# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_July_2014_(US_TV_networks_bulled_by_Exxon)
title: US TV networks bulled by Exxon
uri: US-TV-networks-bulled-by-Exxon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_July_2014_%28US_TV_networks_bulled_by_Exxon%29
content:
<p>
Exxon 
<a href="http://other98.com/take-action-stop-big-media-from-protecting-exxon">bullied
the major US TV networks</a> into refusing to present a paid political
advertisement that criticizes Exxon.
<p>
All I can say is, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2005-nov-feb.html#09%20December%202005%20(Kyoto%20treaty%20sabotage)">Yexx</a>!
<p>
If you want to watch the PSA, which is hosted on YouTube, please do
not access the site directly!  Use youtube-dl.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_July_2014_(Hobby_Lobby_contraception_coverage)
title: Hobby Lobby contraception coverage
uri: Hobby-Lobby-contraception-coverage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_July_2014_%28Hobby_Lobby_contraception_coverage%29

content:
<p>
The owners of Hobby Lobby provided medical care including
contraception coverage, voluntarily, until a group of right-wing
Christians 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/07/01/the-deeply-held-religious-principle-hobby-lobby-suddenly-remembered-it-had/">suggested
this was a way to the secularity of the law</a>.
<p>

Now Hobby Lobby demands to ban insurance from paying for doctor visits
in which patients even 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/02/1311121/-Hobby-Lobby-wanted-to-block-Doctors-from-even-Talking-to-you-about-Contraception?detail=email">discuss
contraception</a>.  And the Supreme Court may have given it to them.
<p>
The battle over contraception is the central battle of the war for
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/02/1311342/-What-the-battle-over-birth-control-is-really-about?detail=email">women's
equality and emancipation</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_July_2014_(HP_CEO_continues_to_cut_jobs)
title: HP CEO continues to cut jobs
uri: HP-CEO-continues-to-cut-jobs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_July_2014_%28HP_CEO_continues_to_cut_jobs%29
content:
<p>
US TV lionizes the CEO of Hewlett Packard for 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/07/02/meet-the-ceo-bold-enough-to-kill-thousands-of-jobs/">continuing
to cut jobs despite the "economic recovery" in the US</a> (thus
helping insure it's not a real recovery for the American people).
<p>
One incidental detail, irrelevant to the issue, is that this CEO is a
woman.  It's irrelevant to the issue because a male CEO could have
done the same, and it would be equally wrong.  The wrong here has
nothing to do with her gender.  It was right of FAIR not to mention
that.
<p>
I mention it, though it is irrelevant to this issue, because there are
feminists who campaign to have more female CEOs.  I think they are
being distracted by an irrelevancy.
<p>
With regard to CEOs, what matters most for working women isn't whether
their chance of becoming one of those CEOs is one in a million or one
in ten million.  It is curbing the CEOs' power to harm them.  Never
mind how women CEOs get paid; focus on how women workers get paid.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_July_2014_(New_excuses_for_mass_surveillance)
title: New excuses for mass surveillance
uri: New-excuses-for-mass-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_July_2014_%28New_excuses_for_mass_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The UK government has come up with 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/04/surveillance-lee-rigby-murder-uk-muslims-syria">two
new excuses</a> to maintain surveillance of everyone.
<p>
What they amount to is, "If we can't watch everyone all the time,
somewhat more crimes will happen."  That's true.  But if we allow the
state to prevent crimes <em>at any cost</em>, it will oppress us.  A
state that the people do not control is a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_June_2014_(UKs_proposed_secret_trial)">bigger
danger than the crimes it fails to prevent</a>.
<p>
The state itself commits frequent violence when it shows 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_(UK_thugs_attacked_aged_and%2For_disabled_people)">contempt
for the people</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Sea-level_rise_hitting_Virginia)
title: Sea-level rise hitting Virginia
uri: Sea-level-rise-hitting-Virginia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Sea-level_rise_hitting_Virginia%29
content:
<p>
Sea-level rise is hitting Virginia so hard that 
<a href="http://qz.com/228284/the-ocean-is-swallowing-up-virginia-so-rapidly-that-its-leaders-are-forgetting-to-bicker-about-climate-change/">even
Republicans can't deny it</a>.
<p>
It's not wholly due to global heating.  The US east coast is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#17_January_2013_(East_Coast_vulnerable_to_flooding)">slowly
sinking</a>, and this adds locally to the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_June_2014_(Unceasing_rise_in_sea_level)">worldwide
rise of the ocean caused by global heating</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Clinton_praises_Merkel)
title: Clinton praises Merkel
uri: Clinton-praises-Merkel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Clinton_praises_Merkel%29
content:
<p>
Hillary Clinton 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/06/hillary-clinton-angela-merkel-leader">praised
Angela Merkel</a>, Germany's <em>right-wing</em> leader who refused to
relax the austerity that has crushed Greece, Portugal, Spain and
Italy.  This shows where Clinton's sympathies lie.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Electronic_privacy_proposal)
title: Electronic privacy proposal
uri: Electronic-privacy-proposal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Electronic_privacy_proposal%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1454">Massachusetts
Legislature Advances Key Electronic Privacy Proposal</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Ethiopian_land_grab_campaign)
title: Ethiopian land grab campaign
uri: Ethiopian-land-grab-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Ethiopian_land_grab_campaign%29
content:
<p>
An Ethiopian farmer says 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/06/britain-supporting-dictatorship-in-ethiopia">UK
aid to Ethiopia</a> funds the land grab campaign that chases thousands
off their land and forces them into artificial villages where they
can't get food.
<p>
This land grab is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#21_May_2012_(African_land_grab)">probably
for the benefit of some global company</a>.


title: Snowden gave journalists a sample of intercepts
uri: Snowden-gave-journalists-a-sample-of-intercepts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Snowden_gave_journalists_a_sample_of_intercepts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Snowden_gave_journalists_a_sample_of_intercepts%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/07/nsa-said-edward-snowden-had-no-access-surveillance-intercepts-they-lied">Snowden
gave journalists a sample of intercepts</a>.  The Washington Post says
that 1/9 of them were from real targets and 8/9 were from bystanders.
<p>
They show that the NSA lied again.
<p>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html?hpid=z1">Here's
the original story.</a>


title: Suing the US for approving coal mines
uri: Suing-the-US-for-approving-coal-mines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Suing_the_US_for_approving_coal_mines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Suing_the_US_for_approving_coal_mines%29

content:
<p>
WildEarth Guardians
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/06/mining-lawsuits-us-government-environment-montana-colorado">suing
the US for approving coal mines</a> without taking account of the
pollution the mines and the coal will cause.  The US government says
the US can't afford to interfere with all that coal mining.
<p>
In the long term
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_August_2013_%28Carbon_Bubble%29">US
can't afford to let the mining continue,</a> but the US government is
more concerned with the short term interests of mining companies than
the long term interests of the whole country.


title: Tariq Abu Khdeir says Israeli thugs attacked him out of the blue
uri: Tariq-Abu-Khdeir-says-Israeli-thugs-attacked-him-out-of-the-blue
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Tariq_Abu_Khdeir_says_Israeli_thugs_attacked_him_out_of_the_blue)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Tariq_Abu_Khdeir_says_Israeli_thugs_attacked_him_out_of_the_blue%29

content:
<p>
Tariq Abu Khdeir says
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/06/israel-police-beat-us-teen-palestinian-boy">Israeli
thugs attacked him out of the blue, and video shows them beating him
while he was motionless</a>.
<p>
Thugs around the world do this to the people they hate.  In Israel,
the thugs hate Arabs.


title: Freedom of religion is mostly obsolete
uri: Freedom-of-religion-is-mostly-obsolete
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Freedom_of_religion_is_mostly_obsolete)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Freedom_of_religion_is_mostly_obsolete%29

content:
<p>
Freedom of
religion <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2014/07/03/freedom-of-religion-is-obsolete-superseded-and-harmful/">is
mostly obsolete</a>, because most of it is included in freedom of
speech and thought.
<p>
I am not convinced it is 100% obsolete, because religion includes some
practices of worship that people should also have the right to do,
within reason (as long as they don't violate others' rights).  For
instance, the Religious Freedom Restauration Act was adopted so that
people wouldn't get fired for their (lawful) religious practices.
That's not included in freedom of speech and thought.
<p>
However, if the US banned firing people over things irrelevant to
their jobs, this aspect of religious freedom would also be superseded.


title: Urgent: Join the People's Climate Mobilization
uri: Urgent-Join-the-People-s-Climate-Mobilization
content: <p> Everyone: <a href="http://peoplesclimate.org/">join the People's Climate Mobilization</a>
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Urgent:_Join_the_People's_Climate_Mobilization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Join_the_People%27s_Climate_Mobilization%29


title: Australians protested the dooH niboR budget
uri: Australians-protested-the-dooH-niboR-budget
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Australians_protested_the_dooH_niboR_budget)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Australians_protested_the_dooH_niboR_budget%29

content:
<p>
Australians <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/06/bust-the-budget-rallies-draw-thousands-australia">protested
the dooH niboR budget</a> proposed by the Australian Cruelty Party.


title: Mothers make their daughters prostitutes in Cambodia
uri: Mothers-make-their-daughters-prostitutes-in-Cambodia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Mothers_make_their_daughters_prostitutes_in_Cambodia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Mothers_make_their_daughters_prostitutes_in_Cambodia%29

content:
<p>
In Cambodia, patriarchy and
poverty <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/06/virginity-for-sale-cambodia-sex-trade">push
mothers to make their daughters prostitutes</a>.
<p>
The way income, when it arrives, melts away on various necessities of
relatives (on whom one depends for aid in turn) is typical of life for
poor people in the US, too.  This makes getting out of poverty much
harder that the non-poor suppose it is.


title: Israeli thugs arrested then beat up a Palestinian teenager
uri: Israeli-thugs-arrested-then-beat-up-a-Palestinian-teenager
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Israeli_thugs_arrested_then_beat_up_a_Palestinian_teenager)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Israeli_thugs_arrested_then_beat_up_a_Palestinian_teenager%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/06/us-demands-investigation-into-alleged-beating-of-teenager-by-israeli-police">arrested
then beat up a Palestinian teenager</a>, who is a US citizen and a
cousin of the teenager who was burnt to death.
<p>
The US government has criticized Israel for this.
<p>
Meanwhile, Israel
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/06/israel-arrests-abu-khdeir-killing">arrested
suspects in the murder of his cousin</a>.
<p>
It is unusual for Israeli civilians to kill a Palestinian, just as it
is unusual for Palestinians to kill Israelis.  In fact, lots of
Palestinians are killed by Israelis, but usually the killers have
impunity because they are soldiers or thugs.


title: Urgent: Regulate pollution from refineries
uri: Urgent-Regulate-pollution-from-refineries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(Urgent:_Regulate_pollution_from_refineries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Regulate_pollution_from_refineries%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA
to <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1601">regulate
pollution from refineries.</a>


title: Global heating denial industry grasps at thin straws
uri: Global-heating-denial-industry-grasps-at-thin-straws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(Global_heating_denial_industry_grasps_at_thin_straws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28Global_heating_denial_industry_grasps_at_thin_straws%29

content:
<p>
The global heating denial
industry <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jul/07/antarctic-sea-ice-latest-global-warming-distraction">grasps
at thin straws of sea ice to hide the overwhelming fact of
heating</a>.


title: Comparing ending of fossil fuel use with freeing slaves
uri: Comparing-ending-of-fossil-fuel-use-with-freeing-slaves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(Comparing_ending_of_fossil_fuel_use_with_freeing_slaves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28Comparing_ending_of_fossil_fuel_use_with_freeing_slaves%29

content:
<p>
Comparing the ending of fossil fuel use
with <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/179461/new-abolitionism">freeing
the slaves in the US.</a>
<p>
The similarity is not complete.  Enslaving one person is an injustice,
whereas burning one gallon of gasoline would hurt nobody if that were
the only gallon burnt.  But there are similarities.


title: States That Raised Their Minimum Wages
uri: States-That-Raised-Their-Minimum-Wages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(States_That_Raised_Their_Minimum_Wages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28States_That_Raised_Their_Minimum_Wages%29

content:
<p>
US States That Raised Their Minimum Wages
Are <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/07/03/3456393/minimum-wage-state-increase-employment/">Experiencing
Faster Job Growth.</a>


title: The privatization of soldiers and intelligence agents
uri: The-privatization-of-soldiers-and-intelligence-agents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(%3DThe_privatization_of_soldiers_and_intelligence_agents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28%253DThe_privatization_of_soldiers_and_intelligence_agents%29

content:
<p>
The privatization of soldiers and intelligence
agents <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/05-5">creates
armies of lobbies to increase the spending on them.</a>


title: UK thugs attacked aged and/or disabled people
uri: UK-thugs-attacked-aged-and-or-disabled-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(UK_thugs_attacked_aged_and%2For_disabled_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28UK_thugs_attacked_aged_and%252For_disabled_people%29

content:
<p>
Tony Nuttall describes how UK
thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/the-northerner/2014/jul/04/arrested-freedom-rider-tony-nuttall-writes">violently
attacked aged and/or disabled</a> people who rode a train without
paying to protest the plans to end the travel discount for old people
and disabled people.
<p>
If the UK government were not so stingy with
its <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#23_April_2014_%28UK_right-wing_cruelty%29">support
for old people and the disabled</a> perhaps it would not be important
to give them a discount on trains.  Anyway, the conduct of the thugs
is disgusting regardless of whether one agrees with the protesters.


title: Australia admitted handing over boat people from Sri Lanka
uri: Australia-admitted-handing-over-boat-people-from-Sri-Lanka
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(Australia_admitted_handing_over_boat_people_from_Sri_Lanka_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28Australia_admitted_handing_over_boat_people_from_Sri_Lanka_%29

content:
<p>
Australia has
admitted <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/07/australia-asylum-seekers-sri-lanka-sea-transfer">handing
over boat people from Sri Lanka to the Sri Lankan navy</a>.
<p>
Sri Lanka will hand them over to the thugs,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/07/asylum-seekers-will-be-handed-to-police-on-return-sri-lanka-confirms">they
may be prosecuted for departing Sri Lanka without permission</a>.
<p>
Australia's high court ordered the
state <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/07/high-court-injunction-halts-handover-asylum-seekers-sri-lanka">not
to hand over another boatload.</a>


title: World Bank considering relaxing standards for loans
uri: World-Bank-considering-relaxing-standards-for-loans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(World_Bank_considering_relaxing_standards_for_loans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28World_Bank_considering_relaxing_standards_for_loans%29

content:
<p>
The World Bank is considering relaxing standards for loans to large
projects
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/06/activists-alarm-world-bank-leak-easier-loans">can
involve fossil fuels or other dangers to the public.</a>


title: Nader asks Americans to support two progressive candidates
uri: Nader-asks-Americans-to-support-two-progressive-candidates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(Nader_asks_Americans_to_support_two_progressive_candidates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28Nader_asks_Americans_to_support_two_progressive_candidates%29

content:
<p>
Ralph Nader asks Americans
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/03-3">support two
progressive candidates for US Congress, one independent and one
Green.</a>


title: Capitalism is having a recovery for the rich
uri: Capitalism-is-having-a-recovery-for-the-rich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(Capitalism_is_having_a_recovery_for_the_rich)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28Capitalism_is_having_a_recovery_for_the_rich%29

content:
<p>
Capitalism
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/06/growth-good-life-better-everyone">having
a recovery for the rich</a>, but making this benefit the non-rich
requires changing the system.


title: Hospitals buying personal data to warn people they might get sick
uri: Hospitals-buying-personal-data-to-warn-people-they-might-get-sick
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(Hospitals_buying_personal_data_to_warn_people_they_might_get_sick)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28Hospitals_buying_personal_data_to_warn_people_they_might_get_sick%29

content:
<p>
Some US hospitals
are <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-03/hospitals-are-mining-patients-credit-card-data-to-predict-who-will-get-sick">buying
personal data to warn people they might get sick.</a>
<p>
I see no harm in this particular practice.  If it seems creepy, that's
because it is the consequence of something that really is creepy: the
collection of all that data about people.  That's what's really wrong.
<p>
I would not mind if my own computer kept a log of my purchases.  I
might find it useful to run a free program to look through them for
things to warn me about.  I don't want a data broker to have that
data, which is why I always buy anonymously, paying cash.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Urgent:_Boycott_Eden_Foods)
title: Urgent: Boycott Eden Foods
uri: Urgent-Boycott-Eden-Foods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Boycott_Eden_Foods%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: boycott Eden Foods
for <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Eden_ACA?referring_akid=a157716393.1183552.kTJVA7&source=conf_email">attacking
access to birth control</a>.


title: Millions of US veterans suffer from physical and psychological problems
uri: Millions-of-US-veterans-suffer-from-physical-and-psychological-problem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Millions_of_US_veterans_suffer_from_physical_and_psychological_problems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Millions_of_US_veterans_suffer_from_physical_and_psychological_problems%29

content:
<p>
Millions of US
veterans <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/07-2">suffer
from physical and psychological problems, and many commit suicide.</a>
<p>
Being in a war that you can't justify to yourself requires a special
sort of nihilism.


title: China cancelled American Tibetologist's visa
uri: China-cancelled-American-Tibetologist-s-visa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(China_cancelled_American_Tibetologist's_visa)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28China_cancelled_American_Tibetologist%27s_visa%29

content:
<p>
China <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/07/us-academic-sperling-barred-china-uighur-scholar-ilham-tohti">cancelled
American Tibetologist Elliot Sperling's visa</a>, apparently because
he spoke up for the imprisoned Uighur scholar
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#29_April_2014_%28Ilham_Tohti%29">Ilham
Tohti</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Mapping_states_from_tight_to_loose)
title: Mapping states from "tight" to "loose"
uri: Mapping-states-from-tight-to-loose
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Mapping_states_from_tight_to_loose%29

content:
<p>
Mapping US states on a spectrum
from <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/us-states-tightness-looseness-map">"tight"
(repressive) to "loose" (tolerant).</a>


title: 63 of the women kidnaped by Boko Haram escaped and walked to freedom
uri: 63-of-the-women-kidnaped-by-Boko-Haram-escaped-and-walked-to-freedom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(63_of_the_women_kidnaped_by_Boko_Haram_escaped_and_walked_to_freedom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%2863_of_the_women_kidnaped_by_Boko_Haram_escaped_and_walked_to_freedom%29

content:
<p>
63 of the women kidnaped by Boko
Haram <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/07/boko-haram-captives-escape-women-children-abducted-borno">escaped
and walked to freedom.</a>
<p>
The article explains how politics has hampered the fight against Boko
Haram.


title: Most aid agencies do little to help real refugees
uri: Most-aid-agencies-do-little-to-help-real-refugees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Most_aid_agencies_do_little_to_help_real_refugees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Most_aid_agencies_do_little_to_help_real_refugees%29

content:
<p>
Médecins Sans Frontières reports
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/07/aid-corporations-clothing-compassion-msf-charities-south-sudan-syria">most
humanitarian aid agencies have adopted bad priorities and do little to
help real refugees</a>.


title: Canada is holding negotiations about the TPP in a secret location
uri: Canada-is-holding-negotiations-about-the-TPP-in-a-secret-location
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Canada_is_holding_negotiations_about_the_TPP_in_a_secret_location)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Canada_is_holding_negotiations_about_the_TPP_in_a_secret_location%29

content:
<p>
Canada
is <a href="http://canadians.org/blog/tpp-coming-canada-not-its-easy-tell">holding
negotiations about the TPP in a secret location</a>. The government is
evidently scared of the people's disapproval of its plan to betray
democracy.


title: Legalizing marijuana has reduced violent crime in Colorado
uri: Legalizing-marijuana-has-reduced-violent-crime-in-Colorado
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Legalizing_marijuana_has_reduced_violent_crime_in_Colorado)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Legalizing_marijuana_has_reduced_violent_crime_in_Colorado%29

content:
<p>
Legalizing marijuana
has <a href="http://mic.com/articles/92449/six-months-after-legalizing-marijuana-two-big-things-have-happened-in-colorado">reduced
violent crime in Colorado as well as creating jobs and increasing tax
revenue</a>.
<p>
Most importantly, it means an end to a system of prohibition that
ruins many lives and spreads corruption.
<p>
Alas, we still have the "war" on other drugs.  Some of those drugs are
really addictive and/or harmful, but prohibition does even more harm.


title: CIA employee framed and then forced to resign
uri: CIA-employee-framed-and-then-forced-to-resign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(CIA_employee_framed_and_then_forced_to_resign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28CIA_employee_framed_and_then_forced_to_resign%29

content:
<p>
CIA employee Jeffrey Scudder tried to go through channels to have old
articles published — which was in fact his job.  His reward
was <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/07/heres-what-happens-when-you-challenge-cia-through-proper-channels">to
be framed and then forced to resign.</a>
<p>
Here's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-employees-quest-to-release-information-destroyed-my-entire-career/2014/07/04/e95f7802-0209-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html">more
information.</a>
<p>
This is the route various authoritarian politicians (including Hillary
Clinton) think Snowden should have taken.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(President_of_Indonesia)
title: President of Indonesia
uri: President-of-Indonesia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28President_of_Indonesia%29
content:
<p>
A former general associated with a massacre in East Timor, who has
stated his opposition to
democracy, <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/us-military-trained-general-prabowo-indonesia-president-human-rights">may
be elected president of Indonesia.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(Greenhouse_gas_emissions_and_economy)
title: Greenhouse gas emissions and economy
uri: Greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-economy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28Greenhouse_gas_emissions_and_economy%29

content:
<p>
A study finds that the UK's policies intended to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/07/uk-climate-change-policies-harmed-economy">have
not decreased the total economy</a>.
<p>
It could be that this is because the policies are not strong enough
to avert disaster.  However, disaster is not in any country's real
economic interest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 08_July_2014_(Antibiotics)
title: Antibiotics
uri: Antibiotics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_%28Antibiotics%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/06/antibiotic-resistance-global-cooperation-to-combat-deadly-threat">Governments
must act</a> to assure development of new antibiotics.
<p>
Of course, they must also act to end the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_(Antibiotic_resistance)">wasteful
ruination of antibiotics</a> once discovered, but they have not had
the courage to tell meat producers to jump in the lake.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Urgent:_Network_neutrality)
title: Urgent: Network neutrality
uri: 2014-07-09-Urgent-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/open-internet-FCC-comments/2/4/?akid=6071.881131.XgG_VD&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=1003">Call
on the FCC</a> to choose complete network neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Urgent:_Regulate_recycling_plants)
title: Urgent: Regulate recycling plants
uri: Urgent-Regulate-recycling-plants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Regulate_recycling_plants%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1605">call
on the EPA</a> to regulate pollution from recycling plants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(US_agents_seize_son_of_Russian_MP)
title: US agents seize son of Russian MP
uri: US-agents-seize-son-of-Russian-MP
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28US_agents_seize_son_of_Russian_MP%29

content:
<p>
US agents 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/russia-mps-son-seleznev-arrest-us-secret-service">seized
Roman Seleznev</a>, son of a Russian MP, in the Maldives.
<p>
Either the US agents kidnaped him without informing the government of
the Maldives, or the government of the Maldives handed someone over to
the US illegally without an extradition hearing.
<p>
Whether Seleznev is guilty of breaking computer security
(<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">please don't
call it hacking</a>!)  is a different question.  I know nothing about
it; maybe he is, or maybe he isn't.  But that seems like a secondary
issue compared to the way he was grabbed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Birds_breeding_earlier)
title: Birds breeding earlier
uri: Birds-breeding-earlier
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Birds_breeding_earlier%29
content:
<p>
Arctic heating: a study of several bird species found they are
breeding 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/08/arctic-warming-upsetting-birds-breeding-calendar-study">4
to 7 days earlier than a decade ago</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(TSA_rule_for_powering_up_computers)
title: TSA rule for powering up computers
uri: TSA-rule-for-powering-up-computers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28TSA_rule_for_powering_up_computers%29

content:
<p>
An ex-TSA agent ridicules the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/08/tsa-agent-new-airport-security-cell-phone-rules">rule
requiring powering up every computer</a>.  He says it is not likely to
stop terrorists, but is sure to cause many people great upset.  I
suspect that one passenger a week will explode in violent rage at the
confiscation of a computer that happened to be empty of power.  The
sadists will have a great excuse to imprison these people and really
ruin their lives, and say they are doing it to protect us.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Clintons_Surveillance_State_baggage)
title: Clinton's Surveillance State baggage
uri: Clinton-s-Surveillance-State-baggage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Clintons_Surveillance_State_baggage%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/08-0">Hillary
Clinton Flaunts Her Surveillance State Baggage</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(UK_cruelty_to_the_weak)
title: UK cruelty to the weak
uri: UK-cruelty-to-the-weak
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28UK_cruelty_to_the_weak%29
content:
<p>
The UK has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/08/mentally-ill-need-help-not-bullying-by-the-state">secret
quotas for kicking disabled people off benefits</a>.
<p>
Cruelty to the weak is what it stands for.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Obama_proposes_Chalabi_for_Iraq)
title: Obama proposes Chalabi for Iraq
uri: Obama-proposes-Chalabi-for-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Obama_proposes_Chalabi_for_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
It seems Obama is reaching for the bottom of the barrel to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/08/ahmad-chalabi-pariah-iraq-prime-minister-bush-us-despair">propose
corrupt schnook Ahmad Chalabi to govern Iraq</a>, or at least pretend
to.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(ISIS_no_excuse_for_mass_surveillance)
title: ISIS no excuse for mass surveillance
uri: ISIS-no-excuse-for-mass-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28ISIS_no_excuse_for_mass_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
A former chief British spy says that ISIS is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/07/islamist-terror-threat-out-proportion-former-mi6-chief-richard-dearlove">not
interested in attacking the West</a>, and that publicly calling it a
threat is self-defeating.
<p>
ISIS is a threat to human rights in the Middle East, and that makes it
very bad.  But we should not let governments make this an excuse for
universal surveillance.


title: One of the Koch brothers was a Bircher
uri: One-of-the-Koch-brothers-was-a-Bircher
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(One_of_the_Koch_brothers_was_a_Bircher)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28One_of_the_Koch_brothers_was_a_Bircher%29

content:
<p>
One of the Koch
brothers <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12527/his-dad-charles-koch-was-bircher-new-documents">was
a Bircher in the 60s and put money into fighting against civil
rights.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_supporting_Monsanto)
title: Urgent: Stop supporting Monsanto
uri: Urgent-Stop-supporting-Monsanto
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_supporting_Monsanto%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Hillary Clinton
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/hillary-clinton-its-time">stop
supporting Monsanto.</a>


title: Urgent: Suspend use of neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Urgent-Suspend-use-of-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Urgent:_Suspend_use_of_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Suspend_use_of_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell the EPA
to <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=8B62F23107BDC0FA398C9F8C37DBEE8F.app321b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3511">suspend
use of neonicotinoid pesticides</a>. There's plenty of evidence tying
them to colony collapse of bees, and since they accumulate, it will
take time for them to decrease in the environment.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Israeli_troops_confiscated_computers)
title: Israeli troops confiscated computers
uri: Israeli-troops-confiscated-computers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Israeli_troops_confiscated_computers%29

content:
<p>
Israeli
troops <a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=65023">confiscated
the computers of Palestinian cultural magazines.</a>


title: Social demand for collective mourning
uri: Social-demand-for-collective-mourning
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Social_demand_for_collective_mourning)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Social_demand_for_collective_mourning%29

content:
<p>
On the social demand
for <a href="http://972mag.com/the-israeli-nation-collectively-mourns-but-why/93077/">collective
mourning for people one did not know</a>.
<p>
I rejected the collective mourning for those who died in the September
2001 attacks; while Americans were supposed to feel angry and afraid,
I focused instead on resisting the coming attack on our freedom.


title: Former speaker asks for nonviolent Palestinian movement
uri: Former-speaker-asks-for-nonviolent-Palestinian-movement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Former_speaker_asks_for_nonviolent_Palestinian_movement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Former_speaker_asks_for_nonviolent_Palestinian_movement%29

content:
<p>
The former speaker of the Israeli
Parliament <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-peace-conference/1.601971">asks
for a nonviolent Palestinian movement to pressure Israel into
accepting peace</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Australia's_Asylum_Secrecy)
title: Australia's Asylum Secrecy
uri: Australia-s-Asylum-Secrecy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Australia%27s_Asylum_Secrecy%29
content:
<p>
[Australia's] Asylum Secrecy on the High Seas
Is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/asylum-secrecy-on-high-seas-designed-to-foil-the-enemy-within-the-law">Designed
to Foil the Enemy Within — The Law.</a>
<p>
A minister
sees <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/asylum-seeker-claims-mythology-bob-carr">no
sign of torture in Sri Lanka</a>.  In effect, he says he saw many
Tamils who are not in prison or being tortured.
<p>
Some imprisoned asylum seekers
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/tony-abbott-on-the-asylum-mothers-on-suicide-watch-we-wont-given-in-to-moral-blackmail">attempted
suicide hoping to improve their children's chances of receiving
asylum</a>.
<p>
This suggests that those are economic migrants, aiming to get their
children into Australia rather than fleeing persecution.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(ALEC_typo_copied_to_new_bill)
title: ALEC typo copied to new bill
uri: ALEC-typo-copied-to-new-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28ALEC_typo_copied_to_new_bill%29
content:
<p>
State legislators acting as tools for ALEC 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12526/alec-politicians-caught-plagiarizing-alec-bill-drafting-error-and-all">copied
the error from ALEC's model bill</a>.
<p>
The bill would be just as bad if they had been more careful, but this
shows they are tools of ALEC, and not even very competent ones.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(The_Arab_Peace_Initiative)
title: The Arab Peace Initiative
uri: The-Arab-Peace-Initiative
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28The_Arab_Peace_Initiative%29
content:
<p>
The Arab Peace Initiative proposed a peace plan which still 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/07">offers a
direction for peace</a> between Israel and the Palestinians.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Palestinian_nonviolent_resistance)
title: Palestinian nonviolent resistance
uri: Palestinian-nonviolent-resistance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Palestinian_nonviolent_resistance%29

content:
<p>
Palestinians are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/07-6">still
organizing nonviolent resistance</a>, but they need the rest of the
world to notice it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Snowden_detractors_concede)
title: Snowden detractors concede
uri: Snowden-detractors-concede
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Snowden_detractors_concede%29
content:
<p>
Those who refuse to recognize Snowden as a hero, and attack him for
showing secrets to the press, are now 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/07-5">compelled to
admit that the NSA can't be trusted</a> to keep its data about you and
me private.
<p>
Of course, Snowden did not give this data to just any reporters.  He
chose reporters who would take care against harming the people
mentioned in those data.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Depletion_of_Ogallala_Aquifer)
title: Depletion of Ogallala Aquifer
uri: Depletion-of-Ogallala-Aquifer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Depletion_of_Ogallala_Aquifer%29
content:
<p>
The Ogallala Aquifer, which underlies parts of 8 US states, is being
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/07-3">depleted
rapidly</a>The spreading drought (which will get worse due to global
heating) is speeding this up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Insider_stock_trading)
title: Insider stock trading
uri: Insider-stock-trading
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Insider_stock_trading%29
content:
<p>
Congresscritters are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/07-4">resisting
an investigation by the SEC</a> of accusations of insider stock
trading.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(What_TPP_stands_for)
title: What TPP stands for
uri: What-TPP-stands-for
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28What_TPP_stands_for%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/08-8">Doctors:
TPP Would Trample Access to Medicines</a>.
<p>
TPP stands for Treaty for Plutocratic Power.


title: Israel's response to murdered civilians
uri: Israel-s-response-to-murdered-civilians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Israels_response_to_murdered_civilians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Israels_response_to_murdered_civilians%29

content:
<p>
The extent of Israel's collective punishment response to three
murdered civilians amounts to a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/brutality-israeli-crackdown-palestinian-civilians">far
bigger wrong to Palestinian civilians</a>.


title: Chinese writer asks thugs to arrest him
uri: Chinese-writer-asks-thugs-to-arrest-him
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Chinese_writer_asks_thugs_to_arrest_him)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Chinese_writer_asks_thugs_to_arrest_him%29

content:
<p>
Chinese writer Murong Xuecun asked the Chinese thugs to arrest him 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/murong-xuecun-china-novellist-summoned-beijing-police-tiananmen-event">as
they had arrested his friends</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Afghan_presidental_election)
title: Afghan presidential election
uri: Afghan-presidential-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Afghan_presidental_election%29
content:
<p>
The Afghan presidential election preliminary results declared Ashraf
Ghani the winner, but Abdullah Abdullah 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/afghan-presidential-candidate-abdullah-parallel-government">accuses
Ghani's campaign of ballot-stuffing</a> and says he will set up a
parallel cabinet.
<p>
I have no way to judge what the truth is, but running an election
properly includes preventing opportunities for ballot stuffing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 09_July_2014_(Another_excuse_to_invade_Gaza)
title: Another excuse to invade Gaza
uri: Another-excuse-to-invade-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Another_excuse_to_invade_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Israel has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/israel-pounds-gaza-against-hamas">created
an opportunity to invade Gaza again</a>.  This gives it a chance to
kill or wound hundreds of Palestinians, with an excuse to shield the
killers from prosecution.
<p>
This is retaliation for rockets launched from Gaza, generally not by
Hamas.  These rockets are quite warlike but almost never hurt anyone.
Effectively they are like a raised fist, which Israel generally
responds to with attacks that kill plenty of civilians.
<p>
This cycle of violence started with the murder of three Israeli
teenagers, to which Israel responded by arresting hundreds of
Palestinians unrelated to the murder (generally without charges), and
sending troops into Arab areas to harass large numbers of people.
This predictably inspires young Palestinians to throw stones, which is
an opportunity to shoot tear gas, which 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/68389">often injures people</a>,
and also an opportunity to 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#12_March_2014_(Turks_hold_massive_protest_about_death_of_teenager_shot_by_thugs)">shoot
bystanders dead</a>.  It's even possible for a soldier to kill
Palestinians with 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#07_August_2013_(For_Palestinian_boys_throwing_or_shooting_stones_is_symbol_for_resistance)">rubber-coated
steel bullets or tear-gas canisters</a>.
<p>
Israeli civilians living in colonies ("settlements") in Palestine are
launching 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=710551">attacks
against nearby Palestinian villages</a>.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=65022">Juan Cole's
analysis</a>.


title: Helsinki plans an integrated system of public transit
uri: Helsinki-plans-an-integrated-system-of-public-transit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Helsinki_plans_an_integrated_system_of_public_transit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Helsinki_plans_an_integrated_system_of_public_transit%29

content:
<p>
Helsinki plans an integrated system of public transit that
would <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jul/10/helsinki-shared-public-transport-plan-car-ownership-pointless">make
it obsolete to have a car.</a>
<p>
This would be a tremendous advance, except that they plan to build in
total surveillance as part of the fine print.  Every portable phone is
a tracking device, and if you have to pay through one, that means
identifying yourself to the system.  That would be a big step
backwards for privacy.
<p>
If we don't want to live in a world of total surveillance, we must
reject and oppose every new system that collects data about all users.
We must insist on designing systems so that they do not track or
identify people.  Helsinki's transit system should provides ways to
call for a ride by calling a number, and allow paying cash.
<p>
See <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html</a>
for more explanation, and practical recommendations.


title: FISA court is a rubber stamp for spying on people
uri: FISA-court-is-a-rubber-stamp-for-spying-on-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(FISA_court_is_a_rubber_stamp_for_spying_on_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28FISA_court_is_a_rubber_stamp_for_spying_on_people%29

content:
<p>
I
did <em>not</em> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_surveillance_target_obama/">sign
a petition</a> to make the FISA court stop profiling based on religion
and a couple of other personal classifications because I think the
real problem is that the FISA court is a rubber stamp for spying on
people.


title: Thai editor jailed for a Facebook posting
uri: Thai-editor-jailed-for-a-Facebook-posting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Thai_editor_jailed_for_a_Facebook_posting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Thai_editor_jailed_for_a_Facebook_posting%29

content:
<p>
A Thai
editor <a href="http://en.rsf.org/thailand-with-the-military-junta-monitoring-09-07-2014,46609.html">was
jailed for a Facebook posting</a>.


title: UK plants to rush new surveillance requirements
uri: UK-plants-to-rush-new-surveillance-requirements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(UK_plants_to_rush_new_surveillance_requirements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28UK_plants_to_rush_new_surveillance_requirements%29

content:
<p>
The UK plans
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/10/emergency-surveillance-legislation-stitch-up-civil-liberties">rush
new surveillance requirements into effect without debate</a>.


title: New UK nuclear plant at the cost of a tremendous subsidy
uri: New-UK-nuclear-plant-at-the-cost-of-a-tremendous-subsidy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(New_UK_nuclear_plant_at_the_cost_of_a_tremendous_subsidy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28New_UK_nuclear_plant_at_the_cost_of_a_tremendous_subsidy%29

content:
<p>
The UK plans to build a new nuclear
plant <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jul/10/edf-nuclear-deal-is-a-bad-economic-bet">at
the cost of a tremendous subsidy</a>, including buying the power for
decades at an artificially high price.
<p>
I think the "compelling power" that won parties' support for this deal
probably emanates from someone's money, but that gives me no clue
about how.


title: Turkey ordered to pay compensation to two journalists
uri: Turkey-ordered-to-pay-compensation-to-two-journalists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Turkey_ordered_to_pay_compensation_to_two_journalists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Turkey_ordered_to_pay_compensation_to_two_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The European Court of Human
Rights <a href="http://en.rsf.org/turkey-european-court-rules-against-09-07-2014,46611.html">ordered
Turkey to pay compensation to two journalists that were imprisoned for
a year with no grounds</a>. However, they are on trial for publishing
information about a supposed coup plot.


title: Don't be shocked that the US spied on American Muslims
uri: Don-t-be-shocked-that-the-US-spied-on-American-Muslims
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Don't_be_shocked_that_the_US_spied_on_American_Muslims)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Don%27t_be_shocked_that_the_US_spied_on_American_Muslims%29

content:
<p>
"Don't be shocked that the US spied on American Muslims. Get angry
that
it <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/09/us-spied-american-muslims-email">justifies
spying on whomever it wants</a>."


title: UK documents about its cooperation with CIA kidnapings
uri: UK-documents-about-its-cooperation-with-CIA-kidnapings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(UK_documents_about_its_cooperation_with_CIA_kidnapings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28UK_documents_about_its_cooperation_with_CIA_kidnapings%29

content:
<p>
UK documents about its cooperation with CIA kidnapings
were <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/09-7">destroyed
by "water damage".</a>
<p>
They could be telling the truth.  Maybe they flushed these papers down
the toilet — that would certainly lead to "water damage".


title: Urgent: Penalize US contractors with a history of cheating
uri: Urgent-Penalize-US-contractors-with-a-history-of-cheating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Urgent:_Penalize_US_contractors_with_a_history_of_cheating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Penalize_US_contractors_with_a_history_of_cheating%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Call on Congress
to <a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-congressional-republicans-stand-up-to-federal-contractors-who-steal-from-their-employees?akid=11141.1183552.irEIbn&rd=1">penalize
US contractors with a history of cheating workers out of their
pay</a>.
<p>
Of course, there should not be so many contractors' employees —
their numbers have been swollen due to privatization.  Most of that
privatization was perverse.  We should reverse perverse privatization,
moving the work back to civil service workers.


title: Jury put blame on thugs for shooting innocent woman
uri: Jury-put-blame-on-thugs-for-shooting-innocent-woman
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Jury_put_blame_on_thugs_for_shooting_innocent_woman)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Jury_put_blame_on_thugs_for_shooting_innocent_woman%29

content:
<p>
A jury put blame on the thugs
for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/10/dorothy-cherry-groce-inquest-police-failures-contributed-death">shooting
an innocent woman in London who then died of her injuries, 29 years
ago</a>.
<p>
The real question is, what will be done to keep the thugs accountable
today so that they do not continue such practices?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Hong_Kong's_press_freedom)
title: Hong Kong's press freedom
uri: Hong-Kong-s-press-freedom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Hong_Kong%27s_press_freedom%29
content:
<p>
Hong Kong's press
freedom <a href="http://www.ifex.org/china/hong_kong/2014/07/07/press_freedom/">has
got worse over the past year</a>.


title: Urgent: Boost Massachusetts minimum wage
uri: Urgent-Boost-Massachusetts-minimum-wage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Urgent:_Boost_Massachusetts_minimum_wage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Boost_Massachusetts_minimum_wage%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: sign 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10072">this
petition</a> to boost the Massachusetts minimum wage to $15.


title: Urgent: Oppose punishing Rev. Senyonjo
uri: Urgent-Oppose-punishing-Rev-Senyonjo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_punishing_Rev._Senyonjo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_punishing_Rev._Senyonjo%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4452?n=78669342.0g6GrS">Call
on Uganda</a> not to punish Rev. Senyonjo for refusing to preach
hatred of gays.


title: China tax exception for electric cars
uri: China-tax-exception-for-electric-cars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(China_tax_exception_for_electric_cars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28China_tax_exception_for_electric_cars%29

content:
<p>
China has given a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/10/china-exempts-electric-cars-from-tax">big
tax exemption</a> to electric, hybrid and fuel cell cars.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Israels_bombardment_of_Gaza)
title: Israel's bombardment of Gaza
uri: Israel-s-bombardment-of-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Israels_bombardment_of_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Israel's bombardment of Gaza has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/palestinian-death-toll-israel-gaza-idf">killed
over 70 people</a>.  Targets included family homes (8 dead) and a cafe
where people were watching soccer on TV (6 dead).
<p>
Israel has a recipe for killing Palestinian civilians with a built-in
excuse: claiming it was aiming at military targets, and that it was
"retaliating" for rockets.
<p>
The rockets, when aimed at civilian towns such as Sderot, are a war
crime too, or more often an attempted war crime, since these rockets
almost never hit anyone.  But Israel 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_(Another_excuse_to_invade_Gaza)">intentionally
started this battle</a>, so it cannot plead "retaliation" now.
<p>
Hamas may have cynical motives for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/hamas-goes-to-war-gaza-israel-ceasefire">giving
in to the provocation</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jul/09/israel-war-gaza-palestine-natural-gas-energy-crisis">Natural
gas under the sea</a> is part of what the fight is about.
<p>
I don't think any amount of Israeli attack will make the people of
Gaza reject Hamas.  Its effect will be to make them cling to it more
tightly.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Iraqi_women_organize_secretly)
title: Iraqi women organize secretly
uri: Iraqi-women-organize-secretly
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Iraqi_women_organize_secretly%29
content:
<p>
Iraqi women 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/09-9">organize
secretly</a> to protect women from oppression from religious bullies,
including ISIS.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(US_radio_transmissions_to_Cuba)
title: US radio transmissions to Cuba
uri: US-radio-transmissions-to-Cuba
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28US_radio_transmissions_to_Cuba%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/08-6">stopped
operating a plane that beamed radio transmissions to Cuba</a>, which
were nearly always jammed.
<p>
The programs contain a mixture of US government propaganda plus facts
correcting Cuban government propaganda.  That the Cuban government
jams these transmissions indicates its own injustice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Republican_sabotage_of_govt)
title: Republican sabotage of gov't
uri: Republican-sabotage-of-gov-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Republican_sabotage_of_govt%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/08">Arsonists Posing
as Firemen: How GOP Sabotages Government for Fun and Profit</a>.  This
article explains how Republicans' sabotage brought about several
problems which they now attack Democrats for.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(How_oil_companies_handle_opposition)
title: How oil companies handle opposition
uri: How-oil-companies-handle-opposition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28How_oil_companies_handle_opposition%29

content:
<p>
How oil companies try to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/08-4">steamroll
local governments that oppose their projects</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Germany_catches_another_spy)
title: Germany catches another spy
uri: Germany-catches-another-spy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Germany_catches_another_spy%29
content:
<p>
Germany has caught 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/germany-arrest-second-spy-accused-us-cia">another
spy</a> that first worked for the CIA, then tried to contact Russia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Neonicotinoids_and_birds)
title: Neonicotinoids and birds
uri: Neonicotinoids-and-birds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Neonicotinoids_and_birds%29
content:
<p>
A study links neonicotinoids to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/09/neonicotinoids-farmland-birds">falling
populations of birds</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Surveillance_of_Muslim_leaders)
title: Surveillance of Muslim leaders
uri: Surveillance-of-Muslim-leaders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Surveillance_of_Muslim_leaders%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/09-3">Broad
Coalition Urges 'Full Public Accounting' for Government Surveillance
of U.S. Muslim Leaders</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(US_govt_subsidies_for_fossil_fuels)
title: US gov't subsidies for fossil fuels
uri: US-gov-t-subsidies-for-fossil-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28US_govt_subsidies_for_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
The US government and states gave fossil fuels 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/09-2">37 billion
dollars of subsidy</a> last year, and this has increased 45% since
2009.
<p>
Without this, renewable power would grow more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Assault_by_LA_thugs_at_protest)
title: Assault by LA thugs at protest
uri: Assault-by-LA-thugs-at-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Assault_by_LA_thugs_at_protest%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/09-0">I Filmed the
LAPD Assaulting Me at Pro-Israel Demonstration</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Growing_inequality)
title: Growing inequality
uri: Growing-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Growing_inequality%29
content:
<p>
The OECD predicts economic growth will almost cease by 2060, but
inequality <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/07/capitalism-rich-poor-2060-populations-technology-human-rights-inequality">will
keep increasing</a>.
<p>
That's before counting the losses that global heating will cause;
the report treats that as uncertain.
<p>
The report presumes that we will keep increasing productivity by
automating more work.  But I don't think this increased productivity
is good at the cost of more unemployed poor people -- not if the
benefits go to the rich.  It would be better to limit the automation
and keep more people employed.
<p>
We do not have to allow inequality to increase.  The growing
inequality is due to policies that can be changed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Keeping_global_heating_down)
title: Keeping global heating down
uri: Keeping-global-heating-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Keeping_global_heating_down%29
content:
<p>
The Earth Institute shows 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/08/un-roadmap-climate-change">how
we can still keep global heating down to a painful 2 degrees C</a>, if
we act firmly now.
<p>
The report offers specific targets and plans for the 15 most-emitting
countries.
<p>
The report assumes substantial use of nuclear power, but I am sure
the target can be met without that at the cost of some extra money.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Obamas_secretive_administration)
title: Obama's secretive administration
uri: Obama-s-secretive-administration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Obamas_secretive_administration%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/08-1">38
Journalism Groups Urge President to Stop Excessive Controls on Public
Information</a>.
<p>
Obama's administration seems to be the most secretive ever.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Targets_of_FBI_and_NSA_spying)
title: Targets of FBI and NSA spying
uri: Targets-of-FBI-and-NSA-spying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Targets_of_FBI_and_NSA_spying%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?post_type=article&p=2528">Meet
the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On</a>.
<p>
The NSA does this without breaking the law, because the law is putty
in its hands.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Cybersecurity_bill)
title: "Cybersecurity" bill
uri: Cybersecurity-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Cybersecurity_bill%29
content:
<p>
Feinstein's senate committee adopted a "cybersecurity" bill that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/senate-cybersecurity-bill-opposed-by-nsa-critics">allows
increased state surveillance</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Shortages_in_South_Sudan)
title: Shortages in South Sudan
uri: Shortages-in-South-Sudan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Shortages_in_South_Sudan%29
content:
<p>
The cease-fire in South Sudan is allowing the beginning of recovery
but there is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jul/09/south-sudan-famine-conflict-independence-day">shortage
of food, medicine and doctors</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Israeli_govt_censorship_and_lies)
title: Israeli gov't censorship and lies
uri: Israeli-gov-t-censorship-and-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Israeli_govt_censorship_and_lies%29
content:
<p>
The Israeli government had information showing that the three kidnaped
teenagers were dead, but used 
<a href="http://972mag.com/how-the-public-was-manipulated-into-believing-the-teens-were-alive/92865/">censorship
and lies</a> to make the public believe they were being held as
hostages by Hamas, and
<a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/israel/2014/07/politics-of-madness-2446302.html">manipulate
public feeling so as to attack Hamas</a>.


title: VERY Urgent: Oppose surveillance legislation
uri: VERY-Urgent-Oppose-surveillance-legislation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 10_July_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_surveillance_legislation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_surveillance_legislation%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of the UK: phone your MPs to oppose 
<a href="https://medium.com/@tom_watson/22c3136de17c">surveillance
legislation</a> being rushed through Parliament so fast there will
be no time for it to be thought about.
<p>
<a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/no-emergency-stop-the-data-retention-stitch-up">https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/no-emergency-stop-the-data-retention-stitch-up</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Urgent:_Fix_the_Hobby_Lobby_decision)
title: Urgent: Fix the Hobby Lobby decision
uri: Urgent-Fix-the-Hobby-Lobby-decision
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Fix_the_Hobby_Lobby_decision%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://my.elizabethwarren.com/page/s/hobbylobby">Support the
Senate bill</a> to fix the Hobby Lobby decision.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Nandos_Chicken_tax-dodging)
title: Nando's Chicken tax-dodging
uri: Nando-s-Chicken-tax-dodging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Nandos_Chicken_tax-dodging%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/10/nandos-using-secretive-tax-haven-trust-avoid-inheritance-tax-bills">complicated
tax-dodging scheme</a> of Nando's Chicken.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(US_spending_on_F-35_fighter)
title: US spending on F-35 fighter
uri: US-spending-on-F-35-fighter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28US_spending_on_F-35_fighter%29
content:
<p>
The US is spending a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/07/10-2">trillion
dollars</a> on the F-35 fighter whether it works or not.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Afghan_presidential_election)
title: Afghan presidential election
uri: 2014-07-12-Afghan-presidential-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Afghan_presidential_election%29
content:
<p>
Karzai 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/hamid-karzai-ballot-check-un-john-kerry">approved
a UN plan to check the ballots</a> of the Afghan presidential
election.
<p>
I hope that this makes it possible to find the real winner
before the candidates start 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/john-kerry-kabul-abdullah-abdullah-ashraf-ghani">trying
to defeat each other militarily</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Judge_attacked_for_questioning_taboo)
title: Judge attacked for questioning taboo
uri: Judge-attacked-for-questioning-taboo
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Judge_attacked_for_questioning_taboo%29

content:
<p>
An Australian judge faces 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/attorney-general-hits-out-at-nsw-judge-over-controversial-incest-remarks">irrational
attacks</a> after saying that sex between siblings might not be
inherently bad.
<p>
He seems to be talking about sex done willingly.  Why should
willing sibling sex be associated with "abuse"?
<p>
Alas, Judge Neilson is partly mistaken: some apparently still have a
taboo about this, and they attack him for questioning the taboo.  The
attacks are blatant non sequiturs, claiming that sibling sex is bad
because it's "disgusting" and because it's illegal.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Hoax_on_Australian_bank)
title: Hoax on Australian bank
uri: Hoax-on-Australian-bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Hoax_on_Australian_bank%29
content:
<p>
Environmental defender Jonathan Moylan faces sentencing for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/jonathan-moylan-crown-lawyer-tells-court-he-will-not-press-for-jail-time">posting
a Yes Men-style hoax announcement</a> that a bank had pulled out of a
coal mine project.
<p>
If you are in Australia, you might want to move your money out of ANZ
bank permanently as a protest against its destructive investments.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Sugar_in_sports_drinks)
title: Sugar in "sports drinks"
uri: Sugar-in-sports-drinks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Sugar_in_sports_drinks%29
content:
<p>
"Sports drinks" have a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/the-shape-we-are-in-blog/2014/jul/11/food-and-drink-obesity">considerable
amount of sugar</a>, and unless you're doing hard exercise for a long
time, you're better off drinking water.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Pesticides_and_autism)
title: Pesticides and autism
uri: Pesticides-and-autism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Pesticides_and_autism%29
content:
<p>
Some studies suggest 
<a href="http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/jun/autism-and-pesticides">certain
farm pesticides increase the chance of autism</a>; a pregnant woman
who lives near a fields where they are used has a higher chance of an
autistic child.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Terrible_new_cybersecurity_bill)
title: Terrible new cybersecurity bill
uri: Terrible-new-cybersecurity-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Terrible_new_cybersecurity_bill%29
content:
<p>
Congress is about to vote on a terrible new cybersecurity bill which
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/9/5881691/congress-will-vote-on-CISA-controversial-cybersecurity-bill">gives
the NSA more spying authority</a>.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="https://cdt.org/insight/analysis-of-feinstein-chambliss-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act-of-2014/">more
detail</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Afghan_civilian_casualties)
title: Afghan civilian casualties
uri: Afghan-civilian-casualties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Afghan_civilian_casualties%29
content:
<p>
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/09-4">rising 
as the Taliban increasingly fight in towns</a>.
<p>
Afghans don't get as angry when the Taliban kill civilians
as they do when US soldiers or drones kill civilians.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Children_facing_deportation)
title: Children facing deportation
uri: Children-facing-deportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Children_facing_deportation%29
content:
<p>
Children facing deportation 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/groups-sue-federal-government-over-failure-provide-legal-representation-children">need
lawyers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Fine_for_poisoning_water_supplies)
title: Fine for poisoning water supplies
uri: Fine-for-poisoning-water-supplies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Fine_for_poisoning_water_supplies%29

content:
<p>
The fine for poisoning water supplies for 300,000 people:
just 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/07/09">11,000
dollars</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Religious_freedom_in_Guantanamo)
title: Religious freedom in Guantanamo
uri: Religious-freedom-in-Guantanamo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Religious_freedom_in_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/09">Obama's
lawyers argue</a> that prisoners in Guantanamo don't deserve the same
religious freedom as a corporation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(UK_public_workers_strike)
title: UK public workers strike
uri: UK-public-workers-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28UK_public_workers_strike%29
content:
<p>
A one-day general strike of public workers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/10/biggest-strike-in-three-years-sparks-ballot-law-furore">shut
down a lot of the UK</a>, in response to a proposed law intended to
make it hard for unions to strike.
<p>
Part of the motive for privatization of government services is to
weaken unions, which 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_June_2014_(Privatizing_government_services)">helps
drive workers' pay down and facilitates cheating them</a>.


title: Teenager accused of "child pornography"
uri: Teenager-accused-of-child-pornography
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Teenager_accused_of_child_pornography)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Teenager_accused_of_child_pornography%29

content:
<p>
The Virginia thugs have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/virginia-police-sexually-explicit-photos-teen-sexting">given
up on making child pornography of a teenager threatened with
imprisonment</a> for sending a picture of his penis to his lover.
<p>
The laws against "child pornography" are unjust, and this is one of
many reasons.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(The_people_killed_by_bombing_Gaza)
title: The people killed by bombing Gaza
uri: The-people-killed-by-bombing-Gaza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28The_people_killed_by_bombing_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Half the people killed by bombing Gaza are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/palestinian-death-toll-rises-israel-escalates-aerial-airstrikes-assault-gaza">women
and children</a>.  A good fraction of the men killed are probably
noncombatants too.
<p>
The EU has deplored the bombing, while 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/gza-cannot-afford-all-out-war-ban-ki-moon-hamas-israel">the
US tries to shield Israel</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(Encouragement_for_whistleblowers)
title: Encouragement for whistleblowers
uri: Encouragement-for-whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28Encouragement_for_whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/09-8">Big signs
in Washington DC</a> encourage whistleblowers to talk to
exposefacts.org.
<p>
I asked an expert, who says that the site is good to use but reminds
people to use https to communicate with it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 11_July_2014_(FBI_treated_Nelson_Mandela_as_threat)
title: FBI treated Nelson Mandela as threat
uri: FBI-treated-Nelson-Mandela-as-threat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#11_July_2014_%28FBI_treated_Nelson_Mandela_as_threat%29

content:
<p>
The FBI 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/fbi-monitored-mandela-1990s-communist-threat">treated
Nelson Mandela as some sort of Communist threat</a> after he was
released from prison.


title: ACLU suing to put an end to investigating people for non-reasons
uri: ACLU-suing-to-put-an-end-to-investigating-people-for-non-reasons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(ACLU_suing_to_put_an_end_to_investigating_people_for_non-reasons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28ACLU_suing_to_put_an_end_to_investigating_people_for_non-reasons%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU
is <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/suing-defend-americans-right-take-pictures-public">suing
to put an end to investigating people for non-reasons</a>.
<p>
An FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me
Down <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/fbi-counterterrorism-agent-tracked-me-down-because-i-took-picture">Because
I Took a Picture of This.</a>


title: Christie gave state subsidy for political agreement
uri: Christie-gave-state-subsidy-for-political-agreement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Christie_gave_state_subsidy_for_political_agreement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Christie_gave_state_subsidy_for_political_agreement%29

content:
<p>
Chris Christie gave a state subsidy to a company run by a Democrat
as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/christie-260m-subsidy-holtec-international-new-jersey">part
of an agreement not to oppose each other.</a>
<p>
A proposed New Jersey law
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/new-jersey-bill-outlaw-christie-subsidies-donors">ban
political donations from companies that get state subsidies</a> is
just a part of what is needed to end political cronyism,
a.k.a. plutocracy.


title: Clinton and Kerry want Snowden to submit to a trial
uri: Clinton-and-Kerry-want-Snowden-to-submit-to-a-trial
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Clinton_and_Kerry_want_Snowden_to_submit_to_a_trial)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Clinton_and_Kerry_want_Snowden_to_submit_to_a_trial%29

content:
<p>
Clinton and Kerry want Snowden
to <a href="HTTP://GREENSHADOWCABINET.US/STATEMENTS/SNOWDEN-SHOULD-REFUSE-PLAY-%E2%80%9CALICE-WONDERLAND%E2%80%9D">submit
to a trial that imitates the mockery of justice in Alice in
Wonderland.</a>


title: Freedom of speech covers billionaires' money
uri: Freedom-of-speech-covers-billionaires-money
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Freedom_of_speech_covers_billionaires'_money)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Freedom_of_speech_covers_billionaires%27_money%29

content:
<p>
Senators that say freedom of speech covers billionaires' money
also <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/07/10/3458712/constitutional-amendment-hypocrisy/">want
to amend the Constitution to ban flag-burning</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Divesting_from_fossil_fuel)
title: Divesting from fossil fuel
uri: Divesting-from-fossil-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Divesting_from_fossil_fuel%29
content:
<p>
The World Council of
Churches <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/11/world-council-of-churches-pulls-fossil-fuel-investments">calls
for divesting from fossil fuel</a>.


title: Caliph of ISIS may have been radicalized in US prison
uri: Caliph-of-ISIS-may-have-been-radicalized-in-US-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Caliph_of_ISIS_may_have_been_radicalized_in_US_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Caliph_of_ISIS_may_have_been_radicalized_in_US_prison%29

content:
<p>
The Caliph of ISIS may have
been <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/was-camp-bucca-pressure-cooker-extremism">radicalized
in a US prison in Iraq</a>.
<p>
One can say this serves the US right, but Iraqis do not deserve the
oppression of ISIS.


title: Parts of Miami Beach are regularly inundated
uri: Parts-of-Miami-Beach-are-regularly-inundated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Parts_of_Miami_Beach_are_regularly_inundated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Parts_of_Miami_Beach_are_regularly_inundated%29

content:
<p>
Due to global
heating, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/miami-drowning-climate-change-deniers-sea-levels-rising">parts
of Miami Beach are regularly inundated</a>.
<p>
The Turkey Point nuclear plant will become an island, and will be
vulnerable to a Fukushima-type disaster.
<p>
As the sea advances, millions of people will have to leave Florida,
perhaps in a few decades.  The Florida Keys may be submerged during
this century.
<p>
I suspect that Florida land interests are behind Florida politicians'
denial.  Fools continue to buy buildings that are likely to be
drowned, while somebody else extracts profits to move out of Florida
before everyone else wakes up to it.
<p>
In 50 years, when the price collapses, will those fools' heirs sue
Senator Rubio's heirs?


title: US gov't refuses to repudiate torture
uri: US-gov-t-refuses-to-repudiate-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(US_gov't_refuses_to_repudiate_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28US_gov%27t_refuses_to_repudiate_torture%29

content:
<p>
The US
government <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/return-american-torture-future">refuses
to repudiate torture, and continues to practice it</a>, and US mass
media treat it as admirable.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Nanomaterials)
title: Nanomaterials
uri: Nanomaterials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Nanomaterials%29
content:
<p>
Nanomaterials: a new range of substances that might be put in food,
and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/jul/11/activists-nanoparticles-titanium-dioxide-food-dunkin-donuts">some
of them might have toxic effects.</a>
<p>
A given chemical in the form of nanoparticles might have different
effects from the same chemical in a different form.  It could even
depend on the size of the nanoparticles being used.  I suppose most
chemicals that are ordinarily nontoxic will not be toxic in nano form
either, but there will be exceptions to stumble upon.


title: Climate saboteurs shiting from deial of global heating
uri: Climate-saboteurs-shiting-from-deial-of-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Climate_saboteurs_shiting_from_deial_of_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Climate_saboteurs_shiting_from_deial_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Climate saboteurs
are <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/07/heartland_institute_climate_change_conference_optimism_is_the_new_denial.single.html">shifting
from denial of global heating to minimizing the expected
consequences</a>.
<p>
It's a delaying campaign to keep the money flowing unabated to fossil
fuel companies as long as possible.


title: Gay-Friendly materials likely to be censored
uri: Gay-Friendly-materials-likely-to-be-censored
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Gay-Friendly_materials_likely_to_be_censored)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Gay-Friendly_materials_likely_to_be_censored%29

content:
<p>
Where censorship of sex is
permitted, <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/07/10/censorship_leads_to_banning_gay_books.html">gay-friendly
materials are likely to be censored</a> — not just in Singapore,
but in Canada too.


title: Greenpeace parody was taken down from YouTube
uri: Greenpeace-parody-was-taken-down-from-YouTube
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Greenpeace_parody_was_taken_down_from_YouTube)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Greenpeace_parody_was_taken_down_from_YouTube%29

content:
<p>
A Greenpeace parody attacking the Shell/LEGO marketing partnership was
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-censorship-of-greenpeace-lego-video-backfires-140711/">taken
down from YouTube by a vague copyright claim</a>.
<p>
Using
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#20_April_2013_%28DMCA_censorship%29">DMCA
for political censorship is not unusual.</a> It could
be <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#30_November_2013_%28Use_of_the_DMCA_for_censorship%29">considered
common practice</a>.


title: Kurds have dropped out of the Iraqi government
uri: Kurds-have-dropped-out-of-the-Iraqi-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Kurds_have_dropped_out_of_the_Iraqi_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Kurds_have_dropped_out_of_the_Iraqi_government%29

content:
<p>
The Kurds
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/kurds-withdraw-support-iraqi-government-without-president">dropped
out of the Iraqi government.</a>
<p>
This seems to be a push to make Maliki quit.  However, since the
Kurdish region aims for independence, perhaps Iraq could kick its
representatives out of Parliament; then maybe it could form a
government.


title: How UK is involed in US kidnapping for torture
uri: How-UK-is-involed-in-US-kidnapping-for-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(How_UK_is_involed_in_US_kidnapping_for_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28How_UK_is_involed_in_US_kidnapping_for_torture%29

content:
<p>
How
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/7-things-diego-garcia-rendition-flights-documentaton-water-damage">UK
is involved in US kidnapping for torture</a>, and how it blocks public
inquiry into this complicity.


title: Urgent: Stop the ruining of antibiotics
uri: Urgent-Stop-the-ruining-of-antibiotics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_the_ruining_of_antibiotics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_the_ruining_of_antibiotics%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the FDA
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1367">stop
the ruining of antibiotics by feeding them to farm animals en
masse</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Organic_fruit_and_vegetables)
title: Organic fruit and vegetables
uri: Organic-fruit-and-vegetables
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Organic_fruit_and_vegetables%29
content:
<p>
A large meta-study found that organic fruit and vegetables tend to
have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/11/organic-food-more-antioxidants-study">more
antioxidants and less pesticides and cadmium</a>.
<p>
Metastudies are tricky, and if this tendency is real, it is not
certain whether it translates into a health benefit.  But it plausibly
could.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Tax-dodging_UK_rock_stars)
title: Tax-dodging UK rock stars
uri: Tax-dodging-UK-rock-stars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Tax-dodging_UK_rock_stars%29
content:
<p>
In the UK, tax dodging has been simplified so that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/jul/11/arctic-monkeys-tax-avoidance-liberty">even
working class heroes that get famous can do it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Obama_regimes_claims_contradicted)
title: Obama regime's claims contradicted
uri: Obama-regime-s-claims-contradicted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Obama_regimes_claims_contradicted%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime stated that it had not known that the UK was going to
make The Guardian destroy the computer that a copy of the Snowden
leaks, but in fact the highest US spymasters 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=2694">were
informed</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Israeli_hate_for_Arabs)
title: Israeli hate for Arabs
uri: Israeli-hate-for-Arabs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Israeli_hate_for_Arabs%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Israelis for the most part hate Arabs so much that they
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1405008861/">hardly
feel any disgust towards the people among them who kidnaped and burned
an Arab teenager</a>.
<p>
I suspect that a secondary purpose of the bombing of Gaza is to
distract attention from that crime with a bigger crime.
<p>
Here's a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/ramadan-gaza-life-under-missile-fire">report
from Gaza</a>.
<p>
If Palestinians are situating military activities in homes with
civilians, that is just as reprehensible as Israel's attacks on those
homes.  But they can't be launching missiles from homes, and Israel
doesn't really need to attack anything except missile launchers.
<p>
Indeed, Israel hardly even needs to attack missile launchers.  It
could slap the missiles away, as it does, and not bother to retaliate,
saying, "Are you tired of acting out?  Done with your tantrum?"
Israel's forbearance would make Hamas look like fools.
<p>
But that would not satisfy crowds that shout, "Death to Arabs."
And it might create a situation where peace seems reasonable,
which is the last thing Netanyahu wants.


title: Stripping names from data ineffective
uri: Stripping-names-from-data-ineffective
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Stripping_names_from_data_ineffective)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Stripping_names_from_data_ineffective%29

content:
<p>
The idea of stripping people's names from their data from their
histories and passing that around turns out not to work: it is 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/07/09/big-data-should-not-be-a-faith.html">too
easy to figure out who they were</a>.
<p>
All the more reason 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">why
digital systems must not collect people's histories</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Sex_education)
title: Sex education
uri: Sex-education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Sex_education%29
content:
<p>
A Republican candidate that advocates "abstinence only" as a substitute
for sex education ended up with a 
<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2014/07/gop-candidate-who-supports-abstinence-only-learns-it-doesnt-work-the-hard-way/">pregnant
teenage daughter</a>.
<p>
What do you call people who teach their children "abstinence
only"?<br>  Premature grandparents.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Deforestation_and_Ebola)
title: Deforestation and Ebola
uri: Deforestation-and-Ebola
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Deforestation_and_Ebola%29
content:
<p>
Deforestation by humans 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/08/how-deforestation-and-human-activity-could-be-to-blame-for-the-ebola-pandemic/">may
be responsible for Ebola outbreaks</a> in humans.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(US_media_excuses_Israeli_violence)
title: US media excuses Israeli violence
uri: US-media-excuses-Israeli-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28US_media_excuses_Israeli_violence%29

content:
<p>
US television 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/10-7">showed a
bombed-out Gaza family and said they were Israeli</a>.
<p>
It is part of a standard pattern of greatly exaggerating Palestinian
violence and excusing the much larger Israeli violence.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Detroit_water_shutoffs)
title: Detroit water shutoffs
uri: Detroit-water-shutoffs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Detroit_water_shutoffs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/10-5">Citizens
of Detroit blocked water shutoff trucks</a>, and were injured by the
thugs that arrested them.
<p>
I hope the next protest will involve thousands of Detroiters.


title: Climate saboteurs shifting from denial of global heating
uri: Climate-saboteurs-shifting-from-denial-of-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Climate_saboteurs_shifting_from_denial_of_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Climate_saboteurs_shifting_from_denial_of_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Climate saboteurs
are <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/07/heartland_institute_climate_change_conference_optimism_is_the_new_denial.single.html">shifting
from denial of global heating to minimizing the expected
consequences</a>.
<p>
It's a delaying campaign to keep the money flowing unabated to fossil
fuel companies as long as possible.


title: Gay-friendly materials likely to be censored
uri: Gay-friendly-materials-likely-to-be-censored
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(Gay-friendly_materials_likely_to_be_censored)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28Gay-friendly_materials_likely_to_be_censored%29

content:
<p>
Where censorship of sex is
permitted, <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/07/10/censorship_leads_to_banning_gay_books.html">gay-friendly
materials are likely to be censored</a> — not just in Singapore,
but in Canada too.


title: How UK is involved in US kidnapping for torture
uri: How-UK-is-involved-in-US-kidnapping-for-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 12_July_2014_(How_UK_is_involved_in_US_kidnapping_for_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_July_2014_%28How_UK_is_involved_in_US_kidnapping_for_torture%29

content:
<p>
How
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/7-things-diego-garcia-rendition-flights-documentaton-water-damage">UK
is involved in US kidnapping for torture</a>, and how it blocks public
inquiry into this complicity.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Urgent:_Respect_for_freedom_of_press)
title: Urgent: Respect for freedom of press
uri: Urgent-Respect-for-freedom-of-press
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Respect_for_freedom_of_press%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9775">Tell
Obama</a>, respect freedom of the press: don't jail James Risen.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_CISA)
title: Urgent: Oppose CISA
uri: Urgent-Oppose-CISA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_CISA%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose 
<a href="http://cispaisback.org?t=dXNlcmlkPTUyMzA2MTg4LGVtYWlsaWQ9ODg1NA==">CISA</a>,
the new and nastier version of CISPA.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(US_thugs_given_impunity)
title: US thugs given impunity
uri: US-thugs-given-impunity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28US_thugs_given_impunity%29
content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court has made and approved a 
<a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_us_supreme_court_is_marching_in_lockstep_with_the_police_state">long
string of decisions</a> allowing thugs to do almost anything with
impunity.
<p>
This includes the ruling that the president can have anyone imprisoned
without trial by calling that person a "terrorist suspect".
<p>
The recent decision that they can't search arrested people's phones
and computers without a warrant is an exception, but one exception
isn't enough.
<p>
Since "drug-sniffing" dogs are mentioned, I should point out that a
dog can easily learn to react the same way to a cue from its handler
as it does to the smell of drugs.  Then it can give the handler an
excuse to search whoever the handler wants to search.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Honduran_minors_fleeing_to_US)
title: Honduran minors fleeing to US
uri: Honduran-minors-fleeing-to-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Honduran_minors_fleeing_to_US%29
content:
<p>
The biggest origin of minors trying to enter the US without visas is
Honduras; they are driven by the
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/12-4">effects
of the US-supported coup</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Israeli_drone_attack)
title: Israeli drone attack
uri: Israeli-drone-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Israeli_drone_attack%29
content:
<p>
An Israeli drone attack targeted a building which was a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/12/disabled-palestinians-unable-escape-israeli-air-strike">residence
for disabled people</a>.  Some were killed.
<p>
The family home of an enemy fighter is not a valid military target
either.  A large fraction of Israelis are military reservists; does
that make their family homes legitimate targets for missiles?


title: NSA records 80% of all phone calls
uri: NSA-records-80-of-all-phone-calls
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(NSA_records_80_percent_of_all_phone_calls)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28NSA_records_80_percent_of_all_phone_calls%29

content:
<p>
William Binney says the NSA records 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control">at
least 80% of all phone calls</a>, and lies about it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Geoengineering_schemes)
title: Geoengineering schemes
uri: Geoengineering-schemes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Geoengineering_schemes%29
content:
<p>
One weakness in most geoengineering schemes intended to counter
greenhouse heating is that their effect is temporary so it is
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/baum20140707">necessary
to keep doing them forever</a>.  If any other catastrophe occurs,
making society unable to continue the geoengineering, catastrophic
heating (much faster than today) would start within a few years.
<p>
Most of these geoengineering schemes fail to do anything to stop
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#10_July_2012_(Ocean_acidification_due_to_CO2)">ocean 
acidification</a>, so there would still be a catastrophe anyway.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(US_fossil_fuel_subsidies)
title: US fossil fuel subsidies
uri: US-fossil-fuel-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28US_fossil_fuel_subsidies%29
content:
<p>
The US continues 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/11-6">billions
of dollars of subsidies</a> to fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Urgent:_Clean_Energy_Victory_Bonds)
title: Urgent: Clean Energy Victory Bonds
uri: Urgent-Clean-Energy-Victory-Bonds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Clean_Energy_Victory_Bonds%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://activism.thenation.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14370">Support</a>
the bill to authorize Clean Energy Victory Bonds.
<p>
Raising taxes on the rich would be better than borrowing money, but
either one is a lot better than failing to promote clean energy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_whaling)
title: Urgent: Oppose whaling
uri: Urgent-Oppose-whaling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_whaling%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1659&autoresponder=true">call
on the US government</a> to firmly oppose whaling.


title: Market forces rule western democracies
uri: Market-forces-rule-western-democracies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Market_forces_rule_western_democracies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Market_forces_rule_western_democracies%29

content:
<p>
WikiLeaks has shown us that western democracies are now ruled by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/13/capital-politics-wikileaks-democracy-market-freedom">market
forces that debase the very notion of freedom</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(E-cigarettes)
title: E-cigarettes
uri: 2014-07-14-E-cigarettes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28E-cigarettes%29
content:
<p>
Do e-cigarettes lead people away from smoking, or are they a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/16/strong-rhetoric-ecigarettes-debate-tobacco-quit">new
way to get teenagers hooked</a>?
<p>
Perhaps they should be available only by prescription, to smokers who
want to quit.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(UK_surveillance_bill)
title: UK surveillance bill
uri: UK-surveillance-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28UK_surveillance_bill%29
content:
<p>
The UK's surveillance bill 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/surveillance-bill-new-powers">threatens
to punish companies world-wide</a> if they do not obey UK surveillance
orders.  And it requires some web sites to track their users.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Haitis_cardinal_condemns_voodoo)
title: Haiti's cardinal condemns voodoo
uri: Haiti-s-cardinal-condemns-voodoo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Haitis_cardinal_condemns_voodoo%29
content:
<p>
Haiti's cardinal 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/voodoo-big-problem-haiti-cardinal-chibly-langlois">condemned
Voodoo</a>, saying that that religion distracts believers from real
solutions to their problems.
<p>
Religion generally tends to do that, but I am skeptical of the claim
that belief in Voodoo is what typically leads poor Haitians not to use
the services of doctors or lawyers.  I suspect that poverty is
responsible for that, and they turn to Voodoo as an affordable
substitute.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Islamists_in_Libya_on_offensive)
title: Islamists in Libya on offensive
uri: Islamists-in-Libya-on-offensive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Islamists_in_Libya_on_offensive%29
content:
<p>
Islamists in Libya have gone 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/tripoli-airport-libya-severe-attack-islamist-militia">on
the offensive</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(The_worlds_global_problems)
title: The world's global problems
uri: The-world-s-global-problems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28The_worlds_global_problems%29
content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/13-2">analysis of
the development</a> of the world's global problems since 1945.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Software_patent_war)
title: Software patent war
uri: Software-patent-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Software_patent_war%29
content:
<p>
The software patent war has extended to 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/11/google_microsoft_amazon_patents/">data
centers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Israel_kills_50_more_Palestinians)
title: Israel kills 50 more Palestinians
uri: Israel-kills-50-more-Palestinians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Israel_kills_50_more_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
Israel killed 50 more Palestinians in Gaza, including 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/israeli-commandos-gaza-beach-palestinians">22
from one family</a>.
<p>
Both Israel and Hamas desire fighting in Gaza for political reasons,
expecting the situation to be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/gaza-war-futile-neither-side-can-win">unchanged
when the fighting stops</a> (except for the casualties).


title: Hachette put itself at Amazon's mercy
uri: Hachette-put-itself-at-Amazon-s-mercy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Hachette_put_itself_at_Amazon's_mercy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Hachette_put_itself_at_Amazon%27s_mercy%29

content:
<p>
Hachette put itself at Amazon's mercy
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/20/how-amazon-holding-hachette-hostage">insisting
on Amazon DRM for ebooks.</a>


title: The right-wing undermining of Britain's NHS
uri: The-right-wing-undermining-of-Britain-s-NHS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(The_right-wing_undermining_of_Britain's_NHS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28The_right-wing_undermining_of_Britain%27s_NHS%29

content:
<p>
The right-wing undermining of Britain's NHS
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/13/ambulances-taking-longer-reach-patients-labour">increasing
the time it takes for ambulances to reach people.</a>
<p>
The UK needs to increase taxes on the rich and on businesses so it can
spend enough on the NHS.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(The_Iron_Dome_missile_interceptor)
title: The Iron Dome missile interceptor
uri: The-Iron-Dome-missile-interceptor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28The_Iron_Dome_missile_interceptor%29

content:
<p>
Ted Postol says that the Iron Dome missile
interceptor <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/528916/israeli-rocket-defense-system-is-failing-at-crucial-task-expert-analysts-say/">nearly
always fails to destroy the missile's warhead.</a>


title: Republicans allowed poor person to speak about poverty
uri: Republicans-allowed-poor-person-to-speak-about-poverty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Republicans_allowed_poor_person_to_speak_about_poverty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Republicans_allowed_poor_person_to_speak_about_poverty%29

content:
<p>
Republicans finally allowed an actual poor person
to <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/11/1313265/-House-Republicans-finally-let-a-poor-person-speak-on-poverty-but-won-t-hear-what-she-s-saying?detail=email">speak
about poverty but could not accept what she said.</a>


title: Urgent: Children that arrive in the US alone
uri: Urgent-Children-that-arrive-in-the-US-alone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Urgent:_Children_that_arrive_in_the_US_alone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Children_that_arrive_in_the_US_alone%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: remind Obama
that <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/border_crisis_refugees/?referring_akid=a158230">children
that arrive in the US alone are often valid refugees.</a>


title: Sentenced to prison for photographing protest
uri: Sentenced-to-prison-for-photographing-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Sentenced_to_prison_for_photographing_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Sentenced_to_prison_for_photographing_protest%29

content:
<p>
Mary Anne Grady Flores has been sentenced to a year in prison
for <a href="http://www.popularresistance.org/nonviolent-drone-resister-sentenced-to-one-year-in-prison/">photographing
a protest against drones at Hancock Air Base</a>.
<p>
The US government
concocts <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28US_thugs_given_impunity%29">all
sorts of excuses to quash dissent</a>.


title: Workers punished for spending over 6 minutes a day in the toilet
uri: Workers-punished-for-spending-over-6-minutes-a-day-in-the-toilet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Workers_punished_for_spending_over_6_minutes_a_day_in_the_toilet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Workers_punished_for_spending_over_6_minutes_a_day_in_the_toilet%29

content:
<p>
In the
US, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/11/1313307/-Company-tracks-worker-bathroom-visits-so-it-can-punish-people-who-need-to-pee-too-much?detail=email">workers
are punished for spending over 6 minutes a day in the toilet</a>.


title: Big-Labor Strikes and Low-Wage Struggles Jockey for Future
uri: Big-Labor-Strikes-and-Low-Wage-Struggles-Jockey-for-Future
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Big-Labor_Strikes_and_Low-Wage_Struggles_Jockey_for_Future)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Big-Labor_Strikes_and_Low-Wage_Struggles_Jockey_for_Future%29

content:
<p>
In
UK, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/13-1">Big-Labor
Strikes and Low-Wage Struggles Jockey for Future.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Reagan's_destruction_of_US_antitrust)
title: Reagan's destruction of US antitrust
uri: Reagan-s-destruction-of-US-antitrust
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Reagan%27s_destruction_of_US_antitrust%29

content:
<p>
Reagan's destruction of US antitrust
law <a href="http://m.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-america-became-uncompetitive-and-unequal/2014/06/13/a690ad94-ec00-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html?hpid=z3">paved
the way for consolidation in every industry</a>, which transfers
wealth to the new monopolies from everyone else.


title: The state can order a suspect to decrypt files on his computer
uri: The-state-can-order-a-suspect-to-decrypt-files-on-his-computer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(The_state_can_order_a_suspect_to_decrypt_files_on_his_computer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28The_state_can_order_a_suspect_to_decrypt_files_on_his_computer%29

content:
<p>
In a dangerous decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/massachusetts-high-court-orders-suspect-to-decrypt-his-computers/">the
state can order a suspect to decrypt files on his computer</a>.


title: California highway thug beat up a homeless woman
uri: California-highway-thug-beat-up-a-homeless-woman
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(California_highway_thug_beat_up_a_homeless_woman)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28California_highway_thug_beat_up_a_homeless_woman%29

content:
<p>
A California highway
thug <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0709/Videotaped-beating-of-woman-in-L.A.-Is-it-Rodney-King-all-over-again-video">beat
up a homeless woman who was walking by the side of a highway</a>, but
was recorded on video by a passing citizen.
<p>
It is true we don't know what they said to each other.  So ask
yourself, can you imagine anything she might possibly have said that
would give a thug a valid reason to beat her up?  The thug may be
asking himself the same question.
<p>
If you want to view the video, you can access it without free software
by running the youtube-dl script with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-J-yVKxXrY as argument.
<p>
Warning: viewing that video on Youtube in the usual way
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">entails
running either Flash Player or nonfree Javascript code</a>.


title: Tepco continues building the "ice wall"
uri: Tepco-continues-building-the-ice-wall
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Tepco_continues_building_the_ice_wall)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Tepco_continues_building_the_ice_wall%29

content:
<p>
Tepco <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/13/doubts-giant-ice-wall-fukushima-nuclear-reactors">continues
building the "ice wall" to keep ground water away from the ruined
Fukushima nuclear plants</a>, despite various problems.
<p>
What I don't understand is why they want to use this untried method,
rather than building a pair of solid concrete walls with a replaceable
plastic filler between them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Spying_via_an_iThing_feature)
title: Spying via an iThing feature
uri: Spying-via-an-iThing-feature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Spying_via_an_iThing_feature%29
content:
<p>
China is concerned about spying via an iThing feature that 
<a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1552397/iphone-feature-could-be-national-security-threat-says-chinese-broadcaster">finds
locations that a person often goes to</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Tor)
title: Tor
uri: Tor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Tor%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/why-you-should-use-tor">Why
you should use Tor</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(UK_role_in_US_torture_flights)
title: UK role in US torture flights
uri: UK-role-in-US-torture-flights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28UK_role_in_US_torture_flights%29
content:
<p>
The UK government is looking closely at some 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/diego-garcia-secret-cia-flights">documents
about its participation</a> in US torture flights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Russias_new_Internet_law)
title: Russia's new Internet law
uri: Russia-s-new-Internet-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Russias_new_Internet_law%29
content:
<p>
Russia has adopted a law 
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-07-russian-lawmakers-bill-restricting-internet.html">requiring
web sites that Russians use to keep data about Russians in Russia</a>.
<p>
This will make their data safe from spying by the US, but easily
available for spying by Russia.
<p>
If this law applied only to only to stores and such, it might be a net
improvement for Russians.  However, blocking Russians from
communicating through a foreign web site is oppressive.
<p>
An ethical communications system does not insist that people give
their real names or their real locations.  Such a system may not know
if you're in Russia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Desmond_Tutu_on_the_right_to_die)
title: Desmond Tutu on the right to die
uri: Desmond-Tutu-on-the-right-to-die
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Desmond_Tutu_on_the_right_to_die%29
content:
<p>
Desmond Tutu spoke up for the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/12/desmond-tutu-assisted-dying-right-to-die-nelson-mandela">right
to assistance in dying</a>.
<p>
The bill being discussed is a step forward, but inadequate, because it
is limited to people who probably will suffer for no more than 6 more
months even without help.  People condemned to decades of boring
helplessness should also have this right.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Marshall_Islands_vulnerable)
title: Marshall Islands vulnerable
uri: Marshall-Islands-vulnerable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Marshall_Islands_vulnerable%29
content:
<p>
From the Marshall Islands: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/12/why-next-climate-treaty-vital-for-country-to-survive">Why
the next climate treaty is vital for my country to survive</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Contraceptive_implant)
title: Contraceptive implant
uri: Contraceptive-implant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Contraceptive_implant%29
content:
<p>
A future contraceptive implant 
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/528121/a-contraceptive-implant-with-remote-control/">could
last for 16 years</a>.
<p>
I don't see a tremendous benefit in being able to turn it on and off
without removing it — how often would you want to do that?  I
expect most women will want to use contraception until they decide to
have children, have some, then use contraception for the rest of their
fertility (or get sterilized).  The easy way to space their children
would be with shorter-term contraception, perhaps one-year implants.
This way, the long-term implant would only have to be removed once,
which it requires anyway.
<p>
What worries me is that they might design it to require nonfree
software to communicate with it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Tax-dodging_in_Luxembourg)
title: Tax-dodging in Luxembourg
uri: Tax-dodging-in-Luxembourg
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Tax-dodging_in_Luxembourg%29
content:
<p>
Luxembourg is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/12/why-good-europeans-despair-jean-claude-juncker-commission">Europe's
biggest tax-dodger enabler</a>, and Juncker, the new head of the
European Commission, worked hard to make it so.
<p>
As president, he will have the power to sabotage the commission's
investigation into what he set up.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(Americans_using_less_gasoline)
title: Americans using less gasoline
uri: Americans-using-less-gasoline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28Americans_using_less_gasoline%29
content:
<p>
Americans are using less gasoline, so the US government 
<a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/7/12/5885119/congress-is-abandoning-the-principle-that-drivers-should-pay-for">wants
to fund highways from sources other than the gasoline tax</a>.
<p>
It is good that we are driving less, and good that cars are more
efficient.  We should raise the gasoline tax rate to give Americans
even more incentive to drive less and use more efficient cars.
And we can mostly stop building new highways (though the old ones
need proper maintenance).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 13_July_2014_(NY_Times_continues_boosting_wars)
title: NY Times continues boosting wars
uri: NY-Times-continues-boosting-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28NY_Times_continues_boosting_wars%29
content:
<p>
The New York Times continues 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/12-2">boosting
wars</a>, despite claiming it has learned its lesson from the
disastrous results of boosting Dubya's conquest of Iraq.


title: South Africa on the verge of adopting a state secrecy bill
uri: South-Africa-on-the-verge-of-adopting-a-state-secrecy-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(South_Africa_on_the_verge_of_adopting_a_state_secrecy_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28South_Africa_on_the_verge_of_adopting_a_state_secrecy_bill%29

content:
<p>
South Africa is on the verge of adopting a state secrecy bill that
would
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/nadine-gordimer-south-africa-secrecy-bill">force
journalists to name their sources, and imprison
whistleblowers</a>. Following the unjust lead of the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Soccer_world_cup)
title: Soccer world cup
uri: Soccer-world-cup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Soccer_world_cup%29
content:
<p>
The soccer world cup
will <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/13-0">leave
Brazil saddled with a debt of perhaps 14 billion dollars</a>.
<p>
The world cup of
soccer <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/13/world-cup-final-fifa-brazil-football-tax-breaks">should
no longer be given a tax exemption</a>.
<p>
I am not sure that change is sufficient to make the world cup cease to
damage the host country.  If you live in Canada, Mexico, Colombia, the
US or Morocco, I urge you to campaign against your country's bid to
hold the 2026 world cup.


title: What the US has lost since September 2001
uri: What-the-US-has-lost-since-September-2001
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(What_the_US_has_lost_since_September_2001)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28What_the_US_has_lost_since_September_2001%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/16-0">What the US
has lost since September 2001.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Israeli_bombing_in_Gaza)
title: Israeli bombing in Gaza
uri: Israeli-bombing-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Israeli_bombing_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Israeli bombing in Gaza
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/gaza-home-destroyed-israel-shati">destroyed
or damaged almost 1000 houses</a>.


title: UK spy agencies have repeatedly bugged elected officials
uri: UK-spy-agencies-have-repeatedly-bugged-elected-officials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(UK_spy_agencies_have_repeatedly_bugged_elected_officials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28UK_spy_agencies_have_repeatedly_bugged_elected_officials%29

content:
<p>
UK spy agencies
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/spies-flouting-wilson-doctrine-bugging-mps">repeatedly
bugged elected officials</a>.
<p>
They also have a big catalog of tools
for <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=2791">distorting
and sabotaging public activity on the internet</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Three_Israelis_have_been_charged)
title: Three Israelis have been charged
uri: Three-Israelis-have-been-charged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Three_Israelis_have_been_charged%29
content:
<p>
Three Israelis have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/three-jewish-israelis-charged-kidnapping-killing-palestinian-boy">charged
with kidnaping and killing an Arab teenager</a>.
<p>
This is as it should be, but it is the exception.  Israelis kill many
Palestinians every year, and almost
always <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_May_2014_%28Teenagers_killed_by_Israeli_soldiers%29">have
some sort of official cover that gives them impunity.</a>


title: Unions correlate with high productivity
uri: Unions-correlate-with-high-productivity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Unions_correlate_with_high_productivity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Unions_correlate_with_high_productivity%29

content:
<p>
In advanced countries, with the exception of the
US, <a href="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/07/unions-productivity-.html">strong
unions correlate with high productivity</a>.
<p>
So don't believe the executives when they claim that unions destroy
productivity.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Missouri_plans_to_execute_a_man)
title: Missouri plans to execute a man
uri: Missouri-plans-to-execute-a-man
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Missouri_plans_to_execute_a_man%29
content:
<p>
Missouri plans to execute a man convicted of
murder <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/missouri-execution-john-middleton-evidence">disregarding
evidence that he was probably innocent.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Hillary's_Candid_Motto)
title: Hillary's Candid Motto
uri: Hillary-s-Candid-Motto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Hillary%27s_Candid_Motto%29
content:
<p>
Hillary's Candid Motto for Democratic
Party: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/14">"Represent
Banks"</a>.


title: Urgent: Reject "investor-state" provisions
uri: Urgent-Reject-investor-state-provisions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Urgent:_Reject_investor-state_provisions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_investor-state_provisions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=0BF39FAE8FA9C81C45FC61AA9ADC8BBC.app234a">tell
the US Trade Representative</a> to reject "investor-state" provisions
in treaties.


title: UK accesses records of medical visits
uri: UK-accesses-records-of-medical-visits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(UK_accesses_records_of_medical_visits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28UK_accesses_records_of_medical_visits%29

content:
<p>
The UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/13/home-office-nhs-records-illegal-immigrants">accesses
records of medical visits</a> to find illegal immigrants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Drones_in_use_for_private_spying)
title: Drones in use for private spying
uri: Drones-in-use-for-private-spying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Drones_in_use_for_private_spying%29
content:
<p>
Drones are in use for 
<a href="http://nypost.com/2014/07/13/private-eyes-using-drones-to-nab-scammers-cheating-spouses/">private
spying on behalf of idiotically jealous spouses</a>.
<p>
On occasion, these uses achieve a positive result, but I don't think
they should be permitted loosely.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Attack_on_synagogue_in_Paris)
title: Attack on synagogue in Paris
uri: Attack-on-synagogue-in-Paris
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Attack_on_synagogue_in_Paris%29
content:
<p>
Protesters from a march in Paris, condemning Israel's bombing of Gaza,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/anti-israeli-protesters-attack-paris-synagogue">tried
to attack a synagogue</a>.
<p>
The people in the synagogue are not the ones launching the attack.
They may not even support it.  The standard Israeli way of dismissing
all criticism of its occupation policies is to call it "antisemitism".
Apparently these protesters really are antisemitic, but their bad
example will help Israel label all of us as "antisemitic".
<p>
There is a substantial amount of antisemitism in France among the
right wing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Frequency_of_natural_disasters)
title: Frequency of "natural" disasters
uri: Frequency-of-natural-disasters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Frequency_of_natural_disasters%29
content:
<p>
"Natural" disasters happen 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jul/14/8-charts-climate-change-world-more-dangerous">5
times as often as they did in the 1970s</a>, because now they are
mainly artificial.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(No_fly_list_state_secrets)
title: "No fly" list "state secrets"
uri: No-fly-list-state-secrets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28No_fly_list_state_secrets%29
content:
<p>
Obama is trying to use the 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/obama-bush-state-secrets-no-fly-list">"state
secrets" privilege</a> to quash the case of a man who is suing to get
off the "no fly" list.
<p>
The "no fly" list is punishment without trial, obviously
unconstitutional, but we can't count on the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_(US_thugs_given_impunity)">pro-authoritarian
US Supreme Court</a> to care about this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(The_right_to_die)
title: The right to die
uri: 2014-07-15-The-right-to-die
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28The_right_to_die%29
content:
<p>
Jo Beecham is dying of cancer, but has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/13/cancer-plan-poison-die-suicide-assisted-dying-euthanasia">gone
to great lengths to prepare to commit suicide without help</a> rather
than be helplessly subject to a medical system that will refuse to let
her escape short of death.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 14_July_2014_(Blackmail_by_tobacco_company)
title: Blackmail by tobacco company
uri: Blackmail-by-tobacco-company
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_%28Blackmail_by_tobacco_company%29
content:
<p>
British American Tobacco has tried to use its giant market power to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/12/bat-blackmail-uganda-smoking-law-tobacco">blackmail
a Ugandan MP</a> who has sponsored a European-style bill to discourage
smoking.
<p>
This sort of blackmail is common, and it is one reason we need to
break up large companies.  If BAT were replaced by 50 companies, and
the biggest of them were 5% the size of BAT, they would not have this
power.


title: How World Bank, IMF and WTO combined to wreck countries' economies
uri: How-World-Bank-IMF-and-WTO-combined-to-wreck-countries-economies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(How_World_Bank,_IMF_and_WTO_combined_to_wreck_countries'_economies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28How_World_Bank%2C_IMF_and_WTO_combined_to_wreck_countries%27_economies%29

content:
<p>
Joseph Stiglitz explains how the World Bank, IMF and
WTO <a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/">combined
in the 90s to wreck countries' economies</a>, impoverish most people,
and transfer their wealth to the international elite.
<p>
Clearly this continues in recent times, as can be seen in <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#10_October_2013_%28Austerity_in_Europe%29">austerity in
Europe</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/170960-economy-imf-ukraine-oligarchs/">Ukraine
is now on the menu</a>.
<p>
RT has an obvious slant which comes from Putin, but Michael Hudson is
a western economist who accepted this opportunity to communicate to
the public.


title: US government aims to be omniscient and omnipotent
uri: US-government-aims-to-be-omniscient-and-omnipotent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(US_government_aims_to_be_omniscient_and_omnipotent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28US_government_aims_to_be_omniscient_and_omnipotent%29

content:
<p>
The US
government <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/15">aims
to be omniscient and omnipotent</a>.
<p>
This makes its unquestioning supporters comparable to theocrats.


title: Urgent: Remove all US troops from Iraq
uri: Urgent-Remove-all-US-troops-from-Iraq
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Urgent:_Remove_all_US_troops_from_Iraq)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Remove_all_US_troops_from_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscitter to support HCR 105
to <a href="https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/105/text">remove
all US troops from Iraq by the end of the year.</a>
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.</p>


title: US government has too few meat inspectors
uri: US-government-has-too-few-meat-inspectors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(US_government_has_too_few_meat_inspectors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28US_government_has_too_few_meat_inspectors%29

content:
<p>
The US
government <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/14-1">has
too few meat inspectors</a>, as part of the cockeyed plan to let
companies inspect themselves.


title: What the World Cup Can Teach Progressives About Corruption
uri: What-the-World-Cup-Can-Teach-Progressives-About-Corruption
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(What_the_World_Cup_Can_Teach_Progressives_About_Corruption)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28What_the_World_Cup_Can_Teach_Progressives_About_Corruption%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/15-5">What the World
Cup Can Teach Progressives About Corruption</a>.


title: Israel accepted a ceasefire proposed by Egypt
uri: Israel-accepted-a-ceasefire-proposed-by-Egypt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Israel_accepted_a_ceasefire_proposed_by_Egypt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Israel_accepted_a_ceasefire_proposed_by_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Israel <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/israel-accepts-egypt-ceasefire-gaza-hamas">accepted
a ceasefire proposed by Egypt</a>, but Hamas rejected it.
<p>
Both Hamas and Israel had reasons to want
some <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_%28Israels_bombardment_of_Gaza%29">inconclusive
fighting in Gaza</a> Apparently Israel has had enough fighting to
achieve its aims, while Hamas has not.


title: US companies must hand over foreign data to US courts
uri: US-companies-must-hand-over-foreign-data-to-US-courts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(US_companies_must_hand_over_foreign_data_to_US_courts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28US_companies_must_hand_over_foreign_data_to_US_courts%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime argues in court
that <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/obama-administration-says-the-worlds-servers-are-ours/">US
companies must hand over foreign data to US courts regardless of
foreign laws</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(UK's_NHS_is_grudgingly_rationing)
title: UK's NHS is grudgingly rationing
uri: UK-s-NHS-is-grudgingly-rationing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28UK%27s_NHS_is_grudgingly_rationing%29

content:
<p>
The UK's NHS
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/15/patients-denied-operations-nhs-surgeons-report">grudgingly
rationing out hip replacement operations</a>. I suppose this is
because of the shortage of funds, by which the right wing want to make
it so bad people will accept privatization.


title: Citigroup will have to pay 7 billion dollars
uri: Citigroup-will-have-to-pay-7-billion-dollars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Citigroup_will_have_to_pay_7_billion_dollars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Citigroup_will_have_to_pay_7_billion_dollars%29

content:
<p>
Citigroup <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/7-billion-citigroup-settlement-department-justice">will
have to pay 7 billion dollars for misleading investors</a>, but it's
not enough to discourage a repeat, and the executives responsible
won't be punished.


title: Non-star writers are paid very little
uri: Non-star-writers-are-paid-very-little
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Non-star_writers_are_paid_very_little)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Non-star_writers_are_paid_very_little%29

content:
<p>
Non-star
writers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/13/earn-11k-author-top-writers">are
paid very little by the existing copyright-based publishing
system</a>.  In the UK, the median income for working authors is a
pitiful 17,000 or 18,000 dollars a year.
<p>
The existing copyright-based system mainly supports the publishing
companies as well as the stars that have clout with them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Abstinence-based_sex-non-education)
title: Abstinence-based sex-non-education
uri: Abstinence-based-sex-non-education
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Abstinence-based_sex-non-education%29

content:
<p>
Abstinence-based sex-non-education
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/15/abstinence-sex-education-teaches-virgins-teens">telling
lies to keep virgins ill-informed; it puts them in danger.</a>
<p>
Les Liaisons Dangereuses described the results of this in 1782, so
there is no excuse for ignorance.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Floridas_congressional_districts)
title: Florida's congressional districts
uri: Florida-s-congressional-districts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Floridas_congressional_districts%29
content:
<p>
Florida's Republicans 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/florida-republican-legislature-political-maps">drew
congressional districts illegally</a> to favor Republican candidates,
but they hope it is too late to fix the problem for this year.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Ban_on_styrofoam_food_containers)
title: Ban on styrofoam food containers
uri: Ban-on-styrofoam-food-containers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Ban_on_styrofoam_food_containers%29
content:
<p>
Washington DC has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/washington-dc-bans-plastic-foam-containers">banned
styrofoam containers for food and drinks</a>.
<p>
As usual, plastic companies lobbied against this step forward.  You
would think that some stockholders would be wise enough to say,
"People will always want plastic, and we can go along with selling it
over a longer period of time to keep our rivers and seas clean."  I
suspect that the corporation structure systematically leads executives
to be extremists: to demand to maximize their profits no matter what
the cost to society.
<p>
Perhaps some reorganization of the structure of a corporation could
alter that tendency.  That would a great thing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(The_Citibank_payment)
title: The Citibank payment
uri: The-Citibank-payment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28The_Citibank_payment%29
content:
<p>
The Citibank payment is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/14-4">peanuts
compared to what it received in bailout funds</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Australian_prison_ship)
title: Australian prison ship
uri: Australian-prison-ship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Australian_prison_ship%29
content:
<p>
Australia is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/scott-morrison-again-refuses-to-disclose-whereabouts-of-asylum-seekers-boat">holding
a boatful of asylum seekers</a> in prison on a ship.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Artist_arrested_for_distributing_art)
title: Artist arrested for distributing art
uri: Artist-arrested-for-distributing-art
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Artist_arrested_for_distributing_art%29

content:
<p>
A Japanese artist has been arrested for distributing art</a>: a 3D
printer model for a
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/vagina-selfie-for-3d-printers-lands-japanese-artist-in-trouble">boat
designed from her vagina</a>.  She has campaigned for years to end the
taboo on the image and even the word for "vagina".  I think sexual
taboos, which censorship preserves, are the cause of many sexual
obsessions and hatreds.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(UK_CO2_emission_reduction_targets)
title: UK CO2 emission reduction targets
uri: UK-CO2-emission-reduction-targets
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28UK_CO2_emission_reduction_targets%29

content:
<p>
The UK government still officially has carbon emission reduction
targets, but has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/15/uk-miss-carbon-targets-climate-change-advisers">ensured
it will not meet them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Wild_cheetahs_being_wiped_out)
title: Wild cheetahs being wiped out
uri: Wild-cheetahs-being-wiped-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Wild_cheetahs_being_wiped_out%29
content:
<p>
Wild cheetahs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/15/cheetah-smuggling-wild-luxury-pets-gulf">being
wiped out by taking the cubs for pets</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Armenian_former_soldier_in_Moscow)
title: Armenian former soldier in Moscow
uri: Armenian-former-soldier-in-Moscow
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Armenian_former_soldier_in_Moscow%29

content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/separatist-fighter-russia-eastern-ukraine-interview">interview
with an Armenian former soldier</a> who volunteered in Moscow to go to
fight for the pro-Russian side in Ukraine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Grass_roots_support_from_Gates)
title: "Grass roots" support from Gates
uri: Grass-roots-support-from-Gates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Grass_roots_support_from_Gates%29
content:
<p>
How Bill Gates's money was used to fund and organize "grass roots"
support for
the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html">Common
Core</a>.
<p>
This makes me think of how Tea Party "grass roots" groups got funding
from 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#1%20September%202010%20(Big%20money%20finances%20far%20right%20politics%20in%20America)">rich
sponsors</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Secret_trial_in_China)
title: Secret trial in China
uri: 2014-07-16-Secret-trial-in-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Secret_trial_in_China%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/14/china-confirms-trial-gsk-foreign-investigators">Two
westerners</a> face a secret trial in China.
<p>
Think of this when the UK talks about secret trials.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Half_of_children_in_India_stunted)
title: Half of children in India stunted
uri: Half-of-children-in-India-stunted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Half_of_children_in_India_stunted%29

content:
<p>
Around half the children in India are stunted, as if they did not get
enough food, because of 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/asia/poor-sanitation-in-india-may-afflict-well-fed-children-with-malnutrition.html?hpw&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0">exposure
to germs from human excrement</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Nuclear_weapons_and_global_heating)
title: Nuclear weapons and global heating
uri: Nuclear-weapons-and-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Nuclear_weapons_and_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/14-2">Nuclear
weapons relate to global heating</a> in a number of ways.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 15_July_2014_(Walmarts_Food_Stamp_Scheme)
title: Walmart's Food Stamp Scheme
uri: Walmart-s-Food-Stamp-Scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#15_July_2014_%28Walmarts_Food_Stamp_Scheme%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://politicallyactivated.tumblr.com/post/91391542625/walmarts-food-stamp-scheme">Walmart's
Food Stamp Scheme</a>.


title: US border patrol thugs brutalize people
uri: US-border-patrol-thugs-brutalize-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 16_July_2014_(US_border_patrol_thugs_brutalize_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_July_2014_%28US_border_patrol_thugs_brutalize_people%29

content:
<p>
US border patrol
thugs <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/shena-gutierrez-us-mexico-border-constitution-die">brutalize
people at will for grudges</a>, and they are spreading their power to
a ever further from the borders.
<p>
Don't
forget <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-sep-dec.html#15%20December%202009%20%28How%20the%20law%20really%20works%29">how
they beat up Peter Watts</a>, then prosecuted him for not obeying fast
enough.
<p>
That thug should be in prison.


title: Immigrant activist Jose Antonio Vargas was arrested
uri: Immigrant-activist-Jose-Antonio-Vargas-was-arrested
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 16_July_2014_(Immigrant_activist_Jose_Antonio_Vargas_was_arrested)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_July_2014_%28Immigrant_activist_Jose_Antonio_Vargas_was_arrested%29

content:
<p>
Immigrant activist journalist Jose Antonio Vargas
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/jose-antonio-vargas-border-crisis-politics-tragic-on-many-levels">arrested
when he tried to fly out of a US city</a> near the border with Mexico,
<p>
Vargas came to the US from the Philippines as a child, and found out
many years later that he did not have permission to reside in the US.
I don't believe that countries are obliged to admit everyone that
wants to move to them, but people who came as children — before
they were responsible — and remained for many years should be
allowed to stay.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 16_July_2014_(The_west's_foreign_aid_to_Africa)
title: The west's foreign aid to Africa
uri: The-west-s-foreign-aid-to-Africa
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_July_2014_%28The_west%27s_foreign_aid_to_Africa%29

content:
<p>
The west's foreign aid to Africa
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/15-4">less
than what the west takes out of Africa.</a>


title: Overprotectiveness is stunting mental growth
uri: Overprotectiveness-is-stunting-mental-growth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 16_July_2014_(Overprotectiveness_is_stunting_mental_growth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_July_2014_%28Overprotectiveness_is_stunting_mental_growth%29

content:
<p>
Overprotectiveness
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/16/its-time-we-gave-our-children-permission-to-get-outside-and-get-dirty">stunting
the mental growth of a generation children</a> — in particular,
denying them contact with nature.
<p>
The article refers to the UK but I have seen similar attitudes in the
US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 16_July_2014_(Bill_Clinton's_deregulation_of_banks)
title: Bill Clinton's deregulation of banks
uri: Bill-Clinton-s-deregulation-of-banks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_July_2014_%28Bill_Clinton%27s_deregulation_of_banks%29

content:
<p>
Too-big-to-fail banks exist because
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/15-8">Bill
Clinton's deregulation of banks</a>, and their incomprehensible
maneuvers are also permitted due to his deregulation of banks.
<p>
Hillary Clinton is in the same camp; she works for the plutocrats.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 16_July_2014_(Obama's_right-wing_nature)
title: Obama's right-wing nature
uri: Obama-s-right-wing-nature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_July_2014_%28Obama%27s_right-wing_nature%29
content:
<p>
Contrast with Elizabeth
Warren <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/progressives-turn-from-obama-to-embrace-warren/2014/07/14/e117aca2-0b62-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html?tid=pm_pop">helps
Democrats see Obama's right-wing nature</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(NBC_yanks_Ayman_Mohyeldin)
title: NBC yanks Ayman Mohyeldin
uri: NBC-yanks-Ayman-Mohyeldin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28NBC_yanks_Ayman_Mohyeldin%29
content:
<p>
NBC yanked correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin out of Gaza because 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=2807">he did a good job
of covering the main effect of Israeli bombing</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Censorship_in_Brazil)
title: Censorship in Brazil
uri: Censorship-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Censorship_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
Brazil allows people to censor all publication about them, and many
biographies have been banned.  
<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/07/forbidden-books-brazil-biographies-law-can-put-end-previous-censorship-may-bring-post-censorship/">A
bill proposes to correct this</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Municipal_broadband)
title: Municipal broadband
uri: Municipal-broadband
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Municipal_broadband%29
content:
<p>
The House of Representatives passed a bill that would 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/congresswoman-defends-states-rights-to-protect-isps-from-muni-competition/">stop
the FCC from making municipal broadband legal</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Syrian_girls_forced_to_marry)
title: Syrian girls forced to marry
uri: Syrian-girls-forced-to-marry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Syrian_girls_forced_to_marry%29
content:
<p>
Syrian mothers force their daughters to marry, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/syrian-mothers-child-brides">as
young as 13</a>, fearing that they will otherwise be raped.  One said
she expected her male relatives to murder the daughter if she is
raped.
<p>
Rape is common in war, but Arab culture converts rape into a sentence
of death.  What barbarism!  Having daughters in such a society should
be considered committing a crime against them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(RIAA_shuts_down_radio_archive)
title: RIAA shuts down radio archive
uri: RIAA-shuts-down-radio-archive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28RIAA_shuts_down_radio_archive%29
content:
<p>
The RIAA 
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-copyright-pressure-silences-historical-radio-archive-140716/">shut
down a radio archive</a> that has operated almost 20 years.
<p>
I hope people set it up again in some other country.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Censorship_in_France)
title: Censorship in France
uri: Censorship-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Censorship_in_France%29
content:
<p>
Censorship in France: a blogger has been 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28331598">fined for
publishing a negative opinion of a restaurant</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Hamas_and_Islamic_Jihad_offer_truce)
title: Hamas and Islamic Jihad offer truce
uri: Hamas-and-Islamic-Jihad-offer-truce
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Hamas_and_Islamic_Jihad_offer_truce%29

content:
<p>
Reportedly Hamas and Islamic Jihad have offered a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/16-10">10-year
truce</a> in exchange for Israel's ending the siege of Gaza and ending
its isolation.
<p>
These terms seem reasonable to me.  Most of the issues in dispute
between Israel and Palestine are left out, which is appropriate since
this proposes a truce rather than a full settlement.


title: Nurse refuses to force-feed prisoners
uri: Nurse-refuses-to-force-feed-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Nurse_refuses_to_force-feed_prisoners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Nurse_refuses_to_force-feed_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
A military nurse at Guantanamo has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/16-1">refused to
participate</a> in force-feeding on the grounds that it is inhumane.
<p>
I expect the Obama regime to repress this nurse.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Republicans_guard_Hobby_Lobby)
title: Republicans guard Hobby Lobby
uri: Republicans-guard-Hobby-Lobby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Republicans_guard_Hobby_Lobby%29
content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/16-9">blocked</a>
the bill to correct the Hobby Lobby decision.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Israel_attacking_wells_and_sewers)
title: Israel attacking wells and sewers
uri: Israel-attacking-wells-and-sewers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Israel_attacking_wells_and_sewers%29

content:
<p>
<p>
Israel is 
<a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-jets-destroying-gaza-water-and-sewerage-systems-284613778">attacking
wells and sewage systems</a> in Gaza.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Netanyahu_rejects_peace)
title: Netanyahu rejects peace
uri: Netanyahu-rejects-peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Netanyahu_rejects_peace%29
content:
<p>
Netanyahu stated publicly that he 
<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-finally-speaks-his-mind/">will
never permit a Palestinian state to function</a>.
<p>
An Obama representative 
<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-obama-official-blasts-israel-for-denying-palestinians-sovereignty-security-dignity/">rebuked
Israel</a> for maintaining the occupation of Palestine and rejecting
peace.
<p>
It's a small sign of the courage that could have a chance of making
Israel agree to peace.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Supposed_cease-fire_with_Hamas)
title: Supposed cease-fire with Hamas
uri: Supposed-cease-fire-with-Hamas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Supposed_cease-fire_with_Hamas%29
content:
<p>
Hamas says that Egypt and Israel 
<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=713295">did
not discuss the supposed cease-fire with Hamas</a> before announcing
it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Left-wing_terrorist_captured)
title: Left-wing terrorist captured
uri: Left-wing-terrorist-captured
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Left-wing_terrorist_captured%29
content:
<p>
One of the few left-wing terrorists in Greece was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/greek-terrorist-captured-athens-shootout-breakthrough">captured</a>,
but the right-wing terrorists of Golden Dawn are still rampant, and
the boot of the banks is still on Greece's neck.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Solitary_for_having_Facebook_page)
title: Solitary for having Facebook page
uri: Solitary-for-having-Facebook-page
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Solitary_for_having_Facebook_page%29

content:
<p>
A prisoner in New Mexico is 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/new-mexico-inmate-faces-90-days-solitary-over-facebook-profile">threatened
with 90 days in solitary confinement</a> for having a Facebook page.
<p>
I think being a used of Facebook is punishment enough.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Australia_repeals_carbon_tax)
title: Australia repeals carbon tax
uri: Australia-repeals-carbon-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Australia_repeals_carbon_tax%29
content:
<p>
Australia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/australias-carbon-tax-is-gone-a-selection-of-the-cheers-jeers-and-fears">repealed
its carbon tax</a>, cementing a plan that will kill tens or hundreds
of millions of people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Plans_to_imprison_journalists)
title: Plans to imprison journalists
uri: Plans-to-imprison-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Plans_to_imprison_journalists%29
content:
<p>
Australia's right-wing government plans to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/news-corp-union-warn-crackdown-spy-reporting">imprison
journalists for publishing what whistleblowers report</a> about spying
on the public.
<p>
These journalists are, of course, the ones who have the "sense of
responsibility" that Abbott says journalists should have.
<p>
The prohibition is so sweeping that almost any reporting about a
secret government action could be covered.  For instance, when
dissidents identify their lovers as undercover thugs, they could be
imprisoned.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 17_July_2014_(Peace_demonstrators_attacked)
title: Peace demonstrators attacked
uri: Peace-demonstrators-attacked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_%28Peace_demonstrators_attacked%29
content:
<p>
Peace demonstrators in Tel Aviv were attacked by 
<a href="http://972mag.com/the-night-it-became-dangerous-to-demonstrate-in-tel-aviv/93524/">right-wing
hate protesters</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(A_camera_in_every_bathroom)
title: A camera in every bathroom
uri: A-camera-in-every-bathroom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28A_camera_in_every_bathroom%29
content:
<p>
Blanket digital surveillance is a
start. But <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/17/blanket-digital-surveillance-is-a-start-but-how-about-a-camera-in-every-bathroom">how
about a camera in every bathroom?</a>


title: UN has condemned massive surveillance
uri: UN-has-condemned-massive-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(UN_has_condemned_massive_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28UN_has_condemned_massive_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The UN
has <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/politics/un-nsa-surveillance-human-rights-edward-snowden/">condemned
massive surveillance as a violation of human rights</a>.
<p>
This includes data retention such as the UK is in the process of
reimposing.


title: Urgent: Make Detroit turn the water back on
uri: Urgent-Make-Detroit-turn-the-water-back-on
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(Urgent:_Make_Detroit_turn_the_water_back_on)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Make_Detroit_turn_the_water_back_on%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell Obama
to <a href="http://turnthewateron.dailykos.com/?code=workingfamiliesorganization">make
Detroit turn the water back on.</a>


title: Urgent: Publish the composition of the fracking fluid
uri: Urgent-Publish-the-composition-of-the-fracking-fluid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(Urgent:_Publish_the_composition_of_the_fracking_fluid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Publish_the_composition_of_the_fracking_fluid%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call for a requirement for fracking companies
to <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=99E568F36C304C89031D62646F8A988E.app304a?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3516&s_src=EMOFRKPET0714BGN">publish
the composition of the fracking fluid</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(Israel's_army_has_attacked_Gaza)
title: Israel's army has attacked Gaza
uri: Israel-s-army-has-attacked-Gaza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28Israel%27s_army_has_attacked_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/israel-begins-ground-assault-in-gaza-hamas-tunnels">Israel's
army has attacked Gaza.</a> This included bombardment of a hospital.
<p>
Israeli accusations that Hamas stores arms in civilian buildings were
proved partly valid:
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/unrwa-investigating-20-rockets-empty-gaza-school-palestinian">UNRWA
found missiles in a disused school building</a>.
<p>
Whether they store arms in civilian buildings that are actually in use
is not proven.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(The_secret_US_prison_at_Bagram)
title: The secret US prison at Bagram
uri: The-secret-US-prison-at-Bagram
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28The_secret_US_prison_at_Bagram%29
content:
<p>
In the secret US prison at Bagram,
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/bagram-detainees-hunger-strikes-revealed">prisoners
frequently have to go on hunger strike to get clean water to drink or
to see the ICRC</a>.


title: Your portable tracking and surveillance device
uri: Your-portable-tracking-and-surveillance-device
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(Your_portable_tracking_and_surveillance_device)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28Your_portable_tracking_and_surveillance_device%29

content:
<p>
Your portable tracking and surveillance
device <a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/mental-health-monitoring-goes-mobile-0716">can
now also inform about changes in your behavior pattern</a>.


title: How America Fails the Rule-of-Law Test
uri: How-America-Fails-the-Rule-of-Law-Test
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(How_America_Fails_the_Rule-of-Law_Test)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28How_America_Fails_the_Rule-of-Law_Test%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/how-america-fails-the-rule-of-law-test/374274/">How
America Fails the Rule-of-Law Test.</a>


title: Urgent: Do not let Israel bomb the Wafa rehabilitation hospital
uri: Urgent-Do-not-let-Israel-bomb-the-Wafa-rehabilitation-hospital
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(Urgent:_Do_not_let_Israel_bomb_the_Wafa_rehabilitation_hospital)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_let_Israel_bomb_the_Wafa_rehabilitation_hospital%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on
Obama <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/obama-dont-let-israel">not
to let Israel bomb the Wafa rehabilitation hospital</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(US_allowed_monopolies)
title: US allowed monopolies
uri: US-allowed-monopolies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28US_allowed_monopolies%29
content:
<p>
Since
Reagan, <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/06/29/free_markets_killed_capitalism_ayn_rand_ronald_reagan_wal_mart_amazon_and_the_1_percents_sick_triumph_over_us_all/">the
US has allowed monopolies or oligopolies to spread across the range of
businesses</a>, subjecting Americans to unchecked power of businesses.
<p>
This was done in the name of "free markets", but really it was
"laissez faire".  Due to the inherent instability of the free market,
removal of the regulations that protected it allowed it to be
converted into something more like feudalism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(Campaigning_against_TTIP)
title: Campaigning against TTIP
uri: Campaigning-against-TTIP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28Campaigning_against_TTIP%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/16-2">Campaigning
against TTIP</a>, This Treaty Is Plutocratic, another instance of the
oppression of the TPP.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 18_July_2014_(Efficiencies_in_agriculture)
title: Efficiencies in agriculture
uri: Efficiencies-in-agriculture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_%28Efficiencies_in_agriculture%29
content:
<p>
Efficiencies in
agriculture <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/17/world-cropland-feed-3-billion-more-people-study">could
in principle feed billions more people</a>.  But the total meat
production would have to go down pretty far.
<p>
Introducing efficiency into agriculture is much more easily said than
done, and global heating will interfere greatly as it means that
weather changes from year to year and the proper agricultural methods
for a given area cannot be predicted.


title: Urgent: Protect ocelot and jaguar habitat
uri: Urgent-Protect-ocelot-and-jaguar-habitat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_ocelot_and_jaguar_habitat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_ocelot_and_jaguar_habitat%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16094">call
for protection</a> of habitat for ocelot and jaguar.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Wildfires_in_northern_Canada)
title: Wildfires in northern Canada
uri: Wildfires-in-northern-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Wildfires_in_northern_Canada%29
content:
<p>
Even northern Canada is suffering from a 
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/nw-fires-weather-climate-change-boreal-forests-17778">rash
of wildfires</a> due to unusual heat.
<p>
These fires are due to global heating, and they fuel more global
heating.  This is positive feedback at work.


title: Urgent: Oppose drilling in Arctic Ocean
uri: Urgent-Oppose-drilling-in-Arctic-Ocean
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_drilling_in_Arctic_Ocean)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_drilling_in_Arctic_Ocean%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.wilderness.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2713">oppose</a>
oil drilling in Arctic waters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Thousands_to_march_in_Detroit)
title: Thousands to march in Detroit
uri: Thousands-to-march-in-Detroit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Thousands_to_march_in_Detroit%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/18-4">Thousands
to March in Detroit as 'Heartless' Water Shut-Offs Continue</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Sliding_into_global_heating)
title: Sliding into global heating
uri: Sliding-into-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Sliding_into_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/18/3461677/noaa-state-of-the-climate-warmer/">NOAA
summarizes</a> the continuing slide into global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Nuclear_weapons_and_climate_change)
title: Nuclear weapons and climate change
uri: Nuclear-weapons-and-climate-change
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Nuclear_weapons_and_climate_change%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/17-10">study</a>
forecasts that 100 small nuclear weapons would cause drastic global
cooling and reduce rainfall for more than a decade, as well as
damaging the ozone layer.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Interview_with_Edward_Snowden)
title: Interview with Edward Snowden
uri: Interview-with-Edward-Snowden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Interview_with_Edward_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
An 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-interview-rusbridger-macaskill">interview
with Edward Snowden</a>.
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-interview-transcript">transcript</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Urgent:_Diplomacy_with_Iran)
title: Urgent: Diplomacy with Iran
uri: 2014-07-20-Urgent-Diplomacy-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Diplomacy_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.votevets.org/page/s/iran_diplomacy?source=em140716">Call
on the Senate not to interfere</a> with diplomacy with Iran.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Urgent:_Check_pipelines_for_leaks)
title: Urgent: Check pipelines for leaks
uri: Urgent-Check-pipelines-for-leaks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Check_pipelines_for_leaks%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2317">Call
on the state</a> to check for methane leaks from pipelines.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Urgent:_Cut_the_F-35_fighter_plane)
title: Urgent: Cut the F-35 fighter plane
uri: Urgent-Cut-the-F-35-fighter-plane
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Cut_the_F-35_fighter_plane%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.usaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=643">Tell
Congress</a> to cut the F-35 fighter plane.


title: ISIS declares Christians second-class
uri: ISIS-declares-Christians-second-class
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(ISIS_declares_Christians_second-class)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28ISIS_declares_Christians_second-class%29

content:
<p>
ISIS declared Christians must be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/isis-islamic-state-issue-ultimatum-to-iraq-christians">second-class
citizens</a>, expressing the tyrannical nature of Islam in pure form.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Workers_safety_nets)
title: Workers' safety nets
uri: Workers-safety-nets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Workers_safety_nets%29
content:
<p>
Why employers prefer that workers have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/17-2">no safety
net</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Pebble_Mine_blocked)
title: Pebble Mine blocked
uri: Pebble-Mine-blocked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Pebble_Mine_blocked%29
content:
<p>
The EPA blocked the Pebble Mine 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/epa-blocks-alaska-mine-project">to
protect salmon</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(AIDS_researchers_on_downed_flight)
title: AIDS researchers on downed flight
uri: AIDS-researchers-on-downed-flight
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28AIDS_researchers_on_downed_flight%29

content:
<p>
The number of leading AIDS researchers killed on the downed flight was
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/aids-researchers-malaysia-airlines-mh17-crash-australia-victims">much
less than previously believed</a>.


title: Independent DRM-free ebooks sell more
uri: Independent-DRM-free-ebooks-sell-more
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Independent_DRM-free_ebooks_sell_more)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Independent_DRM-free_ebooks_sell_more%29

content:
<p>
Independent ebooks without DRM seem to 
<a href="http://authorearnings.com/july-2014-author-earnings-report/">sell
more copies</a>.
<p>
That's helpful for the cause of getting rid of DRM,
but since DRM is an offence against readers' freedom, 
if it did increase sales that would not be an excuse for it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(NY_thug_kills_man_with_chokehold)
title: NY thug kills man with chokehold
uri: NY-thug-kills-man-with-chokehold
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28NY_thug_kills_man_with_chokehold%29
content:
<p>
New York thugs killed a man by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/staten-island-man-dies-nypd-chokehold">putting
him in a chokehold</a>.  They had no reason to attack him in the first
place.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Gaza_free-fire_zones)
title: Gaza free-fire zones
uri: Gaza-free-fire-zones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Gaza_free-fire_zones%29
content:
<p>
Israel plans to turn a third of the area of Gaza into a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/israel-targets-tunnels-gaza-ground-invasion">free-fire
zone</a>.  
<p>
This plan represents a compromise with world opinion.  Left to itself,
Israel's government might prefer to declare the entirety of Gaza a
free-fire "buffer zone".  Or you might say that it has unofficially
done so.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Campaign_money_from_prison_owner)
title: Campaign money from prison owner
uri: Campaign-money-from-prison-owner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Campaign_money_from_prison_owner%29
content:
<p>
Florida Governor Scott is raising lots of 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/fundraiser-rick-scott-florida-geo-group">money
from a private prison owner</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Passenger_jet_shot_down)
title: Passenger jet shot down
uri: Passenger-jet-shot-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Passenger_jet_shot_down%29
content:
<p>
A passenger jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing everyone
aboard.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/aids-conference-says-100-researchers-may-have-been-on-board-crashed-plane">Around
100 leading AIDS researchers were on the plane</a>.
<p>
A leaked tape 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/separatist-links-malaysia-airlines-mh17-removed">reportedly
shows pro-Russian rebels in the Ukraine shot down the jetliner</a>,
thinking they had attacked a military transport plane.
<p>
This sort of thing is what happens in war.  US drone attacks are
called "surgical strikes", but they often do the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#02_October_2012_(Calling_U.S._Drone_Strikes_Surgical)">military
equivalent of amputating the wrong leg</a>.  A US ship shot down an
Iranian jetliner, also by mistake.  Israeli bombs in Gaza are
supposedly aimed at "terrorists" but many
hit <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jan-apr.html#03%20January%202009%20(Policeman%20seen%20nearby)">schools</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#18_July_2014_(Israel%27s_army_has_attacked_Gaza)">hospitals</a>, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_(Israel_attacking_wells_and_sewers)">wells</a> and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#10_July_2014_(Israels_bombardment_of_Gaza)">homes</a>.
<p>
However, when Russia handed high altitude SAMs to rebels without rigid
checklists, it made this sort of accident rather likely.
<p>
A reporter 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/18/mh17-russia-today-reporter-resigns-sara-firth-kremlin-malaysia">resigned
from Russia Today</a> to protest its absurd claims that Ukraine fired
the missile.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Obama_approves_injuring_whales)
title: Obama approves injuring whales
uri: Obama-approves-injuring-whales
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Obama_approves_injuring_whales%29
content:
<p>
Obama approved the plan to injure 100,000 whales and dolphins
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/18/obama-sonic-cannons-gas-oil-exploration">to
find more undersea oil</a> that we 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#14_February_2012_(Carbon_Companies)">can't
ever dare extract</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Ethiopia_to_imprison_dissidents)
title: Ethiopia to imprison dissidents
uri: Ethiopia-to-imprison-dissidents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Ethiopia_to_imprison_dissidents%29
content:
<p>
Ethiopia plans to imprison some dissidents on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/ethiopian-bloggers-journalists-zone-nine-charged-terrorism-ginbot-7">bogus
charges of "terrorism"</a>.
<p>
What the US and UK do, other countries imitate.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Niger_activists_face_charges)
title: Niger activists face charges
uri: Niger-activists-face-charges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Niger_activists_face_charges%29
content:
<p>
Niger activists opposed to a secret uranium mining deal with France
face charges 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jul/18/niger-activists-arrested-areva-francois-hollande-france-uranium">for
holding a press conference</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(DRIP_surveillance_law)
title: DRIP surveillance law
uri: DRIP-surveillance-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28DRIP_surveillance_law%29
content:
<p>
The Open Rights Group will
<a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2014/dear-theresa-see-you-in-court">challenge
the new DRIP surveillance law</a> in court.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Forcing_EU_to_accept_Tar_Sands_Oil)
title: Forcing EU to accept Tar Sands Oil
uri: Forcing-EU-to-accept-Tar-Sands-Oil
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Forcing_EU_to_accept_Tar_Sands_Oil%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/18-0">US Accused
of Forcing EU to Accept Tar Sands Oil</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(School_nutrition_standards)
title: School nutrition standards
uri: School-nutrition-standards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28School_nutrition_standards%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/who-lobbied-school-nutrition-standards-these-guys">The
Food Industry Lobby Groups Behind the New School Nutrition
Standards</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 19_July_2014_(Nurses_refusal_to_force_feed)
title: Nurse's refusal to force feed
uri: Nurse-s-refusal-to-force-feed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_%28Nurses_refusal_to_force_feed%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/18/nurse-guantanamo-boycott-force-feed-prisoners">What
convinced the Guantanamo nurse</a> that force feeding is wrong.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Urgent:_Support_postal_banking)
title: Urgent: Support postal banking
uri: Urgent-Support-postal-banking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_postal_banking%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/sign-the-petition-allow-post-offices-to-offer-basic-banking-services-1">Support
postal banking</a>.


title: The Rising Global Movement That Calls for #noTTIP
uri: The-Rising-Global-Movement-That-Calls-for-noTTIP
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(The_Rising_Global_Movement_That_Calls_for_#noTTIP)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28The_Rising_Global_Movement_That_Calls_for_%23noTTIP%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/16-2">The Rising
Global Movement That Calls for #noTTIP.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Syria_calls_for_UK_to_support_Assad)
title: Syria calls for UK to support Assad
uri: Syria-calls-for-UK-to-support-Assad
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Syria_calls_for_UK_to_support_Assad%29

content:
<p>
Syria says it
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/uk-policy-supporting-anti-assad-syria-rebels-called-stupid">stupid
to support the rebels and calls for the UK to support Assad</a>.
<p>
The sad thing is, that is true.  When the main Syrian rebel
groups <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/world/middleeast/syria-crisis.html?ref=world&_r=0">joined
with the Islamists</a>, they became enemies of human rights just as
much as Assad is.  Here's an article
that <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2013/09/26/syrian-rebels-embrace-al-qaeda/">argues
that Israel and Saudi Arabia have promoted the violent rebellion in
Syria</a>, even as far as directly supporting jihadis.
<p>
I wonder if Israel supports ISIS too.


title: State legislators that support voter-ID laws
uri: State-legislators-that-support-voter-ID-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(State_legislators_that_support_voter-ID_laws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28State_legislators_that_support_voter-ID_laws%29

content:
<p>
State legislators that support voter-ID
laws <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-07-state-legislators-favor-voter-id.html">show
a strong statistical tendency to discriminate against Latinos</a>.


title: All The Big Broadband Players Support FCC's Proposed Rules
uri: All-The-Big-Broadband-Players-Support-FCC-s-Proposed-Rules
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(All_The_Big_Broadband_Players_Support_FCC's_Proposed_Rules)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28All_The_Big_Broadband_Players_Support_FCC%27s_Proposed_Rules%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140715/17495527884/all-big-broadband-players-support-fccs-proposed-rules-which-says-all-you-need-to-know.shtml">All
The Big Broadband Players Support FCC's Proposed Rules</a>... Which
Says All You Need To Know.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Urgent:_Diplomacy_with_Iran)
title: Urgent: Diplomacy with Iran
uri: 2014-07-21-Urgent-Diplomacy-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Diplomacy_with_Iran%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and urge
them <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/5278?t=1001&akid=11201.1183552.d6q_89">not
to block diplomacy with Iran</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Urgent:_Support_the_Hide_No_Harm_Act)
title: Urgent: Support the Hide No Harm Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Hide-No-Harm-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Hide_No_Harm_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Congress
to <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12524">support
the Hide No Harm Act</a>.


title: Some Israelis cheer at deadly bombardment
uri: Some-Israelis-cheer-at-deadly-bombardment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Some_Israelis_cheer_at_deadly_bombardment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Some_Israelis_cheer_at_deadly_bombardment%29

content:
<p>
Some Israelis go to hills near Gaza
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israelis-cheer-gaza-bombing">cheer
at the deadly bombardment.</a> A journalist suspected of not
sympathizing with them was threatened with violence.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Obey_the_US_government)
title: Obey the US government
uri: Obey-the-US-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Obey_the_US_government%29
content:
<p>
US journalist Cokie
Roberts <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/07/14/cokie-roberts-more-people-should-fear-the-united-states/">bemoans
the fact that everyone around the world does not obey the US
government</a>.
<p>
I think most governments fear the US too much; they let the US
pressure them into unjust plutocratic treaties.
<p>
In the 90s, when I used to listen to National Public Radio, I loathed
Roberts' right-wing criticisms of right-wing "Democrat" Bill Clinton.
They showed me that NPR is actually rather right-wing, contrary to the
reputation it gets by contrast with the extremely right-wing
commercial US media such as Faux News.


title: Journalist Andy Hall faces the threat of imprisonment
uri: Journalist-Andy-Hall-faces-the-threat-of-imprisonment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Journalist_Andy_Hall_faces_the_threat_of_imprisonment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Journalist_Andy_Hall_faces_the_threat_of_imprisonment%29

content:
<p>
Journalist Andy
Hall <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/itf-thailand-government-drop-andy-hall-defamation-trial">faces
the threat of imprisonment for revealing slavery in Thailand.</a>
<p>
Making it a crime to publish an accusation of abuses is prima facie
injustice and inexcusable.


title: UK is saving emails of lots of people
uri: UK-is-saving-emails-of-lots-of-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(UK_is_saving_emails_of_lots_of_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28UK_is_saving_emails_of_lots_of_people%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/18/intelligence-services-email-database-internet-tribunal">UK
is saving emails of lots of people</a>, without warrants, in case it
might be interested in them in the future.
<p>
The R.I.P. act (for Rip Internet Privacy) was
an <a href="https://stallman.org/knock.html">injustice even with its
previous interpretation.</a> The UK must repeal it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(San_Francisco_workers_threatened)
title: San Francisco workers threatened
uri: San-Francisco-workers-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28San_Francisco_workers_threatened%29
content:
<p>
An arrogant plutocrat 
<a href="http://pando.com/2014/07/17/new-san-francisco-billboard-warns-workers-theyll-be-replaced-by-ipads-if-they-demand-a-fair-wage/">threatens
San Francisco workers with being replaced by an oppressive
computer</a> if they demand decent wages.
<p>
In the short term, the workers should simply repeat the demand, to
show they are not scared.
<p>
In the medium term, they face the threat of being replaced by
computers in any case, so they should organize to prohibit that.  Why
should stores be allowed to replace human sales clerks with computers?
It should be banned by law.  Until then, I make a point of refusing to
use those machines, to push back against them.
<p>
In the long term, everyone should get a guaranteed income, obtained by
taxing the owners of the robots.  This should perhaps be conditioned
on not having children; however, anyone who adopts a child should get
a big subsidy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(Wildfire_in_state_of_Washington)
title: Wildfire in state of Washington
uri: Wildfire-in-state-of-Washington
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Wildfire_in_state_of_Washington%29
content:
<p>
A wildfire in the state of Washington has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/washington-wildfire-growing-rapidly">burned
340 square miles</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(Israeli_soldiers_in_Gaza)
title: Israeli soldiers in Gaza
uri: Israeli-soldiers-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Israeli_soldiers_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israel-gaza-ground-offensive-hamas-tunnels">in
streets</a> fighting in Gaza.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/gaza-thousands-flee-israeli-bombardment">Thousands
of civilians are trying to flee</a>, but no place is safe.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(Decriminalization_of_drug_use)
title: Decriminalization of drug use
uri: Decriminalization-of-drug-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Decriminalization_of_drug_use%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blog/world-health-organization-calls-decriminalisation-drug-use">WHO
calls for an end</a> to treating drug users as criminals.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(Malaysian_planes_black_box_in_Russia)
title: Malaysian plane's black box in Russia
uri: Malaysian-plane-s-black-box-in-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Malaysian_planes_black_box_in_Russia%29

content:
<p>
A Russian radio station reports that 
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/17/mh17-black-box-sent-to-moscow-for-investigation.html">rebels
sent the Malaysian plane's black box to Russia</a>.
<p>
The "investigation" by Russia cant be trusted, but this meddling
confirms it was the rebels or Russia that shot down the plane.
<p>
The article also provides evidence that Russia is firing lots of
short-range missiles at Ukraine.  Unlike the ineffective missiles that
Hamas fires at Israeli civilians, these are a real threat to Ukrainian
troops.


title: Urgent: Let Mohyeldin go back to Gaza
uri: Urgent-Let-Mohyeldin-go-back-to-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(Urgent:_Let_Mohyeldin_go_back_to_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Let_Mohyeldin_go_back_to_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-nbcnews-deborahturness?source=c.url&r_by=1135580">Call
on NBC News</a> to let Ayman Mohyeldin go back to Gaza.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(Russias_paid_internet_propaganda)
title: Russia's paid internet propaganda
uri: Russia-s-paid-internet-propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Russias_paid_internet_propaganda%29
content:
<p>
Russia has a paid internet propaganda and 
<a href="http://m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/russias-online-comment-propaganda-army/280432/">troll
army</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-may-aug.html#25%20May%202007%20(Corporate%20propaganda)">The
US has one too</a>.
<p>
The US is funding research on how to 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/air-force-research-how-to-use-social-media-to-control-people-like-drones/">manipulate
people through social networks</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(The_fighting_in_Gaza)
title: The fighting in Gaza
uri: The-fighting-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28The_fighting_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1405694550/">Uri
Avnery comments</a> on the fighting in Gaza.


title: Children fleeing from Central America
uri: Children-fleeing-from-Central-America
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(Children_fleeing_from_Central_America)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Children_fleeing_from_Central_America%29

content:
<p>
Why so many children flee from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador can
be traced to 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/07/14/all-they-will-call-you-will-be-detainee/">what
the US did to those countries</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(Counter-terrorist_tactics)
title: "Counter-terrorist" tactics
uri: Counter-terrorist-tactics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Counter-terrorist_tactics%29
content:
<p>
"Counter-terrorist" tactics can be effective against a small
underground group, but 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/18-5">not against an
insurgency with popular support</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 20_July_2014_(Israel_firing_flechette_shells)
title: Israel firing flechette shells
uri: Israel-firing-flechette-shells
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28Israel_firing_flechette_shells%29
content:
<p>
Israeli tanks are firing 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israel-using-flechette-shells-in-gaza">flechette
shells</a> that hit everyone in a large area 300 meters by 90 meters,
and using them in towns where civilians are likely to be hit.
<p>
Gazans say Israel is using some sort of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/18-4">poison
gas</a>.
<p>
Doctors in Gaza suspect Israel is using experimental weapons that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/15-2">rip human
bodies to shreds</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Climate_models)
title: Climate models
uri: Climate-models
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Climate_models%29
content:
<p>
It turns out that climate
models <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jul/21/realistic-climate-models-accurately-predicted-global-warming">accurately
model the rate of Earth's surface heating, when not fooled by El
Niño/La Niña</a>.


title: Omniscient state that supports the rich
uri: Omniscient-state-that-supports-the-rich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Omniscient_state_that_supports_the_rich)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Omniscient_state_that_supports_the_rich%29

content:
<p>
If you stand for freedom or resist the rich, you have something to
fear from
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/21/activists-assata-shakur-state-surveillance-innocent">omniscient
state that supports the rich</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Right-Wing_global_heating_deniers)
title: Right-Wing global heating deniers
uri: Right-Wing-global-heating-deniers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Right-Wing_global_heating_deniers%29

content:
<p>
Some right-wing global heating deniers are driven to their delusion by
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/jul/21/paterson-green-blog-right-climate-change">ideological
opposition to using collective action to solve any problem.</a>
<p>
Collective action through the state is also the way
to <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#20_July_2014_%28San_Francisco_workers_threatened%29">stop
plutocrats from pushing most people into poverty</a>, which is another
reason those plutocratist politicians hate collective action.


title: UK plans another attack on the natural world
uri: UK-plans-another-attack-on-the-natural-world
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(UK_plans_another_attack_on_the_natural_world)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28UK_plans_another_attack_on_the_natural_world%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/jul/21/infrastructure-bill-stopping-reintroduction-wildlife-uk">UK
plans another attack on the natural world</a>, both wildlife and the
Earth's climate, proposing a legal requirement to extract the maximum
amount of fossil fuel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(High-Profile_terrorist_plots)
title: High-Profile terrorist plots
uri: High-Profile-terrorist-plots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28High-Profile_terrorist_plots%29
content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch finds that most of the high-profile terrorist plots
that the US prosecutes
were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/government-agents-directly-involved-us-terror-plots-report">stimulated
by the US government, and the "perpetrators" were often reluctant</a>.
<p>
The effect is systematic injustice, but it suits those that hate our
freedoms and are in a position to take them away by changing our laws.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Urgent:_US_National_Monuments)
title: Urgent: US National Monuments
uri: Urgent-US-National-Monuments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_US_National_Monuments%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate
to <a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/kill-the-monument-bill-hr-1459">reject
Republican plans to block new US National Monuments.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Antedated_predictions)
title: Antedated "predictions"
uri: Antedated-predictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Antedated_predictions%29
content:
<p>
How the
Internet <a href="https://medium.com/message/how-to-always-be-right-on-the-internet-delete-your-mistakes-519a595da2f5">makes
it easy to create antedated "predictions" for fraud</a>.


title: Urgent: Support the Paycheck Fairness Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Paycheck-Fairness-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Urgent:_Support_the_Paycheck_Fairness_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Paycheck_Fairness_Act%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10116">support
the Paycheck Fairness Act</a>.
<p>
More <a href="https://www.aclu.org/womens-rights/equal-pay-equal-work-pass-paycheck-fairness-act">information</a>
about it.


title: Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef
uri: Coral-cover-in-the-Great-Barrier-Reef
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Coral_cover_in_the_Great_Barrier_Reef)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Coral_cover_in_the_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
Coral cover in the Great Barrier
Reef <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/great-barrier-reef-in-worst-state-since-records-began">has
fallen by half since the 1980s</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Israeli_attacks_kill_100_in_one_day)
title: Israeli attacks kill 100 in one day
uri: Israeli-attacks-kill-100-in-one-day
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Israeli_attacks_kill_100_in_one_day%29

content:
<p>
Israeli attacks 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/gaza-bloodiest-day-assault-kills-palestinians-israelis-hospitals">killed
100 Palestinians in one day</a>, many of them civilians.
<p>
This included 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/gaza-crisis-obama-ceasefire-fighting-goes-on">shelling
a hospital</a>.
<p>
Israel's tactics guarantee lots of civilian casualties.  One must
question whether defense against attacks that might kill a few
civilians justifies a response that kills hundreds of civilians.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Looting_at_jetliner_crash_site)
title: Looting at jetliner crash site
uri: Looting-at-jetliner-crash-site
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Looting_at_jetliner_crash_site%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/mh17-victims-crash-site-anger-russia-grows">Ukrainian
rebels have not protected the jetliner's crash site</a> from looting
or disturbance of evidence.
<p>
I regard this as proof of guilt.
<p>
Demonstrating the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/russians-blame-kiev-mh17-not-ukraine-rebels">effectiveness
of state manipulation of the media</a>, most Russians believe the
downing of the Malaysian jet was a plot against Russia.
<p>
This is comparable to the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_March_2014_(Deceptive_arguments_from_global_heating_denialists)">global
heating denial campaign</a> which has convinced so many Americans to
support political fantasy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Indias_censorship_law)
title: India's censorship law
uri: India-s-censorship-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Indias_censorship_law%29
content:
<p>
India's censorship law is 
<a href="http://thenetmonitor.org/blog/posts/clampdowns-on-online-dissent-in-modi-s-india">being
used to persecute a critic of Modi</a>.


title: Google abolishes "real name" requirement
uri: Google-abolishes-real-name-requirement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Google_abolishes_real_name_requirement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Google_abolishes_real_name_requirement%29

content:
<p>
Google has 
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/google-reverses-real-names-policy-7000031642/">abolished
the "real name" requirement</a> for Google account.
<p>
This might mean that Google+ is acceptable to use.  But I am not
certain, because I don't know the answer to two follow-on questions:

<ul>

<li> What other personal data must one supply to make an account, and
do they amount to identification of the user?  Is it possible to make
a Google account named "Rumplestiltskin358", contacting the server
through Tor, and not enable Google to identify you?

<li> Does that require running 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree
Javascript code</a>.

</ul>

Later: Google+ is useless without nonfree Javascript code,
so it should not be used.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(The_Internet_of_Things)
title: The Internet of Things
uri: 2014-07-22-The-Internet-of-Things
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28The_Internet_of_Things%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://innovationinsights.wired.com/insights/2014/07/7-reasons-internet-things-doomed/">7
Reasons Why the Internet of Things Is Doomed</a>.
<p>
Actually, some of them are reasons why we should kill it,
which do not necessarily imply it is doomed on its own.
<p>
A "smart house" project Japan is a scheme to impose 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/energy-hungry-japan-puts-smart-towns-to-the-test/a-17790945">total
surveillance and tracking</a>.
<p>
This demonstrates the danger inherent in such schemes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Tobacco_ads_targeted_at_minors)
title: Tobacco ads targeted at minors
uri: Tobacco-ads-targeted-at-minors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Tobacco_ads_targeted_at_minors%29
content:
<p>
RJ Reynolds has been hit with 23 billion dollars in punitive damages
for advertising 
<a href="http://www.dw.de/us-cigarette-maker-reynolds-hit-with-23-billion-dollar-damages-award/a-17796366">designed
to make minors smoke</a>.
<p>
The article says "children", but adolescents are not children, so I
won't use that word.  Advertising tobacco to adolescents is arguably
even worse than advertising it to children, since children are not
likely to start smoking whereas adolescents may well do so.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Pressure_to_allow_GMO_farming)
title: Pressure to allow GMO farming
uri: Pressure-to-allow-GMO-farming
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Pressure_to_allow_GMO_farming%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/18/us-australia-gmo-idUSKBN0FN06920140718">Even
in Isolated, Pristine Tasmania, Pressure to Allow GMO Farming</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 21_July_2014_(Airline_ticket_purchases)
title: Airline ticket purchases
uri: Airline-ticket-purchases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#21_July_2014_%28Airline_ticket_purchases%29
content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/ars-editor-learns-feds-have-his-old-ip-addresses-full-credit-card-numbers/">keeps
lots of information</a> about everyone's airline ticket purchases and
appears to keep it for at least 10 years.


title: Urgent: Subway staff working while sick
uri: Urgent-Subway-staff-working-while-sick
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Urgent:_Subway_staff_working_while_sick)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Subway_staff_working_while_sick%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/sick/">tell Subway to stop</a>
making staff work while sick and stop firing them for going to the
hospital.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Urgent:_Poultry_inspection_rules)
title: Urgent: Poultry inspection rules
uri: Urgent-Poultry-inspection-rules
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Poultry_inspection_rules%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14489">Tell
Secretary Vilsack</a> to publish the proposed rule for poultry
inspection, and hold hearings on it.
<p>
The very idea of a secret rule proposal is offensive.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Al_Jazeera_building_hit)
title: Al Jazeera building hit
uri: Al-Jazeera-building-hit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Al_Jazeera_building_hit%29
content:
<p>
Al Jazeera says 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/22/al-jazeera-gaza-offices-hit-israeli-fire">Israeli
troops fired at its building in Gaza</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(UKs_terrorism_law_targets_words)
title: UK's terrorism law targets words
uri: UK-s-terrorism-law-targets-words
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28UKs_terrorism_law_targets_words%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jul/22/terrorism-law-targets-words-guns-bombs">How
UK's Terrorism Law Targets Words, Not Just Guns And Bombs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(UKs_emergency_surveillance_law)
title: UK's "emergency" surveillance law
uri: UK-s-emergency-surveillance-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28UKs_emergency_surveillance_law%29
content:
<p>
Two UK MPs will ask a court to reject the UK's 
<a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/07/22/british-mps-to-sue-government-over-fast-tracked-drip-surveillance-law/">"emergency"
surveillance law</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Time_Magazine_on_the_US_economy)
title: Time Magazine on the US economy
uri: Time-Magazine-on-the-US-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Time_Magazine_on_the_US_economy%29
content:
<p>
Time Magazine says the US economy is doing great, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/22-0">judging based
on the rich and the fossil fuel companies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(China_using_fake_Twitter_accounts)
title: China using fake Twitter accounts
uri: China-using-fake-Twitter-accounts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28China_using_fake_Twitter_accounts%29

content:
<p>
China is using fake Twitter accounts, masquerading as famous people,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/22/free-tibet-fake-twitter-accounts-china-propagandists">to
promote its occupation of Tibet</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Hottest_June_on_record)
title: Hottest June on record
uri: Hottest-June-on-record
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Hottest_June_on_record%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/world-breaks-temperature-record-june-hottest-may">June
2014 was the hottest June on record</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Beef_and_the_carbon_footprint)
title: Beef and the carbon footprint
uri: Beef-and-the-carbon-footprint
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Beef_and_the_carbon_footprint%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up-beef-reduce-carbon-footprint-more-than-cars">Giving
Up Beef Will Reduce Carbon Footprint More Than Cars, Says Expert</a>.


title: Executive order to protect LGBT people
uri: Executive-order-to-protect-LGBT-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Executive_order_to_protect_LGBT_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Executive_order_to_protect_LGBT_people%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/21-2">President
Obama Signs Executive Order Protecting LGBT People from Workplace
Discrimination</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Violent_pogroms_against_Arabs)
title: Violent pogroms against Arabs
uri: Violent-pogroms-against-Arabs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Violent_pogroms_against_Arabs%29
content:
<p>
Violent pogroms against Arabs are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/gaza-crisis-hamas-killed-friend-need-kill">spreading
in Israel</a> as many say they want to exterminate the inhabitants of
Gaza.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 22_July_2014_(Call_for_end_to_bombardment_of_Gaza)
title: Call for end to bombardment of Gaza
uri: Call-for-end-to-bombardment-of-Gaza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#22_July_2014_%28Call_for_end_to_bombardment_of_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Gush Shalom 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1405609371">calls
for an end to the bombardment</a> of Gaza.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Urgent:_End_the_siege_of_Gaza)
title: Urgent: End the siege of Gaza
uri: Urgent-End-the-siege-of-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_the_siege_of_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Obama to pressure Israel
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-whitehouse-johnkerry?source=c.em&r_by=1135580">end
the siege of Gaza as part of a permanent nonaggression agreement</a>.
<p>
It is widely noted that the rockets launched from Gaza are an act of
war and a war crime.  The siege is also an act of war and a war crime.
Let's end them both.


title: An ID card to identify you as a human being
uri: An-ID-card-to-identify-you-as-a-human-being
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(An_ID_card_to_identify_you_as_a_human_being)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28An_ID_card_to_identify_you_as_a_human_being%29

content:
<p>
An ID card
to <a href="http://humanpapers.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/papers-for-everyone-print-cut-fold/">identify
you as a human being.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Spying_on_Prime_Minister_Erdo)
title: Spying on Prime Minister Erdo
uri: Spying-on-Prime-Minister-Erdo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Spying_on_Prime_Minister_Erdo%29
content:
<p>
Turkish thugs have been accused
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/22/turkish-police-accused-spying-prime-minister-arrested">illegally
spying on Prime Minister Erdo an and others</a>, using falsified
papers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Urgent:_Israeli_bombardment_of_Gaza)
title: Urgent: Israeli bombardment of Gaza
uri: Urgent-Israeli-bombardment-of-Gaza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Israeli_bombardment_of_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose the resolution that
would endorse the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 
and 888-355-3588.


title: The world center of global heating denialism
uri: The-world-center-of-global-heating-denialism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(The_world_center_of_global_heating_denialism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28The_world_center_of_global_heating_denialism%29

content:
<p>
Anglophone countries
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/23/the-strange-relationship-between-global-warming-denial-and-speaking-english">the
world center of global heating denialism</a>, perhaps due to the
effect of the Murdoch media.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Hamas_rockets)
title: Hamas rockets
uri: Hamas-rockets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Hamas_rockets%29
content:
<p>
Hamas rockets rarely seriously injure a person, but they have acquired
economic clout
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/john-kerry-flies-israel-flight-ban-gaza-ceasefire-talks">causing
cancellation of many international flights to Tel Aviv</a>.
<p>
Maybe now Netanyahu will agree
to <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#09_July_2014_%28Another_excuse_to_invade_Gaza%29">end
the war that he started</a>.


title: Great Barrier Reef is contaminated by toxic coal dust
uri: Great-Barrier-Reef-is-contaminated-by-toxic-coal-dust
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Great_Barrier_Reef_is_contaminated_by_toxic_coal_dust)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Great_Barrier_Reef_is_contaminated_by_toxic_coal_dust%29

content:
<p>
The whole of the Great Barrier Reef
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/23/great-barrier-reef-contaminated-by-toxic-coal-dust-inquiry-told">contaminated
by toxic coal dust from Australian coal export.</a>


title: MP tried to force food down a fasting Muslim's throat
uri: MP-tried-to-force-food-down-a-fasting-Muslim-s-throat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(MP_tried_to_force_food_down_a_fasting_Muslim's_throat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28MP_tried_to_force_food_down_a_fasting_Muslim%27s_throat%29

content:
<p>
A Hindu-nationalist MP in
India <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/india-hindu-nationalist-mp-force-feed-muslim-ramadan">tried
to force food down a fasting Muslim's throat</a>.
<p>
Even if you believe the MP's claim that this was only a complaint
about the bad quality of the food served, shoving it into someone's
mouth is hardly justifiable.
<p>
At least he did not try to do it via
a <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#16_May_2014_%28Hunger_strikers_in_Guantanamo%29">tube through the man's nose, as the US military does</a>.


title: Removal of a memorial to Korean forced laborers
uri: Removal-of-a-memorial-to-Korean-forced-laborers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Removal_of_a_memorial_to_Korean_forced_laborers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Removal_of_a_memorial_to_Korean_forced_laborers%29

content:
<p>
Japanese
officials <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/japan-war-memorial-korean-labourers">ordered
removal of a memorial to Korean forced laborers</a>.


title: Tamil boat people sought for interview
uri: Tamil-boat-people-sought-for-interview
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 23_July_2014_(Tamil_boat_people_sought_for_interview)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Tamil_boat_people_sought_for_interview%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/india-seeks-access-tamil-asylum-seekers">India
wants to interview the Tamil boat people</a> who are imprisoned on an
Australian ship.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 23_July_2014_(Australian_public_transit_cuts)
title: Australian public transit cuts
uri: Australian-public-transit-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Australian_public_transit_cuts%29
content:
<p>
Australia's government is cutting funds for public transit 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/australia-addicted-to-roads-says-leaked-infrastructure-report">to
build more roads instead</a>.
<p>
It's a natural choice, for a government that intends to boost fossil
fuel use.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 23_July_2014_(Emissions_from_US_military)
title: Emissions from US military
uri: Emissions-from-US-military
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Emissions_from_US_military%29
content:
<p>
The US military is responsible for around 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3181:the-military-assault-on-global-climate">5%
of world greenhouse gas emissions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 23_July_2014_(Idea_of_type_A_personality)
title: Idea of "type A personality"
uri: Idea-of-type-A-personality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Idea_of_type_A_personality%29
content:
<p>
The idea of a "type A personality", with health problems due to stress,
was 
<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/07/325946892/the-secret-history-behind-the-science-of-stress">constructed
by the tobacco industry</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 23_July_2014_(History_of_marriage)
title: History of marriage
uri: History-of-marriage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28History_of_marriage%29
content:
<p>
How opponents of same-sex marriage distort the 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/07/21/mawwiage.html">history of
marriage</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 23_July_2014_(Protest_against_tar_sands_mine)
title: Protest against tar sands mine
uri: Protest-against-tar-sands-mine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Protest_against_tar_sands_mine%29
content:
<p>
Protesters 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/21-3">blockaded
a tar sands mine</a> in Utah.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 23_July_2014_(Iran_delivers_on_promise)
title: Iran delivers on promise
uri: Iran-delivers-on-promise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Iran_delivers_on_promise%29
content:
<p>
Iran has finished the promised 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/21-1">dilution
of its most enriched uranium</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 23_July_2014_(Koch_brothers_political_spending)
title: Koch brothers' political spending
uri: Koch-brothers-political-spending
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28Koch_brothers_political_spending%29
content:
<p>
The Koch brothers spend 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12541/koch-political-spending">hundreds
of millions</a> to influence politics, through a maze of twisty
channels all different.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 23_July_2014_(US_stranding_Yemeni-Americans)
title: US stranding Yemeni-Americans
uri: US-stranding-Yemeni-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28US_stranding_Yemeni-Americans%29
content:
<p>
The US is stranding Yemeni-Americans in Yemen by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/22/yemeni-americans-us-embassy-sanaa-passports">confiscating
their passports while they are visiting there</a>.
<p>
Then they have to wait as much as a year before they are allowed to
return to the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 23_July_2014_(UKs_contempt_for_the_environment)
title: UK's contempt for the environment
uri: UK-s-contempt-for-the-environment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#23_July_2014_%28UKs_contempt_for_the_environment%29
content:
<p>
The UK government demonstrated its contempt for the environment yet
again by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/22/environment-agency-chairman-fracking-links">appointing
a fracking flunky to head the Environmental Agency</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Urgent:_Privacy_bills)
title: Urgent: Privacy bills
uri: Urgent-Privacy-bills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Privacy_bills%29
content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: 
<a href="https://ma--aclu.capwiz.com/aclu/ma//issues/alert/?alertID=63277186&ms=eml_140715_aff_MA_privacy_bills">contact
specific state legislators</a> in favor of three privacy bills.  If
they don't pass by July 31 they will be dead for this year.


title: Security clearance interviews by robots
uri: Security-clearance-interviews-by-robots
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Security_clearance_interviews_by_robots)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Security_clearance_interviews_by_robots%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/oh-great-robots-are-set-to-conduct-national-security-clearance-interviews">Oh,
Great: Robots Are Set to Conduct National Security Clearance
Interviews</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Surveillance_cameras_in_San_Diego)
title: Surveillance cameras in San Diego
uri: Surveillance-cameras-in-San-Diego
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Surveillance_cameras_in_San_Diego%29

content:
<p>
San Diego has set up a 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/operation-secure-san-diego">network
of state and private cameras</a> that any thug can watch at any time.


title: Web sites blocked in the name of world cup
uri: Web-sites-blocked-in-the-name-of-world-cup
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Web_sites_blocked_in_the_name_of_world_cup)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Web_sites_blocked_in_the_name_of_world_cup%29

content:
<p>
File sharing sites that governments blocked the name of the world cup
have 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-sites-stay-blocked-long-world-cup-ends-140722/">remained
blocked</a> and will probably be blocked permanently.
<p>
This is another incidental form of oppression dealt out by the world
cup.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(NYC_responds_to_thugs_killing)
title: NYC responds to thugs' killing
uri: NYC-responds-to-thugs-killing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28NYC_responds_to_thugs_killing%29
content:
<p>
New York City is moving firmly in response to the thugs' killing of
Eric Garner, but not questioning the deeper policy of 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/23/scrutiny-over-nypd-tactics-after-chokehold-death-unarmed-man">jailing
people over any minor crime</a>.
<p>
When legitimate work is hard to get and pays too little to live on,
poor people are compelled to break laws to survive.  Plutocratic
government uses that as an excuse to oppress them.
<p>
The only way to reduce annoying crime and black-marketeering is to
stop running the economy for the rich.  Everyone who can't work should
get enough aid for a decent life, and jobs should pay a living wage.


title: Anti-abortion activists use bogus science
uri: Anti-abortion-activists-use-bogus-science
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Anti-abortion_activists_use_bogus_science)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Anti-abortion_activists_use_bogus_science%29

content:
<p>
Anti-abortion activists use 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/24/no-anti-abortion-activist-should-be-able-to-mislead-women-to-rescue-them">bogus
science</a> to claim that medical abortions are dangerous, while
pushing women into amateur abortions that really are dangerous.
<p>
I don't use the term "pro-choice" because it fails to defend abortion
rights firmly.  I also refuse to accept the term "pro-life" that
opponents of abortion chose as a way to insult us.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Moroccan_women_protest)
title: Moroccan women protest
uri: Moroccan-women-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Moroccan_women_protest%29
content:
<p>
Moroccan women 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/06/26/moroccan-women-say-no-thanks-being-gods-sacred-stay-home-lanterns">protested
the prime minister</a> who told them to stay home and not work.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(How_the_US_chose_war_after_911)
title: How the US chose war after 9/11
uri: How-the-US-chose-war-after-9-11
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28How_the_US_chose_war_after_911%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/jonathan-schell-predict-war-september-11">Jonathan
Schell: how the US chose war</a>, and declared its readiness to
overthrow any government to impose plutocratic rule.


title: Bombing the families of Hamas members
uri: Bombing-the-families-of-Hamas-members
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Bombing_the_families_of_Hamas_members)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Bombing_the_families_of_Hamas_members%29

content:
<p>
B'tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, explains why the
homes of the families of Hamas members are not military targets, so
bombing them is a 
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/68487">war crime</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/israel-may-have-committed-war-crimes-in-gaza-un">The
UN also criticizes</a> Israel's war crimes in Gaza.
<p>
Note the Israeli representative's bogus claim that those families are
"human shields".  That would only be true if the homes were legitimate
military targets.
<p>
In addition to bombing hospitals, Israel has systematically destroyed
Gaza's civil infrastructure such as 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#17_July_2014_(Israel_attacking_wells_and_sewers)">water
and sewage facilities</a>.
<p>
In the village of Zanna, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/israeli-air-strikes-hamas-battles-gaza-zanna-dead">every
house was damaged</a> by Israeli attack.
<p>
Shooting the water tanks had no possible motive except to make
civilians' lives miserable.  People in Gaza can't afford to replace
the water tanks; replacements may be impossible to obtain.
<p>
Perhaps Israel destroyed Zanna as preparation for declaring it a
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_(Gaza_free-fire_zones)">free-fire
"buffer zone"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Warning_from_govt_whistleblower)
title: Warning from gov't whistleblower
uri: Warning-from-gov-t-whistleblower
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Warning_from_govt_whistleblower%29
content:
<p>
A government whistleblower warns that the NSA grabs massive amounts of
Americans' data, including email contents, by 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-executive-order-12333-the-reagan-rule-that-lets-the-nsa-spy-on-americans/2014/07/18/93d2ac22-0b93-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html">breaking
into servers and communication links outside the US</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_the_right_to_boycott)
title: Urgent: Protect the right to boycott
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-right-to-boycott
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_the_right_to_boycott%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Illinois, Maryland and New York: 
<a href="http://ccrjustice.org/protectrighttoboycott">oppose state
bills that would attack the right</a> to boycott Israeli institutions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(Decriminalization_of_sex_work)
title: Decriminalization of sex work
uri: Decriminalization-of-sex-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28Decriminalization_of_sex_work%29
content:
<p>
More about 
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/22/5924843/hiv-researchers-cope-loss-of-colleagues-aboard-mh17">why
HIV researchers call for decriminalization</a> of sex work.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(The_road_to_war_in_Gaza)
title: The road to war in Gaza
uri: The-road-to-war-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28The_road_to_war_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Israel, backed by the West, responded to the Palestinian unity
government with 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/opinion/gaza-and-israel-the-road-to-war-paved-by-the-west.html?&_r=0">repression</a>,
which helped get the current war started.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 24_July_2014_(US-subsidized_destruction_in_Gaza)
title: US-subsidized destruction in Gaza
uri: US-subsidized-destruction-in-Gaza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_July_2014_%28US-subsidized_destruction_in_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/israel-gaza-united-states-assistance-unrwa">How
America Finances the Destruction in Gaza — and the Clean-Up</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(Corporate_front_group)
title: Corporate front group
uri: Corporate-front-group
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Corporate_front_group%29
content:
<p>
The American Council on Science and Health is a corporate front group
that 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12538/koch-and-co-funding-pro-pesticide-pro-gmo-front-group">spreads
spin about scientific issues that affect business interests</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(Systematic_spying_by_UK_thugs)
title: Systematic spying by UK thugs
uri: Systematic-spying-by-UK-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Systematic_spying_by_UK_thugs%29
content:
<p>
UK thugs systematically 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/24/undercover-police-spying-justice-campaigns-20-years">spied
on families campaigning for justice after relatives were killed or
maimed</a> — in many cases, by thugs.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/24/secret-met-police-unit-information-justice-campaigns">More
information</a>.
<p>
It has a certain logic.  People whose relatives you've shot might be
plausible nuclei for opposition and you might want to sabotage their
campaigns.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(Students_from_elite_US_universities)
title: Students from elite US universities
uri: Students-from-elite-US-universities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Students_from_elite_US_universities%29

content:
<p>
A Yale professor reports that the dynamic of elite US universities, and
the competition to gain admission to them, produces 
<a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118747/ivy-league-schools-are-overrated-send-your-kids-elsewhere">students
who don't dare risk failure or stray from a narrow path</a>.  He
describes this as a bad education.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(Civilians_in_UN_compound_shelled)
title: Civilians in UN compound shelled
uri: Civilians-in-UN-compound-shelled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Civilians_in_UN_compound_shelled%29
content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/gaza-crisis-israeli-shells-kill-15-un-school-compound">shelled
civilians sheltering in a UN compound</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(Study_of_monkeys_near_Fukushima)
title: Study of monkeys near Fukushima
uri: Study-of-monkeys-near-Fukushima
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Study_of_monkeys_near_Fukushima%29
content:
<p>
Wild monkeys 40 miles from Fukushima 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/24/japanese-monkeys-abnormal-blood-linked-to-fukushima-disaster-study">>have
blood disorders and some radioactive cesium</a>.
<p>
The level of cesium they have might not be enough explain their blood
disorders.


title: Tricking people into giving fingerprints
uri: Tricking-people-into-giving-fingerprints
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(Tricking_people_into_giving_fingerprints)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Tricking_people_into_giving_fingerprints%29

content:
<p>
Texas has started 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140721/09452027954/texas-dept-public-safety-quietly-starts-demanding-full-set-prints-drivers-license-applicants.shtml">asking
for fingerprints from everyone that renews a driver's license</a>.
<p>
People are not required to give all the fingerprints, but the state
tricks them into thinking so.
<p>
Demanding even one fingerprint is an injustice.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(Israel_testing_weapons_in_Gaza)
title: Israel testing weapons in Gaza
uri: Israel-testing-weapons-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Israel_testing_weapons_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
One of Israel's motives for war in Gaza is so it can 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/24/never-again-us">advertise
weapons exports as "field-tested"</a>.


title: Investing in businesses to "create" jobs
uri: Investing-in-businesses-to-create-jobs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(Investing_in_businesses_to_create_jobs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Investing_in_businesses_to_create_jobs%29

content:
<p>
Texas invested $200 million in businesses
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/texas-governor-rick-perry-startup-fund-review">to
"create" 1600 jobs in Texas</a>.  It turns out that some of the
companies don't really exist, aren't in Texas, don't pay their taxes,
etc.
<p>
As a way to boost employment, this is ineffective.  As investment, it
wasn't very good either; it made only a little money for the state.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#08_July_2014_(States_That_Raised_Their_Minimum_Wages)">Raising
the minimum wage would create a lot more jobs</a>, but that would not
please the 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_(Workers_safety_nets)">employers
that want workers to be desperate</a>.
<p>
Paul Ryan
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/paul-ryan-poverty-plan-welfare">says
the US government should eliminate welfare requirements and give money
to states</a> to use to help the poor.  Texas will give this money to
companies to "create jobs", thus ensuring that the poor gain nothing
from it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(Christians_homes_stolen_by_ISIS)
title: Christians' homes stolen by ISIS
uri: Christians-homes-stolen-by-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Christians_homes_stolen_by_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
When ISIS forced Christians to leave Mosul, it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/iraqi-christians-mosul-isis-convert-islam-or-be-executed">stole
their houses and even their portable property</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(CIA_torture_kidnapping_flights)
title: CIA torture kidnapping flights
uri: CIA-torture-kidnapping-flights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28CIA_torture_kidnapping_flights%29
content:
<p>
The European Court of Human Rights convicted Poland of aiding CIA
torture kidnapping flights, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/poland-breach-human-rights-convention-al-qaida-suspects-cia">ordered
payment of compensation to the victims</a>.  The court ruled that US
"rendition" (kidnaping for torture) is fundamentally illegal.
<p>
Unfortunately, this won't get them out of Guantanamo prison.
<p>
These men are accused of serious crimes which merit prosecution, but
they deserve a fair trial, not a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_April_2014_(FBI_fiddling_in_Guantanamo_trials)">Guantanamo
kangaroo court</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 25_July_2014_(Help_negotiate)
title: Help negotiate
uri: Help-negotiate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#25_July_2014_%28Help_negotiate%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/israeli-air-strikes-gaza-continue-us-barack-obama-offers-broker-ceasefire">
Obama offered to help negotiate a truce</a> between Israel and Hamas.
<p>
Either this is a sick joke on Hamas, or Obama intends to pressure
Israel to let the fighting stop.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(100_protesters_shot_in_Nablus)
title: 100 protesters shot in Nablus
uri: 100-protesters-shot-in-Nablus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28100_protesters_shot_in_Nablus%29
content:
<p>
Israeli soldiers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/25/israeli-soldiers-kill-palestinian-west-bank-protest">shot
100 protesters</a> in Nablus, killing several.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(The_US_terrorist_watch_list)
title: The US terrorist watch list
uri: The-US-terrorist-watch-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28The_US_terrorist_watch_list%29
content:
<p>
The US terrorist watch list now has 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?post_type=article&p=2727">over
a million names</a>, and the White House can add people to it
wholesale.
<p>
The definition of "terrorism" is so broad and weak that the list
could be full of people who were never even suspected of terrorism,
only of "terrorism".
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/us-terrorism-watchlist-work-no-fly-list">More
information</a>.
<p>
These different watchlists and their different uses raise different
issues.  The no-fly list is punishment without trial, and could only
be sustained in the US by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#11%20September%202010%20(Dismantling%20civil%20rights%20in%20America)">tying
the Constitution into a pretzel</a>.  (Sad to say, the Supreme Court
is full of judges willing to do that.)
<p>
Asking a foreign country to torture someone is a grave crime,
which by the way Obama pretends the US has stopped doing.
<p>
Making a note to scrutinize a particular person more in ways that
don't require probable cause may be legitimate.


title: Israel admits shelling another school
uri: Israel-admits-shelling-another-school
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Israel_admits_shelling_another_school)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Israel_admits_shelling_another_school%29

content:
<p>
Israel now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/israeli-strike-un-school-gaza-kills-women-children">admits
it shelled another school</a> (in use as a refugee shelter) in Gaza.
<p>
As usual, Israel says it was because some Palestinians were firing
from the school.  I am skeptical; I don't think they could have done
that without being noticed by the UN staff.
<p>
Supposing there are Hamas fighters shooting from a school, which is a
war crime, that would not mean Israel is entitled to target the school
with any and all weapons.  Israel would have to use methods, such as
direct fire, that are not likely to stray off target to hit civilians
elsewhere on the grounds.
<p>
Israel justifies attacks on hospitals and schools by claiming that
Hamas has facilities near them, but 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/gaza-hamas-fighters-military-bases-guerrilla-war-civilians-israel-idf">Israeli
army headquarters is also near a hospital</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Russian_opposition_leaders_sentenced)
title: Russian opposition leaders sentenced
uri: Russian-opposition-leaders-sentenced
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Russian_opposition_leaders_sentenced%29

content:
<p>
Russian opposition leaders have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/russian-opposition-leader-jailed-bolotnaya-square-sergei-udaltsov-putin">sentenced
to prison</a> for the minor rioting that resulted when thugs attacked
their protest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Rumor_about_ISIS-ordered_FGM)
title: Rumor about ISIS-ordered FGM
uri: Rumor-about-ISIS-ordered-FGM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Rumor_about_ISIS-ordered_FGM%29
content:
<p>
There was a rumor that ISIS ordered genital mutilation for all females,
but ISIS 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/isis-deny-ordering-fgm-girls-mosul">says
it never did this</a>.
<p>
I doubted the rumor, as I knew that Islam does not require FGM.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Global_heating_denialism_methods)
title: Global heating denialism methods
uri: Global-heating-denialism-methods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Global_heating_denialism_methods%29
content:
<p>
An interview with Naomi Oreskes about the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/jul/25/harvard-historian-strategy-of-climate-science-denial-groups-extremely-successful">methods
used by organized and funded global heating denialism</a>.


title: Airline passenger forced to delete tweet
uri: Airline-passenger-forced-to-delete-tweet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Airline_passenger_forced_to_delete_tweet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Airline_passenger_forced_to_delete_tweet%29

content:
<p>
A gate agent for Southwest Airlines 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/man-ejected-from-southwest-flight-for-tweeting-that-a-gate-agent-was-rude/">forced
a passenger to delete a tweet that called the agent "rude"</a>, on
pain of missing the flight.
<p>
Airline employees have the power to kick any passenger off a flight
arbitrarily — all they have to do is claim they feel threatened.
This power goes to the heads of some of them.
<p>
It's the same sort of impunity that thugs enjoy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Valuing_everything_in_terms_of_money)
title: Valuing everything in terms of money
uri: Valuing-everything-in-terms-of-money
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Valuing_everything_in_terms_of_money%29

content:
<p>
George Monbiot: Putting a price on natural ecosystems is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/jul/24/price-nature-neoliberal-capital-road-ruin">nonsense
because the prices are fictitious</a>, but it serves as an excuse to
destroy these systems in favor of a business "worth" more.
<p>
More deeply, valuing everything in terms of money promotes the
destructive values of plutocracy.


title: UK cutting renewable energy subsidies
uri: UK-cutting-renewable-energy-subsidies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(UK_cutting_renewable_energy_subsidies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28UK_cutting_renewable_energy_subsidies%29

content:
<p>
The UK government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/24/uk-renewable-energy-subsidies-capped-at-200m-a-year">cutting
subsidies for renewable energy</a> so can give more to nuclear power
and fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(French_law_to_fight_terrorism)
title: French law to "fight terrorism"
uri: French-law-to-fight-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28French_law_to_fight_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
France has proposed a law to 
<a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/en/frances-new-anti-terror-bill-all-presumed-terrorist-until-proven-guilty">attack
many human rights at once</a> in the name of "fighting terrorism".
<p>
Reporters without Borders 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/freedom-of-information-under-23-07-2014,46688.html">condemns
it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Network_neutrality_and_encryption)
title: Network neutrality and encryption
uri: Network-neutrality-and-encryption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Network_neutrality_and_encryption%29

content:
<p>
Glyn Moody: ISPs that want to sort traffic into fast and slow lanes
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140721/06280227950/another-reason-defending-net-neutrality-nsa-surveillance.shtml">might
join with Big Brother to ban encryption</a>.


title: Urgent: Meat made from animals raised using antibiotics
uri: Urgent-Meat-made-from-animals-raised-using-antibiotics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Urgent:_Meat_made_from_animals_raised_using_antibiotics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Meat_made_from_animals_raised_using_antibiotics%29

content:
<p>
In the US: ask Trader Joe's
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=744AB493D0D03671AA8C6C2FD03F0A5E.app338b?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=11370">commit
not to sell meat made from animals raised using antibiotics.</a>


title: Urgent: Protect intelligence whistleblowers
uri: Urgent-Protect-intelligence-whistleblowers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_intelligence_whistleblowers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_intelligence_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: ask Congress
to <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12521">protect
intelligence whistleblowers.</a>


title: Republicans in the US Congress distrust climate models
uri: Republicans-in-the-US-Congress-distrust-climate-models
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Republicans_in_the_US_Congress_distrust_climate_models)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Republicans_in_the_US_Congress_distrust_climate_models%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in the US Congress distrust climate models, and to make
sure they can continue to do
so, <a href="http://thebulletin.org/climate-change-if-we-pretend-it-isn%E2%80%99t-happening-will-it-go-away7333">they
voted to eliminate funding for validating climate models</a>.


title: China's puppet substitute for the Panchen Lama
uri: China-s-puppet-substitute-for-the-Panchen-Lama
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(China's_puppet_substitute_for_the_Panchen_Lama)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28China%27s_puppet_substitute_for_the_Panchen_Lama%29

content:
<p>
Sooner or later, China's puppet substitute for the Panchen Lama will
<a href="http://freetibet.org/news-media/na/chinas-panchen-lama-visits-tibet?utm_source=Free+Tibet+email+updates&utm_campaign=b331aa2588-July_Newsletter25_07_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8b3b75e260-b331aa2588-39199397">try
to appoint a new Dalai Lama</a>.


title: Urgent: Restoring damage from the Big Spill
uri: Urgent-Restoring-damage-from-the-Big-Spill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Urgent:_Restoring_damage_from_the_Big_Spill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Restoring_damage_from_the_Big_Spill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell the RESTORE Council
to <a href="http://support.edf.org/site/R?i=WVLw-Wub7xoiLX1zomzOdw">get
moving on restoring the damage from the Big Spill</a>.


title: NSA's cooperation with Saudi Arabia's oppression
uri: NSA-s-cooperation-with-Saudi-Arabia-s-oppression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(NSA's_cooperation_with_Saudi_Arabia's_oppression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28NSA%27s_cooperation_with_Saudi_Arabia%27s_oppression%29

content:
<p>
Describing
the <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=2997">NSA's
cooperation with Saudi Arabia's oppression</a>.


title: Seven-Year Jail Term for Saudi Photographer
uri: Seven-Year-Jail-Term-for-Saudi-Photographer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Seven-Year_Jail_Term_for_Saudi_Photographer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Seven-Year_Jail_Term_for_Saudi_Photographer%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/saudi-arabia-seven-year-jail-term-for-saudi-23-07-2014,46692.html">Seven-Year
Jail Term for Saudi Photographer</a>. And many other journalists and
dissidents.


title: The US west has been losing ground water fast
uri: The-US-west-has-been-losing-ground-water-fast
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(The_US_west_has_been_losing_ground_water_fast)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28The_US_west_has_been_losing_ground_water_fast%29

content:
<p>
In a 14 year dry
spell, <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-07-underground-loss-drought.html">the
US west has been losing ground water fast</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Domestic_Violence)
title: Domestic Violence
uri: Domestic-Violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Domestic_Violence%29
content:
<p>
The More Male-Dominated a
Field, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/25/domestic-violence-mps-sportsmen-women">the
Less It Cares about Domestic Violence</a>.


title: Ebola infections have appeared in African cities
uri: Ebola-infections-have-appeared-in-African-cities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Ebola_infections_have_appeared_in_African_cities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Ebola_infections_have_appeared_in_African_cities%29

content:
<p>
People with Ebola
infections <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/25/first-case-ebola-lagos-nigeria">have
appeared in African cities</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Iran_has_arrested_four_journalists)
title: Iran has arrested four journalists
uri: Iran-has-arrested-four-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Iran_has_arrested_four_journalists%29

content:
<p>
Iran
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/25/iran-washington-post-tehran-reporter-jason-rezaian-journalists-arrrested">arrested
four journalists</a>, including three Americans, for no obvious
reason.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Solar_storm)
title: Solar storm
uri: Solar-storm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Solar_storm%29
content:
<p>
A solar storm in 2012 could
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/25/extreme-solar-storm-sun-earth">destroyed
most electrical equipment on Earth</a>, except it wasn't pointed at
Earth.
<p>
We need to develop precautions, because sooner or later one will head
towards us, and it could happen at any time.


title: Israel set the stage for wars in Gaza
uri: Israel-set-the-stage-for-wars-in-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Israel_set_the_stage_for_wars_in_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Israel_set_the_stage_for_wars_in_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Israel set the stage for wars in Gaza by pulling out settlers and
ground troops
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/25/guardian-view-causes-fighting-gaza">while
maintaining the occupation in every other way</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Urgent:_Investigate_Amazon)
title: Urgent: Investigate Amazon
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Amazon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_Amazon%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://vk.rootstrikers.org/petitions/130?n=1463518.7lzGTW">call
on the US government</a> to investigate Amazon for possible violations
of competition law.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Urgent:_Keep_Walgreens_HQ_in_the_US)
title: Urgent: Keep Walgreens HQ in the US
uri: Urgent-Keep-Walgreens-HQ-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_Walgreens_HQ_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="http://action.usaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=641&track=usaction">sign
up to boycott Walgreens</a> if it moves its HQ outside the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Urgent:_Arms_embargo)
title: Urgent: Arms embargo
uri: Urgent-Arms-embargo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Arms_embargo%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=30408&ea.tracking.id=MessagingCategory_PrisonersandPeopleatRisk~MessagingCategory_ChildrensRights~MessagingCategory_InternationalJustice~W1407EAIAR1&ac=W1407EAIAR1">support
Amnesty International</a> in calling for an arms embargo on Israel,
Palestine and Hamas; ask US govt to stop arming Israel.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Section_702_reform)
title: Section 702 reform
uri: Section-702-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Section_702_reform%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://cdt.org/blog/why-average-internet-users-should-demand-significant-section-702-reform/">Why
Average Internet Users Should Demand Significant Section 702
Reform</a>.
<p>
Reforming law for snooping on our internet traffic is only a part of
what we need to do to 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">prevent
a society of total surveillance</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(UK_moving_files_to_ODF_format)
title: UK moving files to ODF format
uri: UK-moving-files-to-ODF-format
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28UK_moving_files_to_ODF_format%29
content:
<p>
The UK has adopted a 
<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/07/huge-win-for-odf-lets-not-mess-it-up/index.htm">formal
policy</a> of moving files to ODF format.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Israeli_reservists_refuse_to_serve)
title: Israeli reservists refuse to serve
uri: Israeli-reservists-refuse-to-serve
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Israeli_reservists_refuse_to_serve%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/24/over-50-israeli-reservists-declare-we-refuse-serve">Over
50 Israeli Reservists Declare 'We Refuse to Serve'</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Punishment_for_smoking_pot_in_NFL)
title: Punishment for smoking pot in NFL
uri: Punishment-for-smoking-pot-in-NFL
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Punishment_for_smoking_pot_in_NFL%29

content:
<p>
The NFL punishes players 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/07/ray-rice-suspension-marijuana">more
severely for smoking pot than for domestic violence</a>.
<p>
I don't see why the NFL has any business punishing a player for using
pot.  Using a performance-enhancing drug might be considered cheating,
but that doesn't apply to pot.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Privatized_poultry_inspections)
title: Privatized poultry inspections
uri: Privatized-poultry-inspections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Privatized_poultry_inspections%29
content:
<p>
Privatizations of poultry inspections in the UK led to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/scandal-profits-come-before-food-safety">widespread
unsanitary conditions</a>, so that most chicken is contaminated by
bacteria that can make people sick if the chicken is not properly
cooked.
<p>
So why does the US government want to follow the same path?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_July_2014_(Using_drugs_to_execute_prisoners)
title: Using drugs to execute prisoners
uri: Using-drugs-to-execute-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_July_2014_%28Using_drugs_to_execute_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
US states trying to execute prisoners using medical drugs find it
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/execution-drugs-how-are-they-supposed-to-work">often
does not work as intended</a>.
<p>
I oppose the death penalty in general for 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#14_August_2011_%28Truth_About_Lethal_Injection%29">other
reasons</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Urgent:_Social_Security_offices)
title: Urgent: Social Security offices
uri: Urgent-Social-Security-offices
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Social_Security_offices%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10164">call
for more Social Security offices</a>, not fewer.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(What_is_needed_to_end_Gaza_war)
title: What is needed to end Gaza war
uri: What-is-needed-to-end-Gaza-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28What_is_needed_to_end_Gaza_war%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery explains what is needed to 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1406281947/">end
the Gaza war once and for all</a>.
<p>
He also points out how Arab dictators' support for Israel is likely to
create pressures for more extreme Islamism, a la ISIS.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(ISIS_blows_up_old_mosque)
title: ISIS blows up old mosque
uri: ISIS-blows-up-old-mosque
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28ISIS_blows_up_old_mosque%29
content:
<p>
ISIS blew up an old mosque that is a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/isis-militants-blow-up-jonah-tomb">major
pilgrimage site</a>.  It is intolerant of all variations from its own
form of Islam.
<p>
Saudi Arabia has been doing the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#22%20April%202006%20(Bonfire%20of%20the%20hypocrisies)">same
sort of thing</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(The_practice_of_evidence-laundering)
title: The practice of evidence-laundering
uri: The-practice-of-evidence-laundering
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28The_practice_of_evidence-laundering%29

content:
<p>
The practice of evidence-laundering allows the US government to use
NSA surveillance information secretly
and <a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/07/23/parallel-construction-unconstitutional-nsa-searches-deny-due-process/">secretly
deny Americans fair trials</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Second_bomber_in_Oklahoma_City)
title: Second bomber in Oklahoma City
uri: Second-bomber-in-Oklahoma-City
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Second_bomber_in_Oklahoma_City%29
content:
<p>
Was Kenneth
Trentadue <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/27/oklahoma-city-bombing-brother-court-jesse-trentadue-kenneth">suspected
of being the second bomber in Oklahoma City?</a>
<p>
It may be true that someone said "suspects", plural, from confusion
and that there was never video evidence of two people.  People often
make mistakes.
<p>
Whether or not there was a second participant in the bombing, it seems
that Kenneth Trentadue was murdered in prison.


title: Russia is firing rockets to attack Ukraine
uri: Russia-is-firing-rockets-to-attack-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Russia_is_firing_rockets_to_attack_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Russia_is_firing_rockets_to_attack_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
The US published satellite photos with evidence
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/27/satellite-images-us-show-russian-rocket-fire-into-ukraine">Russia
is firing rockets to attack Ukraine.</a>


title: The Energy-Efficient Way to Punish Putin
uri: The-Energy-Efficient-Way-to-Punish-Putin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(The_Energy-Efficient_Way_to_Punish_Putin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28The_Energy-Efficient_Way_to_Punish_Putin%29

content:
<p>
The Energy-Efficient Way
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/27/energy-efficient-putin-planet-europe-greens-russia">Punish
Putin — And Protect the Planet</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Israeli_peace_movement)
title: Israeli peace movement
uri: Israeli-peace-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Israeli_peace_movement%29
content:
<p>
The Israeli peace
movement <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/26/gaza-israel-palestinian-protest">is
a small remnant of what it used to be</a>, as overt racism and
right-wing hatred takes over the country.
<p>
Peace campaigners face not
only <a href="http://thelefternwall.com/2014/07/26/pepper-sprayed-pursued-in-north-tel-aviv/">physical
violence</a> but
also <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#13_June_2013_%28Constitutionality_of_Israels_anti-boycott_law%29">legal
repression</a>.


title: Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko
uri: Assassination-of-Alexander-Litvinenko
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Assassination_of_Alexander_Litvinenko)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Assassination_of_Alexander_Litvinenko%29

content:
<p>
The Ukraine crises convinced the UK government
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/27/britain-can-afford-to-defy-putin-litvinenko-russia-sanctions">stop
blocking the public inquiry into Russia's assassination of Alexander
Litvinenko</a>.
<p>
However, the UK still needs a government that won't pander to anyone
with money.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Global_tax_on_wealth)
title: Global tax on wealth
uri: Global-tax-on-wealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Global_tax_on_wealth%29
content:
<p>
Piketty's proposal
for <a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/06/24/thomas-pikettys-capital-in-t.html">global
tax on wealth is his idea for saving the world</a> from growing
concentration of wealth that will lead either to a bloody revolution
or the world of the Hunger Games.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Pakistan's_biometric_ID_system)
title: Pakistan's biometric ID system
uri: Pakistan-s-biometric-ID-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Pakistan%27s_biometric_ID_system%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan's biometric ID
system <a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/identity-theft-persists-in-pakistans-biometric-era">oppresses
most people but has not prevented false IDs.</a>


title: Phillip Morris continues trying to bully Uruguay
uri: Phillip-Morris-continues-trying-to-bully-Uruguay
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Phillip_Morris_continues_trying_to_bully_Uruguay)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Phillip_Morris_continues_trying_to_bully_Uruguay%29

content:
<p>
Phillip Morris, the tobacco company, continues trying to bully Uruguay
(and by extension many other countries)
into <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/07/21/3462255/latin-american-country-big-tobacco/">retreating
from policies to discourage smoking.</a>
<p>
This campaign is capable of killing millions of people.
<p>
The article alas spreads confusion when it uses the term "intellectual
property".  That term is pure confusion and should never be used.  The
tobacco companies use it as propaganda, and to repeat it is to support
their propaganda.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Paul_Ryan's_poverty_plan)
title: Paul Ryan's poverty plan
uri: Paul-Ryan-s-poverty-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Paul_Ryan%27s_poverty_plan%29
content:
<p>
How Paul Ryan's poverty
plan <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/7/25/5937015/ryan-poverty-plan-trust#story">would
be effective at increasing poverty</a>.


title: US conscripting universities into the War on Sharing
uri: US-conscripting-universities-into-the-War-on-Sharing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(US_conscripting_universities_into_the_War_on_Sharing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28US_conscripting_universities_into_the_War_on_Sharing%29

content:
<p>
The US
is <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/university-sets-fines-worse-for-pirating-students-140724/">conscripting
universities into the War on Sharing</a>.
<p>
Even if a university is unable to resist the pressure to bully its
students this way, that does not excuse the university for failing to
apologize and condemn the pressure.
<p>
The article repeats the enemy's propaganda term
"piracy".  <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy">Please
don't refer to sharing by a term that means attacking ships</a>.


title: Australia to escalate the War on Sharing
uri: Australia-to-escalate-the-War-on-Sharing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Australia_to_escalate_the_War_on_Sharing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Australia_to_escalate_the_War_on_Sharing%29

content:
<p>
Australia's wrecker
government <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-paper-reveals-aussie-anti-piracy-crackdown-musings-140725/">now
proposes in addition to escalate the War on Sharing.</a>
<p>
Mandatory internet filters were rejected when proposed for obscenity,
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/550928/government_pushes_website_blocks_fight_piracy/">but
now they get another try</a>.


title: Urgent: Stop listening to the Chamber of Commerce
uri: Urgent-Stop-listening-to-the-Chamber-of-Commerce
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_listening_to_the_Chamber_of_Commerce)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_listening_to_the_Chamber_of_Commerce%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell Congress
to <a href="http://action.whistleblowers.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14547">stop
listening to the Chamber of Commerce</a> and broaden, not reduce,
incentives for business whistleblowers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Israel_did_not_need_to_invade_Gaza)
title: Israel did not need to invade Gaza
uri: Israel-did-not-need-to-invade-Gaza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Israel_did_not_need_to_invade_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Israel <a href="http://972mag.com/the-terror-tunnels-another-israeli-self-fulfilling-prophecy/94053/">did
not need to invade Gaza and destroy the tunnels</a>.  It had many
humane alternatives.
<p>
Even at its worst, an attack through the tunnels would have been tiny
compared with the devastation of the bombardment of Gaza.


title: Prosecuted for sharing an academic article
uri: Prosecuted-for-sharing-an-academic-article
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(Prosecuted_for_sharing_an_academic_article)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28Prosecuted_for_sharing_an_academic_article%29

content:
<p>
A student in Colombia is
being <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/colombian-student-faces-prison-charges-sharing-academic-article-online">prosecuted
for sharing an academic article</a>, under a law imposed on Colombia
by the US.
<p>
Colombia should tear up that treaty.


title: TTIP will work against food safety and animal welfare
uri: TTIP-will-work-against-food-safety-and-animal-welfare
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(TTIP_will_work_against_food_safety_and_animal_welfare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28TTIP_will_work_against_food_safety_and_animal_welfare%29

content:
<p>
A leak shows
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/24/leaked-trade-deal-chapter-reveals-corporate-friendly-subversion-public-health-food">TTIP
will work against food safety and animal welfare</a> by subordinating
them to the convenience of companies.
<p>
TTIP stands for "This Treaty is Plutocratic".  Corporations have too
much power already, so any new "free trade" treaty is going in the
wrong direction.  We should instead cancel the existing ones.


title: US ranks near the bottom in energy efficiency
uri: US-ranks-near-the-bottom-in-energy-efficiency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_July_2014_(US_ranks_near_the_bottom_in_energy_efficiency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_July_2014_%28US_ranks_near_the_bottom_in_energy_efficiency%29

content:
<p>
The
US <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/07/u-s-ranks-near-bottom-globally-in-energy-efficiency/">ranks
near the bottom in energy efficiency</a>.
<p>
The <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#13_July_2014_%28US_fossil_fuel_subsidies%29">funded
campaign to keep use of fossil fuels as high as possible</a> is
evidently quite successful.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Robots_to_care_for_the_old_and_sick)
title: Robots to care for the old and sick
uri: Robots-to-care-for-the-old-and-sick
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Robots_to_care_for_the_old_and_sick%29

content:
<p>
Isn't it strange that people say we
need <a href="https://medium.com/message/failing-the-third-machine-age-1883e647ba74">robots
to care for the old and sick because there aren't enough people to do
it</a>, when so many people are unemployed?
<p>
This is prejudice and plutocracy at work, a desire to replace people
with machines and leave more people destitute.
<p>
We should ban automation of many jobs, thus preserving work for
people, until we institute an automatic personal income so that people
don't need jobs.


title: Urgent: Treat domestic violence as a serious offence
uri: Urgent-Treat-domestic-violence-as-a-serious-offence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Urgent:_Treat_domestic_violence_as_a_serious_offence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Treat_domestic_violence_as_a_serious_offence%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell the US NFL
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/NFL_women">treat domestic
violence as a serious offence</a>.


title: UK covered up massive losses in World War I
uri: UK-covered-up-massive-losses-in-World-War-I
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(UK_covered_up_massive_losses_in_World_War_I)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28UK_covered_up_massive_losses_in_World_War_I%29

content:
<p>
The
UK <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/27/first-world-war-state-press-reporting">covered
up massive losses in World War I with censorship and lies.</a>
<p>
These losses
were <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/10-5">due to
incompetent generals</a> who lacked the moral courage to a plan when
it had clearly gone wrong. With honest reporting, perhaps they would
have been sacked.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(The_decline_of_wildlife)
title: The decline of wildlife
uri: The-decline-of-wildlife
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28The_decline_of_wildlife%29
content:
<p>
The decline of wildlife is
now <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-07-global-wildlife-decline-slave-labor.html">causing
a food scarcity</a> which increases to war, crime and child labor.
<p>
There isn't enough Earth for so many humans and the wild world too.
While we can do various things to assuage the
conflict, <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">we
humans must reproduce less so that we stop overburdening our
planet</a>.


title: Neonicotinoid pesticides prevalent in waterways in the US
uri: Neonicotinoid-pesticides-prevalent-in-waterways-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Neonicotinoid_pesticides_prevalent_in_waterways_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Neonicotinoid_pesticides_prevalent_in_waterways_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Neonicotinoid pesticides
are <a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2014/07/24/notorious-neonics-pervasive-midwest-waters-study">prevalent
in waterways in the US midwest and sometimes reach toxic levels</a>.
They also persist from previous years.


title: Regulations for shipping crude oil by train
uri: Regulations-for-shipping-crude-oil-by-train
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Regulations_for_shipping_crude_oil_by_train)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Regulations_for_shipping_crude_oil_by_train%29

content:
<p>
Obama's proposed regulations for shipping crude oil by train
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/24/weak-oil-train-regulations-dont-go-nearly-far-enough-experts-warn">too
little and too slow</a>.


title: Official investigation of the Sep. 2001 terrorist attacks
uri: Official-investigation-of-the-Sep-2001-terrorist-attacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Official_investigation_of_the_Sep._2001_terrorist_attacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Official_investigation_of_the_Sep._2001_terrorist_attacks%29

content:
<p>
An additional reason to distrust the report of the official
investigation of the September 2001 terrorist attacks is that they
were
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080407223205/http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/624314.aspx">based
on evidence obtained by the CIA using torture</a>.
<p>
This is in addition to the fact that
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2003-nov-feb.html#29_February_2004_%28Bush_9/11_Deposition%29">investigation
was corrupted.</a>
<p>
So please <a href="http://ae911truth.org">support the campaign for a
proper investigation</a>.


title: Mining takes precedence over human health
uri: Mining-takes-precedence-over-human-health
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Mining_takes_precedence_over_human_health)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Mining_takes_precedence_over_human_health%29

content:
<p>
A Colorado judge ruled
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/25/colorado-judge-lets-fracking-trump-public-health">promotion
of mining takes precedence over human health in Colorado law.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Destroying_Hamas)
title: Destroying Hamas
uri: Destroying-Hamas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Destroying_Hamas%29
content:
<p>
Destroying
Hamas <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/27/destroying-hamas-wont-solve-conflict-warns-us-intelligence-head">would
make room for a more extreme replacement</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Fanatical_Muslims_lynch_heretics)
title: Fanatical Muslims lynch "heretics"
uri: Fanatical-Muslims-lynch-heretics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Fanatical_Muslims_lynch_heretics%29
content:
<p>
A mob of fanatical Muslims in Pakistan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/28/ahmadi-woman-children-killed-pakistan-mob-attack">lynched
a "heretical" grandmother and two of her grandchildren</a>.
<p>
The thugs say they could not stop the mob.  Will they arrest any of
the murderers?
<p>
The government of Pakistan encourages this violence with its 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/archive-2002.html#Shaikh">law
against blasphemy</a>, which violates basic human rights.
<p>
This stems, in turn, from the general arrogance of Islam, which
we see also in the 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_(ISIS_imposes_oppression_of_women)">actions
of ISIS</a>.


title: Plans to waste unemployed people's time
uri: Plans-to-waste-unemployed-people-s-time
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Plans_to_waste_unemployed_peoples_time)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Plans_to_waste_unemployed_peoples_time%29

content:
<p>
Even businesses object to plans to make unemployed people waste their
time 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/28/industry-concerned-about-coalitions-40-job-applications-a-month-plan">filing
hopeless job applications</a>.


title: Pesticide companies taint bee research
uri: Pesticide-companies-taint-bee-research
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Pesticide_companies_taint_bee_research)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Pesticide_companies_taint_bee_research%29

content:
<p>
Research on bees is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/28/bee-research-funding-pesticides-mps">tainted
by involvement of pesticide companies</a>.
<p>
The non-plutocratic way to fund this research is to tax the companies
more, just as we must tax the pharma companies more and not let them
fund tests of the effects of drugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Australia_approves_new_coal_mine)
title: Australia approves new coal mine
uri: Australia-approves-new-coal-mine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Australia_approves_new_coal_mine%29
content:
<p>
Australia approved a new coal mine which will be the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/28/largest-coal-mine-in-australia-federal-government-gives-carmichael-go-ahead">world's
biggest</a>.  Thus we speed towards global disaster.


title: Tamil boat people brought to Australia
uri: Tamil-boat-people-brought-to-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Tamil_boat_people_brought_to_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Tamil_boat_people_brought_to_Australia%29

content:
<p>
Tamil boat people who were imprisoned at sea have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/28/asylum-seeker-court-hearing-is-brought-forward-following-transfer-to-mainland">brought
to Australia</a>, but it is not clear how their asylum cases will be
held.
<p>
In particular, it is not clear why Australia wants Indian officials to
interview them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Record_temperatures_in_Arizona)
title: Record temperatures in Arizona
uri: Record-temperatures-in-Arizona
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Record_temperatures_in_Arizona%29
content:
<p>
Arizona is 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/25/3464391/phoenix-temperature-records/">hitting
record temperatures</a>, even at night.
<p>
One of the effects of greenhouse gases is to prevent the ground from
cooling off at night by radiating infrared into space.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Abortion_bans)
title: Abortion bans
uri: Abortion-bans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Abortion_bans%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/07/25/3464116/united-nations-abortion-human-rights/">UN
Warns Countries With Draconian Abortion Bans That They re Violating
Human Rights</a>.
<p>
Given the danger posed by human population increase, governments
should provide abortion gratis and conveniently.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Everglades_threatened)
title: Everglades threatened
uri: Everglades-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Everglades_threatened%29
content:
<p>
The Everglades are now 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/25/everglades-trees-felled-deadly-fungus">threatened
by invasive plants and pests</a>.
<p>
Has anyone noticed that global heating will drown the Everglades, over
time?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Shredding_environmental_protections)
title: Shredding environmental protections
uri: Shredding-environmental-protections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Shredding_environmental_protections%29

content:
<p>
The World Bank proposes to shred its environmental protections by
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/25/leaked-world-bank-lending-policies-environmentally-disastrous">allowing
governments to opt out from them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(ISIS_imposes_oppression_of_women)
title: ISIS imposes oppression of women
uri: ISIS-imposes-oppression-of-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28ISIS_imposes_oppression_of_women%29
content:
<p>
ISIS has imposed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/25/iraq-islamic-state-full-veil-warns-wear-women-punishment">Saudi-style
oppression of women</a>, ordering them to cover their faces and hands
and not to travel without a man.
<p>
Women in the area oppressed by ISIS should carry guns under their
mandatory loose clothing, and shoot ISIS supporters opportunistically.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Life_getting_more_precarious)
title: Life getting more precarious
uri: Life-getting-more-precarious
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Life_getting_more_precarious%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/25/gap-between-rich-and-poor-widens-global-safety-net-danger">UN
reports</a> that life is getting more precarious around the world.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(US_conspiring_with_Yemen)
title: US conspiring with Yemen
uri: US-conspiring-with-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28US_conspiring_with_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
The US is conspiring with Yemen to keep Sharif Mobley disappeared in a
secret location and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/25/us-diplomats-contact-yemen-citizen-sharif-mobley">refuse
to tell his lawyers where to find him</a>.
<p>
I expect they are torturing him too.


title: FBI hides its conclusions about drones
uri: FBI-hides-its-conclusions-about-drones
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(FBI_hides_its_conclusions_about_drones)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28FBI_hides_its_conclusions_about_drones%29

content:
<p>
The FBI conducted a mandatory study of how drones threaten civil
liberties and privacy, and now 
<a href="https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/jul/24/fbi-refuses-release-drone-privacy-assessment/">refuses
to tell the public its conclusions</a>.
<p>
This is one more element in the US government's systematic contempt
for the Constitution and human rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Entire_Gazan_neighborhoods_leveled)
title: Entire Gazan neighborhoods leveled
uri: Entire-Gazan-neighborhoods-leveled
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Entire_Gazan_neighborhoods_leveled%29

content:
<p>
Israeli bombardment has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/26/gaza-pause-bombing-destruction-seen-israel">leveled
entire neighborhoods in Gaza</a>.


title: Central American leaders meet with Obama
uri: Central-American-leaders-meet-with-Obama
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(Central_American_leaders_meet_with_Obama)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28Central_American_leaders_meet_with_Obama%29

content:
<p>
Central American leaders implore Obama to spend billions to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/26/central-american-leaders-obama-border-policy">help
them end gang violence</a>, rather than on repelling the children
fleeing from it.
<p>
One thing they need is to tear up the plutocratic treaty 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#01_June_2011_(Guatemala_Global_Food_Crisis)">CAFTA</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_July_2014_(US_closes_embassy_in_Libya)
title: US closes embassy in Libya
uri: US-closes-embassy-in-Libya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_July_2014_%28US_closes_embassy_in_Libya%29
content:
<p>
The US closed its embassy in Libya due to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/26/us-closes-embassy-libya-militia-battles-tripoli">fighting
between militias</a>.


title: Urgent: Tell Southwest Airlines not to gag passengers
uri: Urgent-Tell-Southwest-Airlines-not-to-gag-passengers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_Southwest_Airlines_not_to_gag_passengers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Southwest_Airlines_not_to_gag_passengers%29

content:
<p>
In the
US: <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/southwest-twitter/2/5/">tell
Southwest Airlines not to gag passengers</a>.


title: Labeling products from Israeli colonies
uri: Labeling-products-from-Israeli-colonies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Labeling_products_from_Israeli_colonies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Labeling_products_from_Israeli_colonies%29

content:
<p>
Several European countries now ask stores
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/29/belgium-clear-labelling-goods-israeli-settlements">label
products from Israeli colonies in Palestine.</a>
<p>
They ought to go further and ban commercial importation of all such
products.


title: US sells coal for a pittance to mining companies
uri: US-sells-coal-for-a-pittance-to-mining-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(US_sells_coal_for_a_pittance_to_mining_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28US_sells_coal_for_a_pittance_to_mining_companies%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2014/07/28/dirty-coal-exports-are-global-shell-game">US
sells coal for a pittance to mining companies</a>, effectively a
subsidy so they can export it to boost global heating.
<p>
Buy Low, Sell
High: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/28/3464689/big-coal-taxpayers-chumps/">How
Big Coal And The BLM Treat Taxpayers Like Chumps.</a>


title: How Capitalism Is Cheating Young Americans
uri: How-Capitalism-Is-Cheating-Young-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(How_Capitalism_Is_Cheating_Young_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28How_Capitalism_Is_Cheating_Young_Americans%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/28/how-capitalism-cheating-young-americans">How
Capitalism Is Cheating Young Americans</a>. (And young Europeans too.)


title: Israel has arrested 400 Israeli Arabs for protesting
uri: Israel-has-arrested-400-Israeli-Arabs-for-protesting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Israel_has_arrested_400_Israeli_Arabs_for_protesting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Israel_has_arrested_400_Israeli_Arabs_for_protesting%29

content:
<p>
Israel
has <a href="http://972mag.com/following-wave-of-protests-israel-arrests-scores-of-arab-activists-minors/94131/">arrested
400 Israeli Arabs for protesting</a>, or planning to protest, or
relaying postings about a protest, or just being near a protest.  Some
get beaten bloody, some get interrogated without lawyers.
<p>
People who support peace
are <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/israels-other-war">called
traitors by the right-wing majority</a>.
<p>
David Grossman (mentioned in the above article) still has hope that
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/opinion/david-grossman-end-the-grindstone-of-israeli-palestinian-violence.html">Israel
will "grow up" as a result of this war</a>.
<p>
Stranger things have happened, but having "the left" understand the
majority right-wingers better is not the sort of progress that will
help.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(TaskRabbit)
title: TaskRabbit
uri: TaskRabbit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28TaskRabbit%29
content:
<p>
If TaskRabbit Is the Future of
Employment, <a href="http://valleywag.gawker.com/if-taskrabbit-is-the-future-of-employment-the-employed-1609221541">the
Employed Are Fucked</a>.


title: US providing Afghan government with weapons
uri: US-providing-Afghan-government-with-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(US_providing_Afghan_government_with_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28US_providing_Afghan_government_with_weapons%29

content:
<p>
The US
is <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/sigar-afghanistan-us-weapons-wind-up-insurgents">providing
the Afghan government with more weapons than it can use</a>, and many
could fall into the hands of the Taliban.


title: Taxes for poor increase but decrease for wealthy
uri: Taxes-for-poor-increase-but-decrease-for-wealthy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Taxes_for_poor_increase_but_decrease_for_wealthy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Taxes_for_poor_increase_but_decrease_for_wealthy%29

content:
<p>
Republicans passed a bill to let taxes for poor families increase but
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/07/house-republicans-pass-bill-lower-taxes-rich-and-raise-taxes-poor">reduce
them for fairly wealthy families</a>.


title: How dangerous 5 pesticides are to endangered wildlife
uri: How-dangerous-5-pesticides-are-to-endangered-wildlife
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(How_dangerous_5_pesticides_are_to_endangered_wildlife)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28How_dangerous_5_pesticides_are_to_endangered_wildlife%29

content:
<p>
A court settlement requires the US government
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/28/settlement-will-help-safeguard-nations-endangered-wildlife-5-dangerous">investigate
how dangerous 5 pesticides are to endangered wildlife</a>.


title: General Mills has given Oxfam firm commitments
uri: General-Mills-has-given-Oxfam-firm-commitments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(General_Mills_has_given_Oxfam_firm_commitments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28General_Mills_has_given_Oxfam_firm_commitments%29

content:
<p>
General Mills has given
Oxfam <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/28/general-mills-takes-bold-stand-climate-action">firm
commitments to cut deforestation</a>.
<p>
I'm generally skeptical that commitments by businesses are lip
service, but if Oxfam thinks this will really solve the problem, maybe
it will.


title: Hamas is "forcing" Israel to kill Palestinian children
uri: Hamas-is-forcing-Israel-to-kill-Palestinian-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Hamas_is_forcing_Israel_to_kill_Palestinian_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Hamas_is_forcing_Israel_to_kill_Palestinian_children%29

content:
<p>
In the US mainstream media, you can get in trouble by showing too much
concern for the killing of 1000 Palestinians, but it's fine to say
that
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/28/cbs-host-palestinians-force-israel-kill-kids">Hamas
is "forcing" Israel to kill Palestinian children</a>.
<p>
This is, of course, totally false.  Israel could easily protect itself
from the tunnels, and the rockets rarely hurt anyone.


title: Urgent: Stop offshore drilling licenses
uri: Urgent-Stop-offshore-drilling-licenses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_offshore_drilling_licenses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_offshore_drilling_licenses%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=14113">call
on the Department of the Interior</a> to stop issuing licenses for
offshore oil drilling.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Mississippis_abortion_clinic)
title: Mississippi's abortion clinic
uri: Mississippi-s-abortion-clinic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Mississippis_abortion_clinic%29
content:
<p>
Mississippi's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/29/mississippi-abortion-clinic-court-rules-open-constitutional">attempt
to close the state's only abortion clinic</a> has been declared
unconstitutional.
<p>
However, there may be more appeals.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Gazas_electric_plant_destroyed)
title: Gaza's electric plant destroyed
uri: Gaza-s-electric-plant-destroyed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Gazas_electric_plant_destroyed%29
content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/29/gaza-power-plant-destroyed-israeli-airstrike-100-palestinians-dead">destroyed
Gaza's electric plant</a>.  This will make Gaza totally dependent on
whatever electricity Israel chooses to supply.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Doctors_banned_from_discussing_guns)
title: Doctors banned from discussing guns
uri: Doctors-banned-from-discussing-guns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Doctors_banned_from_discussing_guns%29

content:
<p>
Florida 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/07/29/3464945/court-upholds-florida-law-that-punishes-doctors-for-talking-about-guns/">bans
doctors from discussing the danger of guns</a> with their patients.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Dating_site_experiment)
title: Dating site experiment
uri: Dating-site-experiment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Dating_site_experiment%29
content:
<p>
OkCupid did an 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/29/okcupid-experiment-human-beings-dating">experiment</a>
telling users they were compatible when its scores said they were not.
<p>
These pairs carried on with conversations, apparently not noticing
their supposed incompatibility.  I wonder how many of them formed
relationships and how those worked out.
<p>
It's possible that this experiment constituted lying to the users, but
I don't know whether that is true.  It depends on what promises the
site makes to users about how it judges compatibility, which are facts
I don't know.  If "flip a coin" is as good a method as its usual one,
perhaps it satisfies the promises.
<p>
However, if a dating site's claim to being useful is its method for
estimating people's compatibility, and that method turns out to be
little better than chance, it seems to imply that the site is
pointless.
<p>
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/07/28/okcupid-experiment-compatibility-deception/">More
information</a> about the experiment.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Urgent:_Child_refugees)
title: Urgent: Child refugees
uri: Urgent-Child-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Child_refugees%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: Don't send back child refugees without 
<a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/ChildRefugees/">hearing
their cases</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Activists_block_train_tracks)
title: Activists block train tracks
uri: Activists-block-train-tracks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Activists_block_train_tracks%29
content:
<p>
After an oil train derailed in Washington state, activists 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/28/arrests-follow-oil-train-blockade-done-name-environment-communities">blocked
the tracks</a> so no more could follow.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Israels_moral_standards)
title: Israel's moral standards
uri: Israel-s-moral-standards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Israels_moral_standards%29
content:
<p>
A former Israeli air force officer says that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/28/israeli-military-most-moral-no-more-outrage-indifference">Israel's
moral standards have collapsed</a>.  Actions that led to
soul-searching 12 years ago are now done without a second thought.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Verizon_rewards_for_more_tracking)
title: Verizon "rewards" for more tracking
uri: Verizon-rewards-for-more-tracking
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Verizon_rewards_for_more_tracking%29

content:
<p>
Verizon offers customers 
<a href="http://www.mouseprint.org/2014/07/28/new-program-trades-your-privacy-for-rewards/#comments">"rewards"
in exchange for more tracking</a>.
<p>
This is why I think it won't achieve much to adopt a law that people
"own" their personal data as property — it is too easy to
convince them to sell it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Urgent:_Limit_CO2_emissions)
title: Urgent: Limit CO2 emissions
uri: Urgent-Limit-CO2-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Limit_CO2_emissions%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3509">tell
the EPA</a> you support limiting CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from coal
power plants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(State_laws_promoted_by_ALEC)
title: State laws promoted by ALEC
uri: State-laws-promoted-by-ALEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28State_laws_promoted_by_ALEC%29
content:
<p>
ALEC is 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12549/alec-agenda-dallas-evisceration-medicaid-privatization-public-schools-expansion-gas-exports">promoting
state laws</a> to remove all regulation from private "charter" schools
and ban enrollment in Medicaid.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Religious_freedom)
title: Religious freedom
uri: 2014-07-30-Religious-freedom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Religious_freedom%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20140724">Why We'll
Still Be Fighting About Religious Freedom 200 Years From Now!</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Solitary_confinement)
title: Solitary confinement
uri: 2014-07-30-Solitary-confinement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Solitary_confinement%29
content:
<p>
Solitary confinement often 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/dvorsky20140725">causes
mental illness</a>.
<p>
In addition, it must make dementia more likely, since it has been
established that exercising the mind tends to delay dementia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Diary_from_Gaza_under_bombardment)
title: Diary from Gaza under bombardment
uri: Diary-from-Gaza-under-bombardment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Diary_from_Gaza_under_bombardment%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/28/four-days-under-siege-gaza-diary-palestinian">A
diary</a> from Gaza under bombardment.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Tax-dodge_haven_in_Gibraltar)
title: Tax-dodge haven in Gibraltar
uri: Tax-dodge-haven-in-Gibraltar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Tax-dodge_haven_in_Gibraltar%29
content:
<p>
A Spanish union 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/28/spanish-trade-union-occupation-gibraltar">plans
a protest</a> in Gibraltar against its use as a tax-dodge haven.
<p>
I support their campaign against tax havens, but under the
circumstances it can't help being confused with mere nationalism.  If
they could join with UK Uncut, they could separate it clearly from
nationalism.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Enslavement_of_migrants_in_Qatar)
title: Enslavement of migrants in Qatar
uri: Enslavement-of-migrants-in-Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Enslavement_of_migrants_in_Qatar%29
content:
<p>
Despite a year of pressure, Qatar has made 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/28/qatar-migrant-workers-world-cup-exploited-unpaid">little
change in its laws</a> that more or less enslave migrant workers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Domestic_violence)
title: Domestic violence
uri: Domestic-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Domestic_violence%29
content:
<p>
Domestic violence is a system of permanent enslavement, and the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/28/domestic-violence-police-victims-community-resolution-orders">victims
need special support in order to leave</a>.


title: Urgent: Net neutrality public hearings
uri: Urgent-Net-neutrality-public-hearings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Urgent:_Net_neutrality_public_hearings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Net_neutrality_public_hearings%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/fcc_visit_nn/">Call on the
FCC</a> to hold public hearings around US about net neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Urgent:_James_Risen)
title: Urgent: James Risen
uri: 2014-07-30-Urgent-James-Risen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_James_Risen%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9775">call
on Obama and Holder</a> not to imprison reporter James Risen.
<p>
Risen is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/08-1">ready to go
to prison to avoid putting a whistleblower in danger</a>.  The US
government is wrong to try to make this necessary.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Qatar_World_Cup)
title: Qatar World Cup
uri: Qatar-World-Cup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Qatar_World_Cup%29
content:
<p>
Qatar World Cup: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jul/28/qatar-world-cup-migrants-not-paid-building-office">Migrants
Wait a Year to Be Paid for Building Offices (for the event)</a>.  The
contractor went bankrupt and never paid them, so they are trapped in
Qatar because they have no money to leave, and could be imprisoned
because they no longer have the right to be in Qatar.
<p>
This is part of a general system that treats migrant workers so badly
that
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#29_September_2013_(Migrant_workers_in_Qatar_worked_to_death)">some 
of them die from it</a>.
<p>
You can punish the Qatari state personally by not taking flights
on Qatar Airways, which is owned by the government of Qatar.


title: Threat to lawyers' and journalists' work
uri: Threat-to-lawyers-and-journalists-work
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(Threat_to_lawyers_and_journalists_work)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28Threat_to_lawyers_and_journalists_work%29

content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch and the ACLU say that lawyers' and journalists'
work is 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=3008">threatened by US
massive surveillance</a>.
<p>
For the lawyers, encryption of the contents of email could be enough
of a solution.  However, journalists also need to protect their
sources' identity, and surveillance of their communication metadata is
enough to ruin that.  I've stated the 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">solution</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_July_2014_(UK_admits_fracking_causes_damage)
title: UK admits fracking causes damage
uri: UK-admits-fracking-causes-damage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_July_2014_%28UK_admits_fracking_causes_damage%29
content:
<p>
The UK government admits, under pressure, that 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/28/fracking-national-parks-protecting-houses">fracking
causes environmental damage</a>, but is mad to go ahead with it
anyway.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(UK_proposes_tax_cut_for_the_rich)
title: UK proposes tax cut for the rich
uri: UK-proposes-tax-cut-for-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28UK_proposes_tax_cut_for_the_rich%29
content:
<p>
The UK's dooH niboR government is proposing a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/30/david-cameron-hints-giveaway-higher-rate-taxpayers">new
tax cut for the rich</a>.
<p>
It will grasp any excuse to claim it has no money for the poor, the
NHS, and so on.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(US-supported_terrorism_in_Colombia)
title: US-supported terrorism in Colombia
uri: US-supported-terrorism-in-Colombia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28US-supported_terrorism_in_Colombia%29

content:
<p>
Colombia's army and the government-supported paramilitares continue
their terrorism and repression, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/30/we-must-end-collusion-terror-colombia">with
US support</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Corn_engineered_with_Bt_toxin)
title: Corn engineered with Bt toxin
uri: Corn-engineered-with-Bt-toxin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Corn_engineered_with_Bt_toxin%29
content:
<p>
Genetically engineered corn that makes Bt toxin has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/29/brazil-farmers-say-gmo-corn-no-longer-resistant-bugs">ceased
to repel insect pests</a>, in Brazil and in the US.  Brazilian farmers
demand compensation for the extra pesticides they had to use.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(US_collaboration_in_torture)
title: US collaboration in torture
uri: US-collaboration-in-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28US_collaboration_in_torture%29
content:
<p>
Yonas Fikre says the US had him arrested and tortured in the United
Arab Emirates and apparently 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/yonas-fikre-sweden-torture-proxy-detention">collaborated
with his torturers</a>.
<p>
It is not clear that Fikre can't return to the US.  The article does
not say he faced arrest (let alone torture) in the US.  Perhaps
therefore Sweden's decision not to grant him asylum was correct, since
he can safely return to his home country.
<p>
But that doesn't excuse the US for collaborating in torture.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Malaysian_Airlines_flight_17)
title: Malaysian Airlines flight 17
uri: Malaysian-Airlines-flight-17
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Malaysian_Airlines_flight_17%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/29/obama-should-release-ukraine-evidence">Former
US intelligence officials call on the US to show its evidence</a>
about Malaysian Airlines flight 17, or else stop claiming to be
certain about what happened.
<p>
Above all they criticize the tendency to condemn Russia as if the
rebels had intentionally shot down the plane (which it is
clear they did not do).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(UN_school_in_Gaza_bombarded_again)
title: UN school in Gaza bombarded again
uri: UN-school-in-Gaza-bombarded-again
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28UN_school_in_Gaza_bombarded_again%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/world-disgrace-gaza-un-shelter-school-israel">Israel
bombarded a UN school</a> again in Gaza, and has tried to pretend that
Hamas attacked the school.
<p>
It is standard practice for the Israeli government to deny the facts
to duck the blame for killing innocent Palestinians — one may as
well assume such claims are false.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Australia_to_punish_the_unemployed)
title: Australia to punish the unemployed
uri: Australia-to-punish-the-unemployed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Australia_to_punish_the_unemployed%29

content:
<p>
Australia will punish the unemployed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/jobseekers-payments-will-be-cut-if-they-spam-employers-ministers-warn">if
they don't apply for enough jobs or if they send "unsatisfactory"
applications</a>.
<p>
If there are no jobs available in your field, you will inevitably be
punished.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(New_Zealands_mountains)
title: New Zealand's mountains
uri: New-Zealand-s-mountains
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28New_Zealands_mountains%29
content:
<p>
New Zealand's mountains have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/29/new-zealands-dramatic-ice-loss-could-lead-to-severe-decline-of-glaciers">lost
1/3 of their snow and ice since 1978</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Australian_govt_bribery_scandal)
title: Australian gov't bribery scandal
uri: Australian-gov-t-bribery-scandal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Australian_govt_bribery_scandal%29
content:
<p>
Wikileaks reveals that the Australian government is covering up a
bribery scandal by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/wikileaks-australia-super-injunction-bribery-allegations">banning
all public discussion of it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Economic_cost_of_worldwide_disaster)
title: Economic cost of worldwide disaster
uri: Economic-cost-of-worldwide-disaster
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Economic_cost_of_worldwide_disaster%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/29/delaying-climate-action-economic-cost-white-house-epa">Delaying
Climate Action Will Carry Heavy Economic Cost, White House Warns</a>.
<p>
It's true, but the fact that one must cite economic losses as a reason
to prevent worldwide disaster is a testament to plutocracy.
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/29/3464918/climate-economy-white-house-report/">More
explanation</a> of the report.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(What_is_terrorism)
title: What is "terrorism"?
uri: What-is-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28What_is_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
What is "terrorism"?  Hamas uses tunnels into Israel to attack
soldiers — which is 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=3027">war, not
terrorism</a>.
<p>
Israel bombards civilians, homes of the families of Hamas members,
hospitals, and power plants — which is terrorism, not war.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/29/israel-gaza-infrastructure-blackouts-idf-civilian">With
Blackouts, Food Shortages And Sewage in the Streets, Observers Say the
IDF Either Targets Civilians Or Has Terrible Aim</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Unregulated_shadow_banking_system)
title: Unregulated "shadow banking system"
uri: Unregulated-shadow-banking-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Unregulated_shadow_banking_system%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/parasite-1-shadow-banking-system">unregulated
"shadow banking system"</a> vitiates the regulations that were
intended to make banks more stable.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_July_2014_(Spies,_journalists_and_lawyers)
title: Spies, journalists and lawyers
uri: Spies-journalists-and-lawyers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_July_2014_%28Spies%2C_journalists_and_lawyers%29
content:
<p>
Pervasive surveillance in the US forces journalists and lawyers to 
<a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/28/us-surveillance-harming-journalism-law-democracy">use
spy techniques</a> to communicate with their source and clients.
<p>
Although the Senate is now considering a bill that would make it 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/opinion/a-stronger-bill-to-limit-surveillance.html">harder
for the NSA to collect records in bulk</a>, that would not prevent
targeted investigations aimed at a journalist to find the journalist's
sources.  The approach of limiting access to giant digital dossiers is
simply not capable of solving the problem.  We must stop
the <em>creation</em> of these dossiers.
<p>
<a href="https://cdt.org/insight/comparison-of-house-senate-versions-of-the-usa-freedom-act">Comparing</a>
the Senate bill with the toothless House bill.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Australia's_prison_for_boat_people)
title: Australia's prison for boat people
uri: Australia-s-prison-for-boat-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Australia%27s_prison_for_boat_people%29

content:
<p>
Australia's prison for boat people is intended to make future boat
people stay away, so it is intentionally cruel.
About <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/immigration-department-detention-child-mental-health-inquiry">1/3
of the prisoners have mental health problems</a>.
<p>
One epileptic had seizures because the government took away her
anti-seizure medicine and did not supply more.  Some children are
described as having given up eating because it was not worth living.
<p>
The prisons are cruel to people with non-mental illnesses, too.  This
article (mostly overlapping) informs us that
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/asylum-seekers-medications-seized-causing-child-to-suffer-fits-inquiry-told">thugs
confiscated eyeglasses and hearing aids too</a>.
<p>
The Australian government representative was shocked people could doubt
the benign intentions and good judgment of the government, which are
of course beyond question.


title: The "public inquiry" into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko
uri: The-public-inquiry-into-the-murder-of-Alexander-Litvinenko
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(The_public_inquiry_into_the_murder_of_Alexander_Litvinenko)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28The_public_inquiry_into_the_murder_of_Alexander_Litvinenko%29

content:
<p>
The "public inquiry" into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/alexander-litvinenko-inquiry-heard-secret-coroner">will
not really be a public inquiry</a>.  Even its conclusion will not be
entirely published.


title: Greeks who shot immigrant workers acquitted of human trafficking
uri: Greeks-who-shot-immigrant-workers-acquitted-of-human-trafficking
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Greeks_who_shot_immigrant_workers_acquitted_of_human_trafficking)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Greeks_who_shot_immigrant_workers_acquitted_of_human_trafficking%29

content:
<p>
Some of the Greeks who shot the immigrant workers whose pay they were
stealing <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/greek-court-acquits-farmers-shot-strawberry-pickers">were
acquitted of human trafficking</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Uganda's_repressive_anti-gay_law)
title: Uganda's repressive anti-gay law
uri: Uganda-s-repressive-anti-gay-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Uganda%27s_repressive_anti-gay_law%29

content:
<p>
Uganda's repressive anti-gay law
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/uganda-anti-gay-law-constitutional-court">being
challenged as unconstitutional</a>.


title: Israel to increase its attacks on Gaza
uri: Israel-to-increase-its-attacks-on-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Israel_to_increase_its_attacks_on_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Israel_to_increase_its_attacks_on_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
Israel intends
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/israel-calls-up-reservists-rejecting-calls-gaza-ceasefire">increase
its attacks on Gaza</a>, and is buying more ammunition from the US to
kill more Palestinians.


title: Politicians want NATO to "respond" to non-armed "attacks"
uri: Politicians-want-NATO-to-respond-to-non-armed-attacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Politicians_want_NATO_to_respond_to_non-armed_attacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Politicians_want_NATO_to_respond_to_non-armed_attacks%29

content:
<p>
Politicians want NATO
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/nato-unprepared-threats-from-russia">"respond"
to non-armed "attacks"</a> which might be nothing but propaganda.
<p>
If the response to a non-armed "attack" is made in kind, without arms,
it does not require the formality of NATO, or any treaty.  It would be
nonmilitary cooperation between governments, which they can do without
NATO.
<p>
It follows that this proposal is really about permitting NATO to
launch a war in response to non-military action.  That seems very
dangerous to me.


title: Urgent: End bulk antibiotics use in farms
uri: Urgent-End-bulk-antibiotics-use-in-farms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Urgent:_End_bulk_antibiotics_use_in_farms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_bulk_antibiotics_use_in_farms%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/tell-congressional-republicans-stop-the-use-of-antibiotics-in-factory-farms">call
on Congress</a> to end bulk use of antibiotics in factory farms,
before the resistant bacteria kill us.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Russia_prohibits_anonymity)
title: Russia prohibits anonymity
uri: Russia-prohibits-anonymity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Russia_prohibits_anonymity%29
content:
<p>
Russia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/russia-controls-blogosphere-new-law">prohibited
anonymous comments on web sites</a>.
<p>
It has also imposed many other limits on Internet use, including
<a href="http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-28583669">arbitrary
blocking</a> of inconvenient web sites.
<p>
Of course, Russia is ruled by a tyrant, and this is what tyrants do.
(I pity the poor fools in the Crimea that wanted to be under Putin's
power — if indeed they were more than a bunch of armed gangs he
had set up.)
<p>
What is more dangerous is that governments of "free" countries such as
the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_July_2013_(US_gov%27t_blocked_access_to_entire_Guardian_web_site)">US</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#21_October_2011_(French_Court:_ISPs)">France</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#31_October_2013_(Italys_proposal_to_shut_down_web_sites)">Italy</a>,
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#03_August_2012_(Band_in_Finland_supports_sharing)">Finland</a> 
also block web sites, and have laws such as the DMCA that lend
themselves to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#9_May_2012_(Political_Censorship)">political 
censorship</a>.
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140729/10593428044/uk-government-report-recommends-ending-online-anonymity.shtml">UK
committee wants to ban anonymity</a> on the internet.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Extreme_weather_in_Siberia)
title: Extreme weather in Siberia
uri: Extreme-weather-in-Siberia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Extreme_weather_in_Siberia%29
content:
<p>
Extreme weather in Siberia has impacted salmon, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/01/bear-attacks-people-dead-siberia-russi-extreme-weather">causing
bears to attack humans</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Defamation_laws)
title: Defamation laws
uri: Defamation-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Defamation_laws%29
content:
<p>
Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court 
<a href="https://cpj.org/blog/2014/07/zimbabwe-court-strikes-down-criminal-defamation-im.php">struck
down</a> the law criminalizing defamation.
<p>
However, 
<a href="http://en.rsf.org/cambodia-heavy-damages-award-against-29-07-2014,46714.html">Cambodia
is moving in the other direction</a>.


title: More coral reefs damaged by Big Spill
uri: More-coral-reefs-damaged-by-Big-Spill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(More_coral_reefs_damaged_by_Big_Spill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28More_coral_reefs_damaged_by_Big_Spill%29

content:
<p>
Scientists have 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/29/3465261/bp-oil-spill-coral-reefs/">found
more coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico that have been badly
damaged</a> by the Big Spill.
<p>
They say that not all reefs in the area were harmed.
It makes sense that the oil was carried by currents in certain
directions and others were spared.  It makes for a good comparison.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(US_workers_without_sick_days)
title: US workers without sick days
uri: US-workers-without-sick-days
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28US_workers_without_sick_days%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12551/paid-sick-days-gain-momentum-as-alec-allies-push-back">40
million US workers</a> don't get paid sick days, and ALEC is fighting
to keep it that way.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(CIA_spying_on_Senate_Staffers)
title: CIA spying on Senate Staffers
uri: CIA-spying-on-Senate-Staffers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28CIA_spying_on_Senate_Staffers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spying-senate-staffers">CIA
Admits to Spying on Senate Staffers</a>.  And breaking the security on
Senate computers, too.
<p>
But worst of all is that they 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=3096">lied about
it</a>.
<p>
The CIA needs to be investigated by another Church Committee.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(India_suspends_trials_of_GMO_foods)
title: India suspends trials of GMO foods
uri: India-suspends-trials-of-GMO-foods
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28India_suspends_trials_of_GMO_foods%29

content:
<p>
India has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jul/31/india-gm-crop-trials-bjp-rss">suspended
trials of genetically modified foods</a> for the sake of protecting
its food security.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Lobbying_against_solar)
title: Lobbying against solar
uri: Lobbying-against-solar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Lobbying_against_solar%29
content:
<p>
US electric companies are 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12553/utility-trade-group-funds-alec-attack-americans-who-use-solar">paying
ALEC to push laws to obstruct installation of solar generation</a> in
homes and businesses.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(London_thug_charged_with_murder)
title: London thug charged with murder
uri: London-thug-charged-with-murder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28London_thug_charged_with_murder%29

content:
<p>
An unidentified London thug will be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/30/azelle-rodney-shooting-former-met-police-officer-charged-murder">charged
with murder</a> for a scandalous killing 9 years ago.


title: Massachusetts replaces "buffer zone" law
uri: Massachusetts-replaces-buffer-zone-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_August_2014_(Massachusetts_replaces_buffer_zone_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Massachusetts_replaces_buffer_zone_law%29

content:
<p>
Massachusetts has replaced its "buffer zone" law with a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/massachusetts-law-limit-protests-abortion-clinics">different
way of preventing harassment of patients and doctors</a> at abortion
clinics.


title: Urgent: Support the Stop Corporate Inversions Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Stop-Corporate-Inversions-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Urgent:_Support_the_Stop_Corporate_Inversions_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_Stop_Corporate_Inversions_Act%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://donate.elizabethwarren.com/page/signup/inversionsact?source=20140801emA">support
the Stop Corporate Inversions Act</a>.


title: Urgent: Impose an end to the siege of Gaza
uri: Urgent-Impose-an-end-to-the-siege-of-Gaza
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Urgent:_Impose_an_end_to_the_siege_of_Gaza)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Impose_an_end_to_the_siege_of_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Kerry and Obama
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-whitehouse-johnkerry?source=c.em&r_by=1135580">impose
an end to the siege of Gaza</a>.


title: Urgent: Support access to contraception for women
uri: Urgent-Support-access-to-contraception-for-women
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Urgent:_Support_access_to_contraception_for_women)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_access_to_contraception_for_women%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=387A544EE0ACE43BCE15D14AC1E3991C.app245a?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=6021">support
access to contraception for women in the US military</a>.


title: Boat people told to navigate to India
uri: Boat-people-told-to-navigate-to-India
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Boat_people_told_to_navigate_to_India)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Boat_people_told_to_navigate_to_India%29

content:
<p>
Australian officials told the boat people, imprisoned at sea, that
they would
be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/tamil-asylum-seekers-taught-pilot-lifeboats-back-india">forcibly
put into lifeboats which they would then have to navigate to
India</a>.
<p>
While imprisoned on the ship, they did not get enough food.


title: Israel bombed another UN school full of civilians
uri: Israel-bombed-another-UN-school-full-of-civilians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Israel_bombed_another_UN_school_full_of_civilians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Israel_bombed_another_UN_school_full_of_civilians%29

content:
<p>
Israel <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/israel-air-strike-un-school-gaza-rafah">bombed
another UN school full of civilians</a>.


title: Human rights lawyer writes to Obama asking for support
uri: Human-rights-lawyer-writes-to-Obama-asking-for-support
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Human_rights_lawyer_writes_to_Obama_asking_for_support)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Human_rights_lawyer_writes_to_Obama_asking_for_support%29

content:
<p>
Human rights lawyer Thulani
Maseko <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/-sp-barack-obama-swaziland-thulani-maseko">writes
to Obama asking for support</a>. Maseko is in prison for criticizing
the government and the courts of Swaziland.


title: Israel spied on Kerry's communications
uri: Israel-spied-on-Kerry-s-communications
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Israel_spied_on_Kerry's_communications)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Israel_spied_on_Kerry%27s_communications%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/israel-spied-kerry-peace-effort-report">Israel
spied on Kerry's communications</a> while he was making his futile
efforts to broker a cease-fire in Gaza.
<p>
Netanyahu is treating the US with overt contempt, believing he has the
US government on a leash.  A couple of days ago he essentially told
the US, "Shut up, you have no right to question Israel's decisions."
The US
government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/us-appalled-disgraceful-israeli-shelling-gaza-un-school">does
not seem to have listened</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Urgent:_Schedules_That_Work_Act)
title: Urgent: Schedules That Work Act
uri: Urgent-Schedules-That-Work-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Schedules_That_Work_Act%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/33/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8889&track=NAT_140729_scheduling_e">support
the Schedules That Work Act</a>


title: California has declared a fire emergency
uri: California-has-declared-a-fire-emergency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(California_has_declared_a_fire_emergency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28California_has_declared_a_fire_emergency%29

content:
<p>
California
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/state-of-emergency-california-wildfires-oregon">declared
a fire emergency</a>, with fires now at the level usually seen only in
September.
<p>
In 30 years, that will usually arrive in June, due to global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(The_ignorance_of_right-wingers)
title: The ignorance of right-wingers
uri: The-ignorance-of-right-wingers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28The_ignorance_of_right-wingers%29
content:
<p>
The ignorance of right-wingers knows no bounds.  A language teacher in
Utah
was <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/01/1318397/-Homophobic-Paranoia-In-Utah?detail=email">fired
for writing an article about homophones</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(The_US_empire)
title: The US empire
uri: The-US-empire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28The_US_empire%29
content:
<p>
How the US
empire <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/empire-economy-does-not-serve-economy-or-people">weakens
the US and harms Americans</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_August_2014_(Israels_aim_of_attack_on_Gaza)
title: Israel's "aim" of attack on Gaza
uri: Israel-s-aim-of-attack-on-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_August_2014_%28Israels_aim_of_attack_on_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Israel 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1406902487/">keeps
changing the "aim"</a> of the attack on Gaza, so there is always a
reason to keep attacking.
<p>
To keep it going, the US has just 
<a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2014/07/31/world-condemns-attack-gaza-us-resupplies-israel-weapons">sold
Israel more ammunition</a>.
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/07/29/media-hype-and-gazas-terror-tunnels/">latest
"war aim" is to destroy Hamas tunnels</a>, which Israel claims are
meant to attack Israeli civilians.  Never mind the fact that they have
only been used to attack soldiers.
<p>
It's 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#14_July_2014_(The_Iron_Dome_missile_interceptor)">not
clear the Iron Dome rockets are effective at destroying Hamas
missiles</a> (which seem to pose little danger in any case), but they
are great for making loud explosions that get Israelis scared.
<p>
Israeli civilians have talked themselves into a frenzy of fear based
on a danger that is tiny.  That frenzy is, in objective terms, no
justification for them to inflict great harm on civilians in Gaza.
<p>
The casualties (killed and wounded) in Gaza, around 10,000 people,
amount to half a percent of the population of Gaza (1.8 million).  If
30,000 Israelis were casualties of Hamas attacks, Israelis would face
the same level of danger as Gazans, and I'd agree they had a valid
reason to be frightened.


title: Monsanto's attack on food safety laws
uri: Monsanto-s-attack-on-food-safety-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_August_2014_(Monsantos_attack_on_food_safety_laws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_August_2014_%28Monsantos_attack_on_food_safety_laws%29

content:
<p>
Vandana Shiva explains Monsanto's 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/01/fine-print-food-wars">world-wide
attack</a> on food safety laws.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_August_2014_(Urgent:_Walgreens)
title: Urgent: Walgreens
uri: Urgent-Walgreens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Walgreens%29
content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/walgreens-stand-with-us-and-stay-in-america">call
on Walgreens</a> to remain a US company.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_August_2014_(Tax_on_wealth)
title: Tax on wealth
uri: Tax-on-wealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_August_2014_%28Tax_on_wealth%29
content:
<p>
The UK Labour Party is terrified that people might think it is
planning to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/02/ed-balls-labour-no-death-tax">tax
inherited fortunes</a>.
<p>
That would be a tax on wealth.
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_April_2014_(The_natural_tendency_in_capitalism)">Taxing 
wealth is just what Thomas Piketty says we need to do</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_August_2014_(The_ice_around_Antarctica)
title: The ice around Antarctica
uri: The-ice-around-Antarctica
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_August_2014_%28The_ice_around_Antarctica%29
content:
<p>
With the Earth's surface heating, and ice melting everywhere, it was a
mystery why sea ice around Antarctica was increasing.  Part of the
explanation is that the increase is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/aug/01/error-may-have-overestimated-antarctic-sea-ice-expansion">less
than was thought</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_August_2014_(Fracking)
title: Fracking
uri: Fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_August_2014_%28Fracking%29
content:
<p>
In order for fracking to have a chance of leading a transition to
cleaner energy, it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/aug/01/its-time-energy-policy-hums-to-a-different-tune">would
need a coherent plan to end use of coal and oil</a>.
<p>
There is no such plan, because the backers of fracking don't really
want to reduce fossil fuel use.  They only want to extract more and
faster.
<p>
This is aside from the point that fracked gas releases a lot of
methane which makes its greenhouse contributions much higher.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Global_heating_is_visible)
title: Global heating is visible
uri: Global-heating-is-visible
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Global_heating_is_visible%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is visible in
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/02/gurnard-and-chips-cod-warmer-seas-uk-fish-stock">change
of which fish species live around Britain</a>.


title: Politician claims rape accusations are a "fashion"
uri: Politician-claims-rape-accusations-are-a-fashion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Politician_claims_rape_accusations_are_a_fashion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Politician_claims_rape_accusations_are_a_fashion%29

content:
<p>
A Hindu-nationalist
politician <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/02/rape-charges-fashion-india-shiv-sena-hindu-nationalist">claims
that rape accusations in India are a "fashion"</a>, in effect
asserting it is unthinkable that rape could really occur in India.


title: Australia forced the Tamil boat people onto a plane to Nauru
uri: Australia-forced-the-Tamil-boat-people-onto-a-plane-to-Nauru
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Australia_forced_the_Tamil_boat_people_onto_a_plane_to_Nauru)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Australia_forced_the_Tamil_boat_people_onto_a_plane_to_Nauru%29

content:
<p>
Australia <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/02/abbott-government-faces-barrage-of-criticism-over-secret-nauru-transfer">forced
the Tamil boat people onto a plane to Nauru</a> with no warning and
without informing their lawyers.


title: Staying sober under the monitoring of a sobriety bracelet
uri: Staying-sober-under-the-monitoring-of-a-sobriety-bracelet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Staying_sober_under_the_monitoring_of_a_sobriety_bracelet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Staying_sober_under_the_monitoring_of_a_sobriety_bracelet%29

content:
<p>
People who committed crimes while drunk show
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/01/sobriety-tags-might-prove-better-than-prison">pretty
good rate of staying sober under the monitoring of a sobriety
bracelet</a>.
<p>
This use of surveillance is legitimate because it is specifically
targeted and because it is imposed after due process.


title: 25,000 people in Detroit are cut off from water supplies
uri: 25-000-people-in-Detroit-are-cut-off-from-water-supplies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(25,000_people_in_Detroit_are_cut_off_from_water_supplies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%2825%2C000_people_in_Detroit_are_cut_off_from_water_supplies%29

content:
<p>
25,000 people in Detroit
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/01/partial-victory-detroit-water-crisis-city-regains-power-resource">cut
off from water supplies</a>, and it is not clear that the mayor is
going to treat the poor any better than the bankruptcy manager.


title: US denies citizenship to Muslim permanent residents
uri: US-denies-citizenship-to-Muslim-permanent-residents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(US_denies_citizenship_to_Muslim_permanent_residents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28US_denies_citizenship_to_Muslim_permanent_residents%29

content:
<p>
The
US <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/31/lawsuit-charges-us-uses-secret-unfounded-national-security-concerns-deny-muslim">denies
citizenship to Muslim permanent residents and refuses to tell them
why</a>.


title: Urgent: oppose mergers of big companies
uri: Urgent-oppose-mergers-of-big-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Urgent:_oppose_mergers_of_big_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_mergers_of_big_companies%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/consol_dear_comcast_twc/?t=1008&akid=4879.9489429.QN3_MO">oppose
mergers of big companies such as Comcast</a>.


title: Hungary's government is slowly extending censorship
uri: Hungary-s-government-is-slowly-extending-censorship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Hungary's_government_is_slowy_extending_censorship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Hungary%27s_government_is_slowy_extending_censorship%29

content:
<p>
Hungary's government
is <a href="http://www.ifex.org/hungary/2014/07/28/slow_steady/">slowly
extending censorship</a>, much as Putin did until a couple of years
ago.


title: Helping Companies Move Overseas To Dodge Taxes
uri: Helping-Companies-Move-Overseas-To-Dodge-Taxes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Helping_Companies_Move__Overseas_To_Dodge_Taxes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Helping_Companies_Move__Overseas_To_Dodge_Taxes%29

content:
<p>
Wall Street Has Raked In
Almost <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/07/29/3465206/wall-street-inversions-overseas/">A
Billion Dollars Helping Companies Move Overseas To Dodge Taxes</a>.


title: 72 companies have stopped funding ALEC
uri: 72-companies-have-stopped-funding-ALEC
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(72_companies_have_stopped_funding_ALEC)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%2872_companies_have_stopped_funding_ALEC%29

content:
<p>
72 companies have stopped funding ALEC, but
ALEC <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12552/alec-funders-flee-but-koch-tobacco-phrma-remain-loyal">still
gets plenty from the Koch brothers, tobacco companies and Big
Pharma</a>.
<p>
Lots
of <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12557/polluters">Earth-broiling
companies support ALEC</a>.
<p>
Did <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#04_December_2013_%28Google_funds_many_right-wing_campaigns_in_the_US%29">Google
ever stop funding ALEC?</a>


title: US court demands Microsoft hand over client's emails
uri: US-court-demands-Microsoft-hand-over-client-s-emails
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(US_court_demands_Microsoft_hand_over_client's_emails)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28US_court_demands_Microsoft_hand_over_client%27s_emails%29

content:
<p>
A US court continues to demand that
Microsoft <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/07/31/3466427/microsoft-overseas-emails-district-ruling/">hand
over a client's emails stored in Ireland, without consulting
Ireland</a>.
<p>
Ireland could stop Microsoft from complying, if it had the guts.


title: New coal mine will probably kill The Great Barrier Reef
uri: New-coal-mine-will-probably-kill-The-Great-Barrier-Reef
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(New_coal_mine_will_probably_kill_The_Great_Barrier_Reef)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28New_coal_mine_will_probably_kill_The_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
The Great Barrier Reef is already sick, and the new coal mine that
Australia plans to create will attack it in several
ways,<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/01/-sp-great-barrier-reef-and-coal-mine-could-kill-it">
probably killing it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(US_Banks_still_too_big_to_fail)
title: US Banks still "too big to fail"
uri: US-Banks-still-too-big-to-fail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28US_Banks_still_too_big_to_fail%29
content:
<p>
The GAO says big US banks are still
"<a href='http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/07/gao-report-too-big-to-fail-brown-vitter'>too
big to fail</a>".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Anti-gay_laws_in_Uganda)
title: Anti-gay laws in Uganda
uri: Anti-gay-laws-in-Uganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Anti-gay_laws_in_Uganda%29
content:
<p>
Uganda's 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/01/uganda-anti-gay-law-null-and-void">latest
anti-gay law</a> was struck down as unconstitutional, but only on a
technicality, and the old one that was imposed by British colonialists
remains.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Unknown_spider_species)
title: Unknown spider species
uri: Unknown-spider-species
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Unknown_spider_species%29
content:
<p>
The unknown spider species we are driving to extinction today 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/01/spiders-conservation-importance-agriculture">might
save your life if it survives</a>.  And wiping them out could make us
starve.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(War_crimes_in_Gaza)
title: War crimes in Gaza
uri: War-crimes-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28War_crimes_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
The Palestinian Authority should 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/01/gaza-international-law-war-crimes-security-council">call
on the International Criminal Court</a> to prosecute the war crimes in
Gaza.
<p>
Although Israel claims that Hamas uses UN schools for military
activities, so far there is no evidence that it did so in the schools
where civilians are sheltering.  The UN reported finding rockets
stored in UN schools that were closed and not in use.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Multiplayer_video_games)
title: Multiplayer video games
uri: Multiplayer-video-games
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Multiplayer_video_games%29
content:
<p>
The "social" aspect of multiplayer video games is an unhealthy
society, totally 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/01/what-would-social-video-games-look-like-gamers">structured
to get people to play and pay</a>.
<p>
While we have seen such things before, such as shopping malls as
places to hang out, and the increasing number of holidays structured
around socially-pressured gift-giving, they do involve a lot of social
interaction on which no structure is imposed.  This is a change for
the worse; it could be producing millions of people who don't interact
with their "friends" outside of the imposed structure.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(UK_cuts_climate_diplomacy_budget)
title: UK cuts climate diplomacy budget
uri: UK-cuts-climate-diplomacy-budget
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28UK_cuts_climate_diplomacy_budget%29

content:
<p>
The UK government, which does not want climate negotiations to
succeed, has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/01/uk-slashes-climate-change-diplomacy-budget">cut
the budget for its climate diplomacy by 1/3 in recent years</a>.
<p>
The UK government is working for fossil fuel companies and intends to
prevent an agreement.  That does not require much staff work.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Resistance_to_ISIS)
title: Resistance to ISIS
uri: Resistance-to-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Resistance_to_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
The inhabitants of Mosul are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/01/iraqis-isis-mosul-resistance">resisting
ISIS</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Israeli_artillery_practices)
title: Israeli artillery practices
uri: Israeli-artillery-practices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Israeli_artillery_practices%29
content:
<p>
Israeli artillery practices are a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/gaza-civilian-death-toll-military-training-experts">recipe
for hitting civilians</a>.
<p>
Are the gunners sloppy and incompetent, or do they just not care about
killing Arabs?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Investigation_into_CIA_torture)
title: Investigation into CIA torture
uri: Investigation-into-CIA-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Investigation_into_CIA_torture%29
content:
<p>
The Obama regime and CIA torturers are 
<a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2014/07/30/jeremy-scahill-white-house-censoring-what-us-public-can-know-about-torture-program">censoring
the Senate investigation</a> into CIA torture.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Force-feeding_in_Guantanamo)
title: Force-feeding in Guantanamo
uri: Force-feeding-in-Guantanamo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Force-feeding_in_Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
Some prisoners in Guantanamo said they would accept force-feeding done
in a way that doesn't amount to torture.  
<a href="http://commondreams.org/views/2014/07/30/why-has-obama-rejected-more-humane-response-hunger-strike-gitmo">Obama
would rather torture them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_August_2014_(Whitewash_by_Yushukan_war_museum)
title: Whitewash by Yushukan war museum
uri: Whitewash-by-Yushukan-war-museum
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_August_2014_%28Whitewash_by_Yushukan_war_museum%29

content:
<p>
Japan's Yushukan war museum says that Japan was never an aggressor,
and that Japanese troops never committed atrocities.  It was 
<a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/07/28/issues/trip-around-yushukan-japans-font-discord/">always
all the other side's fault</a>.
<p>
Japan is not the only country to whitewash aggression and massacres in
this way.  Today Israel and the US do it.  It is noteworthy how the
Japanese army defined all Chinese men of military age in Nanjing as
soldiers in civilian disguise; thus it can claim their execution was
not a massacre.  Did Bush and Obama get the idea from there?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Russia_threatens_to_block_BBC)
title: Russia threatens to block BBC
uri: Russia-threatens-to-block-BBC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Russia_threatens_to_block_BBC%29
content:
<p>
Russia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/russia-bans-siberia-independence-march-extremism-law">threatens
to block the BBC web site</a> for an interview with Siberians who
wanted to march for Siberian independence.
<p>
I can understand why they don't want to be ruled by Putin, but why
leave the rest of Russia behind?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Europes_forests)
title: Europe's forests
uri: Europe-s-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Europes_forests%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/05/europes-forests-particularly-vulnerable-to-rapid-climate-change">hitting
Europe's forests hard</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Impossible_hoops_of_UK_jobcenters)
title: Impossible hoops of UK "jobcenters"
uri: Impossible-hoops-of-UK-jobcenters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Impossible_hoops_of_UK_jobcenters%29

content:
<p>
Unemployed Britons describe the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/05/even-the-sight-of-a-cv-would-give-me-an-anxiety-attack-guardian-readers-on-benefit-sanctions">impossible
hoops of the "jobcenters"</a> that were set up to create excuses to
punish them.
<p>
I think they would advance their rights more if they got together and
held a sit-in in front of a jobcenter, demanding to be put in prison.
Civil rights protesters showed their contempt for unjust law by
filling the jails; why not the unemployed?
<p>
But they have to refuse to do any work while in prison
that the state would profit from.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Abbott_fighting_terrorism)
title: Abbott "fighting terrorism"
uri: Abbott-fighting-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Abbott_fighting_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
Abbott proposes a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/tony-abbott-extension-terrorism-laws-amid-jihadi-fears">broad
attack on human rights</a> in Australia in the name of "fighting
terrorism".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Chicken_sold_in_UK_contaminated)
title: Chicken sold in UK contaminated
uri: Chicken-sold-in-UK-contaminated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Chicken_sold_in_UK_contaminated%29

content:
<p>
Most of the chicken sold in the UK is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/05/majority-supermarket-chicken-contaminated-campylobacter-fsa">contaminated
with campylobacter</a>, which causes stomach illness that is sometimes
fatal.  Hygiene standards are evidently not good enough.
<p>
Either it is the same in the US, or it would be the same if standards
are lowered.  This is part of the reason why the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_May_2014_(Plans_to_end_chicken_inspection)">US
proposal to reduce inspection standards</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Lawsuit_against_Facebook)
title: Lawsuit against Facebook
uri: Lawsuit-against-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Lawsuit_against_Facebook%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/05/sign-up-austrian-student-facebook-class-action-data-violations">class-action
lawsuit</a> against Facebook for violating privacy adds up to 8
million euros.
<p>
I agree with the plaintiffs in spirit, but the victory they aim for
would take the form of limiting the use of giant data bases.  That
isn't enough to give us privacy where we really need it.  We need to
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">prevent
the accumulation of giant data bases about people</a>.
<p>
In particular, don't be a used of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">Facebook</a> at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Fertilizer_runoff_in_Lake_Erie)
title: Fertilizer runoff in Lake Erie
uri: Fertilizer-runoff-in-Lake-Erie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Fertilizer_runoff_in_Lake_Erie%29
content:
<p>
Fertilizer runoff has led to a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/04/ohio-city-lifts-drinking-water-ban-fears-remain-over-lake-erie-toxins">toxic
algae bloom in Lake Erie</a>.
<p>
The waste of fertilizer will haunt us too, as supplies of some
chemical fertilizers are running out.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Seed_libraries)
title: Seed libraries
uri: Seed-libraries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Seed_libraries%29
content:
<p>
Libraries around the US are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/04/agri-terrorism-towns-seed-library-shut-down">starting
to lend traditional seeds</a> as well as books, but Pennsylvania says
it presents a danger of "terrorism".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(For-profit_home_health_care)
title: For-profit home health care
uri: For-profit-home-health-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28For-profit_home_health_care%29
content:
<p>
In the US, for-profit home health care agencies working for Medicare
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/08/05/profit-home-care-agencies-cost-medicare-billions-extra-yet-provide-worse-care">cost
more and provide worse care</a>.
<p>
This is natural.  Their profit has to come out of the patients and the
public.  Privatizing a public service is nearly always harmful unless
it enables the public to buy directly from a competitive market.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(US_inequality)
title: US inequality
uri: US-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28US_inequality%29
content:
<p>
New figures from the Commerce Department show that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/05/inside-our-profoundly-unequal-new-normal">US
inequality growth is even more than was believed</a>.


title: ALEC recruiting states to try to block EPA
uri: ALEC-recruiting-states-to-try-to-block-EPA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(ALEC_recruiting_states_to_try_to_block_EPA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28ALEC_recruiting_states_to_try_to_block_EPA%29

content:
<p>
ALEC is recruiting states to try
to <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/08/12559/how-alec-fronts-fossil-fuels">block
the EPA from regulating CO2 emissions from electric plants.</a>
<p>
ALEC is funded by fossil fuel companies and the Koch brothers, and
their agenda is to make us burn as much fossil fuel as possible and
run at high speed into climate disaster.


title: Urgent: Demanding an end to nuclear weapons
uri: Urgent-Demanding-an-end-to-nuclear-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Urgent:_Demanding_an_end_to_nuclear_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Demanding_an_end_to_nuclear_weapons%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support the Marshall Islands
in <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/support-the-marshall">demanding
an end to nuclear weapons</a>.


title: A religious exception to laws restricting abortion
uri: A-religious-exception-to-laws-restricting-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(A_religious_exception_to_laws_restricting_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28A_religious_exception_to_laws_restricting_abortion%29

content:
<p>
The Satanic
Temple <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/07/28/3464769/satanists-hobby-lobby-abortion/">demands
a religious exception to laws restricting abortion.</a>


title: US developing a palm-sized surveillance drone
uri: US-developing-a-palm-sized-surveillance-drone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(US_developing_a_palm-sized_surveillance_drone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28US_developing_a_palm-sized_surveillance_drone%29

content:
<p>
The US is <a href="http://www.army.mil/article/130189/">developing a
palm-sized surveillance drone</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Systematic_Israeli_lies)
title: Systematic Israeli lies
uri: Systematic-Israeli-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Systematic_Israeli_lies%29
content:
<p>
Chris Hedges
describes <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/04/why-israel-lies">systematic
Israeli lies about types of violent events he witnessed.</a>


title: Urgent: Protecting Puget Sound from oil tanker traffic
uri: Urgent-Protecting-Puget-Sound-from-oil-tanker-traffic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Urgent:_Protecting_Puget_Sound_from_oil_tanker_traffic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protecting_Puget_Sound_from_oil_tanker_traffic%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
Support <a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16204">protecting
Puget Sound from oil tanker traffic</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(A_cunning_loanshark)
title: A cunning loanshark
uri: A-cunning-loanshark
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28A_cunning_loanshark%29
content:
<p>
A cunning loanshark sells furniture to US soldiers at elevated prices,
lending them money,
then <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/35000-lawsuits-against-soldiers-struggling-to-pay-their-bills/375090/">sues
them in a state where they can't go, so that they always lose</a>.


title: Activists report that undercover thugs harassed them
uri: Activists-report-that-undercover-thugs-harassed-them
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Activists_report_that_undercover_thugs_harassed_them)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Activists_report_that_undercover_thugs_harassed_them%29

content:
<p>
UK activists report
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/04/campaigners-ipcc-complaint-police-recruit-informers">undercover
thugs harassed them to become informers</a>. One says thugs threatened
to prosecute her if she told about this.


title: Alan Gross aims to die within a year
uri: Alan-Gross-aims-to-die-within-a-year
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Alan_Gross_aims_to_die_within_a_year)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Alan_Gross_aims_to_die_within_a_year%29

content:
<p>
Alan Gross, sent by the US to try to give Cuban Jews internet access
and imprisoned for
it, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2715228">aims to
die within a year if not released</a>.
<p>
I have little general sympathy for US meddling, which is often done
with an evil intent, but Cuba's interference with people's right to
communicate is wrong in any case.


title: How to get a good grade on US standardized tests
uri: How-to-get-a-good-grade-on-US-standardized-tests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(How_to_get_a_good_grade_on_US_standardized_tests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28How_to_get_a_good_grade_on_US_standardized_tests%29

content:
<p>
The only reliable way to get a good grade on US standardized tests is
to <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/07/why-poor-schools-cant-win-at-standardized-testing/374287/">get
the latest textbooks from the three publishers that make the
tests</a>.
<p>
Wealthy areas can afford to provide these books.  Poor areas can't.
So the tests are an excuse to call poor children stupid, and a scam to
benefit those publishers.


title: Urgent: Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument
uri: Urgent-Pacific-Remote-Islands-National-Marine-Monument
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Urgent:_Pacific_Remote_Islands_National_Marine_Monument)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Pacific_Remote_Islands_National_Marine_Monument%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Support extending
the <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3541">Pacific
Remote Islands National Marine Monument</a>.


title: Thousands of criminal convictions based on bogus "forensic analysis"
uri: Thousands-of-criminal-convictions-based-on-bogus-forensic-analysis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Thousands_of_criminal_convictions_based_on_bogus_forensic_analysis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Thousands_of_criminal_convictions_based_on_bogus_forensic_analysis%29

content:
<p>
Thousands of criminal convictions
were <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/federal-review-stalled-after-finding-forensic-errors-by-fbi-lab-unit-spanned-two-decades/2014/07/29/04ede880-11ee-11e4-9285-4243a40ddc97_story.html?wpisrc=nl_hdtop">based
on bogus hair comparison "forensic analysis" by done the FBI</a>.
<p>
Reportedly other kind of forensic analysis also turned out to be
bogus.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Media_bias_over_Ukraine_and_Russia)
title: Media bias over Ukraine and Russia
uri: Media-bias-over-Ukraine-and-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Media_bias_over_Ukraine_and_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Perspectives
on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/western-media-coverage-ukraine-crisis-russia">media
bias over Ukraine and Russia</a>.


title: UK gov't determined to re-privatize a railroad line
uri: UK-gov-t-determined-to-re-privatize-a-railroad-line
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(UK_gov't_determined_to_re-privatize_a_railroad_line)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28UK_gov%27t_determined_to_re-privatize_a_railroad_line%29

content:
<p>
The UK government
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/04/east-coast-mainline-fury-reprivatisation-plan">determined
to re-privatize a railroad line that made a lot of money for the
treasury</a>.
<p>
The income undermines the government's ability to claim it can't
afford programs to help the poor.


title: US imprisoned Yunus Rahmatullah for a decade
uri: US-imprisoned-Yunus-Rahmatullah-for-a-decade
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(US_imprisoned_Yunus_Rahmatullah_for_a_decade)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28US_imprisoned_Yunus_Rahmatullah_for_a_decade%29

content:
<p>
The
US <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/yunus-rahmatullah-pakistani-bagram-denied-legal-counsel">imprisoned
Yunus Rahmatullah in Afghanistan for a decade</a> without allowing
lawyers to talk to him.


title: Treatment of asylum seekers designed to make them suffer
uri: Treatment-of-asylum-seekers-designed-to-make-them-suffer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Treatment_of_asylum_seekers_designed_to_make_them_suffer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Treatment_of_asylum_seekers_designed_to_make_them_suffer%29

content:
<p>
Australia's chief immigration psychiatrist
says <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/-sp-australias-detention-regime-sets-out-to-make-asylum-seekers-suffer-says-chief-immigration-psychiatrist">the
treatment of asylum seekers is designed to make them suffer, as a form
of mental torture.</a>
<p>
And not only mental, when
you <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_August_2014_%28Australia%27s_prison_for_boat_people%29">consider
the confiscation of medicines</a>,
the <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_May_2014_%28Australias_offshore_prison%29">violence,
and so on</a>.


title: Intelligence services enjoy effective impunity
uri: Intelligence-services-enjoy-effective-impunity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Intelligence_services_enjoy_effective_impunity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Intelligence_services_enjoy_effective_impunity%29

content:
<p>
The intelligence services, effectively a fourth branch of government,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/04/fourth-branch-rise-power-national-security-state">continue
to enjoy effective impunity while spying on all of us</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(New_York's_jail_for_minors)
title: New York's jail for minors
uri: New-York-s-jail-for-minors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28New_York%27s_jail_for_minors%29
content:
<p>
New York's jail for
minors <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/new-york-juvenile-jails-excessive-force">is
a hell of violence.</a>


title: Australia's proposed austerity budget
uri: Australia-s-proposed-austerity-budget
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Australia's_proposed_austerity_budget)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Australia%27s_proposed_austerity_budget%29

content:
<p>
Australia's proposed austerity
budget <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/hockey-budget-hits-the-poor-hardest-treasury-figures-show">would
hurt the poor most</a>.
<p>
That's what it was intended to do.  Tony Grabbit is evil, but not
incompetent.


title: UK to reexamine each planned weapons sale to Israel
uri: UK-to-reexamine-each-planned-weapons-sale-to-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(UK_to_reexamine_each_planned_weapons_sale_to_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28UK_to_reexamine_each_planned_weapons_sale_to_Israel%29

content:
<p>
The UK
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/uk-government-reviews-arms-sales-israel-gaza">reexamine
each planned weapons sale to Israel</a> to ensure they don't support
attacking Gaza.
<p>
Whether this is serious, we will see by the results.


title: Manipulation of the public through digital media
uri: Manipulation-of-the-public-through-digital-media
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Manipulation_of_the_public_through_digital_media)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Manipulation_of_the_public_through_digital_media%29

content:
<p>
Getting to grips with
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/03/new-technology-renews-old-fears-manipulation-and-control">danger
of manipulation of the public through digital media</a>.
<p>
Using mass media to manipulate public opinion and launch wars started
before the 19th century.  Remember the Maine, which sunk in Havana
harbor due to an internal explosion, then provided the excuse for a
media frenzy that pushed the US into war with Spain.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(The_choice_to_boycott_Walgreens)
title: The choice to boycott Walgreens
uri: The-choice-to-boycott-Walgreens
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28The_choice_to_boycott_Walgreens%29

content:
<p>
Many Americans don't have the choice to boycott Walgreens,
because <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/03/many-people-cannot-boycott-corporate-tax-dodgers-walgreens">medical
plans require shopping there</a>.


title: Some Facts that Poverty-Deniers Don't Want to Hear
uri: Some-Facts-that-Poverty-Deniers-Don-t-Want-to-Hear
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Some_Facts_that_Poverty-Deniers_Don't_Want_to_Hear)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Some_Facts_that_Poverty-Deniers_Don%27t_Want_to_Hear%29

content:
<p>
Some Facts
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/04/some-facts-poverty-deniers-dont-want-hear">Poverty-Deniers
Don't Want to Hear</a>.


title: Alabama's latest attempt to close abortion clinics
uri: Alabama-s-latest-attempt-to-close-abortion-clinics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Alabama's_latest_attempt_to_close_abortion_clinics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Alabama%27s_latest_attempt_to_close_abortion_clinics%29

content:
<p>
Alabama's latest attempt
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/alabama-abortion-law-unconstitutional-judge">close
abortion clinics has been overturned by a court.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Urgent:_Fire_CIA_director_Brennan)
title: Urgent: Fire CIA director Brennan
uri: Urgent-Fire-CIA-director-Brennan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Fire_CIA_director_Brennan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/fire_brennan">fire CIA
director Brennan and CIA agents that spied on Congress</a>, and launch
an investigation to prosecute them.


title: Urgent: Suspend executions in the US
uri: Urgent-Suspend-executions-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Urgent:_Suspend_executions_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Suspend_executions_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/secure/lethal-injection">call for a
suspension</a> of executions in the US.
<p>
This should be a first step towards 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#14_August_2011_%28Truth_About_Lethal_Injection%29">ending
the death penalty</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Health_care_in_Republican_states)
title: Health care in Republican states
uri: Health-care-in-Republican-states
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Health_care_in_Republican_states%29

content:
<p>
Republican-controlled states that rejected Obama's health care plan
have 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/31/1318129/-Medicaid-makes-all-the-difference-in-getting-people-nbsp-insured">a
lot more uninsured people</a>, and it costs them a lot of money.
<p>
A US court 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/22/new-obamacare-rulings-one-thing-certain-we-need-medicare-all-life">overturned
Obama's decision to offer tax credits</a> for signing up in these
states.  This is going to cause suffering for a lot of people.
<p>
Republican legislators want to make life precarious at any cost,
because the plutocrats 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#19_July_2014_(Workers_safety_nets)">profit 
from the desperation of potential workers</a>.  If this causes a state
deficit, they will use that as an excuse to cut some other program
that helps the non-rich.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Harper_govt_nastiness)
title: Harper gov't nastiness
uri: Harper-gov-t-nastiness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Harper_govt_nastiness%29
content:
<p>
A resource for Canadians: 
<a href="http://canadaelection2015.blogspot.ca/">hundreds of nasty
things</a> that the Harper government has done.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Applying_for_40_jobs_a_month)
title: Applying for 40 jobs a month
uri: Applying-for-40-jobs-a-month
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Applying_for_40_jobs_a_month%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/30/unemployed-and-applying-for-40-jobs-a-month-if-you-didnt-laugh-youd-cry">Unemployed
And Applying for 40 Jobs a Month: If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Green_Party)
title: Green Party
uri: Green-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Green_Party%29
content:
<p>
In the UK, only the Green Party is prepared to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/29/rich-wealth-good-inequality-green-party">reject
the idea that billionaires' wealth is good for everyone</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(How_Israel_engineered_war_in_Gaza)
title: How Israel engineered war in Gaza
uri: How-Israel-engineered-war-in-Gaza
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28How_Israel_engineered_war_in_Gaza%29

content:
<p>
How Israel 
<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/7/israel-hamas-palestiniansconflictunitedstatesinternationallaw.html">engineered
and provoked</a> the war in Gaza.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Jury_nullification)
title: Jury nullification
uri: Jury-nullification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Jury_nullification%29
content:
<p>
Americans can use 
<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/aaron-swartz-jury-nullification-demand-progress">jury
nullification</a> to protect future Aaron Swartzes and Edward
Snowdens.
<p>
It's worth a try, if you find yourself on jury duty.  But we need to
push for more reliable solutions too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Libya_collapsing)
title: Libya collapsing
uri: Libya-collapsing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Libya_collapsing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/libya-freedom-now-flee-new-chaos">Foreigners
are being evacuated</a> from Libya, which is collapsing into chaotic
war.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Poultry_inspection_rules)
title: Poultry inspection rules
uri: Poultry-inspection-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Poultry_inspection_rules%29
content:
<p>
The USDA has modified a little its
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/01/new-usda-poultry-inspection-rules-jeopardize-public-health-say-critics">plan
to let poultry companies inspect their own products</a>.
<p>
It is a step in the wrong direction, and making it smaller won't make
it ok.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(UK_trying_to_censor_torture_report)
title: UK trying to censor torture report
uri: UK-trying-to-censor-torture-report
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28UK_trying_to_censor_torture_report%29

content:
<p>
The UK government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/02/britain-diego-garcia-faces-exposure-over-links-to-cia-torture-flights">trying
to censor the US Senate torture report</a> when it talks about the
UK's participation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Audits_of_Canadian_charities)
title: Audits of Canadian charities
uri: Audits-of-Canadian-charities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Audits_of_Canadian_charities%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.ifex.org/canada/2014/07/25/op_ed_about_cra_auditing/">Canadian
Charities Will Survive Chilling Audits Of "Political Activities"</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Russia_wants_Apple_source_code)
title: Russia wants Apple source code
uri: Russia-wants-Apple-source-code
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Russia_wants_Apple_source_code%29
content:
<p>
Russia wants Apple to provide 
<a href="http://recode.net/2014/07/30/russia-wants-apple-sap-to-cooperate-against-foreign-spying/">secret
source code</a>.
<p>
This would show Russia how to extract data from an iThing 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/05/new-guidelines-outline-what-iphone-data-apple-can-give-to-police/">just
as Apple does</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(UK_stretching_immigration_laws)
title: UK stretching immigration laws
uri: UK-stretching-immigration-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28UK_stretching_immigration_laws%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/01/isabella-acevedo-home-office-family-torn-apart-theresa-may">By
Expelling Isabella Acevedo, the [UK] Home Office Tears Another Family
Apart</a>.
<p>
The UK government is stretching and even breaking its own immigration
laws to deport exactly the people it should be most willing to allow
to stay, for no reason except trying to prove how harsh it is to
migrants.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Front_for_right-wing_lobbyists)
title: Front for right-wing lobbyists
uri: Front-for-right-wing-lobbyists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Front_for_right-wing_lobbyists%29
content:
<p>
An organization that pretends to represent US small business owners
does 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/08/12558/koch-backed-small-business-front-group-added-alec-board">right-wing
lobbying for the Koch brothers and big insurance companies</a> without
telling its members.
<p>
The AARP acts similarly — it 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug-html#19_July_2013_(Urgent:_Call_on_AARP_to_stop_sponsoring_Rush_Limbaugh)">lobbies 
for right-wing causes that its members, who are Americans old enough
to retire, might not approve of</a>.  This is why I refuse to join the
AARP.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Opposition_to_Keystone_XL)
title: Opposition to Keystone XL
uri: Opposition-to-Keystone-XL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Opposition_to_Keystone_XL%29
content:
<p>
The Keystone XL pipeline is facing 
<a href="http://commondreams.org/views/2014/08/01/keystone-xl-dominoes-fall-time-arrest-tar-sands-industry">increasing
opposition and increasing legal defeats</a>.
<p>
I am not convinced that Obama really has decided to block it.  If he
had, why hasn't he done so?  I think he is waiting for 2015 to approve
it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Regenerative_organic_farming)
title: Regenerative organic farming
uri: Regenerative-organic-farming
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Regenerative_organic_farming%29
content:
<p>
Regenerative organic farming 
<a href="http://commondreams.org/views/2014/08/01/we-can-reverse-climate-change-way-we-grow-food">can
cut a large fraction of humanity's greenhouse has emissions</a>.
<p>
We would have to eat much less beef.  I think we would all accept that
inconvenience if we understood what the alternative is.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(Dissidents_against_war_in_Israel)
title: Dissidents against war in Israel
uri: Dissidents-against-war-in-Israel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28Dissidents_against_war_in_Israel%29

content:
<p>
Dissidents opposed to the war in Israel are 
<a href="http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/blog/letter-from-tel-aviv-hilla-dayan-and-pw-zuidhof">facing
persecution at every level</a>: mob attacks on the street, threats of
punishment at school, exclusion from employment, and threats of state
punishment.
<p>
It reminds me of what I've read about McCarthyism in the US.
<p>
The New York Times 
<a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2014/08/01/israels-military-censors-demand-prior-review-nyts-gaza-reporting">accepts
Israeli censorship</a> of reporting about Gaza.
<p>
Reporters in Gaza, reporting by channels that bypass Israel, can
report freely as far as I know.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_August_2014_(NY_Times_on_shoot-down_of_planes)
title: NY Times on shoot-down of planes
uri: NY-Times-on-shoot-down-of-planes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_August_2014_%28NY_Times_on_shoot-down_of_planes%29

content:
<p>
The New York Times says that anyone who couldn't distinguish a
passenger plane from a military plane was 
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/07/22/are-people-who-shoot-down-passenger-planes-war-criminals-or-hard-to-fault/">"irresponsible
and stupid" and "a war criminal"</a>.  Except when the person is an
officer in the US Navy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_August_2014_(US_court_ruling_on_Argentine_debt)
title: US court ruling on Argentine debt
uri: US-court-ruling-on-Argentine-debt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_August_2014_%28US_court_ruling_on_Argentine_debt%29

content:
<p>
100 economists called on the US government to take action to thwart
vultures from 
<a href="http://commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/31/economists-call-congress-mitigate-fallout-ruling-argentine-debt">attacking
Argentina or any other country</a>.


title: The change in management of Market Basket supermarkets
uri: The-change-in-management-of-Market-Basket-supermarkets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_August_2014_(The_change_in_management_of_Market_Basket_supermarkets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28The_change_in_management_of_Market_Basket_supermarkets%29

content:
<p>
Workers and customers have joined to
fight <a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2014/08/05/market-basket-workers-customers-join-unprecedented-uprising-against-corporate-greed">against
the change in management of Market Basket supermarkets</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_August_2014_(Civil_war_in_South_Sudan_continues)
title: Civil war in South Sudan continues
uri: Civil-war-in-South-Sudan-continues
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Civil_war_in_South_Sudan_continues%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/aug/06/un-murder-south-sudan-humanitarian-workers">Civil
war in South Sudan continues and aid workers are being killed</a>.


title: Income Inequality Could "Capsize" the Economy
uri: Income-Inequality-Could-Capsize-the-Economy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_August_2014_(Income_Inequality_Could_Capsize_the_Economy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Income_Inequality_Could_Capsize_the_Economy%29

content:
<p>
Even Wall Street
Thinks <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/08/income-inequality-damaging-economy-says-new-report">Income
Inequality Could "Capsize" the Economy</a>.


title: US Army Corps of Engineers agree to obey pollution laws
uri: US-Army-Corps-of-Engineers-agree-to-obey-pollution-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_August_2014_(US_Army_Corps_of_Engineers_agree_to_obey_pollution_laws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28US_Army_Corps_of_Engineers_agree_to_obey_pollution_laws%29

content:
<p>
The US Army Corps of Engineers
has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/06/win-for-clean-water-as-polluting-dams-forced">agreed
to obey pollution laws with its dams</a>.


title: Urgent: Do not reduce protection of manatees
uri: Urgent-Do-not-reduce-protection-of-manatees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_August_2014_(Urgent:_Do_not_reduce_protection_of_manatees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Do_not_reduce_protection_of_manatees%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell the Fish and Wildlife
service <a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2771">not
to reduce protection of manatees</a>.


title: 40,000 Iraqis are stranded without water
uri: 40-000-Iraqis-are-stranded-without-water
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_August_2014_(40,000_Iraqis_are_stranded_without_water)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%2840%2C000_Iraqis_are_stranded_without_water%29

content:
<p>
40,000 Iraqis of
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/40000-iraqis-stranded-mountain-isis-death-threat">minority
sect are stranded without water</a>, but face mass murder by Isis if
they leave their mountain.
<p>
Mohammed said it is legitimate to lie if someone forces you to convert
to some other religion.  I agree: lying is less bad than killing, so
when killing in self defense is justified, as in a case like this, so
is lying.  By this standard, the trapped Yazidis could agree to
"convert", flee the area, then say they lied under coersion.
<p>
They would have to stay out of Isis's hands, however.  Muslim fanatics
do not apply the Golden Rule to their own fanaticism.


title: Australia orders dismissal of Save the Children staff
uri: Australia-orders-dismissal-of-Save-the-Children-staff
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_August_2014_(Australia_orders_dismissal_of_Save_the_Children_staff)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Australia_orders_dismissal_of_Save_the_Children_staff%29

content:
<p>
Australia <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/nauru-staff-suspended-for-watching-peaceful-asylum-seeker-protests">orders
dismissal of Save the Children staff</a> teaching children Australia
for expressing sympathy with protesters.


title: US owes reparations to Guatemala's poor
uri: US-owes-reparations-to-Guatemala-s-poor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_August_2014_(US_owes_reparations_to_Guatemala's_poor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28US_owes_reparations_to_Guatemala%27s_poor%29

content:
<p>
The US owes reparations to Guatemala's poor for
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/06/then-and-now-us-policy-towards-central-american-fuels-crisis">repression
that it financed for decades</a>.
<p>
I don't think that these reparations must obligatorily take the form
of allowing Guatemalans to move to the US in large quantities.  It
would be fine to give them the means for a decent life at home.


title: Urgent: Stop opposing laws to label GMOs
uri: Urgent-Stop-opposing-laws-to-label-GMOs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_August_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_opposing_laws_to_label_GMOs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_opposing_laws_to_label_GMOs%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Coca Cola Company
to <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/coca-cola-stop-funding">stop
opposing laws to label GMOs</a>.


title: Urgent: Oppose oil drilling in Arctic waters
uri: Urgent-Oppose-oil-drilling-in-Arctic-waters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_August_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_oil_drilling_in_Arctic_waters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_oil_drilling_in_Arctic_waters%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1607">oppose
Obama's plan to allow oil drilling in Arctic waters</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_August_2014_(Urgent:_End_coal_lease_give-aways)
title: Urgent: End coal lease give-aways
uri: Urgent-End-coal-lease-give-aways
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_August_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_coal_lease_give-aways%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1671">call
on the US</a> to stop giving out coal leases that are effectively
give-aways to mining companies.


