# articles

feed_id: 097baf37cce3534571b02b73066dcaf4
title: Manafort convicted
uri: Manafort-convicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#25_August_2018_%28Manafort_convicted%29
content:
<p>
Manafort
was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/21/paul-manafort-convicted-of-tax-in-virginia-federal-court">convicted
on 8 charges</a>, including 7 charges of fraud.


feed_id: d670f530539cdf26865788bbb2448b18
title: If Google goes to China
uri: If-Google-goes-to-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28If_Google_goes_to_China%29
content:
<p>
If Google Goes to China, Will It Tell the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/21/google-china-search-tiananmen-square-massacre">Truth
about Tiananmen Square</a>?


feed_id: 53b072e6e2261b733e740774cd5a689c
title: Environmental protection in California
uri: Environmental-protection-in-California
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Environmental_protection_in_California%29

content:
<p>
Saboteur Zinke, and <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a>, 
<a href="https://earthjustice.org/blog/2018-august/as-california-burns-trump-and-zinke-use-catastrophe-to-benefit-industry">want
to use California's fires as an excuse</a> to abolish environmental
protection.


feed_id: d06b332de240372222cfb4f6bb920e9a
title: Republican and Democratic party traps
uri: Republican-and-Democratic-party-traps
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Republican_and_Democratic_party_traps%29

content:
<p>
Describing the political trap of the Republican and Democratic parties
that
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/19/how-us-politics-sustains-us-capitalism">sustain
the power of the rich in two different ways</a>.
<p>
The article is weak by presenting "capitalism" as something monolithic
and unchanging.  US capitalism today is nastier, more powerful, and
more antidemocratic than US capitalism in 1979.
<p>
Because the US electoral system makes it so hard for a third party to
win, I pin more hope on progressives in the Democratic party.


feed_id: 6596e6da93de0d85bd88deee3e00107c
title: Argentines leaving Catholic Church
uri: Argentines-leaving-Catholic-Church
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Argentines_leaving_Catholic_Church%29

content:
<p>
In the wake of the defeat of the abortion bill, which was fought hard
by the Catholic Church, Argentines are now 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/19/wake-anti-choice-senate-vote-argentines-join-movement-abandon-catholic-church">formally
dropping their membership in it</a>.
<p>
A friend of mine in Spain did this years ago, because churches in
Spain get a subsidy based on the number of members they have.


feed_id: bdd3899ecdd0bc98f2c0c765cde3dc4b
title: Progressives winning in elections
uri: Progressives-winning-in-elections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Progressives_winning_in_elections%29

content:
<p>
Many progressives are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/18/how-win-elections-ground">winning
in state and local primary elections</a>.


feed_id: 0530141084a86066c5c1a96ce56973ba
title: US prisoners starting labor strike
uri: US-prisoners-starting-labor-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28US_prisoners_starting_labor_strike%29

content:
<p>
US prisoners are starting a strike, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/prison-labor-protest-america-jailhouse-lawyers-speak">demanding
(among other things) to be paid a reasonable wage</a> for the work
they now do for a pittance.
<p>
The low pay they get undermines wages for Americans that live and work
outside prisons.


feed_id: 37592287c2142adb7b8d7fb944ec9bed
title: Privatization of prisons
uri: 2018-08-26-Privatization-of-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Privatization_of_prisons%29
content:
<p>
British prisons, protected from journalists by privatization, have
fallen into conditions that suggest a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/21/squalid-prisons-entire-justice-system-meltdown">third-world
country in the 1930s</a>.
<p>
Privatization enables a government to impose budget cuts on an area
and evade responsibility for the results.


feed_id: 489dcc251b2380ef87dafef7ec095927
title: Begging no longer a crime in Delhi
uri: Begging-no-longer-a-crime-in-Delhi
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Begging_no_longer_a_crime_in_Delhi%29

content:
<p>
Due to a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/21/its-their-last-resort-delhi-high-court-decriminalises-begging">court
ruling</a>, begging is no longer a crime in Delhi.


feed_id: c22039f3d159ab1acaa8bda5d2e3cbc5
title: Global heating
uri: 2018-08-26-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/arctics-strongest-sea-ice-breaks-up-for-first-time-on-record">breaking
up the ice at the North of Greenland</a>, where it has been frozen all
the time since humans first saw it.


feed_id: 97785e48fdecc9843c45cdb34a7d708c
title: Toxic algae bloom in Florida
uri: 2018-08-26-Toxic-algae-bloom-in-Florida
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Toxic_algae_bloom_in_Florida%29
content:
<p>
The toxic algae bloom in Florida is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/20/we-are-climbing-rapidly-out-humankinds-safe-zone-new-report-warns-dire-climate">killing
lots of endangered manatees</a>.


feed_id: b65cc7680e79a30fc287b3b2ae6cde76
title: Refugees stuck on coast guard ship
uri: Refugees-stuck-on-coast-guard-ship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Refugees_stuck_on_coast_guard_ship%29

content:
<p>
An Italian coast guard ship returned to port with almost 180 refugees.
The Italian minister of harshness 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/italy-refugees-salvini-refuses-coastguard-ship-docks-diciotti">refuses
to let them leave the ship</a>.  They are stuck on board indefinitely.
<p>
Eventually Italy will start to regret the nonavailability of its ship.


feed_id: c33a250d0022ec0697fc187b82f3c51d
title: Accusation of perjury
uri: Accusation-of-perjury
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#25_August_2018_%28Accusation_of_perjury%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> said he won't give Mueller a statement, fearing that if his
statement disagrees with other witnesses he might be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/donald-trump-robert-mueller-inquiry-interview">accused
of perjury</a>.
<p>
He's not the only one this could happen to.  In addition, any slip of
memory in one's testimony can be turned into a criminal accusation.
This is why lawyers advise clients 
<a href="media/24dad59c.5thp1.ogg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/video/5thp1.ogg">not to give authorities any statement
whatsoever</a> when they might be suspects.


feed_id: 3d25898eb6c9ea217c9b9546e34010e1
title: Former Koch brothers lawyer at the EPA
uri: 2018-08-26-Former-Koch-brothers-lawyer-at-the-EPA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#23_August_2018_%28Former_Koch_brothers_lawyer_at_the_EPA%29

content:
<p>
A lawyer that formerly worked for the Koch brothers is at the EPA, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/20/former-koch-industries-lawyer-turned-top-trump-epa-official-set-deliver-major-win">in
charge of increasing air pollution</a>.


feed_id: 2dcb45b579c321330ef9d10db9167875
title: Amazon warehouse workers
uri: Amazon-warehouse-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Amazon_warehouse_workers%29
content:
<p>
Amazon seems to organize some of its warehouse workers to say good
things about their
work. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/23/amazon-fc-ambassadors-twitter-working-conditions">Remarkably
similar good things.</a>
<p>
Is Amazon paying them? Threatening them?


feed_id: 25da23aeee4b923c9fd11764fd505448
title: President Pence comparison
uri: President-Pence-comparison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28President_Pence_comparison%29
content:
<p>
Arguing that President
Pence <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/23/impeach-away-thoughts-possible-president-pence?cd-origin=rss">would
be less of a menace</a> than President Bullshitter.
<p>
Pence is hardly honest, but he can't bullshit like the bullshitter.
I think he would not be able to maintain the cult of truth-defying
extremism that the bullshitter maintains.


feed_id: 1eac72115dcd5fa71162d7456661832e
title: Konstancja Duff
uri: Konstancja-Duff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Konstancja_Duff%29
content:
<p>
Konstancja Duff tried to give a legal advice card to a teenager who
London <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> had stopped on the street for no particular reason. The
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> threw her down (causing permanent injury), charged her with
bogus crimes, then tied her up and cut apart her clothing (ruining
it), and booked her while she was nearly nude.
<p>
Now one of the
thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/23/met-custody-sergeant-faces-possible-dismissal-over-2013-strip-search-of-academic">faces
an internal accusation</a> for stripping her.
<p>
What about for knocking her down and injuring her? That is worse.
You can get over embarrassment, but getting over some injuries is
impossible. We cannot allow <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to get away with claiming they
couldn't tell a piece of paper from a weapon.
<p>
Bravo to Ms Duff for recognizing that the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> must do this
frequently, and that her somewhat privileged status as a postgraduate
student gave her a chance to stand up for everyone's rights.


feed_id: b9cb3c9169a27af3f758d903f7ac30b0
title: Censorship of car crash photos
uri: Censorship-of-car-crash-photos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Censorship_of_car_crash_photos%29
content:
<p>
UK censorship is shockingly extreme &mdash; posting photos of a car
crash <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/23/man-arrested-for-posting-death-crash-photos-on-social-media">is
labeled as "malicious"</a> because they might cause "distress".


feed_id: ad4e765d839b85fd75a3900a2d40ba91
title: Ralph Nader on voter education
uri: Ralph-Nader-on-voter-education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Ralph_Nader_on_voter_education%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/22/calling-ten-million-more-voters-few-billionaires-and-just-congress?cd-origin=rss">Ralph
Nader proposes</a> how voter education could reactivate democracy in
the US.


feed_id: dbe3d35f5dfc83c7f2c0e2307f971c5c
title: Mollie Tibbetts
uri: Mollie-Tibbetts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Mollie_Tibbetts%29
content:
<p>
Mollie Tibbetts was murdered by an unauthorized immigrant. (Such a
thing surely had to happen someday.) Some of her relatives have
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/23/take-her-name-out-your-mouth-family-mollie-tibbetts-tell-right-wingers-led-trump?cd-origin=rss">denounced
the bullshitter's campaign</a> to smear all unauthorized immigrants
based on this one crime.
<p>
Should we smear everyone named "Trump" just because one family with
that name turns out to be full of cheaters?


feed_id: b8d1308832be8387ad955849c8fa4b5a
title: Attacking Iran as distraction
uri: Attacking-Iran-as-distraction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Attacking_Iran_as_distraction%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/23/has-diversionary-war-just-become-more-likely?cd-origin=rss">Will
the cheater attack Iran</a> to distract Americans from his crimes?
<p>
If he does, we will need to brace ourselves to resist the idiotic
"support our troops" campaign. The support US troops deserve is not
to be sent into wars that are either (1) unjustified, (2) unnecessary,
or (3) futile.


feed_id: 0ccde62442126fdec9685bf47e9f3491
title: Coal industry disappearing
uri: Coal-industry-disappearing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Coal_industry_disappearing%29
content:
<p>
Coal-powered generators in the
US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/23/why-trump-cant-save-coal-ash-heap-history?cd-origin=rss">are
being shut down</a>, and coal executives know that even with help from
planet-roaster officials, their industry is disappearing.
<p>
The question is whether it will disappear fast enough, and along with
enough of the oil and natural gas, to avoid global disaster. Merely
carrying out
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_April_2016_(Paris_climate_agreement)">weak
terms of the Paris agreement</a> is not enough.


feed_id: d47474abc6e8ade0e5e0f640b5cb6e64
title: Imprisoned immigrant minors
uri: Imprisoned-immigrant-minors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Imprisoned_immigrant_minors%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/23/more-500-children-are-still-separated-heres-what-comes-next?cd-origin=rss">Over
360 immigrant minors</a> taken from their parents may remain prisoners
of the US for years because it already deported their parents and
can't find them.
<p>
Since they were fleeing from violence, and were deported back to
places where people threatened to murder them, they may be hiding
&mdash; or they may already have been murdered.


feed_id: 5a0859d7ebe880b2848d998f1c66e391
title: Forest fire smoke
uri: Forest-fire-smoke
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Forest_fire_smoke%29
content:
<p>
Tens of millions of Americans suffer each year when forest fires fill
the air with smoke, and some of them will get sick and even die from
it.  The cost of trying to protect and treat
them <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/23/here-out-west-smoke-season-keeps-getting-worse?cd-origin=rss">will
become too much</a>.
<p>
It would be cheaper to build renewable power sources and prevent the
problem.
<p>
In general, with <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>, an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure.


feed_id: cb60f952c88b4d96c36fda8979a7ae37
title: Javari Valley
uri: Javari-Valley
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Javari_Valley%29
content:
<p>
The Javari Valley, home to some of Brazil's uncontacted tribes and
endangered species of
wildlife, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/23/tribes-in-deep-water-gold-guns-and-the-amazons-last-frontier">is
under threat</a> by constantly growing modern "civilization".
<p>
The human population cannot keep growing without limit. In the last
gasp, civilization will try to plunder everything that remains, but
this will buy only a few more years. Can we find the wisdom to stop
population growth?
<p>
You can help, by doing as I have
done: <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">not having
children</a>.


feed_id: edca6670b3ae11bd2fb050ff30103a04
title: Blasphemy in Indonesia
uri: Blasphemy-in-Indonesia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Blasphemy_in_Indonesia%29
content:
<p>
Indonesia's law against blasphemy continues to be used for oppression.
A Buddhist has
been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/23/woman-jailed-in-indonesia-for-saying-call-to-prayer-too-loud">sentenced
to prison</a> for asking a mosque to reduce the volume of its call to
prayer. Muslims responded with lunatic violence by burning temples.
<p>
Blaspheming against any religion is part of human rights.


feed_id: c5786bd01ab4d92224af9fc89a048089
title: Democrats
uri: 2018-08-27-Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Democrats%29
content:
<p>
"If Democrats
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/23/democrats-trump-final-hour-not-upon-us'>clean
up their act and appeal to the working class again</a>, that would be
far more threatening to Trump than the Mueller investigation ever
could be."


feed_id: a2319a1c0a742b2abaae974d23c315c4
title: Reality Winner sentenced to prison
uri: Reality-Winner-sentenced-to-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Reality_Winner_sentenced_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
Whistleblower Reality Winner has been sentenced to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/23/reality-winner-sentence-classified-report-leak">five
years in prison</a>.


feed_id: c1d9c4f36de85f9bd106fd200b7e6c57
title: Teaching violent Brazilian men
uri: Teaching-violent-Brazilian-men
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Teaching_violent_Brazilian_men%29
content:
<p>
A program tries to teach violent Brazilian men that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/23/hitting-women-isnt-normal-tackling-male-violence-brazil">hitting
their wives is not normal or right</a>.


feed_id: a9b18986c9fe30c7f1ba216e4280780a
title: Overfishing
uri: 2018-08-27-Overfishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Overfishing%29
content:
<p>
Overfishing is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/23/they-are-taking-out-a-generation-of-tuna-overfishing-causes-crisis-in-philippines">wiping
out tuna</a> around the Philippines.


feed_id: ff8d58432b307ec2b5aa40b09f70421b
title: Verizon violates network neutrality
uri: Verizon-violates-network-neutrality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Verizon_violates_network_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
Verizon appears to have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/22/verizon-data-throttling-wildfires-california-lawsuit">artificially
slowed net access for firemen</a> who were working on putting out a
wildfire.
<p>
The old network neutrality rule prohibited this.
<p>
True network neutrality would mean that an ISP is not allowed even to
take note of who you are talking with.


feed_id: 125095ec66e03a1d464fddf79601ccbb
title: Underpaid workers in Pentagon cafeteria
uri: Underpaid-workers-in-Pentagon-cafeteria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Underpaid_workers_in_Pentagon_cafeteria%29

content:
<p>
The company that runs the cafeteria in the Pentagon is paying workers
too little and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/23/company-managing-pentagon-cafeteria-workers-investigated-amid-wage-theft-allegations">faces
an investigation for wage theft</a>.


feed_id: e383ac6a35078b9cb37ba7b58873c8b9
title: If the cheater shot Michael Cohen
uri: If-the-cheater-shot-Michael-Cohen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28If_the_cheater_shot_Michael_Cohen%29

content:
<p>
Imagine 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/23/trump-michael-cohen-broad-daylight">what
Republicans would say</a> if the cheater shot Michael Cohen on Fifth
Avenue.


feed_id: 4d09bd504279e9ef2d0608c114fc2379
title: Republicans trying to smear all immigrants
uri: Republicans-trying-to-smear-all-immigrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Republicans_trying_to_smear_all_immigrants%29

content:
<p>
An immigrant in the US committed murder, so Republicans are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/mollie-tibbetts-murder-case-republicans-trump-immigration">trying
to smear all immigrants</a> in the US on that basis.
<p>
Overall, immigrants commit 
<a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/murder-mollie-tibbetts-illegal-immigrant-crime-facts">fewer
crimes (in proportion to their numbers) than natural-born US
citizens</a>.
<p>
It would be no less rational to smear all natural-born US citizens
because some of them commit murder, but the Republicans won't do
that&hellip;as long as they need some natural-born US citizens to vote
for them.


feed_id: d552540f116af9bb0c9654ee287220fa
title: Sabotage of new California privacy law
uri: Sabotage-of-new-California-privacy-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Sabotage_of_new_California_privacy_law%29

content:
<p>
Big Tech Turns <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> to 
<a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/21/ca_privacy_law_sabotage/">Cripple
New California Privacy Law in Private</a>.
<p>
Parts of the law, those about getting your data back in a usable
format, assume that a company is keeping data about you as a service.
Occasionally that is so, but we should not let that distract us from
the cases where we never asked the company to track us at all.


feed_id: 1106c642f266e155966b6170102a055a
title: Manafort's convictions
uri: Manafort-s-convictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Manaforts_convictions%29
content:
<p>
(satire) Aspiring felon Matthias Winnow said Wednesday how moved he
was that lawyer and lobbyist Paul Manafort, 69, 
<a href="https://local.theonion.com/aspiring-felon-moved-by-man-who-didn-t-get-first-8-conv-1828532570">didn't
get his first eight convictions until his late 60s</a>.


feed_id: f57e62689815f0f62407d5739d17b40b
title: The bullshitter's campaign
uri: The-bullshitter-s-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28The_bullshitters_campaign%29
content:
<p>
Hypothesis: the bullshitter's campaign was 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/22/i-lived-through-watergate-i-lived-through-saturday-night-massacre-there-never-was">like
The Producers</a>.  Various crooks assumed he would lose and
considered the campaign a great opportunity for grift.  But &mdash;
oops! &mdash; he won, and now they are getting investigated.


feed_id: df4325a8ab5784b7c12b9018bf778f61
title: ISP resists demands of copyright industry
uri: ISP-resists-demands-of-copyright-industry
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28ISP_resists_demands_of_copyright_industry%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/21/texas_isp_copyright_police/">local
Texas ISP</a> is resisting in court the demands of the copyright
industry to conscript it as copyright police.
<p>
I wish there were a way the public could help them.


feed_id: 7b0f46866c029096f6461328883ce15d
title: Automated copyright censorship
uri: Automated-copyright-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Automated_copyright_censorship%29
content:
<p>
An automated copyright censor 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180818/23055040460/automated-filter-removed-parliament-members-article-warning-about-censorship-automated-filters.shtml">took
down MEP Julia Reda's post opposing automated copyright censors</a>.


feed_id: eeb3011bb623a82050926b69cd3a20e5
title: Removing the bullshitter
uri: Removing-the-bullshitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Removing_the_bullshitter%29
content:
<p>
Unless senate Republicans become willing to remove the bullshitter
from office, impeaching him is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/22/impeaching-donald-trump-defeat-trumpism-cohen-manafort">useless</a>.


feed_id: ee8bf0e9f63e2b6663f623079204203e
title: WTO rules against solar power
uri: WTO-rules-against-solar-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28WTO_rules_against_solar_power%29
content:
<p>
The WTO has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/08/21/latest-wto-case-challenging-us-state-renewable-energy-policies-illustrates-why">ruled
against</a> various national and local policies (in several countries)
that promoted local solar power business.
<p>
Every such policy benefits the whole world, even though it benefits
that nation or locality especially.


feed_id: 24e5e369b2f7347e619b2c12699159d8
title: US idea of a good mother
uri: US-idea-of-a-good-mother
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28US_idea_of_a_good_mother%29
content:
<p>
The US thinks that a good mother is one that 
<a href="https://nypost.com/2018/08/18/good-moms-are-expected-to-give-up-all-their-freedoms/">never
takes a moment away form taking care of her children</a>.
<p>
I hope the US stops harassing parents about insignificant risks to
children, but you can protect yourself from the problem by not having
children.  In the process you will make your life easier and less
stressful, give yourself the opportunity to do something actually good
for the world instead, and shrink your carbon footprint.


feed_id: 24d98c8f725cb5805311b0e24baa0c84
title: Executives continue meeting with cheater
uri: Executives-continue-meeting-with-cheater
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Executives_continue_meeting_with_cheater%29

content:
<p>
US executives have made a public show of distancing themselves from
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a> but 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/21/despite-frequent-lip-service-anti-trump-resistance-corporate-executives-continue">continue
meeting with him privately</a>.


feed_id: bffea89056862317f5199a36a5a2248a
title: Facebook usage and racist violence
uri: Facebook-usage-and-racist-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Facebook_usage_and_racist_violence%29

content:
<p>
Places in Germany where more of the inhabitants are used by Facebook
have 
<a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611920/evidence-is-piling-up-that-facebook-can-incite-racial-violence/">more
incidents of racist violence</a>.


feed_id: f0a783b7c0c178d34551dedec7db2c90
title: Dissidence in Salafi Arabia
uri: Dissidence-in-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Dissidence_in_Salafi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
Israa al-Ghomgham in <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/22/saudi-arabia-seeks-its-first-death-penalty-against-a-female-human-rights-activist">faces
possible execution</a> if convicted of "incitement to protest" and
"providing moral support to rioters (protesters)".  She campaigned to
allow Shi'ites to practice their version of Islam.
<p>
Killing male dissidents is nothing new for that country.  Now it aims
to become an equal opportunity killer.


feed_id: 3804246ee4072ca4eb0b9386d85e1692
title: Thugs torture Ugandan opposition leader
uri: Thugs-torture-Ugandan-opposition-leader
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Thugs_torture_Ugandan_opposition_leader%29

content:
<p>
Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu was arrested,
then 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/22/chris-martin-and-damon-albarn-join-campaign-to-free-uganda-star-bobi-wine">tortured
by thugs to the point where he can't walk, speak, or see</a>.  It is
not clear he was conscious enough in a court hearing to understand
what was said.
<p>
Other protesters were beaten and arrested, too.
<p>
The "president" of Uganda is a typical dictator, unofficially
"president for life".


feed_id: 09da466b9675c84fba93afcc49e8886a
title: Children's right to play
uri: Children-s-right-to-play
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Childrens_right_to_play%29
content:
<p>
Wales has made a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/22/child-right-to-play-wales-law-budget-cuts">law
establishing children's right to play</a> &mdash; and requiring
various institutions to make sure they have a place to do so.


feed_id: 1a45005e910fe898f1f004df6df24199
title: Enabling disabled people
uri: Enabling-disabled-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#26_August_2018_%28Enabling_disabled_people%29
content:
<p>
Many ordinary activities can exclude disabled people, or enable them
if society pays a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/22/frances-ryan-it-is-not-a-wheelchair-that-makes-my-life-disabled-its-buildings-without-ramps">fairly
small cost</a> of doing so.


feed_id: 4d3f5e3fb7cb2aef7ff64c455a6f1064
title: Constitutionality of PRISM
uri: Constitutionality-of-PRISM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Constitutionality_of_PRISM%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU has found an 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/nsa-continues-violate-americans-internet-privacy">opportunity
to ask US courts</a> to rule on the constitutionality of PRISM, the
NSA's warrantless snooping system.
<p>
I hope we can stop Kavanaugh from biasing the Supreme Court in favor
of all surveillance.


feed_id: 9ac7294b79871e8424c85db92a2f95e4
title: Schools in Finland
uri: Schools-in-Finland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Schools_in_Finland%29
content:
<p>
Proposing to follow Finland's example and have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/24/the-only-way-to-end-the-class-divide-the-case-for-abolishing-private-schools">all
children attend the same schools</a>.
<p>
It might be a good idea, if this enables them to be as good as
Finland's schools have become.


feed_id: ca825f5d77b2148a66cefcc855e1530f
title: Effect of global heating on Alps
uri: Effect-of-global-heating-on-Alps
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Effect_of_global_heating_on_Alps%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/24/climate-change-is-melting-the-french-alps-say-mountaineers">softening
permafrost in the Alps</a>, making some old climbing trails unsafe.


feed_id: 1dd66a8918beea34152a399f8c4d9942
title: US immigration thugs
uri: 2018-08-28-US-immigration-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28US_immigration_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The US immigration <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> claim that Joel Arrona-Lara, grabbed while
driving his wife to the hospital for a cesarean section, was wanted in
Mexico for killing.  But it is 
<a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/21/facts-behind-arrest-immigrant-accompanying-pregnant-wife-hospital-remain-unclear/">not
clear that is really true</a>.


feed_id: 009491149229bbed26a3513ed6b8f69b
title: Killings by LA thugs
uri: Killings-by-LA-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Killings_by_LA_thugs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/24/los-angeles-police-violence-shootings-african-american">Hundreds
Dead, No One Charged</a>: the Uphill Battle against [killings by LA
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>].


feed_id: 6ac85b0102a3365c73a2c3e65df4bd8a
title: Greenhouse gas emissions
uri: 2018-08-28-Greenhouse-gas-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Greenhouse_gas_emissions%29
content:
<p>
Germany set a strong target for decreasing greenhouse gases, but has
been unable to achieve it despite real effort.  It 
<a href="https://grist.org/article/the-modern-automobile-must-die/">requires
greatly reducing the use of cars</a>.


feed_id: 087f5a20ca2373bd3464cabc795c5ff2
title: Thugs disappear 50 students in China
uri: Thugs-disappear-50-students-in-China
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Thugs_disappear_50_students_in_China%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/24/50-student-activists-missing-in-china-after-police-raid">50
Student Activists Missing</a> in China After Police Raid.


feed_id: 6b61d2e7924eb52280c833f535d5b1b2
title: Planted tweets about vaccines
uri: Planted-tweets-about-vaccines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Planted_tweets_about_vaccines%29
content:
<p>
Study finds 93% of tweets about vaccines between 2014 and 2017 were
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/23/russian-trolls-spread-vaccine-misinformation-on-twitter">planted
with aim of sowing division</a>.
<p>
This sabotage 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#23_August_2018_(MMR_vaccination)">kills
human beings</a>.


feed_id: a386e5a31638a4a93dc3641249015ebf
title: Punishment of past criminals
uri: Punishment-of-past-criminals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Punishment_of_past_criminals%29
content:
<p>
Spain should go beyond moving Franco's grave, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/24/spain-franco-regime-dictator-burial-civil-war-fascism">turn
his memorial to fascist conquest of Spain into a museum of national
conciliation and remembrance</a>.
<p>
A certain amount of punishment of past criminals can be proper.
Franco's grandson said that moving his remains is "vindictive".
Maybe so, but it couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.


feed_id: 26217f8b737f36a12834b55c0f83d6a7
title: Volunteers monitor pipeline construction
uri: Volunteers-monitor-pipeline-construction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Volunteers_monitor_pipeline_construction%29

content:
<p>
Volunteers in Virginia and North Carolina 
<a href="
https://thinkprogress.org/volunteer-citizen-groups-monitor-pipeline-projects-in-virginia-north-carolina/">monitor
pipeline construction</a> looking for illegalities.


feed_id: f524333215d885daf3b8475fdb5fd671
title: Notable speakers disinvited to Cal
uri: Notable-speakers-disinvited-to-Cal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Notable_speakers_disinvited_to_Cal%29

content:
<p>
(satire) &hellip; students at the University of California, Berkeley
&hellip; were 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/students-excited-to-see-slate-of-notable-speakers-who-w-1828550932">excited
to see the slate of notable speakers</a> who will be disinvited to
campus this year.


feed_id: fd40abb828f91b1a22fa6020137ce5fc
title: Urgent: Asking about citizenship status
uri: Urgent-Asking-about-citizenship-status
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Asking_about_citizenship_status%29

content:
<p>
In the
US: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/bofa_immigrants">call on
Bank of America</a> to stop asking customers about their citizenship
status.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 5cd2498eb92e821934a385376c2d187c
title: Urgent: ALEC funders
uri: Urgent-ALEC-funders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Urgent%3A_ALEC_funders%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/alec-hate">call on
AT&amp;T, UPS, FedEx, Pfizer, State Farm, Chevron, Anheuser-Busch and
Comcast</a> to stop funding ALEC.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: fc32645a582a3feef63e03f5f7108870
title: White supremacist campaign
uri: White-supremacist-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28White_supremacist_campaign%29
content:
<p>
American white supremacists
explicitly <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/24/why-american-made-fascism-puts-democracy-risk?cd-origin=rss">campaign
to end democracy</a> and they label the power they hope to wield over
others as their "freedom".


feed_id: f29f6782604f2b162119c73c525868d4
title: Taxing employers for public assistance
uri: Taxing-employers-for-public-assistance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Taxing_employers_for_public_assistance%29

content:
<p>
Sanders <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/24/force-billionaires-welfare-sanders-tax-would-make-corporations-fund-100-public?cd-origin=rss">advocates
taxing employers</a> to pay for all public assistance their workers
need.


feed_id: 670f9510e141ecd2cd735f55f4ecd24f
title: Making impeachment possible
uri: Making-impeachment-possible
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Making_impeachment_possible%29
content:
<p>
Impeachment of the president was intended as the remedy for when a
president acts like a king. If partisanship makes this remedy
impossible to use, we can't defend the republic; we need to make
impeachment <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/24/what-do-when-president-believes-hes-above-justice?cd-origin=rss">a
real possibility</a> again.


feed_id: 8bd6777d8d1c0673922cb367f6f6153b
title: Superdelegate rules
uri: Superdelegate-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Superdelegate_rules%29
content:
<p>
The Democratic Party
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/25/democrats-rules-superdelegates-sanders">finally
adopted new rules</a> to reduce the power of superdelegates. They will
no longer vote in the first ballot.


feed_id: ea3ccbd08c379abe368e147c2c96fd4c
title: Poor congressman
uri: Poor-congressman
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Poor_congressman%29
content:
<p>
(satire) GOP Leaders Demand Congressman Duncan Hunter’s
Resignation <a href="https://politics.theonion.com/gop-leaders-demand-congressman-duncan-hunter-s-resignat-1828583936">After
Discovering He [is] Poor</a>.


feed_id: 63f4625d2e93d87c313c05c69ae662f4
title: Navalny arrested
uri: Navalny-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Navalny_arrested%29
content:
<p>
Putin had Navalny arrested again, and the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> appear to have been
violent
&mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/25/russian-opposition-leader-injured-detention-alexei-navalny-broken-finger">breaking
his finger</a>.


feed_id: 8e6760f02d498a8cc2f2c26988ec478c
title: Sea walls for oil companies
uri: Sea-walls-for-oil-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Sea_walls_for_oil_companies%29
content:
<p>
The oil companies want the US government
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/08/23/big-oil-wants-taxpayer-funded-protection-climate-change-crisis-its-own-making?cd-origin=rss">spend
12 billion dollars</a> on sea walls to protect its facilities from sea
level rise.
<p>
The absurdity is that their facilities are causing sea level rise.


feed_id: 91350fd1e57beae202bc7b7e15703be3
title: Disney worker wages
uri: Disney-worker-wages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Disney_worker_wages%29
content:
<p>
Sanders:
"<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/23/pay-a-living-wage-bernie-sanders-accuses-disney-of-dodging-fair-pay">Disney
is so nervous</a> that the living wage ballot initiative in Anaheim is
going to pass, it would rather end some of the corporate welfare it
receives from local taxpayers than pay all 30,000 of its workers
decent wages."


feed_id: 57571c010dfbfef9f1ae4a85d7f9adaa
title: US prison strikes
uri: US-prison-strikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28US_prison_strikes%29
content:
<p>
We cannot get much news about strikes and hunger strikes in US
prisons, but supporters
are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/23/us-prison-strike-third-day-reports-hunger-strikes-and-work-stoppages-nationwide?cd-origin=rss">protesting
in solidarity</a> in 21 cities.
<p>
The Prison Strike Is an Overdue Opportunity
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/24/prison-strike-overdue-opportunity-end-slavery-incarcerated-people?cd-origin=rss">End
the Slavery of Incarcerated People</a>


feed_id: 4d484d01a7dd21f268fdae1fcef843ce
title: Risks of pardoning
uri: Risks-of-pardoning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Risks_of_pardoning%29
content:
<p>
If the bullshitter pardons convicts such as Manafort and Cohen, he
could lay himself open to
a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2017/8/29/16211784/paul-manafort-charged-guilty-trial-trump-pardon-power">charge
of obstruction of justice</a>, and it might not even fully protect
them or enable them to avoid testifying about his crimes.


feed_id: 86516a051cf1cef6d92899f193a382a0
title: Wells Fargo account closed
uri: Wells-Fargo-account-closed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28Wells_Fargo_account_closed%29
content:
<p>
Wells Fargo
bank <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/20/after-florida-democrat-said-shed-take-donations-marijuana-industry-wells-fargo-closed-her-bank-account/">closed
candidate Nikki Fried's campaign bank account</a> because she accepts
contributions from the medical marijuana industry.
<p>
I don't think campaigns should get money from <em>any</em> businesses,
but this prejudice against the marijuana businesses is meddling in
politics.


feed_id: 57ca27e7a76d53bf87c1886b47c705a7
title: 'Election security bill'
uri: Election-security-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#27_August_2018_%28%27Election_security_bill%27%29
content:
<p>
The Senate's "election security bill" is
so <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/if-it-doesnt-have-paper-ballots-and-automatic-audits-its-not-election-security">weak
and misguided</a> that it is worthless.


feed_id: 9b110c9f499e4f3e84b0c03bc5f4e201
title: Urgent: Oppose Keystone XL pipeline
uri: 2018-08-29-Urgent-Oppose-Keystone-XL-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.foodandwateraction.org/act/no-keystone-xl-pipeline-0">post
your comment</a> against the Keystone XL pipeline.


feed_id: 6ac3124778928a1982fa1e9c142a2ee1
title: Urgent: Suspend confirmation hearings
uri: Urgent-Suspend-confirmation-hearings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Suspend_confirmation_hearings%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.pfaw.org/sign/demand-suspension-kavanaugh-hearings/">Demand</a>
the Senate suspend Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings.


feed_id: 897873e293e58550cfdd581262e971fd
title: Harassment by TSA and US border thugs
uri: Harassment-by-TSA-and-US-border-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Harassment_by_TSA_and_US_border_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Zainab Merchant describes how the TSA and US border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-may-have-to-quit-harvard--because-the-tsa-wont-stop-searching-me/2018/08/14/0dbdbb72-9a55-11e8-b55e-5002300ef004_story.html">search
harass her with "searches" every chance they get</a>, without ever
offering a justification.
<p>
These actions can't be explained by a concern about any physical
object she might be carrying.  That is merely an excuse.


feed_id: 0caf15f12ef0eac89ea1b4694ce20c25
title: Imprisonment through false testimony
uri: Imprisonment-through-false-testimony
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Imprisonment_through_false_testimony%29

content:
<p>
The US legal system regularly and systematically imprisons people
through 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/yes-witnesses-flipping-does-corrupt-justice-but-not-because-theyre-rats/2018/08/23/c88871c4-a71e-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html">false
testimony coerced from accused people</a> &mdash; usually poor people,
coerced because they can't afford bail, let alone a real defense.
Often they are accused of activities they had nothing to do with.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a>'s henchmen now testifying about the cheater's campaign
activities are atypical: they are not poor, they do have lawyers,
and they really have had an association with those activities.


feed_id: 2a339df1ae474dd075fb479413541364
title: Troll making his racism more blatant
uri: Troll-making-his-racism-more-blatant
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Troll_making_his_racism_more_blatant%29

content:
<p>
The racist is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/26/donald-trump-populist-south-africa-white-supremacist">making
his racism more blatant</a>, with drive-by tweets whose details are
insignificant except that they spread racism.


feed_id: 1c8c6353abb5c01d5a2de52def6a6dcd
title: Senator McCain
uri: Senator-McCain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Senator_McCain%29
content:
<p>
Senator McCain may have unintentionally 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/26/john-mccain-sarah-palin-donald-trump">paved
the way for bullshit to capture the Republican Party</a> when he chose
Sarah Palin as running mate.
<p>
Before 2008, the Republican Party was cruel, dishonest, and
plutocratist.  The Democratic Party was too, though to a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_May_2018_(%27New_Democrats%27)">lesser
degree</a>.  But neither was dominated by hatred of the idea of truth,
the idea of justice, and the idea of human rights.


feed_id: 7e033f60bbc5b61ed8ba564bce515526
title: Australian border thugs
uri: Australian-border-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Australian_border_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Australian border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/25/sydney-airport-seizure-of-phone-and-laptop-alarming-say-privacy-groups">took
Nathan Hague's computers and cracked them</a>, out of his sight, and
would not give any reason.
<p>
The recommendation to store your data in the so-called "cloud" is
misguided.  There is no "cloud" &mdash; only computers belonging to
others.  What makes you think that government "security" forces can't
get your data there?  The GDPR does not apply to "security".
<p>
You will probably not be able to lease a laptop which has anything but
Windows or MacOS.  Those systems are nonfree &mdash; you 
<a href="https://gnu.org/malware/">can't trust them</a> either.


feed_id: ca50cbadba19c6e9acd2d6596d91e1fb
title: Tyrannical regimes' use of internet
uri: Tyrannical-regimes-use-of-internet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Tyrannical_regimes_use_of_internet%29

content:
<p>
From Tahrir to Trump: how tyrannical regimes 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/08/23/we-didnt-start-the-fire.html">mastered
using the internet to reinforce their power and to defeat
resistance</a>.


feed_id: 771314493c0bdf5c2fbcf306b9560894
title: Rohingya in Burma
uri: Rohingya-in-Burma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Rohingya_in_Burma%29
content:
<p>
Rohingya remaining in Burma remain 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/26/put-in-a-cage-rohingya-remaining-in-myanmar-consigned-to-life-of-fear">excluded
from many aspects of life</a>.


feed_id: d2d201d22d04234a3169fe5a606bca9c
title: Hunger strike in prison in Iran
uri: Hunger-strike-in-prison-in-Iran
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Hunger_strike_in_prison_in_Iran%29

content:
<p>
Nasrin Sotoudeh, in prison in Iran, has started a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/26/no-choice-jailed-iranian-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh-goes-on-hunger-strike">hunger
strike</a>.


feed_id: d45cd3ff9c3b51762b0de5724e975fd5
title: Greece remains debtor's prison
uri: Greece-remains-debtor-s-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Greece_remains_debtors_prison%29
content:
<p>
Varoufakis: Greece 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/26/greece-was-never-bailed-out---it-remains-a-debtors-prison-and-the-eu-still-holds-the-keys">Was
Never Bailed Out</a> &mdash; It Remains a Debtor's Prison And the EU
Won't Let Go of the Keys.


feed_id: 67c2d0bb5bb4599c27898a9b956d2114
title: Zimbabwe election result
uri: Zimbabwe-election-result
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Zimbabwe_election_result%29
content:
<p>
Opposition 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/26/opposition-warns-protests-zimbabwe-election-result-upheld">Warns
of Protests</a> after Zimbabwe Election Result Is Upheld.


feed_id: 222c5d7fc3d85b421afc6b1388994d85
title: NYC regulates Guber
uri: NYC-regulates-Guber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28NYC_regulates_Guber%29
content:
<p>
New York City has regulated <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#guber">Guber</a>, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/26/new-york-uber-lyft-airbnb-under-threat">imposing
a minimum wage</a>.
<p>
That will be good for the drivers, who won't be subject to long waits
and thus low daily income.  However, it does nothing to correct the
injustices of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#guber">Guber</a> towards its <em>customers</em>: making them run
nonfree software and identifying them.


feed_id: 6c9017c06c52bf24a37198c663ab51a7
title: Memphis thugs raid activists' homes
uri: Memphis-thugs-raid-activists-homes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Memphis_thugs_raid_activists_homes%29

content:
<p>
Memphis <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/26/memphis-police-raids-activists-family-black-lives-matter">raided
Black Lives Matter campaigners' homes</a>, apparently as retaliation
for a lawsuit.


feed_id: 305b7efe94a7ef5719e6a5ba4af50003
title: Astroturf support movements
uri: Astroturf-support-movements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Astroturf_support_movements%29
content:
<p>
Oil companies have learned how to create 
<a href="https://amazonwatch.org/news/2018/0823-divide-and-conquer-geopark-resurrects-nefarious-old-tactics">astroturf
support movements</a> on the fringes of the indigenous groups whose
land then want to drill.


feed_id: 734f5f26ea1eff24705e11c28eaddf41
title: US government intimidated Reality Winner
uri: US-government-intimidated-Reality-Winner
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28US_government_intimidated_Reality_Winner%29

content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/24/governments-argument-reality-winner-harmed-national-security-doesnt-hold-heres-why">intimidated
Reality Winner into pleading guilty</a> through unsubstantiated claims
of unspecified harm to "national security".  That it got away with
this puts journalism and democracy in danger.


feed_id: 7019423d3966ec18b181932e73dbd9c0
title: Skimming texts on a screen
uri: Skimming-texts-on-a-screen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Skimming_texts_on_a_screen%29
content:
<p>
There is evidence that skimming texts on a screen 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf">undermines
the development of reasoning ability and empathy</a>.
<p>
In other words, we may be educating a generation that won't understand
how to see through the foolish arguments of cheaters and plutocratist
politicians.


feed_id: 38053a42d4d608dd25293299ba5e279e
title: Militarized SWAT teams
uri: Militarized-SWAT-teams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Militarized_SWAT_teams%29
content:
<p>
Research Paper Shows Militarized SWAT Teams 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180822/19380740490/research-paper-shows-militarized-swat-teams-dont-make-cops-public-any-safer.shtml">Don't
Make Cops &mdash; Or The Public &mdash; Any Safer</a>.
<p>
We should eliminate most of the SWAT teams, and keep just a few that
can be flown to where they are needed.


feed_id: 315db449d31f767fbf16fa6b6476ec8c
title: Underground abortions
uri: Underground-abortions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Underground_abortions%29
content:
<p>
An <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/27/inside-the-secret-network-providing-home-abortions-across-the-us">underground
network of women</a> in the US perform abortions in women's homes.


feed_id: 739c08684a3821af0d443c5cbbb00d85
title: Prisoners killed in Syria
uri: Prisoners-killed-in-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Prisoners_killed_in_Syria%29
content:
<p>
Assad's "security" forces photographed the corpses of 11,000 prisoners
that they killed. Secret documents captured by
rebels <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/27/assad-syria-atrocities-regime-photographed-murdered">confirm
some of these killings</a>, as well as identifying victims and
describing how they were "interrogated".


feed_id: 7a8d4858e827a08e6c43b0e43a0ee0ad
title: Farmworkers dying
uri: Farmworkers-dying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Farmworkers_dying%29
content:
<p>
Farmworkers
Are <a href="https://grist.org/article/farmworkers-are-dying-from-extreme-heat/">Dying
from Extreme Heat</a>.


feed_id: 271d2a8d06f08a3f9bf7febb50a29c7a
title: Solar power installation
uri: Solar-power-installation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Solar_power_installation%29
content:
<p>
Most current coal industry
workers <a href="https://theconversation.com/an-alternative-to-propping-up-coal-power-plants-retrain-workers-for-solar-101961">could
get better pay</a> in solar power installation.
<p>
This is icing on the cake. We need
to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#12_June_2013_(Australian_fossil_fuel_industry_vs_wind_generators)">end
coal burning</a>, and even if it were expensive, we would still need
to.


feed_id: 944e88e76df0470e7ccadb0978d5ae14
title: Choice to be sterilized
uri: Choice-to-be-sterilized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Choice_to_be_sterilized%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theconversation.com/sexist-barriers-block-womens-choice-to-be-sterilized-99754">Sexist
Barriers</a> Block Women's Choice to be Sterilized.
<p>
This relates to social pressure on women to have children.
<p>
I knew a woman who had got herself sterilized, and did not regret it.
She told me that it wasn't easy to find a doctor who would do it.
<p>
Considering how important it is to limit and reduce the human
population, we should not impede anyone's choice to be sterilized.


feed_id: 716e3922b5c828ce365ac5c9f3806043
title: Merit is subjective
uri: Merit-is-subjective
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Merit_is_subjective%29
content:
<p>
Research
Shows <a href="https://theconversation.com/research-shows-merit-is-highly-subjective-and-changes-with-our-values-101441">"Merit"
Is Highly Subjective</a> And Changes with Our Values.


feed_id: 51e48352456cc04a8e51055746840939
title: Defeating gun control opposition
uri: Defeating-gun-control-opposition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Defeating_gun_control_opposition%29

content:
<p>
US teenagers
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/27/jacksonville-shooting-student-activists-plan-protest-against-senators-linked-to-nra">organizing
voter registration campaigns</a> to defeat senators that oppose gun
control.
<p>
Please don't call
them <a href="https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html#children">"children"</a>.


feed_id: f8d0138c1f2c2d95b9e4c94c6e97b9e4
title: Flight time estimation
uri: Flight-time-estimation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Flight_time_estimation%29
content:
<p>
Airlines have learned to
give <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/27/flight-times-extended-by-major-airlines-to-avoid-payouts-report-claims">higher
estimates of flight times</a>, so that flights are less likely to
arrive late.
<p>
The article disapproves of this, but I am not sure I agree. Giving a
later estimate of arrival time does not mean that the flight takes
longer. Rather, it introduces more caution into people's plans,
including connections.


feed_id: 6a88e2098c34097cf18d20eefcebd99d
title: Work in Fishing Convention
uri: Work-in-Fishing-Convention
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Work_in_Fishing_Convention%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.freedomunited.org/news/ngos-urge-thai-government-to-ratify-c188-not-bow-to-industry-pressure/">Pressing
the government of Thailand</a> to agree to the Work in Fishing
Convention.


feed_id: 28dbcb072118510e7b9632a5bff8ea14
title: Suppressing testimony
uri: Suppressing-testimony
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Suppressing_testimony%29
content:
<p>
A campaign aims
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/26/former-weinstein-assistant-urges-ban-contracts-silence-harassment-victims">prohibit
nondisclosure agreements</a> that suppress testimony about crimes such
as rape.
<p>
The nondisclosure agreements that cause the broadest harm are those
that withhold generally useful technical information from the public.
One technical nondisclosure agreement can keep millions of people
under someone's thumb. In the early 1980s I reached the conclusion
that it was immoral to accept a nondisclosure agreement for generally
useful technical information, and I have carefully followed that
principle ever since.
<p>
It was this conclusion, which I reached in the early 1980s, that
<a href="https://gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html">propelled me
to develop</a> the free operating system GNU.


feed_id: 74883d95f9d4831fa10922f11fbe17a8
title: Bogus front companies
uri: Bogus-front-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Bogus_front_companies%29
content:
<p>
The UK allows obvious bogus front companies to keep operating, by
<a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/janebradley/shell-companies-money-laundering-uk-paul-manafort">failing
to enforce</a> recently adopted laws.


feed_id: 57ad224e90d6a2ba84f1645f510144b0
title: Decline in DNC donations
uri: Decline-in-DNC-donations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#28_August_2018_%28Decline_in_DNC_donations%29
content:
<p>
The Democratic National Committee has suffered
a <a href="https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article217118220.html">decline
in donations</a>, as progressives choose to donate to progressive PACs
instead.
<p>
We don't want our funds to support "centrist" right-wing Democrats.


feed_id: 1113ee34ad7a64811c2bca245297b0db
title: Urgent: Replacement for NAFTA
uri: Urgent-Replacement-for-NAFTA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Replacement_for_NAFTA%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: insist that a replacement for NAFTA
should <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/nafta_Mexico">pull
back from various policies</a> that are bad for the environment or for
workers.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 5fbe2d59ecbabb86c2507f87fecc6e69
title: Urgent: Oppose Kavanaugh confirmation
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Kavanaugh-confirmation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Kavanaugh_confirmation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Phone your senators to oppose confirmation of Kavanaugh.
</p>
<p>
  The Capitol Switchboard
  numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.
</p>
<p>If you phone, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: bcc3058db4248801561f1a9c32bc06bb
title: Privatized deportation
uri: Privatized-deportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Privatized_deportation%29
content:
<p>
The UK privatized deportation, then gave the deportation company
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/28/home-office-offered-capita-bonuses-windrush-removals-documents-reveal">extra
money for deporting more people</a>.
<p>
Such a contract directly discourages justice.


feed_id: bcf515819eec7a176b8b11e2f8880314
title: Relatives of Hamas leaders
uri: Relatives-of-Hamas-leaders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Relatives_of_Hamas_leaders%29
content:
<p>
Israel's Supreme
Court <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5336217,00.html">prohibits
the policy</a> of punishing relatives of Hamas leaders by stopping the
relatives from leaving Gaza for treatment for serious illnesses.


feed_id: e2b63712022373918f44905eeeb44f87
title: $100k for a heart attack
uri: 100k-for-a-heart-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28100k_for_a_heart_attack%29
content:
<p>
US commercial health insurance
means <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/28/add-horror-story-teacher-charged-109k-after-heart-attack-long-list-reasons-us-badly?cd-origin=rss">you
only owe $100k</a> for treatment of a heart attack.


feed_id: e45a19cdbe49cb8ca17ce7ab9dce2d22
title: Obama's endorsement
uri: Obama-s-endorsement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Obama%27s_endorsement%29
content:
<p>
Obama
has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/28/what-earth-obama-doing?cd-origin=rss">endorsed
a billionaire Democrat</a> while snubbing progressive candidates.
<p>
I could see in 2008 that Obama was no progressive, which is why I
never voted for him.


feed_id: 91344b134c1fd1348aeac8ac08fef66c
title: Pesticide addiction
uri: Pesticide-addiction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Pesticide_addiction%29
content:
<p>
Bees
get <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/29/like-nicotine-bees-develop-preference-for-pesticides-study-shows">addicted
to neonicotinoid pesticides</a>, just as humans get addicted to
nicotine.
<p>
Then they get sick from the pesticides, just as humans get sick from
nicotine.
<p>
I think that tobacco makes nicotine as a pesticide.


feed_id: 8b043c76f92409f5ac5faaef8a39e8cf
title: Jailed for abortion
uri: Jailed-for-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Jailed_for_abortion%29
content:
<p>
The Indonesian teenager who was jailed for an
abortion <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/indonesia-victim-wins-release-from-abortion-jail-sentence">has
been freed</a>.
<p>
But she feels she cannot go back to her village.


feed_id: 8ee3553967beaadc101f97c4dd3d5775
title: Gaming of emissions tests
uri: Gaming-of-emissions-tests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Gaming_of_emissions_tests%29
content:
<p>
Carmakers' Gaming of Emissions
Tests <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/29/carmakers-gaming-of-emissions-tests-costing-drivers-billions">"Costing
Drivers Billions"</a>.
<p>
They haven't stopped trying to cheat the goal.


feed_id: 3752f0da08f1424d7dc3c09fcb65db10
title: Teenagers leaving social networks
uri: Teenagers-leaving-social-networks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Teenagers_leaving_social_networks%29

content:
<p>
Substantial numbers of teenagers are
becoming <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/29/teens-desert-social-media">fed
up with social networks</a>.
<p>
I suspect that the aspects of company-controlled social networks that
pressure people to use them more are designed intentionally to boost
income. Thus, I suggest that people who have learned to dislike these
aspects try using distributed free software networks. Those networks
will make it easy to do the things you want to do, and no more.


feed_id: ef8a1b46a91ef4119c8cff2735bc956b
title: Liability for Agent Orange
uri: Liability-for-Agent-Orange
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Liability_for_Agent_Orange%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/27/eyeing-landmark-verdict-roundup-cancer-case-vietnam-demands-monsanto-be-held-liable?cd-origin=rss">Vietnam
demands</a> that Bayer (formerly Monsanto) pay damages for the toxic
herbicide Agent Orange that the US dropped on substantial areas of
Vietnam during the Vietnam War.


feed_id: 34e92577779ca409d2c7d672c8ad80a6
title: Disney World worker wage
uri: Disney-World-worker-wage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Disney_World_worker_wage%29
content:
<p>
Disney World workers have won a $15 minimum
wage, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/27/sanders-applauds-courageous-workers-standing-disney-world-and-winning-15-minimum?cd-origin=rss">three
years from now</a>.


feed_id: 4345ffb238f3e5c903d490f29c32e9a1
title: Nutrient levels in plants
uri: Nutrient-levels-in-plants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Nutrient_levels_in_plants%29
content:
<p>
Hundreds of millions of people will
be <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/27/climate-crisis-cause-hundreds-millions-dangerous-nutrient-deficiencies-countries?cd-origin=rss">in
danger of various deficiency diseases</a> as higher CO2 levels cause
food plants to have less of certain nutrients.
<p>
These people are poor &mdash; they can't correct the problem by buying
supplements or meat.


feed_id: dee7d4fb84f973d6f69fa9c780df4a33
title: Money bail law
uri: Money-bail-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Money_bail_law%29
content:
<p>
California
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/28/california-governor-first-eliminating-bail">adopted
a law</a> to end the requirement for money bail for suspects. The law
will take effect in October 2019.
<p>
I hope that the future risk-assessment system will not be a secret program
controlled by a company.


feed_id: f853d345b5dd44d4658fec4ee447ecc9
title: War crimes in Yemen
uri: 2018-08-31-War-crimes-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28War_crimes_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/28/all-sides-in-yemen-may-be-responsible-for-war-crimes-say-un-experts">All
Sides in Yemen May Be Responsible for War Crimes</a>, Say UN Experts.
<p>
That all sides are doing it does not excuse any of them.


feed_id: 9dbe2a2ca31c8d554e3da19c518e53ae
title: AT&amp;T continues layoffs and outsourcing
uri: AT-T-continues-layoffs-and-outsourcing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28ATT_continues_layoffs_and_outsourcing%29

content:
<p>
'They're Liquidating Us': AT&amp;T Continues Layoffs And Outsourcing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/28/att-earns-record-profits-layoffs-outsourcing-continue">Despite
Profits</a>.
<p>
We need to either limit or tax outsourcing.


feed_id: 7f38a41a709c7989659f53e2dac79585
title: NC Republican gerrymander
uri: 2018-08-31-NC-Republican-gerrymander
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28NC_Republican_gerrymander%29
content:
<p>
North Carolina Must Fix 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/28/north-carolina-must-fix-republican-gerrymander-before-midterms">Republican
Gerrymander</a> Before Midterms.


feed_id: d67bec58848c1a9d73dd5ca071e624f5
title: Australia's planned digital tyranny
uri: Australia-s-planned-digital-tyranny
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Australias_planned_digital_tyranny%29

content:
<p>
Australia's planned digital tyranny 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/trust-us-were-secretly-working-foreign-government-how-australias-proposed-crypto">threatens
each programmer with being ordered to commit sabotage</a>.  Even
programmers outside Australia.  Officials will be able to order this
arbitrarily, and informing a court would be forbidden.
<p>
If this law is adopted, everyone involved in software development will
need to keep away from Australia.  Even the shortest visit would
invite being compelled to betray the whole world.


feed_id: 2b15889d559c1866dd32947ccd15c1ac
title: Amazon's voice response system
uri: Amazon-s-voice-response-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Amazons_voice_response_system%29
content:
<p>
Amazon's voice response system is now 
<a href="https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/the-amazon-echos-kid-friendly-setting-freetime-lies-to-children.html">designed
to lie to children</a>.


feed_id: 5c49653ed2df62f0177186808b5e993d
title: Replicability in psychology
uri: Replicability-in-psychology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Replicability_in_psychology%29
content:
<p>
Replicability in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/27/attempt-to-replicate-major-social-scientific-findings-of-past-decade-fails">psychology</a>:
out of 21 important papers published in prestigious journals, only 13
of the results could be reproduced, and often the effect was not as
strong.


feed_id: 0df33659938a506d01366035470fc3c3
title: Metal in the air
uri: Metal-in-the-air
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Metal_in_the_air%29
content:
<p>
Metal in the Air Really 
<a href="https://www.futurity.org/metals-aerosols-ocean-life-1845302/">Messes
with Ocean Life</a>.


feed_id: 16f59709914e470198cf0ac28192e075
title: Japan's military
uri: Japan-s-military
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Japans_military%29
content:
<p>
Rapprochement between the North Korea and the US and South Korea 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/28/north-korea-threat-remains-despite-trump-summit-says-japan">has
not reassured Japan's military</a>, which says North Korea is still a
threat.
<p>
This could be simply pressure for Japan to spend more on the military.


feed_id: c6583ae11f7e7fb5e019476c0e036685
title: French minister of environment resigns
uri: French-minister-of-environment-resigns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28French_minister_of_environment_resigns%29

content:
<p>
Nicolas Hulot, French minister of the environment, resigned speaking
on the radio, saying that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/28/french-environment-minister-quits-live-on-radio-with-anti-macron-broadside">President
Macron gives the environment low priority</a>.


feed_id: 881c9826a2c50c35889c3721f930abf2
title: US use of germ warfare
uri: US-use-of-germ-warfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28US_use_of_germ_warfare%29
content:
<p>
A study in the 1950s concluded that the US 
<a href="https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-long-suppressed-korean-war-report-on-u-s-use-of-biological-weapons-released-at-last-20d83f5cee54">used
germ warfare against North Korea in the Korean War</a>.
<p>
The whole
report: <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4334133-ISC-Full-Report-Pub-Copy.html">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4334133-ISC-Full-Report-Pub-Copy.html</a>


feed_id: 08cdb5b55e2b6b42ef6fc2bf8c650273
title: Heatwaves, fires and rising seas
uri: Heatwaves-fires-and-rising-seas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Heatwaves%2C_fires_and_rising_seas%29

content:
<p>
California faces
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/california-climate-change-report-wildfires-jerry-brown">dire
danger from heatwaves, fires and rising seas</a> if we don't stop
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.
<p>
That's not even counting the tropical diseases and the failure of
agriculture.


feed_id: 072acab362fe95e2809268c235f0c358
title: Amazon twitter army
uri: Amazon-twitter-army
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Amazon_twitter_army%29
content:
<p>
The Amazon twitter army consists of 
<a href="https://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/amazon-fb-ambassadors-program-pay-nice-things-13182172.php">full-time
employees whose job is to say nice things about the company</a>.


feed_id: 22e13a35a24638b60cf2d9de985c0a95
title: Protecting student borrowers
uri: Protecting-student-borrowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Protecting_student_borrowers%29
content:
<p>
Seth Frotman resigned as head of the Students Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, saying that saboteurs 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/27/seth-frotman-student-loan-ombudsman-resigns-white-house-hostility">won't
allow student borrowers to be protected</a>.


feed_id: c1b31bc21ccf4fadfb55edb2becd6aa4
title: Air pollution and reduction in intelligence
uri: Air-pollution-and-reduction-in-intelligence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Air_pollution_and_reduction_in_intelligence%29

content:
<p>
Highly polluted air causes a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals">reduction
in intelligence</a> "equivalent to having lost a year of education".
It harms old people more than young people.


feed_id: ebda17696993e0904633690b8592f26c
title: Regulation of pollutants
uri: Regulation-of-pollutants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Regulation_of_pollutants%29
content:
<p>
Regulation of certain persistent organic pollutants under the
Stockholm Convention has 
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-08-arctic-pollutants-decrease.html">succeeded
in reducing their concentration in the Arctic</a>.
<p>
These are chemicals that can damage wildlife even in small
concentrations.


feed_id: 66db29c133a4b093b0ddedb2fc2621cb
title: Genocide in Burma
uri: Genocide-in-Burma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Genocide_in_Burma%29
content:
<p>
Myanmar's Military Accused of Genocide in Damning 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/27/myanmars-military-accused-of-genocide-by-damning-un-report">UN
Report</a>.


feed_id: 3455b6ec886f14547693786149a02526
title: Protest against corruption in Iraq
uri: Protest-against-corruption-in-Iraq
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-may-aug.html#30_August_2018_%28Protest_against_corruption_in_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
Iraqis in the region of Basra are rioting in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/27/iraq-is-dying-oil-corruption-protest-basra">protest
against a quagmire of corruption that chokes them in toxic oil</a>,
while they get none of the money from it.
<p>
Iraq's most desperate need is to reduce the birth rate and reduce its
population.


feed_id: f2a546a4b9c968c9751e0b6a777caa65
title: Urgent: End forced labor in prisons
uri: Urgent-End-forced-labor-in-prisons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#31_August_2018_%28Urgent%3A_End_forced_labor_in_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Everyone in the US: 
<a href="https://www.freedomunited.org/advocate/forced-labor-detention/">Call
on Core Civic</a> (a prison company) to end forced labor in its
prisons and pay workers a proper wage.


feed_id: 71196bc45ff9531e2b7fa2a19ff23235
title: The troll's feelings about McCain
uri: The-troll-s-feelings-about-McCain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#31_August_2018_%28The_trolls_feelings_about_McCain%29

content:
<p>
(satire) The White House 
<a href="https://politics.theonion.com/white-house-flag-now-moving-minute-to-minute-to-indicat-1828656803">raises
and lowers its flag from moment to moment</a> to indicate the
president's feelings about Senator McCain.


feed_id: 8a25b0a0e335e4b708865033d1c09b7e
title: Opposition to censored Google search
uri: Opposition-to-censored-Google-search
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#31_August_2018_%28Opposition_to_censored_Google_search%29

content:
<p>
Rights Groups Are Demanding That Google Not Release A 
<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/google-china-open-letter">Censored
Search Engine In China</a>.


feed_id: e18f35f02b39d9059d08a3b151abd83c
title: Phony cellular towers
uri: Phony-cellular-towers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#31_August_2018_%28Phony_cellular_towers%29
content:
<p>
Phony cellular towers, supposedly intended as a means of tracking
phones, usually at protesters, actually cuts them off from the phone
radio network.  
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/blog-post-wyden-911-disruption-css">Even
emergency calls may not go through</a>.
<p>
I expect that <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> consider this a feature.  It would stop protesters
from posting about the crimes that <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are committing, and as for
emergency calls, a newly arrived group of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> will protect the thugs
that were committing them.


feed_id: 0e15691bd68616b4d157ea8ed24b824f
title: Detroit public school drinking water
uri: Detroit-public-school-drinking-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#31_August_2018_%28Detroit_public_school_drinking_water%29

content:
<p>
Detroit Turns Off Every Public School's Drinking Water Due to 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/detroit-turns-off-every-public-schools-drinking-water-due-to-high-levels-of-lead-copper-a69eb0ed471e/">High
Levels of Lead, Copper</a>.


feed_id: 8497c3dde28109b72bcae8baee0867af
title: Siding with Palestinian struggle
uri: Siding-with-Palestinian-struggle
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#31_August_2018_%28Siding_with_Palestinian_struggle%29

content:
<p>
Siding with the Palestinian Struggle 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/28/palestinian-struggle-jeremy-corbyn-zionism">Is
Not Antisemitic</a> &mdash; Corbyn has no need to apologize.
<p>
I am not outright opposed to Zionism; like 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/downloads/truth/Truth%20Against%20Truth%20-%20English">Uri
Avnery</a>, I want a peaceful compromise between the Israeli cause and
the Palestinian cause.


feed_id: 08022937f01948dd85c8a1b895c78521
title: Broke white person explains white privilege
uri: Broke-white-person-explains-white-privilege
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#31_August_2018_%28Broke_white_person_explains_white_privilege%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://occupywallstreet.net/story/explaining-white-privilege-broke-white-person">Explaining
White Privilege to a Broke White Person...</a>  by someone who grew up
as a broke white person.


feed_id: a99b88e98e2b5a6169e8e59c6f2169f0
title: Global heating and El Ni&ntilde;o
uri: Global-heating-and-El-Niño
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#31_August_2018_%28Global_heating_and_El_Nino%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/aug/29/global-warming-is-intensifying-el-nino-weather">increases
the effects of El Ni&ntilde;o</a>, especially for land regions in
North America and Australia.


feed_id: 4a4be36eb77b15c6879622ba33be89dc
title: Some German thugs helping neo-Nazis
uri: Some-German-thugs-helping-neo-Nazis
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#31_August_2018_%28Some_German_thugs_helping_neo-Nazis%29

content:
<p>
It appears that some German <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/arrest-warrant-leak-fuels-suspicions-of-far-right-links-with-german-police">helping
neo-Nazis</a>.


feed_id: d7a8b4c3bf56cf871ad4e200d8a9f111
title: 'Security' censorship
uri: Security-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28%27Security%27_censorship%29
content:
<p>
"Security" censorship in Australia: a man that the state won't
identify is accused of planning a violent crime solely on the strength
of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/31/man-arrested-and-charged-with-terror-offences-in-sydney">having
a copy</a> of some information.
<p>
The state admits that the man could not have committed an actual crime.
Which means the alleged "planning" would have been just a fantasy.


feed_id: 4dba57b4c72cce4eee94218108123f70
title: Sand trade
uri: Sand-trade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28Sand_trade%29
content:
<p>
Trade of Coastal Sand
Is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/31/trade-of-coastal-sand-is-damaging-wildlife-of-poorer-nations-study-finds">Damaging
Wildlife of Poorer Nations</a>, Study Finds.
<p>
This is one of many ways in which human economic activity is
unsustainable, and eating up the ecosphere. We need to reduce
the human population, and the humane way is to have fewer children.


feed_id: bbd2bd93faa9fd65205b3acfba56439b
title: Push to ban Chelsea Manning
uri: Push-to-ban-Chelsea-Manning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28Push_to_ban_Chelsea_Manning%29
content:
<p>
Australian right-wing extremists
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/30/move-to-ban-chelsea-manning-from-australia-a-political-stunt-to-appease-trump">pushing
to ban Chelsea Manning</a> from going there to speak.


feed_id: a677579726078efab626e7d2c9a21953
title: Regrets from financial crash
uri: Regrets-from-financial-crash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28Regrets_from_financial_crash%29
content:
<p>
Ten Years after the Financial Crash, the Timid
Left <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/30/financial-crash-capitalism-banking-crisis">Should
Be Full of Regrets</a>.
<p>
Yes, but someone who serves the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a> as Obama does was hardly
part of the left.


feed_id: 12a9dbff3aec41ad889063cad8d8ad21
title: Salvini investigation
uri: Salvini-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28Salvini_investigation%29
content:
<p>
Italian Minister
Salvini <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/25/matteo-salvini-formally-investigated-over-migrant-ship-standoff">is
being investigated</a> for imprisoning 100 refugees on the Italian
coast guard ship Ubaldo Diciotti.
<p>
That ship docked in an Italian port and Salvini would not let
the refugees off the ship.


feed_id: 42dec7b492388642f9d8f1b5a4958ff7
title: Peace activists in Israel
uri: Peace-activists-in-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28Peace_activists_in_Israel%29
content:
<p>
Aggressive Israeli right-wing "settlers" are attacking peace activists
<a href="https://972mag.com/spilling-enemy-blood-is-allowed-after-settler-attack-israeli-activists-speak-out/137482/">ever
more frequently</a>.
<p>
If you imagine the kind of right-wing total domination that the
bullshitter's supporters are aiming for, that is what Israel has become.


feed_id: 00f78e0e152ae456c8a5ab496e6e287e
title: Public urinals in Paris
uri: Public-urinals-in-Paris
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28Public_urinals_in_Paris%29
content:
<p>
Protesters in
Paris <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/protesters-damage-sexist-open-air-urinals-in-paris">ruined
public urinals</a> because they consider it unfair to reduce public
urination by men until women are allowed to breastfeed.
<p>
I support the latter cause, but that doesn't make it desirable for drunken
men to piss on the sidewalk.


feed_id: 7728df27456249ad37625b3a220bfe04
title: Indian activists arrested
uri: Indian-activists-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28Indian_activists_arrested%29
content:
<p>
Prominent Indian activists, for human rights or more income for the
poor, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/protests-india-rights-activists-placed-under-house-arrest">have
been arrested</a> because of their political views.


feed_id: 62d61c126abaebf12fd1d6c580560fa6
title: Hurricane deaths
uri: Hurricane-deaths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28Hurricane_deaths%29
content:
<p>
The hurricane that hit Puerto
Rico <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/29/storm-death-toll-puerto-rico-rivals-911-where-war-climate-change?cd-origin=rss">killed
about as many Americans</a> as the 2001 terrorist attacks, so why not
have a Global War on Global Heating, or at least a War on Puerto
Rico's Poverty?
<p>
I think the difference in response is that the damage in Puerto Rico
provides an opportunity to seize property from Puerto Rico. By
contrast, the opportunity provided by the terrorist attacks was for
"security" (massive spending and massive surveillance).
<p>
(satire) Trump Revokes Puerto Rico Recovery Funds After Learning
Hurricane
Maria <a href="https://politics.theonion.com/trump-revokes-puerto-rico-recovery-funds-after-learning-1828687766">Had
Fewer Survivors</a>.


feed_id: 8f3aeb6184b5f0ddfbccbd5aedf23c92
title: Schumer's deals
uri: Schumer-s-deals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28Schumer%27s_deals%29
content:
<p>
Senator Schumer claims to be a Democrat but is making deals
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/29/sparking-more-calls-his-ouster-utterly-useless-chuck-schumer-cuts-deal-mcconnell?cd-origin=rss">approve
extremist Republican judges</a>.


feed_id: 453a81903558c45fc5d431aad72af8de
title: 1968 Democratic Convention
uri: 1968-Democratic-Convention
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%281968_Democratic_Convention%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/28/chicago-68-50-year-lessons-america-still-hasnt-learned?cd-origin=rss">50
years ago</a>, Chicago thugs rioted and crushed nonviolent peace
demonstrators &mdash; and journalists &mdash; at the Democratic
Convention.


feed_id: 486269ce42fb02101bde4b2bad3908ae
title: Food chain collapse
uri: Food-chain-collapse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#1_September_2018_%28Food_chain_collapse%29
content:
<p>
(satire) SC Johnson &amp; Son recalled every single product from their
Raid brand of insecticides Tuesday after realizing the food chain
would <a href="https://www.theonion.com/raid-recalls-entire-line-of-insecticide-after-realizing-1828656335P">simply
collapse without bugs</a>.


feed_id: 7813f19caf345ea2047f9dd730cb0525
title: Urgent: Rise for Climate rally
uri: Urgent-Rise-for-Climate-rally
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Rise_for_Climate_rally%29

content:
<p>
In the US: participate in
a <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/rise-for-climate">Rise
for Climate rally</a> on Sep 8.


feed_id: e70c2a848cf2af77f301d910c747365f
title: Urgent: Corporation reform bill
uri: Urgent-Corporation-reform-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Corporation_reform_bill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support Senator
Warren's <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/warren_corporate_accountability">corporation
reform bill</a>.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: aa714e27f7c9ab5f693164352344a9c9
title: Bail reform legislation
uri: Bail-reform-legislation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Bail_reform_legislation%29
content:
<p>
ACLU of California Changes Position
to <a href="https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-california-changes-position-oppose-bail-reform-legislation">Oppose
Bail Reform Legislation</a>.
<p>
The
bill <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/29/trailblazing-california-law-abolishes-cash-bail-rights-groups-warn-it-wont-end?cd-origin=rss">was
modified</a> to create a different system for putting too many people
in jail before trial.


feed_id: 81c928e44f17b851b33d37b0e80f91a5
title: Losing the November elections
uri: Losing-the-November-elections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Losing_the_November_elections%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/29/15-ways-democrats-can-lose-november-elections?cd-origin=rss">15
Ways the Democrats Can Lose</a> the November Elections.


feed_id: 742303b43f8ca5ff233b8f6522e3d3ed
title: Kavanaugh's judicial record
uri: Kavanaugh-s-judicial-record
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh%27s_judicial_record%29

content:
<p>
Kavanaugh's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/31/kavanaugh-swing-vote-supreme-court">judicial
record shows</a> he would make the US more plutocratist, more cruel,
and more unjust.


feed_id: 9d531fdf2c19e5065751846bc14629ec
title: Classes for thugs
uri: Classes-for-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Classes_for_thugs%29
content:
<p>
A <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> who killed a black man for no reason is
now <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2018/08/29/white-privilege-101-how-survive-killing-unarmed-black-man-his-hands-air-video-and?cd-origin=rss">teaching
classes to thugs</a> about how get away with killing.


feed_id: 33b9b593ad69c20b491a67b0020202c5
title: Global heating and pests
uri: 2018-09-03-Global-heating-and-pests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Global_heating_and_pests%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> will enable agricultural pests
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/30/crop-losses-to-pests-will-soar-as-climate-warms-study-warns">do
a lot more damage</a>.


feed_id: 0a0a0c61368c5f9c81c367d428adbeb7
title: Imposing poverty on Brazil
uri: Imposing-poverty-on-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Imposing_poverty_on_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
The government of Brazil's President Fear
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/30/michel-temers-hardline-policies-are-ruining-brazil">imposing
poverty on the country</a>, much like the US Republicans.


feed_id: 9969dd39b63fe9df752250cdc4a27ec2
title: Bobi Wine
uri: Bobi-Wine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Bobi_Wine%29
content:
<p>
Politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, aka musician Bobi Wine, has
been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/31/protests-kampala-pop-star-politician-bobi-wine-blocked-leaving-uganda">banned
from leaving Uganda</a> to get treatment for the effects of torture.


feed_id: aedf00b4ead8c15dfeb4d9212dd63729
title: Amazon vs Sanders
uri: Amazon-vs-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Amazon_vs_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
Amazon <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev8eqp/amazon-is-beefing-with-bernie-sanders-over-its-treatment-of-employees">misrepresented
its treatment of workers</a> when arguing with Senator Sanders, by
forgetting about all the temporary workers.


feed_id: 483bf4f661f563dfb1d219bb4fe07c12
title: Unkinder Morgan blocked
uri: Unkinder-Morgan-blocked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Unkinder_Morgan_blocked%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/30/trans-mountain-pipeline-latest-canada-court-overturns">An
appeals court blocked</a> the Unkinder Morgan tar sands pipeline.


feed_id: 5816b4b554b86334024df7436636afd9
title: Energy drink ban
uri: Energy-drink-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Energy_drink_ban%29
content:
<p>
"Energy drinks" are loaded with caffeine and sugar.  The UK plans
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/29/ban-sale-energy-drinks-to-children-uk-government-combat-obesity">ban
their sale to minors</a>.


feed_id: 579da7146f383b5a200965a8e01ddeb5
title: Chen Guangcheng on Google
uri: Chen-Guangcheng-on-Google
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Chen_Guangcheng_on_Google%29
content:
<p>
Chen Guangcheng, Chinese
dissident, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/08/27/google-is-on-the-verge-of-making-a-huge-mistake-with-china/?noredirect=on">implores
Google</a> not to censor for China.


feed_id: 7d277d7e01eb614b41b5ba8ec7c93a32
title: Cat ban in New Zealand
uri: Cat-ban-in-New-Zealand
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Cat_ban_in_New_Zealand%29
content:
<p>
A part of New
Zealand <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/30/paw-outcome-new-zealand-council-proposes-banning-all-cats">plans
to ban cats</a> in order to protect the native birds.
<p>
Mice and rats are intrusive species in New Zealand, like cats. In a
few decades it may be possible to eliminate all mice in that country,
as well as all rats and all cats.


feed_id: 9b1232577843f4e3d2225fb48be7ad46
title: Urgent: Kavanaugh's suppressed record
uri: Urgent-Kavanaugh-s-suppressed-record
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Kavanaugh%27s_suppressed_record%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and call on them to demand to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/01/read-be-outraged-call-your-senators-trump-suppressing-100000-pages-kavanaughs-record?cd-origin=rss">see
the full papers</a> of Kavanaugh's White House advice to Dubya.
</p>
  <p>
    The Capitol Switchboard
    numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.
  </p>
<p>If you phone, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 396dd5219eede38be0eff69c709f93d1
title: Urgent: Arms for attacking Yemen
uri: Urgent-Arms-for-attacking-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Arms_for_attacking_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/page/29652/action/1">Call
on the USA</a> to stop supplying arms for use in bombarding and
attacking Yemen.
</p>
<p>If you send a letter, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 32587ea30b06c5d915127723cb94f1e4
title: Starfish-destroying drones
uri: Starfish-destroying-drones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Starfish-destroying_drones%29
content:
<p>
A underwater drone has been constructed that
can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/31/robot-drone-could-protect-great-barrier-reef-by-killing-crown-of-thorns-starfish">recognize
and destroy the starfish</a> that are eating the Great Barrier Reef.
<p>
The biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef (and most of the
ecosphere) is fossil fuel combustion. Could we design a drone to
recognize and destroy oil wells?


feed_id: 1bc0bc288c3faa9403e8ad458e292baa
title: Put on trial for jokes
uri: Put-on-trial-for-jokes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Put_on_trial_for_jokes%29
content:
<p>
Russia is putting people on trial and labeling them as "extremists"
for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/01/young-russians-posting-memes-face-jail-for-extremism">posting
irreverent jokes</a>.


feed_id: 71f52f01a4dcc15e06887494d4b76703
title: Dealing with North Korea
uri: 2018-09-04-Dealing-with-North-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Dealing_with_North_Korea%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/31/north-south-korea-train-project-halted-us">South
Korea and the US disagree</a> about how to deal with North Korea.


feed_id: a7b85f00f547bf867145e2e6d74164d2
title: Ripping off student borrowers
uri: Ripping-off-student-borrowers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Ripping_off_student_borrowers%29

content:
<p>
Trump Administration Helped Banks Rip Off Student
Borrowers, <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-helped-banks-rip-off-student-borrowers-official-alleges/">Official
Alleges</a>.


feed_id: 6f83a1d785fb98c8fb87fdd1dc107f11
title: Reconquest of Idlib
uri: Reconquest-of-Idlib
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Reconquest_of_Idlib%29
content:
<p>
Russia and Assad are preparing for
a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/01/russia-softens-up-west-for-bloodbath-planning-in-idlib-syria">bloody
reconquest of Idlib</a>, the last region of Syria where Arab rebels
have control.
<p>
Those rebels
are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_May_2018_(Supporting_Assad)">Sunni
Islamists</a>;
if they had taken over Syria,
things would have gone badly for other groups.
<p>
However, if Assad takes Idlib, he
is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_February_2017_(Assad's_men)">likely
to torture and kill</a> thousands more prisoners.
<p>
I can't see anything that anyone could plausibly do to prevent this,
and that's what is the great shame.


feed_id: efe110e3ec8064cad0772e9df849fc09
title: Prison strike leaders
uri: Prison-strike-leaders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Prison_strike_leaders%29
content:
<p>
Prisons
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/31/us-inmates-prison-strike-retaliation">putting
strike leaders into solitary</a> or transferring them to other
prisons.


feed_id: a672761ecb4e8060ef71451232d3ad17
title: 'Monkey this up' comment
uri: Monkey-this-up-comment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28%27Monkey_this_up%27_comment%29
content:
<p>
(satire) Florida candidate Desantis regrets causing offense with his
"monkey this up" comment, saying it was intended to
go <a href="https://politics.theonion.com/ron-desantis-clarifies-that-monkey-comment-was-intend-1828728794">unnoticed
as a dog-whistle</a> to his supporters.


feed_id: 2f818e5830bf9a5266cb9be1645ee388
title: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Reducing_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/30/local-efforts-noble-study-shows-scale-climate-threat-demands-heavy-lifting-national?cd-origin=rss">Some
US cities and states</a> are planning to reduce their greenhouse gas
emissions, but the existing plans do not come anywhere near what is
needed to avoid global disaster.


feed_id: 4ebb65565d2081caf70a1a157a17cdc0
title: Wage increase cancelled
uri: Wage-increase-cancelled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Wage_increase_cancelled%29
content:
<p>
The
cheater <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/30/absolutely-repulsive-after-15-trillion-tax-giveaway-rich-trump-cancels-modest-pay?cd-origin=rss">cancelled
a planned wage increase</a> for federal workers on the grounds that
the money was already spent on his tax gifts to the rich.


feed_id: d39b44942a661e676091a81431755153
title: Iran nuclear deal continues
uri: Iran-nuclear-deal-continues
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Iran_nuclear_deal_continues%29
content:
<p>
Iran <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/30/pariah-status-trump-solidified-un-watchdog-reports-iran-continues-comply-nuclear?cd-origin=rss">continues
the nuclear deal</a> even despite painful US trade sanctions.
<p>
European countries should take steps to prevent their export products from
depending on the US in any way, so that the US cannot have a veto power
over their future exports.


feed_id: 0f7060d83996c2b5c18b8a516f972cbe
title: Siding with big business
uri: Siding-with-big-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Siding_with_big_business%29
content:
<p>
Kavanaugh Sided With U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Big Businesses Associations in
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/08/30/kavanaugh-sided-us-chamber-commerce-big-businesses-associations-76-percent-cases?cd-origin=rss">76
Percent of Cases</a>.
<p>
Trump’s Policies Toward
Workers: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/08/30/trumps-policies-toward-workers-drop-dead?cd-origin=rss">Drop
Dead</a>.


feed_id: e7bdd4d51acaeaf1cf1724c6ced7d456
title: Tax shelter for the wealthy
uri: Tax-shelter-for-the-wealthy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Tax_shelter_for_the_wealthy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> plans to give wealthy people
a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/08/31/trumps-forthcoming-retirement-savings-executive-order-cruel-joke-workers?cd-origin=rss">bigger
tax shelter for retirement savings</a>, dressed up to look like it
will benefit working people who can't even afford to pay their debts.


feed_id: 064e6d9ec0675777fd784be55ab6fb05
title: Pelican Bay prison living conditions
uri: Pelican-Bay-prison-living-conditions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Pelican_Bay_prison_living_conditions%29

content:
<p>
(satire) Pelican Bay supermax prison warden Earl Daniels has divulged
that he is 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/warden-scrambling-to-find-ways-to-punish-striking-inmat-1828741696">struggling
to find methods of punishment worse than the inmates' current living
conditions</a>.


feed_id: 549b4fc5ccbc8e51a686bb09a1821923
title: NAFTA
uri: 2018-09-04-NAFTA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28NAFTA%29
content:
<p>
Expected August 31 NAFTA Notice: A Final Deal Must Be Judged on
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/08/31/expected-august-31-nafta-notice-final-deal-must-be-judged-whether-it-will-stop">Whether
It Will Stop NAFTA's Serious Ongoing Damage</a>.
<p>
There is also the danger that the replacement deal will increase
copyright repression, as the WTO did.


feed_id: 1d838a9bb5798f612d3c8e9b4008de1b
title: Kavanaugh's record
uri: 2018-09-04-Kavanaugh-s-record
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_record%29
content:
<p>
Kavanaugh's record shows that he 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/30/national-security-kavanaugh-has-history-extreme-deference-president">favors
the power of the federal government, and especially the president</a>,
over any possible restraints in the constitution or treaties.


feed_id: 31f65faae2beacbde4b3df24c575216e
title: UK arrests noted journalists
uri: UK-arrests-noted-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28UK_arrests_noted_journalists%29
content:
<p>
Noted journalists have been 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/31/loughinisland-killings-journalists-arrested-over-stolen-documents">arrested
by the UK for leaking information</a> about a massacre 24 years ago,
that was connected with the sectarian violence there.


feed_id: fd7cdc20ae51a55bf8f3cfa21951a278
title: US government denies passports to citizens
uri: US-government-denies-passports-to-citizens
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28US_government_denies_passports_to_citizens%29

content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/30/ethnic-cleansing-bureaucracy-trump-administration-denying-passports-accusing-latino">denies
passports to citizens of Latin origin</a>, claiming their birth
certificates are fake.  Some citizens have been exiled to Mexico.


feed_id: ec4c837aaa6f7d7bb35f6501754fd9c7
title: Republicans Will Let Florida Drown
uri: Republicans-Will-Let-Florida-Drown
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Republicans_Will_Let_Florida_Drown%29

content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/30/republicans-will-let-florida-drown">Will
Let Florida Drown</a>.  (Along with much of New York City, Washington
DC, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc.)


feed_id: 20c08c499e8a5f8cae9be9e9698efa7c
title: UK thugs
uri: 2018-09-04-UK-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28UK_thugs%29
content:
<p>
A panel of UK <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/30/konstancja-duff-kurtis-howard-met-police-sergeant-cleared-misconduct-over-strip-search-academic">ruled
that strip-searching Konstancja Duff was legal</a> because she denied
active cooperation such as answering questions.
<p>
I think the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>' main crime against her was to arrest her for
handing a card with legal aid information to someone they had decided
to search without specific suspicion (which usually means, to harass
based on racial profiling).


feed_id: fffc9b296ec474536b8fd5aded3c8206
title: Republican proposal for prenatal care
uri: Republican-proposal-for-prenatal-care
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Republican_proposal_for_prenatal_care%29

content:
<p>
Republicans propose to give American parents paid parental leave at
the expense of their retirement pensions.  An economic study describes
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/30/new-study-details-why-rubios-paid-family-leave-plan-endorsed-ivanka-trump-scam">the
effects that would have</a>.


feed_id: 0b36e346cac022ecaf4d401cf82bfc7e
title: US medical care
uri: US-medical-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28US_medical_care%29
content:
<p>
For some poor people in the US, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/31/i-didnt-get-arrested-i-got-rescued-jail-is-a-lifeline-for-some-pregnant-women">jail
is the only place they can get proper medical care</a>.


feed_id: 8243876e7667f8cd27dbeb248b77aec2
title: Mergers of large corporations
uri: Mergers-of-large-corporations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Mergers_of_large_corporations%29

content:
<p>
A bill to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/08/29/food-water-watch-applauds-sen-bookers-groundbreaking-food-and-agribusiness">put
a moratorium on mergers of large corporations in agriculture and
processing and selling food</a> would take a small step towards
restoring the antitrust law that we used to have before Reagan.
<p>
Before Reagan was elected, he 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#9_August_2016_(Trumps_bullshit)">made
a deal with Iran in which Iran agreed to keep US soldiers prisoner
until after the US election</a>.  Later he rewarded Lebanese
hostage-takers by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_August_2014_(Nixon_and_Kissenger_sabotaged_a_cease-fire_in_Vietnam)">paying
a ransom in the form of arms</a>.


feed_id: a8b44fac7cadcc8cc8339f7860c66dbf
title: Kavanaugh's history
uri: Kavanaugh-s-history
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_history%29
content:
<p>
Legal Analysis Exposes Kavanaugh's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/29/legal-analysis-exposes-kavanaughs-long-history-siding-corporate-power-over-common">Long
History of Siding With Corporate Power Over the Common Good</a>.


feed_id: 93825ee828666ba21832865c2044769b
title: Urgent: Rise for Climate rally
uri: 2018-09-04-Urgent-Rise-for-Climate-rally
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#2_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Rise_for_Climate_rally%29

content:
<p>
In the US: participate in
a <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/rise-for-climate">Rise
for Climate rally</a> on Sep 8.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/01/amid-extreme-weather-and-record-heat-global-mobilization-demands-fast-and-fair">the
idea of the protest</a>.


feed_id: aafe494c9ff114e01d0c2a401e3e7144
title: Paranoid US parents
uri: Paranoid-US-parents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Paranoid_US_parents%29
content:
<p>
Paranoid US parents are now 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/realestate/home-alone-with-a-spy-cam.html">invited
to use surveillance technology to spy on their children
everywhere</a>.
<p>
Here's an idea for a story: a US teenager from 2025 inexplicably goes to 1970
and learns to get used to not being tracked.  Then 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html">perse</a> returns to 2025
and finds family tracking intolerable.


feed_id: d1037d394c63400425240d274b248238
title: Protests in Russia
uri: 2018-09-05-Protests-in-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Protests_in_Russia%29
content:
<p>
There were large protests in Russia against a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/02/thousands-protest-in-russia-against-plans-to-hike-retirement-age">planned
increase in the retirement age</a>.  Arresting Navalny did not stop
them.


feed_id: efa679661c72a5cecc73a3ecefbd81b2
title: Brain damage suffered by US diplomats
uri: Brain-damage-suffered-by-US-diplomats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Brain_damage_suffered_by_US_diplomats%29

content:
<p>
The brain damage suffered by some US diplomats in Cuba and China might
have been caused by 
<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/microwave-weapons-are-prime-suspect-in-ills-of-us-embassy-workers/">"microwave
weapons"</a>.
<p>
Such weapons may be possible, but I can't see any sensible reason why
Cuba and China would want to use such weapons against US diplomats.
<p>
If microwaves were involved, was it necessarily an intentional attack
using a weapon?  Maybe the microwaves were emitted by something else,
such as a security device or spy device set up by the US in the
embassy, and the effect on people's brains was an unexpected side
effect.


feed_id: 7764ddebc5f21834449dbb34fd1d7e24
title: "Smart city" projects
uri: Smart-city-projects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Smart_city_projects%29
content:
<p>
A classic example of how "smart city" projects claim to protect
privacy while 
<a href="https://cippic.ca/en/Open_Smart_Cities">ignoring the danger
of massive surveillance</a>.
<p>
This mentions that someone is "accountable" for the use of the data
the snoop city collects &mdash; which gives no reason to think the
rules seriously protect our privacy &mdash; but shows no attempt to
protect against a massive increase in tracking and collection of
personal data.


feed_id: e89b37e91661b48227f24697754cfaa8
title: Corbyn's opposition to racism praised
uri: Corbyn-s-opposition-to-racism-praised
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Corbyns_opposition_to_racism_praised%29

content:
<p>
Arab members of Israel's Parliament praised Corbyn for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/02/israels-arab-mps-corbyn-antisemitism-row">refusing
to define criticism of Israel as "antisemitism"</a>.  They praised his
opposition to all forms of racism, antisemitism included.


feed_id: dd102895a64f7d93a3d696508f027b09
title: Global heating denial organizations
uri: 2018-09-05-Global-heating-denial-organizations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Global_heating_denial_organizations%29

content:
<p>
Exxon still 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/02/why-exxonmobil-still-funding-climate-science-denier-groups">gives
money to global heating denial organizations</a> although it claims to
acknowledge <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> now.


feed_id: 1b7c18a87a521c1cb19d93464ba8b226
title: Tories
uri: 2018-09-05-Tories
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Tories%29
content:
<p>
The Tories are using withdrawal from the EU as an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/02/green-watchdog-powerless-climate-change-post-brexit">excuse
to negate environmental protection</a>.


feed_id: 65948e228e75b5539efefbc965122eb9
title: Basic functionality of a "smart" TV
uri: Basic-functionality-of-a-smart-TV
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Basic_functionality_of_a_smart_TV%29

content:
<p>
The basic functionality of a "smart" TV is to
<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90220763/no-flipping-how-smart-tvs-are-getting-quite-smart-about-you">report
what people watch on it</a>.  For "smart", read "snooping".


feed_id: c386acc59cd0dbe8aa4dd091c408ecda
title: Global heating denial
uri: 2018-09-05-Global-heating-denial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Global_heating_denial%29
content:
<p>
The Prime Minister of Samoa said 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/31/world-leaders-who-deny-climate-change-should-go-to-mental-hospital-samoan-pm">officials
that deny global heating belong in a mental hospital</a>.
<p>
They should be put in a padded cell and not allowed communication
except with relatives and doctors.


feed_id: 12dc126b53d0c4598a35bbfeb96a6339
title: Burmese Army
uri: Burmese-Army
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Burmese_Army%29
content:
<p>
The Burmese Army has published a book accusing Rohingya of atrocities,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/31/myanmar-army-fakes-photos-and-history-in-sinister-rewrite-of-rohingya-crisis">showing
photos from past wars in other countries</a>.


feed_id: b5455ec9ccc7ecac191d625b24f69108
title: Journalist convicted of "spying"
uri: Journalist-convicted-of-spying
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_September_2018_%28Journalist_convicted_of_spying%29

content:
<p>
Australian journalist James Ricketson has been convicted of "spying"
in Cambodia.  Cambodia 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/31/australian-film-maker-james-ricketson-sentenced-to-six-years-jail-in-cambodia">doesn't
recognize much difference between journalism and spying</a>.
<p>
Sad to say, neither does 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_March_2018_(Australian_snooping)">Australia</a>,
nor
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#3_September_2018_(UK_arrests_noted_journalists)">the
UK</a>.


feed_id: 544761dc75761eb82bc5400591899dc5
title: Urgent: Line 3 pipeline
uri: Urgent-Line-3-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Line_3_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/act/send-message-stop-line-3">urge
Gov Dayton of Minnesota</a> to block the Line 3 pipeline.
</p>
<p>If you send a message, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 9f2a2e693dd85d771d6777da1283a72d
title: End to paywalled journals
uri: End-to-paywalled-journals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28End_to_paywalled_journals%29
content:
<p>
European research funding agencies aim
to <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06178-7">put an
end to paywalled journals</a>.
<p>
I've <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.html">called
for this</a> for 17 years.


feed_id: e497c4b1266be5227b106443f62c7695
title: Nutrition assistance program
uri: Nutrition-assistance-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Nutrition_assistance_program%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/03/healthy-babies-risk-warn-experts-trump-fearmongering-drives-immigrant-families?cd-origin=rss">Healthy
Babies at Risk</a>, Warn Experts, as Trump Fearmongering Drives
Immigrant Families Off Nutrition Assistance Program.


feed_id: 53ab371cfceb17ef6df9bf26bee95d38
title: Public places closing
uri: Public-places-closing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Public_places_closing%29
content:
<p>
In Britain, all sorts of public places to meet people and hang out
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/04/britain-shared-spaces-pubs-youth-clubs-libraries-austerity">closing
in large numbers</a>.


feed_id: b74ade998928eca36e338787b7d37549
title: Union support and membership
uri: Union-support-and-membership
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Union_support_and_membership%29
content:
<p>
Over 60% of Americans support unions,
but <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/03/helping-labor-get-its-back-we-have-obligation-reverse-erosion-unions?cd-origin=rss">just
over 10% are union members</a>. This measures the effectiveness of
repressive anti-union laws.


feed_id: 2e8885f20d6481799a88512127842f83
title: Palestinian refugee support
uri: Palestinian-refugee-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Palestinian_refugee_support%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>
has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/03/us-cuts-unrwa-point-dark-future-being-readied-palestinians?cd-origin=rss">cut
off US funds</a> to support Palestinian refugees.
<p>
One can criticize the Arab governments of 1949 for deciding not to
integrate Palestinians into their populations, but that hardly excuses
starving them now.


feed_id: c49d808b4ce8e8e2ebe37df08168cef2
title: Wealth since the fiscal crisis
uri: Wealth-since-the-fiscal-crisis
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Wealth_since_the_fiscal_crisis%29

content:
<p>
In the 10 years since the fiscal crisis, the richest 10% of Americans
have gained 30 trillion dollars in wealth. Meanwhile, the poorer half
of Americans have lost
around <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/03/what-just-happened-30-trillion-richest-white-americans-2008?cd-origin=rss">half
a trillion in wealth</a> &mdash; from an average of $11,000 per person
to $8,000 per person, a loss of over 25%.
<p>
Thus, the new wealth created in the US since 2008 has gone entirely to
the rich, and they have taken what the poor could not spare. This is
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a> at work.


feed_id: 02e704e59ed5db140b400ddb36d085f8
title: Global heating denial paper
uri: Global-heating-denial-paper
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Global_heating_denial_paper%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing parties in the European
Parliament <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/03/far-right-climate-change-deniers-debate-ukip-emp-report-eu">chose
a denialist</a> to write a paper on global heating.


feed_id: 6c1b3c58bfe39295d2a040cf5c7cc1f4
title: Taking photos of thugs
uri: Taking-photos-of-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Taking_photos_of_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The Denver
thugs <a href="https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2018/08/28/denver-police-editor-handcuff-first-amendment/">physically
attacked, and arrested,</a> a journalist taking photos of their
interaction with someone they had handcuffed on the street.  As usual,
they made absurd excuses that showed contempt for the law they are
supposed to uphold, as well as for human rights and justice.
<p>
If the thug chief does not fire those two <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>, that will make per
complicit in their contempt for the rights of the people that <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>
generally claim they "serve and protect".


feed_id: f3bae40b5ed50bf9f44206ed1b89c556
title: Citizenship proof for banks
uri: Citizenship-proof-for-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Citizenship_proof_for_banks%29
content:
<p>
Bank of America has demanded that many customers prove they are US
citizens, and closing their accounts
otherwise. It <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article217567300.html">refuses
to admit</a> that this policy exists.
<p>
Bank of America is one of the large banks that has too much power.
Why not move your money into a smaller bank this week?


feed_id: d89dd6b569f14bef1c4d940acbdfd817
title: Thugs selling soda
uri: Thugs-selling-soda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Thugs_selling_soda%29
content:
<p>
Two <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>
were <a href="https://www.wtnh.com/news/news-8-exclusive/school-resource-officers-caught-illegally-selling-soda-to-students/1400294823">caught
illegally selling soda</a> in a school in Connecticut.  They were not
punished for this.
<p>
This cute story describes a minor peccadillo done in one place by some
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> in a school. Meanwhile, all the thugs stationed in US schools
arrest students from time to time and send them down the
school-to-prison pipeline.


feed_id: 068c64d3dcf5caaf61fd399d0cdf7cbc
title: Cholera outbreak prediction
uri: Cholera-outbreak-prediction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Cholera_outbreak_prediction%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45259922">Software that
predicts outbreaks of cholera</a> has enabled medics to do a pretty
good job of suppressing the epidemic.
<p>
If only they could predict outbreaks of cluster bombs and drone
missiles.


feed_id: b01daa9099dee56ad22b2b39be12576f
title: ISP lobbyists
uri: 2018-09-06-ISP-lobbyists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28ISP_lobbyists%29
content:
<p>
The ISPs/phone companies leaked their lobbyists' talking points by
mailing them to a
journalist. <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180829/18030740541/that-time-telco-lobbyists-sent-me-all-their-talking-points-about-trying-to-shift-blame-to-internet-companies.shtml">This
article</a> describes them and refutes them.


feed_id: 6bc90dc02a1f4b83552930f1b932badd
title: Google Mastercard deal
uri: Google-Mastercard-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Google_Mastercard_deal%29
content:
<p>
Google <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-and-mastercard-cut-a-secret-ad-deal-to-track-retail-sales">made
a deal with Mastercard</a> so as to use credit card data to detect
when an ad effectively lead to a sale.
<p>
This is one of the reasons why I pay my bills by check, not by credit card.


feed_id: 546ae98d010bea6774b399938aa31b18
title: Caning for homosexual sex
uri: Caning-for-homosexual-sex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Caning_for_homosexual_sex%29
content:
<p>
Malaysia
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/03/women-caned-in-malaysia-for-attempting-to-have-lesbian-sex">punished
people with caning</a> for having homosexual sex.


feed_id: 9b2bf3d3ded80316c4869403b560bfc3
title: Dredging for scallops
uri: Dredging-for-scallops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#5_September_2018_%28Dredging_for_scallops%29
content:
<p>
Pulling scallops off the sea bottom is done
by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/shortcuts/2018/sep/03/scallop-wars-should-you-eat-shellfish">extremely
destructive dredging</a>.


feed_id: 087313a06cd565706458aa1aa7da4390
title: Brazil's Olympics spending
uri: Brazil-s-Olympics-spending
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Brazils_Olympics_spending%29
content:
<p>
Brazil's National Museum Blaze Blamed on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/03/brazils-national-museum-blaze-blamed-on-austerity-cuts-amid-olympics-spending">Austerity
Cuts</a> Amid Olympics Spending.


feed_id: d6b01fd50464d1f1861e77ce7de52d39
title: The WTO business-supremacy treaty
uri: The-WTO-business-supremacy-treaty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28The_WTO_business-supremacy_treaty%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> occasionally does something potentially good.  He is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/02/trumps-world-trade-wto-threat-threat-matters-especially-britain">attacking
the World Trade Organization</a>.
<p>
The WTO is a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy
treaty</a>.  It has been responsible for eliminating laws to protect
the environment and other things that are worth protecting.
<p>
I don't have confidence in <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a> not to replace it with
something worse.


feed_id: 138ccdc2a09d80680fd2c7f9c9f9b2b1
title: ICE deporting Mauritanians to slavery
uri: ICE-deporting-Mauritanians-to-slavery
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28ICE_deporting_Mauritanians_to_slavery%29

content:
<p>
ICE (the US deportation <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> agency) is Deporting Mauritanians Back to
<a href="https://www.freedomunited.org/news/ice-modern-day-slavery/">Modern-Day
Slavery</a>.


feed_id: 7cc24fe24bdeabf3a2ef954ec60cd30a
title: Private schools for the wealthy
uri: Private-schools-for-the-wealthy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Private_schools_for_the_wealthy%29

content:
<p>
Private schools for the wealthy 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/02/the-guardian-view-on-education-some-things-money-should-not-buy">make
society more unequal for the future</a>.


feed_id: 3471d09e5635f0203fa918fcf1578f9b
title: Access to cooling
uri: Access-to-cooling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Access_to_cooling%29
content:
<p>
Due to the danger of heat waves, 
<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/in-a-changing-climate-access-to-cooling-is-a-human-right/">we
must consider access to cooling a human right</a> for those whose
lives and health are threatened by heat.


feed_id: 4c57f7d5682faa9729a450d493c31418
title: Nauru dictatorship
uri: Nauru-dictatorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Nauru_dictatorship%29
content:
<p>
Nauru has developed into a dictatorship in which 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/03/nauru-a-nation-on-the-cusp-of-democratic-calamity">protests
are forbidden</a> and even members of parliament are imprisoned for
dissent.
<p>
The press are effectively banned, and the reason is basically
the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_(Cruel_treatment_of_refugees_in_Nauru)">abuses
committed against the refugees</a> that Nauru imprisons for Australia.


feed_id: c47f42bc3cf11be0037a0abb3d9d51ba
title: Urgent: Reject Kavanaugh
uri: 2018-09-07-Urgent-Reject-Kavanaugh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Kavanaugh%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone each of your senators and call for rejection
of Kavanaugh.
</p>
  <p>
    The Capitol Switchboard
    numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.
  </p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 55e0a62df1bdcaaa75f3d2acc5f54115
title: Preventing Nuclear War
uri: Preventing-Nuclear-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Preventing_Nuclear_War%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/04/preventing-nuclear-war-national-campaign-emerges?cd-origin=rss">Preventing
Nuclear War</a>: A National Campaign Emerges [in the US].


feed_id: 190a462d25301d61ff47b357d67760f7
title: Antisemitism definition
uri: Antisemitism-definition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Antisemitism_definition%29
content:
<p>
The Labour
Party <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/04/labour-adopts-ihra-antisemitism-definition-in-full">bowed
to pressure</a> to adopt the definition of "antisemitism" which
includes some kinds of criticism of Israel's treatment of
Palestinians.


feed_id: cce3523ca5d377348aa0a3ea051ad900
title: Unaffordable insurance
uri: Unaffordable-insurance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Unaffordable_insurance%29
content:
<p>
[<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a>] Succeeds in Making Insurance for People With Health Problems
<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-succeeds-in-making-insurance-for-people-with-health-problems-unaffordable/">Unaffordable</a>.


feed_id: f291b3edf4edd485d3a085217fab598a
title: New German progressive movement
uri: New-German-progressive-movement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28New_German_progressive_movement%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/04/echoes-sanders-and-corbyn-left-wing-stand-movement-vows-new-political-revolt-germany?cd-origin=rss">new
German progressive movement</a> has been launched.


feed_id: 1a9654bbca8bccc0f2eb49e9df9a40d5
title: Debating genocide label
uri: Debating-genocide-label
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Debating_genocide_label%29
content:
<p>
A debate about the precise criteria for the crime of
genocide <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/04/genocide-rohingya-international-community-myanmar-rwanda">is
a distraction</a> from what are clearly enormous crimes against the
Rohingya.


feed_id: 75576f79be2e29de5d424b081e9d9cf1
title: Reporting on refugees in Nauru
uri: Reporting-on-refugees-in-Nauru
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Reporting_on_refugees_in_Nauru%29

content:
<p>
Nauru <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/04/new-zealand-reporter-detained-on-nauru-after-refugee-interviews">arrested
a New Zealand reporter</a> for interviewing refugees.  Nobody is
supposed to be able to talk with them.


feed_id: f1ab8f85956fe84c51afa661c67d1a69
title: Investing in fracking
uri: Investing-in-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Investing_in_fracking%29
content:
<p>
Local governments in the UK that oppose fracking
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/04/councils-investing-fracking-industry-local-authorities-green-pensions">investing
pension funds in fracking</a>.


feed_id: d6652217673d7d9eb25fdb99252d0357
title: Recent bird extinctions
uri: Recent-bird-extinctions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Recent_bird_extinctions%29
content:
<p>
We
have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/04/first-eight-bird-extinctions-of-the-21st-century-confirmed">wiped
out eight species</a> of birds since 2000.


feed_id: bb422175e9922786c59ebe154a117578
title: Demonizing beggars
uri: Demonizing-beggars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Demonizing_beggars%29
content:
<p>
Don't Demonise
Beggars. It <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/04/dont-demonise-beggars-homelessness-solve-problem-humans">Won't
Solve the Problem</a> of Homelessness.


feed_id: c239dfc615fc14686e19291017600784
title: Subsidized phone service
uri: Subsidized-phone-service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Subsidized_phone_service%29
content:
<p>
The FCC plans
to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/millions-could-lose-cheap-phone-service-under-fccs-overhaul-of-lifeline/">cut
off 7 million poor Americans</a> from subsidized phone service.


feed_id: b50b12e7692b11a8ad26ed48f41a0e75
title: Airport security trays
uri: Airport-security-trays
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Airport_security_trays%29
content:
<p>
Trays in airport security carry
a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/04/airport-security-trays-carry-more-viruses-than-toilet-surfaces-scientists-find">substantial
amount of viruses</a>.
<p>
I wonder how the risk of contagion from these compares with that of
being in the airplane cabin for a few hours. I would guess that the
risk from the trays is negligible by comparison, but I can't be sure.


feed_id: 0564858a109db11024fb09f99c355219
title: Warning on Idlib
uri: Warning-on-Idlib
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Warning_on_Idlib%29
content:
<p>
The UN and the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> both wanted Russia and
Assad <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/04/un-special-envoy-on-syria-warns-against-bombing-rebel-enclave-idlib">not
to carry out a bloodbath</a> in Idlib.
<p>
Perhaps Turkey will take real steps to prevent it.


feed_id: d3547b6c34993545fa5f504c4c4a4f1e
title: Very urgent: Kavanaugh on Roe v Wade
uri: Very-urgent-Kavanaugh-on-Roe-v-Wade
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Very_urgent%3A_Kavanaugh_on_Roe_v_Wade%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/180717-scotus-kavanaugh-call/">phone
your senators</a> at 1-844-515-2798 and point out that Kavanaugh has
contradicted his claim that Roe v Wade is safe from him because it is
"settled law".
</p>
<p>If you phone, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 65857ace51ca1f931f5c9066b0b65a2b
title: Towing a boat with migrants
uri: Towing-a-boat-with-migrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Towing_a_boat_with_migrants%29
content:
<p>
Tunisian fishermen towed a boat with migrants to Italy
and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/05/tunisian-fishermen-await-trial-after-saving-hundreds-of-migrants">face
charges of "smuggling" them</a>.


feed_id: 318743648f2039eb5e730ad23c65e14f
title: Weak schools
uri: Weak-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Weak_schools%29
content:
<p>
How Weak
Schools <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/04/trump-weak-schools-teachers-education-arne-duncan">Serve
[the exploiter's] Agenda</a>.


feed_id: d376ccbc680bce57f06a02262ddfc329
title: Blair and Salvini
uri: Blair-and-Salvini
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Blair_and_Salvini%29
content:
<p>
(Supposed Labour leader) Tony Blair
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/05/tony-blair-has-friendly-positive-meeting-with-italys-matteo-salvini">'friendly,
positive meeting'</a> with Italy's (semi-extreme right wing) Matteo
Salvini.
<p>
They have a lot in common &mdash; the lots
of <a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">plutocratist
money</a> of their backers.


feed_id: f027319dcab88c9711dbaa6c023d1265
title: Manning blocked from Australia
uri: Manning-blocked-from-Australia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Manning_blocked_from_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Australia
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/05/chelsea-manning-to-continue-australian-tour-via-satellite-from-new-zealand">blocked
Chelsea Manning</a> from going there to speak.  She will present her
talks through remote video.


feed_id: 3c070027a975c1ca60656231829a8d3c
title: Ayanna Pressley
uri: Ayanna-Pressley
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Ayanna_Pressley%29
content:
<p>
Progressive Ayanna
Pressley <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/04/ayanna-pressley-massachusetts-congress-democratic-primary">won
the Democratic primary</a> in my congressional district.
<p>
Many years ago, I went with a group of progressive Democrats to press
Rep. Capuano to take a progressive stance on some issue. He said, "If
you want someone to stand for that, vote for someone else!" This year,
I followed his advice and voted for Pressley.
<p>
Not because of her race or gender &mdash; they make no difference in a
candidate &mdash; but because of what she stands for.


feed_id: 7fda91bc245cc0a88558d07639f08b88
title: Bob Woodward
uri: Bob-Woodward
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Bob_Woodward%29
content:
<p>
The
bullshitter <a href="https://www.wptv.com/news/national/phone-recording-bob-woodward-tried-to-speak-to-trump-about-upcoming-book">lied
blatantly to Bob Woodward</a> about Woodward's own actions, apparently
trying to <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> Woodward into a false confession of incompetent
journalism.
<p>
I suspect the recording is not accessible without nonfree software, so
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/04/transcript-phone-call-between-president-trump-journalist-bob-woodward/">here's
a transcript</a>.


feed_id: 7e899c34811a777b9c26f5fa7d347bd7
title: Seagrass and the bonnethead shark
uri: Seagrass-and-the-bonnethead-shark
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Seagrass_and_the_bonnethead_shark%29

content:
<p>
If seagrass meadows are lost, the bonnethead
shark <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/05/bonnethead-omnivorous-shark-species-identified">could
be lost as well</a>.


feed_id: 8ccd1868fd333fcf2730abf30c3b9953
title: Pipeline protester surveillance
uri: Pipeline-protester-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Pipeline_protester_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Will
thugs <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/04/government-planning-surveil-keystone-xl-protesters?cd-origin=rss">repress,
surveil and frame</a> protesters against Keystone XL of terrorism as
they did the protesters against the Dakota Access pipeline?


feed_id: ea58c60e9ecb01f5972ea144d15567db
title: Lessons from a Polish Jew
uri: Lessons-from-a-Polish-Jew
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Lessons_from_a_Polish_Jew%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/05/survived-warsaw-ghetto-wartime-lessons-extremism-europe">Final
lessons</a> from a Polish Jew who fought in the underground Home Army
against the Germans, and survived the war.
<p>
"There is no such thing as a 'heroic nation' &mdash; or indeed an
inherently malign or evil nation either." There are, however,
societies where myths that tend to encourage atrocities become
widespread, and right-wing extremists are working hard around the
world to make this happen. In the US the non-extreme but amoral
power-seekers have been using such myths for decades
to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair">carry
out atrocities</a>.


feed_id: cc530dcd4cdac5dd2d196e60e448630f
title: Escazú Agreement
uri: Escazú-Agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Escazu_Agreement%29
content:
<p>
Latin American governments are deciding whether to
sign <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/04/treaty-could-protect-environment-and-human-rights-latin-america?cd-origin=rss">the
Escazú Agreement</a>, which calls for strengthened enforcement of
environmental law and protection of environmental protection
activists, who are often murdered by extractivist businesses.


feed_id: 2196eb2e1dad576118d158f68b6296f8
title: Socialist Christians
uri: Socialist-Christians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28Socialist_Christians%29
content:
<p>
80 years ago, many US
Christians <a href="https://sojo.net/articles/can-someone-who-owns-10-yachts-enter-kingdom-god">were
socialists</a>.


feed_id: 3787a04264702893ded62f01b418cda9
title: War crimes in Yemen
uri: 2018-09-08-War-crimes-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#7_September_2018_%28War_crimes_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/04/war-crimes-yemen?cd-origin=rss">A
UN report says</a> that the US coalition has committed many war crimes
in Yemen.


feed_id: c41ddcedee7ebebb9950b64084f96b11
title: Urgent: Reject Kavanaugh
uri: 2018-09-08-Urgent-Reject-Kavanaugh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#6_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Kavanaugh%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone each of your senators and call for rejection
of Kavanaugh.
</p>
  <p>
    The Capitol Switchboard
    numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.
  </p>
<p>If you phone, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: fc239b07d74bc14c445742a50d259868
title: Urgent: Protecting elections
uri: Urgent-Protecting-elections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Protecting_elections%29

content:
<p>
US citizens, <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/PAVE-Act">tell
Congress</a>: Pass the Protecting American Votes and Elections Act.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 8904c42e773bd4efd1d1ab0da786a851
title: Urgent: Voting no on Kavanaugh
uri: Urgent-Voting-no-on-Kavanaugh
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Voting_no_on_Kavanaugh%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/call-collins-murkowski/">phone
Senators Collins and Murkowski</a> to oppose confirmation of
Kavanaugh.
</p>
<p>If you phone, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 2704fc87294f7802593e4dc049b63bc4
title: Drug patents in India
uri: Drug-patents-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Drug_patents_in_India%29
content:
<p>
UCLA's Patent War in
India <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/uclas-patent-war-in-india-prevents-access-to-prostate-cancer-treatment/">Prevents
Access</a> to Prostate Cancer Treatment Worldwide.
<p>
The supposed reason for allowing patents on medicines is to enable Big
Pharma companies to collect the money needed to fund large tests of
their safety and effectiveness. However, allowing companies to control
these
tests <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#03_April_2013_(Novartis_threatens_India)">corrupts
them</a>.
<p>
We should have the government directly fund these tests.
<p>
Then it will be easier to do without patents on medicines.


feed_id: e790fd264a8d545400e0243d8744c298
title: Paris climate agreement requirements
uri: Paris-climate-agreement-requirements
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Paris_climate_agreement_requirements%29

content:
<p>
Australia's planet-roaster government
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/07/paris-climate-deal-doesnt-stop-us-building-new-coal-plants-canavan-says">delighted
to point out</a> that the Paris climate agreement doesn't actually
require Australia to take any steps to reduce <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.
<p>
Therefore, Australia can go hurrying global disaster without actually
violating the treaty.


feed_id: f7198fa9a3ba199106fd4d69e593e9b8
title: Foreign workers in Qatar
uri: 2018-09-09-Foreign-workers-in-Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Foreign_workers_in_Qatar%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/06/qatar-law-change-milestone-migrant-workers-world-cup-2022-exit-permits">Qatar
will permit some</a> &mdash; but not all &mdash; foreign workers to
quit and go home if they wish.
<p>
Provided they can get their passports back.


feed_id: cf1eb5e360c11d75077f10ac5c56f6b2
title: Threatened species inquiry
uri: Threatened-species-inquiry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Threatened_species_inquiry%29
content:
<p>
Threatened Species Inquiry Told Public
Servants <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/07/threatened-species-inquiry-told-public-servants-think-australia-is-failing">Think
Australia Is Failing</a>.
<p>
Other countries in the Pacific
Ocean <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/07/australias-authority-in-pacific-being-eroded-by-refusal-to-address-climate-change">consider
Australia an obstacle</a> to protecting themselves from climate
mayhem.
<p>
The right-wing government of Australia supports business profits over
both nature and civilization.


feed_id: d079d704f9966b77b5e57522167e94b1
title: School closures for heat wave
uri: School-closures-for-heat-wave
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28School_closures_for_heat_wave%29

content:
<p>
Schools in parts of the US
are <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/school-heat-closure-dc-baltimore-3adb0465f72d/">letting
students out early</a> because of the serious heat wave.


feed_id: 90edbdb52ecbb5bd96c9b41cd856ca9a
title: Homosexual acts law in India
uri: Homosexual-acts-law-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Homosexual_acts_law_in_India%29
content:
<p>
India's Supreme Court
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/indian-supreme-court-decriminalises-homosexuality">overturned
the law</a> against homosexual acts.


feed_id: a8998a8a325acb076ff0b921de3d7cf1
title: Shari'a law and rape
uri: Shari-a-law-and-rape
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Shari%27a_law_and_rape%29
content:
<p>
Mauritania follows shari'a law, so women who report being raped can
be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/06/jail-fear-prevents-women-in-mauritania-from-filing-complaints-study-finds">found
guilty of adultery</a>.
<p>
This is true in some other Muslim countries as well.


feed_id: 5b48993c49022b47eb52ee04b0cf9e5f
title: Unqualified teachers
uri: Unqualified-teachers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Unqualified_teachers%29
content:
<p>
US schools
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/06/teacher-shortages-guardian-survey-schools">turning
to unqualified teachers</a> as so many qualified teachers have quit.
<p>
Good teaching costs money. Plutocratist governments think it's not
worth the money to educate the common people, so they don't spend what
it costs.


feed_id: 9c12fd8c4f2494b676f1c067b560844d
title: Healthiest menu for poor people
uri: Healthiest-menu-for-poor-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Healthiest_menu_for_poor_people%29

content:
<p>
The Healthiest Menu for Poor
People? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/06/healthiest-menu-poor-people-free-school-meals-hungry">An
Extra Helping from Government.</a>


feed_id: 856f7f5fe30281a531161cfefbc77e44
title: Extremist party in Italy
uri: Extremist-party-in-Italy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Extremist_party_in_Italy%29
content:
<p>
Italy's right-wing extremist party has been convicted of fraud and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/italys-league-may-change-name-to-avoid-49m-bill">will
have to shut down</a>. I wonder if the voters will find this
disturbing.


feed_id: b2f0f4cc48d5263e51815d55f28c4c05
title: Inauguration photo editing
uri: Inauguration-photo-editing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Inauguration_photo_editing%29
content:
<p>
The
cheater <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited">personally
ordered editing of photos</a> of his inauguration to make it appear
there were more people.


feed_id: 1c667ac394d7a939809c9ff1a684c504
title: A loud minority
uri: A-loud-minority
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28A_loud_minority%29
content:
<p>
Populists Aren't a Silent Majority &mdash;
They're <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/06/populists-silent-majority-loud-minority">Just
a Loud Minority</a>.


feed_id: d2100210aa81e23fc9c55ecfc7ca05d4
title: Dealing with cancer
uri: Dealing-with-cancer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Dealing_with_cancer%29
content:
<p>
Dealing with
cancer <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/06/rachael-bland-battle-cancer-bbc-presenter">is
not a "battle"</a> &mdash; that ailment may be dangerous but it is not
an enemy.
<p>
Response to an infection is, in a sense, a battle, but the enemy is not
conscious.


feed_id: 406afdfd14513a7c82010bc416983018
title: Attacks in Yemen killing children
uri: Attacks-in-Yemen-killing-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Attacks_in_Yemen_killing_children%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> has started admitting that some of its air attacks in
Yemen
have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/yemen-campaign-hit-civilians-saudi-coalition-admits">killed
groups of children</a>.


feed_id: 3e6f7984c39a978e3ce444aef796a3e3
title: Woodward's quotes
uri: Woodward-s-quotes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#9_September_2018_%28Woodward%27s_quotes%29
content:
<p>
(satire): <a href="https://politics.theonion.com/john-kelly-relieved-trump-so-fucking-stupid-he-ll-belie-1828833274">How
did the bullshitter come to believe</a> Woodward was lying when
quoting criticism of the former by his staff?


feed_id: 734d008b68c166be59020c88df2efae8
title: Urgent: Deportation budget
uri: Urgent-Deportation-budget
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Deportation_budget%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/block_ice_funding">call
on Congress</a> not to give the deportation thugs a bigger budget in
the continuing resolution.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 63c7d89276c66e53a036705e70c6b926
title: Urgent: Invoking the 25th Amendment
uri: Urgent-Invoking-the-25th-Amendment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Invoking_the_25th_Amendment%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://my.elizabethwarren.com/page/s/invoke-the-25th">call
on cabinet ministers</a>, if they think that the bullshitter is unfit
and a threat to the nation, to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove
him from office.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 3d61b5c82b62430e636af373d9e9b45b
title: Urgent: Course for thugs
uri: Urgent-Course-for-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Course_for_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/Ban_Betty/">call
on Oklahoma</a> to decertify thug Shelby's course on how to present
yourself as the victim after you kill a black man who has his hands
up.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 66c89350c422538a4bd00a998396dc33
title: Kavanaugh's perjury
uri: Kavanaugh-s-perjury
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh%27s_perjury%29
content:
<p>
Kavanaugh <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/06/kavanaugh-committed-perjury-new-documents-appear-show-trump-supreme-court-pick-lied?cd-origin=rss">committed
perjury</a> during his hearings for appointment to the appeals court.
<p>
Senator Grassley tried just recently to cover it up.


feed_id: 88caf8eac73294a852ebde279ca177e8
title: Slave trade investors
uri: Slave-trade-investors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Slave_trade_investors%29
content:
<p>
Many streets in New York City are named
after <a href="https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2018/09/03/new-york-streets-named-for-slave-traders/">prominent
investors in the slave trade</a>.


feed_id: 78ebb8e18560d4f25a6d526556c351df
title: Connected voting systems
uri: Connected-voting-systems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Connected_voting_systems%29
content:
<p>
Many parts of current US voting
systems <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/04/election-results-voting-system/">connect
to the internet</a>, or transmit over the internet, and that makes
them insecure.


feed_id: e1ecc11c9d2830b215ff15f6d39db598
title: Hospital costs
uri: Hospital-costs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Hospital_costs%29
content:
<p>
Hospital Care in America
&mdash; <a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/hospital-care-in-america-the.html">the
$10 cough drop</a>.
<p>
We used to mock government contractors for selling products to the US
government (especially the military) for far more than they cost in
civilian life. Now hospitals are doing the same thing to people
like you and me.


feed_id: 15c32c3d19102429174af7141bddc16a
title: Strike in Nicaragua
uri: Strike-in-Nicaragua
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Strike_in_Nicaragua%29
content:
<p>
Demanding freedom for political prisoners,
Nicaraguans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/07/nicaragua-strike-latest-news-ortega-crisis-opposition-protesters">held
a general strike</a> that shut down much of the country.


feed_id: e54dabca0fd3009675c4d7ccc610e5d7
title: Nuclear plant shutdowns
uri: Nuclear-plant-shutdowns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Nuclear_plant_shutdowns%29
content:
<p>
High
temperatures <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/07/weatherwatch-nuclear-power-plants-feel-the-heat">forced
the shutdown</a> of several nuclear power plants in Europe.
<p>
And in some cases the exhaust water was so hot that it killed fish.


feed_id: 076a699303f2bc93590f527d9d3a44e2
title: Internet cables and sea-level rise
uri: Internet-cables-and-sea-level-rise
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Internet_cables_and_sea-level_rise%29

content:
<p>
Many important internet cables and their connections
are <a href="https://theconversation.com/key-internet-connections-and-locations-at-risk-from-rising-seas-101167">in
danger from sea-level rise</a> even by 2030.


feed_id: 7d1c54ec4719da98b47c48be10f1dc42
title: Migrant child imprisonment
uri: Migrant-child-imprisonment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Migrant_child_imprisonment%29
content:
<p>
The sadist wants to imprison migrant children
for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/donald-trump-family-separation-migrant-children-outrage">unlimited
lengths of time</a>.


feed_id: 37c0482af00d0c16d3c411e0bf7df713
title: Syrian Kurds in Idlib
uri: Syrian-Kurds-in-Idlib
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Syrian_Kurds_in_Idlib%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/07/kurds-renew-their-claim-for-idlib-as-final-battle-draws-near">Some
Syrian Kurds in Idlib</a> support Assad against Arab rebels and
Turkey.
<p>
I hope this means that the Kurds of Rojava can maintain autonomy and continue
to respect human rights. Assad is not an Islamist and won't oppose them
for being secular. However, a bloodbath in Idlib would be horrible.


feed_id: 23c5c1952eea8f5529158ab9d9477c93
title: Saving islands from rising seas
uri: Saving-islands-from-rising-seas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Saving_islands_from_rising_seas%29

content:
<p>
The head climate negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States
says it
is <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-09-climate-world-islands.html">almost
too late to save</a> Fiji, the Maldives and other islands from rising
seas.


feed_id: 8816dff23796b0e9b81802d743e686eb
title: Sara Mardini
uri: Sara-Mardini
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Sara_Mardini%29
content:
<p>
"Hero swimmer" Sara Mardini, who swam to rescue a small boat
containing Syrian refugees and pull it to Greece,
faces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/arrest-of-syrian-hero-swimmer-lesbos-refugees-sara-mardini">charges
of human smuggling</a> for working for an organization that aids
refugees.
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> say that the organization was corrupted and carried out
actual smuggling, but why charge individual volunteers?
Anyone corrupt would know better than to let them in on it.


feed_id: d19fc1f7142ba95dcafdb722832c02d7
title: Global heating resolution
uri: Global-heating-resolution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#10_September_2018_%28Global_heating_resolution%29
content:
<p>
Australia at the Pacific Islands
Forum <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/australia-tried-to-water-down-climate-change-resolution-at-pacific-islands-forum-leader">tried
to weaken the resolution</a> on the danger of global heating.
<p>
It's
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_(US_and_Paris_climate_agreement)">same
thing the US did</a> in the Paris climate conference.
<p>
When a planet-roaster government succeeds in undermining resistance to
its deadly policies, that is the first step. Having agreed to the weakened
accord, it then looks for ways to avoid substantially implementing it.


feed_id: 7805ba9064873dc57d975c3b0087db24
title: Urgent: Migrant imprisonment
uri: Urgent-Migrant-imprisonment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Migrant_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/hhs_flores">call
on the Department of Harshness, Hostility and Sadism</a> not to
imprison migrant families indefinitely.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 2b99bfbd46b3953cec6f217bc5339e14
title: Urgent: STATES act
uri: Urgent-STATES-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_STATES_act%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/take-action-trump%E2%80%99s-secret-plot-against-marijuana">Support
the STATES act</a>, to protect state-legal marijuana businesses from
federal interference.
</p>
<p>If you send a message, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 298143d00a859074f17fb308236b2d3d
title: Kavanaugh documents
uri: Kavanaugh-documents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh_documents%29
content:
<p>
Intensifying Protest Against 'Sham' Confirmation,
Democrats <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/06/intensifying-protest-against-sham-confirmation-democrats-release-kavanaugh-documents?cd-origin=rss">Release
Kavanaugh Documents</a> GOP Didn't Want Public to See.


feed_id: 47bb2fd1e4ed37e92a9576f21d02dece
title: Use of military force in Yemen
uri: Use-of-military-force-in-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Use_of_military_force_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
Some Democrats in
Congress <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/06/house-democrats-praised-new-war-powers-resolution-end-us-support-catastrophic-war?cd-origin=rss">propose
to remove Yemen</a> from the authorization for US use of military
force.


feed_id: 9dbd243f15cff870972d5cf97a33046a
title: AI for businesses
uri: AI-for-businesses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28AI_for_businesses%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/joseph-stiglitz-on-artificial-intelligence-were-going-towards-a-more-divided-society">Joseph
Stiglitz comments</a> on the danger that AI and big data give
businesses an advantage over individuals.
<p>
He does not touch on the danger of what the state will do with that
data after taking it from the companies.


feed_id: 77618a3a07c710033a952efa8d25b454
title: Ocean plastic cleanup
uri: Ocean-plastic-cleanup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Ocean_plastic_cleanup%29
content:
<p>
Trash-collecting systems are
being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/08/scientists-get-ready-to-begin-great-pacific-garbage-patch-cleanup">deployed
in the Pacific Ocean</a> to pick up floating plastic, which will then
be taken &mdash; where?
<p>
There is something fishy in the figures in the article.  If the system
removes 5 tons per month, that is 60 tons per year.  To remove 80,000
tons would require 1333 1/3 years.
<p>
Perhaps the 5 tons per month figure is for one structure and they plan
to have 33 1/3 of them.
<p>
The article lists reasons why this method, even if it works, cannot be
a full solution to the plastic waste problem.


feed_id: f12060649d187ae4e2dcfff433a54deb
title: Measuring organization success
uri: Measuring-organization-success
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Measuring_organization_success%29

content:
<p>
Too much focus on measuring the success of
organizations <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/08/our-obsession-with-metrics-is-hurting-us-and-even-endangering-our-lives">tends
to mess them up</a>.
<p>
"In every realm in which performance metrics are tied to rewards,
practitioners find tools to fudge the data."
<p>
"Often, the things that aren’t measured are
unmeasurable. They also tend to be things that are essential to the
enterprise."
<p>
A few decades ago there was an obsession with using statistics to
determine whether code was clear and understandable.  Various
statistics were found which correlated with clarity.  But when
programmers were taught to write to improve those statistics, their
code did not get clearer,  This seems to be a general phenomenon,
that the statistics correlate with what really counts only as long
as nobody but researchers study them.


feed_id: 24261f1a8b59db7d981c0c7656a5e545
title: Populist turbulence
uri: Populist-turbulence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Populist_turbulence%29
content:
<p>
"Populist turbulence, viral panics, experts under attack: instinct and
emotion
have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/08/high-anxiety-how-feelings-took-over-the-world">overtaken
facts and reason</a> in the digital age."
<p>
To win back trust for science, we have to root out the corruption of
science by big business, including
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#29_November_2017_(Pharma_research)">pharma
industry</a>,
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#14_June_2012_(Policy_that_spread_obesity)">food
industry</a> (protecting sugar by blaming fat),
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#29_November_2016_(Organized_disinformation)">tobacco
industry</a>, and
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_October_2013_(US_and_Canada_censoring_and_corrupting_science)">fossil
fuel industry</a>.


feed_id: fb311ff4e227d2dc42e219f48209f142
title: Political trial in Egypt
uri: Political-trial-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Political_trial_in_Egypt%29
content:
<p>
A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/08/egypt-sentences-75-to-death-in-rabaa-massacre-mass-trial">political
trial in Egypt</a> sentenced hundreds of protesters to prison and 75
to execution.


feed_id: d35b2ef9c5ddf5aa8df6d41b83ba6cda
title: Sleeping in the street
uri: Sleeping-in-the-street
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Sleeping_in_the_street%29
content:
<p>
An appeals court decision
has <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/cities-must-stop-arresting-homeless-people-for-sleeping-outdoors-appeals-court-rules-149b7a7ebd12/">invalidated
laws</a> against sleeping in the street, in California and several
other western states.


feed_id: c6b28604ffe4c2adae932ea2561b259f
title: Disposable items
uri: Disposable-items
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Disposable_items%29
content:
<p>
George Monbiot: "We won't save the Earth with
a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/06/save-earth-disposable-coffee-cup-green">better
kind of disposable coffee cup</a>."
<p>
Convincing individuals to make personal changes is not enough:
we need to change the systems that have big impacts.
That requires politics.


feed_id: c846d59702a79b1c508718398d380bbd
title: Officials blocking the cheater
uri: Officials-blocking-the-cheater
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Officials_blocking_the_cheater%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing officials blocking some of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a>'s evil acts, in
order to protect the rest of them,
are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/05/while-trump-clearly-horrible-president-critics-denounce-right-wing-unelected-cabal?cd-origin=rss">no
friend of the American people</a> or of the democratic system.


feed_id: f6d22affe208a133d99df955b437b248
title: Kavanaugh email
uri: Kavanaugh-email
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh_email%29
content:
<p>
Email Marked 'Confidential' by GOP
Shows <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/07/email-marked-confidential-gop-shows-kavanaugh-pushed-john-yoo-legal-architect-bush?cd-origin=rss">Kavanaugh
Pushed for John Yoo</a>, Legal Architect of Bush Torture Program, to
Be a Federal Judge.


feed_id: ef15f74c4669d5909e78432a98dc10d6
title: Nikolai Glushkov
uri: Nikolai-Glushkov
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Nikolai_Glushkov%29
content:
<p>
Russian expat Nikolai Glushkov, who was strangled in London this year,
reported in 2013 that two Russians had poisoned him.  An
electrocardiogram showed
a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/07/murdered-russian-exile-nikolai-glushkov-poisoning-attempt-bristol">very
strange heart rhythm</a>.


feed_id: d423cc2e5191ecf2de2f2081cda6e654
title: Blocking Kavanaugh nomination
uri: Blocking-Kavanaugh-nomination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Blocking_Kavanaugh_nomination%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/05/democrats-can-block-kavanaugh-nomination-if-they-want?cd-origin=rss">A
Democratic threat</a> to make the Senate almost cease to function
might be a strong enough threat to block Kavanaugh.


feed_id: 6048f3d6a34cc1bf61c87e9c0ae831ee
title: Censorship of old music
uri: Censorship-of-old-music
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Censorship_of_old_music%29
content:
<p>
Due to automated copyright censorship, youtube deletes performances of
18th and 19th century music because various companies have told the
company
that <a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/mozart-bach-sorta-mach.html">they
own those compositions</a>.


feed_id: a6b6b2737bd984e0bb76fa303cfa5a3d
title: US deficit
uri: US-deficit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28US_deficit%29
content:
<p>
Rep. Pelosi (may she be primaried soon) rejects all Democratic
proposals <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/05/progressives-denounce-pelosi-obsession-economically-illiterate-and-politically?cd-origin=rss">that
would increase the deficit</a>.
<p>
Since the US has an economic boom (limited to the rich), in principle
this would be the right time to run a surplus.  However, as long as
Republicans are enacting huge deficits with useless spending and tax
cuts for the rich, there is no reason to be deficit-pure at the
expense of the non-rich.


feed_id: 6e36758b5995aebb05185b5ad49d6e31
title: Gillnets bill
uri: Gillnets-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Gillnets_bill%29
content:
<p>
A senate
committee <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/05/senate-committee-advances-bill-end-destructive-drift-gillnet-fishing-swordfish?cd-origin=rss">passed
a bill</a> to end use of gillnets on the US west coast.  Gillnets kill
many dolphins and sea turtles, as well as other protected species.


feed_id: 98a338194bcc4369171fb1837cabce4b
title: Cutting incarceration
uri: Cutting-incarceration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Cutting_incarceration%29
content:
<p>
ACLU
Launches <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/05/aclu-launches-state-state-blueprints-roadmaps-cutting-incarceration-50-percent?cd-origin=rss">State-by-State
Blueprints</a> with Roadmaps for Cutting Incarceration by 50 Percent.


feed_id: 493a05304fa03d336e938c38912c379e
title: Denied UK citizenship
uri: Denied-UK-citizenship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Denied_UK_citizenship%29
content:
<p>
Five months ago, the UK apologized to Caribbean immigrants who were
denied the citizenship rights they were entitled to.  Some of them
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/06/windrush-victims-still-prevented-from-working-officials-told">still
forbidden to work</a> in the UK.


feed_id: 7d9f6889fd89430aa354c73210700fda
title: Tax cut for billionaires
uri: Tax-cut-for-billionaires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Tax_cut_for_billionaires%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a>
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/06/republican-plan-tax-reform-20-would-help-millionaires-and-billionaires-hurt?cd-origin=rss">planning
another tax cut</a> for the personal "small businesses" through which
billionaires receive their income.


feed_id: 87b17ab9e2cf09c8bae4a3ae3bf9cd7b
title: Restraint by US officials
uri: Restraint-by-US-officials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#12_September_2018_%28Restraint_by_US_officials%29
content:
<p>
High US officials
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/05/trump-aides-new-york-times-op-ed-key-points">restraining
the bullshitter</a> from doing wanton damage.
<p>
However, they are right-wing plutocratists and the "successes" they speak
of are sabotage.
<p>
Trump’s Enablers Boast of Saving Nation But
Reveal <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/06/trumps-enablers-boast-saving-nation-reveal-theyre-looting-nation?cd-origin=rss">They’re
Looting the Nation</a>.


feed_id: 2c28f4a96b6718dfe72c8b8da1852db8
title: Urgent: Sole nuclear authority
uri: Urgent-Sole-nuclear-authority
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Sole_nuclear_authority%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/tell-your-state-legislators-join-california-oppose-sole-nuclear-authority">Ask
your state rep</a> to propose a state resolution calling on Congress
to deny the President the power to launch a nuclear attack
unilaterally.
</p>
<p>If you send a message, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: ee2b632e66eb764acfbe94bf5bcd0ac7
title: Taking away citizenship
uri: Taking-away-citizenship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Taking_away_citizenship%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/08/trumping-passports?cd-origin=rss">Comparing
ways</a> of taking away people's citizenship, in Nazi Germany, in
Bahrain, and in the US today.


feed_id: 70a5d3107e31ad1620d31997415edb60
title: Inmates' MP3 players
uri: Inmates-MP3-players
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Inmates%27_MP3_players%29
content:
<p>
Prisons
to <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/Prisons-to-take-Florida-inmates-MP3-players_171459625">Take
Florida Inmates' MP3 Players</a>, discarding the files they paid for.


feed_id: 38ce0dbec82b38cc9979e57113ca002d
title: Climate marches
uri: Climate-marches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Climate_marches%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/08/30000-people-march-san-francisco-joined-hundreds-thousands-across-united-states?cd-origin=rss">Hundreds
of thousands of Americans</a> joined the Rise for Climate Jobs, and
Justice.


feed_id: 494afb73d149f733d3dd3c4b124afba2
title: Google video censorship
uri: Google-video-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Google_video_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Google <a href="https://globalvoices.org/2018/09/08/google-caves-in-to-russian-demands-censors-videos-promoting-a-protest-rally/">Caves
in to Russian Demands</a>, Censors Videos Promoting a Protest Rally.


feed_id: bf2695e11242a1011bed3180b376fcd3
title: Repeat shooter
uri: Repeat-shooter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Repeat_shooter%29
content:
<p>
Dallas [<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>] Who Shot Man in His Home
[also] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/09/dallas-officer-botham-jean-shot-wounded-suspect-2017">Wounded
[another] Suspect in 2017</a>.


feed_id: f9143f5735a93a6d662cff6e5483ae62
title: US prison strike ends
uri: US-prison-strike-ends
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28US_prison_strike_ends%29
content:
<p>
US
prisoners <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/09/us-prison-strike-latest-demands-voting-rights">ended
their strike</a>, which was planned to be temporary, and plan now to
campaign for restoration of voting rights to ex-cons.
<p>
I am sad that the issue of wages for prison labor has been deemphasized.


feed_id: 70d8d1deba65a01a8139cff1beff76fe
title: Leaving the Catholic Church
uri: Leaving-the-Catholic-Church
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Leaving_the_Catholic_Church%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/09/argentina-catholic-church-legalize-abortion-apostacy">Almost
4,000 people in Argentina</a> are formally leaving the Catholic
Church.


feed_id: 8443f6680ff59ce06e5949d922badcf2
title: Navalny YouTube ad
uri: Navalny-YouTube-ad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Navalny_YouTube_ad%29
content:
<p>
Google <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/09/google-pulls-youtube-ad-by-putin-critic-alexei-navalny">Pulls
YouTube Ad</a> by Putin Critic Alexei Navalny.


feed_id: 94ffc0694063ab9d110db6b4e2f69d7a
title: Recognizing plutocracy
uri: Recognizing-plutocracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Recognizing_plutocracy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/05/how-recognize-plutocracy-dead-giveaway?cd-origin=rss">How
to recognize</a> that the US is a plutocracy.


feed_id: 01fbbfdf33bd5a39fa3b67597e4c5d0f
title: Academic freedom in Hungary
uri: Academic-freedom-in-Hungary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Academic_freedom_in_Hungary%29
content:
<p>
Hungary <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/sep/06/state-control-over-academic-freedom-in-hungary-threatens-all-universities">represses
gender studies</a> and research into migration.
Teaching refugees is now criminalized.


feed_id: 4b75dac403607ed04401b4d872f4d582
title: Support for oil pipeline
uri: Support-for-oil-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Support_for_oil_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
Some indigenous groups in Canada are asking to be bought off.  They
will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/08/canada-oil-pipeline-first-nations-proposal-indigenous-rights">support
a planet-roaster pipeline</a> designed not to pollute their water
supplies, in exchange for money.
<p>
This shows the weakness of focusing attention on the local dangers
rather than the global danger.  I have criticized the term "water
protectors" for this reason.


feed_id: d9a5c273cbb7b4514ced5b45e4869dce
title: Gitmo for children
uri: Gitmo-for-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#13_September_2018_%28Gitmo_for_children%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/06/gitmo-children-trump-administration-reveals-plan-imprison-families-kids-indefinitely?cd-origin=rss">"Gitmo
for Children"</a>: Trump Administration Reveals Plan to Imprison
Families With Kids Indefinitely.


feed_id: 3ee2ab993a09c0b454d179f57b86db6c
title: Urgent: Jacqueline Dixon
uri: Urgent-Jacqueline-Dixon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Jacqueline_Dixon%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/justice-for-jacqueline/">demand
dropping charges</a> against Jacqueline Dixon.</p>
<p>
I am unhappy that the petition cites Alabama's "stand your ground"
law, since that law shouldn't be necessary to justify killing someone
who is already attacking you.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 3f2b256839b06b2642647887a3599e09
title: Rational leftist populism
uri: Rational-leftist-populism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Rational_leftist_populism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/10/populists-rise-progressives-radical-right">Serious,
rational leftist populism</a> can compete against the scapegoating
pseudo-opposition of right-wing populism.


feed_id: 3fd425cc68acaf5c1354f3c83eecd491
title: North Korea tweet
uri: North-Korea-tweet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28North_Korea_tweet%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>
"<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/10/trump-almost-sent-tweet-north-korea-imminent-attack">almost
sent tweet</a> that North Korea would have seen as warning of attack".


feed_id: 53dff82ac98c9244228890c74760b050
title: Philippines senator
uri: Philippines-senator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Philippines_senator%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#dodirty">President Do-dirty</a> has ordered thugs
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/05/philippies-rodrigo-duterte-orders-arrest-of-another-key-critic">arrest
a senator</a>, who is compelled to remain constantly in the senate to
be safe.
<p>
The senator launched coups against a former president, and was pardoned.


feed_id: 77b5c4b16497ded136c0d6d91aec6075
title: Steve Bannon's ideas
uri: Steve-Bannon-s-ideas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Steve_Bannon%27s_ideas%29
content:
<p>
The Consequences of Steve Bannon's Ideas Need to Be
Interrogated, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/05/the-consequences-of-steve-bannons-ideas-need-to-be-interrogated-not-just-his-words">Not
Just His Words</a>.


feed_id: 9037f29ca9e1df796626984c22da71d3
title: Climate disaster and children
uri: Climate-disaster-and-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Climate_disaster_and_children%29

content:
<p>
The awareness of coming climate
disaster <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-takes-a-toll-on-our-minds-too/a-45293148">makes
parents doubt</a> whether it was right to have their children.
<p>
This is a change for the good, but people need to have these
doubt <em>before</em> they have children &mdash; and choose not to
have them.


feed_id: 1d175c68e3735fdb87c651682de77a1b
title: Bretton Woods monetary system
uri: Bretton-Woods-monetary-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Bretton_Woods_monetary_system%29

content:
<p>
The Bretton Woods monetary system kept the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a> down and reduced
inequality.  Then the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a> exploited disunity between the
participating governments
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/07/the-real-goldfinger-the-london-banker-who-broke-the-world">destroy
that system</a>, and began grabbing a lot of wealth for themselves.
<p>
The question is, how can we defeat the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a> and stop them from taking
so much away from the rest of us?
<p>
My <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">progressive
sales tax system</a> might help.


feed_id: 5f7db91a29603c41b443f86d95c5dd36
title: 'Saving' Medicare and Social Security
uri: Saving-Medicare-and-Social-Security
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28%27Saving%27_Medicare_and_Social_Security%29

content:
<p>
The bullshitter wants to destroy Medicare and Social
Security <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/08/single-tweet-bernie-sanders-debunks-trumps-lies-about-social-security-and-medicare?cd-origin=rss">in
order to "save" them</a>.


feed_id: e6a0dc3f0605b8a9fef56c5143f0966d
title: EU copyright directive
uri: EU-copyright-directive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28EU_copyright_directive%29
content:
<p>
EFF: Last-minute amendments that pretend to fix the EU copyright
directive proposal actually make
it <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/fake-compromises-real-threats-next-weeks-eu-copyright-vote">even
more of a menace</a>.


feed_id: b2263b744241df2ba3549d8b767c5c25
title: Giant tech companies
uri: Giant-tech-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Giant_tech_companies%29
content:
<p>
Cory Doctorow: merely regulating giant tech companies
is <a href="https://locusmag.com/2018/09/cory-doctorow-big-tech-we-can-do-better-than-constitutional-monarchies/">insufficient
to resist their threats</a> to freedom and democracy.


feed_id: 656164e1cda65f1b352ae5db655d5ce2
title: Propaganda against marijuana
uri: Propaganda-against-marijuana
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Propaganda_against_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
The bullshitter
is <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/trump-secret-committee-anti-marijuana">telling
various government agencies</a> to publish one-sided, cherry-picked
propaganda against marijuana.
<p>
If you find any negative information about marijuana coming from the
US government, distrust it.


feed_id: df2ffd7050f9d0fdb9b185af45d60c55
title: Soviet Union shirts at Walmart
uri: Soviet-Union-shirts-at-Walmart
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Soviet_Union_shirts_at_Walmart%29

content:
<p>
Lithuania asked Walmart
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/08/lithuania-urges-walmart-to-drop-soviet-themed-shirts">stop
selling shirts</a> that carry a hammer and sickle and state support
for the former Soviet Union.
<p>
I would not want to present support for that tyrannical state,
and I would not want to buy anything whatsoever from Walmart,
but it is wrong to ban the symbol.


feed_id: 2df017bda22370b8b741eed5aed0233f
title: Applause at rallies
uri: Applause-at-rallies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Applause_at_rallies%29
content:
<p>
Leaders of Trump's campaign
rallies <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/expressions-plaid-shirt-guy-trump-rally-montana-viral/qU3FMKdX21QDwABIsD8joO/">direct
attendees when to applaud</a>.


feed_id: 5d08e93dadef63a7388aaabd0a15f038
title: Glyphosate
uri: 2018-09-15-Glyphosate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Glyphosate%29
content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/05/local-limits-spraying-monsantos-toxic-weed-killer-parks-playgrounds-and">aim
to forbid cities from banning glyphosate</a>.
<p>
Republicans generally say they want "small government", but what they
really want is a government of the richest, by the richest, for the
richest.


feed_id: 2dcfce422ef04618a831b4025e60b018
title: UK government threatening teachers
uri: UK-government-threatening-teachers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28UK_government_threatening_teachers%29

content:
<p>
The UK government is threatening teachers that inform voters about
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/05/education-department-teachers-express-political-views-headteachers-unions">school
budget cuts and their effects</a>.


feed_id: d95fc3bc2453d367b762cdba0001c149
title: UK kept letters carried by captured ships
uri: UK-kept-letters-carried-by-captured-ships
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28UK_kept_letters_carried_by_captured_ships%29

content:
<p>
In 18th century naval warfare, the UK 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/05/huge-historical-national-archives-prize-papers-mail-captured-ships-online">kept
permanently</a> all the letters carried by captured ships.
<p>
This was gratuitously cruel.  The senders of those most of those
letters were not officials or soldiers.  Their mail should have been
handed to the country of destination.


feed_id: e32e94158d2c380f8cc4de831e96e064
title: The Skripals
uri: The-Skripals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28The_Skripals%29
content:
<p>
Strong evidence suggests the Skripals were 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/05/planes-trains-and-fake-names-the-trail-left-by-skripal-suspects">murdered
by two Russian agents</a> that made a brief visit to Britain.  Their
movements have been pieced together from many security cameras.


feed_id: 3414f579a539de0b90a5cce14ed02136
title: Flight MH17
uri: 2018-09-15-Flight-MH17
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Flight_MH17%29
content:
<p>
Bellingcat claims to have identified a Russian intelligence officer
who was 
<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/05/25/mh17-russian-gru-commander-orion-identified-oleg-ivannikov/">in
charge of the antiaircraft missile unit that shot down flight MH17
over Ukraine</a>.
<p>
The cited phone discussion, about plans to shoot down Ukrainian
military planes, confirms that Russia did not intentionally attack a
civilian airliner.  That makes the incident comparable to the one in
which a US ship in the Persian Gulf shot down an Iranian airliner.
mistaking it it for an attacking military plane.  The US acknowledged
the mistake, somewhat 
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655">reluctantly</a>.


feed_id: 570261a63156a7328f8dcb7b6cd844a8
title: Repression in Guatemala
uri: Repression-in-Guatemala
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Repression_in_Guatamala%29
content:
<p>
Guatemala is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/05/guatemala-discriminatory-law-puts-risk-lives-and-rights-thousands-women-girls">considering
a law to punish women</a> if they are believed to have had abortions.
Even women who had natural miscarriages will be punished.
<p>
Other countries in Latin America 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-jan-apr.html#13%20April%202006%20(Sentenced%20to%20up%20to%2030%20years)">already
do this</a>.
<p>
The bill also represses queer people.


feed_id: 797d86d9dd4c80f37dad87d0daaa59e5
title: Rise in CO2 levels
uri: Rise-in-CO2-levels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Rise_in_CO2_levels%29
content:
<p>
One scientist has been measuring the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/03/weatherwatch-charles-keelings-co2-curve-shows-drastic-rise-in-60-years">CO<sub>2</sub>
levels on top of Mauna Loa</a> for 60 years &mdash; simple proof of
how CO<sub>2</sub> levels have risen.


feed_id: b003807cc7348103345158e2e0f245ef
title: Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
uri: Jeremy-Corbyn-s-Labour
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Jeremy_Corbyns_Labour%29
content:
<p>
The Guardian View on Jeremy Corbyn's Labour: it must be an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/05/the-guardian-view-on-jeremy-corbyns-labour-it-must-be-an-anti-racist-party">anti-racist
party</a>.


feed_id: d063234cd1eb469d22312a4546e22520
title: Guatemala bans head of anti-corruption body
uri: Guatemala-bans-head-of-anti-corruption-body
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Guatemala_bans_head_of_anti-corruption_body%29

content:
<p>
Alarm as Guatemala 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/05/guatemala-cicig-ivan-velasquez-jimmy-morales-ban">Bans
Head of UN Anti-Corruption Body from Country</a>.  He's a "threat to
public security".


feed_id: 07709dea21698d8d021def45ed31d4b5
title: Australian thugs
uri: 2018-09-15-Australian-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Australian_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Australian <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> responded to a woman's complaint of domestic violence
by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/06/queensland-police-taped-over-cctv-evidence-showing-domestic-violence-victim">erasing
the video evidence</a> that the man threatened her.


feed_id: 5dd7aec0bf9d9983747dbce37dad5390
title: Junk food
uri: Junk-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Junk_food%29
content:
<p>
Comparing the 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/please-dont-call-it-a-food-swamp-97219">junk
food</a> offered in every store to a "swamp" is unfair to real swamps.


feed_id: c0dad1c20c59f439d435f8ca0b0ac38f
title: Paraguay embassy back in Tel Aviv
uri: Paraguay-embassy-back-in-Tel-Aviv
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Paraguay_embassy_back_in_Tel_Aviv%29

content:
<p>
Paraguay has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/05/paraguay-jerusalem-embassy-moves-to-tel-aviv">moved
its embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv</a>, rejecting decision three
months ago to follow the US in supporting Israel in rejecting peace
with Palestine.


feed_id: 5e71391ff36352d4ea57352a3c3a3249
title: Advocates of Dalits' rights arrested
uri: Advocates-of-Dalits-rights-arrested
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Advocates_of_Dalits_rights_arrested%29

content:
<p>
The religious extremist prime minister of India has swept away the
limits on repression by 
<a href="https://reason.com/archives/2018/09/05/indian-prime-minister-flexes-his-authori">arresting
advocates of Dalits' rights</a> and calling them "terrorists" and
"communists".


feed_id: 321de9f154ee95d6b683a2aa2e1e300b
title: Banksters
uri: 2018-09-15-Banksters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Banksters%29
content:
<p>
The balance sheet of making banks a big success: they enriched the
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/05/ten-years-financial-crash-lehmans-austerity-debt">at
the expense of everyone else</a>.


feed_id: 9d3c2e4a64cca886c3a0c1cc99b87119
title: Oppression of Uighurs in China
uri: Oppression-of-Uighurs-in-China
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Oppression_of_Uighurs_in_China%29

content:
<p>
Some US officials are considering putting sanctions on China because
of its 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/12/us-considers-sanctions-on-china-over-treatment-of-uighurs">oppression
of Uighurs</a>.


feed_id: a7f8148e7037d601f0ea429be83e14d9
title: Cruelty of US immigration prison
uri: Cruelty-of-US-immigration-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Cruelty_of_US_immigration_prison%29

content:
<p>
Migrants arriving in the US are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/12/us-immigration-detention-facilities">imprisoned
in harsh conditions</a> &mdash; crowding, heat or cold, barely edible
food if there is any, hungry children wailing all the time, disease
spreading.
<p>
This can't be coincidence.  It has to be cruelty.


feed_id: 39472380307e0eb3ce11caaef0610b87
title: Global heating denialism
uri: 2018-09-15-Global-heating-denialism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Global_heating_denialism%29
content:
<p>
North Carolina took <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> denialism to a legal extreme by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/12/north-carolina-didnt-like-science-on-sea-levels-so-passed-a-law-against-it">requiring
that planning be based on denying it</a>.


feed_id: 40055b0e0fa7814df013df8a593336a3
title: The suffering imposed on Greece
uri: The-suffering-imposed-on-Greece
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28The_suffering_imposed_on_Greece%29

content:
<p>
The suffering the EU has imposed on Greece 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/12/desperate-state-of-greek-medical-facilities-blamed-for-death-of-uk-tourist">extends
to tourists that get sick</a>.  Naturally, the medical system is
damaged like all other systems in Greece.


feed_id: e17459c8dbcc011a1f74fa4461e4b7f6
title: Deportation of asylum seekers
uri: Deportation-of-asylum-seekers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Deportation_of_asylum_seekers%29

content:
<p>
Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/11/sri-lankan-asylum-seekers-forcibly-deported-from-australia-despite-torture-risk">Forcibly
Deported from Australia</a> Despite Torture Risk.


feed_id: 295176accb4c628a6f723854638cd9d8
title: Dangerous natalism
uri: Dangerous-natalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Dangerous_natalism%29
content:
<p>
Dangerous natalism 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/11/no-need-for-birth-control-tanzanian-presidents-views-cause-outrage">from
the president of Tanzania</a>: if you don't have a big family, you are
"lazy".
<p>
Dangerous natalism 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/11/china-scraps-three-family-planning-offices-amid-push-to-boost-birthrate">in
China</a>: pushing to boost the birth rate.
<p>
The inconveniences of a slowly declining population can be handled.
Population increase is leading towards disaster.  Chine is still
increasing its fossil fuel use, and (I suppose, since it would be hard
to do otherwise) still intensifying agriculture.  But not nearly as
much as it would be doing if it had millions more people.


feed_id: 56ebed3f6f7eeb80d30b84f5adafc214
title: Dallas thug changes story
uri: Dallas-thug-changes-story
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Dallas_thug_changes_story%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> that killed Botham Jean as he was minding his own business
in his apartment has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2018/09/10/dallas-cop-who-killed-guy-being-home-while-black-was-arrested-inexplicably-keeps">changed
her story</a>.  Not very credible.


feed_id: ed2de9169a41c94da81601df42617153
title: Commercial whaling
uri: Commercial-whaling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Commercial_whaling%29
content:
<p>
Japan is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/11/japan-launches-bid-to-end-ban-on-commercial-whaling">pushing
to resume commercial whaling</a>, saying that certain species have
recovered enough to make the practice sustainable.
<p>
I think that whales are too intelligent to be hunted and eaten.


feed_id: e4def2dafb72271d0c7aa9644816ad3a
title: US-funded atrocities
uri: US-funded-atrocities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28US-funded_atrocities%29
content:
<p>
The occasional atrocity by US troops that attracts attention in the
US, such as 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/11/bombing-yemeni-school-children-profit">bombing
a wedding or a schoolbus</a>, are just a hint of the unending stream
of atrocities funded by the US government and carried out around the
world.


feed_id: a0d26bff0cbf54f407dbe00142887ec8
title: Puerto Rico
uri: 2018-09-15-Puerto-Rico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Puerto_Rico%29
content:
<p>
The hurricane that hit Puerto Rico killed thousands of people, but not
directly or immediately.  Rather, it was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/11/trump-scandal-hurricane-maria-puerto-rico">the
incompetent US government response</a> that was directly responsible.
The incompetence went far beyond ordinary levels; it suggests that the
officials in charge had no idea how to do their job.
<p>
I don't think that could have been due to random murphism alone.  I
suspect that budget cuts drove honest, competent people out of the
agency and that they were replaced by political appointees who were
totally lost when they faced a real emergency.
<p>
The Jones Act prohibits outsourcing US internal shipping to
foreign-registered ships that might pay their workers less and
maintain their ships to a lower standard.  I support that, and I don't
believe it would have hampered competent emergency managers from doing
a good job.  Apparently the not-so-competent managers of today were
not up to the task.


feed_id: a9d7c00029f3bcb74c45bd9032d8f045
title: Extreme weather causing food shortage
uri: Extreme-weather-causing-food-shortage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Extreme_weather_causing_food_shortage%29

content:
<p>
Extreme weather caused by <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> is causing a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/11/global-hunger-levels-rising-due-to-extreme-weather-un-warns">world-wide
food shortage</a>, whose effects mostly hit countries with other
problems.
<p>
1/9 of the world's human population is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/11/climate-shocks-drought-floods-early-warning-act-rising-hunger-un-says">chronically
hungry</a>.  This should be a 
<a href=" https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">wake-up call to
reduce the birth rate</a> in the affected regions.
<p>
Fossil Fuel Dependence Poses 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/11/fossil-fuel-dependence-poses-direct-existential-threat-warns-un-chief">'Direct
Existential Threat'</a>, Warns UN Chief.


feed_id: bbe4e277fdc551d18969a331dffa7f4e
title: Separation of immigration families
uri: Separation-of-immigration-families
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Separation_of_immigration_families%29

content:
<p>
Almost 7 weeks after the court deadline to reunite migrant families,
over 400 minors remain imprisoned in the US and 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1794959">have not been
reunited with their families</a>.  There is no way to determine how
many are children and how many teenagers but 22 of them are under 5
years old.


feed_id: 01041f9906b552fe0af5fe1183d42063
title: Facebook censoring left-wing articles
uri: Facebook-censoring-left-wing-articles
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Facebook_censorsing_left-wing_articles%29

content:
<p>
Facebook has given the right-wing Daily Standard "fact-checking"
authority, and it is now censoring left-wing articles 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795035">based on points
that are mathematically small</a>.


feed_id: 784e35bf12231881859031d5b2636f29
title: Bolton's bombastic threats
uri: Bolton-s-bombastic-threats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Boltons_bombastic_threats%29
content:
<p>
Bolton 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795054">bombastically
threatens sanctions and prosecution</a> of the ICC judges and
prosecutors, as well as companies and countries that cooperate with
the ICC.
<p>
I don't think he can find an excuse to prosecute them.  I think that
is typical <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trumpery">trumpery</a>.  However, he might be able to do parts of this,
and that in itself could be enough to shield corrupt toadies of the US
government.


feed_id: d4c39b082fd47f386cf14e2f3b3ff9cd
title: Kavanaugh's finances
uri: Kavanaugh-s-finances
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_finances%29
content:
<p>
There is reason to suspect Kavanaugh may have taken a bribe.
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795075">declined to
investigate his finances</a>.


feed_id: c1e4cd2dd1283966d0d422a5537bb189
title: Kavanaugh
uri: Kavanaugh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh%29
content:
<p>
Kavanaugh 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1794787">would have plenty
of cases he could use</a> to help Republicans make abortion illegal or
impossible &mdash; and even contraception.


feed_id: fa7efb31a1fa97bc24c3d7334698f7b8
title: EPA regulations
uri: 2018-09-15-EPA-regulations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28EPA_regulations%29
content:
<p>
EPA 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/11/epa-admits-scrapping-regulations-will-put-more-methane-into-atmosphere">Admits
Scrapping Regulations Will Put More Methane into Atmosphere</a>.


feed_id: 178aef5faeed62ecc6a38b6444ed95cd
title: Irish protest plans keep bullshitter away
uri: Irish-protest-plans-keep-bullshitter-away
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Irish_protest_plans_keep_bullshitter_away%29

content:
<p>
Irish protest plans 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/11/trump-cancels-ireland-trip-after-groups-announced-planned-protests">dissuaded
the bullshitter from visiting there</a>.


feed_id: 695372a7147c0c2460e1a3b1ba82a02c
title: Meditative exercise in prison
uri: Meditative-exercise-in-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Meditative_exercise_in_prison%29

content:
<p>
New research shows the meditative exercise 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/11/yoga-prisons-crime-cut-reoffending">improves
mental health, reduces stress and can prevent reoffending</a>.
<p>
Running prisons as cheaply as possible is a false economy
if the goal is to reduce crime.


feed_id: 543bdce8bd87c72f2f2638890a01a48a
title: Antisemitism and other racism
uri: Antisemitism-and-other-racism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Antisemitism_and_other_racism%29

content:
<p>
"The left 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/11/left-antisemitism-racism-jews'>must
restore the ties</a> between antisemitism and other racism."


feed_id: 02bfbd11bb3e7eac89e451de5e7c57c0
title: Assad's bombers
uri: Assad-s-bombers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Assads_bombers%29
content:
<p>
Assad's bombers are already 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/11/syria-hospital-medics-idlib-refugees">attacking
parts of Idlib</a>.


feed_id: 89fcad8b6f857add67f4a7e6ceb270ed
title: Censorship of religion in China
uri: Censorship-of-religion-in-China
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Censorship_of_religion_in_China%29

content:
<p>
China has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/11/china-cracks-down-on-chaotic-religious-information-online">imposed
strict censorship</a> on religion.


feed_id: c99299d39f7a59a276bf295552486d2e
title: Kavanaugh should be impeached
uri: Kavanaugh-should-be-impeached
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh_should_be_impeached%29

content:
<p>
Kavanaugh should be impeached as a federal judge for 
<a href="https://www.prwatch.org/news/2018/09/13394/i-wrote-some-stolen-memos-brett-kavanaugh-lied-senate-about">lying
to the senate under oath</a>.


feed_id: d4a8d867178c10ae19f45871b0a0b22a
title: Divestment from fossil fuels
uri: 2018-09-15-Divestment-from-fossil-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Divestment_from_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
Intentional divestment from fossil fuels is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/10/fossil-fuel-divestment-funds-rise-to-6tn">starting
to impact oil companies financially</a>.
<p>
Alas, they still think they can defeat civilization and natural world
through the governments in many countries that will defend them to the
death.  (Our death.)


feed_id: 9190ed3b25fd2fb8b66d5fa95c291748
title: Sell-out plutocratist Democrats
uri: Sell-out-plutocratist-Democrats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Sell-out_plutocratist_Democrats%29

content:
<p>
In the states governed entirely by the Democratic Party, they don't
introduce progressive policies &mdash; because too many of them are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/10/trump-neoliberal-democratic-party-america">sell-out
plutocratist Democrats</a>.


feed_id: a454e23ddd188e44a87f81903e4330c2
title: UK wants to deport opposition politician
uri: UK-wants-to-deport-opposition-politician
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28UK_wants_to_deport_opposition_politician%29

content:
<p>
The UK wants to deport an opposition politician who 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/10/i-fear-for-my-life-uk-urged-not-to-deport-zimbabwean-activist">fled
Zimbabwe in fear of his life</a>.
<p>
It is sickening that the state even thinks about doing so.


feed_id: 4c6673d641fc61be5fb5187c42de7b7a
title: Dallas thug charged with manslaughter
uri: Dallas-thug-charged-with-manslaughter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Dallas_thug_charged_with_manslaughter%29

content:
<p>
The Dallas <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> who killed a man for supposedly being in her apartment
(though actually it was his apartment) has been 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/10/dallas-botham-jean-amber-guyger-officer-shot-neighbor-arrested">charged
with manslaughter</a>.
<p>
The mere fact that someone is (you think) in your apartment is not by
itself a reason to kill per.


feed_id: 473144eb64024a3c7e98387a48b7b145
title: The ICC
uri: The-ICC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28The_ICC%29
content:
<p>
Bolton is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/10/trump-attack-on-icc-is-the-unacceptable-face-of-us-exceptionalism">leading
a US campaign to effectively destroy the ICC</a>.


feed_id: aa1079d6e62a54b2497284ceeeda8cdd
title: Food shortage in DR Congo
uri: Food-shortage-in-DR-Congo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Food_shortage_in_DR_Congo%29
content:
<p>
The war in the DR Congo is causing a food shortage that is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/10/starvation-a-weapon-of-war-that-could-kill-590000-children-by-the-end-of-2018">likely
to kill 300,000 children this year</a>.  Other wars add an equal
number.


feed_id: 35bc3eadd3869ec2ad2f3b57643a1d88
title: Kavanaugh's dangerous and wrong views
uri: Kavanaugh-s-dangerous-and-wrong-views
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_dangerous_and_wrong_views%29

content:
<p>
Kavanaugh's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/sep/10/kavanaughs-views-on-epas-climate-authority-are-dangerous-and-wrong">Views
on EPA's Climate Authority</a> Are Dangerous And Wrong.


feed_id: e808fb131b21cb0817a9bed93aa37612
title: EPA staff
uri: EPA-staff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28EPA_staff%29
content:
<p>
The saboteurs in charge of the EPA are crippling it by driving out
crucial staff.  So far, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/09/epa-exodus-nearly-1600-workers-have-left-trump-took-office-analysis-shows">1600
have left</a>.
<p>
This could render the EPA incapable of functioning by the time it is
asked once again to do its job.


feed_id: 4f813733a0391b4c4705611874fc4fb2
title: Comparative religion
uri: Comparative-religion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Comparative_religion%29
content:
<p>
A UK commission proposes replacing "religious education" with study of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/09/religious-education-schools-overhaul-reflect-diverse-world">comparative
religion</a>, including major world religions as well as the
nonreligious stances of atheism, agnosticism, humanism and secularism.


feed_id: 1bb30539c847cb7b309ace3c63ca3e9d
title: Public ownership of banks
uri: Public-ownership-of-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_%28Public_ownership_of_banks%29
content:
<p>
We Need 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/09/we-need-public-ownership-banks-stop-next-financial-crisis">Public
Ownership of Banks</a> to Stop the Next Financial Crisis.


feed_id: ae9bec058167b5abbbb97976839319b5
title: Urgent: citizenship of Americans
uri: Urgent-citizenship-of-Americans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_citizenship_of_Americans%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Latinx_passports">call on
the State Department</a> to stop denying the citizenship of Americans
of hispanic descent.
<p>
Please join me in rejecting 
<a href="https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html#latinx">the absurd and
unpronounceable word "Latinx"</a>.


feed_id: da92c7982acec19bab2504e48c067c46
title: Urgent: Shut down megabanks
uri: Urgent-Shut-down-megabanks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Shut_down_megabanks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/end_wells_fargo">call for
shutting down</a> criminal megabanks like Wells Fargo.


feed_id: da4b745c89bdc918ac8a6849e50ae890
title: Underpaid Amazon workers
uri: Underpaid-Amazon-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Underpaid_Amazon_workers%29
content:
<p>
"If Jeff Bezos wants to help low-income people 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/14/jeff-bezos-low-income-people-pay-amazon-workers-better'>why
not just pay them better</a>?"


feed_id: 793306d1d216094196dca2a0508af8ef
title: Proposed agreement bad for agriculture
uri: Proposed-agreement-bad-for-agriculture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Proposed_agreement_bad_for_agriculture%29

content:
<p>
Mexican farmers say the proposed new agreement with the US is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/13/life-or-death-us-mexicos-farm-movement-rejects-new-nafta-agreement">bad
for Mexican agriculture</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> wants the agreement to be approved without showing it to
the public.  It must be bad.


feed_id: 992100becc4f8820e898e3703aa0ed23
title: Refugee children taking up prison space
uri: Refugee-children-taking-up-prison-space
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Refugee_children_taking_up_prison_space%29

content:
<p>
(satire) Freeloading Refugee Children 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/freeloading-refugee-children-taking-up-thousands-of-pri-1829034753">Taking
Up Thousands Of Prison Cells Meant For Real Americans</a>.


feed_id: 357266c0897f97ca6d0b5d0864062c73
title: Hurricane Maria death toll
uri: 2018-09-16-Hurricane-Maria-death-toll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Hurricane_Maria_death_toll%29
content:
<p>
Some US government officials knew shortly after Hurricane Maria hit
Puerto Rico that the death toll was 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795745">higher than the
government claimed</a>.


feed_id: 2e4363b770805c31148d4f969a6dba3d
title: The Democratic Party
uri: 2018-09-16-The-Democratic-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28The_Democratic_Party%29
content:
<p>
The Democratic Party 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/13/where-democrats-contract-america-2018">can't
formulate what it stands for</a>.
<p>
What it should stand for, above all, is to end plutocracy and restore
democracy.


feed_id: 7f40287212ceee4beaec06b329d9d45d
title: Countries compete to tax businesses less
uri: Countries-compete-to-tax-businesses-less
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Countries_compete_to_tax_businesses_less%29

content:
<p>
Various countries including the US are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/12/ten-years-after-crash-tax-competition-threatens-global-economy-and-democracy">competing
to tax businesses less</a>.
<p>
This is a "beggar thy neighbor" race which harms all the competing
countries and benefits mainly the rich that own most of the stock.


feed_id: a0e96c863db0b0e25ba619e945c875c8
title: Greenhouse gas reductions
uri: Greenhouse-gas-reductions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Greenhouse_gas_reductions%29
content:
<p>
A study concluded that states, cities and businesses can bring about
greenhouse gas reductions in the US that come 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795537">close to this Paris
agreement pledges</a>.
<p>
Alas that means 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#14_June_2016_(Paris_summit_carbon_pledges)">not
enough</a>.


feed_id: 15f93513d51ad482ed47236be858aa4f
title: Business-oriented "climate summit"
uri: Business-oriented-climate-summit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Business-oriented_climate_summit%29

content:
<p>
Governor Brown of California went to open a business-oriented "climate
summit", but thousands of activists protested him for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/13/san-francisco-global-climate-action-summit-protests">permitting
many new fossil fuel wells in the state</a>.
<p>
Setting a target for 2045 is just talk.  The new wells are real.


feed_id: 617c0fbfd4390608d833c76acbfc0e18
title: Preemptive apology letters from FEMA
uri: Preemptive-apology-letters-from-FEMA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Preemptive_apology_letters_from_FEMA%29

content:
<p>
(satire) Officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency
confirmed Tuesday they were 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/fema-frantically-prepares-apology-for-screwing-up-hurri-1828980166">frantically
writing the apologies they will issue</a> for screwing up their
response to Hurricane Florence.


feed_id: 0a6383e584532f32f484bbb4626d91b8
title: 800 million people without enough to eat
uri: 800-million-people-without-enough-to-eat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28800_million_people_without_enough_to_eat%29

content:
<p>
Over 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/11/fueled-floods-storms-and-drought-made-worse-climate-crisis-global-hunger-levels-rise">800
million people</a> now don't have enough to eat.  The number is
increasing because of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> &mdash; and because of population
growth.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/12/climate-change-driving-up-malnutrition-rates-in-pacific-un-warns">1/4
of young children are stunted by malnutrition</a>.  People who can't
feed all their children need to have fewer.
<p>
Population growth 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-sep-dec.html#15%20December%202010%20(Global%20heating%202010)">accelerates
global heating as well as decreasing crop yields</a>.  It will also
reduce the nutritional value of many staple foods.
<p>
Please do your bit &mdash; 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">don't have
(more) children</a>.


feed_id: c0b46488577bfe8efe0f4a9eb7d367c4
title: Pentagon's estimate of the cost of war
uri: Pentagon-s-estimate-of-the-cost-of-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Pentagons_estimate_of_the_cost_of_war%29

content:
<p>
The Pentagon 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/11/seventeen-years-after-911-pentagon-report-ignores-trillions-dollars-spent-endless">published
a ridiculously low estimate</a> of the costs of the wars of this
century, $1.5 trillion instead of $4.5 trillion, and the mainstream
media are repeating it without question.


feed_id: 05cacd3e8082421380a349ff81c3be07
title: Obama bailouts and Troll tax cuts
uri: Obama-bailouts-and-Troll-tax-cuts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Obama_bailouts_and_Troll_tax_cuts%29

content:
<p>
Thanks to Obama Bailouts and Trump Tax Cuts, (the) Five Largest US
Banks Have Raked in
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/11/thanks-obama-bailouts-and-trump-tax-cuts-five-largest-us-banks-have-raked-583">$583
Billion Since 2008 Crash</a>.


feed_id: 67feaedb91689766ba21a426e99e06f7
title: "Right to Be Forgotten"
uri: Right-to-Be-Forgotten
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Right_to_Be_Forgotten%29
content:
<p>
In a case against Google, the European Court of Justice is considering
whether the EU can impose a "Right to Be Forgotten" 
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/11/google-back-in-court-arguing-against-a-global-right-to-be-forgotten/">on
the entire world</a>.


feed_id: e7dd960952dcc2d97db5c54ffec6d527
title: GCHQ's bulk communications snooping
uri: GCHQ-s-bulk-communications-snooping
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28GCHQs_bulk_communications_snooping%29

content:
<p>
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that GCHQ's bulk
communications snooping 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-collection-violated-human-rights-strasbourg-court-rules">violated
human rights</a>.
<p>
We will need another Snowden to find out whether GCHQ ceases the
practice.  It will probably claim to have stopped, but that might mean
only that a few details have been changed, with no alteration of the
result.


feed_id: fec04fd354afa311c9f756fe73680ff2
title: Troll claims credit
uri: Troll-claims-credit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Troll_claims_credit%29
content:
<p>
(satire) Trump Unfairly Claims Credit For
<a href="https://politics.theonion.com/trump-unfairly-claims-credit-for-rise-in-economic-inequ-1828972539">Rise
In Economic Inequality That Occurred Under Obama’s Watch</a>.


feed_id: 30e679b8f15fb2a78558535d7ae9a34b
title: Cuomo defeats Cynthia Nixon
uri: Cuomo-defeats-Cynthia-Nixon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Cuomo_defeats_Cynthia_Nixon%29
content:
<p>
Cuomo 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/13/andrew-cuomo-cynthia-nixon-new-york-primary">defeated
progressive challenger Cynthia Nixon</a>.
<p>
Cuomo has taken somewhat more progressive positions since Nixon
entered the race, but I fear they will not last long now that she is
out of it.


feed_id: d87897d8cb481bf60f1eb9a1d38ddcc1
title: Amazon's remote-controlled warehouses
uri: Amazon-s-remote-controlled-warehouses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Amazons_remote-controlled_warehouses%29

content:
<p>
The workers in Amazon's warehouses are so remote-controlled that they
are effectively 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/14/amazon-worker-cage-staff">robots
with human brains inside</a>.


feed_id: 62e51c240e8e219a524be27f7b54adba
title: Disabled and poor Americans in hurricane
uri: Disabled-and-poor-Americans-in-hurricane
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Disabled_and_poor_Americans_in_hurricane%29

content:
<p>
Disabled and poor Americans 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/14/myrtle-beach-poorest-evacuating-costly-hurricane-florence">can't
afford to evacuate</a> when a hurricane strikes.  They can't board up
their own windows, either.
<p>
A competent, helpful government would help them.


feed_id: 48714e8978ae9dc697752b07bccb976f
title: True libertarians
uri: True-libertarians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28True_libertarians%29
content:
<p>
Progressives should not abandon the concept of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/13/leftys-guide-liberty">"liberty"
to right wingers</a>.
<p>
We, not they, are the true libertarians.


feed_id: 8b0fe6dad329237d3e37e48d6ceff9c4
title: Corruption in Guatemala
uri: Corruption-in-Guatemala
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Corruption_in_Guatemala%29
content:
<p>
The president of Guatemala, relying on implicit US support, said he
will 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/13/guatemala-jimmy-morales-corruption-cicig">shut
down the agency that investigates official corruption</a>.  It was
investigating his corruption.
<p>
Evidently-corrupt army officers cheered.


feed_id: e4f0b610259553a04261440dbb6ee191
title: Do-dirty encounters resistance
uri: Do-dirty-encounters-resistance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Do-dirty_encounters_resistance%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#dodirty">President Do-dirty</a> has encountered resistance from various state
institutions which have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/14/philippines-duterte-faces-pushback-from-military-and-courts-over-arrest-of-critic">blocked
him from arbitrarily arresting opposition senator Trillanes</a>.
<p>
Trillanes continues 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#14_September_2018_(Philippines_senator)">living
in the senate</a>.


feed_id: ca4e3862db32bd08cdeea678e5cca2a7
title: Separated refugee families suing
uri: Separated-refugee-families-suing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Separated_refugee_families_suing%29

content:
<p>
Refugee families split up by US border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are suing, demanding
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/14/family-separations-lawsuit-seeks-mental-health-care-families">damages
and therapy for the trauma that has not gone away</a>.


feed_id: 1e2913821ed6edc3f33ea0b9e6c85c29
title: Protection of orangutans
uri: Protection-of-orangutans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Protection_of_orangutans%29
content:
<p>
Palm Oil: Pledges to Protect Orangutans Have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/orangutans-and-palm-oil/2018/aug/17/palm-oil-pledges-to-protect-orangutans-have-failed-the-industry-needs-to-act">Failed</a>
&mdash; the Industry Needs to Act.
<p>
Or else we need laws, but plutocratist states would rather let
plantations destroy all rain forests.
<p>
Deforestation is a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#03_May_2015_(Forest_fires_California)">major
source of greenhouse gases</a>, too.


feed_id: 8e39addbb9a2ea8eaffdff968510cd19
title: California carbon emissions law
uri: California-carbon-emissions-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28California_carbon_emissions_law%29

content:
<p>
California has passed a law setting a target to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/10/new-power-source-fight-stall-climate-change-californias-100-clean-electricity">end
carbon emissions from electric generation by 2045</a>.
<p>
This law is a step forward, but long-term targets don't do much to
reduce emissions in soon.  Indeed, the target may not even be met.
And what about agriculture, transport, and deforestation, the other
big sources of greenhouse gases?
<p>
I'd be more impressed by a plan to reduce emissions in the next few
years, even if not to zero.


feed_id: c12b61550e6c3c39f5f6b2c8463ed6e4
title: The Democratic Party
uri: 2018-09-16-The-Democratic-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28The_Democratic_Party%29
content:
<p>
(satire) Obama Urges Young Voters To 
<a href="https://politics.theonion.com/obama-urges-young-voters-to-ignore-how-many-lousy-candi-1828941779">Ignore
How Many Lousy Candidates Democratic Party Runs</a>.
<p>
Perhaps that's not news &mdash; he's been doing that since 2009.


feed_id: 8e7cec570f365c19f6d79e5864cef97a
title: Toxic coal ash dumps
uri: Toxic-coal-ash-dumps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Toxic_coal_ash_dumps%29
content:
<p>
Toxic coal ash dumps become 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/13/in-hurricane-florences-path-2m-tons-of-coal-ash-loom-over-lumberton">very
dangerous when a hurricane threatens to wash them into your water
supply</a>.


feed_id: 44b36eb8ecfaaf7e752490424f06e73e
title: Spain to sell bombs to Salafi Arabia
uri: Spain-to-sell-bombs-to-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Spain_to_sell_bombs_to_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
Spain 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/13/spain-saudi-arabia-proceed-bomb-deal-yemen-concerns">found
an excuse</a> to proceed with selling bombs for Salafi Arabia to drop
on Yemen.
<p>
If weapons to hit precisely where they are aimed, that won't protect
children in a bus if the weapon is pointed at that bus.


feed_id: 1de9d44a5878a00b169d3f3458652b7c
title: Palestinians under apartheid in Israel
uri: Palestinians-under-apartheid-in-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Palestinians_under_apartheid_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Palestinians Still Live under Apartheid in Israel, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/palestinians-still-face-apartheid-israel-25-years-after-oslo-accord">25
Years after the Oslo Accord</a>.
<p>
Indeed, it is worse now that the government has made apartheid overt
and official.


feed_id: 20204fef532d7c83fdf74deb394874f4
title: EU plans aggressive censorship
uri: EU-plans-aggressive-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28EU_plans_aggressive_censorship%29

content:
<p>
The EU plans 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/sep/13/social-media-firms-could-face-huge-fines-over-terrorist-content">aggressive
censorship rules</a> for "terrorist" postings.
<p>
Platforms that can't afford to hire people to work 24 hours a day to
carry out deletions would be wiped out immediately.  And if they are
big enough to pay for that, they still won't be able to develop
automated filters.
<p>
The automated filters can't really understand what is "terrorist" and
what isn't, so they will be designed to err on the side of caution and
delete lots of other publications.
<p>
Well, if you delete everything, at least you can be sure you deleted
everything that is "terrorist".
<p>
(Please don't refer to publications of any sort as "content" 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#content">https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#content</a>.)


feed_id: e764db779a5259b544474d96a8c6b258
title: NY State solar power subsidies
uri: NY-State-solar-power-subsidies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28NY_State_solar_power_subsidies%29

content:
<p>
New York State has reduced solar power subsidies, causing a 
<a href="https://indypendent.org/2018/09/end-of-net-metering-casts-shadow-over-future-of-new-york-solar/">slowdown
in installations</a>.
<p>
I understand that net metering has a problem &mdash; sometimes solar
installations have more power to sell than the grid can use.  So adopt
some other system to subsidize solar installations.  It will be cheap
compared with the costs of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> disaster.


feed_id: 641a6f5c493b5064416390369c3b207a
title: Cruel treatment of prisoners
uri: Cruel-treatment-of-prisoners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Cruel_treatment_of_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
South Carolina officials 
<a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/12/caged-storm-hurricane-florence-bears-down">refused
to evacuate prisoners from a prison that is in danger of being
flooded</a>.
<p>
The prisoners could be left for days with no food, water, medicine,
even sanitation.  Isn't that cruel and unusual punishment?


feed_id: f58f82f08a0158b7b951761bc623af8b
title: Hurricane Florence's rainfall
uri: Hurricane-Florence-s-rainfall
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Hurricane_Florences_rainfall%29

content:
<p>
Hurricane Florence's rainfall is likely to be 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-says-florence-is-just-mother-nature-a-stunning-new-climate-study-says-hes-wrong-7bf6311110be/">50%
greater due to global heating</a>.


feed_id: dedd6f78575141f87e50295c695030f4
title: Venezuelan opposition leaders
uri: Venezuelan-opposition-leaders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Venezuelan_opposition_leaders%29

content:
<p>
Venezuelan opposition leaders are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/12/venezuela-trump-nicolas-maduro-military-option">once
again looking for US help in overthrowing the government</a>.
<p>
Today's government is much less legitimate than that of Chavez, but
willingness to conspire with the US neonazis shows that what they
intend for Venezuela is lousy.


feed_id: 0c8b50d2472535d04677eb62a7dae8d8
title: Salafi Arabia's attack on Hodeida
uri: Salafi-Arabia-s-attack-on-Hodeida
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Salafi_Arabias_attack_on_Hodeida%29

content:
<p>
UN truce talks broke down, and <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> is now 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/13/yemen-300000-lives-hang-in-the-balance-says-un">intensely
attacking Hodeida</a>, through which most 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_(Fighting_in_Yemen)">food
and other supplies</a> arrive in Yemen.


feed_id: d3a7856b3e91c0e7f3e6c670076b346b
title: Urgent: Methane leak regulations
uri: Urgent-Methane-leak-regulations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Methane_leak_regulations%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/methane">call
on the EPA</a> to preserve the methane leak regulations.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: b24d63d3133a51e38b2c3c566048cb10
title: Torture in Algeria War
uri: Torture-in-Algeria-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Torture_in_Algeria_War%29
content:
<p>
France <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/13/france-state-responsible-for-1957-death-of-dissident-maurice-audin-in-algeria-says-macron">Admits
Systematic Torture</a> During Algeria War.


feed_id: f2cd1ae29136d86588a13421747a0e9e
title: Sanctions on Hungary
uri: Sanctions-on-Hungary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Sanctions_on_Hungary%29
content:
<p>
The European Parliament voted
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/tory-meps-orban-hungary-britain">put
sanctions on Hungary</a>
because the right-wing ruling party has imposed repression of
dissent, and basically wiped out democracy.  All in the name of
demonizing foreigners.
<p>
The UK Tories voted to defend the Hungarian quasi-fascists.


feed_id: ece3e331867c6c23f4e37e2e9889cc4d
title: Australia's carbon emissions
uri: Australia-s-carbon-emissions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Australia%27s_carbon_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Australia's carbon emissions
have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/14/australia-on-track-to-miss-paris-climate-targets-as-emissions-hit-record-highs">reached
a record level</a>.  This probably has something to do with
government's <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#17_July_2015_(Protecting_fossil_fuel_consumption)">years
of steadfast support</a> for fossil fuels.


feed_id: 85a32427d347ebe12a4d88ac4a329144
title: Another chance for asylum
uri: Another-chance-for-asylum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Another_chance_for_asylum%29
content:
<p>
In a tentative court agreement, the US said it will give hundreds of
deported
parents <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795478">another
chance to file</a> an asylum claim.  This is because border thugs
intimidated them into waiving their rights based on illegal threats.


feed_id: 5d8f4ee819b63bf0dcd5643f45911cfd
title: Civilians in Yemen
uri: Civilians-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Civilians_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> of State
Pompeo <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/12/yemen-pompeo-uae-saudi-certification-human-rights/">certified
that the US is taking sufficient steps</a> to protect civilians in
Yemen.
<p>
In other news, the President certified that the US is taking sufficient steps
to respect the human rights of border-crossing children, and that he has
not grabbed any pussies in the past 10 years.


feed_id: ecdc40f5c842c246e60cd4e0f80844f1
title: Palestinian village
uri: Palestinian-village
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Palestinian_village%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5347266,00.html">EU
countries warned Israel</a> not to demolish a Palestinian village that
was built up using EU aid funds.


feed_id: 44fdfbf910252f558741cd83e0c8e2d9
title: Salvini investigation
uri: 2018-09-16-Salvini-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Salvini_investigation%29
content:
<p>
The prosecutor investigating right-wing minister Salvini for illegally
imprisoning migrants on a coast guard ship received
a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/12/italian-prosecutor-matteo-salvini-investigation-receives-death-threat-bullet">right-wing
death threat</a>.


feed_id: dfc845d4e8f6cbf31fd77e667afeca15
title: Election security report
uri: Election-security-report
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Election_security_report%29
content:
<p>
The US National Adacemies
have <a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/09/11/securing-the-vote-national-academies-report/">published
a report</a> on election security, recommending that all votes be
recorded on paper, to keep voting systems off the internet, and to
carry out "risk-limiting audits" to make sure the ballots were counted
correctly.


feed_id: 74ad3d07d0baf20d487a7906e3909e48
title: Europe's copyright changes
uri: Europe-s-copyright-changes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Europe%27s_copyright_changes%29

content:
<p>
Cory
Doctorow <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/today-europe-lost-internet-now-we-fight-back">explains
the continuing fight</a> to block Europe's horrible copyright changes.


feed_id: f20c8942a1e30edb32c291e5f7ed0ffe
title: Blasphemy in Spain
uri: Blasphemy-in-Spain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Blasphemy_in_Spain%29
content:
<p>
A
Spanish <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/12/spanish-actor-detained-after-ridiculing-god-and-the-virgin-mary">prosecution
for blasphemy</a> &mdash; "insulting God and the Virgin Mary."


feed_id: 4f678275e8840230d83b62974da7d87f
title: Charging protesters
uri: Charging-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Charging_protesters%29
content:
<p>
Republicans <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795297">want to
charge protesters</a> the cost of whatever the state sees fit to do in
response to their protests.


feed_id: ab6fe8c883ed3241eba0408ec2514195
title: Rejecting US applications
uri: Rejecting-US-applications
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Rejecting_US_applications%29
content:
<p>
More US cruelty to visitors and immigrants: rejecting applications
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795253">for the slightest
mistake</a>.


feed_id: 07cde86f4b8b45b63c3b45023c26f113
title: Urgent: refer to Democracy Scorecard
uri: Urgent-refer-to-Democracy-Scorecard
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_refer_to_Democracy_Scorecard%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: refer to the Democracy Scorecard to see how your federal
legislators stand regarding measures to reduce the influence of the
rich in federal elections.
<p>
<a href="https://democracyscorecard.org">DemocracyScorecard.org</a>


feed_id: 2ddfb6ab98c78615d0df83c90dc35a86
title: Illegally funded tobacco ads
uri: Illegally-funded-tobacco-ads
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Illegally_funded_tobacco_ads%29

content:
<p>
Big tobacco companies 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/12/worlds-biggest-tobacco-companies-aim-to-kill-montana-healthcare-initiative">illegally
funded advertisements against Montana's cigarette tax increase</a>,
which will fund medical care for almost 100,000 poor people in that
state.


feed_id: ac4accaf5c4ab743b01c6b990e42bb98
title: Money taken from FEMA to pay for prisons
uri: Money-taken-from-FEMA-to-pay-for-prisons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Money_taken_from_FEMA_to_pay_for_prisons%29

content:
<p>
The saboteurs 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us/politics/fema-ice-immigration-detention.html">took
money from FEMA to pay for deportations and prisons</a>.


feed_id: 9ab75f4db3aa61122448024970eeb685
title: Public bank for LA
uri: Public-bank-for-LA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Public_bank_for_LA%29
content:
<p>
Los Angeles residents will 
<a href="https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/09/04/banking-on-the-public-option-will-la-lead-the-way-for-people-owned-banks/">vote
on whether to establish a public bank for the city</a>.
<p>
One good thing public banks will inevitably do is take money out of
the hands of the big US banks that 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-sep-dec.html#23%20September%202008%20(Unregulated%20lending)">caused
the financial crisis</a>, and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-may-aug.html#17%20July%202009%20(Big%20Banks%20oppose%20Consumer%20Protection)">lobbied
to block laws that would restrain them from causing another</a>.


feed_id: 8b6b08752f2373f002bdad55cc6c0d48
title: Sheriffs applaud hatred of the press
uri: Sheriffs-applaud-hatred-of-the-press
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Sheriffs_applaud_hatred_of_the_press%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> invited sheriffs to a meeting, and they 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/08/sheriffs-donald-trump-media-scrutiny">applauded
as he demonized the press</a>.  Some of these sheriffs have rational
reasons to hate the press, which exposed their wrongdoing.


feed_id: d4e88c66d24116fc2bb4f82fda8ad44c
title: Disasters and reduced inequality
uri: Disasters-and-reduced-inequality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Disasters_and_reduced_inequality%29

content:
<p>
In the past, reduced inequality has generally been the 
<a href="https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/10/how-to-fix-inequality">result
of great disasters</a>.
<p>
Today's inequality, the power of plutocrats, has locked us on the path
to <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> disaster.  The survivors may live in reduced
inequality if they are all poor.


feed_id: b76efea0a8881255d364e67fe15cea4d
title: Bullshitter's bullshit about US economy
uri: Bullshitter-s-bullshit-about-US-economy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Bullshitters_bullshit_about_US_economy%29

content:
<p>
Everything bullshitter says is good about the US economy is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/11/trumps-4-biggest-lies-about-todays-economy">bullshit</a>.


feed_id: 8599c290cc565828187c7e6b6ea67de5
title: Israel legalizes land theft
uri: Israel-legalizes-land-theft
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Israel_legalizes_land_theft%29
content:
<p>
Israel Legalizes Theft of Christian, Muslim [individuals'] Lands 
<a href="https://thearabdailynews.com/2018/08/29/israel-legalize-theft-of-christian-muslim-lands-for-illegal-jewish-only-settlements/">for
Illegal Jewish-Only Settlements</a>.
<p>
Report: Israel 
<a href="http://imemc.org/article/report-israel-using-judicial-system-to-facilitate-settlement-project/">Using
Judicial System to Facilitate Settlement Project</a>.
<p>
Israeli Court 
<a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/09/israel-west-bank-ayelet-shaked-supreme-court-settlers.html">Drops
Mask</a> on Support of Occupation.


feed_id: 800047665b98534ea22fb247f0c01945
title: Occupy Venice
uri: Occupy-Venice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Occupy_Venice%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/13/occupy-venice-alternative-to-death-of-city-activists-tourism">Occupy
Venice</a>: "We are the alternative to the death of the city".
<p>
In some European countries, "occupation" is the term for "squatting".
Maybe that is true in Italian too.


feed_id: cc3cdbfbc2d851dd10ed1329bbaebee0
title: Asylum seeker deported before appeal
uri: Asylum-seeker-deported-before-appeal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Asylum_seeker_deported_before_appeal%29

content:
<p>
Australia Deports Iraqi Asylum Seeker 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/13/australia-deports-iraqi-man-asylum-seeker-whose-appeal-was-due-next-week">Whose
Appeal Was Due Next Week</a>.
<p>
Australian officials are making a monkey out of Australia's laws.


feed_id: 310f564047d075205145d23d35aa986f
title: iThing trade-in
uri: iThing-trade-in
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28iThing_trade-in%29
content:
<p>
(satire) Apple offers customers the chance to trade in their old
iPhones 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/apple-announces-new-trade-in-offer-for-customers-to-exc-1829001894">for
nothing</a>.


feed_id: 0f738ab86d1801f6fde4035c16f423c2
title: Investigation into US torture practices
uri: Investigation-into-US-torture-practices
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Investigation_into_US_torture_practices%29

content:
<p>
Bolton's real motive for attacking the International Criminal Court
seems to be to block an 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/12/trump-administration-threatens-international-criminal-court-judges-and-prosecutors">investigation
into US torture practices</a>.


feed_id: 4ec623ccd450fd58efa60dea063d9476
title: Medicare for ALL PAC
uri: Medicare-for-ALL-PAC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Medicare_for_ALL_PAC%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/12/time-incrementalism-over-jayapal-launches-medicare-all-pac">Medicare
for All PAC</a> offers a way to support the campaigns of candidates
that endorse Medicare for All.
<p>
They will all be strongly progressive.  If you don't have time to
study candidates, and figure out which ones need funds most, this is a
good way to donate.


feed_id: 1f62745b34b08faf804922d6160c76bb
title: McDonalds workers to strike
uri: McDonalds-workers-to-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28McDonalds_workers_to_strike%29
content:
<p>
McDonalds Workers Set to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/12/mcdonalds-workers-set-to-strike-over-sexual-harassment">Strike
over Sexual Harassment</a>.


feed_id: 8bd1213990d1cdeb390f40db47dc06a4
title: Perjury by Kavanaugh
uri: Perjury-by-Kavanaugh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Perjury_by_Kavanaugh%29
content:
<p>
Evidence of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/12/evidence-kavanaugh-perjury-mounts-after-durbin-releases-more-confidential-documents">additional
perjury by Kavanaugh</a>.
<p>
No wonder the bullshitter is concealing his white house papers.


feed_id: 51ca13d649128e2e954ab999d719fdf4
title: War profiteering
uri: 2018-09-16-War-profiteering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28War_profiteering%29
content:
<p>
War Profiteers: 
<a href="https://www.codepink.org/war_profiteers_us_war_machine_and_the_arming_of_repressive_regimes">The
U.S. War Machine and the Arming of Repressive Regimes</a>.


feed_id: a7289e92eb37ff1f91bacf1829412c7e
title: Nauru's judicial system
uri: Nauru-s-judicial-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Naurus_judicial_system%29
content:
<p>
Nauru's judicial system is so small that it often uses Australian
courts.  An Australian court has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/13/nauru-19-judge-throws-out-case-and-rules-protesters-cannot-receive-a-fair-trial">rejected
Nauru's politically-motivated prosecution of various opposition
leaders for bogus "crimes"</a>.
<p>
Nauru recently created its own court of appeals, which will probably
obey orders by nullifying this decision.
<p>
Nauru is doing all this to serve the government of Australia as a
prison for refugees.


feed_id: a9fae8b53a6886273ab9683181e3ded0
title: White supremacy and fascist flirtations
uri: White-supremacy-and-fascist-flirtations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28White_supremacy_and_fascist_flirtations%29

content:
<p>
"White supremacy and fascist flirtations are not ideas that need to be
'exposed'.  We just need to
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/indulge-steve-bannon-liberal-narcissism'>fight
them</a>."


feed_id: f0d3abcb588f9b5593afc710473a44d0
title: Migrant rescue ships
uri: Migrant-rescue-ships
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Migrant_rescue_ships%29
content:
<p>
Italy and Malta have effectively 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/12/migrant-rescue-ships-mediterranean">blocked
the operation of ships to save the lives of migrants</a>.


feed_id: db56934b54d0882e4039f574f58d83c0
title: EU's new greenhouse gas law
uri: EU-s-new-greenhouse-gas-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28EUs_new_greenhouse_gas_law%29
content:
<p>
The EU's new greenhouse gas law is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/12/eu-climate-law-could-cause-catastrophic-deforestation">likely
to encourage chopping down forests all around the world</a> so as to
burn the wood in the EU.


feed_id: 13d6398d7c2c6a2e415d8fb163ade7ba
title: Copyright enforcement and mass surveillance
uri: Copyright-enforcement-and-mass-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Copyright_enforcement_and_mass_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Copyright Directive: the Cultural Industry and Press Publishers 
<a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en/copyright_12_sept">Feed on
the Crumbs of the Mass Surveillance Business</a>.
<p>
EDRi: EU Parliament flip-flops 
<a href="https://edri.org/press-release-eu-parliament-flip-flops-backwards-on-copyright/">backwards
on copyright</a>.


feed_id: 7c793eca7e172320755b25986b58e772
title: Government-funded religious schools
uri: Government-funded-religious-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Government-funded_religious_schools%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, parents get their children into 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/12/desperate-parents-are-bribing-priests-with-muffins-our-faith-school-system-must-end">government-funded
religious schools</a> by pretending to belong to that religion.


feed_id: 1a349da753d3c56e11c1510ad45c49f0
title: Bully to imprison more migrant minors
uri: Bully-to-imprison-more-migrant-minors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28Bully_to_imprison_more_migrant_minors%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> plans to imprison 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795224">a lot more migrant
minors</a>.


feed_id: 0f0adf18304a790671986c69e4862725
title: 300 NY thugs and firefighters dead
uri: 300-NY-thugs-and-firefighters-dead
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#15_September_2018_%28300_NY_thugs_and_firefighters_dead%29

content:
<p>
Over 300 New York <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> and firefighters have died of 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795008">medical problems
caused by working in the vicinity of the September 2001 attacks.


feed_id: a446d89c8bace8824adb8b2e8d0c7304
title: Kavanaugh's opposition to Roe v. Wade
uri: Kavanaugh-s-opposition-to-Roe-v-Wade
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_opposition_to_Roe_v._Wade%29

content:
<p>
Facebook Suppressed a Story About 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/facebook-weekly-standard-suppressed-a-story-about-brett-kavanaughs-opposition-to-roe-v-wade-were-republishing-it/">Brett
Kavanaugh's Opposition to Roe v. Wade</a>. We’re Republishing It.


feed_id: c428fe4dd2661a24bb01f8e1ace13e94
title: Solar power satellites
uri: Solar-power-satellites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Solar_power_satellites%29
content:
<p>
Once again, proposing to 
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-09-earth-health-benefit-space-solar.html">build
solar power satellites using material from the moon</a>.
<p>
The L5 society campaigned for this around 1980.  I supported it.
<p>
Solar power satellites could indeed give us plentiful renewable
electricity.  The obstacle to building them is the large initial
investment before the first one is running.  States starved for funds
by tax-competition have trouble making such an investment.


feed_id: f8e73812254a76121af0514b7f358e7b
title: Flooding
uri: Flooding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Flooding%29
content:
<p>
New cities are being built in coastal areas 
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-09-cities-millions-vulnerable-climate.html">liable
to be flooded in some decades</a>.  These "investment vehicles" might
turn out to be submarines.
<p>
We 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/climate-change-we-need-to-start-moving-people-away-from-some-coastal-areas-warns-scientist-101351">need
to start moving people away</a> from some coastal areas.


feed_id: adf309c3a7755948af02fbe6ab0ddefb
title: Global heating
uri: 2018-09-17-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Australian farmers 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/16/drought-stricken-farmers-challenge-coalitions-climate-change-stance-in-tv-ad">demand
more effort to curb global heating</a>.


feed_id: 7590d5a1e9325394df6826f13737eb4b
title: Global heating and hurricanes
uri: Global-heating-and-hurricanes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Global_heating_and_hurricanes%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/15/hurricane-category-6-this-is-how-world-ends-book-climate-change">making
category 6 hurricanes possible</a>; we will surely see them in the
future, and they could submerge entire cities.


feed_id: 2da502c773529702b0bb1b6ea10c7009
title: Cattle overproduction
uri: Cattle-overproduction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Cattle_overproduction%29
content:
<p>
Europe is producing 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/15/europe-meat-dairy-production-2050-expert-warns">more
cattle than the environment can stand</a>, and will have to cut in in
half.


feed_id: 234883224d5fe94c7484dc048fa16ee3
title: Progressive organizing among Amish
uri: Progressive-organizing-among-Amish
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Progressive_organizing_among_Amish%29

content:
<p>
Progressive organizing 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/15/jess-king-pennsylvania-lancaster-stands-up/">among
the Amish</a>.


feed_id: 9b5bff7b1099a31a919ba5e90d12827d
title: Repression of insults in the UK
uri: Repression-of-insults-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Repression_of_insults_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
The UK increasingly represses mere insults.  It started with insults
based on bigotry, but now it is 
<a href="https://reason.com/archives/2018/09/15/britain-turns-offensive-speech-into-a-po">expanding
to all insults</a>.
<p>
I disagree with the author on one point: I think it is correct to
punish crimes of violence more heavily when they are based on bigotry,
such attacks represent a campaign of violence that could tend to
spread.  It's proper for the state to act to stamp that out.


feed_id: 245084f24c18023cab3ef9099de32fc2
title: Overfishing
uri: 2018-09-17-Overfishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Overfishing%29
content:
<p>
The ocean off Tanzania is overfished &mdash; more boats are going out,
and the catch is declining.  A large cause of the decline is the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/15/tanzania-dar-es-salaam-illegal-fishers-coral-reef-eco-system-at-risk">foreign
fishing boats that fish illegally</a>.
<p>
In the long term, what Tanzania needs is fewer births, not more food.


feed_id: 1b13cb27e90be6f39254236a0cead528
title: State thugs follow progressive groups
uri: State-thugs-follow-progressive-groups
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28State_thugs_follow_progressive_groups%29

content:
<p>
Massachusetts state <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> accidentally leaked the fact that they have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/15/massachusetts-police-tweet-leftwing-surveillance-boston">bookmarked
several progressive political groups to follow</a>.
<p>
Either the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are much more progressive than one would expect, and
are looking for opportunities to show support, or they are biased
against these groups.


feed_id: dfc755939d4da2021c6471b391b61900
title: Theater of Security Agency
uri: 2018-09-17-Theater-of-Security-Agency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Theater_of_Security_Agency%29
content:
<p>
Theater of Security Agency staff 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180905/12221540583/tsa-decides-path-to-flight-safety-runs-through-passengers-prosthetic-leg.shtml">insisted
on swabbing the top of a passenger's prosthetic leg</a> to see if it
had been in contact with explosives.  They threatened to arrest her if
she did not let them.
<p>
The article ends by giving the TSA undeserved legitimacy by asserting
that it has actually made flying safer.  This is unlikely &mdash; the
TSA acknowledges that terrorists are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/airlines.html#acknowledgement">not targeting airplanes any more</a>.


feed_id: 902caf1bf0d0a03d6a2ec66e1e0746c8
title: Israel-Palestine peace negotiations
uri: Israel-Palestine-peace-negotiations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Israel-Palestine_peace_negotiations%29

content:
<p>
Palestine's chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, says that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/15/palestine-israel-us-peace-plan-saeb-erekat">the
bullshitter is trying to eliminate peace negotiations</a> between
Israel and Palestine by taking Israel's side on every important issue.
<p>
At this point, Palestine could reject the idea of including the US in
talks, and ask some other power such as the EU or Russia to mediate
peace talks.
<p>
That can't advance negotiations now, since 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#29%20March%202009%20(Avnery%20-%20peace%20initiatives%20designed%20to%20fail)">Netanyahu
refuses to consider any concessions</a>, but it will put a little more
pressure on Israel and the US.


feed_id: 0f5ea55a69b71bb0e0b400b507860921
title: Amazon delivery workers
uri: Amazon-delivery-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Amazon_delivery_workers%29
content:
<p>
Amazon's subcontracted delivery workers suffer 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795306">wage theft and
various other mistreatment</a>.


feed_id: b6411c0096dd8e8fce208ad3d361d55a
title: Farmers' right to repair
uri: Farmers-right-to-repair
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Farmers_right_to_repair%29
content:
<p>
Farmer Lobbying Group 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180911/15241040618/farmer-lobbying-group-accused-selling-out-farmers-right-to-repair-laws.shtml">Accused
Of Selling Out Farmers</a> On Right To Repair Laws.


feed_id: 313e4e9e1eaebcb182885a1c15b0745a
title: Berkeley thug department
uri: Berkeley-thug-department
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Berkeley_thug_department%29
content:
<p>
When the Berkeley <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department arrested protesters for bogus crimes
and posted their personal details, this was part of an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/14/berkeley-police-california-twitter-anti-fascist-protesters">explicit
PR campaign meant to intimidate protest</a> and make the department
appear powerful.
<p>
Those <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> brought the law into disrepute.  Every one of them who
participated in these actions, including those who approved the plans,
should be fired for that.


feed_id: f0e1f630971203cdafc6c3574c7847a8
title: Zero-hour contracts
uri: 2018-09-17-Zero-hour-contracts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Zero-hour_contracts%29
content:
<p>
After the leader of the Church of England (the Archbishop of
Canterbury) criticized zero-hour contracts and the piecework sweatshop
economy, someone called this a "hypocrisy" because 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/14/archbishop-of-canterbury-justin-welby-under-fire-after-church-of-england-advertises-zero-hours-contracts">some
churches hire on zero-hour contracts and the church invests in
Amazon</a>.
<p>
The stated rebuke that you should "put your own house in order before"
criticizing an abuse is misguided.  If we accept that as a principle,
it would come down to "Only saints are entitled to criticize", which
would give abusers a shield to deflect pressure to correct abuses.
<p>
The right response is, "Don't forget to include your own organization
in this criticism."  We should focus on correcting the abuses, not on
loathing everyone somehow associated with them.
<p>
I think the accusation of hypocrisy is invalid with regard to the
zero-hour contracts, given that the archbishop doesn't control those
hiring practices in other church organizations.
<p>
The issue of investing in Amazon is a different one.  Shareholder
activism has proved to be ineffective, and the church could do more to
change those companies' behavior (and get their taxes increased) by
divesting from them and condemning them.  I don't know how much
influence the archbishop personally has over these investments, but
that is how he should use it henceforth.


feed_id: 9eedb27bf74c5cfc194b06b1fa7d7f3d
title: Progressive Democrats
uri: 2018-09-17-Progressive-Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Progressive_Democrats%29
content:
<p>
"Centrist" Democrat Governor Cuomo defeated Cynthia Nixon, but 6 of
the 8 "Democratic" collaborationists that have kept Republicans in
power in the state legislature have been defeated by 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/14/we-changed-albany-forever-cuomo-defeats-nixon-progressives-crush-gop-collaborating">progressive
Democrats</a>.


feed_id: 15e9c33a1e33c19adf839b74353dbb96
title: Conflicts of interest with businesses
uri: Conflicts-of-interest-with-businesses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Conflicts_of_interest_with_businesses%29

content:
<p>
The head medical officer of Sloan Kettering Cancer Center resigned in
a scandal for not reporting conflicts of interest in his relationship
with businesses, including a 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/health/jose-baselga-cancer-memorial-sloan-kettering.html">large
drug company</a>.
<p>
Making researchers report these conflicts of interest is just the
first step.  If we want research to be honest, we must end the
practice of letting businesses choose whether to fund it.  They should
fund it indirectly, through taxes.


feed_id: 73e123e31714bc5bf55c8d627bbe28cf
title: Demise of democracy in the US
uri: Demise-of-democracy-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Demise_of_democracy_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/Democracy.html">Demise
of Democracy</a> (in the US).


feed_id: 8c8aba1e736a1943c895189a4219e348
title: Toxic coal ash pollution
uri: Toxic-coal-ash-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Toxic_coal_ash_pollution%29
content:
<p>
Heavy rain from Hurricane Florence has 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795522">washed toxic
pollution from coal ash dumps into water supplies</a>.  Even from one
inactive dump that was capped, supposedly to make it safe.
<p>
This is because the coal companies make more money by not moving the
ash away from waterways, or letting it be recycled into concrete.


feed_id: 72eb218385dfb6e0aa98390a15b93cfd
title: Avoiding massive extinction
uri: Avoiding-massive-extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Avoiding_massive_extinction%29
content:
<p>
A scientific recommendation that 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/14/prevent-major-extinction-crisis-scientist-call-designating-half-planet-protected">50%
of the Earth's surface be protected wildlife areas by 2050</a>, to
avoid massive extinction.
<p>
If we want to protect more than desert and mountain species, protected
lands will have to include a lot of places that could be used for
agriculture, at least for 20 years till they are exhausted.  To
protect them, we need to keep human farmers away.  That will be
difficult, but keeping the birth rate down will make it a little
easier.
<p>
In addition, protected areas may not serve their purpose if global
heating makes them unviable habitats for some of the species that live
in them.  
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">Curbing the
human population</a> will also make progress towards reducing global
heating.


feed_id: dfae4c141ada80a7aaaf9870ff8871a9
title: 10th anniversary of Wall Street crash
uri: 10th-anniversary-of-Wall-Street-crash
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%2810th_anniversary_of_Wall_Street_crash%29

content:
<p>
On 10th Anniversary of Wall Street Crash, Warren Says: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/14/10th-anniversary-wall-street-crash-warren-says-break-banks-and-jail-bankers">Break
Up the Banks and Jail the Bankers</a>.


feed_id: c5c7810903a5f092be4340afb9bd6dd8
title: Republican Party
uri: Republican-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Republican_Party%29
content:
<p>
Senator Graham is the paradigmatic example of a Republican who 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1795534">can see no wrong in
anything the bullshitter says or does</a>.
<p>
The Republican Party is no longer a political party in the usual
sense.  It is a cult.


feed_id: 43c63e21f9a62f523ba87a857b87d511
title: Google's Censored-for-China search engine
uri: Google-s-Censored-for-China-search-engine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28Googles_Censored-for-China_search_engine%29

content:
<p>
Google 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-links-searches-to-phone-numbers/">already
developed a prototype</a> censored-for-China search engine.
<p>
It also identifies who searches for something "suspect".
<p>
I think the US should make it a crime for a US company to censor
politically for other countries.  Other countries that wish to be
considered free should do likewise.  Even though this will mean that
tyrannical states such as China will block access to them, the fact
that they are blocked will communicate a message of freedom to those
who cannot access them.


feed_id: aeec9fc51074d5700ee8c9b2d9f745a2
title: UK referendum rigging
uri: UK-referendum-rigging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#16_September_2018_%28UK_referendum_rigging%29
content:
<p>
The UK government 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/14/judges-brexit-vote-eu-referendum-vote-leave">permitted
rigging the referendum on the EU</a> in favor of the leave campaign.


feed_id: 3d3e83d3647aadb0e271f32a8657b720
title: Spotify
uri: 2018-09-18-Spotify
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Spotify%29
content:
<p>
Spotify 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/16/spotify-can-tell-if-youre-sad-heres-why-that-should-scare-you">can
tell whether users are happy or sad, based on what they listen to</a>.
It will use that data to manipulate them.  The data will sooner or
later be combined with other personal data, to control people
according to the corporate will.
<p>
To protect yourself from this tracking, do as I do &mdash; get an
actual copy of the song, and listen to it with free software.  Then no
company will know what you are listening to.


feed_id: 730c1ca717543edf35aa854e13f81654
title: UK censorship
uri: 2018-09-18-UK-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28UK_censorship%29
content:
<p>
As if the UK didn't have too much censorship already, an MP wants to
impose censorship requirements on all 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180912/00230940625/uk-mp-thinks-secret-online-groups-are-root-all-evil-online-promises-to-regulate-large-online-groups.shtml">private
discussion groups with more than 500 members</a>.


feed_id: 55a1061ad955290975b9e6ec228307ee
title: Apple recycling
uri: Apple-recycling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Apple_recycling%29
content:
<p>
Apple handles a lot of recycling of electronic products &mdash; mostly
not Apple's own products &mdash; and requires the contractors that do
the work to 
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yp73jw/apple-recycling-iphones-macbooks">shred
all the component parts</a>, rather than save those that are still
usable.


feed_id: e05d3ab85b98eb9936186c485748578d
title: Donations of paper books to prisons
uri: Donations-of-paper-books-to-prisons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Donations_of_paper_books_to_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Several US states have tried cutting off donations of paper books to
prisons, 
<a href="http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/books-through-bars-pennsylvania-prisons-k2-security-john-wetzel-20180913.html">allowing
only e-books</a> which are 
<a href="media/3f1e898d.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf">unjust in the usual way</a>.
<p>
Some have even cut off paper mail in favor of permanently stored and
censored email through one imposed email service.
<p>
This sort of policy tends directly to encourage recidivism.  If the
goal of US prisons were to discourage crime, prison authorities would
know better than to do this.
<p>
If, however, the true goal is slave labor, then it makes sense.


feed_id: 01d2a512f7dbefd9e374a0595cda8193
title: Outsourcing of chicken processing
uri: Outsourcing-of-chicken-processing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Outsourcing_of_chicken_processing%29

content:
<p>
The US Department of Agriculture has authorized outsourcing of
processing of US-grown chickens to China, and there will be 
<a href="https://livingtraditionally.com/usda-board-shipping-u-s-chickens-china-processing-re-entry-states-human-consumption/">no
US inspection of the processing</a>.
<p>
Not only is this unsafe, it is also a gratuitous increase in
outsourcing.  The bullshitter likes to pretend to be fighting
outsourcing, but 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#17_December_2016_(800_saved_Carrier_jobs_going_to_robots)">his
"successes" are bogus</a> yet he allows it when it's not merely
disadvantageous but unsafe as well.


feed_id: 23abddf4a5df130b86b83d864d83ae88
title: Canadians who have used marijuana
uri: Canadians-who-have-used-marijuana
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Canadians_who_have_used_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45478939">threatens
to deny entry to Canadians that have used marijuana in Canada</a>,
even though it will soon be lawful there.
<p>
Even 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/14/canadian-users-legalized-marijuana-could-face-lifetime-bans-us-warns-top-trump">people
that have had jobs in producing and selling marijuana</a> could be
absurdly banned.
<p>
There is no sensible reason for this, no motive besides opportunistic
harassment.


feed_id: a7e339757110ed51fce6c48c95a20c88
title: Chicago hotel workers strike
uri: Chicago-hotel-workers-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Chicago_hotel_workers_strike%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://portside.org/2018-09-13/thousands-chicago-workers-are-out-first-citywide-hotel-strike-over-century">6000
Chicago hotel workers</a> are on strike.


feed_id: c809daf1404eea7caafab5f891f87799
title: Financial crisis of 2008
uri: Financial-crisis-of-2008
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Financial_crisis_of_2008%29
content:
<p>
Matt Taibi: The 
<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/financial-crisis-ten-year-anniversary-723798/">financial
crisis of 2008</a> was the predictable result of allowing banks to
make bad loans and turn them into a Ponzi scheme.  The large banks
were so tied together that they would all have crashed if not
"rescued".
<p>
The result of the rescue was to make the big banks even bigger, give
them special advantages, and repeatedly let them get away with crimes.


feed_id: 6737336f71dbb192bee8169286bb850f
title: Copyright on Bach's music
uri: Copyright-on-Bach-s-music
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Copyright_on_Bachs_music%29
content:
<p>
Public pressure 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/sony-finally-admits-it-doesnt-own-bach-and-it-only-took-public-pressure">made
Sony release its claims to have a copyright</a> on Bach's music.
<p>
Wherever automated copyright censor systems exist, a stream of such
false claims will pour into them, and each one takes far more work to
remove than to create.


feed_id: 4c1e2399318b81a6182541752846af50
title: Business-supremacy treaties
uri: 2018-09-18-Business-supremacy-treaties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Business-supremacy_treaties%29
content:
<p>
New <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#business-supremacy">business-supremacy treaties</a> are moving from the full-strength ISDS (I Sue
Democratic States) clause 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180911/09243540612/corporate-sovereignty-wane-as-governments-realize-more-trouble-than-worth.shtml">toward
more limited variants</a>.
<p>
I don't have information on whether these are significantly less of an
impediment to democracy.


feed_id: 415d93ac1032acf87d1533111b1d8fe7
title: Prozac and antibiotic resistance
uri: Prozac-and-antibiotic-resistance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Prozac_and_antibiotic_resistance%29

content:
<p>
Prozac kills bacteria, the same way as some antibiotics, so it
<a href="https://gizmodo.com/a-common-antidepressant-might-help-bacteria-become-supe-1828940247">provokes
some bacteria to evolve resistance to those antibiotics</a>.  The
effect would occur in the bodies of patients using the drug, but also
in rivers and lakes.  Sewage treatment is not designed to degrade such
drugs.


feed_id: 2749c4d290799c13b3ac9247a48ce5ba
title: Manipulation of markets
uri: Manipulation-of-markets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Manipulation_of_markets%29
content:
<p>
Many countries' central banks, totally independent, are buying stocks,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/15/central-banks-have-gone-rogue-putting-us-all-risk">putting
them among the largest investors</a>.
<p>
In general this pushes the stock markets up, but they also manipulate
markets, causing and popping bubbles that they can take advantage of.


feed_id: ded6f1f832f77b8857d066b0a9187f6a
title: Urgent: Kavanaugh's false statements
uri: Urgent-Kavanaugh-s-false-statements
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Kavanaugh%27s_false_statements%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.pfaw.org/sign/demand-doj-investigate-kavanaughs-statements/">call
on the Department of Justice</a> to investigate Kavanaugh's false
statements to the Senate.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 3a3812d07ccc88952a2f1798ad9fe8f0
title: Urgent: Second round of tax attacks
uri: Urgent-Second-round-of-tax-attacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Second_round_of_tax_attacks%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/tax_scam_round2">oppose
the second round</a> of SCROTUS's tax attacks.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 9f032990c0b95af526ee9e0e0cad8d6a
title: PISSI reshaped
uri: PISSI-reshaped
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28PISSI_reshaped%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> has reshaped
itself <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/16/isis-has-not-vanished-it-is-fighting-a-guerrilla-war-against-the-iraqi-state/">into
a guerrilla force</a>; the Iraqi army is unable to fight it
effectively.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> gets support from some of the Sunnis, who generally feel
repressed by the majority Shi'ites.  Their experience with being ruled
by <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> was worse than the Iraqi state, but now that the Iraqi state
rules them again and <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> does not, they seem to be forgetting that
lesson.


feed_id: 3e91fc75d9357b5a165d6c3e440da08d
title: Volunteers at the border
uri: Volunteers-at-the-border
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Volunteers_at_the_border%29
content:
<p>
Justice
Department <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/16/border-patrol-no-more-deaths-prosecution-arizona-immigrants/">Attempts
to Suppress Evidence</a> That the Border Patrol Targeted Humanitarian
Volunteers.


feed_id: b153174626b5107a10da27e69a4f98e2
title: Coal dump pollution
uri: Coal-dump-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Coal_dump_pollution%29
content:
<p>
Duke Energy was very slow in removing the coal ash from an insecure
waste dump next to a coal plant that shut in 2013.  As a result, the
ash was still around for Hurricane Florence
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/16/florence-north-carolina-massive-flooding">wash
pollution out of it</a>.


feed_id: 1c8358f9e7547d2ba1b338fd612e5461
title: Single-payer medical system
uri: 2018-09-18-Single-payer-medical-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Single-payer_medical_system%29
content:
<p>
Now that Obama is starting to lead "mainstream" Democrats
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/16/medicare-for-all-universal-healthcare-democrats">endorse
a single-payer medical system</a>, we will have to campaign to ensure
it isn't watered down into something much less.
<p>
I propose this watchword: if it still offers private insurance
companies a role, it doesn't go far enough.  Those companies are
already scamming patients by leaving large expenses uncovered.
<p>
Doctors and hospitals should not be allowed to bill patients directly
for any part of the care covered by the system, except system-approved
co-pays, and those should exist only for outpatient care.


feed_id: ad586f56309d4845944e81952fa30a53
title: 'Compassionate release'
uri: Compassionate-release
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28%27Compassionate_release%27%29
content:
<p>
The US takes so long to decide whether sick prisoners are eligible for
"compassionate release"
that <a href="https://reason.com/archives/2018/09/16/grandparents-in-the-gulag">many
of them die</a> before it can make up its mind.


feed_id: cd1b930a010a8e7a0c0cce082f871229
title: Macron's apology
uri: Macron-s-apology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Macron%27s_apology%29
content:
<p>
"My father’s murder in Algeria shaped my life. That’s why Macron’s
apology <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/16/algeria-france-war-macron-apology-murder-michele-audin-interview">is
so important</a>."


feed_id: b550bd7f58424a331bc4fd76890f13eb
title: Australian coal mining plan
uri: Australian-coal-mining-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Australian_coal_mining_plan%29
content:
<p>
Adani's plan to open up a massive new coal mining region in Australia
has collapsed, but it may
still <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2018/sep/16/adanis-rail-line-cut-shows-project-is-on-life-support-but-still-a-threat-to-climate">open
a single large mine</a> there.  For the sake of avoiding global
disaster, we need to push hard against that and against every new
fossil fuel facility.


feed_id: 29e96bf52182d3594dc7b1e9d508a4c9
title: Bloomberg at 'climate summit'
uri: Bloomberg-at-climate-summit
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Bloomberg_at_%27climate_summit%27%29

content:
<p>
Michael Bloomberg, who wants to run for president in 2020, went to a
business-dominated "climate summit"
and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/14/bloombergs-comparison-climate-leaders-xenophobic-build-wall-trumpsters-denounced">mocked
environmentalist protesters</a>.
<p>
I won't vote for him.


feed_id: 9a27f515788dc769d30f4472c312c024
title: Measures after school shootings
uri: Measures-after-school-shootings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Measures_after_school_shootings%29

content:
<p>
When US parents demand schools "do something, right away" to prevent a
shooting, the measures schools adopt make them feel (more) like jails.
This <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/opinion/school-shootings-security-violence.html">does
little for safety</a> but a lot to create an atmosphere of distrust.
<p>
School shootings harm few students each year;
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#11_January_2012_(US_Students_)">school
to prison pipeline</a>
harms far, far more.


feed_id: 628939233511b1f24c51b2b74a78b5b5
title: Corrupted FEMA
uri: Corrupted-FEMA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Corrupted_FEMA%29
content:
<p>
Republicans are chiefly to blame for "natural" disasters in the US.
Directly so because they corrupt FEMA, so that the physical events
cause a much bigger human disaster.
<p>
When the physical event is extreme weather, Republicans are also
responsible indirectly because they
have <a href="http://theweek.com/articles/795722/politicize-weather">forced
global heating faster</a>.
<p>
Democratic officials do a good job with FEMA.  Against <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>,
plutocratist mainstream Democrats are not as bad as Republicans, but
not good enough to avoid global disaster.


feed_id: 33fb16c3bc51cb7c4f533402f2cc781e
title: Cornstarch bags
uri: Cornstarch-bags
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Cornstarch_bags%29
content:
<p>
A UK supermarket chain will replace plastic bags for fruits and vegetables
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/15/waitrose-steps-up-action-to-remove-plastic-bags">with
cornstarch bags</a>.
<p>
The problem with cornstarch is that it is made from corn, and the corn
has to be grown.  If all the plastic packaging now used were replaced
with cornstarch, what fraction of the world's corn crop would that use?
Can anyone find the data to make a rough estimate of this?
<p>
If I receive a good answer, I will post it.


feed_id: 4139bbd5012d04abc682b08296a41511
title: Nerve gas poisoning
uri: Nerve-gas-poisoning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_%28Nerve_gas_poisoning%29
content:
<p>
Activists have tied the recent nerve gas poisoning
suspects <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/15/documents-show-novichok-salisbury-suspects-alexander-petrov-ruslan-boshirov-links-defence">to
the Russian Ministry of Defense</a>, and caught them in other lies.
<p>
Based on all the information that has been published, I consider it
nearly certain that they committed the poisoning.


feed_id: 6fa9c06f5c40d3e241e73003609b1cdb
title: Urgent: Mitsubishi UFJ
uri: Urgent-Mitsubishi-UFJ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Mitsubishi_UFJ%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://act.ran.org/stop_funding_climate_destruction">Call on
the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group</a> to stop funding global heating.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: b1f7725ca216564904b651309a7f25e0
title: Urgent: Funds for ICE
uri: Urgent-Funds-for-ICE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Funds_for_ICE%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/call/ice_funding_sendemscalls/">phone
your senators</a> to oppose increasing funds for ICE in the continuing
resolution that will be passed to fund it.
</p>
<p>If you phone, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 0d49449916911881258ebda53412820b
title: CVS gouging
uri: CVS-gouging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28CVS_gouging%29
content:
<p>
CVS is the sole supplier of drugs for many "managed care" medical
plans,
and <a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/09/13/free-market-efficiency.html">gouges
both the patients and the plans</a>.
<p>
Furthermore, it tries to stop states from publishing the data to show
how much it gouges.
<p>
There has been a lot of concentration in the pharmacy business in the
US.  That surely helped put CVS in a position to do this.  Thus, it is
misguided to judge business mergers in terms of direct, short-term
effect on the retail price of their products.  A large company is ipso
facto dangerous.


feed_id: cb53b4286498d1562739fa2026a10684
title: NAFTA ISDS letter
uri: NAFTA-ISDS-letter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28NAFTA_ISDS_letter%29
content:
<p>
Republican and Democratic State Legislators
Release <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/10/republican-and-democratic-state-legislators-release-letter-signed-300-colleagues">Letter
Signed by 300 Colleagues</a> From Coast to Coast Urging End of ISDS in
NAFTA.


feed_id: 1a1d88bd725afa83939216f827271565
title: Psychologists in Guantanamo
uri: Psychologists-in-Guantanamo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28Psychologists_in_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
The American Psychological
Association <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/10/holding-line-torture?cd-origin=rss">considered
a motion</a> to allow its members to work in the Guantanamo prison.
1/3 of the members voted for it, arguing that this would enable them
to help the prisoners suffer less.
<p>
To assuage the suffering caused by that prison would be a good thing
if it did not grant legitimacy to the prison and help it continue.  We
need to put an end to
that <a href="https://stallman.org/guantanamero.html">"no-human-rights
zone"</a>.


feed_id: ea31a93a442a9ed352b0d83df93d1a56
title: Bombing Yemeni children
uri: Bombing-Yemeni-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28Bombing_Yemeni_children%29
content:
<p>
Bombing Yemeni School
Children <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/11/bombing-yemeni-school-children-profit">for
Profit</a>.


feed_id: 41237766198084e045a632fe2c82b025
title: Putin's contempt for truth
uri: Putin-s-contempt-for-truth
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28Putin%27s_contempt_for_truth%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/15/lies-russia-rt-salisbury-suspects-putin">Putin
is saying</a>, "We killed on [British] your territory and now we are
laughing at you."  This open contempt for the truth is dangerous, just
as when it comes from the bullshitter.


feed_id: 0e83a6d36ac5dd9fa0c3214b95d083c5
title: Facebook and Twitter access
uri: Facebook-and-Twitter-access
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28Facebook_and_Twitter_access%29
content:
<p>
Journalism and
research <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/15/facebook-twitter-social-media-public-discourse">should
have access</a> to study what Facebook and Twitter are showing users.


feed_id: d4f245709d9df89e09442eaeaec97389
title: Facebook in the Philippines
uri: Facebook-in-the-Philippines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28Facebook_in_the_Philippines%29
content:
<p>
For many people in the Philippines, "the internet" means "Facebook".
So when Do-dirty made Facebook
the <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180905/11372240582/facebook-is-not-internet-philippines-propaganda-highlights-perils-companys-free-basics-walled-garden.shtml">platform
for his propaganda</a>, much of the populace found it hard to access
anything that disagreed.


feed_id: faf57e17f3ac5d3025393b82626547f2
title: Christine Ford
uri: Christine-Ford
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28Christine_Ford%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/16/brett-kavanaugh-accuser-speaks-washington-post-alleged-sexual-assault-supreme-court">Professor
Christine Ford described</a> how Kavanaugh attacked her sexually
during a party, tried to take off her clothing by force, and then
gagged her.  This was in the 1980s when Kavanaugh was in high school.
<p>
He might not act the same today, but there is no reason to think his
attitude has changed.
<p>
This goes well beyond the sexual pressure that Clarence Thomas applied
to Anita Hill.  The Senate approved Thomas despite her testimony.
Ford may have expected to be demonized as Hill was.


feed_id: c2546338c6c1ea0aadc53f22624c3895
title: Food after prison
uri: Food-after-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28Food_after_prison%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> want convicts being released from prison to have
to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/formerly-incarcerated-americans-face-tough-odds-the-farm-bill-could-make-them-even-tougher/2018/09/10/e959efae-b2ae-11e8-a810-4d6b627c3d5d_story.html?noredirect=on">struggle
for food</a>.  This will push some of them back into crime.


feed_id: 5c318ce2dc76055a02ba731612432bbf
title: American poverty
uri: American-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28American_poverty%29
content:
<p>
With over 43% of Americans living in economic difficulty, the war on
poverty <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/16/the-war-on-poverty-begins-at-the-ballot-box">begins
at the ballot box</a>.


feed_id: 7c265c9e86df242d3a5cf4f270fc9f81
title: 2022 Commonwealth Games
uri: 2022-Commonwealth-Games
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%282022_Commonwealth_Games%29
content:
<p>
Birmingham, England, agreed to host the Commonwealth Games in 2022 but
it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/16/commonwealth-games-2022-could-bankrupt-birmingham">can't
afford to do so</a>.
<p>
People depend on the city's support and services for important needs.
It should not let this frill, which would benefit businesses but not
the poor, get in the way.  Cancel the games!


feed_id: 7f9b82a2396c51d0a7358e0e023db50e
title: Wellbeing over GDP
uri: Wellbeing-over-GDP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#18_September_2018_%28Wellbeing_over_GDP%29
content:
<p>
Many academics have called on the EU
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/16/the-eu-needs-a-stability-and-wellbeing-pact-not-more-growth">prioritize
wellbeing over GDP</a>.
That means, more or less, to reduce inequality and give the non-rich a better
life, instead of increasing totals.
<p>
I agree completely.  The rich would be just fine if they were only
half as rich.


feed_id: 20fe53854d4ddf4af0edb6db76f96071
title: Very urgent: Sep 20 Kavanaugh vote
uri: Very-urgent-Sep-20-Kavanaugh-vote
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Very%20urgent%3A_Sep_20_Kavanaugh_vote%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/cancel-kavanaugh-committee-vote-allegations/">call
on Senator Grassley</a> to cancel the Sep 20 committee vote on
Kavanaugh's nomination.
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Grassley_SCOTUS">Sign
this</a>, too.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 5ba2206e0a52015c6017906a3322fd09
title: Urgent: Kavanaugh opposition
uri: Urgent-Kavanaugh-opposition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Kavanaugh_opposition%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/call/Save_SCOTUS_MurkCorkerCollinsFlake/">phone
senators Collins, Murkowski, Corker and Flake</a> to call on them to
oppose Kavanaugh.
</p>
<p>If you phone, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: fc32c36772b8a69efe31f69fc7a07cb8
title: Urgent: Heed Christine Ford
uri: Urgent-Heed-Christine-Ford
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Heed_Christine_Ford%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators at 1-844-515-2798
and call on them to heed Christine Blasey Ford
by not confirming Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.
</p>
<p>If you phone, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 7aebc8f9ea9fb94747fbec1fbe104179
title: Buffer zone in Idlib
uri: Buffer-zone-in-Idlib
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Buffer_zone_in_Idlib%29
content:
<p>
Russia and
Turkey <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/17/russia-and-turkey-to-set-up-idlib-buffer-zone-to-protect-civilians">agreed
to make a buffer zone</a> in Idlib to protect civilians.


feed_id: 2a66ea32ed7ad6c99e5683f9010bdd45
title: UK fiscal misconduct reports
uri: UK-fiscal-misconduct-reports
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28UK_fiscal_misconduct_reports%29

content:
<p>
The UK government is using "national security" law
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/sep/17/ofgem-made-my-life-hell-whistleblowers-say-they-were-threatened-by-regulator">gag
reports of possible fiscal misconduct</a> in two different projects.
<p>
One of the projects is installing "smart" meters for electricity.
For "smart", read "spy"; "smart" meters generally spy on the public.
They could be designed to respect privacy, but they won't do so
unless we force them to.


feed_id: 9bdadf9c7f11b6b1a09b647c57c5fc44
title: Amazon warehouse worker
uri: Amazon-warehouse-worker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Amazon_warehouse_worker%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/17/amazon-warehouse-bernie-sanders">I
Worked In an Amazon Warehouse.</a>  Bernie Sanders Is Right to Target
Them.


feed_id: aef84f3ad0e9e6217cb9bfc08b7174d5
title: Anti-corruption commission in Guatemala
uri: Anti-corruption-commission-in-Guatemala
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Anti-corruption_commission_in_Guatemala%29

content:
<p>
Guatemala's president has exiled the head of the anti-corruption
commission.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/17/guatemala-court-president-morales-allow-return-anti-corruption-chief">A
court ruled</a> he must be allowed to return.


feed_id: 57be93e6b7662b114ddaee49a3e21bac
title: Berta Cáceres murder trial
uri: Berta-Cáceres-murder-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Berta_Caceres_murder_trial%29
content:
<p>
Berta Cáceres Murder Trial to
Be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/17/berta-caceres-murder-trial-monitored-international-lawyers">Monitored
by International Lawyers</a>.


feed_id: 077b68c40a8eee2ffae09bcd0f6a0483
title: 'One-man revolution'
uri: One-man-revolution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28%27One-man_revolution%27%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://sniggle.net/TPL/index5.php?entry=27Jun12">The
"one-man revolution"</a>, according to Thoreau and Hennacy.
<p>
I had not read either of them, but I started one.


feed_id: 7ab2c9495cd8b710c343f69d6c6b7699
title: Brian Kemp
uri: Brian-Kemp
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Brian_Kemp%29
content:
<p>
Brian Kemp, Republican candidate for governor of Georgia, is currently
Secretary of State, and has put the state's unauditable digital voting
system <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-georgia-a-legal-battle-over-electronic-vs-paper-voting/2018/09/16/d655c070-b76f-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?noredirect=on">under
his personal control</a>.
<p>
To trust a Republican not to rig an election, given the opportunity to
do so in secret, is like putting your money in the safe keeping of a
used car salesman.


feed_id: ec64661d572cee1673b353d5eeecf8a9
title: Christine Blasey Ford
uri: Christine-Blasey-Ford
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Christine_Blasey_Ford%29
content:
<p>
Christine Blasey Ford has discussed Kavanaugh's rape attempt with
therapists over the years, but
was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html">intimidated
out of telling the public</a> because she expected Republicans to
defend Kavanaugh's confirmation by demonizing her.


feed_id: d051855603f3eb82e0e7346a9fce1a75
title: IPCC's predictions
uri: IPCC-s-predictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28IPCC%27s_predictions%29
content:
<p>
The IPCC's predictions of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> disaster are only the lower
bound.  We cannot tell how much worse positive feedback cycles will
make it.
And <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/16/2100-and-fundamental-fallacy-climate-change-predictions">we
don't need to know</a> &mdash; because what we do need to recognize is
that <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> disaster is already starting.


feed_id: b976a4aa5ff0089f23dc03d7d71f0e07
title: Social Security benefits
uri: Social-Security-benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Social_Security_benefits%29
content:
<p>
Social Security benefits go to retired and disabled Americans, but
when they spend their benefits,
they <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/16/social-security-economic-engine-benefits-everyone">boost
the local economy</a> where they live.


feed_id: 0c02a56c54e5f7b709637e9a03cf8125
title: Oslo accord
uri: Oslo-accord
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Oslo_accord%29
content:
<p>
Gush Shalom: The Oslo accord did not fail; rather,
Israel <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1464389870">did
not carry it out</a>.


feed_id: 0672910d267cbe548f95ba61fc138f6e
title: Rebuilding flooded buildings
uri: Rebuilding-flooded-buildings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#19_September_2018_%28Rebuilding_flooded_buildings%29

content:
<p>
US government flood insurance
should <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/15/hurricane-florence-threatens-many-homes-already-cost-government-millions">stop
paying to rebuild buildings</a> that are sure to be flooded again.
<p>
When a building is totaled, leaving the land vacant should be a
condition for receiving the insurance payment.


feed_id: d987d5575a0755bc7d196c92d3bc1d9d
title: Urgent: T-Mobile Sprint merger
uri: Urgent-T-Mobile-Sprint-merger
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_T-Mobile_Sprint_merger%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/reject_tmobile_sprint_merger/">call
on the FCC</a> to block the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 50355ac222fe8e8b2ad739f348bac085
title: Questioning people at airports
uri: Questioning-people-at-airports
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Questioning_people_at_airports%29

content:
<p>
The UK wants
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/17/uk-border-detainees-access-lawyer-hour-airport-security-bill">question
people without lawyers</a> at airports, and then when they finally do
get lawyers, listen to their conversations.
<p>
This is what you'd expect from a country that imprisons people for the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#5_September_2011_(35,000_Worldwide_Convicted_for_Terror)">"crime"
of being suspected</a>.


feed_id: 82dff1c26c6859c99f16ca183fc4d752
title: UK natural gas price
uri: UK-natural-gas-price
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28UK_natural_gas_price%29
content:
<p>
The UK
may <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/17/coal-comeback-could-drive-up-annual-uk-energy-emissions-report">increase
its use of coal</a>, as natural gas is getting more expensive.
<p>
The planet-roaster response to the situation is fracking.
The civilization-saving response is renewable electricity.
<p>
If not for the Tories' highly
effective <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#19_January_2018_(Renewable_energy_investment)">campaign
to slow development</a> of renewable electric generation,
the situation would have been corrected already.


feed_id: e89a52cca8f6509a2918c1786949c74d
title: Imprisoned immigrant minors
uri: 2018-09-21-Imprisoned-immigrant-minors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Imprisoned_immigrant_minors%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>'s fear agents are now
holding <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/17/trumpism-fueled-one-thing-fear-12800-kids-are-paying-terrible-price">12,000
immigrant minors prisoner</a>.
<p>
Some of them are children, and some are teenagers.
<p>
In the past, most of them were sent to stay with families, but cruelty suits
the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>'s purpose of demonizing them.


feed_id: 77f1705ed33db013b91ae79b469ef58f
title: Christine Ford's work
uri: Christine-Ford-s-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Christine_Ford%27s_work%29
content:
<p>
On Christine Blasey
Ford's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/17/kavanaugh-dr-christine-blasey-seeks-forestall-trauma-nation-was-inflicted-her">work
in psychology</a>.


feed_id: b02bb8e3dba560e398edc26210fb5bcc
title: Poverty criterion
uri: Poverty-criterion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Poverty_criterion%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/16/what-is-the-new-uk-poverty-measure-and-why-is-it-needed">A
proposed new criterion</a> to determine whether a household lives in
poverty.


feed_id: 3e0b273c7aec72375a39950b8d7a183c
title: Funds from slave trade
uri: Funds-from-slave-trade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Funds_from_slave_trade%29
content:
<p>
Universities which received funds, centuries ago, from participants in
the slave trade are taking steps
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/17/glasgow-university-to-make-amends-over-slavery-profits-of-past">educate
the public</a> about this.
<p>
I don't think that the universities are guilty for having received
those funds, but educating the public about the slave trade and its
influence is a good thing to do.
<p>
The point at which accepting donors from evildoers becomes a moral
issue in itself is when they use you to buy public approval for their
acts and undermine your responsibilities to the public.  For instance,
today, when <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> have positions on the boards of
organizations that do science
education, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#30_November_2015_(US_media_system)">such
as WGBH</a> and
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#29_January_2018_(Rebekah_Mercer)">American
Museum of Natural History</a>,
and when Bill Gates donates "Gates Buildings" for university
computer science departments.


feed_id: 9958907bc400008a22af0e8513627031
title: Journalists and right-wing liars
uri: Journalists-and-right-wing-liars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Journalists_and_right-wing_liars%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://points.datasociety.net/media-manipulation-strategic-amplification-and-responsible-journalism-95f4d611f462">Advice
to journalists</a> about how not to be played by right-wing extremist
liars.


feed_id: c2195abe0a9e244f76631ada4a2078f6
title: Cáceres trial delayed
uri: Cáceres-trial-delayed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Caceres_trial_delayed%29
content:
<p>
Berta Cáceres Murder Trial Delayed after
Judges <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/17/berta-caceres-trial-postponed-judges-accused">Accused
of Abusing Authority</a>.


feed_id: 4b8e585c7c3998ae3d09270a5c8b457b
title: Global war on terrorism
uri: Global-war-on-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Global_war_on_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
The US-Led Global War on Terrorism Has Succeeded&hellip;
in <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/17/us-led-global-war-terrorism-has-succeeded-creating-more-global-terrorism">Creating
More Global Terrorism</a>.


feed_id: eb6e0d1fdf77a1b79bcbab2118385ba1
title: CLOUD Act opponents
uri: CLOUD-Act-opponents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28CLOUD_Act_opponents%29
content:
<p>
Microsoft and Dropbox
are <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/microsoft-clears-air-about-fighting-cloud-act-abuses">pushing
against the "CLOUD" Act</a>, which would enable foreign governments to
get any US company's data about Americans (and others).
<p>
We should instead be getting rid of the PAT RIOT Act, that allows the
US government to any US company's data about Americans (and others).


feed_id: 30418b8ef05b9a5ea1fe4625535eac2c
title: Spying on journalists
uri: 2018-09-21-Spying-on-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Spying_on_journalists%29
content:
<p>
The US government has special rules permitting many kinds of spying on
journalists, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/17/journalists-fisa-court-spying/">through
the FISA court</a> which admitted it
normally <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#15_July_2013_(FISA_court_rubber-stamps_massive_surveillance)">rubber-stamps
all requests</a>.


feed_id: 6212a73113ffe87a6d171155e15181d0
title: Ontario city council
uri: Ontario-city-council
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#20_September_2018_%28Ontario_city_council%29
content:
<p>
The government of Ontario
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/17/canada-doug-ford-election-notwithstanding-clause">passing
a law</a> to override a court decision that blocked its attempt to
abruptly and arbitrarily reduce the number of representatives in
Toronto's city council.


feed_id: 36ab035b9e62608c89e1fd23189d7628
title: Kavanaugh's lies
uri: Kavanaugh-s-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh%27s_lies%29
content:
<p>
Former senate staff lawyers explain how Kavanaugh lied to the senate
before, and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/17/brett-kavanaugh-cant-be-trusted-we-know-because-we-worked-counsel-senators-when-he">how
he is lying now</a>.


feed_id: 4c71ca0a473eaa39b953fae69ad1f80d
title: Urgent: Breaking up the big banks
uri: Urgent-Breaking-up-the-big-banks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Breaking_up_the_big_banks%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/10_years_wall_street">call
on Democrats in Congress</a> to stand for breaking up the big banks,
and regulate all banks so they can't do damage.</p>
<p>
Every deregulation of the
banks <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/20/deregulation-wall-street-plain-and-simple-corruption">leads
to increased corruption</a>.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 4b4abc644e298bcbfb0ff951c3880494
title: Urgent: Reject Kavanaugh
uri: 2018-09-23-Urgent-Reject-Kavanaugh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Kavanaugh%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/stop-brett-kavanaugh/">call
on senators</a> to reject Kavanaugh.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: ebef15d00a5404c0641c6772f538d0b0
title: Russian elections
uri: 2018-09-23-Russian-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Russian_elections%29
content:
<p>
Russia's elections commissioner will annul a vote because
of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/19/russia-outcry-widespread-voter-governor-election-annul">signs
of centralized fraud</a>.


feed_id: be8c37790a965cd872e561f1c8c77f67
title: Biased hurricane aid
uri: Biased-hurricane-aid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Biased_hurricane_aid%29
content:
<p>
Aid to people without electricity due to Hurricane Florence
shows <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/19/florence-wilmington-north-carolina-social-divide">bias
based on race and class</a>.


feed_id: 43c3961a7fbee822bd4f1a5538efdc56
title: Melting permafrost
uri: 2018-09-23-Melting-permafrost
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Melting_permafrost%29
content:
<p>
The melting of Arctic permafrost, and release of its stored CO2 and
methane, creates a tipping point.  We may have passed it already and
be doomed to more than 2C of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.  If not, the remaining
"carbon budget"
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/17/melting-permafrost-projections-reveal-paris-climate-goals-risk-study">much
less than previously expected</a>.


feed_id: 8c400a962642a2c6ed7c1829d5c922b6
title: Plans for Social Security and Medicare
uri: Plans-for-Social-Security-and-Medicare
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Plans_for_Social_Security_and_Medicare%29

content:
<p>
Kudlow, one of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a>'s economic advisors, says that SCROTUS will
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/17/election-last-chance-stop-them-kudlow-confirms-trump-and-gop-ready-gut-safety-net">attack
Social Security and Medicare</a> if they retain control of Congress.


feed_id: 53e14164af3d80c81dbc1ddd4da280cf
title: Christine Blasey Ford's accusations
uri: Christine-Blasey-Ford-s-accusations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Christine_Blasey_Ford%27s_accusations%29

content:
<p>
Republicans are willing to give Christine Blasey Ford's accusations
just enough lip service to invite her to be smeared in the senate
committee, before they confirm Kavanaugh anyway.  They picked a date
without consulting her, and
are <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1796734">already blaming
her</a> for (they presume) failing to be there.
<p>
Republicans set up the Guantanamo prison as a justice-free zone.
Now they aim to do the same thing to the whole US.
<p>
Their death threats
have <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1796782">forced her to
go into hiding</a> with her family.
<p>
Even the plutocratist "centrist" Democrats are not as bad as that.
<p>
She knew she
was <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/19/christine-blasey-ford-risking-it-all-speak-out">taking
a risk of retaliation</a> by revealing her accusations.
<p>
Ford wants the senate
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/18/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-claim">wait
for an FBI investigation</a>, which is the best way to get independent
evidence about whether Kavanaugh is guilty.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/18/allegations-against-brett-kavanaugh-are-not-simply-he-said-she-said-situation">Former
federal prosecutors say</a> her accusation is credible, has some
corroboration, and calls for an investigation.
<p>
Republicans would prefer not to recognize the corroboration, and not
to find any more, so they can dismiss the matter as "one person's word
against another's."


feed_id: 11a938396351b3b985ddec1084c29137
title: Cuts in accepted refugees
uri: Cuts-in-accepted-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Cuts_in_accepted_refugees%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/19/people-will-die-obama-official-warns-after-trump-slashes-refugee-numbers">'People
will die'</a>, says a former Obama official, due to the scapegoater's
cuts in the number of refugees the US will accept.


feed_id: 4f26751993d577e71f32e577c31d9fcf
title: Hurricane cleanup workers
uri: Hurricane-cleanup-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Hurricane_cleanup_workers%29
content:
<p>
A Year After Hurricane Harvey, Some Cleanup
Workers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/19/hurricane-harvey-workers-rights-texas">Are
Still Unpaid</a>.
<p>
Wage theft is common in the US, and it is common because the government
has shown it doesn't care.  That, in turn, is because the plutocratists
have discouraged poor people (typically, victims of wage theft are poor)
from voting.


feed_id: ea580eeaed96664a3b43d6f2f9d41ce4
title: CO2 predictions in the 1980s
uri: CO2-predictions-in-the-1980s
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28CO2_predictions_in_the_1980s%29

content:
<p>
Shell and Exxon
researchers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/sep/19/shell-and-exxons-secret-1980s-climate-change-warnings">predicted
in the 1980s</a> not only the future increase in CO2 but also some
aspects of the disaster that would result.


feed_id: f1feea489d9232219c0e1fcc18fd2496
title: Eating microplastics
uri: Eating-microplastics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Eating_microplastics%29
content:
<p>
Mosquitos eat microplastics as larvae, then grow up to be eaten by
other animals, which ingest the microplastics.  In this way,
they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/19/microplastics-can-spread-via-flying-insects-research-shows">move
up the food chain</a> and are ingested by humans.
<p>
There are reasons to think they
can <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#03_December_2013_(Small_pieces_of_plastic_harming_sea_life)">harm
all the animals</a> that consume them.


feed_id: d981602abe10a25d3bfd1b53be5ef259
title: George Soros on bailouts
uri: George-Soros-on-bailouts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28George_Soros_on_bailouts%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/18/bailout-financial-crisis-donald-trump-barack-obama-george-soros">George
Soros writes</a> that he urged Obama to make bailed-out banks hand
over part ownership rather than giving them loans.  He argues that
Obama's decision hurt the non-rich, and Americans recognized that
Democrats were responsible.


feed_id: c0f55c0cd68ccf9cbac9275b9b480fe0
title: Tax attacks and wages
uri: Tax-attacks-and-wages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Tax_attacks_and_wages%29
content:
<p>
Economic records such as tax payments show that the Republican tax
attacks resulted
in <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/18/further-evidence-tax-cuts-have-not-led-widespread-bonuses-wage-or-compensation">no
significant increase in wages</a>.


feed_id: 75b75997fa70d69d38819a9f93f02115
title: The Israel Project
uri: The-Israel-Project
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28The_Israel_Project%29
content:
<p>
The Israel Project (a lobbying group to support Israel's occupation
and siege of Palestine) sets up pages for various causes (women's
rights, protection of the environment, others) so as to associate
their campaign with those causes.
It <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/censored-film-reveals-israel-projects-secret-facebook-campaign/25486">veils
its relationship</a> with those pages.
<p>
Since the article mentions the six-day war, I should point out that
Egypt had already attacked Israel by blockading shipping to Elath.  A
blockade, whether of Elath or Gaza, is recognized as an act of war.


feed_id: 4260f7dc956f3e04d3c385e49666161f
title: Land taken from Palestinians
uri: Land-taken-from-Palestinians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Land_taken_from_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
courts <a href="https://972mag.com/israel-high-court-khan-al-ahmar-good-faith-settlements/137680/">now
legitimize houses</a> built by Israelis on land taken from
Palestinians, against Israeli law, and authorize demolition of
Palestinian homes that are inconveniently there.


feed_id: 4b7c250c3e492a8d7c24dea17e3e9e1e
title: Emergency cyanide pills
uri: Emergency-cyanide-pills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Emergency_cyanide_pills%29
content:
<p>
(satire)
FEMA <a href="https://www.theonion.com/fema-airdrops-emergency-cyanide-pills-for-residents-str-1829120826">Airdrops
Emergency Cyanide Pills</a> For Residents Stranded By Hurricane
Florence.


feed_id: 15e8e7a756e4e2473b5cb7db30a7fdcd
title: Request for Kavanaugh's papers
uri: Request-for-Kavanaugh-s-papers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#22_September_2018_%28Request_for_Kavanaugh%27s_papers%29

content:
<p>
Democratic senators
have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/17/leahy-and-other-senators-file-suit-hidden-kavanaugh-documents">sued
to demand an answer</a> to their FOIA request for Kavanaugh's papers.


feed_id: 7b9a9a13cb578caa508cc7a5a4e22486
title: Urgent: Stop Nestle
uri: 2018-09-24-Urgent-Stop-Nestle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Nestle%29
content:
<p>
California
citizens: <a href="http://action.storyofstuff.org/letter/tell-brown-shut-nestle-down-letter/">call
on the state government</a> to stop Nestle from pumping out scarce
ground water without paying for it.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 90422558f25bac8cd50e2fdc1f08fbf9
title: Money-laundering laws
uri: Money-laundering-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Money-laundering_laws%29
content:
<p>
Putin
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/20/britain-putin-dark-money-impunity-danske-bank">making
use of the UK laws</a> designed to help all money-launderers.


feed_id: 41f047ae6e3ed437232b381e4592afd4
title: Uganda's opposition leader
uri: Uganda-s-opposition-leader
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Uganda%27s_opposition_leader%29

content:
<p>
Uganda's opposition leader (and pop star) Robert Kyagulaniy returned
there after fleeing briefly to the US (he had been tortured in
Uganda).  On returning to
Uganda, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/uganda-pop-star-politician-bobi-wine-returns-us">he
was arrested</a>.


feed_id: b567c1ac125e2312ef4e582934e7951f
title: Eiffel Tower models
uri: Eiffel-Tower-models
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Eiffel_Tower_models%29
content:
<p>
French
police <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/haul-of-eiffel-tower-trinkets-worth-half-a-million-euros-seized">seized
models of the Eiffel Tower</a> that were being sold to unauthorized
immigrants to resell to the public.
<p>
No word on whether they found gold in some of the confiscated
models. ;-)
<p>
When I was in Paris, I saw the Eiffel Tower.  What an eyeful!


feed_id: 3a33ff2262acb38300ab0c4fceb60e32
title: Eroding beaches
uri: Eroding-beaches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Eroding_beaches%29
content:
<p>
The US army has been building up eroding beaches for 30 years, by
dumping sand on them.  It's fine as long as it works, but global
heating and sea-level rise will make this ineffective at
an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/20/beach-rebuilding-hurricane-florence-climate-change">increasing
number of places</a> over the coming 30 years.
<p>
Besides which, Republicans will need the funds for more wars.


feed_id: a93cd0d12d89859599c07a249eea7a58
title: Extreme poverty in Africa
uri: Extreme-poverty-in-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Extreme_poverty_in_Africa%29
content:
<p>
Efforts to reduce the extent of extreme poverty in
Africa <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/19/world-bank-reports-slower-progress-on-extreme-poverty">are
faltering</a> because people in sub-Saharan Africa are having too many
children.
<p>
These efforts are like trying to bail water out of a boat while the
leak gets bigger and bigger.
<p>
The funds and aid aimed at increasing people's well-being there should
be redirected toward avoidance of births there.  Once the population
is stabilized, and <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> disaster perhaps avoided as a
result, we will have a better chance to raise the existing people out
of poverty.


feed_id: 30f758492be43edaefcbdd197b83195f
title: Cody Wilson
uri: Cody-Wilson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Cody_Wilson%29
content:
<p>
Cody Wilson has been charged
with <a href="https://gizmodo.com/3d-printed-gun-activist-cody-wilson-charged-with-sexual-1829168263">hiring
a "child" sex worker</a>.
Her age has not been announced, but I think she must surely be a
teenager, not a child.  Calling teenagers "children" in this context
is a way of smearing people with normal sexual proclivities as
"perverts".
<p>
They have accused him of "sexual assault", a term so vague that it
should <a href="https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html#assult">never
be used at all</a>.  With no details, we can't tell whether the
alleged actions deserve that term.  What we do know is that the term
is often used for a legal lie.  She may have had &mdash; I expect, did
have &mdash; entirely willing sex with him, and they would still call
it "assault".
<p>
I <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_July_2018_(3D_printed_guns)">do
not like the idea</a> of 3D-printed guns, but that issue is entirely
unrelated to this.


feed_id: 7fd2462cc4558cecc4db280502b4a395
title: 'Data privacy' hearing
uri: Data-privacy-hearing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28%27Data_privacy%27_hearing%29
content:
<p>
The Senate is holding a hearing about "data privacy" and
has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/19/corporate-tech-giants-invited-consumer-advocacy-groups-shut-out-senate-hearing-data">invited
only data-collecting companies</a> to participate.
<p>
This is a sure sign that the only policies they want to consider are
rules about how to store and use the data &mdash; with a giant
loophole, the PAT RIOT Act, which says that the FBI can copy it all
and then use it in any way.
<p>
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">Real
protection for our privacy</a> entails stopping companies and
governments from accumulating data about people.
<p>
Most of today's "consumer advocates" won't propose that, because
they think of the matter as one of consumers' interests rather than
one of human rights.


feed_id: eca84ac3af16c07ad7d2762648e4f627
title: Questions about the US
uri: Questions-about-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Questions_about_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Ralph
Nader: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/19/questions-questions-where-are-answers">ten
important questions</a> about the US situation that no one seems to be
investigating.


feed_id: 115de638f32999722e062c613bf1c3b1
title: McDonald's workers
uri: McDonald-s-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28McDonald%27s_workers%29
content:
<p>
Workers
are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/18/metoo-movement-takes-mcdonalds-workers-strike-against-sexual-harassment-epidemic">on
strike against McDonald's</a>, demanding it make real efforts to stop
sexual harassment of the staff in its stores.


feed_id: fcac1874996065ebcd32cda47ffd6c4a
title: Kavanaugh's 2015 speech
uri: Kavanaugh-s-2015-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh%27s_2015_speech%29
content:
<p>
Kavanaugh, in a speech given in 2015, said, "we had a good saying that
we've held firm to to this day, &hellip; 'What happens at Georgetown
Prep stays at Georgetown Prep.' That's been a good thing for all of
us, I think."
<p>
The transcript of that speech, published
later, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1796979">omitted
those words</a>.


feed_id: 513bd86d1c6e3847dd7da0baececab7b
title: Family 'detention centers'
uri: Family-detention-centers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Family_%27detention_centers%27%29

content:
<p>
Deportation <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> Matthew Albence said a family "detention center" was
like a summer camp,
but <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1796974">refuses to
say</a> whether he'd send his children to that prison.


feed_id: 0b3cbf30561e24f922f3d57f600e648b
title: North Korea's missile test sites
uri: North-Korea-s-missile-test-sites
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28North_Korea%27s_missile_test_sites%29

content:
<p>
North Korea
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/19/north-korea-shut-missile-test-summit-kim-jong-un-moon">offered
to shut down</a> its missile test sites and its nuclear complex, as
part of a deal.
<p>
However, the deal would have
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/19/us-north-korea-nuclear-talks-restart-reciprocal-action">include
US concessions too</a>, as part of a gradual process.


feed_id: f4a1df2cb72cbe85dfea2f0fb16c97ff
title: Salafi Arabia's attack on Hodeida
uri: 2018-09-24-Salafi-Arabia-s-attack-on-Hodeida
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Salafi_Arabias_attack_on_Hodeida%29

content:
<p>
The attack on Hodeida by <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, with US support, has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/19/yemen-famine-million-more-children-at-risk-">made
food expensive</a>.  Any worse, and famine will affect millions of
children.  Some are already starving.


feed_id: 6448ff74bb1408605d21c688371e06e0
title: Air pollution and dementia
uri: Air-pollution-and-dementia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Air_pollution_and_dementia%29
content:
<p>
Air Pollution (NO<sub>2</sub>) Linked to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/18/air-pollution-causes-jump-in-dementia-risk-study-suggests">Much
Greater Risk of Dementia</a>.


feed_id: 655201e8616e779b4849f78f71354514
title: AI censors
uri: AI-censors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28AI_censors%29
content:
<p>
AI censors were 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/big-tech-is-overselling-ai-as-the-solution-to-online-extremism-102077">unable
to distinguish between terrorist propaganda and evidence of
atrocities</a>.
<p>
The distinction is a matter of the overall statement, not merely what
images contain, and making the distinction requires actual
understanding &mdash; a trained neural network can't do it.


feed_id: 1e1aaab8be474fa05bdf5ba998260b4e
title: Arbitrary imprisonment
uri: 2018-09-24-Arbitrary-imprisonment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Arbitrary_imprisonment%29
content:
<p>
Countries just now
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/15/australia-is-reported-to-un-human-rights-council-over-illegal-detention-of-asylum-seekers">reported
to the UN Human Rights Council</a> for arbitrary imprisonment include
Australia, Burundi, China, the Congo (which one?), Egypt, Ethiopia,
Libya, Israel, Pakistan, South Korea, the US, Zimbabwe.  Maybe more.


feed_id: 295736530440a7bf15388f64e764c7b7
title: US trying to hijack UN drug policy
uri: US-trying-to-hijack-UN-drug-policy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28US_trying_to_hijack_UN_drug_policy%29

content:
<p>
The US is trying to hijack UN drug policy and 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/18/un-drug-policy-trump-united-nations/">drag
it in the direction of repression</a>.


feed_id: 29e378e067d60428016ec7b7248b2279
title: Capitalist manifesto
uri: Capitalist-manifesto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Capitalist_manifesto%29
content:
<p>
The Capitalist Manifesto: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/18/capitalist-manifesto-let-poor-people-die">Let
Poor People Die</a>.  Or, as I put it, plutocrats want a
laissez-faire, laissez-mourir economy.
<p>
I must point out that having over 7 billion humans, and perhaps
someday 11 billion, is not merely a job that plutocrats prevent us
from handling.  It is a grave problem in its own right, and the only
way to truly handle that population growth is to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">reduce the birth
rate enough that the population declines</a>.  No economic system
could keep us out of poverty indefinitely with an increasing
population.  We are using Earth's resources almost twice as fast as
Earth can replace them.


feed_id: 61d24008821abfe3303c466fb428a1f4
title: Facebook gender discrimination
uri: Facebook-gender-discrimination
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Facebook_gender_discrimination%29

content:
<p>
Several women are suing Facebook for implementing 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/18/facebook-sued-gender-bias-male-targeted-job-ads">gender
discrimination in employment advertisements</a>.


feed_id: 722f390ccad3654cfc281ae62753553f
title: Idlib
uri: 2018-09-24-Idlib
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Idlib%29
content:
<p>
The agreement between Turkey and Russia over Idlib is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/18/surprise-truce-brokered-by-turkey-and-russia-spares-idlib-for-now">only
for one month</a>.


feed_id: 3b1663b5de3e39608e43a37a103501ec
title: Arbitrary searches by London thugs
uri: Arbitrary-searches-by-London-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Arbitrary_searches_by_London_thugs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> in London arbitrarily search people people based on no concrete
reason (aside from race or ethnicity).  They search some people
repeatedly, even many times a day.
<p>
This is not only unjust, it 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/sep/18/police-stop-and-search-makes-more-likely-finds-charity">provokes
crime</a>.


feed_id: 0e65d51e8653eed00e6cd0692680e7de
title: Hearing to smear Christine Blasey Ford
uri: Hearing-to-smear-Christine-Blasey-Ford
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Hearing_to_smear_Christine_Blasey_Ford%29

content:
<p>
Republicans have set up an inadequate hearing to smear Christine
Blasey Ford, while 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1796656">excluding
any other testimony except Kavanaugh's</a>.
<p>
That assures it will be "he said, she said", which will be their
excuse to disregard the matter.


feed_id: 0681cf7d9fee8f18c927e100feccd9c8
title: Refugees on Nauru
uri: Refugees-on-Nauru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Refugees_on_Nauru%29
content:
<p>
People that claim to &mdash; maybe really try to &mdash; help refugees
on Nauru often try to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/18/kill-me-i-cant-cope-anymore-nauru-women-robbed-of-their-dignity-speak-out">stop
them from speaking to the press and the public</a>.


feed_id: 86ea9ca3f278b433b55be86399fe7e4d
title: Gulf petrodollars
uri: Gulf-petrodollars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Gulf_petrodollars%29
content:
<p>
Gulf Petrodollars Are a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/18/gulf-petrodollars-uk">Destructive
Addiction</a> - the UK Must Kick the Habit.


feed_id: 2f04602a3fcc084ddf0d853814d91280
title: Pussy Riot protest participant poisoned
uri: Pussy-Riot-protest-participant-poisoned
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Pussy_Riot_protest_participant_poisoned%29

content:
<p>
A participant in a Pussy Riot protest in Moscow was, it seems, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/18/highly-probable-pussy-riot-member-poisoned-say-german-doctors-pyotr-verzilov">poisoned
in court or in jail</a>.


feed_id: c256c3328903dc48841ac6a8040ef18c
title: Evidence of genocide by Burmese military
uri: Evidence-of-genocide-by-Burmese-military
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Evidence_of_genocide_by_Burmese_military%29

content:
<p>
UN Investigators Publish 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/18/tied-to-trees-and-raped-un-report-details-rohingya-horrors">Report
Detailing Evidence</a> for Accusation of Genocide against Burmese
Military.


feed_id: db83b1d17e19c5373cd39922416e5186
title: Canada's fossil fuel subsidies
uri: Canada-s-fossil-fuel-subsidies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Canadas_fossil_fuel_subsidies%29

content:
<p>
Canada gives 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/17/dumbest-policy-world-report-details-how-canadas-massive-fossil-fuel-subsidies">hundreds
of millions of dollars per year</a> as subsidy to fossil fuels.


feed_id: 3043f632073e5fce2b8bce3cdf43730e
title: Bullshitter plans to text every American
uri: Bullshitter-plans-to-text-every-American
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Bullshitter_plans_to_text_every_American%29

content:
<p>
The bullshitter is planning to send a text message to every American
at once 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/17/internet-howls-after-learning-trump-will-soon-be-able-send-text-alerts-every-single">through
a FEMA broadcast system</a>.
<p>
It has been 
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mobile/fema-s-presidential-alert-test-postponed-some-americans-want-disconnect-n910406">delayed
from the planned date</a>.
<p>
The article says phone users cannot block receiving the message, but
that probably means only that you can't ask the phone network not to
deliver it.  If your phone is running 
<a href="https://replicant.us">Replicant</a>, you could modify it to
drop messages from the bullshitter on the floor.  If you do as I do,
and refuse to carry a
<a href="https://gnu.org/malware/malware-mobiles.html">Stalin's dream
device</a>, you need not to anything &mdash; you won't receive it.
<p>
However, let this annoyance not distract us from the truly harmful
things that Republicans are doing, such as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#4_February_2018_(Head_of_US_immigration)">imprisoning
and deporting more immigrants</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#11_February_2018_(New_forms_of_voter_suppression)">attacking
voting rights</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#12_November_2017_(Gift_to_billionaires)">banning
abortions</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#5_April_2017_(Medicaid)">killing
poor people</a>, and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#17_September_2018_(Corrupted_FEMA)">roasting
Earth's ecosphere</a>.


feed_id: 3fa0127a0c375c4dc4b794c2aef54343
title: Extradition for speech crimes
uri: Extradition-for-speech-crimes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Extradition_for_speech_crimes%29

content:
<p>
Belgium 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/17/belgian-court-refuses-spanish-request-extradite-rapper-valtonyc">refused
to extradite</a> Spanish rapper Valtònyc to Spain for speech crimes.
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/24/spanish-rapper-valtonyc-begin-jail-term-vows-disobey-fascist-state">song
lyrics</a> suggest the possibility of violence but do not directly
advocate violence.


feed_id: 82a16961da54a485f7ebf00ed08e3622
title: Surveillance of journalists
uri: 2018-09-24-Surveillance-of-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Surveillance_of_journalists%29
content:
<p>
Issues about the FISA court's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/17/revealed-justice-depts-secret-rules-targeting-journalists-fisa-court-orders">secret
rules for surveillance</a> of journalists.


feed_id: e7a9e20aa356d10d312c361ddd8259a0
title: Republicans seek to delay Kavanaugh vote
uri: Republicans-seek-to-delay-Kavanaugh-vote
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28Republicans_seek_to_delay_Kavanaugh_vote%29

content:
<p>
(satire) Senate Republicans Seek To Delay Kavanaugh Vote 
<a href="https://politics.theonion.com/senate-republicans-seek-to-delay-kavanaugh-vote-until-a-1829114212">Until
Accuser Properly Smeared</a>.


feed_id: 9cdb1f5846cd34f321f976104e11e1de
title: White House estimates
uri: White-House-estimates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_%28White_House_estimates%29
content:
<p>
(satire) White House 
<a href="https://politics.theonion.com/white-house-raises-official-hurricane-florence-death-to-1829114814">Raises
Official Hurricane Florence Death Toll To -17</a>.


feed_id: 7939beec7c96b233e978ffbebece6d5d
title: Dangers of Kavanaugh
uri: Dangers-of-Kavanaugh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Dangers_of_Kavanaugh%29
content:
<p>
Yet another danger of Kavanaugh: he 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/21/privatizing-the-coast-are-wealthy-californians-seizing-public-beaches">could
eliminate California's law that requires public access to all
beaches</a>.


feed_id: 389bb43e4ec1f03d55b06e5da228705c
title: Killer thug protected from justice
uri: Killer-thug-protected-from-justice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Killer_thug_protected_from_justice%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> that killed Botham Shem Jean while he was minding his own
business has been
<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/amber-guyger-botham-jean-shooting-police-must-face-impartial-justice/">protected
from normal investigation of suspects</a> through the schemes that
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> have set up to protect themselves from justice, as well as
unofficial privilege.


feed_id: 37ece978405f1f824a7459525f6fb41b
title: US thugs' cruelty towards migrants
uri: US-thugs-cruelty-towards-migrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28US_thugs_cruelty_towards_migrants%29

content:
<p>
A former US border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> is reporting on the cruelty towards migrants
that he found to be
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/20/border-patrol-agent-immigrant-abuse/">standard
practice in the thug agency</a>.
<p>
It must be worse under the influence of the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>.  His views will
have empowered all the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> commanders that are looking for someone to
be cruel to.


feed_id: de5dfad0a131f4a1b68377e459c0fd70
title: Kavanaugh's attempted rape accusations
uri: Kavanaugh-s-attempted-rape-accusations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_attempted_rape_accusations%29

content:
<p>
A former official says that, by usual standards, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/20/judicial-nominee-background-investigations-fact-vs-fiction">the
FBI should investigate</a> the attempted rape accusations against
Kavanaugh.


feed_id: f5d0cc73ef1ffd4a5841cdb4d613abc9
title: Chinese government "journalism"
uri: Chinese-government-journalism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Chinese_government_journalism%29

content:
<p>
The US ordered two Chinese government "journalism" organizations
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/beijing-complains-as-us-orders-chinese-media-to-register-as-foreign-agents">register
as foreign agents</a>.
<p>
That seems legitimate to me.


feed_id: 4ee059f78ec18d7aaa431824d03671d3
title: Blasphemy law
uri: Blasphemy-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Blasphemy_law%29
content:
<p>
Calling on Spain to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/spains-blasphemy-laws-stifle-freedom">repeal
its law against blasphemy</a>.


feed_id: 54c8b10a1de01f1be840e8f4269b9858
title: Wrongful conviction of murder
uri: Wrongful-conviction-of-murder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Wrongful_conviction_of_murder%29

content:
<p>
Valentino Dixon was wrongly convicted of murder in a trial that hardly
bothers to respect the rights of the accused.  He had a lucky break
and received national attention, after which it was discovered that
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/19/1797064/-Man-set-free-from-wrongful-murder-conviction-due-initially-to-Golf-Digest">his
conviction was based on insufficient evidence</a>, and he was freed.
<p>
We ought to give every murder case this sort of attention the first
time.


feed_id: 09d56044f4458d95b6ead4a6c8cbc33d
title: MDMA makes octopuses sociable
uri: MDMA-makes-octopuses-sociable
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28MDMA_makes_octopuses_sociable%29

content:
<p>
MDMA 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/20/mdma-makes-octopuses-more-sociable">makes
octopuses sociable</a>.
<p>
This indicates similarity between brains whose evolution has been
separate for 500 million years.  Perhaps with all animal's brains.


feed_id: afd08955a3c5282423ca9a9937fbbb82
title: Private firefighting companies
uri: Private-firefighting-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Private_firefighting_companies%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/private-firefighters-wildfire-insurance-climate-change-capitalism">Private
firefighting companies</a> remind us of how the Roman Republic turned
into an empire.
<p>
Marcus Aurelius Crassus became the richest man in Rome with his
private firefighting company.  When a house caught fire, he offered to
buy it immediately for a low price.  If the owner sold him the house,
Crassus put out the fire.


feed_id: 6505c100f91443c75be95f3839812bdd
title: Weakened environmental regulations
uri: Weakened-environmental-regulations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Weakened_environmental_regulations%29

content:
<p>
[Weakened] environmental regulations 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/relaxed-environmental-regulations-heighten-risk-during-natural-disasters-103411">heighten
risk</a> during natural disasters.


feed_id: 45f55857e9d8d5585dc9a672e443a820
title: Hurricane Florence flood
uri: Hurricane-Florence-flood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Hurricane_Florence_flood%29
content:
<p>
Hurricane Florence caused the 
<a href="https://grist.org/article/florence-is-the-worst-flood-in-east-coast-history-heres-how-locals-describe-it/">worst
flood in the history of the American east coast</a>.


feed_id: ac8801caab1a792a80301863341e6dff
title: Imprisoned immigrant minors in the US
uri: Imprisoned-immigrant-minors-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Imprisoned_immigrant_minors_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
The US has imprisoned 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/drugging-detained-children-is-like-using-a-chemical-straitjacket-102394">almost
13000 immigrants that are minors</a>.  (Some hundreds were taken away
from families; most arrived alone.)  Many of them are being forcibly
drugged with sedatives.


feed_id: 6610801c56999b5fa1465f17a9a66569
title: USB-C charging vulnerability
uri: USB-C-charging-vulnerability
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28USB-C_charging_vulnerability%29

content:
<p>
Don't get a laptop that charges through USB-C.  It is 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/with-usb-c-even-plugging-in-can-set-you-up-to-be-hacked-102296">inherently
vulnerable</a>.
<p>
It is a shame that the article uses "hacker" to mean
"security-breaker".  Please distinguish the two by calling the latter
a
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">"cracker"</a>.


feed_id: ee3732be8a6b12bf1177e4dd5c0915fd
title: Migrant passengers forced to drive boats
uri: Migrant-passengers-forced-to-drive-boats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Migrant_passengers_forced_to_drive_boats%29

content:
<p>
In a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy, the traffickers
generally force one passenger, at gunpoint, to drive the boat.  If
that one is not up to the task, another passenger may take the
controls so that they don't all drown.
<p>
Whichever migrant drives the boat to Italy is likely to be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/20/free-army-how-human-traffickers-are-making-scapegoats-of-migrants">jailed
and charged with "aiding illegal immigration"</a>.


feed_id: b50fcf0530135597d1758ae4ed04c29a
title: Undersea glaciers
uri: Undersea-glaciers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28Undersea_glaciers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/20/build-walls-on-seafloor-to-stop-glaciers-melting-scientists-say">Barriers
at the edges</a> of undersea glaciers could retard them from sliding
into the sea and raising sea level.


feed_id: a2afabd8f786678ae75c931b24da65df
title: US plans to treat protesters as terrorists
uri: US-plans-to-treat-protesters-as-terrorists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#24_September_2018_%28US_plans_to_treat_protesters_as_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
The US is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/20/keystone-pipeline-protest-activism-crackdown-standing-rock">planning</a>
to treat pipeline protesters as terrorists.


feed_id: 4fe2ff0552a243c0f478e0408d59f787
title: University tuition
uri: University-tuition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28University_tuition%29
content:
<p>
Rice University will 
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/09/18/649160232/rice-university-says-middle-class-students-wont-have-to-pay-tuition">spare
low-income and middle-income students the need to borrow money</a>.


feed_id: 540cc1dc7c067dcddbfaf644ce8bca6f
title: FCC rewards giant wireless companies
uri: FCC-rewards-giant-wireless-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28FCC_rewards_giant_wireless_companies%29

content:
<p>
The FCC has rewarded the giant wireless companies 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/fcc-angers-cities-and-towns-with-2-billion-giveaway-to-wireless-carriers/">at
the expense of US cities</a>.
<p>
Just reminds us of who the FCC now tries to serve.


feed_id: 5a5fc622edf1e72969041ecc12c4f133
title: Investigating accusations of rape
uri: Investigating-accusations-of-rape
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Investigating_accusations_of_rape%29

content:
<p>
Normally anyone investigating an accusation of rape is fortunate to
have another witness, a chance to find the truth.  The fact that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/mark-judge-testify-brett-kavanaugh-witness-subpoena">SCROTUS
did not call him to testify</a> is yet more proof that their goal is
to cover up the truth.


feed_id: a0c8b73164489408c4eea08980e0b661
title: Weakness of truth in contending with lies
uri: Weakness-of-truth-in-contending-with-lies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Weakness_of_truth_in_contending_with_lies%29

content:
<p>
The weakness of truth in contending with lies is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/20/learning-power-lies-facts-vs-falsehoods-age-trump">like
a deficiency in society's immune system</a>.
<p>
The report about how the bullshitter will not accept corrections even
on insignificant details suggests that he considers himself
infallible, and that he is out of touch with reality.  Is that enough
to judge him mentally incompetent and institutionalize him?


feed_id: 08ead347990a1891b08d0c4abef2ecbc
title: Children used as deportation bait
uri: Children-used-as-deportation-bait
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Children_used_as_deportation_bait%29

content:
<p>
The US deportation <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> imprison children as 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/20/evil-worst-fears-realized-ice-arrests-dozens-family-or-guardians-attempting-retrieve">bait
to deport relatives that offer to receive them</a>.


feed_id: b6a1a3d344aafa7d7a7c3353e68bbada
title: Ending the war in Yemen
uri: Ending-the-war-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Ending_the_war_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/20/how-congress-can-end-war-yemen">How
Congress Can End the War in Yemen</a>.  It looks like Congress's will
is moving slowly in that direction.
<p>
There is no legitimate reason for the US to involve itself in Yemen's
civil war.  No reason for the US to maintain special hostility to
Iran, either.  That country is dominated by a repressive theocracy,
but it is not as repressive, nor as harsh in its theocracy, as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#9_October_2016_(Victims_of_American_terrorism)">Salafi
Arabia</a>, which the US is supporting.


feed_id: 78670d66bede9e7f5f6101bccd90704d
title: Kavanaugh's lies
uri: 2018-09-25-Kavanaugh-s-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_lies%29
content:
<p>
"Dr. Blasey Ford has zero to gain from lying and everything to lose.
Brett Kavanaugh on the other hand has a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/20/brett-kavanaugh-has-already-lied-senate-judiciary-committee-multiple-occasions">repeated
and well documented history of lying to and misleading the Senate
Judiciary Committee</a>."


feed_id: 0836524cc3a516fe511d96e319a9d3c8
title: Maldives election
uri: Maldives-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Maldives_election%29
content:
<p>
The coup-running "president" of the Maldives seems to be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/21/maldives-election-fears-china-backed-president-could-return-country-to-dark-days">trying
to rig the coming election</a>.
<p>
I suspect that "president" Yameen's coup was organized by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#04_December_2015_(President_of_the_Maldives)">fossil
fuel interests</a>.
<p>
In recent years he has put the country in China's pocket by accepting
loans for unnecessary projects, such as a bridge that in a few decades
will connect one patch of ocean to another patch of ocean.
<p>
We need an international system for countries that have emerged from
dictatorship to repudiate the debts imposed by tyrants and corrupt
rulers.  That will teach plutocrats to stop trying to enslave
countries through lending to those rulers.
<p>
When the islands are awash and no one lives there any more,
China will foreclose on them and build a naval base there.


feed_id: cba6829e21399fbb18952c354216b64e
title: Genetics of developmental disorders
uri: Genetics-of-developmental-disorders
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Genetics_of_developmental_disorders%29

content:
<p>
For some children that never reach the mental level of a toddler,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/21/solving-the-genome-puzzle">identifying
a genetic cause</a> is interesting, but does not alter the futility of
spending your life taking care of them.


feed_id: 48e12dcfae5dc664f457e274a194c084
title: Bullshitter removing bird protections
uri: Bullshitter-removing-bird-protections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Bullshitter_removing_bird_protections%29

content:
<p>
The bullshitter is systematically 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/21/trump-administration-poses-new-threat-to-birds-in-allowing-incidental-killings">removing
regulations that protect birds</a>.  He has even allowed shooting
birds with lead, which tends to poison carrion eaters and introduce
lead into the whole ecosystem.


feed_id: 09ef8494d58f7452e744aa61098455ca
title: Japan's "commercial" whaling
uri: Japan-s-commercial-whaling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Japans_commercial_whaling%29
content:
<p>
Australia has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/21/australia-could-launch-legal-challenge-to-japans-scientific-whaling-hunts">refused
to resume sending ships to oppose Japan's "commercial" whaling</a>,
but holds out as consolation that it just perhaps might launch a legal
challenge of some kind.
<p>
I would be glad if Australia really did that, but I think this is just
a way of letting people down gently step by step.


feed_id: 2e1ce6f684b21aed143731bc2f44bc98
title: Urgent: New Jersey cash law
uri: Urgent-New-Jersey-cash-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_New_Jersey_cash_law%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of New Jersey: call your state legislators
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/21/cashless-retail-stores-new-jersey-law">support
the law</a> that stores must accept cash.
</p>
<p>
You can support cash (and your privacy) more by actually insisting on
cash when you buy things in stores, and refusing to give your name.
I do this, and so can you.
</p>
<p>If you phone, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 51572e4bbea6189ce648f67d12652f71
title: Urgent: Prisons for immigrant families
uri: Urgent-Prisons-for-immigrant-families
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Prisons_for_immigrant_families%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/stop_family_detention">call
on Congress</a> to reject building more prisons for immigrant
families.
</p>
<p>
The problem is not space to imprison them, the problem is imprisoning them.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 6fc1b2ef94c7c7bf0d273c015f8da9f3
title: Urgent: Impeach Kavanaugh
uri: Urgent-Impeach-Kavanaugh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Impeach_Kavanaugh%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/impeach-kavanaugh/">call
    on Congress</a> to impeach Kavanaugh (as an appeals court judge).
</p>
<p>
If <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> put him on the Supreme Court, we will want to impeach him
from there.  Convenient that there are several valid grounds already, including attempted rape and lying to the senate at least twice.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 270fcc3f9156ab6be2ad81b78a13ac32
title: 25th amendment obstacle
uri: 25th-amendment-obstacle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%2825th_amendment_obstacle%29
content:
<p>
Removing the bullshitter from office using the 25th amendment would
run into the same obstacle as
impeachment: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/25th-amendment-trump/">requiring
a 2/3 majority</a> in Congress.


feed_id: f4630ec2b53f99cf691e28749aa92260
title: Infiltrator Mark Kennedy
uri: Infiltrator-Mark-Kennedy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Infiltrator_Mark_Kennedy%29
content:
<p>
The UK <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> chiefs said they never approved of letting infiltrator
Mark Kennedy pretend to love Kate Wilson, hoping she would forgive
them.  Now
we <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/i-was-abused-undercover-policeman-mark-kennedy">know
that they were lying</a>.


feed_id: 854c24be88e48227a297e106d8568d99
title: Optional ballot inspection
uri: Optional-ballot-inspection
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Optional_ballot_inspection%29
content:
<p>
The new "expressvote" voting machine offers to print a paper ballot
for the user to check &mdash; but invites the user to speed up the
process
<a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/09/14/serious-design-flaw-in-ess-expressvote-touchscreen-permission-to-cheat/">by
saying "skip the check."</a>


feed_id: d8ca5005afcd3a8ba80e64c04ef9aa3a
title: Threatened salmon
uri: Threatened-salmon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Threatened_salmon%29
content:
<p>
Alaska's salmon
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/alaska-stand-for-salmon-habitat-campaign">threatened
once again</a>, by several kinds of human activity.


feed_id: 4521bb6ee709c05e9b94adcb45342eae
title: Fabrication for Kavanaugh
uri: Fabrication-for-Kavanaugh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Fabrication_for_Kavanaugh%29
content:
<p>
Kavanaugh's defenders decided
to <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1797471">fabricate an
accusation</a> that a specific man, other than Kavanaugh, was the one
who tried to rape Professor Blasey Ford.
<p>
That's libel, isn't it?


feed_id: 0bb2ccee4ffe2a53170bc4dc5df2ef1a
title: Duke Energy
uri: Duke-Energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Duke_Energy%29
content:
<p>
Duke Energy, in North Carolina,
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/20/duke-energy-leaders-carry-blame-hurricane-florence-devastation">directly
partially responsible</a> for the hurricane's flooding in that state.


feed_id: 173e54956373c5405d94df828c5292f8
title: Cuts to pay for imprisonment
uri: Cuts-to-pay-for-imprisonment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Cuts_to_pay_for_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Cuts to Cancer Research, Head Start, and Women's
Shelters <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/20/how-does-trump-even-sleep-night-cuts-cancer-research-head-start-and-womens-shelters">Among
$226 Million Diverted</a> to Pay for [imprisonment of immigrant
minors].


feed_id: 272453eba5be8b301cc5d7e10998aa1d
title: Confirm Kavanaugh 'no matter what'
uri: Confirm-Kavanaugh-no-matter-what
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Confirm_Kavanaugh_%27no_matter_what%27%29

content:
<p>
Senator Grassley's staffer admitted that Republicans plan
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/20/top-grassley-staffer-gives-away-game-unfazed-and-determined-confirm-kavanaugh">confirm
Kavanaugh "no matter what."</a>


feed_id: 2d1d03542acc68a9416e681c3ece61c8
title: Minimum wage in DC
uri: Minimum-wage-in-DC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Minimum_wage_in_DC%29
content:
<p>
The citizens of Washington, DC, voted for an initiative to increase
the minimum wage.  The city
council <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/chocolate-city-is-now-money-city-the-high-price-dc-is-paying-to-overturn-the-publics-will/2018/09/19/5841108a-bb71-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html">decided
to cancel it</a>, showing it represents the businesses, not the
voters.


feed_id: 155705bd3cd2059af53216f379458ac9
title: Sheds for homeless people
uri: Sheds-for-homeless-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Sheds_for_homeless_people%29
content:
<p>
Oakland
is <a href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/05/08/homeless-greet-new-tuff-sheds-with-hesitation-hope/">setting
up sheds</a> for homeless people to move to.
<p>
It seems like a positive step for me, but we shouldn't accept as a permanent
solution that poor people have to live in sheds.  The US is not so poor that
it can't afford housing for everyone at the usual standards.


feed_id: 286ec4024faaf30b4d14f3d6980de4ff
title: Passport refusals
uri: Passport-refusals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Passport_refusals%29
content:
<p>
The US government
is <a href="https://www.kctv5.com/news/kansas-woman-told-birth-certificate-wasn-t-enough-to-prove/article_144c19aa-b50f-11e8-94f5-6b921312a97a.html">refusing
passports</a> to natural born US citizens, saying that their birth
certificates are not good enough.


feed_id: a58d6674e0ec618d9b9473520f7b4dae
title: Access to judicial records
uri: Access-to-judicial-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Access_to_judicial_records%29
content:
<p>
A Republican Member of Congress Wants
[gratis] <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/new-bill-would-finally-tear-down-federal-judiciarys-ridiculous-paywall/">Public
Access to Judicial Records</a>.
<p>
It is a good idea, and I won't criticize it because of who supports it.


feed_id: 3b7b0c0923d319605fb14023fad3a114
title: Verizon blockage
uri: Verizon-blockage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Verizon_blockage%29
content:
<p>
Verizon <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9glj90/big_shout_out_to_verizon_for_throttling_data_for/">blocked
people in North Carolina</a> from getting their email and storm
updates, saying "Pay for higher priority if you want any service."


feed_id: 5df50fdbfdbab3b1c96e52fc9289c5d9
title: Money for Seattle Mariners
uri: Money-for-Seattle-Mariners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Money_for_Seattle_Mariners%29
content:
<p>
The Seattle Mariners
squeezed <a href="https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/09/17/32479271/king-county-council-will-give-the-mariners-135-dollars">another
135 million dollars</a> out of the city of Seattle.  The city council
came close to rejecting the demand, but did not quite get there.
<p>
I think there should be a federal law that prohibits cities and states
from subsidizing sports teams either directly or indirectly.


feed_id: 9540ffb3c129cf59c4b2760ae75c03f0
title: Refillable bottles
uri: Refillable-bottles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Refillable_bottles%29
content:
<p>
Oregon's bottle recycling program now
handles <a href="https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/130463/oregon-launches-first-statewide-refillable-bottle-system-in-u-s">refillable
bottles for breweries</a>.  They don't need to be ground up and melted
and made into new bottles.
<p>
It is good to see such beginning steps, but if we don't scale it far
up we are still screwed.


feed_id: df4af4a68820ba944adab39db08d5c82
title: Urgent: Fight against voter-purging
uri: Urgent-Fight-against-voter-purging
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Fight_against_voter-purging%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of North Carolina: 
<a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/stop-voter-suppression-in-north-carolina-2">fight
against Republican voter-purging</a>.
<p>
I can't test this, since I am not from North Carolina and should not
sign.  If you find that this petition can't be signed with Javascript
disabled entirely, and can't be signed with LibreJS active, please
email me (rms at the GNU project site) so I can delete it.
<p>
If you sign, please spread the word!


feed_id: f759d07e0bc3d67ef5c30c940e48392a
title: Bully-appointed federal judge
uri: Bully-appointed-federal-judge
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Bully-appointed_federal_judge%29

content:
<p>
One of the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>'s appointed federal judge 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1797624">disregarded the
facts</a> to make a partisan decision in favor of right-wing
counterprotestors.


feed_id: 4c320c1b3de057a2033e5548f1aad667
title: Bully's arrest policy
uri: Bully-s-arrest-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Bullys_arrest_policy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>'s policy of arresting unauthorized immigrants if they go to
court succeeds in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/22/fearing-courthouse-arrests-under-trumps-crackdown-undocumented-immigrants-refuse">scaring
many of them away from seeking protection against domestic
violence</a>.


feed_id: ef7d0bbc7f3b4359dfcc2f1b694962a5
title: Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline
uri: Keystone-XL-planet-roaster-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Keystone_XL_planet-roaster_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
It took the US State Department 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/21/trump-administration-releases-sham-review-keystone-xl">just
one week to publish a sham environmental review</a> of the Keystone XL
planet-roaster pipeline.


feed_id: 71d63ec670c369c346ad618428d70abe
title: Protests planned at Salesforce event
uri: Protests-planned-at-Salesforce-event
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Protests_planned_at_Salesforce_event%29

content:
<p>
Protests are planned at the Salesforce annual event, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/09/21/protests-planned-dreamforce-conference">demanding
that the company stop serving the US border thugs</a>.


feed_id: c1f54522bcd179e153de2869239d09aa
title: Bully's hush money
uri: Bully-s-hush-money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Bullys_hush_money%29
content:
<p>
(satire) Trump Asks Why Kavanaugh Accuser Didn’t Just 
<a href="https://politics.theonion.com/trump-asks-why-kavanaugh-accuser-didn-t-just-immediatel-1829228716">Immediately
Request Hush Money</a>.


feed_id: 06eacd6114d58054097736b0b4418847
title: Palestinian home life
uri: Palestinian-home-life
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Palestinian_home_life%29
content:
<p>
Israelis Experience Palestinian Home Life 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/20/israelis-experience-slice-of-virtual-reality-of-palestinian-home-life">in
Virtual Reality</a>.
<p>
They see the home of a specific Palestinian family that volunteered
for this.


feed_id: 39698594941828673aa7b261032bdc49
title: Immigration judges ordered to be cruel
uri: Immigration-judges-ordered-to-be-cruel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Immigration_judges_ordered_to_be_cruel%29

content:
<p>
Sessions has ordered immigration judges to be 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1797252">cruel, strict,
callous and merciless</a>.


feed_id: 333e5a88077ee049aab2d7e07fa1b88c
title: Kavanaugh's Republican votes
uri: Kavanaugh-s-Republican-votes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Kavanaughs_Republican_votes%29
content:
<p>
The reason Republicans intend to vote for Kavanaugh no matter what is
that he is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/21/stop-kavanaugh-coup-any-means-necessary">part
of the same plutocratist group as four other right-wing justices</a>.
They will turn the US into hell for all except the favored classes.


feed_id: 255e14212b2314218756664f48a2ec04
title: Uighurs in brainwashing camps
uri: Uighurs-in-brainwashing-camps
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Uighurs_in_brainwashing_camps%29

content:
<p>
Pompeo condemned China for putting 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/22/awful-abuses-mike-pompeo-denounces-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs">around
a million Uighurs in brainwashing camps</a>.
<p>
Someone else called this "The pot calling the kettle black", but that
is not correct.  What Chine has done is comparable to putting a
million people in Guantanamo.  The US put only a thousand people,
total, in Guantanamo.  Even today it is possible to be worse than the
US.
<p>
When Pompeo talks about "stealing intellectual property", he spreads
confusion.  That term invariably has that effect because it 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">doesn't fit
reality</a>.


feed_id: efda7b9e4aeb3dae4394a9ce3fb16ec3
title: Mainstream media coverage of hurricane
uri: Mainstream-media-coverage-of-hurricane
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Mainstream_media_coverage_of_hurricane%29

content:
<p>
US mainstream media covered Hurricane Florence, but 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/21/climate-change-made-florence-monster-media-failed-tell-story">very
rarely connected it to its human cause</a>.


feed_id: 52008f21c2cc2b3d087921f327852c53
title: Judge frees migrant-rescuing fishermen
uri: Judge-frees-migrant-rescuing-fishermen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Judge_frees_migrant-rescuing_fishermen%29

content:
<p>
An Italian judge 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/22/italy-releases-tunisian-fishermen-arrested-on-suspicion-of-smuggling-migrants">freed
the Tunisian fishermen</a>, victims of the right-wing attempt to
criminalize the act of rescuing migrants from drowning.
<p>
This won't end the threat.  Right-wingers trying to pervert justice
never give up.


feed_id: f955ef009c95391b8ad986006d568279
title: SCROTUS delay last Kavanaugh hearing
uri: SCROTUS-delay-last-Kavanaugh-hearing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28SCROTUS_delay_last_Kavanaugh_hearing%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/22/kavanaugh-accuser-given-more-time-to-decide-if-she-will-testify">delayed
the last Kavanaugh hearing</a> rather than tell Ford "Too late!"


feed_id: 3b5d1b81cbcc7fb2e6fdbb7ac6dacc5c
title: NASA satellite tracks ice melt
uri: NASA-satellite-tracks-ice-melt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28NASA_satellite_tracks_ice_melt%29

content:
<p>
NASA Launches Satellite to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/21/nasa-new-satellite-ice-melt-ice-sat-2-launches">Precisely
Track How Earth's Ice Is Melting</a>.
<p>
I wonder if the denialist will order the satellite deorbited in
December.


feed_id: 35a8cc120aeae38a34a0485a3c6dfff0
title: Projecting images onto capitol building
uri: Projecting-images-onto-capitol-building
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Projecting_images_onto_capitol_building%29

content:
<p>
Maine is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/21/maine-lawmakers-vote-curb-free-speech-banning-projection-political-messages-state">moving
to prohibit protesting by projecting images onto the state capitol
building</a>.
<p>
The practice does not hurt anyone, but there is a general tendency to
repress effective protest in the US.  If it can attract the attention
of substantial numbers of people, politicians that don't represent the
public will find some excuse to stop you.


feed_id: 52a96a375b66af67bf0dde5927678a45
title: Urgent: Shareholder resolution against NRA
uri: Urgent-Shareholder-resolution-against-NRA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Shareholder_resolution_against_NRA%29

content:
<p>
Call on mutual fund companies to support the shareholder resolution to
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/nra_shareholders?">make
American Outdoor Brands stop supporting the NRA</a>, and be clear
about what it is (and what it isn't) doing in claimed efforts to
reduce gun violence.
<p>
The company is a conglomerate, but its main business is guns.
<p>
If you sign, please spread the word!


feed_id: 2d69783277cf36f23e597279ed17529f
title: Capital gains taxes
uri: Capital-gains-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28Capital_gains_taxes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> wants to reduce capital gains taxes, to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/21/another-tax-scam-rich">offer
the rich yet another handout</a>.  Rather than change income tax law,
he wants to disregard it.


feed_id: 8359a7f029293e1d6558e920c379f153
title: UK immigration
uri: 2018-09-26-UK-immigration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#25_September_2018_%28UK_immigration%29
content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/21/children-as-young-as-10-denied-uk-citizenship-for-failing-good-character-test">denies
citizenship to teenagers for petty crimes</a>, and seeks to deport
them to countries they would hardly remember and where they may not
know anyone.


feed_id: 5366ed9640d40dc0069088399a4c2d96
title: Salafi Arabia-funded terrorist attack
uri: Salafi-Arabia-funded-terrorist-attack
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Salafi_Arabia-funded_terrorist_attack%29

content:
<p>
A terrorist attack in Iran may have been funded by <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> with
the purpose of pushing Iran to retaliate and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/23/ahvaz-terror-attack-iran-may-drag-us-larger-war">give
the bully an excuse for war</a>.


feed_id: 808a3f95bda4f0a97c406ba71fa8f67b
title: Coal and oil usage
uri: Coal-and-oil-usage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Coal_and_oil_usage%29
content:
<p>
OPEC predicts that coal and oil usage will increase for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/23/opec-predicts-massive-rise-in-oil-production-over-next-five-years">decades</a>.
<p>
If that happens, it won't continue for the rest of the century.
The poverty, hunger and wars will stop it.  However, that is not a
second-best solution; that is failure.


feed_id: 7f56b0a513360ea6a79c762bccc0d20d
title: Defeat of Yameed
uri: Defeat-of-Yameed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Defeat_of_Yameed%29
content:
<p>
President Yameen of the Maldives was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/23/maldives-voters-throw-out-china-backed-strongman-president">defeated</a>.
Apparently he was unable to rig the election.


feed_id: 32e932f68b5b5f69e1defa656143fcf7
title: Stopping plutocratist governments
uri: Stopping-plutocratist-governments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Stopping_plutocratist_governments%29

content:
<p>
Plutocratist governments in Central America are forcing peasants off
their land and converting it to plantations or mines.  
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/23/central-american-women-are-fighting-extractive-industries-their-land-and-winning">Sometimes
women organize and stop them</a>.


feed_id: 6f70867ccb82697cbc71d8167a84df24
title: Australian ex-Ministers' careers
uri: Australian-ex-Ministers-careers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Australian_ex-Ministers_careers%29

content:
<p>
Since 1990, 1/4 of Australian [ex-]Ministers Go on to Work for
Lobbyists or Special Interests, according to a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/23/one-in-four-australian-ministers-go-on-to-work-for-lobbyists-or-special-interests-study-finds">study
that tracked each one's career</a>.
<p>
The author of the report said that this is not necessarily bad,
Perhaps I'd agree, if each one had been surprised to receive a cushy
job after leaving government office.
<p>
Let's not be naive.  Government officials know they will be offered
such work, and their decisions while in office are likely to be
influenced by the prospect.  Accepting a job that is unofficially
contingent on their policies is morally equivalent to taking a bribe.


feed_id: 3d188668485da4575e34640952e23451
title: To stop the world from changing me
uri: To-stop-the-world-from-changing-me
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28To_stop_the_world_from_changing_me%29

content:
<p>
I've always found this quotation inspiring: "I'm not trying to change
the world.  I'm trying to stop the world from changing me."
<p>
I used to attribute the quote to Thoreau, but it seems that was
mistaken: it is actually from 
<a href="https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1213614">Ammon Hennacy</a>.
<p>
I have succeeded in changing the world to some extent, and I am still
trying to achieve more.  At the same time, I see how the use of
nonfree software, and digital dis-services, has changed others for the
worse.  Millions surrender their freedom and privacy without moving a
muscle to protect it.  They run 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html
">freedom-denying software</a> that 
<a href="https://gnu.org/malware/proprietary-surveillance.html">snoops
on them constantly</a>.  They 
<a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">let Facebook use them</a>.  They 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.html">play nonfree
video games for hours</a>, killing time which they could have used for
something meaningful, and learning nothing except how to retreat from
society.
<p>
Even if they would find it hard work to resist these evils 100%, there
are surely parts they could easily resist.  It sure looks like
malicious technology has changed them for the worse.
<p>
Please don't let it change you!


feed_id: 277fe597d9841711c36d1effe9827e3f
title: Lists of supposed non-citizens
uri: Lists-of-supposed-non-citizens
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Lists_of_supposed_non-citizens%29

content:
<p>
Right-wingers are posting long lists of supposed non-citizens who are
voting, presented as proof there is a big problem of invalid voters.
<p>
They are being 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/23/voters-purges-elections-rolls-americans-pilf">sued
by US citizens whose names they falsely posted</a>.


feed_id: fe8cc9e79b20b3a48073134748a34d10
title: Land-based birds at risk of extinction
uri: Land-based-birds-at-risk-of-extinction
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Land-based_birds_at_risk_of_extinction%29

content:
<p>
"Land-based bird populations are becoming confined to nature reserves
in some parts of the world&mdash;raising the risk of global
extinction&mdash;due to the 
<a href='https://phys.org/news/2018-09-extirpation-species-areas.html'>loss
of suitable habitat</a>."


feed_id: 242722b99f0469be40afc38c98d90db9
title: Prosecution for photographing a rally
uri: Prosecution-for-photographing-a-rally
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Prosecution_for_photographing_a_rally%29

content:
<p>
Cambodia has pardoned Australia documentalist Ricketson on the
recommendation of the tyrant that had him prosecuted, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/23/pardoned-film-maker-james-ricketson-lands-back-in-australia">calling
making photos of a rally "spying"</a>.
<p>
This is a common ploy for governments enforcing unjust laws: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#28_October_2017_(Anti-terror_laws)">prosecute
someone</a>, who is of course convicted, then
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-jan-apr.html#20%20March%202006%20(New%20Zealand%20released%20Ahmed%20Zaoui)">pardon
the victim</a>.  It serves to scare people into obeying the unjust
law, while avoiding the odium that would follow from
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#2_April_2018_(Canada_press_freedom)">keeping
journalists in prison</a>.


feed_id: 5c7c273d43b3d80959c573b5fc5a434d
title: Prof. Blasey Ford to testify
uri: Prof-Blasey-Ford-to-testify
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Prof._Blasey_Ford_to_testify%29

content:
<p>
Prof. Blasey Ford agreed to testify to the Senate on Thursday, but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/23/brett-kavanaugh-accuser-set-to-testify-before-congress">other
details have not been agreed on</a>.
<p>
This includes such as 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1798005">whether they will
call in some lawyer to talk with her</a> (being too cowardly to do so
themselves).


feed_id: 5d02dd7c589127440a710b140908bc02
title: Cuts to Head Start and cancer research
uri: Cuts-to-Head-Start-and-cancer-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Cuts_to_Head_Start_and_cancer_research%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>'s saboteurs are going to cut Head Start and cancer research 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1797264">to fund their
prisons for immigrant minors</a>.
<p>
The article says "children", but I am pretty sure the prisoners range
up through age 17.  Some are children, and some are teenagers.


feed_id: 783ae165adde038f8241a8be0dfc0dbe
title: Urgent: Hurricane Maria failures
uri: Urgent-Hurricane-Maria-failures
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Hurricane_Maria_failures%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://act.freepress.net/act/internet_fcc_pr_investigate/">call
on the FCC</a> to investigate failures of Puerto Rico's communications
infrastructure after Hurricane Maria.
</p>
<p>If you sign, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 9aaa22e892492dfe1f1365de075e8f9a
title: Urgent: SITSA
uri: Urgent-SITSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_SITSA%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/stop-jeff-sessions%E2%80%99-drug-war-power-grab">call
on Congress</a> to oppose SITSA, which would give the attorney general
the power to ban any drug arbitrarily.
</p>
<p>If you send a message, please spread the word!</p>


feed_id: 0f67750e1ba76c1c45c0b4ebfe688cdf
title: Tracking teenagers
uri: Tracking-teenagers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Tracking_teenagers%29
content:
<p>
US parents are now invited
to <a href="https://letgrow.org/track-your-child-like-a-parolee/">track
their teenage offspring</a> like convicts on parole.


feed_id: 67e8b0edd72bfde880057810033ad82c
title: Ill refugees in Australia
uri: Ill-refugees-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Ill_refugees_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Australia has permitted Nauru to block badly ill refugees from being
brought to Australia under a court order.  The Australian judge ruled
that Australia
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/25/nauru-blocking-refugee-evacuations-a-problem-of-australias-creation-judge">responsible
for that difficulty</a>.


feed_id: 6d169f81c494d61e66938903af5e7f58
title: Victoire Ingabire
uri: Victoire-Ingabire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Victoire_Ingabire%29
content:
<p>
Victoire Ingabire, a Rwandan opposition leader, has
been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/freed-rwandan-opposition-leader-victoire-ingabire-vows-to-continue-struggle">released
from prison</a> and vows to continue the struggle despite the danger
she will be imprisoned again.
<p>
President
Kagame <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#13_October_2012_(Kagame_imprisons_and_kills_opposition_and_journalists)">represses
human rights</a> harshly.


feed_id: 9fbedfa973b5099fbcd285381084ef90
title: Rescuing drowning migrants
uri: Rescuing-drowning-migrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Rescuing_drowning_migrants%29
content:
<p>
Italy pressured Panama
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/italy-blamed-after-aquarius-migrant-rescue-ships-flag-revoked">cancel
the operating permission</a> for Médecins Sans Frontières' ship that
rescues drowning migrants.


feed_id: 5a699d2b6e8eb08994be6dab3aaa8982
title: Microtask work
uri: Microtask-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Microtask_work%29
content:
<p>
Low Pay, Poor Prospects, And Psychological Toll:
The <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/in-most-cases-online-microtask-work-can-be-a-raw-deal-un-study-finds/">Perils
of Microtask Work</a>.


feed_id: f426b6ebe9783c475f3bd915a12c5594
title: Endangered Species Act
uri: 2018-09-27-Endangered-Species-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Endangered_Species_Act%29
content:
<p>
The Endangered Species Act functions very
effectively.  <a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-we-must-save-the-endangered-species-act-from-the-trump-administration-babbitt">99%
of the species</a> that have been protected are still living.
<p>
Perhaps that's why Republican saboteurs are trying to destroy it.


feed_id: a60a87ce022ebd357cbca67abe022634
title: Grand Staircase-Escalante
uri: 2018-09-27-Grand-Staircase-Escalante
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Grand_Staircase-Escalante%29
content:
<p>
Shrinking the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Is
a <a href="https://theconversation.com/shrinking-the-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monument-is-a-disaster-for-paleontology-103414">Disaster
for Paleontology</a>.


feed_id: 64bb7176bec2bdf6b179a14b4c26ad57
title: Hidden voice commands
uri: Hidden-voice-commands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Hidden_voice_commands%29
content:
<p>
Researchers have
discovered <a href="http://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2018-09-24-it-security-secret-messages-alexa-and-co">how
to hide voice commands</a> in other audio, so that people cannot hear
them, but Alexa and Siri can.


feed_id: 3ec5daa85972f04e624671586411c441
title: Heating national parks
uri: Heating-national-parks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Heating_national_parks%29
content:
<p>
US national parks are heating
up <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/national-parks-are-uniquely-vulnerable-to-extreme-climate-impacts-new-study-finds-a74ffdad7ff5/">faster
than most of the US</a>.  Some are forecast to suffer 9C of heating
(16F) in this century.  Today's local species will go extinct if they
can't move elsewhere.
<p>
What is Glacier National Park if it doesn’t have glaciers anymore?  To
an environmentalist, it's a tragedy.  To an extractivist, it's an
opportunity for mining.


feed_id: 70cac7a1170466551b7e47ada9e076af
title: Fleeing global heating
uri: Fleeing-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Fleeing_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Thousands of Americans
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/americas-era-of-climate-mass-migration-is-here">moving
to higher ground</a>, fleeing from global heating.
<p>
In 30 years it will be hundreds of thousands.
<p>
Some decades later, it will be millions.  We can't predict how many
millions; the climate models don't allow for the methane that will be
released by melting permafrost, since we don't know how much that will
be.
<p>
Currently <a href="https://grist.org/article/your-future-home-could-be-in-a-flood-zone-and-no-ones-required-to-tell-you/">30,000
households</a> are being squeezed out.


feed_id: 69b5f6add660a96c50a689f626aea618
title: Hong Kong independence party
uri: Hong-Kong-independence-party
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Hong_Kong_independence_party%29

content:
<p>
China
has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/hong-kong-has-banned-a-political-party-but-it-will-never-crush-desire-for-independence">banned
the Hong Kong independence party</a> entirely.
<p>
China is stepping up its control and repression in Hong Kong by steps.
Just a few years ago
it <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#9_November_2016_(Hong_Kong_MPs_banned)">banned
individual candidates</a> from the election for advocating
independence.
<p>
As long as it faces no penalty for this, China can keep pushing.


feed_id: 5db918aac706610207731a4f3664bd46
title: Medical care in India
uri: Medical-care-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Medical_care_in_India%29
content:
<p>
India's government
offers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/modicare-indias-pm-promises-free-health-care-for-half-a-billion-people">gratis
medical care</a> for all the poor.
<p>
I hope it includes the most effective forms of birth control.


feed_id: 095ddf65b665bb76bbc284ce264892aa
title: Kavanaugh accuser Ramirez
uri: Kavanaugh-accuser-Ramirez
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh_accuser_Ramirez%29
content:
<p>
Deborah
Ramirez <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1798107">accuses
Kavanaugh</a> of attacking her sexually while he was at Yale.
<p>
Two other women make accusations against Kavanaugh, not yet publicly.


feed_id: 49e403bd17756ca898c7be69bc6e6e06
title: Pharma profit routing
uri: Pharma-profit-routing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Pharma_profit_routing%29
content:
<p>
Big Pharma
companies <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/ireland-s-corporate-tax-rate-hurting-emerging-economies-oxfam-1.3632501">route
their profits through Ireland</a> so as to avoid taxes in various poor
countries.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">My
tax proposal</a> would prevent that.


feed_id: fa0dec3cd3d76e408899f9159841fe48
title: Kavanaugh and the constitution
uri: Kavanaugh-and-the-constitution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#27_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh_and_the_constitution%29

content:
<p>
Kavanaugh claims to be a strict constructionist, following the text of
the Constitution literally &mdash; but that's only when he can use
that to justify deregulation.  Sometimes he rules for deregulation by
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/23/seaworld-and-kavanaughs-missing-empathy-gene">inventing
a fanciful interpretation</a> of the Constitution.
<p>
Apparently his approach to the Constitution is better described as,
"Deregulation by hook or by crook."


feed_id: 14a9a76db16a32c35ce281624f43b124
title: Economic growth and fossil fuels
uri: Economic-growth-and-fossil-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Economic_growth_and_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
George Monbiot: While Economic Growth Continues
We'll <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/26/economic-growth-fossil-fuels-habit-oil-industry">Never
Kick Our Fossil Fuels Habit</a>.


feed_id: e351110542e8687c87d87f394b2b15af
title: Spying on Privacy International
uri: Spying-on-Privacy-International
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Spying_on_Privacy_International%29

content:
<p>
Privacy International: UK Intelligence
Agency <a href="https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/2283/press-release-uk-intelligence-agency-admits-unlawfully-spying-privacy">Admits
Unlawfully Spying</a> on Privacy International.


feed_id: b232ff27b93dfd2fffe968f0295f5284
title: Biometric id in India
uri: Biometric-id-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Biometric_id_in_India%29
content:
<p>
India's supreme court ruled that many important activities may not
require a biometric id number.  However, since paying taxes does
require it, in practice it
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/26/indian-court-upholds-legality-of-worlds-largest-biometric-database">impossible
for Indians to escape</a>.


feed_id: 1fdcdae74cf5c48c21260c3c043469c4
title: Moving glaciers
uri: Moving-glaciers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Moving_glaciers%29
content:
<p>
Glaciers can move up to 80 feet per day.  <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> has made many
glaciers move fast enough
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/sep/26/new-research-shows-the-worlds-ice-is-doing-something-not-seen-before">change
visibly from day to day</a>.


feed_id: e45616320305664242e5c76cdf051ef7
title: Trade with Iran
uri: Trade-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Trade_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>
EU, China and Russia set up
a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/26/eu-china-and-russia-in-move-to-sidestep-us-sanctions-on-iran">special
financial institution</a> to help insulate their trade with Iran from
US sanctions.


feed_id: 5140a19fa8fb5ac3288d5a840b9b720e
title: Smith and Wesson
uri: Smith-and-Wesson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Smith_and_Wesson%29
content:
<p>
The stockholders of American Outdoor
Brands <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/25/smith-and-wesson-gun-safety-nuns-accountability">voted
to require the company</a> to record what its gun company subsidiary,
Smith and Wesson, is doing to monitor and reduce gun violence.


feed_id: 768f346390421f1a4cc42c4257b166da
title: Global heating vulnerability
uri: Global-heating-vulnerability
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Global_heating_vulnerability%29

content:
<p>
Of all the countries on Earth, the US is
the <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/u-s-is-second-biggest-loser-from-climate-change-economically-bombshell-study-finds-677ae19f3787/">second-most-vulnerable</a>
to damage from <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.
<p>
China is building more coal capacity that would amount
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/26/satellite-images-show-runaway-expansion-of-coal-power-in-china">a
25% increase</a>.
<p>
Could it be that China wants to provoke disaster because the US will lose
more from it than China will?  That's the same as the bullshitter's attitude
towards a trade war.  No, I'm not seriously proposing that theory.
<p>
The most vulnerable country is India, which China is not particularly
friendly toward either.


feed_id: 40ccbf2bb4a638d0d973fd998f587f2c
title: HIV coverups
uri: HIV-coverups
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28HIV_coverups%29
content:
<p>
Thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of patients getting blood
transfusions in the UK around 1980 were infected with HIV in the
process.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/25/contaminated-blood-scandal-many-medical-records-disappeared-inquiry-hears">An
investigation has found</a> that their medical record suffered
deletions and even fake additions as a cover-up.
<p>
Similar infections occurred in the US and France.
The medical systems were not designed to prevent this sort of thing.


feed_id: c88f5fb3ceddc09d81c1931f4c258857
title: Reuniting immigrant minors
uri: Reuniting-immigrant-minors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Reuniting_immigrant_minors%29
content:
<p>
The sadist's officials are dragging their feet in obeying the court
order to reunite immigrant minors that were taken away from their
families.  Almost 200
have <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1798540">not yet been
reunited</a>.


feed_id: 6abe981a45ad11c19a2244000d3adc58
title: Kavanaugh's demeanor
uri: Kavanaugh-s-demeanor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Kavanaugh%27s_demeanor%29
content:
<p>
Kavanaugh's acquaintances and record present him
as <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/09/25/brett-kavanaugh-accusations-mark-judge/">frequently
violent and frequently drunk</a>, and motivated by hatreds.


feed_id: 6b7159470a0b63b90e369d1ef9f0642b
title: Business funding for research
uri: Business-funding-for-research
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Business_funding_for_research%29

content:
<p>
In several fields, business funding for research serves to distract
research from issues the businesses don't want explored,
and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/26/corporate-sponsorship-diverts-research-and-distorts-public-policy-report-finds">distorts
public policy</a>.


feed_id: b0f624b78480687fd97b238665cbd0c5
title: Bottom slapper
uri: Bottom-slapper
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Bottom_slapper%29
content:
<p>
Paris
Man <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/25/paris-man-jailed-for-slapping-womans-bottom">Jailed
for Three Months</a> for Slapping Woman's Bottom.
<p>
I agree with this decision.  He physically attacked her.
<p>
If it were just a matter of his verbal remarks, I would disapprove of
them (it is nasty to insult strangers for no good reason), but insults
should not be a crime.


feed_id: a0fe7f4aca474e32681b416767966a4a
title: Urgent: LYNE Act
uri: Urgent-LYNE-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_LYNE_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/cosponsor-hold-the-lyne">ask
your congresscritter and senators</a> to cosponsor the LYNE act, which
would stop the development of "low-yield" nuclear weapons which are
more conducive to actually using them.


feed_id: 3d317a75da3cc9ffe8475d48ad046b7d
title: Urgent: Oppose fees for protesting
uri: Urgent-Oppose-fees-for-protesting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#28_September_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fees_for_protesting%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> of the Interior Zinke to 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/protest-tax/">drop the plan
to charge high fees</a> for protesting in Washington DC.
<p>
If you sign, please spread the word!


