processes that won't explode.</a>


title: German intelligence reports on the chemical attacks in Syria
uri: German-intelligence-reports-on-the-chemical-attacks-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(German_intelligence_reports_on_the_chemical_attacks_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28German_intelligence_reports_on_the_chemical_attacks_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
German intelligence reports say the chemical attacks in Syria were
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/08/syria-chemical-weapons-not-assad-bild">made
by Assad's army but without his approval</a>.
<p>
We must not put much confidence in these reports, nor in the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#07_September_2013_(Obama%27s_claims_about_the_use_of_chemical_weapons)">vague
reports from the Obama regime</a>, nor in the
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_(Nothing_shown_to_tie_chemical_weapons_in_Syria_to_Assads_men)">reports
cited by Thomas Drake & friends</a> saying that rebels are
responsible.  We are not really in a position to know.


title: Many Tor nodes still using 1000-bit keys
uri: Many-Tor-nodes-still-using-1000-bit-keys
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Many_Tor_nodes_still_using_1000-bit_keys)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Many_Tor_nodes_still_using_1000-bit_keys%29

content:
<p>
Many Tor nodes are still using 1000-bit keys that the NSA can 
<a href="http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/09/tor-is-still-dhe-1024-nsa-crackable.html">very
likely crack</a>.


title: John Gilmore describes NSA's meddling
uri: John-Gilmore-describes-NSA-s-meddling
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(John_Gilmore_describes_NSAs_meddling)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28John_Gilmore_describes_NSAs_meddling%29

content:
<p>
John Gilmore, a GNU developer, describes the 
<a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.technology.liberationtech/1185">NSA
meddling</a> he observed in the IPSEC standardization process and the
cell phone encryption spec design.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Loss_of_Arctic_sea_ice)
title: Loss of Arctic sea ice
uri: 2013-09-10-Loss-of-Arctic-sea-ice
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Loss_of_Arctic_sea_ice%29
content:
<p>
2013 might not set a new record in loss of Arctic sea ice, because the
process is not steady; but it is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/09/climate-change-arctic-sea-ice-delusions">continuing</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(NSA_can_tap_data_in_smart_phones)
title: NSA can tap data in smart phones
uri: NSA-can-tap-data-in-smart-phones
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28NSA_can_tap_data_in_smart_phones%29

content:
<p>
The NSA 
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.html">can
tap data in smart phones</a>, including iPhones, Android, and
BlackBerry.
<p>
While there is not much detail here, the fact that BlackBerry was
temporarily not accessible suggests that this is not done using the
universal back door that nearly all portable phones have.  It may
involve exploiting various bugs.


title: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan
uri: Civilian-casualties-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(Civilian_casualties_in_Afghanistan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28Civilian_casualties_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
Once again, the Afghan government and locals say a bomb killed mostly
civilians, while 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/08-1">NATO says 
it killed only enemy fighters</a>.
<p>
Civilian casualties are inevitable in a war.  You can try to avoid
them but it is impossible to succeed completely.  Deciding to fight a
war implies accepting these casualties.  Sometimes that is justified,
but the reason needs to be very strong.
<p>
The Taliban
kill <a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2010-may-aug.html#10%20August%202010%20(Afghan%20civilian%20casualties%20are%20rising)">a
lot more civilians than NATO does</a>, but the Afghan people don't
resent it as much.  Either they support the Taliban at some level, or
they are not strongly motivated to fight them.  As long as that is the
case, defeating the Taliban militarily is almost impossible.


title: UK approves pre-emptively arresting suspected protesters
uri: UK-approves-pre-emptively-arresting-suspected-protesters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 09_September_2013_(UK_approves_pre-emptively_arresting_suspected_protesters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#09_September_2013_%28UK_approves_pre-emptively_arresting_suspected_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/18/royal-wedding-protesters-lose-case">officially
approves</a> of pre-emptively arresting suspected protesters.
<p>
The arrests were made on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/19/arrest-without-crime-royal-wedding">dishonest
pretexts</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Anti-Fascist_protesters_arrested)
title: Anti-Fascist protesters arrested
uri: Anti-Fascist-protesters-arrested
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Anti-Fascist_protesters_arrested%29

content:
<p>
UK
thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/peaceful-protest-anti-fascist-protesters-edl">arrested
hundreds of peaceful anti-fascist protesters on tiny pretexts</a>, 
demonstrating their intention to make peaceful protest impossible.


title: Plan to disguise spy drones as birds of prey
uri: Plan-to-disguise-spy-drones-as-birds-of-prey
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Plan_to_disguise_spy_drones_as_birds_of_prey)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Plan_to_disguise_spy_drones_as_birds_of_prey%29

content:
<p>
A plan
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/10/drone-eagle-birds-prey-spy">disguise
spy drones as birds of prey.</a>
<p>
This should be forbidden by treaty, as it will lead soldiers to shoot
down real birds of prey, which may be endangered.


title: Implications of the Johns Hopkins censorship scandal
uri: Implications-of-the-Johns-Hopkins-censorship-scandal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Implications_of_the_Johns_Hopkins_censorship_scandal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Implications_of_the_Johns_Hopkins_censorship_scandal%29

content:
<p>
On
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/nsa-matthew-green-takedown-blog-post-johns-hopkins">implications
of the Johns Hopkins censorship scandal,</a> in which the university
ordered Matthew Green to delete his blog post from the university
server or face legal action.


title: Kerry and US have embraced Putin's proposal
uri: Kerry-and-US-have-embraced-Putin-s-proposal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Kerry_and_US_have_embraced_Putin's_proposal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Kerry_and_US_have_embraced_Putin%27s_proposal%29

content:
<p>
Kerry and the US
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/10/kerry-russia-syria-weapons-proposal-assad">embraced
Putin's proposal</a> of putting Assad's chemical weapons under
international control.
<p>
Kerry mentioned the idea, not as a suggestion, but as a hoop that
surely Assad would not jump through.  Putin then proposed it for real.
(I wanted to say he made it a "serious proposal", but the pun seems
distracting.)
<p>
Obama's insistence on attacking created the situation where this
proposal could be supported by the Security Council.  But I see no
sign that Obama aimed for this result.  It was a fluke.
<p>
If Congress had not resisted Obama's demand for
war, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/syria-congress-resistance-war">he
would have attacked already</a> and this diplomatic solution would not
have been considered.
<p>
Obama deserves a little praise for being willing to switch from war to
diplomacy when diplomacy shows a good chance of success.  But he and
his supporters are trying
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/10/un-resolution-syria-russia-chemical-weapons">badmouth
the plan even while accepting it.</a>


title: Some environmental groups "partnering" with companies
uri: Some-environmental-groups-partnering-with-companies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Some_environmental_groups_partnering_with_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Some_environmental_groups_partnering_with_companies%29

content:
<p>
Naomi Klein explains how some environmental groups responded to
Reagan's attack
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/10/naomi-klein-green-groups-climate-deniers">"partnering"
with companies</a>, and ended up becoming their tools.


title: Obama's rogue state tramples over laws
uri: Obama-s-rogue-state-tramples-over-laws
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Obama's_rogue_state_tramples_over_laws)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Obama%27s_rogue_state_tramples_over_laws%29

content:
<p>
George Monbiot: Obama's rogue
state <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/09/obama-rogue-state-tramples-every-law">tramples
over every law it demands others uphold.</a>


title: Crime to offend anyone on the Internet
uri: Crime-to-offend-anyone-on-the-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Crime_to_offend_anyone_on_the_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Crime_to_offend_anyone_on_the_Internet%29

content:
<p>
Grenada has passed a law making it a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/sep/10/press-freedom-grenada">crime
to offend anyone on the Internet.</a>


title: If you have children, protect their digital privacy
uri: If-you-have-children-protect-their-digital-privacy
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(If_you_have_children,_protect_their_digital_privacy)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28If_you_have_children%2C_protect_their_digital_privacy%29

content:
<p>
If you have children, protect their digital privacy:
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/data_mine_1/2013/09/facebook_privacy_and_kids_don_t_post_photos_of_your_kids_online.single.html">don't
post any photos of them on Internet sites.</a>


title: Urgent: Oppose "virginity tests" for Indonesian students
uri: Urgent-Oppose-virginity-tests-for-Indonesian-students
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_virginity_tests_for_Indonesian_students)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_virginity_tests_for_Indonesian_students%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/3799?n=35975366.aADyGd">Call
on Indonesia</a> not to demand that high school students pass
"virginity tests" or be excluded from school.


title: Urgent: Protest against Keystone XL on Sep 21
uri: Urgent-Protest-against-Keystone-XL-on-Sep-21
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Urgent:_Protest_against_Keystone_XL_on_Sep_21)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_against_Keystone_XL_on_Sep_21%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://350.org/drawtheline">participate in a protest on Sep
21</a> against the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Rape_by_men_in_Asian_countries)
title: Rape by men in Asian countries
uri: Rape-by-men-in-Asian-countries
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Rape_by_men_in_Asian_countries%29

content:
<p>
In a survey, nearly 25% of men in some Asian countries, including
China and Indonesia, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/10/asia-pacific-rape-survey">said
they have committed rape</a>. This includes rape of a spouse.
<p>
<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-07/india/28665246_1_indian-men-international-men-males">Nearly
25% of Indian men</a> also say they have committed rape.
<p>
Many girls of Asian origin in the UK are raped, and keep it secret
because their 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/10/abuse-asian-girls-missed-white-victims">relatives
would punish them if they knew</a>. Sometimes relatives force them
into an unwanted marriage to get them out of the family.
<p>
The condemnation of females who have sex, even involuntarily, reflects
the patriarchal idea of females as valuable property of the family,
rather then as persons who matter for their own sake.


title: Evidenced that Assad's army fired rockets with chemical weapons
uri: Evidenced-that-Assad-s-army-fired-rockets-with-chemical-weapons
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Evidenced_that_Assads_army_fired_rockets_with_chemical_weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Evidenced_that_Assads_army_fired_rockets_with_chemical_weapons%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch reports 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/10/syria-chemical-attack-assad">evidence</a>
that Assad's army fired rockets with chemical weapons.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Naomi_Kleins_speech)
title: Naomi Klein's speech
uri: Naomi-Klein-s-speech
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Naomi_Kleins_speech%29
content:
<p>
I'm linking to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/04">Naomi 
Klein's speech</a> again to urge you to read it.  It is brilliant.
<p>
Klein identifies the "extractivist" regime that oppresses us, and
shows how all the traditional battles that progressives fight tie
together with the fight against global heating.


title: Commercial baby foods full of sugar
uri: Commercial-baby-foods-full-of-sugar
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Commercial_baby_foods_full_of_sugar)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Commercial_baby_foods_full_of_sugar%29

content:
<p>
Commercial baby foods are full of sugar and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/10/baby-food-nutrition-weaning-breastmilk">low
on other nutrients</a>.


title: Cigarette butts toxic to wildlife
uri: Cigarette-butts-toxic-to-wildlife
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Cigarette_butts_toxic_to_wildlife)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Cigarette_butts_toxic_to_wildlife%29

content:
<p>
Cigarette butts left on the beach are 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-09-documents-cigarette-environmental-hazards.html">toxic 
to wildlife</a>.


title: NSA and GCHQ surveillance programs named after civil war battles
uri: NSA-and-GCHQ-surveillance-programs-named-after-civil-war-battles
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(NSA_and_GCHQ_surveillance_programs_named_after_civil_war_battles)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28NSA_and_GCHQ_surveillance_programs_named_after_civil_war_battles%29

content:
<p>
The NSA and GCHQ, apparently in parallel, have named surveillance
programs after 
<a href="http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/09/05/nsa-gchq-declare-civil-war-on-their-own-people/">battles 
in the civil war</a>.
<p>
Specifically, they are named after the first battle in the American
civil war, and the first battle in the English civil war.
<p>
Code names for secret activities are usually chosen to be meaningless.
For them to be chosen for a meaning, in the spy agencies of two
countries, is definitely significant.
<p>
Others interpreted this as declaring war on the people.  In other
ways, such as in the prosecution of Chelsea (née Bradley)
Manning, that's what the Obama regime seems to have done.  However,
the meaning I see in these names is that one part of the country is
fighting another.
<p>
A strange attitude, given these agencies are supposed to be defending
the country against foreign threats.


title: Johns Hopkins orders teacher to delete blog post
uri: Johns-Hopkins-orders-teacher-to-delete-blog-post
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Johns_Hopkins_orders_teacher_to_delete_blog_post)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Johns_Hopkins_orders_teacher_to_delete_blog_post%29

content:
<p>
Johns Hopkins ordered a teacher to delete a
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130909/11193024453/johns-hopkins-tells-security-researcher-to-remove-blog-post-about-nsa-encryption-attacks-university-server.shtml">blog
post speculating about what the NSA might be able to do</a> in the
area of decryption.


title: Protests in Mexico City to oppose tax plans
uri: Protests-in-Mexico-City-to-oppose-tax-plans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Protests_in_Mexico_City_to_oppose_tax_plans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Protests_in_Mexico_City_to_oppose_tax_plans%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://rt.com/business/mexico-tax-oil-reform-612/">Tens of
thousands</a> protested in Mexico City to oppose the president's tax
plans.
<p>
I support parts of this plan, including making gasoline more
expensive.  Taxing the middle class more is not necessarily bad,
but they should focus on taxing the rich more.
<p>
However, allowing foreign investment in oil is very bad.


title: Romanians protesting against planned gold mine
uri: Romanians-protesting-against-planned-gold-mine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Romanians_protesting_against_planned_gold_mine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Romanians_protesting_against_planned_gold_mine%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130908-thousands-protest-romania-gold-mine-plans">Thousands 
of Romanians</a> have been protesting for a week against a planned
gold mine that could poison them.
<p>
They convinced the prime minister to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/10/romania-reject-gold-mine-protest">cancel 
the plan</a>.
<p>
Note how the mining company threatens to use trade treaties to attack
Romania.  These treaties are 
<a href="media/5902702b.trade-treaty-comic.jpg" data-original-source="http://stallman.org/images/trade-treaty-comic.jpg">tools 
of plutocrats</a> and must be abolished.


title: Cambodian gov't accused of rigging election
uri: Cambodian-gov-t-accused-of-rigging-election
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Cambodian_govt_accused_of_rigging_election)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Cambodian_govt_accused_of_rigging_election%29

content:
<p>
The opposition in Cambodia accuses the government of 
<a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/09/09/thousands-reject-cambodias-election-results/">rigging
the latest election</a>.


title: Arrests in China for statements on the Internet
uri: Arrests-in-China-for-statements-on-the-Internet
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Arrests_in_China_for_statements_on_the_Internet)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Arrests_in_China_for_statements_on_the_Internet%29

content:
<p>
China has 
<a href="http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2013/09/05/hundreds-arrested-for-spreading-rumors-on-chinas-ideological-battlefield/">arrested
hundreds of people</a> recently for statements on the Internet.


title: Reversal of ban on warrantless searches on Americans
uri: Reversal-of-ban-on-warrantless-searches-on-Americans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Reversal_of_ban_on_warrantless_searches_on_Americans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Reversal_of_ban_on_warrantless_searches_on_Americans%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130908/23540624446/feds-had-court-reverse-ban-warrantless-searches-americans-because-we-wanted-to-be-able-to-do-it.shtml">Feds 
Had Court Reverse Ban On Warrantless Searches On Americans Because "We
Wanted To Be Able To Do It"</a>.


title: Protest in Berlin against massive surveillance
uri: Protest-in-Berlin-against-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 10_September_2013_(Protest_in_Berlin_against_massive_surveillance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#10_September_2013_%28Protest_in_Berlin_against_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/09-2">20,000</a> 
protested in Berlin against massive surveillance.


title: Urgent: Oppose amendments to weaken Shaheen-Portman bill
uri: Urgent-Oppose-amendments-to-weaken-Shaheen-Portman-bill
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_amendments_to_weaken_Shaheen-Portman_bill)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_amendments_to_weaken_Shaheen-Portman_bill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2165">call
on your senators</a> to reject any amendments to weaken the
Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency and antipollution bill.


title: Urgent: Stop US gov't from interfering in state-legal marijuana use
uri: Urgent-Stop-US-gov-t-from-interfering-in-state-legal-marijuana-use
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_US_govt_from_interfering_in_state-legal_marijuana_use)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_US_govt_from_interfering_in_state-legal_marijuana_use%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1008">call
on your senators</a> to support legislation to stop the US government
from interfering in state-legal marijuana use.


title: Urgent: Oppose warrantless surveillance in Massachusetts
uri: Urgent-Oppose-warrantless-surveillance-in-Massachusetts
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_warrantless_surveillance_in_Massachusetts)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_warrantless_surveillance_in_Massachusetts%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/protect-our-privacy-21st-century">oppose
warrantless surveillance</a> at the state level.


title: Egypt and Israel working together to besiege Gaza
uri: Egypt-and-Israel-working-together-to-besiege-Gaza
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Egypt_and_Israel_working_together_to_besiege_Gaza)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Egypt_and_Israel_working_together_to_besiege_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Egypt and Israel are now 
<a href="http://othersite.org/gaza-slow-death-and-collective-punishment-report-september-2013/">working
together to besiege Gaza</a>, leading to many shortages.
<p>
Hamas, which won the last Palestinian election that could be held, has
imposed some 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#25%20October%202010%20(Hamas%20imposes%20lifestyle%20by%20force)">oppressive
policies in Gaza</a>, but starving people and blocking them from
traveling for education or medical care is not going to weaken Hamas.


title: Indonesian forestry minister wants Harrison Ford deported
uri: Indonesian-forestry-minister-wants-Harrison-Ford-deported
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Indonesian_forestry_minister_wants_Harrison_Ford_deported)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Indonesian_forestry_minister_wants_Harrison_Ford_deported%29

content:
<p>
The Indonesian forestry minister wants Harrison Ford deported for
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/indonesia-harrison-ford-deportation-minister">raising 
embarrassing questions</a> in an interview.
<p>
Enforcing forestry laws in Indonesia is surely quite complicated.  So
many rich companies that object, so many bribes one might have to
return.


title: Falsehoods and manipulation in Susan Rice's speech
uri: Falsehoods-and-manipulation-in-Susan-Rice-s-speech
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Falsehoods_and_manipulation_in_Susan_Rices_speech)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Falsehoods_and_manipulation_in_Susan_Rices_speech%29

content:
<p>
Exposing 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/10">falsehoods and
manipulation</a> in Susan Rice's speech trying to build support for
bombing Syria.
<p>
Dennis Kucinich exposes other 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/09-8">manipulative 
war propaganda</a>.


title: Israel closes inquiry into death of protester killed by soldier
uri: Israel-closes-inquiry-into-death-of-protester-killed-by-soldier
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Israel_closes_inquiry_into_death_of_protester_killed_by_soldier)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Israel_closes_inquiry_into_death_of_protester_killed_by_soldier%29

content:
<p>
Although cameras showed that protester Bassem Abu Rahmeh was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/israel-military-close-inquiry-bassem-abu-rahmeh">hit
by a tear gas canister</a>, Israel decided there is "no evidence" for
any action against his killer.
<p>
Things like this don't happen by accident.  Soldiers are trained to
aim their tear gas weapons at the ground, not at people; when the
canisters hit people, that's not a minor error but gross misconduct.
Deadly misconduct, in this case.  The army investigators know that and
choose repeatedly to disregard it.


title: Former US marine was tortured into making false confession
uri: Former-US-marine-was-tortured-into-making-false-confession
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Former_US_marine_was_tortured_into_making_false_confession)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Former_US_marine_was_tortured_into_making_false_confession%29

content:
<p>
A former US marine, imprisoned as a spy in Iran, says in a letter that
he was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/american-accused-spying-iranian-amir-hekmat">tortured
into making a false confession</a>.
<p>
The horrible thing, for an American, is that the US 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2009-jul-oct.html#1%20October%202009%20(Transcript%20of%20Guantanamo%20prisoner%27s%20testimony)">often
does that to prisoners</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(NRA_removes_state_senators)
title: NRA removes state senators
uri: NRA-removes-state-senators
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28NRA_removes_state_senators%29
content:
<p>
The NRA 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/gun-lobby-democrats-colorado-connecticut">removed
gun-control state senators</a> through a referendum in Colorado.


title: American reporter killed shortly after Sept 11 coup in Chile
uri: American-reporter-killed-shortly-after-Sept-11-coup-in-Chile
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(American_reporter_killed_shortly_after_Sept_11_coup_in_Chile)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28American_reporter_killed_shortly_after_Sept_11_coup_in_Chile%29

content:
<p>
American reporter Charles Horman was killed by Pinochet's men shortly
after the US-backed September 11 coup in Chile.  Horman he had
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/11/justice-charles-horman-us-chile-coup">witnessed 
the involvement of US ships and men in the coup</a>.
<p>
Since only US officers knew this, they must have played a role in his
execution too.
<p>
After coup, the right-wing UK government infiltrated anti-Pinochet
solidarity groups and tried to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/11/chile-1973-coup-britain-protecting">manipulate
the media in favor of Pinochet</a>.


title: Thousands attend anti-war vigils in 165 cities
uri: Thousands-attend-anti-war-vigils-in-165-cities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(Thousands_attend_anti-war_vigils_in_165_cities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28Thousands_attend_anti-war_vigils_in_165_cities%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/09/10-2">Thousands
Attend Anti-War Vigils in 165 Cities, Urge Congress to Oppose Syria
Strikes</a>.


title: US-imposed "peace talks" between Israel and Palestine
uri: US-imposed-peace-talks-between-Israel-and-Palestine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 11_September_2013_(US-imposed_peace_talks_between_Israel_and_Palestine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#11_September_2013_%28US-imposed_peace_talks_between_Israel_and_Palestine%29

content:
<p>
The US-imposed "peace talks" between Israel and Palestine are a 
<a href="http://www.lobelog.com/smoke-and-mirrors-the-new-israeli-palestinian-peace-talks/">sham</a>, as 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#25_July_2013_(Kerrys_peace_talks)">predicted</a>;
a smokescreen for Israel to steal more land in Palestine.
<p>
Israel's defense minister 
<a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2013/09/08/israeli-dm-ridicules-democracy-in-middle-east/">ridiculed 
the talks</a>.


title: Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam attacking Internet freedom
uri: Thailand-Cambodia-and-Vietnam-attacking-Internet-freedom
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Thailand,_Cambodia_and_Vietnam_attacking_Internet_freedom)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Thailand%2C_Cambodia_and_Vietnam_attacking_Internet_freedom%29

content:
<p>
Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam
are <a href="http://www.fidh.org/stifled-southeast-asian-voices-ngos-unite-against-criminalization-of-free-13931">attacking
Internet freedom.</a>
<p>
Nguyen Bac Truyen told FIDH about
how <a href="http://www.fidh.org/testimony-of-a-vietnamese-blogger-on-the-difficulties-to-exercise-his-13932">Vietnamese
thugs attack bloggers.</a>


title: NSA excuse to keep more data about more people
uri: NSA-excuse-to-keep-more-data-about-more-people
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(NSA_excuse_to_keep_more_data_about_more_people)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28NSA_excuse_to_keep_more_data_about_more_people%29

content:
<p>
How the NSA uses a weakness in its surveillance schemes as
an <a href="https://www.cdt.org/blogs/alissa-cooper/1109nsa%E2%80%99s-laziness-masquerading-reasonableness">excuse
to keep more data about more people.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Obama's_insider_panel)
title: Obama's insider panel
uri: Obama-s-insider-panel
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Obama%27s_insider_panel%29
content:
<p>
Obama's insider panel which will supposedly consider changes in NSA
surveillance <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/obama-nsa-review-surveillance-changes">held
its first meeting.</a>
<p>
It did not even broach the subject of limiting surveillance.


title: FCC's failure to declare ISPs "common carriers"
uri: FCC-s-failure-to-declare-ISPs-common-carriers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(FCC's_failure_to_declare_ISPs_common_carriers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28FCC%27s_failure_to_declare_ISPs_common_carriers%29

content:
<p>
The FCC's failure to declare ISPs "common
carriers" <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/fccs-wishy-washy-rulemaking-might-doom-net-neutrality-in-court/">may
undermine its weak network neutrality policy.</a>
<p>
IANAL, but I suspect that this failure is also what makes possible the
deal that major ISPs made with the copyright industry to punish their
customers on mere accusation.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Using_fingerprints_as_passwords)
title: Using fingerprints as passwords
uri: Using-fingerprints-as-passwords
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Using_fingerprints_as_passwords%29

content:
<p>
Using fingerprints as passwords could have a devastating legal
byproduct in the
US: <a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/the-unexpected-result-of-fingerprint-authentication-that-you-cant-take-the-fifth/">people
could be required to use their fingers to unlock their data.</a>
<p>
This is because the fifth amendment, which forbids requiring people to
incriminate themselves, does not apply to biometrics.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Slavery_in_Mauritania)
title: Slavery in Mauritania
uri: Slavery-in-Mauritania
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Slavery_in_Mauritania%29
content:
<p>
In Mauritania, the blacks were traditionally slaves of the Arabs.
Theoretically this has stopped,
but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/12/black-mauritania-slavery-un">in
practice it continues.</a>


title: Mayor vetoed bill to make large companies pay higher minimum wage
uri: Mayor-vetoed-bill-to-make-large-companies-pay-higher-minimum-wage
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Mayor_vetoed_bill_to_make_large_companies_pay_higher_minimum_wage)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Mayor_vetoed_bill_to_make_large_companies_pay_higher_minimum_wage%29

content:
<p>
Washington DC's
mayor <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/12/walmart-minimum-wage-vincent-gray-washington">vetoed
the bill to make large companies pay a higher minimum wage.</a>
<p>
DC workers will suffer twice from this decision: they won't get a
raise, and some will lose their jobs.  Walmart brings a decrease in
jobs because it replaces other stores that employ more people.
Furthermore, most of its employees are temps and get no benefits.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Dangerous_secrecy_bill_vetoed)
title: Dangerous secrecy bill vetoed
uri: Dangerous-secrecy-bill-vetoed
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Dangerous_secrecy_bill_vetoed%29

content:
<p>
South Africa's
president <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/south-africa-zuma-secrecy-bill">vetoed
a dangerous secrecy bill.</a>


title: UK thugs interfere with journalism
uri: UK-thugs-interfere-with-journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(UK_thugs_interfere_with_journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28UK_thugs_interfere_with_journalism%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs interfere with journalism
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/12/secrecy-badger-cull-anti-democratic">accusing
unarmed journalists of "intimidating" men with rifles.</a>
<p>
The journalist in question was trying to report on the badger cull.  I
have no opinion about the badger cull.  I don't know whether the cull
will help prevent bovine tuberculosis (its stated purpose), but it
clearly won't drive badgers or any other species extinct.
<p>
I have no special feeling about badgers, but I smell a rat when thugs
make false accusations against journalists.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Analyzing_Putin's_article)
title: Analyzing Putin's article
uri: Analyzing-Putin-s-article
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Analyzing_Putin%27s_article%29
content:
<p>
Analyzing Putin's
article: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/vladimir-putin-americans-syria-means">insults
to Obama, presented as support.</a>
<p>
Some "open source" supporters used to offer me similar "support".
<p>
Most of Putin's points, as described in this article, are valid.
Ironically, its points against him are valid too; Putin is a bigger
enemy of democracy than Obama.  But that doesn't make his points
wrong.
<p>
If only the US and Obama were a good example to contrast such tyrants
with.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Hillsborough_disaster)
title: Hillsborough disaster
uri: Hillsborough-disaster
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Hillsborough_disaster%29
content:
<p>
Officials responsible for the Hillsborough disaster may
be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/12/hillsborough-manslaughter-police-fa-council-club">prosecuted
for manslaughter.</a>
<p>
I think it is even more important to prosecute the thugs that covered
up their wrongs by falsely accusing the spectators.  That was a
separate act, and a worse one in my opinion.  Whoever were responsible
for the conditions that resulted in the death of spectators surely did
not intend to kill; their misdeed was one of negligence.  By contrast,
those who carried out the cover-up acted with full knowledge and
intent.


title: Non-Prosecution of the killers of Baba Mousa
uri: Non-Prosecution-of-the-killers-of-Baba-Mousa
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Non-Prosecution_of_the_killers_of_Baba_Mousa)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Non-Prosecution_of_the_killers_of_Baba_Mousa%29

content:
<p>
The non-prosecution of the killers of Baba Mousa, and those who helped
cover them up, shows that
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/12/baha-mousa-justice-army-lawrence">army
can't be trusted to investigate war criminals.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Charges_against_Barrett_Brown)
title: Charges against Barrett Brown
uri: Charges-against-Barrett-Brown
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Charges_against_Barrett_Brown%29

content:
<p>
The principal charges against Barrett Brown
are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/business/media/a-journalist-agitator-facing-prison-over-a-link.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&_r=0">meant
to attack the whole Internet.</a>
<p>
The article quotes someone using the word "hacking" to mean "breaking
security".  Please don't use the word that way — it is unfair to
us hackers.  Hacking is playful cleverness.  When you're talking about
breaking security, whether you think it is right or wrong in the given
instance, please call it "cracking".
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">On
Hacking</a>


title: Urgent: Reverse plans to let chicken factories inspect their own chickens
uri: Urgent-Reverse-plans-to-let-chicken-factories-inspect-their-own-chick
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Urgent:_Reverse_plans_to_let_chicken_factories_inspect_their_own_chickens)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Reverse_plans_to_let_chicken_factories_inspect_their_own_chickens%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/chicken-whitehouse-call/">phone 
the White House</a> and demand Obama reverse the USDA's plans to let
chicken factories inspect their own chickens.
<p>
To trust these companies is as silly as trusting teenage delinquents
with an attitude.
<p>
The White House comments line is 202-456-1111.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Oxfam_warns_about_EU_austerity)
title: Oxfam warns about EU austerity
uri: Oxfam-warns-about-EU-austerity
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Oxfam_warns_about_EU_austerity%29

content:
<p>
Oxfam warns that EU austerity will
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/12/european-poverty-oxfam-warning'>entrench
poverty for a generation</a>".
<p>
But it won't end with this generation, because by the 2025 global
heating will cause much bigger losses.


title: NSA disobeyed FISA court's requirements
uri: NSA-disobeyed-FISA-court-s-requirements
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(NSA_disobeyed_FISA_courts_requirements)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28NSA_disobeyed_FISA_courts_requirements%29

content:
<p>
The NSA disobeyed the FISA court's requirements 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-violations/">for 
3 years</a>.
<p>
It took 3 years for the court to find out, because the NSA kept it
secret.


title: FBI asked for back door in Microsoft local encryption program
uri: FBI-asked-for-back-door-in-Microsoft-local-encryption-program
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(FBI_asked_for_back_door_in_Microsoft_local_encryption_program)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28FBI_asked_for_back_door_in_Microsoft_local_encryption_program%29

content:
<p>
A former Microsoft employee says the FBI asked him to put a back door
in a Microsoft local encryption program, and he 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/09/11/how-the-feds-asked-microsoft-t.html#more-255226">refused</a>.
<p>
We cannot verify whether his successor was more compliant.  
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary.html">We can't
trust proprietary software</a> because we can't tell whether it is
malicious.  Some proprietary programs are malicious, and some are not,
but we usually can't tell which is which.  (The exception is when we
find out some program is malicious.)


title: Poor people in the UK who can't afford food
uri: Poor-people-in-the-UK-who-can-t-afford-food
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Poor_people_in_the_UK_who_cant_afford_food)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Poor_people_in_the_UK_who_cant_afford_food%29

content:
<p>
UK conservatives say that if you're poor and can't afford food, it's
your own fault.  Look at 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/11/food-bank-britain-didnt-ask-be-ill">some
examples</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(EU_approves_weak_biofuels_bill)
title: EU approves weak biofuels bill
uri: EU-approves-weak-biofuels-bill
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28EU_approves_weak_biofuels_bill%29

content:
<p>
The EU approved a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/11/european-biofuels-vote">very 
weak</a> biofuels bill.


title: UK thugs alter witness statements
uri: UK-thugs-alter-witness-statements
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(UK_thugs_alter_witness_statements)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28UK_thugs_alter_witness_statements%29

content:
<p>
UK thugs altered the statements of witnesses to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/11/hillsborough-witness-statements-altered-police">Hillsborough
disaster</a>. This was to cover up their own responsibility.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 12_September_2013_(Bush_fires_in_Australia)
title: Bush fires in Australia
uri: Bush-fires-in-Australia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#12_September_2013_%28Bush_fires_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
It's still winter in Australia, but bush fires have already started
because winter has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsw-bushfires-point-to-bad-season">unusually 
warm</a>.


title: Urgent: Preserve the Lifeline program
uri: Urgent-Preserve-the-Lifeline-program
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Urgent:_Preserve_the_Lifeline_program)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_the_Lifeline_program%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/justice_lifeline/">call on
Congress</a> to preserve the Lifeline program that allows millions of
poor Americans to have telephone service.


title: UN warns poor countries about competing to export to less-poor countries
uri: UN-warns-poor-countries-about-competing-to-export-to-less-poor-countri
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(UN_warns_poor_countries_about_competing_to_export_to_less-poor_countries)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28UN_warns_poor_countries_about_competing_to_export_to_less-poor_countries%29

content:
<p>
The UN warns poor countries to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/13/poor-countries-exports-growth-unctad">stop 
focusing on competing to export to the less-poor countries</a>.


title: The funded denial of global heating
uri: The-funded-denial-of-global-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(The_funded_denial_of_global_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28The_funded_denial_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Greenpeace reports on the 
<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/Dealing-in-Doubt---the-Climate-Denial-Machine-vs-Climate-Science/">organization, 
history and methods</a> of the funded denial of global heating.


title: Turkish authorities shut down cartoon exhibition
uri: Turkish-authorities-shut-down-cartoon-exhibition
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Turkish_authorities_shut_down_cartoon_exhibition)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Turkish_authorities_shut_down_cartoon_exhibition%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/turkey/2013/09/09/cartoon_exhibition/">International 
cartoon exhibition</a> shut down by Turkish authorities.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(The_demise_of_unions_in_the_US)
title: The demise of unions in the US
uri: The-demise-of-unions-in-the-US
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28The_demise_of_unions_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/unions.html">The
Demise of Unions [in the US] and Why We Need to Revive Them</a>.


title: Greek fascist mob violently attacks Communists
uri: Greek-fascist-mob-violently-attacks-Communists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Greek_fascist_mob_violently_attacks_Communists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Greek_fascist_mob_violently_attacks_Communists%29

content:
<p>
A mob of Greek fascists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/13/greeks-protest-golden-dawn-attack-communists">attacked
Communists who were handing out papers</a>, and left them gravely
injured.
<p>
The fascists seem to be trying to terrorizing various "enemies" in
order to look strong.  The thugs generally support them by 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#02_September_2013_(Greek_fascist_party_puts_Jewish_communist_on_trial)">letting
them get away with it</a>.


title: FISA court grudgingly credits Snowden
uri: FISA-court-grudgingly-credits-Snowden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(FISA_court_grudgingly_credits_Snowden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28FISA_court_grudgingly_credits_Snowden%29

content:
<p>
A FISA court ruling has moved the ACLU closer to winning 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/13/edward-snowden-nsa-disclosures-judge">release
of various documents about surveillance</a>, and grudgingly credited
Snowden with launching necessary debate about the issue.


title: People affected by global heating in Asia
uri: People-affected-by-global-heating-in-Asia
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(People_affected_by_global_heating_in_Asia)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28People_affected_by_global_heating_in_Asia%29

content:
<p>
A survey found people are affected 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/sep/13/climate-change-research-language-bbc">in
many parts of Asia</a> by the effects of global heating.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Solidarity_in_Poland)
title: Solidarity in Poland
uri: Solidarity-in-Poland
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Solidarity_in_Poland%29
content:
<p>
The anti-worker right-wing Polish ruling party has to love Solidarity,
which helped bring down the Soviet empire, but finds it embarrassing
that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/poland-union-solidarity">Solidarity
is a real union and defends workers' rights today</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Drug_safety)
title: Drug safety
uri: Drug-safety
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Drug_safety%29
content:
<p>
To make drugs safer, teach kids 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/13/major-lazer-teach-kids-drugs">how
to use them safely</a>.
<p>
It would also help to legalize and regulate their sale, so that they
are not unpredictable in strength, mixed with poison, etc.


title: Methods of oppression used by the US resemble those of a dictator
uri: Methods-of-oppression-used-by-the-US-resemble-those-of-a-dictator
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Methods_of_oppression_used_by_the_US_resemble_those_of_a_dictator)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Methods_of_oppression_used_by_the_US_resemble_those_of_a_dictator%29

content:
<p>
Juan Garces, who organized pressure on Chilean dictator Pinochet
from outside Chile, says that the US today uses 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/12-9">methods of 
oppression that resemble those of Pinochet.


title: The US: World's Policeman Or Schoolyard Bully
uri: The-US-World-s-Policeman-Or-Schoolyard-Bully
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(The_US:_World's_Policeman_Or_Schoolyard_Bully)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28The_US%3A_World%27s_Policeman_Or_Schoolyard_Bully%29

content:
<p>
Bill
Maher: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/14/usa-worlds-policeman-school-bully">The
US: World's Policeman Or Schoolyard Bully?</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Walking_on_US_flag)
title: Walking on US flag
uri: Walking-on-US-flag
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Walking_on_US_flag%29
content:
<p>
A school revoked an art history assignment because
students <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/14/flag-desecration-free-speech-censored">restaged
a performance that included walking on a US flag.</a>
<p>
I side with the courts that have insisted on respecting the freedom to
do this.  The freedom to condemn the US is part of the American ideals
that I love.


title: US and Russia agree on deal to take control of Syria's chemical weapons
uri: US-and-Russia-agree-on-deal-to-take-control-of-Syria-s-chemical-weapon
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(US_and_Russia_agree_on_deal_to_take_control_of_Syria's_chemical_weapons)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28US_and_Russia_agree_on_deal_to_take_control_of_Syria%27s_chemical_weapons%29

content:
<p>
The US and Russia
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/14/syris-crisis-us-russia-chemical-weapons-deal">agreed
on a deal to take control of Syria's chemical weapons stocks.</a>
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/14/geneva-deal-syria-welcom-step">A
lot of things could still go wrong.</a>


title: US nuclear weapons vulnerable to collisions or fire
uri: US-nuclear-weapons-vulnerable-to-collisions-or-fire
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(US_nuclear_weapons_vulnerable_to_collisions_or_fire)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28US_nuclear_weapons_vulnerable_to_collisions_or_fire%29

content:
<p>
US nuclear weapons
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/14/nuclear-weapons-accident-waiting-to-happen">vulnerable
to being set off by collisions or fire,</a> which means they could
explode in the base where they are kept.


title: U.S. Should Back Chemical Weapons Ban in All Nations
uri: U-S-Should-Back-Chemical-Weapons-Ban-in-All-Nations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(U.S._Should_Back_Chemical_Weapons_Ban_in_All_Nations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28U.S._Should_Back_Chemical_Weapons_Ban_in_All_Nations%29

content:
<p>
Chomsky: Instead of "Illegal" Threat to Syria,
U.S. Should <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/11/chomsky_instead_of_illegal_threat_to">Back
Chemical Weapons Ban in All Nations.</a>


title: Urgent: Do no block Interior department from regulating fracking
uri: Urgent-Do-no-block-Interior-department-from-regulating-fracking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Urgent:_Do_no_block_Interior_department_from_regulating_fracking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Do_no_block_Interior_department_from_regulating_fracking%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on your
congresscritter <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14267">not
to block the Interior department from regulating fracking.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Urgent:_Network_neutrality)
title: Urgent: Network neutrality
uri: Urgent-Network-neutrality
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/Internet_sti_love/">call for
network neutrality</a> to preserve what is good about the Internet.


title: Urgent: Keep creationism out of science textbooks
uri: Urgent-Keep-creationism-out-of-science-textbooks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Urgent:_Keep_creationism_out_of_science_textbooks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_creationism_out_of_science_textbooks%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=StandUp4Science">pressure
Texas</a> not to put creationism into science textbooks.


title: Urgent: Override veto of bill requiring higher wages from large companies
uri: Urgent-Override-veto-of-bill-requiring-higher-wages-from-large-compan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Urgent:_Override_veto_of_bill_requiring_higher_wages_from_large_companies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Override_veto_of_bill_requiring_higher_wages_from_large_companies%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=570">call
on the Washington, DC, city council</a> to override the mayor's veto
of the bill requiring large companies to pay higher wages.


title: Rental assistance cut by sequester
uri: Rental-assistance-cut-by-sequester
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Rental_assistance_cut_by_sequester)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Rental_assistance_cut_by_sequester%29

content:
<p>
The sequester is has cut the 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/sequester-hammer-drops-housing">rental
assistance</a> that enables some poor US families to have a place to
live.


title: Insulting the Thai king in private conversations
uri: Insulting-the-Thai-king-in-private-conversations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Insulting_the_Thai_king_in_private_conversations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Insulting_the_Thai_king_in_private_conversations%29

content:
<p>
In Thailand, anyone could get you jailed by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/13/thai-brother-cleared-insulting-king">claiming
that you insulted the king in a private conversation</a>.
<p>
Even when applied to public statements, this law is fundamentally
unjust.


title: Study predicts decline in US workers' incomes due to TPP
uri: Study-predicts-decline-in-US-workers-incomes-due-to-TPP
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 14_September_2013_(Study_predicts_decline_in_US_workers'_incomes_due_to_TPP)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#14_September_2013_%28Study_predicts_decline_in_US_workers%27_incomes_due_to_TPP%29

content:
<p>
A study predicts 
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/09/the-verdict-is-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-a-sweeping-free-trade-deal-under-negotiation-with-11-pacific-rim-coun.html">how
much US workers' incomes would decline</a> due to the Trans-Pacific
Partnership.
<p>
The treaty's proponents claim it will make tiny increase in the US GDP,
but the loss for workers as their wages are transferred to the rich
would more than wipe that out.
<p>
The article uses an iThing as a standard of contribution to the GDP.
This demonstrates how the GDP is a misleading measure of benefit:
it does not count the oppression of the iThings.
<p>
The 
<a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/09/exports-fall-short-under-korea-fta-for-16-out-of-16-months.html">US-Korea
"free trade" treaty</a> has worked out badly for the US.
<p>
Considered in non-nationalist terms, however, a bigger wrong is that
it benefits the rich in both countries while cutting the incomes of
everyone else.  And the even worse wrong is the way it attacks
democracy.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Use_of_torture_in_US_prisons)
title: Use of torture in US prisons
uri: Use-of-torture-in-US-prisons
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Use_of_torture_in_US_prisons%29
content:
<p>
Torture: The Use of 
<a href="http://www.ccrjustice.org/solitary-factsheet">Solitary
Confinement</a> in U.S. Prisons.
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/opinion/nocera-is-force-feeding-torture.html">Force-feeding
hunger strikers</a> is torture too.


title: AT&T threatens to cut off ISP services to people accused sharing
uri: AT-T-threatens-to-cut-off-ISP-services-to-people-accused-sharing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(ATT_threatens_to_cut_off_ISP_services_to_people_accused_sharing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28ATT_threatens_to_cut_off_ISP_services_to_people_accused_sharing%29

content:
<p>
AT&T threatens to cut off ISP services to people if they are
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/att-threatens-persistent-pirates-with-account-termination-130913/">accused
of forbidden sharing</a>.
<p>
It is a shame that this article repeats the propaganda term "pirate"
for people who share copies.


title: Invasion of privacy from E-Z Pass toll payment RFIDs
uri: Invasion-of-privacy-from-E-Z-Pass-toll-payment-RFIDs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Invasion_of_privacy_from_E-Z_Pass_toll_payment_RFIDs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Invasion_of_privacy_from_E-Z_Pass_toll_payment_RFIDs%29

content:
<p>
E-Z Pass toll payment RFIDs get read at 
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/09/12/e-zpasses-get-read-all-over-new-york-not-just-at-toll-booths/">lots
of places other than toll booths</a>, for a scheme to measure traffic
flow.
<p>
Ironically, the readers in this scheme are (according to the reports)
designed not to save any personal data — an example for all
digital systems (assuming the reports are telling the truth).  The
invasion of privacy from E-Z Pass comes when it is used to pay tolls.
The information about people's movements that this records is
available not only to the government but to anyone that wants to sue.


title: Don't use SaaSS to do your computing tasks
uri: Don-t-use-SaaSS-to-do-your-computing-tasks
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Dont_use_SaaSS_to_do_your_computing_tasks)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Dont_use_SaaSS_to_do_your_computing_tasks%29

content:
<p>
Although Amy Webb intended not to post any photos of her daughter, she
made the mistake of 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/data_mine_1/2013/09/privacy_facebook_kids_don_t_post_photos_of_your_kids_on_social_media.html">using
SaaSS to edit photos</a>, and they eventually leaked out.
<p>
The lesson is, don't use 
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">SaaSS</a>
to do your computing tasks (such as photo editing).


title: Reporter held hostage by Islamist bandits in Syria
uri: Reporter-held-hostage-by-Islamist-bandits-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Reporter_held_hostage_by_Islamist_bandits_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Reporter_held_hostage_by_Islamist_bandits_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
Reporter Domenico Quirico describes 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/15/domenico-quirico-my-hostage-ordeal">being
the hostage of Islamist bandits</a> in Syria.


title: Obama makes Bush's legacy of war his own
uri: Obama-makes-Bush-s-legacy-of-war-his-own
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Obama_makes_Bushs_legacy_of_war_his_own)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Obama_makes_Bushs_legacy_of_war_his_own%29

content:
<p>
Obama has accepted Bush's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/11-3">legacy of
war</a> and made it his own.


title: Richmond, CA, approves plan to use eminent domain
uri: Richmond-CA-approves-plan-to-use-eminent-domain
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Richmond_CA_approves_plan_to_use_eminent_domain)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Richmond_CA_approves_plan_to_use_eminent_domain%29

content:
<p>
Richmond, California, has approved its 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/11-1">plan to
use eminent domain</a> to seize homes with "underwater" mortgages.
<p>
The Federal Housing Finance Agency is on the wrong side.  Obama is in
charge of that, and he could reverse the policy.  Perhaps a citizens'
campaign could make him do so.


title: The rich in the US have taken bigger share than ever before
uri: The-rich-in-the-US-have-taken-bigger-share-than-ever-before
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(The_rich_in_the_US_have_taken_bigger_share_than_ever_before)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28The_rich_in_the_US_have_taken_bigger_share_than_ever_before%29

content:
<p>
The rich in the US have taken a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/11-6">bigger
share than ever before</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop the sale of neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Urgent-Stop-the-sale-of-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Urgent:_Stop_the_sale_of_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_the_sale_of_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/home-depot-and-lowes">call
on the CEOs of Home Depot and Lowes stores</a> to stop selling
neonicotinoid pesticides, and plants that have been treated with them.


title: Revolving door between gov't propaganda agencies and corporate media
uri: Revolving-door-between-gov-t-propaganda-agencies-and-corporate-media
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Revolving_door_between_govt_propaganda_agencies_and_corporate_media)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Revolving_door_between_govt_propaganda_agencies_and_corporate_media%29

content:
<p>
There is a 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/09/13/from-time-to-state-pr-a-big-jump/">revolving
door for staff</a> between US government propaganda agencies and
corporate media that repeat the propaganda.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Record-breaking_flood_in_Boulder)
title: Record-breaking flood in Boulder
uri: Record-breaking-flood-in-Boulder
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Record-breaking_flood_in_Boulder%29

content:
<p>
The record-breaking flood in Boulder is in line with 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/biblical-1000-year-deluge-strikes-colorado-did-global-warming-play-a-role-16474">what
is expected from global heating</a>. The prediction is that the
average level of rain will decrease, but that it will also occur in
bigger bursts (which would further decrease the effective availability
of water for agriculture).


title: Warmer winter nights in Norway and Sweden
uri: Warmer-winter-nights-in-Norway-and-Sweden
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Warmer_winter_nights_in_Norway_and_Sweden)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Warmer_winter_nights_in_Norway_and_Sweden%29

content:
<p>
Winter nights in Norway and Sweden are 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/parts-of-europe-heating-faster-than-global-average-16469">warmer
by 2C than they were 60 years ago</a>.


title: Global heating will upset balance of algae in ocean
uri: Global-heating-will-upset-balance-of-algae-in-ocean
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Global_heating_will_upset_balance_of_algae_in_ocean)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Global_heating_will_upset_balance_of_algae_in_ocean%29

content:
<p>
Global heating will upset the balance of algae in the ocean,
promoting 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-09-climate-vital-ocean-chemical.html">cyanobacteria</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(Censorship_in_Pakistan)
title: Censorship in Pakistan
uri: Censorship-in-Pakistan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28Censorship_in_Pakistan%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan's censorship now extends to a ban on 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-09-pakistan-axes-immoral-cell-chat.html">phone
chat for men and women to meet</a>.


title: European Commission's draft Internet regulations
uri: European-Commission-s-draft-Internet-regulations
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 15_September_2013_(European_Commissions_draft_Internet_regulations)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_%28European_Commissions_draft_Internet_regulations%29

content:
<p>
The European Commission has modified its draft Internet regulations to
<a href="http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number11.17/net-neutrality-ec-regulation">weaken
network neutrality</a>.


title: The 5 stages of global heating denial
uri: The-5-stages-of-global-heating-denial
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(The_5_stages_of_global_heating_denial)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28The_5_stages_of_global_heating_denial%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial">5
stages of global heating denial</a>, starting with "it's not
happening" and ending with "it's too late to stop it."
<p>
The focus of the denial is not on global heating itself, but rather
against taking action to stop it.  That's probably because the
activity gets funding and media platforms thanks to the fossil fuel
companies, and their goal is to keep on selling fossil fuels as fast
as possible regardless of the consequences.


title: Scientists protest against ban on talking publicly about work
uri: Scientists-protest-against-ban-on-talking-publicly-about-work
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Scientists_protest_against_ban_on_talking_publicly_about_work)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Scientists_protest_against_ban_on_talking_publicly_about_work%29

content:
<p>
Government scientists are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/16/canadian-scientists-government-censorship">protesting
across Canada</a> against the ban on talking publicly about their
work.


title: Superstition, ritual killing and mutilation
uri: Superstition-ritual-killing-and-mutilation
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Superstition_ritual_killing_and_mutilation)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Superstition_ritual_killing_and_mutilation%29

content:
<p>
In Gabon, people are 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/igwe201309101">regularly
killed or mutilated</a> to get body parts to use in rituals.
<p>
In Ghana, people are 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/igwe20130911a">accused of
witchcraft</a> based on other people's dreams, and driven out of their
homes.


title: Germany to allow registration of baby's sex as indeterminate
uri: Germany-to-allow-registration-of-baby-s-sex-as-indeterminate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Germany_to_allow_registration_of_babys_sex_as_indeterminate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Germany_to_allow_registration_of_babys_sex_as_indeterminate%29

content:
<p>
Germany will allow registration of a baby's sex as 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/dvorsky20130912">indeterminate</a>.


title: Urgent: Stand up for credit unions
uri: Urgent-Stand-up-for-credit-unions
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Urgent:_Stand_up_for_credit_unions)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Stand_up_for_credit_unions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://act.sumofus.org/go/2361?t=1002">stand up
for credit unions</a> — the banksters want to wipe them out.


title: Urgent: More public hearings about plan to end protection for wolves
uri: Urgent-More-public-hearings-about-plan-to-end-protection-for-wolves
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Urgent:_More_public_hearings_about_plan_to_end_protection_for_wolves)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_More_public_hearings_about_plan_to_end_protection_for_wolves%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2639">call 
on the Fish and Wildlife Service</a> to hold more public hearings
about the plan to end protection for wolves.


title: Urgent: Living wage for McDonald's workers
uri: Urgent-Living-wage-for-McDonald-s-workers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Urgent:_Living_wage_for_McDonalds_workers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Living_wage_for_McDonalds_workers%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://youpower.democracyforamerica.com/petitions/mcdonald-s-pay-your-workers-a-living-wage">call
on McDonald's</a> to pay workers a living wage.


title: NSA masquerades as Google in man-in-middle attack
uri: NSA-masquerades-as-Google-in-man-in-middle-attack
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(NSA_masquerades_as_Google_in_man-in-middle_attack)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28NSA_masquerades_as_Google_in_man-in-middle_attack%29

content:
<p>
The NSA is using 
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130910/10470024468/flying-pig-nsa-is-running-man-middle-attacks-imitating-googles-servers.shtml">fake 
HTTPS security certificates</a> to masquerade as Google servers in a
man-in-the-middle attack.


title: Texas restricts drone use by citizens but not for state
uri: Texas-restricts-drone-use-by-citizens-but-not-for-state
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Texas_restricts_drone_use_by_citizens_but_not_for_state)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Texas_restricts_drone_use_by_citizens_but_not_for_state%29

content:
<p>
Texas has restricted use of photography drones by citizens, but left it
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/drone-use-tightly-limited-for-texas-residents-but-new-law-makes-big-exception-for-police/2013/09/14/49583df4-1d4d-11e3-80ac-96205cacb45a_story.html">wide
open for the state</a>.


title: Texas sets up phony "conservation plan"
uri: Texas-sets-up-phony-conservation-plan
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Texas_sets_up_phony_conservation_plan)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Texas_sets_up_phony_conservation_plan%29

content:
<p>
Texas set up a 
<a href="http://www.defendersblog.org/2013/08/the-truth-about-the-texas-lizard-conservation-plan/">phony
"conservation plan"</a> for the dunes sagebrush lizard, which consists
of letting oil companies lie about ongoing threats.


title: Egyptian Islamists carry out repression against Christians
uri: Egyptian-Islamists-carry-out-repression-against-Christians
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Egyptian_Islamists_carry_out_repression_against_Christians)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Egyptian_Islamists_carry_out_repression_against_Christians%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian Islamists took control of a remote town and carried out
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/egyptian-police-recapture-islamist-town-delga">repression
against Christians</a>.


title: Teenager faces charges of "terrorism" for posting fantasy video
uri: Teenager-faces-charges-of-terrorism-for-posting-fantasy-video
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Teenager_faces_charges_of_terrorism_for_posting_fantasy_video)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Teenager_faces_charges_of_terrorism_for_posting_fantasy_video%29

content:
<p>
A teenager who posted a fantasy video of shooting his classmates 
<a href="http://www.ksla.com/story/23429622/terrebone-parish-teen-arrested-for-using-app-to-shoot-classmates">faces
charges of "terrorism"</a>.


title: Fukushima radioisotopes leaking into ocean
uri: Fukushima-radioisotopes-leaking-into-ocean
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 16_September_2013_(Fukushima_radioisotopes_leaking_into_ocean)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#16_September_2013_%28Fukushima_radioisotopes_leaking_into_ocean%29

content:
<p>
Fukushima radioisotopes leaking into the ocean: 
<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52744884">how significant</a>?
<p>
Caesium-137 from the Fukushima meltdowns can make fish in the region
near Fukushima dangerous to eat, but when it disperses into the larger
ocean, it is 
<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24100-should-fukushimas-radioactive-water-be-dumped-at-sea.html">diluted
to insignificance</a>.  The total amount is trivial beside the amounts
released by nuclear weapons tests and previous accidents.
<p>
Strontium-90 is potentially worse.  It 
<a href="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=83397&tid=3622&cid=94989">accumulated
in bones</a>, including fish bones.  It could make small fish such as
sardines, commonly eaten with the bones, dangerous to eat.
<p>
I have found no information on the level of strontium-90 in the ocean
off Fukushima or in fish there.


title: FBI has become an unconstitutional surveillance machine
uri: FBI-has-become-an-unconstitutional-surveillance-machine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(FBI_has_become_an_unconstitutional_surveillance_machine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28FBI_has_become_an_unconstitutional_surveillance_machine%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU says that
the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-report-documents-fbi-abuse-911">FBI
has become an unconstitutional surveillance machine</a> after
stretching its powers on many dimensions.
<p>
<a href="media/881eb036.unleashed-and-unaccountable-fbi-report.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/unleashed-and-unaccountable-fbi-report.pdf">Here
are the specifics.</a>


title: UN inspectors affirm chemical weapons used in Syria
uri: UN-inspectors-affirm-chemical-weapons-used-in-Syria
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(UN_inspectors_affirm_chemical_weapons_used_in_Syria)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28UN_inspectors_affirm_chemical_weapons_used_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
The UN inspectors affirm
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/syrian-chemical-attack-sarin-says-un">chemical
weapons were used in Syria</a>. An expert from Human Rights Watch says
they could only have been used by Assad's men.


title: Gemma O'Doherty, journalist, fired
uri: Gemma-O-Doherty-journalist-fired
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Gemma_O'Doherty,_journalist,_fired)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Gemma_O%27Doherty%2C_journalist%2C_fired%29

content:
<p>
Gemma O'Doherty, a leading Irish investigative journalist, was fired,
apparently because her
reporting <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/sep/17/irish-independent-ireland">made
some important people uncomfortable.</a>


title: Censorship filter on isoHunt blocks authorized redistribution
uri: Censorship-filter-on-isoHunt-blocks-authorized-redistribution
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Censorship_filter_on_isoHunt_blocks_authorized_redistribution)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Censorship_filter_on_isoHunt_blocks_authorized_redistribution%29

content:
<p>
A censorship filter imposed by court order on isoHunt.com
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mpaas-court-ordered-piracy-filter-censors-many-legitimate-files-130915/">blocks
lots of authorized redistribution too.</a>


title: Obama waived legal requirements in order to arm Syrian rebels
uri: Obama-waived-legal-requirements-in-order-to-arm-Syrian-rebels
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Obama_waived_legal_requirements_in_order_to_arm_Syrian_rebels)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Obama_waived_legal_requirements_in_order_to_arm_Syrian_rebels%29

content:
<p>
Obama has waived legal
requirements <a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/09/17/obama-bypasses-terrorism-rule-to-give-weapons-to-syrian-rebels/">in
order to arm Syrian rebels.</a>
<p>
To be fair, if a country's <em>government</em> supports terrorism,
that is no rational reason not to arm <em>rebels</em> against that
government.  What matters in that case is whether said rebels are
connected with terrorism — but these are!


title: Put trauma center "out of business"
uri: Put-trauma-center-out-of-business
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Put_trauma_center_out_of_business)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Put_trauma_center_out_of_business%29

content:
<p>
The head of the doctors that treated the victims of the navy yard
shooting please with Americans
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/17/washington-navy-yard-shooting-gun-control">put
her trauma center "out of business" — with gun control.</a>


title: Uphill Battle to Rein in the Power of Coal
uri: Uphill-Battle-to-Rein-in-the-Power-of-Coal
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Uphill_Battle_to_Rein_in_the_Power_of_Coal)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Uphill_Battle_to_Rein_in_the_Power_of_Coal%29

content:
<p>
In Australia,
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/17/australia-battle-power-coal">Uphill
Battle to Rein in the Power of Coal.</a>


title: NSA spies on credit card payments outside US
uri: NSA-spies-on-credit-card-payments-outside-US
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(NSA_spies_on_credit_card_payments_outside_US)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28NSA_spies_on_credit_card_payments_outside_US%29

content:
<p>
The NSA spies
on <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-exclusive-nsa-spies-on-international-bank-transactions-a-922276.html">credit
card payments outside the US.</a>
<p>
This is
in <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies-on-international-bank-transactions-a-922430-druck.html">violation
of an agreement made between the US and the EU</a>.


title: Australia's policy will be brought to UN Human Rights Council
uri: Australia-s-policy-will-be-brought-to-UN-Human-Rights-Council
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Australia's_policy_will_be_brought_to_UN_Human_Rights_Council)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Australia%27s_policy_will_be_brought_to_UN_Human_Rights_Council%29

content:
<p>
Australia's policy of towing boats of refugees back to their point of
origin
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/17/human-rights-group-will-criticise-australia-at-un">will
be brought to the UN Human Rights Council.</a> For refugees that are
in fact fleeing persecution, it means delivering them back to the
persecutors.


title: Systematic execution and torture of prisoners
uri: Systematic-execution-and-torture-of-prisoners
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Systematic_execution_and_torture_of_prisoners)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Systematic_execution_and_torture_of_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
An investigation reports that North Korea is guilty
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/17/north-korea-prison-camps-abuse-torture">systematic
execution and torture of prisoners.</a>
<p>
I am all in favor of taking action against this, but let's not limit
it to North Korea.
The <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#27_June_2013_(Texas_continues_executing_people)">US
systematically executes</a>
and <a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#15_September_2013_(Use_of_torture_in_US_prisons)">tortures</a>
prisoners too.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(DEA_rehired_perjurer)
title: DEA rehired perjurer
uri: DEA-rehired-perjurer
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28DEA_rehired_perjurer%29
content:
<p>
The DEA has rehired a highly paid informant
who <a href="http://www.alternet.org/dea-rehires-multiple-perjurer-informant">confessed
to perjury in previous operations.</a>


title: TSA allowed to lie in response to FOIA requests
uri: TSA-allowed-to-lie-in-response-to-FOIA-requests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(TSA_allowed_to_lie_in_response_to_FOIA_requests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28TSA_allowed_to_lie_in_response_to_FOIA_requests%29

content:
<p>
A US judge ruled that
the <a href="http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/court-federal-law-allows-lying-in-tsa-related-foia-requests/">TSA
is allowed to lie in response to FOIA requests.</a>


title: US gov't stretched meaning of "imminent threat"
uri: US-gov-t-stretched-meaning-of-imminent-threat
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(US_gov't_stretched_meaning_of_imminent_threat)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28US_gov%27t_stretched_meaning_of_imminent_threat%29

content:
<p>
A killer pleads self-defense, arguing that the US government has
<a href="http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/09/lousy-war-on-terror-arguments.html">stretched
the meaning of "imminent threat" for everyone.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Occupy_protests_impact_continues)
title: Occupy protests impact continues
uri: Occupy-protests-impact-continues
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Occupy_protests_impact_continues%29

content:
<p>
The Occupy protests were crushed,
but <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/17/occupy-wall-street-99-percent">their
impact continues.</a>
<p>
I applaud Bill Blasio for saying that he as mayor would not have shut
down Occupy Wall Street, but the right to protest must not depend on
sympathy from the officials of the day.  The Plutocratic Party used
the protest camps to damage the right to protest in the US.  Now we
must demand laws to restore it.


title: Protests in Romania against proposed gold mine
uri: Protests-in-Romania-against-proposed-gold-mine
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Protests_in_Romania_against_proposed_gold_mine)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Protests_in_Romania_against_proposed_gold_mine%29

content:
<p>
After two weeks, protests in Romania against a proposed gold mine
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/17/romanians-mobilise-gold-mine">getting
even stronger.</a>


title: Very Urgent: Oppose bills that would cut food stamps
uri: Very-Urgent-Oppose-bills-that-would-cut-food-stamps
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_bills_that_would_cut_food_stamps)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_bills_that_would_cut_food_stamps%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Phone your congresscritter to oppose bills such as HR
3102 that would cut food stamps.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: Very Urgent: Oppose renewal of Monsanto Protection Act
uri: Very-Urgent-Oppose-renewal-of-Monsanto-Protection-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_renewal_of_Monsanto_Protection_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_renewal_of_Monsanto_Protection_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose renewal of the
Monsanto Protection Act.  Also sign 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11998">this
petition</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Urgent:_Expand_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Expand Social Security
uri: 2013-09-18-Urgent-Expand-Social-Security
url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Expand_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and congresscritter saying to 
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/call/call_ss_harkin_begich/">expand
Social Security</a>, not cut it.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and
888-355-3588.


title: Urgent: Call on Obama to negotiate with Rouhani
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Obama-to-negotiate-with-Rouhani
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_Obama_to_negotiate_with_Rouhani)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Obama_to_negotiate_with_Rouhani%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/obama-please-meet-with">call
on Obama</a> to negotiate with Rouhani.


title: Urgent: Remove David Koch from board of directors at WGBH
uri: Urgent-Remove-David-Koch-from-board-of-directors-at-WGBH
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Urgent:_Remove_David_Koch_from_board_of_directors_at_WGBH)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_David_Koch_from_board_of_directors_at_WGBH%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/wgbh_koch_petition/">call
on WGBH</a> to remove David Koch from its board of directors.


title: Deaths in the US due to antibiotics resistance
uri: Deaths-in-the-US-due-to-antibiotics-resistance
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Deaths_in_the_US_due_to_antibiotics_resistance)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Deaths_in_the_US_due_to_antibiotics_resistance%29

content:
<p>
Resistance to antibiotics kills 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/16/cdc-drug-resistance-antibiotics-report">37,000
Americans per year</a>.
<p>
That's almost as many as automobile accidents.  The loss of years of
life due to antibiotics is going to be less, since many victims are
old, while the victims of car accidents tend to be young.  Still, it
is a lot of people.  Both of them dwarf the effects of terrorism.
<p>
So when are we going to ban the foolish practices that generate
antibiotic resistance?  For instance, regularly giving antibiotics to
farm animals.


title: Any law to reduce global heating can be challenged in the WTO
uri: Any-law-to-reduce-global-heating-can-be-challenged-in-the-WTO
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Any_law_to_reduce_global_heating_can_be_challenged_in_the_WTO)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Any_law_to_reduce_global_heating_can_be_challenged_in_the_WTO%29

content:
<p>
A WTO judge who ruled against the US Clean Air Act said that 
<a href="http://lists.horus.com/pipermail/e-rundbrief/2007/000629.html">almost
any law to reduce global heating can be challenged in the WTO</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Global_heating_denial)
title: Global heating denial
uri: Global-heating-denial
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
Greenpeace reports on the 
<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/Dealing-in-Doubt---the-Climate-Denial-Machine-vs-Climate-Science/">organized
and heavily funded</a> denial of global heating.


title: Taliban systematically killing Afghan policewomen
uri: Taliban-systematically-killing-Afghan-policewomen
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Taliban_systematically_killing_Afghan_policewomen)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Taliban_systematically_killing_Afghan_policewomen%29

content:
<p>
The Taliban are systematically 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/afghanistan-policewoman-nigara-assassinated-taliban">killing
Afghan policewomen</a>. The government doesn't seem to be trying hard
to protect them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(The_Pebble_Mine_plan)
title: The Pebble Mine plan
uri: The-Pebble-Mine-plan
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28The_Pebble_Mine_plan%29
content:
<p>
We have won a major victory over the Pebble Mine plan, but it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/16/anglo-american-alaska-gold-mines">isn't
dead yet</a>.


title: Campaign against Larry Summers succeeds
uri: Campaign-against-Larry-Summers-succeeds
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 17_September_2013_(Campaign_against_Larry_Summers_succeeds)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#17_September_2013_%28Campaign_against_Larry_Summers_succeeds%29

content:
<p>
The campaign against Larry Summers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/16/janet-yellen-fed-chair-larry-summers">succeeded</a>.


title: Journalist who attacked corruption was assassinated
uri: Journalist-who-attacked-corruption-was-assassinated
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Journalist_who_attacked_corruption_was_assassinated)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Journalist_who_attacked_corruption_was_assassinated%29

content:
<p>
A Colombian
radio <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/sep/18/journalist-safety-colombia">journalist
who attacked corruption was assassinated.</a>


title: Reporters Without Borders criticized gag order placed on Barrett Brown
uri: Reporters-Without-Borders-criticized-gag-order-placed-on-Barrett-Brown
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Reporters_Without_Borders_criticized_gag_order_placed_on_Barrett_Brown)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Reporters_Without_Borders_criticized_gag_order_placed_on_Barrett_Brown%29

content:
<p>
Reporters Without Borders
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/sep/18/press-freedom-obama-administration">criticized
the gag order placed on Barrett Brown.</a>
<p>
The
main <a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#24_March_2013_(Prosecution_of_journalist_Barret_Brown)">charges
against Brown are for his journalistic activity</a>: posting a link to
a web site where data obtained from Stratfor had been published.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Holy_water_contaminated)
title: "Holy water" contaminated
uri: Holy-water-contaminated
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Holy_water_contaminated%29
content:
<p>
"Holy water" in many sites in Austria
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/18/austrian-holy-water-churches">contaminated
with bacteria and excrement.</a>
<p>
In other words, it's not wholly water.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Arctic_ice_minimum)
title: Arctic ice minimum
uri: Arctic-ice-minimum
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Arctic_ice_minimum%29
content:
<p>
This
year's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/18/arctic-sea-ice-shrinks-record-low">Arctic
ice minimum is not as low as in 2012</a>; it is back to the 2009
level.  Nonetheless, the last 7 years have all shown less ice than
ever before them, reflecting the long-term trend that the ice is
gradually disappearing due to global heating.


title: Flotilla threatened by the Indonesian military
uri: Flotilla-threatened-by-the-Indonesian-military
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Flotilla_threatened_by_the_Indonesian_military)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Flotilla_threatened_by_the_Indonesian_military%29

content:
<p>
The Papuan hosts of the Freedom Flotilla have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/18/west-papua-freedom-flotilla-threats">threatened
by the Indonesian military.</a>


title: Israeli soldiers shot a sleeping Palestinian
uri: Israeli-soldiers-shot-a-sleeping-Palestinian
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Israeli_soldiers_shot_a_sleeping_Palestinian)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Israeli_soldiers_shot_a_sleeping_Palestinian%29

content:
<p>
Palestinians in Jenin say Israeli
soldiers <a href="http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23212">shot
a sleeping Palestinian in cold blood.</a>


title: Urgent: Ask Obama to appoint Janet Yellen
uri: Urgent-Ask-Obama-to-appoint-Janet-Yellen
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Urgent:_Ask_Obama_to_appoint_Janet_Yellen)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Ask_Obama_to_appoint_Janet_Yellen%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/janet-yellen-obama/">ask
Obama</a> to appoint Janet Yellen as head of the Federal Reserve.
<p>
Senator Warren supports her.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(US_phone_companies)
title: US phone companies
uri: US-phone-companies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28US_phone_companies%29
content:
<p>
No US phone company has tried to resist 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/sep/17/fisa-court-bulk-phone-records-collection">orders
for massive collection of phone call records</a>.


title: Palestinian village economically wiped out by road barriers
uri: Palestinian-village-economically-wiped-out-by-road-barriers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Palestinian_village_economically_wiped_out_by_road_barriers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Palestinian_village_economically_wiped_out_by_road_barriers%29

content:
<p>
The Palestinian village of Beitin has been 
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/freedom_of_movement/201300909_beitin_roadblocks">economically
wiped out</a> by barriers that make it accessible only by a roundabout
route.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(What_would_Goldman_say)
title: What would Goldman say?
uri: What-would-Goldman-say
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28What_would_Goldman_say%29
content:
<p>
Larry Summers' refrain, as an official, was "What would Goldman say?"
By proposing to appoint him, Obama shows he was 
<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/larry-summers-goldman-sacked/">listening
to Goldman Sachs</a>.


title: Israeli supreme court gives some Palestinians their land back
uri: Israeli-supreme-court-gives-some-Palestinians-their-land-back
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Israeli_supreme_court_gives_some_Palestinians_their_land_back)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Israeli_supreme_court_gives_some_Palestinians_their_land_back%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli supreme court gave some Palestinians their confiscated
land back, after the colony built on it was officially eliminated.
But 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=630529">some
colonists still occupy the site</a>.


title: Colorado floods may spread pollution from wells
uri: Colorado-floods-may-spread-pollution-from-wells
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Colorado_floods_may_spread_pollution_from_wells)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Colorado_floods_may_spread_pollution_from_wells%29

content:
<p>
The Colorado floods may spread pollution from 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/17/2630131/oil-fracking-colorado-flooding/">oil
wells and fracking wells</a>.


title: Buying a gun and getting a "concealed carry" permit in Texas
uri: Buying-a-gun-and-getting-a-concealed-carry-permit-in-Texas
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 18_September_2013_(Buying_a_gun_and_getting_a_concealed_carry_permit_in_Texas)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#18_September_2013_%28Buying_a_gun_and_getting_a_concealed_carry_permit_in_Texas%29

content:
<p>
Aaron Alexis had no difficulty 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/17/2631891/navy-yard-shooters-troubled-past-forced-navy-prohibit-purchasing-guns/">buying
a gun and getting a "concealed carry" permit</a> in Texas.


title: Freedom of the Press Foundation challenges the US gov't
uri: Freedom-of-the-Press-Foundation-challenges-the-US-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Freedom_of_the_Press_Foundation_challenges_the_US_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Freedom_of_the_Press_Foundation_challenges_the_US_govt%29

content:
<p>
The Freedom of the Press Foundation 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/18/eric-holder-guarantee-nsa-reporters-rights">challenges
the US government</a> to promise it won't digitally search, subpoena
or arrest journalists such as Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras if
they return to the US.


title: Greek fascists murder Greek rapper
uri: Greek-fascists-murder-Greek-rapper
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Greek_fascists_murder_Greek_rapper)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Greek_fascists_murder_Greek_rapper%29

content:
<p>
Greek fascists murdered a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/18/greece-murder-golden-dawn">well-known
Greek rapper</a>.


title: Guns don't make people safe from violence
uri: Guns-don-t-make-people-safe-from-violence
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Guns_dont_make_people_safe_from_violence)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Guns_dont_make_people_safe_from_violence%29

content:
<p>
Countries with more guns have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/18/gun-ownership-gun-deaths-study">more
gun deaths</a>.
<p>
This demonstrates that guns don't make people safe from violence.


title: Region of Palestine closed off by Israeli army
uri: Region-of-Palestine-closed-off-by-Israeli-army
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Region_of_Palestine_closed_off_by_Israeli_army)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Region_of_Palestine_closed_off_by_Israeli_army%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli army closed off a region of Palestine, blocking all
travel, for several days and 
<a href="http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23213">ordered
100 families to leave their homes</a>.


title: Executives whose companies caused the financial crisis
uri: Executives-whose-companies-caused-the-financial-crisis
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Executives_whose_companies_caused_the_financial_crisis)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Executives_whose_companies_caused_the_financial_crisis%29

content:
<p>
Executives whose companies caused the financial crisis are doing 
<a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/finance/after-meltdown">very
well</a>.


title: Limited diets based on diet fads can cause disease
uri: Limited-diets-based-on-diet-fads-can-cause-disease
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Limited_diets_based_on_diet_fads_can_cause_disease)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Limited_diets_based_on_diet_fads_can_cause_disease%29

content:
<p>
Limited diets based on diet fads can cause real disease.  
<a href="http://www.healio.com/pediatrics/journals/pedann/%7Bb09dbfc1-b28f-4701-b42c-527bb369f62b%7D/a-3-year-old-girl-with-eye-pain">Some
parents impose these on their children</a>.


title: Milgram experiment may not have been reliable
uri: Milgram-experiment-may-not-have-been-reliable
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Milgram_experiment_may_not_have_been_reliable)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Milgram_experiment_may_not_have_been_reliable%29

content:
<p>
Milgram's famous experiment, claimed to show most people would obey
orders to punish another person horribly, 
<a href="http://www.psmag.com/health/electric-schlock-65377/">may not
have been reliable</a>.
<p>
The proper response to doubts about the validity of those results is
to try to reproduce them, and to do other related experiments.  It is
a shame that the APA has declared them unethical.  Maybe this can be
done in some other country.


title: FBI back doors in proprietary software
uri: FBI-back-doors-in-proprietary-software
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(FBI_back_doors_in_proprietary_software)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28FBI_back_doors_in_proprietary_software%29

content:
<p>
The FBI makes a practice of asking companies to put 
<a href="http://mashable.com/2013/09/11/fbi-microsoft-bitlocker-backdoor/">back
doors in proprietary software</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Guantanamo_PR)
title: Guantanamo PR
uri: Guantanamo-PR
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Guantanamo_PR%29
content:
<p>
In Guantanamo, visiting journalists are brought on 
<a href="http://www.vice.com/read/guantanamo-bay-is-kafka-on-the-caribbean">tours
of show-cells</a>, the guards say that force-feeding is voluntary,
prisoners are called "detainees", and even sketches of them are
forbidding.
<p>
I see more Orwell than Kafka in this.  It is the most horrible evil,
disguised with all the ability of the modern PR industry.


title: US uses "border protection" as excuse to search people's laptops
uri: US-uses-border-protection-as-excuse-to-search-people-s-laptops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(US_uses_border_protection_as_excuse_to_search_peoples_laptops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28US_uses_border_protection_as_excuse_to_search_peoples_laptops%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-immigrants-rights-national-security/documents-shed-light-border-laptop">Released
government documents</a> show that the US uses "border protection" as
an excuse to search people's laptops when it wants to investigate them
for other reasons but has no legal grounds.


title: Urgent: Reopen investigations into environmental damage from fracking
uri: Urgent-Reopen-investigations-into-environmental-damage-from-fracking
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Urgent:_Reopen_investigations_into_environmental_damage_from_fracking)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Reopen_investigations_into_environmental_damage_from_fracking%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14286">Call
on EPA administrator Gina McCarthy and Obama</a> to reopen the
investigations into environmental damage from fracking.


title: Campaign to deny global heating spreading lies
uri: Campaign-to-deny-global-heating-spreading-lies
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Campaign_to_deny_global_heating_spreading_lies)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Campaign_to_deny_global_heating_spreading_lies%29

content:
<p>
The funded campaign to deny global heating
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/19/ipcc-report-sceptic-groups-anti-science-campaign">spreading
lies pre-emptively, to undermine the coming IPCC report.</a>
<p>
It is erroneous to call these denialists "skeptics", because they
cling stubbornly to their pre-chosen conclusion in the teeth of the
facts.  Many of them do this because they are paid to.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Sex_education_in_Russia)
title: Sex education in Russia
uri: Sex-education-in-Russia
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Sex_education_in_Russia%29
content:
<p>
Russia's official in charge of protecting children wants
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/19/russian-literature-sex-education-schools-childrens-ombudsman">ban
sex education and expose them to AIDS.</a>


title: Defending the legality of sex-selective abortion
uri: Defending-the-legality-of-sex-selective-abortion
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Defending_the_legality_of_sex-selective_abortion)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Defending_the_legality_of_sex-selective_abortion%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/19/sex-selective-abortion-womans-right">Defending
the legality of sex-selective abortion.</a>


title: Newspaper challenges censorship of Eritrea
uri: Newspaper-challenges-censorship-of-Eritrea
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Newspaper_challenges_censorship_of_Eritrea)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Newspaper_challenges_censorship_of_Eritrea%29

content:
<p>
An <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/19/eritrea-underground-newspaper-press-freedom">underground
newspaper dares challenge the censorship of Eritrea</a>, where all
private newspapers are banned.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Penalizing_poor_Britons)
title: Penalizing poor Britons
uri: Penalizing-poor-Britons
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Penalizing_poor_Britons%29
content:
<p>
After three months of penalizing poor Britons (mostly disabled) who
live in apartments bigger than the state considers they "really need",
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/families-bedroom-tax-in-debt">half
of those families are in debt.</a>
<p>
They can't move to smaller apartments anyway, because those are not
available.


title: Arctic sea ice never as little as it is now
uri: Arctic-sea-ice-never-as-little-as-it-is-now
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Arctic_sea_ice_never_as_little_as_it_is_now)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Arctic_sea_ice_never_as_little_as_it_is_now%29

content:
<p>
Studies measuring Arctic sea ice for in the past few thousands of
years find it was never, during that
period, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/19/climate-change-arctic-ice-sixth-lowest-in-millennia">as
little as it is now.</a>


title: Destruction of sharks by humans damages coral reefs
uri: Destruction-of-sharks-by-humans-damages-coral-reefs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Destruction_of_sharks_by_humans_damages_coral_reefs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Destruction_of_sharks_by_humans_damages_coral_reefs%29

content:
<p>
The relentless destruction of sharks by humans 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/19/coral-reefs-suffer-hunt-sharks">damages
coral reefs</a> too, indirectly.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Wasted_food_in_the_UK)
title: Wasted food in the UK
uri: Wasted-food-in-the-UK
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Wasted_food_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
As much as 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/19/fruit-vegetables-wasted-ugly-report">40%
of the fruit and vegetables</a> in the UK is wasted because it is
"ugly".
<p>
They could be required to give it to the poor.


title: UK thug faces prosecution if he testifies about thug wrongdoing
uri: UK-thug-faces-prosecution-if-he-testifies-about-thug-wrongdoing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(UK_thug_faces_prosecution_if_he_testifies_about_thug_wrongdoing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28UK_thug_faces_prosecution_if_he_testifies_about_thug_wrongdoing%29

content:
<p>
UK undercover thug Peter Francis wants to testify about thug
wrongdoing, but faces the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/18/police-whistleblower-denied-immunity-prosecution">threat
of prosecution</a> if he does.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Libya_divided)
title: Libya divided
uri: Libya-divided
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Libya_divided%29
content:
<p>
Libya 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/18/libya-weak-hand-law-editorial">remains
divided</a> into fractious local enclaves.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Xenophobia_in_Egypt)
title: Xenophobia in Egypt
uri: Xenophobia-in-Egypt
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Xenophobia_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>
Egypt is convulsed with
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/18/egypt-frenchman-dies-syria-morsi">xenophobia</a>,
and the military regime seems to promote it.


title: US phone companies' failure to oppose PAT RIOT Act
uri: US-phone-companies-failure-to-oppose-PAT-RIOT-Act
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(US_phone_companies_failure_to_oppose_PAT_RIOT_Act)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28US_phone_companies_failure_to_oppose_PAT_RIOT_Act%29

content:
<p>
US phone companies are citing general policies of secrecy rather than
confronting their 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/18/phone-companies-silent-nsa-data-collection">failure
to oppose PAT RIOT Act collection of phone call records</a>.


title: Sneering at people who get welfare payments
uri: Sneering-at-people-who-get-welfare-payments
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Sneering_at_people_who_get_welfare_payments)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Sneering_at_people_who_get_welfare_payments%29

content:
<p>
People find all sorts of excuses to sneer at people who get welfare
payments, often they are based on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/jack-monroe-starve-benefits-england">questionable
suppositions</a>.
<p>
Right-wing media encourage people to blame real or imaginary "welfare
cheats" to distract people from the big cheaters: rich people that pay
to change laws so they can leave the rest with an ever-shrinking
fraction of society's wealth.


title: 10% fewer births recorded in Greece than 4 years ago
uri: 10-fewer-births-recorded-in-Greece-than-4-years-ago
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(10_percent_fewer_births_recorded_in_Greece_than_4_years_ago)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%2810_percent_fewer_births_recorded_in_Greece_than_4_years_ago%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/18/greece-birthrate-austerity-measures-healthcare">10%
fewer births</a> are being recorded in Greece now than 4 years ago.
<p>
To some extent, this is because poor women can't afford the fee for
registering a birth.  How self-defeating it is for a country to charge
for that!  To some extent, the lack of prenatal care causes
miscarriages.  To some extent, people are deciding not to have
children.
<p>
It is generally good when people have fewer children, but inducing
that decision by imposing general poverty is horrible.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Greenhouse_gas_feedback)
title: Greenhouse gas feedback
uri: Greenhouse-gas-feedback
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Greenhouse_gas_feedback%29
content:
<p>
Some 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/sep/18/climate-change-double-impact-study">"slow"
forms of greenhouse gas feedback</a>, disregarded in IPCC models,
could have a substantial impact during this century.  The IPCC's worst
case (continuing to increase fossil fuel usage as now) could lead to
8C of heating instead of 6C, by 2100.


title: Obama sides with vulture capitalists
uri: Obama-sides-with-vulture-capitalists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Obama_sides_with_vulture_capitalists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Obama_sides_with_vulture_capitalists%29

content:
<p>
Obama has taken the side of the vulture capitalists 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/18/us-hint-nsa-dilma-rousseff-snub">against
Argentina and all indebted countries</a>.


title: Sequester mainly hurting non-rich Americans
uri: Sequester-mainly-hurting-non-rich-Americans
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Sequester_mainly_hurting_non-rich_Americans)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Sequester_mainly_hurting_non-rich_Americans%29

content:
<p>
The sequester is mainly 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/sep/18/congress-budget-middle-class-future">hurting
non-rich Americans</a>, and will continue to do so until it is
eliminated.
<p>
The sequester was a bipartisan initiative.  So much for the 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2011-may-aug.html#03_August_2011_(Hostage_Taking_Works)">supposed
virtue of bipartisanship</a>.


title: Sea bass threatened by overfishing
uri: Sea-bass-threatened-by-overfishing
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Sea_bass_threatened_by_overfishing)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Sea_bass_threatened_by_overfishing%29

content:
<p>
Overfishing is reducing the numbers of sea bass; 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/18/sea-bass-threatened-fish">protection
is urgent</a>.


title: Freedom of the Press Foundation challenges US gov't
uri: Freedom-of-the-Press-Foundation-challenges-US-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 19_September_2013_(Freedom_of_the_Press_Foundation_challenges_US_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#19_September_2013_%28Freedom_of_the_Press_Foundation_challenges_US_govt%29

content:
<p>
The Freedom of the Press Foundation 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/18/eric-holder-guarantee-nsa-reporters-rights">challenges
the US government</a> to promise it won't digitally search, subpoena
or arrest journalists such as Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras if
they return to the US.


title: Report about health dangers of depleted uranium suppressed
uri: Report-about-health-dangers-of-depleted-uranium-suppressed
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Report_about_health_dangers_of_depleted_uranium_suppressed)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Report_about_health_dangers_of_depleted_uranium_suppressed%29

content:
<p>
The WHO commissioned a report about the health dangers of dirty
depleted uranium in 2001, but has never published it.  The report's
main
author <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0222-08.htm">alleged
that the WHO suppressed the report due to political pressure.</a>


title: Privilege to derivatives in US bankruptcy law
uri: Privilege-to-derivatives-in-US-bankruptcy-law
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Privilege_to_derivatives_in_US_bankruptcy_law)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Privilege_to_derivatives_in_US_bankruptcy_law%29

content:
<p>
The privilege given to derivatives in US bankruptcy
law <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/19/the-armageddon-looting-machine/">can
force companies into bankruptcy when they might have avoided it.</a>
<p>
There is a possibility this could cause another crash.


title: Law to verify working conditions had limited effect
uri: Law-to-verify-working-conditions-had-limited-effect
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Law_to_verify_working_conditions_had_limited_effect)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Law_to_verify_working_conditions_had_limited_effect%29

content:
<p>
The California law requiring companies to verify working conditions in
their subcontractors has had
only <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/sep/19/why-compliance-isnt-enough">limited
effect.</a>
<p>
It turns out that sweatshops and slavery are not occasional
"excesses", but rather the basis of the globalized system of
outsourced production.


title: Extradition of Spanish fascist torturers
uri: Extradition-of-Spanish-fascist-torturers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Extradition_of_Spanish_fascist_torturers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Extradition_of_Spanish_fascist_torturers%29

content:
<p>
Argentina has asked
for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/19/argentina-spain-franco-extraditions">extradition
of Spanish fascist torturers.</a>
<p>
Spanish friends have told me that it is hard to draw attention to the
crimes of Franco's dictatorship (even if it is not a matter of
prosecuting them) because some of his lieutenants still have political
or military power.


title: Plan to track everyone that enters clubs
uri: Plan-to-track-everyone-that-enters-clubs
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Plan_to_track_everyone_that_enters_clubs)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Plan_to_track_everyone_that_enters_clubs%29

content:
<p>
There is a plan to exclude problem customers from clubs in Sydney
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/19/privacy-scan-nightclub-patrons-sydney">tracking
everyone that enters.</a>
<p>
The goal might be ok, if people are put on the exclusion list by court
order.  The proposed means are intolerable, and unnecessary.  The
system could be set up so it doesn't record seeing anyone who is not
on the list.
<p>
Especially laughable is the idea that the system is ok because
<em>only</em> the state will see the personal data that the system
collects.


title: Gov't of Australia abolished Climate Commission
uri: Gov-t-of-Australia-abolished-Climate-Commission
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Gov't_of_Australia_abolished_Climate_Commission)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Gov%27t_of_Australia_abolished_Climate_Commission%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing government in Australia
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/19/coalition-scraps-climate-commission-flannery">abolished
the Climate Commission,</a> to deny the public honest information
about the danger of its plans to increase coal exports.


title: Urgent: Support Greenpeace activists captured by Russian troops
uri: Urgent-Support-Greenpeace-activists-captured-by-Russian-troops
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_September_2013_(Urgent:_Support_Greenpeace_activists_captured_by_Russian_troops)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Support_Greenpeace_activists_captured_by_Russian_troops%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.savethearctic.org/action4arctic">send a message of
support</a> for the Greenpeace activists that have been captured by
Russian troops.


title: Pressure and pain of poverty as factors in drug addiction
uri: Pressure-and-pain-of-poverty-as-factors-in-drug-addiction
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_September_2013_(Pressure_and_pain_of_poverty_as_factors_in_drug_addiction)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_September_2013_%28Pressure_and_pain_of_poverty_as_factors_in_drug_addiction%29

content:
<p>
Rarely cited experiments from the 70s found that 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130910-drug-addiction-the-complex-truth/all">rats
given plenty of space and things to do did not get addicted to
morphine</a> as rats in small cages do.
<p>
Experiments on rats don't prove anything about humans, but there are
results about humans that suggest similar conclusions.
<p>
80 to 90%</a> of those who use crack and methamphetamines do not get
addicted, 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/the-rational-choices-of-crack-addicts.html?pagewanted=all">according
to Prof Carl Hart who studies them</a>. They regularly choose to go
without the drug after the morning in exchange for money to be
received weeks later.  Every meth user in the study chose to do
without the drug to get $20 later.
<p>
This suggests that the pressure and pain of being poor in modern
society, made worse by the impoverishment of plutocratic rule, are a
big factor in the heavy use of narcotics.


title: ACLU obtains files about US "fusion centers"
uri: ACLU-obtains-files-about-US-fusion-centers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_September_2013_(ACLU_obtains_files_about_US_fusion_centers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_September_2013_%28ACLU_obtains_files_about_US_fusion_centers%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU has obtained files showing that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/19/ordinary-americans-spying-fusion-center-program-aclu">US
"fusion centers" keep records on people for the flimsiest of
reasons</a>, such as being middle-eastern, or taking photos on the
street.


title: Russia treats Greenpeace protesters as terrorist suspects
uri: Russia-treats-Greenpeace-protesters-as-terrorist-suspects
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_September_2013_(Russia_treats_Greenpeace_protesters_as_terrorist_suspects)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_September_2013_%28Russia_treats_Greenpeace_protesters_as_terrorist_suspects%29

content:
<p>
Russian soldiers have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/19/greenpeace-protesters-arrested-arctic">boarded
a Greenpeace ship</a> protesting oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean.
<p>
This drilling risks an oil spill that would poison the coast and take
decades or centuries to dissipate.
<p>
Naturally, the Russians said the Greenpeace protesters were 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/20/environment-greenpeace-arrests-oil-russia">terrorist
suspects</a>.
<p>
The US also treats protesters as 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#15_January_2013_(Shannon_McLeish)">terrorist
suspects</a>.


title: Islamists fighting non-Islamist enemies of Assad
uri: Islamists-fighting-non-Islamist-enemies-of-Assad
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_September_2013_(Islamists_fighting_non-Islamist_enemies_of_Assad)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_September_2013_%28Islamists_fighting_non-Islamist_enemies_of_Assad%29

content:
<p>
Islamists in Syria are now occasionally 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/19/syria-war-stalemate-assad-rebels">fighting
and defeating the non-Islamist enemies of Assad</a>.


title: Republicans threaten again to shut down the US gov't
uri: Republicans-threaten-again-to-shut-down-the-US-gov-t
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 20_September_2013_(Republicans_threaten_again_to_shut_down_the_US_govt)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#20_September_2013_%28Republicans_threaten_again_to_shut_down_the_US_govt%29

content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/19/republican-budget-serious-harm-economy">threaten
again to shut down the US government</a> if they can't kill Obama's
health care plan.


title: Urgent: Oppose increased surveillance on Cambridge streets
uri: Urgent-Oppose-increased-surveillance-on-Cambridge-streets
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_increased_surveillance_on_Cambridge_streets)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_increased_surveillance_on_Cambridge_streets%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Cambridge, Mass: 
<a href="https://www.aclum.org/cambridge_surveillance">come to the
hearing</a> Sep 26 to oppose increased surveillance on Cambridge
streets.


title: Urgent: Demand release of Greenpeace activists
uri: Urgent-Demand-release-of-Greenpeace-activists
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Urgent:_Demand_release_of_Greenpeace_activists)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Demand_release_of_Greenpeace_activists%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1479">tell
the Russian ambassador</a> you demand release of the Greenpeace
activists and their ship, and an end to drilling in Arctic waters.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(The_worlds_private_armies)
title: The world's private armies
uri: The-world-s-private-armies
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28The_worlds_private_armies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/20">Putting
Leash on World's Private Armies No Easy Task</a>.


title: Former Taliban minister says Mullah Omar wants to negotiate peace
uri: Former-Taliban-minister-says-Mullah-Omar-wants-to-negotiate-peace
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Former_Taliban_minister_says_Mullah_Omar_wants_to_negotiate_peace)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Former_Taliban_minister_says_Mullah_Omar_wants_to_negotiate_peace%29

content:
<p>
A former minister in the Taliban's government 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/afghan-insurgents-peace-taliban-minister">says
that Mullah Omar wants to negotiate peace</a>, but is unable to say so
because the threat of assassination by drone has forced him into
hiding and isolation, and a few extremists issue statements in Omar's
name.
<p>
It might be partly true, but there is a part I find implausible.  Omar
surely sees the statements that are issued in his name, and if he
found them to be lies, he would do something to change the situation.


title: Greece after four years of squeezing by banksters
uri: Greece-after-four-years-of-squeezing-by-banksters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Greece_after_four_years_of_squeezing_by_banksters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Greece_after_four_years_of_squeezing_by_banksters%29

content:
<p>
After four years of squeezing by the banksters, Greece is on the brink
of a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/greece-foreboding-violence-flares-streets">military
coup, a civil war, or a revolution</a>.
<p>
This is what Naomi Klein describes as "shock capitalism" at work.


title: High-capacity magazine used in mass shooting
uri: High-capacity-magazine-used-in-mass-shooting
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(High-capacity_magazine_used_in_mass_shooting)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28High-capacity_magazine_used_in_mass_shooting%29

content:
<p>
A mass shooting in Chicago used a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/chicago-back-yards-shooting-assault-rifle">high-capacity
magazine</a>.
<p>
Making these magazines hard to get would have hindered it.


title: EPA proposes limits for CO2 emissions from new power plants
uri: EPA-proposes-limits-for-CO2-emissions-from-new-power-plants
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(EPA_proposes_limits_for_CO2_emissions_from_new_power_plants)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28EPA_proposes_limits_for_CO2_emissions_from_new_power_plants%29

content:
<p>
The EPA has proposed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/20/epa-limit-us-coal-plant-pollution">limits
for CO<sub>2</sub> pollution for new fossil-fuel power plants</a>.
<p>
New coal-burning plants will have to use carbon capture.  It will be
difficult to do that at the scale required to make a difference.
<p>
I wonder whether the rules count greenhouse gas emissions from
extraction or the fuel.  This is important because fracked gas
involves 
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#06_August_2013_(Fracking_CO2_emission)">substantial
carbon emissions</a>, and 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#29_May_2012_(Methane_from_fracking)">leaks
methane</a>.
<p>
The argument that this won't do any good while India and China
increase their emissions is fallacious.  The US (like every country)
needs to set an example to convince other countries to do more.
<p>
As for putting coal miners out of work, that's simply necessary in
order to use less coal.  The mining companies, by using mountaintop
removal, put far more miners out of work.


title: Arctic Ocean on track to have no ice in summer
uri: Arctic-Ocean-on-track-to-have-no-ice-in-summer
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Arctic_Ocean_on_track_to_have_no_ice_in_summer)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Arctic_Ocean_on_track_to_have_no_ice_in_summer%29

content:
<p>
The Arctic Ocean is still 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/20/arctic-sea-ice-decline-melting-summer">on
track to have no ice in the summer</a>, in a few decades.
<p>
The decrease in sea ice is harmful not only to species such as polar
bears and seals, but especially because it increases the amount of
sunlight that is absorbed and thus advances heating even further.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(14_UK_thugs_face_charges)
title: 14 UK thugs face charges
uri: 14-UK-thugs-face-charges
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%2814_UK_thugs_face_charges%29
content:
<p>
14 UK thugs face charges of
"<a href='http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/20/police-officers-men-wrongful-conviction'>serious
perversion of the course of justice</a>".


title: US Republicans block vote on US science laureate
uri: US-Republicans-block-vote-on-US-science-laureate
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(US_Republicans_block_vote_on_US_science_laureate)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28US_Republicans_block_vote_on_US_science_laureate%29

content:
<p>
US Republicans demonstrated their hostility to science by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/republicans-congress-science-laureate-bill-blocked">blocking
a vote on a US science laureate</a>.


title: French thugs chase youths merely for running
uri: French-thugs-chase-youths-merely-for-running
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(French_thugs_chase_youths_merely_for_running)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28French_thugs_chase_youths_merely_for_running%29

content:
<p>
Two French thugs face prosecution for chasing two youths who then got
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/french-police-trial-2005-youth-deaths">electrocuted</a>.
<p>
The charges are that the thugs failed to aid the youths who were
hiding in an electric substation.  Maybe the thugs were innocent of
this.  What strikes me as culpable is that they chased those youths
merely because they ran away when they saw a thug van coming.  People
in groups that are the object of prejudice have good reason to fear
thugs regardless of whether they have done anything wrong.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 21_September_2013_(Downsizing_the_US_military)
title: Downsizing the US military
uri: Downsizing-the-US-military
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#21_September_2013_%28Downsizing_the_US_military%29
content:
<p>
Downsizing the US military and 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/19-5">boosting
spending on people's real needs</a>.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(The_poorest_Americans)
title: The poorest Americans
uri: The-poorest-Americans
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28The_poorest_Americans%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/09/19-5">The
Poorest Americans are Children and the Poorest Children are Black,
Hispanic and Under Six</a>.


title: Urgent: Move your state from military industry to civilian
uri: Urgent-Move-your-state-from-military-industry-to-civilian
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Urgent:_Move_your_state_from_military_industry_to_civilian)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Move_your_state_from_military_industry_to_civilian%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8370">call
on your state legislature</a> to move your state from military
industry to civilian.


title: Urgent: Tell Chuck Todd about journalism
uri: Urgent-Tell-Chuck-Todd-about-journalism
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Urgent:_Tell_Chuck_Todd_about_journalism)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Chuck_Todd_about_journalism%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell TV "journalist" Chuck Todd that 
<a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=582">journalism
does not mean treating Republican lies as the equal of facts</a>.


title: US states bound by contract to keep private prisons full
uri: US-states-bound-by-contract-to-keep-private-prisons-full
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(US_states_bound_by_contract_to_keep_private_prisons_full)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28US_states_bound_by_contract_to_keep_private_prisons_full%29

content:
<p>
As the rate of non-bankster crime falls, US states are 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime">bound
by contract</a> to keep the private prisons full.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12249/lockup-quotas-help-profit-prison-companies-keep-profits-high-and-prisons-full">more
detail</a>.
<p>
Since the 
<a href="http://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#27_February_2012_(Too_Big_to_Jail)">banks
and the banksters are not prosecuted</a>, this policy is ineffective
against the most harmful crimes.
<p>
I think privately run prisons should be banned entirely.
Prison guards must be accountable to the state.


title: JP Morgan caught cheating, forced to pay back customers
uri: JP-Morgan-caught-cheating-forced-to-pay-back-customers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(JP_Morgan_caught_cheating_forced_to_pay_back_customers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28JP_Morgan_caught_cheating_forced_to_pay_back_customers%29

content:
<p>
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau caught JP Morgan cheating
customers and made it pay them back 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/elizabeth-warren-cfpb-jpmorgan-customer-refund">$300 million, plus a fine</a>.
<p>
The fine was not large enough; it should have equaled the restitution.


title: Opposition newspapers in Venezuela may shut down
uri: Opposition-newspapers-in-Venezuela-may-shut-down
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Opposition_newspapers_in_Venezuela_may_shut_down)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Opposition_newspapers_in_Venezuela_may_shut_down%29

content:
<p>
Opposition newspapers in Venezuela say they are going to be shut down
by a 
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/07/venezuela-newspaper-wars/2749897/">shortage
of newsprint</a>, which has to be imported, because they are not
allowed to buy dollars to buy it with.
<p>
It would wrong to shut down opposition this way, but it may not be
political, because even the government is running into the 
<a href="http://www.el-nacional.com/sociedad/entrega-fallas-pasaporte-saime_0_252574936.html">paper
shortage</a>.  Venezuela has stopped issuing passports because it has
no paper to make them with.
<p>
I went to Venezuela in June and observed peculiar shortages.  For
instance, there was no butter, though cream cheese was available.
There was no short pasta, but there was spaghetti.  I can't understand
what could make it possible to import or make spaghetti but impossible
to import or make penne, but that's how it was.
<p>
Why can't all forms of paper be made in Venezuela?  It has plenty of
trees and land for tree farms.


title: Getting too late to save Earth from over 2C heating
uri: Getting-too-late-to-save-Earth-from-over-2C-heating
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Getting_too_late_to_save_Earth_from_over_2C_heating)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Getting_too_late_to_save_Earth_from_over_2C_heating%29

content:
<p>
The IPCC will warn governments that
it's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/21/climate-change-ipcc-global-warming">getting
too late to save Earth from over 2C of heating.</a>
<p>
The other explanations advanced by
denialists <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/21/climate-change-ipcc-fossil-temperature">have
been refuted.</a>
<p>
To have a good chance of avoiding
catastrophe, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/21/climate-change-scientific-truth-collective">we
need to fight hard to defeat the denialists.</a>


title: Anti-Sharing industry trying to censor links to sharing sites
uri: Anti-Sharing-industry-trying-to-censor-links-to-sharing-sites
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Anti-Sharing_industry_trying_to_censor_links_to_sharing_sites)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Anti-Sharing_industry_trying_to_censor_links_to_sharing_sites%29

content:
<p>
The anti-sharing industry is trying
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/copyright-industries-pushing-search-engine-voluntary-agreements-despite-risks">push
search engines into "voluntary agreements" to censor links to sharing
sites.</a>


title: How Spain forgets Franco's atrocities
uri: How-Spain-forgets-Franco-s-atrocities
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(How_Spain_forgets_Franco's_atrocities)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28How_Spain_forgets_Franco%27s_atrocities%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/22/clegg-father-in-law-spain">How
Spain forgets Franco's atrocities.</a>


title: The Shabaab took over mall and shot many shoppers
uri: The-Shabaab-took-over-mall-and-shot-many-shoppers
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(The_Shabaab_took_over_mall_and_shot_many_shoppers)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28The_Shabaab_took_over_mall_and_shot_many_shoppers%29

content:
<p>
The Shabaab, Somalian
Islamists, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/21/nairobi-shopping-centre-terror-attack">took
over a shopping mall in Nairobi and shot many of the shoppers</a>,
after letting Muslims go.


title: The "spent fuel" pool at Fukushima 4 is a time bomb
uri: The-spent-fuel-pool-at-Fukushima-4-is-a-time-bomb
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(The_spent_fuel_pool_at_Fukushima_4_is_a_time_bomb)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28The_spent_fuel_pool_at_Fukushima_4_is_a_time_bomb%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/20-1">The "spent
fuel" pool at Fukushima 4 is a time bomb</a>, and how to defuse it is
not clear.
<p>
Covering fuel rods with a flammable material strikes me as criminally
negligent.


title: Urgent: Drilling in Arctic waters
uri: Urgent-Drilling-in-Arctic-waters
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Urgent:_Drilling_in_Arctic_waters)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Drilling_in_Arctic_waters%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on
Obama <a href="https://secure.wilderness.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2597">not
to allow drilling in Arctic waters.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(US_violates_a_labor_treaty)
title: US violates a labor treaty
uri: US-violates-a-labor-treaty
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28US_violates_a_labor_treaty%29
content:
<p>
The US violates a labor treaty
by <a href="http://rfkcenter.org/us-in-violation-of-international-human-rights-agreement?lang=en">denying
farm workers the rights that most workers are entitled to.</a>


title: Article claims videos of victims in chemical attack falsified
uri: Article-claims-videos-of-victims-in-chemical-attack-falsified
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Article_claims_videos_of_victims_in_chemical_attack_falsified)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Article_claims_videos_of_victims_in_chemical_attack_falsified%29

content:
<p>
This article claims that videos of victims the chemical attack in
Ghouta,
Syria, <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/5350600/5350600">were
falsified.</a>
<p>
I have not seen the videos — that would be a lot of work.  So I
have not judged these claims — I only pass them on.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(US_mainstream_media_on_Syria)
title: US mainstream media on Syria
uri: US-mainstream-media-on-Syria
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28US_mainstream_media_on_Syria%29
content:
<p>
The US mainstream media talked a lot about the chemical weapons treaty
as a reason to attack Syria,
and <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/09/19/where-is-the-discussion-of-syria-and-international-law/">very
little about the UN charter as a reason not to do it without UN
approval.</a>
<p>
I don't judge issues of right and wrong, generally speaking, based on
laws.  Making a law against sharing copies of works doesn't make
sharing wrong.  Having a treaty against going to war doesn't
necessarily make war wrong.  But since war tends to kill lots of
people, it generally is wrong, and only very strong reasons can make
it right, in this comparison points out a weakness in the arguments in
favor.


title: Spain considering to criminalize commercially making links to torrents.
uri: Spain-considering-to-criminalize-commercially-making-links-to-torrents
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Spain_considering_to_criminalize_commercially_making_links_to_torrents.)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Spain_considering_to_criminalize_commercially_making_links_to_torrents.%29

content:
<p>
In another cowardly surrender to the
US, <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admins-face-six-years-in-jail-after-spanish-govt-approves-new-law-130921/">Spain
is considering amendments to criminalize commercially making links to
torrents.</a>


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Naming_the_Dead)
title: "Naming the Dead"
uri: Naming-the-Dead
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Naming_the_Dead%29
content:
<p>
"Naming the Dead" aims
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/22/journalists-website-breaks-silence-victims-drone">identify
the people killed by US drone attacks</a> in Pakistan.


title: UK gov't will destroy centuries-old forests
uri: UK-gov-t-will-destroy-centuries-old-forests
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(UK_gov't_will_destroy_centuries-old_forests)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28UK_gov%27t_will_destroy_centuries-old_forests%29

content:
<p>
The UK government
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/sep/22/oaken-wood-kent-uprooted-quarry">destroy
centuries-old forests for the sake of business interests</a>, and uses
legal bullying to get its way.


title: Nearly half of US jobs could be eliminated by computerization
uri: Nearly-half-of-US-jobs-could-be-eliminated-by-computerization
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Nearly_half_of_US_jobs_could_be_eliminated_by_computerization)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Nearly_half_of_US_jobs_could_be_eliminated_by_computerization%29

content:
<p>
Nearly half of US jobs could
be <a href="http://www.futuretech.ox.ac.uk/news-release-oxford-martin-school-study-shows-nearly-half-us-jobs-could-be-risk-computerisation">eliminated
by computerization in the next two decades.</a>
<p>
Textile manufacturing is returning to the US, but it makes little
difference; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/business/us-textile-factories-return.html">it
is so automated that it provides few jobs.</a>
<p>
The improved efficiency of automation would be good if we all shared
in the benefits.  But the plutocrats won't allow that.  There will be
no new jobs for most of these Americans; they will be driven into
poverty, and death when they get sick.
<p>
Plutocratic politicians will try to prevent the tens of millions of
unemployed from voting, while provoking the other Americans to sneer
at them.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Facebook_to_use_AI)
title: Facebook to use AI
uri: Facebook-to-use-AI
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Facebook_to_use_AI%29
content:
<p>
Facebook hopes to use AI
to <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519411/facebook-launches-advanced-ai-effort-to-find-meaning-in-your-posts/">learn
even more about its useds.</a>
<p>
I think the word "users" is misleading in this case: Facebook uses
them more than they use Facebook.


feed_id: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 22_September_2013_(Computing_security)
title: Computing security
uri: Computing-security
url: http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#22_September_2013_%28Computing_security%29
content:
<p>
In our computing security, the sky is not falling
— <a href="http://threatpost.com/the-sky-is-not-falling-its-fallen/102372">it
s fallen.</a>


title: Urgent: Prosecute the Halliburton employee that destroyed evidence
uri: Urgent-Prosecute-the-Halliburton-employee-that-destroyed-evidence
feed_id:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html 23_September_2013_(Urgent:_Prosecute_the_Halliburton_employee_that_destroyed_evidence)

url:
http://stallman.org/archives/2013-jul-oct.html#23_September_2013_%28Urgent%3A_Prosecute_the_Halliburton_employee_that_destroyed_evidence%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12311">call
for prosecution</a> of the Halliburton employee that destroyed
evidence about the Big Spill.
<p>
This is 
<a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/09/20/doj-gives-halliburton-a-pass-on-destroying-evidence-in-bp-oil-spill/">not
enough</a> but it is better than not prosecuting him.


