# articles

title: Urgent: Stop union-busting in Indonesia
uri: Urgent-Stop-union-busting-in-Indonesia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_union-busting_in_Indonesia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_union-busting_in_Indonesia%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Nike
to <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/nike-nine/">stop
union-busting in Indonesia.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Garment_workers_in_Eastern_Europe)
title: Garment workers in Eastern Europe
uri: Garment-workers-in-Eastern-Europe
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Garment_workers_in_Eastern_Europe%29

content:
<p>
Garment workers in Eastern Europe
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/10/fashion-brands-violate-labour-laws-eastern-europe">forced
to work overtime just to make a minimum wage</a>.
<p>
They work for subcontractors of big name brands.  This problem is the
result of the deregulation that made it possible for a famous company
to become a shell that outsources its production to contractors that
outsource to subcontractors, etc.
<p>
The solution is to make the shell companies legally responsible for
the wrongdoing of the subsubsubcontractors.


title: Urgent: More funding for the Veterans' Administration
uri: Urgent-More-funding-for-the-Veterans-Administration
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Urgent:_More_funding_for_the_Veterans'_Administration)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_More_funding_for_the_Veterans%27_Administration%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Senator McConnell
to <a href="http://action.votevets.org/page/s/veterans-health?source=dkos">allow
a vote on more funding for the Veterans' Administration.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Places_for_produce_and_groceries)
title: Places for produce and groceries
uri: Places-for-produce-and-groceries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Places_for_produce_and_groceries%29
content:
<p>
The inhabitants of Camden, New Jersey, have no access to supermarket,
but they 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/10-5">grow produce
and even chickens</a>.
<p>
It seems to me that every city ought to arrange a place where people
can buy produce and a wide variety of groceries.  If private business
fails to do the job, why should the city leave people to cope on their
own?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Mathematicians_against_the_NSA)
title: Mathematicians against the NSA
uri: Mathematicians-against-the-NSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Mathematicians_against_the_NSA%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/05/mathematicians-urge-colleagues-to-refuse-to-work-for-the-nsa/">Mathematicians
Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(US_govt_agency_SWAT_teams)
title: US gov't agency SWAT teams
uri: US-gov-t-agency-SWAT-teams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28US_govt_agency_SWAT_teams%29
content:
<p>
Many US government agencies now have their own police, even their own 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/24186-usda-and-submachine-guns-latest-example-of-mission-creep-as-federal-policing-expands">SWAT
teams</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(iiNET_against_War_on_Sharing)
title: iiNET against War on Sharing
uri: iiNET-against-War-on-Sharing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28iiNET_against_War_on_Sharing%29
content:
<p>
iiNET, an Australian ISP, 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/rise-up-against-govt-anti-piracy-plans-isp-urges-140610/">calls
on the public</a> to fight back against the War on Sharing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(VA_trying_to_subpoena_complaints)
title: VA trying to subpoena complaints
uri: VA-trying-to-subpoena-complaints
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28VA_trying_to_subpoena_complaints%29
content:
<p>
The US Veterans' Administration is 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/to-defeat-encryption-feds-deploy-the-subpoena/">trying
to subpoena the complaints about the Veterans' Administration</a>
received by the Project on Government Oversight through its anonymous
tip line.
<p>
POGO argues that the subpoena is invalid and says it will not hand
over the information, but will tell the VA about the problems
reported.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(NYC_fined_for_thugs_crimes)
title: NYC fined for thugs' crimes
uri: NYC-fined-for-thugs-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28NYC_fined_for_thugs_crimes%29
content:
<p>
New York City will pay 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/new-york-agrees-occupy-wall-street-settlement">half
a million dollars</a> to some Occupy protesters that were arrested for
no valid reason.
<p>
We know from sad experience that fining the city for crimes by thugs
is no deterrent to recidivism.  We must prosecute these thugs and put
them in jail.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Iraq_in_all-out_civil_war)
title: Iraq in all-out civil war
uri: Iraq-in-all-out-civil-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Iraq_in_all-out_civil_war%29
content:
<p>
Iraq has fallen into all-out 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/10-4">civil
war</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Legislative_districts_in_US_states)
title: Legislative districts in US states
uri: Legislative-districts-in-US-states
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Legislative_districts_in_US_states%29

content:
<p>
A <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/02/one-easy-way-to-end-gerrymandering-stop-letting-politicians-draw-their-own-districts/">proposal</a>
to require US states to select legislative districts through a
nonpolitical system.
<p>
Gerrymandering undermines democracy, and these committees might be a
good idea.  I am not sure the federal government has the power to
impose this on states.
<p>
However, it is a mistake to say that gerrymandering allows
"politicians to draw their own districts".  Rather, state legislatures
draw the districts for the House of Representatives.  They sometimes
do this so as to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#11_March_2012_(Kucinich_Gerrymandered)">kick
a real hero such as Dennis Kucinich out of Congress</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Ukrainian_film_director_prosecuted)
title: Ukrainian film director prosecuted
uri: Ukrainian-film-director-prosecuted
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Ukrainian_film_director_prosecuted%29

content:
<p>
A Ukrainian film director who was in Crimea when Putin's forces took
it over is being prosecuted on 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/10/ken-loach-mike-leigh-ukraine-russia-director-oleg-sentsov">absurd
charges</a>, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#10_October_2013_(Putins_men_claim_Greenpeace_protesters_guilty_of_piracy)">Putin style</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Imprisonment_of_US_teenagers)
title: Imprisonment of US teenagers
uri: Imprisonment-of-US-teenagers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Imprisonment_of_US_teenagers%29
content:
<p>
The US imprisons a large fraction of teenagers for minor "crimes" such
as 
<a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/06/04/318801651/burning-down-the-house-makes-the-case-against-juvenile-incarceration">not
going to school</a>.
<p>
The US would rather imprison teenagers than educate them; the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#23_January_2013_(US_school-to-prison_pipeline)">school-to-prison
pipeline</a> feeds this prison-to-crime pipeline.
<p>
Perhaps it makes inhumane plutocratic rational sense.  The plutocratic
state sees the non-rich as nothing but instruments for the rich to
use.  A large fraction of the population is no longer useful to them
as free workers, but it still finds them useful if forced into slave
labor.  The system has evolved to convert many youths into criminals
so it can imprison them again as adults and make them 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2011-may-aug.html#23_July_2011_(US_Imprisonment_Rate)">work
for a pittance</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 11_June_2014_(Dhondup_Wangchen_free)
title: Dhondup Wangchen free
uri: Dhondup-Wangchen-free
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Dhondup_Wangchen_free%29
content:
<p>
Tibetan film-maker Dhondup Wangchen was freed after 
<a href="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/china-releases-jailed-tibetan-film-maker-dhondup-wangchen-1201214660/">6
years in prison</a> for making a movie of interviews with Tibetans.


title: Children as young as 5 cross into the US from Mexico alone
uri: Children-as-young-as-5-cross-into-the-US-from-Mexico-alone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Children_as_young_as_5_cross_into_the_US_from_Mexico_alone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Children_as_young_as_5_cross_into_the_US_from_Mexico_alone%29

content:
<p>
Children as young as
5 <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/us-unaccompanied-migrant-minors-abuse-border-patrol">cross
into the US from Mexico alone, and are treated horribly by the US
border patrol.</a>


title: Governor Walker's program to increase jobs
uri: Governor-Walker-s-program-to-increase-jobs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Governor_Walker's_program_to_increase_jobs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Governor_Walker%27s_program_to_increase_jobs%29

content:
<p>
Governor Walker's program to increase jobs by handouts to businesses
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/06/12510/only-5840-actual-jobs-walkers-wedc">claims
to have created 5000 jobs at the cost of 200 million dollars.</a>
<p>
State handouts to business, supposedly to keep or create jobs, enter a
Red Queen cycle where ever more handouts are required just to stay in
the same place.  We should cut all of them out.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Reformist_conservatives)
title: "Reformist conservatives"
uri: Reformist-conservatives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Reformist_conservatives%29
content:
<p>
"Reformist conservatives"
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/10">another
variation of the same old right-wing falsehood.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Fracking_poisons_water_pollutes_air)
title: Fracking poisons water pollutes air
uri: Fracking-poisons-water-pollutes-air
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Fracking_poisons_water_pollutes_air%29

content:
<p>
Fracking poisons water pollutes
air: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/10-4">more
evidence that this can't be prevented.</a>


title: Businesses suing to overturn Seattle's minimum wage law
uri: Businesses-suing-to-overturn-Seattle-s-minimum-wage-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Businesses_suing_to_overturn_Seattle's_minimum_wage_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Businesses_suing_to_overturn_Seattle%27s_minimum_wage_law%29

content:
<p>
Businesses
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/seattle-minimum-wage-lawsuit">suing
with a range of excuses to overturn Seattle's minimum wage law</a>.


title: NSA told court it is unable to preserve evidence
uri: NSA-told-court-it-is-unable-to-preserve-evidence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(NSA_told_court_it_is_unable_to_preserve_evidence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28NSA_told_court_it_is_unable_to_preserve_evidence%29

content:
<p>
The NSA told a US court it
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/10-10">unable to
preserve evidence about its operations.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Paid_spies_infiltrated_protesters)
title: Paid spies infiltrated protesters
uri: Paid-spies-infiltrated-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Paid_spies_infiltrated_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Paid
spies <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/the-new-battle-for-maules-creek">infiltrated
the protesters opposing the proposed Maules Creek coal mine in
Australia</a>, and told thugs how to sabotage every protest plan.


title: 90% of lemur species are threatened with extinction
uri: 90-of-lemur-species-are-threatened-with-extinction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(90%25_of_lemur_species_are_threatened_with_extinction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%2890%2525_of_lemur_species_are_threatened_with_extinction%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/12/more-than-90-of-lemurs-face-extinction-iucn-warns">90%
of lemur species are threatened with extinction</a>, mostly because
humans have cut down most of the forests where they live.


title: Welfare support denies people opportunity to learn to be "virtuous"
uri: Welfare-support-denies-people-opportunity-to-learn-to-be-virtuous
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Welfare_support_denies_people_opportunity_to_learn_to_be_virtuous)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Welfare_support_denies_people_opportunity_to_learn_to_be_virtuous%29

content:
<p>
The Australian "social services minister", whose aim is to abolish
social services as far as possible, says that welfare support for the
poor <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/kevin-andrews-says-welfare-can-deny-citizens-the-opportunity-to-be-virtuous">denies
people the opportunity to learn to be "virtuous".</a>
<p>
However, it's the opposite.  Contemptuous policies like his tend, in
the long
term, <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#11_June_2014_%28Selfish_right-wing_values%29">to
teach values of contempt for others.</a>
<p>
For the short term, many Australians remain virtuous, and demonstrate
this
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/bust-budget-protesters-streets-melbourne">protesting
in their thousands against these plans.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(UK's_terrorism_trial)
title: UK's "terrorism" trial
uri: UK-s-terrorism-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28UK%27s_terrorism_trial%29
content:
<p>
The
UK's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/12/secret-terror-trial-ab-cd-public-court">"terrorism"
trial will be held only partly in secret.</a>
<p>
Aside from the question of whether those two men are guilty as
charged, there is the even more important question of what the
supposed crime consists of, and whether than ought to be a crime at
all.


title: Indian thugs raped a woman who would not pay a bribe
uri: Indian-thugs-raped-a-woman-who-would-not-pay-a-bribe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Indian_thugs_raped_a_woman_who_would_not_pay_a_bribe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Indian_thugs_raped_a_woman_who_would_not_pay_a_bribe%29

content:
<p>
Indian
thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/indian-police-gang-rape-uttar-pradesh">raped
a woman who would not pay a bribe.</a>
<p>
The bribe was supposed to be to get her husband, also a thug, out of
jail.  The article doesn't say why he was in jail, or whether they
wanted the bribe to follow the law or to break it.


title: Most governments have done nothing in response to Snowden's revelations
uri: Most-governments-have-done-nothing-in-response-to-Snowden-s-revelation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Most_governments_have_done_nothing_in_response_to_Snowden's_revelations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Most_governments_have_done_nothing_in_response_to_Snowden%27s_revelations%29

content:
<p>
Most
governments <a href="http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/incision/global-security-analysis-reveals-widespread-government-apathy-following-snowden-disclosures/">have
done nothing in response to Snowden's revelations</a> of how they are
spying on us and other governments are spying on them.


title: Antinuclear activist faces prosecution for a tweet
uri: Antinuclear-activist-faces-prosecution-for-a-tweet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Antinuclear_activist_faces_prosecution_for_a_tweet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Antinuclear_activist_faces_prosecution_for_a_tweet%29

content:
<p>
A Japanese antinuclear
activist <a href="http://fukushimaupdate.com/how-a-single-tweet-could-land-a-japanese-nuclear-activist-in-jail/">faces
prosecution for a tweet that criticized a nuclear industry
lobbyist.</a>
<p>
Another example
of <a href="http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/2012/12/16/unjust-arrest-of-a-professor-opposing-debris-incineration-in-osaka/">repression
of antinuclear protesters in Japan.</a>
<p>
He
was<a href="http://www.popularresistance.org/fukushima-protester-jailed-for-21-days-speaks-out/">
released after 21 days in jail.</a>


title: When Boris Johnson gets himself "hit" with the water cannon
uri: When-Boris-Johnson-gets-himself-hit-with-the-water-cannon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(When_Boris_Johnson_gets_himself_hit_with_the_water_cannon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28When_Boris_Johnson_gets_himself_hit_with_the_water_cannon%29

content:
<p>
When Boris Johnson gets himself "hit" with the water cannon he wants
to aim at
protesters, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/jun/12/boris-johnson-verses-water-cannon">will
he keep to a very safe distance and choose safe surroundings?</a>  The
protesters won't have that choice.


title: Clinton apologized for voting for conquest of Iraq
uri: Clinton-apologized-for-voting-for-conquest-of-Iraq
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 12_June_2014_(Clinton_apologized_for_voting_for_conquest_of_Iraq)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_%28Clinton_apologized_for_voting_for_conquest_of_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
Hillary Clinton
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/11/hillary-clinton-apology-iraq-sop-masses">apologized
for voting for the conquest of Iraq, but only in the hope we won't
hold it against her.</a>
<p>
It was easy enough to see that the invasion was an evil scheme and
that the arguments for it were
bogus.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#17_February_2013_%28Protests_against_invasion_of_Iraq_10_years_ago%29">Millions
of people saw that at the time.</a> Has Clinton learned to reject the
sort of thinking that enabled those bogus reasons to determine US
actions?  Surely not, so she should not be president.


title: Some Iraqis are happy with the takeover by ISIS
uri: Some-Iraqis-are-happy-with-the-takeover-by-ISIS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Some_Iraqis_are_happy_with_the_takeover_by_ISIS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Some_Iraqis_are_happy_with_the_takeover_by_ISIS%29

content:
<p>
Some Iraqis
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/voices-from-iraq-mosul-samarra-isis">happy
with the takeover by ISIS.</a>
<p>
I get the feeling that no feminists were asked.
<p>
Interviews
with <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/voices-from-mosul-cities-falling-into-isis-hands">three
inhabitants of Mosul.</a>


title: Economic Hardship Makes People More Racially Biased
uri: Economic-Hardship-Makes-People-More-Racially-Biased
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Economic_Hardship_Makes_People_More_Racially_Biased)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Economic_Hardship_Makes_People_More_Racially_Biased%29

content:
<p>
STUDY: <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/david-amodio-race-economy-recessions">Economic
Hardship Makes People More Racially Biased.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Legalizing_and_regulating_drugs)
title: Legalizing and regulating drugs
uri: Legalizing-and-regulating-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Legalizing_and_regulating_drugs%29
content:
<p>
Anne-Marie Cockburn's daughter died from a freak consequence of taking
MDMA that was twice as strong as
usual.  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/12/mother-martha-fernback-died-ecstasy-legalisation-debate">She
calls for drugs to be legalized and regulated in potency, to prevent
such accidents.</a>


title: UK PM Cameron hobnobbed with Charoen Pokphand CEO
uri: UK-PM-Cameron-hobnobbed-with-Charoen-Pokphand-CEO
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(UK_PM_Cameron_hobnobbed_with_Charoen_Pokphand_CEO)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28UK_PM_Cameron_hobnobbed_with_Charoen_Pokphand_CEO%29

content:
<p>
UK PM Cameron objects to any organized pushback against Charoen
Pokphand prawns; is it a coincidence that
he <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/12/cameron-thai-billionaire-slavery-fishing">hobnobbed
with its CEO and tried to hush it up?</a>


title: US politicians have created a cult of the US soldier
uri: US-politicians-have-created-a-cult-of-the-US-soldier
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(US_politicians_have_created_a_cult_of_the_US_soldier)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28US_politicians_have_created_a_cult_of_the_US_soldier%29

content:
<p>
Since the 1970s, <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175855/">US
politicians have created a cult of the US soldier,</a> calling them
"warriors" and "heroes" in a way that wasn't done before.  This goes
along with the increasing general authoritarianism of the US.


title: 5 nutty anti-science theories of US conservatives
uri: 5-nutty-anti-science-theories-of-US-conservatives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(5_nutty_anti-science_theories_of_US_conservatives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%285_nutty_anti-science_theories_of_US_conservatives%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/5-doomed-hilarious-efforts-religious-right-disprove-science?paging=off">5
nutty anti-science theories of US conservatives.</a>


title: Rate of violence in US schools has been declining
uri: Rate-of-violence-in-US-schools-has-been-declining
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Rate_of_violence_in_US_schools_has_been_declining)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Rate_of_violence_in_US_schools_has_been_declining%29

content:
<p>
The rate of violence in US schools has
been <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/06/can-you-guess-when-violent-crime-our-schools-peaked">declining
for 20 years, following the decrease in lead in gasoline.</a>
<p>
The multiple killings every week or two are shocking, but don't amount
to a lot of victims compared with the other sorts of violence among
teenagers, and that has been going down in the US.
<p>
Even small amounts of lead make children less intelligent.  That leads
them to be violent, because sometimes they can't see a better
response.  But lead-induced stupidity would affect all sorts of
decisions, including voting.  I wonder if the effects of lead
poisoning lead people to believe right-wing "solutions", such as
Reagan's "trickle-down", and the idea that cities ought to lure
businesses away from other cities by offering them subsidies.


title: Apple Limits Mobile Device Location Tracking
uri: Apple-Limits-Mobile-Device-Location-Tracking
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Apple_Limits_Mobile_Device_Location_Tracking)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Apple_Limits_Mobile_Device_Location_Tracking%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/umbrella-hurricane-apple-limits-mobile-device-location-tracking">An
Umbrella in the Hurricane: Apple Limits Mobile Device Location
Tracking.</a>


title: Urgent: Convert gov't buildings to solar power
uri: Urgent-Convert-gov-t-buildings-to-solar-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Urgent:_Convert_gov't_buildings_to_solar_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Convert_gov%27t_buildings_to_solar_power%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Call on the US government
to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=11242">convert
its own buildings to solar power.</a>


title: Mormon church moving to excommunicate dissidents
uri: Mormon-church-moving-to-excommunicate-dissidents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Mormon_church_moving_to_excommunicate_dissidents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Mormon_church_moving_to_excommunicate_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
The Mormon church
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/mormon-activists-apostasy-social-issues">moving
to excommunicate dissidents.</a>
<p>
I cannot criticize a group which stands for a position on some
question for expelling members that disagree with that position.
That's a separate question from whether I criticize the position
itself.


title: Weather forecasters banned from discussing global heating
uri: Weather-forecasters-banned-from-discussing-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Weather_forecasters_banned_from_discussing_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Weather_forecasters_banned_from_discussing_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
The Canadian government
has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/11-6">banned
government-funded weather forecasters from discussing global
heating.</a>
<p>
That <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_%28Canada_attacks_science%29">government
is denialist and in thrall to the fossil fuel companies.</a>


title: Squatters received hospitality in church where Pope visits
uri: Squatters-received-hospitality-in-church-where-Pope-visits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Squatters_received_hospitality_in_church_where_Pope_visits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Squatters_received_hospitality_in_church_where_Pope_visits%29

content:
<p>
Squatters
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/squatters-vatican-church-homeless-pope-francis">received
hospitality in a church where the Pope regularly visits</a>, after
they were chased out of a disused office building.


title: Los Angeles trying to expand school thug force
uri: Los-Angeles-trying-to-expand-school-thug-force
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Los_Angeles_trying_to_expand_school_thug_force)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Los_Angeles_trying_to_expand_school_thug_force%29

content:
<p>
Los Angeles is trying
to <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/06/09/14922/la-judge-objects-school-police-getting-millions-reserved-struggling-students">divert
education funds into expanding its school thug force</a>.


title: State imposed secrecy on trial defense
uri: State-imposed-secrecy-on-trial-defense
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(State_imposed_secrecy_on_trial_defense)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28State_imposed_secrecy_on_trial_defense%29

content:
<p>
Wang Yam
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/12/trial-ab-cd-creeping-move-to-secret-justice">convicted
of murder in the UK, after the state imposed secrecy on his
defense</a>.  He wants to appeal to the European Court of Human
Rights, but he is forbidden to present his case to the court.
<p>
The secrecy is a real factor because, as stated, pertinent witnesses
who might exonerate him are unable to know that they are pertinent
witnesses.


title: Poor parents not more likely to hurt or neglect their kids
uri: Poor-parents-not-more-likely-to-hurt-or-neglect-their-kids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Poor_parents_not_more_likely_to_hurt_or_neglect_their_kids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Poor_parents_not_more_likely_to_hurt_or_neglect_their_kids%29

content:
<p>
Poor parents
are <a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/truth-about-child-abuse-and-poverty?paging=off">not
more likely to hurt or neglect their kids</a>. They're just more
likely to be punished for failings both real and imagined.
<p>
The exception is what the complexities of coping with
poverty <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_March_2014_%28Homeless_mother_arrested_for_leaving_kids_in_car_to_go_to_job_interview%29">don't
allow parents to give their children care by the ideal
standard</a>. This provides an excuse to punish them.


title: Urgent: Global heating stories on Faux
uri: Urgent-Global-heating-stories-on-Faux
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_June_2014_(Urgent:_Global_heating_stories_on_Faux)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Global_heating_stories_on_Faux%29

content:
<p>
Everyone where Faux News is available: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4174&autologin=true">call
on that channel</a> to make its global heating stories fit science.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_June_2014_(Cell_phone_location_tracking)
title: Cell phone location tracking
uri: Cell-phone-location-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_June_2014_%28Cell_phone_location_tracking%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/first-time-appeals-court-rules-warrant-required-cell-phone-location-tracking">For
First Time, Appeals Court Rules Warrant Is Required For Cell Phone
Location Tracking</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1433">More analysis</a> of the
basis of this decision.
<p>
It's a step forward but it isn't enough.  I expect the NSA will still
get all of this data about you if you carry a portable tracking
device.  (I won't!)
<p>
What we need is for the system 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">not
to start recording your location data without a warrant</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_June_2014_(Venezuelas_system_of_justice)
title: Venezuela's system of justice
uri: Venezuela-s-system-of-justice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_June_2014_%28Venezuelas_system_of_justice%29
content:
<p>
The International Commission of Jurists says that Venezuela's system
of justice is weak because 
<a href="http://www.icj.org/venezuela-weak-legal-system-threatens-democracy-and-human-rights-reforms-urgently-needed-new-report-says/">judges
lack independence from the executive</a>.
<p>
The ICJ has also criticized the judicial system of the 
<a href="http://www.icj.org/honduras-better-guarantees-needed-for-judicial-independence/">coup-installed
government of Honduras</a>.
<p>
The condemnation of the post-coup regime is stronger in the 
<a href="media/c1cf571a.Honduras-Informe-final-en-PDF.pdf" data-original-source="http://icj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Honduras-Informe-final-en-PDF.pdf">full
report in Spanish</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_June_2014_(Big_US_companies_running_schools)
title: Big US companies running schools
uri: Big-US-companies-running-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_June_2014_%28Big_US_companies_running_schools%29
content:
<p>
Big US companies are starting to run schools (combined high school and
community college), 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/tony-abbott-praises-schools-partnership-companies">steering
people to work for those companies</a>.
<p>
This is part of propagating the myth that plenty of job openings exist
in the US but people are not trained for them.
<p>
The one that's run by Microsoft surely teaches people proprietary
software, which is 
<a href="http://gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html">wrong for a school
to do</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_June_2014_(People_misled_about_jobs_from_coal)
title: People misled about jobs from coal
uri: People-misled-about-jobs-from-coal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_June_2014_%28People_misled_about_jobs_from_coal%29

content:
<p>
The coal industry has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/coal-not-as-important-as-hunter-valley-residents-think-poll-shows">successfully
misled people</a> in a coal region of Australia about how many jobs it
supports.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_June_2014_(ISIS_aims_to_take_Baghdad)
title: ISIS aims to take Baghdad
uri: ISIS-aims-to-take-Baghdad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_June_2014_%28ISIS_aims_to_take_Baghdad%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/iraq-isis-kirkuk-baghdad-kurdish-government">ISIS
aims to take Baghdad</a>, and it is not clear the Iraqi army can
prevent this.
<p>
The Iraqi Shi'ites will fight back with their own militias, though.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_June_2014_(Militarization_of_social_science)
title: Militarization of social science
uri: Militarization-of-social-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_June_2014_%28Militarization_of_social_science%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown">Social
Science Is Being Militarised to Develop 'Operational Tools' to Target
Peaceful Activists And Protest Movements</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_June_2014_(Suncreen_does_not_prevent_melanoma)
title: Suncreen does not prevent melanoma
uri: Suncreen-does-not-prevent-melanoma
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_June_2014_%28Suncreen_does_not_prevent_melanoma%29

content:
<p>
A study on mice finds that even the strongest sunscreen does not
prevent melanoma, it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/12/skin-cancer-sun-cream-factor-research">only
slows the development</a> of melanoma.
<p>
A tan is a signal meaning, "Don't mate with me, I subordinate
important things to superficial things."


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_June_2014_(Protest_against_tar_sands_pipelines)
title: Protest against tar sands pipelines
uri: Protest-against-tar-sands-pipelines
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_June_2014_%28Protest_against_tar_sands_pipelines%29

content:
<p>
Canadians are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/11/we-can-repel-this-snake-the-visionary-battle-over-eastern-canadas-tar-sands-pipelines">protesting</a>
the plan to export tar sands oil through Quebec.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 13_June_2014_(Environmental_protection_in_India)
title: Environmental protection in India
uri: Environmental-protection-in-India
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#13_June_2014_%28Environmental_protection_in_India%29

content:
<p>
India's Intelligence Bureau accused Greenpeace of 
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/greenpeace-rejects-ib-report-swears-by-energy-sustainability-114061100796_1.html">undermining
the economy</a>.
<p>
This is the standard right-wing argument against environmental
protection of any kind: that it gets in the way of the easy profits
available by tearing up the ground and by poisoning air and water.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Air_war_against_ISIS)
title: Air war against ISIS
uri: Air-war-against-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Air_war_against_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
Obama
says <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/obama-iraq-ultimatum-us-military-action">he
might conduct air war against ISIS</a>, but only if there is a
workable plan for reconciliation between the various ethnic groups in
Iraq.
<p>
This may serve as a reason for the US not to intervene.  But even if a
plan looks workable on paper, it may be pure fantasy.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Blueberry_pomegranate)
title: "Blueberry pomegranate"
uri: Blueberry-pomegranate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Blueberry_pomegranate%29
content:
<p>
Coca Cola Company (perhaps its subsidiary Minute Maid)
is <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/06/supreme-court-pomegranate-juice-pom-wonderful">passing
off Apple and Grape juice as "blueberry pomegranate"</a>, while POM
makes dubious health claims about real pomegranate juice.


title: Blaming the disintegration of Iraq on Obama
uri: Blaming-the-disintegration-of-Iraq-on-Obama
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Blaming_the_disintegration_of_Iraq_on_Obama)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Blaming_the_disintegration_of_Iraq_on_Obama%29

content:
<p>
US mainstream (i.e., right-wing) media
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/12-2">blaming
the disintegration of Iraq on Obama for pulling out the Bush
forces</a>, rather than on Bush for sending them in.
<p>
Obama sets himself up for such criticism by failing to condemn Bush
for sending them in.
<p>
As Obama considers some sort of military intervention in Iraq, McCain
has the gall
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/12-5">claim
the Bush forces won the war there.</a>
<p>
They didn't win in any military sense.  They made Iraq calmer by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-jul-oct.html#25%20August%202008%20%28Sunni%20resistance%20groups%29">paying
support to the non-jihadi Sunni leaders</a> thus separating them from
al-Qa'ida, after which the Iraqi
government <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#17_October_2011_%28Bush_Forces_Iraq%29">refused
to give US troops immunity from prosecution for war crimes</a> and the
US removed them rather than allow them to be
prosecuted <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#09%20July%202004%20%28Blair%20Advisor%20on%20Iraq%29">when
they commit war crimes.</a>


title: Urgent: Authorize federal contract workers to unionize
uri: Urgent-Authorize-federal-contract-workers-to-unionize
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Urgent:_Authorize_federal_contract_workers_to_unionize)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Authorize_federal_contract_workers_to_unionize%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Obama
to <a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/president-obama-allow-federal-contract-workers-to-form-a-union">authorize
federal contract workers to unionize.</a>


title: EU will limit production of biofuels from food crops
uri: EU-will-limit-production-of-biofuels-from-food-crops
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(EU_will_limit_production_of_biofuels_from_food_crops)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28EU_will_limit_production_of_biofuels_from_food_crops%29

content:
<p>
The EU
will <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/13/eu-biofuels-food-crops">limit
production of biofuels from food crops.</a>
<p>
Unfortunately, the limit is too high, and would allow the amount of
food diverted for fuel to increase.


title: Tesla Motors' policy of nonaggression with patents
uri: Tesla-Motors-policy-of-nonaggression-with-patents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Tesla_Motors'_policy_of_nonaggression_with_patents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Tesla_Motors%27_policy_of_nonaggression_with_patents%29

content:
<p>
Tesla Motors
has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/12/tesla-patents_n_5489237.html">followed
Twitter in adopting a policy of nonaggression with patents</a>.


title: Prisoners transferred from secret prison of Bagram
uri: Prisoners-transferred-from-secret-prison-of-Bagram
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Prisoners_transferred_from_secret_prison_of_Bagram)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Prisoners_transferred_from_secret_prison_of_Bagram%29

content:
<p>
Obama
has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/13-3">transferred
12 of the 50 non-Afghan prisoners from the secret prison of
Bagram.</a>
<p>
Who they are is a secret, where they were sent is a secret, and
whether they are now being tortured is a secret.


title: Nuclear power will be more expensive than solar and wind power
uri: Nuclear-power-will-be-more-expensive-than-solar-and-wind-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Nuclear_power_will_be_more_expensive_than_solar_and_wind_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Nuclear_power_will_be_more_expensive_than_solar_and_wind_power%29

content:
<p>
Nuclear power in Europe will
be <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/13-1">more
expensive than solar and wind power in just a few years.</a>
<p>
The expense of nuclear power comes partly from the expensive
procedures needed to make disasters less likely, but even with them it
is more dangerous than solar and wind power.


title: Suicides from financial crisis and austerity
uri: Suicides-from-financial-crisis-and-austerity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Suicides_from_financial_crisis_and_austerity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Suicides_from_financial_crisis_and_austerity%29

content:
<p>
Estimating that
the <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/13-9">financial
crisis and austerity have caused 10,000 suicides.</a>
<p>
There will also be people who died from consequences of poverty, such
as homelessness, stress, and lack of medical care.


title: Urgent: Call for no US intervention in Iraq
uri: Urgent-Call-for-no-US-intervention-in-Iraq
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Urgent:_Call_for_no_US_intervention_in_Iraq)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_no_US_intervention_in_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/no-new-US-war-in-Iraq">call
for no US intervention in Iraq.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(LinkedIn_is_being_sued)
title: LinkedIn is being sued
uri: LinkedIn-is-being-sued
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28LinkedIn_is_being_sued%29
content:
<p>
LinkedIn is
being <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/13/linkedin-privacy-lawsuit-contact-emails-judge">sued
for collecting people's entire list of email contacts.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Arrested_for_creating_disturbances)
title: Arrested for creating "disturbances"
uri: Arrested-for-creating-disturbances
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Arrested_for_creating_disturbances%29

content:
<p>
Pu Zhiqiang, who defended Ai Weiwei, was arrested on absurd charges of
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/14/pu-zhiqiang-human-rights-lawyer-arrested-in-china-crackdown">"creating
disturbances" and "illegally obtaining personal information".</a>
<p>
The joke is in China, since arresting someone for "creating
disturbances" is as tyrannical as arresting someone for "being a human
rights lawyer" or "criticizing government policy".


title: Don't expect Clinton to reduce surveillance
uri: Don-t-expect-Clinton-to-reduce-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Don't_expect_Clinton_to_reduce_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Don%27t_expect_Clinton_to_reduce_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
Don't expect Clinton to do anything
to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/13-6">reduce
massive US surveillance of everyone.</a>
<p>
In
addition, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#13_November_2013_%28Democrats_condemn_Clinton_as_a_servant_of_Wall_Street%29">she
supports the plutocracy on economics</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#11_November_2013_%28Right-wing_Democrats%29">supports
imposing plutocratic regimes elsewhere.</a>


title: Thai rulers carrying out agenda of red shirt protesters
uri: Thai-rulers-carrying-out-agenda-of-red-shirt-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Thai_rulers_carrying_out_agenda_of_red_shirt_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Thai_rulers_carrying_out_agenda_of_red_shirt_protesters%29

content:
<p>
The Thai military rulers
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/14/thailands-junta-ends-curfew">quietly
carrying out the agenda of the red shirt protesters</a> that
represented an elite minority that lost every election.


title: Killers are called "terrorists" only if they are Muslims
uri: Killers-are-called-terrorists-only-if-they-are-Muslims
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(killers_are_called_terrorists_only_if_they_are_Muslims)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28killers_are_called_terrorists_only_if_they_are_Muslims%29

content:
<p>
In the
US, <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/06/13/when-is-terrorism-not-terrorism/">killers
are called "terrorists" only if they are Muslims.</a>


title: Urgent: Divest from Israeli occupation
uri: Urgent-Divest-from-Israeli-occupation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Urgent:_Divest_from__Israeli_occupation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Divest_from__Israeli_occupation%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/presby-divest">encourage
the Presbyterian Church</a> to divest from the Israeli occupation of
Palestine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Urgent:_Inspection_of_prisons)
title: Urgent: Inspection of prisons
uri: Urgent-Inspection-of-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Inspection_of_prisons%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.presente.org/sign/childrenborder/">Call on the
US</a> to allow inspection of the prisons for immigrants facing
deportation, and respect human rights of children in these prisons.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Urgent:_Support_net_neutrality)
title: Urgent: Support net neutrality
uri: Urgent-Support-net-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_net_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/call/call_wheeler_nn/">phone FCC
Commissioner Wheeler</a> to support net neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Iraqi_solders_desert_en_masse)
title: Iraqi solders desert en masse
uri: Iraqi-solders-desert-en-masse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Iraqi_solders_desert_en_masse%29
content:
<p>
The Iraqi army has proved to be a paper tiger as soldiers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/baghdad-faces-the-abyss-after-its-military-melts-away">deserted
en masse</a>.
<p>
Ironically, it's not the first time.  It happened in 2003 when the
Iraqi army had been built by Saddam Hussein.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(US_fighting_supporting_Maliki)
title: US fighting supporting Maliki
uri: US-fighting-supporting-Maliki
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28US_fighting_supporting_Maliki%29
content:
<p>
The US is absurdly 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/13-7">fighting
supporting Maliki in Iraq against ISIS</a>, while 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/iran-general-assists-with-preparing-baghdad-defence-from-insurgents-isis">looking
to overthrow his ally Assad and imposing sanctions on his ally
Iran</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Oxfam_action_against_poverty)
title: Oxfam action against poverty
uri: Oxfam-action-against-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Oxfam_action_against_poverty%29
content:
<p>
Oxfam takes 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/12/oxfam-ads-poverty-politics-charity-campaign">action
against poverty and hunger</a>, but many Britons think that it should
not campaign against poverty and hunger created in the UK.
<p>
Their rebukes often start from the ridiculous right-wing claim that
there the UK has no money to help the poor.  The UK has plenty of
money, but lets the rich have it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Conservationist_Australian_PM)
title: "Conservationist" Australian PM
uri: Conservationist-Australian-PM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Conservationist_Australian_PM%29
content:
<p>
Australian PM Abbott 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/tony-abbott-i-am-a-conservationist-and-we-should-rest-lightly-on-the-planet">called
himself a conservationist</a>.
<p>
I guess this means he hasn't finished destroying the ecosphere quite
yet.
<p>
How many 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/tony-abbott-is-no-action-man-on-climate-change">levels
of falsehood</a> are there in that claim?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Customer_purchase_records)
title: Customer purchase records
uri: Customer-purchase-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Customer_purchase_records%29
content:
<p>
Stores ask for customers' email addresses for surveillance purposes:
to 
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/why-online-tracking-is-getting-creepier">unify
their purchase record with their browsing record</a>.
<p>
I don't identify myself to stores.  I pay cash anonymously.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Obama_considers_bombing_ISIS)
title: Obama considers bombing ISIS
uri: Obama-considers-bombing-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Obama_considers_bombing_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
Obama is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/obama-urgent-air-assault-isis-syria-iraq">considering
a bombing campaign</a> against ISIS.
<p>
I shed no tears for ISIS, but bad things could result.  For instance,
civilian casualties could help ISIS win support among Iraqi Sunnis.
This isn't a conventional war against an army: ISIS defeated the far
larger and better equipped Iraqi army because the latter had no will
to fight.
<p>
Dividing Iraq into a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/13/iraq-separate-sunni-shia-regions-kurds-autonomy">federation
of regions</a> might enable it to have peace.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Grant_Snowden_asylum_in_France)
title: Grant Snowden asylum in France
uri: Grant-Snowden-asylum-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Grant_Snowden_asylum_in_France%29
content:
<p>
A petition to grant Snowden asylum in France has got 
<a href="http://rt.com/news/165752-snowden-petition-signatures-france/">150,000
signatures</a>.
<p>
I would have urged French citizens to sign it, except that it is on a
site (change.org) which requires use of nonfree software to sign.
Since I learned about that problem, I never recommend petitions there.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(ISIS_threat_to_Iraqi_women)
title: ISIS threat to Iraqi women
uri: ISIS-threat-to-Iraqi-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28ISIS_threat_to_Iraqi_women%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/12-1">Rescuing
Iraqi feminists and vulnerable women</a> from the advance of ISIS.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Perverting_social_science)
title: Perverting social science
uri: Perverting-social-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Perverting_social_science%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/13/uk-defence-fight-poor-activists-minorities-marxists-commies">Militarized
funding</a> perverts the social sciences in the UK.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Revenue-neutral_carbon_tax)
title: Revenue-neutral carbon tax
uri: Revenue-neutral-carbon-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Revenue-neutral_carbon_tax%29
content:
<p>
In Charts: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jun/13/how-revenue-neutral-carbon-tax-creates-jobs-grows-economy">How
a Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax Creates Jobs, Grows the Economy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Disapproval_of_empathy)
title: Disapproval of empathy
uri: Disapproval-of-empathy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Disapproval_of_empathy%29
content:
<p>
A Palestinian professor who brought Palestinian students to Auschwitz
to help them empathize with Jews was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/palestinian-professor-resigns-students-auschwitz">hounded
into resigning</a>.
<p>
US Jews that condemn Israel's occupation practices often 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#16_May_2013_(Norman_Finkelstein)">get 
hounded similarly</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Sunnis_pushed_into_hands_of_ISIS)
title: Sunnis pushed into hands of ISIS
uri: Sunnis-pushed-into-hands-of-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Sunnis_pushed_into_hands_of_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
Maliki pushed Iraq's Sunnis into the hands of ISIS by 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/06/iraqs-problems-are-not-ones-america-can-solve">rejecting
them as politicians and as protesters</a>.
<p>
For instance, the Sunni vice president was 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#7_January_2012_(US_Amabassador)">prosecuted
and forced into exile</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Shadow_of_Vietnam_War_over_US)
title: Shadow of Vietnam War over US
uri: Shadow-of-Vietnam-War-over-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Shadow_of_Vietnam_War_over_US%29
content:
<p>
The Vietnam War still casts its shadow over the US, in the form of
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/11">readiness to go
to war</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Indian_students_arrested)
title: Indian students arrested
uri: Indian-students-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Indian_students_arrested%29
content:
<p>
Indian students have been arrested for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/indian-police-arrest-students-defaming-narendra-modi">comparing
Prime Minister Modi with Hitler and bin Laden</a>.
<p>
Whether that comparison is valid is beside the point: to punish them
for stating their views is tyranny.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(EU_to_subsidize_fracking)
title: EU to subsidize fracking
uri: EU-to-subsidize-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28EU_to_subsidize_fracking%29
content:
<p>
The EU says it plans to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> and methane emissions
but it will give a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/13/eu-slated-for-cynical-113m-shale-gas-subsidy">subsidy
of around $150 million</a> to fracking.
<p>
This is excused by the fallacious claim that fracking reduces
greenhouse emissions, but that conclusion was drawn by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#17_April_2014_(Fracking_emmissions_much_worse_than_predicted)">ignoring
the methane leaks from wells</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Australia_sent_boat_people_to_prison)
title: Australia sent boat people to prison
uri: Australia-sent-boat-people-to-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Australia_sent_boat_people_to_prison%29

content:
<p>
Australia sent boat people to a prison in Manus Island (part of Papua
New Guinea) so that they would not be "in Australia", then claimed
that Papua New Guinea was responsible for their imprisonment although
in fact 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/harrowing-words-tell-of-cruel-degrading-conditions-at-manus-island">Australia
had control</a>.
<p>
The first part resembles the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jul-oct.html#27%20September%202009%20(Obama%27s%20policy%20of%20imprisonment%20without%20trial)">US 
excuse</a> for the Guantanamo no-human-rights zone.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Wildlife_reserves_in_Africa)
title: Wildlife reserves in Africa
uri: Wildlife-reserves-in-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Wildlife_reserves_in_Africa%29
content:
<p>
Wildlife reserves in Africa face the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/13/virunga-saved-africas-wildlife-encircled">death
of a thousand cuts</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 14_June_2014_(Migratory_birds_threatened)
title: Migratory birds threatened
uri: Migratory-birds-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#14_June_2014_%28Migratory_birds_threatened%29
content:
<p>
Tar sands mining threatens migratory birds including the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/11-0">whooping
crane</a>.
<p>
Extracting oil from tar sands is a sort of strip-mining which involves
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_May_2014_(Canada_attacks_science)">deforestation
of large tracts of land</a>.


title: Brazilian thugs labeling protests as "organized crime"
uri: Brazilian-thugs-labeling-protests-as-organized-crime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Brazilian_thugs_labeling_protests_as_organized_crime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Brazilian_thugs_labeling_protests_as_organized_crime%29

content:
<p>
Brazilian thugs are labeling protests as "organized crime"
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/14/brazil-protests-crackdown-arrests-online-media">to
arrest protest leaders preemptively.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Oil_drilling_near_Ibiza)
title: Oil drilling near Ibiza
uri: Oil-drilling-near-Ibiza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Oil_drilling_near_Ibiza%29
content:
<p>
Ibiza is united
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/14/ibiza-oil-prospectors-protests-balearic-islands">fight
against oil drilling in the waters near Ibiza.</a>
<p>
If you ignore the coming global heating disaster, it would be a matter
of weighing the sea life that could be destroyed by a possible
disaster against the value of the oil.  But given
that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#19_July_2011_%28The_Carbon_Bubble%29">we
must leave 80% of known reserves unextracted</a> it is totally useless
exploring for more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Urgent:_Support_the_RAISE_Act)
title: Urgent: Support the RAISE Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-RAISE-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_the_RAISE_Act%29
content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9976">support
the RAISE Act to broaden social security benefits.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Secret_FISA_court_opinions)
title: Secret FISA court opinions
uri: Secret-FISA-court-opinions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Secret_FISA_court_opinions%29
content:
<p>
A US judge demanded that the Obama
regime <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/citing-intense-public-interest-and-concern-over-mass-surveillance-judge-orders-doj">hand
over secret FISA court opinions.</a>


title: The stories of the long-term unemployed
uri: The-stories-of-the-long-term-unemployed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(The_stories_of_the_long-term_unemployed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28The_stories_of_the_long-term_unemployed%29

content:
<p>
Protests in
Washington <a href="http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/witness-wednesday-protests-launched-washington-highlight-tragedy-longterm-unemployed?paging=off">read
the stories of the long-term unemployed.</a>
<p>
Obama, why aren't you participating?


title: Russia letting Ukrainian separatists take weapons
uri: Russia-letting-Ukrainian-separatists-take-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Russia_letting_Ukrainian_separatists_take_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Russia_letting_Ukrainian_separatists_take_weapons%29

content:
<p>
The US says that Russia
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/14/russian-tanks-enter-ukraine">letting
Ukrainian separatists collect obsolete tanks and surplus multiple
rocket launchers</a>, which they take into Ukraine.


title: Egyptian President leading a campaign against sexual violence
uri: Egyptian-President-leading-a-campaign-against-sexual-violence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Egyptian_President_leading_a_campaign_against_sexual_violence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Egyptian_President_leading_a_campaign_against_sexual_violence%29

content:
<p>
Egyptian President al-Sisi
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/doubts-remain-in-egypt-despite-sisis-action-against-sexual-harassment">leading
a campaign against sexual violence.</a>
<p>
Although there are reasons to doubt whether he can or will make
progress on this, I think we should give him a chance to succeed.
However, we must not let this distract us from his repression.
Jailing rapists it is no excuse for jailing journalists and
dissidents.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Urgent:_Tell_Obama,_don't_bomb_Iraq)
title: Urgent: Tell Obama, don't bomb Iraq
uri: Urgent-Tell-Obama-don-t-bomb-Iraq
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Tell_Obama%2C_don%27t_bomb_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/dont_bomb_iraq">tell
Obama, don't bomb Iraq.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(US_media_on_crisis_in_Iraq)
title: US media on crisis in Iraq
uri: US-media-on-crisis-in-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28US_media_on_crisis_in_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
In US media, the crisis in Iraq is because the Bush forces left,
<a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/06/11/iraq-is-a-place-where-americans-suffered/">not
because they invaded.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Destroyed_by_global_heating)
title: Destroyed by global heating
uri: Destroyed-by-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Destroyed_by_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
A future historian writes about how 21st century civilization
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/13/climate-change-historians-will-look-back-and-ask-why-didnt-they-act">allowed
itself to be destroyed unresisting by global heating</a>.
<p>
It is an understatement to say that "Western" civilization faces
destruction.  Civilization will be hit globally.  China will not
escape; Shanghai and Suzhou face inundation.
<p>
I say "global heating", not "climate change", because the latter term
was coined by the denial
lobby <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.climatechange">as
a way to downplay the threat</a>, then adopted by environmentalists as
a fundamentally misguided attempt to "compromise" with denialists.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Today's_Republicans)
title: Today's Republicans
uri: Today-s-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Today%27s_Republicans%29
content:
<p>
Today's
Republicans <a href="http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-does-right-embrace-ignorance-virtue?paging=off">feel
no shame about being factually wrong.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Sand_for_fracking)
title: Sand for fracking
uri: Sand-for-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Sand_for_fracking%29
content:
<p>
Sand for fracking is obtained
by <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/fracking-drives-farmers-from-land-in-illinois-can-we-live-on-fossil-fuel-instead-of-food">eliminating
farms in Illinois.</a>
<p>
Perhaps it does not matter — global heating will make those
farms nonproductive anyway.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Unceasing_rise_in_sea_level)
title: Unceasing rise in sea level
uri: Unceasing-rise-in-sea-level
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Unceasing_rise_in_sea_level%29
content:
<p>
The unceasing rise in sea
level <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/13/pause-global-warming-data-sea-level-rises">shows
there has been no pause in global heating.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Twitter_Is_Censoring_Us)
title: Twitter Is Censoring Us
uri: Twitter-Is-Censoring-Us
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Twitter_Is_Censoring_Us%29
content:
<p>
Condom
Companies: <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/twitter-condom-std-ads">Twitter
Is Censoring Us.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 15_June_2014_(Israel_is_an_army)
title: Israel is an army
uri: Israel-is-an-army
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#15_June_2014_%28Israel_is_an_army%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Israel, like
Prussia, <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1402670626/">is
an army that has a state.</a>


title: Urgent: Fossil fuel shipping schedule
uri: Urgent-Fossil-fuel-shipping-schedule
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Urgent:_Fossil_fuel_shipping_schedule)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Fossil_fuel_shipping_schedule%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=13853">tell
your state governor</a> you want to know when fossil fuels are shipped
by rail.


title: Urgent: No Roundup together with 2,4-D
uri: Urgent-No-Roundup-together-with-2-4-D
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Urgent:_No_Roundup_together_with_2,4-D)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_No_Roundup_together_with_2%2C4-D%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14182">Call
on the EPA</a> not to approve using Roundup together with 2,4-D.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Extreme_Acts_of_Greed)
title: Extreme Acts of Greed
uri: Extreme-Acts-of-Greed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Extreme_Acts_of_Greed%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/16">Extreme Acts of
Greed Against the American People</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(The_Guantanamo_kangaroo_courts)
title: The Guantanamo kangaroo courts
uri: The-Guantanamo-kangaroo-courts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28The_Guantanamo_kangaroo_courts%29
content:
<p>
The Guantanamo kangaroo courts may have been undermined because the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/guantanamo-bay-tribunal-suspected-fbi-probe">FBI
infiltrated the defense team</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Nuclear_weapons)
title: Nuclear weapons
uri: Nuclear-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Nuclear_weapons%29
content:
<p>
Nearly all the countries with nuclear weapons are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/modernising-nuclear-weapons-arsenals-sipri-study">developing
new launch vehicles</a>.  There is little interest in disarmament.
<p>
So we will all run hard just to stay more or less in the same place.
However, it may not be exactly the same place.  New weapons systems
may be more destabilizing.  In principle, they could also be less
destabilizing, but that isn't likely to happen.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Secret_trial_in_China)
title: Secret trial in China
uri: Secret-trial-in-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Secret_trial_in_China%29
content:
<p>
It appears that China has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/concerns-china-secret-trial-uighur-scholar-ilham-tohti">secretly
tried and sentenced</a> an Uighur academic for criticizing the
government.
<p>
This is the sort of system that the UK wants to set up for 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#12_June_2014_(UK%27s_terrorism_trial)">people
accused of "terrorism"</a>, which in the UK can mean nothing more than
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-mar-jun.html#01%20June%202008%20(The%20crime%20of%20reading%20a%20book)">owning 
a book that is considered suspect</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Excuse_used_to_arrest_Palestinians)
title: Excuse used to arrest Palestinians
uri: Excuse-used-to-arrest-Palestinians
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Excuse_used_to_arrest_Palestinians%29

content:
<p>
The kidnaping of three Israeli settler teenagers has provided an
excuse to arrest lots of Palestinians, even 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/palestinian-parliamentary-speaker-arrested-kidnapped-teenagers-aziz-dweik">members
of parliament</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Genetically_modified_bananas)
title: Genetically modified bananas
uri: Genetically-modified-bananas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Genetically_modified_bananas%29
content:
<p>
Genetically modified bananas are designed to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/scientists-bend-banana-genome-to-help-children-overcome-vitamin-a-deficiency">provide
poor people in Africa with enough vitamin A</a>.
<p>
This might be a good thing, if there isn't a catch.  Any possible
health problems will probably be less than the health problems these
will prevent.  Is there a legal catch, a patented gene?
<p>
This can postpone the need to curb human population growth, but not
eliminate it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Global_heating_denialist_Abbott)
title: Global heating denialist Abbott
uri: Global-heating-denialist-Abbott
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Global_heating_denialist_Abbott%29
content:
<p>
Australian Premier Abbott has been a global heating denialist for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/jun/16/what-does-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbott-really-think-about-climate-change">many
years</a>.


title: Manning explains military's use of press
uri: Manning-explains-military-s-use-of-press
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Manning_explains_military's_use_of_press)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Manning_explains_military%27s_use_of_press%29

content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning explains how the US military 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/15-0">uses
embedding to procure favorable press treatment</a>, covering up "bad
news" such as Maliki's repression of the authors of articles that
criticized him.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Energy_made_from_coal)
title: Energy made from coal
uri: Energy-made-from-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Energy_made_from_coal%29
content:
<p>
The fraction of energy made from coal has risen to the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/16/coals-share-of-energy-market-at-highest-level-since-1970">same
level as in 1970</a>.
<p>
However, the absolute level must be much higher now than in 1970.
<p>
We need a carbon tax to put an end to this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Pakistans_army_attacks_Taliban)
title: Pakistan's army attacks Taliban
uri: Pakistan-s-army-attacks-Taliban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Pakistans_army_attacks_Taliban%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan's army has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/pakistan-offensive-militants-north-waziristan">attacked
the Pakistani Taliban</a>.
<p>
I don't think this is meant to wipe them out, rather to teach them to
lower their profile.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(US_and_Iran_acting_as_allies)
title: US and Iran acting as allies
uri: US-and-Iran-acting-as-allies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28US_and_Iran_acting_as_allies%29
content:
<p>
The US and Iran are effectively 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/iran-iraq-us-isis-fighters-sunni-jihadi">acting
as allies</a>.
<p>
The revolutionaries of Iran, in the 1980s, hated the US.  
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jul-oct.html#19%20October%202009%20(Should%20we%20fear%20high%20oil%20prices?)">They
had grounds, however</a>, so I can't blame them for that.  However, I
condemned and still condemn the Iranian regime for its repression of
non-Muslims, women, and to a lesser extent men.  The details are
different, but Iran and ISIS represent the same theocracy.
<p>
A Republican senator calls for allying with Iran as the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/iraq-crisis-us-iran-republican-talk-obama-isis">"lesser
evil"</a>.
<p>
Maybe he's right, but there was a more effective lesser evil in Iraq,
who was Iraqi in addition: Saddam Hussein.  Like Iran's regime and
ISIS, he was a murderous dictator, but at least he wasn't a theocratic
murderous dictator.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Drought_and_heat_in_California)
title: Drought and heat in California
uri: Drought-and-heat-in-California
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Drought_and_heat_in_California%29
content:
<p>
Due to drought and heat (both caused by human activity), California is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/california-salmon-trucks-migrate-fish-drought">delivering
juvenile salmon straight to the sea</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Loss_of_office_jobs_to_automation)
title: Loss of office jobs to automation
uri: Loss-of-office-jobs-to-automation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Loss_of_office_jobs_to_automation%29

content:
<p>
Office workers and professionals are losing their jobs to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/15/robot-doctors-online-lawyers-automated-architects-future-professions-jobs-technology">automation</a>.
<p>
We must establish a basic income based on taxing the companies that
own the automation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Obama_threatens_border_patrol_agents)
title: Obama threatens border patrol agents
uri: Obama-threatens-border-patrol-agents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Obama_threatens_border_patrol_agents%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime 
<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/06/13/border-patrol-official-agents-who-talk-to-journalists-about-immigrant-children-may-be-charged-with-crime/">threatens
to prosecute border patrol agents that talk to journalists</a> about
how immigrant children are treated.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(UKs_plans_for_mostly-secret_trial)
title: UK's plans for mostly-secret trial
uri: UK-s-plans-for-mostly-secret-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28UKs_plans_for_mostly-secret_trial%29

content:
<p>
The UK's plans for a mostly-secret trial use the competition between
news outlets to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/14/secret-justice-will-lead-to-paranoia">manipulate
them to go along with it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Federal_Reserve_Board_of_Governors)
title: Federal Reserve Board of Governors
uri: Federal-Reserve-Board-of-Governors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Federal_Reserve_Board_of_Governors%29

content:
<p>
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20140605">can and
should represent all Americans</a>, not just banksters.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(War_on_Islamic_fascism)
title: War on Islamic fascism
uri: War-on-Islamic-fascism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28War_on_Islamic_fascism%29
content:
<p>
Bush And Blair Said Iraq Was a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/13-7">War on Islamic
Fascism</a>.  They Lost.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Case_against_fracking_in_Europe)
title: Case against fracking in Europe
uri: Case-against-fracking-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Case_against_fracking_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>
Making the case to Europe 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/10-4">not to allow
fracking</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(ISIS_murdering_captured_soldiers)
title: ISIS murdering captured soldiers
uri: ISIS-murdering-captured-soldiers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28ISIS_murdering_captured_soldiers%29
content:
<p>
ISIS seems to be murdering captured Iraqi soldiers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/captured-iraqi-soldiers-executed-isis-militants">en
masse</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Arbitration_of_workers_strike)
title: Arbitration of workers' strike
uri: Arbitration-of-workers-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Arbitration_of_workers_strike%29
content:
<p>
Transport workers in Philadelphia say they are happy with the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/obama-intervenes-septa-philadelphia-train-strike-union">arbitration
process</a> that Obama started as part of ending their brief strike.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Vodaphones_tax_dodging)
title: Vodaphone's tax dodging
uri: Vodaphone-s-tax-dodging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Vodaphones_tax_dodging%29
content:
<p>
UK Uncut is protesting Vodaphone for its 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/14/uk-uncut-vodafone">tax
dodging</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Murder_of_rainforest_defenders)
title: Murder of rainforest defenders
uri: Murder-of-rainforest-defenders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Murder_of_rainforest_defenders%29
content:
<p>
Murder of rainforest defenders in Brazil, at the rate of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/dying-to-save-amazonian-rainforest-brazil">one
a week</a>, is one face of the rich business of deforestation.  The
other face is its arrogant 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#07_May_2014_(Political_power_of_agribusiness)">political
and lobbying effort</a>.
<p>
Will Brazil use its new 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_(Brazilian_thugs_labeling_protests_as_organized_crime)">"organized
crime" law</a> against these plantations, or only against protesters?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Missing_Israeli_teenagers)
title: Missing Israeli teenagers
uri: Missing-Israeli-teenagers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Missing_Israeli_teenagers%29
content:
<p>
Three Israeli teenagers 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/israel-west-bank-missing-teenagers">disappeared
on the way home from school to Israeli colonies in Palestine</a>.  The
government assumes they were kidnaped by Palestinians.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Neocons_advice_in_2002)
title: Neocons' advice in 2002
uri: Neocons-advice-in-2002
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Neocons_advice_in_2002%29
content:
<p>
With neocons 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/14-1">pushing for
the US to enter the war in Iraq</a>, remember how mistaken their
advice was in 2002.
<p>
Some neocons 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/14-7">aimed to split
up Iraq to weaken it</a>.  The current civil war is almost what they
wanted.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Iranian_troops_to_aid_Iraqi_govt)
title: Iranian troops to aid Iraqi gov't
uri: Iranian-troops-to-aid-Iraqi-gov-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Iranian_troops_to_aid_Iraqi_govt%29
content:
<p>
Iranian troops are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/14/iran-iraq-isis-fight-militants-nouri-maliki">going
to the aid of the Iraqi government</a>, since its own troops hardly
fight.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 16_June_2014_(Sabotaging_UKs_NHS)
title: Sabotaging UK's NHS
uri: Sabotaging-UK-s-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#16_June_2014_%28Sabotaging_UKs_NHS%29
content:
<p>
The UK Conservatives have another method of sabotaging the UK's
National Health Service: by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/14/gp-numbers-fall-recruitment-crisis-bites">cutting
doctors' pay so that they can't maintain staffing levels</a>.


title: How the "internet of things" could become a nightmare
uri: How-the-internet-of-things-could-become-a-nightmare
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(How_the_internet_of_things_could_become_a_nightmare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28How_the_internet_of_things_could_become_a_nightmare%29

content:
<p>
How the "internet of
things" <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-nightmare-on-connected-home-street/">could
become a nightmare just by carrying out its stated purpose</a>.
<p>
However, in order to become widely used, this technology would need a
"social" element: social pressure to use it because otherwise nobody
will like you, or nobody will hire you.  The designers will surely
come up with a way to put pressure on people to suffer the various
nastinesses of "smart homes" (including spying and reporting to
companies and the state).
<p>
You will be well advised to start practicing now to reject addictive
technology.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Microsoft_is_a_patent_aggressor)
title: Microsoft is a patent aggressor
uri: Microsoft-is-a-patent-aggressor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Microsoft_is_a_patent_aggressor%29
content:
<p>
Microsoft is
a <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/chinese-govt-reveals-microsofts-secret-list-of-android-killer-patents/">patent
aggressor against free software (in Android).</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Hayek_on_democracy)
title: Hayek on democracy
uri: Hayek-on-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Hayek_on_democracy%29
content:
<p>
Economist Friedrich von
Hayek <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/06/bill-black-hayek-helped-worst-get-top-economics-ceos.html">accused
democracies of doing the nasty things that fascist plutocracies really
do</a>.  His contrary-to-fact theories have been repeated by
generations of Libertarians.
<p>
On the other hand, there's a little truth in what he says about how
the masses can be led by propaganda — when those who issue the
propaganda own most of the media and corrupt the elected officials,
which is what those who make use of Hayek do today.


title: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in squid for sale
uri: Antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-found-in-squid-for-sale
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Antibiotic-resistant_bacteria_found_in_squid_for_sale)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Antibiotic-resistant_bacteria_found_in_squid_for_sale%29

content:
<p>
Antibiotic-resistant
bacteria <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/bacteria-found-in-squid-raises-concern-about-spread-of-antibiotic-resistance-study-finds/2014/06/11/a85c296c-f0bc-11e3-9ebc-2ee6f81ed217_story.html">have
been found in squid for sale.</a>
<p>
This bacterium is not dangerous to healthy people, but bacteria
exchange genes even with different species.
<p>
We need to stop feeding antibiotics massively to farm animals, since
that is
a<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_June_2014_%28Urgent:_End_the_overuse_of_antibiotics_on_farm_animals%29">
major cause of resistance</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Academic_journals)
title: Academic journals
uri: Academic-journals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Academic_journals%29
content:
<p>
A publisher of academic
journals <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140605/05175627467/academic-publisher-fights-publication-paper-criticizing-publishers-price-increases-profits.shtml">ordered
the editors of a journal not to publish a paper about the high cost of
journal subscriptions</a>.  The editors unblocked it by going on
strike.
<p>
This debate addresses a significant problem, but takes a shallow view
of it.
It <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/free-scientific-publishing.html">focuses
on price rather than freedom, and discusses "open access" which is too
weak a goal.</a>


title: Most Americans still distrust Atheists
uri: Most-Americans-still-distrust-Atheists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Most_Americans_still_distrust_Atheists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Most_Americans_still_distrust_Atheists%29

content:
<p>
Most Americans
still <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2014/05/19/for-2016-hopefuls-washington-experience-could-do-more-harm-than-good/">distrust
Atheists on principle and would refuse to vote for one.</a>
<p>
What fools — it's the religious people that are dangerous.


title: Timberland created a Kafkaesque policy
uri: Timberland-created-a-Kafkaesque-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Timberland_created_a_Kafkaesque_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Timberland_created_a_Kafkaesque_policy%29

content:
<p>
Timberland
has <a href="http://consumerist.com/2014/06/15/timberland-boots-have-a-lifetime-warranty-unless-youre-in-prison/">created
a Kafkaesque policy to prevent prisoners from exchanging defective
boots</a>.


title: Opinions of US Supreme Court being surreptitiously changed
uri: Opinions-of-US-Supreme-Court-being-surreptitiously-changed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Opinions_of_US_Supreme_Court_being_surreptitiously_changed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Opinions_of_US_Supreme_Court_being_surreptitiously_changed%29

content:
<p>
Published opinions of the US Supreme
Court <a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/06/12/clever-piece-of-code-exposes-hidden-changes-to-supreme-court-opinions/">are
being surreptitiously changed.</a>
<p>
Detecting this is useful, but the real question, I think, is why it
happens and why it isn't stopped.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(US_covering_up_war_crimes)
title: US covering up war crimes
uri: US-covering-up-war-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28US_covering_up_war_crimes%29
content:
<p>
The US military has adopted a policy
of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/us/official-backs-marines-move-to-classify-photos-of-forces-with-taliban-bodies.html">covering
up war crimes by declaring photos of them "secret".</a>
<p>
Urinating on a corpse does no real harm to anyone — it is an
insult, not an injury.  (If someone pisses on my dead body after I'm
dead, I won't even notice it.)  I don't see why that should be
considered a war crime.  However, the same policy would apply to
covering up real crimes, including killing and torture.


title: Broadband for America, an astroturf group
uri: Broadband-for-America-an-astroturf-group
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Broadband_for_America,_an_astroturf_group)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Broadband_for_America%2C_an_astroturf_group%29

content:
<p>
Broadband for America, an astroturf group funded by the big ISPs and
set up to oppose network
neutrality, <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/community-groups-were-duped-into-joining-telecom-industrys-anti-net-neutrality-coalition">created
a false image of broad community support by listing many organizations
as supporters without asking them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Private_Wealth,_Public_Squalor)
title: Private Wealth, Public Squalor
uri: Private-Wealth-Public-Squalor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Private_Wealth%2C_Public_Squalor%29
content:
<p>
Private Wealth, Public
Squalor: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/16-2">America's Dilemma.</a>


title: Tea Party challenger condemned plutocracy
uri: Tea-Party-challenger-condemned-plutocracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Tea_Party_challenger_condemned_plutocracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Tea_Party_challenger_condemned_plutocracy%29

content:
<p>
The Tea Party challenger that defeated Rep. Cantor
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/16-1">campaigned
condemning plutocracy too.</a>
<p>
So the plutocrats have a new lie: claiming that social programs to
redistribute wealth to the many paradoxically cause poverty.  It's
nothing but Reagan's "trickle down" stated in a different way.


title: Rebels in Ukraine seized a gallery / cultural organization
uri: Rebels-in-Ukraine-seized-a-gallery-cultural-organization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Rebels_in_Ukraine_seized_a_gallery_%2F_cultural_organization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Rebels_in_Ukraine_seized_a_gallery_%252F_cultural_organization%29

content:
<p>
Rebels in eastern
Ukraine <a href="http://www.euronews.com/2014/06/10/in-donetsk-armed-pro-russian-separatists-target-seize-decadent-cultural-centre-/">seized
a gallery / cultural organization, apparently to shut it down</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(School_banned_sunscreen)
title: School banned sunscreen
uri: School-banned-sunscreen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28School_banned_sunscreen%29
content:
<p>
A school in
Texas <a href="http://www.keyetv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/san-antonioarea-school-district-do-not-bring-sunscreen-school-18590.shtml">has
banned sunscreen</a>, causing students to get sunburnt.  They say
sunscreen is a drug.
<p>
This would be merely ludicrous if it were not the natural result of
the "zero tolerance" idea that makes strictness (no matter how
unreasonable) a goal in itself.
<p>
Meanwhile, sunscreen is not enough to avoid skin cancer, over the long
term.  People with a special susceptibility to melanoma really need to
avoid activity in the sun.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Bogus_science)
title: Bogus science
uri: Bogus-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Bogus_science%29
content:
<p>
The National Academy of Sciences found
that <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/06/forensic_science_is_biased_and_inaccurate_but_juries_believe_it_and_convict.single.html">many
methods of identifying people from traces at a crime scene are bogus
science</a>, but juries think crime labs can do no wrong.
<p>
As a result, they are an excuse to imprison the "usual suspects" (for
instance, blacks).


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 17_June_2014_(Quake_near_Fukushima)
title: Quake near Fukushima
uri: Quake-near-Fukushima
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#17_June_2014_%28Quake_near_Fukushima%29
content:
<p>
A medium-size quake near Fukushima reminds us that
a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/16-0">bigger
quake could release all the radioactive material in the ruined nuclear
plants</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(Courts_run_by_Pakistani_Taliban)
title: Courts run by Pakistani Taliban
uri: Courts-run-by-Pakistani-Taliban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28Courts_run_by_Pakistani_Taliban%29
content:
<p>
The Pakistani Taliban run unofficial courts that many people prefer
because they are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/pakistan-parallel-justice-system-waziristan-taliban-outgoverning-state">less
corrupt than the state's courts</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(Tax_loophole_to_duck_US_taxes)
title: Tax loophole to duck US taxes
uri: Tax-loophole-to-duck-US-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28Tax_loophole_to_duck_US_taxes%29
content:
<p>
US companies are using a tax loophole to duck US taxes by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/medtronic-buys-rival-us-ireland-corporate-taxes">locating
their headquarters outside the US</a>.
<p>
Clearly the US tax law needs to be changed so this does not work.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(Corporations_you_cant_sue)
title: Corporations you can't sue
uri: Corporations-you-can-t-sue
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28Corporations_you_cant_sue%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/junejulyaugust_2014/features/thrown_out_of_court050661.php?page=all">How
Corporations Became People (sic) You Can't Sue</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(Iraqi_Sunnis_and_Shiites)
title: Iraqi Sunnis and Shi'ites
uri: Iraqi-Sunnis-and-Shi-ites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28Iraqi_Sunnis_and_Shiites%29
content:
<p>
Iraqi Sunnis and Shi'ites 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/16/sectarian-myth-of-iraq">got
along ok for hundreds of years</a> until the disagreement was
politicized by Saddam Hussein.
<p>
This reminds me of the situation between 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#17_April_2011_(Generals_Convicted)">Serbs
and Croats</a>, who got along well enough until politicians used the
split to build their careers.
<p>
In both cases there was a violent dispute in the past, which people
had stopped making a fuss about, but the politicians were able to take
advantage of it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(US_troops_sent_to_Iraq)
title: US troops sent to Iraq
uri: US-troops-sent-to-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28US_troops_sent_to_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
Obama 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/17/barack-obama-sends-troops-back-to-iraq-as-crisis-worsens">sent
some US troops to Iraq</a>, supposedly not for fighting.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(Fukushima_ice_wall)
title: Fukushima "ice wall"
uri: Fukushima-ice-wall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28Fukushima_ice_wall%29
content:
<p>
The "ice wall" barrier to keep ground water away from the ruined
Fukushima reactors is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/17/fukushima-ice-wall-radioactive-water">not
working</a>: they can't keep the ground cold enough.
<p>
Why not make a concrete wall, or a plastic wall?  Digging into the
ground is not that hard.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(Posting_on_social_media)
title: Posting on social media
uri: Posting-on-social-media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28Posting_on_social_media%29
content:
<p>
A UK court ruled that the state is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/17/mass-surveillance-social-media-permitted-uk-law-charles-farr">allowed
to read what people publish in social media</a>.
<p>
If you publish something, you must expect anyone and everyone to read
it.  Thus, society should reject the practice of publishing the
intimate details of people's lives, and especially details of other
people's lives.
<p>
If you post on social media, don't talk about your friends; whether to
say what they do or think is up to them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(UK_charities_threatened)
title: UK charities threatened
uri: UK-charities-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28UK_charities_threatened%29
content:
<p>
Charities that help the poor in the UK are being threatened with
closure if they talk about the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/17/oxfam-advert-campaigning-charities-stifled-by-government">political
cause of poverty</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(SF_recycling_and_composting)
title: SF recycling and composting
uri: SF-recycling-and-composting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28SF_recycling_and_composting%29
content:
<p>
San Francisco is on track to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/17/san-francisco-zero-waste-recycling-composting">recycle
or compost all waste by 2020</a>.
<p>
In addition, sale of water in plastic bottles will be banned on public
property.  I think this is a good idea, but there should be a hefty
tax on small bottles of water no matter where sold.  I carry a water
bottle with me, and refill it when I find potable water available.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(Poor_people_denied_medical_care)
title: Poor people denied medical care
uri: Poor-people-denied-medical-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28Poor_people_denied_medical_care%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/economy/uninsured-on-the-wrong-side-of-a-state-line.html">24
US states</a> have denied poor people US-funded medical care based on
ideological opposition to allowing poor people to get help from the
state.
<p>
Helping the poor is one of the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">purposes
of having a state</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(Fracking_regulator_gags_staff)
title: Fracking regulator gags staff
uri: Fracking-regulator-gags-staff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28Fracking_regulator_gags_staff%29
content:
<p>
The Texas agency that regulates fracking has 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/16/3449367/texas-regulator-media-silence/">gagged
its staff</a>, perhaps to support an apparent coverup of the danger of
methane leaks from frack wells.
<p>
These companies are taking the world to frack and fruin.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 18_June_2014_(Golden_Gate_dam)
title: Golden Gate dam
uri: Golden-Gate-dam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#18_June_2014_%28Golden_Gate_dam%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/sea-level-rise-floods-silicon-valley-17565">145,000
people in California</a> live at less than 3 feet above sea level,
which means lots of flooding in coming decades due to global heating.
<p>
But it will go far beyond that.  Some are predicting sea-level rise of
3 meters (10 feet) by 2100.
<p>
Shall we start designing the Golden Gate dam?


title: US and EU negotiating treaty to deregulate banks
uri: US-and-EU-negotiating-treaty-to-deregulate-banks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(US_and_EU_negotiating_treaty_to_deregulate_banks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28US_and_EU_negotiating_treaty_to_deregulate_banks%29

content:
<p>
The US and EU (and various other countries)
are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/19-2">negotiating
a treaty to deregulate banks.</a> As if they weren't too deregulated
already!
<p>
That is because these countries' governments are subservient to banks.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/19-3">The treaty
draft was published by Wikileaks</a>.  Hurray for Wikileaks!


title: Urgent: End US attacks on medical marijuana
uri: Urgent-End-US-attacks-on-medical-marijuana
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Urgent:_End_US_attacks_on_medical_marijuana)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_US_attacks_on_medical_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to support the amendment to end US
attacks on state-legalized medical marijuana.
<p>
A measure like this has passed in the House of Representatives so
there is a good chance of success.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Dirty_uranium_(DU)_shells_in_Iraq)
title: Dirty uranium (DU) shells in Iraq
uri: Dirty-uranium-(DU)-shells-in-Iraq
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Dirty_uranium_%28DU%29_shells_in_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
10 years after invading Iraq, the US released information about the
whereabouts of some 3% of all the dirty uranium (DU) shells that were
fired.
<p>
The data shows that
t<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-uranium-weapons-civilian-areas-iraq">troops
often fired them in civilian areas and at non-armored targets</a>,
although they were ordered to avoid this so as to minimize the harm
that the DU would do.
<p>
This might be because they were careless, or because they were short
of other ammunition at the time.


title: Labour's contempt for the British youth
uri: Labour-s-contempt-for-the-British-youth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Labour's_contempt_for_the_British_youth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Labour%27s_contempt_for_the_British_youth%29

content:
<p>
On <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/19/ed-miliband-young-people-whinge-cut-benefits-jobless-young-people">Labour's
contempt for the British youth for whom there are no jobs</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Iranian_Child_Bride_Faces_Execution)
title: Iranian Child Bride Faces Execution
uri: Iranian-Child-Bride-Faces-Execution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Iranian_Child_Bride_Faces_Execution%29

content:
<p>
Iranian <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/iran-child-bride-faces-execution">Child
Bride Faces Execution for Killing the Man She Was Forced to Marry</a>.


title: Hungary's method of fighting homelessness
uri: Hungary-s-method-of-fighting-homelessness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Hungary's_method_of_fighting_homelessness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Hungary%27s_method_of_fighting_homelessness%29

content:
<p>
Hungary's method of fighting
homelessness: <a href="media/f803bb5d.Criminalization_of_homelessness_in_Hungary_October2013.pdf" data-original-source="http://helsinki.hu/wp-content/uploads/Criminalization_of_homelessness_in_Hungary_October2013.pdf">jail
the homeless.</a>


title: Russia supporting campaign against fracking
uri: Russia-supporting-campaign-against-fracking
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Russia_supporting_campaign_against_fracking)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Russia_supporting_campaign_against_fracking%29

content:
<p>
A NATO official says Russia
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-secretly-working-with-environmentalists-to-oppose-fracking">supporting
the campaign against fracking to keep Europe dependent on Russian
gas.</a> In response, Friends of the Earth suggested Russia may have
infiltrated the UK government to cancel renewable energy plans, to
keep Europe dependent on Russian gas.
<p>
Neither one is impossible, but they wouldn't make fracking any less
dangerous or renewable energy any less necessary.


title: Tesla cars allow company to determine car's location
uri: Tesla-cars-allow-company-to-determine-car-s-location
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Tesla_cars_allow_company_to_determine_car's_location)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Tesla_cars_allow_company_to_determine_car%27s_location%29

content:
<p>
Tesla
cars <a href="media/867e9efd.tmi_privacy_statement_external_6-14-2013_v2.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/tmi_privacy_statement_external_6-14-2013_v2.pdf">allow
the company to extract data remotely and determine the car's location
at any time</a>.  (See Section 2, paragraphs b and c.)
<p>
The company says it doesn't store this information, but if the state
orders it to get the data and hand it over, the state can store it.
Your car should not allow anyone to remotely determine where it is!


title: Governor Walker connected to violations of campaign laws
uri: Governor-Walker-connected-to-violations-of-campaign-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Governor_Walker_connected_to_violations_of_campaign_laws)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Governor_Walker_connected_to_violations_of_campaign_laws%29

content:
<p>
Wisconsin Governor Walker
is <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/wisconsin-governor-scott-walker-political-coordination">connected
to violations of campaign laws.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Violent_mental_illness_and_guns)
title: Violent mental illness and guns
uri: Violent-mental-illness-and-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Violent_mental_illness_and_guns%29
content:
<p>
Blocking people with a history of violent mental illness from buying
guns <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/myth-vs-fact-violence-mental-health-jeffrey-swanson">substantially
reduces their likelihood of shooting anyone</a> — but those
people are so few in number that it makes a tiny difference in the
total number of shootings.
<p>
The article suggests other approaches that could have more effect.
<p>
According to Bowling for Columbine, Canada makes it easy to own a gun
but puts lots of safety restrictions on how to store them and how to
take them out of the house — and has a much lower rate of gun
crime.  Perhaps this is a good approach to follow.
<p>
Banning large magazines seems to have common sense, too.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Detroit_is_shutting_off_water)
title: Detroit is shutting off water
uri: Detroit-is-shutting-off-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Detroit_is_shutting_off_water%29
content:
<p>
Detroit
is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/18-7">shutting
off water for tens of thousands of residents who can't afford to
pay.</a>
<p>
Governments imperil people's access to water by allowing companies
such as
Nestle <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/jun/19/un-human-right-water-access-goal">more
influence than people in their water policy decisions.</a>
<p>
Providing fresh water to every human being is squeezed between
resource grabs by the rich on one side, and population growth on the
other.  We need to end both of them.


title: Governments let NSA run taps on cables
uri: Governments-let-NSA-run-taps-on-cables
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Governments_let_NSA_run_taps_on_cables)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Governments_let_NSA_run_taps_on_cables%29

content:
<p>
Other governments including Germany and
Denmark <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?post_type=article&p=2503">let
the NSA run taps on cables.</a>


title: Chinese anti-corruption activists have been imprisoned
uri: Chinese-anti-corruption-activists-have-been-imprisoned
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Chinese_anti-corruption_activists_have_been_imprisoned)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Chinese_anti-corruption_activists_have_been_imprisoned%29

content:
<p>
Chinese <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/china-jails-transparency-activists">anti-corruption
activists have been imprisoned.</a>
<p>
It seems corrupt officials in China are too big to embarrass, much as
corrupt banks in the US are too big to jail.


title: Wikileaks punctured pretense that the US respects human rights
uri: Wikileaks-punctured-pretense-that-the-US-respects-human-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Wikileaks_punctured_pretense_that_the_US_respects_human_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Wikileaks_punctured_pretense_that_the_US_respects_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
The US hounds Wikileaks and Assange
because <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/19/hypocrisy-freedom-julian-assange-wikileaks">they
punctured the pretense that the US respects human rights.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Rebellion_in_the_Ukraine_is_not_over)
title: Rebellion in the Ukraine is not over
uri: Rebellion-in-the-Ukraine-is-not-over
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Rebellion_in_the_Ukraine_is_not_over%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/19/ukraine-must-not-be-forgotten-iraq">rebellion
in the Ukraine is not over</a>, although Iraq has displaced it from
the immediate news.


title: Authorization for Use of Military Force
uri: Authorization-for-Use-of-Military-Force
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force%29

content:
<p>
The US Congress's misguided Authorization for Use of Military Force
against al
Qa'ida <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/19/obama-iraq-war-approval-air-strikes">does
not apply to ISIS</a>, because those two groups are enemies.


title: Uganda's president/monarch excluded TV station
uri: Uganda-s-president-monarch-excluded-TV-station
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Uganda's_president%2Fmonarch_excluded_TV_station)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Uganda%27s_president%252Fmonarch_excluded_TV_station%29

content:
<p>
Uganda's president/monarch, who plans for his son to succeed him,
excluded a TV station from his events
because <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/uganda-museveni-tv-ban-asleep">it
showed him asleep during an event.</a>
<p>
In the US, presidents exclude reporters from White House events if
they ask probing questions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(UK_domestic_extremists_list)
title: UK "domestic extremists" list
uri: UK-domestic-extremists-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28UK_domestic_extremists_list%29
content:
<p>
The UK
thugs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2014/jun/19/undercover-police-and-policing-peter-francis">won't
say how many politicians are in their "domestic extremists" list.</a>


title: Iran's women rebel against clothing monitors
uri: Iran-s-women-rebel-against-clothing-monitors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Iran's_women_rebel_against_clothing_monitors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Iran%27s_women_rebel_against_clothing_monitors%29

content:
<p>
Iran's
women <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/jun/19/iran-morality-police-patrol">rebel
little by little against the regime's clothing monitors</a>, who have
given up on harassing men.


title: Urgent: Reopen the Social Security offices
uri: Urgent-Reopen-the-Social-Security-offices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Urgent:_Reopen_the_Social_Security_offices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reopen_the_Social_Security_offices%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Call on Congress
to <a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9984">reopen
the Social Security offices that it has shut down.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(US_Bombs_And_Drones)
title: US Bombs And Drones
uri: US-Bombs-And-Drones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28US_Bombs_And_Drones%29
content:
<p>
More US Bombs And
Drones <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/18/us-bombs-drones-escalate-iraq-arab-world-west">Will
Only Escalate Iraq's Horror.</a>


title: Cigarette sales according to Murdoch news
uri: Cigarette-sales-according-to-Murdoch-news
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Cigarette_sales_according_to_Murdoch_news)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Cigarette_sales_according_to_Murdoch_news%29

content:
<p>
A Murdoch newspaper in Australia published a report 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/18/australian-medical-association-accuses-the-australian-of-promoting-smoking">claiming
that plain packaging for cigarettes has increased sales</a>.  It seems
to be a false report.
<p>
The fact that the report is backed by the tobacco companies shows it
can't be true.  If this policy really did increase cigarette sales,
they would favor the policy.
<p>
One of the distortions from the Australian has infiltrated the
Guardian article: the term "intellectual property rights".  That term
is a misleading generalization about unrelated laws, and it's used to
suggest these laws represent a bogus "principle" that never existed in
the first place.
<p>
Every statement formulated using "intellectual property rights" should
be distrusted.  I take care not to use the term.  I won't even cite it
without denouncing it as bogus.
<p>
See <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(UK_domestic_extremism_list)
title: UK "domestic extremism" list
uri: UK-domestic-extremism-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28UK_domestic_extremism_list%29
content:
<p>
The UK thugs placed 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2014/jun/18/undercover-police-and-policing-peter-francis">two
Green Party legislators</a> on the "domestic extremism" surveillance
list.
<p>
"Extremism" means "failure to uphold the ruling extractivist regime".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(US_drone_attacks)
title: US drone attacks
uri: US-drone-attacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28US_drone_attacks%29
content:
<p>
A US drone attack in Pakistan seems to have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/17-6">targeted
enemies of the Pakistani government</a>, rather than terrorists that
might attack the US.
<p>
That does not necessarily make it worse, because I think that's the
wrong question to ask.
<p>
If the government of Pakistan is fighting rebels on the battlefield
and asks the US for military help in the form of drone bombers,
providing that help would not be an outrage.  It would be no more
horrible to do this with drones than with crewed aircraft or an
armored division.  (Other questions would remain, such as whether such
help in a given situation is necessary, justified, and wise policy.)
<p>
What makes the drones particularly threatening is that they are used
for 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_(Obama%27s_drone_assassination_program_is_illegal)">assassination
away from battlefields</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(UK_surveillance_of_social_media)
title: UK surveillance of social media
uri: UK-surveillance-of-social-media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28UK_surveillance_of_social_media%29
content:
<p>
According to this article, the UK court decision allowing blanket
surveillance of social media 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/17/citizenship-state-surveillance-facebook-twitter-google">includes
even private messages and data</a>, if they are mediated by a server
outside the UK.
<p>
I am not impressed by the supposed "earnestness" of the snoopers to
protect Britons from "terrorism", because in the UK that term has been
stretched to include whatever the government wants it to mean.
Sometimes it means 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2008-mar-jun.html#01%20June%202008%20(The%20crime%20of%20reading%20a%20book)">possessing
a book the state considers suspect</a>.  Sometimes it means a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#4_November_2013_(The_UK_Government%27s_Decision)">journalist's
lover making a connection in an airport</a>.
<p>
If the Magna Carta originally protected mainly barons, that does not
lessen its importance: it was the origin of our ideas of the rights of
those accused of crimes.
<p>
The UK government's two-decade attack on those rights endangers
everyone in Britain, and elsewhere too as the UK's rejection of the
"rights of Englishmen" may influence other states.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Three_missing_Israeli_teenagers)
title: Three missing Israeli teenagers
uri: Three-missing-Israeli-teenagers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Three_missing_Israeli_teenagers%29
content:
<p>
Since there is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/17/israeli-military-detains-40-hamas-members">no
evidence about what happened</a> to three Israeli teenagers, Israel is
using their disappearance as an excuse to imprison lots of members of
Hamas.
<p>
Israel is also 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/17/missing-israeli-teenagers-families-binyamin-netanyahu">wreaking
vengeance on prisoners who are members of Hamas</a>, who are the most
unlikely suspects in the whole territory of Israel and Palestine.
<p>
Meanwhile, Israel 
<a href="https://news.vice.com/article/israel-is-holding-even-more-palestinian-children-in-solitary-for-throwing-rocks">kidnaps
hundreds of Palestinian teenagers every year</a>.
<p>
Nominally these teenagers are "arrested"; but since most of them are
beaten and not told charges against them, it is more of a kidnaping
than a proper arrest of a suspect.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Iraqis_suspicions_about_army)
title: Iraqis' suspicions about army
uri: Iraqis-suspicions-about-army
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Iraqis_suspicions_about_army%29
content:
<p>
Iraqis suspect their army was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/17/iraq-army-collapse-questions-theories">told
to surrender territory</a> to ISIS and to the Kurds.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(UK_politicians)
title: UK politicians
uri: UK-politicians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28UK_politicians%29
content:
<p>
The UK experiences the humiliation of being ruled by politicians that
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/17/new-world-order-cameron-red-carpet-li-keqiang">think
their job is to attract foreign investment</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Water_recycling)
title: Water recycling
uri: Water-recycling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Water_recycling%29
content:
<p>
Parts of the US need to start recycling water or they 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/06/why-californians-will-soon-be-drinking-their-own-pee">won't
have enough</a>.
<p>
One issue not mentioned is that waste water has lots of medicines
and endocrine disruptors.  Ordinary sewage treatment does not do
anything about them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(American_Healthcare)
title: American 'Healthcare'
uri: American-Healthcare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28American_Healthcare%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/17-4">American
'Healthcare' Exceptionalism: Highest Costs, Worst Care</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Neocons_in_US_mainstream_media)
title: Neocons in US mainstream media
uri: Neocons-in-US-mainstream-media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Neocons_in_US_mainstream_media%29
content:
<p>
US mainstream media are presenting advice about Iraq from the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/17-5">same neocons
whose advice 12 years ago was a disaster</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Israel_wont_let_whistleblower_travel)
title: Israel won't let whistleblower travel
uri: Israel-won-t-let-whistleblower-travel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Israel_wont_let_whistleblower_travel%29

content:
<p>
UK legislators invited nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to a
meeting in parliament on protection of whistleblowers.  Israel 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/17/israeli-court-vanunu-travel-ban">did
not allow him to travel</a>.
<p>
Solitary confinement is a form of brainwashing.  Vanunu has
demonstrated his strength of mind by standing up to it.  And what kind
of state stops citizens from traveling to foreign meetings?  Remember
when the USSR did that?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Hope_for_peace_in_Iraq)
title: Hope for peace in Iraq
uri: Hope-for-peace-in-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Hope_for_peace_in_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
There might be hope for peace in Iraq if the government allows
Sunnis to be 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/15/iraq-sunnis-can-be-equal-citizens-that-is-the-battle">equal
citizens</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Medical_harm_due_to_eating_cassava)
title: Medical harm due to eating cassava
uri: Medical-harm-due-to-eating-cassava
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Medical_harm_due_to_eating_cassava%29

content:
<p>
Researchers retracted their paper about medical harm due to eating cassava
because 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140521/02482627299/researchers-retract-academic-paper-because-company-complains-results-hurt-its-profits.shtml">a
company objected to the conclusions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Julian_Assanges_human_rights)
title: Julian Assange's human rights
uri: Julian-Assange-s-human-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Julian_Assanges_human_rights%29
content:
<p>
Groups 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/17-2">demand
respect</a> for Julian Assange's human rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(40_billion_dollars_wasted)
title: 40 billion dollars wasted
uri: 40-billion-dollars-wasted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%2840_billion_dollars_wasted%29
content:
<p>
The US spent 40 billion dollars on a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/06/16-1">ballistic
missile defense system</a> that does not work.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Whooping_cough_risk_in_California)
title: Whooping cough risk in California
uri: Whooping-cough-risk-in-California
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Whooping_cough_risk_in_California%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/17/whooping-cough-greatest-risk-california-children-vaccinated">Superstitious
resistance to whooping cough vaccination</a> has left many children in
California vulnerable to the disease, which can be fatal for children.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(The_US,_Kuwait_and_Iraq)
title: The US, Kuwait and Iraq
uri: The-US-Kuwait-and-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28The_US%2C_Kuwait_and_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/16/blowback-isis-iraq-manufactured-oil-addiction">Claims</a>
that the US encouraged Kuwait to carry out economic warfare against
Iraq around 1990.
<p>
This would have stimulated Saddam Hussein to attack Kuwait.  In
addition, the US ambassador appears to have encouraged this by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2005-nov-feb.html#27%20December%202005%20(April%20Glaspie)">telling
Hussein the US would not object</a>.
<p>
Perhaps Bush planned to create an excuse for war with Iraq.
<p>
I am not convinced that all the claims in that article are correct.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Seeking_profit_from_suffering)
title: Seeking profit from suffering
uri: Seeking-profit-from-suffering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Seeking_profit_from_suffering%29
content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/argentina-debt-crisis-fears-us-supreme-court-ruling">supported
the vulture capitalists</a> that are hounding Argentina to pay debts
that they bought for pennies on the dollar.
<p>
The vulture capitalists seek to profit from suffering.  They deserve
to lose everything they own and find themselves homeless.
<p>
Perhaps Argentina can arrange this by borrowing a technique from the
US handbook.  Argentina can to pass a law making it a crime to receive
interest from debt which has been handled in this way.  Then it can
send agents to capture the vultures and render them to Argentina for
trial.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Urgent:_UK_march_against_austerity)
title: Urgent: UK march against austerity
uri: Urgent-UK-march-against-austerity
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_UK_march_against_austerity%29

content:
<p>
In the UK: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/18-12">join the
march</a> against austerity in London on June 21.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(NSA_ground_zero_in_Germany)
title: NSA ground zero in Germany
uri: NSA-ground-zero-in-Germany
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28NSA_ground_zero_in_Germany%29
content:
<p>
Revealed: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/18-3">Germany
is Ground Zero for NSA's 'Secret Surveillance Architecture'</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(The_focus_on_economic_growth)
title: The focus on economic growth
uri: The-focus-on-economic-growth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28The_focus_on_economic_growth%29
content:
<p>
The world's policy focus on economic growth is a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/18-13">relic of the
pre-Reagan period</a> when growth reduced inequality (because the rich
hadn't reduced the rest to trickle-down).
<p>
Today what we need is to spread the wealth, and that fits the need to
reduce humanity's ecological footprint.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Brazilian_thugs_attack_protesters)
title: Brazilian thugs attack protesters
uri: Brazilian-thugs-attack-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Brazilian_thugs_attack_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Brazilian thugs attacked a protest camp with pepper spray, and shot a
journalist rubber-coated steel bullet 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/18/brazil-police-raid-protest-camp-recife">for
no reason</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(US_officers_reluctant_to_bomb_ISIS)
title: US officers reluctant to bomb ISIS
uri: US-officers-reluctant-to-bomb-ISIS
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28US_officers_reluctant_to_bomb_ISIS%29

content:
<p>
US officers are reluctant to bomb ISIS forces, saying they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/18/us-military-intelligence-iraq-air-strikes-isis">don't
have the intelligence to identify them</a>.
<p>
On the battlefield, friendly troops tell you where the enemy is.
Their supply columns are easy to recognize.
This leads me to think that the US is considering
assassinations rather than a military operation.
<p>
If you need intelligence to recognize the enemy, an air strike is the
wrong approach.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Iranian_journalist_imprisoned)
title: Iranian journalist imprisoned
uri: Iranian-journalist-imprisoned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Iranian_journalist_imprisoned%29
content:
<p>
An Iranian journalist has been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/18/iranian-film-maker-mahnaz-mohammadi-jailed-colaborator-bbc">imprisoned
for working with the BBC</a>, although she never did.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Afghan_election_fraud)
title: Afghan election fraud
uri: Afghan-election-fraud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Afghan_election_fraud%29
content:
<p>
An Afghan presidential candidate alleges 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/18/afghan-presidential-election-crisis-runoff-blatant-fraud">election
fraud</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Argentinas_scheme_to_pay_creditors)
title: Argentina's scheme to pay creditors
uri: Argentina-s-scheme-to-pay-creditors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Argentinas_scheme_to_pay_creditors%29

content:
<p>
Argentina has a scheme for paying all its creditors 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/18-4">except
the vultures</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Oakland_to_divest_from_fossil_fuel)
title: Oakland to divest from fossil fuel
uri: Oakland-to-divest-from-fossil-fuel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Oakland_to_divest_from_fossil_fuel%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/18-6">Oakland
City Council Votes to Divest from Fossil Fuel Companies</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(Bush_and_Blairs_war_crimes)
title: Bush and Blair's war crimes
uri: Bush-and-Blair-s-war-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28Bush_and_Blairs_war_crimes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/18-9">Why Bush and
Blair Should Be Prosecuted for War Crimes</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(For-profit_health_care)
title: For-profit health care
uri: For-profit-health-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28For-profit_health_care%29
content:
<p>
Reagan 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/18-8">made US health
care costs shoot up</a> by opening the door to for-profit hospitals
and for-profit medical insurance.
<p>
What he did can be undone.  We don't have to allow
for-profit health care.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 19_June_2014_(No-fishing_marine_zones)
title: No-fishing marine zones
uri: No-fishing-marine-zones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#19_June_2014_%28No-fishing_marine_zones%29
content:
<p>
Obama says he will greatly 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/17/obama-oceans-marine-reserves-leonardo-dicaprio">extend
no-fishing marine zones</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(Interviews_with_Iraqi_Sunnis)
title: Interviews with Iraqi Sunnis
uri: Interviews-with-Iraqi-Sunnis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Interviews_with_Iraqi_Sunnis%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/20/baghdad-sunni-fighters-we-are-ready-for-zero-hour">Interviews</a>
with Iraqi Sunnis, some of whom want a sectarian war while others fear
it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(Number_of_refugees_world-wide)
title: Number of refugees world-wide
uri: Number-of-refugees-world-wide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Number_of_refugees_world-wide%29
content:
<p>
The number of refugees world-wide has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/20/global-refugee-figure-passes-50-million-unhcr-report">exceeded
50 million</a> for the first time since World War II.
<p>
I fear it will grow greatly in the future due to the effects of global
heating.  Many areas will become too hot, too dry, or too wet to live
in.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(Central_Americans_fleeing_violence)
title: Central Americans fleeing violence
uri: Central-Americans-fleeing-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Central_Americans_fleeing_violence%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/20/us-immigration-central-america-texas-detention">Large
numbers of people from Central America</a> are arriving at the
US-Mexico border and asking for asylum in the US.
<p>
It's the US "war on drugs" that creates the violence that they are
fleeing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(Oil_and_frack_wells_leaking_methane)
title: Oil and frack wells leaking methane
uri: Oil-and-frack-wells-leaking-methane
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Oil_and_frack_wells_leaking_methane%29

content:
<p>
Abandoned oil and frack wells 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/20/fracking-wells-pennsylvania-leaking-methane">leak
methane</a>, and may amount to as much as 13% of Pennsylvania's
contribution to global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(Israel_kills_two_Palestinians)
title: Israel kills two Palestinians
uri: Israel-kills-two-Palestinians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Israel_kills_two_Palestinians%29
content:
<p>
Israel has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/20/palestinian-teenager-killed-israeli-arrest-raids-west-bank">killed
two Palestinians</a> while searching for three missing teenagers.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(Opinion_is_crime_in_the_UK)
title: Opinion is crime in the UK
uri: Opinion-is-crime-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Opinion_is_crime_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
The UK is waking up to the fact that its censorship 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/13/jail-someone-for-being-offensive-twitter-facebook">jails
people for stating views that are considered offensive</a>.
<p>
Azhar Ahmed was convicted of the crime of expressing rage against
British soldiers for killing civilians.  Here is 
<a href="http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/protests-as-facebook-man-who-insulted-afghanistan-soldiers-escapes-jail-1-5006504">what
he wrote</a>.
<p>
He said "all soldiers", which literally means all the soldiers in the
world, but it seems likely he meant a smaller set of soldiers.  It
surely includes the British soldiers in Afghanistan, at least.
<p>
His words did not threaten violence or call on anyone else to commit
violence.  This was nothing but a moral opinion, but the UK is a
tyranny that makes moral opinion a crime.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(LA_law_against_living_in_vehicle)
title: LA law against living in vehicle
uri: LA-law-against-living-in-vehicle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28LA_law_against_living_in_vehicle%29
content:
<p>
Los Angeles's law against living in a vehicle was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/los-angeles-homeless-cars-court-strikes-ban">struck
down as vague</a> because it was written to be very broad.
<p>
While this is a victory, society must help homeless people, not harry
them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(Urgent:_Clean_Water_Act)
title: Urgent: Clean Water Act
uri: Urgent-Clean-Water-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Clean_Water_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1599&autologin=true">call
on the senate</a> to reject a plan to undermine the Clean Water Act.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(UK_approval_for_US_activities)
title: UK approval for US activities
uri: UK-approval-for-US-activities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28UK_approval_for_US_activities%29
content:
<p>
A committee of the UK parliament 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/cia-diego-garcia-chagos-control-combat-detainee-commons">wants
to require explicit UK approval</a> for US activities such as
rendition of prisoners.
<p>
I think this wouldn't go far enough, because B'liar would have given
approval for whatever the US wanted to do.  The UK government already
uses strange shenanigans to conceal its decisionmaking about Iraq.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(Jobless_youth_who_get_welfare)
title: Jobless youth who get welfare
uri: Jobless-youth-who-get-welfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Jobless_youth_who_get_welfare%29
content:
<p>
Decades of Thatcherite propaganda have convinced most Britons that
jobless youth who get welfare are exploiting the system.  Even the
Labour Party 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/18/labour-welfare-plan-benefits-means-testing-training-ed-miliband">proposes
to cut aid for them</a>.
<p>
What a convenient way to distract people from those who are truly
getting more out of the system than they put in: the rich. 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/18/global-super-rich-high-net-worth-individuals">The
number of millionaires in the world is growing fast</a>, proof of how
effectively today's policies concentrate wealth.
<p>
The rate of poverty in the UK has doubled since 30 years ago, even
though 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/19/poverty-hits-twice-as-many-british-households">the
size of the economy has doubled and the population has not</a>.
<p>
That's right-wing economic policy for you.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(Minors_crossing_US-Mexico_border)
title: Minors crossing US-Mexico border
uri: Minors-crossing-US-Mexico-border
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Minors_crossing_US-Mexico_border%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/18/us-border-patrol-children-detained-texas-arizona">So
many</a> minors are crossing the US-Mexico border that the US border
patrol has trouble coping with the ones it catches.
<p>
The article says "children", but it is clear the article means
"minors".  Only some of them are children.  But how do 6-year-olds
cross the border illegally?  Not alone, surely.
<p>
Another interesting question is what has caused so many minors to
cross Mexico to get to the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(The_blame_for_bad_US_education)
title: The blame for bad US education
uri: The-blame-for-bad-US-education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28The_blame_for_bad_US_education%29
content:
<p>
Conservatives try to blame bad US education on incompetent teachers
to distract from more important influences such as 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/18-7">poverty</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(A_torturers_remorse)
title: A torturer's remorse
uri: A-torturer-s-remorse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28A_torturers_remorse%29
content:
<p>
A World-War-II Japanese torturer 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/forgive-torturer-eric-lomax">became
a monk to express his remorse</a>.  His British victim was able to
forgive him, but did not entirely heal.
<p>
So far, there are no reports that Dubya feels remorse over torture.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(The_value_of_ecosystem_services)
title: The value of ecosystem services
uri: The-value-of-ecosystem-services
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28The_value_of_ecosystem_services%29
content:
<p>
A study estimates the value of ecosystem services at around 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/06/how-much-are-worlds-ecosystems-worth">140
trillion dollars a year</a>.
<p>
It would have been around 165 trillion if not for the
degradation of various systems since 1997.
<p>
These figures shouldn't be pressed too far.  We can't afford to
dispense with a trillion dollars in ecosystem services even if it
would gain 2 trillion in production of something.  If we lost all the
world's ecosystem services, we could not replace them, we would just
die.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(India_closes_Coca_Cola_plant)
title: India closes Coca Cola plant
uri: India-closes-Coca-Cola-plant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28India_closes_Coca_Cola_plant%29
content:
<p>
India has closed a Coca Cola plant for 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/18/indian-officals-coca-cola-plant-water-mehdiganj">extracting
too much water</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 20_June_2014_(King_Georges_abuses)
title: King George's abuses
uri: King-George-s-abuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28King_Georges_abuses%29
content:
<p>
King George's abuses inspired the Bill of Rights as a response.  Bush
and Obama have set it at nought by 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/first-amendment-free-speech-attack">committing
similar abuses</a>.


title: What Mayors Can Do to Support a Neutral Internet
uri: What-Mayors-Can-Do-to-Support-a-Neutral-Internet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(What_Mayors_Can_Do_to_Support_a_Neutral_Internet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28What_Mayors_Can_Do_to_Support_a_Neutral_Internet%29

content:
<p>
Neutrality Begins At
Home: <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/neutrality-begins-home-what-us-mayors-can-do-right-now-support-neutral-internet">What
U.S. Mayors Can Do Right Now to Support a Neutral Internet.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Spreading_the_harmful_parts_of_NAFTA)
title: Spreading the harmful parts of NAFTA
uri: Spreading-the-harmful-parts-of-NAFTA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Spreading_the_harmful_parts_of_NAFTA%29

content:
<p>
Obama said he would fix the harmful parts of NAFTA, but
instead <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/16-8">he is
trying to spread them around the world.</a>


title: Miami Sues Banking Giant Over Predatory Mortgages
uri: Miami-Sues-Banking-Giant-Over-Predatory-Mortgages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Miami_Sues_Banking_Giant_Over_Predatory_Mortgages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Miami_Sues_Banking_Giant_Over_Predatory_Mortgages%29

content:
<p>
Miami <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/17-3">Sues
Banking Giant Over Predatory Mortgages.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(FISA_court_renewed_NSA's_permission)
title: FISA court renewed NSA's permission
uri: FISA-court-renewed-NSA-s-permission
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28FISA_court_renewed_NSA%27s_permission%29

content:
<p>
The FISA court renewed the NSA's permission
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/21/fisa-court-nsa-collection-metadata">collect
records about nearly all phone calls in the US.</a>


title: Urgent: Abortion coverage for Peace Corps volunteers
uri: Urgent-Abortion-coverage-for-Peace-Corps-volunteers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Urgent:_Abortion_coverage_for_Peace_Corps_volunteers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Abortion_coverage_for_Peace_Corps_volunteers%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: Tell Congress
to <a href="https://secure.prochoiceamerica.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=5995&autologin=true">provide
abortion coverage for Peace Corps volunteers who are raped or face
death from pregnancy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Most_internet_users_value_privacy)
title: Most internet users value privacy
uri: Most-internet-users-value-privacy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Most_internet_users_value_privacy%29

content:
<p>
Most internet users value
privacy; <a href="http://getwired.com/2014/06/17/is-the-web-really-free/">why
don't they act rationally to protect it?</a>
<p>
My conclusion: society as a whole must make the internet respect
everyone's privacy.


title: Urgent: Reparations to people who were imprisoned
uri: Urgent-Reparations-to-people-who-were-imprisoned
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Urgent:_Reparations_to_people_who_were_imprisoned)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reparations_to_people_who_were_imprisoned%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: call on the Chicago City Council
to <a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?appeal%20code=W1406EATOR1&ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=27877&ea.tracking.id=Country_USA~MessagingCategory_SecurityandHR~MessagingCategory_Torture">make
reparations to the people who were imprisoned after thugs tortured
them into false confessions.</a>
<p>
I think those thugs should be prosecuted, too.


title: Urgent: Support continued protection of the endangered red wolf
uri: Urgent-Support-continued-protection-of-the-endangered-red-wolf
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Urgent:_Support_continued_protection_of_the_endangered_red_wolf)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Support_continued_protection_of_the_endangered_red_wolf%29

content:
<p>
US
citizens: <a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2751">support
continued protection of the endangered red wolf.</a>


title: "Task force" to think about how to protect bees
uri: Task-force-to-think-about-how-to-protect-bees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Task_force_to_think_about_how_to_protect_bees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Task_force_to_think_about_how_to_protect_bees%29

content:
<p>
Obama <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/20/bees-die-off-mystery-white-house-plan-save">launched
a "task force" to think about how to protect bees.</a>
<p>
It seems like an excuse to delay taking the necessary action


title: Is your congresscritter a capitalist crony
uri: Is-your-congresscritter-a-capitalist-crony
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Is_your_congresscritter_a_capitalist_crony)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Is_your_congresscritter_a_capitalist_crony%29

content:
<p>
How to find out if
your <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/19-6">US
congresscritter is a capitalist crony</a> (i.e., for sale).
<p>
I am not sure this criterion will catch every capitalist crony in
Congress.  It is a sufficient condition but not a necessary one.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Run_a_WiFI_net_with_no_password)
title: Run a WiFI net with no password
uri: Run-a-WiFI-net-with-no-password
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Run_a_WiFI_net_with_no_password%29
content:
<p>
The EFF asks you
to <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/eff-open-wireless-router/">run
a WiFI net with no password</a>. It also provides free software to put
in the router so others can connect through it without slowing or
seeing your own traffic.
<p>
The copyright industry doesn't want you to do this, and that's exactly
why you should: to avoid being conscripted as an enforcer in the War
on Sharing.


title: Text Drivers by Scanning Their Plates
uri: Text-Drivers-by-Scanning-Their-Plates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Text_Drivers_by_Scanning_Their_Plates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Text_Drivers_by_Scanning_Their_Plates%29

content:
<p>
GM Wants You
to <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/gm-license-app-text/">Creepily
Text Drivers by Scanning Their Plates.</a>
<p>
Thugs have
been <a href="https://stallman.org/notes/archive-2002.html#plate-for-date">finding
women from their license plates for decades.</a> This is not quite as
effective since it doesn't show her address.


title: Drone designed to spray protesters with pepper spray
uri: Drone-designed-to-spray-protesters-with-pepper-spray
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Drone_designed_to_spray_protesters_with_pepper_spray)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Drone_designed_to_spray_protesters_with_pepper_spray%29

content:
<p>
A drone has
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/20/pepper-spray-drone-offered-south-african-mines-strike-control">designed
to spray protesters with pepper spray.</a> It is being offered to help
oppressive South African mining companies crush strikes.


title: US gov't asked thugs to lie to judges
uri: US-gov-t-asked-thugs-to-lie-to-judges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(US_gov't_asked_thugs_to_lie_to_judges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28US_gov%27t_asked_thugs_to_lie_to_judges%29

content:
<p>
The US government asked Florida thugs
to <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/feds-told-cops-to-deceive-courts-about-stingray/">lie
to judges, and the thugs did.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Selling_Off_America's_Public_Lands)
title: Selling Off America's Public Lands
uri: Selling-Off-America-s-Public-Lands
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Selling_Off_America%27s_Public_Lands%29

content:
<p>
How Politicians Are Using Taxpayer Money
To <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/19-8">Fund Their
Campaign To Sell Off America's Public Lands.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(NetClean_goes_global)
title: NetClean goes global
uri: NetClean-goes-global
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28NetClean_goes_global%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://edri.org/enditorial-turkish-censorship-built-sweden-royal-appointment/">
Turkish Censorship</a>:
Swedish Built, by Royal Appointment.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Family_style_totalitarianism)
title: Family style totalitarianism
uri: Family-style-totalitarianism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Family_style_totalitarianism%29
content:
<p>(Right-wing UK ministers)
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/17/michael-wilshaw-gove-school-parents-fines">
Blame the Feckless Parents</a> —
As Long As They're Poor.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Iraq_Is_Still_Arabic_for_Vietnam)
title: "Iraq" Is Still Arabic for "Vietnam"
uri: Iraq-Is-Still-Arabic-for-Vietnam
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Iraq_Is_Still_Arabic_for_Vietnam%29
content:
<p>Comparing Obama's
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/17">
dilemma in Iraq</a>
with Kennedy's dilemma in Vietnam.
</p>


title: Disturbing news from NOAA oceanographers
uri: Disturbing-news-from-NOAA-oceanographers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Disturbing_news_from_NOAA_oceanographers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Disturbing_news_from_NOAA_oceanographers%29

content:
<p>Increased CO2 in the ocean
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/17-2">
makes phytoplankton sick</a>.
They become less nutritious and more toxic for all the higher levels of
the marine food
chain.
</p>
<p>Their numbers might be affected, and they provide half our oxygen
supply.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(NSA_funding_selectively_slashed)
title: NSA funding selectively slashed
uri: NSA-funding-selectively-slashed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28NSA_funding_selectively_slashed%29
content:
<p>The House of Representatives voted to
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/house-votes-to-cut-key-pursestrings-for-nsa-surveillance/">
stop two NSA surveillance activities</a>
by restricting its funding.
</p>


title: Canadian intellectual property case leads to global censorship
uri: Canadian-intellectual-property-case-leads-to-global-censorship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Canadian_intellectual_property_case_leads_to_global_censorship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Canadian_intellectual_property_case_leads_to_global_censorship%29

content:
<p>A court in Canada ordered Google to remove a particular site
from its search results
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/court-hands-google-worldwide-site-blocking-injunction-140618/">
world-wide</a>.
</p>


title: Abbott government abnegates environmental responsibility
uri: Abbott-government-abnegates-environmental-responsibility
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Abbott_government_abnegates_environmental_responsibility)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Abbott_government_abnegates_environmental_responsibility%29

content:
<p>The plan to end
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/jun/21/environmental-protection-act-law-referral-abbott-betrayal">
Australian federal environmental management</a>
and let states decide is a plan to let companies trash and plunder the
national heritage.
</p>


title: Mohamed Badie and supporters sentenced to death
uri: Mohamed-Badie-and-supporters-sentenced-to-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Mohamed_Badie_and_supporters_sentenced_to_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Mohamed_Badie_and_supporters_sentenced_to_death%29

content:
<p>The leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and almost 200 supporters
have been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/21/egypt-sentences-muslim-brotherhood-death">
sentenced to death</a>.</p>
<p>They are being held responsible for a protest in a far-away town
which was a response to the thugs' murder of many protesters in Cairo.
As usual, the thugs have not been charged for that.</p>


title: Turkish Censorship: Swedish Built, by Royal Appointment
uri: Turkish-Censorship-Swedish-Built-by-Royal-Appointment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Turkish_Censorship:_Swedish_Built,_by_Royal_Appointment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Turkish_Censorship%3A_Swedish_Built%2C_by_Royal_Appointment%29

content:
<p>
Turkish
Censorship: <a href="http://edri.org/enditorial-turkish-censorship-built-sweden-royal-appointment/">Swedish
Built, by Royal Appointment.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Right-wing_UK_ministers_blame_poor)
title: Right-wing UK ministers blame poor
uri: Right-wing-UK-ministers-blame-poor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Right-wing_UK_ministers_blame_poor%29

content:
<p>
(Right-wing UK
ministers) <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/17/michael-wilshaw-gove-school-parents-fines">Blame
the Feckless Parents — As Long As They're Poor.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Comparing_Obama's_dilemma_in_Iraq)
title: Comparing Obama's dilemma in Iraq
uri: Comparing-Obama-s-dilemma-in-Iraq
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Comparing_Obama%27s_dilemma_in_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
Comparing Obama's dilemma in
Iraq <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/17">with
Kennedy's dilemma in Vietnam.</a>


title: Plan to end Australian federal environmental management
uri: Plan-to-end-Australian-federal-environmental-management
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Plan_to_end_Australian_federal_environmental_management)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Plan_to_end_Australian_federal_environmental_management%29

content:
<p>
The plan to end Australian federal environmental management and let
states decide is a plan
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/jun/21/environmental-protection-act-law-referral-abbott-betrayal">let
companies trash and plunder the national heritage.</a>


title: Leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood sentenced to death
uri: Leader-of-Egypt-s-Muslim-Brotherhood-sentenced-to-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Leader_of_Egypt's_Muslim_Brotherhood_sentenced_to_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Leader_of_Egypt%27s_Muslim_Brotherhood_sentenced_to_death%29

content:
<p>
The leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and almost 200 supporters
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/21/egypt-sentences-muslim-brotherhood-death">have
been sentenced to death</a>.
<p>
They are being held responsible for a protest in a far-away town which
was a response to the thugs' murder of many protesters in Cairo.  As
usual, the thugs have not been charged for that.


title: Court ordered Google to remove a site from search results
uri: Court-ordered-Google-to-remove-a-site-from-search-results
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Court_ordered_Google_to_remove_a_site_from_search_results)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Court_ordered_Google_to_remove_a_site_from_search_results%29

content:
<p>
A court in Canada ordered Google
to <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/court-hands-google-worldwide-site-blocking-injunction-140618/">remove
a particular site from its search results world-wide.</a>


title: House voted to stop two NSA surveillance activities
uri: House-voted-to-stop-two-NSA-surveillance-activities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(House_voted_to_stop_two_NSA_surveillance_activities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28House_voted_to_stop_two_NSA_surveillance_activities%29

content:
<p>
The House of
Representatives <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/house-votes-to-cut-key-pursestrings-for-nsa-surveillance/">voted
to stop two NSA surveillance activities by restricting its
funding.</a>


title: Increased CO2 makes phytoplankton sick
uri: Increased-CO2-makes-phytoplankton-sick
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Increased_CO2_makes_phytoplankton_sick)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Increased_CO2_makes_phytoplankton_sick%29

content:
<p>
Increased CO2 in the
ocean <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/17-2">makes
phytoplankton sick</a>.  They become less nutritious and more toxic
for all the higher levels of the marine food chain.
<p>
Their numbers might be affected, and they provide half our oxygen
supply.


title: Urgent: Condemn politicians that defend rape
uri: Urgent-Condemn-politicians-that-defend-rape
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Urgent:_Condemn_politicians_that_defend_rape)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Condemn_politicians_that_defend_rape%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4722?n=75866640.FZ_7WF">Tell
Indian PM Modi</a> to condemn the politicians that defend rape.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Urgent:_Protest_July_5-12_in_the_US)
title: Urgent: Protest July 5-12 in the US
uri: Urgent-Protest-July-5-12-in-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protest_July_5-12_in_the_US%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://www.popularresistance.org/join-the-rolling-rebellion-for-real-democracy/">protest</a>
July 5-12 against "human rights" for corporations.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Egypts_Guantanamo_Bagram)
title: Egypt's Guantanamo/Bagram
uri: Egypt-s-Guantanamo-Bagram
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Egypts_Guantanamo_Bagram%29
content:
<p>
Egypt has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/22/disappeared-egyptians-torture-secret-military-prison">its
own</a> Guantanamo/Bagram prison.
<p>
As with Guantanamo and Bagram, they are controlled by the military and
the state denies them the rights of suspects.  As in Guantanamo and
Bagram, they are tortured.  As in Guantanamo and Bagram, some were
arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
<p>
The torturers come from al-Sisi's part of the Egyptian army.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Every_algorithm_is_simply_math)
title: Every algorithm is simply math
uri: Every-algorithm-is-simply-math
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Every_algorithm_is_simply_math%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/6/20/5824426/the-supreme-court-doesnt-understand-software-and-thats-a-problem">The
Supreme Court doesn't understand</a> that every algorithm is simply
mathematics.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(T-Mobile_data_caps)
title: T-Mobile data caps
uri: T-Mobile-data-caps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28T-Mobile_data_caps%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/t-mobile-uses-data-caps-to-manipulate-competition-online-undermine-net-neutrality">T-Mobile
Uses Data Caps to Manipulate Competition Online, Undermine Net
Neutrality</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Low-wage_janitors_fired_after_strike)
title: Low-wage janitors fired after strike
uri: Low-wage-janitors-fired-after-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Low-wage_janitors_fired_after_strike%29

content:
<p>
Low-wage janitors working at (but not for) the University of London
went on strike and got a small raise, but now their jobs will be
eliminated and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/21/immigrants-taken-to-cleaners-living-london-wage">they
will all be fired</a>.
<p>
Contracting out work instead of hiring people to do it must be
regulated such that it does not provide a means to make the work
precarious or undermine workers' rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(London_protest_against_austerity)
title: London protest against austerity
uri: London-protest-against-austerity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28London_protest_against_austerity%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/21/protest-march-austerity-london-russell-brand-peoples-assembly">50,000
protested</a> in London against austerity.
<p>
They need to launch a party to replace Labour, which has turned into a
center-right party.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(US_intervention_in_Iraq)
title: US intervention in Iraq
uri: US-intervention-in-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28US_intervention_in_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
Obama has recognized that US intervention in Iraq 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/21/obama-us-military-action-futile-maliki-sectarian">can't
solve Iraq's problem</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Ukraine_ceasefire)
title: Ukraine ceasefire
uri: Ukraine-ceasefire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Ukraine_ceasefire%29
content:
<p>
Ukraine's president declared a unilateral cease fire.  Rebels have
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/21/ukraine-ceasefire-under-threat-separatist-attacks-russia">continued
to attack with heavy weapons</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Bushs_surge_in_Iraq)
title: Bush's "surge" in Iraq
uri: Bush-s-surge-in-Iraq
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Bushs_surge_in_Iraq%29
content:
<p>
Right-wingers pretend that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/20-4">Bush's
"surge"</a> won the war in Iraq.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Importance_of_vaccinating_children)
title: Importance of vaccinating children
uri: Importance-of-vaccinating-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Importance_of_vaccinating_children%29

content:
<p>
Measles does no lasting harm to most people, but it can occasionally
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/19/1308169/-One-unvaccinated-child-was-patient-zero-of-a-measles-epidemic">maim
and even kill</a>.  Spread the word that it is important to vaccinate
children.


title: Church to divest from Israeli occupation
uri: Church-to-divest-from-Israeli-occupation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Church_to_divest_from_Israeli_occupation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Church_to_divest_from_Israeli_occupation%29

content:
<p>
The Presbyterian Church 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/us/presbyterians-debating-israeli-occupation-vote-to-divest-holdings.html?_r=0">voted
to divest</a> from three US companies directly connected with the
Israeli occupation of Palestine.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Military_supplies_for_thugs)
title: Military supplies for thugs
uri: Military-supplies-for-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Military_supplies_for_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The Obama regime is 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html">dumping
surplus military supplies on thug departments</a> across the US.
<p>
The thugs say they are buying equipment which they hope will never be
used.  But one they have a SWAT team, they make rules to use it
frequently, and it creates an opening for fatal mistakes.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Public_funding_of_election_campaigns)
title: Public funding of election campaigns
uri: Public-funding-of-election-campaigns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Public_funding_of_election_campaigns%29

content:
<p>
Larry Lessig argues that only 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/campaign-finance-reform-has-to-be-cross-partisan/372983/">public
funding of election campaigns</a> can cut the influence of the rich
over US elections.
<p>
I am in favor of public funding of election campaigns, but reversing
the Corporations United decision and abolishing "human rights" for
corporations are necessary too.  I think he is mistaken in claiming
that the Senate vote on the proposed amendment is useless if it won't
pass; it can help replace senators who want to keep the Corporations
United decision with senators that will vote to overturn it.
<p>
Meanwhile, the text of the amendment has 
<a href="http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/84706237372/laurence-tribe-on-the-udall-amendment">problems</a>
too.
<p>
These will need to be fixed before there is a vote where it may pass.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 22_June_2014_(Walker_tied_to_criminal_conspiracy)
title: Walker tied to criminal conspiracy
uri: Walker-tied-to-criminal-conspiracy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#22_June_2014_%28Walker_tied_to_criminal_conspiracy%29

content:
<p>
Governor Walker has been tied directly into a criminal 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/20-3">conspiracy to
violate campaign finance laws</a>.
<p>
Right-wingers got a judge to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/19/1308142/-Prosecutors-Scott-Walker-at-the-Center-of-a-Criminal-Scheme">try
to shut down the investigation</a>.
<p>
A giant right-wing foundation supports political 
<a href="http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/06/187744/bradley-foundation-bankrolled-groups-pushing-back-scott-walker-john-doe-criminal">efforts
to stop the investigation</a>.


title: Canadian court-ordered global censorship
uri: Canadian-court-ordered-global-censorship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Canadian_court-ordered_global_censorship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Canadian_court-ordered_global_censorship%29

content:
<p>
<p>A court in Canada ordered Google to remove a particular site
from its search results
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/court-hands-google-worldwide-site-blocking-injunction-140618/">
world-wide</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Al-Sisis_contempt_for_the_US)
title: Al-Sisi's contempt for the US
uri: Al-Sisi-s-contempt-for-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Al-Sisis_contempt_for_the_US%29
content:
<p>
By 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/john-kerry-snubbed-egypt-sentences-al-jazeera">imprisoning
journalists</a>, al-Sisi also showed contempt for the US, which he
expects will support him fully no matter how arbitrary he is.


title: UK bans teaching creationism as science
uri: UK-bans-teaching-creationism-as-science
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(UK_bans_teaching_creationism_as_science)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28UK_bans_teaching_creationism_as_science%29

content:
<p>
The UK has 
<a href="https://humanism.org.uk/2014/06/18/victory-government-bans-existing-future-academies-free-schools-teaching-creationism-science/">banned</a>
schools from teaching creationism as science.


title: High pay for CEO, low profits for company
uri: High-pay-for-CEO-low-profits-for-company
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(High_pay_for_CEO,_low_profits_for_company)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28High_pay_for_CEO%2C_low_profits_for_company%29

content:
<p>
A study finds that high pay for a CEO correlates with 
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/16/the-highest-paid-ceos-are-the-worst-performers-new-study-says/">low
profits for the company</a>.
<p>
This means the FSF should be in great shape since its president gets
no pay at all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Phone_kill_switch_bill)
title: Phone "kill switch" bill
uri: Phone-kill-switch-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Phone_kill_switch_bill%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/eff-opposes-californias-cell-phone-kill-switch-bill">bill
being considered in California</a> would require all portable phones
to have a "kill switch".  The EFF opposes this because it is
tantamount to requiring a back door with which someone could remotely
sabotage the phone.
<p>
I am concerned also that it would require phones to be designed such
that it is impossible to replace the operating system with a free
system such as Replicant.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Videos_of_force-feeding_prisoners)
title: Videos of force-feeding prisoners
uri: Videos-of-force-feeding-prisoners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Videos_of_force-feeding_prisoners%29

content:
<p>
Now that videos of 
<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/15/videos-open-windowonguantanamohungerstrike.html">force-feeding
prisoners in Guantanamo</a> threaten to embarrass the US government,
it has stopped making videos of this.
<p>
What grounds can the US government offer for declaring these
recordings a state secret?  Obviously the only reason is that they are
proof of the state's wrongdoing.  For a state to keep secrets for that
reason is prima-facie wrong.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Outbreak_of_ebola_virus)
title: Outbreak of ebola virus
uri: Outbreak-of-ebola-virus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Outbreak_of_ebola_virus%29
content:
<p>
Medicins Sans Frontieres says that the outbreak of ebola virus is
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/23/west-africa-ebola-epidemic-out-of-control">spreading</a>
and that it has run out of resources to send teams to new sites that
have sick people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Tasmanian_world_heritage_forest)
title: Tasmanian world heritage forest
uri: Tasmanian-world-heritage-forest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Tasmanian_world_heritage_forest%29
content:
<p>
UNESCO 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/23/un-rejects-australia-tasmanian-forest-heritage">rejected
the Australian government's plea to remove 270 square miles</a> from
the Tasmanian world heritage forest in order to chop it down.


title: Australia to require phone data collection
uri: Australia-to-require-phone-data-collection
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Australia_to_require_phone_data_collection)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Australia_to_require_phone_data_collection%29

content:
<p>
Australia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/australian-spy-agencies-in-line-for-new-digital-surveillance-powers">plans
to require</a> phone companies to engage in massive data collection
about the public.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(UK_govt_requires_time_wasting)
title: UK gov't requires time wasting
uri: UK-gov-t-requires-time-wasting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28UK_govt_requires_time_wasting%29
content:
<p>
The UK government stops unemployment benefits for people who can't
prove they are spending 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/23/when-the-uk-goes-digital-by-default-who-will-be-left-behind">35
hours a week looking for nonexistent jobs</a>.
<p>
What is the sense in requiring the unemployed to spend 35 hours a week
this way?  It's not going to find them jobs.  It seems to be designed
specifically to make sure they have no more free time than if they
were employed.
<p>
Wouldn't it serve that purpose just as well to let them volunteer
for a nonprofit organization?  Then their 35 hours would at least
serve some constructive purpose.


title: Journalists convicted of "aiding terrorists"
uri: Journalists-convicted-of-aiding-terrorists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Journalists_convicted_of_aiding_terrorists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Journalists_convicted_of_aiding_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
Al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt have been 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/al-jazeera-journalists-jailed-seven-years-egypt">convicted</a>
of "aiding terrorists" and "endangering national security" based on TV
broadcasts as evidence.  Some of the broadcasts were not even about
Egypt.
<p>
The court's reasoning must be similar to the reasoning by which a UK
court endorsed the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#21_August_2013_(UK_gov%27t_said_it_interrogated_Miranda_because_he_was_carrying_stolen_documents)">interrogation
of David Miranda as a "terrorist suspect"</a> in order to attack
journalism.
<p>
The US has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/22/john-kerry-meets-eyptian-president-sisi-cairo-us-aid">resumed
military support</a> to Egypt.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Govt-aided_sale_of_junk_food)
title: Gov't-aided sale of junk food
uri: Gov-t-aided-sale-of-junk-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Govt-aided_sale_of_junk_food%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/06/usda-dairy-checkoff-mcdonalds-taco-bell">How
the US Government Helps McDonald's Sell Junk Food</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Privatization_of_Australian_assets)
title: Privatization of Australian assets
uri: Privatization-of-Australian-assets
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Privatization_of_Australian_assets%29

content:
<p>
The unpopular right-wing Australian government is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/unions-pressure-labor-to-step-up-fight-against-coalitions-privatisation-push">trying
to privatize state assets as fast as possible</a>, and the Labor party
is not resisting very hard.
<p>
There is no need to let someone strip the treasury to get money to
spend on public works.  Making businesses and the rich pay their fair
share of taxes will do the job.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Plutocracy_and_poverty)
title: Plutocracy and poverty
uri: Plutocracy-and-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Plutocracy_and_poverty%29
content:
<p>
Reducing poverty in the US can't be separated from 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/16-4">ending
plutocracy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Afghan_presidential_runoff_fraud)
title: Afghan presidential runoff fraud
uri: Afghan-presidential-runoff-fraud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Afghan_presidential_runoff_fraud%29
content:
<p>
There is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/22/afghan-election-crisis-stuffed-sheep-fraud">evidence
of big fraud</a> in the Afghan presidential runoff.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Labeling_dissidents_as_terrorists)
title: Labeling dissidents as "terrorists"
uri: Labeling-dissidents-as-terrorists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Labeling_dissidents_as_terrorists%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/22-3">U.S. Funds
Terror Studies to Dissect and Neutralize Social Movements</a>.
<p>
Labeling dissidents as "terrorists" is a pervasive characteristic of
oppressive governments world-wide.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Work_efficiency_vs_productivity)
title: Work efficiency vs productivity
uri: Work-efficiency-vs-productivity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Work_efficiency_vs_productivity%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/technology/workplace-surveillance-sees-good-and-bad.html">Total
surveillance at work</a> can lead to more efficient systems.
<p>
However, in other cases, 
<a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/workplace-surveillance-and-the-transparency-paradox/">privacy
for workers</a> can improve productivity.
<p>
It would be a mistake to make productivity the main criterion
in judging the monitoring.
<p>
Monitoring can be a tool to make workers work harder for the same pay
(because the high-unemployment plutocracy of the US does not do
raises).  As for the benefits of higher productivity as such, those
will go 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#3%20January%202011%20(Working%20more%20for%20less)">mainly
to the rich</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Albuquerque_city_thug_chief)
title: Albuquerque city thug chief
uri: Albuquerque-city-thug-chief
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Albuquerque_city_thug_chief%29
content:
<p>
The people of Albuquerque held a
'<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/22/albuquerque-activists-peoples-trial-police-chief-over-brutality">People's
Trial</a>' of the city thug chief.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Urgent:_Reform_of_US_mining_law)
title: Urgent: Reform of US mining law
uri: Urgent-Reform-of-US-mining-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Reform_of_US_mining_law%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15923">support
reform</a> of the 19th-century US mining law that gives away public
resources to private companies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Floods_in_the_US_Northeast)
title: Floods in the US Northeast
uri: Floods-in-the-US-Northeast
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Floods_in_the_US_Northeast%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://my.firedoglake.com/brasch/2014/06/21/scientists-predict-increased-rain-floods-for-northeast/">Scientists
Predict Increased Rain, Floods for [US] Northeast</a>.
<p>
Bigger floods will transport toxins in piles of waste — from
fracking, for instance — into water supplies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Rebellion_against_Common_Core)
title: Rebellion against Common Core
uri: Rebellion-against-Common-Core
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Rebellion_against_Common_Core%29
content:
<p>
The rebellion against the Common Core has 
<a href="http://socialistworker.org/2014/06/17/frankenstein-fears-his-monster">made
the Gates Foundation hesitate in pushing it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Cheney_blames_his_disaster_on_Obama)
title: Cheney blames his disaster on Obama
uri: Cheney-blames-his-disaster-on-Obama
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Cheney_blames_his_disaster_on_Obama%29

content:
<p>
Dick Cheney joined with Dubya to destroy Iraq, but now has the gall to
<a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/24462-dick-cheney-should-be-rotting-in-the-hague-not-writing-editorials">blame
his disaster on Obama</a>.
<p>
Blair should be lecturing on Iraq from the dock at the 
<a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/167360-isis-us-blair-criminal-court/">International
Criminal Court</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(NSA_and_US_financial_conspiracies)
title: NSA and US financial conspiracies
uri: NSA-and-US-financial-conspiracies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28NSA_and_US_financial_conspiracies%29

content:
<p>
The NSA surely knows about all the financial conspiracies that have
wreaked tremendous harm on the US.  Strange that it 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/24511-how-did-dont-mess-with-the-money-become-the-nsas-motto">doesn't
try to stop them or punish them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(NSA_facilities_in_Germany)
title: NSA facilities in Germany
uri: NSA-facilities-in-Germany
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28NSA_facilities_in_Germany%29
content:
<p>
About 
<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=2492">NSA facilities in
Germany</a> that snoop on the communications of Europeans.


title: Monopolies on ideas, lands, and natural resources
uri: Monopolies-on-ideas-lands-and-natural-resources
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Monopolies_on_ideas,_lands,_and_natural_resources)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Monopolies_on_ideas%2C_lands%2C_and_natural_resources%29

content:
<p>
If there were no monopolies on ideas, lands, or natural resources,
advances in technology that improve efficiency would 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/carson20140621">automatically
benefit everyone</a>.
<p>
The article is somewhat misled by the overgeneralization symbolized by
"intellectual property".  It stands for various things that are not
similar and should not be grouped together.
<p>
Patents and copyrights are artificial systems and could be abolished
just by deciding to do so.  Abolishing trade secrets is not so simple,
though abolishing punishment for leaking one would reduce the
prevalence of them.  As for trademarks, they don't prevent people from
making comparable goods without the same markup; only people in thrall
<p>
Putting the term in scare quotes is not enough to avoid the confusion
it causes.  See 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, natural resources including arable land and fresh water are
in short supply.  We can't make more of them by abolishing property
rights on them.
<p>
We may need to compensate for this tendency of physical property
rights rather than abolish them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Technological_singularity)
title: Technological singularity
uri: 2014-06-24-Technological-singularity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Technological_singularity%29
content:
<p>
Arguing that 
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hay20140618">humans can,
and should, prevent a technological singularity from occurring</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Israels_own_wrongs)
title: Israel's own wrongs
uri: Israel-s-own-wrongs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Israels_own_wrongs%29
content:
<p>
Peace Now: 
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4531425,00.html">Israel
must look at its own wrongs</a>, not just Palestinians' wrongs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 23_June_2014_(Australians_recognize_global_heating)
title: Australians recognize global heating
uri: Australians-recognize-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#23_June_2014_%28Australians_recognize_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/22/australian-unhappy-coalitions-response-climate">70%
of Australians</a> now recognize that global heating is occurring, and
they think their government is doing a lousy job of dealing with the
problem.


title: Urgent: Call on Gov. Walker to resign
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Gov-Walker-to-resign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Urgent:_Call_on_Gov._Walker_to_resign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Call_on_Gov._Walker_to_resign%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://action.workingfamilies.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=10019">call
on Wisconsin Governor Walker</a> to resign immediately.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(UK_anti-terrorism_laws)
title: UK "anti-terrorism" laws
uri: UK-anti-terrorism-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28UK_anti-terrorism_laws%29
content:
<p>
As UK thugs arrested some aged protesters, they 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/24/sheffield-reporter-arrest-anti-terrorism-laws">forced
a reporter to delete footage of the arrest</a> by threatening to
arrest him under "anti-terrorism" laws.
<p>
These laws expose us to the greater danger of government repression,
so a large part of them must be repealed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Desertion_by_FARC_soldiers)
title: Desertion by FARC soldiers
uri: Desertion-by-FARC-soldiers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Desertion_by_FARC_soldiers%29
content:
<p>
Hundreds of FARC soldiers have deserted; the Colombian government has
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/colombia-farc-reintegration-peace-home">programs
to encourage this</a>.
<p>
The FARC started as a rebellion against tyranny after a leftist
presidential candidate was assassinated, but it subsequently
degenerated into a sort of crime syndicate.  Its disappearance is to
be wished for, all things being equal; but what will Colombia do to
eliminate Colombia biggest and most harmful terrorist group —
the paramilitares?
<p>
The paramilitares have been 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-nov-feb.html#07_November_2011_(Colombia_Guerrilla_Killed)">closely
linked to the government</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Punishing_parents_who_are_poor)
title: Punishing parents who are poor
uri: Punishing-parents-who-are-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Punishing_parents_who_are_poor%29
content:
<p>
The right-wing approach to parents in poor, bad neighborhoods is to
offer them lectures in doing the impossible, or 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/24/bad-parents-support-not-judgment-fines">punish
them</a>.
<p>
Some of them could be validly criticized for having children without
being in a position to raise them properly.  But not all: some of them
may have had good jobs back then, and reasonably expected they could
afford to raise children.  Anyway, society failed to teach them this
precept; society therefore shares the responsibility for the current
problem.
<p>
Whoever's at fault, it's not the children.  Society should provide the
real help that their parents need.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(UK_forces_ISPs_to_keep_user_data)
title: UK forces ISPs to keep user data
uri: UK-forces-ISPs-to-keep-user-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28UK_forces_ISPs_to_keep_user_data%29
content:
<p>
The UK continues forcing ISPs to keep data about their users' contacts
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/24/british-government-breaking-law-in-forcing-data-retention-by-companies">in
defiance of the European Court of Justice</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Roundup_and_cancer_in_mice)
title: Roundup and cancer in mice
uri: Roundup-and-cancer-in-mice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Roundup_and_cancer_in_mice%29
content:
<p>
The scientists who reported that Roundup causes cancer in mice
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/24/controversial-seralini-study-gm-cancer-rats-republished">stand
by their results</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Fossil-fuel_company_denialists)
title: Fossil-fuel company denialists
uri: Fossil-fuel-company-denialists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Fossil-fuel_company_denialists%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jun/24/why-we-care-about-global-warming-consensus">Fossil-fuel
company denialists</a> have led most Americans to think that lots of
climate scientists doubt that humans are causing global heating.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Al-Sisis_political_prisoners)
title: Al-Sisi's political prisoners
uri: Al-Sisi-s-political-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Al-Sisis_political_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
Obama asked al-Sisi to free political prisoners, but al-Sisi 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/24/al-jazeera-journalists-sisi-egypt-denied-celemency">sees
no need to heed this request</a>.
<p>
Al-Sisi knows that Obama's request was for public image only, since
the US supports other repressive regimes, notably that of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#29_December_2012_(Brutal_Bahraini_regimes_US_support)">Bahrain</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Ales_Bialiatski_freed)
title: Ales Bialiatski freed
uri: Ales-Bialiatski-freed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Ales_Bialiatski_freed%29
content:
<p>
Belarus has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/belarusian-ales-bialiatski-release">released</a>
human rights defender Ales Bialiatski from prison.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Cease-fire_agreement_in_Ukraine)
title: Cease-fire agreement in Ukraine
uri: Cease-fire-agreement-in-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Cease-fire_agreement_in_Ukraine%29
content:
<p>
Separatists in Ukraine 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/ukraine-crisis-putin-russia-military-intervention-ceasefire">agreed
to a cease-fire</a>, encouraged by Putin.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(General_Haftar)
title: General Haftar
uri: General-Haftar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28General_Haftar%29
content:
<p>
About 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/libyan-renegade-general-khalifa-haftar-war">General
Haftar</a> whose army or militia may take over Libya.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Malaysian_protesters_face_prison)
title: Malaysian protesters face prison
uri: Malaysian-protesters-face-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Malaysian_protesters_face_prison%29
content:
<p>
Environmental protesters against a mine in Malaysia 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/malaysian-police-say-australian-activist-faces-up-to-two-years-jail">could
be imprisoned for two years</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Plunder_of_the_High_Seas)
title: Plunder of the High Seas
uri: Plunder-of-the-High-Seas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Plunder_of_the_High_Seas%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/24/fuel-subsidies-drive-fishing-industrys-plunder-of-the-high-seas">Fuel
Subsidies 'Drive Fishing Industry's Plunder of the High Seas'</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Hottest_May_on_record)
title: Hottest May on record
uri: Hottest-May-on-record
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Hottest_May_on_record%29
content:
<p>
May 2014 was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/24/may-was-hottest-on-earth-since-records-began">the
hottest May</a> for as long as sufficient records are available (since
1880).
<p>
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-may-breaks-global-temperature-record-1.2684615">More
info</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(US_Border_Patrol)
title: US Border Patrol
uri: US-Border-Patrol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28US_Border_Patrol%29
content:
<p>
People living in southern Arizona regard the US Border Patrol as an
occupying army because it 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/21/arizona-border-patrol-anger-grows">oppresses
them constantly</a>.
<p>
The Border Patrol can search and molest people in a wide strip of
territory extending 100 miles from each border and each coast.  2/3 of
the US population lives in this strip, which the ACLU refers to as the
"<a href='https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/fact-sheet-us-constitution-free-zone'>Constitution-free
zone</a>".
<p>
Strictly speaking, it is not supposed to do this on a whim, but in
practice it can act arbitrarily.


title: University divestment from fossil fuels
uri: University-divestment-from-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(University_divestment_from_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28University_divestment_from_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/23">University
of Dayton</a> has divested from fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Lunatic_theocrats_of_ISIS)
title: Lunatic theocrats of ISIS
uri: Lunatic-theocrats-of-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Lunatic_theocrats_of_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
The lunatic 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/23-2">theocrats of
ISIS</a> are, figuratively, the ghosts of the Iraqis that Bush and
B'liar tortured and killed.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Meriam_Ibrahim_arrested_again)
title: Meriam Ibrahim arrested again
uri: Meriam-Ibrahim-arrested-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Meriam_Ibrahim_arrested_again%29
content:
<p>
Sudan 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/sudan-death-row-meriam-ibrahim-released-after-international-outcry">released
Meriam Ibrahim from prison</a>.
<p>
But when she tried to leave Sudan, she was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/sudan-death-row-woman-meriam-ibrahim-arrested">arrested
again</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 24_June_2014_(Neonicotinoids_poison_ecosystems)
title: Neonicotinoids poison ecosystems
uri: Neonicotinoids-poison-ecosystems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_June_2014_%28Neonicotinoids_poison_ecosystems%29
content:
<p>
Neonicotinoids put the world food supply at risk by 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/24/insecticides-world-food-supplies-risk">poisoning
ecosystems</a>.
<p>
Not only bees are being harmed, but other insects too, and worms, and
birds.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(Global_heating_and_overfishing)
title: Global heating and overfishing
uri: Global-heating-and-overfishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28Global_heating_and_overfishing%29
content:
<p>
Global heating and
overfishing <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/24-2">threaten
irreparable damage to the ocean</a>.


title: Striking platinum miners in South Africa have won a raise
uri: Striking-platinum-miners-in-South-Africa-have-won-a-raise
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(Striking_platinum_miners_in_South_Africa_have_won_a_raise)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28Striking_platinum_miners_in_South_Africa_have_won_a_raise%29

content:
<p>
Striking platinum miners in South
Africa <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/south-africa-platinum-miners-strike-anc">have
won a raise.</a>


title: Dubya's lies that were excuses for attacking Iraq
uri: Dubya-s-lies-that-were-excuses-for-attacking-Iraq
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(Dubya's_lies_that_were_excuses_for_attacking_Iraq)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28Dubya%27s_lies_that_were_excuses_for_attacking_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
Most US
Republicans <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/iraq-war-wmds-saddam-political-unreason">still
believe Dubya's lies that were excuses for attacking Iraq</a>, and
reading corrections of these lies only reinforces their beliefs.
<p>
They are, in effect, insane.


title: Many countries systematically persecute Christians
uri: Many-countries-systematically-persecute-Christians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(Many_countries_systematically_persecute_Christians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28Many_countries_systematically_persecute_Christians%29

content:
<p>
Many
countries <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/25/left-persecution-christians-meriam-ibrahim-sudan">systematically
persecute Christians</a>.


title: SWAT teams mainly used for minor matters
uri: SWAT-teams-mainly-used-for-minor-matters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(SWAT_teams_mainly_used_for_minor_matters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28SWAT_teams_mainly_used_for_minor_matters%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU reports
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/24-4">SWAT
teams are used nowadays mainly for minor matters when the targets are
nonwhite.</a>
<p>
Towns acquire military weapons for thugs in the name of "protecting"
people from danger scenarios that are theoretically possible but
hardly ever happen.  The consequence is to expose us to real danger.
<p>
It's
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Thugs_in_schools%29">same
with stationing thugs in schools.</a>


title: Obama regime's memo on drone assassination
uri: Obama-regime-s-memo-on-drone-assassination
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(Obama_regime's_memo_on_drone_assassination)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28Obama_regime%27s_memo_on_drone_assassination%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime's memo on drone
assassination <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/23-3">shows
the flaws in its legal reasoning.</a>


title: Tax dodging businesses hurt the whole world
uri: Tax-dodging-businesses-hurt-the-whole-world
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(Tax_dodging_businesses_hurt_the_whole_world)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28Tax_dodging_businesses_hurt_the_whole_world%29

content:
<p>
The
IMF <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/25-0">recognizes
that tax dodging businesses hurt the whole world.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(MCHM_toxicity)
title: MCHM toxicity
uri: MCHM-toxicity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28MCHM_toxicity%29
content:
<p>
The US government never tested MCHM for toxicity, but a city in West
Virginia <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/25-8">became
the guinea pigs for an unplanned experiment.</a>


title: Thai military regime used malicious Facebook app
uri: Thai-military-regime-used-malicious-Facebook-app
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(Thai_military_regime_used_malicious_Facebook_app)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28Thai_military_regime_used_malicious_Facebook_app%29

content:
<p>
The Thai military regime used a malicious Facebook app
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/thai-junta-used-facebook-app-harvest-email-addresses">trick
people into giving their email addresses and passwords</a> when they
try to visit banned sites.


title: Thugs lured school children into giving iris scans
uri: Thugs-lured-school-children-into-giving-iris-scans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(Thugs_lured_school_children_into_giving_iris_scans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28Thugs_lured_school_children_into_giving_iris_scans%29

content:
<p>
Massachusetts
thugs <a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1448">lured school
children into giving iris scans.</a>


title: Thugs need warrant to search phones of people who are arrested
uri: Thugs-need-warrant-to-search-phones-of-people-who-are-arrested
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(Thugs_need_warrant_to_search_phones_of_people_who_are_arrested)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28Thugs_need_warrant_to_search_phones_of_people_who_are_arrested%29

content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court ruled
that <a href="https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/supreme-court-requires-warrant-cell-phone-searches-police">thugs
need a warrant to search the phones of people who are arrested.</a>


title: How sugar companies intimidated medical criticism
uri: How-sugar-companies-intimidated-medical-criticism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 26_June_2014_(How_sugar_companies_intimidated_medical_criticism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#26_June_2014_%28How_sugar_companies_intimidated_medical_criticism%29

content:
<p>
Showing how the sugar companies
have <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/06/sugar-industry-tactics-to-make-your-food-unhealthy">intimidated
medical criticism of the effects of eating so much sugar</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(Spread_of_neonicotinoids)
title: Spread of neonicotinoids
uri: Spread-of-neonicotinoids
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28Spread_of_neonicotinoids%29
content:
<p>
Toxic neonicotinoids 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/24-5">spread
through dust and water</a> to affect wildlife off the farm.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(No_fly_list_ruled_unconstitutional)
title: "No fly list" ruled unconstitutional
uri: No-fly-list-ruled-unconstitutional
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28No_fly_list_ruled_unconstitutional%29

content:
<p>
A US judge ruled that the "no fly list" is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/24-5">unconstitutional
punishment without due process</a>.
<p>
This will surely be appealed, and I have no faith in our current
Supreme Court to defend human rights in a meaningful way except for
corporations.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(Living_wage_in_the_UK)
title: Living wage in the UK
uri: Living-wage-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28Living_wage_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/24/living-wage-brighter-future-one-million-working-poor">Calling
on UK employers</a> to pay everyone a living wage, and on the UK
government to require this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(Jobs_curbing_global_heating)
title: Jobs curbing global heating
uri: Jobs-curbing-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28Jobs_curbing_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The work needed to curb global heating would 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/24/tackling-climate-change-would-grow-global-economy-world-bank-says">boost
the economy as a side effect</a>, according to the World Bank.
<p>
In addition, a lot of this work 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#11%20September%202010%20(Green%20energy%20fairing%20well%20in%20EU)">generates
more employment than other ways of using the money</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(UK_minister_wants_more_surveillance)
title: UK minister wants more surveillance
uri: UK-minister-wants-more-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28UK_minister_wants_more_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The UK minister of repression says that what the UK does isn't mass
surveillance, and 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/24/theresa-may-security-services-mass-surveillance-snoopers-charter">asks
for laws to increase it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(Social_Securitys_offices)
title: Social Security's offices
uri: Social-Security-s-offices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28Social_Securitys_offices%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/24-7">A Secret Plan
to Close Social Security s Offices and Outsource Its Work</a>.
<p>
It is wrong to outsource <em>any</em> government service unless people
are better off getting the service directly from companies in a
competitive market.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(Iraq_is_still_about_oil)
title: Iraq is still about oil
uri: Iraq-is-still-about-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28Iraq_is_still_about_oil%29
content:
<p>
Iraq is still about oil.  Maliki 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/24-3">increased the
oil income</a> and directed it to weapons purchase and serving
Shi'ites only.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(NJ_gov's_illegal_funding_scheme)
title: NJ gov's illegal funding scheme
uri: NJ-gov-s-illegal-funding-scheme
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28NJ_gov%27s_illegal_funding_scheme%29

content:
<p>
NJ Governor Christie seems to have imposed a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/chris-christie-investigation-second-new-jersey-bridge">deceptive
and illegal funding scheme</a> for some bridge improvements.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(Assanges_arrest_warrant)
title: Assange's arrest warrant
uri: Assange-s-arrest-warrant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28Assanges_arrest_warrant%29
content:
<p>
Julian Assange's lawyers have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/24/julian-assange-legal-bid-sweden-rape-case">two
new grounds to challenge the warrant</a> that orders him sent to
Sweden for questioning.
<p>
We know the warrant is a phony pretext because the Swedish prosecutors
are welcome to question Assange at any time; they need only 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#20_June_2012_(Assange_asks_for_political_asylum)">visit him
in the Ecuadorian embassy</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(Case_against_al-Jazeera_journalists)
title: Case against al-Jazeera journalists
uri: Case-against-al-Jazeera-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28Case_against_al-Jazeera_journalists%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/six-flaws-case-against-three-jailed-al-jazeera-journalists-greste-fahmy-mohamed">Six
(absurd) Flaws in the Case against Three Jailed al-Jazeera
Journalists</a>.
<p>
A more fundamental flaw is the idea that "endangering national
security" by journalism is a crime.


title: Islamist terrorist funded by charcoal
uri: Islamist-terrorist-funded-by-charcoal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 25_June_2014_(Islamist_terrorist_funded_by_charcoal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#25_June_2014_%28Islamist_terrorist_funded_by_charcoal%29

content:
<p>
Reportedly the Shabaab, Islamist terrorists in Somalia, get most of
their funds from 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/24/illegal-wildlife-charcoal-trade-funding-global-terror-groups">illegal
timber made into charcoal</a>.
<p>
This makes me wonder what part of the trade flow the Shabaab control.
Is it the transport of charcoal into Somalia for sale there?  Or some
other part?
<p>
If it is the former, it would be easy for the US to wipe out their
funding by selling cheap charcoal in Mogadishu.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Human_destruction_of_habitats)
title: Human destruction of habitats
uri: Human-destruction-of-habitats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Human_destruction_of_habitats%29
content:
<p>
Human destruction of
habitats <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/25/ape-experts-sound-alarm-over-shrinking-habitats">threatens
the survival of apes in the wild.</a> (Along with thousands of other
species that are less fascinating to us.)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Road_may_be_renamed_after_Liu_Xiaobo)
title: Road may be renamed after Liu Xiaobo
uri: Road-may-be-renamed-after-Liu-Xiaobo
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Road_may_be_renamed_after_Liu_Xiaobo%29

content:
<p>
The road that passes the front of the Chinese embassy to the US
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/china-rename-us-embassy-liu-xiaobo">may
be renamed after Liu Xiaobo.</a>
<p>
I am in favor of this.  If China does not like to be embarrassed by
its own conduct, it can retaliate by renaming the street where the US
embassy to China stands.  How about "Guantanamo Road"?  "Edward
Snowden Avenue"?  "Dubya's War Crimes Boulevard"?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Twisted_advances)
title: Twisted "advances"
uri: Twisted-advances
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Twisted_advances%29
content:
<p>
Look at
the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2014/jun/25/six-ways-technology-changing-shopping">twisted
"advances" that store owners want to inflict on you</a>.


title: Writers have authorized censored editions for China
uri: Writers-have-authorized-censored-editions-for-China
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Writers_have_authorized_censored_editions_for_China)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Writers_have_authorized_censored_editions_for_China%29

content:
<p>
Many US writers
have <a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/06/costs-censorship-china/">authorized
censored editions for China.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Black_US_women_face_eviction)
title: Black US women face eviction
uri: Black-US-women-face-eviction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Black_US_women_face_eviction%29
content:
<p>
While a large fraction of black US men are in prison, a similar
fraction
of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/25-0">black
US women face eviction.</a>


title: Referendum to call for democratic elections in Hong Kong
uri: Referendum-to-call-for-democratic-elections-in-Hong-Kong
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Referendum_to_call_for_democratic_elections_in_Hong_Kong)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Referendum_to_call_for_democratic_elections_in_Hong_Kong%29

content:
<p>
1/5 of Hong Kong's voting population held
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/hong-kong-unofficial-pro-democracy-referendum-beijing">unofficial
referendum to call for democratic elections in Hong Kong</a>.
<p>
If it were a real referendum, you couldn't trust the outcome, because
it is being done over the internet.


title: Emergency exception for neonicotinoids
uri: Emergency-exception-for-neonicotinoids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Emergency_exception_for_neonicotinoids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Emergency_exception_for_neonicotinoids%29

content:
<p>
Now that the UK has partially banned neonicotinoids, one manufacturer
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/25/syngenta-exemption-neonicotinoid-insecticide-ban-oilseed-rape">asked
the UK for a giant "emergency" exception.</a>


title: The malware that US and other governments inject
uri: The-malware-that-US-and-other-governments-inject
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(The_malware_that_US_and_other_governments_inject)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28The_malware_that_US_and_other_governments_inject%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140624/09021027669/security-researchers-expose-new-gold-standard-governmentlaw-enforcement-spyware.shtml">The
malware that the US and many other governments inject</a> into
computers to spy on them.


title: Urgent: Limit carbon pollution from existing power plants
uri: Urgent-Limit-carbon-pollution-from-existing-power-plants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Urgent:_Limit_carbon_pollution_from_existing_power_plants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Limit_carbon_pollution_from_existing_power_plants%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA to go ahead
and <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1597">limit
carbon pollution from existing power plants.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(The_FBI's_new_biometric_database)
title: The FBI's new biometric database
uri: The-FBI-s-new-biometric-database
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28The_FBI%27s_new_biometric_database%29

content:
<p>
Warning: the FBI's new biometric
database <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/eff-and-31-other-organizations-call-privacy-assessment-fbis-biometric-database">threatens
Americans with total tracking on the street.</a>


title: How US is Fueling Military Repression in Honduras
uri: How-US-is-Fueling-Military-Repression-in-Honduras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(How_US_is_Fueling_Military_Repression_in_Honduras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28How_US_is_Fueling_Military_Repression_in_Honduras%29

content:
<p>
How the US
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/25-1">Fueling
Military Repression in Honduras.</a>


title: Sudan charged Mariam Ibrahim with "forging a passport"
uri: Sudan-charged-Mariam-Ibrahim-with-forging-a-passport
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Sudan_charged_Mariam_Ibrahim_with_forging_a_passport)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Sudan_charged_Mariam_Ibrahim_with_forging_a_passport%29

content:
<p>
Meriam Ibrahim got a passport from South Sudan because her husband is
from there.  So Sudan
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/meriam-ibrahim-khartoum-summons-south-sudanese-us-ambassadors">charged
her with "forging a passport".</a>
<p>
This charge is absurd even denying the passport's validity.  It
represents malice, nothing more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Genetically_modified_corn_and_soy)
title: Genetically modified corn and soy
uri: Genetically-modified-corn-and-soy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Genetically_modified_corn_and_soy%29

content:
<p>
Genetically modified corn and soy
have <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/25-5">created a
web of harmful consequences not anticipated</a> when they were first
used.


title: Imprisoning children and teenagers that cross the US border
uri: Imprisoning-children-and-teenagers-that-cross-the-US-border
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Imprisoning_children_and_teenagers_that_cross_the_US_border)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Imprisoning_children_and_teenagers_that_cross_the_US_border%29

content:
<p>
Obama is moving
towards <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/25/obama-detaining-minors-what-happened">imprisoning
children and teenagers that cross the US border without papers</a>.
<p>
The crucial point is that it is feasible to expel these people without
keeping them in prison while their cases are decided.
<p>
If the US wants
fewer <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Minors_crossing_US-Mexico_border%29">minors
from Central America</a> to cross the border, it might be more
effective to run a campaign to inform the public in Central America
that getting over the US border does not, as they have been told, give
you permission to stay in the US.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Urgent:_End_Sallie_Mae_contract)
title: Urgent: End Sallie Mae contract
uri: Urgent-End-Sallie-Mae-contract
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_Sallie_Mae_contract%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/33/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7039">tell
the Dept of Education</a> to stop dealing with Sallie Mae.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Urgent:_Require_GMO_labeling)
title: Urgent: Require GMO labeling
uri: Urgent-Require-GMO-labeling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Require_GMO_labeling%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/change-nutrition-facts-labeling-to-show-gmo-content">call
on the FDA</a> to require food labels to mention GMO content.


title: Urgent: Oppose appointment of Armstrong
uri: Urgent-Oppose-appointment-of-Armstrong
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_appointment_of_Armstrong)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_appointment_of_Armstrong%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/868">call on Obama</a> not
to appoint right-winger Ward Armstrong as a federal judge.
<p>
According to Daily Kos, Ward Armstrong voted to abolish Obama's health
care law, supported allowing handguns in bars, voted to close
Virginia's abortion clinics and supported a constitutional ban on
same-sex marriage.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Chinese_tactic_against_dissidents)
title: Chinese tactic against dissidents
uri: Chinese-tactic-against-dissidents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Chinese_tactic_against_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
A peculiar Chinese 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/china-sends-dissidents-on-paid-holidays">tactic
against non-famous dissidents</a>: forcing them to take an
all-expenses-paid vacation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Being_Atheist_in_Nigeria)
title: Being Atheist in Nigeria
uri: Being-Atheist-in-Nigeria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Being_Atheist_in_Nigeria%29
content:
<p>
Mubarak Bala was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/nigerian-man-locked-up-atheist">put
in a mental hospital</a> in Nigeria for saying he is an Atheist.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Cell_phone_searches)
title: Cell phone searches
uri: Cell-phone-searches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Cell_phone_searches%29
content:
<p>
The Supreme Court's decision on searching arrested people's cell
phones 
<a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/06/25/325608295/high-court-ruling-on-search-warrants-is-broader-than-cellphones">applies
to computers and any other digital devices</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Ukraine-EU_austerity_pact)
title: Ukraine-EU austerity pact
uri: Ukraine-EU-austerity-pact
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Ukraine-EU_austerity_pact%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/25-5">Ukraine
Due to Ink Austerity Pact with EU</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Wars)
title: Wars
uri: Wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Wars%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/25-3">American
Hindsight: Wars Aren't 'Worth It'</a>.
<p>
Some wars are worse than a mistake, of course.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Deadly_bee-friendly_plants)
title: Deadly "bee-friendly" plants
uri: Deadly-bee-friendly-plants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Deadly_bee-friendly_plants%29
content:
<p>
About half the "bee-friendly" plants on sale in the US and Canada
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/25-1">contain
neonicotinoid pesticides</a> which kill bees.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Australias_coal_baron_senator)
title: Australia's coal baron senator
uri: Australia-s-coal-baron-senator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Australias_coal_baron_senator%29
content:
<p>
A coal baron got himself elected to the Australian Senate, and now
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2014/jun/25/clive-palmer-al-gore-climate-change-renewable-energy-carbon-price">blocks
Abbott's plan</a> to crush renewable energy in Australia.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 27_June_2014_(Greenpeace_directors_plane_commute)
title: Greenpeace director's plane commute
uri: Greenpeace-director-s-plane-commute
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#27_June_2014_%28Greenpeace_directors_plane_commute%29

content:
<p>
Greenpeace is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/25/greenpeace-flying-director-green-charity">embarrassed
because its director was commuting by airplane</a>.  However,
questions of which technologies to eschew personally for the sake of
the environment are not so easy to answer.
<p>
We can't end global heating by choosing to fly less.  We need to
convince millions of others to fly less, for instance with a higher
tax on flying such as the EU 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_September_2013_(US_stopping_EU_from_taxing_airlines_for_CO2_emissions)">tried
to impose</a>.
<p>
Burning fuel is not an act of oppression; it only becomes harmful
because of the <em>amount</em> we burn.  This makes the right decision
about Greenpeace's own fuel use less clear.  In the end, I think it is
important for the director to take trains, not because it will save
significant energy, but so he can set a better example.
<p>
In the free software movement, campaigning for users' right to control
their computing, we face questions that at first sight look similar to
those Greenpeace faces, but there is a crucial difference.  Nonfree
program is not a form of pollution, it is an injustice.  If you run a
nonfree program, the injustice towards you is independent of who else
runs it.  Thus we say <em>nobody</em> should run a nonfree program and
nobody should develop one.  For us to legitimize nonfree software
would be self-contradictory.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Pakistan's_attack_on_the_Taliban)
title: Pakistan's attack on the Taliban
uri: Pakistan-s-attack-on-the-Taliban
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Pakistan%27s_attack_on_the_Taliban%29

content:
<p>
Pakistan's attack on the Pakistani
Taliban <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/pakistan-displaced-military-operation-taliban-north-waziristan-humanitarian-assistance">has
led half a million people to flee the area.</a>


title: Ban on large sugary drinks was overturned
uri: Ban-on-large-sugary-drinks-was-overturned
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Ban_on_large_sugary_drinks_was_overturned)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Ban_on_large_sugary_drinks_was_overturned%29

content:
<p>
Mayor Bloomberg's ban on large sugary drinks
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/new-york-court-final-blow-soda-ban">overturned
by a court</a>, leaving the question of how to protect millions of
people from obesity and consequent sickness.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(US_TV_network_news_shows)
title: US TV network news shows
uri: US-TV-network-news-shows
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28US_TV_network_news_shows%29
content:
<p>
US TV network news
shows <a href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/even-gop-attention-cant-make-media-care-about-poor/">say
more about billionaires than about poverty.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Accusing_Assad_of_helping_ISIS)
title: Accusing Assad of helping ISIS
uri: Accusing-Assad-of-helping-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Accusing_Assad_of_helping_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
Accusing Assad
of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/beware-game-shadows-syria">helping
ISIS build up as a rival for his other enemies.</a>


title: Obama wants to train "moderate" Syrian rebels
uri: Obama-wants-to-train-moderate-Syrian-rebels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Obama_wants_to_train_moderate_Syrian_rebels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Obama_wants_to_train_moderate_Syrian_rebels%29

content:
<p>
Obama wants
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/obama-seeking-500m-training-moderate-syrian-rebels">train
"moderate" Syrian rebels in Jordan.</a>
<p>
It sounds like a good idea in theory, but I suspect that in practice
the alliances are fluid and it won't be easy to find the right people
to train.


title: Urgent: Require public companies disclose all political spending
uri: Urgent-Require-public-companies-disclose-all-political-spending
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Urgent:_Require_public_companies_disclose_all_political_spending)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Require_public_companies_disclose_all_political_spending%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the SEC
to <a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/SEC_transparency/">require
public companies to disclose all political spending.</a>


title: Urgent: Make CarMax stop claiming its cars are safe
uri: Urgent-Make-CarMax-stop-claiming-its-cars-are-safe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Urgent:_Make_CarMax_stop_claiming_its_cars_are_safe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Make_CarMax_stop_claiming_its_cars_are_safe%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: ask the FTC
to <a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/FTC_CarMax/">make
CarMax stop claiming its cars are safe without carrying out
manufacturer recalls.</a>


title: National Research Council of Spain blacklists
uri: National-Research-Council-of-Spain-blacklists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(National_Research_Council_of_Spain_blacklists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28National_Research_Council_of_Spain_blacklists%29

content:
<p>
Evidence proves that the National Research Council of Spain
<a href="https://data.awp.is/filtrala/2014/06/26/6.html">blacklists
anyone that complains of unfair treatment</a>.
<p>
I know someone who was employed as a teacher by a different part of
the Spanish and was cheated of pay, but did not dare complain for fear
of being blacklisted.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(GMO_companies_are_spending_heavily)
title: GMO companies are spending heavily
uri: GMO-companies-are-spending-heavily
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28GMO_companies_are_spending_heavily%29

content:
<p>
GMO companies are <a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12506">spending
heavily in Hawai'i</a> to override popular pressure to regulate or ban
GMOs there.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Pesticide_experiments)
title: Pesticide experiments
uri: Pesticide-experiments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Pesticide_experiments%29
content:
<p>
Pesticide experiments in part of
Kaua'i <a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12514">threaten endangered
wildlife species that live only on that island</a>.


title: Repairing UK infrastructure to cope with global heating
uri: Repairing-UK-infrastructure-to-cope-with-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Repairing_UK_infrastructure_to_cope_with_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Repairing_UK_infrastructure_to_cope_with_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Repairing UK infrastructure to cope with global heating for a few
decades <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/26/vital-uk-infrastructure-neglected-engineers-warn">will
cost most of a trillion dollars.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Syrian_airstrikes_target_ISIS)
title: Syrian air strikes target ISIS
uri: Syrian-air-strikes-target-ISIS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Syrian_airstrikes_target_ISIS%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/iraq-syria-air-strikes-isis">
Assad And Maliki</a>
Unite against Common Enemy, ISIS.
</p>


title: Out of the frying pan, trapped in the fire
uri: Out-of-the-frying-pan-trapped-in-the-fire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Out_of_the_frying_pan,_trapped_in_the_fire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Out_of_the_frying_pan%2C_trapped_in_the_fire%29

content:
<p>Meriam Ibrahim has been banned from leaving Sudan, but has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/sudanese-woman-meriam-ibrahim-safe-well-us-embassy">
received at the US embassy</a> in Khartoum.
</p>
<p>Now the question is whether she will be trapped there like Assange in
the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
</p>


title: Russian corpses smuggled out of Ukraine
uri: Russian-corpses-smuggled-out-of-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Russian_corpses_smuggled_out_of_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Russian_corpses_smuggled_out_of_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>Someone is paying Russians to fight in Eastern Ukraine.  If they get
killed,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/ukraine-donetsk-airport-russia-fighter">
their bodies get spirited away</a>
to Russia and disappeared, as a cover up.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Scene_of_the_crime)
title: Scene of the crime
uri: Scene-of-the-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Scene_of_the_crime%29
content:
<p>Human Rights Watch
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/isis-execution-site-tikrit-human-rights-watch">
presents satellite images</a>
that show where ISIS murdered 160 or more prisoners.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(It's_not_over_until_it's_over)
title: It's not over until it's over
uri: It-s-not-over-until-it-s-over
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28It%27s_not_over_until_it%27s_over%29

content:
<p>Ashraf Ghani claimed victory in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/ashraf-ghani-claims-afghan-presidential-election-victory">
the Afghan presidential election</a>
despite charges of rigging the election.
</p>


title: Cash crop exports and biofuel create starvation
uri: Cash-crop-exports-and-biofuel-create-starvation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Cash_crop_exports_and_biofuel_create_starvation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Cash_crop_exports_and_biofuel_create_starvation%29

content:
<p>Land Taken Over by Foreign Investors
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/27/land-grabbing-food-biofuels-crops">
Could Feed 550m People</a>,
Study Finds.
</p>


title: Red Cross lawyers up vs. Mother Jones
uri: Red-Cross-lawyers-up-vs-Mother-Jones
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Red_Cross_lawyers_up_vs._Mother_Jones)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Red_Cross_lawyers_up_vs._Mother_Jones%29

content:
<p>The American Red Cross, asked how it spent the money raised for aid
to victims of Hurricane Sandy, said
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/red-cross-wont-say-how-it-spent-sandy-money">
this was a trade secret</a>.
</p>


title: Michigan not rich enough for human rights
uri: Michigan-not-rich-enough-for-human-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Michigan_not_rich_enough_for_human_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Michigan_not_rich_enough_for_human_rights%29

content:
<p>UN rapporteurs condemn
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/26">
Detroit's disconnection of poor people's water</a>.
</p>
<p>This must be preparation for a bigger nefarious scheme; if they just
wanted to collect water bill debt, they would go after the businesses
that owe large arrears.</p>


title: British Home Secretary to investigate undercover police excesses
uri: British-Home-Secretary-to-investigate-undercover-police-excesses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(British_Home_Secretary_to_investigate_undercover_police_excesses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28British_Home_Secretary_to_investigate_undercover_police_excesses%29

content:
<p>A
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2014/jun/27/undercover-police-and-policing-police-and-crime-commissioners">
special inquiry</a>
will look for cases in which withholding of evidence by
UK undercover thug infiltrators led to unfair trials of dissidents.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Making_war_easier)
title: Making war easier
uri: Making-war-easier
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Making_war_easier%29
content:
<p>The availability of killer drones
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/26-3">
encourages the US to enter wars</a>
which it would otherwise have stayed out of.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Dismantling_the_4th_Amendment)
title: Dismantling the 4th Amendment
uri: Dismantling-the-4th-Amendment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Dismantling_the_4th_Amendment%29
content:
<p>In "post-Constitutional America", the constitutional limits on
government searches
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/26-3">
have mostly been negated</a>
through a web of excuses.
</p>


title: Slavery taints global production chains
uri: Slavery-taints-global-production-chains
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Slavery_taints_global_production_chains)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Slavery_taints_global_production_chains%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/27/modern-slavery-corporations-business-sense-ethical-supply-chain">
Modern Slavery Will Continue If Corporations Keep Passing the
Buck</a>.
</p>
<p>We must prosecute marketing companies if they fail to control
the working conditions of their production.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Joke_the_Joker)
title: Joke the Joker
uri: Joke-the-Joker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Joke_the_Joker%29
content:
<p>Protesters Launch
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/protestors-launch-a-135-foot-blimp-over-the-nsas-utah-data-center/">
a 135-Foot Blimp</a>
Over the NSA's Utah Data Center.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Zhang_Haixin)
title: Zhang Haixin
uri: Zhang-Haixin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Zhang_Haixin%29
content:
<p>Chinese
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/chinese-farmers-champion-jailed-forgery">
forged official seals to block evictions</a>
in their town.</p>
<p>They have been imprisoned for it, but they did some good.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(The_business_of_government)
title: The business of government
uri: The-business-of-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28The_business_of_government%29
content:
<p>Tony B'liar has been allowed to push absurd policies in the Middle
East, but now it seems he has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/27/tony-blair-conflict-interests-middle-east">
using them for his own enrichment</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Beat_them_harder)
title: Beat them harder
uri: Beat-them-harder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Beat_them_harder%29
content:
<p>Republicans are campaigning to allow school staff to
<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-groups-fighting-against-limits-on-restraining-school-kids">
grab, hold down, tie up and choke students</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Passing_the_buck)
title: Passing the buck
uri: Passing-the-buck
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Passing_the_buck%29
content:
<p>Some US cities want to deal with annoying unsightly homeless people
by giving them
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/27/3454029/colorado-bus-homeless/">
one-way bus tickets</a>
to someplace else.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Don't_forget_the_butterflies)
title: Don't forget the butterflies
uri: Don-t-forget-the-butterflies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Don%27t_forget_the_butterflies%29
content:
<p>Many pollinators are in danger,
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/25/3447062/pollination-crisis-honeybees/">
not just honeybees</a>.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(SOP:_Explicit_hypocrisy)
title: SOP: Explicit hypocrisy
uri: SOP-Explicit-hypocrisy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28SOP%3A_Explicit_hypocrisy%29
content:
<p>Boner says he will
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/25/3453244/boehner-executive-order-suit/">
sue Obama for making executive orders</a>
that exceed his authority.  Boner did not mind when Bush did that.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(No_more_buffer_zone_)
title: No more buffer zone
uri: No-more-buffer-zone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28No_more_buffer_zone_%29
content:
<p>The Supreme Court
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/27/3454007/whats-next-massachusetts-buffer-zone/">
struck down the Massachusetts law</a>
that bans protest within 35 feet of an abortion clinic.
</p>
<p>35 feet is not very far.  Anti-abortionists have a right to present
their views, but they can make themselves heard at the clinic door
even from 35 feet away.</p>


title: U.S. Highway Trust Fund faces bankruptcy
uri: U-S-Highway-Trust-Fund-faces-bankruptcy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(U.S._Highway_Trust_Fund_faces_bankrupcy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28U.S._Highway_Trust_Fund_faces_bankrupcy%29

content:
<p>Republicans are
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/26/3453943/republicans-highway-trust-fund/">
holding highway repair hostage</a>
to attack the environment, workers' pay, efficient cars, disabled workers,
children,
and safety on roads.</p>
<p>They set out to sabotage America by hook or by crook.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Drone_on_the_farm)
title: Drone on the farm
uri: Drone-on-the-farm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Drone_on_the_farm%29
content:
<p>A private campaign aims to
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/27/3454235/drones-factory-farms/">
use drones</a>
to expose inhumane and dangerous
practices of factory farms.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Urgent:_Clean_Water_Act)
title: Urgent: Clean Water Act
uri: 2014-06-29-Urgent-Clean-Water-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Clean_Water_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=11443&autologin=true">call
on your senators</a> to oppose the bill to stop the EPA from extending
the Clean Water Act to more waterways.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_whales_and_dolphins)
title: Urgent: Protect whales and dolphins
uri: Urgent-Protect-whales-and-dolphins
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_whales_and_dolphins%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-navys-war-on?source=s.fwd&r_by=623500">call
on Obama</a> to end Navy sonar training exercises in areas where they
kill whales.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Obamas_excuse_for_killing_al-Awlaki)
title: Obama's excuse for killing al-Awlaki
uri: Obama-s-excuse-for-killing-al-Awlaki
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Obamas_excuse_for_killing_al-Awlaki%29

content:
<p>
Obama's lawyers cited the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-justification-drone-killing-american-citizen-awlaki">global-war
law</a> (the Authorization for Use of Military Force) as an excuse for
killing al-Awlaki.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Surveillance_lessons_from_1971)
title: Surveillance lessons from 1971
uri: Surveillance-lessons-from-1971
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Surveillance_lessons_from_1971%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/26-5">Surveillance
Lessons from 1971 Still Resonate Today</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(NSA_says)
title: NSA says
uri: NSA-says
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28NSA_says%29
content:
<p>
The NSA 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/nsa-queries-phone-data-2013-report">says
it queried its massive phone phone call records for 248 people in the
US during 2013</a>.
<p>
The NSA 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#03_August_2013_(Statements_from_the_US_security_state_can_not_be_trusted)">makes 
up its own meanings for everyday words</a>, so we can't assume this
statement means what it seems to mean.  If we knew all the facts, the
number of people in the US that we would say they looked at the phone
records of could be up to 248 million, for all we know.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Obama_requests_60_billion_for_war)
title: Obama requests $58.6 billion for war
uri: Obama-requests-58-6-billion-for-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Obama_requests_60_billion_for_war%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/27-2">Obama
Requests Nearly $60 Billion to Continue Endless War</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Racial_prejudice_against_blacks)
title: Racial prejudice against blacks
uri: Racial-prejudice-against-blacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Racial_prejudice_against_blacks%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/06/most-americans-think-racial-discrimination-doesnt-matter-much-anymore">Most
Americans</a> falsely believe that racial prejudice has ceased to make
the lives of American blacks difficult.
<p>
In fact, racial prejudice against blacks extends to actions of the
state, from 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#05_July_2012_(New_York_thugs_wanted_flyer)">searching
arbitrary people on the street</a> to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_June_2013_(Blacks_8_times_more_likely_to_be_arrested)">imprisoning
them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(The_first_Iraq_War)
title: The first Iraq War
uri: The-first-Iraq-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28The_first_Iraq_War%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/27-7">The First
Iraq War Was Also Sold to the Public Based on a Pack of Lies</a>.
<p>
My views were not influenced by reports of atrocities against babies
in a hospital, because I did not see those reports.  I don't watch TV.
I was surprised later to read about this.
<p>
I think my views were influenced by the reported threat to attack
Saudi Arabia, which according to this article was a fabrication.
<p>
I have to raise the question of whether the Kuwaiti government's
request for military support against an invader ceased to be valid
once its territory is totally conquered.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Money_that_supports_Republicans)
title: Money that supports Republicans
uri: Money-that-supports-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Money_that_supports_Republicans%29
content:
<p>
Chris Christie has given over a billion dollars to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/new-jersey-chris-christie-republican-backers">companies
that support Republicans</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Proposed_UK_law_re_fossil_fuel)
title: Proposed UK law re fossil fuel
uri: Proposed-UK-law-re-fossil-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Proposed_UK_law_re_fossil_fuel%29
content:
<p>
<p>
The UK proposes a law to treat its undersea fossil fuel reserves
solely in business terms; it would 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/jun/26/uk-legal-duty-maximise-greenhouse-gas-emissions">require
maximizing income from them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Imprisoned_in_Egypt_without_charges)
title: Imprisoned in Egypt without charges
uri: Imprisoned-in-Egypt-without-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Imprisoned_in_Egypt_without_charges%29

content:
<p>
Egypt has held Khaled Al-Qazzaz 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/26/illegally-held-egyptian-prison-prosecutor-general-egypt">in
prison without charges for a year</a> based apparently on his having a
government job under Morsi.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Human_rights_advocate_assassinated)
title: Human rights advocate assassinated
uri: Human-rights-advocate-assassinated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Human_rights_advocate_assassinated%29

content:
<p>
Libyan human rights advocate Salwa Bugaighis was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/libya-shock-murder-human-rights-activist-salwa-bugaighis-benghazi">assassinated</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Poachers_poisoning_vultures)
title: Poachers poisoning vultures
uri: Poachers-poisoning-vultures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Poachers_poisoning_vultures%29
content:
<p>
Poachers in Africa are using poison that kills vultures.  It is so
effective that the vultures 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/vultures-africa-poison-carcasses-poachers-crisis">could
be wiped out</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Demanding_that_people_cheer_up)
title: Demanding that people "cheer up"
uri: Demanding-that-people-cheer-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Demanding_that_people_cheer_up%29
content:
<p>
Urging people to "cheer up" when they are miserable 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2014/jun/26/cheer-up-two-words-feeling-blue">makes
them feel worse</a>.
<p>
I have always found it frustrating to be subject to that sort of
"help".  I understand it as a demand, "Stop being a downer!"


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Gay_pride_rally_in_Georgia)
title: "Gay pride" rally in Georgia
uri: Gay-pride-rally-in-Georgia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Gay_pride_rally_in_Georgia%29
content:
<p>
Pro-Russian subversives in Georgia tried
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/georgian-pro-russia-group-planned-fake-pride-march">fund
a "Gay pride" rally to provoke attacks from bigots</a>, which (they
hoped) would create friction between Georgia and the west.
<p>
Georgia can make itself invulnerable from this direction by teaching
Georgians that bigotry against gays is bad for the nation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 28_June_2014_(Detroits_water_shut-offs)
title: Detroit's water shut-offs
uri: Detroit-s-water-shut-offs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#28_June_2014_%28Detroits_water_shut-offs%29
content:
<p>
Detroit's water shut-offs are being aimed at poor blacks, while 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2014/jun/25/detroits-water-war-a-tap-shut-off-that-could-impact-300000-people">rich
companies get away with not paying their bills</a>.
<p>
Water shut-off workers attack those who cite laws against them, while
the city thugs act like Israeli troops watching settlers attack
Palestinians.
<p>
Soon they can change the city's name to Detriot.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_June_2014_(A_new_scheme_for_voting)
title: A new scheme for voting
uri: A-new-scheme-for-voting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_June_2014_%28A_new_scheme_for_voting%29
content:
<p>
A new scheme for voting on levels resource usage encourages people
to <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-06-voting-key-cooperation-future.html">vote
what they think is good for society.</a>


title: Green Party candidate facing felony charges
uri: Green-Party-candidate-facing-felony-charges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_June_2014_(Green_Party_candidate_facing_felony_charges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_June_2014_%28Green_Party_candidate_facing_felony_charges%29

content:
<p>
A Green Party candidate and community organizer in the US
is <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/facing-25-years-prison-circulating-petition">facing
felony charges that seem to be fabricated by political opponents.</a>


title: Thugs' latest excuse for operating military weapons
uri: Thugs-latest-excuse-for-operating-military-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_June_2014_(Thugs'_latest_excuse_for_operating_military_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_June_2014_%28Thugs%27_latest_excuse_for_operating_military_weapons%29

content:
<p>
US thugs' latest excuse for operating military weapons:
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/28-1">hypothetical
violent attacks by combat veterans.</a>
<p>
US combat veterans received horrible treatment while dishing out
horrible treatment to the inhabitants of some other country.  Some of
them are psychologically wounded, but only a handful have expressed
this in the sort of violence that the thugs imagine an excuse.  The US
could handle that problem with perhaps 6 regional SWAT teams, all of
which would spend most of their time waiting for a call.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_June_2014_(Biometrics_Nightmare)
title: Biometrics Nightmare
uri: Biometrics-Nightmare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_June_2014_%28Biometrics_Nightmare%29
content:
<p>
Biometrics
Nightmare: <a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/679">Coming to a
Street Corner Near You.</a>


title: Investments in danger due to global heating
uri: Investments-in-danger-due-to-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_June_2014_(Investments_in_danger_due_to_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_June_2014_%28Investments_in_danger_due_to_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
A study shows in detail
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/28-2">investments
are in great danger due to global heating.</a>
<p>
Of course, this had to be true; as global heating degrades ecosystems,
it will undermine many industries.


title: Refugees that were trying to reach Australia
uri: Refugees-that-were-trying-to-reach-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_June_2014_(Refugees_that_were_trying_to_reach_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_June_2014_%28Refugees_that_were_trying_to_reach_Australia%29

content:
<p>
The Australian
government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/29/asylum-seeker-boat-not-heard-from-in-24-hours-amid-silence-from-government">refuses
to say what it is doing to the people on two boats of refugees</a>
that were trying to reach Australia.


title: Australian government hurrying complex changes
uri: Australian-government-hurrying-complex-changes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_June_2014_(Australian_government_hurrying_complex_changes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_June_2014_%28Australian_government_hurrying_complex_changes%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is trying
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/29/support-agencies-say-coalition-is-rushing-its-overhaul-of-welfare-system">hurry
complex changes in support for poor and disabled people.</a>
<p>
I suppose that the real aim of these changes is dooH niboR, the
complexity is meant to disguise and distract, and the haste is so
people can't get to the bottom of things in time to demonstrate this
clearly.


title: Fired for mentioning Mohammed had sex with his 9-year-old wife
uri: Fired-for-mentioning-Mohammed-had-sex-with-his-9-year-old-wife
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_June_2014_(Fired_for_mentioning_Mohammed_had_sex_with_his_9-year-old_wife)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_June_2014_%28Fired_for_mentioning_Mohammed_had_sex_with_his_9-year-old_wife%29

content:
<p>
A radio show host
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/29/radio-star-dropped-for-calling-prophet-muhammed-a-paedophile">fired
for mentioning that Mohammed had sex with his 9-year-old wife
(Aisha)</a>, which by today's usual standards would be called
pedophilia.
<p>
As far as I know, 9-year-olds don't generally want sex with anyone.
Mohammed's marriage to a child reflected the general practice of
treating girls and women as property.  Western countries have mostly
rejected this, but many parts of the world still practice it.
<p>
By today's prudish standards, having sex with a 17-year-old would be
called pedophilia too.  These standards go too far in the other
direction.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_June_2014_(Poor_for_months,_not_for_years)
title: Poor for months, not for years
uri: Poor-for-months-not-for-years
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_June_2014_%28Poor_for_months%2C_not_for_years%29
content:
<p>
While around 16% of Americans were poor when surveyed in
2012, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/28-3">most of
them are poor for periods of months, not for years.</a>
<p>
Almost 1/3 of Americans were poor for a period of months in the last
few years.
<p>
We ought to provide the help needed by those who are temporarily poor,
and also help for those who are poor for years.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 30_June_2014_(Unemployment_shame)
title: Unemployment shame
uri: Unemployment-shame
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#30_June_2014_%28Unemployment_shame%29
content:
<p>
It is superfluous for right-wing politicians
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/29/shaming-people-welfare-work-policy">tell
the unemployed to feel ashamed of being unemployed, because they do so
anyway.</a>
<p>
I can't understand why anyone is ashamed to be poor or unemployed,
unless it is that person's own fault.  For instance, if it is the
fault of a system that inflicts poverty on many, why be ashamed of
that?  It's the culprits who ought to feel shame.  Don't feel ashamed,
organize!
<p>
Fortunately for me, I have never felt the slightest need to base my
self-esteem on being seen to spend money.  I don't care if I can treat
people to drinks, return a financial favor, or give a "suitable gift"
to meet a silly social obligation.  I reject the holidays that
businesses have converted into occasions when one is supposed to give
gifts.  When I have a birthday party, I ask people to bring food and
desserts for all to enjoy, not gifts for me.
<p>
I suggest that poor people feel equally unashamed, so they can
organize instead.


title: Urgent: Stop sentencing dissidents to death
uri: Urgent-Stop-sentencing-dissidents-to-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_sentencing_dissidents_to_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_sentencing_dissidents_to_death%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=29889&Appeal%20Code=W1406EADP1&ea.tracking.id=Country_Egypt~MessagingCategory_CensorshipandFreeSpeech~MessagingCategory_DeathPenalty~MessagingCategory_PrisonersandPeopleatRisk~Region_MiddleEastandNorthAfrica
">Call 
on Egypt</a> to stop sentencing dissidents to death.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(PRISM,_Local_Edition)
title: PRISM, Local Edition
uri: PRISM-Local-Edition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28PRISM%2C_Local_Edition%29
content:
<p>
PRISM, Local Edition: 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/prism-local-edition-ny-da-employs-381-secret-orders-gather-complete-digital">NY
DA Employs 381 Secret Orders to Gather Complete Digital Dossiers from
Facebook</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(YouTube_censorship)
title: YouTube censorship
uri: YouTube-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28YouTube_censorship%29
content:
<p>
YouTube has made 
<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/youtube-mashup-remix-copyright-universal/">private
deals with the copyright industry</a> to censor works that are fair
use.
<p>
<a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/universal-music-group-and-youtube-agree-to-forget-about-fair-use">More
information</a>.
<p>
If Google intends not to "be evil", it must stop this.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(US_and_EU_to_undermine_treaty)
title: US and EU to undermine treaty
uri: US-and-EU-to-undermine-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28US_and_EU_to_undermine_treaty%29
content:
<p>
The US and the EU will fight to the end against a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/28">treaty to
restrict human rights abuses by corporations</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(Facebooks_malicious_Javascript)
title: Facebook's malicious Javascript
uri: Facebook-s-malicious-Javascript
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28Facebooks_malicious_Javascript%29
content:
<p>
Facebook, as an "experiment", 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/12/facebook-collects-conducts-research-on-status-updates-you-never-post/">collected</a>
the text its useds started to enter as status updates and ultimately
did not send.
<p>
Facebook also announced it planned to 
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/facebook-may-start-logging-your-cursor-movements/">track
mouse movement even in the absence of a click</a>.
<p>
These work by means of malicious Javascript code.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(Central_banks_buying_world_assets)
title: Central banks buying world assets
uri: Central-banks-buying-world-assets
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28Central_banks_buying_world_assets%29

content:
<p>
Central banks, and especially China's, are creating money simply so
they can 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/23-0">buy up world
assets</a>.


title: ISP's arguments against net neutrality
uri: ISP-s-arguments-against-net-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(ISPs_arguments_against_net_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28ISPs_arguments_against_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5-absurd-cable-company-excuses-killing-internet/">5
absurd arguments</a> US ISPs are making for ending net neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(Eastern_Caribbean_drought)
title: Eastern Caribbean drought
uri: Eastern-Caribbean-drought
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28Eastern_Caribbean_drought%29
content:
<p>
The Eastern Caribbean faces 
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/06/adapting-to-a-dry-season-that-never-seems-to-end/">long-term
drought</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(Raped_women_put_on_trial)
title: Raped women put on trial
uri: Raped-women-put-on-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28Raped_women_put_on_trial%29
content:
<p>
In Mexico, women who fight back when raped are 
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/06/mexico-rape-victims-face-prison-time-for-self-defence/">often
put on trial</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(Rising_seas)
title: Rising seas
uri: Rising-seas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28Rising_seas%29
content:
<p>
Rising seas have left 
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/06/liberias-poor-and-the-rising-sea/">thousands
of poor people in Liberia homeless</a>.
<p>
This is no accident: over coming decades it will become millions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html 29_June_2014_(Repression_of_drug_users)
title: Repression of drug users
uri: Repression-of-drug-users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#29_June_2014_%28Repression_of_drug_users%29
content:
<p>
Russia imprisons drug users 
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/06/moscow-protest-highlights-litany-of-abuses-suffered-by-russias-drug-users/">without
medical care</a>.
<p>
The US has repressed drug users, but it is starting to soften a
little.


title: Green Party candidate facing felony charges
uri: 2014-07-01-Green-Party-candidate-facing-felony-charges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_June_2014_(Green_Party_candidate_facing_felony_charges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_June_2014_%28Green_Party_candidate_facing_felony_charges%29

content:
<p>
A Green Party candidate and community organizer in the US
is <a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/facing-25-years-prison-circulating-petition">facing
felony charges that seem to be fabricated by political opponents.</a>


title: Thugs' latest excuse for operating military weapons
uri: 2014-07-01-Thugs-latest-excuse-for-operating-military-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_June_2014_(Thugs'_latest_excuse_for_operating_military_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_June_2014_%28Thugs%27_latest_excuse_for_operating_military_weapons%29

content:
<p>
US thugs' latest excuse for operating military weapons:
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/28-1">hypothetical
violent attacks by combat veterans.</a>
<p>
US combat veterans received horrible treatment while dishing out
horrible treatment to the inhabitants of some other country.  Some of
them are psychologically wounded, but only a handful have expressed
this in the sort of violence that the thugs imagine an excuse.  The US
could handle that problem with perhaps 6 regional SWAT teams, all of
which would spend most of their time waiting for a call.


title: Investments in danger due to global heating
uri: 2014-07-01-Investments-in-danger-due-to-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_June_2014_(Investments_in_danger_due_to_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_June_2014_%28Investments_in_danger_due_to_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
A study shows in detail
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/28-2">investments
are in great danger due to global heating.</a>
<p>
Of course, this had to be true; as global heating degrades ecosystems,
it will undermine many industries.


title: Refugees that were trying to reach Australia
uri: 2014-07-01-Refugees-that-were-trying-to-reach-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_June_2014_(Refugees_that_were_trying_to_reach_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_June_2014_%28Refugees_that_were_trying_to_reach_Australia%29

content:
<p>
The Australian
government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/29/asylum-seeker-boat-not-heard-from-in-24-hours-amid-silence-from-government">refuses
to say what it is doing to the people on two boats of refugees</a>
that were trying to reach Australia.


title: Australian government hurrying complex changes
uri: 2014-07-01-Australian-government-hurrying-complex-changes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_June_2014_(Australian_government_hurrying_complex_changes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_June_2014_%28Australian_government_hurrying_complex_changes%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is trying
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/29/support-agencies-say-coalition-is-rushing-its-overhaul-of-welfare-system">hurry
complex changes in support for poor and disabled people.</a>
<p>
I suppose that the real aim of these changes is dooH niboR, the
complexity is meant to disguise and distract, and the haste is so
people can't get to the bottom of things in time to demonstrate this
clearly.


title: Fired for mentioning Mohammed had sex with his 9-year-old wife
uri: 2014-07-01-Fired-for-mentioning-Mohammed-had-sex-with-his-9-year-old-wife
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 30_June_2014_(Fired_for_mentioning_Mohammed_had_sex_with_his_9-year-old_wife)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#30_June_2014_%28Fired_for_mentioning_Mohammed_had_sex_with_his_9-year-old_wife%29

content:
<p>
A radio show host
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/29/radio-star-dropped-for-calling-prophet-muhammed-a-paedophile">fired
for mentioning that Mohammed had sex with his 9-year-old wife
(Aisha)</a>, which by today's usual standards would be called
pedophilia.
<p>
As far as I know, 9-year-olds don't generally want sex with anyone.
Mohammed's marriage to a child reflected the general practice of
treating girls and women as property.  Western countries have mostly
rejected this, but many parts of the world still practice it.
<p>
By today's prudish standards, having sex with a 17-year-old would be
called pedophilia too.  These standards go too far in the other
direction.


title: Urgent: Stop sentencing dissidents to death
uri: 2014-07-01-Urgent-Stop-sentencing-dissidents-to-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_June_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_sentencing_dissidents_to_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_sentencing_dissidents_to_death%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=29889&Appeal%20Code=W1406EADP1&ea.tracking.id=Country_Egypt~MessagingCategory_CensorshipandFreeSpeech~MessagingCategory_DeathPenalty~MessagingCategory_PrisonersandPeopleatRisk~Region_MiddleEastandNorthAfrica
">Call 
on Egypt</a> to stop sentencing dissidents to death.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_June_2014_(Central_banks_buying_world_assets)
title: Central banks buying world assets
uri: 2014-07-01-Central-banks-buying-world-assets
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_June_2014_%28Central_banks_buying_world_assets%29

content:
<p>
Central banks, and especially China's, are creating money simply so
they can 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/23-0">buy up world
assets</a>.


title: ISP's arguments against net neutrality
uri: 2014-07-01-ISP-s-arguments-against-net-neutrality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 29_June_2014_(ISPs_arguments_against_net_neutrality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_June_2014_%28ISPs_arguments_against_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5-absurd-cable-company-excuses-killing-internet/">5
absurd arguments</a> US ISPs are making for ending net neutrality.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Urgent:_Protect_whales_and_dolphins)
title: Urgent: Protect whales and dolphins
uri: 2014-07-01-Urgent-Protect-whales-and-dolphins
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_whales_and_dolphins%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-navys-war-on?source=s.fwd&r_by=623500">call
on Obama</a> to end Navy sonar training exercises in areas where they
kill whales.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Obamas_excuse_for_killing_al-Awlaki)
title: Obama's excuse for killing al-Awlaki
uri: 2014-07-01-Obama-s-excuse-for-killing-al-Awlaki
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Obamas_excuse_for_killing_al-Awlaki%29

content:
<p>
Obama's lawyers cited the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-justification-drone-killing-american-citizen-awlaki">global-war
law</a> (the Authorization for Use of Military Force) as an excuse for
killing al-Awlaki.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Obama_requests_60_billion_for_war)
title: Obama requests $58.6 billion for war
uri: 2014-07-01-Obama-requests-58-6-billion-for-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Obama_requests_60_billion_for_war%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/27-2">Obama
Requests Nearly $60 Billion to Continue Endless War</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Imprisoned_in_Egypt_without_charges)
title: Imprisoned in Egypt without charges
uri: 2014-07-01-Imprisoned-in-Egypt-without-charges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Imprisoned_in_Egypt_without_charges%29

content:
<p>
Egypt has held Khaled Al-Qazzaz 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/26/illegally-held-egyptian-prison-prosecutor-general-egypt">in
prison without charges for a year</a> based apparently on his having a
government job under Morsi.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Human_rights_advocate_assassinated)
title: Human rights advocate assassinated
uri: 2014-07-01-Human-rights-advocate-assassinated
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Human_rights_advocate_assassinated%29

content:
<p>
Libyan human rights advocate Salwa Bugaighis was 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/libya-shock-murder-human-rights-activist-salwa-bugaighis-benghazi">assassinated</a>.


title: Out of the frying pan, trapped in the fire
uri: 2014-07-01-Out-of-the-frying-pan-trapped-in-the-fire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Out_of_the_frying_pan,_trapped_in_the_fire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Out_of_the_frying_pan%2C_trapped_in_the_fire%29

content:
<p>Meriam Ibrahim has been banned from leaving Sudan, but has been
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/sudanese-woman-meriam-ibrahim-safe-well-us-embassy">
received at the US embassy</a> in Khartoum.
</p>
<p>Now the question is whether she will be trapped there like Assange in
the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
</p>


title: Russian corpses smuggled out of Ukraine
uri: 2014-07-01-Russian-corpses-smuggled-out-of-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Russian_corpses_smuggled_out_of_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Russian_corpses_smuggled_out_of_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>Someone is paying Russians to fight in Eastern Ukraine.  If they get
killed,
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/ukraine-donetsk-airport-russia-fighter">
their bodies get spirited away</a>
to Russia and disappeared, as a cover up.
</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(It's_not_over_until_it's_over)
title: It's not over until it's over
uri: 2014-07-01-It-s-not-over-until-it-s-over
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28It%27s_not_over_until_it%27s_over%29

content:
<p>Ashraf Ghani claimed victory in
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/ashraf-ghani-claims-afghan-presidential-election-victory">
the Afghan presidential election</a>
despite charges of rigging the election.
</p>


title: Cash crop exports and biofuel create starvation
uri: 2014-07-01-Cash-crop-exports-and-biofuel-create-starvation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Cash_crop_exports_and_biofuel_create_starvation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Cash_crop_exports_and_biofuel_create_starvation%29

content:
<p>Land Taken Over by Foreign Investors
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/27/land-grabbing-food-biofuels-crops">
Could Feed 550m People</a>,
Study Finds.
</p>


title: Red Cross lawyers up vs. Mother Jones
uri: 2014-07-01-Red-Cross-lawyers-up-vs-Mother-Jones
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Red_Cross_lawyers_up_vs._Mother_Jones)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Red_Cross_lawyers_up_vs._Mother_Jones%29

content:
<p>The American Red Cross, asked how it spent the money raised for aid
to victims of Hurricane Sandy, said
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/red-cross-wont-say-how-it-spent-sandy-money">
this was a trade secret</a>.
</p>


title: Michigan not rich enough for human rights
uri: 2014-07-01-Michigan-not-rich-enough-for-human-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Michigan_not_rich_enough_for_human_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Michigan_not_rich_enough_for_human_rights%29

content:
<p>UN rapporteurs condemn
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/26">
Detroit's disconnection of poor people's water</a>.
</p>
<p>This must be preparation for a bigger nefarious scheme; if they just
wanted to collect water bill debt, they would go after the businesses
that owe large arrears.</p>


title: British Home Secretary to investigate undercover police excesses
uri: 2014-07-01-British-Home-Secretary-to-investigate-undercover-police-excesses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(British_Home_Secretary_to_investigate_undercover_police_excesses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28British_Home_Secretary_to_investigate_undercover_police_excesses%29

content:
<p>A
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2014/jun/27/undercover-police-and-policing-police-and-crime-commissioners">
special inquiry</a>
will look for cases in which withholding of evidence by
UK undercover thug infiltrators led to unfair trials of dissidents.
</p>


title: Slavery taints global production chains
uri: 2014-07-01-Slavery-taints-global-production-chains
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Slavery_taints_global_production_chains)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Slavery_taints_global_production_chains%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/27/modern-slavery-corporations-business-sense-ethical-supply-chain">
Modern Slavery Will Continue If Corporations Keep Passing the
Buck</a>.
</p>
<p>We must prosecute marketing companies if they fail to control
the working conditions of their production.</p>


title: U.S. Highway Trust Fund faces bankruptcy
uri: 2014-07-01-U-S-Highway-Trust-Fund-faces-bankruptcy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(U.S._Highway_Trust_Fund_faces_bankrupcy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28U.S._Highway_Trust_Fund_faces_bankrupcy%29

content:
<p>Republicans are
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/26/3453943/republicans-highway-trust-fund/">
holding highway repair hostage</a>
to attack the environment, workers' pay, efficient cars, disabled workers,
children,
and safety on roads.</p>
<p>They set out to sabotage America by hook or by crook.</p>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Pakistan's_attack_on_the_Taliban)
title: Pakistan's attack on the Taliban
uri: 2014-07-01-Pakistan-s-attack-on-the-Taliban
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Pakistan%27s_attack_on_the_Taliban%29

content:
<p>
Pakistan's attack on the Pakistani
Taliban <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/pakistan-displaced-military-operation-taliban-north-waziristan-humanitarian-assistance">has
led half a million people to flee the area.</a>


title: Ban on large sugary drinks was overturned
uri: 2014-07-01-Ban-on-large-sugary-drinks-was-overturned
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Ban_on_large_sugary_drinks_was_overturned)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Ban_on_large_sugary_drinks_was_overturned%29

content:
<p>
Mayor Bloomberg's ban on large sugary drinks
was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/new-york-court-final-blow-soda-ban">overturned
by a court</a>, leaving the question of how to protect millions of
people from obesity and consequent sickness.


title: Obama wants to train "moderate" Syrian rebels
uri: 2014-07-01-Obama-wants-to-train-moderate-Syrian-rebels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Obama_wants_to_train_moderate_Syrian_rebels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Obama_wants_to_train_moderate_Syrian_rebels%29

content:
<p>
Obama wants
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/obama-seeking-500m-training-moderate-syrian-rebels">train
"moderate" Syrian rebels in Jordan.</a>
<p>
It sounds like a good idea in theory, but I suspect that in practice
the alliances are fluid and it won't be easy to find the right people
to train.


title: Urgent: Require public companies disclose all political spending
uri: 2014-07-01-Urgent-Require-public-companies-disclose-all-political-spending
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Urgent:_Require_public_companies_disclose_all_political_spending)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Require_public_companies_disclose_all_political_spending%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the SEC
to <a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/SEC_transparency/">require
public companies to disclose all political spending.</a>


title: Urgent: Make CarMax stop claiming its cars are safe
uri: 2014-07-01-Urgent-Make-CarMax-stop-claiming-its-cars-are-safe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Urgent:_Make_CarMax_stop_claiming_its_cars_are_safe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Make_CarMax_stop_claiming_its_cars_are_safe%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: ask the FTC
to <a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/FTC_CarMax/">make
CarMax stop claiming its cars are safe without carrying out
manufacturer recalls.</a>


title: National Research Council of Spain blacklists
uri: 2014-07-01-National-Research-Council-of-Spain-blacklists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(National_Research_Council_of_Spain_blacklists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28National_Research_Council_of_Spain_blacklists%29

content:
<p>
Evidence proves that the National Research Council of Spain
<a href="https://data.awp.is/filtrala/2014/06/26/6.html">blacklists
anyone that complains of unfair treatment</a>.
<p>
I know someone who was employed as a teacher by a different part of
the Spanish and was cheated of pay, but did not dare complain for fear
of being blacklisted.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(GMO_companies_are_spending_heavily)
title: GMO companies are spending heavily
uri: 2014-07-01-GMO-companies-are-spending-heavily
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28GMO_companies_are_spending_heavily%29

content:
<p>
GMO companies are <a href="HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12506">spending
heavily in Hawai'i</a> to override popular pressure to regulate or ban
GMOs there.


title: Repairing UK infrastructure to cope with global heating
uri: 2014-07-01-Repairing-UK-infrastructure-to-cope-with-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 28_June_2014_(Repairing_UK_infrastructure_to_cope_with_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#28_June_2014_%28Repairing_UK_infrastructure_to_cope_with_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Repairing UK infrastructure to cope with global heating for a few
decades <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/26/vital-uk-infrastructure-neglected-engineers-warn">will
cost most of a trillion dollars.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Urgent:_End_Sallie_Mae_contract)
title: Urgent: End Sallie Mae contract
uri: 2014-07-01-Urgent-End-Sallie-Mae-contract
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_End_Sallie_Mae_contract%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/33/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7039">tell
the Dept of Education</a> to stop dealing with Sallie Mae.


title: Urgent: Oppose appointment of Armstrong
uri: 2014-07-01-Urgent-Oppose-appointment-of-Armstrong
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Urgent:_Oppose_appointment_of_Armstrong)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_appointment_of_Armstrong%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/868">call on Obama</a> not
to appoint right-winger Ward Armstrong as a federal judge.
<p>
According to Daily Kos, Ward Armstrong voted to abolish Obama's health
care law, supported allowing handguns in bars, voted to close
Virginia's abortion clinics and supported a constitutional ban on
same-sex marriage.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Chinese_tactic_against_dissidents)
title: Chinese tactic against dissidents
uri: 2014-07-01-Chinese-tactic-against-dissidents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Chinese_tactic_against_dissidents%29

content:
<p>
A peculiar Chinese 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/china-sends-dissidents-on-paid-holidays">tactic
against non-famous dissidents</a>: forcing them to take an
all-expenses-paid vacation.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Greenpeace_directors_plane_commute)
title: Greenpeace director's plane commute
uri: 2014-07-01-Greenpeace-director-s-plane-commute
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Greenpeace_directors_plane_commute%29

content:
<p>
Greenpeace is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/25/greenpeace-flying-director-green-charity">embarrassed
because its director was commuting by airplane</a>.  However,
questions of which technologies to eschew personally for the sake of
the environment are not so easy to answer.
<p>
We can't end global heating by choosing to fly less.  We need to
convince millions of others to fly less, for instance with a higher
tax on flying such as the EU 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#05_September_2013_(US_stopping_EU_from_taxing_airlines_for_CO2_emissions)">tried
to impose</a>.
<p>
Burning fuel is not an act of oppression; it only becomes harmful
because of the <em>amount</em> we burn.  This makes the right decision
about Greenpeace's own fuel use less clear.  In the end, I think it is
important for the director to take trains, not because it will save
significant energy, but so he can set a better example.
<p>
In the free software movement, campaigning for users' right to control
their computing, we face questions that at first sight look similar to
those Greenpeace faces, but there is a crucial difference.  Nonfree
program is not a form of pollution, it is an injustice.  If you run a
nonfree program, the injustice towards you is independent of who else
runs it.  Thus we say <em>nobody</em> should run a nonfree program and
nobody should develop one.  For us to legitimize nonfree software
would be self-contradictory.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Road_may_be_renamed_after_Liu_Xiaobo)
title: Road may be renamed after Liu Xiaobo
uri: 2014-07-01-Road-may-be-renamed-after-Liu-Xiaobo
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Road_may_be_renamed_after_Liu_Xiaobo%29

content:
<p>
The road that passes the front of the Chinese embassy to the US
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/china-rename-us-embassy-liu-xiaobo">may
be renamed after Liu Xiaobo.</a>
<p>
I am in favor of this.  If China does not like to be embarrassed by
its own conduct, it can retaliate by renaming the street where the US
embassy to China stands.  How about "Guantanamo Road"?  "Edward
Snowden Avenue"?  "Dubya's War Crimes Boulevard"?


title: Writers have authorized censored editions for China
uri: 2014-07-01-Writers-have-authorized-censored-editions-for-China
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Writers_have_authorized_censored_editions_for_China)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Writers_have_authorized_censored_editions_for_China%29

content:
<p>
Many US writers
have <a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/06/costs-censorship-china/">authorized
censored editions for China.</a>


title: Referendum to call for democratic elections in Hong Kong
uri: 2014-07-01-Referendum-to-call-for-democratic-elections-in-Hong-Kong
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Referendum_to_call_for_democratic_elections_in_Hong_Kong)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Referendum_to_call_for_democratic_elections_in_Hong_Kong%29

content:
<p>
1/5 of Hong Kong's voting population held
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/hong-kong-unofficial-pro-democracy-referendum-beijing">unofficial
referendum to call for democratic elections in Hong Kong</a>.
<p>
If it were a real referendum, you couldn't trust the outcome, because
it is being done over the internet.


title: Emergency exception for neonicotinoids
uri: 2014-07-01-Emergency-exception-for-neonicotinoids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Emergency_exception_for_neonicotinoids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Emergency_exception_for_neonicotinoids%29

content:
<p>
Now that the UK has partially banned neonicotinoids, one manufacturer
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/25/syngenta-exemption-neonicotinoid-insecticide-ban-oilseed-rape">asked
the UK for a giant "emergency" exception.</a>


title: The malware that US and other governments inject
uri: 2014-07-01-The-malware-that-US-and-other-governments-inject
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(The_malware_that_US_and_other_governments_inject)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28The_malware_that_US_and_other_governments_inject%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140624/09021027669/security-researchers-expose-new-gold-standard-governmentlaw-enforcement-spyware.shtml">The
malware that the US and many other governments inject</a> into
computers to spy on them.


title: Urgent: Limit carbon pollution from existing power plants
uri: 2014-07-01-Urgent-Limit-carbon-pollution-from-existing-power-plants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Urgent:_Limit_carbon_pollution_from_existing_power_plants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Limit_carbon_pollution_from_existing_power_plants%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA to go ahead
and <a href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1597">limit
carbon pollution from existing power plants.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(The_FBI's_new_biometric_database)
title: The FBI's new biometric database
uri: 2014-07-01-The-FBI-s-new-biometric-database
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28The_FBI%27s_new_biometric_database%29

content:
<p>
Warning: the FBI's new biometric
database <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/eff-and-31-other-organizations-call-privacy-assessment-fbis-biometric-database">threatens
Americans with total tracking on the street.</a>


title: How US is Fueling Military Repression in Honduras
uri: 2014-07-01-How-US-is-Fueling-Military-Repression-in-Honduras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(How_US_is_Fueling_Military_Repression_in_Honduras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28How_US_is_Fueling_Military_Repression_in_Honduras%29

content:
<p>
How the US
is <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/25-1">Fueling
Military Repression in Honduras.</a>


title: Sudan charged Mariam Ibrahim with "forging a passport"
uri: 2014-07-01-Sudan-charged-Mariam-Ibrahim-with-forging-a-passport
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Sudan_charged_Mariam_Ibrahim_with_forging_a_passport)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Sudan_charged_Mariam_Ibrahim_with_forging_a_passport%29

content:
<p>
Meriam Ibrahim got a passport from South Sudan because her husband is
from there.  So Sudan
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/meriam-ibrahim-khartoum-summons-south-sudanese-us-ambassadors">charged
her with "forging a passport".</a>
<p>
This charge is absurd even denying the passport's validity.  It
represents malice, nothing more.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Genetically_modified_corn_and_soy)
title: Genetically modified corn and soy
uri: 2014-07-01-Genetically-modified-corn-and-soy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Genetically_modified_corn_and_soy%29

content:
<p>
Genetically modified corn and soy
have <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/25-5">created a
web of harmful consequences not anticipated</a> when they were first
used.


title: Imprisoning children and teenagers that cross the US border
uri: 2014-07-01-Imprisoning-children-and-teenagers-that-cross-the-US-border
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 27_June_2014_(Imprisoning_children_and_teenagers_that_cross_the_US_border)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#27_June_2014_%28Imprisoning_children_and_teenagers_that_cross_the_US_border%29

content:
<p>
Obama is moving
towards <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/25/obama-detaining-minors-what-happened">imprisoning
children and teenagers that cross the US border without papers</a>.
<p>
The crucial point is that it is feasible to expel these people without
keeping them in prison while their cases are decided.
<p>
If the US wants
fewer <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#20_June_2014_%28Minors_crossing_US-Mexico_border%29">minors
from Central America</a> to cross the border, it might be more
effective to run a campaign to inform the public in Central America
that getting over the US border does not, as they have been told, give
you permission to stay in the US.


title: Striking platinum miners in South Africa have won a raise
uri: 2014-07-01-Striking-platinum-miners-in-South-Africa-have-won-a-raise
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_June_2014_(Striking_platinum_miners_in_South_Africa_have_won_a_raise)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_%28Striking_platinum_miners_in_South_Africa_have_won_a_raise%29

content:
<p>
Striking platinum miners in South
Africa <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/south-africa-platinum-miners-strike-anc">have
won a raise.</a>


title: Dubya's lies that were excuses for attacking Iraq
uri: 2014-07-01-Dubya-s-lies-that-were-excuses-for-attacking-Iraq
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_June_2014_(Dubya's_lies_that_were_excuses_for_attacking_Iraq)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_%28Dubya%27s_lies_that_were_excuses_for_attacking_Iraq%29

content:
<p>
Most US
Republicans <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/iraq-war-wmds-saddam-political-unreason">still
believe Dubya's lies that were excuses for attacking Iraq</a>, and
reading corrections of these lies only reinforces their beliefs.
<p>
They are, in effect, insane.


title: Many countries systematically persecute Christians
uri: 2014-07-01-Many-countries-systematically-persecute-Christians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_June_2014_(Many_countries_systematically_persecute_Christians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_%28Many_countries_systematically_persecute_Christians%29

content:
<p>
Many
countries <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/25/left-persecution-christians-meriam-ibrahim-sudan">systematically
persecute Christians</a>.


title: SWAT teams mainly used for minor matters
uri: 2014-07-01-SWAT-teams-mainly-used-for-minor-matters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_June_2014_(SWAT_teams_mainly_used_for_minor_matters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_%28SWAT_teams_mainly_used_for_minor_matters%29

content:
<p>
The ACLU reports
that <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/24-4">SWAT
teams are used nowadays mainly for minor matters when the targets are
nonwhite.</a>
<p>
Towns acquire military weapons for thugs in the name of "protecting"
people from danger scenarios that are theoretically possible but
hardly ever happen.  The consequence is to expose us to real danger.
<p>
It's
the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#31_July_2013_%28Thugs_in_schools%29">same
with stationing thugs in schools.</a>


title: Obama regime's memo on drone assassination
uri: 2014-07-01-Obama-regime-s-memo-on-drone-assassination
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_June_2014_(Obama_regime's_memo_on_drone_assassination)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_%28Obama_regime%27s_memo_on_drone_assassination%29

content:
<p>
The Obama regime's memo on drone
assassination <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/23-3">shows
the flaws in its legal reasoning.</a>


title: Tax dodging businesses hurt the whole world
uri: 2014-07-01-Tax-dodging-businesses-hurt-the-whole-world
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_June_2014_(Tax_dodging_businesses_hurt_the_whole_world)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_%28Tax_dodging_businesses_hurt_the_whole_world%29

content:
<p>
The
IMF <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/06/25-0">recognizes
that tax dodging businesses hurt the whole world.</a>


title: Thai military regime used malicious Facebook app
uri: 2014-07-01-Thai-military-regime-used-malicious-Facebook-app
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_June_2014_(Thai_military_regime_used_malicious_Facebook_app)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_%28Thai_military_regime_used_malicious_Facebook_app%29

content:
<p>
The Thai military regime used a malicious Facebook app
to <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/thai-junta-used-facebook-app-harvest-email-addresses">trick
people into giving their email addresses and passwords</a> when they
try to visit banned sites.


title: Thugs lured school children into giving iris scans
uri: 2014-07-01-Thugs-lured-school-children-into-giving-iris-scans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_June_2014_(Thugs_lured_school_children_into_giving_iris_scans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_%28Thugs_lured_school_children_into_giving_iris_scans%29

content:
<p>
Massachusetts
thugs <a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1448">lured school
children into giving iris scans.</a>


title: Thugs need warrant to search phones of people who are arrested
uri: 2014-07-01-Thugs-need-warrant-to-search-phones-of-people-who-are-arrested
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_June_2014_(Thugs_need_warrant_to_search_phones_of_people_who_are_arrested)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_%28Thugs_need_warrant_to_search_phones_of_people_who_are_arrested%29

content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court ruled
that <a href="https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/supreme-court-requires-warrant-cell-phone-searches-police">thugs
need a warrant to search the phones of people who are arrested.</a>


title: How sugar companies intimidated medical criticism
uri: 2014-07-01-How-sugar-companies-intimidated-medical-criticism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 26_June_2014_(How_sugar_companies_intimidated_medical_criticism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_June_2014_%28How_sugar_companies_intimidated_medical_criticism%29

content:
<p>
Showing how the sugar companies
have <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/06/sugar-industry-tactics-to-make-your-food-unhealthy">intimidated
medical criticism of the effects of eating so much sugar</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Thugs_licensed_to_kill_protesters)
title: Thugs licensed to kill protesters
uri: Thugs-licensed-to-kill-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Thugs_licensed_to_kill_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Peru has given thugs a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/jun/29/peru-licence-to-kill-environmental-protestors">license
to kill protesters</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Starbucks_scholarship_program)
title: Starbucks "scholarship" program
uri: Starbucks-scholarship-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Starbucks_scholarship_program%29
content:
<p>
Starbucks announced a "scholarship program" for its employees, but it
turns out that Starbucks is 
<a href="http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Starbucks-admits-its-not-contributing-to-hyped-scholarships-263837031.html">contributing
no money</a> to this, just extracting publicity from it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Reparations_owed_to_US_blacks)
title: Reparations owed to US blacks
uri: Reparations-owed-to-US-blacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Reparations_owed_to_US_blacks%29
content:
<p>
The case for paying reparations to US blacks for 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/">slavery
and oppressive racist laws</a>.
<p>
The book <i>Inequality by Design</i>, by Claude Fischer, explains
how forcing a group into second-class citizenship affects their
descendants too.  Thus, I believe the US owes reparations to the
descendants of people who suffered a racist denial of equal rights.
My ancestors did not participate in doing this, but the reparations
must be paid by Americans of today.  That includes me.
<p>
Of course, the reparations should come mostly from the rich.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Drone_assassination_memo)
title: Drone assassination memo
uri: Drone-assassination-memo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Drone_assassination_memo%29
content:
<p>
The drone assassination memo that the Obama regime released, redacted
and incomplete, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/24/obama-drone-memo-secret-law-transparency">depends
on a body of secret law</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Overprotection_of_children)
title: Overprotection of children
uri: Overprotection-of-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Overprotection_of_children%29
content:
<p>
Insane overprotection of children in the US has gone beyond social
pressure and reached the point of physical threats.  A father was
arrested in Ohio for 
<a href="http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/warren-county/blanchester/jeffrey-williamson-dad-arrested-after-son-8-skips-church-to-play">not
stopping his son from walking to a store</a>.
<p>
The store was half a mile away from his home.  When I was 8 I walked
around that far to school and back every day, in Manhattan.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Texas_abortion_black_market)
title: Texas abortion black market
uri: Texas-abortion-black-market
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Texas_abortion_black_market%29
content:
<p>
Texas women must now get their abortion medicine on the 
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-rise-of-the-diy-abortion-in-texas/373240/">black
market</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Returns_on_stocks)
title: Returns on stocks
uri: Returns-on-stocks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Returns_on_stocks%29
content:
<p>
Rich people in the US get
a <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-06-rich-richer-stock-investments-modest.html">far
greater return</a> on their stocks than middle-class people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Guantanamo_propaganda)
title: Guantanamo propaganda
uri: Guantanamo-propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Guantanamo_propaganda%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/27/revealed-guantanamobriefingslides.html">Guantanamo
propaganda teams</a> describe hunger strikes as a tactic to discredit
the prison authorities and the US government.
<p>
This is the twisted logic of someone who adopts the moral premise
that "No matter what we have done, it can't ever be wrong."
<p>
The prison propagandists also habitually accuse the prisoners of
being terrorists, even though none has been convicted of this,
and the government says half of them should be released.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Congresss_ability_to_study_issues)
title: Congress's ability to study issues
uri: Congress-s-ability-to-study-issues
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Congresss_ability_to_study_issues%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in Congress have spent 
<a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/junejulyaugust_2014/features/the_big_lobotomy050642.php?page=all">20
years sabotaging</a> Congress's ability to study issues.
<p>
It makes sense.  Right-wingers don't want careful study of their
proposals; such study might find flaws in them before they are
adopted.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Foreign_workers_in_Qatar_riot)
title: Foreign workers in Qatar riot
uri: Foreign-workers-in-Qatar-riot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Foreign_workers_in_Qatar_riot%29
content:
<p>
Foreign construction workers in Qatar, who have to work 14 hours a
day, rioted when security guards attacked them for 
<a href="http://dohanews.co/police-respond-brawl-sheraton-doha-hotel/">trying
to go to the toilet and get water</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(UK_definition_of_domestic_extremism)
title: UK definition of "domestic extremism"
uri: UK-definition-of-domestic-extremism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28UK_definition_of_domestic_extremism%29

content:
<p>
The UK has come up with a definition of "domestic extremist", which
when combined with the misleading definition of "serious criminality"
allows them to 
<a href="http://netpol.org/2014/04/22/new-definition-of-domestic-extremism/">label
anyone who might plan a large sit-in as a "domestic extremist"</a>.


title: 36,000 Egyptians have been arrested for protests
uri: 36-000-Egyptians-have-been-arrested-for-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(36,000_Egyptians_have_been_arrested_for_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%2836%2C000_Egyptians_have_been_arrested_for_protests%29

content:
<p>
36,000 Egyptians have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/29/ahdaf-soueif-egypt-activists-trial">arrested
for protests since the coup against Morsi.</a>


title: Deforestation in Indonesia is booming
uri: Deforestation-in-Indonesia-is-booming
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Deforestation_in_Indonesia_is_booming)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Deforestation_in_Indonesia_is_booming%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/29/rate-of-deforestation-in-indonesia-overtakes-brazil-says-study">Deforestation
in Indonesia is booming</a>, even faster than in Brazil.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Casino_Saturation)
title: "Casino Saturation"
uri: Casino-Saturation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Casino_Saturation%29
content:
<p>
Atlantic City casinos
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/29/atlantic-city-casinos-close-gambling-new-jersey">closing
as the region hits "casino saturation".</a>
<p>
Gambling does not increase wealth, it only redistributes wealth.
Atlantic City casinos were touted as a way to redistribute wealth from
other states to New Jersey.  However, that's not the sort of
redistribution than the US needs.
<p>
The US needs to redistribute wealth from the rich to the rest.
Unfortunately, casinos redistribute wealth from the middle class and
the not-totally-broke working class, and a substantial fraction goes
to the casino owners.  It's a false solution, offered to reduce demand
for a real solution.


title: Tax exemptions for environmental protection organizations
uri: Tax-exemptions-for-environmental-protection-organizations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Tax_exemptions_for_environmental_protection_organizations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Tax_exemptions_for_environmental_protection_organizations%29

content:
<p>
Australia's government wants
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/30/liberal-party-environmental-groups-charitable-status">eliminate
tax exemptions for environmental protection organizations and forbid
them to carry out boycotts.</a>
<p>
It is understandable that the Australian government is concerned about
donations to charities that help the poor and the sick, since it
proposes a budget that would make poor and sick Australians dependent
on those charities.
<p>
However, in the long term, protecting the environment is crucial for
everyone's well-being.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(US_and_European_forests)
title: US and European forests
uri: US-and-European-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28US_and_European_forests%29
content:
<p>
Global heating is going to cause
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/30/nasa-to-launch-co2-tracking-satellite">revolution
in US and European forests.</a>


title: Urgent: Help tackle the ebola virus outbreak
uri: Urgent-Help-tackle-the-ebola-virus-outbreak
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Urgent:_Help_tackle_the_ebola_virus_outbreak)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Help_tackle_the_ebola_virus_outbreak%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the WHO
to <a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4772?n=77265729.UimA_f">help
tackle the ebola virus outbreak without delay.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Israeli_teenagers_killed_and_buried)
title: Israeli teenagers killed and buried
uri: Israeli-teenagers-killed-and-buried
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Israeli_teenagers_killed_and_buried%29

content:
<p>
The three missing Israeli
teenagers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/30/bodies-missing-israeli-teenagers-found-west-bank">were
killed and buried.</a>
<p>
There is no indication of who killed them, but Netanyahu is using
their
deaths <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/israeli-jets-gaza-netanyahu-hamas-teenagers-deaths">as
an excuse to attack people all over the West Bank and Gaza.</a>
<p>
Israel's reprisals have killed 6 Palestinians so far, and imprisoned
400 people.  Israel has not bothered to charge them with any crime,
and clearly has no evidence to relate them to the three murders.
Clearly most of them were not involved.
<p>
Is Israel no better than Egypt?  Al-Sisi at least has courts "convict"
those he wishes to kill or imprison.  The "trials" are not serious,
but
that <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#29_June_2014_%28Urgent:_Stop_sentencing_dissidents_to_death%29">provides
an opportunity to pressure Egypt to do better.</a> Israel does not
even bother with trials.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(ISIS_has_proclaimed_a_caliphate)
title: ISIS has proclaimed a caliphate
uri: ISIS-has-proclaimed-a-caliphate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28ISIS_has_proclaimed_a_caliphate%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/30/isis-announces-islamic-caliphate-iraq-syria">ISIS
has proclaimed a caliphate.</a>
<p>
While directly this means nothing, it may convince lots of young
foolish Muslims to support ISIS.
<p>
The biggest advantage of ISIS thus far seems to be that it is more
cruel, bloody and unscrupulous than its rivals.  I fear that this
monstrous ideology will kill millions before it is stamped out.  If
you are a Muslim and you don't want your community destroyed by
violent fanatics, you had better organize now to keep them out.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Industry_without_pollution_control)
title: Industry without pollution control
uri: Industry-without-pollution-control
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Industry_without_pollution_control%29

content:
<p>
The Chinese government has been compelled by events to recognize that
industry without pollution control
has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/30/the-human-cost-of-chinas-untold-soil-pollution-problem">poisoned
lakes and soils with heavy metals that cause cancer.</a>
<p>
Nonetheless, people who campaigned to stop this are still treated as
enemies of the state.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Facebook_experiment)
title: Facebook experiment
uri: Facebook-experiment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Facebook_experiment%29
content:
<p>
Facebook <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/">experimented
with putting happier or sadder material into its useds' feeds</a>, and
found that had a tiny but measurable effect on their emotions.
<p>
I don't see an ethical problem in the experiment as such.  It seems to
me little different from trying different text on your web site's
front page, except that they wrote a scientific paper about it.
<p>
However,
Facebook's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/30/if-facebook-can-tweak-our-emotions-and-make-us-vote-what-else-can-it-do">power
to influence people does seem dangerous.</a>
<p>
Here are <a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">many reasons not
to be a used of Facebook.</a>


title: Emperor penguins threatened with extinction
uri: Emperor-penguins-threatened-with-extinction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Emperor_penguins_threatened_with_extinction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Emperor_penguins_threatened_with_extinction%29

content:
<p>
Emperor penguins
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/29/emperor-penguins-at-risk-of-extinction-scientists-warn">threatened
with eventual extinction due to global heating.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Urgent:_Effects_of_sugar_consumption)
title: Urgent: Effects of sugar consumption
uri: Urgent-Effects-of-sugar-consumption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Effects_of_sugar_consumption%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/ucs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4209">call on the Surgeon General</a> to report on the health
effects of sugar consumption.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(How_US_senators_and_reps_voted)
title: How US senators and reps voted
uri: How-US-senators-and-reps-voted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28How_US_senators_and_reps_voted%29
content:
<p>
Americans: see how your senators and representatives voted 
<a href="media/16dc9c3f.2013_cac_report_card.pdf" data-original-source="http://dg5vd3ocj3r4t.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/documents/2013_cac_report_card.pdf">on
holding corporations responsible for their actions</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Teacher_pension_cuts)
title: Teacher pension cuts
uri: Teacher-pension-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Teacher_pension_cuts%29
content:
<p>
California's teachers' unions are failing to fight back against
pension cuts imposed by Democrats, but 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/30-0">Chicago's
teachers organized public support, struck, and won</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(FISA_court_extremely_permissive)
title: FISA court extremely permissive
uri: FISA-court-extremely-permissive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28FISA_court_extremely_permissive%29
content:
<p>
The FISA court's 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/court-gave-nsa-broad-leeway-in-surveillance-documents-show/2014/06/30/32b872ec-fae4-11e3-8176-f2c941cf35f1_story.html">standards
for NSA surveillance</a> are extremely permissive.
<p>
We also know that the NSA has 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-sep-dec.html#12_September_2013_(NSA_disobeyed_FISA_courts_requirements)">deceived
the FISA court</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Threat_to_the_Great_Barrier_Reef)
title: Threat to the Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2014-07-02-Threat-to-the-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Threat_to_the_Great_Barrier_Reef%29
content:
<p>
Dredging a coal port near the Great Barrier Reef could cause even more
damage than previously thought, because 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/01/barrier-reef-dredge-spoil-could-travel-further-conservationists-say">currents
can cause the millions of tons of debris to spread</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Secret_handover_of_Tamil_refugees)
title: Secret handover of Tamil refugees
uri: Secret-handover-of-Tamil-refugees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Secret_handover_of_Tamil_refugees%29

content:
<p>
Australia has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/sending-asylum-seekers-to-sri-lanka-risks-flagrant-violation-of-convention">secretly
handed over a boat full of Tamil refugees to Sri Lanka's navy</a>, which
is sure to torture them.
<p>
The Australian government cannot shield itself from condemnation by
refusing to admit its actions.  That can prevent us from getting
proof, but we don't need that standard of proof to condemn a state for
evildoing.  The state's refusal to say what happened is enough basis
to declare it guilty.
<p>
It is different when a human being is prosecuted.  For instance, when
the minister is put on trial for his role in this, he will be entitled
to be considered innocent unless proved guilty.  However, at that time
it will also be possible to subpoena the evidence to see if it proves
his guilt.
<p>
None of that applies now, because a state is not entitled to human
rights.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Russia_prohibits_dirty_words)
title: Russia prohibits dirty words
uri: Russia-prohibits-dirty-words
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Russia_prohibits_dirty_words%29
content:
<p>
Russia has found an excuse to ban most foreign and non-conservative
literature: 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/russia-bans-swearing-arts">a
prohibition on certain dirty words</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Guantanamo_kangaroo_courts_stuck)
title: Guantanamo kangaroo courts stuck
uri: Guantanamo-kangaroo-courts-stuck
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Guantanamo_kangaroo_courts_stuck%29
content:
<p>
Obama's military kangaroo courts for Guantanamo prisoners are getting
stuck on the issue of 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/911-trial-blow-defendant-cia-torture-records">how
the CIA tortured the defendants</a>.
<p>
Some of those people may be guilty of real crimes, but if the US can't
give them a fair trial because the US tortured them, it has to let
them go.  Let that be a lesson to us: no torture!
<p>
Some fraction of those released may fight the US, but we should not
overestimate the importance of that.  Violent Islamist groups have
thousands of members; a few more won't make much difference.  What
mainly affects their strength is their ability to recruit.
<p>
Guantanamo serves them very well as a recruiting tool, and so does the
US refusal to face justice for its torture.  Try as they might, a few
ex-prisoners won't be able to do the US the sort of harm that the US
does to itself.
<p>
The US must stop betraying what it stands for, so that it can inspire
honest friendship and support around the world, instead of inspiring
people to join Islamist fanatic groups.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Kiribati_prepares_for_sea_rise)
title: Kiribati prepares for sea rise
uri: Kiribati-prepares-for-sea-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Kiribati_prepares_for_sea_rise%29
content:
<p>
Kiribati has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/01/kiribati-climate-change-fiji-vanua-levu">purchased
high ground in Fiji</a> as a place to move once the islands of
Kiribati are swamped by rising seas.
<p>
Does the US government have plans to move the graves of the US Marine
cemeteries on Tarawa Atoll?
<p>
I don't think there is any intrinsic importance in how corpses are
treated (including my own, after my death), but soldiers tend to
consider this very important.  Many US veterans are right-wing and
some are global-heating denialists.  This question might offer a way
to make them face the facts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Lego-Shell_marketing_arrangement)
title: Lego-Shell marketing arrangement
uri: Lego-Shell-marketing-arrangement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Lego-Shell_marketing_arrangement%29
content:
<p>
Greenpeace urges Lego to drop a 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/01/greenpeace-lego-shell-partnership-toys-oil-arctic">marketing
arrangement with Shell</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 01_July_2014_(Protester_adds_labels_to_dresses)
title: Protester adds labels to dresses
uri: Protester-adds-labels-to-dresses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#01_July_2014_%28Protester_adds_labels_to_dresses%29
content:
<p>
A clever unknown protester 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/01/truth-on-clothes-label-textile-workers-rana-plaza">added
labels to dresses in a store</a>, saying "'Degrading' sweatshop
conditions" and "Forced to work exhausting hours".
<p>
The law proposed in this article would be a good step forward, but
really we should make the marketing companies that subcontract
manufacturing responsible for the working conditions of their whole
supply chain.
<p>
They should also have to register their subcontractors to all levels,
which will have the salutary effect of impeding them from changing
their supply chains so often.


title: Urgent: Stop sale of unsustainable fish
uri: Urgent-Stop-sale-of-unsustainable-fish
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Urgent:_Stop_sale_of_unsustainable_fish)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_sale_of_unsustainable_fish%29

content:
<p>
In the US: 
<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1647">call
on Kroger Supermarket</a> to stop selling unsustainable fish.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Nanomaterials_for_animal_growth)
title: Nanomaterials for animal growth
uri: Nanomaterials-for-animal-growth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Nanomaterials_for_animal_growth%29
content:
<p>
The FDA is looking for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/30-2">nanomaterials
to make animals grow faster</a>.
<p>
In principle, this is a great idea.  In practice, things may go wrong.
<p>
Animals will eat these materials in large quantities, then excrete
them; what will happen then?  Sewage treatment and water treatment
plants were not designed with them in mind, so whether they get into
our water will be a matter of luck.  If they do, will they increase
human obesity?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Egyptian_satirist_to_terminate_show)
title: Egyptian satirist to terminate show
uri: Egyptian-satirist-to-terminate-show
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Egyptian_satirist_to_terminate_show%29

content:
<p>
Egypt's most popular satirist said he will terminate his TV show,
implying that 
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/30/egyptian_comedian_bassem_youssef_says_his">the
regime will not allow him to continue it</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Denial_of_access_to_contraception)
title: Denial of access to contraception
uri: Denial-of-access-to-contraception
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Denial_of_access_to_contraception%29

content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court found an 
<a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/06/30/supreme-court-rules-hobby-lobby-corporate-religious-rights/">excuse</a>
to deny some American women access to contraception.
<p>
This decision makes no sense in its own terms, because the whole point
of a corporation is that it is a separate entity from its owners.
They can have religious beliefs, but the corporation cannot.  These
particular owners, in aiming to impose their views over employees'
rights, want to have it both ways.  "When the corporation pays for
medical coverage, it's really us.  If the corporation loses money,
it's not us."
<p>
This case is part of a 
<a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/06/30/hobby-lobby-part-greater-war-contraception/">general
campaign to eliminate access to birth control on the part of Christian
fanatics</a> that resemble the Taliban in their misogyny and
intolerance.
<p>
This question has a real effect because the most reliable forms of
birth control 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#09_March_2014_(Offering_gratis_contraception_and_abortion)">involve
a big expense once in a while</a>.  Getting insurance coverage for
them makes a real difference for many US women, especially now that
the same right-wingers have made more of them poor.
<p>
Congress could amend the Religious Freedom Restauration Act to fix
this decision, but it would be better to amend the Constitution to
state that human rights in general do not apply to corporations.
<p>
However, the clean solution to this problem (and many others) is to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#16_July_2011_(National_Health_Care)">disconnect
medical care totally from employment</a>.  Making employers pay for
medical care for employees has the side effect of encouraging
companies to eliminate full-time US jobs in favor of foreign
operations, part-time subcontractors, or robots.
<p>
Instead we should make wealthy people and businesses pay for health
care for everyone, employed or not, through a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#05_February_2013_(Too_Big_To_Fail)">progressive
income tax</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Bogus_science_in_US_schools)
title: Bogus "science" in US schools
uri: Bogus-science-in-US-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Bogus_science_in_US_schools%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/5-states-gunning-make-their-kids-scientifically-illiterate-possible-teaching-creationist?paging=off">Some
US states</a> are still trying to teach bogus "science" instead of
evolution.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Sledgehammer_to_the_Climate_System)
title: Sledgehammer to the Climate System
uri: Sledgehammer-to-the-Climate-System
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Sledgehammer_to_the_Climate_System%29

content:
<p>
Former NASA Chief Scientist:
"<a href='http://truth-out.org/news/item/24673-former-nasa-chief-scientist-were-effectively-taking-a-sledgehammer-to-the-climate-system'>We're
Effectively Taking a Sledgehammer to the Climate System</a>".


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Effect_of_car_exhaust_on_moths)
title: Effect of car exhaust on moths
uri: Effect-of-car-exhaust-on-moths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Effect_of_car_exhaust_on_moths%29
content:
<p>
Car exhaust 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/29/3454452/pollinators-car-exhaust/">makes
it hard for certain moths to find flowers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Court_blocks_coal_mine_expansion)
title: Court blocks coal mine expansion
uri: Court-blocks-coal-mine-expansion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Court_blocks_coal_mine_expansion%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/30/3454764/court-blocks-arch-mine-coal-expansion/">[US]
Court Blocks Coal Mine Expansion For Not Counting The Costs Of Carbon
Pollution</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Jellyfish_becoming_more_prevalent)
title: Jellyfish becoming more prevalent
uri: Jellyfish-becoming-more-prevalent
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Jellyfish_becoming_more_prevalent%29

content:
<p>
It's not clear why jellyfish are 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/06/watch-out-summer-swimmers-here-come-jellyfish">becoming
more prevalent in the ocean</a>, but they are.  Sometimes
catastrophically so.
<p>
I'm sure some aspect of human activities is responsible.  We are
changing ocean ecosystems in so many ways that it would be a bizarre
coincidence if none of them contributed.


title: Investigator threatened by Blackwater
uri: Investigator-threatened-by-Blackwater
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Investigator_threatened_by_Blackwater)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Investigator_threatened_by_Blackwater%29

content:
<p>
Blackwater quashed a US investigation by 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/30-0">threatening
to kill the investigator</a>.
<p>
The US created this situation by sending mercenaries to Iraq and
failing to impose accountability on them.  For instance, they 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-nov-feb.html#13%20February%202008%20(U.S.%20women%20in%20Iraq%20raped%20with%20impunity)">got 
away with rape</a>.
<p>
The US ought to extend to mercenaries the full spectrum of laws that
apply to soldiers.  Better yet, it should stop using mercenaries at
all.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(US_CEO_pay)
title: US CEO pay
uri: US-CEO-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28US_CEO_pay%29
content:
<p>
Mysteriously, US CEOs are paid 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/30-3">much more
than CEOs in other countries</a>.
<p>
It would be interesting to find out what difference enables CEO pay to
balloon more in the US than in Japan and Switzerland.  I suppose that
CEOs play one company off against another, but they would do that
everywhere if they can.  Why is it they can do so more in the US?


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(No_Impunity_for_Abu_Ghraib_Torturers)
title: No Impunity for Abu Ghraib Torturers
uri: No-Impunity-for-Abu-Ghraib-Torturers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28No_Impunity_for_Abu_Ghraib_Torturers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/30-6">Federal
Court: No Impunity for Abu Ghraib Torturers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Pitchforks_coming_for_plutocrats)
title: Pitchforks coming for plutocrats
uri: Pitchforks-coming-for-plutocrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Pitchforks_coming_for_plutocrats%29
content:
<p>
A plutocrat writes: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/30-4">The
Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats</a>.
<p>
Plutocracy kills poor people by the thousands, maybe even by the
hundreds of thousands.  Through global heating, that will become
millions, then tens of millions.  They are justified in fighting for
their lives.  The longer this battle is delayed, the more destructive
it will be.
<p>
On the other hand, if we build up the anger and the movement fast
enough, maybe we can restore democracy without violence, and end the
killing.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Pakistan_to_fight_Islamists)
title: Pakistan to fight Islamists
uri: Pakistan-to-fight-Islamists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Pakistan_to_fight_Islamists%29
content:
<p>
Pakistan seems to be serious about fighting the 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/30/pakistan-military-ground-attack-militants-north-waziristan">Islamists
of North Waziristan</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(The_Japanese_constitution)
title: The Japanese constitution
uri: The-Japanese-constitution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28The_Japanese_constitution%29
content:
<p>
The US has pressured the Japanese government into 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/30/japan-pm-overturn-pacifist-defence-policy-shinzo-abe">"reinterpreting"
its constitution</a> to permit fighting war on behalf of allies.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Global_heating_fires_and_heatwaves)
title: Global heating, fires and heatwaves
uri: Global-heating-fires-and-heatwaves
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Global_heating_fires_and_heatwaves%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government rewrote advice about fires and heat waves to
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/30/extreme-weather-official-advice-rewritten-to-remove-climate-change-link">cover
up their relationship to global heating</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Many_Americans_despise_the_poor)
title: Many Americans despise the poor
uri: Many-Americans-despise-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Many_Americans_despise_the_poor%29
content:
<p>
Many Americans 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/29-2">despise poor
people</a>, not realizing that they too are very likely to be poor
some day.
<p>
Poor people don't deserve contempt for asking for help.  We must give
poor people what they need in order to have a decent life.  All
children deserve good food, a good education, and everything else
children should have.
<p>
However, poor people have a responsibility, too, as well as rights:
they must not act so as to increase their needs.  Specifically, they
should not have children.  Reproduction is a desire, not a necessity.
For most people, of all the things they do, reproduction is what 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">puts the biggest
ecological burden on the world</a>.


title: Chilean officials charged with murder
uri: Chilean-officials-charged-with-murder
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Chilean_officials_charged_with_murder)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Chilean_officials_charged_with_murder%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/chile-us-intelligence-1973-killings-americans">Two
Chilean officials have charged</a> with murdering two Americans in
Chile, with the help of the then head of the US military mission.
<p>
This was done shortly after the US-organized 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#12_September_2011_(September_11)">September 
11 attacks</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Poor_families_in_the_UK_in_sheds)
title: Poor families in the UK in sheds
uri: Poor-families-in-the-UK-in-sheds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Poor_families_in_the_UK_in_sheds%29
content:
<p>
Poor families in the UK 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/01/beds-in-sheds-real-victims-housing-crisis-rent">can't
afford to rent more than a shed</a> to live in.
<p>
It could be worse: they could be 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-mar-jun.html#29%20March%202009%20(Help%20squatters)">homeless</a> 
as in the US.
<p>
The UK has enough rooms of housing, but policies encourage the rich to
use up a lot of space, pushing purchase and rental prices up and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#24_May_2014_(Crisis_or_cock-up)">leaving 
the poor with too little</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Global_heating_helps_locusts)
title: Global heating helps locusts
uri: Global-heating-helps-locusts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Global_heating_helps_locusts%29
content:
<p>
Global heating doesn't hurt everything.  It helps 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/locusts-may-choose-where-to-invade-based-on-temperature-researchers-find">locusts</a>,
for instance.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Detroit_citizens_right_to_water)
title: Detroit citizens' right to water
uri: Detroit-citizens-right-to-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Detroit_citizens_right_to_water%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/01-9">Detroit
Citizens Vow Direct Action to Protect Their Right to Water</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Effect_of_CO2_on_damselfish)
title: Effect of CO2 on damselfish
uri: Effect-of-CO2-on-damselfish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Effect_of_CO2_on_damselfish%29
content:
<p>
Increasing CO<sub>2</sub> levels make damselfish 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/07/were-screwing-oceans-so-much-these-fish-cant-find-their-bffs">unable
to recognize other fish that they know</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Iraqs_parliament_gives_up)
title: Iraq's parliament gives up
uri: Iraq-s-parliament-gives-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Iraqs_parliament_gives_up%29
content:
<p>
Iraq's parliament has given up on forming a government, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/iraqi-parliament-session-collapses-death-toll-isis">without
even trying</a>.
<p>
Partition of Iraq may be the way to avoid unending civil war.  
(<a href="">I 
advocated this a decade ago</a>.)  However, avoiding unending war also
requires that the Sunni regions be ruled by people that are not
fanatics.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(French_ban_on_wearing_masks)
title: French ban on wearing masks
uri: French-ban-on-wearing-masks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28French_ban_on_wearing_masks%29
content:
<p>
The European Court of Human Rights 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/france-burqa-ban-upheld-human-rights-court">ruled
in favor</a> of the French law that bans wearing masks.
<p>
This law is typically thought of in connection with a tiny minority of
Muslim women, but that is a side issue.  Wearing a mask is the only
way to protect yourself from being tracked by face recognition
cameras.  If such cameras are not banned, masks must be allowed as a
defense.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(March_for_democracy_in_Hong_Kong)
title: March for democracy in Hong Kong
uri: March-for-democracy-in-Hong-Kong
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28March_for_democracy_in_Hong_Kong%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/hong-kong-demonstration-hundreds-thousands-protest-china">Hundreds
of thousands</a> of citizens of Hong Kong marched for democracy
despite rain and heat.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Accusations_of_sheltering_Taliban)
title: Accusations of sheltering Taliban
uri: Accusations-of-sheltering-Taliban
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Accusations_of_sheltering_Taliban%29

content:
<p>
Afghanistan has accused Pakistan for years of sheltering the Afghan
Taliban.  Now that Pakistan is attacking the Pakistani Taliban, it
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/pakistan-ground-operation-clear-taliban-safe-haven">accuses
Afghanistan of allowing them bases there</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Soldiers_shooting_children)
title: Soldiers shooting children
uri: Soldiers-shooting-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Soldiers_shooting_children%29
content:
<p>
No US soldier starts out wanting to shoot children, not even once, but
the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/01">dynamics of
occupation</a> lead to making that standard practice.


title: Foreign banks reporting US citizens' holdings
uri: Foreign-banks-reporting-US-citizens-holdings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(Foreign_banks_reporting_US_citizens_holdings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28Foreign_banks_reporting_US_citizens_holdings%29

content:
<p>
The US is 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/06/offshore-bank-accounts-fatca-irs">making
foreign banks in many countries report US citizens' holdings</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 02_July_2014_(World_Cup_Protests)
title: World Cup Protests
uri: World-Cup-Protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#02_July_2014_%28World_Cup_Protests%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/12/world-cup-brazil-democracy-dictatorship-human-rights-military-police">
Protests stimulated by the World Cup</a> show that Brazil's democracy is
under long-term threat.


title: ISPs from various countries have sued GCHQ
uri: ISPs-from-various-countries-have-sued-GCHQ
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(ISPs_from_various_countries_have_sued_GCHQ)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28ISPs_from_various_countries_have_sued_GCHQ%29

content:
<p>
ISPs from various countries
have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/isp-gchq-mass-surveillance-privacy-court-claim">sued
GCHQ for attacking their computers.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Diplomat_accused_of_attempted_rape)
title: Diplomat accused of attempted rape
uri: Diplomat-accused-of-attempted-rape
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Diplomat_accused_of_attempted_rape%29

content:
<p>
Malaysia <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/malaysia-diplomat-new-zealand-rape-charge">refuses
to let a diplomat accused of attempted rape use diplomatic immunity as
a shield.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Tony_B'liar_plans_to_help_al-Sisi)
title: Tony B'liar plans to help al-Sisi
uri: Tony-B-liar-plans-to-help-al-Sisi
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Tony_B%27liar_plans_to_help_al-Sisi%29

content:
<p>
Tony B'liar plans
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/02/tony-blair-advise-egypt-president-sisi-economic-reform">help
al-Sisi gain more business opportunities for Egypt</a>.
<p>
Since Egyptians won't be allowed to think about politics or freedom,
or enjoy satire on TV, I guess business is all they will be left with.


title: Palestinian teenager kidnapped and killed
uri: Palestinian-teenager-kidnapped-and-killed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Palestinian_teenager_kidnapped_and_killed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Palestinian_teenager_kidnapped_and_killed%29

content:
<p>
A Palestinian teenager was, it
appears, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/palestinian-teenager-dead-suspected-revenge-attack">kidnapped
and killed as an act of explicit revenge</a> for the kidnapping and
killing of three Israeli teenagers.
<p>
The killers of those three teenagers probably thought that was
revenge,
too.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_June_2013_%28UN_accuses_Israel%29">Israelis
kill lots of Palestinians each year, including teenagers</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html#13_March_2013_%28Israeli_troops_shoot_Palestinian_protesters_dead%29">protesters.</a>
They
also <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-jan-apr.html#13_February_2014_%28The_Israeli_army%29">torture
Palestinian teenagers.</a>
<p>
These killings are wrong on both sides, and I insist on condemning
them the same.


title: The permanent stress caused by poverty
uri: The-permanent-stress-caused-by-poverty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(The_permanent_stress_caused_by_poverty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28The_permanent_stress_caused_by_poverty%29

content:
<p>
The permanent stress caused by
poverty <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/01-7">causes
children's brains to develop improperly</a>.  With almost 1/4 of US
children living in poverty, this creates a permanent handicap for the
US, as well as an irremediable injustice to those children.


title: Chomsky: America's Real Foreign Policy
uri: Chomsky-America-s-Real-Foreign-Policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Chomsky:_America's_Real_Foreign_Policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Chomsky%3A_America%27s_Real_Foreign_Policy%29

content:
<p>
Chomsky: America's Real Foreign
Policy: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/01-6">Global
Corporatization by Force.</a>


title: We are sucking the oceans dry of small fish
uri: We-are-sucking-the-oceans-dry-of-small-fish
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(We_are_sucking_the_oceans_dry_of_small_fish)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28We_are_sucking_the_oceans_dry_of_small_fish%29

content:
<p>
We
are <a href="http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2014/07/aquaculture-feed-algae-nuts-mcfarland-springs-kenny-belov">sucking
the oceans dry of small fish to feed fish farms</a>, but farmed fish
can grow on vegetable food too.
<p>
It will take laws to stop the overexploitation of the oceans.  We will
have to defeat the business forces that want to wipe them out.
Perhaps we should ban the sale of farmed fish that are fed animal
products.


title: Caribbean coral reefs will be lost within 20 years
uri: Caribbean-coral-reefs-will-be-lost-within-20-years
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Caribbean_coral_reefs__will_be_lost_within_20_years)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Caribbean_coral_reefs__will_be_lost_within_20_years%29

content:
<p>
Caribbean coral
reefs <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/02/caribbean-coral-reef-lost-fishing-pollution-report">will
be lost within 20 years.</a> Pollution and overfishing will get them
before the CO2 does it.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Urgent:_Boycott_Hobby_Lobby)
title: Urgent: Boycott Hobby Lobby
uri: Urgent-Boycott-Hobby-Lobby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Boycott_Hobby_Lobby%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/751">pledge</a> to boycott
Hobby Lobby.


title: Urgent: Ban on drones in national parks
uri: Urgent-Ban-on-drones-in-national-parks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Urgent:_Ban_on_drones_in_national_parks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_on_drones_in_national_parks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/drones_national_parks">call
for continuation</a> of the "temporary" ban on drones in national
parks.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Prosecution_of_Benghazi_suspect)
title: Prosecution of Benghazi suspect
uri: Prosecution-of-Benghazi-suspect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Prosecution_of_Benghazi_suspect%29
content:
<p>
Ahmed Abu Khatallah's lawyers say the US government has given them 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/benghazi-suspect-lawyer-evidence-prosecutors">no
information about the evidence against their client</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(7_Palestinians_killed_by_Israelis)
title: 7 Palestinians killed by Israelis
uri: 7-Palestinians-killed-by-Israelis
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%287_Palestinians_killed_by_Israelis%29

content:
<p>
A little information about the 7 Palestinians killed recently by
Israelis.  
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/reporting-contradictions-on-israeli-deaths">4
of them teenagers</a>.
<p>
Killing people who are not hurting anyone is wrong no matter who they
are.  However, Western politicians 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/02/palestinian-killings-asymmetry-power-deep-concern-prisoners">seem
to care only when Israelis are the victims</a>.


title: Privacy and Civil Liberties Overboard
uri: Privacy-and-Civil-Liberties-Overboard
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Privacy_and_Civil Liberties_Overboard)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Privacy_and_Civil%20Liberties_Overboard%29

content:
<p>
The "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" turns out to be the
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/nsa-surveillance-government-privacy-board-report">Privacy
and Civil Liberties Overboard</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Undercover_UK_thugs)
title: Undercover UK thugs
uri: Undercover-UK-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Undercover_UK_thugs%29
content:
<p>
A court ruled that UK thugs 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/02/met-spy-undercover-police-damages-court">must
answer</a> when women ask in court whether their lovers were
undercover thugs.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Spain_punishes_striking_workers)
title: Spain punishes striking workers
uri: Spain-punishes-striking-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Spain_punishes_striking_workers%29
content:
<p>
Spain is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/spanish-unions-campaign-criminalisation-strikes">punishing
striking workers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(New_FCC_rule_for_TV_political_ads)
title: New FCC rule for TV political ads
uri: New-FCC-rule-for-TV-political-ads
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28New_FCC_rule_for_TV_political_ads%29

content:
<p>
A new FCC rule will require US TV stations to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/02-5">show who pays
for political advertisements</a>.
<p>
It is a good rule, but we still need this default rule:
Vote for whoever is criticized by the expensive attack ads!
(Unless you have time for careful study of the accusations
against ALL the candidates.)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Debate_about_Capitalism)
title: Debate about Capitalism
uri: Debate-about-Capitalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Debate_about_Capitalism%29
content:
<p>
A <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/02-2">debate</a>
about whether Capitalism inevitably produces great inequality or
merely tends to do so.
<p>
I think that the great inequality is not inevitable, but avoiding it
takes firmness that requires true democracy (government policies
chosen by the people in general to keep the rich in check).  Once the
rich replace democracy with plutocracy, it is a sure thing that the
policies necessary to prevent tremendous inequality won't be
practiced.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Yasuni_oil)
title: Yasuni oil
uri: Yasuni-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Yasuni_oil%29
content:
<p>
Ecuador drew up a plan in 2010 to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/02/ecuador-power-plant-yasuni-national-park-documents">build
a power plant in Yasuni</a> to support oil drilling there.
<p>
It is not certain that the plan to leave Yasuni oil untouched was
dishonest.  This could have been a contingency plan for what to do if
the world failed (as indeed it did) to contribute the money Ecuador
requested for leaving that oil untouched.
<p>
In any case, Correa deserves credit for trying something that no other
world leader has even tried.  If other countries had provided the
reasonable sum he requested, he would surely have gone ahead with the
deal.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Water_supplies_in_Iraq_and_Syria)
title: Water supplies in Iraq and Syria
uri: Water-supplies-in-Iraq-and-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Water_supplies_in_Iraq_and_Syria%29
content:
<p>
Dwindling water supplies are 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/02/water-key-conflict-iraq-syria-isis">crucial
to the military outcome in Iraq and Syria</a>.  Control of a dam means
use of the water in its lake, use of the electricity it generates, and
the chance to use the water to drown people downstream.
<p>
A multi-year drought 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#31_May_2014_(Drought_triggered_protests_in_Syria)">caused
the protests</a> against Assad.
<p>
Global heating will eventually make it impossible for the current
population of Iraq to survive there.
<p>
Our actions that cause global heating are a wrong that we must stop.
Iraq contributes to these actions by extracting oil for us to burn.
Iraqis also contribute to the problem by having more children than the
region can support.  One way of reducing population growth is to give
women more control over their reproduction.  ISIS will clearly do the
opposite of that, but so do the religious Shi'ite groups.
<p>
Perhaps the world will need to adopt the principle that climate
refugees must get sterilized as a condition for asylum.  Not as a
punishment (they are not personally to blame), but as a sustainability
measure.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Urgent:_People_before_business)
title: Urgent: People before business
uri: Urgent-People-before-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_People_before_business%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15967">call
on Obama</a> to drop the Trade in Services Agreement and other
treaties that put businesses ahead of people.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(More_threats_to_Great_Barrier_Reef)
title: More threats to Great Barrier Reef
uri: More-threats-to-Great-Barrier-Reef
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28More_threats_to_Great_Barrier_Reef%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/03/port-wants-load-coal-between-ships-barrier-reef">crazy
proposal</a> to transfer massive quantities of coal from ship to ship
in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef.
<p>
Pollution is certain to spread, but hey, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jul-oct.html#10_July_2012_(Ocean_acidification_due_to_CO2)">if
you're going to burn that coal the reef is doomed anyway</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Great_Barrier_Reef_speed_limits)
title: Great Barrier Reef speed limits
uri: Great-Barrier-Reef-speed-limits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Great_Barrier_Reef_speed_limits%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/03/great-barrier-reef-whale-zones-deadly-ship-strikes">Calling
for speed limits</a> for ships near the Great Barrier Reef to protect
whales from being killed by collisions.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Abbott_on_suggestions_of_violence)
title: Abbott on suggestions of violence
uri: Abbott-on-suggestions-of-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Abbott_on_suggestions_of_violence%29

content:
<p>
In Australia, 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/03/tony-abbott-calls-razor-against-neck-image-on-newspaper-cover-awful-stuff">only
right-wingers are allowed</a> to suggest using physical violence on
those they disagree with.
<p>
Abbott surely deserves to spend many years in prison for his treatment
of Australian poor, foreign refugees, and all future life on Earth.
But not death, because the death penalty is never justified.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(UK_thugs_refuse_to_investigate_thugs)
title: UK thugs refuse to investigate thugs
uri: UK-thugs-refuse-to-investigate-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28UK_thugs_refuse_to_investigate_thugs%29

content:
<p>
The UK thugs have 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/02/phone-hacking-met-evidence-operation-caryatid-trial-police-news-international">refused
to investigate</a> how thugs cooperated with others (journalists,
etc.) to spy illegally on individuals.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Private_business_and_medicine)
title: Private business and medicine
uri: Private-business-and-medicine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Private_business_and_medicine%29
content:
<p>
An argument for 
<a href="http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/pharma.html">eliminating
private business from the development and manufacture</a> of
medicines.
<p>
I am not sure we need to go that far.  I advocate eliminating private
business from the testing and approval of medicines.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(The_Conservative_Mind)
title: The Conservative Mind
uri: The-Conservative-Mind
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28The_Conservative_Mind%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/02-12">Freedom,
Power, and the Conservative Mind</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 03_July_2014_(Culture_War_against_Children)
title: Culture War against Children
uri: Culture-War-against-Children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#03_July_2014_%28Culture_War_against_Children%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/the-one-sided-culture-war-against-children">The
One-Sided Culture War against Children</a>.  Whether US parents are
too lax, or too controlling, the "solution" is always "impose
standardized tests to fire teachers."
<p>
I find that US parents tend to be too lax on some issues (they can't
say "Don't be used by Facebook!" or "Don't sign an EULA that says you
are not allowed to give that to someone else!"), and twistedly strict
on others (kids never get to be home alone; parents think that would
kill them).  But the "solution" of "impose standardized tests to fire
teachers" is never going to help.


title: Peruvian interior minister accused of ordering killing
uri: Peruvian-interior-minister-accused-of-ordering-killing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Peruvian_interior_minister_accused_of_ordering_killing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Peruvian_interior_minister_accused_of_ordering_killing%29

content:
<p>
One of the Peruvian soldiers convicted of killing journalist Hugo
Bustios says
that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/03/peru-interior-minister-daniel-urresti-murder-charge">Peru's
current interior minister Urresti ordered the killing</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Australia_sends_back_asylum_seekers)
title: Australia sends back asylum seekers
uri: Australia-sends-back-asylum-seekers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Australia_sends_back_asylum_seekers%29

content:
<p>
Australia gives some asylum seekers
a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/03/asylum-seekers-may-be-subject-to-speedy-on-water-screenings">cursory
screening and sends them back</a>.
<p>
It does not matter a priori whether this is done on land or on a ship,
but doing so on ship facilitates "accidental" errors which, at a
systematic level, are not accidents.
<p>
While the government refuses to admit this, it effectively admits it
by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/03/tony-abbott-wont-reveal-fate-of-asylum-boats-but-says-sri-lanka-is-at-peace">trying
to pretend that Sri Lanka does not torture dissidents</a>.
<p>
Australia's plans show that its goal is
to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/03/revealed-coalition-to-use-national-interest-test-to-deny-permanent-protection-visas">keep
refugees out no matter what the situation</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Health_problems_due_to_fracking)
title: Health problems due to fracking
uri: Health-problems-due-to-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Health_problems_due_to_fracking%29
content:
<p>
Pennsylvania told state health
officials <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/02-7">not
to return phone calls from people who had health problems due to
fracking</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Pakistani_Taliban_and_polio)
title: Pakistani Taliban and polio
uri: Pakistani-Taliban-and-polio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Pakistani_Taliban_and_polio%29
content:
<p>
Attacking the Pakistani Taliban provides
an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/03/pakistan-polio-busters-disease-terrorist-opposition">opportunity
to attack the disease they protect: polio.</a>


title: Carbon offsets are fueling land grabs in Africa
uri: Carbon-offsets-are-fueling-land-grabs-in-Africa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Carbon_offsets_are_fueling_land_grabs_in_Africa)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Carbon_offsets_are_fueling_land_grabs_in_Africa%29

content:
<p>
Carbon offsets
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jul/03/world-bank-un-redd-genocide-land-carbon-grab-sengwer-kenya">fueling
land grabs in Africa.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Thugs_in_Kashmir_given_impunity)
title: Thugs in Kashmir given impunity
uri: Thugs-in-Kashmir-given-impunity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Thugs_in_Kashmir_given_impunity%29
content:
<p>
Indian soldiers and thugs in Kashmir have
been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/03/kashmiri-nightmare-narendra-modi-pandits-jammu-human-rights">officially
given impunity for torture, rape and murder</a>.  The mothers of the
disappeared have organized in response.


title: Nigerian Atheist receives death threats
uri: Nigerian-Atheist-receives-death-threats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Nigerian_Atheist_receives_death_threats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Nigerian_Atheist_receives_death_threats%29

content:
<p>
Nigerian Atheist Bala has been released from the mental hospital
thanks to a strike by doctors, but
now <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/03/nigerian-man-insane-atheist-bala-islam">receives
death threats from fanatical Muslims</a>.
<p>
Islamic law is incompatible with human rights.  I've
posted <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/archive-2000.html#Younus_Shaikh">examples
from
Pakistan</a>, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-mar-jun.html#03%20June%202007%20%28Lina%20Joy%29">Malaysia</a>, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#02_March_2013_%28Repression_of_Bahais_in_Iran%29">Iran</a>, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#08_May_2014_%28Punishment_for_questioning_religion%29">Saudi
Arabia</a>and <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#26_May_2014_%28Execution_for_marrying_a_Christian%29">Sudan</a>. I
am sure there are more.  Most "Muslim" countries forbid religious
freedom to anyone who was once considered a Muslim.
<p>
Nigeria must insist that human rights apply to the whole of the
country and that no local system is allowed to pre-empt them.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Improvised_explosive_devices)
title: Improvised explosive devices
uri: Improvised-explosive-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Improvised_explosive_devices%29
content:
<p>
Improvised explosive
devices <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/03/ieds-kill-53000-civilians-in-three-years-70-per-cent-rise">killed
53,000 people in 2011-2013, most of them civilians.</a>
<p>
I don't see much hope of stopping this practice as long as the groups
that set these bombs are tolerated by their communities.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Chernobyl_meltdowns)
title: Chernobyl meltdowns
uri: Chernobyl-meltdowns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Chernobyl_meltdowns%29
content:
<p>
Although some nuclear power advocates claim that the Chernobyl
meltdowns did not directly hurt the public, some groups that were
nearby
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/04/-sp-the-long-shadow-of-chernobyl">show
high levels of certain diseases.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Ethiopian_terrorist_faces_execution)
title: Ethiopian "terrorist" faces execution
uri: Ethiopian-terrorist-faces-execution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Ethiopian_terrorist_faces_execution%29

content:
<p>
An Ethiopian "terrorist" (i.e., opposition party
leader) <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/uk-accused-extradition-ethiopia-andargachew-tsige">faces
execution after being extradited by Yemen.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Urgent:_Conflicts_of_interest)
title: Urgent: Conflicts of interest
uri: Urgent-Conflicts-of-interest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Conflicts_of_interest%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: call on Temple University
to <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/temple_university/">tighten
its standards for disclosure of researchers' conflicts of
interest</a>.
<p>
Two professors there did a study which purported to find that private
prisons are great improvements in efficiency; it turns out they were
funded by private prison companies, and the study is biased.


title: In India there are thousands of temple prostitutes
uri: In-India-there-are-thousands-of-temple-prostitutes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(In_India_there_are_thousands_of_temple_prostitutes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28In_India_there_are_thousands_of_temple_prostitutes%29

content:
<p>
In India today there
are <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/06/indias-temple-slaves-struggle-to-break-free/">thousands
of temple prostitutes</a>, given to the temple as children by their
families.  For the most part, they are treated with the same contempt
that other prostitutes receive. (I don't understand why many men feel
that sort of contempt for prostitutes.)


title: Corporations using nondisclosure agreements to gag whistleblowers
uri: Corporations-using-nondisclosure-agreements-to-gag-whistleblowers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Corporations_using_nondisclosure_agreements_to_gag_whistleblowers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Corporations_using_nondisclosure_agreements_to_gag_whistleblowers%29

content:
<p>
US corporations
are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/06/30-3">using
nondisclosure agreements to gag whistleblowers</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(US_Military_Presence_in_Somalia)
title: US Military Presence in Somalia
uri: US-Military-Presence-in-Somalia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28US_Military_Presence_in_Somalia%29
content:
<p>
US Confirms
Years-Long <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/03-1">"Secret"
Military Presence in Somalia</a>.


title: UK gov't curbing better heat insulation in homes
uri: UK-gov-t-curbing-better-heat-insulation-in-homes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(UK_gov't_curbing_better_heat_insulation_in_homes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28UK_gov%27t_curbing_better_heat_insulation_in_homes%29

content:
<p>
The UK government's policies
are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/04/home-insulation-installs-have-collapsed-because-of-uk-policies">curbing
the installation of better heat insulation in homes.</a>
<p>
This will help the government's patrons meet their targets for sales
of fossil fuels.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(cloudy_thinking)
title: "cloud"y thinking
uri: cloud-y-thinking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28cloudy_thinking%29
content:
<p>
More evidence that you shouldn't rely on "cloud"y thinking about where
to store or transmit data: SoundCloud says it
will <a href="http://doandroidsdance.com/features/soundcloud-boldly-releases-new-app-allows-universal-flag-account-quietly-announces-data-mining-one-month/">profile
users, and has given the music factories direct censorship
control</a>.
<p>
Don't use big web sites to distribute files — to the public or
to specific people.


title: Urgent: Regulate oil and gas drilling on US public land
uri: Urgent-Regulate-oil-and-gas-drilling-on-US-public-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Urgent:_Regulate_oil_and_gas_drilling_on_US_public_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Regulate_oil_and_gas_drilling_on_US_public_land%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: tell the Fish and Wildlife Service
to <a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2755">regulate
oil and gas drilling on US public land.</a>


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Urgent: Call_on_CNBC_to_apologize)
title: Urgent: Call on CNBC to apologize
uri: Urgent-Call-on-CNBC-to-apologize
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A%20Call_on_CNBC_to_apologize%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Call on CNBC
to <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/cnbc_global_warming/">apologize
for seeking to publish a denial of global heating.</a>


title: Australia has stopped refugee boats from arriving
uri: Australia-has-stopped-refugee-boats-from-arriving
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Australia_has_stopped_refugee_boats_from_arriving)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Australia_has_stopped_refugee_boats_from_arriving%29

content:
<p>
The Heatless Party's government in
Australia <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/yes-tony-abbott-has-stopped-the-boats-but-the-cost-is-catastrophic">has
stopped refugee boats from arriving</a>, at the cost of contempt for
refugees, the UN, the press, the Supreme Court, the Australian public
and the truth.


title: Supreme Court Rules JCPenney Allowed to Sacrifice Employees
uri: Supreme-Court-Rules-JCPenney-Allowed-to-Sacrifice-Employees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 04_July_2014_(Supreme_Court_Rules_JCPenney_Allowed_to_Sacrifice_Employees_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#04_July_2014_%28Supreme_Court_Rules_JCPenney_Allowed_to_Sacrifice_Employees_%29

content:
<p>
Supreme Court Rules
JCPenney <a href="http://www.moonmontchronicle.com/supreme-court-rules-jcpenney-allowed-to-sacrifice-employees-to-appease-cthulhu.html">Allowed
to Sacrifice Employees to Appease Cthulhu</a>. (I think this is a
satire.)


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Facebooks_emotion_experiment)
title: Facebook's emotion experiment
uri: Facebook-s-emotion-experiment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Facebooks_emotion_experiment%29
content:
<p>
A new ethical issue about Facebook's experiment: Facebook gave
researchers data about its useds 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/04/privacy-watchdog-files-complaint-over-facebook-emotion-experiment">without
getting the useds' consent</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Reversing_privatization)
title: Reversing privatization
uri: Reversing-privatization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Reversing_privatization%29
content:
<p>
The growing movement to 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/04/public-ownership-common-good-privatisation">reverse
privatization of public services</a>.


title: Public pressure against neonicotinoids
uri: Public-pressure-against-neonicotinoids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Public_pressure_against_neonicotinoids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Public_pressure_against_neonicotinoids%29

content:
<p>
Public pressure 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/04-1">forced
Syngenta to retract its request</a> for "emergency" permission for
massive use of neonicotinoids in the UK despite the EU's moratorium on
their use.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Toxic_herbicide_for_new_GMOs)
title: Toxic herbicide for new GMOs
uri: Toxic-herbicide-for-new-GMOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Toxic_herbicide_for_new_GMOs%29
content:
<p>
If the EPA approves toxic 2,4-D as a herbicide for new GMOs, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/04-1">over 5000
schools in the US will be rather close to the spraying</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Conversation_with_Glenn_Greenwald)
title: Conversation with Glenn Greenwald
uri: Conversation-with-Glenn-Greenwald
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Conversation_with_Glenn_Greenwald%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/04-4">Orwell's
Dystopian Future Is Almost Here</a>: A Conversation With Glenn
Greenwald.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Romanian_massive_surveillance)
title: Romanian massive surveillance
uri: Romanian-massive-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Romanian_massive_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Romania is rushing a 
<a href="http://edri.org/romania-no-communication-without-registration/">massive
surveillance law</a> to require all communications to be registered.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Nuclear_Nightmares)
title: Nuclear Nightmares
uri: Nuclear-Nightmares
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Nuclear_Nightmares%29
content:
<p>
Nuclear Nightmares: 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/05-3">Securing the
World Before It Is Too Late</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Kidnaped_Arab_teenager_burnt_alive)
title: Kidnaped Arab teenager burnt alive
uri: Kidnaped-Arab-teenager-burnt-alive
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Kidnaped_Arab_teenager_burnt_alive%29

content:
<p>
The Arab teenager kidnaped in Jerusalem was apparently 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/05/palestinian-boy-mohammed-abu-khdeir-burned-alive">burnt
alive</a>.
<p>
Arabs on buses and streets are facing harassment that gets to the
point of violence, though
other <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/05/israeli-bus-assault-video-tension-hatred">Israelis
sometimes try to protect them</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Dark_dust_melting_ice)
title: Dark dust melting ice
uri: Dark-dust-melting-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Dark_dust_melting_ice%29
content:
<p>
Dark dust, from fires, deserts and machines, is 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/05/dark-snow-speeding-glacier-melting-rising-sea-levels">melting
ice around the world</a>, even in the Himalayas.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(The_right_to_die)
title: The right to die
uri: The-right-to-die
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28The_right_to_die%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/05/right-to-die-assisted-dying-keep-religion-out">Religious
Activists Have Too Much Say Over Our Right to Die</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Americas_national_parks_changing)
title: America's national parks changing
uri: America-s-national-parks-changing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Americas_national_parks_changing%29
content:
<p>
America's national parks are already being 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/03/3456261/national-parks-climate-change-study/
">changed by global heating</a>.
<p>
In a century, they may still be parks (if there is still a state that
can maintain them as parks), but aside from bare rock they will change
beyond recognition.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(New_Jersey_gun_control_bill_vetoed)
title: New Jersey gun control bill vetoed
uri: New-Jersey-gun-control-bill-vetoed
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28New_Jersey_gun_control_bill_vetoed%29

content:
<p>
Chris Christie 
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/07/03/3456258/an-hour-after-sandy-hook-parent-pleas-chris-christie-vetoes-gun-reform-bill/">vetoed
a New Jersey bill to limit magazines to just 10 bullets</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Facebook_dissident_ideas_study)
title: Facebook dissident ideas study
uri: Facebook-dissident-ideas-study
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Facebook_dissident_ideas_study%29
content:
<p>
One of the researchers in the Facebook emotion experiment
has been 
<a href="http://www.privacysos.org/node/1455">funded by the US
government</a> to study the spread of dissident ideas.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Denmark_plans_car_tracking_system)
title: Denmark plans car tracking system
uri: Denmark-plans-car-tracking-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Denmark_plans_car_tracking_system%29

content:
<p>
Denmark plans to impose a 
<a href="http://edri.org/denmark-implement-nationwide-anpr-system/">nationwide
system to track cars</a>.
<p>
Such systems should only see cars that are 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html
">being specifically sought, or are not properly licenses</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(FDA_proposes_labels_for_added_sugar)
title: FDA proposes labels for added sugar
uri: FDA-proposes-labels-for-added-sugar
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28FDA_proposes_labels_for_added_sugar%29

content:
<p>
The FDA has proposed to require food labels to state the 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/02/the-crucial-fda-nutrition-label-battle-you-probably-dont-know-about-but-should/">amount
of added sugar</a>.  The food companies are lobbying against.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Obamas_head_of_the_SEC)
title: Obama's head of the SEC
uri: Obama-s-head-of-the-SEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Obamas_head_of_the_SEC%29
content:
<p>
Obama's head of the SEC has turned out 
<a href="http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/mary-jo-white-sec-wall-street">rather
susceptible</a> to the wishes of the companies it is supposed to
regulate.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(Hong_Kong_arrests_leaders_of_protest)
title: Hong Kong arrests leaders of protest
uri: Hong-Kong-arrests-leaders-of-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28Hong_Kong_arrests_leaders_of_protest%29

content:
<p>
Hong
Kong <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/hong-kong-police-arrest-pro-democracy-leaders">arrested
the leaders</a> of the large democracy protest.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 05_July_2014_(UK_ISP_censorship)
title: UK ISP censorship
uri: UK-ISP-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#05_July_2014_%28UK_ISP_censorship%29
content:
<p>
A way to 
<a href="https://www.blocked.org.uk/about">find out whether a web site
is blocked</a> by ISP censorship imposed by the UK government.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Urgent:_Override_Hobby_Lobby)
title: Urgent: Override Hobby Lobby
uri: Urgent-Override-Hobby-Lobby
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Urgent%3A_Override_Hobby_Lobby%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/obama_hobby_lobby/?akid=4995.1906019.oLQyCL&rd=1&t=1001">call
on Obama</a> to make an executive order to override the effects of the
Hobby Lobby decision.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(California_in_extreme_drought)
title: California in extreme drought
uri: California-in-extreme-drought
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28California_in_extreme_drought%29
content:
<p>
80% of California is now in 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/california-severe-drought-intensifying-napa-wildfire--on">"extreme"
drought</a>, but Californians should get used to this as global
heating will lead to more and worse droughts.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Business_whistleblowers)
title: Business whistleblowers
uri: Business-whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Business_whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of protecting some businesses
whistleblowers from retaliation, but 
<a href="http://greenshadowcabinet.us/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=712614&qid=3466668">not
completely</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Spy_arrested_in_Germany)
title: Spy arrested in Germany
uri: Spy-arrested-in-Germany
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Spy_arrested_in_Germany%29
content:
<p>
Germany has 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/germany-arrest-bnd-spying-allegations-double-agent-us">arrested
someone who was spying for the US</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Ikea_supported_dictatorships)
title: Ikea supported dictatorships
uri: Ikea-supported-dictatorships
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Ikea_supported_dictatorships%29
content:
<p>
Ikea 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/ikea-funds-romania-secret-police-communist-era">supported
dictatorships</a> in the Soviet Empire in the 80s.
<p>
I think that this is comparable to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#01_June_2013_(Urgent:_Oppose_purchase_of_cotton_picked_by_slaves)">buying
cotton from Uzbekistan today</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 06_July_2014_(Clinton_evades_issue_re_Snowden)
title: Clinton evades issue re Snowden
uri: Clinton-evades-issue-re-Snowden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#06_July_2014_%28Clinton_evades_issue_re_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
Clinton continues calling for Snowden to submit to a US trial while
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/edward-snowden-legal-defence-hillary-clinton-interview">evading
the issue that he won't be allowed to argue that his actions served
his country</a>.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_July_2014_(TORorists)
title: TORorists
uri: TORorists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_July_2014_%28TORorists%29
content:
<p>
Leaks show that NSA calls all Tor users "extremists" and 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140703/02494927769/nsas-xkeyscore-source-code-leaked-shows-tor-users-classified-as-extremists.shtml">makes
them targets for spying</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/07/03/if-you-read-boing-boing-the-n.html">Reading
some Boing Boing articles</a> is also enough to make a person a
target.
<p>
I don't know whether reading THAT Boing Boing article would make you a
target.  Just to be careful, you should access it through Tor.
<p>
If it is true that a second NSA whistleblower has followed Snowden's
path, I wonder if he was inspired by reading my emails.  My emails
say,
<blockquote><pre>
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
</pre></blockquote>
<p>
There is a t-shirt you can use to declare yourself a 
<a href="https://www.trycelery.com/shop/torrorist">TORrorist</a>.
<p>
If you have blocked 
<a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree
JavaScript code</a>, you will not be able to pay through Stripe.
Please don't enable JavaScript; please pay with Bitcoin or some other
method.


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html 07_July_2014_(Facebooks_conduct)
title: Facebook's conduct
uri: Facebooks-conduct
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_July_2014_%28Facebooks_conduct%29
content:
<p>
Nobody should have expected 
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/06/we-shouldnt-expect-facebook-to-behave-ethically">Facebook's
conduct</a> to be ethical.


